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24

[updated] Oh goody, more campus arguments that end up in gunfights

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In Phoenix:

Officials say three people were shot Thursday afternoon at South Mountain Community College in Phoenix, and two of them were critically injured.

A witness said the shooter had been fighting with another man in a computer building. The gunman seemed to be directing his shots and not firing randomly, said student Yessenia Lara, 18.

“I saw someone get punched and then I heard three shots after that. Everybody basically ducked, and the shooter got away,” Lara said, adding that the victims were yelling in pain.

A 25-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman were in critical condition, while a 17-year-old boy was in stable condition, said Mark Faulkner, a division chief for the Phoenix Fire Department. No other information on their injuries was available.

Okay – remind me – who gets the self-defense defense in a situation like this? I keep forgetting.

Here’s a site for the college and here are some blog search results.

Update: More here. Allegedly this was a planned confrontation by the assailant.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:49 pm July 24th, 2008 in Breaking, Civil Rights, Crime, Culture, Social Issues, Youth | 3 Comments 

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24

[rumor] Mandel’s campaign says he has no time until after elections for debate w/opponent

Filed Under Campaigning, Debates, Elections, Government, OH17, Ohio, Pepper Pike, Politics, Statehouse | Comments Off

Yeah, I know – sounds weird but that’s what I’m hearing from a very reliable source.

The story goes that Bob Conklin of In the Spotlight on Time Warner channels, who did a great job with the OH-10 Democratic primary debate back in February 2008, has been looking into setting up debates. The Ohio race for the 17th district (and the one in which I live) between incumbent Josh Mandel (R-Lyndhurst) (anyone else notice those bright, shiny and wordy new templates for the incumbents – need to tool around there and make sure all legislators get those) and attorney Bob Belovich was one of the races Conklin had hoped to put in the spotlight with a debate between the two opponents.

Well, I’m told, Belovich said yes, no problem.  But Mandel’s campaign responded by saying that Mandel would not have time to schedule a debate until mid-November.  When that was said to me, I asked, “As in, after the election???”  And was told yes.  Mandel’s campaign essentially said that Mandel couldn’t schedule the debate until after the election.

If you’re thinking, “WTF is that?” you’re not alone.

Now – as I said, my source is very much on top of the situation and I have no reason to doubt the source nor has the source ever embellished anything before.

But, that noted, it is possible that I’m not hearing it right – or something.

So, if someone knows better, or would like to alter the characterization of the exchanges and the intent, please do so.

In the meantime, for someone who supposedly expects to get hit with a tidal wave of cash from the Ohio Democratic Party among other entities and is being characterized as having to fight to “survive” this race in the 17th, it sure makes you wonder why he wouldn’t want to debate and get the free coverage to chop off a few dollars from that $400,000 he supposedly needs to try to win retention of his seat, which has been a GOP-held seat since 2000.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:37 pm July 24th, 2008 in Campaigning, Debates, Elections, Government, OH17, Ohio, Pepper Pike, Politics, Statehouse | Comments Off 

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24

If David Pogue writes column on MobileMe mail problems I’m having, they’re real

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You know how sometimes you think “it must be me”? Okay – so, a lot of bloggers are not the kind of people who automatically think it must be them when something goes awry.  But I do.

Well, remember when I was in San Francisco at BlogHer this past weekend?

And my computer crashed ten minutes after I turned it on in my hotel room?

And then I called AppleCare for which I pay money and they told me it sounded fried but they couldn’t get me into any SF Apple store (there are three) for at least 48 hours (by which time half of my conference would be over)?

And then I went to the hotel’s Business Center that charges $10 for 20 mins. of computer time on oldish PCs that don’t have updated enough versions of IE so that when I went to “me.com” to get my .Mac mail, I couldn’t access the MobileMe service (which is the old Dot Mac service through which I get all my mail and also could have been backing up my old hard drive because I was paying for it but could never get it to work and even the folks in the Apple store couldn’t and now those problems are memorialized in FAQs for the new MobileMe version of backup) just to check my email?

And then I started to cry (because I couldn’t get past that page that said I can’t login because the computer browser isn’t compatible) because all my efforts seemed so futile?

And then I called AppleCare back because I couldn’t even get to a webpage on the Business Center computer to find a phone number to call or get support for MobileMe?

And AppleCare told me that there was absolutely no phone support service for MobileMe (which seems to be a lie based on what David Pogue wrote)?

And I cried until I looked scarier than Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (not that I didn’t look scary enough already having been traveling since 6am and it was by then about 4pm my time but in SF).

Well, I bet most of the stuff Pogue describes in this excellent column called, “Apple’s MobileMess,” about how crappy a job Apple has done with this conversion from Dot Mac to MobileMe made the people he writes about who experienced problems like mine feel like and maybe even look like The Dark Knight too.

But, at least I know now – it’s not just me.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:53 pm July 24th, 2008 in Business, Marketing, Media, Tech, Writing | 4 Comments 

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