Spirit Airlines Inc (SAVE) Q4 2018 Earnings Conference Call Transcript

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Writer

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Spirit Airlines Inc  (NYSE:SAVE)
Q4 2018 Earnings Conference Call
Feb. 06, 2019, 9:30 a.m. ET

Contents:

  • Prepared Remarks
  • Questions and Answers
  • Call Participants

Prepared Remarks:

Operator

Welcome to the Fourth Quarter 2018 Earnings Conference Call. My name is Sylvia, and I’ll be your operator for today’s call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. (Operator Instructions)

I will now turn the call over to DeAnne Gabel. DeAnne, you may begin.

DeAnne Gabel — Senior Director, Investor Relations

Thank you, Sylvia, and welcome everyone to Spirit Airlines Fourth Quarter Earnings Call. This call is being recorded, and simultaneously webcast. A replay of this call will be archived on our website for 60 days.

Today’s discussion contains forward-looking statements that represent the Company’s current expectations or beliefs concerning future events and financial performance. Forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations are not a guarantee of future performance or results.

There could be significant risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements, including the risk factors discussed in our annual report on Form 10-K, and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. We undertake no duty to update any forward-looking statements. In comparing results today, we will be adjusting all periods to exclude special items. Please refer to our fourth quarter 2018 earnings release, which is available on our website, for the reconciliation of our non-GAAP measures.

Presenting on the today’s call are Ted Christie, our Chief Executive Officer; Matt Klein, our Chief Commercial Officer;

Article source: https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2019/02/06/spirit-airlines-inc-save-q4-2018-earnings-conferen.aspx

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EXCLUSIVE: Daron Dean talks ‘Deep Dive’, science, body positivity and more

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Writer

Daron Dean is a woman of many talents. When she’s not busy being a successful curve model for the likes of Nike, the beauty is sharing her wealth of science knowledge with the world as the host of Refinery29’s new weekly live-stream Twitch series Deep Dive with Daron.

Each week, Daron delves into a different science based topic which will pique the interest of any millennial. So far she has covered everything from climate change to coffee, skincare to the science of hangovers, and combines her bubbly personality and incredible knowledge to create live-streams which are both fascinating and fun.

Additionally, Daron is a powerful body positivity activist and an advocate for women in STEM education. Growing up as a biracial plus-size woman with a keen interest in science, Daron realised from a young age that she was different, however, over the years she also acknowledged the importance of embracing her natural beauty.

Daron is without doubt an incredible role model in today’s industry and uses her platform to spread a positive message which encourages women all around the world to be proud of the things which make them unique.

We recently spoke to Daron about embracing her inner science nerd on Deep Dive, her dream modelling collaborations, the advice she’d give to her eight-year-old self, and more.

Daron Dean | Photographer: Travis Curry | Makeup/hair artist: Sara Robey

Hi Daron, welcome to CelebMix! Please introduce yourself to our readers with a little-known fact about you.

Something most people don’t know about me is that I LOVE to play

Article source: https://celebmix.com/exclusive-daron-dean-talks-deep-dive-science-body-positivity-and-more/

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The magnetic North Pole is moving toward Russia

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Writer

If you take out a compass and follow the needle north, it won’t take you directly to the North Pole — or 90 degrees north latitude.

Instead, your long journey by land and sea and ice would currently take you to a spot in the Arctic Ocean a few hundred miles away from geographic North. 115 years ago, it would have dropped you off in Canada.

This week — after a delay due to the US government shutdown — the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a new World Magnetic Model that shows the pole has moved yet again, and at a weirdly fast pace.

The model is a map of magnetic north and the Earth’s magnetic field. And magnetic north has now moved away from Canada and toward Siberia, in a nearly straight line.

The locations of magnetic north and south have always been moving targets. Because of that, NOAA and its partners in the UK release an updated magnetic model of the Earth every five years. That way, navigation systems that use magnetic compasses, like those used by airplanes, can be more accurate and correct for the difference between the magnetic poles and the geographic ones.

The next update wasn’t supposed to happen until the end of 2019. But magnetic north has been moving at a rate of 31 miles a year since the last update in 2015 — faster than usual.


Article source: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/2/6/18212498/magnetic-north-pole-world-magnetic-model

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Richard J. Guertin – Hartford Courant

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Writer

Richard J. Guertin, (Col. ret.), 84, of Williamsburg, Virginia, passed away Saturday, February 2, 2019. He is preceded in death by his parents, Arthur and Rose Guertin and sister, Claudia Proxee.He served his country with dignity and honor as an Air Force Colonel for 27 years, he served in the Vietnam War, earning multiple decorations. During his time in the service, he became Master Navigator and also graduated from college with two Master’s degrees. His hobbies included Nascar, golf, watching his favorite football team the Dallas Cowboys along with flying model airplanes. Richard is survived by his wife, Vera; son, Gregg Guertin; daughter, Gwyn Guertin; grandson, Chadd Molloy (wife, Leeron); and great-granddaughter, Cora Molloy.The visitation will be held Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 10:00am at Nelsen Funeral Home, 3785 Strawberry Plains Road, Williamsburg, Virginia with the service to follow at 11:00am. Burial at Arlington National Cemetery will follow at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made in Richard’s honor at the Wounded Warriors Project, PO Box 758517, Topeka, Kansas 66675 (www.woundedwarriorproject.org) or The Heritage Humane Society, 430 Waller Mill Road, Williamsburg, Virginia (www.heritagehumane.org). Online condolences may be shared at www.nelsenwilliamsburg.com.

Article source: https://www.courant.com/obituaries/hc-obituary-richard-j-guertin-20190206-story.html

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Livermore Lab’s breakthrough advances 3D printing applications | News | PleasantonWeekly.com |

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Writer

“It looks like something you might find aboard the Starship Enterprise,” said Jeremy Thomas, a spokesman for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).

He was talking about a projector that can beam a three-dimensional video into a container of photosensitive resin (pictured, photo by Hossein Heidari, UC Berkeley). The container then rotates for a few minutes, lets the fluids drain and then leaves behind a complete, fully formed 3D object.

“Though it seems like science fiction, it’s not, thanks to scientists and engineers at LLNL and UC Berkeley, who have developed a brand-new high-speed 3D printing method called Computed Axial Lithography (CAL),” Thomas said in an announcement about the procedure.

The method is described a paper printed in the journal “Science,” published online Jan. 31.

“This is a breakthrough in the space of possible methods to do additive manufacturing,” said LLNL engineer Maxim Shusteff, a co-author on the paper.

“What this approach does is make it possible for interesting polymer parts to be made much more quickly, which is often a bottleneck, and we can now think about using materials that don’t work well with slower layer-by-layer methods,” Shusteff added.

Thomas said that LLNL and UC Berkeley have filed a joint patent on the technology, which builds on and leaps beyond the pioneering work on multibeam manufacturing, or VAM.

CAL creates entire parts at once, using projected photons to illuminate a syrup-like resin, creating a continuously shifting video of projections as the vial rotates. Like a CT

Article source: https://pleasantonweekly.com/news/2019/02/05/livermore-labs-breakthrough-advances-3d-printing-applications

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The Design And Construction Of A Tribute To A Bomber Pilot

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Writer

Decades ago, [wilmracer]’s grandfather was piloting a B-17 over the Rhine, and as it goes, aviation runs in families. Now, more than 70 years later [wilmracer] is deep, deep into remote controlled aircraft, and he’s building an exacting scale model of the B-17G his grandfather flew on his last bombing mission over Europe.

This is a scratch build, with the design taken directly from the plans and schematics of a B-17. [wilmracer] has already paid the money to go up in the preserved B-17 Aluminum Overcast to get a better idea of the layout, and now he’s deep into cutting foam and bending balsa sheets. The first part of the build was arguably the hardest, and the main landing gear was expertly constructed out of aluminum tube and linear servos. The horizontal stab follows traditional building techniques of foam and carefully sanded balsa sheets. The fuselage is impressive, with the formers built out of foam, and eventually covered in 1/16″ balsa and wrapped in fiberglass.

If you’re going to do a large-scale model airplane, that also means you’ve got to do detailing. That means steam gauges rendered in 3D printed parts. [wilmracer] is modeling the cockpit and the machine guns in 1:9 scale. This is going to be an awesome build, and yes, there will eventually be plans.

Of course, this isn’t the biggest small B-17 ever built. That record goes to the 1:3 scale Bally Bomber, a real, not remote

Article source: https://hackaday.com/2019/02/05/the-design-and-construction-of-a-tribute-to-a-bomber-pilot/

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Model planes a big family hobby

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Writer

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Christian Van Houten, right, flies a remote control plane as Curtiss and Corben Gay look on.

Curtiss Gay, left, Corben Gay and Christian Van Houten display some of their plane collection.

Article source: http://www.wcexaminer.com/model-planes-a-big-family-hobby-1.2441825

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