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This website is operated on behalf of Chopard USA Ltd., a New York corporation and subsidiary of Le Petit Fils de L.U. Chopard & Cie SA, a [Swiss] corporation, with executive offices at 21 East 63rd Street, New York, NY 10065. Telephone number: +1 (212) 821 0300, fax number: +1 (212) 821 0325. Whenever we refer to "Chopard" or "we" in this Website, we are referring to Chopard USA Ltd. These Terms of Use constitute the agreement (the "Agreement") that will govern your use of this Chopard Website (this "Website"). This Website is available for your use only on the condition that you agree to these Terms of Use, all with the intention of making them legally binding upon you. YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY READ THIS AGREEMENT BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT, YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY EXIT THIS WEBSITE.
By using this Website, you agree to comply with and to be bound by the Agreement, which, together with our Privacy Policy, governs Chopard's relationship to you in relation to this Website. Chopard reserves the right to change these Terms of Use from time to time at its sole discretion. By using this Website after any such change, you agree to comply with, and be bound by, the Terms of Use as changed.
Chopard grants to you a limited personal, nontransferable, non-sublicensable, revocable, worldwide license to access and make personal, non-commercial use of this Website. You may view, copy, print, and distribute limited quantities of material from this Website, as long as the material is used by you for information only and the material is used only for non-commercial purposes. Chopard reserves any rights not expressly granted by this Agreement.
- No Resale:
Only those purchasing items for personal use by themselves or as gifts, and not for resale, may order items from this Website. Chopard reserves the right not to sell to any party purchasing items through this Website for the purpose of resale.
- Accuracy:
Chopard strives to ensure that the colors, design, and style of the products that appear on this site reflect those of the actual product. However, variations caused by technical, typographical, digital, or photographic reasons may occur. Chopard will bear no responsibility for errors of any kind. Errors and the consequences of those errors may include, without limitation, any of the following: product and service descriptions on this Website may vary from time to time, and typographical errors may occur, with the result that product and service descriptions may not be complete, current, or accurate. Any such typographical errors resulting in incorrect product or service information, including incorrect pricing information, may result in the failure to honor an order or request placed by you based on such incorrect information. Because actual colors and the representation you see on this Website will depend on your computer monitor and on other technical factors, Chopard will not guarantee that the display of any products will be accurate at any time.
- Pricing Policy and Online Payment Methods:
Chopard reserves the right to change the prices of products and services featured on this Website at any time, without notice. If you place an order online, you will be charged the price indicated on the Online Store of this Website at the time of your online order. All prices shown on the Online Store are in U.S. Dollars. Payment for online orders is processed at the time of ordering. Chopard accepts VISA, MASTERCARD and AMERICAN EXPRESS cards. No checks, cash or money-order payments will be accepted for online purchases. An order placed will only be processed and shipped after all the information supplied is deemed verified and approval from the credit-card company has been received.
Existing merchandise credits or gift certificates from Chopard or any of its affiliated entities may not be used for online purchases.
- Availability:
Products and services described on this Website are available while supplies last. The product images on this Website are representative and are not necessarily photographs of the actual product you will receive. Chopard reserves the right to discontinue the production of any product, and to discontinue the offering or sale of any product or service at any time, without notice. Chopard will not guarantee that any particular product or service displayed on this Website will be available at any particular location, even if that location has been indicated as a source for that product or service. In the rare case in which an item may become unavailable after you have received confirmation of an order for it, Chopard will contact you, offering you the opportunity to order another item or to cancel your existing order.
All materials on this Website, and the Website itself, are protected by copyrights, trademarks and/or other intellectual property rights. These materials are owned by Le Petit Fils de L.U. Chopard & Cie SA or its subsidiaries or affiliates, or used with permission of their owners. Such materials include, but are not limited to, the photographs, images, illustrations, text, video clips, audio clips, designs, logos, trademarks, trade dress and other materials contained in this Website, as well as the software used in the design and development of the Website. All rights are reserved, worldwide. The name and mark Chopard, the Chopard logos and all other Chopard-related marks depicted in this Website, whether registered or unregistered, are trademarks or service marks of Le Petit Fils de L.U. Chopard & Cie SA and Chopard in the United States and other countries. Nothing contained herein or on this Website shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel, or otherwise any license or right under any patent, copyright, trademark or other intellectual property of Chopard, Le Petit Fils de L.U. Chopard & Cie SA, or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates.
- Restrictions on Use:
This Website is protected by United States and international law, including copyright and trademark laws. This Agreement does not grant any license to modify, alter, or frame the materials on this Website that are viewed, downloaded, or otherwise accessed by you. Your license does not include: any right of resale or of commercial use of this Website or its contents; any derivative use of this Website or its contents; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data-gathering and extraction tools in connection with this Website. You may not remove or alter any proprietary notices, including copyright notices, contained on any downloadable materials, and you must comply with any applicable end-user license agreements. You may not input or upload onto this Website any information or computer code that is intended to, or is likely to, damage, interfere with, alter, intercept, or expropriate any system, this Website or its contents, or that infringes upon any intellectual-property rights of Chopard or any third party. Inappropriate and unauthorized inputs and uploads include Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots and other unauthorized computer programming routines. You are also prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, obscene, libelous, or otherwise offensive material, or engaging in any kind of harassment activity via this Website or any Website linked to it.
- No representations or Warranties:
THIS WEBSITE AND THE CONTENTS OF THIS WEBSITE, AS WELL AS THE PRODUCTS MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. CHOPARD MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR FREEDOM FROM MALICIOUS PROGRAMS (SUCH AS VIRUSES, WORMS, OR TROJAN HORSES) OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THIS WEBSITE OR ITS CONTENTS OR SUCH PRODUCTS, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. Chopard does not represent or warrant that the information contained in this Website is accurate, complete or up-to-date, that this Website is free of defects or that any defects will be remedied. You agree, by using this Website, that your use of this Website is at your sole risk, that you assume full responsibility for all loss of use, loss of data and costs associated with all necessary servicing or repairs of any equipment and/or software that you use in connection with this Website, and that Chopard shall not be responsible or liable for any damages of any kind whatsoever arising out of, caused by or related to your use of this Website. Where applicable law does not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, some or all of the foregoing disclaimers of warranty may not apply to you.
- Limitation of Liability:
IN NO EVENT SHALL CHOPARD, ANY DIRECT OR INDIRECT SHAREHOLDER, AFFILIATE, OTHER RELATED ENTITY, SUBSIDIARY, JOINT VENTURE, PARTNER, ENTITY IN SUBSTANTIAL COMMON CONTROL OR THEIR RESPECTIVE SHAREHOLDERS, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, COMPENSATORY, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHICH MAY ARISE, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, FROM ACCESS TO THIS WEBSITE, FROM THE USE OF IT, FROM THE INABILITY TO USE IT, THROUGH THE DOWNLOADING OF ANY CONTENT (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DATA, TEXT, IMAGES, VIDEO, OR AUDIO FROM THIS WEBSITE) OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY VIRUSES, BUGS, ACTION, OR INACTION OF ANY COMPUTER SYSTEM, TELEPHONE LINE, HARDWARE, SOFTWARE OR PROGRAM MALFUNCTION, OR ANY OTHER ERROR, FAILURE, OR DELAY IN DATA TRANSMISSION OR NETWORK CONNECTION, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF THAT DAMAGE. Chopard shall have no liability for the deletion of any communications or information collected, maintained, or transmitted by this Website or the failure to store any information, including personalized settings. Chopard shall have no liability with respect to any information posted by users on chat rooms, bulletin boards, or other user forums.
- Submissions:
Any comments, suggestions, testimonials, endorsements, ideas, or similar material disclosed, submitted or posted by you on this Website or in connection with it will be considered non-confidential, non-proprietary and not personal either to you or to anyone else. By disclosing, posting, or submitting any such material, you grant to Chopard and its affiliates a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, edit, publish, translate, rework, distribute, and display that material without compensation or acknowledgment of source.
- Modifications:
At any time, and without notice, Chopard may modify, update, or otherwise change any term of this Agreement or this Website. You agree that you are deemed to be apprised of, and that you are bound by, any such changes immediately upon its posting. We encourage you to visit this Website from time to time to review the current version of the Agreement.
- Termination:
Chopard may, through its sole discretion, terminate or cancel your use of this Website or terminate or cancel this Agreement for any reason, without prior notice. Upon termination or cancellation of this Agreement, you will immediately discontinue use of this Website. Through its sole discretion, and at any time, Chopard may also discontinue providing this Website or any part of it, with or without notice. Chopard shall not be liable to you or any third party for any of the foregoing. Parts or all of this Agreement shall survive termination or cancellation of this Agreement and the termination or cancellation of your use of this Website.
- Links to Other Websites:
Although this Website may contain links to other Websites, Chopard has no control over those linked Websites. You acknowledge and agree that Chopard is not responsible for the availability of those linked Websites or their content. Chopard provides links as a convenience and does not endorse the proprietors or content of any linked Websites, including any linked Website of any company related to Chopard, in control of it, or under common control with it. CHOPARD DOES NOT PROVIDE ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND REGARDING ANY LINKED SITE OR ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE PROVIDED VIA ANY LINKED WEBSITE.
- Caching, Linking, and Framing by You:
Chopard prohibits caching of any portion of this Website and any unauthorized links to this Website and unauthorized framing of it. Chopard reserves the right to disable any unauthorized links or frames.
- Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Arbitration:
All claims regarding this Website shall be governed according to the laws of the State of Florida, United States of America, without regard to its conflicts of law principles. Chopard makes no representations or warranties that materials on this Website are appropriate or available for use in other locations, and accessing them from territories where their content is illegal is prohibited. Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement, the Terms of Use or the Website shall be settled by arbitration in accordance with the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association, and judgment upon all awards rendered by the arbitrators may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. The arbitration shall be held in Miami, Florida, or another location mutually acceptable to the parties, in the English language, and shall be conducted before three arbitrators selected in accordance with such rules. The arbitrators are empowered to award reimbursement of attorney fees and other costs of arbitration to the prevailing party, in such manner as the arbitrators deem appropriate. The arbitrators shall have the right to grant a permanent injunction in addition to any damages or other relief.
- Notices:
All notices and other communications to Chopard shall be in writing, must be given by certified mail, return receipt requested and must be addressed to Chopard at the address set forth for it in this Website at the time of delivery.
- Effect of Waiver or Consent:
A waiver or consent, express or implied, to or of any breach by you, or any delay in enforcement of any provision of this Agreement on the part of Chopard, will not constitute a consent to, or waiver of, any other breach or default by you of the same or any other obligations of you. Failure on the part of Chopard to complain of any act of yours or to declare you in breach or default, irrespective of how long that failure continues, does not constitute a waiver by Chopard of its rights with respect to that default until the applicable statute-of-limitations period has expired.Return to top
By using or accessing this Website you signify your acknowledgment and assent to the Privacy Policy set forth below. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use this Website. Chopard can revise this privacy policy at any time by updating this posting, and your use after such change signifies your acceptance of the changed terms. Please check this policy periodically for changes.
This Privacy Policy is intended to help you understand how Chopard and its affiliates collect, use and safeguard the information you provide on this Website. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the use or disclosure of information that is collected or obtained by us through means other than this Website.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy you can contact us by email: "CONTACT US", by phone at 1-800-CHOPARD (1 -800-246-7273, Mon-Fri, 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. ET) or write to:
Chopard Customer Service
75 Valencia Ave., Suite 1200
US - Coral Gables, FL 33134
If you browse our Website, you may generally do so anonymously without providing any personal information. However, there are cases where we collect personal data. When you place an order for a product through the Online Store, we collect your name, address, e-mail address, phone number and credit card number with expiration date ("PERSONAL DATA"). We also gather information on the person who will receive any gift you send (e.g., that person's name and address) and retain a record of your purchases. Chopard also collects demographic information from visitors to the Website and collects personal data from visitors to the Website who register their information, for example the date of birth and interests. We also use cookies (see more below) and track IP addresses so we can improve our services and enhance your Chopard experience.
In case you change your mind or wish to update or delete your personal information, Chopard will deal with such requests in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. For any request concerning your personal information, contact our Customer Support department at the contact points specified above. If you create an account under "MY CHOPARD" you will be able to update your account information.
Chopard will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are under 18, please ask your parents to register and/or use the Online Store. Please do not submit any personal details if you are under the age of 18. Should we discover or be informed that a minor has registered his/her or another minor's personal details, we will delete such information from our records.
Note to Parents
Chopard will not intentionally collect personally identifiable information from children under age 18. If you, as a parent or legal guardian, are concerned that your child has registered on our Website, wish to cancel your child's registration and have all details deleted, please contact us by email or by mail at the contact points specified above providing official documents establishing parental or guardian status.
We use the personal information that is collected through our Website to better serve our users, customize their shopping experience, and improve the content of our Website. Personal information that you provide will be used for marketing and promotional purposes only by Chopard and its subsidiaries and affiliates. Chopard may share customer information within the Chopard organization, so that you may be informed of other products that may be of interest to you. Further, in order to maintain our Website and provide for customer communications, Chopard contracts with selected third parties, solely for the purpose of assisting Chopard in these endeavors and subject to contractual confidentiality obligations. We do not otherwise disclose your information to third parties, unless required by law or in connection with a legal claim or proceeding.
We may share your personal information as follows:
We do not otherwise rent or sell to third parties your personally identifiable information entered on this Website. We will send you announcements or communications by email only if you give us your permission by submitting your personal details. If you register for a Website account or make a purchase, you will automatically receive promotional emails from Chopard or affiliated companies, unless you opt-out from receiving promotional emails. To remove yourself from our email list, you can: click the unsubscribe link in any of our promotional emails you receive; change your email preferences by logging into the "MY CHOPARD" section of the Website; or contact a Customer Service representative. Otherwise, we use your information only to review our performance and to improve our services to you, or to communicate with you about your order if you have placed an online order.
We may share statistical or aggregated non-personal information about our users with advertisers, business partners, sponsors and other third parties. This data is used to customize our Website content and advertising to deliver a better experience to our users. Additionally, when you access our website, we or companies we work with, may use technologies to collect information about your computer or other access device to mitigate risk, help prevent fraud and promote trust and safety.
We use security measures consistent with industry practice to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. While we use reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your information, we cannot guarantee that electronic commerce is totally secure due to transmission errors, outside events, third party hacking or other causes, and you will not hold us responsible for any breach of security unless this is due to our willful failure or gross negligence. We will comply with all privacy laws and make any legally required disclosures regarding breaches of the security, confidentiality, or integrity of personal data consistent with our ability to determine the scope of a breach and our obligations to law enforcement.
Our web servers collect general data pertaining to each Website user, including their IP address, identifiers, domain name, referring web page and the length of time spent and the pages accessed while visiting this Website. This web usage information is collected to help us manage and administer our Website, improve the content of our Website, to measure the effectiveness of our advertising, and customize and improve the Website user experience. Web analytic information is gathered using the following methods: (1) cookies, (2) web beacons (a.k.a. clear gifs), (3) conversion tracking, (4) third party ad serving mechanisms, and (5) general detection and use of your internet protocol (IP) address or domain name. We do not combine any web usage information with information collected offline or from other sources.
- Cookies:
A cookie is a small file stored on your computer by a website to give you a unique ID. We use cookies to track new visitors to this site and to recognize past users so that we may customize and personalize content. Cookies used by this site do not contain any personally identifiable information, and we cannot identify a user from his/her cookie unless that user provides personal information voluntarily. If for any reason you don't want to take advantage of cookies, you may have your browser not accept them, although this may disable or render unusable some of the features of the site.
- Web Beacons:
Web pages on this site or e-mail messages you receive from us may contain a small graphic image called a web beacon (sometimes called a web bug or clear gif). Web beacons are typically very small (generally 1-by-1 pixel) and invisible to the user, however any electronic image viewed as part of a web page or e-mail message, including an advertisement or HTML content, can act as a web beacon. Web beacons are designed to allow us or a third party to collect certain information and monitor user activity on our site. Collected information can include the IP address of the computer that the web beacon is sent to, the URL of the page the web user comes from, and the time the web beacon is activated (such as when you view the web page, advertisement, or e-mail that contains the web beacon). No personal information is obtained from this tracking, rather just the patterns of usage of our various users may be tracked to provide you with improved service and content based on aggregate or statistical reviews of user site traffic patterns.
- Conversion Tracking:
Search engines offer a feature called "conversion tracking" which is a way to track clicks to sales from either search results or ads on search engines. Using either web beacons or visible images, depending upon the search engine, the search engine notes and saves information in a cookie with non-personal information such as time of day, browser type, browser language, and IP address with each query. Information is gathered in the aggregate, without unique personal data. Conversion tracking allows the search engine company and Chopard to track clicks to sales, including the number of clicks ("visits") it takes before a purchase is made and permits us to measure the effectiveness of our search engine participation.
Chopard reserves the right to disclose user information in special cases, when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other ChopardWebsite users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. We may disclose personal information without notice to you in response to a subpoena or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or to respond to an emergency situation.
Specific areas or pages of this Website may include additional or different provisions relating to collection and disclosure of personal information. In the event of a conflict between such provisions and this Privacy Policy, such specific terms shall control.
Chopard reserves the right to change or update this Privacy Policy, or any other policy or practice, at anytime without notice. Any changes or updates will be effective immediately upon posting to our Website.
Under California Civil Code sections 1798.83-1798-84, California residents are entitled to ask us for a notice describing what categories of personal customer information Chopard shares with third parties or corporate affiliates for those third parties or corporate affiliates' direct marketing purposes. That notice will identify the categories of information shared and will include a list of the third parties and affiliates with which it was shared, along with their names and addresses. If you are a California resident and would like a copy of this notice, please submit a written request to the following address:
Chopard Customer Service
75 Valencia Ave., Suite 1200
US - Coral Gables, FL 33134
In your request, please specify that you want a "Chopard California Privacy Rights Notice". Please allow 30 days for a response.
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Chopard reserves the right to change the prices of products and services featured on this Website at any time, without notice. If you place an order online, you will be charged the price indicated on the Online Store of this Website at the time of your online order. All prices shown on the Online Store are in U.S. Dollars. Payment for online orders is processed at the time of ordering. Chopard accepts VISA, MASTERCARD and AMERICAN EXPRESS cards. No checks, cash or money-order payments will be accepted for online purchases. An order placed will only be processed and shipped after all the information supplied is deemed verified and approval from the credit-card company has been received.
Existing merchandise credits or gift certificates from Chopard or any of its affiliated entities may not be used for online purchases.
Products and services described on this Website are available while supplies last. The product images on this Website are representative and are not necessarily photographs of the actual product you will receive. Chopard reserves the right to discontinue the production of any product, and to discontinue the offering or sale of any product or service at any time, without notice. Chopard will not guarantee that any particular product or service displayed on this Website will be available at any particular location, even if that location has been indicated as a source for that product or service. In the rare case in which an item may become unavailable after you have received confirmation of an order for it, Chopard will contact you, offering you the opportunity to order another item or to cancel your existing order.
All measuring guides found in this Website are provided as a reference only. Chopard cannot be held responsible for any errors that occur as a result of its use.
When you place an order for a product, we need to know your contact information, shipping information, billing information, e-mail address, credit cardholder name, credit card number and expiration date. This information is required so that we can authorize payment, process and fulfill your order and send an order or shipping confirmation, as well as notify you of your order status. Additionally, we or companies we work with, may use technologies to collect information about your computer or other access device to mitigate risk, help prevent fraud and promote trust and safety. All Internet transactions with Chopard are performed on a server that uses industry standard encryption technology to protect your credit card information from being read by unauthorized third parties.
For each product selected on the Website, a summary page will be displayed automatically featuring a photograph of the product, its coloring, and reference, the quantity selected, its unit price and the total amount owed for your order. You should check that this information accurately reflects your selection before submitting your order.
While every effort is taken to try to ensure that the colouring, design, style, reference number, description and size of the products in the photographs displayed on the Website are representative of the original products, variations may occur. Neither Chopard nor any of Chopard's affiliates shall be liable for any error or inaccuracy in the description, reference and size photographs or graphical representations of products displayed on the Website and will not be obliged to deliver products and/or to pay damages whatsoever.
Upon submission, your order will be forwarded to Chopard for checking and processing. Chopard may accept or refuse your order. Once your order and your payment has been cleared, you will receive an e-mail confirming acceptance (the "Order Confirmation"). In the remote instance when Chopard is not able to fulfill your order (for example, if the product selected is unavailable), Chopard will contact you by email and/or phone informing you and offering you the possibility to cancel or amend your order. Please check the Order Confirmation very carefully. If there are any discrepancies or it is not what you think you ordered, please contact us via email at "CONTACT US" or by phone at 1-800-CHOPARD (Mon-Fri, 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. ET).
Each Order Confirmation will include the necessary information on the price to be charged for the purchase, including taxes and delivery fee in accordance with your chosen delivery option.
Once your order is processed and ready to ship you will receive by email a shipment notification with the tracking information of your package.
When the shipping date of our pre-sale products approaches, Chopard will send you an email at the email address you provided with your order, and request that you confirm or verify your shipping address. If you do not submit your information within 10 days of Chopard's request, Chopard may, at its sole discretion, cancel your order and provide you a full refund of the amount you paid or continue to attempt to contact you. After you confirm your shipping information, we will notify you whether we accept or reject your order. Upon our acceptance, you will be bound by all the terms of sale applicable to purchases made through this Website.
If, during the check-out of your Chopard order, you opt to include a gift message, you acknowledge and agree that the gift message option is provided for your own personal and non-commercial use only. You are entirely responsible for the text and other content of your gift message and Chopard accepts no liability for any such content. We reserve the right to refuse to print a gift message that contains offensive language and to terminate access to the gift message service at any time and without liability to Chopard.
Areas of Delivery:
Purchases made via this Website may only be shipped within the fifty U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Unfortunately, we cannot ship to P.O. Boxes or APO addresses.
Shipping and Handling:
We offer free Federal Express Overnight delivery for all orders, except fragrances, which will be shipped free via Federal Express Ground. Our goal is to process orders of in stock merchandise within 48 hours (2 business days) of receipt. Orders are processed Mon-Fri (excluding holidays). If we encounter any problems with your shipment, you will be notified. All orders are subject to credit approval.Your order should arrive the next business day (except fragrances, which are shipped via FedEx Ground) once you have received an email with confirmation that your order has been shipped.
All shipments require a signature by an adult (18 years old or older) on delivery. Upon signature by an adult confirming your acceptance of the product delivered, responsibility for your purchased goods passes to you. If you have specified a recipient who is not you for delivery purposes (for example as a gift) then you understand and accept that evidence of a signature by such recipient (or at that delivery address) is evidence of delivery and fulfillment of the sale contract by Chopard and transfer of responsibility to the recipient in the same way as if the product had been delivered to you. We recommend you inspect your package for damage or tampering before signing and accepting it.
Delivery Problems:
If the delivery of your order is delayed, please contact us via email at "CONTACT US" or by phone at 1-800-CHOPARD (1 -800-246-7273, Mon-Fri, 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. ET). Upon receiving your order, please carefully inspect the contents of the package. If there are any discrepancies between what you ordered and what you received, proceed according to our Exchange and Return Policy.
Shipping to alternate addresses:
If you ship your order to an address that is different than your billing address, as a security measure to protect our clients against fraud we will confirm your credit card has this alternate shipping address on record. To expedite the processing of your order, please call your credit card company and provide them with your alternate shipping address.
Chopard is required by law to charge state and local sales tax for orders shipped to states where we conduct business. Applicable sales tax will be added for deliveries within the following states: CA, FL, NJ, NY, NV, PA, TX and WA.
If for any reason you decide not to keep your online purchase, Chopard will accept merchandise in its original condition for exchange or full refund within thirty (30) days from the date of delivery. You may also return your online purchase, for an exchange or store credit, to one of the four Chopard boutiques.
Please note that all returns and exchanges are subject to a quality control inspection before they are accepted. Items must be returned in their original condition and include the original sales receipt, certificates and packaging. Refunds may only be issued in the same form as was utilized for payment. Please note that any associated shipping costs will not be subject to refund. Different return policies may be applicable for in-store purchases. Engraved or custom ordered products cannot be returned for exchanged or refund.
Returns to the E-Boutique Customer Service Center:
Before returning the item(s), you will need to contact our representatives via email at "CONTACT US" or by phone at 1-800-CHOPARD (1 -800-246-7273, Mon-Fri, 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. ET) to obtain a Returned Merchandise Authorization (RMA) number and to request a Return Form that will be sent to you via email or fax. This form will include all necessary instructions, including the address where you will need to ship the product(s). The item(s) you return must be presented in its original, saleable condition with the appropriate sales invoice and all original packaging and enclosures. Please note that all returns and exchanges are subject to a quality control inspection before they are accepted. Take care to return any certificates that accompanied the item, as neglecting to do so will render you liable for a $250 replacement cost.
We recommend shipping returned merchandise via insured parcel post for tracking purposes. We also recommend that customers request adequate insurance to cover the purchase price of the shipment. Chopard will not assume responsibility for reimbursement or compensation in the event that return packages are lost, stolen, or mishandled. We cannot accept returns that have been worn, used, altered or damaged. We reserve the right to refuse return of any merchandise that does not meet the above return requirements as determined by Chopard.
Returns to a Chopard Boutique:
You may also return articles purchased though this Website to one of our Chopard operated retail stores (located in New York NY, Costa Mesa CA, Bal Harbour and Miami FL, Houston TX and Las Vegas, NV) for an exchange or store credit only (no refunds). If the exchanged item is lower in value, you will receive a store credit for the difference. Store credits may only be redeemed at one of our retail stores. They may not be redeemed through an online purchase.
Product Exchange
Products received as a gift can only be returned for an exchange. Should a product be returned for exchange by you or a gift recipient to our Customer Service Center, the following shall apply: if the product returned is less expensive than the exchanged item, a credit card must be provided to charge the difference in value. If the product returned is more expensive than the exchanged item,a merchandise credit of the price difference will be issued.
No Returns to Authorized Resellers
Products purchased online through this website may not be returned (whether for refund or exchange) to a third party authorized reseller of Chopard products.
Products purchased online pursuant to this Agreement shall benefit from the same warranty as Chopard products purchased from Chopard retail stores or authorized resellers. Read more on Chopard Warranty.
Chopard offers repair service for products purchased online. To process a repair, please contact us via email at "CONTACT US" or phone at 1-800-CHOPARD (1 -800-246-7273), Mon-Fri, 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. ET for complete instructions. You will have to enclose a detailed repair request, your contact information, a copy of the Order Confirmation and the warranty.
Chopard recommends that you package the product securely and ship it via insured mail, as Chopard will not be responsible for problems with delivery or if damage occurs during shipping.
Please allow 48-72 hours for a repair assessment (excluding vintage Chopard items, which will require a longer assessment period). Detailed repair information and a repair charge estimate will be sent to you once the assessment has been completed.
The price is indicative and subject to change without notice. Chopard reserves the right at any time to modify the products featured in the present selection. The creations in this document are not always reproduced to exact size. The colours may differ from the original and the carat weigh of the stones can vary. The trademarks, the corporate names as well as the designs of Chopard watch, jewellery and accessory models are the exclusive property of Chopard. Any imitations or counterfeits will be prosecuted.
This LEGAL NOTICE was last updated on November 17, 2017.


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OK, y'all. I wrote about this several years ago, but now I'm serious. If you want to control any type of diabetes better, consume vinegar before meals and at bedtime. Start today! It lowers post-meal and fasting glucose levels.
In a study from Arizona State University, subjects took a drink of 20 grams of apple cider vinegar, 40 grams of water, and 1 teaspoon of saccharin with each meal. (I think stevia might be better than saccharin.) Those with insulin resistance who drank the vinegar had 34% lower postprandial (after-meal) glucose compared to controls.
These postprandial benefits had been found before. It was thought that vinegar might slow the absorption of carbohydrate into the blood, or slow the breakdown of starches into sugars. This effect would mimic the effect of drugs like acarbose (brand name Precose).
But the 2004 study cited above reported that vinegar reduced postprandial glucose more in subjects who were highly insulin resistant. The authors say this result shows that vinegar increases insulin sensitivity, perhaps acting similarly to metformin.
Now studies have found that vinegar at bedtime reduces fasting blood glucose in the morning, indicating that vinegar might promote insulin production, like nateglinide (Starlix).
Pretty amazing that a simple chemical like vinegar (acetic acid) could have the benefits of three different classes of diabetes drugs, and all for a few cents a dose! It's likely good for both Type 2 and Type 1, especially for lowering postprandial glucose. And postprandial glucose levels account for 30% to 70% of A1C values. Vinegar has got to be the most cost-effective medicine in history, but most people with diabetes still aren't taking it.
And doctors aren't prescribing it. Why not? Is it because there are no "vinegar reps" touring medical offices to promote their products? Physicians need to wake up. Natural approaches can work, and doctors should make patients aware of them.
It's the same reason the studies I've cited here are so small. Because vinegar is so cheap, there's no profit motive to draw funding for larger studies. (Just a note for those who think the market solves health-care problems.)
How can vinegar be so powerful? I think it has to do with our ancestral diet. We used to eat carbohydrate in highly complex forms that took a long time to break down in the intestines. Some of that material may have converted to vinegar before being absorbed. Vinegar may be a signal to our bodies to produce insulin and not resist it. Today's highly refined carbohydrates are absorbed long before they start breaking down. Our bodies don't get the ancestral signals that carbohydrates are coming, so they're not ready for them. Drinking a bit of vinegar might trigger the hormones and transmitters that are now missing the boat.
This theory might be nonsense, but the benefits of vinegar are proven reality. In response to another of my vinegar articles, more than 30 readers posted comments about how vinegar had helped them reduce their blood glucose and lose weight. There were no dissenting comments. Go back and read them here.
Readers mostly use apple cider vinegar, which has been touted for centuries for many health benefits. However, wine vinegar, rice vinegar, and white vinegar may be equally good. They just haven't been studied. Balsamic vinegar apparently is not good; it's too sugary.
The optimum vinegar dose hasn't been established. Most reports have people taking 1–3 teaspoons before each meal containing carbohydrate, and at bedtime. It might be best to take vinegar with the first bite of the meal, to prevent the reported side effects of nausea and heartburn. But these should be rare at such low doses, anyway. And to protect your enamel, remember to rinse your teeth and mouth after drinking vinegar. You can also take vinegar tablets, which are cheap and widely available.
Here are some recipes readers sent:
Paul V: Half a glass of water with a tablespoon of cider vinegar
Kelly: Sliced cucumbers and cold vinegar in a bowl
Vicki: Two tablespoons of vinegar with one tablespoon of honey
Betty and Deb: Apple cider vinegar, extra-virgin olive oil (and optionally, mustard) as a salad dressing
Brecklundin: Apple cider vinegar in iced tea with lemon or lime and stevia
Juli: A glug of apple cider vinegar, a spoonful of honey, and the rest of the glass full of water
David: One tablespoon of apple cider vinegar in 1 cup of water, with a few drops of stevia
I can add that rice vinegar, sesame oil, and honey makes a great Thai salad dressing.
So get on this, people! If you're spending money on medicines to reduce postprandial glucose levels, you are missing a sure bet here. I'm betting many people with Type 2 will be able to get off some medicines or significantly reduce them. People with Type 1 might be able to lower insulin doses. All can probably achieve lower A1Cs. Please let us know how it goes. And speak to your doctor about it.
Looking to learn about more foods that may help with diabetes? Read "Bitter Melon, Diabetes," "Leaves and Fruits for Diabetes," "Turmeric and Diabetes: 10 Ways Turmeric Can Help" and "Cinnamon and Diabetes: An Update."

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The Pittsburgh Penguins hope to avoid losing three games in a row for the first time this season as they play host to the Ottawa Senators and their red-hot goaltender Craig Anderson on Wednesday evening.
The Penguins had ripped off five straight victories before getting swept in a home-and-home set by the New Jersey Devils over the weekend. Pittsburgh dropped a pair of 3-1 decisions, first in New Jersey and then at home on Sunday.
James Neal scored early in the third period for the Penguins to cut their deficit to two goals, but Pittsburgh failed to inch any closer in the finale. Tomas Vokoun gave up three goals on 23 shots in the setback, one day after No. 1 netminder Marc-Andre Fleury yielded three tallies on 28 shots faced.
The Pens were held to a season-low 24 shots in Sunday's loss and fell to 2-3-0 at home this season.
"I think (the Devils) do a good job of playing in the offensive zone, kind of killing the clock a bit, but that being said I still think we had our chances to get back in the game, even down three," said Pens captain Sidney Crosby, who was held without a point in both games of the home-and-home. "We got that early one in the third (period) and I think we're capable of getting two goals."
Pittsburgh is inching closer to getting a pair of defenseman back from injury in Kris Letang and Matt Niskanen, both of whom are battling lower body injuries.
Niskanen has missed eight straight and isn't expected back on Wednesday, though Letang is considered day-to-day after sitting out the past three contests. Both blueliners made it through practice on Tuesday.
The Senators, meanwhile, have been held to two goals or fewer in five of six games this month, but that was still enough to pick up a victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday night. Anderson stopped a season-high 42 shots for his second shutout of the season, keying a 2-0 win.
The Ottawa netminder leads the league with a 1.36 goals against average and .956 save percentage.
"It was just great to get the two points," said Anderson following his 21st career shutout. "The guys in front are doing a great job of boxing out and cleaning up any mess in front and allowed me to see the puck most of the time."
The Sens got their goals less than two minutes apart in the second period, with defenseman Erik Karlsson breaking a scoreless game with his first career short-handed marker. Erik Condra added his second goal of the season for Ottawa, which had lost two straight and four of five coming in.
Despite going 0-for-8 on the power play, the Senators managed to split a four- game homestand and will now play three straight as the guest. They have lost three in a row on the road.
It is unknown if Anderson will start again for Ottawa, which will look to avenge a 2-1 home shootout loss to Pittsburgh back on Jan. 27. Crosby, Neal and Evgeni Malkin all beat Anderson in the breakaway frame as the Penguins snapped a three-game slide to the Senators.
Fleury stopped 31 shots and 2-of-3 skaters in the shootout, while Anderson made 33 saves through overtime.
Ottawa has lost four of its past six in Pittsburgh.


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Cochecho River FootbridgeMay 23. 2013 3:19PM
Washington Street
Dover, NH
Built in 1996, this relatively new bridge allows hikers to cross the Cochecho River on their way around the Cochecho River Walk in Dover's Henry Law Park. The bridge is not open to vehicular traffic. It is the only covered bridge in the Seacoast Region. Prefabricated, the bridge was shipped to North Carolina and pressure treated, then returned to NH, assembled on shore and floated into place.
Year of Construction: - 1996
Original Cost: - Unknown
Henry Law Park, Dover
155' long. The bridge was formerly a pipe bridge.


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Two Concord men charged in Cornish armed robberyBY MEGHAN PIERCE
Union Leader Correspondent
October 22. 2013 10:10PM
CORNISH — Two Concord men have been arrested in connection with a July 21 burglary in which a resident was seriously injured.
Thomas Tozier, 27, and Aaron Gobin, 26, were arrested Thursday and both were charged with Class A felony offenses, which carry a maximum sentence of 7½ to 15 years in prison and a $4,000 fine.
Tozier was charged with armed robbery and Gobin was charged with accomplice to armed robbery.
Both men were arraigned at the 5th Circuit Court, Claremont Division on Friday and were held on $75,000 cash bail each, said investigating officer Trooper Charles Newton of Troop C.
Tozier and Gobin are being held at the men's prison in Concord and are scheduled to appear in court next week for their probable cause hearings, he said.
Their victim, a 58-year-old Cornish man, is a former co-worker of Gobin, Newton said. "Tozier was a complete stranger," he said.
The victim was treated at a local hospital for the serious injuries he sustained during the robbery."He's still recovering from the injuries. He had multiple lacerations, a broken nose, missing teeth," Newtown said of the victim. "He is out of the hospital, but still recovering."
Newtown said Tozier and Gobin allegedly stole $900 cash from the man.
"They had a drug dependency and they had a drug debt and their plan was to rob (the victim) of his money," Newtown said.
A joint investigation by the state police and Cornish police led to the identification of Tozier and Gobin as the suspects.
Claremont police, Newport police and the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office also assisted in the investigation.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Envision rising country star Luke Bryan on stage, dressed all in black with a line of scantily clad dancers behind him shaking it for all they're worth as he paces back and forth, stopping more than occasionally to grind his hips in the direction of the camera and a national television audience of millions.
A male country star shaking his booty? Call it country music's pelvis moment. Bryan's performance of "Country Girl (Shake It For Me)" marked the first time a man in music's most straight-laced genre really cut loose in the way Elvis Presley launched rock 'n' roll with a sexy sneer and that little wiggle.
Since Bryan made archetype-shattering appearances on the CMT Video Awards and the Country Music Association Awards in 2011, his career has been on a rise so steep 18 months later he's headlining his own arena tour and releasing two albums in a four-month span. And in his biggest moment yet, he's set to co-host this weekend's Academy of Country Music Awards with Blake Shelton — a rival of his in the entertainer of the year category.
"I always felt like any of your TV opportunities, you better come out of the damn blocks with something," Bryan said. "Because TV's not going to give you many second chances if you tank a performance or if your performance was so boring that everybody changed the channel. So I had enough sense to know you better give something that people are going to watch."
And while those performances caused some head scratching and even momentary mocking along Music Row, they instantly won Bryan fans who've helped make him country's newest sensation — a triple threat with hit songs, No. 1 albums and sold-out arena shows.
"If you look at superstars over the years, look at their personality," said Bob Romeo, the academy's chief executive officer and a longtime country concert promoter. "Garth Brooks could relate to the people. Luke clearly has got that gift, and I think it's a gift. If you have that gift and the ability to write music and sing, I think if all those line up, you've got the potential of being a big artist. And you see it in a handful of people."
When Reba McEntire ended her long run as ACM host, Romeo and show executive producer Rac Clark took a chance and paired Bryan with Shelton, who co-hosted the show twice with McEntire. There may have been more likely candidates with television host experience. But Romeo said everyone saw something in the way Bryan maintained a relationship with his audience that made them pay attention. It was clear he was having fun all the time — even when he fell off the stage at a show in Burlington, Iowa.
"He was doing his funny dance and he accidentally fell off the stage — I think it's on YouTube — and they caught him," Romeo said with a laugh. "They pushed him back up and how do you recover from that? He stopped the song and said, 'Wait, wait, wait! Maybe a lot of you didn't see it in the back, but this dumbass just fell off the stage,' and everybody was laughing. And he says, 'But I just want to know who grabbed my ass?' or something. The song starts back up and he goes right into it. What a great recovery."
The folks at CMT noticed that each time he appeared on the network, their social media traffic would spike. So they became early adopters, tapping the 36-year-old father of two to host their annual summer tour in 2011. Leslie Fram, CMT senior vice president of music strategy, said it was already clear where he was headed.
"He's got the it factor," she said. "... You could tell at that point in time that he was poised to be a headline act of arenas because of his confidence on stage, his interaction with the crowd. He definitely had this it factor, but not just with the women. The guys also wanted to have a beer with him."
That's an ability Bryan had from the start. Kerri Edwards, Bryan's manager, traveled to a Georgia bar gig — Bryan grew up in tiny Leesburg — 10 years ago and found a singer-songwriter already making the transition to full-blown entertainer.
"I remember standing there watching girls love it, guys love it and they were just all having fun," she said. "... It was just like this guy had built this little thing down here and it kind of became a mission to bring it back here to Nashville and figure out how to make it bigger."
They did things differently from the start. Bryan began an annual farm tour, playing to a traditional country demographic. But he went in the other direction as well, releasing a series of spring break EPs. Initially released digitally, this year's version, the full album "Spring Break ... Here to Party," was also released in a physical version and debuted at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200. It remained in the top 5 three weeks later, according to Nielsen SoundScan, with more than 250,000 copies sold — with no single released to country radio.
And that's not even his primary release this year. A follow-up to 2011's hit-spawning "Tailgates & Tanlines," which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in a surprise and has sold 1.9 million copies so far, will be out in August.
Sure that's different in the country world, where artists tend to stick to a two-year schedule when releasing albums. But like his hips, Bryan's not afraid to shake things up on the business side either.
"Obviously country music purists are going to look at things I do and it's really going to rub them the wrong way," Bryan said. "But I will challenge my country music heritage with anybody. It's no disrespect. I love the way I'm going about it and doing it, and clearly the fans are happy with it."
Follow AP Music Writer Chris Talbott: http://twitter.com/Chris_Talbott.


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Toshiba unveils next netbook
Move over NB100, here's the NB200
Toshiba has jazzed up its NB100 netbook, bringing some curves and a 10.1in display to the rather business-like mini laptop. A better battery life too: up to nine hours, the company claimed.
Toshiba's NB200: more curvy than its predecessor
The new release gets a new name too: NB200. It's essentially the UK version of the UX netbook Toshiba introduced in Japan this past Monday.
Like the NB100, its screen has a 1024 x 600 resolution, on-board 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Ethernet, a 160GB HDD, and comes with Windows XP pre-loaded.
It too comes with a 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, but Toshiba's also offering a version of the NB200 with the 1.66GHz N280. Both models come with Bluetooth and three USB ports. Built-in HSDPA 3G is an optional extra.
Standard netbook styling
You'll find the nine-hour battery pack is optional too: as standard, the NB200 comes with a three-cell battery good for four hours' runtime, according to Toshiba.
Toshiba promised a pink NB200, but won't arrive until Q3. The standard silver and grey model ships next month, with prices starting off at £319. ®
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The euro may rise 1.9 percent against the dollar after climbing above a key level of resistance, Morgan Stanley said, citing trading patterns.
The 17-nation currency is poised to extend this month's advance after strengthening above the peak set on Sept. 17, according to strategists at the company including Hans Redeker and Ian Stannard in London. The next target is the high set at the end of March, they said.
"The top end of the three-month range has been breached, suggesting the way towards our $1.34 target has been opened," the strategists wrote in a note to clients. "The euro has extended the recovery trend and we expect further gains in the coming week."
The shared currency fell 0.1 percent to $1.3154 at 2:29 p.m. London time after rising to $1.3190, the highest level since May 2. The target of $1.34 was chosen because it coincides with the peak of $1.3386 set on March 27, Morgan Stanley said. The last time the currency reached $1.34 was on Feb. 29.
Morgan Stanley recommends investors bet the euro will extends its 1.3 percent gain this month and place an automatic order to exit the trade if the currency weakens to $1.3040.
The strategists said one risk to further euro gains is the German Ifo institute's business climate report on Dec. 19. The ZEW Center for European Economic Research said on Dec. 12 that its gauge of the country's investor confidence jumped to a seven-month high in December.
"Market expectations regarding German Ifo have likely been increased following the strong reading of the ZEW, leaving open the potential for disappointment," the report said.
Resistance is an area where technical analysts anticipate sell orders to be clustered.
In technical analysis, investors and analysts study charts of trading patterns and prices to forecast changes in a bond, commodity, currency or index.
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People who have been around rural western and upstate New York recently tell me the region is chock-a-block with anti-fracking lawn signs and billboards–evidence that the greens are determined to block natural gas production in the Empire State. We noted here last week (and also here) how desperate the Thermocrats who hate energy are to stop this boon for the American economy. It will be interesting to see whether Gov. Andrew Cuomo holds the line when he is desperate for the revenue that expanded energy production will bring.
Meanwhile, the good folks at EnergyinDepth have produced the video below on David Letterman's top ten mistakes in his recent on-air rant about fracking. Letterman should have stopped with the phrase, "I'm not smart enough to understand it," but being a celebritoid, he had to go on to prove himself correct in that judgment.
Obama ought to be asked about this issue tonight, and he should be forced to pledge that he supports expanded fracking to produce natural gas. (Likewise he should be asked to explain whether he still wants the price of coal-produced to "necessarily skyrocket.")


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A reflex is a type of involuntary (without trying) response to stimulation. The Moro reflex is one of many reflexes that are seen at birth. It normally disappears after 3 or 4 months.
Startle response; Startle reflex; Embrace reflex
Your baby's doctor will check for this reflex right after birth and during well-child visits.
To see the Moro reflex, the child will be placed face up on a soft, padded surface.
The head is gently lifted with enough support to just begin to remove the body weight from the pad. (Note: The infant's body should not be lifted off the pad, only the weight removed.)
The head is then released suddenly, allowed to fall backward for a moment, but quickly supported again (not allowed to bang on the padding).
The normal response is for the baby to have a startled look. The baby's arms should move sideways with the palms up and the thumbs flexed. The baby may cry for a minute.
As the reflex ends, the infant draws its arms back to the body, elbows flexed, and then relaxes.
This is a normal reflex present in newborn infants.
Absence of the Moro reflex in an infant is abnormal.
A Moro reflex in an older infant, child, or adult is abnormal.
An abnormal Moro reflex is usually discovered by the health care provider. The health care provider will perform a physical exam and ask questions about the child's medical history. Medical history questions may include:
If the reflex is absent or abnormal, further tests may need to be done to examine the child's muscles and nerves. Diagnostic tests, in cases of decreased or absent reflex, may include:
Zafeiriou DI. Primitive reflexes and postural reactions in the neurodevelopmental examination. Pediatr Neurol. 2004;31(1):1-8.
Lehman RK, Schor NF. Neurologic Evaluation. In: Kliegman RM,Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 584.


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A flock of geese flies gracefully overhead. You wish you could see the world as they see it. You wish you could fly and be as free as they are. You wonder where they are going in such a hurry!
Well, don't envy them too much, because they may be on a very long, tiring journey. Many geese and other birds migrate thousands of miles every year. Some travel over 7,000 miles one way! Some may travel up to 1000 miles without even a rest stop, crossing the Gulf of Mexico or the Sahara Desert.
These birds must follow their food supply and they must return to certain locations to breed.
They migrate to survive!
Besides birds, some other long-distance travelers are fish, sea turtles, bears, caribou, whales, and porpoises. Some of these kinds of animals are shrinking in population. Some are in danger of disappearing forever. Scientists want to know what is happening to them and why. As part of the answer, they want to know where the animals go, how they get there, and how long they stay.
A good way to learn about animals is to track them from space. Scientists pick individual animals and fit them with lightweight, comfortable radio transmitters. Signals from the transmitters are received by special instruments on certain satellites as they pass overhead. These satellites are operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The polar orbits of the satellites let them see nearly every part of Earth as it rotates below and receive signals from thousands of migrating animals. You can find out more about this kind of orbit.
After the satellite gets the signal from the animal's transmitter, it relays the information to a ground station. The ground station then sends the information to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Goddard then sends the information about the animal to the scientists, wherever they may be.
Tracking migrating animals using satellites may help us figure out how to make their journeys as safe as possible and help them survive.
These are some of the animals now being tracked by satellite: (Click on picture to see a photo and read about the animal.)


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New Movies This Weekend at Parkwood Cinemas [VIDEOS]
Three films make their silver screen premiere this week. For tickets and showtimes drop in on our friends over at Marcus Parkwood Cinemas. Click through on each movie title to find out more about it and to watch the preview.
Flight - A veteran pilot saves a passenger flight from crashing, but things run amiss when an investigation reveals something dark in his past.
The Man With The Iron Fists - Warriors, assassins and a lone outsider hero in 19th century China must unite to eliminate a traitor who would destroy all clans.
Wreck It Ralph - A video game bad-guy is beginning to get bored with doing the same thing over and over again. So he decides to make some changes that throw his arcade into chaos.


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Rep. Ron Paul of Texas is the top presidential pick of the thousands of social conservatives who are meeting this weekend, winning 37 percent in a non-binding straw poll.
Georgia businessman Herman Cain came in second at the Values Voters Summit in Washington with 23 percent and former Sen. Rick Santorum placed third with 16 percent in Saturday's straw poll among the Republicans' White House contenders.
Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Gov. Rick Perry of Texas tied with 8 percent.
Paul, making his second run at the GOP nomination, regularly fares well in such straw polls because his fervent supporters flock to the events to give him wins. Yet Paul trails other better known candidates such as Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in traditional polls.


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I was on a flight this morning bound for a strategy meeting in our New York office and just as we were about to land, my fellow passengers and I were subjected to several minutes of intercom marketing. A flight attendant was explaining the benefits of owning said airline's credit card, which allows for priority boarding, free in-flight wireless access and more. She went on and on for a few minutes, then walked down the aisles holding a brochure for those of us interested in learning more.
Now, I am not a betting kind of gal, but if I were, I'd be willing to plop down serious cash on the fact that most passengers on that plane this morning were annoyed, irritated and plain ol' bothered by the credit card speech. There is noth ing worse than being marketed a product you don't want and not being able to do anything to stop it.
There's been a lot of controversy this week over New York City Mayor Bloomberg's new breastfeeding initiative, which keeps formula out of sight unless requested by a new mother and ensures all new mamas get the lowdown on the benefits of breastfeeding from a trained nurse. The American Academy of Pediatrics asserts that breast milk is best, especially during thefirst six months of life, and overwhelmingly, the medical community agrees. So why are we so quick to criticize the speech that these nurses are now required to give? Last I checked, you don't have to nurse your baby. It's completely up to you. And if you'd rather reach for formula straight out of the gate, which lots of mothers have little choice but to do, for various reasons, no one is saying you can't. You're just not going to get it tucked inside a free diaper bag branded with the logo of a formula maker and loaded with coupons prompting you to buy even more formula down the road.
Is that such a bad thing?
When I had my son, Jav, at 30 weeks, I was given one of those diaper bags. I was happy to have it because my premature delivery meant we had yet to build his crib, let alone buy a diaper bag. I was annoyed at the advertising that poured out of it, but I took it home anyway, and I certainly didn't complain. As I shuffled to and from the hospital for the next two months while he was in the neonatal intensive care unit, I carried that bag like a badge of honor. It was big enough to hold my breast pump, and with him in the hospital, I had no choice but to pump for a whole two months—no baby in sight. Pumping every three hours with no baby around was the hardest thing I've ever done.
During my 10-day hospital stay and two months of NICU visits, a nurse named Lorraine visited me regularly. Thanks to her, I was able to figure out the whole pumping thing, which wreaked havoc on my psyche. Your brain can tell when there is no baby nearby, and without those cues, it can be very difficult to continue providing encouragement. I drew a lot of strength from her, and when it was finally—finally—time to try nursing my son, she cautioned that babies didn't always latch after so much time in a NICU, where they're fed by a tube and a bottle.
Lorraine set Jav and me up in an optimal position, and told me to relax my shoulders. She showed me exactly what to do, and in a matter of minutes, my son latched on, and we were nursing. Truly, truly nursing, skin to skin, heart to heart. I couldn't help the tears, they fell so easily, and when I looked up at Lorraine, she was tearing up too.
I realize that nurses like Lorraine are special. They have a way about them that makes you feel cared for and looked after, not marketed to nor judged. Not every new mom will have a Lorraine to explain to them the benefits of breastfeeding and encourage her to try it, to stick with it, to go for it. And some that do won't be able to nurse anyway, for a variety of reasons, and that's OK. Because the city of New York (or wherever you live) isn't telling you that you have to, and neither is the government—thankfully. The choice is yours, just as it should be. If only I'd had similar options on my flight this morning…


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ROME (Reuters) - The Italian coastguard and navy recovered the bodies of three Somali nationals about 35 miles from the Libyan coast late on Saturday when the motorized raft they were using to try to get to Italy sank, the coastguard said.
Two coastguard boats and a navy ship pulled 70 other Somalis from the water, according to a statement sent on Sunday. The survivors and the dead were being taken to the Italian island of Lampedusa.
The coastguard, an Italian tug boat, and a navy helicopter are continuing to search for survivors.
Thousands of people have been killed attempting the dangerous crossing from North Africa to Europe in overcrowded and frequently unsafe vessels. In the past few years, Italy has become the main destination for maritime migration to southern Europe, which is usually from Libya.
(Reporting by Steve Scherer; Editing by Andrew Osborn)


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Burglars take $210K in cash from safe in Salem homeBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
April 17. 2014 10:35PM
SALEM — Police arrested a 30-year-old Methuen, Mass., man who they said was part of a burglary crew being sought for stealing about $210,000 in cash from a safe inside a Main Street home.
Shawn Russell, 30, was taken into custody at a Market Basket parking lot on Thursday in Methuen, Mass., leading police to recover $40,000 in cash and 42 grams of heroin, police said.
Hours earlier, police said they had seized evidence linked to the burglary at Russell's prior address. The evidence included two-way radios, ski masks, knives, zip ties, airsoft pistols and gloves, police said.
Police said that the heroin may have been bought with some of the stolen money.
Officers were called to a burglary in progress at 24 Main St. on Monday shortly before 6 p.m. Witnesses told police that three people were seen committing the burglary and leaving the house in a dark-colored Kia. Another witness said the KIA crashed into a parked vehicle in an adjacent driveway to the Main Street home and sped away just before police arrived.
The three men had also seen the day before the break-in loitering near the Main Street home, witnesses told police.
The investigation is now focused on apprehending one of Russell's alleged partners in the break-in and identifying who else participated in the heist.
Police obtained an arrest warrant for Michael Meucci, 31, of Salem, on charges that he took part in the burglary.
"We believe others may have been involved in the planning," Deputy Police Chief Shawn Patten said. "It could be up to four people."
Meucci is considered armed and dangerous, police said. Police learned that Meucci recently made threats that he will not go back to jail and will shoot it out with police if necessary.
"We want to get the word out to people about him," Patten said.
Detectives went to a prior address for Russell in Methuen, Mass. Russell was not there, but police said they found the blue Kia used in the burglary parked behind the home, and the safe, which had been forced open and looted, according to police.
Police executed a search warrant for the Kia and recovered ski masks, two-way radios and other items believed to have been used in the break-in, police said.
Detectives were able to track down Russell on Thursday by following a person believed to be an associate as he drove to the Market Basket parking lot on Haverhill Street in Methuen, Mass.
The detectives noticed Russell driving a silver Honda into the lot, and they boxed in his car. He was arrested after a brief struggle.
Patten said he could not speculate about why the homeowner had a large amount of cash at his home.
"It's a bit out of the ordinary for someone to have that amount of cash in a house," Patten said. "But we do believe that amount is accurate."
Russell is being held in a Massachusetts jail and faces charges of burglary, theft by unauthorized taking and conduct after an accident.
Meucci, who remains at large, faces the same charges.


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Discovery Park center receives additional $10 million in research funding from Regenstrief Foundation
September 11, 2012
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The Regenstrief Foundation is expanding its major partnership with Purdue's Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, providing $10 million in additional research funding for the Discovery Park center through 2018, officials announced Tuesday (Sept. 11).
Tim Sands
"This funding of $2 million a year for the next five years will allow the Regenstrief Center to focus on front-line impact with its research," said Purdue acting President Timothy Sands. "Researchers will now have additional support to pursue projects with the greatest opportunities to enhance efficiencies in our nation's $2 trillion health-care system."
Jack Shaw, president of the Indianapolis-based Regenstrief Foundation, said the partnership, initiated in 2005, has been an investment not just in Purdue, but also in addressing the critical health-care issues facing every American.
"We're excited about what this additional funding will mean to the Purdue center's research efforts for addressing a U.S. health-care industry that remains in serious need of reform," Shaw said.
The Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering (RCHE) was borne out of the 2004 report, "Building a Better Delivery System: A New Engineering/Health Care Partnership," by the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine.
Co-written by Purdue industrial engineering professor and RCHE Advisory Committee member W. Dale Compton, the report outlined ways that systems engineering could help deliver safe, effective, timely, equitable, efficient and patient-centered health care.
Regenstrief Center director Steve Witz, Purdue's St. Vincent Health Chair of Healthcare Engineering, said RCHE has leveraged nearly $16 million worth of funding from the Regenstrief Foundation into more than $53 million in health-care related research funding from federal and state agencies, industry players, and organizations.
Steve Witz
To date, Regenstrief's research has launched the Infusion Pump Informatics Network to assist several Midwest hospitals in sharing best practices on the use of what are known as "smart pumps."
Witz said the new funding will help the center expand its focus on the center's two research focus areas: care coordination and population health.
RCHE's research and dissemination partners include 13 provider and professional organizations. Mayo Clinic became a partner in 2010, joining others such as the American College of Physicians, Ascension Health and Community Health Network. Regenstrief also was a founding member of the Healthcare Systems Engineering Association, a national professional organization promoting excellence in research and education in health-care systems engineering.
"We envision a health-care system that guides patients and families through their health-care experience, while respecting patient choice, offering physical and psychological supports, and encouraging strong relationships between patients and the health-care professionals accountable for their care," Witz said. "We envision communities that foster health and wellness as well as national, state and local systems of care fully invested in the prevention of disease, injury and disability - reliable, effective and proactive in helping all people reduce the risk and burden of disease."
RCHE also is impacting the next generation of health-care engineers and researchers by offering internships, fellowships and exposing undergraduate and graduate students to research opportunities in a variety of disciplines.
In addition, the center is collaborating with the Regenstrief Institute Inc., which is located at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. An international leader in health-care informatics, the institute was launched in 1969 and today has one of the world's first and largest electronic medical record systems with more than 300 million online clinical results.
The Regenstrief Foundation helped create Purdue's Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering with a $3 million gift in 2005 and invested another $11 million in 2008 to support additional research efforts through 2013. The center's formal charge is to use systems engineering, management, science and information technology to improve patient care and safety.
The Regenstrief Foundation is named for benefactor Sam Regenstrief, who emigrated from Vienna to Indianapolis as a child. Regenstrief founded a company that manufactured and popularized the low-cost home dishwasher, at one time producing 37 percent of the world's dishwashers in Connersville, Ind. Regenstrief died in 1988. The foundation's work supports the legacy of Sam Regenstrief's vision: The continued improvement of the health-care delivery system.
The Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering makes its home in the $12.4 million Gerald D. and Edna E. Mann Hall, which opened in Discovery Park in May 2007.
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Twenty-four hours or so after landing in Paris for a five-city tour in search of the new European anti-Americanism, I found myself in one of the coolest places on the planet: a big old ugly hockey arena on the outskirts of town, surrounded by 15,000 people waiting for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band to come onstage. The concert turned out to be a pretty standard Springsteen concert. But it's always interesting to see him play abroad, and Paris enjoys a special place in Springsteen lore. It was here, back in 1980, that Bruce first talked politics with his fans. Largely self-educated, Springsteen had been given a copy of Allan Nevins and Henry Steele Commager's A Short History of the United States. He read it and told the crowd that America "held out a promise and it was a promise that gets broken every day in the most violent way. But it's a promise that never, ever dies, and it's always inside of you."
You can tell a lot about a continent by the way it reacts to Bruce Springsteen. Tonight, at the Bercy Stadium, the typically multigenerational, sold-out Springsteen audience could be from Anytown, USA. Everybody knows all the lyrics, even to the new songs. Toward the end of the evening, Bruce announces, in French, "I wrote this song about the Vietnam War. I want to do it for you tonight for peace," and 15,000 Parisians, standing in the historic home of cultural anti-Americanism, scream out at the top of their collective lungs, "I was born in the USA," fists in the air.
You can't be anti-American if you love Bruce Springsteen. You can criticize America. You can march against America's actions in the world. You can take issue with the policies of its unelected, unusually aggressive and unthinking Administration, and you can even get annoyed with its ubiquitous cultural and commercial presence in your life. But you can't be anti-American. George W. Bush is "like a cartoon stereotype" representing "the worst side of the US culture," Jordi Beleta, 45, told Phil Kuntz of the Wall Street Journal, outside Barcelona's Palau Sant Jordi two nights after Paris. "Bruce is real. He's a street man." A Reuters reporter found a similar story in Berlin: "America can keep Bush but Springsteen can come back here as often as he wants," said Rumen Milkov, 36.
To be genuinely anti-American, as the Italian political scientist Robert Toscano points out, is to disapprove of the United States "for what it is, rather than what it does." Bush Administration officials and their supporters in the media would like to confuse this point in order to dismiss or delegitimize widespread concern and anger about the course of US foreign policy. To listen to their words, Europe has become a smoldering caldron of anti-Americanism, in which even our best qualities are held against us by a jealous, frustrated and xenophobic population led by cowardly, pacifistic politicians. The picture painted in the US media is one of almost relentless resentment.
I heard it first about France, where an anti-McDonald's movement had taken hold, and a xenophobic, neofascist Hitler apologist managed to come in second in a national presidential election. Walk into a French bookstore and you will find titles like Who Is Killing France?, American Totalitarianism, No Thanks Uncle Sam, A Strange Dictatorship. French newspapers are filled with blistering criticism of the US role in the world. Le Monde, for instance, pulled no punches when it recently termed Bush's Middle East policies "extraordinary, unjust and arrogant."


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The Eagles' search for another tight end is contiuning in the wake of Cornelius Ingram's season-ending knee injury.
The team evaluated Tony Curtis on Friday and could sign him pending a physical, according to Jason La Canfora of the NFL Network. The Eagles have made no official announcement.
Curtis has played in 36 career games with the Cowboys and recorded 11 catches for 50 yards and three touchdowns (all three game in 2007). Hehad eight receptions for 32 yards last season with the Cowboys.
He was an undrafted free agent in 2005 and had been with Dallas his entire career until joining the Chiefs this offseason after they traded Tony Gonzalez to Atlanta. He was released by Kansas City when Amani Toomer was signed.
Behind starter Brent Celek and veteran backup Matt Schobel, the Eagles have been working in undrafted free agents Eugene Bright, a converted defensive end from Purdue, and Rob Myers, from Utah State, who joined the team late in camp.
Celek, nursing a shoulder injury, did not play against the Colts on Thursday as a precaution. Schobel started and did not have a reception. Myers had four catches for 44 yards with a long of 17.
In other news, the ASPCA has broken its relative silence on the Michael Vick issue, releasing a statement yesterday that condemns "60 Minutes" for giving Vick a forum. The group says that Vick's PR team approached them about working with him but the APSCA turned Vick down.
Here is part of the statement released by Ed Sayres, the ASPCA president and CEO:
"Mr. Vick has indeed been given another chance to play football with the Philadelphia Eagles. It is important to state that the ASPCA is extremely disappointed that owner Jeff Lurie hired him for his team before it was clear that Mr. Vick has truly developed a sense of compassion for his victims, the animals whose lives were taken by him. The ASPCA believes in second chances -- in redemption -- but that second chance has to be earned through contrition, conversion to the cause of animal welfare and finally, through hard work. Mr. Vick has only now begun his journey toward a second chance. It will be a long and hard road for him, and while we wish him well, we also want to remind the nation that the work of ridding the nation of dog fighting is as compelling a story as one man's path to redemption. Let's not forget to focus on the animals, the crimes that are still being committed every day in the United States. What are we, as a nation, going to do about that? How are we going to express our outrage long past the first time Mr. Vick takes the field in Philadelphia?"


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SALISBURY, MD – York College junior guard Brandon Enck (Quarryville, Pa./Solanco) made his first collegiate start a memorable one on Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately for Enck and his Spartan teammates, his fantastic effort would not translate into a victory as the Salisbury Sea Gulls edged York 63-60 in Capital Athletic Conference action on Saturday in Salisbury.
The Sea Gulls improve to 14-7 overall and 5-3 in the CAC while the Spartans fall to 7-14 overall and 2-7 in the league. The Sea Gulls swept the season series from the Spartans by a combined six points.
Enck entered the game averaging 1.5 points and 9.3 minutes per game. He drew his first career start and responded in a big way. The junior scored eight of the Spartans' first ten points of the game after Salisbury got off to a quick start in the contest. Enck's play kept the Spartans from getting blow out early by the hot shooting Gulls.
The Sea Gulls opened up an eight-point lead at 22-14 midway through the half. York chipped away, drawing to within three on a Mitch Kemp (York, Pa./York Suburban) triple at the 5:23 mark. The two teams went back and forth over the final five minutes of the half as the Gulls took a 29-27 lead to the break.
The second half was a fantastic stanza of college basketball. The half featured five ties and four lead changes as the game came down to the wire for the second straight meeting.
The Sea Gulls established an eight-point lead with 6:54 left in regulation. The Spartans responded with an 8-0 run to tie the game at 54 with 2:42 left. Salisbury's Travon Vann hit a bucket to take back the lead but Kemp was fouled on the ensuing possession and he canned both freebies to tie the game for the fifth and final time.
Salisbury's Elijah Gore hit a huge three after the Spartans collapsed on Vann in the post as the hosts took a three-point lead with 1:14 left. Senior Julian Watson (Odenton, Md./Arundel) hit a slashing lay up on York's next possession, drawing York to within one with 37 seconds left. The Spartans elected to foul down one and they got a Gore miss but Vann collected a huge offensive rebound with 25 seconds left. York had to foul Vann and the front-runner for the CAC Player of the Year honors, sank both, pushing Salisbury's lead back to three. After a Watson runner in the lane fell with 19 seconds left, York fouled Vann again. And again, the guard sank both to push the lead back to three.
York's final possession would not be as fruitful as their previous two as Watson was forced to take a long three off a scramble with three seconds left. York couldn't get the offensive rebound as they fell to the Gulls in another tight game.
Vann finished the game with a double-double as he recorded 15 points and 10 rebounds while he also had five assists and two steals. The senior was 4-for-11 from the floor and 2-for-6 from three. He was a perfect 5-for-5 from the free throw line. Dylan Robeson and Craig Ryan each added nine points. Trent Epps contributed seven points and seven rebounds for the Gulls.
Enck led the Spartans with 18 points and 11 rebounds. He was a blistering 8-for-9 from the floor including 1-for-1 from three and 1-for-2 from the line. His 32 minutes were also a career-high for the junior. Kemp added 12 points to the Spartan offense while Watson recorded nine points and four assists.
The Sea Gulls finished the game with a 32-29 edge on the glass including a 12-2 margin in offensive rebounds. Salisbury also forced 16 turnovers, which the Gulls turned into 16 points. Salisbury's offensive rebounding edge teamed with the fact they only turned the ball over eight times enabled the Gulls to attempt 19 more shots than York.
That advantage in total shots allowed the Gulls to win despite shooting 38.3% from the floor compared to York's 53.7% accuracy mark. The Gulls did get it done from distance as they nailed 11 triples in the game.
The Spartans return to action on Monday night when they travel to Alvernia to face the Crusaders in a non-conference contest. Tip time in Reading is set for 7:30 pm.
Brandon Enck photo courtesy of David Sinclair (www.davidsinclair.org)


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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Despite the sharp decline in the state's moose population, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has decided to allow a moose hunting season this fall.
The DNR says it expects hunters will take about 50 moose during the bulls-only season. The agency plans to issue 87 permits. That compares with 92 permits last year, when state-licensed hunters took 53 bull moose. The DNR will close two hunting zones in northeastern Minnesota, but continue to allow hunting in other zones.
Minnesota's moose population is estimated at 4,230, a 14 percent decline from last year's estimate of 4,900 and less than half the 2006 estimate of 8,840. Wildlife managers say the reasons for the decline aren't fully understood, but they say limited hunting of bull moose is not considered a significant factor.
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