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Давно, я решал что я устал строя единсвенного двенадцатего полутонов в октава. Около деяать давно, я обнаружил арабскую нузыку, что использует 24 тонов в октаву. К тому же, он изображает очень хорошо натуралный строй (и систему Хэрри Партч).

После эти тех лета анализа и много дискусии с мной, я решал что я нуждаюсь 72 тонов, или, на самом деле, «коммы» (каждый шаг 16⅔ центов зовут «комма», греческое слово). Этот строй содержит полутоны, трети тонов, четверти тонов, и так далее. Другие кто использовали: Иван А. Вышнеградский, Алоис Габа, Хульян Каррижо, Яанис Ксенакис и Джо Манери.

Расторанния и его отношения:

• октава, 2/1: 72 коммы
• квинта, 3/2: 42 к
• кварта, 4/3: 30 к
• больпав терция, 5/4: 23 к (не 24!)
• малая терциа, 6/5: 19 к (не 18!)
• малая терциа «блюз», 7/6: 16 к
• 8/7: 14 к
• целый тон, 9/8: 12 к
• 10/9: 11 к
• 11/10: 10 к
• средний тон, 12/11: 9 к
• полутон (диатонический), 15/14 или 16/15: 7 к
• 21/20 или 22/21: 5 к
• треть тоны, 25/24 или 28/27: 4 к
• четверть тоны, 33/32 или 36/35: 3 к

Есть большее я писал по-английски на моего блог.

It's hot. How'd you like to quench that thirst with some North Korean beer? (The story.)

Might be good brew (except I don't drink), but byGawd this music's cheesy. I need to be writing jingles.

Say it with me now... Sen. Al Franken (D-MN).

LSO has done symphonic versions of plenty of rock and pop songs... including this one.

I've wanted to make my blog (yes, I know it's properly called an "LJ") multilingual for some time, but I don't really speak anything other than English anywhere near fluency. But I have been and plan on continuing to do entries in other languages.

Since this is LJ, and we're big in Russia and the former USSR, one of those languages is naturally Russian. I've studied it on my own, off and on for twenty years, but never took a formal class. I have some Russian friends on my list and I can understand some of their entries, but I'm having to use a dictionary a lot. Fortunately, there are plenty of those; this being my favorite since it does other languages and gives plenty of information (and yes, I know there's also Wiktionary).

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Я захочу писать по-русски и другие языки в мне блоге (да, я знаю что этот «блог» подовающе зовут «ЖЖ»). Я говорю хорошо только по-англиский, но я писал, и я собираюсь писать в других яазыках.

Этот ЖЖ, какой популярный в Россие и в бывшом СССР, русский один из языках, конечно. Я исследоваю его самостоятельно уже двадцать лет, но я никогда посещал занятия. И мне надо отыскивать часто слова.

Sleep. Спать.

I am not a fan of the phrase "I told you so", but I've been saying this for years: schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (manic depression) do not only share heredity as a primary cause, with environmental factors secondary, but the two diseases are related.

These should, in fact, be considered two illneses on a psychotic-affective spectrum with many shared characteristics. Bipolar disorder, and major depression at that, can have psychotic features, hallucinations, delusions and such, and many people with schizophrenia have mood swings or at least depression. Antipsychotics, especially the newer atypicals (Risperdal, Clozaril, Zyprexa, Seroquel, Geodon, Ability, Invega etc.), were originally intended for schizophrenia-type disorderss but are now used to treat bipolar disorder. However, lithium and the anticonvulsants found to be effective for mania (Depakote/valproate, Tegretol, Lamictal and so on), if used for psychotic disorders, are only prescribed for the moods of schizoaffective disorder, which sits on the middle of the spectrum.

Also, take into account that SSRIs and other antidepressants may not be all that effective for bipolar disorder, suggesting that BD, despite its classification as a mood disorder, may not be that closely related to major depressive disorder.

These are the two pain killers the FDA has recommended withdrawing from the market. The reason for this is the fact these drugs contain acetaminophen/paracetamol, which can easily cause potentially fatal liver damage if overused. Some information:

• If you're taking any pain or cold/flu medication containing acetaminophen (the active ingredient in Tylenol and such), do not exceed the maximum dosage: 1000 mg every six hours, and avoid using the full dosage for more than a week. To be safe, take the "regular" strength product (650 mg), not the "maximum" strength.
• The risk of liver damage is much greater and the safe dosage much less in children under 12 years of age.
• The risk of short and long-term liver damage increases if you drink three or more alcoholic beverages a day. (One "drink" is about 12 oz/350 mL of beer, 5 oz/150 mL wine or 1½ oz/45 mL of liquor.)
• It is generally safe to take an NSAID such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin etc.) in combination with acetaminophen as long as you do not exceed the maximum dosage of either. Acetaminophen works differently than NSAIDs. while the former works on the pain centers in the brain, the latter reduce activity in pain-sensing nerves themselves and also act as anti-inflammatories. It's even safe to take ibuprofen with an opioid analgenic with or without acetaminophen. However, excessive long-term use of NSAIDs, as with aspirin, increase the risk of stomach bleeding, and aspirin should never be taken with NSAIDs.
• As always, it's best to check with your doctor or pharmacist before you change your medication. It is imperative to ask your doctor for anyone under 12.

Edit: I forgot to mention, a certain drug I used to take for bipolar disorder, Depakote (valproic acid), is metabolized in the liver, and requires regular blood tests to check for any signs of altered liver function. Since acetaminophen, and also alcohol, would further tax the liver, there might be other concerns with medications like Depakote.

Today, history was made.

I managed to do something I always wanted to do, but never thought I could: write a four-part fugue. It's not a true fugue wie Herr Bach, actually, but a fugato passage in the flute, oboe, bassoon and horn accompanying the second verse of that seven-language "anthem" I'm writing (this verse is to be in Hindi/Urdu). I'm about halfway through, not counting the lyrics, which I'll likely need help on the lyrics.

It wasn't exactly planned; I knew I needed something with running eighth notes, and it just happened. Kinda of like some relationships.

Tarbouch, the new Lebanese restaurant next to Curra's on E. Oltorf, has the best falafel wrap in town. It almost made me cry (because my cooking is worthless in comparison). Someone on austincommunity recommended it, and I still need to try the baklava.

But I doubt I'll be going out for a few hours at least. I'm getting less tolerant of Texas summer heat every year.

Source: I Can Has Cheezburger?

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Cats don't like them either.

Last week, Andy Madadian, the Iranian-Armenian singer-songwriter now based in Los Angeles, recorded a video with Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora for his fellow countrymen, singing the verses of the Ben E. King classic in Persian.

The sign on the right at the beginning reads mâ yeki hastim, "we are one".

“Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.”
—Leo Tolstoy (source)

I do have my own things to say about the King of Pop, but it's probably too soon to speculate on what happened. The news, and worst of all the tabloids and TMZ and such, will be talking about this forever. I have been following his life a bit, since he did remind me of myself a lot, and I have noticed a lot of ominous similarities to the life and death of another "King".

Michael is truly the Elvis of my generation. I had Off the Wall and Thriller on vinyl and listened to them plenty, and I had MTV growing up so I saw all the videos.

You can leave tributes at his official website or his YouTube video channel.

Though normally I wouldn't write something this personal in a public entry, I'm doing so now. I've committed myself to talking more about my mental conflicts out in the open. If someone laughs at me, so be it. Someone is in my situation and needs to know he's not alone.

I haven't gotten much composition done lately. I can't seem to get myself motivated enough, or I keep getting distracted by something stupid. I'm having one of those depressive episodes, and mine don't usually involve crying and wanting to die; they usually entail being perpetually pissed off and wanting to burn things. (No, I never burn or destroy anything.) I'm irritable and suspicious of everyone, all the while wishing someone would be nice for once. It means a hell of a lot when someone is friendly to me, even looking at me smiling. I get a lot of cold frowny stares while in public, that kind of "what the f. are you looking at" look like I'm Satan incarnate.

I have to get out more. I think the place where I live is toxic, chemically as well as spiritually. I usually feel better when I get away from home, but I have to sleep in my bed, and I always wake up miserable. It's harder to get out since I am, as they say, "mobility impaired", and the summer heat only makes things worse.

I first saw Star Wars (as in Episode IV) when I was six, and I've been curious about whether or not there really is a "Force" that one could use for good or evil. Since there are times I can barely get out of bed let alone my third-floor apartment, I'm tempted to experiment with psychic forces. I know I have precognitive abilities, or at least I think I do (this could be delusion), but I can't control them. All I really want is to know if a situation I may be in is harmful, or a person is not secretly out to screw me over, or if someone likes me and isn't just being formally friendly.

I wish I had real friends that I could talk to about things like this--people here in Austin, not just people far away I only talk to online. I wish I could sleep over at somebody's place for one thing, get away from the toxic environment I live in. I haven't dated in nearly fifteen months either, and I was not made for the single life. My last girlfriend and I had these common interest in deep philosophical and spiritual matters, which I'm having trouble finding in people, and I've always gravitated to older or at least more mature women. I just wish I knew where to meet people like this. I'm done with thrill-seeking and the party scene, and don't even try to get me on Sixth Street.

At least I should go to the park more. I went walking along the trail in Travis Heights the other morning. I walk with a cane, but I can get along on good days. I need to be in nature more; I'm from East Texas where there are a lot of trees and creeks and such, and I do miss that about living in the country. But that's another thing I wish I didn't have to do alone.

I just wish I didn't think I scare people away. I know I'm not ugly inside or out, and people of people are drawn to me. They always have been. But I also wonder if all this fear, anger and occasional despair isn't pushing me towards some sort of "Dark Side"...

Google Translate has now added Persian to its list of working language ahead of schedule. It's still very rough, but online automatic translation isn't generally pretty (try translating English to Japanese back to English, for example).

Also, a candlelight vigil for slain protesters in Iran is scheduled tonight at Pfluger Bridge, 9 PM tonight. Since it's a memorial and not a protest, wear dark clothing and bring candles, not signs or flags. As they did the same for us after the September 11 attacks, I say we owe them the favor.

The Unihan dictionary data for 五 "five":

• Mandarin: wǔ
• Cantonese: ng5 (a syllabic velar nasal)
• Sino-Japanese: go
• Sino-Korean: o
• Sino-Vietnamese: ngũ
• Middle Chinese (reconstructed): *ngó

In the phonetic rules I have so far, a word can end with an "ng" sound, but it cannot begin with one, as most languages lack it in that situation. Therefore, the initial "ng" phoneme of Common Chinese (/ŋ/ in IPA), which was lost in Mandarin but is preserved in Cantonese, will have to be replaced by some other consonant. Mandarin has /w/ instead, while non-Chinese language borrow the initial as /g/ (Japanese) or nothing (Korean); Vietnamese does have initial /ŋ/ in native and borrowed words. So depending on other "Big Six" data, the initial would be converted to /w/ or /g/.

By the way, those other "Big Six" languages plus important relatives have the following:

• Arabic: خمسة xamsa
• Hindustani: पांच / پانچ pāñc
• Persian: پنج panj
• Russian: пять piat'
• German: fünf
• Spanish: cinco
• French: cinq
• Italian: cinque

I'm not sure what the shijieyu word should be. /go/ is similar to the "co" in Spanish cinco, and the Arabic word begins with a velar or uvular fricative while /g/ is a voiced velar stop. I'm thinking the Sino-Japanese word for "give" should probably be the SJY word as well.

Berklee is one of those schools I should've chosen to attend after high school. I knew someone that went there for their summer program. And Boston has had a microtonal scene for a while. I've heard of and heard some of Joe Maneri, but I'm not very savvy on all the current big names in the genre.

Someone at Tuning-L brought up David Fiuczynski, another name I've never heard before now, so I Googled and came across this article. He mentioned that composers like Julián Carillo, Alois Hába and Ivan Wyschnagradsky used microtonal scales, octaves divided by multiples of 12 precisely, but concentrated more on atonal compositions, but MicroJam seeks to bring together long-standing tonal musical traditions of East and West, the harmonic complexity of jazz and the melodic complexity of the Arabic maqam.

This is exactly what I've wanted to involve myself with. I'm not much of a "scene" person, but this is Austin, and we're about two things most of all: live music and weirdness. I may have to be an apostle of sorts here.

I'm no stereotypical Texan. I'm a vegetarian, for starters, both for health and ethical reasons. I don't condemn people for eating meat and wearing leather and silk, but hunting for sport and wearing luxury fur coats is vain savagery in my book. I'm also helping take care of a half dozen or so abandoned cats with some neighbors.

But PETA needs to give it up already, stop pretending to speak for all of us. They're now upset because Obama swatted a fly. They called it an "execution". So lemme get this straight... it's acceptable to let disease-carrying roaches and rats roam your family's house, or even deadly snakes and scorpions? At least give the President for showing more compassion to humans than his predecessor.

Even the strictest Jains, who don't even eat potatoes and carrots because that involves killing the plant, don't raise a fuss.

It's hard for me to follow the news, but naturally, I've been taking a great deal of interest in the events in Iran; I've studied Farsi, since I used to be married to someone from there. It could be that this obviously stolen election may be the best thing to happen for the country--hopefully. Either there will be another Velvet Revolution or another Tiananmen Square, twenty years after both events.

First: I take back everything bad I've ever said about Twitter. I just wish I had more reason to use the thing.

Second: the real bloggers are doing a much better job covering Iran than I ever will, and Andrew Sullivan and Team HuffPo are no exceptions. (Also includes some Rumi, a poet I've been trying to get more into lately.)

Third: Allahu akbar, and Ahmadinejad : Khamenei :: Bush : Cheney and Rove.

Fourth: thank God we didn't bomb Iran, Sen. McCain.

Fifth: why is the US media's reporting this thing so half-assed? They talked about what went down in 1979 non-stop, though we did have fifty-two hostages there for over a year. It was one of the first world news-thing I followed closely, and I was all of eight years old.