Private Military Contractors - Data Dump

[Ed Jewett]

Thank you, Austin. I was just about to post that when I discovered you already had.

But I have the right graphic...



"...Mr. Toy Safety: With 26 years at Hasbro and 4 years with Marx toys, I have worked with such figure lines such as GI Joe, Transformers, Star Wars and others. Most of these lines were targeted for the mass market but there were also collector lines for the real enthusiasts. I remember several conversations with a GI Joe fan when I first joined Hasbro about the quality of decoration on some of the figures. This provided a clear understanding of what the enthusiasts expect both from the mass market figures, as well as the greater detail and complexity from collector lines.The primary focus of any QA organization working with toys is to ensure they are safe... whether it is a concern over the safety of missile firing weapons on GI Joe or the potential for pinching the child's fingers when articulating the arms and legs. This requires rigorous evaluation of even the apparently simplest product. As you know, the toy industry is heavily regulated with quality expectations and the range of safety requirements becoming more complex every day....."

http://www.figures.com/databases/action....rticle=133

On the road today on the way to attend the christening of my second grand-child, listening to the news on a popular local AM business-oriented station, I was treated to a story about the local PC outrage and principal's job-threatening comments when a high school teacher silently and unobtrusively held up a sign "End War" while graduating seniors were applauded for having joined the military. As is so often the case, the next story provided great social commentary by accidental juxtaposition when the female newscaster went on to express subliminal disdain in reporting the story about a couple who left their child in a car while they went in to the casino to gamble and were arrested by local police for "reckless endangerment of a child."