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Hotel Milano & Spa
Vicolo Tre Marchetti 11, Verona, Veneto
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Hotel very close to Ampitheatre and restaurants. Secure parking. Difficult to find, even my top of the line GPS couldn't do it. Had to enlist the services of a local on his bicyle, everything else good.
Excellent location Very small room
The location of hotel is so convenienet for the city tour and shopping. Also the garage facility is important for this city center although you have to pay it. The room we stayed is larger than our expectation of a 3 star hotel: It is difficult to find the hotel if you drive to, altohugh it is so close the center. It is better to recommend parking at a park next to Arena, and finding hotel to get a description of route as we did at the end.
we liked the location particularly,and the breakfast was also very good. our room was small but we had been told this on booking and as we were only there for a weekend it really didn't matter.
the comfortable room, bathroom cleanliness. on the first floor, you hear the street noise too much.
good breakfast, helpful staff, clean rooms, etc. please note my address is: ashton keynes not keyners
location, staff helped us find restaurants and could not do enough for us
The Hotel's location is perfect for site seeing within the city on foot, shopping and is close to several great restaurants.
Everyone was kind and helpful. I arrived early and they kept my luggage so that I could explore the city while my room was getting ready. They also offered for me to enjoy breakfast and a cafe even though I had not stayed there the night before. Lovely place and great location. It's on a main street, but the room was quiet. As a female solo traveler, I felt safe and content. Plus Verona is a beautiful city to explore. I also took a train for the day to Lago de Gardo 20 minutes away. Beautiful as well.
The reception and dining room staff were courteous and helpful. We only stayed for two nights but were made to feel very welcome.
location, bathroom and breakfast difficult parking
Great position close to all sites and shops of Verona. Very attentive friendly staff. Lovely bar and lounge areas Lack of natural light
classy accomodations and very friendly and helpful staff as well as excellent breakfasts
Perfect location good rooms
Verona is a fun place to walk around from this centrally located hotel. We had the large corner suite on floor 1 above the very cool bookshop. The decor could possibly do with a refresh. Initially our room was very hot and the heater controls seemed to be broken but we were able to open the large windows and soak in some of the surrounding bustle. The staff are efficient but not very warm. Free internet access is good, the breakfast is average. The hotel is obviously in an old building and the decor could do with a refresh but still keeping true to current old world charm
The personell was excellent, very important. Cleanliness good. Location for shopping excellent No
I liked most the location, the helpful staff, and the quiet room.
Beautiful hotel in the heart of old town Verona. Rooms were luxiourious; breakfast items varied and plentiful Not a single complaint
The rooms were exceptionally well decorated with all possible comforts. It was quiet an relaxing and extremely beautiful the atmosphere was captivating and classy, the staff proficient, efficient and unobtrusive. I didn't like the view. The room was surrounded by construction works and this really spoiled the beauty.
Beautiful hotel, excellent location, BUT lacks atmosphere due to it being so empty whilst there. I don't know the reason for this, but I wanted to eat in the great setting for a restaurant, but didn't see 1 person use it in the time we were there. The empty restaurant!
We stayed at the hotel for three nights with our two small children. The staff were very pleasant and provided anything required to make our stay comfortable. The food was good and the rooms exceptionally comfortable. we would recommend the hotel for a most enjoyable stay in beautiful Verona.
The hotel staff were very polite. I have asked for a smoking room and I got a non-smoking room.
The hotel has a super location and the staff were very helpful.
Impressive entrance and main lobby, one of a kind. Not appropriate breakfast room/feels really average to have breakfast there.... brakfast, small room
High standards
n/a No Air conditioning,extremely uncomfortable because of this.No food available on arrival in the afternoon.Would you like some toast sir!!! 5 Star hotel,definately not,needs new A/C UNIT fitting which works whether the weather outside is warm or not!!!!
Location and service. Rooms need a face lift..... but service made up for it.
Staff very welcoming, friendly and helpful and they all spoke English! The food was great in the hotel and it was situated close to all the sights and shopping. Our room was excellent with beautiful furnishings and they gave us complimentary champagne and fruit for our anniversary! Would thoroughly recommend this hotel.
A 5 star hotel in the city center! Beautiful old palace!
Courtesy of staff, nice room, great location Lack of any common facilities (understandable given size of hotel)
Staff was wonderful room perfect location unbeatable. We loved our stay.
The helpful receptionist. Excellent central position with lively street view. Attractive furnishings and comfortable room. over complicated touch pad lighting system and room safe locking system.
Really unusual location right in the heart of Verona with the entrance in the corner of the courtyard of the Casa di Giulietta (Juliet's house). If you arrive in the daytime, you will need to fight through the crowd taking pictures of the famous balcony. Once inside, it is a haven of peace and calm. Beautifully appointed and with a wonderfully attentive staff. It's expensive but a great treat in the very heart of Verona.
very good location if you wish to explore the city by foot, spaciouse and comfortable rooms and ofcourse, the main reason, the unique and atractive location within the Romeo and Juliet court yard with all the visitors as the constant background for the price, a little upgrade to the amenities would be welcomed: an English channel on TV, upgrade to the breakfast, etc.
The staff went out of their way to help me with every demand or question I had
The friendliness of the staff. No iron, no bottle of wine, flowers etc on arrival as stated in the literature. Air con did not work very well. The fact that Booking.com had not informed the hotel operator of our arrival.
This hotel was all we hoped for - luxurious, in a perfect location, with attentive and helpful staff. The breakfast in the room was excellent. We would love to stay again.
The staff was very kind and the locations is very central.
Lovely rooms, excellent beds and bed linens perfect in town location, fantastic helpful staff. in room breakfast was a treat - they garaged our car in a close by secure garage . we very much enjoyed our stay. my kind of hotel. The zero cancellation refund policy is too restrictive and frankly unrealistic.
Location, breakfast... Rooms a bit too simple and small for a four star property.
Poor breakfast. Awful breakfast room.
In the City
the hotel had a nice area to sit outside breakfast room in basement
friendly staff, well appointed if smallish rooms, very convenient garage, nice breakfast, close to historical center; small rooms, wireless internet has clunky setup + was out of order the 3 days we were there.
Great hotel! This was the second time we stayed at the Grand! The location is good, just a few minutes from the old town ( actually from the Arena, because you are in the old town, the hotel being situated just after you pass the Porta Nouva gate), the staff is really helpful and nice! The breakfast is super, taking into consideration that you are in Italy. The only thing i cand think of being not great is that the wi-fi connection had , from time to time, some problems..it didn't work properly every time you logged in.
It's laying favourable and the city center is not so far with every spot.The staff is helpful and the room was confortable and big.Every day was hidden some candy in the bed. We had to left there in the parking place in a building the car key,in order to the workers can do able drive criss-cross in the parking place depended upon who has need his car.The cars were open and the keys were on the windscreen.
Lovely hotel in a great location, not far from train station and main attractions. The hotel is decorated with beautiful artwork, including sculptures and paintings and has a lovely outdoor courtyard. Rooms were very clean. Looking forward to returning one day.
The location was good for a first time visitor to Verona. All staff were courteous and no request or question was an issue for them. One minor issue I experienced was wi fi in my room. I was able to use at the reception area however could not connect from the room.
Close to the opera etc. no
It was really a four star hotel. So many times, even though rated as four stars, I have been disappointed in the past. This was a great pleasure to have a hotel that lived up to its price and quality as an excellent hotel. The location was also good and close to places that could be walked to. A real pleasure. Thank you. Having to pay for internet service and not having it included in the price of the hotel.
The hotel was really very charming and very comfortable. A little of the street noise from the location but well worth it to be in the heart of the city. The staff was very friendly and helpful, especially thee waiters in the morning serving breakfast! We hope to be back to Hotel Gabbia D'Oro and will be recommending it to our friends. Can't think of anything we didn't like, wish we could have been there longer!
The location was absolutely perfect! Right in the center of the old town, with shops, restaurants and night life right outside the door. The staff was very friendly and eager to help out. Great stay - will defintely try to book again. Reaching downtown via car is a little tricky because of all the one way streets and pedestrian routes but worth it once you arrive at the destination.
This is a beautiful hotel. It is in the best location in Verona. The service was impeccable and the staff was superb.
Great boutique hotel in city center of Verona. Service and staff very helpful and always have a big smile. Rooms are quiet, clean, and nicely furnished
very nice and wonderful hotel
Excellent location, genuine and historical venue, great people, good quality-price relation If window opened at night it can be noisy
The attention to detail at the hotel, in the training of the staff, in the desing of the cooman areas and sleeping rooms, and in the elegant breakfast are first rate. The front desk sent us to a highly over-done and over-priced restaurant, representing it as "simple, but good." In 20+ trips to Italy, this was probably the least simple restaurant I have been in, and it was horribly over-priced.
I really liked the hotel and will be going back there again. Very nice room/suite in probably the best location in Verona. Very helpful staff who were there when you needed them without being unduly solicitous. Room maintained to a very high standard. Good breakfasts. Couldn't tell from the info in the room or on the phone itself how to get room service but still managed to get early morning tea thanks to the really helpful staff.
The location is excellent and the decor and facilities are extremely tasteful. The rooms have originality and character. The shower was difficult to use without having water all over the floor. The bed-side reading lights were unsatisfactory.
I like the style of that hotel .It is an old charming hotel with stylish saloons and elegant rooms no
Very good location in centre of Verona near main sites
As a solo traveller and a female I did not like being placed in a room separate from the main hotel
very good location:100 meters from the historical center and only 4 min by bus from the train station. the breakfast was continental, but rich and good quality.the room was not big but very nice and refurnished, the bathroom spacious and functional. Above all, the bed and the pillows were really nice and comfy. the price i paid at the time was ok, but i wouldn't pay the prices i see now.
The staff at reception spoke english and were helpful. Our room accommodated 4 people reasonably well for a European hotel and was comfortable.The breakfast was fresh and plentiful with a wide selection of drinks and food. The location was very close to the old town centre and thus tourist attractions were within walking distance. The hotel room had a great booklet that suggested suitable walking routes with historical information in several languages.
Central location. Great breakfast.
The location was perfect. The hotel can not offer much of a comfort though if you are in Verona for a few days it is a very good option.
position was great could walk to everything. Breakfast was great.
The guys Jimmy and William from general services at the hotel area great! Very poor service at the reception. Reservation was not made properly and I had to be transferred to another hotel for 1 night. They have this "apartments"away from the hotel building that is not practical. Shuttle to take breakfast is ridiculous. I was not informed at the reservation.
Proximity to Arena and main tourist areas
Almost next-door to the Arena and within easy walking distance to the train station. Room in the new hotel building (separate from the Reception building) was comfortable, clean and quiet. Staff was friendly and helpful. Would have appreciated a coffee/tea-maker in the room, but it's absence may be normal for 3-star hotels in Europe.
The modern and renovated suites wrapped in ancient buildings. The umbrellas. Wi-fi access is still with user and psw.
very near the most interesting places
The cleanliness of the room and bathroom. The friendly and professional service during breakfast. And a professional front desk team.
The location of this hotel is perfect for enjoying the historic center of Verona. The staff was very helpful.
Very convenient location, comfortable, very good buffet breakfast by Italian standards. The rooms backing on to the laneway can get a lot of traffic noise.
The vicinity of the center, cleanliness of our room, price of the hotel and the possibility of using private parking of the hotel
the staff was very kind, the hotel was great, the room I stayed in was also great. The location of the hotel is ideal if you want to take a few walks in the old city. It was a bit expensive, but ok.
location is great, staff is very friendly and helpful -
location and helpful attentive staff
Excellent location (a little difficult to find by car due to one way streets but on foot very close to everything), very large and nice room Despite prominent signs everywhere regarding smoking being prohibited in the hotel, when someone smoked a cigar in the corridor outside our room and the smoke penetrated our room, the hotel staff at the Reception Desk were rude, unsympathetic and uninterested. A room of much lower standard was offered but no discount forthcoming. The only other offer made was to upgrade to a suite at greater cost
I came to the hotel early but could check in anyway. Not very helpful when I wanted to know the times for the flightbuses from the trainstation.
The proximity to the town centre, the stylish decor, the view from the balcony. room a little too small for three people.
very good service and value for money. location is the best in verona. room is ok. breakfast perfect. free secure valet parking!
The location and services value for money. The room is narrow and small to keep the luggage. The room temperature wasn't working.. it was too warm during the winter time.. so I had to open the window for a fresh air.
Staff very helpful in location of places of interest. Liked map we were given.
The hotel was nice, in very good location. Nice staff. Free internet
The rooms were big and nice. The breakfast was also good and Internet was free of charge in entire of the hotek
Location and free bike hire Noisy, strangers wandered into our room, we were given a key to a room which already had a guest checked into it but luckily they weren't in. Man on reception was hopeless and when the room we were originally given was non smoking, it smelled like cigars had been smoked in there. He also kept answering the phone instead of dealing with the customers on reception.
friendly staff
Great breakfast, beautifully designed interiors. Great hotel!
the staff and location was perfect
It was very close to the city centre I did think that the room was dark. The shutters were partially closed and there were trees outside the window. A good lamp in the room would have been useful.
Central location, very good for sights and shopping. Excellent buffet breakfast, very good service. Extremely clean, comfortable and quiet. Staff spoke very good English and very helpful. None
helpfull staff breakfast facilitys poor , no room service,no fridge in room.
I visited the horse show in Verona with my grand daughter and we spent a wonderful evening in Hotel Antica Porta Leona, it is by far one of the best hotels I have stayed in for a long time (and I spend a lot of time in hotels around the world due to business), compliments to the owners and all the staff who were extremely helpful when my grand daughter left her teddy bear, which they kindly posted onto us, many thanks to them all. Nothing all wonderful
Cosy and comfortable room. No safe in the room.
Excellent hotel. Everything was new and clean.Extremely well locted and the empoyees were very nice!!!
The hotel was conveniently located, it was a nice size, it had good facilities including a gym and a spa, the rooms were modern and of a decent size, would be very happy to return. Nothing
The staff and the location. My room on 1st floor seemed a bit dark.
The cleanliness and location of the hotel and the comfortable room and shower. At times one could hear conversations next door.
The Staff Nothing
The location in the historic centre of the city was very convenient. Although the hotel has no car parking which makes things difficult if you arrive by car, the staff are very helpful to arrange free permits and move your car in the public parking spaces immediately adjacent to the entrance or to arrange off site garaging for a fee. Our room's windows were eight feet from the floor and so there was no view out.
Lots of power points and good strategic lighting. Trouble had been taken by the staff regarding our query about an elevator. Actually it was one of the most convenient rooms we have ever had.
There was car parking available. It was located in the right place. Ridiculously bad value for money. Surly reception staff. Inefficient breakfast staff. At breakfast, first in gets fed, but later on - tough.
It was in a great location in town. We had walking access to the sites we wanted to see.
Excellent location; nice rooms; good breakfast
The location is strategic. The hotel staff are friendly and very helpful especially the man who was on am duty on the 23.10.2010. ( His shift was over at about 8.30pm ). Sorry I didn't get his name. Nothing
We appreciated the hospitality, friendliness and help that this hotel's staff provided us during our stay.
Proximity to town centre garage was not very good and the man who moved the cars around was not very competent
We found the staff consistently helpful and pleasant. The location is great, and we were very happy with the Europa. No
Location within walking distance of main town Very noisy at night in the streets below
excellent location, near the main square but in a quiet street no tea and coffee making facilities in the room
The hotel staff very friendly and welcoming. The front desk staff could speak english which was helpful to a non-italian speaker, but were willing to help me learn some italian also. I was traveling alone, so I was happy about the safety of the area and that there was 24 front desk staff. The buffet breakfast was very good. Eggs, meat, cheese, bread, fruit, cereal, juices etc. The wifi internet worked in my room and a computer was available in the lobby for guest use.
The location of the hotel was excellent near the main tourist attractions and in the town centre. I was impressed by the hotel cleanliness. Nothing
The location was ideal. A fairly quiet street just of the city centre.
The friendly and helpful staff
The location is absolutely outstanding. You can site see and shop right out your door, and return to your hotel a few times a day with ease. The staff was so nice! My room was over the front entrance, and I could hear all the hotel guests coming home after later dinners/nights out. A bit too much noise, but I'm sure there are other rooms without this problem.
The staff was very helpful and everything was excellent.
The location was perfect, just minutes away from the roman theater and close to shopping and restaurants.
Location, hotel staff No bar, rooms being renovated while I was there, noise from bathrooms above my room
The location of the hotel. Amazing bathrooms. Great design .Lovely shower with lots of room. Found the bedroom a bit small for three people. However we were only there for one night so the room was acceptable
There was a lovely selection for breakfast. The computer in the lobby for guests was a great convenient. The location of the hotel is close to main attractions. It was a hard to find at first.
The location is great to access several touristic areas. Although the locatios is good, the street where the hotel is located is not good.
the location, staff and the hotel itself all contributed to the experience. no
Situated 200 m from Piazza Bra, very convenient.
Localization Difficult park car.
Excellent location, breakfast and comfort. International standard
Good location in the heart of town. They nickle and dimed the guests.
Location and breakfast. Small and not great value.
Excellent location, just a short stroll from Piazza Bra and the old town of Verona. Gorgeous decor, comfortable room. Modern, spotless bathroom. Small hotel with an intimate feel. Charming staff. Small bar with little atmosphere, though not really necessary as plenty of bars just outside.
convenient position to arena
The room was comfortable. The location was great. The front desk staff was superlative.
The location is great! I walked to Juliet's balcony and the arena in less then10 minutes. Our room has stylishly decorated and spotless. The free breakfast had everything. You could have eggs done your way and fresh fruit, yogurt, muffins, etc. the place is perfect


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A coffee table book that contains a collection of images taken from trips to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia Island and the Antarctic in November 2007 and February 2010.
Through its photographs, this book provides a glimpse of the wonderful wildlife, the mesmerizing beauty of the icebergs and the breathtaking grandeur of the landscape.
100% of profits received from the sale of this book will be donated to Bush Heritage Australia.
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Large Format Landscape, 13×11 in, 33×28 cm
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- Publish Date Jun 10, 2010
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As in the previous chapter, this chapter also contains scenes of blood, violence, character death and crude humor which is rated PG 13.
Where we last left off
Xue stood on the balcony once again; the day has come and gone so quickly, she thought, as she watched the sun set in the west, staring blankly into the golden yellow skylight. This was her favorite place in the world. She was glad that Lu Ten had swallowed his arrogance, Tenzin his pride and Lin her rebelliousness and agreed to apologize to Kenji the next morning, although not without some conditions. She sighed as she looked back towards the sunset, and rested her elbow on the railings. I wonder what Kenji could be doing now.
Deep within the heart of the forest, Kenji took his fighting stance, his dual dao swords in hand. His opponent had not yet revealed herself.
"Show yourself!" he yelled, catching a glimpse of movement in the shadows. Slowly, a beautiful girl revealed herself. She wore a very short miniskirt, with fishnet leggings below a fishnet tube-top. She had long black hair which flowed down with a perfectly flawless skin and face.
"Hello," she said seductively. "Aren't you a eyeful?" Kenji raised an eyebrow and laughed almost maniacally.
"If you think you can seduce me, you've got another thing coming!" he replied. "Who are you and who do you think you are? I am not a fool to fall for someone who almost beheaded me. Now, who sent you?" She was shocked as his attitude became more serious.
"Impressive, you are the first one I've been sent to kill that isn't foolish, but either way..." She quickly tossed her bladed chain at Kenji; the firebender raised his left sword and deflected her attack, as she reeled the chain back in. I might need to use my firebending at times like this, I can't get close enough to attack with my swords or chi blocking, he thought. His thoughts were interrupted by the metal chain which wrapped around his swords; she tried dragging them but lacked the upper body strength.
"Nice try," he said. He pulled his swords backwards and his opponent was dragged along flying straight towards him; his foot connected with her jaw and she was sent flying back. However, she managed to rip the swords out of his hands. Her back connected abruptly with a tree and she fell to the ground.
"You're really pathetic you know? If you can't bend, don't think of becoming an assassin," Kenji said. She got up warily, wiping the blood from her mouth and ignoring the pain in her back. She swung her chain and tossed it one last time in hopes of ending him. Kenji smirked. He released a fistful of thick black smoke which completely blocked her view. The smoke cleared, only for her to see Kenji running at her full speed. He leaped into the air and yelled down at her.
"Say your final prayers!" He ended with a butterfly kick which released a massive fire tornado from both legs. So this is how it ends, she thought. She closed her eyes and shielded her face. She felt the heat of flames, but not the flames itself. She opened her eyes slowly, not knowing what had happened. Kenji stood in front of her with swords in both hands; she noticed that he had deliberately missed and decimated the landscape of trees behind her.
"I-I'm a-alive?" she stammered.
"No of course not, you're dead and so am I. This is the spirit realm," he replied with a tone of sarcasm.
"Why didn't you kill me? I tried to kill you!" she ranted, clearly confused.
"Judging you, I'd say you were around sixteen years old. You have a long life ahead of you and if you don't quit being an assassin you'll end up facing someone who's not as merciful as me. My name is Kenji, what's yours?" he sheathed his swords and stretched his hand out with a smile.
"How can you be kind to a person who attacked you for no reason?" she asked with a doubtful look on her face.
"Believe me, after all that has happened today, I have no choice." She stared at him suspiciously before taking his hand.
"My name is Mei," she replied.
"See how easy was that. Now..." Before Mei could blink he had pinned her to a tree and his dual dao swords were placed against her neck. Mei was more shocked at how quick he had brought out his swords than the fact that he had changed his attitude towards her.
"Don't take my hospitality for gullibility, otherwise you will sincerely regret it." His voice was cold and fierce and she felt cold vibes run down her spine. He ran his hand down her spine slowly as though searching for something.
"What are you doing you pervert!" she yelled. He ignored her and reached into her back pocket, removing a poison knife slowly. He smirked almost insanely, terrifying her even more. "How did you... I wasn't going to use that!" He laughed at her like a psychotic murderer, and Mei did her best to hide her fear.
"Once an assassin, always an assassin. Perhaps I should kill you here and now to save me the trouble of running into you in the future." Bright red flames burned in his palm.
"Don't kill me, please." The fear was evident in her voice as she pleaded for her life.
"And why shouldn't I?" he asked, the flames slowly reducing.
"Because I never wanted to be an assassin! My parents were killed when I was little and I had no where to go. I stole to survive and slept on the streets, when I was given the offer to become an assassin. I had no choice, it was kill or be killed. You don't know how tormenting it is to work for the same person that murdered your family in cold blood." Tears slowly dropped from her eyes and Kenji extinguished the flames.
"I see. Are you a waterbender?" he asked suddenly. His question seemed to surprise her.
"No I'm not" she replied whilst wiping the tears from her eyes. Of course not, Juan has brown hair and sapphire eyes, it was foolish to mistake her for my sister, Kenji thought. He sheathed his swords once more and released her as he turned away.
"I won't kill you, just be sure to find your own path. You can't always see the light at the end of the tunnel, but you know it is there. Just follow the right path, the path you make for yourself, to find your destiny. My old master always told me this," he said remorsefully.
"I'm dead either way," she replied. She was still firm and pessimistic.
"What?" Kenji was puzzled.
"My master Doshe has been watching us this whole time. By failing to kill you, he'll kill me."
"First of all, who sent you to kill me?"
"I don't know, only he knows."
"Wait, didn't you just say he was watching us?!" Kenji was about to unsheathe his swords when he received two rocks to the gut and an earth column which struck his jaw knocking him down. Suddenly, a man with a brown beard wearing a green garment dropped down from a tree.
"My, my, I'm greatly disappointed in you Mei, but I'll give you a chance to redeem yourself." He gestured to the poison knife on the ground.
"Pick that up, and kill the boy, then all is forgiven." Mei glanced at the knife and warily picked it up. She walked towards Kenji and stood over him, preparing to stab him. Just find your own path. You can't always see the light at the end of the tunnel, but you know it is there. Just follow the right path, the path you make for yourself, to find your destiny. The words Kenji had told her echoed in her mind and she hesitated.
"Well? What are you waiting for? Finish him!"
"NO!" she snapped at him. "I don't want this type of life anymore. I don't want to kill anyone anymore, but I'll happily end your life!"
She threw the knife at him, which he easily deflected with an earth shield. She picked up her chain and whirled it around her head; she tossed it at him but turned his earth shield into rock gloves and caught the chain by the blade.
"Remember, I taught you how to use this. I knew you'd turn on me sooner or later but I didn't think it would be this soon. Oh well, say hello to your parents in the afterlife." He stomped both feet hard on the ground and removed a chunk of earth as large as a full grown badgermole and tossed it at her. She was defenseless and there was no way to dodge the earth. She readied herself for the pain that was to come, but before she knew what had happened, a dust cloud filled the area. Slowly but surely, the dust cloud cleared revealing Kenji standing warily with his dual swords and the giant chunk of earth split in two.
"Don't try that again if you want to live!" Kenji yelled. He was still shook up from the blows but managed to stand still. Doshe laughed loudly.
"If you had it in you to kill, you would have murdered myself and my bosses the day we raided your house."
"What?!" Kenji's eyes widened.
"I was there on the day we killed your parents; I watched as an icicle was put through your mother's chest and your father was burned alive by the leaders. You had the power to save them but you were weak and feeble minded."
Kenji stood with his head low; he dropped his swords to the ground and fell to his knees. Doshe smirked; his plan was working perfectly. Or so he thought.
"You will pay..." Kenji's voice was almost dead silent. "All of you will pay!" He rose up and yelled as a ring of fire surrounded him, the flames turning blue, then purple, then green. He sent a double fisted green fire blast at his opponent, as powerful as though it were comet enhanced. The stream of fire effortlessly tore through his opponent's earth shield like tissue-paper and sent Doshe flying back, coming to an abrupt stop against a large tree. Kenji rushed at him and held him up by his neck, choking him.
"Why did you kill my parents?" he asked. His voice was as serious as ever, and there was fire in his eyes.
"I-I d-didn't k-kill them -gasp- my bosses d-did." He was squirming as Kenji's grip hardened.
"Who are you're bosses?!" he yelled, before slowly releasing his grip.
"T-they a-are..." Doshe never managed to finish. An arrow flew from the sky and went straight through his head. He was dead. Kenji looked around for the archer, but whoever it was had fled. He tossed Doshe aside as the flames around him extinguished. He turned around and picked up his dual dao swords, sheathing them as Mei stared awestruck with fear and surprise. Sai, who had been absent the whole battle, returned to Kenji's right shoulder. The darkness slowly faded away as the bright layers of light rose up. They had battled through the night and the landscape was devastated. He yawned slightly as he began walking out of the forest, and turned towards Mei.
"You look hungry. Let me buy you some breakfast," he said.
It had been almost four hours since daybreak, and Kenji had paid for food for the both of them, and a ferry out of the city. Mei was stood at the docks facing the ocean, and after a change of clothes into something more moderate, she looked even more beautiful than before. Finally her old life was behind her, and she was going to return to the Earth Kingdom and find her uncle.
"Call to the Earth Kingdom!" a boat captain yelled. Mei got ready to leave, but not without some parting words to Kenji.
"I can't thank you enough. You gave me some food, money, clothes and even paid for the boat trip, even though I tried to kill you and have done nothing to deserve your kindness."
"It was nothing. I just hope you will find your own destiny and your relatives. So good luck," he grinned.
"Last call to the Earth Kingdom!" She ran down the harbor, but turned around and took one last glance at Kenji. She ran towards him and their lips touched as she kissed him passionately, before turning around quickly to return to the boat. She did not want Kenji to see how red her face was. The boat turned away from the harbor and began it's voyage with Mei waving goodbye.
"You made a new friend today I see," an anonymous voice spoke.
"Who said that?" Kenji turned around, but realised that no one else was there but him and Sai.
"I must be hallucinating from lack of sleep, but that seemed almost real." He stared at his pet. "I'm losing it aren't I?" he sighed, and turned towards the park. Perhaps I might meet Xue, he thought.
Author's Note
So far, this is the longest chapter I have made, and the one I enjoyed writing best. However, I will make longer chapters and perhaps we will find out the owner of the mysterious voice in the next chapter.
Oh and for those that don't get the reference, Kenji's double fisted fire blast is based on the finishing form of the Dancing Dragon.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Spooked by higher interest rates and troubles in the subprime residential mortgage market, commercial real estate investors and lenders are rethinking some deals that would have sailed through just six months ago.
"There has definitely been a readjustment," said Marc Schnitzer, chief executive of Centerline Capital Group, a subsidiary of Centerline Holding Co. CHC.N.
"The investors who are buying a lot of the CDOs (collateralized debt obligations), investors that are buying a lot of the CMBS (commercial mortgage-backed securities), have started to push back on some of the more aggressive deal terms," he said this week at the Reuters Global Real Estate Summit in New York.
The meteoric rise of real estate prices over the past few years allowed investors to finance, in some cases, more than 90 percent of their acquisitions using borrowed money, such as mortgages, mezzanine debt and bridge loans.
Much of that debt was then used by investment banks and others to back securities sold to pension funds, university endowments and other institutional investors. The money raised was then recycled back to make more loans.
Such loans would fund purchases of individual properties and large real estate portfolios, such as Blackstone Group LP's (BX.N) $23 billion acquisition in February of Equity Office.
The issue of risk, and investors who assume it by purchasing the loans and securities, came under scrutiny in the winter as residential mortgage defaults spiked.
While commercial real estate has not seen the sort of rise in foreclosures the residential market has, lenders and CMBS investors have demanded either to be paid more for risk or that issuers get rid of some of the riskier loans they are selling.
In one deal in April that Schnitzer termed "notorious," issuers of a CMBS -- GE Commercial Mortgage Trust 2007-C1 -- reconstituted it after investors balked at some of the loans. The deal, initially announced at $4.23 billion, closed at $3.95 billion.
"Some loans had to be taken out," Schnitzer said. "Investors tapped on the brakes and pushed back, saying we need higher returns. Makers of CMBS are less certain of how to price things these days."
Colin Dyer, CEO of leading real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. (JLL.N), said the market shift gave potential bidders a chance "to pause or to find the math doesn't work any more, and so in some cases we've seen just a reduction in the number of bidders interested in parcels or individual assets."
However, real estate prices remain healthy, experts said, with rents strong and the supply of new buildings for the most part restrained in the United States.
"We continue to believe in the fundamentals of U.S. real estate -- increasing rents and increasing occupancy," said Joseph Parsons, president of GE Real Estate North American Equity.
GE Real Estate, a unit of General Electric Co. (GE.N), has about $60 billion invested in global real estate either through debt or ownership. In North America, it has $14 billion of equity invested and $17.5 billion in real estate lending.
"This irresistible force, which is the amount of money trying to get into real estate, is still present," Jones Lang's Dyer said. "For every $1 that gets done there are $5 trying to do the deal."
What is expected to change are some of the players. As the debt-heavy buyers leave the market or become less active, those, such as pension funds and foreign buyers who do not use as much debt, are expected to pick up the slack.
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He had heard from the likes of DePaul, Wake Forest, Miami, Nebraska, Seton Hall and a number of other programs. However, he visited Wisconsin in early May and fell for the situation.
"They really got to know me on a personal level," Perry said. "They got to know me as a person and not someone who just plays basketball. That really makes me feel at home."
The Illinois Warriors traveling team standout will play multiple guard – including the point – and wing slots for the Badgers and his versatility was attractive. Perry is fast and strong with the basketball. He'll need to get consistent with his jumper and continue to improve his decision making. This is a high-major caliber guard with a strong upside.
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Arthritis in Children - 2001 National Meeting (cont.)
There are three main forms of JRA, which are distinguished by how the disease begins; pauciarticular, polyarticular, and systemic onset (also called Still's Disease). Pauciarticular JRA is defined by the involvement of fewer than four joints at the beginning of the disease. Polyarticular JRA is the form in which four or more joints are involved from the onset. Systemic Onset (Still's Disease) begins with high fevers and a rash.
JRA can be associated with a severe inflammation of the eye, called uveitis. Uveitis is the most common cause of blindness in these children.
With proper treatment, most children with arthritis usually get better over time.
Remicade (infliximab) is an antibody that blocks the effects of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha). TNF-alpha is a substance made by cells of the body that has an important role in promoting inflammation. By blocking the action of TNF-alpha, infliximab reduces the signs and symptoms of inflammation. Remicade, an approved treatment for adult rheumatoid arthritis, is given by intravenous infusion every 2 months.
Remicade was reported in this meeting as effective for treating JRA, thereby resulting in a significant and prompt reduction in disease activity and improved quality of life. Another paper presented data demonstrating that doses of Remicade that are higher than currently recommended doses could be effective and necessary in JRA.
Dr. Shiel's Perspective: This does not surprise me, since it is the same situation for adults with rheumatoid arthritis who are being treated in my practice.


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I'm having trouble finding Microsoft office. I looked at Inventory, and selected applications. In the search box I put in 'Office' and told it to go, and it found nothing.
I go lookup my machine, and look at the software on it, and lo and behold it finds Microsoft Office Professional. So I'm now able to drill-down through that and see how many office professional installs we have.
That's kind of the long way around, I was hoping for a more direct approach... Even making a inventory group that would just show a specific application. This would make mucking through all the service packs, etc., a lot easier.
To even think about that though I need to know how to search of Office and find it.
I also wondered if there was a way to deal with our Office 2003 pool of 20 licenses, which is in addition to the 50 Office 2007 licenses we just bought, which include retroactive office 2003 licenses, on down probably to Office 4.3. (Isn't that the first version where they bundled them all?)
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On the first issue - I would go to Shared Reports - someone had probably created a report that will do what you need. If not, let me know, I'll put one together and publish it for you.
I would ask your second question in a different group - sounds like a licensing question correct?
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Thanks for the info. I'll have to checkout the shared reports. I'm sure I can figure it out if there's not one already there, and I would feel good about contributing.
Well, I know how the licensing works. I just hoped that there was a way of having the 50 Office 12 licenses also be valid for 50 Office 11 installs in addition to the existing 20 Office 11 installs. I can live without it, but thought someone might've figured out something better than telling Spiceworks that we've got 70 Office 11 licenses.
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Francie Latour is a writer, educator and diversity/inclusion practitioner. Her writing on race, culture and identity has appeared in the Boston Globe, The Root, Essence and Ebony, among other publications. She has appeared as a guest on NBC's Today and on National Public Radio. In 2000, Francie's essay on Haitian-American identity was selected for the anthology The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States, edited by author Edwidge Danticat. After 17-year career in journalism, Francie now works in higher education, coordinating a diversity initiative for undergraduates at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a leading center for biomedical research. Francie is also a co-founder of Wee The People, a new arts-based series for kids ages 3-12 exploring social justice and activism. Francie, who lives in Roslindale, is a mother of three and a daughter of Haitian heritage. Her mother was born in Les Cayes and her father was born in Petion-Ville.
Born in Haïti and raised in the United States and Canada, Nadège V. White works in the non-profit healthcare sector, has a keen mind for numbers and finance, is an amateur photographer, and has dabbled as a performer of Caribbean and West African cultural dances. An avid explorer of beauty, diversity, and truth, Nadège has traveled extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Canada. Her self-expression is a blend of quirky sense of humor and imagination, a deep respect for the inherent "efficiency" within us all, and a penchant for hopefulness.
Nadia-Renee Patricia Taylor has been supporting JAE for several years. She started dancing with JAE's Ethno-Haitian dance classes since 2008 and has been an instrumental advocate for the company's dance programs in Boston and in Haiti for the past five years and remains an instrumental supporter. Nadia is an Educator, avid traveler, and dance culture enthusiast. Nadia is a strong believer in God who uses her talents and gifts as a community person to help people in need of which she strongly believes is God's work. A recent trip to Chennai India to participate in a non-traditional mission and cultural exchange trip, fueled that passion and her passion for more world travels. As an Educator, Nadia continues to work with children supporting their academic and social/emotional needs. When Nadia is away from her teaching responsibilities, Nadia volunteers to help feed people at her former Youth Center, and supports community festivals in her home town of Cambridge Massachusetts. Nadia holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master's of Education in English as a Second Language. She currently lives in Cambridge Massachusetts.
Raquel Cardoso is an art educator and artist who believes that we are most connected to ourselves and the world around us when we are creating, whether it be painting, dancing or making music. She has spent the last 16 years sharing this vision with her students with an emphasis on themes of social justice, honoring identity and each child's personal experience and voice. She immigrated to the U.S from Portugal when she was a child and has always felt connected to others who straddle two countries, cultures and families like herself. She is an avid traveler, taking full advantage of summers off, and has traveled to numerous countries, including southern Africa, Europe and South America. She was called to the strong sense of community and powerful and grounding movements of Jean's dance class 4 years ago and has never turned back.
Daniel Solomon Koff is a design consultant who creates shared social, cultural, and multi-sensory experiences. His work ranges from urban placemaking to interactive installations, from the downtowns of old industrial cities, to the galleries of contemporary art museums. Koff has a Masters in Design Studies with a concentration in Art, Design, and the Public Domain from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In college he earned a dual bachelor's degree in Social Design and History with a minor in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis.
Woodrick is a junior studying business management at Bunker Hill Community College, and will be transferring to the University of Massachusetts Boston in the near future. He was born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and moved to the United States when he was 16. When Woodrick first came to the US, he was homeless himself for several years, and is very excited to be part of JAE. Woodrick loves nature, running, and playing soccer.
Michel DeGraff, born in Haiti, is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Michel dances as often as he can at JAE's Afro-Haitian classes at the Dance Complex in Cambridge. On the scholarly and activist fronts, his interests mostly concern the development and structures of Creole languages, with focus on his native Haitian Creole ("Kreyòl") and on the innovative and socially conscious uses of Kreyòl in research and education. Most recently, these interests have taken him to collaborate with MIT Sloan and Haitian colleagues on leadership and teamwork in Haiti. Michel's research agenda has two important implications for linguistics and for education- and language-related policies toward an "emergent" Haiti: (i) Kreyòl is comparable to European and other languages in terms of its development, structures and expressive capacity; (ii) Kreyòl is an essential tool for the academic and socio-economic progress of Haitians and their communities, especially these communities that have long been the victims of social exclusion and injustice. Two of Michel's recent projects in Haiti, both funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and with the support of Haitian leaders and educators, have explored some of the ways in which the strategic use of Kreyòl and educational technology help improve Haitian students' active learning of reading, writing, math and science. In the ongoing MIT-Haiti Initiative, Michel has enlisted the collaboration of colleagues at MIT and in Haiti for the development, evaluation and dissemination of state-of-the-art Kreyòl-based, technology-enhanced and open-education resources for active learning in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math ("STEM"). The goal of the MIT-Haiti Initiative is to make high-quality education accessible to the greatest numbersof Haitian students throughout the country, while strengthening the foundations of Haiti's linguistic and cultural identity—in a spirit similar to JAE's work in Haiti. Michel believes that "quality education for all" in Haiti crucially depends on one indispensable linguistic tool at the root of Haitian identity and culture. This tool is Kreyòl, the only language spoken by all Haitians. Therefore, Kreyòl is the most widely accessible pedagogical asset in Haiti and an essential ingredient for economic development and nation building. It is through the innovative, strategic and systematic use of Kreyòl that Haitian students can optimally develop their capacity for acquiring and building additional knowledge in STEM, in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and in second languages such as French, English, Spanish, etc. These learning gains, to be achieved through the coupling of technology and Haiti's national language, should lead the country to the much awaited path of research and innovation in STEM toward sustainable development, with Haiti becoming a truly "emergent country" by 2030. More generally, a stronger and more vibrant Haiti must be rooted in the wealth of its linguistic and cultural soil, along the ideals embodied in JAE's mission. Wi, se kon sa Ayiti ap djaye ak bèlte pou tout pitit li! For more information about Michel DeGraff's projects, see http://mit.edu/degraff and http://haiti.mit.edu.
Stephanie co-founded Jean Appolon Expressions with Jean Appolon in 2011 and served as Executive Director for the organization's first five years. Stephanie is a non-profit professional with nearly twenty years of experience in arts management leadership. She has held recent leadership positions with Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium and El Sistema USA at New England Conservatory. From 2005-2008, she lived in Maputo, Mozambique where she was the Founder and Project Manager of a grassroots project called "Dance for Life," done in partnership with a local dance company and funded by foreign embassies and corporations. From 2000-2005, she served as the Director of Outreach and Education at Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB), one of Seattle's largest arts organizations and one of the major ballet companies in the U.S. Currently a freelance consultant and writer, Stephanie received a B.A. in English Literature at the University of Virginia and an M.A. in English Literature at the University of Washington.
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- Alfred Arteaga, professor of ethnic studies at University of California - Berkeley, is a good friend and occasional contributor to Bad Subjects. This website contains samples of his writing and art.
- Arts and Letters Daily
- An excellent site for following public discussions of cultural politics.
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- Martha Bayles' blog on film.
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- The Bush administration's anti-science stance puts innocent people at risk of being indicted on frivolous charges. by Annalee Newitz
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- Steve Kurtz of the acclaimed Critical Art Ensemble is currently facing charges of wire fraud brought in connection with absurdly-alleged 'bioterrorism.' Also see the CAE Defense Fund website at http://www.caedefensefund.org/.
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The state teachers' retirement-system bureaucrats and union bosses who stand guard over the commonwealth's unsustainable public-pension gold mine want us to believe that retirement policies are too obscure and mysterious for taxpayers to enter in.
Rather, their real concern is that enough taxpayers will grasp the full extent of the generosity of state retirement benefits and conclude: "we simply cannot afford such luscious pensions."
Considering pension payments are determined in large part by salaries, such will likely be the response of many Louisville taxpayers in light of a recent survey released by the Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) showing its teachers are among the nation's highest-paid instructors.
The JCPS salary schedule reveals that Rank One teachers with 25 years' experience pulled in $81,887 during the 2015-16 school year, up from $80,256 in 2014-15 and $79,462 in 2013-14.
Teachers who want to use their three highest annual salaries in determining the size of their pension checks must be at least 55 years old and have taught for a minimum of 27 years.
Many teachers retire after 30 to 33 years in the classroom, allowing them to boost their pensions by including their three highest annual salaries as well as taking full advantage of a service-credit rating that climbs higher after working for three decades.
Using the aforementioned JCPS teachers' salaries, which also reflects the type of pay – and thus level of pensions – amassed by many administrators in other areas of the commonwealth, a Rank One teacher in Louisville who retires after 33 years can expect an annual pension of $67,649, or $5,637 monthly.
I reached that retirement amount simply by multiplying the average of those three highest years of salary mentioned for JCPS' Rank One teachers by the service credit that all Kentucky teachers get – 2.5 percent for the first 30 years and 3 percent for each additional year.
It adds up to an 84 percent service credit and a bountiful pension for a retiree who works for less than 190 days annually for 33 years, with the bounty coming from taxpayers, many of whom cannot afford their own retirement plans – or certainly not benefits as rich as Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System (KTRS) pensions – and who work many more days per year.
Add in the value of unused sick days – which is not included in that $5,637 monthly check for the JCPS Rank One retiree I mentioned earlier – and teachers' pension checks grow like Jack's beanstalk.
State law allows teachers to embed 30 percent of the total value of all unused sick days throughout their career – a maximum of 10 days per year and 300 per career – into the formula determining their pensions.
Applying state law, the value of each sick day is determined by taking KTRS retirees' final annual salary – $81,887 in the case of JCPS – and divide it by 185 days, which in the case of Louisville's veteran instructors equals $442.63. The law allows retirees to apply 30 percent of the total value of their unused sick days to determine their lifetime pensions.
If this veteran JCPS teacher accumulates 150 – or half – of the unused sick days allowed by law, she not only gets a check for $17,358 when she retires (30 percent of the value of those unused sick days minus 12.855 percent that goes into the KTRS), she also gets to apply that amount to her retirement in a way that expand the size of those pension checks for a lifetime.
In the end, our JCPS retiree's annual pension will jump an additional $5,577 each year to more than $73,000 (not including a 1.5 percent annual cost-of-living increase) for the rest of her life just for – as the late Yogi Berra might have said – doing what she's already paid to do.
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Chemistry Qualifications - Options Edit
Home-ed students take IGCSE Chemistry exams rather than GCSE because the current GCSE involves Controlled Assessments, and the new 9-1 GCSEs will still have a practical requirement. Exam centres are very reluctant to take external candidates for these as it is time consuming and bureaucratic.The International GCSE (IGCSE) Chemistry substitutes "Alternative to Practical" questions for these assessments, and so consists of written exams only. The 'Certificate' qualifications below are simply IGCSEs for UK state schools.
Edexcel IGCSE / Certificate Chemistry, AQA Certificate Chemistry, and CIE IGCSE Chemistry are available for private candidates.
The new 9-1 GCSEs do not have a practical exam or controlled assessments, BUT the head of the exam centre has to sign a form for each candidate saying that the candidate has been offered the opportunity to carry out all core practicals at the centre. It is unlikely that many exam centres will offer external candidates the opportunity to do this, and so the vast majority of home educators are continuing with IGCSEs. This does not mean that we will not do practical work - many home-educated children do chemistry practicals, either in groups or at home - but it does mean that they will not do practicals in the exam centre.
Alternative to Practicals Questions Edit
The Edexcel and CIE specifications includes 'alternative to Practicals' questions, rather than requiring a practical exam. One way to prepare is simply working through loads of past papers and then carefully reading the mark scheme and examiners' reports afterwards. The old Edexcel spec is perfectly good for this - in fact you can just get the 'alternative to practical' paper from the old spec (paper 3) and work through that. The change in specification was mainly for structure and there was not a huge change in content.
These questions about changes to an experiment are often straightforward; there are recurring themes, eg whether you can take accurate measurements in the current setup and whether there are any safety issues.
These questions are very similar in both Edexcel and CIE so you can use both for practice.
CIE IGCSE Chemistry Edit
CIE IGCSE Chemistry (0620) is a long-standing option.
- Three papers: a 1h Alternative to Practical, a 45 min Multiple Choice and a 1 hr 15 Theory paper.
- Multiple choice and theory are taken back to back (so effectively 2 hours), but the multiple choice element does assist someone who's not used to long exams, or producing long written answers.
- CIE science IGCSEs are tiered, so all the difficult questions are in one paper if you do Higher tier. Foundation tier can earn you grades C-G and Higher tier can earn grades A*-C. If you score below the C threshold on Higher then you get ungraded.
Edexcel International GCSE / Edexcel Certificate Edit
This is a popular choice amongst home educators as it is easy to find an exam centre for Edexcel. The specification is changing slightly for exams from Summer 2019.
The current specification is Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry (2011) and is graded A*-G . Last exams will be January 2019. These are described as a 'resit opportunity' but actually first-time candidates can sit exams in January; you just have to be aware that there will be no further exams for this specification.
The new specification, graded 9-1, will have first exams in Summer 2019 and is Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry (2017) . The (2017) refers to the year it is first offered for teaching in schools. The changes are not that substantial. Edexcel has produced a mapping document which is copied below.
Current 2011 Edexcel specification: Edit
- 2 papers, paper 1 is 2 hours and paper 2 is 1 hour. Paper 1 is the same as the chemistry paper of Double Award Science.
- Single - tier entry, so both difficult and easier questions are scattered between the two papers and you don't have to choose which tier your child will enter. You can get the full range of grades by sitting the two papers.
- Alternative to Practical questions are scattered between the two papers.
Qualification code is 4CH0 for the IGCSE and KCH0 for the Edexcel Certificate. Usually the same exam paper has these two different codes on the front.
Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry Subject Page
The exam board's website is usually the best place to find past papers - most of them keep the most recent past paper password-protected for exam centres only, but you can download others and mark schemes, examiners' reports etc, freely. Just search, eg, "edexcel igcse chemistry" and it is easy to find -
For Edexcel IGCSE, you will need to look at the IGCSE Chemistry from 2009 AND the IGCSE Chemistry from 2011. The changes were very minor and the past papers from the 2009 spec are good practice for the 2011. You can also practise with questions from the older, pre-2009, spec; if you do the past papers from the most recent spec first, you can then go through the older ones and pick out similar questions. Sometimes the time allowed and total marks are different, so what we do with old papers is look at the overall marks and overall time, work out how many minutes are available per mark, and then put together a few practise questions with the appropriate time limits. I know it may seem obvious, but you don't have to do a whole 2 hour paper in one go either. It is, of course, helpful to have a couple of mock exams the exact length as the real thing, but otherwise, it may fit your family better to chop it up into several half-hour chunks.
Textbooks for Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry Edit
Edexcel IGCSE chemistry student book by Jim Clark has been highly recommended by many. The author has his own website where he offers all the answers PLUS [additional support to home -ed parents]. Pearson Edexcel also provide the [answers to all questions] as a free download.
Collins Edexcel International GCSE Chemistry Student Book by Chris Sunley et al. This series has received good reviews from home-educators, but note that answers are not provided to the exam-style questions; these are in the Teacher Pack, which costs £98!! However, Collins have generally been helpful recently when members have contacted them asking for a copy of the answers. (18/08/15 - I contacted Collins by email who instantly replied to my email enclosing the answers for both Chemistry and Physics textbooks. RB - file uploaded here: please click on the PDF below.)
Hodder: Edexcel International GCSE Chemistry and Certificate Practice Book, by Robert Wensley (2013) - for IGCSE and Certificate. Recommended by a home-educator, who wrote: "They are full of exam style questions and detailed guidance on how to answer to gain the most marks.". The only drawback is that the answers have disappeared from the Hodder site. Hodder provided them for our group member and the files are available below.
- File:Edexcel IGCSE Chem Practice Bk Mark Scheme3.pdf
- File:Edexcel IGCSE Chem Practice Bk Mark Scheme1.pdf
- File:Edexcel IGCSE Chem Practice Bk Mark Scheme2.pdf
- File:Edexcel IGCSE Chem Practice Bk Mark Scheme4.pdf
- File:Edexcel IGCSE Chem Practice Bk Mark Scheme5.pdf
Past Papers Edit
Collection of older Edexcel IGCSE papers
For more exam papers, you will usually have to look on free exam paper sharing sites - eg
Freeexampapers.com Chemistry IGCSE page
More up to date exam papers can be found here: Bilal's Ahmed's Blog
Edexcel provide a useful iPad app called 'Edexcel Past Papers' which gives instant, free, access to many past papers.
New Edexcel 9-1 IGCSE Chemistry (2017) Specification Edit
The new specification, graded 9-1, will have first exams in Summer 2019 and is Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry (2017) . The (2017) refers to the year it is first offered for teaching in schools. The changes are not that substantial - many small changes to descriptions rather than large differences in topic areas. You will probably still find old past papers helpful.
File:Edexcel IGCSE-Chemistry-2017-mapping-document.pdf
There is also a very helpful "Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry (2017) Getting Started for Teachers" guide which goes into more detail; an extract is above.
Edexcel has also produced a more detailed mapping document which goes through the whole specification line-by-line noting any changes.
AQA Level 1/2 Certificate in Chemistry Edit
This specification was available to private candidates from June 2013 (2 papers) and will be discontinued with last exam in summer 2017.
AQA Chemistry Certificate/IGCSE
Chemistry Practicals and Experiments Edit
Many of the practicals recommended in the syllabus can be carried out at home; it is surprising how much can be done with relatively little kit, but you may also find that equipment is often affordable. For those experiments which you are not able to carry out at home, there are many videos on YouTube. Many school chemistry classes use videos rather than hands-on practicals for a reasonable proportion of the syllabus.
Some options for gaining practical experience:
- Work through some of the experiments in the syllabus yourself. Practical suggestions on how to do it here:
Chemistry Practicals for Home-Ed an edit of the Edexcel Scheme of Work with some notes for home ed families
- Find a local chemistry tutor and ask them to carry out some experiments with you. We did this for practicals that I was not confident about, and it worked well. The tutor would give me shopping lists of chemicals to obtain and worked with what equipment we had or could obtain cheaply and easily. He enjoyed the chance to do real chemistry rather than helping kids cram!
- Some tutorial colleges and Further Education colleges offer practical science courses, although these are most often aimed at A-level students - eg [Campbell Harris A-level Chemistry evening course]
- Chemistry Camps and Roadshows run by universities etc, eg [Salters Chemistry Camps] have been very highly recommended by home-ed families. See below.
- Royal Institution's Young Scientist Centre workshops, and other similar activities at science museums.
Salters Chemistry Camps Edit
"Students spend three days and two nights at the Host University, staying in the University Halls of Residence, and using the laboratories. They carry out new, exciting experiments, and have the chance to delve into areas of chemistry that are perhaps not covered at school. Further background information is presented through entertaining lectures and (often noisy!) demonstrations. In the evenings, practical work in the labs is put on the back burner, and students enjoy a variety of social activities."
Home-ed parents can nominate children in the same way that schools can, and several home-ed children have highly recommended these camps in the past. Students should be in Year 10, ie aged 14-15; not sure if there is any flexibility on this.
Also do Salters Festival of Chemistry for younger children.
Royal Institution Young Scientist Centre Edit
Institution L'Oreal Young Scientist Centre in London, has workshops which involve practical lab work for different age groups. London home-ed groups regularly organise school sessions there, but you can also book as individuals during their Summer School, for instance.
Supplies Edit
You can get most chemicals and equipment you need for IGCSE level, in small quantities, on eBay.
Kitchen Chemistry on eBay sells small quantities of chemistry kit spares.
See also the following suppliers of equipment and/or chemicals which have been recommended by home educators:
Paradigm Shift - apparently no longer supplying, but listed here in case they recommence.
Resources Edit
IGCSE Science Courses - Graham Bray is a Director of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) at a large comprehensive school in East Sussex. He initially prepared a set of video courses for a local home ed student with dyslexia who was struggling with reading textbooks. He 'teaches' the whole syllabus in a series of c15minute videos of himself talking through a set of powerpoint animated slides. He now offers 'talking papers' with model answers, lesson plans and checklists. Videos cover each of the 3 sciences and CIE and Edexcel Boards.
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Kevin Schulte, whose family owns the horse back riding concession at the Kentucky Horse Park near Lexington, has been nominated to the Race Track Chaplaincy of America's 2005 White Horse Award.
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Old Friends, a Thoroughbred retirement facility based at Hurstland Farm near Midway, Ky., will host a tribute to the mare Estrapade at the farm April 25 at 1 p.m. ET.
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The Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky. has entered into a partnership with nearby Georgetown College in an effort to provide what is described as "an exceptional learning experience" for students enrolled in the school's newly designed Equine Scholars Program.
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Penny Chenery, one of racing's great matriarchs, is recuperating well and feeling better after suffering a heart attack early Monday morning.
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