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Investor slumlord negligence turned Bronx Mitchell-Lama apartment building into a deathtrap
The Bronx building where at least 19 people died in a massive blaze Sunday was cited for more than two dozen violations and complaints — despite $25 million in state loans for repairs.
The citations, including for vermin infestation and faulty elevators, came after the 2013 infusion of state cash — and before the building was sold to an investment group two years ago, records reviewed by The Post show.
The 19-story, 120-unit building has been hit with complaints and violations since 2014.
Part of a complex initially known as Twin Parks, the building went up in 1972 as an urban renewal project constructed by the state UrbaDevelopment Corporation — the present-day Empire State Development Corporation.
The building was owned by Cammeby's International Group, whose principal is real estate mogul Rubin Schron, until it was sold to a consortium of three investor groups in December 2019.
But not before Schron, a pal of onetime state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, got nearly $25 million in state loans to make repairs and upgrades at the building.
Since 2014, one year after Schron got the state loans, the building amassed more than two dozen complaints and violations, none related to fire hazards or potential lapses in safety standards, city records show.
A message left for Schron Sunday was not returned.
The 2019 sale of the building was part of a $166 million deal for eight rent-regulated buildings in the Bronx, according to Real Estate In-Depth.
Rick Gropper, the co-founder of one of the three firms, Camber Property Group, was a member of the housing committee for the mayoral transition team of Eric Adams, sources said.
The other two investment firms with ownership of the building are LIHC Investment Group and Belveron Partners.
"We are devastated by the unimaginable loss of life caused by this profound tragedy," the owners said in a statement.
"We are cooperating fully with the Fire Department and other city agencies as they investigate its cause, and we are doing all we can to assist our residents."
New York authorities said on Monday the city was investigating a possible "maintenance issue" with a door that failed to close when devastating fire erupted in a Bronx apartment building a day earlier, killing 17 people, including eight children.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, just over a week into the job, said at a briefing that the city's medical examiner determined the fire had claimed two fewer victims than the 19 announced on Sunday.
The blaze broke out on Sunday morning in the 19-floor Twin Parks North West building, which provided affordable housing units for low-income New Yorkers. Many of the residents were from the large Gambian community that lived in the neighborhood.
"This is a global tragedy as The Bronx and New York City is representative of the ethnicities and cultures across the globe," Adams said during a briefing in front of the building. "This is an evolving crisis. An unspeakable tragedy."
Adams said he spoke with U.S. President Joe Biden, who pledged that the White House will provide "whatever" New York City needs to address the aftermath of the fire.
The catastrophe was likely to stir questions on safety standards in low-income city housing. It was the second major fire in a residential complex in the United States this week after 12 people, including eight children, were killed early on Wednesday when flames swept through a public housing apartment building in Philadelphia.
Earlier in the day on "Good Morning America," Adams said smoke from the fire was able to spread due to a door being open. Doors in apartment houses are required to close automatically to prevent fires from spreading through the building.
"There may have been a maintenance issue with this door and that is going to be part of the ongoing investigation," Adams said. "This is all going to come out during the investigation."
Addressing the revised death toll, Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said patients had been taken to seven different hospitals in the city, which led to "a bit of a double count," adding that many remain in care still fighting for their lives.
Investigators are looking into the possibility that a door from 15th floor to stairway was not functioning as it should, Nigro said, adding that residents would have been safer if they stayed in their apartments rather than exiting down stairways.
Some 60 people were injured in the blaze and 32 people had been hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, officials said on Sunday.
Fire marshals determined through physical evidence and accounts from residents the fire started in a portable electric heater in the apartment's bedroom. The heat had been on in the apartment building and the portable heater had been supplementing that heating, they said.
Some 200 firefighters helped put out the blaze.
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greedy landlord
One of the last things we needed to get back to old 70s NYC was major fires. And here we are! Now we have it all: out of control crime and massive price inflation. Junkies wandering around everywhere. Graffiti is coming back. Rats all over the place. Budgets are busted everywhere.
The 70s are back, people! Only this time around the music sucks and people are walking around with stupid face masks for no reason.
Let's see how their "affordable housing" apartments hold up in another 50 years. I can see them all going to shit too.
Yeah, lots of violations 8 years ago, none fire safety related. I gather the 2020 or 2021 had like 2 violations, none fire safety related (and the building had changed hands in between).
Doesn't really sound slum lord related as they were fixed by the new landlord
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Last Anon re: Violations
Somehow they got away with not making sure the doors shut all the way.
Tenants don't complain when their doors aren't self-closing. In fact they often break the door closers themselves.
This is truly a sad situation.
But after watching some of the news conferences from the scene, I was truly sickened by the politicians jockeying for position to get air time and pat themselves and each other on the back for political points on the backs of dead children among others. Truly political whores Schumer, Torres, Lander etc among others.
These Democrats are truly a despicable and evil bunch who have no shame at all. May they all rot in hell.
Ain't capitalism wonderful…
Not for nothing but if you live in an apartment for years, you'd know if the self closing door you use multiple times a day works or not. Just another way of absolving a certain group of people of any personal responsibility
This ugly building should be torn down as it is a perfect storm of many issues that plague New York - it is ugly to a degree that makes it look like its intentional, it was owned by political hacks who made millions on it while they created a violation ridden distopian nightmare, and it seemed to be (from the bits and pieces that somehow got out and are trying to be covered up) nothing less than a zoo with all sorts of behavior from people that do not seem to be familiar with the 'courtesies' of living in a modern 21st century envirnment.
So yes, what has happened, when viewed in that light, is not only all but assured, but will increase with numbing frequency as the Democrats reingineer their base from the Great Democracy into a 3rd Wold Slum.
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Yup-ALWAYS will have all the other -isms beat.
"These Democrats are truly a despicable and evil bunch who have no shame at all. May they all rot in hell".
Yeah-but remember this is the "party" that prides itself on caring for people all the time. Ask a member-they'll tell you for hours and hours and hours!
Many of the complaints were closed really fast or allowed to be self certified. They should have been violations. There are companies that are paid to wipe out landlords building code violations. I know because they've come to my apartment.
The loss of life is tragic. What's anger producing is a Government entity, FDNY had to take up the slack of a private company. The management company/landlords negligence is taken care of by the taxpayers.
It's criminal to put Immigrants at the front of the line for housing subsidies and Section 8 vouchers over citizens. This is a big reason why there are so many homeless in NYC
Race has no place in lifesaving decisions but did you notice ?
@"Race has no place in lifesaving decisions but did you notice ?"
@"Just another way of absolving a certain group of people of any personal responsibility"
Which group is that? TrumpTurds? Bird watchers? Librarians? Commuters?
Especially Fabian socialism where capitalism and communism merge.
For short just call it cartel-ism.
Why are some buildings of similiar size and configuration still in great shape today? I understand greed is the cause for neglecting maintenance, but what's the motivation for maintaining buildings for 50 or more years that don't have these problems?
Yes I noticed the race of the Fireman !


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Hans Caninenberg (* 15. Januar 1913 in Duisburg; † 29. Juni 2008 in Gräfelfing) war ein deutscher Schauspieler und Schriftsteller.

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Caninenberg besuchte Anfang der 1930er-Jahre die Folkwang-Schauspielschule in Essen und spielte nach seinem Abschluss zunächst an den Theatern in Krefeld, Gießen und Wuppertal. Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs war er Soldat und nahm seine künstlerische Karriere erst 1945 wieder auf, nachdem er aus der Kriegsgefangenschaft entlassen worden war. Zurück in Wuppertal, half er beim Wiederaufbau des Theaters und ging 1948 ans Staatstheater Stuttgart. Der renommierte Intendant und Regisseur Hans Schweikart engagierte ihn 1953 an die Münchner Kammerspiele. Sesshaft wurde Caninenberg zunächst jedoch nicht, es zog ihn alsbald weiter nach Düsseldorf; danach berief ihn Boleslaw Barlog an seine Staatlichen Berliner Bühnen. Als er in Frankfurt Theater spielte, traf er auf seine Kollegin Lola Müthel, die er 1958 in zweiter Ehe heiratete und mit der er seit 1966 schließlich in Gräfelfing bei München lebte. Aus der Verbindung stammt der gemeinsame Sohn Andreas; aus Caninenbergs erster Ehe stammt Tochter Angelika.

Ab Anfang der 1960er-Jahre spielte Caninenberg immer häufiger fürs Fernsehen und zog mit seiner Familie nach München. Gemeinsam mit seiner Frau war er dort neben seiner Fernseharbeit am Residenztheater zu sehen. So wirkte er mehrfach in verschiedenen Folgen der Krimiserien Derrick und Der Alte mit. Eine seiner international bekanntesten Rollen war die des Lord Guillonk in der Fernsehserie Sandokan – Der Tiger von Malaysia (1976). Im selben Jahr war er in seiner Rolle als Gottfried von Haynau der Stiefvater des von Sigmar Solbach gespielten Robert von Haynau in dem dreiteiligen Fernsehfilm Der Winter, der ein Sommer war. Auch bei den Drombuschs (1983) spielten beide Schauspieler mit. Im Jahr 1990 führte den Schauspieler ein Auftritt in der bekannten ZDF-Serie Das Traumschiff nach New Orleans. Auf Solbach traf Caninenberg erneut in der von 1995 bis 2001 laufenden Familienserie Dr. Stefan Frank – Der Arzt, dem die Frauen vertrauen, in der er wiederum in der Vaterrolle zu sehen war.

Mit seiner markanten Stimme wirkte Caninenberg in zahlreichen Hörspielen mit. Auch schriftstellerisch war er aktiv, er verfasste neben Theaterstücken und Essays den 1988 erschienenen, autobiografisch getönten Roman Mein unvergessener Traum.

Hans Caninenberg starb im Alter von 95 Jahren und wurde auf dem Gemeindefriedhof seines Wohnortes Gräfelfing beigesetzt. Die Urne seiner 2011 verstorbenen Frau Lola befindet sich ebenfalls in dem Grab.

Sein schriftlicher Nachlass befindet sich im Archiv der Akademie der Künste in Berlin.

Auszeichnungen
 1962 erhielt Caninenberg den erstmals vergebenen Großen Hersfeld-Preis für (Theater-)Schauspieler. Die Verleihungsurkunde bescheinigte ihm, "mit künstlerischer Intelligenz und differenzierter Sprechkultur eine durch ihre Geschlossenheit herausragende schauspielerische Leistung vollbracht" zu haben.
 Mercatorplakette der Stadt Duisburg

Filmografie

Weiteres
Aufgrund seines ähnlichen Aussehens spielte er in gleich zwei Fernsehfilmen (1967) die Rolle Kaiser Wilhelms II.: Die Affäre Eulenburg und Die Flucht nach Holland.

Hörspiele (Auswahl)
 1950: André Gide/Jean-Louis Barrault: Der Prozeß (Josef K.) – Regie: Cläre Schimmel (Hörspiel – SDR)
 1950: Günter Eich: Pioniere des Hörspiels: Ein Traum am Edsin-gol – Regie: Oskar Nitschke (Original-Hörspiel, Kurzhörspiel – SDR)
 1951: Alkestis – Regie: Cläre Schimmel
 1958: Georges Simenon: Maigret und die schrecklichen Kinder – Regie: Cläre Schimmel
 1959: Das Gasthaus in Aci Cetana – Regie: Willy Purucker
 1961: Sodom und Gomorrha – Regie: Otto Kurth
 1963: Mindermann – Regie: Heinz-Günter Stamm
 1965: Der illustre Klient (nach Arthur Conan Doyle) – Regie: Heinz-Günter Stamm
 1966: Elias Canetti: Die Befristeten – Regie: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell (Hörspiel – WDR)
 1966: Nathalie Sarraute: Die Lüge – Regie: Heinz von Cramer (Hörspiel – SDR/BR/RB)
 1966: Helen und Edward und Henry – Regie: Otto Kurth
 1968: Das leere Haus (nach Arthur Conan Doyle) – Regie: Heinz-Günter Stamm
 1968: Joel Brand (nach Heinar Kipphardt) – Regie: Walter Ohm
 1977: Der Engel mit dem Saitenspiel – Regie: Heinz-Günter Stamm
 1977: Der Fall Franz Jägerstetter – Regie: Willy Purucker
 1981: Alfred Bergmann: Das Märchen vom Lande der Blinden, in dem der Einäugige König sein soll – Regie: Andreas Weber-Schäfer

Werke (Auswahl)
 Zwei mal klopfen. Komödie in 5 Bildern. Leipzig 1941.
 Mein unvergessener Traum. Roman. Langen Müller, München 1988.

Literatur
 Hermann J. Huber: Langen Müller's Schauspielerlexikon der Gegenwart. Deutschland. Österreich. Schweiz. Albert Langen • Georg Müller Verlag GmbH, München • Wien 1986, ISBN 3-7844-2058-3, S. 142.
 C. Bernd Sucher (Hg.): Theaterlexikon. Autoren, Regisseure, Schauspieler, Dramaturgen, Bühnenbildner, Kritiker. Von Christine Dössel und Marietta Piekenbrock unter Mitwirkung von Jean-Claude Kuner und C. Bernd Sucher. 1995, 2. Auflage, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, München 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3, S. 106.
 Kay Weniger: Das große Personenlexikon des Films. Die Schauspieler, Regisseure, Kameraleute, Produzenten, Komponisten, Drehbuchautoren, Filmarchitekten, Ausstatter, Kostümbildner, Cutter, Tontechniker, Maskenbildner und Special Effects Designer des 20. Jahrhunderts. Band 1: A – C. Erik Aaes – Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3, S. 657.

Weblinks

 Hans Caninenberg auf steffi-line.de
 "Schauspieler Hans Caninenberg ist tot", Spiegel Online, 2. Juli 2008
 knerger.de: Das Grab von Hans Caninenberg in Gräfelfing
 Hans-Caninenberg-Archiv im Archiv der Akademie der Künste, Berlin

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Literatur (Deutsch)
Drama
Essay
Roman, Epik
Autobiografie
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Q: A few questions on quarks, gluons and the strong force I wanted to answer for myself some pretty fundamental questions pertaining to the strong interaction, color charge and quarks, but I'm sort of stumbling on a few. So I wanted to find the reason/evidence that for each of the following statements:

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*Quarks are fractionally charged

For this one I would say that because we see Baryons (+1,0) with integer charge, and we also observe through scattering experiments that Baryons are made from 3 quarks, quarks should therefore be fractionally charged...

*Gluons carry colour charge

I would say gluon self-interactions...

*There are three quark colours

Two up quarks found in the proton + Pauli exclusion principle?

*Quarks are spin 1/2 fermions

And not sure!
If anyone could either say whether I'm along the right tracks and if I am, could also help me with my understandign for 4 that would be excellent!
Thank you!

A: Let´s go:
[1] From the DIS (Deep Inelastic Scattering) of eletron-proton, we can imagine that the photon exchanged in te process "sees" a parton (possible constituent of the proton) distribuition.
We can imagine a cross-section of photons and that constituents of the proton. And we can analyze two situations:
From a cross-section of longitudinal (scalar) helicity photons, $\sigma_{s}$ and a cross-section of transverse helicity photons, $\sigma_{t}$  we can stabilish a relation:
$$ \frac{\sigma_{s}}{\sigma_{t}}  $$
And experimentally, we know its values. From the theory, this rate goes to infinite if we are talking about a spinless constituent, and goes to zero (at high frequencies of the scattered photon) for a spin-half constituent.
This is how we know that quarks are spin-half. (this answers 4)
[2] There is a excited state of the proton, called $\Lambda^{++}$. This particle is composed by 3 up quarks. As we know the principle of exclusion, we couldn't have 3 fermions in the same state unless there is a additional degree of freedom we are not taking into account.
This additional degree of freedom is the Colour charge. But the fact that we need 3 colours (3 kinds of charge) cames from the choice of the gauge group that describes the strong interactions, the SU(3).
And by this very choice, we have a non-abelian gauge symmetry wich means that our gauge bosons (in this case gluons) interact with each other, because in the non-abelian case:
$$ F_{\mu \nu} = {\partial}_{\mu} A_{\nu} - {\partial}_{\nu} A_{\mu} - iq[A_{\mu},A_{\nu}]    $$
The last term (the commutator) of $A_{\mu}$ and $A_{\nu}$ does not vanish and so the Lorentz invariant term in the Lagrangian $ F_{\mu \nu}F^{\mu \nu} $ gives 3-field and 4-field interactions of the gauge bosons. (this answers 3 and 2)

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Henry of Ghent ("Doctor Solemnis", 1217?, d. 1293 AD) in Quodlibet II, q. 8 and V. q. 6 writes about ontology by analyzing the relation of thing, essence and being (existence):
He agrees with Avicenna (see [3.3.1]) that every thing (res) possesses its essence (quidditas), which differs from its being (existence).
An essence can be considered in itself, independently of its physical (or mental) existence. This means that being is not part of its content, so the essence – being distinction is not based on reason alone.
On the other hand, being includes the concept of essence. "Being and essence are therefore different intentions, not different things." So we have an intentional distinction between essence and being.
Essences have a natural tendency towards non-being. Their existence depends on God's creative and supportive act.
The following OntoUML diagram presents Henry of Ghent's ontological model:
Henry of Ghent on intentional distinction of essence and being in an external (material) thing
Thing An enduring external material substance, a thing (res).
Essence "For Henry (as for Avicenna) every res possesses its own "certitude" (certitudo) that makes it what it is. Certitudo here means stability, consistency, and ontological self-identity: a triangle is a triangle and nothing else, white is white and nothing else.
Certitudo thus expresses the objective content by which every thing is identical to itself and is distinguished from other things; in other words, certitudo expresses the essence or quidditas of a thing ("unaquaeque res habet certitudinem propriam quae est eius quidditas" — "every thing possesses its own certitude, which is its essence"). This content can be considered in itself, as independent from its physical or mental existence. In an absolute sense, every essence possesses a double indifference: with regard to actual existence or non-existence (essence in itself is simply possible), and with regard to universality and particularity. These last two aspects are really conjoined. Essence is particular in that it receives its subsistence in a given suppositum (concrete individual entity) from something-other-than-itself, while it is universal in that it is abstracted by the intellect from these singular supposita, in which it exists as one in many, in order to become predicable by many.
Yet in itself essence is just essence: "essentia est essentia tantum". Even though for both Avicenna and Henry thing (res) and being (ens) are primary notions (or rather intentions — intentiones — the sense of which we shall soon clarify), intentio de re seems to have a certain precedence over intentio de esse, at least logically, in virtue of its double indifference. shared part of Thing
Accident "anything that belongs to a thing, being external to the intention of its essence, can be called an accident." exclusive part of Thing
Being "We still need to clarify in what sense existence can be said to be concomitant with essence. Being has access to essence from the outside, in the sense that it does not strictly belong to the essential nature of a res, except in the case of God.
If this were not the case, a thing (every thing) would not simply be possible in itself, but necesse esse (necessary being) on a par with God. Instead, being seems to be an accident, or rather it has almost the mode of an accident (Quodl. I, q. 9). Nevertheless, it is not an accident in the real sense, since it is not added to something pre-existing, but is rather that by virtue of which a thing exists. In other words, we cannot refer here to the Aristotelian definition of accident (that which has its being in another thing or inheres in a subject), but once again to the broader definition given by Avicenna, according to which anything that belongs to a thing, being external to the intention of its essence, can be called an accident ("Sed intelligendum quod 'accidens' accipitur hic largissime, secundum quod iuxta modum loquendi Avicennae 'accidens' rei appellatur omne quod convenit ei et est extra intentionem suae essentiae"; Quodl. II, q. 8, ed. Wielockx, p. 48, ll. 21-23). In this sense an accident is anything that is external to the intentio of a res as absolute essence, without ever being really distinct from it. With regard to essence, actual being (that is, ratio suppositi) represents an accident of this type. Being is therefore an intentio that occurs to essence without adding anything real, and so it differs from essence only intentionally." charaterizes Essence
TendencyTo Non-Being "every creatural essence tends naturally toward non-being [tendency to non-being] (in Avicennian terms, no possible essence, in the absence of a cause for its existence, could exist), though this inclination can be reversed by an external cause.
No essence of a thing is so rigidly oriented toward nothing that it cannot receive being-in-act through a divine action. Similarly, even when placed, in act no thing ever possesses its being in an ultimate way: if God were to withdraw His support, it would fall into non-being." charaterizes Essence
IntentionalDistinction Being and Essence according to Henry are the same thing,
"While two distinct things differ in a real sense, all that gives rise to different concepts, albeit founded in the same simple thing, differs intentionally ("diversa intentione sunt quae fundata in simplicitate eisudem rei diversos de se formant conceptus."; Quodl. V, q. 12, ed. 1518, f. 171rT). In an intentional distinction, in other words, the very same thing is expressed by different concepts in different ways. From this perspective, an intentional distinction seems akin to a purely logical (or reasoned) distinction, to the point that the two are often confused ("frequenter intentio ratio appellatur."; Quodl. V, q. 12, ed. 1518, f. 171rV). Nevertheless, in the first case, one of the concepts excludes the other (one can be thought of separately, in the absence of the other), whereas in the case of a distinction based on reason the various concepts are perfectly compatible ("in diversis secundum intentionem unus conceptus secundum unum modum excludit alium secundum alium modum, non sic autem differentia sola ratione."; Quodl. V, q. 12, ed. 1518, f. 171rV). As Henry explicitly states, this means that everything that differs in intention differs in reason too, but not vice versa. Unlike a purely logical distinction, an intentional distinction always implies a form of composition, even though this is minor with regard to that implied by a real difference. […]
The distinction between being and essence belongs to the last mode [intentional distinction]. Since being is not a real accident inhering in a subject, it makes no sense to speak of a real distinction. Instead, the distinction depends on the fact that the intellect uses different concepts to indicate the being of a thing, on the one hand, and that which a thing is, on the other.
Nevertheless, since essence can be thought of independently from its being, and being is not part of its content, we cannot refer here to a distinction based on reason alone. In other words, whereas the concept of actual existence always includes the concept of essence, the contrary is not true, since essence can be thought of without its being (as affirmed by Avicenna). Being and essence are therefore different intentions, not different things (as instead was maintained by Giles of Rome in his long dispute with Henry). This intentional distinction is in itself sufficient to refute the conclusion that every essence is its being." relates Being and Essence
God Monotheistic God provides and supports Being
All citations from: Porro, Pasquale, "Henry of Ghent", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
Pickavé, Martin, "Henry of Ghent on Individuation, Essence and Being", A Companion to Henry of Ghent, Brill, 2011, Gordon A.Wilson (ed)
First published: 25/3/2021
Medieval, Metaphysics, Ontology, OntoUMLHenry of Ghent (1217?-1293 AD)
Henry of Ghent ("Doctor Solemnis", 1217?, d. 1293 AD) Quodlibet Quodlibet IV, q. 8 examines concept formation and the mental word's role (verbum mentis).
Henry, inspired by Augustine (see [2.6.3]), sustains, "that the human mind, as imago Dei, has a fundamentally trinitarian structure; it comprises understanding, will and memoria, the most basic cognitive capacity."
Henry, based on Aristotle, thinks that the human intellect or understanding is both passive-receptive and active-constructive.
The first step towards concept formation is the sense impression by an external object, which is processed further by the universal sense.
Understanding in a first step is the formation of a simple, undifferentiated concept in the intellect. At this level, the intellect grasps, e.g., that a circle is a plane geometrical figure.
In a second step, intellect, through an active, discursive process, grasps the concept's essence, using some prior concepts stored in the memory. This way forms a precise and accurate definition represented in mind by mental word (verbum mentis). E.g., the mathematical definition of the circle.
The will, as a self-mover, directs the intellect (see also [4.14.2])to invest the necessary effort to create the verbum mentis.
The UML Use Case diagram below presents Henry of Ghent's model of the concept formation:
Henry of Ghent on concept formation and verbum mentis (mental word)
FACULTY/Function
5 senses 5 senses impressed by the Object (UC1)
5 senses are: touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste.
Universal sense Universal sense combines particular sense-impressions of one object (UC2): "Henry applies this principle to our cognitive capacities, as instances of a patient's undergoing change naturally, from the five external senses and the so-called universal sense, which combines particular sense-impressions of one object" includes UC1
INTELLECT First operation: (INTELLECT) understands the object by forming a simple concept of it (UC3): "Human intellect's first operation is a change brought about by an object (a universal in representational content) that is understood, or thought about, by the intellect. The act of understanding is constituted by both the intellect (as the subject) and something intelligible (the object). The result of this first operation is a simple, as yet undifferentiated concept of the object of cognition. Such an initial, simple concept is representative of some thing (notitia de re) and a manifestation of it, although in a cognitively and conceptually imperfect manner: 'This concept of the thing is, as it were, some confused and indefinitemanifestation of it since through it a thing is cognized as something confused and indistinct that is definable, like a circle, which is not completely cognized by the intellect until [the intellect] forms in itself the definition of the circle, by cognizing about it that it is a plane (geometrical) figure etc.' […]
In other words, the thing's essential characteristics are not yet conceptually distinct; no complete definitional account can yet be given of what the object is. A circle that is expressed in such an 'indefinite manifestation' may appear indistinct froman ellipsis or other figures, and hence it is not (yet) completely cognized as what it is." includes UC2, UC4
Imaginative power Use imaginative power (UC4): "At times he even hazarded to call such cognition a "fantastical understanding" (intellectus phantasticus) in obvious reference to the inner-sense power, imagination or 'phantasia.'"
INTELLECT Second operation: (INTELLECT) produces mental word (UC5): "For Henry the intellect's activity of understanding is not completed until (donec) it comes to rest in a mental word [verbum mentis], which provides the desired definitional account of a given object, through which it cognizes the object's essence. Moreover, the intellect is set up to achieve not merely a nominal definition but a real definition of a thing's essence. This is, ideally, the result of the second operation, the active, discursive function of the intellect".
E.g. at this level the content of the mental word circle looks like: circle is the set of all points in the plane that are a fixed distance (the radius) from a fixed point (the centre). includes UC3, UC6
MEMORY Store prior concepts and mental words (in the intellectual MEMORY) (UC6): "For Henry a mental word requires forming a concept or account on the basis of some other, prior concept, which is accessible in intellectual memory.While Augustine in De trinitate explains that a mental word is primarily a conscious actualization of cognitive content accessible via the memoria, Henry interprets Augustine differently because Henry thinks that a mental word is a newly formed, numerically distinct concept based on some prior concept in intellectual memory."
WILL WILL directs INTELLECT to Object (UC7): "For when the receptive intellect has been informed with a simple, confused concept of what a thing is, for instance of a man or horse, or white or black, the will that delights in the cognized thing (though incompletely since it has not been cognized completely) is excited to come to know through the intellect what is left [to be cognized], so that it might completely delight in something completely cognized, according to what Augustine says in De trinitate, Book X, chapter I: 'That something is known, but not fully known, is the reason the mind desires to know what is left [to be known about it].' For this reason the will through its command moves the intellect so that it may attend to what is already cognized in a confused manner and cognize it to a greater extent. The intellect that is moved by the command of the will and by its own active power, fixes its gaze on the thing that is cognized more strongly and sharply and strives to penetrate [to] the interior features of what is cognized in a confused way, so that it may cognize clearly what it is in the parts that make up its essence.'" includes UC5
Object An object in the external world uses UC7; UC5
User of the mind A Person
All citations from: Goehring, Bernd, "Henry of Ghent on the Verbum Mentis", A Companion to Henry of Ghent, Brill, 2011, Gordon A.Wilson (ed)
Porro, Pasquale, "Henry of Ghent", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
Christian, Epistemology, Medieval, Philosophy of mind, UML, Use case diagramHenry of Ghent (1217?-1293 AD)


Ambassador Lu Shaye said Tuesday that Canada's "so-called" progressive trade agenda has no place in the free trade agreement the two countries have been pursuing in fits and starts for several years.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been unable to persuade China's leaders to formally entrench labour, gender, environment and governance issues in the negotiating framework of the free trade talks.
Trudeau spent four days in China in December but left without a formal commitment to moving the free trade talks past the exploratory phase into formal negotiations.
"For the Chinese side, we have stressed many times … we really want so-called, non-trade-related factors or issues to not be included in the negotiation of an FTA," Lu said through an interpreter to a small gathering of journalists at the Chinese embassy in Ottawa.
China is taking note of how Canada is pursuing the same agenda in the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. But Lu said Canada's insistence on pushing labour standards in the NAFTA talks with Mexico to raise wages would only lead to the shuttering of Mexican auto plants and lost jobs.
"If the Mexico side accepts such kind of standards many of the factories have to close down and their workers have to be laid off," he said.
There appears to be little forward momentum towards the start of formal negotiations between Beijing and Ottawa on a free trade pact.
Joseph Pickerill, spokesman for International Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, said Tuesday there was "nothing to report right now on trade talks," but he noted there's ongoing political engagement. He cited the recent visits to China by Champagne, Finance Minister Bill Morneau and this week's trade mission of Heritage Minister Melanie Joly and representatives from 60 cultural industries.
"This is one of the most complex but also potentially lucrative markets in the world and that requires a smarter, longer-term and more strategic approach to engagement with China," said Pickerill.
Despite the differences, Lu characterized relations between the two countries as warm and said China "definitely" had no deadline for starting formal negotiations. They have already gone through four rounds of exploratory talks.
The envoy said starting a free trade negotiation with Canada would send a strong message to the world as it contends with the Trump administration's "America First" protectionism.
Lu also debunked any suggestion that Chinese President Xi Jinping was offering the U.S. concessions on Tuesday in their ongoing trade dispute.
In a major economic policy speech, Xi said tariffs would be reduced on imported cars and said China would offer added measures towards intellectual property protection.
But Lu said those measures had been previously announced in recent high-profile meetings, including the Communist party's historic congress last fall where Xi laid the groundwork that led to him to recently being granted indefinite power, making him China's most powerful leader in a generation.
"China has reiterated on many occasions that we sincerely hope to resolve the China-U.S. trade frictions through dialogue and negotiation but at the current position now the U.S. takes an aggressive stance on this issue, I think it is not possible for us to have the negotiations," said Lu.
In the face of Trump's protectionism, which has now escalated into the biggest trade dispute since the Second World War, Xi has sought to position China as the defender of the world's rules-based global trading order — a view his envoy to Canada emphasized on Tuesday.
"We can see that China has taken active measures to promote the economic globalization, to advance free trade and to uphold the authority of the multilateral trade regime," Lu said.


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As the foundational pieces of a proposed water district for the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin work their way through Sacramento, financial contributions from stakeholders over the basin are seeping into the campaign coffers of the bill's key sponsor.
Katcho Achadjian, the state Assemblyman representing San Luis Obispo County, has sponsored AB 2453, which would create a legislative platform for a water district. The proposed district is the culmination of an agreement between two organizations: vintner group Paso Robles Agriculturist Alliance for Groundwater Solutions (PRAAGS), and residential group PRO Water Equity.
Critics worried that the initial vote to approve a district would be easily swayed by large landowners, though later votes would be more balanced along the hybrid model proposed.
In February, the SLO County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to support the legislative platform.
California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG) Political Action Committee gave Achadjian's campaign a total of $2,500 since 2013. The group didn't donate any money in 2012.
Ron Lopp, communications manager for CAWG, told New Times that the donation wasn't necessarily tied to the water district and that the group didn't officially endorse the district until May 5. Lopp said that no contribution was given in 2012 because the association's PAC wasn't as active then.
Another industry group, the Wine Institute of California PAC, has given Achadjian $1,000 so far this year, with $1,500 contributed in 2012.
The California Farm Bureau Federation's Farm PAC gave $1,000 in 2012 and $2,500 so far this year. The California Cattlemen's Association PAC, which gave $2,000 in 2012, gave $1,000 in 2013.
Both the Farm Bureau and the Cattlemen's Association routinely contribute to campaigns, and while having expressed concerns, neither have a strong stance yet on a district.
Jerry Lohr, owner of J. Lohr Vineyards and Wines—one of the biggest wineries in Paso Robles and a proponent of a water district—gave Achadjian $1,500 so far this year.
Achadjian also received $1,544 in contributions from Eberle Winery, and $1,000 from the SLO Wine Community PAC, which has endorsed the water district.
Farming giant Paramount Farming Co. LLC, the farming wing of Stuart Resnick's Roll Global, contributed $2,000. Resnick controls the Kern Water Bank Authority in Kern County, and his attorney, Ernest Conant, represents PRAAGS and authored the current bill.
Achadjian recognizes these contributors and their interests, but said he doesn't believe money will sway him.
As of press time, the bill was in the Assembly's Local Government Committee, which Achadjian chairs. If the committee approves, the bill will go to the Assembly floor, then to a state senate committee, and finally the Senate floor for approval.


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Trust and stigma affect gay couples' choices on PrEP and PEP
From aidsmap.com…
Both relationship-specific and structural factors influence whether coupled gay men living in New York City choose to use pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP/PEP) for HIV prevention. Some men – particularly those in monogamous relationships – felt that discussing PrEP and PEP in the context of a relationship could threaten the relationship by raising issues of trust, while others felt that it had the potential to enhance sexual health and satisfaction.
Stigma from the gay community and healthcare providers around promiscuity also presented barriers to PrEP uptake. This qualitative research was conducted by Stephen Bosco, Dr Tyrel Starks and colleagues at City University New York and published in the Journal of Homosexuality.
Gay and bisexual men accounted for 66% of all new HIV diagnoses in the US in 2017. It is estimated that 35-68% of these infections happen within the context of a long-term relationship. This indicates that coupled gay men have the potential to benefit significantly from biomedical prevention strategies, such as PrEP (taken on an ongoing basis) and PEP (taken shortly after a suspected infection). However, only 7% of the potential 1.1 million gay and bisexual men who could benefit from PrEP were prescribed it in 2016. Black and minority men in the US remain most at-risk for HIV infection, while also having the lowest rates of PrEP uptake.
This entry was posted in PrEP, Prevention, Research, Stigma on January 8, 2020 by administrator.
Studies firmly establish "undetectable equals untransmittable"
From NIH.gov…
Extensive evidence from HIV prevention research studies has firmly established that "Undetectable Equals Untransmittable," or U=U. This means that people living with HIV who achieve and maintain an undetectable viral load — the amount of virus in their blood — by taking antiretroviral therapy (ART) as prescribed do not sexually transmit HIV to others. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates this strategy is 100% effective against the sexual transmission of HIV.
Now, a new study of nearly 112,000 men who have sex with men in the United States has found increasing acceptance of the U=U message in this population. Overall, 54% of HIV-negative participants and 84% of participants with HIV correctly identified U=U as accurate. The study was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. Study results were published online in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
"U=U has been validated repeatedly by numerous studies as a safe and effective means of preventing the sexual transmission of HIV," said Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director. "The increased understanding and acceptance of U=U is encouraging because HIV treatment as prevention is a foundation of efforts to end the epidemic in the United States and around the world. This public health message has the power to reduce stigma, protect the health of people living with HIV and prevent sexual transmission of HIV to others."
This entry was posted in Prevention, Research on December 9, 2019 by administrator.
More evidence in support of needle exchange programs
From the CATO Institute…
By Jeffrey A. Singer
In his State of the Union Address earlier this year, President Trump announced the laudable goal of eliminating HIV transmission by the year 2030. Needle exchange programs (also called Syringe Exchange Programs or SEPs) are a public health approach in use since the 1980s with a proven record of reducing the spread of HIV, hepatitis, and other blood-borne infectious diseases. I have presented much of the data supporting needle exchange programs here and, more recently, here. Now, new research reported in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome adds even more strength to the argument in favor of needle exchange programs.
Jeffrey A. Singer is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and works in the the Department of Health Policy Studies
Because most of the averted cases would have received publicly funded health care, the study's authors then translated averted cases into cost savings for the two cities.Using surveillance data of HIV diagnoses associated with intravenous drug use from Philadelphia and Baltimore, cities where needle exchange programs had been permitted since the early 1990s, their analysis concluded that more than 10,000 cases of HIV were averted in Philadelphia from the years 1993 to 2002, and nearly 1,900 cases were averted in Baltimore from 1995 to 2004.
The forecasts estimated an average of 1,059 HIV diagnoses in Philadelphia and 189 HIV diagnoses in Baltimore averted annually. Multiplying the lifetime costs of HIV treatment per person ($229,800) by the average number of diagnoses averted annually in both cities yields an estimated annual saving of $243.4 million for Philadelphia and $62.4 million for Baltimore. Considering diagnoses averted over the 10-year modeled period, the lifetime cost savings associated with averted HIV diagnoses stemming from policy change to support SEPs may be more than $2.4 billion and $624 million dollars for Philadelphia and Baltimore, respectively. Because SEPs are relatively inexpensive to operate, overall cost savings are substantial even when deducting program operational costs from the total amount.
Needle exchange programs have long been endorsed and encouraged by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Surgeon General of the United States, the World Health Organization, the American Public Health Association, and the American Medical Association. Nevertheless, needle exchange programs are legally permitted to operate in only 28 states and the District of Columbia. Drug paraphernalia laws make them illegal elsewhere.
Some critics argue that needle exchange programs "enable" or "endorse" intravenous drug use. Such moralizing is not appropriate in this context. Addiction is a behavioral disorder characterized by "compulsive use despite negative consequences." Preventing organizations from providing an effective means of harm reduction to people with addiction who continue to use drugs is akin to denying insulin to diabetics who continue to make dangerous eating choices.
It is not unrealistic to set a 10-year goal for ending HIV transmission. Needle exchange programs are essential for that to happen.
This entry was posted in Activism, Commentary, Prevention on November 5, 2019 by administrator.
FDA approves second PrEP medication
From HIV.gov…
PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, is an HIV prevention method in which people who do not have HIV take medicine on a daily basis to reduce their risk of getting HIV if they are exposed to the virus. Descovy for PrEP should be used as part of a comprehensive strategy, including adherence to daily administration and safer sex practices, including condoms, to reduce the risk of sexually acquired infections.
The safety and efficacy of Descovy for PrEP were evaluated in a randomized, double-blind multinational trial in 5,387 HIV-negative men and transgender women who have sex with men and were at risk of HIV-1 infection. The trial compared once daily Descovy to Truvada (emtricitabine, tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, 200 mg/300 mg), a daily fixed dose combination of two drugs approved in 2012 to prevent the sexual acquisition of HIV; participants were followed for 48 to 96 weeks. The primary endpoint was the rate of HIV-1 infection in each group. The trial showed that Descovy was similar to Truvada in reducing the risk of acquiring HIV-1 infection.
Read the full article on HIV.gov.
This entry was posted in PrEP, Prevention, Research on October 7, 2019 by administrator.
Care providers reluctant to tell HIV patients *undetectable equals untransmittable*
From Medscape…
WASHINGTON, DC — HIV treatment that leads to viral suppression for at least 6 months is 100% effective in preventing the transmission of HIV, even in the absence of condoms or HIV prevention drugs, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But not all care providers tell their patients that.
A survey in the Midwest showed that 22% of HIV physicians still don't feel comfortable explaining to patients the science behind what is known in the community as U=U, or undetectable equals untransmittable.
And that number is even higher among the physician assistants, nurse practitioners, advanced practice nurses, and traditional registered nurses who serve people living with HIV, said Emily Petran, MPH, from the Minnesota site of the Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center (MATEC) in Minneapolis.
The survey — which was more of a needs assessment than a scientific survey — points to the need for education so that people with HIV have all the information they need to care for themselves and their partners, she said here at the United States Conference on AIDS 2019.
This entry was posted in HIV care, HIV Undetectable, Prevention on September 12, 2019 by administrator.
NIH bolsters funding for HIV implementation research in high-burden U.S. areas
The National Institutes of Health has awarded approximately $11.3 million to 23 institutions across the United States to collaborate with community partners to develop locally relevant plans for diagnosing, treating and preventing HIV in areas with high rates of new HIV cases.
The awards will help enhance the implementation science knowledge base needed for the proposed Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America. The plan aims to leverage the powerful data and tools now available to reduce new HIV diagnoses in the United States by 75 percent in five years and by 90 percent by 2030. President Donald J. Trump announced this bold new initiative during the State of the Union Address in February. If funds are appropriated by Congress, the 10-year initiative will begin in fiscal year 2020. The awards announced today are one-year awards to support pilot and formative studies to prepare for more extensive implementation science research proposals expected in 2020.
"With existing, powerful HIV treatment and prevention tools, we can end the epidemic in the United States," said Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at NIH. "The new initiative is a practical, achievable implementation plan. By working directly with health departments and other community organizations, researchers can find the best ways to use the highly effective methods at our disposal to diagnose, prevent and treat HIV in the United States."
This entry was posted in HIV care, Prevention on September 6, 2019 by administrator.
Use of HIV prevention pill rising among men who have sex with men
From Reuters Health…
A growing proportion of American men who have sex with men know they can take a daily pill to avoid infection with HIV and more of them are using it, a U.S. study suggests.
HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is highly protective against the virus that causes AIDS, but many people worldwide don't get this pill because they aren't aware of it, don't think they need it, or because it's unavailable or unaffordable. Efforts to raise awareness among one high-risk group – men who have sex with men – have been complicated because some of these men don't identify as gay or bisexual and mistakenly think heterosexual people don't need PrEP.
In 2014, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched an effort to get PrEP to all men who have sex with men who might benefit from the pill, not just gay and bisexual individuals. The current study looked at national health survey data to track changes in awareness and use of PrEP from 2014 to 2017 in 20 American cities.
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Q: How to put stamp text inside invoice using css I waant to draw the text using css look like stamp as well as figure out at image sample inside (sudah lunas).
css:

.rubber {
  box-shadow: 0 0 0 3px blue, 0 0 0 2px blue inset;
  border: 2px solid transparent;
  border-radius: 4px;
  display: inline-block;
  padding: 5px 2px;
  line-height: 22px;
  color: blue;
  font-size: 24px;
  font-family: 'Black Ops One', cursive;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  text-align: center;
  opacity: 0.4;
  width: 155px;
  transform: rotate(-5deg);
}
<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Black+Ops+One' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

  SUDAH LUNAS

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

Any help please, thanks for advance.

A: If I understand your question correctly you could use:
css:
.container {
    height: 300px;
    background: none;
    display: flex;
}

.text {
    font-size: 2.5vw;
    transform: rotateZ(-45deg);
    margin: auto;
    display: inline-block;
}

html:

      SUDAH LUNAS

.container {
    height: 300px;
    widht: 300px;
    background: grey;
    display: flex;
  }

  .text {
    font-size: 2.5vw;
    transform: rotateZ(-45deg);
    margin: auto;
    display: inline-block;
  }

      SUDAH LUNAS

A: I will try to answer but it is not even better, because if I use absolute the text not in auto center of div, those dynamic lenght and width:

.rubber {
  box-shadow: 0 0 0 3px blue, 0 0 0 2px #eaf5ec inset;
  border: 2px solid transparent;
  border-radius: 4px;
  display: inline-block;
  padding: 5px 2px;
  line-height: 22px;
  color: blue;
  font-size: 24px;
  font-family: 'Black Ops One', cursive;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  text-align: center;
  opacity: 0.4;
  width: auto;
  transform: rotate(-5deg);
  position: absolute;
  top:55px;
  left:55px;
}
<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Black+Ops+One' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

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