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• The CERVAI™ Brain Health commercial pilot program is available to clinics in Canada and the U.S.
• CERVAI™ Brain Health AI Platform is a world-first consumer brain health and wellness AI solution that estimates BRAIN AGE® and provides a brain health score.
• Based on research and development at Drexel University and the University of Miami, CERVAI™ combines a BRAIN AGE® Estimation and Brain Health Assessment tool with the aim to ‘raise a red flag’ for potential brain health issues.
• Brain health is scored by taking a clinically validated assessment for brain resilience, vulnerability and performance functions.

• That pitch led to one of the most tension-filled and memorable debates between the panel of Sharks in the show’s history.
• For this year’s update, Chris and Donna traveled to Queens to meet Daymond at his alma mater, Bayside High School.
• “Returning to ‘Shark Tank’ truly represents a full-circle moment for me and for Scholly,” said Scholly founder Chris Gray who himself won $1.3 million in scholarships on his way to Drexel University.
• “With this partnership of Scholly and Sallie Mae, I'm really excited to support them as they change millions of people's lives.

• He was responsible for managing greenfield ethanol projects, retrofitting existing ethanol facilities, and leading the international project development team.
• Ryan will serve as HYCO1's Vice President, Projects and will lead projects from their initial design through construction and into commercial operations.
• "We are creating a Dream Team in Houston to show the world that we have SOLVED CO2.
• I am super excited to have Sairam, Ryan, and Curtis on the HYCO1 team."

• Pennsylvania’s new sentencing guidelines went into effect on Jan. 1, 2024.
• They mark the eighth iteration since the state first introduced such guidelines in 1982 and are perhaps the most comprehensive revision to date.
• Since Philadelphia has by far the largest share of incarcerated people in the state, the new sentencing guidelines affect many Philadelphia residents.

How do judges determine a person’s sentence?

• This means that judges are required to consider what the state guidelines suggest a criminal sentence should be, but they are not required to comply with the guidelines.
• That’s different from other states such as Minnesota and Oregon that have mandatory sentencing guidelines.
• In Pennsylvania, judges primarily consider what crime the person is charged with along with their prior record or criminal history.

What’s new in the 2024 sentencing guidelines?

• Probably the most significant change is re-weighting the two categories in the matrix — offense severity and criminal history.
• These categories are officially known as the Offense Gravity Score and the Prior Record Score.
• Lapsing policies, for example, have been expanded to reduce the impact of criminal history on sentencing for less serious offenders.

What’s the goal of the new guidelines?

• The guidelines themselves were created by the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing with the the goal of promoting fair and uniform decisions on the severity of people’s punishment.
• These commission members provide direction and oversight and are unique from commission staff, who collect, analyze and monitor the sentencing data for the state.

What’s been the reaction so far?

• The new guidelines mirror the federal sentencing guidelines in that there are many offense gravity categories.
• One critique I’ve heard is that the Offense Gravity Score now has too many categories and adjustments, and that this might complicate things such as plea negotiations.
• Having more Offense Gravity Score categories could lead to more complicated and slower plea negotiations.

Will the guidelines reduce racial disparities in Pa.’s criminal justice system?

• For example, a December 2023 analysis by the Rand Corporation, a nonprofit global policy think tank, looked at racial disparities within the criminal justice system in Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh and is Pennsylvania’s second-most populated county after Philadelphia.
• It found that significant racial disparities exist at each of the key stages of people’s encounter with the criminal justice system, from having charges filed against them to having their parole revoked.
• Courts to some degree inherit disparities from police and prosecutor decision making, though the new guidelines may help to reduce them at later stages, such as sentencing.
• Racial and ethnic disparities in sentencing are widespread in the U.S. and are almost never entirely explained by legally relevant factors such as type of crime committed or criminal history.

C. Clare Strange receives funding from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ).