umami: M-W's Word of the Day

umami

\oo-MAH-mee\ Audio Pronunciation

Meaning
: a taste sensation that is meaty or savory and is produced by several amino acids and nucleotides (as glutamate and aspartate)

Example Sentence
"Vegetarian dishes are usually difficult to meld with big red wines unless the dish includes umami, from ingredients such as intensely flavored mushrooms…." (The San Francisco Chronicle, August 22, 2008)

Did you know?
A Japanese scientist was the first to discover the savory taste of the amino acid glutamic acid, which was found to occur in soup stocks made with seaweed. This fifth basic taste — alongside sweet, sour, salty, and bitter — was named "umami," meaning "savoriness" in Japanese. Umami can be experienced in foods such as mushrooms, anchovies, and mature cheeses, as well as in foods enhanced with monosodium glutamate, or MSG, a sodium salt derived from glutamic acid.

Artist of the Week: Moondog.

Above: The Trimba Below: The Dragon's Teeth

From wikipedia: Moondog was the pseudonym of Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916–September 8, 1999), a blind American composer, musician, cosmologist, poet, and inventor of several musical instruments. Although these achievements would have been considered extraordinary for any blind person, Moondog further removed himself from society through his decision to make his home on the streets of New York for approximately twenty of the thirty years he spent in the city. The public begin to appreciate the extent of this man's talents only in the final decades of Moondog's life, primarily because of his stubborn refusal to wear anything other than his own home-made clothes, all based on his own interpretation of the Norse god Thor. Indeed, he was known for much of his life as 'The Viking of 6th Avenue'.

His classic "Lament" heard here
Mr Scruff pays tribute with this song: Get a Move On

MOONDOG'S CANON (cite: http://moondogscorner.de/):

note scale for calendar

This canon is prophetic when it comes to number 10, for there is where
the calendars reverse priorities in what is quite beyond compare.

The calendar, 2000, is above until it unisons on A.
The calendar, 10000, is below until it unisons on A.

Who'd ever guess the overtones would lend themselves to such a mundane thing
as calendars, for we are mindful of the great authority they bring

The overtones from one to nine in both directions represent the space
between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Glaciations where it's taking place.

Take note of this, each note equates a thousand years of Interglacial Thaw
the Seventeenth that's coming to an end, a picture no-one wants to draw.

Before we humans quite the Stage of Life we should consider just how nice
it's been and will be till this place is covered by a mile or more of ice.



THE COMMON CALENDAR
A.D.
10000 The Tenth Millenium 2000
9999 Aborgation of the Christian Calendar 1999
9975 The Cosmicode 1975
9776 The first written constitution 1776
9491 The rediscovery of America 1492
9000 The Cross Versus the Crescent 1000
8600 Moslems, the third Monophicites 600
8570 Mohammed 570
8300 Trinitarians versus Monophicites 300
8100 Christians, the second Monophicites 100
8001 Jesus- Abrogation of the Pagan Calendar 1 B.C.
7996 Joshua 5
7450 Confucius 551
7441 Buddha 560
7421 Pythagoras 580
7201 Zarathustra 800
7151 Homer 850
7000 Hebrews, the first Monophicites 1001
6501 First Written Constitution 1500
6470 Moses 1531
6309 The Hammurabl Code 1692
5000 The Ice Man 3001
2501 The Black Sea Flood 5000
1 The Age of Man 8000
(agriculture and urbanization)
End of the Seventeenth Ice Age


According to the Cosmicode contraction comes before expansion, so
to say, expansion comes before contraction, isn't being in the know.

The overtones from one to nine equate the Code, the Code that has a key.
That key is diminution. Two to one the ratio rises out of three.

Contraction and expansion, in that order, are the consequence of cause-
effect inversion, quite the most chaotic of the cosmicoded laws.

Diminutions one to three begin on G, harmonic three, and end
on G, harmonic seven of the row below, on that you can depend.

The system wouldn't work if any overtone, from one to nine, had found
itself to be some other place, a fact that never ceases to astound.

Contraction's cause has overtones, from one to four, that have no precedent.
Expansion's cause has overtones, from six to nine, that have no precedent.

The overtone of overtones dividing one to four from six to nine,
is 5, the most imposing overtone of all, I call, the Dividein.

Contraction's cause becomes expansion's last effect the while contaction's last
effect becomes expansion's cause, with 5 between the present and the past.

Why contraction's last effect becomes expansion's cause is plain to see.
On passing 5 the last of all is finest of all to claim priority.

Contraction and expansion merge their awesome urges in contransion, C
for short, enough to pyramid a grid of diminutions one to three.

The overtone continuum consists of C above and C below.
In diametric opposition, base to base, the galacseers go.

Closewise both in both directions brings the two-directionality
of time into existence all the Milky way from C to shining C.

Is this the two-directionality of time? The future is the past,
and vice versa? This is how it's been since when the cosmic die was cast.

Overtonean Equasion: O + D = C x 2 = T

the note scale showing expansion and contraction

turmOil over petroleum exporters

http://www.sunjournal.com/story/282213-3/National/OPEC_says_it_will_cut_production/

According to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, the price of a barrel of oil is falling because people are driving less. In attempt to drive prices up, the OPEC is cutting production to produce a scarcity on the market. They are the enemy.

Diplomacy, statesmanship, savoir faire

I have always been impressed with those who have the ability to say the right thing or graceful thing. It is not enough to simply be an eloquent person. Rather, to be a tactful person and to be pure in speech is most impressive.

Be cautions of what you say. Have discrepancy toward what you say toward people. To be diplomatic is being considerate and selfless and to look through the other persons eyes rather than your own. It is a way to make yourself feel more accustom to yourself. It takes a wise person to know that every meeting will have an impact on your life or those lives of the people who you meet. As long as you rid yourself of the illusions and have a strong opinion for yourself, then you can always have something to say. You can be sure to have those others drink some Britta water rather than some cloudy tap water. Give them a fresh purified glass of water and that's the way to be diplomatic.
- Mark Alvarez

A politician thinks about the next elections - the stateman thinks about the next generations.
- Winston Churchill

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
- Harry S. Truman

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between experience and vision.
- Henry Kissinger

Who's nailin palin?

It was only a matter of time before Larry Flynt capitalized on Palin. See the whole story here. Nailin Palin

Watch the movie here.

Who is Marion Black?

Who knows?
Who knows what tomorrow will bring. Maybe sunshine, and maybe rain. But as for me I'll wait and see. Marion Black survived the test of time of soul and R&B. You may recognize "Who Knows" from rjd2's "smoke and mirrors". "Come On And Gettit" is just plain nasty soul. I mean if you don't have soul, Marion Black will put it in you.
Who Knows?
Come On And Gettit

DISCLAIMER

All persons, places, and events in this blog are real. Certain speeches and thoughts are necessarily constructions by the author. No names have been changed to protect the innocent, since God Almighty protects the innocent as a matter of heavenly routine.