I had the misfortune tonight of suffering through an interminable set of woman-hating, xenophobic non-jokes and willful ignorance by Lady Bunny, née Jon Ingle, at Lakeview nightclub Berlin. The real casualty of Ingle's routine — and I mean routine — was the soon-to-be-released documentary Fish Out of Water, which Ingle's appearance ostensibly benefitted despite his fundamental contradiction of anything remotely aligned with filmmaker Ky Dickens' sincere approach to the hot-button issue of gay marriage.
Without delving into Ingle's warmed-over Michael Jackson pedophilia jokes from a decade ago (not kidding) or his act's leitmotif of the presumed horrors of lesbianism and female genitalia, I'll instead call attention to the fact that Ingle is apparently horrified by female-to-male transgendered persons despite the obvious irony. A drag queen whose time has come and long gone, throwing stones in a glass house with all the windows shut, has no business demanding respect from Chicago merely for being associated with the New York City of a generation ago; hell, I wouldn't have given him the time of day were it February in Fargo and he was selling me a parka.
That all said, if you're in Los Angeles this summer and give a whit about progressive queer politics, by all means attend the Fish Out of Water premiere July 18 at the Fairfax Regency Cinemas, part of the 27th annual gay and lesbian film festival Outfest.
well said. what i was able to stomach was tragic and vile. so glad i left.
This is spot on. You gave words to what I was feeling. I'm glad I left in the middle of this atrocity!
Thanks for letting me know what I didn't miss. Sounds like Lady Bunny and FOOW were a terrible pairing. Too bad. Hope Ky and crew got some $$$$ out of it, at least.
They did, a good amount I think. It's the silver lining for sure.
This post has nothing to do with whether or not I comprehend sarcasm.
i was there as well and i'm pretty sure trailerpilot is completely off base with this i was not offended and i enjoyed the comedian.
Nope. Trailerpilot is spot on re this boondoggle.


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More than a dozen bills go into effect Friday, including measures to help modernize state government technology and encourage usage of natural gas as a transportation fuel in Oklahoma.
House Bill 1949, which takes effect Jan. 1 and is part of House Speaker Chris Benge's ongoing statewide energy initiative effort, extends an existing tax credit on the purchase of a qualified clean-burning motor vehicle for five years for compressed and liquefied natural gas cars.
The credit is equal to 50 percent of the cost of a conversion of vehicles to operate on a qualified fuel, as well as those originally equipped to do so.
The legislation also includes a tax credit for businesses seeking to build infrastructure to fuel such vehicles, along with a $2,500 tax credit for consumers installing home-fueling stations.
Speaker Benge said he hopes this new credit will help double the number of publicly-available CNG fueling stations across the state.
Also going into effect Jan. 1 is House Bill 1170, which creates a Chief Information Officer (CIO) to direct technology purchases for state agencies. The consolidation of technology contracts will help the state pool its purchasing power to help drive down costs and improve services.
Instead of each state agency having its own small information technology (IT) contract, this legislation allows the state to better leverage its purchasing power by buying IT equipment in bulk for agencies that have similar needs.
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Home » TV & Movies » The Chase star Mark Labbett reveals his honest opinion of host Bradley Walsh
The Chase star Mark Labbett reveals his honest opinion of host Bradley Walsh
Bradley Walsh has undoubtedly given The Chase some serious moments of comedy gold throughout the years.
And Chaser Mark Labbett – aka The Beast – has a very high opinion of the presenter and former Coronation Street star.
Speaking exclusively to Digital Spy, he said of Bradley: "He's wonderful because he's exactly the same when the cameras are rolling as when they stop, which isn't the same for everyone in television.
"He's a professional and I have learnt so much from him. I know I'm biased but he is the best game show host in the world."
Mark admitted that he couldn't wait to watch Bradley on Doctor Who when the show finally airs, Discussing what Bradley will bring to the BBC show, Mark said: "Just what a wonderful actor he is."
The 52-year-old also revealed the funniest moment that has happened on the ITV quiz show, referring to the moment Bradley cracked up over the name of German skier Fanny Chmelar.
"I was there when they recorded it and I wish we could show the whole thing," he said.
"It took about 15 minutes to actually get the question out, Bradley had to keep restarting, then he'd burst out laughing and have to start again. When you have all the hardened camera men falling about laughing, you know you have comedy gold."
The Beast also revealed his relationship with the other Chasers – especially The Governess herself, Anne Hegerty.
"We get on very well. The highest compliment I can pay Anne is that Anne is the godmother to my son. That's how highly I respect her," he said.
Mark admitted they all have a competitive nature, and often take part in quizzes together.
"We all want to be the number one Chaser – none of us want to be the one who is known as being the soft touch," he said.
Mark is currently an ambassador for new quiz app FleetWit, where players are pitted against each other for cash prizes. The Chase airs weekdays at 5pm on ITV.
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Eugene Weekly : Letters : 11.5.09
STUNNING HYPOCRISY
We on the City Council say we want an independent police auditor, then we diminish the auditor's authority by a hundred little cuts in the ordinance amendments and surrender parts of that authority to the police chief, the city manager and the municipal court judge.
We say we will support the auditor, but we question and demean the professional and personal integrity and competence of our first two auditors.
We say we want capable, experienced people to serve on the Civilian Review Board, ones who will do rigorous, thorough analysis, broaden the discussion, make us think and tell us inconvenient truths; and when we're lucky enough to get what we say we want, we discard them.
We say we want a strong, nonpartisan auditor/civilian oversight system, and we do our best to diminish its credibility and ensure its failure.
Our hypocrisy is subliminal, unspoken, subconscious.
Our hypocrisy is stunning.
George Brown, Eugene City Councilor Ward 1
PEACEHEALTH DOGMA
In October, my medical office was told by PeaceHealth Laboratories that it would no longer perform any laboratory testing for our patients. In my 40 years of practice in a variety of settings, I have never had a laboratory refuse me or my patients service so, needless to say, my curiosity was piqued.
Ran Whitehead, the CEO of PeaceHealth Laboratories, explained that one of the protestors in front of my office had seen a PeaceHealth courier visit and had complained to PeaceHealth. Whitehead had then researched my practice on my website, www.drbours.com He learned that I offer abortions and vasectomies, practices at odds with the mission of PeaceHealth.
I told Whitehead that I had a seven-year relationship with his lab, primarily to diagnose tubal pregnancies, a life-threatening condition of early pregnancy. I questioned whether he would be adopting a similar policy toward other physicians in the community performing abortions and vasectomies. While I did not receive a direct answer to that question, Whitehead did seem particularly perturbed that I would openly discuss my practice on my website. Perhaps he favors a "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
PeaceHealth may be so blinded by its mission that it fails to recognize the well-established public health fact that the legalization and improvement of abortion care has had a greater positive benefit on the health of women in our country than any other advancement in health care in the past 50 years. I am proud of the role that I have played in this process.
This sorry episode demonstrates the danger of allowing religious institutions to control a significant portion of the health care market when they prioritize dogma over patient care.
W. A. Peter Bours, M.D., Eugene
THAT KEVIN SMILE
The Oregon Country Fair mourns the loss of our dear family member, friend and colleague, Kevin Dougherty (story, 10/29). Kevin was our advertising coordinator, resident graphic artist and former Bus Crew coordinator. We will miss his utter devotion to the Fair. His willingness to share his enormous artistic talent and creativity was a treasured gift for us.
Kevin had many, many friends among OCF Family. Our hearts are aching. We extend Fair Family love to Jack, Sarah, Daniel, Holly, Jane, Aria and all of Kevin's wide circle of family and friends. We know right now he's dancing at the biggest Fair of all and smiling that Kevin smile.
Norma Sax, Oregon Country Fair
ATTACK ON GAYS
Tonight (10/24), my partner and I were walking through Eugene and had a very interesting confrontation. We ran into bigots who decided to discriminate against us because we were two men holding hands. We walked past them for the first time, ignoring their ignorant comments about our sexuality. However, we had to walk past them a second time in order to get to where we were going, and they attacked us. It is instances like this that happen on a daily basis. Ignorance causes us to be discriminated against on a daily basis. Frankly, my partner and I are sick of the remarks that we get walking down the street, but to be attacked by 10 straight men is over the edge. The fact that this happened in Eugene is inconceivable. A liberal town that accepts almost anyone. My partner and I are planning on pressing charges against the attackers; however, the Eugene Police Department cannot do anything about it because there are no severe markings of attack on either of us. We are sick of being discriminated against and will rise in revolt if nothing is done about it. Sen. Wyden, Sen. Merkely and Mayor Piercy have been informed of this issue. Let's make sure that discrimination like this does not happen again in Eugene.
Derek Nix , Eugene
TIME TO LEAVE
Officer Judd Warden, the same officer who tased Ian Van Ornum, was just revealed as the officer who tased a non-English-speaking UO exchange student in his own apartment. Warden was also named Officer of the Year. With the Eugene Police Department asking for more officers to carry Tasers, all I can say is, I am moving to Portland!
Christopher Hughes, Eugene
EDITOR'S NOTE: PDX cops also have their issues. You might Google "Portland police brutality" before packing your bags.
CONTEST FARCE
So, the Eugene Weekly holds a music contest that turns out to be run by the sales and marketing department, and lo and behold, the contest turns out to be a farce. We entered the Next Big Thing contest thinking it would be a good way to let some people hear our music that otherwise wouldn't. Within a few days our song "Parade" rises to the top of the list. We then decide that maybe there's a chance for us to win and start a heavy campaign to our fans and friends to get the votes that we're told we need to win. It works; we spend two months in the top five voted songs, gather over 1000 votes more than any other song, and end up in the top spot when the voting is over. Then, we're told that judges will be deciding the winners. The vote counts and ratings didn't matter in the end as the winners and finalists are chosen and we, along with other top voted acts such as Don't Encourage the Wind, Crooked River, Steve and the Make-Believes, Ingredients the Band, Opal Creek, Fancy Bandits, EWAG and Go Engine Now, are all excluded from the finalists list and the upcoming compilation CD of the top 15 songs. If votes didn't matter, why did the Weekly encourage us to get our fans to vote for more than two months? And why didn't they tell us that judges would ultimately have the final say, not the voters? The Eugene Weekly has stated that they made over $13,000 on this contest. It is hard not to think that money was the main driving force, not finding the fans' favorite songs.
Congratulation to all the winners and everyone who participated. There was a lot of great music in this contest; it's just unfortunate that the EW so blatantly ignored the consensus of the fans.
basin & range, www.myspace.com/basinandrangeband
EDITOR'S NOTE: Though the judging criteria were spelled out in the rules, we will certainly take your feedback into account for our next contest. Our sales manager says that EW spent more money than sponsors gave on the contest and that after CD production, mastering and promotion expenses are paid, artists and composers will get 20 percent of CD compilation sales.
KIDS NOT THAT EXPENSIVE
I read your recent article (10/2) on the state of foster care budgets in Oregon with great interest and increasing frustration. While I appreciate the work these foster parents are doing, some of the numbers really surprised me. There are numerous quotes throughout the article about "not being in it for the money" and complaints that foster care funding doesn't cover the real costs of raising a child.
Now, I have no experience with older children, but as a mother of two kids under age 4, I have a pretty good grasp of what it costs to raise little ones. I (and five of my friends whom I've discussed the article with) feel that $400/month is more than enough to meet all the needs of a young child, and the recent increase to $640/month seems insane (and yet, is still seen as "only cover(ing) the most basic of budgets").
The increase is explained as being given to cover clothing and diapers. $240/month? I don't spend that in a year on clothes for each of my kids. "Big ticket" items like highchairs can be found for $20, and decent second-hand bikes are readily available for $50 to $100. Pizza for a large family costs $100? Are they going to PRI? Try Pizza Pipeline or Little Caesars instead.
I guess it makes me a "conservative," but I don't want (and can't afford) an increase in my taxes. My family makes a very modest income, and we make it work, without feeling deprived in any way. Perhaps some of these foster parents could benefit from a budgeting class.
Katie Aaberg, Eugene
CELEBRATING FETISHES
So the Weekly has decided to celebrate fetishes (cover story, 10/8). The last time I heard, a fetish is an obsessive-compulsive disorder, a serious mental illness. Your story should not only have included locals with fetishes, but also famous historical figures. Let's see, how about Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Aztec and Mayan priests. How about celebrating their fetishes?
Who convinced the editor to take the A train to Fetishland? You guys at the Weekly should make sure that your ink vials are screwed on tightly before you sit at your desks in the morning. Dem fumes are pretty nasty for the brain!
Juana Garcia, Eugene
EDITOR'S NOTE: Ink is sexy.
IT'S ALL NORMAL
For your Oct. 8 cover there was a contro-versial picture of a man spanking a woman. Though many people found your cover to be inappropriate and offensive, I did not.
I can see why people would find this inappropriate. Many of the Weekly's readers are concerned parents who don't want their children exposed to human sexuality. However, children are already exposed to similar things every day. Every time you check out at a grocery store, there's a People magazine with a cover of Britney Spears in a skimpy swimsuit and the cover says something about how Britney got hot again. Lindsey Lohan is another perfect example of a childhood icon gone wrong; however, somehow she's still considered a role model. What about half the advertisements on television today? The other day I watched a Carl's Jr. commercial on local television which had an attractive female eating a burger talking about how she had to sacrifice certain foods to look that hot, but she wouldn't sacrifice that burger. Are these any better for children?
My point is all of this is a normal part of society. Besides, when children are that age, they don't care about that stuff anyways. They'll forget about it the next day. Children have their own priorities such as toys, coloring and ice cream. So even with the exploitation of human sexuality, children will continue to be children. Until they grow up.
Also, if you're gonna bash the cover, please refer to the writer. Her name's Camilla Mortensen. Give her some credit. She's responsible for ruining the lives of tens of thousands of children.
Robert Roel, Eugene
Downtown Survey
I am writing to give you accurate information about a recent downtown survey (News story, 10/29). As you probably know, downtown revitalization is a City Council goal and an essential component of our focus on economic development. At council's direction, the city manager has aggressively pursued a variety of options for consideration. We are as tired as the public of looking at pits and empty store fronts.
An independent, random sample phone survey was conducted as one method to help gauge community interest and support for downtown revitalization and potential projects the City Council could consider. Surveying is a very useful tool that the city has used to help us understand the public's views on important topics such as funding for road repairs, and potential options for a police station and city offices. Phone surveys are a common method of reaching a broad spectrum of the community, including individuals who don't often come to public forums or workshops or write emails to council or letters to the editor. It is standard practice to include questions about the credibility of the organization or body conducting the survey, and about various aspects of the issue that could influence the respondent one way or the other.
The city manager obviously did not conduct a "secret survey." Interviewers informed respondents that the survey was being done for the City of Eugene. The City Council was notified that the survey would be conducted and received full information in public work sessions about the survey results.
We all share a desire for a vital, thriving downtown that we can enjoy and be proud of and that can support our efforts to provide more jobs in the community. In fact, results in EW's recent "Best of …" awards, found that the number one "best way to improve Eugene" was to "improve/revitalize downtown (fill pits, build a park, more shops)." Surveying is one useful tool in determining how to move forward with strategies and projects that the community as a whole supports.
The City Council and I will continue to carefully consider how best to achieve downtown revitalization. We are determined to move forward. Another work session on potential downtown projects is planned before the end of December. We welcome your interest and involvement.
Kitty Piercy, Mayor, City of Eugene
CORVALLIS LOVE
I wanted to write to thank you for running "This Modern World" and other alt comics. They are definitely my favorite part of the Weekly. Thanks also for delivering papers up here in Corvallis. We love ya!
Dan Crall, Corvallis


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Carla Gannis
American transmedia artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Gannis produces works that consider the uncanny complications between grounded and virtual reality, nature and artifice, science and science fiction in contemporary culture… read more
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"peep-o-rama: platonic dialogues" by Carla Gannis is inspired by the Dutch Baroque artist Samuel van Hoogstraten's "A Peepshow with Views of the Interior of a Dutch House," (circa 1655-60), the most complex and sophisticated perspective box out of six that survive today. It is on view in the National Gallery, London.
Exploring the erotics and peculiarities of peeping across the centuries, the work takes cues from the open-endedness of the interpretations that varies on van Hoogstraten's piece. These postulations range from being an optical experiment to a brothel scene to a gift from the artist to his wife.
Reflecting a fascination with perspective and employing the same optical illusion as van Hoogstraten, the view only comes into perspective when looking through one of the two peepholes located on either side of the sculpture.
A quiet interior in muted colors is transformed into an immoderate and highly saturated scene intensified by the Baroque composer Vivaldi's "Violin Concerto in F minor, RV 297 'Winterand" and a spoken word recording from the poem "Platonic Dialogues for Web3 – Between the Ghost of Samuel van Hoogstraten and his Cyborg Queen Mother" by Geoffrey P. Lewis. A cast of post-human avatars, including a robot angel, a cyborg queen, "lucky Schrödinger's cat" and the artist's personal avatar C.A.R.L.A. G.A.N. (Cross Platform Avatar for Recursive Life Action Generative Adversarial Network) recreated in the game engine Unity fills the room. The walls, ceilings and floors are lined with image data sets from illicit Times Square peep shows and Dutch interior paintings that the artist trains the AI. The walls, ceilings and floors are lined with patterns generated by an AI trained on image datasets from illicit Times Square peep shows and Dutch interior paintings.
A densely layered experience, the work cogitates on gender and body politics in art history and culture and their extension into digital domains today.
American transmedia artist based in Brooklyn, New York.
Gannis produces works that consider the uncanny complications between grounded and virtual reality, nature and artifice, science and science fiction in contemporary culture. Fascinated by digital semiotics, Gannis takes a horror vacui approach to her artistic practice, culling inspiration from networked communication, art and literary history, emerging technologies and speculative design. Her work combines digital imagery with well-known works of art such as paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. She received widespread attention in 2013 for her emoji version of Hieronymus Bosch's painting "The Garden of Earthly Delight"'.
Gannis is the recipient of several awards, including a 2016 Lumen Digital Arts Prize, Founders' Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Grant in Computer Arts, an Emerge 7 Fellowship from the Aljira Art Center, and a Chashama AREA Visual Arts Studio Award in New York, NY. Her work has appeared in exhibitions, screenings and internet projects across the globe. Recent projects include "Portraits in Landscape," Midnight Moment, Times Square Arts, NY and "Sunrise/Sunset," Whitney Museum of American Art, Artport. Publications who have featured her work include The Creators Project, Wired, FastCo, Hyperallergic, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, El PaÍs and The LA Times, among others. In 2015 her speculative fiction was included in DEVOURING THE GREEN:: fear of a human planet: a cyborg / eco poetry anthology, published by Jaded Ibis Press.
Gannis have been releasing NFTs on Hic et Nunc, the Tezos NFT marketplace that had recently discontinued. She was also part of Feral Files' NFT Exhibition 'The Bardo: Unpacking the Real' curated by Julie Walsh and Transfer's gallery 'Pieces of Me' presented online and made available as NFTs on left gallery.
Gannis holds a BFA and MFA in Painting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Boston University, respectively. Currently, she is an Industry Professor at New York University (NYU) in the Integrated Design and Media Program, Department of Technology, Culture and Society, Tandon School of Engineering. She is also a Year 7 Alum of NEW INC, in the XR: Bodies in Space track, New York, NY.
Alice XR: A Machine For Thinking
Claudia Hart
The Basilica of Artificial Consciousness
Leo Isikdogan
Emerson Barrett


On the basis of the GNU VNIIPBiVP Russian Agricultural Academy held a closed tasting. The structure of the tasting committee included 19 persons representing the GNU VNIIPBiVP and companies within the industry.
The purpose of the tasting was to identify counterfeit products manufactured under the brand names "Russian champagne" and "Soviet champagne". There were 33 samples tasted champagne in the price range up to 250 rubles. Poor quality were found in 6 samples.


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protected:
    /// Format class to enable OpenGL4 core profile
    class OpenGL4Format : public QGLFormat{
    public:
        OpenGL4Format(){
            setVersion(3,3);
            setProfile(QGLFormat::CoreProfile);
            setSampleBuffers(true);
        }
    };

protected:
    QGLMeshLabViewer() : QGLViewer(OpenGL4Format()){
        /// Disable QGLViewer's default "spin"
        camera()->frame()->setSpinningSensitivity(100);

        /// Bindings @see QGLViewer::setDefaultMouseBindings()
        /// Extra behavior in this->mouseDoubleClickEvent()
        {
            /// Disable double click to align scene
            setMouseBinding(Qt::NoModifier, Qt::LeftButton, NO_CLICK_ACTION, true);   /// ALIGN_CAMERA
            setMouseBinding(Qt::ShiftModifier, Qt::RightButton, NO_CLICK_ACTION);     /// RAP_FROM_PIXEL
            setMouseBinding(Qt::NoModifier, Qt::MiddleButton, NO_CLICK_ACTION, true); /// ZOOM_TO_FIT
        }

        /// Disable options that give OpenGL4 troubles
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            bool DISABLED = false;
            setShortcut(CAMERA_MODE, DISABLED);
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            setShortcut(DISPLAY_FPS, DISABLED);
            setShortcut(STEREO, DISABLED);
            setShortcut(ENABLE_TEXT, DISABLED);
            setShortcut(EDIT_CAMERA, DISABLED);
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            setShortcut(DECREASE_FLYSPEED, DISABLED);
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            setShortcut(MOVE_CAMERA_DOWN, DISABLED);
        }
    }

    /// Remove the default tabs of the help modal widget
    void help(){
        QGLViewer::help();
        this->helpWidget()->removeTab(3);
        this->helpWidget()->removeTab(0);
        helpWidget()->setCurrentIndex(0);
    }

    void mouseDoubleClickEvent(QMouseEvent* e){
        //std::cout << __FUNCTION__ << std::endl;

        /// MeshLAB like double click action
        if(e->button() == Qt::LeftButton && e->modifiers() == Qt::NoModifier){
            /// Modified version of "RAP_FROM_PIXEL"
            if(!camera()->setPivotPointFromPixel(e->pos())){
                // std::cout << "failed" << std::endl;
                return; // do nothing
            }
            camera()->setSceneCenter( camera()->pivotPoint() );
            /// Stolen from "centerScene"
            camera()->frame()->projectOnLine(sceneCenter(), camera()->viewDirection());
            setVisualHintsMask(1);
            update();
        } else {
            /// Forward anything else to superclass
            QGLViewer::mouseDoubleClickEvent(e);
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    }

    static void setup_modelview(qglviewer::Camera* camera, QGLShaderProgram& program_){
        ///--- Fetch matrixes from trackball
        Eigen::Matrix4f MVP;
        camera->getModelViewProjectionMatrix(MVP.data());
        MVP.transposeInPlace();
        Eigen::Matrix4f MV;
        camera->getModelViewMatrix(MV.data());
        MV.transposeInPlace();

        // std::cout << "MVP:\n" << MVP << std::endl;
        // std::cout << "MV:\n" << MV << std::endl;

        ///--- Set shader variables
        program_.setUniformValue (program_.uniformLocation ("MVP"), QMatrix4x4(MVP.data()));
        program_.setUniformValue (program_.uniformLocation ("MV"), QMatrix4x4(MV.data()));
    }
};

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Took my Golden Retriver Wendy out for some outside play that included a fishing rod and some hair jigs and float for me :) . We walked the long walk through corn fields and woods. The temp was around 25F, mostly cloudy, but not gray.
When we got to the spot, most of it was covered with a thin ice layer. I did have about 15 feet of eddy in which to play followed by 25-30 feet of ice before the steep bank I stood on. Wendy was busy frolicking in the snow, she is truly a winter dog. Burying her head in snow drifts and walking out on the ice for fun.
About an hour and a half in I was using about 5' of leader below my float when it started to swim sideways a bit, then dunked! I pulled tight and soon had a nice smallie pulled up on the ice flow. Well about halfway in the line caught on a branch laying on the ice. Wendy ran out and grabbed the stick :) :shock: enough to free Mr. Bass! I reeled him in and noticed he was kind of large :) :) . No idea she was going to to do that, so I can't take credit. Guess she wanted the stick? The rest of the time I had to try and keep her off that ice.
Try as I might, I got one more bite, the fish swam under the ice and sawed off my old mono backing. Looked about 17".


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b. 26/05/1945 Wilmar, Minnesota. d. 13/05/1968 Vietnam.
DATE OF MOH ACTION: 13/05/1968 Vietnam.
Olson joined the Army from Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1967, and by May 13, 1968 was serving as a specialist four in Company A, 5th Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 199th Light Infantry Brigade (Separate). During a firefight on that day, in the Republic of Vietnam, Olson was about to toss a hand grenade at an enemy position when he was wounded, causing him to drop the activated grenade. He then threw himself on the grenade, sacrificing his life to protect his fellow soldiers from the blast.
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Spec. Olson distinguished himself at the cost of his life while serving as a team leader with Company A. Spec. Olson was participating in a mission to reinforce a reconnaissance platoon which was heavily engaged with a well-entrenched Viet Cong force. When his platoon moved into the area of contact and had overrun the first line of enemy bunkers, Spec. Olson and a fellow soldier moved forward of the platoon to investigate another suspected line of bunkers. As the 2 men advanced they were pinned down by intense automatic weapons fire from an enemy position 10 meters to their front. With complete disregard for his safety, Spec. Olson exposed himself and hurled a hand grenade into the Viet Cong position. Failing to silence the hostile fire, he again exposed himself to the intense fire in preparation to assault the enemy position. As he prepared to hurl the grenade, he was wounded, causing him to drop the activated device within his own position. Realizing that it would explode immediately, Spec. Olson threw himself upon the grenade and pulled it in to his body to take the full force of the explosion. By this unselfish action Spec. Olson sacrificed his own life to save the lives of his fellow comrades-in-arms. His extraordinary heroism inspired his fellow soldiers to renew their efforts and totally defeat the enemy force. Spec. Olson's profound courage and intrepidity were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the U.S. Army.
BURIAL LOCATION: PAYNESVILLE CEMETERY, PAYNESVILLE, MINNESOTA.
Kenneth Lee Olson


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Attempted ransomware attack on Louisiana state government
State Government Ransom Attack
By Katherine Mozzone | November 18, 2019 at 9:42 PM CST - Updated November 19 at 5:57 AM
NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) - State police and several federal agencies are investigating an attempted ransomware attack against state servers that caused many state websites to shut down.
State officials didn't specify how their cybersecurity team found the threat but they did say there is no anticipated data loss and the state did not pay a ransom.
Gov. John Bel Edwards stated the attempted ransomware attack was similar to the attacks that targeted local school districts and government entities around the country over the summer.
Officials believe no data was lost, however, it may take several days before online services are fully restored.
The attempted cyber attack on the state government's computer servers left Louisiana residents frustrated and concerned.
"So people who have attachments and they have to pay it on a certain day.. ya'll going to take those late fees off or what.. if we get pulled over.. the system is down here so what do you expect us to do," Antonuage Gray said.
State officials say the temporary paralysis of agency emails, websites and even a phone hotline were not due to an attack but were due to the precautions the state took to prevent one.
In a release sent from the Louisiana Commissioner of Administration, Jay Dardenne, the division identified a ransomware threat that affected some of their servers. The statement indicates their cybersecurity team, "out of an abundance of caution, took state servers down."
Kevin Launey is vice president of Bios Technologies, a Metairie business that manages infrastructure, maintenance and security for small to medium business networks.
When it comes to cybersecurity threats, ransomware is as bad as it gets, Lancey said.
"Somebody's holding your files ransom, I mean, how many businesses can survive without any of their data?", Lancey said.
He explained that you are basically paying a cybercriminal hoping they're actually going to give you what you need to get your files back.
It begins with a phishing scam, a seemingly legitimate website with misspellings or an email directing you to a link that. Once you click on it, an encryption software is downloaded to your computer, Launey said.
He explained that the software encrypts your files to where you can no longer access them. Typically, a screen pops up saying you've been locked out and in order to get the files back you have to pay a certain amount of dollars to unlock your files.
"At that point, you're left with rebuilding the data from scratch or paying the ransom and we assisted them in paying the ransom," Launey said.
Launey has helped victims pay off hackers with cyber currency two times, but it only worked once. He says your best protection is a solid back up of data and education. There's also advanced malware, but that doesn't prevent the hack. "When it sees files change, it can revert back," Launey said.
Once you realize something's happened you can say, well I want to revert these files back to the way they were prior to this event.
Oftentimes, ransomware victims don't know they've been hacked until it's too late-- once the files are encrypted, there's no way to get them back.
Katherine Mozzone


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Art & Culture / Photography / Photographs of America losing its shit
Photographs of America losing its shit
Drunk on Trump
Posted Monday 24th October 2016 /
Text By Khadija Ahmed
Photography © Sarah Palmer
Canadian photographer Sarah Palmer's latest project, Drunk on Trump, captures the hysteria reigning across the United States as the Presidential race comes to a chaotic climax.
It's a crucial time for Donald Trump. While he babbles on about 'locker room banter' and grabbing women by the p**sy, the U.S election result date is fast approaching. Despite his dangerous, stomach turning remarks, Trump supporters remain loyal to this shitbag Republican: attending rallies, wearing wacky t-shirts with trump's face on, chanting 'make America great again' whatever the fuck that means.
Whether it's a bizarre fascination or indignation towards Donald Trump, Canadian photographer Sarah Palmer has become a little bit obsessed with the cult of Trump. Sarah's technique of using multi-frame shots – where two images are merged together – creates a disjointed picture, what she describes as a drunken effect, capturing from an outsider's perspective the hysteria sweeping through the nation.
Why did you choose to explore the Trump phenomenon?
It all started out of curiosity and wanting to experience everything I had seen and heard about him and his rallies, firsthand. I also wanted to document it in my style of multi-frame exposures, as it lends well to the feeling of chaos and confusion that surrounds his campaign and events.
What was the message you were trying to put across through this project?
I wanted viewers to feel what it's like to be at these rallies and the Republican National Convention. There's often so much to see and hear that you get lost in focusing on one particular thing, so I wanted to merge those visuals together as I experienced them.
Being a Canadian, what is the general consensus on trump in Canada?
I think most of us are collectively incredulous that this is happening there. I find the extremes between conservative and liberal so much more evident in the U.S., so that of course comes out when you have someone as opinionated and right wing as Donald Trump is, running for one of the two major parties there. I think my images show how strange and confusing it is to be at these events, so hopefully it reflects the general consensus because that's what a lot of the talk around Trump involves here, at least in my social circles, social media and just in the general media I read here.
Did you speak to Trump supporters about their reasoning?
I would wait in line to get into the rallies with everyone else, so I talked to a lot of people. The general answer I would get is that people were fed up with the way the government is run now, and they believe Trump will make the changes needed. They want jobs back in America, lower taxes, a wall built. Some democrats told me there were now voting for Trump because Hillary is 'too liberal' for them.
More drastic supporters told me things like they didn't want Muslims in the country, one man told me the media lies about everything and that he gets all of his information from infowars.
What is the common theme that all your photographs share?
I try to bring as much emotion as I can to my images, so that the viewer can also try and apply their own experiences and perceptions to them. I want people to feel whats going on, and it not just be a record of an event or time.
How many rallies did you and how were they different?
I went to three rallies and the Republican National Convention. I went to one that held up to 10,000 people and then another last week that was in a high school gymnasium, holding a few thousand. The one with 10,000 people was more surreal. It felt like we were at a show, waiting for the star to come on.
It was dark, with dramatic lights, food for sale and loud music. The recent one I went to felt more real. I was able to focus on the individuals more, hear more conversations, feel more of the intensity. People were just generally angrier and more open about their opinions there. It was the day after the second debate and the audio recording being released a few days earlier, which I think added a lot of tension to the atmosphere there.
You say the Trump rally was like 'a confusing dream' what do you mean by this?
There's just so much to look at and process, so when I would get back from these rallies, it would be difficult to separate my memories and feelings individually, much like when you wake up from a dream. You remember it, but sometimes it's difficult to tell someone what exactly it was you experienced.
Find out more about Sarah Palmer's work.
Sarah Palmer
Posted Monday 24th October, 2016
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Welcome to 'Jefferson'
Why it disappointed me to watch Trump's victory as a Muslim woman in America
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The predicament of being a kid
Capturing the strength of Canada's indigenous women
Strong, resilient, beautiful
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Gudrun Gut on a life at the centre of Berlin subculture
The musician, DJ and founder of Monika Enterprise reflects on a career defined by revolution and rule-breaking.
The power & pride of South Africa's drum majorettes
Meet the drummies
Photographer Alice Mann reflects on capturing the camaraderie and discipline it takes to succeed in a highly-competitive sport.
Thousands of protestors unite to condemn the policing bill
No more police powers
Ahead of the policing bill reaching its final stages in the Lords, protestors came together to rally against the legislation.


Webroot, the market leader in next-generation endpoint security and cloud-based collective threat intelligence, today announced the release of Webroot Unity API (Unity). Managed Service Provider (MSP) security administrators can use Unity to securely connect services and data sets to Webroot's SecureAnywhere® Business Endpoint Protection Global Site Manager (GSM) console. With Unity, MSPs can easily extract data and tailor, integrate and automate their endpoint offerings for better productivity, improved financial control, customized alerting and reporting, and increased profitability.
And, provide the data needed to automate organization-wide processes including business intelligence applications and billing.
Unity also aids MSPs in lowering their costs through the integration and automation of technologies and business processes. Currently geared towards MSPs, Unity will serve as the API for Webroot's threat intelligence and shared application services platform, and provide an easy integration point for all products and services.
"Webroot SecureAnywhere leads the next-generation endpoint market, and with Unity we are increasing its power to protect users and help partners expand their businesses," said Hal Lonas, CTO at Webroot. "Unity automates tasks that our MSP customers, including Mytech, had to previously perform manually – which ultimately allows them to reduce their endpoint security operating costs and increase profitability. Additional benefits include improved granularity and reports customization, as well as Unity's integration into in-house systems and Remote Monitoring and Management and Professional Services Automation systems."
"Webroot's commitment to integration is unmatched among our vendor partners," said James Motz, MOC manager at Mytech Partners. "Since deploying Unity, our technicians have been able to cut the time to deploy new services to our customers by at least 50 percent. The efficiency and accuracy of automating the process across our customer base has paid huge dividends to our managed services delivery and overall security compliance."
At present, Unity is a complimentary service. MSPs interested in learning more should contact their Webroot Channel Account Manager or Webroot Support, or access the Webroot Unity API Community, a one-stop location for everything related to Unity.


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Q: Is there a Python package that can trace a curve with a Gaussian lineshape over several x and y values? My apologies for my ignorance in advance; I've only been learning Python for about two months.  Every example question that I've seen on Stack Overflow seems to discuss a single distribution over a series of data, but not one distribution per data point with band broadening.
I have some (essentially) infinitely-thin bars at value x with height y that I need to run a line over so that it looks like the following photo:

The bars are the obtained from the the table of data on the far right.  The curve is what I'm trying to make.
I am doing some TD-DFT work to calculate a theoretical UV/visible spectrum.  It will output absorbance strengths (y-values, i.e., heights) for specific wavelengths of light (x-values).  Theoretically, these are typically plotted as infinitely-thin bars, though we experimentally obtain a curve instead.  The theoretical data can be made to appear like an experimental spectrum by running a curve over it that hugs y=0 and has a Gaussian lineshape around every absorbance bar.
I'm not sure if there's a feature that will do this for me, or if I need to do something like make a loop summing Gaussian curves for every individual absorbance, and then plot the resulting formula.
Thanks for reading!

A: It looks like my answer was using Seaborn to do a kernel density estimation.  Because a KDE isn't weighted and only considers the density of x-values, I had to create a small loop to create a new list consisting of the x-entries each multiplied out by their respective intensities:
for j in range(len(list1)):  #list1 contains x-values
    list5.append([list1[j]]*int(list3[j]))  #list5 was empty; see below for list3

#now to drop the brackets from within the list:

for k in range(len(list5)):  #list5 was just made, containing intensity-proportional x-values
    for l in list5[k]:
        list4.append(l)  #now just a list, rather than a list of lists

(had to make another list earlier of the intensities multiplied by 1000000 to make them all integers):
list3 = [i * 1000000 for i in list2]  #list3 now contains integer intensities


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Volume 16, Number 12—December 2010
Online Flutracking Survey of Influenza-like Illness during Pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Australia
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Metric Details
EID Journal Metrics on Scopus
Viral Interference between Respiratory Viruses
Comparison of COVID-19 and Influenza Complications
Quinolone-Resistant Haemophilus haemolyticus
More articles on Influenza
Sandra J. Carlson, Craig B. Dalton, David N. Durrheim , and John Fejsa
Author affiliations: Author affiliations: Hunter Medical Research Institute, Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia (S.J. Carlson, C.B. Dalton, D.N. Durrheim); Hunter New England Population Health, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia (S.J. Carlson, C.B. Dalton, D.N. Durrheim, J. Fejsa); Newcastle University, Newcastle (C.B. Dalton, D.N. Durrheim)
We compared the accuracy of online data obtained from the Flutracking surveillance system during pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in Australia with data from other influenza surveillance systems. Flutracking accurately identified peak influenza activity timing and community influenza-like illness activity and was significantly less biased by treatment-seeking behavior and laboratory testing protocols than other systems.
A variety of surveillance methods were used to monitor the incidence and severity of influenza A pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in Australia. Severity of illness was measured by number of hospitalizations, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, and deaths. Influenza disease incidence was monitored through laboratory-confirmed cases, general practitioner sentinel surveillance of influenza-like illness (ILI), emergency department visits for ILI, absenteeism data from large employers, and the Flutracking surveillance system (1).
Flutracking is a national weekly online survey of ILI (completed by >8,000 participating community members each week in 2009); it is the only ILI surveillance system that provides comparable data across Australia's states and territories. Flutracking integrates participants' ILI symptom information with their influenza vaccination status (2). Flutracking surveillance has correlated well with other Australian influenza surveillance systems in describing the timing and scale of the 2007 and 2008 seasonal influenza epidemics (3,4). We compared Flutracking data with data from other routine influenza surveillance systems during the 2009 pandemic wave in New South Wales (NSW), Australia's most populous state.
From May 4, 2009, through October 31, 2010, participants received an automatically generated weekly email link to the online questionnaire, which asked whether they had experienced fever or cough and how many days they had been absent from work or normal duties because of these signs (recruitment details in 2,3; location of participants at www.flutracking.net). Each individual response usually took <15 seconds. Participants who had previously reported not receiving seasonal influenza vaccine were asked whether they had received influenza vaccination in the prior week during each weekly survey. If they answered yes, the question was automatically deleted from their subsequent weekly surveys. Participants were permitted to enroll at any time during the surveillance period. Participants could respond on behalf of household members, and children >12 years of age could complete their own survey. During online enrollment, participants provided the following information: their month and year of birth; whether they had received a seasonal influenza vaccine in the preceding year; whether they worked face to face with patients in hospitals, nursing homes, doctors' clinics, or as community health workers; and their residential postal code.
The weekly proportion of participants with ILI signs or symptoms was calculated as the proportion of participants for that week who reported both fever and cough within the previous 7 days. These proportions were compared with influenza activity recorded in 2009 by other established New South Wales influenza surveillance systems, i.e., number of patients who visited emergency departments with ILI symptoms (5), laboratory-confirmed influenza A antigen tests (PCR and direct immunofluorescence) (5), Google Flu Trends data (aggregated Google search data used to estimate current influenza in Australia) (6), workplace absenteeism data (5), and Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network (ASPREN) general practice ILI data (7).
Surveillance data were compared with data from 2007 and 2008. NSW was selected because no other states had sufficient Flutracking participants in 2007 and 2008 to allow year-to-year comparisons. The number of NSW participants who completed >1 survey in the 2009 Flutracking surveillance system was 3,447.
The concordance across NSW influenza surveillance systems was high for ILI peak weeks during the past 3 years. During 2009, Flutracking, laboratory influenza notifications, and Google Flu Trends peaked 1 week before emergency department ILI, workplace absenteeism, and ASPREN ILI surveillance (Table).
Figure. Flutracking fever and cough rates, counts of emergency department visits for influenza, and number of laboratory notifications for influenza, New South Wales, Australia, 2007–2009. PHREDSS, Public Health Real Time Emergency Department...
A comparison of the weekly scale of NSW Flutracking fever and cough symptom rates during 2007, 2008, and 2009 showed that the peak attack rate of 6.8% in 2009 was significantly lower than that of 9.4% in 2007 and only slightly higher than the peak rate of 5.8% in 2008 (Figure). However, peak weekly NSW laboratory notifications were almost 9- and 17-fold higher in 2009 than in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Peak emergency department ILI patient visits were almost 3- and 6-fold higher in 2009 than in 2007 and 2008, respectively (Table; Figure).
The attack rate pattern for NSW Google Flu Trends data was similar to that of Flutracking; attack rates for 2009 were slightly lower than those for 2008 and about half those of for 2007. ASPREN ILI rates were slightly higher in 2009 than in 2007 and 2008. Workplace absenteeism data demonstrated a slightly more severe influenza season in 2007 than in 2009 (Table).
When the surveillance systems were compared, laboratory notifications and emergency department surveillance appeared to be more affected by health-seeking behavior and changes in physician's testing protocols and may not have reflected true community ILI rates, in contrast to Flutracking, Google Flu Trends, workplace absenteeism, and ASPREN. Potential biases in laboratory notifications and emergency department surveillance may vary, depending on the pandemic phase. For example, during the protect phase of the pandemic, testing for influenza was recommended only for those admitted to the hospital for ILI or when test results could alter clinical care of a patient. Before the protect phase (during the contain phase), testing for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus was conducted to confirm diagnosis for anyone with ILI.
Flutracking's finding of a 2009 peak ILI rate similar to those of previous years was also consistent with NSW mortality data. The number of NSW deaths attributed to influenza or pneumonia suggested that the 2009 influenza season did not result in excess overall deaths but rather a redistribution of deaths with a relative increase of deaths in younger age groups (8). The low ILI rate found by Flutracking was initially viewed with suspicion because other near real-time surveillance (laboratory notifications and emergency department surveillance) suggested a high pandemic (H1N1) 2009 attack rate compared with rates for previous years. However, Flutracking results were consistent with other pandemic influenza attack rate estimates in NSW and other countries (9–12).
Because Flutracking does not rely on the health sector for ILI or laboratory reporting, it is not biased by changes in testing, treatment seeking, jurisdictional protocols, or resource constraints. Flutracking, Gripenet, and other similar Internet-based surveillance could potentially facilitate near real-time comparison of ILI activity between regional jurisdictions and among countries to assist with monitoring the global spread of influenza (13).
During the initial pandemic (H1N1) 2009 outbreak, Flutracking demonstrated its ability to accurately identify peak influenza activity timing and the relative magnitude of community influenza activity when compared with influenza tracking efforts in previous years. Its results were also less affected by treatment-seeking behavior and by laboratory testing protocols during different pandemic phases than was health system–based surveillance.
Ms Carlson is a statistician for the Flutracking surveillance system at Hunter New England Population Health, Newcastle. Her primary research interest is influenza surveillance.
We thank the thousands of Flutracking participants who give their time freely each week to contribute to influenza surveillance. We are also grateful to the University of Newcastle for their continued support and to the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing and the Hunter Medical Research Institute for their funding and support.
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Dawood F, Hope KG, Durrheim DN, Givney R, Fry AM, Dalton CB. Estimating the disease burden of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus infection in Hunter New England, Northern New South Wales, Australia. PLoS ONE. 2009;5:e9880. DOIPubMedGoogle Scholar
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Figure. Flutracking fever and cough rates, counts of emergency department visits for influenza, and number of laboratory notifications for influenza, New South Wales, Australia, 2007–2009. PHREDSS, Public Health Real Time Emergency...
Table. Peak ILI attack week and attack rates across influenza surveillance systems in New South Wales, Australia, 2007–2009
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RHYNCHITINAE Gistel, 1848
Leaf-Rolling Weevils
These distinctive weevils occur on trees or shrubs, where they develop in fruits, stems, buds or leaf rolls. They are most abundant in spring and early summer.
CURCULIONOIDEA Latreille, 1802
ATTELABIDAE Billberg, 1820
Historically this group has been variously considered as a distinct family or as a group within the Attelabidae; we include it under a subfamily heading as the most recent analysis has justified it's inclusion alongside the Attelabinae as a subfamily of the Attelabidae, and this is how it should be considered. While the placement and ranking of some groups e.g. Auletini or Pterocolinae is tentative, the Rhynchitids as a group are distinct among the Curculionoidea both in general morphology and in detail. They are small beetles,<10mm, with quadrate to elongate elytra which are generally wider than the head and pronotum, they thus superficially resemble many Attelabids but are a much more uniform group, so much so that a familiarity with our UK fauna will allow the group as a whole to be recognized. With the exception of New Zealand and many Pacific islands, including Hawaii, the group is cosmopolitan with by far the greatest diversity in the Oriental, Southeast Asian, Afrotropical and Neotropical regions, and temperate faunas are generally small by comparison. About 1100 species are known from 60 genera and 8 tribes, although various classifications can be found in the literature, and of these the faunas of Europe, Japan and the United States include about 50 species each. The central European fauna includes 25 species of which 18 species in 9 genera and 3 tribes occur, or have been recorded from, the UK. The 8 tribes are variously divided into numerous sub-tribes and many systems will be found in the literature, similarly some groups have been classified as distinct families e.g. Auletinidae Desbrochers, 1908 and it is obvious that a final system remains to be devised. The tribes as outlined below tend to have rather discreet distributions.
Pterocolinae Lacordaire, 1865 is a New World group of uncertain placement but they are typical, if generally rather broad in appearance, of the family. About 20 species of 2 genera are known and all are Neotropical with one exception, Pterocolus ovatus (Fabricius, 1801), which extends into the United States. All are parasites of attelabid weevils; adults of both sexes enter newly rolled leaves and consume the eggs, so far as is known they feed exclusively on the eggs and many specific host-parasite associations are known. They are commonly known as Thief Weevils or Leaf Roll Thiefs. Such parasitic behaviour is not confined to this group e.g. the European cuckoo weevil, Lasiorhynchus sericeus Herbst, 1797, is a brood-parasite of Attelabus nitens (Scopoli, 1763)
Rhynchites auratus
Involvulus caeruleus
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Byctiscus betulae
Deporaus betulae
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Auletini Desbrochers, 1908, sometimes considered as a distinct subfamily or family, includes 6 genera, or more depending on how some subgenera are considered, and has a worldwide distribution. Pseudodicranognathus Legalov, 2001 is Indian, Dicranognathus Redtenbacher, 1844 is Southeast Asian, and Minurus Waterhouse, 1824 and Pseudauletes Voss, 1922 are Neotropical. Both Auletes Schönherr, 1826 and Auletobius Desbrochers, 1869 are widely distributed and represented in Europe; Auletobius is a large and almost cosmopolitan genus of about 220 species of which a third are Australian. The group is not represented in the UK.
Minurini Legalov, 2003 includes a few species of the single Neotropical genus Minurus Waterhouse, 1842. Species are unusually elongate and slender with long legs and rostrum, superficially resembling species of Apionidae. Sometimes included in the Auletini.
Rhinocartini Voss, 1931. This very tentatively placed group includes 2 genera from Africa and Madagascar and a recently discovered genus from Socotra Island, Yemen. In appearance they are typical of the family.
Rhynchitallini Voss, 1960 sometimes included as a subtribe of the Rhinocartini, this tribe includes the single genus Rhynchitallus Voss, 1960 from China.
Eugnamptini Voss, 1930 is a large tribe of about 200 species in 20 genera distributed throughout the New World, and the southeast Palaearctic and Oriental regions. Only 4 genera are Palaearctic and the vast majority occur in eastern Asia and the orient with China being particularly speciose. Species are very typical of the family.
The remaining 3 tribes are represented in Europe including the UK and serve to illustrate the majority of the family:
Byctiscini Voss, 1923 is restricted to the Palaearctic and Oriental regions extending south to the Philippines and Sulawesi. The group includes about 12 genera in 3 subtribes and is predominantly eastern in distribution. Our two UK species of Byctiscus Thomson, C.G., 1859 occur throughout the Palaearctic region and are the most widespread of the 30 or so members of the genus, 2 further species of uncertain placement and sometimes included in the genus Rhynchites, B. auronitens Gistel, 1857 and B. bicolor Gistel, 1857, occur in Germany and this completes the European list.
Deporaini Voss, 1929 is Holarctic and Southeast Asian in distribution, extending south to New Guinea but absent from Australia and tropical Africa. The group is divided into 2 subtribes; Chonostropheina Morimoto, 1962 is monogeneric and includes 4 species, of which 3 occur in Europe. Deporaina Voss, 1929 includes 8 genera and is mostly eastern; 2 species of 2 genera occur in Europe including the UK, Caenorhinus megacephalus Germar, 1823 and Deporaus betulae Linnaeus, 1758, both are very widespread, occurring throughout the Palaearctic including Japan.
Rhynchitini Gistel, 1848 is a cosmopolitan group although with only a few species in Australia, Madagascar and New Guinea; the New World fauna includes about 160 species of which 45 are Nearctic. The Palaearctic fauna includes about 30 genera and more than 220 species with by far the greatest diversity in the east. Many genera are restricted to the eastern Palaearctic but the UK list, which includes 14 species of 6 genera, are very representative as in all cases they represent larger and widespread Palaearctic genera. Involvulus Schrank, 1798 includes 35 species in 4 subgenera; 2 European species I. cupreus Linnaeus, 1758 and I. icosandriae Scopoli, 1763 (=I. caeruleus DeGeer, 1775) extend to the UK while a third, I. pubescens Fabricius, 1775 is widespread on the continent, all occur throughout Asia. Lasiorhynchites Jekel, 1860 includes 10 species in 4 subgenera, 6 occur in Europe and 2 extend to the UK. Neocoenorrhinus Voss, 1952 includes 13 species in 3 subgenera, 8 occur in Europe and 4 extend to the UK. Rhynchites Schneider, D.H., 1791 includes 18 species in 2 subgenera; 8 occur in Europe and 2 Palaearctic-wide species extend to the UK. The single species of Tatianaerhynchites Legalov, 2002 is a widespread western Palaearctic native and is common throughout Europe including the UK. Temnocerus Thunberg, 1815 includes 13 species, 4 occur in Europe of which 3 extend to the UK.
With the exception of the thief weevils the vast majority are known to be phytophagous and in Palaearctic species most develop on trees and shrubs with only very few consuming herbaceous plants. Females generally attack plants to promote decay which will facilitate larval development; in many species the larvae develop communally among a covering of decaying shoots and leaves, the plant having been attacked by the female beforehand, in Caenorhinus the leaf is petiole is partly severed and so withers and falls while the larva mines the epidermis, this is taken a stage further in Deporaus and Byctiscus where the female rolls the leaves which remain on the tree through the summer while the larva feeds inside. The female Temnocerus chews a hole in an unopened leaf bud and inserts an egg; she then chews around the base of the bud so that it will fall prematurely with the larva feeding inside. Some species e.g. Tatianaerhynchites develop in fruits which have been damaged by the female and so fall prematurely. These strategies ensure that the fully-grown larvae are in contact with the ground as most pupate in a subterranean cell, although some species e.g. of Lasiorhynchites oviposit under leaf buds on young twigs and larvae mine into the bark to develop, when fully-developed they simply fall to the ground and burrow. Some species have been pests of ornamental plants and fruit trees etc., Neocoenorrhinus germanicus (Herbst, 1797) has been an occasional pest of soft fruits, earning the common name of 'strawberry rhynchitid', Involvulus cupreus (Linnaeus, 1758) is an occasional minor pest of fruit trees. Some species of Rhynchites are sometimes serious pests in orchards in Europe and Asia; adults of R. auratus (Scopoli, 1763), the cherry-fruit weevil' or 'apricot weevil' feed on flowers but will then oviposit in young fruits as they develop and very large populations of larvae can build up disfiguring fruits or causing them to drop prematurely.
The following description applies to the Rhynchitini and so includes most of the Palaearctic and world fauna, most other groups differ in small details e.g. species of Auletini differ in the antennae being placed close to the base of the rostrum and the elytra being randomly punctured with only a sutural stria being distinct, they are otherwise immediately recognized as members of the family.
The present family differs from most 'true weevils' in having non-geniculate antennae i.e. lacking an elongate scape, a feature also seen in several other curculionoid families; they differ from Nemonychidae and Anthribidae in lacking a distinct labrum, from Apionidae in the form of the mandibles and from Attelabidae by the mandibles being toothed externally as well as internally, the smooth inner margins of the tibiae and the separate claws which may be toothed internally or bifid, attelabid claws are fused at the base and simple. In all cases species of the present family should be distinct and obvious with a little experience. Rhynchitid larvae are also distinct from those of attelabids in having 3-segmented maxillary palps and distinct labium and postlabium; attelabid larvae have 2-segmented palps and the labium is fused to the postlabium. Adult rhynchitids are small to medium-sized beetles, ≤10mm, of very characteristic elongate form with a transverse head and long rostrum, near quadrate pronotum and parallel-sided elytra that are usually distinctly wider than the forebody. Some are black or bicoloured but most are metallic green, blue, coppery or bronze, usually with dark appendages. The dorsal surface is usually to some extent pubescent, sometimes finely so but often distinctly with long erect setae, sometimes doubled. Head usually transverse with prominent eyes that occupy much of the lateral margin, rostrum short to long, usually narrow and sometimes dilated towards the apex; in some this is dimorphic, being longer, finer punctured and sometimes more dilated in the female. Mandibles toothed externally although this may not be obvious as they tend to become worn in life, labial palps 3-segmented and inserted ventrally, sometimes atrophied, maxillary palps 4-segmented and usually rigid, labrum at least partly, and usually substantially, fused to the clypeus. Antennae without an elongate scape, basal segment not particularly enlarged or developed, funiculus 7-segmented, club 3-segmented and generally elongate, insertions dorsal or lateral, from near the base to near the apex, sometimes dimorphic; more basal in the female. Pronotum quadrate to transverse and narrower than the elytra, parallel to weakly rounded laterally, often constricted before the base or the apex and without lateral beads. Surface usually shiny and variously punctured, at most with only weak basal fovea, in males of Rhynchites with well-developed lateral spines. Scutellum small but usually visible, triangular to trapeziform. Prosternum short in front of rounded coxal cavities that are contiguous or nearly so and closed behind. Elytra usually straight-sided, parallel or weakly narrowed to the base or apex, shoulders prominent and usually right angled, usually with distinct punctured striae, if randomly punctured the sutural stria is generally distinct at least towards the base, often with a scutellary striole. Epipleura usually well-developed, at least in the basal half and often completely. Pygidium often partly or entirely exposed. Abdomen with 5 visible sternites, the basal 2 variously fused. Legs generally long and robust, pro- and meso-coxae round, meta-coxae transverse, meso- and meta-coxae variously separated. Trocanters small and triangular; obliquely attached to the femora and generally hidden within the coxa-femur junction. Femora robust and usually smooth, in male Deporaus the meta-femora are widely expanded. Tibiae long and stout, with 1 or 2 spines on the inner apical angle, sometimes this is dimorphic with males having a single spine and females two. Tarsi 5-5-5; segments 1, 2 and 5 elongate, 3 widely lobed and 4 small, sometimes they appear 4-4-4 as the tiny fourth segment is hidden within the lobes of the third. Claws free and sometimes toothed internally or bifid apically. Larvae are short and wide, strongly curved and often fusiform, the head is generally retracted into the thorax, bears 1- or 2-segmented antennae and either lack ocelli or have only one either side. They are legless and the abdominal segments divided into pleats by deep transverse grooves.
Involvulus
icosandriae
cupreus
Lasiorhynchites
cavifrons
Neocoenorrhinus
interpunctatus
minutus
Temnocerus
longiceps
pauxillus
Rhynchites
nanus
Byctiscus
betulae
Tatianaerhynchites
aequatus
populi
Caenorhinus
mannerheimii
coeruleus
Deporaus