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In this first clip, a never-before-astronaut engineer Dr. Walter Curnow (played by John Lithgow) is about to go for his first spacewalk. The Russians never appear nervous with danger, so Maxim (played by Elya Baskin) gives him the best advice possible:

Read more: 2010 Was the Normal Year We Made Normal Contact Normal

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“Jon Snow knows, “These are NOT Normal Times.”

In Hardhome (S5E08) of Game of Thrones, Jon Snow travels north of the North in an attempt to convince the Wildlings to come south of the Wall – with safe passage through its gate – to protect themselves from the White Walkers — his opening statement includes a normal reference.

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‘Not being normal isn’t strange.’

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Alexander H. Stephens on the Confederacy

“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition.”

ALEXANDER HAMILTON STEPHENS WAS A RACIST, A CONFEDERATE, AND A TRAITOR

in addition to those descriptive titles he was also a member of the House of Representatives at both the State and Federal level; an un-seated Senator; a Governor (of Georgia); and the lone Vice President of the Confederate States. And yes he was current enough in his time to be included on the Confederate $20 bill. His “Corner Stone” speech is a gripping & grueling word-vomit of power & even Biblical justification for all thing immoral about government & slavery — I highly recommend reading it.

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Following a 1+ minute USAgasm human spokesperson for the color orange and POTUS Donald John Trump calls a bunch of previous Presidents an apparently disparaging term when expressing his subconscious jealousy boasting about the size of his crowds (dawwww those small hands of his!).

More: http://what-is-normal.info/weve-had-a-lot-of-normals/

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None of this is conservative. I don’t mean to pretend I’m channeling Abraham Lincoln now, but that’s not what he had in mind, I think, when he helped form the Republican Party. It’s not conservative. It sure isn’t normal. It’s radical. It’s a vision that says the protection of our power and those who back us is all that matters even when it hurts the country.

Barack Obama

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the Trump DC Hotel is a Real Shithole

See: http://what-is-normal.info/this-is-not-normal-the-shithole-projections/

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‘New Normal’ headlines

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‘The New Normal’ is a blog for the Brain Cancer Community

‘The New Normal‘ is a brave blog about the story of Alex and Amy – their ‘about’ bio is below which defines their ‘what is normal?’ inquiry better than I could, and tells it in their own words. They haven’t updated their blog since mid-2015 so I hope everything is OK with the newborn and their family (and of course, cancer treatment). Stay courageous you two!

Hi, we’re Alex and Amy Moore (very generic American names, we know), and this blog was started to chronicle our journey with Brain Cancer. On July 25, 2011 Alex suffered a Gran Mal seizure, and quickly learned that he had a tumor the size of a golf ball on his right frontal lobe. He had surgery and was diagnosed with Stage 3 Anaplastic Astrocytoma (not good). Then, after what can only be called a divine turn of events, we discovered that there was still approximately 50 % of the tumor left (after being told that they got it all) and Alex was asked to once again go under the knife (this time with a different and better team of doctors). With the second surgery only a month later, Alex was able to get the remaining tumor completely extracted which was diagnosed as stage 2 Mixed Glioma making the official diagnosis Mixed Oligoastrocytoma, which was a much better diagnosis than before. Either way, Brain Cancer is still a chronic and most likely terminal illness for Alex until progress is made with treatments etc. We originally started this blog thinking that only our friends and family would read it, but it has reached a far greater audience than we ever thought possible as Alex has quickly become a leading voice within the Brain Cancer Community to help advocate and inspire a way to getting us to that all important cure (or better treatments to keep it at bay). We are truly humbled by the way that our journey has inspired and encouraged so many, especially those of you that have had to adjust to a “new normal” like us.

More: http://what-is-normal.info/the-new-normal-is-a-blog-for-the-brain-cancer-community/

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Normal vs/and/or Abnormal: ‘Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity’

This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’. Originally meaning ‘as occurring in nature’, normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recognizes and explores that fact.

The essays engage with the concepts of the normal and the abnormal from the perspectives of a variety of academic disciplines – ranging from art history to social history of medicine, literature, and science studies to sociology and cultural anthropology. The contributors use as their conceptual anchors the works of moral and political philosophers such as Canguilhem, Foucault and Hacking, as well as the ideas put forward by sociologists including Durkheim and Illich.

With contributions from a range of scholars across differing disciplines, this book will have a broad appeal to students in many areas of history.

More: http://what-is-normal.info/normal-vsandor-abnormal-social-and-cultural-histories-of-norms-and-normativity/

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‘The New Normal’ is a course for academics at Strelka Institute

this. Looks. AMAZING!

More: http://what-is-normal.info/the-new-normal-is-a-course-for-academics-at-strelka-institute/

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a Normalmap for Normalmapmakers

NormalMap-Online

This website lets you create normal maps from height maps for free. All normal map textures you create are your own. Textures are not saved on the server and all scripts are running on your Browser.

Just drag & drop a heightmap in the specified field and adjust settings. Afterwards check the preview window and download your own normalmap. Additionally you can adjust and download displacement and ambient occlusion maps

The preview window shows a 3D-model with several different maps. Each map can be enabled/disabled and the preview model can be adjusted.

If you have further questions, just give feedback to the mail-adress on the webpage.

You can even create/generate textures at this sister website and then apply them to the Normalmap maker to better understand the mapper.

More: http://what-is-normal.info/a-normalmap-for-normalmapmakers/