Hey friends today, we are hanging out in the Magic Kingdom I just got back from Disneyland Paris and it was amazing But it's great to be back home here in Walt Disney World since I've been away There have been new things popping up all around the resort and then even Magic Kingdom added a whole bunch of new snacks So I figured we come on out ride some rides eat some food and have a beautiful Magic Kingdom kind of day any hoos. Let's go do this And there she is Cinderella Castle isn't she a beaut Clark. It's good to be home. Definitely nicer weather As much as I love Disneyland Paris Florida and Disney World will always be home to me and it's always gonna have a special place in my heart But I think at the end of the video I might recap my Disneyland Paris trip with you guys just sit down and Maybe talk about some things that I loved and also some things. I really didn't like that much. I thought that would be kind of fun Like I mentioned There's a lot of new things happening all around the Walt Disney World resort and the 50th anniversary has officially ended So they took off the 50th emblem and also removed the water from around the castle Looks like they're just doing some renovations, but I wonder where that door goes to right there Do you see that? There's like a little hidden door on the back side of the castle right down there One of the new treats that I heard that they released here at the Magic Kingdom is the gray stuff that used to be served over at Gaston's Tavern and they brought it back. So I'm so excited I've been really wanting to try the gray stuff because it is so delicious Normally, I don't just jump right back to fantasy land But I'm kind of feeling like it's a fantasy land kind of day So this is where we're gonna start the day off at Being in Europe for over two weeks made me forget that Florida is like hot like hot hot the weather over there was just always cold and breezy and Ten minutes into the park here and I'm already sweating bullets. I completely kind of Forgot that this is just everyday life when you live here But here we are Gaston's Tavern and we're gonna see about trying some of the new treats Especially the gray stuff like I said they used to serve it here and now it's back. The gray stuff is back You can also get the gray stuff if you dine at be our guest the beauty in the beast themed restaurant But this is a lot cheaper cause like $67 to eat there We come here and you just get a little cupcake for like five bucks And I don't know why they took it away. It was such a popular item, but I'm happy to see it back And there it is the gray stuff cupcake $5 and 79 cents They also have the warm cinnamon roll. That's just a classic here though. It's so good Definitely asked for extra icing if you get that but today it's just the gray stuff for us The wildlife over here by Gaston's Tavern is pretty amazing. I hear all different birds chirping I can hear an owl. It's very fascinating And here it is the gray stuff cupcake I don't know if this is any different from the one they used to have here But it looks amazing. Of course, you got the gray stuff that's on the top there And it kind of reminds me of a cookies and cream taste like that's what I kind of like think of when I eat it But it is so amazing and I wonder if they actually have the gray stuff in the middle of the cupcake itself I feel like that would be a nice little nice little touch if you can listen in the background you might hear some of the Very fancy bird calls happening, but we're gonna cut right down the center of this And we're gonna see if there's any gray stuff in the middle a Kind of don't want to cut it though. Oh I Think I might have butchered this oh I Can't tell it's falling apart You're falling apart It is so funny because usually when I get a cupcake I want to have equal parts icing and equal parts like cupcake, but not this I just want all the icing I want all of the gray stuff and here we go our first bite of the gray stuff. I can't wait It is so good literally the best icing on a cupcake It's just so good and then be our guest. They just serve it in a little chip cup a little edible chip I think it's like a white chocolate thing. I think so and it is just so I just love the icing That's all I need if they just serve this like as a side. I would just get it Also, I don't think they have the gray stuff in the center I don't know I can't tell it kind of fell apart so quick. They fell apart real quick. Oh my lord I almost lost it hanging on the edge there hanging on the edge Alright enough of the cupcake business even though I have to say that might be one of the best cupcakes I've ever had and if you have never tried the gray stuff do it because you will not regret it And we're gonna move along make our way Kind of towards tomorrow land As I was making my way in the direction of tomorrow land I stopped at the fryer's nook because they have some new tauts here. They actually have a curry Brought tauts tauts topped with chopped bratwurst curry ketchup and apple slaw I'm kind of intrigued by this but they also have a hand pie like a apple pie So I think we're gonna get ourselves a little pie and a little brat a little taut a little curry pie brought taut curry Say that fast enough and kind of sounds like a different language pie taut curry brought not be top-hop enough And here they are this actually looks amazing and I'm not a big fan of ketchup So I'm hoping that the curry is like a little bit overpowering or if they had like maybe some curry seasoning on there as Well, but I'm also really intrigued in the apple pie looks like it's like cinnamon sugar Dusted and then the pecan sauce on top or like the icing. I can't wait to crack that open But I think we'll start we'll start with the tauts first and there's a lot of brat on there It's like they literally just pull out a brat and then just cut up the whole brat and throw it on top Okay, let's dive into these tauts here But let me know in the comments if you guys know what I was talking about when I said It kind of sounds like a different language when I said not be top-hop enough let me know in the comments what I just said if you understood and Yeah, got a nice top with all of it on there some of the apple sauce some of the curry ketchup and of course the brat Can't forget the brat. I was hoping for like a different seasoning on the top, but there isn't any the brat is really good I'm not the biggest fan of the ketchup though. The slaw is okay though. I mean, this is a unique thing I think this actually replaced the buffalo tauts that used to be on the menu and those were very popular So it's got a lot of expectations to live up to here And now we have to get ourselves what we have to crack on into this pie here And of course we're gonna have to break open this pie like we've got to see what's in the middle Well, we know it's apple, but we want to see what it looks like. Let me put my container right in the right way. Oh Look at that That looks like good apple pie almost like a tasty cake apple pie. I do love me tasty cake There we go. All right, let's get into this. Let's get in this This is very very good. I wish the shell was a little softer though It's kind of crispy, but if it was like hot and fresh, I don't think it was that hot like either It's kind of like a little bit warm But if this was like hot and fresh out the kitchen then it was probably gonna be ten times better But it's still actually really delicious. I like the cinnamon sugar the apple combo has a good flavor to it But it's just not hot and fresh hot and fresh straight from the kitchen But don't get it twisted just because I said I wish it was hotter Doesn't mean I don't like it because I do like this a lot In fact, you know, it would be really good to get some dole whip or some like vanilla sauce serve and Make like apple pie ala mode with it. That would be actually really good. I kind of oh, well, you know, I I Almost made an executive decision to go get some ice cream for this But we'll save that for another day another day another time both of these were great And you can find them at the fryer's nook, but I would have to say I probably I like this one a little bit more I like this one a little bit more. I think this one isn't as good as the buffalo tots Okay, well now I think it's time we go ride a ride I'm kind of thinking maybe head on over to frontier land I would love to ride big thunder mountain because I'm sad I didn't get to ride it one more time before I left Disneyland Paris that big thunder mountain was incredible So I kind of want to just go ride it here and then also just kind of explore the area all around frontier land As we make our way through frontier land I wanted to show you guys a little bit of the construction on Tiana's bayou adventure and then also talk about how They were well, there's rumors and I've known this for a while about a New Orleans Square actually coming here And I can see them doing it and they actually have the top of Splash Mountain already gone there Turn it into Tiana's bayou adventure a little bit piece by piece It was awesome that my friend Ryan was able to join up with me now I have someone to ride rides with and he has a YouTube channel called for the love of theme parks And you guys should check out his videos. They are so entertaining I'll put a link for his channel in the description, but yeah, we're gonna keep moving along and Keep exploring the park a little bit Looks like big thunder mountain railroad is a 45 minute wait It's outdoors or like the queues outdoors So might be longer, but I'm willing to risk it for the best get like I said I'm really upset that I didn't get it to do it one more hour one more time at Disneyland Paris It was just about a 30 minute wait, which honestly, I thought it was gonna be a lot longer Especially because it was outside, but now it's time to ride Here comes our train and it is You be darning. Oh Look at that.  I'm actually hanging on to the side. So I don't body check Oh and that was the wildest ride in the wilderness Big thunder was so much fun I can't believe I like my phone fell out of my pocket then my car keys then my extra battery Usually I don't have that issue because I wear like cargo shorts or other stuff like that But I'm actually wearing some fancy shorts and they've got loose pockets or I don't know what's the difference But it was just falling right out like it didn't stand a chance, but I love the ride It was great to ride and I wish I could have done Disneyland Paris is one more time, but this will do that'll do Let me know guys in the comments though Would you be excited to have a New Orleans square? So this would be New Orleans square from what I can tell including by Tiana's Bayou adventure And then the other road would continue frontier land and then all of this would be like Tiana's place So I mean I want some Mickey Benye's I want some gumbo. I want some jambalaya. I want everything here So I'm I'm a hundred percent on board for this 100 We're gonna keep moving along and I want to make my way over to Tomorrowland like we were gonna do earlier Maybe ride the people mover and see if there's any other food items over there It's funny because we were gonna go there before and then we got distracted and Kind of just ended up over in frontier land and I'm not mad about it. You kind of like the way it goes Good old Tomorrowland in Disneyland Paris they had discovery land not Tomorrowland But this one is way much better way bigger just a couple of attractions over there were a little bit better than these ones I'm thinking maybe since we're heading over to Tomorrowland Ride on the people mover sounds pretty fancy. So we might actually make our way there first Up here is our trusty mode of transportation. Oh, we got the one with the Mickey sticker on it. I Love how the astral orbiters just hitting the Sun right at the right time there That was kind of pretty I was trying to catch it faster, but it was very nice Look at this view of the castle. That's the one right there So good, especially when you come to the fireworks. Oh, it's such a beautiful day Looks like we're actually stopped for a second and may I say this is Probably on the high end of the ride that would love to actually walk off. He's you actually walk the track itself So that would be really cool. I mean maybe Oh, I guess we aren't Now it would have been the perfect view for people watching to be a tron over there I wonder if our boarding group's ever gonna get called there goes Looks very busy down there and we're going by slower than usual actually I think we're gonna stop again This is such a slow ride through here Oh We got stopped well the lights are on we got stopped on the inside that quiet We're just hanging out above Buzz can actually see people down there I Wonder what the high score if you hit some of the ones that are up here Those ones are not as high as some of the others I think this is not even 100,000. I think that's like 50,000 really one of the bottom observes ship Is the next scene now? We think those doors lead to I That's how Just take a door in the people mover and you're in Disneyland Oh, those are the doors we were talking about lights off can never see We honestly just keep on getting stopped in like the best places look at this This is our third time getting stopped on one ride in the people mover If we don't get to walk off this ride now like three times.  Where'd he go?  I want to see Gracie and just kind of relax a little bit I'm still a little out of it still kind of getting accustomed to the time zone changes I was in three different time zones because Paris is different than London and also of course here and And in three weeks part of that I was in Oregon. So like in the past month, I was in four different time zones I feel fancy we're all traveler here Where'd he go? Where'd he go? Look at this Hello, I'm looking for a dog named Gracie. Has anyone seen one? Oh, there she is There she is Let me tell you guys something Gracie loves these stairs I don't know why but sometimes we just sit here because she likes it so much.  Huh? You miss me? Huh? Huh? I Just kissed my dog So tell me all about it. What did you do when I was gone? How was Uncle Sean? Huh? Yeah, fun times Yeah, yeah, we were running too. Why are we running? It looks like we're running Now that we are back home just like I mentioned I wanted to sit down and recap my trip with you guys share some of the things that I learned and Also talk about some of the things I love doing and also things I didn't like so much And I don't want to just talk about Disneyland Paris I want to talk about my whole trip to London to Europe Star Wars celebration It was such a core memory for me a core moment I'm gonna look back on this forever and just be so happy knowing that I got to do these incredible things And I have my videos to like look back on that's the best thing about making videos You know what I mean? Because I'm gonna be able to you know pull those out or press play on TV Kind of like a photo album, you know how like my mom She used to have photo albums of us as kids and every once in a while We used to gather together and we used to open up the photo album And we used to look at all the pictures and be like you remember that but now we have like a visual one where we get to Just press play and get to relive those moments and also I get to share them with you So it's incredible that I get to actually make these videos so that I'll be able to look back on and and who knows maybe Down the road if I end up having a family or anything like that I want to show like kids I can be like, you know, hey look these are the things that I did You know and like stuff like that. I think it would be really really awesome But anyways back to the the trap, you know being you know leaving the country for the very first time It was so awesome especially going to London like you know the first time I left the country a lot of people go to like You know Canada or Mexico or you know places like that I got to go to London and it was incredible the the jet lag really hit me hard the first day like when we land it in Heathrow because that's where we ended up Heathrow the airport and When we landed I just stayed awake for 24 hours. We just went out. We went to Brixton I think that's where we just spent the night kind of hanging out and shopping and that area was really cool I actually like there was a lot of shops a lot of people told me I shouldn't go there though. It was kind of funny But there was this really cool barbecue restaurant We went to and I wasn't making a video yet because like I said, I just kind of landed I was a little delirious I tried to sleep on the plane and I had plenty of space like I had plenty of space to actually sleep But I couldn't do it. I was just I was a little restless and I was excited and Yeah, it was the the flight was definitely definitely a Shocking thing, but I would do it again. I mean the flights definitely worth it so we ended up in Brixton and It was cool hanging out down there and then we Woke up the next day and started off Star Wars celebration Star Wars celebration was amazing so many fans just together hanging out and I was at the Roosevelt's booth and I on Instagram also in my video, too I let a lot of people know that, you know, I would be there to come say hi It's so many people showed up Honestly, I would have never have imagined that many people would want to say hi to me and that was great I felt like I was just talking like Non-stop So I'm so sorry if you came and I just kept on talking. I like to talk a lot But it was great Star Wars celebration was awesome. I got to meet Hating Christensen, which is really cool. And I also got to meet Ian McDermott, too I guess so I got to meet Darth Vader and also the Emperor. I got my picture right here.  I said, thank you and then I left I didn't know what to do. I was shocked. I was stunned. I was too stunned to speak But Star Wars celebration was awesome and then hanging out in London going around exploring all the different markets Like the borough market was fantastic And then some of the pubs we got to visit going down and hanging out around Buckingham Palace I loved all of it and the day that I took the transportation that was such an amazing time. Literally. I was like, okay Tonight we are leaving to head to Paris and I want to go explore the city And I just decided to just go for it and just kept on taking transportation Basically to wherever caught my attention and it ended up being one of the best days of my life literally I had so much fun and of course at the end of the day hanging out and Going around exploring London. We hopped on the Euro star and that was my first time riding a train too The thing that really was getting to me is the fact that when you're in London There's all these countries surrounding you that you can get to easily Like easily way easier than it would be to go to a different state here in the United States Like I could have went to Amsterdam Belgium Germany Italy and it would have been like a less time Then for me to go to California from Florida and I was like wow, I can see the world So like going to Euro star and taking the train I saw another train that was gonna go to Amsterdam like wow I could just literally go to Amsterdam right now and be there in an hour and it was just it was blowing my mind So that's why I want to go back because I want to enjoy all around the United Kingdom I'm gonna go outside of like the city and stuff like that So there's definitely another trip planned coming soon, but once we got to Paris It was great Disneyland Paris isn't in Paris. It's actually like 45 maybe an hour away So we ended up staying in Paris and just spending one night in Paris and Enjoying the sights and the sounds and I made a video of that. That was fantastic. We got to do some incredible things The food wasn't that great. I always thought you know French food would be good Maybe I wasn't hitting up some of the good spots like I we went to one restaurant That was actually pretty decent. The pizza wasn't good, but that's not really French food But they had like onion soup. I should have gotten some duck somewhere. That would have been nice you know, I think more or less we didn't get to do a lot of the like Hidden gems stuff like that like we wanted to go like to the Eiffel Tower and stuff like we wanted to be like Little tourists, you know, we went to Moulin Rouge and that was an awesome show It was very very very very surprised by it because you know, I always I love the movie And I loved you and the Gregor and everything like that. The show was very cool though is like Heart-racing there were stunts and it was really fun And then yeah, we decided to go to Disneyland Paris. I stayed at the Art of Marvel the Hotel New York That was a nice hotel. I wouldn't say it's the best hotel for the price because I mean maybe it is for people that are traveling to Disneyland Paris from Like other countries because you know Hotel New York I can see like hotels that have like that Manhattan New York style to it anywhere But I you know, I mean it was cool. The Marvel aspect was only the best part about it It was super close to the parks, but I would have loved to stay at the Disneyland Paris Hotel But that was closed at the moment. They're doing a refurbishment. So we're definitely gonna go back and do the Disneyland Paris Hotel But Disneyland Paris was so much fun very tiny park I mean it was so tiny like there was like you can basically get everything done I would say in a day honestly Maybe a day and a half in California not California adventure Walt Disney Studios is even smaller So you could you know, you can literally plan like a two-day excursion where you're the first day you do Disneyland Paris and then the second day you do Walt Disney Studios and You could probably be done with Walt Disney Studios if your rope job by noon and then go back to Disneyland Paris and do The things that you didn't get to do and we had three days there and I got a lot accomplished In fact, I don't think I yet the only two maybe two rides and Walt Disney Studios. I did not ride was the RC The cars one and the parachute only because it started raining. So they were closing them and then in Disneyland Paris Well in Disneyland Park, I think I did all the rains Oh, I didn't I didn't ride the train and I didn't get to see the Lion King show I wanted to do that. So I mean, I could have done it if I just had more like more time But you know when you're filming and stuff like that, it'll slow it down a little bit But I enjoyed my time there The food in the park was not good though the food itself like I went to Walt's was very good And also I went to Pim's kitchen the buffet over in Walt Disney Studios. That was fantastic But the like the quick service food It seems like they're batching everything But they don't have the amount of guests to actually batch it like I always look back in the windows And I see everything just sitting there But there's not like lines of people you would see it like Disneyland or Walt Disney World So it kind of sits there for a little bit and the quality itself wasn't that great either I was a little shocked. So there's definitely room for improvement there But the park is beautiful like the castle and then all the different areas the Phantom Manor the big Thunder Mountain Pirates of the Caribbean and hyperspace mountain are far superior rides than the ones that we have. I was so shocked It was absolutely incredible Tony Baxter really led the lead on that park and he did such a great job Main Street was beautiful. They had a dapper dance barber shop. They had a patty wagon. They had a police car I really loved it a lot and I feel like a lot of people say it's the prettiest park I really think it is now. I can't wait because I want to do Tokyo. I want to do Disney Tokyo Tokyo see I want to do Hong Kong Disney and I want to do Shanghai. I want to do all the Disney parks I'm I'm halfway there Crazy to say that I am halfway there to saying that I got to go to every single Disney park So I think I mean I got to do it. I got to do it. I'm so bitten by this travel bug You like it's incredible never being able to like leave the states and not never being able to it's just something I never got the opportunity or a chance to do You know and now I just there's just great big beautiful world out there that I want to explore and I just want to go and see everything and I want to keep making videos and share them with you guys And I think it would be cool not just like Disney theme parks either But I want to go to different countries and experience different cultures and just learn things because it really is Fascinating and I get so excited and I get emotional about it too because it's something I never thought I would ever be able to do And here I am, you know doing a European vacation. It was incredible. But yeah overall like I said, it was amazing I hope you guys enjoyed the videos that I made. I got to put out quite a few and Yeah, I'm gonna keep making videos just like that and keep it going. We have some big trips already coming up for this year I know this is a long long talk. I said I was gonna do it, but look it I think I'm at like 11 minutes now. Holy moly. Okay, but yeah, so yeah big plans coming up We're gonna be doing more trips. I hope you guys enjoyed the videos that I've been making and Yeah, I enjoyed making them. So I guess we'll see you next time Bye


Hi everyone, my name is Denea and I'm from the Long Beach Public Library. Today we're going to be doing a family story time. But before we start, I just want to make sure if anybody's already signed up for the summer reading program, don't forget to add your code to the activity tab in Beanstack. If you haven't signed up already, don't forget to go to longbeach.beanstack.org and sign up today. All right, so let's get started. So before we start and do everything else, let's all put out our arms and we're going to wave our hands and we're going to do this is a way we wave hello. So are you ready? Let's start. This is a way we wave hello, wave hello, wave hello.  All right, so now let's get started with our story time. Today's story time, we're going to be talking about families. Families come in different sizes. Sometimes families can be small or they can be really big. But what makes them really special is the love that they share within each other.  You can also have friends and friends come together and also you have aunts and uncles and they all come together and they can become your family. It's really great thing to be part of the family and even I see we have a dog and a cat and they can be family too. So you can also make a fun family tree. I did this by making a construction out of construction paper and little leaves and I wrote the names of the people that I love most and they are my family. It's really neat. All right, so now that we know more about families, it's time for our book. Today's book is Families by Shelley Rotner. Okay, let's get started. There are all kinds of families. Some families are big and have cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents and even great grandparents. Some are small. Sometimes the people in the family look alike. Sometimes they don't. Some families have children born to them. Some adopt. Some children have one parent. Some have two, a mom and a dad or two moms or two dads. Others have a grandparent and aunt or an uncle living with them. The people in a family may not all live in the same place. Sometimes you have relatives living in other states or other cities. That's what she's talking about. When members of a family live far away, they like to visit. They get together at celebrations and reunions. Families have fun. Oh, that looks see. They're jumping in the pool. They're playing music. Families can have so much fun with each other. They help one another. People in a family love and care about each other. The end. That was a great book. That told us a lot about families. But now I have a song for you, and I'm going to turn this board around and you're going to see how we spell family. Let's say it all together. It's to the tune of bingo and we're going to clap every time we spell out the word family. So are you ready? Okay. There is a group that I do love and family. Is it stay mo? F-A-M-O. All right. Do you want to do that one more time? Let's do it one more time. There is a family. I do love and family. Good job. I hope you guys sing that around family. But before I go, I want to let you guys know that we have more books about families. We have families playing music together. We have animal families. I hope you check out more books on families. Have a great day. Bye.


Welcome to the NTN Nightly, I'm Nisha Charles. This edition's top stories. Invest St. Lucia moves one step closer to launching its business incubator and accelerator program. St. Lucia is set to commence the finalization of its national ocean policy. Students in the South engage in the third Financial Reality Fair. All that plus the latest in youth development, sports and the NTN Nouvelle Arquéon. In an effort to strengthen St. Lucia's entrepreneurship ecosystem, Invest St. Lucia has embarked on introducing its business incubator and accelerator program. While the project is hoped to begin during the first quarter of 2020, the business community is learning basic skills and knowledge about the initiative. In its continuing efforts to launch its business incubator and accelerator program, Invest St. Lucia ISL undertook a three-day workshop targeted at agencies providing business support services to the local business community. Invest St. Lucia's project coordinator, Dave Headley, explained the purpose of the workshop. The objective for the workshop was really to bring on all the key players and stakeholders within the entrepreneur ecosystem, for them to get a better position and understanding of business incubation, acceleration and how this all ties into developing a business framework. Areas covered included understanding the program and communicating its offerings, understanding key policies, client selection, business support services, management and governance arrangements. The workshop was facilitated by Thea Chase of Crida Projects, who is assisting Invest St. Lucia in the establishment of the program. She explained the model proposed for St. Lucia. We've been working over the past four or five months in St. Lucia to work with Invest St. Lucia to come up with an implementation plan for a business incubator. And the objective of the training that we've been doing over the past three days is to introduce some of the concepts that are in the proposal plan that we've prepared for ISL. And what we've proposed is the existence of a, or the startup of a business incubation and acceleration hub, which is a comprehensive set of resources and enterprise platforms that supports startups and existing businesses and helps to build the entrepreneurial ecosystem. So that's a lot of terms. That's a lot of words. And so the objective, or part of the objective of the training is to kind of dissect that and look at that. What does it mean? So what is an incubator? What is an accelerator? And what other types of programs are important and recommended in order to put in place in St. Lucia to really build this entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial culture that is burgeoning here? So we went through what is the, what is this platform? What does it do? How do you run it? How do you start it? How do you establish selection criteria? And what's the process of doing selection? How do you govern it? What kind of management needs to be in place in order to run these things? The agencies participating in the training span the wide cross section of the network of business support and included organizations such as Export St. Lucia, the Bureau of Standards, the National Skills Development Center, the St. Lucia Development Bank, Southern Business Association, the St. Lucia Manufacturing Association, and the South Lewis Community College. One participant, Peter Phillip, the Public Relations Officer of the Choselle Arts and Craft Heritage Tourism Association, explained the value he derived from the training. From the 3-day workshop, what I learned is how to implement the business incubator process. It is something that we have on a small scale, but this workshop is teaching you how to go on a larger or broader scale, and it will help to improve and uplift our level of doing business, not only at a level where we can exhibit our work or produce on a local basis, but also to create a broader market avenue for us as well. Inverse St. Lucia is well on its way to launching the business incubator and accelerator program during the first quarter of 2020. From the Government Information Service, Lisa Joseph reporting. St. Lucia is set to commence the finalization of its National Ocean Policy. The policy seeks to present an overarching vision, policy statement, and strategic outcomes for the marine and associated sectors. A validation meeting was recently held followed by a consultation on preparing a coastal master plan and a marine spatial plan for the blue economy. Genelle Norville reports. The National Ocean draft policy was developed over the last year and on Monday was presented to stakeholders who have been engaged in its development for validation. It is anticipated that the final policy will be endorsed by the Cabinet of Ministers in the near future. The marine spatial plan will establish a long-term plan for St. Lucia's exclusive economic zone. This is the entire marine space that the Government of St. Lucia is responsible for managing under the United Nations law of the sea. Dr. Cassandra Titli O'Neill is the key expert for marine spatial planning. The consultation yesterday was part of Crop 1.2, which is the development of National Ocean Policy. And so yesterday they were presenting the final plans and showing how those plans now bring over into what we're doing today. Well, the policies now have to be approved by the equivalent of our National Ocean Governance Council. And then they would have to be carried to Cabinet and Cabinet would have to approve it now as part of legislation. The coastal master plan will articulate actions to be conducted within the coastal region of St. Lucia. This is the area that is found immediately around the island and where most marine related activity currently occurs. Dr. Titli O'Neill explained the importance of the consultation. Today we are doing the consultation round for the coastal master plans and the marine spatial plans. These feed into the National Ocean Policy which sets the framework in order for these plans to move forward. And so today what it is we're basically trying to get from participants is what their vision is, what do they define as the coast, what do they define as the marine environment because in the legislation for St. Lucia it's not clear. And so we need to come away today with a consensus of what do you define as the coast and then that would help frame for us what should be inside of your coastal master plan and the marine spatial plan. The development of the National Ocean Policy, the coastal master plan and marine spatial plans have been initiated by the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States OECS Commission as part of the four-year 2017 to 2021 Caribbean Regional Oceanscape Project, a global environment facility funded project endorsed by the Council of Ministers for Environmental Sustainability in 2015. For the Government Information Service, I am Genel Norville. Throughout the month of October, institutions across the eastern Caribbean currency union, the ECCU, will undertake activities commemorating Financial Information Month. A staple for the last three years in St. Lucia has been the Financial Reality Fair, facilitated by the Labry Cooperative Credit Union. A financial reality fair is an interactive financial literacy tool for secondary and tertiary students. The reality fair concept is a unique opportunity for students to experience some of the financial challenges they will face when they start life on their own. It's a hands-on experience in which students identify their career choice and starting salaries then complete a budget sheet requiring them to live within their monthly salary while paying for basics such as housing, utilities, transportation, clothing and food. Additional expenditures such as entertainment and travel are factored in as well. This is the third year that this event is being facilitated by Labry Cooperative Credit Union for students in the south of the island. We are actually coaching them in terms of how we think they can go about spending their income and at the same time achieve two important objectives. The first objective is to meet their monthly living expenses and the other is to save. Throughout the fair there are many temptations for additional spending and students must learn to balance their wants and needs to live on their own. After the students have visited the various booths covering components of independent living, students balance their budget and then sit down with a financial counselor for review. One of the things I've noticed is that they're very quick to come and get the loan right just so that you know they can have that extra money on hand to buy like phones and stuff like that so when they do come to me I do try and give like a hint and say well okay is it a want or a need like you know education is a necessity but an expensive cell phone is not. The harsh financial realities of budget balancing left many students stomped. I went wrong in um by NACA. The area I spent a lot of money on was on beauty supplies and electronics.  The fair was an excellent idea you know it took me by surprise personally. I believe that secondary school students specifically need more exposure to real life from experience so that they can temper their expectations for when they leave secondary school. Financial literacy training will no longer be a privilege reserved for students in the south of the island. Now that Library Credit Union is we're national we can now accept members from across St Lucia right this fair this fair is one of the things that we'd like to bring to all of the students around the island all of those young people who are now beginning to work all will be going into the world of work we'd like to bring those experiences to them over 250 students from VA for comprehensive secondary school from five and a level year two being filled secondary PI secondary and Ministry of Education post secondary program year two participated in this year's financial reality fair which was held on the grounds of Library Credit Union's V4 branch and this is the NTN Nightly Ryan O'Brien is up next how chemicals and GMOs are not the solution use organic and excessive agrochemical use additives and genetically modified foods are harmful to health and the environment join the good food revolution grow buy and consume organic a message from Rye St Lucia and the Ministry of Sustainable Development with funding from the GEF small grants program UNDP welcome back we join Ryan O'Brien for the latest happenings in youth development and sports welcome everyone to your update from youth development and sports on the NTN Nightly News I'm Ryan O'Brien some school sports results for you first off being field secondary defeated Clinton Mason Memorial Secondary 2-1 in under 15 football action for Beanfield Jose Matres scored in the 15th minute and Zaki Harper scored in the 55th then Nelson James scored for Clinton Mason Memorial in the 39th minute Beanfield led 1-0 and a half time persons with good social standing were carefully screened to ensure the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports selected appropriate mentors for the youth mentorship program consultant Dr. Zifers James noted that persons selected had to exhibit a number of significant qualities before being chosen to be part of the program we don't want to have persons who we are aware of offenders or sex offenders or persons who have had running civil law we want to ensure that persons generally speaking that are in good standing society that the society see as good role models these are persons in who are who are successful in their professions they are and and and they have something to give back and so there is a vetting process a recommendation process and an assessment to determine does this person fit the criteria in terms of their integrity and their moral standards and a professional approach to life their general department and how they they live life their general outlook in terms of having a positive outlook on life and so forth so it's essential that we we provide the best mentor the mentors for youth selected mentors recently participated in a rigorous training program to prepare them for their interactions with mentees and that's your update for today from youth development and sports on the empty and nightly news i'm ryan obrah the caracom secretary had joined the rest of the region in observing caribbean statistics day on october 15 the day was observed under the theme building resilience in the caribbean community michelle knows of caracom news time reports in a message to mark the occasion caricum secretary general ambassador erwin laroc encouraged everyone to reflect on the power of statistics and how it impacts our daily lives including in life and death situations such as natural disasters that affect us so often in caricum mr roger rupachand of the regional statistics department here at the caricum secretariat tells us about the significance of the day terms of objectives it's essentially to raise the profile of statistics in the in the caricum region it's also used as a call to to intensify the call for reliable and timely data for policy makers students researchers even business owners so they can have data to make informed choices and decisions now why statistics so difficult to grasp i guess in some cases people just have a sort of negative mindset to it people think it is hard maybe even a bit boring but the truth is i don't think people realize how useful statistics is in everyday life and how often we even use data without even realizing right so it's not only government officials or technical people who use data if you see for example in sports more and more data has been used in major performances of like athletes right the traffic lights for example we take it for granted how the timings maybe is set but ideally with some month of data would have gone into that so for example how many vehicles pass through a certain junction let's say in a minute all right and you could you could do a trend this over a period of a week or so and then you could say okay the green light at this junction needs to be no more than 30 seconds all right and but that's based on numbers and data that you would have collected and stay with the ntn nightly up next primus hutchinson is here with the ntn in korean if you are in receipt of an 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I also advise you to have a good advantage in your job to work in the tourist industry. If you know that you have a lot of chances for all these participants in Kawibla, Seyonasik, Wichon Latia, who have found more service to a stick, you and your participants, Roxie Francis, Natalia Lui, and Emmett Sherbin, will be able to provide you with a good opportunity to work in the tourist industry. Businesses must be successful here. I can help you to embrace the environment in a way that can provide you with a good opportunity to work in the tourist industry. This is the initiative of Export-Send Locher and the Bureau of Standards. This is the Bureau that has determined the quality of the product that has served the country and that it is associated with the investment. This is to place the business in a position that is more advanced, and more in favor of the environment. It is not just that, it is not just that. It is not a product that is better, it is different than the others. It is to encourage the parties to appreciate. Chef-officer Export-Send Locher, Senator Daniel, noted that there is a place that has shown that this is a very good place for people to serve the country, which is in the same way. There is also a good place for consumers to make a high profit, more than $1 billion in the country of America. But this is the problem, and I think that this is a good place for people to make a decision not to serve the country, but to serve the country and serve the country, so that it can affect the environment. I think that this is a good place for people to make a decision not to serve the country, because the conditions are very good for the country, so that it can continue to take the place in America. The production of the stock that has been assisted and the money that has been paid for 10 years is the third time that this place has been visited and the money that has been paid for the problem has been solved. There is also a good place for people to make a decision not to serve the country, because the things that have been assisted and the money that has been paid for the problem have been solved. The other plan is to make this place soon for the next generation to come and make a decision in the KC intellectual center in Foyakoude For. So this is what everyone should do, these are the three areas that should be considered. It is important to make sure that can see problems that are a threat to them and to continue to assist them. There are three clinics in the hospital, every second Saturday, I have a cast tree, a facility in St. John's Ambulance, every third Saturday, and a wellness center every fourth for three days a week for those who need to assist their different patients. All these patients receive equipment to help the patient, first, with a single foot massage. And that's why we're here today. Thank you very much for your time, for watching, for your invitation. I would also like to say that when you live your life, you will have a lot of new experiences. That's why we are here today. Thank you, Pil Primus. And here's a look at what's happening to us, weather-wise. Partly cloudy to cloudy skies with scattered showers and a few thunderstorms. A tropical wave is currently moving over the eastern Caribbean region and it will maintain cloudy conditions with scattered showers and a few thunderstorms across the islands during the next 24 hours. Another tropical wave located over the central tropical Atlantic is moving westward near 15 miles per hour or 24 kilometers per hour. The tide for Castries Harbor is high at present. The tide for Vier 4B was low at 12.21pm and is high at present. The seas like to moderate with waves 3 to 5 feet or 0.9 to 1.5 meters. The sun will rise Friday at 5.55am. And that brings us to the end of the NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7pm with a repeat at 7am. You can also catch up with us anytime on the Saint Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I'm Nisha Charles.


Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us for today's CPSC webinar. My name is Shelby Mathis. I'm the small business ombudsman here at the Consumer Product Safety Commission. And today's topic is going to be certificates of conformity, which are CPCs and GCCs, as we call them, but they're also children's product certificates and general certificates of conformity. Before we get started, I just want to go through a few housekeeping things for those of you that haven't used GoToWebinar before to attend a webinar. On the right-hand side of your screen, there are a few options or I guess benefits that I want to let you know about. The first one is questions. There is a question section on the right-hand side toolbar of your screen. If you have questions as we proceed through the webinar, please feel free to submit those. It acts almost like a GChat or an IM instant messenger. We do have somebody listening and receiving those questions, and they should be able to respond back to your questions directly. We'll also have a Q&A session at the end. I also wanted to let you know that there's a handout section on the right-hand side of your screen. That handout is actually a PDF of today's slides. As I move through the slides, you'll see that there are hyperlinks. They appear as hyperlinks on your screen, but really what they are is a picture of my screen. If you want to follow those hyperlinks as we go through the slides, you're going to need to download that PDF handout because those will have live hyperlinks. Then finally, I wanted to let you know that today's webinar is going to last 45 minutes to an hour at the end of it. We are going to format it and get it ready to post on our CPSC YouTube channel. For those of you wondering whether or not this will be available for you to view later or for you to share, the answer is yes. It will show up on our CPSC YouTube channel a few days after it might be more than a week after this webinar begins. With all that being said, quick disclaimer, I am a CPSC staff member. Today's presentation was prepared by myself as CPSC staff, and it may not necessarily reflect the views of the commission. Today's presentation agenda, the first thing, I wanted to give a broad overview of certificates because we get a lot of questions in the small business ombudsman office about certificates. So I wanted to open with a background on certificates in general, you know, why are certificates required? Where does that requirement come from? And walk through that. Then we'll go through who needs to certify, who is responsible for preparing a CPC and a GCC. We'll talk about when a certificate is required in terms of what products need a certificate to cover them. How often do you update your certificate? Is another topic that we're going to cover because it's a question that we get quite frequently. How to make your certificates available and what is acceptable in terms of availability of certificates is another topic that I will cover because we get questions on it. And then I'll go through example certificates. We'll talk about a CPC example and a GCC example, and I'll direct you to how to find those on our website. And then we'll do what I hope is fun, interactive audience polling to test your knowledge on certificates based on the content of today's webinar. I'll highlight business resources that are available to you guys through our CPSC website, through our YouTube channel and through all kinds of online tools that we have available and I'll tell you how to find those. And then we'll do a short Q&A session at the end depending on time based on questions that we've received relating to certificates. So let's get started. A background on certificates. Where does the certificate requirement originally come from? And the answer is section 14A of the Consumer Product Safety Act, otherwise known as the CPSA. The CPSA section 14A requires that consumer products be tested and certified as compliant with any applicable consumer product safety rule under the CPSA or similar rule, ban, standard or regulation enforced by the commission. And the commission there is, of course, the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Let's drill down a little bit more into section 14A and look at some of the subsections and what their requirements are. So section 14A1 of the CPSA requires certification of non-children's products based on a test of each product or a reasonable testing program. We'll talk about in later slides what a reasonable testing program means and what types of non-children's products require testing and certification. Section 14A2 of the CPSA requires certification of children's products based on testing conducted by a CPSC-accepted third-party lab. And what it means to be a CPSC-accepted third-party lab we'll talk about, how to find one we'll also talk about, and then which children's products are covered we will talk about, but I will tell you the short answer there is all of them. Section 14A and 14G of the CPSA require that you provide certificate content and availability requirements. We'll talk about what certificate content and availability requirements mean. And then section three of the CPSIA, which is the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, gave our agency authority to implement CPSIA and the amendments that were made by CPSIA. So we were just talking about the Consumer Product Safety Act and the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. It's important to note that those are statutes, those come straight from Congress. Now we're going to move to regulations, which come from the Consumer Product Safety Commission. So these are our own regulations that we have passed that deal with product testing and certification rules. And the first one is 16CFR Part 1107, which talks about testing and labeling pertaining to product certification. And the next one that is of note, and we'll talk about in further detail here today, is 16CFR Part 1109, which is the component part rule and what it means to rely on component part testing. We'll talk about that in somewhat detail because that 1109 is a pretty extensive regulation and does offer benefits to industry. 16CFR Part 1110 is the regulation that deals with Certificates of Compliance, which is really why we're here today to talk about certificates of compliance and their content and the requirements there. So more background on certificates, they are required for the import or sale of regulated consumer products in the United States. And Certificate Certify Compliance with CPSC requirements and include the following, which again we're going to go into in greater detail. This is just a bit of a background overview. Certificates include a product description, the safety regulations to which the product is certified, where and when the product was made, where and when it was tested, and who maintains the testing records. And we'll go into some pretty serious detail with examples later in the presentation today. Important to remember that certificates must be legible and they need to be in English as well. So who must have a certificate? The short answer here is domestic manufacturers and importers are required to have certificates and why is that? Well, our agency has put out guidance that states the following. The manufacturer or importer of a product subject to product safety requirements is always legally responsible for issuing a children's product certificate, also known as a CPC, or a general certificate of conformity, a GCC, even if a third party testing laboratory or another third party provides assistance in drafting the CPC or the GCC. And the important thing to note here is that it's ultimately the manufacturer or importer's responsibility. You can have assistance, we'll talk about that in a bit, but it's ultimately your responsibility and it's going to be your information that's included in section three, which talks about the manufacturers and importer's contact information on those certificates. So now that we've gotten the background and we know who needs to create a CPC or a GCC, let's talk about what products require a CPC and we'll start on the children's product side because this one is probably more expansive in terms of its impact and we probably get the most questions about children's product certificates. So the short answer for products requiring a CPC is that all children's products require one. And what is a children's product? A children's product is defined as a product designed or primarily intended for children 12 years of age or younger. So examples of children's products that require CPCs. Durable infant or toddler products, which is an expansive category that includes many, many types of products. Childcare articles, which are defined as products that facilitate sleeping, feeding, sucking or teething for children under age three. Children's toys, children's clothing, children's bicycles, children's jewelry, and many others. This is just some examples. You'll notice the things that all of these have in common is that they begin with the word children or child or infant or toddler. In short, if the product is for 12 years of age or younger and that's its primary intent and it's marketed and designed for that purpose for 12 and under, then it's a children's product and you need a children's product certificate. A useful link is provided at the bottom of the screen and it's our rules requiring third party testing and a children's product certificate page, which you can follow for more information. Again, remember from our intro at the beginning, it appears on your screen as a hyperlink, but you're really looking at a picture of my screen. So if you want to follow that hyperlink, you need to click on the handout section on the right-hand side toolbar and download the PDF of today's slides to follow that hyperlink. Children's product testing requirements. In general, children's products need to be tested at a CPSC accepted third party laboratory and they need to be tested to applicable CPSC product safety requirements. There are some exceptions to this rule that apply to qualifying registered small batch manufacturers. And what does it mean to be a small batch manufacturer? Well, I'm glad you asked because there's more information available on our website at the address on your screen. Apologies. And again, if you want to follow that hyperlink, you need to click on the handout on the right-hand side. To find a CPSC accepted lab, you can visit our new lab search page available at cpsc.gov forward slash lab search. And this is a page we've recently redone so that it's more user-friendly. You can now keyword search such as for flammability China to find labs located in China that can conduct flammability testing. You also have the ability to narrow your scope by region, which could be city and state or country, and you can narrow your search by testing scope such as for lead paint testing or for flammability testing. So what types of products require a CPC? I'm not going to go through and read every single bullet that appears on the screen. I will give you guys a second to read it because the list is pretty extensive. Important to note here is that there are certain products that are non-children's products that such as hairdryers, seasonal holiday lights, extension cords, which fall under 15 J of the Consumer Product Safety Act or the CPSA. And then there are also products, also non-children's products that are covered under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act, the FHSA, that do not require a GCC. So if you are seeing a general use non-children's product listed on the screen, it means that there is either a regulation, a statute, a ban, or some other standard that applies to that product and it would require a GCC. But for products that are 15 J rule ones or FHSA ones, they would not require a GCC. And just like for children's products, we have a rules requiring a GCC page, which is available via hyperlink at the bottom of your page. Again, you need to download the handout of the slides and PDF to be able to follow that link. But the rules requiring a GCC page has an extensive chart of non-children's products that require a GCC. So now that we've talked about the types of children's products that require a CPC and the types of non-children's or general use products that require a GCC, when is a product not required? I'm sorry, when is a certificate not required? Certificate is not required if there is no product safety rule, standard, or ban that applies to that product. Certificates are not required if the product is subject to a rule under 15 J of the CPSA. We talked about a few of those a second ago. Another example is draw strings on children's upper outerwear, that is a 15 J rule. We mentioned previously, or I mentioned previously, immersion protection on handheld hair dryers as a 15 J rule. Those do not require a certificate. Also products that are not imported for consumption or warehousing or are not distributed in commerce. Those would also not need a certificate. So what are some examples there? Products that are bound for a foreign trade zone. Products that are imported as samples only. Products that are imported or manufactured as a trade show exhibit, just as a demo or a display for a trade show to let people know about your product. More component parts that are not for individual sale. But please keep in mind once these things transition from a sample or an exhibit or a component part to a finished product bound for commerce, it is possible depending on the product that a certificate would be required then. So a very frequent question that we get in our office is, when do I need to create a certificate? How long is it good for? Does it expire? So this question, the answer to it is really based on testing intervals. So I, those of you that really know me know that I love to create charts, so I created a nice chart on your screen that is broken into two main columns, which is CPCs for children's products and GCCs for non-children's products. And let's first talk about periodic testing requirements. So for products that are in continuous production, these are products that are being manufactured throughout the year on some sort of interval. We're not talking about batch production where you make and import one group of things in bulk. We're talking about things that are in continuous production throughout the year, they are subject to periodic testing requirements. And that periodic testing for children's products is required at a CPSC accepted lab at one of the following. One-year intervals, if you have a periodic testing plan, which the majority of children's products are going to fall into the one-year interval testing requirement here for periodic testing. If you have a production testing plan in place for your children's product, you would be required to test at two-year intervals at CPSC accepted labs or, and this is a very small group here for children's products, at three-year intervals if you are conducting continued testing using an accredited lab that meets the ISO-IEC standard shown on your screen. So the majority of children's products will need testing if they're in continuous production at one-year intervals, but there are a two-year or three-year interval testing option. When you retest, you need to update your certificate. For items that are non-children's products that are in continuous production, for GCCs, importers and importers should follow a reasonable testing program, and if applicable, the rule that applies to their general use product, again, not all general use products, have mandatory standards or regulations associated with them. Our CPSC staff has provided guidance on a reasonable testing program and what might form part of a reasonable testing program in the notice of proposed rulemaking on 16 CFR Part 1107 subpart B that is available via that hyperlink on your screen. It will direct you to a federal register notice, and you'll need to focus on subpart B of the federal register notice, again, that hyperlink available via the handout for download on the right-hand side of your screen of the PDF of today's slides. So we talked about products in continuous production. What happens if you make a material change on those products? What is a material change? I guess, first of all, we should define a material change is any change that could affect compliance? For children's products, if you make a material change, you must retest the component material or the finished product as applicable upon a material change, and you'll need to update your certificate then. For general use or non-children's products, retesting upon a material change represents industry best practice, and of course, upon retesting, you would update your certificate. Please note, you must ensure that your consumer product complies with applicable requirements at all times, regardless of testing intervals that are shown on the screen or the testing intervals that you're doing that might be more frequent than what is shown on your screen. So I mentioned component part testing a little earlier, and I mentioned it because it is a voluntary way to reduce burden. Component part testing is covered under our Regulation 16 CFR Part 1109 and basically allows a finished product manufacturer to purchase a component from a supplier who voluntarily tests its products, such as a paint supplier, and it allows the manufacturer or the finished product manufacturer to rely on a component part manufacturer's certification that the product is compliant as long as you are exercising due care in your reliance upon that component part certificate or component part testing results. So the concept of what it means to exercise due care is flexible, and it's going to vary depending upon the circumstances and the industry in question, but this is a potential way to avoid retesting a product if a component part of it has already been tested by the supplier that provided you that component part. So for example, on component part testing, depending upon the industry and the circumstances, the exercise of due care may include the following. Asking questions about testing and sampling procedures. Requesting written test procedures. Ensuring the supplier's third party laboratory is CPSC accepted. Spot checking a supplier's test results. Visiting a supplier's factory or third party lab. Or agreeing contractually on testing and record keeping. An important thing to note here, if you are relying on component part testing, you're going to want to make sure that you document your exercise of due care. Because maintaining those records is going to ensure that if something ever happens with your product, that you're able to go to the CPSC and say, I was exercising due care, here's my record of doing so. So when do certificates need to be made available? This applies to both CPCs and GCCs. The important terms are shown in bold on your screen. First, they must be created before importing for consumption or warehousing or distributing products in commerce. Certificates must also accompany each product or shipment of products covered by the same certificate. A copy of the certificate must be furnished to each distributor or retailer of the product. And there is no requirement to provide the certificates to your ultimate consumer or end customer. A copy of the certificate must also be made available to the CPSC and Customs and Border Protection upon request. Electronic certificates are another topic that we receive many questions on. And our commission, by rule, allows certificates in electronic form. The caveat here being, they must be created before the shipment or first distribution within the United States. And that's per our regulation 16 CFR 1110.13. And you must be able to verify on the electronic certificate, either a date of creation or last modification. And again, that's from our reg 1110.13 subsection B. So all of this was leading up to what goes in a certificate. The answer is there are seven elements in both a children's product certificate and a general certificate of conformity. And we'll go through each of these kind of as an overview. And then we're going to go through some samples and talk about what it means to meet each of these elemental requirements. The first one is a description of the product covered by the certificate. That's in section one. And one of the most important things to include on your certificate is what product is covered by that certificate. Section number two, this is probably the medias to most voluminous part of the certificate, which is the citations to each CPSC safety rule to which you're certifying compliance. And we'll go through some samples so you can see what that means. Number three is importer and domestic manufacturer contact information. Number four, contact information for a person maintaining test records. Number five is the date and place of manufacture of the product that the certificate is covering. Number six is the location of testing and the date of test on which the certification is based. And number seven is the contact info of the testing lab that conducted the testing for you on which your certificate is based. So a few things to remember on certificates. There are many requirements in which you need to ensure compliance, but they don't need to appear in your certificate. So some examples are permanent tracking information, which is required on all children's products on both the product and the packaging. You have to make sure that you have permanent tracking information on your products, but you don't need to certify that or even reference it on your certificate that you've met that requirement.  They all require a registration card to be included with them. You don't have to certify that you have met the registration card requirement, you just have to meet the registration card requirement. Instructional literature and safety labeling requirements, which vary by product. These requirements are generally found in ASTM standards, specifically on durables, that's the ones that come immediately to mind, that have been incorporated into a mandatory standard. Of course you have to meet the instructional literature and safety labeling requirements for your product, but you don't have to certify that in a certificate. You just have to make sure that you're ensuring compliance. And then lastly on product certification, there are certain products that require on product certification. Again, you have to make sure that on product certification is there, but you don't have to include that information in your certificate. So let's break each of the seven sections of certificates down and go through what are some compliant examples of meeting each of these sections. Section number one, identification of the product covered by the certificate. So what the CPSC is looking for here is a description of the product covered by the certification in enough detail to match the certificate to each product it covers and no others. So there are sample CPCs and GCCs on our website and I'll tell you guys how to find those once we go through these samples. But for purposes of today's webinar, we're gonna go through two samples. One is a CPC on a children's toy and one is a GCC on an adult mattress. For the CPC on the children's toy, for the ID of the product here in section one, we've got a children's toy shape sorter, the model is entitled show and tell. We've got a UPC or a SKU of some sort there and then the colors of models that are covered by the certificate, which is blue, red and yellow. So that would meet the requirement of fully identifying the product and the certificate in section one. For our GCC sample of the adult mattress available on our website, a Lux mattress model, number 456 and 789. Those are two different models of mattresses available in king and queen size. That would meet the section one requirements for a GCC and again, these are straight off of our website for the sample CPC and GCC. So I warned you section number two was the meteor part of a certificate. So let's talk about section two. In this section, you're gonna cite to each CPSC product safety rule, which the product is being certified. And you're gonna need to list them specifically as they apply to your product. So for the CPC sample for children's toys, a children's toy. In this case, we know it is a fictional shaped sorter and it's meant for younger children. It comes in multiple colors because we know that from the product description. So the CPSC rules that are going to apply appear in bullets on your screen. And you would need to include this in section two of your certificate. The first is the ban on total leg content in excess of 100 parts per million. That's 15 USC 1278 A, that's a congressional statute. Because we know there are three different colors of the shaped sorter, and we're assuming that it's painted to generate those colors. The ban of leg containing paint and certain consumer products bearing leg containing paint for toys and other articles intended for children. Or 16 CFR part 1303 is listed in the second bullet because it would apply to the shaped sorter. Because the product is meant for children under three, shaped sorter is in general for a very young child. Small part, the small parts ban for toys and other articles is also included in the list, which is 16 CFR part 1501. All children's toys require certification to the US toy standard, which is ASTM F963-17. In this case, we're specifically interested in the heavy elements and accessible toy substrate materials. So that section needs to be specifically called out on your certificate. So we've referenced it there. The toy itself would need to meet all the requirements of ASTM F963-17. And then lastly, if the shaped sorter included plastics, which we've assumed for purposes of example here that it does. The prohibition of children's toys and childcare articles containing specified phthalates would also need to be listed as a CPSC reg that applies in that 16 CFR part 1307, which is our reg on phthalates. For the adult mattress, a much simpler list. There are two tests that apply to all mattresses. They are 16 CFR part 1632, which is the smoldering flammability test for mattresses and mattress pads. And 16 CFR 1633, which is the open flame test for mattress sets. So a much simpler section for people to know how to complete is section three, which is the identification of the importer or domestic manufacturer that's certifying compliance of the product. Here you see you're gonna need to provide the name, full mailing address, and telephone number of the importer or domestic manufacturer that's certifying the product for the CPC sample for children's toys. We've made up a fictitious toys, toys, toys, importer. You can see a street address, a city, a state, a zip code, and a telephone number there to meet the section three requirements. For adult mattresses, you can see another made up manufacturer or importer, which is mattress safety USA importers. You see a street address, a city, a state, a zip code, and a telephone number to meet the section three requirements of the certificate. For section number four, this covers contact information for the individual maintaining records of test results. You wanna make sure to provide the name, full mailing address, email address, and telephone number of the person that's maintaining test records and supported the certification. For the sample CPC, for the children's toy, we've got Lisa Lane, again a fictitious compliance manager, add our toys, toys, toys importer. You see her name, her full mailing address, her email address, and a telephone number is there. And we have the same for fictitious Mary Smith on her adult mattress GCC sample. Mary Smith is the compliance and quality control person at mattress safety USA importers, again street address, email address, and telephone number to meet the section four requirements of her GCC. Section number five of the certificate needs to cover date and place for the product was manufactured. For the date when the product was manufactured, provide at least the month and year. If production is running continuously throughout the year, put January to December of the year that the production is running continuously. If it's only running through a certain portion of the year, put March to June of the year that the manufacturing is taking place. For the place of manufacturer, provide at least the city or administrative region, state if applicable, and country where the product was manufactured or finally assembled. And if the same manufacturer operates more than one location in the same city, provide the street address of the factory. For a CPC sample for the children's toy, we see it's being manufactured in just one month, and that's June of 2011. We've got the city, the province, and the country where it's being manufactured because the manufacturer operates only one factory, so we don't have to provide a street address. For the sample GCC for an adult mattress, production is taking place in May of 2018 in Guangzhou, China. Again, meeting the requirements of Section 5 for that GCC. For Section 6 of your certificates, you'll want to provide the date in place when the product was tested for compliance with the consumer product safety rule cited above. And when it says cited above, it's referencing Section 2 of the certificate. Section 6, we as an agency are looking for you to provide the dates of the test or the test reports on which certification is being based and the locations of the testing. So for the children's toy sample, in this case, the testing took place on two days, or at two times in 2011. In June of 2011 and August of 2011, both tests took place in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. For the adult mattress, there was just testing at one time in June of 2018. In Guangzhou, China, again meeting the requirements of Section 6 of the certificates. Section 7, I know this is a busy slide. I want to go through a few things here because I wanted to combine children's product certificates and general certificates of conformity in Section 7. In Section 7, you'll need to identify any third party laboratory on whose testing the certificate depends. For the lab, you're going to need to provide the name, the full mailing address, and the telephone number of the lab. And that can usually be found at the bottom, usually at the footer of each page of a testing report. For children's product certificates only, there could be registered small batch manufacturers, again for the definition there, or what it means to be a small batch manufacturer. You can follow the hyperlink in your PDF slides. Registered small batch manufacturers who are not required to third party test their product to certain children's product safety requirements, must include their registration number provided by the CPSC in the section of the children's product certificate. So if you are making or importing children's products and you are a registered qualifying small batch manufacturer, and there is a test that you are conducting not at a third party lab, but on your own, such as to the toy standard, ASTM F963-17. Registered qualifying small batch manufacturers can test to the toy standard themselves, to certain portions of it, depending on the design of the toy. In section seven, you do not have a testing lab potentially to include the name, full mailing address, and telephone number of. So you will, as a small batch manufacturer, instead, include your registered small batch manufacturer number that you were given by the CPSC in section seven. Also for children's product certificates and small batch manufacturers, products that are manufactured by registered small batch manufacturers still need to comply with all the applicable children's product safety rules. So looking at the two sample certificates for a children's toy, the children's product certificate sample has Guangzhou quality labs. Again, a fictitious lab, you see the street address, you see city, province, and country, along with a zip code, and a telephone number there for the contact, and believe it or not, we have the same fictitious lab doing the adult mattress testing for our GCC sample to meet the requirements of section seven of the certificates. For children's products, when you're preparing a children's product certificate, and when you're looking for a CPSC accepted third party lab, you need to make sure that the CPSC accepted testing lab that you're looking for can conduct all the testing that you need to have done for your children's product. So the reason that there's an asterisk next to the CPSC sample for the children's toy is because we are assuming that that fictitious lab, Guangzhou quality labs, can conduct all the testing that was necessary on that children's toy that we listed in section two. So when looking for a testing lab, make sure they can do all the testing, they're accepted by the CPSC to do all the testing you need to have done on your product. So we've been going through two samples for a GCC and a CPC. You might be wondering, how do I find those? You can find them for the sample children's product certificates. They are available online at CPSC.gov forward slash CPC. Again, that hyperlink works from the handout slides and PDF on the right hand side of your screen. The two sample CPCs that we have available online for a children's toy, which you guys now know by heart and for children's clothing. In terms of general certificates of conformity, we have two samples available online. One is the sample GCC for a mattress again, which you guys know by heart and the GCC for adult clothing is also available at CPSC.gov forward slash GCC. All right, now let's move to what I hope will be a bit of fun. Audience polling. So I am going to go through five questions with you guys and we're going to see how much you've learned based on today's discussion. And these are actual questions that we get in our office. So if you think they're easy or if you think they're hard, you have some insight into our day to day life. So the first question we've got a nice little stuffed teddy bear here is I plan on making a stuffed toy. Do I need a CPC or a GCC for that product? So I'm going to put the question up on your screen and then if you guys will provide the answer on whether you need a GCC or a CPC or neither for that stuffed toy. And we'll give you guys a second to answer. And it looks like everybody is about done with providing answers. So I'm going to close the poll and let's see what we as a group thought the answer was there. So as a group resoundingly, everybody thought that stuffed toy needed a CPC. So let's see if you guys were correct. Great news. You guys were correct. That stuffed toy requires a CPC. And why is that? Well, stuffed toys are generally considered children's products, which are products intended primarily for children 12 and under.  So let's see how you do on the next question, which is a little bit more complex. So here's the next question. I plan on importing seasonal holiday lights. Do I need a CPC or a GCC? Let's see what you guys think on this question. Your options are children's product certificate, general certificate of conformity or neither. Oh, and we have two answers that are kind of running neck and neck here on the importable or the importing of seasonal holiday lights. So I'm going to close the poll. Thank you everybody for participating and let's see what we as a group thought the answer was. And appears that there was a bit of a tie between GCC and CPCs or sorry, GCCs and neither on the seasonal holiday lights, 41% thought that a general certificate of conformity is needed and 54% thought neither one was needed. Let's see what the right answer is. And the majority was correct for seasonal holiday lights. You don't need a certificate at all. And why is that? Because seasonal holiday lights are covered under 15 J of the Consumer Product Safety Act or the CPSA and that is not a consumer product safety rule and does not trigger any testing or certification requirements under 14 A of the Consumer Product Safety Act. So if you thought that question was challenging, we're going to move on to the next question, which is, I plan on importing hard hats that are not primarily for children. Do I need a CPC or a GCC? And if you guys will tell me whether you think those adult hard hats need a CPC, a GCC or neither, we'll see what the group thinks. All right, and it looks like just about everybody has voted. Thank you everybody for participating. I'm going to close this out and we're going to see as a group what we thought was needed for those adult hard hats. It looks like 63% thought that a general certificate of conformity was needed and 36% thought that neither a children's product certificate or a general certificate of conformity was needed. Let's see if the majority thinking a GCC was needed or correct. The answer here is actually neither. You don't need a certificate at all. And why is that? Well, these are adult hard hats. So they would be general use products, which might mean they need a GCC, but only certain general use non-children's products require a GCC. And again, here we have a very handy link to the rules requiring a GCC site for more information. And you can get that off the PDF download of the slides that are available on the handout section of the right hand side of your screen. Okay, so let's see how we do on this next question. I am an importer of toy water guns for children. Can I just use my manufacturer's testing report as my children's product certificate? So let's see what you guys think the answer is to this question. So can I rely on my manufacturer's testing report as my children for my children's water gun CPC? Answer yes, no, or it depends. All right. And it looks like everybody pretty much has participated. I'm going to see what we as a group thought the answer was to whether or not you can rely on a testing report as your children's product certificate. So the majority thought the answer was no, although there was a pretty large group that thought the answer was it depends. Let's see what the real answer to the question is. So the answer here is no, a testing report. And I wanted to put this question in here because it's a it's a distinction that I thought needed to be drawn in this webinar. A testing report is different than a certificate. As an importer, you need to create your own children's product certificate. You can rely on the testing report from a manufacturer, as long as you exercise, do care. And we've talked about what that means, but you'll need to create and produce your own children's product certificate. And the way that we describe this to people who phone in is that a testing report is actually quite extensive. It's multiple pages long. It talks about how the product performed on tests that apply to it based on where you're importing it into. If, you know, if that's the United States for the children's toys, such as these toy water guns, we've already seen there's lots of tests that need to be conducted. There could be a page. There could be one page for each test in your testing reports and multiple pages long. The certificate, the children's product certificate is basically like a cover page. It's usually one, maybe two pages long at the most that just contains those seven elements. It doesn't talk about, you know, whether it read non-detect or what PPM of lead it read. It only talks about what testing was conducted and certifies that you passed. So important distinction to draw between a testing report being different than a certificate. So let's look at our last product here and see how you guys fare on this final question, which is, do I need to certify the tracking labels on my children's toy? Meet the requirements in my children's product certificate. So your options are yes, no, or it depends. And I'm going to close the poll because it looks like most folks are participating and have gotten their answers in. Thank you guys again for participating. Let's see as a group, whether you thought certifying to tracking label compliance was needed in a certificate for this children's toy. Looks like the majority thought the answer was no, although there's a pretty large group that thinks the answer is yes. So let's see and 4% said it depends, which is a very nice answer that 4% went with. So let's see what the answer is here. The answer is no. You don't need to include certification that your children's product, in this case a children's toy that cute little ride on toy meets tracking label requirements. You do need to ensure compliance with the tracking label requirements on the product and the packaging, but you don't need to include reference to the tracking label requirement in your certificate. So thank you everybody for participating in the audience polling. I'm just going to go through a few CPSC business resources and then we'll do a few quick questions at the end. So the first business resource that I want to let you guys know about is our business education pages. These are available at CPSC.gov forward slash business education. And the reason I bring this up is because they appear alphabetically on the right hand side of that business resources or business education page. And I think we're up to about 60 of these pages. So you can see them alphabetized their A, B, and C. If you are importing or making a consumer product that you believe may have a regulation associated with it, go to business education and see if there's a page that we've created for it. And if so, click on that page and it will tell you all the labeling, testing and certification requirements associated with that product. So people really like the business education pages and wanted to bring them to your attention. I also wanted to let you know about our webinars that are available on YouTube. So today's webinar is not yet on YouTube. It will go up after today's presentation is done. But our CPSC YouTube channel is available at youtube.com forward slash US CPSC. And once you get to the YouTube screen, you'll see where the red circle is. There you have to click the playlist tab, which you can see I've clicked and where it's circled that says business education. And these are 13 webinars, most of them available in English, but some available in Chinese as well, that talk about specific consumer products and what requirements apply to them. It's definitely something to check out and it's something you can refer people to as a useful resource. So the last business resource that I want to let you guys know about because I'm really excited to let you know that we have given the regulatory robot a bit of a reboot and a facelift. The new robot is available on the old robot site, which is business.CPSC.gov forward slash robot. The new robots has some enhanced functionality. One is it's going to ask you a lot fewer questions. It's going to ask you to pick which of nine categories of goods your product falls into. And then you're going to answer on average about three questions and it's going to generate an end report for you, which you can download and keep. It also generates a URL that you can share with others so they can view that report. One more nice thing is that the regulatory robot, the entire robot itself and all of its content is available in English and simplified Chinese large portions of it are also available in Spanish, Indonesian and Vietnamese. So please check out our regulatory robot and we would love to receive feedback on it, which you can submit to us via the robot itself. My email address is on your screen, along with a phone number that rings at three desk. That's the seven nine four five phone number you can follow us on Twitter at CPSC small biz. If you're wondering about future webinars, if you want to know what events we're going to be speaking at, what trade shows will be at or just how to see us and meet us face to face. You can follow us on Twitter or you can subscribe to our SBO newsletter by going to CPSC.gov forward slash email and selecting small business ombudsman updates. We send the newsletters out about monthly and we'll always tweet about webinars like this to let you know what's coming next. So last thing before I sign off, we're always impressed with the participation and the enthusiasm that we receive when we do these webinars. So thank you so much and we look forward to seeing you at our next webinar.


Hey everyone welcome to today's tradehacker update starting with the tradehacker question of the day Why are puts more expensive than calls? Let's go to the platform and take a look when you look at a an option chain Let's just use a stock that's kind of close to its round number. How about city group close to 45? So let's open up the 46 day options and if you go equal distance away from the current price So the current price is at 45. So if we go equal distance away from the 45 strike, let's just go 10 points wide So if we go to the 55 on the call side, you can see those are trading for about 70 cents, right? Right between 65 and 75. So let's call it 70 cents on the call side But if you go 10 strikes wide away on the put side, you can see they're trading for about a buck oh two And so why is it that the puts the equal same distance away from the at-the-money strike? Why are the puts more expensive than the calls? Well, we call it puts queue and the reason is is because there's more perceived risk to the downside right people are buying puts as protection theoretically and so The the puts are going to be priced higher if the risk is Perceived to the downside in the stock and that's pretty true a lot of times for a lot of stocks and a lot of ETFs and equity related indices like SPY IWM QQQ They almost always have that put skew meaning the puts trade richer than the calls now You will find Individual stocks from time to time like Roku and Shopify for example have been stocks that have a little bit of a call Skew, let's just look at Shopify. I haven't looked at it from this perspective in a while, but let's see What it's looking like here. So Shopify is currently trading at $6.59 So 660 is kind of the at-the-money strike nearest to the money So if we go let's just go 20 points away just to take a look so 680 So those puts are trading at about 59 ish dollars and if we go 20 points down 10 20 These are trading at about 60. Okay, so you can see there's not as much in fact The the puts here are trading pretty close to the same value So there's really not any put skew in Shopify and that just means there's not as much perceived risk to the downside and if you see the calls Trading significantly richer that means that the risk of that stock is to the upside And you'll see call skew or the calls trade richer than the puts in commodities Like gold or oil or natural gas or some type of commodity where you'll see the perceived risk is to the upside so That is the deal on put skew So let's go to the market see what's going on take a look at the S&P 500 trading up a little over five The market just closed stocks were down almost all day And then we had a kind of a late afternoon rally and they came up a little bit to positive dial still slightly down Nasdaq up about a percent and the Russell pretty flat So kind of a back-and-forth day-to-day if you look at gold just trading slightly higher bonds pretty flat Natty gas up over 5% But a lot of back-and-forth action So what's happening? Well, we added a double calendar in spx. We rolled a couple positions and Let's take a look at what's going on with earnings Nothing much after the bell today. We've got AIG. We don't really trade that much Before the market opens tomorrow morning. Nothing really big that we trade but after the bell tomorrow, we've got Disney Okay, I know it's kind of blurry, but Walt Disney Company. We've got beyond the meat We've got Pinterest and then before the bell opens We've got Shopify on Wednesday CVS GM and after the bell on Wednesday. We've got PayPal Lyft and then a couple other notables throughout the week We've got Roku and Uber on Thursday and that's that's pretty much it So again, we're not doing a lot of premium selling during these earnings just because we're not getting that vol crash So it's not really we're not getting that bang for the buck if anything will do small Directional plays using vertical spreads and things like that. Just remember to keep your position size small stay safe Hope everybody's doing well. Talk to you tomorrow


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