2010: The Top Ten Happiest Countries in the World (Ranking, smile, factor)

The recent Gallup World Poll, has put Denmark as the world happiest country, way ahead of the world’s richest country- the United States.  http://tiny.cc/happycountry

Looking at data collected across 132 countries, the Gallup Organization based their marks — released this month in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology — on representative samples of more than 136,000 people in each country. 

Respondents were asked how they would rate their lives on a scale from zero (worst possible) to 10 (best possible), as well as answering a series of questions on positive or negative emotions.
 
Gallup’s top 10 countries are:-
 
1. Denmark
2. Finland
3. Norway
4. The Netherlands
5. Costa Rica
6. Canada
7. Switzerland
8. New Zealand
9. Sweden
10. Austria

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Largest Object Removed From Human Skull (world medical record, 2010, Auckland, New Zealand)

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In 1998, while he was at a friend's residence in Jacksonville, Florida, an unknown assailant stabbed Michael Hill in the head and left, presuming that his target would lay down and die like a normal human being. Instead, Michael wandered down the street to another friend's house to get help with an 8 inch survival knife still embedded in his grey matter. The odds defying, ball of bronze Michael explained that he "...didn't feel the pain initially and it was only when I was at the hospital that it hit me and I felt like my eyes were bulging out."

Hill's arrival and treatment at the Shands Jacksonville Trauma center was documented and broadcast on the TLC series Trauma: Life in the E.R. http://tiny.cc/large


Despite the large knife penetrating his brain, Hill was conscious and responsive when arrived at the hospital. Four hours after he arrived the knife was removed. Hill survived without even an infection and within seven days was discharged from the hospital, although the knife had caused permanent damage to his memory and paralyzed his left hand. He now has occasional headaches and needs medication to prevent seizures. He's now the proud holder of the Guiness Record for "Largest Object Removed From Human Skull".

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KEANU REEVES’ FIRST NAME IS PRONOUNCED “KAY-AH-NOO” NOT “KEY-AH-NOO”

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Keanu Reeves’ first name is pronounced “Kay-ah-noo”, but is commonly mispronounced “Key-ah-Noo”.  That isn’t the only misconception surrounding his name though.  The name itself means “the coolness”, but is often incorrectly said to mean “cool breeze over the mountains”. http://tiny.cc/Reeves
Reeves’ was named after his uncle Henry Keanu Reeves.  In his early days in Hollywood, his agent thought his name was too exotic and in his early films he’s often credited as K.C. Reeves; his middle name is Charles.

Bonus Factoids:


Reeves’ estranged father earned his GED in prison in Hawaii.  He was in jail for selling heroin at the airport.  His father left his mother when Keanu was 3 years old.
Kim Reeves, Keanu’s only full sister, was born in Australia and has been battling leukemia since her first diagnosis in the late 1990s.


In 1999, Reeves’ girlfriend, Jennifer Syme, gave birth to a stillborn daughter just a few weeks before the due date.  In 2001, Jennifer was killed in a car accident, having smashed into three parked cars driving home from a party at Marilyn Manson’s house.


In 1991, Reeves best friend, outside of his dying sister, actor River Phoenix died of a drug overdose.


Besides Reeves’ father (Samuel Nowlin Reeves, a geologist), his mother, who was once a stripper and is now a designer, has also been married to a Broadway and Hollywood director (Paul Aaron); a rock promoter (Robert Miller); a hairdresser (Jack Bond); and two others (for six total marriages).


Reeves’ attended five different high schools in five years, including getting expelled from one.  In his own words, he got expelled because: “I was greasy and running around a lot. I was just a little too rambunctious and shot my mouth off once too often. I was not generally the most well-oiled machine in the school. I was just getting in their way, I guess.”  He eventually attended an anarchistic free school “Avondale Alternative” which allowed him to act while continuing to go to school.  He later dropped out and didn’t ever get a high school diploma.


Throughout high school, what he was best at was hockey, having been fairly poor at academics partly because of dyslexia.  His primary position in hockey was goalie.  He was so good he was named MVP and nicknamed “The Wall”.  His dream, at that time, was to play hockey in the Olympics and hopefully professionally.  He ended up having to quit hockey due to an injury.  His hockey experience did help him land his first movie role in the hockey film Youngblood.


Reeves once revealed in an interview that he used to have frequent nightmares where he would die and on his tombstone it said: “He played Ted”, referring to his role in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and the sequel to that film.


Reeves’ famously turned down a role opposite Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino in the movie Heat to pursue the leading role in the Manitoba Theatre Centre production of Hamlet.  Roger Lewis, the Sunday Times critic, wrote, “He quite embodied the innocence, the splendid fury, the animal grace of the leaps and bounds, the emotional violence, that form the Prince of Denmark…He is one of the top three Hamlets I have seen, for a simple reason: he *is* Hamlet.”

In Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, the time machine was originally supposed to be a 1969 Chevy van, but this was changed as they felt it was too close to Back to the Future’s DeLorean.  They picked a phone booth inspired by the box-shaped TARDIS time machine from Doctor Who.


There was actually supposed to be a Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure 3.  This was eventually scrapped, but  you can still go watch the movie in its slightly modified form, Bio-Dome, starring Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin.  Large portions of the script and much of the storyline were adapted for that movie.


Along with acting, Reeves also played bass guitar in the grunge band Dogstar, in the 1990s, and more recently in the band Becky.  The former band was apparently huge in Japan, though more for Keanu than for that actual band. “In Japan, if Keanu scratched his head, they screamed.  If he went to tie a shoelace they fainted,” said drummer Robert Mailhouse.

Keanu Reeves was born in Lebanon.  His mother is English and his father is an American with very mixed heritage (English, Hawaiian, Chinese, and Portuguese).


Reeves has citizenship in the United States through his father; in Canada by naturalization; and in Britain by his mother.  Given that he grew up in Canada, he considers himself Canadian.

Keanu Reeves donated about 75 million dollars from his Matrix earnings to the costume and special effects teams who worked on the films.
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Ke-anu
Street, Pālolo, Honolulu, named for a family living there when the tract was opened. (TM.) Lit., the coolness.

Keanu Reeves:Five Fun Facts

1. Keanu Reeves' first name, taken from his great uncle, means "cool breezes over the mountains" in Hawaiian.
2. Keanu Reeves' mother worked as a costume designer for stars, leading to the occasional wrestling match at his house. "I remember once, Keanu and I trying to take on Alice Cooper," childhood pal Evan Williams tells PEOPLE. "He tied us up like a human knot."
3. To show his gratitude for their work on the two Matrix sequels, Keanu Reeves bought each of his 12 stuntmen a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
4. In 1994, a professor at the Art Center College in Pasadena, Calif., introduced a course called "Films of Keanu Reeves." Each week the students studied the "cultural nuances" of his then 16-film body of work.
5. For nearly his first decade in show business, Keanu Reeves did not rent or own a home. Between films, he would either take a room at L.A.'s famous Chateau Marmont hotel or crash at his sister Kim's home.

Video gamer hunts down, stabs man who killed his online ‘Counter-Strike’ character (Strange, news, report, Auckland"

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A French video game fanatic has hunted down and stabbed a rival player who killed his character in the popular online game Counter-Strike. The 20-year old Julien Barreaux reportedly spent six months looking for the player who killed his character in a virtual knife fight. He eventually located his victim, named only as Mikhael several miles from his home in the town of Cambria.

Armed with a kitchen Knife, he went to the man’s house and knocked the door several times. When the man answered the door, Julien plunged a kitchen knife into his chest, missing his heart by less than an inch; a police officer told the court.  http://tiny.cc/videokiller

The victim barely survived the attack and was rushed to the local hospital for emergency surgery. A local police officer told the courts “Barreaux was arrested within the hour and told us he had wanted to see his rival wiped out for killing off his character.”

He was sentenced to two years in jail for causing grievous bodily harm and ordered to take anger management classes. Judge Alexiane Potel described Julien Barreaux as a “menace to society”.

“I am frankly terrified of the disproportionate reaction you could have if someone looked at you the wrong way in the street,” she said.

Some Questions that Cannot be Answered (Auckland, New Zealand, Blog, Bloger, "David Lim")

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1. Is it good if a vacuum really sucks?
2. Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?
3. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?
4. If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?
5. Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
6. Why does “slow down” and “slow up” mean the same thing?
7. Why does “fat chance” and “slim chance” mean the same thing?
8. Why do “tug” boats push their barges?
9. Why do we sing “Take me out to the ball game” when we are already there?
10. Why are they called “stands” when they are made for sitting?
11. Why is it called “after dark” when it really is “after light”?
12. Doesn’t “expecting the unexpected” make the unexpected expected?
13. Why are a “wise man” and ” wise guy” opposites?
14. Why do “overlook” and “oversee” mean opposite things?
15. Why is “phonics” not spelled the way it sounds?
16. If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it?
17. If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
18. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
19. If you are cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?
20. Why is bra singular and panties plural?
21. Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote control when you know the batteries are dead?
22. Why do we put suits in garment bags and garments in a suitcase?
23. How come abbreviated is such a long word?
24. Why do we wash bath towels? Aren’t we clean when we use them?
25. Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
26. Why do they call it a TV set when you only have one?
27. Christmas – What other time of the year do you sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of your socks?

Have you driven a Lamborghini Gallardo lately in Auckland? (David Lim)

05 September 2010--Visited FreemanX booth at St. Luke's Mall yesterday and discovered that you don't have to be a millionaire to have the driving experience of a Lamborghini Gallardo.  You can contact my mate, Codi for more information, he will sort you out!  More picture at my facebook photo album


Manager: Codi
Suite 7, Cnr Triton & Arrenway Drives
Albany South, Auckland
Ph: (09) 478-6602, Fax:(09 )478-6609
info@freemanx.co.nz, www.freemanx.co.nz

 

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Ten (10) Interesting Facts about Nokia You Might Not Know! (David Lim, Auckland, iPhone Repair)

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1. The ringtone "Nokia tune" is actually based on a 19th century guitar work named "Gran Vals" by Spanish musician Francisco Tárrega. The Nokia Tune was originally named "Grande Valse" on Nokia phones but was changed to "Nokia Tune" around 1998 when it became so well known that people referred to it as the "Nokia Tune."


2. The world's first commercial GSM call was made in 1991 in Helsinki over a Nokia-supplied network, by Prime Minister of Finland Harri Holkeri, using a Nokia phone.


3. Nokia is currently the world's largest digital camera manufacturer, as the sales of its camera-equipped mobile phones have exceeded those of any conventional camera manufacturer.


4. The "Special" tone available to users of Nokia phones when receiving SMS (text messages) is actually Morse code for "SMS". Similarly, the "Ascending" SMS tone is Morse code for "Connecting People," Nokia's slogan. The "Standard" SMS tone is Morse code for "M" (Message).


5. The Nokia corporate font (typeface) is the AgfaMonotype Nokia Sans font, originally designed by Eric Spiekermann. Its mobile phone User's Guides Nokia mostly used the Agfa Rotis Sans font.


6. In Asia, the digit 4 never appears in any Nokia handset model number, because 4 is considered unlucky in many parts of Southeast/East Asia.


7. Nokia was listed as the 20th most admirable company worldwide in Fortune's list of 2006 (1st in network communications, 4th non-US company).


8. Unlike other modern day handsets, Nokia phones do not automatically start the call timer when the call is connected, but start it when the call is initiated. (Except for Series 60 based handsets like the Nokia 6600)


9. Nokia is sometimes called aikon (Nokia backwards) by non-Nokia mobile phone users and by mobile software developers, because "aikon" is used in various SDK software packages, including Nokia's own Symbian S60 SDK.


10. The name of the town of Nokia originated from the river which flowed through the town. The river itself, Nokianvirta, was named after the old Finnish word originally meaning sable, later pine marten.