diff --git a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/dataSources/shards/AdaptiveShardStrategy.java b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/dataSources/shards/AdaptiveShardStrategy.java
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-package org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.dataSources.shards;
-
-import net.sf.samtools.SAMSequenceDictionary;
-
-/**
- *
- * User: aaron
- * Date: Apr 6, 2009
- * Time: 7:18:19 PM
- *
- * The Broad Institute
- * SOFTWARE COPYRIGHT NOTICE AGREEMENT 
- * This software and its documentation are copyright 2009 by the
- * Broad Institute/Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All rights are reserved.
- *
- * This software is supplied without any warranty or guaranteed support whatsoever. Neither
- * the Broad Institute nor MIT can be responsible for its use, misuse, or functionality.
- *
- */
-
-
-/**
- * @author aaron
- * @version 1.0
- * @date Apr 6, 2009
- * <p/>
- * Class AdaptiveShard
- * <p/>
- * A descriptions should go here. Blame aaron if it's missing.
- */
-class AdaptiveShardStrategy extends ShardStrategy {
-
-    // default the next size to 100,000
-    private long nextShardSize = 100000;
-
-    /**
-     * the constructor, taking a seq dictionary to parse out contigs
-     *
-     * @param dic the seq dictionary
-     */
-    AdaptiveShardStrategy(SAMSequenceDictionary dic, long startSize) {
-        super(dic);
-        this.nextShardSize = startSize;
-    }
-
-    public void setNextShardSize(long size) {
-        nextShardSize = size;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * This is how the various shards strategies implements their approach
-     *
-     * @return the next shard size
-     */
-    protected long nextShardSize() {
-        return nextShardSize;
-    }
-}