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Chair, CNPA. Board member, CVJF. Past: San Francisco Standard. Desert Sun, L.A. Times, Intl. N.Y. Times, Washington Post. JSK fellow @Stanford 2016-17.

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Joined February 2011
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@Julie_Makinen
Julie Makinen
2 years
Reason #497 Palm Springs is awesome. I can walk to this trail from home and meet these guys…. Breathtaking!
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6 years
Timothy Chalamet is speed reading through his funny acceptance speech. Don’t worry, Timmy, they don’t play you off the stage in Palm Springs. 🙂 #PSIFF
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Some personal news: I'm stepping down from the @sfstandard , effective April 12, to devote time to my family, including my mom who is in hospice. I am so proud of this newsroom and all we have built. For now, it's time to be daughter-in-chief instead of editor-in-chief.
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After 4½ amazing years as executive editor of @mydesert and California Editor for the USA Today Network, I’m excited to be taking on a new role as editor-in-chief of the @sfstandard in mid-March.
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8 years
And now, Shanghai Disney has been declared officially open!
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8 years
I was just told by my N.Korean minder that I was not selected to go to the press conference b/c my reports "we're not beautiful."
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1 year
Yikes. Park Hotels CEO said: “Now, more than ever, we believe San Francisco’s path to recovery remains clouded and elongated by major challenges—both old and new.” via @sfstandard @kevinbtruong
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6 years
Super exciting news today: I am thrilled to be leading the talented newsroom at The Desert Sun. Eager to hear ideas, suggestions and questions! ⁦ @MyDesert
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9 years
Awful sight. Kathmandu's Darbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in ruins after today's earthquake. RT @rkarnad http://t.co/tn2XM1xGs4
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8 years
Coming to you from inside Shanghai Disney ... The gates are just about to open to the public.
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7 months
Sorry to hear about the reductions at my 'alma mater,' @latimes , a newsroom where I spent many good years and worked with top-notch people. Here at @sfstandard we have some open roles and will be posting more soon. If you are curious, please DM.
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2 years
View from my office today! This will be one thing I miss about Palm Springs.
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8 years
I guess this is what a Pyongyang newspaper editor would call an "evergreen." Perfect go-to for a slow news day
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8 years
CEO Bob Iger meets the media: We didn't build Disneyland in China, we built China's Disneyland.
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6 years
Laura Dern kicks off the Palm Springs film fest by presenting the first award to “Timmy” Chalamet. They’ve just wrapped filming together on Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women,” due out later this year. #PSIFF
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6 months
Excited to share that @jeffbercovici will be joining our fabulous @sfstandard team in March as our managing editor. Welcome! We also have some new reporting and editing job postings up at
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Julie Makinen
10 years
You know we’re in a new journalistic era when NPR anchor is calling the ‘buzzfeed correspondent in ramallah’ for analysis. No joke.
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Julie Makinen
6 years
Today was my first day as editor of The Desert Sun and I'm jazzed to announce that we are hiring! Here's job post 1 of 2: Local government reporter. Come be a watchdog reporter in some of the most interesting cities in America! #journalism #jobs
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1 year
Today is my first day as editor in chief of @sfstandard . What drew me here? For starters, the strong work coming out of this newsroom, like this in-depth piece on the battle over geothermal development in Burning Man’s backyard.
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8 years
ICYMI. This was a very extraordinary moment at the DNC. Take 7 minutes to watch Khizr Khan.
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5 months
Congrats ⁦ @sfstandard ⁩ ⁦ @Josh_Koehn ⁩ ⁦ @AnnieGaus ⁩ ⁦ @lihanlihan ⁩ ⁦ @ggreschler ⁩ on your new City Hall press digs!
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5 years
Tip for journalist job-seekers: A hastily compiled list of links to your stories makes me work, clicking (and printing out) everything. A curated PDF of your clips tells me you want the job & care about how you present yourself & encourages me to spend time with your application.
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8 years
Hats off to #ShanghaiDisneyland for not censoring mouse ear embroidery. #DalaiLama #liuxiaobo
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6 years
Super excited to announce that Ricardo Lopez will be joining The Desert Sun in November, covering the eastern Coachella Valley. Lucky to have this dogged vet of @latimes , @variety and @StarTribune on board! Welcome @rljourno
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5 years
Hey hey looks like we won an ⁦ @ONA ⁩ award for EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATION IN VISUAL DIGITAL STORYTELLING! ⁦ @gburton ⁩ ⁦ @ByIanJames ⁩ ⁦ @ZoeKMeyers
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6 years
Can local journalists be foreign correspondents? Yes @rebeccaplevin + @fotornelas spent months reporting this in-depth look at the silent wave of Mexican asylum seekers fleeing unspeakable violence in the most remote corners of Mexico. Part 1 of 4.
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2 years
Frustration + optimism = seeds of change. @sfstandard 's funder @moritzKBE offers his take on the city's challenges and why @TuckerCarlson 'eventually will be made to eat his words' about San Francisco
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1 year
Aw, cool, I won an award for editorial writing! Thanks to the Coachella Valley Journalism Foundation for supporting @MyDesert opinion pages. There would be no editorials without all the community donations that fund the continued existence of opinion content at The Desert Sun!
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Editorial Comment (Dailies: 15,001 - 50,000) First: The Desert Sun ( @MyDesert ) Second: The Fresno Bee ( @FresnoBee ) #Californiajournalismawards
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5 years
Honored and pleased to be nominated to serve on the board of the California News Publishers Assn. @CNPAservices
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8 years
Ian McKellen in a park in Shanghai, where parents seek mates for their kids by touting their age, job, etc. #China
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3 years
Take that @washingtonpost and @nytimes . I can only hope the founders of this cocktail line will find it in their hearts to support local journalism 🍸
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Rebecca Plevin
3 years
I mean, how many newspapers out there are spicy enough to have cocktails named after them? 💁🏻‍♀️ @MyDesert
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6 years
So fun being editor of a small paper. A reader named Judy just called me to ask where her polling place was in Cathedral City. I called her back, looked it up, and told her! We aim to be of service here @MyDesert #VoteToday
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5 years
Across the country, local news is struggling. But a look at today’s Desert Sun @mydesert shows the Sunday paper is an amazing value! We had a 34-page A section with lots of original reporting and photography ...
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9 years
Empty flight to Kathmandu. Where are all the other journos?? http://t.co/sHRSJUdXZe
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9 years
Love this #NYT cartoon today on #china #Xi visit http://t.co/AghltTYIa8
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5 years
Why it’s good to ditch the gym some days: Awesome encounter today with some bighorn sheep in South Palm Springs.
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Julie Makinen
5 years
Job alert: We are looking for a smart, savvy, creative, energetic editor to join our awesome newsroom in Palm Springs, CA. Winter is coming, folks. We've got sun & swimming pools. And lots of news.
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Julie Makinen
8 years
Breakfast options at Shanghai Disney.
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8 years
Pyongyang subway. These are the old East German cars.
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8 years
At Shanghai Disney, the Soarin' ride now goes from Fiji to Greenland to Paris and the Great Wall
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8 years
Ride along with @latimes Video from inside the high-tech reimagined Pirates of the Caribbean at Shanghai Disney.
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5 years
So proud of ⁦ @MyDesert ⁩ staff. From photos and sports stories to opinion columns and investigative work and feature writing, you guys bring it daily in so many ways. Desert Sun garners 19 CNPA awards ⁩
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4 years
What a week. I'll focus on the positive: The Desert Sun won 33 prizes — including seven first-place wins — in the California Journalism Awards. And, the paper's 2019 series on Mexican migrants fleeing violence has been recognized by the Overseas Press Club
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Julie Makinen
8 years
When I asked what in my reports was "not beautiful," the N. Korean minders said I should "ask myself."
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Julie Makinen
5 years
So thrilled that @janetwilson66 and @MyDesert have been selected for @propublica 's Local Reporting Network for 2020. The financial support from ProPublica will allow us to go deep for a year on a critical topic. Excited to see what she digs up!
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1 year
Excited that @sfstandard is a finalist in 2 categories—breaking news and short-form digital video storytelling— in the 2023 Online Journalism Awards! @ONA
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Julie Makinen
6 years
Oh, hello new business cards. This is gonna be fun. And yes, feel free to contact me with compliments, complaints, suggestions and questions.
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1 year
Vandalism, theft, customers who don't pay and police who don't respond. Life is tough for San Francisco business owners on Van Ness who say they're ‘Stuck Waiting for Batman,’ reports @kevinbtruong via @sfstandard
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6 years
Thrilled to share that The Desert Sun ( @MyDesert ) has been chosen as a 2019 host newsroom by @Report4America ! Our corps member will cover Native American issues & interests in California's beatiful Coachella Valley.
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Julie Makinen
10 years
Citizen-posted signs around Hong Kong police HQ urge cops to not just follow orders. #occupyhk http://t.co/9H4srjOCit
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6 years
Before you start obsessing about Black Friday, please consider helping out those truly in need this holiday. Rain and cold are on their way to fire zones. Here's a guide to organizations on the front lines. #CaliforniaWildfires
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5 months
My boyfriend and I have a joke: When he asks me where I’m going and I say “church,” that means I’m going to the 99. What shall this heathen do now? This was such a SoCal institution! ⁦ @byandreachang ⁩ 99 Cents Only to close all 371 stores
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8 years
One of my favorite Pyongyang posters so far. Shows new architectural ambitions. #dprk #northkorea
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8 years
Off to Pyongyang, North Korea, this week. Please send questions about #DPRK life and I will try to answer!
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Julie Makinen
5 years
Hahaha. Note to the fine folks at @BuzzFeed .... Palm Springs does not have a BEACH. We do have sand -- we are in the desert. But the ocean? That's a bit to the west. Come visit sometime. 😀😀😃 #maps
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5 years
Out representing @MyDesert at the #palmsprings @DesertAIDS Desert AIDS Walk! A half million Americans have died. So many people in our community are survivors. Walking for all of them.
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8 years
Pirates go bilingual at Shanghai Disney. 海盗会说汉语!
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8 years
Ahead of Shanghai Disney's opening in about 3 hours, here's a sneak peek at the Capt. Jack stunt show...
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1 year
BART Watchdog Harriet Richardson is stepping down, and she's not being quiet on her way out about how she thinks management, the board and unions made her job a nightmare. via @sfstandard @kevinbtruong
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8 years
Awesome things I saw in Japan today #2 . Emergency box in case you're stuck in elevator. Has drinks, mini "toilet."
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Julie Makinen
5 years
Love it when a new reporter is writing a story 4 hours after walking in the door for the first time. Welcome ⁦ @MarkOlalde ⁩ ! BLM approves large-scale solar project in eastern Riverside County over local opposition via @MyDesert
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8 years
At a N. Korean nursery: cute kids in class, On the wall: cartoon squirrels and hedgehogs with weapons. #DPRK
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5 years
I lead a paper that publishes in an area where 30% of people are over 65. I hear from people all the time who don't have computers or smartphones. Cutting off retail newspaper sales points hampers seniors' access to information.
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4 years
In the morning, we don’t know what that night’s product will look like. By dark, it’s rolling off the factory floor. I’ll deeply miss witnessing “the daily miracle” come to life just steps from my office. And the dedicated folks who made it happen. 😥
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Julie Makinen
8 years
This is awesome. North Korean TV is broadcasting the newspaper!!!
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5 years
This is so awesome. A reader baked me a cake to thank me and my staff ⁦ @MyDesert ⁩ for doing a good job! #localnews #palmsprings
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Thanks ⁦ @latimes ⁩ for picking up on the great work of ⁦ @fotornelas ⁩ 📷 📸 ⁦ @MyDesert ⁩’s awesome photog on assignment for ⁦ @USATODAY ⁩ Corrido at El Paso Walmart says 'monster' failed to break them - Los Angeles Times
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8 years
Wow, China, best going-away gift for a journo! Whenever I miss you on my Stanford fellowship, I can just read these!
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1 year
I am so filled with gratitude for @MyDesert staff and this community. I grew and learned so much and had insane fun along the way, even on the hardest days. And made so, so many friends. What a gift. ♥️
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Julie Makinen
5 years
Our Opinion pages are going on a summer vacay from national politics. In July, all our columns, op-eds, cartoons and letters will focus on local or state issues. Please submit! We want to hear your voices.
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Julie Makinen
8 years
Just waking up to this exciting news! I've been selected as a Knight journalism fellow at Stanford this fall.
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1 year
It's been more than a week, with apparently no arrests or even word on a motive. The Standard spoke with two former SFPD homicide cops for insight into how such an investigation typically unfolds. via @sfstandard @jonahowenlamb
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Julie Makinen
10 years
In #beijing @elonmusk hands over keys to first 9 #tesla buyers, says thanks for "taking a chance" http://t.co/eGFegJmJBb
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We have a new look today! Check out the fresh @sfstandard website at . Big shoutout to the team that has been hard at work on this for many months!
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8 years
See anything unusual about this eye chart for kids in North Korea? #DPRK #guns
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6 years
I'm thrilled to say that the accomplished @janetwilson66 is going to be joining The Desert Sun as our senior environment reporter! Look for her work in @MyDesert starting in November.
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Julie Makinen
6 years
This is truly a historic shift: Orange County’s entire congressional delegation is Democrat.
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5 years
If you value @MyDesert 's news coverage but have been hitting our paywall, take advantage of best sale of 2019: $29 for a year of online access, 99¢/week for 52 Sunday print editions, or $2.99 for daily home delivery for a full year! Today & tomorrow only!
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We spent several days combing the streets of Union Square to document the retail situation. The bottom line? Approximately 203 retailers were open on the streets surrounding Union Square in 2019. By May 2023, only 107, or 53%, were still in business.
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8 years
Watching this with German subtitles adds a certain something extra.
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5 years
Can we reverse the tide of photographers vanishing from local newsrooms? Excited that our Salinas paper @salnews is among the first partners for a new   @catchlight_io @GroundTruth grant project for photojournalism. Thanks @elodiemailliet @adami_salnew
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Thanks to Chery Glaser and @kcrw for taking an interest in ⁦ @MyDesert ’s summer experiment. And to ⁦ @AlFranco15 ⁩ for making it happen. Why the Desert Sun is taking a time-out from polarizing opinion pieces
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Julie Makinen
9 years
Photos from aftermath of #tianjin #china explosion show dozens of cars incinerated. http://t.co/wcKljaEPlQ
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Julie Makinen
1 year
Thanks to @EskSF and @demianbulwa — great to live and work in such a fascinating news city!
@jzigoris
🌻 Julie Zigoris - she/her 🌻
1 year
It’s a full house @welcometomannys for a discussion of #crime #reporting in #SanFrancisco with our new EIC @Julie_Makinen with @EskSF and @demianbulwa !
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😀Delighted to announce some moves at @sfstandard this week. Swiss Army knife business reporter @kevinbtruong has been promoted to business editor and AP veteran @JWilliamsJourno has joined us to launch our new opinion section! 😀
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Julie Makinen
8 years
If China killed Prince this is going to be a major international incident.
@HeathaT
Heather Timmons
8 years
Counterfeit pills, potentially from China, killed Prince, investigators now believe
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It can be hard for casual readers to appreciate, but it can take months of painstaking work to produce even rather short investigative stories. @janetwilson66 pieced this together over months to try to give folks a sense of oil enforcement in Calif.
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Excited to announce that after a long hiatus, the California Journalism Awards Gala is on again! July 13 at the Sheraton Universal in L.A. Details on tickets, awards, speakers and more coming soon! @CNPAservices
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Glenn Close, accepting the Icon Award at the Palm Springs film fest, jokes that she’s not sure about the distinction between an icon and an emoji. #PSIFF19
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“It’s been a terrible week,” Supervisor Myrna Melgar told @sfstandard . “I don’t know that [more police] is necessarily what we need, but we do need some safety. I think it’s really important that we address this right now.” @idamoj
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Fun to check out the Sunset night market and talk to folks about @sfstandard — ace team here! @elindqw @lihanlihan @jr_umanzor @_eddiesun
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