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Cheese lovers throughout York are so excited that they camembert it after a popular specialist cheese company opened a stall at Vangarde Shopping Park.
York cult favourite Love Cheese has launched a pop up at the shopping park as customers gear up for the festive season. Harry Baines, who owns Love Cheese, has heralded the introduction of the stall as the beginning of the Love Cheese takeover in York.
The stall is selling a mixture of artisan cheese, gift sets, homeware, pies, sweet treats and much more. After opening on 12th November, the stall has seen an overwhelming response from the public, both at Vangarde and on social media.
Love Cheese was taken over by cheese-lovers Harry and Phoebe Baines in September 2015. They fell in love with the shop in the back-streets of York and decided to take it on as their own. With a passion for serving quality food and drink, Harry and Phoebe transformed Love Cheese into the home of local, British and continental cheeses that it is today.
Harry said: "We are proud to be hosting a stall at Vangarde Shopping Park as we are able to widen the awareness of the Love Cheese name and this also allows us to expand our ever-expanding customer base – this is just the beginning of our Love Cheese takeover.
"In partnering with Vangarde, it gives our customers an opportunity to have more than one place to buy their festive treats. The response so far has been overwhelming, and we're excited for the next few weeks.
The original store is based in Gillygate in York, only a stone's throw away from the historic York Minster. The store has been attracting cheese-lovers from across Yorkshire for just over three years. As part of their expansion plans, the team has catered for special events, such as weddings and parties.
Love Cheese has set up shop outside Next right up until Christmas Eve, allowing shoppers plenty of time to purchase gifts. Customers can visit the stall at the Park or place an order online to collect at their earliest convenience.
The stall is open from 10am – 6pm on Monday to Saturday, 11am to 4pm Sunday and 10am – 4pm on Christmas Eve.


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Bernard Charles "Bernie" Ecclestone (Suffolk, 28 de outubro de 1930) é um empresário, dirigente esportivo e ex-piloto britânico. Foi presidente e CEO da Formula One Management (FOM) e da Formula One Administration (FOA).

É acionista da Alpha Prema, um dos empreendimentos que gerenciam a Fórmula 1. Seu controle sobre o esporte, resultado de seu pioneirismo na venda dos direitos televisivos nos anos 1970 é sobretudo financeiro, mas os termos contratuais entre a FIA, as equipes e a Formula One Administration, garantiram-lhe, durante sua administração, estrutura e logística de cada Grande Prêmio de Fórmula 1.

Nos anos 1970 e 1980, foi proprietário da Brabham Racing Organization e assim fundou a Formula One Constructor´s Association (FOCA) aumentando sua influência política na categoria. O bom desempenho da Brabham nas pistas, sobretudo com o brasileiro Nelson Piquet (campeão em 1981 e 1983), ajudou a consolidar seu prestígio como gestor do esporte. Bernie Ecclestone venderia a sua parte na equipe em 1987.

Bernie Ecclestone também participou como piloto dos Grandes Prêmios de Mônaco e da Grã-Bretanha em 1958.

Vida pessoal
Ecclestone nasceu em St Peter South Elmham, uma pequena aldeia três milhas ao sul de Bungay, Suffolk. Filho de um pescador, ele frequentou a escola primária em Wissett antes que a família mudasse para Bexleyheath, Kent, em 1938. Ecclestone deixou a escola aos 16 anos de idade para trabalhar nas fábricas de gás locais, e dedicar-se ao seu hobby, as motocicletas.

Segundo o ranking de bilionários da Forbes para 2011, Bernie Ecclestone é a quarta pessoa mais rica do Reino Unido com uma fortuna estimada em US$ 4,2 bilhões, um aumento de US$ 200 milhões em relação ao ano anterior.

No ano de 2004, ele vendeu uma de suas residências no Kensington Palace Gardens em Londres, apesar de nunca ter vivido nela, para o magnata do aço Lakshmi Mittal por £57.1 milhão, o que a tornou a casa mais cara já vendida.

Ecclestone tem uma filha, Deborah, com Ivy, sua primeira esposa. Deborah e seu marido lhe deram seu primeiro neto e este casou-se e tornou Bernie um bisavô. Ele então casou com Slavica Radić Ecclestone por 25 anos e com ela teve duas filhas: Tamara Ecclestone (nascida em 1984) e Petra Ecclestone (nascida em 1988). O divórcio foi concedido a pedido da esposa em 11 de março de 2009 e reportado no valor de um bilhão de euros.

Durante o Grande Prêmio do Brasil de 2009 conheceu a brasileira Fabiana Flosi (45 anos mais jovem) que trabalhava na organização da prova. Em abril de 2012 eles anunciaram o noivado e se casaram em 27 de agosto do mesmo ano.

Carreira automobilística

Início de carreira
Imediatamente após o fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial, Ecclestone ingressou no ramo automotivo e formou a concessionária de motocicletas Compton & Ecclestone com Fred Compton. Sua primeira experiência automobilística aconteceu em 1949 na Fórmula 3 500cc Series vindo a adquirir um Cooper Mk V em 1951. Como competidor participou de um número reduzido de provas, especialmente em Brands Hatch, conseguindo uma série de boas colocações e até mesmo uma vitória ocasional. Suas aspirações ruíram quando ele colidiu com Bill Whitehouse e caiu no parque de estacionamento do lado de fora da pista. Eventualmente, as pressões comerciais e os riscos convenceram-no a retirar-se do cockpit.

Resultados na Fórmula 1
(legenda)

* carro pilotado por Jack Fairman

Dono de equipe
Após o acidente, Ecclestone deixou temporariamente as corridas para fazer uma série de investimentos lucrativos no mercado imobiliário e no setor de financiamento de empréstimos, passando a gerir sua concessionária aos fins de semana. Seu retorno às pistas aconteceu em 1957 como empresário de Stuart Lewis-Evans, comprando dois chassis da extinta Connaught, cujos pilotos ao longo dos anos haviam sido Lewis-Evans, Roy Salvadori, Archie Scott Brown, e Ivor Bueb. Ecclestone ainda tentou, sem sucesso, classificar-se com seu próprio carro no Grande Prêmio de Mônaco de 1958 (embora isso tenha sido descrito como "uma tentativa nada séria"). Ele também participaria da corrida na Grã-Bretanha, mas seu carro foi entregue a Jack Fairman. Ecclestone permaneceu como empresário de Lewis-Evans quando o piloto se mudou para a equipe Vanwall; Salvadori mudou-se para a equipe Cooper. Lewis-Evans sofreu queimaduras graves quando seu motor explodiu no Grande Prêmio de Marrocos de 1958 falecendo seis dias depois. Abalado, Bernie Ecclestone afastou-se das corridas pela segunda vez.

A amizade com Salvadori fez de Ecclestone o empresário de Jochen Rindt e co-proprietário da equipe dois da Lotus (cujo outro piloto era Graham Hill). Rindt morreu num acidente em Monza, embora sua pontuação tenha lhe garantido o título póstumo de campeão mundial. No início de 1972, Ecclestone comprou a equipe Brabham de Ron Tauranac e começou seu mandarinato como "chefão" da Fórmula 1 ao fundar a Associação dos Construtores da Fórmula 1 ao lado de Frank Williams, Colin Chapman, Teddy Mayer, Ken Tyrrell e Max Mosley. Uma das primeiras medidas desse colegiado foi organizar a questão dos direitos de transmissão televisiva das provas da categoria.

Brabham
Durante a temporada de 1971, Ecclestone foi abordado por Ron Tauranac, dono da Brabham, que buscava um sócio à sua altura e nesse ínterim o inglês adquiriu o time ao custo de £ 100.000 cabendo a Tauranac o posto de designer da equipe e diretor da fábrica, tendo, contra sua vontade, Colin Seeley como auxiliar em suas atribuições, mas somente aos primeiros cabia o papel de "homens fortes" da Brabham.

Em 1972 a equipe conseguiu resultados modestos visto que a prioridade de Ecclestone era alterar o perfil da Brabham e fazer dela um time de ponta e a marca dessa viragem foi a promoção, no ano seguinte, do jovem sul-africano Gordon Murray ao cargo de projetista-chefe e sob sua orientação foi produzido o modelo BT42 dotado de uma transversal triangular, o primeiro de uma série de carros impulsionados pelo motor Ford e que levariam Carlos Reutemann e José Carlos Pace à vitória com a Brabham entre 1974 e 1975. O sucesso da "simbiose" entre os carros de Murray e os motores Ford, porém, não impediu Ecclestone de assinar com a Alfa Romeo para usar seus potentes motores flat-12 a partir de 1976, opção que, embora financeiramente vantajosa, fez a equipe cair de produção dado o peso e o elevado consumo de combustível dos motores e a baixa confiabilidade dos modelos BT45s. Somente com a contratação do bicampeão Niki Lauda para o ano de 1978 e o uso do revolucionário carro-ventilador, o time recuperou competitividade. A parceria com a Alfa Romeo terminou em 1979 quando Nelson Piquet foi efetivado  primeiro piloto do time devido à aposentadoria de Lauda. Nas temporadas seguintes a Brabham correu sob o impulso dos motores Ford Cosworth DFV.

Nelson Piquet sagrou-se vice-campeão mundial em 1980 ao ser derrotado por Alan Jones e conquistou o título em 1981, láurea que não o impediu de viver um ano conturbado em 1982 quando correu para dar confiabilidade aos motores turbo M10 quatro cilindros da BMW, embora tenha usado o Ford durante parte do ano. A recompensa veio em 1983 quando o brasileiro conquistou o bicampeonato mundial de Fórmula 1, sendo o primeiro a usar um motor turboalimentado, o que faria da Brabham um time competitivo pelos dois anos seguintes.

No final de 1985 Nelson Piquet encerrou sete anos de contrato e trocou a Brabham pela Williams tanto por questões financeiras quanto por razões desportivas, afinal seria correndo pela equipe de Grove que o brasileiro chegaria ao tricampeonato. Em 1986 Murray, cujos carros haviam vencido 22 provas na Fórmula 1, assinou contrato com a McLaren e ao fim de 1987 Ecclestone, cada vez mais afeito ao seu papel como dirigente da Associação dos Construtores da Fórmula 1 vendeu a Brabham ao empresário suíço Joachim Luhti por US$ 5 milhões após tê-la arrematado pelo equivalente a US$ 120 mil.

Guerra FISA-FOCA
Ecclestone se tornou executivo-chefe da Associação dos Construtores da Fórmula 1 (FOCA) em 1978 tendo Max Mosley como seu assessor jurídico. Em conjunto, eles negociaram uma série de questões legais com a Federação Internacional de Automobilismo (FIA) e Jean-Marie Balestre, presidente da entidade e tais ajustes culminaram num golpe de mestre de Ecclestone,  o direito de a FOCA negociar os direitos de transmissão dos grandes prêmios de Fórmula 1 sendo que para tal fim foi instituída a Fórmula 1 Participações e Administração (FOPA) que dividiu as receitas da seguinte forma: 47% para as equipes, 30% para a FIA e 23% para o próprio Ecclestone através da FOPA que em contrapartida se responsabilizaria pelas premiações. O emaranhado sobre os direitos de TV causou atritos entre Ecclestone e a Fórmula 1 ao longo dos anos 1990, contudo o empresário estabeleceu o Pacto de Concórdia em 1997 e manteve tal atribuição sob seu controle em troca de repasses anuais à categoria, sendo que o tratado mais recente expirará no último dia de 2012.

Atividades recentes
Mesmo após uma tripla intervenção coronariana em 1999, Ecclestone manteve o vigor na defesa de seus interesses comerciais, tanto que mesmo reduzindo sua participação na SLEC Holdings (conglomerado responsável pela gestão da Fórmula 1) para apenas 25% manteve o controle integral das empresas e da categoria. Também em 1999 Terry Lovell publicou uma biografia intitulada  Bernie's Game: Inside the Formula One World of Bernie Ecclestone (ISBN 1-84358-086-1). Em abril de 2000 Ecclestone vendeu a David Richards a Internacional Sportsworld Communicators (ISC), detentora dos direitos comerciais do Campeonato Mundial de Rali.

Ecclestone esteve sob fogo cruzado em outubro de 2004 quando ele e Jackie Stewart, presidente do British Racing Drivers Club, foram incapazes de selar um acordo quanto ao futuro do Grande Prêmio da Grã-Bretanha fazendo com que a prova fosse excluída do calendário provisório de 2005, todavia um assentimento dos chefes de equipes quanto a uma série de cortes de custos fizeram com que a prova fosse mantida no calendário por um período de cinco anos. No mês seguinte os três bancos que detêm 75% na SLEC e, portanto, controlam a Fórmula 1 – BayernLB, JPMorgan Chase e Lehman Brothers – investiram judicialmente contra Ecclestone, o que gerou especulações sobre a perda do controle exercido pelo magnata britânico sobre a categoria e tal processo resultou num veredicto do juiz Andrew Park em 6 de dezembro no qual o magistrado deu razão aos bancos. Ecclestone, por sua vez, insistia em dizer que a decisão não tinha valor algum e recorreu. No dia seguinte, em reunião com os chefes de equipe no aeroporto de Heathrow, em Londres, o britânico ofereceu £ 260 milhões ao longo de três anos em troca de renovação unânime do Pacto de Concórdia expirado em 2008. Duas semanas mais tarde, Gerhard Gibkowsky, membro do conselho do BayernLB e presidente da SLEC, afirmou que os bancos não tinham a intenção de remover Ecclestone de sua posição de controle.

Em março de 2005 duas rodas de seu carro, um Mercedes-Benz CLS55 AMG, (tido como o primeiro de sua marca no Reino Unido) foram roubadas enquanto o veículo estava estacionado à frente da residência de Ecclestone em Londres. Numa sexta-feira, 17 de junho de 2005, Ecclestone estampou as manchetes americanas ao comentar o quarto lugar de Danica Patrick nas 500 Milhas de Indianápolis daquele ano numa entrevista à estação de televisão WRTV: "Ela fez um bom trabalho, não é? Super. Achava que ela não seria capaz de fazê-lo assim. Você sabe, eu tenho uma dessas ideias maravilhosas que as mulheres devem ser todas vestidas de branco, como todos os outros aparelhos domésticos." (Após a vitória de Danica Patrick 2008 no Twin Ring Motegi, Ecclestone enviou-lhe uma carta de congratulações) Dois dias depois, Ecclestone viu 14 dos 20 carros se recusarem a correr o Grande Prêmio dos Estados Unidos no Indianapolis Motor Speedway sob a alegação de que as equipes temimam pela segurança em razão da fragilidade do tipo de composto fornecido pela Michelin em seu pneus e após uma série de reuniões entre Bernie Ecclestone, Max Mosley e os diretores da equipe, nenhum acordo foi obtido quanto a uma flexibilização das regras ou uma mudança nas configurações de pista e assim Ecclestone se tornou um alvo para a frustração público, pois embora ele não tenha causado o problema, sua posição de comando o tornava o mais credenciado para resolver o impasse. Ao final fãs e jornalistas foram testemunhas de uma corrida de apenas seis carros sendo que dois lugares na zona de pontuação ficaram vazios.

Após a perda de Silverstone como sede do Grande Prêmio da Inglaterra em 2008, Ecclestone voltou à baila sob a acusação de manipular as receitas da Fórmula 1 ao seu bel prazer. Damon Hill apontou a Formula One Management (FOM) como uma peça-chave para a perda do evento. Citando Bernie, ele disse uma vez:" Você pode ter tudo como quiser, desde que você pague muito por isso, mas não podemos pagar muito por algo ... O problema é que o dinheiro vai para fora e para longe. Há uma questão de saber se esse dinheiro ainda retorna à Fórmula 1". Flavio Briatore também endossou as críticas: "Hoje em dia Ecclestone leva 50% de todas as receitas, mas nós devemos ser capazes de reduzir nossos custos em 50%".

Em 7 de janeiro de 2010, foi anunciado que Ecclestone, juntamente com a Genii Capital, fez uma proposta de compra da montadora sueca Saab Automobile.

No dia 23 de janeiro de 2017, a Liberty Media, atual controladora dos diretor comerciais da Fórmula 1, anunciou a demissão de Bernie. Em seu lugar, foram anunciados Ross Brawn como o chefão esportivo e Sean Bratches, como o responsável pela área comercial, assim dividindo em duas responsabilidades o que Bernie Ecclestone comandava exclusivamente.

Queens Park Rangers
Em 3 de setembro de 2007 Ecclestone e Flavio Briatore compraram o Queens Park Rangers (QPR) Football Club da Premier League e em dezembro eles se uniram como co-proprietários ao empresário Lakshmi Mittal, a quinta pessoa mais rica no mundo, que comprou 20% do clube. Um ano depois, foi anunciado que Ecclestone comprou a maioria das ações de Flavio Briatore se tornou detentor de 69% do time. Em 18 de agosto de 2011 Ecclestone e Briatore venderam suas ações a Tony Fernandes, proprietário da equipe Caterham de Fórmula 1.

Controvérsias

Com o Partido Trabalhista
Em 1997 Ecclestone envolveu-se em uma controvérsia sobre a política do Partido Trabalhista Britânico a respeito da publicidade de cigarros. Antes de sua vitória nas eleições gerais daquele ano os trabalhistas divulgaram um manifesto em apoio a uma diretiva da União Europeia contrária ao patrocínio esportivo feito pela indústria tabagista. Naquele momento os times mais importantes e poderosos da Fórmula 1 ostentavam patrocínios como os da Rothmans, Marlboro, Mild Seven, West e Benson & Hedges. Após a vitória trabalhista a postura antitabagista do novo governo foi reforçada por declarações do Secretário de Saúde, Frank Dobson e da Ministra da Saúde Pública, Tessa Jowell, o que levou Ecclestone a encontrar-se com o primeiro-ministro Tony Blair em 16 de outubro.

Em 4 de novembro a "feroz antitabagista Jowell" arguiu em Bruxelas pela isenção de sanções à Fórmula 1, porém a mídia explorou o fato de que a ministra abdicou de seus princípios em favor de um "esporte de glamour" e ventilou ligações de seu marido com a Benetton. Quase de imediato surgiu a informação de que em janeiro de 1997 Ecclestone doou £ 1.000.000 ao partido e em 17 de novembro um compungido Tony Blair pediu desculpas pela condução incorreta do caso e anunciou que a devolução do valor doado fora feita há seis dias. Além disso o chefe de governo assegurou que "a decisão de isentar a Fórmula 1 se deu duas semanas após a reunião" motivada pelo temor de que a Grã-Bretanha sofresse concorrência de países asiáticos favoráveis à continuidade do patrocínio tabagista. Em 2008, um ano após Blair deixou o cargo de primeiro-ministro, memorandos internos da Downing Street revelaram que, na verdade, a decisão saiu no dia da reunião, e não duas semanas mais tarde, como Blair declarou ao Parlamento.

Mulheres como "eletrodomésticos"
Em 2005, ao falar sobre o desempenho da piloto Danica Patrick, ele observou: "Você sabe que eu tenho uma dessas ideias maravilhosas ... as mulheres devem se vestir de branco, como todos os outros eletrodomésticos." Ecclestone mais pediu desculpas a Patrick, mas repetiu seus comentários antes de desculpar-se pela segunda vez. Anteriormente, em fevereiro de 2000, ele disse que as mulheres nunca atingiriam a excelência na Fórmula 1.

Polêmica hitlerista
Em uma entrevista publicada pelo Times em 4 de julho de 2009, Ecclestone disse: "Apesar de parecer terrível dizer isto, com exceção do fato de Hitler ter se deixado levar em um determinado momento e de fazer coisas que não sei se realmente queria fazer ou não, o certo é que ele estava em uma posição de mandar em muitos e conseguir com que fizessem as coisas. No final ele acabou se perdendo, e portanto não foi um bom ditador, porque ou sabia o que estava acontecendo (ao seu redor) e insistiu nisso ou simplesmente foi condescendente... de qualquer maneira, não agiu como um ditador". De acordo com Ecclestone a democracia também proporcionou situações não meritórias: "Se você olhar para uma democracia verá que ela não fez muita coisa boa para muitos países - incluindo este". Ele também disse que seu amigo de 40 anos Max Mosley, filho do líder fascista britânico Oswald Mosley, "seria um bom primeiro-ministro" para o Reino Unido e acrescentou: "No fundo eu não acho que seria um problema".

Ao ver a má repercussão de sua entrevista ao diário britânico Ecclestone admitiu que foi idiota e lamentou que suas declarações tenham sido distorcidas para em seguida apresentar suas "mais sinceras desculpas" a respeito do caso.

Acusações de suborno

Em depoimento prestado na Alemanha em 2012 o ex-diretor de risco do BayernLB, Gerhard Gribkowsky, admitiu o recebimento de € 45 milhões em suborno a fim de convencer a instituição onde trabalhava a vender para Ecclestone sua participação na empresa que geria os direitos comerciais da Fórmula 1. Ao tratar do caso o Ministério Público descartou o argumento de que o chefão da Fórmula 1 "pagou sob chantagem" apontando-o como coautor do crime de suborno. Temendo ver sua liderança questionada, o magnata britânico ofereceu-se para depor e, segundo ele, provar a falsidade das acusações.

Detenção por porte ilegal de arma de fogo
Em 25 de maio de 2022, Ecclestone foi detido pela Polícia Federal do Brasil no Aeroporto de Viracopos, em Campinas por porte ilegal de arma de fogo. A pistola LW Seecamp .32 estava em sua bagagem e foi detectada pelo raio-x quando o mesmo saia do Brasil com destino a Suíça. Logo após o pagamento de uma fiança de R$ 6.060 (US$ 1257), ele foi liberado para realizar a viagem em um voo particular. Classificando o episódio como um "incidente pequeno e bobo", o empresário negou que tenha sido preso e foi irônico ao comentar o caso. "Não tenho tido nenhuma publicidade ultimamente e achei que deveria fazer alguma coisa para conseguir alguma".

Críticas ao "Singapuragate"
Bernie Ecclestone criticou as implicações do Grande Prêmio de Singapura de 2008. Para o ex-dirigente, esta corrida deveria ter sido anulada por conta do disposto no regulamento ante o acúmulo de evidências e provas de manipulação de resultados. "Decidimos não fazer nada, queríamos proteger o esporte e salvá-lo de um escândalo. Havia uma regra que dizia que a posição de um campeão mundial era intocável após a cerimônia de premiação da FIA (Federação Internacional do Automobilismo). Assim, Hamilton recebeu a taça e tudo ficou bem. Mas tínhamos informações suficientes naquele momento para investigar o assunto. Segundo o regulamento, devíamos ter anulado a corrida em Singapura por essas condições".

Naquela ocasião, o brasileiro Nelson Piquet Jr. bateu propositadamente no muro do circuito provocando a intervenção do safety car numa sucessão de eventos que culminaram na vitória de Fernando Alonso, companheiro de Piquet na equipe Renault. Após investigar o caso, a FIA baniu Flavio Briatore da Fórmula 1 e afastou Pat Symonds por cinco anos, sendo que os pilotos tiveram destinos diferentes: Fernando Alonso permaneceu incólume enquanto Nelson Piquet Jr. deixou a categoria. Como não anularam a prova em Marina Bay, Lewis Hamilton finalizou em terceiro pela McLaren e ampliou para sete pontos sua vantagem sobre Felipe Massa na liderança do campeonato, conquistando o título por um ponto de vantagem sobre o brasileiro da Ferrari no Grande Prêmio do Brasil de 2008.

"Ainda hoje sinto pena de Massa. Ele venceu a última corrida do ano em seu GP em casa, em São Paulo, e fez tudo certo. Ele foi roubado nesse título que merecia, enquanto Hamilton teve toda a sorte do mundo e conquistou seu primeiro campeonato. Hoje eu teria resolvido de forma diferente. Por isso, para mim, Michael Schumacher ainda é o único heptacampeão, mesmo que as estatísticas digam o contrário".

Empresários do Reino Unido
Pilotos de Fórmula 1 da Inglaterra
Bilionários do Reino Unido

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Hi; I just bought a Vintage Kay 4 String Open Back Banjo. I read your article On these Banjos. Can I cut the Twentieth Fret off and get a shorter Rod? Make Nineteen Frets?
Cutting up your banjo will just ruin it. Here's why: In the 1950s and early 1960s, 4-string banjo was going out of style. Sales of beginner 4-strings didn't justify making 21-fret, 19-fret, and 17-fret banjos. So the cheap banjo makers like Kay and Harmony stopped making 17-fret banjos altogether. And to satisfy people looking for 19 OR 21 fret banjos, they made 20-fret banjos as a compromise. Depending on which strings you used, you could still play any popular 4-string style on the things, and that saved them a lot of money at the time.
If you NEEDED a 19-fret banjo and wanted to cut into yours, you'd have to take off the FIRST fret - the one by the nut. If you shortened the neck by taking off the 20th fret, you'd have to move the bridge down toward the tailpiece by about half the distance you removed, and that would affect the tone of your banjo.
This instrument will play just like a 19-fret banjo if you use the right strings. If the neck seems too long and you really feel like you need it shorter, just keep watching ads for a 19-fret or 17-fret version.
I hope this makes sense. So here's my real question: What kind of music do you plan to play on your banjo?
Good morning Paul: I haven't received it yet it's a fixer upper. It is a Vintage Kay 4 String Banjo, It needs refinishing, it's peeling, frets board needs sanding. My dad restored the finish on Guitar, Pianos, Organs and furniture. When I get it , it has to be taken all apart. What brand of strings and strength?
There are two different common tunings for four-string banjo. "Jazz Tenor" tuning is used for Ragtime, Dixieland, etc. It's based on Viola tuning, with the strings going A,D,G,C starting from the string closest to your toes and going upward. "Irish Tenor" tuning is used for folk music and Celtic-inspired songs. It's tuning is based on mandolin/violin tuning, but an octave down. E,A,D,G, starting from the string closest to your toes.
Irish tuning lets you play a half-octave lower than Jazz Tenor, so if you don't want to play Dixieland, it will give you more range.
Thats why I asked you what kind of music you planned to play on your 4-string.
Once you've settled that, there's a chart at the end of this article that gives you string recommendations.
Though your banjo will have 20 frets instead of 19, use the 19-fret recommendatons.
The short version, if you're going to play Dixieland, get Tenor banjo strings. If you're going to play Celtic or other folk traditional music, consider getting Irish banjo strings. In both cases, I would recommend light strings.


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Why My Mother Hated Grease 2… Along With The Rest of the World
Louisa January 15, 2015 Society & Entertainment
My parents divorced when I was 11 and whilst it was probably the worst move for my relationship with my mother, it was the best for my relationship with my father. For the first 11 years of my life he'd been writing a Very Important Book because that's what university professors did. Consequentially I didn't see him a lot. But after the divorce he was forced to spend one whole day a week with me. When Saturday came around, he picked me up and we went shopping at the bookstore and rented a video at Blockbusters. My Dad and I returned to watch something usually highly inappropriate for my age after which we watched our usual re-run of Grease or Grease 2… and danced round the living room. That was every Saturday for four years, after which he got a Very Important Job because of the acclaim for his Very Important Book, and moved abroad.
Grease and Grease 2 got equal airplay on our Saturdays and I couldn't understand why one was a success and the other wasn't. I loved them both. But I had an inkling of why when my mother caught them for the first time.
Grease follows the traditional stereotype, boy Danny (John Travolta) meets hot girl Sandy (Olivia Newton-John), girl sacrifices her sense of self and her identity for guy, girl get's guy through wearing skintight clothes and the promise of sex. Tell me about it, Stud.
Grease 2 on the other hand, has a girl Stephanie (Michelle Pfeiffer) who refuses to get off with boy Johnny (Adrian Zmed) says she'll 'kiss who I want when I want' and falls for Michael (Maxwell Caulfield) who eventually turns out to not only be a 'cool rider' but a good student getting as she concludes, 'two for the price of one'. The only thing Maxwell Caulfield doesn't do, is dance… but hey after John Travolta anyone would look useless, so the producers had the good sense not to attempt a comparison.
'Slut' my mother said, whilst watching Michelle Pfeiffer. Well, no. My mother doesn't use the word slut. That word along with misplaced modifiers and dangling prepositions is on the no-no list. Nevertheless she made clear in her own indomitable fashion that Stephanie was an airhead and an easy woman whilst Sandy was a class act nobody could follow. And not just because she could sing better. Because she was the good girl, 'hopelessly devoted' who sacrificed herself for her man.
Grease 2 was upsetting for so many people because three out of the four pink ladies had too much respect for themselves to play the helpless female stereotype and succumb to their respective T-bird match's machinations to get them into bed. Even Lorna Luft's character, Paulette declares in the end 'I may not be the classiest chick you're every gonna get, but I'm the best you're gonna get…so take it! Or leave it!' The strongest female in Grease – Rizzo – was punished for her choices by a pregnancy scare and being ostracized. 'Let that be a warning to you,' my mother (might have) said.
In the reviews of Grease versus Grease 2, I've seen many justifications for why one was a success and the other was a failure. Lousy acting? They both have it. Uninspired plot? Er, it's pretty much the same plot with the genders swapped. Unconvincing dream sequence? Didn't stop Dallas going on for another five seasons. Shit songs? What?! No one disputes the great hits of Grease, but the production and choreography of Grease 2 songs was often better than Grease… which in a musical film is often what counts for more than the melody itself (give me bolshy Michelle singing Cool Rider slightly off key, over dreary victim Olivia singing pitch perfectly in her nightie, wafting a pink piece of stationery in a paddling pool anytime).
In fact Grease 2 has fantastic songs and more polished dance sequences for many of them. From the opener Back to School Again and We're Gonna Score Tonight, to Reproduction and Prowlin' the songs showcase many of the cast members good vocals. Yes, in Grease 2 all the Pink Ladies and T-birds can sing instead of just the lead characters.
No, the problem with Grease 2 was that it portrayed the T-birds as dumb losers and the Pink Ladies who were too savvy to fall for their crap, versus Grease where the T-birds were also dumb losers but had incontrovertible rights to the Pink Ladies' sexuality. The fact they were dumb losers didn't stop them from being the most desired guys in school. In Grease 2, the T-birds get what they deserve whilst the head of the Pink Ladies strayed from convention and went for someone else who tried to change the way he was for her, instead of him trying to change who she was. And when the time comes for my kids to watch Grease 1 & 2, I'll be sure to point out the lessons of Stephanie over those of Sandy.
(Also, massive cool factor in actress Pamela Adlon who played little Dolores, Paulette's sister in Grease 2. She learned her feminist lessons well in this movie and went on to later play the kick-ass role of Marcy in Californication).

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Charlotte Emily Olney French casts the first vote by a woman in a Washington Territorial election at Grand Mound in Thurston County on June 6, 1870.
On June 6, 1870, Charlotte Emily Olney French (1828-1897), after a debate with the election judges, casts her vote in a Washington territorial election, the first woman to do so. Six more women at her Grand Mound precinct in south Thurston County also vote that day. Eight women at the Black River precinct a few miles north get the news and add their votes for a total of 15 approved ballots by women. The women base their arguments on recently enacted legislation sponsored by Edward Eldridge (1828-1892), a Whatcom County legislator, which strikes the word "male" from the voting laws. French's sister, Mary Olney Brown (1821-1886), and others try to vote in Olympia but are turned down.
"What ideas were revolving in these young minds in that long journey of 3,000 miles, six months in duration, it would be difficult to imagine, but the love of liberty had been infused in their dreams somewhere, either in their eastern homes from the tragic scenes of the anti-slavery conflict, or on that perilous march amidst those eternal solitudes by day and the solemn stillness of the far-off stars in the gathering darkness. That this long communion with great nature left its impress on their young hearts and sanctified their lives to the best interests of humanity at large, is clearly seen In the deeply interesting accounts they give of their endeavors to mould the governments of their respective territories on republican principles" (History ..., 767).
The actual trip was less poetic. Brown and her husband, Benjamin, known as B. F. Brown (1815-1893), lost two of their five children to disease along the way. The Browns stopped first in Portland, Oregon, and then settled near Olympia in Thurston County, where they sold fruit-tree grafts from her brother Cyrus Olney's (d. 1870) pioneering nursery near Portland. B. F. Brown also partnered with Charlotte's husband, G. W. French (d. 1908), to build the first commercial wharf in Olympia.
Brown, who was described in her obituary as "a woman of more than ordinary intellectual endowments and a zealous advocate for many of the modern measures of reform" ("Mary Olney Brown"), credited territorial legislator Edward Eldridge with the first official impetus to give women the vote in Washington. "At the session of 1867, mainly through the efforts of Edward Eldridge of Whatcom county, an act was passed giving 'all white American citizens above the age of twenty-one years' the right to vote" (History ..., 781).
Eldridge said he had purposely left out the word "male" in order to open the vote to women, and Brown felt a duty of follow up. She wrote to women around the territory and urged them to vote in the next election, but "I was looked upon as a fanatic and the idea of a woman voting was regarded as an absurdity. The law seemed to be in advance of the people" (History ..., 781). Brown persevered, bolstered by the support of her husband, who told neighbors that he believed she had as much right to vote as he did.
"A fearful hue and cry was raised ... Some of the papers deprecated the idea that 'a woman should unsex herself by dabbling in the filthy pool of politics.' But I was fully committed. The law had been on our statute books for nearly three years. If it was intended for our benefit, it was time we were availing ourselves of it" (History ..., 781).
Her experience at the schoolhouse voting place was anticlimactic.
"After watching the sovereign 'white male citizen' perform the laborious task of depositing his vote in the ballot-box, I thought if I braced myself up I might be equal to the task. So, summoning all my strength, I walked up to the desk behind which sat the august officers of election, and presented my vote. When behold! I was pompously met with the assertion, 'You are not an American citizen; hence not entitled to vote.' The great unabridged dictionary of Noah Webster was opened, and the definition of the word citizen read to me. ... Waiting a moment, I said, 'The definition is correct. A citizen of the United States, is a person owing allegiance to the government; but then all persons are not men; and the definition of citizeness is a female citizen. I claim to be an American citizen, and a native-born citizen at that; and I wish to show you from the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States, that women are not only citizens having the constitutional right to vote, but also that our territorial election law gives women the privilege of exercising that right'" (History ..., 782).
"A Woman of Energy and Influence"
"My sister ... began talking the matter up ... And, being a woman of energy and influence, she soon had the whole neighborhood interested. With the assistance of an old lady, Mrs. Peck, she planned a regular campaign. By the programme the women were to get up a picnic dinner at the schoolhouse where the election was to be held, and directly after, while the officers of election were in good humor (wives will understand the philosophy of this), they were to present their votes" (History ..., 784).
The "old lady" was Mercy Peck, whose husband Washington Peck was among the election inspectors.
After the meal and an accompanying conversation about the 14th Amendment on that election day, June 6, 1870, "the judges, as well as everyone else, were in the best of spirits," and French cast her ballot without a protest, followed by six more women, including a 72-year-old Mrs. [Delilah] Sargent, who "said she thanked the Lord that he had let her live until she could vote" (History ..., 784).
"The moment the man rode in sight of the school-house he swung his hat, and screeched at the top of his voice, '"They're voting! They're voting!' "The teams were all ready in anticipation of the news, and were instantly flying in every direction, and soon the women were ushered into the school-house, their choice of tickets furnished them, and all allowed to vote as 'American citizens'" (History ..., 784).
Mary Brown, accompanied by Jane Wyllie Pattison, Jane Wylie, and Susan Dofflemyer, also attempted to vote in Olympia that year. Dofflemyer's husband, Isaac, showed up and took her away, and the remaining three women were denied.
The next year, the territorial legislature voted to deny Washington women the vote until the U.S. Congress approved it nationally, although "tax-paying women" ("Countdown ...") were permitted to vote in school elections after 1877. Women won the right to vote in Washington Territory in 1883, but the right was rescinded by the Territorial Supreme Court in 1888. Women of Washington did not regain the vote until 1910, a full 40 years after Brown, French, and their compatriots had paved the way, but still 10 years ahead of the U.S. 19th Amendment establishing woman suffrage nationwide.
Brown and French both stayed active in community work. They were founding members of the Women's Club of Olympia in 1883 and participants in its study topics and community projects. Brown also took up "the water cure" and became known as a doctor, using alternate applications of hot and cold water to treat her patients. When she died at age 65, her obituary noted her "trenchant pen," often used to promote racial and sexual equality and said "many of her essays have aided very materially in shaping popular sentiment towards woman's enfranchisement" ("Mary Olney Brown").
French, who divorced her husband for desertion in 1879 (he promptly remarried), moved to Montesano in the 1890s, where she died at age 69. Besides a daughter and son, she left "a host of acquaintances to mourn the loss of a good, kind, affectionate woman, who shirked no duty in life and contributed her full share towards the development of the western wilds into a civilized home for herself and others" ("Charlotte Emily Olney French"). Her obituary did not mention her role as a political strategist and early voter.
History of Woman Suffrage: 1876-1885, Vol. 3, ed. by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Ida Husted Harper (Rochester, N.Y.: Charles Mann Printing Company, 1886); "Charlotte Emily Olney French," Find a Grave website accessed September 15, 2018 (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139900232/charlotte-emily-french); "Mary Olney Brown," Find a Grave website accessed September 15, 2018 (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63326813/mary-brown); Barbara Calder Currie to Murray Morgan, September 22, 1985, in possession of Lane Morgan, Bellingham, Washington; "Countdown to the November 8th Day of Jubilation -- Part 5," August 30, 2010, From Our Corner Washington Secretary of State blog accessed September 15, 2018 (https://blogs.sos.wa.gov/fromourcorner/index.php/2010/08/countdown-to-the-november-8th-day-of-jubilation-part-5/); "Historic Thurston County, Women's Suffrage Heritage Site," historic marker located at 19810 Old Highway 99 SW, Grand Mound (Board of Thurston County Commissioners, Thurston County Historic Commission, and Rochester-Grand Mound Curves, 2004).


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Hydropower firm exec arrested for Honduran environmentalist Berta Caceres' murder
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Roberto David Castillo, executive of Desarrollos Energeticos, is arrested by police officers on charges of helping plan the murder of indigenous environmental activist Berta Caceres two years ago, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (Reuters)
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TEGUCIGALPA — Honduran authorities on Friday said they arrested a high-ranking executive of a hydroelectric company on Friday on charges of helping plan the murder of indigenous environmental activist Berta Caceres two years ago.
Roberto David Castillo, executive president of Desarrollos Energeticos, was arrested at an airport in the north of the country, Honduran prosecutors said. DESA had been pushing for the construction of a dam that was opposed by Caceres.
Castillo "was in charge of providing logistics and other resources to one of the perpetrators already prosecuted for the crime," Public Ministry spokesman Juri Mora told Reuters.
Reuters was not able to immediately contact Castillo or his lawyers.
In a statement, DESA denied involvement in the crime and said Castillo is "innocent," adding that it "rejects this decision that comes from international pressure and smear campaigns of various NGOs on the company."
Caceres, a 43-year-old teacher who won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, was shot dead at her residence on the night of March 2, 2016.
Lenca indigenous people hold placards during a protest to mark the second anniversary of the killing of environmental activist Berta Caceres, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (Reuters)
Castillo is the second alleged mastermind captured for her murder. Eight other people, including company employees, hired assassins and members of the army, have been arrested and tried.
Honduras has seen repeated confrontations between indigenous populations with mining and hydroelectric operations. President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who won reelection in December in a vote marred by fraud allegations, has sought to boost investment in such ventures.
Members of the activist group that Caceres led gathered Friday in front of prosecutors' offices in the capital to demand the arrest of more prominent local businessmen they allege are connected to the crime.
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Off the radar: Russian TV ignores PM wife's plane scandal
Russians posted plane emojis and angry comments on Thursday as journalists and TV stars interviewing Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev failed to raise explosive claims over his wife's use of a private jet.
Medvedev's annual televised question-and-answer session lasted two hours and featured a panel of journalists, a well-known comedian and a young Instagram star.
Yet none mentioned a scandalous report with millions of views on YouTube about the premier's wife Svetlana Medvedeva's alleged use of a $50 million jet for numerous private trips including pilgrimages.
A report making the claim by opposition leader Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation came out Wednesday and the video version has been viewed more than 2 million times on YouTube.
The report alleges Medvedeva used a plane owned by a Belize offshore firm to make at least 11 trips in a personal capacity including a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, despite not having the right to a personal plane.
Speculation ahead of Medvedev's interview centred on whether any journalist would use the live show to ask him about it.
"I address all journalists. Maybe there are honest people among you who will ask Medvedev a concrete question," wrote Navalny on his blog.
As the show rolled on and soft-ball questions focused on the economy, hospitals and domestic violence, viewers posted angry comments.
"What about the plane? Let's look into it," wrote one user, Dmitriy Im, on the YouTube channel of NTV television.
"It's a show with his jesters sitting and asking easy questions," wrote another, Andrey ML.
"The questions are about nothing," said viewer Dimon Avas.
One commentator, iXander81 said, however: "If they ask a question about the plane, it will be the last of their career."
Others questioned why no channel that covers opposition politics was represented.
Some simply posted plane emojis and the hashtag "Svetlana Medvedeva's plane".
On Twitter, shortly after the broadcast, the top three trending topics in Russia all referred to the plane scandal.
"20 channels, over 2 hours, zero questions about his wife's plane," independent news site Meduza mused.
A 2017 report by Navalny alleging that Medvedev controls a luxury property empire has been viewed 32 million times on YouTube.
Another investigation by Navalny's team, released Monday, concerned the president of VTB state-run bank Andrei Kostin and alleged his television presenter lover travels in a private plane and a yacht and enjoys expensive property.
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By Ian King | October 18, 2017
Intel Corp. has developed a system it says ensures that self-driving vehicles can't cause accidents where they are at fault, an effort to reassure a skeptical public and help speed adoption of driverless cars on the road.
The world's largest chipmaker is publishing a set of standards, based on mathematical formulas, that will govern the behavior of robot cars and trucks. If they're adopted, Intel argues, it will bring certainty to questions of liability and blame in the event of an accident.
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"Any useful autonomous vehicle is going to be involved in accidents," said Dan Galves a vice president at Mobileye, a maker of autonomous vehicle technology that Intel bought earlier this year. "One thing that is clear is that the public is going to be a lot less forgiving of accidents that are caused by machines."
Intel is one of several component makers that see the increasing need for computing in vehicles, caused by the move toward autonomy, as a new growth market. While car makers, their suppliers and companies such as Uber Technologies Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo are conducting on-the-road tests, Intel and its rivals need the industry to move beyond trials and into production to get a return on the dollars they're pouring into research and development.
Intel is trying to come up with a framework that will help prevent the potential chaos of putting machine-driven vehicles and those piloted by unpredictable humans on the road at the same time, a necessary step on the path to a future where steering wheels become obsolete. The company has taken descriptions of behavior and circumstances that were involved in almost all accidents tracked by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and come up with mathematical models to create a measurable "safe state" for autonomous vehicles.
The standards, if endorsed by the automotive industry, its suppliers and regulators, would also be the basis of software in the vehicles that make sure the rules are followed. That would help speed the validation of autonomous technology, something that would benefit Intel's chip-making business.
To illustrate what Intel has in mind, under the guidelines a robot vehicle would move past parked cars at a speed slow enough to make sure it could stop in time to avoid a pedestrian who suddenly stepped out into the road. That calculation is possible because we know the maximum speed at which a human can move and can model it, according to Intel. Similarly, computers can easily calculate the safe stopping distance to a vehicle in front and make sure the vehicle they're piloting stays far enough away. If an aggressive human driver cuts in front of the robot car and causes an accident, the standards would clearly show who's fault it was, even if the machine-driven car rear-ended the other vehicle.
Intel is arguing that the current path that the industry is following won't work or will take too long. Slow-moving, ultra-cautious vehicles are of limited use and aren't that safe, because they clog the roads and don't fit in with the flow of human-piloted traffic. Attempts to prove that self-driving cars are safe by putting them on the road, having them learn from experience and then measuring how few accidents they have compared with driven vehicles is also ineffective, partly because any accident attracts huge amounts of public attention, Intel said.
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Shoppers don't break sweat on ethics
28 April 2007 By Lauretta Roberts
The true cost of value clothing has once again been called into question this week. According to a report in The Observer this weekend, Indian children, possibly as young as nine, are working for nothing on clothing that is sold for next to nothing on the UK high street.
What makes the report so worrying is that the UK retailer and brand owner whose clothes were being produced in these sweatshops clearly had no idea that the practice was going on.
In the case of the retailer - value chain Select - it had dealt with a legitimate primary supplier called Majgenta, which had apparently sub-contracted some garment finishing to a less-than-scrupulous factory. You have to sympathise, because the retailer had carried out rigorous checks of the primary supplier and clearly had no clue that part of its manufacturing might be taking place under such horrific circumstances.
Select's response to the revelations in The Observer was honest and swift. It admitted it was shocked and contacted Majgenta for an explanation. The Indian supplier claimed that the stock seen in the newspaper's photographs was surplus product and not destined for Select stores, but said that an investigation was being carried out nonetheless.
It's a story that will no doubt bring on hot and cold sweats for other retailers and brand owners who believe their garments are being produced in an ethical manner. Checking out your primary supplier is clearly no longer good enough; the entire supply chain needs to be examined if you are to avoid having your name linked to such a scandal. And it will be the retailer or brand owner's name that is dragged through the mud - no one will remember the name of any supplier that may have acted unethically.
The news came in the same week that a consortium of UK corporations, including Marks & Spencer and Tesco, teamed up for the "We're in this Together" initiative, launching a series of green products to encourage shoppers to help fight climate change. M&S, for instance, intends to switch to lower temperature wash labels on 70% of its clothes; a move it says will save energy.
Some newspaper reports have been quick to dismiss this initiative as a PR exercise, but it's not the actions of the retailers that are worrying - whether the effort they're making is good enough or not, at least they're doing something. It's the fact that many shoppers don't seem to care about the ethical or ecological soundness of the products they buy, as long as they like them and they are cheap.
According to a poll run on the BBC's website this week, the biggest factor people take into account when buying clothes is style, which had polled 43.5% of the ongoing vote when I looked. Cost was just behind with 43%, while ethics had a measly 4%. Even 'other', whatever that might be, polled more than double the amount of votes as ethics, with 9.5%.
Of course, as with all online votes, you have to consider that it may not be wholly indicative of general public opinion. But even if it gives just a hint of what people think, it's almost as depressing as the Indian sweatshop scandal itself.
Occasionwear sales soar over bank holiday
29 May 2019Grace Whelan, Isabella Fish
Retailers have reported a spike in occasionwear sales over the spring bank holiday weekend, despite an overall year-on-year decrease in footfall across the UK.
Indies hope Easter will put a spring into sales
18 April 2019Isabella Fish
Independent retailers are hoping the warm Easter bank holiday weekend will provide a welcome boost to sales, following a slow start to the spring season as a result of cold weather and Brexit uncertainty.
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16 May 2019Isabella Fish
Olivia Dowie, chief executive officer at sustainable clothing brand Riley Studio, told delegates at Drapers Digital Festival how digital can be utilised to accommodate the sustainable shopper.
House of Fraser suppliers back premium revamp
13 May 2019Drapers Reporters
House of Fraser suppliers have largely welcomed plans to rebrand 31 of its branches as a premium chain, but landlords are likely to play hard ball in the proposed rent break negotiations.


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Prenatal sex discernment is the prenatal testing for discerning the sex of a fetus before birth.

Methods
Prenatal sex discernment can be performed by preimplantation genetic diagnosis before conception, but this method may not always be classified as prenatal sex discernment because it's performed even before implantation.

Cell-free fetal DNA testing, wherein a venipuncture is performed on the mother to analyze the small amount of fetal DNA that can be found within it. It provides the earliest post-implantation test. A meta-analysis published in 2011 found that such tests are reliable more than 98% of the time, as long as they are taken after the seventh week of pregnancy.
Chorionic villus sampling (CVS) and amniocentesis are two rather invasive testing procedures. These may, in principle, be performed as early as the 8th and the 9th week of pregnancy. The difficulty of these tests and the risk of injury to the foetus, potentially resulting in miscarriage or congenital abnormalities (especially when done early during the pregnancy), make them quite rare during the first trimester. In the United States, CVS and amniocentesis are most commonly performed after the 11th and the 15th week of pregnancy.
Obstetric ultrasonography, either transvaginally or transabdominally, can check for the sagittal sign as a marker of foetal sex. It can be performed between 65 and 69 days from fertilization (week 12 of gestational age), where it gives a result in 90% of cases – a result that is correct in approximately  of cases, according to a study from 2001. Accuracy for males is approximately 50% and for females almost 100%. When performed later, after 70 days from fertilization (at week 13 of gestational age), it gives an accurate result in almost 100% of cases.

Applications
Potential applications of prenatal sex discernment include:
Disease testing: A complement to specific gene testing for monogenic disorders, which can be very useful for genetic diseases with sex linkage, such as, for example, X-linked diseases. In such cases, it may be much easier to exclude the possibility of disease in the child by prenatal sex discernment than to test for any specific sign of the disease itself. Common X-linked recessive disorders include Duchenne muscular dystrophy, fragile X syndrome and haemophilia.
Preparation, for any sex-dependent aspects of parenting.
Sex selection, which after preimplantation genetic diagnosis may be performed by selecting only embryos of the preferred sex, or, after post-implantation methods by performing sex-selective abortion depending on the test result and personal preference. A 2006 survey  found that 42 per cent of IVF clinics in the US that offer PGD have provided it for sex selection for non-medical reasons. Nearly half of these clinics perform it only for "family balancing", which is where a couple with two or more children of one sex desire a child of the other, but half do not restrict sex selection to family balancing. In India, this practice has been used to select only male embryos although this practice is illegal. Opinions on whether sex selection for non-medical reasons is ethically acceptable differ widely, as exemplified by the fact that the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology Task Force could not formulate a uniform recommendation.

Legal status

India

 Prenatal sex determination was banned in India in 1994, under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994. The act aims to prevent sex-selective abortion, which, according to the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, "has its roots in India's long history of strong patriarchal influence in all spheres of life". Prenatal sex determination has caused the Child sex ratio to go down at alarming rates, in India, which is also another factor that led to its banning. However, the Supreme Court of India has accused the Government of India of poor implementation and enforcement of the act. Over time, there has been a substitution effect of more families participating in pre-natal sex determination instead of the previously popular act of female foeticide.

China

On May 1, 2016, sex determination and sex-selective abortion were prohibited. Doctors are forbidden by the state from revealing the sex of unborn babies in an effort to stop prospective parents from finding out the gender of their child and potentially abort or abandon babies.

See also
Gender reveal, a celebration party
Female infanticide, a practice widespread throughout many cultures and times
Gendercide

References


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