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Norma Cenva


Norma Cenva is a fictional character from the "Dune" universe created by Frank Herbert. Mentioned briefly in Herbert's "God Emperor of Dune" (1981), she plays a large role in the "Legends of Dune" prequel trilogy (2002–2004) written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. The character reappears as the Oracle of Time in the Brian Herbert/Anderson novels "Hunters of Dune" (2006) and "Sandworms of Dune" (2007), which conclude the original series. Her name is
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, and the universal dating system started over at 1 A.G. (After Guild). The confidential Guild memorandum "Norma Cenva and the Spacing Guild" said the following of Norma in "": "Though Norma Cenva saw great revelations in the intricacies of the cosmos, sometimes she could not distinguish night from day, or one place from another. Perhaps she did not need to identify such things, because she was capable of journeying across an entire universe in her mind. Was her brain physically capable of assembling huge quantities of
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would take no less. In the end, the knowledge that he had not really fulfilled his own image, that was what destroyed him. This paragraph is the only mention of Norma Cenva in Frank Herbert's works, although Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson develop and expand her character considerably in their novels. Norma Cenva (b. 218 B.G.) was the daughter of Zufa Cenva, Supreme Sorceress of Rossak. Barely tall, Norma was a gifted mathematician. Realizing her genius, famous Poritrin scientist Tio Holtzman invited her to be
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an anagram of "Norma Vance", wife of author Jack Vance, with whom Frank Herbert was good friends. Norma Cenva is first mentioned in "God Emperor of Dune" by Frank Herbert, when the God Emperor Leto II notes: Who has ever heard of Norma Cenva? ... You think a man designed the first Guild ship? Your history books told you it was Aurelius Venport? They lied. It was his mistress, Norma. She gave him the design, along with five children. He thought his ego
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leaders Omnius and Erasmus, and that the Oracle of Time is actually the consciousness of Norma Cenva, somehow still in existence over 15,000 years after the formation of the Spacing Guild. She watches over humanity in order to prevent Omnius and the thinking machines from destroying the human race. In "Sandworms of Dune"—the 2007 sequel to "Hunters" and the conclusion of the original "Dune" series—the Spacing Guild has begun replacing its Navigators with Ixian navigation devices at the prompting of Face Dancer infiltrators with their own plot to take
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monopolizing space commerce, transport and interplanetary banking. This marked the beginning of the Guild Calendar, the universal dating system now starting over at 1 A.G. (After Guild). Excerpts from Norma's writings appear as epigraphs in the "Legends of Dune" novels: Unpublished laboratory notebooks ("Dune: The Butlerian Jihad"): "Mathematical Philosophies" ("Dune: The Machine Crusade"): Private lab journals ("Dune: The Machine Crusade"): In the 2012 novel "Sisterhood of Dune" by
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"", Norma's mother Zufa Cenva was described as "a tall, statuesque woman" with "pale eyebrows, white hair, and luminous skin that made her seem ethereal, but charged with power." Zufa and her Sorceresses of Rossak possessed destructive telepathic abilities capable of obliterating limited numbers of human brains, such as those of cymeks, but a Sorceress was always killed when she unleashed her full power. In 201 B.G., Zufa's lover (and pharmaceutical magnate) Aurelius Venport founded the VenKee corporation (with Tuk
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Keedair) and introduced the League of Nobles to melange, a substance with interesting properties in use by the natives of Arrakis. Zufa gave birth to Ticia Cenva, her daughter by Iblis Ginjo (of which he was unaware), in 173 B.G. Norma and Aurelius (b. 228 B.G.) had five children, her first and most successful child being Adrien Venport, born in 172 B.G. In 164 B.G., Zufa and Aurelius were intercepted in space by the Titan Hecate. Not knowing that Hecate was assisting the Jihad forces against the
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machines. On the planet of Poritrin, Norma Cenva leaves the world just in time to avoid a slave uprising during which a slave, unaware of the consequences, fires a lasgun into a Holtzman personal shield. The resulting explosion wipes out Tio Holtzman's labs; the slave revolt is eventually brutally crushed. Meanwhile, Norma, due to her heritage as daughter of the main Sorceress of Rossak Zufa Cenva, finally taps into her latent powers under great pressure (precipitated by her capture and subsequent torture by the Titan Xerxes) to
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infected herself, Raquella made a miraculous recovery due to "healing water", provided by Jimmak, from a secret source known only by the Misborn. Paranoid and feeling that the doctor might somehow usurp her power, Ticia poisoned Raquella with the Rossak Drug. When the attempt to kill Raquella failed, Ticia killed herself. That same year, Norma's son Adrien Venport founded the Foldspace Shipping Company, Norma having discovered how to safely navigate spacefolders using melange-induced prescience. The Foldspace Shipping Company later became the Spacing Guild,
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way to safely navigate foldspace, and essentially became the first Navigator. That same year, Norma's son Adrien Venport established the Foldspace Shipping Company, and found the first ten volunteers who one day "would navigate fast company vessels throughout the League and the Unallied Planets". They were "confined to chambers filled with gradually increasing concentrations of melange gas ... mutating and changing, much like Norma". Norma experienced extreme mutations as a result of the constant exposure to such high concentrations of spice gas: "Her direct physical senses
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her communications and prescience has limits. The Oracle possesses the power to fold space; she calls all Navigators to a certain coordinate in space, and when they arrive in their heighliners she transports them all to an alternate universe. She informs them that "Kralizec", the so-called "final battle," is upon them, and they must find the wandering no-ship "Ithaca". According to the Oracle, the "Ithaca"—fleeing from both the Bene Gesserit and the all-powerful Daniel and Marty—contains
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and instantaneous space travel possible. In "Dune" chronology, the effect was first employed during the events in "" for defensive force fields capable of scrambling the gel-circuitry of thinking machines. Networks of towers generating the field from the surface thus protected entire planets from machine attacks. However, the machines soon realized that their cymeks, human-machine hybrids, could slip through the field to destroy the transmitters because they possessed human brains which were unaffected by the scrambler fields. Norma then had the idea (in 203
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that Aurelius Venport is believed to have founded the Guild. In the Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson "Legends of Dune" prequel series (2002–2004), however, it is confirmed that his lover Norma Cenva, a mathematical genius with great psychic power, had in fact invented the space-folding ships which would eventually be called heighliners. Ever uncaring about her own fame, Norma credits the invention to Aurelius as a gift to him in "" (2004). Norma discovers that an excessive dose of melange allows her
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Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, the highly evolved Norma is a supporting character who appears several times, often as an advisor to her great-grandson, Josef Venport, a ruthless businessman and the head of Venport Holdings, the precursor to the Spacing Guild. She appears to be detached from many problems facing some humans who have not evolved as she has. Occasionally, this frustrates Josef, who nevertheless benefits greatly from her advice and support. She also appears in one chapter of the book in the Imperial Palace on Salusa
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B.G.) to use the field as an offensive weapon, projecting it with portable transmitters to knock out machines and their installations. Later that year, she used the Holtzman effect to invent suspensors. In 202 B.G., Holtzman calculated that the field could be modified to prevent penetration from physical projectiles; Norma agreed, correcting the flaws in his concept but noting that objects could still pass through the shield at a slow enough speed. She also predicted that when hit by a laser the shield would react violently; resulting in an explosion
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by the Titan Xerxes in 174 B.G., Norma's latent psychic abilities were unleashed, destroying Xerxes and six cymeks. Using these powers she reworked her own body into a more beautiful, appealing one based on the many women of her ancestry. The next year she and her mother's former lover, industrialist Aurelius Venport, established a shipyard on Kolhar to produce space-folding ships (eventually called heighliners). Ever uncaring about her own fame, Norma credited the invention to Aurelius as a gift to him. In 164 B.G.
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over the universe. Their supply of melange cut off, the obsolete Navigators are dying one by one. As Edrik pursues alternate sources of the spice, he and the remaining Navigators seek the Oracle's assistance. She responds that their problem is trivial compared to her need to find the "Ithaca" and assure victory in "Kralizec". As the forces of humanity make a last stand against the thinking machine forces and ultimate Kwisatz Haderach Duncan faces Omnius, the Oracle gathers the last of the Navigators. The weaponry and navigation
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Guild Navigators in heighliners, brought together by the Oracle of Time, Norma Cenva. Thinking machine leader Omnius is wiped out of existence by the Oracle, and the Face Dancer threat eliminated. As Murbella joins Duncan Idaho in his plan to rule a universe in which humanity and thinking machines co-exist, Sheeana introduces sandworms to the former thinking machine planet Synchrony, where she will found an orthodox Sisterhood. In the "Legends of Dune" prequel trilogy (2002–2004) by Brian Herbert and Anderson it is revealed that the Sorceresses
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not technically move. Special laws govern travel aboard a heighliner; heighliners are considered neutral territory and all acts of war aboard heighliners carry stiff penalties, including loss of shipping privileges. According to the "Legends of Dune" prequel trilogy (2002–2004), heighliners are invented by Norma Cenva during the Butlerian Jihad. The "Prelude to Dune" prequel trilogy (1999–2001) establishes that in subsequent millennia, the ships are manufactured on the planet Ix. During the events described in the 2001 prequel "", a heighliner is expertly
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, Aurelius put the space-folding technology and shipyards at the disposal of the Jihad forces. He was soon awarded the Manion Cross (by Serena Butler herself) for his service to the Jihad. Initially, foldspace travel was not completely accurate or safe; only about nine out of every ten heighliners made it to their final destination. Realizing that the spice melange amplified her psychic and calculative abilities, Norma pioneered the use of massive concentrated doses to presciently perceive space/time. In 88 B.G. she discovered that this was the
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mission to “form a medical school like none the League has ever seen.” This, of course, is later known as the Suk School. Determined to find a solution to the space-folding problem, Norma Cenva experiments on herself by sealing herself inside a tank filled with gaseous melange. After mutating horribly, she finds out that she is capable of guiding a ship through foldspace. At the end of the book, Norma and her son administer the training for the next generation of Navigators. VenKee Enterprises continues to
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were deadened, and Norma no longer cared about taste, touch, or smell ... She found it remarkable to see webbing between her fingers and toes. Her face, once blunt-featured and later flawlessly beautiful, now had a small mouth and tiny eyes surrounded by smooth folds. Her head was immense, while the rest of her body atrophied to a useless appendage." The Foldspace Shipping Company later became the Spacing Guild, monopolizing space commerce, transport, and interplanetary banking. This marked the beginning of the Guild Calendar
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data and using that information to identify large-scale events and complex trends? Or was it instead some inexplicable extrasensory phenomenon that enabled her to exceed the thinking capacities of any person who had lived before her? Or of any thinking machine? Generations later, her biographers would argue over her mental powers, but Norma herself might not have resolved the debate. Realistically, she would have cared less about how her brain worked than she cared about the actual performance of her mind and the incredible results of its inquiries." In
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his assistant in 203 B.G. Despite being against slavery, which was common on Poritrin, Norma lived much of her life there because she liked working with little distraction. She also cared little that Holtzman took credit for much of her work. Nevertheless, her innovations would prove indispensable to humanity in the war against the thinking machines known as the Butlerian Jihad. Holtzman discovered the scientific phenomenon he called the Holtzman effect; although never explained in detail, it uses ambient subatomic energy fields to make (among other things) defensive force shields
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assistant, Norma Cenva). In "Terminology of the Imperium", the glossary of the novel "Dune", Frank Herbert provides the following definition: SHIELD, DEFENSIVE: the protective field produced by a Holtzman generator. This field derives from Phase One of the suspensor-nullification effect. A shield will permit entry only to objects moving at slow speeds (depending on setting, this speed ranges from six to nine centimeters per second) and can be shorted out only by a shire-sized electric field. In "
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force fields capable of scrambling the gel-circuitry of thinking machines, the force of sentient computers and robots who seek to enslave and exterminate mankind. Networks of towers generating the field from the surface protect entire planets from machine attacks. Residing on the planet Poritrin, Holtzman's career is on the wane, as he has not invented anything significant in several years. He comes across the work of Norma Cenva, a woman from Rossak; realizing her genius, he invites her to come work with him on Poritrin. The machines
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with the same effects of a nuclear weapon. In 185 B.G. she began to work on Holtzman's original field equations to find a way to fold space, and in 177 B.G. she successfully invented the theory of space-folding. By 174 B.G. she had built a prototype space-folding ship on Poritrin, but she was soon cast out from the planet by Holtzman and his patron, Lord Niko Bludd. The ship was then used to fold space successfully by Zensunni slaves fleeing a violent rebellion on Poritrin. While being tortured
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thinking machines, Zufa unleashed a telekenetic blast that killed herself, Aurelius and Hecate. In 108 B.G., Ticia led the Rossak Sorceresses in the collection of genetic samples of various human bloodlines, as they were in jeopardy from a catastrophic virus (the Demon Scourge) genetically engineered and unleashed by the thinking machines. Since the Sorceresses later became the Bene Gesserit, this process marked the beginning of a wider scope for the Sisterhood's breeding program (the Sorceresses had actually started keeping detailed breeding records circa 400 B.G., trying to improve
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Venport, who holds a near-monopoly on space travel. Advised by his wife Cioba and great-grandmother Norma Cenva, who discovered the secret to creating space-folding "Navigators", Josef plots against his few remaining competitors and funds a secret group of scientific researchers who hold personal grudges against the Butlerians and are willing to salvage and optimize old cymek technology to satisfy their vendettas with Torondo. Meanwhile, on the planet Kepler, war hero Vorian Atreides attempts to keep his neighbors free from the threat of slavers. An
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the ultimate Kwisatz Haderach, and both sides in the great war between humanity and thinking machines wants him for their victory. The Oracle finds the "Ithaca" and transports it back to the Old Empire, telling passenger Duncan that he has a part to play in "Kralizec". But with Daniel and Marty in pursuit, the "Ithaca" soon flees and the Oracle loses track of the ship again. At the end of "Hunters", it is revealed that Daniel and Marty are in fact reincarnations of thinking machine
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is the revived empire of thinking machines, and the old couple are actually the computer-entity Omnius and the robot Erasmus. In the final confrontation with Omnius, Paul Atreides (brought back as a ghola and with his power of prescience just-now restored), and then Norma Cenva (the Oracle of Time to the Navigators), both reveal that Duncan is the Ultimate Kwisatz Haderach; not Paul ( who is an "imperfect" Kwisatz Haderach) nor any other Atreides, nor their descendants. Overwhelmed by the unexpected
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Secundus and meets with Emperor Salvador Corrino, her arrival disrupting an already-eventful banquet and scattering guests. The Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson prequel novel "" (2001) introduces the "Oracle of Infinity" as the guiding force and "patron saint" of the Spacing Guild. In "Hunters of Dune", the 2006 Herbert/Anderson sequel to Frank Herbert's 1985 "", the Oracle of Time appears. She is able to communicate with the Guild Navigators and Duncan Idaho telepathically, although the range of
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the potency and prevalence of their telekinetic powers). One of Ticia's children was Jimmak Tero, one of the genetically undesirable people of Rossak referred to by the Sorceresses as the "Misborn". According to Ticia herself, he possessed "a sweet disposition which did not make up for his dull intellect." Raquella Berto-Anirul traveled to Rossak (with Mohandas Suk) in 88 B.G. in her role as a doctor to help fight a new outbreak of the Scourge on the planet. She befriended Jimmak; after being
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Murbella, now in complete control of the Honored Matres and Bene Gesserit, prepares a defense against the forces of the Enemy, now identified by Other Memory to be thinking machines of Omnius, the machine overlord destroyed back in the ancient Butlerian Jihad. The Oracle of Time is then revealed to be the living consciousness of Norma Cenva, somehow also still in existence millennia after the Jihad. The story concludes with Daniel and Marty revealed to be Omnius and the independent robot, Erasmus. Before its destruction, the Omnius incarnation on Giedi
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attributed to Norma Cenva, who goes on to become the first prescient folded space navigator. Prior to this, although described in 'The Machine Crusade' as "outracing photons", vessels still took weeks or months to cross between even the closest stars. In the "Farscape" series (1999–2003), the Leviathan (living ship) Moya has a natural ability known as 'Starburst' which allows it and anything close to it to travel great distances in a short amount of time. Starburst depletes a Leviathan's energy
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Sorceresses of Rossak, it is the origin of Bene Gesserit order itself and also the birthplace of Norma Cenva. Salusa Secundus is the third planet of the Gamma Waiping system and the homeworld of the Imperial House Corrino; also noted as the second stopping point in the migrations of the Zensunni Wanderers. The Royal Court is moved to Kaitain, and Salusa is designated the Imperial Prison Planet. It is also the secret training ground for the Emperor's elite Sardaukar troops, and one of two planets on which shigawire is grown (the
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his prescient abilities are practically useless in this state. The "Legends of Dune" prequel trilogy (2002–2004) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson establish that the Spacing Guild first start using Guild Navigators because the travel technique of spacefolding is not safe; only about nine out of every ten heighliners make it to their final destination without Navigators. Norma Cenva (the first Navigator and the creator of the Spacing Guild) at first uses super-computers to navigate space, but as the proscriptions of the Butlerian Jihad do not allow
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for the use of thinking machines, she uses melange to develop the prescient ability to visualize a heighliner's path before it actually travels. Cenva's own mutations are described at the end of "" (2004): Her direct physical senses were deadened, and Norma no longer cared about taste, touch, or smell ... She found it remarkable to see webbing between her fingers and toes. Her face, once blunt-featured and later flawlessly beautiful, now had a small mouth and tiny eyes surrounded by smooth folds.
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Norma Bailey


Norma Bailey (born 1949, in Gimli, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian film director. She has directed television movies, fictional and documentary shorts, as well as feature films. In 2010, she was named to the Order of Manitoba. Norma Bailey graduated from the University of Manitoba and began her film career in Montreal as a production assistant on Allan Moyle’s "The Rubber Gun" and David Cronenberg’s "Rabid". She joined the National Film Board of Canada, and her first short, "The
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The Voice from the Minaret


The Voice from the Minaret is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Norma Talmadge, Eugene O'Brien, and Winter Hall. The film is based on the play of the same name by Robert Smythe Hichens (London, Sep 1919). The film is considered lost. Lady Adrienne Carlyle (Norma Talmadge) leaves Mumbai, where her tyrannical husband, lord Leslie Carlyle, is the governor, heading off to England. On board, Lady Adrienne meets Andrew Fabian (Eugene O'Brien), who studies
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doses to presciently perceive space/time. In 88 B.G. she discovers that this is the way to safely navigate foldspace, and essentially becomes the first Navigator. That same year, Norma's son Adrien Venport founds the Foldspace Shipping Company, which later becomes the Spacing Guild and eventually monopolizes space commerce, transport and interplanetary banking. Cenva's name is eventually forgotten by history, but she is more interested in improving defensive shields and developing foldspace travel to make it safer and more efficient. Her efforts help humanity defeat the thinking machines
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substance, the spice melange, and the famous inventor Tio Holtzman accepts the diminutive genius Norma Cenva into his employ. Serena is captured by the Titan Barbarossa and put under the watch of Erasmus, an independent robot who seeks to understand humans completely so that the thinking machines may be truly superior. His methods of study often entail human vivisection and torture in his slave pens. Erasmus takes a liking to Serena, as does the young Vorian Atreides. Serena realizes she is pregnant with Xavier's child, and later gives birth to
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Norma K. Hemming


by the Australian Science Fiction Foundation through the Norma K. Hemming Award, inaugurated at the World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne in September 2010. Norma Kathleen Hemming was born in Ilford, Essex, in September 1928. After attending a girls' school, she trained as a secretary. In October 1948, she emigrated to Sydney on the SS Orontes, with her parents and younger brother. She published her first science fiction story, "Loser Takes All", in the British magazine "Science Fantasy" in 1951. Over the
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Rita (2009 Italian film)


- Artistic Direction 9th Concorto Film Festival | 2010 22 Aug – 29 Aug | Italy Special Jury Mention 8th Imaginaria Film Festival | 2010 24 Aug – 29 Aug | Italy Jury Mention 16th Aye Aye Film Festival Nancy-Lorraine | 2010 3 Sep – 11 Sep | France Best Sound 3rd Festival Internacional Curtametraxes Bueu | 2010 Bueu International Shortfilm Festival 6 Sep – 11 Sep | Spain Best Short Fiction Film 17th Altin Koza Film Festival | 2010 Golden Boll Film Festival 20 Sep – 26 Sep | Turkey Special Jury Mention 7th Filmfest Eberswalde |
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Norma Bates (Psycho)


is no longer anything she can protect him from. Norman later invites Dylan to a "family dinner" with Norma's corpse at the head of the table. When Dylan tells Norman that Norma is dead, Norman attacks him, forcing Dylan to shoot him in self-defense. As he dies, Norman sees a vision of his mother embracing him. Norma Bates is the fictional counterpart to Augusta Gein, Ed Gein's mother; a domineering, fanatical woman who preached to her sons about the innate immorality of the world
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The Fringe of the Unknown


" (from "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", Jun. 1969) 8. "Dinosaurs Today" (original title: "Dinosaurs in Today's World") (from "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", Mar. 1968)br 9. "Mammoths and Mastodons" (from "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", May 1965)br 10. "Death Comes to the Megafauna" (from "If Worlds of Science Fiction", Sep. 1971)br 11. "Xerxes' Okapi" (original title
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Bircham International University


jurisdictions. In 2003, South Florida's "CityLink" magazine reported that Oregon education officials said that Bircham was "totally bogus". In July 2007, the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) of Mexico issued a notice stating that degrees lacking RVOE (Official Recognition from the Mexican Government) will not be validated by the SEP. Degrees via online or distance learning issued by foreign institutions like Bircham University will not be recognized by the SEP. In April 2008 the "Nairobi Business Daily" reported that Bircham International University was
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Norma Jean & Marilyn


Norma Jean & Marilyn is a 1996 made-for-TV biographical film produced by HBO and premiered on May 18, 1996. The film featured Ashley Judd as Norma Jean Dougherty and Mira Sorvino as Marilyn Monroe. It was partially based on "Norma Jean: My Secret Life With Marilyn Monroe" by actor Eddie Jordan (played by Josh Charles), who claimed to have had a years-long relationship with Monroe. The tagline for the highly fictionalized film summarizes the plot: "Marilyn Monroe was our fantasy. Norma
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Society of Experimental Psychologists


conduct plenary sessions in which members can present papers. It holds meetings every spring, scheduled by a member at the host university who serves as the chair of the SEP for that year. The meetings are open to all members and to students and faculty from the host university who are invited by the chair. Membership in the SEP is by invitation only and is considered to be a great honor because it represents significant accomplishment in the field of experimental psychology. The SEP currently admits at least 6 new members annually from among the
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Drive, Holtzman Shields, suspensors and glowglobes. Cenva is also credited with the realization that hitting a Holtzman field with a lasgun beam results in a large and unpredictable explosion. Her theory is proven in the 2003 novel "", when Holtzman himself is killed by the explosion from such an interaction during a slave uprising on Poritrin. The "Legends of Dune" series also establishes that Cenva invents the theory of space folding in 177 B.G. during the Butlerian Jihad after years of working on Holtzman's original field equations. By 174
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Norma Bates (Psycho)


" (2013–2017). The 1959 novel, its 1960 film adaptation and the explain that after the death of her husband, Norma (whose maiden name is never revealed in the novels) raises her son Norman with cruelty: she forbids him to have a life away from her, and teaches him that sexual intercourse is sinful and that all women (except herself) are whores. The novel also suggests that their relationship may have been incestuous. For many years, Norma and Norman live together in the (fictional) small
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soon realize that their cymeks (human-machine hybrids) can slip through the planetary force fields to destroy the transmitters because they possess human brains, which are unaffected by the scrambler fields. Cenva has the idea to use the field as an offensive weapon, projecting it with portable transmitters to knock out machines and their installations. Holtzman later calculates that the field can be modified to prevent penetration from physical projectiles; Cenva agrees, correcting the flaws in his concept but noting that objects can still pass through the shield at a slow
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Norma Andrews


Norma W. Andrews is a cell biologist and Professor at the University of Maryland Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics. She chaired the department from 2009 to 2014. Norma Andrews received her B.S. in 1977 and Ph.D. in 1983, both from the University of São Paulo. She then went on to a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Victor Nussenzweig at New York University, which she completed in 1990. She then began her own laboratory at Yale University as an assistant professor. In 2010, Andrews moved her lab to the University
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Norma Champion


Norma Champion (born January 21, 1933) is a former children's TV show host and retired university professor who served as a Republican in both the Missouri House of Representatives from 1995 through 2003 and the Missouri State Senate from 2003 through 2010. She is a resident of Springfield, Missouri. Norma received her master's degree in communications from Missouri State University and a Ph.D. in educational communications technology from the University of Oklahoma. She went on to do post-graduate study at the University of London. After completing her studies
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Norma K. Hemming


Norma Kathleen Hemming (born September 1928 in Ilford, Essex, London, England – d. 4 July 1960 in Melbourne, Australia) was a British-Australian writer of science fiction and romance novels. She was Australia's first significant female science fiction writer. As N. K. Hemming published twenty stories in the 1950s, and also wrote and appeared in a series of plays that were performed at Australian science fiction conventions. Under the name Nerina Hilliard, she also wrote 8 romance novels for Mills & Boon. She is now commemorated
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Norma Fleck Award


The Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction is a lucrative literary award founded in May 1999 by the Fleck Family Foundation and the Canadian Children's Book Centre, and presented to the year's best non-fiction book for a youth audience. Each year's winner receives CDN$10,000. The award is one of several presented by the Canadian Children's Book Centre each year; others include the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award
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David Adams Richards


David Adams Richards, CM, ONB (born 17 October 1950) is a Canadian writer and member of the Canadian Senate. Born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, Richards left St. Thomas University in Fredericton, three credits shy of completing a BA. After publishing a poetry chapbook in 1972 he won the Norma Bailey Award, a literary prize for unpublished writing by Canadian university students, in 1974 for an excerpt from his novel manuscript "The Coming of Winter", and the novel was published later that year as his fiction debut
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Norma Bates (Psycho)


Norma Bates () is a fictional character created by American author Robert Bloch in his 1959 thriller novel "Psycho". She is the deceased mother and victim of serial killer Norman Bates, who had developed a murderous split personality based on her. Although an important character to the "Psycho" story, Norma only appears as a corpse in the films. She is not depicted as a living character until "" (1990), portrayed by Olivia Hussey. Vera Farmiga later portrayed Norma in the television series "Bates Motel
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Marjorie Harris


Marjorie Harris (born 15 Sep 1937 as Marjorie Stibbards in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian non-fiction writer who has published numerous books on gardening. In 1959, she graduated from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario with Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Her first marriage was to television producer and musician Barry Harris. Currently, she lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with her second husband, writer Jack Batten. Besides writing 15 books she was a radio host job at CBC radio's "Metro Morning"
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Stanford Exploration Project


The Stanford Exploration Project (SEP) is an industry-funded academic consortium within the Geophysics Department at Stanford University. SEP research has contributed greatly to improving the theory and practice of constructing 3-D and 4-D images of the earth from seismic echo soundings (see: Reflection seismology). The consortium was started in the 1970s by Jon Claerbout and is currently co-directed with Biondo Biondi. SEP pioneered innovations in migration imaging, velocity estimation, dip moveout and slant stack. SEP has recently been involved in 3-D seismic applications such as
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Radio Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero


Acapulco, Ciudad Altamirano and Taxco. On May 20, 1983, the roving radio station came to an end, with the university broadcasting once more from Chilpancingo — this time, without interference. 1984, however, presented yet another problem to the university radio station: a budget crisis spurred by a suspension of payments from the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP). Workers spent all of 1984 without receiving their salaries, and in January 1985, the university and SEP began negotiating. The federal government required the university to shut
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Nike Sulway


Australia Awards in 2005. The University of Queensland Press describes this book as "a book of wonder, curiosity, and imagination". A review is available from "Books from My Backyard" at http://www.queenslandbooks.com/schools/01_cms/details.asp?ID=36. This speculative fiction novel tells the story of an automaton created in 1619, named Rupetta, who is linked to a series of female 'wynders'. The novel won the 2013 James Tiptree, Jr. Award and the 2014 Norma K Hemming Award, and was shortlisted for both a 2014 Crawford Memorial Award, and a
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Minor Passions characters


The following are minor fictional characters on the NBC/DirecTV soap opera "Passions" whose connections to the four major families are either weak or non-existent. "For the character from the Psycho franchise, see Norma Bates (Psycho)." "Marianne Muellerleile (January 22, 2001 - August 5, 2008)" Norma Bates was introduced as the owner of a motel in 2001 that Tabitha Lenox and her companion, Timmy, fled to in order to escape the backlash from the release of "Hidden Passions"
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Norma Levy Shapiro


Norma Sondra Levy Shapiro (July 27, 1928 – July 22, 2016) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Born Norma Sondra Levy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Shapiro received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan in 1948 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1951, graduating Order of the Coif. She was a law clerk for Judge Horace Stern of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1951 to 1952. She was a
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Charles McKenny


Charles McKenny (Sep. 15, 1860-Sep. 23, 1933) was president of Central State Normal School (now Central Michigan University), Milwaukee State Normal School and Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University). McKenny was born in Dimondale, Michigan. He received his bachelor's degree from Michigan State Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) and masters from both Olivet College and the University of Wisconsin. McKenny married Minnie E. Alderman (1869–1942) in 1890. She was a native of Vermontville, Michigan. They
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Radio Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero


down the station, and on January 15, 1985, Radio Universidad Pueblo went off the air. In the meantime, university students went as far as organizing a hunger strike in Mexico City in order to protest the SEP's demand to close the station. The SEP, however, failed to keep some of its promises to the university. A new rector, Ramón Reyes Carreto, decided that if the SEP would not keep its promises, the university did not have a reason to stay off the air. In June 1987
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The Fringe of the Unknown


Astounding Science Fiction", Jun. 1961)br 3. "Appius Claudius Crassus" (original title: "Appius Claudius Crassus: Roman Builder") (from "Science Digest", Jun. 1962)br 4. "The First Missile Launchers" (from "Science Digest", Oct. 1960)br 5. "The Iron Pillar of Delhi" (from "Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact", Sep. 1972)br 6. "The Mechanical Wizards of Alexandria" (from "Science Digest", Aug. 1962)br 7. "The Landlocked Indian Ocean
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Norma Broude


Norma Broude (born 1 May 1941) is an American art historian and scholar of feminism and 19th century French and Italian painting. She is also a Professor Emerita of art history from American University. Broude, with Mary Garrard are early leaders of the American feminist movement and have redefined feminist art theory. She was born Norma Freedman on 1 May 1941 in New York. She holds a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Art History from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and English from Hunter College
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NORMA (software modeling tool)


as a Professor at Neumont University and from 2007, continued via The ORM Foundation, a UK-based non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of the fact-based approach to information modeling ORM2 is defined in an ORM2 metamodel that was created by using the NORMA tool. NORMA is an open source project. As at 3 March 2019, NORMA for Visual Studio 2017 includes fixes for 38 bugs that were found in the 2015 versions. The remaining issues are being handled within the NORMA Plus JIRA project that you can read
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Kurse


Kurse is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer/artist Walter Simonson, the Algrim version of Kurse first appears as the Dark Elf Algrim the Strong in "Thor" #347 (Sep. 1984). He is later transformed into Kurse in "Secret Wars II" #4 (Oct. 1985). Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje portrayed the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film "" (2013). The Dark Elf Algrim the Strong was created by Walter Simonson
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Halflife (comics)


Halflife is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. These characters have two distinct origins, and are detailed separately below. The first Halflife is a Marvel Comics supervillain. She first appeared in "West Coast Avengers" vol. 2 #12 (Sep. 1986). The second character in the Marvel universe to take the name Half-Life was a gamma-irradiated fiend and enemy of the Hulk. He first appeared in "The Incredible Hulk" vol. 1 #334.
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Norma Ronald


Norma Ronald (1937 - 1993) was a British actress best known for her appearances as Mildred Murfin in the 1960s BBC radio comedy series "The Men from the Ministry", as Miss Ealand, Commander Straker's secretary in the science fiction television series "UFO" and as Sir John Wilder's ever-resourceful secretary Kay Lingard in both "The Plane Makers" and its follow-up "The Power Game" (1963-9) She made an uncredited appearance in the 1969 Gerry Anderson film "Doppelgänger" (
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Sep Lambert


though, against Scotland in 1920 and against the Irish Military and Scotland in 1921. In all matches for Ireland, Sep Lambert scored 342 runs at an average of 20.12, with a top score of 60 not out against Oxford University in May 1902, his only half-century for Ireland and also his top first-class score. He took ten catches and no stumpings. Sep Lambert came from a cricketing family. His brother Bob was one of Ireland's finest cricketers, and his nephew Ham also played cricket for Ireland
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy


The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) combines an online encyclopedia of philosophy with peer-reviewed publication of original papers in philosophy, freely accessible to Internet users. It is maintained by Stanford University. Each entry is written and maintained by an expert in the field, including professors from many academic institutions worldwide. Authors contributing to the encyclopedia give Stanford University the permission to publish the articles, but retain the copyright to those articles. , the "SEP" has nearly 1,600 published entries. Apart from its online status, the
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Martin J. Whitman School of Management


Partnership (SEP) is a collaboration between the Whitman School and the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University, the State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems. The SEP conducts research through the Sustainable Building and Infrastructure Grant Program, holds seminars on ways for businesses and organizations to incorporate sustainability into their products and practices, and awards scholarships for students and researchers interested in sustainable buildings and infrastructure. The SEP also offers a Certificate of
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Summer Enrichment Program (University of Colorado)


The Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) is a summer camp for gifted and talented children entering grades 5 to 10, located at Center for the Education and Study of the Gifted, Talented, Creative at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado. SEP consists of one two-week session in mid-July, during which students reside in the university dormitories and eat in campus dining halls, supervised by camp counselors assigned to each grade. The students choose four classes which they attend every day from Monday to Friday.
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Norma Cole


Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. "The Poetics of Vertigo" — delivered as the 1998 "George Oppen Memorial Lecture" for The Poetry Center, SFSU — won the Robert D. Richardson Non-Fiction Award. With Boston photographer Ben E. Watkins she won the Purchase Award for their photo/text collaboration, "They Flatter Almost Recognize." Norma Cole's work has received great acclaim for her: "openness to traditions and practices, artists and writings, radically divergent from her own". Recently, she
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Norma Burgos


Norma E. Burgos Andújar is a Puerto Rican politician. She has been a member of the Senate of Puerto Rico since 2000. She also served as the 16th Secretary of State under Governor Pedro Rosselló (1995–1999). Norma Burgos Andújar was born in Chicago, Illinois, but raised in Puerto Rico. She studied at the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, where she obtained both a Bachelor's degree (Cum Laude) with a major in Economy, and a Master's degree (Magna Cum Laude) from the University
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Norma Nolan


Norma Nolan (born Norma Beatriz Nolan, April 22, 1938) is an Argentine beauty queen who became first women from Argentina to obtain the Miss Universe title after she had won Miss Argentina. She won the title in Miami Beach, Florida. Nolan is of Irish and Italian descent. She was crowned Miss Argentina in 1962 from her predecessor, Adriana Gardiazábal who was second runner up in previous pageant. Not much is known about her after winning the Miss Universe title, Nolan kept a largely private life after her victory.
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The Reluctant Shaman


of contemporary fantasy stories de Camp set in the fictional town of Gahato and the surrounding Adirondack region of New York, the others being "The Hardwood Pile" ("Unknown", Sep. 1940) and some of his Willy Newbury stories, notably "The Lamp" ("Fantasy and Science Fiction", March 1975), "Algy" ("Fantastic", Aug. 1976), "Darius" ("Escape!," fall 1977) and "The Huns" ("Fantasy and Science Fiction",
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Norma Graham


Norma Van Surdam Graham (born August 8, 1944) is an American psychologist, neuroscientist and the Centennial Professor of Psychology at Columbia University. She has been a faculty member at Columbia since 1972. She has been elected to several scholarly societies, including the National Academy of Sciences. Graham earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. After a postdoctoral fellowship in visual neuroscience at Rockefeller University from 1970 to 1972, Graham joined the faculty at Columbia University. She was
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Soft science fiction


already established shift from hard sf (chemistry, physics, astronomy, technology) to soft sf (psychology, biology, anthropology, sociology, and even [...] linguistics) is continuing more strongly than ever." Poul Anderson, in "Ideas for SF Writers" (Sep 1998), described H. G. Wells as the model for soft science fiction: "He concentrated on the characters, their emotions and interactions" rather than any of the science or technology behind, for example, invisible men or time machines.
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Norma Carranza


Norma Carranza De León is a Puerto Rican politician from the New Progressive Party (PNP). She served as member of the Senate of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001. He has a Bachelor's degree in Sciences of the nutrition from the University of Puerto Rico, a master's degree in that subject at Tulane University School of Medicine, and a doctorate in medicine from the Dominican University. Carranza was elected to the Senate of Puerto Rico in the 1992 general election. She represented the District of Arecibo, along with Víctor
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Norma Elizabeth Boyd


learner, over the years Boyd took graduate courses in education and public relations at Columbia University, New York University, University of California at Berkeley, Vermont's Middlebury College Language School, National Autonomous University of Mexico, American University and George Washington University. For more than thirty years, Boyd was an educator in public schools in Washington, D.C. Boyd would bring student council officers to congressional hearings, to educate them about the political process. She retired from teaching in 1948. At Howard University, Norma Elizabeth Boyd was one of
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Norma Mendoza-Denton


Norma Catalina Mendoza-Denton is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, formerly of the University of Arizona. She worked previously as an assistant professor at Ohio State University. She specializes in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, including work in sociophonetics, language and identity, ethnography and visual anthropology. Mendoza-Denton has served as president of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association, since 2011. Mendoza-Denton earned a doctorate in linguistics from Stanford University in 1997 with the
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World Qualification Series (2009)


18 - Aug 23" 30th Anniversary of the Lacanau Pro and good conditions this year. Surf, concerts, events scheduled. Check out the video for a summary of the event http://vimeo.com/6994555 "Aug 25 - Aug 30" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 04 - Sep 06" "Sep 09 - Sep 12" "Sep 10 - Sep 13" "Sep 08 - Sep 13" "Sep 15 - Sep 20" "Sep 16 - Sep 22" "Sep
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List of 1982–83 NBA season transactions


1982 Oct 2, 1982 Oct 1, 1982 Sep 30, 1982 Sep 29, 1982 Sep 28, 1982 Sep 27, 1982 Sep 24, 1982 Sep 22, 1982 Sep 20, 1982 Sep 19, 1982 Sep 18, 1982 Sep 17, 1982 Sep 15, 1982 Sep 14, 1982 Sep 13, 1982 Sep 10, 1982 Sep 9, 1982 Sep 7, 1982 Sep 2, 1982 Sep 1, 1982 Aug 31, 1982 Aug 27, 1982 Aug 26, 1982 Aug 16, 1982 Aug 8,
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Signal Transfer Point


calls originated by the SEPs' attached users) while avoiding disabled intermediary STPs. A signaling message typically never goes directly from a given SEP to the destination SEP: the message would normally have to pass through the initiating SEP's adjacent STP so that it can be routed to the destination SEP. In some applications, however, SEPs might be directly connected with signaling links; this would typically be done to enhance robustness or performance between two critical SEPs. Such mesh network configurations are also common in Europe, where STPs have not
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Sunset Boulevard (film)


existence of [[Mary Pickford]] and the mental disorders of [[Mae Murray]] and [[Clara Bow]]. It is usually regarded as a fictional composite inspired by several different people, not just a thinly disguised portrait of one in particular. Nevertheless, some commentators have tried to identify specific models. One asserts that [[Norma Talmadge]] is "the obvious if unacknowledged source of Norma Desmond, the grotesque, predatory silent movie queen" of the film. The most common analysis of
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Norma Diamond


Norma Diamond (b. New York City 1933 - d. 2011 Gainesville, Florida) was an American anthropologist who specialized in the study of Chinese society, especially in Taiwan, and women's studies. She was Professor of Anthropology at University of Michigan from 1963 to 1996, and named Professor Emerita. She was the first woman to be a tenure track professor in Anthropology. The panel, "Gender, Power, and Ethnicity in China: Papers in Honor of Norma Diamond," at the 2005 American Anthropological Association annual meeting,
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Norma Dawson


Norma Margaret Dawson CBE is Professor of Law at Queen's University Belfast. She was appointed to a lectureship in the Faculty of Law at QUB in 1976, and became a senior lecturer in 1988, and professor of Law in 1995. She was head of the department of commercial and property law from 1989 to 1994, and director of the Law School and Dean of Faculty from 1994 to 1997. She chaired the university’s central student appeals committee from 2000 to 2004. Dawson teaches property law and intellectual property law. She
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General Hospital


Arlt, Lynda Myles, Alan Pultz, Judith Pinsker, Joseph Behar, Stephanie Braxton, Norma Monty, Frank South, Ralph Ellis, Shelley Curtis, Jean Passanante, Hope Harmel Smith, Michael Conforti, Michele Val Jean and Ron Carlivati. Since the series began in 1963, Port Charles, New York, has been the setting for the show. The town exists in the same fictional universe as other soap opera settings such as Llanview ("One Life to Live"), Pine Valley ("All My Children"
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Norma Parker


in an Australian mental hospital at Callan Park and was also the first psychiatric worker appointed by the Department of Public Health. She was appointed the associate professor and head of the Department of Social Work at the University of New South Wales from 1966 to 1969. She was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 3 June 1972, for "services to education and child welfare", and awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Sydney University in 1986. The Norma Parker Correctional Centre for Women (part
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy


topic to reflect reasoned disagreements among scholars. Initially, the "SEP" was developed with U.S. public funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. A long-term fundraising plan to preserve open access to the encyclopedia is supported by many university libraries and library consortia. These institutions contribute under a plan devised by the "SEP" in collaboration with the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, the International Coalition of Library Consortia, and the Southeastern Library Network, with matching funding from the National Endowment for
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Norma Jean Wright


Norma Jean Wright (born July 15) is an American singer and was the lead vocalist of the American group Chic, a soul, R&B and disco band, from 1977 to 1978. Norma Jean Wright was born in Ripley, Tennessee. At young age, she relocated to Elyria, Ohio, with her family. She attended Ohio State University. Wright sang in the female trio, the Topettes, and toured for a short time with The Spinners. In 1977, she joined Chic, a soul, R&B and disco
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Norma Pensado Moreno


Norma Bertha Pensado Moreno (born May 1, 1958) is a Mexican career diplomat, a member of the since 1991. She currently serves as Ambassador of Mexico to Russia, and concurrently to Armenia and Belarus. She is the first woman to head the Mexican embassy in Russia. Norma Pensado Moreno earned a licentiate in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico's Faculty of Economics in 1981 with the thesis "América Latina: Un difícil camino a la integración" (Latin America: A Difficult Road to Integration).
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Somatosensory evoked potential


Somatosensory evoked potential (SEP or SSEP) is the electrical activity of the brain that results from the stimulation of touch. SEP tests measure that activity and are a useful, noninvasive means of assessing somatosensory system functioning. By combining SEP recordings at different levels of the somatosensory pathways, it is possible to assess the transmission of the afferent volley from the periphery up to the cortex. SEP components include a series of positive and negative deflections that can be elicited by virtually any sensory stimuli. For example, SEPs can be obtained in
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Norman Bates


fruit cellar—and the family motel in the (fictional) small town of Fairvale, California. Bloch sums up Norman's multiple personalities in his stylistic form of puns: "Norman", a child dependent on his mother; "Norma", a possessive mother who kills anyone who threatens the illusion of her existence; and "Norman", a functional adult who goes through the motions of day-to-day life. "Norma" dominates and belittles "Norman" much as she had when she was alive
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Norman Bates


, complete with Norma's corpse seated at the head of the table. When Dylan tells him that Norma is dead, Norman flies into a rage and attacks him with a knife, forcing Dylan to shoot him in self-defense. As he dies, Norman sees a vision of his mother embracing him. The character Norman Bates in "Psycho" was loosely based on two people. First was the real-life murderer Ed Gein, about whom Bloch later wrote a fictionalized account, "The Shambles of Ed Gein"
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