Addressed Heather's edits in 4.1.2 and 4.1.3
Addressed Heather's edits in 4.1.4.1
Addressed other technical edits from previous PR (not merged) in 4.1.4.1
Merge pull request #293 from aaronesilvers/blaster

Addressed Heather's edits in 4.1.2 and 4.1.3