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Streptococcus thermophilus, Lactobacillus acidophilus, and Lactobacillus bulgaricus. What do these bacteria have in common? These were the bacteria used to produce the yogurt culture Madison East's MA212 Microbiology class had on display for other students, staff and faculty to see and smell as they sold smoothies in the student commons on Monday, November 21st to raise funds for Sherman Middle School's science department.
Throughout the quarter the Microbiology class learned about certain bacteria some of which were probiotics and the importance of how they play a big part in our health, especially our immune system. As they served up their smoothies, they shared information about microorganisms that help culture milk into yogurt. Students in the class had produced posters, brochures, and even some plush bacilli bacteria that they used to share information with others.
After just two short hours, the students raised $100 for Sherman Middle School. Instructor Dan Goplin said, "We are trying to raise enough funds to buy them a microscope camera to enhance the learning process and environment over there. I was really happy how the Globe students really took to helping out other Sherman students and ecstatic about the money that was raised."


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This didn't exactly come out as I wanted, but I did learn a lesson from it: Chunky glitter polish is NOT for detailed work lol.
It was hard to capture all four of the pinks I sponged on to my nails, but they are there. That's one reason why my cuticles are a bit messy, but it came off in the shower lol. Here's what I used (even though it's hard to tel):
Bridge the Ridge Base Coat
China Glaze White on White
Orly Cotton Candy
OPI If You Moust, You Moust
OPI A-Rose from the Dead
OPI Pink Friday
Rhinestones (love rhinestones! )
China Glaze Material Girl (aka pain in the butt for detail work)
LA Colors Art Deco in Silver Glitter (glitter that is formulated for art, and it only cost me a buck at Dollar General lol)
Although it's kinda hard to tell in the picture, the colors are sponged on together randomly with a makeup sponge. Kind of like the effect people do to their walls. I still miss my long nails, but I've already noticed some growth!
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Any type of celebration deserves a decorated table, streamers, noise makers, special paper plates according to the celebration. Why not add an interesting oblong watermelon to brighten up the occasion?
1Wash the watermelon. Use an oblong seeded watermelon, cut a ¼ inch slice off the bottom to provide a stable base.
2Slice the top 1/3 of the melon lengthwise, leaving about 2/3 of the melon on the bottom. Carve the top edge into a round scallop or pyramid pattern, keeping the cuts small.
3Cut out the flesh, leaving two 1" thick slices intact for cake. Use the cookie or biscuit cutter to create the two cake layers. Slice the "icing" from the white part of the rind from the top piece you removed. Place the "cake" to the side.
4Use a crinkle cutter or a knife, cut the remainder of fruit into desired, bite-sized shapes. Combine with other fruits and place in the refrigerator.
5Draw CELEBRATE!, a person's name, or other personalized message onto the front of the watermelon using your stencil and pen. Make sure to leave some space between the letters. Using the channel knife, trace your carving around the letters very shallowly, just deep enough to scrape off the dark green part of the rind.
6Fill the basket with the fruit mixture and place the "cake" (on a small dish or plate for stability) on top. Finish off the cake with candles and fruit, and surround your plate with decorative confetti.
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Let's take a food tour of the Big Apple. Just the thought of the city's food makes your mouth water. Good thing you can find Reubens with the same high-quality ingredients of a NYC corner deli at every Arby's.
1. Welcome to New York City. Let's grab a slice.
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2. Hungry for a Hot Dog?
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3. How about a bagel with some lox?
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5. Oh, have you had a knish? You're going to love it.
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6. Thirsty? Let's get an egg cream.
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As you might have noticed, this is my 5th post this week! I've been trying to figure out how to get back to writing more regularly and sharing more of the 'stuff' I've been consuming in my spare time. The general idea is to do at least one quick and easy post per day about something I'm interested in. So far it's motivating me to write more, but I'd love to hear what people are most interested in hearing about!
In light of that, I'm reviving another 'old' post series of mine 'Listening To': I started it with the intention to share what music I'm enjoying, but am expanding that to include podcasts, audio books and concerts!
For today's post I wanted to highlight a podcast I started listening to recently: Imaginary Worlds. It describes itself as:
"Imaginary Worlds is a bi-weekly podcast about science fiction and other fantasy genres — how we create them and why we suspend our disbelief. These are the backstories to our stories."
It's my new favourite podcast and in the past 2 weeks I've listened to the majority of their archive (it goes back about 2 years)! Imaginary Worlds gives us a glimpse behind the curtain of some of my favourite geeky books and shows: Star Wars, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, there are a ton of different geeky topics that get covered, often with perspectives that I hadn't considered before. Pretty much anyone that enjoys geeky stories should try out this podcast!
Current favourites episodes: Fantasy Maps about the work and detail that goes into creating them, 1977, a look into the state of the world and pop culture when Star Wars came out, and Beware of Cyber City about a three-dimensional model of a town that the military uses for cyber war games.
Two weekends back I bought this adorable necklace of a rain cloud and since then I've gotten so many comments on it! It's so cute and seemed appropriate given I organize an event called Thundercloud.
The necklace is made of laser cut perspex/acrylic and comes with a 22″ silver plated chain. You can get it for £24.95 at Little Moose.
The store where I got this only had that one necklace, but turns out Little Moose has so many other cute designs and I kind of want them all! Here are my favourites:
To check out more designs from Little Moose, head to their website.
I've been doing a lot of talks lately in which I encourage people to share with the wider community what they do (see my Employee Evangelism post). Be it through blog posts or talks or workshops, I believe everyone should be finding a way to teach others the things that they've learnt or they've done.
One of the most common things that I hear from people though is that they'd love to do more of this, but that they don't have anything worth talking about.
And that's absolutely not true.
Everyone has something that's worth sharing with others. Every person knows something that others don't. It's very easy to undervalue the things that we know, and that we assume are common knowledge. You might not be the "number one expert" in something, but honestly you don't have to be to be the one talking about it. In some areas actually being a non-expert might give you a different and perhaps a more relatable perspective, allowing other non-experts to easier understand the topic.
But how do you discover what you should be talking about?
I thought I'd share some tips and tricks of how I approach coming up with my talk (and blog post) ideas and turn it into an exercise of sorts that anyone can start with.
Now the way my brain works is that I like having structures and frameworks in place for me to interpret and think about information better. So before we jump into ways of brainstorming ideas, I want you to consider this:
I think with every talk you do, you need to consider and balance these three elements: the Location, the Format and the Topic. Here's what I mean with each of them:
Location: where are you doing this talk? Is it at a specific conference or meetup? Is it internally at work? Who is your audience? What is their background? What do they know already?
Format: how long is the talk? Is it a lightning talk or a longer talk? Are you live coding or demoing something?
Topic: what is the talk about? What message do you want people to take away from it?
Each of these elements need to be in equilibrium with other, making sure that all three matchup. For instance, a lightning talk about dinosaurs might not be appropriate for a specific technical conference, or an in-depth talk about encoding might not work as a lightning talk.
When it comes to brainstorming talk ideas, I find that using the above structure allows you to approach the problem of finding a topic in two different ways: start on either the Location side or the Topic side and make your way across. Neither direction is right or wrong, but it allows you to focus your brainstorming. If you have a specific location in mind, it can help you come up with what type of topic is appropriate for it. Likewise if you don't have a location in mind, you can be more unconstrained in coming up with ideas, and figure out later where you'll do the talk.
Next we want to generate as many ideas as possible. The key thing about this though is going into this with the right mindset. A couple of things to keep in mind here:
Write down every single idea that you can think of, no matter how stupid or boring or uninteresting you think it is for other people. As I said above, we often forget the things that we know and we'll disregard ideas that we think no one else will care about. When I did this exercise with people at work, people were often surprised that others wanted to hear about some of the "silly" ideas they came up with.
Use this as the time to start a list of all the ideas you have. Even if some of them don't feel quite right right now, add them to a list or a doc: somewhere that you can keep track of them. This isn't about creating a huge list, picking one and throwing the rest away. It's about creating a repository of all the ideas you have that you one day might want to talk about and revisit. I've done talks based on talk ideas that I initially came up with 2 years ago – some talks need time to simmer and evolve.
Most of the exercise questions below are about developing what I call the "that would make a good talk" voice in your head. Rather than having these specific brainstorming sessions, I tend to always have these type of questions in the back of my mind whenever I'm working on a project or having conversations with people. My natural instinct now is to always consider whether there's a story hidden within anything that I'm doing (and pointing it out for others when I see they're doing something). I'm hoping that some of these things will become more natural for you by doing these exercises.
The following exercises are about coming up with ideas for your talks, not the title. I've noticed people trying to come up with variations of what to call their talk, which at this point doesn't really matter yet. You can figure out later what title works and is catchy. Right now it's about the content – focus on that!
If you know you struggle with coming up with ideas, try to get a group of friends or colleagues together and help each other with these exercises. Discussing and explaining some of these questions with others and having other people to bounce ideas off can help a lot: you might discover ideas that you wouldn't have alone.
So time to write down some ideas! If you've got some things in mind already, that's awesome, write them down. If you're unsure where to start, I've created a list of questions that you can use as inspiration, grouped by Topic, Format and Location. Start with the questions of the area that you want to focus on first:
Hopefully the above exercises will have given you some inspiration and you will have ended up with a nice list of talk ideas that you're interested in. The exercise questions obviously aren't exhaustive and I'm curious to hear what other questions get your mind thinking about potential ideas. I'd also love to hear if these exercises help you, so feel free to email, comment or tweet me about this!
Once you have this ideas list, the next steps are deciding which idea to develop further, figuring out what events are out there and how to create talk proposals for them. In the upcoming weeks I'll be writing blog posts for each of these topics, so stay tuned!
Great talk from Lena Reinhard, comparing being in tech with being in space.
This Kenzo World ad has been making the social media rounds the last few weeks and I can't stop watching it! It's directed by Spike Jonze and the first thing that did come to my mind when seeing it the first time was how similar it felt to Jonze's previously directed Weapon of Choice for Fatboy Slim.
Of course within a couple of days a mashup appeared of the two videos:
Two weeks ago I gave a talk at The Lead Developer called How To Succeed at Hiring Without Really Trying. This is pretty much the blog post version of my script/speaker's notes for it! Check out the full slides or watch the video.
Imagine: you're shopping for groceries and need to buy strawberries. You have two options. The first one comes in this completely closed off box – you can't look into it, there's no pictures on the packaging – you have no idea how the strawberries actually look like. The second option: a transparent plastic box with some handy labels on it: you know immediately what the nutritional value is, where the strawberries are grown and you even get some a nice recipe for strawberry pie to try. And you can exactly see what strawberries you get.
Which box do you choose?
Now of course choosing what company to work at isn't on the same level as choosing which strawberries to buy. But in the same way, we should be thinking about how we expose and promote our teams as places where people want to work. Not doing anything and remaining a black box that no one can look into doesn't help at all. So how can we be those strawberries that everyone wants to choose?
For the past 2 years, I've taken a lead within FutureLearn to do exactly this type of stuff – I've been responsible for trying to raise awareness about our company within the tech and design community.
In the past I've always struggled trying to explain what it exactly is that I do and finding the right phrase or word or title that encompasses it. Developer evangelism. Developer outreach. Developer relations. Developer advocacy. All these terms are used within our industry to describe these roles that are much more outward facing, but none of them felt quite right to describe what we were trying to do here.
The way I see it this area typically is about creating a relationship between your company and potential customers – you have a product, be it a platform, apis, tooling – it's something that you want developers to use. There's a good overview from Phil Leggetter about the different goals and approaches within developer relations, but in the end all of them are about shaping that space, so you can have conversations with those outside of your company about your product.
And that doesn't quite work here for 2 reasons: 1) it's not the product we're trying to evangelize, it's our team, and 2) we're actually not just targeting developers, we're targeting the wider product team, so also designers, UX researchers, product managers. It's about more than just developers.
So the phrase I've started using recently to capture this is employee evangelism. In the same way that developer evangelism is about creating that conversation between your company and the outside world, employee evangelism is about creating that conversation between your employees and the potential employees outside the company. It is about raising awareness about the team – and comes from the team directly.
Rather than having a single person be the employee evangelist, you want the entire team to contribute to this evangelism, making sure that this loop is constantly happening:
Now we have other people on the team who take care of the hiring process, and I like to think that everyone on our team does awesome stuff, so my focus tends to be on getting people to share that awesomeness with the community. I've always seen this as a team role: I'm not the only person in the company going out and talking at all the events, I'm not the only person writing all the blog posts. This has been very much about supporting our entire team to do all this, helping them learn the skills they need for this and helping create the type of environment where everyone feels encouraged to contribute.
So having defined this idea of employee evangelism, what can you do to encourage and support your team to practice this?
A couple months back I read Badass: Making Users Awesome from Kathy Sierra and in it she explains how the best way to get your product being used by people, is understanding that it's not necessarily about your product, it's about making your users awesome. If they feel they are being badass, when using your product, they'll be more passionate and motivated to share what they can do with your product.
Kathy goes on to create a framework of sorts to help your users become badass. And I realised that most of what she describes in there can be adapted to how we can encourage our teams. How we can make our teams badass.
Using her book as a base I've adapted it specifically for getting your team to share more, but I think it can applied to a lot of other ways of making our teams better. I want to focus on 4 areas, and I think all of these combined can help you encourage your team:
This is about creating that right type of environment where people feel like they can share. Start with the company culture first. Now let's go back to our strawberry example.
Remember the packaging of the transparent box? The retailer could have put anything they wanted on it – nutritional benefits, the claim that they're the best strawberries in the world, adorable recipes. In the end though the main thing that matters: whether or not they are good and tasty strawberries. Whether or not they're the type of strawberries a person would buy again. Whether or not they're the type of strawberries a person would tell their friends to go buy.
So: be great. The first thing about getting your team, writing or talking about your company is having something that's worth sharing, something that's worth getting excited about. If you want potential employees to see what a great company it is to work at, then it does need to be a great company or at least have elements of greatness within it. If there isn't a single thing that you can think of that is great, that is worth sharing with others, then most probably your focus should be on fixing that first.
The second thing is to be authentic. The stories that your team will tell need to come from them – you can't give them a script or a brief and tell them to go and evangelise. It needs to have that human voice.
"On their deathbed, nobody will say: If only I'd engaged more with brands." – Kathy Sierra
Remember this is about employees starting conversations with potential employees. It's not The Brand having those conversations, it's actual humans.
Third, be open. Be willing to share information and stories and data about your company. Not every company will be able to share everything – but get a good understanding of what things your team can talk about and share, and make sure they're aware that they can.
The second area we need to look at is giving each person a compelling reason. With this I mean look at the personal motivations for each team member. What will drive each of them to share what they do with others? I'll give a couple examples of what I think are the most common motivations.
Helping others – these are the people that share what they know, cause it will directly help someone else. They might not necessarily want to stand in the spotlight, but they know that if they do, they can make someone's life easier.
Building confidence in communication – in most of our day-to-day work we rely on communication to others . Doing a blog post or giving a talk or workshop are extreme examples on that spectrum, but becoming a better speaker or writer will help people in their job, and for some this is the main reason why they will want to get better at it.
Building personal reputation – these are the people that want to stand in the spotlight and have the focus on them. A variant of this are the people that want to be experts in a specific thing – they want to show that they have mastered a specific topic.
These aren't the only motivations that people have, but I think these are the most popular 3 especially when it comes to getting your team to share what they do. Understanding which of these apply to each team member ties in with helping them actually build the skills they need and understanding what types of stories and problems they want to share.
Now that we know what each team member's goal is how do you encourage them to keep working on this? I think there are 2 sides to this:
First: what makes them stop? You need to understand what each person's fears and blockers are. I often hear things like I'm not an expert, I can't write, nothing I do is worth sharing. They're all valid fears and reasons why someone will stop or will never get started. But once you know what their fears and blockers are, you can help them come up with a plan to overcome them.
The flip side of this is: what pulls them forward? Make them set a goal, like speak at a conference in a year's time or write a full length blog post in 2 months time and help them break this big goal into more manageable chunks. I haven't quite done this with my team yet, but am in the process of creating some progression paths for writing, speaking and workshops, so that people can pick and choose from these when setting their personal goals with their line managers.
Finally: lead by example. Make sure your team is not only aware of the things that you do, but also how you got there. For instance, when I started this 2 years back, I hadn't ever spoken at a conference before. Even now I still get super nervous giving talks. So I know the types of fears my team were feeling – I've been there – but constantly sharing with them what my journey has been and how I deal with my fears and nerves, it shows my team that this is just as attainable for them as it was for me.
The final and largest area to look at is how to help your team actually get better. How do you help them improve their skills?
The first part of this is perpetual exposure. This is the idea that to become better at something, to become an expert at something, you need to be exposed to high quality examples of the things that you're trying to get better at. In this case of getting people to share things make sure your team is exposed to good examples of other people sharing.
So to start: have a library. This doesn't have to be just books, but also blog posts, articles, screencasts, videos, basically any content that is worth sharing with your team. What are good examples of content that other people have created? Besides that we've also got lists of recommended material to help people get started with public speaking and writing.
Another thing we organise is Talks We Love – in this we watch a recorded video of a talk together that one person on the team really enjoyed or found useful, followed by a discussion on things we might want to do ourselves.
Beyond highlighting external content, you also need to try to highlight existing good internal content. Our teams are already creating content: just think about good commit messages, or emails or slack messages explaining things. Most of the time it just requires someone pointing out to them 'did you consider turning that into a blog post? Or a talk? Or a workshop?'. Be that voice that champions the work that they're already doing.
The second part of helping your team get better – is giving them the time and space for deliberate practice. Rather than throwing them in the deep end – you need to allow them to build these skills gradually. I'll give a few examples of how we support practice with speaking and writing. They're not the only things we do, but it's just to give you a sense of what types of activities and support you should be thinking of.
Lightning Talks: These happen every 4-6 weeks and anyone in the company can give a quick 5 minute talk about anything they want. This is a great way to get people to recognise that they have something worth talking about and it gives them the experience and confidence to do more talks.
Learning Hours: In these one person on the team, teaches something they think other people might find useful. These tend to be more hands-on and workshop like. And these can be about anything – past learning hours have been about command line tools, how to run retrospectives and understanding database indexes better. Rather than learning to speak in front of a larger audience – this allows people to practice these skills in front of a smaller group of people they're already working with.
Conference Club: This is an internal meetup for everyone that wants to speak at conferences to get together and help each other with everything that goes into creating a conference talk. So coming up with talk ideas, helping write proposals, giving feedback on practice runs. It's making sure that people aren't doing this completely by themselves.
Collaboration blog posts: We pick a specific topic, like women that inspire us or foreign words that we like, and ask for paragraph submissions. So rather than having to commit to a full length blog post, we get people started with writing small snippets.
Internal Blog: Another thing we have is our internal blog, for sharing problems or stories with the wider team. Again rather than having to publish something immediately for the entire world, we basically provide a stepping stone inbetween.
So give your team the time and space to practice these new skills. These won't grow overnight and you need to create a supportive environment if you want to get everyone involved.
So what was the effect of all this on our team? Now when I started this role we barely had anyone from our product team writing blog posts or speaking at events. Here are some stats of where we got to now.
Not including the people that joined our team recently, about 35% of our team have now done an external talk. That percentage rises to 60% when we take into account the lightning talks and to 78% when we add the learning hours. With blog posts we've got 75% of our team that have written full length blog posts, and 89% when we include the collaboration posts. And the awesome thing is, if we combine this all, this means that everyone in our team is sharing their knowledge in some way.
Tying it back to the start of this post – from the last round of hiring, 50% of the interviewees explicitly mentioned having seen a talk or read a blog post. This wasn't us asking them if they had – this is the percentage of people that brought it up themselves in their conversations with us. So the actual number might actually be higher.
If there's one thing you take away from this blog post, let it be this: Every team can do this, but more importantly I think every team should do this.
While I think employee evangelism is great for your company, in the end it's about making our community great. Embedding these type of practices within every company means that we get more people sharing what they do, and what they love. If we want to see more diverse speakers at events, if we want to see more diverse writers share their stories, we need to support everyone to learn these skills and as tech leads we are in positions to change this.
So I want you all to think about this – the next time you came across something that one of your colleagues have done that could help someone else, help them to share it with the world. And maybe next year thanks to you, they will be somewhere on a stage sharing that story and trying to make the community a better place.
Enjoyed this post and want more? You might like: Blogging tips: How to start writing , How I got into conference speaking and Imposter Syndrome: How we act and work together.
Curious about how we do more things at FutureLearn? Read our "Making FutureLearn" posts.
A couple of weeks back I got invited to share my blogging tips for the Women Hack for Non Profits monthly meetup. I couldn't make the event, but since I've been helping friends and colleagues recently quite a bit with their blog posts, I thought it would be useful to write up some of the advice I found myself repeating quite a bit.
These tips aren't really about how to get you blogging more often or how to set up your blog – rather, it's about how to write a long form blog post/article. There's also a lot of overlap here between how I approach creating my blog posts and my talks: you could easily apply a lot of these tips to creating a talk too!
Before writing anything, I try to sit down and think through all the different aspects of my blog post. For starters, who am I writing this post for? Are they other developers? Users of my product? Fans of a TV show? What's their background, what do they know? Knowing who you're writing for frames the entire article – for me, it makes it easier to understand and define the scope of what you're attempting to write.
Once you know who you're writing this post for, think about what story you're telling them. What is it that you want them to take away from this post? What's the key message? Are you trying to convince them of something? Are you sharing something that you did? Have an idea of what effect you want to have on your audience.
My process of writing typically begins with post-it notes. I'll start with all the key points I want to make, including some of the answers I came up with to the questions in the previous section. Once I've got all those post-its I start grouping them and moving them around to create different sections. What I like about this method is that it allows me to play around with how I tell the story – it's easier to move post-its around and come up with the structure that works best without being bogged down in paragraphs and paragraphs of text.
When done right, the groupings of post-it notes give me a good idea of the flow of my blog post. I'll know what points I need to make in my intro and conclusion, plus the groupings will give me a rough idea of headings and their paragraphs. Of course, you might not necessarily have any post-its handy, but I think the main lesson is to think about the overall structure before diving in to write something.
Once you know what to write, actually sitting down and writing can be quite tough. For me, it depends on the type of blog post, but often I'll find that it's the opening and intro I struggle the most with. In those cases: I initially just skip it and leave it for last. Start with whatever section is most clear in your mind and write it! There's nothing stopping you from writing the post in the same order that somebody reads it.
It's rare I'll write something that I'm completely happy with in one go. Typically I'll have an initial draft and go through it completely again – cutting parts, moving paragraphs around and turning it into a better story. Just like with refactoring code, you need to keep in mind that it's all about making the end product better. Sometimes I'll have written a sentence or paragraph that I completely love, but I know I need to cut, cause it just doesn't work.
Finally, the main thing I've had to accept is that whatever I do none of my posts will ever be 'perfect'. It's sometimes super tricky to hit that publish button on something that you feel could be better, yet at the same time you can't keep every single post in a drafted state forever.
Even now, just looking at this post, I feel as if maybe I've forgotten something, maybe there's something else that should be included in this list. But it's been hanging around in a draft state for about 2 weeks now and I haven't made that many changes.
Waiting for perfection just gets in the way of sharing you know and helping others.
This 10 minute talk by David Marquet got shared last week at work and I just love the ideas behind it. David tells his story of when he became captain of the USS Santa Fe, and started treating his crew as leaders, not followers:
Marquet has also written a book about this topic called 'Turn The Ship Around!', which goes into more detail on how to apply Marquet's approach to create a workplace where everyone takes responsibility for their actions. I've just started reading it and so far it's great.
Today it's Time to Talk Day, a campaign to make people aware of mental health issues and to get people talking about them. I've dealt with a lot of anxiety in the past 15 years or so, but have to admit I've never talked to a professional about it or even really considered it a mental health "issue" I have. Looking back though I'm realising maybe I should have – maybe I could have made it easier for myself if I had. I guess part of me just thought that this is what being a grown-up means, that everyone experienced these things but I just wasn't good enough at coping with them. And that in itself is why I'm writing this – if it helps only one single person out there, that alone means this post was worth writing.
I think my anxiety started in the final years of high school. Before those final 2 years, I thought school was pretty easy. I've got an awesome short term memory, so memorising stuff for exams wasn't very challenging, and I always considered myself in the top of the class. In those final years though, things changed – I still was getting high marks and performing well, but it took way more time and effort than it did before and I put a ton of pressure on myself to be that 'perfect' student again. I started feeling anxious and bad whenever I got a bad grade, leading to me putting even more pressure on myself, creating this continuous loop of pushing myself maybe a bit too hard.
And that only got worse when I went to university. I decided to study Computer Science without having programmed anything before in my life (well, except for my graphical calculator) and I was overwhelmed by the amount of stuff my peers already knew. Compared to them, I felt so inadequate – maybe I had made the wrong decision and I should have studied something else? Despite feeling like that, I kept pushing myself trying yet again to be that 'perfect' student even though I knew I could never be as good as my peers. And thanks to all my hard work, I did keep getting high marks for exams and assignments. I knew I wasn't bad, but somehow I felt like it was just luck, that one day someone would expose me for the fraud I actually was.
At its worse, it would come on as full-on episodes of anxiety – I'd be sitting in the computer lab with a ton of other students around me, reading through the latest practical assignment and just freeze, knowing I didn't know how to solve this problem. My chest would go all tight, my face and neck would go all red and splotchy, and the sound of my way-too-loud beating heart would drown out all the noise around me.
I now know that this is what is called Imposter Syndrome, but at the time I thought I was the only one feeling like this. Realizing that most people I know, even those who are way more experienced than I am, have dealt with imposter syndrome was a huge eye-opener to me. Hearing how I wasn't the only person that has this and talking to others about their own experiences has been the main thing that has helped me deal with this type of anxiety. Knowing that most of us are 'imposters' and just trying the best we can has taken away that feeling that I don't belong.
Throughout the years it's gotten a whole lot less, but I'll still have days where I don't feel good enough – that I'm not doing the best I can. I'll get stuck in loops of self doubt and blame for not having done more. It's not quite Imposter Syndrome, but it still is anxiety about how I assume I should be. Especially after a day that hasn't gone quite as I thought it would, I'll get easily stuck in thinking of all the other ways I could have done something, replaying events over and over in my head.
Tied to that is that there's always this part of my brain that for any situation will try to come up with all possible outcomes – going down every path, be it good or bad. I'll imagine all the ways past conversations could have gone, or how future conversations might go and (from a code perspective) come up with most edge cases before it's needed. It's a great skill to have (especially for work and board games), but only when I can reign it in and actually turn it into something I can act on.
In the worst case scenario though my worst case scenario thinker will focus way too much on the negative, coming up with a ton of unlikely and bad scenarios, causing me to freeze up and get massive panic attacks based on 'what might happen'. I've had lots of sleepless nights where my mind has gone down the rabbit hole of doom and dread, conjuring up the worst things I can think of.
Nowadays it mainly happens to me when I'm doing stuff not part of my routine, like when I'm going on holiday. I'll get super anxious just thinking about all the things I'll forget to pack, how I'm going to miss my flights, how the airline will lose my luggage, how my flat will be burgled while I'm away, how the pet sitter will forget to feed my cats, how I'll get lost and not find my way back to my hotel, how my bag, passport and money will be stolen, how… etc etc. I know most of it is unlikely and won't happen, but it's so easy to get trapped in thinking of all the negative that 'could' occur.
For me, there have been 3 things that have helped a lot with how I deal with anxiety. The first is understanding. Identifying when I'm having a panic attack and understanding why it's happening and what has triggered it, means I can try to stop my mind from going down the rabbit hole. I find the psychology of emotions fascinating (my master's thesis was on facial expression recognition), and being able to learn what our brains do when we experience anxiety has helped me a lot (I find a good place to start is Emotional Intelligence from Daniel Goleman).
The second thing is compartmentalising. I'll always have these parts of my brain that will pipe up at completely the wrong moments and I've accepted that they will always be there. I've realised though that I don't always have to listen to them at that moment: I'll acknowledge they're there, then mentally shove it in a box and put it aside to open up later. I'll never completely forget about that box though, and I will always get around to dealing with those thoughts and issues, but I'll do it at a time when it works for me (rather than say in the middle of the night when I'm trying to sleep).
The third is reflecting. I wrote an entire article about doing personal retrospectives for 12 Devs during Christmas, so won't go into too much detail here. Reflection for me is sitting down and taking the time just to think about all the things I've done and what I could have done differently. It's a time to open the box with all the thoughts I had and to go through them. The main thing is doing it when it feels right to me – when I feel I have the right type of mind to deal with the issues.
I know these are just the things that I do and I have no idea whether or not they will help anyone else, but it might help just hearing how other people deal with stuff. I also know my version of anxiety isn't as extreme as it can be for others, yet it will be more than what most people typically encounter. Anxiety is something that I know I need to deal with on a regular basis, and I know it will never fully go away for me. But talking about it, however hard and embarrassing and weird it might be, does help.


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The candle chandelier came from the Nashville Flea Market several years ago. I used it on the screened porch, which is now our porch room. It's actually been hanging in this tree for many months, and hasn't lost a single candle.
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Except Clowe isnt a power forward.
He may have the size and will fight every once in awhile, but he doesnt go to the tough spots on the ice.
Over the last few years, it looks like he tries to emulate Thornton on the side boards. He likes to bring the puck down the wing, he pulls up and gives the opposing D time to get their body on him. Clowe either isnt strong enough or doesnt have the hands (more likely) to give himself space and make a reasonable pass. He tends to lose the puck and lately he is losing his balance a lot and ends up on the ice. He doesnt really fit with the puck possession game that our top 6 plays, but at this point, there really isnt anyone else that does.
I doubt he will be re-signed at this point. Some team out there will throw a stupid contract out there and DW isnt going to match it.
Yeah my feelings exactly. I'm sure there will be a GM willing to give him $4 million and hope he turns it around in his new team. Wilson would be stupid to match it.
I think Wilson will keep him until the end of the year, then let him go via FA. If we need a PWF, Wilson might sign a lesser one ie. Smyth
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Buying your own home for the very first time is a proud moment, and gives you a sense of security and belonging. However, most surveys state that the biggest problem for most buyers is finding the home that they need.
The National Association of Realtors states that the inventory of existing homes on sale could last as many as 4.7 months. In the last four years, the inventory of the number of houses on sale has never exceeded the six months worth. While the inventory is low, there are a good number of buyers in the market. Recent trends suggest that while there are more buyers are looking for homes; few are able to find what they need.
However, since August, the trend seems to have shifted a bit. Trends in August suggested that as many as 59% of real estate buyers hadn't even searched for a home for three months.
Now, more people are stating that they want to explore the market more, and the new problem was finding the time needed before they could finalize their decision.
First Time Buyers Today
It seems there are a good number of first-time buyers today than ever before. In August 2015 for instance, as many as 35% were first-time buyers, compared with 51% being first-time buyers the same month this year.
The change in buyer demographics means that there are newer challenges for the market - and an increasing supply-demand imbalance.
The Other Challenges
There are other financial problems to solve too. For instance, the number of buyers who had problems qualifying for a mortgage rose from around 5.6% last year to around 9.4%.
Credit scores are a problem too, with as many as 19.5% buyers having poor credit scores, compared to just 9.7% last year.
As many as 25% did not even have the funds available for a down payment, up from 16% last year.
However in spite of the challenges the real estate market has seen a steady growth, partly because of qualified and experienced buyers who could meet the difficult mortgage qualifications necessary today, leading to higher credit scores on purchase mortgages.
How Do First Time Buyers Close In On A Deal?
The question for further growth remains on the question of whether first time buyers would be able to qualify for a loan or close in on deals. When buying a home don't just consider the amount spent on buying it, but the costs associated with it in repairs and maintenance. If you're a first-time buyer, these tips would surely help.
1. Know Your Financials
This involves knowing your FICO score; you need to aim to have it above 700. Having a better credit score will help you to have more funds available at a better rate.
2. Organize Your Financials
Everything matters when you're looking to get a loan, from your recent bank papers to financial statements. Your previous tax filings and pay stubs are important too.
3. Know your limitations.
Calculate the total housing cost on a monthly basis including all taxes and insurance.
The down payment you'll need to give depends on the house you're buying as well as loan type. For instance, the average down payment this year was around 11%, but it could vary widely. Just try one of the payment assistance programs if you're having difficulty with down payment.
4. Do Record All The Details
Any debts can hamper your ability to ask for more funds. It's important that you keep track of all the debts that you've, including any student loans or car payments. This will help the lender make better decisions.
5. Find a Good Lender
Finding the right lender is important. Look to get yourself pre-approved. While there are more first-time buyers than before, it's also true that there is a limited supply, and you would want to take the right steps. Getting yourself pre-approved is just a great successful buying strategy tip - as a pre-approval letter helps the seller know that you have the ability close on the deal.
First Time Buyer Tips
As a first time buyer, it's a good idea to not visit too many homes in a short time. You are likely to get confused; instead, visit few every week and make a list of the ones you like.
Check and compare the selling prices of different properties up for sale, settling on the one that fits your budget. Inspect the property, and ensure that the price of the property is well within your budget. Examine all documents before closing in on the deal.


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President Obama will be talking about the economy this week in a couple of swing states. He travels tomorrow to Missouri, where the jobless rate is a bit below the national average, but still a painfully high 9.3 percent. Mr. Obama wants to extend unemployment benefits, but Republican senators have blocked that move, saying it will add to the deficit. NPR's Scott Horsley has more.
SCOTT HORSLEY: In his trip to Kansas City tomorrow, President Obama plans to visit a company that makes electric trucks. The Smith Electric Vehicle Company employs about 50 people, and it's hoping to double that payroll this year with help from a $32 million grant from the U.S. Energy Department.
Sandi Garrison would very much like to get one of those new Smith jobs. The Kansas City woman was laid off from her last job in 2008. And except for some temporary and contract assignments, she's been out of work for the last year and a half.
Ms. SANDI GARRISON: I get out and network all the time, and I go to job clubs. You know, I really, really try hard to find a job. But, you know, still, I have not been the chosen candidate.
HORSLEY: At her last interview, Garrison says, for an administrative assistant's position, she was one of 350 applicants. All those people looking for work aren't getting a lot of encouragement from the news these days. Private employers added just 80,000 jobs last month.
President Obama said the economy is moving in the right direction, but not fast enough.
President BARACK OBAMA: We're fighting to speed up this recovery and keep the economy growing by all means possible. That means extending unemployment insurance for workers who lost their job. That means getting small businesses the loans they need to keep their doors open and hire new workers. And that means sending relief to states so they don't have to lay off thousands of teachers and firefighters and police officers.
HORSLEY: Actually, Washington is not doing any of those things right now. Administration efforts to extend jobless benefits, boost small- business lending, and funnel money to the states have all been blocked in the Senate by lawmakers nervous about adding to the deficit.
David Walker, of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, has been sounding the alarm about the federal deficits for years. But even he says that's no excuse for the government to ignore more immediate concerns. Walker told the president's debt commission last week the government should tackle both problems.
Mr. DAVID WALKER (Peter G. Peterson Foundation): In our view, to ease the economic pain of unemployment and underemployed Americans, and to avoid a double-dip recession, we can and should pursue targeted and short-term initiatives that are temporary, properly designed, appropriately conditioned and effectively implemented.
HORSLEY: Like unemployed workers, state governments are facing their own budget crunch. The states cut some 10,000 jobs last month. White House economic adviser Christina Romer says job cuts in the states will only accelerate without more federal aid.
Ms. CHRISTINA ROMER (Chairperson, White House Council of Economic Advisors): The idea that we're going to lay off hundreds of thousands of teachers or policemen or firefighters - those are people in a job, they want to stay in a job. It seems like a very smart and sensible way to keep employment up and to provide essential government services.
HORSLEY: But a Gallup Poll released last month showed Americans are just about as concerned with government debt as they are with unemployment - especially Republicans. Missouri congressman and GOP Senate candidate Roy Blunt gives voice to that concern in a new campaign ad that began running this week.
Representative ROY BLUNT (Republican, Missouri): Irresponsible spending and crippling debt are killing jobs today and our children's future tomorrow.
HORSLEY: Job seeker Sandi Garrison is more worried about the present. Her unemployment benefits ran out last month, and unless she gets an extension or finds a new job soon, Garrison says it's going to be a lean year for her family - no eating out, no splurging, and certainly no big-ticket purchases that might give a lift to other would-be workers.
Ms. GARRISON: My car has 181,000 miles. So, you know, I need to get a job so that I can purchase a different car and help the economy. You know, it's going to be a tailspin pretty soon.
HORSLEY: Unemployment is an even bigger problem in Nevada, where the jobless rate is now 14 percent, the nation's highest. President Obama will make another push for government relief efforts in Las Vegas on Friday.
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A stunned HBO executive confirmed the news: "James has won three Emmys." She seemed as astonished as we were that the US Primetime Emmys - the preserve of soap operas and Hollywood celebrities - had singled out a documentary that was as tough to watch as it had been heartrending to make.
Death in Gaza centres upon the lives of Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip. Its maker is director James Miller, who was shot dead by an Israeli soldier during filming on May 2 2003. He was carrying a white flag and wearing a helmet with "TV" written on it.
I was the producer of the film. A previous engagement meant I couldn't attend the Los Angeles ceremony, but it would have been hard to bear. We always used to enjoy our nights out at events such as these. In September 2002, James and I flew to New York to attend the News and Documentary Emmys. We picked up one for each of the two films we had made together: Beneath the Veil, which he filmed, and Unholy War, which he directed.
The Emmys were a watershed, a moment to lay aside the emotion and hardship of our subject matter and to celebrate. We marvelled at how our lives had changed: a year before, James hadn't directed a documentary. Now his debut had won an Emmy. On the crest of our success, we popped into the US broadcasting giant Home Box Office and left with a commission.
After his death, his team tried to stay true to James's vision. In the edit we listened to his voice, captured on tape. We noted the uncanny way his eye sought out humanity in the barren mess of war. James knew what mattered, what was real.
James's family were all in LA to toast his success. His widow, Sophy, described the feeling of hearing his name called again and again. "I didn't dare think that he'd won more than one, but to clear the board was truly superb," she said. "It's a huge acknowledgement and recognition of James."
Sophy used part of her acceptance speech to make the point that, more than two years on, nobody has been brought to justice for his death. Even though Israeli investigators admit they know who did it, they claim there is insufficient evidence for a court case. "People in LA were shocked that the soldier who shot him could be known but nothing done," said Sophy.
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Hi Craig, > Hi Michael, > > On Sep 7, 2005, at 6:38 AM, Michael Bouschen wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Michael W. and I started looking into JDO assertions testing JDO query >> features that have been added with JDO2. None of them are implemented >> yet, so we will have to add a couple of new query test classes. > > > It might be more than a few, like a dozen or so? I'm afraid there are more than just a dozen :-). We have 58 new query assertions and usually we have a test class per assertion. > >> >> Today the query package org.apache.jdo.tck.query includes 65 test >> classes and we would need to add a couple of more to test the JDO2 >> query features. We think this is too much for one package, so we >> propose adding some subpackages to org.apache.jdo.tck.query: >> - api testing the Query API methods > > > include newQuery, which are really PersistenceManager API but probably > belong here. Yes, I agree. > >> - result testing query result handling > > > Including resultClass tests. Yup. > >> - sql testing SQL queries executed from a Query instance > > > Good. > >> - delete testing delete queries > > > This might not deserve another package. There are not that many tests > here. So I'd guess that delete could go into the api package. Agreed. We have four assertions for delete queries, so they could go into api. > >> Some of the existing test cases need to be refactored into the api >> package. Should we keep the remaining tests in >> org.apache.jdo.tck.query or should we add another package (e.g. >> language) for these? > > > There's already an operators package. Maybe we should add a jdoql > package with the language features like operators in subpackages? How > many language features have so many tests that it makes sense to split > out? Grouping maybe. Aggregates maybe. Sounds good. So we start with query.jdoql and query.jdoql.operators and we might add another jdoql subpackage there is another functional area with an significant amount of test classes. > > What about String queries? My inclination would be to test String > queries alongside language features, so the test case would have each > feature tested three ways: setFilter, String query, and metadata query. > That might make more sense than having the same feature appear in three > different tests, especially since if the language feature is broken, > it's broken three ways in one test and not broken in three tests. I agree that all the new classes testing language features should test the same query created in two ways: programmatic using the API methods (setFilter, declareImportes, etc.) and the single string query. We have a couple of assertions about queries specified in the metadata, so this should be covered there. Once the Query instance is created it does not make any difference whether the single came from the metadata or was directly passed to the pm.newQuery call. So I have the feeling it does not add much value if the new language query tests also include a metadata single string query. Regards Michael > > Craig > >> >> Regards Michael >> -- >> Michael Bouschen Tech@Spree Engineering GmbH >> mailto:email@example.com http://www.tech.spree.de/ >> Tel.:++49/30/235 520-33 Buelowstr. 66 >> Fax.:++49/30/2175 2012 D-10783 Berlin >> >> > > Craig Russell > > Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/jdo > > 408 276-5638 mailto:email@example.com > > P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp! > > -- Michael Bouschen Tech@Spree Engineering GmbH mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com http://www.tech.spree.de/ Tel.:++49/30/235 520-33 Buelowstr. 66 Fax.:++49/30/2175 2012 D-10783 Berlin
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The Impact of War
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The use of private contractors in conflict zones like Iraq and Afghanistan has hit unprecedented levels. A civilian force of more than 120,000 people is in Iraq. But as the private contracting industry has exploded in the past few years, there has been little oversight.
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The use of private contractors in conflict zones has hit unprecedented levels. More than 120,000 civilian contractors are in Iraq alone. They do everything from work in mess halls to provide armed protection for VIPs. And even though the private contracting industry has exploded during the Iraq war, there's been virtually no oversight. Now efforts are underway to gain control over a business that flourishes in times of war.
NPR national security correspondent Jackie Northam reports.
JACKIE NORTHAM: On March 31st, 2004, there was grizzly news out of one of the most dangerous cities in Iraq.
Unidentified Man #1: It was another bloody day in Iraq today. Four American security contractors were killed in the city of Fallujah.
Unidentified Woman #2: An angry crowd gathered and attacked the vehicles.
Unidentified Woman #3: The bodies of the dead were dragged around town. They were mutilated and two of them were left hanging from a bridge.
NORTHAM: The four men who were killed in Fallujah that day were hauling kitchen equipment to a U.S. military base. They were all civilian contractors with North Carolina-based Blackwater U.S.A. The families of the four men sued Blackwater claiming the company did not live up to promises to provide the men with adequate equipment before going into Fallujah. The families' lawyer Daniel Callahan.
Mr. DANIEL CALLAHAN (Attorney): They only had a driver and a navigator. So they did not have the rear gunner with a large powerful machine gun in the back. They didn't have the armored vehicle. And they weren't even so much as given a map. They were not given an opportunity to inspect the routes in advance. And all these things are promised.
NORTHAM: Blackwater says it should be immune from any civil litigation because it and the men were working under contract for the Defense Department and so should be shielded from lawsuits, much as the U.S. military is protected from suits. Marty Strong(ph), a vice president with Blackwater, says any compensation for the families has to come from the U.S. government through the Defense Base Act.
Mr. MARTY STRONG (Vice President, Blackwater): When it comes to doing contracts for the U.S. government involved in areas of conflict where there's a potential risk to life and limb, the Defense Base Act is the governing issue.
NORTHAM: But military lawyers say the act doesn't address the families' claims that the four men were not given enough or the proper equipment. Blackwater has fought this lawsuit hard. It launched a $10 million countersuit. It brought in high profile lawyers including Ken Starr, the special prosecutor who investigated President Bill Clinton. Callahan, the lawyer for the families of the four men killed in Fallujah, says there is a lot riding on this case because it could set a precedent for handling future lawsuits.
Mr. CALLAHAN: They are trying to show that - don't come after Blackwater. We're too big, we're too bad, and you won't win. And you know what, they have a lot of political muscle.
NORTHAM: This case has moved far beyond the courtroom. It became the focus of a House Oversight Committee hearing earlier this year. Family members of the men killed in Fallujah sat along with representatives from the Army, Blackwater, and several other major contracting firms. The hearing, which was intended to air the families' concerns, also exposed many other problems in the contracting industry. Henry Waxman, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, tried to sort out what he called the murky world of subcontracting.
Representative HENRY WAXMAN (Democrat, California): Blackwater was providing security services under a contract with a Kuwaiti company called Regency. And that Regency was itself a subcontractor for ESS Support Services Worldwide, which in turn was a subcontractor for other contractors such as KBR and Fluor Corporation. The Fluor Corporation disputes this and the Defense Department doesn't seem to be sure what's going on.
NORTHAM: In fact, at that hearing a spokesperson for the Army couldn't even say how many contracting companies were working in Iraq. These issues have led to calls for more transparency in the contracting industry. Doug Brooks, the president of the International Peace Operations Association, a trade group for contractors, says a lack of transparency isn't necessarily the fault of the contractors.
Mr. DOUG BROOKS (President, International Peace Operations Association): Oftentimes the clients, which is to say governments, like to control the message going out. And they will tell the company essentially, you know, if there is a media contact or something, it should come through us, which would be State Department or Department of Defense.
NORTHAM: There's no central database, no single organization to keep track of facts and figures, and so the most basic questions regarding civilian contractors cannot easily be answered. What roles do the contractors play? What nationalities? How much is it costing the American taxpayer? And how many contractors have been killed? One of the most vexing questions is what legal framework do the civilian contractors fall under?
Mr. PETER W. SINGER (Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution): They fall into a legal vacuum, a legal gray space.
NORTHAM: Peter W. Singer, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution and author of the book "Corporate Warriors," says there are concerns about accountability, especially regarding the heavily armed security contractors.
Mr. SINGER: First, they are not part of the military. They are not part of the chain of command. They aren't wearing uniforms. At the same time though, they are not traditional civilians. They are participants by shape or form within a military operation. So they're not just accompanying the force, they're there operating.
NORTHAM: One of the last things Paul Bremer, the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, did before leaving Baghdad in mid-2004 was grant civilian contractors immunity from prosecution under Iraqi law. A civilian contractor working for the defense department or other U.S. agencies who commits a felony would fall under a law known as the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act, or MEJA. Singer says there's problems with this.
Mr. SINGER: MEJA was not designed for war zones. It was designed for things like a family member committing a crime on a U.S. military base.
NORTHAM: And Singer says there's little enforcement of MEJA. Over the past three years, the Department of Justice has indicted or prosecuted only three cases. This lack of active enforcement has raised concerns that contractors can act with impunity, and that maybe why Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, tucked an amendment into the 2007 defense bill that said civilian contractors fall under the military legal system, known as the Uniform Code of Military Justice. But is it possible to try civilians under a military system?
Mr. JOHN HUDSON (Dean, Franklin Pierce Law Center) I think you probably could. I just don't think that you should.
NORTHAM: John Hudson, the dean of Franklin Pierce law school and a former Navy judge advocate general, says that criminal offenses, court systems and punishments are significantly different under civilian as opposed to military law. Hudson says the military justice system is narrowly focused to try to maintain order and discipline in the service.
Mr. HUDSON: To then take that system and say, okay, now we are going to use it for a bunch of civilians, over whom we have no control, by the way. You know, they're not part of the military chain of command. They don't report to the commanding general. They report to somebody back in Virginia. You could do that, but it's going to change in a very fundamental and important ways the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
NORTHAM: The Pentagon says its lawyers are, quote, "ironing out the details of the new law." Hudson says urgent action must be taken to control the flourishing contracting industry, because it's likely that military and civilians will be next to each other on the battlefield well into the future.
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