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Blended-family windfall test prompts baby trust after $50K lottery win
lifestyle12 days ago

Blended-family windfall test prompts baby trust after $50K lottery win

A 35-year-old pregnant woman wins $50,000 and wants to earmark it for her on-the-way baby, while her fiancé’s 14-year-old daughter stands to lose out. The family debates fairness versus equality, amid overheard conversations and external pressure from relatives. After discussions, they consult an attorney and set up a trust for the baby with safeguards—Brian has no access and Rachel’s sister oversees the funds—highlighting how blended families handle windfalls and long-term planning more than simply splitting money.

via Yahoo|
#blended-family#fairness#financial-planning
Costas: Common sense supports IOC’s female-category policy
sports3 months ago

Costas: Common sense supports IOC’s female-category policy

Bob Costas publicly endorses the IOC’s decision to maintain separate female categories in Olympic events, arguing that common sense and fairness require that athletes biologically female compete against each other. The piece cites his CNN appearance and framing of the issue as about balance between inclusion and competitive integrity, highlighting ongoing debate over how to ensure a level playing field in women’s sports.

via OutKick|
#bob-costas#fairness#ioc
IOC approves genetic-based ban on transgender women in Olympic events
sports3 months ago

IOC approves genetic-based ban on transgender women in Olympic events

The IOC adopted a non-retroactive eligibility policy that bars transgender women from female Olympic categories and other IOC events, determined by a one-time SRY gene screening, effective for the 2028 Los Angeles Games. The move aims to protect fairness and safety in the female category, and also limits athletes with certain differences in sex development (DSD); the document notes that being born male and puberty-related testosterone can confer advantages in strength, power, and endurance.

via NBC News|
#eligibility#fairness#olympics
IOC bars transgender women from women's Olympic events, introduces SRY testing
sports3 months ago

IOC bars transgender women from women's Olympic events, introduces SRY testing

The International Olympic Committee announced a policy banning transgender women and athletes with differences in sex development (DSD) from the female category at the 2028 Los Angeles Games and future Olympics, requiring a one-off SRY gene test to determine biological sex. The policy, described as science-based and focused on fairness and safety, applies to elite competition and would mean athletes must be screened only once in their lifetime with education and counselling provided. The IOC argues male puberty provides performance advantages in many events, reinforcing the need for a sex-based female category, and notes past cases such as Laurel Hubbard and Imane Khelif as context.

via The Guardian|
#fairness#gender-policy#olympics
Prima: a health-system-scale MRI foundation model reshaping neuroimaging
technology5 months ago

Prima: a health-system-scale MRI foundation model reshaping neuroimaging

A team trains Prima, a health-system-scale AI foundation model for MRI, using over 220,000 studies. In a one-year, system-wide study (29,431 MRIs across 52 neurologic diagnoses), Prima achieves a mean AUC of 92.0%, outperforming state-of-the-art models, and offers explainable predictions, radiologist worklist prioritization, and clinical referral recommendations. The model demonstrates algorithmic fairness across sensitive groups and leverages a hierarchical ViT with a VQ-VAE-based volume tokenizer and CLIP objective, aided by LLM-assisted report summarization. Data originates from the University of Michigan with MIT-licensed code; data sharing is governed by IRB and institutional agreements. Overall, the work showcases health system-scale AI training as a pathway to faster, fairer AI-driven neuroimaging in clinical care.

via Nature|
#fairness#foundation-model#health-system-scale