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 Hello World!
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+**If you recieve a `Connection refused` message from Docker for Mac, ensure you are using the latest version of Docker (1.12 or later).** 
+
 Let’s now stop the container. In this example, our app was running as Docker process `2c66d0efcbd4`, which we looked up with `docker ps`:
 
 ```shell