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A first example of Elderspeak: Cindy Smith was visiting with her father in her living apartment assisted in Roseville, California. A helper who was trying to induce him to do something - Mrs. Smith no longer remembers what - he said: "Let me help you, honey"."He just looked at her - under his thick eyebrows - and said:" What do we get married? "" Smith, who made a nice laugh, said, said. His father was then 92, a retired county planner and a veteran of the Second World War; Macuular degeneration had reduced the quality of his vision and used a walking for movement, but remained cognitively acute."Normally it wouldn't have become too icy with people," said Mrs. Smith. "But he had the feeling that he had grown up and was not always treated as one."People almost understand what "Elderspea...

The German National Intelligence Service has classified the extreme right alternative to Germany, which some surveys show how the most popular in the country, as an extremist party, announced the German authorities on Friday.The decision intensifies a dilemma for Germany on what to do with the party, known as AFD, whose leaders trivialized the holocaust, revived foreign Nazi and denigrated slogans, expanding as they expand their political base.The designation is certain that it inflames a long -standing debate that German legislators must move the party entirely. Such a step could launch Germany in a political crisis, without necessarily resolving how to bring 25 percentage of the electorate who supports the Afd in the mainstream political fold.The American secretary of state, Marco Rubio,...

Tiktok was fined of 530 million euros ($ 600 million) on Friday for violating a privacy law of the European Union data after the regulators discovered that the company had improperly committed the personal data of users in China.The Irish Data Protection Commission, which announced the sanction, said that Tiktok was unable to properly protect the data of its users in Europe, including some available for staff in China, in violation of the privacy law of the European Union data, the General Data Protection Regulation.The fine is one of the largest taxes by law and adds to the challenges faced by the Chinese owner of Tiktok, Bytedance, between an American effort to force the sale of the platform to a non -Chinese company or be banned in the United States. The Irish authorities said that Tikt...

The Israeli fighters affected the presidential palace of Damascus, the Syrian capital, at the beginning of Friday, in what Israel's leaders said was a message to President Ahmed Al-Sharaa who are willing to attack in the depths of his country after a recent wave of sectarian violence.In the last few days, more than 100 people have died in clashes that involve multiple parties: Sunni Muslim extremists not completely under the control of the government, the forces of the new government and the militiamen from the minority of druse in the country.Drusa practices a secret religion with its roots in Islam and some of those who live in Syria have links with the community of Druse in Israel.Defense Minister Israel Katz defined the "a clear warning" strikes and said that when Mr. Al-Sharaa "wa...

This article is part of NeglectedA series of necrologists on extraordinary people whose deaths, starting from 1851, have not been reported on time.Joyce Brown's New York minute lasted longer than most. Secretary of the past, Brown became homeless in 1986 and began to camp on a heating grid on the second Avenue and the 65th Street in Manhattan.About a year before being taken from the city's officials, involuntarily engaged in a psychiatric hospital - where it was declared a mind of mind - and with data force. Brown, who was better known as Billie Boggs, was the first homeless man to become at the center of the recently expanded initiative of the mayor I. Koch to face the growing visibility of the homeless and the not treated mental illness.But, as he would have said later in the int...

Great Britain has bathed in abundance of sunshine and temperatures above average this week, leading to a record maximum on Thursday, beating the previous record in 1990. However, a public bathroom may have downloaded the hopes that a London park would have been home to a record reading. The unusually hot and sunny conditions were driven by a high pressure system located on the country and the temperatures have constantly climbed throughout the week. Monday, St. James's Park in central London, hidden between Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey, has recorded its maximum temperature so far this year, just to be passed every following day, culminating on another record day on Thursday.But not so quickly, custodians of records.The observations from a meteorological station in the park h...

A federal judge issued a reference sentence last year, stating that Google had become a monopolist in the internet research. But in an audition that started last week to understand how to solve the problem, the emphasis has often landed on a different technology, artificial intelligence.In the District Court of the United States in Washington last week, a lawyer of the Department of Justice claimed that Google could use his research monopoly to become the dominant player in the Google Executives revealed internal discussions on the expansion of Gemini's scope, the company chatbot. And the managers of the artificial intelligence companies rival have said that Google's power was an obstacle to their success.Last Wednesday, the first substantial question posed to the CEO of Google, Su...

Israel launched aerial attacks on Syria on Wednesday and threatened to hit the government forces if the clashes persisted between pro-government and militia fighters from the minority of druses.Taking the last eruption of sectarian violence in the country, the Israeli military said that his plane has affected a group of "agents" accused of having "attacked the civil civilians" to spread the violence around the periphery of the capital, Damascus. The Syrian governor of the area, Amr Al-Sheikh, said in a press conference on Wednesday evening that the air attack had killed a member of the general security forces of the Syrian government and a civil.The Israeli army did not identify the "agents", but the forces aligned with the Islamist government were blocked in ferocious clashes in the area ...

Consciousness can be a mystery, but this does not mean that neuroscientists have no explanation for this. Far from it."In the field of consciousness, there are already so many theories that we do not need more theories," said Oscar Ferrante, neuroscientist of the University of Birmingham.If you are looking for a theory to explain how our brains give rise to subjective and inner experiences, you can verify the theory of adaptive resonance. Or consider the theory of the dynamic nucleus. Do not forget the representative theory of the first order, not to mention the theory of competition of the semantic pointer. The list continues: a 2021 survey identified 29 different theories of consciousness.Dr. Ferrante belongs to a group of scientists who want to lower that number, perhaps even to one. Bu...

The European car manufacturers, including Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis and Volkswagen, said on Wednesday that the chaos and further upheaval caused by the rates introduced by President Trump had left them fighting to evaluate the impact and unable to plan the future.After years of slow demand and high inflation, the European car manufacturers went in 2025 with a series of new battery models and large hopes that would have attracted customers.Instead, they face the global uncertainty that surrounds the supply chains and customers' demand, started by Mr. Trump to impose rates of 25 % on all cars, steel and aluminum that arrive in the United States.Wednesday, Mercedes-Benz suspended his financial forecasts for 2025, as well as Stellantide, which includes Fiat, Peugeot and Opel between its br...