Three Cities That Challenge Hong Kong's Financial-Hub Status | WSJ
Political turmoil and protests threatening Hong Kong’s status as Asia’s leading financial hub. If international companies want to relocate, how do alternatives Singapore, Tokyo and Shanghai measure up?
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October 16, 2019
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The Invisible 310-Mile Barrier to a Brexit Deal | WSJ
The U.K.’s border with Ireland has been a major sticking point since Britain started negotiating its exit from the European Union. WSJ’s Jason Douglas traveled to the country’s only land frontier to understand why the issue is so divisive.
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October 15, 2019
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Why Hong Kong Is Facing a Recession Amid Protests and Trade Wars | WSJ
Tourism and retail sales—crucial parts of Hong Kong’s economy—are both slumping, as months of pro-democracy protests weigh heavily on one of the world’s financial hubs.
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October 14, 2019
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Security Expert Breaks Down How White House Documents Are Stored | WSJ
The transcript of President Trump's call with Ukraine shed light on a method for classifying documents that's even more top secret than top secret. WSJ spoke to a former National Security Council official to understand the intricacies of the White House server security system.
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October 11, 2019
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Google Maps, Find My Friends and Life360: Which Tracking App Works Best? | WSJ
Location-tracking services from Apple, Google and others let you keep tabs on the whereabouts of your friends and family members. Creepy? Sure, but they also have real benefits. WSJ's Joanna Stern went searching for the best app... and for a real-life actor named Aldo.
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October 10, 2019
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Why the NBA Is Facing a Difficult Choice in China | WSJ
Backlash against the NBA sparked by a tweet in support of Hong Kong protesters shows how tricky it is to do business in China—and the difficult line companies must tread.
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October 09, 2019
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Want to Make a Big Bet on Oil Prices? Try Measuring Shadows | WSJ
To get an edge in the oil market, traders turn to satellites, shadows and a lot of fancy math.
Photo illustration: Laura Kammermann
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October 08, 2019
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Trump Impeachment Probe: What Are ‘High Crimes and Misdemeanors’? | WSJ
Legal scholars are assessing the height of the Constitutional bar for impeachable “high crimes and misdemeanors.” As WSJ’s Jason Bellini explains, history is providing the measuring stick.
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October 07, 2019
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What Could Happen After a No-Deal Brexit | WSJ
Some in Britain are sounding alarms on the potential consequences of the U.K. crashing out of the EU without a deal. WSJ’s Saabira Chaudhuri takes a look at what a no-deal Brexit could look like for businesses, the economy and consumers.
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October 04, 2019
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Anatomy of an IPO Valuation | WSJ
Unicorns are getting haircuts, meaning high-flying startups are seeing their valuations shrink when they go public. WSJ explains why differences in the private and public markets are bloating what these companies might actually be worth.
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October 03, 2019
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The Samsung Galaxy Fold Is Great... If You Live in a Bubble | WSJ
Samsung’s relaunched foldable phone fixes some of the first issues but now comes with a long list of warnings about handling the phone carefully. WSJ's Joanna Stern retreats to a sealed dome in the woods to review the innovative device.
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October 02, 2019
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How China Is Using Artificial Intelligence in Classrooms | WSJ
A growing number of classrooms in China are equipped with artificial-intelligence cameras and brain-wave trackers. While many parents and teachers see them as tools to improve grades, they’ve become some children’s worst nightmare.
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October 01, 2019
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Dissecting the Vaping Illness Mystery | WSJ
Vaping related illnesses are on the rise, and it appears to be related to a black market of THC vapes. WSJ’s Daniela Hernandez sat down with doctors and experts to understand what’s happening with the outbreak.
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September 30, 2019
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Devising an Earthquake Algorithm to Save Lives | WSJ
Has earthquake warning technology come far enough to give us a real prediction or meaningful warning? WSJ’s Daniela Hernandez heads to UC Berkeley’s Seismology Lab to learn about the first U.S. earthquake early warning system currently in development.
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September 27, 2019
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Ukraine Call Rough Transcript: How Trump’s Conversation Unfolded | WSJ
A call record released by the White House shows President Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to "look into" former Vice President Joe Biden and his son. WSJ reads the key moments from the rough transcript of the call.
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September 26, 2019
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How Uber, Lyft and Others Could Be Upended By California’s New Law | WSJ
California’s new worker-protection bill could require Uber and Lyft to treat drivers as employees, but not all workers welcome the changes.
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September 25, 2019
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Amazon Rainforest Burns and Brazil's Leaders Are Under Fire | WSJ
At the U.N General Assembly, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro plans to address concerns about deforestation, the Amazon fires and economic development in his country. WSJ’s Jason Bellini previewed the topics with Brazilian Environment Minister Ricardo Salles.
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September 24, 2019
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How Negative Yields Work | WSJ
Negative yields are occurring with greater frequency in global bond markets. What generates negative yields and why do investors continue to buy these money-losing bonds?
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September 23, 2019
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How Balding Became Big Business | WSJ
The business of balding is booming. A crop of new hair-loss brands like Hims and Keeps are competing against Rogaine and Propecia for Gen Z and millennial men who still have most or all of their hair. We explain the market and cultural forces driving the industry.
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September 20, 2019
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Why 'Sign in With Apple' Beats Passwords and Facebook | WSJ
Apple’s new sign-in feature in iOS 13 allows you to access supported apps using your Apple ID. The system promises added privacy benefits over Facebook and Google’s sign-in options. WSJ’s Joanna Stern explains how it all works using some quirky bouncers.
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September 19, 2019
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When Barry Lundgren approached a Ferrari as an amazed 10-year-old kid, the owner yelled at him for getting too close.⠀
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“That stuck with me,” says the 53-year-old. “I thought if I’m ever lucky enough to own one of these, I am going to share it with people.”⠀
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Today Lundgren owns a 2003 Enzo Ferrari, a supercar that embodied the most cutting edge automotive technology at the time @ferrari built it.⠀
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He says he bought the Enzo, which has a top speed of nearly 220 miles per hour, from the owner of a famous fashion house. Only 399 were made starting in 2002, plus one extra that Ferrari donated to the pope.⠀
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“The reaction the car gets is amazing. It’s like a celebrity walking into a restaurant,” says Lundgren, a resident of Miami and Martha's Vineyard, Mass., who owns car dealerships.⠀
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When people ask to photograph the car, he offers them the chance to sit in the driver's seat while he takes their picture.⠀
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He even created an Instagram account, @sharetheenzo, where he posts pictures of fans with the Ferrari. “I bring it to all these events, Lundgren says, and I like to think that it is the most photographed of any Enzo on the planet.”⠀
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HIV is spreading faster in the Philippines than anywhere in the world—with health advocates pointing to online dating apps as a major driver of new infections.⠀
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The estimated number of new HIV cases in the Southeast Asian nation has more than doubled from 2013 through 2018, reaching epidemic proportions among young men, according to the United Nations’ AIDS agency. The surge in the virus that causes AIDS stands out against the decline in estimated worldwide infections.⠀
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Jigg, who prefers to go by his first name, was diagnosed HIV positive in 2017. Now 27 years old, he says he thinks he contracted the virus after having unprotected sex for the first time with a man he met on the dating app Grindr.⠀
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“Young people are on dating apps these days, and they will have sex,” said Jigg, who took to social media to share his experience. “We need to equip them with the knowledge and resources that come with it.”⠀
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Millions of young Asians have come online in recent years thanks to low-end smartphones, cheap data plans and intuitive apps that allow easy navigation despite poor literacy. The newfound social freedom has collided with a lack of sex education, HIV screening and, until recently, a preventive drug given to high-risk groups.⠀
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Utility company PG&E began cutting power to nearly a million households and businesses across California early Wednesday, in an unprecedented move to help lower the region's wildfire threat.⠀
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The bankrupt utility said it began implementing the first phase of what it calls public-safety power shut-offs shortly after midnight, affecting customers in 22 counties stretching from Marin, Sonoma and Napa, north of San Francisco, to the Sierra Nevada foothills.⠀
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PG&E said the second phase of the shut-off would begin at noon to customers in seven more counties, including cities such as Oakland, Berkeley and San Jose. A third phase was being considered for customers in Central California, the company said. With multiple people in many households, the blackouts could affect millions of people.⠀
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The utility's equipment sparked 19 major wildfires in 2017 and 2018 that collectively killed more than 100 people and destroyed thousands of homes.⠀
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More than three decades into her career, Naomi Campbell remains busier than ever— as a fashion model, global activist and YouTube star. Her secret? Knowing when to appear and disappear.
Campbell intuitively understands the value of being an enigma, and has a tactical self-awareness shared by movie stars and career politicians. Her recent career rebound comes after a turbulent decade that saw @naomi plead guilty to assault three times and undergo court-mandated anger-management courses, including in 2007 for injuring a former housekeeper with a cellphone. “I don’t have a squeaky-clean life, and I don’t pretend to,” she tells @wsjmag. “I was the first to say that I was an addict, and I’m so grateful to God to be a recovering addict and a recovering alcoholic.” In the course of her long career, the 49-year-old is defying conventional wisdom that a model’s career is as brief as an NFL running back’s. She posed not long ago for a Versace campaign alongside Kaia Gerber, the teen daughter of her friend Cindy Crawford. “I don’t rest on my laurels. It’s not my way of thinking,” she says. “That’s what my mother instilled in me: You have to constantly keep striving to perfect yourself.” Read more at the link in our bio. 📷: @annemariekevandrimmelen for @wsjmag
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China on Tuesday canceled broadcasts of @nba preseason games after the general manager of the Houston Rockets tweeted support for antigovernment protesters in Hong Kong.⠀
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The escalation in tensions threatened to plunge the NBA's carefully cultivated China franchise into deeper crisis, with more merchants halting sales of NBA swag, many Chinese celebrities pulling out of an NBA event in Shanghai and major Chinese sponsors yanking endorsements of the games.⠀
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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said he wouldn't apologize for the Friday tweet sent by Rockets GM Daryl Morey, which was quickly deleted, that read: Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong.⠀
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Once considered the middle of nowhere, the Shoals in Alabama feature plenty of music, fashion and food. In downtown Florence, Trowbridge’s is a local favorite for pimento cheese sandwiches and orange-pineapple ice cream. But the 101-year-old ice cream parlor is just one of the scores of reasons to stop by this cluster of small towns. ⠀
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For music fans, the Shoals is the stuff of rock and R&B legend. A mid-’60s house band known as the Swampers opened the @muscleshoalssoundstudio in a former casket showroom in Sheffield, after playing on tracks from Aretha Franklin to Etta James to Wilson Pickett. This year, the still-active studio—which has recorded everyone from Cher to The Rolling Stones—celebrates its 50th anniversary.⠀
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Hepatitis A outbreaks are erupting across the U.S., reversing a long-term decline in cases of the viral liver disease and prompting state health departments to mount aggressive vaccination campaigns. Since outbreaks of the virus began in 2016, 30 states have reported cases totaling more than 26,000, including 268 deaths.⠀
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Most cases of hepatitis A in past years were caused by tainted food. But now, outbreaks are larger and driven in part by the opioid epidemic that has swept the country in the past few decades, public-health officials say.⠀
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Cases also are occurring among users of other drugs, including those who share contaminated needles, people who are homeless, and men who have sex with men. Large numbers of hepatitis A cases are concentrated in states hard hit by the drug scourge, including Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to CDC data.⠀
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In Florida, state Surgeon General Scott Rivkees declared a public-health emergency in August in response to a hepatitis A outbreak that is now among the largest in the U.S. The state has had more than 3,000 cases since 2018 and 40 deaths, he told a legislative committee last month. To stem it, Dr. Rivkees said the state is targeting a high-risk population of nearly a half-million drug users and homeless people.⠀
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Near the end of his long career as an @nba referee, Steve Javie traded running up and down the court for studying Catholicism. ⠀
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Javie officiated his last NBA game in 2011. When a bum knee forced him to hang up his whistle at the age of 56, he needed something else to do, and his friends were not entirely surprised when Javie decided to spend his retirement becoming a deacon. He wasn’t just a sports guy. He was also a religious guy. ⠀
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What did shock them was how long it would take to make a lifetime commitment.⠀
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“Seven years,” Javie said. “The calling comes and you go, ‘Uh oh, I gotta listen.’ ”⠀
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From there, Javie was assigned to his local parish in the Philadelphia suburbs, but he didn’t completely give up the NBA. As the rules analyst for ESPN, he remains a constant presence on television, a floating head with unmistakable slick hair who explains questionable calls.⠀
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The first rule of hack club is: You talk about hack club. The second rule of hack club is: You talk about hack club.⠀
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Teenagers across the country who are forming hack clubs or attending hackathons say what they really are doing is hacking traditional education, by creating ways to learn about coding from each other instead of a teacher in a classroom.⠀
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Convincing teachers and parents that hacking doesn’t always mean breaking into government servers or stealing bank data isn’t that easy. ⠀
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“I have friends whose teachers don’t want them to call it ‘hack club.’ If you call it ‘code club’ or ‘girls who code,’ or ‘maker club,’ it’s fine. It’s pretty disappointing, because ‘hack club’ or ‘hackathon’ sounds orders of magnitude cooler,” said Claire Wang, 14, whose Hawthorne, Calif., school, which focuses on STEM, was supportive of her forming a hack club.⠀
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In July, 15-year-old Snigdha Roy of Mount Sinai, N.Y. became executive director of TeenHacks LI, a Long Island club that organizes hackathons. ⠀
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“My dad was like, ‘You’re always up to something. You’re always on your computer. I don’t know what you’re doing,’ ” she said.⠀
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It took her about two months of showing her parents her coding projects and putting them in touch with members of her team before they agreed to let her go to a hackathon at the University of Pennsylvania.⠀
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Forget cronuts, unicorn lattes and rainbow bagels. There's a new dish in town that New York foodies are lining up to try: Japanese souffle-pancakes.⠀
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Since @flippersus opened in SoHo, people have been waiting in line for their turn to try the extra-fluffy but not-too-sweet concoction making its stateside debut. The chain already has a cult following in Japan, but the hype around the New York opening exceeded expectations, said Jimmy Welleby, the operations manager at Flipper's in New York. We got a little bit overwhelmed quite frankly with the rush, he said. ⠀
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The restaurant’s inaugural days have brought a number of high-follower-count Instagram influencers, who have helped the venue add thousands of followers in just days. Even when the virality of the product eventually wears off, said Welleby, growth would keep up.⠀
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For $16, customers get a trio of two-inch-wide pancakes, topped with powdered sugar and a signature cream. An additional $3 will buy the strawberry flavored version. But the pancakes’ fluffiness deflates within two minutes, leaving a precious window for the perfect shot.⠀
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Teri Hatcher, Bravo's Kyle Richards and Jersey Shore’s Vinny Guadagnino all have one thing in common. They can credit their new smiles to the veneer-crafting duo of Dr. Michael Apa, 42, and ceramicist Murilo Calgaro, 38.⠀
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Have you ever felt cashmere from Loro Piana versus a cashmere sweater? Apa says. I want [my] patients to have Loro Piana cashmere in their mouth.⠀
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Apa and Calgaro's New York office looks like an enclosed glass laboratory-cum-artists’ studio where machinery whirls, loud rock music plays, and employees who seem to be dressed more for dinner at Le Bilboquet than for a day at work move about the bright white space. And the way they work together is unusual: it's not common to have a ceramicist work in the same office as the dentist. ⠀
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“I’m able to say to him, ‘You see how much shadow is in the mouth? Do whatever you do to make that look white.’ It’s an art,” Apa says of his partner. ⠀
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But the bespoke teeth don't come cheap. A consultation for specially crafted veneers runs $500. Then, if a patient decides to invest, they’ll do so to the tune of $4,000 per tooth. With such a spendy barrier to entry, Apa’s New York clients tend toward the celebrity crowd while he says his Dubai practice beautifies the mouths of royalty. ⠀
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📷: @leabwinkler for @wsjmag
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The white cloudiness in this X-ray of an 18-year-old hospitalized after vaping THC shows inflammation in his lungs that made it hard for him to breathe. It highlights one case in an exploding pattern of vaping-related lung illnesses, the cause of which are still unknown. ⠀
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At least 19 people have died of vaping-associated lung illnesses in the U.S., according to the latest numbers from the @cdcgov.⠀
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🎨: Sorayah Zahir
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