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- Get to grips with Amazon Web Services from a Microsoft Enterprise .NET viewpoint
- Fully understand all of the AWS products including EC2, EBS, and S3
- Quickly set up your account and manage application security
- Learn through an easy-to-follow sample application with step-by-step instructions
- Ultimately map, migrate, and extend your .NET application with AWS
Book DetailsLanguage : English
Paperback : 336 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : July 2011
Author(s) : Rob Linton
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Enterprise Products and Platforms, Cloud, Enterprise, .NET, Web Services
Table of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1: Understanding Amazon Web Services
Chapter 2: Mapping your Enterprise Requirements Against Amazon's Offerings
Chapter 3: Getting Started with AWS and Amazon EC2
Chapter 4: How Storage Works on Amazon
Chapter 5: Amazon's Approach to Networking
Chapter 6: Putting Databases in the Cloud
Chapter 7: Migrating your Data and Deploying your Code
Chapter 8: Amazon's Queuing and Notification Options
Chapter 9: Monitoring and Scaling My Application
Chapter 10: Testing and Maintaining the Application
Appendix: AWS Reference
- Chapter 1: Understanding Amazon Web Services
- What AWS is
- What AWS isn't
- PaaS
- SaaS
- So why AWS
- What you should know about AWS
- What to watch out for with AWS
- Drivers of Enterprise Adoption of AWS
- What application models work/don't work in AWS
- One-Tier
- Two-Tier
- Three-Tier
- N-Tier
- Common issues across all architecture models
- Legalities of Cloud Computing
- A brief technical overview of AWS
- Public or Virtual Private Cloud
- The technology behind AWS
- Our sample enterprise application
- Rules of engagement
- What will our sample enterprise application look like
- What will our sample enterprise application do
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Mapping your Enterprise Requirements Against Amazon's Offerings
- AWS offerings
- Simple Storage Service (S3)
- General roles of S3 in the architecture
- Using S3
- S3 features
- Data storage
- Availability
- Data consistency
- Object access
- Using S3 for backup, archiving, and recovery
- Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- General roles of EC2 in the architecture
- Using EC2
- Features of EC2
- Starting instances
- Accessing instances after they have been started
- Types of hardware to run an instance on
- Billing and data transfer
- Elastic IP addresses
- Instance types
- Standard instances
- Micro instances
- High memory instances
- High-CPU instances
- Cluster compute instances
- Cluster GPU instances
- Putting these instances in perspective
- Elastic Block Store (EBS)
- Some things to know about EBS
- Attaching a two TB of disk to an EC2 instance
- Security Groups
- Implementing an example security group for a web application
- Management security group
- Web server security group
- Application server security group
- Database server security group
- Using the AWS console tools
- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Using AWS for testing
- Management servers
- Test servers
- Storage servers
- Storage server security group
- Basic CloudWatch
- Detailed CloudWatch
- Elastic Load balancing (ELB)
- Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
- Replication and availability
- Backups and recovery
- Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
- Publish and subscribe
- General role in the architecture
- Mapping of AWS offerings to our sample application
- Load balancing
- Hardware (Servers)
- Hard disk storage
- Firewall security
- Performance monitoring
- Database servers
- Recapping our sample application's architecture
- Mapping of AWS offerings to other requirements
- Business requirements
- Financial requirements
- Functional requirements
- Security, legal, and regulatory requirements
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Getting Started with AWS and Amazon EC2
- Creating your first AWS account
- Multi-factor authentication
- Registration and privacy details
- AWS customer agreement
- Section 10.2 – Your Applications, Data, and Content
- Section 14.2 – Governing Law
- Section 11.2 – Applications and Content
- Signing in
- Signing up for Amazon S3
- Signing up for EC2
- Starting an EC2 instance
- Creating a security group
- Starting the EC2 instance
- Accessing your EC2 instance
- Configuring your instance
- Starting new EC2 instances from our base image
- Saving your new instances as AMIs
- Using the command line
- Installing the AWS command-line tools
- Installing Java
- Creating a location to store your data
- Getting your security keys
- Downloading and installing the AWS tools
- Creating a file to set up the AWS environment
- Using the command line
- Starting an EC2 instance
- Stopping an EC2 instance
- Summary
- Chapter 4: How Storage Works on Amazon
- Getting started with S3
- Creating a S3 bucket with logging
- Using the S3 command-line tools
- Setting up your credentials with S3.exe
- Copying files to S3 using S3.exe
- Retrieving files from S3 using S3.exe
- Importing and exporting large amounts of data in and out of S3
- Setting up the Import/Export service
- Using the Import/Export service
- Accessing S3 using third-party tools
- Getting started with EBS
- Creating an EBS volume
- Creating an EBS snapshot
- An important note about EBS
- Using the EBS command-line tools
- Setting up storage for our sample application
- Backup storage on S3
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Amazon's Approach to Networking
- An overview of AWS networking
- Examining internal versus external IP addresses
- Allocating elastic IPs
- Security groups and internal versus external IP addresses
- Handling domain controllers in AWS
- Amazon VPC
- Creating the AWS VPC
- Starting servers in your VPC
- AWS elastic load balancing
- Using ELB for HTTPS
- Amazon CloudFront networking
- Setting up the networking for our sample application
- The database layer
- The application server layer
- The web server layer
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Putting Databases in the Cloud
- Examining SQL Server
- SQL Server AMI
- SQL Server costs
- Setting up SQL Server
- Managing the SQL Server
- Connecting to SQL Server
- Integrated security versus mixed mode security
- Windows firewall
- Importing data to the SQL instance
- Using the AWS console on your new SQL Server instance
- Oracle
- Oracle AMIs
- Licensing
- Setting up Oracle
- Managing the Oracle instance
- Importing data to the Oracle instance
- Other Amazon database services
- Amazon RDS
- Setting up the RDS service
- RDS pricing
- Creating an RDS instance
- Connecting to the RDS instance
- Security for RDS
- Managing the RDS instance
- Connect using client tools
- Importing data into the RDS instance
- Amazon SimpleDB
- Getting started with SimpleDB
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Migrating your Data and Deploying your Code
- Sample application code
- Installing the pre-requisites
- Disabling Internet explorer enhanced security configuration
- Installing IIS
- Installing .Net 4.0 and the MVC extensions
- Configuring IIS
- Installing the Application
- Installing the database servers
- Application Servers
- Web Servers
- Testing our sample application
- Troubleshooting our application
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Amazon's Queuing and Notification Options
- Simple Queue Service (SQS)
- Getting started
- SQS Scratchpad
- AWS SDK for .Net library and sample code
- An overview of how SQS works
- Creating your first queue
- Testing the full SQS lifecycle of a message
- SQS pricing and limits
- Simple Notification Service (SNS)
- An overview of how SNS works
- Getting started
- Creating a subscription
- Creating an e-mail subscription
- Testing our SNS subscription
- Testing a HTTP subscription
- SNS pricing and limits
- Applying SQS and SNS to our sample application
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Monitoring and Scaling My Application
- Autoscaling
- Installing the AWS Autoscaling tools
- Installing the CloudWatch API tools
- Architecture changes to Waaah for autoscaling
- Creating the application server load balancer
- Creating the autoscaling configuration
- Creating the launch configuration
- Creating the autoscaling group
- Creating an autoscale policy
- Creating the CloudWatch metric
- Checking our autoscaling
- Final configuration changes
- Pricing for autoscaling
- Using Amazon CloudWatch to monitor our application
- CloudWatch in the AWS console
- Pricing for CloudWatch
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Testing and Maintaining the Application
- Post deployment
- Load testing
- Grinder—an open source load test tool
- Starting the AMI
- Using grinder
- Re-running the test
- Patch Management, Quality Assurance (QA), and backups
- The problem to be solved
- The solution
- Solving the problem, step-by-step
- Bundling the existing production EC2 instances
- Creating new running EC2 instances
- Configuring the new instances
- The solution for the next steps
- Summary
- Appendix: AWS Reference
- List of AWS terms and keywords
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- AWS products covered in this book
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- Command-line tools
- Summary of instance types and costs
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
- Command-line tools
- Approximate costs
- Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
- Command-line tools
- Available EBS Devices
- Approximate costs
- Amazon Autoscaling
- Command-line tools
- Approximate costs
- Amazon CloudFront
- Approximate costs
- Amazon SimpleDB
- Tools are located at
- Approximate costs
- Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
- Command-line tools
- Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
- Command-line tools
- Approximate pricing
- Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
- Command-line tools
- Subscription options
- Approximate pricing
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Command-line tools
- Approximate pricing
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Command-line tools
- AWS console
- Approximate pricing
- Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
- Command-line tools
- Approximate pricing
- Amazon Import/Export
- Command-line tools
- Approximate pricing
- List of AWS data centers and regions
- Location of CloudFront edge locations
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Sample chapters
You can view our sample chapters and prefaces of this title on PacktLib or download sample chapters in PDF format.
What you will learn from this book
- Quickly get up and running by setting up a new account
- Gain a deep understanding of all of the major AWS products including Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Simple Storage Service (S3)
- Get to grips with Elastic Block Store (EBS), Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), and Relational Data Store (RDS)
- Determine with confidence whether your existing Enterprise .NET applications will migrate successfully
- Discover how to map Enterprise application features to AWS features
- Create and configure various resource types using the AWS Web Console
- Take full advantage of a myriad of AWS features to enhance your existing .NET application
- Understand how to manage security in the Amazon Cloud
- Learn to back up and protect your data in AWS
- Migrate your own application through following a step-by-step case study of a sample application
In Detail
Amazon Web Services is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform in the Cloud, which businesses can take advantage of as their needs demand. The Amazon Cloud provides the enterprise with the flexibility to choose whichever solution is required to solve specific problems, ultimately reducing costs by only paying for what you use.
While enterprises understand moving their applications among infrastructure they own and manage, the differences in Amazon's infrastructure bring up specific business, legal, technical, and regulatory issues to get to grips with.
This step-by-step guide to moving your Enterprise .NET application to Amazon covers not only the concept, technical design, and strategy, but also enlightens readers about the business strategy and in-depth implementation details involved in moving an application to Amazon. You'll discover how to map your requirements against the Amazon Cloud, as well as secure and enhance your application with AWS.
This book helps readers achieve their goal of migrating a .NET Enterprise Application to the AWS cloud. It guides you through the process one step at a time with a sample enterprise application migration. After comparing the existing application with the newly migrated version, it then moves on to explain how to make the hosted application better. It covers how to leverage some of the scalability and redundancy built into the Cloud, and along the way you'll learn about all of the major AWS products like EC2, S3, and EBS.
This practical, step-by-step guide follows the process of moving a sample Enterprise .NET application to the Amazon Cloud.
Who this book is for
Companies that have designed, developed, and hosted applications based on the Microsoft .NET technology stack should not miss out on this book. If you are looking to expand into using the vast array of services available on the Amazon Cloud but are unsure how to proceed, then this will help to get you on your way.
Administrators or developers managing such applications should have basic experience of the platform and the web servers that thay are intending to move to Amazon. No knowledge of AWS is required.


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Sub-series consists of outward registration (C.I.9, C.I.9.A) records for Canada and Newfoundland, 1906-1953. The sub-series includes C.I.9 certificates from Vancouver and Victoria; lists of persons to whom C.I.9 and C.I.9A certificates have been issued in Vancouver and Victoria; lists of persons readmitted to Canada at Victoria under C.I.9/ 9-A certificates and other readmissions and cancellations; a Central District register of Chinese out-registrations; a Newfoundland register of arrivals and outward registrations; and a Vancouver out-registration ledger. Under the Chinese Immigration Act, from 1885 to its repeal in 1947, persons of Chinese ancestry wishing to leave Canada temporarily were required to "register out" formally with Immigration authorities. From 1885 to 1903, the Immigration Act provided specifically for the keeping of a register of these departures at each port and the issuing to each person of a "Certificate of Leave [to depart and return]", later called the out-registration or C.I.9 certificate. In 1903 the specific reference to a certificate was removed from the Act, but the documents continued to be issued (See Canada Statutes, 1885 c.71 s.14; C.S. 1903 c.8 s.18; C.S. 1923 c.38 ss.23-24; etc.). From at least 1903 onwards, the certificate was valid for a limited time only, after which the traveller lost his right of re-entry (regardless of original citizenship) and was required to re-apply as if he were a new immigrant. "Native-born" Chinese Canadians were subject to the same out-registration procedures as the foreign-born from at least 1913 onwards, if not earlier. Despite repeal of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1947, C.I.9 certificates continued to be issued as a control measure on a "voluntary" basis until 1952-53. Crewmen of Canadian (and foreign) ships docking at Canadian ports were issued with similar but separate C.I.9A certificates. No copies or registers of records in this series have been transferred to the National Archives, other than references in the lists in the Lists of persons to whom C.I.9 and C.I.9A certificates have been issued in Vancouver and Victoria sub-sub-series (RG76-D-2-d-ii). The name of the person leaving Canada was first entered in out-registration registers kept at the port of departure. Only three of these registers have survived and are included in this sub-series: one created in Toronto for departures dated 1923-1951 (RG76-D-2-d-iv); one for Newfoundland for departures dated 1906-1950 (RG76-D-2-d-v); and one apparently created in Vancouver (for returns dated January 1912 - January 1913, RG76-D-2-d-vi). A certificate was then made out in the traveller's name and either given to the individual or (at least after 1910) deposited at the port of departure. A duplicate was sent to the proposed port of re-entry, if different from port of departure. From at least 1910 onwards, the traveller was also required to leave behind his other identifying certificates (C.I.5, 28, 36, or 45). On return, the C.I.9 was annotated accordingly, and the other documents returned. If the person failed to return within the legal time limit, the certificate was marked as expired and the other documents were forwarded to Ottawa for cancellation. C.I.9 certificates for Vancouver and Victoria (1910-1952) are described in this sub-series (RG76-D-2-d-i). The port was also required to send in regular reports of certificates issued, and certificates redeemed or cancelled. These lists of persons receiving C.I.9 and C.I.9A certificates at Vancouver and Victoria (1913-1953) and lists of persons returning or failing to return under certificates issued at Victoria only (1912-1953), are included in this sub-series (RG76-D-2-d-ii and RG76-D-2-d-iii respectively).
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My opinion is that the current global recession will not end until human societies change. Very difficult, given the nature of political systems and the human condition.
Global human population tripled during the 20th century and is currently near 7 billion. Human population diminishes the planetary resource base, increases demand and prices, and is a cause of the present global recession. Nevertheless, global human population is presently increasing by about 80 million annually. Norman and the United States as a whole have contributed. The U.S. human population quadrupled during the 20th century and continues to increase today. Norman's population was about 27,000 in 1950, 52,000 in 1970, 97,000 in 2000, and was 111,000 in 2010.
None of this population increase seems enough for Chambers of Commerce in Norman, in Oklahoma, and across our land. In The Norman Transcript on June 19th, John Woods, current chair of the Norman C of C, called for us to "build a community of economic success, strong quality of life amenities that attract the next generation of young professionals and families to help fund the critical components of our city that we all care about. We need to begin a dialogue..." This letter is an effort to contribute to that dialogue. My view is that we already have the above listed attributes in Norman and that CofCs call for more growth is detrimental.
One of our City Councilors recently said to me, "If you don't grow, you rot." This reminds of another local issue, NEDA, which is treated here only by implication. In my opinion, the City Councilor's opinion is true only for cultural growth. Human numbers and society are past the point that physical growth becomes detrimental. Furthermore, all forms of physical growth are not sustainable, though often so-called. Malthus spoke more than a century ago to an imbalance between population growth and food supply, an imbalance detrimental to human welfare. Forty-five years ago, Paul Ehrlich wrote The Population Bomb, and Hardin published a collection of numerous papers with dire predictions. These authors were not mistaken, but they were premature because they did not and could not anticipate effects of burgeoning technology, which has greatly facilitated extraction of resources.


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All-time donations to United Way campaigns surpassed $1 billion in 2010?
Many people work in offices or factories. At UPS, we work in communities. Our drivers and other employees are among the first to see the world's homeless, under-educated and abused. They also see our future - the people who will become tomorrow's UPS drivers, programmers and customers.
UPS employees around the world collectively donate hundreds of thousands of hours each year to philanthropic causes in their local communities through the Neighbor to Neighbor program. Community service is also part of UPS's senior level management development program, the Community Internship Program. And each year, thousands of UPS employees participate in the UPS Global Volunteer Month.
We all care about the communities we live and work in, but it often seems that the needs of the less fortunate are too great for one person to affect. By promoting community service as a company-wide value, UPS and its employees transcend these limitations, harnessing our collective effort in ways that make a real difference in communities across the globe.
Volunteerism is clearly an essential component of healthy communities. In this section, you'll read how it's also a significant part of life at UPS.
At the heart of UPS's philanthropic outreach is the Neighbor to Neighbor program. Through Neighbor to Neighbor, UPS employees organize food drives, work in soup kitchens, mentor troubled youth and help to improve impoverished communities across the U.S. and around the world. UPS's employees also volunteer their time as members of boards of directors of nonprofit and non-governmental organizations, and lend their considerable expertise to community organizations as well.
This program mobilizes UPS employees and their families to serve as volunteers in their communities. Implemented in Atlanta in 1993 and then launched globally, the program provides UPS employees and their families hands-on volunteer opportunities where they live and work and is part of an ongoing company-wide effort to heighten awareness for community needs and promote the importance of volunteerism. The program is administered through each district's "Neighbor to Neighbor Coordinator," a UPS employee whose responsibilities include helping employees find appropriate volunteer opportunities based on their skills, interests and time availability.
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I want to be up front here that this is NOT a bash thread!!!! It is a shame to have to begin a thread with such a disclaimer.
There is a Carver Digital HT amp for sale on Ebay, and from a spec/appearance standpoint, it favors the Emotiva pretty heavily. I do know that Phoenix Gold bought Carver, but around the time this amp was to be released, they lost the rights to the Carver name and the project was scrapped. This amp is very rare, but I bet not highly sought after as it is not really a Carver design. The question is did this amp become the beginnings of the Emotiva line? I know there is a relationship there somewhere because the Sunfire Preamp served as the basis for an Emotiva unit.
I am only looking to solve a bit of a mystery here and hope someone here will know the answer.:)


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HOUSTON—It's homecoming season. These days a guy has gotta do more than "just" ask for a date. He needs be creative.
We stopped by Memorial High School and got a sampling of inventive 'asks'.
Take 16-year-old Griffin Doyle who taped a cell phone underneath his date's desk during class and set an obnoxious ring tone. She had to pry the phone free while the other students watched.
"Basically my date said it was most awkward situation in her life," the sophomore said. But when she answered the phone, she told him 'yes.'
Balloons are big. Try drawing pigs' faces on pink helium balloons. 17-year-old Aaron Sunstrum did. When his date opened the box, the balloons floated up and she read the note. Aaron says he wrote: "'I'd ask you to homecoming when pigs fly.' Pigs were flying and she said 'yes!'"
Kai Jones, also 17 and a senior, crafted a balloon bouquet.
"There was a letter of my name in each balloon and since my name is so short, I put in extra notes—nope try again, so she had to pop 'em to figure who had asked her," he said.
Some kids just rely on peer pressure. Jacob Graves enlisted his family and friends. A dozen of them taped the message, "Kylie will you go to homecoming with Jacob please????"
It worked. All the girls said "Yes." Why go through all the trouble instead of just asking for a date?
Russell Frank, 17, who wore a cheerleading outfit to ask his cheerleader girlfriend to the dance, said simply, "'Cause the girls like it."
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FORT STEWART, Ga. - The soldier accused of killing Army Spc. John "Junior" Carrillo Jr. of Stockton at their base camp in Iraq almost two years ago was found guilty Tuesday following 90 minutes of deliberations by a five-member military jury of commissioned and noncommissioned officers.
"I'm happy. I'm really happy. The only thing I'm not happy about is not being able to tell (my son's killer) what I feel," John Carrillo Sr. said from his Stockton home immediately upon learning of the quick verdict announced at the Army base near Georgia's Atlantic coastline.
"What I would have told him was, 'For someone like you to do what you did to someone like my son, it's senseless. You turned two families upside down. You changed their lives forever. I have two grandsons that will grow up without a father - one grandson who will never know his father,' " Carrillo Sr. said.
At the time of his death Sept. 24, 2010, Army Spc. John Carrillo Jr. had been in Iraq for two months following the birth of his second son in Stockton. In addition to his wife and children, Carrillo left behind supportive parents and three younger siblings who considered him their hero. He also was very close to his extended family, including his first cousin Jeane'e Menchaca of Stockton, who wrote the following poem this spring as part of a graduation project:
My Cousin Jay
Tears run down my pillow as I think about your face,
Following as sadness as I'm remembering your grace.
You were taken from me too soon I would say,
Just one month shy of your 21st birthday.
You went to fight a war that was not made for you
But still you went to Iraq knowing I didn't want you to.
It saddens me to think you were taken by a coward,
When all you wanted to do was stop a fight and take a shower.
I hope you're OK up there in the big blue sky
One day I will see you again and we will both fly high.
Until that day comes I will miss you forever,
Your cousin thinks about you no matter the weather.
The weeklong court-martial found Spc. Neftaly Platero, 34, of Kingwood, Texas, guilty of two counts of premeditated murder and one count of attempted murder for the shooting deaths of Carrillo Jr. and Pfc. Gebrah Noonan, 26, of Watertown, Conn., and the serious wounding of Spc. Jeffrey Shonk of Maryland.
All four soldiers were roommates at Camp Fallujah - Carrillo had just moved in with them two days before the shooting - when, according to prosecutors, Platero opened fire with his rifle after complaining that the victims had let their room get too messy.
The case moved directly to the sentencing phase. Platero faces life in prison.
Prosecutors said Platero opened fire on his roommates as they readied for bed Sept. 23, 2010. Noonan was fatally shot in his side and back after having returned from a shower. Carrillo was shot while rummaging through his backpack. He died after midnight on Sept. 24. His family said he was still wearing headphones from his MP3 player when he was found.
The fourth soldier, Shonk, survived after a bullet creased his skull while he was lying on his bunk. He testified he cannot remember the shootings, including who pulled the trigger.
No one else witnessed the shootings. Staff Sgt. Jhamaal Martin, who testified he was one of the first to rush into the room, said Shonk was able to speak and told him: "Platero shot us." None of the medics who treated the wounded soldier could recall him speaking. Platero's defense attorneys insisted Martin's account was a fabrication.
After the verdict was announced in the courtroom, Noonan's father, William Noonan, hugged prosecutors and soldiers from his son's unit. Other family members dabbed their eyes with tissues and cried.
"I'm really kind of numb," Noonan said. "It's just the shock of it all. I'm still processing it."
Platero did not testify during his trial. His attorney, Guy Womack, said Army investigators rushed to focus on Platero as their only suspect even after forensic evidence failed to determine him the shooter. Eighteen spent bullet casings were recovered from the room, and several matched Platero's assault rifle. But skin samples taken from his right hand soon after the shootings tested negative for gunshot residue.
Womack said prosecutors also had a flimsy motive. Platero's supervisors testified he came to them twice hours before the shootings to complain that his roommates were letting their room get too dirty. Prosecutors said Platero became angry after all four roommates, including Platero, were told they would be subjected to extra room inspections.
"We're happy that he was found guilty," said Desiree Carrillo, John Carrillo Jr.'s mother. "We'll never get our son back. It's some closure, but he's still gone."


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Instructor-led classes are offered daily during the academic year, a reduced schedule is offerted over breaks.
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Harriers Tested At 'Bama
Kemper Morton and Jess Butler were FSU's top finishers at Friday's Crimson Classic
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'Noles, revamped course ready for FSU Invitational
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FSU XC men, women capture team titles; Hall edges Butler for top spot
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Just in case you are having a rough day, here's a stress managementtechnique that really works:
1. Picture yourself lying on your belly ona warm rock that hangs out over a crystal clear stream.
2. Picture yourself with both your handsdangling in the cool running water.
3. Birds are sweetly singing in the coolmountain air.
4. No one knows your secret place.
5. You are in total seclusion from thathectic place called the world.
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"A strong man stands up for himself. A stronger man stands up for others."
The old sheriff was attending an awards dinner when a lady commented
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The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant,
it is just that they know so much that isn't so.
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"It's a great life. You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If your honest , your poor your whole life. And , In the end , you wind up dying all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothing. For a tin star."
Far from being a handicap to command, compassion is the measure of it. For unless one values the lives of his soldiers and is tormented by their ordeals , he is unfit to command.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.- The bands were booming at the 10th Annual John Merritt classic. Tennessee State hosted Southern University for the game Saturday night at LP field.
The Tigers were trailing 11 to nothing in the third quarter. Antonio Heffner, eludes the rush, but as he got rid of it, he was crushed. The ball fell into the hands of Chris Johnson, and Johnson with a big blue caravan paving the way, goes ahead for the touchdown.
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New sales tax ordinance has been passed by Plattsmouth City Council. Provisions in the measure to start April 1st, 2010 according to the Cassgram.
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JERUSALEM -- With general elections two weeks away, current polls continue to give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling party the lead. But complacency among his supporters and a series of campaign blunders appear to have eaten away at his support and strengthened his right-wing rival, Naftali Bennett.
While Netanyahu's main rivals on both sides of the political map have published a clear platform on domestic and foreign policy, the ruling party has avoided doing so. Despite a common argument that official party platforms are an anachronism and that most key developments have typically come as a surprise, observers were keen to see how a platform would deal with Netanyahu's landmark Bar-Ilan speech.


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Sunday, September 23
Registration prior to the event is free – nwwishes.org
Born legally blind and in complete kidney failure at age 12, Renae was diagnosed with Senior Lokens, an extremely rare genetic disorder that at the time only affected one person in the United States annually.
She underwent dialysis for 10 hours a day, seven days a week for 18 months before receiving a kidney from her mother. Renae thought her life had finally changed but her difficulties had only just begun. After complications from the kidney transplant, Renae underwent 25 surgeries while in and out of the hospital for two years. Doctors then diagnosed Renae with cancer.
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Library Trustees Meeting
Sept 5, 2007
7:00 p.m.
Medway Public Library
MaryAnn Cabibbo, Vice Chairman
Elliott Edwards
Meena Jain
William Roberts, Secretary
Wendy Rowe, Chairman
Margaret Perkins
Motion to approve agenda: MAC1, EE2, unanimous
Motion to approve August 7 minutes: MAC1, WLR2, 4 aye, 0 nay, 1 abstention (Meena missed the meeting)
Some Minuteman improvements are in the works for the catalog website.
Wendy didn't talk to the Selectmen about our hours. Seems pointless. We will continue to spend at roughly our current rate to ensure that we're able to stay open through next year.
There was a continuation of last month's discussion of Patricia Robertson's generous bequest of $25,000 to the Friends.
It was agreed not to do something special with it (including being open extra hours), but Wendy will forecast the finances and likely ask Dee to disburse some so we could spend it instead of more Tuchinsky Trust Fund Interest.
Next meeting October 2
Motion to adjourn (7:45): EE1, MJ2, unanimous


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As of Saturday, March 24, 2012
© Copyright 2014 Newton Citizen
I want to commend Rockdale County for providing a location for the Clothes Closet. Many blessings came from this generosity.
It is so sad that they now must close their doors because of the deterioration of the building. We ask the Board of Commissioners to step up to the plate and find a new (free) location.
When I worked for the United Way I always said, do what you can do for those less fortunate, maybe one day you will be one of them. I am trusting the commissioners will do what is right.
-- Lon R. Bedillion
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Two Huskies headed across the Canadian border this week to compete in the Canadian Amateur at the Craigowan Oxford Golf & Country Club.
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Washington continued to play well at the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship from the Home Course in DuPont.
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The Washington women continued strong play at the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship led by SooBin Kim who finished the stroke play portion of the tournament in a tie for second place.
Four Dawgs In Top-20 At U.S. Pub Links Amateur
Each of the four Huskies competing at the U.S. Women Amateur Public Links Championhips are off to a strong start in their home state at the Home Course.
Luo, Yang Earn WGCA Scholar All-America Honors
The Women's Golf Coaches Association announced the 2013-14 Scholar All-America Team with two Washington representatives.
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Husky alum Molly Aronsson shot a final-round even-par 72 to capture the 2014 Island Resort Championship on Sunday at Sweetgrass Golf Club.


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FORT MILL — Titans and Dragons are coming to Fort Mill.
Fort Mill students have helped name the mascots that will represent Tega Cay and Doby's Bridge elementary schools, both of which are under construction and are slated to open in August.
Students submitted names and color schemes for the new schools and voted for the final selections, said Scott Frattaroli, Doby's Bridge Elementary School principal.
Doby's Bridge will be represented by a Dragon with a black and gold color scheme. Tega Cay Elementary students will sport blue and green colors as the Titans, Frattaroli said.
"We wanted to break the mold and make sure the elementary schools had their own identity," he said.
Now that the mascots and colors have been chosen, Frattaroli said graphic arts students from Nation Ford and Fort Mill high school designed the logos as a class project.
Faculty members and families will vote on the logos Thursday, Feb. 27. Students whose logos are chosen will receive a $25 iTunes gift card and be recognized at the next school board meeting, Frattaroli said.
Frattaroli said the logo design process provides a unique opportunity for the high school designers.
"They get to be part of history," he said.
The high school students have the chance to learn what it is like to work professionally.
"They treated us like we were customers," Frattaroli said. "It's a win, win for the district."
Frattaroli said they wanted a logo that is powerful, but appropriate for elementary-age students and appeals to both males and females.
"We want something representative of our schools," he said.
Titan time
The Tega Cay Titans are sure to have a logo that embodies the name, said Chris Gardner, Tega Cay Elementary principal.
"I'm very impressed by what the students have come up with," he said. "The graphic design teachers have been incredible to work with and the students are extremely talented."


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A special time of year. It only comes ones. May all our {Nightmares} be at peace. Or will every one have a {Bloody} good time. Come {Halloween}.
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On August 7th I had to have my Cat Sammy put to sleep. He was 11 Years old. He got sick and no matter what we were trying to do things were not working in his favor.I have been quite sad.Then on August one day after my birthday I went to an animal shelter and got 2 kittens that are 3 months old.There names are Zia & Gracie. Zia is black and Gracie is a smoke gray.So cute. They will grow up to be wonderful ware cats!!LOL I still miss Sammy but he would not have wanted me to be alone.I rescued them from sure death.Now I have happiness in my life once again!!!
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It's been nearly 11 months since we first heard about Tagboard, the Redmond startup that curates social media content for brands. The company has been making moves since then and on Wednesday announced $2 million in funding and several major partnerships. Tagboard is capitalizing on the usage of hashtags in social media and essentially has… Read More
Tagboard teams up with GoHuskies.com to help aggregate social media
While the Washington Huskies were playing football 2,600 miles away against the Louisiana State Tigers in Baton Rouge, Daniel Hour sat in a Seattle coffee shop scrolling through his Twitter feed. As the University of Washington athletics manager of new media and recruiting services, the social media guru was looking for Tweets containing the #UWvsLSU hashtag. One Tweet… Read More


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---- — TRAVERSE CITY — It's easy to spot courage when it's the kind that soldiers or firefighters or police officers display when they put their own lives in danger for the sake of saving others. But years of writing stories about ordinary people who do extraordinary things has taught me that sometimes the most courageous ones are those we see everyday.
They are the people who refuse to focus on themselves, especially when confronting some of life's most dire struggles. They are people who insist on doing for others, expecting nothing in return.
It is a lesson I learned early in my career and have revisited almost daily while listening to people explain in detail some of the worst times of their lives. It is a lesson I was reminded of this week while sitting next to Chris Stein in his livingroom.
He didn't run into a burning building or step in front of a speeding bullet. Although he probably would have if the opportunity presented itself.
No, Stein is a hero defined by a lifetime spent thinking of others.
Whether he was sacrificing family time to help lead troops of Boy Scouts on outings or helping a neighbor with a chore, Stein rarely has focused on himself.
"Chris is about the most un-selfish person I've ever met," said Tim Coggins, one of Stien's longtime friends. Coggins struggled to find words to explain what makes the man special.
Stein's burly, bearded grin has greeted and guided countless young men into adulthood, Coggins said.
Yes, Stein explained his medical struggles and his past work as a Boy Scout scoutmaster during our interview, but he often steered the conversation toward the dozens of people who recently spent a Saturday replacing the roof on his house.
He questioned why so many people would so readily volunteer a weekend to fix his house. It's time they could have spent helping other people "who need it more," Stein said.
Then, while walking to my car and talking briefly about what brought my family back to our home state from Wyoming after eight years away, it happened.
His hand wrapped around mine for a moment as the bear of a man looked me in the eye and said, "My family will be praying for your family."
A man who had every reason to be concerned about nothing but his own challenges was more concerned about my family's well being than that of his own.
Tuesday afternoon, I asked some of Stein's friends to explain why they made the effort to gather 80 people to do the job.
I asked them to put into words something that is nearly unexplainable.
They couldn't find the words and neither could I.
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"I feel very proud to be a part of a national team that's gone down in Maltese footballing history," said a clearly thrilled Malta goalkeeper Justin Haber on 8 June 2013, the day his side beat Armenia 1-0 away from home in a 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ qualifier. For coach Pietro Ghedin and his charges, they had achieved Malta's first competitive win on their travels since another 1-0 success in Estonia back in May 1993.
Haber's team-mates Edward Herrera and Clayton Failla were quick to broadcast their delight via the medium of Facebook and dubbed the match "the perfect way to round off the season". In the words of Failla, his feelings "are difficult to put into words. For us it's like the icing on the cake. We've worked very hard for a long time for this."
Ghedin to the rescue
The Maltese were not only able to celebrate their first three points in Brazil 2014 qualifying, they can also savour a significant leap up the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking. In the latest edition of the standings, they have moved up no fewer than 23 places to 133, their highest position for nearly six years.
One of the key factors in this rise is, without a doubt, the work put in by coach Ghedin. The 60-year-old supremo, at the helm since May 2012, boasts a more than respectable record since taking the post, having won four matches, drawn one and lost five. "We need to believe that we can improve," he had said upon his appointment. "It'll be a challenge for me and for the players too."
The Italian strategist previously held the same role between 1993 and 1995, with a record of four wins and five draws from 24 games. The period also helped the former Lazio defender gain valuable coaching experience, which would subsequently open the door to opportunities such as, among others, being Italy's assistant coach at France 1998, Korea/Japan 2002, UEFA EURO 2000 and EURO 2004.
Step by step towards a brighter future
Haber and Co's next aim is to continue furthering the Red-and-whites' cause on the international stage by drawing inspiration from their triumph on Armenian soil. "I'm proud of being Maltese and of winning away against a team that's much higher-ranked than we are," said the goalkeeper, following the win in the Republican Stadium in Yerevan.
The Knights have lodged other respectable results in recent years, including February 2011's 0-0 draw with Switzerland and a 1-1 against FYR Macedonia six months prior to that. But, as so often happens in life, the Maltese had to hit rock bottom before bouncing back.
After sinking down to a historic low of 173rd in July 2011, they began to progressively rise back up the rankings. However, they have some way still to go before reaching their best-ever placing of 66th, which they held between September 1994 and September 1995.
Opponents be warned
"We only ever play to win but, obviously, you have to be realistic too. When you play the top sides, it [winning] is a very tough task," said former Malta boss John Buttigieg, in the post between 2009 and 2011, when speaking to FIFA.com during his reign. "We always try to put in a good performance though. That can sometimes mean we get a draw, or just miss out on a point."
Capped 97 times by Malta during his playing days, Buttigieg was his country's first native coach since Pippo Psaila occupied the hotseat between 1991 and 1993. "It's always hard for a small nation like ours to play against the big footballing countries," said Buttigieg.
"Maltese players, past and present, have always taken great pride in playing for their country. It's a great honour, whether you're a player or a coach. We just try to give it our all out there."
Current incumbent Ghedin will surely demand nothing less either, with the result that upcoming opponents Bulgaria, Denmark and Czech Republic will need to be wary of the Maltese threat. Indeed, who knows when the Knights could gallop away with their next big scalp?
Calculation of points for a single match
P = M x I x T x C
M: points for Match result
Teams gain 3 points for a victory, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a defeat. In a penalty shoot-out, the winning team gains 2 points and the losing team gains 1 point.
I: Importance of match
Friendly match (including small competitions): I = 1.0
FIFA World Cup™ qualifier or confederation-level qualifier: I = 2.5
Confederation-level final competition or FIFA Confederations Cup: I = 3.0
FIFA World Cup™ final competition: I = 4.0
T: strength of opposing Team
The strength of the opponents is based on the formula: 200 – the ranking position of the opponents.As an exception to this formula, the team at the top of the ranking is always assigned the value 200 and the teams ranked 150th and below are assigned a minimum value of 50. The ranking position is taken from the opponents' ranking in the most recently published FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking.
C: strength of Confederation
When calculating matches between teams from different confederations, the mean value of the confederations to which the two competing teams belong is used. The strength of a confederation is calculated on the basis of the number of victories by that confederation at the last three FIFA World Cup™ competitions (see following page). Their values are as follows:
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Much has been written about the financial and economic causes of this disaster. Much less notice has gone to another factor that ...