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Hey everyone.I wasn't sure if I should have stuck this on an existing thread or start a new one?I didn't want it to "get lost" in a thread,so I thought it best to start anew,so here it goes.Anyway, I wanted to get some feedback from as many as I can in here,because this is what I have been planning/wanting to do for a long,long time.I only wish I would have jumped on it sooner when the economy was in better shape and I had more money at my disposal.
So, I was wanting to know what kind of interest there might,or will be having armature parts made for some of you,or those who are interested?I'm in the midst of getting a couple of machines.I have a small Logan lathe,but it needs some work/TLC and to be tooled up some. I'm looking at another mill right now,but it might prove too pricey.I haven't received word on a price as of yet.
The machinery itself might not be too great of an expense with the exception of the mill(yet to be determined),the cost of freight and tooling. Tooling (good tooling) is very expensive,not to mention turning these buggers on.Even on a 220 outlet,which is where "cost/what to charge" comes into play.I'm certainly not into over charging or taking advantage of others,especially in here. However,one has to understand the expense of of running mills and lathes and there needs to be a reasonable fee to cover the expenses.
Many shops charge a flat "set up fee" just for turing the power on and puttting someone on a machine to machine parts which tends to be fairly steep.I looked into it at one time (out of curiosity) just to have some S.S ball bearings drilled and it was $600 before anyone actually did anything (which didn't include the time/labor calculated in).I think the labor was estimated in the vacinity of $400 per hr.I'm pretty sure I can do way better than that.
My machinist skills are "good",but not great.I'm not as proficiant as I was say...10-14 years ago when all I did day in and day out was make parts/projects on a Southbend and Bridgeport all day long 5 days a week.I've also never machined an armature(yet),and there is an art and skill to that as many of you know.
What I have been wanting to do for a long time was design/machine puppets and armatures/joints (drill out ball bearings,make ball/socket,hinge and collet joints),make custom (or basic/generic)supporting rigs,or tools that are used in stop-motion, or for machining armature parts for others such as "jigs&fixtures" for some of you out there who have mini mills or just a drill press and other miscelaneous/custome parts/projects.Basically my main idea was to do that.
I was curious to know how many of you out there would be interested in a service such as that?I'm not sure how much business I'd get,or if many of you would want or be interested in it?I'm not trying to steel anyone's thunder away,and I know that many of you are on a budget(the same as me).There's dozens of ways to design an armature (armature parts/joints) that don't have to cost thousands of dollars.Plus,I'm in here to learn the same as you and to help others if can.
Nothing is set in stone yet,and I'm a ways from getting a shop space together,so don't jump the gun yet.I'm just looking to hear from others in here,get some feed back and opinions on this for right now. This would certainly help me in any decision making and give me an idea of where to spring board to.Opinions,ideas,suggestions would be greatly appreciated on this matter.
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I think it will be impossible to tell beforehand how much interest there will be for something like that, because usually the people who post asking where to get armatures are total newbies we've never heard of before or who have maybe posted a couple of times, not usually regular members. I mean there may well be a few regular member who are interested in services like that too, but probably only a few - but I have a feeling if you build it they will come, ya know. Maybe not right away either - it might be a smattering of people now and then and then suddenly a big job or 2.
Probably the thing to do is to go ahead when you're set up and crank out an armature or two and show your work, let people see what you can do. Then hopefully somebody gets something from you and gives a thumbs up on quality and that would open the door for you. It's good to hear you're getting the wheels turning on that big machine! Or warming it up anyway - I can feel the hum in the air.
Hey Mike!Well,that's sort of the idea.I know "seeing is believing".I've been wanting to machine an armature for a long time so it can be critiqued (hopefully constructively).I just never had an opportunity/access to the machines to do that in the past .What I'd like to do (for starters) is just work on my own stuff (show it in here) and then,like you said,"if you build it,they will come"(hopefully).I'm not anticipating on getting rich doing this.Mostly I'm doing it because "I like doing it" and "I want to".I'm stretching here,but I'm hoping that "not just specializing in armatures and puppet fabrication" and branching out to make stop-motion tools like rigs,or machining jigs/fixture tools for others for say..."drilling S.S bearings",or other fixtures will be something that might get other peoples interest in here as well.It'll make fabricating armatures for other animators "easier"because not everyone can buy a milling machine or engine lathe."Hypothetically" purchasing a $150-$200 jig,or fixture for drilling ball bearings on a drill press or mini mill or a fixture for holding small parts for say machining "mulitple" sandwich ball/socket joints, or hinge joints,or simple machin tools would be worth the money in the long run because it will be a precision tool that will last.Yeah,I can hear the hum of the machine when the switch is being flipped too.Its a nice,"small" tool room milling machine w/a bridgeport head attachment and some tooling.I'm waiting on what condition the machine is in and what the price tag is going to be?Freight is always a killer.
Oh man - yeah frieght will really be something on a machine like that! I bought a barrel on eBay a while back that only cost $30, but was amazed that shipping was $99!!!
And I think it's a great idea to offer jigs - you could easily sell quite a few for people with drill presses who have trouble drilling steel balls.
Yeah,even being a "small" tool room mill,it still weighs in at a stout 1,000 pounds.Yeah,its little things like that I want to see if pepole will be interested in.Tools to invest in,not just cheap "throw aways".I'm a big believer in "you get what you pay for".
Sorry to say I probably wouldn't be a customer, because I get good results with wire armatures, and I've used them so much I actually prefer a good wire armature to 3/4 of the jointed armatures I've animated on other people's projects. But also, I'm in Australia. If I did want joints for a particular project, I'd probably go to this guy Gary who's about 15 minutes away, rather than having stuff shipped from the opposite side of the world. He has a workshop stuffed with 3or 4 massive lathes, and at least 3 mills, and has done armature work for a few productions. Here's his website: http://www.eccentricengineering.com.au/index.php?option=com_content... I suffered serious tool envy when I saw his workshop, and I don't even do much machining or turning.
If I lived in the US, and didn't know of a local machinist with a good feel for stop motion requirements, it would be a different story.
Offering jigs is a good idea. Gary sells a couple of items like a diamond tool holder that he can always make more of. Stock joints is also a good way to go, so different lengths of rod can be fitted.
I'm in the UK and there are a few animation websites that offer armature kits, some better than others. At the moment I am using armature kits and individual components from http://www.animationtoolkit.co.uk, I had used a different brand before and it was rubbish. Like you have done, Wes the owner put a post on here to advertise his site and he has obviously had good results as he has sold out of his "economy" double joints already. Plus I tend to send him an email near enough every day with some question or other and his customer service is second to none. I believe that if the joints/ kit that you create are of a high standard and affordable then you will be successful, and this is a great place to spread the word. As Strider said, if you could get an armature together for all to see that would help massively, as most ball joints are of different designs and sizes which I personally have to consider carefully when choosing ball joints. Best of luck and looking forward to seeing an armature
Oh and as a side note, one major difference i noticed between armature joints is what they use to hold the plates together. The first kit I used had a countersunk bolt with a screw head and my new joints use an Allen key head, also countersunk. It is such a small change but the benefits of the Allen key head are massive. It means I don't have to feel around inside my puppet with a large screwdriver head, tearing everything to pieces, I simply insert the allen key which in comparison is wafer thin, maybe something to consider? But that's just my personal views.
Hey Nick/Will,thanks for chiming in and giving some feedback(just what I need).Well,I understand that some folks prefer to make their own armatures,or prefer a certain type of armature like you do Nick.There is the cost and convienance of where you have things made,and if it were me...I'd probably stick with "locally made components" if the person is experienced in making them.There is a cost difference,and for you Nick...I imagine a "time turn around".Even if I can make the same part or tool in the same amount of time,you still have to wait for the shipping unless you want to pay HUGE dollars to have it mailed in 2-3 days-not cost effective.
As far as the armature parts I'm intending on making,I can go about this a few different ways. I can make some *basic* armatures of common scales.Maybe a 1/6 or 1/7 scale, 1/8 scales for "generic" human armatures.Most other things will need to be customed to an extent.I've also an idea of offering the option of having "economical" armarture joints where any machining is just performed/restricted to fabricate the joints themselves and they are attached to the "customers" choice of materials be it the ends are threaded and they are screwed together,epoxied or scred/soldered or epoxied into K&S tubing etc.Then a more fully machined armature where the joints are machined into solid stock of various metals be it tool steel,stainless,aluminum,brass or bronze and so on which would be your more "expensive" armature.
I personally think that an allen head key is more practical than fishing around in a puppet armature for a slot for a flat screw driver.There might be instances where different screws will be needed for certain assemblies such as for hands if a fully articulated/jointed hand is desired over using *wire* for hands/fingers, or for joints/assemblies where an allan head screw is too big and you need something smaller to conceal it in the armature.So I have these ideas floating around in my head along with providing tool or jig/rig design.That's kind of the direction I'm going.
Yes, it comes down to shipping cost and time for me, and the fact that I could take a mould around to a local machinist so he could fit the armature to it.
On the short film Grace Under Water I made sets for last year, the director Tony Lawrence got a whole bunch of standard size step-joints made up at Eccentric Engineering. I think there were two sizes made, fort two sizes of ball. There is still a lot of labour in machining anything up individually, even once you have worked out the prototype, but I thought the clever thing Gary did was to mill up the step-blocks as a long strip, then cut it into individual blocks. That meant the whole row could be set up and milled in one action. Then the next strip of the same size could be done. That is probably the sort of thing you need to look at to keep the cost down. The down-side with this efficient approach is, if you get a lot of them to do, it could become like a factory production line. But even in set building there is always some of that - when I have to make hundreds of bricks or roofing tiles to create the pattern, it doesn't feel very creative, and neither does casting or vacforming lots of duplicates for several days.
Stop motion puppets can be so individual in proportion, it seems to me that joints would be useful to more animators than stock armatures.
I agree with using Allen Keys. But I would add one thing - if possible, stick with a size that comes in the standard bunch of Allen keys you find at every hardware or discount store. I got one of Tom Brierton's armatures and some screws needed a tiny one that I could only find in a huge set of 40 sizes, at a specialist store on the other side of town, for around $60. The smallest size in the common set would have worked just as well and not been too big, and all screws in the armature could have been one size.
All my allen screws have cylindrical heads that stand up from the plate, but I believe that countersink allen screws also exist. I know there are Allen type grub screws, the kind with no head, so I'm sure you can get countersunk Allen screws if you need to keep the joint compact.
Well,after a great deal of looking and some "almost" buys,I finally found a good Hardinge for a fair price and not getting "stuck" with EVIL BAY prices.Ebay is not a good place to compare pricing on most industrial machinery.Often the sellers want 3 times or more what the machine is valued for.
I'm still a ways away from being "up and running" between getting the mill shipped here and prepped for its final destination,there are still tooling costs to consider not to mention hiring an electrician to get it wired in.The M head is also a separate cost and I'm not planing on keeping the overarm or arbor or the other tooling this little horizontal mill is coming with.I will be selling those things to invest in tooling and for necessary upgrades to the mill.
I'm hoping to be up and running by early summer.The Logan lathe I have is also another challenge.Not just getting it here,but it needs some serious TLC.Sitting for nearly 20 years didn't do it any favors.In any case,my goal is to start "making chips" around June or so and if I am able to set up earlier,all the better.
I'll be doing most of my machining part-time and during my "down days".This isn't going to be a full-time thing unless by some miracle that changes?I'll be machining my own stuff,but at the same time I'll be more than happy/willing to take on jobs and projects that say maybe others in here can't because they either have a machine that can't handle the work or don't have the machine to do so at all.
My prices should be pretty affordable compared to what a machine shop would sting you for. Mostly I'll have some "fixed" cost for machining armature parts and it won't necessarily be done "by the hour" unless by chance I am given a large job to do that will have me running the machines all day long.There's plenty to consider and it all still needs to be "worked out".
The Hardinge TM/UM Mill is a solid, precision tool room mill and is capable of maintaining tight tolerances.Its working surface is large enough to support most work/jobs required for armature and tool room machining.All I really need are good,"clear" blue prints with "clear" tolerances to maintain.The mill will do the rest.Until next time,I hope everyone has a great Christmas (mine came early) for a change.
Hi Nick!Well,you have no idea how many different guys/sellers I have been in contact with all this time.Allot of the mills were in really rough shape,and not just cosmetically.The Harding is a long extint milling machine,you can't buy any parts for it if anything is broken or worn out with the exception of the drive belts.
I've seen other machines that were in very good shape,but the sellers wanted three to four times more than what the mill actually values for.There's no "blue book" for machine tools(there should be).There's a guy who has two posted on EVIL BAY wanting an incredible amount of money for the small TM mills.
One I think is around $4,000-$5,000 the other priced up to $15,000 I think?He lists the mills as "re-built",but even with a rebuild and a new lick of paint,that still doesn't justify the high price tag.Some guys think a cleaned up mill and new paint job constitues "re-built".Despite the second mill coming with some tooling and extra features, the machine is extrodinarily overpriced.You can buy a brand new Bridgeport for $15,000 and probably get an even better one that has been re-built for a little less than that.
I got a very good price for mine(very fair,I'm happier than a pig in mud) and the mill is in incredible shape.Tight as a drum in respects to the lead screws,next to zero backlash which can easily be adjusted out.It just needs some minor servicing and after that, it just needs to be plugged in.I'm working on paying for the M Head now and will be selling the arbor,overarm and cutters.I don't plan on doing much horizontal milling.I'm hoping from here on out things go smoothly and as soon as I can,I'll keep everyone updated on progress.
Well,the mill arrived today in fine shape.It is in better condition than I imagined.It needs a little cleaning up,but there much more than needs to be done.For the time being,it is safely in storage.I'm buying the Bridgeport head for it currently,but next on the "to do list" is to inventory the additional items.I'll also be selling the overarm attachment,arbor and cutters to get some money back on it and am considering selling an additional component being that I am not anticipating any horizontal machining.Next is to pick up the lathe by/before the end of this month,then hopefully "bring both machines home" and to start saving up for an electrician in installing the right power hook-ups for both machines.After that,it is onto acquiring some basic tooling and the lathe will need to be disassembled...looks like a busy 6 months ahead of me.


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LAUSD's teachers union issued an overwhelming vote of no-confidence Thursday in the leadership of Superintendent John Deasy as he finishes his second year, while a rival survey released by civil rights groups showed strong support for his reform strategies and called for an even more aggressive approach to improving student achievement.
In the poll by United Teachers Los Angeles, 16,040 union members expressed displeasure with Deasy, while only 1,647 said they had confidence in the direction of LAUSD since he took the helm two years ago. UTLA President Warren Fletcher said the results of the no-confidence vote would be shared with the school board, whose seven members supervise the schools chief. The union has about 33,000 members, but only about half offered their opinions in the poll.
"The school board needs to be presented with this data. If there are concerns that arise about his performance, they have to be addressed," Fletcher said. "A superintendent is always a reflection of the school board. They need to look into their vision of the district and see if that's where they want the district to go."
Fletcher criticized many of Deasy's strategies, including what he called the "hyper-simplified use" of student test data in performance evaluations, and proposals to implement a merit pay system for educators.
"The education program is not on the right track," Fletcher said. "Testing and phony reforms are taking the focus away from what teaching and learning are all about and are harming the district."
Deasy dismissed the results of the no-confidence vote, saying in an email: "I am far too busy working to serve all students and assure their right to graduate college- and workforce-ready to pay attention to this nonsense."
Fletcher had refused to comment on the confidence question during the weeklong poll, although the union's website urged members to vote "no" and carried a list of 10 complaints "" each dubbed a "whoopsie Deasy" -- which had been submitted by teachers. They included concerns about salaries and layoffs, the loss of school counselors and the treatment of teachers accused of misconduct with students.
UTLA members also voted 77-23 percent in favor of an initiative mounted by a faction of union members, demanding that leaders strengthen their demands on issues like smaller class size and the rehiring of laid-off nurses, librarians and other campus professionals. The initiative also called for "a series of escalating actions, including preparing to strike if necessary, to fight for the demands of the campaign."
Fletcher said UTLA members plan to appear "en masse" at the school board's May meeting to demand a long-term budget strategy for small class size, fully staffed schools and other improvements.
As the union votes were being counted, a new coalition of civil rights groups, led by the United Way, was releasing its own survey of civic, education and community groups, reflecting strong support for Deasy's efforts.
The survey by CLASS -- Communities for LA Student Success -- was conducted in the wake of a divisive school board race that pitted the so-called reform movement against organized labor. It included a series of questions centered on some of the more controversial issues facing the district, such as transforming underperforming schools, evaluating
teacher performance and increasing the number of charters and other nontraditional campuses.
According to the poll, 98 percent believe it is important or critical to improve graduation rates for Latinos and African-American students, and 95 percent supported greater autonomy for local schools. There also was strong support for expanding the use of technology in the classroom and for using a data-based system to evaluate the performance of teachers and principals.
"Our goal is to figure out what the community wants," Ryan Smith, the education policy director for the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, said during a press conference outside LAUSD headquarters. "By taking a poll of more than 100 community leaders and civil rights activists, we were able to see what their belief was for the priorities of the district.
"We've seen that many people are reaffirming many of the priorities the district has taken. And many of those priorities have been set by Superintendent John Deasy's agenda."
Deasy released a statement saying he was "gratified and heartened" by the CLASS poll, and that it reflected the broad-based interest in public education as critical to the future of Los Angeles.
"While the responses to this survey indicate that we are moving in the right direction, they also send a clear message that this agenda must move quicker and with more courage," he said.
The results of both polls come about five weeks before a May 21 runoff for two candidates to represent the East San Fernando Valley on the LAUSD board -- an election that also includes the mayor's race.
Outgoing Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called this week on the mayoral candidates, Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel, to create substantive strategies for dealing with the problems facing the nation's second-largest school district. Both Greuel and Garcetti have expressed support for Deasy.
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May 3, 2012
President Barack Obama
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
My name is Jess Wilson. I have the honor of meeting with your friend and advisor, Mike Strautmanis today. Mike and I share a bond that I wish were far more unique than it is—we are both parents of autistic children. I have asked Mike to pass this letter on to you.
Yesterday I visited the Smithsonian Institute's Museum of American History with my husband and my two daughters—Katie , who is eleven and Brooke, who is nine and has autism.
I was moved to tears by a live exhibition that we saw there. A young woman played the role of a civil rights activist who took part in the Greensboro sit-in so many years ago. Since you have daughters of your own, I know that you won't be surprised when I tell you that Katie rolled her eyes at me as she saw my tears begin to flow. But I couldn't help it. Standing there listening to this young woman sing, "I'm gonna get my civil rights someday" was simply too much for this mother of an autistic child to bear.
You see, Sir, I fight every day for my little girl to be able to sit at that proverbial counter. I fight every day for the services that she and others like her so desperately need—not just to exist in this world but to fully participate in it.
I fight for a world that will no longer dismiss people like her as no more than a litany of challenges but will instead delve deep enough to know her, to value her, to celebrate her and to help her to find a way to contribute to it in return. Because, Sir, she has so very much to contribute.
I cried listening to that young woman sing because her words fortified my belief that the world that I seek is possible. Because our world—the world in which you are our President—is so dramatically different from the one in which those students made their brave stand for equality; so too the world before us can be radically different for my daughter than the one she inhabits today.
I believe in this nation.
I believe in an America whose people are not divided by the illusion of political difference, but who are instead united by their desire to make this world a better place for our children.
I believe in an America that is not torn apart by religious difference but instead thrives on its insistence that respect for that very difference is exactly what makes us who we are.
I believe in an America where every single human being is not just tolerated but valued, supported and celebrated.
I believe in an America in which we collectively treat every child as if they were our own. Because they ARE our own.
I believe in an America whose children grow up knowing that they have the ability to contribute to her success and to reap the rewards of that contribution—regardless of the color of their skin, the city in which they live or the intrinsic challenges that they may face.
I believe in an America whose people come together to support the 1 in 88 individuals who, like my daughter, has autism because they see that it is simply unconscionable not to.
I believe in the creative will of our people to find innovative ways to unlock the potential of those with autism and other developmental disabilities. I believe in the tenacity of those individuals themselves along with the legion of parents and doctors and scientists and educators and therapists who support them. I believe in our business leaders and our Main Street entrepreneurs. I believe that together we can create partnerships that will change the way we view disability and potential.
I believe in the autism community's ability to do the work that it takes to make change happen from the bottom up. I do. But no matter how much I may want to believe that we can, I know that we cannot do this alone. If we are to create the America that I believe is possible, we need everyone to participate.
And we need you.
We need you to meet us halfway. We need you to lead with a strong, clear vision of the future that we know is possible. We need you not to follow the tide, but to work with us to shape the tide. We need you to talk about why it is so important to the future of this nation to invest in the autism community. We need you to talk at every turn about why we as a society must value—truly, deeply and systemically value—the potential of people with autism and to convince the non-believers why it is so richly worth the cost—from both humanitarian and fiscal perspectives—to do everything in our power to unlock it.
We need you to help us address the dramatically disparate levels of support for people with autism around the country—from state to state, zip code to zip code and school to school. We need you to help us create a system in which a child's services no longer hinge on their parent's ability to advocate effectively for them. That is simply not what this country is—or should be—about.
We need you to help us fund Early Identification and Intervention programs—the greatest hope for the next generation. We need you to help us create ABLE accounts allowing us to save money for our own children so that the government does not end up supporting them by default when we simply can't.
We need a federal autism insurance mandate. I know that mandate is a dirty word these days. Call it what you will to make it more palatable, Mr. President, but there's got to be some kind of uniformity in order to protect the rights of autistic individuals to receive care no matter where they live or what they or their parents do for work.
We need you to help us remove the barriers to building feasible, comfortable, safe housing for our children as they run headlong into adulthood. We need you to help us offer incentives to those who create employment opportunities for autistic adults, harnessing their unlimited ability to contribute to our society.
We need you to help us care for our nation's 23,000 military dependents with autism. We need you to take autism services out of ECHO and put them back into TRICARE as the medically necessary treatments that they are so that the children of Wounded Warriors no longer LOSE ACCESS TO TREATMENT upon their parent's required medical discharge and twenty-year veterans don't have to step back into battle because they know that if they retire, their children's care retires with them.
We need you to help us promote research and a renewed and reinvigorated commitment to real scientific inquiry and critical thinking. We need the money that you promised to fully fund IDEA. We need sweeping legislative change.
Last year, I wrote a letter to you asking you to light your house blue for World Autism Awareness Day. In that letter, I wrote the following:
Your girls are beautiful, Mr. President. They are poised and confident, graceful and self-assured. You must be incredibly proud of both of them. I ask you, Sir, what if Malia or Sasha had autism? What would you do to help them? I'm guessing the better question is, What wouldn't you do?
I believe in an America in which we collectively treat every child as if they were our own. Please, Sir. If my daughter were yours, what would you do?
Please don't hesitate to contact me. I would be honored to speak with you and to help in any way that I can.
Jess Wilson


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Striding from the pages of the hugely popular UK comic 2000AD, the flagship character finally gets the game he deserves thanks to Rebellion (developers of Alien Versus Predator and 2000AD publishers) and Vivendi Universal. Taking on the role of the 22nd Century lawman, you must patrol the overcrowded, crime-ridden streets of Mega-City One acting as judge, jury and if necessary executioner to the millions of perpetrators (perps) skulking in the shadows. As if that wasn't tough enough, in this all-action FPS, four Judges from an alternate world where life itself is a crime are loose on your turf. Bring them to justice before they find the whole Mega-City guilty of living.
Fans of 2000AD will know there's more to Dredd than just blowing holes in futuristic shoplifters. The writing is intelligent, darkly humorous and veined with enough social commentary to give any broadsheet satirist a run for their money. Thankfully, Rebellion know this and know how to make kick-ass FPSs to boot, and Judge Dredd: Dredd versus Death delivers both with aplomb.
As a Judge you must uphold the law at all times. If you see a smoker (illegal outside a Smokatorium) you should challenge him and arrest him. Likewise, if someone assaults you, it's off to the Iso-Cubes for them. Shoot unarmed or innocent people and your Law Meter will drop; if it gets too low you'll be hunted down yourself. Of course, for the gun-crazy player out there, there are more than enough perps that want to see you dead, so deadly force is authorised with regularity. Use the multiple ammo types in your Lawgiver pistol - including Hi-ex, Incendiary, Heat-seeking and Ricochet - along with loads of other Justice Dept and civilian weaponry as you face off against the Death Cult and its four supernatural leaders - Judges Fear, Fire, Mortis and Death.
As well as bringing law to the lawless throughout the epic, single-player, Story mode, rookie Judges can flex their judicial skills in a drokk load of Arcade levels. These mini-challenge levels cast you as various stars from the comic (Anderson, Hershey, DeMarco) doing your best against the clock and unassailable odds - re-spawning zombie hordes that can only be put down with a head-shot, an entire crime family and wampaging Walter Wobots (sic). Do well and you can unlock other challenges and content for the multiplayer modes.
Talking of which, up to four players can enter a split-screen Mega-City One in a number of manic multiplayer matches. Along with various takes on deathmatch and team deathmatch genre you can take part in a Block War (battle between rival apartment blocks), be the unarmed Runner fleeing the heavily armed Judge players or race to collect the most Umpty (MC1's favourite candy) for your team. There's also a fantastic two-player co-op mode allowing two Judges to play through the story mode and put and end to Judge Death and his cronies.
Dredd fans need only know this is a fantastic realisation of the world of the senior Judge, with all the macabre humour and danger that makes the comic such a hit. For those unfamiliar with Mega-City One, Dredd versus Death is an epic FPS that will take you into the very heart of the living, breathing city. It'll excite you, scare you, make you laugh and above all be one of the best frag fests you can play on your PS2. Besides, it'd be an offence not to play it.
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As an 11-year-old child, Bob Howells — whose only wildlife experience so far had been spotting chipmunks during picnics and camping trips—prepared for his first trip to a national park by reading books, appointing himself as his family's tour guide, and mentally staking out the best places to see animals.
Slideshow: Best National Parks for Wildlife Spotting
But nothing quite prepared him for the abundant fauna he encountered at Yellowstone. At the park, Howells saw bison, red foxes, trumpeter swans, and even a mischievous black bear that passed 10 feet away from his family's station wagon.
"It blew me away," recalls Howells, who's now a wildlife aficionado (most recently, he contributed to "National Geographic's The 10 Best of Everything National Parks" book). "It's quite something to graduate from chipmunks to black bears."
Because of their size and untouched landscapes, our national parks are premier places to spot wildlife. Ever since 1872, when the U.S. government designated Yellowstone as the first American national park, these vast swaths of pristine nature have provided protected habitats for creatures to live in — and for visitors to enjoy. Today, our national parkland comprises 52 million acres and (according to the National Park Service) is home to some 5,399 species of vertebrates.
Most tourists are interested in seeing large, majestic animals — like moose (commonly spotted in Alaska's Denali National Park) and grizzlies (especially populous in Montana's Glacier National Park). But spying smaller species can be just as rewarding. "My favorite animals are the least appreciated ones," says Jared Gricoskie of Yellow Wood Guiding, a tour company based in the nearby town of Estes Park that specializes in Rocky Mountain National Park. Gricoskie especially loves pikas, furry mouselike creatures that scurry along alpine taluses. "What's most endearing is they bark ... it's the cutest little thing," he says.
Whatever wildlife you plan to see, remember that national parks aren't zoos, so there are guidelines to follow. Generally, you should keep at least 100 yards away from bears and wolves, and 25 yards away from other large animals. To catch a glimpse, consult literature and park rangers for the best spots, and use telephoto lenses, binoculars, or spotting scopes. Plan your park visits around prime viewing hours—dawn, dusk, and after dark.
Oh, and remember to feel grateful for the spectacular creatures living right on our home soil. As Bob Howells puts it, "For variety and preservation, the national parks are the envy of the world."


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Research in Motion will officially launch its new mobile operating system, BlackBerry 10, on Jan. 30, along with the first two RIM-designed smartphones to run it, the company announced today. The company has bet its future on the platform's success.
The RIM press release is vague on what "launch" actually means. The company has already demonstrated many of BlackBerry 10's capabilities, along with a prototype smartphone created to help software developers write apps for the new platform. In today's statement, RIM doesn't say when the first two BlackBerry 10 smartphones actually go on sale.
BACKGROUND: RIM CEO vows to wow with BlackBerry 10
The new OS is a complete break with the systems software that powered generations of BlackBerry email devices and phones. The new platform has been officially delayed at least twice, first planned for Q1 2012, then for late 2012. President and CEO Thorstein Heins, who took over the top spots in January 2012, decided to delay the launch by several months to give engineers and designers more time to refine the kernel, UI and applications.
RIM's share of the mobile device market has collapsed dramatically in the past 18 months, even in the enterprise market where the company's BlackBerry devices have long reigned supreme. Price cutting and new models based on the older OS have helped RIM stem the bleeding in a number of overseas markets in recent quarters.
BlackBerry 10 is based on the QNX Neutrino Realtime OS, which RIM acquired when it bought QNX in 2010. Originally, RIM used the RTOS as the basis for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. As Apple iOS and Google Android device sales soared, the company decided to abandon plans to update the aging BlackBerry OS and use Neutrino as the basis also for its next-generation smartphones.
At its annual BlackBerry World user conference in May, RIM unveiled demonstrations of the new OS and UI, and a prototype smartphone created for software developers. Users and developers were impressed with what they saw: a fluid user interface and a well thought-out navigation scheme (dubbed BlackBerry Flow), highly integrated apps, and shrewdly designed virtual keyboard. The company has been aggressively courting software developers, including gamers and others in the consumer space, for BlackBerry 10.
A feature called BlackBerry Balance lets users switch with one gesture between a secure "container" for corporate apps and data and a personal open workspace with consumer apps and games.
In a statement, CEO Heins was quoted as saying, "All of this will be integrated into a user experience - the BlackBerry Flow - that is unlike any smartphone on the market today."
RIM is promising that on release, BlackBerry 10 "will offer a large catalog of the leading applications from across the globe and across all categories, including Games, Productivity, Social, Lifestyle and Leisure, Multimedia and Published Content, as well as applications designed for business and enterprise use."
In an important milestone for its traditional government and enterprise customers, RIM announced earlier this month that BlackBerry 10 had been granted FIPS 140-2 security certification, allowing it to be used wherever FIPS is mandated. These markets will be able to buy and use BlackBerry 10 devices, and BlackBerry Enterprise Server 10, as soon as they're released. According to RIM, the first BlackBerry 10 phones are now being tested by over 50 carriers and "many more" are expected to start in the coming weeks.
John Cox covers wireless networking and mobile computing for Network World. Twitter: http://twitter.com/johnwcoxnww Email: email@example.com
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READ about Piers Morgan's long career in journalism here.
On the heels of a monstrous $25 million opening weekend by Lee Daniels' The Butler, on Monday evening Piers Morgan welcomed Daniels, the film's director, as well as actor Cuba Gooding Jr., actor Lenny Kravitz, and screenwriter and actor Danny Strong.
As the film tackles the polarizing topic of race, and racism, in America, Morgan asked Daniels if the nation is more or less bigoted since Barack Obama was elected president:
"That's a powerful question," Daniels began. "I think that people are angry that he's president and I think that they are showing their true colors and I think that when Danny Strong wrote those words, 'any black man could be killed by any white man and get away with it,' Trayvon Martin had not happened. I end the movie with hope. He's walking down and Obama's giving that famous speech and then I come out of my edit room and Trayvon Martin has happened."
With sorrow on his face, Daniels was left to conclude that modern-day America is in fact more racist with an African-American in the White House.
"Sadly, I think so," Daniels admitted.
Seated directly to the director's left, Kravitz revealed his own struggles with racism as a child:
"In growing up, going to school, you always bump into that kind of thing by certain individuals. Has the world gotten better in general?" asked the man who captured four consecutive Grammy's for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance from 1999 to 2002. "Yes... In general, things are getting better with each generation."
Gooding Jr., meanwhile, hopes the films opens up a dialogue for youth to be able to effectively talk about race:
"What has happened with the youth there's been a real disconnect with the civil rights movement and the history of it," noted the 45-year-old who made catch-phrases like "I love the Black man," and "Show me the money," household fodder. "I think this movie opens that dialogue so that you can make your decisions as an African-American or an American what is the best way to go about your relationships with people."
Specifically, Gooding Jr., said, "Lee Daniels' The Butler" uses the complicated element of conflicted, dual personalities to demonstrate its message:
"The film uses that mechanism of showing the two faces that professional blacks have to wear. But I think it's not just blacks. I think it's people. Your professional face is one thing and your relaxed face is another and I think that's what was so beautiful with the butlers that we use, the behind the scenes, the bantering in the house and the relationships of family," he told Morgan. "I think that's important to convey and I think that's what this movie does so beautifully with Lee Daniels' direction."
Watch the clip for more of Morgan's interview with the team from "Lee Daniels' The Butler," and for the next edition of "Piers Morgan Live," watch CNN every night at 9.
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Well, it is definitely in the very near future that no one will want to visit America. The senseless shootings, killings of innocent people has reached a high of that is just not matched. If I lived in another country, I certainly would not want to visit here for fear of my life, whether it be walking, running, eating in a restaurant, etc. It is so scary what is happening in our country. What a reputation we are building.
Hollywood makes the gangers cool to be one. the gangers now writing songs. What does the law do? Kill all the gangers band all the songs and movies about gangers . You a gamgers you are dead. End of problem.
Google & inform your self
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This is fictionalized account of a real butler in the White House has a plot wholly unrelated to reality. The Butler did have a son who died bravely in Vietnam. But The Butler did not resign and protest with his (fictional) older son. The real Butler was respected by those for whom he worked and he also respected the Presidents he served. This is fictionalized account which is designed to get us "talking about race" seems a bit disingenuous to me.
let's have a talk about race in america. let's start with three black kids killing a white guy for fun.
Weren't one of them white? You are so pathetic. You white people always ignore facts to try to make you misguided BS statements.
Why is that more important than other murders (oh and one of the kids was white)? Why do you care about this one murder? Was it because they let the kids go because they were standing their ground? Is it because you're most likely white like the person murdered?
"It's reverse racism I say"!!!! I say you're as fake as a 15 dollar bill.
Lets talk about two black kids that killed some for fun. Three black kids that beat a 13 year little kid so bad he had broke rips arm and the coward bus driver did nothing. Two black guys that rob a white woman and shot her baby in the faces and killed him. Know lets talk about zimmerman buying a gun after he was attacked and beat so bad he had to pull a gun to save his life. But he the hater the bad guy.
I voted for Obama in 2008. I didn't vote for him in 2012. The reason is that he is a TERRIBLE president. I am white, but I have never seen black people in any way inferior. Frankly, I have never been a racist and am really tired of being called one. Mr. Daniels believes that people dislike Obama because he is black. He wouldn't have been elected in the first place if that were true. The fact that people don't like him now has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with performance. There is no way to explain that to a black person like Mr. Daniels. No matter the reason, they will ALWAYS presume it's racial. There is no way to win that argument.
History lesson 101 guys. Slavery started with one black selling another black to a white. We just did what any other good business man would do we cut out the middle man so you can thank your ancestors for slavery not whites. Ignorance is bliss. So to all the blacks out there that think everyone owes them something we dont your ancestors owe you something for inslaving your other ancestors its a tragedy but the truth and if you dont believe this research it for yourself. And furthermore Trayvon Martin was shot by a Hispanis not white. Lets stop playing the blame game and throwing out the race card. The only way rascism will stop is people stop feeling sorry for themselves and stop talking about race and making it a issue so if you want to know how to stop racsism blacks I will help you out stop talking about it and thinking everyone is always after you.
Oh and one more thing Obama is not black. He is half white and half black so to say he is a black president is completly untrue he is just as much a white president as black. This is to all the idiots that voted for him because hes black hey genious hes not lol
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF/Tribune/CNN) - A Missouri man who was allegedly plotting a bombing is dead after a shooting incident with the FBI.
Federal authorities said Timothy Wilson, 36, was part of a domestic terror investigation because he was preparing an attack on a hospital.
Wilson was reportedly upset with the government's actions toward the spread of coronavirus and was planning a bombing at a Kansas City-area hospital that was providing critical care during the current coronavirus pandemic.
The FBI also said Wilson was a potentially violent extremist who was spurred by racist and anti-governmental rhetoric.
According to an FBI press release, Wilson "decided to accelerate his plan to use a vehicle-born improvised explosive device in an attempt to cause severe harm and mass casualties."
Federal agents attempted to arrest Wilson when he arrived at a location to get what he believed to be a truck bomb.
Wilson was armed at the time and shots were fired. No one else was injured in the shooting.
"There was a bunch of SUVs, black, and there was people wearing, HAZ-MAT stuff and white outfits and masks and stuff. I had no idea what that was," said Marty Feuerborn, a business owner who witnessed the FBI response.
An investigation into the matter is being conducted by the FBI's inspection division.
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When pics of that unidentified trike — shot during a burn through Tail of the Dragon — hit earlier this year, the kids were abuzz. Had BMW taken over Volkswagen's GX3 mantle and built a three-wheeler for the sporting set? Turns out, as the New York Times reported yesterday, the mystery bike was called the Spyder, a product of the Sea/Ski Doo people, Bombardier Recreational Products of Canada. That company relaunched the Can-Am brand this year as a maker of ATVs and this thing. It's powered by a 106-hp V-Twin and comes with traction and stability control and antilock brakes, all for around $15,000. We'll know more when the trike launches officially later this week.
A Tricycle for Adult Situations [The New York TImes]
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Topeka sperm donor: Case politically motivated
State says law requires licensed physician to perform artificial insemination
A Topeka man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple who conceived a child said a state effort to force him to pay child support is politically motivated.
William Marotta told The Topeka Capital-Journal Monday that he has already paid attorneys thousands of dollars to fight efforts by the state to collect child support.
When he donated sperm to the couple in 2009, Marotta relinquished all parental rights, including financial responsibility to the child. After the couple filed for state assistance this year, the state demanded they provide the donor's name so it could collect child support.
The state said the agreement between Marotta and the couple is not valid because it didn't meet the requirements of a Kansas law that requires a licensed physician to perform artificial insemination.


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Last Wednesday night, the University of New Hampshire magically became another institution of learning, and magic is the right word, for UNH became Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Several thousand students traversed the Holloway Dining Commons, visiting such areas as The Three Broomsticks, Honeydukes, The Daily Prophet and the Owlrey.
"It's a madhouse," exclaimed Lainey Severson, as she commented on the mass of humanity swirling around. "I had no idea it would be this big a turnout, people on campus have been talking about it for weeks, it is so cool" said the Dover freshman as she sampled some of the fare with her roommates.
Roommate Sam Gertz, a sophomore from Everett, Mass., was suitably impressed with everything she saw relating to something that, as she said "I grew up with." Gertz's comments were echoed by friends Emily Carr of South Royalton, Vt. and Kaylyn Berquist of Lakeville, Mass. "We've seen the movies and read the books, now this, it is wonderful," said Berquist.
Students had the opportunity to select from such Potteresque meals as steamed frog eyes, Carved Norwegian Ridgeback and Nearly Headless Nick's English Cheese and Breads and then finish it off with some chocolate frogs.
The genesis of the idea came from a student who had a friend at a Boston College who mentioned that they had done something similar on a small scale. "I thought if they could do something like that we can do it better, so I suggested it to the Dining Council, we talked about it and it just grew!" said senior Samantha Cunic.
It grew to a Facebook contest where students could submit ideas for what they would do to win an opportunity to sit at the VIP table and be served. Suggested Senior Paul Chiarantonia of Scarborough, Maine: "I would drink Polyjuice Potion and take the form of Snooki Polizzi for rest of my life."
It grew to where members of the dining staff wore costumes representing Bellatrix LaStrange, Professor Severus Snake, Rita Skeeter and Dolores Umbridge among others. "We have done themed evenings before, but nothing of this magnitude," said Director of Dining John Plodzik, "Harry is an icon."
It grew to where 19-year-old Chelsea Augustinowicz of Charlestown said, "I have read all the books, seen all the movies. We grew up with Harry, this is great." She spoke as she was dining with friends with a screening of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the background.
Kristin Lonsinger, marketing coordinator, said "I was not very familiar with the Potter history, so I took a crash course in it. A lot of the students coming in tonight are very passionate about Harry."
As Professor McGonagall was using the sorting hat to place students in their houses, asking " Are you prepared to come to Hogwarts?" Will Flanagan of Laconia commented on his Harry Potter experiences."I am a big Harry fan," said the junior physics major. "Every summer I read all seven of the books. Every kid wants to get their letter in the mail, telling them that they are a wizard. Hope springs eternal that they can be a wizard." With a smile, Flanagan said "I definitely am still waiting for my letter."
Courtney Mills, a senior agreed. "I grew up with Harry from the third grade through high school," said the anthropology major from Billerica, Mass. "He is a part of us." When asked her feelings when she finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last in the series she responded "it was like a death in the family," to which friend Flanagan injected, "Worse!"
A group of student actors from the university strolled through the commons throughout the evening, costumed and representing characters from the books, and serenading the diners with selections from A Very Potter Musical. Their animation while performing brought huge applause.
Janelle McCosh, who aspires to Broadway said "we started rehearsing when we came back to school, and put in two very hard weeks of work." The vivacious McCosh made most of the costumes as well as performing.
Rebecca Lower, an upcoming junior, mentioned the importance to her of being a Harry Potter fan. "It allowed me and an opportunity to put myself in a different place, and made me feel that a different, magical life can exist."
The magic will not belong only to Rebecca's generation however. TJ Birkle and Sonia Barth are students in Mrs. Jones' second-grade class at Lee's Mast Way School. What are the seven year olds reading in class? — Harry Potter, of course.


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President Johnson and others in the 1960s hoped to end poverty and racial injustice through a series of programs known as "The Great Society".
In one of LBJ's first speeches about the program at the University of Michigan on May 22, 1964 he outlines some of the major goals.
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My understanding is that the launch of Stack Overflow was brilliant from both a business perspective and a technical perspective.
Having recently discovered the site, I was not present at the launch and the Spolsky blog and podcast don't seem to do the launch justice.
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The AB(C-4)s of explosives
Teens have a blast at a unique camp where blowing things up is the point
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A shape charge forces a perpendicular spout of water more than 200 feet into the air, soaking the unsuspecting campers when it returns to the ground.
Fire in the hole! Fire in the Hole!
Twenty campers wearing ear plugs, hard hats and safety glasses eagerly hold their breaths in anticipation. With a cue from the instructor, an excited teenager activates the firing mechanism.
A ball of fire erupts where once a portion of a steel I-beam stood. Black smoke and the campers' cheers are left in its wake.
Summer is here and at Missouri University of Science and Technology, that means it's time for Explosives Camp — a week of demolition and demonstration for 20 high school juniors and seniors from across the country. Explosives Camp this summer included three one-week sessions from June 8 to June 28.
"It's the whole smorgasbord of explosives-related activities. It bounces around highlights of all different applications of explosives," says Paul Worsey, the camp's lead instructor and professor of Mining and Explosives Engineering at MS&T. "We do everything from mining to demolition, fireworks to EOD (Explosive Ordinance Disposal), rock concerts and special effects to blowing up food."
Students were selected for the camp based on a one-page resume, a 250-word essay on why they are interested in a career in explosives and a letter of recommendation. Accepted students paid $500 for the camp, which included room and board.
"I want to be a mining engineer, I think it sounds fun," says camper Joe Cook of Republic. "I really like rocks and explosives."
Worsey and other faculty created Explosives Camp as a fluke four years ago. There were three high school students that wanted to participate in research for the summer, but with no work available for them, Worsey took them to the campus' Experimental Mine and conducted the first Explosives Camp by actively teaching them about explosives.
This fiery flash is the result of the detonation of Composite-4 (C-4) explosive and a portion of a steel I-beam — one of many blasts students get to see during their week at Explosives Camp in Rolla.
"The kids were so over-awed with it and it was so positive that we thought, 'Why don't we put in a camp?'" Worsey recalls.
The camp, the first and only one of its kind in the world, blossomed the next year and became a vital recruitment tool for the mining and explosives department at MS&T.
Mining programs across the country have dwindled and disappeared as fewer students become aware of the industry as a career choice. Worsey says many students learn about chemistry in high school and go on to study chemical engineering in college, but they don't realize the field is more about creating a chemical process that doesn't explode than one that does.
Five thousand mining engineers have retired in the past decade, which means that there needs to be 500 graduates a year to fill those spots. The demand for these jobs is high and it pays well, which is why MS&T boasts 100 percent job placement for seniors graduating in the program.
Through lectures and field trips, students at the camp learn that a mining or explosives engineering degree can get them jobs in not only mining but civil construction, demolition, excavation, fireworks, special effects or EOD. Campers watch a surface shot blast rock in a local quarry, go deep underground to view a mine blast and tour Premier Pyrotechnics, a Missouri fireworks factory and distributor.
Professor Paul Worsey, center, talks to campers about cast boosters, an explosive used to blow up watermelons at the Experimental Mine site. The students get to explode various materials during the week-long camp.
"I think the coolest thing we saw was the blast at the quarry where they used explosives to move an entire set of rocks to the ground," says camper Isaac Wagner-Muns of Crystal Lake Park. "I'm thinking very hard now about entering the field because it just seems like so much fun."
About two-thirds of campers end up attending MS&T, and about half of them go into the mining program.
Of course the best part of the camp is the hands-on experience that students gain. They learn to prime and shoot explosives such as dynamite and Composite-4 (C-4), the plastic explosive, to blow up everything from frozen chickens and watermelons to concrete pillars and pools of water. Though fun, exploding things like frozen chickens holds a lesson for campers — the skin and bones of a chicken are similar to a human hand.
"It's an important safety demonstration. It gives them the idea of how powerful explosives are," Worsey says. "We can get it to them in a fun way so they know what will happen if there's a problem."
Safety is a major factor during the camp. Campers learn the correct way to handle explosives and are required to wear hard hats, steel-toed boots and safety glasses at all times. They get the chance to take part in the entire process with supervision.
Flabbergasted campers emerge from a safety chamber to see the results of a high-powered blast that destroyed a concrete pillar.
Some of the students who come to the camp have had a long-time interest in explosives and may have been experimenting on their own, Worsey says. Explosives Camp teaches them to do it both legally and safely. The parents are happy about that, too.
"It's a great learning experience and a great way to learn about something that is perceived as dangerous but is very beneficial to everything," says camp counselor Brandon Austin Meadows, an MS&T student who also was a camper last year. "We handle all the explosives in a completely safe environment, and this is the best learning experience you can get in this field by far."
Campers stay in the MS&T dorms during the week and get to participate in typical camp activities including a pool party, barbecues and a special ice cream stop.
Students have come from as far as Hawaii, Florida, Texas and Montana to be a part of the camp. Because of government regulations, only U.S. citizens may attend.
"The word is getting out there so more people are finding out about it," Worsey says. "A lot of kids say, 'Wow I never knew Missouri had this.'"
A camper draws the outline of a projected S&T for Science and Technology, part of the new name of the former University of Missouri - Rolla where Explosives Camp is held each summer. The project was part of a fireworks finale that students organize.
Word has spread in part by a lot of national media attention. Last year, Explosives Camp was featured in both The New York Times and on National Public Radio. Past campers also have posted their experiences on popular Web sites like the video sharing site YouTube and various online journals.
At the end of the activity-packed week and after the students got some practice with fireworks by destroying cardboard cities with pyrotechnics, parents are invited to come to a barbecue where campers get to show off what they learned with a fireworks display that they set up.
After cleaning up the leftover casings, the campers linger, not quite wanting to leave the experience behind, before finally giving a warm good-bye to Worsey and the camp counselors.
"I think it's the reaction from the kids, to me, that's the most enjoyable," Worsey says. "That's what camp's about, having fun."
For more information about Explosives Camp or the explosives program e-mail email@example.com or visit explosives.mst.edu or call 573-341-4753.


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Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks has told the Old Bailey that the paper did not want the names of journalists who benefited from private investigator Glenn Mulcaire's phone-hacking activities to come out in court because "he could say anyone or anything".
Giving evidence for a seventh day, Brooks was questioned about a civil liability case involving convicted hacker Mulcaire and the tabloid's publisher News Group Newspapers in 2010.
Jurors were taken through emails sent between the paper's lawyers and its senior management, including Brooks, which referred to a proposed order which would lead to all the reporters to whom Mulcaire had passed information being identified.
Brooks, 45, told the court: "We were opposing that order - again this is in the context of a civil liability - on the basis that he was an unreliable witness going forward naming names, and both financially and reputationally we didn't want that to happen.
"The view was that he could say anyone or anything."
During questioning from her lawyer Jonathan Laidlaw QC, Brooks was asked about Max Clifford, who was also involved in the civil case.
Brooks, who became chief executive of News International in 2009, said she had worked with the publicist since she was 25 or 26, with the News of the World paying him "millions and millions of pounds" for stories over the years.
But she added that he fell out with the paper and went on to work with its rival publications. Brooks, of Churchill, Oxfordshire, denies conspiring to hack phones, conspiring to commit misconduct in public office and conspiring to cover up evidence to pervert the course of justice.
All seven defendants deny the charges against them.
Mulcaire was jailed in January 2007 for unlawfully intercepting voicemail messages received by royal aides.
Brooks told the court that she had personally negotiated a £200,000-per-year verbal agreement for a "successful commercial relationship" with Mr Clifford so that he would drop civil proceedings against News International.
The deal, brokered in February 2010, brought the PR guru back to work with The Sun and the News of the World again after he was banned for "three or four years".
Mr Clifford demanded that the confidential agreement reflect losses he had incurred because of his ban at News International being public knowledge, the court heard.
"He felt that having News International out of the bidding picture, and the Mail Group and Mirror Group knowing that, he had lost out but it was impossible to quantify how much," Brooks said.
"It was unquantifiable but I felt it was true that Max had lost out so the deal had to reflect those three years he hadn't worked with NGN (News Group Newspapers)."
Asked if News International had also picked up the bill for Mr Clifford's legal fees, she said: "I believe so."


text: Michael Ecuyer, from Gainsburgh Benjamin, and Nicholas D'Aquilla, from The Garretson Group, led a spirited discussion on the Medical Secondary Payer Act at the Healthcare Committee on May 7, 2014. Those in attendance were educated by both speakers on settlement issues, scenarios, and dealing with Medicare. The specific issues addressed included an update on the implementation of the Strengthening Medicare and Repaying Taxpayers "SMART" Act, potential changes forthcoming to Medicaid secondary payer obligations, a review of private health insurance, reimbursement, subrogation rights, and Medicare Set Asides in liability settlements. A discussion of "war stories" followed the presentation and closed the program.