Israel Mireles Arrested

rmiles7721December 19, 2007Site News

According to CNN, the suspected killer in the murder of online model and so-called ‘secret porn star’ Emily Sander/Zoey Zane has been arrested in Mexico. According to the United States Marshal’s service, Israel Mireles was arrested in Melchor Muzquiz, Mexico, which is southwest of Texas on a homicide warrant from Butler County. Mireles is being held in a Mexican jail until he can be extradited to the United States.

Sander was last seen alive on November 23rd after she left an El Dorado bar with a man identified as Mireles.

There is no word so far on whether Victoria Martens was with Mireles or not when he was arrested.

If you want to read more on the Sander case you can find related entries here.

Updated at 10:45PM, here is a bit of video from the AP…

 

Another Update – 10:50 PM According to this report from Newscom Victoria Martens was found unharmed and in good health. Still don’t know if she will be charged as an accessory or not.

 

 

Online Storage for Download Sales…

rmiles7721December 19, 2007Technology

I ran across PayLoadz earlier this afternoon from a link that showed up on one of the sites I frequent and thought it was pretty cool. With quite a few of the Movabletype plugins that I have purchased over the last couple of months, they normally use PayPal or Google checkout for payment and then the files themselves are stored locally on whatever server is handy. That can be an issue if you need for people to download a product at any time. Payloadz offers download storage room for just about anything that can be stored digitally and their system works with PayPal as well as Google Checkout. Here’s a press release from PayLoadz Downloable Goods eCommerce:

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New York, NY December 18, 2007 — PayLoadz.com, a leading self-service digital content ecommerce platform, has released a new version of its content storage and fulfillment system to deliver downloadable content such as ebooks, music, videos, software, crafts, or any other file. This new platform provides unlimited file storage for sellers using its services without any increase in cost.

“I am very excited about latest version of our file delivery system,” says Shannon Sofield, founder of PayLoadz. “Because of the repeat and impulse buying nature related to selling digital goods, the more products sellers have available, means more sales and revenue for our sellers. By providing them with as much storage as they need for their downloadable goods without increased cost, they can create more valuable content offerings.”

The PayLoadz.com service now has a key competitive advantage with this new release as other companies attempting to enter this market niche are bound by their limited product inventory and file storage capabilities. The PayLoadz Free, Basic Service, gets a file storage increase from just 50MB to 1,000MB representing a twenty-fold increase. Higher level accounts feature Unlimited File Storage.

About PayLoadz
A New York, NY based company, PayLoadz is a long standing leader in the digital content and delivery sector. The privately-held company has over 60,000 registered user selling over 280,000 downloadable goods.

Wednesday Hero

rmiles7721December 19, 2007Site News

This Weeks Hero Was Suggested By Leo

 

SSgt. Mike Mills
SSgt. Mike Mills
 
On June 14, 2005 SSgt. Mike Mills’s life was forever changed. The HETT(Heavy Equipment Transport System) he was riding in was hit by an IED. The attack resulted a cracked clavicle and scapula bones, dislocate shoulder, broken left hip, 4 out of 5 bones broken in his foot and being set on fire. The driver in the truck behind him ran with a cooler of melted ice which he threw on Sgt. Mills to put him out.
 
He spent three months in the Brooks Army Medical Center at Ft. Sam Houston, TX with the injuries listed above plus 2nd, 3rd and deep tissue burns to 31% of the left side of his body. The first thing he remembers thinking after the attack was that his soldiers needed him and he needed to get back to them.
 
“Then the guilt set in about what I did to my family. I’ve totally screwed that up. Look at me, no don’t. I look hideous. How can I face my kids looking like this. They’ll be embarrassed to be seen with me. What if they won’t love me anymore? Speaking of love, my wife, oh my god. How can I expect her to stay with me. I’m not a man anymore. She’s not going to want be intimate with a freak. What if I can’t work, how do I support myself, my family.
 
I had the nightmares and couldn’t sleep. I wasn’t eating and was loosing weight. I didn’t really care. If I didn’t start eating, they where going to put the feeding tube back in. Who cares, I’ve totally screwed up my life anyways.”
 
But he found out just how much is wife loved him, when she stood by his side throughout the entire ordeal. She was there for every wound dressing and even learned how to change the dressings herself.
 
SSgt. Mike Mills now runs the site For The Veteran… By A Veteran in which he helps veterans, soldiers and their families find information they may not have been given after their medical discharge or retirement.
 
 
 
Some may say that Mike gave his country more than enough when he was severely maimed by an IED on that fateful day of June 14, 2005, but Mike continues to give to his fellow servicemen, as well as to his nation!
 

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero. We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

 This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your blog, you can go here.

I’m Dreaming of a…

rmiles7721December 19, 20075Entertainment

…of a white trash Christmas…

…just like the ones I used to love…

Guess who’s pregnant?

No, it’s not Britney Spears this time but her little sister Jamie Lynn Spears from Nick’s Zoey 101. I guess someone forgot to tell them to put that cock in a sock before they did the wild tango.

According to CNN, Spears, who is twelve weeks pregnant now is advising other teens not to have pre-marital sex. Thanks honey but I prefer to get my advice from people who have successfully used their own…

Aruba Investigation Not Over

rmiles7721December 19, 2007Site News

I had one of the readers send me a link yesterday afternoon that contradicts the story over at CNN that I had mentioned, wherein the lead prosecutor said that they were closing the case and not going to charge the three suspects in the Natalee Holloway case. Somehow I missed it yesterday evening.

According to FOX News, despite the report yesterday in which everyone said the case has been closed, Aruban officials have NOT closed their investigation into the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway. The media liaison for Hans Mos dismissed the earlier report and said that a press conference was scheduled for Thursday that will reveal new evidence against the three young men last seen with Holloway.

Damn, they need to make up their minds…Seeing is believing so I guess I will just wait until Thursday and see what there is to see.

Thanks for the link, Loral.

Here is the original report from about 2:45 yesterday afternoon.

I am not sure what time the FOX story was posted at this point in time.

In A Fog…

rmiles7721December 19, 2007Parenting/Family

After I finally crept off the couch from my nap yesterday afternoon the wife and I picked the girls up and went to the Olive Garden for supper. It was pretty good, particularly since she had received a gift certificate for Christmas. Other than the fact that it was somewhat cold in the are we sat in it was pretty good.

I was (and still am) pretty irritable last night and I am not sure why. I’m pretty stressed out due to work right now and I suppose that is the majority of it. Christmas is always pretty hard for me to get through. Part of that is the fact that the family is getting together and the only time off I normally have is after everyone has gone home. I think that this year my brother and his family will be spending a week with us. If so that will be pretty cool. Other than this coming Friday the 30th will be my next day off and it would be nice to see everyone and spend a bit of time together.

Damn, I am groggy this morning. I knew that after that nap I took I would have a hard time getting to sleep last night, so I took a benadryl around nine or so. I finally hit the sack about ten thirty and still have that fog in my brain.

Today and tomorrow are going to be fairly long days. My company’s Christmas party is this evening, in Anniston, Alabama at around six, which puts me back home about nine PM. Tomorrow we are back to business as usual with the multi-unit manager meeting. I normally don’t finish up with that until at least nine. I’m already dreading the next two days.

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Have to start getting ready for work shortly. Luckily except for the last couple of hours I won’t have to cook today. I do have a couple of interviews for hourly’s to do this morning and other than that just paperwork and some prep for Christmas. I have this one guy coming in for an interview that put his application in a couple of weeks ago. The first time he came in I could have sworn he had on golf shoes. I don’t know for sure but they certainly looked like it. No big deal except that he didn’t look like a golfer. Probably picked them up at one of the consignment stores or something.

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I disabled the twitter tweets completely on this site. While I thought they were cool there were some issues with them so the simple solution was to just take them off.

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Received a nice Christmas present from my friend Yabu yesterday. A CD with quite a few pictures from the Blogtoberfest earlier in the fall. There were some pictures from prior to my arrival as well as some from the party Saturday night long after I had stopped taking photographs. Hell, I don’t look as drunk as I was feeling…

Merry Christmas to you and your’s dude!

Wordless Wednesday

rmiles7721December 19, 20072Site News

Ruth's 5th Birthday 148

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Early Day

rmiles7721December 18, 2007Site News

Since I am only getting 3.5 days off during the four weeks around the holiday I shot out of there about 11:30 today. I hate it for them. I am already tired and Christmas isn’t even here yet. I took care of the banking and paperwork and my relief manager is going to take care of the rest of the day for me. I think I will nap for a couple of hours then blog a bit. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to get all of my stuff finished in time to get out of there but sometimes things just work out well.

I’ve already had two calls from work since I arrived home, so we will see just how long I actually get to sleep. I hadn’t planned on posting anything other than this but then I got a CNN alert about Natalee Holloway so I ended up posting that last one.

Hey, oh by the way. See that thing about the Blogger’s Choice awards on my side bar? No, OK here it is again…

My site was nominated for Hottest Daddy Blogger!

Getting an early start this year, so go vote for my sexy ass and then I might shut up for a while.

No, probably not but maybe I won’t harass you about voting for a while. Why should you vote for me? Because I am…just a pig. You just have to look at my children to know that I am the coolest, as Alice would say.

Time to nap…

Castro Won't Cling to Office

rmiles7721December 17, 2007Site News

A Cuban television news anchor read a letter on the air today from Fidel Castro that promises not to cling to office or impede the rise of new younger leaders according to this report on CNN.

The letter says that…

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My basic duty is not to cling to office, much less to obstruct the rise of younger people, but to pass on experiences and ideas whose modest value arises from the exceptional era in which I lived
Fidel Castro

What is left unsaid is that if you don’t vote for the man that Fidel wants your ass will be jailed or worse for being a traitor to the regime.

I went to check out my source for anything related to Castro and Cuba, Babalu Blog and all he really has up right now is a link to the FOX News story which doesn’t say a whole hell of a lot either. Right now we are all just left hanging in the wind wondering if this means that he will be retiring, when, and what power he will wield afterward. I just don’t see him handing the reigns of power completely over to anyone that isn’t his puppet.

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Almost Cut My Hair…

rmiles7721December 17, 2007Uncategorized

It’s funny sometimes how things can tie together. I have been listening to Queensryche’s latest album tonight, which consists entirely of cover songs. Right around the time that ‘Almost Cut My Hair’ came on someone sent me an email with a link to the American Hair Loss Association. Why?…

I used to be extremely concerned about going bald and for lot’s of guys it’s a pretty serious subject. It doesn’t really other me much anymore. I let what’s left of it grow out during the winter and then just shave my head the rest of the year. Easier to take care of and I don’t use much shampoo anymore…

Since I’m not doing much of anything else tonight I clicked the link…

The American Hair Loss Association is a non-profit organization that is set up to educate people about hair loss and hopefully help to make the lives of people that are affected by hair loss a bit better. There are so many different home remedies and ‘snake oil’ medicines out there that promise to restore your hair that creating a bit of public awareness about it can really help. It’s a huge deal for some people. When I was younger I was very proud of my hair. I think I recently posted a couple of pics from the late eighties and early nineties when my hair was well below my shoulders. When I realized that my hair line was receding it was extremely depressing. While not as serious or harming as the degeneration of eyesight or arthritis, hair loss IS a medical condition and legitimizing it as such in the eyes of the medical community is a good thing.

With the advent of the World Wide Web it is much easier to find needed information and I would have to tell anyone that I know that might be looking for hair loss remedies to go check out the American Hair Loss Association and see what they have to say about it. Products that are legitimate and recommended by the AHLA display the seal shown on their web site. That’s what you want to look for…