Best umpire in cricket....

Simon James Arthur Taufel, born 21 January 1971 in St Leonards, New South Wales, is a current international cricket umpire and a member of the ICC Elite umpire panel. The winner of five consecutive ICC Umpire of the Year awards, Taufel is generally considered to be the best umpire in the world.

Some people believe that Taufel is the best umpire in the world, and in August 2006 in the ICC's annual umpire review he was officially ranked second for accuracy , and top overall. He is highly respected for his decision making ability, and is also highly regarded for his calm and positive on field manner.

At the 2006 Champions Trophy he umpired a semi-final, but could not umpire the final because Australia had reached the final. In January 2007 he became the youngest umpire to stand in 100 ODIs, and in April 2007 took charge of the World Cup semi-final between New Zealand and Sri Lanka, being ineligible for the final which featured Australia.

Whatever awards he get and how many times he gets the best umpire awards he is very much worried only for one thing..thats he has not been allowed to umpire in the world cup final as Australia reaches the final(the umpire from the same country which plays should not do the umpiring for that match).He jocularly tels that he prays to god to make Australia not to reach the final so that he wil get a chance atlast to do umpiring in any major event's final....Funny but true...

Obama Beats Mccain On Social Networking Sites

Democrat Barak Obama has once again proved that he has an upper hand as far the US Presidential election is concerned. Obama has defeated John McCain of Republican Party by five to one in terms of popularity and number of friends in major social networking sites of US. According to a report of Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in journalism, the 47-year-old Obama has more friends and followers in US's most famous social networking sites- Facebook and Myspace than McCain. This type of results not boosts the image of Obama, but also puts him way ahead in the race for the White House.

The report said elaborately that Obama has 1.7 million supporters in Facebook and 510,000 in Myspace while his counterpart from Republican Party manages to grab 309,000 friends in Facebook and 88000 in Myspace. One of the factors responsible for the defeat of McCain might be his age. At the moment, the environmentalist McCain is 72 years old. Obama on the other hand acquired much of fame and affection from people belonging to all age group, especially the youth. Obama is also heard to outnumber McCain on You Tube as the former has greater number of videos and subscribers compared to latter.

Even the american presidential candidates are there in the social networkin sites...so y nt all...???