August 14, 2004 -- THE Greek organizers of this summer's Olympics, which began in Athens yesterday, claim that more women athletes are competing than ever before. Women are also playing a high-profile role in making the whole enterprise, the biggest of its kind in Greek history, run as smoothly as possible. Seen from the Muslim world, however, the Athens game will look like a male-dominated spectacle in which women play an incidental part.
According to officials in Athens, the number of Muslim women participating in this year's game is the lowest since 1960. Several Muslim countries have sent no women athletes at all; others, such as Iran, are taking part with only one, in full hijab. And state-owned TV networks in many Muslim countries, including Iran and Egypt, have received instructions to limit coverage of events featuring women athletes at Athens to a minimum.
A circular from the Ministry of Islamic Guidance and Culture in Tehran asks TV editors to make sure that women's games are not televised live: "Images of women engaged in contests [sic] must be carefully vetted," says the letter, leaked in Tehran. "Editors must take care to prevent viewers from being confronted [sic] with uncovered parts of the female anatomy in contests."
Women athletes in Athens are unlikely to wear the Islamic hijab or full-length manteaux that cover their legs to the ankle and their arms to the wrist. The ministry's order thus could mean a blanket ban on images of female athletics.
Fear of Muslim viewers seeing bare female legs and arms on television is also shared by theologians in several Arab states. Sheik Yussuf al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian theologian based in Qatar, claims that female sport is exploited as a means of undermining "divine morality."
Ayatollah Emami Kashani, one of Iran's ruling mullahs, goes further. In a recent sermon, he claimed that allowing women to compete in the Olympics was a "sign of voyeurism" on the part of the male organizers.
"The question how much of a woman's body could be seen in public is one of the two or three most important issues that have dominated theological debate in Islam for decades," says Mohsen Sahabi, a Muslim historian. "More time and energy is devoted to this issue than to economic development or scientific research. "
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Islamist theologians are divided on how much of a woman's body can be exposed in public. The most radical, the Sitris, insist that women should be entirely covered from head to toe, including their faces and fingers. The less radical Hanbalis say a woman should be covered all over, but recommend a mask with apertures for the eyes and the mouth. (A version of this, known as the burqa, was imposed on Afghan women by the Taliban).
The Khomeinist version of the hijab, invented in the 1970s and now popular in many countries, including the United States, covers a woman's entire body but allows her face and hands to be exposed. Hijab theoreticians agree on one claim: a woman's hair emanates dangerous rays that could drive men wild with sexual lust and thus undermine social peace.
But the problem of women athletes goes deeper. Some theologians claim that any form of sporting activity by women produces "sinful consequences." In 2000, for example, the Khomeinist authorities in Tehran announced a ban on women riding bicycles or motorcycles. The rationale? Riding bicycles or motorcycles would activate a woman's thighs and legs, thus arousing "uncontrollable lustful drives" in her. And men watching women on their bikes in the streets could be "led towards dangerous urges."
The problems don't end there. According to some theologians, a woman should not be allowed to venture out of her home without a "raqib" or male guardian. But that guardian must be either her husband or her father, brother, grandfather, uncle or son.
IOW, it runs great on your system when you turn most of the fancy gfx off. Something tells me that your friend doesn't have to turn off nearly as much to get the same level of performace out of his system.
If you pour LOX over something it WILL oxidize what it is pour over very fast and will release a lot of heat. That heat will cause fires just google for Liquid Oxygen BBQ.
Most major hospitals have LOX storage facilities on the grounds of the hospital. How often do they blow up? Remember LOX is just a 'little' more reactive than Liquid Hydrogen.
From your link On Friday, August 6 2004, at approximately 9:30 PM, a hydrogen fuel leak in a Praxair tanker truck led to an explosion and fire outside Ballard's manufacturing facility located at 4343 North Fraser Way in Burnaby, British Columbia. The incident occurred as Praxair was preparing to transfer liquid hydrogen from a tanker truck to Ballard's hydrogen bulk storage tank. There was no damage to any of Ballard's facilities or equipment and the only person injured in the accident was the Praxair driver, who received minor burns to his face and hands.
Because one can not say that OSX is ready for the corp world if their exists a lack of systems for the corp world to purchase to run OSX.
And, believe it or not, corps look at how well a suplier has done in the past before making the decision to use them in the future. They also look at any major legal problems that the suplier may have and that 'little' lawsuit that Apple Records has against Apple doesn't look very good for apple.
Apple, with the supply problems it's having with the G5, can not supply enough systems to the F500 to make a difference.
Bitch, mod me down, email bomb me all you want but that won't change the fact that apple has supply issues. Remember why Jobs announced the delay in the G5 iMac?
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http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/1 8656.htm
August 14, 2004 -- THE Greek organizers of this summer's Olympics, which began in Athens yesterday, claim that more women athletes are competing than ever before. Women are also playing a high-profile role in making the whole enterprise, the biggest of its kind in Greek history, run as smoothly as possible. Seen from the Muslim world, however, the Athens game will look like a male-dominated spectacle in which women play an incidental part.
According to officials in Athens, the number of Muslim women participating in this year's game is the lowest since 1960. Several Muslim countries have sent no women athletes at all; others, such as Iran, are taking part with only one, in full hijab. And state-owned TV networks in many Muslim countries, including Iran and Egypt, have received instructions to limit coverage of events featuring women athletes at Athens to a minimum.
A circular from the Ministry of Islamic Guidance and Culture in Tehran asks TV editors to make sure that women's games are not televised live: "Images of women engaged in contests [sic] must be carefully vetted," says the letter, leaked in Tehran. "Editors must take care to prevent viewers from being confronted [sic] with uncovered parts of the female anatomy in contests."
Women athletes in Athens are unlikely to wear the Islamic hijab or full-length manteaux that cover their legs to the ankle and their arms to the wrist. The ministry's order thus could mean a blanket ban on images of female athletics.
Fear of Muslim viewers seeing bare female legs and arms on television is also shared by theologians in several Arab states. Sheik Yussuf al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian theologian based in Qatar, claims that female sport is exploited as a means of undermining "divine morality."
Ayatollah Emami Kashani, one of Iran's ruling mullahs, goes further. In a recent sermon, he claimed that allowing women to compete in the Olympics was a "sign of voyeurism" on the part of the male organizers.
"The question how much of a woman's body could be seen in public is one of the two or three most important issues that have dominated theological debate in Islam for decades," says Mohsen Sahabi, a Muslim historian. "More time and energy is devoted to this issue than to economic development or scientific research. "
Click to learn more...
Islamist theologians are divided on how much of a woman's body can be exposed in public. The most radical, the Sitris, insist that women should be entirely covered from head to toe, including their faces and fingers. The less radical Hanbalis say a woman should be covered all over, but recommend a mask with apertures for the eyes and the mouth. (A version of this, known as the burqa, was imposed on Afghan women by the Taliban).
The Khomeinist version of the hijab, invented in the 1970s and now popular in many countries, including the United States, covers a woman's entire body but allows her face and hands to be exposed. Hijab theoreticians agree on one claim: a woman's hair emanates dangerous rays that could drive men wild with sexual lust and thus undermine social peace.
But the problem of women athletes goes deeper. Some theologians claim that any form of sporting activity by women produces "sinful consequences." In 2000, for example, the Khomeinist authorities in Tehran announced a ban on women riding bicycles or motorcycles. The rationale? Riding bicycles or motorcycles would activate a woman's thighs and legs, thus arousing "uncontrollable lustful drives" in her. And men watching women on their bikes in the streets could be "led towards dangerous urges."
The problems don't end there. According to some theologians, a woman should not be allowed to venture out of her home without a "raqib" or male guardian. But that guardian must be either her husband or her father, brother, grandfather, uncle or son.
Why don't you run PostgreSQL? It handles load just a 'little' better than MySQL.
IOW, it runs great on your system when you turn most of the fancy gfx off. Something tells me that your friend doesn't have to turn off nearly as much to get the same level of performace out of his system.
How does the BSA take tax dollars?
Do you have all the graphics options turned on and what it the config of your friends 'high end' gaming pc?
Do you get upset when Bush pushes his socialists values?
You know, No Child left Behind, The Farm Bill, The Pill Bill, Etc...
Other than DVD's and Electronics what has gotten cheaper due to outsourcing to China?
Does anyone have a link to the Tariff proposal? I didn't see it mentioned in the linked articles.
THE OTHER COMPANIES WHERE USING THE NAME GMAIL FIRST. It's in the damn artice, why don't you try reading it.
/. when at least some of the posters had IQs that didn't have a negative sign in front of them!
My God, I miss the old
If you pour LOX over something it WILL oxidize what it is pour over very fast and will release a lot of heat. That heat will cause fires just google for Liquid Oxygen BBQ.
Google "California Housing Environmental Delay"
Perhaps he likes do things like that or he has nothing better to do.
;->
Not everything has to be broken down into a USD based number
Ah, we are a carbon based life form and most of our writing devices, rings and food contains lots of Carbon.
Perhaps you should rethink your rant.
Most major hospitals have LOX storage facilities on the grounds of the hospital. How often do they blow up? Remember LOX is just a 'little' more reactive than Liquid Hydrogen.
From your link
On Friday, August 6 2004, at approximately 9:30 PM, a hydrogen fuel leak in a Praxair tanker truck led to an explosion and fire outside Ballard's manufacturing facility located at 4343 North Fraser Way in Burnaby, British Columbia. The incident occurred as Praxair was preparing to transfer liquid hydrogen from a tanker truck to Ballard's hydrogen bulk storage tank. There was no damage to any of Ballard's facilities or equipment and the only person injured in the accident was the Praxair driver, who received minor burns to his face and hands.
Wait till they start taxing your Biodiesel like they do gas. A large % of your savings will be gone.
Check to see how much the environmental laws have slowed new housing developments.
Because one can not say that OSX is ready for the corp world if their exists a lack of systems for the corp world to purchase to run OSX.
And, believe it or not, corps look at how well a suplier has done in the past before making the decision to use them in the future. They also look at any major legal problems that the suplier may have and that 'little' lawsuit that Apple Records has against Apple doesn't look very good for apple.
Apple, with the supply problems it's having with the G5, can not supply enough systems to the F500 to make a difference.
Bitch, mod me down, email bomb me all you want but that won't change the fact that apple has supply issues. Remember why Jobs announced the delay in the G5 iMac?
HINT: Preview helps make your post readable and stop you from looking dumb. ;->
Do you get this upset about Urban Music?
Leave the FSCKING Smurfs alone!!!!!
Who is saying you should throw them away? How does the existance of Mono harm you?
No, it isn't. People who could code would be able to come up with slightly more logical arguments than most AC's do.
http://www.mono-project.com/downloads/
Mono 1.0.1 has been released and fixes a number of bugs.
Most of the people on /. bitching about Mono haven't code an app that is mission critical in their entire life, if they have coded at all.
Notice how many of them are Anonymous?