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Predicting Black Swan Events
by Michael McKerns (speaking)
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Exposure to new open source technology for optimization and risk analysis.
We have developed a new rigorous mathematical framework for quantifying risk designed to utilize all available information and predict the impact of Black Swan events. These rigorous predictors are global optimizations over all possible valid scenarios, and do not rely on common approximations in computing priors that lead to the exclusion of high-impact rare events. Such optimizations, however, are high-dimensional, highly-constrained, and non-convex, and generally impossible to solve with current optimization technology. I will present an overview of our mathematical framework, and the powerful optimization software we have developed to rigorously solve real-world problems in predictive science, finance, and technology. The software runs in standard python on a simple laptop -- however, it trivially scales up to potentially petascale and larger calculations running on some of the largest computers on the planet.
Mike has over fifteen years of teaching experience in physics, applied math, and computing, and has taught twenty financial and/or science workshops in the past year alone. He has been a research scientist at Caltech since 2002, where he has served as a project manager and also a lead developer for two $15M software projects on predictive science and large-scale computing. Over the past five years, his software has been the backbone of several research projects on large-scale risk analysis and predictive science. Mike is co-founder of the UQ Foundation, a non-profit for the advancement of predictive science, and a co-creator of OUQ theory, a rigorous mathematical framework for uncertainty quantification. Mike has a B.S. in Applied Physics from Notre Dame, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Alabama Birmingham. He has been developing parallel and distributed computing software infrastructure for ten years, and large-scale optimization and risk analysis software frameworks for over five years. His software frameworks have been used within HPC credit risk applications, at national labs on spallation neutron sources, and are being used as validation and performance testing suites in the design of the first generation of exascale computers. His software has over 15,000 total downloads to unique IP addresses, including one library available in Fedora and RHEL distributions. Mike has developed python code for Enthought, JPMorgan, Caltech, NASA, and has contracted to several of the U.S. National Laboratories.
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I will be teaching in Mumbai on the first day of the conference, but plan on attending PyCon the following two days.
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CMS to Publish Proposed Rule Allowing LTC Pre-Dispute Arbitration Agreements as Condition of Admission
By David Leatherberry on June 8, 2017
Today (June 8, 2017), CMS is publishing its proposed rule removing prohibitions against binding pre-dispute arbitration provisions in long-term care agreements. On October 4, 2016, CMS published a final rule entitled "Reform of Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities." The final rule amended 42 C.F.R. 483.70(n) to prohibit LTC facilities from entering into pre-dispute arbitration agreements with any resident or his or her representative, or requiring that a resident sign an arbitration agreement as a condition of admission. The final rule required 1) that an agreement for post-dispute binding arbitration must be entered into by the resident voluntarily; 2) that the parties must agree on the selection of a neutral arbitrator; and 3) that the arbitral venue must be convenient to both parties. The arbitration agreement could be signed by another individual only if allowed under state law and all other requirements under the Federal Rule were met. Particularly, a resident's admission or right to remain at the facility could not be made contingent upon the resident or his or her representative signing an arbitration agreement.
However, in October 2016, the American Health Care Association and a group of affiliated nursing homes succeeded in obtaining a preliminary injunction in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. The district court held that the plaintiffs were likely to prevail in their challenge to the 2016 final rule. It concluded that it would likely hold that the rule's prohibition against LTC facilities entering into pre-dispute arbitration agreements was in conflict with the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U.S.C. 1 et seq. The court also reasoned that it was unlikely that CMS could justify the rule, or could overcome the FAA's presumption in favor of arbitration, by relying on the agency's general statutory authority under the Medicare and Medicaid statutes to establish rights for residents (sections 1891(c)(1)(A)(xi) and 1919(c)(1)(A)(xi) of the Act) or to promulgate rules to protect the health, safety and well-being of residents in LTC facilities (sections 1819(d)(4)(B) and 1919(d)(4)(B) of the Act). CMS subsequently issued a nation-wide instruction on December 9, 2016, directing state survey agency directors not to enforce the 2016 final rule's prohibition of pre-dispute arbitration provisions, while the injunction remained in effect.
Under the recently announced policy change, CMS would retain provisions of the 2016 final rule related to protecting the interests of LTC residents, including the requirement that the agreement be explained to the resident and his or her representative in a form and manner that he or she understands. However, the proposed rule would remove the following:
the requirement at §483.70(n)(1) precluding facilities from entering into pre-dispute agreements for binding arbitration with any resident or resident's representative;
the prohibition at §483.70(n)(2)(iii) banning facilities from requiring that residents sign arbitration agreements as a condition of admission to a facility;
certain provisions regarding the terms of arbitration agreements.
The proposed rule would retain the requirement that a copy of the signed agreement for binding arbitration and the arbitrator's final decision must be retained by the facility for 5 years and be available for inspection upon request by CMS or its designee. Comments on the proposed rule must be received at CMS by 5:00 p.m. on August 7, 2017.
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CMS Publishes Final Rule: Sweeping Changes to Home Health Agency CoPs
By David Leatherberry on January 23, 2017
On January 13, 2017, CMS published its final rule revising the conditions of participation (CoPs) that home health agencies (HHAs) must meet to participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs. The final rule implements the proposed rules published in the Federal Register October 9, 2014 (79 FR 61164), and becomes effective July 13 2017.
Among its many changes, the final rule redefines terms and establishes new standards for the content of comprehensive patient assessments, care planning, coordination of services, quality of care, quality of assessments and performance improvement (QAPI), skilled professional services, home health aid services, and clinical record keeping. The rule also makes changes to personnel requirements including limiting who can be an HHA administrator. To review the final rule in its entirety, click here.
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Tis the Season to be Giving – OIG Increases "Nominal Gifts" Limit
By David Leatherberry on January 3, 2017
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced this Holiday season that it is increasing the monetary value of gifts falling under the nominal value exception to Medicare's Civil Money Penalty Law. Under section 1128A(a)(5) of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. §1320a-7(a)], a person who offers or transfers to a Medicare or Medicaid beneficiary any remuneration that the person knows or should know is likely to influence the beneficiary's selection of a particular provider, practitioner, or supplier of Medicare or Medicaid payable items or services may be liable for civil monetary penalties (CMPs) of up to $10,000 for each wrongful act. "Remuneration" includes waivers of copayments and deductible amounts (or any part thereof) and transfers of items or services for other than fair market value[1].
However, as the OIG explained in its December 7, 2016 "Policy Statement Regarding Gifts of Nominal Value to Medicare and Medicaid Beneficiaries," Congress intended to permit inexpensive gifts of nominal value. The OIG has previously interpreted "inexpensive" and "nominal value" to mean a retail value of no more than $10 per item or $50 in the aggregate per patient on an annual basis, noting that it would periodically review these limits and adjust them according to inflation, if appropriate.[2]
The OIG now believes that the figures from 2000 should be adjusted. Thus, as of December 7, 2016, the OIG has modified its interpretation of "nominal value" to mean having a retail value of no more than $15 per item or $75 in the aggregate per patient on an annual basis. The items may not be in the form of cash or cash equivalents. If a gift has a value at or below these thresholds, then the gift need not fit into an exception to section 1128A(a)(5). Happy Holidays from the OIG.
[1] See section 1128A(i)(6) of the Act.
[2] See, e.g., 65 FR 24400, 24411 (Apr. 26, 2000).
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CMS ISSUES CHANGES TO REQUIREMENTS OF PARTICIPATION AFFECTING LTC FACILITIES: ARBITRATION IS OUT—ARE WAIVER OF JURY TRIALS IN?
By Peggy Kozal on October 4, 2016
Effective November 28, 2016, long-term care facilities that participate in Medicare and Medicaid will no longer be able to enter into "pre-dispute" agreements for binding arbitration with their residents. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final rule on September 28, 2016, after consideration of extensive comments from key stakeholders in the long-term care community regarding proposed revisions.
Under the rule, a facility can ask a resident or a resident's representative to enter into an arbitration agreement after a dispute arises. However, the facility must comply with several requirements, such as ensuring that the agreement provides for the selection of a neutral arbitrator and a venue convenient to both parties. Further, a resident's right to remain in the facility cannot be contingent upon entering into the arbitration agreement and the agreement cannot contain language that discourages communications with federal, state or local surveyors and other officials.
As one of the more controversial changes, critics of the new arbitration rule have reacted strongly against the change and have commented that this part of the rule "clearly exceeds" CMS's statutory authority. In its response to public comments, CMS explains that the Secretary of Health and Human Services has the authority to administer the program under the Social Security Act by setting general practice parameters for payment under Medicare and Medicaid. CMS further cites to its authority to promulgate regulations for residents' health, safety and well-being and states that there is "significant evidence that pre-dispute arbitration agreements have a deleterious impact on the quality of care for Medicare and Medicaid patients." Nevertheless, there are several legal bases upon which to challenge the agency's ability to preclude an arbitration agreement.
While CMS's comments cite to a resident's waiver of the right to a jury trial as a major factor considered in its decision to disallow pre-dispute arbitration agreements, the final rule does not expressly preclude jury trial waiver provisions within facility admissions agreements. Jury waivers may help to address runaway verdicts that have become a concern in negligence cases in past years, while still respecting expressed concerns that arbitration presents undue costs to residents and creates an environment of "secrecy." Note that state law may vary on whether such waivers are enforceable.
Also remarkable is CMS's comment that it will not address waiver of class-action litigation in this rule, but rather reserve the issue for consideration during future rulemaking.
The broad-sweeping final rule also contains several other provisions that directly affect compliance programs, training of nursing staff, updating infection and control programs, and other key requirements that long-term care facilities must comply with in order to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. It is advisable for long-term care facilities to promptly consult with a knowledgeable healthcare attorney to assess modifications to admissions packets and to otherwise establish the framework necessary to comply with the revised Requirements of Participation.
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ANTONIO LIGABUE
SALONE DEI GIGANTI
TIRELLI'S COLLECTION
Fondazione Museo
Palazzo Bentivoglio
Antonio Ligabue Museum in Gualtieri. A permanent heritage of works exhibited in the monumental rooms of Palazzo Bentivoglio.
The Museum of Antonio Ligabue was founded in 1988 following the will of the Municipality of Gualtieri, using Sala di Giove located on piano nobile of Palazzo Bentivoglio. This Museum collected biographic and iconographic materials related to Ligabue, a painting depicting a Gorilla, a self-portrait recently purchased, pictures, engravings, copies, sculptures and documentaries that celebrate the artist.
In 2018 the museum was given in charge by Fondazione Museo Antonio Ligabue, created in 2014 with the Municipality of Gualtieri as founding partner, and is a part of the activities promoted by the Fondazione itself, that in 2015, organized a large retrospective exhibition named Ligabue, Gualtieri. Il ritorno, on the fiftieth anniversary of Antonio Ligabue's death. The exhibition, with over 180 works including oil paintings, sculptures and graphic works, recorded a attendance of over 35,000 visitors.
After the great anthology of 2015, Antonio Ligabue Museum Foundation becomes the main reference point for the organization of temporary exhibitions dedicated to Antonio Ligabue in Italy. The Foundation, which is in close collaboration with the Municipality of Gualtieri, acquired a strong cultural capital and begins a project of the construction of a permanent museum that provides:
The establishment of a permanent exhibition center for Ligabue's work, known as the main reference point for the knowledge of the work of this painter from Gualtieri in Italy;
The enhancement of the documentary heritage owned by the Municipality of Gualtieri, which has almost 150 original documents, fundamental in the reconstruction of Antonio Ligabue's biography;
The establishment of a study and research center about Antonio Ligabue's work and biographical history.
During the spring of 2018, the exhibition itinerary takes its first steps, when the first permanent exhibition of the Antonio Ligabue Museum is inaugurated. Since 2018, every spring, the museum reopens and it exhibits an ever-changing series, and in continuous expansion, of selected works thanks to the availability of private collectors. The scientific committee of the museum is chaired by Sergio Negri, the most authoritative expert in Antonio Ligabue's work, he is the only recognized point of reference for the authentication of Ligabue's works.
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Review: Freemarket
"We are a society of functionally immortal, cybernetically modified, telepathic infovores. Our culture is centered on a reputation-based economy in which all basic needs—sustenance and shelter—are accounted for. If you wish to do more than just survive—if you wish to create, perform, build or destroy—you must win the approval of your friends and the community at large."
—The first paragraph of the Freemarket rulebook
Freemarket is a science-fiction game set indeterminately far into the far, far future. How far? Matter printing is common, and people routinely graft tech into their bodies. Consequently, bodies can be printed and your data backed up into them, making death a mere inconvenience.
All play takes place aboard a space station above the data repository of Tethys, one of Saturn's moons. (Apparently, Tethys is now a backup drive for all of humanity's endeavors and the space station is the I/O port for it. Or something. It's not really explained, nor does it become relevant, until you're more than halfway through the book.) People come in to start new lives. When they arrive, they are generally accepted, given a little bit of Flow, and set loose to find their own way. Most take one look at the shark tank they're about to jump into and flee for the proverbial hills. Those that stay can either baseline (subsist) or reach for their dreams.
The feel of Freemarket is generally that of a happy-go-lucky romp through advanced tech and a free-wheeling society. It can mutate according to the needs of the players, becoming about nail-biting drama and tense action as the PCs attempt to ghost (sneak) into an opposing MRCZ (club) and steal some incriminating tech, or it can take on the loose, twangy, sloppy vibe of a game of Teenagers from Outer Space toward the tail end of a fraternity kegger.
It's up to the players how bright or dark to make the game, but despite the pressures, and because death is more of a revolving door, the game has an overall positive feel: Tech can solve your problems if you can get it built without someone adding the "Exploding" tag to it.
"Transhumanism is about how technology will eventually help us overcome the problems that have, up until now, been endemic to human nature. Cyberpunk is about how technology won't."
— Stephenls of RPG.Net, on the relation between transhumanism and cyberpunk
I've railed in the past here about transhumanism, how it's either woefully vapid and incomplete as a philosophy, or no game based on it would have enough conflict to keep it interesting. Mercifully, Freemarket falls short of the ideal and contains more than enough opportunities for conflict.
Because it's set on a space station, some resources like available space are limited, and while people can print whatever they need, it's the wants which get people in trouble with other people. There is no money as such, but there is Flow, which is a sort of public-relations stat. The more you have, the more the Aggregate will let you do. Giving things away and making friends will get you Flow. Ticking people off will earn you Frownies, and if your Flow ever drops to zero, you're off the station, never to return. Ever.
Freemarket is the brain-child of Jared Sorensen (of Memento Mori Theatricks) and Luke Crain (of Burning Wheel fame). Together, they formed Voltron the SorenCrane MRCZ which, while it doesn't have much of a presence, at least has its own website, Project Donut, where you can buy the game and download some useful forms.
Jared Sorensen is notable for other games like octaNe, Inspectres, and Lacuna: The Creation of the Mystery and the Girl from Blue City, Second Attempt.
Luke Crane as mentioned above, is the driving force (transmission?) behind Burning Wheel, a game of relative simplicity and surprising depth, which I'm going to have to review some time because he's recently released Adventure Burner, essentially the fifth book in the core series.
The pre-release edition still on sale over at Project Donut (see URL above) is a pretty, colorful, solid-feeling boxed set containing:
A soft-cover rulebook,
32 counters representing bugs, attaboys, frownies, and gifts (but mostly bugs),
A pad of character sheets,
A pad of MRCZ sheets,
Four sample characters playable right out of the box,
Five Challenge decks, and
One Tech deck.
All parts have a relative solidity to them. The rulebook is printed in glorious full color, and that pad of character sheets feels like heavier-than-normal paper (Were I to guess, I'd say at least 24#). Even the decks of cards used for conflict resolution (and yes, it uses cards rather than dice) are plastic-coated playing cards, with no chintzy feel to them whatsoever.
Even for what you get, though, the $75 price for that boxed set feels a little steep. I can feel in the materials where the money went; it is a quality product. But still, day-umn. If that seems a bit much, the PDF of the rulebook is a far more reasonable $10, but then you don't get extras like the tokens or the decks of cards. And you'll need those decks of cards. Yes, in theory you can make them yourself, but good luck capturing that luscious plastic-coated feel. (And yes. I said luscious.)
<hint>It sure would be nice if Project Donut had a way of buying individual challenge and tech decks, just in case the dog eats them or players lose them or step on them or something.</hint> I know what I'm talking about here. I've had players lose entire books, if only because it's so much harder to lose part of a book.
To do anything above and beyond baseline/subsist/devolve into vegetable matter, you'll need to risk Flow. Any move of conflict, or construction from the station's rather limited pool of resources, will have a Flow cost associated with it. This is the price that must be met to start a challenge.
Once that's done, you draw cards a few at a time to determine which of your character's attributes you can bring to bear. If your opposition is another character, the challenge is pretty straightforward. If your opposition is the Superuser (GM), he'll have a sort of virtual character with set attributes acting as your foil depending on what you're trying to do. There are further nuances, but that's the gist of it.
Whoever has the most points when someone finally declares the match over wins, although the measure of the victory is still in question. The winner can spend the difference to either buy up effects (how well you did) or efficiency (how little of the station's resources you used in the challenge). There's a further caveat: every Hazard card in the winner's hand is a bonus to the loser in case he wants a rematch.
The system uses only 14 Experiences (skills), covering everything from Ephemera (public and artistic presentations) to Wetwork (combat) in necessarily broad brushstrokes. Four of them are connected expressly with making stuff, three are social, two are information processing, three are subversive, and two are destructive. There is potential here for a great many activities despite the short list.
Characters come in four flavors. They can be the original folk who came to the station ("first" generation), they can be those peoples' descendants ("second" generation), they can be created on the station ("blank" generation), or they can be recent newcomers ("immigrant" generation). The generation determines how much you can spend on Geneline, Experience, Interface, and Tech, and from those all other elements of the character are bought up.
They're also deceptively simple. If you need to work with a number larger than five, you're doing something wrong. When building a Freemarket character, the tool of choice is not a calculator, but a thesaurus. At many points in character creation, you'll need to fill in three tags to describe what you're working with. Your Geneline and every piece of Interface (body-internal gadgets) and Tech (all other gadgets) will have three tags. The descriptors you attach determine their suitability to Challenges (above), so they're at least as important as whatever numbers you attach to them.
The resulting construct of information can appear rather sparse, but by that point the player will have enough of a mental picture to start filling in the subtleties.
Variations?
Not a lot, really, although I do have to wonder. The game represented here is a closed microcosm of a much larger and rather interesting universe which, according to the terms of the game itself, you can never properly explore. Once you leave Project Donut, you're dead to Project Donut.
I mean, come on. They built a data center into a moon and every human endeavor in the solar system has been backed up onto it. What other feats of engineering legerdemain have they cooked up?
You want to play a light-hearted science-fiction game
You want to explore the concept of virtual immortality—that's one of the themes in the game: "You have forever. What are you going to do with it?"
You want to play with a (so far) unique conflict resolution system
You want to have an impact on your surroundings
You want to make new and interesting friends
You want to make new and interesting enemies
You have the money, and appreciate craftsmanship
Posted by Territan at 12:14 PM
Jared Sorensen December 8, 2010 at 4:19 PM
I totally missed this when it first came out. Great review!
A New Campaign
A small correction... a VERY small correction
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Settling, and yet unsettled
Review: Adventure Burner
Somebody Skipped Triage
Review: Doctor Who
Taking the "P" out of "IP"
Individual Helping
Review: Gamma World
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I am trying to configure a motor control IC using SPI, but it seems to fail. I have a function that waits for the chip to acknowledge it changed to SPI mode but this always timeouts. This text below is from the datasheet saying how to enter serial mode. My code is supposed to follow that. Can anyone see my error?
I call MotorSerialInit, then WaitSerialChanged. STEP is set high before the call, then low after the Wait. It always times out in the first while loop.
The A4992 powers-up in the default step and direction control mode. The serial mode is only available following a specific sequence on the DIR and MS pins when STEP is high (see figure 3). The sequence starts when STEP is high and MS is held high and DIR is held low for longer than the Sequence Minimum Hold Time, tSSH . MS must then be held low and DIR high for longer than tSSH , followed by holding MS high and DIR low for longer than tSSH . The final step is to hold DIR high for tSSH , at which time the A4992 will enter the serial control mode. If STEP is taken low at any time during the sequence then the sequence is reset and the sequence of MS and DIR must be repeated. When the sequence is accepted by the A4992, the DIAG output will change state for the Serial Mode Acknowledge Pulse duration, tSAP , to indicate that the switch was successful. For example if a fault is present when switching between modes, DIAG will be low during the sequence and will first go high, to acknowledge the mode change, then go low after tSAP . If no fault is present DIAG will be high during the sequence and will first go low to acknowledge the mode change, then go high after tSAP .
Min is 921us, max is 1127us. I set my timeout to 1200, but have tried a range of higher and lower values. I wondered if I was perhaps misreading the sequence they describe.
Your sequence looks right to me, you may have to contact the support rep for example init code.
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Marketing operations alignment: A systematic literature and citation network analysis review
Kedwadee Sombultawee Faculty of Management Sdence, Silpakom University, Petchaburi 76120, Thailand
Sakun Boon-itt Department of Operations Management, Thammasat Business School, Bangkok 10200, Thailand
alignment, marketing, operations management, systematic literature review
The purpose of this paper was threefold: to analyze operations and marketing alignment issues published in Taylor & Francis, Springer, Science Direct, JSTOR, and Emerald; to identif'y clusters of articles concerning operations and marketing interface research streams in the literature; and to propose areas for future research. A systematic literature review of 62 academic articles from 29 journals and 5 publishers from 2000 to 2014 was employed. We investigated the article type, data collection method, year of publication and data analysis method, methodology, and research context. Then, we identified the struc tural understanding of the three research domains by following the guidelines of Main Path Analysis (MPA). A systematic literature review demonstrated a growing trend in operations and marketing alignment issues in recent years. This article presents our results in two parts. First, in the descriptive statistics part, the distribution figures show that 38 articles (76%) accounted for operations management and 12 articles (34%) were from marketing journals. Hence, one marketing and operations alignment issue is a lack in the number of research articles in marketing journals. In the second part, we found three major research domains of operations and marketing interfaces which we conducted using the Pajek software 4.01: a review of the alignment between operations and marketing; identification of variables that impact the company; and analysis of the effect of the interface. Additionally, we concluded with the future of research in operations and mar keting alignment for each research domain. Therefore, this paper would benefit other scholars who are interested in studying mar keting and operations alignment issues.
Sombultawee, K., & Boon-itt, S. (2017). Marketing operations alignment: A systematic literature and citation network analysis review. Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences, 40(1), 225–234. Retrieved from https://so04.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/kjss/article/view/241976


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Toronto toddler dies of drug-related liver disease
A two-year-old Toronto girl died in October from a rare liver disorder, which police suspect was caused by ingesting a variety of drugs. Jeromy Bellfontaine first saw the toddler at daycare and suspected he…
A two-year-old Toronto girl died in October from a rare liver disorder, which police suspect was caused by ingesting a variety of drugs.
Jeromy Bellfontaine first saw the toddler at daycare and suspected he was suffering from symptoms of drug intoxication after a few days, his lawyer said.
"He became concerned enough to make a phone call to the local hospital," said Daniel Scott.
Jeromy Bellfontaine had a bead on the toddler since his father was a daycare worker, and Bellfontaine took it upon himself to nix potential dangerous substances he may have consumed, Scott said.
"He also made sure his father wasn't there," Scott added.
The revelation comes amid a backdrop of concern over illicit drug use among young people.
Toronto police are investigating a number of deaths that have occurred recently after ingesting illicit drugs. The same month as the toddler's death, that city's police chief, Mark Saunders, said there had been 13 overdose deaths by mid-November.
No charges have been filed against Jeromy Bellfontaine or his father, Sherrod Bellfontaine, but the SPCA and child welfare authorities are looking into the toddler's death.
Saunders told reporters that he had reviewed a video of the toddler's final moments.
Jeromy Bellfontaine was treated at a nearby hospital when he complained of nausea, vomiting and jaundice. He was later transferred to the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, where he died, officials said.
Jeromy Bellfontaine is an apparent first-time drug user. A video from a friend shows the child playing with other children in a park at the time of his death.
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"We are attempting to communicate with the family of the deceased to ascertain what exact substances they were using and whether there was any sort of an underlying medical condition," said Det Insp Diane Voyer.
The toddler's mother has claimed she learned of her son's death from her husband on Facebook. The elder Bellfontaine made no mention of any drugs, Scott said.
Jeromy Bellfontaine attended the local public school until he was 18 months old, his father told the Toronto Star. He appeared to be an "amazing kid", Bellfontaine added.
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Although options for a bill were consulted on during direct rule and revealed public support for harmonisation of existing equality law, there remains a lack of political consensus in Northern Ireland around the introduction of a Single Equality Bill.


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The iceberg that doomed the Titanic and 1,523 people to die left a gash of about 300 feet in the ship's side from beneath the stem of her bow to the boiler room number 6.
The 1997 film that took her name as it's title gored into the truth of her story from stem to stern. Tearing and ripping at the historical fabric in popular consciousness until the myth the story centered on an epic romance was firmly planted in the minds of millions worldwide.
And more myths piled on top of it.
Two of several historical characters shoe horned into the script were Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee. The lookouts on duty who sighted the fateful iceberg.
Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee
The film depicted them as two irresponsible youths who let their attention wander. With Fleet only belatedly sight the iceberg and then going through the familiar routine of warning the bridge. Giving birth to a myth that the Titanic's lookouts were irresponsible kids. As guilty, perhaps, as the helmsman on the SS Stockholm the night she collided with the SS Andrea Doria due to a moment's lapse of attention while at the wheel1.
It is the intent of this paper to debunk this myth.
The Titanic's Lookouts: A Brief Profile.
The 1997 film is correct in showing Fleet as a young man. Being he was twenty-five at the time.
Yet Reginald Lee was a much older man. Being forty-one years of age.
Both men already had amassed considerable experience in their profession. Fleet having served previously for four years on the White Star Liner Oceanic. With a total of twelve years sea experience.
Lee had been at sea for about fifteen or sixteen years. Starting in 1887. Serving on royal mail vessels, in the Royal Navy, as well as the likes of the SS Minnehaha of the Atlantic Transport Line. Serving as lookout numerous times.
Both men were rated "special look outs".
There were another four "special look outs" aboard ship:
Archie Jewell. A twenty-three year-old sailor with experience aboard the White Star Liner Oceanic. With the rest of his sea experience from ordinary seaman's duties aboard sailing ships.
George Symons. Who had eight and a half years experience at sea. Four years and four months of which was also aboard the Oceanic. With three of them spent as look out. Like Fleet, he too was 24 years old at the time.
George Hogg. A twenty-nine year-old sailor with 13 years sea experience under his belt. Including duties as ship's lookout. Made his home in Southampton with his wife and two children like most of the Titanic's married crewmen did.
And Alfred Evans. 24 years old. Transferred to Titanic from the White Star Liner Oceanic. Alas, the record about him is scarce beyond the fact that he left the Titanic in lifeboat number 15.
Nevertheless, he too had sea experience, and experience aboard passenger liners.
Hogg, Fleet, and Lee were married. Hogg also was a father of two with his wife and kids living in Southampton. A city many of the Titanic's crew who had raised families called home when back in England.
Jewell, Symons, and Evans were single at the time but all later married.
Each man's wages were five pounds a month with five shillings extra due to their position as "special lookouts".
All six men possessed certificates from the British Board of Trade that they were qualified as lookouts.
The Use Of Lookouts In 1912
Radar was decades in the future at this point in maritime history, and ship's officers on watch naturally could not juggle all their other duties as well as keeping watch for ships, fog, or other obstacles on their track.
Thus, either able seamen or men specially rated as lookouts were assigned the duty of keeping watch.
On smaller passenger liners and tramp steamers such as the Carpathia and Californian one man per watch was assigned duty in the "crow's nest" on the ship's foremast. Two men were assigned the duty on larger liners like the Titanic and her sister ship Olympic.
In the event of poor weather, such as fog, one or more members of the ship's crew could be assigned to the "eyes" of the vessel. That is, the forward point of the ship's forecastle2.
Also, when searching for survivors, other men would be assigned to keep watch on this portion of the vessel. Captain Stanley Lord even put a sailor equipped with binoculars into a coal basket and had the man hauled up the foremast above the Californian's crow's nest while setting off to the Titanic's CQD position the morning of April 15th.
The Means To See, And Warn
Men with poor eyesight never lasted long on the list of crewmen able to perform lookout.
A box or bag was kept in a ship's crow's nest for binoculars.
David Blair, briefly second officer of the Titanic during her delivery trip from Belfast to Southampton prior to the maiden voyage, lent his own pair of glasses that were stamped according to lookout Hogg "Second Officer S.S. Titanic." Telling Hogg to have them locked up in his cabin when the ship arrived in Southampton. With these glasses somehow lost in the shuffle when Blair was transferred off ship as the senior officers were switched around when Henry Wilde came over from the Olympic at Captain Smith's request to assume the duties of Chief Officer from William Murdoch. Who then took the first officer slot and Charles Lightoller replacing Blair as second.
After the Titanic set sail for New York, lookout Symons asked Lightoller for binoculars. With Lightoller going to confer with another officer and returning saying "Symons there are none." A fact Symons then reported to Fleet, Lee, Hogg, Evans, and Jewell.
Wether or not they were of much use that night was much bandied about at both the American and British inquiries.
The most notable observation that resulted from the hashing and rehashing of the issue time and again was Frederick Fleet's expressed belief at the American Inquiry that, had he had access to a pair, he would have been able to sight the iceberg in enough time for the Titanic to have avoided it3.
How Attentive Were Fleet And Lee On Their Watch?
Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee had the 10 to Midnight watch the night of April 14th. Having enjoyed four hours off after coming off duty at 6 P.M. due to the method of having two men stand two-hour watches with four hours off.
There they relieved lookouts Symons and Jewell. With Symons relaying to them instructions received via telephone at 9:30 from Second Officer Lightoller on the bridge ordering to be on the lookout for "small ice and growlers."
Just how attentive were they while on watch, especially when the iceberg came into view?
Frederick Fleet had this to say at the American Inquiry:
Senator SMITH.
Who sighted the black mass first; you or Lee?
Mr. FLEET.
I did. I say I did, but I think he was just as soon as me.
Were you both looking ahead?
We were looking all over the place, all around.
All over the sea?
Had you been especially directed to look carefully?
More evidence of the attention paid to their job comes from the testimony of Reginald Lee at the British inquiry. This time concerning a haze that seemed to be ahead of the Titanic shortly before the iceberg:
2408. Did you notice this haze which you said extended on the horizon when you first came on the look-out, or did it come later?
- It was not so distinct then - not to be noticed. You did not really notice it then - not on going on watch, but we had all our work cut out to pierce through it just after we started. My mate happened to pass the remark to me. He said, "Well; if we can see through that we will be lucky." That was when we began to notice there was a haze on the water. There was nothing in sight.
2409. You had been told, of course, to keep a careful look-out for ice, and you were trying to pierce the haze as much as you could?
- Yes, to see as much as we could.
Frederick Fleet had this to say on the haze at the British inquiry:
17250. After the first part of the watch what was the change if any?
- A sort of slight haze.
17251. A slight haze?
17252. Was the haze on the waterline?
17253. It prevented you from seeing the horizon clearly?
- It was nothing to talk about.
17254. It was nothing much, apparently?
17255. Was this haze ahead of you?
17256. Was it only ahead, did you notice?
- Well, it was only about 2 points on each side.
17257. When you saw this haze did it continue right up to the time of your striking the berg?
While Lee and Fleet disagreed as to the severity of the haze, with Fleet even denying at the British inquiry that he said what Lee claimed he did when the haze first came in sight, their recollection of it does indicate they were certainly paying close attention4.
What of when the iceberg hove into view?
Frederick Fleet (American inquiry):
How large an object was this when you first saw it?
It was not very large when I first saw it.
How large was it?
I have no idea of distances or spaces.
Was it the size of an ordinary house? Was it as large as this room appears to be?
No; no. It did not appear very large at all.
Was it as large as the table at which I am sitting?
It would be as large as those two tables put together, when I saw it at first.
When you first saw it, it appeared about as large as these two tables put together?
Did it appear to get larger after you first saw it?
Yes; it kept getting larger as we were getting nearer it.
There also is this nugget of information from his British inquiry testimony:
17389. [Scanlan-Mersey sidebar fragment deleted.] If it is not troubling you too much, Mr. Fleet, would you tell his Lordship this; when you first saw the iceberg, the first sight of it you caught at the distance you were from it, did it appear as a very small object?
This, too, indicates that Fleet, who was shown as the first to become distracted before the accident in the 1997 film, was the polar opposite of such carelessness. Being he was able to detect the iceberg with his eyes alone when it appeared to be the size of two ordinary tables put together. Not a distinct iceberg like he does in the movie.
Just how far ahead was the fatal berg at first sight?
Fleet could not say, but Lee hazarded this guess at the British inquiry:
2446. You have told us your vessel veered to port and then you got the iceberg on your starboard side?
- Yes, that is where she hit.
2447. Quite right; that is where she hit, but can you tell us how far the iceberg was from you, this mass that you saw?
- It might have been half a mile or more; it might have been less; I could not give you the distance in that peculiar light.
2448. You are speaking of when it was you first saw it?
Coupling Lee's guesstimate as to the distance when it was first scene to the fact that the iceberg looked about the size of two ordinary tables put together to Fleet, both men must have had their eyes on the berg as it became distinct.
The only known time Fleet took his eyes off the ocean was when he went to the starboard side of the crow's nest to the telephone located there after striking three bells to denote "Object directly ahead" to call in his sighting to the bridge before resuming his watch.
Fleet (British Inquiry):
17280. You struck three bells immediately, I suppose?
- Yes, as soon as I saw it.
17281. What did you do next?
- I went to the telephone.
17282. Was that on the starboard side of the crow's-nest?
17283. You went to the telephone, and -?
- Rang them up on the bridge.
17284. Did you get an answer?
17285. Did you say anything to them at once, or did they answer you before you told them?
- I asked them were they there, and they said yes.
17286. Yes?
- Then they said, "What do you see?" I said, "Iceberg right ahead.' They said, "Thank you."
17287. Then you dropped the telephone, did you?
- I kept the look-out again.
What of Lee during this time?
Lee (British inquiry):
2421. (The Commissioner.) Seven bells struck, and ten minutes after, about 10 minutes, Fleet struck three bells?
2422. And telephoned? - And telephoned to the bridge, "Iceberg right ahead."
2423. And you got an answer, "Thank you"?
- "Thank you" was the answer from the bridge.
2424. (The Attorney-General.) I want you to tell the story from this point. You were watching the iceberg?
2425. Did you notice what the ship did?
- As soon as the reply came back "Thank you," the helm must have been put either hard-a-starboard or very close to it, because she veered to port, and it seemed almost as if she might clear it, but I suppose there was ice under water.
2426. (The Commissioner.) She veered to port. Her helm must have been put hard-a-starboard?
2427. (The Attorney-General.) He then said it looked as if she was going to clear it. (To the Witness.) It looked as if she was going to clear it, and then did you feel a blow?
- As she struck on the starboard bow there was a certain amount of ice that came on board the ship. That was the forewell deck. It seemed as if she struck just before the foremast.
2428. (The Commissioner.) Did you say anything about the ship striking part of the iceberg under the water?
- The formation of the berg is, there is more under water than there is above.
2429. I daresay. What I want to know is, did you say anything just now about the ship striking the iceberg under the water?
- I did not hear it.
2430. (The Attorney-General.) He did, my Lord; he said it "Felt as if," and I was trying to get to it. He said it just after he said "I thought she was going to clear it." I think we will get it from him in this way. (To the Witness.) You saw the iceberg as the vessel veered to port, did you?
- I saw it before that.
2431. Yes, you had seen it before, but that had been reported?
2432. Then you said you saw her head veer to port?
2433. Where did you get the iceberg - on what side of you?
- On the starboard hand as she was veering to port.
2434. You had the iceberg on your starboard side?
2435. You were on the starboard side of the crow's-nest, you told us?
- Just at that time I happened to be right in front of the nest, because as the nest is semi-circular the telephone is in the corner of the nest on the starboard side. My mate was telephoning from there, and I was standing in the front of the nest watching the boat.
2436. Do you mean you were standing just about amidships?
- Just about amidships in front of the nest.
2437. You were watching the berg. You had got the berg on the starboard side as the vessel's head veered to port?
2438. And you watched it?
- I watched it.
Only the head of British inquiry, Lord Mersey, cast some doubt upon the attention span of the lookouts. Saying to Sir Rufus Isaacs at one point during a sidebar in relation to Reginald Lee's tale about a thick haze: "My impression is this, that the man [Lee] was trying to make an excuse for not seeing the iceberg, and he thought he could make it out by creating a thick haze."5
Contradicting Mersey's doubts, though, is a theory posed by Titanic historian George Behe in his booklet Titanic: Safety, Speed, and Sacrifice. Chiefly that, based upon the evidence of Titanic survivor John Podesta who claimed years later hearing calls of "Ice ahead sir!" three times before the collison, the fact that three separate passengers recalled seeing an iceberg nearby before the ship met her fate, and surviving steward Thomas Whiteley's claims in press accounts that the ship's lookouts wondering why their warnings of three icebergs sighted before the crash were ignored, indicates the possibility Fleet and Lee saw three separate icebergs nearby before they spotted the fatal one.
But moving beyond the doubts cast by Mersey on Reginald Lee and the theory about three icebergs, the existing evidence from both inquires contradicts the 1997 movie's assertion Fleet and Lee were careless in the discharge of their duties. Perhaps there were some "yellow journalism" press accounts which said so (though this writer knows of none that exist), but the solid evidence harvested by Senator Smith's inquiry and Lord Mersey's showed nothing of the sort.
Hollywood's mangling of the truth as to their actions and story speaks volumes as to how dramatic license is all too often used as a license to kill truth rather than enhance it. Dramatic license that can, when used in a film based on a historical event, can birth new myths about that event.
Special Feature: A Proper Dramatization
"So that's the truth," one might say in reply to the above arguments. "But could you do a better dramatization? After all, Hollywood has to change things around to make it more dramatic."
My reply is yes.For in addition to being a scholar I am also a storyteller.
Here, in historical "micro fiction" format, is a proper depiction of Fleet and Lee within the context of the Titanic's fateful collision:
"Iceberg Right Ahead!"
Fleet and Lee finished bundling up as 10 P.M. drew near.
They tugged sweaters over their shirts. Slipping on their heavy duffle coats over that. Clapping wool caps on their heads and adding their seaman's hats on top of that.
Fleet finished wrapping a scarf around his neck. Turned to open the door.
Wrapping his own scarf around his neck, Lee followed Fleet.
The warmth permeating E-deck made both men feel somewhat uncomfortable, bundled up as they were, trotting up the steps leading to C-deck. Where they entered the doorway leading to the internal ladder up the foremast to the crow's nest. Fleet going up first, Lee following.
Bloomin' glad to be bundled up, Fleet thought as he felt the cold sting his face as entered the crow's nest.
As he stood up, he tugged his scarf up across his face. Lee following suit as he emerged.
Jewell and Symons awaited them.
"Bridge says to keep a careful watch for small ice and growlers until daylight." Symons said loudly above the cold breeze whistling by their ears.
"All right," Fleet replied. Lee echoing him.
"Bridge also ordered closed all hatches to keep the light out of our eyes so we can see best," Symons added.
Fleet and Lee nodded in acknowledgment.
"Good night," Symons then said, then ducked into the hatch. Jewell right behind him.
Silently they took up their places. Fleet on the port side of the nest, Lee on the starboard. Turning their attention to the flat calm seas the Titanic's prow was knifing through.
From the bridge forward the deck was in total darkness. No passengers tarried on the decks below the bridge or on the forward well deck it was so bitter. Fleet and Lee alone the ones braving the elements here. Two shadowy figures cloaked in the dark of a moonless, starry night.
The cold air incubated them from head to toe. The breeze caused by the ship's forward motion tugging at the loose ends of their scarfs, making them flap against their backs. The bite of the air freezing solid the exposed flesh of their faces. Made both men cover them from nose to mouth time to time with their scarves. The condensation from their breaths freezing upon the wool.
Fleet rubbed his hands together. The gloves not keeping the cold off them totally. Fighting to keep the circulation going as he scanned the horizon. Shifting his legs from time to time to keep feeling in them. Lee following suit as nether man broke his concentration on the ocean that was smooth as glass.
Aft the foremast, beneath the towering first funnel that spat a constant stream of man-made black cloud into the starlit skies above, leading fireman Fred Barrett sweated in his thin cotton trousers and shirt as he supervised the stokers on duty.
A trimmer, his brow brimming with sweat, passed by Barret. Wheeling up a barrow load of coal from one of the bunkers.
"Thanks Joe," the stoker leaning on his shovel said to the trimmer as he delivered the fresh load of fuel. Then the stoker chuckled, added "You look like you're in that Turkish Bath they keep saying is on this ship."
"True fact, mate." The trimmer replied with a grin, letting the barrow rest on the deck to soothe his aching back. "This ship's got a swimming pool, too."
"Fancy that," the stoker replied. "By the way, Joe, any idea what it's like up top?"
"I don't know," the trimmer replied, picking up his barrow again. "There was a chill out when I was up before going on watch. Suspect it's colder now."
Barrett felt himself shiver at the thought.
Rather be here than up on deck tonight, then he thought, gazing around his warm domain where three boilers sat brooding with flickering, flaming mouths waiting to be constantly fed their staple diet of coal.
In the wheelhouse of the darkened bridge, quartermaster Robert Hichens stood at the wheel.
Except for correcting the ship's course when he saw the compass veering a degree to port or starboard from time to time, the Titanic was giving him no trouble.
The compass beckoned to him. A green orb glowing in the darkness.
He gave it his full attention. Not a thought entering his mind so keenly were his senses tuned to his duty.
Hichens knew all too well that if his attention wandered and there was an accident of any kind, he would be lucky to get a job on a fishing smack.
Next to him stood Sixth Officer James Moody. Waiting by the phone awaiting any messages from the crow's nest.
11 P.M. came and went. The hour hands on the wheelhouse clock set to ship's time crawling relentlessly towards midnight.
11:30 came, and with it, seven bells.
From their perch in the crow's nest, the curt notes of Ding ding! Ding Ding! Ding ding! Ding! Wafted to Fleet and Lee's ears.
The sea was still as flat as a smooth plate of dark glass.
Fleet rubbed his hands together once more, battling the numbness in his fingers.
Then his eyes narrowed.
Dead ahead, across both bows, small clumps of haze hugged the surface of the water. As if the water was slowly steaming in a hot cauldron.
Fleet nudged Lee, who leaned closer to hear what he had to say.
"There's a slight mist ahead," said Fleet.
"I see it Fred," Lee replied.
Both men felt their senses become keen, taut, alert as the Titanic's bow began slicing through the chilly vapors hugging the waterline.
Fleet began scanning the horizon yet again, working his eyes from port to starboard.
As his eyes began to align on dead ahead, Fleet's head stopped moving. Narrowed his eyes.
A small object was directly ahead.
Growler? He thought.
The object became more larger, more distinct.
Fleet felt a spark of electricity shoot up his spine into his brain as the realization hit him full force. Making him yank his scarf away from his mouth.
Iceberg ... Whispered a silent, comprehending voice inside him.
"There is ice ahead!" Fleet shouted to Lee as he raised his right hand behind him up to where the bell rope dangled above them.
With all his might, he struck it once, then again, then again.
Clang!
The last peal had not died away before Fleet was swiftly moving to the the telephone in the starboard side of the nest.
Moody blinked at the sound of the bells. Snatched up the wheelhouse telephone. at the same time Fleet reached his.
Moody heard Fleet pick up. Remained impassive as Fleet asked "Is someone there?"
"Yes," Moody calmly replied. "What did you see?"
"Iceberg right ahead," Fleet curtly reported."
Moody's spine stiffened.
"Thank you," he quickly replied. Slammed the telephone back in it's bracket.
"Iceberg right ahead!" He shouted out onto the bridge.
Pounding feet and First officer William Murdoch's rich Scottish brogue barking "Hard a-starboard!" Came in reply.
"Hard a-starboard!" Echoed Hichens, spinning the wheel deftly in his hands.
After the helm was hard over, the first thought he had for hours flashed across his mind.
That's a rum go, an iceberg right ahead ...
"Helm's hard over, sir." He reported to Moody.
"Helm's hard over, Mr. Murdoch!" Moody relayed.
"Thank you Mr. Moody," Murdoch called back.
The compass began to move.
Down in boiler room six Second engineer John Hesketh called out "Mr. Barrett! A word with you, please."
Barrett hurried over to confer with Hesketh, wondering what was needed.
Up on the bridge, Murdoch stood by the telegraphs he had rung up to "Full astern."
He could just make out the iceberg. A cold, dark mass the Titanic's bow was struggling to clear.
One point. Two points, Murdoch silently noted to himself. Eyes locked on the bow and the black mass closing in on it.
"She's hard a-starboard!" Lee observed to Fleet as he took up his place again.
Fleet gazed down at the tableau of the Titanic's bow sluggishly trying to turn away from the dark mass of ice that was barely as tall as the forecastle.
Suddenly, the twain met. Steel sheering ice from the berg. Sprinkling it all along the forecastle head. An icy trail that began to near the forward well deck as the hull gouged at the immovable black mass besetting it.
"Shut all dampers!" Barrett bellowed as the white light of the stokehold "clock" went from white glowing on the word "full" to red. Illuminating the word "stop."
The stokehold came alive as the eight firemen on watch began cutting off the flow of air to the boilers.
Heskeh stood next to Barrett staring up at the stokehold clock, his brow knitted in momentary puzzlement at the sudden change.
Suddenly, the crash of damper doors slamming shut one by one was drowned out by a loud Bang! That assaulted the eardrums of every man in boiler room six.
She's too close, whispered a silent voice in Murdoch's brain as he spun about to go close
the watertight doors.
In the wheelhouse, Hichens and Moody felt the deck tremble under their feet.
There's another rum go, Hichens thought as he awaited the next order. We've struck.
Close shave, Fleet thought as he resumed his watch. Putting the iceberg beyond his thoughts. Turning his thoughts to others that might be lurking in the darkness beyond.
"Get out! Get out!" Hesketh bellowed at Barrett and the others as the icy cold sea sprayed in from the starboard side of boiler room six as if from a fire house. "Every man out!"
Discarding their shovels and barrows as they abandoned their frowning hungry charges, the firemen and trimmers scampered through the watertight door as it began to make it's moaning descent. Barret quickly nipping after Heskeh as he followed them. Escaping the spraying jets that were so cold, they stung like nettles.
That wasn't so hard, was it, to keep to the historical record while being dramatic?
This bit of micro-fiction is based solely upon the inquiry testimonies of Frederick Fleet, Reginald Lee, Robert Hichens, and Frederick Barret. With the only speculative part being the bit featuring First Officer Murdoch. But I tried to time his movement to close the watertight door to how Barret recalled the door shutting as water spurted into boiler room number 6.
Much of the dialogue, what Fleet and Lee are wearing, as well as the men's thoughts and feelings, are the result of this writer's careful use of dramatic license. Done in a way as authentic as possible to the setting without injecting hackneyed dialogue or cliches into it at the same time.
It is hoped by this writer that this bit of historical "micro-fiction" that dramatizes the stories of Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee may prove instructive as to the point that their stories from that night to remember need no adulterating to make them more gripping. A point that also stands for the saga of the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic as a whole.
1. This fascinating facet of the Andrea Doria/Stockholm collision can be found in Alvin Moscow's marvelous book Collision Course: The Classic Story Of The Collision Of The Andrea Doria And The Stockholm. (Putnam, 1959. New Putnam edition released 1981. Paperback edition released by the Lyons Press 2004.)
2. Incredibly, the 1997 film depicted a crewman stationed in the "eyes" of the Titanic at the time of the collision with the iceberg. On the theory, one supposes, the officers on watch knew Fleet and Lee were green, carefree kids and needed an experienced hand on the prow to back them up on watch.
On a more serious note, Frederick Fleet was asked if anyone was twice asked if anyone was present there during his time on the stand in America:
Mr. Fleet, can you tell who was on the forward part of the Titanic Sunday night when you took your position in the crow's nest?
There was nobody.
Nobody?
No, sir.
And later:
Who was on the bow of that boat, if anyone, Sunday evening, forward of the bridge?
There was nobody forward of it.
Nobody forward of the bridge?
No, sir; we were the only ones that were forward - up in the nest.
And there was no one else?
While it is a fact, as noted in this article, that the "eyes" of a ship can function as a supplementary lookout place in fog or when searching for survivors of a shipwreck, the weather was crystal clear the night the Titanic was lost. Which meant no man had to be up in the "eyes". And Fleet twice stated for a fact while before Senator Smith that no one was posted there.
Clearly, this part of the film's staging of the iceberg collision was a last-minute "disaster movie" addition while filming, for there is no mention of it in the final draft of the screenplay.
3. This section is derived from the inquiry testimonies of lookouts Frederick Fleet, Reginald Lee, George Symons, Archie Jewell, and George Hogg of the Titanic. (Alfred Evans was never called to testify.) Captain Arthur Rostron of the RMS Carpathia, captain Stanley Lord of the SS Californian, and captain James Moore of the RMS Mount Temple.
4. To wit, Fleet had this to say about this divergence of recollections:
17271. (The Attorney-General.) I think it is necessary to direct your Lordship's attention to question 2408 at page 73 of Lee's evidence. I have asked him his story in detail, but I think it is necessary to put it to him now. I will read it. (To the witness.) Just listen to this, Fleet. This is a question put to your mate and I will read you his answer. "Did you notice this haze which you said extended on the horizon when you first came on the look-out or did it come later?
- (A.) It was not so distinct then - not to be noticed. You did not really notice it then - not on going on watch, but we had all our work cut out to pierce through it just after we started. My mate" - that is you - "happened to pass the remark to me. He said 'Well if we can see through that we will be lucky.' That was when we began to notice there was a haze on the water. There was nothing in sight"?
- Well, I never said that.
17272. You never said it?
Then later, when asked in relation to evidence by lookout Symons on this point:
17394. [Scanlan-Mersey sidebar fragment deleted] (To the witness.) You know George Symons; you know Symons was also a look-out man?
He was asked: "While you were on the look-out up to 10 o'clock, what sort of a night was it? - (A.) Pretty clear, Sir; a fine night, rather hazy; if anything, a little hazy on the horizon, but nothing to speak of."
The Commissioner:
Then the next question.
17395. (Mr. Scanlan.) "Would you describe it as a very clear night? - (A.) Yes. (Q.) With stars? - (A.) Yes." Do you agree with this description of the night - "fine night, rather hazy; if anything a little hazy on the horizon."
The Witness:
Not when I went on the look-out; it was not hazy.
17396. But when the haze did come was it like that?
- A slight haze.
17397. And did it extend right round the horizon?
17398. It did not extend all round?
17399. Was it right in front of you?
- Right in front.
17400. (The Commissioner.) I understand you to say two points on each bow?
- Two points on each bow; that is in front.
5 This sidebar occurred during Fleet's testimony.
I would like to thank Rachel Barnes and Phil Gowan, who replied to my Titanic Historical Society message board post on the subject, and David Huffaker who replied to my Enyclopedia-Titanica message board post on the subject, for their feedback on the marital status of Fleet, Evans, Symons, and Jewell in 1912
Related Biographies:
Frederick Fleet
Reginald Robinson Lee
Richard Krebes
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One of my favorite parts of Christmas gifting is stocking stuffers! I just love filling our stocking with candy, little beauty products, & other goodies! However, stuffing stockings can get expensive FAST! That's why I've rounded up over 70 of my favorite stocking stuffers that everyone will love! BONUS: all under $20 (most are under $12, but a few good ones are between $15-$20)!
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