Fan Fic Q&A

[bjobsessed]

ok, so Canada's is the only weird country. I just checked my inhaler to make sure and the label is right on the inhaler.

[inuvik]

bjobsessed said:

ok, so Canada's is the only weird country. I just checked my inhaler to make sure and the label is right on the inhaler.

Well, we are the odd country out (not weird though!) . I think it makes more sense to put it on the inhaler itself. That's where the medication is. If it gets separated from the box, then you still know who's it is (kids at school) and have the instructions.

OK, I admit too, I am just a huge Canada booster and have to counteract any slights I run across! ;D

[awlrite4now]

As many kids as it seems have asthma or related breathing problems, it makes sense to me to have some sort of label on inhalers for that reason. I know when I went through a long bout of bronchitis two-three years back, there were none on mine, but they stayed in the cabinet where no confusion could have been made. But who legislates common sense?

[dogma]

awlrite4now said:

As many kids as it seems have asthma or related breathing problems, it makes sense to me to have some sort of label on inhalers for that reason. I know when I went through a long bout of bronchitis two-three years back, there were none on mine, but they stayed in the cabinet where no confusion could have been made. But who legislates common sense?

i guess it's a no win situation,, if the label were on the cannister and not the box,, if the lot # ( for recall purposes ), expiration date, or some other info on it were not able to be viewed,, and the original box got pitched,, that could be a problem,, the labels we use at the hosp do not peel off well at all,,
most people that use inhalers on a regular basis,, seem to remember the dose,, and frequency,, so if the box is pitched,, that's not to bad,, and if they need the Rx numbers for refill,, if they dont' have those #'s,, they just need to give the name of the drug,, and it can be refiiled anyways

[Dreamfire]

Hi, who knows in which direction the east river flows? North to south or south to north?
I need to know for my fan fic.
Natascha

[Dreamfire]

Me again, I need your opinion.
Do you think that before these wonderful a=emy award winning interviews, like Lyman's, the child murder's. Doyal etc how much do Karen and Jim discuss how they;re goingt orun them? I can imagine thatafter a while they would be on good rapport and learn each other's habits etc but right from the start they are magic in this.
WHat doyou think?

[dogma]

ashatan said:

Hi, who knows in which direction the east river flows? North to south or south to north?
I need to know for my fan fic.
Natascha

my thought is if a river is above the equator,,it runs north to south,,
below the equator,, south to north,,
so,, i would guess north to south

but my logic isn't always on the money,, when we drive somewhere, if we are going up a hill ,, obviously we are going north

[rducasey]

ashatan said:

Hi, who knows in which direction the east river flows? North to south or south to north?
I need to know for my fan fic.
Natascha

Natasha, try this website: www.vanalen.org/workshops/east_river/general/ecopg.htm

I found this website and it looked promising, but the school teacher in me is leaving it up to you to find the answer. (It says its current has an eastward ebb). That is your homework assignment tonight. Or last night since you are already into tomorrow, so it's already late.

[greenbeing]

rducasey said:

ashatan said:

Hi, who knows in which direction the east river flows? North to south or south to north?
I need to know for my fan fic.
Natascha

Natasha, try this website: www.vanalen.org/workshops/east_river/general/ecopg.htm

I found this website and it looked promising, but the school teacher in me is leaving it up to you to find the answer. (It says its current has an eastward ebb). That is your homework assignment tonight. Or last night since you are already into tomorrow, so it's already late.

North/south rivers I know nothing about, but I do know there is a line running through Colorado where the rivers run west to the Pacific, or east to the Atlantic.

From http://www.eastrivernyc.org:

The East River is New York City's premier waterway. These racing waters set iconic scenes from the opening passage of Moby Dick, to the Great Houdini's first astonishing underwater escape, to countless shots in films and television shows today. But more importantly the East River's 16 miles thread together stories and sights from daily life as diverse as the metropolis it sustains.

The East River might more accurately, and grandly, be called the Gotham Strait. Atlantic tides jostle through its narrow channels, making it the most turbulent arc of a saltwater ring stretching from the Upper Bay to the Long Island Sound and then through the open sea south of Long Island. Those tides quickly gained fame for bedeviling sailors, starting with the Dutch explorer Adriaen Block in 1614. He gave the East River's midway point the name Helegat, meaning "bright passage." But as a place of whirlpools and dangerous rocks, the Anglicization that stuck was Hell Gate.

It's fitting that the East River's center point should bear such a macabre name. After all, it has a strangely alluring dark side absent from New York's other great waterway, the Hudson River. Perhaps that's because while the Hudson's most famous vistas are in the rural north, the East River is wholly the city's own. It is synonymous with urban grit and mystery. Years after the Revolutionary War retreating tides on the Brooklyn shore revealed the bleached bones of patriots who died aboard British prison ships in Wallabout Bay. In 1904 more than a thousand souls were lost when the Slocum steamboat caught fire in the East River. Mob hits, both real and fabled, turned the river's name into a shorthand threat. Its islands, surrounded by wild currents, also served through the centuries to imprison New York's criminals, to isolate its mentally ill in brutal asylums, and to quarantine the diseased until death, including the infamous Typhoid Mary. New Yorkers at the start of this millennium will always remember seeing smoke, ash, and papers fluttering down into the East River from the World Trade Center.

But the East River is foremost a source of life, from Throgs Neck and Willets Point to the Battery and Governors Island. It's the carotid artery pulsing through New York City's four most populous boroughs - Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. The river's rich fish stocks and salt grasses once fed Native Americans and European colonists and their animals, and its tidal energy swept up through broad marshes to turn mills on Dutch colonial farms. Piers bristled with tall ships, then steam ships, and finally modern fleets along both banks as the port hummed with world trade and shipbuilding. Today Hindu and Yoruba worshippers gather at shorelines where Native Americans once prayed and colonists were baptized. An ecological renaissance is drawing recreational boaters back to the water.

Just as the peoples who line the East River have changed, so has the river itself. It has been cinched by landfill and seawalls and dredged for shipping. The most powerful manmade explosion before the Atomic Age was here too, to clear the reefs of Hell Gate. Now thirteen tunnels cross below the riverbed as the world famous spans of the Brooklyn Bridge and seven other bridges loom over it. Even airport runways stretch out into the East River where pioneering seaplanes like the Yankee Clippers skimmed the surface. But the true joys of the East River, this unique blending of natural forces and cosmopolitan verve, are timeless.

I greened the bit that says from where it starts to where it ends. Sounds like south to me! But I didn't grab a map of NYC. Sounds like a veritable character, though, for a book or a movie. Such a sinister little river...

--GB

[greenbeing]

ashatan said:

Me again, I need your opinion.
Do you think that before these wonderful a=emy award winning interviews, like Lyman's, the child murder's. Doyal etc how much do Karen and Jim discuss how they;re goingt orun them? I can imagine thatafter a while they would be on good rapport and learn each other's habits etc but right from the start they are magic in this.
WHat doyou think?

Sometimes I honestly don't know. I have a theory on the Lyman case, though, that Jim took a moment or two in the locker room to get that plastic baggie and snip a lock of hair (unless he plucked it--ouch!), because when he tells Lyman "ME got these hairs off Lynn Bodner; they're yours," Karen's eyes flick to Jim's face in surprise, but she quickly backs him up, catching on to what he has planned, showing they're going to make a great team. In this case, I think conferral was zilch.

By the time we got to Doyle, I'd say they'd moved up to the point of Jim telling Karen on the way in, "I have a plan, lemme handle this, just back me up, I trust you." Surmising they'd been working together about seven weeks, that was a major step up, but still not much.

By the time they got to Anthony Knowles, I think Jim would confer with Karen more, as they were long past the "Don't cut short my interviews" issues. More, but it's still Jim. Karen's along for the ride, and she's learning from him, and they're partners, but Jim's always struck me as someone who doesn't need to say much. I don't think they discussed Lloyd Crider at all (FFU), but by the second or third time they talked to Eric Fitzgerald (RTT), I'd say they put their heads together for a couple minutes, since Jim let her in on the whole cologne thing; he was opening up a little.

Perhaps whoever has the idea first says, let's do this (ie: Karen and the Wheelers in what was it, Dance with Me?--btw, they did sort of change the tone of the show when they changed the names from references to the crimes, to references to dancing, didn't they? random thought).

It would be really interesting to see Jim and Karen brainstorming, though.

Anyone else have speculation? I like this question, Ashatan!

Ooh, I bet if we'd had a second season, we'd have seen Karen and Jim intertwining ideas and wicked senses of humor more. Before an interview, I can see them leaning over for a quick chat and grinning: You wanna do it like this? Opening up to each other more, even as they need to ask the more mundane things less.

--GB

[Dreamfire]

dogma said:

ashatan said:

Hi, who knows in which direction the east river flows? North to south or south to north?
I need to know for my fan fic.
Natascha

my thought is if a river is above the equator,,it runs north to south,,
below the equator,, south to north,,
so,, i would guess north to south

but my logic isn't always on the money,, when we drive somewhere, if we are going up a hill ,, obviously we are going north

mm, thanks.

[Dreamfire]

rducasey said:

ashatan said:

Hi, who knows in which direction the east river flows? North to south or south to north?
I need to know for my fan fic.
Natascha

Natasha, try this website: www.vanalen.org/workshops/east_river/general/ecopg.htm

I found this website and it looked promising, but the school teacher in me is leaving it up to you to find the answer. (It says its current has an eastward ebb). That is your homework assignment tonight. Or last night since you are already into tomorrow, so it's already late.

Thanks teach, got my answer

[adl30uk]

Hi, I'm trying my hand at writing an xmas fan fic so i really need to get my finger out

So could some kindly american answer a question for me??? In the UK if we make a phone call but don't want the person we're ringing to know that we've rung if we dial 141 before the phone number our phone number will be witheld so they won't have a clue who's called.

Also if we ring 1471 we can fin out who's rung us if the persons obviously not witheld their number first, do you have either of these in the U.S or an alternative?

Thanks for any help, i know this is a busy time to be asking daft questions but hey when the urge to write something is just so strong, who am I to argue

[Deleted]

adl30uk said:

Hi, I'm trying my hand at writing an xmas fan fic so i really need to get my finger out

So could some kindly american answer a question for me??? In the UK if we make a phone call but don't want the person we're ringing to know that we've rung if we dial 141 before the phone number our phone number will be witheld so they won't have a clue who's called.

Also if we ring 1471 we can fin out who's rung us if the persons obviously not witheld their number first, do you have either of these in the U.S or an alternative?

Thanks for any help, i know this is a busy time to be asking daft questions but hey when the urge to write something is just so strong, who am I to argue

*67 to block your number; *69 to see who called you.

[adl30uk]

BarbaraAnn, thanks Will give you some karma as well