Pastoral Accounting in Colonial Australia: A Case Study of Unregulated Accounting (Routledge New Works in Accounting History)

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Trusted for over 40 years — Your single handbook for tracking patterns in grievance arbitration.

Learn how to effectively resolve management-employee disputes — at the settlement stage and during arbitration — by becoming familiar with the criteria and prior arbitration rulings that arbitrators use in resolving grievance issues.

The easy-to-use Grievance Guide uses real-life arbitration cases to illustrate the factors arbitrators consider when ruling on management-employee disputes. The updated and revised Eleventh Edition features:

--a new chapter on e-mail and general workplace technology issues; --rulings in evolving areas such as family and medical leave; and --coverage of many other issues, from absenteeism, dishonesty, and drug/alcohol use and testing, to sexual harassment, strikes, and workplace violence. The editors give you a complete picture, topic by topic, of the precedents and guidelines neutrals are using today to address grievance issues. Helpful overviews of the many topics covered in the guide and citations to the full text of the arbitration cases help you to understand and properly handle numerous types of grievable issues.

Grievance Guide brings you—in a single, easy-to-use handbook—all the most important labor arbitration decisions that have been collected, digested, and expanded upon in BNA's Human Resources Library, the complete, must-have web and CD resource for HR professionals.

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Concise and complete.......2002-02-07

A must have for those working in labor unions or companies with union contracts.

A must for Management and Union.......2001-10-27

I became a union representative and had no prior labor relations experience. This book taught me everything I needed to know to process grievances. I don't know what I would have done without it! This is a must for all labor relations professionals, union and management.

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The Arbitration Guide
Raymond L. Britton
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Grievance Arbitration: A Practical Guide

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Grievance Arbitration: A Practical Guide
Unk
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Grievance Guide

Manufacturer: Bureau of National Affairs
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Contract Administration: A Guide for Stewards and Local Officers

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Contract Administration: A Guide for Stewards and Local Officers
Bob Repas
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Discipline, Grievance and Dismissal (A Manager's Pocket Guide)

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Discipline, Grievance and Dismissal (A Manager's Pocket Guide)
Sue Morris
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A grievance arbitration guide for educators

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A grievance arbitration guide for educators
Kenneth H Ostrander
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Grievance Guide

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Grievance Guide

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Grievance Guide
D.C. ) Bureau Of National Affairs (Washington
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A guidebook for anyone who enjoys gazing at the heavens

Sky Phenomena: A Guide to Naked-eye Observation of the Stars
Norman Davidson
Manufacturer: Lindisfarne Books
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ASIN: 158420026X

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Sky Phenomena leads the student/reader from the stars as seen from earth, through the sun, moon, and planets, to the Copernican revolution, comets and meteors, and the Southern Hemisphere sky. The text includes mythological and historical aspects of the subject and has numerous exercises for the student. The final chapter is a unique collection of poetry related to the stars from ancient India to modern times. Appendices include future astronomical events, technical data, materials and publications, and a comprehensive glossary of astronomical terms.

Sky Phenomena is an unusual and practical guide to the sky as we see it-with the naked eye. The author leads us from the appearance of the stars as seen from Earth, through the Sun, Moon, and planets, to a deeper understanding of the Copernican revolution, comets, and meteors.

The text includes mythological and historical aspects of the subject, as well as numerous exercises for students, including an account of the Southern Hemisphere.

The final chapter contains a unique collection of poetry about the stars, from ancient India to modern times. There are also appendices dealing with future astronimical events, technical data, materials and publications, and a comprehensive glossary of astronimical terms.

Davidson tells us, "The purpose of this book is to help people take up a conscious study of what is our greater environment-the turning sky." Only when we have grasped the laws and principles behind the movements of the stars can there grow the enthusiasm and desire needed to observe more and observe more deeply.

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A guidebook for anyone who enjoys gazing at the heavens.......2004-12-13

Sky Phenomena: A Guide To Naked-Eye Observation Of The Stars is a well written guide by Norman Davidson for the nonspecialist general reader seeking to observing the wonders of the heavens without the expense of elaborate or expensive telescopes. Individual chapters expertly cover various stars and constellations, the moon, eclipses, the planets, the Copernican revolution, comets and meteors, the southern hemisphere sky, and so much more. Appendices round out the simple guidelines and black-and-white diagrams with technical data, reference charts of astronomical symbols, star maps for observers at the equator, and much more. A superb guidebook for anyone who enjoys gazing at the heavens, Sky Phenomena is enthusiastically recommended for personal, school, and community library Astromony reference collections.

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Easy your O-Chem nightmares.......2003-11-20

I struggled in my organic chemistry classes in undergrad. After using this book I scored a 19 on the o-chem section of the DAT. It is an invaluable tool.

Review: How to Succeed in Organic Chemistry.......2001-07-25

If you are interested in quickly teaching yourself organic chemistry, you cannot find a better book. Each chapter is short, straight to the point and packed with information. The price is a bargain.

Organic chemistry instruction organized to make sense........1999-07-20

This book makes organic chemistry learnable by organizing the material in a sensable, readable, and understandable manner.

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Looking for future employment as a postdoc? Or desperately looking for the perfect present for a chemist friend? Maybe you simply enjoy cooking and reading about current developments in chemistry research?
Then look no more: The very first Who's Who in organic chemistry to show what top scientists like cooking - on the bench and stove - and how they have made their way. Use K. C. Nicolaou's recipe for fish and chips and read about his scientific work while preparing the meal that helped him finance his studies back in England. More than 50 personal recipes and anecdotes from leading organic chemists, such as Lonely soup (Evans), Wild boar - Tuscan way (Waldmann), and Dulce de Leche (Vollhardt), accompanied by biographies and sketches of their current work, this is an exquisite delicacy for anybody who likes cooking, eating and chemistry.

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An invitation to dine at the periodic table........2003-09-25

"This book was the idea of a group of graduate students working for L. F. Tietze, a respected professor at the University of Goettingen, Germany. Building on their hunch that inside almost every chemist is a chef waiting to get out, they wrote to 100 of the world's leading organic chemists and asked them to contribute to a cookbook in Tietze's honour. Sixty recipes arrived on their desks: everything from Green Eel a la Marie to Lemon Kiwi Pie, a work far from formulaic.[...] A few recipes are for industrial quantities of chilli or lasagne to feed students; there is an occasional admission that a recipe originates from a restaurant or a wife. A handful are set out with method and materials as if, rather leadenly, for experimental purposes. But, overall, there is an overwhelming flavour of people who cook often, with ambition and for pleasure." (modified according to Karen Gold in: The Times Higher Education Supplement, July 18, 2003, p. 20f)

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How to Succeed in Organic Chemistry
John E. Gordon
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VSIHQU

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A story of life, the sea...fossils...Planet Earth!.......2006-07-22

I bought this book essentially to serve as additional curriculum support to my 'Science & The Art of Discovery' workshop designed for kids, 8-12. I have kept it in the office library where the kids can have ready access.

Participating kids often like to take out the book to browse. I often find them transfixed with awe.

The book is a wonderful visual & intellectual treat. The printed text integrates natural history, paleontology, geology, & biology into a wholistic narrative about the origins of all life on earth.

I like to conclude this review with a quotation from the book: "We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started. And know the place for the first time. (T S Elliot, 'Four Quartets')"

I would enthusiastically recommend this entertaining book to your kids, particularly when they have an interest in science.

As good as palaeontology gets! Sagan would be proud! A+.......2005-02-16

The late Carl Sagan thought that science should be "user-friendly," presented not in jargon but in regular English. He believed that the general public could -- and should -- have access to the latest scientific discoveries.

Sagan would be proud of _Planet Ocean._ The central theme of the book is stated clearly on page 1: "Nature is a workshop, not a temple." Matsen spends the rest of the book supporting this concept, explaining that life is not a stately, well-executed design where species climb a ladder of progress; rather, evolution is an inescapable and completely random condition. Animals and plants breed, have offspring that are slightly different, and continue to become slightly more different with each successive generation until the distant grandkids look nothing like the original parent. In addition, through totally weird, sometimes avoidable and sometimes unavoidable circumstances, the species as a whole will either do very well, or get pushed out of the scene. The environment works like the stock market -- fortunes are made, and fortunes are lost. (The metaphor of "rolling the dice" comes up more than once.)

Matsen's prose is engaging, entertaining, and extremely informative. In one of my favorite sections, he describes the success of the trilobites (who survived for 300 million years in Earth's oceans):

"They would eat anything and breed anywhere, and they made themselves as unattractive to predators as possible. We all have relatives like them. From [trilobites] and their success and longevity, an evolutionary rule of thumb has emerged: 'The more specialized a species, the less able to cope with change it will be once the inevitable happens and old habitats change beyond the point of recognition' [...]. In other words, generalists usually outlast specialists, and evolutionary progress is not necessarily a matter of refinement. [...] Ninety percent of success is just showing up. Ask an arthropod, like a trilobite or a cockroach. [...] Generalism won't get you to Carnegie Hall with your cello, but a cockroach doesn't need a cello." (p. 14).

This conversational tone is used throughout the book, and it really works. Matsen's prose reminds one of an after-class discussion with a very generous, patient biology teacher -- the kind you always wished you had, and didn't. Matsen takes otherwise very difficult subject matter and explains it in understandable terms that don't insult the intelligence of the reader. He even suggests amusing mnemonics to remember the order of epochs in the Palaezoic and Mesozoic eras ("Crying over sleeping dragons may puzzle people, terrify, (or) joyfully convert") as well as for the Cenozoic era ("Palaeontologists eat only murky plankton porridge hot").

Interwoven with the education that Matsen offers is the story of his and artist Ray Troll's voyage of discovery. Brad and Ray actually travelled to many of the sites discussed in the book, and the little personal touches -- Brad's vision of the Cretacious sea as they drove across Kansas, Ray's discovery and naming of a totally new species of pterasaur, and the fishing trips enjoyed by both -- really draw in the reader. One becomes intimate with the friendly voice, the casual, personal stories, and history of life on Earth.

Not to be missed, of course, is the wonderful art. Ray Troll is a meticulous artist, and his offbeat sense of humor is perfectly in place with the spirit of the book. For example, his illustration of a lungfish's hesitant voyage out of water is captioned, "Out of the ooze and born to cruise." Not to be missed are his "ads" for a wrist watch that measures geologic time; Burgess Brand Primordial Soup; and that great French wine, Chateau Mosasaur. Doodles, sketches, and highly detailed pastel paintings are strewn throughout, and they are worth the price of the book by themselves. (Interested readers can preview some of Ray's art at his homepage, www.trollart.com)

This book is an excellent introduction to evolution, palaeontology, marine biology, and/or marine science. Alternately light and serious, one is sorry to finish the book. It -- like the 650 million year history it encapsulates -- is such a joy to experience. Highly recommended.

Evolution gets its start.......2004-09-10

Brad Matsen and Ray Troll's "Planet Ocean" is a lively swim through the fossil record, beginning at the beginning 650 million years ago in the watery depths.

Troll's whimsical illustrations accompany Matsen's humorously accessible explanations of what we've learned - and think we've learned - from the earliest fossils. Matsen traces evolution from the primordial soup to the first colonies of multicellular organisms to the ubiquitous trilobytes - "the most diverse and successful animals on Planet Ocean until the Permian extinction claimed the last of them."

He discusses the engineering that went into chambers (the nautilus) and hard shells and the arrival of backbones and speculates (with the experts) on the role of extinctions in evolution, including our own.

Although he sometimes demolishes or supports theories without sufficient scientific explanation, Matsen's watery perspective is well-organized and refreshing and Troll's drawings and paintings are as likely to be detailed and informative as they are fanciful and quirky.

A beautiful, well-written view of past life in the ocean!.......1998-06-25

This book was a pleasure to read- even though it was mostly facts (and this is coming from a teenager)! Sure, I love learning about evolution and fossils, but I rarely sit down to read long, boring books about it. But this book is fresh, colorful, full of information, and INTERESTING!!! I congratulate the author and illustrator for putting out such a masterpiece! It is sure to recruit paleontologists for the next generation!

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The latest in a series providing chemical physicists with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline, this stand-alone volume focuses on using high resolution molecular spectroscopy to arrive at global and accurate Vibration Hamiltonians.

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Everything you want great historical fiction to be.

The Running of the Tide.
Esther. Forbes
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0395076978

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Everything you want great historical fiction to be........2001-08-24

It's hard to imagine now that this book was considered pop fiction when it was published in 1948. You'd now have to look deep into modern literary fiction to find a work as complex, nuanced, historically exciting and completely enjoyable as "Running of the Tide." Author Esther Forbes had a fine career as a historian and novelist, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1943 for "Paul Revere and the World He Lived In." Her young adult novel "Johnny Tremain" still tops many school reading lists.

In "Running of the Tide, " Forbes turns her considerable historical skills to Salem, Massachusetts, at the turn of the 19th century. The Inmans are one of the town's oldest seafaring families, and they're facing a rough patch due to the loss of one of their ships by the eldest son, Dash. There are four Inman boys, and all but the youngest, Peter, go to sea. Dash is the most canny captain of the family, but because he lost a ship the grandmother who runs the family company punishes him by giving the captaincy of the family's beautiful new state-of-the-art ship to someone else. But there's a last minute change of plans, and it's Dash who gives the orders to hoist sail on the Victrix's maiden voyage. He asks seventeen-year-old Peter to tie up a few loose ends for him. How Peter, who adores Dash and has a serious crush on the woman Dash loves, ties up those ends entangles the family for decades.

The wealth of understanding Forbes brings to the New England of 1800 is a treat. The Yankee character, traditions, customs, dress, the role of women as both business leaders and "pretties", captains who can sail around the world and triple their profits but can't get across town because they can't drive a horse, new trade routes opening up, the lives on shore and on ship of people who may not see each other for years are all explored with an historian's intelligence and a novelist's panache. I first read this novel in college and have come back to it every time I need a really good, involving read. The first time I read the book it was great, but each time after that my respect for Esther Forbes has grown as I realize just how elegantly "Running of the Tide" is put together. As the book sails toward the final pages, the outcome is as inexorable and as haunting as the final scene in a Greek tragedy.

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Exciting tribute to a great female runner

Running Tide
Joan Benoit
Manufacturer: Knopf
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Binding: Hardcover

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Release Date: 1987-09-12

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Exciting tribute to a great female runner.......2001-11-20

Detailed, personal look at Joan Benoit at her peak... she is inspirational, a heroine in the running world! The book is hard to put down.

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Authentically Caribbean
Sexy and Poetic
Gorgeous, evocative and profound

Tide Running (Bluestreak)
Oonya Kempadoo
Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Cliff and Ossi have grown up in Plymouth on the island of Tobago, their lives turning on the axis of small-town life. One day they watch the arrival of a couple and their child at a luxurious house overlooking the ocean. The couple invites Cliff into their home and lives, and in that cool'flim-style' house, the harsh, brittle life of urban Plymouth is kept briefly at bay, desires obscuring differences in class and race. But then things begin to go wrong-money vanishes, the couple's car disappears-and those differences are brought suddenly to light, raising unsettling questions about relationships, wealth, and responsibility.

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Authentically Caribbean.......2006-01-13

With the realism of a documentary film maker,
Oonya Kempadoo chronicles the lives of two
economically challenged Tobagonian brothers ,
Cliff and Ossi. Fascination with a well off
couple living on the island , soon reels the
older of the two brothers , Cliff , into a
maze of sex , deceit and chaos.

The accurate dialect and vivid descriptions
used by the author , mentally transport the
reader to the tiny island of Tobago.

Sexy and Poetic.......2003-05-26

I stayed up all night with this one. Once I started I couldn't put it down. A menage trois' on a Carribean island with a married couple and a young man who appears innocent and naive(at first). The suspense, the eroticism, all quietly sneak up on you until you're holding your breath until the very last page. A MUST READ!

Gorgeous, evocative and profound.......2003-05-21

This novel about a poor young Tobagon man and his encounter with a wealthy couple who draw him into their lives, blithely, without considering the consequences, is one of the best portrayals of contemporary Caribbean life I've ever read. Brilliant, sensual, and ultimately disturbing, Tide Running is, like Kempadoo's first novel, Buxton Spice, an exploration of the effects of class and wealth on a young nation trying to come into its own in the shadow of its wealthy neighbor to the north.

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Across the Running Tide
Michael J. Cohen , and David H. Ebert
Manufacturer: Cobblesmith
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0891660100

Against the running tide;: Selected essays on education and the free society

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Against the running tide;: Selected essays on education and the free society
Harry David Gideonse
Manufacturer: Twayne Publishers
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The Call of the Running Tide
Walter Gray
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Leesa Mercer, a young female engineer, reaches for success in the man’s world of the offshore oil industry of the mid 1980’s. The backdrop for her struggle includes blowouts, chauvinists, romance, trapped divers and violent confrontations between oil companies and environmentalists. The story’s climax occurs when a major offshore construction project, managed by Leesa, meets both human and physical disaster. Leesa’s challenge is to see if she can mature sufficiently to save a situation, a construction crew and a community who depend on her leadership.

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CALL OF THE RUNNING TIDE.

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The Call of the Running Tide: A Portrait of an Island Family

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The Call of the Running Tide: A Portrait of an Island Family
Nancy Price Graff
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On A Rising Tide: A Tale Of Running The Civil War Blockade

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Riveting Civil War Novel
On A Rising Tide

On A Rising Tide: A Tale Of Running The Civil War Blockade
Richard H. Triebe
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1420878492

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Blockade runner Captain Wade McKay and the crew of the Atlantis battle the death choke of the Union naval blockade of Wilmington, North Carolina. Massive Fort Fisher stands as the lone guardian of the ships daring to run the blockade. Their mission is of the utmost importance because each precious cargo brought in means new life for the Confederacy. Knowing that the fall of Fort Fisher could hasten the end of the war, the Union army and navy launches a deadly assault to capture the fort and stop blockade running forever.

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Riveting Civil War Novel.......2007-08-01

The Civil War, or War of Northern Aggression as we call it here in the South, continues to fascinate history buffs. As the Northern blockade increased its stranglehold on the South, desperate measures were needed to bring supplies into a dying dream. Blockade runners, small, sleek vessels that were adept at sneaking past Union ships, were increasingly used for this purpose. Richard Triebe's novel, "On a Rising Tide," takes the reader aboard the Atlantis, a blockade runner captained by Wade McKay. When not at sea, Captain McKay docks in Wilmington, North Carolina, the last port open as the war draws to a close. An exciting tale, based on historical fact, "On a Rising Tide" will keep you riveted until the last page. With just enough human interaction---love, murder, betrayal---we are treated to a history lesson and a great read. Edith Edwards
Author of "The Ghosts of Turtle Nest"

On A Rising Tide.......2006-02-22

Mr. Richard Triebe

We meet briefly on Saturday February 11th, 2006 at Waldenbooks in Independence Mall where you were displaying your recent book on Civil War Blockade Runners.

You signed the book with the following inscription: "Dick, hope you enjoy the book" Richard Triebe.

Well to simply say I enjoyed it would be a understatement, I thoroughly enjoyed it and to plagiarize Reece Sexton's comments, I likewise found it "difficult to put it down". I finished reading your book last evening, wanting more.

The story you've written not only included the historical facts but the drama, excitement and gallantly of a blockade runner. But the adding to the intrigue adventure the insertion of romance made the story most enjoyable.

I welcome the opportunity to read more of your work and hope you will continue to purse this course of writing about events and characters of the Civil War.

Thank you, for the pleasure was all mine.

Sincerely,

Dick

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The Running of the Tide
Esther Forbes
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000ONE572

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