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@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ If you wish to modify this code while also modifying a project that depends upon
   2. Then update the pom.xml of the dependent project to temporarily depend upon the particular SNAPSHOT version of utils-java now installed in your local maven repository.
 
 Eclipse users: 
- * First update the dependencies in your poms first to point to the SNAPSHOT versions as mentioned above.
+ * First update the dependencies in your poms to point to the SNAPSHOT versions as mentioned above.
  * Then for each of utils-java, dataflow-java, etc... in Eclipse do: `File -> Import -> Maven -> Existing Maven Projects`
  * If at any point in Eclipse becomes confused (lot of red X's) in Eclipse do: `Project -> Clean -> Clean All Projects`