When I first began to use it, the box was attached to an old oak tree a bit back from the road.

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With help from his father and after many mistakes Aidan ended up with two models: a traditional flat-panel array and a tree-shaped solar collector designed to mimic the branch sequence of an oak tree.

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Perhaps the message of the little oak tree is that, if we take the time to look, there are shoots of hope.

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For the barn owls, cameras were set up in a nest box on an oak tree which fed pictures back to the wooden hide.

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Even baseball televises its draft held during the playing season which is hilarious, since player development in baseball takes far longer than most sports. (Watching a baseball draft is like watching the planting of an oak tree.) There's summer-league NBA to follow and signing day and of course the heat-seeking thrill circus that is intrasquad spring college football.

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"Schools understand that students want to leave their mark on the way out the door, but a better way to do that is to take up a donation and plant an oak tree, " said Mark Goulet, a lawyer for the school board in Smithville, Texas, where students last month were suspended after a cafeteria food fight involving burritos.

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The main tree you see in this image is a large oak, and I used it to frame the shafts of light.

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The Spaniard's tee shot on the 10th hole somehow came to rest about 15 feet up in an oak tree, sitting between two large branches.

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Mr. HANK CLEMITIS: (Singing) On the first day of Christmas, Katrina gave to me my boat sitting in an oak tree.

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