diff --git a/docs/AWS_DEPLOYMENT.md b/docs/AWS_DEPLOYMENT.md
index 0dcdc42e8ae52476687a6cccdc739aea36b9af09..130e68f89c3d2e753e95206f75b0b463e5ccf4d5 100644
--- a/docs/AWS_DEPLOYMENT.md
+++ b/docs/AWS_DEPLOYMENT.md
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ going to deploy.  Once chosen, invoke deploy.js like this:
         "ipAddress": "184.73.84.132"
     }
 
-
 The output contains instructions for use.  Note that every occurance of 
 `some_name_i_chose` will be replaced with the name *YOU* chose.
 
@@ -106,7 +105,6 @@ branch:
 
     $ git push -f some_name_i_chose myotherbranch:master
 
-
 ## Seeing what VMs you have running
 
     $ scripts/deploy.js list
@@ -148,4 +146,3 @@ access to:
 Feel free to start a new server, and ssh in as `app` to explore all of the
 configuration.  An attempt has been made to isolate as much configuration 
 under this user's account as possible.
-
diff --git a/docs/DEPLOYMENT.md b/docs/DEPLOYMENT.md
index 892a3b243f9469523ce5d75345dd902f54f375ec..dbe79f91025826aa8e804402dcc18f09c0e5470e 100644
--- a/docs/DEPLOYMENT.md
+++ b/docs/DEPLOYMENT.md
@@ -299,5 +299,3 @@ create a file as root at `/etc/logrotate.d/browserid`:
 Now your logfiles will be automatically rotated.
 
 easy, right?
-
-
diff --git a/docs/LOAD_GENERATION.md b/docs/LOAD_GENERATION.md
index 83fa72b68cb18d5dea86e4d202fc4269694ef017..ac798ed1ed13362d5aba29fc764c072a650934a1 100644
--- a/docs/LOAD_GENERATION.md
+++ b/docs/LOAD_GENERATION.md
@@ -62,4 +62,3 @@ could account for browser caching here with another factor).
 
 The result of this is a description of each activity in terms of network
 transactions that can be expressed in code.   
-
diff --git a/docs/TESTING.md b/docs/TESTING.md
index 3a8273ad10d3bcaa66f44ac56851d4a6a94050c6..1578e0939152670414f2533b5fb84d326a38290b 100644
--- a/docs/TESTING.md
+++ b/docs/TESTING.md
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ Developer tests should be run before commiting code. There are two test suites.
 
   # `npm test`
 
-  # Load http://localhost:10002/test/index.html into a world wide web browser
\ No newline at end of file
+  # Load http://localhost:10002/test/index.html into a world wide web browser