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-====
-
-    Copyright (C) 2011 Cloud Conscious, LLC. <info@cloudconscious.com>
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-    ====================================================================
-    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-    you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-    You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-    limitations under the License.
-    ====================================================================
-====
-
 Overview:
  
 jclouds is an open source library that helps you get started in the cloud
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 our current version is 1.0.0
 our dev version is 1.0-SNAPSHOT
  
+check out our examples site! https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-examples
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 our compute api supports: aws-ec2, gogrid, cloudservers-us, stub (in-memory), deltacloud,
                           cloudservers-uk, vcloud (generic), ec2 (generic), byon, nova,
                           trmk-ecloud, trmk-vcloudexpress, eucalyptus (generic),