New on LLRX.com Justice Stevens Invented the Internet With the announcement that Justice John Paul Stevens will resign from the Supreme Court at the end of this term, Jonathan Band and Matt Schruers focus on one of his opinions that has had a direct daily impact on virtually all Americans: the majority opinion in Sony v. Universal, decided by the Supreme Court in 1984. This decision is the legal foundation of the Digital Age.

New on LLRX.com The Government Domain: New & Free Regulations Trackers Peggy Garvin reviews new, free, non-government resources that have recently come online to complement the official U.S. government regulatory information sites, RegInfo.gov and Regulations.gov. For this bounty, Peggy says researcher can thank innovative developers and the relatively new availability of a free XML version of the Federal Register that can be downloaded in bulk.

Grand Canyon National Park includes over a million acres of land: 1,218,376 acres / 493,077 hectares, or 1,904 square miles / 4931 square km. Most people measure the canyon in Colorado River miles. By that standard, Grand Canyon is 277 miles / 446 km long. It begins at Lees Ferry and ends at Grand Wash Cliffs. The Colorado River is longer than Grand Canyon, flowing 1,450 m les / 2,333 km from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to the Gulf of California in Mexico. Grand Canyon is only one of many beautiful canyons carved by the river. Others include Cataract Canyon and Glen Canyon, the latter now lying beneath the waters of Lake Powell. Width and depth of the canyon vary from place to place. At the South Rim, near Grand Canyon Village, it's a vertical mile (about 5,000 feet / 1,524 m) from rim to river, or 7 miles / 11.3 km by trail. At its deepest, it is 6,000 vertical feet / 1,829 m from rim to river. The width of the canyon at Grand Canyon Village is 10 miles / 16 km (rim to rim), though in places it is as much as 18 miles / 29 km wide.
http://www.grand.canyon.national-park.com/size.htm
Note: Once, when flying over the canyon, our pilot pointed out where the split began.

ELISION (verb form, elide): (1) In poetry, when the poet takes a word that ends in a vowel, and a following word that begins with a vowel, and blurs them together to create a single syllable, the result is an elision. (2) In linguistics, elision refers more generally to the omission of any sound in speech and writing, such as the word Hallowe'en (from "All Hallows Evening") or in contractions like shan't (from "shall not").
ELLIPSIS (plural, ellipses): (1) In its oldest sense as a rhetorical device, ellipsis refers to the artful omission of a word implied by a previous clause. For instance, an author might write, "The American soldiers killed eight civilians, and the French eight." The writer of the sentence has left out the word soldiers after French, and the word civilians after eight. An ellipsis is similar to an eclipsis, but differs in that an eclipsis has a word or words missing that may not be implied by a previous clause. (2) In its more modern sense, ellipsis refers to a punctuation mark indicated by three periods to indicate material missing from a quotation . . . like so.
EPENTHESIS (also called infixation): Adding an extra syllable or letters in the middle of a word Shakespeare might write, "A visitating spirit came last night" (instead of "visiting" spirit). This choice perhaps highlights the unnatural status of the visit, or perhaps shows the speaker is being pretentious or flustered in his diction. Epenthesis has resulted in new words in English--such as the word thimble, which developed from the earlier word thimel. http://web.cn.edu/KWHEELER/lit_terms_E.html

National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus (NAD) operates a resolution process to tackle complaints about deceptive ad claims, and has seen a big increase in the number of disputes over green claims in the past two years. It expects to resolve 15 to 20 cases with green claims this year. In 2009, it resolved about 14. Though it has no enforcement authority, its publication of its decisions can expose overblown product claims, and serve to deter them. On NAD’s recommendation, Clorox recently discontinued a biodegradability claim for its “Green Works Natural Cleaning Wipes.” Clorox has switched the claim to “compostable.” http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/04/26/why-its-not-always-easy-being-green/?mod=djemlawblog_h