In the wake of the infamous case of Russell Williams, now one of Russell's rape victims nearby Tweed, Ontario has sued him, his wife and the Ontario Police.

One of the madam's claims is that the Police should have informed the residents nearby that some cases of breaking and entering and sexual assaults, by Russell Williams, had happened before the same fate descended on her.

I'm not sure if civilians have the right to be timely informed by the Police about all the sexual offence and murder cases in their neighborhoods. It looks to be unlikely. But if the right really exists, then the Ontario Police did infringe on the victim's rights by having failed to make her know. Otherwise, the Police just have an encroachment case at the very most.

Do you think that money managers batten on their investors, if the degree of competition in that industry is not enough?

Yorkshire, England, U.K. appears to be a significant and pretty county.

"In recent times, North Yorkshire has displaced Kent to take the title Garden of England according to The Guardian." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire#Natural_areas )

The beauty of the moors in Yorkshire particularly struck me, thanks to the picture displayed at http://www.bugbog.com/gallery/england_pictures/yorkshire-uk.html .

Pic - Mercury

Mercury, a Roman god of commerce, trade and so on, is also a messenger of Jupiter.

(By Clio20 / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:P1030419_-_Copie_(2).JPG / CC)

To be frank, globalization has blasted the life of average Joes and Janes in the U.S. and Canada.

Due to the competition from the labor in developing countries, their (mean?) real individual income has allegedly stayed the same since the 1980s, and their job security has become elusive. And the continuously climbing gas and house prices have been tormenting their minds.

Will African countries import the fishy and illaudable Chinese High Speed Railway technologies?

In terms of Economics, perhaps the only plausible main explanation for the flat incomes gotten by the majority of American and Canadian workers is the steep rise of the competition of some populous emerging economies such as India and China, given the current models of capitalism in which capital flows freely to where it can make the most gains.

It appears that poetic thoughts mostly emerge in leisure times, and they submerge in the times when I'm busy burying myself in the mundaneness of life.

A little sunny. A little windy. The maples are turning colorful, in this season of fall.

It seems that what we eat and commonly refer to as 'corns' are 'corn ears' in agricultural terms.

The encroaching prices of foods and gasoline have been making people somewhat on their nerves. And, I guess people's consumption pattern will shift relatively drastically in the coming years.

There must be less and less people who play Cupid nowadays in China.

We tend to see lots of internecine and transparent arguments in the U.S. and Canada.

But maybe that's why average people in both countries are smarter than their counterparts in many other countries, including China. And maybe that's why both countries have more good policies.

In Roman mythology, the life of Larunda was a tragedy. And what a ruler Jupiter, the king of gods, was.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larunda .

There are so many rich figures of speech in Buddhist writings.

Very often, when people laugh, our baby daughter mistakes it for that people are laughing at her and then she cries.

Pic - Mars

Mars is the Roman god of war. And he is second in importance only to Jupiter. The month of March, which actually was the first month of every year in the earliest Roman calendar, is named for him.

(By Andrea Puggioni / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mars_Pyrrhus_cropped.jpg / CC)

The Blogger platform, which is owned by Google, has begun to offer some so-called 'dynamic view' template, which looks quite like Tumblr. That a boy.

A Chinese guy whom I met at a daycare centre told me that his toddler son's first name is 'Alec' and it's a Greek name which roughly means 'brightness'.

But he's wrong. 'Alec' is generally considered to be a Scottish name and it means 'defender of mankind'. It's just a variant of 'Alex'.

Google's fine. Google's efficient. Google's unintrusive. Google's likable.