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Extreme Halloween Home Decorations

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Extreme Halloween Home Decorations stltoday.com - There is a house in St. Charles that will make you turn your head this Halloween. From a distance, it might look like a hot mess, but when you get closer, you come to appreciate the genius mess. Thanks to the creator of this Halloween delight, 38-year-old Chris Donaubauer, hundreds of ghosts and ghouls can enjoy his handy work throughout the month of October. There’s the skeleton gang playing poker around a wooden bar that was hand-cut and painted. The skeleton wedding party and its fiendish guests. The skeleton cowboy riding a skeletal horse. The caged ghoul lurching toward you through fog and sparkling lights. The werewolf wearing a blood-stained shirt and pants growling as you walk by. Chris is known as the guy who “goes bigger than Clark Griswold.” It’s a reputation he takes seriously. He’s a man who wears his holiday spirit on his yard. His wife Sara, 34, appreciates his annual effort but stays away from the setup. Every...

Turns for Troops

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Turns for Troops In this year's Indy Car season, United Rentals teamed up with SoldierStrong to help improve the lives of men and women who have served in the United States Armed Forces. Through their Turns for Troops program, United Rentals was committed to donating $50 for every lap Graham Rahal, driver of the #15 Honda, completes during the 2017 IndyCar season to SoldierStrong. Since 2009, SoldierStrong has been getting our nation's military heroes back on their feet. They saw that soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan lacked some basic essentials – namely tube socks and baby wipes, cherished items in the harsh deserts of the Middle East. By providing state-of-the-art rehabilitation technology and education programs to veterans across the country. They quickly moved into action and began working with local businesses and other organizations around Stamford, Connecticut. Sock drives and fundraising events were held, and word got around. Partnerships with Cablevision, Spo...

Excavators for Your Projects

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Excavators for Your Projects Excavators are popular machines that are used in construction and several other civil engineering, according to www.fpp.ie . If you have not guessed, there are several different types of excavators that are used for specific jobs. They come in several shapes, sizes, and functionality, but they basically serve the same purposes. They are used to dig/remove soil from the ground. Excavators consist of parts that work together for soil breaking, crushing, dragging and excavating of soil and rocks. The best part of ever using an excavator is it makes the job easier and improves efficiency; and are used when conventional tools do not meet the needs. Their use can be classified as follows: Digging trenches, holes, trenches, rivers or foundation Heavy lifting such as loading waste, holding materials, and other loose debris Mining excavations Driving and/or dragging piles of materials away from or towards a specific place and demolitions. ...

Power and HVAC

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Power and HVAC csemag.com - Did you know there are 10 major outages per day in the U.S. and 866 grid outages per year due to weather. We all know being without power is an awful situation and can possibly leave you without proper food storage for perishables, heating, or cooling air. All 50 states experience some form of natural disaster, and during those times, the utility power gets knocked out. This not only leaves residents and local businesses without much-needed power, but facilities are at risk of suffering damage that can cause a state of emergency. Facilities like that must keep on-site backup power available to continue operation in the absence of utility power. It is crucial to design and install on-site emergency power systems to survive these disasters. In recent events, Hurricane Harvie and Maria have left thousands without power and clean running water. Some were lucky enough to have generators to provide temporary power to families. Flood damage poses one of the ...