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Ruling-party candidate Dilma Rousseff won Sunday’s presidential runoff in Brazil and is to become the country’s first-ever female president, according to official results.

With close to 95 percent of the votes counted, Rousseff had over 55 percent of the valid ballots, compared to 44 percent of her rival, social democrat Jose Serra.

Her election means a continuation of the policies of popular President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who nominated his one-time chief of staff as the candidate of his Workers’ Party (PT).

Earlier, an exit poll made by the private Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics (IBOPE) estimated that Rousseff would get 58 percent of the valid votes to Serra’s 42 percent.

If the results are eventually confirmed, Rousseff, 62, would be inaugurated Jan 1 with a four-year mandate.

Rousseff already comfortably won the first round of the presidential election Oct 3 with 47 percent of the votes, but fell short of the more-than-half of all votes requirement to avoid a runoff.

An economist by training, she once also trained as a guerrilla fighter during Brazil’s military dictatorship, and later made her mark as Brazil’s energy minister and government chief of staff under Lula.

The hugely popular Lula, 65, is barred from serving more than two consecutive terms. He however pulled his weight behind Rousseff, who has vowed to build on her mentor’s legacy.

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We have thousands of companies with good market value and with good reputation. But what matters most is working with the best.

In other words, Best among the best. So here it is, the list of top 10 companies that a person should dream to work on. If you are already working in any one of the companies listed below then dude your the luckiest person alive on planet. The reason is simple, it is not easy for a person to just walk into the companies and demand job.

You should have an experience of atleast 10 to 15 years to be considered a job posting in the said companies.

The top 10 are:

1. Google

2. Virgin

3. Self-employment

4. Apple

5. Qantas

6. Walt Disney

7. OMD

8. Sydney Water

9. Getaway

10. Coca-Cola

Former Australian prime minister Johan Howard today said: “there is a problem with the administration of cricket in some parts of the cricketing world.”

Howard added, “I hasten to say not Australia – I think the cricket administration in Australia is very good. I think there is a problem in parts of the Indian subcontinent and clearly there is a problem in Zimbabwe, which is not entirely unrelated to the circumstances affecting me,”

This is something expected from a candidate who was denied the opportunity by Sub Continent nations. To stress a particular country, it would be India. The BCCI was against Mr.Howard candidate for the Vice President of  ICC and many other cricket playing nations supported BCCI.

After months, now we see Mr.Howard speak on the issue indirectly.

He also records an invaluable lesson he learnt when his older brother Wal wasn’t elected captain of the church cricket team.

“This was because he took it for granted, owing to his seniority, that he would be elected,” Howard wrote.

“He had not bothered to organise his numbers. I thought the decision of the team was most unfair, and it left me feeling upset and angry for weeks. It taught me a lesson about ballots which I have never forgotten,” he adds.

Filmmaker George Hickenlooper has died at age 47, just before the premiere of his new film “Casino Jack” at the Starz Denver Film Festival, the Denver Post newspaper reported on Saturday.

“We are devastated,” John Hickenlooper, his cousin and the mayor of Denver, said in a statement. “His passion for life, zeal for people and unquenchable curiosity enriched everyone who had the fortune to know him.”

The filmmaker appears to have died from natural causes and no foul play was suspected, the Denver Post said, quoting a statement from the mayor’s office.

“Casino Jack,” starring Kevin Spacey as jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff, was set to premiere on Thursday, it said.

The film festival, which starts on Wednesday, “will be dedicated in its entirety to our friend George Hickenlooper,” festival director Britta Erickson said.

Hickenlooper’s other films include “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse” in 1991 and “The Mayor of Sunset Strip” in 2003.

New experiments have confirmed that dragonflies grow bigger with more oxygen, or hyperoxia.

The giant dragonflies of ancient Earth with wingspans of up to 70 centimetres are generally attributed to higher oxygen atmospheric levels in the atmosphere in the past.

However, not all insects were larger when oxygen was higher in the past.

The secrets to why these changes happened may be in the hollow tracheal tubes insects use to breathe. Getting a better handle on those changes in modern insects could make it possible to use fossilized insects as proxies for ancient oxygen levels.

To understand how paleo-oxygen levels would have influenced the evolution of insects, scientists decided to look at the plasticity of modern insects raised in different oxygen concentrations.

The team raised cockroaches, dragonflies, grasshoppers, meal worms, beetles and other insects in atmospheres containing different amounts of oxygen to see if there were any effects.

One result was that dragonflies grew faster into bigger adults in hyperoxia.

However, cockroaches grew slower and did not become larger adults. In all, ten out of twelve kinds of insects studied decreased in size in lower oxygen atmospheres.

But there were varied responses when they were placed into an enriched oxygen atmosphere.

“The dragonflies were the most challenging of the insects to raise,” said John VandenBrooks of Arizona State University.

One possibility is that the hyperoxic reared roaches stayed in their larval stage longer, perhaps waiting for their environment to change to a lower, maybe less stressful oxygen level.

VandenBrooks and team took the hyperoxic-reared roaches to Argonne National Lab’s x-ray synchrontron imaging facility to get a closer look at the tracheal tubes.

They found that the tracheal tubes of hyperoxic-reared roaches were smaller than those in lower oxygen atmospheres.

That decrease in tube size with no increase in the overall body size would allow the roaches to possibly invest more in tissues used for other vital functions other than breathing – like eating or reproducing.

The roaches reared in hypoxia (lower oxygen) would have to trade off their investment in these other tissues in order to breathe.

The findings would be presented at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver.

WWE fan appreciation day was a night unforgettable for many reasons. My favourite reason is Triple H return. And the return was in style, he came out to rescue John Cena from the Nexus assault. So does Big Show and Randy Orton rushed out to save Cena.

So,its fair in love ,politics and WWE. Yep, just months back, Randy Orton and Triple H were arch rivals, also the rivalry between Randy Orton and John Cena is unforgettable. But now, the superstars have kept their past behind them and rushed out to rescue Cena.

Results of WWE fan Appreciation day:

John Cena def. World Heavyweight Champion Kane by Disqualification

With Kane’s scheduled opponent Big Show winning an Intercontinental Title Match in the event’s opening Battle Royal, Raw’s anonymous General Manager and SmackDown GM Theodore Long chose a surprise replacement for Kane’s title defense. When the opening chords of John Cena’s music played, the XL Center fans jumped to their feet with a deafening roar!

The match was cut short when Cena put Kane in the STF and Nexus raided the ring, resulting in a disqualification. Wade Barrett, Justin Gabriel, David Otunga and Heath Slater then attacked Cena. The heinous assault prompted WWE Champion Randy Orton to rush the ring, followed by the entire WWE locker room, led by Triple H!

With The Game, The Viper, Cena and Big Show left standing in the ring, Cena thanked the crowd for supporting WWE and its Superstars and Divas, while many of the roster spread out into the crowd for autographs and photos with the WWE Universe as the show ended.

“From each of us, who do this each and every week because we love it, thank you,” Cena said.

Triple H def. Alberto Del Rio

Intercontinental Champion Dolph Zigger def. Big Show (w/ Hornswoggle) by Count-out

WWE Champion Randy Orton def. Wade Barrett

Sheamus def. John Morrison

Melina wins WWE Divas Dance-off

United States Champion Daniel Bryan def. The Miz (w/ Alex Riley)

Big Show wins 24-man Over-The-Top-Rope Battle Royal

Sopranos actress Denise Borino Quinn passed away today at the young age of only 46. She succumbed to a battle with cancer. Denise is most well known for playing Ginny Sacrimoni on The Sopranos.

Other than her Sopranos role, who was Denise Borino Quinn?

Here are five things about the late actress that you may not know:

1. Denise was cast in The Sopranos in 2000 after an open casting call. She only attended the casting call to support a childhood friend.

2. Before landing her role on The Sopranos, Denide Borino Quinn worked as a part time manicurist and a legal secretary.

3. When she found out she had gotten the role of Ginny Sacrimoni in The Sopranos, Denise said, “I reckon I was in total shock when I got the call.”

4. When speaking of her scenes in The Sopranos, Denise said that they were “very intense.”

5. Denise married Luke Quinn in 2005, and he passed away earlier in 2010, in March.

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