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 # Static
 
 This application defines global templates for [GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk) pages. It is used in conjunction with [Slimmer](https://github.com/alphagov/slimmer), which is Rack middleware that takes a HTML response from a Rails app and combines it with a template from Static.