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Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. ...
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Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. ...
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The L postcode area, also known as the Liverpool postcode area[2], is a group of postal districts around Bootle, Liverpool, Ormskirk and Prescot in England. ...
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Crosby is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
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Formby is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England. Sefton is a metropolitan borough on Merseyside, North West England. ...
Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. ...
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Historically a part of Lancashire, Formby was built on the plain adjoining the Irish Sea coast. Largely a residential town, Formby becomes a tourist hot spot during the summer months, with day trippers attracted to its beaches, sand dunes, and wildlife. The historic counties of England are ancient subdivisions of England. ...
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ...
Relief map of the Irish Sea. ...
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This article is about the sand formations, for other meanings see Dune (disambiguation) Mesquite Flat Dunes in Death Valley National Park In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand built by eolian (wind-related) processes. ...
History Erosion of sand on the beach at Formby is revealing layers of mud and sediment, laid down and covered in the late Neolithic/early Bronze Age, approximately 4000-3500 years ago. These sediments often contain the footprints of humans, animals (most commonly aurochs) from that period.[1] An array of Neolithic artifacts, including bracelets, axe heads, chisels, and polishing tools. ...
The Bronze Age is a period in a civilizations development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. ...
Binomial name Subspecies Bos primigenius primigenius (Bojanus, 1827) Bos primigenius namadicus (Falconer, 1859) Bos primigenius mauretanicus (Thomas, 1881) See Ur (rune) for the rune. ...
The common place-name ending -by is from the Scandinavian byr meaning "homestead", "settlement" or "village". The village of Formby was originally spelt Fornebei and means "village belonging to Forni". At that time Forni was a well-known Norse family name. He could have been the leader of the invading expedition which took possession of this coast. Today, in Norway, Oslo Airport is situated in a town called Fornebu. It was from Ireland in about 960 AD that these Norsemen or Vikings first came to the west coast of Lancashire, first trading or raiding and then settling. Tradition says that the Viking invaders failed to defeat the native Anglo-Saxons on the coast of Formby, so they sailed inland, up the river Alt, and attacked from the rear. It is more probable that the Viking invaders simply found that the area was thinly populated and took control without any blood being shed. Norseman redirects here; for the town of the same name see Norseman, Western Australia. ...
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Fornebu (archaic form Fornebo) is a peninsular area in the suburban municipality of Bærum in Norway, close to the countrys capital Oslo. ...
Events Edgar the Peaceable crowned King of England. ...
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The name Viking is a loan from the native Scandinavian term for the Norse seafaring warriors who raided the coasts of Scandinavia, Europe and the British Isles from the late 8th century to the 11th century, the period of European history referred to as the Viking Age. ...
This article is about the British river Alt. ...
Formby Hall is a Grade II listed building dating back to 1523. It has traditionally been the home of the Lords of the Manor. [1] [2] Formby was transferred from Lancashire to Merseyside in 1974. Formby Hall is located to the North East of Formby in secluded woodland adjoining the Formby Hall Golf and Country Club. ...
In England, Lord of the Manor is a minor, feudal title. ...
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ...
Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. ...
Formby beach is the location of an early lifeboat station. Established perhaps as early as 1776 by William Hutchinson, Dock Master for the Liverpool Common Council. It was the first lifeboat station in the United Kingdom, and possibly the world. The foundations of the last of the lifeboat station buildings remain on the beach. The last launch took place in 1916. Remarkably a film survives of this event. For the 1944 movie, see Lifeboat (film). ...
Formby is home to RAF Woodvale, a small RAF station on the outskirts of the town. It is used by RAF light aircraft as well as civilian aircraft. The station is also home to Merseyside Police's helicopter, known as 'Mike One-One'. RAF Woodvale (IATA: N/A, ICAO: EGOW) is a Royal Air Force airfield located four miles south of Southport, Merseyside. ...
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Merseyside Merseyside Police is the police force covering Merseyside in North West England. ...
Governance Until 1974 Formby was an urban district (Formby Urban District) within the administrative county of Lancashire. Since 1974 it has formed part of the metropolitan borough of Sefton, of Merseyside. The division into counties is one of the larger divisions of England. ...
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ...
A metropolitan borough (or metropolitan district) is a type of local government district in England, covering urban areas within metropolitan counties. ...
See Sefton, New South Wales for the suburb of Sydney, Australia. ...
Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. ...
Formby forms part of the constituency of Crosby not Sefton, Sefton is split in to Crosby and Southport. Crosby is represented in the House of Commons by Labour Member of Parliament Claire Curtis-Thomas, in the last local election, the Labour Party won a majority of 48.2% some 17,000 votes while the Conservatives got 32.1% and the Liberal Democrats got 17.4%. There is also small support for the United Kingdom Independence Party in Formby; they got 1.3% of the votes in 2006. A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ...
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Geography
 Formby Beach looking toward Liverpool Formby is a coastal town roughly 17 km², part of Sefton in the north west of Merseyside. The town is built upon the west of a large flat area of land called the West Lancashire Coastal Plain the town is 0.5 metres below sea level at its lowest point. Formby’s highest point is within the sand dunes that separate the Irish Sea from Formby, sand dunes are ever changing in shape and formation so there is no fixed point. The River Alt runs in to the Irish Sea just south of Formby at Hightown. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2016x3120, 842 KB) Summary w:Formby w:Merseyside, lloking toward w:Liverpool and w:Birkenhead Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Formby Metadata This file contains...
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See Sefton, New South Wales for the suburb of Sydney, Australia. ...
Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. ...
The West Lancashire Coastal Plain is a large area in the south west of Lancashire, England. ...
For considerations of sea level change, in particular rise associated with possible global warming, see sea level rise. ...
This article is about the sand formations, for other meanings see Dune (disambiguation) Mesquite Flat Dunes in Death Valley National Park In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand built by eolian (wind-related) processes. ...
Relief map of the Irish Sea. ...
This article is about the British river Alt. ...
Hightown is a village in Sefton, Merseyside, England. ...
The town is rurally landlocked; the land between Formby and the areas of Southport, Ormskirk and Liverpool is green belt land and is used for arable agricultural purposes. The areas around the urban fringe are drained by irrigation ditches are open areas get boggy in the winter months. Earth in urban areas is well drained, very loose and sandy. A landlocked country is one that has no coastline. ...
For other uses, see Southport (disambiguation). ...
Ormskirk is a market town in North West England, situated thirteen miles north of Liverpool and fifteen miles south of Preston. ...
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For other uses of the word Greenbelt, see Greenbelt (disambiguation). ...
In geography, arable land is a form of agricultural land use, meaning land that can be (and is) used for growing crops. ...
Cities with at least a million inhabitants in 2006 An urban area is an area with an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ...
Irrigation is the artificial application of water to the soil usually for assisting in growing crops. ...
A ditch with water can be used for drainage and irrigation. ...
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The section of land between Formby and the coast is varied in vegetation, wildlife and terrain. This area includes pine forests: natural and man-made, sand dunes, marram grass, deciduous woodland, seasonal ponds and lakes. Large areas of this land are protected by the National Trust. Vegetation is a general term for the plant life of a region; it refers to the ground cover provided by plants, and is, by far, the most abundant biotic element of the biosphere. ...
For other uses, see Pine (disambiguation). ...
Man-Made is the eigth album by British alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub, released in 2005. ...
This article is about the sand formations, for other meanings see Dune (disambiguation) Mesquite Flat Dunes in Death Valley National Park In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand built by eolian (wind-related) processes. ...
Species Ammophila arenaria Ammophila breviligulata Marram Grass or Beach Grass is a genus of two species of grass growing almost exclusively on coastal sand dunes, where rhizomes on its extensive root system allow it to survive in a very harsh and windswept ecosystem. ...
Deciduous forest after leaf fall Like many deciduous plants, Forsythia flowers during the leafless season For other uses, see Deciduous (disambiguation). ...
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Formby is in a temperate climate zone, with mild winters and warm summers. Formby’s biggest threat is global warming as the town is built on a flood plain, being situated next to the coast and being below sea level. In geography, temperate latitudes of the globe lie between the tropics and the polar circles. ...
Global warming refers to the increase in the average temperature of the Earths near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Floodplain. ...
For considerations of sea level change, in particular rise associated with possible global warming, see sea level rise. ...
Economy The main shopping area is locally known as The Village; here the town upholds an impressive array of shops including a Boots, Dorothy Perkins and a New Look. These shops are located around the main shopping street of Brows Lane, and, unusually for a major shopping street in England, it is not pedestrianised. The tree lined Avenue runs for about a third of a mile with shops either side. There are several other smaller shopping areas around Formby and Freshfield mostly convenience stores and some specialist shops. There are several other smaller shopping areas around Formby and Freshfield. Formby also has a post office and three smaller post offices. Shopping is the examining of goods or services from retailers with intent to purchase. ...
Boots is the name of at least five different albums and singles: Boots by Nancy Sinatra (1966) Boots by Mighty Gabby (1984) Boots by Condemned Eighty Four (2001) Boots by KMFDM (2002) Boots by Noe Venable (2003) It is also the name of a large chain of chemists in the...
A branch of Dorothy Perkins on Buchanan Street in Glasgow Dorothy Perkins is a large British womens clothing retailer, active mostly in the United Kingdom. ...
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The French word avenue can mean or refer to any of the following : Most commonly, it refers to two parallel lines of trees specially planted as a landscape feature. ...
A convenience store is a small store or shop, generally accessible or local. ...
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The town also has a several supermarkets including a Tesco, an M&S Simply Food and more recently, Waitrose, recently transferred from nearby Southport. The amount of supermarkets in Formby is high for the size of the town. Supermarket produce section A supermarket is a store that sells a wide variety of goods including food and alcohol, medicine, clothes, and other household products that are consumed regularly. ...
For other uses, see Tesco (disambiguation). ...
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For other uses, see Southport (disambiguation). ...
Formby has no major industries; however there is a small industrial estate on the outskirts of the town. An industrial park is an area of land set aside for industrial development. ...
The most recent building to Formby is the new swimming pool and leisure centre. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...
A Leisure Centre in the UK is a site, usually owned and operated by the county council, where people go to keep fit or relax. ...
Tourism Formby has a significant tourist industry most notably between the warmer months of May and September. In particular it’s popular with day trippers from Liverpool and other industrial towns in Merseyside and West Lancashire. There are two main spots along the Formby Coast which are particularly popular with the public. ImageMetadata File history File links Formby_Beach. ...
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The Lifeboat Road site is about 1½ miles from the town centre; there are three linked unpaved car parks with several routes cascading out in to the sand dunes and woods. The car parks are about 900 yards from the beach.
Victoria Road is north of Lifeboat road and is busier due to the Red Squirrel reserve being here. From the junction of Larkhill Lane and Victoria Road is were the reserve begins and there is a charge to park from this point onwards. Parking is available adjacent to the reserve and at the end of the road there is a large unpaved car park for easier beach access, the beach from the car park is about 100 yards.
There is a privately run caravan park called Formby Point on Lifeboat Road, open between March and October. There are around 300 caravans on the park and 20 plots for touring caravans. There is a phone box on site, public toilets, a play area and until 1995 there was a small convenience store.
Due to its proximity to the city of Liverpool, various current and former Liverpool and Everton Football Club players have lived in the town, usually in the larger houses on Victoria Road. Examples include Steven Gerrard, Alan Stubbs (who owns a bar in the Village) and Neil Ruddock. While playing for Blackburn Rovers, England international Alan Shearer lived in the town. Other famous Formby residents include snooker player John Parrott and Radio presenter John Cooper. St Lukes Parish Church in Formby is the burial place of the Irish songwriter and entertainer Percy French. Liverpool Football Club is the most successful English football team, having won 4 European Cups and 18 league (English Premier League, formerly First Division) titles. ...
Everton Football Club are an English football club from the city of Liverpool, founded in 1878. ...
Steven George Gerrard MBE (IPA: []) (born 30 May 1980, Whiston, Merseyside) is an English football player. ...
Alan Ross Farley Stubbs (born October 6, 1971 in Kirkby) is an English footballer who currently plays for Everton. ...
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Neil Razor Ruddock (born 9 May 1968 in Wandsworth, London) was an English footballer, playing as a central defender. ...
Blackburn Rovers is an English Premier League football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. ...
Alan Shearer OBE (born 13 August 1970 in Gosforth) is a retired professional English footballer who played as a striker for the England national team and Premiership clubs, Southampton, Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United. ...
Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a large baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. ...
John Parrott MBE (born 11 May 1964 in Liverpool, England) is an English professional snooker player. ...
John Cooper can refer to: John Sherman Cooper (1901 - 1991)- was a United States senator and member of the Warren Commission John Cooper (1923 - 2000) - was a co-founder of the Cooper Car Company and last surviving Formula 1 team principal from the formative years of the sport. ...
William Percy French (May 1, 1854–January 24, 1920) was one of Irelands foremost songwriters and entertainers in his day. ...
Transport Formby has an excellent road network. The Formby Bypass (A565) was built over fifty years ago to take the major Liverpool to Southport route out of Formby and cut along side the fringe of the town. The bypass is a dual carriageway with two roundabouts and two sets of traffic lights. The B5195 links Formby with Ormskirk and Maghull. Motorway access is easily accessible, the M58 and M57 are both 8 miles from Formby. A bypass is a road or highway that avoids (bypasses) a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, and to improve road safety. ...
The A565 is the main (A class) road that runs between Bootle and Tarleton in the United Kingdom. ...
For other uses, see Liverpool (disambiguation). ...
For other uses, see Southport (disambiguation). ...
A bypass is a road or highway that avoids (bypasses) a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, and to improve road safety. ...
This early German Autobahn uses a dual carriageway design. ...
A roundabout, rotary, or gyratory circus is a type of road junction (or traffic calming device) at which traffic streams circularly around a central island after first yielding to the circulating traffic. ...
Traffic lights will sometimes differ where there are several lanes of traffic. ...
Ormskirk is a market town in North West England, situated thirteen miles north of Liverpool and fifteen miles south of Preston. ...
Maghull is a town in Sefton, Merseyside, England, within the traditional borders of Lancashire, and on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain. ...
Motorway symbol in UK, France and Ireland. ...
The M58 motorway is a motorway in England. ...
The M57 motorway, also known as the Liverpool Outer Ring Road, is a motorway in England. ...
With the town’s major growth period around the early 20th century and Formby never really having any major industry the road system followed an American style way of building a road system. Major roads in the town are wide and in an almost block formation with housing estates being built in to those blocks. The vast majority of residences have drive-ways for parking. Thus traffic congestion is rare in the town and usually only experienced in the town centre locally known as The Village. This page is related to transport; you may be looking for the 2002 Bollywood movie Road. ...
A housing estate is a medium-to-low density residential area, usually part of a suburb of a town or city in a developed country. ...
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There are two railway stations, the first being Formby railway station and the second less than a mile north, Freshfield railway station. Both are on the Northern Line which runs from Liverpool to Southport, trains are frequent and a popular way of commuting, especially to Liverpool. Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street Station in 1865. ...
Formby railway station is a railway station in the town of Formby, Merseyside, England. ...
Freshfield railway station serves the Freshfield district of Formby, Sefton, Merseyside, England. ...
Commuters on the New York City Subway during rush hour Rush hour at Shinjuku Station, Yamanote Line Traffic jam Commuting is the process of travelling between a place of residence and a place of work. ...
For other uses, see Liverpool (disambiguation). ...
The nearest airport is Liverpool John Lennon Airport which is 25 miles away. Manchester Airport seconds that, which is 43 miles away. Liverpool John Lennon Airport (IATA: LPL, ICAO: EGGP) is an airport serving the English city of Liverpool. ...
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In addition to motorized transport, Formby is served by excellent cycle routes, mainly centering around the pinewoods along the coast leading to both Southport and Liverpool. There are also many cycle lanes on the roads leading to the larger conurbations to the north and south and indeed Formby is situated very close to the famous Cheshire Lines.
Education There are seven primary schools in Formby; Woodlands, Redgate CP, Our Lady’s, St Jerome’s, Trinity St Peters, Freshfield CPS and St Luke's C. of E. Trinity St Peters in Formby is the amalgamation of two former primary schools - Holy Trinity and St Peters - which closed down in July 2006. The school was formed as part of a major reorganisation of primary education in Sefton. In 2006 Our Lady’s performed has the best results with a Key Stage 1 and 2 combined averages of 289, way above the national average of 242. While Woodlands Primary, who were still above the national average, came bottom out of the six, with 259. ST Lukes is located in Formby, Sefton, England and is one of seven primary schools in Formby. ...
Formby has two large high schools, Formby High School and Range High School, both schools are high performers. With a national average of 45.8% of students gaining five or more A*-C at GCSE, Range scored 74% and Formby scored 76% in 2006. Formby High School saw one of the biggest increases in grades in the country in 2006. After years of hovering around 50-60% mark the school increased 20% outdoing their rival Range. Formby High School is one of two secondary comprehensive schools in Formby, Sefton with the other being Range High School. ...
Range High School is located in Formby, Sefton, England and is one of two secondary comprehensive schools in the area (the other being Formby High School). ...
Wildlife
 To the west of the town lie pinewoods and sand dunes. The whole of the coastline here is managed as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) for its important wildlife reserves by Sefton Coast Partnership. The pine woods at Victoria Road have been established as a National Trust reserve for the red squirrel, listed on the endangered species list. Formby is one of several sites in Britain were the red squirrel can still be found although it is now being threatened by the grey squirrel. The red squirrels may not be native to Britain but possibly accidentally introduced from Scandinavia in the 20th century. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1296x1990, 189 KB) A european squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) eating a nut. ...
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The Siberian Tiger is a subspecies of tiger that are critically endangered. ...
Binomial name Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin, 1788 The Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is a tree squirrel that is native to the eastern to midwestern United States and the eastern provinces of Canada. ...
Formby is also famous for the presence of natterjack toads. Formby is only one of a few sites in England where they will breed. Later in the evening the male’s distinctive song can be heard and is known locally as the ‘Bootle Organ’. In spring the males gather at the edge of shallow pools in the dune slacks and sing to attract a mate. The Sefton Coast and Countryside Service are working hard to keep these pools from growing over so that that they are ready each spring for this amazing annual event. For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...
Bootle is a town on the Mersey Estuary, North West England. ...
Organ in Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany The organ is a keyboard instrument played using one or more manuals and a pedalboard. ...
Sport This stretch of coast is famous for links golf courses such as Southport & Ainsdale, Hillside, West Lancashire, Hesketh and Royal Birkdale. Formby is home to another championship quality golf course - Formby Golf Club. However, the club, unlike its neighbour Royal Birkdale, does not have the capacity to host large events such as The Open Championship. It also has a cricket club based down Cricket Path in Freshfield this also has squash courts and a large Astro Turf hockey pitch. Formby has a football team called Formby F.C. who play in the North West Counties Football League Division One. They play at Altcar Road, behind Tesco just off the A565 Formby Bypass. In the summer of 2002 the club left their previous home at Brows Lane. The site is now occupied by Formby Pool which opened on January 27, 2007. Formby Golf Club, Formby, Merseyside, England is a golf Links that has hosted the Curtis Cup. ...
Formby F.C. are a football club based at Altcar Road in Formby, Merseyside, England. ...
The North West Counties Football League is a football league in the north west of England. ...
The North West Counties Football League Division One is a football competition based in England. ...
The A565 is the main (A class) road that runs between Bootle and Tarleton in the United Kingdom. ...
A bypass is a road or highway that avoids (bypasses) a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, and to improve road safety. ...
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In addition a variety of youth sporting groups are based in Formby. These include Formby Junior Sports Club (FJSC) known locally as "Rourke's League" after Jim Rourke MBE who founded the club in 1959. Over 600 children ranging in age from 5 to 16 years meet at Deansgate Lane Playing Fields to play football at various times throughout Saturday mornings during the football season. The club welcomes children of all abilities, there are no trials or criteria to meet; every member plays every week. The club also fields numerous representative teams in local junior leagues (e.g. the Craven Minor League). MBE can stand for: Member of the Order of the British Empire Mail Boxes Etc. ...
Formby is also home to Deansgate Rovers and Redgate junior football clubs.
References - ^ Smith, Philip H. (1999). The Sands of Time: an introduction to the Sand Dunes of the Sefton Coast. National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside. ISBN 1-902700-03-1.
- Yorke, Barbara and Reginald; Britain's First Lifeboat Station, Formby, 1776 - 1918, Alt Press ISBN 0 9508155 0 0
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