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http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppemilo/10657582176/  Denmark was the country which ranked number one happiest country in 2012 .   and  here is the 2014's list of happiest countries in the world.  http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mef45jgim/1-norway/ The top happiest country in the world is now Norway .   1. Norway  2. Denmark  3. Sweden  4. Australia  5. New Zealand  6. Canada  7. Finland  8. Netherlands  9. Switzerland  10. Ireland  I was curious about the culture of these countries around Northern Europe which often ranked high.  My image of Sweden is that is a freedom loving country, high taxes, but education and hospitals, medical care, are free.  People sound easy going, not much care for competition.   About Norway , my image is that of a beautiful exotic country, but there is no sun about half the time in a year, so there are many people who get depression and high suicide percentage. So I was wondering why

Sochi Olympics is over, and we have been really enjoying watching it since it started this month. While watching many Olympics subjects, we also enjoyed the beautiful snow mountain scenery of Sochi. My husband says it looks similar to the mountains in Austria , so beautiful. I love snow mountain. In this winter Olympics, my favorite subject is of course Figure skating . We were recording all the skating competitions as usual. I was very glad they have added " team " competition besides individual competition in figure skating, same as gymnastics,  which I have been hoping for. Also it's really great for skaters as well, because they get chance to have another medal. My husband and I really enjoyed with Team competition.  However I feel the team competition may be better to put after individual competition, because I found most of skaters who attended the team competition looked exhausted in the individual competition mentally and physically and it might

I'm really late to post this review, but it was so exciting to watch US Nationals championships !! Competition is about finding the right mental balance and mind toughness, and I think people who get the right mind-set always win and did successful job. It's so inspiring to watch all the skaters passion and watching whether they will achieve their goal or not. For myself as a viewer , great performances are always the ones which make me remember, as unforgettable memories, more than any scores. Especially, in Olympics seasons, all the countries put big scores for their best skaters to show how impressive their own country's skaters are.  All the countries want to win or get medals at Olympics. and it looks like scores are getting higher and higher every olympics since   the COP system. Maybe 10 years from now, the world record for short program score will be over 150 ?? , for  Long program will be over 200 ??  lol Actually, when we recently watched around 19