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5/23 Get well, Marlon
Note: I told Marlon that several fans had left get well messages on his blog, and he really appreciated the thoughts and sentiments. If you want to jot down a note, leave it here. We'll make sure he sees it.
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Come back soon! We miss you! There is an open spot in CF that only you can fill!
Marlon, here's to a speedy recovery. We already miss you contributions.
Marlon I hope your doing well, and you make a speedy recovery, man! Thank god the injury was nothing more serious!
Good luck to you, and thanks for everything you do as a Cub!
Ray Tannock
Get better Marlon!!!
Do get well, Marlon. I want to see you out there at Wrigley Field once again as soon as possible.
I left one over at Marlon's blog, but I'll leave one here too:
That was one scary plunking, but we know you've come back from way worse than this. Hang in there, get well soon, and I, for one, can't wait to see you bowing to the bleacher bums again.
Get better soon Marlon, your one of my favorite players on the Cubs, always got a great attitude. Hope your doing better man.
Wishing you a speedy and full recovery!
Marlon your attitude thru all of this sets an example of eexcellence and class this world could use alot more of that
My brother and I always enjoy your enthusiasm for the game. We drove from Nebraska to sit in the bleachers last year and watch you and the Cubs. You made it a lot of fun. Best wishes on a speedy return.
Get well soon Marlon! The Cubs will miss your bat, but your health and eyesight came first!
Hey Marlon! Get well soon! Thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family during your recovery!
Take care of yourself, man, I hate to see that happen to anyone, especially one of my favorite Cubs.
Marlon, please get well soon! I already miss you in center! I'm praying for your speedy recovery. ❤
Get well soon, Marlon. The team needs your leadership and your friends and family your companionship! Praying for a speedy recovery. God bless you!
Good luck, Marlon! We miss you and hope you recover soon.
I wish you a speedy recovery Marlon. I look forward to seeing you play out here in SoCal once everything heals up. Take care!
Marlon, you will be in my families thoughts while you recover. Know that me and my father who are huge cub fans admire the way you play the game at 100% and how you are always having fun. When I have children I will point you out to them and the way you play the game as an example. Get well soon Marlon.
I was in the stands, close enough to hear the hit…i prayed you would get up, you did, you always do. get back soon, you will, im sure.
Best wishes for a speedy and total recovery from Germany.
Get well soon, to the person who own the biggest biceps on the team. seriously you look like a linebacker on the field lol. Here's to a speedy recovery
Byrds the word marlon!!! we miss you and i cant wait till your back in the lineup!!! im actually wearing your jersey shirt as we speak!
Get well soon! We miss seeing you play!
We're gonna miss your bat in the lineup and your great defense dude. Get well soon!!
Get well soon, Marlon! Prayers and best wishes for a speedy recovery.
get well soon Marlon!
Byrd, Byrd, Byrd… Byrd is the word!!! Get well soon Marlon!!
Keeping you in our prayers, Marlon. That was a scary hit to the face but glad to read it wasn't more serious. Can't wait to see one of the hardest working players in MLB today back in action soon.
Get well soon Marlon! You are the man!
Best wishes for a speedy recovery- you've played ALL OUT for the Cubs and we fully appreciate your efforts
Get well soon!! Miss ya bud
Marlon, you're the perfect example of what a true baseball player should be. You take pride in being here and playing for us Cubs fans. Best wishes on a speedy recovery!!
I second Jim Sheldon's post. Marlon, get well soon! You make baseball so much fun to watch. It would be unbelievably awesome if you're still a Cubbie when we finally make it back to the Fall Classic!!
Get well soon Marlon!! You and your hard head will be missed! Best wishes on a speedy recovery and take care of yourself!!!
I hope you make a quick recovery the team needs you, best to you Marlon.
Get well soon, Marlon! The Cubs are truly blessed to have you in Chicago. Your dedication and leadership have proven to be an asset for the team and I look forward to seeing you suiting up for us for many, many more years! Go Cubs!
Get well marlon cf won't be the same with out you roaming it wed night. I'm glad we were able to shut them bos fans up 1 night. We ran this city this weekend, n they were mad!
Get well soon Marlon! I will sure miss watching you sprint around the bases. Hope you heal quickly.
Marlon you play the right way. Get well soon
Hey Marlon! Get well soon! Cubs fans all here to support you. You're a great guy! Hope to see you on the field soon!
Marlon, Get well soon, you are the best. CF is your domain. I can still see your 9-6 putout in last year's All-Star game.
Get well Buddy! A big Cub fan in Texas has you in his thoughts and prayers.
Hope the face heals up nice man. Love watching you play. I model my game off yours.
Games just won't be the same without you. Get well soon.
We felt so bad for you the other night. My family and I would like to send you get well wishes for a full and speedy recovery! Take care & God Bless!
Hope you get better soon no one can plays center like you.
Get well soon Marlon. Take good care and don't take any unneccesary chances trying to get back too soon. Your future is more important than getting back on the field right away.
You are truly a class act and a perfect example of how a major league baseball player should play the game. Best wishes for a speedy and full recovery, Marlon!
Here's wishing you a speedy recovery, Marlon! CF in Cubbie Blue won't be the same until you're back. Get Well Soon!
Hey Marlon…I wish for a quick recovery for you & hope to see ya back on the field. My prayers are with you. Sincerely, Brian McKown Decatur Illinois CUBBIE FOR LIFE !!!!
That was brutal! But here's hoping to a speedy recovery! Take care Marlon!
Sending my get well wishes to a class act. Your comments in the paper today about being grateful and feeling fortunate that it wasn't worse, not complaining at all….it shows the type of person you are. Sending positive thoughts and healing energy your way!!
Hey Marlon, Can't wait to see you back on the field! My family & I are flying up from Oklahoma in July to see you play!
Marlon.. take your time and get well. Don't rush it. Campana needs you to show him how to be a major leaguer.
That hit brought tears to my eyes! So thankful you got back up, now I am praying for a speedy recovery. Can't wait to see you back at it, giving it 110%!!
Marlon- thank god u are ok. Watching that happen still gives me the chills. But your a tough dude and my favorite Cub, so i know you'll be back in no time. Bryd is the word!
Scary .,,,,hope your doing ok. Take it easy and get better soon..we need you! Although you seem like a pretty tough guy and probably won't let this hold you down for to long. God bless!
Marlon, please get well soon. That was a horrifying moment to watch, and I'm glad the injury isn't more serious than it already is. You're such a joy to watch, and you play the game the right way. You're in all of our thoughts, and make sure you're completely healthy before you come back! It's not worth risking your life (again?) for.
I'm a 13 year old kid living in the Netherlands and I've gotta say you're the coolest baseball player I've seen in a while. I learned a lot from watching you play. My hitting got way better when I started trying out your compact swing and I worked all summer with my cousin taking grounders and doing what we call "The flying Byrd". That's the awesome catch you do when you're running in for a fly ball and lay out. Anyway I guess all the practice payed off because now I'm starting on the high school baseball team! It feels so cool to be a 7th grader and be on Varsity so thanks for being a great example and ballplayer! I hope you're face gets better soon but I'm sure it will cause you're a stud and you can take it. Can't wait to see you back at Wrigley!
I'll have to start rooting for my second favorite Cub while you are on the mend. Get well, big man!
P.S. Second favorite Cub = Darwin Barney
Hope we can see you back in action soon! The team needs you!
Best wishes from a lifelong fan from Mexico!
Get well soon Marlon. I'm praying your recovery is short. Going to miss seeing you on the field.
Get well soon Marlon. You are in my thoughts and prayers fir a speedy recovery. Cubs nation needs you.
Get well soon! Can't wait to see you back on the field.
Please take as much time as you need to recover completely.
all the best to marlon and his family. i wish him a speedy recovery and thanks for playing the game the way it should be played.
wish there were more players like you. glad to hear you are doing ok. looking forward to seeing you on the field again.
Hey Marlon, here's to a quick recovery. Hope to see you on the field again this year.
Marlon, I was so angry and sad when I saw you go down. But I was glad to see you were able to get back up from that, I guess I forgot how tough you are. I'll keep praying for you to get better and for a fast recovery. In the meantime there will be a hole in CF which NOBODY can fill. Get well soon, we miss you!
It's always enjoyable to watch you play, you play with so much joy and heart. I wish you a full and speedy recovery. I have an awesome picture of you in the on deck circle from last year and I hope to get more someday! 🙂
Every ballplayer could learn something by the example you set everyday you step in between the lines. You are a true joy to watch every day. I was very concerned for you and I hope you get well soon. Thank you for being a Chicago Cub and look forward to your return.
Oh. My.
I just watched video from your at bat and my heart skipped a beat. WOW. You are one of the most talented and classiest guys playing for the Cubs' ball club.. get well soon. We're excited to welcome you back to Wrigley!
NOT an ideal way to get a spot on Sportscenter my man!!! Get better Marlon.
You took a hard lick in Boston. Hope you are recovering and having no pain. See you in Chicago in June. Praying for a complete recovery.
Marlon, my family and I are praying for a quick recovery. It's not the same seeing someone else out in center field! Get well soon and I hope you come back stronger than ever! 🙂
Marlon, you are an inspiration to any fan of the game of baseball. You play the game the right way. I live in Hawaii and even though its almost impossible to catch Cubs games on tv here, I still have a favorite player and its you. Mahalo for your contribution to the Cubs and all of MLB baseball. I look forward to many more Marlon Byrd highlights in the future. Aloha!
Hope to see you playing again soon.
We wish you a speedy recovery. We really miss you and your leadership on the field. Get well soon!
My prayers are with you and I pray for a quick recovery. Our group are Huge Cub fans
May God grant you a speedy recovery
Get well soon Marlon, can't wait to see you back in the lineup!
Hey Marlon…… My thoughts and prayers are with you for a full recovery. Take the time you need and come back healthy. GO CUBS!
Get Well Soon Marlon!
MARLON!!!! i hope you get well soon !
in my opinion, you're the only cub out there that plays center field the best. you are also one of my favorite players.(:
get well soon so you can play with the cubbies soon!!
now that you've experienced this, it will hopefully make you fearless. good job out there. & hope you feel better (:
MARLON!!!! i hope you get well soon !
in my opinion, you're the only cub out there that plays center field the best. you are also one of my favorite players.(:
get well so you can play with the cubbies soon!!
now that you've experienced this, it will hopefully make you fearless. good job out there. & hope you feel better (:
P.S. im a really big fan & in you're one of my fav. cubs player (:
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#3 darwin barney
#4 starlin castro
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My family's thoughts are with you for a speedy recovery. Stay strong!
Mr Byrd , I love the way you play …. Get better soon !
Marlon get well soon, wearing my BYRD BYRD BYRD is the werd shirts and wishing you a speedy return!
Marlon… Just spent the last 6 weeks recovering from open heart surgery. All recovery is tough ….. Just keep strong and focus on getting well. Do what the doctors say as they do know what is best, and soon you will be back in the friendly confines. Stay strong…
Our thoughts and prayers or with you. Here's to a speedy recovery and plenty of those blistering home run trots still this year! Cheers!
Of course we'll miss your bat and your glove, but most of all we'll miss your smile, joy for the game and dedication. We wish you a speedy recovery and pray for healing. Be well.
As lifelong Cubs fans for over 50 years we wish you the best and send our prayers for a speedy and complete recovery. Over the last 2 years you have become the heart and soul of our outfield and someone that the Cubs need to build around. Get well and we'll see you in Wrigley in August.
You are the BEST!!!
Marlon get well soon buddy! Much love from San Diego! I hope to see you against my friars later this season! (Take it easy on us!)
Get well buddy, Go Cubs
Thanks for all you do for the Cubs, Marlon. I hope you are feeling better and have a speedy recovery. We need you out there! I'll be sure to keep you in my prayers.
With you out of the line up,I know your heart and soul will be with the team , you are a true leader , be it from the field or dugout ,nobody but you pops back up from that , you are a cub ,Ron is proud of you , get back soon and godbless you.
Get better soon, Marlon. We live in Boston and my whole family was so excited to see you and the Cubs here. My two girls love the Cubs and you are one of their favorite players. They were so worried about you when you got hit. We are all glad that you are recovering and we look forward to seeing you play later this summer in Chicago.
Marlon please get well soon! i want to see you play some more!
Head up, Marlon. You have a lot of love coming your way from all over the universe. Get well soon, man. We need your leadership on the field!
You're in our prayers Marlon! Everyone wants to see you back as soon as possible! The outfield isn't the same without you. Gonna rock my Byrd shirt at Wrigley this summer! Get well SOON!
Marlon get better. Glad you were not hurt much worse and that you can recover from this. I wish you the best to a speedy recovery.
To my favorite Cub, here's hoping for a quick recovery. Byrd is the word!!!
You are an amazing guy and I love watching you play for the cubs. I am wishing you well and that you are back out there shortly. We miss you! Get Well!
Get better soon, man! I hope everything turns out ok.
Marlon, I was in Fenway Friday night to watch the Cubs first game there since 1918. Saturday I was at a local Boston bar watching the game. I am a Cubs fan, and I am glad I was not there to see that gruesome injury. Get well soon, Marlon. You play the game the right way, which is all out. Can't wait to see you patrolling center field again. Vaya Con Dios.
Sorry to see what happened to you…
So many of us like to watch you play the way you play..
Have faith that you'll come back better than ever..
….try not to worry about anything.
I wish you my best for a full and speedy recovery. I look forward to seeing you back in centerfield once again later this season. I admire your dedication and hustle. You play the game the right way. Get well soon,
Marlon, Hope you feel better soon. Take care.
Best wishes from Warsaw, IN. We are all very proud to have you as a Cubbie and can't wait to see you back in action.
Marlon, I go to school with a bunch of Red Sox fans, and they were laughing at your injury. Terrible people. Anyhow I hope you recover quickly, not just because of your consistent batting or spectacular fielding, but because you really seem like you love the game. Whenever I see you strike out, you never throw the bat down in disgust, whenever you win you always have a big smile on your face. I just wish that all baseball players were as content as you are wherever you go. Go luck on your road to recovery!
Get well soon!
Marlon. You took the time to take a picture with my daughter and I at Dodger stadium before the game, and it meant so much to us. You are exactly what a pro player should be… classy, talented and fun to watch. Wishing you a speedy & full recovery.
Take care,
Mel & Bri – Huntington Beach, CA
Best wishes on a complete recovery. Much as we'd like to see you back in CF tomorrow, your long-term health is more important.
Get well Marlon. Take your time and come back when you are ready.
I was so sorry to see you get hurt, but happy to see you are getting better. God bless and a speedy recovery.
Marlon, Your true strength really showed with your reaction to that pitch. I have no idea how you popped up and walked off of the field, but you did. We all all so concerned and are thinking of you, not just because we miss you on the field, but because you are genuinely an amazing person off the field as well. My first graders are so concerned about you and we are sending our well wishes!
I'm praying for your full recovery. I had a similar break to my face 20 years ago. The first 2 weeks of inactivity are frustrating. Then comes the odd jarring sensation when you run later on. Hope you're able to get back to peak performance soon. Best wishes!
Byrd is he word! Get well Soon!
Marlon you are a great role model to all the young Cubs players and fans. We can always count on you to give it your all every game. Hope your recovery goes well all the way from Minnesota.
I wish you the best with recovery. That was painful to watch.
I have always been thankful to read your blog entries and the morale boost they bring. You take pride in all that you do and you always remain positive. This is immensely encouraging to fans, and it makes you a favorite to watch on and off the field. I'm glad you're a Cub and your attitude makes me proud. Thanks for making yourself accessible to fans. Get well soon, wish you and your family the best.
And Go Cubs Go!
We're all hoping for a quick and easy-as-possible recovery for you, Marlon. Best of luck and God bless.
I can't wait to see you back in the fold and giving all of us fans the hustle and respect for the game you bring to the field. My prayers and thoughts are with you during your recovery. Go Cubs.
I'm praying for your swift and complete recovery. You are THE MAN on this team, and we miss you. Come home to Wrigley soon.
We miss you and hope you're improving every day!
I really hope to see you again on the field soon we sure do miss you and your spirits!!! we need you back in a bad way but happy to know you are taking your time and doing it smart. Sure isnt the same not singing BRYD BRYD BRYD…BRYDS THE WRYD! everytime you do something grreat but in due time!!!
cant wait for the return- im counting the days!!! 🙂
Yours truly from upwards of Wrigley North!!!
Andrea 🙂
Marlon,I am a big fan of yours,and hope that you are back patrolling center field in 2012.I have a form of cerabal palsy which affects my nerves in my legs& contracts my muscles in my ankles.But hearing about your leg it gives me hope!!! You are my inspiration and would like to meet you someday!!!!!


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This week's Linux Top 3, once again has a strong desktop component.
1) Apache OpenOffice 3.4
For years, OpenOffice.org was the default standard for office suites on many Linux desktops. Then things got – messy.
Oracle acquired Sun, OOo was forked into LibreOffice and there was no shortage of disharmony. There was also some initial concern that OOo would simply fade away.
As it turns out that didn't happen. Oracle transitioned OpenOffice to the Apache Software Foundation in a bid to make the project a true open source project and to find a way forward. This past week, the fruit of those labors was made apparent to all with the release of Apache OpenOffice 3.4
Among the most obvious changes for users is faster startup time.
"Startup is faster since the program now has enough initial knowledge about its components so that it doesn't have to start each of them," the Apache OpenOffice 3.4 release notes state.
The other big change is the move to the Apache License 2.
"We are pleased and excited to offer OpenOffice fully licensed under the Apache License 2. This offering will form the foundation of OpenOffice innovation moving forward here at Apache," said Juergen Schmidt, Apache OpenOffice Release Manager and veteran core developer in a statement. "With the achievement of this major milestone, we have established a diverse and vibrant community with sufficient depth and skills to ably steward this important product into the future."
2) Fedora Spherical Cow
What follows a 'Beefy Miracle' ? Apparently it's a spherical cow. The Fedora community voted last week to name Fedora 18. The winner was Spherical Cow coming out ahead of: Halva, Chamoy, Pamukkale, Tandoori Chicken, Frankfurter, Pop Soda and Ketchy Ketchup.
The naming for Fedora 18 has also opened up a larger debate within the Fedora community about how the naming process should work. While the general sentiment is that the community wants to keep having a name instead of just a number, there is some dis-satisfaction with the process that has led Fedora 18 to be names Spherical Cow.
While OpenOffice once dominated the Linux office suite landscape, so too did (and to some extent still does) dominate desktop graphics tools
The GIMP 2.8 release is one that we've been waiting on for years and it introduced one key feature that you can't miss – single window mode.
"Single-window mode removes the necessity for users of having to deal with multiple windows," the GIMP release notes states.
Sure that's a simple enough thing, but after years of waiting, it's finally here.
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Can a Team Win Without Its Captain? — Sports Survey of the Day
When a big-name player on your team goes down, it's makes things tougher—and that goes double in the postseason.
Yankee captain Derek Jeter is the face of his organization, the team's undisputed leader, and has been for years. He fractured his ankle, though, in Game 1 of the ALCS and will not return. The Yankees went on to lose that game, and then again in Game 2.
He's not the only marquee player whose team struggled after his injury. When Tom Brady went down in 2008, the Patriots missed the playoffs. This past season, the Chicago Bulls had the best record in the Eastern Conference, but they were quickly out of the playoffs once they lost star point guard Derrick Rose.
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So atheists have a higher IQ.This has left me with a warm feelling.
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Chris, I replied to what looked like your words.
Then, reading the link, I saw that you had used its opening words without putting them in quotation marks.
I should have included more of the article.
Maybe, but when you use the words of others, identifying them as the product of others is, as the French say, de rigueur.
(Gee, I've seen that term so many times but have not until now used it.)
You caught me being lazy. I usually write read the rest here, or something like that.
Thanks for the nuanced article, Chris G. The authors make a plausible case
"My speculation is that it's not as simple as their model presents it," Nosek said. "I think that lower cognitive capacity can lead to multiple simple ways to represent the world, and one of those can be embodied in a right-wing ideology where 'People I don't know are threats' and 'The world is a dangerous place'. ... Another simple way would be to just assume everybody is wonderful."
Prejudice is of particular interest because understanding the roots of racism and bias could help eliminate them, Hodson said. For example, he said, many anti-prejudice programsencourage participants to see things from another group's point of view. That mental exercise may be too taxing for people of low IQ.
"There may be cognitive limits in the ability to take the perspective of others, particularly foreigners," Hodson said. "Much of the present research literature suggests that our prejudices are primarily emotional in origin rather than cognitive. These two pieces of information suggest that it might be particularly fruitful for researchers to consider strategies to change feelings toward outgroups," rather than thoughts.
[emphasis mine]
Perhaps fiction for the young, such as afternoon cartoons, would be a fruitful way to engage empathy for outgroups. Entertainment for adults, such as soaps or fantasy, can also engage empathy for outgroup characters in emotionally safe fantastic settings.
Series such as Lost Girl, Being Human, and Grimm portray both menacing and friendly outgroup characters, without intellectual burden to the audience. Monroe, the cuddly werewolf, is my favorite Grimm character.
From that Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs... study:
There may be cognitive limits in the ability to take the perspective of others, particularly [that of] foreigners," Hodson said. "Much of the present research literature suggests that our prejudices are primarily emotional in origin rather than cognitive. These two pieces of information suggest that it might be particularly fruitful for researchers to consider strategies to change feelings toward outgroups," rather than thoughts.
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Outside that study's scope and also fruitful for researchers: strategies to change feelings of conservatives toward themselves.
A recent Sixty Minutes program told of books by a fundamentalist couple recommending the use of physical violence with children. Such violence begets fear, and conservative organizations use fear of the future to get money, just as conservative candidates use fear of liberalism to get votes.
The verbal violence expressed by audiences at recent Republican candidates' debates probably also arises from their fear.
A perception of the world based on fear seems to be driving a lot of legislation in the U.S. Fear is being exploited for political gain.
The following link says:
"...One of the characteristic traits of conservatism is to see the world at large as a dangerous place, filled with threats natural and man-made. This is why conservatives tend to be tough on crime, more concerned about the threat of illegal immigration and more 'hawkish' when it comes to defence and foreign policy.
Another characteristic is to see the world as a meritocracy: people generally get what they deserve, be it positive or negative. This means if you work hard, you deserve to be rewarded (and the government doesn't have a right to rob you of the fruit of your hard work and give it to the lazy and undeserving). Yet if you flout the law, or if you break social conventions, you deserve whatever punishment you get (being 'soft' on crime or 'rehabilitating' criminals just perverts the natural order and encourages more deviant behaviour)..."
I've been wondering why Republicans and Conservatives are so difficult to talk with. The following article (excerpt above) Why Conservatives are climate change skeptics is about how conservatives have a different world view than liberals.
It's no wonder that I can't even talk with conservatives about the weather.
"...why Republicans and Conservatives are so difficult to talk with."
I've noticed this too, and wondered if it's because they are so stressed out that they are unable to deal with additional stress.
Couple their stress with the cruelty shown by audience members at Repub candidate debates (cheering Ric Perry when he spoke of executions in Texas prisons, attacking the gay soldier in Iraq/Afghanistan, etc), and I wonder if it's the result of violence they'd known as children.
Is all that explained by fundamentalists' relying on the biblical thing about sparing the rod and spoiling the child?
The sparing the rod is probably a portion of the overall problem. I worked with a guy who was a member of a Christian Identity sect of the Baptist Church. That church was one of the biggest buildings in town. A lot of the people I worked with belonged to that church or another that preached about the Christian Identity movement. Anyway the guy spoke bragged about using corporal punishment on his grandchildren who were three to twelve years old. I suggested that if he learned how to communicate better he might get his point across better without having to resort to hitting them. He replied with something like "yea, maybe - but this works for me." He didn't want to hear any ideas from me.
I think beyond corporal punishment that the authoritarian rule demanded of the
parishioners caused more problems. The requirement to believe the bible is inerrant must cause conflict for them. I suppose eventually they give into the believe that the bible is entirely factual in-order to belong to the family group and community. People have to be intellectually dishonest with themselves to believe that - which makes everything they base their lives on a lie.
It seems to me that ultimately their binary (black and white) thinking is the most problematic. What else causes that? - Is it a coping mechanism that allows for believe in biblical inerrancy?
As far as I'm concerned, conservatives fear the wrong things. In the face of Climate Destabilization rendering the planet uninhabitable for their children and grandchildren, and the species as a whole, they're afraid of illegal immigrants, abortion, and gay marriage. That's "penny wise and pound foolish" fear!
thats good that xplains my daughter
Right's Stupidity Spreads, Enabled by too-polite left.
"...But what we now see among their parties – however intelligent their guiding spirits may be – is the abandonment of any pretence of high-minded conservatism. On both sides of the Atlantic, conservative strategists have discovered that there is no pool so shallow that several million people won't drown in it. Whether they are promoting the idea that Barack Obama was not born in the US, that man-made climate change is an eco-fascist-communist-anarchist conspiracy, or that the deficit results from the greed of the poor, they now appeal to the basest, stupidest impulses, and find that it does them no harm in the polls.
Don't take my word for it. Listen to what two former Republican ideologues, David Frum andMike Lofgren, have been saying. Frum warns that "conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with...". The result is a "shift to ever more extreme, ever more fantasy-based ideology" which has "ominous real-world consequences for American society".
Lofgren complains that "the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital cent...". The Republican party, with its "prevailing anti-intellectualism and hostility to science" is appealing to what he calls the "low-information voter", or the "misinformation voter". While most office holders probably don't believe the "reactionary and paranoid claptrap" they peddle, "they cynically feed the worst instincts of their fearful and angry low-information political base"...
It's worth reading the entire article instead of just the excerpt I posted above. Frum's warning that conservatives built an alternative knowledge system complete with its own facts, history and laws of economics seems true enough.
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OnLive Game Service Preview - Is this the future of PC gaming?
Introduction and Setup
I have posted a couple of updates on the last page, including my response to a response that OnLive made to our article on 1/22/10. Click here to jump right those updates!
In March of 2009 when OnLive was first announced, it was deemed to be a questionable but potentially revolutionary change in the direction gaming was headed. OnLive's vision is to instantly connect gamers to games via a broadband connection only - no need for gaming consoles or expensive gaming PCs. The explanation that OnLive gives on their website seems honest and straight forward enough:
- Connect to OnLive with your TV, PC or Mac
- Your game runs in a state of the art game server center
- OnLive connects you to game servers through the Internet, instantly sending your controller actions upstream and the results back downstream at blinding fast speeds
- Enjoy ultra high-performance gameplay on your TV or entry-level PC or Mac
Of course things aren't always as easy as they seem. Immediately after the 2009 announcement technology and game journalists began to wonder how the game service could work as easily and and as effortlessly as OnLive claimed. By far the most troubling question was regarding latency - how would a service like OnLive deal with the input latency (time between data leaving your PC and arriving at the data center) of a mouse, keyboard or controller? With as much as 100 ms of delay between servers on the Internet, that is a potentially long time between your mouse movement and your mouse movement appearing on screen.
Well, obviously looking for answers, I found a login for the closed OnLive beta and decided to sit down for a couple of weeks and give the service a thorough evaluation. In this article we'll look at both the ease of use of the service as well as the real-world experience of playing a few of the games. I think you will find the results to be interesting!
Setup of the OnLive Service
The installation of the OnLive client is really about as easy at it gets. After downloading a small 8MB file and running the very basic installer you are sent back to the OnLive.com website. Clicking on the large "Launch OnLive" button launches a new window (either in windowed or full screen mode depending on your last usage) where the interface begins.
At first glance this might seem like a browser plug in though because it works with IE and FireFox, as well as Mac OS X systems, we can assume it is just a very thin and light client-side application. If you access OnLive through the desktop link it actually just opens up your default browser where you hit the "Launch OnLive" button before the program will load. The obvious answer here is that OnLive will want its customers to be constantly checking for updates and upgrades on the OnLive.com website and this is the easiest way to facilitate that.
Imagine an image of a webpage where it says "OnLive Beta" at the top and it has links to "Home, Account, FAQ and Contact Us". Also there is a big button near an orange logo that says "Launch OnLive".
I do wonder why OnLive hasn't integrated a browser into the client much like Steam has done - perhaps they will once they get past the early beta stages.
Client Footprint
Besides a very small installation footprint, the OnLive client is just as easy on the hardware as they claimed to be:
obviously much lower CPU horsepower than would be required to play these types of games locally. This memory consumption and CPU utilization never went much beyond this (I did see 71MB used) after hours of game play or between varying games. This is one of the key benefits of the fruition of the cloud-based gaming vision the OnLive team has.
I also did a quick check to see how much bandwidth the OnLive application was using it its current form. The short answer: about 1 Mb/s.


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J. S. Bach: F# Minor Toccata
by Bill Holm
This music weeps, not for sin
but rather for the black fact
that we must all die, but not one
of us knows what comes after.
This music leaps from key to key
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making up its life, one bar at a time.
But when you come at last to the real theme,
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South American forest Indian, indigenous inhabitants of the tropical forests of South America.
The tribal cultures of South America are so various that they cannot be adequately summarized in a brief space. The mosaic is baffling in its complexity: the cultures have interpenetrated one another as a result of constant migratory movements and through intertribal relations, leading to the obliteration of formerly significant differences, and to new cultural systems made up of elements of heterogeneous origin. Hundreds of languages, in very irregular geographic distribution, with innumerable dialects, are or have been spoken in the tropical area of South America. Thus, only the broadest generalizations can be made; one can mention certain cultural manifestations that are present in a great number of groups, even though varying in their actual expression, and illustrate them with specific examples—but always with the qualification that in a neighbouring tribe or group a distinctly contrasting idea or institution may exist.
The innumerable native peoples differ in their patterns of adaptation to their natural environment. Whether they live in the rainforest, in the gallery forests lining the rivers, in the arid savannas, or in the swamps, however, they share a common cultural background; they often combine hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plant foods with rudimentary farming. Most are relatively sedentary, but some are nomadic or seminomadic. Greater differences are sometimes found among neighbouring groups living in the same forest than between some forest and savanna peoples. And some tribes, when migrating to open areas, maintain to a great extent the forest characteristics of their culture.
On the banks of the great rivers and in zones between the forest and the savanna live tribes who gain their subsistence from farming and fishing. Hunters and gatherers, almost all of whom also practice some farming, have settled near the heads of rivers, in open land, or in gallery forests.
Tribes speaking related languages are scattered over a large part of the continent. The tribes of the Arawak and the Carib linguistic families are most numerous in the Guianas (French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and the adjacent regions of Venezuela and Brazil) as well as in other parts of the northern Amazon, but the former have representatives as far south as the Chaco and the latter as far south as the upper Xingu. The Tupí tribes extend to the south of the Amazon valley.
The Ge family includes groups most of which are located in the semi-arid lands of central Brazil. In the extreme northwest of Brazil and in the jungles of eastern Peru and Bolivia live the Pano tribes. The Jívaro of Ecuador are famous headhunters. They cut off the enemy's head, separate the soft part from the skull, and, with the help of hot sand, reduce it to the size of a fist without altering the physiognomy. They attribute great magical power to these trophies, or tsantsa.
Traditional culture patterns
A characteristic feature of the tropical forest cultures is their combination of farming with hunting, fishing, and gathering. Before the arrival of Europeans, the Indians of the tropical forest had no domestic animals except the dog. As is typical of most farmer-foragers, these people did not write or erect stone buildings as did the Indians of Middle America, form states with centralized political organizations, or have castes of warriors or priests. Their utensils and instruments were almost all of vegetable or animal origin, since in large sections of the area stones for making axes, arrowheads, and other objects were quite scarce. One finds evidence of metalwork only in the regions near the Andean civilizations, although objects of copper and other metals occasionally found their way across the continent, through channels of trade.
Social organization
In almost all of the tropical forest area the population density was low, probably averaging less than one person per square mile.
Populous centres existed only along the coast and the main rivers, particularly the Amazon; the latter, according to reports by early European explorers, was fringed with Indian villages. For the most part, however, the Indians were dispersed throughout the vast territory in innumerable tribes and tribelets. This is why a classification by languages and cultures gives only a vague idea of the complex picture of the forest populations. Peoples having the same dialect and culture might exist as separate groups, even as enemies. While some Indians considered themselves primarily members of their local group, others, like the Xerente (Sherenté), gave greater value to a common language and culture than to village divisions. But differences in dialect and culture often imposed obstacles to the recognition of tribal solidarity.
There were no permanent political associations or confederations encompassing tribes of different languages and cultures. From time to time tribes might form ephemeral confederations for warfare against a common enemy. Certain close relations sometimes existed between groups of diverse origin, especially through tribal intermarriage. The best known examples are along the Río Negro in northwest Brazil, where numerous populations, mostly Arawak and Tucano, are united in a vast network of interethnic relations. At the headwaters of the Xingu, a complex system of intertribal institutions also exists among formerly autonomous groups.
Few tropical forest tribes are strictly monogamous. Polygyny with two or more women is usually restricted, however, to chiefs and other men of prestige. It is perhaps most accentuated among the Jívaro, where headhunting once killed off many of the men; it frequently takes the form of marriage with two or more sisters. Examples of polyandry are rare.
The choice of a partner is sometimes limited by the division of the tribe into clans and segments to which an individual belongs by heredity and within which marriage is prohibited. In some cases, for example in the Guianas and in the Río Negro region, the individual must find a mate outside his village or even outside his tribe (exogamy). The Terena of the southern Mato Grosso divide themselves into endogamous groups: the man and wife must come from the same group, called by ethnologists a moiety. Marriage between cross cousins, that is, between children of siblings of different sex, is considered ideal in many tribes; that of parallel cousins, children of siblings of the same sex, is frequently prohibited.
Kinship groups and household communities are based predominantly on the principle of lineage, that is, on relation through either the male or female line. Communities of extended patrilineal families were typical of the Tupí-Guaraní. In many Amazon tribes and in others farther north, the lineages or groups of lineages are patrilineal exogamous clans. Tribes with matrilineal clans, although less numerous, can be found throughout South America. In some tribes the clans number 40 or more, as among the Mundurukú; they are generally organized into two groups so that the whole tribe comprises two exogamous moieties. The dual divisions of the Ge Indians, often not related to kinship and marriage, are mainly ceremonial.
In general, the tropical forest cultures do not exhibit much social stratification. When there is inequality, it is normally made up of ethnic outsiders who do not constitute a class as such. War captives may be reduced to slavery, as among the northern Carib and Arawak, the Huitoto, and the Mundurukú. Among the extinct Tupí of the Brazilian coast, slavery was the fate of those destined for ritual sacrifice. In many cases, chiefly among the northern Carib, slavery had primarily an economic function: the captives form a servile group known as peito—the same term applied to a fiancé during the period in which he is obliged to work for his future father-in-law. The Rucuyen, a Carib tribe of French Guiana, for some time maintained in servitude a great number of the Oyampī, their Tupí neighbours. In the northwest Amazon, Arawak and Tucano tribes hunt and enslave Makú men, who are forced to work in their gardens; the Makú women and children are used as domestic servants.
A tendency to form a class of nobility has been found in many Arawak groups, who not uncommonly impose themselves over other tribes by means of intermarriage, especially among families of chiefs. In some regions, relatives of chiefs constitute a kind of nobility. In tribes divided into clans, it is common to attribute superior status to a certain clan or even to scale them in hierarchic order. Nevertheless, the local or tribal community is essentially egalitarian.
The children learn through play and imitation. Boys acquire skill in the use of weapons by practicing with small bows or blowguns made by their fathers. Girls learn to cook in little clay pots and to weave on small looms; they help their mothers in the preparation of manioc flour. The young also participate in the general religious life. The transmission of moral standards is rarely of a formal nature, and there is little punishment or repression.
The institution of the couvade is found throughout the forest culture. The father of a newborn infant must observe a rigorous diet for a week or so after the infant's birth. It is based on the idea of a mystical relation between the father and the child.
Puberty rites are often quite elaborate. In many tribes, such as the Guaraní, the symbol of masculine maturity is the labret, an ornament worn in a perforation of the lip; the ritual is preceded by an instruction period during which the boys, isolated from the community, learn the religious chants and dances, and it culminates with the perforation of their lower lips. Initiation rites may be limited to boys or to girls or may be for both sexes. The initiation of the boys is generally done collectively for those who have reached the eve of sexual maturity, while that of the girls is normally held individually on the occasion of the first menstruation.
In many of the Indian cultures these rites take a central position among other important ceremonies such as funerals and fertility rites. In the Guianas and the northwest Amazon region, the initiation of the boys is very complex. The Yurupary celebration inducts the boys into the secret society of mature men. Special rites are revealed to them; they are shown the sacred trumpets or the masks representing ancestral spirits. They are subjected to violent whippings, which they must tolerate without the least expression of pain. In the Guianas, the ritual torture consists of the stings of hornets or the bites of poisonous ants. The girls' initiation, generally more developed in the Amazon area near the Andes, is also frequently accompanied by difficult tests. Among the Tikuna (Tucuna) and other Amazonian groups, all the hair of the girl is pulled out; its regrowth symbolizes the emergence of a new adult personality.
The initiation of the boys assumes great importance in the social structure of some Ge groups of central Brazil, whose complex of rites begins at ten years of age and continues in cycles until 20. In one such tribe, the Xerente, candidates spend three years isolated from community life preparing themselves for manhood. In these Ge groups, those who have been initiated together form a distinct set of persons who feel united the rest of their lives.
Economic systems
Most of the tropical forest Indians are neither entirely sedentary nor entirely nomadic. Some wandering bands do not remain in the same place for more than a few days. Some farming populations are more or less attached to specific locales. But even the latter make seasonal moves, especially those in semi-arid regions. The seminomadic tribes live in villages during the rainy season and go hunting in dry spells—e.g., the Xavante and other Ge—or break up into little bands for gathering, as do the Nambicuara. The Karajá (Carajá) of the Araguaia build their villages in rows of houses on high ground near the river, but in the dry season they move down to the long beaches. Most of the villages of the tropical forest farmers are not permanent; after some years they have to move because of soil exhaustion.
While the bands of gatherers rarely exceed a few dozen individuals, the farmers' villages have been known to include as many as 2,000. As a rule they are much smaller, dividing whenever the population becomes too large. A characteristic arrangement is the circular village of houses placed around a central plaza. This is found, for example, in the upper Xingu, in various Ge tribes, and among the Bororo of the Mato Grosso. The plan of the Bororo village, like that of the Ge, is a real map of the social structure. Each household represents a particular segment of the local group, such as an extended family or a patrilineal or matrilineal clan. The centre of the plaza is often occupied by the men's house, where the men spend the night and the greater part of the day, and which is at times the locus of ceremonial activities.
The house reflects the economic organization and social structure. Designs range from the simple shelter of the Guayakí and the wind screens of the Nambicuara up to large communal houses containing 200 or more individuals, even the entire tribe. The latter, known as malocas, have been found in the Guianas, northwestern Amazonia, and in some regions farther to the south in the area of the Purus and the Guaporé rivers. The Tupinamba houses are reported to have measured up to 20 metres in length. Houses on piles are found in marshy and swampy locations, for example among the Warao (Warrau) and other Indians of Venezuela but sometimes also among tribes that inhabit dry lands and savannas. The Mura, who live on the Madeira and Purus rivers, and the Guató of the upper Paraguay River, who spend a good part of the year on rivers and lagoons, fishing and hunting aquatic animals, have made their canoes into dwellings. At other times they live in small shacks at the water's edge.
Most houses are made of rough wood, covered with palm leaves or grass. The great circular malocas with conical roofs in southeastern Venezuela merit special attention for their size and solidity. Although there are no walls in the malocas, the space is customarily divided according to social distinctions, giving a specific place to each family and sometimes even to each of its members. The furniture is very rudimentary. Some Indians sleep on mats or on platform beds, but more of them use hammocks which are found throughout the tropical region.
A great variety of economic systems is found in the tropical forest. The tribes cannot accurately be classified as hunters and gatherers on the one hand or as farmers on the other. The differences lie in the emphasis given to agriculture rather than in the presence or lack of it. The Guayakí of the forests of eastern Paraguay are one of the few tribes without any agriculture; they feed on wild honey and larvae, catch fish with arrows, and hunt jaguars and armadillos. The Sirionó of Bolivia and most of the Makú (a denomination that comprises rather heterogeneous Amazonian groups) are nomads who hunt, fish, and gather. A few Makú groups, however, influenced by their neighbours, have become more or less sedentary farmers. The same holds for the Shirianá and Waica of the Orinoco–Amazon headwaters.
The crops are chiefly bitter manioc as well as other tubers and roots, and, in the western regions, maize (corn). Some Ge tribes grow mainly sweet potatoes and yams. The forest is cleared by felling the trees (the stone axe has now been everywhere replaced by the iron axe) and, when the underbrush is dry, setting fire to it. The same plot is used for several (but never more than six) consecutive crops and then left fallow for several years until it is covered by new vegetation. The group must therefore move periodically. The slash-and-burn system does not, except in the more fertile lowlands, permit the growth of dense populations. It does, however, provide a seasonal food surplus that might in many cases, considering the available techniques, be increased. But the Indian has no incentive to store up goods in a generally egalitarian society, since goods are not a source of prestige.
The tropical forest Indians are highly inventive. They have developed many types of harpoons, arrows, traps, snares, and blowguns. In fishing they employ a variety of drugs that stun or kill the fish without making them inedible. The bow and arrow are today known everywhere; in some Amazon regions they have replaced the spear thrower, a device still in use in certain western tribes. The bow and arrow are the principal weapons of warfare, although some groups fight with clubs and lances.
The techniques of basketry have a wealth of variations, mainly in the Guianas, the northwest Amazon region, and among the Ge peoples. Along with many kinds of baskets and hampers, these folk plait sifters, traps, fans, mats, and other household articles out of palm leaves and shafts of taquara, or bamboo.
The potter's wheel was traditionally unknown, but coiled ceramics reached a high degree of development, particularly among the Arawak and Pano tribes. Among nomadic groups pottery is either nonexistent or very rudimentary; instead, the nomads use gourds, calabashes, baskets, and fibre pouches.
Spinning and weaving, though well-known, remain at an elementary level since most tropical forest Indians, instead of dressing, prefer to paint the body and to embellish it with all sorts of adornments. From cotton, growing wild or planted, they make tunics, as well as belts of various types, skirts, and particularly hammocks. They use simple spindles, which they whirl like tops. The most common loom is the heddle loom: the threads of the weft, separated by heddles, are wound around a vertical frame. In regions close to the Andes, especially in eastern Bolivia, the Indians make cloth of beaten bark.
The roots of the manioc or cassava plant is a staple of the Indian diet, and its processing requires a number of implements including baskets and sifters, graters made of planks with little stones embedded in them, the tipiti (a plaited cylinder used to squeeze the prussic acid from the grated pulp), great clay pots for preparing the flour, and earthen fryers for making flat cakes.
Land is generally owned by the group occupying or exploiting it—a band, a village, or a clan—and parcelled out to families or other small units for hunting, fishing, or planting. Collective tribal land or territory exists only in rare cases, when the solidarity between the various groups of a people is particularly strong. There are rigorous norms for the distribution of game among the hunter's family and among other families to which he is associated by certain ties; the hunter himself may receive a rather small share. Cleared land almost always belongs to the family using it, but when necessary others may have access to its products. Generosity is greatly valued. This also holds for intertribal relations, when gifts are exchanged on the occasion of visits or celebrations.
Weapons and household utensils are the property of individual men and women, but canoes and other objects used collectively are not. Body adornments generally belong to the wearer. Intangible property may belong to the clan or other social unit, but it may also be individually owned, as in the case of the name or ritual functions among Ge tribes, and magical–religious chants among the Guaraní.
Brisk trade among tribes is carried on in parts of the Guianas, in northwest Amazonia, and in upper Xingu. Indians of the upper Orinoco export urucu, a red dye, to groups living downriver. The Arawak frequently trade ceramic wares produced by their women; they also supply blowguns in exchange for poisonous curare and barter manioc graters. Carib tribes often trade cotton products. Some groups specialize in the manufacture of canoes, which are much in demand by neighbouring groups. The most complex trading system is that of the upper Xingu; it includes a dozen tribes, each with its own products. Commerce contributes significantly toward reducing cultural differences among the tribes, the more so because it is accompanied at times by ceremonial activities through which religious ideas and practices, as well as elements of social organization, are transmitted.
Belief and aesthetic systems
The tropical forest Indians believe that their well-being depends on being able to control innumerable supernatural powers, which in personal or impersonal form permeate or inhabit objects, living beings, and nature in general. Through shamanistic rites or collective ceremonies, humans must encourage and maintain their harmonious integration in the universe, controlling the forces that govern it; their beneficial or harmful effects are largely determined by human action. In most of the cultures, magical measures and precautions are more important than the religious cult as such. The strength and health of the body, the normal growth of children, the capacity to procreate, and even psychic qualities are obtained by magical means. For the individual these means may include the perforation of the lips, nasal septum, or ear lobes, the painting of the body, and the use of various adornments. A little stick passed through the nasal septum, such as that used by the Pawumwa of the Guaporé River, prevents sickness. The hunter or fisherman, in order to be successful and not to be panema (unlucky), as they say in many Amazonian regions, takes precautions such as scarring his arms or abstaining from certain foods. The magical devices of the hunter, the fisherman, and the warrior are considered much more important than their ability. Arrows must be treated by rubbing with a certain drug, since their magical attributes are believed to be more effective than their technical properties.
Stimulants and narcotics are of great importance in the magic and religious practices of most tropical forest Indians. Secular use of drugs is much rarer. Tobacco is known by almost all tribes. The Tupinamba shaman fumigates his rattle with tobacco, which he believes contains an animating principle that confers on the rattle the faculty of "speaking," that is, of revealing the future. Alcoholic beverages, consumed mainly in religious festivals, are obtained by fermentation of manioc, corn, and other plants. They are unknown among the Ge, in the upper Xingu, and in some regions of Bolivia and Ecuador. Coca leaves are chewed, especially in the sub-Andean regions. Infusion of maté is taken in the Paraguay area, as well as by the Jívaro and other groups of Ecuador. Hallucinogens are used mainly in the Amazon–Orinoco area; they include species of Banisteriopsis (a tropical liana), from which is made a potion that produces visions. In certain tribes the use of this drug is restricted to shamanistic practices; in others, as in the Uaupés River area, it is an essential element in religious festivals in which the community revives its mythic tradition. Other narcotics in ritual use, among them the yopo, or paricá (Piptadenia), known among many northern groups, are often breathed in the form of snuff, which partners blow into one another's nostrils; the Omagua of the upper Amazon used it as an enema.
Some magical practices are reserved for the shaman, who acquires status by natural endowment, by inspiration, by apprenticeship, or by painful initiation. The shaman may practice medicine, perform magic rites, and lead religious ceremonies. Rarely, however, is he a priest in the usual sense of the term. In many groups his influence is superior to that of the political chief; in some, as among the Guaraní, the two roles may coincide. Not uncommonly, his influence continues even after his death: in the Guianas and elsewhere, his soul becomes an auxiliary spirit of his living colleagues, helping them in their curing practices and in the control of harmful spirits; among the Rucuyen, the bodies of common individuals were cremated, while that of the shaman was kept in a special place so that his soul might live on.
In curing the sick, the shaman must remove the object causing the sickness: a small stone, a leaf, an insect, any substance that has been sent through the black magic of an evildoer. The cure consists of massages, suction, blowing, and fumigation. If the illness comes from loss of the soul, the shaman must search for and recover it. If it comes from a bad spirit, he tries to overcome the evil influence with the help of one or more auxiliary spirits.
The soul has its seat in the bones, the heart, the wrist, or in other parts of the body. Some Indians believe that two or more souls are responsible for various vital functions. One finds also the idea of a purely spiritual soul. The Guaraní believe that man has an animal soul governing his temperament and his instinctive reactions but that he also has a second, spiritual one, sent by a divinity at the moment of conception. Thanks to his second soul, man thinks, speaks, and is capable of noble sentiments. After death this second soul returns to live among the gods, while the other soul wanders the Earth as a ghost menacing the living.
Nature is believed to be peopled by demons and spirits that are beneficial or malevolent, depending on man's behaviour. Besides the soul that gives life to every living thing, many plants and animals have a "mother" or "master," as do manioc, maize, and game animals.
The mythology of almost all tribes includes a creator of the universe and of people. This creator seldom sustains interest in his handiwork, and thus there is usually no cult attached to him. Social institutions, customs, knowledge, techniques, and cultivated plants are deeds or gifts of a culture hero or a pair of them, sometimes twin brothers who may represent the Sun and Moon. A number of myths are told about these figures; sometimes the pair consists of a hero and a trickster who opposes him.
Ceremonial practices vary, depending on the tribe and its way of life. Some great collective ceremonies have been associated with war, as among the northern Carib and the coastal Tupí, both famous for cannibalism, and the headhunting Mundurukú and Jívaro. Ceremonies are often believed to be indispensable for regulating the course of the Sun and the Moon, the sequence of the seasons, the fertility of plants, the procreation of animals, and the very continuity of human life. Their objective may also be to commune with the dead or with mythical ancestors; when they are connected with the disposal of the dead, they are at the same time passage rites, by means of which the spirits of the dead are made harmless. Among the Guaraní, most religious ceremonies mean profound spiritual communion with the gods.
Corpses are commonly disposed of by ground burial within or without the house. Urn burial has also been known, especially among Tupí groups; some groups have been known to unearth bones, clean them, and then rebury them. The Tarariu (Tarairiu) of northeastern Brazil and some Pano broiled the flesh of their dead and mixed the pulverized bones and hair with water or with a manioc-base beverage that they drank. Tribes of the Caribbean coast, after drying the body by fire, allowed it to decompose and later added the powder to a drink. In other northern regions, one still finds the custom of cremating the cadaver and consuming the charred and crushed bones in a banana mush.
Artistic efforts are most commonly applied to decoration, whether of the human body, objects of practical or ritual use, or even houses. The most common body adornments are paint and feather ornaments. Tattooing has also been practiced, especially among the Mundurukú and many Arawak tribes. Magical and religious ideas are usually expressed in these adornments. The Carib tribes of the Guianas and some Tupí were outstanding in featherwork. The plumed mantles of the Tupinamba, the delicate and elaborate adornments of the Caapor of Maranhão state, and the rich and varied ones of the Mundurukú are much celebrated.
The design of ornaments is almost always geometrical, with characteristic patterns for particular tribes; the styles vary with the cultural areas.
Masks, generally used in ceremonial dances, are restricted to the tribes of certain areas: the Guartegaya and Amniapé (Amniepe) of the upper Madeira, the tribes of the upper Xingu, the Karajá and the Tapirapé of the Araguáia River area, some Ge of central Brazil, and the Guaraní of southern Bolivia. The masks represent the spirits of plants, fish, and other animals, as well as mythical heroes and divinities. They are highly stylized in form but, on occasion, naturalistic in expression.
The Waurá women of the upper Xingu are famous for their pots and animal-shaped bowls. Of the historic tribes, the Tapajó of the Amazon had the richest style in ceramics, excelled only by the archaeological remains of the Ilha de Marajó. Among some groups in the Guianas and western Amazonia, artistic activity includes wood carving.
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