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-Phalcon PHP Framework
-=====================
+Phalcon Framework
+=================
 
-Phalcon PHP is a web framework delivered as a C extension providing high performance and lower resource consumption.
+Phalcon is a web framework delivered as a C extension for the PHP language providing high performance and lower resource consumption.
 
 Get Started
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-Phalcon PHP is written in C with platform independence in mind. As a result, Phalcon PHP is available on Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, You can either download a binary package for the system of your choice or build it from sources.
+Phalcon is written in C with platform independence in mind. As a result, Phalcon is available on Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, You can either download a binary package for the system of your choice or build it from sources.
 
 ### Windows
 
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 Current Build Status
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-Phalcon PHP Framework is built under Travis CI service. Every commit pushed to this repository will queue a build into the continuous integration service and will run all PHPUnit tests to ensure that everything is going well and the project is stable. The current build status is:
+Phalcon Framework is built under Travis CI service. Every commit pushed to this repository will queue a build into the continuous integration service and will run all PHPUnit tests to ensure that everything is going well and the project is stable. The current build status is:
 
 [![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/phalcon/cphalcon.png?branch=master)](http://travis-ci.org/phalcon/cphalcon)