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Warren Jeffs has been handed over to the Arizona police to face charges that came out of arranging marriages of two teenage girls to older relatives. The so-called prophet of polygamy has already been convicted in Utah in connection with one of those cases involving a fourteen year old girl.

The Arizona Attorney General is rightfully looking at this as a case of child abuse and there should not be exceptions under the law against this, even for religious reasons.

If Jeffs is convicted in Arizona he will have to finish his two sentences of five years to life in Utah prior to doing his time in Arizona.

Students at Northern Illinois University are back in class for the first time since the February 14th campus shooting that left six people dead including the shooter. Hundreds of volunteer counselors are on campus to help the students through their return.

This is the Sunday edition of the open track-back post. Open track-backs are a great way for you to share and show up your work. Just send a ping back to this post and your trackback will show up in the bottom of this entry.

I have been doing pretty well with the smoking this week. I’ve gone from two to three packs a day down to a pack every three days. I am going to try and quit again come Tuesday. That’s when I start the new week of Chantix, which is why I picked Tuesday. I am actually starting to feel a bit better, but I seem to be sleeping a lot.

The wife quit smoking a couple of years ago and she’s done great. She also walks a lot. Two to four miles a day. Man. That’s a bunch. I don’t particularly think I would mind the exercise part but I walk from six a.m. until well after lunch at work every day. I think I need to get some exercise equipment, ellipticals or something. There are a couple of local gyms I am thinking about using as well. The hard part is actually getting motivated and using them.

Several hundred people held a vigil last night in the same field where Brianna Denison’s body was found last week.

This is a pretty cool deal. I’ve used VistaPrint before for business cards and came across a pretty nice deal this afternoon while I was over there. First off, VistaPrint offers custom design and print solutions for businesses, homes, web sites, just about anything you could think of, at a pretty decent price. A box of 250 of their premium business cards are just under $20 and they offer free logo design to go along with it. Business cards aren’t the only thing they offer though. Letterheads, car door magnets, marketing materials such as postcards, brochures and rack cards, clothing such as hats and T-shirts, stationary, rubber stamps, labels and more.

I used to print out my own business cards using my deskjet printer, but the quality is just never the same as using a professional service. The ones I did myself printed out in sheets and either I had to cut them (they were always uneven) or they were the ones that were perforated (and they look it too). There’s just no substitute for a professional job well done.

Anyway, back to the deal I mentioned at the beginning of the post. I was browsing through their custom magnets section and found out that if you use the coupon code “Blog25FreeMag” you can get 25 free magnets. Put your business name on them, your website, your phone number to hand out to the ladies, whatever you want to do with them, it’s entirely up to you. I have a ton of magnets on my refrigerator holding up my kid’s artwork, calendars, appointments and other important stuff and they are there. When I want to order pizza I know which magnet to look for, I even have one for the vet when the dog isn’t feeling well. Actually I lie. I don’t really call and order pizza on the phone any more. I order it through their web site, but the magnet’s still there! Anyway, if you want to get 25 free customized magnets head on over to VistaPrint and use the code Blog25FreeMag.