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EXCLUSIVE EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Mystery as Prince Andrew's company receives £200,000 from an anonymous donor as the Duke faces the names of more than 170 of Jeffrey Epstein's associates being released in the New Year
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12887381/Prince-Andrews-company-anonymous-donor-Jeffrey-Epsteins-New-Year.html
Prince Andrew may be facing his own nightmare before Christmas, as the names of dozens of his chum Jeffrey Epstein's associates are set to be released in the New Year.
At least Andrew needn't sweat it on the financial front.
I hear one of his perennially unsuccessful business ventures is finally likely to end the year out of debt — thanks to a mysterious donor's bail out.
Indeed, I can disclose that a corporate filing published this week shows a company set up to manage Prince Andrew's private investments has somehow secured £210,000 worth of funding in the form of non-redeemable shares.
Urramoor Limited, of which the Duke of York is listed as having 'significant control', incorporated in 2013 and was £208,000 in the red when latest accounts were revealed.
However, according to a recently filed share allotment document, a total of 210,402 shares, with a nominal value of £1 each, were allocated on December 14, 2023 — which just about pulls the company out of debt, providing it's not lost even more money since 2022.
This would be a first for Urramoor, which has never been profitable in the nine sets of accounts it has filed since its creation.
The company's director, Arthur Lancaster, also runs Doug Barrowman's firm AML Tax Ltd, which was found to be running tax avoidance schemes earlier this year by HM Revenue and Customs.
Barrowman himself, meanwhile, faced the media spotlight this week, after a car crash interview with his wife, disgraced Conservative peer and lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone, revealed the couple stands to benefit from £60million in profits from a notorious PPE deal that she previously denied any connection with.
Andrew, 63, however, is sure to be delighted with the inexplicable investment — and would likely have a few words of advice for Barrowman, should Lancaster put them in touch.
'We're all cogs in a huge bloody machine, yeah?' he reflected in a promotional interview for his other venture, Pitch@Palace.
'Some of us have the advantage of being able to activate more cogs than other people. That's all it is.'
A spokesman for Arthur Lancaster and Urramoor was unavailable for comment yesterday.
Kamala serves up ANOTHER word salad: Vice President says this is 'the most election of all time' while responding to Trump's 'poisoning the blood of our country' remarks
Kamala Harris served up another baffling word salad as she claimed 'this is the most election of our lifetime' while mangling an attack on Donald Trump.
It came as Democrats accused Trump of echoing Adolf Hitler by saying migrants are 'poisoning the blood of our country,' a phrase that appears in the Nazi dictator's 1925 manifesto Mein Kampf.
Speaking to MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell, the Vice President said: 'You know, every election cycle we talk about this is the most election of our lifetime.'
Harris went on: 'Lawrence, this one is, this one is. We are literally talking about people who are attempting to divide our country in the most crude, frankly, and profound way. We are talking about those who are intent and purposeful to, to attack fundamental freedoms.'
Harris concluded: 'The freedom to be free from fear of violence and hate … the freedom to just … be. The freedom to just be.'
As footage quickly went viral, critics were quick to mock the Vice President's latest blunder.
'IMPOSSIBLE: Try not to cringe as Kamala Harris' brain breaks on LIVE TV— Lib host in STUNNED SILENCE,' conservative YouTuber Benny Johnson posted on X, formerly Twitter.
Conservative commentator Justin Theory wrote 'Another Kamala Harris drunken word salad… She can't even be a fear monger correctly.'
'Kamala Harris goes full Xanax and weed with her word salad,' another user said on X.
'She might be worse at speaking than Biden,' one user said in reference to the oldest-ever president who has become known for his gaffes and verbal flubs.
Harris said that people have 'rightfully' found Trump's words 'similar to the language' of Hitler.
At other points during the MSNBC interview Harris further confused some viewers with rambling comments.
She said: 'I have been fortunate and blessed during the course of being vice president to have many situations where it becomes too clear me that there are people… of every age and gender, by the way, who see something about being the first that lets them know they don't need to be, um, limited by other people's limited, um, understanding of who can do what.'
The interview was originally scheduled to be in person but was conducted virtually after O'Donnell tested positive for COVID.
Harris has faced repeated criticism for her 'word salads' in interviews.
At a music festival in New Orleans in July she repeatedly defined the word 'culture' then laughed in a way critics describe as 'maniacal' or a 'cackle.'
'Culture is — it is a reflection of our moment in our time, right? And in present culture is the way we express how we're feeling about the moment,' she said at the Caesars Superdome.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12886707/Kamala-serves-word-salad-Vice-president-says-election-time-responding-Trumps-poisoning-blood-country-remarks.html
AI autism test can detect the condition with 100% accuracy based on a simple eye scan, study finds - but is it too good to be true?
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Retina scans are all that is needed to determine who has autism, the study found
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Scientists said it detected autistic and non-autistic children with 100% accuracy
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But autism experts told DailyMail.com that these results are almost impossible
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12885729/ai-diagnoses-autism-accuracy.html
An artificial intelligence tool can detect autism spectrum disorder with 100-percent accuracy, just by scanning images of children's eyes, according to a new study.
If confirmed, this would be a major breakthrough for detecting the condition. But multiple autism experts told DailyMail.com that the number is unrealistic, and the result is probably 'too good to be true.'
Autism affects an estimated 1 in 36 children in the US, but many children remain undiagnosed until later in childhood, depriving them of potential therapies. If a technological solution could help cut down on long waits for autism specialists or other obstacles to diagnosis, it could benefit millions of families.
Autism is a condition involving altered brain development, and the optic nerve connects the retina to the brain in a very short path.
So it stands to reason that brain differences could be reflected in the eyes.
Dozens of news outlets picked up on the news of the AI tool, developed by a team of researchers at Yonsei University in Seoul. But experts say it is too soon to trust these findings, and that the research raises multiple red flags - starting with that 100 percent accuracy figure.
'There is clearly something wrong here,' Fred Shic, an autism researcher at Yale School of Medicine, told DailyMail.com. Shic researches eye tracking and imaging techniques in autistic children. There is no way that this test is more accurate than doctors, he told DailyMail.com. 'That reliability is not 100 percent, even amongst the best clinicians in the world.'
Other autism experts share Shic's skepticism. 'It just seems too good to be true,' Cathy Lord, distinguished professor of psychiatry at the University of California Los Angeles, told DailyMail.com. Lord is the co-creator of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-Second Edition (ADOS-2), the gold-standard clinical tool used to assess the children in the new study.
'It seems worth trying to replicate but I'm very skeptical,' she added.
DailyMail.com has reached out to the study's authors and will update this story if we receive a response.
The study in question involved 958 children: 479 with autism and 479 without autism.
Both groups had the same split of boys and girls - 82 percent boys and 18 percent girls - which lines up with the 4:1 sex ratio found in most countries.
The researchers fed images of children's retinas to train the algorithm, excluding children with other psychiatric conditions that could complicate or confuse the results.
Specialists screened the children with the ADOS-2 to confirm that they had autism and to assess how pronounced their autism traits were.
A deep neural network was trained to use iris scans to differentiate between the children with and without autism. It also learned how to connect autism trait severity to the retinal scans.