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The back half of November saw two special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) announce merger agreements valued at more than $1 billion.
First on the list is Butterfly Network, maker of the Butterfly iQ handheld ultrasound devices and a corresponding workflow platform. The well-funded startup will be merging with Longview Acquisition for a final valuation of $1.5 billion. The company's common stock will be traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
The other big news is a three-way deal involving UpHealth Holdings, a collection of digital health services including patient care management and a digital pharmacy; Cloudbreak Health, a telehealth provider that specializes in helping patients with limited language proficiency; and GigCapital2, a SPAC. Upon the merger's expected closure in Q1 2021, the $1.35 billion company will take on UpHealth's name and continue to list on the New York Stock Exchange. According to the announcement, it will also have agreements in place to deliver its digital health services within "more than 10 countries globally."
WHY IT MATTERS
Butterfly's merger follows the lead of several other digital health startups that have looked to SPACs as an appealing alternative to a traditional IPO in 2020. Since its founding in 2011 and commercial launch in 2018, the company has raised more than $400 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other investors, and shipped over 30,000 of its smartphone-connected devices.
With the combined entity expected to hold roughly $584 million in cash following the close, Butterfly said it's in a strong position to continue expanding its business.
“The success of Butterfly is fueled by a clear mission, superior technology made simple, a passionate community of healthcare practitioners and an immensely talented team,” Butterfly CEO Laurent Faracci said in a statement. “We believe the combination with such a premier healthcare partner as Longview Acquisition Corp. will amplify and accelerate the adoption of Butterfly iQ around the world. This partnership will enable us to bring more Butterfly innovative solutions to market faster, helping us improve patient outcomes and the way healthcare is delivered.”
But whereas Butterfly's business is something of a known quantity, UpHealth's new funds and assimilation of Cloudbreak's telehealth offerings potentially add a new international player to the digital health stage.
Prior to the deal, UpHealth already worked to secure digital pharmacy, integrated care management and telepsychiatry offerings. According to an investor presentation on the mergers, UpHealth now aims to offer health systems, plans and employer customers these three services and Cloudbreak's telehealth as part of a unified digital platform. The company views itself as the middle ground between Teladoc/Livongo, Optum and Amazon (to cite a few names from its pitch deck), and expects that its estimated $115 million of 2020 revenue will balloon at a 74% compound annual growth rate to $346 million in 2022.
According to a press release, Cloudbreak has provided its services to more than 1,800 providers in the U.S. and has "signed several country-wide contracts with government ministries across India, Southeast Asia and Africa." UpHealth said that its digital pharmacy has a network of 13,000 providers, and that its integrated care management business has reinvested $100 million in customer revenue toward the further development of its proprietary tech platform. The company has not yet had to reveal its past financials.
“Combining with UpHealth and its complementary suite of solutions will further our ability to power healthcare’s digital transformation and resolve disparities on a massive scale," Jamey Edwards, CEO and cofounder of Cloudbreak Health, said in a statement. "We are proud to be part of this mission together."
THE LARGER TREND
2020 has turned out to be a big year for digital health companies eyeing the public markets, and so far blank check deals have given IPOs a run for their money. Hims & Hers, SOC Telemed, Clover Health and Augmedix each announced or completed mergers with SPACs over the last several months. The list of IPOs, meanwhile, includes GoodRx, Amwell, One Medical, Eargo and Accolade.
News Release
Monday, November 30, 2020
Grant awards set stage for next seven years of science-driven HIV clinical research.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced the clinical investigators and institutions that will lead four NIH HIV clinical trials networks over the next seven years to conduct the innovative, efficient clinical research needed to accelerate progress against the HIV pandemic. NIAID also awarded grants to 35 U.S. and international institutions selected as HIV clinical trials units (CTUs). NIAID and co-funding NIH Institutes intend to provide approximately $375.3 million in the first year to support the networks.
“Achieving a durable end to the HIV pandemic will require continued development of new HIV prevention and treatment strategies, as well as optimal implementation of existing tools,” said NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. “The new network structure will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of NIH’s HIV clinical trial operations to expediently address the critical research questions that will bring us closer to this goal, while always ensuring the safety of clinical trial participants.”
The process of refining the NIH HIV clinical trials networks began in 2017 and involved extensive consultations with researchers, clinicians, advocates, people with or at risk of HIV, and other stakeholders. The new, streamlined network structure will reduce administrative and oversight costs, allowing more funds to be allocated to clinical trials to advance four key areas of research emphasis: HIV prevention; HIV vaccines; HIV/AIDS adult therapeutics; and HIV/AIDS maternal, adolescent and pediatric therapeutics. The networks also have the flexibility to leverage their infrastructure to rapidly respond to emerging infectious diseases, such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
The new structure includes one network that will focus on development of a safe, effective and durable preventive HIV vaccine, and one that will work to advance an array of non-vaccine HIV prevention products and strategies to meet the needs and preferences of diverse populations worldwide. Two therapeutics networks will develop and evaluate potential new treatments and cure strategies for HIV and HIV-related complications and co-infections. One of these networks will focus on adults, while the other will focus on infants, children, adolescents, and pregnant and postpartum women. HIV prevention and vaccine research for the maternal, pediatric and adolescent populations will be led by the HIV prevention and vaccine networks, with assistance from the therapeutics network focused on these populations.
The four networks will direct, coordinate and conduct NIH-funded clinical research worldwide in close collaboration with one another, NIAID, other partner NIH Institutes and Centers, industry and non-governmental research organizations. Each network is led by a leadership and operations center (LOC) and includes a laboratory center (LC) and a statistical and data management center (SDMC). The principal investigators, institutions and grant numbers for these awards are as follows:
HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN)
LOC: Lawrence Corey, Dan H. Barouch, Glenda E. Gray, Georgia D. Tomaras; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle; 2 UM1 AI068614-15
LC: Margaret J. McElrath; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle; 2 UM1 AI068618-15
SDMC: Peter B. Gilbert, Yunda Huang, Holly Janes; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle; 2 UM1 AI068635-15
HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN)
LOC: Myron S. Cohen, Wafaa M. El-Sadr; Family Health International, Durham, North Carolina; 2 UM1 AI068619-15
LC: Susan H. Eshleman; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; 2 UM1 AI068613-15
SDMC: Deborah J. Donnell; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle; 2 UM1 AI068617-15
AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG)
LOC: Judith S. Currier, Joseph J. Eron; University of California Los Angeles; 2 UM1 AI068636-15
LC: Grace M. Aldrovandi; University of California Los Angeles; 2 UM1 AI106701-08
SDMC: Michael D. Hughes, Marlene Cooper; Harvard School of Public Health, Boston; 2 UM1 AI068634-15
International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network (IMPAACT)
LOC: Sharon A. Nachman; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; 2 UM1 AI068632-15
LC: Grace M. Aldrovandi; University of California Los Angeles; 2 UM1 AI106716-09
SDMC: David E. Shapiro, Marlene Cooper; Harvard School of Public Health, Boston; 2 UM1 AI068616-15
The 35 CTUs will provide scientific and administrative expertise, as well as the infrastructure to conduct clinical trials within the networks. A complete list of CTUs, including principal investigators and their affiliations, is available online. Each CTU supports up to eight clinical research sites. Collectively, the CTUs support 101 clinical research sites in 18 countries across North America, South America, Africa and Asia. This includes 45 sites in the United States. View a map showing the clinical research site locations.
The other NIH Institutes that will collaborate with one or more of the HIV clinical trials networks include the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD); the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR); the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH); and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
To learn more about these new awards and the process to refine NIH’s HIV clinical trials networks, see NIAID’s Refining the HIV Clinical Trials Enterprise website.
NIAID conducts and supports research — at NIH, throughout the United States, and worldwide — to study the causes of infectious and immune-mediated diseases, and to develop better means of preventing, diagnosing and treating these illnesses. News releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available on the NIAID website.
About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
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HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--K12 Inc. (NYSE: LRN) (“Stride” or “we”) – to be Stride, Inc. effective December 16, 2020 – has detected unauthorized activity on its network, which has since been confirmed as a criminal attack in the form of ransomware.
Upon identifying unusual system activity, we quickly initiated our response, taking steps to contain the threat and lock down impacted systems, notifying federal law enforcement authorities, and working with an industry-leading third-party forensics team to investigate and assist with the incident.
Importantly, students at the schools we serve continue to learn. Based on our investigation to date, the attack did not affect the Learning Management System (“LMS”) that is used to deliver educational content to students and to host student accounts – no data on the LMS was compromised nor has the delivery of services over the LMS been interrupted in any way. Our client schools – charter and district online schools – are still open, operating, and secure, as they have been since the start of the pandemic. Additionally, all major corporate systems – including payroll, accounting, enrollment, financial reporting, procurement, and shipping – have remained operational through this incident.
We do believe that the attacker accessed certain parts of our corporate back-office systems, including some student and employee information on those systems, but it will take further time to determine the scope of the information accessed.
We carry insurance, including cyber insurance, which we believe to be commensurate with our size and the nature of our operations. We have already worked with our cyber insurance provider to make a payment to the ransomware attacker, as a proactive and preventive step to ensure that the information obtained by the attacker from our systems will not be released on the Internet or otherwise disclosed.
While there is always a risk that the threat actor will not adhere to negotiated terms, based on the specific characteristics of the case, and the guidance we have received about the attack and the threat actor, we believe the payment was a reasonable measure to take in order to prevent misuse of any information the attacker obtained.
Stride considers the security and integrity of our systems and network among our top priorities, particularly considering the large shift this year to remote learning and work due to COVID-19. While no company can ever eliminate the risk of a cyberattack, we are working extensively with an industry-leading third-party forensics firm to ensure that we are taking all appropriate steps to prevent any incident like this from happening again.
In addition, as part of our response to this incident, we have assembled a team of advisors on data security compliance, including former United States Attorneys and state Attorneys General with experience in handling criminal cyberattacks, and other technical advisors. The team includes Catherine Hanaway, former US Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri; William Lockyer, former California state Attorney General; and John Byron (J.B.) Van Hollen, former Wisconsin state Attorney General and former US Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin. The team will assist in guiding our efforts in response to this incident, including compliance with state and federal laws, continued cooperation with law enforcement, and communications with outside parties concerning the incident.
This investigation is active and ongoing and our systems are operating with minimal impact. Based on the information currently known and our investigation to date, we do not believe the incident will have a material impact on our business, operations or financial results.
Forward-Looking Information
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We have tried, whenever possible, to identify these forward-looking statements using words such as “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “continues,” “likely,” “may,” “opportunity,” “potential,” “projects,” “will,” “expects,” “plans,” “intends” and similar expressions to identify forward-looking statements, whether in the negative or the affirmative. These statements reflect our current beliefs and are based upon information currently available to us. Accordingly, such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which could cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, such statements. These risks, uncertainties, factors and contingencies include, but are not limited to: reduction of per pupil funding amounts at the schools we serve; inability to achieve a sufficient level of new enrollments to sustain our business model; failure to replace students who have graduated from the terminal grade in a school or have left our programs for other reasons with new students of a sufficient number; inability to maintain our current rate of retention of students enrolled in our courses; an increase in the amount of failures to enter into new school contracts or renew existing contracts, in part or in their entirety; the failure of perceived industry trends and projections resulting from the expected effects of COVID-19 on virtual education; failure of the schools we serve or us to comply with federal, state and local regulations, resulting in a loss of funding, an obligation to repay funds previously received or contractual remedies; governmental investigations that could result in fines, penalties, settlements, or injunctive relief; declines or variations in academic performance outcomes of the students and schools we serve as curriculum standards, testing programs and state accountability metrics evolve; harm to our reputation resulting from poor performance or misconduct by operators or us in any school in our industry and/or in any school in which we operate; legal and regulatory challenges from opponents of virtual public education or for-profit education companies; changes in national and local economic and business conditions and other factors such as natural disasters, pandemics and outbreaks of contagious diseases and other adverse public health developments, such as COVID-19; discrepancies in interpretation of legislation by regulatory agencies that may lead to payment or funding disputes; termination of our contracts, or a reduction in the scope of services with schools; failure to develop the career learning education business; entry of new competitors with superior technologies and lower prices; unsuccessful integration of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures; failure to further develop, maintain and enhance our technology, products, services and brands; inadequate recruiting, training and retention of effective teachers and employees; infringement of our intellectual property; disruptions to our Internet-based learning and delivery systems, including but not limited to our data storage systems, resulting from cybersecurity attacks; misuse or unauthorized disclosure of student and personal data; our inability to assess and contain the cyberattack; legal, reputational and financial risks resulting from this or additional cyberattacks; the vulnerability of business continuity plans during the cyberattack, and other risks and uncertainties associated with our business described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that the expectations will be attained or that any deviation will not be material. All information in this presentation is as of today’s date, and we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to conform the statement to actual results or changes in our expectations.
About Stride, Inc.
Stride, Inc. (NYSE: LRN) – formerly K12 Inc. – helps students reach their full potential through inspired teaching and personalized learning. The company has transformed the teaching and learning experience for millions of people by providing innovative, high-quality, tech-enabled education solutions, curriculum, and programs directly to students, schools, the military, and enterprises in primary, secondary, and post-secondary settings. Stride is a premier provider of K-12 education for students, schools, and districts, including career learning services through middle and high school curriculum. For adult learners, Stride delivers professional skills training in healthcare and technology, as well as staffing and talent development for Fortune 500 companies. Stride has delivered millions of courses over the past decade and serves learners in all 50 states and more than 100 countries. The company is a proud sponsor of the Future of School, a nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the gap between the pace of technology and the pace of change in education. More information can be found at stridelearning.com, K12.com, destinationsacademy.com, galvanize.com, techelevator.com, medcerts.com.
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - Verizon has reiterated its commitment to supporting Fios TV customers who were impacted by the reduction in live sporting events due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Verizon worked with Regional Sports Networks who did not broadcast the full slate of live sporting events last season, and secured refunds from them. Verizon today issued the following statement:
“We at Verizon remain resolute in our plan to pass on the COVID-related refunds that we receive from Regional Sports Networks to impacted Fios TV customers. We are pleased to begin issuing bill credits to these customers next month.
Impacted Fios TV customers will see a credit in their December 2020 bill statement labeled as ‘RSN Credit.’ We anticipate that additional refunds may come to Verizon in 2021. Eligible Fios TV customers will be notified when credits from such refunds will be applied to a future bill. Visit verizon.com/sportscredit to learn more.”
“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Like most things about computers and the Internet, MAC addresses were created with the assumption that people aren’t jerks. Sadly, that notion proved incorrect, and we’ve spent the last 40-odd years trying to curb spam, malware, Wi-Fi spoofing, ad tracking, and any number of other modern ills.
To that list add the many and varied attacks on online privacy. In a pre-digital society, we took it for granted that if your neighbors couldn’t see or hear you, they didn’t know where you’d been or what you’d been doing. (They probably didn’t care, either.) Nowadays, we’ve learned that tech-savvy firms probably do know where you’ve been, what you’re reading, what you’ve purchased, and what kind of music you like. They’re also adept at piecing together a pretty good profile that includes your age, gender, appearance, place of birth, school friends, employment history, and other details that we’d prefer not to think about.
Our collective response has been varied, from totally unaware, to aware but unconcerned, to vaguely uncomfortable, to obsessively paranoid. We all fall somewhere along that spectrum. We’re grateful for whatever concessions to privacy that vendors care to give us and we learn to accept the rest.
Hardware MAC addresses are part and parcel of networking, which also makes them a tool for the forces of privacy/antiprivacy. The lowly media access control (MAC) address is every connected device’s unique network ID, an immutable and exclusive identity assigned at birth. MAC addresses sit near the bottom of the seven-layer OSI stack, and, unlike, say, an IP address, MAC addresses don’t change.
That’s great, because it gives each client on the network a permanent ID that’s guaranteed to be unique. But it’s also a problem because each client on the network has a permanent ID that’s guaranteed to be unique. It’s like a tattoo: a good idea at the time, but a permanent mark that you can never remove. That’s a problem if you’re concerned about network privacy.
Among the online marketers’ various and nefarious bag of tricks is MAC tracking. Your MAC address follows your device everywhere, so it’s relatively easy to tell that the laptop you carried into Starbucks yesterday is the same one you used in the lobby of the Hilton last year. Same goes for your phone, tablet, e-book reader, smart home appliances, and absolutely everything else that has an Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth interface. It’s possible to track online activity with MAC addresses, and you can locate MAC addresses in physical space, almost like GPS. It’s an online beacon highlighting your peripatetic presence.
Enter startup company LEVL. The 20-person firm aims to wean network operators off the ubiquitous MAC address and to use an alternative it calls LEVL-ID instead. It’s a different way to assign network identity without necessarily also revealing everything else about your device – or yourself.
Like a MAC, a LEVL-ID is a 48-bit identifier. It’s unique to your device, so no two devices on the same network will ever have the same LEVL-ID. But, unlike a permanent MAC, a LEVL-ID changes with each network you join. That is, you get one LEVL-ID at home, a different LEVL-ID at the coffee shop, yet another one at the hotel, and so on. There’s no correlation between LEVL-ID addresses from one network to the next, so there’s no way for apps or online vendors to follow your activity. (At least, not by using hardwired network identifiers. Tracking cookies, IDFAs, MAIDs, and other methods still exist.)
LEVL-IDs are generated using a nonrandom algorithm, so if/when you rejoin a previous network, you’ll get the same LEVL-ID. The company says each ID is generated using information gleaned from all seven levels of your device’s network stack, including subtle physical characteristics like chip voltage, signal response, timing, and other “fingerprints” that uniquely identify the device but that are also repeatable and reliable. Like MACs, LEVL-IDs are tied to an interface, so a laptop will have one LEVL-ID for its Ethernet port, a separate one for Wi-Fi, and a third for Bluetooth.
The LEVL-ID doesn’t replace the MAC address – how could it? – but rather lives alongside it. MACs are enshrined in global networking standards, so it’s too late to overhaul them. The idea is to get network managers and operators to selectively ignore MAC addresses when they can and to use comparatively anonymous LEVL-IDs instead.
Which raises an interesting feature of the technology. LEVL-IDs don’t live on the client device at all and are completely transparent to the user. Your laptop or phone doesn’t know – and in fact has no way of knowing – that LEVL-IDs are even in use. It all lives on the network access point or router. That means there’s no software to install, no new settings, and no changes to operating systems or drivers. Your network devices are already LEVL-ID ready, and they don’t even know it.
It does mean the networking equipment needs to be updated with LEVL’s software, and that’s where the company focuses its business. Hotels, large enterprises, event centers, and municipalities are all target markets – anywhere that someone controls the infrastructure and access to the user data. LEVL’s business model is to license its software technology on a subscription basis, with pricing dependent on the number of client nodes. A large hotel, for example, might pay more per month than a retirement home that has fewer online users.
The implication is that network operators won’t sell, rent, or otherwise share their users’ data with marketers, although, to be honest, there’s nothing to prevent them from doing so anyway. A LEVL-ID is still a unique identifier, so it’s easy to tell if a certain user regularly returns to your network or how much time they spend online. LEVL-ID provides the tools for anonymization; it doesn’t provide the incentive.
LEVL is clearly aware of this and the company touts “targeted marketing” as one of its unique selling advantages, as well as its ability to identify the type, manufacturer, and exact model of client devices attached to the network. Worryingly, the company also brags that “LEVL essentially transforms every connected device into a sensor… and offers state-of-the art human presence and motion detection, device motion indication, and device localization to ISPs with best-in-class response time and sensitivity.”
So… is LEVL a privacy play or not? Or is the company just shifting the responsibility – and the financial rewards – to itself and its customers? It’s a little of both.
The company points out that LEVL-IDs are more private than any MAC address. A LEVL-ID never reaches the upstream telecom conglomerate, nor does it ever make it down to the client device. There’s no “secret” on the device for apps to steal because LEVL-ID exists only on the network. Your LEVL-ID changes the minute you leave the network, which decreases the incentive to misuse it. But it does allow the local network operator – and only the local network operator – to collect some limited information.
Tim Colleran, the company’s BizDev VP, says, “Device identity has always been used for marketing and advertising purposes… There is more accountability via the network operator [with LEVL-ID]. We would expect network operators to have opt-in or opt-out clauses. Personally, I prefer to have my information in the hands of a regulated company I trust, and am subscribing to, versus a company that only makes money by selling my information.”
LEVL-ID certainly can be more private than a MAC address, which is tracked without our conscious content. It shifts the responsibility to the local network operator, which may have some incentive to keep its users happy. MAC tracking is on by default; LEVL-ID makes it optional and more fine-grained.
LEVL’s technology isn’t the only approach to the scourge of MAC address tracking. Plenty of operating systems (Android, iOS, Windows, etc.) have offered MAC randomization since at least 2014. The idea is that your actual hardware MAC address is kept secret, and a new, pseudo-random one is generated in the network driver for public consumption. This technique works, but it also has drawbacks. Some applications complain or get confused when they see the underlying MAC address change. Security apps, in particular, often bind their authentication to a MAC address, either to enable or to deny network access. If the MAC address changes, the apps assume you’re on a different machine. LEVL-ID bypasses those problems, mostly because client apps and operating systems never see the new ID. It’s not a client solution, it’s an infrastructure change.
It was too much to hope that MAC address tracking could be eliminated at a stroke. MACs will be with us for a long time, but LEVL-ID does a good job of providing an alternative, and it does so in a way that doesn’t inconvenience every user and every networked device. Says Colleran, “User privacy is a multi-headed beast, and it depends on consumer behaviors around opt-ins and license agreements. We are doing what we can with our current technology to let users reclaim their privacy.” Amen to that.
Renderings of Motorsport Network, CocoWalk and the Prologis building
Magic City Innovation District – Little Haiti announced that Motorsport Network will relocate its headquarters to the development.
The organization will consolidate its existing Miami, Charlotte and Orlando offices into the top three floors of a new building at 5972 Northeast Fourth Avenue in Miami, according to a release. The 12-story office building will have over 370,000 of leasable square feet and will be the first new office building at Magic City. Motorsport will also incorporate its Motorsport Games business as a tenant with its website Motorsport.com.
Recently, Lemon City Group LLC purchased a commercial development parcel from Magic City, which aims to revitalize 18 acres of industrial and vacant land in Little Haiti. The project consists of residential, office, retail and hotel uses.
Hillsboro Technology Center, an industrial park in Deerfield Beach, has signed two new long-term leases.
Butters Realty & Management’s Thomas J. Hotz and Brian T. Ahearn represented the business park in the deals, according to a release.
Haircare company Keratin Complex leased 55,134 square feet in Building F at 550 Hillsboro Technology Drive. Keratin Complex was represented by Ken Morris and Adriana Lilly of Morris Southeast Group, LLC.
Boca Terry LLC, a family business that produces custom made bathrobes, embroidered slippers, and spa products, relocated its Broward corporate office and leased 16,790 square feet in Building East at 500 Hillsboro Technology Center Drive. Boca Terry was represented by Rick Etner of Cushman & Wakefield and Adam Talbot, formerly of Cushman & Wakefield.
Hillsboro Technology Center is a co-development between Bristol Group and Butters Realty & Management. With these two leases, only two available units totaling 35,000 square feet remain available at the business park. As part of the final phase, Bristol Group & Butters plan to deliver two new warehouse buildings in 2021, which will add an additional 300,000 square feet of industrial space at Hillsboro Technology Center. Once completed, the business park will have over 1 million square feet of Class A commercial space.
Roxanne Register and Jon Cashion of Katz & Associates represented the landlord, and Jeff Evans and Michael Silverman of the Comras Company represented Bowlero in a long-term lease for 62,000 square feet in Boca Raton.
According to a release, it is the largest retail deal completed in Palm Beach County so far this year. Bowlero, the nation’s largest bowling operator, is targeting 2021 to open the new facility.
Bowlero is converting the vacant Strikes bowling alley at 21046 Commercial Trail into a high-end bowling and entertainment venue featuring blacklight bowling, interactive arcade games, and an imaginative and extensive menu and signature cocktails.
CocoWalk in Coconut Grove, which expects a phased reopening to begin later this fall, added three new retail brands to its tenant roster: Free People Movement, a women’s activewear brand from Philadelphia; Europann, a men’s luxury apparel line from Saint-Tropez; and Late Night Gypsy, a repurposed vintage clothing brand from Los Angeles, according to a release.
The redevelopment of CocoWalk includes 150,000 square feet of retail, dining, and entertainment space and is nearly 80 percent leased. The revitalization also features an 85,745-square-foot, class A office building, One Cocowalk, which is 85 percent leased. The five-story office building, which is nearly completed, has signed creative co-working pioneer Spaces, private equity firm Boyne Capital, development firm American Land Ventures, and international law firm Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, LLC.
The mixed-use project is led by majority partner Federal Realty Investment Trust, along with the Comras Company and Grass River Property.
Berger Commercial Realty/Corfac International’s Keith R. Graves and John Forman represented landlord Prologis-North Carolina Limited Partnership in a 22,610 square-foot lease for Slate Solutions at Prologis I-595 at 7050-7060 West State Road 84 in Davie, according to a release.
Slate Solutions, LLC, which will be relocating from Sunrise, provides law enforcement, federal agencies, international agencies and OEM partners with protective gear.
Tower Commercial Real Estate represented the tenant in the lease.
Current students interested in entering the tech industry after graduation can network with Vanderbilt alumni at the free online event “Vandy in the Valley: What are the different jobs within tech?” on Tuesday, Dec. 1, at 6 p.m. CT.
Registration is required.
Hosted by the Vanderbilt Alumni Association NYC Chapter and alumni affinity group Vandy x Tech, the one-hour event will consist of a short panel discussion about what it is like to work in the tech industry today and the kinds of jobs available to recent graduates. There will be a live Q&A with each speaker during the session.
Panelists at the event include Facebook Product Manager Matt Grichnik, Google for Education Product Marketing Manager Morgan Weisman, Twitter Strategy and Operations Lead Chandler Bair and Indigo Senior Manager of Strategy and Business Development Tanner Swanson.
BAE Systems has been awarded a new 15-year contract for the supply of munitions to the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD). The contract, worth £2.4bn, will sustain approximately 4,000 jobs across the UK.
This new agreement, which will supersede the current contract due to conclude at the end of 2022, will guarantee the delivery of munitions products and engineering support to the UK Armed Forces.
BAE Systems directly employs 1,260 people who are involved in either munitions manufacturing or test and evaluation at five sites across the UK; Glascoed in Monmouthshire, Radway Green in Cheshire, Washington in Tyne & Wear, Bishopton near Glasgow, and Ridsdale in Northumberland.
It is anticipated that the contract will also help sustain a further 1,500 jobs in the UK supply chain and support a further 1,300 jobs induced by consumer spending in economies local to sites.
The agreement enables BAE Systems to invest £70 million on the refurbishment and upgrade of manufacturing lines, with 75% of this value being invested by 2026. The Company will also spend up to £350m with UK-based companies on raw materials and machine components.
Charles Woodburn, Chief Executive, BAE Systems, said:
“This contract secures the future of a highly technical and critical industry which supports thousands of manufacturing jobs in several areas throughout the UK. By investing in new technology and skills to further develop our expertise, we can continue to deliver essential sovereign capability to the Armed Forces at competitive prices.”
Defence Minister Jeremy Quin said:
“This vital multi-billion pound contract will provide our service men and women with fire power on the front line for years to come whilst investing in British industry, British jobs and British infrastructure. Defence underpins hundreds of thousands of jobs across all four corners of the nation, and ongoing investment is crucial as we work together to build back better and stronger from the Covid-19 pandemic.”
The contract, called the ‘Next Generation Munitions Solution’ (NGMS), is due to commence in January 2023 and will succeed the current ‘Munitions Acquisition, the Supply Solution’ (MASS) contract, which commenced in 2008. It represents the enduring partnership between BAE Systems and the UK Armed Forces, particularly the British Army.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Nov. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- DISH announced today that it has signed agreements with four fiber vendors, Everstream, Segra, Uniti and Zayo, giving DISH fronthaul and backhaul support to connect its 5G network to sites covering approximately 60 million Americans.
With these agreements, DISH gains access to fiber coast-to-coast, providing it the coverage, speed and bandwidth needed to connect its forthcoming markets to the nation's first cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G network.
"The fiber agreements with Everstream, Segra, Uniti and Zayo are critical to helping DISH build our 5G network more quickly and cost-effectively than legacy deployments," said Jeff McSchooler, DISH executive vice president of wireless network operations. "Today's announcement marks an important milestone in DISH's deployment process, adding to our strong roster of industry-leading tower, radio, software and now fiber vendors."
"Everstream is proud to be chosen by DISH as a fiber infrastructure provider throughout our current and expansion markets. We are thrilled that our proven track record of building, installing and maintaining backhaul and fronthaul cellular networks will serve a strategic role as DISH becomes the country's fourth facilities-based wireless provider," said Everstream president and CEO Brett Lindsey. "Given our extensive reach, network density and ability to deliver low latency, high capacity connectivity, Everstream is uniquely positioned to serve as the partner of choice for DISH in the Midwest."
"We are delighted to be a valued network infrastructure partner with DISH in building out its 5G network throughout the Mid-Atlantic and southeast regions of the US," stated Tim Biltz, Segra's Chief Executive Officer. "Segra's extensive fiber network provides the capacity, scalability and reliability to deliver advanced fiber-based solutions and power DISH's 5G network for years to come."
"Uniti has worked diligently with DISH to develop a partnership that will provide strategic value to both parties," said Kenny Gunderman, President and CEO of Uniti Group. "We are excited to be given this opportunity to partner with DISH and our ability to leverage Uniti's existing dense fiber infrastructure to support DISH's 5G deployment over the next several years."
"Zayo is excited to partner with DISH as they establish the framework for 5G, helping to set the standard for completely seamless wireless networks that will enable the disruptive technologies which will shape our future - including IoT, smart cities, connected vehicles and more," said Steve Smith, CEO, Zayo Group. "We are proud to leverage Zayo's deep, dense metro and long-haul fiber networks to meet the bandwidth demands of 5G and to advance the technological innovations of the future."
About DISH
DISH Network Corporation is a connectivity company. Since 1980, it has served as a disruptive force, driving innovation and value on behalf of consumers. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides television entertainment and award-winning technology to millions of customers with its satellite DISH TV and streaming SLING TV services. In 2020, the company became a nationwide U.S. wireless carrier through the acquisition of Boost Mobile. DISH continues to innovate in wireless, building the nation's first cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G broadband network. DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) is a Fortune 250 company.
About Everstream®
Everstream has raised the bar for business connectivity, delivering a business-only fiber network with the speed, reliability, scale and performance that today's enterprises demand. With more than 15,000 route miles of fiber and speeds up to 100 Gbps, Everstream's enterprise-grade network delivers robust business fiber services, including dedicated internet access, dark fiber, Ethernet and data center solutions. Through its "Do What You Say You Will Do" approach, Everstream is a valued partner dedicated to the success of business customers. For more information, visit everstream.net.
About Segra
Segra is one of the largest independent fiber infrastructure bandwidth companies in the Eastern U.S. It owns and operates an advanced fiber infrastructure network throughout nine Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states. Segra provides Ethernet, MPLS, dark fiber, advanced data center services, IP and managed services, voice and cloud solutions, all backed by its industry-leading service and reliability. Customers include carriers, enterprises, governments, higher education and healthcare organizations. For more information about Segra's technology and commitment to customer care, visit segra.com.
About Uniti
Uniti, an internally managed real estate investment trust, is engaged in the acquisition and construction of mission critical communications infrastructure, and is a leading provider of wireless infrastructure solutions for the communications industry. As of September 30, 2020, Uniti owns 6.7 million fiber strand miles and other communications real estate throughout the United States. Additional information about Uniti can be found on its website at www.uniti.com.
About Zayo
Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world's most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo's 133,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo's communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, dedicated internet access and data center connectivity solutions. Zayo owns and operates a Tier 1 IP backbone and through its CloudLink service, Zayo provides low-latency private connectivity that attaches enterprises to their public cloud environments. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises. For more information, visit zayo.com.
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Quickly identifying network issues and remedying them continue to challenge most organizations. In a recent survey by ServiceNow and Healthcare Dive's studioID, of 128 healthcare IT professionals, one in four said they had trouble identifying the impact to critical services affected by an outage.
This type of network-visibility challenge plagues healthcare organizations because the network's dynamically changing environment makes manual mapping time-consuming and almost instantly outdated. However, automated service-mapping applications now make it possible to have an accurate, up-to-date view of hospital services without the pain of manual mapping.
Here's a deeper dive into how automated service mapping works and how your healthcare organization can benefit.
Automated service mapping uses two integrated applications. The first focuses on discovering all physical and logical configuration items (CI), such as virtual machines, databases, applications, and servers. The second then builds on the discovered infrastructure to quickly identify all CIs that make up the service and then creates an end-to-end service map.
Three ways to create service maps automatically:
Of these three, using patterns is the most prevalent. Though the pattern method may take some time and effort, it will yield precise and complete application services that reliably represent the service-aware view of your organization's IT infrastructure. The preference for this method is, in part, because an organization may not have a complete set of asset tags.
Automated service mapping can trace hospital services across your entire IT and clinical environments, not just one or two technology domains. And mapping services can be done in hours instead of the weeks or months it often takes to do it manually. Finally, because the mapping is automated, the system can update topologies and incorporate changes as they occur within the network environment, ensuring that you always have an up-to-date view of your services.
Automated service mapping dramatically reduces the time you have to spend manually mapping services. But there are numerous other benefits beyond the time savings, including:
Less reliance on domain experts
Typically, domain expertise is required to leverage individual tools specific to areas of expertise, such as servers, apps, or network storage. However, automated service mapping eliminates this.
"Automated service mapping takes the complexity out of understanding your environment and significantly reduces the load on domain experts," said Don Tierney, healthcare chief architect at ServiceNow. "It also reduces the risk to the organization because they are able to be less reliant on the knowledge held by a few individuals."
Quickly pinpoint IT system disruptions
As noted earlier, pinpointing network issues challenges many healthcare organizations. But automated service mapping, which uses pattern recognition, can identify abnormalities present in the network. The added visibility automated service mapping provides also makes it easier to pinpoint the specific component in a service that is having an issue.
For example, many healthcare organizations use VDI to deliver EHR applications to their clinicians. However, it's not uncommon for these types of servers that deliver these capabilities to have performance issues over time. Using pattern recognition, an automated service-mapping application can continually monitor the network and its endpoints to identify when devices or systems are performing abnormally. And when anomalies are detected, the application can automatically alert the appropriate IT staff so the issue can be quickly remedied.
Get to the root cause of a service issue
According to the survey, 54% of healthcare IT professionals conceded that they often struggled to diagnose the root cause when dealing with network outages.
"When you have an IT organization that may be siloed, in terms of domains of expertise, and everyone has their own tools to monitor environments and diagnose issues, it becomes quite a task to look across an organization’s IT departments and home in on an issue," Tierney noted.
Because automated service mapping relies on a CMBD and uses dashboards to view the data, everyone is looking at a common set of data, which puts them on the same page and makes it faster and easier to diagnose the root cause.
Faster time to issue resolution
Almost half (41%) of healthcare IT professionals acknowledged having challenges with remedying service issues. However, automated service mapping can help dramatically cut the time to identify network issues and resolve them.
"This is where an automated mapping solution like ServiceNow's ITOM can really shine," Tierney said. "Finding, analyzing, and resolving an issue is a workflow problem — and that's our whole mission — to make workflows simpler."
Using machine-learning models, the application can detect anomalies and even apply automation to address the issue, such as automatically routing the incident to the appropriate team to handle the issue. In some cases, it's possible to automate the remediation of an issue directly.
For example, if a server were to incur a "memory leak," when a process on that server runs and doesn't clean up the memory after it runs, as a consequence the performance of the server begins to degrade. With an automated service-mapping solution, such as ITOM, an organization can now quickly detect this abnormality and can then automatically perform tasks, such as rebooting the server and automatically notifying everyone that it will be rebooting the server, minimizing or even avoiding a service outage altogether.
Automated service mapping, especially when combined in one platform that handles all network-monitoring aspects, provides you with increased visibility across your network. As a result, you can quickly identify and remedy issues, which means less downtime on your network and happier clinicians.
Momentum continues in the build-out of 4G (LTE) networks. Global 4G population coverage will be over 80 percent at the end of 2020 and is forecast to reach around 95 percent in 2026. 4G networks are also evolving to deliver increased network capacity and faster data speeds. There are currently 795 commercial 4G networks deployed. Of these, 324 have been upgraded to LTE-Advanced, and 41 Gigabit LTE networks have been commercially launched.
Global 5G population coverage was around 5 percent at the end of 2019, with the main deployments made in larger cities. The most extensive coverage build-outs have been in the US, China, South Korea and Switzerland. In South Korea, service providers rapidly built 5G networks that covered a large part of the population. In Switzerland, 5G population coverage reached over 90 percent at the end of 2019.
To date, there have been more than 100 5G commercial launches across the world. The estimated population coverage by the end of 2020 is approximately 15 percent, equivalent to over 1 billion people.
5G coverage build-out can be divided into three broad deployments:
There are big differences between countries in how service providers have deployed 5G. In the US, all three of these categories have been used, resulting in 5G coverage for a large part of the population. In Europe, countries such as Germany and Spain have used deployments in existing bands to create substantial coverage. China has mainly deployed new bands to achieve a large population coverage.
There are several global factors impacting the forecast; the most evident short-term ones are COVID-19 and the geopolitical situation. The exact impact of these factors on 5G population coverage remains to be seen. 5G is still expected to be the fastest deployed mobile communication technology in history and is forecast to cover about 60 percent of the world’s population in 2026.
DENVER — A major change to a health insurance plan is the last thing most people want in the middle of a pandemic, especially if they have cancer.
Johnathon Jansen, 31, of Denver, was first diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer on Dec. 5, 2017.
He had been living briefly in New Jersey.
"I woke up to my normal morning routine and out of nowhere doubled over in pain," he said.
His doctor sent him to a radiologist, who asked if he'd been exposed to radiation or chemicals.
"I'm like, 'Nope, not that I'm aware of,'" he said.
The radiologist then pointed to a scan showing a mass near his duodenum. The cancer has since metastasized to his liver.
He said when he and his fiancee moved back to Colorado, it was critical that he find a doctor who could treat this form of cancer.
He found one at UCHealth. She specializes in treating GIST or gastrointestinal stromal tumors, which are normally found in the stomach or small intestine.
"Traditional chemo doesn't work on this," Jansen said. "I take pills called TKI inhibitors, which turn off the growth receptors on the cell in a couple of different locations."
The day before Thanksgiving, Jansen received a call from Anthem.
"They said they we're going to lower my premium, but would no longer be covering UCHealth," he said.
That's when panic set it.
"It was a heart-stopper, nerve wracking," he said. "I didn't sleep last night, wondering if I'm going to be able to keep my doctors or not."
Jansen said he tried to get answers on his own, but Anthem was no help.
He said the woman who called mentioned "continuation of care," but when he asked to be transferred to someone who could help him with the application, he was transferred to a general queue and that after waiting for a half hour, he finally got somebody who had no idea who he was, or why he was calling.
"I had to go through everything again and at the end of the day I got frustrated enough where I asked to speak to a manager and got put on hold. At about 5:15 p.m., the call just drops," he said. "I tried to call a couple of times yesterday and couldn't get through."
That's when he reached out to Denver7.
We called UCHealth. The Vice President of Communications Dan Weaver said they're working with many patients to help them receive an exception to the network change. He offered to help Jansen get through the application process.
"It's still up to the insurance company to approve or deny the request, but we've been happy to see that many patients have had their request approved," Weaver said.
Denver7 also reached out to Anthem.
Tony Felts, Anthem's senior director of communications, said "Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield is constantly exploring ways to make healthcare more affordable because we know that is the number one issue for Colorado consumers."
He said that's why Anthem introduced the Pathway Essentials network for 2021 for those living in the Denver metro area.
"It's a new benefit plan for individuals seeking a lower premium who are comfortable choosing from a more tailored network of healthcare providers," he said.
Felts added that UCHealth was invited to participate in the Pathway Essentials network, but chose not to.
He said UCHealth remains contracted and "in-network" for all other Anthem plans.
"Anthem members enrolled in Pathway Essentials who are currently receiving care from a UCHealth provider can call the customer service number on their Anthem ID card to see if they may continue to receive medical care from UCHealth," he said.
Jansen's fiancee Zoe Pielsticker said it is stressful not knowing if he will be able to continue getting treatment at UCHealth.
"It's not healthy," she said.
Pielsticker said the TKI inhibitors her fiance uses to shrink the tumors are very expensive, that his annual medication bill runs about $100,000.
She added that out-of-network expenses would compound the stress they're both under and would affect other life choices.
"Should the cancer take him, he would leave me with an insurmountable amount of medical debt, as his spouse. So it affects you in more ways that just his immediate medical care," she said.
Jansen said he's grateful Denver7 reached out to UCHealth.
"You guys being able to contact them and have them say they're going to call me to help set that up, that alone is above and beyond where I was before yesterday," he said.
Weaver said UCHealth understands Anthem's change in its "individual market plan" is difficult for many patients.
"We were not notified until this fall that the insurance carrier was removing our facilities from its exchange plan, which is why we won’t have an alternative plan ready for the exchange by Jan. 1," he said.
He said they are working as quickly as possible to explore options with other insurance carriers to create a plan that includes UCHealth and University of Colorado School of Medicine locations and providers.
"We hope that a new plan will be available with an insurance carrier on the exchange later in 2021 that will include UCHealth in its network."
He reiterated that this only applies to the "individual" plans offered on the exchange in metro Denver.
"We are still in-network for a large number of small and large group plans in metro Denver, and our locations are still in-network for individual plans offered on the exchange in northern and southern Colorado," he said.
Moving away from VPNs as a means to protect corporate networks at the perimeter and moving toward zero-trust network access requires careful enterprise planning and may require implementing technologies that are new to individual organizations.
ZTNA employs identity-based authentication to establish trust with entities trying to access the network and grants each authorized entity access only to the data and applications they require to accomplish their tasks. It also provides new tools for IT to control access to sensitive data by those entities that are deemed trusted.
It can take many different forms—software, hardware and as a service—and can be provided by a large number of networking and security vendors.
ZTNA is compatible with the broader secure access service edge (SASE) architecture for the convergence of security and network features into a unified cloud service. SASE is in line with ZTNA assumptions that any user, device or application could be compromised, so ZTNA can be thought of as technology to help migrate towards a SASE architecture. But implementing ZTNA is not a simple task.
Adopting it requires significant, coordinated work by enterprise IT and security teams, which is always a potential source of delay, so teams should focus on their business goals, streamlining access while securing sensitive data and maintaining compliance.
The first steps are to discover what data needs to be protected and to identify current access and data flows across the network. This is necessary to reveal possible weaknesses in security and to create policies that defend against them.
One method to limit damage caused by successful breaches is network segmentation, which limits the resources that each authorized entity has access to. That way if a breach is successful, the attacker has access only to the network segment that has been compromised.
This implements one of ZTNA’s basic principles: enforcing least privilege, which grants users access to only the applications and data that they require.
ZTNA authorizes access based on identity (who you are) rather than your location. It minimizes risk by applying granular access polices to data via a dynamic policy engine that assesses multiple factors including device, location, network, behavior, and the data being requested in order to confirm an authentic identity or to request reauthentication. For example, ZTNA may deny access to a user requesting sensitive data from an unfamiliar location, in the middle of the night from an unknown device.
As part of ZTNA, enterprises need to monitor access so they can better enforce their specific access policies. And they should also implement automation and orchestration to reduce complex, time-consuming manual changes that would otherwise be needed to create and enforce policies.
ZTNA is compelling in the current distributed environment of cloud-applications, remote users with BYOD and a multitude of IoT devices.
It is based on an architecture that virtualizes software and hardware layers and establishes segmentation that isolates critical data. Further, it provides a consistent method for authenticating and authorizing access to both private and public clouds, including SaaS applications.
Its centralized management provides IT and security teams the flexibility to custom design appropriate access for users given time of day, device type and location. And ZTNA can unify the IT and OT security divide by providing secure access for IoT devices, which can be numerous.
The acquisition expands Plume's expertise in key areas including Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) detection, Network Behavior Anomaly Detection (NBAD), Application Performance Management (APM), privacy analytics and management, and intelligent edge processing at scale.
"Granular network intelligence is a cornerstone of the secure smart home," said Fahri Diner, Co-founder & CEO, Plume. "Walleye Networks enables an unparalleled level of insight with the most robust and in-depth data-driven security solutions available today––all developed to meet the highest levels of privacy. We are thrilled to welcome Derek and this extremely talented group of people to Plume, along with their novel technology and deep subject matter expertise."
Walleye Networks' advanced network and security intelligence solutions run on OpenSync™, the fastest-growing open-source framework for the smart home. Central to the solutions, OpenSync is performance-optimized to run in highly memory-constrained environments such as connected consumer devices, and supports a broad range of cost-effective hardware.
"We've had a longstanding and fruitful partnership with Plume, and have worked closely with many of the same communications service provider customers," said Derek Lownsbrough, Co-Founder, Walleye Networks. "Plume is driving the smart home experiences of tomorrow, and we couldn't be more excited to join this cause."
The transaction closed on November 23, 2020––terms were not disclosed.
About Plume®
Plume is the creator of the world's first Consumer Experience Management (CEM) Platform, powered by OpenSync™, which enables the curation and delivery of new Smart Home Services rapidly and at massive scale. The Plume HomePass® Smart Home Services Suite which includes Plume Adapt™, Guard™, Control™, and Sense™ is managed by the Plume Cloud, a data- and AI-driven cloud controller currently running the largest software-defined network in the world. Plume leverages OpenSync, an open-source framework which comes pre-integrated and supported on the leading silicon & platform SDKs for coordination by the Plume Cloud.
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Plume, OpenSync. HomePass, Adapt, Guard, Control and Sense, are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Plume Design, Inc.
About Walleye Networks
Walleye Networks' licensable analytics components are purpose built to aid in securing and protecting the digital health and well-being of family members and devices within the connected home. The innovative technology behind the "Walleye SDK" flagship product, brings enterprise grade network intelligence capabilities to consumer grade equipment.
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