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Cotton Capri Pants Are Ideal Pants To Wear To A Summer Outing

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Whether you are 24 years old or 60, pants that define a summer-casual look that is as classic as it is appealing can be translated into one distinctive design – the capris. Most women can wear the fashion that falls at the calf, except, perhaps, women who are short and overweight by about 20 pounds.

A Popular Piece of Apparel

Summer cotton Capri pants, also known as crop pants, capris, clam diggers and three-quarter pants, may end at the calf or knee but usually fall at the calf. The slim-line pants are widely popular casual wear, not only in the U.S. but also throughout Europe, Asia and South America.

The Designer of the Capri Style

The pants were the design brainchild of Sonja de Lennart, who introduced the pant style in 1948. Before that time, in 1945, Sonja had designed a wide belt and broad-swinging skirt that were paired with a hat and loose and comfortable blouse. The designer apparel was part of her Capri collection line. She liked the name Capri as it expressed her and her family’s love of the island of Capri.

The Island of Capri

The island of Capri itself is located on the southern side of the Gulf of Naples in the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is a part of the Italian region of Campania. The main town on the isle is also known as Capri. The town and island have been a holiday resort since Ancient Roman times. Well-known on the island are a sea stack made of limestone that extends over the sea, also referred to as the Faraglioni.

Introducing the Look

Sonja replaced the wide-legged pant style, typical of the 40s, with Capri pants to emphasize a more flattering and feminine look. Her three-quarter length Capri pant style featured a fashionable short slit on each side of the Capri design.

Not Always a Summer Style

Find the more cotton Capri pants today are thought of as a summer pant style, the design was originally introduced for both summer and winter wear, with winter capris longer in length. In 1949, Mady Rahl, a German actress, showed off the Capri style pant for summer while Erni Mangold, an Austrian actress, revealed the new Capri pant look for winter.

A ‘50s Fashion Favorite

The Capri style was really launched in the ‘50s when the pants were featured wear for Audrey Hepburn in the movies “Roman Holiday” (1952) and “Sabrina” (1954). Other actresses that wore the fashionable pants included Doris Day, Katharine Hepburn, Kim Novak, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor.

Popular in the ‘60s Too

The figure-flattering pant sparked a mild bit of controversy when Mary Tyler Moore, in her role as Laura Petrie, wore the fashion on the Dick Van Dyke Show in the ‘60s. The pants were also worn by Grace Kelly, who actually donned the fashion on the isle of Capri.

New Zealand’s new small change

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New Zealand’s new small change

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Monday, July 31, 2006

Today New Zealand’s new coins have been released. The new coins replace the 10, 20 and 50 cent coins, while the 5-cent coin is being removed from circulation for good.

The new coins retain the same design as before but the 10-cent coin is now copper coloured. All coins except the 10-cent are now made from plated steel and nickel, making them lighter and cheaper to produce. The 10-cent coin is made from plated steel and copper.

Brian Lang, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Currency Manager, said: “The introduction of smaller, lighter coins is one of New Zealand’s biggest currency changes since the introduction of decimal currency on 10 July 1967.”

The Reserve Bank reports that they have issued 1,037 million coins since the introduction of decimal currency.

However, people can still use their old change between now and 1 November 2006, when the old coins will cease being legal tender.

A survey conducted by ACNielsen, on behalf of the Reserve Bank, in January 2004 shows that 51% liked the idea of the new coins initially.

The ANZ Bank are asking for people to donate their old 5-cent coins to Plunket in their ‘5s for under fives’ appeal.

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High school football coach shot dead at school gym in Iowa

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High school football coach shot dead at school gym in Iowa

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

An American football coach has been shot at his school gym in Iowa, United States. Ed Thomas was shot in front of his students at around 8.00 am local time. Thomas was in the weight room at the time of the shooting. An adult male has been arrested suspected of his murder.

Thomas was the head football coach at Aplington-Parkersburg High School. He had coached 37 seasons of High School football in his career and has a career record of 292-84 of which 156-31 is with Aplington-Parkersburg. He led Parkersburg to 19 state playoffs and won state titles in 1993 and 2001. He was named NFL High School Coach of the Year in 2003 and previously coached four active NFL players including Brad Meester, Jared DeVries, Casey Wiegmann and Aaron Kampman.

Thomas was well known in the local community for his work. When Parkersburg was hit by a tornado in the summer of 2008 Thomas worked endlessly to restore the damaged football field. County Sheriff Jason Johnson said that “Coach Thomas is the pillar of the community. Anything that affects him affects Parkersburg.”

No students were injured during the shooting.

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Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai

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Thursday, January 25, 2018

In findings published Wednesday in the scientific journal Cell, a team of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, China have announced the first-ever cloning of a primate from post-embryonic cells, namely two macaque monkeys. They used somatic cell nuclear transfer, the same method that was used to create Dolly the sheep in 1996.

In somatic cell nuclear transfer, scientists remove the nucleus, which is the organelle that contains the chromosomes, from an unfertilized ovum, or egg cell, and implant the nucleus from a somatic cell, or non-reproductive cell, into that ovum. The ovum is then stimulated and develops in the normal way, growing into a whole organism that has the same nuclear DNA as the donor organism, though it will have all of the ovum’s mitochondria and other cellular machinery. Clones like these have been described as identical twins to their donors, but younger.

The scientists implanted 21 ova into surrogate mother monkeys, resulting in six pregnancies, two of which produced living animals. The young clones were named “Zhong Zhong” and “Hua Hua,” both derived from Zh?nghuá, the Chinese-language word for the Chinese people. They are both cynomolgus monkeys, or crab-eating macaques (Macaca fascicularis). The scientists also attempted to clone macaques using nuclei from adult donors. They implanted 42 surrogates, resulting in 22 pregnancies, but there were still only two infant macaques, and they died soon after birth. The Scotland-based team that created Dolly the sheep in 1996 required 277 attempts and produced only one lamb.

Generally, the older the donor organism, the more difficult it is to get the DNA from the harvested nucleus to reactivate the genes that allow the clone organism to grow. Previous efforts to clone rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) using embryonic donor cells have been successful, but the current attempt used significantly older donors: fetal fibroblast cells, which are key cells in connective tissue, and adult monkey cumulus cells.

“We’re excited — extremely excited,” said study co-author Muming Poo. “This is really, I think, a breakthrough for biomedicine.” He went on to say that the cloned monkeys could be used as test subjects for the study of neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s and Huntington’s. Primates are already a popular model organism for neurological studies. In the United States, for example, non-human primates are used in less than 0.3% of all animal experiments, most of them involving neuroscience, and macaques in particular are a well-established animal model of atherosclerosis, which causes heart disease.

“I think it’s a very exciting landmark. It’s a major advance,” agreed reproductive biologist Dieter Egli of Columbia University. “It should be possible to make models of human disease in those monkeys and study those and then attempt to cure it.”

About 90% of the laboratory animals used in the United States are rodents. Although the first cloned mouse was born in 1998, cloned mice are not currently common in laboratory settings. This may be because producing inbred mouse lines is still relatively effective.

Although the announcement raised enthusiasm from researchers, it also drew caution from bioethicists. “Cloning one individual in the image of another really sort of demeans the significance of us as individuals,” says Harvard Medical School’s Dr. George Daley, speaking specifically of cloning humans. “There’s a certain sort of gut sense that it violates sort of natural norms.” While Muming Poo concedes it is now theoretically possible to clone a human, he says his lab has no plans to do so.

Although somatic cell nuclear transfer was used successfully in amphibians as early as 1952, getting it to work in mammals took much longer. Dolly, the first cloned mammal, was born in 1996. Teams have been trying to clone monkeys for decades, but primate DNA is notoriously difficult to work with. “The trick is we choose the right chemicals to turn on these genes we transfer into the egg,” Mu-ming Poo told the press. “So that’s what we did different. I think that’s the key.” One of the agents used to treat the ova was messenger RNA from the human Kdm4d gene.

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