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Trumpery to the Fourth Power
American Dissident Voices broadcast of December 3, 2016Listen to the broadcast
by Kevin Alfred Strom
THIS WEEK Donald J. Trump's rhetoric can be compared to his acts — and his acts not only fall far short of his words, they flatly contradict them. Do you remember his final campaign video? — the one that inspired so many people when he identified some of our people's enemies — all of them ultra-elite and billionaire Jews? In it, he spoke to the massed crowd at one of his rallies as pictures of these enemies flashed on the screen: "[T]hose who control the levers of power in Washington… the global special interests… the global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities." As he spoke those words, the faces on the screen were those of Janet Yellen, Jewish head of the Federal Reserve bank; Lloyd Blankfein, Jewish head of notorious banking firm Goldman Sachs; and George Soros, Jewish billionaire hedge fund operator and political manipulator extraordinaire.
So that's what Trump said. But what has Trump done? He has appointed as his Secretary of the Treasury a Jew named Steven Mnuchin. Steven Mnuchin worked at Goldman Sachs for 17 years. Steven Mnuchin's father was on the Goldman Sachs management committee. Steven Mnuchin's mentor there was Lloyd Blankfein, one of those that Trump's commercial told us was a part of the "global power structure" that was robbing the working class and stripping this country of its wealth. Steven Mnuchin says that Janet Yellen, another member of Trump's "global power structure," is "doing a good job." Steven Mnuchin is also a Hollywood film producer and produced films with Politically Correct anti-White messages. Steven Mnuchin, who was a banking partner of George Soros himself. Steven Mnuchin, who is a hedge fund operator (Dune Capital Management) with all the parasitism that that implies. Steven Mnuchin is famous, in fact, for making billions off the misery of debt-laden homeowners during the real estate bubble a few years ago, buying a failed bank for pennies on the dollar, aggressively foreclosing on "loans," then unloading the bank for $3.4 billion, while thousands of people lost their homes. In this boondoggle he was a partner of fellow hedge fund Jew John Paulson.
And Trump was "upset" that Hillary had ties with the banking elite? — and that Ted Cruz's wife worked for Goldman Sachs? Trump special counselor Steve Bannon is also a Goldman Sachs alumnus, like Mnuchin. Something has gone very, very wrong in the Trump camp — or was rotten there all along.
Trump has stated, all through his campaign and as recently as his day-before-yesterday "Thank You" rally in Ohio, that he stands against the "regime change" wars in the Middle East that have bled this country of six trillion dollars and so much of the blood of our best men — and that he also stands against the neocons who salivate for regime change in — or war with — Russia. But some of Trump's recent nominations tell us a different story.
For Secretary of Education, Trump has nominated Elisabeth "Betsy" DeVos (née Prince), who believes, and this is probably a good thing, in allowing parents to have alternatives to the corrupted public school system — and who is married to Dick DeVos, the billionaire heir and former CEO of the Amway multilevel-marketing scam. Her brother, Erik Prince, is the founder of the multi-billion-dollar military contractor and legally-questionable private army Blackwater USA — and is, troublingly, an avid apologist for its murderous role in the disastrous wars for Israel that Trump claims to decry.
Tom Price of Georgia is Trump's nominee for head of Health and Human Services. He's a supporter of the tyrannical USA Patriot Act and the war in Iraq. Though it's hard to see how his neocon war views could affect his performance at HHS, such a presence at Trump's side is nevertheless a bad sign. On the positive side, Price got a zero rating from the homosexual lobby group calling itself the Human Rights Campaign and another zero from the Jewish-founded and Jewish-led National Abortion Rights Action League — and received a high rating from Gun Owners of America.
Trump's nominee as Secretary of Transportation is Elaine Chao, a Chinese woman in an interracial marriage with establishment Republican and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. (McConnell was instrumental in delivering South Africa to Black Communists and is a major supporter of Israel who never met a neocon war he didn't like.) Chao was introduced to McConnell by McConnell associate and Jewish attorney Stuart Marshall Bloch, who is also married to a Chinese woman, Julia Chang Bloch. Chang Bloch is described as Chao's mentor and considers herself Jewish. (Chang Bloch is also founder and current head of the US-China Education Trust.) Despite "marrying out," Chao made a racially-oriented video "designed to inspire Asian-American children," she says. "Marrying out" is a family behavior pattern for the Chaos, apparently — according to the New York Times "several [!] of her five younger sisters married Wall Street titans, including [at least one Jew] Bruce Wasserstein, the owner of New York magazine." Chao is also closely tied to the banking industry and was vice president for syndications at the Bank of America, and was an international banker at Citicorp for several years before joining the Jewish-neocon-dominated Bush administration, where she served as Labor Secretary. She works for internationalist and Zionist Rupert Murdoch's Fox News and serves on the boards of the establishment heavyweight Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Wells Fargo bank, the insurance company Protective Life, and immigrant stoop labor employer Dole Foods.
Also a necon warmonger and employee of Fox News is K.T. McFarland, Trump's pick as Deputy National Security Advisor. She formerly worked for half-Jewish Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger as one of his "closest confidantes."
Trump's pick for Secretary of Commerce is another billionaire and vulture capitalist Wilbur Ross, whose major life's work has been making his billions by buying troubled or bankrupt businesses, figuring out ways to gut them or "flip" them for huge profits, the workers and the nation be damned. New York magazine dubbed him "The Bottom-Feeder King." For well over two decades, he worked for Rothschild, Inc. in their bankruptcy and "distressed assets" department, during which tenure he helped Donald Trump hold on to power when three of his casinos were failing. Though not a Jew himself, Ross has worked closely with Jews during his entire career, and in his own firm works with David H. Storper, David L. Wax, and Stephen J. Toy. Ross also participated in the largely-Jewish looting of Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union, serving on the board of the "U.S.-Russia Investment Fund" during the Clinton administration.
Retired General James Mattis is Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense. Trump praised him to the skies during his Cincinnati speech two days ago — oddly, the same speech in which Trump reaffirmed his opposition to American military intervention in the Mideast (with the one exception of destroying ISIS). Mattis, on the other hand, is belligerent to the point of being bloodthirsty when it comes to Israel's enemies in the Middle East. He is bellicose toward Iran (saying they are "worse than ISIS") and Syria, and said it was "a Hell of a lot of fun" to shoot innocent Afghanis. When he was a commander in the Iraq War, he repeated the neocon's claims that Saddam Hussein "raped and murdered the Iraqi people" and the now utterly disproven accusation that Hussein "threatened the world with weapons of mass destruction." Strangely, Mattis holds views 180 degrees apart from Trump's on rapprochement with Russia, saying that Russia poses a danger to NATO and has expansionist aims in Syria, Ukraine, and the Baltic states. Mattis openly adds that Trump's views on Russia are "ill-informed."
In his speech two days ago, Trump also signaled to his Jewish friends — and to us — that he is firmly aboard, not the "Trump train," but the multiracialist train that is driving White America right off the cliff into demographic death and extinction. He said, "We condemn bigotry and prejudice in all its forms. We denounce all of the hatred and we forcefully reject the language of exclusion and separation. We have no choice. We have to, and it's better." Sounds like a speech delivered by Bill Clinton and written by Abe Foxman. The enthusiastically cheering audience fell nearly silent at that point.
Some of my pro-White friends, entranced by Trump's magnetism, green frogs, the thrills of having an openly (civic) nationalist president-elect, and the emboldened free speech on race we've been hearing on the 'Net this year, have shown a reluctance to emerge from their warm, fun, and comforting dream. "He's just saying that to disarm his enemies before he's inaugurated," they say. Or "He's just keeping his enemies close to him so he can throw them to the wolves later." Or "He has to say that kind of thing until after the Electoral College meets." Or "He's got those Jews and Wall Street vultures working for him, not the other way around." And on and on they go, with almost infinite hope and faith — and loyalty that is not reciprocated. Hey guys, you were the very first ones he threw under the bus, and you still don't get it. You were used.
It very much looks like business as usual in Washington for the next four years. Yes, there will be a few changes, mostly cosmetic, mostly changes of degree and of speed — but they will not be fundamental. The genocidal multiracial paradigm is not being challenged, except by us. The Jewish hand will still be throttling our people to death.
The government in this country will still be in the hands of the Jewish money-men, who may well persuade Trump that cracking down on "haters" is just the thing to polish his new presidential image. If they can insert words into his latest speech, as they clearly have, they can probably insert words into his executive orders and legislative initiatives, too. Expect it. (Remember, it was the "conservative" Boy George Bush administration that elevated the unspeakably vile Michael Chertoff into power at the "Justice Department," and it was Chertoff and his careerist employees who railroaded Doles and Duke and me into federal prison.) The System that wants us dead is still intact. We are still a people without a state. I had dared to hope otherwise in one part of my soul, but that faint hope has now died. Not only is the swamp not being drained, but quicksand is being added along with a thousand more alligators.
What we need is a real revolution — not this fake ballot-box revolution, even though it was made possible by good White Americans. Those good White Americans had an accurate gut feeling that something is very rotten in this country and in the Washington/Wall Street crowd — and an inaccurate gut feeling that the Man in the Red Hat was the answer.
The revolution we need right now is the revolution in thinking that will precede the founding of a new nation and a new people — a spiritual revolution that will bring into being a generation of men like holy warriors who will create a new order in which the advancement of our race, not just material and scientific advancement but also biological advancement, is seen as the main purpose of our lives and of our nation — a generation that will never rest on its laurels, nay, will never rest at all until this new order is achieved. That is the revolution for which we of the National Alliance are working today.
As I've expressed on this program several times before, I knew this kind of betrayal of Whites by Trump was a distinct possibility. But I wanted to be proven wrong on that. I never thought it would all come this fast. But here it is, right in our faces.
The best result of the Trump campaign was that it emboldened many, many thousands of our people to speak up for White interests. The best possible result of a — very disappointing — Trump presidency will be to leverage that new boldness into a bigger, more successful, and more well-known National Alliance. I can't do that alone.
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You've been listening to American Dissident Voices, the radio program of the National Alliance. The National Alliance is working to educate White men and women around the world as to the nature of the reality we must face — and organizing our people to ensure our survival and advancement. Write to National Alliance, Box 4, Mountain City, TN 37683 USA to learn how you can make your life count — or visit natall.com. Once again, our postal address is Box 4, Mountain City, TN 37683 USA. Until next week, this is Kevin Alfred Strom reminding you of the words of Richard Berkeley Cotten: Freedom is not free; free men are not equal; and equal men are not free.Listen to the broadcast
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National Vanguard was practically the only website that knew well in advance that Trump, as the nominee for the Presidency, was not the man to share the values of conscious White people. Very early in the competition, National Vanguard was the one lone wolf howling the dark truth about Trump in the middle of the night. And now with Trump's choices for his administration, National Vanguard has had its intuitions and perspectives verified and validated. All I can say is thank you for holding strong and knowing the historical facts about the U.S. and Jews as well as you do. Maybe others can take courage from this sad state of affairs regarding Trump and will seek out better perspectives and more consistent and reliable principles here at National Vanguard than… Read more »
The Might Is Right Network mightisright.net was among the few who warned about 'Trump the Race Traitor'. Podcasts were made far in advance about the race traitor and played in the 24-hour stream. The Chat was loaded with comments and links to articles proving that he was, in fact, a "jew tool" and traitor. Explanations were provided why elections will no longer provide the desired results for the White Race and still the fools, weaklings, and cowards 'grasped at straws' for a great white savior. Unless White Men fully understand that 'White Revolution Is The Only Solution' then the white race is destined to perish without a whimper.
There also was B'Man's Revolt website, which pretty early on (October 2016) carried the news there was no hope in Trump as well as the Fitzpatrick Informer website. But practically speaking, the website that was the earliest in calling out the trumpery behind Trump was National Vanguard — on February 27, 2016, not September or October: February.
The Might Is Right Network goes back further than that (11/29/2015), when the fools, cowards, and weaklings first started expressing hope in the elections again, especially with the race traitor Trump. Nothing is ever accomplished through elections, only extreme violence and bloodshed, either ours or theirs, will bring the desired changes. Violence is the Mother of Change. The following podcast addressed the false hope of "jew tool" Trump.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG42wvJZZ8U
Also: Lone Wolves & Small Cells – The Might Is Right Power Hour 11/29/2015 (mightisright.net)
I said that National Vanguard was, practically speaking, the first website to question the value of Donald Trump. I believe that that assertion still remains true. The video link above does not substantially and directly expose Trump. It addresses largely only Dylann Roof and Anders Breivik for more than an hour and fifteen minutes, in the main. Yes, there is a three-minute sound byte about Trump (around 1:24:59) on the podcast, so your assertion might be technically true yet factually it is insignificant and can't be considered of real practical value since the reference to Trump and the talk therein about him is actually quite small, lacking the breadth of a real article devoted to the sharp exposure of Trump and his Jewish cabal. Let's get real about what really… Read more »
"Nothing is ever accomplished through elections"
Hitler was elected
Caesar was elected
And on and on.
Please insert foot in mouth.
The ballot box is not the only way, but is an important way.
Matter of fact it is usually a combo of street activism combined with elector success that gets things done.
Gentlemen, nationalvanguard.org is the online magazine of the National Alliance, a deadly serious adult organization founded by Dr. William Pierce that conforms to his teachings. I am the current Alliance Chairman. I do not follow B'Man's Revolt or Might is Right. Joey, that last article you linked to was written by Dr. Kevin MacDonald, republished by nv.org in November 2015. Trump wasn't officially the Republican candidate for president until July of 2016, but he had been dominating the news for more than a year already by then. The fact is, we mailed our "INCREDIBLY STUPID" flier (the one seen here with Donald Trump's face on it: https://natall.com/fliers/Voting_flyer-letter-size.pdf ) to our members and supporters with their monthly National Alliance BULLETINs in April of 2016. We received some criticism for that flier… Read more »
Brilliant as always Kevin … and exactly as many of us have been saying for decades now: Democracy is a farce. You cannot vote yourself out of the hangman's noose. White Revolution is the Only Solution.
Excellent point, Will. The larger (and sadder) mistake made by racially-aware whites (especially those who consider themselves "alt-right") has been thinking that the groundswell elevating Trump had anything at all to do with racial awareness or the Jewish Question. The howlings of the gullible as they realize that manosphere and anti-globalist figures were the real force behind the pro-Trump internet presence are truly sad–they're our brothers even if they were deluded. Meming Trump as a Jew-crushing God Emperor might be good fun, but pretending that we've done more than begun shifting the narrative is delusion. Trump presents himself as pro-strength and pro-winning. He seems entirely ignorant of the causes of current racial tensions. Hopefully during a Trump administration we'll be increasingly able to show the West's authentic source of strength… Read more »
Mr. Williams, I want only to convey that as a senior citizen I really enjoy the plethora of articles National Vanguard publishes. They inform. They enlighten. They inspire. National Vanguard is on my daily bookmark list for reading, as once upon a time I used to enjoy reading "The New York Times." You did not enjoy my recent comment, but I enjoy reading the articles published at this website and enjoy commenting on them when I'm moved to do so — freely. If you want to put the kibosh on nonmembers from commenting, I have no problem with that. If you want to characterize nonmembers' commenting as "entertainment," you are, of course, free to do so, but then you leave ambiguous the meaning of the word "serious." If by "serious"… Read more »
Good stuff. On target.
It looks like possible titles for future ADV programs might include "Trumpery, Piled Higher and Deeper" and "Trumpery to the Nth Degree."


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We now live in a highly litigious society. No leader can afford to delegate their obligations in the contracts they sign. If you are one of the signatories, you must have the time to read all the details. You are your best lawyer! The case of the major telecom company that woke up in the red by over US$ 1.671 billion shareholder value loss is a proof that compliance risks must dominate Board room Agenda. Indeed, the primary role of the Board of Directors is going concern (strategy); and oversight (risk management and compliance).
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Traditionally, none risk management institutions like governments are taking a strong stand on the need for establishing risk management process and systems. Government now requires all MDAs (Ministries, Directorates, and Agencies) to establish strong risk management structures across board, as we focus on becoming a middle class country by 2020.
Section 45(2) of the Public Finance Management and Accountability Act 2015 states "an Accounting Officer shall, in respect of all resources and transactions of a vote, put in place effective systems of risk management, internal control and internal audit." This is a move in the right direction.
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Recently my husband and I viewed The Imitation Game, a film directed by Morten Tyldum.
** Stop here and move on if you haven't seen the film and you don't like spoilers.**
We were quite moved by this rendition of Alan Turing's life. We knew little about the man before the movie:
- he was a brilliant British mathematician;
- he had "solved" the Enigma (the German cipher machine that wreak hell and havoc during WWII);
- he was gay; and
- he had committed suicide a couple of years after having been found guilty of indecency.
Oh, and he was only 41 years old when he died. Thus we expected the movie to end on a sad note. We didn't expect that we both would be wishing we had brought tissues with us to the theater. Or that, after leaving the theater, we both just wanted to be alone for awhile and have a good cry.
And maybe that's why I'm furious that much of what I saw in this movie was more fiction than truth. I am flaming red furious. I understand that reducing a person's life to a movie format of less than two hours would require some liberties with the facts. But given what I've read since, the fabrications far outweigh the facts. The spark of my fury was set by the The New York Review of Books and the essay Saving Alan Turing from His Friends, by Christian Caryl. [Sadly, you have to be a subscriber to read the whole essay online.] I was eager to read the essay, to fill in some of the gaps of Turing's life that the movie (understandably) had to gloss over. And then I got to this part of the essay:
"The choice seems clear: either you embrace the richness of Turing as a character and trust the audience to follow you there, or you simply capitulate, by reducing him to a caricature of the tortured genius. The latter, I'm afraid, is the path chosen by director Morten Tyldum and screenwriter Graham Moore." (Caryl, p.19)
I felt the blood drain from me, and then I proceeded to read aloud bits of the essay for my husband. On the basis of two biographies of Turing (Alan Turing: The Engima by Andrew Hodges, upon which the movie claims to be based, and Alan Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age by B. Jack Copeland), Caryl precedes to describe a man who was indeed brilliant and gay, but not autistic and socially inept as portrayed by Cumberbatch. To the contrary, Turing was admired and even well-liked by his associates at Bletchley Park. He "could be a wonderfully engaging character when he felt like it, notably popular with children and thoroughly charming to anyone for whom he developed a fondness." (Caryl, p.19)
And it is not Turing alone who is fictionalized into "a caricature of the tortured genius." Caryl also notes that "the movie version [of events] is a bizarre departure from the historical record." This essay as well as one by L. V. Anderson in Slate go into great detail over the seemingly endless inaccuracies in The Imitation Game.
The worst inaccuracy for me has to do with Turing's death. The movie conflates Turing's punishment for indecency (a "therapy" by which Turing took female hormones to "suppress" his homosexual tendencies) with his death. The film implies that Turing was still undergoing treatment when he died, and the treatment was likely to blame. In one of the last scenes, the most emotionally wrenching scene of all, you see Turing as an emotionally broken man, crying with such pain and despair that I almost burst out crying myself. But, the fact is Turing's treatment ended 14 months before his death. That inaccuracy alone made me feel betrayed and essentially f**cked with by the movie director and screenwriter.
Yes, it is tragic that Turing died so young, and his presumed suicide makes that fact even more painful (apparently there are suggestions that his eating an cyanide-laced apple was either an accident or murder). From what I've read, Turing was not only brilliant and a hero, but he loved life, his friends, and being gay. What the British system of law did to him was cruel and unusual, but apparently Turing maintained his integrity throughout the ordeal:
"By the accounts of those who knew him, he bore the injustice with fortitude, then spent the next year enthusiastically pursing projects." (Caryl, p.20)
I would have preferred to have seen Turing this way, as the man he was, not the man that Tyldum and company imagined would gain them an Oscar. Why not celebrate Turing's life with a more reality-based portrayal? Why portray him as a misunderstood, narcissistic, bumbling, and (eventually) helpless and broken-down genius if that's not what he was at all?
Frankly, I think The Imitation Game is more about how to pull every trick to get yourself to the Oscars, than it is about Alan Turing. But am I being fair? Or should I take any pronouncement of "Based on a True Story" with an ocean of salt and treat it all as fiction?
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FY18 Q4 Conference Call, Fiscal Year 2018
Before we begin, we call your attention to the fact that we may make forward-looking statements during the course of this conference call. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of our future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual performance to differ materially from such statements. A description of these risks, uncertainties and other factors is contained in our news release of November 2, 2018 our most recent Form 8K filed on November 2, 2018 and in certain of our other public filings with the SEC.
We've provided some financial schedules to help our listeners better follow along with the prepared comments. For those of you who do not already have the document, a copy of today's financial presentation is available on our investor relations webcast page at www.moog.com.
Good morning. Thanks for joining us. This morning we'll report on the fourth quarter of fiscal '18 and reflect on our performance for the full year. We'll also provide our initial guidance for fiscal '19.
As usual, I'll start with the headlines for the quarter.
· First, it was a good quarter for our operations, with sales up 8% relative to a year ago and adjusted earnings per share of $1.28 up 20% from last year, and above the high end of our guidance from 90 days ago. Free cash flow conversion was approximately 80% in the quarter.
· Second, our portfolio refinement continued this quarter. We completed the exit from the wind pitch control business and took a net charge of $4 million. We also took a $2 million charge associated with the sale of a small European operation in our Space and Defense Group.
· Third, we're providing a first look at fiscal '19 today. We anticipate sales growth of 6% to $2.88 billion and earnings per share of $5.25 plus or minus 20 cents, a 15% increase over our adjusted numbers for fiscal '18.
As we reflect back on fiscal '18, the following headlines stand out.
1) First, it was another year of technical achievements in a variety of end markets. Examples include
a. the successful first flight of the Bell V-280 Valor helicopter;
b. the entry into service of the Embraer E-2 airplane; and
c. the success of our new reconfigurable turret system on several military vehicle programs.
2) Second, it was a good year for our operations. Sales were up 8% and earnings per share, adjusted for tax reform and the wind restructuring, came in at $4.57, ahead of our adjusted guidance of $4.40/share coming into the year.
3) Third, we completed a strategic review of our wind pitch control business and, after several years of investment, decided to exit the business in Q2.
4) Fourth, we made two bolt on acquisitions during the year, adding a large motor company in the Czech Republic to our Industrial Group and a UAV-tracking software company to our Space & Defense Group. Combined annual sales of these acquisitions in fiscal '19 will be about $50 million.
5) Fifth, we initiated a quarterly dividend in the second quarter, the next step in our strategy of ensuring prudent management of our shareholder's capital. This decision reflects our confidence in the long-term future of the business.
6) Finally, we fully funded, and de-risked our U.S. DB pension plan. We should not have to make any further cash payments into this plan for the foreseeable future.
Fiscal '18 was a good year for our company. Each of our operating groups grew in sales and the adjusted operating margin for the company was up nicely. As I do at this time each year, I would like to express my thanks for the dedication and commitment of our 12,000 employees around the world that made this all happen.
Now, let me provide some more details on the quarter.
Q4 Fiscal '18
Sales in the quarter of $701 million were 8% higher than last year. Sales were up in each of our operating groups. Taking a look at the P&L, our gross margin was down on an adverse mix in our aircraft business, R&D was down on lower spending on commercial aircraft programs and our SG&A expense was also down as a % of sales. We incurred $9 million of restructuring expense in the quarter mostly due to the close out of our wind exit strategy. Interest expense was up slightly on higher rates. Our effective tax rate in the quarter of 26.7% included some residual adjustments for U.S. tax reform. Including the restructuring charges and the tax adjustments, the overall result was net earnings of $41 million, up 5%, and earnings per share of $1.14, up 7%. Excluding restructuring and the one-time tax adjustments related to tax reform, net earnings were $46 million and earnings per share were $1.28.
Fiscal '18
For the full year, sales of $2.71 billion were up 8% over last year. The story for the year is similar to the story for the quarter with sales up in each operating group. Underlying organic growth was $160 million. Acquisitions, net of divestitures, contributed about $20 million and stronger foreign currencies added another $30 million or so. As we've discussed in the past, the results for fiscal '18 are complicated by the change in U.S. tax law and the restructuring expense associated with our exit from the wind business. Exclusive of these one-time effects, operating margin was up 90 basis points, and net earnings and earnings per share were each up 17%. Free cash flow for the year of $8 million included $85 million of accelerated contributions to our U.S. DB pension plan.
Fiscal '19 Outlook
For fiscal '19 we're projecting continued organic growth with sales of $2.88 billion, up 6% over fiscal '18. Sales will be up in Aircraft and growth will be particularly strong in Space & Defense. Industrial sales will be flat with last year, but adjusting for the loss of wind sales, will be up 4% organically. We're anticipating full year operating margins of 11.7% and earnings per share of $5.25, plus or minus 20 cents. Free cash flow next year should come in at 100% conversion.
Now to the segments. I'd remind our listeners that we've provided a 3-page supplemental data package, posted on our website, which provides all the detailed numbers for your models. We suggest you follow this in parallel with the text.
Aircraft Q4
Sales in the quarter of $304 million were 7% higher than last year with all of the increase on the military side of the house. Sales on the F-35 program were almost 50% higher than last year, a combination of increased volumes on LRIP 11 and the timing of some deliveries. Sales in the military aftermarket were also higher across a range of programs, in particular the B1-B, F18 and V-22. On the commercial side, OEM sales on the 787 and A350 were in line with last year, while lower OEM sales to Boeing on the 777 were partially compensated by higher aftermarket sales on the A350 program.
Aircraft fiscal '18
Full year sales were up 6% from fiscal '17 to $1.19 billion. Military aircraft was up 10% year over year. We saw strong growth on the F-35 program as Lockheed Martin continues to ramp up production. Sales were also higher on the KC46 tanker and in our Navigation Aids business as well as on some foreign platforms. We enjoyed increased work on funded development programs. The military aftermarket was marginally higher as additional F-18 repairs and spares activity compensated for lower B-2 sales. On the commercial side, OEM sales were 3% lower. 777 deliveries were off almost 50% from fiscal '17 and we also saw lower volumes on legacy 737 platforms. On the positive side, 787 sales were up as we prepare to increase the rate to 14 shipsets per month while A350 sales were in line with last year. The commercial aftermarket had a great year driven by strong A350 initial provisioning, retrofit activity on aging platforms and an increased focus on capturing market share.
Aircraft fiscal '19
We're projecting fiscal '19 sales of $1.27 billion, a 6% organic increase over fiscal '18. Similar to this year, most of the growth is on the military side with continued ramp up on the F-35 program and higher sales on some foreign platforms compensating for a softer helicopter book of business. The military aftermarket should also be up on increased F-35 and V-22 activity.
We're forecasting higher commercial OEM sales driven by our flagship programs, the 787 and A350. We'll also see the initial ramp on the Embraer E-2 program. Sales on the legacy Boeing book will continue to decline as the older models are gradually phased out. We anticipate that the commercial aftermarket will be lower as initial provisioning declines from a boom year in fiscal '18.
Aircraft Margins
Margins in the quarter were 10.2% and for the full year were 10.8%. These margins are up 70 basis points from fiscal '17. We anticipate a further increase in margins by 60 basis points in FY19 to 11.4%. This continues the trend of expanding margins of the last few years. The margin improvement in fiscal '18 was driven by lower R&D spending on commercial jobs, but this benefit was eroded somewhat by higher investment in new business capture as well as a lower gross margin on a negative mix. As we look out to fiscal '19, R&D will be down slightly from FY18 as it continues to converge on our 5% long-term target.
Space and Defense
Space and Defense Q4
Sales in the quarter of $154 million were up 10% from last year. We had nice increases in both the Space and Defense markets. Space sales were up on increased work on NASA programs, both the Space Launch System and the Orion Crew Vehicle. Defense sales were up on strong tactical missile work, strong growth in navy programs and acquired sales from our acquisition of EOI, a small UAV tracking company.
Space and Defense fiscal '18
The story for the year is similar to the story for the quarter with overall growth of 10%. Our space avionics had another great year, with sales up over 60%. Sales in this product line have more than doubled in the last 2 years as we gain positions on new defense satellites. Sales across the full range of launch vehicles were also very strong. On the defense side, the bright spots were missiles, including funded development work on new hypersonic opportunities, security systems, including acquired sales from EOI, and various components for a range of end uses. Our military ground vehicles was a tale of two cities. Lower sales on legacy platforms were mostly compensated by increased sales of our new Reconfigurable Turret system.
Space and Defense fiscal '19
Our initial forecast for next year projects strong growth. Defense sales will be up 25%. Sales on missile programs will be up over 30%, a combination of higher rates on existing programs and initial production on new platforms. We'll also see increased naval sales on the Virginia class submarine. Sales on military vehicles will be significantly higher driven by our reconfigurable turret offering. This is a new product for us and is part of our strategy to meet the needs of the forces directly with tailored products for specific requirements. It's part of our "agile prime" strategy – to invest selectively internally to develop capability and then respond quickly to urgent needs in the field. This product has been in development for about 5 years, and had initial sales of about $3 million in fiscal 17. In fiscal '19, we're projecting sales of over $50 million. On the Space side, sales will be up 3% in '19, with slight increases in our work on a range of launch vehicle systems.
Space and Defense Margins
Margins in the quarter were 11.2% and for the full year 11.5%. For fiscal '19 we're projecting an increase in margins to 11.8% on higher sales.
Industrial Systems
Industrial Systems Q4
Sales in the quarter of $243 million were 8% up over last year. The increase is split approximately 50/50 between organic and acquired growth. Our energy market was about flat with last year. We've essentially completed the wind down of our wind pitch control business and shipments of those products will be negligible next year. Industrial automation was up nicely in the quarter as our major markets around the globe continue to invest in new capital equipment. Sales into simulation & test applications and for medical applications were up modestly from last year.
Industrial Systems fiscal '18
Full year sales of $935 million were up 11% over last year. About half the gain is organic growth, and the remainder split evenly between acquired growth from our two acquisitions over the last 18 months and stronger foreign currencies relative to the dollar. Our energy markets were strong this year, with increases in both exploration and generation. Industrial automation was also strong on the foundation of strong global GDP. Sales of simulation & test systems were about flat with last year while sales into medical applications, both components and pumps, were up nicely.
Industrial Systems fiscal '19
We're projecting flat top line sales as we move into FY'19. This is a result of 4% organic growth compensating for the loss of $40 million in wind energy sales. Sales into industrial automation markets and for medical applications should be up about 5% while we anticipate a flat year for simulation and test sales.
Industrial Systems Margins
Adjusted margins in the quarter were 12.1%, excluding the restructuring expense associated with our exit from wind of about 200 basis points. Margins for the full year, excluding the wind exit charges were 10.6%. For fiscal 19, we're forecasting margins to increase to 12.0%. About 100 bps of this improvement is a result of the decision to exit the wind business in '18.
Summary Guidance
Fiscal '18 was a good year operationally and we're looking to build on that performance as we move into fiscal '19. We're forecasting full year sales of $2.88 billion, up 6%. Our aircraft group should see nice growth on the military side as the F-35 continues to ramp up and the aftermarket recovers. The commercial OEM business will also grow, fueled by the A350 ramp, but we anticipate the commercial aftermarket will be down from a bumper year in fiscal '18. In Space and Defense we're seeing strong growth in our military sales. Finally, the headline sales number in Industrial is flat with last year as 4% organic growth compensates for the loss of wind pitch control sales. We're forecasting earnings per share of $5.25 plus of minus 20 cents – a 15% increase over our adjusted '18 results.
As always, our forecast does not include any projection for future acquisitions or share buyback activity. We anticipate strong free cash flow generation in fiscal '19 and will continue to manage this shareholder capital prudently. We'll continue to look for bolt-on acquisitions which support our organic growth strategies, but we'll remain disciplined in our evaluation and will not acquire top line growth at a price level that prohibits earning an acceptable return on our capital. Our dividend and buyback policies provide ample opportunities to return capital to shareholders should we not find the right acquisition opportunities. We're patient, and believe that growth is an essential ingredient to long-term value creation. As our R&D spend winds down on large commercial programs, we're redirecting some of our resources to exploring new, innovative solutions to the technical challenges our customers will face tomorrow. From additive manufacturing to next generation robotics to autonomous systems, we're exploring the next generation of opportunities for our capabilities. As always, our focus will remain on driving long-term value for our shareholders.
I'll finish my comments as I have done in previous years by looking at our business through the lens of the end markets we serve. These are defense, industrial, commercial, energy, space and medical.
Defense is our largest market at over one third of our sales. Over the last year we've seen the benefit of the increasing U.S. defense budget as sequestration has been temporarily put on hold. We anticipate continued strength in fiscal '19 in both existing programs like the F-35 and in new application areas such as reconfigurable turrets and counter UAV systems. Our funded military development work in fiscal '18 was over $150 million as we work on the next generation of weapons platforms across our portfolio. Despite the short-term worries about defense budgets dropping significantly beyond fiscal '19, this funded development work demonstrates that we're well positioned for the very long run.
Sales into various industrial markets represent our second largest market at about a quarter of our sales. This market has recovered significantly over the last 18 months or so as global GDP has strengthened. We believe this strength will continue in fiscal '19 despite the increasing interest rate environment in the U.S. and the threat of tariffs. Longer term, our industrial markets are cyclical and we remain vigilant in these good times to continue to structure the business and control costs to ensure maximum returns throughout the cycle.
Commercial aircraft is also about a quarter of our sales and has been an engine for organic growth over the last 15 years as we invested in the 787, A350 and E-2. Over the last 5 years, the primary focus of this business has shifted from R&D spending to certify new airplanes, to operational execution as deliveries have ramped up. Fiscal '19 will continue this trend as R&D again falls as a % of sales and volumes on new programs continue to build. This trend should continue for several years to come and the aftermarket for these new programs will continue to grow. We're experiencing a margin headwind as volume on some of our older platforms, in particular the 777, wind down. This will continue until the program comes to an end in the next few years. We don't anticipate any major new wins in the foreseeable future and are therefore confident that the R&D load will continue to abate, resulting in continued margin expansion.
Our energy, space and medical markets each represent less than 10% of our sales.
Putting aside our wind challenges, fiscal '18 was actually a positive year for our energy markets. In particular, our exploration sales improved from a low point in fiscal'17 and are forecast to see further modest improvement in fiscal '19. The recovery in the price of oil over the last couple of years has helped put this business back on a solid footing.
Our Space business was up a healthy 15% in fiscal '18 and we're projecting modest growth into fiscal '19, driven by increasing sales on a variety of launch platforms. Sales of our avionics products have doubled over the last 2 years and are set to continue strong into next year.
Finally, our medical market grew 9% in fiscal '18 and should grow an additional 6% in fiscal '19. We anticipate stronger sales for both our pump products as well as components sold to medical OEM's.
In summary, as we close out fiscal '18, the majority of our key markets are healthy and we're looking forward to a strong fiscal '19. Our fundamental strategy remains unchanged. We work closely with our customers to solve their most difficult technical challenges. We look for applications where performance really matters – where the cost of failure is high and where our technology offers real differentiation for our customers. We continue to serve a diverse range of markets with a focused set of technologies built around precision motion and fluid control. We look for adjacent acquisitions that complement our organic growth strategy. We remain focused on 3 corporate-wide initiatives, Talent, Lean and Innovation. Our key financial measures are sales growth, margin expansion and free cash flow. We look to invest our shareholder's capital wisely, always with a view to long-term value creation. Our preference is to invest in organic growth first, followed by strategic acquisitions, and lastly on returning capital to shareholders through dividends or buying back shares. We'll continue to operate with a conservative balance sheet, using leverage prudently to balance returns with financial resilience and flexibility.
In fiscal '19 we anticipate sales of $2.88 billion and earnings per share of $5.25 plus or minus 20 cents. As usual, we anticipate a somewhat slow start to the year with Q1 earnings per share of $1.15 plus or minus 10 cents.
Now let me pass you to Don who will provide more color on our cash flow and balance sheet.
Thanks, John. Good morning.
Free cash flow in the fourth quarter was $32 million. For all of 2018, free cash flow was $8 million including $85 million of incremental funding to our U.S. defined benefit pension plan. This compares with net earnings for 2018 of $97 million. To keep this in perspective, I'd like to share two points. First, despite a relatively soft 2018, our free cash flow conversion has averaged 114% since 2012. And second, we'll see a noticeable rebound in 2019.
Coming into Q4, we were forecasting a better free cash flow finish to the year. The shortfall is explained by a combination of net working capital demands and tax refunds. While net working capital as a percentage of sales actually came down 30 bps from 90 days ago, in hindsight, we were simply too optimistic in forecasting a more significant reduction. We were also expecting that certain tax refunds would be received before year-end, but they slipped into 2019.
As we look ahead to 2019, we're expecting free cash flow of $185 million, or a conversion ratio of 100%. Our forecast is helped by lower ongoing pension contributions because of our accelerated funding strategy, and by the tax refund that we thought we'd receive in 2018. However, our outlook is tempered by an anticipated decline in customer advances in addition to more working capital needed to support our topline growth.
Our year-end Net Working Capital (excluding cash and debt) as a percentage of sales was 24.9% compared with 25.2% both last quarter and a year ago. Over the better part of the last decade, we've reported a rather steady decline in this working capital metric since we peaked at almost 34% of sales in 2009. In 2019, we believe we'll see a continuation of this trend.
The $8 million of Free Cash Flow for the year compares with an increase in our net debt of $148 million. The $156 million difference relates primarily to the following:
· We repurchased one million shares of Moog stock at $75.74 per share from our DB pension plan, completing our de-risking strategy,
· $70 million for acquisitions that we completed earlier in the year, and
· $18 million for two quarterly cash dividend payments that began in June.
Capital expenditures in the fourth quarter were $24 million and depreciation and amortization totaled $20 million. For all of 2018, CapEx was $95 million while D&A was $89M. 2019 will look nearly identical to 2018 as we're forecasting $95 million of CapEx with D&A of $89 million. We believe that our normal, sustaining level of CapEx is between 3% and 4% of sales. In 2019, our spend rate will be within that range.
Cash contributions to our global retirement plans totaled $6 million in the quarter resulting in $181 million of contributions for all of 2018. This compares with $93 million for 2017. We've described how we accelerated a total of $85 million of contributions into our U.S. DB Pension Plan from future years into this year. This resulted in total 2018 contributions for our U.S. DB Plan of $145 million. Our U.S. DB Plan is now fully funded relative to our Projected Benefit Obligation. Accordingly, we won't be making any further cash contributions to this Plan for the foreseeable future. For 2019, we're planning to make contributions into our global retirement plans totaling $34 million. Global retirement plan expense in 2018 was $57 million compared with $64 million in 2017. In 2019, our expense for retirement plans is projected to be $62 million.
I'd like to explain why we're expecting our global pension expense for 2019 to increase compared to 2018 after having accelerated $85 million of funding to the U.S. DB Plan. This may sound counter-intuitive since having more assets in the Plan should, in isolation, result in a greater return and, therefore, less expense. However, we contemporaneously pursued a de-risking investment strategy that resulted in more of our plan assets being invested in lower-risk instruments with lower returns. This Liability-Driven Investment strategy lowers the overall return on all Plan assets and offsets the benefit of having more assets in the Plan. The de-risking strategy was absolutely the right thing to do particularly because of the limited availability of related tax savings, in addition to mitigating our exposure to volatile equity and debt markets. Importantly, our future U.S. DB plan expense will be a non-cash cost.
Part of the U.S. DB Plan's de-risking strategy involved the Plan Trustees' desire to further diversify the Plan's assets that total about $900 million. Accordingly, in August, we were able to buy back the Pension Plan's holdings in Moog stock which totaled about one million shares for just under $76 per share. This results in one million fewer shares outstanding for EPS purposes. The plan now has about 80% of its assets invested in fixed income securities and about 20% in a diversified portfolio of equities. This portfolio mix reduces future volatility on the P&L.
Our Q4 effective tax rate of 26.7%, compares with last year's Q4 tax rate of 20.8%. Last year's low rate was affected by a benefit related to the utilization of a Net Operating Loss for a business restructuring that took place earlier in the year. For all of 2018, our effective tax rate was 47.4%. When we remove the one-time effects from Tax Reform and wind restructuring in 2018, our adjusted 2018 effective tax rate related to our core operations was 25.1%.
The unadjusted GAAP effective tax rates for 2017, 2018 and 2019 are 22.7%, 47.4% and 26.0%. For both 2018 and 2017, these rates are affected by special events that won't repeat. These events included the 2018 impact of one-time effects from Tax Reform, as well as business restructurings and divestitures in both years. Removing all of this confusion, the comparable tax rates for 2017, 2018 and 2019 are 30%, 25% and 26%, respectively. The decrease from 2017 to 2018 is largely the result of the reduction in U.S. corporate tax rates from 35% to 21%. The increase from 2018 to 2019 results primarily from the timing of when certain elements of the Tax Reform legislation take effect which are offsetting the full-year benefit from the lower 21% corporate rate. Specifically, beginning in 2019, the new GILTI tax on offshore earnings as well as a reduced federal domestic manufacturing credit will negatively affect us. To reiterate, we're forecasting 2019's tax rate at 26.0%.
Our leverage ratio (Net Debt divided by EBITDA) was 2.2x compared with 1.8x a year ago as we allocated capital to accelerate our pension funding, buy companies and pay dividends. Net debt as a percentage of total capitalization was 38%, up from 33% last year. At quarter-end, we had $437 million of available, unused borrowing capacity on our $1.1 billion revolver that terms out in 2021. And our $300 million of 5.25% high-yield debt matures in 2022.
At the end of December 2017, we had just under $400 million of cash on our balance sheet and most of that was offshore. At the end of September 2018, our cash balance is down to $126 million. We used $64 million of this cash for our second quarter acquisition of VUES Brno headquartered in the Czech Republic. In addition, over $200 million of this decrease results from our Treasury team doing a great job in orchestrating the repatriation of offshore cash to the U.S. which has been used to pay down our outstanding revolver. We're targeting to get to a cash balance of around $85 million in the coming few quarters. This cash repatriation has no impact on our leverage as our net debt position is unchanged. As far as the associated interest savings from paying down our debt, it will not be apparent on our P&L in 2019. Interest expense for 2019 is forecasted to be $37 million compared to $36 million in 2018, the result of higher rates on a lower outstanding balance.
There are two accounting changes that we've incorporated into our 2019 forecast that don't have a material impact on the numbers. First, we will adopt ASC 606 for Revenue Recognition in 2019. Our 2019 forecast reflects our best estimates of what the results will be under the new accounting rules. We wanted you to know that we believe that our comparability is not materially affected.
The second change is the new presentation of pension expense as required by the new standard. Beginning in 2019, we will now be showing "non-service related pension costs" below the operating profit line. We estimate this "below the line" element of pension costs to be $13 million in 2019 compared with $7 million in 2018.
2018 was a noisy year with Tax Reform and wind-related restructuring activity. We did our best to help the investor focus on core earnings from operations which reflect, what we believe was, a very respectable year. We're anxious to begin 2019. Sales will be up 6% organically with an EPS midpoint of $5.25, up 15% when compared to adjusted 2018 EPS of $4.57. Operating margins will be 11.7% compared with adjusted margins in 2018 of 10.9%. Free cash flow will return to a more normal 100% conversion and we'll continue to responsibly deploy capital, including our disciplined search for strategic acquisitions. The business is doing well and we're looking forward to the future.
With that, I'd like to turn you back to John for any questions that you may have.


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July 16th, 1969, history was made. It all started on launchpad 39A, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the Eastern coast of Florida. At 8:32 a.m., a rocket with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins blasted off and started its journey of 195 hours (about eight days). The primary goal of Apollo 11, set by John F. Kennedy himself, was to land a crewed lunar landing on the Moon and get it back to Earth. On this day, 50 years ago, an estimated 650 million people watched until the Apollo 11 was only a small speck in the sky.
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July 16th was the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, and with that, NASA made some big announcements. NASA disclosed that they would be dropping a rover on Mars' surface on February 18, 2020. This rover will collect samples and send them into Mars's orbit where a rocket will retrieve them and send them back to earth. NASA has also announced that by 2024, they will partner with companies to land astronauts on the lunar south pole for long-term exploration.
On July 16th, 1969, history was made, and we all have the potential to do the same just as the historic astronauts did. We can all change and impact the world starting now. Whether it's saving lives as a surgeon, educating the new generation as an instructor, or as an astronaut racing to the moon, we can all make a difference in the world.


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NURSE JACKIE Quotes: Season 3 (Zooey Quotes!)| March 29, 2011 at 4:24 PM EDT
Nurse Jackie Zoey quotes are my favorite. Which character says your favorite lines? Here's a collection from NJ season 3.
Sam: You and Jackie, like, tap danced for me?
Thor: Oh my God, you did not just mime a sexy gun and holster.
Zoey: Sam, I have a sensitivity question about male piercings.
Zoey: Jackie's not married.
Zoey: Would you be so kind as to… perhaps… show me some idea. Perhaps?
Eddie: Jackie is married you stupid fucking goat.
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Fiona: Is this Coke or Pepsi?
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Zoey: I have a complaint.
Akalitus: I have many.
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Cooper: Can we please bury the hatchet?
Sam: Yea, let's bury it in your head.
Zoey: If you want company I'm totes avail. Totally available.
Tunie (Tooney?): I told him, Kevin, intervention's are just fucking rude.
Zoey: It'd be too much pressure to date God.
Jackie: Suffocation? It's not really much of a turn on.
You can read all our Nurse Jackie coverage here. Nurse Jackie Season 3 airs on Mondays at 10 pm on Showtime.
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The gray landscape shivered around us as we hurried toward the warmth of the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) entrance. The large glass panels of the lobby windows kept the dreary day close at hand as we purchased tickets for the "Georgia O'Keeffe and the Southwestern Still Life" exhibit and rode quietly up the escalator.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Episode 57 Mere Apologetics with guest DJ Grothe
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18 comments:
- =^skeptic cat^= said...
I'm only 15 minutes in but Timothy McVeigh cannot really be described as a "Christian-terrorist" ... Eric Rudolph could described as such but McVeigh was a UFO style conspiracy whack job and not fundamentalist Christian style of nut. In fact every day he was on Death Row he requested to watch that Contact film based on Carl Sagan's book. What is it about Jodi Foster? Anywho, an EXCELLENT book if any of you want to know about the various subcultures within conspiratoria and UFOlogy is A Culture of Conspiracy by Michael Barkun. It is not as entertaining a read as Jon Ronson's Them but it does go into a great deal more detail.
- November 16, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Just a side note from a linguist: saying Chomsky or Pinker have proved anything regarding universal grammar is definitely jumping the gun. I won't get into academic fisticuffs here, but suffice to say there's a great deal of skepticism about either's claims in the scientific community and an underwhelming amount of evidence or theoretical rigor on their ends.
- November 17, 2009 at 10:21 AM
- Patrick said...
Agree with B.H. on Chomsky, so I can simply comment to make a wish: please discuss (with our without DJ Grothe) the New Testament Jesus ethics, and I don't mean funny NT stories, but rather in the way DJ alluded to. I'd love to hear a different take on Jesus's morals than simply the "great teacher" / picking apart single sentences divide.
- November 17, 2009 at 1:27 PM
- James Redekop said...
Some random comments that came to mind listening to this episode:
* There's been at least one violent incident of backlash against Muslims after Fort Hood. USMC reservist Jasen Bruce clubbed a man he thought was a Muslim with a tire-iron. Bruce isn't that perceptive, though: the man was actually a Greek Orthodox priest, Alexios Marakis, asking for directions. Bruce insists the man groped him while yelling "Alluha Akbar". Writeup at Joe. My. God.
* The very fact that all humans are human means that we will have some commonality in our perceptions of good and evil: we all (or almost all) experience pain, hunger, and other deprivations the same way, don't like them, and want to avoid them. We also all (or almost all) have enough cognitive facilities to empathize with others, and realize that they aren't going to appreciate pain, hunger, etc either. That alone calls into question the idea that only a god can account for common morality.
* If human morality comes from some Moral Law provided by the creator of the universe, how can there have been moral progress? If we were given the law up front, we should have been fully moral from the start, unless maybe God withheld some of that Moral Law and only revealed it to us little by little. But how moral is letting humans to horribly immoral things to each other because you haven't told them that those things are wrong yet?
- November 17, 2009 at 7:04 PM
- Pseudo Wrestler said...
I can't say enough about DJ's propensity for professionalism and critical examination, however I would like to comment about the attacks made on evolutionary psychologists. When one points out that 'rape' and/or 'murder' are in fact natural, but want to avoid the straw-man argument, as DJ exampled with "they're trying to use evolution to justify rape" I think pointing out that altruism is also evolutionary beneficial opens the doors to the "Well duh, cause god did it" argument (taking credit while simultaneously relieving themselves of responsibility as usual). I find it useful to also point out that it is just as 'natural' to roll up a giant ball of feces and present it to your mate as a gift. This is obviously reaching for absurdity, but I think helps to further illustrate the point you all made very well, which I took to be "natural behavior and 'what is right' are not mutually inclusive, nor mutually exclusive."
Evolution is a slow process, and natural selection shows that instincts/emotions have been one of natures most effective decision making tools, however, this only holds true when there is insufficient data and/or reasoning capability available. Society, as well as the globe, are dynamic systems, thus science and reason, while feeling slow to the individual, are our most effective methods for making decisions in today's society. Emotions and instincts don't always steer us wrong, but they are simply not malleable enough to be applied successfully to the full spectrum of complicated decisions we are confronted with as modern humans.
- November 18, 2009 at 2:20 PM
- TV's Mr. Neil said...
Here is why I am not impressed with CS Lewis.
For the very beginning of the book, he appeals to human nature as though we are obeying some kind of law, and yet he never really makes a case for this. He just says that we all seem to follow some sort of "moral standard", and since that, already being a theistic idea, is the only framework he can come up with to explain this behavior, he just settles into this without any other consideration.
Like so many other apologetic arguments, this will strengthen the conviction of the believer, but it will fail to move the atheist, especially today, where we actually have good positive explanations for human behavior that don't have anything to do with deities. It has far more to do with our genetic make-up.
Just like the gods of nature, like Thor and Zeus, were dethroned the moment we discovered perfectly natural causes for their phenomena, so too has Lewis' deity of human morality, and it's time for Christians to move on.
When I think of "baby Christians", I generally most associate this with those who actually follow Lewis' apologetics, more so than those who follow Plantinga or Craig, because at least those two have enough good sense to recognize Lewis' short-comings and rework them.
- November 19, 2009 at 5:01 AM
- SplendidMonkey said...
Shadowlands is a pretty good movie as a love story - a real tear jerker. I betray anyone not to cry at the end where Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) weeps with Douglas over losing Joy. It's also does a good job of showing a struggle with faith in the face the reality of sickness and death. I think Lewis would have made a good atheist given time.
- November 19, 2009 at 9:43 AM
- llewelly said...
D.J. Grothe more moral than God? Uh, if we are talking about the Christian God, New Testament or Old, that's a very low bar to clear.
Bernie Maddoff probably clears it handily.
- November 19, 2009 at 9:45 PM
A comment on the show about the 'Judeo-Christian perspective' prompted me to think about some of the vast differences this term covers up. For example, I'd love to hear you discuss the vast difference between interpretations of leaving the Garden from the two perspectives. In the Christian perspective, Adam and Eve are thrown out of the house and onto the streets. in the traditional Jewish perspective, they're told they have to stop loafing and get a job (slight modernization of the story). These differences are often papered over, and most christians are oblivious to them.
As always, love the show, but as an atheist/agnostic from a non-Evangelical background, like to have you cover that as well.
- November 20, 2009 at 6:36 AM
- ET said...
I'm used to hearing D.J. play the devil's advocate on point of inquiry, so to hear him talk about his own views was interesting.
The first book I read in my journy to truth was "Can We Be Good Without God" by Dr. Robert Buckman. What I got from him was that ethics can be catagorized by constructive vrs destructive. Constructive = good destructive = bad. This is of course oversimplified but it shows that with a little logic one can come to an ethical understanding without the help of religion.
- November 20, 2009 at 2:01 PM
- TheDisloyalOpposer said...
I too was going to point out that the Chomsky/Pinker "proof" isn't there yet and this is an area where scientifically-minded NONspecialists seem to like it while linguists are FAR more skeptical because there are counter-examples that are ignored in both Pinker's and Chomsky's models.
And while I agree that there are some over-statements about evolutionary psychology: it is not a hard empirical science yet because it is still too based on speculation about the ancestral environments. Because of this there is A LOT of bad evolutionary psychology, but I don't want to tar the field because I think its beginning assumptions must be true.
- November 20, 2009 at 3:36 PM
- Unknown said...
Hello Doubtcasters, I discovered your podcast about a month ago and I really enjoy it. I don't really have anything to comment, I just want to share an article I found on the web that might make it into your "shitlist." Her is the link:
- November 25, 2009 at 7:24 AM
- Lausten North said...
Thanks for the show. I was once enamored with C. S. Lewis. You handled his works delicately and thoroughly. If you could also cover his famous analogy of the window from "a introduction to miracles" that would be much appreciated. You know, the window that we look through to observe the garden is our sentience, our ability to reason that (supposedly) sets us apart from other animals.
- November 26, 2009 at 8:00 AM
- Clint Page said...
Have to jump in here with skepticat; from what I've read about McVeigh, he was a lapsed Catholic who dabbled with Deism and Agnosticism. The Guardian reports on the latter here:
That's not to say that we need claim him as one of our own, but we certainly cannot identify him as a Protestant.
- December 3, 2009 at 8:35 PM
If Aslan is God who the hell is Mufasa?
- December 4, 2009 at 9:24 PM
No specific comment about episode 57, but thought I'd better post something because I'm having Reasonable Doubts withdrawal. I know you guys are very busy (especially at the end of the semester) but I'm panicked. You see, I'm a semi-in-the-closet atheist. I'm a de-converted catholic; a born again freethinker. I need your podcast to keep me sane. Also, my 15 year old son (who attends catholic schools) has stumbled onto your podcast and this has resulted in some great conversations between us. Please keep them coming as soon as you can and thanks for your work!!!!!!
- December 7, 2009 at 6:12 PM
- Michael Taylor said...
Great episode. I recently read Francis Collins' The Language of God and I grew weary of him constantly relying on Lewis as if Lewis's logic was sound.
- December 29, 2009 at 4:00 PM
- PrairiePlanter said...
Interesting episode. 'But on the topic of ethical universals...I think supporters of this notion often argue it by abstracting the ethical principle in question so much that many seemingly divergent behaviors qualify. Let's say (and I believe this is true) that most cultures would agree that they "respect women." But Culture A "respects women" by "protecting" their modesty, chastity, etc. by forcing them to wear concealing clothing, not go into public without a male relative, etc. Culture B, however, rejects such practices, and insists that "respect of women" implies virtual equality of treatment vis-a-vis men.
The universalist claims that "respect of women" is an ethical universal. But the practices couldn't be more different. Do we have "universal" (oops..."worldwide") if all people agree that "fruits are good and to be eaten," but some cultures say onions or rocks are "fruits"... ?
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|Navigating childhood is a challenge at the best of times.
Who would have known?
No one could have seen what I was hiding
I sift through every drawer in the house.
No clean underwear to be found.
Mom is sick and I cannot bother her.
I do what I must do, chin up, I go to school.
Do you see my pain? No, of course not.
I hide it from myself. I'm good that way.
I face the world; I face my friends.
I forget. I detach.
And I learn. How I love to learn.
A world of words and numbers and art,
Saves me.
My face, is a face that succeeds.
Until now. I am lost.
The armor steadfastly worn and endured,
weighs heavily on my desire of freedom.
I need to know the heart of mine,
That has ached and known fierce loneliness.
I will slowly remove the steely veil that separates,
Harnesses and hides.
I will practice telling the truth.
I will succeed.
Do you see my joy? Yes, you will.
I'm learning to show you my heart and to
Have no fear.
I do what I must do, chin up, I go to school.
— Colleen Juri
A Lesson to Be Learned appears in Last Call: Poems, Stories and Art from the Costalegre. We thank Colleen Juri for her contributions and continued support of the Bar None Group. You can find her on a little stretch of paradise in Mexico.


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Phantom Drummer of the Ogilvys
By Angusfolklore
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One of the most famous hauntings recorded in Angus also involved one of the most ancient families of the area, the Ogilvys who inhabited the castles of Cortachy and Airlie, among others. The alleged haunting came to prominence when it was included in Catherine Crowe's best-selling compendium of 'true' supernatural tales The Night Side of Nature (1848). Mrs Crowe states that a visitor named Margaret Dalrymple stayed for several days at Cortachy in 1845. While dressing for dinner on the first night she heard faint sound, like fifes playing, then a loud drum beat beneath her window. During dinner she asked the Earl of Airlie, 'My lord, who is your drummer?'
The earl turned pale and the countess looked upset, while the rest of the company appeared extremely embarrassed. Another guest later informed her that the Drummer was 'a person who goes about the house playing his drum whenever there is a death in the family. The last time he was heard was shortly before the death of the last Countess, the earl's former wife...The drummer boy is a very unpleasant subject here, I assure you.'
Ann Day, Miss Dalrymple's maid, had her own uncanny experience the next morning her employer was at breakfast. She heard a carriage draw up to the castle, followed by the distant sound of music and marching feet which gradually grew louder. She saw nothing when she went to the window and peered out. Worse was to come. She heard a drum beating, first outside and then inside the house. The sound came closer and closer, only stopping when it was directly outside her room. She was scared and perplexed by the incident; allegedly she had not heard the Drummer the previous day and claimed that she knew nothing about the legend.
Miss Dalrymple heard the Drummer a second time the following day. She left the castle the same morning. Five of six months later the Countess of Airlie passed away at Brighton. Among her papers was a note which stated that she was sure that the Drum had sounded for her.
The origin of the haunting was also detailed in The Night Side of Nature. A young drummer at Cortachy Castle had incurred the wrath of a former Lord Airlie by trying to woo his wife. Ogilvy angrily thrust the man through his own drum and hurled him from a window in the tower. Before the man died he cursed the Ogilvys of Airlie and Cortachy forever. The murder happened in the room which Miss Dalrymple later occupied. Local tradition says that the Drummer was the servant of a neighbouring laird who was constantly feuding with Ogilvy. He arrived with a message from his master which so enraged Lord Airlie that he killed the man in the manner previously described. Yet another version maintains that the Drummer was the outcast brother of Lord Airlie's wife.
In 1849, the Drummer was heard before the death of the 7th earl. A young Englishman was travelling up Glen Isla to join a shooting party at the Ogilvy property of Tulchan Lodge. Around half past eight in the evening, as he neared Tulchan, he became aware of a faint strain of fifes and drums. He asked the gillie travelling with him if he heard anything, but was told he did not, but the man told him it was 'uncanny to hear such things'. When they reached the lodge they discovered that Lord Ogilvy had left to travel to London to see his seriously ill father. The Earl of Airlie died the next day.
The next account came from Lady Mary Cameron of Lochiel, daughter of the 5th Duke of Buccleuch. one evening in 1881 at Achnacarry House in the Highlands she left her two friends along for a few minutes in a room. When she returned they were strangely silent. Two days later Lady Dalkeith asked her if there were any traditions of strange sounds in the family. Lady Cameron said there were no tales and Lady Dalkeith informed her that, while she had been out of the room, she and Lady Skelmersdale had heard a drum beating outside. She only mentioned it now because that day's newspaper carried a report that the 8th Earl of Airlie had died in Denver, Colorado, on the 25th September. They calculated the time difference and discovered that the Drummer had been heard around an hour fore the earl's death.
But why had the ghostly Drummer been heard at the home of the Camerons in Inverness-shire? Old Mrs Maclean of Ardgour supplied a fourth identity for the ghost:
Because the Drummer was a Cameron, and that the Ogilvys, thinking
he had betrayed them (to the Earl of Argyll), left him to perish when
Airlie Castle was burnt. The Drummer was said to have climbed to
the top of the Tower and to have continued to play the signal of alarm
till he was overwhelmed by the flames and protesting his innocence;
since that time he is supposed always to have been heard before the
death of any of the family of the House of Airlie.
The background to this tale was the Wars of the Covenant in the 17th century. James, 7th Lord Ogilvy (who became the first Earl of Airlie in 1639) was a staunch royalist and enemy of the Presbyterian Covenanters. One of his particular foes was the Campbell clan, headed by the 8th Earl of Argyll. In 1639 Argyll had ordered the earl of Montrose to take and destroy Airlie Castle. But Airlie's son Lord Ogilvy, a friend and cousin of Montrose, refused to surrender the house and Montrose retreated, giving the excuse that he had insufficient men to capture the castle.
But on 12th June, 1640, Argyll himself received a commission of fire and sword to march into Ogilvy lands. He arrived at Airlie on the 7th July with some five thousand men. Airlie was with the king in England. The house was occupied by Lord Airlie, his heavily pregnant wife and their children. Ogilvy escaped up the glen to Forter Castle and warned his mother about the raiders. Argyll dispatched a party to look for him at Iverquharity Castle, while another group wasted the lands of Lintrathen and drove off the cattle. Nearby Craig House, home of another of Airlie's cousins, was raided, but there was only a gentlewoman there, along with her servants.
With the fall of Airlie inevitable, Lady Ogilvy escaped south across the River Isla, going first to Dundee, then to Kinblethmont House, where her daughter Marion was born a few days later. Both Airlie and Forter castles were destroyed by Argyll. The attack was commemorated in the famous, if inaccurate, ballad 'The Bonnie House o' Airlie':
Lady Ogilvy looked frae her high castle wa',
An' oh, but she sighed sairly,
To see Argyll an' a' his men
Come to plunder the bonnie hoose o' Airlie...
The phantom Drummer sounded again in 1884, before the death of the Countess of Airlie. It was also apparently heard in 1900 when David, the 9th earl, died in the Boer War, at Diamond Hill in South Africa. One Sunday a British officer in camp heard a military band playing. This was forbidden at Bloemfontain, so the officer complained. But he was told that there was no band in the camp. Music was also heard in the sergeants' mess. This happened shortly before the earl's death.
But the Drummer seems to have retired at the start of the 20th century. A visitor to the turret room at Cortachy in that century saw the drum, describing it as being in two pieces, without any parchment.
It is tempting to dismiss the story of the Drummer as a melodramatic, literary invention of the Victorian era, and indeed it seems to have affinities with the heavily stylised tale of the Monster of Glamis castle, only a few miles away, was also being written about in the late 19th century. Certainly there are other phantom drummers in Britain, and various other death warnings associated with various families.
But could it be that there warnings are descended from memories of banshee traditions linked to certain ancient kindreds? The Ogilvy family was an offshoot of the original Celtic Earls of Angus, whose own origins may have been a hybridisation of Pictish and Gaelic nobility. There were other omens associated with the family. When a ram appeared in the Den of Airlie it meant a death in the family. There is no story explaining this. Another portend was when a certain stone in the river South Esk, near Cortachy kirk, was submerged under water; again this signified an Ogilvy fatality. When an Ogilvy baby was due its sex could be determined by observing which was the water flowed around this oracular stone. The stone is said to have come from the top of Tulloch Hill (where there is now a monument to the 9th Earl of Airlie). Here the Devil once stood and flung a boulder at the minister of Cortachy kirk, who was slandering him too volubly. The stone fell short and landed in the river.
The Den of Airlie is haunted ground. a nameless 'thing' prowls the banks of the Melgam Water here at a certain time of night, always sensed and never seen. Here also is an odd, crooked tree which no animal will ever approach. It has saw marks upon it, but whoever decided to attack it changed his mind halfway through or was made to do so.
Those further interested in the folkore of Angus can consult my blog: http://angusfolklore.blogspot.co.uk/
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Breakup of liquid droplets
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Liquid droplet breakup and dynamics is a phenomena of immense practical importance in a wide variety of applications in science and engineering. Albeit, researchers have been studying this problem for over six decades, the fundamental physics governing droplet deformation and fragmentation is still unknown, not to mention the formulation and development of generalized correlations to predict droplet dynamics. The presence of disparate length and time scales, along with the complex unsteady physics, makes this a formidable problem, theoretically, experimentally and computationally. One of the important applications of interest and the motivation for the current research is a liquid fueled propulsion device, such as diesel, gas turbine or rocket engine. Droplet vaporization and ensuing combustion is accelerated if the droplet size is smaller, which makes any process leading to a reduction in drop size of prime importance in the combustion system design. This thesis is an attempt to address several unanswered questions currently confronting the spray community. Unanswered questions include identification and prediction of breakup modes at varying operating conditions, quantitative description of fundamental processes underlying droplet breakup and generalized correlations for child droplet size distributions and drag coefficient associated with the deformation and fragmentation of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids. The present work is aimed at answering the above questions by investigating the detailed flowfield and structure dynamics of liquid droplet breakup process and extracting essential physics governing this complex multiphase phenomena. High-fidelity direct numerical simulations are conducted using a volume-of-fluid (VOF) interface capturing methodology. To isolate the hydrodynamic mechanisms dictating droplet breakup phenomena, evaporation and compressibility are neglected, and numerical studies are performed for incompressible fluids at isothermal conditions. For Newtonian fluids, four different mechanisms are identified- oscillatory, bag, multimode and shear breakup modes. Various events during the deformation and fragmentation process are quantitatively identified and correlations are developed to predict the breakup mechanisms and droplet size distributions for a broad range of operating conditions. It was found that for We > 300 and Oh < 0.1 for rho_l/rho_g = 8.29, the child droplet size distributions can be modeled by a log-normal distribution. A correlation to predict the sauter mean diameter, d32, is also developed, given by d32 / D = 8We^-0.72 / Cd. Temporal evolution of momentum balance and droplet structure are also used to calculate the drag coefficient at each time step from first principles. Results show that the drag coefficient first increases to a maximum as the droplet frontal area increases and then decreases at the initiation of breakup. The drag coefficient reaches a steady value at the end of droplet lifetime, corresponding to the momentum retained by the droplet. A correlation to predict the time-mean drag coefficient given by, Cd / Cd,0 = 2We-^0.175, is developed, which indicates that the time averaged drag coefficient decreases with Weber number. The motivation to study non-Newtonian liquid droplet breakup stems from the various advantages gelled propellants offer as compared to traditional liquid or solid propellants in combustion systems, particularly in rocket engines. It was found that the breakup behavior of pseudoplastic, non-Newtonian liquids is drastically different as compared to Newtonian droplets. Several flow features commonly exhibited by non-Newtonian fluids are observed during the breakup process. The breakup initiates with the formation of beads-in-a-string due to the non-Newtonian nature of the fluid under consideration. This is followed by rapid rotation of the droplet with the appearance of helical instability and liquid budges, which forms the sites for primary and satellite droplet shedding. Child droplet size distribution are also examined and it is found that a Gaussian curve universally characterizes the droplets produced during non-Newtonian droplet breakup process. To put all things in perspective, the objectives of the thesis were two folds: (1) elucidate breakup physics for Newtonian and non-Newtonian liquid droplet deformation and breakup, and (2) develop correlations which can be used in an Eulerian-Lagrangian framework to study large-scale engineering problems. It is hoped that this research contributed to droplet breakup and dynamics literature by providing a more thorough and quantitative understanding of the breakup phenomena of liquid droplets and furnished models which can be used in future research endeavors.
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Book Summary:
"We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful" is the motto of Deza Malone's family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, singled out by teachers for a special path in life. But it's 1936 and the Great Depression has hit Gary hard, and there are no jobs for black men. When her beloved father leaves to find work, Deza, Mother, and her older brother, Jimmie, go in search of him, and end up in a Hooverville outside Flint, Michigan. Jimmie's beautiful voice inspires him to leave the camp to be a performer, while Deza and Mother find a new home, and cling to the hope that they will find Father. The twists and turns of their story reveal the devastation of the Depression and prove that Deza truly is the Mighty Miss Malone.
My thoughts:
I'm a sucker for Young Adult fiction. Some of the best books in my opinion come from that category. The Mighty Miss Malone is no exception.
This book is set in the 1930's and the author really gives the reader an idea of how it was for an African American family in the north during that time. Deza is an especially fun character, full of energy and spunk. I love that she's an avid reader, and I love even more when she discovers books that she truly loves.
You will love her family with all the struggles and mishaps they endure. Her father is crazy funny, her brother is super talented, and her mother is hardworking. I love the historical aspect and how younger readers can still relate with Deza and her family, even though the book is set in a totally different time and place. I would really love to see more books like this being published for our youth.
I rate this book 5 out of 5 stars