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-\section*{Acknowledgments}
-This work was performed in the context of the NWO STARE
-AstroStream project.  We gratefully acknowledge NVIDIA, and in
-particular Dr. David Luebke, for providing freely some of the GPU
-cards used in this work. 
+%% \section*{Acknowledgments}
+%% This work was performed in the context of the NWO STARE
+%% AstroStream project.  We gratefully acknowledge NVIDIA, and in
+%% particular Dr. David Luebke, for providing freely some of the GPU
+%% cards used in this work. 
 
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