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Well, I do not know, if this will help New Zealand host another Commonwealth Games, but congratulations to Auckland in winning the bid to host the 2017 World Masters Games.

Link: http://www.nzherald....jectid=10791787

Well, the debate may be heating up again. According to Wikipedia, GamesBids was slated to be deleted from its databanks before. However, the motion was defeated.

Now, the scenario, to me, has risen again. From what I see, an editor did not like having GamesBids.com on the "external links" list of the Olympic Games topic. According to him/her, it violated rules of editing, suggesting to me that GamesBids is "a fraudulent entity" in the Internet. Sure, he/she accepted insidethegames and AroundtheRings web sites as credible, but not GamesBids. However, I do recognize one particular Wikipedian there as a GamesBids commenter here because he/she uses the exact same username for both web sites. Wonder how he/she feels about that?

Talk about lawsuits out of control. Woman and her lawyer brings a lawsuit to court for, get this, 900 TRILLION US DOLLARS!

You are not seeing things at all. All because Brooklyn's (NY) Administration for Children Services took her two children away to foster care.

She claims that she is not mentally ill, but the administration see things very differently.

Link: http://blog.yourmoney.ca/2012/02/mother-sues-for-900000000000000-after-her-kids-are-put-in-foster-care.html

Interesting article I found in the New York Times, on its web site front page news. It talks about how the US Constitution is losing popularity around the world, since WWII. Back then, democratic countries would want a national constitution to be like the United States. However, the start of the 1980s saw a decline in that aspect and is still continuing today. Also, the "We the People" document is the most difficult to amend in the world, citing of all things, the Second Amendment as an example.

For such documents that are examples of "keeping up with the times" are made in India, South Africa and New Zealand.

The NYT article points out that a new constitutional superpower has come. It comes in the form of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. According to a former president of the Supreme Court of Israel, in his words, Canadian law and the Charter is now seen as an inspiration to countries that want various freedoms in their current constitutions, too.

Link: http://www.nytimes.c...ld.html?_r=1

Well, it is early and six gold medals (18 in all) were awarded on the 14th. Here is what the tally looks like.

1. China: 1 gold, 1 silver
2. Japan: 1 gold, 2 bronze
3. Slovenia: 1 gold, 1 bronze
4. France, Morocco, and South Korea: 1 gold
7. Norway: 2 silver, 1 bronze
8. Belarus, Germany, and Sweden: 1 silver
11. Austria and Andorra: 1 bronze

On the 15th, the biggest number of gold medals to win of any day of the competition, with 10 (30 medals in total), are up for grabs.