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@@ -45,15 +45,6 @@ Locally you must have  `Flask <http://flask.pocoo.org/>`_ and
 the Flask debug server, as it is faster and better. To run tests
 `Nose <https://nose.readthedocs.org>`_ is required.
 
-If you're using Sheepdog inside of iPython Notebook, use of the Tornado server
-can be troublesome (see `https://github.com/adamgreig/sheepdog/issues/15`_),
-so consider falling back to the Flask server by:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    >>> import sheepdog
-    >>> sheepdog.server.USE_TORNADO = False
-
 Synchronous Map
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