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This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend appears to be increasing, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size is extremely large, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
Taxonomic source(s)
AERC TAC. 2003. AERC TAC Checklist of bird taxa occurring in Western Palearctic region, 15th Draft. Available at: #http://www.aerc.eu/DOCS/Bird_taxa_of _the_WP15.xls#.
Cramp, S.; Perrins, C. M. 1977-1994. Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The birds of the western Palearctic. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
del Hoyo, J.; Collar, N. J.; Christie, D. A.; Elliott, A.; Fishpool, L. D. C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge UK: Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International.
Brazil, M. 2009. Birds of East Asia: eastern China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, eastern Russia. Christopher Helm, London.
del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A.; Sargatal, J. 1992. Handbook of the Birds of the World, vol. 1: Ostrich to Ducks. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.
Delany, S.; Scott, D. 2006. Waterbird population estimates. Wetlands International, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Flint, V. E.; Boehme, R. L.; Kostin, Y. V.; Kuznetsov, A. A. 1984. A field guide to birds of the USSR. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
Grishanov, D. 2006. Conservation problems of migratory waterfowl and shorebirds and their habitats in the Kaliningrad region of Russia. In: Boere, G.; Galbraith, C., Stroud, D. (ed.), Waterbirds around the world, pp. 356. The Stationary Office, Edinburgh, UK.
Gudmundsson, F. 1979. The past status and exploitation of the Myvatn waterfowl populations. Oikos 32((1-2)): 232-249.
Johnsgard, P. A. 1978. Ducks, geese and swans of the World. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London.
Kear, J. 2005. Ducks, geese and swans volume 2: species accounts (Cairina to Mergus). Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.
Madge, S.; Burn, H. 1988. Wildfowl. Christopher Helm, London.
Melville, D. S.; Shortridge, K. F. 2006. Migratory waterbirds and avian influenza in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway with particular reference to the 2003-2004 H5N1 outbreak. In: Boere, G.; Galbraith, C., Stroud, D. (ed.), Waterbirds around the world, pp. 432-438. The Stationary Office, Edinburgh, UK.
Quan, R. C.; Wen, W.; Yang, X. 2002. Effects of human activities on migratory waterbirds at Lashihai Lake, China. Biological Conservation 108: 273-279.
Scott, D. A.; Rose, P. M. 1996. Atlas of Anatidae populations in Africa and western Eurasia. Wetlands International, Wageningen, Netherlands.
Snow, D. W.; Perrins, C. M. 1998. The Birds of the Western Palearctic vol. 1: Non-Passerines. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Further web sources of information
Detailed regional assessment and species account from the European Red List of Birds (BirdLife International, 2015)
Detailed species account from Birds in Europe: population estimates, trends and conservation status (BirdLife International 2004)
Explore HBW Alive for further information on this species
Search for photos and videos, and hear sounds of this species from the Internet Bird Collection
Text account compilers
Ekstrom, J., Butchart, S., Malpas, L., Calvert, R.
Pihl, S.
IUCN Red List evaluators
Butchart, S., Symes, A.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2015) Species factsheet: Mergus merganser. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 26/11/2015. Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2015) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 26/11/2015.
This information is based upon, and updates, the information published in BirdLife International (2000) Threatened birds of the world. Barcelona and Cambridge, UK: Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, BirdLife International (2004) Threatened birds of the world 2004 CD-ROM and BirdLife International (2008) Threatened birds of the world 2008 CD-ROM. These sources provide the information for species accounts for the birds on the IUCN Red List.
To provide new information to update this factsheet or to correct any errors, please email BirdLife
To contribute to discussions on the evaluation of the IUCN Red List status of Globally Threatened Birds, please visit BirdLife's Globally Threatened Bird Forums.
Additional resources for this species
|Key facts
|Current IUCN Red List category
|Least Concern
|Anatidae (Ducks, Geese, Swans)
|Species name author
|Linnaeus, 1758
|Population size
|mature individuals
|Population trend
|Distribution size (breeding/resident)
|9,750,000 km2
|Country endemic?
|Links to further information
- Additional Information on this species
- 2015 European Red List assessment

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December 1, 2015
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- First lady Crissy Haslam has planted a pinwheel garden at the Capitol to help start Child Abuse Prevention Month.
She said at the ceremony Tuesday that it was a great opportunity to raise awareness about child abuse and neglect.
Pinwheels have become a focal point of the annual awareness campaign, which is held each April.
The first lady said pinwheels are reflective of bright futures all children deserve.
In addition to the blue pinwheel garden, the Capitol will be lit with blue lights in observance of child abuse prevention, representing the 95,000 infants to be born in Tennessee this year.
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There's something incredibly soothing about watching baseball games.
There's something incredibly soothing about watching baseball games.
Sitting in the stands at Al Ortolani Field watching Pittsburg State and Missouri Western play a doubleheader before the rains came last Friday evening, I had a familiar revelation that almost nothing can beat watching a baseball game.
I was alone during this revelation — sitting in the middle of the desolate green stands, jotting notes or keeping score or wishing for more "Green Onions" between innings or flashing back on baseball games from childhood or remembering that foul ball which could have decapitated a poor sports writer a few innings ago before he moved to a different location.
I love the peace and quiet and the solitude that a small town college or high school game brings to life, especially when we've been having mostly incredible weather so far this spring.
I try and spend as little time as humanly possible inside the office or a shopping mall or wherever large masses of people are found — away from modern or postmodern technology, away from buzzes and beeps all except for the buzz of bees in the grass surrounding every park, away from e-mail and voicemail, away from a computer or television screen except for those occasions whenever a laptop becomes necessary for TV/Radio or a brief story between games, away from inconsiderate and nasty drivers who flip you the bird when they're at fault and you saved them from a wreck and higher insurance rates, away from lines that stretch around the block for a cheeseburger. . . .
As much as I enjoy watching football and basketball and softball, they provide different enjoyments than baseball. Baseball moves slower (in the best possible sense of the word in this hectic world) and seems built less on kinetic motion or sheer, brute force for its appeal. As I struggle to articulate what's so great about baseball, I found a blog written by somebody calling herself Dr. Sanity. She entitled her Apr. 2 entry, "Baseball and the Soul," and she takes a crack at finding the words:
"I find the sights and smells and sounds of a ballpark on a summer day to be the most soothing experience imaginable. The ebbs and flows of the game are comforting and yet exciting. The joy of your team coming from behind; or your favorite players doing well. The glory of winning the pennant and even the anguish of losing it. Baseball has the rhythm of life . . . not too fast; not too slow but smooth and flowing."
She touched on her father and her brothers and how baseball runs very deep in her family. That statement might ring loud and true for your family and it certainly does for my family. I remember how sad I was and how disappointed I was in myself after leaving behind somewhere in space and time a baseball glove which my uncle let me have when I first started playing summer baseball, circa the summer following the second grade or 1987. I used that glove as backup plan for several years and sometimes it just felt right using that glove before a big game. Sometimes I wonder exactly what happened and who ended up as the owner of that glove.
Page 2 of 2 - Perhaps, despite interleague play and the designated hitter and the expanded playoff system, it's because baseball stays basically the same that it gets passed on and spans the generations, the fashions, the trends, et cetera. You catch the ball, you throw the ball and you hit the ball. The majority of changes in baseball have been cosmetic, rather than elemental.
It's the one and only game that's inspired Walt Whitman, George Will, the Marx Brothers and Fidel Castro.
When I was in the fifth or sixth grade, I remember seeing a kid on television who started his own magazine, a fanzine if you will, devoted to professional baseball. He illustrated his own covers, wrote his own stories, et cetera. Not only did his story make it onto ESPN, the kid met some of his favorite baseball players. I was inspired and dabbled in a similar enterprise that lasted all of 5 minutes before moving on to the next wild and crazy daydream.
At 11 or 12 years old, if I could not have been a standout athlete myself, I thought it would be the next best thing to cover them, document them, et cetera. My 11- or 12-year-old self would have never understood any desire on my behalf to pursue a career beyond sports and certainly would have despised any desk job. He would never have used the word "career" in the first place. Sometimes I think we all were a little bit smarter when we were 11 or 12 years old . . . sometimes but not always.
My girlfriend's youngest son will be playing summer baseball for the first time, a third grader no doubt a little behind the average Ted Carnino League player. He's on the raw side but he does have some potential, especially in his arm.
We attended his first clinic and his first practice. I hope to be able to give him some tips and I hope never to be a parental figure from Hell screaming at the child, screaming at the coach and screaming at the umpires. I never liked any of that being a player, being an umpire for one summer and being a spectator.
On another detour, I'll give you my favorite experience being an umpire. It was a Little League game in Mulberry. There was a force play at second and I called the runner out. The opposing coach stormed out because he thought the second baseman dropped the ball before any out was made, appealed the call and dropped a few kind words in my general vicinity. I'll never forget his standard-issue "Are you blind?" taunt. I laughed at him, at least on the inside, since I was 17 years old and wore glasses already. I was overruled and I still believe that I was right.
Anyway, let us hope this nice weather continues for as long as possible and we get in as many baseball and softball games before football season.
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Ashlee ("Real Housewives of New Jersey")
Even putting aside the idiotic way she's decided to spell her name, or the tragic new hair color she's sporting, she's a terrible human being. She's so useless that when her mom and stepdad try to ship her off, she can't even do that right. She missed a flight because she was busy looking for snacks (and called for a ride, seemingly before the flight left), and then nearly missed her second flight because her prescription drugs made her spacy. Just go away already.
Aubrey O'Day ("Celebrity Apprentice")
She tried to make Arsenio tap-dance and didn't see why that could be construed as racist, dressed like a slutty cheerleader (against everyone's advice), ignored her project manager, redid the entire staging to display her breasts better, and then got angry when Arsenio dared to disagree with her.
Aubrey volunteers to model in this clip from next week's "Celebrity Apprentice":
Kat ("Survivor")
We normally don't like to put people who are just dumb on this list, but she's dumb and heinous. Instead of taking deserving castaways on the family reward, she picked people who would most enjoy partying. Then she sullenly pouted after she lost a challenge and refused to high-five the winner, Kim. And then moments after saying she didn't understand why people were picking on her, she talked about how much she loved blindsides. We do, too. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving person.
Christina Aguilera ("The Voice")
Why does she hate Tony Lucca so much? It's really peculiar. Her off-base critiques of him are completely out of line with what the other judges have to say (and obviously how America is voting) -- they seem to be based on some anger issues from their old days at the Mickey Mouse Club. She also isn't competent at judging, as she wussed out and gave her two people the same score instead of owning up to her opinions.
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Willam ("RuPaul's Drag Race")
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Benny Brissette admitted to being a little skeptical about the premise of three Northeastern Connecticut high schools playing with one another, rather than against each other.
Benny Brissette admitted to being a little skeptical about the premise of three Northeastern Connecticut high schools playing with one another, rather than against each other.
Brissette was a wide-eyed freshman four years ago when Putnam, Tourtellotte and Ellis Tech formed their co-op football program known as the Quinebaug Valley Pride. Now, Brissette is a senior on the Pride.
"I had never played with most of the guys and it was normally a Tourtellotte-Putnam rivalry in high school," the Tourtellotte High senior said. "You thought there would be tension in the locker room."
Instead, Brissette saw some familiar faces in the locker room from his youth football playing days. He and senior quarterback Tylor Genest, from Putnam High, had been playing on the same team youth team since they were 5 years old.
Then, something happened — the Pride started to win.
It was a feeling that neither the old Putnam High football program or the Tourtellotte-Ellis Tech co-op had experienced. In the three seasons before Quinebaug Valley was formed, the two teams had combined to go 6-53. Tourtellotte-Ellis Tech had only broken a 21-game losing streak the season before, against Putnam, of course.
In 2010, in the Pride's first year as a member of the Constitution State Conference, the record shot up to 8-2 and, going into Thanksgiving, the team still had a shot at a state playoff berth. No one needed any more convincing that the co-op had a future.
"We definitely want to keep up the good name that the seniors in that first season left for us," said Tourtellotte senior Niko Dimopoulos. "They set a good standard for this team and we just want to keep going."
Since that 8-2 beginning, things have leveled off a bit. The Pride went 6-4 and then, under coach Joe Asermelly for a first time, were 5-5 last year.
This season, 54 "solid" football players are out for the team, according to Asermelly, and those numbers could be bolstered by incoming freshmen this week.
"I think, at the end of the day, the co-op was to give the opportunity for kids to play football who otherwise wouldn't have that opportunity," Asermelly said. "There are 54 kids out here playing competitive football right now that may not have got the shot under the previous model."
Asermelly, a teacher at Ellis Tech, admits it's not perfect. He knew coming into the role that he was three head coaches in one. He answers to three athletic directors and three principals and works with three groups of athletes. He has "to be all things to all people."
So, he uses the tools available to him, namely social media to keep everyone in tune with the program.
"I try to take advantage of everything the kids are into," Asermelly said. "We set up our own website. I update it almost daily during camp. The kids told me I had to get a Twitter account, so I did. If that's where they are, I will teach myself. The webpage, the Twitter, the texting, upgrading to a smartphone — do what you got to do."
Page 2 of 2 - He has reached most, but there is still more to do. Genest said participation from Putnam High could still be better. He doesn't attribute it to Putnam athletes being averse to the co-op or "tri-op" as Asermelly refers to it, but rather they are into other sports, and there just aren't that many male athletes at a small school such as Putnam.
Asermelly looks at it this way: even though Putnam contributes the fewest athletes, he's getting one of every five boys in the school to play football.
"If those numbers were true at Ellis Tech, I would have 50 Ellis Tech kids, not 25," Asermelly said. "It's not just numbers, it's percentages and attitude and things like that."
Putnam, being the host school, does contribute in different ways, like the support at the games. All of the games take place at the St. Marie-Greenhalgh Field in Putnam and the Clippers student body is well-represented.
"All of our students come out for our games still," Genest said.
Brissette said the attitude about the program has improved at Tourtellotte. He didn't feel many cared very much about what happened when it was just Tourtellotte-Ellis Tech.
"Now, everybody talks about it, they all go to the game," Brissette said. "We have pep rallies for the games. It's still tough, because it's three different schools, but everyone gets excited. It's becoming more popular."
Plus, it's not Putnam-Tourtellotte-Ellis Tech; it's Quinebaug Valley.
"It might be cliche, but united we stand, divided we fall," Asermelly said. "One flag, one uniform, one logo, one name. That's where we need to be."
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November 29, 2015
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Going to the library gives people the same kick as getting a raise does — a £1,359 ($ 2,282) raise, to be exact — according to a study commissioned by the U.K.'s Department for Culture, Media & Sport. The study, which looks at the ways "cultural engagement" affects overall wellbeing, concluded that a significant association was found between frequent library use and reported wellbeing. The same was true of dancing, swimming and going to plays. The study notes that "causal direction needs to be considered further" — that is, it's hard to tell whether happy people go to the library, or going to the library makes people happy. But either way, the immortal words of Arthur the Aardvark ring true: "Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card!"
Richard H. Hoggart, scholar and key witness in the 1960 obscenity trial involving the U.K. publisher of Lady Chatterley's Lover, died on April 10. He was 95. A defense witness for Penguin Books, Hoggart argued that D.H. Lawrence's novel about Constance Chatterley's affair with a gamekeeper was "puritanical, poignant and tender." He explained that the book was "puritanical" not because it was rigid or prudish, but because it carried "an intense sense of responsibility for one's conscience." Penguin was acquitted.
French economist Thomas Piketty's 700-page book on income inequality has attracted rapturous media coverage since it became the top selling book on Amazon. But in an article for The New York Times, Justin Wolfers asks whether Piketty has "kicked off a broad national conversation about inequality, or is the book being read mostly in the East Coast liberal echo chamber?" Wolfers used data from Google searches to show that people in Washington, D.C., did far and away more searches for Piketty, followed by Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut — pointing to a coastal, not a nationwide trend.
The shortlist for the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing, which awards the author of the winning short story £10,000, was announced this week. The list includes work by Diane Awerbuck, Okwiri Oduor, Billy Kahora, Tendai Huchu and Efemia Chela. According to a press release, the head of the judges, Jackie Kay, said this is "a golden age for the African short story," adding that the shortlisted works were "compelling, lyrical, thought-provoking and engaging." She said, "From a daughter's unusual way of grieving for her father, to a memorable swim with a grandmother, a young boy's fascination with a gorilla's conversation, a dramatic faux family meeting, to a woman who is forced to sell her eggs, the subjects are as diverse as they are entertaining." The full list, with links to each story, is here.
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Once I started working on the regular expressions to parse through this output and generate the syntax I needed, I realized I should ditch vim and just write a script that built the entire configuration file for me and run that script with cron. That way, I'd never have to add a new server again. The only challenge was that I had multiple subnets I wanted to scan, and I discovered that sometimes nmap didn't resolve the IP addresses into hostnames for me. Listing 1 shows the resulting script.
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#!/usr/bin/perl my $munin_dir = '/etc/munin'; my $munin_config = 'munin.conf'; my $munin_config_temp = 'munin.conf.tmp'; my $node_port = '4949'; my $nmap = "nmap -oG - -p "; my %subnets = ( "10.1.1.0/24" => "VLAN1", "10.1.5.0/24" => "VLAN5", "10.1.6.0/24" => "VLAN6", ); # iterate through each subnet and perform the nmap scan foreach $subnet (keys %subnets){ open NMAP, "$nmap $node_port $subnet | grep open |" ↪or die "Can't run nmap: $!\n"; while (<NMAP>){ $ip = $host = ""; # parse out the hostname and IP address /Host: (\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+) \((.*?)\)/; $ip = $1; $host = $2; next if($ip eq ""); # sometimes nmap doesn't do rDNS properly, # get it manually in that case if($host eq ""){ $host = `dig -x $ip +short` or $host = $ip; chomp $host; $host =~ s/\.$//; } $munin_hosts{$host} = $ip; } close NMAP; } # output to a temp file in case munin # runs while this script is open open OUTFILE, "> $munin_dir/$munin_config_temp" or die "Can't open $munin_dir/$munin_config_temp: $!\n"; # first print out the standard header for the munin file print OUTFILE <<END_HEAD; dbdir /var/lib/munin htmldir /var/www/munin logdir /var/log/munin rundir /var/run/munin tmpldir /etc/munin/templates END_HEAD # then print out the config for each host foreach $host (sort keys %munin_hosts){ print OUTFILE "\[$host\]\n\taddress $host\n"; # add any extra munin options for each host here print OUTFILE "\n"; } close OUTFILE; system("mv $munin_dir/$munin_config_temp $munin_dir/$munin_config");
Other than the hashes and a little fun with regular expressions, the bulk of this script is basic Perl. Once I tested it a few times by hand and was comfortable with it, I went ahead and copied the script into /etc/cron.daily. Of course, on my real network, I've added a few other fancy touches. For instance, every server on my network has a DNS TXT record that says what the server does. It is a useful practice for many reasons, but in this case, I found that because I used the same TXT record for similar servers, I could look it up and use that to group servers together under that heading.
Although this script worked great for Munin configs, you also could use the same procedure to scan for any number of services and build a configuration. I could see scripts that generate configuration files for Nagios, programs that poll SNMP or any other program that monitors multiple servers over a known port.
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How are you triggering the rule now - with a content category? We've setup the same rule but we're only triggering when the content being uploaded matches the content category (custom defined dictionary/word list). Works fine for us.
2. Re: DLP 9.3 monitor web uploadscsteels Dec 9, 2013 12:30 PM (in response to sb905)
We set it up initially very open ended in that it would just monitor all web posts (all web servers, all files) so that we can see when people upload company data to external sites but that doesnt work too great, basically pops up constantly when just browsing the web!
Think we need to maybe tie it down to some file types and test again, at the moment we've had to disable it and we're just testing it among ourselves before going anywhere near a live pilot.
3. Re: DLP 9.3 monitor web uploadsepoNovice Jul 21, 2014 6:44 PM (in response to csteels)
Any luck with this ? I had the same issue...have just changed the rule to include certain file types and testing that now.
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WPPR monitors pretty much all HTTP_POST call.
Whenever you browse the net [intranet or internet] , HTTP_POST calls are made.
So you are bound to get tons of information.
5. Re: DLP 9.3 monitor web uploadsepoNovice Jul 23, 2014 1:34 AM (in response to csteels)
By restricting file types to office files, pdf and image you will drdstically drop the number of files...I also excluded our intranet and sharepoint servers.
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After we consumed our control group, Remsberg crafted a second round of Donn's punches, this time with an ounce each of Myers's and Smith & Cross. We drank. And it was clearly a different bit of business. The second had more depth, and definitely a bit of lumber to it. I preferred the second to the first, but not hugely so, and didn't think it necessarily merited spending the extra money on the better rum for this drink. Remsberg more or less agreed with this assessment.
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written at 5th october 2006, by Misura, in reply to a meme-challenge made in my livejournal by Ingenius Inc which offered the theme: Five things Crawford had to offer an apology for (because he was too smart to think Schuldig would let him get away without one)
The one nice thing about Crawford, Schuldich had always thought, was that the man was never late. It simply didn't happen; any type of delay would be foreseen and thus accounted for. Possibly, that had made Schuldich a bit spoilt - although it wasn't as if Crawford ever cut /him/ any slack when he was late, however good his excuse might be.
"You're /late/," Schuldich snapped, when Crawford finally appeared, cleaning some specks of blood from his shoes. "I was /waiting/ for you."
"Sorry," Crawford said, as easy as if he apologized to people on a daily basis.
"What?" Schuldich asked, out of some weird desire to hear Crawford say he was sorry again. Which was probably not going to happen, but Schuldich liked to be optimistic.
"I synchronized my watch with the news earlier today. Yours is still running three minutes early."
"This," Schuldich declared as he stumbled into the kitchen at seven in the morning, "is going to be a bad day. Nagi, tell me there's coffee."
"I have a maths-test." Nagi frowned as he looked up from his notes. "Did Crawford say that?"
"Who do you think Brad is? Your dad?" Schuldich snorted.
"I meant: did Crawford say it was going to be a bad day?" Nagi clarified. "There's coffee over there."
"Naw, I'm just cranky because of last night." Schuldich poured himself a mug of coffee.
"I don't want to know," Nagi said. "And for your information: that's the last coffee there is. If you go out today, you'd better do some grocery-shopping. We're out of noodles, too."
"Great." Schuldich sat down. "Who cares about noodles anyway?"
"Noodles are very nutritious and a proper substitute for potatoes or rice," Crawford said, straightening his tie as he walked in. "Good morning, Nagi. I'm pleased you'll score another A for maths today."
"Ha!" Nagi violently shoved his notes away.
"You have /no/ sense of responsibility, do you know that? What if you only saw he'd score an A because of his last-minute studying this morning /which he isn't going to do now/ thanks to you?" Schuldich shook his head. "You're a lousy father-figure."
"My predictions are always right," Crawford said, halting next to Schuldich.
"They'd better," Schuldich grumbled. "Bugger off, will you? I'm still not done reading the comics-page, and unlike /some/ people, I actually need to /read/ the newspaper to know what's in it."
"Oh, it's not the newspaper I want," Crawford reassured him. "It's the coffee. Sorry."
"Was that a police-car?" Schuldich asked.
"Maybe," Farfarello replied.
"Does it matter if it was?" Nagi demanded. "We're not breaking any laws right now. We're just going to an amusement-park."
"Tot loves amusement-parks!" Tot squealed.
"Nagi, tell your girlfriend to shut up, will you? I have a headache." Schuldich rubbed his temples and wished Crawford was here, preferably instead of Schuldich himself. Two days ago, it had seemed like fun to egg Nagi on when he requested a trip to an amusement-park. Nagi hardly ever did anything even remotely teen-like, and Schuldich had spotted a great chance to pay Crawford back for making him sleep in his own room three nights in a row. He could have known Crawford would find some way to turn the tables on him. Outsmarting a precog simply didn't seem to be possible.
"Yes," Farfarello said, somewhat out of the blue.
"Yes? Yes, what? Yes, you know I have a headache? Yes, you have a headache, too?" Schuldich had dragged Farfarello along in the hopes of some entertainment, and because he scared Tot.
"Yes, it was a police-car. It's following us," Farfarello clarified.
Schuldich cursed. He'd convinced those four idiots of Weiss that they all were straight and should find girlfriends last night. He didn't want to have to mindwipe a pair of policemen before eleven in the morning, with no more than half a cup of coffee for breakfast.
"Tot hears a ringtone!" Tot squealed.
Schuldich picked up his cellphone, deciding Crawford had to be rubbing off on him. He already knew who it'd be before he heard their voice.
"The police-car Farfarello has just spotted is no threat, and you should make no attempt to influence the agents' minds in any way," Crawford told him. "Sorry, Schuldich; they've simply given you a speeding ticket. That's not important enough to make a fuss over. The 9600 yen will come out of your own pocket, of course, as you were the one driving the car."
"You bastard!" Schuldich muttered. "Those tickets for the amusement-park only cost you 6000, at most."
"It's called 'interest'," Crawford informed him. "Enjoy the ride in the Cotton Candy Express."
Crawford didn't seem to care a great deal about what Schuldich did in his spare time, and he /was/ a precognitive, after all, so Schuldich assumed that meant Crawford simply didn't have it in him to be jealous. Considering Crawford's personality, that seemed a logical-enough assumption.
Thus, it didn't seem like such a big deal, when Schuldich spotted what was supposed to be God's gift to womankind, wearing sunglasses and an outfit that screamed 'slut', in some club Schuldich only visited because he liked the way they put little umbrellas in all their drinks, and the general level of messed-up-ness of most of the people he met there. Crawford could have told him Kudoh'd be there, sure, but he hadn't, so apparently he hadn't considered it of any importance.
Kudoh told Schuldich he, Kudoh, was straight, hostile and sexier than Schuldich, which was amusing enough to make Schuldich buy him a few drinks. After those, Kudoh told Schuldich that actually, Schuldich looked pretty damn sexy, and was a great guy. Schuldich decided to get Kudoh out of there before he started crying in his drink about what a shame it was that they were (theoretically) enemies.
They exchanged phone-numbers and agreed to meet again the next week, same time and place. Schuldich felt rather pleased with himself, enjoying the prospect of getting to screw around with Kudoh's mind (and okay, perhaps also with his body, although Schuldich feared Kudoh was one of those all-talk-no-action kind of persons). Thus, it came as a considerable let-down when Kudoh stood him up.
The phone-number he'd given Schuldich turned out to be fake, too, adding insult to injury, because Schuldich had, in fact, given Kudoh his real one. As he came home at three in the morning, Schuldich was thoroughly pissed off at the world in general, and Kudoh Yohji in particular.
Crawford was waiting for him, looking awake and smug. Schuldich cursed at him in German, which Crawford spoke almost as fluently as Schuldich, although he might be less familiar with the more colourful swear-words. When Schuldich paused to breathe, he rose and said, in English:
"Sorry, Schuldich, but if you want to sleep around, that's entirely your own business."
Crawford was, Schuldich knew, not sorry. Crawford never was, and never would be, either.
"Let Nagi do it!" Schuldich protested. "He's /dating/ one of those bimbos!"
"Nagi needs to go to school," Crawford said calmly.
"Well, then, Farfarello complained about not getting to go out enough. Why not let him do something useful for once?" Schuldich suggested.
"Our goal is to keep a low profile." Crawford said. "That doesn't include having one of us dropped off on our doorstep by the police, with a request to keep a better eye on him next time. And that's only the best-case scenario, based on the assumption the police-officers who apprehend him actually work for Mr. Takatori. Farfarello is not an option."
"I bet /I/ could get myself arrested, too, if I tried," Schuldich muttered. All he'd need to do was act like one of those German tourists he'd spotted every now and then, drunk on sake and acting like this was some sort of backwards-country where everything could be bought if you waved the right kind of money. Of course, everything /could/ be bought here, as much as in Germany or anywhere else, but not for a few thousand yen. "Maybe I should."
"You can always try." Crawford didn't sound impressed with the threat. It had been more of a joke, anyway; Schuldich had no desire to get arrested /and/ have Crawford be annoyed with him at the same time. He wasn't suicidal or masochistic.
"What about you?" Schuldich decided to switch tactics and leaned back in his seat, giving Crawford a good view of - well, his fully clothed body. It looked good, sure, but he doubted if it looked good enough to make Crawford cave. Still, maybe Crawford would decide to do something about that 'fully clothed' part. Nagi was gone and Farfarello was locked in his room, so it was just the two of them right now. A perfect opportunity, if Schuldich said so himself.
"Sorry, I have a meeting in fifteen minutes." Crawford looked at his watch.
"People are going to think I'm some sort of pedophile when they see my shopping-cart," Schuldich complained. "Why can't Schreient do their own grocery-shopping?"
"Mr. Takatori's orders." Crawford shrugged. "As to your reputation: I would suppose people will simply assume you're shopping for your wife and children."
"That's even worse," Schuldich said.


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Scott Disick Gets 'Psycho' for Kanye West
Hmm...maybe Scott Disick should stick to his day job?
Kourtney Kardashian's baby daddy finally got the chance to channel his inner Patrick Bateman, the iconic character played by Christian Bale in "American Psycho," to help promote sort-of-brother-in-law Kanye West.
A new video for West's album "Yeezus," which features Disick and Kim Kardashian BFF Jonathan Chebon recreating a memorable scene from "American Psycho," went viral on Tuesday.
Wearing a white raincoat and holding an ax, 30-year-old Disick mimics the infamous scene from the 2000 twisted film.
"Hey, do you like Kanye West?" Disick asks Cheban in the clip. "The early work was a little too hip-hop for me and my taste, but when "Dark Twisted Fantasy" came out in 2010, I think he really came into his own both musically and lyrically."
The scene is a parody of the "Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?" clip that Bale brilliantly acted in. Except this time, the floor is lined with pages from Billboard magazine.
The spoof is spot-on, although it's not exactly an Academy Award-winning performance from the TV personalities. Then again - isn't that why Christian Bale does what he does, and the "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" stars do what they do?
"American Psycho" author Bret Easton Ellis tweeted the following about the short video:
Scott Disick's Dream Comes True in the promo that I originally wrote for Kanye's new record but not a lot was used: http://t.co/VBDMK698bL
-- Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) June 18, 2013
Back in December 2011, it was announced Lionsgate was looking to remake the flick.
"Just heard there doing a remake of American Psycho! best news i have ever heard! i hope they call me!" Disick tweeted at the time.
"I have warned Lionsgate that I will not approve a new version of 'American Psycho' unless it stars SCOTT DISICK or MILES FISHER," Ellis tweeted. "I am waiting for Scott Disick to ask: 'Who in the hell is Bret Easton Ellis?"
Well, now you've seen what Disick has to offer. Comment away.
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Purchased many uses, good product for the money and have held up to everything I need them for.
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wordpress auto puts the lates jquery version into the <head> tag:
<script type='text/javascript' src='http:/mysite.de/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.7.1'></script>.
That version is needed for some plugins and works!
Now i put my very own javascript into the <head> right before the end of the </head> tag. That script doesn't work now. But when i put manually a link to a ealier version of jquery (<script src="http://mysite.de/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/js/jquery-1.4.1.js"></script>) ABOVE my script, it works, but the other plugins don't because they need the latest jQuery version.
But my javascript works definitly in latest jQuery version! I've tested it.
Where is the problem? jQuery is loaded else my plugins wouldn't work but it has no effect to my javascript in the <head> not until i put a link to jQuery additionally above my script.
Hope you can help