Adwaita (meaning "one and only" in Sanskrit) (c. 1750 – 23 March 2006) was the name of a male Aldabra Giant Tortoise in the Alipore Zoological Gardens of Kolkata, India. He was the oldest living animal in Kolkata."Historical records show he was a pet of British General Robert Clive of the East India Company and had spent several years in his sprawling estate before he was brought to the zoo about 130 years ago." It is said that the Aldabra tortoise was a gift to Clive from the British seafarers who captured the tortoise from the Seychelles Islands. Reports show that Clive had four such tortoises in his villa in Latbagan at Barrackpore, in the suburbs of Kolkata. Three of the animals died, while Adwaita was transferred to the Alipore zoo in 1875 by Carl Louis Schwendler, the founder of the zoo. Adwaita had lived in his enclosure in the zoo until his death in 2006.
Weighing 250 kgs. (550 lb.), Adwaita was a bachelor. There are no records of his progeny or liaisons. He lived on a diet of wheat bran, carrot, lettuce, soaked gram, bread, grass and salt. The shell of the tortoise cracked and a wound had developed some months before his death from liver failure in March 2006.
There is dispute regarding the exact age of Adwaita. While some records show his age was at least 150 years, others believe he was 250 years old. Again, some sources say the tortoise was born in 1750. Unfortunately, none of these records are reliable.
If the age is determined to be 250 years, as claimed by many sources, Adwaita would be one of the oldest creatures of modern times, beating Harriet by 80 years, and Tu'i Malila, the current recordholder for the certified oldest vertebrate, by 67 years.
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Nokia is going to introduce Nokia N8 very soon. The pre orders of the N8 will “begin shipping 30 September,” reports Engadget. This power packed handset will be loaded with all the advance technological features. The handset will run on the latest Symbian ^3 Operating System and it has a powerful ARM 11 680 MHz processor.
Nokia N8 is equipped with a 12MP camera with video capability, auto-focus, Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon flash that gives you real picture quality with a picture resolution of 3000×4000 pixels.
The handset offers a 16GB internal memory with 256MB RAM, 512 MB ROM and has an external memory that supports a memory space of up to 32GB.
For flawless internet browsing experience, Nokia N8 comes with a WAP 2.0/x HTML, HTML, RSS feeds browser. The handset is very convenient to handle as the handset weighs 135 g and measures 113.5 x 59.1 x 12.9 mm. The handset comes in attractive colors like Dark Grey, Silver White, Green, Blue, Orange.
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We have been hearing about the WePad / WeTab since a while now. The WePad was first introduced as an Android tablet, but it seems that this thing will have a MeeGo flavor now. The video shot by NewGadgets at IFA, Berlin shows the WeTab sporting a MeeGo build and works pretty well. The 4+ min video demonstrates the UI, front camera, hardware ports (USB, HDMI etc) and applications including the web browser. MeeGo looks impressing and promising each passing day, lets hope Nokia gets its MeeGo offerings out soon. As for the WeTab, guess we will wait for the September end release. Since Intel is showing the WeTab at IFA, I suspect this might run a Atom based processor. Video downstairs
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The Fashion Bomb team wishes you a very Happy Labor Day!
We’re taking off today to BBQ and catch up with family and friends.
We hope you’re taking off today too, and benefiting from your last ‘official’ chances to wear white* (like former Bombshell of the Day, blogger Leslie from LA
Hey Guys!
The Fashion Bomb team wishes you a very Happy Labor Day!
We’re taking off today to BBQ and catch up with family and friends.
We hope you’re taking off today too, and benefiting from your last ‘official’ chances to wear white* (like former Bombshell of the Day, blogger Leslie from LA www.fashiondujourdaily.wordpress.com ):
If anything have fun, and stay tuned tomorrow for weekend style and beauty roundups, Bombshell pictures, and more!
Until then…
Smootches!
*In case you’re scratching your head about the ‘White and Labor Day’ rule, here’s the lowdown: White clothes were typically reserved for the summertime because they were thought to keep you cool in the heat. Since Labor Day signals the official end of summer, it was commonly believed Labor Day also signaled the end of wearing your fave white pants, shorts, and skirts. As several celebrities have displayed, white can be rocked all year round if you wear it with confidence!
Just have fun and do what works for you!
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On its official blog Google announced that the company made some revisions to its policy on privacy. In asserting that earlier type of document can be often difficult to approach for users, the Mountain View company has decided to simplify the situation. Google’s legal department has also streamlined its overall policy, first by shortening but also by reformulating certain specific terms. A new page has also been created containing all the privacy settings on each of Google’s services. In addition to access to Google Dashboard we find a tutorial mode is activated by Incognito in Google Chrome, another to disable archiving conversations GTalk or more explanations of the services of geo-location or searches.
” We do not change our practices, we want our policy is more transparent and understandable , “says Mike Yang, General Counsel of the company. In addition to a comprehensive policy embracing several Google products, some services have their own privacy policy. Finally, the user is juggling multiple documents. To further simplify the policy and make it more concise, the rules of confidentiality 12 products have simply been erased. Google explains that the management of contacts in Gmail, GTalk, Google Calendar or Google Docs is the same in all cases, the practices of management and should find their place within the overall policy of Google.
Note that this update occurs precisely when Google paid $ 8.5 million to end a class action in the matter Buzz Google, but also several hours after the broadcast of a satirical video CEO Eric Schmidt the heart of Times Square in New York. Coincidence? Anyway you can compare the privacy policy existing at the next which will be launched next October 3.
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