Obama beats Clinton in Wyoming contest

Democrat Presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama has won the Wyoming Caucus defeating his rival the New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Illinois Senator Obama received 58 per cent of the caucus vote polled yesterday while Clinton got 41 per cent.

Nearly 60,000 registered Democrats participated in the event in some 29 counties all over the state.

Obama's win in Wyoming means that he has so far won 13 Democuses as opposed to a mere three by Clinton.

Wyoming has 18 pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Denver this late August and yesterday's event picked 12 of them. The other six will be selected in the State Democratic Party Convention to be held in May.

Prior to Wyoming's event Senator Obama has the lead with the pledged delegates with 1520 and Senator Clinton has 1424 delegates. The New York senator, however, has a small lead in the number of Super Delegates.

Wyoming was not a major contest by any stretch of imagination but it does give the Obama Camp some breather in the light of some heavy blows it has received by way of losses in the primaries of Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island on March 4.

Clinton and Obama's battle for the Democratic presidential nomination took on new energy after Clinton's comeback victories in the delegate-rich Ohio and Texas.

A win by Obama in either Ohio or Texas would have raised serious questions of the candidacy of Senator Clinton and could have even forced her to end her campaign.

Next Tuesday Democrats in Mississippi will be holding their political event and here again the favourite is Senator Obama. The state of Missssippi, which would choose 33 delegates, has nearly 40 per cent African-Americans, a group that has overwhelmingly voted for him in the past primaries.

World smallest PC

It’s only 2×2x2.2 inch! It’s called the Space Cube and it’s supposed to be the smallest personal computer in the world. It has a built-in 300MhZ processor and it’s also equipped with 64MB of SDRAM. There are a bunch of ports visible in the picture, such as USB, Ethernet, a monitor output port, serial connection and even a microphone slot.

The monitor is capable of displaying up to 65k colors at a resolution of 1280×1024 pixels. Less than a year ago, this fancy piece of equipment was retailing ~$325/piece. Isn’t that cool?

Highest ranking camel

The world's highest ranking law-enforcement camel is Bert, who was accepted as Reserve Deputy Sheriff for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, San Dimas, USA on April 5, 2003 and regulary goes on patrol with his handler Nance Fite (USA).

Budget Highlights

Govt focussed on farms, jobs, fiscal devolutionManmohan Singh Govt's agenda was changeEconomy grew at 9% for 3 straight yearsPer capital income growth at 7.4% per annum for 4 yrsInvestment as % of GDP rose to 39% in 2007-08 from 27.6%Gross domestic savings rate at 37.7% during 2007-08
Foreign trade at 35.5% of GDP during 2007-08FY'09 outlook encouraging if rainfall normalForecasts indicate 2009 may be worse than 2008India cannot remain immune to the global financial crisisMukherjee: Growth rate of exports down to 17.1% in 9 mthsIndia still the second fastest growing economyPackages in Dec-08, Jan-09 aimed at stoking demandGovt okayed 37 infra projects between August'08-January'09Refinance to banks for long term credit to infra projectsIIFCL to refinance 60% of commercial bank loans for PPPIIFCL can raise Rs.10,000cr by Mar'09; extra Rs.30,000crFRBM targets relaxed to boost consumption demandGovt may consider additional fiscal measures in budgetMukherjee: Need to accelerate pace of policy reformsGovt will need to return to deficit targets after revivalGovt to expand employment generation schemesMukherjee: Steps to bring back 9% growth needed at earliestPlan allocation for agriculture increased by 300% in 08-09India got record $32.4bn FDI in FY08

Britney spears

Britney Spears Claim to Fame
Famous as	Pop singer
Popular for	Album "...Baby One More Time" (1999)
Britney Spears Personal Fact
Birth Name	Britney Jean Spears
Birth Date	December 02, 1981
Birth Place	Kentwood, Louisiana, USA
Height	5' 4"
Nationality	American
Hair Color	Blonde
Eye Color	Brown
Education	Studied at NYC's Professional Performing Arts School Attended Park Lane Academy, a private school in McComb, Mississippi
Britney Spears Family
Father	Jamie Spears
Mother	Lynne Spears
Brother	Bryan Spears (older)
Sister	Jamie Lynn Spears (b. 4-Apr-91, actress)
Spouse	Jason Allen Alexander (3-Jan-04 - 5-Jan-04), Kevin Federline (rapper, 18-Sep-04 - 30-Jul-07)
Relation	Justin Timberlake (singer, 1998 - 2002), Nick Carter (singer), Isaac Cohen (model, Jan - Feb 2007)
Son	Sean Preston Federline (b. 14-Sep-05), Jayden James Federline (b. 12-Sep-06)

The Name is Rajinikanth

Anything on Rajnikanth sells. The advance booking frenzy is not just for his films. In the run-up to the release of the superstar’s biography, book stores in Chennai may need to take lessons in crowd management from theatres! The first print of The Name Is Rajnikanth will have 20,000 copies. That itself is quite extraordinary.

Himanshu Chakrawarti, COO, Landmark said, “20,000 copies is not big, it`s massive! I don`t recollect any other biography going for such big numbers in the first print. Enquiries have been pouring in and we are going to start advance booking in a day or two. “The 385 page book on the superstar’s life is this city doctor’s maiden venture. Replete with interesting snippets about the superstar from his childhood. his rise to the top, his spiritual bent and his rapport with co stars like Kamal Haasan.

Dr Gayathri Sreekanth, author said, “Not just from the masses, I`ve been getting enquiries from professionals. The expectation is mind boggling.”The book will be translated into Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and yes Japanese too. That will happen in April. But die hard Rajini fans are in no mood to wait!

Kulandai Yesu, a fan said, “I will stand in the queue and buy the book, even if it’s English. I can at least see the photographs. This book is being launched on March 6 at Taj Connemara in Chennai by Amitabh Bachchan.

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell, American inventor and teacher of the deaf, most famous for his invention of the telephone. Since the age of 18, Bell had been working on the idea of transmitting speech. In 1874, while working on a multiple telegraph, he developed the basic ideas for the telephone. His experiments with his assistant Thomas Watson finally proved successful on March 10, 1876, when the first complete sentence was transmitted: "Watson, come here; I want you.".


Inventor: Alexander Graham Bell

Criteria; First practical. Modern prototype. Entrepreneur.

Birth: March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland

Death: August 2, 1922, at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada

Nationality: Scottish

Invention: telephone on March 10, 1876

Function: noun / tel·e·phone

Definition: An instrument which converts sound, specifically the human voice, to electrical impulses of various frequencies and then back to a tone that sounds like the original voice.

Patent(s): 174,465 (US) issued March 7, 1876 filed February 14, 1876
161,739 (US) issued April 6, 1875 filed March 6, 1875