#Communication equipment

[minnesotafollower]

U.S. Treasury Department Issues New Regulations To Promote Cuba’s Private Business Owners     

On May 28, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that it has prepared new regulations “to increase support for the Cuban people [that} update and clarify authorizations in support of internet-based services to promote internet freedom in Cuba, support independent Cuban private sector entrepreneurs, and expand access to certain financial services for the Cuban people.”[1] These new regulations…

[classyclips]

Come Back Alive is the main fundraising platform for the Ukrainian military. You can choose to donate to air defense, heavy weapons, demining, medical aid, overall combat equipment, etc.

[noirandchocolate]

Several weeks ago one of my coworkers called me over into her cubicle and gave me a very unexpected gift. Her mother passed away recently, and she'd been packing stuff up at her condo to give to relatives and sell, so the home could be sold. The mother was an avid knitter and crocheter, and when my coworker came upon her stash of equipment, she told me, she "immediately thought of me as someone who might get some use out of it."

So, I have inherited a varied collection of knitting needles and crochet hooks, cable needles, sewing needles, and, best of all, now-out-of-print pattern books, mostly for blankets, because that was what this lady loved to make most. Plus, I also have a bunch of gauge swatches she made, pinned to little bits of card covered in perfect schoolteacher handwriting setting out the patterns they were made to test.

And also...

My coworker brought another bag, full of yarn and...knitted blanket squares. Her mother's last started project, before she got too sick to continue. And she asked if there was anything I could do with it.

It turned out, there are twelve completed squares, and I quickly located the pattern book they are from amid those given to me. It's a book of 60 patterns, meant to be put together however the maker wishes into blankets of 20 squares. I figured out which of the numbered patterns were already made, and selected eight more that I thought might go well with them.

So now! I am working on completing! My coworker's mother's last knitting project!

And I really am feeling very good about doing it.

[alphst]

Optical Cable Corp (OCC) Q2 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

$OCC Q2 2023 Earnings Call Transcript #earnings #markets #investing

Optical Cable Corp (NASDAQ: OCC) Q2 2023 earnings call dated Jun. 12, 2023 Corporate Participants: Aaron Palash — Investor Relations Neil D. Wilkin — Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer Tracy G. Smith — Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Presentation: Operator Good morning. My name is Shelby, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I…

[theangrycorpsman]

Communications and Technology Preparedness: Ensuring Connectivity in Emergency Situations

In today’s world, communications and technology are essential for our daily lives. In emergency situations, they become even more crucial. In this blog post, we will discuss the importance of communications and technology preparedness in emergency situations and the equipment that can help us in these situations. Importance of Communications and Technology Preparedness: In an emergency…

[b14augrana]

this teammmm 🥹💘🌎 CAMPEONES DE LLIGA VAMOSSSSS

[not-equippedforthis]

why am i crying over space children. jake going against his father's orders just to teach nog how to read im bawling my eyes out. sisko being so proud of him at the end. oh my god.

[the-uss-wossname]

Hey Star Trek fandom, has anyone made a Spock “good luck babe” amv/edit yet?

[not-in-your-walls]

Motion Sick Tinies

As much as I love G/T, I’ve been experiencing episodes of slight motion sickness as of late and I think it would be a very fun thing to explore in g/t. Like- non-consensual/unintentional fearplay or something that leads to the tiny getting picked up and after a few minutes of the constant quick motion, they puke.

[skyliv]

why wouldn’t she just have them edit out her tripping is she stupid

[greentrickster]

Had the most amazing experience on Saturday. Was dropping off a couple plush mages to the store that sells them for me downtown, because a couple had sold over the past few weeks and I try to be a good supplier.

It only takes a few minutes and I'd already paid for parking, so I decided to linger and look around the shop a bit, because it's a cool place where there's always a chance something new has arrived if you haven't been there for over a week. It's fantastic. If you told me there was some actual magic in this place I'd believe you, and I've been in the employees-only area.

Which is why I was present, leafing curiously through a book on the making of the movie Chicken Run, to hear a guy behind me loudly proclaim, "Forty dollars for this?! I could make this!" I'm aware that the things in this store can be pricy, but also that a lot of the stock is made by local crafters, like me, meaning prices can be a bit higher due to the fact that you're getting something hand-crafted instead of mass-produced. So I turn around to see what he's complaining about.

And this guy is holding a wooden wand that is unique, one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted from solid wood. All things I know at a glance because, as it happens, I'm not the only person in my family who sells stuff at this store... my dad does as well. And he's the one who made that wand.

Now here's the thing. My dad's part of the local woodturner's group, wood turning being a method of carving that involves spinning a chunk of wood on a high-speed lathe while holding a bit of sharp metal against it until it turns into a wand, bowl, cup, vase, what-have-you. It's a highly-skilled craft that requires a lot of practice and and specialized tools, which he picked up after retiring but before going back to work, and he's been practicing and perfecting the required skills for at least fifteen years. If he likes (and he does like), he can get a wooden sphere carved and polished to such a sheen and smoothness that it both reflects the light and feels like plastic, which is highly impressive on a technical scale and extremely disconcerting on a tactile one.

And this guy just said one of his pieces wasn't worth the price on the tag because 'he could do it too.' Which, as any crafter knows, is not the sort of statement fellow crafters make at volume.

Now, I'm a reasonable sort of trickster. As I said, my dad's part of a woodturning group, I'm well-aware that there genuinely are other people in this area who are as skilled as, if not more skilled than, my dad. Maybe he's just a skilled creep or disagrees with the pricing. So I turn to the guy and go, "Oh? It took my dad a couple years to learn how to make those."

To which he smiles at me and asks if I know what kind of wood the wand is made of.

"Purple Heart."

"Wow, you really know your stuff!"

I stare at him for a moment, because 1) Purple Heart wood is literally the easiest wood to identify on the planet because, as the name suggests, it's actually purple, which is a thing woods generally are not. And also 2) he has apparently not grasped that the reason I know this is because my father made the thing he is holding.

I do not say these things. Instead I clue him in on the situation he's in by saying, "Yes, my dad made that wand."

"Oh. Um. Thank-you!" he holds out his hand.

I look at the hand, then at him. "For what?"

"For your dad!"

...

...I do not shake his hand, and I'm beginning to suspect that this guy does, indeed, not have any clue what he's talking about when he said he could make this himself. But I could be wrong. He could just be socially awkward, I get that. So time for the final question. With a polite smile that no customer yet has been able to tell is completely fake, I ask, "Are you part of the local woodturner's group?"

"The what?"

"The local woodturner's group," I repeat, "My dad turned that wand by hand, on a lathe."

Guy, smiling, about to seal his own fate, "Ah. That is a tool I do not have."

Me, also smiling, because he's just proven beyond all shadow of a doubt that no he could not, in fact, make it himself. "Mm. And that's why it costs forty dollars."

You know, he didn't have anything to say to that?

Put a bit of a spring in my step as I left.

[shallowseeker]

dean going "no, cas" during sacrifice because he saw the angels falling :), bro thought that cas was probably dead for a bit there.

Every day you tell me a bedtime story that makes me cry!!!!! Yes, his little "Cas, no," was heartbreatking.

Aside/// This was one of my fave scenes. The scene gets me every time. Small churches were supposed to function as family extender systems, giving you access to fellowship, resources, food.

Jody Mills compared having a brother to having a church—when churches are at their best, they're supposed to be sources of support! Churches were supposed to put people first, their wellbeing above everything else. "There's nothing I'd put in front of you!"

And here, we have the system above falling, too corrupted by war and hatred to even function.

[alphst]

Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO) Q3 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

$CSCO Q3 2023 Earnings Call Transcript #earnings #markets #investing

Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ: CSCO) Q3 2023 earnings call dated May. 17, 2023 Corporate Participants: Marilyn Mora — Head of Investor Relations Chuck Robbins — Chair and Chief Executive Officer Scott Herren — Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Analysts: Samik Chatterjee — JP Morgan — Analyst Simon Leopold — Raymond James — Analyst David Vogt — UBS — Analyst George…

[uncanny-tranny]

Apologetics for transphobia is just transphobia. Transphobia is just as dangerous, even if it's "well they don't want you dead, they want [x, y, z]." Transphobia doesn't have to end in somebody's death in order for it to be real, dangerous, and worth discussing (not to mention that "non-lethal" transphobia is still very much lethal).

I understand why people want to categorize transphobia into "real and dangerous" and "not real (and not really dangerous)," but that isn't going to save us. Transphobia is transphobia. Transphobes often do not want to ~💐save trans people💐~ with kind words and affirmation. They want us eradicated - gone.

[i-mybrunettelady]

Hello friends, I have a community tag for ya! Since I know we all love to see our kids looking very good and very fancy, I'm extending this question to anyone who wants to do this - what's your fave look you did for your kids? Any of them. Could be mains, side characters, self-inserts, anything. All armor types.

I wanna see some good fashion and I know you guys will deliver tenfold 💕

[barking]

i FINALLY found a good soul/r&b/hiphop/rap throwbacks radio station.... shoutout austin radio station KAZI 88.7 i love you