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Assorted scribbles of Taxi friends now that I've officially drawn more than just 1 of them

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Taxi writers, probably: Ha ha funny fantasy sequence where Latka and Louie switch places and Latka has Louie executed by firing squad

Me: So throughout the series it's been repeatedly shown that Latka's home country is under some kind of a totalitarian regime not unlike the cruel and heavy-handed way Louie runs his garage. When told the person he's meeting is a politician, Latka's first response is to give him money, mirroring how Louie demands money even for simple courtesies like giving them their phone messages. While Latka is on the side of the resistance, to the point of being a general in the rebel army, Latka's mother refers to Latka's father (who died when Latka was a baby) as having died "in struggle for liberty and freedom...he was a police shot by freedom fighter." The implied tension in his family between rebel-leaning mother and establishment policeman father, coupled with his intense desire for a father (his childlike joy when he thinks Alex is going to marry his mother and the crushing misery when he finds out that's not the case), again seems to mirror the love-hate relationship Latka has with Louie. He gets reasonably angry when he's treated poorly, but even then will cheerfully say that he loves Louie, and Louie's goodbye is the only one that makes him cry when he's preparing to leave America to go to war. Besides which, Louie clearly loves him in his own screwed-up way based on how desperately he wants Latka to forgive him after giving him up to immigration authorities and how depressed he gets when Latka's leaving (though masking this in front of the cabbies by pretending to take him outside to yell at him while actually saying an emotional goodbye). So the juxtaposition of Latka imagining himself as Louie and with armed underlings prepared to execute on his command just reinforces how he sees Louie as his father—

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Verra Mobility Corporation (VRRM) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

$Verra Mobility Corporation Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript #earnings #markets #investing

Verra Mobility Corporation (NASDAQ:VRRM) Q4 2022 Earnings Call dated Mar. 01, 2023. Corporate Participants: Mark Zindler — Vice President of Investor Relations David Roberts — President and Chief Executive Officer Craig Conti — Chief Financial Officer Analysts: Daniel Moore — CJS Securities — Analyst David Koning — Baird — Analyst Faiza Alwy — Deutsche Bank — Analyst Louie DiPalma — William Blair…

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British military finalizes Skynet-6A contract with Airbus

https://sciencespies.com/space/british-military-finalizes-skynet-6a-contract-with-airbus/

British military finalizes Skynet-6A contract with Airbus

WASHINGTON — Britain’s military on July 19 agreed to fully fund a gap-filler Skynet satellite it sole-sourced from Airbus Defence and Space three years ago, signing a 500-million-pound ($628.5 million) contract that covers the satellite’s manufacture and launch, as well as ground segment upgrades.

Airbus Defence and Space will build the Skynet-6A satellite in the United Kingdom and arrange a 2025 launch. RAL Space, a U.K. national laboratory, will test the all-electric satellite at its facility in Harwell. Skynet-6A, based on the Eurostar Neo platform, is expected to provide communications services for the British military until at least 2040.

“To safeguard our military on operations around the world we need to ensure that we protect their communications on land, sea or in air,” U.K. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said in a news release. “The newest contested frontier is space and so we need to provide resilience and better communications for our forces.”

The U.K. has yet to decide on a successor to its Skynet-5 network, which consists of four X-band and Ultra-High-Frequency geostationary satellites. Airbus manages the Skynet-5 network, but its contract expires in 2022. 

Britain’s Ministry of Defence has been evaluating new technologies such as very high throughput satellites and low-Earth-orbit megaconstellations as it prepares an architecture for Skynet-6. 

Those evaluations will now likely consider what role OneWeb could play, now that the U.K. government, through its Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, is co-acquiring the megaconstellation startup with Indian telecommunications company Bharti Global. 

“In our view, it now appears likely that OneWeb will be incorporated into Skynet in some fashion,” Louie DiPalma, a financial analyst at William Blair, wrote to clients in a July 16 research note. 

DiPalma notes that four teams are bidding for “billions of pounds of service contracts” related to Skynet-6. The U.K. Ministry of Defence is currently competing the Skynet “Service Delivery Wrap” program, which covers satellite operations and service delivery, including the provision of ground stations and other communications equipment. 

Airbus, as the incumbent, said June 16 it formed a team with KBR, Leidos, Northrop Grumman and QinetiQ to “deliver future space solutions for UK including the Skynet Service Delivery Wrap.”

Viasat’s U.K. division has formed a team with NSSLGlobal and led by British Telecom to bid for the contract. 

British satellite operator Inmarsat has partnered with Serco, Lockheed Martin UK, and CGI UK. And British defense engineering company Babcock Integrated Technology bid for the contract, but has not disclosed a team. 

DiPalma wrote that “Airbus’s involvement in OneWeb may increase its odds of renewing the contract,” since Airbus and OneWeb have the joint venture OneWeb Satellites that is tasked with building the OneWeb megaconstellation. 

#Space

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AeroVironment, Inc. (AVAV) CEO Wahid Nawabi on Q2 2020 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

AeroVironment, Inc. (AVAV) CEO Wahid Nawabi on Q2 2020 Results – Earnings Call Transcript

AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVAV) Q2 2020 Earnings Conference Call December 3, 2019 4:30 PM ET

Company Participants

Steven Gitlin – Vice President, Investor Relations

Wahid Nawabi – President and Chief Executive Officer

Brian Shackley – Vice President and Interim Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Peter Arment – Baird

Ken Herbert – Canaccord Genuity

Louie DiPalma – William…

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AeroVironment, Inc. (AVAV) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

AeroVironment, Inc. (AVAV) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV) Q4 2022 earnings call dated Jun. 28, 2022 Corporate Participants: Jonah Teeter-Balin — Investor Relations Wahid Nawabi — Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer Kevin McDonnell — Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Analysts: Austin Moeller — Canaccord Genuity — Analyst Ken Herbert — RBC Capital Markets — Analyst Louie DiPalma — William Blair…

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Gogo Inc. (GOGO) Q2 2020 Earnings Call Transcript

$GOGO Gogo Inc. Q2 2020 Earnings Call Transcript

Gogo Inc  (NASDAQ: GOGO) Q2 2020 earnings call dated Aug. 10, 2020

Corporate Participants:

William G. Davis — Vice President, Investor Relations

Oakleigh Thorne — President and Chief Executive Officer

Barry Rowan — Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Analysts:

Scott Searle — Roth Capital — Analyst

Lance Vitanza — Cowen — Analyst

Louie DiPalma — William Blair — Analyst

Ric Prentiss

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AeroVironment's (AVAV) CEO Wahid Nawabi on Q3 2019 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

AeroVironment’s (AVAV) CEO Wahid Nawabi on Q3 2019 Results – Earnings Call Transcript

AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVAV) Q3 2019 Earnings Conference Call March 5, 2019 4:30 PM ET

Company Participants

Steven Gitlin – Investor Relations

Wahid Nawabi – President and Chief Executive Officer

Teresa Covington – Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Peter Arment – Baird

Ken Herbert – Canaccord

Joe De Nardi – Stifel

Louie DiPalma – William Blair