Habitual Jeans
Habitual jeans can be recognized by the Maltese cross they employ on the back pockets. The cross has been used over the centuries by warriors dating back to ancient Greece, it represents such virtues as loyalty, piety and bravery. Former fashion editor for Harpers Bazzar Magazine Nicole Colovos and husband Michael Colovos created Habitual jeans in 2001 from their studio in New York and have taken the market by storm, capturing the attention of such models as Carolyn Murphy and Gisele Bundchen. Nicole dubbed the jeans Habituals after the "habit forming" nature of jeans and their "ability to become a second skin". Nicole and Michael Colovos pride themselves on their attention to detail and their emphasis on fit. Every season Habitual features a new Mantra sewn into the waistband to inspire the souls who strut them. In order to achieve the most complimentary angle each back pocket of every Habitual jean is hand placed!
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Shuttle Launch Postponed
NASA called off Thursday’s launch of space shuttle Atlantis after detecting problems with a pair of fuel gauges in the shuttle’s external tank.
The launch is now tentatively scheduled for 4:09 p.m. tomorrow.
Lynchburg native and Heritage High School graduate Leland Melvin is one of seven astronauts scheduled to go on the mission.
Melvin announced the postponement during a conference call with friends and family this morning. NASA officials officially scrubbed the launch at 9:56 a.m., according to Space.com.
Engineers were testing the four engine-cutoff sensors in Atlantis’ liquid hydrogen tank when two of them failed. Even though they were commanded to indicate the tank was empty, the two kept showing the tank was full, said NASA spokesman Paul Foerman.
At least three of the sensors must work properly to proceed with a launch.
Officials said the problem might be related to wiring and connectors, rather than the sensors themselves. It was not immediately clear how any repairs might be made.
The sensors are critical to ensure that the shuttle’s three main engines don’t shut down too soon or too late during liftoff. Problems with the sensors have delayed shuttle launches before, most recently in September 2006. The trouble began cropping up following the 2003 Columbia disaster.
NASA had been hoping for an on-time takeoff. Each of the year’s three previous shuttle countdowns had ended with an on-the-dot departure. Atlantis is loaded with Europe’s long-awaited space station lab, named Columbus. The seven astronauts had yet to board their spaceship.
Melvin will play a crucial role in the mission, operating the space station’s 58-foot robotic arm to move the Columbus from the shuttle’s cargo hold onto the station. He also will command the arm to carry German astronaut Hans Schlegel on the mission’s first of at least three planned spacewalks.
About 750 Europeans connected to the scientific laboratory - a $2 billion project begun nearly a quarter-century ago - were in town for the launch and had begun gathering at the space center.
It was yet another disappointing flight delay for the European Space Agency, which has been working on Columbus for more than 22 years.
Columbus is “our cornerstone, our baby, our module, our laboratory,” Alan Thirkettle, the European Space Agency’s station program manager, said Wednesday.
Columbus will be the second laboratory added to the international space station. NASA’s Destiny lab made its debut in 2001, and Japan’s huge lab Kibo - which means hope - will go up in three sections beginning on the very next shuttle mission in February.
Scientific work will start almost immediately inside Columbus, which is essentially packaged and ready to go.
Thirkettle sees Columbus as a stepping stone for Europe to the U.S.-led moon expeditions planned for late in the next decade. To gear up for that, NASA is under presidential orders to finish the space station and retire its three remaining shuttles in 2010.
Counting Atlantis’ upcoming flight, that leaves 12 shuttle missions to the space station and one, next summer, to the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said he doesn’t expect that number to change, which means some space station equipment and experiments will never make it up.
Aside from the interruption caused by the 2003 Columbia tragedy, the actual building of the space station in orbit has gone well, Griffin said. That’s in stark contrast to the space station’s planning and development, which dragged on for years and contributed to Columbus’ prolonged grounding.
“We the United States, as the senior partner in the space station coalition, did not plan it well,” Griffin said on the eve of Columbus’ launch. “It has taken far too long and I’ll just leave it at that.”
The launch is now tentatively scheduled for 4:09 p.m. tomorrow.
Lynchburg native and Heritage High School graduate Leland Melvin is one of seven astronauts scheduled to go on the mission.
Melvin announced the postponement during a conference call with friends and family this morning. NASA officials officially scrubbed the launch at 9:56 a.m., according to Space.com.
Engineers were testing the four engine-cutoff sensors in Atlantis’ liquid hydrogen tank when two of them failed. Even though they were commanded to indicate the tank was empty, the two kept showing the tank was full, said NASA spokesman Paul Foerman.
At least three of the sensors must work properly to proceed with a launch.
Officials said the problem might be related to wiring and connectors, rather than the sensors themselves. It was not immediately clear how any repairs might be made.
The sensors are critical to ensure that the shuttle’s three main engines don’t shut down too soon or too late during liftoff. Problems with the sensors have delayed shuttle launches before, most recently in September 2006. The trouble began cropping up following the 2003 Columbia disaster.
NASA had been hoping for an on-time takeoff. Each of the year’s three previous shuttle countdowns had ended with an on-the-dot departure. Atlantis is loaded with Europe’s long-awaited space station lab, named Columbus. The seven astronauts had yet to board their spaceship.
Melvin will play a crucial role in the mission, operating the space station’s 58-foot robotic arm to move the Columbus from the shuttle’s cargo hold onto the station. He also will command the arm to carry German astronaut Hans Schlegel on the mission’s first of at least three planned spacewalks.
About 750 Europeans connected to the scientific laboratory - a $2 billion project begun nearly a quarter-century ago - were in town for the launch and had begun gathering at the space center.
It was yet another disappointing flight delay for the European Space Agency, which has been working on Columbus for more than 22 years.
Columbus is “our cornerstone, our baby, our module, our laboratory,” Alan Thirkettle, the European Space Agency’s station program manager, said Wednesday.
Columbus will be the second laboratory added to the international space station. NASA’s Destiny lab made its debut in 2001, and Japan’s huge lab Kibo - which means hope - will go up in three sections beginning on the very next shuttle mission in February.
Scientific work will start almost immediately inside Columbus, which is essentially packaged and ready to go.
Thirkettle sees Columbus as a stepping stone for Europe to the U.S.-led moon expeditions planned for late in the next decade. To gear up for that, NASA is under presidential orders to finish the space station and retire its three remaining shuttles in 2010.
Counting Atlantis’ upcoming flight, that leaves 12 shuttle missions to the space station and one, next summer, to the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said he doesn’t expect that number to change, which means some space station equipment and experiments will never make it up.
Aside from the interruption caused by the 2003 Columbia tragedy, the actual building of the space station in orbit has gone well, Griffin said. That’s in stark contrast to the space station’s planning and development, which dragged on for years and contributed to Columbus’ prolonged grounding.
“We the United States, as the senior partner in the space station coalition, did not plan it well,” Griffin said on the eve of Columbus’ launch. “It has taken far too long and I’ll just leave it at that.”
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
GE Microwave Recall
GE Voluntary Recalls Microwave Combo Wall Ovens Due To Fire Hazard
12/5/2007 5:03:24 AM Wednesday, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with GE Consumer & Industrial (GE) announced a voluntary recall of Built-in Combination Wall and Microwave Ovens, posing a fire hazard to consumers.
The recall includes GE combination microwave and conventional built-in wall ovens sold under the brand names- GE, GE Profile and Kenmore. The brand name is printed on the lower left corner on the front of the microwave door, the company noted.
The company advised consumers to stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Consumers should contact GE regarding their GE/GE Profile micro-oven combo or Sears for their Kenmore unit. However, consumers can continue using the lower thermal oven, the company said.
http://www.rttnews.com/sp/Quickfactsnew.asp?item=17
12/5/2007 5:03:24 AM Wednesday, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with GE Consumer & Industrial (GE) announced a voluntary recall of Built-in Combination Wall and Microwave Ovens, posing a fire hazard to consumers.
The recall includes GE combination microwave and conventional built-in wall ovens sold under the brand names- GE, GE Profile and Kenmore. The brand name is printed on the lower left corner on the front of the microwave door, the company noted.
The company advised consumers to stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Consumers should contact GE regarding their GE/GE Profile micro-oven combo or Sears for their Kenmore unit. However, consumers can continue using the lower thermal oven, the company said.
http://www.rttnews.com/sp/Quickfactsnew.asp?item=17
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
The Family International Blamed For Boy's Suicide
In January 2005, Ricky Rodriguez stabbed a woman to death and then fled the scene of the crime, finally shooting himself in the California desert.
According to the report published in CNN the suicide of a young man Ricky Rodriguez and the murder he committed before he killed himself are being blamed on a cult led by his mother Karen Zerby and called The Family International.
Elsevier writes that "Rodriguez was a high-profile ex-member of the Children of God, also called the Family, a controversial hippie cult of the 1970s that had spiraled into aberrant sexual behaviors and other disconcerting practices. Rodriguez was seeking revenge for the sexual abuse that his murder victim and others had committed against him when he was a child (the cult had gone so far as to record its crimes in a bizarre book that glibly described—and provided photographic evidence of—sexual relations between adults and children)."
The Family International is a religious cult with many questionable aspects. The disturbing fact is also the thing that Karen Zerby had sex with his son, writes CNN.
The Family International describes David Berg in the following way: In 1941 he nearly died of pneumonia, shortly after being drafted into the U.S. Army. After determining to rededicate his life to Christian service, he experienced a miraculous healing.
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According to the report published in CNN the suicide of a young man Ricky Rodriguez and the murder he committed before he killed himself are being blamed on a cult led by his mother Karen Zerby and called The Family International.
Elsevier writes that "Rodriguez was a high-profile ex-member of the Children of God, also called the Family, a controversial hippie cult of the 1970s that had spiraled into aberrant sexual behaviors and other disconcerting practices. Rodriguez was seeking revenge for the sexual abuse that his murder victim and others had committed against him when he was a child (the cult had gone so far as to record its crimes in a bizarre book that glibly described—and provided photographic evidence of—sexual relations between adults and children)."
The Family International is a religious cult with many questionable aspects. The disturbing fact is also the thing that Karen Zerby had sex with his son, writes CNN.
The Family International describes David Berg in the following way: In 1941 he nearly died of pneumonia, shortly after being drafted into the U.S. Army. After determining to rededicate his life to Christian service, he experienced a miraculous healing.
Read More.....
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