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Blunted affect
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blunted affect is the clinical term describing a lack of emotional reactivity (affect display) on the part of an individual. It is manifest as a failure to express feelings either verbally or non-verbally, especially when talking about issues that would normally be expected to engage the emotions. Expressive gestures are rare and there is little animation in facial expression or vocal inflection. Conversely, there may be poor modulation of feelings as well, with reduced expression punctuated by periods of very strong expression, including laughing uncontrollably, crying inconsolably, and outbursts of anger.
Blunted affect can be symptomatic of schizophrenia, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, or brain damage. It is also a common symptom of Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Syndrome. "The difference between flat and blunted affect is in degree. A person with flat affect has no or nearly no emotional expression. He or she may not react at all to circumstances that usually evoke strong emotions in others. A person with blunted affect, on the other hand, has a significantly reduced intensity in emotional expression". Individuals with blunted or flat affect show different regional brain activity when compared with healthy individuals.
Clinical diagnoses with symptom of blunted affect
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was previously known to cause negative feelings, such as depressed mood, re-experiencing and hyperarousal. However, recently, psychologists have started to focus their attention on the blunted affects and also the decrease in feeling and expressing positive emotions in PTSD patients. Blunted affect, or emotional numbness, is considered one of the consequences of PTSD because it causes a diminished interest in activities that produce pleasure (anhedonia) and produces feelings of detachment from others, restricted emotional expression and a reduced tendency to express emotions behaviorally. Blunted affect is often seen in veterans as a consequence of the psychological stressful experiences that caused PTSD. Blunted affect is a response to PTSD, it is considered one of the central symptoms in post-traumatic stress disorders and it is often seen in veterans who served in combat zones. In PTSD, blunted affect can be considered a psychological response to PTSD as a way to combat overwhelming anxiety that the patients feel. In blunted affect, there are abnormalities in circuits that also include the prefrontal cortex.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiential_avoidance
Experiential avoidance
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Experiential avoidance (EA) has been broadly defined as attempts to avoid thoughts, feelings, memories, physical sensations, and other internal experiences—even when doing so creates harm in the long-run. The process of EA is thought to be maintained through negative reinforcement—that is, short-term relief of discomfort is achieved through avoidance, thereby increasing the likelihood that the behavior will persist. Importantly, the current conceptualization of EA suggests that it is not negative thoughts, emotions, and sensations that are problematic, but how one responds to them that can cause difficulties. In particular, a habitual and persistent unwillingness to experience uncomfortable thoughts and feelings (and the associated avoidance and inhibition of these experiences) is thought to be linked to a wide range of problems.
Problems Associated with EA
Distress is an inextricable part of life, therefore, avoidance is often only a temporary "solution."
Avoidance reinforces the notion that discomfort/distress/anxiety is "bad," or "dangerous."
Sustaining avoidance often requires effort and energy.
Avoidance limits one's focus at the expense of fully experiencing what is going on in the present.
Avoidance may get in the way of other important, valued aspects of life.
Empirical Evidence
Laboratory based thought suppression studies suggest avoidance is paradoxical, in that concerted attempts at suppression of a particular thought often leads to an increase of that thought.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 11/4/2006 6:05 PM
I wrote recently about those two service-connected disability claim assessments were on 4/27 and 5/4, which seem important. Also, as I noticed yesterday, the first one was at 509 Olive Way and it was near that address where I passed the USN Commander with JAG shoulder boards. The doctor was named “Raney”
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 04 November 2006 excerpt ends]
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie1.html
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
SULU: Tractor beam remains constant.
DIFALCO: We are seventeen kilometres inside the vessel.
DECKER: Engineering, show me your readings.
SCOTT (on intercom): Deck four, that temperature should read one zero one three degrees.
DECKER (OC): Please confirm.
KIRK: Spock. ...Spock?
(as Spock turns Kirk and McCoy see that he is crying)
KIRK: Not for us?
SPOCK: No, Captain, not for us, ...for V'Ger. ...I weep for V'Ger, as I would for a brother.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 2:39 PM
To: Anne_
Subject: Re: Your Medical Records from the VA Hospital
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I met with Dr. Raney on 4/27/06 and with Dr. Doederlein on 5/4/06.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 28 June 2006 excerpt ends]
http://www.e-reading.ws/bookreader.php/71036/Orwell_-_1984.html
George Orwell
1984
Part Three
Chapter 2
'The truth, please, Winston. Your truth. Tell me what you think you remember.'
'I remember that until only a week before I was arrested, we were not at war with Eastasia at all. We were in alliance with them. The war was against Eurasia. That had lasted for four years. Before that —'
O'Brien stopped him with a movement of the hand.
'Another example,' he said. 'Some years ago you had a very serious delusion indeed. You believed that three men, three onetime Party members named Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford men who were executed for treachery and sabotage after making the fullest possible confession — were not guilty of the crimes they were charged with. You believed that you had seen unmistakable documentary evidence proving that their confessions were false. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this.'
An oblong slip of newspaper had appeared between O'Brien's fingers. For perhaps five seconds it was within the angle of Winston's vision. It was a photograph, and there was no question of its identity. It was the photograph. It was another copy of the photograph of Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford at the party function in New York, which he had chanced upon eleven years ago and promptly destroyed. For only an instant it was before his eyes, then it was out of sight again. But he had seen it, unquestionably he had seen it! He made a desperate, agonizing effort to wrench the top half of his body free. It was impossible to move so much as a centimetre in any direction. For the moment he had even forgotten the dial. All he wanted was to hold the photograph in his fingers again, or at least to see it.
'It exists!' he cried.
'No,' said O'Brien.
He stepped across the room. There was a memory hole in the opposite wall. O'Brien lifted the grating. Unseen, the frail slip of paper was whirling away on the current of warm air; it was vanishing in a flash of flame. O'Brien turned away from the wall.
'Ashes,' he said. 'Not even identifiable ashes. Dust. It does not exist. It never existed.'
'But it did exist! It does exist! It exists in memory. I remember it. You remember it.'
'I do not remember it,' said O'Brien.
Winston's heart sank. That was doublethink. He had a feeling of deadly helplessness. If he could have been certain that O'Brien was lying, it would not have seemed to matter. But it was perfectly possible that O'Brien had really forgotten the photograph. And if so, then already he would have forgotten his denial of remembering it, and forgotten the act of forgetting. How could one be sure that it was simple trickery? Perhaps that lunatic dislocation in the mind could really happen: that was the thought that defeated him.
O'Brien was looking down at him speculatively. More than ever he had the air of a teacher taking pains with a wayward but promising child.
'There is a Party slogan dealing with the control of the past,' he said. 'Repeat it, if you please.'
'"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,"' repeated Winston obediently.
'"Who controls the present controls the past,"' said O'Brien, nodding his head with slow approval. 'Is it your opinion, Winston, that the past has real existence?'
Again the feeling of helplessness descended upon Winston. His eyes flitted towards the dial. He not only did not know whether 'yes' or 'no' was the answer that would save him from pain; he did not even know which answer he believed to be the true one.
O'Brien smiled faintly. 'You are no metaphysician, Winston,' he said. 'Until this moment you had never considered what is meant by existence. I will put it more precisely. Does the past exist concretely, in space? Is there somewhere or other a place, a world of solid objects, where the past is still happening?'
'No.'
'Then where does the past exist, if at all?'
'In records. It is written down.'
'In records. And —?'
'In the mind. In human memories.'
'In memory. Very well, then. We, the Party, control all records, and we control all memories. Then we control the past, do we not?'
'But how can you stop people remembering things?' cried Winston again momentarily forgetting the dial. 'It is involuntary. It is outside oneself. How can you control memory? You have not controlled mine!'
O'Brien's manner grew stern again. He laid his hand on the dial.
'On the contrary,' he said, 'you have not controlled it. That is what has brought you here. You are here because you have failed in humility, in self-discipline. You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity. You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one. Only the disciplined mind can see reality, Winston.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thu, May 4, 2006 3:12:00 PM
Subject: Re: Sleep journal 5/4/06
Kerry Burgess wrote:
After my short nap yesterday late evening, when back to sleep after midnight and slept pretty soundly until after 7. Had a dream that seemed to occur just before I woke up. I was inside some kind of missile. Seems like it was an SM2-ER on the Wainwright's launcher and it was going to send me into orbit or outer space maybe. When I woke up, I heard lyrics from that song:
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 04 May 2006 excerpt ends]
From 11/27/1955 ( Bill Nye ) To 4/27/2006 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 ) is 9207 days
From 11/27/1955 ( Bill Nye ) To 4/27/2006 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( the Persian Gulf War begins ) is 9207 days
From 1/30/1910 ( Granville Woods deceased ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 ) is 29572 days
29572 = 14786 + 14786
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/27/2006 is 14786 days
From 1/30/1910 ( Granville Woods deceased ) To 1/17/1991 ( the Persian Gulf War begins ) is 29572 days
29572 = 14786 + 14786
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/27/2006 is 14786 days
From 2/17/1909 ( Geronimo deceased ) To 2/4/1990 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Bart the General" ) is 29572 days
29572 = 14786 + 14786
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/27/2006 is 14786 days
From 2/17/1909 ( Geronimo deceased ) To 8/12/1949 ( premiere US film "Tar with a Star" ) is 14786 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/27/2006 is 14786 days
From 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice ) To 4/27/2006 is 4846 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/8/1979 ( premiere US TV series episode "Nova"::"Patterns from the Past" ) is 4846 days
From 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice ) To 4/27/2006 is 4846 days
4846 = 2423 + 2423
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/21/1972 ( premiere US film "The Groundstar Conspiracy" ) is 2423 days
From 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice ) To 4/27/2006 is 4846 days
4846 = 2423 + 2423
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/21/1972 ( premiere US film "Beware! The Blob" ) is 2423 days
From 7/27/1952 ( premiere US film "Sea Tiger" ) To 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice ) is 14786 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/27/2006 is 14786 days
From 5/21/1969 ( the Princeton University doctor of medicine degree graduation of my biological brother Dr Thomas Reagan MD ) To 4/27/2006 is 13490 days
13490 = 6745 + 6745
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/21/1984 ( premiere US TV series episode "Too Close for Comfort"::"Just Another Pretty Face" ) is 6745 days
From 5/16/2002 ( premiere US film "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones" ) To 4/27/2006 is 1442 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/14/1969 ( premiere US TV movie "Wake Me When the War Is Over" ) is 1442 days
From 5/16/2002 ( the George Bush Gold Medal ceremony ) To 4/27/2006 is 1442 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/14/1969 ( premiere US TV movie "Wake Me When the War Is Over" ) is 1442 days
From 1/12/1954 ( premiere US film "Crime Wave" ) To 4/27/2006 is 19098 days
19098 = 9549 + 9549
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 9549 days
From 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 4/27/2006 is 5237 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/5/1980 ( premiere US TV series "Beyond Westworld" ) is 5237 days
From 9/21/1950 ( Bill Murray ) To 3/16/1991 ( date hijacked from me:my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) is 14786 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/27/2006 is 14786 days
From 8/3/1955 ( premiere US film "To Catch a Thief" ) To 4/27/2006 is 18530 days
18530 = 9265 + 9265
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/16/1991 ( date hijacked from me:my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) is 9265 days
From 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Monaco Grand Prix ) To 4/27/2006 is 5464 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/18/1980 ( the United States Navy warship USS Arkansas CGN 41 commissioned into United States Navy battle force fleet service ) is 5464 days
From 2/19/1978 ( premiere US TV series "Project UFO" ) To 4/27/2006 is 10294 days
10294 = 5147 + 5147
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/6/1979 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" ) is 5147 days
From 12/22/1948 ( premiere US film "The Dark Past" ) To 6/16/1989 ( premiere US film "Ghostbusters II" ) is 14786 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/27/2006 is 14786 days
From 5/31/1948 ( premiere US film "Secret Service Investigator" ) To 11/23/1988 ( premiere US film "Scrooged" ) is 14786 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/27/2006 is 14786 days
From 3/25/1944 ( premiere US film "Night in Mexico City" ) To 4/27/2006 is 22678 days
22678 = 11339 + 11339
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 11339 days
From 8/21/1956 ( premiere US film "War and Peace" ) To 2/13/1997 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut I begin repairing the US Hubble Telescope while in space and orbit of the planet Earth ) is 14786 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/27/2006 is 14786 days
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash ) To 4/27/2006 is 6126 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/11/1982 ( premiere US TV movie "The Astronauts" ) is 6126 days
From 4/9/1986 ( "Fooey" ) To 4/27/2006 is 7323 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/20/1985 ( Microsoft Windows 1.0 ) is 7323 days
From 12/15/1943 ( premiere US film "Madame Curie" ) To 6/8/1984 ( premiere US film "Gremlins" ) is 14786 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/27/2006 is 14786 days
From 1/22/1964 ( premiere US film "Pyro... The Thing Without a Face" ) To 7/16/2004 ( premiere US TV series "Stargate: Atlantis" ) is 14786 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/27/2006 is 14786 days
From 1/2/1914 ( premiere US film "Prince" ) To 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 29572 days
29572 = 14786 + 14786
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/27/2006 is 14786 days
From 10/28/1955 ( Bill Gates ) To 4/21/1996 ( premiere US TV movie "Captain Courageous" ) is 14786 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/27/2006 is 14786 days
From 10/28/1955 ( Bill Gates ) To 4/21/1996 ( Dzhokhar Dudayev killed during missile attack ) is 14786 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/27/2006 is 14786 days
From 12/20/1917 ( the Cheka formed in Russia ) To 12/7/1998 ( my first day working at Microsoft Corporation as the known official Chief Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and the active duty United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel circa 1998 ) is 29572 days
29572 = 14786 + 14786
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/27/2006 is 14786 days
From 1/27/1900 ( Hyman G. Rickover ) To 1/14/1981 ( premiere US film "Scanners" ) is 29572 days
29572 = 14786 + 14786
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/27/2006 is 14786 days
From 8/3/1998 ( Tom Clancy "Rainbow Six" ) To 4/27/2006 is 2824 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/27/1973 ( premiere US film "The Last American Hero" ) is 2824 days
From 8/3/1998 ( Tom Clancy "Rainbow Six" ) To 4/27/2006 is 2824 days
2824 = 1412 + 1412
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/14/1969 ( premiere US TV series "The Bold Ones: The New Doctors" ) is 1412 days
From 4/27/2006 To 8/29/2007 ( the United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident ) is 489 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/6/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Road West"::"Never Chase a Rainbow" ) is 489 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046878/releaseinfo
IMDb
Crime Wave (1954)
Release Info
USA 12 January 1954 (New York City, New York)
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/bart-the-general-1290/trivia/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 1 Episode 5
Bart the General
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Feb 04, 1990 on FOX
Quotes
(Grampa writes a disgruntled letter to TV advertisers.)
Grampa: Dear Advertisers, I am disgusted with the way old people are depicted on television. We are not all vibrant, fun-loving sex maniacs. Many of us are bitter, resentful individuals who remember the good old days when entertainment was bland and inoffensive. The following is a list of words I never want to hear on televison again. Number one: bra. Number two: horny. Number three: family jewels.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0152906/releaseinfo
IMDb
Tar with a Star (1949)
Release Info
USA 12 August 1949
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0152906/fullcredits
IMDb
Tar with a Star (1949)
Full Cast & Crew
Jack Mercer ... Popeye (voice)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040768/releaseinfo
IMDb
Secret Service Investigator (1948)
Release Info
USA 31 May 1948
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie1.html
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
SULU: Tractor beam remains constant.
DIFALCO: We are seventeen kilometres inside the vessel.
DECKER: Engineering, show me your readings.
SCOTT (on intercom): Deck four, that temperature should read one zero one three degrees.
DECKER (OC): Please confirm.
KIRK: Spock. ...Spock?
(as Spock turns Kirk and McCoy see that he is crying)
KIRK: Not for us?
SPOCK: No, Captain, not for us, ...for V'Ger. ...I weep for V'Ger, as I would for a brother. As I was when I came aboard, so is V'Ger now, empty, incomplete, ...searching. Logic and knowledge are not enough.
McCOY: Spock, are you saying that you've found, what you needed, but V'Ger hasn't?
DECKER: What would V'Ger need to fulfil itself?
SPOCK: Each of us, at some time in our life, turns to someone, a father, a brother, a god and asks 'Why am I here?' 'What was I meant to be?' V'Ger hopes to touch its Creator to find its answers.
KIRK: 'Is this all that I am? Is there nothing more?'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081455/releaseinfo
IMDb
Scanners (1981)
Release Info
USA 14 January 1981
http://www.tv.com/shows/project-ufo/sighting-4001-the-washington-d-c-incident-134321/
tv.com
Project UFO Season 1 Episode 1
Sighting 4001: The Washington D.C. Incident
Aired Sunday 10:00 PM Feb 19, 1978 on NBC
AIRED: 2/19/78
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240761/releaseinfo
IMDb
Night in Mexico City (1944)
Release Info
USA 25 March 1944
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact
[Montana settlement bar]
(rock and roll music is blaring out of a jukebox)
RIKER: Deanna! ...Deanna! Deanna!
(Riker rips out the power lead silencing the music)
TROI: No! No, don't turn it off that...
COCHRANE: Who is this jerk? ...And who told him he could turn off my music?
TROI: Will Riker. ...Zefram Cochrane.
COCHRANE: Is he a friend of yours?
TROI: Yes.
COCHRANE: Husband?
TROI: No.
COCHRANE: Good! ...Now this, Deena...
TROI: Deanna.
COCHRANE: This ...is the good stuff.
RIKER: Doctor Cochrane...
COCHRANE: To the Phoenix. ...May she rest in peace.
(Cochrane and Troi knock back their slugs with some reaction)
COCHRANE: Okay, that wasn't so good.
TROI: Will, I think we have to tell him the truth.
RIKER: If we tell the truth the timeline...
TROI: Timeline! This is no time to argue about time. We don't have the time! ...What was I saying?
RIKER: You're drunk.
TROI: I am not.
RIKER: You are.
TROI: Look. He wouldn't even talk to me unless I had a drink with him. And then it took three shots of something called tequila just to find out he was the one we're looking for. And I've spent the last twenty minutes trying to keep his hands off me. So don't go criticising my counselling techniques. ...It's a primitive culture. I'm just trying to blend in.
RIKER: You're blending all right.
TROI: I've already told him our cover story. He didn't believe me.
RIKER: Yes. We're running out of time. Now if we tell him the truth do you think he'll be able to handle it?
TROI: If you're looking for my professional opinion as ship's Counselor, ...he's nuts.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070287/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Last American Hero (1973)
Release Info
USA 27 July 1973
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070287/fullcredits
IMDb
The Last American Hero (1973)
Full Cast & Crew
Jeff Bridges ... Elroy Jackson Jr.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070287/
IMDb
The Last American Hero (1973)
A young hellraiser quits his moonshine business to try to become the best NASCAR racer the south had ever seen.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040270/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Dark Past (1948)
Release Info
USA 22 December 1948 (New York City, New York)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040270/plotsummary
IMDb
The Dark Past (1948)
Plot Summary
When a detective scoffs at his suggestion that an 18 year-old criminal be referred for psychiatric examination Dr. Andrew Collins, the police psychiatrist, tells him the story of his encounter with Al Walker. Walker had a history of violence and killed the prison warden during an escape. He and his gang took the Collins family and their friends hostage but when Dr. Collins learns that Walker has a violent recurring dream, he offers to help him decipher the dream and determine exactly what has driven him to a life of crime and violence.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097428/quotes
IMDb
Ghostbusters II (1989)
Quotes
Peter Venkman: Don't look at me. I think these people are completely nuts.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040270/quotes
IMDb
The Dark Past (1948)
Quotes
Dr. Andrew Collins: Perhaps the memory that causes your dream has something to do with your family, your mother maybe.
Al Walker: We've been all through that, haven't we? We finished with her!
Dr. Andrew Collins: No, you're not! You'll never be!
Al Walker: But she's dead. She meant nothing to me when she was alive!
Dr. Andrew Collins: She's the only woman you ever really loved. Allthe other women in your life are substitutes for her!
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Bill Nye
Biography
Date of Birth 27 November 1955 , Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Birth Name William Sanford Nye
Nicknames Bill Nye the Science Guy
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Granville T. Woods Biography
Inventor (1856–1910)
Synopsis
Granville T. Woods was born in Columbus, Ohio, on April 23, 1856, to free African-Americans. He held various engineering and industrial jobs before establishing a company to develop electrical apparatus. Known as "Black Edison," he registered nearly 60 patents in his lifetime, including a telephone transmitter, a trolley wheel and the multiplex telegraph (over which he defeated a lawsuit by Thomas Edison). Woods died in 1910.
Early Life
Born in Columbis, Ohio, on April 23, 1856, to free African Americans, Granville T. Woods received little schooling as a young man and, in his early teens, took up a variety of jobs, including as a railroad engineer in a railroad machine shop, as an engineer on a British ship in a steel mill, and as a railroad worker. From 1876 to 1878, Woods lived in New York City, taking courses in engineering and electricity—a subject that he realized, early on, held the key to the future.
Back in Ohio in the summer of 1878, Woods was employed for eight months by the Springfield, Jackson and Pomeroy Railroad Company to work at the pumping stations and the shifting of cars in the city of Washington Court House, Ohio. He was then employed by the Dayton and Southeastern Railway Company as an engineer for 13 months.
During this period, while traveling between Washington Court House and Dayton, Woods began to form ideas for what would later be credited as his most important invention: the "inductor telegraph." He worked in the area until the spring of 1880, and then moved to Cincinnati.
Early Inventing Career
Living in Cincinnati, Woods eventually set up his own company to develop, manufacture and sell electrical apparatus, and in 1889, he filed his first patent for an improved steam boiler furnace. His later patents were mainly for electrical devices, including his second invention, an improved telephone transmitter.
The patent for his device, which combined the telephone and telegraph, was bought by Alexander Graham Bell, and the payment freed Woods to devote himself to his own research. One of his most important inventions was the "troller," a grooved metal wheel that allowed street cars (later known as "trolleys") to collect electric power from overhead wires.
Induction Telegraph
Woods's most important invention was the multiplex telegraph, also known as the "induction telegraph," or block system, in 1887. The device allowed men to communicate by voice over telegraph wires, ultimately helping to speed up important communications and, subsequently, preventing crucial errors such as train accidents. Woods defeated Thomas Edison's lawsuit that challenged his patent, and turned down Edison's offer to make him a partner. Thereafter, Woods was often known as "Black Edison."
After receiving the patent for the multiplex telegraph, Woods reorganized his Cincinnati company as the Woods Electric Co. In 1890, he moved his own research operations to New York City, where he was joined by a brother, Lyates Woods, who also had several inventions of his own.
Woods's next most important invention was the power pick-up device in 1901, which is the basis of the so-called "third rail" currently used by electric-powered transit systems. From 1902 to 1905, he received patents for an improved air-brake system.
Death and Legacy
By the time of his death, on January 30, 1910, in New York City, Granville T. Woods had invented 15 appliances for electric railways. received nearly 60 patents, many of which were assigned to the major manufacturers of electrical equipment that are a part of today's daily life.
Quick Facts
Name Granville T. Woods
Occupation Inventor
Birth Date April 23, 1856
Death Date January 30, 1910
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Bill Murray
Biography
Date of Birth 21 September 1950 , Wilmette, Illinois, USA
Birth Name William James Murray
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Hyman G. Rickover
Hyman G. Rickover, in full Hyman George Rickover (born Jan. 27, 1900, Makov, Russia—died July 8, 1986, Arlington, Va., U.S.), American naval officer and engineer who developed the world’s first nuclear-powered engines and the first atomic-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, launched in 1954.
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Star Trek: First Contact
COCHRANE: Ha, ha, ha. That's a trick. Ha, ha, ha. How'd you do that?
LAFORGE: It's your telescope.
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To Catch a Thief (1955)
Release Dates
USA 3 August 1955 (Los Angeles, California)
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Full cast and crew for
To Catch a Thief (1955)
Cary Grant ... John Robie
Grace Kelly ... Frances Stevens
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Dzhokhar Dudayev
(born 1944, U.S.S.R.—died April 21, 1996, near Gekhi-Chu, Chechnya, Russia), Chechen separatist leader and former Soviet military officer who made a declaration of Chechen independence, after his victory in Chechnya’s 1991 presidential election, that resulted in prolonged fighting with Russia, which refused to allow the secession. He was killed during a missile attack.
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HISTORY
Australia & New Zealand
This Day In HISTORY
December 20, 1917
Bolshevik Secret Police Founded
"On this day in 1917, wasting little time after the revolution, Vladimir Lenin called for the founding of the Bolshevik’s security apparatus and the forerunner of the KGB, the Cheka. Officially titled VCheKA, the transliteration of the acronym for the Russian words for All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counterrevolution and Sabotage, the Cheka was a brutal organisation, compared often to the Nazi’s Gestapo.
The newly formed Cheka was headed by a Polish-born nobleman named Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky. Dzerzhinsky, like many revolutionaries, had spent much of the past two decades attempting to elude the Czarist secret police. He is said to have been arrested six times and was exiled to Siberia. The Czar’s Siberian labour camps were hotbeds for revolutionary activity and were, of course, the basis for what would become the Soviet Union’s infamous Gulag.
Following the October Revolution in which the Bolshevik-led uprising effectively overthrew the state, the secret police was formed to combat counterrevolutionary activities and to root out potential saboteurs–in other words, to solidify the new dictatorship. Dzerzhinsky, or Iron Felix, as he was known, was appointed as the lead. With fanatical ruthlessness, he embarked on one of history’s most appalling undertakings: imprisoning, tutoring, and executing countless victims. Deemed ""enemies of the state,"" Dzerzhinsky went after, amongst others, the former nobility, the clergy, and the bourgeoisie, perhaps with a gusto that reflected his own insecurity with his noble background. Within four years, and through the Russian Civil War, it is thought that the Cheka was responsible for the deaths of over 140,000 people.
The Cheka would evolve into the GPU (State Political Administration) in 1922 and, under Stalin, the NKVD (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs) in 1934. Its capacity for orchestrating terror ebbed and flowed over the years, but its early days under Dzerzhinsky were only matched in horror by those under Stalin. In 1954, the security apparatus became the KGB (Committee for State Security), and despite the ongoing Cold War, it continued its obsessive preoccupation with domestic activity. In 1994, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the KGB was succeeding by the FSB (Federal Security Service). President Vladimir Putin served as the director of the FSB in 1998 before becoming prime minister for the first time."
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thu, May 4, 2006 3:12:00 PM
Subject: Re: Sleep journal 5/4/06
And imagine your absolute worst roommate you ever had. Then imagine someone a million times worse. Then imagine having to live with 70 of them. Then imagine having to cope with all of you every where I go. Then imagine having not one single moment or shred of privacy where every minute, every second of the day, every day, every week, every month, every year, every single sound you make is heard and recorded by someone. It is worse than unbearable. I cannot begin to articulate how unbearable is this. It is a waking nightmare that is so captivating and so oppresive and I just can't wake up from it.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 04 May 2006 excerpt ends]
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Scanners
Welcome to our little psychic gymnasium.
Cameron Vale...
You'll please meet...
Yoga master Dieter Tautz.
Mr. Tautz has kindly consented
to be your psychic sparring partner.
He has publicly demonstrated on many occasions
that by the power of his will.
He can control his heart rate,
his alpha-wave rhythm,
and many other supposedly uncontrollable functions of the human body.
Are we ready?
Just about.
Proceed.
If you would be kind enough to sit facing this gentleman here.
I want you...
I want you to...
slowly release your scan.
Slowly, with focus.
I want it to touch his heart but not his brain.
You understand?
Telepathy is not mind reading.
It is the direct linking
of 2 nervous systems
separated by space.
I want you to make a link...
from your brain...
to his heart.
I want your brain
to make his heart...
beat fast.
Now, if his heart beats too quickly...
then he will take over control of his heart...
and slow it down.
Don't worry about it.
All you have to do...
is make his heart...
beat...
fast.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thu, May 4, 2006 3:12:00 PM
Subject: Re: Sleep journal 5/4/06
Kerry Burgess wrote:
Didn't start feeling alert until 9 am. That's when I realized I had a doctor's appt at 10am and I didn't know where it was. They sent me a map with driving directions but I had no idea which bus got there. I could have found it in 2 minutes if I had an internet connection, but I did not. I knew there was some kind of automated line for Metro but I didn't know the number or even if it would give me the info I needed. I imagined I would spend 30 minutes standing around on the phone and still not know what I needed to know. According to the map, the office was somewhere about 3.5 miles away. Two years ago, I could run that far in a half hour and I figured I could probably walk it now and get there no more than half an hour late. I was 18 minutes late. The doctor examined the hip injury from when I was in the Navy. I can't remember when the injury actually occurred. There were several things that could have caused it. I think I may have slammed into the bulwark when I was trying to avoid the anchor chain. Another time, I grabbed onto a cable that was supposed to be grounded, but I grabbed it before the guy with the grounding wand could hit it. A good lesson perhaps in overtraining. I remember my feet hurting for a while after that, but I didn't feel any kind of shock at the time. I used to wear a knife and another tool on my belt and it rested against my hip, but I can't remember if I was wearing it that day. The worst part, today, was walking around trying to get to the doctor's office and having this overwhelming feeling that everyone around me, walking, driving, they all were wondering how I was going to make it there on time. They all knew where I was supposed to be and they were all watching me like I am some kind of reality show contestant. It is overwhelming at times. I suppose it is, in some minor ways, not unlike a major leaque baseball player feels, at least some of them, when they are trying to make their first catch of a pop fly to the outfield. But this is worse. This all is just evil. The level of deception over all these years is just beyond evil. There are probably a lot of egomaniacs that fantasized about this kind of attention, but I never have. It is lunacy beyond articulation.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 04 May 2006 excerpt ends]
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Scanners (1981)
Full Cast & Crew
Fred Doederlein ... Dieter Tautz
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Scanners
You're 35 years old, Mr. Vale.
Why are you such a derelict?
Such a piece of human junk?
The answer's simple.
You're a scanner,
but you don't realize it,
and that has been the source of all your agony.
But I will show you now
that it can be a source of great power.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 08/16/08 12:20 AM
I was thinking of how my wife Phoebe was showing off to my grandmother a collection of art I had created for her over the years such as medallions and so on. In one case though I had given her the medal of a Navy Cross I had received during the Vietnam War and I created an elaborate cover story for explaining where I got that item and I never did tell her that the item was a Navy Cross medal and I am not certain if she ever figured that out. So anyway, the story was elaborate and I told her among the details that I was overseas sometime around the timeframe of 1970 or earlier or later and I got that item from a shoebox a woman gave that included some items such as a wristwatch and other items and that woman was named Charlie. My grandmother pondered that detail and never did elaborate on what that meant to her but they did talk a lot afterwards and I guess my grandmother was interested in all the other stories associated with the art I had created for my wife.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 16 August 2008 excerpt ends]
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Jericho
Long Live the Mayor
Episode # 107
(Outside Somewhere)
Skylar: Dale! Where have you been, I've been looking all over for you.
Dale hands her the music box
Skylar: How did you get this? Thank you. Oh my god, this is what the fight was about. Where are you staying tonight?
Dale: A friends house.
Skylar: A friends house?
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The Outrageous Okona
Stardate: 42502.7
Original Airdate: Dec 12, 1988
DATA: A guy walks into the doctor's office The doctor tells him you need an operation. The guy says I want a second opinion. The doctor said, okay, you're ugly too. Ba-boom boom. Was that funny?
GUINAN: No.
(Data sits, disconsolate)
GUINAN: Data, you spoiled the joke. It could have been your timing.
DATA: My timing is digital. (Guinan giggles) What?
GUINAN: That's funny.
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
2X15 - SCAR
Original Airdate (SciFi): 03/FEB/2006
Galactica - Pilots Lounge
Starbuck and Apollo are sharing several drinks in the lounge.
Apollo: You know what gets me? I know that in two weeks, I won't remember his face. I can't remember any of their faces after they're killed. No matter how hard I try, they just fade.
Starbuck: I don't even remember their names.
Apollo: Names. Oh, let's see, there was-- there was Flattop. (Starbuck spits some beer on him) Who bought it on his thousandth landing. There was Chuckles. (Starbuck spits out some more beer) Stop it, already. Please, not funny. All right. It's not funny.
Starbuck: It is funny. You know the President says that we're saving humanity for a bright, shiny future. on Earth. That you and I are never gonna see. We're not. Because we go out over and over again until someday, some metal motherfrakker is gonna catch us on a bad day and just blow us away.
Apollo: Bright, shiny futures are overrated anyway.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 8:19 PM - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2007/04/dave-reichert-killer-of-federal-agents.html
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Dave Reichert - killer of federal agents
SEATTLE (F-U Wire) - When Death Squad leader Dave Reichert was asked for comment about trying to murder an undercover federal agent, he chuckled as he responded, “Sure, we knew he was undercover. Why do you think we were working so hard to get him killed? The insurgent leaders at Microsoft pay me to ensure they don’t get caught. Besides, Captain Ray is kind of over-rated, don’t you think? We’ve been watching his every move for over 8 years and he hasn’t killed a single one of us terrorists.”
This reporter questioned Dave Reichert about how long he could continue supporting Microsoft’s insurgency efforts. “Oh, quite indefinitely, I am certain. Look, Captain Ray has all that fancy education, Princeton, Oxford, Navy, and he can’t even put us in jail after 8 years. If my parents had been so rich, I could have gone to all those schools, too. ‘Top Gun,’ my ass. Give me all that training and I could have been great, too.”
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 05 April 2007 excerpt ends]
1994 United States television miniseries "The Stand" DVD video:
01:38:38 Disc 1
Larry Underwood: You know something? Ha! I've seen this guy before. In Times Square, just before everything went to hell. Screaming about monsters. Now, he said they were coming.
Nadine Cross: He was right.
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DAVID BOWIE
"Space Oddity"
Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills
and put your helmet on
Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown,
engines on
Check ignition
and may God's love be with you
[spoken]
Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Liftoff
This is Ground Control
to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule
if you dare
This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating
in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do
Though I'm past
one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much
she knows
Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead,
there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you....
Here am I floating
round my tin can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 11:07 AM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington USA Tuesday 24 June 2014
