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| Matthew Dempsey, aka StormLrd, married with 5 boys, currently overcoming job related physical injuries and doing the best for my family. |  |
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Introduction:
Coder in training, self-taught PHP skills, javascript, HTML, CSS, as well as a bit of other types , not an expert yet but getting there… Themes are something I enjoy doing to relax from coding online gaming and other website applications. I also enjoy Adminstrating my own forum with my friends there as well as browsing with my friends here at the Bloc zone. Feel free to ask for special requests and depending on whats wanted and time on wether or not i can do it for you.
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Justin Davis Festa 8/21/99 - 11/1/00 He was taken from us on November 1st, 2000 by a piece of string on a Roll up blind set that hung in his brand new bedroom. |
| Window Blind Safety
Under pressure from the Consumer Product Safety Commission to act, the window covering industry engaged in two recalls/retrofit programs. The first began in 1994 and the second was implemented in 2000. Both have been ineffective in addressing and solving the inherent design defect. It is a basic and well-known principle of engineering that if a hazard can be eliminated, it is incumbent upon the manufacturer to redesign the product to eliminate the hazard. It is only if the hazard cannot be eliminated that it is acceptable to warn in an attempt to reduce the hazard. With that said, the crib manufacturing industry began warning of the hazards associated with mini-blind cords near cribs in the early 1970s; however, it was not until the mid-1980s that the window covering industry began providing similar warnings. In fact, the window covering industry professed ignorance of the hazard when first confronted with the danger by the Consumer Product Safety Commission in 1985. The reality is, window blind cords, and other dangling cords, are not safe. Other industries have recognized this fact long ago. The pull strings on toys were resulting in child strangulation. In response, the toy industry set regulations limiting the length of such pull cords. Drawstrings on children’s clothing and jackets were resulting in strangulation deaths, and the cords were eliminated. Other industries have recognized the danger of cords and have redesigned their products, yet the window covering industry has refused to modify its defective design and address the inherent dangers associated with cords dangling from the windows of nearly 17 million American households with children under the age of six-years-old. The price of its neglect: a child dies every two weeks! Remember ‘Safety Kits’ Do not mean SAFE!
Don’t let this horrifying tragedy happen to you… |
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