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+CONTENTS OF THIS FILE
+---------------------
+
+ * About Drupal
+ * Use and configure your Drupal site
+ * Change the look and feel of your Drupal site
+ * Write code for your Drupal site
+
+ABOUT DRUPAL
+------------
+
+Drupal is an open source content management platform supporting a variety of
+websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites. For
+more information, see the Drupal website at http://drupal.org/, and join the
+Drupal community at http://drupal.org/contribute.
+
+ * Know your rights when using Drupal:
+   See LICENSE.txt in the same directory as this document.
+ * Learn about the Drupal trademark and logo policy:
+   http://drupal.com/trademark
+
+USE AND CONFIGURE YOUR DRUPAL SITE
+----------------------------------
+
+Drupal core (drupal-x.xx.tar.gz) has what you need to get started with your
+website. It includes several modules (plugins for extra functionality) for
+common features, such as managing content, user accounts, image uploading, and
+search. Additional features are added to Drupal by enabling additional modules.
+
+Contributed modules (not included with Drupal core) are available from the
+drupal.org website to enable additional functionality. 
+
+ * Install, upgrade, and maintain Drupal:
+   See INSTALL.txt and UPGRADE.txt in the same directory as this document. 
+ * Learn about Drupal to create and improve your site:
+   http://drupal.org/documentation
+ * Download contributed modules to sites/all/modules to extend Drupal's
+   functionality:
+   http://drupal.org/project/modules
+
+CHANGE THE LOOK AND FEEL OF YOUR DRUPAL SITE
+--------------------------------------------
+
+Drupal contains a theme system to separate the look and feel of a website from
+its functionality and content. By default, Drupal uses one theme for displaying
+content to users, and uses a specialized theme for the administrative
+interface. To further customize Drupal's display, see the following resources.
+
+ * Download contributed themes to sites/all/themes to change Drupal's
+   appearance:
+   http://drupal.org/project/themes
+ * Make a theme yourself ("theming") with HTML, CSS, and PHP:
+   http://drupal.org/documentation/theme
+ * Don't modify Drupal's code files ("hack core"):
+   http://drupal.org/best-practices/do-not-hack-core
+
+WRITE CODE FOR YOUR DRUPAL SITE
+-------------------------------
+
+Drupal contains an extensive API to allow the creation of new modules to extend
+Drupal's core functionality. Nearly any part of Drupal's functionality can be
+modified and overridden by additional modules by implementing Drupal "hooks".
+There are thousands of contributed modules available on the Drupal website.
+Before writing a new module, be sure to search the Drupal website for a module
+that meets your requirements.
+
+ * Developing for Drupal:
+   http://drupal.org/contributors-guide
+ * API documentation
+   http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/7
+ * Don't modify Drupal's code files ("hack core"):
+   http://drupal.org/best-practices/do-not-hack-core
+