In an interview last week with the Middle East Monitor, Travers leveled harsh accusations at the Israel Defense Forces that do no appear in the Goldstone report. He said the IDF had used drones that could detect people inside of buildings by their body heat and did so in attacking houses in which dozens of Palestinian civilians had taken shelter. According to Travers, Israel had attacked the Gaza Strip although Hamas supposedly only fired two rockets at Israel in the month before the operation, and that Hamas had wanted to continue the cease-fire. The institute's report notes that Travers ignored the fact that in three days alone during the month before the IDF campaign, Hamas had fired 32 rockets at Israel and that according to Hamas spokesmen, among them the organization's leader in Damascus, Khaled Meshal, Hamas had resolved to end the cease-fire.
Travers may be motivated by the deaths of Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon:The report by the Jerusalem think tank also includes quotes from an interview Travers gave in which he accused Israel of murdering many Irish soldiers who where members of the UNIFIL contingent in South Lebanon. When asked about the fact that there had been official disagreement in Britain with the findings of the Goldstone report, Travers said that "Britain's foreign policy interests in the Middle East seem to be influenced strongly by Jewish lobbyists."
]]>Under the agency model, we will sell the digital editions of our books to consumers through our retailers. Our retailers will act as our agents and will take a 30% commission (the standard split today for many digital media businesses). The price will be set the price for each book individually. Our plan is to price the digital edition of most adult trade books in a price range from $14.99 to $5.99. At first release, concurrent with a hardcover, most titles will be priced between $14.99 and $12.99. E books will almost always appear day on date with the physical edition. Pricing will be dynamic over time.
Amazon by contrast wants a maximum $9.99 fixed price for eBooks that for now can only be read on a Kindle. Hovering over all this is the Apple iPad and its iBooks Store. The NY Times states:Macmillan offered Amazon the opportunity to buy Kindle editions on the same “agency” model as it will sell e-books to Apple for the iPad. Under this model, the publisher sets the consumer book price and takes 70 percent of each sale, leaving 30 percent to the retailer. Macmillan said Amazon could continue to buy e-books under its current wholesale model, paying the publisher 50 percent of the hardcover list price while pricing the e-book at any level Amazon chooses, but that Macmillan would delay those e-book editions by seven months after hardcover release. Amazon’s removal of Macmillan titles on Friday appears to be a direct reaction to that.
Some reaction by Tor related writes and editors:One stationary experiment Spirit has begun studies tiny wobbles in the rotation of Mars to gain insight about the planet's core. This requires months of radio-tracking the motion of a point on the surface of Mars to calculate long-term motion with an accuracy of a few inches. Tools on Spirit's robotic arm can study variations in the composition of nearby soil, which has been affected by water. Stationary science also includes watching how wind moves soil particles and monitoring the Martian atmosphere.
Spirit’s sister rover, Opportunity is still active has completed one third of a 12 mile trek begun in mid-2008 to a large crater called Endeavour. ]]>Under normal circumstances, two positively charged protons would repeal each other. But in the intensely heated conditions of the solar core, a few are slammed together at high speeds. Once they are within 10 to 15 meters (33 to 49 ft) of one another, they are pulled together by the “strong force”, one of the fundamental forces of the universe.
The distance should be 10-15. Notwithstanding a few small issues like this, it is a great book with lots of brilliant pictures and clear and detailed text. ]]>The highlight of the trade for the Jays would be the addition of two starting pitchers. The Phillies would send J.A. Happ, who went 12-4 as a rookie last season. He would join the Jays' major-league rotation while the Mariners would send Phillippe Aumont, a 20-year-old from Gatineau, Que., who has a chance to be a No. 2 starter down the road. Halladay would stay with the Phils and the M's would land Cliff Lee to pair with Felix Hernandez at the top of their rotation.
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