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Several weeks ago I invited Globe-News readers to share stories of wildlife that came into their yards inside the Amarillo city limits. Little did I suspect that my inbox would light up like a Christmas tree.
Here is just a fraction of the stories, edited for length:
■ Reader D.N. wrote several skunk, coyote, and opossum stories, but ended with this gem: "My husband was out of town, I was getting ready to leave the house so I started to put our pup in the yard. On the other side of the sliding door was a bobcat, standing erect, nose in the air. I wasn't but about four feet from him. He took my breath away.
"Our pup, a full grown Brittany spaniel, was amazed. She didn't bark; we just stood there transfixed. I called my husband, and he wanted to know if I got a picture. A PICTURE?!!! I had nearly put the dog in the yard with a cat every bit as big or bigger than she is and he wanted a picture!! ... I could see that the pup was still looking out the door. I got down on her level so I could see what she was looking at and discovered there were two of the cats, and they were playing in the backyard like a couple of kittens." I imagine bobcats would eat a dog.
■ Next, a reader who prefers to keep his initials out of the paper wrote, "The first close encounter with the swift (fox) involved a cow tank close to Tulia in about 1980. Earlier in the day, I watched the fox slip over the lip of the tank. 'What in the world?' I asked myself. I waited 30 minutes and walked over to the tank. It was half filled with sand and Johnson grass. In the middle of the grass was a perfect pyramid of skulls with huge orbit sockets and fangs in the jaws. Took me a minute to realize I was looking at cat skulls." Cat lovers, beware: foxes eat cats.
"I've trapped a couple of the fox when I was trying to get rid of skunks. The bait was a whole egg. You might not think a whole egg gives off a stink, but to a varmint, it must smell pretty good. If I had a fox in the live trap I took him way out past Bushland and let him loose. But, you know what? Those little fun-loving fellows follow the railroad tracks right back into town. They run in 25-mile circles seeking anything. The recent sighting of my fox observed him under our ornamental pear tree sucking up the hard cherry-sized orange fruits. As the week wore on I'd find fox droppings with the berries passed straight through. It has also been my observation coyote will eat the hard, blue-violet juniper berries. Why? I don't know, but they pass like the mesquite beans pass through the cow. ..."
"In the days when I still had my 'venom,' my uncle told me the story of how Amarillo College got the idea for its mascot from a badger's den located on Washington. The danged old badger was mean too."
■ B.S. of the Quail Creek area made a list of critters he's seen in his subdivision: "Quail (bob white and blue); fox; opossum (backyard), deer (eight-point buck on Ninth Avenue by the VA); bobcat; skunks; turkey (front yard); porcupine (in the apartment complex),; coyote (in the trash Dumpsters); roadrunner (on the roof and at the bird feeder); and raccoon (next door neighbors' garage)."
My own experience with wildlife in Amarillo includes seeing an opossum in my yard one night several years ago. I bought a live trap and caught him the very next night, then caught six of his cousins plus one really angry raccoon over the next week, releasing them all in the canyon.
Finally, this is about a different type of wild life: I'll be giving a lecture 7 p.m. Tuesday on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" at the Southwest Branch of the Amarillo library on 45th Avenue. It's part of the WT's Great Books Lecture Series. Fitzgerald's subject matter is the wild living during the "Roaring Twenties," that unique period of history between World War I and the Great Depression. The lecture is free and open to the public.
David Horsley is an Amarillo author and freelance writer. He teaches English at West Texas A&M University.

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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20266288.post1273952175094083980..comments2016-08-23T01:39:20.228-07:00Comments on Adventures in Babywearing: O Christmas TreeStephanie Precourthttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20266288.post-63840256638835480432006-12-02T20:26:00.000-08:002006-12-02T20:26:00.000-08:00So true! :)So true! :)Nickihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20266288.post-91174177798891481902006-12-02T19:28:00.000-08:002006-12-02T19:28:00.000-08:00Thanks for the tip of the "Shatterproof" balls! Wh...Thanks for the tip of the "Shatterproof" balls! What an awesome invention...didn't know they existed, but we got some (and some sanity too!)...

Merry Christmas!Elizabeth F.http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20266288.post-590317249258115402006-12-02T08:17:00.000-08:002006-12-02T08:17:00.000-08:00I wish I still had the totally amazed, excited fee...I wish I still had the totally amazed, excited feeling that children have surrounding Christmas. Those feelings have been replaced with the anticipation of watching the childrens eyes light up when they see the tree, and the gifts.
Hope you have a beautiful holiday season Steph!Stacihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20266288.post-15115935838560819672006-12-01T13:21:00.000-08:002006-12-01T13:21:00.000-08:00Miller just looks at the tree...he has (keep in mi...Miller just looks at the tree...he has (keep in mind he is 1) pulled the skirt out a couple of times...but only because Madison (who is 9) provokes him...I know she will be a politician one day...I know this!Jenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20266288.post-26813695763080496952006-12-01T12:24:00.000-08:002006-12-01T12:24:00.000-08:00I hadn't had "real" ornaments on the tree for the ...I hadn't had "real" ornaments on the tree for the last 13 years. Just last year I dared to put some on since my baby's now 5 1/2. I still don't have a tree up... I need to get busy I guess.Looney Momhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20266288.post-39406523842304401932006-12-01T09:29:00.000-08:002006-12-01T09:29:00.000-08:00the kids make everything more special. that's for ...the kids make everything more special. that's for sure. they love it all with such purity. i mean, hey, did we learn nothing from charlie brown loving that sad little branch?katehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20266288.post-37708217785116344342006-12-01T08:35:00.000-08:002006-12-01T08:35:00.000-08:00I always put my tree up the day after Thanksgiving...I always put my tree up the day after Thanksgiving....so not having one yet is REALLY bothering me. I think I'm having a hard time getting into the Christmas spirit because of it. It just doesn't feel like the holidays yet.Robinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20266288.post-17185079629781342582006-12-01T06:42:00.000-08:002006-12-01T06:42:00.000-08:00We will be getting our tree tomorrow, pending the ...We will be getting our tree tomorrow, pending the weather. We currently have 8 inches of snow. And we usually cut our own tree down in our area. I guess we'll just have to wait and see how ambitious we're feeling.Happihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20266288.post-61139250088182745742006-12-01T06:36:00.000-08:002006-12-01T06:36:00.000-08:00Two or more ornaments hang from the same branch, b...Two or more ornaments hang from the same branch, because of the helpfulness of the kids. My kids, who are teens, still do this :)

It's so fun to have your kids help, and seeing their little excited faces, I've said it lots of times, making memories rocks. Christmas is truly magic.No Cool Storyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20266288.post-79787293955058847342006-12-01T06:34:00.000-08:002006-12-01T06:34:00.000-08:00Your tree looks great! The kids helped us decorat...Your tree looks great!

The kids helped us decorate this year and some of the branches have several ornaments on them. I love it though.Wendyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20266288.post-84792488143200982352006-12-01T06:08:00.000-08:002006-12-01T06:08:00.000-08:00Very nice tree! I love colored lights, especially ...Very nice tree! I love colored lights, especially when the kids are so little.
When you mentioned only unbreakable ornaments...it made me think of last year. We wound up putting our tree in the playpen to keep ds out of it! (not this year, though) It was much easier, though probably not the best thing to do.Sharonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20266288.post-1817163087613495682006-12-01T06:07:00.000-08:002006-12-01T06:07:00.000-08:00Well, we got rid of our tree in the move and while...Well, we got rid of our tree in the move and while we put up other Christmas decorations, we don't even have a Christmas tree! The kids don't seem to have noticed yet. Maybe we'll get one soon.Peanut Butter and Jelly Boatshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20266288.post-2600627377964330252006-12-01T05:33:00.000-08:002006-12-01T05:33:00.000-08:00Our Christmas tree - which goes up a week before C...Our Christmas tree - which goes up a week before Christmas - only has ornaments on the top half. Very festive.Beckhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20266288.post-50937406712756442532006-12-01T05:03:00.000-08:002006-12-01T05:03:00.000-08:00You beat me to a tag!!! But I am sure you'll find...You beat me to a tag!!! But I am sure you'll find something to share about -- visit my blog!!!Glass Half Fullhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20266288.post-40985159359011498082006-11-30T22:11:00.000-08:002006-11-30T22:11:00.000-08:00I am sooooo mad at myself. I was DETERMINED to hav...I am sooooo mad at myself. I was DETERMINED to have mine up be the 1st this year, but I am totally swamped with this basement tackle of mine. I WANT my tree up!!! Wanna come do it???janicehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20266288.post-19079961395306297682006-11-30T21:33:00.000-08:002006-11-30T21:33:00.000-08:00We haven't decorated yet. I've ALWAYS had a real t...We haven't decorated yet. I've ALWAYS had a real tree, but have come to realize it might not be such a good idea with a busy 15-month old around. So nothing has been done yet... maybe this weekend!Heaven Senthttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20266288.post-39773527709981129062006-11-30T20:59:00.000-08:002006-11-30T20:59:00.000-08:00So true! Ours has been up since Saturday and I ca...So true! Ours has been up since Saturday and I can't find the lights!!!! If I can't find them tomorrow I'm going to buy more I just can't stand it sitting there all bare much longer!Heidihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20266288.post-28908145216938998922006-11-30T20:42:00.000-08:002006-11-30T20:42:00.000-08:00I need to adopt your philosophy! Between the cats ...I need to adopt your philosophy! Between the cats and the baby (mostly the cat)I'm ready to call Christmas quits! I just need to give in and take the breakables down! :-(Elizabeth F.http://firstname.lastname@example.com


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WASHINGTON: Taking your status update a step ahead, a new Facebook app would automatically recognise the song you are listening to or the TV show you are watching and will add it to your status.
The latest version of Facebook app for iOS and Android has audio recognition feature and starts listening as soon as you start typing a new status.
The app is designed not to help you figure out what is playing but to make it as easy as possible to update your friends about what you are listening to or watching, the Verge reported.
You do not need to tap "Listening to" or "Watching" in the status-creation screen.
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"When there is a match, a badge pops up over Facebook's feelings button, a small smiley face," Facebook feature product manager Aryeh Selekman said.
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The investigation, carried out in 79 cities in the U.S. and abroad since May 2010, also resulted in the arrest of 3,780 people and the confiscation of 6,100 kilos (6 3/4 tons) of cocaine, 4,668 kilos (5 tons) of methamphetamine, 735 kilos (1,600 pounds) of heroin, and 158,584 kilos (175 tons) of marijuana, the statement said.
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Sharon Stone wore a Gap turtleneck to the Oscars and Demi Moore exposed her naked...head, but the big trends of the year were...
When Marla Maples Trump (left, in New York City in October) steps into her Mizrahis, she thinks of the "happy, fun time" at age 5 when "my mother and I wore matching go-go boots." Margaret Cho (far left, in L.A. in March) says that she feels "sturdy, tall and powerful" in her Guccis.
In December in Manhattan, Jean Paul Gaultier (left) demonstrated that "boots with a skirt are more aesthetic, at least for a man," as his spokesman says. Jada Pinkett (above) got kicky in knee-highs by Gucci at The Rock premiere in San Francisco in June.
My So-Called Life veteran Claire Danes (above) liked her purse so much that she wore the matching Cynthia Rowley tank top and pants to the MTV Movie Awards ceremony in L.A. in June.
Model Tyra Banks, (in Herve Leger, above) was bowed over at the Academy Awards last March. Iman (right), outfitted by Versace, says that she couldn't fit her cell phone in her pink pouch. But she took the rest of her usual paraphernalia—"lipstick, a breath mint and a credit card"—for the opening of the New York City flagship Chanel store in May. "I like it because it's light to carry," she says.
Fifteen-year-old Beautiful Girls actress Natalie Portman (left) is no late bloomer. Clad in totally Tocca, she was in full flower at the MTV Movie Awards.
In Prada and proud of it, To Die For's Nicole Kidman (above) let go of Tom Cruise's hand for a minute but held on to her color-coordinated purse strings at the Oscars last March.
Dressing for two was a no-brainer for Marlee Matlin (below, at the Cable Ace Awards in L.A. last December), who, with her policeman husband Kevin Grandalski, welcomed Sarah Rose on Jan. 19. "The outfits chose me,"she says. "Every day I was a different size."
Melanie Griffith (above), awaiting the September birth of her third bambino (her first with new hubby Antonio Banderas), took a pregnant pause while shopping in London last May.
"I think it's beautiful to show a pregnant body—I don't think you have to wear a huge tent," says Jill Connick, who wore a Donna Karan (below) in New York City with husband Harry Jr. in February. Georgia Tatom arrived April 17. Madonna (right), filled with great expectations, covered up in Manhattan in June. Père apparent is personal trainer Carlos Leon.
Jane Seymour (right) was a red-hot mama at the American Cinematheque Awards in Century City last autumn. On Nov. 30, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman became the mother of twins John Stacy and Kristopher Steven by her husband, actor-director James Keach.
Anticipating her third blessed event later this fall, model Stephanie Seymour (above), wife of Interview magazine owner Peter Brant, wore the white stuff by Azzedine Alaïa to the premiere of Basquiat in Manhattan in July.
Impending motherhood failed to deliver a new fashion sensibility to Baywatch star Pamela Lee—or did it? The actress (with rocker spouse Tommy Lee) wore a baby-doll dress to the American Music Awards in Los Angeles last January. On June 5, Brandon Thomas emerged ready to shake, rattle and roll over.
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Kai: Damn. Crocodile Dundee called. He wants his knife back.
Bonnie: You know, he's no longer a thing and neither is that joke.
Kai: Don't you ever dream about time travel?
Bonnie: I would rather die of cholera than spend an afternoon with you.
Listen, we go in, we grab my mom, she flips Stefan's switch, he triggers Caroline, emotional dominoes, heyyyyyyy! Everybody wins.Damon
I compelled a student to perform surgery on Stefan's niece and you found a way to make this about you? God, you truly have a gift, Elena.Caroline
Caroline: How about I show you some of my other talents?
Enzo: Sorry, luv. It's not as much fun when you're not really you.
Enzo: I'm afraid she doesn't find me nearly as fascinating as I do.
Caroline: But you have an accent! Anything you say is automatically fascinating.
Damon: You don't have to pretend, Bon. I'm like a fever you can't shake.
Bonnie: Yeah, yeah, like a disease.
Damon: So Saint Caroline keeps her halo even with no humanity.
Stefan: Yeah, until she snaps and strangles somebody with it.
Elena, I shut off my humanity. I didn't turn into an idiot. The last thing I want to do is give you a reason to ruin my life.Caroline
Coming back to life is complicated. Trust me, I've done it before.Bonnie
[to Damon] Congratulations! Everything you know about your mom is wrong.Kai
Liam: Caroline Forbes, the girl from the swimming hole.
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As we plan for 2011, there are many positive signs in the global economy, but also some lingering issues. Planning no longer is about extrapolating past performance and adjusting for growth. It is now about constantly testing the temperature of the water, formulating scenarios, assessing risk and assigning probabilities. So how does one plan for recovery and improve forecast accuracy in such a volatile environment? Here are some suggestions from a recent article I wrote, which was published in the December Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) newsletter from the AFP (Association for Financial Professionals):
- Increase the frequency of forecasting
- Get more line managers involved in the planning and forecasting process
- Re-consider what's being measured - i.e. key financial and operational metrics
- Incorporate risk and probability into forecasts
- Reduce reliance on spreadsheets - leverage packaged EPM applications
To learn more about these best practices, check out the FP&A section of the AFP website and register to receive the FP&A newsletter. AFP recently launched a new topic area focused on the FP&A function and items of interest to this group of finance professionals. In addition to the FP&A quarterly newsletter, AFP will be publishing articles, running webinars and will have an FP&A track in their annual conference, which is in Boston next November. Brian Kalish, AFP's Finance Lead, is hoping this initiative creates a valuable networking and information-sharing resource for FP&A professionals.
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(Tuesday, July 15, 2014) – Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Ontario and Addictions and Mental Health Ontario (AMHO) are pleased with the provincial government's budget commitments on issues that affect people living with mental health and addictions problems.
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is partnering with Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Ontario and the Provincial Human Services and Justice Coordinating Committee (P-HSJCC) to create a standard set of intake questions to identify at-risk and high-needs clients and ensure they get the legal supports they need.
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- A two-year, $148-million investment in Ontario's Comprehensive Mental Health and Addictions Strategy, which is being expanded to include improved transitions between youth and adult services, and support for adults and those living with addiction issues.
- Enhanced annual funding for the Community Homeless Prevention Initiative (CHPI) by $42 million starting in 2014/2015 to a total of $294 million. CHPI is part of the government's Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy, which allows municipalities flexibility to address local housing priorities.
- A $50-million investment over five years to create a new poverty reduction fund targeted at supporting local solutions to poverty, including raising social assistance rates.
- A Fair Minimum Wage legislation that will index minimum wage to Ontario's Consumer Price Index beginning in October 2015.
(Monday, April 14, 2014) – Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Ontario welcomes today's report from the province's Information and Privacy Commissioner as a good first step in the examination of the disclosure of mental health police records.
CMHA Ontario encourages mental health organizations and people living with mental health disabilities to provide feedback on the proposed changes to the Customer Service Standard under the provincial Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). In particular, CMHA Ontario is concerned that proposed changes to the AODA's Customer Service Standard may pose challenges for people with mental health-related service animals, including emotional support animals.
(Monday, March 3, 2014) – Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Ontario CEO Camille Quenneville was pleased to present to the Ontario legislature's Standing Committee on Social Policy on March 3, 2014. The Committee has been listening to stakeholders around the province as it conducts its review of the Local Health System Integration Act.
(Wednesday, February 13, 2014) – The following is a statement from Camille Quenneville, CEO of CMHA Ontario, in response to the recommendations released today by a five-member jury in an inquest into the deaths of Reyal Jardine-Douglas, Sylvia Klibingaitis and Michael Eligon, three mentally ill Toronto residents fatally shot by police:
(Tuesday, January 21, 2014) – On January, 28, 2014, Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) National CEO, Peter Coleridge, will be available to speak to the media about the ways Canadians can improve and maintain their mental health as well the issues impacting people living with mental health conditions or illnesses.


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The office will provide appraisal services in Polk, Dallas, Warren, Madison and Story counties.
Forsythe generally locates office in larger metro areas, said John Forsythe, chief executive. "We serve major metropolitan areas from coast to coast, and while Des Moines is smaller than most of the other cities were we have branch operations, it is a vibrant and growing community."
Manager of the Des Moines branch is Josh Shillak, who grew up in the Des Moines area and graduated from Valley High School in West Des Moines and the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
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Apple fined $1.2 million for misleading customers in Italy
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The nearly $1.2 million that Apple was fined in Italy seem a small fee to pay when compared to Cupertino's huge cash pile, but the allegations that the Italian Antitrust Authority…
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1. AngusNG12345 (Posts: 37; Member since: 19 Jul 2011)
29. ZEUS.the.thunder.god (unregistered)
I am so happy to hear that.. wooooo !!!!!
41. JeffdaBeat (unregistered)
I'd be happy if companies had to give two year warranties on everything in the US too!
43. Lucas777 (Posts: 2137; Member since: 06 Jan 2011)
honestly.. its like a 90 day warranty for us.. except with apple just fixes ur phone if u bring it into their store so idk why people buy the protection plan anyways...
2. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
dirty dirty apple gets caught again.
3. rycx365 (Posts: 37; Member since: 18 Mar 2011)
Don't see other cell phone customers misleading customers, only apple does it
7. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
nobody else offers 2 years of warranty...
10. -RVM- (Posts: 331; Member since: 19 Oct 2011)
well, in EU every cell phone has 2 years warranty.
15. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
the warranty you are talking about covers manufacturing defects only.. the Apple care covers way more than that... is not in the same league so please... dont reply...
18. iamcc (Posts: 1319; Member since: 07 Oct 2011)
The warranty he's talking about is the warranty that Italy requires by law.
The one Apple didn't provide.
Do yourself a favor gallito, don't reply.
24. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
they do provided.. thats the Apple care.. warranty for 2 years.. in what part of the article it states that it didnt provide it?..
25. sorcio46 (Posts: 435; Member since: 27 Jul 2011)
In my countyry (Italy) warranty for 2 years should be free :D (so Apple was fined cause Apple care shouldn't exist for the second year of the product)
30. vijaysivakula (Posts: 224; Member since: 17 Aug 2011)
How dumb can you get? Do you have a problem with understanding the language or is it that the message cannot be understood by that one cell that passes off as your brain?
31. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
I guess you are enforcing the freedom of speech... good..
35. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
what apple calls "warranty" others provide for free. cell companies offer "insurance". something very new to apple.
37. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
SAMSUNG TELECOMMUNICATIONS AMERICA, LLC ("SAMSUNG") warrants that SAMSUNG's handsets and accessories ("Products") are free from defects in material and workmanship under normal use and service for the period commencing upon the date of purchase by the first consumer purchaser and continuing for the following specified period of time after that date:
Phone 1 Year
Batteries 1 Year
Case/Pouch/Holster 90 Days
Other Phone Accessories 1 Year
What is not covered?
This Limited Warranty is conditioned upon proper use of the Product. This Limited Warranty does not cover: (a) defects or damage resulting from accident, misuse, abnormal use, abnormal conditions, improper storage, exposure to liquid, moisture, dampness, sand or dirt, neglect, or unusual physical, electrical or electromechanical stress; (b) scratches, dents and cosmetic damage, unless caused by SAMSUNG; (c) defects or damage resulting from excessive force or use of a metallic object when pressing on a touch screen; (d) equipment that has the serial number or the enhancement data code removed, defaced, damaged, altered or made illegible; (e) ordinary wear and tear; (f) defects or damage resulting from the use of Product in conjunction or connection with accessories, products, or ancillary/peripheral equipment not furnished or approved by SAMSUNG; (g) defects or damage resulting from improper testing, operation, maintenance, installation, service, or adjustment not furnished or approved by SAMSUNG; (h) defects or damage resulting from external causes such as collision with an object, fire, flooding, dirt, windstorm, lightning, earthquake, exposure to weather conditions, theft, blown fuse, or improper use of any electrical source; (i) defects or damage resulting from cellular signal reception or transmission, or viruses or other software problems introduced into the Product; or (j) Product used or purchased outside the United States. This Limited Warranty covers batteries only if battery capacity falls below 80% of rated capacity or the battery leaks, and this Limited Warranty does not cover any battery if (i) the battery has been charged by a battery charger not specified or approved by SAMSUNG for charging the battery; (ii) any of the seals on the battery are broken or show evidence of tampering; or (iii) the battery has been used in equipment other than the SAMSUNG phone for which it is specified.
cool... Apple cares does so much more
21. blackrose (Posts: 48; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)
I laugh at how stupid you are every time you comment. All your comments are bias and the logic you use to back them up are bunch of bs. You have no ground to gain around here other than being a trooll. You back apple when their doing wrong and right. I wish I had a friend like that. But that's beside the point. Anyway later
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5. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
I dont see the fuss.. Apple haters.. Apple is still strong.. nothing changes... haters..
8. SuperAndroidEvo (Posts: 4837; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)
gallitoking the law is the law. Apple didn't respect Italy's laws & now has to pay the fine. Apple is king when it comes to litigation so to slip up like this is really not likely to happen.
This was intentional, Apple knew what they were doing. They got caught & now need to pay the piper!
Typical dirty rotten Apple, only about the money even if it has to break laws to get it.
11. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
I understand that... but there is nothing rotten about Apple... not for the past 3 years... and is not changinh anytime soon
13. iamcc (Posts: 1319; Member since: 07 Oct 2011)
Just because they are doing well or as you say "strong" does not mean what they are doing is right (or wrong).
Your logic would've applied to Hitler as well. Anything rotten about him?
FOR THE RECORD i'm not saying Apple is bad but your logic is seriously flawed.
16. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
and your is??... please they are not saints. .. but are not rotten.. just because you dont like a company or agreed with its methods doesnt make it.. rotten...so please go directly to jail and do not pass go...
19. iamcc (Posts: 1319; Member since: 07 Oct 2011)
People calling them rotten is a joke about the fact their company is named after a fruit... obviously people are not saying they are 100% bad.
You on the other hand, are 100% idiot.
22. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
wow 100% thank you... i have reach my level.. you on the other hand.. have lots of room for improvement.. see you in the finish line...
23. iamcc (Posts: 1319; Member since: 07 Oct 2011)
Case closed.
33. 530gemini (Posts: 2198; Member since: 09 Sep 2010)
@superfandroidevo. Would you admit and call google rotten if I can show you some laws that they have violated intentionally?
44. SuperAndroidEvo (Posts: 4837; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)
SURE!! Yes 530gemini please let me know what Google has done intentionally.
This is going to come from the land of make believe. lol
9. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
Apple is above the law. Laws only apply to lesser-companies. Apple is Apple.
12. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Well now. I'm not a fan of governments mucking in private companies' business, but damn Apple, that's pretty damn greedy. And shady as hell. Instead of being fined, they should have refunded the mislead customers.
14. GremlinUKSA (Posts: 6; Member since: 27 Dec 2011)
this is not shady. All Apple products come with a 1 year minimum guarantee worldwide. EU countries have no customer service and citizens want everything handed to them, especially Italians.
I lived there for 6 months and I can say based on experience... the Italian government has bigger issues to worry about than Apple.
17. blackrose (Posts: 48; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)
We don't want to hear that ser. They should of just follow the law. They love doing that when suing people for bs patients.
20. iamcc (Posts: 1319; Member since: 07 Oct 2011)
If it was simply overlooked then you are correct, it is not shady.
Knowing Apple and their lawyers, I doubt that.
26. sorcio46 (Posts: 435; Member since: 27 Jul 2011)
Then u should come to Italy a little more cause here 2 years of warranty are guaranteed by the law!
27. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
First off, if the company is required to provide a two year warranty at no extra cost, for them to lie to customers, say "you only have a one year warranty at no extra cost, to get two you have to pay more" is shady and dishonest.
It doesn't matter if there are bigger issues to handle. Governments don't handle one issue at a time. For instance, if you've ever been to traffic court (suck on it, state trooper, no one else was near that stop sign!) you'll find that there will be twenty or more other people hanging out waiting for their case to be handled too.
I'm not saying I necessarily agree with the law. I am saying, however, that Apple misdirected its customers about their rights under the law, and those customers should be refunded.
42. GremlinUKSA (Posts: 6; Member since: 27 Dec 2011)
like I said, Apple, along with Samsung, Sony, Panasonic to name a few, has 1 year standard limited warranty.
It's hard to believe that Italy just noticed this out of the blue and decided to fine Apple.
I'm not saying it isn't their prerogative, but why wait until now. Apple should pull their stores from Italy... they wouldn't be missed.
And with the way they live there, they need a 2 year warranty.
32. 530gemini (Posts: 2198; Member since: 09 Sep 2010)
@gremlin. They obviously just want some of Apple's cash. And you are right. I am pretty sure there are other more serious issues that they need to look at, but could care less because they won't get any cash out of it :)
28. 530gemini (Posts: 2198; Member since: 09 Sep 2010)
Tricky. Apple just wanted to stick with their 1yr warranty policy like just they have here in the US. But of course fandroids would treat this small issue like Apple just started world war 3 :)
40. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
APPLE DESERVE WHAT IT GOT. Finally someone gives them A FINE
45. silver0681 (Posts: 18; Member since: 07 Sep 2011)
Wow you people are so foolish believing that Apple is the only company to offer such goods? I would say it is more likely that there the only one being caught its hard sitting on top everyone micro analyzes everything you do. I mean look at all the petty fandroids wow you people are pathetic just begging for Apple to fail like a pack of jakles I wouldn't want a friend like yall scary iPhone fans on the other hand don't want droid to fail much like apple we just want the company's to pay for what there using wouldn't you be pissed if someone was getting rich of somthing that was yours


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"Heeeeyyyyy!" she squeals loudly.
"Hi sweetie," I respond before she leaves to mingle with her guests again. I grab a beer from the refrigerator and walk to the packed living room. I spot a few familiar faces in the crowd and a few new ones that belong to some very sexy co-eds. I feel a familiar stirring in my cock as I watch their lithe young bodies.
I'm attacked from behind as my stepdaughter pounces on me with a bear hug. I turn around to see Anna by her side. She'd toned down the bright red lipstick I'd imagined and it was a change for the better; she was much more beautiful in person. She in turn hugged me with a greeting, her firm breasts pressing against my broad chest. She smiled as she pulled away and I wondered what was on her mind and hoped to find out later.
The evening was pleasant and I passed it in easy conversation about films and music, even though I was almost twice everyone's age. At some stage, people started to wander off and leave. I excused myself to go to the washroom and as I opened the door, I walked in on a young girl named Erika as she was standing up to pull up her jeans.
"Excuse me," I said, and felt stupid for not knocking.
"Almost done," she said, seemingly un-phased that I'd literally caught her with her pants down.
"Wait a minute..." she turned to face me.
"Are you the famous stepfather?" She smiled.
"Famous?" I asked.
"I think you know what I mean." she said, and stood in front of me. "I heard that you have a beautiful cock," she whispered in my ear as I felt her hand on my crotch. I moaned as I felt my cock harden while she stroked it through the rough denim of my jeans.
"Why don't you take a look," I taunted, wondering if she would rise to the
Without answering, she started to undo the buttons on my fly and my cock throbbed as she slid my jeans over my hips and ran her fingernails over my growing erection. She freed me completely from my boxer shorts and my cock sprang up, brushing her cheek. She giggled drunkenly and leaned forward and her lips slid down and engulfed my shaft as I filled her little mouth with my cock.
She bobbed her head up and down, taking me deeper each time; I tried to stifle my moans so the others wouldn't hear us. She sucked greedily, her hot tongue swirling around my cock each time she moved her mouth down to the base. Suddenly she just stopped and stood up and whispered in my ear. "I want you to take me hard from behind. But not here and now, call me some time". She giggled and went past me and disappeared into the dwindling crowd. Completely flabbergasted, I stood there with a really hard cock. I had the presence of mind to close the door and relieve myself but my slowly softening cock reminded me why I had gone to the bathroom in the first place.
Back out on the party, I saw that Erika had gone. The evening seemed to end up in a real anti-climax so I sat down and took my last cold beer, when Anna came up to me. "Hey. Are you sitting here all alone and depressed," she said.
"I wouldn't call it the blues," I replied.
"Will you stay here tonight or are you going to drive home?" She asked.
"I thought I'd wait around a bit and sober up first."
"Cool," she said somewhat noncommittally as she stood to fetch yet another cider from the kitchen. She was really pretty. A well-shaped body, not as slim as my stepdaughter, but curvy in all the right places. She came back and sat down beside me and raising her glass, said "Cheers!"
"Cheers!" I clinked my bottle against hers.
We started talking about everything. I was told that she had just turned 28, was bisexual, had just broken up with her boyfriend and had plans to move to another place to get a fresh start in life. "Right now I'm just looking to have fun," she said.
I was just wondering what her idea of fun was when my stepdaughter interrupted. "Are you sitting here flirting?"
"Not at all," I felt the urge to defend myself. "I think I'm going to take the guest room,"
Anna pouted, "And this was just starting to get interesting."
My heartbeat quickened as I wondered what she'd meant. Had she simply enjoyed our banter or was she interested in me the same way I was in her? I walked to the room and was asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. I woke up a while later as Anna and my stepdaughter stood in the doorway, giggling and whispering conspiratorially.
"What should we do?" Anna whispered, her words slightly slurred from all the alcohol she'd consumed.
"Should we let him be?"
"I've done him before, you know.
He has a really nice dick," said my stepdaughter quite unabashedly.
I guess the alcohol had loosened a lot of her inhibitions. The girls used a tie from one of their bathrobes to secure my wrists to the headboard. I was still pretty drunk and dazed and was not completely aware of what they were doing. Anna pulled down my underwear and in this moment I cannot say that what she saw was a lot to brag about.
"That not so much to play with," Anna complained petulantly.
"Wait and see," giggled my stepdaughter and walked around the bed and kissed her.
I was more aware of my surroundings now as I watched my stepdaughter, Sara, and Anna making out. They were touching, kissing, stroking each other in front of me and my cock started responding. Anna moaned as Sara stroked her breasts and squeezed them lightly.
Anna's hand slid between Sara's thighs and I watched, completely aroused as my stepdaughter thrust her hips against her best friend. With skilful fingers, Sara unhooked Anna's bra and her full breasts spilled out from the lace to fill my stepdaughters hands, her fingers stroked over her eager nipples and Anna moaned loudly. They kissed each other, their tongues playing with each other as Sara's hand groped gently up against Anna's breasts. The girls looked at me and smiled. "Like what you see?"
Sara kneeled on all fours in front of me and wiggled her sexy ass seductively near my face. I could see the outline of her pussy against the thin lace fabric of her thong. She was already wet, her moisture seeping slowly through the material. She stood above me and pulled down her panties and I watched in awe as she revealed her smoothly shaven cunt.
"Your turn," she said to Anna.
Anna switched places with her and started touching her ass in time with the music that still played out in the living room. She enjoyed teasing me, it was noticeable. She pulled teasingly at the waistband of her panties and exposed her labia to me. Sara lay on the bed and parted her long slim legs and instructed Anna to lick her pussy. Anna seemed eager to oblige and left teasing me to crawl over and bury her head between my stepdaughter's thighs. Her tongue lapped eagerly at Sara's clit while her own pussy was so temptingly close to my face that I could smell her arousal, but too far away for me to reach it. Sara moaned and writhed, thrusting her wet pussy into Anna's face and then stopped and changed places with Anna. She licked her wet pussy a bit and then sat up and reached for her handbag.
"I brought a friend." Anna grinned as Sara pulled out a thick strap on.
"Want to try?"
"Yes," Anna agreed eagerly.
Sara buckled it on and commanded Anna to get on all fours. Sara kneeled behind her and lined the thick cock up with her friend's wet slit. Anna groaned as it slid inch by inch inside her, stretching her pussy as it filled her. The girls were knelt over me, my hard cock pressed so close to my stepdaughter's pussy as Anna fucked her hard and rough from behind.
"Yes, more! More! Oh fuck, more!" Sara whimpered as the thick cock slid in and out of her. Anna positioned herself so that she straddled my face as she fucked Sara's cunt. I buried my tongue in her wet pussy and felt her walls contract as she started grinding hard against my face. Sara came with a loud scream, moaning and whimpering as Anna kept sawing the cock in and out of her quivering pussy. The girls untangled themselves and stood up.
"Are you going to leave me like this?" I asked.
"You want to fuck both of us?" asked Anna.
"Yes, I have to come," I said.
"Do you want to feel my pussy squeezing around your thick cock?"
"Fuck yes!"
"Wanna lick Sara's pussy while I ride you?" she said and started stroking my cock. Her fingers squeezed my rock hard cock and I felt I could not hold back if she did not stop soon. I had never been this horny before. She tugged at my cock and pulled the foreskin back and leaned against it with lightly parted lips. Anna sucked me and the minute her tongue touched my cock, I exploded. Jet after jet of hot sticky cum squirted into her mouth and she lifted her head with a smile.
Sara untied me and they crawled down on either side of me in the big double bed.
Hoping for a little morning cuddles as all three of us fell asleep with a smile.
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Kenny Rogers told a Tallahassee, Fla. concert audience about his plans to team up with Tom Selleck for a third film suggested by his hit song The Gambler. Obviously, Kenny plans to squeeze every last bank note out of that tune. "I can just see it now," he said. "In 10 years it'll be Rocky 27 fighting it out with The Gambler 23."
Brooke Adams starred in Days of Heaven, Daniel Stern played a lead in Diner, but Ed Koch, New York City's show-bizzy mayor, only had one line in The Muppets Take Manhattan. Now Hizzoner will get another acting credit with Adams and Stern in Key Exchange, the film version of the hit off-Broadway play about romantic bicyclists. When he ran into the Key Exchange crew filming on his city's streets, the mayor yelled out, "Hey, do you need an extra?" A bit of a politician himself, director Barnet Kellman immediately concocted a scene in which Koch would be interviewed by an actress pretending to be a newswoman. "Of course, New York is in much better shape now than when I took over the position of mayor," Koch adlibbed before the actress even asked him a question. As it happens, such free publicity has its price. Because of the role, the Mayor's name now appears on the Screen Actors Guild "must join" list. If it forces the issue, he owes a $637.50 initiation fee.
All those Ewoks, R2D2s, He-Men and Crystar monsters better get ready to battle for their top spots in the children's doll market now that a new superhero is entering the fray. His name is Jesus Christ. Produced by Houston's Wee Win Toys, the Jesus dolls and other Bible figures, including Samson and David and Goliath, form a new line called "Heroes of the Kingdom" and come with Bible stories on cassettes. Wee Win exec Jim Flanagan criticizes much of the competition, charging that some of today's toys "are responsible for murders, suicides, kids leaving home and who knows what else." Jesus and friends (priced at $9.95 each) appear in religious shops this month. Soon to come are Christian-oriented stuffed animals, such as the Born Again Bunny ($12.95). Flanagan sees a real need for these toys: "You've got to give children the Word of God before they reach puberty," he says. "After that, you can't do anything with them."
According to M*A*S*H's creator and co-producer, Larry Gelbart, his show made its greatest contribution to prime-time TV simply by presenting people's emotions. "There wasn't a lot of feeling around then, nor is there now," Gelbart told a crowd at Manhattan's Museum of Broadcasting. "To get any feeling out of your television set these days you have to touch it when you're wet."
The thoroughly modern rock band Devo claims that an unusual experience inspired its recent remake of the Jimi Hendrix rock classic Are You Experienced? "Hendrix came to us in a pink cloud and told us it was our genetic imperative to do a rendition," says lead singer Mark Mothersbaugh. "At first we were hesitant, but we tried it anyway and were surprised."
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- February 08, 1999
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Ernst Goes to Monaco
At 42, Once-Troubled Princess Caroline Weds a Former Playboy Prince She Now Finds Perfectly Charming
That's not to say Monaco's most glamorous daughter—she of the couture wardrobe and jet-set chums—has suddenly become down-to-earth. It's just that on the eve of the princess's attaining real status, thanks to Ernst's impeccable royal pedigree, flaunting it would be tasteless, if not beside the point. Their wedding, for example, was purposely low-key. At approximately 11:30 on the morning after the Stars and Bars guacamole feast, in a civil ceremony so shrouded in secrecy that, according to one royals expert, "Caroline didn't even tell her father until [the previous] Tuesday that she was getting married," the oldest daughter of Prince Rainier and the late Princess Grace wed Prince Ernst August of Hanover in the Salon des Glaces of the principality's pink palace. Their I do's were witnessed by the 75-year-old Rainier, the couple's children, Caroline's brother Prince Albert, 40, and a dozen of the bride and groom's family and friends. (Princess Stephanie, 33, said to be at odds of late with her sister, was conspicuously absent.) And the vows catapulted Caroline, who turned 42 on her wedding day, into the regal big leagues: Though far less famous than his bride, Ernst, 44, is a direct descendant of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II and of King George III of Britain and had to obtain Queen Elizabeth's permission before taking his new bride.
With her new title—Her Royal Highness Caroline Princess of Hanover, Duchess of Brunswick and Lüneburg—Caroline now outranks everyone in her immediate family except her dad. "There's a big difference between a princely family and a royal family," explains Harold Brooks-Baker, publishing director of Burke's Peerage, adding that the Grimaldis, who are descended from Italian warriors and pirates, qualify only as the former. "It's a step down for [Ernst], but they are both rich, so it is good for everyone." (Ernst's family fortune is said to be close to $130 million; Caroline is worth an estimated $1 billion.)
Not that anyone in this sun-washed tax haven by the sea sees the princess's third trip to the altar as an exercise in social climbing. Clad in a gray-blue Chanel suit with a gold brooch, Caroline radiated bliss in her official wedding photo—the only glimpse outsiders got of the bride since she and her privacy-mad prince didn't deign to wave to waiting well-wishers before piling into a dark-windowed minivan after a brief postceremony reception at the palace. "She seemed very happy," confirms local florist Danielle Soriaso, whose lilies, roses and orchids graced a celebratory party for some 100 people held at the princess's green-shuttered villa, Clos St.-Pierre, the evening of the wedding. "She was wonderful, like always."
And possibly anticipating a wondrous event. Just days before the wedding, the Italian celebrity magazine Oggi claimed that Caroline, who has said she wanted another child, is three months pregnant with Ernst's baby. (The Palace has so far refused to comment, but a pal of the groom's says, "Ernst has told everyone he wants a girl.")
Pregnant or not, Caroline—whose life was shattered in 1990 when her second husband, Italian businessman Stefano Casiraghi, died in a speedboat racing accident—has by all accounts found contentment with dashing divorcé Ernst. (He split with Chantal, 44, his wife of 16 years, after he began dating Caroline in 1996.) The couple share a love of art, children and parties—as well as some less wholesome pursuits. "Caroline and Ernst light their cigarettes in perfect synchronicity!" declared the magazine Point de Vue when the duo appeared together at Monaco's Bal de la Rose in March 1998.
"She and Ernst complement each other," says Caroline's cousin Grace LeVine, proprietor of a Glen Mills, Pa., bed-and-breakfast and maid of honor at Caroline's failed first marriage, to French boulevardier Philippe Junot. "Each has their own life, and they love and respect each other." "What's more," says a source close to Ernst, her dad approves—in part, no doubt, because "Caroline and Ernst have had similar upbringings and both know what is expected of them as royals."
They also share, however, a history of defying those expectations. The oldest of six children born to Prince Ernst August of Hanover and his wife, Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Glücksburg, Ernst was raised at Marienburg castle and at his family's estate Gut Calenberg, outside Hanover in northern Germany. After studying at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, and the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester, England, Ernst took a job in film production in London but worked as hard honing his reputation as one of Europe's randier young royals. (According to Tatler magazine, Ernst and a friend once sent out Christmas cards picturing themselves, clothed, beside a naked model.) He and Caroline, who had met as teens, reconnected during a St. Moritz ski trip in the '70s. According to some, Princess Grace hoped the relationship would blossom. "She thought he would be the perfect match," says author John Glatt in his new book The Royal Household of Monaco. "Caroline found him boring."
After majoring in philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris, Caroline went on to marry Junot, a businessman of whom her mother presciently disapproved. Ernst ruffled his own family's plumage by hooking up with Chantal Hochuli, a mere heiress to a Swiss pharmaceutical company. The years that followed held family tragedies for both the German prince and the Mediterranean princess. Divorced from the philandering Junot (now living in Spain, France and Britain and recently divorced from his second wife) in 1980 after just 28 months of marriage, Caroline was beginning to recover her equilibrium when Princess Grace died in a car crash in 1982. Ernst took over his father's multimillion-dollar properties, settled into a $4.8 million London home with Chantal and started a family, only to lose a younger brother to suicide in 1988. Through it all, he and Caroline remained friends. Their families even occasionally took ski trips to St. Moritz together. "Chantal and Caroline were close, too," says a Monaco insider. ("Now, of course," she adds, "they don't speak.")
In 1995, though, the friendship began to deepen. After Casiraghi's death, Caroline had moved to a renovated farmhouse in St.-Rémy-de-Provence, France, some two hours north of Monaco, to escape the memories. French actor Vincent Lindon, whom she met in 1990 at a literary luncheon, seemed the ideal helpmate during her recuperation—unawed by royalty, he called her Princess and "was a source of strength for her," says a friend.
But by December 1995, Lindon was looking sulky at a Monte Carlo Ballet benefit. A few weeks later, Caroline and Ernst were spotted in Thailand together, and when the dermatological condition alopecia caused the princess's hair to fall out that summer, it was Ernst who went to St.-Rémy to console her. Although accustomed to her husband's "discreet affairs," say Paris insiders, Chantal filed for divorce. (Said her friend, gossip columnist Taki, at the time: "A woman can take only so much humiliation.") The divorce, which gives the couple joint custody of their boys and Chantal less than $10 million, became final in September 1997.
Since then, Ernst and Caroline have been virtually inseparable. They spent Christmas 1997 in Barbados with the Grimaldi clan. ("Rainier okays marriage!" declared the French press, prematurely.) They hobnobbed with bigwigs in Berlin (including Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, former governor of Ernst's home state, Lower Saxony) at an AIDS benefit last November. And they relaxed last October on Portugal's Algarve coast, where Caroline enjoyed rejuvenating seaweed soaks while Ernst lounged on the beach with an unauthorized biography of Mohamed Al Fayed. For their part, Ernst's sons are said to get along well with Caroline. "They accept her," says a friend. "They understand [their father] and want him to be happy." Ernst long ago endeared himself to Caroline's kids, cheering budding equestrian Charlotte at riding competitions, coaching Pierre on the slopes and buying Andrea a motorcycle for his 13th birthday in June 1997.
Theirs will not be what anyone would call a hard-scrabble life. Ernst, who dabbles in investments, makes his living managing his family's immense holdings in Germany, Austria and Kenya. Caroline, Monaco's de facto first lady since her mother's death, serves as president of the Monte Carlo Ballet, the Monaco Garden Club, the Princess Grace Foundation and various other charities. But her official engagements—sometimes as few as two a month—will leave her ample time for travel or for entertaining friends like model-turned-actress Elle Macpherson and designer Karl Lagerfeld wherever the newlyweds make their home. (Most royal watchers believe it will be in one of the smart suburbs of Paris.)
Yet some Monegasques are wondering if Ernst, for all his superior breeding, has the stuff to cope with his new wife's headline-making brand of royalty. At home in Schulenburg, Germany, site of his Calenberg estate, "Ernst goes about, and nobody makes a fuss," reports Hartmut Schramm, a local restaurateur. "At the 60th-birthday party of the guy who manages his estate a while back, he helped draw the beer." Says a friend: "With Caroline, I told him, 'Now you've done it. Now you won't have any more peace.' "
Indeed, photographers document Caroline's every move, and her prince, known for his strong will and quick temper, has already run into trouble with at least one of them. In January of last year, as he and Caroline were returning to his Schulenburg estate from a Hanover charity gala, Ernst spotted cameraman Karsten Thürnau waiting with his equipment outside the gates. The prince accosted him with an umbrella, leaving Thürnau with a broken nose and deviated septum. "I thought I wasn't long for this world," the cameraman says. Although criminal charges against Ernst were ultimately dropped, a German court ordered him to pay Thürnau some $9,000 in damages and to ante up another $55,000 to the state and two charities.
But friends like American journalist Bob Colacello view that incident as an unfortunate aberration. "Now that the relationship is official, and they're not sort of hiding, it's going to make it much easier to deal with the press," Colacello says. "I've known Ernst for 15 years, and he's extremely intelligent, loyal, elegant and a lot of fun—a fair-haired Prince Charming."
A certain dark-haired princess whose life has been short on happily-ever-afters is counting on it.
Kim Hubbard
Nina Biddle, Lanie Goodman, Deirdre Mooney and Cathy Nolan in Monaco, Simon Perry in London, Karen Nickel Anhalt in Berlin, Martha de la Cal in Lisbon and Eve Heyn in New York City
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- Nina Biddle,
- Lanie Goodman,
- Deirdre Mooney,
- Cathy Nolan,
- Simon Perry,
- Karen Nickel Anhalt,
- Martha de la Cal,
- Eve Heyn.
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