"I'm sorry it took me so long..."
This is a list of the music I listened to and the movies/television shows I watched during the month of December 2018, as well as a vocabulary list of words and terms I better familiarized myself with this last month. No notes this time around. Sorry. Enjoy.
MUSIC
12/1/18
Traitor - "Hardcore Rules" EP
SMUT - 2017 Tour Tape
Nightmare Visions - "Plague Bringer" digital single
12/4-6
Capstan - "Parting Gifts" acoustic EP
12/13/18
Thou - "Magus"
12/17/18
Tantrum - Winter 2018 Promo Mix
Fallen Monuments - "Distance and Time"
12/27/18
Matt Egbert - "Vallhassu" digital single
Matt Egbert - "Send It" fo digital single
Fraud - "Songs From The Shed" EP
MOVIES/TV
12/11
"Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle"
12/12
"Steve Martin & Martin Short: A Night You'll Forget For The Rest Of Your Life"
12/21/18
"Filmworker"
12/27/18
FINISHED "Designated Survivor" Season 1
VOCABULARY
- nuisance (code enforcement) - a condition or use of a property that interferes with a neighbor's use or enjoyment of their property, endangers life, health, or safety, or is offensive to others
- Furlong (Horseracing) - 1/8 of a mile, or 220 yards
- Morning Line (Horseracing) - The track handicapper's estimate of the probable odds for each horse at post time
- Win/Place/Show (Horseracing) - Designations for 1st, 2nd (or better), and 3rd (or better) horses passed thr ginish line at the end of a race
- Exacta (Horseracing) - When you select two horses in one race to finish 1st and 2nd in exact order
- Trifecta (Horseracing) - When you select three horses in one race to finish 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in exact order
- Superfecta (Horseracing) - When you select four horses in one race to finish 1st-4th in exact order
- Uninhabitable Property (Code Enforcement) - Any property that lacks running water or basic utilities such as power or trash services
- consent to enter (Code Enforcement) - explicit permission to enter any property for the purposes of building code inspection, required whether or not the occupants of said property are there legally or not. If denied, code enforcement officials can request an Inspection Warrant
APN - Assessor Parcel Number; a number assigned to parcels of real property by the tax assessor of a particular jurisdictionfor purposes of identification and record-keeping. The assigned number is unique within the particular jurisdiction, and may conform to certain formatting standards that convey basic identifying information such as the property type or location within the plot map.
- ecunemical - representing a number of different Christian churches; promoting or relating to unity among the world's Christian churches, as in "ecumenical dialogue"
- sola fide - "by faith alone," the belief that forgiveness can be achieved not through any types of mortal works but by faith in Jesus as savior alone
- McDonald Trilogy (criminology) - the theory that the traitsits of enuresis, animal cruelty, and fire-starting are critical indicators of commit violet crimes or bome psychopathic later in life
- enuresis - bed-wetting
- hogback (geology) - long, narrow ridge or a series of hills with a narrow crest and steep slopes of nearly equal inclination on both flanks; One side of a hogsback (its backslope) consists of the surface (bedding plane) of a steeply dipping rock stratum called a dip slope. The other side (its escarpment, frontslope or "scarp slope") is an erosion face that cuts through the dipping strata that comprises the escarpment
- escarpment - a steep slope or long cliff that forms as an effect of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively leveled areas having differing elevations
- Personal Identification Information (PII)/Personal Protected Data (PPD) - Any data that could potentially identify a specific individual and/or that can be used to distinguish one person from another/can be used for de-anonymizing anonymous data; Any representation of information that permits the identity of an individual to whom the information applies to be reasonably inferred by either direct or indirect means.
- ePHI (electronic Protected Health Information) - any protected health information (PHI) that is covered under Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) security regulations and is produced, saved, transferred or received in an electronic form.
- protected health information (US law) - any information about health status, provision of health care, or payment for health care that is created or collected by a Covered Entity, and can be linked to a specific individual
- Covered Entities - health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers who electronically transmit any health information in connection with transactions for which HHS has adopted standards. This transmission can take place for the purpose of billing, payments, or insurance coverage
- Office of the Inspector General - an agency within the US Department Of Labor (DOL) that conducts audits reviewing the effectiveness, efficiency, economy, and integrity of all DOL programs and operations, including those performed by its contractors and grantees, as well as criminal, civil,and administrative investigations into alleged violations of federal laws relating to DOL programs, operations, and personnel, as well as to combat the influence of labor racketeering and organized crime in the nation’s labor unions in three areas: employee benefit plans, labor-management relations, and internal union affairs. This work is conducted in order to determine whether: the programs and operations are in compliance with the applicable laws and regulations; DOL resources are efficiently and economically being utilized; and DOL programs achieve their intended results.
- wu-wei (Taoism) - action without intention
- oblast - an administrative division or region in Russia and the former Soviet Union, and in some of its former constituent republics
- remittance - transfer of money by a foreign worker to an individual in their home country
- the man on the Clapham omnibus - a hypothetical ordinary and reasonable person, used by the courts in English law where it is necessary to decide whether a party has acted as a reasonable person would – for example, in a civil action for negligence; a reasonably educated, intelligent but nondescript person, against whom the defendant's conduct can be measured.
- 88 (white power skinhead slang) - "Heil Hitler" (used because H is the 8th letter in the alphabet)
- precept - a general rule intended to regulate behavior or thought
- summa genera - highest kind
- information-theoretic death - the state that occurs when the structures of the brain that encode memory and personality are so disrupted that it is no longer theoretically possible to restore them
- tachyons - theoretical objects/particles/things that travel faster than the speed of light
- false friends - words from different languages that look and/or sound similar but differ significantly in meaning; also referred to as bilingual homophones
- fugue - a contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject that is introduced at the beginning in imitation and which recurs frequently in the course of the composition
- Terra nullius - a Latin expression meaning "nobody's land", and is a principle sometimes used in international law to describe territory that may be acquired by a state's occupation of it
- ganguro - an alternative fashion trend among young Japanese women that started in the mid-1990s, distinguished by a dark tan and contrasting make-up liberally applied by fashionistas
- alembic - an alchemical still consisting of two vessels connected by a tube, used for distilling
- exposome - a presentation or scientific interpretation of an individual's existence that accounts for the totality of human environmental (i.e. non-genetic) exposures from conception onwards, complementing the genome by encompassing life-course environmental exposures including lifestyle factors.
- SigInt - "Signals Intelligence" - intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, whether communications between people (communications intelligence—abbreviated to COMINT) or from electronic signals not directly used in communication (electronic intelligence—abbreviated to ELINT)
- property tax abatement - programs that eliminate or significantly reduce property tax payments on a home for years or even decades, with the intent of attracting new buyers
- situs - the place where something exists or originates
- situs Address - the physical address of a property or a structure on a particular piece of property. A Situs Address can also be assigned to an array of different features such as: houses, phone booths, bridges, street signs, etc. Some parcels, particularly commercial parcels, may have more than one situs address such as a strip mall
- ketone - an organic compound with the structure RC(=O)R', where R and R' can be a variety of carbon-containing substituents. Ketones and aldehydes are simple compounds that contain a carbonyl group. They are considered "simple" because they do not have reactive groups like −OH or −Cl attached directly to the carbon atom in the carbonyl group, as in carboxylic acids containing −COOH. Many ketones are known and many are of great importance in industry and in biology. Examples include many sugars and the industrial solvent acetone, which is the smallest ketone
- adaptogem (herbal medicine) - a natural substance considered to help the body adapt to stress and to exert a normalizing effect upon bodily processes. A well-known example is ginseng.
