Holy cow. I haven’t read anything about this story before now, but her parents must be weeping with relief. Apparently the police located the hidden room when they showed up for a DNA swab of the alleged suspects that held her prisoner.
The Police believe that the girl they found is Danielle Cramer, 15, who has been missing since June of 2006.
The arrested parties were apparently business associates of Cramer’s family.
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Remember when used book stores and video stores were still a real big thing. When I was a kid there was a really big one near us and quite a few weekends we would go to the trade-a-book place to get new books. After a few years they started offering videos and later still, games.
That trade-a-book place is no longer there, but the idea still remains. BarterBee is a free way online to get movies, music and games. The way it works is that you sell your existing CDs, games, and movies through BarterBee and earn points. Heck, just by signing up for the service you already get 5 points to buy with. As you sell your items you collect more points and use them to get what you want.
Just browsing through the movies I see that they are currently selling for anywhere from 5-21 points, so just by signing up you are half-way to getting one that you haven’t seen before, some of them you can go ahead and get right away.
It’s like a huge yard sale on the Internet. That’s one of the things that I look for when I browse yard sales aside from computer equipment. People always want to sell their existing multimedia and sometimes you can find a really great deal that way. Barterbee allows you to do all of that but never leave the comfort of your home to deal with the traffic and the summer heat. If you have a couple of minutes, go check out BarterBee.com – The Free Way to Get Movies, Music, and Games.
I hired a girl for one of my stores the other day and interviewed another one and left her app for the manager to look over. I sent the first girl to one particular store where I have my newest manager. It’s also the busiest store so it’s in my best interest to make sure it gets staffed first with quality people. The other manager I guess decided to claim that girl and told the other manager to call the one whose app I had left.
It ends up being that the first girl is all over BOTH schedules now and the other one isn’t working yet. My new manager is off today and of course I am hung because this girl is on the schedule for evening shift, but she worked graveyard at the other store last night and is working it again tonight.
I won’t normally call my managers on their off days as they are definitely sacred and I can handle any problems that arise, but I did call her today and let her know that she and the other manager were going to have to get this worked out as I was not going to get stuck waiting damn tables on their days off.
I finally figure out what woke me up last night/this morning. It was the Boy hollering at the laptop on some game he was playing. I remember calling him and telling him to go to bed now, but by that time I was up and stayed that way for awhile.
I got to work a little after the usual time this morning, and had a cook come in because I knew I was going to be busy. It’s a good thing because one of my managers didn’t show up for work until 8:15 this morning. We are supposed the be in the stores by 6:30 every morning at the latest. He overslept. by. two. fucking. hours. I’m not particularly happy with that right now as it’s the second time this week and has been a constant thing since I picked up his store. I’m probably going to have to go a bit further than just talking to him this time.
Since this was paperwork and payroll closeout day I normally pick that stuff up on Wednesday mornings but I was way behind because of the late guy. I told my managers to bring me their paperwork by 3:30 this afternoon so that I could go through the books at home tonight. four fucking forty five rolls around and I left without that one guy’s stuff, called and told him to leave it at the store I would be at in the morning and I would go through it then.
I can understand being disorganized and being poor at time management. I resemble all of the above, so there are things that I do habitually to negate the fact that I get caught up doing other stuff. I’m still not sure if this is a case of time management or just lazy don’t give a shit instead. Either way I will give it my best shot at helping to fix the problem, but it lost me $1150 of income over the last four weeks and I won’t put up with that garbage very much longer before I become a real asshole. I could run better numbers with no manager than are being run right now. Just too much money on the line to put up with bullshit.
I’m finished ranting for the evening I suppose. Tomorrow is another day and another chance to fix the problem.
I just want to bang on the drums all day…
For some reason I woke up about two this morning and was up for an hour and a half before I could gt back to sleep again. That sucks. I had the hardest time when it really was time to get up. I have to get my rear end ready and get going in a couple of minutes but wanted to get online for a couple of minutes beforehand.
I still seem to be having problems with MT and FastCGI particularly in the evening when the site is busiest. I keep getting errors with it as well as with the MySQL server depending on what I am doing. Tech support for my provider keeps suggesting that it is a problem with my spam protection or the fact that I am getting a pretty hard hit with spam. I am thinking that it is somehow something wrong in the configuration.
It’s even to the point where I am having trouble posting entries or comments when it’s busy, which sucks. I don’t have any problems on my other two sites, but of course they have less than 10% of the entries or comments in the database that this one has.
I have stuck about an hour’s worth of errors from my site log in the extended entry if anyone familiar with MT and FastCGI has any idea what the problem may be please let me know.
I don’t normally have much sympathy for a scumbag like this, but the fact that he owned his property and restaurant BEFORE the daycare centers opened make for an interesting case. I certainly wouldn’t want to take my kids in his damn restaurant though.
Suuweet!!! Everyone knows that I limit myself to just a few TV shows and that I only go to see a couple of movies a year. Most of the time they are something cool that I can see with my son. I do have one love though, and that is of horror movies. The creepier the better. If it keeps me up late with bad dreams, those are the best! Couple that with my love of the author Stephen King and you’ve got a match made in heaven. Although I have my own little collection of horror flicks that I like to watch at home, there are quite a few that I have gone to the theater to see, including films like Maximum Overdrive (from the story Trucks), Cat’s Eye, and The Night Flier to name a few.
There’s a NEW Stephen King movie coming out starring John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson called 1408! I’ve read the story and it IS pretty scary. With those two playing in the 1408 movie it will probably be even creepier than the story. Rather than explaining the story for those that might not have had the opportunity to read it yet (the spoiler is below the trailer), check out the trailer for the movie.
The 1408 Movie REALLY looks cool. It’s due to be released in theaters June 22nd, just in time for my vacation right after the holiday. By that time most of the crowds will have died down (maybe?) and I will be able to check it out in comfort. I may even post a review of it here on on one of my other sites.
OK, now that I have said I won’t tell you about the story here it is!
The Horror novelist Mike Enslin played by John Cusack has been looking for a REAL paranormal even for years. He only believes what he can actually see and touch. Nothing else. His latest novel is “Ten Nights in Haunted Hotel Rooms” in which he has discredited several already and plans on doing the same at the Dolphin Hotel where he checks into suite 1408. 56 people have died in the room and Enslin is the first person to stay there in years. No one has lasted longer than an hour in room 1408 but Enslin plans on trying…
Apparently, at least according to their attorney, John Ramsey and Beth Twitty have become close friends. This really isn’t any kind of news at all, the only reason I am posting it at all is because I was extremely interested in the Natalee Holloway case and still occasionally post new links and news.
Don’t know if my site is down or not but I damn sure can’t get to it right now. My connection went out completely but after a couple of refreshes and a reboot of my router I seem to be able to get back on, but can’t access my site. What a pisser.
Still having some issues with it, but I seem to be able to get to my site now. It may be a problem with my DNS server.
One of my most favorite Police songs that is included on the new Police CD is 1978’s Roxanne. It was also the first song that I can remember hearing by them. During a time when I was listening to Rush and other pretty heavy bands, The Police blew a breath of fresh air into music for me. It was very different. Not quite New Wave, not quite Punk, but still not Pop.
Even though The Police marketed themselves as a Rock band with New Wave and Punk influences, they are at heart a trio of Jazz influenced musicians, and it shows even in the very popular tunes. The songs that are included on the Police CD are all really good examples of excellent musicianship and song writing which is one of the reasons that they became so popular in the ’80s.
It took awhile, but Rolling Stone Magazine finally recognized The Police in 2004 by naming them #70 on the list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. It’s hard to say how many musicians that The Police have influenced over the years, but I know of at least eight or nine tribute albums that have been released over the years.
Something really cool they are doing right now is promoting a contest to win a trip to see the Police live at Madison Square Garden by visiting the page linked by that picture above. That’s the Grand Prize of course. 10 other winners are also going to get a signed copy of The Police, the brand new CD that was just released in the U.S. today!