Richest People in The World 2012!

- Karl Albrecht

A German entrepreneur which formed the popular supermarket Aldi with his brother Theo Albrecht. He was born in Essen, Germany on 20 February 1920 .He and his brother Theo Albrecht started career by looking after the grocery store of their parents at 1948. His brother has a net worth of $16.7 billion. Not a lot is known about him or his family as he has removed himself from public attention and neither him or his family run the business.Net Worth of $25.4 Billion.

- Li Ka Shing

Born on 13th June, 1928 to Li Yunjing in Guangdong, China. Started his career as a salesman during 1944 and later founded a plastic-goods company. 1967 he started land holding company which was officially named as Cheng Kong Holdings in 1971. "From his humble beginnings in China as a teacher’s son, a refugee, and later as a salesman, Li provides a lesson in integrity and adaptability. Through hard work, and a reputation for remaining true to his internal moral compass, he was able to build a business empire that includes: banking, construction, real estate, plastics, cellular phones, satellite television, cement production, retail outlets (pharmacies and supermarkets), hotels, domestic transportation (sky train), airports, electric power, steel production, ports, and shipping". Listed with Net Worth of $25.5 Billion.

- Stefan Persson

Born on 4 October 1947, he is the chairman and main shareholder for the fashion company Hennes & Mauritz (H&M). He attended University of Sweden and has three children. In 2009 his son took over as President and CEO of H&M. Stefan Persson father actually was the founder of H&M, the Persson family owns about 33% of the company and has a 69% voting right. Stefan Persson is the richest person in Sweden and 8th richest person in the world with Net Worth of $26 Billion.

- Eike Batista

Born on November 3, 1956. Started his career as Salesman at Germany contacting producers in the Amazon area and buyers in large metropolitan centers in Brazil and Europe in gold and diamond trades. He got married in the year 1991 to Luma de Oliveria. Started gold trading firm Autram Aurem at age of 23.He became CEO at the age of 29 to TVX Gold. He is 7th on list with Net worth of $30 Billion.

- Larry Ellison

He was born in The Bronx at New York on August 17 1944 .He was adopted by his mother’s uncle and aunt at age of 9 months. He co-founded Oracle in year 1977 along with Ed Oates and Robert Miner which was earlier known as Software Development Labs and he is the chief executive officer of Oracle.  As of 2012, he is the third wealthiest American citizen, Net worth of $36.5 Billion.

- Amancio Ortega

He was born on March 28 1936 in Leon, Spain in a family with limited earnings. He started working as a delivery boy at the age of 13 for a shirt maker. He is a Spanish fashion executive and founding chairman of the Spanish clothing merchandiser Inditex. He is ranked as Spain's richest man.He didn’t had much of formal education but due to his quick learning ability he started retail shop in 1975 Zara. Ortega keeps a very low profile. He refuses to wear a tie, and likes to dress in blue jeans and T-shirts. He is said to take a very active part in the production and design process in the company, Net worth is $37.5 Billion.

- Bernard Arnault

Born on 5th March 1949 in Roubaix, France. He is best known as the chairman and CEO of LVMH.He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique at the year 1971. He is married twice. Arnault is the world's 4th and Europe's richest person. In 2007 Arnault was named Commander of the Legion of Honour, France’s highest order. He inherited LVMH which is a construction firm and took it to peak, Net worth of $41 Billion.

- Warren Buffett

He was born to Howard and Leila Buffett on 30th August 1930 at Nebraska. He graduated in year 1951 from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He was early into business as he started at the age of 11 itself, selling things door to door to raise extra money. Started his first partnership in the year 1956. 1962 he purchased shares of Berkshire Hathway which took him to form all his subsidiary partnerships into one. At the age of 81 he has Net Worth of $44 Billion.

- Bill Gates

He was born in Seattle, Washington on 28th October 1955. In the year 1973 he got his graduation from Lakeside. But he went into business at his early age of 15 before his graduation with Paul Allen In the year 1975 he and Paul Allen formed the company Microsoft which is today’s most successful software company. Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. He got married to Melinda in year 1964. Gates's last full-time day at Microsoft was June 27, 2008. He remains at Microsoft as non-executive chairman. Net Worth of $61 Billion.

- Carlos Slim Helu

Carlos Slim Helu was born on January 28 1940, in Mexico City to the couple Julian Slim Haddad and Dona Linda Helu. He accomplished his professional studies in the year 1961 in Civil Engineering from National Autonomous University of Mexico, he was also a professor while he was still studying as he taught Algebra and Linear programing there. In the year 1965 he incorporated Inversora Bursatil and held the position as Chairman of Board of Directors. This later became Grupo Carso which is being running successfully till date. 'His extensive holdings in a considerable number of Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso, SA de CV, have amassed interests in the fields of communications, technology, retailing, and finance'.He married Soumaya Domit Gemayel in the year 1967. Today at the age of 72 he is the worlds richest person in the world with Net worth of $69 Billion.

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Hottest and Coldest Places on Earth!

Hottest

Dasht-e Lut, Iran
This area is a salt desert and it is the 25th largest desert in the world. Most of the area is covered in volcano lava, which kind of makes sense where the hot temperatures come from.

This desert gets so much sunshine,absorbing extremely high temperatures, meaning there is no place for humans to live. Dasht-e Lut has reached the hottest temperature then anywhere on earth between the years 2003 and 2009.

This Lut desert mostly contains sand with ravines and sinkholes. When it rains, it rains in small periods of time and is quite rare to find water as it is mostly dries up quickly, leaving behind salt. Hottest and one of the driest place on earth with 
Record High Temperature: (70.7°C, 159-160°F).

Al ’Aziziyah, Libya
Is a city and the capital of the Jafara district in northwestern Libya, 41 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Tripoli. At 13 September 1922, a high temperature  was recorded , which is the highest temperature that was recorded on earth at that time, however there have been arguments whether this was an accurate recording as the thermometers were damaged and had to be replaced, as well as a weather station which was set up on a tarmac which absorbed more sunlight and caused the air surrounding hotter, explaining the high temperature readings.



Record High Temperature: (57.8°C, 136°F)

Death Valley, California, USA

Death Valley is home to the driest, and hottest places in North America. Death Valley sprawls near the border of California and Nevada; contains faults, salt pans, and water ways; and is home to a number of wildlife, including plants, birds and fish. Large amounts of heated air blow throughout the valley causing high  temperatures. It has an area of about 3,000 sq miles (7,800 km). The hottest temperature here was recorded on July 10, 1913.  
Record High Temperature: (56.7°C,134°F).




Coldest

Vostok Station, Antarctica
Vostok Research Station is located at about 1,300 km from the Geographic South Pole.Well, it is not only the coldest place, but is the windiest and the highest continent in the world. The Vostok Station, a Russian research station which is located in Antarctica has recorded a lowest temperature on earth.The station approximately contains 25 scientists and engineers in the summer. In winter, this number drops to 13. Antarctica receives least amount of rainfall on earth just next to the Sahara Desert, which kind of seems it is like a desert even though it contains the most ice on earth.
Record Low Temperature: (-89.2°C,-128.6°F)

Plateau Station, Antarctica
Plateau station of Antarctica has recorded to be the second coldest places on earth. It is the place which is home to wildlife such as whales, penguins, seals and other sea animals and plants, but no a lot of humans.The station was operated and staffed by the National Science Foundation and United States Navy. On 22 December 2007, the Norwegian-U.S. Scientific Traverse of East Antarctica visited the base and entered the buildings, finding that it was mostly intact. Scientists and other research staffs come to this land to learn more about the earth’s history and weather. It is one of the wildest and the loneliest regions of the planet earth. The Plateau Station was one of the most remote and coldest of any United States stations on the continent
Record Low Temperature:  (-84°C,-119.2°F)

Oymyakon, Russia
Oymyakon is a small Russian village which is located along the Indigirka River, and hidden between the two mountain ranges. It has the population of approximately 800 people. This place was first founded by the Mongols at the time of Genghis Khan. At the village's high latitude, day length varies from 3 hours in December to 21 hours in the summer. Winters in Oymyakon are long and cold and summers are moderately warm but very short. The climate is dry, summers are much wetter than winters. Is usually the other way around in most places.
Record Low Temperature: (-71.1°C,-96.0°F)

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Interesting Game Console Facts and Figures!

Xbox 360

1) Xbox 360 Total Console Sales are 67.2 million as of April 12 2012.

2) 20-30% XBOX Consoles seem to be hit with red rings problem.

3) Xbox 360 is a seventh generation console along with PS3 and the Nintendo Wii.

4) It's best selling game is Kinect Adventures for Kinect. Best selling console game is Halo 3 with 15million+ copies sold.

5) The Xbox 360 can run 478 original Xbox games.

6) In its first year on the market, the system launched in 36 countries, more countries than any other console has launched in a single year.

7) The Xbox 360 has released numerous models of the game console with different features, as well as the controller free experience, Kinect.

8) More than 1.2 billion game invites have been sent since the launch of Xbox 360.

9) There have been 300 million downloads of content from Xbox Live Marketplace. 

10) The average Xbox Live Gold subscriber has 23 friends on their Xbox Live friends list.

PS3

1) PS3 Total Console Sales are 63.9 million as of March 31 2012.

2) Best selling console game is Call of Duty: Black Ops.

3) The PlayStation Home has reached 7,500,000 downloads and  PSN has reached 27,000,000 registered users.

4) The PS3 runs plenty of programs such as Playback TV, Netflix, LoveFilm and has an Internet Browser for searching the web.

5) As well as releasing various versions of the PS3 like the Xbox 360, its main upgrade was to the PlayStation 3 Slim, which was successful as well as the handheld consoles such as the PSP, the new PSP Vita, however PSP GO received low sales and Sony stopped manufacturing them, to focus on the PSP VITA.

6) PS3 controller, the Dualshock 3 has 30 hours battery life, which is wireless and ranges 65 feet. It is charged with a USB cable.

7) The PS3 has a built-in Blu-ray player with High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) out for 1080p resolution and backwards compatible with DVD movies and PlayStation One games.

8) Playstation Move is a motion gaming controller released by Sony competing with the Nintendo Wii and Kinect, receiving 8.8 million sales as of 7th June 2011.

9) Touch-sensitive power and eject buttons(except PS3 slim).

10) Free access to the Playstation Network, including online gaming, PlayStation Home, the Playstation Store and Bluetooth ready.

Nintendo Wii

1) The name 'Wii' was chosen because it is short, simple to pronounce in many languages, and needs no abbreviation for a seventh generation console.

2) Within 30 months of its launch, nearly 24.5 million game systems were sold in the United States, with worldwide sales surpassing 52 million.

3) Some of the most popular titles for this gaming system are "Wii Sports,"

4) When the Wii was new, there was incident after incident of broken TVs and monitors caused by flung Wii remotes.

5) The Nintendo Wii also features Wi-Fi connectivity, giving you Internet access.

6) Nintendo set out to replace their Game Cube in competition with the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, they developed a game system with something new and exciting, a wireless controller that works by motion sensor.

7) Ever since the Wii console was originally released, it continues to stay one of the most popular video game consoles to date.

8) The successor, the Wii U, is to be released in late 2012.

9) The Wii console is backward compatible with all official Nintendo GameCube software.

10) Over 509.66 million Wii games were sold worldwide as of December 2009.

(Seventh Generation Popular Game Console Facts)

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