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The NAZI National Socialism in Germany World War II implemented Socialist State Control merged with Corporate Power
National Socialism, the official term for Nazism was a socialist state control system, writes World Net Daily (WND) columnist, historian Hanne Nabintu Herland in her book New Left Tyranny. It explains how the neo-Marxists are in the process of destroying the West. Read WND is America's largest Conservative network with columnists such as Larry Elder, Ann Coulter, John Whitehead, Joseph Farah, …
The New World Order "Liberalism" versus the Classical John Locke Liberalism
Herland Report: John Locke Liberalism: At this point in history, the West is leaving behind its belief in classical, traditional values and the nation state, merging private corporate power with state funds in a liberal approach to accomplish the fourth industrial revolution. So we are told. But is the attempt to forge a new world order where the billionaires …
Brutally Ruthless Marxism: A study of Karl Marx, founder of Communism and Socialism
Karl Marx (1818-1883) prescribed bloody revolution and the total destruction of modern society as the path to a better future. Brutally Ruthless Marxism: A study of Karl Marx: Only after society as we know it was destroyed, a utopian, godless classless society would descend upon the earth in a system where traditional morality and code of honor was abolished. …
How the neo-Marxist movement is strangling America – WND
Herland Report: The neo-Marxist movement: It is only recently that most people have come to understand how influenced American society has become by Marxist thought. Yet, this ideology has been preached for more than 50 years to American youth in schools and universities, demonizing classical, traditional values and substituting these with revolutionary, God hating ideals that have succeeded in destabilizing …
Kanye West, Hitler and the Left's NAZI ideology
The famous musician, Kanye West recently declared his admiration for Adolf Hitler in an interview with Alex Jones. West said that he sees good things about Hitler whom he likes for his "redeeming qualities", as he questioned the Holocaust. And of late, he been very angry at Jewish Hollywood leaders and reportedly Jews in general, writes historian of comparative …
New Left Tyranny. The Authoritarian Destruction of Our Way of Life by Hanne Nabintu Herland explains how the neo-Marxist New Left turned their back on historical Western values
New Left Tyranny. The Authoritarian Destruction of Our Way of Life explains how the neo-Marxist New Left turned their back on historical Western principles and became a destructive authoritarian force. It abandoned the working class. By systematically attacking traditional values and inciting divisive Identity Politics, they created a dysfunctional society characterized by social anarchy, selfishness, and a lack of …
Books by Hanne Nabintu Herland that explain how the West lost its Greatness
Get the books about how the West lost its greatness from historian of comparative religions, best-selling author and founder of The Herland Report, Hanne Nabintu Herland on Amazon! New Left Tyranny. The Authoritarian Destruction of Our Way of Life explains how the neo-Marxist New Left turned their back on historical Western principles and became a destructive authoritarian force. It …
The Marxist West: Meaninglessness is now core Western value – WND
The Marxist West: Marxism with its cancel culture and social upheaval is now engulfing America, applying its rigorous hatred towards traditional values, tearing down the pillars of stability. The idea, as presented in Karl Marx' and Friedrich Engels' work The Communist Manifesto, is that the only solution to injustice between the classes is to instigate bloody revolutions and terror …
What is Neo-Marxism and why the hatred of traditional, Western values?
Herland Report: Neo-Marxism is the post World War II atheist, Leftwing ideology that came from post-NAZI Germany and gained ground at the Western universities in the 1960s. It is now destroying the West, tearing apart the very pillars of society that made the West a strong civilization. Its philosophers – who arguably have been the leading philosophers in the social sciences …
Aldous Huxley and the Totalitarian Brave New World
Herland Report: As the Western elites again are enticed by totalitarian systems and the deprivation of civil liberties among its citizens, Aldous Huxley is worth remembering. He provided an excellent description of the road to tyranny in his celebrated book Brave New World (1932). Huxley shows how restricted society becomes if personal initiative, individualism, social responsibility and the right to …


What's calf roping? What's wrong with it?
A basic description: During calf roping, running at speeds of up to 27 miles per hour, terrified calves are chased by a "cowboy" around a pen, hundreds of people from the "audience" jeering and laughing. Once she is tackled by the cowboy, he picks her up, throws her to the ground, binds her legs roughly with a piece of ropes, picks her up again, and then body slams her into the dirt. Mud in her eyes partially blocks her view of the audience, now roaring with cheers and laughter.
The calves may suffer paralysis, throat and neck injuries, and broken bones. Many die. Calves have become paralyzed from severe spinal cord injury, and their tracheas have been totally or partially severed.


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Zipper Locations and Your Local News and Gossip
So we covered how the Channels work on the Zipper to help you narrow focus your choice of local news and local gossip but what about locations... how are the different from the channels. Although the drop down title is pretty self-explanatory, let's get into the the power that Locations add to the Zipper's functionality. See, news is just like real estate...location location location.
When you look at any of the main screens in the Zipper local news and local gossip app, you'll see the Channel and Location drop down. The default location can be chosen through your settings but it will probably be "Ur Location" or "Ur High School" since these are common uses. TO understand how the locations work, let's take a quick tour through the Zipper itself and what's it's good for. The Zipper is an app that brings you the information you want to know. Local news and local gossip from everyone to everyone. It's that simple. Look, you have your Facebook friends and your Twitter follows but that doesn't tell you 99% of what's happening right around the corner, the block, or the school you're currently sitting in. That's a different relationship and the best way to get that info fast is from individual eye-witnesses at the location. They shoot up the info as a Zip, other people confirm/deny/refine the message and popularity keeps it there till no one's really interested in it anymore. That's the Zipper in a nutshell. Now you can see why Location is important.
The Location allows you to funnel all the information in the Zipper to a size that's useful to you. Maybe you really do want to see all the news from your area. Fine. Set the location to "All" but what if you only want to know what's going on with your High School? Everything from whether Mr. Jones is have a test to where the seniors are meeting after school for big picture. The beauty of building the Zipper as a smart phone app is that it can partially figure out where you are. It will track the news according to your location. That brings up a helpful shift you can make with your Location finder. Maybe you're out of town and you want to know what's going on downtown in your new city. You can force the location to "Current Location" so that it will not reference news from back home. Maybe you want to check back on what's going on there while you're away. Fine. Switch back to "Ur Location" to get back into the local swing of things. You can see how Location becomes a useful tool just with the pre-set options in the system but that's only the beginning.
We didn't want to just stop there with Zipper. We built the ability to create private locations where you can invite you're friends, schoolmates, office workers, etc to join and have a private venue for just your messages. These locations are passcode protected (alpha numeric) so you can control who gets access to this information. As the creator of the Zipline, you can even change pass codes if need be. Just make sure to shoot this new passcode out to the people want to you find it. Finally, privacy in messaging from smart phones is here. No more snooping siblings, parents, and coworkers through your standard text messages. Locations are way to narrow down all the local news and local gossip to specific areas so give it a spin. Zip It!
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Increased obesity (body and fat weights – upper panels) leads to reductions in vitamin A levels (lower left), and signaling (middle lower) in liver and multiple organs. Organ reductions in vitamin A are not detected in blood levels of vitamin A (retinol, lower right). Click the image for more detail.
Vitamin A is critical to the proper functioning of many systems in the body, including vision, fetal development, reproduction, immune responses, and wound healing. Vitamin A deficiency impairs these functions, and is also implicated in increased risk of respiratory infections, diabetes, infertility, and delayed growth and bone development. Because of these wide-ranging health effects, people are advised to get adequate amounts of the vitamin either through diet (eggs, milk, meat, and some fruits and vegetables are sources) or supplementation. But the study, published Nov. 2 in Scientific Reports, shows that obesity interferes with the body's ability to use vitamin A, even with adequate intake.
The researchers fed mice a diet that had normal vitamin A levels, similar to the recommendations for human vitamin A intake.
"We found that normal-weight mice are healthy on that diet, but obese mice show severe vitamin A deficiencies in their livers, kidneys and pancreas," said senior author Dr. Lorraine Gudas, chair of the Department of Pharmacology and the Revlon Pharmaceutical Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Weill Cornell Medicine.
When the obese mice lost weight, their vitamin A levels returned to normal. "Something about the state of obesity is impairing the body's ability to use vitamin A correctly," Dr. Gudas said.
What was particularly remarkable to the research team, which also included Dr. Xiao-Han Tang, an assistant research professor in pharmacology, and Dr. Jose Jessurun, a professor in pathology, was that the blood levels of vitamin A in all of the mice, including the obese mice, were normal. The deficiency was only noted when the researchers took tissue samples from various organs in the mice. "We call this 'silent vitamin A deficiency' because it would not be picked up by a standard blood test for the vitamin," Dr. Trasino said.
The new findings suggest that obesity in humans is also associated with low vitamin A levels in many organs. Such deficiencies would have corresponding health effects.


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In Level 3, all skills from Level 2 will be refined. New skills that will be presented will include the dolphin kick, scissors kick, elementary backstroke and additional water safety topics.


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Modern Art Week
Title: Modern Art Week
Subject: Music of Brazil, Plínio Salgado, Brazilian Integralism, Culture of Brazil, São Paulo, Cecília Meireles, Graça Aranha, Cassiano Ricardo, Coelho Neto, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
Cover of an exhibition catalog from the Semana de Arte Moderna, 1922.
The Modern Art Week (or Semana de Arte Moderna, in Portuguese) was an arts festival in São Paulo, Brazil, that ran from February 11 to February 18, 1922. Historically, the Week marked the start of Brazilian Modernism; though a number of individual Brazilian artists were doing modernist work before the week, it coalesced and defined the movement and introduced it to Brazilian society at large. For Brazil, it was as important as the International Exhibition of Modern Art (also known as the Armory Show), held in New York City in 1913, which became a legendary watershed date in the history of American art.
The Week took place at the Municipal Theater in São Paulo, and included plastic arts exhibitions, lectures, concerts, and reading of poems. In its breadth it differed significantly from the Armory Show, with which it is often compared, but which featured only visual art. It was organized chiefly by painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti and poet Mário de Andrade, in an attempt to bring to a head a long-running conflict between the young modernists and the cultural establishment, headed by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, which adhered strictly to academicism.[1] The event was controversial at best and divisive at worst,[1] with one member of the Academy, Graça Aranha, ostracized for attending. He had opened the week with a conference titled "The aesthetic emotion in modern art". Due to the radicalism (for the times) of some of their poems and music, the artists were vigorously booed and pelted by the audience, and the press and art critics in general were strong in their condemnation (such as in a famous episode by editor, writer and art critic Monteiro Lobato).[1]
The group that took part in the Week, contrary to their initial intentions, did not remain a unified movement. A number of separate groups split off, and the original core members had separated by 1929. Two divisions predominated: the Anthropophagics (cannibalists), led by Oswald de Andrade, wanted to make use of the influence of European and American artists but freely create their own art out of the regurgitations of what they had taken from abroad (thus the term anthropophagy: they would "eat" all influences, digest it, and throw out new things). The Nationalists wanted no foreign influences, and sought a "purely Brazilian" form of art. This group was led by writer Plínio Salgado, who later became a fascist political leader (Brazilian Integralism) and arrested by dictator Getúlio Vargas after a failed coup.
Before the events leading up to 1922, São Paulo was a prosperous but culturally relatively unimportant city. However, the Week established São Paulo as the seat of the new modernist movement, against the far more culturally conservative Rio de Janeiro.
Painters:
Anita Malfatti
Emiliano Di Cavalcanti
Zina Aita
Vicente do Rego Monteiro
Ferrignac (Ignácio da Costa Ferreira)
Yan de Almeida Prado
Alberto Martins Ribeiro
Oswaldo Goeldi
Sculptors:
Victor Brecheret
Hildegardo Leão Velloso
Wilhelm Haarberg
Antonio Garcia Moya
Georg Przyrembel
Oswald de Andrade
Menotti del Picchia
Sérgio Milliet
Plínio Salgado
Ronald de Carvalho
Álvaro Moreira
Renato de Almeida
Guilherme de Almeida
Graça Aranha
Guiomar Novais
Ernâni Braga
Frutuoso Viana
^ a b c Amaral, Aracy; Kim Mrazek Hastings (1995). "Stages in the Formation of Brazil's Cultural Profile". Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 21.
Brazil Body and Soul, exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum
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Nine-Month Results Show Continuing Efficacy of Abivax's ABX464 in Extension Trial
In IBD News Today.
Treatment with Abivax's ABX464 showed continuing effectiveness in ulcerative colitis patients, according to nine-month data of a maintenance clinical trial.
The company is now recruiting people with moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis for its Phase 2b trial (NCT03760003) of ABX464, to be conducted in up to 150 sites in more than 15 countries.
ABX464 is a small molecule taken once daily by mouth. It works by targeting a group of proteins called the Cap Binding Complex, a novel mechanism of action for anti-inflammatory therapies. This leads to a series of events within cells, namely the production of microRNA-124 (miR-124). This molecule reduces the production of inflammatory signals, thus "putting the brakes" on inflammation.
The treatment was tested in a Phase 2a clinical trial (NCT03093259) in which 32 participants were randomly selected to receive either 50 milligrams of ABX464 or a placebo for eight weeks. A total 29 patients completed the trial, and 35% of those given ABX464 were in clinical remission at the study's end.
After this study, all participants had the option to continue in an open-label extension of the study — that is, a continuation in which all patients are given the treatment, without placebos — called ABX464-102 (NCT03368118).
At the Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2019 conference, held recently in San Diego, data was presented for 19 patients. The seven who were in clinical remission at the end of the the trial remained in that status through the nine months of the extension study.
Among the 12 patients not in clinical remission at the end of the initial study, 11 were reported to have "at least a clinical response" by the end of the extension study. None of the 12 were reported to be in remission by the extension study's conclusion.
Additionally, levels of fecal calprotectin, a marker of inflammatory bowel disease, decreased from a median of 1044 micrograms per gram (µg/g) at the beginning of the initial induction study to a median of 24 µg/g at nine months. This is well within the range of what is considered healthy (<50µg/g), the researchers said.
"The safety and durability of the effect at this nine months interim analyses of the open label maintenance study further confirm our hypothesis that ABX464's novel mechanism of action would result in potent and durable anti-inflammatory responses in these patients," Jean-Marc Steens, MD, Abivax's chief medical officer, said in a press release.
No adverse events were reported.
The researchers said only two-thirds of people with ulcerative colitis respond to currently available treatments, including biologics. Half of those seeing an effect stop responding after six to 12 months.
"[T]here is a large unmet need for effective ulcerative colitis therapies. This is a debilitating disease that greatly affects patients' quality of life and requires expensive and cumbersome therapies," said William Sandborn, MD, director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at University of California San Diego Health, and chief of the division of gastroenterology at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
"The innovative mechanism of action of ABX464 and data from this trial represent a promising new potential approach to the treatment of ulcerative colitis that could deliver these patients an easily administered, oral, long-term therapeutic management option," Sandborn said.
The extension study has already been approved to continue for another year, and Abivax is actively testing ABX464 in other inflammatory diseases.
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Celebrities React To Bill Paxton's Death By Remembering His Greatest Roles
By Kathryn Kattalia
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Sad news broke Sunday morning that actor Bill Paxton has died at age 61 due to complications during surgery, People reports. The actor, who is known for his many roles in films like Titanic, Twister, and Apollo 13, has a long and respected career that goes back decades and includes acting, directing, and producing credits. And, as celebrity reactions to Paxton's death prove, his legacy in Hollywood will not soon be forgotten — both his iconic film roles and his lesser known performances have had a major impact that will continue to inspire many.
"A loving husband and father, Bill began his career in Hollywood working on films in the art department and went on to have an illustrious career spanning four decades as a beloved and prolific actor and filmmaker," a family representative said in a statement, according to People. "Bill's passion for the arts was felt by all who knew him, and his warmth and tireless energy were undeniable. We ask to please respect the family's wish for privacy as they mourn the loss of their adored husband and father."
On Sunday, celebrities took to Twitter to express their grief over losing a friend and peer, and to pay tribute to Paxton's tremendous talent.
Some simply offered their condolences to his family.
Others remembered Paxton for some of his lesser known roles.
It's clear that his absence on the big screen will be felt by many.
Many commented that Paxton was a talent gone too soon.
But Paxton was also revered for his incredible character off-screen as well.
He is remembered as someone "with a huge heart."
And while Paxton's roles are memorable, Paxton the person is who will be truly missed.
It's clear that Paxton has touched the lives of countless fans throughout his career, both on screen and off. And as these tributes from celebrities show, Hollywood isn't going to be quite the same without him.


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posted by: Blaine Krumpe
developer: Infinity Ward
date posted: 12:00 AM Tue May 3rd, 2005
last revision: 12:00 AM Tue May 3rd, 2005
I have to admit, I'm a Call of Duty fanatic. I cannot tell you how many times I have stayed up late running and gunning against human opponents online. The Call of Duty maps replay themselves over and over again in my head; I could accurately draw each map with my eyes closed. It came as no surprise to me that on April 7th the guys at Activision officially announced that Infinity Ward will be developing the much anticipated Call of Duty 2. It has only been two years since the original Call of Duty, but much has happened in relation to the breadth and depth that recent games have ascertained.
Players in Call of Duty 2 will now be able to play a more tactical battle if they choose to. The dynamics of the game have shifted somewhat. You now have more than one way to cross the battlefield, in contrast to the relatively straightforward approach of the original game. Alleyways, corridors, and back streets all have their advantages and disadvantages. These new avenues can be taken advantage of by you, or they can easily fall under enemy control as they flank your position. The new AI will be a lot more dynamic in Call of Duty 2; no longer will you have enemies that mindlessly guard their position. The tactics that you employ - like flanking, suppressing fire, or brute force - will be amply turned against you. Your enemies now have the ability to actively pursue you with some sort of intelligence. There are also rumors of squad commands that you will be able to issue to your troops, but at this point in time, that information is very guarded. Another interesting addition is in fact a limiting one: there will be a set number of troops on the map when you start a mission. Enemies will come running as soon as they hear the sounds of war and react to your presence as they see fit.
Call of Duty 2 has had a big update to the graphics system. While the style and feel are still there, the visuals are stunning, to say the least. The whole gambit of shaders, dynamic lighting, particle effects, etc., are all included and put to good use. While you will need a relatively high-end computer to run everything to the max, the developers and designers have accounted for this and made it possible for lower tech computers to run the game looking a lot like the first Call of Duty. Infinity Ward also sent people to scout the actual battlefields and areas of conflict that would be included in the game's storyline. When it comes down to it, the graphics, visual scenery and artwork, and the whole atmosphere will hopefully be leaps and bounds better than the first Call of Duty.
Indications suggest that the in-game animations in Call of Duty 2 will be a lot smoother, but will carry many the same characteristics as the first game. However, there will be more of them, and they will be tuned to the specific actions of the characters and what's going on in the environment. Your buddies in the trenches next to you now have the ability to call out enemy positions and movements. You'll now know how many soldiers are hiding just inside the doorway of the half destroyed building, as well as knowing that there is a sniper hiding on the fifth floor of the building on your right. The soldiers fighting alongside you will effectively be able to help you with their battlefield chatter.
The surround sound in Call of Duty was excellent; now, it looks to be getting even better. Everything from bullets to explosions have been tweaked and made to sound more realistic. It's going to be a long six months before this game hits store shelves. Hopefully when I'm down at E3, I'll be able to get some truly good hands-on experience. Everything about the game has been improved upon and made more realistic and engrossing, which hopefully makes for a better game. As this goes to print, there's no solid word on the multiplayer portion of Call of Duty 2 - lets just hope it is as addicting as the first.
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D'forest for d'trees
BY David K. Israel
One of our favorite blogs, Treehugger.com, has a fascinating post on eco-smart Chinese, who are now carrying their own chopsticks to their favorite restaurants when they eat out, doing what they can to help fight deforestation in a country that throws away 45 billion disposable pairs every year.
Elsewhere, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, who won the Nobel Prize in 2004 for the 30 million trees she planted in Africa to help counter forest loss, is busy working with Spain's Basque Government in an effort to plant 232,000 trees to neutralize carbon monoxide emissions in what they're calling a re-afforestation project.
It seems people all over the globe are finally waking up to the serious threat deforestation presents. In 6000 BC, when humans couldn't do much harm to the world ecosystem, trees covered two-fifths of the land. Since then, about half of the original forestland has disappeared.
But many people, such as British historian, Clive Ponting, point out that the problem is actually thousands of years old and are surprised we haven't learned our lesson yet, considering how many previous civilizations have collapsed as they've abused their natural resources.
As Ponting describes in his book, A Green History of the World, when populations expand and settlements grow, more and more trees are cut down to provide clearings for agriculture, fire for heating and cooking, and construction materials for homes and household goods. As a result, a series of ecological breakdowns occur as animals overgrazed, topsoil erodes and flooding becomes common in a cyclical pattern that has affected even the most formidable civilizations. Follow the jump and check out the details of a few "for instances" that affected biggies like the Greeks, the Romans, and the natives of Easter Island.
For instance #1: in Greece, around 650 BC, hillsides once covered with vegetation and rich olive trees became barren, seriously affecting the Greek's economy and political power. Plato would write about the deforestation problem in one of his late dialogues, Critias:
What now remains compared with what then existed is like the skeleton of a sick man"¦ there are some mountains which now have nothing but food for bees, but they had trees not very long ago"¦
For instance #2: Similar problems cropped up, if you'll excuse the pun, during the 4th and 5th centuries in Italy. Ponting argues that, along with the well-documented Roman political decay, serious deforestation and the abuse of other natural resources greatly contributed to the fall of the empire, as well. But the seeds were already being sewn during Caesar's rule. When the Gauls or Britains would escape his mighty legions and take to the forests, many Roman generals simply burned them to the ground.
For instance #3: The Easter Islanders, famous for their moai statues, not only felled their forests for all the usual reasons, but used up enormous quantities of tree trunks to roll and erect their giant stone statues. As a result, by 1600, the island was almost completely deforested, with many moai left stranded at the quarry. Stranded, too, were the inhabitants, who couldn't build canoes and venture of the island. As a result, the population, like the trees, fell into near extinction.
Jared Diamond, the evolutionary biologist, adds this extreme-factoid, which I found on Wiki to support Ponting's theories:
The fact that oral traditions of the islanders are obsessed with cannibalism is evidence supporting a rapid collapse. For example, to severely insult an enemy one would say: "The flesh of your mother sticks between my teeth." This suggests that the food supply of the people ultimately ran out.
Yes, it's the classic "your mother" insult, something as universal as the tree itself. Here's hoping the two never disappear completely.


I didn't see a topic about this, so I decided to make one. I just got Awakening today, but I'm not allowed to play it till tommorow. Is it any good? All I know about the franchise is what I've learned from Smash Bros and an hour or so on Fire Emblem Wiki. I know that Marth, Ike, Lucina, Robin, Chrom, Roy, and Lyn are the main characters, and that it's really popular in Japan, and one of the best SRPG's out there. Anything else I should know before jumping in?
You should know that every game (mostly) is set in a different universe, so you won't see, say, Marth interacting with Ike.
Also there's a bunch of Japanese games that never got released. If you can read Japanese they're worth a playthrough.
I can't read Japanese but I wish I could! Having a lot of fun with the game, I'm on Chapter Six.
Fire Emblem Awakening is one of my favorite 3DS games, currently tied with Pokemon Y, but will likely be surpassed by Smash Bros. 3DS.
It's just amazing. Like, words can't describe. Smash Bros introduced me to the series, and though I've only played Awakening, it's just a matter of me trying to find the older games to give them a playthrough, haha. That being said, since the new Smash game is to have Marth, Ike, Lucina, and Robin, I'm quite excited. Shame that Chrom couldn't be there as well. He was my favorite, haha.
So where do you think the story is going next? A sequel to Awakening, following the sequels to Shadow Dragon and Path of Radiance, or somewhere entirely new? Not counting SMTxFE, that is.
Right now I'm trying to find Shadow Dragon, with no luck. I know some say it's not really up to par with recent Fire Emblem games, but hey, may as well give it a shot!
This topic should be a lot more active... with the success of awakening and the new teaser trailer for the new installment. The only thing I want to stay the same is the S relationships and a My Unit character, it really helps to get into the story.


Used to declare the Greenplum Database distribution policy for the table. One or more columns can be used as the distribution key, meaning those columns are used by the hashing algorithm to divide the data evenly across all of the segments. The distribution key should be the primary key of the table or a unique column (or set of columns). If that is not possible, then you may choose to distribute randomly, which will send the data round-robin to the segment instances. If not supplied, then either the PRIMARY KEY (if the table has one) or the first eligible column of the table will be used.