that one is a snippet from a specific report that gets sent as a raw text;
it's being padded so that in courior font it uses lines up in pretty columns.
it's part of a bunch of analysis type stuff i threw together once.
nothing exciting, really...if i did the report again, I'd send it via html.
Lowell
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