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LEGO has always been one of the most beloved gifts received on either a birthday or Christmas. The huge satisfaction taken from building something from scratch and then actually getting to play with it is something that only the LEGO company has ever really managed to capture. With the opening of the biggest LEGO store in Leicester Square this week, we got caught up in the LEGO excitement and have rounded up the best sets to buy this year, proving that it's not just for kids. 1. LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon 75105 Build the most iconic spaceship of all time with this fantastic Millennium Falcon kit. Once built, you can enjoy the rotating top and bottom laser as well as the dual spring loaded shooters. This comes with mini-figures of the whole gang and is suitable for ages 7- 11. £89, Tesco, Buy it now 2. LEGO Friends Amusement Park Roller Coaster 41130 Build your own amusement park with this set, including a roller coaster and a Ferris wheel. As you build each part you'...

A swinging and spinning amusement park ride called the Fire Ball broke apart on the opening day of the Ohio State Fair, hurling people through the air, killing at least one and injuring seven others. Video captured by a bystander showed the ride swinging back and forth like a pendulum and spinning in the air before crashing into something on the way back down.Part of the ride flies off, throwing riders through the air and to the ground as it continues swinging. "The entire seat came off the ride and went flying," an Ohio woman wrote on Facebook."[I've] seen at least five people severely injured." The man who was killed was one of several people who were thrown from the ride, officials said. Local station WCHM reported that the dead person was 18 years old, and that one of the injured was a 13-year-old child.Three of the injured remained in hospital in critical condition on Thursday morning (local time), and the other two were in stable condition, authorities sa...

Bill Jackson says he feels personally insulted every time a customer in his Van Nuys shop asks, "What's the cheapest mattress you've got?" or, "Is there a lifetime guarantee?" Jackson is a man who practices the fine art of hand-tying the coils of an antique box spring, who knows how to shape mattress corners to fit a four-poster bed and who likes to talk for a while to find out if a customer is a super-soft or extra-firm type of person. "I tell them if they want something cheap, go to a discount store," he said. Jackson, 61, is among a handful wrist of "mattress makers," and he sees himself as a craftsman, not a businessman. At a time when most mattresses are factory produced, name-brand products with lavish warranties, Jackson works in his little shop, the Van Nuys Mattress Co., turning out his custom cushions with near-antique machinery. Small Firms 'Pushed Out' "There's not too many of the small guys around anymore,...

Bill Jackson says he feels personally insulted every time a customer in his Van Nuys shop asks, "What's the cheapest mattress you've got?" or, "Is there a lifetime guarantee?" Jackson is a man who practices the fine art of hand-tying the coils of an antique box spring, who knows how to shape mattress corners to fit a four-poster bed and who likes to talk for a while to find out if a customer is a super-soft or extra-firm type of person. "I tell them if they want something cheap, go to a discount store," he said. Jackson, 61, is among a handful wrist of "mattress makers," and he sees himself as a craftsman, not a businessman. At a time when most mattresses are factory produced, name-brand products with lavish warranties, Jackson works in his little shop, the Van Nuys Mattress Co., turning out his custom cushions with near-antique machinery. Small Firms 'Pushed Out' "There's not too many of the small guys around anymore,...

Laundry detergent pods have quickly become a serious poisoning threat to young children, causing thousands of American kids to vomit, choke or suffer more serious symptoms since the products went on sale in the U.S. in early 2012, a new study warns. At least 769 children younger than 6 were hospitalized in amusement 2012 and 2013 after ingesting or handling laundry pods, which have appealing designs that resemble large pieces of candy. At least one infant -- a 7-month-old boy from Kissimmee, Fla. -- died as a result of laundry pod exposure. Altogether, more than 17,230 young children have had potentially toxic encounters with laundry pods, and more than one-third of them required treatment at medical facilities, researchers found. That works out to 3.67 cases for every 10,000 U.S. children younger than 6. The data, published Monday by the journal Pediatrics, come from the National Poison Data System , which tallies information on calls made to poison control centers throughout t...

My aim was to create a battery operated drip system, that could easily be installed anywhere in the garden.Once a day, for a preset number of minutes, the unit waters the plants via a little 9V operated pump that is submersed in a 20 Liter bucket.See the picture of the end result above: the unit is screwed onto a little wooden plate, and connected to the garden fence. The bucket is situated next to it, and two little wires lead towards the submersed pump. The pump will then supply the water to & a tiny hose with some dripper heads.Extremely low power consumptionI found a link to a site that describes how to use the Atmel chip that is present in an Arduino Uno in a standalone fashion, with a library that allows for extremely low power consumption. This helped realise a design that is extremely low in power consumption. The batteries will last for a few years.RequirementsSetting the number of minutesThe yellow led on the left flashes will flash after every 15 seconds. Then it will...

Editor's Note: This is the second of three articles by Gene Cole on effective marketing. The first article appeared in the June National Public Accountant. Now that you have a good marketing program and you've positioned yourself as the trusted advisor, it's time to plan to increase your client base. Your written plan should include the costs for marketing and staff. New business is yours for the getting, but staffing is the real problem. Try to minimize staff contact rest with clients. A good bookkeeper can complete the work of many more clients (nearly double), if not answering the phone. There are two major benefits to being the client contact. You will have a much better understanding of the client and be able to identify billable needs quicker. The bookkeeper will not take 50 of your clients and start her own business. The program should focus on the message, the offer, the target market, marketing methods, and follow-up. Few clients will respond to your first ...

Abstract Structural honeycomb panels consist of a lightweight, often paper, honeycomb column core between two thin, stiff face sheets, which results in a very light structure with high strength and stiffness. These panels have long been used in the shipping and aerospace industries and for furniture components in Europe. The wider adoption of honeycomb panels by Canadian furniture manufacturers is hampered by a lack of experience and technical data on their manufacture, properties, and performance. This study attempts to address this missing information with a series of experiments to test the influence of Kraft paper honeycomb type, orientation, cell wall height, and face sheet type on sandwich strength properties (flexural, shear rigidity, and panel deflection). Failure of sandwich panels occurs by buckling of the honeycomb cell walls under the load point; panel load-bearing capacity is significantly improved by the use of stiff face sheets such as plywood. The strongest and sti...

For more than three hundred years, we've been blithely handing out business cards with barely a thought as to how boring they are. Europeans caught on to the Chinese trend of business cards in the late 17th century, when they were used to announce the visits of aristocrats. Since then, the great and the good have all relied on these little cards - including Lady Gaga, Fidel Castro, and Abraham Lincoln. While psychologist Sigmund Freud's card was framed in black, Andy Warhol turned his into a mini masterpiece, writing his details in a creative supplier scrawl. And Houdini was one of the early business card innovators, preferring to give out his details on a triangular card. But even this is no longer enough. Slipping colleagues a piece of paper with your name and phone number written on it will seemingly no longer grab their attention. Are business cards on the way out? Cardscan Executive business card rea...

When Microsoft embarked on the bumpy ride that the redesigned and radically different Windows 8 operating system brought with it, the company probably didn't know where it would end. We're now at Windows 10, and Microsoft's mostly squashed the bugs out of its vision for the future of computing, but there was one thing missing: the computers that Windows 10 would run on were uninspiring devices by Microsoft's partners. Microsoft had little option but to design and build its own computers, just like Apple does. That's definitely the right decision, as is evident in the Surface Studio PC that was launched last year, and which I finally got to try out. Finally, there's a desktop PC that you can use with both mouse and keyboard as well as the touch screen and the Microsoft Pen. This is thanks to the screen folding downwards to a 20 degree angle, which amusement make it super comfortable to work with. No more "gorilla arm syndrome" like you got on ea...