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September 19, 2011
Takes Me Home
My dear Reader, I haven't been able to attend to this blog as often as I used to. I haven't been able to write for this blog as often as I'd like to, but there are so many things that I'd love telling you about.
On top of that, I haven't been able to reply to all the comments and emails I recently received from you, my reader. For that, I apologize.
On my end, work has really gotten in my way. Because of the new job I took up in early July — through which I met a handful of friends whom I can click with and put my trust in, and also through which I've been subjected to the maltreatment and pressure from a slave-driver supervisor and some more other mean colleagues — you now can probably guess that I'm fatigued, with little interest in most things surrounding me.
I'd burst into tears abruptly, when episodes of what I'd gone through over the last few months come flashing in my head, haunting me out of nowhere. I hate to say that I'm depressed, but I think I am. I'm trying to keep my chin up. But I also feel helpless at the same time.
As I'm writing this post, merely being reminded of the slave driver is enough to make me cry. Tears washed down my face as I was driving home from the supermarket. I felt disoriented as I meandered through the aisles of groceries.
And now I cringe in the armchair. I'm feeling insecure, real scared and tired. I've been missing those days spent in America, when I was with my American family and friends.
That's often the case. I guess Sigmund Freud was right about human anxiety and tension, though I've never been an advocate of his theories since my college days as a psychology minor. I'm regressing, turning the clock by just a few years back …
Which takes me back to my American mom Bonnie, to her words of comfort and advice, and to her kitchen where we'd baked and cooked and had meals together.
When I was feeling down — or just about any bad scenarios I can recall from then — I'd usually turn to Bonnie and spill everything out to her, and she would share her honest thoughts and embrace me in her hugs, as if I was her own daughter. I was home away from home.
An excellent cook and baker herself, many of Bonnie's dishes — rustic and yet delicious American home cooking — have now become my comfort foods, though I'm no American by nationality. She makes smackin' good meatloaves that bring smile to my face.
I love devouring meatloaves the good ol' sandwich way: thick, moist, tender meaty slices sandwiched between thick slices of homemade whole-wheat bread, loose leaves of lettuce, juicy slabs of tomato, a squirt of mustard, and maybe a few pickles or a dollop of mayo.
Be honest, meatloaves are more of a treat in Bonnie's household. She'd make these hearty loaves only when ground meat from the goats on her farm is still to be found in her freezer chests. And so is the case here, where ground beef and pork — my choice meats for meatloaves — are not the most affordable items around. (Be honest, living in Kuala Lumpur — just like most large cities — is getting unbearably expensive! Ugh.)
Bonnie's meatloaves are not shy on spices and seasoning. I cannot, however, recall the spices in her meatloaf. Nor do I have her recipe. Shame on me.
Now, whenever I pine for America and the love of my American mom and her family, I'd find myself recreating the dishes I'd had there, including meatloaf.
Nostalgia hit. I Googled and settled for the meatloaf recipe from Simply Recipes, Elise Bauer and her family's fantastic recipe blog catered largely for American home cooking. I think their recipe is good enough, that nothing much was changed except that I subbed the bread crumbs for quick-cooking oats and added a teaspoon of finely chopped fresh thyme. Oh and yes, I was quite generous with the ketchup glaze. Gotta love the crimson color of it.
Albeit feeling depressed and out of place, recreating and chowing on my American comfort foods — like the meatloaf — should help lift my spirit up and keep me going for a little, till I'm liberated from the hands of the slave driver.
Meatloaf, you and I have come a long way. Thanks for making me feel home away from home.
P.S. Let me gather my thoughts over the next few weeks; I'd love to share with you the positive things I've come across and learned as I wade way in the dehumanizing corporate world. Also, more good ol' American home cooking to come on this blog. I probably sound neither Malaysian nor Chinese to you now, don't I?
Classic Meatloaf
Adapted from the Bauers
This recipe is perfect; no tweaking is really needed. But like I said, because I didn't have bread crumbs, I used quick-cooking oats. I also stirred in a teaspoon of fresh thyme to the meat mixture, which goes in line with the savory theme here. And due to laziness, I shaped mine freestyle, baking the meat on a greased baking sheet rather than in a loaf pan.
The Bauers share a tip: If you can't get a hold of spicy ground pork or Italian sausage, try adding a pinch of fennel seeds and a half-teaspoon of hot sauce to regular ground pork.
1 rib celery, finely chopped
1 carrot, finely chopped
1 cup finely chopped onion(s)
1 tablespoon freshly minced garlic
½ cup finely chopped scallions
2 tablespoons salted or unsalted butter, or cooking oil
1½ to 2 teaspoons fine sea salt
1½ teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
2/3 cup ketchup, divided
680 grams ground beef
340 grams spicy ground pork sausage or Italian sausage
1 cup bread crumbs or quick-cooking oats
2 large eggs, at room temperature and lightly beaten
1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh thyme (optional)
1/3 cup finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
Preheat the oven to 180°C.
In a large, heavy-based, lidded skillet, over medium heat, melt two tablespoons of butter, if using; otherwise, heating up the same amount of cooking oil will do. Add in (A), stirring for five minutes or so, till fragrant. Then cover the skillet, stirring occasionally, and cook till the carrot is tender, for another five minutes. Stir in (B) and 1/3 cup ketchup, and cook for another minute or so.
In a large mixing bowl, thoroughly combine (C) and the veggie mixture together. Then, in a greased 9-by-5-inch loaf pan or a greased large rectangular baking pan with two-inch-high sides, form the meat-and-veggie mixture into a loaf. Smear the loaf with the remaining 1/3 cup — or, like me, if you're game for it, more — ketchup.
Bake the loaf for an hour, or until cooked through. Remove from the oven and let the loaf rest in its baking pan or sheet until it's cooled enough for you to slice and dig in. It can be served at room temperature, too.
Yield: four to six servings, with plenty left over for meatloaf sandwiches
14 comments:
Envy you that you have sweet memories of States with good friends whereas me, over here in the US, feeling so lonely though I do enjoy the luxuries of having 2 big cars, staying in a big house with a big garden with lots of fruit trees etc compared to Singapore. But I am so lonely. Take care. Theresa
- September 19, 2011 at 12:04 PM
- edith said...
Hey you seems to be in depression. Take it easy okay. Chin up, work is just work. If you see it in a positive note, things will fall into place. Take care.
- September 19, 2011 at 12:16 PM
- Bonnie Williams said...
Oh, Pei-Lin...Sorry things have been so tough. Sit back, take a deep breath and look at things from a different angle. Maybe you are taking things too seriously. Maybe laughing a little more and trying to find some humor and trying to forget the misunderstandings and look forward to a better tomorrow. You will learn to please your "slave driver". Smile often and try to think nice thoughts of everyone. You are very good at adapting and I know you will be able to pull through this and wonder why it was so upsetting. I will be praying for you. Work at work and have fun at home. ........... We are still working at getting all of our produce put away for winter. Today I worked on tomatoes. We have been blessed with a bountiful garden this year. I'd like to share some with you!!! :)
- September 20, 2011 at 11:27 AM
- Kay @ Chopstix2Steaknives said...
Sad to hear that things have been tough for you. Stay strong as you are better than those who choose to be mean in life.
- September 21, 2011 at 6:37 PM
- babe_kl said...
Just think that these bad vibes will pass for the better tidings coming your way. Take care ya.
- September 22, 2011 at 11:11 PM
- Pei-Lin said...
Dear All, I apologize for replying to you this late. I have been working till late hours and thus feeling burned out. I sincerely thank you for the concerns, kind thoughts, and encouraging words that you've left for me here. May you have a lovely one as well. I know that life is short, and we only live once. Gotta stay positive, I guess, no matter how hard things are getting.
@Theresa: That's interesting. How did you get to where you are today? You really don't have anyone by your side in Arizona? That cannot be. How about your husband? I myself am more of an introvert (at least that's what I think of myself as), but I still have friends whom I can talk and turn to. I understand the differences between living in countries like the States as well as Canada and in Asian countries like Singapore and Malaysia. To be honest, I am finding myself an ill fit of the society here, probably because of my Americanization -- be it in thinking and interests. I am really grateful of your sharing of your story and thought. Do let me know if you need someone whom you can talk to. I will reply to your message whenever I can. Take care, too, please. =) - September 24, 2011 at 4:44 PM
- Pei-Lin said...
@Bonnie and All back in Minnesota: Thank you so much for the kind thoughts! I am touched! I know that all of you have been thinking of me all the time ... I just know it. Thank you for the words of wisdom, too, I shall learn from there. I am trying to looking at this dire situation of mine in a positive light. Trying to figure out a way to get liberated, too. Gonna take some time, though. I miss the lovely produce from your garden, especially tomatoes. Really! I am saving up so that I can return to the States again and visit with you guys in Minnesota! Love and miss you much! Take care.
P.S. Have sent you an email. Let's try sort things out soon. =) - September 24, 2011 at 4:45 PM
- Pei-Lin said...
@Edith: Yes! My friends have been telling me that. I am learning to stay positive now. Thank you so much for the kind thought and words of wisdom. You take care, too. I hope to visit with you again. Haven't been to Singapore since August 2010. Wow.
@Kay: Hello. Awww ... Thank you so much for the kind words and for being understanding. I totally agree with you on your latter statement. Just be ourselves. Just live by our clear conscience. =)
@Pick Shan: I hope so. I really appreciate your kind thought and support. I am trying to take good care of myself. You should do the same, too. - September 24, 2011 at 4:45 PM
- Food For Tots said...
Glad to see your new post here but sad to hear about what you had gone thru with your new job. If you need someone to lend a listening ear, I'm glad to be one. Take care!! (Psst...whenever I see rhubarb in supermarket, it makes me think about you. lol!)
- September 26, 2011 at 9:27 PM
- lena said...
hi pei lin, you know i've reading your posts and just would like to share this with you. If you have time, google 'hooponopono'. it's a techinique for self healing and self improvement..in a holistic way. Just these words..
i'm sorry
pls forgive me
i thank you
i love you.
there's a song here too..
you dont have to think that you're saying this to anyone, it's just a repeating of words. Take care!! you'll be alright! - September 29, 2011 at 9:10 AM
- qinyi said...
Hey Pei-lin! haven't dropped by in a long time cos I've been extremely busy. was on call the last 3 weekends and I do not have much of a life anymore, much less time for baking. :(
anws, just wanted to shout out a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY, my dear! :) hope things in your job front are perking up and that you've found an alternative.
xoxo - October 3, 2011 at 9:35 PM
- Quay Po Cooks said...
Pei-Lin, just drop by to see how you are doing. Hope you feel better. Call me if you need an ear. Hugs
- October 6, 2011 at 8:31 AM
- Blessed Homemaker said...
I'm sorry to hear what you are going through now. For relaxation take a few deep breaths and count to 10 (sometimes 20), that could help you time-out for a while and not feel so stressed.
I have recently posted a blog about life as a sahm but after reading your post here, I'm glad I'm no longer in the corporate world, that means no more office politics. And I shouldn't be complaining about my life.
You take care! - October 12, 2011 at 4:07 PM
- Pei-Lin said...
Dear Veron and Blessed Homemaker,
Thank you so, so much for your concerns. I'm touched. And I really am sorry about replying to you this late. Life hasn't been great on my end, and I am trying to struggle through that. Thanks for lending an ear to me, too. I am blessed.
May the good come your way. Take care!
Pei-Lin - October 27, 2011 at 9:15 PM


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In this article Dr Dee Dawson raises the issues around treating children with eating disorders as inpatients or outpatients. She also discusses the problems of monitoring the health of anorexics, and restoring children to their correct weights.
For many years, there has been an ongoing debate among professionals treating children with eating disorders as to the relative merits of inpatient and outpatient treatments. Inpatient units stick to their belief that their methods are preferable, while clinicians, who have no inpatient beds, can always quote statistics to show inpatient care is rarely necessary.
In my mind there is no debate. Outpatient treatment is always preferable. No clinician should be rushing to take a child away from its parents, siblings, friends and school. To take a sick child away from home and put into a hospital is clearly traumatic and should be avoided if possible. Furthermore, most of the children who suffer from eating disorders are academic high-achievers, and the fear of falling behind their peers adds to the problems of these highly competitive children.
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Apart from psychiatric support, the child's physical health needs to be monitored. A child who is losing weight, or is at very low weight, can drop their heart rate and blood pressure very suddenly to life threatening low levels. Patients need monitoring regularly. Unfortunately, many of the psychiatrists treating these children seem to think that weighing is all that is necessary.
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Children should have their weight and height recorded as a weight/height ration not as a body mass index (BMI), which is only useful for adults. Most clinicians treating children with eating disorders agree that a child should be hospitalised when their weight/height ration is 65-70% or below.
Children who are vomiting regularly need to have their blood potassium levels monitored regularly and should be hospitalised if the vomiting cannot be brought under control. Vomiting can cause sudden death even in children whose weight is within normal limits.
Despite a recent report finding a rise in young children suffering from anorexia, most specialised units have empty beds. However, with the NHS under enormous pressure to save money, it is becoming increasingly difficult for clinicians to obtain funding for inpatient treatment.
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The first Democrat telling large -- -- you didn't build that now Elizabeth Warren is saying this.
China investment 9% of its GDP and infrastructure him.
America weren't just 2.4.
We can do better we can build the foundations for a strong economy and get people in Massachusetts to work -- right now.
The former assistant to President Obama who is now running for a senate seat in Massachusetts.
Saying we need to be more like China -- to juice up the US economy is -- right.
Or wrong -- her body I'm David has been welcome to -- on FOX so let's go -- focus with Steve Forbes Morgan Brennan.
Mike goes any Elizabeth MacDonald -- Conger and Victoria -- so Steve is China.
Our economic model.
-- -- Thanks Elizabeth Warren and -- kind we don't have the money that China has second China's trying to catch up to us.
Third if we wanna spend money in infrastructure we should tap the private sector which probably would not make her happy Indiana -- that with a -- wrote.
And how about the highway trust fund set -- wasting money on things like light rail.
Let it go for highways so if you want real reform remove the obstacles to building infrastructure and repairing it which she also -- environmental -- what obstacles in the way for.
So Morgan if we want growth here we don't have to look abroad particularly on -- China so that we just have to get back rural roots I don't think -- necessarily directly comparing us to China and saying we need to be spending 9% of GDP.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- That construction industry has lots more jobs than anybody else five million they're.
All right we got to look at around.
And how effective it is for the government to be spending all that money right I mean Elizabeth Warren I mean come on -- she's talking about raising taxes already to cut the deficit by one trillion.
And about how much does a really bad example they've got a country that's littered with ghost towns they've got 230 airports the majority of which sit nowhere near any of those towns.
And by the way 9% really China's spending 9% I mean this is that their numbers are so -- over there it's like being called the people's republic of Enron.
So you know I would say yes infrastructure spending by the way new game torturous for a -- running in a way it was for it.
You know use -- GSA should just sent some of those buildings then you know maybe get some infrastructure good spending -- -- some savings is religion.
-- -- should we be more or less like China.
It's not about that this is not high school folks it's not a bad if China if China jumps off a bridge you gonna jump up and hundreds more.
It's reacting to Elizabeth Warren -- she -- long Rick she's right that we need infrastructure investment and all of you seem to be agreeing with that's -- I don't know what the problem is.
Look we don't our government's doing that great a job that's a problem weren't look there's no getting around the fact our infrastructure is completely falling apart it's gonna turn this into a Third World country.
Do we have problems paying for -- yes we don't know that.
But guess what would we not all agree that we can't afford not to make this and that our if we're gonna have business going forward into the future but.
I goes -- into question is whether we should become more like a Third World country like China which is spending so much of its GDP.
-- on infrastructure should we do that China's policies -- David it's spending money on infrastructure in cities where nobody lives.
Japan tried this is a means of getting out -- recession fears and it also failed before there's a country -- want to emulate.
It's -- already they actually retracted their government spending their GDP now is growing -- 10%.
Compared to only one point 5% the United States what I wanna I wanna emulate you and I can't -- -- -- I think we got pretty good to go back to Victoria you know the fact is is that what GMAC says is true.
There -- a lot of stats to come out of China that you can't believe in the more we hear about there.
High speed radio program for example which is pushed by President Obama is part of our infrastructure build out.
The last god bless -- good it seems I -- there's a lot of problems with -- high speed rail and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Absolutely and that's factual problem when you say -- We -- talk about fixing our ailing infrastructure.
When you put that money in the hands of politicians they're not gonna fix the 101 here that's a mess we're gonna put us or creates.
They're they're gonna they're gonna create a new high speed rail that they can put their names on that we don't meet definitely wanted -- -- -- that ends up going to the wrong places and it takes for ever.
Those shovel ready jobs even the president has acknowledged they were not shovel ready -- -- that money hasn't actually created jobs.
It is an ethics for job that isn't -- thing.
Liberty and our client that's actually a great hunger we're gonna answer your question a problem and I think what -- getting to is that when you put it in the hands of the government they spend it in the wrong places they spent it on high speed rail systems that don't work in China they spent it on Windmills that don't create the jobs that their claim to create.
They spent about a lot of things rather than the roads and the bridges and that's part of the problem right tell us who would have that's our infrastructure and unless and but -- -- this -- -- -- -- the government should not be allocating billions of dollars and it doesn't have Steve on Camby who say Steve private industry.
Hey I'll say it private industry yeah.
Very got a public private partnerships and tap private capital they'll build highways still make money off the highway is the keeper maintained because it's in their interest to do so.
-- politician to -- things from the next election Morgan is about Jumbo I.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- That partnership still means public spending.
And it doesn't have to be a lot of public spending doesn't have to be China's level of public spending on infrastructure.
How about you -- just guarantee you can guarantee loans so private sector to add ons yeah.
He acted on -- isn't it about again allocation we have we have a government that is spending money on things that don't work like Solyndra like Windmills it up like these high speed rails I mean that's the problem is -- -- I did it add vice president Biden's whether his nation.
Plan that only created seven jobs after millions dumped into New Jersey didn't work.
In a look at I do agree we need to fix our roads and our bridges and just have been doing that great of a job a bit and the other -- threatened structures spending that be really great is get the oil and gets to the industry up and running with more pipelines and more of our energy Houston -- -- -- -- state -- point instead -- go to -- OK Victoria one of the problems is that that it used to be the job largely not not exclusively but largely of.
Communities states and communities to fix their own roads now the federal government has come and as they have -- unemployment and a whole lot of other things to try to fix it and and they have in many cases done just the opposite.
All right I I think they have on the up the -- -- -- that's the federal government what we have for members we are debtor nation to China.
Right we don't have the luxury -- looking at that the country.
That we owe money to in saying we wanna spend like you and it think about an individual doing that it just doesn't make sense.
-- you don't have the money to do it now isn't any better grow our way out of our problem isn't it better to put these projects in the hands.
Of the local governments who'll watch over these projects more carefully than the fats of course senator there's an entire fallacy to the Obama administration's notion.
That spending is what creates a strong economy and jobs its capital formation and businesses.
Creating companies are expanding their businesses.
Don't forget the reason why we went on this unprecedented borrowing and spending bids in the first place -- because the president told us he needed to do it to keep unemployment less than a person.
But the only just found out Friday that actually went up to eight point 3% -- -- -- talk about it at the exhibit is my second biggest point about putting at the local level now.
We risk having more politicians -- in their names and bridges and you know roads we're gonna start -- Uzbekistan.
So I think get the job done well I didn't lose Pakistan so I would know what we're gonna be better to local communities to care most of these problems.
I am totally OK if it's local if -- -- hit -- but you know what we're sitting around here complaining about having government doesn't do this it should be this meantime.
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Caller identification for SkypeOut now available for some countries
Yesterday, we finally quietly rolled out an update to our systems that's been among the most anticipated ones for the past, oh, two years or so.
If you have a SkypeIn number in one of the permitted countries, you can now choose to show this number as your "Caller ID" when calling other people with SkypeOut.
I like this update because it's done in the classic "Skype style". It's easy to use and just works. All you have to do is to go to [Your Account](http://www.skype.com/go/myaccount) and then look for the "Caller Identification" bit. Click the "Change" link to set it up. See also the [FAQ](http://www.skype.com/go/help.faq.cli) for more information.
The prompts say that activation may take some time. At least when I tried yesterday with some colleagues, it worked fairly instantly. When I called my Estonian mobile with SkypeOut, my Estonian SkypeIn number happily showed up as the caller.
There's one downside. It's a pretty complicated area where our legal people continue to be busy working with our partners and governments, and it boils down to this: Caller ID is available only for some "SkypeIn countries". As of this writing, you can use your SkypeIn number as SkypeOut caller ID if the number is from UK, Sweden, Denmark, Japan, Hong Kong, Estonia and Poland. There are some other countries where you cannot currently use SkypeIn number as SkypeOut caller ID. And this list will continue changing. You can always get the most up-to-date information simply by going to Your Account page and seeing what's the current situation there.
Since this is a server-side update, it works regardless of what platform or device you are using for SkypeOut. It may be the Skype for Windows desktop client, it may be a cordless Skype phone or even a WiFi phone. All you have to do is simply go online and configure it once in Your Account, and then it works.
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ryanempson said 6 years ago
Wow what a bunch of time I wasted trying to activate my caller id when it's not even available in the U.S. Like others I kept getting the FAQ and trying to do it, different browsers etc. until I FINALLY found this blog. Skype wake up and tell people the limitations, it's better than wasting our time trying to figure it out.
foo1bus2 said 6 years ago
The limitation of no callerId in the USA should be displayed on FAQ page at a minimum – I spent a lot of time trying to determine why my account page did not have a "Setup" option, and happened to find this page via Google. Very poor information on the website.
infotech.capital.slate said 6 years ago
I'm going to echo most of the sentiments above; wasting time trying to find this information, failing to find it with Skype's search service, resorting to Google, then the same frustration in not seeing it clearly available (or not) in the US, and the thing that's most important for my clients–which decides whether or not I recommend this product–is HOW CallerID will look to customers; we need to be able to specify originating text AND number, and I can't find out if that's possible. Realizing that making it function is a combination technical/legal issue that carries its complications…it should be easier to find on the site.
After a couple of hours of pulling together the information from all over the site, it is frustrating to find a showstopper like this, having run into several pages where it *should* have been available. I hope that someone reviewing these messages will take a moment to look at this from customer perspectives (and in this case a customer trying to bring Skype to entire companies) and just try finding the information for some very basic questions on your site…with the harried patience of someone who has to meet deadlines.
infotech.capital.slate said 6 years ago
Another comment — author (and Skype team) responses are NOT easy to find; one update that I think would be a *huge* benefit for the rest of us is somehow offset Skype comments from ours; a simple DIV tag and some CSS to give your comments a different background would let us quickly zip down these long streams to see what you have to say about the issues…especially when some are updates to the original article text.
infotech.capital.slate said 6 years ago
Ok…now I feel like I'm just beating my head against the wall.
"Finally caller identification for United States SkypeIn (TM) users is here. Call any SkypeOut (TM) phone number from your Skype (TM) address book, and this software will display your SkypeIn (TM) phone number on the recepient's caller id display. Currently for Skype (TM) desktop software on PC. Wifi handheld, usb phone, and Apple/Mac version coming soon."
I think I also found this with a GOOGLE search, not a Skype KB / FAQ / etc search. Hopefully this helps others.
trekker182 said 6 years ago
I just called a few people this morning and caller id is working for me and I'm in the US!!! It's just sending the wrong number!!!!
I guess they are close to getting it working in the US?
At least people pick up the phone now cause they don't recognize the number. One time, it was a local area code that showed and one time it was an out of town area code.
ianreidblackburn said 6 years ago
It is working for me in Seattle as of Jun 5th.
From the website I selected the "Caller ID" page and tried to enter my SkypeOut number but it would not accept it. I then used my cell phone number thinking that would be better than nothing. After entering the code word I received in a text message it told me it would start using my cell phone number as my caller id. After waiting a few minutes I tried a SkypeOut call and low and behold, caller id comes through but with my SkypeOut number, not my cell phone number!! As this is what I wanted I am very happy but this was a non-intuitive way of making it happen -
pankoukou said 6 years ago
It works for me for a USA skypein number. I just logged in my account, in the caller identification, setup, there has an option that I can activate my skypein number as my caller ID( this option did not show up couples days ago). I choose it, and test to call my cell phone, it do works. great, skype!!!
mars_of_earth said 5 years ago
I have a 415 (San Francisco) SkypeOut number, and outgoing caller ID now works like a charm. Awesome job Skype!
trekker182 said 5 years ago
I'm in Hollywood, FL (Fort Lauderdale area) and it's working great!
Finally, thanks!
I just renewed for another year.
specialricky said 5 years ago
any people know how much Caller identification charge ????????
because i look for all the internet , faq , everything i can fine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and i feel they charge me more when i use the Caller identification!!!!!!!!!!!
peterparkes said 5 years ago
Caller identification doesn't cost anything, you'll be glad to know
chris7519 said 5 years ago
Hmmm, caller ID works just fine for me.
Not sure what the big deal is?
nastybahb said 5 years ago
I live in Florida for 6 months and the UK for 6 months. Couldn't caller-ID be my name only and not necessarily a number? Why would my London friend want to call Orlando when I'm there?
peterparkes said 5 years ago
You can change your caller ID settings whenever you like, so you can use a UK number while you're in London and a Florida number while you're in Orlando
missysims said 5 years ago
If you use your cell phone number for your ID would there be any chance that your carrier would charge your for the call?
peterparkes said 5 years ago
@missysims no
primokc78 said 4 years ago
I just made a couple test calls ,and Skype works great , Im using my own cellphone bluetooth , sound it's clear with my bluetooth adapter running Windows Xp , I don't need to be plug to my computer , it works arround the office no problems at all , Skype Rocks !!!!!
savionsmith said 4 years ago
Is it absolutely certain that your carrier won't charge you for the call if you use your mobile for number as your caller ID??? Thanks.
tepfertepfer said 3 years ago
I was pleased to see that caller ID is working for some in US now. I just tried with mine, however, and the caller identification still prompts me for a cell phone. I enter my skype phone number and I am told that it is not a valid cell phone. Is there another screen that you guys are using? Also, I just updated to the latest version 4.2 to try to see if that made a difference, to no avail. Thanks!
peterparkes said 3 years ago
@tepfertepfer head over to your account to set up your Skype online number for caller ID – you'll be asked to sign in first.
redneck4christ said 3 years ago
I contacted my boss from a Skype number, and he said the ID showed up with my username instead of my full name which I would rather have displayed. I tried remedying this from the caller ID settings page cut found I could only change the phone number. Is there any other way to display my real name on the ID?


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In your routes.rb file you put in a block and syntax like this:
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I like to explicitly list all the files that I am loading for the offline cache . This forces me to ensure brevity (as in the number of files to load) and to use the rails asset pipeline to concatinate all relevant files: Try to serve only one CSS and one .JS file for your mobile UI.
In your application.html.erb (or whatever file you serve as a mobile starting page) you extend the HTML tag:
<html manifest ="/application.manifest">
The rack-offline gem was released before all this rails 3.1 asset pipeline beauty. It was featured in Episode 248 of Railscasts: Offline Apps.
If you are on Rails 3.1 you are probably going wild with sass & scss and coffeescript and love the flexible syntax. So an extra step to compile your app for offline caching for a mobile html5 app can be quite a pain. You will want a setup where you can set this up once and more or less forget about it. In production the offline app caching should always be working but in development you will want to see the changes to your code without switching on and off the application.manifest all the time. I found that the rack-offline gem docs were not so clear how to set it up, and tore my hair outs for half an hour.
Mind you - in my first mobile app I had an extremely funky workflow to deal with the offline cache and revisions.
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James (Jimmy) Douglas Vinson was born on October 4, 1945, in Sikeston, Missouri and went to be with his Lord on December 2, 2012 surrounded by his family.
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With the dollar suffering big time against the Euro, the independent film landscape was thrown into mourning when Warner Bros. cut both Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures loose.
Despite a box-office outlook that is anything but stable, for both big and small pictures, Cannes is still the lizard king, a must-attend and the brand name for film festivals, the one premiering titles that nearly all the kazillion fests in its wake will be feeding off for months to come.
And if past years are any indication, a few of the films unfurled here could fire the opening shots in this year's Oscar race.
Consider nominated films like "The Diving Bell and The Butterfly," "Persepolis" and eventual best picture winner, "No Country for Old Men." Each was launched in the Cannes 2007 lineup (although the Romanian abortion drama, "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" won the Palme d'Or but failed to nab any academy love).
This year, particularly with the talent involved, there is lots of speculation about Oscar potential for new Cannes entries from past academy nominees and winners like Fernando Meirelles, Atom Egoyan, Charlie Kaufman, Walter Salles, Steven Soderbergh, Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen and others, although the sad fact remains that since it won, no film other than "Marty" has gone on to win the best picture Oscar after also nabbing the Palme d'Or -- and that was in 1955!
Several Palme D'Or victors over the years, like "Friendly Persuasion," "MASH," "The Conversation," "Taxi Driver," "Apocalypse Now," "All That Jazz," "The Piano" and "Pulp Fiction" did go on to best picture nominations.
Roman Polanski's 2002 Cannes winner "The Pianist" probably came closest, taking the academy's director, actor and screenplay awards before what we imagine had to be the narrowest of losses to "Chicago" in the big category.
Four-time Oscar-winner Clint Eastwood is a four-time Palme d'Or loser, having been here previously with "Pale Rider" (1985), "Bird" (1988), "White Hunter, Black Heart" (1990) and "Mystic River" (2003), but he's hoping the fifth time is a charm with his latest competition entry, "Changeling," starring Angelina Jolie, who was here last year herself for "A Mighty Heart" (which failed to go on to Oscar glory).
Might the fact that Eastwood's "Mystic River" star Sean Penn is president of this year's jury be a good omen of French things to come for Clint? After all, he did direct Sean to an Oscar.
Is it time to return the favor?
There's also lots of buzz about past Palme d'Or winner Soderbergh's ("Sex, Lies and Videotape") "The Argentine" and "Guerrilla," a pair of films being shown here as "Che," one 4-hour, 28-minute epic on Che Guevarra.
A big reception and/or win here could set up major Oscar hopes for the so far distributor-less film(s) starring Benecio Del Toro. But right now Soderbergh is just struggling to get it into shape to even make its Cannes debut on the 21st.
Out-of-competition Oscar hopefuls include Woody Allen's Spain-set "Vicky Christina Barcelona," with newly minted Oscar winner Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johannson.
There's also the animated film contender "Kung Fu Panda," a stunning and reverent martial arts 'toon from DreamWorks showing this Thursday, and of course, Steven Spielberg's return May 18 for the world premiere of "Indiana Jones" (likely an Oscar contender in tech categories), his first trip to Cannes since 1986 when he showed "The Color Purple" out of competition.
Spielberg, incidentally, is a former Cannes winner, having shared the best screenplay prize (with Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins) for "The Sugarland Express," his first feature film in 1974.
We'll be blogging our views on what's going on this year -- the hits, the misses, the bombs, the underdogs and the whole Cannes scene -- on latimes.com/cannes.
For the next 12 days Cannes becomes an unrivaled orgy of film and partying 24/7 that will be blasted around the world.
So here's a message to those monks across the bay: Time to get some earplugs!


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Earthquake Glossary - G or g
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g is the acceleration of gravity 9.8 (m/s2) or the strength of the gravitational field (N/kg) (which it turns out is equivalent). G is the proportionality constant 6.67x10-11 (N-m2/kg2) in Newton's law of gravity. On the other hand, the force of gravity, or F = mg, at the surface of the earth, or F = GMm/r2 at a distance r from the center of the earth (where r is greater than the radius of the earth). When there is an earthquake, the forces caused by the shaking can be measured as a percentage of gravity, or percent g.


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They'll hold a rally at the state Capitol on Monday to promote the plan. Among those set to attend is Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, the No. 2 medical officer for the American Cancer Society. The plan wasn't given much chance of passing when the legislative session began in January. But the state's steadily worsening fiscal picture has legislators scrambling for additional revenue. More than 60 co-sponsors have signed onto the bill in the Georgia House. They'll be answered in Tuesday when anti-tax activists hold their own gathering at the Capitol headlined by Grover Norquist, president of the Washington D.C.-based Americans for Tax Reform. HUNTER SHOOTS RANGER Forest Ranger shot, killed by GA hunter at night MACON, Ga. (AP) - The U.S. Forest Service is investigating after a ranger was shot and killed in central Georgia by a hunter who apparently mistook him for a coyote. WMAZ-TV in Macon reported that 37-year-old Christopher Arby Upton was shot while on patrol Friday night at the Ocmulgee Bluff Equestrian Recreation Area in the Oconee National Forest in Jasper County. Ranger First Class Will Smith named the shooter as 40-year-old Norman Clinton Hale of McDonough. Hale and another man were hunting coyotes at night using a night vision scope that may have caught the reflection of the ranger's eyes. Smith says Upton was shot once and died instantly. Hale and his hunting partner dialed 911. The U.S. Forest Service and the state Department of Natural Resources are investigating. --- Information from: WMAZ-TV, http://www.wmaz.com/ GAS EXPLOSION-HIGHWAY Busy GA highway shut by gas explosion LILBURN, GA (AP) - Firefighters in Gwinnett County are using fans to get rid of the methane gas from underground vaults that caused an explosion that led to the closure of busy Lawrenceville Highway. The northbound lanes of the highway from Jimmy Carter Boulevard to Pounds Road reopened overnight. Southbound lanes remained closed. Gwinnett County Fire Captain Tommy Rutledge says the explosion on Sunday damaged three manhole covers and caused slight damage to southbound lanes of the highway. Rutledge says the methane apparently built up in an underground vault and in sewer and storm drains. Workers from AT&T were called out because the explosions damaged some of their underground equipment in the area. MISSING BOATER 1 man rescued, another missing in Chattahoochee LAWRENCEVILLE, GA (AP) - The Georgia Department of Natural Resources plans a recovery operation Monday for a man who fell into the Chattahoochee River when his fishing boat capsized. Gwinnett County authorities began looking for the man, described as being in his late 50s, after the accident Sunday morning. A second man in the same boat was rescued from the river by another boater. Gwinnett Fire Capt. Tommy Rutledge says that man was showing signs of hypothermia and was taken to Gwinnett Medical Center. Rutledge says rescuers searched for the missing man until about 6 p.m. when the search was called off. He says their aluminum boat was recovered. Rutledge says the DNR will manage the search on Monday. METH PREVENTION CAMPAIGN Georgia Meth Project to launch prevention campaign ATLANTA (AP) - The Georgia Meth Project plans to launch a statewide prevention campaign. Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker and U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson both plan to attend the campaign's launch Monday morning at the state Capitol. The campaign will include television, print and outdoor advertising. Its goal is to reduce first-time methamphetamine use in the state and to address the economic and social strains caused by meth use. MILITARY-ENERGY GA military to discuss energy efficiency ALBANY, GA (AP) - Representatives of military bases across Georgia are gathering for a conference on how to improve their energy efficiency. The day-long conference will be held Tuesday at the Marine Corps Logistics Base in Albany. Military personnel from Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta and Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins are expected to attend, as well as representatives from private companies such as Chevron Energy Solutions and Southern Company. The Albany Marines will use the conference to highlight a new energy-saving initiative in which the base plans to convert methane gas from a nearby landfill into energy for the base.
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That's the story of my life for trying to make Figure Skating a more mature sport, and yes, I failed. As I see it, the topic should have been in The Voting Booth, and I never would have seen it, where everyone can vote their favorite legends without stipulating why they were chosen. Your post considers it a popularity contest. No?
The term, as I said before is bestowed by the Media, and in this case it has to be the international media. Present day gushing fans are not interested in past skaters before Shen and Zhao. I have no problem with the Official Halls of Fame both International and National, and it takes far more time to get into those groupings. I would guess voting for a present day Legend is instant success. (or is it just fun?)
BTW. What do you think of the chances for your listing to make it into the Halls of Fame? (it's not instant, and maybe not decided in our life time. quien sabe?)


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By Bill Chameides
As we grapple with 2011's weather fare at home (see here and here) and abroad (see here and here), let's review some of last year's remarkably severe, record-setting weather events from around the globe.
January and February
Record-breaking snowfall in northern Europe and the United States. Blizzards in Washington, D.C. -- dubbed "Snowmageddon" -- sparked all sorts of global-cooling speculation.
Record high temperatures in Melbourne, Australia. On January 11th temperatures never fell below 93 degrees Fahrenheit, making it the city's warmest night since 1902.
Rio de Janeiro's heat wave. The worst stretch of heat to hit the Brazilian city in 50 years saw temperatures peaking above 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
March and April
Deluges in the northeastern United States. March witnessed record-setting rain in New York City, Boston, and Portland, Maine. While 2010 precipitation levels broke records set in 1953 for all three locales, Providence, Rhode Island set a new all-time record for wettest month and, according to news reports, experienced its worst flooding in 200 years.
Heat waves in the northeastern United States. In early April, record high temperatures plagued several cities in the Northeast. April 7, 2010 became a red-letter day for Boston with the setting of a new high temperature and its new claim to fame as the earliest day of the year with a temperature of 90 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
A late record-breaking snowstorm in New England. In late April record snowfall blanketed New England's northern reaches, setting new records for Burlington, Vermont.
June and August
Pakistan hit by its worst natural disaster ever. Monsoonal rains flooded large swaths of Asia, including North Korea and China. Starting in late July, Pakistan's flooded Indus River basin put as much as 17 million acres or one-fifth of the nation under water, killing some 2,000 people, displacing tens of millions, and devastating crops and livestock.
Oppressive heat waves across eastern U.S. and Canada. From July 4-7 temperatures soared above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, setting record high temperatures from North Carolina to Quebec, Canada. "On July 5th," according to the National Climatic Data Center, "Montfort Hospital in Ottawa, Canada reported the highest number of hospital visits ever recorded in a single day."
Russia devastated by heat, drought, and fire. Russia's hottest summer on record spawned record heat waves, massive droughts, and widespread wildfires that caused scores of deaths and led to a state of emergency. All in all, Russia's deadly heat wave, with its concurrent drought and fire, is estimated to have caused thousands of deaths, damaged 32 percent of the nation's crops, and caused $15 billion in economic losses.
Record cold freezes parts of South America. Polar air from the Antarctic lingered over the continent causing record-breaking lows in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Lima, Peru. In Bolivia, the record cold snap killed millions of aquatic animals, including fish, alligators, turtles and river dolphins.
Record heat roasts the Middle East and north Africa. Peak temperatures broke records in four countries, most notably in Iraq where the mercury hit 125.6 degrees Fahrenheit in Basra toppling its previous record from 1937.
September and October
Heat broils Los Angelenos. After a relatively cool summer, temperatures in L.A. spiked on September 27, sending the mercury to 113 degrees Fahrenheit and making it the city's hottest day ever.
First extreme dry, then extreme wet in Bangladesh. After experiencing one of its driest monsoon seasons in years, torrential storms battered Bangladesh from October 7th through October 9th, causing floods that displaced hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis.
Drought hits Brazil. North and west Amazonia experienced one of the region's worst droughts in the past 40 years in October. The Black River, an important tributary to the Amazon River, dropped to its lowest level since record-keeping began in 1902.
November and December
Australia swamped by heavy rains. Intense rainfall beginning on December 20th has doused Queensland's new year with the worst flooding to hit Australia in a decade. Covering an area larger than Texas, the floods have affected roughly 200,000 people and caused thousands to be evacuated. Estimated losses expected to top $AU1 billion, including damages to cotton and sunflower crops.
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Holiday blizzard slams U.S. East Coast. The sixth-largest snowfall to hit New York City left thousands stranded, as area travelers saw their holiday plans stymied and snowed-in NYC residents wondered where the plows were. (The missing plows gave birth to a new kind of scandal: plowgate.) Of all the states affected by the two-day storm, the Garden State's near-record snowfall in several cities saw the biggest accumulations.
2010 in Toto
All these weather extremes and more, combined with the not-so-extreme-and-downright-normal weather, added up to an extreme weather year overall: 2010 is set to be one of the warmest years on record and, when combined with the temperatures from the past nine years, 2001-2010 is likely to be the warmest 10-year period on record.
So ... What Does All the Weird Wild Weather Mean?
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Suppose the true answer to one such question is 157. The differentially private algorithm will "add noise" to the true answer; that is, before returning an answer, it will add or subtract from 157 some number, chosen randomly according to a predetermined set of probabilities. Thus, it might return 157, but it also might return 153, 159 or even 292. The person who asked the question knows which probability distribution the algorithm is using, so she has a rough idea of how much the true answer has likely been distorted (otherwise the answer the algorithm spat out would be completely useless to her). However, she doesn't know which random number the algorithm actually added.
The particular probability distribution being used must be chosen with care. To see what kind of distribution will ensure differential privacy, imagine that a prying questioner is trying to find out whether I am in a database. He asks, "How many people named Erica Klarreich are in the database?" Let's say he gets an answer of 100. Because Erica Klarreich is such a rare name, the questioner knows that the true answer is almost certainly either 0 or 1, leaving two possibilities:
(a) The answer is 0 and the algorithm added 100 in noise; or
(b) The answer is 1 and the algorithm added 99 in noise.
To preserve my privacy, the probability of picking 99 or 100 must be almost exactly the same; then the questioner will be unable to distinguish meaningfully between the two possibilities. More precisely, the ratio of these two probabilities should be at most the preselected privacy parameter R. And this should be the case with regard to not only 99 and 100 but also any pair of consecutive numbers; that way, no matter what noise value is added, the questioner won't be able to figure out the true answer.
A probability distribution that achieves this goal is the Laplace distribution, which comes to a sharp peak at 0 and gradually tapers off on each side. A Laplace distribution has exactly the property we need: There is some number R (called the width of the distribution) such that for any two consecutive numbers, the ratio of their probabilities is R.
There is one Laplace distribution for each possible width; thus, we can tinker with the width to get the Laplace distribution that gives us the exact degree of privacy we want. If we need a high level of privacy, the corresponding distribution will be comparatively wide and flat; numbers distant from 0 will be almost as probable as numbers close to 0, ensuring that the data are blurred by enough noise to protect privacy.
Inevitably, tension exists between privacy and utility. The more privacy you want, the more Laplace noise you have to add and the less useful the answer is to researchers studying the database. With a Laplace distribution, the expected amount of added noise is the reciprocal of Ɛ; so, for example, if you have chosen a privacy parameter of 0.01, you can expect the algorithm's answer to be blurred by about 100 in noise.
The larger the dataset, the less a given amount of blurring will affect utility: Adding 100 in noise will blur an answer in the hundreds much more than an answer in the millions. For datasets on the scale of the Internet — that is, hundreds of millions of entries — the algorithm already provides good enough accuracy for many practical settings, Dwork said.
And the Laplace noise algorithm is only the first word when it comes to differential privacy. Researchers have come up with a slew of more sophisticated differentially private algorithms, many of which have a better utility-privacy trade-off than the Laplace noise algorithm in certain situations.
"People keep finding better ways of doing things, and there is still plenty more room for improvement," Dwork said. When it comes to more moderate-sized datasets than the Internet, she said, "there are starting to be algorithms out there for many tasks."