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The scope and connection of Leviticus with Numbers
The Book of Leviticus contains the revelation of God sitting upon the throne, where He places Himself that He may be approached by the people, as far as they could come; that of the priesthood brought into proximity to the throne, as far as men could have access to it; and then the promulgation of the commandments relative to these two great facts, in that which concerned the generality of the people.
In Numbers we have the service and walk of the people, figuratively of the saints through this world: and, consequently, that which relates to the Levites, and the journey through the wilderness. Now, as Leviticus ended with regulations and warnings respecting the possession of the land, and that with regard to the rights of God, and consequently to the rights of His people, the Book of Numbers brings us through the wilderness to the moment before the entrance of the people into the land at the end of the wilderness journey, and speaks of that grace which justifies the people at the close, notwithstanding all their unfaithfulness.
The wilderness journey
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A leadoff single by Jason Bay in the fifth was immediately wiped out by a double play grounder from Mike Lowell. With two outs in the sixth, Pedroia singled and Victor Martinez walked. Lackey fell behind Kevin Youkilis 3-0, but battled back and got out of trouble with a fielder's choice grounder. J.D. Drew began the eighth with a single and went to second on a wild pitch, but Gonzalez, Ellsbury and Pedroia could not move him any farther.
The Angels scored twice in the seventh off Ramon Ramirez and Takashi Saito. It was a strange inning that featured Juan Rivera grounding into a double play, but reaching first safely. The bases were loaded and the play went 5-2-5. The inning ended when Drew threw out Kendry Morales at the plate.
The game was also marked by horrible umpiring. CB Bucknor blew two obvious calls at first base -- one with the runner 4-5 feet from the bag -- both against the Red Sox with Howie Kendrick running, though they both happened in innings in which Los Angeles did not score. The Angels also got burned a few times, including the second out of that 5-2-5 DP. The catcher's interference call by Joe West was also strange.
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While it's great to hear another team deal with endless questions about a seeming inability to beat a certain opponent -- Torii Hunter: "There ain't no team in my head" -- the fact that the Red Sox have beaten the Angels in nine of their last 10 LDS games means little to the series that begins tonight.
Lester thinks there may be an "added confidence. I wouldn't say that in an arrogant way, but we know we've played this team well, and they play us tough."
With Rocco Baldelli "feeling minimally better" yesterday, it seems likely that Brian Anderson will take his spot as an extra outfielder. If so [Update: it's so], this is the Red Sox roster:
Pitchers Lineup/BenchTheo Epstein:
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Mike Lowell
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Daniel Bard J.D. Drew
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Billy Wagner
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According to the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), scientific misconduct allegations filed last year by former Bureau of Reclamation Scientific Integrity Officer Paul Houser are "not warranted" and have been flatly rejected by the agency's investigation. In a rebuttal statement Houser claims the investigation was bogus.
In February 2012, Houser filed a scientific misconduct complaint regarding a press release and the accompanying summary of key conclusions drawn from 50 scientific studies into the effects of removing four Klamath River dams. This claim of misconduct was based on his belief that a lack of discussion of possible negative impacts and uncertainties related to dam removal indicated an intentional effort to mislead the public.
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The cited section 3.5M (3) of DOI's Departmental Manual states that a finding of misconduct requires "there be a significant departure from accepted practices of the relevant scientific and scholarly community," and "the misconduct be committed intentionally, knowingly or recklessly and the allegation be proved by a preponderance of evidence."
Houser asserted that the Sept. 21, 2011 summary that accompanied the press release "intentionally distorts and generally presents a biased view of the Klamath River dam removal benefits. It intends to present only the positive, without the uncertainties or negatives."
DOI hired an independent contractor to assemble an "expert" panel of four scientist to review the documents and Houser's allegations, and make recommendations to DOI on their merit.
In regards to the claim that the press release was biased because it offered only positive findings on dam removal, the panel said, "it is not the case that only positive impacts were included in the summary. Examples include loss of reservoir recreation, and risks of flooding as well as cost."
After reviewing "numerous" other similar press releases from DOI and its constituent bureaus and agencies the panel says it found that the documents "… rarely if ever mention uncertainty. Hence we find that there is nothing unusual about the scope or style of the press release regarding Klamath dam removal."
The panel found that the summary of key conclusions was clearly not intended to stand on its own but specifically points the public to the larger set of 50 scientific studies which do explore positive and negative aspects of dam removal as well as the inherent scientific uncertainties.
"In accepted professional practice, a summary is not regarded as a freestanding document," said the panel, "but is a representation of the full report that it summarizes. Where there is a difference or gap, it is the information and intent of the full report that prevails."
According to the panel, "While Dr. Houser may feel that more detail should have been provided, we believe that this is a matter of opinion, rather than evidence of deliberate obfuscation of the facts."
The panel did take issue with one aspect of the summary, stating, "The source of the statement that the removal of dams is expected to increase the median annual production of adult Chinook salmon by 81.4 percent is unclear. Furthermore, the accuracy of the estimate implied by 81.4 percent is misleading. By any estimation, it could not be accurate to tenths of a percent. This is an example of false precision." The panel suggested that DOI employees be made to better understand the potential public impact of false precision in future publications.
In her letter to Houser, Kimball said she did not "… find evidence that the use of a precise number was done recklessly or with the intent to falsify or fabricate data to manipulate the public review process," though she did not address the unknown origin of the number.
Houser's rebuttal
Houser has released an eight-page rebuttal document in which he states, "I maintain that Interior's handling of my complaint is misguided and turns the department's scientific integrity process on its head."
Houser alleges that DOI, among other things, did not evaluate the full scope of his complaint; failed to conduct an actual investigation; used circular reasoning as the basis for dismissing his complaint; made up the rules as they went along and convened an unqualified and conflicted panel (though he refers to the panel as "unidentified").
"The end result," Houser says, "is that my scientific integrity complaint has been dismissed without being fully investigated or even cogently considered, and continues the department's record of never finding itself in violation of its own scientific integrity policy."
He concludes his rebuttal saying, "The bottom line is that through a very narrow panel charge and through its own de-scoping, the important aspects of my allegation were not evaluated, and no actual investigation was done. So, it seems my allegation really has not yet been addressed, and I don't expect that it will ever be addressed by DOI."


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Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Last modified 01.10.2020
We at LAERDAL collectively referred to as "LAERDAL", "we", "us", "our") take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Statement describes how we collect, store, use and disclose information that identifies you as an individual when you interact with us or use any of the following:
- Any website maintained by LAERDAL (referred to as "Website" or "Websites") or
- Any LAERDAL product, service, application or programme including any trial (collectively referred to as "Services")
This Privacy Statement is issued on behalf of the Laerdal group of companies so when we mention LAERDAL we are referring to the relevant company in the LAERDAL group of companies responsible for processing your data. LAERDAL MEDICAL AS is the controller responsible for this Website.
It is important that you read this Privacy Statement together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we use your data. This Privacy Statement supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
This Website is not intended for children (i.e. persons under 16 years of age) and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children through this Website.
We collect information about you if you:
- use this Website;
- enquire about or purchase our Services (either in your own capacity, or as a representative for your employer); or
- use one of our Services (either for your own professional purposes (e.g. as a private doctor), or during the course of your employment for an organisation (such as a hospital or other service provider or other organisation) which utilises our Services, or where you participate in a training programme or receive medical treatment from a provider using our Serivces) or
- When you apply to us online for a job. (Please note that this Privacy Statement only describes our handling of your information during the recruitment period only and does not apply after you become employed by us (if successful). This Privacy Statement does not apply to Laerdal employees in the context of their employment.
The personal information we collect depends on the context of your interaction with LAERDAL and can include:-
- Identity data including first and last name, user name, title
- Contact data including email address, postal address (billing or delivery), employer or organisation details, phone number and other similar contact data
- Profile data including user name and credentials such as passwords, password hints and other similar information for authentication and account access, purchases or orders made by you, feedback and survey responses
- Usage data including information about how you use our Websites or Services
- Demographic data such as location, country and preferred language
- Payment data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases such as your credit card or other bank card number
- Transaction data such as details about payments to and from you and other details of products or services you have bought from us
- Technical Data including internet protocol (IP) addresses, login data, browser type and version, time zone and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access the Websites or Services
- Marketing and communication data including your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences
- (if relevant) employer's name, hire date, department and job title; details of any training or performance records and levels of competence obtained through your use of the Services and details of your access to and use of the Services.
We may aggregate or otherwise de-identify your personal information, so that we can use it for our own statistical, analytical or benchmarking purposes. We do this in order to better understand how users interact with our website, or to understand and evaluate how our products are used, so that we can make evidence based improvements to them. The de-identified information that we use for these purposes will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.
Information you give us:
When you use the Websites or contact us in any way: You may give us information about yourself by filling in forms on our Websites or by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you submit documentation to us, register to use our Websites, enquire about or purchase our Services, subscribe to our Services, interact with our personnel, report a problem on our Websites or when you provide feedback. If you contact us through the Websites, we will keep a record of our correspondence.
When you use the Services: We receive and store information that you directly provide to us through your use of Services including any personal information that you provide to us when you register for the first time as a user of our Services.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Many Services are intended for use by our customer organisations and are in those cases, administered to you by your organisation. We collect and process our customers' information on their instructions and in accordance with our agreements with them. Your use of the Services may be subject to your organisation's policies, if any. If you use any Services under direction from an organisation you have a connection with (such as an employer or a school), that organisation will (1) control and administer your use of the Services and (2) access and process your personal information. If your organisation administers your use of the Services, please direct your privacy enquiries to your organisation. Your organisation is the data controller of your personal information for such purposes, and we are the data processor. LAERDAL is not responsible for the privacy or security practices of its customers and these may differ from those set out in this Privacy Statement.
Information we automatically collect about you:
When you use the Websites or the Services: We may automatically collect technical information including the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet and your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting as well as information about your visit including pages visited. We will also collect information about your visit including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, through and from our Website (including date and time), products you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information and any phone number used to call our customer service number.
COOKIES: You understand and agree that, when you visit certain pages of our Website or use our Services, our servers may send "cookies". Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your computer's hard drive through your web browser. Such electronic personal information is sent to us automatically. If you do not wish to accept cookies in respect of your use of the Services, you should stop using the Services, or turn off your cookies using your Internet browser settings, but please be aware that some of the functionality of the Websites or Services and associated services may not work if your browser does not accept cookies. For Information about the cookies we use, please see our cookie policy.
Information we receive from third parties. We also obtain personal information from third parties according to the practices described in this Statement together with any additional restrictions imposed by the source of the data. These third-party sources include:
- Customer organisations (please refer to the IMPORTANT NOTE above).
- Service providers that help us to determine a location based on your IP address or assist us with technical, payment and delivery services
- Partners with which we offer co-branded Services or engage in joint marketing activities such as the American Heart Association, British Heart Foundation and others.
We will use the information we collect via our Websites and Services to:
Type of Personal Information
Legal Basis
To register you as a new customer
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
Performance of a contract with you
To process and deliver your order including:
(a) Manage payments, fees and charges
(b) Collect and recover money owed to us
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Financial
(d) Transaction
(e) Marketing and Communications
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)
To manage our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or Privacy Statement
(b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Marketing and communications
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our Websites or Services)
To enable you to complete a survey
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and Communications
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business)
To administer and protect our business and this Website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
To deliver relevant Website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and Communications
(f) Technical
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
To use data analytics to improve our Website or Services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences. As stated above, we take steps to de-identify this information prior to processing, but to the extent that it technically contains any personal data for the purposes of data protection law, we have established the appropriate legal basis set out here.
(a) Technical
(b) Usage
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about Services that may be of interest to you
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(d) Usage
(e) Profile
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business)
To provide you and/or (where applicable) your employer with help associated with the Services including training, competence records and certificates
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(d) Usage
(e) Performance records
Necessary to perform our contract with your employer or with you
Provide you and/or (where applicable) your employer with user support and customer support to diagnose and resolve Service problems and other customer care and support activities.
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(d) Usage
(e) Performance records
Necessary to perform our contract with your employer or with you
Administer your account and/or (where applicable) the Services we provide your employer
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(d) Usage
(e) Performance records
Necessary to perform our contract with your employer or with you
To assess your skills, qualifications and suitability for any job that you may seek with us and to communicate with you during the recruitment process and keep records of our hiring process
(Please note that this Privacy Statement only describes our handling of your information during the recruitment period only and ceases to apply after you become employed by us (if successful). This Privacy Statement does not apply to Laerdal employees in the context of their employment.
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Academic and professional skills
(d) Employment history
(e) gender, title, date of birth
(f) any other information you choose to provide us in an online job application
Necessary for our legitimate interests in deciding whether to hire you and also necessary for our legitimate interest in contacting you
To analyse your CPR training
(a) Videos of CPR
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to
Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal information. In some circumstances, we may rely upon consent as a basis to send direct marketing communications to you via email or text message, where we are required to do so by law. However, in other cases we will lawfully rely on our legitimate interest in being able to inform you about relevant Services, in a way which is not overly intrusive. Regardless of our legal basis for marketing, you have the right to prevent marketing at any time by contacting us at [email protected] or by using the unsubscribe links contained in our emails. If you specifically consent to additional uses of your personal information, we may use your personal information in a manner consistent with that consent. Separately, your employer may collect consents from you for their own purposes as a data controller (see the following box).
Where you use the Services at the request of your employer, and we provide Services to your employer, we collect, use and share your personal information for the above purposes at the request of, and in accordance with the directions of your employer. Your employer is the data controller of your personal information for such purposes, and we are the data processor. Your employer has personal information protection policies and processes that may differ from the privacy notice you are currently reading and we recommend that you read such policies before accessing or using the Services.
If you have yourself individually subscribed to the Services, we collect, use and share your personal information for the above purposes for and on your behalf and we are the data processor of your personal information for such purposes.
We will not sell your personal information or share it with third parties for use in advertising or marketing of their products or services.
Where you use the Services at the request of your employer, and we provide services to your employer, we share your personal information with your employer for certain purposes as data processor of your employer - see "HOW YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS USED" above.
We use third-party service providers (for example, Microsoft Azure) to store and process your personal information. Where our Service is one that is being provided in conjunction with one of our partners, such as the American Heart Association, we will share personal information with that partner for the purpose of issuing certificates of competence endorsed by that partner. Our partners are required by us to provide substantially the same level of security and protection to your personal information as we ourselves are obliged to under this Privacy Statement.
We may share your personal information with our payment processing service providers in connection with the payment processing services that they perform for us in connection with processing your purchase of the Services. They are not authorized by us to use the information for their benefit.
Our service providers have to follow our express instructions when processing personal information you provide and they must comply with appropriate retention and security measures to protect such personal information and we do not allow them to use this information for their own purposes.
We may also share your personal information in response to a request by government or regulatory authorities, law enforcement or an order of the courts; to a potential acquirer of our business; and as permitted by applicable laws and regulations.
Links to other websites. The Websites contain links and interactive features with various social media platforms, such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. If you give information to these platforms then your information will be registered on these platforms and will be available to anyone who uses the platforms. If you already use these platforms, their cookies may be set on your device when using our Websites and they may already have certain information about you which they may combine with information collected on our Websites. These features may enable integration and/or access to your social media accounts. We do not control those social media services, your profiles on those services, modify your privacy settings on those services or establish rules about how your information on those services will be used. You and the social media service providers are in control of those issues. You are encouraged to read all policies and information on the applicable social media services to learn more about how they handle your information before using any such features made available to you on the Websites. We are not responsible for any acts or omissions by any social media service provider or your use of features that come from their features or platform.
LAERDAL has operations around the world, and we also have partners and service providers who operate in a variety of countries. As such, your personal information may be moved to, disclosed to or stored by us in countries other than your own country, where the data protection and privacy laws may be different to those in your country. One way in which this may occur is where your personal information is stored in a controlled access repository in the cloud. "In the cloud" refers to servers in a data center that are managed by a third party and accessible through the Internet, and that data center may be in a country other than your own. However we have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal information will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Statement. These include implementing an intra-group agreement based on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses for transfer of personal information between our group companies as well as supplementary data protection obligations relevant to the country of export in the case of export of personal information from Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland or Singapore. These also include implementing appropriate data processing agreements with third parties, where relevant. You acknowledge and agree to this transfer, storing and/or processing outside of your country.
In the limited circumstances where we are the data controller of your personal information (see "HOW YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS USED" above for further details), we maintain your personal information only for as long as is it is necessary. In some circumstances we may store your personal information for longer periods of time, for instance where we are required to do so in accordance with legal, regulatory, tax, accounting requirements. In specific circumstances we may also store your personal information for longer periods of time so that we have an accurate record of your dealings with us in the event of any complaints or challenges, or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation relating to your personal information or dealings
Where your employer or another organisation is the data controller of your personal information, please refer to their personal information protection policies and processes for information about the relevant retention period(s).
We are committed to the privacy and confidentiality of the personal information in our control or possession (as the case may be). We are obliged to have appropriate physical, electronic and managerial protection measures in place to prevent unauthorized access, erasure, loss, use, processing or disclosure of your personal information, and we take reasonable steps to do so. We will continue to review and update our security measures where appropriate, as new technology becomes available.
Unfortunately, transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we use reasonable measures to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.
Subject to certain exemptions, and in some cases dependent upon the processing activity we are undertaking, you have certain rights in relation to your personal information:
- To access personal information
- To correct / erase personal information
- To restrict the processing of your personal information
- To transfer your personal information
- To object to the processing of personal information
- To object to how we use your personal information for direct marketing purposes
- To obtain a copy of personal information safeguards used for transfers outside your jurisdiction
- To lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority or in the case of Australian residents, the right to complain about our processing of your personal information.
Importantly, in situations where we act as a data processor (for example, where we collect personal information from you through the use of our Services, as more fully described throughout this Privacy Statement) you should exercise your rights against the relevant data controller (for example, your employer, where your employer is the customer organisation which has purchased our Services).
How to contact us:
You may contact us in a number of ways listed below in connection with your personal information.
We may ask you for additional information to confirm your identity and for security purposes, before disclosing the personal information requested to you. We reserve the right to charge a fee where permitted by law, for instance if your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.
If you wish to opt out of marketing communication we send you at any time you can either do this by clicking on the form above or by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link in the marketing emails that we send to you or by contacting us directly at [email protected].
- You may choose to Exercise Your Rights here
- If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement including any requests to access, correct or delete the personal information we hold about you or to complain about our handling of your personal information, you can also contact our data protection manager using the details set out below:
Email: [email protected]
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Additional information for Australian residents
With regard to personal information of Australian residents only, please call us on 1800-331-565 or email us at [email protected] if you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, our management of your information or if you would like a copy of this Statement sent to you.
Additional information for German residents
Data Protection Officer for the Federal Republic of Germany
With regard personal information of German citizens only, please note that we have appointed Marc Fuchs of Datev DE as our German data protection officer for all matters arising in respect of our German entities. If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement with regard to the personal information of German citizens then please contact Mr Fuchs. His contact details are as follows:-
Marc Fuchs
IT-Strategie, IT-Sicherheit & Datenschutz | BA-B412
68165 Mannheim
E Mail : [email protected]
Additional information for California residents only:
With regard to personal information of California residents, in addition to the information already provided in the sections above, the following additional section of this Privacy Statement also applies to you.
This Privacy Statement does not address or apply to:
- Our handling of personal information which is exempt under section 1798.145 of the California Consumer Privacy Act 2018; or
- Personal information we collect about employees, contractors or job applicants or other individuals who are not California residents; or
- Personal information we collect about persons acting in their capacity as representatives (B2B contacts) of our customers, prospective customers, suppliers and other businesses we conduct business with to the extent that we use this personal information only in the context of conducting our business relationship with their respective business.
Rights for California residents:
You have the right to:
- request that we disclose the categories of your personal information that we have collected, used, disclosed and sold (if applicable) in the 12 months prior to your request as well as the categories of sources of such personal information within the last 12 months prior to your request
- request that we delete your personal information and we will respond to verifiable requests to do so;
- non-discriminatory treatment for the exercise of any of your data protection rights;
- access your personal information in a portable and to the extent, technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit this information to others without hindrance;/li>
- opt-out of the sale of your personal information. We are exempt from providing a notice to opt-out because we do not and will not sell your personal data.
California residents may submit a request to disclose or a request to delete by contacting us in the method described in the How to Contact Us section above.
Additional information for USA and Canada residents
With regard to personal information of USA or Canada residents only, please be aware of the following:
Interest Based Advertising
We may work with third parties to deliver targeted advertising to you when you visit our Websites. We may use Cookies and similar technologies in this process. For example, if you search for information on a particular Laerdal product, we may cause an advertisement for such a product to appear on other websites that you view. This form of advertising (also known as Interest Based Advertising) is based on non-personal information which does not specifically identify you. As a result, third parties may be aware of your interests but cannot personally identify you in connection with the delivery of that specific advertisement. We believe such advertising is helpful because you will see advertisements that are relevant to your interests and activities. However if you can opt out of targeted advertising from certain providers at www.aboutads.info/consumers. This process relies on an opt out cookie so if you delete your cookies or use a different computer you will have to repeat this process. Please note that by opting out, you will continue to see advertising online but it may not be tailored to your specific interests and activities.
We comply with the Self Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising set forth by the Digitial Advertising Alliance.
Opt out for USA residents:
In addition to the methods mentioned in 1 and 2 above, you can also subscribe and unsubscribe from Laerdal marketing communications at
Opt out for Canada residents:
In addition to the methods mentioned in 1 and 2 above, you can also subscribe, manage your email settings and unsubscribe from Laerdal marketing communications at :
Your request may be accepted or denied on the basis of any applicable laws and where your employer is the data controller of personal information requested we may redirect your request to your employer.
It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us. We will update this Privacy Statement when necessary. All updates will be posted on the Websites. When we post such updates, we will revise the "last updated" date at the top of the statement. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Statement to learn how LAERDAL is protecting your information.


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Darrell Issa's scandal-mongering
This is how a scandal implodes:
First, the head of the investigation over-promises. "This was a targeting of the president's political enemies, effectively, and lies about it during the election year so that it wasn't discovered until afterwards," Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House oversight committee, said in May of the IRS targeting scandal. He later declared President Barack Obama's press secretary a "paid liar" for stating otherwise.
Next, facts emerge to undermine the investigator's presuppositions. Documents released by Ways and Means committee Democrats last week show that the IRS, in addition to targeting tea party groups, also had "Be on the Lookout" (BOLO) lists for groups using descriptors such as "progressive," "health care legislation," "medical marijuana," "paying national debt" and "green energy."
Finally, evidence surfaces that the investigator stacked the deck. Last Tuesday night, the Hill newspaper quoted a spokesman for the Treasury Department's inspector general, Russell George, saying the group was asked by Issa "to narrowly focus on tea party organizations." The inspectors knew there were other terms, but "that was outside the scope of our audit."
Certainly, something went badly wrong at the IRS that caused groups to be targeted because of ideology. But it's nothing like the conspiracy Issa cooked up.
The White House deserves some of the blame for letting things get this far; a full release of information by the administration at the outset would have put the controversy to rest quickly. But the collapse of the Issa-driven scandal has reinforced a growing impression in the capital that ultimately will help Obama: The chairman is full of it.
When I covered President Bill Clinton's second term, White House officials were delighted to have the eccentric Dan Burton in charge of the House oversight committee. He gained prominence by shooting a melon to try to prove that Clinton aide Vince Foster hadn't killed himself but had been murdered.
Now Issa has fallen to Burtonian levels of credibility. He's launched a dozen or so probes, but what often begins as a legitimate inquiry turns quickly into a lunge for the Oval Office, missing each time.
Even before the Republican victory in 2010 gave him the chairmanship, Issa announced the discovery of "Obama's Watergate" — the White House floating an administration job for a Democratic congressman to keep him out of a Senate primary. Issa backed off after learning that the Bush administration had done similar things.
Shortly before the 2010 election, Issa told Rush Limbaugh that Obama "has been one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times." He later said Obama isn't "personally corrupt" but his administration is.
Issa then set out to prove it. He led a probe into the failed "Fast and Furious" gun sting by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Issa declared that "it went all the way to the White House," insisting that the plan was approved "at the highest levels of the Obama appointees," and that the Justice Department "has blood on their hands."
The Justice Department inspector general determined that Attorney General Eric Holder didn't even know about the program until after it was shut down.
After the failure of Solyndra, a government-aided solar company, Issa probed Department of Energy loan guarantees, saying, "I want to see when the president and his cronies are picking winners and losers ... that it wasn't because there were large contributions given to them."
The committee documented no cronyism and no presidential involvement. Issa probed the response to Freedom of Information Act requests by the Department of Homeland Security, saying the matter "reeks of a Nixonian enemies list, and this committee will not tolerate it."
Nothing Nixonian surfaced.
After the killing of American officials in Benghazi, Libya, Issa accused Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of giving false information to Congress when she said she wasn't involved in denying the Libyan diplomats' security requests. He also said it was "perhaps the White House" that later changed talking points to make it appear the assault had begun as a protest.
It turned out Clinton wasn't involved in the security decision and the White House wasn't behind the change in the talking points.
Then came the IRS. Instead of delivering on Issa's promise to reveal politically motivated harassment of conservatives by the Obama administration, the committee instead turned up evidence (including the account of a "conservative Republican" who managed IRS screening) that the actions weren't political.
The most Issa et al can hope to prove now is that conservatives were hassled by the IRS more than liberals. That's a worthy topic, but it's no Watergate.
Follow Dana Milbank on Twitter @Milbank.
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We provide portable toilets for all your outdoor needs. Whether they're needed for a work site or an outdoor celebration, our portable toilets are convenient when there's no access to indoor bathroom facilities.
Our portable toilets provide convenience and privacy when bathrooms aren't available; we even offer portable toilets that are handicapped accessible. Before delivering the toilets, we check out the site so that we can be sure we're bringing you the portable toilet that meets your needs.
You can be confident that our skilled, trained installers will have the toilets in place for the behind-the-scenes accessibility you're counting on from the portable toilets that you're renting. Outdoor occasions aren't fun for guests if they don't have clean, comfortable facilities when they need them. A working crew deserves to have portable toilets that accommodate their needs and their work shifts.
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Marquez weighs in lighter for tonight's Pacquiao fight
LAS VEGAS — About this there can be no debate: Since hiring former PEDs supplier-turned-government witness Angel "Memo'' Hernandez as his strength coach last year, Juan Manuel Marquez's body has undergone a startling transformation. On Friday, his rippled physique was on dramatic display at the MGM Grand Arena.
The lingering uncertainty is how, at 39, did Marquez suddenly uncover a boxing fountain of youth in the form of impressive new muscle mass?
During the weigh-in for his fourth bout against Manny Pacquiao on Saturday night, the Mexican warrior did not look like a fighter who had engaged in five dozen brutal ring wars since 1993. Marquez tipped the scales at 143 pounds, four pounds under the maximum weight for a welterweight fight; Pacquiao, 33, weighed the maximum 147 pounds, the most he has ever weighed for a fight..
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Hernandez has a degree in kinesiology from Texas A&M and a sordid past when it comes to distributing illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
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Hernandez told prosecutors that former sprint star Maurice Greene paid him $40,000 for steroid creams, insulin, EPO and stimulants in 2003 and 2004.
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"You have to understand that I'm a scientist and not just a strength coach,'' Hernandez told reporters this week. "Weight training has changed and a lot and evolved and, in the past, you would not see strength coaches around boxers.''
Hernandez claimed he has training "secrets'' that he does not want to disclose for competitive-advantage reasons.
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In the past, Pacquiao also has been accused of using performance-enhancing drugs, namely by welterweight kingpin Floyd Mayweather Jr. and his promoters.
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When the two warriors last collided in November of 2011, Marquez weighed 138, eight pounds more than he did for their 2008 encounter. Marquez weighed 125 pounds when he fought Pacquiao the first time in 2004.
On Wednesday, Marquez arrived for an interview session bundled to his neck in a down jacket, indicating he might have had an issue making the 147-pound limit. But that didn't come close to happening.
In the days leading to the fight, the camps engaged in verbal sparring, namely Roach and Hernandez. At one point, Roach called Hernandez a "rat'' because of his testimony in the BALCO case.
The back-and-forth barbs were sparked by Roach's comment to USA TODAY Sports last week that if Marquez's pumped-up physique was natural, "I will kiss his ass.''


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Even before Google and Verizon published their sweeping new Internet proposals for Congress, the net neutrality troops were out in force against the alliance.
"DON'T BE EVIL," proclaimed the Monday morning banner headline announcing the delivery of a petition signed by 300,000 people urging the search engine giant to back away from its alliance with Verizon.
"Google has always presented itself as a different kind of corporate entity," warned Justin Ruben, executive director of MoveOn.org. "The fact that they are involved in a deal that would kill Internet freedom directly contradicts this image. We hope that Google will reconsider before they are seen as just another giant corporation out to make a buck regardless of the consequence."
Shortly after the plan was unveiled, Public Knowledge damned it as a package that "does almost nothing to preserve an open Internet."
But we don't need these press releases to report the obvious. The Google/Verizon manifesto claims to preserve "transparency" on the 'Net, but the only really transparent thing about the plan is that it is packed with so many loopholes, a deep packet inspection powered P2P blocker the size of an M1 Abrams tank could roll through it without disturbing a telco executive's nap.
Meaningful harm
Sure, the Google/Verizon press release proclaims that the proposal means that "for the first time, wireline broadband providers would not be able to discriminate against or prioritize lawful Internet content, applications or services in a way that causes harm to users or competition."
But the legislative document itself says the following (all italics are ours):
"In providing broadband Internet access service, a provider would be prohibited from engaging in undue discrimination against any lawful Internet content, application, or service in a manner that causes meaningful harm to competition or to users."
So who is going to decide what kind of harm is "meaningful"? Presumably the Federal Communications Commission, which gets to issue $2 million fines—except that under this plan the agency would enforce its components "through case-by-case adjudication, but would have no rulemaking authority with respect to those provisions."
"Parties would be encouraged to use nongovernmental dispute resolution processes established by independent, widely-recognized Internet community governance initiatives," the proposal continues, "and the FCC would be directed to give appropriate deference to decisions or advisory opinions of such groups."
In other words, some kind of organization dominated by Google and Verizon would decide what constitutes "meaningful harm," and the FCC would do what it tells them to do.
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And yes, the "new nondiscrimination principle" the companies advocate "includes a presumption against prioritization of Internet traffic—including paid prioritization."
Except when it doesn't.
"Prioritization of Internet traffic would be presumed inconsistent with the non-discrimination standard, but the presumption could be rebutted," the fine print says.
And the scheme's definition of "reasonable network practices" includes "any technically sound practice... to address traffic that is unwanted by or harmful to users, the provider's network, or the Internet..." and... "to prioritize general classes or types of Internet traffic, based on latency; or otherwise to manage the daily operation of its network."
We're sorry, but we're seeing prioritization arrangements all over this language—from Comcast's plain old P2P blocking, which was clearly "unwanted" by that provider's network, to Cox cable's traffic prioritization experiment, in which the company notified users that "less time-sensitive traffic, such as file uploads, peer-to-peer and Usenet newsgroups," would be delayed during periods of congestion.
And we haven't even gotten to this canyon-sized loophole in the Verizon/Google plan:
A provider that offers a broadband Internet access service complying with the above principles could offer any other additional or differentiated services. Such other services would have to be distinguishable in scope and purpose from broadband Internet access service, but could make use of or access Internet content, applications or services and could include traffic prioritization.
The FCC would be allowed to publish an annual survey "on the effect of these additional services" and "immediately report if it finds at any time that these services threaten the meaningful availability of broadband Internet access services or have been devised or promoted in a manner designed to evade these consumer protections."
But what exactly will these "additional or differentiated" services that ISPs could charge content providers extra cash for be? IP Video? The latest, coolest live conferencing app?
And to whom would the Commission "report"? We don't know. But again, since the proposal forbids the FCC from making any rules, we fear that the complaint will go to Verizon and Google and the rest of the winners circle, who will decide what these exemptible services will be, then give the Commission its marching orders.
Transparency except...
Finally, the Verizon/Google plan has a mechanism for transparency. "Providers of broadband Internet access service would be required to disclose accurate and relevant information in plain language about the characteristics and capabilities of their offerings, their broadband network management, and other practices necessary for consumers and other users to make informed choices..."
...which is the sole part of the whole shebang to which Verizon Wireless or any other wireless provider would have to adhere:
"Because of the unique technical and operational characteristics of wireless networks, and the competitive and still-developing nature of wireless broadband services, only the transparency principle would apply to wireless broadband at this time."
Decision time
Let's not forget something here—wireless broadband is the future. The FCC's National Broadband Plan cites studies projecting that with the next five years, the quantity of mobile data traffic in North America will jump by a factor 20 to 40 times the amount measured in 2009.
Agree or disagree about net neutrality, but surely nondiscrimination rules that do not cover wireless broadband delivery systems will become meaningless as 4G sweeps the country and most mobiles become application-packed smartphone devices.
As we write this, our Inbox continues to fill with outrage over the plan. Some praise came from the Technology Policy Institute.
"In my view, new regulation is not needed to preserve the open Internet," declared its president Thomas Lenard. "Nevertheless, the Verizon-Google proposal has to be viewed as a serious and constructive effort to address the policy impasse that the FCC has created for itself."
We asked the FCC for comment on the proposal. "Decline to comment at this time," came the response.
But FCC Commissioner Michael Copps has posted the following on the agency's site.
"Some will claim this announcement moves the discussion forward," Copps warned. "That's one of its many problems. It is time to move a decision forward—a decision to reassert FCC authority over broadband telecommunications, to guarantee an open Internet now and forever, and to put the interests of consumers in front of the interests of giant corporations."
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