More than 1,500 people participated in the event to mark World Water Day on March 22.

Organizers hoped to bring attention to the 2.6 billion people worldwide who lack sanitation facilities.

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Memphis Police now say they never checked inside a motel room where Sony Millbrook had been staying and where her body was found.

• Missing woman’s body hidden under motel bed since late January
• Foul odor alerted motel workers Monday

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This site was created to meet the need of those who are bothered by poor email etiquette, specifically when it comes to forwarded chain letters, urban myths, and bad jokes. The primary function of the site is to allow individuals to anonymously email someone who has sent them spam or forwards (also known as FWDs) a generic letter that politely asks the recipient to refrain from sending this type of email.

The recipient of this email is protected against abuse of StopForwarding.Com by a feature of the site that keeps the same email address from being used more than once every three months. To facilitate this feature, the email address is kept on record for 90 days before automatically being erased from our system. These email addresses will not be used for any other purpose other than as mentioned above.

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Here’s an example of a letter the forwarder would receive:

Related: You never know what you might see on the highway.

To millions of U2 fans, Peter Rowen is the child whose mournful face stares out from the covers of “Boy” and “War.” Now, 30 years since he modeled for the iconic images, he still attracts attention.

Peter grew up in Dublin, where his older brother Guggi befriended Bono, when he was still known as Paul Hewson.

“Bono [came] over to our house quite a bit,” Rowen says. “My eldest brother, Clive, says Bono used to eat us out of jam sandwiches! I remember Bono and [his wife] Ali coming, much later, for Sunday dinner.”

U2 first had Rowen photographed in 1979 for the EP “Three.” He later appeared on the European version of “Boy” and the breakthrough third album, 1983’s “War.”

In a March 10 memo written to other school district officials, Couch wrote, “Several parents have called because their child is being hugged, and because there is a ‘culture of hugging’ here they didn’t feel that they could say no.”

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Admission: When I first read this story, this movie clip was the first thing to come to my mind.

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• I’m back, did anyone miss me?
• Last week sure did seem to drag.  It started with the time change, and then work became demanding, the house got worked on, and all sorts of other things started to pile on.  Hopefully this will be a much smoother week.
• WifeGeeding and I have finished all baby registering at Babies R Us and Target.  I still don’t have a clue what to do with half that stuff.
• No one believe the local weathermen when they said it would snow on Saturday.
• I’m looking for some curtains to block out a lot of light in one of our rooms.  The room has khaki color furniture and dark blue walls, I’m open to suggestions for colors and where I can get a good deal.
• Axe commercials crack me up.
• I’m happy the healthcare reform bill passed, but this liberal thinks it didn’t go far enough.
• The 2010 Winter Paralympics just concluded, it’s worth your time to check out these pictures.
• Everyone in the U.S. could live comfortable in New Hampshire
• Would you believe that the Motorola Droid sold more units at launch than the original iPhone?
• For my fellow Lady Gaga fans, here’s a choir singing Bad Romance.
• The real Alice in Wonderland
• Baby head candle holders?
• Some Tea Partiers threaten gun violence if the health car bill passes.
• Google Maps – Guns vs Pizza vs Strip Clubs Map
• Speaking of Google Maps – their camera almost hit a bird
• Lip gloss that changes color as a woman become more aroused – Gizmodo
• Rubik’s cube for the blind
• A no tipping luxury hotel
• Don’t ask this lady to wash the dishes
• Grace

2. “We’ll be dimming the lights in the cabin. Pushing the light-bulb button will turn your reading light on. However, pushing the flight-attendant button will not turn your flight attendant on.”

3. “Welcome aboard Southwest, to operate your seatbelt, insert the metal tab into the buckle, and pull tight. It works just like every other seatbelt and if you don’t know how to operate one, you probably shouldn’t be out in public unsupervised. In the event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, oxygen masks will descend from the ceiling. Stop screaming, grab the mask, and pull it over your face. If you have a small child traveling with you, secure your mask before assisting with theirs. If you are traveling with two small children, decide now which one you love more.”

4. “There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this airplane.”

5. “Your seat cushions can be used for flotation. In the event of an emergency water landing, please take them with our compliments.”

6. “We are pleased to have some of the best flight attendants in the industry. Unfortunately none of them are on this flight.”

7. “Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve reached cruising altitude and will be turning down the cabin lights. This is for your comfort and to enhance the appearance of your flight attendants.”

8. “Please be sure to take all of your belongings. If you’re going to leave anything, please make sure it’s something we’d like to have.”

9. “In the event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, masks will descend from the ceiling. Stop screaming, grab the mask, and pull it over your face. If you have a small child traveling with you, secure your mask before assisting with theirs. If you are traveling with more than one small child, pick your favorite.”

10. “That was quite a bump, and I know what y’all are thinking. I’m here to tell you it wasn’t the airline’s fault, it wasn’t the pilot’s fault, it wasn’t the flight attendant’s fault, it was the asphalt.”

11. “Your seat cushions can be used for flotation; and, in the event of an emergency water landing, please paddle to shore and take them with our compliments.”

12. “Ladies and Gentlemen. Our pilots FLY much better than they DRIVE so please remain seated until the captain finishes taxiing and brings the aircraft to a complete stop at the terminal.”

13. “Weather at our destination is 50 degrees with some broken clouds, but we’ll try to have them fixed before we arrive. Thank you, and remember, nobody loves you, or your money, more than Southwest Airlines.”

• Breastfeeding class ran much longer than anticipated
• A do-it-yourself project run a muck
• I can’t stop watching Fox News
• I got caught up filling out my NCAA brackets
• I’m busy loading Texas Stadium up with dynamite
• I just can’t stop putting the latest Glenn Beck book down – it’s a real page turner
• I’m stuck at an all you can eat buffet
• I’m still traumatized from watching birth videos
• I’m lost in IKEA and can’t find my way out
• I’m traveling to the Corey Haim funeral
• I’m helping another fellow half-Asian work on his comeback to golf

Feel free to add your own reason.

• Yesterday I had lunch with a gay pagan priest who passed out, threw up, and whom I had to drive home.
• A little context to that last sentence . . . Two of my former coworkers have just landed contracting gigs at my current place of employment and wanted to do lunch.  One them is a female, and the other is a guy that just happens to be Wiccan priest who is happens to be gay.
• All through lunch he wasn’t feeling well, clammy is how he described it, and towards the end he left the table early to catch some fresh air.  While he was sitting on some patio furniture where the outside dining is set up, he passed out as our other coworker arrived, and when he came to he vomited on the table and his leg.
• Lucky me, I drove all of us to lunch.
• As he got his bearings, I volunteered to drive him home.  I just didn’t know that I would be driving from the middle of Dallas to Fort Worth.
• Yesterday on The Ticket they mentioned in the history of  the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament that the state of Texas has sent a total of 23 teams – more than any other state and only one championship to show for it, Texas Western, which is now UTEP.  I was surprised to hear that little ol’ Hardin-Simmons has even make the tourney, and even more surprised that someone from The Ticket actually went there, that someone being Jerr, but I don’t know his full name or when he attended.
• I looked at the HSU media guide and couldn’t find when they made the tourney, but did find a picture of a former roommate on page 26.
• However, I looked at AllBrackets.com and discovered that HSU was eliminated in the first round to Santa Clara in 1953 and also eliminated to Idaho State in 1957.
• HSU’s current president was the president when I attended.  He left, came back as chancellor, and then accepted the president role again somewhat recently.  I find it amazing that he’s a Democrat in that atmosphere.  Well, at least he was a Democrat when he served in the Texas House of Representatives.
• I remember once being ticked-off at the president when I was a student, so much so I wrote him a very stern letter.  The next day I got a call from his office and asked if I could come in for a meeting with him.  At that point, I was beyond terrified, but when we met he treated me with grace and respect.
• From the media guide I also learned that total enrollment is 2,435 (1,997 undergraduate, 438 graduate) and that the student to teacher ration is 13:1.
• I love using keyboard shortcuts.
• I just met a guy whose real name is Gotham.
• I think I have only seen one Cher move – Mask.
• Yesterday was soooo busy I didn’t even have enough time to squeeze in LOST.

(hat tip, Barry)

The trophy – awarded for the band’s 1987 album The Joshua Tree – had split into three pieces including the gramophone horn.

So the band’s managers simply searched “trophy craftsmen” online and found Stuart Allcock, who runs a small shop in Taunton, Somerset.

Mr Allcock said he felt ”dizzy” to receive the call but was disappointed to discover the award was made of cheap cast iron that was sprayed gold.

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Here’s the top ten and other Texas notables:

1. Cincinnati
2. San Francisco
3. Providence
4. Milwaukee
5. Las Vegas
6. Philadelphia
7. New York City
8. Tucson
9. San Antonio
10. New Orleans

12. Austin
38. Dallas
49. Houston
56. Fort Worth

I think Mineral Wells would have come in somewhere in the 60’s.

Now that’s a Founding Father.

But this lamb on the otherhand, that’s a different story . . .