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This is in answer to a question posted on http://music.stackexchange.com/questions/50596/how-to-feel-the-music/50614#50614 How do I get the "feel" of music"? If you have ever studied poetry, you learned about meter and rhyme. You may have also learned about cadence. These things create rhythm. Music is poetry. The lyrics can help create the mood and emotion. The beat (tempo and rhythm) also

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Apple likes to keep iPhone users on a short leash.  Perhaps the greatest attestation of the power of being cool is that Apple can sell you a very short charging cable for a hefty $20.  You see the irony of this when you find someone, like your friend Ray bent over near the wall outlet.  "What are you doing Ray?" you ask.   "I'm being cool talking on my cool new iPhone

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This is a response to a thoughtful article from Search Engine Watch, by Janet Bastiman entitled Can machines think? It occurs to me that there is a great variety of capability that we classify as "human" including people with very low IQ (some have almost no intellectual capacity). Any type of test (e.g. Turing) to determine whether a machine possesses intelligence must draw a line somewhere,

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Your day was going fine until the internet stopped working and the tech support person just asked you to crawl under your desk to unplug your modem. Your yoga skills are what they are, and this is not going to be fun, especially when you realize the octopus's garden you have created under your desk has been gradually progressing into something resembling a Gordian knot.   I previously

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View image | gettyimages.com Don't miss out on Valentines as an opportunity to strengthen your marriage.

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I was visiting a website called Christianity who's author posed the question of how Mormons (members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) respond to statements by Isaiah quoting Jehovah as saying "there is no God besides Me" (Isaiah 44:6) which he does frequently with some variation.   I replied with these thoughts:  I remember once speaking to a foreign

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This is a poem I remember from childhood.  It is very applicable to our society today. It originates in  the Indian subcontinent I think. The Blind Men and the ElephantJohn Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887) It was six men of IndostanTo learning much inclined,Who went to see the Elephant(Though all of them were blind),That each by observationMight satisfy his mind. The First 

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I ran into some philosophical information the other day and thought to share it as a "thought experiment" showing how evolution, if a valid theory, would lead inevitably to the existence of God.  It goes like this: 1. Evolutionist believe in the old-age theory of the earth and the universe and that humans have evolved from simple amino acids to our present state. 2. The sun is only

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Some of you may be interested in this examination of the miracles of Jesus as attested in literature.  I found this while researching the various methods of dating antiquities.  This does not have a huge bearing on the question of the age of the earth, except to illustrate that some aspects of the bible are historical. The pertinent question in the age of the earth issue is whether

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NASA photo - The earth in darkness. The age of the earth has been controversial and poses hard questions for scientists and Christians alike. I have dedicated many hundreds of hours to the subject, and I have looked at evidence on both sides of the equation.  Religious leaders differ on the subject as do scientists.  Young-earth proponents have been accused of "pseudo-science" and,

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I was looking at this image in the new free Getty images library and it made me think of the expression "Up the creek without a paddle, except in this case, he seems to be without a boat.  :)  Don't know why that made me think of the US budget.  :( Anyway, you can find the free Getty images here.  You can use them as long as you use the provided embed code that includes the

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I wrote this book years ago and it seems to have a lot of staying power.  Here is an interview I did on BYU Radio recently.  It also aired on Sirius.  Taylor Miranda was the interviewer. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24490190/BYU-Radio-PaulMcFate.mp3

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The Pew Forum has created a very useful tool for tracking the same-sex marriage issue.  The issue is huge and divisive.  Gays couples want medical and insurance benefits offered to non-gay couples. Religions fear persecution perhaps even imprisonment (as is happening in some countries) for their beliefs and the loss of ability to teach their beliefs (freedom of speech). Religious

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The age old question of humankind is "What is the purpose of life?"  It has many variations.   "Why am I here?"   "Where did I come from?" Here is another variation: "What is the purpose of God?" Does God have a purpose?  Does God have a mission?  Yes.  It is evident in the scriptures but most plainly stated in a revelation Moses: "This is my work and

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After forgetting my iPhone charger at work last weekend, then forgetting it at home twice this week, I decided to look for some solution on the shelves of local stores.  Alas there are none.   Online, or at the Apple store, if am willing to pay $17-$24 for a two foot cable, I can get another charging cable made by Apple. Now I will say that Apple knows how to make a decent charging

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My favorite tweet this week: John Green @johndashgreen Password must contain a capital letter, a number, a plot, a protagonist with some character development, and a surprise ending.

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Question:  With sequestration cuts in effect in 2013, how much less will the government spend than they did in 2012? Answer:  0 Our astute leaders will spend $15 billion more in 2013 than in 2012. Question:  How much debt will be reduced over ten years of sequestration cuts? Answer:  0 Our debt will continue to grow. History shows that if the economy struggles, the

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I'm not a Mac guy really, Scottish surname notwithstanding. I do use a MacBook Pro in my music studio and, at work, I have an iPad for testing web stuff. Still most of what I do is on my Dell Optiplex desktop, and I've used an Android phone since they were invented. However, lately we've been feeling that someone on our web team should have an iPhone and I volunteered - hesitantly. Truthfully

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This morning I got a notice on my Samsung Galaxy phone to upgrade.  After the upgrade I noticed a google mail icon had replaced my email icon on the front page.  I clicked it, and instead of bringing up my email, it said "Application not installed".  I had to go looking for my emails and put the icon back on the home page. Then my phone began sending old emails to people some

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People who know me well are aware that I rarely "write" songs. Mostly I "hear" them and then try to record what I hear. Sometimes I hear them with full orchestras and choirs. Last week, I woke up with a new song playing in my head but by the time I found an iPad to try recording it, it came out kind of lame. What was interesting though was that I heard an unknown instrument playing. It was

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Xeriscaping in Las Vegas.  Some people in Utah are adopting this trend which could result in us have less, rather than more water. When the Mormons fled the mobs of Missouri and founded a new home in Utah, the valleys were mostly dry desert.  However, if you look over Salt Lake Valley or Utah Valley today, it is a garden of trees, lawn and shrubs. While I support efforts to

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Writers always have the last word... because they know so many.

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My daughter Zella found this.  Clever!

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This Newsweek "Daily Beast" article, Why the Campaign to Stop America's Obesity Crisis Keeps Failing tells it like it is - that we are being fed the wrong information about why our nation is over-weight.  In my opinion, the scientific community gets stuck on proving long-held theories and hold to them until they become articles of faith in the new establishment religion.  

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I have been wondering if the executives at Samsung are out of touch with the new online world?  They seem to have come up with a few decent pieces of hardware in the mobile phone market, yet they stand by clueless that their Media Hub software has become the icon of their disregard for consumers. It seems they are unaware that when you force consumers to deal with software they don't

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