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Fleecing Grandma and Grandpa

Protecting against Scams, Cons, and Frauds

By: Betty L. Alt,Sandra K. Wells

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Fleecing Grandma and Grandpa

Protecting against Scams, Cons, and Frauds

By: Betty L. Alt,Sandra K. Wells

Falling for a scam or con is humiliating for anyone, and can have terrible consequences. But for the elderly, being the victim of fraud can be disastrous, and they are the most common and vulnerable targets of everyday scams, cons, and frauds. From identity theft to gambling scams, from power of attorney issues to pyramid schemes, there is no dearth of creativity in the ways some criminals will relieve the elderly from their money and their homes. Here, Alt and Wells describe the most common scams, offer the stories of actual victims, and detail ways to protect yourself and your family from becoming easy targets. What makes the elderly such easy marks for con artists? How can they avoid the common traps? Knowing about them is one place to start, and this book helps readers to understand and identify the most common scams perpetrated against the elderly. Because such cons are so hard to prosecute, it is important to know the methods criminals employ to separate innocents from their hard-earned money. This lively, vivid account of one of the most insidious forms of crime will help families and individuals protect themselves and their loved ones from the machinations of those who view them as easy marks.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313057818

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9780313057816

When Caregivers Kill

Understanding Child Murder by Parents and Other Guardians

By: Betty L. Alt,Sandra K. Wells

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When Caregivers Kill

Understanding Child Murder by Parents and Other Guardians

By: Betty L. Alt,Sandra K. Wells

Each year in the U.S. hundreds of children under the age of ten are killed by parents, relatives, or other caregivers. In recent years, families have become less dependent on kinship and neighborhood relationships, so they may become nearly invisible to those who might otherwise be involved in their activities. Because of this isolation, danger to children often does not become visible to the public until the child is injured or, worse, dead. This book offers an overview of the various caregivers involved in child homicide. It covers murders committed by mothers, fathers, babysitters, and others and examines the common circumstances that lead to such violence. Using cases throughout, the authors reveal the extent and nature of child homicide in chilling detail. Readers will come away from the book with a greater understanding of the problem_the triggers that lead to child homicide, the motives and means, what killers have in common, and how to prevent and address child homicide.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1442200790

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9781442200791

When the Moon Turned Green

By: Hal K. Wells

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When the Moon Turned Green

By: Hal K. Wells

Outside his laboratory Bruce Dixon finds a world of living dead men-and above, in the sky, shines a weird green moon.

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eStar Books

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1612100392

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9781612100395

Grantwriting Beyond the Basics: Understanding nonprofit finances

By: Michael K. Wells

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Grantwriting Beyond the Basics: Understanding nonprofit finances

By: Michael K. Wells

Explains why understanding how a budget works is a key part of any grant proposal, and instructs the grantwriting professional in how to present the budget clearly and tie it to the narrative.

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Continuing Education Press

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0876781199

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9780876781197

Grantwriting Beyond the Basics: Proven strategies professionals use to make their proposals work

By: Michael K. Wells

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Grantwriting Beyond the Basics: Proven strategies professionals use to make their proposals work

By: Michael K. Wells

Demonstrates the principles discussed in the book. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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Continuing Education Press

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0876781172

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9780876781173

Police Women

Life with the Badge

By: Sandra K. Wells,Betty L. Alt

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Police Women

Life with the Badge

By: Sandra K. Wells,Betty L. Alt

It is often said that a woman must do a job twice as well as a man in order to get half the credit. This is particularly true of women in law enforcement. Women have been involved in various forms of policing for the last 100 years, but it wasn't until the Equal Employment Act of 1970 that women could move from the job of meter maids to patrol and detective work. Yet less than 1% of all top-level cops are women, and there remain significant obstacles in the career paths of women in the force. This book looks at the history of women police officers and provides first-hand accounts of women at every level, including those who drop out. It addresses discrimination, competition, lack of mentoring, differential treatment and sexual harrassment, examining what issues play into the decision to stick it out or leave that many policewomen face. It also considers the family issues these women return home to at the end of the day. It is often said that a woman must do a job twice as well as a man in order to get half the credit. This is particularly true of women in law enforcement. Women have been involved in various forms of policing for the last 100 years, but it wasn't until the Equal Employment Act of 1970 that women could move from the job of meter maids to patrol and detective work. Yet less than 1% of all top-level cops are women, and there remain significant obstacles in the career paths of women in the force. This book looks at the history of women police officers and provides first-hand accounts of women at every level, including those who drop out. It addresses discrimination, competition, lack of mentoring, differential treatment, and sexual harrassment. It looks at what plays into the decision to stick it out or leave that many policewomen face. It also considers the family issues these women return home to at the end of the day. Unlike other treatments of the subject, Alt and Wells show how women have changed police work into a more community-oriented model of policing, reduced police violence, served as a strong force to promote a more effective response to domestic violence within police departments, and helped with community-police relations. With a combination of first-hand accounts, careful research, and lively analysis, the authors are able to convey the actual experiences of women who have made their careers behind the shield.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313038317

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9780313038310

Mountain Mafia

Organized Crime in the Rockies

By: Betty L. Alt,Sandra K. Wells

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Mountain Mafia

Organized Crime in the Rockies

By: Betty L. Alt,Sandra K. Wells

MOUNTAIN MAFIA IS A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BLACK HAND AND MAFIA in the Rocky Mountain region. It brings to life some of the more colorful leaders in the West's organized crime operations throughout the 20th century, including Roma, Colletti, and the Smaldones. Especially examined is the famous court case of "Scotty" Spinuzzi, who was acquitted of murder "because no one saw the bullet leave the gun." Also mentioned is the connection these western mobsters had with notorious crime members in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1984585207

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9781984585202

Death has a Deep Voice

By: Hal K Wells

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Death has a Deep Voice

By: Hal K Wells

Twenty-five hundred spectators stared aghast, as the sonorous voice of Rodney Blaine was suddenly cut short by death, at his new premiere. And Lt. Detective Burke had to change the murder-master’s script before the stage was set for the next killing!

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eStar Books

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161210603X

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9781612106038

Mountain Murders: Homicide in the Rockies

By: Sandra K. Wells

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Mountain Murders: Homicide in the Rockies

By: Sandra K. Wells

Mountain murders brings to the public fifteen legendary Colorado murders, dating from 1909 to the early 1980s."--Page 4 of cover.

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1608441369

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9781608441365

A Mother's Plea For the Sabbath: in a Series of Letters to an Absent Son

By: Lucy K. Wells

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A Mother's Plea For the Sabbath: in a Series of Letters to an Absent Son

By: Lucy K. Wells

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385117798

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9783385117792

Ants in His Planets

By: Hal K Wells

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Ants in His Planets

By: Hal K Wells

When the pretty astrologer named Abigail came along waving her horoscopes, what happened to Howitzer Hogan was unpredictable!

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eStar Books

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161210651X

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9781612106519

The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Indus Writing

By: Bryan K. Wells

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The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Indus Writing

By: Bryan K. Wells

A detailed examination of the Indus script. It presents new analysis based on an expansive text corpus using revolutionary analytical techniques developed specifically for the purpose of deciphering the Indus script.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1784910473

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9781784910471

The Gate to Xoran

By: Hal K. Wells

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The Gate to Xoran

By: Hal K. Wells

He sat in a small half-darkened booth well over in the corner-the man with the strangely glowing blue-green eyes.The booth was one of a score that circled the walls of the "Maori Hut," a popular night club in the San Fernando Valley some five miles over the hills from Hollywood.It was nearly midnight. Half a dozen couples danced lazily in the central dancing space. Other couples remained t te- -t te in the secluded booths.In the entire room only two men were dining alone. One was the slender gray-haired little man with the weirdly glowing eyes. The other was Blair Gordon, a highly successful young attorney of Los Angeles. Both men had the unmistakable air of waiting for someone.Blair Gordon's college days were not so far distant that he had yet lost any of the splendid physique that had made him an All-American tackle. In any physical combat with the slight gray-haired stranger, Gordon knew that he should be able to break the other in two with one hand.Yet, as he studied the stranger from behind the potted palms that screened his own booth. Gordon was amazed to find himself slowly being overcome by an emotion of dread so intense that it verged upon sheer fear. There was something indescribably alien and utterly sinister in that dimly seen figure in the corner booth.The faint eerie light that glowed in the stranger's deep-set eyes was not the lambent flame seen in the chatoyant orbs of some night-prowling jungle beast. Rather was it the blue-green glow of phosphorescent witch-light that flickers and dances in the night mists above steaming tropical swamps.The stranger's face was as classically perfect in its rugged outline as that of a Roman war-god, yet those perfect features seemed utterly lifeless. In the twenty minutes that he had been intently watching the stranger, Gordon would have sworn that the other's face had not moved by so much as the twitch of an eye-lash.****Then a new couple entered the Maori Hut, and Gordon promptly forgot all thought of the puzzlingly alien figure in the corner. The new arrivals were a vibrantly beautiful blond girl and a plump, sallow-faced man in the early forties. The girl was Leah Keith, Hollywood's latest screen sensation. The man was Dave Redding, her director.A waiter seated Leah and her escort in a booth directly across the room from that of Gordon. It was a maneuver for which Gordon had tipped lavishly when he first came to the Hut.A week ago Leah Keith's engagement to Blair Gordon had been abruptly ended by a trivial little quarrel that two volatile temperaments had fanned into flames which apparently made reconciliation impossible. A miserably lonely week had finally ended in Gordon's present trip to the Maori Hut. He knew that Leah often came there, and he had an overwhelming longing to at least see her again, even though his pride forced him to remain unseen.Now, as he stared glumly at Leah through the palms that effectively screened his own booth, Gordon heartily regretted that he had ever come. The sight of Leah's clear fresh beauty merely made him realize what a fool he had been to let that ridiculous little quarrel come between them.Then, with a sudden tingling thrill, Gordon realized that he was not the only one in the room who was interested in Leah and her escort.Over in the half-darkened corner booth the eerie stranger was staring at the girl with an intentness that made his weird eyes glow like miniature pools of shimmering blue-green fire. Again Gordon felt that vague impression of dread, as though he were in the presence of something utterly alien to all human experience.

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1612100074

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9781612100074

Zehru of Xollar

By: Hal K. Wells

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Zehru of Xollar

By: Hal K. Wells

Three Earthlings are whisked on an inter-dimensional journey to the den of the Scientist Zehru.

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1612102697

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9781612102696

Courage and Air Warfare

The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War

By: Mark K. Wells

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Courage and Air Warfare

The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War

By: Mark K. Wells

Colonel Wells investigates the nature of aerial warfare and the men who took part. The book analyzes aircrew selection, reaction to combat, adaptability to stress, morale, leadership and combat effectiveness, and compares the efforts of the US Eighth Air Force and RAF Bomber Command.

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Routledge

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1135204896

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9781135204891

Black Pool for Hell Maidens

By: Hal K. Wells

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Black Pool for Hell Maidens

By: Hal K. Wells

Deep in that dismal swamp dwelt an abysmal Thing, a monstrous being of ooze, gloating in its perfume of cadavers...ExcerptThe last rays of an unseen sun had faded until the wooded swamp was a fogshrouded monochrome of somber shadows and swirling vapors. The dank chill of slime-wet air seeped coldly through the darkening gray mists. Larry Kent shivered and turned the collar of his coat higher around his neck. Kent's deeply tanned face was grimly intent as he tried vainly to peer ahead through the murky gloom. Hidden cells deep within his sensitive brain quivered to the stimulus of a familiar and eerie warning. Somewhere in that chill curtain of twilight fog, Fear lurked, naked and abysmal! Larry Kent had spent too many years in the dark corners of the world to ever be mistaken in that weirdly menacing aura of incarnate terror. He had felt it in the cold stone cells of North China where shuddering coolies waited wretchedly for dawn and the headsman's sword. He had sensed it in the sweating midnight of an African jungle kraal where close-packed blacks groveled in abject fear as Om-Jok, the Devil-God, stalked thundering through the night.

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1612104274

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Water Mills of the Missouri Ozarks

By: George G. Suggs,Jake K. Wells

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Water Mills of the Missouri Ozarks

By: George G. Suggs,Jake K. Wells

A nostalgic look at a symbol of earlier, simpler times Until the early twentieth century, water mills were the center of the economic and social life of many small communities throughout the nation’s calm rural backwaters, including the Missouri Ozarks. In this book, first published in 1990, George G. Suggs, Jr., presents the stories of twenty Ozark water mills, and Jake Wells illustrates these vignettes with drawings and beautiful watercolors. In introducing his historical sketches, Suggs traces the transatlantic origins and development of water mills, describing their spread throughout Western Europe to North America and noting early American contributions to water mill technology. In an epilogue he emphasizes the economic and social roles of the mills in the early life of the Missouri Ozarks.

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0806124326

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9780806124322

The Senator's Secret

By: K. C. Wells

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The Senator's Secret

By: K. C. Wells

To save his political career, Senator Samuel Dalton must convince his constituents he's engaged. But he's only just met Gary....

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Dreamspun Desires

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1634775295

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9781634775298

The Survivors

A study of homeless young newcomers to London and the responses made to them

By: D. Brandon,K. Wells,C. Francis,E. Ramsay

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The Survivors

A study of homeless young newcomers to London and the responses made to them

By: D. Brandon,K. Wells,C. Francis,E. Ramsay

First published in 1980, The Survivors is a detailed and original study of the experiences of homeless young people in central London. The book is based on in-depth interviews with 107 ‘newcomers’, who were selected at two nightshelters and a government reception centre. Their views and experiences are recorded, their backgrounds described and their reasons for coming to London examined. We learn how they coped with the interventions of both those who want to hinder and those who want to help, and how in general they survived – and sometimes even enjoyed themselves – in an extreme environment. The authors also examine the ways in which the various helping agencies view the ‘problem’. They claim that the agencies tend to present a pessimistic picture – one that understates the resilience and resourcefulness of these young people, dismisses their spirit of their adventure, and concentrates almost exclusively on the dangers, difficulties and hardships. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, urban studies, public policy and economics.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000872963

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9781000872965

Zehru of Xollar

By: Hal K. Wells

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Zehru of Xollar

By: Hal K. Wells

It's never quiet in the subways in New York City, but inasmuch as there can be a quiet moment in that filthy place, Blake and Helen were standing there, on the platform, quietly waiting for their train . . . and then, in a moment, the place went wild. Then the weirdness started -- at first, it was just a pulsing sound, like the deep note of some colossal organ somewhere in the tunnels not too far away. Then, as the sound grew loud enough to make his teeth itch, the subway tunnels erupted in quivering ribbons of blinding green flame. Blake wrapped his arms around Helen, to protect her from the strangely explosive light -- and the flames caught them. And carried them away. Through the tunnels as though they were made of stardust -- up, up, into the sky. And into the beyond.

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Aegypan

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1463899742

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9781463899745

Ban the Booze

Prohibition in the Rockies

By: Betty L. Alt,Sandra K. Wells

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Ban the Booze

Prohibition in the Rockies

By: Betty L. Alt,Sandra K. Wells

Ban the Booze: Prohibition in the Rockies is a brief look at the eighteen years of Prohibition in Colorado. Its pages cover the purpose, problems, and people involved in the "noble experiment" and the fascinating (sometimes amusing) stories of the making and distributing of "bootleg booze." Ban the Booze: Prohibition in the Rockies is the ninth book co-authored by Betty Alt and Sandra Wells. Wells has a Ph.D. from Colorado State University in Fort Collins and has retired as Chief Investigator after twenty-nine years with the Pueblo, Colorado, District Attorney's Office. Alt has an M.A. in history from Northeast Missouri State University and currently is a lecturer in sociology at Colorado State University - Pueblo.

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1457521679

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9781457521676

Gratitude Journal for Girls

Unicorn Gratitude Journal for Kids, Kids Gratitude Journal, Gratitude Book for Children, Gratitude Journal with Prompts & Doodling, Drawing, Coloring

By: Cindy K Wells

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Gratitude Journal for Girls

Unicorn Gratitude Journal for Kids, Kids Gratitude Journal, Gratitude Book for Children, Gratitude Journal with Prompts & Doodling, Drawing, Coloring

By: Cindy K Wells

Gratitude Journal for Kids/Kids Gratitude Journal DETAILS: - 101 pages for tracking daily gratitude. - 50 pages of features the daily prompt "Today I am Grateful For...,""One awesome thing that happened today was..." and a Happiness Scale for your child to record his/her feelings each day. - 50 pages of blank paper for doodling, drawing or coloring - Personalized first page (name). - Great size - Can easily fit into a purse or tote bag - Great gift for all occasions - Cover: Durable matte. - Product Measures: 7" x 10

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