In an instant last May, Chris and Lori Coble lost their three young children in a horrific traffic accident not far from the family’s California, USA home.
The couple was devastated by the sudden and profound loss of their two daughters and a son, but knew even through their grief they were meant to be parents and would be again.
If all goes well, the Cobles told a US magagize reporter on Tuesday, they’ll have two new baby girls and a baby boy next spring.
The couple can’t help but think that it’s all connected-- Reincarnation angle.
“We both knew we wanted more kids,” Lori Coble said. “We’re parents right now without kids. The kids are what made us so happy in life. We knew that if we were still living that we wanted to have more kids.”
Chris Coble said he can’t help but think, from a spiritual perspective, that the children he lost somehow had a hand in his wife’s pregnancy. He believes firmly they are in a better place, and watching over their mom and dad.
“Your mind can’t even think otherwise. If you feel they’re somewhere watching over you, protecting you, and something like this happens, it’s hard to think that somehow they weren’t involved in crafting this,” he said.
The triplets Lori Coble is carrying — two girls and a boy — were conceived through in-vitro fertilization. In the procedure, 10 of Lori Coble’s eggs had been fertilized and three became viable embryos.
Chris Coble, 36, said there was just a 10 percent chance that three of the 10 eggs would be viable. The doctors wanted to implant just two of the embryos, but the couple had lost two girls and a boy and asked for all three embryos to be transferred to Lori Coble’s womb.
This certainly beats Om Shanti Om hands down!
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Made In India -- Tata's SuperComp in Top 10
A supercomputer developed by the Tata Group has been adjudged the fastest in Asia and fourth fastest in the world.
The supercomputer, called EKA, has been built at Tata's Pune, India facility. It uses nearly 1,800 computing nodes and has a peak performance of 170 trillion floating-point operations per second.
"High performance computing solutions have an ever-increasing role in the scientific and new technological space the world over," Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Group, said in a statement.
The rankings have been given by the Top500 Supercomputer Sites list announced at the prestigious SC07 Conference held in the US last night.
India made it to the top 10 for the first time.
Cheers India and Cheers Tata!!
The supercomputer, called EKA, has been built at Tata's Pune, India facility. It uses nearly 1,800 computing nodes and has a peak performance of 170 trillion floating-point operations per second.
"High performance computing solutions have an ever-increasing role in the scientific and new technological space the world over," Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Group, said in a statement.
The rankings have been given by the Top500 Supercomputer Sites list announced at the prestigious SC07 Conference held in the US last night.
India made it to the top 10 for the first time.
Cheers India and Cheers Tata!!
Be Polite to the Dictator, Please !!
The offending word is ‘‘sonofabitch’’(sonovabit..... to be less offending).
Pakistan has expelled three British reporters after a British daily twice referred the country’s military dictator Pervez Musharraf as a ‘‘sonofabitch’’, sparking off a yet another fervent debate about language, stylebook, and the limits of editorial expression.
The comment, deemed offensive by the Pakistani government, appeared in a November 9 editorial in Daily Telegraph, innocuously headlined ‘‘Bankrupt Relationship’’. ‘‘In the old parlance, General Pervez Musharraf is our sonofabitch,’’ the paper wrote. ‘‘He has failed to stamp out extremist groups and close the madrassas that inspire them. He has allowed the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan to fall into the hands of assorted jihadis.’’ It then went on to add: ‘‘An alternative... seems neither imminent nor especially enticing. But that should not blind Britain and America to the fact that their sonofabitch in Pakistan is a spent force.’’ The ‘‘old parlance’’ the paper referred to appears to be an oft-quoted remark attributed to various American leaders about their preference for some dictators — ‘‘He’s a bastard, but he’s our bastard.’’ That quote has also been used by some columnists and bloggers to refer to Washington’s kidglove treatment of Musharraf compared with its hardline stand on leaders of Venezuela and Iran. The quote is variously attributed to US presidents FDR, Truman, Nixon, and even strategic guru Henry Kissinger, and is believed to have originated in the context of US support to Nicaragua’s Somoza line of dictatorship.
The use of the word “sonofabitch’’ to describe Pakistan’s president Pervez Musharraf by three British reporters has cooked up quite a storm. Some media style books and manuals allow words such as bastard, but “sonofabitch’’ falls in the grey zone, partly because it is composite of words and does not even make the cut in some dictionaries. The online Urban Dictionary lists four definitions for “sonofabitch’’, including one that reads: George W Bush, president of the USA.
In recent months, the media has struggled with words such as “f**k’’ and “s**t’’. Some American newspapers broke new ground by using the F-word when vice-president Cheney was heard telling a lawmaker to “go f*** yourself.’’ Pakistan, though, was in no doubt that “sonofabitch’’ breached the military regime’s style book. “The language used for the president of Pakistan in your leading article (“Bankrupt Relationship’’, November 9) is offensive and flouts the norms of decent journalism,’’ Imran Gardezi, minister (press), Pakistan high commission, wrote to the paper. “For a newspaper of the Daily Telegraph’s reputation to resort to such derogatory language is highly regrettable. This deserves an apology.’’ None was forthcoming.
Instead, bloggers unearthed other expletives Musharraf has been subjected to. He has been frequently called a “thug’’ by columnists and even by one lawmaker. At a hearing last week, New York Congressman Gary Ackerman called him a “thug’’ who did not deserve US support. Pakistani political discourse itself isn’t pretty. Nawaz Sharif in his book quotes Musharraf as saying (about him), “I will sort the bastard out.’’ But much more than personal abuse of Musharraf, Pakistan itself has also been shamed in the western press, variously described in recent months as “most dangerous place on earth’’, “a terrorist grand central’’, “a failed state’’ and “disaster waiting to happen’’.
“Whether rattling nuclear rockets at a much more powerful India or allowing terrorist networks to use Pakistani territory to mount plots against Afghan, US and British targets, the country’s leaders have raised political blackmail to a national and international art form,’’ Washington Post’s Jim Hoagland wrote in a column on Sunday, the latest in a series of withering commentary that has savaged Pakistan.
Pakistan has expelled three British reporters after a British daily twice referred the country’s military dictator Pervez Musharraf as a ‘‘sonofabitch’’, sparking off a yet another fervent debate about language, stylebook, and the limits of editorial expression.
The comment, deemed offensive by the Pakistani government, appeared in a November 9 editorial in Daily Telegraph, innocuously headlined ‘‘Bankrupt Relationship’’. ‘‘In the old parlance, General Pervez Musharraf is our sonofabitch,’’ the paper wrote. ‘‘He has failed to stamp out extremist groups and close the madrassas that inspire them. He has allowed the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan to fall into the hands of assorted jihadis.’’ It then went on to add: ‘‘An alternative... seems neither imminent nor especially enticing. But that should not blind Britain and America to the fact that their sonofabitch in Pakistan is a spent force.’’ The ‘‘old parlance’’ the paper referred to appears to be an oft-quoted remark attributed to various American leaders about their preference for some dictators — ‘‘He’s a bastard, but he’s our bastard.’’ That quote has also been used by some columnists and bloggers to refer to Washington’s kidglove treatment of Musharraf compared with its hardline stand on leaders of Venezuela and Iran. The quote is variously attributed to US presidents FDR, Truman, Nixon, and even strategic guru Henry Kissinger, and is believed to have originated in the context of US support to Nicaragua’s Somoza line of dictatorship.
The use of the word “sonofabitch’’ to describe Pakistan’s president Pervez Musharraf by three British reporters has cooked up quite a storm. Some media style books and manuals allow words such as bastard, but “sonofabitch’’ falls in the grey zone, partly because it is composite of words and does not even make the cut in some dictionaries. The online Urban Dictionary lists four definitions for “sonofabitch’’, including one that reads: George W Bush, president of the USA.
In recent months, the media has struggled with words such as “f**k’’ and “s**t’’. Some American newspapers broke new ground by using the F-word when vice-president Cheney was heard telling a lawmaker to “go f*** yourself.’’ Pakistan, though, was in no doubt that “sonofabitch’’ breached the military regime’s style book. “The language used for the president of Pakistan in your leading article (“Bankrupt Relationship’’, November 9) is offensive and flouts the norms of decent journalism,’’ Imran Gardezi, minister (press), Pakistan high commission, wrote to the paper. “For a newspaper of the Daily Telegraph’s reputation to resort to such derogatory language is highly regrettable. This deserves an apology.’’ None was forthcoming.
Instead, bloggers unearthed other expletives Musharraf has been subjected to. He has been frequently called a “thug’’ by columnists and even by one lawmaker. At a hearing last week, New York Congressman Gary Ackerman called him a “thug’’ who did not deserve US support. Pakistani political discourse itself isn’t pretty. Nawaz Sharif in his book quotes Musharraf as saying (about him), “I will sort the bastard out.’’ But much more than personal abuse of Musharraf, Pakistan itself has also been shamed in the western press, variously described in recent months as “most dangerous place on earth’’, “a terrorist grand central’’, “a failed state’’ and “disaster waiting to happen’’.
“Whether rattling nuclear rockets at a much more powerful India or allowing terrorist networks to use Pakistani territory to mount plots against Afghan, US and British targets, the country’s leaders have raised political blackmail to a national and international art form,’’ Washington Post’s Jim Hoagland wrote in a column on Sunday, the latest in a series of withering commentary that has savaged Pakistan.
Monday, November 12, 2007
LOVE
"I love the way you hold me in your arms when I am drifting asleep. I love the way you gently tuck my hair when you think I do not notice. I love the way you give me butterfly kisses so that it wouldn't disturb my sleep. Most of all, I love the way I feel secure and loved in your arms."
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