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Chapter VII: A Fatal Despatch
Mr. Coulson found his two visitors in the lounge of the hotel. He had removed all traces of his journey, and was attired in a Tuxedo dinner coat, a soft-fronted shirt, and a neatly arranged black tie. He wore broad-toed patent boots and double lines of braid down the outsides of his trousers. The page boy, who was on the lookout for him, conducted him to the corner where Miss Penelope Morse and her companion were sitting talking together. The latter rose at his approach, and Mr. Coulson summed him up quickly,--a well-bred, pleasant-mannered, exceedingly athletic young Englishman, who was probably not such a fool as he looked,--that is, from Mr. Coulson's standpoint, who was not used to the single eyeglass and somewhat drawling enunciation.
"Mr. Coulson, isn't it?" the young man asked, accepting the other's outstretched hand. "We are awfully sorry to disturb you, so soon after your arrival, too, but the fact is that this young lady, Miss Penelope Morse,"--Mr. Coulson bowed,--"was exceedingly anxious to make your acquaintance. You Americans are such birds of passage that she was afraid you might have moved on if she didn't look you up at once."
Penelope herself intervened.
"I'm afraid you're going to think me a terrible nuisance, Mr. Coulson!" she exclaimed. Mr. Coulson, although he did not call himself a lady's man, was nevertheless human enough to appreciate the fact that the young lady's face was piquant and her smile delightful. She was dressed with quiet but elegant simplicity. The perfume of the violets at her waistband seemed to remind him of his return to civilization.
"Well, I'll take my risks of that, Miss Morse," he declared. "If you'll only let me know what I can do for you--"
"It's about poor Mr. Hamilton Fynes," she explained. "I took up the evening paper only half an hour ago, and read your interview with the reporter. I simply couldn't help stopping to ask whether you could give me any further particulars about that horrible affair. I didn't dare to come here all alone, so I asked Sir Charles to come along with me."
Mr. Coulson, being invited to do so, seated himself on the lounge by the young lady's side. He leaned a little forward with a hand on either knee.
"I don't exactly know what I can tell you," he remarked. "I take it, then, that you were well acquainted with Mr. Fynes?"
"I used to know him quite well," Penelope answered, "and naturally I am very much upset. When I read in the paper an account of your interview with the reporter, I could see at once that you were not telling him everything. Why should you, indeed? A man does not want every detail of his life set out in the newspapers just because he has become connected with a terrible tragedy."
"You're a very sensible young lady, Miss Morse, if you will allow me to say so," Mr. Coulson declared. "You were expecting to see something of Mr. Fynes over here, then?"
"I had an appointment to lunch with him today," she answered. "He sent me a marconigram before he arrived at Queenstown."
"Is that so?" Mr. Coulson exclaimed. "Well, well!"
"I actually went to the restaurant," Penelope continued, "without knowing anything of this. I can't understand it at all, even now. Mr. Fynes always seemed to me such a harmless sort of person, so unlikely to have enemies, or anything of that sort. Don't you think so, Mr. Coulson?"
"Well," that gentleman answered, "to tell you the honest truth, Miss Morse, I'm afraid I am going to disappoint you a little. I wasn't over well acquainted with Mr. Fynes, although a good many people seemed to fancy that we were kind of bosom friends. That newspaper man, for instance, met me at the station and stuck to me like a leech; drove down here with me, and was willing to stand all the liquor I could drink. Then there was a gentleman from Scotland Yard, who was in such a hurry that he came to see me in my bedroom. HE had a sort of an idea that I had been brought up from infancy with Hamilton Fynes and could answer a sheaf of questions a yard long. As soon as I got rid of him, up comes that page boy and brings your card."
"It does seem too bad, Mr. Coulson," Penelope declared, raising her wonderful eyes to his and smiling sympathetically. "You have really brought it upon yourself, though, to some extent, haven't you, by answering so many questions for this Comet man?"
"Those newspaper fellows," Mr. Coulson remarked, "are wonders. Before that youngster had finished with me, I began to feel that poor old Fynes and I had been like brothers all our lives. As a matter of fact, Miss Morse, I expect you knew him at least as well as I did."
She nodded her head thoughtfully.
"Hamilton Fynes came from the village in Massachusetts where I was brought up. I've known him all my life."
Mr. Coulson seemed a little startled.
"I didn't understand," he said thoughtfully, "that Fynes had any very intimate friends over this side."
Penelope shook her head.
"I don't mean to imply that we have been intimate lately," she said. "I came to Europe nine years ago, and since then, of course, I have not seen him often. Perhaps it was the fact that he should have thought of me, and that I was actually expecting to have lunch with him today, which made me feel this thing so acutely."
"Why, that's quite natural," Mr. Coulson declared, leaning back a little and crossing his legs. "Somehow we seem to read about these things in the papers and they don't amount to such a lot, but when you know the man and were expecting to see him, as you were, why, then it comes right home to you. There's something about a murder," Mr. Coulson concluded, "which kind of takes hold of you if you've ever even shaken hands with either of the parties concerned in it."
"Did you see much of the poor fellow during the voyage?" Sir Charles asked.
"No, nor any one else," Mr. Coulson replied. "I don't think he was seasick, but he was miserably unsociable, and he seldom left his cabin. I doubt whether there were half a dozen people on board who would have recognized him afterwards as a fellow-passenger."
"He seems to have been a secretive sort of person," Sir Charles remarked.
"He was that," Mr. Coulson admitted. "Never seemed to care to talk about himself or his own business. Not that he had much to talk about," he added reflectively. "Dull sort of life, his. So many hours of work, so many hours of play; so many dollars a month, and after it's all over, so many dollars pension. Wouldn't suit all of us, Sir Charles, eh?"
"I fancy not," Somerfield admitted. "Perhaps he kicked over the traces a bit when he was over this side. You Americans generally seem to find your way about--in Paris, especially."
Mr. Coulson shook his head doubtfully.
"There wasn't much kicking over the traces with poor old Fynes," he said. "He hadn't got it in him."
Somerfield scratched his chin thoughtfully and looked at Penelope.
"Scarcely seems possible, does it," he remarked, "that a man leading such a quiet sort of life should make enemies."
"I don't believe he had any," Mr. Coulson asserted.
"He didn't seem nervous on the way over, did he?" Penelope asked,--"as though he were afraid of something happening?"
Mr. Coulson shook his head.
"No more than usual," he answered. "I guess your police over here aren't quite so smart as ours, or they'd have been on the track of this thing before now. But you can take it from me that when the truth comes out you'll find that our poor friend has paid the penalty of going about the world like a crank."
"A what?" Somerfield asked doubtfully.
"A crank," Mr. Coulson repeated vigorously. "It wasn't much I knew of Hamilton Fynes, but I knew that much. He was one of those nervous, stand-off sort of persons who hated to have people talk to him and yet was always doing things to make them talk about him. I was over in Europe with him not so long ago, and he went on in the same way. Took a special train to Dover when there wasn't any earthly reason for it; travelled with a valet and a courier, when he had no clothes for the valet to look after, and spoke every European language better than his courier. This time the poor fellow's paid for his bit of vanity. Naturally, any one would think he was a millionaire, travelling like that. I guess they boarded the train somehow, or lay hidden in it when it started, and relieved him of a good bit of his savings."
"But his money was found upon him," Somerfield objected.
"Some of it," Mr. Coulson answered,--"some of it. That's just about the only thing that I do know of my own. I happened to see him take his pocketbook back from the purser, and I guess he'd got a sight more money there than was found upon him. I told the smooth-spoken gentleman from Scotland Yard so--Mr. Inspector Jacks he called himself--when he came to see me an hour or so ago."
Penelope sighed gently. She found it hard to make up her mind concerning this quondam acquaintance of her deceased friend.
"Did you see much of Mr. Fynes on the other side, Mr. Coulson?" she asked him.
"Not I," Mr. Coulson answered. "He wasn't particularly anxious to make acquaintances over here, but he was even worse at home. The way he went on, you'd think he'd never had any friends and never wanted any. I met him once in the streets of Washington last year, and had a cocktail with him at the Atlantic House. I had to almost drag him in there. I was pretty well a stranger in Washington, but he didn't do a thing for me. Never asked me to look him up, or introduced me to his club. He just drank his cocktail, mumbled something about being in a hurry, and made off. I tell you, sir, " Mr. Coulson continued, turning to Somerfield, "that man hadn't a thing to say for himself. I guess his work had something to do with it. You must get kind of out of touch with things, shut up in an office from nine o'clock in the morning till five in the afternoon. Just saving up, he was, for his trip to Europe. Then we happened on the same steamer, but, bless you, he scarcely even shook hands when he saw me. He wouldn't play bridge, didn't care about chess, hadn't even a chair on the deck, and never came in to meals."
Penelope nodded her head thoughtfully.
"You are destroying all my illusions, Mr. Coulson," she said. "Do you know that I was building up quite a romance about poor Mr. Fynes' life? It seemed to me that he must have enemies; that there must have been something in his life, or his manner of living, which accounted for such a terrible crime."
"Why, sure not!" Mr. Coulson declared heartily. "It was a cleverly worked job, but there was no mystery about it. Some chap went for him because he got riding about like a millionaire. A more unromantic figure than Hamilton Fynes never breathed. Call him a crank and you've finished with him."
Penelope sighed once more and looked at the tips of her patent shoes.
"It has been so kind of you," she murmured, "to talk to us. And yet, do you know, I am a little disappointed. I was hoping that you might have been able to tell us something more about the poor fellow."
"He was no talker," Mr. Coulson declared. "It was little enough he had to say to me, and less to any one else."
"It seems strange," she remarked innocently, "that he should have been so shy. He didn't strike me that way when I knew him at home in Massachusetts, you know. He travelled about so much in later years, too, didn't he?"
Penelope's eyes were suddenly upraised. For the first time Mr. Coulson's ready answers failed him. Not a muscle of his face moved under the girl's scrutiny, but he hesitated for a short time before he answered her.
"Not that I know of," he said at length. "No, I shouldn't have called him much of a traveller."
Penelope rose to her feet and held out her hand.
"It has been very nice indeed of you to see us, Mr. Coulson," she said, "especially after all these other people have been bothering you. Of course, I am sorry that you haven't anything more to tell us than we knew already. Still, I felt that I couldn't rest until we had been."
"It's a sad affair, anyhow," Mr. Coulson declared, walking with them to the door. "Don't you get worrying your head, young lady, though, with any notion of his having had enemies, or anything of that sort. The poor fellow was no hero of romance. I don't fancy even your halfpenny papers could drag any out of his life. It was just a commonplace robbery, with a bad ending for poor Fynes. Good evening, miss! Good night, sir! Glad to have met you, Sir Charles."
Mr. Coulson's two visitors left and got into a small electric brougham which was waiting for them. Mr. Coulson himself watched them drive off and glanced at the clock. It was already a quarter past six. He went into the cafe and ordered a light dinner, which he consumed with much obvious enjoyment. Then he lit a cigar and went into the smoking room. Selecting a pile of newspapers, he drew up an easy chair to the fire and made himself comfortable.
"Seems to me I may have a longish wait," he said to himself.
As a matter of fact, he was disappointed. At precisely seven o'clock, Mr. Richard Vanderpole strolled into the room and, after a casual glance around, approached his chair and touched him on the shoulder. In his evening clothes the newcomer was no longer obtrusively American. He was dressed in severely English fashion, from the cut of his white waistcoat to the admirable poise of his white tie. He smiled as he patted Coulson upon the shoulder.
"This is Mr. Coulson, I'm sure," he declared,--"Mr. James B. Coulson from New York?"
"You're dead right," Mr. Coulson admitted, laying down his newspaper and favoring his visitor with a quick upward glance.
"This is great!" the young man continued. "Just off the boat, eh? Well, I am glad to see you,--very glad indeed to make your acquaintance, I should say."
Mr. Coulson replied in similar terms. A waiter who was passing through the room hesitated, for it was a greeting which generally ended in a summons for him.
"What shall it be?" the newcomer asked.
"I've just taken dinner," Mr. Coulson said. "Coffee and cognac'll do me all right."
"And a Martini cocktail for me," the young man ordered. "I am dining down in the restaurant with some friends later on. Come over to this corner, Mr. Coulson. Why, you're looking first-rate. Great boat, the Lusitania, isn't she? What sort of a trip did you have?"
So they talked till the drinks had been brought and paid for, till another little party had quitted the room and they sat in their lonely corner, secure from observation or from any possibility of eavesdropping. Then Mr. Richard Vanderpole leaned forward in his chair and dropped his voice.
"Coulson," he said, "the chief is anxious. We don't understand this affair. Do you know anything?"
"Not a d----d thing!" Coulson answered.
"Were you shadowed on the boat?" the young man asked.
"Not to my knowledge," Coulson answered. "Fynes was in his stateroom six hours before we started. I can't make head nor tail of it."
"He had the papers, of course?"
"Sewn in the lining of his coat," Coulson muttered. "You read about that in tonight's papers. The lining was torn and the space empty. He had them all right when he left the steamer."
The young man looked around; the room was still empty.
"I'm fresh in this," he said. "I got some information this afternoon, and the chief sent me over to see you on account of it. We had better not discuss possibilities, I suppose? The thing's too big. The chief's almost off his head. Is there any chance, do you think, Coulson, that this was an ordinary robbery? I am not sure that the special train wasn't a mistake."
"None whatever," Coulson declared.
"How do you know?" his companion asked quickly.
"Well, I've lied to those reporters and chaps," Coulson admitted,--"lied with a purpose, of course, as you people can understand. The money found upon Fynes was every penny he had when he left Liverpool."
The young man set his teeth.
"It's something to know this, at any rate," he declared. "You did right, Coulson, to put up that bluff. Now about the duplicates?"
"They are in my suitcase," Coulson answered, "and according to the way things are going, I shan't be over sorry to get rid of them. Will you take them with you?"
"Why, sure!" Vanderpole answered. "That's what I'm here for."
"You had better wait right here, then," Coulson said, "I'll fetch them."
He made his way up to his room, undid his dressing bag, which was fastened only with an ordinary lock, and from between two shirts drew out a small folded packet, no bigger than an ordinary letter. It was a curious circumstance that he used only one hand for the search and with the other gripped the butt of a small revolver. There was no one around, however, nor was he disturbed in any way. In a few minutes he returned to the bar smoking room, where the young man was still waiting, and handed him the letter.
"Tell me," the latter asked, "have you been shadowed at all?"
"Not that I know of," Coulson answered.
"Men with quick instincts," Vanderpole continued, "can always tell when they are being watched. Have you felt anything of the sort?"
Coulson hesitated for one moment.
"No," he said. "I had a caller whose manner I did not quite understand. She seemed to have something at the back of her head about me."
"She! Was it a woman?" the young man asked quickly.
Coulson nodded.
"A young lady," he said,--"Miss Penelope Morse, she called herself."
Mr. Richard Vanderpole stood quite still for a moment.
"Ah!" he said softly. "She might have been interested."
"Does the chief want me at all?" Coulson asked.
"No!" Vanderpole answered. "Go about your business as usual. Leave here for Paris, say, in ten days. There will probably be a letter for you at the Grand Hotel by that time."
They walked together toward the main exit. The young man's face had lost some of its grimness. Once more his features wore that look of pleasant and genial good-fellowship which seems characteristic of his race after business hours.
"Say, Mr. Coulson," he declared, as they passed across the hall, "you and I must have a night together. This isn't New York, by any manner of means, or Paris, but there's some fun to be had here, in a quiet way. I'll phone you tomorrow or the day after."
"Sure!" Mr. Coulson declared. "I'd like it above all things."
"I must find a taxicab," the young man remarked. "I've a busy hour before me. I've got to go down and see the chief, who is dining somewhere in Kensington, and get back again to dine here at half past seven in the restaurant."
"I guess you'll have to look sharp, then." Mr. Coulson remarked. "Do you see the time?"
Vanderpole glanced at the clock and whistled softly to himself.
"Tell you what!" he exclaimed, "I'll write a note to one of the friends I've got to meet, and leave it here. Boy," he added, turning to a page boy, "get me a taxi as quick as you can."
The boy ran out into the Strand, and Vanderpole, sitting down at the table, wrote a few lines, which he sealed and addressed and handed to one of the reception clerks. Then he shook hands with Coulson and threw himself into a corner of the cab which was waiting.
"Drive down the Brompton Road," he said to the man. "I'll direct you later."
It was a quarter past seven when he left the hotel. At half past a policeman held up his hand and stopped the taxi, to the driver's great astonishment, as he was driving slowly across Melbourne Square, Kensington.
"What's the matter?" the man asked. "You can't say I was exceeding my speed limit."
The policeman scarcely noticed him. His head was already through the cab window.
"Where did you take your fare up?" he asked quickly.
"Savoy Hotel," the man answered. "What's wrong with him?"
The policeman opened the door of the cab and stepped in.
"Never you mind about that," he said. "Drive to the South Kensington police station as quick as you can."


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First unmanned F-16 flight tested — Defense Systems
September 30, 2013 / kawak / News and Events, Posts Of Interest
First unmanned F-16 flight tested — Defense Systems.
The U.S. Air Force conducted the first test flight of an unmanned F-16 fighter configured as a future aerial target.
The hour-long test flight on Sept. 19, 2013, was conducted by the 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., as part of a two-year phase-out of the service's QF-4 aerial target. The QF-16 would become the Air Force's fourth-generation aerial target aircraft.
The unmanned F-16 was flown by a pilot controller on the opposite side of the air base. After takeoff, the QF-16 flew a series of simulated maneuvers, reaching supersonic speeds before returning to base and landing, the Air Force said.
The new aerial target aircraft is needed for training with the deployment of fifth-generation fighters like the F-22 and F-35.
The first QF-16 was delivered to the Florida air base in 2012 for operational and development testing. Air Force testing now moves to Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., where the QF-16 will be flown in live-fire air-to-ground scenarios.
Boeing Co. is the Air Force contractor for the QF-16 program.
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Euro Beach Soccer League Division B
Moldova and Estonia to meet in final
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Slovakia and Greece also claimed Promotion Final places on Saturday with playoff wins
Hosts Moldova won their semi-final tie to earn a match against the also-undefeated Estonia in the Euro Beach Soccer League Division B Regular Stage final on Sunday.
Chisinau enjoyed another spectacular show provided by the hosts, as they defeated Czech Republic in the semi-finals. Estonia also maintained their unbeaten run to reach the final on the last day in Moldova.
Kazakhstan and Czech Republic will play for third, but another top match will take place between Lithuania and Bulgaria, where one nation will claim the very last ticket to Portugal in September, and a place at the Promotion Final.
Terrific Trampota scored another on Saturday, despite the loss to the competition hosts, taking his tally to seven and still leading the scoring. Can he maintain the top spot until tomorrow?
Moldova 5-2 Czech Republic (Semi-final)
Moldova had been in inspired form so far in their home competition, winning each of their three games and giving the crowd a lot to cheer about.
However, they fell behind for the first time in this campaign to the Euro Beach Soccer League Moldova leading scorer Trampota. The Czech number ten converted a freekick from the halfway line to open the scoring but Negrara slotted away a penalty soon after.
This seemed to be the turning point in the match, as in the second period the Moldovan number five ran riot, scoring twice more to complete his hat-trick with half of the match still to play, and the comeback was on for the hosts! Podlesnov netted for consecutive games too, making it 4-1 as the final period began with Czech Republic trailing by three goals.
A glimmer of hope came when Vyhnal hit arguably the goal of the game in off the post from distance, but the captain Cojocari had the last laugh as he hit the fifth and final goal for the Ruslan Pernai's men, who maintain their unbeaten run right to the final, where they will meet Estonia tomorrow.
Goals: 0-1: Trampota, min. 5 (1); 1-1: Negrara, min. 5 (1); 2-1: Negrara, min. 10 (2); 3-1: Negrara, min. 8 (2); 4-1: Podlesnov, min. 6 (2); 4-2: Vyhnal, min. 3 (3); 5-2: Cojocari, min. 1 (3);
Estonia 1-0 Kazakhstan (Semi-final)
The toppers of Groups B and C went head to head in the battle for a place in the final, after having both secured the all-important places at the Promotion Final in September.
Squandered chances were the talking points of the opening period, but credit should go to the keepers at both ends who kept out the dangermen, such as Kazakh Demeshko and Estonia's captain Marmor, with brilliant saves.
The stalemate, however, was broken finally when – guess who – Marmor burst through the heart of the Kazakhstan team to fire in the opener.
From that point on, the Kazakhs ramped up the attack but Estonia, who still have not lost a game in this tournament, kept them at bay to see the game out with their narrow advantage intact.
Four games, four wins, and a place in the final; can Estonia challenge for promotion to Division A this year?
Goals: 1-0: Marmor, min. 6 (2);
Bulgaria 0-3 Greece (Playoffs for 5th)
Still very much in the race for Promotion Final places, Bulgaria and Greece met in the playoffs on Saturday to contest one of the remaining three tickets to Portugal.
The posts saw more of the ball than the nets in the first period of play, as great goalkeeping and the smallest of margins kept the score at 0-0. The second period was more of the same but Greece had more of the chances to take the lead.
The breakthrough finally came in the final 12 minutes as, in fantastic beach soccer fashion, Mikelatos jumped high to hit an overhead past Ivanov in the Bulgarian goal.
With the deadlock broken, Gkritzalis hit a quick-fire double to take the final score to 3-0, clinching the fifth available place in the Promotion Final for the Greeks.
Goals: 0-1: Mikelatos, min. 9 (3); 0-2: Gkritzalis, min. 8 (3); 0-2: Gkritzalis, min. 5 (3);
Lithuania 0-6 Slovakia (Playoffs for 5th)
The winners here would claim the sixth place at the Promotion Final in Figueira da Foz, and although it took a while for the goals to start flowing, when they did it was all in one direction…
With high stakes in this tie, both sides defended effectively for the first 11 minutes until Carnogursky confidently put away a freekick just before the first whistle.
Not long after the restart, Letko hit a shot on the turn to double the Slovakian lead. There was just time before the second break for Topor to poke in number three, and at the beginning of the next period, a Grey double – the second of which a truly spectacular bicycle kick! – put the match beyond the reach of Lithuania.
With a final score of 6-0, Slovakia's first victory of the campaign will see them battle in Portugal for a place amongst the European Elite. Lithuania will have the chance to clinch the last place when they play Bulgaria for seventh place tomorrow
Goals: 0-1: Carnogursky, min. 1 (1); 0-2: Letko, min. 11 (2); 0-3: Topor, min. 0 (2); 0-4: Grey, min. 9 (3); 0-5: Grey, min. 7 (3); 0-6: Husty, min. 1 (3);
Sweden 3-2 Norway (Playoffs for 9th)
In Saturday's Scandinavian derby, Jalland struck a low shot across goal to hand Norway an early lead in the playoffs for ninth place.
Captain Elverum hit another for Norway but a Turesson brace in the second period had the sides tantalizingly close going into the third passage of play.
The men in yellow completed the comeback in the last minute of the game when Granberg found space to put away the winner, taking the final score to 3-2.
Goals: 0-1: Jalland, min. 3 (1); 1-1: Turesson, min. 11 (2); 1-2: Elverum, min. 2 (2); 2-2: Turesson, min. 1 (2); 3-2: Granberg, min. 1 (3);
Romania 1(5)-(3)1 Norway (Playoffs for 9th)
In their second game of the day, Norway took on Romania in the battle to finish ninth, and the Tricolorii grabbed the lead through Voica just seconds before the first whistle.
Norway went into the second period trailing, but Jalland drove in a low shot to equalise not long after the restart. These were the only goals that the game would see in normal time, and the match spilled over into a goalless added three minutes, and then penalties…
The Romanians hit all of their penalties perfectly, beating Norway 5-3 from the spot, meaning that the Scandinavians finish the competition without a win.
Goals: 1-0: Voica, min. 0 (1); 1-1: Jalland, min. 8 (2);
PSO: 1-0: Ravi, scored; 1-1: Jalland, scored; 2-1: Andrescu, scored; 2-2: Elverum, scored; 3-2: Boata, scored; 3-2: Li, saved; 4-2: Bolat, scored; 4-3: Nilsen, scored; 5-3: Dumi, scored;
For full details on the Euro Beach Soccer League Moldova, including standings, fixtures, stats and results, head to beachsoccer.com.
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A major rebuilding project has provided a good opportunity to review how engineering courses are taught and redesign curricula to improve the student learning experience.
The project is timely – staff in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Auckland, in common with those in other institutions, were already aware of the need to change their teaching towards a more student-centred style.
The building development involves knocking down two of the current four blocks and replacing them with an 11-storey building. Four new multi-disciplinary learning spaces (MDLS) have been built and are in use this semester – the rest will be available when the building is completed in 2020.
The new facilities will incorporate flat floors (in contrast to the traditional tiered lecture theatre) and furniture and laboratory equipment that can be reconfigured quickly to enable group work.
A group from the faculty visited four Australian institutions which had already gone through the process of changing teaching spaces and styles. They particularly liked what Queensland University of Technology had done, and arranged for one of their staff to visit and talk about the experience – what went well and what didn't.
Some staff also attended last year's Ako Aotearoa FLIPCurric workshop on curriculum design as part of the curriculum redesign activities.
In 2016, the faculty set up the Teaching Transformation Group (TTG) – a strategic group to prepare lecturers for change. "There's no point making change unless you've prepared people," says Gerard.
The TTG looked at the curriculum and where it could align with the new teaching style and learning spaces, and worked with staff to provide a rationale for change; this included presentations about what needed to change and why.
The TTG is also looking to form a teaching development unit comprised of lecturers who are particularly enthusiastic about the opportunities the changes will bring for better learning outcomes for students. The intention is that this unit will support staff through the process of change and encourage them to embrace a new way of delivering the curriculum.
As the 'go to' people, this group will be available for anyone who needs help, whether it's assisting someone to redesign their course, helping with the new technology that is available in the MDLS or assisting lecturers with the use of software tools to make lectures more interactive.
While staff have generally been on board with the need for more active learning, class size is a major issue. With around 1,000 first-year students this year, the logistics of where to put everyone is challenging.


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What is 'draping' and is it the new makeup trend of the summer?
Some celebrities that have already begun to popularize this look include Rihanna, who goes for a more dramatic effect since she launched her Fenty Beauty makeup line.
Makeup trends – they can come and go out of style as fast as boyfriends. Here's one you maybe haven't heard of before: "draping," and we don't mean the kind you treat your windows with at home.
This bold method of applying makeup is back from the days of David Bowie and Diana Ross and is especially popular on high-fashion runways, where models are donning heavily-applied blush to their eye sockets and cheekbones and ditching punchy, pronounced lipsticks and eyeshadows in exchange for this dramatic look.
But don't get it twisted – this is not the same as contouring.
Kim Carusillo, owner of Suede Salon and Spa in Marlton, N.J., broke down the difference.
"Draping is not an everyday beauty trend, but more of a high-end runway look," she said.
"A lot of fashion designers are using it on the runway, and it's almost a less exotic makeup [choice] to make the clothes stand out more."
Draping is used with powder or cream blushes that are applied all over the eyelid and then blended onto the eye sockets in a half-moon fashion and – you guessed it – "draped" down the face toward the cheekbone or vice versa.
But when did this become a more glamorous form of expression over applying good, old-fashioned blush and bronzer?
"Both of them are still very popular," said Carusillo.
"This is not an everyday look, but more of an exotic look for a night out or some kind of black tie [event], where you're trying to be fashion forward. Fashion Week in New York, this past fall, we started seeing a lot of it on the models, where the hair was kind of plain, but the makeup was draping with maybe a pale lip."
Makeup artist and creative director Lisa Eldridge shows us another example of "draping" makeup.
Most of the time, makeup artists are using pinks, peaches and oranges on a person's face, and the misstep that gets you that clown-like look? Applying too much and not blending.
"You don't want it to look like a mask. You want it to look feathered out like it's laying on top of the skin," said Carusillo.


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Why is POSaBIT Called POSaBIT?
Like many great ideas, the origins of POSaBIT begin with two pals huddled around a winter campfire, sharing a drink and discussing business opportunities.
Ryan Hamlin and Jon Baugher, native Washingtonians, had known each other for a number of years—their children had grown up together—and the duo were looking to dive into a new business venture after the success of Hamlin's first startup, PlaceFull, an online booking and scheduling solution for small businesses.
This was early in 2015, several years after Washington and Colorado had become the first U.S. states to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, and in this short amount of time, the industry had already become a potential behemoth.
Hamlin and Baugher had close to five decades of software experience between them, holding positions at Microsoft and Microvision, and although they saw the vast potential for growth and innovation in the cannabis industry, they weren't as passionate about opening a dispensary as they were for building technology to help dispensaries grow and scale their operations.
But Hamlin and Baugher believed they could build a powerful solution that would add a layer of convenience for both dispensary owners and consumers.
In order to get around these conditions in the card brand guidelines, they decided to harness the power of another nascent market that was closer in line to their decades of experience: cryptocurrency. They thought that if people couldn't buy their favorite products directly from the store with plastic, then maybe there could be a point of sale system that would allow the customer to purchase cryptocurrency right there in the dispensary and use it to pay for their goods (or hold the cryptocurrency as an investment to be spent at a later date).
This proved to be a complicated project to navigate. During the two years between POSaBIT's conception and its launch, the duo spent most of their time working with their legal team (Perkins Coie), as well as the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions (DFI), to make sure that every legal and regulatory avenue had been explored and that there was nothing that the newly created startup hadn't thought of yet.
As it turns out, their resiliency started to pay off. In 2017, POSaBIT took in $1 million of sales and had their POS systems in ~23 stores in Washington and Colorado. In 2018 , POSaBIT did over ~$4 million in revenue and expanded their solution to over ~130 stores across the United States.
Not to mention how bright the future is looking for the company. On April 8th 2019, POSaBIT IPO'd on the Canadian Stock Exchange (CSE) under the ticker "PBIT." According to Hamlin, they plan to use the additional capital to hire more employees, build awareness and enhance their solution to bring their point of sales systems to more businesses across the United States and Canada.
Why is it called POSaBIT?
Hamlin and Baugher actually came up with quite a few names, like CreditBuds, PayDope, and 420Bit, before they landed on POSaBIT. Though all of these possible monikers were catchy, they decided on POSaBIT because it better suggested the positioning of their brand.
They were hoping to develop one of the most innovative point of sale software companies in the business by capitalizing on the rise of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
So, POS = point of sale and Bit = Bitcoin The name is pronounced: pause a bit, and it has a second connotation that some less experienced cannabis users might not quickly connect the dots on.
That is, you breathe in, take the smoke down, and pause a bit. This second meaning is playful and adds an insider's know-how to the company's already impressive ethos.
So, whether or not you're a fan of the green stuff, there's no denying that POSaBIT is at the forefront of one of the most lucrative new markets in the country. They've carved out their own niche in this field by taking a risk and staying on the cutting-edge of revolutionary developments in the tech and economic world.
With all of that going for them, POSaBIT should definitely be on your radar for one of the fastest rising tech companies in 2019!
Next time you are at a dispensary and the budtender says "we only accept cash," pause for a bit and ask why they don't use POSaBIT? Can you think of other company names that have double meanings? Let us know in the comments below!
For transparency, Adam Lang (Founder of Rewind & Capture) is an investor of POSaBIT.


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