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Drupal: The Guide to Planning and Building Websites

Drupal: The Guide to Planning and Building Websites

Book Description

A complete lifecycle guide to planning and building a site with Drupal Drupal allows you to quickly and easily build a wide variety of web sites, from very simple blog sites to extremely complex sites that integrate with other systems. In order to maximize what Drupal can do for you, you need to plan. Whether you are building with Drupal 6 or 7, this book details the steps necessary to plan your site so you can make informed decisions before you start to build.

  • Explains how to define the scope of your project
  • Shows you how to create a design plan taking into consideration how Drupal works
  • Helps you make informed decisions regarding development methodologies, environments, standards, and site security
  • Reviews ways to assess the use of existing and/or custom Drupal modules
  • Teaches you how to avoid common pitfalls that can impact a successful site launch Continue reading

CMS Security Handbook: The Comprehensive Guide for WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone

Learn to secure Web sites built on open source CMS

Learn to secure Web sites built on open source CMS

Learn to secure Web sites built on open source CMSs

Web sites built on Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal, or Plone face some unique security threats. If you’re responsible for one of them, this comprehensive security guide, the first of its kind, offers detailed guidance to help you prevent attacks, develop secure CMS-site operations, and restore your site if an attack does occur. You’ll learn a strong, foundational approach to CMS operations and security from an expert in the field.

More and more Web sites are being built on open source CMSs, making them a popular target, thus making you vulnerable to new forms of attack Continue reading

Drupal Scores Another Win as Camelot Finance Relaunches Portal

London, UK (PRWEB) November 8, 2007

UK personal finance portal Camelot Finance today launches its new web portal based on the award winning Drupal content management system. Parting ways with a bespoke platform, today’s launch marks a milestone in the loan search specialist’s evolution as one of the fastest growing online businesses in the United Kingdom.

Ed Ward, Director of Marketing for Camelot Finance remarked “This new platform puts our business on a stronger footing and allow us to keep pace with changes in our marketplace. Dynamic content, search and comparison services are the future of our business and Drupal provides the flexibility to integrate these types of functions with ease.”

Drupal was recently named the overall winner of the CMS Awards 2007 Open Source CMS Award. Recent high profile websites to convert to Drupal include Warner Brothers Records, the Indianapolis Museum of Art and HarvardScience. Riding high on a spate of successes in its own marketplace, Drupal.org is planning the release of the new generation 6.0 platform which combines the latest technological advances in website functionality and ease of management.

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Drupal Revealed as 2008 Open Source CMS Award Winner


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Birmingham, UK (PRWEB) November 3, 2008

Packt’s annual Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Award reached its climax today with the announcement that Drupal has won the Overall category, collecting a first prize of ,000. Three months after it was launched and a staggering 20,000 votes later, Drupal finished ahead of Joomla! and DotNetNuke to retain the Award it won in 2007.

Released as an Open Source project by founder Dries Buytaert in 2001, Drupal has grown substantially and has been downloaded almost 1.5 million times in the last 12 months. It is currently being applied by companies such as Warner Brothers Music, MTV UK, and the New York Observer amongst others.

“These awards are a testament to the valuable contributions from dedicated Drupal community members around the globe” said Buytaert in response to the news. “Working together, the Drupal community is building the future of the dynamic web so that anyone can quickly build great social publishing websites” he concluded.

With votes coming from a panel of industry experts and visitors to Packt’s website, this year’s Awards proved to be the most popular and also the highest quality. The task of selecting a top three from the finalists was a difficult one for the judges due to their high standards and myriad features.

Finishing in second place and receiving ,000 was Joomla!, the youngest of the three finalists and a previous winner of the Overall Award. Judges were impressed with Joomla’s ease of installation and ability to get a website up-and-running in a short space of time. Particular praise was reserved for its sizeable and enthusiastic community, which has allowed the project to grow so quickly in such a short space of time.

In third place and receiving ,000 was DotNetNuke, the only CMS in the final that is written in VB.NET for the ASP.NET framework. DotNetNuke received positive feedback from judges who were impressed with its ease of development and security implementation features.

Alongside the Overall Award, Packt ran categories for best Open Source PHP Content Management System and best Open Source CMS that isn’t written in PHP. The final category was the Most Promising Open Source CMS, which was won by SilverStripe. Packt handed out a total of ,000 in prize money to the winning Content Management Systems.

Winners in the other final categories include:


    Most Promising: SilverStripe
    Best Open Source PHP: Drupal
    Best non PHP Open Source CMS: Plone

The Awards were designed to recognize and reward Open Source CMS’s for their consistently high standards in what is an extremely competitive field. The result of this year’s Award confirms this quality and also suggests that there isn’t necessarily one CMS that is the best, more that there is the best one to fit an individual user’s needs and requirements.

Full results of the 2008 Open Source CMS Award can be found at PacktPub.com/Award

About Packt

Packt is a modern, unique publishing company with a focus on producing cutting-edge books for communities of developers, administrators, and newbies alike.

Packt’s books and publications share the experiences of fellow IT professionals in adapting and customizing today’s systems, applications, and frameworks. Their solutions-based books give readers the knowledge and power to customize the software and technologies they’re using to get the job done.

For more information, please visit www.PacktPub.com.

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Acquia Launches Acquia Search, Drupal Cloud-Based Hosting, and Drupal Stack Installers for Windows and Mac


Andover, MA (PRWEB) March 4, 2009

Acquia today announced the public beta release of Acquia Search, as well as the immediate availability of cloud-based Drupal hosting and Drupal Stack Installers for Windows and Mac. Acquia also announced it has surpassed 45 customers and 50 partners, demonstrating the company’s strong momentum in the market since it launched Acquia Drupal, the Acquia Network, and the Acquia Partner Program last autumn.

“We are very excited about launching Acquia Search and our hosting capability,” said Tom Erickson, Acquia chief executive officer. “These are two key steps in our efforts to simplify and expand Drupal adoption.”

“Acquia subscriptions are a great fit for us because when we use open source technology on the enterprise level, we look for commercial vendors for support,” said Rick Mann, Florida Hospital’s Business Applications Team. “Open source software decisions are made easier knowing there is someone we can call when we have questions or something goes wrong.”

Acquia Search, a hosted Acquia Network service, can be installed as a module on any Drupal 6 site. Acquia Search delivers the capabilities of the Apache Solr search platform as a web service to Drupal websites of any size. Acquia Search results in a dramatically improved search experience through the use of faceted search navigation, content recommendations, and configurable results weighting. Acquia Search is built on a redundant hosted service infrastructure, with no servers to deploy or manage. During the public beta, Acquia Search is available free with any Acquia Network subscription. Free Acquia Network trials are available at http://acquia.com/trial.

“Providing search as a cloud-based service via an open source solution has the potential to draw the attention of enterprises interested in new search-based user experiences, such as faceted navigation and content recommendations. Especially at a time when it may be least affordable to invest in software licenses or to build the skills necessary to leverage these advanced open source capabilities,” said Larry Cannell, an analyst with the Burton Group.

Acquia also entered the hosting business today with the availability of cloud-based Drupal hosting, providing customers with a one-stop shop for Drupal hosting and enterprise-class support. Targeted at large scale sites seeking to scale Drupal to millions of users and page views, Acquia’s Drupal hosting delivers support for multiple server deployments, with high availability and failover support. Pricing is usage-based, offering large-scale websites with a cost-effective mechanism to grow their site to meet changing traffic demands.    

“We recognized the demand for increased search functionality and hosted Drupal options from listening to our customers, partners, and the community,” added Dries Buytaert, Acquia co-founder and Drupal creator and project lead. “We are pleased to be adding these offerings to our current solutions, which have been well accepted as demonstrated by our early customer growth.”

Acquia’s Drupal Stack Installers for Windows and Mac make building a website with Drupal easier than ever. Developers can now install the entire open source stack: Linux, Apache Web Server, MySQL, PHP, and Acquia Drupal in just one click on any local machine running Windows or Mac. The Drupal Stack Installers for Windows and Mac are available for free download on Acquia.com. The Drupal Stack Installer for Linux will be available later this year.

About Acquia

Acquia is a ground-breaking open source software company providing value-added products and services for the wildly popular Drupal social publishing system. Acquia Drupal is a completely free Drupal distribution to help people get started fast and the Acquia Network offers subscription-based access to technical support and remote network services that simplify the deployment and operation of Drupal websites. The people of Acquia believe open source development and social publishing technology have the power to connect people and unleash their collective creative potential. Please visit: http://acquia.com.

About Drupal

The Drupal social publishing system has been downloaded over 2 million times since its inception and powers more than 400,000 web sites globally. Drupal includes an enterprise class content management system and is used to deliver a wide variety of web applications including single or multi-user blogs, wikis, community networks, digital media portals, e-commerce, and many more.

Assisted by a thriving ecosystem of consultants and developers, a diverse set of organizations use Drupal including SonyBMG, Warner Brothers Records, the New York Observer, Forbes, Disney, Intel, Harvard University, and Amnesty International. A huge community has grown up around Drupal, with thousands of active contributors to the open source technology. For more information, visit http://drupal.org.

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Climbing the Ladder of Success ? Drupal has Arrived, Ahead of WordPress and Joomla

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Drupal theme ST Nagara – inspired by the famous BBC


New York, NY (PRWEB) June 23, 2010

WordPress, Joomla and Drupal have thus far been seen to be the three most popular open source Content Management Systems in use on the Internet today. However, things have now changed – at least, the order of popularity is very definitely changing and rapidly! Drupal, which arrived on the scene circa 2006, is a rising high class threat to the others, especially with the latest release a premium Drupal theme ST Nagara, designed by SymphonyThemes.com .

If we place ST Nagara under the ‘Systems microscope’ we find a quality clone of the well-established BBC system. So what’s so good about that? Simply, but not solely, it takes the best of BBC and completes the rest with a consistent look. This enables the user to enjoy a smart grid base layout, enriched typography and the various colour options of ST Nagara (see the demo of Nagara). The British Broadcasting Corporation, well known for many facets of communication for more than eighty years, has a magazines publishing division that now uses Drupal on its several websites.

WHAT CAN YOU CREATE WITH DRUPAL?

That’s easy…from a simple personal homepage to a full company website Drupal provides you with the tool to create anything from a basic home page to a sophisticated commercial entity, Weblog, Dating Website or whatever your favourite type of website might be. There’s almost no limit or restriction on your creative ability with Drupal. With heaps of themes and modules Drupal and ST Nagara the sky’s the limit and the only boundary is your own imagination.

THE RISE

Drupal’s rise to the top is due in large part to the fact that more web designers are now choosing Drupal to use in the development of their more detailed and comprehensive designs. Once they discovered the ease with which Drupal can be applied to choose the ‘use-right-away-templates’ and then to develop websites via these premade tools it became ‘no contest’. Drupal can be the first choice for beginners and experts alike.

So, if you are just starting out as a web developer or you’ve been in the Internet business for years you couldn’t do better than move in with Drupal and the Drupal theme ST Nagara. Together they will show you the way to appealing and successful websites. At the same time they make it very easy to work up a great site that will be more likely to do for you just what you want it to – all you have to do is to get alongside what has been described as the easiest Content Management System that’s alive and kicking on the world wide web.

The fact that Drupal is a free modular CMS makes the system even more incredible. In this day of the almighty dollar being just that – almighty, to be able to enjoy a FREE option in website tools and, at the same time, to have these tools of the highest quality is amazing!

The added bonus that the entire Drupal framework is open source and therefore freely available to everyone is yet another feather in the Drupal cap. When we consider the raison d’etre for the Internet’s existence, that of communication, we have to place Drupal at the top of the pile.

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Acquia Drupal Included With Microsoft


Andover, MA (PRWEB) March 18, 2009

Acquia today announced the availability of Acquia Drupal on the Microsoft Web Platform, allowing website owners to run the Drupal social publishing system on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) web servers. The Microsoft Web Platform offers a complete ecosystem for building and hosting websites, services and applications. By providing Acquia Drupal for the Microsoft Web Platform Installer, Acquia is enabling Microsoft developers around the world to build web applications with Drupal.

“We are very pleased that Microsoft chose to include Drupal in the Microsoft Web Platform,” said Tom Erickson, Acquia chief executive officer. “This is a testament to Drupal’s popularity and influence in the global web developer community and is an important step in our efforts to expand Drupal adoption.”

Installation with the Microsoft Web Platform provides the fastest route to getting Drupal websites installed and running in a Microsoft environment. Developers can select Acquia Drupal in the Windows® Web App gallery and can install the application on either IIS 6.0 and 7.0 web servers. This enables developers to utilize PHP in combination with IIS and Windows to build secure, high performance websites that meet their social publishing requirements. Acquia Drupal is available for the Microsoft Web Platform Installer at http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/AcquiaDrupal.aspx.

About Acquia:

Acquia is a ground-breaking open source software company providing value-added products and services for the wildly popular Drupal social publishing system. Acquia Drupal is a completely free Drupal distribution to help people get started fast and the Acquia Network offers subscription-based access to technical support and remote network services that simplify the deployment and operation of Drupal websites. The people of Acquia believe open source development and social publishing technology have the power to connect people and unleash their collective creative potential. Please visit: http://acquia.com. Download Acquia Drupal at http://acquia.com/downloads.

About Drupal:

The Drupal social publishing system has been downloaded over 2 million times since its inception and powers more than 400,000 web sites globally. Drupal includes an enterprise class content management system and is used to deliver a wide variety of web applications including single or multi-user blogs, wikis, community networks, digital media portals, e-commerce, and many more.

Assisted by a thriving ecosystem of consultants and developers, a diverse set of organizations use Drupal including SonyBMG, Warner Brothers Records, the New York Observer, Forbes, Disney, Intel, Harvard University, and Amnesty International. A huge community has grown up around Drupal, with thousands of active contributors to the open source technology. For more information, visit http://drupal.org.

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Drupal Wins 2009 “Webware 100″ Award for Social & Publishing


Berchem, Belgium (PRWEB) May 21, 2009

The Drupal Association today announced that Drupal has been named to the 2009 Webware 100, receiving top honors in the Social & Publishing category by Webware, a CNET site. With nearly 630,000 votes cast during the online voting poll this year, the Webware awards recognizes the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications on the web today. Drupal is once again a Webware 100 winner, receiving the award for a third consecutive year.

“As a community, we should be extremely proud of this award, and to be included amongst winners such as Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, MySpace and Meebo is great validation for open source social publishing,” said Dries Buytaert, creator and project lead of Drupal. “The Social & Publishing category is consistently one of the most competitive- this year garnering 185,000 votes- more votes than any other. Being ranked in the company of many of the most innovative Web 2.0 organizations and projects is once again a great moment for Drupal.”

Drupal is an open source software project that makes it easy to publish content and build communities. Website administrators use Drupal to customize their website through a configurable user interface, the ability to extend the website with modules, and an extensible framework design. Drupal has been used on many popular and professional sites including Lifetime.com, FastCompany.com as well as, MTV’s Web site in the United Kingdom, MTV.co.uk.

“The Webware 100 Award is a testament to amazing work being done by the Drupal community,” added Tiffany Farriss, Special Projects Manager for the Drupal Association. “Being recognized for a third time demonstrates the strength and viability of Drupal as a leader in publishing technology, as well as the power of open source.”

“This annual listing has become such an essential resource for people who want to learn more about Web 2.0 and the many ways it can help them stay connected,” said Rafe Needleman, editor of Webware and CNET. “The Web 2.0 community and our editors ultimately selected the very best sites, services and applications that have made a lasting impression.”

A complete list of the winners can be found at www.webware.com/100.

About Drupal

The Drupal social publishing system has been downloaded over 2 million times since its inception, and project growth has doubled annually for several years. Drupal is used to deliver a wide variety of application types including single or multi-user blogs, wikis, community networks, digital media portals, and content management systems.

Assisted by a thriving ecosystem of consultants and developers, a diverse list of organizations are using Drupal including Sony Music, Warner Brothers Records, New York Observer, Forbes, The Onion, Harvard University, and Amnesty International. A huge community has grown up around Drupal, with thousands of active contributors to the open source technology, including nearly 4600 community-developed modules for extending Drupal functionality. For more information, please visit http://drupal.org.

About the Drupal Association

The Drupal Association is an organization dedicated to helping the open source Drupal CMS project flourish. Consisting of individual and organizational members, the Drupal Association helps the Drupal community with funding, infrastructure, events, promotion and distribution. For more information, please visit http://association.drupal.org.

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Drupal Wins Best Overall 2008 Open Source CMS Award for Second Year in a Row


Berchem, Belgium (PRWEB) October 31, 2008

The Drupal Association today announced that Drupal has won two prestigious Packt Publishing 2008 Open Source CMS Awards this week – the Overall 2008 Open Source CMS Award and the Best PHP Open Source CMS. This marks the second consecutive year that Drupal has won Packt Publishing’s Overall Open Source CMS award. In addition, on Monday, Packt Publishing recognized leading Drupal contributor Earl Miles as a 2008 Open Source CMS Most Valued Person (MVP).

“To win the Best Open Source CMS Award two years in a row is quite an achievement for Drupal,” said Damian Carvill, Packt Spokesman. “In what were extremely close categories, with high quality finalists, Drupal’s strength and power shone through for the judges. Particular praise was reserved for the development team’s dedication to improving Drupal alongside building a loyal and passionate community, that has enabled its growth, adoption and advocacy. Congratulations from Packt both to the development team and to the community!”

The Packt Publishing awards highlight the growing impact the open source Drupal social publishing system is having on the content management system (CMS) market, specifically with a growing number of case studies in vertical industries such as media and entertainment companies, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations. Drupal usage has grown exponentially in recent years with more than 2 million downloads and an estimated 250,000 Drupal websites worldwide. The Drupal community includes more than 350,000 registered members on Drupal.org.

“These awards are a testament to the valuable contributions from dedicated Drupal community members around the globe,” said Drupal project lead and Acquia CTO Dries Buytaert. “Working together, the Drupal community is building the future of the dynamic web so that anyone can quickly build great social publishing websites.”

Nominations for the Packt Publishing CMS and MVP awards were submitted by the general public. A panel of award judges then chose the finalists, based on systems that received the most nominations. The judges based their choices on multiple factors including performance, usability, accessibility, ease of configuration and customization, scalability and security. Once five finalists were chosen for each category, a voting stage ran from September 1st to October 20th to determine the winners in each category.

The CMS MVP category is a new award in 2008. It is designed to recognize individual contributions to projects that often go unnoticed, particularly outside the CMS’ particular developer community. MVPs were nominated by their community peers and are recognized for the exceptional support, guidance and the sheer amount of time they have donated to support the development and growth of their respective CMS.

Earl Miles, aka merlinofchaos, has been an active contributor since 2005, when he created the Views module, one of Drupal’s most powerful modules which has proven instrumental in Drupal’s meteoric growth. Earl is currently employed by SonyBMG, an organization that uses Drupal extensively, including their Sony MyPlay website. In addition to Views, Earl is a General Assembly member of the Drupal Association and an active participant in the Drupal community. His personal website is http://angrydonuts.com.

In addition to the Packt Publishing awards, 2008 has been a banner year for Drupal awards. In July, Angela Byron, aka webchick, was recognized as Best Contributor in the fourth annual Google-O’Reilly Open Source Awards at OSCON. Angela was recently named Drupal 7 co-maintainer at Drupalcon Szeged 2008. In addition, Drupal project lead and co-founder Dries Buytaert received a number of honors, including Businessweek’s Tech’s Best Young Entrepreneurs and MIT Technology Review’s TR 35 – a list of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35.

About Drupal

The Drupal social publishing system has been downloaded over 2 million times since its inception, and project growth has doubled annually for several years. Drupal is used to deliver a wide variety of application types including single or multi-user blogs, wikis, community networks, digital media portals, and content management systems.

Assisted by a thriving ecosystem of consultants and developers, a diverse list of organizations are using Drupal including SonyBMG, Warner Brothers Records, New York Observer, Forbes, The Onion, Harvard University, and Amnesty International. A huge community has grown up around Drupal, with thousands of active contributors to the open source technology, including nearly 2000 community-developed modules for extending Drupal functionality. For more information, please visit http://drupal.org.

About the Drupal Association

The Drupal Association is an organization dedicated to helping the open source Drupal CMS project flourish. Consisting of individual and organizational members, the Drupal Association helps the Drupal community with funding, infrastructure, events, promotion and distribution. For more information, please visit http://association.drupal.org.

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Drupal Comes to Dallas

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) July 19, 2009

Drupal fever is hitting Dallas. Over the weekend of August 1st-2nd, Drupalers from all over the state of Texas will congregate at Improving Enterprises in Dallas to learn, share, and discuss all things Drupal. Organized by a group of Dallas area Drupal enthusiasts, the camp will feature two full days of sessions. Sessions will cover everything from structured presentations from local and national Drupal experts, to unstructured “Birds of a Feather” sessions, where people with similar interests form small groups to learn and collaborate.

This year, for the first ever Dallas DrupalCamp, the event will feature presentations from local Drupal experts like Ben Finklea, CEO of the Austin area Drupal search engine optimization company, Volacci, and Tom McCracken President of Dallas area Drupal agency, LevelTen Interactive. Sessions plan to cover a wide range of Drupal oriented subjects from setting up a Drupal website for the first time to advanced optimization techniques and how to master niche subjects within the Drupal framework.

The camp will feature three different tracks to accommodate a range of skill sets. The Developer track is for Drupal users who are at an advanced level, and wish to learn more about the inner-workings of the Drupal platform, and how to best use it. The Webmaster track is for those who either know little about Drupal, or who are familiar enough with the platform to get around, but need help to do advanced tasks. The final track is comprised of free form sessions that encourages participation and collaboration. Affectionately referred to as “Birds of a Feather”, these sessions provide the opportunity for anyone to speak on a subject, or for people to get help with their Drupal websites. This year’s DrupalCamp will also provide attendees the opportunity to participate in the Drupal.org website redesign, with official Drupal.org redesign sessions.

Said Lee Raney of Koine Media, a Dallas-based Drupal web development company, “In tough economic times, companies and non-profits are turning to open source solutions like never before. At DrupalCamp, attendees will see that Drupal will not only save them money, but it is truly a better CMS than the proprietary alternatives. Part of the power behind Drupal is the world-wide community, and Drupal has a strong community in Texas as well. That’s why we are excited to be a part of the first-ever DrupalCamp in the state of Texas.”

DrupalCamp Dallas is organized by a team of local Drupal users and agency owners: Lee Raney, Jennifer Conley, Tom McCracken, David Hahn, Randall Knutson, Colin Alsheimer, Dustin Currie and Mark Sonnaubaum.

About Drupal Camp Dallas:

Drupal Camp Dallas is a two day event for Drupal developers, users, and those who are curious about the open source platform. Admission for the event is and users can register on the website, www.drupalcampdallas.org. Admission to the camp will cover all sessions, food at the event, and the first 50 to register will receive a free DrupalCamp Dallas t-shirt. For more information about the camp, visit http://www.drupalcampdallas.org or call 214.887.8586.

About Drupal:

Drupal is a popular content management system that blends web content management and social media capabilities with an enormous library of custom extensions. The Drupal framework and supported exentions are all backed by a large network of professional developers and hobbyists. Using the Drupal framework, companies and individuals can easily create engaging, socially interactive websites.

Drupal powers many popular websites world-wide, including large entertainment companies like Warner Brothers Records, Sony/BMG, CBC, and MTV Europe. Major news and magazine sites like Now Public, FastCompany, Forbes and The New York Observer are powered by Drupal, as well as on-line communities like Team Sugar and Spread Firefox. Finally, Harvard University, Recovery.gov and The United Nations provide other noteworthy examples of Drupal’s strength and versatility.

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