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+Bootstrap Material Design
+=========================
+
+This Bootstrap theme is an easy way to use the new Material Design guide-lines by Google in your Bootstrap 3 based application.
+Just include the theme right after the Bootstrap CSS and include the javascript at the end of your document, everything will be converted to Material Design (paper) style.
+
+This theme is in early developement and is not ready for production.
+
+
+Currently supported elements:
+
+- Input fields (text, numeric, email, etc)
+- Textarea
+- Buttons (ripple effect working)
+- Select
+- Navbar
+- Button groups
+- Input groups
+- Checkbox
+- Radio
+- Alerts
+- Progress bars
+- Jumbotron
+- Wells
+- Dialogs