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This species has a distinctive body pattern consisting of 8-11 very broad, dark, quadrangular bars.
Head detail.
Base body colour is a vivid orange.
Pangio spp. are often associated with submerged leaf litter in nature and this is also appreciated in the aquarium.
The albino form of this species is a rare find.
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Pangio myersi (HARRY, 1949)
Giant Kuhli Loach
SynonymsTop ↑
Acanthophthalmus myersi Harry, 1949
myersi: named for Dr. George Sprague Myers of Stanford University 'in appreciation of his interest and research on Indo-Malayan fishes'.
Order: Cypriniformes Family: Cobitidae
Native to the lower Mekong basin in Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand with type locality 'Nong Khor, southeastern Thailand'.
Most commonly found in shallow, slow-moving sections of forest streams or other calm habitats such as swamps, oxbows, and backwaters.
Many such environments are associated with ancient peat swamps and contain black water although it's also found in clear waters which may or may not be tannin-stained to some extent.
Such habitats are typically shaded from the sun by marginal vegetation and the tree canopy above.
The water has a negligible dissolved mineral content, is poorly-buffered and pH can be as low as 3.0 or 4.0 due to release of tannins and organic acids from decaying organic material.
Depending on locality the substrate may be composed of peat, mud or sand with the fish typically abundant in piles of leaf litter.
Maximum Standard Length
90 – 100 mm.
Aquarium SizeTop ↑
An aquarium with base measurements of at least 60 ∗ 30 cm or equivalent is recommended.
It is advised to find a filter which has a water flow between 4-5 times the volume of your aquarium. At a volume of 54 litres, the filter we recommend can be found here.
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Use a soft, sandy substrate since this species likes to dig and tends to spend some of its time completely buried. When coarser gravel is used it may become stressed or damage itself, and feeding behaviour can be inhibited.
A few driftwood roots and branches, placed in such a way that plenty of shady spots are formed, can be used to add structure to the display and addition of dried leaf litter would provide additional cover and aid in simulating natural conditions.
Fairly dim lighting is also preferable with aquatic plants from genera such as Microsorum, Taxiphyllum, and Cryptocoryne suitable.
Gentle filtration providing a little surface agitation is adequate and high flow rates best avoided. Ensure that small specimens are unable to enter filter intakes and cover the tank well as most loaches do jump at times, especially when introduced to a new environment.
Temperature: 21 – 26 °C
pH: 3.5 – 7.0
Hardness: 0 – 143 ppm
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Chiefly a micropredator sifting mouthfuls of substrate through the mouth and gills from which insect larvae, small crustaceans and suchlike are extracted with a proportion of the natural diet also likely to comprise organic detritus and plant material from the gut contents of prey.
In the aquarium it will accept sinking dried foods but should also be offered regular meals of live and frozen Daphnia, Artemia, bloodworm, micro worm, grindal worm, etc.
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Behaviour and CompatibilityTop ↑
Pangio spp. are peaceful both with one another and other fishes and there exist no reports of them harming tankmates though they may prey on eggs or fry.
In nature they're often found in large aggregations and in captivity will often pack themselves into a single nook, cranny or cave when at rest, so a group of at least 5-6 specimens should be the minimum purchased.
Small, peaceful species from similar environments such as Boraras, Sundadanio, smaller Rasbora, Trichopsis, Sphaerichthys, Kottelatlimia, etc., constitute the best tankmates.
Some sand-dwelling loaches from the family Nemacheilidae are also suitable but proper research is essential as some can be excessively competitive, territorial or otherwise aggressive.
Adult females are typically heavier-bodied and a little larger then males, while in mature males the first pectoral-fin ray is branched and thickened.
Unrecorded.
NotesTop ↑
This species is traded on a regular basis and is also known as 'Myer's loach'. In recent years albino and leucistic forms have become available although it's unclear if these are naturally-occurring or not.
It's included in the P. kuhlii group of closely-related species within the genus as per Bohlen et al. (2011), and can be distinguished from other members by the following combination of characters: 8-11 very broad, quadrangular, regular dark body bars; orange base body colour; caudal-fin either entirely black or with a large black blotch at the base and a submarginal dark bar or row of spots.
The latter feature can be useful in identifying young or newly-imported, undernourished specimens which can superficially resemble P. kuhlii or P. semicincta because those two species possess only a dark blotch on the caudal-fin base.
Kottelat and Lim (1993) suggested that the P. kuhlii and P. oblonga groups represent two of four such assemblages within the genus alongside the P. anguillaris and P. shelfordii groups. P. myersi was included in the P. khulii group based on its barred colour pattern and lack of labial barbels.
This unofficial system was followed until Bohlen et al. (2011) published a molecular phylogenetic analysis including 18 recognised species plus a number of undescribed ones.
Their results suggest the existence of three, rather than four, major lineages within the genus; the P. anguillaris and P. shelfordii groups represent two of them with Kottelat and Lim's P. kuhlii and P. oblonga groups together forming the third.
Within this third lineage are three sublineages formed by P. filinaris, an apparently undescribed fish from the Temburong River in Brunei referred to as P. cf. oblonga IV, and all other species in the group, respectively.
Species in the P. khulii and P. oblonga groups had previously been separated largely on the basis of colour pattern, i.e., barred vs. plain brown, but in the molecular analysis the barred species grouped within the brown. They also display a high degree of morphological affinity with simlarities in body shape and the number of vertebrae.
One brown specimen even grouped together with the barred P. malayana collected from the same locality rather than any of the other plain fish, suggesting a degree of phenotypic variability within species may also be involved.
Pangio is among the most speciose cobitid genera and widespread throughout South and Southeast Asia with species diversity thought to be considerably greater than currently recognised.
Pangio species are often generically referred to as 'kuhli' or 'coolie' loaches in the aquarium hobby, the latter a variation of the former which was itself derived from the surname of German naturalist Heinrich Kuhl (1797-1821). Ichthyologists tend to refer to them as 'eel loaches'.
They're distinguished from other cobitids by their long, slender body shape, relatively high number of vertebrae and the position of the dorsal-fin which is situated well behind the origin of the pelvic fins (vs. in front of, above or only slightly behind).
Several described members were previously included in the genus Acanthophthalmus which Kottelat (1987) demonstrated to be a syonym of Cobitis, and he chose the replacement name Pangio in preference to its simultaneous synonym Apua (Blyth, 1860).
Myers (1929) placed P. anguillaris as type species of Cobitophis, a grouping containing the very elongate species, while Perugia (1892) originally described P. doriae in the genus Eucirrhichthys. The former was synonymised with Acanthophthalmus by Nalbant (1963) and the latter by Roberts (1989).
The family Cobitidae, often referred to as 'true' loaches, is widely-distributed across most of Eurasia with the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and China representing particular centres of species diversity.
Phylogenetic analyses by Tang et al. (2006), Šlechtová et al. (2007) and Šlechtová et al. (2008) revealed that the group constitutes a separate genetic lineage to the family Botiidae (the two were previously grouped together under Cobitidae as subfamilies Cobitinae and Botiinae).
In the most recent study Pangio was found to be more closely affiliated with Acantopsis, Acanthopsoides and Kottelatlimia than Lepidocephalichthys as had been previously hypothesised.
All cobitids possess sharp, motile, sub-ocular spines which are normally concealed within a pouch of skin but erected when an individual is stressed, e.g. if removed from the water. Care is therefore necessary as these can become entangled in aquarium nets and with larger species even break human skin.
Harry, R. R., 1949 - Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington v. 62: 69-72
A new loach of the genus Acanthophthalmus from Siam.
Bohlen, J., V, Šlechtová, H. H. Tan and R. Britz, 2011 - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(3): 854-865
Phylogeny of the Southeast Asian freshwater fish genus Pangio (Cypriniformes; Cobitidae).
Britz, R. and J. Maclaine, 2007 - Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 18(1): 17-30
A review of the eel-loaches, genus Pangio, from Myanmar (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitidae).
Britz, R. and M. Kottelat, 2010 - Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 20(4): 317-376
Pangio longimanus, a miniature species of eel-loach from central Laos (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitidae).
Burridge, M. E., 1992 - Copeia 1992(1): 172-186
Systematics of the Acanthophthalmus kuhlii complex (Teleostei: Cobitidae), with the description of a new species from Sarawak and Brunei.
Hadiaty, R. K. and M. Kottelat, 2009 - Zootaxa 2171: 65-68
Pangio lidi, a new species of loach from eastern Borneo, Indonesia.
Kottelat, M., 2001 - WHT Publications Ltd., Colombo , Sri Lanka: 1-198
Fishes of Laos.
Kottelat, M., 2012 - Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement 26: 1-199
Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei).
Kottelat, M. and K. K. P. Lim, 1993 - Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 41(2): 203-249
A review of the eel-loaches of the genus Pangio (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from the Malay Peninsula, with descriptions of six new species.
Tan, H. H. and M. Kottelat, 2009 - Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 20(1): 13-69
The fishes of the Batang Hari drainage, Sumatra, with description of six new species.
Tang, Q., H. Liu, R. Mayden and B. Xiong, 2006 - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39(2): 347-357
Comparison of evolutionary rates in the mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b gene and control region and their implications for phylogeny of the Cobitoidea (Teleostei: Cypriniformes).
Šlechtová, V., J. Bohlen and A. Perdices, 2008 - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47(2): 812-831
Molecular phylogeny of the freshwater fish family Cobitidae (Cypriniformes: Teleostei): delimitation of genera, mitochondrial introgression and evolution of sexual dimorphism.
Šlechtová, V., J. Bohlen and H. H. Tan, 2007 - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44(3): 1358-1365
Families of Cobitoidea (Teleostei; Cypriniformes) as revealed from nuclear genetic data and the position of the mysterious genera Barbucca, Psilorhynchus, Serpenticobitis and Vaillantella.
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Heritage Auctions dates the piece in question to the Oligocene period, placing it anywhere from about 23 million to 33.9 million years old. It's an important period of time where the archaic Eocene transitions into more modern ecosystems of the Miocene period, which lasted until 5 million years ago. Incredibly, the mantis itself doesn't appear so different from what we see today.
There are over 2,400 species of mantises today, mainly living in tropical climates. But the earliest mantis fossils, which date back 135 million years, come from a place that is, today, much colder—Siberia. Some early fossils even show mantises with spines on their front legs, just like modern mantises. Whoever bought this piece of amber took home an interesting piece of evolutionary history, one that can be gazed at each day.
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The 2015 Fort Worth Scottish Rite Foundation Scholarship Winners were recognized at its annual Banquet on June 6. The Foundation awarded sixty $1,000 scholarships to graduating seniors in the Fort Worth Valley. The recipients were treated to a reception and dinner, and a visit with the Honorable Pete Geren. The recipients are chosen based upon academic, extracurricular activities, employment history, community and church involvement, and letters of recommendation. Fort Worth Scottish Rite Foundation is honored by each of these recipients and wishes them the best of success in their college careers.
The 2015 Scholarship Recipients represent sixty different high schools in an area extending from Fort Worth to Gainesville to Vernon to Abilene to Comanche to Cleburne and back to Fort Worth. They include budding scientists, athletes, cheer leaders, musicians, civic volunteers, church activists, part-time care givers, retail employees, and dedicated students. A few of the high schools represented are Abilene Cooper, Archer City, Fort Worth Christian, Joshua, Knox City, Liberty Christian, Nolan Catholic, Southlake Carroll and Throckmorton. The leading choices of the recipients for college are Texas A&M University, the University of Texas, and Baylor University.
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When Danny O'Connor showed up to the Framingham Police Athletic League gym in June, Lesley Lopes saw little more than athletic ability.
Eight months later, Lopes looked across a boxing ring in Lowell and saw something else. A champion.
On Friday night, O'Connor won the welterweight (141 pounds) title at the New England Golden Gloves Championship, continuing the meteoric rise of the 21-year old Framingham High grad.
"He was very raw," recalled Lopes, a trainer at the gym, of her first encounter with O'Connor. "He's come a long, long way. He fights now like someone who's had 50 fights."
O'Connor, of course, hasn't. And that hasn't stopped him.
First, he had to get through the preliminaries of the Lowell regional, then he had to fight through the quarterfinals, semis and finals to cop the regional crown. That got him an invite to the New England championships.
By then, Lopes' confidence in O'Connor had grown to the point where victory was expected.
"We kinda of anticipated (the title,)" she said yesterday. "But the kid he fought from Portland, Maine was pretty tough. So winning the whole thing was kinda iffy."
O'Connor erased any doubt by outlasting the aforementioned fighter -- Nick Stevens -- in a unanimous decision after the two battled through the allotted three three-minute rounds.
Making it more impressive was the wide range of fighters, almost an all-comers format, that included everyone in New England from the ages of 16 and 32. Among those were fighters far more experienced and seasoned than O'Connor.
The key for O'Connor to overcome that, according to Lopes, was in his work ethic.
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Peter Andre reveals surprising connection to Friends star David Schwimmer
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May 25, 2021 - 16:07 BST Jenni McKnight Peter Andre dropped a surprising bombshell on Tuesday – revealing he performed at Friends star David Schwimmer's wedding!
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The singer revealed that he had the pleasure of performing at David's wedding reception following his nuptials to former wife Zoë Buckman, 35, back in 2010.
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Peter admitted that at first, he thought David's request was a "wind–up" after the American star asked to meet him at a London hotel.
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"I know everyone is really excited about the Friends reunion, but I've actually never watched a single episode! Bizarrely, I did sing at David Schwimmer's wedding in 2010, though," Peter causally wrote in his column for New! Magazine.
"I got a call saying he wanted to meet me and I thought it was a wind-up. I went to a London hotel to meet him and we started talking and he said to me 'I'd love you to sing at our wedding.'"
Peter added: "And so I did. It was definitely strange seeing Thandie Newton and David Walliams in the same room, singing along to a song I never even knew they knew. It was wonderful."
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Q: Retrieve first value in a row and put in a cosecutive columns I have a df that looks like this:
   A    B   C   D    E   F
1  20   0   0   60   0   0
2  50   0   0   150  50  0
3  30   0   0   120  0   0
4  40   0   0   60   0   0
5  30   100 0   160  0   0

I want to extract first value from columns B:F and modulo this value by the value from column A. If the modulo of the row is not equal to 0 (like in the case of row 4), I want to skip it. If it's not, I want to sum up values from columns B:F and divide it by the value of column A and get the floor number. So in the first row it would be 3. Then put number from column A into three consecutive columns starting from D. So it'd look like this:
     A   B   C   D    E    F
  1  20  0   0   20   20   20

In case of row 2, I want it to look like this and also create another df that would start from column G and put the rest of values there.
df1
   A    B   C   D    E   F
2  50   0   0   50  50  50

df2
       G
    2  50

I've done the first part, however I got stuck after that with indexing and putting the values in consecutive columns
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import math

for i in df.iloc[:, -6:].values:
    x = i[i>0][0]  # value of column A
    y = i[i>0][1]  # first value
    if y%x != 0:
        continue
    else:
        z = sum(i[1:])

Thank you for any input, I'll gladly accept any help and advice.
EDIT
Final dfs should look like this:
df1
   A    B   C   D    E   F
1  20   0   0   20   20  20
2  50   0   0   50   50  50
3  30   0   0   30   30  30
4  40   0   0   60   0   0
5  30   100 0   160  0   0

df2
       G
    2  50
    3  30

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A Digression on Abstract Art
With a secret preference for Renaissance and Impressionist styles, I don't know if I can do this. Let's start with language. Language is a conceptual mapping of the world. It breaks the raw, unintelligible flux of experience into intelligible chunks (conceptually, not physically). We first access the world conceptually not in simple chunks, but in complex but finite experiences, just as physically we see a table, not the atoms that make it up. To see a table on its atomic level is more difficult. We see the complex immediately, but to see the simples, perhaps ironically, requires some subjective mediation on our part.
In the visual arts, some works give us a holistic, complex scenario – a mother and daughter walking in the park. This is immediately intelligible. Thus, it almost guarantees some affect in the viewer. We may or may not find it aesthetically pleasing or thought-provoking, but the artist has pretty much stacked the deck in terms of having the viewer process it on some affective level. The amount of aesthetic value it has is not contingent upon its intelligibility, which is a given, but falls upon other matters of style, content, and cultural context.
Abstract art, on the other hand, "abstracts" the simpler, hidden building blocks of visual experience and recombines them. There are of course many levels of abstraction between complex, holistic lived experience and absolute simples. A Picasso painting may go one step deeper and depict a face with an eye on the chin and a breast hanging off the left ear (like a sheet of stained glass that's been shattered and had the shards put back together in the wrong places). An eyeball is still a complex, but is nonetheless not something we apprehend in the abstract in ordinary experience. When we see someone, we don't see an eyeball, an ear, and a breast. So that painting has broken lived experience into smaller building blocks. Part of the value of such a work will probably lie in how well it exposes for the viewer the abstract building blocks that are always already embedded (though not immediately recognized as such) in his/her lived experience.
A more abstract painting may go deeper toward even simpler, more abstract units of lived experience. Take Joan Miro's compositions of straight or squiggly lines and half-formed figures, the archetypal fragments of geometry, or Rothko's non-referential color patches, returning us all the way to the archaic building blocks of visual reality.
Bottom line: When the composition corresponds to a holistic unit of lived experience – a traditional representational painting – it is immediately intelligible (whether or not it has much aesthetic value). The closer the compositional markings get to simple abstractions (i.e., the further from holistic, as-lived experience), the more subjective mediation is required for the work to be intelligible.
I think we will agree that it is silly to pronounce art at either extreme generically "good" or "bad." Great aesthetic value can be generated by art that deals in the holistic sequences of lived experience as well as by art that seeks to uncover and "make conscious" the hidden building blocks within lived experience.
20th-century poetry shows, generally but not universally, a much greater interest in the 2nd kind of art. Call it the influence of a remarkable set of contemporaries – Einstein, Freud, Picasso, Joyce, Pound, etc. This interest may take the form of imagist poetry, which isolates smaller and smaller chunks of lived experience, each of which remains holistic. Take William Carlos Williams's "The Red Wheelbarrow."
so much depends upon
a red wheel barrow
glazed with rain water
beside the white chickens
Because this backyard scene remains holistic, it is immediately intelligible – we know what is being said/depicted. But because it so deliberately chips off such a small chunk of experience, we are unsure of the value/meaning of such a work. I can tell you from having taught it repeatedly that despite anything Williams thinks or says, to see this poem as valuable or meaningful requires mediation. Most readers immediately find it intelligible but do not immediately see any value or meaning in it. To see it as valuable means rethinking your orientation. The best imagist poems succeed in getting the reader to rethink his/her orientation; the worst fail to do so. So this, tentatively, would be an important standard of value for an imagist poem. And this standard of value – whether the poem succeeds in getting you to rethink your orientation toward smaller and less immediately meaningful chunks of lived experience– is more prominent in relation to 20th century imagist poetry than to other historical bodies of poetry. It puts a different kind of pressure on the reader, and it also runs a different kind of risk – the risk of being too mundane to matter. Naturally, some such poems succumb to the risk and some rise above.
Other poetry in the formative modernist years, say T. S. Eliot's "Prufrock" or "Waste Land," respond to the same changing world view (precipitated by Einstein, Freud, Picasso, the trench warfare of World War I, etc.) but respond differently. Here the scene is larger but less holistic. They strike the reader not as simple, digestible fragments whose meaning is in jeopardy (as in Williams), but as collections of incongruous fragments whose intelligibility is in jeopardy. To take the simpler Prufrock, the path from line 1 to line 17 seems fraught with discontinuity.
Let us go then, you and I
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question…
Oh, do not ask, "What is it?"
Let us go and make our visit.
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes,
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening…
Each phrase, image, concept, is clearly a meaningful fragment – a building block – of language, but the fragments at first reading don't add up. We're not even sure who is doing what in the landscape of the poem. The intelligibility of the poem is in jeopardy, and it requires much mediation for the reader to render the compositional markings intelligible enough to be valuable. The poem's success or failure in achieving aesthetic value is contingent upon whether or not it can reach that threshold of intelligibility for a given reader. And this contingency is at the heart of much 20th century poetry. The best of such poetry reaches that threshold, leaving the reader with the feeling that we've just juggled the building blocks of conceptual experience and come up with an expanded conceptual register of the world. The worst of such leaves the reader feeling that it was just a silly, self-indulgent word game that didn't pan out.
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StKitt on June 24, 2012 at 7:50 pm said:
More and more Subjective felt the draining
Effort, that bastard, ran out into the night
Without listening
Dryness merely delays Fertility
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paintdigi on February 25, 2017 at 10:10 am said:
very interesting . thank you
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Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool. The club has won eighteen League titles, seven FA Cups and a record eight League Cups. Liverpool has won more European titles than any other English club, having won five European Cups, three UEFA Cups and three UEFA Super Cups.
Liverpool was founded in 1892 and joined the Football League the following year. The club has played at Anfield since its formation. The most successful period in Liverpool's history was the 1970s and '80s when Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley led the club to eleven league titles and seven European trophies.
The club's supporters have been involved in two major tragedies. The first was the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985 in which charging Liverpool fans caused a wall to collapse, killing 39 Juventus supporters and resulting in Liverpool being banned from European club competitions for 6 years. In the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, 96 Liverpool supporters lost their lives in a crush against perimeter fencing.
Liverpool has long-standing rivalries with neighbours Everton and Manchester United. The team changed from red shirts and white shorts to an all-red home strip in 1964. The club's anthem is " You'll Never Walk Alone".
John Houlding, the founder of Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool F.C. was founded following a dispute between the Everton committee and John Houlding, club president and owner of the land at Anfield. After eight years at the stadium, Everton relocated to Goodison Park in 1892 and Houlding founded Liverpool F.C. to play at Anfield. Originally named "Everton F.C. and Athletic Grounds Ltd" (Everton Athletic for short), the club became Liverpool F.C. in March 1892 and gained official recognition three months later, after the Football Association refused to recognise the club as Everton. The team won the Lancashire League in its début season, and joined the Football League Second Division at the start of the 1893–94 season. After finishing in first place the club was promoted to the First Division, which it won in 1901 and again in 1906.
Liverpool reached its first FA Cup Final in 1914, losing 1–0 to Burnley It won consecutive League championships in 1922 and 1923, but did not win another trophy until the 1946–47 season, when the club won the First Division for a fifth time. Liverpool suffered its second Cup Final defeat in 1950, playing against Arsenal. The club was relegated to the Second Division in the 1953–54 season. Soon after Liverpool lost 2–1 to non-league Worcester City in the 1958–59 FA Cup, Bill Shankly was appointed manager. Upon his arrival he released 24 players and converted a boot storage room at Anfield into a room where the coaches could discuss strategy; here, Shankly and other " Boot Room" members Joe Fagan, Reuben Bennett, and Bob Paisley began reshaping the team.
The club was promoted back into the First Division in 1962 and won it in 1964, for the first time in 17 years. In 1965, the club won its first FA Cup. In 1966, the club won the First Division but lost to Borussia Dortmund in the European Cup Winners' Cup final. Liverpool won both the League and the UEFA Cup during the 1972–73 season, and the FA Cup again a year later. Shankly retired soon afterwards and was replaced by his assistant, Bob Paisley. In 1976, Paisley's second season as manager, the club won another League and UEFA Cup double. The following season, the club retained the League title and won the European Cup for the first time, but it lost in the 1977 FA Cup Final. Liverpool retained the European Cup in 1978 and regained the First Division title in 1979. During Paisley's nine seasons as manager Liverpool won 21 trophies, including three European Cups, a UEFA Cup, six League titles and three consecutive League Cups; the only domestic trophy to elude him was the FA Cup.
Paisley retired in 1983 and was replaced by his assistant, Joe Fagan. Liverpool won the League, League Cup and European Cup in Fagan's first season, becoming the first English side to win three trophies in a season. Liverpool reached the European Cup final again in 1985, against Juventus at the Heysel Stadium. Before kick-off, Liverpool fans breached a fence which separated the two groups of supporters, and charged the Juventus fans. The resulting weight of people caused a retaining wall to collapse, killing 39 fans, mostly Italians. The incident became known as the Heysel Stadium disaster. The match was played in spite of protests by both managers, and Liverpool lost 1–0 to Juventus. As a result of the tragedy, English clubs were banned from participating in European competition for five years; Liverpool received a ten-year ban, which was later reduced to six years. Fourteen Liverpool fans received convictions for involuntary manslaughter.
The Hillsborough memorial, which is engraved with the names of the 96 people who died in the Hillsborough disaster.
Fagan resigned after the disaster and Kenny Dalglish was appointed as player-manager. During his reign, the club won another three League Championships and two FA Cups, including a League and Cup " Double" in the 1985–86 season. Liverpool's success was overshadowed by the Hillsborough disaster: in an FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989, hundreds of Liverpool fans were crushed against perimeter fencing. Ninety-four fans died that day; the 95th victim died in hospital from his injuries four days later and the 96th died nearly four years later, without regaining consciousness. After the Hillsborough disaster there was a government review of stadium safety. The resulting Taylor Report paved the way for legislation that required top-division teams to have all-seater stadiums. The report ruled that the main reason for the disaster was overcrowding due to a failure of police control.
Liverpool was involved in the closest finish to a league season during the 1988–89 season. Liverpool finished equal with Arsenal on both points and goal difference, but lost the title on total goals scored when Arsenal scored the final goal in the last minute of the season.
Dalglish cited the Hillsborough disaster and its repercussions as the reason for his resignation in 1991; he was replaced by former player Graeme Souness. Under his leadership Liverpool won the 1992 FA Cup Final. Souness was replaced by Roy Evans, and Liverpool went on to win the 1995 Football League Cup Final. Gérard Houllier was appointed co-manager in the 1998–99 season and became the sole manager in November 1998 after Evans resigned. In 2001, Houllier's second full season in charge, Liverpool won a " Treble": the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup. Houllier underwent major heart surgery during the 2001–02 season and Liverpool finished second in the League, behind Arsenal.
Houllier was replaced by Rafael Benítez at the end of the 2003–04 season. Despite finishing fifth in Benítez's first season, Liverpool won the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League, beating A.C. Milan 3–2 in a penalty shootout after the match ended with a score of 3–3. The following season, Liverpool finished third in the Premier League and won the 2006 FA Cup Final, beating West Ham United in a penalty shootout after the match finished on 3–3. American businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks became the owners of the club during the 2006–07 season, in a deal which valued the club and its outstanding debts at £218.9 million. The club reached the 2007 UEFA Champions League Final against Milan, as it had in 2005, but this time Liverpool lost 2–1. During the 2008–09 season Liverpool achieved 86 points, its highest Premier League points total, and finished as runners up to Manchester United.
In the 2009–10 season, Liverpool finished seventh in the Premier League and failed to qualify for the Champions League. Benítez subsequently left by mutual consent and was replaced by Fulham manager Roy Hodgson. At the start of the 2010–11 season Liverpool was on the verge of bankruptcy and the club's creditors asked the High Court to allow the sale of the club, overruling the wishes of Hicks and Gillett. John W. Henry, owner of the Boston Red Sox and of New England Sports Ventures, bid successfully for the club and took ownership in October 2010. Poor results during the start of that season led to Hodgson leaving the club by mutual consent and former manager Kenny Dalglish taking over. After finishing in 8th position in the 2011–12 season, the worst league finish in 18 years, Dalglish was sacked. He was replaced by Brendan Rodgers.
Colours and badge
Liverpool's home colours (1892–1896)
For much of Liverpool's history its home colours have been all red, but when the club was founded its kit was more like the contemporary Everton kit. The blue and white quartered shirts were used until 1894, when the club adopted the city's colour of red. The city's symbol of the liver bird was adopted as the club's badge in 1901, although it was not incorporated into the kit until 1955. Liverpool continued to wear red shirts and white shorts until 1964, when manager Bill Shankly decided to change to an all red strip. Liverpool played in all red for the first time against Anderlecht, as Ian St. John recalled in his autobiography:
He [Shankly] thought the colour scheme would carry psychological impact—red for danger, red for power. He came into the dressing room one day and threw a pair of red shorts to Ronnie Yeats. "Get into those shorts and let's see how you look", he said. "Christ, Ronnie, you look awesome, terrifying. You look 7ft tall." "Why not go the whole hog, boss?" I suggested. "Why not wear red socks? Let's go out all in red." Shankly approved and an iconic kit was born.
The Liverpool away strip has more often than not been all yellow or white shirts and black shorts, but there have been several exceptions. An all grey kit was introduced in 1987, which was used until the 1991–92 centenary season, when it was replaced by a combination of green shirts and white shorts. After various colour combinations in the 1990s, including gold and navy, bright yellow, black and grey, and ecru, the club alternated between yellow and white away kits until the 2008–09 season, when it re-introduced the grey kit. A third kit is designed for European away matches, though it is also worn in domestic away matches on occasions when the current away kit clashes with a team's home kit. The current kits are designed by Warrior Sports, who became the club's kit providers at the start of the 2012–13 season. The only other branded shirts worn by the club were made by Umbro until 1985, when they were replaced by Adidas, who produced the kits until 1996 when Reebok took over. They produced the kits for ten years before Adidas made the kits from 2006 to 2012.
Liverpool was the first English professional club to have a sponsor's logo on its shirts, after agreeing a deal with Hitachi in 1979. Since then the club has been sponsored by Crown Paints, Candy, Carlsberg and Standard Chartered Bank. The contract with Carlsberg, which was signed in 1992, was the longest-lasting agreement in English top-flight football. The association with Carlsberg ended at the start of the 2010–11 season, when Standard Chartered Bank became the club's sponsor.
The Liverpool badge is based on the city's liver bird, which in the past had been placed inside a shield. In 1992, to commemorate the centennial of the club, a new badge was commissioned, including a resentation of the Shankly Gates. The next year twin flames were added at either side are symbolic of the Hillsborough memorial outside Anfield, where an eternal flame burns in memory of those who died in the Hillsborough disaster. In 2012, Warrior Sports' first Liverpool kit removed the shield and gates, returning the badge to what had adorned Liverpool shirts in the 1970s; the flames were moved to the back collar of the shirt, surrounding the number 96 for number who died at Hillsborough.
Anfield, home of Liverpool F.C.
Anfield was built in 1884 on land adjacent to Stanley Park. It was originally used by Everton before the club moved to Goodison Park after a dispute over rent with Anfield owner John Houlding. Left with an empty ground, Houlding founded Liverpool in 1892 and the club has played at Anfield ever since. The capacity of the stadium at the time was 20,000, although only 100 spectators attended Liverpool's first match at Anfield.
In 1906 the banked stand at one end of the ground was formally renamed the Spion Kop after a hill in KwaZulu-Natal. The hill was the site of the Battle of Spion Kop in the Second Boer War, where over 300 men of the Lancashire Regiment died, many of them from Liverpool. At its peak, the stand could hold 28,000 spectators and was one of the largest single-tier stands in the world. Many stadia in England had stands named after Spion Kop, but Anfield's was the largest of them at the time; it could hold more supporters than some entire football grounds.
Anfield could accommodate more than 60,000 supporters at its peak, and had a capacity of 55,000 until the 1990s. The Taylor Report and Premier League regulations obliged Liverpool to convert Anfield to an all-seater stadium in time for the 1993–94 season, reducing the capacity to 45,276. The findings of the Taylor Report precipitated the redevelopment of the Kemlyn Road Stand, which was rebuilt in 1992, coinciding with the centenary of the club, and is now known as the Centenary Stand. An extra tier was added to the Anfield Road end in 1998, which further increased the capacity of the ground but gave rise to problems when it was opened. A series of support poles and stanchions were inserted to give extra stability to the top tier of the stand after movement of the tier was reported at the start of the 1999–2000 season.
Because of restrictions on expanding the capacity at Anfield, Liverpool announced plans to move to the proposed Stanley Park Stadium in May 2002. Planning permission was granted in July 2004, and in September 2006, Liverpool City Council agreed to grant Liverpool a 999-year lease on the proposed site. Following the takeover of the club by George Gillett and Tom Hicks in February 2007, the proposed stadium was redesigned. The new design was approved by the Council in November 2007. The stadium was scheduled to open in August 2011 and would hold 60,000 spectators, with HKS, Inc. contracted to build the stadium. Construction was halted in August 2008, as Gillett and Hicks had difficulty in financing the £300 million needed for the development.
Kopites in The Kop Stand
Liverpool is one of the best supported clubs in the world, with one of the highest average home attendances in Europe. The club states that its worldwide fan base includes more than 200 officially recognised branches of the Association of International Branches (AIB) in at least 30 countries. The club takes advantage of this support through its worldwide summer tours. Liverpool fans often refer to themselves as Kopites, a reference to the fans who once stood, and now sit, on the Kop at Anfield. In 2008 a group of fans decided to form a splinter club, A.F.C. Liverpool, to play matches for fans who had been priced out of watching Premier League football.
The song " You'll Never Walk Alone", originally from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel and later recorded by Liverpool musicians Gerry & The Pacemakers, is the club's anthem and has been sung by the Anfield crowd since the early 1960s. It has since gained popularity among fans of other clubs around the world. The song's title adorns the top of the Shankly Gates, which were unveiled on 2 August 1982 in memory of former manager Bill Shankly. The "You'll Never Walk Alone" portion of the Shankly Gates is also reproduced on the club's crest.
The Shankly Gates, erected in honour of former manager Bill Shankly
The club's supporters have been involved in two stadium disasters. The first was the 1985 Heysel Stadium disaster, in which 39 Juventus supporters were killed. They were confined to a corner by Liverpool fans who had charged in their direction; the weight of the cornered fans caused a wall to collapse. UEFA laid the blame for the incident solely on the Liverpool supporters, and banned all English clubs from European competition for five years. Liverpool was banned for an additional year, preventing it from participating in the 1990–91 European Cup, even though it won the League in 1990. Twenty-seven fans were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and were extradited to Belgium in 1987 to face trial. In 1989, after a five-month trial in Belgium, 14 Liverpool fans were given three-year sentences for involuntary manslaughter; half of the terms were suspended.
The second disaster took place during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, on 15 April 1989. Ninety-six Liverpool fans died as a consequence of overcrowding at the Leppings Lane end, in what became known as the Hillsborough disaster. In the following days The Sun newspaper published an article entitled "The Truth", in which it claimed that Liverpool fans had robbed and urinated on the dead and had attacked the police. Subsequent investigations proved the allegations false, leading to a boycott of the newspaper by Liverpool fans across the city and elsewhere; many still refuse to buy The Sun more than 20 years later. Many support organisations were set up in the wake of the disaster, such as the Hillsborough Justice Campaign, which represents bereaved families, survivors and supporters in their efforts to secure justice.
The Merseyside derby at Anfield in 2006
Liverpool's longest-established rivalry is with fellow Merseyside team Everton, against whom the club contest the Merseyside derby. Their rivalry stems from Liverpool's formation and the dispute with Everton officials and the then owners of Anfield. Unlike other rivalries, there is no political, geographical or religious split between Liverpool and Everton. The Merseyside derby is usually sold out. It is one of the few local derbies which do not enforce fan segregation, and hence was known as the "friendly derby". Since the mid-1980s, the rivalry has intensified both on and off the field and, since the inception of the Premier League in 1992, the Merseyside derby has had more players sent off than any other Premier League game. It has been referred to as "the most ill-disciplined and explosive fixture in the Premier League".
Liverpool's rivalry with Manchester United is viewed as a manifestation of the cities' competition during the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century. The rivalry between the clubs intensified during the 1960s, after Manchester United became the first English team to win the European Cup in 1968, an achievement surpassed by Liverpool's four European Cup victories in the 1970s and 1980s. Manchester United started to dominate English football during the 1990s, making the rivalry all the more intense. The last player to be transferred between the two clubs was Phil Chisnall, who moved to Liverpool from Manchester United in 1964.
Ownership and finances
As the owner of Anfield and founder of Liverpool, John Houlding was the club's first chairman, a position he held from its founding in 1892 until 1904. John McKenna took over as chairman after Houlding's departure. McKenna subsequently became President of the Football League. The chairmanship changed hands many times before John Smith, whose father was a shareholder of the club, took up the role in 1973. He oversaw the most successful period in Liverpool's history before stepping down in 1990. David Moores, whose family had owned the club for more than 50 years, became chairman after Smith's resignation. His uncle John Moores was also a shareholder at Liverpool and was chairman of Everton from 1961 to 1973. Moores owned 51 percent of the club, and in 2004 expressed his willingness to consider a bid for his shares in Liverpool.
John W. Henry of Fenway Sports Group, the parent company of Liverpool
Moores eventually sold the club to American businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks on 6 February 2007. The deal valued the club and its outstanding debts at £218.9 million. The pair paid £5,000 per share, or £174.1m for the total shareholding and £44.8m to cover the club's debts. Disagreements between Gillett and Hicks, and the fans' lack of support for them, resulted in the pair looking to sell the club. Martin Broughton was appointed chairman of the club on 16 April 2010 to oversee its sale. In May 2010, accounts were released showing the holding company of the club to be £350m in debt (due to leveraged takeover) with losses of £55m, causing auditor KPMG to qualify its audit opinion. The group's creditors, including the Royal Bank of Scotland, took Gillett and Hicks to court to force them to allow the board to proceed with the sale of the club, the major asset of the holding company. A High Court judge, Mr Justice Floyd, ruled in favour of the creditors and paved the way for the sale of the club to Fenway Sports Group (formerly New England Sports Ventures), although Gillett and Hicks still had the option to appeal. Liverpool was sold to Fenway Sports Group on 15 October 2010 for £300m.
Liverpool has been described as a global brand; a 2010 report valued the club's trademarks and associated intellectual property at £141m, an increase of £5m on the previous year. Liverpool was given a brand rating of AA (Very Strong). In April 2010 business magazine Forbes ranked Liverpool as the sixth most valuable football team in the world, behind Manchester United, Real Madrid, Arsenal, Barcelona and Bayern Munich; they valued the club at $822m (£532m), excluding debt. Accountants Deloitte ranked Liverpool eighth in the Deloitte Football Money League, which ranks the world's football clubs in terms of revenue. Liverpool's income in the 2009–10 season was €225.3m.
Liverpool reported a £49.4m annual loss in 2011, although this figure does not include a new £25m kit deal with Warrior Sports. In the 2010/2011 season it spent €142 Mio on wages, nearly the same amount as Bayern München, and 2.5 times the amount of Borussia Dortmund.
Liverpool in popular culture
Because of its successful history, Liverpool is often featured when football is depicted in British culture and has appeared in a number of media firsts. The club appeared in the first edition of the BBC's Match of the Day, which screened highlights of its match against Arsenal at Anfield on 22 August 1964. The first football match to be televised in colour was between Liverpool and West Ham United, broadcast live in March 1967. Liverpool fans featured in the Pink Floyd song " Fearless", in which they sang excerpts from "You'll Never Walk Alone". To mark the club's appearance in the 1988 FA Cup Final, Liverpool released a song known as the " Anfield Rap", featuring John Barnes and other members of the squad. A documentary drama on the Hillsborough disaster, written by Jimmy McGovern, was screened in 1996. It features Christopher Eccleston as Trevor Hicks, whose story is the focus of the script. Hicks, who lost two teenage daughters in the disaster, went on to campaign for safer stadiums and helped to form the Hillsborough Families Support Group. Liverpool features in the film The 51st State (also known as Formula 51), in which ex-hitman Felix DeSouza ( Robert Carlyle) is a keen supporter of the team and the last scene takes place at a match between Liverpool and Manchester United. The club was featured in a children's television show called Scully; the plot revolved around a young boy, Francis Scully, who tried to gain a trial match with Liverpool. The show featured prominent Liverpool players of the time such as Kenny Dalglish.
As of 30 January 2013.
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
1 GK Brad Jones
2 DF Glen Johnson
3 DF José Enrique
5 DF Daniel Agger
7 FW Luis Suárez
8 MF Steven Gerrard ( captain)
10 MF Philippe Coutinho
11 MF Oussama Assaidi
14 MF Jordan Henderson
15 FW Daniel Sturridge
16 DF Sebastián Coates
19 MF Stewart Downing
21 MF Lucas Leiva
23 DF Jamie Carragher ( vice-captain)
24 MF Joe Allen
25 GK Pepe Reina
29 FW Fabio Borini
30 MF Suso
31 MF Raheem Sterling
33 MF Jonjo Shelvey
34 DF Martin Kelly
35 MF Conor Coady
36 FW Samed Yeşil
37 DF Martin Škrtel
38 DF Jon Flanagan
40 MF Krisztián Adorján
42 GK Péter Gulácsi
43 DF Ryan McLaughlin
44 MF Marc Pelosi
45 DF Stephen Sama
47 DF Andre Wisdom
48 FW Jerome Sinclair
50 FW Adam Morgan
51 MF Jordon Ibe
52 GK Danny Ward
22 DF Danny Wilson (on loan to Heart of Midlothian until 31 May 2013)
49 DF Jack Robinson (on loan to Wolverhampton Wanderers until 30 June 2013)
9 FW Andy Carroll (on loan to West Ham United until 30 June 2013)
12 FW Dani Pacheco (on loan to SD Huesca until 31 May 2013)
26 MF Jay Spearing (on loan to Bolton Wanderers until 30 June 2013)
Reserve/Academy squad
Owner: Fenway Sports Group
Honorary Life President: David Moores
Liverpool Football and Athletics Grounds Limited
Principal Owner: John W. Henry
Chairman: Tom Werner
Vice-Chairman: David Ginsberg
Managing Director: Ian Ayre
Chief Commercial Officer: Billy Hogan
Chief Financial Officer: Philip Nash
Directors: John W. Henry, Tom Werner, Jeffrey Vinik, Ian Ayre, David Ginsberg, Philip Nash, Michael Gordon
Club Secretary: Ian Silvester
Operations Director: Andrew Parkinson
Chief Groundsman: Terry Forsyth
Stadium Manager: Ged Poynton
Chief Media Officer: Matthew Baxter
Coaching and Medical Staff
Manager: Brendan Rodgers
Assistant Manager: Colin Pascoe
First Team Coach: Mike Marsh
Goalkeeping Coach: John Achterberg
Performance Analyst: Glen Driscoll
Fitness and Conditioning Analyst: Ryland Morgans
Opposition Analyst: Chris Davies
Director of Player Development/Academy Manager: Frank McParland
Head of Academy Coaching: Rodolfo Borrell
U21's Manager: Alex Inglethorpe
First Team Doctor: Zaf Iqbal
Physiotherapist: Chris Morgan
Liverpool's first trophy was the Lancashire League, which it won in the club's first season. In 1901, the club won its first League title, while its first success in the FA Cup was in 1965. In terms of the number of trophies won, Liverpool's most successful decade was the 1980s, when the club won six League titles, two FA Cups, four League Cups, five Charity Shields (one shared) and two European Cups. Liverpool has won the English League Championship eighteen times, the FA Cup seven times and the League Cup a record eight times. The club achieved a League and FA Cup "double" in 1986 and won the League and European Cup double both in 1977 and in 1984. Liverpool also won the League Cup in 1984 to complete a treble, a feat repeated (albeit with different trophies) in 2001, when the club won the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup.
Liverpool has one of the best records in the history of top-level football. The club has accumulated more top-flight wins than any other English team. Liverpool also has the second-highest average league finishing position for the period 1900–1999, with an average league placing of 8.7. Liverpool has won the European Cup, Europe's premier club competition, five times, an English record and only surpassed by Real Madrid and A.C. Milan. Liverpool's fifth European Cup win, in 2005, meant that the club was awarded the trophy permanently and was also awarded a multiple-winner badge. Liverpool has won the UEFA Cup, Europe's secondary club competition, three times, a record the club shares with Juventus and Internazionale.
Honours won by Liverpool F.C.
Football League First Division
18 1900–01, 1905–06, 1921–22, 1922–23, 1946–47, 1963–64, 1965–66, 1972–73, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1987–88, 1989–90
Football League Second Division
4 1893–94, 1895–96, 1904–05, 1961–62
7 1965, 1974, 1986, 1989, 1992, 2001, 2006
8 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1995, 2001, 2003, 2012
FA Charity Shield/FA Community Shield
15 1964*, 1965*, 1966, 1974, 1976, 1977*, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986*, 1988, 1989, 1990*, 2001, 2006 (* shared)
European Cup/UEFA Champions League
5 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 2005
UEFA Cup
3 1973, 1976, 2001
Doubles and Trebles
Doubles and Trebles won by Liverpool F.C.
Double/Treble
League and FA Cup
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League and UEFA Cup
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Proportional Representation Library
Beginning Readings
Types of Voting Systems
Proportional Representation Voting Systems
Proportional representation voting (PR) is the main rival to plurality-majority voting. Among advanced western democracies it has become the predominant voting system. For instance, in Western Europe, 21 of 28 countries use proportional representation, including Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.
The basic approach of proportional representation is simple: legislators are elected in multimember districts instead of single-member districts, and the number of seats that a party wins in an election is proportional to the amount of its support among voters. So if you have a 10-member district and the Republicans win 50% of the vote, they receive five of the ten seats. If the Democrats win 30% of the vote, they get three seats; and if a third party gets 20% of the vote, they win two seats. Electoral system designers have devised several ways to achieve these proportional results, and so there are three basic kinds of PR described below: party list, mixed-member, and single-transferable vote (also called choice voting).
These PR systems were devised to solve the many problems caused by plurality-majority voting systems. As a rule, PR voting systems provide more accurate representation of parties, better representation for political and racial minorities, fewer wasted votes, higher levels of voter turnout, better representation of women, greater likelihood of majority rule, and little opportunity for gerrymandering.
Party List Voting
Party list voting systems are by far the most common form of proportional representation. Over 80% of the PR systems used worldwide are some form of party list voting. It remains the system used in most European democracies and in many newly democratized countries, including South Africa.
How It Works. Legislators are elected in large, multi-member districts. Each party puts up a list or slate of candidates equal to the number of seats in the district. Independent candidates may also run, and they are listed separately on the ballot as if they were their own party (see below). On the ballot, voters indicate their preference for a particular party and the parties then receive seats in proportion to their share of the vote. So in a five-member district, if the Democrats win 40% of the vote, they would win two of the five seats. The two winning Democratic candidates would be chosen according to their position on the list.
There are two broad types of list systems: closed list and open list. In a closed list system--the original form of party list voting--the party fixes the order in which the candidates are listed and elected, and the voter simply casts a vote for the party as a whole. This is shown in the first ballot below, which illustrates an election for the House of Representatives in a five-seat district. Voters are not able to indicate their preference for any candidates on the list, but must accept the list in the order presented by the party. Winning candidates are selected in the exact order they appear on the original list. So in the example here, if the Democrats won two seats, the first two candidates on the pre-ordered list--Foster and Rosen-Amy--would be elected.
Closed Party List Ballot
Most European democracies now use the open list form of party list voting. This approach allows voters to express a preference for particular candidates, not just parties. It is designed to give voters some say over the order of the list and thus which candidates get elected. One version of this is illustrated in the ballot below. Voters are presented with unordered or random lists of candidates chosen in party primaries. Voters cannot vote for a party directly, but must cast a vote for an individual candidate. This vote counts for the specific candidate as well as for the party. So the order of the final list completely depends on the number of votes won by each candidate on the list. The most popular candidates rise to the top of the list and have a better chance of being elected. In our example, if the Democrats won 2 seats, and Volz and Gentzler received the highest and next highest number of individual votes, they would rise to the top of the list and be elected. This example is similar to the system used in Finland and widely considered to be the most open version of list voting.
Open Party List Ballot
A variety of different formulas exist for accomplishing the actual allocation of seats to the parties. One of the simplest seat allocation formulas is the called the "largest remainder formula." In this approach, the first step is to calculate a quota, which is determined by taking the total number of valid votes in the district and dividing this by the number of seats. In the example in the table below, 100,000 votes were cast and ten seats are to be filled. 100,000/10 = 10,000 – which is the quota. The quota is then divided into the vote that each party receives and the party wins one seat for each whole number produced. So the Republican party received 38,000 votes, which is divided by 10,000 to produce three seats – with a remainder of 8,000. After this first allocation of seats is complete than the remainder numbers for the parties are compared and the parties with the largest remainders are allocated the remaining seats. In our example, two seats remain to be allocated and the Republicans and Moll, the independent candidate, have the largest remainders, so they get the seats. Ultimately all the parties end up with the number of seats that as closely as possible approximates their percentage of the vote.
Largest Remainder Approach to Seat Allocation
Political Attributes. Party list voting has a number of advantages over plurality-majority voting. It assures accurate representation of parties in legislatures. It gives voters more choices of parties at the polls, increases voter turnout, and wastes far fewer votes. This form of PR also reduces the creation of manufactured majorities and the opportunity for gerrymandering. In addition, it assures fair representation for third parties, racial minorities, and women. On the other hand, some forms of party list PR use very large districts and do not ensure local geographical representation. Closed party list systems give voters little power over which party candidates win office. Like all PR systems, party list PR usually results in coalitions governments, not single-party governments.
Mixed-Member Proportional Voting
Mixed-member proportional representation goes by a variety of other names, including "the additional member system," "compensatory PR," the "two vote system," and "the German system." It is an attempt to combine a single-member district system with a proportional voting system. Half of the members of the legislature are elected in single-member district plurality contests. The other half are elected by a party list vote and added on to the district members so that each party has its appropriate share of seats in the legislature. Proponents claim that mixed-member proportional voting (MMP) is the best of both worlds: providing the geographical representation and close constituency ties of single-member plurality voting along with the fairness and diversity of representation that comes with PR voting.
This system was originally invented in West Germany right after World War Two, though since then it has also been adopted in several other countries, including Bolivia and Venezuela. It is still one of the least used PR systems, but in recent years it has begun to garner a great deal of attention. In fact, it is now one of the "hottest" systems being considered by those involved in electoral design. In part this growing attention is a result of MMP's unique claim to be a "compromise" between the two main rival systems. In the 1990s New Zealand abandoned its traditional single-member plurality system for MMP. Hungary also adopted this approach. Most recently, the newly formed parliaments of Scotland and Wales used this system for their first elections.
How It Works. People cast votes on a double ballot--see the ballot below. First, on the left part of the ballot, they vote for a district representative. This part of the ballot is a single-member district plurality contest to see which person will represent the district in the legislature. The person with the most votes wins. Typically half of the seats in the legislature are filled in this way. So in a hypothetical 100-member state legislature, the winners of these district contests would occupy 50 of the seats.
Mixed-Member Proportional Representation Ballot
On the right part of the ballot--the party list portion--voters indicate their choice among the parties, and the other half of the seats in the legislature are filled from regional lists of candidates chosen by these parties. The party lists are closed in the German version. These party list votes are counted on a national basis to determine the total portion of the 100-seat legislature that each party deserves. Candidates from each party's lists are then added to its district winners until that party achieves its appropriate share of seats. The following table illustrates how this process works for our hypothetical election. The Democrats won 40% of the party list votes in the 100-member state legislature, so they would be entitled to a total of 40 of the 100 seats. Since they already elected 28 of their candidates in district elections, they would then add 12 more from their regional party lists to come up to their quota of 40 seats.
Allocation of Seats in MMP
In the German version two electoral thresholds are used, either of which a party must overcome to be allotted seats in the legislature. A party must either get 5% of the nationwide party list vote or win at least three district races in order for it to gain any seats in the legislature. In our hypothetical case, the New Party did not win any district seats, but they did win over 5% of the nationwide vote, so they deserve their share of legislative seats--which in this case would be six seats, all of which would be filled from the regional party lists.
One variation of the mixed-member system is called "parallel voting." It uses the same double ballot, but it differs in that the party list seats are simply divided proportionately among the parties then added to the district winners, with not attempt to ensure proportional representation for parties in the legislature. For this reason, this voting system is usually classified as a semiproportional system.
Political Attributes. MMP has a number of advantages over plurality-majority voting. It produces more accurate representation of parties in legislatures, while also ensuring that each local district has a representative. It gives voters more choices of parties at the polls, increases voter turnout, and wastes far fewer votes. This form of PR also reduces the creation of manufactured majorities. In addition, it assures fair representation for third parties, racial minorities, and women. On the other hand, gerrymandering is possible in the single-member districts used by this system. Also, MMP creates two different types of representatives, those who represent districts and those who represent parties. Finally, like all PR systems, MMP usually results in coalitions governments, not single-party governments.
Single Transferable Vote Or Choice Voting
This system of proportional representation is known by several names. Political scientists call it "the single transferable vote." It is called the "Hare-Clark system" in Australia. In the United States, electoral reform activists have taken to calling it "choice voting." Currently this system is used to elect parliaments in Ireland and Malta. In Australia it is used to elect the federal Senate, as well as the legislatures in several states there. It is also the PR system that was used in a number of cities in the United States during the twentieth century, including New York, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, and Boulder. It continues to be used today in Cambridge, Massachusetts for elections to their city council and school board. (For a history of this system in this country, see A Brief History of Proportional Representation in the U.S.)
How It Works. The voting process is illustrated by ballot below. All candidates are listed in the same place on the ballot. Instead of voting for one person, voters rank each candidate in their order of choice. So if you like Campbell best, you would mark the "1" after his name. If you liked Gomez second best, you would mark "2" by his name, and so on. You can rank as few or as many as you want. This ballot illustrates the use of the AccuVote system used in Cambridge, Massachusetts to elect its city council and school board. Voters fill in the ranking numbers as they would for standardized tests taken in school, which allows for computerized vote counting and ballot transfers.
Choice Voting Ballot
As the name "single transferable vote" implies, this systems involves a process of transferring votes. To understand how the transfer process works, it may be best to start out with a simple analogy. Imagine a school where a class is trying to elect a committee. Any student who wishes to run stands at the front of the class and the other students vote for their favorite candidates by standing beside them. Students standing almost alone next to their candidate will soon discover that this person has no chance of being elected and move to another candidate of their choice to help him or her get elected. Some of the students standing next to a very popular candidate may realize that this person has more than enough support to win, and decide to go stand next to another student that they would also like to see on the committee. In the end, after all of this shuffling around, most students would be standing next to candidates that will be elected, which is the ultimate point of this process.
In the single transferable vote, votes are transferred around just as the students moved from candidate to candidate in the analogy. The exact order of the transfer process is illustrated in figure below. An example of how the votes are actually transferred is shown in the table that follows. For the sake of simplicity, assume that there is a three-seat district in which six people are running for office. The first step in the process is to establish the threshold: the minimum number of votes necessary to win a seat. The threshold usually consists of the total number of valid votes divided by one plus the number of seats to be filled, plus one vote. The formula looks like this: Threshold = (valid votes/1+seats) +1 vote. So in our three-seat districts with 10,000 voters, a candidate would need 10,000/1+3 (which is 2,500) plus one more vote, for 2,501.
Diagram of Ballot Transfer Process
The second step is to count all the number one choices to see if any candidates have reached the threshold of 2,501. As shown on the table below, the Democrat Gomez has 2,900 voters and he is declared elected. But Gomez actually has 399 more votes than he needs to win. These votes are considered wasted if they stay with Gomez, so they are transferred to the second choices on the ballot. (There are several ways to do this, but we needn't get into those details here.) In the second count, we see the effect of this transfer. The other Democratic candidate, Campbell, gets 300 of those second choice votes, and the independent candidate, Daniels, gets the other 99. The vote totals are now recalculated to see if anyone is now over the threshold. No one is, so the next transfer takes place. The candidate with the least chance to win is eliminated and his or her votes are transferred to their second choices. This candidate is Higgins, the Republican, and 500 of his votes are transferred to the other Republican candidate, Dains; and the other 100 votes are given to Daniels. Again the votes are recounted to see if anyone has reached the threshold. Dains has reached it with 2,800 votes and so she is declared elected. Once again her excess votes are redistributed to their second choices--200 to Graybeal, and 99 to Daniels. But still no one has reached the threshold, so again the lowest candidate is eliminated and those votes transferred. That candidate is Campbell, the Democrat, and 100 of his votes go to Graybeal, and 600 go to Daniels. This puts Daniels, the independent candidate, over the threshold with 2,698 votes, and she is the last one elected.
Ballot Count and Transfer Process
This transfer process is a bit complicated, so why does it exist? The transfer process was invented primarily to reduce the problem of wasted votes -- votes that are cast but do not actually elect anyone. Plurality-majority systems routinely waste large numbers of votes and this is why they are prone to such problems as party misrepresentation, and the underrepresentation of political minorities, racial minorities, and women. The transfer process in STV is designed to ensure that the fewest votes are wasted and that the maximum number of people gets to elect a representative to office. It acknowledges that there are two kinds of wasted votes: votes for candidates that stand little chance of winning, and votes in excess of what a winning candidate needs. Transferring these votes to their next ranked choice makes it more likely that they will actually contribute to the election of a candidate.
Political Attributes. Choice voting has a number of advantages over plurality-majority voting. It produces more accurate representation of parties in legislatures. It gives voters more choices of parties at the polls, increases voter turnout, and wastes far fewer votes. This form of PR also reduces the creation of manufactured majorities. In addition, it assures fair representation for third parties, racial minorities, and women. All votes are for individual candidates not parties, and this arrangement allows voters to cross party lines with their votes. It is also the only form of PR that can be used in nonpartisan elections. On the other hand, if the districts are too small, some gerrymandering is possible. STV also produces somewhat less proportional results than other forms of PR. Finally, like all PR systems, STV usually results in coalition governments, not single-party governments.


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How Ofatumumab Injection works, side effects, interactions and precautions.
You may already be infected with hepatitis B (a virus that infects the liver and may cause severe liver damage) but not have any symptoms of the disease. In this case, ofatumumab injection may increase the risk that your infection will become more serious or life-threatening and you will develop symptoms. Tell your doctor if you have or ever had hepatitis B virus infection. Your doctor will order a blood test to see if you have an inactive hepatitis B virus infection. If necessary, your doctor may give you medication to treat this infection before and during your treatment with ofatumumab. Your doctor will also monitor you for signs of hepatitis B infection during and for several months after your treatment. If you experience any of the following symptoms during or after your treatment, call your doctor immediately: excessive tiredness, yellowing of the skin or eyes, loss of appetite, nausea or vomiting, muscle aches, stomach pain, or dark urine.
Some people who received ofatumumab developed progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML; a rare infection of the brain that cannot be treated, prevented, or cured and that usually causes death or severe disability) during or after their treatment. If you experience any of the following symptoms, call your doctor immediately: new or sudden changes in thinking or confusion, dizziness, loss of balance, difficulty talking or walking, new or sudden changes in vision, or any other unusual symptoms that develop suddenly.
Keep all appointments with your doctor and the laboratory. Your doctor will order certain lab tests to check your body's response to ofatumumab injection.
Talk to your doctor about the risks of using ofatumumab injection.
Ofatumumab injection is used to treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL; a type of cancer of the white blood cells) in adults who have not gotten better after treatment with fludarabine (Fludara) and alemtuzumab (Campath). Ofatumumab injection is in a class of medications called monoclonal antibodies. It works by killing cancer cells.
Ofatumumab injection comes as a solution (liquid) to be added to fluid and injected intravenously (into a vein) by a doctor or nurse in a medical office or hospital. It is usually injected once a week for 8 weeks then once a month for 4 months.
Your doctor may need to interrupt your treatment if you experience certain side effects. Your doctor will give you other medications to prevent or treat certain side effects 30 minutes to 2 hours before you receive each dose of ofatumumab injection. Be sure to tell your doctor how you are feeling during your treatment with ofatumumab injection.
tell your doctor and pharmacist if you are allergic to ofatumumab, any other medications, or any of the ingredients in ofatumumab injection. Ask your pharmacist for a list of the ingredients.
tell your doctor if you have or have ever had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD; a group of diseases that affect the lungs and airways) or hepatitis B (a virus that infects the liver and may cause severe liver damage or liver cancer).
tell your doctor if you are pregnant, plan to become pregnant, or are breast-feeding. If you become pregnant while receiving ofatumumab injection, call your doctor.
if you are having surgery, including dental surgery, tell the doctor or dentist that you are receiving ofatumumab injection.
ask your doctor whether you should receive any vaccinations before you begin your treatment with ofatumumab. Do not have any vaccinations during your treatment without talking to your doctor.
Ofatumumab injection may cause other side effects. Call your doctor if you have any unusual problems while receiving this medication.
Ask your pharmacist any questions you have about ofatumumab injection.
Selected Revisions: February 15, 2014.


Avon is committed to offering safe and effective products in the more than 50 markets in which we do business around the world, and the same standards for quality and safety are applied worldwide. We are proud of our 130-year safety record.
Avon has made a decision to phase out triclosan from our cosmetic and personal care products. Although scientific evidence supports the safe use of triclosan in consumer products, we have made this decision based on the preferences expressed by some of our customers for products without triclosan. We are no longer using triclosan in new product development and have begun replacing it in existing products. Relative to Avon's complete product portfolio, only a small number of products are impacted by these actions.


Extremely rare pair of signed vintage solid bronze bookends featuring a bird dog puppy such as a Spaniel, Britany, Setter or Retriever. They are beautifully sculpted with fine high quality detailing. This set was made by the American sculptor Robert 'Bob' Winship. Each bookend stands 5 1/2" tall, 5 1/2" wide x 4 1/4" deep and weighs 5 lbs. (10 lbs. for the pair). They are in very good original vintage condition with no breaks, touch-ups, or, repairs. Authenticity is assured as one rear is marked 1988 Bob Winship.
Robert 'Bob' Winship is an award winning American bronze sculptor from St. Paul, Minnesota who specializes in nature subjects including game birds and hunting dogs. He is now retired dividing his time between Minnesota and Florida.


The Uptown Howl Season 2-Episode 2 from Loyola Maroon on Vimeo.
This weekend Carnival will hit the streets of Uptown. Also, Loyola has announced a cash prize winning songwriting contest. Skye Ray talks about this and more on this week's #TheUptownHowl.


The unfortunate reality is that when a person has any sort of run-in with the law that results in either an arrest or citation, there's a very good chance that it will end up on their permanent criminal record.
What this means is that just a single momentary lapse in judgment can translate into a lifetime of consequences. For instance, having a criminal record can affect employment prospects, educational opportunities and living arrangements to name only a few.
The good news is that the law here in Maryland does permit people to change their criminal records via a process known as expungement.
In general, expungement is a court process through which a person may be able to remove otherwise undesirable elements from their permanent criminal record.
You were found not guilty/acquitted.
Probation Before Judgment was entered.
Your case was placed on the "stet docket," which consists of an inactive group of cases not typically reopened.
The prosecutor decided to drop the case before or during trial (a Nolle Prosequi).
Furthermore, a conviction will appear on your permanent record if you were found guilty or paid a fine.
Those who were acquitted or had the charges against them dropped may request an expungement by filing a petition asking the court for a particular item to be removed from their permanent criminal record.
Similarly, those who were not convicted on any criminal charges carrying a possible prison sentence thanks in part to their case being placed on the stet docket, transferred to juvenile court, or the entering of a Nolle Prosequi or Probation Before Judgment may also request an expungement.
It's important to note that records of arrests that do not result in the filing of a charge are eligible for automatic expungement under state law, and that a copy of your criminal record can be secured from the Criminal Justice Information System.
In our next post, we'll take a closer look at expungement.
Consider speaking with an experienced legal professional if you've been arrested for any sort of felony or misdemeanor, or would like to learn more about your options as they relate to expungement.


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Snow: Flurries expected Wednesday after Tuesday storm
Amy Wu A.J. Martelli
Poughkeepsie Journal
A Tuesday snowstorm dropped around half a foot of snow on parts of Dutchess County and closed schools, but lacked the impact of the recent nor'easters that have hit the region.
Light snow showers were forecast for Wednesday morning, with "accumulations at a half-inch or less," according to Dan Thompson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Albany.
Few around the region lost power Tuesday as a result of the storm, and the evening commute was expected to be smooth.
SCHOOL DELAYS: List of school cancellations
MORNING COMMUTE: Snow: What you need to know for the morning commute
The bulk of snow fell early in the day. By 5 p.m., Millbrook had seen 6.1 inches of snow. Other areas, including Wassaic and LaGrange, saw more than five inches before noon, according to the totals available from the National Weather Service before the Journal's deadline.
For the Poughkeepsie area, a total accumulation of 3 to 4 inches was expected, with more coming for eastern Dutchess, according to weather service meteorologist Evan Heller.
The storm followed a pair of nor'easters that hit Dutchess County in the past two weeks, which caused thousands to lose power. They also contributed to a record-high snow total for the month of March in the Poughkeepsie area.
As of Monday night, Poughkeepsie had already seen 24.3 inches of snow this month, 18.9 inches above the normal average, according to weather service meteorologist Tom Wasula.
Most local school districts closed school Tuesday, with few exceptions that held delayed openings.
Julia Dykstra, a high school student in the City of Poughkeepsie said she is tired of the snow.
"It keeps happening, it feels like it never stops," Dykstra said.
Inside Super Suds Laundromat And Thrift Store in downtown Poughkeepsie, Fallon Black, who works at the laundromat, said her daughter was disappointed with her school's two-hour delay.
"She likes school," said Black.
Black and her husband moved to Poughkeepsie from Detroit five years and aren't deterred by the snow.
"Over here when we do get snow we get dumped on, in Michigan it's more steady," said Joseph Black. "I prefer steady snow."
Amy Wu: awu@poughkeepsiejournal.com; 845-451-4529; Twitter: @wu_PoJo. Reporter A.J. Martelli contributed to this report.