yangok444

@yangok444 (72)

China • Age 45

Joined myLot 19 years ago

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Play-A-Day: Google

yangok444 @yangok444 (72) • China 16 Mar 07

Scene: The Wild Web Celebration as Google Buys Deja www.google.com: And now, Deja, you are absorbed. www.deja.com: Good, I love being called google. Can I be googleplex? www.google.com: No, that is being saved for when we...

Jackasses jokes

yangok444 @yangok444 (72) • China 16 Mar 07

A burglar broke into a house one night. He shone his flashlight around, looking for valuables, and when he picked up a CD player to place in his sack, a strange, disembodied voice echoed from the dark saying "Jesus is watching...

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Coal-fired power plants

yangok444 @yangok444 (72) • China 12 Mar 07

The invention of the incandescent light bulb by Thomas A. Edison in 1879 created a demand for a cheap, readily available fuel with which to generate large amounts of electric power. Coal seemed to fit the bill, and it fueled the...

environmental issues

Cohesion-tension Theory

yangok444 @yangok444 (72) • China 12 Mar 07

Atmospheric pressure can support a column of water up to 10 meters high. But plants can move water much higher; the sequoia tree can pump water to its very top more than 100 meters above the ground. Until the end of the...

Icebergs

yangok444 @yangok444 (72) • China 12 Mar 07

Icebergs are among nature's most spectacular creations, and yet most people have never seen one. A vague air of mystery envelops them. They come into being ----- somewhere ------in faraway, frigid waters, amid thunderous noise...

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Movie Music

yangok444 @yangok444 (72) • China 12 Mar 07

Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as "silent", the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From the very beginning, music was regarded as an indispensable accompaniment; when...

Afternoon Tea by Emily Hiestand

yangok444 @yangok444 (72) • China 10 Mar 07

Tea is the steady companion of the Scottish day, and each hotel, no matter how humble, stocks its rooms with supplies for brew-ups: electric pot for boiling water, ceramic pot for brewing, china cups and small tea-creamers, a...

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Sleep

yangok444 @yangok444 (72) • China 10 Mar 07

Sleet is part of a person's daily activity cycle. There are several different stages of sleep, and they too occur in cycles. If you are an average sleeper, your sleep cycle is as follows. When you fist drift off into slumber,...

Folk Cultures

yangok444 @yangok444 (72) • China 10 Mar 07

A folk culture is a small isolated, cohesive, conservative, nearly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race with a strong family or clan structure and highly developed rituals. Order is maintained through...

The source of Energy

yangok444 @yangok444 (72) • China 10 Mar 07

A summary of the physical and chemical nature of life must begin, not on the Earth, but in the Sun; in fact, at the Sun's very center. It is here that is to be found the source of the energy that the Sun constantly pours out into...

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American black bears

yangok444 @yangok444 (72) • China 10 Mar 07

American black bears appear in a variety of colors despite their name. In the eastern part of their range, most of these brown, red, or even yellow coats. To the north, the black bear is actually gray or white in color. Even in...

The Salinity of Ocean Waters

yangok444 @yangok444 (72) • China 10 Mar 07

If the salinity of ocean waters is analyzed, it is found to vary only slightly from place to place. Nevertheless, some of these small changes are important. There are three basic processes that cause a change in oceanic salinity....

Oil Refining

yangok444 @yangok444 (72) • China 10 Mar 07

Oil Refining An important new industry, oil refining, grew after the Civil war. Crude oil, or petroleum - a dark, thick ooze from the earth - had been known for hundreds of years, but little use had ever been made of it. In the...

For Birthday

yangok444 @yangok444 (72) • China 10 Mar 07

With best wishes for a happy birthday. Each birthday is a milestone we touch along life's way. May every special happiness fill this day for you and may the year bring everything you look forward to. Happy birthday, on...

A Grain of Sand

yangok444 @yangok444 (72) • China 10 Mar 07

Here is a story. A participant in the long-distance race got his shoes filled with sand when he was crossing a beach. He had to stop to get the sand out hastily before he resumed running.1 Unfortunately a grain of sand remained...

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Scars of Life....

yangok444 @yangok444 (72) • China 2 Jan 07

Some years ago on a hot summer day in South Florida a little boy decided to go for a swim in the old swimming hole behind his house. In a hurry to dive into the cool water, he ran out the back door, leaving behind shoes,...

Twelve Ways to Holiday Health and Happiness

yangok444 @yangok444 (72) • China 31 Dec 06

As the holidays approach life seems more hectic and busy. Below are reminders to help keep perspective and enjoy what the holidays are truly about. Keep celebrations and traditions fun! Simple and enjoyable are keys to success....

stress management

Why would you want to be famous?

yangok444 @yangok444 (72) • China 31 Dec 06

Being famous may look enticing - the money, the adulation and the glamour all appear to be there for the taking. But why would anyone want to be push themselves into the public eye? "Famous people have usually experienced a...

choosing a mate; love and marriage

yangok444 @yangok444 (72) • China 31 Dec 06

Which of these is most important when choosing a husband or wife? good looks, good character, or good jobs

love and marriage

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a poem from OUT OF AFRICA

yangok444 @yangok444 (72) • China 31 Dec 06

The eagle's shodow runs across the plain, Towards the distant,nameless,air-blue mountains. But the shadows of the round young Zebra Sit close between their delicate hoofs all day, where they stand immovable,And wait for the...