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SYNDICATED COLUMN: Men of Dishonor
A Congress of 21st Century Cynics Dodges 19th Century Rules
People are calling the recently adjourned 112th Congress "the most dysfunctional ever" and the least productive since the infamous "do-nothing Congress" of the 1940s. There's lots of blame to go around, but one cause for congressional gridlock has gone unnoticed and unremarked upon: we no longer have a sense of honor.
Back in the late 18th and 19th centuries, when our bicameral legislature and its rules were conceived of by a bunch of land-owning white males, a gentleman's word was his most precious asset. Integrity and the lack thereof were literally a matter of life and death; consider the matter of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. As Thomas Jefferson and his de facto wife Sally Hemings could attest, civility was far from guaranteed under this old system. It certainly could have worked better for Charles Sumner, the abolitionist Massachusetts senator who was nearly beaten to death by a proslavery colleague on the floor of the Senate in 1856. (He was avenging what he considered libelous rhetoric against his family.)
Though less-than-perfect, there was a lot to be said for a culture in which a person's word was his bond, legalistic quibbling was scorned, and a legislator was expected to stake out and defend a principled position, even in the face of political and personal adversity.
It's hard to imagine the "fiscal cliff" showdown unfolding in the 1800s or even the first half of the 1900s for two simple reasons. First, the general fiscal health of the country would have come ahead of partisanship. Second, and more importantly, members of the two political parties would have stuck to the deal that they struck a decade earlier. When George W. Bush and his Republicans pushed for a set of income tax cuts that primarily benefited the wealthiest Americans in 2001, they argued the standard GOP trickle-down economics talking point that the tax cuts would pay for themselves by stimulating the economy so much that revenues into government coffers would more than make up for the cost. In order to get enough Democratic support for passage, the Republicans agreed to a five-year time period, after which taxes would revert to their Bill Clinton-era levels.
By 2006 there was still no evidence to show that the tax cuts had stimulated the economy. In fact, by many measures, things were worse. The housing bubble was beginning to burst; unemployment and underemployment had increased. If this had been the 19th century, Republican legislators would have acknowledged that their experiment had failed and that would have been that. A gentleman didn't run away from the facts or his mistakes.
Voters seemed to agree. Unhappy with the invasion of Iraq as well as the state of the economy, Americans returned Democrats to control of Congress in 2006. Republicans had a pretty good idea—the polls were damning—that their unpopular policies were driving them toward a decisive defeat in the midterm elections. For men and women of honor, this would have been a time to reassess and back off.
Nevertheless the GOP jammed through an extension of the 2001 Bush tax cuts for the wealthy months before the midterm election. No honor there.
Here we are nearly 12 years later, and the verdict is in: the Bush tax cuts failed miserably. No doubt about it, it's absolutely ridiculous that President Obama and the Democrats agreed to extend them for all but the richest one-half of one percent of American income earners. But the debate should never have gotten this far in the first place. Had the Republicans who proposed it in the first place possessed an iota of good old-fashioned 19th-century honor and integrity, this misbegotten legislative abortion would have died in 2006.
Robert's Rules of Order and other quaint traditions of parliamentary procedure don't translate to a quibbling little time like ours, when White House lawyers torture widely understood words like "torture" and "soldier" or claim that a US military base in Cuba is in no man's land, neither in Cuba nor under US control, and that members of both major political parties say anything in order to get their way. Consider, for example, the current push to reform the filibuster, in order to clear the logjam on judicial nominations and other business that used to be considered routine.
The Senate, the only house of Congress that permits a filibuster, draws upon a tradition of principled minority protest that goes back to Cato in ancient Rome. Until the 1970s, filibusters were a rarity, averaging one a year. Senators viewed them as a bit of a nuclear option and only considered deploying a one-man block on debate of a bill a few times during a long political career, to take a stand on an issue where he felt it mattered most. Now the filibuster is not only a daily routine but gets deployed in an automated way so that the Senate has effectively become a body in which nothing gets done without a 60% vote in favor.
Everyone in the Senate understood what filibusters were for. No one abused them. It was a matter of honor.
But honor is too much to ask when even the most basic of all political considerations—ideology and party affiliation—bend like a reed in the winds of change.
Last week the Republican governor of New Jersey and a Republican congressman from Long Island, New York were so incensed by their party's refusal to approve disaster relief funds for their states after hurricane Sandy that they went public with disparaging remarks about the Republican leadership in Congress. Fair enough. Standing up for your constituents against rank parochial self-interest is what integrity is all about.
On the other hand, the immediate willingness of some so-called liberal and progressive Democrats to welcome Chris Christie—a Tea Party favorite—and Peter King—a notorious nativist and anti-Muslim bigot—into their party's ranks indicates a willingness to overlook basic principles that would have startled most self-described gentlemen of a century or two ago, much less those who'd entered public service. Back then, of course, the American political party system wasn't as settled as it is today, so there were mass changes of party affiliation as parties appeared, metastasized and vanished. Still, it wasn't acceptable behavior to change parties over a minor spat like the hurricane aid or for a party to accept members who didn't adhere to its principles.
It's almost enough to make you wish for a duel.
(Ted Rall is the author of "The Book of Obama: How We Went From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt." His website is tedrall.com.)
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This week: So many Californians have left the Republican Party that GOP politicians are changing their official affiliation to "independent."
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Francis: The People's Pope
Francis: The People's Pope
March 12, 2018 Ted Rall
Publication Date: March 13, 2018Order at Amazon!He thought his church career was drawing to a close. Then he was asked to take over a Catholic Church in crisis.Religiosity was in decline in the West. And the Catholic Church was in bigger trouble than any other institution you could think of. Losing parishioners, shrinking in power and prestige and discredited by corruption and sex…
2 years agoFrancis: The People's Pope
Meet the Deplorables: Infiltrating Trump America
December 12, 2017 Ted Rall
Publication Date: December 12, 2017Order at Indiebound! Order at Amazon! Order at Barnes and Noble.Legendary infiltration journalist Harmon Leon is at it again, this time teaming up with ferocious political cartoonist Ted Rall answer the question most of America has been asking: "What the hell happened in 2016?" In their new book, Meet the Deplorables: Infiltrating Trump America, Leo…
2 years agoMeet the Deplorables: Infiltrating Trump America
Trump: A Graphic Biography
May 10, 2016 Ted Rall
Publication Date: July 26, 2016Order at Amazon!Everyone in America thought they knew Donald Trump: the real estate magnate, reality TV star and bigger than life personality lived his life in the tabloids. Little did they know - though he hinted at it repeatedly - that he planned to take American politics by storm. This graphic biography explores the little-known episodes that helped form…
4 years agoTrump: A Graphic Biography
January 19, 2016 Ted Rall
Publication Date: January 19, 2016Order at Amazon!As a kid growing up in Brooklyn, Bernie Sanders was surrounded by grinding poverty that turned families against each other as they scrimped and saved to pay their bills.Bernie saw politics as his chance to give a decent life to everyone, not just those born to wealth or the lucky few who hit it big. But the Democratic Party and the co…
4 years agoBernie
May 5, 2015 Ted Rall
Publication Date: August 25, 2015Order at Amazon!As many as 1.4 million citizens with security clearance saw some or all of the same documents revealed by NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Why did he, and no one else, decide to step forward and take on the risks associated with becoming a whistleblower and then a fugitive? Rall's all-comic, full-color biography delves into Snowden's early l…
5 years agoSnowden
After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You As Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan
October 12, 2013 Ted Rall
An independent account—in words and pictures—of America's longest war from the beginning of the end to the end of the beginning.I traveled deep into Afghanistan—without embedding myself with U.S. soldiers, without insulating myself with flak jackets or armored SUVs—where no one else would (except, of course, Afghans).I made two trips, the first in the wake of 9/11, the next ten years later…
6 years agoAfter We Kill You, We Will Welcome You As Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan
The Book of Obama: From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt
June 5, 2012 Ted Rall
How did a charismatic young president elected in an atmosphere of optimism and expectation lead the United States to the brink of revolution? From a chance encounter in the early 1980s to the Democratic primaries of 2007-08, I was one of the first to size up Barack Obama as we know him now: conservative, risk-averse and tone deaf. In The Book of Obama I revisit the rapid rise and dizzying fall of…
8 years agoThe Book of Obama: From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt
The Anti-American Manifesto
September 28, 2010 Ted Rall
A revolutionary manifesto for an America heading toward economic and political collapse. While others mourn the damage to the postmodern American capitalist system created by the recent global economic collapse, I see an opportunity. As millions of people lose their jobs and their homes as the economy collapses, they and millions more are opening their minds to the possibility of creating a radica…
9 years agoThe Anti-American Manifesto
The Year of Loving Dangerously
This autobiographical graphic novel is a collaboration between me (my story, my writing) and Bluesman cartoonist Pablo G. Callejo. Travel with me to 1984, the year I lost everything. The place is New York City. In the space of a few months, I got expelled from Columbia University, fired from my job, arrested for drugs that weren't even mine, dumped by the girl I thought was The One, and evicted. I…
10 years agoThe Year of Loving Dangerously
America Gone Wild: Cartoons by Ted Rall
October 1, 2006 Ted Rall
My fourth cartoon collection collects the work that made me America's most controversial cartoonist. Here are the classic "dirty dozen" cartoons that shocked and awed newspaper readers after 9/11: "Terror Widows" and its sequels, "FDNY 2011," the Pat Tillman series. There is also a lengthy introduction and commentary, which includes behind-the-scenes looks at the hate mail and death threats that p…
13 years agoAmerica Gone Wild: Cartoons by Ted Rall
Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East?
August 1, 2006 Ted Rall
This is the book I wanted to write instead of To Afghanistan and Back — everything you ever wanted to know about Central Asia, without having had to attend grad school — but didn't have time. Five years later, I was able to release my Central Asia brain dump, a book anyone can read cold and come away understanding the importance of the region and why it's so interesting. Comprising travelogue, po…
13 years agoSilk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East?
Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists
The final volume in the "Attitude" trilogy of alternative cartoonists is dedicated to the first wave of webcartoonists (cartoonists whose work is exclusively distributed online). Includes interviews, cartoons and personal ephemera about some of the most exciting artists to lay pen to paper — or stylus to Wacom. Here you'll find political cartoonists, humorists and dazzling graphic experiments, and…
14 years agoAttitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists
Generalissimo El Busho: Essays and Cartoons on the Bush Years
"Generalissimo El Busho" is my chronicle, in essays and cartoons of the most polarizing presidency in modern American history, a tragicomic week-by-week dissection of the Bush Administration's follies and crimes.I've traveled to Third World trouble spots,so I recognize a dictator when he see one. Having seized power extraconstitutionally, Bush and his cabal of corrupt businessmen made it obvi…
16 years agoGeneralissimo El Busho: Essays and Cartoons on the Bush Years
Wake Up, You're Liberal!: How We Can Take America Back from the Right
Wake Up, You're Liberal!: How We Can Take America Back from the Right
My first all-prose book marks the beginning of the end of my belief that the Democratic Party was redeemable. Although I have come to believe that moving beyond the duopoly is necessary, liberals and progressives who have not followed me down the radical path will find much to like here.Declaring that there hasn't been a "real" Democrat in the White House since Lyndon Johnson, I decried the hi…
16 years agoWake Up, You're Liberal!: How We Can Take America Back from the Right
Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists
February 1, 2004 Ted Rall
The second installment in the "Attitude" trilogy of interviews, cartoons and photos of America's top alternative cartoonists emphasizes cartoonists who deploy novel approaches to humor and the comics medium. Politics are still important, but take a back seat to social commentary in this collection.Includes the work of well-known artists like Aaron McGruder, who draws the daily comic strip "Boo…
16 years agoAttitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists
Gas War: The Truth Behind the American Occupation of Afghanistan
The result of painstaking research and analysis, "Gas War" is the definitive behind-the scenes story of the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (TAP) project. Conceived during the 1990s under Bill Clinton, the idea was for the United States to control the vast, newly-tapped Caspian Sea oil and gas reserves — which by some measures exceed those of Saudi Arabia — by building an oil and gas pipeline from Turk…
17 years agoGas War: The Truth Behind the American Occupation of Afghanistan
Attitude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists
"The New Subversive Political Cartoonists" is the first volume in my '"Attitude" trilogy: the definitive record of the political cartooning scene that exploded in alternative weekly newspapers during the 1980s and 1990s. It features interviews of, cartoons by and photos and ephemera about 21 ground-breaking alternative political cartoonists who revolutionized the form. The Iowa City Gazette called…
18 years agoAttitude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists
To Afghanistan and Back: A Graphic Travelogue
April 1, 2002 Ted Rall
The first book about the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan is also my first work of comics journalism, a mixed-media "instant book" comprising a 50-page "graphic novella," photos and essays.When bombs began falling on the Taliban in the fall of 2001, I traveled to northern Afghanistan, where I spent three weeks covering the U.S. bombing campaign for The Village Voice and KFI, a Los Angeles radio st…
18 years agoTo Afghanistan and Back: A Graphic Travelogue
Search and Destroy: Cartoons by Ted Rall
A collection of 150 of my political cartoons published between 1995 and 2000. These pieces tackle the disappointments of the Clinton years, popular music, the dot-com boom to screwed-up relationships. I added commentary below most of the cartoons to place them into historical context.Search and Destroy includes cartoons from my transition from obscure alternative publications to big national m…
19 years agoSearch and Destroy: Cartoons by Ted Rall
2024: A Graphic Novel
One of my personal favorites, but also my worst-selling book, this graphic novel is a homage to/parody of/updating of George Orwell's novel of totalitarian oppression 1984. I faithfully attempted to follow the structure of Orwell's classic with a new take on twisted take on dystopia. The threat to our freedom isn't some totalitarian tyrant — it's our own, lazy, easily-distracted selves, wallowing…
19 years ago2024: A Graphic Novel
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The dynamic nature of modern human social interactions, and the increasing capability of wireless and mobile devices for creating and sharing contents, open up the opportunity for a wide dissemination of information through complex knowledge sharing systems. The development of digital technologies and the continuous evolution of telecommunication networks are rapidly heading our society towards a culture of participation and to a more and more interactive communication. Adaptive networking protocols and data management systems are fostering pervasive information and communication environments. In this context, subject based communities offer the steadily increasing availability of ubiquitous accessible information. Networking communities, focussed on supporting relationships and content sharing, act at the same time as providers and users of all kind of grey literature materials in a highly distributed and collaborative scenario. Collaboration networks are thus becoming a key element in the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in scientific domains as well as in diverse aspects of everyday human life. In this sense, social media at best enhance new frontier ideas and highly innovative contents; they offer the enormous potential to transform research, and research results, into a knowledge co-creation process. As the shared knowledge components build cognitive ties, there is no real sharing of knowledge without a common understanding of it. Large amounts of structured information have to be managed, and generation and assimilation of knowledge have to be facilitated. The unlimited universe of data and information available on the web need to be identified, classified, analyzed, filtered, so as to enhance the generation and assimilation of new knowledge. Knowledge needs to be represented, standardized and distilled from multiple sources. Tagging on a web scale provides a potentially useful source of metadata, and paves the way to automated post-processing services such as information retrieval, and acquisition of concepts from large document repositories. In other words it creates an environment conducive to knowledge transfer. In the full version, particular emphasis will be laid on technologies in natural language understanding and knowledge management for providing structured, intelligent access to the continuously evolving content generated on-line in a pervasive collaborative environment. In particular, the work will focus on exploring the interaction/synergy between different modes/tools for knowledge acquisition and representation: from highly structured, standardized and objective knowledge information systems based on ontological hierarchies and relations to more dynamic, subjective tools for volatile knowledge representation such as word clouds and concept maps. This approach will highlight current automated tools for concept acquisition and ontology learning that are conducive to an incremental approach to content access and management, to establish a fruitful bridge between modes of knowledge sharing/creation and dynamic, incremental approaches to automated knowledge acquisition and representation.
La natura dinamica delle attuali interazioni sociali, e la sempre crescente capacità dei dispositivi mobili di creare e condividere contenuti, apre la strada ad un'ampia diffusione delle informazioni attraverso complessi sistemi di condivisione della conoscenza. Ma senza una reale comprensione, non vi può essere una colpmeta condivisione della conoscenza. Nell'articolo, particolare enfasi è posta sulle tecniche di comprensione del Linguaggio Naturale ed estrazione della conoscenza. Nel dettaglio, verrà mostrato come diversi tipi di "social networks" offrono considerevoli diversità in termini di accessibilità al contenuto e all'informazione.


Last week, I continued to talk about returning to the world of The Sims 4 and building a new livable space for my little virtual Robin. While I was satisfied with what I had built, I'm not sure if I'll be continuing my adventures in the world at the moment. There are a lot of things happening in my life and one of those things revolves around the WWE and the recent WWE Draft.
Just before Wrestlemania, my brother and I decided to take the plunge and subscribe to the WWE Network. We've been generally pleased with it and we still subscribe to the service and are willing to pay the monthly fee. And I'm kind of glad we did because, recently, there was a massive shakeup in the WWE as the Draft took place, which split the roster in two. Some of the wrestlers went to Raw while the rest went to Smackdown.
This is also pretty big news because, not only was the roster split, but the number of titles the WWE Superstars could go after became rather limited as a result. The Raw team of Stephanie McMahon and Mick Foley drafted The New Day, Charlotte and Rusev (with Lana), that means the titles these guys currently hold, which are the WWE Tag Team, Women's and United States titles, respectively. On the other side, Shane McMahon and Daniel Bryan selected Dean Ambrose and The Miz (with Maryse) to Smackdown. This means the Smackdown roster can go after The Miz's Intercontinental title and, more importantly, Dean Ambrose's WWE World Heavyweight Title, the most coveted championship in the WWE.
Obviously, the Raw side of things needed something like the WWE Heavyweight Title; the United States title is kinda like the "B" title. Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins did try to win the title from Dean Ambrose on Battleground but they were unsuccessfuly. So, recently, Stephanie McMahon and Mick Foley decided to, of course, create their own belt. And the new, most prestigious title for the Raw roster was created and it's going to be called… the WWE Universal Championship.
That's the name for the new "A" championship for Raw? The "Universal" Championship? Look, I get the logic behind why they named it that way. The WWE loves to call its fanbase the WWE Universe because the universe is a big thing and in encompasses everything. So, since it's supposed to be the biggest title that all the WWE Superstars on Raw will be going after, it's named the WWE Universal Championship. Also, since the word "universal" conotates the feeling of something extremely vast, it would be bigger than the current "puny" World Heavyweight Championship that's in Smackdown.
I get it. That doesn't make it sound and dumber, though.
I guess my problem with the name is that it doesn't really sound awesome or tough. In fact, it sounds like a bunch of 10-year olds who just love the WWE got together and go around pretending their WWE wrestlers and then decided to create their own belt. Honestly, it sounds like a really childish name!
And I'll bet the folks over at the WWE Creative department agonized for days to think of a new name for this new title. Yet, this is what they came up with! When I first heard they were going to call it the WWE Universal Championship, I scrunched my face in disgust because of how silly it sounded. It certainly didn't roll off the tongue!
Not only that, if you hold the Universal Championship, it doesn't sound like you're a champion in the WWE. You know why? That's because there's another company that practically trademarked the word "universal!" So, if you do hold the Universal Championship belt, it actually sounds like your the champion of Universal Studios!
Or the champion of a certain theme park in Orlando.
The people over at WWE Creative could've selected a menagerie of words that have the same meaning. They could've used "Supreme," "Ultimate," "Global" or a myriad of other words. Okay, "Global Championship" does sound a little silly so I'm glad the WWE didn't go with that. But the other two? Why not? I mean, calling someone the "Supreme Champion" sounds intimidating, right? And calling it the "Ultimate Championship" could be giving some honor to The Ultimate Warrior, so you could spin it that way! See? Instant backstory!
But you know what? The WWE can quickly fix the name while keeping the word *ugh* Universal in the title. You know how? All they need to do is add the word "heavyweight" after the wold "universal." And, based from history, simply doing that works for me.
When the WWE did the Draft way back in 2002, both Raw and Smackdown had different titles as well. Over at Raw, Eric Bischoff created the World Heavyweight Championship and the "original" title, the Undisputed Championship became the WWE Championship. And, you know what? I didn't like the way "WWE Championship" sounded as well!
At least it didn't spin.
But I still liked the way "World Heavyweight Championship" sounded. And it's all thanks to the inclusion of the word "heavyweight." It made the title sound really like a big deal! It makes it sound prestigious and something that's incredibly difficult to actually win! The word "heavyweight" makes the guy who holds the title sound like a really tough guy; after all, he is a heavyweight!
But, for right now, I guess we're all stuck with the kid friendly name of Universal Championship. I do hope that Stephanie McMahon and Mick Foley do stick "heavyweight" in. That way, they don't have to backpedal and rename it since they already announced it on Raw.
Honestly, the WWE has pulled off a lot of bonehead moves. The naming of the new championship on Raw is just the latest one. But they've done a lot more. So, next week, I'll go talk to some of the really stupid things they've done that really grinded my gears! See you then!
What do you think of the name "Universal Championship?" Let me know in the comments section below!
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Q: Symfony 3.3 - Unable to select empty value using EntityType I have a following problem. I have a country form where I use the EntityType to select a contact person from a list of User entities. Symfony correctly renders select with an empty option. Contact person is not required, so the empty option can be selected. So if I select the empty option, I want empty string (sent in request) to be transformed to null. According to the EntityType Symfony documentation It can be done when 'empty_data' => null is set. This works for create form. But If I have already set a contact person in create form and I want to set contact person to null in edit form , null is ignored and value is not changed. Change from user A to user B works fine. Does anybody know why it does not change?
Part of the buildForm method from CountryType.php:
$builder->add('contactPerson', EntityType::class, [
    'class' => 'AppBundle:User',
    'choice_label' => 'username',
    'empty_data' => null,
    'required' => false,
    // 'placeholder' => '' - Can be ommited, empty value is default
]);

Part of the Country.orm.yml:
 manyToOne:
    contactPerson:
        targetEntity: AppBundle\Entity\User
        joinColumn:
            name: contact_person
            referencedColumnName: id
            onDelete: RESTRICT
            nullable: true
        fetch: EAGER

editAction method of CountryController.php:
    public function editAction(Request $request, $id)
    {
        /** @var CountryService $countryService */
        $countryService = $this->get('app.country');
        /** @var Country $country */
        $country = $countryService->findById($id);

        if (!$country) {
            $this->addFlash('error', 'back.country.not_found');
            return $this->redirectToRoute('back_country_list');
        }

        $form = $this->createForm(
            CountryType::class,
            $country,
            [
                'edit_action' => true
            ]
        );
        $form->handleRequest($request);

        if ($form->isValid()) {
            $countryService->edit($country);

            $this->addFlash('success', 'back.country.edited');
            return $this->redirectToRoute('back_country_edit', ['id' => $id]);
        }

        return $this->render(
            'AppBundle:back\country:edit.html.twig',
            [
                'form' => $form->createView()
            ]
        );
    }

Content of POST request looks like:
"contactPerson" => ""

But If I enter die(dump($country->getContactPerson()) somewhere after $form->handleRequest($request), value is still set to User, not to null.
Thank you for help!

A: It has been big suprise to me but I have probably found a bug in the Symfony. See bug report for more info: https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues/25181

A: use Symfony\Bridge\Doctrine\Form\Type\EntityType;

use above class and try the following code
$builder->add('contactPerson', EntityType::class, [
    'class' => 'AppBundle:User',
    'choice_label' => 'username',
    'required' => false,
    'placeholder' => 'Please choose a contact person',
    'empty_data' => null,
]);

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Las islas Pitiusas (Illes Pitiüses, en catalán) se sitúan en el mar Mediterráneo y constan de dos islas, Ibiza y Formentera, y numerosos islotes, como Espalmador, Espardell, etc. Políticamente, hasta 2007 formaron el Consejo Insular de Ibiza y Formentera, dentro de la comunidad autónoma de las Islas Baleares, en España.

Las islas Pitiusas junto con las islas Gimnesias (Mallorca, Menorca y Cabrera y algunos islotes cercanos como Dragonera, Conejera o la isla del Aire) forman el archipiélago de las Islas Baleares.

El nombre de "Pitiusas" (en griego, abundante reserva de pinos) ya fue comentado por Plinio el Viejo, al existir gran número de pinos que poblaban las dos islas (pitys es pino en griego). Al contrario que en la actualidad, los griegos y romanos diferenciaban claramente las Pitiusas del resto de las Baleares, que denominaban Gimnesias y en las que incluían únicamente a Mallorca y Menorca.

Las islas se caracterizan por la presencia de especies y subespecies de mamíferos y reptiles endémicos, normalmente de tamaño mayor que sus parientes en el continente europeo. La mayor parte de la fauna y de la flora autóctonas se encuentran amenazadas por la proliferación urbanística y la introducción de especies foráneas, especialmente en Ibiza.

Geografía

Las Pitiusas se encuentran rodeadas por multitud de islotes. Ibiza está rodeada, en el sentido de las agujas del reloj, por los islotes de Porroig, Vedranell, Vedrá, Sa Galera, Escull de Cala S'Hort, Espardell de Espartar (Fraile), Espartar (Esparto), Escull de S'Espartar, Esculls de Ses Punxes, Bosc (Bosque), Na Gorra, Es Vaixell, Na Bosc, Bleda Plana, Escull d'en Ramon, Escull Vermell, Escull de Tramontana, Conejera (Conillera), Farellons, Palleret, islote de Cala Salada, Ses Margalides, Entrepenyes, isla Murada, Benirràs, isla de En Calders, islote de Sa Mesquida (Characa), Punta Galera, Escull d'es Pas, Formigues, S'Escullet, Punta Grossa, Figueral, islote de S'Hort, Tagomago, isla de Es Canar, isla de Santa Eulalia, Redona, Llados, Negres, Rates, Malvins, Sal Rossa y Esponja.

Entre Ibiza y Formentera se encuentran las islas de Portes, Caragolé, Penjats (Ahorcados), Negres, Punta Rama, Illa d'en Poros, Torretes, Gastaví, Illa de S'Alga, Espalmador, Espardell y Espardelló.

Rodeando Formentera, y en el sentido de las agujas del reloj, se encuentran las islas de Forn, Redona, Es Pujols, Aigües Dolcas, y Sabina.

Flora
Ubicadas en el archipiélago de las Baleares, las islas de Formentera e Ibiza se convierten en un paraje natural digno de admirar. Se las conoce como islas Pitiusas y su nombre se origina por la impresionante descripción que el historiador Plinio el Viejo da acerca de su vegetación, reconociéndolas así por la gran cantidad de pinos que las integran.

De esta manera, la flora de las islas Pitiusas se conforman en gran medida de especies endémicas, las cuales están legalmente protegidas para su conservación. Algunas de estas especies endémicas son: Delphinium pentagynum, una orquídea triangular; Juniperus phoenicea, una especie de pino diminuto; Cephalaria, una flor blanca que crece entre rocas marítimas; y Silene hifacensis, una flor rosa que se ubica entre zonas costeras y encumbradas de las islas Pitiusas.

Referencias

Pitiusas

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Frontier Space is the custom space simulation engine that has been part of Typhon Accords since long before it was Typhon Accords. It is designed to be extremely customizable in every feasible way. It is possible to design starships with detachable saucer sections (although relinking with the saucer section is as much a challenge in the game as it is in the TV shows), to eject the warp core into space, and to replace ship components with upgraded versions or simply replace them when they are damaged beyond repair. There is also an in-game programming language, accessible to users, which can control everything about a ship. All in-game softcoded controls work by making API requests and displaying responses. The API is defined not by the hardcode but rather by the in-game programming language. It is possible for the user to replace or extend all API functionality, including automating an entire starship.
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Category Archives: Samaras
A Languid Ending?
Posted on May 12, 2014 by Stevie Mac
He's been at Celtic for just over six years, made 253 appearances and scored 74 goals for the club. He's also frustrated Celtic coaches and fans throughout that time, yes its Georgios Samaras.
It was long rumoured that the Greek international would leave the club at the end of the season. That was confirmed by his comments in the media that the club never offered him a deal.
In the statement he points the finger at Peter Lawwell, the fall guy for many of Celtic's negative stories. He is also quoted as saying that he wanted to stay and that Neil Lennon was of the same opinion.
Whatever the truth of the situation, I don't think its a bad thing that Sammy is going. He's had highs and lows and Lennon got the best of him but its time to move on.
Personally, I think Samaras will do well wherever he ends up. Gordon Strachan brought him to Celtic on loan and performed fairly well scoring 6 times in 21 matches, but it wasn't all plain sailing after that.
He began to wander around the park aimlessly. Good ball control, just no direction.
Meandering out wide when he was supposed to be playing up front, tested the patience of many a supporter. Confidence never seemed to be his ally either but he would still weigh in with goals, 17 in his first full season.
Was it enough though and would it get any better? Well, he went on to score 12 goals the following season and under short reign Tony Mowbray.
It was Neil Lennon who would see the 'best' of Samaras though. He kept faith in the big guy despite stating that he as the type of player who could get a manager the sack.
On a number of occasions Samaras was instrumental in Europe and had some moments against the clubs former rivals across the city. Ultimately, his on and off form coupled with limited use domestically was a sign of his limitations as a player.
He was not so effective this season in Europe, though neither were Celtic. It may have been borne out of the fact that he knew he was never going to get a new deal and lets be honest, Sammy is the kind of guy who looks like he needs to be loved.
In the six plus years at the club he's partnered various players in attack, played wide on the left and even been the lone striker. He's scored some important goals for the club and against some of the best teams in Europe.
It'll be those goals that I'll remember him for. He now has the World Cup to look forward to and with it and opportunity to sell himself to a good club.
In his final appearance for the club he netted a penalty and can leave with his head held high, even if it was a rather flat ending to his Celtic career. Still, I will look forward to watching him play for Greece next month.
Thanks for the memories Sammy.
Hail! Hail!
Posted in Celtic, Celtic Football Club, Celtic Park, Champions League, Football, Georgios Samaras, Gordon Strachan, Neil Lennon, Paradise, Samaras, Scotland, Scottish Football, Scottish Premiership, Soccer, SPFL, UEFA, Uncategorized	| Leave a comment
Signing or appeasing?
Posted on January 29, 2014 by Stevie Mac
If Celtic want to employ players to appease fans seeking transfer marker activity then I suggest they don't go for Leigh Griffiths. As a fellow blogger has written today, "He has been in trouble with the police for assault, racist tweets and charged with shop lifting".
What should be noted was that this was on a list of seven points on why Celtic should sign the Scotland striker. Talkingbaws.com were doing just that and I'm afraid that overlooking a players' off field behaviour is not something that Celtic should be doing.
The fact that Celtic do not possess an proven goalscorer in their ranks right now remains a concern. Celtic have brought some good players in under Neil Lennon, but there have been some real muppets as well.
Teemu Pukki, not who I would consider a proper striker, has struggled. It's only now, with the spotlight off him and the Champions League over for another year that fans have stopped talking about him though he may still improve.
Mo Bangura did anything but put the ball in the back of the net for the club. He subsequently burnt his bridges whilst playing on loan for Elfsborg against Celtic, though it is doubtful there were any bridges back to Celtic Park for him to cross other than to confirm that he would be exiting at the earliest possible time.
Amido Baldé has shown promise and is still young but he doesn't get a look in. It may be Lennon's choice to keep him under wraps for now and to develop him but that hasn't helped the club in their most recent Champions League campaign and there are no assurance it will do so in the next, should that goal be achieved next season.
Georgios Samaras has been a hero for Celtic in Europe but he was nowhere near as effective this season as the previous. Though to be fair the same can be said about the team as a whole.
It was a very unconvincing European campaign in 2013. You can argue about the amount of qualifiers and early summer timing for a team in preparation but Celtic were seriously lacking in attack.
Kris Common's has carried the team this year and he isn't even a striker. We were desperate to see his form return this season and it has in abundance but he needs others to weigh in.
Anthony Stokes, a second pick against former Celtic striker Gary Hooper in the Champions League last season, has great ability. Is he really an out and out striker though? No, he is not.
I like Stokes, I like his style but he still needs someone in front of him doing the business with or without his help. There doesn't appear to be someone getting matches at Celtic that can do that right now.
Samaras plays out wide and rarely sees domestic opportunities. I'm not complaining about that because it is obvious not just to fans but to opponents in Europe of how big a threat he is.
That does Lennon no favours though. What he requires is a goal seeker.
Someone who is quick, eager and deadly in front of goal. We've not seen that of late.
Hólmbert Friðjónsson is an under-21 international, who comes with a reasonable amount of promise. Though that merely puts him the same camp as Baldé because its unlikely that he's the one to get thrown into first team action.
Still, it remains a good move to employ a number one striker now. Before the Champions League qualifying stages come along in July, Celtic will want, sorry will need to have someone who has already gotten to know his surroundings.
Bedding in time comes easier to some more than others but its still a complex situation. The players, the coaching, the fans that stadium and the expectation that comes along with wearing the Hoops.
Yet, it may still transpire that Lennon does sign Griffiths. He may even have grown up and put his off field misdemeanors to bed, but could he do a job in Europe?
Well, I am no seer that's for sure.
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Goals, points and old rivals
Posted on October 21, 2013 by Stevie Mac
I know it's a modern trend to make an arse of yourself on Twitter, but you would think that sports personalities would learn from the mistakes of others? Well, it would seem not.
There have been two tweets and two apologies in the Celtic community over the last couple of days. It won't be the last time this type if scenario occurs on Twitter either, but the timing of one tweet in particular is hardly the best way to prepare for one of your biggest games of the season.
The game in question is of course tomorrow night when Celtic take on Ajax at Celtic Park in the Champions League. They haven't faced each other since 2001 when Ajax beat Celtic 1-0 in Glasgow.
That result didn't matter in the end thanks to a jaw dropping 1-3 away win for Celtic from the first leg. It was sufficient enough to send Celtic through to the Champions League group stage for the first time in existence.
Neil Lennon played in both of those matches and now the teams meet once more. Interestingly enough, Lennon's opposite number in the other dugout is one Frank De Boer.
Whilst each playing for Celtic and Rangers, they came up against each other on two occasions. Lennon was on the winning side both times.
Now both are in their first head coach jobs and both are desperate for points. It's possible that Celtic and Ajax could be slugging it out for third spot in Group H, but we know how quickly things can change in the Champions League.
Celtic should be aiming to win their next three group games. It's a tough ask given that so far its played two, lost two and no goals scored.
Ajax may only have one point and one goal but its one point and one goal more than Celtic have right now. De Boer will be looking to add to that tally and keep Neil Lennon and Celtic at bay.
The way I see it though is that tomorrow night is a blank canvas. Forget the last two Champions League match days.
Celtic's campaign begins on Tuesday at 7.45pm. There is no point in looking back, only forward.
Yes, Lennon has injuries to his squad and a suspension to contend with. Thinking about that won't help him or the club tomorrow night though.
He must take the players he does have available and galvanise their belief to win. Celtic are due to bang some goals in against someone soon because they've been playing well enough.
There have been some fantastic European nights at Celtic Park. I've watched from the terracing, from the stands a from my sofa.
I believe Tuesday can be one of those special nights. I didn't think so against Barcelona.
Lennon knows what is at stake here. He won't need to remind the players either, though I'm pretty sure he will.
A win for Celtic tomorrow would put them in third place. And if say Barcelona beat Milan home and away over the next two matches, Celtic could potentially go second in the group with the right kind of result in Amsterdam.
There are of course other permutations but it demonstrates the complexity of the group phase. So it should be both encouraging and motivating that despite two defeats and no goals you're never out of it.
There's no debate on Celtic's passing or possession, it's their ability to put the ball in the net that is my only concern. This season I've yet to see the kind of killer instinct in front of goal that can win you games.
There are goal scorers throughout the squad and I've seen some good goals so far this season, but Celtic have had little luck in the Champions Leaguw. At some point that luck has to change but not without being ruthless in front of goal.
Be it Forrest, Pukki, Samaras, Stokes or whoever it doesn't matter. Celtic must take their chances tomorrow night because I am damn well sure they will be created.
Until tomorrow, Celtic. Glasgow here I come.
Posted in AC Milan, Ajax, Anthony Stokes, Barcelona, Bhoys, Celtic, Celtic Football Club, Celtic Park, Champions League, Charlie Mulgrew, FIFA, Football, Georgios Samaras, James Forrest, Rangers, Samaras, Scott Brown, Scottish Football, Scottish Premiership, Teemu Pukki, The Hoops, UEFA	| Tagged AC Milan, Ajax, Anthony Stokes, Celtic Football Club, Celtic Park, hail hail, Martin O'Neill, Neil Lennon, Rangers, Scottish Football, Soccer, You'll Never Walk Alone	| Leave a comment
A difference of opinion
Posted on August 8, 2013 by Stevie Mac
I started writing this on my way to work yesterday. Once I got there, I read a few Celtic headlines and decided to postpone writing the blog.
When I read Neil Lennon's post match praise of the team I thought I had been watching a different game altogether. Either that or I must have been more drunk than the hangover suggested.
To confuse matters further, Johan Mjallby was later quoted as saying the team were "utterly abysmal". He did reserve some praise for the central defence though.
With Kelvin Wilson's suggested departure, perhaps neither coach wanted to jinx the transfer. That deal has now gone through of course and this will all become confined to history.
The fact is that I, amongst others, felt that this was a poor Celtic performance. We may have progressed but it was a far from convincing ninety-plus minutes.
There was a time when progression in Europe was a distant memory for Celtic. Nowadays, the club find themselves in a situation where Europe is the lifeblood of every season.
Wednesday nights 0-0 against Elfsborg took us into this mornings draw for a play off spot. Now Celtic will face Kazakh side Shakhter Karagandy for a place in the Champions League group stage.
I am pleased that Celtic have made it through to the play offs. The match that finally got us there was anything but pretty though.
Samaras had a golden opportunity early on and Ledley even looked like scoring. At no time did I ever think the team looked comfortable though.
The Celtic midfield were 'passing' the ball like a hot potato. Misplaced passes are Celtic of old, not today.
As much as Johan and Neil praised the defence I only felt that one of these players deserved it. Mikael Lustig turned in a great performance in defence and attack down the right flank.
Elsewhere in defence it appeared that the players were all over the place. So it was anything but assured at the back.
Elfsborg were nothing special, but anytime they attacked the Celtic Iooked like they had never played together. That was my major concern.
I'm certain that Neil was trying to keep his comments positive given that the team had just progressed to the next phase. It is the managers job at the end of the day.
As I say though, I am just glad Celtic are through. It may not be the group phase, but I expect more players to come in now that we're in a safety zone.
We've just seen off Wilson, our most improved player last season, so there will need to be a replacement for him now. With any luck Celtic will go for that much awaited striker as well.
Regardless of the coaching staff's mixed opinions, it would be ridiculous to ignore the performance in Borås. Elfsborg remain unbeaten at home in two years but it is Celtic who are in the Champions League play offs.
The Europa League is guaranteed for the loser. Some may think Celtic will see this one out no problem but I like to keep things realistic.
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Next stop: Elfsborg Fortress
Whilst one Glasgow club tears itself apart, another prepares for a crucial European tie. Celtic, currently competing in Europe, face Swedish club Elfsborg tomorrow night in the city of Borås, the return leg for Champions League qualification.
The second leg of this tie will be a tense affair for Celtic supporters. I have first hand knowledge.
A slender 1-0 lead means Celtic will need to be on their game. No mess ups, just 100% focus and application.
Without an out and out striker, the team will need to be patient where goals are concerend. There are goal scorers available though and Celtic will be looking to captilise when the ball breaks and opportunities come to bear.
With Samaras travelling and fit, he is likely to start. He is one player that can carve out goals in Europe and away from home.
Its hard to believe sometimes where his Celtic career was a few years back. "Languid" was one word a friend and fellow supporter would use to describe his form of that time – an in-joke that continues to this day within my circle.
Samaras would wander around the field of play with the ball stuck to his feet. The only thing missing back then was where the hell he was going on the park.
Lennon saw something though and remained on his side, regularly stating that he hoped the player would not let him down. You could see Samaras with flashes of ability and Lennon has helped him achieve the status he now has.
Samaras will not be relied upon to do it all himself of course. This is a team game and there will be a concerted effort to defend an attacking Efsborg side looking for that first goal.
Kelvin Wilson is fit and likely to partner Efe Ambrose in central defence. Charlie Mulgrew is also in the frame but unless Ambrose or Wilson are left out, Charlie could find himself on the bench or even deployed in midfield.
It is hard to guess how Lennon will set up though. Flood the midfield and use the channels, or keep it even from back to front?
Your guess is as good as mine. Though the former of the two has worked well in the past.
Rogic, Van Dijk and Boerrigter did not travel so it will be the usual suspects. This squad know each other and know what is at stake.
Elfsborg will feel confident though. A 1-0 deficit, playing the second leg at the Borås Arena and on an artificial surfice they are unbeaten on since September 2011 is positive in them.
However, Celtic have been here before. Few goals, away fixture, Champions League at stake and a plastic pitch – the Hoops are every bit as capable.
We'll all be on the edge of our seats. I may find it hard to focus on anything else for the next 24 hours.
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Practice Relating to Rule 117. Accounting for Missing Persons
Section A. Search for missing persons
Croatia's LOAC Compendium (1991) instructs local commanders to offer their assistance to the civil authorities in the search for missing persons.
Croatia, Compendium "Law of Armed Conflicts", Republic of Croatia, Ministry of Defence, 1991, p. 50; see also p. 21.
The main task of the Commission for Tracing Persons Missing in War Activities in the Republic of Croatia, established by the Croatian Government in 1991, was to collect and process the information about civil and other persons missing from the territory of Croatia during the war. In 1993, a new Commission, the Commission for Detained and Missing Persons, replaced the one established in 1991, yet with the same task.
Croatia, Directive on the Establishment and Functioning of the Commission for Tracing Persons Missing in War Activities in the Republic of Croatia, 1991; Regulations establishing the Commission for Detained and Missing Persons in Croatia, Official Gazette, No. 46, 17 May 1993.
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He also calls attention to the many cases in which halal meat has entered the market without consumers' knowing — a phenomenon not at all limited to Australia, but also found in the United States and Britain, even in the House of Commons. Why the subterfuge? Why not respect consumers' rights to make their own informed decisions, except to wear down resistance by forcing people to eat it and denying them a means of telling halal meat apart?
Of course, Kevin Andrews will be pilloried as an "Islamophobe" for this, and accused of fomenting "backlash," for Islamic groups would have you believe that he who hath looked critically upon Islam hath committed hate crimes in his heart: it has become a standard practice to cast all criticism of Islam as incitement.
Australia risks becoming a nation of "ethnic enclaves" that unknowingly buys livestock slaughtered "in the name of Allah", senior Liberal MPs have warned.
Opening up a new political faultline, former immigration minister Kevin Andrews lashed out at political leaders who failed to speak out on the rise of extreme Islam, claiming the silence contributes to the rise of One Nation-type movements.
Another Liberal frontbencher, Mitch Fifield, warned of the danger of "parallel societies" developing as has occurred in Europe where hardline Muslim groups preached sharia law rather than Western values.
Amid a robust debate in Europe over failed "state multiculturalism", Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi warned Australia must avoid the mistakes of nations that allowed religious fanatics to prosper "before it is too late".
The Government and the Greens dismissed the fears, saying the nation should focus on the "positive" aspects of its diverse ethnic heritage.
Senator Bernardi warned of a growing "cultural divide" in Australia as hardline followers of Islam turned their backs on mainstream values.
He cited the advent of Muslim-only toilets at a Melbourne university and the halal method of meat slaughter as cultural practices that must be opposed.
Wow: Islamic supremacist toilets. And not just the kind Sharia threatens to transform countries into.
"I, for one, don't want to eat meat butchered in the name of an ideology that is mired in sixth century brutality and is anathema to my own values," he said….
Seventh century, but the point stands.
I recently learned that both Coles and to a lesser extent Woolworths sell unmarked halal meat in their supermarkets. All chicken from Steggles, Ingham and Baiada is halal. I would say that most people do not know that the meat they buy is ritually slaughtered to comply with Sharia law. The people I have spoken to about it don't seem to care very much. I contacted Coles and they sent me a letter that says in part "Australian beef, chicken and lamb processors often prepare their product to halal specifications to ensure their product is available to a wide domestic customer base, as well as for the export market.
I believe the method of slaughter is quite horrific.


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11 Short Piano Pieces - Programme Notes
(1980-98; 12')
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11 Short Piano Pieces (1980-98) is a collection of unrelated works written sporadically over eighteen years. Most are for beginning-to-intermediate pianists, but the last four are more demanding. They may be played independently of one another, or in any combination and order of the performer's choice.
1. Waltz was written as a kind of test-piece for the 1994 Kiwanis Music Festival of Greater Toronto; the test, for young composition students, was to write variations on this theme, but I don't believe anyone actually did so (they had other themes to choose from, apparently)!
2. McGillicuddy's Rant was written in 1980, the year I started studying composition, and was originally for classical guitar with numerous subsequent variations. I played it for my guitar teacher many years ago, before I had come up with a name for it, and, for reasons I have never been able to fathom he suggested the name McGillicuddy's Rant. I felt the pentatonic tune had a vaguely Scottish, folk-like quality, and I liked the quirkiness of the name (although my composition bears little resemblance to a musical "rant," which I subsequently learned is a type of lively country dance), so it stuck.
3, 4. The two inventions were commissioned by Frederick Harris Publishing for possible inclusion in the Royal Conservatory of Music graded piano albums, aimed at earlier grades, but were never used. Both are mostly canonic, the first at the octave and the second at the ninth.
5. C-E-G Prelude was written much later (1998), also as a relatively easy student piece in which almost all of the left hand notes are those named in the title.
6. I wrote Sue's Song for my former sister-in-law in 1986 as her birthday gift, but I don't believe she ever heard it. It's a pretty silly, light-hearted work.
The next three pieces become increasingly chromatic and challenging:
7. Chromatic Noodling was conceived as a study, and is a fun, rather nutty piece.
8. Dream…,	is an impressionistic composition written for my friend and former colleague Liana Lam, who performed this entire collection (except for numbers 5 and 10, which had not been written at the time) for the first time in 1994, and who deserves special thanks for coming up with the idea of making a collection of these disparate and previously homeless piano pieces, about which I had mostly forgotten.
9. Broken Glass is short but very challenging. It was written for Barbara Pritchard, also a close friend, who specializes in the performance of insanely-difficult modern works, and she commissioned it through the Canada Council in 1991.
10. Julia's Prelude was named for my wonderful daughter, and was written in the style of Schumann, just for fun, after a harmony class one day in which we analysed Bach's Prelude to the Bb Fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavier (book 1). Yes, there is a connection!
1. Waltz
2. McGillicuddy's Rant
3. Invention (syncopated rhythm)
4. Invention (canon at the 9th)
5. C-E-G Prelude
6. Sue's Song
7. Chromatic Noodling
8. Hearing Footsteps … (Dream)
9. Broken Glass
10. Julia's Prelude
11. Waltz (reprise)
(Performed by Liana Lam and recorded by CBC radio's "Musicraft," except for "Julia's Prelude" (perf. by Tim Steeves), and "C-E-G Prelude" (MIDI)
[ If the above links don't play the muisc, try clicking the composition titles below: ]
7. Chromatic Noodling (study)
8. Hearing Footsteps ... (Dream)


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NGC 3013 је спирална галаксија у сазвежђу Мали лав која се налази на NGC листи објеката дубоког неба.

Деклинација објекта је + 33° 34' 11" а ректасцензија 9-{h}- 50-{m}- 9,3-{s}-. Привидна величина (магнитуда) објекта -{NGC}- 3013 износи 15,2 а фотографска магнитуда 16,0. -{NGC}- 3013 је још познат и под ознакама -{MCG 6-22-18, CGCG 182-24, NPM1G +33.0174, near SAO 61706, PGC 28300}-.

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Revised New General Catalogue and Index Catalogue, Wolfgang Steinicke, 2012. Доступно у овом фајлу са објашњењем на овој страници
SIMBAD база података, Стразбуршки центар астрономских података (CDS), Стразбур

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