Fast ideas - what's your fav corn recipe?

1. Dress up your corn

This isn't a recipe, it's just what I whip up in jiffy to give my regular corn on the cob a fresh, tangy twist. Take lime juice and honey, mix them well. Spread the mix on the corn and sprinkle with red chilli flakes. You can also use this mixture as dressing for your sweet corn.
-Shiralie Chaturvedi, Prevention trainee 2. Corn spinach
Chop spinach and onions, grate some garlic too. Boil some corn kernels and keep aside. Heat some olive oil in a non-stick pan, put in the onion, saute until pink. Next add the garlic and spinach. Mix in the corn kernels and season according to choice and taste. Cook for five minutes. Serve as side dish or use as sandwich filling.
-Prerna Singh, Prevention fan
3. Corn pulao
This is very easy to prepare and tastes great! First half-cook the rice and leave it to cool. Steam some sweet corn. Heat some olive oil in a pan, add cumin seeds, diced onions and salt (to taste). Add the rice and corn to the pan. Cook for five minutes, stirring occasionally. Garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves and a little garam masala.
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4. Sandwiched corn
Wash sweet corns and steam them. Add chaat masala, chilli powder, finely chopped onion, chopped tomatoes, salt and coriander leaves. Mix everything together. Spoon the mixture between slices of wholewheat bread and toast in a sandwich toaster. Serve with coriander or mint chutney. Works great as an evening snack with a hot cup of milk or coffee.
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Scottish couple wins record European lottery jackpot

 

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The winners of Europe's biggest ever lottery jackpot see their future as "bright and golden" after winning 161,653,000 pounds ($260.58 million) in the Euromillions draw, they told a news conference on Friday.

Colin Weir, 64, and his wife Chris, 55, from the seaside resort of Largs, near Glasgow, plan to spend the money on travelling, new homes and driving lessons for their children.

"We were tickled pink with the whole notion of winning so much money. We just couldn't believe it -- it was sinking in by inches," said Chris, a retired psychiatric nurse, of the moment she realised they had won the jackpot on Tuesday night.

"My hope is that we're as strong a family and we have as good a time as we've always had, that our future seems to be as bright and golden as it is this morning."

The couple missed the televised Euromillions draw, only finding out they had won after Chris checked television information service Teletext around midnight, when the lottery phone line had already closed, meaning they had to wait until the morning to confirm their win.

"We sat up, we were excited, exhilarated, we didn't go to sleep, not a jot of sleep the whole night," said Colin.

The prize pot had grown after a series of rollovers in which there was no winner in the main draw.

The Weirs had played Euromillions using Lucky Dip, meaning their five numbers and two so-called Lucky Star numbers were selected by machine at random. They bought five lines and it was the final line that contained the winning combination.

Colin, a former cameraman and studio manager at Scottish Television said he hoped to buy a box at the stadium of Barcelona soccer club, the Camp Nou, and visit Ayers Rock in Australia.

The couple said they plan to stay in their current home but will buy new homes for their children, Carly, 24 and Jamie, 22 and other houses elsewhere.

The Weirs said they will also give money to good causes but will take their time to make sure money is targeted effectively.

"We now have so many new opportunities to explore but we won't rush it. For us, it will be a gradual change with choices to be made," said Colin in a statement.

The couple had not told any friends about their win before the news conference and said they would have preferred to stay anonymous but knew they would not be able to enjoy their winnings if they didn't go public.

A spokeswoman for Camelot, which operates the National Lottery and Euromillions in the UK, said the couple had won the largest jackpot ever recorded in Europe, beating wins from other European lotteries such as Spain's El Gordo.

(Reporting by Clare Kane; Editing by Steve Addison)

How secure is your credit card?

Credit cards have become an integral part of our life, but concerns about its security and vulnerability is an ongoing issue. Credit card frauds are rising at an alarming rate. Card associations and banks on the other hand have been trying hard to enhance card security features to minimize frauds and misuses.
Here is a look at the security features introduced by card issuers and banks in the current scenario.
Verified by Visa/Mastercard SecureCode
A significant upgrade in credit card security features came with the introduction of 'Verified by Visa/MasterCard Secure Code programme' or second factor authentication. It addresses the credit and debit card transactions over internet.
Earlier, to do an online transaction, the only information needed was your credit card number, expiry date and the CVV number printed on the back of the card. It is easy to obtain this information as they are exposed when you handover your card at hotels, shops or petrol stations. Fraudsters can use this data for online transactions where physical presence of the card is not needed.
With the introduction of the Verified by Visa/MasterCard Secure Code programme, apart from card information, the customer needs to provide an additional password like that of a debit card, to make the transaction secure. This is to authenticate any online transaction.
EMV Chip
The EMV chip addresses security concerns while the card is physically swiped in a machine. When cards are being swiped on an electronic device, all the information stored on its magnetic strip gets extracted for verification. Fraudsters can extract this data from swiping machines and use them to make a duplicate card through a process called cloning. This duplicate card can be used for online transactions and your credit account gets billed.

Volcano erupts in central Indonesia

An Indonesian volcano spit lava and smoke thousands of feet into the air early Friday, sending panicked residents fleeing down its slopes.

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Shahrukh Khan's DON 2 first trailer

If DON - THE CHASE BEGINS was deadly expect its sequel, DON 2 to be deadliest! Atleast this is what the first trailer promises to be. The King of Bollywood, Shahrukh Khan returns as the deadliest and dangerous don in DON 2.
The trailer is a must watch for Shahrukh's grungy look, his trademark style, the way he flaunts 'D' tattoo lights cigar, the stylised action sequences and stunts and the corny dialogues mouthed by Don himself. The slickest shots, the pacy remix of prequel's version and with superstar's presence - the film is already giving a feel of blockbuster!

After Rakhi, it’s Mona’s turn now!

Entertainment Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega is preparing for Mona Singh's vivah on the show. The judges have always tried matching her kundali with the contestants of the show but Mona is still single. Hence the show has now gone a step ahead and brought in five TV celebrities to play the role prospective grooms. Out of the five dulhas on the show four are married namely Gurmeet Choudhary, Sharad Kelkar, Angad Hasija and Ali Asgar. Only Harshad Chopda is the unmarried one who will participate in the show but Mona has selected the much-married Ali Asgar as the groom.

A source says, "The promos related to Mona's vivah are already on air and to win her heart the actors will have to entertain the audience. Hence each actor will perform on the show and Gurmeet will emerge as the best performer of the day. And it doesn't end here. Actors will also have to answer questions thrown at them by Anu Malik and Farah Khan."

As reported earlier Harshad Chopda danced on a medley of SRK's songs and Gurmeet performed some martial arts and fire stunts. However talking about the performances of the other actors the source said, "Sharad Kelkar also did a fire stunt and the actor trained himself for the act. Angad Hasija performed the tandav nritya and Ali Asgar performed an act where he started off as a Bengali guy and finished as a roadside Romeo. Mona liked Ali's act so much that she agreed to be with him."

Ali confirmed, "I feel very fortunate that she selected me. Apart from that it was fun shooting for Entertainment and being with all the other actors on the show."

The rich who love to starve Super thin celebrity barbies

They are rich, famous, and they live under the constant glare of media. The burden of looking good often make them starve to attain a super thin 'barbie' like figure. Here's a look at some super thin celebrities

Lost love letter finds recipient 53 years later

California (Pennsylvania), July 15 (AP): Much has happened in the 53 years since Vonnie sent Clark the letter, wondering why he had not called before going back to college.

They married later that year. He graduated. They had four children. They divorced. And he changed his name.

And, at last, the letter is wending its way to Clark ' that is, Muhammad Siddeeq ' who awaits its arrival with mixed emotions. "I'm curious, but I'm not sure I'd put it under the category of 'looking forward to it'," Siddeeq told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

The letter, bearing four one-cent stamps postmarked February 1958 and addressed to Clark C. Moore, arrived in the mailroom at California University of Pennsylvania last week. School officials checked their files but could not figure out who Clark Moore was.

But his friends and family still lived in the area and saw media reports about the letter. They called Siddeeq, now 74 and living in Indianapolis, who had changed his name after converting to Islam.

"I never dreamed of anything like this," Siddeeq told the Washington Observer-Reporter. The letter, its stamps turned upside down as sign of love, arrived at California University of Pennsylvania on July 8, tucked inside some magazines.

Bipasha & Sonam paint the town red

he latest buzz is that Bipasha & Sonam have been bonding a lot lately & Raveena's song has been dropped.

Baby Doll to do a Waheeda

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IN REPLY TO ALL SARDAR JOKES

My friend told me about the following incident which I wish to share with you.

During last vacation, his few friends came to Delhi. They rented a taxi for local sight-seeing. The driver was an old Sardar and boys being boys, these pals began cracking Sardarji jokes, just to tease the old man. 
But to their surprise, the fellow remained unperturbed. 
At the end of the sight-seeing, they paid the cab hire-charges. The Sardar returned the change, but he gave each one of them one rupee extra and said, 
''Son, since morning you have been telling Sardarji jokes. I listened to them all and let me tell you, some of them were in bad taste. Still, I don't mind coz I know that you are young blood and are yet to see the world.. But I have one request. I am giving you one rupee each. Give it to the first Sardar beggar that you come across in this or any other city.' 
My friend continued,* ' That one rupee coin is still with me. I couldn't find a single Sardar begging anywhere.' 
MORAL: 
The secret behind their universal success, is their willingness to do any job with utmost dedication and pride. A Sardar will drive a truck or set up a roadside garage or a dhaba, put a fruit juice stall, take up small time carpentry, ... but he will never beg on the streets. 

How to Delete, Cancel and Terminate Facebook Account and Profile

Facebook is a popular social networking website comparable to MySpace. You may receive many invite requests from friends, coursemates, colleagues or family members to join Facebook to connect with them. So you join and sign up a Facebook account but think that may be a phone call is a much better way to bring relationship with friends closer or Facebook account has seriously invaded your privacy and security, you can easily terminate, delete or cancel Facebook account, together with the Facebook profile.

1. Sign in to Facebook account.
2. Click on Account link on the top right corner.
3. 
   
4. On the “Settings” tab (click on Settings if you’re not already there), click on deactivate at the end of “Deactivate Account” line. 
5. 
   

Hide Your Online Status on Facebook Chat from Select Contacts

If you are connected with too many people on Facebook and need to hide your online status on Facebook Chat from certain contacts, here's some help.

Facebook has integrated friends list with Chat and you can also choose which of these list members get to see you online.

So you can stay visible to your family members and close friends while the rest of your Facebook friends won't know if you are logged into Facebook.
Earlier you had to completely turn off Facebook chat in order to hide your online status from other contacts.
The Facebook chat window has easy sliders so you can easily toggle your online status for any friends list in a click.

How to Get Facebook on Your Desktop

Seesmic Desktop, Facebooker, Xobni, Facebook Sidebar Gadget, Scrapboy and Facebook AIR application are desktop applications that allows you interact with your stream just as you would on Facebook, but without the browser.

How to Update Facebook Status from Firefox

FireStatus is a status update utility for multiple social networks, including FaceBook.

How to Get Facebook Updates on Email

NutshellMail consolidates your Facebook accounts through the inbox you use the most.

How to Display Facebook Statuses on WordPress Blog

 

If you want to show your Facebook Statuses and you are hosting on a WordPress.com blog that restricts you from installing plugins, try this. The following method make use of Facebook status feed and WordPress RSS widget. It will also work for self-host WordPress blogs, but you guys who self-host can use better plugins for that.

How to Create Quiz on Facebook Easily

LOLapps provides quiz creator that can be employed to conjure up these popular personality quizzes that are so widespread in Facebook.

How to Access Facebook Chat on Desktop

Gabtastik and digsby let you keep Facebook chat sessions open on your Windows desktop outside of your regular web browser, using minimal screen real estate and system memory.

How to Post Your Blog Posts to Your Facebook Wall Automatically

Wordbook allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall. Your Facebook “Boxes” tab will show your most recent blog posts.

How to Syncs Photos of Facebook Friends with Contacts in Microsoft Outlook

OutSync is a free Windows application that syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to select which contacts are updated. So you can update all contacts at once or just a few at a time.

How to Remove Facebook Advertisements

This Greasemonkey script – Facebook: Cleaner removes many of the annoying ads and updates that unavoidably appear on your Facebook pages.

How to Display Selected Pictures Only on your Facebook Profile Page

A little-known feature in Facebook that lets you decide who shows up in that Friends box. Click that "edit" pencil in your Friends box and type the names of your best friends in the box that says "Always show these friends"

Create Photo Collage/Grid-View Of Your Facebook Friends

Here’s a small little trick in Facebook that allows you to create a grid view or photo collage out of your friends list. This is how I do it:

1. Click on Friends tab.
2. Proceed to More tab.
3. From "Choose an option" dropdown, choose any of the dashes "—" 

Photos of all your friends will be displayed, each in 50×50 pixels forming a grid view. Have fun.

How to “Friend” Someone on Facebook & Hide It From Your Status Updates

I’m sure that this has happened to you before. Someone you have ties to, whether it’s a co-worker, your boss, or even worse, a parent, has finally discovered social networking and wants to be your newest Facebook friend.
For me personally, that’s no big deal. I’m fairly open about my online activities. Everything I write, Digg, or otherwise share goes through my FriendFeed to my Twitter then ultimately onto my Facebook (my, that sounds naughty). Besides that, just about everyone I’d consider a co-worker is already on Facebook, and would have little issue about my other Internet activities.
Putting all that aside however, imagine for a moment that I worked at Domino’s Pizza and that I don’t want my boss to know that I just became a fan of Papa John’s (writing this one’s gonna make me hungry). Here’s what I would do to hide Facebook status updates and keep that fact confined to my closer friends:
On your Facebook home page, you should see the ‘Settings’ menu close to the search field on your upper-right. Open that menu and go to ‘Privacy Settings’.

How to Schedule Facebook Messages

Sendible lets you schedule Facebook messages ahead of time so you can send messages to your friends, customers or colleagues in the future.

How to Update Facebook without Using Facebook

hellotxt and Ping.fm both introduced features that let Facebook administrators update Facebook Pages.

How to Share Flickr Photos to Facebook

Flickr2Facebook is an unofficial Flickr to Facebook uploader(bookmarklet) which allows you upload photos to Facebook from Flickr.

How to Download Facebook Photo Albums

FacePAD: Facebook Photo Album Downloader allows you to download your friends’ facebook albums, Events albums, and Group Albums, en masse, with the click of a button.

How to Place Facebook Chat On Firefox Sidebar

Facebook Chat is cool, at least it allows you to send instant messages to online Facebook contacts. However I’m not really a fan of the chat bar being at the bottom of the page, what if I’ve left Facebook but still wants to remain chatting with my Facebook contacts? If you are using Firefox, you can place the Facebook Chat at the sidebar.

Step 1

Look for Bookmarks on the top navigation. Select Organize Bookmarks…

Step 2

Click New Bookmark... tab and enter the following:

• Name: Facebook Chat
• Location: http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php
• Check Load this bookmark in sidebar.

  

Step 3

Launch the Firefox sidebar, click Facebook Chat and start chatting with your Facebook contacts within Firefox.

 

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How Shahid managed Sonam's friendship?

 Sonam and Shahid

Bollywood hottie Sonam Kapoor is known as a fashion icon. And she has put down a lot of conditions for her to call someone her friend. What are the conditions.
This pretty lass prefers her friends to be stylish or to quote the lady herself, should be  "fashionable"! Can you believe it? But now let us tell you who is letting the cat out of the bad. It is her co - star Shahid who said divulged the secret.
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Shahid Kapoor during the first look launch of his movie MAUSAM said, "Sonam has very high fashion standards. She doesn't entertain people whose fashion standards don't match hers. Therefore you have to dress and look in a certain way and get an approval on it!
Fortunately through the making of this film I tried to educate myself on that and I hope that I'll have a stamp of approval on it!"
Well, Sonam like your unique fashion standards you also have unique sense of choosing friends!

Are Bips & Shahid the latest couple in B- Town?

Are Bipasha Basu and Shahid Kapoor an item? The buzz doing the rounds in Bollywood would seem to suggest as much.

Busy Couples, Stay Connected make time for love

My husband and I are both working. Between office and household responsibilities, we seem to have lost time, energy and drive for sex. Any suggestions for bringing the zing back?
Radhika says: My husband and I are both working. Between office and household respon-sibilities, we seem to have lost time, energy
and drive for sex. Any suggestions for bringing the zing back?

It's funny isn't it, how today with all sorts of labour and time-saving devices, people are even shorter on time and energy than they were 20 years ago?

Here's a likely scenario: the fruit is in the juicing machine while dinner is cooking in the microwave, the dishes are being done in the dishwasher and clothes being laundered in the washing machine. And when all of that is done, there is the mind-boggling question of what to watch on TV before crashing into bed.

No wonder people are tired! If there are kids in the family, there is a whole other level of things to be decided and done.

There are 24 hours in the day for everyone and yet some people are rushed off their feet while others seem serenely in control. Are there any activities that you and your husband can cut out of your day to make room for something more meaningful? Do you make time to centre yourself?

Note that the question is 'Do you make...?' not 'Do you have...?' Do the two of you make time for at least one conversation a day? I am talking quality, not quantity, here. Sex is not likely to happen unless you are connected with each other. It goes deeper than creating an ambience of seduction or wearing sexy underwear.

Do you do things together? It could be as simple as you both going for a daily walk for half an hour and using that time to reconnect. Or taking a few hours out every weekend to watch a movie together or simply going for a drive or a swim together. Anything. The key thing to remember is to create some 'Me' time and some 'We' time. The zing will follow. 'Me' time + 'We' time = 'Yippee!'
Radhika Chandiramani is executive director of TARSHI, an organisation that works on issues of sexuality. She is a trained clinical psychologist. Write to her at radhika.c@preventionindia.com, visit the FAQs page at www.tarshi.net or call 011-26472229, Mon to Fri 9.30 am to 5.30 pm.

'Krrish2' to be shot in Hyderabad

Logistical problems of shooting in the city forces Rakesh Roshan to recreate a Mumbai set at Ramoji Film City.

Rakesh Roshan ambitious sequel to ‘Krrish’ will be shot in Hyderabad. A set will be recreated depicting Mumbai at Ramoji Film City. This was decided so that the logistical problems of shooting in the streets of Mumbai are resolved.

The set, designed to resemble a business hub in Mumbai will be completed by late September. “The script required Hrithik Roshan to perform some death defying stunts on the streets of Mumbai. However the star didn’t want to shoot in crowded locations as he was wary of crowds hounding him during the shoot,” said a source.

However, it wasn’t economically feasible to recreate the set in Mumbai due to space crunch.  “The action sequence would need a location like the Bandra Kurla Complex. So Rakesh Roshan first went to ND studio in Karjat but decided it was not possible to go ahead because of production costs,” added the source.

Art director Sabu Cyril who has earlier worked on films like Raavan and Enthiran is recreating the Bandra Kurla Complex  in Ramoji Rao Filmcity in Hyderabad. The set will be spread over an area of almost 2 kilometers and will have around 65 buildings with detailed work.

Hitler ordered sex dolls for Nazi troops

London, July 11 (IANS) Adolf Hitler ordered the Nazis to develop sex dolls for his soldiers so that they would not be affected with diseases after having sex with prostitutes, says a new book.

The synthetic sex dolls - that were smaller than life-size and called 'gynoids' - were made from silicone and designed to prevent soldiers from being hit by diseases like syphilis, the Daily Mail reported.

Hungarian actress Kathe von Nagy was reportedly asked if the doll could be modelled on her but she refused.

The doll was later 'left bland' with only blonde hair and blue eyes so that 'soldiers could apply their own fantasy', the book said.

Author Graeme Donald uncovered the sex doll 'Borghild Project' while researching the history of the Barbie doll.

6 foods to help you have great sex

They say sex is a great stressbuster. They are right because love-making has been found to relive the pressure of the burdens of life, ease stress, soothe chronic aches and pains, spur creativity and rev up the energy levels.
Experts say that anything that makes you feel good, alive and physically excited will make you feel as if you've shed years. And all these things are associated with sex.
You are probably aware of the basics of terrific sex, but let us suggest you a few aphrodisiacs which can add zing to your sex life.
Figs have been found to be brimming with minerals like magnesium, manganese and zinc and also Vitamin E. All of them can do wonders to spice up your sex life. 

Texas mom delivers 16-pound newborn

A Texas mom expected a big baby, but nothing like this: 16 pounds, 1 ounce (7.3 kilograms).

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The Several Journeys of Reemus : Chapter 3 - adventure games

In chapter 2 Reemus and Liam meet the all knowing parasite, but the fun part of the revelation is that you have to play as the death slug who comes from another galaxy. The story revolves around how the Gygax and the Death slug are going to join forces to destroy the human race.

Although Reemus sees this as an opportunity to finally become a hero. In the third chapter of the several journeys of Reemus, our heroic duo are on their way to meet their king yet again, so that they can take on the heroic quest of extermination.

But along the way they have to first get out of the forest and trick the royal guard into taking them to the castle. The Several Journeys of Reemus Chapter 3 comes loaded with better soundtracks, even better character control and as usual interesting puzzles.

Zeebarf has managed to keep the level of game play juicy with the right amount of difficulty and of course entertainment, making us eagerly wait for the next chapter in Reemus's journey!