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Kristea Liu

@kristi-liu.bsky.social
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Remote Sensing, GIS, Biodiversity data: GloBi, GBIF, iNaturalist, TDWG/SPNHC 地理学・生物多様性情報データ ・理科甲子園 UCSB Library and Cheadle Center

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
about 15 tickets left so if you wanna go, get on it!
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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Heidi is Curator Botany, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and Siobhan (@siobhanleachman.bsky.social) is a Wikimedian in Residence at the NZ Bioeconomy Science Institute. If you missed the first session, you can catch up here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv_T...
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Online workshop "Wiki for Botanists" 2025
YouTube video by Siobhan Leachman
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Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Alright scientists! It's that time again! Time to sign up for Skype a Scientist's spring semester. Want to get matched with a classroom in 2026? Sign up now 🥰 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Hey, I know it's not Giving Tuesday anymore (I am deep in the paper mines), but if you've ever wanted to help me out, please consider donating to keep PRI and Ithaca's Museum of the Earth open. They have until December 31 to raise 1M to prevent foreclosure. priweb.donorsupport.co/page/FUNWALK...
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Save the Museum of the Earth and PRI – Secure Its Future!
In these challenging times, places like the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) stand as beacons of hope, fostering understanding of the natural world and inspiring action for a sustainable fut...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
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Fellowship
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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
✍🏼Summary post on NASA Openscapes Champions 2025 - A welcome to NASA Earthdata and earthaccess. Links to recording, slides, notes doc nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2025-11...
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Thoughts from NASA Champions 2025 - A welcome to NASA Earthdata and earthaccess – NASA-Openscapes
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Kristea Liu @kristi-liu.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Instead of the drums in the deep, you get this bear aggressively bagpiping to remind you there is still time to join UC GIS Week 2025. This event is free and open to the public. Registration via Eventbrite is required: www.eventbrite.com/e/uc-gis-wee... #ucgisweek#gisday#geospatial#gischat
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Kristea Liu @kristi-liu.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Last call to register for UC GIS Week on Nov. 18th - 20th! Learn and engage with GIS experts from the UC system during presentations, or check out the virtual gallery for maps and posters. For more info visit community-ucgis.hub.arcgis.com/pages/uc-gis... #ucgisweek#gisday#geography#geospatial
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UC GIS Week @ucgisweek.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
A Mapathon, to map buildings and roads in remote areas of the world in support of first responders, will be ongoing throughout UC GIS Week. Participate anytime throughout the week. More information about the Mapathon: community-ucgis.hub.arcgis.com/pages/mapathon #gis #hotosm #usgisweek
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Kristea Liu @kristi-liu.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
#GIS users and learners: Join us on November 18-20 for the virtual UC GIS Week! community-ucgis.hub.arcgis.com/pages/uc-gis... #ucgisweek#gisday#geography#geospatial#gis
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UC GIS Week @ucgisweek.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Submission notifications have now been sent out, please check your inbox/spam to see if your proposal has been accepted! You can still submit posters to the poster gallery on our website! WE WANT YOUR POSTERS! #gis #ucgisweek
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Kristea Liu @kristi-liu.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
If you submitted a lightning talk, workshop or presentation for UC GIS Week 2025, we will start contacting you this Friday, 10/24. (oski, zot, and sammy art by me lol)
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Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila @josephtumber.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
A great opportunity to Join Harvard Forest as a Senior Scientist to lead eddy flux work with your very own towers in a place that is deeply connected to ecosystem ecology! @fluxnet.bsky.social @fluxnetecn.bsky.social @agubiogeosciences.bsky.social @cznews.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
More destructinon of American research capacity. This is absolutely an attack on the US, executed on behalf of our adversaries.
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Kristea Liu @kristi-liu.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
FYI last call for any UC GIS Week submissions for presentations, workshops, or talks - submissions are due this Friday, October 17. We will accept posters for the virtual gallery until day of Nov 17.
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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Making good maps is hard. Learn a workflow to make maps that communicate well! Join my workshop "Cartography for Professional Quality Maps in QGIS" at FOSS4G North America! @foss4gna.bsky.social #gischat www.foss4gna.org/schedule
Text over a gray, white and light blue map of the southeast US with a photo of a white woman with brown hair. Text says "Make better maps. Cartography for professional quality maps in QGIS workshop. Taught by Michele Tobias, PhD 11/03/2025 9:00-12:00 FOSS4GNA Reston, VA Register at FOSS4GNA.org
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
We’re BACK BABY. At Bad Art for Good, we’re gonna get together and make some art to make things better. How can art make things better? Creating makes us feel good! Art moves people! And we need a LOT of people to move right now! RSVP luma.com/w8v2xk5i
A possum in a beret with a paintbrush screams in front of a canvas with a possum in a pile of leaves. The words say bad art for good an art + community event and the possum is saying “make the world better with art!” And free beer snacks and art supplies, and Indy hall November 10th 6:30
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Siobhan Leachman @siobhanleachman.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Last call for registering for our free 1hr introductory Wiki webinar on #Wikipedia, #WikiCommons and #Wikidata which is happening at 3pm NZST today. You can find out more information on the event and the registration link here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Wikipedia:Meetup/Online/Introductory Wiki webinar 14 October 2025 - Wikipedia
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Kristea Liu @kristi-liu.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
UC Carpentries starts their first workshop of the series, Introduction to Tidy Data tomorrow morning! Registrations are still open, but time is limited! If you're not into spreadsheets, we still have Version control with Git, Unix Shell, SQL, etc!
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Kristea Liu @kristi-liu.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Registration is still open for the UC Carpentries series' 9-Day Carpentries workshop that aims to teach participants basic concepts, skills, and tools for R in RStudio, Python, an introduction to the Unix Shell, Version Control with Git, SQL, and Tidy Data. jmjamison.github.io/2025-09-15-UC/
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Kristea Liu @kristi-liu.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This is a 9-Day Carpentries workshop that aims to teach participants basic concepts, skills, and tools for R in RStudio, Python, an introduction to the Unix Shell, Version Control with Git, SQL, and Tidy Data. jmjamison.github.io/2025-09-15-UC/
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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Psst... Wanna hear a secret? Ok, it's not REALLY a secret, but the FOSS4G North America @foss4gna.bsky.social conference is partnering with Stacks Journal @stacksjournal.bsky.social to publish our first ever special issue from this year year's conference presentations! #gischat #opensource
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Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Are you looking for a PhD position and want to spend your summers in the Rocky Mountains? My lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social is looking for 1 PhD student to work on a NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts in Colorado! 🧪🌍🐙 Apply by Nov 1! Details here docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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2025 - Hypoxia PhD job ad
The Moore lab at the University of Colorado Denver is searching for 1 Ph.D. student to study the elevational limits of dragonflies in Colorado (http://moore-evo-eco.weebly.com). This position is fully...
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Oregon State University Botany and Plant Pathology @osubpp.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
We're hiring an Assistant/Associate/Full Professor and Director for our amazing, newly renovated herbarium! jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/170...
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (Botany & Plant Pathology)
The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology invites applications for a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, tenure-track or tenured Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor position.Any hiring at the rank o...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 27/06/2025
I’ve been an author of the national climate assessment since the Bush administration. It is an incredible one-stop shop for climate info. Download the PDFs of NCA5 here:
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Fifth National Climate Assessment
The Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the sc...
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Field assistant needed for a bird breeding study (Sept 2025 - Jan 2026) in Canberra. Experience with birds preferred but training provided. Contact Jessica at jessica.mclachlan@unimelb.edu.au. More info: www.ecomedina.com #job
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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 19/06/2025
ICYMI: In September 2024, The Carpentries submitted a proposal for 1.5 million USD to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program, and were extremely pleased to learn that the proposal was recommended for funding. However...
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Announcing Withdrawal of NSF Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems Proposal
In September 2024, The Carpentries submitted a proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program. This project would position The Carpentr...
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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It's been hard for early career biologists looking for postdocs, so I created a Google Sheet where we can all compile fellowships/job boards/postdoc opportunities in one place. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! If you're a PI looking for postdocs, you can add to the 4th tab! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Postdoc Opportunity Megathread
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GBIF @gbif.org · 16/06/2025
⚡ New version of #rgbif has just been released to CRAN! Version 3.8.2 new features: 🔹occ_download_doi() accepts a GBIF download DOI and returns the download key. occ_download() now supports download via institutionKey. Learn more: 🔗docs.ropensci.org/rg...
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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
We're hiring! iNaturalist is searching for a Senior Staff Mobile Engineer team to lead the continued development of our cross-platform applications. Learn more: www.inaturalist.org/pages/jobs
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Kristea Liu @kristi-liu.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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FOSS4G North America @foss4gna.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Great news! The FOSS4G North America call for presentations is now open! #FOSS4GNA will be held Nov 3-5, 2025 in Reston, VA. Submit your presentation proposal for consideration by May 15, 2025. Check out the web site to learn more: www.foss4gna.org/ #geospatial
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Long Term Ecological Research Network (United States) @uslter.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Ready for our community call this Thursday? It's about getting the right folks into the LTER, and keeping them here. Recruiting and Retaining Scientists in the LTER: How to find and keep the best and the brightest! 🌟 March 26, 9am PT—register below! lternet.edu/events/recru...
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Recruiting and Retaining Scientists in the LTER: How to find and keep the best and brightest! - LTER
Please join us for a lively conversation - bring your ideas, success stories, and favorite resources to share how we can collectively work to recruit and retain the best and brightest across the LTER ...
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 14/03/2025
The Conservation Biology Institute is looking for volunteers with GIS and spatial data experience to help secure and preserve federally funded environmental datasets on their Data Basin platform 🌿
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Data Basin Quarterly Update
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Chhaya Werner, PhD @restoration.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Wrapping up a quarter-long Intro to Scientific Computing class -- we've had a blast! So grateful for @allisonhorst.bsky.social amazingly joyful illustrations and @uslter.bsky.social LTER datasampler package of simplified environmental datasets for teaching and learning 🧪🌎🌱⌨️
Cute monsters in witches hats add code and field notes to a bubbling cauldron, set along a picturesque mountain streamIllustrated representations of different data sets in the package fill a "box," including a buffalo, trout, pika, fiddler crab, maple seedling, snowfall, and hurricane
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Alexa Fredston @afredston.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
do you use any climate-related, government-hosted data that has been taken down or is no longer accessible? if you do, DM me please. I know some lawyers who want receipts
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USA National Phenology Network @usa-npn.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Join our Campaign Convo, March 18 at 1pm PT / 4pm ET! In this #PhenologyWeek webinar we’ll be joined by researchers whose work inspired 3 of our Nature’s Notebook campaigns! Learn more and register - arizona.zoom.us/meeting/regi... More Phenology Week webinars - www.usanpn.org/news/article...
Join our Campaign Convo March 18, 1pm PT, 4pm ET. In this Phenology Week webinar we'll be joined by researchers whose work inspired there of our Nature's Notebook campaigns! Learn about their research and why your data are valuable. 
Researchers include: 
Kim Pegram, Program Director of Pollinator Conservation and Research at the Desert Botanical Garden - Desert Refuge: Monarchs and Milkweeds in Arizona

Nicholas Dietschler, Research Support Specialist and PhD Candidate at Cornell University - Pest Patrol

Andrew Hipp, Herbarium Director and Senior Scientist in Plant Systematics at the Morton Arboretum - Quercus Quest

See more Phenology Week webinars at usanpn.org.
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Ben Parker @ben-parker.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
We're searching for a postdoc to study insect-microbe symbiosis in our lab at UNC Chapel Hill. Application can be found here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/295...
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Post-Doc Research Associate
The researcher will be primarily responsible for carrying out experiments and aims of a recently funded NIH award, using an insect model system (aphids) to address mechanistic and evolutionary genetic...
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tdwg.org @tdwg.org · 11/02/2025
Call for Sessions for #LivingData2025 has been EXTENDED. Final deadline is now Friday, February 14th, 23:59 COT. Take a breath, dot your i's, cross your t's and get that session proposal in!! www.livingdata2025.com/calls.html #DatosVivos2025
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Kristea Liu @kristi-liu.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Are you interested in Undergraduate research? Want to learn what happens in an Ecology, Evolution, or Marine Biology research lab? If you are, come and join us at the first-ever EEMB Undergraduate Research Open House Thursday, 20 February, from 3-6 pm. (UCSB only)
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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Join Xerces and help protect freshwater mussels & other aquatic invertebrates! Job Title: Endangered Species Conservation Biologist 🌎Location: Pacific Northwest (NW Oregon or SW Washington preferred) 💲Compensation: $62,857 per year 📅Apply by: Feb 24, 2025 Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
“We’re Hiring! Endangered Species Conservation Biologist”
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National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis @nceas-ucsb.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Proposals are open through the Gulf Ecosystem Initiative to fund 2-3 working groups to travel to Santa Barbara, CA & develop science for decision making in the Gulf of Mexico. Apply here by March 14th: nceas.ucsb.edu/gulfeco & watch the informational webinar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLOF... 🌊
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Ben R Lee, PhD @benrlee.com · 04/02/2025
Does anyone on bluesky have experience bear-proofing environmental data loggers (specifically PAR and soil moisture) without compromising functionality? Bears at our sites have extensively damaged seed and camera traps already, so hoping to get ahead of them this year.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.
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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 03/02/2025
📅 Upcoming community sessions next week buff.ly/4gld5P9 Events are in UTC Time : 📣 The Carpentries Welcome Session 4 Feb 09:00 📣 CarpentriesOffline Community Meeting 5 Feb 15:30 🇺🇸 US Midwest Community Call 5 Feb 18:00 📣 HPC Carpentry Community Call 6 Feb 12:00/22:00
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Community Events
There are many opportunities to join community meetings, subcommittees and debriefing sessions. Find links to them on this Etherpad, and subscribe to the Google calendar below or use this ics feed to…
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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 31/01/2025
TONIGHT! The Internet Archive hosts Ideas Worth Saving! 🎬 Star Wars & Tolkien panels & film clips. Come in costume & win a prize! 📅 Jan 31–Feb 1 ⏰ 6 pm–9 pm 📍 300 Funston Ave., SF 🎟️ $20 at the door Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/event/ideas-worth-…
Graphic of a film projector and images related to the text, which reads: Ideas worth saving. Evening extravaganzas: movie clips, costumes, & conversation! Friday: the true origins of Star Wars.Saturday: the Tolkien you never knew. Costume contest. Panel of experts. Analysis of movie scenes. 31 January & 1 February 2025, at 7pm, the Internet Archive. 300 Funston Ave, San Francisco, CA. Ticket:  www.ideasworthsaving.org
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