PER CURIAM.
We agree with the appellant that the first and third guidelines departure reasons given by the sentencing judge are invalid. However, the second reason which refers to an escalating course of criminal conduct has been approved as a permissible reason for departing from a guidelines recommendation. See Keys v. State,
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