At a shopping center in Mount Juliet, large sheets of metal littered the parking lot and light poles were knocked down.

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Those repairs include installing new wires, replacing wooden light poles with steel ones and trimming trees and other vegetation that could fall onto wires.

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But out in the woods, stakes in the ground already mark the spots where the light poles will stand if the trees come down.

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As I stopped, between the traffic light poles a pedestrian appeared.

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Early in the design process, Arad was teamed with the landscape architect Peter Walker, who shares his minimalist sensibility, and they have made the space around the two footprints a handsome and restrained civic square, with oak trees, benches, and light poles giving the place a kind of quiet, firm order.

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The company has installed micro-turbines a top light poles at stores in California and Massachusetts that generate between 2 to 3 kilowatts of electricity but Red Bluff is the first facility that will boast a full-sized wind turbine like those found on wind farms that generate hundreds of megawatts of power.

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Given these advantages, copper-based products, such as IV poles and light-switch covers, are increasingly being made to prevent the spread of disease in hospitals and other institutions.

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It consists of 40 upright metal poles, which are supposed to light up in different colours at night.

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