nd so, you know, that's something I'd want the consultant to look at. In terms of the municipal parking district, yeah, we're not asking them to specifically address the district, but if they say, given the development patterns of Amherst and here's some parking strategies, and they think that parking could be provided or should be, then, you know, then it's, then it's our local decision to say, okay, maybe the municipal parking district has run its course and now it's time to change it. You know, it was, it was, you know, it was offered as a kind of an incentive to help development downtown. We have development downtown and so is it time to, you know, look at that again. And so, you know, I'm hoping the consultant touches on that a little bit. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Nate. And thank you, Dorothy. Pam Rooney has her hand up. Why don't we bring her over? You could give us your name and your address. This is the plethora of PAMs tonight. Thank you for letting me in. And I wanted to say thank you to Bruce for asking for the names to be read at the beginning of the meeting. I think that, you know, been asking for that for quite a while and that's very nice. Specific comments. A couple people have already touched on the fact that the having a meeting with the planning board ZBA, DAC, DRB earlier in the process, maybe they get treated like a stakeholder group so that they, I mean, because you are the people that are being asked to interpret today's zoning bylaws, how do these guidelines inform your process and how do they help you? And I think that would be really helpful to get that. I had the same question about why do you limit the stakeholder group size to five to seven, you know, I think for, I can't remember what the process, oh it was the 40R process where the stakeholders were all of the business or the building owners, property owners in downtown and some business owners, no neighbors. That appeared to be the stakeholder group. I think each of these categories you definitely might have more than five to seven people. I don't think that would add cost to having a stakeholder meeting by having a slightly larger group. Thinking about some of the selection characterizations like the presentation of the proposal when I look at adventages, the presentation development team provide an understanding of the project. The presentation is clear and informative and all team members participate. That's what I want to see. So that's quite advantageous to me. If you wanted to make it most advantageous, perhaps you include something about a deep understanding of the project and a well-described engagement process or something, you know, the public involvement process that appears to be reasonable and all-encompassing or something of that nature. And that's it for now, but thank you. Thank you, Pam. Yeah, thanks. Sorry, I just want to say maybe I misunderstood Dorothy's question. So yeah, I just changed that, right? I think we could have more stakeholders in each focus group. So I apologize to Dorothy if I misunderstood that. So I agree so we could have, you know, have more people in each focus group. You know, so yeah, I think we can do that. Maybe you have five to seven stakeholder meetings. Right, right, right. That's the quantity that you were looking for earlier. The last thing I wanted to say before I forget is that I am completely delighted that you are at this point where you're getting ready to do an RFP for this very, very important project. All right. Thank you, Pam. Come on in. All right. Nate, we've gotten our comments. And Chris, do you know if any of the other board members who were not present this evening have sent any in? You are muted. Muted? No, I don't believe they have. We can reach out to them again. If you don't mind doing that, just to remind them that this is their chance to weigh in. So thank you, Nate, for the presentation and all your work. All right, unless there's anything else anybody wants to say about this topic, I guess we will consider this closed for this evening. The time is 9 36. And I guess we can go on to the parts of the agenda on page two. Chris, starting with old business, anything not anticipated 48 hours in advance? No old business. All right, what about new business? No new business. All right, I think I saw in my packet some form A and R drawings. Pam, you want to bring those up? Pam's done a good job of exploring this. It's rather complicated. Do you want to talk about it, Pam? Or do you want me to talk about it? I think you should just go ahead and talk about it. But I've got lots of slides here to back you up and support you. Okay, so this property is located on Pelham Road. It's east of the Fort River, east of the bridge, and it's almost to Poets Corner. And it's one of these long narrow lots that was created a long time ago. I think the front house was built in 1900 and the back house was built in 1950. And it's owned by a group of siblings. And they would like to be able to sell the property and get some remuneration from it. And one of the siblings wants to live in the front house. So what they're proposing to do is they're proposing to connect the area shown in yellow to the blue area. So they want to make one big lot. And then they want to subdivide that lot. And Pam, if you can show us the, yeah, that's great. So the green lines are showing the property line between the yellow property on the previous drawing and the blue property. The green lines are showing that property line going away. So that little piece at the very bottom of the property is going to be added to the whole. And then the front property, the area shown in red, is going to be carved off. And that will contain the one house at 101 Pelham Road. And then the other property, including that back area, is going to contain the other house at 103 Pelham Road. And the people here have already gone to the zoning board of appeals. And they've received a variance. And they need a variance for this property because it's got a lot of anomalies. It's not a very wide property. So it's really hard to do anything here. But there are a number of setback issues that are problematic. And in addition to that, it's unusual to have two houses on one property. So they want to move them apart. They don't really have enough frontage to have a flag lot. They have 76 feet, roughly 76 feet of frontage altogether. I think this is in the RN zoning district. So they would normally be required to have 120 square feet of frontage. They would have been required to have a 120-foot building circle in the middle of this property. But they obviously can't do that because this is too thin. And there are setback issues. So they received a variance from the zoning board of appeals to accomplish what is shown on this plan. And so the next step for them is to actually take the step of dividing the property into two properties. And you can see that one property is going to have about 16 feet of frontage, which is enough to allow cars to travel back and forth. The other property will have about 60.7 feet of frontage. And both properties will have the ability to travel over this driveway, just as they've always done in the past. So I think that's all I have to say. You may have some questions. And you did receive a copy of the variance text in your in your packets. So so we don't, you know, it's already been decided that this configuration is allowable or, you know, approved it by variance. That's all you want us to do is to agree that this does not require a subdivision plan. That is correct. And then authorize the chair, Mr. Marshall, to sign the plan on behalf of the planning board. Okay. All right. So board members, any questions? Any objection to me assigning this and agreeing that it's, that this does not require subdivision approval? Uh, your silence and is deafening. So I'm going to take that as a consensus, Chris, that we are okay with this and you will tell me when I can come sign it. Thank you. And thanks to Pam for providing the good information. She asked some good questions and we had a meeting with the building commissioner. So we were all clear on what was going on here. I think this is the first variance I've ever seen issued by the CBA. Yeah. They don't issue very many. It's really unusual for them to issue a variance. Yeah. Well, it's a change to the bylaw that that you don't want to have everybody saying they can do it, right? So it's going to be really odd and special and hardship is the is the controlling, uh, requirement here is hardship and shape of the lot. Okay. But we're good. I mean, I'm good. Okay. You're great, Bruce. Okay. Um, let's see. That was item eight on our agenda. The time now is 943. Uh, Pam and Chris, any, uh, upcoming ZBA? Nothing new to report. All right. Not tonight. How about SPP, SPR and SUB applications? Yes. I think I've told you about these before, but we do have 463 West Street coming back to you because we didn't get an appropriate number of, um, planning board members to vote on the special permit for 463 West Street to extinguish previous special permits. So we have to bring that back to you. And then we have another special permit at 51 Spalding Street, which is already a two-family house and one of the units has some lodgers and they need to clarify their parking issues and also, um, clarify the fact that they have lodgers in this two-family house. So Nate is most conversant about this project. If you have questions about that, you could ask him. Otherwise, you'll be seeing this, I think on the 7th of September. I don't recall 463 West Street. Did I miss that hearing? That's the one that was already approved. It was Ron Laverdeer, the retaining wall and back of the building. Oh, okay. But there was a special permit to extinguish the two ZBA permits from the 80s and the hearing was continued and when it was continued, there was only four voting members and there needs to be five for a special permit. So okay, it has to come back. I think, okay, I must have missed that. Okay. Okay. All right, so I guess moving on, committee and liaison reports. PVPC, we don't have anyone to represent that. CPAC, Andrew is absent, design review board, Tom is absent. Janet, how about the solar bylaw working group? We had another productive meeting. Chris Brestrup gave an excellent overview of land use and mapping in Amherst, which you can't get enough of because you always look at it and try to learn new stuff. So she's kind of giving the board the literal lay of the land in Amherst. And then we had a long presentation by another member about the mass decarbonization road map and then the very, very recent plan for how to get there. And so it takes recommendations, the road map, and it puts together a plan of like what sources of renewable energy that the state will be looking at. And then also kind of a, Martha Hanner pointed out there's a new emphasis on natural lands as carbon sinks because even if we want to net zero today, we're still in trouble. And so we need to increase our capacity of the natural like farmland, forest lands and wetlands to absorb carbon dioxide. And so there's a new emphasis on that in the plan. But it was just, it was really thorough and it's actually a really excellent plan. Probably all these documents, they're like 150 pages and you know, but they really go deep and they're interesting. And so that's it. Okay. Thank you, Janet. Nate. Yeah, I just wanted to say that the CPA, you know, in Andrew's absence, the CPA committee has put its schedule on their webpage. And so proposals open September 1st and they're due by the end of September. So, you know, the next round of CPA proposals is, you know, starting soon and the committee will meet in November to start reviewing those. So, you know, just for everyone watching or who will watch that, you know, the process is starting a little earlier this year and the, you know, the window to submit is the month of September. Okay. Great. And Chris, anything you want to say about CRC? The next CRC meeting, am I muted or not? No, you're good. The next CRC meeting is on the 25th of August and they're going to be discussing rental registration and then the CRC meeting after that. And this is some good news. I should have told you this under new business. We finally received our letter of final determination from FEMA with regard to our flood maps. So CRC is holding a continued public hearing on the flood maps on September 8th. And the planning board will hold its continued public hearing on the flood maps on September 7th. It doesn't necessarily mean you have to wrap it all up on September 7th, but at least it'll be coming back to you in a real form that we can act on if we choose to. All right. And Nate, use your hand up again? No. Okay. Okay. Then we're on to the report of the chair and I have no report other than to say this may be my last meeting as chair because I think we do elections next time, right, Chris? Elections next time, that's right. That's right. So all of, you know, I guess, do we want to just have people show up at the meeting and with some, you know, if you're interested in a position or representing the board on a committee show up and, you know, be ready to say you're interested in would like to be appointed or elected to that position. I think that's a good idea. And also if you have ideas about who you want to nominate for different positions. So obviously Doug Marshall is our chair and I strongly support Doug Marshall as chair, but that is not up to me because I don't get to vote. Tom Long is our vice chair and I'm trying to think who is the clerk. Maria was the clerk. Maria was the clerk. And I don't think we have a clerk now. Right. So we need and for you new members, the clerk really doesn't take minutes or do normal clerk things because we have the expertise of Chris and Pam. And so the clerk is really, is the clerk third in line if the chair and the vice chair are both absent from a meeting? That's right. Yes. And the clerk could chair a meeting. Okay. So that's the predominant role of the clerk at this point. So I wanted to make mention of the fact that Jack Jemsik is the alternate PVPC representative and he is going to continue as the executive committee representative for the PVPC, but that leaves open the principal role of commissioner with PVPC. So people should be thinking about volunteering for that if that is of interest to them. And you had sent us an email that had some information about how often they meet and kind of what level of commitment that is. So if you want me to send that again, do that. I think that would be great if you would. Yeah. Maybe 10 days before our next meeting or I guess our next meetings. It feels like our next meeting is not just in 14 days. It's maybe three weeks from now. So maybe send it a week before the next meeting. Okay. And my vague recollection from our last meeting was that you had talked about PVPC with Bruce and he was open to doing that. Bruce is open to doing it. And I see he confirmed with his thumb. Okay. All right. So I had no report. Chris. I have no report other than to say that we are not going to have a meeting on August 31st. Okay. Have any business to go? So everybody have a good Labor Day. Thank you. Thanks. And the time is 9.51 and I think we can adjourn. Thank you all for your time and your service to the town. Thank you, everybody. Thank you.


It's a great time of the year and it's a time where everyone makes resolutions and always breaks them. So I've come up with a few tips as to how to make new resolutions. Isn't that right girl? This is meant to be why you move out the way. No, I'm not going to move out the way. What are you going to do? You've got to go.


All right, what is 633 p.m. on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Good evening. My name is Christian Klein. I'm the chair of the Arlington zoning board of appeals. I call this meeting of the board to order. I'd like to confirm. Make sure all members and anticipated officials are present. So from the zoning board of appeals, Roger Dupont here. Mr. Hanlon. Yeah, Mills. Here to work. Here. Ford. Here. Mr. Revillac. Here. Greetings to all. For the town, Rick Valorelli. Yeah. And Vincent Lee. Well, thank you both. That's like Council. Paul Haverty. Good evening, Mr. Chairman. Good evening. And on behalf of the applicant, Miss Kiefer. Good evening all. So this open meeting of the Arlington zoning board of appeals is being conducted remotely consistent with Governor Baker's executive order of March 12, 2020, the order suspends the requirement of the open meeting law to have all meetings and a publicly accessible physical location for their all members of public bodies are allowed and encouraged to participate remotely, public bodies may meet remotely so long as reasonable public access is afforded the public can follow along with the deliberations of the meeting. An opportunity for public participation we provided during public comment period during the public hearing. For this meeting, the Arlington zoning Board of Appeals has convened a video conference via the Zoom app with online and telephone access as listed on the agenda posted to the town's website identifying how the public may join. This meeting is being recorded and is being broadcast by ACMI. Please be aware, attendees are participating by a variety of means. Some attendees are participating by video conference. Other participants are participating by computer audio or phone. Accordingly, please be aware that other folks may be able to see you, your screen name or another identifier. Please take care to not share personal information. Anything you broadcast may be captured by the recording. We ask you to please maintain decorum during the meeting, including displaying an appropriate background. All supporting materials that have been provided members of this body are available on the town's website unless otherwise noted. Public is encouraged to follow along using the posted agenda. This chair reserved the right to take items out of order in the interest of promoting an orderly meeting. So turning to the comprehensive permit hearing for Thorne Dyke Place. So at the April 8th hearing, the zoning Board of Appeals requested the applicant consider reintroducing duplex or townhouse units along Dorothy Road with a multifamily unit behind. Keeping the project within the bounds of the upland portion of the site outside the statutory wetlands and floodway. The applicant is indicated to the Board that they believe they can meet these goals and they've requested additional time to prepare design drawings for public review. And so the request, which we'll get to at the end would be to continue this hearing to Thursday, May 13th at 7.30 p.m. And we will request that the submission revise the design documents on or before May 10th, 2021 to allow for review ahead of the next meeting date. And Ms. Kiefer, does that meet with your expectations? It does, Mr. Chairman, yes, thank you. Thank you. So the statutory 180 day period for conducting a public hearing is currently scheduled to expire this Friday, April 23rd. So we will need to extend it to a later date to allow for the review of their revised design and consideration of the design of the proposed conditions. The date that was proposed to extend to would be Thursday, May 20th, excuse me, 2021. And Ms. Kiefer, that's for our discussion this morning. Yes. Perfect. So with those in mind, Mr. Hanlon, can I have a motion to extend the statutory 180 day period for conducting a public hearing? Mr. Chairman, I move that the board extend the time for completing the public hearing until the date certain of May 20th as agreed upon with the applicant. Thank you. I have a second from the board. Second. Thank you, Mr. DuPont. So to take a vote of the board, Mr. DuPont. Aye. Mr. Hanlon. Aye. Mr. Mills. Aye. Mr. O'Rourke. Aye. Mr. Revillac. Aye. Mr. Ford. Aye. The chair votes aye. So the 180 day review period is hereby extended to Thursday, May 20th, 2021. And that will bring us back to the request to continue. So again, it will be a continuance to Thursday, May 13th at 7.30 p.m. And this revised documentation will be submitted on or before May 10th, 2021 to allow for review. Mr. Hanlon, may I have a motion to that effect? Mr. Chairman, I move that the hearing be continued to a date certain of May 13th, 2021 at 7.30 p.m. And that the applicant provide copies of revised materials on or before May 10th, 2021. Thank you. May I have a second? Second. Thank you, Mr. Mills. A vote of the board. Mr. DuPont. Aye. Mr. Hanlon. Aye. Mr. Mills. Aye. Mr. O'Rourke. Mr. Revillac. Aye. Mr. Ford. Aye. Mr. O'Rourke. Mr. Ford. Aye. And the chair also votes aye. So the hearing on Thorndike Place is hereby continued to May 13th at 7.30 p.m. So that is all sort of the substantive work for this evening just for the boards and the public certifications. So upcoming meetings of the zoning board of appeals. So we currently have scheduled a meeting for Tuesday, April 27th, which will be a continuance of 190, 192 Mystic Valley Parkway and a continuance of comprehensive permit hearing for 1165 R Massachusetts Avenue. And I've also asked the Mr. Valerelli to add on the election of board officers, which is something we need to do annually in April. So we'll add that to the, to that hearing as well. Then the next hearing after that is May 11th, which will be the first hearing for three new projects, 12 Christine Road, 34 Marathon Street and 53 Pine Ridge Road. Now we also have on May 13th will be the continuance of the hearing on Thorndike Place. And Mr. Valerelli has notified me that Tuesday, May 25th, we will have at least one, if not a few other new local cases. And so those are all the dates on our calendar. Any questions on those dates to the board? No, perfect. Okay. Well, that concludes tonight's meeting of the Arlington zoning Board of Appeals. Mr. Chairman. Yes, please. Good question, Steve Moore, Piedmont Street. Are the Tuesday meetings always at 630? No, so we've been, we had done 630 for a while. The next several hearings will be back at 730. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate the request for clarification. Okay. So appreciate everyone's patience throughout the meeting, which to thank Mr. Valerelli and Mr. Lee for their assistance in preparing for and hosting this online meeting. Please note the purpose of the board's recording of the meeting is to make sure that we have an accurate record of the proceedings. And it's our understanding the recording made by ACMI will be available on demand at ACMI.TV within the coming days. If anyone has questions, comments or recommendations, please send them via email to ZBA at town.arlington.ma.us. That email address is also listed on the zoning board of appeals website. To conclude tonight's meeting. I look for a motion to adjourn. So moved. Mr. Hanlon. Second. Thank you, Mr. Mills. Mr. DuPont. Aye. Mr. Hanlon. Aye. Mills. Aye. Drorowork. Aye. Mr. Revolac. Aye. Board. Aye. And the chair votes aye. We are adjourned. Thank you all for your participation tonight. Especially where as we are going by so quickly. And we will see everyone at an upcoming meeting. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Mr. Revolac. Aye. Good morning. All right. You're gonna have a hard time tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Everybody. Take care, Cheryl. Take care. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Chu. Thank you. Mr. He저. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, Mr.


Back at Tiesel Corner, I'm sat amongst the sanitary towels for the time being. I've reported it's the environment agency and have an incident log number, which is great. What about two or three hours to try and catch a fish for I have to pick the kids up from school? Popped into the tackle shop, bought some maggots and pinkies and was reassured by the shop staff there that I'll catch nothing. So my mission today is just to catch a fish as floods have receded. It's still running quite fast, so I'm going to have to probably feed a fish. Well, I just bring a rod to trot with two. I've got 17 foot of water in front of me. So using this, I'm going to fill this up probably about five or six times with maggots. As it sinks to the bottom, that opens and scatters along the bottom. And as I say, it's pushing through. So those maggots will still be sent downstream. I'm going to feed a fish over that just to top it up and then switch to float. Hopefully that will draw some some chub in. Whenever I come down, there's always someone making a racket, a hive of activity. Once that's hit the bottom, I like to get the rod couple of bounces. This doesn't always open first time. There's my feeder as a size 14 triple maggot, really going for a finesse. So an absolute thump on the rod tip. And I missed it. Tap there. There we go. Peshon, a few out chub as they're feeding pretty much. Anywhere that I've been trying to catch on these over the last few sessions. So that's well pleasing is pleased to say it's been perfect. There's no no damage on that one at all. So yeah, really, let's see if I can get a few more. It's hardly surprising, you know, and it's still water on lakes. Fish don't have to use any energy up. They just go into a combatoast hibernation on rivers. They've got a swim against the current, which means they have to use energy. Just need to place it. I think the problem we had this January is that fish had a really good feed during the floods filled their bellies. And then we had to frost almost the next evening, really heavy frost. So the metabolism couldn't really by just it all in time. Sort of bumbles. There's my mediaevon float. But I really give up with the flow rod. Get the feeder rod back out. Just that little tap. And again, there we go. Plastic in the line. That's sad, isn't it? Really sad. Fish on. It could be a pike that's taken a roach. Just pick the bait up. Give me that rattle and then set there. I'm going to have to pull in this flow.  The binnit lane for green. Always surprising how heavy they are once they get past a certain size. And again, this one, if you watch some other video, it's not as big as the one I caught in the other video at night, but it's tailed. It's pretty much perfect. A little bit of damage to it. I'm supposed to saw that paranoia about Otters. Is it necessary where you use it? It's a lovely fish. Nice. Well bream slime. I'm going to throw it lovely tonight. So changing the hook length is no problem.   Put that in a bin. Put a new hook length on. That was the hook length I was using. Quite heavy. But without flow and fish, you know, a chance of catching chopped to five pounds, potentially viable. No, they're too light. New hook length on at least three maggots on this hook. Pink is in the feeder maggots on the hook. The theory being they might pick out my maggots being slightly bigger. But last cast. That's all. But other one is scales. I think highlight of the day for me is seeing the Salford Womballs out collecting rubbish along the bank. We need more people like that. So there you go. All those sanctuary towels, toilet paper, nothing to do with Wessex water. They went down and investigated it. Couldn't see anything.  Write your MPs. Record it with the environment agency and make as much fuss as you can because these companies are getting away with murder. Thanks for watching. And if you enjoyed it, there's plenty of other episodes fishing from this spot here under Salford Sessions playlist. If you haven't subscribed, please subscribe. And that helps me get out there and help young people mostly disadvantaged get into fishing. Thanks for watching. Cheers.


Hi everyone, hopefully you can hear me okay and we're coming through loud and clear on your computers and for those of you having trouble with the audio on your computers, please feel free to switch to phone audio and call into the number that appears on the right hand toolbar of your screen. With that being said, welcome. This is the Consumer Product Safety Commission's webinar series. The topic today is carriages and strollers. My name is Shelby Mathis. I'm the small business ombudsman at the CPSC and we're happy to have you. I wanted to just do two housekeeping things first before we get started and one is to introduce you to the toolbar that appears on the right hand side of your screen if you're not familiar with go to webinar and the way that it works. On the right hand side of your screen you have a few things that you can do throughout the webinar. One is to ask a question. There is no need to raise your hand. I've got a colleague here, Will, that will be taking questions throughout the webinar because I'm going to be going through the slides. I won't be able to answer directly but as you think of a question feel free to submit it and you can do that with the toolbar on the right. Also available on the toolbar on the right is a handout which is a PDF of the slides today. As I go through the slides you're going to see what appear to be hyperlinks. You're not going to be able to click on them because you're looking at an image of my screen but once you download the PDF of the slides those do have live hyperlinks that you're able to click on. So without further ado we'll go ahead and get started. A quick disclaimer, I am a CPSC staff member. We are an agency that is headed by a commission so the views expressed today are my own and may not necessarily reflect the views of the commission. So an agenda for today. First thing we're going to do is we're going to define what a carriage and a stroller is and we're going to take that straight from the regulation and the mandatory standard, the ASTM standard that defines carriages and strollers and I'll give you a little history of the rule because that is a question that we get somewhat frequently in our office. Then we'll move to the labeling and instructional literature requirements that apply to carriages and strollers and we'll touch on the product registration requirement and I'll highlight some resources there because again that's another topic of questions that we receive in the SBO office. I'll go through the testing requirements and these have been broken into chemical and then physical and mechanical testing and we'll walk through those as best we can. We are going to be limited on time today so I'm going to do my best to give you as much in depth on the testing requirements as I can and just let you know what exists in the standard. I'll highlight some product hazards for those of you that are looking to import a stroller, you're designing a new stroller or you might be reconfiguring an existing one or making a design change to an existing one. These are some product hazards to look out for that have historically tripped up manufacturers of carriages and strollers. I'll talk about the children's product certificate requirement including walking through the seven sections and what they could look like in a hypothetical situation for a stroller or carriage. I'll highlight two recall examples and touch on business resources that are available here through the CPSC that I think you guys will find useful and then we'll do a Q&A session at the end so if you want to just submit your questions as I move through the material I'll do my best to answer as many as I can in the time that we've got at the end of today's session. Alright so first let's start with a little bit of history about the carriages and strollers standard. This all began with a notice of proposed rulemaking on May the 20th of 2013. There is a previous carriages and strollers standard that is actually incorporated ASTM F833-13B with a modification to address head and entrapment hazards associated with multi-positional or adjustable grab bars and the previous standard that ASTM F833-13B applies to products manufactured beginning on September the 10th of 2015 through October the 1st of 2016. Now the current standard and this is the one we're talking about today is 16 CFR Part 1227. It incorporates ASTM F833-15 without modification. The effective date of the current carriages and strollers standard is October the 2nd of 2016 so a little over a year ago. This became effective on products manufactured on or after that October 2nd date. So let's define what a carriages and what a stroller is and so that we can distinguish between those two products. The carriage definition comes straight from ASTM F833-15 and it is a wheeled vehicle generally used for the transport of an infant who is generally in a lying down position. The mode of power is supplied by a person or persons pushing or pulling on a handle attached to the vehicle. A carriage may be capable of being folded for storage. Now contrast a stroller definition also again from the ASTM F833-15 standard. A stroller is a wheeled vehicle for the transport of infants or children generally in a sitting up or semi-reclined position. The mode of power is supplied by a person moving at a walking rate while pushing on a handle attached to the stroller. A stroller generally is capable of being folded for storage. Strollers normally are used for children from infancy to 36 months of age. So let's compare and contrast these two definitions. You'll see with carriage I've actually bolded and underlined that they are mainly for the transport of an infant and generally in a lying down position. Contrasted with a stroller which is generally for transporting a child from infancy to 36 months of age and the occupant of a stroller is generally in a sitting up or semi-reclined position. And I always find that the easiest way to understand what product category something falls into is to take a look at some examples. And before I go through these I've got to do a quick disclaimer which is that I'm providing these photos for illustration purposes only and it's not meant as an endorsement of any of the products shown. So let's start on the top left. We've got a full size 2D stroller that you see actually collapses on itself. Next to it is a 3D umbrella stroller that collapses basically just like an umbrella hence the term. Then we have a travel system which is a car seat that is snapped into a frame that's a stroller system. Then we have a carriage which is essentially a pram that's appearing on the right hand side at the top right of your screen. On the bottom line we've got a tandem stroller that one holds three occupants. Next to it a side-by-side stroller holding two occupants. Next to that a multi-occupant stroller that can hold looks like six to eight occupants. And then lastly a jogging stroller on the bottom right. Every single one of these photos that appears on your screen or these images would fall under the carriages and stroller standard that we're going to go through today. Alright we're going to start out first off with tracking information because this is something that can trip people up and frankly it's an easy topic to kind of work our way into this relatively complex standard. So tracking information. There is a section of the ASTM F83315 that deals with marking and labeling and it states the following. Marking and labeling needs to be permanently on the product and its packaging. Included in that labeling needs to be manufacturer, distributor or seller name and a place of business which means city, state, mailing address including zip code and a telephone number and that's per our regulation 16 CFR 1130.4. Also required permanently on the product and the packaging are a code or mark that identifies the date of manufacture and that means month and year of manufacture in this case. And a batch or a run number. If the manufacturer is using batches or runs and that actually doesn't come from the ASTM standard it comes from the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act tracking information requirement. And if you have questions on tracking information and what the requirements are there, we do have a nice frequently asked questions website about the tracking label requirement or tracking information requirement from CPSIA and it appears as hyperlinks on your screen but again you can't click on them. You have to get those from the handout section on the right hand side of your toolbar and download the PDF of these slides to get the hyperlink straight to that frequently asked question site which is a very useful resource and may actually have your question on it that you have about tracking labels. Alright let's get into labeling requirements because they are pretty extensive. First off before I start I do want to say I show the triangle with the exclamation point in yellow. That needs to appear with each warning. I rather than put it all over this slide I just stuck it one time on the slide so I don't want to confuse anybody there but that is the symbol for warning. So labels need to be permanently on the product and the packaging and all strollers and carriages need to state warning never leave a child unattended. For products that are manufactured with a restraint system they need the following warning permanently on the product and packaging. Warning avoid serious injury from falling or sliding out. Always use seat belt or a manufacturer has the ability to insert other words to describe their restraint system and we'll talk about requirements on a restraint system a little bit later in the webinar today. For products with a reclined carriage position they need to state warning. Child may slip into leg openings and strangle. Never use in reclined carriage positions unless and here the manufacturer has the ability to insert product specific instructions. A note this is not required on units that do not have openings or that automatically reduce the size of openings. So if you're making a reclined carriage that doesn't have openings or those openings automatically reduce in size you would not need to post this warning. Products with removable wheel fork assemblies or three wheel strollers with a locking front swivel wheel have additional warning requirements. So let's talk about instructional literature requirements and again this is coming straight from ASTM F83315. Instructional literature may be on the package or included in leaflet form with the carriage or stroller. Instructions need to be easy to read and understand and they need to be in English and they need to include assembly, how to maintain the product, how to clean the product and then how to operate it including how to fold it. We showed the examples of the 2D and 3D folding strollers. Information on how to operate that folding mechanism needs to be included in the literature. The instructions must also state the maximum weight of the intended user of the product. More instructional literature requirements. The first one applies to units manufactured with a restraint system. You need to include instructions describing the use of the restraint system and including the following warning. Avoid serious injury from falling or sliding out. Always use seat belt or a manufacturer may insert additional words here to describe their restraint system. For convertible carriage or strollers requiring manual operation to comply with occupant retention requirements, they need to include the following warning. Warning, child may slip into leg openings and strangle. Never use some reclined carriage positions unless and here the manufacturer needs to insert product specific instructions. More instructions that need to be included on products. Products with a removable fork assembly need to describe the proper assembly and maintenance procedures for these mechanisms. And then those products supplied with package carrying accessories that come with the original equipment meaning the stroller or carriage comes with package carrying accessories. There needs to be instructions on the maximum weight recommended and you also need to warn the user that excessive weight may cause a hazardous, unstable condition to exist. Products that are not supplied with package carrying accessories. These would be carriages or strollers that are sold without a package carrying accessory. Need to warn that unstable hazardous conditions may exist if these accessories are added onto the product after the fact. So on the product registration requirement, this is something that applies to all manufacturers of durable infant or toddler products and strollers and carriages absolutely fall into the category of durable infant or toddler products. But a product registration form must be attached to the product per our regulation 16 CFR part 1130 and that registration card needs to provide consumers with a pre-postage paid product registration card and manufacturers need to maintain records of the names, addresses, emails and other contact info on consumers that register their products. There also needs to be a permanently placed manufacturer name and contact info model name and number and date of manufacturer on each durable product because it's referenced in the product registration card form and in the registration form itself. The whole reason for this product registration requirement under our Reg 1130 is to improve overall recall effectiveness and to help manufacturers provide safety alert warnings to consumers more effectively. On the bottom right hand side of your screen, you see a product registration for safety alert or recall only block with some text underneath it. The good news is that our Reg 1130 actually includes two figures at the end of it and there's a hyperlink to that information on our product registration card FAQ site which again appears on your screen and is an active hyperlink in the PDF handout available on through your toolbar on the right hand side of this webinar. The good news is that at the end of 1130 there are two figures that are actually the front and back of that registration card. So to the extent that you just want to copy those and send them out to print, you absolutely can do that. You just need to make sure that you update your website address because you'll see it references a www.website.com. You'll need to put your website information there. But another good resource in registration cards is that FAQ site. There's a pretty extensive list of questions and answers from our internal staff on how to handle different situations associated with a registration card. Alright, let's get into the testing requirements. And we will start with the chemical ones first. On all children's products, lead content testing applies. And this is per 15 USC 1278A. The limit there is 100 ppm in any accessible parts of children's products. Certainly a stroller or carriage is a children's product so 100 ppm lead limit applies. I did want to point out that there's a whole list of materials that we know are not going to exceed that lead limit as long as they're in an untreated unadulterated state. And this list of materials comes from our regulation 16 CFR 1500.91 which is hyperlinked in your handout. I've selected some materials here that are part of 1500.91 but it's a pretty extensive list. So if you don't see a material that might be included in your carriage or stroller here, you'll want to follow the link and actually take a look at the rag and see what's included. But materials that do not exceed the lead limit that are shown on your screen would be wood and paper products, CMYK process printing inks that fully absorb into the substrate. Natural fibers both dyed and undyed that include the long list that appears right there. And there's even more. I just highlighted a few there. And manufactured fibers both dyed and undyed including but not limited to that list that appears at the bottom of your screen. So what does this 1500.91 actually mean? It means that these materials in untreated unadulterated states that appear on any children's product including a carriage or stroller would not require testing for lead content as long as they were completely comprised of things that are in 1500.91. So it is a list that not everybody is aware of but something I did want to point out. Alright moving on to more chemical testing requirements on strollers and carriages. Lead in paint and similar surface coatings testing is from our regulation 16 CFR 1303. The limit there is no more than 90 ppm in those paints and surface coatings and this we routinely see in things like screen printing or surface printing that doesn't absorb into a material itself and sits on the surface. Certainly painted metal parts would also fall under this lead in paint testing in the 90 ppm limit. Additionally phthalates which are plasticizers require testing under 15 USC 2057C. But one thing I want to point out here is that this applies to carriages and strollers that contain plasticized parts that are designed, marketed or intended to facilitate sleep. So we're talking about carriages or reclining strollers or to facilitate eating. So this would be like a stroller with a food tray. This would apply to those sorts of carriages and strollers. And in the case of phthalates there is a permanent ban on three phthalates that are listed on your screen that cannot exceed 0.1% each in their limit. Additionally there is a temporary ban on three other phthalates that are listed on your screen that also cannot exceed 0.1% in each of their quantities. Something I wanted to point out about phthalates because we have been getting some questions here since there has been some activity from our agency related to phthalates is that there is a recent determination by the CPSC regarding certain plastics and this is under RREG 16 CFR Part 1308. The effective date is September the 29th, 2017 and what this regulation did is it actually removed seven plastics from requiring independent third party testing for compliance with phthalates prohibitions. And the seven plastics are actually listed on your screen. So there are PPP, HIPPS, ABS, GPPS, MIPS and SHIPS. So what does this mean? It means that if you are a manufacturer or importer of a carriage or stroller that either is intended, marketed or designed to facilitate sleeping. So we used as examples the reclining strollers or a carriage or it facilitates eating or feeding so there is a food tray. If that food tray or parts of your stroller are plastic and the plastics that your carriage or stroller is made of are completely contained, you know, completely comprised of any combination of the seven plastics that are listed on your screen then you would not need to conduct phthalates testing on those plastics. So let's move on to physical and mechanical testing requirements for carriages and strollers and we'll start out with small parts. Small parts are defined in our regulation 16 CFR Part 1501 and a small part fits entirely into a small part cylinder as specified in the regulation. We do have a small parts business education page available on cpsc.gov which is a pretty good resource and for those of you that are very familiar with the workings of the Consumer Product Safety Commission you've probably seen a lot of us with the cylinders sitting on our desk. So we know quite well what a small part is. For carriages and strollers because they are a product that's primarily intended for use by a child under three there can be no small parts included with the stroller or the carriage before testing and no small parts can be liberated during testing. Once we get into the physical and mechanical testing you're going to see how in depth that actually is. So during that use and abuse testing or physical and mechanical testing on the strollers and carriages the products can't produce any small parts during the testing process either. For those of you making products that might have exposed wood parts you need to make sure that those are smooth and free of splinters and that there are no hazardous sharp points or edges as defined by our regs 1500.48 and 1500.49 and I just wanted to point out for sharp points and edges that applies just like small parts. There can't be sharp points or edges before testing and there can't be sharp points or edges after testing. For products that might contain an exposed coil spring or any kind of exposed coils that might be accessible to the occupant, those need to be covered or designed to prevent injury from entrapment so that no little hands get stuck in there and might be injured in that way. For restraint systems we talked about some of the warnings associated with restraint systems that need to be on the products and the packaging. Restraint systems are required on all products except carriages designed only for an infant and that restraint system needs to include a waste and a crotch restraint and it needs to meet additional performance specifications that are really lined out quite well in ASTM F833-15. For latching mechanisms that may exist on your product you need to make sure that units that fold so the 2D and 3D strollers that we talked about need to have a latching device that prevents the unit from unintentional folding when placed in the manufacturer's recommended use position and when we go through the product hazards it's actually going to explain why this exist. We're going to also touch on the product hazard of scissoring, shearing and pinching and kind of explain why this exist but the requirement in terms of performance is that the unit needs to be designed to prevent injury to the occupant when members or components rotate or move relative to one another. For toy accessories that may be included with the product those toy accessories need to meet the US toy standard which is ASTM F963. For cords or straps there is a limitation on loop perimeter length and free stretched lengths of cords and straps that originate within or extend into the occupant space so if this is something that the child that's inside the stroller or carriage can access then there are limitations on the loop length and the stretched length of those cords and straps. So let's get into some of the performance requirements and again because we've got an hour today I'm just going to highlight them and we're not going to walk through them because again this is a copyright protected document and it's available for purchase and there is a hyperlink later that includes how to purchase that standard. So for performance requirements and these are physical and mechanical there will be a parking brake to address the fall hazard. A static load performance requirement exist that addresses tip overs and collapses. There's a stability requirement that addresses tip overs. There's a restraining system requirement that addresses a fall hazard. There are occupant retention requirements for carriages and convertible carriages and strollers that addresses falls and a combination unit of a car seat stroller that addresses falls tip overs and collapses. And some more performance requirements. There's an impact test that addresses car seat detachment and ensures proper product integrity. There's a passive containment and foot opening requirement that addresses head and torso entrapment that can occur in those sorts of products. For wheel and swivel assemblies if you have a front swivel wheel this would apply to you and it addresses falls and tip overs. And then for car seats on a stroller or convertible carriage and stroller there is a test that is intended to address head entrapment. So what are these requirements actually mean in terms of how to design a safer carriage or stroller or how to make sure that the ones that you are importing into the US meet this requirement. Let's go through some of the product hazards and look for things to look for. So our first product hazard has to do with a collapsed stroller. You see on the left hand side of your screen you have a little cami doll. She's got red braided hair. She's in a little pink outfit and you can see that the stroller has actually collapsed onto her. The collapse stroller issue is addressed by the new latching mechanisms testing. And it's meant to prevent that unintentional folding when the strollers collapse. I guess I should also point out and I probably should have done it earlier is that the photos that we're showing of these products with the cami dolls inside are just for illustration purposes only. It's definitely not meant to be picking on any products here. Wheel issues and fall hazards are another product hazard associated with strollers. The one you see on the top right is actually a jogging stroller. And you see that the front wheel is off of that jogging stroller. For wheel and swivel assemblies there is now detachment testing that's required. There's also a warning label requirement on jogging strollers that tells you to lock the front swivel wheel if the front swivel wheel has the ability to be locked. Sorry if the front swivel wheel has the ability to be locked before you start jogging. Another product hazard and I've shown it in several instances here are pinch points. On the top left this is shown on the actual frame. You can see one of our testing engineers finger that's at a point in the frame that could pose a pinch point for either an occupant or a caregiver that's using the stroller once it folds up could cause a finger amputation or at least a finger injury. On the middle picture you can see there is part of the frame that actually has a divot that a finger would easily fit into or part of a hand would easily fit into that that could pose as a pinch point on that hinge. And then on the top right you can see a picture of a canopy attached to a stroller and that's actually the hand of a little cami doll that shows that there is space in between the canopy frame and the actual closing or the expansion mechanism on the canopy that could pose a pinch point. So this hazard which is very present in strollers and carriages and definitely something you want to look out for in design is addressed by the scissoring, shearing, and pinching testing requirements from ASTM F-83315 and the testing there requires the use of testing probes ahead and a torso testing probe that have specified measurements that are lined out in that standard. And again a way to purchase that standard is going to be actually at the end of the webinar today. And the last hazard that I'm going to address today, certainly not the only one, but I just wanted to highlight some of them, are an entrapment hazard. Here we've got it shown in three different examples. The first one is shown at a food tray and you can see that the cami doll there has actually slipped down the stroller and has become entrapped with their head stuck between the food tray and the base of the stroller. The middle picture shows a car seat that's actually snapped into a frame so this is a car seat attachment stroller and in that case the cami doll, you can see it's got big brown hair and it's wearing a blue outfit and you can see the legs actually dangling below the handle of the stroller. In this case the occupant had tried to work its way out of the stroller and was entrapped between the stroller handle and the frame of the car seat. And then finally on the right hand side of your screen there is a cami doll that has slipped down. This is a stroller with an adjustable grab bar and the grab bar is in the lowest position and the cami doll has become entrapped in that grab bar at the neck. So to address this product hazard of entrapment there is a passive containment or foot opening testing that's required using those head and torso probes that I referenced which again the dimensions of a head and torso probe are outlined in F83315. So now that we've gone through all the testing requirements let's take a look at how to find a lab that can conduct this testing for you. So at the outside I guess I should say all children's products need to be tested by a CPSC accepted lab. So how do you find a CPSC accepted lab? We actually have a lab search page available via our website. Again the hyperlink is clickable in your handout that is available online. It lists all the labs that are currently CPSC accepted all over the globe. You have the ability when you visit this site to narrow your search by region which is by country or by scope which is a specific product testing. In this case because we're talking about carriages and strollers you can actually narrow the scope of the search to 16 CFR part 1227 which is the safety standard for carriages and strollers. Again incorporating by reference ASTM F83315 and if you click that link it takes you to the ASTM page to purchase the standard. I did check I guess it's been about a week or so ago to see how many labs there were that do carriages and strollers testing and there are about 30 all across the globe. Some in the United States certainly a lot in China but there is a pretty extensive list if you're looking to find a testing lab or maybe even price compare between CPSC accepted labs you can find the ones that do that testing on our lab search page. For those of you that are having issues finding a lab or getting in touch with a lab that might be listed there's a video tutorial available on our website. You can also get in touch with our office and I'll give you the information on how to do that at the end of the webinar today. So once you've located the lab and you know what needs to be done how frequently do you need to conduct this testing. Well there's a periodic testing rule that applies to products that are in continuous production and that's our regulation 16 CFR 1107.21 and the rule here is initial testing always has to be done. So before a carriage or stroller enters US commerce for the first time testing needs to be conducted to all the applicable CPSC safety regulations. After that initial testing is done periodic testing is required at a minimum of once per year every two years if there's a production testing plan in place or every three years if you're using a testing lab that's accredited to the ISO standard on your screen. The takeaway here is that the vast majority of manufacturers and importers must test children's products once per year. There is a caveat there to the once per year vast majority applicability and it is if you have a material change to your product and we get questions on what is a material change is what I've done a material change. Well what a material change is is defined in our regulation 1107.23 and it actually appears right on your screen. Material change is one that a manufacturer makes to their products design to the manufacturing process or to the source of component parts for the product which a manufacturer knows sorry which a manufacturer exercising do care knows or should know could affect the product's ability to comply with the applicable children's product standard. So the important things to remember here are if you're making changes to the product design the manufacturing process or the source of your component parts and you believe that that's going to impact the product's ability to comply with all the requirements that we've gone through today that's considered a material change and it means even if you just tested the carriage or stroller initially one month ago it's time to retest again because you have a material change in effect. Children's product certificates are required on all children's products. We abbreviate children's product certificates as a CPC and we've got a pretty nice page on our website available at cpsc.gov forward slash CPC again you can follow the hyperlink in your handout that answers it actually has some frequently asked questions it has two sample children's product certificates available there that you can use as a guide. In terms of the availability of a children's product certificate or its counterpart for a non-children's product a general certificate of conformity not applicable today but sometimes used interchangeably under the term certificate three things to remember here certificates in your case a children's product certificate needs to accompany each product or shipment of the product that's covered by the same certificate. A copy of the certificate must be furnished to each distributor or retailer of the product however there's no requirement to provide it to the ultimate consumer and a copy of the certificate needs to be made available to our commission or customs and border protection upon request. So three takeaways here and they're in italics are accompany each shipment into the US be furnished to a distributor or retailer of the product and provided to us or customs upon request the good news here for those of you that don't love the idea of putting children's product certificates on a paper or printed out thing into each box or carton that is coming into the US is that electronic certificates have been approved by our commission as an acceptable means of complying with the children's product certificate requirement but the caveat here is that electronic certificate must be created no later than the time of shipment or first distribution within the United States so you can't go back after the fact and try to create a children's product certificate that is not compliant with the children's product certificate requirements alright so let's walk through the seven sections of a children's product certificate because we do get a lot of questions on this topic and it's something that I think is relatively easy for us to help you with in the webinar. First question on a children's product certificate and they all look the same they all have the same seven questions is a description of the product covered by the certificate and here you want to be as detailed as you possibly can about your product. In section number two you see A through E and this should jog your memory because these are all the things that we've talked about actually today in terms of safety rules that apply to carriages and strollers. In A we've got the total lead content and B we've got lead in paint and similar surface coatings if that applies to your product because you have paint or a surface coating of some sort or even screen printing it would apply for screen printing and C we're talking about the ban on phthalates and toys and child care articles that are used to facilitate sleeping or eating so it depends on whether or not this applies to your product based on how it's designed, intended for use, and marketed. And then the small parts regulation from 1501 we talked about must be complied with on all carriages and strollers and then finally the physical and mechanical testing requirements and additionally the chemical testing requirements are incorporated into our regulation 1227 and the ASTM standard F83315 for carriages and strollers. So that's your section number two it will list out each of the applicable A through E again the only ones that may or may not apply to you are B the lead in paint and surface coatings depending on whether you have that on your product and C the ban on phthalates and toys and child care articles and which depends on whether or not your product facilitates sleeping or eating and has plasticized parts. Number three is importer domestic manufacturer contact information you'll want to include as much detail there as you can. Number four is contact info for the person that maintains your test records. Number five is the date in place of manufacturer. Number six is the location of testing and date of test on which the certification is based and number seven is the contact info of the testing laboratory that you've used. So again that's the children's product certificate with the seven questions and our website is a great resource there in terms of providing samples of what they can look like. Alright so let's go through two recall examples that I think might be helpful because I always think it's a good idea to kind of learn from mistakes within the industry because I think that's the best way we as a group can kind of move forward. The first one is the ARIA child stroller. This was a recall that happened in December of 2016. The issues there were two. It was a laceration hazard and a fall hazard. So the true hazard on the stroller and you can see that there were several models that were involved was that there was a gap in the stroller's folding side hinge that could pinch a caregiver's hand during the unfolding, posing a laceration hazard. In addition the stroller could unexpectedly during use collapse or fold just like in the example of the folding stroller that we showed earlier which posed an injury potential and a fall hazard to a caregiver or a child. The remedy here was to replace the stroller outright and again you can see the recall date was a little under a year ago December 20th of 2016. The next recall example that we've got is an upper baby recall on strollers and rumble seats due to a choking hazard and this impacted three different upper baby products. The recall date here is July of 2015 and the hazard was that the strollers and rumble seats bumper bar posed a choking hazard when a child would bite the bumper bar and remove a piece of the foam covering. You can see a picture of the foam bumper bar on the bottom right hand side of your screen. The remedy here was repair and again the recall date July 2015 with the recall number shown on your screen. And I guess I should point out here that the recall examples that we're using here are for educational purposes we're not trying to call out any manufacturers that might be attending today. I use recall examples at the end of each of these webinars because it kind of shows that the industry, there's a few hazards that are associated with these products and I think learning from our peers is a great way for us to learn as we move forward. Okay so let me point out some business resources that I think might be very useful to folks that are attending today especially importers or folks that might be new to this product area, might be working in others. We have a new YouTube channel here at the Consumer Product Safety Commission and I've got a hyperlink to it in your handout, the CPSC YouTube channel. Hyperlink goes straight to the YouTube channel and when you get there you'll see the screen that appears right now on your screen and I've circled the business education playlist which is our webinar videos and it's also other webinars that are available through the CPSC. I will tell you the small business ombudsman has put together, this is our sixth webinar in our webinar series so we've been doing these for about seven or eight months. The topics that we've covered previously are a toy standard update for ASTM 96316, a stuffed toys webinar that was just focused specifically on stuffed toys and the requirements there. We did one on cloth diapers and then another one on sling carriers and soft infant and toddler carriers and their requirements and then finally the last one that we did which was our most recent one before this one was in August and it was actually on the mattresses requirements. So for folks that would like to see other webinar content that we've put together you can find that on the business education playlist on the CPSC YouTube channel and it's also just a fun, it's actually a very educational site to go to, the YouTube channel. So you have the ability to go to the channel itself or our playlist straight from the handout, again on the right hand side of your toolbar. Alright, lastly a few more business resources and then we'll get to your questions that you've been submitting. By the way thank you, I can see that they're coming in and I do really appreciate everybody participating. I've got my email on the screen please feel free to email me questions that you've got associated with this webinar. I also have on the screen a telephone number that rings at both my desk and my colleague Will's desk. That 7-9-4-5 number is truly a number you can call and you can talk to somebody, a live person in the US government. If we're on another line or we're in a meeting it'll go to voicemail, leave us a voicemail and we will call you back as soon as we can. We do try to be really responsive. We do have a Twitter feed if you are so inclined. We're on Twitter and our handle is at CPSC Small Biz. It's a great way to track things like this webinar public comment periods that might be open for things happening at the CPSC in terms of a commission hearing that the public can attend online or in person or if we're going to speak at an event I'm going to post it on our Twitter feed so you can follow us at CPSC Small Biz. I've got the lab search page link on your screen and I also wanted to highlight the regulatory robot on the bottom right hand side of the screen and that is the hyperlink straight to the robot. The robot is something we're pretty proud of here in the SBO. It's an interactive bot that will ask you a series of questions to try to figure out what type of product you're making and help you know what the requirements are on you. And lastly, something that I didn't touch on throughout the webinar but I think is also a good resource is our strollers and carriages business education page and that's a live link right there available in your handout to the strollers and carriages business page. So one last resource that I wanted to point out is our, it tries to be, I try to make it monthly although I did fall down on duties a little bit and went about two months without a newsletter. I did just send one out at the end of October. We've got a monthly newsletter here at the Small Business Ombudsman's Office that is a great way to stay up to date on webinars that we're going to offer. If you'd like to sign up for our newsletter you can do so by visiting CPSC.gov slash email. Again, the hyperlink is available in your handout and you'll need, there's going to be a long list of newsletters you can sign up for. You can absolutely sign up for as many as you want but if you want to make sure you sign up for hours you need to make sure you select Small Business Ombudsman updates. So with all that being said, thank you so much for attending today. Again, I'm Shelby Mathis. I'm the Small Business Ombudsman at the Consumer Product Safety Commission. We've loved having you attend today. You've got my email, you've got our phone number and please don't hesitate to get in touch if we can be a further assistance to you or your business. Thank you.


Hi and welcome to the session. Let us discuss the following question. Question says if tan A is equal to cot B, prove that A plus B is equal to 90 degrees. First of all let us understand that if theta is any acute angle of right triangle then tan 90 minus theta is equal to cot theta. This is the key idea to solve the given question. Let us now start the solution. We have given that tan A is equal to cot B. Now we know cot theta is equal to tan 90 minus theta. Here value of theta is B so cot B can be written as tan 90 degrees minus B. So we get tan A is equal to tan 90 degrees minus B. Now we know tan A is equal to tan 90 degrees minus B only when these two angles are equal. So we can write this implies A is equal to 90 degrees minus B. Now adding B on both the sides we get A plus B is equal to 90 degrees. So therefore A plus B is equal to 90 degrees hence proved. This completes the session. Hope you understood the solution. Take care and have a nice day.