The Beatles and the 'Good Ol’ Freda'

Many would not know who Good Ol’ Freda is and how was she related to the Beatles - a group that made young girls heart burst out whenever and wherever the band sang and played.

Freda Kelly was the Beatles' personal secretary and ran their fan club from their initial rise to fame until two years after their breakup. Kelly was a colleague and trusted friend to the Beatles, and while she's been offered plenty of money over the years to tell her story, "Good Ol' Freda" is the first time she's spoken on the record about her years working for John, Paul, George and Ringo - the Beatles.

The surviving Beatles, Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are said to have allowed four of their famous songs including "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Love Me Do" to be used in Ryan White's film "Good Ol' Freda" which will debut at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March.

“Freda closed the Beatles’ offices, so she left with truckloads of Beatles stuff and gave it all away to fans over the years.” However, Kelly wanted to put down her story for her family, particularly her grandson. As Kelly herself put it, "Who knows how much longer I’ll be here, and I want my grandson Niall to know what his Granny did in her youth. I want him to be proud."

via Yahoo Movies
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10 Perfectly Timed Photos

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Photo Credits: Perfectly Timed Photos

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Watch the colourful side of Mercury

Here it is - something very adorable and colourful for the sky gazers and the amateur astronomers:

The colourful side of Mercury !!

BBC reports that Scientists working on NASA's Messenger probe to Mercury have shown off a stunning new colour map of the planet. It comprises thousands of images acquired by the spacecraft during its first year in orbit.

The phenomena is sxplained by Dr David Blewett from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab:

"Messenger's camera has filters that go from the blue to the near-infrared of the spectrum, and we are able to use computer processing to enhance the very subtle but real colour differences that are present on Mercury's surface." 

"The areas that you see that are orange - those are volcanic plains. There are some areas that are deep blue that are richer in an opaque mineral which is somewhat mysterious - we don't really know what that is yet."

"And then you see beautiful light-blue streaks across Mercury's surface. Those are crater rays formed in impacts when fresh, ground-up rock is strewn across the surface of the planet." 

Those features are thought to arise when the CO2 ice sublimates away - that is, when it transforms directly from a solid state to a gaseous state.

Mercury's surface isn't made of ice - it's scorching hot next to the Sun. But it seems that there is some sort of sublimation-like loss in the solid, silicate rocks that is causing these hollows to initiate and enlarge.

Messenger is in great shape should NASA management agree to a mission extension. The probe is thought to have enough fuel to operate until 2015.

Read more about it at: BBC Science & Environment
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Top 10 Zombie Games

Today, we have something for the gamers and the Zombie lovers!!

Zombies, though detested by many, are the top choices of video games lovers all over the world.

These  "animated corpse resurrected by mystical means, such as witchcraft are not onlt adored but played world wide, while some onlookers detest.

Zombie fiction is now a sizeable sub-genre of horror, usually describing a breakdown of civilization occurring when most of the population become flesh-eating zombies, as described by Wikipedia.

Coming back to the vidoe games of Zombies, Tech News has listed down the 10 best Zombie games of all times as undser:

• The House of the Dead: From the series' humble beginnings in arcades through the recently released "Overkill: Director’s Cut" for PlayStation 3, "The House of the Dead" has always been about unapologetic bloodshed, as you use a light gun peripheral to blast zombies and other undead creatures (including frogs!) to the underworld. 
• Dead Rising 2: “Dead Rising 2” features plenty of zombie-bashing action, along with side missions to keep things interesting. There’s even a game show where you can compete for healing medicine!
• Dead Island:"Dead Island" puts you in the middle of a tropical resort overrun with undead types. This game features plenty of thrilling first-person combat, including melee weapons that could easily decapitate with the right hit. 

• Call of Duty: Black Ops: The “Black Ops" also introduces playable political characters, including John F. Kennedy…and Richard Nixon. But no Abraham Lincoln yet. “Black Ops II, perhaps?”
• Zombies Ate My Neighbors:In this classic, players can team up to battle hordes of enemies, from killer dolls to giant babies to aliens. This game needs a re-release.
• The Walking Dead:Though Activision is developing its own game based on the Robert Kirkman series, it's going to be hard to top Telltale Games' episodic releases. 
• Resident Evil 4: The game stands as the pinnacle of the series that began on the Nintendo GameCube — a shockingly good tale that follows police officer Leon S. Kennedy on a suicide mission to rescue the President’s daughter from infected townsfolk. 
• Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare: This is one of the best Western-oriented games ever made, suffice to say.
• Plants vs. Zombies: If you haven’t experienced this yet, you really deserve to.
• Left 4 Dead:If there’s one game that truly emphasizes the fear of battling a zombie apocalypse and surviving as a team, it has to be Valve’s "Left 4 Dead" games.

Check out these games and find more on these at Tech News

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Painting purchsed for £1,200 from Paris junk shop turns out to be missing part of infamous masterpiece and worth £35MILLION

Art lovers and collectors sometimes get the shocking surprise of their lives when they find out the actual worth of an otherwise ordinary looking painting bought from a junk shop.

An amateur art lover bought a painting  for £1,200 at a furniture shop in Paris, which later turns out to be the missing head of Gustave Courbet’s 'The Origin Of The World', displayed in one of Paris’s most prestigious museums, the Musee d’Orsay, depicts female genitalia.

It was long thought that head was removed deliberately to protect subject's modesty and the painting was was deemed so scandalous that it was not displayed until 1988.

Scientific tests proved it was the missing head of The Origin Of The World. Authenticity was scientifically established using state-of-the-art techniques that matched the two parts of the painting, its canvas and the original wooden frame.

Read more at Mail Online
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Let me tell you why I smiled

Blogging, and blogging, and yet more blogging - this is what my friend SAJS emphasizes to be 'in' in the blog world. He says:

'Bloggers are very creative at storytelling. You may find them bombarding readers with meaningless updates or personal rants but when they become brand ambassadors, they are like hens who know best about eggs.'

I am not here to talk about eggs as neither I am a hen nor I am a good blogger, and obviously not a good story teller either. But since I do blog, bad or worse, I can tell you why I smiled when I read SAJS' blog 'Tell me your Story.'

Just before getting the link of his post from the Facebook, I was watching a cartoon - the following cartoon:

And surely I smiled when I read the blog in question, about hen and eggs. A story teller blogger can make anything out of nothing and write a blog.  And the above cartoon exactly fits into the quality of blogger, who can start anything from anything or nothing and write a blog post.

You may have found this post rather meaningless, but I am certain sure you got what I wanted to say - didn't you?

See you again - smiling.

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Asteroid 2012 DA14 to intrude inside earth's communication satellite orbit - next day of Valentine Day

Breaking news for those whose hobby is astronomy and sky gazing!!

While the world be celebrating the Valentine Day, astronomers and sciencetists would be busy tracking asteroid 2012 DA14 which is to whiz past earth at a distance of 17,200 miles on 15th February- something which is a near miss in space terms.

It may be added that the communication satellites launched from earth orbit at a distance of 22,200 miles above earth - meaning by that the asteroid 2012 DA14 will have an ingress of some 5,000 miles from the communication satellite's orbital range.

Although the asteroid is small, if it were on a collision course with Earth, it would produce the equivalent of 2.5 megatons of TNT and could wipe out a city the size of Greater London.

The best view for astronomers will be from Indonesia, says NASA, while stargazers in Eastern Europe, Asia and Australia should also be able to get a good look at the space rock as it whizzes past us at a speed of 17,400mph.

The asteroid's next very close shave with Earth will be in 2046, when it will squeak by us at a distance of 37,000 miles.

Via Mail Online
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