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It’s wonderous what a hug can do.  A hug can cheer you when you’re blue.  A hug can say, “I love you so,”  Or, “Gee, I hate to see you go.” A hug is, “Welcome back again.”

And, “Great to see you! Where’ve you been?”  A hug can soothe a small childs pain,  and bring a rainbow after rain.  The hug! There’s just no doubt about it-  we scarcely could survive without it!

A hug delights and warms and charms.  It must be why God gave us arms.  A hug can break the language barrier,  and make your travels so much merrier. No need to fret  bout your store of ‘em,  the more you give, the more there’s more of ‘em.

So stretch those arms without delay  and give someone a hug today!

-Author Unknown-

Tata Motors rolls out Nano, the world’s cheapest car.

India’s Tata Motors on Thursday unveiled its much anticipated $2,500 US car, an ultra-cheap price tag that brings car ownership into the reach of tens of millions of people.

But critics worry the car could overwhelm the country’s roads and create an environmental nightmare.

Company chairman Ratan Tata, introducing the Nano during India’s main auto show, drove onto a stage in a white version of the tiny four-door subcompact, his head nearly touching the roof.

With a snub nose and a sloping roof, the world’s cheapest car can fit five people – if they squeeze. And the basic version is spare: there’s no radio, no passenger-side mirror and only one windshield wiper. If you want air conditioning to cope with India’s brutal summers, you need to get the deluxe version.

While the price has created a buzz, critics say the Nano could lead to possibly millions more automobiles hitting already clogged Indian roads, adding to mounting air and noise pollution problems. Others have said Tata will have to sacrifice quality and safety standards to meet the target price.

The chairman, though, insists the car will meet safety standards and pollute even less than motorcycles, passing domestic and European emission standards and averaging about 50 miles per U.S. gallon (20 kilometres per litre).

Chief U.N. climate scientist Rajendra Pachauri, who shared last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, said last month that “I am having nightmares” about the prospect of the low-cost car.

“Dr. Pachauri need not have nightmares,” Ratan Tata said at the unveiling. “For us it’s a milestone and I hope we can make a contribution to the country.”

The basic model will sell for for 100,000 rupees – $2,500 US – but analysts estimate that customers could pay 20-30 per cent more than that to cover taxes, delivery and other charges.

Tata has long promised that he’d create a 100,000-rupee car, a vow that was much-derided in the global industry but created a frenzy of attention in India. On Thursday, nearly every news station covered the unveiling live.

The company has said they expect the car to revolutionize the auto industry, and analysts believe the Nano may force other manufacturers to lower their own pricing.

French automaker Renault SA and its Japanese partner, Nissan Motor Co., are trying to determine if they can sell a compact car for less than $3,000 US.

For now, the car will be sold only in India, but Tata has said it eventually hopes to export it. The Nano could become the basis for other similar super-cheap models in developing markets around the world.

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
 
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups – porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
 
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:
 
“If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
 

Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.
 
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups… And then you began eyeing each other’s cups.
 
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live.
 
Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us.”
 
God brews the coffee, not the cups………. Enjoy your coffee! 
 
“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.”
  
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

Have you ever been in a situation where you wished your cell phone would ring? Maybe you wanted to look extra important or popular on that hot date. Or maybe you just needed an excuse to escape from an unpleasant meeting. With “The Popularity Dialer“, you can plan ahead. Via a web interface, you can choose to have your phone called at a particular time (or several times). At the elected time, your phone will be dialed and you will hear a prerecorded message that’s one half of a conversation. Thus, you will be prompted to have a fake conversation and will easily fool those around you. Details Here!

One afternoon, a wealthy lawyer was riding in the back of his limousine when he saw two men eating grass by the road-side. He ordered his driver to stop, and he got out to investigate.

‘Why are you eating grass?’ he asked one man.

‘We don’t have any money for food,’ the poor man replied.

‘Oh, well, you can come with me to my house,’ instructed the lawyer.

But, sir, I have a wife and two children with me!’

‘Bring them along!’ replied the lawyer.

He turned to the other man and said: ‘You come with us, too.’

‘But I have a wife and six children,’ the second man answered.

‘Bring them as well’ replied the lawyer.

They all climbed into the car, which was no easy task, even for a car as large as the limousine. Once underway, one of the poor fellows says: ‘Sir you are too kind. Thank you for taking all of us with you.’

The lawyer replied: ‘Glad to do it. You’ll love my place; the grass is almost a foot tall.’

During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director how do you determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalized

“Well,” said the director. “we fill up a bathtub with water, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the bathtub.”

“Oh, I understand,” said the visitor. “A normal person would use the bucket because it’s bigger than the spoon or the teacup”.

“No” said the Director,”

A normal person would pull the plug. Do you want a bed near the window?

George Phillips of Meridian, Mississippi was going up to bed when his wife told him that he’d left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window.

George opened the back door to go turn off the light but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things.

He phoned the police, who asked “Is someone in your house?” and he said “No”. Then they said that all patrols were busy, and that he should simply lock his door and an officer would be along when available. George said, “Okay,” hung up, counted to 30, and phoned the police again.

“Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people stealing things from my shed . Well, you don’t have to worry about them now because I’ve just shot them.” Then he hung up.

Within five minutes three police cars, an Armed Response Unit, and an ambulance showed up at the Phillips’ residence and caught the burglars red-handed. One of the Policemen said to George: “I thought you said that you’d shot them!”

George said, “I thought you said there was nobody available!”