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Caviar is another name for a diamond and it suits Almas Caviar well as this is being regarded as the world’s most expensive caviar. Almas caviar comes from Iran and it is rare and expensive to say the least.

The price will leave you guessing as to what makes the Almas caviar so expensive and irresistible.  The outlet at which one can view the Almas caviar is Caviar House and Prunier in London. A kilo of the Almas caviar is priced at $25,000. No need to get disheartened though. If you are tight on budget, you can go in for a miniature version of Almas caviar which is priced at $800.

If you might be guessing as to what makes the Almas caviar so expensive, here is the answer. In case of a caviar, the lighter the colour, the expensive it gets. The caviar is categorized into various grades and you can expect the Almas caviar to come in darkest grade(0), medium toned (00) and lightest colour (000).

The lightest colour (000) is the best in the colour and is what we know better as Almas caviar. As you head out to have your share of Almas caviar, remember that it has a short shelf life and if you desire to have the same, make sure that you eat it all and that too soon.

What makes Almas caviar special?

If you are guessing if what makes Almas caviar so expensive and special, here is the answer. Almas caviar comes from Iranian Beluga fish. The fish is found in most unpolluted waters of Caspian Sea and the pristine waters of the place make it for the Almas caviar to be special.

Almas comes from eggs of albino sturgeon which is rare in itself. When it comes to eating, the caviar is eaten directly from the skin. The Almas caviar is a variety of Beluga caviar. The pearly white colour of this caviar is its speciality that pushes up its price and makes it simply amazing. Add to it the silky texture and the Almas caviar becomes, what it is.

A bit of history is attached with caviar too. Though it might be a luxury delicacy in today’s modern times, the same used to be consumed in medieval Russia by peasants too. It made its entry into the world of rich and famous during the life and times of Shakespeare. This delicacy that has evolved and travelled the world over, since the days of its initial inception.

MALERKOTLA: Malerkotla police have busted an interstate gang of wallet picketers. The picketers used to operate at different religious places, socials melas (fairs) across Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh. 

People, all the world over are willing to pay up to $25,000 for a pie of Almas caviar for what is regarded as salted and sieved fish eggs. Caviar is extremely popular all over the world and people almost adore and desire the same to ensure that they are in the best of their health and spirits, all the time. Thankfully, Almas caviar has grown in popularity and people who can afford to have the same are cherishing it. Have you taken your share of Almas caviar?

MALERKOTLA: Malerkotla police have busted an interstate gang of wallet picketers. The picketers used to operate at different religious places, socials melas (fairs) across Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh. 

The story surrounding world’s largest luxury products group Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy’s clandestine efforts for acquiring a substantial stake in rival competitor Hermes shareholding has taken an interesting turn. European and French market regulators are looking into the activities of Louis Vuitton CEO Bernard Arnault, alleging that some of his tactics in acquiring that stake in Hermes were against the letter of the law. Hermes has been also not spared and a penalty of 10 million Euros has been levied against it for failing to report the creeping acquisition of its shareholding.

The controversy arose after French market regulators found out that Bernard Arnault had secretly gone about amassing 22% of Hermes combined shareholding, thereby making his conglomerate the single largest stakeholder in the company outside the immediate heirs of the Hermes family, who still exercise ownership rights over the business. Hermes is one of the last surviving family owned business houses that are yet to be transformed into large holding companies like Kering or LVMH, and on account of its huge profitability, as had its fare share of suitors too. However, the people that own Hermes have steadfastly held out against any hostile takeover bids by vested interest from buyers and competitors. Arnault did find an ingenious way of penetrating inside the Hermes fiefdom and when he did announce the quantum of stake held by him in Hermes, there was pandemonium both amongst industry circles and market regulators.

Arnault on his part has insisted that his interest in Hermes simply extends to a tactical monetary investment in a promising company. However, this explanation was insufficient in preventing AMF from reviewing the entire gamut of investments that LVMH made in Hermes. The European regulator also denied accusations leveled against it by LVMH, that it conducted an impropriators investigation and was part of a larger plot to slander the company’s reputation by its rivals and competitors. On the contrary, AMF was firmly of the opinion that Arnault used a lot of secret financial maneuvering including share swaps and cash buyouts, to maintain his secrecy while silently amassing his stake at Hermes.

The AMF said LVMH failed to disclose in its balance sheets, the quantum of its investments in the combined share holding of Hermes through derivatives obtained in 2008 as well as a prior stake of 5 percent that it held in the company way back in 2001 and 2002. In French regulatory regime, companies are required mandatory disclose their acquisitions in a listed company when they cross the statutory limit of acquisitions of 5, 10 and 15 percent in that company’s share capital. Hermes has also instituted a suit challenging LVMH’s creeping acquisition of its shareholding in a separate court proceeding. The AMF disclosures will not have any significant impact on the current court case, but may further strengthen Hermes’ case.

The fine that has been slapped upon Arnault and his company is a measly $13 million, considering the whopping net worth of 70 billion Euros that it has and the amount of money LVMH aspires to make with the kind of investment in the fledgling Hermes brand. On an individual level, Arnault has maintained a firm stance that he has no intention of buying out Hermes, or acquire a controlling share or even harbor for the Hermes board of directors. It remains to be seen ,whether, Arnault sticks to this stance for long, since existing Hermes family members have already embarked in a damage control mode by sorting 50% of the company ‘s total share capital into a joint holding, which would prevent any future hostile attempts to takeover the family business. 

Mark Zuckerberg has just taken to Facebook to personally respond
to the accusations that Facebook is involved in PRISM, an alleged
secret government program that gives the government access to user
information, denying that Facebook has ever given any government “direct
access” to its servers.

This comes just hours after Google responded to the unfolding events regarding PRISM ,
which reportedly allows the NSA and FBI access to the servers and user
information of multiple major US tech companies such as Facebook,
Google, Microsoft and Apple.

Zuck’s response isn’t that different from Larry Page’s:

I want to respond personally to the outrageous press reports about PRISM:

Facebook is not and has never been part of any program to give the US
or any other government direct access to our servers. We have never
received a blanket request or court order from any government agency
asking for information or metadata in bulk, like the one Verizon
reportedly received. And if we did, we would fight it aggressively. We
hadn’t even heard of PRISM before yesterday.

When governments ask Facebook for data, we review each request
carefully to make sure they always follow the correct processes and all
applicable laws, and then only provide the information if is required by
law. We will continue fighting aggressively to keep your information
safe and secure.

We strongly encourage all governments to be much more transparent
about all programs aimed at keeping the public safe. It’s the only way
to protect everyone’s civil liberties and create the safe and free
society we all want over the long term.

The fog of confusion is slowly lifting and the facts surrounding the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program are becoming a little bit clearer. According to a new report by the New York Time’s Claire Cain Miller ,
the tech companies that allegedly helped the government to spy on their
people did indeed not provide a direct access back door to their
servers.

Instead, the New York Times report claims, they made it easier for
the government and the companies, including Microsoft, AOL, Apple,
Facebook, Yahoo and Paltalk, “to more efficiently and securely share the
personal data of foreign users in response to lawful government
requests.”

In some instances, the report says, the companies did change their
computer systems to do so. Google and Facebook, for example, apparently
discussed plans to build “secure portals” that would allow a government
agency to request data, which the companies would then upload to these
servers for the government to retrieve. That sounds a little bit like a dead drop from an espionage novel, but some variation of these rooms has long existed in telco switching centers in the physical world.

The report also details one instance where an agent installed
software on one of the company’s servers (which one isn’t clear) and
used it to download data to a laptop for “several weeks.”

Just like the original report claims, real-time access is apparently also an option.

All of this, of course, doesn’t immediately jibe with the company’s outright denials
that they had any knowledge of this. The New York Times argues that the
employees who were handling this information were likely now allowed to
discuss their work – though it’s unclear how all of this would go
unnoticed inside a company like Google or Facebook.

 Cisco puts out a Visual Networking Index
forecast every 5 years and while the global numbers have been available
for a while (see video above for a quick overview), the India-specific
data for the 2012-2017 period was shared earlier today by the networking
equipment giant.

Admittedly, there are some impressive numbers
out there such as the projection that annual global IP traffic (fixed
and mobile) is likely to pass the zettabyte (billion terabyte) mark (1.4
ZB to be precise) by 2017 with the fastest growth coming from India,
which is expected to go from 454 petabytes/month in 2012 to 2.8
exabytes/month in five years.

However, a close look at some of
the numbers reveals that it’s not all good news for the Indian user.
Cisco has projected that average broadband speeds will grow only
3.5-fold (from 1.9 Mbps in 2012 to 7 Mbps in 2017), while average
smartphone connection speeds will grow 3 fold to just over 2 Mbps. Given
that in the corresponding period, consumer data traffic is going to
grow 4-fold for fixed and 82-fold for smartphones, the picture doesn’t
look very pretty.

Now one could always argue both ways with
numbers and we’re aware that massive traffic growth could be coming from
fresh additions to the user base and an increase in total time spent
online which means more people will surf for longer at faster speeds
than today. But the counter to that is the fact that bandwidth-intensive
video is going to be the single largest driver of this growth and we’re
fairly certain that not enough people will have fast enough connections
to truly enjoy it, especially in HD.

Of course the real
embarrassment is that the global average connection speed will be 39
Mbps by 2017 for fixed and 3.9 Mbps for wireless! In fact fixed
broadband’s global average speed growth rate is expected to be the same
as ours in spite of being on a much higher base. So much for the pipe
dream sold to us since the turn of the millennium, that our lack of
legacy networks would enable India to skip an entire generation of
technology and leapfrog ahead of the developed world!

“The good
news is Internet traffic growth in India is the fastest globally” says
Robert Pepper, VP Global Technology Policy, Cisco. But he also adds that
“while there is great willingness from the Government and industry to
drive broadband penetration and ensure Internet access, there is a lot
more that needs to be done”. Pepper is being diplomatic. We hear that as
” The bad news is that internet speed in India will continue to be
slooooow.”

Before there was the International Space Station, there was Skylab , America’s first long-term research base in space. It launched 40 years ago today , on May 14, 1973, soaring into the sky on the last of the Apollo-era Saturn V rockets.

Skylab
orbited the Earth until 1979, and welcomed three manned missions of
three crew members each. But it almost didn’t make it to the first
mission at all. In fact, vibrations during its initial liftoff ripped
off a meteoroid shield and two of its solar panels, causing temperatures
in the workshop to jump to an unfriendly 126 degrees Fahrenheit.
Fortunately, NASA engineers were able to move some secondary panels into
place, and spent 10 days with the first crew training them on how to
make the vessel livable.

The first
manned mission arrived to Skylab on May 25. By June the astronauts had
the workshop up and running, and it was their innovations were actually
what made the following two trips possible. On the astronauts’ first
space walk, they deployed a parasol-like sun shield, without which,
poisonous gasses would have made the spacecraft totally uninhabitable,
and the entire mission a failure. This first crew stayed in space for 25
days, the second arrived in July and stayed for 59, and the final came
in November and posted up in Skylab for 84 days.

To
be honest, this image looks a helluva lot more like an eyeball or a
marble than the glowing fiery orange orb floating in our sky that we
call the Sun. But nope, it’s our Sun all right. It looks off because the
image was captured through three of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory’s
extreme ultraviolet filters. But what’s up with that gaping hole?

The hole is
a coronal hole, areas of the Sun that are darker and colder than
normal. The ginormous dark hole is the largest coronal hole that’s been
observed in over a year. We see a hole in the Sun because that’s what
the SDO sees. NASA explains:

Coronal holes are the source of strong solar wind gusts that carry
solar particles out to our magnetosphere and beyond. They appear darker
in extreme ultraviolet light images (here, a combination of three
wavelengths of UV light) because there is just less matter at the
temperatures we are observing in.

It’s like
changing the look of a picture with an Instagram filter! But something
way more advanced than just that. NASA expects the massive coronal hole
to generate some aurora down on Earth

The results of a research project called “ Social Media Usage, Attitudes and Measurability: What Do Marketers Think? ,” sponsored by HubSpot , Junta42 and King Fish Media ,
showed that 72 percent of companies have a strategy behind their online
presence. And it’s no surprise that 85 percent of respondents said that
original content is critical to the success of their social media
campaigns.

Only 9 percent of companies have full-time employees dedicated to
social media, and 85 percent are handling their social media efforts
internally. That means those employees already shouldering the marketing
and PR responsibilities are the ones picking up the social media
duties, as well.

Less clear is how companies are measuring ROI or defining best
practices in this relatively new, but already crowded space. A majority
of respondents (64 percent) aren’t yet requiring measurements to justify
SM budgets.

While proving the value of social media — as with other PR and
marketing tactics — is not easy or clear, media professionals must be
ever vigilant in building in creative feedback mechanisms to validate
efforts. It’s not enough to be visible in this new sandbox, we must also
show that we’re building castles!

This info graphic is about the F1 car.Everything technical in F1 as per
F1 2012,Rules, Designs and Trends. We have used the engine via the
exhausts to drive aerodynamic performance. The supply the visual
reference for the upright, brake caliper and brake duct design.