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Device Design Day 2010 Sketchnotes by Sarah Mitchell

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Xbox One Special Edition Lunar White and Xbox 360 Black Wireless Controllers by Serhio Magpie

4 Tips to Secure the Privacy of Your Home by East Point Locksmith

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Roughly around 325,000 homes across the US are broken into every year, usually in plain view. Altogether there are about 2.5 million burglaries reported and 66% of those are in homes. Most break-ins happen during the day when people are most likely to be out and about.

There are certain things you can do to protect your home in order not to become a statistic. We’ve rounded up 4 tips to protect your home, your family, and belongings better.

Keep valuables out of sight

It’s not difficult for anyone to just walk up and take a peek through one of your windows and see what you have lying around if you don’t have thick curtains or forgot to close them on your way out. While some items are not really meant to be moved around, like a TV screen, others are easier to move and keep out of view. Laptops, mobiles, all other small devices, purses, and wallets can all be put away when you’re out of the house. Even if your purse or wallet is actually empty and the mobile is old, a burglar wouldn’t know that, and it would just be too tempting in their eyes.

Wire up

It doesn’t matter if you live in a building, a house, or own a shop or any other business, you can use a security system to put your mind at ease. If moving into a new home or looking to sell your old one that’s a good time for when to get a wired security system. Having a wired system can increase the cost of your home when selling, and may also have custom made options that wireless security systems do not always offer.

Don’t provide hiding places

Your landscape, tall trees, and bushes are lovely to sit near and under. They provide nice shade on hot days but they also provide more opportunity for thieves and the likes to hide in. Keep shrubs and trees trimmed, at least trimmed enough that they do not block windows. Besides that, don’t leave items outside. Many people will leave a ladder outside after doing some roof repair, for example. This is inviting a would-be thief to the upper floors of a house where windows might be often unlocked.

Change locks when necessary

Anytime you or someone else loses a key to the house, change the lock. You can never be sure if the key was actually lost or if someone got their hands on it, giving them more than easy access to your home. If you rent out a home, it’s also recommended to change locks after a tenant leaves.

You can never be too safe

There really is no such thing as being too safe when it comes to protecting your home. Be an alert homeowner and find out more ways to protect your property. Always keep all doors, windows and the garage locked. You can ask someone you trust to keep a watchful eye if you have to leave home for an extended period. As we say, better to be safe than sorry.

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Device Design Day 2011 by Kicker Studio

[Kotobukiya]Megami Device - SOL Road Runner -Euchirinae- 58 by lillyshia

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Megami Device

SOL Road Runner custom

Euchirinae

HPIM3977-1 by fdecomite

Gathering.Halo1.web by Benjamin Cowden

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★Multifunction steaming Device-HC★ -2 in 1 blh rebus n goreng telur ★Ciri-ciri Produk: -Mengukus pelbagai fungsi Device-HC -Membuat omelet lazat, telur goreng, ikan goreng, ladu, lempeng dan rebus sehingga lima telur dengan Peranti Mengukus Multi-Fungsi by Atiqah Hanum Harun

Bernadette on Device by MtPulpiter

Boston - EFFECTIVE Complaint Handling - David Dills - July 25th and 26th 2013 pic3 by John Robinson

Boston - EFFECTIVE Complaint Handling - David Dills - July 25th and 26th 2013

Original by Pxl3000

Taken with opaque projector lens

DJ Chris Green by FACTliverpool

DJ Chris Green in the FACT atrium

Image: Brian Slater

Walk for MS_May 2013-785 by MS Canada - Ontario & Atlantic Events

Etsy Device Lab by callender

Fat Dracula

Floatation device @ home by BB Wylie Walden

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The boy was neutered on 6/23 and we're trying out this new blow up collar to prevent him from going after his stitches.

Spiral Cooking Device by Daniel McAdams

Sunrise, Wyoming. A unique ghost town with a cool name. Once a thriving mining community, it now lays silent, collecting iron dust where once miners collected iron ore. Home to Wyoming's first YMCA, this silent city holds the key to an amazing adventure back in time.

Device to Root out Evil by whistlepunch

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by Dennis Oppenheim

Located in the neighbourhood of Ramsy, Calgary

Great flying device by ruimegas

Great flying device

personal flotation device by Chris

Golden Morning in the Countryside by Arnab Dhar

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Device: Dji Mini 4 Pro

Assembled device by Ben Hardill

The Tell-Tale Heart: Wideman by UNCG Research

A device to identify a heart attack in progress. Childhood interventions. A focus on women. Just a few parts of UNC Greensboro's campus-wide assault on cardiovascular disease. Learn more at researchmagazine.uncg.edu/spring-2019/the-tell-tale-heart

GPS TRACKING DEVICE by Eric_Johnson_Photo2c

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Pacemaker Device Unboxing by Jamandru Reynolds

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croc device by Tom

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today, at an auction view-day, I ran into these funny little tooth-pick holders! :)

Device Playlists by Andrew Currie

Supporting screen grab for this blog post.

Device by Elle Marie

From a chemistry museum in Philly.

Oxymoron (disambiguation) is a rhetorical device involving the use of contradiction by Hughes Songe

An oxymoron (plurals: oxymorons and oxymora) is a figure of speech that juxtaposes concepts with opposite meanings within a word or in a phrase that is a self-contradiction. As a rhetorical device, an oxymoron illustrates a point to communicate and reveal a paradox.[1][2] A general meaning of "contradiction in terms" is recorded by the 1902 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.[3]

The term oxymoron is first recorded as Latinized Greek oxymōrum, in Maurus Servius Honoratus (c. AD 400);[4] it is derived from the Greek word ὀξύς oksús "sharp, keen, pointed"[5] and μωρός mōros "dull, stupid, foolish";[6] as it were, "sharp-dull", "keenly stupid", or "pointedly foolish".[7] The word oxymoron is autological, i.e., it is itself an example of an oxymoron. The Greek compound word ὀξύμωρον oksýmōron, which would correspond to the Latin formation, does not appear in any Ancient Greek works prior to the formation of the Latin term.[8]

Types and examples

Oxymorons in the narrow sense are a rhetorical device used deliberately by the speaker and intended to be understood as such by the listener. In a more extended sense, the term "oxymoron" has also been applied to inadvertent or incidental contradictions, as in the case of "dead metaphors" ("barely clothed" or "terribly good"). Lederer (1990), in the spirit of "recreational linguistics", goes as far as to construct "logological oxymorons" such as reading the word nook composed of "no" and "ok" or the surname Noyes as composed of "no" plus "yes", or refers to some oxymoronic candidates as puns through the conversion of nouns into verbs, as in "divorce court", or "press release". He refers to potential oxymora such as "war games", "peacekeeping missile", "United Nations", and "airline food" as opinion-based, because some may disagree that they contain an internal contradiction.[9]

There are a number of single-word oxymorons built from "dependent morphemes"[9] (i.e. no longer a productive compound in English, but loaned as a compound from a different language), as with pre-posterous (lit. "with the hinder part before", compare hysteron proteron, "upside-down", "head over heels", "ass-backwards" etc.)[10] or sopho-more (an artificial Greek compound, lit. "wise-foolish").

The most common form of oxymoron involves an adjective–noun combination of two words, but they can also be devised in the meaning of sentences or phrases. One classic example of the use of oxymorons in English literature can be found in this example from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo strings together thirteen in a row:[11]

O brawling love! O loving hate!

O anything of nothing first create!

O heavy lightness, serious vanity!

Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!

Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!

Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!

This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

Other examples from English-language literature include: "hateful good" (Chaucer, translating odibile bonum)[12] "proud humility" (Spenser),[13] "darkness visible" (Milton), "beggarly riches" (John Donne),[14] "damn with faint praise" (Pope),[15] "expressive silence" (Thomson, echoing Cicero's Latin: cum tacent clamant, lit. 'when they are silent, they cry out'), "melancholy merriment" (Byron), "faith unfaithful", "falsely true" (Tennyson),[16] "conventionally unconventional", "tortuous spontaneity" (Henry James)[17] "delighted sorrow", "loyal treachery", and "scalding coolness" (Hemingway).[18]

In literary contexts, the author does not usually signal the use of an oxymoron, but in rhetorical usage, it has become common practice to advertise the use of an oxymoron explicitly to clarify the argument, as in:

"Voltaire [...] we might call, by an oxymoron which has plenty of truth in it, an 'Epicurean pessimist.'" (Quarterly Review vol. 170 (1890), p. 289)

In this example, "Epicurean pessimist" would be recognized as an oxymoron in any case, as the core tenet of Epicureanism is equanimity (which would preclude any sort of pessimist outlook). However, the explicit advertisement of the use of oxymorons opened up a sliding scale of less than obvious construction, ending in the "opinion oxymorons" such as "business ethics".

J. R. R. Tolkien interpreted his own surname as derived from the Low German equivalent of dull-keen (High German toll-kühn) which would be a literal equivalent of Greek oxy-moron.[19]

"Comical oxymoron"

"Comical oxymoron" is a humorous claim that something is an oxymoron. This is called an "opinion oxymoron" by Lederer (1990).[9] The humor derives from implying that an assumption (which might otherwise be expected to be controversial or at least non-evident) is so obvious as to be part of the lexicon. An example of such a "comical oxymoron" is "educational television": the humor derives entirely from the claim that it is an oxymoron by the implication that "television" is so trivial as to be inherently incompatible with "education".[20] In a 2009 article called "Daredevil", Garry Wills accused William F. Buckley of popularizing this trend, based on the success of the latter's claim that "an intelligent liberal is an oxymoron".[21]

Examples popularized by comedian George Carlin in 1975 include "military intelligence" (a play on the lexical meanings of the term "intelligence", implying that "military" inherently excludes the presence of "intelligence") and "business ethics" (similarly implying that the mutual exclusion of the two terms is evident or commonly understood rather than the partisan anti-corporate position).[22]

Similarly, the term "civil war" is sometimes jokingly referred to as an "oxymoron" (punning on the lexical meanings of the word "civil").[23]

Other examples include "honest politician", "affordable caviar" (1993),[24] "happily married" and "Microsoft Works" (2000).[25]

Antonym pairs

Further information: Antonym

Listing of antonyms, such as "good and evil", "great and small", etc., does not create oxymorons, as it is not implied that any given object has the two opposing properties simultaneously. In some languages, it is not necessary to place a conjunction like and between the two antonyms; such compounds (not necessarily of antonyms) are known as dvandvas (a term taken from Sanskrit grammar). For example, in Chinese, compounds like 男女 (man and woman, male and female, gender), 陰陽 (yin and yang), 善惡 (good and evil, morality) are used to indicate couples, ranges, or the trait that these are extremes of. The Italian pianoforte or fortepiano is an example from a Western language; the term is short for gravicembalo col piano e forte, as it were "harpsichord with a range of different volumes", implying that it is possible to play both soft and loud (as well as intermediate) notes, not that the sound produced is somehow simultaneously "soft and loud".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron

Surge Protection Devices By LEC by Liam Cunningham

Lightning storm is a natural disaster that can lead to loss of life and destruction to property worth billions. Even if you have installed a full-fledged, state-of-the-art lightning protection system based on Charge transfer system (CTS), you can still not absolutely guarantee against damage to electronics and computers. There is a full range of lightning surge protection devices (SPD) that you can install to protect electrical devices from voltage spikes. Know more about us here: www.lightningprotection.com/

Reduce Data Usage In Android Devices by Vikas Gupta

Each Android clients confront this problem that their data uses empties out rapidly and they have to use more cash for getting the more data. In this post we are going to clarify how to decrease data consumption in android phones. We likewise wanted to compose a few of post on android manual to...

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HyperSpike HS-24 mounted in truck by HyperSpike Sound Cannons

San Jose Airport, moving birds to prevent bird collisions

The Tell-Tale Heart: Wideman by UNCG Research

A device to identify a heart attack in progress. Childhood interventions. A focus on women. Just a few parts of UNC Greensboro's campus-wide assault on cardiovascular disease. Learn more at researchmagazine.uncg.edu/spring-2019/the-tell-tale-heart

Designs and Devices by anyaventura

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Clarence P. Hornung, Hornung’s Handbook of Designs and Devices, Second Revised Edition (New York: Dover Publications, 1946)

Thought to be probable design inspiration for fall-out shelter signs. Longer article on the development of these signs here:

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Unknown Tape Device by jhannon44