GREEN DAY SONG

“Boulevard Of Broken Dreams”

I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don’t know where it goes
But it’s home to me and I walk alone I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
and I’m the only one and I walk aloneI walk alone
I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk a…

My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
‘Til then I walk alone

Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah,
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah

I’m walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line
Of the edge and where I walk alone

Read between the lines
What’s fucked up and everything’s alright
Check my vital signs
To know I’m still alive and I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk a…

My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
‘Til then I walk alone

Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah
Ah-ah, Ah-ah

I walk alone
I walk a…

I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I’m the only one and I walk a…

My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
‘Til then I walk alone…

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READING 1

Biotech Food Tears Rifts in Europe  By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL

Violations Tally on Biotech Rules (Oct 18, 2003) • Biotech Food for Africa (Jul 26, 2003) • Europe Acts to Require Labeling of Genetically Altered Food (Jul 3, 2003) Find more related articles by selecting from the following topics:    Track a subject by e-mail THENS — In this famously fractious country, there is one thing on which almost all Greeks agree: They do not want genetically modified crops grown, sold or eaten here. “All political parties are opposed,” said Theodore Koliopanos, a legislator and former deputy environment minister, “which is odd because we disagree on everything else.” Greece and a few other countries in the European Union that have banned genetically modified organisms are on the front lines of a war over the future of modified food in Europe, the only large swath of the world that does not already grow or buy the crops. Facing international pressure and a lawsuit brought by the United States, Canada and Argentina at the World Trade Organization, the union said this year that all member states must open their doors to genetically engineered crops and prepare practical and legal regulations to ensure safety for health and the environment. But five countries have imposed eight different types of bans. Many others use their votes in Europe’s Council of Ministers to block the crops from entering. The battle does more than pit the World Trade Organization against the European Union. It also creates a divide across the Atlantic, between European allies on the one hand, and the United States and Canada, which produce the vast majority of such seeds and crops, on the other. The United States is not shy about enlisting its diplomats to push European countries to admit the modified crops, European politicians say. But European consumers and farmers generally do not want them, leaving the European Union to try to steer a Solomonic course between conflicting interests. The basic problem is that Europeans, whose food culture has developed over centuries, balk at putting biotech crops in their fields or their mouths. “We think we have a good policy but we have discovered extreme reluctance among consumers and many member states to move forward with G.M.O.’s, who again and again block the approvals,” said Barbara Helferrich, a spokeswoman for the union’s Environment Directorate. Since the union is a common market, lawmakers in Brussels demand a unified solution. So a seed that is sold in Britain has to be sold in Poland and Greece as well. But critics say that countries should be permitted to decide if they will accept a risk, however small, noting, for example, that unpasteurized milk is legal in France but not in Britain. READING 2 NEWS

US Fruit Company Fined $25 Million for Paying ‘Protection Money’ to Colombian Paramilitaries

By Brian Wagner Miami 15 March 2007

U.S. fruit company Chiquita Brands International said it would plead guilty to one count of doing business with a violent Colombian paramilitary group the U.S. government lists as a terrorist organization. In Miami, VOA’s Brian Wagner reports, experts say the practice of paying “protection” money has been widespread.

Chiquita Brands International said Wednesday it agreed to pay a fine of $25 million to settle U.S. Justice Department charges it paid “protection money” to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, a violent right-wing para-military group. The company also promised to work with U.S. investigators in the matter. Prosecutors allege Chiquita paid more than $1.7 million over a seven-year period ending in 2004. They say the money went to leaders of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia. Chiquita said the payments were made because of concern over the safety of its employees in the banana-growing regions of Colombia.

HOW TO BE A NURSE

NURSERY What is this job like?

Nurses, also called registered nurses or RNs, take care of sick and injured people. They give people medicine. They treat wounds. And they give emotional support to patients and their families.

Nurses ask patients about their symptoms and keep detailed records. They watch for signs that people are sick. Then, nurses help doctors examine and treat patients.

Some nurses help to give tests to find out why people are sick. Some also do lab work to get test results.

Nurses also teach people how to take care of themselves and their families. Some nurses teach people about diet and exercise and how to follow doctors’ instructions. Some nurses run clinics and immunization centers.

Nurses can focus on treating one type of patient, such as babies or children. They can also focus on one type of problem. Some focus on helping doctors during surgery, for example. Others work in emergency rooms or intensive care units.

Many nurses work in doctors’ offices. They help with medical tests, give medicines, and dress wounds. Some also do lab and office work.

Home health nurses go to people’s homes to help them. Flight nurses fly in helicopters to get to sick people in emergencies.

Some nurses have special training and can do more advanced work. Nurse practitioners can prescribe medicine. Nurse midwives can help women give birth.

Helping sick people and dealing with medical emergencies can be stressful. Nurses in hospitals often have to help many patients at once.

Many nurses spend a lot of time walking and standing. Nurses also need to be careful in order to stay safe. Nurses care for people who have diseases that they can catch too. And nurses can get hurt while helping to move patients. Nurses also need to guard against radiation from x-rays and chemicals in medicine.

Because patients need 24-hour care, hospital nurses often work nights, weekends, and holidays. Office nurses are more likely to work regular hours. Many nurses work part time.

CHEMISTRY CLASS

U.F.P.S  STUDENTS     

Carbohydrates are organic compounds that usually contain carbon hydrogen and oxygen in the ratios: 1 Carbon: 2 Hydrogens: 1 Oxygen. There are four classes of carbohydrates that are of general interest.

 Monosaccharides, Disaccharides, Oligosaccharides, Polysacharides

Monosaccharides (simple sugars) have a carbon skeleton of 3 or more carbons depending on the monosaccharide. The most familiar monosaccharide is Glucose (C6 H12 O6). A ball and stick model of glucose is shown here in its ring form, which is the form it takes in water. As a solid, glucose has a straight chain form which is not shown. 

Galactose is another monosaccharide with six carbons.  Later we will meet fructose or fruit sugar which also has six cabons. Galacotse is a component of a disaccharide called lactose.  

Disaccharides. Disaccharides consist of two monosaccharides linked together by a dehydration synthesis. Sucrose is common disaccharide which functions as a transport sugar in plants. The production of sucrose by means of a dehydration synthesis is shown here. Each sucrose molecule is made by chemically combining a glucose and a fructose molecule. A hydrogen is removed from the glucose and a hydroxyl(OH) from the fructose leaving an oxygen to link the two molecules together. Lactose, another disaccharide, is commonly called milk sugar.   

Oligosaccharides: Oligo means a few and oligosaccharides have a few simple sugars linked together but not thousands as do polysacchardes. Oligosacharides are common on cell membranes and surfaces where they often serve as cell markers.

Polysaccharides: Polysaccharides are the most abundant organic compounds in the biosphere. The most commonly seen polysaccharide is cellulose and scientist estimate that over one trillion tons of cellulose are synthesized by plants each year. Cellulose forms the cell wall of plants.  

Starches can be digested by animals but cellulose cannot. Most animals that injest grass or wood have special micro organisms living in their gut that digest the cellulose and the animals in turn absorp the breakdown product.

Amylopectin: Some starches such as amylopectin are branched and this gives the starch a jelly-like appearence. Pectin is one such starch that is produced by apples and used to thicken jellies. Even though we typically associate starch as being made by plants, many animals produce a highly branched starch like compound called glycogen. In mammals glycogen is stored in the liver and the muscles where it provides a quick source of energy and serves as a storage substance for excess glucose taken up from the BLOOD.

WELCOME TO THE ENGLISH WORLD

Before you can start speaking and writing in English, you have to learn how things are said in English. You do this by reading and listening to correct English sentences of other people (ideally, native speakers).

Reading and listening are both good ways to develop your English, but reading is usually much easier than listening for various reasons. With the help of a good dictionary, you can understand English texts much more easily than, for example, English television or movies.

In this article, I will show why reading English texts on your own is the way to go. The arguments will fall into three categories: Intensity, Motivation and Authenticity.

Intensity

If you read a few books in English, you will see that your English has become better. You will start using new vocabulary and grammar in your school compositions and e-mail messages. You will be surprised, but English phrases will just come to you when you are writing or speaking! Things like the past simple tense and how to use the word “since” will become part of you. You will use them automatically, without thinking. Correct phrases will just appear in your head.

It will be easy to use English, because your brain will only be repeating the things that it has seen many times. By reading a book in English, you have given your brain thousands of English sentences. They are part of you now. How can you make a mistake and say “I feeled bad”, if you have seen the correct phrase (”I felt bad”) 250 times in the last book you’ve read?

You need 1000s of phrases to speak English fluently. To be able to use thousands of phrases, you must read tens of thousands of phrases, because you will forget a lot of what you read.

If you just read when your teacher tells you to (e.g. 2 short articles per week in your English class), you are not going to make any progress. At such a rate, even if you learn something one week, you will forget it next week. You need to read, on average, at least a few pages per day. For this, you need to take charge of your learning — get some books and start reading on your own.

If you don’t believe that reading on your own will dramatically change your English, consider this: In a week, a typical intermediate English learner who attends 4 hours of English classes learns maybe 5 new words or phrases from reading 2 pages in English plus another 5 from other sources (listening, conversation with teacher). Sure, they write down more than this, but after a week they remember less than 50% of the knowledge.

If you read 20 pages per week (which is only 3 per day), you will learn, mathematically, about 50 new words or phrases per week. If you read 40 pages per week (6 per day), you will learn 100 new words or phrases per week.

As you see, it’s not very hard to beat the average learner. At 6 pages per day, you’re already learning 10 times faster. Which means that you’re learning in 1 year what the average learner learns in 10 years.

I’m giving you all these numbers because I want you to realize one thing: If you have been an “average learner”, you cannot even begin to imagine how quickly you can develop your English skills with a little work on your own. The difference between readers and non-readers is that big. (Take a minute to read the passage in the box to the right to see what I mean.)

Motivation

You need to start reading on your own not just because it is effective, but also because it is so damn motivating. When you read on your own, you read something you chose yourself, something you really find interesting, rather than something your teacher told you to read. As a result, you read much more willingly and spend more time on it.

If you choose texts which are interesting and fun (Harry Potter, an article about computers, sports news, movie reviews, e-mail messages from friends, an Internet forum on relationships — whatever fits your bill), reading will not be something you have to do. It will be something you want to do. Once you try it, you will probably be thankful that you can understand English and read such great stuff!

Furthermore, when you read something that matters to you, you can remember much more. For example, if you read an article your teacher gave you, you want to read it quickly and be done with it. But if you read the lyrics of a new song by your favorite band, you’re much more likely to repeat them to yourself and keep them in your memory — together with all the grammar and vocabulary.

A lot of people associate English with unpleasant things. For example, they think “I must learn English or else I won’t find a job” or “I must learn English or I won’t get a passing grade”. In their minds, studying English is something they have to do, even though they would rather not do it — just like they would rather not have to go to school or work.

Those who read on their own think differently. For them, English is something which helps them achieve their own goals, such as reading the latest book by Stephen King or talking to people from other countries in an online forum. They are much more willing to spend time on English, even in ways which are not directly related to their interests, e.g. learning with SuperMemo or asking grammar questions on discussion groups. This shows that “free reading” improves your general motivation for English.

Authenticity

I believe it’s important to learn from real American and British sources instead of resources prepared especially for English learners. If you see a phrase in a book or in a blog, you know it’s really used in the English-speaking world.

By contrast, texts used in English classes often attempt to teach “proper” English, stripped of any informal expressions, such as crap, sucks or stuff. Authors of such texts probably disapprove of such phrases and believe that learners don’t need them. But the fact is that most learners would choose relaxed, natural language — the language of regular educated Americans and Britons — over the stuffy standards of the proper-speaking “elite”. Which is another reason why learners should go beyond English classes and start reading “real-life English” on their own.

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