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-The Spring Shell project provides an extensible interactive shell enviornment with a simple Spring based plugin model.
+The Spring Shell project provides an extensible interactive shell enviornment with a simple Spring based plugin model. 
 
 This is essentially a place holder README file until this project gets its sealegs.