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Hedge funds could make inroads into market-making and asset servicing in a bid to counter competition and fill gaps left by banks and broker-dealers.
Traditional lines distinguishing hedge funds from their clients and competitors are "increasingly blurred", experts at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) argue.
As a result, services routinely provided by sell-side firms, including liquidity provision and custody, may start to appeal more to alternative managers.
"Banks and broker-dealers are responding to burdensome new regulations and reduced returns by contracting their capital market offering," writes Brent Beardsley, a New York-based senior partner at BGC.
"This gives hedge funds the opportunity to enter new lines of business, such as lending, market-making and asset servicing," he adds in a new report, entitled 'Hedge Funds – Down But Not Out’.
Large banks operating as custodians, such as BNY Mellon and JP Morgan, have doubled down on their asset servicing commitments in recent years – boosting their technology spend and enhancing client service.
However, regulations have added complexity to the business along with considerable margin pressure. New technologies, notably blockchain, are also forcing incumbents to revisit their operating models.
Aside from asset servicing, certain hedge funds have already begun to provide more liquidity in foreign-exchange markets as traditional dealer banks step back due to stricter legislation.
Direct lending is another area of opportunity for alternative managers amid still tight lending from traditional bank sources.
Hedge fund struggles
Average hedge fund gains totalled 7.4% in 2016 according to data from Preqin - the best showing in three years.
However, experts at the firm said managers will be aware that in recent years returns have "still fallen short of other alternative asset classes and public market indices".
This is especially pertinent in the wake of some high-profile investors eliminating or reducing hedge fund investments from their portfolio, such as giant state pension plans in New Jersey and Rhode Island.
Meanwhile some largest hedge fund clients, including sovereign wealth funds, are becoming more sophisticated and often now use the same tools and technologies to execute their own investment strategies.
Asset managers are also encroaching on hedge funds’ territory by investing in liquid alternatives or by acquiring or partnering with hedge funds.
In a worst case scenario, BCG’s report predicts industry-wide hedge fund assets could shrink by as much as 30% by 2020 and margins could fall by 20% as a result of fee reductions and increased capital expenditure.
Even in a more favorable so-called "momentum scenario", hedge funds will have to retool and reorganise, according to BCG.

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City broker Peel Hunt has set out its plans to cope with the European Union's second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid II), which will entail building an internal taskforce comprising up to 10 per cent of the firm's 200 staff.
The move, which Peel Hunt hopes will "support clients through this period of major change", shows just how much brokers are worrying about the new legislation.
A report last week from capital markets consultancy Tabb Group said Mifid II would cause a proliferation of systematic internalisers (investment firms and banks which can execute client orders on their own account). This in turn will put pressure on brokers, who will have to assess the whole offering of systematic internalisers to collect, consolidate and manage multiple price feeds and quotes in real-time.
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Brokers are also struggling to assess how the new "unbundling" rules will affect them. When Mifid II comes into force, fund managers will have to pay investment banks and brokers directly for analyst research, instead of bundling this cost in with the trading commission.
Most industry players believe this will lead to fund managers cutting down the number of brokers which they call on, as Standard & Poor's believe it could lead to a decline in research spend by up to 30 per cent by 2020.
Read more: Investors are still nowhere near ready for Mifid II rules, despite being more aware of them, new survey shows
“Mifid II is set to transform the way that independent research is accessed when it comes into force next year, through tougher scrutiny of research costs for asset managers and declining research spend across the industry, such that only the most relevant analysts in the City are likely to survive," said Peel Hunt's chief executive Steven Fine.
He added that Mifid II was "the most significant regulatory change to impact the financial markets since the Big Bang".
Read more: Mifid II: European regulation could hit business, jobs and profits, experts warn


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A family is safe after escaping from their burning home Monday morning.
Brunswick Count 911 received a call about a fire at a mobile home 2065 Big Neck Road NW in Ash at 12:24 a.m. Monday.
A total of 18 firefighters with the Waccamaw Volunteer Fire Department, Calabash, Shallotte, Grissettown, and Old Dock responded to the fire.
“It’s pretty much gone. The inside’s gone. The floor has fallen out. In places, the ceiling’s falling down. They’re probably going to need another place to go,” said Chief Joe Smith with the Waccamaw Volunteer Fire Department.
Everyone inside the home escaped with no injuries. The Red Cross is helping the family. Fire crews had the fire out by 2:30 a.m.
The cause of the fire is under investigation but preliminary reports indicate it may have been an electrical problem.
“We won’t know until the fire marshal comes and does his inspection, but we are suspecting it was an electrical fire back in one of the bathrooms,” said Smith. “The people that were in there said they had a receptacle that was shorted out before."
Investigation likely will take place Monday morning.
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Four suspects were caught after a break-in at a home in the 200 block of Victory Gardens Drive in Wilmington on Saturday. According to New Hanover County Dispatch, a neighbor called around 4:40 p.m. when she saw four young people attempting to break into a garage.
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NEW YORK — Luis Severino struck out 11 in seven overpowering innings, beating longtime Yankees nemesis Dallas Keuchel for the second time this year as New York topped the Houston Astros 5-3 on Wednesday night.
Gary Sanchez snapped an 0-for-19 slump with a two-run single and the Yankees took two of three from the reigning World Series champions this week to win the season series 5-2. Houston defeated New York in the 2017 AL Championship Series, with the home team winning all seven games.
If these budding rivals meet again this year, it will be in October.
Severino (8-1) allowed four hits, including Max Stassi's two-run homer, and walked one in winning his sixth consecutive decision. The ace right-hander, who hasn't lost since April 10 at Boston, threw a five-hitter with 10 strikeouts for his first career complete game in a 4-0 victory over Keuchel at Houston on May 2.
David Robertson struck out two in a scoreless eighth and Aroldis Chapman got three outs for his 12th save in 13 chances. Stassi, subbing for injured catcher Brian McCann, hit an RBI double with two outs in the ninth before Chapman fanned George Springer to end it.
After dominating the Yankees for years, Keuchel (3-7) dropped his third straight start against them — including the playoffs. The left-hander gave up four runs and seven hits in five-plus innings.
Keuchel entered 6-4 with a 1.82 ERA and two complete games in 10 outings against New York, including three post-season starts.
The 2015 AL Cy Young Award winner walked two batters in the first inning, and centre fielder Jake Marisnick made a diving catch on a sacrifice fly by slumping slugger Giancarlo Stanton.
Sanchez rolled a two-run single through an open right side with two outs in the fifth to put the Yankees ahead 3-2.
Gleyber Torres doubled to start the sixth and scored from third on Didi Gregorius' single through a drawn-in infield that chased Keuchel. Aaron Hicks looped an RBI double off Collin McHugh later in the inning that got past a diving Marwin Gonzalez in left field.

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Giancarlo Stanton homered again, tying the Miami Marlins' season record, and he became the sixth fastest player to reach 250 career homers.
With one swing of the bat in Sunday's 5-3 win over the Colorado Rockies, Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton made history in a couple of ways.
Stanton's third-inning home run off Rockies starter German Márquez was his 42nd of the season, tying Gary Sheffield for the Marlins' single-season record, set in 1996.
Even more impressive, it was career home run number 250. Only Ryan Howard, Ralph Kiner, Harmon Killebrew, Albert Pujols and Juan Gonzalez reached the milestone faster than Stanton, 27.
"It's been fun," Stanton told reporters after the game. "It's been a fun challenge every night for me.
"There's sometimes where if [a pitcher] throws his pitch, it's going to get demolished. Can't explain it. As long as I get extension and lift on the ball, it's going to go."
Thanks to Stanton, the Marlins completed a three-game sweep of Colorado at Marlins Park. He homered in all three games.
SUNDAY'S RESULTS
Washington Nationals 2-4 San Francisco Giants
Washington Nationals 6-2 San Francisco Giants
Detroit Tigers 4-6 Minnesota Twins
Miami Marlins 5-3 Colorado Rockies
Milwaukee Brewers 7-4 Cincinnati Reds
St Louis Cardinals 3-6 Atlanta Braves
Oakland Athletics 9-3 Baltimore Orioles
Arizona Diamondbacks 2-7 Chicago Cubs
Toronto Blue Jays 7-1 Pittsburgh Pirates
Tampa Bay Rays 3-4 Cleveland Indians
Philadelphia Phillies 2-6 New York Mets
Chicago White Sox 6-14 Kansas City Royals
Texas Rangers 1-2 Houston Astros
Los Angeles Dodgers 6-4 San Diego Padres
Seattle Mariners 2-4 Los Angeles Angels
New York Yankees 2-3 Boston Red Sox
SALE SINKS YANKEES
In a key matchup with the rival Yankees, Red Sox lefty Chris Sale performed brilliantly, striking out 12 and yielding only four hits and one earned run in seven innings of work.
Royals second baseman Whit Merrifield homered, tripled and drove in five runs in Kansas City's win. He went three-for-six at the plate.
PARKER IN GAME TO FORGET
Giants outfielder Jarrett Parker struck out six times and went 0-for-nine against the Nationals in a doubleheader. He stranded five runners in the opener.
GORDON DENIES DELMONICO
Nicky Delmonico was probably thinking "home run," but Royals centrefielder Alex Gordon was thinking, "this is the final out."
BRAVES AT ROCKIES
On Monday, Rockies pitcher Chad Bettis will make his first MLB start since being diagnosed with testicular cancer last November. The 28-year-old right-hander underwent surgery and later chemotherapy in his treatment. He was 14-8 with a 4.79 ERA last season. Bettis will face Julio Teheran (7-1, 5.25 ERA)


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The medical board alleged that Puliafito “would return to his medical office to see patients within hours of using methamphetamine” and supplied drugs to Warren and her then-minor brother Charles Warren, among others. Puliafito provided Charles Warren with methamphetamine and pipes for smoking the drug when he was only 17, the filing said. Osinoff said Wednesday the doctor never illegally supplied drugs, was never high while seeing patients and has never been the subject of a patient complaint. He stopped using methamphetamine last July, he said.

Trump call for unity among Americans in his State of the Union address last night met with alarm from minorities
Trump call for unity among Americans in his State of the Union address last night met with alarm from minorities
Rose McGowan says it's time for Harvey Weinstein to drop his story about a "consensual" relationship
Rose McGowan says it's time for Harvey Weinstein to drop his story about a "consensual" relationship
Rose McGowan to Harvey Weinstein: There was no consent
Rose McGowan to Harvey Weinstein: There was no consent
A law enforcement official says there's no indication a man identified in court documents as a "person of interest" after the Las Vegas massacre committed a federal crime or had any involvement or knowledge of the mass shooting.
A law enforcement official says there's no indication a man identified in court documents as a "person of interest" after the Las Vegas massacre committed a federal crime or had any involvement or knowledge of the mass shooting.
Nearly 30 more women and girls have confronted disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar in a Michigan courtroom as he awaits another sentencing for sexual assaults under the guise of medical treatment
Nearly 30 more women and girls have confronted disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar in a Michigan courtroom as he awaits another sentencing for sexual assaults under the guise of medical treatment
Fans attending the Super Bowl in Minneapolis will have the chance to go through security screening off-site, and out of the elements
Fans attending the Super Bowl in Minneapolis will have the chance to go through security screening off-site, and out of the elements
Comedian Roy Wood Jr. on why comedians are the "white blood cells of a sickened democracy"
Comedian Roy Wood Jr. on why comedians are the "white blood cells of a sickened democracy"
Comedian Roy Wood Jr. on joking around in the era of Trump
Comedian Roy Wood Jr. on joking around in the era of Trump
Government studies offer no clear answers on safety of cellphone radiation.
Government studies offer no clear answers on safety of cellphone radiation.
Cancer from cellphones? New studies say no need to hang up
Cancer from cellphones? New studies say no need to hang up
The former Hawaii state employee who sent the alert that mistakenly warned of an incoming missile says he's devastated for causing panic, but was "100 percent sure" it was a real attack.
The former Hawaii state employee who sent the alert that mistakenly warned of an incoming missile says he's devastated for causing panic, but was "100 percent sure" it was a real attack.
An Arizona man who sold ammunition to the gunman in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history said his customer didn't raise suspicions that he planned to commit any crimes.
An Arizona man who sold ammunition to the gunman in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history said his customer didn't raise suspicions that he planned to commit any crimes.
Arizona man who sold ammo to Las Vegas shooter is charged
Arizona man who sold ammo to Las Vegas shooter is charged
It's an annual rite in Fairfax County, one of the wealthiest counties in America: hundreds of second-graders trooping off to private psychologists, taking IQ tests to prove they're worthy of the county's advanced academic programs.
It's an annual rite in Fairfax County, one of the wealthiest counties in America: hundreds of second-graders trooping off to private psychologists, taking IQ tests to prove they're worthy of the county's advanced...
The city of New Orleans is perhaps one of the best examples of what President Donald Trump calls the country's "crumbling infrastructure.".
The city of New Orleans is perhaps one of the best examples of what President Donald Trump calls the country's "crumbling infrastructure.".
Will Trump plan help New Orleans' crumbling infrastructure?
Will Trump plan help New Orleans' crumbling infrastructure?
The father of three of Larry Nassar's victims has apologized to a judge after he tried to attack the former sports doctor who has admitted to sexually assaulting girls under the guise of medical treatment.
The father of three of Larry Nassar's victims has apologized to a judge after he tried to attack the former sports doctor who has admitted to sexually assaulting girls under the guise of medical treatment.
Victims' dad apologizes after lunging at Nassar in courtroom
Victims' dad apologizes after lunging at Nassar in courtroom
Abortion rises as a hot topic in this year's state legislative sessions, as activists on both sides say they expect the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in soon on how far states go in restricting access.
Abortion rises as a hot topic in this year's state legislative sessions, as activists on both sides say they expect the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in soon on how far states go in restricting access.
Abortion is a focus of early action in legislative sessions
Abortion is a focus of early action in legislative sessions
2 women face assault charges after police say they disfigured a girl in a voodoo ritual.
2 women face assault charges after police say they disfigured a girl in a voodoo ritual.
'Kill Bill' actress Uma Thurman accuses embattled Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of forcing himself upon her sexually and director Quentin Tarantino of making her perform a dangerous car stunt that injured her.
'Kill Bill' actress Uma Thurman accuses embattled Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of forcing himself upon her sexually and director Quentin Tarantino of making her perform a dangerous car stunt that injured her.
A Minnesota man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing his wife and attempting to make it look like a suicide.
A jury convicted 44-year-old Stephen Allwine of first-degree premeditated murder Wednesday in the 2017 death of Amy Allwine. He was sentenced to life without parole Friday after maintaining his innocence to Washington County District Judge William Ekstrum.
Stephen Allwine had told police he arrived home to find his wife dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. But investigators found inconsistencies with the suicide scenario, and discovered he had tried to hire a hit man on the dark web.
Prosecutors say Allwine wanted to collect on his wife's $700,000 life insurance policy.
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The BBC Afrique and Africa N° 1 weekly Debate programme “ Le Debat ” is this month celebrating its fifth anniversary.
The celebrations for the month will be marked by the recording of two special programs. The first recording took place this week in Paris, France in the studios of Africa N ° 1 and can be heard this weekend. It will feature Lilian Thuram, former footballer and winner of the 1998 World Cup with the French national team. The second will take place in Douala, Cameroon where BBC Afrique is developing a solid partnership with the private channel Canal 2 International.
The series is a co-production that began in Oct 2012 in Paris and is presented by the BBC’s Liliane Nyatcha and Africa No 1’s Francis Laloupo. Each week, a high profile guest joins the team to discuss and analyse major African and International news stories. Guests have included key political, economic, cultural actors and sports players from Africa and the diaspora, including Niger President, Mahamadou Issoufou; Former Tunisia President, Dr. Moncef Marzouki; Secretary-General of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie , Michelle Jean and Minister Counsellor to Senegalese President Macky Sall, Pr. Amsatou Sow Sidibé.
Le Debat can be heard on Saturday and Sunday at 10am GMT on BBC Afrique and on Saturdays at 12pm and Sundays at 6pm GMT on Africa N ° 1 Paris.
Mamadou Moussa Ba, BBC Afrique Editor, says: "Through Le Debat, BBC Afrique and Africa N ° 1 Paris have a fruitful partnership that has enabled BBC Afrique to get closer to its audience in the diaspora…the future could hold further opportunity in new areas such as sports."
"The success of this show is down to the journalists who host it , Liliane Nyatcha of BBC Afrique and Francis Laloupo of Africa N ° 1 Paris" according to Dominique Guihot, Chairman and CEO of Africa No. 1 Paris, and he adds: "They host this weekly radio program 5,000 kms away as if they were sitting in the same studio."


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As many as 460,000 Medicaid beneficiaries in Kentucky have had their dental and vision coverage cut by Republican Gov. Matt Bevin's administration.
The move was announced on the weekend and came after Bevin's Medicaid overhaul plan was blocked Friday by a federal judge, the Associated Press reported.
Officials in Bevin's administration blamed the cuts on the judge's ruling, saying it removed a "legal mechanism" to pay for Medicaid dental and vision coverage for hundreds of thousands of people, and left too little time to reverse planning for the state's Medicaid overhaul.
Officials also said they were working to reinstate the dental and vision benefits, the AP reported.
The cuts were condemned by Democrats and others.
The Bevin administration's "short-sighted" actions are already causing confusion and hardship, according to Democratic state Rep. Joni Jenkins, the AP reported.
"We have folks that are showing up for dental appointments that they made months ago and neither they nor the providers are really certain what the rules are," she said. "And that's just unacceptable for government to be operating this way."
Jenkins also warned that the cuts could increase drug addiction in Kentucky, the AP reported.
"We know that untreated dental pain is a huge gateway to addiction to painkillers," Jenkins said.
The cuts were "totally uncalled for" and could lead to another court challenge, according to Sheila Schuster, an advocate for the disabled and people without health insurance, the AP reported.
"The real question is: Are they within their legal authority to suspend benefits that are part of this program and are part of the essential health benefits without any due notice and without any hearings?" Schuster said. "I think that's a question to be resolved in the courts."
The court ruling against Kentucky's plan to overhaul its Medicaid program was also a setback for the Trump administration, which has encouraged states to impose work requirements on Medicaid beneficiaries and make other changes to the program, the AP reported.

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Good morning, here are our early stories:
-- U.K. Prime Minister Calls For Early Election.
-- In Japan, Pence Talks Trade And North Korea's Threat To The Region.
-- In The Rockies, Climate Change Spells Trouble For Cutthroat Trout.
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Blanket Primary Today for Georgia Congressional Seat. (FiveThirtyEight)
U.N. Says "Staggering" Number Of People Fleeing Mosul. (UN News Centre)
Hollywood Writers Will Vote On Possible Walkout. (New York Times)
Boeing Laying Off Hundreds Of Engineers, Mechanics. (USA Today)
Suspect In Deadly Washington State Mall Shooting Kills Self. (UPI)
All 4 NHL Playoff Games Went Into Overtime Last Night. (AP)
NASA Puts 360 Degree Camera Aboard Rocket For Today's Launch. (PBS)
Sweden's 'Failure' Museum Highlights Commercial Flops. (Daily Mail)


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I've given him plenty of praise for this years turn around. I've also had a go when he's done stupid things, like not using subs at widnes when players were struggling to walk let alone run.
I call it as I see it. unlike some who have agenda's both for and against him I don't.
for me this is a wasted opportunity. if anyone things fev have a chance they are deluded. even they are thinking of resting players because of fixture congestion.

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Education Minister Mitzie Hunter packed more bologna than was thought to be humanly possible into a short letter to the editor last week.
To call the letter disingenuous would be a kindness. It was full of unadulterated nonsense.
"Our government remains committed to students in rural Ontario." Some plans to close rural schools involve disrupting student education and busing youngsters as long as 90 minutes a day one way. Some commitment.
The minister goes on to say the government spends $1,000 more for each rural pupil compared to urban pupils. So what? Of course education in rural areas will be more expensive. It's the density thing.
Hunter then detail all the money that has been spent on rural education, the new schools that have been built and schools that have been renovated.
Thanks very much, but what about the schools that have been closed?
Hunter takes on the Ontario Conservative leader for demanding a moratorium on school closings.
Hunter: "We continue to see Patrick Brown's Conservatives wanting to restrict the local decision making power of school boards limiting a board's ability to prioritize student needs.
"He wants the decisions that impact local students and communities to be made at Queen's Park without giving the locally-elected trustees . . . the opportunity to have these important planning conversations."
However, Hunter fails to mention these are decisions within a framework of her ministry's making. Local decisions are dictated by funding models that come right out of her department.
Under those models, local boards close schools or lose money. The bureaucrats who run local boards also fall out of favour with their counterparts at Queen's Park if they don't get on the school closing bandwagon.
Of course, this is all about politics and the provincial election in June 2018. Hunter's Liberals are about as popular in rural Ontario as a drunk at a Women's Christian Temperance Union meeting.
Two schools in the Georgian Bay region have escaped the ministry's guillotine at least temporarily because their communities came up with plans to provide financial help.
Private industry is in involved. Local government is involved. A developer is involved.
Neither Hunter's ministry nor the local school board lifted a finger to help keep these schools open, even though the case for closing them was weak at best.
The fact these two schools have been saved was just announced. Hunter is expected to visit the schools in Paisley and Markdale Wednesday.
No reason for the visit has been announced, but if she claims any credit for her ministry she should be shown the route out of town.
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A committee featuring national politicians heard from local lawmakers in downtown Phoenix about how to tackle the opioid crisis in Arizona.


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Question: Traitors, serial killers, war criminals and the last woman to be hanged: Britain's most famous executioner dispatched them all

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At 8am Ruth Ellis ate her final breakfast of scrambled egg.
But even on that last day she wasn't allowed the dignity of eating with proper cutlery or plates for fear she might use the crockery as a weapon.
The breakfast tray was taken away and then the deputy governor came in with the chaplain and they sat at each end of a table.
At Ellis' back was a green screen running the width of the prison cell behind which was a door.
Ellis, who had been sentenced to die for shooting her lover, removed her blue diamanté glasses – worn because she was short-sighted - and passed them to the deputy governor. She told him coolly: “I won't need these any more. Thank you."
Behind her a door opened, then more footsteps and another door opened and then the cell door opened the screen drew back.
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Ruth Ellis was last woman in Britain to be hanged - but did she have an accomplice and was the lover she killed beating her up?
At the sound Ellis jumped out of her chair knocking it over but stood there now was executioner Albert Pierrepoint – the calm voice of experience.
He said to her, “It's all right, lass. It's all right.”
Picking up the chair he told her to sit down again, adding: “Put your arms behind the chair'."
He then flicked his hand and a rope snaked onto her wrist and within seconds she was tied with her hands behind her back.
Swiftly he walked her the dozen or so steps to the gallows and there was no time for final words.
Earlier – as was always the case – Pierrepoint had used his subject's weight, height, gender, and build, a precise mathematical formula and his own immense experience, to set the drop at 8 feet, 2 inches.
With Ellis carefully positioned on the exact centre of the the trapdoor, she was hooded and a noose placed around her neck while assistant executioner Royston Rickard crouched behind her and strapped her legs together.
As both men cleared the trapdoors Pierrepoint pushed the lever. Ruth Ellis was dead.
It had taken just 12 seconds and illustrated perfectly why Pierrepoint was so highly regard as a hangman that when he resigned a year later the Home Secretary wrote to him asking him to reconsider.
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Between 1934 and 1956, he executed more than 400 men and women, among them Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, Gordon Cummins, the "Blackout Ripper", John George Haigh, the acid bath murderer.
He also dispatched Derek Bentley for his part in the “let him have it” murder of a policeman, Bruno Tesch, co-inventor of the insecticide Zyklon B used in the Holocaust and Lord Haw-Haw – real name William Joyce who was the voice of the “German Calling” propaganda broadcasts during the Second World War.
Pierrepoint also put to death Timothy Evans, wrongly convicted of murdering his daughter, and subsequently Rillington Place monster John Christie, the real killer.
He hanged large numbers of Nazi war criminals convicted at the Nuremberg trials, including Josef Kramer, the Beast of Belsen.
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Today more than 50 years since the last executions in the UK it is hard to imagine someone requesting a job as a hangman but for Pierrepoint it was perhaps no different to following in a family profession such as plumber.
His own father Henry and uncle Thomas were both executioners and as he explained later in his autobiography he set his mind to following them at a young age.
As an 11-year-old he wrote, in response to a school "When I grow up ..." writing exercise, "When I leave school I should like to be the Official Executioner".
He often spent summer holidays with his uncle and aunt Lizzie and when Tom was away on business, his aunt would allow the boy to read the diary Tom kept of his executions.
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The nature of the unique job meant the work was not regular – or indeed particularly well paid – and he worked as a delivery driver.
Pierrepoint persevered though and when he was 27 the Yorkshireman was added to the list of official executioners but it was a while until he got to the set noose.
It was 1941 when he performed his first execution as principal hangman - that of a gangland murderer and nightclub owner Antonio "Babe" Mancini who apparently said "Cheerio!" before the trapdoor was sprung at Pentonville Prison.
From then on the work was steady and he gained a reputation for efficient despatch of the condemned.
It was not just a case of turning up and putting a noose around a person's head
Indeed in Pierrepoint’s testimony to the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment in 1950 he spoke of how his detailed preparations involved arriving the day before the job and performing a dummy execution.
The key he said was “the drop” - a careful calculation involving the person's height, weight, strength and age so as to make their death as quick and clean as possible.
Pierrepoint was undoubtedly a first-rate hangman, once wrote: “I hanged John Reginald Christie, the Monster of Rillington Place,' he wrote, 'in less time than it took the ash to fall off a cigar I had left half-smoked in my room at Pentonville.”
After the Second World War the British government were faced with having to execute war criminals so called for Pierrepoint.
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Appointed an honorary lieutenant-colonel for the purpose, he duly travelled to Hameln in Germany, where, on Friday December 13, 1945, he hanged 13 for guards and officers from notorious concentration camp Belsen before lunch.
It was later reported there was to be a strange sequel to these executions: every Christmas thereafter, for a number of years, Pierrepoint received a pounds £5 in an envelope, with a slip of paper reading simply 'Belsen'.
Despite his increasing fame Pierrepoint hated the publicity – in fact he did not tell his wife Annie about his sideline until after they were married – she told him she already knew but was pleased he had volunteered the information.
Boosted by the additional income from the hangings following the war the Pierrepoints became publicans first near Oldham and then near Preston.
Then in 1956 Pierrepoint – probably aware of his value to the Home Office – resigned over a a disagreement about fees.
That January he had gone to Strangeways Prison, Manchester, to officiate at the execution of Thomas Bancroft, who was reprieved less than 12 hours before his scheduled execution, when Pierrepoint was already present making his preparations.
It was the first time in his career that this had happened in England and he claimed his full fee of £15 (£344 when adjusted for inflation) but the under-sheriff of Lancashire offered only £1 (£23), as the rule in England was that the executioner was paid only for executions carried out.
Pierrepoint appealed but was refused and then resigned his pride having apparently been mortally wounded.
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However it emerged he had been in discussions with a newspaper to sell the story of his life and the last moments of many of the people he executed for a sum equivalent to £500,000 today.
He retired aged 51 to the life of a publican.
Nine years later the last executions took place in last executions in Britain took place on 13 August 1964
Gwynne Owen Evans when was hanged at 8am at Strangeways Prison by Harry Allen with his assistant Royston Rickard, while Peter Anthony Allen was hanged simultaneously at Walton Prison, Liverpool by Robert Leslie Stewart with his assistant Harry Robinson, both for the murder in a robbery of John Alan West.
It was the end of an era.
Despite his prolific career as an executioner Pierrepoint later said he did not believe he had achieved much.
When his autobiography was published in 1974, it was the first time he had made his views on capital punishment public - a decade after its abolition.
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He rote: "If death were a deterrent, I might be expected to know. It is I who have faced them last, young men and girls, working men, grandmothers.
“I have been amazed to see the courage with which they take that walk into the unknown. It did not deter them then, and it had not deterred them when they committed what they were convicted for.
“All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment convince me that in what I have done I have not prevented a single murder. And if death does not work to deter one person, it should not be held to deter any."
In retirement in Southport he was much in demand for people wanting hear his stories.
In 1970 The Daily Mirror's Donald Sec wrote of having lunch with Pierrepoint: “The first thing that strikes you about Mr. Albert Pierrepoint, the celebrated ex-hangman to H M Government, is what an amiable, almost cherubic character he is.
“He smiles a lot, winks occasionally, and if you did not know that the hand you shook had pulled the lever, you might take him to be a mayor, or lead baritone in a male voice choir.
“Mr. Albert Pierrepoint who on these occasions and in these places prefers, whimsically, to be known as "Mr. Smith."
“He recalled 'I had a completely dual personality about it. I could isolate my emotions completely.
“I just accepted what I had to do. But I can tell you this," he said, "our method was the cleanest, quickest and most humane in the world.
“I always respected the condemned man, respected his dignity too."
He died in 1992, aged 87.

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A Russian dissident and former KGB man was poisoned with the world’s most lethal toxin in a West End sushi restaurant. Amid blanket denials and official indifference, Alexander Litvinenko, a husband and father, wasted away, his dramatic decline captured on the front covers over barely more than a few days. His haunted face seemed to send a message to everyone about Putin and the “new” Russia so strikingly similar to the old one.
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Brian Woods’ documentary captured that general whiff of horror well, while zooming in on the detail of the police investigation that followed Litvinenko’s demise. This, too, had elements that seemed to belong in fiction. Scotland Yard’s DI Brian “Tarps” Tarpey and DS Alan Slater duly flew out to Moscow, so alert to the possibility of Soviet-style “honey traps” that they put out their own traps in their hotel rooms.
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The Russian authorities, for their part, laid on a fine spread of le Carré-style smoke and mirrors, including an interview with a suspect so covered in radiationproof clothing that he could have been anyone (and probably was). Their pièce de résistance seems to have been serving the Yard team poisoned tea (a message, you could say, since it was a pot of green tea that had delivered the deadly polonium to Litvinenko). Given a case of the Tomsk Trots, rather than a full-on dose of isotopes, they struggled on. They just had to work in short bursts, as DI Tarpey put it, with a wry smile. Fascinating as this all was, the film never duped us into thinking this was a yarn or a romp. The face of Litvinenko’s widow, Marina, flashed like a beacon throughout, grief and determination in equal measure.
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She wanted justice, and if she couldn’t get that, she wanted the world to know the names of the killers and those who sent them. She got that, too, many years later, an important process for her and a professional triumph for Tarps and Slater and Co. As well as being moved by the story, no one watching could quite overlook the bigger picture. Russia can assassinate British citizens on British soil any time it likes. In the purely fictional spy world, the octopus is a popular symbol of murky intent, many tentacled, huge eyed, controlled at the centre by some big, ugly brain. It taps in, no doubt, to our fascination with this strange sea beast, which has almost as many brain cells as ourselves.
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KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — The police investigation into the cold case death of a Vicksburg teen is now back in the hands of Kalamazoo prosecutors.
The Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office handed over its investigation into the 1983 death of Erik Cross this week.
Brenton Spaulding is a primary person of interest in the 16-year-old’s death. In June 2016, he was arrested on separate charges.
Cross’ body was found in Brandy Township, near Vicksburg, on June 26, 1983. He had gone to a party and was walking home when he was hit by a vehicle and killed. Witnesses reported seeing two men and woman in the vehicle.
In March 2016, Kalamazoo Co. Undersheriff Paul Matyas said investigators had five suspects in the case.
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Question: Shortage of vets spells misery for Karachi zoo animals

A lioness in a cage at Karachi Zoo, her coat dotted with numerous spots -– the result of a fungal skin disease
Karachi (AFP) - A white African lioness stares blankly at the spectators crowded outside her small, steel-barred cage, her extraordinary coat dotted with numerous spots, the result of a fungal skin disease that has marred her once pristine fur.
The ailment is curable -- or, rather, it should be. But at the Karachi Zoological Garden there are not enough vets to give proper treatment to its more than 850 animals, many held in cages built over a century ago.
"Here we have a mere two veterinaries and three paramedics. They are not at all sufficient," said the zoo's chief, Mansoor Ahmed Qazi.
Management have been pushing the city council to approve a third veterinary position for the zoo's population, including lions, tigers, elephants, chimpanzees, birds and reptiles.
But the council has usually focused more on sewage, roads, and garbage removal in the chaotic port megacity of some 20 million people, which until recently had been rocked by years of political and ethnic violence.
"This is unfortunate, that the zoo is heavily understaffed and thus not able to take good care of the animals," said Humaira Ayesha, an expert from the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) in Karachi.
Unfortunately the problem is not limited to Karachi.
Islamabad's zoo has long been criticised for its treatment of its lone elephant, Kaavan, which became the subject of a high-profile rights campaign backed by music icon Cher in 2016 after it emerged the animal was being kept in chains.
And the zoo in northwestern Peshawar, which opened in February, has admitted that 30 animals so far have died while being transferred or in quarantine, including three rare snow leopard cubs.
"Peshawar Zoo is very understaffed, and those we have are untrained," spokesman Naimat Khan told AFP.
There is little legislation in Pakistan to help support animal welfare. The most recent law on the books addressing animal cruelty dates from 1890.
Such little legal recourse "makes it difficult for the country to improve animal welfare standards in its zoos", Ayesha of the WWF said.
'Animals have emotions'
At the Karachi Zoological Gardens, shops have encroached on the zoo property, still dotted with centuries-old tamarind, banyan and ficus trees.
"Stones and garbage from the shops are thrown into the animal enclaves. That amounts to cruelty," Faheem Zaman, a former chief of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, says.
Visitors also throw things into the animals' cages. An official recalled that a spectator once threw a handkerchief knotted with a steel wire towards an ostrich, which gulped it down.
"The long neck of the ostrich was badly damaged and we had to operate," says Abida Raees, a zoologist and deputy chief of the zoo.
At least one young chimpanzee, Raju, has been known to unwrap juice boxes thrown to him by visitors and drink from the plastic straw.
Raees said the zoo appealed to visitors not to feed animals but an AFP reporter could see no such signs on display.
However efforts are finally being made to revamp the northwest portion of the facility to make it more "humane and animal friendly", replacing the enclosures with large wet and dry ones that are far closer to the animals' natural habitat.
Zain Mustafa, a consultant to the government, and his team surveyed and studied eight zoos in different countries including the United States, Germany, Singapore, and India, drawing from what they saw to plan the renovations in Karachi.
Work appears to be going on in fits and starts, with little chance of being completed by the 2019 deadline, but he hopes the new enclosures when finally complete will provide a more suitable home for the animals.
"The old Victorian concepts of keeping wild animals for exhibition, as a toy, or amusement is over now," said Mustafa.
"Studies tell us that the animals have emotions, they feel loneliness and depression if kept in captivity and an unnatural environment."

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At least one man suffered serious injuries on Monday when locals and wildlife authorities attempted to trap a leopard which had strayed into a residential area in West Bengal, India, Indian news agency ANI said.
READ MORE: Leopard killed after mauling 7 villagers in India
The footage shows a group of men struggling to trap the animal using a net before it becomes free and runs off, in the town Raiganj.
“Many efforts were made to capture a leopard which entered the residential area, but it escaped. One man was injured. As of now, we don’t know if we will be able to recapture the animal as we don’t know its whereabouts,” said Sumit Nandi, a volunteer with the animal rights organization People for Animals.
The injured man was treated at a nearby hospital.
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Indian villages that border forest areas often experience wild animals, like leopards, panthers and elephants, straying into inhabited areas in search of food, which often result in maulings and deaths.
The increasing human population has depleted the habitat of wild animals.


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Question: Canada blockchain approved as bitcoin price continues to tumble

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GETTY Canada has approved its first blockchain ETF fund
Harvest Portfolio said the fund will invest “in equity securities of issuers exposed, directly or indirectly to the development and implementation of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies”. Experts said it followed a surge in businesses looking to expand into blockchain funds over concerns bitcoin does not “have as many legs in viability”. The independent Canadian investment management company filed the paperwork for its Blockchain Technologies ETF in January, as it seeks to to provide Canadian investors an opportunity to invest into the blockchain tech sector. And today the firm received approval from the Ontario Securities Commission. TOP 10 THINGS YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT CRYPTOCURRENCY
It will aim to ensure ETF tracks blockchain technology projects in a bid to mirror its Harvest Blockchain Technologies Index. Two other Canadian companies, First Trust Portfolios Canada and Evolve Funds Group Inc are also seeking to launch blockchain funds. Karl Cheong, head of ETFs for First Trust Portfolios Canada, told the Globe and Mail: “Every conversation we are having with clients, regardless if we are talking about a Canadian equities product or a US equity product , inevitably leads to a discussion about blockchain or bitcoin.” "The commentary out there right now is that blockchain is the more viable option while bitcoin may not have as many legs in terms of viability; but bitcoin could be the Friendster before the Facebook shows up in the crypotocurrency space.
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Morgan Stanley likened the current market climate of Bitcoin to the dot-com bubble that, during its most “exuberant” period rose by 250 to 280 per cent - however analysts have stated that the cryptocurrency’s timeline is accelerating much faster. Morgan Stanley strategist, Sheena Shah, stated: "Just that the bitcoin rally was around 15 times the speed.” Bitcoin is currently going through a tumultuous price period that has seen it plunge by 21.02 per cent in the last month. At the time of writing the cryptocurrency is worth $8,593.84.
Ms Shah stated that the similar behaviour between dot-com and Bitcoin could mean that history is repeating itself, meaning that the cryptocurrency could soon crash. Bitcoin has seen bare markets, periods in which share prices fall that encourage investors to sell, that has demonstrated the sheer volatility of the virtual money. Four bare markets have hit Bitcoin that have shaved roughly 45 to 50 per cent off its value every time. Ms Shah detailed that this is very similar to the five declines of the dot-com bubble before it burst.
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She continued: "The Nasdaq's bear market from 2000 had five price declines, averaging a surprisingly similar amount of 44 percent.” "The follow-up rally for both bitcoin and the Nasdaq always saw falling trading volumes. "Rising trade volumes are thus not an indication of more investor activity but instead a rush to get out." Morgan Stanley declared that the correlation of trends between Bitcoin and the dot-com era is “an interesting development”.
The analysis from the financial giant could cause a new period of worry from crypto investors. During Bitcoin’s last bear market, it was noticed that crypto token Tether was used for significant Bitcoin trading. This marks a change from the US dollar, China yuan and Japan’s yen that usually dominate the currencies used for crypto trade.
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — A fatal pedestrian crash involving a self-driving Uber SUV in a Phoenix suburb could have far-reaching consequences for the new technology as automakers and other companies race to be the first with cars that operate on their own.
The crash Sunday night in Tempe was the first death involving a full autonomous test vehicle. The Volvo was in self-driving mode with a human backup driver at the wheel when it struck 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg as she was walking a bicycle outside the lines of a crosswalk in Tempe, police said.
Uber immediately suspended all road-testing of such autos in the Phoenix area, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Toronto. The ride-sharing company has been testing self-driving vehicles for months as it competes with other technology companies and automakers like Ford and General Motors.
Though many in the industries had been dreading a fatal crash they knew it was inevitable.
Tempe police Sgt. Ronald Elcock said local authorities haven’t determined fault but urged people to use crosswalks. He told reporters at a news conference Monday the Uber vehicle was traveling around 40 mph when it hit Helzberg immediately as she stepped on to the street.
Neither she nor the backup driver showed signs of impairment, he said.
“The pedestrian was outside of the crosswalk, so it was midblock,” Elcock said. “And as soon as she walked into the lane of traffic, she was struck by the vehicle.”
The National Transportation Safety Board, which makes recommendations for preventing crashes, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which can enact regulations, sent investigators.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi expressed condolences on his Twitter account and said the company is cooperating with investigators.
The public’s image of the vehicles will be defined by stories like the crash in Tempe, said Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who studies self-driving vehicles. It may turn out that there was nothing either the vehicle or its human backup could have done to avoid the crash, he said.
Either way, the fatality could hurt the technology’s image and lead to a push for more regulations at the state and federal levels, Smith said.
Autonomous vehicles with laser, radar and camera sensors and sophisticated computers have been billed as the way to reduce the more than 40,000 traffic deaths a year in the U.S. alone. Ninety-four percent of crashes are caused by human error, the government says.
Self-driving vehicles don’t drive drunk, don’t get sleepy and aren’t easily distracted. But they do have faults.
“We should be concerned about automated driving,” Smith said. “We should be terrified about human driving.”
In 2016, the latest year available, more than 6,000 U.S. pedestrians were killed by vehicles.
The federal government has voluntary guidelines for companies that want to test autonomous vehicles, leaving much of the regulation up to states.
Many states, including Michigan and Arizona, have taken a largely hands-off approach, hoping to gain jobs from the new technology, while California and others have taken a harder line.
California is among states that require manufacturers to report any incidents during the testing phase. As of early March, the state’s motor vehicle agency had received 59 such reports.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey used light regulations to entice Uber to the state after the company had a shaky rollout of test cars in San Francisco. Arizona has no reporting requirements. Hundreds of vehicles with automated driving systems have been on Arizona’s roads.
Ducey’s office expressed sympathy for Herzberg’s family and said safety is the top priority.
The crash in Arizona isn’t the first involving an Uber autonomous test vehicle. In March 2017, an Uber SUV flipped onto its side, also in Tempe. No serious injuries were reported, and the driver of the other car was cited for a violation.
Herzberg’s death is the first involving an autonomous test vehicle but not the first in a car with some self-driving features. The driver of a Tesla Model S was killed in 2016 when his car, operating on its Autopilot system, crashed into a tractor-trailer in Florida.
The NTSB said that driver inattention was to blame but that design limitations with the system played a major role in the crash.
The U.S. Transportation Department is considering further voluntary guidelines that it says would help foster innovation. Proposals also are pending in Congress, including one that would stop states from regulating autonomous vehicles, Smith said.
Peter Kurdock, director of regulatory affairs for Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety in Washington, said the group sent a letter Monday to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao saying it is concerned about a lack of action and oversight by the department as autonomous vehicles are developed. That letter was planned before the crash.
Kurdock said the deadly accident should serve as a “startling reminder” to members of Congress that they need to “think through all the issues to put together the best bill they can to hopefully prevent more of these tragedies from occurring.”
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Krisher reported from Detroit. Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Felicia Fonseca in Flagstaff, Arizona, contributed to this story.

Police said Herzberg was walking a bicycle across the street outside the crosswalk when she was struck.
Cameras on the SUV captured video footage of the accident from both inside and outside the vehicle, Tempe Police Sgt. Ronald Elcock told reporters during a press conference Monday night.
"It will definitely assist in our investigation," he said.
The driver, who was not controlling the vehicle at the time of the accident, was identified as Rafael Vasquez, 44.
Hours after the crash, Uber announced the suspension of all tests of its autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh, Phoenix, San Francisco and Toronto.
"Some incredibly sad news out of Arizona," Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi tweeted. "We’re thinking of the victim’s family as we work with local law enforcement to understand what happened."
Some incredibly sad news out of Arizona. We’re thinking of the victim’s family as we work with local law enforcement to understand what happened. https://t.co/cwTCVJjEuz — dara khosrowshahi (@dkhos) March 19, 2018
A Twitter account for Uber's communications department said the ride-sharing company is cooperating with Tempe police.
Tempe Mayor Mark Mitchell released a statement saying that the city will investigate the accident.
"The City of Tempe has been supportive of autonomous vehicle testing because of the innovation and promise the technology may offer in many areas, including transportation options for disabled residents and seniors," Mitchell said in the statement. "Testing must occur safely. All indications we have had in the past show that traffic laws are being obeyed by the companies testing here. Our city leadership and Tempe police will pursue any and all answers to what happened in order to ensure safety moving forward.”
Self-driving cars have been hailed by technology companies as the wave of the future. Autonomous cars are already being tested in more than 30 cities around the world, with companies plowing more than $80 billion into research and development.
Self-driving cars work by using complex radar systems to observe the road, objects and other cars. That data is then fed into a computer that decides what the car should do next. Proponents of the technology have claimed that self-driving cars will make transportation safer.
"Everyone recognized that someone was going to die in a crash involving an autonomous vehicle eventually," Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies risks in automated driving systems, told NBC News.
"As good as that technology tries to be, mistakes can happen, or it may be one of the small fraction of crashes that cannot overcome the laws of physics and be avoided.
"I just think everybody kind of hoped that one wouldn’t come this soon."
Smith added that because federal and state agencies don't have the resources to monitor individual vehicles, the onus for safety falls on the individual companies running the technology.
Self-driving cars have been involved in accidents before, including in Tempe. Uber previously suspended its testing in March 2017 after one of its autonomous cars was involved in an accident.
The National Transportation Safety Board announced that a four-person team has been sent to Tempe to investigate the crash.


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Billy Mitchell is known to video game fans as the King of Kong, a title made world-famous by the 2007 documentary The King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters about the race for the Donkey Kong world record. Mitchell's 1982 score of 874,300 points reigned for 18 years until Tim Sczerby passed it by with 879,200 points in August of 2000. Mitchell retaliated in 2004 with a total 933,900 points, while Steve Wiebe (also in The King of Kong) surpassed that in June of 2005 with 985,600.
Mitchell then became the first player to break 1,000,000, before he and Wiebe traded top scores a number of times (with Mitchell on top in 2007 with 1,050,200). Their monopoly on high scores ended in 2010, when Hank Chien dropped in with a Mitchell-busting score of 1,061,700. Aside from a couple of higher scoring attempts by Mitchell and Wiebe, Chien held the top score title until September of 2014, when Robbie Lakeman became the reigning champ, with Wes Copeland dropping higher scores in 2015 and 2016. Lakeman overtook Copeland this past December with a score of 1,230,100, surpassing Copeland's "perfect" 1,218,000 from 2016.
Still, Mitchell is undoubtedly the most famous of the Kong kings. His domineering persona, long hair, strong beard game and choice of black suits have cemented him as the go-to Donkey Kong champion, long after his impressive achievements. However, now DKF rates Mitchell not as the greatest, nor even the 20th best. Mitchell now sits at 47 on the community's leaderboards. But DKF, despite its place at the heart of the Donkey Kong world, isn't where people look for high scores.
Twin Galaxies has been the arbiter of video game leaderboards since 1981. It manages forums dedicated to fairly judging the veracity of scores as they're submitted by various parties. Other organizations, like the Guinness Book of World Records, rely on the leaderboards to award their own titles. When Twin Galaxies stripped the top 'Dragster' title (and all the rest of his high scores) from Todd Rogers just last week, Guinness soon followed suit.
At press time, Twin Galaxies has not removed Billy Mitchell's 2010 achievement from its main Donkey Kong leaderboards.
The issue is convoluted, though laid out with precision by Young in his explanatory post, which is accompanied by dozens of GIFs. "In summary," Young wrote, "these GIFs show that each of the Donkey Kong world record direct feed recordings presented by Billy Mitchell and verified by [Twin Galaxies] were generated in MAME and not by original Donkey Kong hardware."
According to Young, Mitchell claimed that the footage of his record-setting score was taken directly from the feed off a Donkey Kong arcade board. The investigation and analysis of comparable arcade feeds and MAME videos, specifically by a technically-inclined forum community member named Sock_Master, seem to show that Mitchell's footage comes from MAME, the open-source software that emulates arcade boards.
Playing Donkey Kong through MAME isn't problematic in itself (Young himself has recorded a 905,700 score through the emulator), but there are strict verifications for MAME high score attempts that check that the run was, for example, human-controlled and performed in one continuous playthrough. If the allegations Young has brought to Twin Galaxies are true, then Mitchell not only didn't go through these checks, he also hid the fact that he wasn't playing on official hardware. The evidence for the allegations is complex, and largely centers on framerate analysis and an apparent mis-rotation of the playscreen, but taken as a whole it appears quite damning.
"It's important that we as a community take a stand against cheating and dishonesty."
"The specific information provided in the thread has been gathered over the past week or so," Young told Engadget. "But closer looks at his videos have been happening for years. I started the formal [Twin Galaxies] dispute last August."
The number two Donkey Kong player in the world is Wes Copeland. "Billy is a great person and has been really encouraging to me as a fellow competitor," he told us. "However, it's important that we as a community take a stand against cheating and dishonesty. This newfound evidence is damning, and this has forced us to take immediate action against Billy's scores on the community leaderboard.'
Forum moderator Young isn't gloating, of course, but does feel vindicated. "Well, confirmation of a suspicion is always nice," he told us. While many people got into Donkey Kong because of the documentary, Young says his involvement is more tangential, and began when he learned about the scene from a friend on PlayStation Network. "I didn't watch King of Kong until I was already on [the Donkey Kong Forum]. I didn't have a strong opinion of [Mitchell] or Wiebe before I showed up. And by the time I showed up [in late 2012/early 2013] the whispers were already there."
Young's main motivation is to make sure the posted scores are legitimate. "My view of Mitchell hasn't really changed," he said. "I do understand his role in the bigger picture, but my focus has always been on the community as it exists now, the friends I've made, and making sure competition is on the up-and-up."
Whether Mitchell's demotion will propagate to the Twin Galaxies leaderboards is still up in the air. "Billy's 1,062,800 has been removed [from DKF]," said Young, "but he's still on the board with a 933,900 that was done in public with more credible circumstances. How Twin Galaxies responds is completely up to them. Both [Twin Galaxies custodian] Jace Hall and the TG 'commissioner' Dave Hawksett visit DKF on occasion, so I think they have interest in our voice." Engadget has reached out to Twin Galaxies for comment and will update the post if we hear back.

Yesterday, I reported that competitive gamer Billy Mitchell may have misled record keepers with some of his best Donkey Kong scores. But while we were getting details of that scandal, the current Donkey Kong world-record holder Robbie Lakeman was setting a new high score. Lakeman beat his previous best of 1,230,100 points with 1,247,700. The record-keeping officials at Donkey Kong Forum and Twin Galaxies have verified the score.
The 3 hour and 49 minute playthrough had Lakeman maximizing his score through skillful jumps over obstacles and through some friendly random-number generation. You can watch the full playthrough right here:
Lakeman may still have better scores yet to come, and he could break the 1.25 million barrier next.


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Charges are being pressed against the owner responsible for the alleged neglect of 46 dogs near Williams Lake. Photo submitted
A Williams Lake man who had 46 dogs seized from his property in February, has been formally charged with two counts of animal cruelty.
The BC SPCA seized the dogs from Terry Baker on Feb. 22, due to concerns of neglect, undersocialization and distress. The animals ranged from puppies, to adult and older dogs.
“The dogs were seized because of lack of shelter, poor sanitation and inadequate veterinary care, but the biggest issue once they were in our care was that they were terrified of human contact,” said Marcie Moriarty, chief prevention and enforcement officer for the BC SPCA.
Read more: BC SPCA seizes 46 dogs near Williams Lake
The animals included American Eskimo, border collie, husky and Samoyed breeds, some of whom were pregnant when they were seized.
“One of the complications was that several of the dogs were pregnant and gave birth shortly after coming into SPCA care, but were too frightened to let staff near them or their puppies. Thankfully we have some extremely knowledgeable and dedicated staff members who were able to provide the care and treatment they needed despite the challenges,” said Moriarty.
Read more: BC SPCA under pressure to care for seized dogs
The SPCA said veterinary and behavioural staff worked with the dogs hourly to help them adjust to everyday sights and sounds.
“This was a very intensive undertaking involving hundreds of staff and volunteer hours,” said Moriarty.
“The fact that the majority of the dogs have responded to the behaviour modification to the point that we were able to adopt them into new homes is quite incredible, given the condition they were in when they were seized.”
While the SPCA had been fearful they would have to euthanize some of the animals, today, only eight remain in SPCA care.
In April, Baker appealed the seizure, asking to have 10 of his animals returned.
Read more: B.C. man loses appeal to get 10 dogs back after more than 46 animals seized
In his appeal testimony, Baker said while the situation was not “perfectly ideal,” the dogs were well-fed, happy and none were harmed or abused.
He said things had “got away” from him following the death of his mother, and the seizure was simply a case of bad timing, after he had been sick with the flu.
The appeal was ultimately denied by the B.C. Farm Industry Review Board.
Baker has previously been convicted of animal cruelty in a case in Saskatchewan involving more than 70 dogs.
His sentence included conditions that he was not to own or possess more than 10 dogs, six horses, or 10 chickens, with an exception of an additional 20 dogs, horses, or chickens under the age of six months.
If convicted in court, Baker could face a fine of up to $10,000, five years in jail and a lifetime ban on owning animals.
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(CNN) New body camera footage captures the tense moments before an Arizona police officer shot an unarmed man dead last year, as the man begged officers not to fire.
Police in Mesa, Arizona released the footage last week, after a jury acquitted former Mesa officer Philip "Mitch" Brailsford of second-degree murder and reckless manslaughter charges related to the January 2016 shooting of Daniel Shaver, of Texas.
Brailsford shot Shaver after police responded to a call saying a man was pointing a rifle out of the window of a La Quinta Inn. The former officer testified he believed Shaver was reaching for a gun in his waistband as he moved toward officers, CNN affiliate KTRK/KPHO reported. No weapon was found.
An attorney for Shaver's widow said the footage shows the shooting was unjustified, while Brailsford's lawyer said his client's actions were consistent with his police training.
"That's an execution, pure and simple. The Justice system miserably failed Daniel and his family," Mark Geragos, the attorney for Shaver's widow, Laney Sweet, said in a statement.
In an interview last week with CNN, Brailsford's attorney, Mike Piccarreta, said jurors heard six weeks of testimony and watched the body camera footage several times before acquitting the former officer.
"While it's a compete tragedy, he's comforted by the fact that his response was in view with the way he was trained," Piccarreta said.
Daniel Shaver, left, and ex-Mesa officer Philip Brailsford.
The graphic footage prompted anger on social media.
Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson tweeted: "I keep thinking about how effortlessly that police officer killed #DanielShaver in that hotel hallway. And how the officer was acquitted. The only person to fear in that entire situation was the officer himself."
We talk about the disproportionate violence of the police towards people of color because it's true. It's also true that the police kill white citizens too. Police violence is everyone's problem. #DanielShaver should be alive. — deray (@deray) December 11, 2017
"God bless #DanielShaver," director and producer Ava DuVernay tweeted.
'Please, don't shoot me'
When police arrived at La Quinta, they ordered Shaver and a woman to come out of a room on the fifth floor, KTRK/KPHO reported.
The body camera footage shows Shaver on his knees in the hotel hallway, a few feet away from the barrel of a police officer's gun.
"Hands up in the air," an officer says.
Shaver puts his hands on the floor, then behind his back, then moves them forward again before an officer yells "Hands up in the air!" Shaver moves his hands up above his head.
"You do that again, we're shooting you, do you understand?" the officer said.
"Please, do not shoot me," Shaver said.
"Then listen to my instructions," the officer said.
"I'm trying to just do what you say," Shaver said.
"Do not put your hands down for any reason!" the officer later says to Shaver. "You think you're going to fall, you better fall on your face. Your hands go back in the small of your back or down, we are going to shoot you! Do you understand me?"
"Yes, sir," Shaver says, sobbing.
An officer then orders Shaver to crawl toward him. As Shaver crawls, he appears to reach behind him with his right hand.
That's when Brailsford fired five rounds, killing him.
After the shooting, several witnesses and hotel employees told police Shaver was drunk. An autopsy revealed Shaver's blood alcohol level was .29, more than three times the local definition of intoxication, KTRK/KPHO reported.
Witnesses later told police Shaver was showing them an air rifle he had used in his job as a pest exterminator.
Brailsford was fired because of the pending second-degree murder charge and for having the words You're F***** engraved on a part of his personal, department-approved AR-15, Mesa police spokeswoman Sgt. Diana Williams told CNN.
Ben Meiselas, an attorney with Geragos' firm, confirmed that the AR-15 that Brailsford used in the shooting had an expletive etched into it. But the judge did not allow the AR-15 into evidence because he ruled it "too prejudicial" and "not sufficiently relevant," he told CNN.
Brailsford had worked for the department for two years, KTRK/KPHO reported.
During the trial, Brailsford told jurors he was trained to deal with a threat.
"I was doing what I needed to do to protect my fellow men and the woman we had just taken into custody," Brailsford testified, according to CNN affiliate KTRK/KPHO
Brailsford testified Shaver disobeyed orders not to put his hands behind him on several occasions, the station reported.
"For some reason, he placed his hands behind his back," Brailsford said. "For one, I don't know why he did that."
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Egypt coach Hector Cuper will face a nervous wait over the fitness of the Gunners midfielder after he was taken off injured on Sunday against West Ham
Mohamed Elneny's World Cup hopes suffered a potential blow on Sunday as the Egypt star was forced off injured in Arsenal's Premier League clash with West Ham.
The midfielder appeared to sustain an ankle injury in a challenge with Mark Noble and, after prolonged treatment on the field, he was taken off on a stretcher with his leg in a brace.
Elneny – who has 57 caps for his country – looked in significant discomfort as he was replaced by Ainsley Maitland-Niles at Emirates Stadium.
Of immediate concern for the 25-year-old will be Thursday's Europa League semi-final first leg with Atletico Madrid, but his ambitions to feature in Russia may also take a hit.
Elneny, who signed a new long-term contract in March, was only cleared to play after having his red card against Southampton overturned.
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Arsenal return to action boosted by the deadline-day arrival of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang as they bid to return to winning ways.
The Gunners were beaten 3-1 at Swansea in midweek and are in danger of falling out of the top-four race.
Arsene Wenger could pair his new striker with former Dortmund teammate Henrik Mkhitaryan after the Armenian came off the bench against the Welsh side.
Everton's ranks have also been boosted by the arrival of Eliaquim Mangala from Manchester City.
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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is set to be given his Arsenal debut despite a bout of illness ahead of the Gunners' clash with Everton.
The north London side broke their transfer record to land the Gabon forward but a fever has left him a slight doubt ahead of the Emirates Stadium clash.
Manager Arsene Wenger has confirmed Henrikh Mkhitaryan will make his first start but Jack Wilshere has also been ill and could be sidelined, while Danny Welbeck (hip) and Santi Cazorla (achilles) remain absent.
Everton's new on-loan defender Eliaquim Mangala could be involved against Arsenal at the Emirates.
The Frenchman joined from Manchester City on deadline day and is set to be in the squad.
Manager Sam Allardyce may decide to rest Seamus Coleman after his first appearance in 319 days after a double leg fracture, while midfielder James McCarthy is in the early stages of rehabilitation from a similar injury.


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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita State has announced an eight-year deal with Under Armour for players to wear its apparel and use its equipment, a contract that coincides with the Shockers’ move to the American Athletic Conference.
The Shockers’ high-profile basketball program had been aligned with Nike, but other programs had worn uniforms from other companies. The volleyball program, for example, wore Adidas last season.
One of the benefits of the contract is to establish uniformity throughout the department.
All teams will honor the terms of existing agreements, which means the basketball team will continue to wear Nike next season. It will begin wearing Under Armour gear for the 2018-19 season.
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Mika Zibanejad, who has played as well since the trade deadline as he has all season — perhaps as well as he has in his two seasons on Broadway — feels there's a reason why his consistency has been suboptimal.
After returning on Dec. 19 from a three-week concussion absence, Zibanejad found himself playing more cautious than normal, trying to believe everything was fine but admitting the concussion was in the back of his mind, ultimately slowing him down. And this was after missing two months last year with a broken fibula from which he was slow to regain form.
Zibanejad has no doubt that injuries have set him back each of the last two years, preventing him from being his best, most steady self.
"At least from my side it's pretty obvious, just going through it. I've been trying to work through it and battle through it," he told the Daily News Monday. "You miss that much time (last) season, I feel like it's hard to get your rhythm back. And then an injury like this, when it comes to a head injury and it's not the first time, you start thinking about it a little more, you're aware of it."
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Players are evaluated on much more than just point production, but in the case of Zibanejad's 2017-18 season, his streaks are mostly indicative of how things have gone. He was a point-a-game player through the first 22 games, half the points coming on the power play, before a hit by Darren Helm on Nov. 24 caused concussion symptoms. Upon returning, he had nine points over his next 30 games.
Zibanejad enters Tuesday's game against Columbus with 11 points in his last eight games, and eight points in the last four since Jesper Fast joined he and Chris Kreider on the top line.
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"I think the work ethic has been there. The intentions are there. The battle level has been better this year," Zibanejad says. "More confident (now.) I think when you get those points, when you get rewarded for that hard work, I think you look a little different because of the confidence you have."
What he's looked like lately is a player with renewed vigor committed to playing the 200-foot game Alain Vigneault harps on. He's looked like the No. 1 center he and the Rangers hoped he'd be after Derek Stepan was traded and Zibanejad was given a five-year deal with an annual cap hit of $5.35 million.
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Zibanejad has a plus-7.46 relative Corsi this season, meaning the Rangers' shot-attempts totals are 7.46 percent better with Zibanejad on ice, fifth-best in the NHL among players who've played at least 500 minutes. And it's telling considering the Blueshirts entered Monday with a league-worst 45.84 shot-attempts percentage. Zibanejad has a 51.58 shot-attempts percentage, the only Ranger above 50 percent. (All numbers via naturalstattrick.com.)
A sixth-year NHLer still just 24 year old, Zibanejad feels he's proven what kind of player he is. Now the matter is maximizing his ability - and mentally handling injuries better.
"I think it's a good learning experience, how you deal with it," he said. "It's easy to get discouraged, but you try not to. It's easier said than done."
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