Defamation is a legal action based on an intentional or reckless public false statement that injures another person's reputation. Libel and slander are types of defamation. Generally, libel is defamation in print and slander is spoken defamation. Court cases have blurred the line between libel and slander, however. Defamation is governed by state statutes or common law. To find defamation statutes for a particular state, go to MegaLaw's state law pages and conduct a statute search. http://www.megalaw.com/top/defamation.php

Local business owners say Yelp offers to hide negative customer reviews of their businesses on its web site ... for a price. By Kathleen Richards
"Hi, this is Mike from Yelp," the voice would say. "You've had three hundred visitors to your site this month. You've had a really good response. But you have a few bad ones at the top. I could do something about those."This wasn't your average sales pitch. At least, not the kind that John, an East Bay restaurateur, was used to. He was familiar with Yelp.com, the popular San Francisco-based web site in which any person can write a review about nearly any business. John's restaurant has more than one hundred reviews, and averages a healthy 3.5-star rating. But when John asked Mike what he could do about his bad reviews, he recalls the sales rep responding: "We can move them. Well, for $299 a month." Because they were often asked to advertise soon after receiving negative reviews, many of these business owners believe Yelp employees use such reviews as sales leads. Several, including John, even suspect Yelp employees of writing them. Indeed, Yelp does pay some employees to write reviews of businesses that are solicited for advertising. And in at least one documented instance, a business owner who refused to advertise subsequently received a negative review from a Yelp employee. http://www.eastbayexpress.com/eastbay/yelp-and-the-business-of-extortion-20/Content?oid=1176635

Earthquakes, plate tectonics and the Earth's lithosphere
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/plate_tectonics/rift_man.php

Evolution of the glyph for seven
In the beginning, various Hindus wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the character more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the character from a 6-look-alike into an uppercase V-look-alike. Both modern Arab forms influenced the European form, a two-stroke character consisting of a horizontal upper line joined at its right to a line going down to the bottom left corner, a line that is slightly curved in some font variants. As is the case with the European glyph, the Cham and Khmer glyph for 7 also evolved to look like their glyph for 1, though in a different way, so they were also concerned with making their 7 more different. For the Khmer this often involved adding a horizontal line above the glyph.[2]
Most people in Europe, Latin America, and New England write 7 with a line in the middle , sometimes with the top line crooked. The line through the middle is useful to clearly differentiate the character from the number one, as these can appear similar when written in certain styles of handwriting. This glyph is used in official handwriting rules for primary school in Russia.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_%28number%29

“Gulliver’s Travels”: In the 18th century classic, author Jonathan Swift wrote of Laputa, an island that can float in the air. The theme of floating islands and cities was carried on in the 1980 space opera “Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back,” which featured Lando Calrissian’s Cloud City, and Hayao Miyazaki’s 1986 animated film “Castle in the Sky,” which, like “Avatar,” has a strong environmental theme. Floating mountains are a central image in “Avatar.” http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/12/11/avatar-an-early-look-at-the-james-cameron-epic/tab/article/
The first floating encountered in literature is the home of the four winds, Aeolia, as recounted in Homer's The Odyssey. However, it is unclear whether this island floated in the water or in the air.
The book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift features the floating land of Laputa.
The second book in C. S. Lewis' science fiction trilogy, Perelandra, features floating islands on the surface of Venus, which play a prominent role in the storyline.
An older example of a floating island is Scotia Moria, from the novel The Floating Island by Frank Careless. This may or may not be the same island referred to as Spidermonkey Island in The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (renamed Seastar Island in the film Doctor Dolittle).
The book Life of Pi contains a floating island. At one point during Pi's time on the boat, he encounters a floating island inhabited by a kind of meerkat that feeds on fish stunned by the fresh water in the ponds on the island (the fish being salt water species).
For a short period the island of Themyscira (Paradise Island) became a series of floating islands as part of the DC Comics book Wonder Woman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_island_(fiction)

Recipes for Floating Island (meringue floating in sauce)
http://www.nibbledish.com/people/kimmallari/recipes/ile-flottante-floating-island
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/wolfgang-puck/floating-island-recipe/index.html
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/recipe?id=8355822
http://www.recipezaar.com/Isle-Flottante-Barefoot-Contessa-Floating-Island-Ina-Garten-208861