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In this revised version of the show with popular host Sakina Kamwendo, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe was on hand to give the ruling party's view on the show.
The show was pulled by SABC bosses because the ANC was not invited to take part in a panel discussion with political editors.
Also present on Monday night was SABC political editor Abbey Makoe, who had a lot of explaining to do after listeners called in and texted messages to say they were unhappy at the public broadcaster's decision to pull the show.
The three original guests, Sam Mkokeli, political editor from Business Day, S'thembiso Msomi, political editor from Sunday Times, and Financial Times's bureau editor Andrew England, gamely made another appearance after having been turned away at the eleventh hour after for the show was pulled last week.
Makoe told listeners the SABC's mandate was "not ambiguous" and it had to provide a balanced and unbiased product. "Today everyone is represented on the show, which was just kept on hold," he said.
When callers to the show objected to the fact that a weekend SABC television show featured political analysts discussing the road to Mangaung without the ANC being present, Makoe acknowledged their complaints. "The ideal is that whereever possible we should be able to present a plurality of voices by the very mandate that we have as a public broadcaster in the republic of South Africa."
'Dropped call'
The reality was that it was currently difficult for him as political editor to control everything that happened on all the radio and television stations, he said.
Mantashe said he wanted to point out that Lithuli House had not "dropped a call" to the SABC to say the show should be pulled.
"We are out of the equation on this one," he said.
Acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Moetsoneng came under fire from a caller to the show. He has been accused of fostering censorship at the SABC after he called a press conference to make public the reasons behind the management's decision to pull the show.
One of Moetsoneng's quotes from the press conference was widely published by the media. "We mean business here at the SABC. This is leadership at it's best that we can ever find. We are taking decisions in the interest of the public and we are also guided by our own editorial policy," he said.
A caller asked Makoe whether the SABC thought the listeners were "stupid" as other SABC shows discussing the road to Mangaung had not included the ANC.
"That COO has no clue what he is doing. He leads the people but he has no competence," alleged the caller on Monday night's show. "This show shouldn't be happening. It is a charade."
'Management decision'
Last week senior editorial staff told the Mail & Guardian that Moetsoneng's powerful position at the SABC, where he is considered to be a President Jacob Zuma enforcer, was now deeply entrenched. Moetsoneng denies the claims, and said he would never allow politicians to dictate to the SABC.
Two weeks ago, Moetsoneng admitted to the M&G that he had made the controversial discussion to take the Fish and Chip Co TV advert "Dinner time at Nkandla", which satirised Zuma, off the air. The company eventually canned the advert.
The pulling of the MetroFM show caused a storm of protest, coming as it did a week after the fish and chips advert was taken off air.
At the end of the show, Kamwendo asked Makoe in a poignant moment: "Did I err last week?"
Makoe politely told her she had done the best she could "with maturity and high standards".
"It was a management decision, not your decision," he said. "I am glad that instead of adopting the ostrich attitude, the SABC came out and explained where it stood on these issues. We made good on our promises."


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By Arturo R. García
In promoting the new Ultimate Spider-Man comic, which features a black Latino protagonist in Miles Morales, Marvel pulled out the kind of pull-quote driven advert you'd expect for a high-profile launch.
Unfortunately, the ad short-changes what proves to be a compelling, if not particularly exciting, story.
As seen above, the ad uses the first sentence in this story from ComicsBeat, which opens, "All of you folks who have been crying about diversity in comics had better be all over this!"
While the rest of the story is played straight, for Marvel to validate such blatant Othering of progressive comics fans – characterizing calls for diversity as "crying;" the Tropic Thunder-esque use of "you folks," and the ransom-note language ("you had better be all over this!") – is a questionable choice. Particularly since The Beat's Editor-In-Chief, Heidi McDonald, has written more sensibly about Miles in other posts:
That panel of Miles demasking was everywhere yesterday. And the more I saw it, the more I loved it. It's iconic (I wish the dialog were a little more iconic but so be it.) It's a beautiful drawing full of character that draws me in. It reminds me a little of Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, which is surely too high praise as that painting is one of the greatest of all times, but they share that sense of humanity which informs the best art.
Moving on to the story itself, McDonald's critique of the artwork still holds up in USM #1. The tandem of Sara Pichelli (pencils) and Justin Ponsor (colors) shines best in the story's city settings. Their Brooklyn looks lived in, and authentically, refreshingly diverse. This should be the norm by now, of course, but … well, you know. Comics.
Pichelli and Ponsor's art also elevates writer Brian Michael Bendis' riskiest creative choice: positioning Miles' background as far away as possible from that of his predecessor, Peter Parker.
Set before Miles' first appearance in Ultimate Fallout #4, Bendis spends USM #1 showing us how Miles got his powers, in an accident not unlike the one that granted Peter his abilities, and introducing us to his family. While it's never said outright, it's strongly suggested that Miles' parents are having trouble making ends meet, a feeling that comes out most heavily in a sequence where the Morales clan attends the lottery for entry into a charter school.
According to former Marvel EIC Joe Quesada, the lottery scene was inspired by the documentary Waiting For Superman, and it could have veered into Poverty Porn pretty easily, but a crucial piece of direction by Bendis, along with the artists' work, saves it: as Miles' mother tells him, "Oh, my God, you have a chance," we cut to a close-up on Miles' eyes, then to two separate shots of kids whose names didn't get called.
"It shouldn't — all these other kids," Miles says. "Should it be like this?" This show of empathy helps ground Miles for the readers at a crucial moment. He revisits these emotions later on, while visiting his uncle Aaron, something Miles' dad doesn't like – especially after Miles faints after his fateful accident, the consequences of which start to dawn on him as the story closes.
This kind of decompressed story – or "writing for the trade," as fans often call it – might disappoint some of the new readers Bendis and Marvel want to hook with the new USM; after all, for a book selling for $3.99, it's not unreasonable to suggest that after all the hype, it would have been nice to see Miles out "learning on the job" like we saw him doing in Ultimate Fallout.
But at this point, USM #1 accomplished what Bendis and company set out to do – show us a young hero worth getting invested in. The key now is to follow up: not just in the key details about Miles' regular life (what are Miles' parents' names? What's going on that has them so worried about their living situation?) but about the touches that will eventually make Miles his own Spider-Man; the tagline for the next issue, "Who Is Miles Morales?," could hardly be more apropos.
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WORLD CUP: ENGLAND VS. USA – 2:30PM Saturday (ABC) At long last, we have arrived at this long-awaited U.S. World Cup opener. Perhaps you may not like soccer. Perhaps you've adopted the stance of aggressively hating soccer because you think so many people try and foist it upon you when the World Cup comes around every four years. People, I understand your reasoning, but I do not agree with it. Take it from a for soccerphobe: You will enjoy yourself watching this game, unless the U.S. gets pounded (which is totally a possibility). Watching international soccer, with the singing crowds and massive field and hysterical token Irish analysis, is great fun if you have the right attitude for it. First off, go to a bar. Then, get drunk. Real, real drunk. You'll be cheering hard tackles and tricky corner kicks in no time. Give in, America. Like you've got anything better to do. ANTICIPATION: KICKY!
TONY AWARDS – 8:00PM Sunday (CBS) It's the annual tribute to Broadway's best, broadcast to 350 million people, 340 million of whom live nowhere NEAR Broadway. But hey, that won't stop Broadway from trying to get you to care about Jazz Hands. Your host Sunday night is Sean Hayes. But Newsweek magazine asks, can this man be a convincing Tony host? Newsweek is controversial like that, which is why it's going broke. ANTICIPATION: CAMPY!
STONEHENGE APOCALYPSE – 8:00PM Saturday (SyFy – An NBC/Universal network) "I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem may have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a DWARF. All right? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object." ANTICIPATION: AND OH HOW THEY DANCED, THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF STONEHENGE
I AM COMIC – 11PM tonight (Showtime) It's an hour of comics talking about comedy. Man, do I hate it when comics do this. No one cares about your craft, jokeboy. MAKE WITH THE FUNNY. ANTICIPATION: JOKES AREN'T FUNNY WHEN YOU EXPLAIN THEM!
PARTY DOWN – 9:00PM tonight (Starz) Now this is more like it. Real comedy, not talking about real comedy. I'm pretty sure I could watch Adam Scott read a phone book. He's a solid actor like that. ANTICIPATION: MORE GUTTENBERG!
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Louis Farrakhan is no stranger to making controversial comments and now the Nation of Islam leader has taken aim at one of the biggest pop stars of the day: Rihanna.
In his annual Savior's Day Speech, which he delivered near Chicago on February 27, Farrakhan lashed out at the songstress for her racy clothing and erotic dance moves, calling her "filthy" and her fans "swine," reports PopEater.
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"A minister says I perform filthy,sat+watched the filth,then called u SWINE for doin the same! Haa, Is that judgment in ur tone?" she wrote. "I certainly don't think u are swine! But a holy man of God does!!!"
In the speech, Farrakhan also praised Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard for creating a religion to "civilize white people," and said that he would stand by his long-time friend Moammar Gadhafi, the embattled Libyan leader who is currently trying to face down a democratic uprising in his country.
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December 2017
"The trouble started when the card reader next to the employee entrance gave up the ghost."
~ from Gary Hendrix's
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The Last to See Me
M Dressler
The Last to See Me
portrays a parallel universe where ghosts are recognized as real, but the living do everything they can to eradicate them. Having dwelt for a century as a ghost in a grand California mansion called Lambry House, Emma Rose Finnis finally must come to terms with a ghost hunter. Set on a dramatic, foggy, wave-battered coastline, Emma's residence offers a perfect atmosphere for a spooky story, while her timelines in life and death alternate compellingly in this gripping tale of star-crossed lovers.
The Grip of It
Jac Jemc
After their previously ideal relationship falters, Julie and James decide they need to start anew in a different dwelling. They purchase a run-down Victorian house in a quiet area, ignoring the odd noises they hear when they view it -- but there's more to the house than meets the eye. Nor is the couple's relationship all sweetness and light. This classically Gothic-style tale twists and turns as it recalls the literary mastery of Henry James.
The New Annotated Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
On January 1, 1818, a new novel by an anonymous author appeared in print:
Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus
. Just in time for its bicentenary, this annotated edition of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel arrives, complete with an introduction, afterword, notes, and illustrations. Modern fans of Frankenstein's monster will find this volume compelling and satisfying, while those new to the story can read the original and learn about its history.
What the Hell Did I Just Read: A Novel of Cosmic Horror
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Hang on to your reading glasses! Author David Wong returns in this complicated tale, vividly populated with supernatural creatures and the three main characters from Wong's previous novels (
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Orsk, the "all-American furniture superstore in Scandinavian drag," serves its customers' needs from cradle to grave. At Orsk Location #00108 in Cleveland, Ohio, two employees "volunteer" to stay overnight to investigate strange events inside the store. After they meet another pair of employees, who hope to document the presence of ghosts, the quartet navigate the increasingly creepy showroom floor, explore the hidden dangers of the self-service warehouse, and attempt to survive until morning.
No One Gets Out Alive
Adam Nevill
Having run away from home at age 19, Stephanie Booth finds a cheap room to rent in Birmingham, England...and soon realizes that the house is haunted. Not only that, but the live humans who run the place are dangerous sadists. Who is more threatening: the ghosts, or the landlord and his cousin? Author Adam Nevill skillfully cranks up the fear and the tension, adding twists and switchbacks that will keep you turning the pages.
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, author Claire North depicts possession with an unusual quirk: the soul or spirit of a murder victim can inhabit the body of a living human and easily move into yet another person at a mere touch. Meanwhile, a society dedicated to eliminating these ghosts tries to kill the people whose bodies they're inhabiting. The narrator, an entity called Kepler, seeks revenge against the ghost-killers in this fast-paced, thought-provoking consideration of the meaning of human existence.
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What really happened the night 13-year-old Tommy disappeared from a site called Devil's Rock in a local park? Baffled by the failure of the state police to turn up leads, his mother and younger sister become even more frightened when strange shadows that resemble Tommy appear, and pages of his journal mention a mysterious past event. Did Tommy die, and is his ghost trying to communicate with his mother? Award-winning author Paul Tremblay infuses normal small-town life with paranormal manifestations in this dread-inducing narrative.
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To you I raise my eyes,
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Like the eyes of a maid
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So our eyes are on the LORD our God,
till we are shown favor.
3Show us favor, LORD, show us favor,
for we have our fill of contempt.b
4Our souls are more than sated
with mockery from the insolent,
with contempt from the arrogant.
* [Psalm 123] A lament that begins as a prayer of an individual (Ps 123:1), who expresses by a touching comparison exemplary confidence in God (Ps 123:2). The Psalm ends in prayer that God relieve the people's humiliation at the hands of the arrogant (Ps 123:3–4).
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For the second year in a row, Dell engineers will be on hand at the Linux Foundation's LinuxCon conference in Boston next week. While I don't get to fly a helicopter in the Penguin Bowl this year, we'll have plenty of face time with the engineers and enthusiasts on hand.
On Wednesday at 10:30am, I'll be presenting on Network Device Naming, which simplifies this:
by letting the system administrator use better names for their network ports than "eth0". Can you guess which is eth0 in that picture? (Hint: it might be green, it might be red, it might be orange and it may change from time to time.)
Shyam Iyer follows me at 11:30am, presenting "Storage Provisioning with iSCSI for Virtualized Environments", which describes the work he has been doing with the Open-iSCSI and libvirt teams to simplify iSCSI storage use by virtual machines, to take advantage of all the great hardware acceleration our EqualLogic arrays provide.
On Thursday at 2pm, I return to the stage in a panel moderated by Matt Asay, COO of Canonical, titled "What's Next for Linux", alongside James Bottomley of Novell, David Recordon of Facebook, and Ravi Simhambhatla of Virgin America. I'm especially interested to be on this panel, as my cohorts are pushing the limits of computing, often with Dell's help, and simultaneously Dell is active in the new worlds they're creating.
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Top 10 Vegan Aphrodisiacs
Bow Chicka Bow Wow…
Not like any of you sex gods and goddesses need any extra help in the bedroom, but just in case you do, here's a list of natural vegan labido boosters. Enjoy, and go on with your bad, sexy vegan selves!
- Chocolate: Vegan dark chocolate contains phenylethylamine (PEA), which stimulates the same hormone your body releases during sex. It also sparks dopamine production in the brain… like you need another excuse to eat chocolate. 😉
- Red wine: You don't have to get all lush-y, but a wee bit of red wine can increases blood flow and help you relax. Make sure the wine is vegan, though!
- Aniseed: This sweet licorice-flavored seed gained a reputation in ancient Greek and Roman times for increasing female sexual arousal.
- Cinnamon: Eating cinnamon heats up your body and, in turn, your sex drive. Cinnamon also has anti-inflammatory properties and can help normalize blood sugar.
- Pine Nuts: These are loaded with zinc (which is essential for producing testosterone), and they've been rumored to have provided men with sexual stamina since the Middle Ages. Woot!
- Cardamom: This ancient aphrodisiac is warming and pungent, and can increase blood flow (ahem, downtown). It is also has antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties.
- Celery: It contains androsterone and adrostenol, two chemicals that help you get aroused.
- Chili peppers: The capsaicin in peppers heats up the body and increases blood flow. Chili peppers also cause the brain to release endorphins—the feel-good chemical.
- Ginger: I ♥ ginger! It spices things up and increases circulation and body temperature (similar to chili peppers).
- Pomegranates: The seeds help improve blood flow and are rumored to increase sensitivity in the loinal region.
Honorable Mentions:
- Asparagus: While this phallic veggie is known for making your pee pee and other bodily secretions smell funky (hence it only being an honorable mention), it is also known to increase circulation downstairs and make you horny.
- Garlic: Granted garlic will make yo' bref stank, it's still honorable mention-worthy because it contains allicin, which increases blood flow which can improve stamina and sexual energy. If ya both eat garlic together (pesto pasta for dinsies?), it's all good. 😉
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Bilt, Johannes (16th/17th century)
Johannes Bilt (Biltius) was preacher of the Reformed Church at Workum in the Dutch province of Friesland. He was probably the student of Antonides van der Linden who was a violent opponent of the Mennonites, and fell into a doctrinal dispute with Rippert Eenkes, the preacher of the Mennonite church at Workum. The dispute grew so violent that the government intervened and on 20 May 1605 ordered them to carry it on in writing. Both sides were to present their arguments to each other on 24 June, and the replies were to be exchanged on 25 July. At the appointed time Bilt presented his arguments; but Rippert Eenkes did not present his until November 1606, and then not in Workum, but to the government in Leeuwarden. The magistrate of Workum therefore felt it necessary to send two delegates to Leeuwarden; one of them was Johannes Bilt. He had just published an answer to Eenkes' reply. The government granted them a half year to carry on their pen dispute. Long after the term had expired Bilt handed in a very detailed presentation of the entire controversy, containing 1,483 paragraphs. He apparently achieved his purpose. The government took an unfriendly attitude toward the Mennonites. In the following year (1608) the building of new Mennonite churches was prohibited.
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1873): 83, 90 ff.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. I, 222.
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The Mormon issue has reared its unattractive head in Iowa.
Newt Gingrich's Iowa political director, Craig Bergman, told a McClatchy Newspapers focus group last Wednesday, before he was hired by the campaign, that "a lot of the evangelicals believe God would give us four more years of Obama just for the opportunity to expose the cult of Mormon. There's a thousand pastors ready to do that." For this, Newt pink-slipped him Tuesday.
Only in politics do you get fired for telling the truth.
Note that Bergman did not say he believed this about Mormonism; he was merely stating a fact. Many evangelicals have serious issues with Romney's Mormon faith, and you can expect them to voice them if Romney becomes the Republican nominee.
Judd Saul, a Tea Party activist and Iowa voter at the focus group, was even more blunt: evangelicals, he said, "won't vote for a Mormon."
Polk County GOP co-chairman Dave Funk told the group that Romney would not have any coattails if he were the nominee because he wouldn't "turn out 3 million evangelicals to vote in every school board and local election."
Michael Cromartie of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, which studies the role of religion in public life, told me: "There are apparently some people out there who just refuse to vote for a Mormon. It's visceral. I'm surprised by it. For whatever reason, they somehow cannot 'bracket' to the side their theological convictions to vote for someone who actually shares their moral and social concerns."
Polls support this contention. Alan Cooperman, a research director at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, pointed out to me that in the latest Pew Research poll, there are "really high negatives for Romney among white evangelicals."
The Dec. 13 poll found that among white evangelical Protestants who say they are very likely to vote in a GOP primary, 18 percent say there is no chance they would vote for Newt Gingrich. For Romney, the figure is 35 percent.
A CBS poll released Dec. 6 found that among Republican Iowa caucus-goers, Gingrich garners 34 percent of the white evangelical vote to Romney's 10 percent. Ron Paul, Rick Perry, and Michele Bachmann all grab a larger portion of the coveted evangelical vote than Romney.
David Lane of Iowa's Pastors and Pews, which mobilizes the evangelical vote, told me bluntly, "Eighty percent of evangelicals will not vote for Romney in a contested primary, and 20 to 30 percent will stay home or go third party in the general election because of the Mormon issue and because they see him as an advocate of abortion and gay marriage."
Lane's prediction lines up with the Pew polling, which found Romney struggling for evangelical support in the primary, but in a general-election choice of reelecting Barack Obama or supporting a Mormon, they overwhelmingly fall in line behind Romney. Cromartie says, "Romney's Mormonism is really important in the primaries but less so if he gets the nomination among evangelicals."
Bob Vander Plaats of Iowa's Family Leader, an influential social conservative group, says of Romney's Mormonism: "People never bring that up to me. So you wonder, it's a little like sex. People clam up. Sometimes when it comes to Mormonism or different aspects of faith, people aren't going to talk about it. But at the end of the day is it going to play a role? For some it's a hurdle they can't clear."
Vander Plaats and other social conservative and evangelical leaders in Iowa maintain that the primary issue with Romney is his flip-flopping and lack of a core belief system. But considering that Newt is an Olympic level flip-flopper—but still garnering significant evangelical support—this doesn't quite add up.
Romney told the Des Moines Register last week that religion or spirituality should not play a role in the election process.
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"Get 1099 hours FREE for 50 days," the ad on AOL's website trumpets; "No credit card required." Click on the link, however, and you'll learn that a credit card– or, as it's cleverly put, "a major billing method"– is required. Welcome to the world of AOL.
The ad declares that your credit or debit card won't be billed until the 50 days are up. But as some consumers are learning, mighty strange things can happen to that card number once it's been stored in AOL's database. Consider, for instance, what happened to John Cole.
Cole's troubles began, he claims, when he got one of those "Try AOL Free" CDs last September. The Villa Hills, Kentucky, resident was already on Juno, but decided to give AOL a try. Two days into the trial period, however, he decided he didn't want to continue. Cole claims that he called AOL customer service to cancel, and was told everything was "okay"– i.e., his account would be inactivated and his debit card would not be charged.
According to Cole, his bank statement for October told a different story. While he hadn't been charged for AOL itself, he had been charged $8 for AOL Net Market and $9 for AOL Auto Advantage. Cole, who is disabled and lives on a fixed income, claims he never signed up for either service– and, furthermore, that he didn't even know what they were. (He later learned that Net Market is an Internet shopping service, and Auto Advantage is similar to AAA.)
Cole began calling AOL, and says he was told that the charges would stop. But they didn't, and his checking account continued to be debited a total of $17 every month. In March he finally persuaded AOL Auto Advantage to stop charging him. Net Market, however, was a harder sell.On March 13 he posted a rather plaintive appeal for help on Complaints.com, which I read and responded to.
Since then I've learned that Internet complaint sites fairly bristle with allegations that AOL and its "partners," such as Auto Advantage and Net Market, have either charged consumers for services that were advertised as free or charged them for services they didn't order. A man in California, for instance, complained to the San Jose Mercury-News last November that a month after his mother died, AOL (where he also had an account) withdrew $79.99 from his checking account– for Net Market, which she had subscribed to.
AOL spokeswomen Lauren Caito told the Mercury-News that "It looks like [the Net Market charge] was rolled over from the mother's to the son's account." Call me cynical, but it's hard for me to imagine how that charge managed to "roll over" without human intervention.
When I asked Caito about Cole's experience, she began by saying that due to "complaints," Net Market and Auto Advantage are no longer AOL "partners." AOL partners, she explained, are "separate businesses that we work with" that run ad banners on AOL's website.
Caito contacted the two companies to ask about Cole's situation. Auto Advantage, she later told me, claimed they had "never billed" Cole; Net Market claimed that Cole had signed up over the phone and had been billed $4 each for two months and $8 each for three months, for a total of $32.
Au contraire, I replied; I had copies of Cole's bank statements, which showed that Auto Advantage had charged him $9 a month in January and February, and Net Market had charged him $8 a month in December, February, March and April. The statements only went back as far as December, but Cole claims the charges for both services began in October (to get copies of earlier statements, he would have to pay).
After I contacted Caito, an AOL customer service employee called Cole and offered to reimburse him for any charges he can document, along with the bank's charge for printing the older statements. Cole appreciates the gesture, but more than anything, he just wants AOL to leave him alone.
So far I've read two excellent books (Stealing Time and Fools Rush In) about the AOL-Time Warner debacle, which feature close examination by the Securities and Exchange Commission of AOL accounting practices. Stories such as Cole's and that of the dead woman whose Net Market bill migrated to her son's checking account are troubling enough on their own. Viewed in the larger context, they raise questions that AOL should be striving to answer.
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Broccoli pasta bake
A versatile pasta bake is a midweek staple and this recipe can even be made ahead and frozen for extra convenience
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal667
- fat27g
- saturates16g
- carbs82g
- sugars11g
- fibre5g
- protein28g
- salt0.98g
- 1l milk
One of the most widely used ingredients, milk is often referred to as a 'complete' food…
- 2 garlic cloves, bashed
- 2 bay leaves
- 500g dried pasta
Pasta is the Italian name for Italy's version of a basic foodstuff which is made in many…
- 350g broccoli, in small florets
Like cabbage and cauliflower, broccoli is a brassica and is sometimes known by its Italian name…
- 75g butter
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 75g plain flour
- a little freshly grated nutmeg
One of the most useful of spices for both sweet and savoury…
- 1 tsp mustard powder
A condiment made by mixing the ground seeds of the mustard plant with a combination of…
- small bunch parsley, roughly chopped
One of the most ubiquitous herbs in British cookery, parsley is also popular in European and…
- 200g cheese, grated (cheddar, Parmesan, Gruyère, or a mixture)
Bring the milk, garlic and bay leaves to the boil in a small saucepan, then remove from the heat and leave to infuse. Cook the pasta to al dente following pack instructions (if you're freezing, cook for 1 min less), adding the broccoli for the final 2 mins. Drain.
Strain the milk into a jug. Heat the butter in the pan until foaming then stir in the flour for 1 min. Add the milk a little at a time, stirring or whisking constantly to remove any lumps. Bubble for 1-2 mins, stirring constantly until you have a thick, lump-free sauce.
Remove from the heat and stir in some nutmeg, the mustard powder, parsley, three-quarters of the cheese and seasoning. Combine with the pasta and broccoli and transfer to one large, or individual, heatproof dishes. Scatter over the remaining cheese and cool and freeze for up to three months, or heat the grill to high and cook for 2-3 mins until golden and bubbling. If frozen, defrost in the fridge overnight, then cook at 200C/180C fan/gas 6 for 30-40 mins until piping hot.