diff --git a/15-free-agents/tf-15.py b/15-free-agents/tf-15.py
index 90387db..69f76c2 100755
--- a/15-free-agents/tf-15.py
+++ b/15-free-agents/tf-15.py
@@ -15,23 +15,25 @@ class ActiveWFObject(Thread):
     def run(self):
         while not self._stop:
             message = self.queue.get()
-            self.dispatch(message)
+            self._dispatch(message)
             if message[0] == 'die':
                 self._stop = True
 
+def send(receiver, message):
+    receiver.queue.put(message)
+
 class DataStorageManager(ActiveWFObject):
-    _queue = Queue()
     """ Models the contents of the file """
     _data = ''
 
-    def dispatch(self, message):
+    def _dispatch(self, message):
         if message[0] == 'init':
             self._init(message[1:])
         elif message[0] == 'send_word_freqs':
             self._process_words(message[1:])
         else:
             # forward
-            self._stop_word_manager.queue.put(message)
+            send(self._stop_word_manager, message)
  
     def _init(self, message):
         path_to_file = message[0]
@@ -46,22 +48,21 @@ class DataStorageManager(ActiveWFObject):
         data_str = ''.join(self._data)
         words = data_str.split()
         for w in words:
-            self._stop_word_manager.queue.put(['filter', w])
-        self._stop_word_manager.queue.put(['top25', recipient])
-
+            send(self._stop_word_manager, ['filter', w])
+        send(self._stop_word_manager, ['top25', recipient])
 
 class StopWordManager(ActiveWFObject):
     """ Models the stop word filter """
     _stop_words = []
 
-    def dispatch(self, message):
+    def _dispatch(self, message):
         if message[0] == 'init':
             self._init(message[1:])
         elif message[0] == 'filter':
             return self._filter(message[1:])
         else:
             # forward
-            self._word_freqs_manager.queue.put(message)
+            send(self._word_freqs_manager, message)
  
     def _init(self, message):
         with open('../stop_words.txt') as f:
@@ -72,13 +73,13 @@ class StopWordManager(ActiveWFObject):
     def _filter(self, message):
         word = message[0]
         if word not in self._stop_words:
-            self._word_freqs_manager.queue.put(['word', word])
+            send(self._word_freqs_manager, ['word', word])
 
 class WordFrequencyManager(ActiveWFObject):
     """ Keeps the word frequency data """
     _word_freqs = {}
 
-    def dispatch(self, message):
+    def _dispatch(self, message):
         if message[0] == 'word':
             self._increment_count(message[1:])
         elif message[0] == 'top25':
@@ -94,11 +95,11 @@ class WordFrequencyManager(ActiveWFObject):
     def _top25(self, message):
         recipient = message[0]
         freqs_sorted = sorted(self._word_freqs.iteritems(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True)
-        recipient.queue.put(['top25', freqs_sorted])
+        send(recipient, ['top25', freqs_sorted])
 
 class WordFrequencyController(ActiveWFObject):
 
-    def dispatch(self, message):
+    def _dispatch(self, message):
         if message[0] == 'run':
             self._run(message[1:])
         elif message[0] == 'top25':
@@ -108,29 +109,28 @@ class WordFrequencyController(ActiveWFObject):
  
     def _run(self, message):
         self._storage_manager = message[0]
-        self._storage_manager.queue.put(['send_word_freqs', self])
+        send(self._storage_manager, ['send_word_freqs', self])
 
     def _display(self, message):
         word_freqs = message[0]
         for (w, f) in word_freqs[0:25]:
             print w, ' - ', f
-        self._storage_manager.queue.put(['die'])
+        send(self._storage_manager, ['die'])
         self._stop = True
 
-
 #
 # The main function
 #
 word_freq_manager = WordFrequencyManager()
 
 stop_word_manager = StopWordManager()
-stop_word_manager.queue.put(['init', word_freq_manager])
+send(stop_word_manager, ['init', word_freq_manager])
 
 storage_manager = DataStorageManager()
-storage_manager.queue.put(['init', sys.argv[1], stop_word_manager])
+send(storage_manager, ['init', sys.argv[1], stop_word_manager])
 
 wfcontroller = WordFrequencyController()
-wfcontroller.dispatch(['run', storage_manager])
+send(wfcontroller, ['run', storage_manager])
 
 # Wait for the active objects to finish
 [t.join() for t in [word_freq_manager, stop_word_manager, storage_manager, wfcontroller]]