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The Tennessee Department of Agriculture will conduct routine compliance checks beginning Jan. 1, 2015 for the federal Animal Disease Traceability rule. The rule went into effect last year and requires the identification of livestock being transported across state lines.

"The federal rule is an effective way to trace the movement of livestock in an animal disease event so that appropriate action can be taken to limit the impact on producers," state veterinarian Charles Hatcher said. "The rule only applies to livestock being moved interstate, but it'

important that Tennessee farmers work with their local veterinarian to obtain proper documentation."
The ADT rule requires all livestock, including cattle, equine, sheep and goats, swine and poultry, being moved interstate to be officially identified, unless specifically exempted. Livestock must be accompanied by an interstate certificate of veterinary inspection or other documentation, such as owner-shipper statements or brand certificates.
Brands, tattoos and brand registration can also be used as official identification when accepted by the shipping and receiving states. Backtags are accepted as an alternative to official eartags for cattle moved directly to slaughter.
Animal health documentation is still required by the state under certain circumstances for livestock being moved within Tennessee. Additionally, some states have documentation requirements that go beyond the federal rule. Producers should consult with their veterinarians to make sure that any livestock that is transported complies with all regulations.

TDA is working to implement a user-friendly online system already adopted by 20 other states that will allow private veterinarians to submit and access documents electronically in order to help with compliance. Veterinarians interested in participating should contact the State Veterinarian's office at 615-837-5120 or
For more information, visit USDA's website at or for details about Tennessee's animal health programs.

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Introduction to Michigan Mobile Markets

January 3, 2017

In this webinar, held December 20, 2016, representatives of six mobile markets in Michigan came together for an internal conversation to introduce each other to their models for pop-farm stands, cafes and grocers. Each person or group shared the basic operating practices of their mobile market as well as successes and challenges. This was followed by time for questions and discussion.

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Working with the CIA, the New York Police Department maintained a list of "ancestries of interest" and dispatched undercover officers to monitor Muslim businesses and social groups, according to new documents that offer a rare glimpse inside an intelligence program the NYPD insists doesn't exist.

NEW YORK - Working with the CIA, the New York Police Department maintained a list of "ancestries of interest" and dispatched undercover officers to monitor Muslim businesses and social groups, according to new documents that offer a rare glimpse inside an intelligence program the NYPD insists doesn't exist.

The documents add new details to an Associated Press investigation that explained how undercover NYPD officers singled out Muslim communities for surveillance and infiltration.

The Demographics Unit, a squad of 16 officers fluent in a total of at least five languages, was told to map ethnic communities in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and identify where people socialize, shop and pray.

Once that analysis was complete, according to documents obtained by the AP, the NYPD would "deploy officers in civilian clothes throughout the ethnic communities."

The architect of this and other programs was a veteran CIA officer who oversaw the program while working with the NYPD on the CIA payroll. It was an unusual arrangement for the CIA, which is prohibited from spying inside the U.S.

After the AP report, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the NYPD has kept the city safe and does not take religion into account in its policing. The NYPD denied the Demographics Unit exists.

"There is no such unit," police spokesman Paul Browne said before the first AP story ran. "There is nothing called the Demographics Unit."

Internal police documents show otherwise. An NYPD presentation, delivered inside the department, described the mission and makeup of the Demographics Unit. Undercover officers were told to look not only for evidence of terrorism and crimes but also to determine the ethnicity of business owners and eavesdrop on conversations inside cafes.

A police memorandum from 2006 described an NYPD supervisor rebuking an undercover detective for not doing a good enough job reporting on community events and "rhetoric heard in cafes and hotspot locations."

How law enforcement agencies, both local and federal, can stay ahead of Islamic terrorists without using racial profiling techniques has been hotly debated since 9/11. Singling out minorities for extra scrutiny without evidence of wrongdoing has been criticized as discriminatory. Not focusing on Muslim neighborhoods has been equally criticized as political correctness run amok. The documents describe how the nation's largest police force has come down on that issue.

Working out of the police department's offices at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, the Demographics Unit maintained a list of 28 countries that, along with "American Black Muslim," it considered "ancestries of interest." Nearly all are Muslim countries.

Police used census data and government databases to map areas it considered "hot spots" as well as the ethnic neighborhoods of New York's tri-state area, the documents show.

Undercover officers known as "rakers" - a term the NYPD also denied existed - were then told to participate in social activities such as cricket matches and visit cafes and clubs, the documents show.

Police had a list of "key indicators" of problems. It included obvious signs of trouble such as criminal activity and extremist rhetoric by imams. But it also included things commonly seen in neighborhoods, such as community centers, religious schools and "community bulletin boards (located in houses of worship)."

At least one lawyer inside the police department has raised concerns about the Demographics Unit, current and former officials told the AP. Because of those concerns, the officials said, the information gathered from the unit is kept on a computer at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, not in the department's normal intelligence database. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the intelligence programs.

The AP independently authenticated the NYPD presentation through an interview with one official who saw it and by reviewing electronic data embedded in the file. A former official who had not seen the presentation said the content of the presentation was correct. For the internal memo, the AP verified the names and locations mentioned in the document, and the content is consistent with a program described by numerous current and former officials.

In an email Tuesday night, Browne disputed the AP's original story, saying the NYPD only follows leads and does not simply trawl communities.

"We do not employ undercovers or confidential informants unless there is information indicating the possibility of unlawful activity," Browne wrote.

That issue has legal significance. The NYPD says it follows the same guidelines as the FBI, which cannot use undercover agents to monitor communities without first receiving an allegation or indication of criminal activity.

After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the CIA sent a respected veteran officer, Lawrence Sanchez, to New York, where he worked closely with the NYPD. Officials said he was instrumental in creating programs such as the Demographics Unit and met regularly with unit supervisors to guide the effort. After a two-year rotation in New York, Sanchez took a leave of absence, came off the agency's payroll and became the NYPD's second-ranking intelligence official. He formally left the agency in 2007 and stayed with the NYPD until last year.

The CIA recently dispatched another officer to work in the Intelligence Division for what officials described as a management sabbatical. A U.S. official familiar with the NYPD-CIA partnership said Sanchez's time in New York was a unique assignment created in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. But the official said the current officer's job was much different and was an opportunity for him to learn from an organization outside the CIA.

Both the CIA said and the NYPD have said the agency is not involved in domestic spying and said the partnership is the kind of counterterrorism collaboration Americans expect.

The NYPD Intelligence Division has unquestionably been essential to the city's best counterterrorism successes, including the thwarted plot to bomb the subway system in 2004. Undercover officers also helped lead to the guilty plea of two men arrested on their way to receive terrorism training in Somalia.

"We throw 1,200 police officers into the fight every day to make sure the same people or similarly inspired people who killed 3,000 New Yorkers a decade ago don't come back and do it again," Browne said earlier this month when asked about the NYPD's intelligence tactics.

The Demographics Unit had officers who spoke Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu, according to the police presentation. The undercover officers were divided into teams based on ethnicity. Arab officers could blend into Arab neighborhoods and Southwest Asian officers, those from Pakistan and Afghanistan, could more easily blend into those neighborhoods.

Rep. Yvette Clarke, a Democrat who represents much of Brooklyn and sits on the House Homeland Security Committee, said the NYPD can protect the city without singling out specific ethnic and religious groups. She joined Muslim organizations in calling for a Justice Department investigation into the NYPD Intelligence Division. The department said it would review the request for an investigation.

Clarke acknowledged that the 2001 terrorist attacks made Americans more willing to accept aggressive tactics, particularly involving Muslims. But she said Americans would be outraged if police infiltrated Baptist churches looking for evangelical Christian extremists.

"There were those who, during World War II, said, `Good, I'm glad they're interning all the Japanese-Americans who are living here,'" Clarke said. "But we look back on that period with disdain."

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Adele: "BRIT Awards 2012 Will Be A Beautiful Way To Celebrate Success Of '21'

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The 'Rolling In The Deep' singer admits she is looking forward to returning to the event which kick started her fantastic year.

Adele has confessed that she is looking forward to the BRIT Award 2012 on Tuesday night (21st February) as she has a "soft spot" for the event.

Last year, she performed 'Someone Like You' and was catapulted into dizzying heights of success as she dominated the charts worldwide with her album '21'.

She said: "I have a soft spot for The BRITs, but this year feels really special since last year it kick-started my album into what it's become. What a beautiful way to celebrate!"

The 'Set Fire To The Rain' singer will make her live UK return at the ceremony since undergoing throat surgery in November last year and is also up for a trio of awards on the night.

Last Sunday (12th February), she dominated at the Grammy Awards taking home six prizes as well as returning to the stage.

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Conferences really pay, not play

Making it harder for employees to attend conferences can save a little but cost a lot

November 10, 2010
Guest commentary by KEN GOODERHAM, Administrator, Captiva Community Panel

The American Shore & Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) just held its annual technical conference on coastal issues, held every fall at a coastal city around the country (this year, Charleston, S.C.). More than 200 coastal professionals from around the country — and even a few from overseas — gathered to hear 80-plus presentations on issues ranging from the recent Gulf oil spill to regional sediment management to sea level rise to coastal structures and policy... and much more.

During these tight economic times, conference such as this are often the first items to be cut by local and state governments urgently working to curb expenses and balance budgets. That's a political decision that each elected official or board has to grapple with, but too often such cuts end up being penny wise and pound foolish — saving a little, perhaps, but eventually costing a lot.

Conferences are more than a chance for government employees (and others) to get a few days out of the office. In reality, they can be efficient ways for those employees to be more productive, more effective and more strategic in their jobs.

• Information: Through presentations and informal discussions, coastal experts can learn how others in the field have addressed similar problems in their own communities, seeing what worked and what didn't and perhaps avoiding the problems and pitfalls that cost those communities a lot in time and money.

• Networking: Coastal professionals don't work in a vacuum, but instead rely on a network of fellow professionals, agency regulators and government permit agents to get local projects moving forward. Meeting those people face-to-face at events such as conferences helps develop professional relationships that can pay off when you're trying to move a project forward.

• Problem-solving: Often, conferences bring together people who can make decisions affecting your coastal project or concern... and if your coastal official is there to draw them together to address issues with your local efforts, things can be resolved right on the spot. We've seen project logjams get broken from an impromptu meeting during a conference, simply because all the people who needed to be at the table were right there and ready to work together. The value of that to your coastal efforts can be incalculable.

• Education: Coastal management is a dynamic field, with new advances and ideas continuing to expand and evolve the disciplines. Your local coastal professional needs to keep up on the latest thinking or the most current research — and where better then a conference where experts gather to share their work and ideas? By listening to this array of knowledge, your coastal professional can bring this knowledge back home to benefit your local efforts.

• Professionalism: Conferences are how many professionals in diverse fields stay engaged and informed in their particular discipline. If local and state governments want to attract and keep qualified and knowledgeable employees, they need to ensure those employees are able to keep abreast of changes in their fields — for their own good and for the people and projects they work for.

A final note: For many coastal communities, conferences are also a potential source of revenue for coastal hotels and meeting venues, generating jobs, spending and bed-tax revenues from the influx of attendees brought to your town only because the conference is being held there.

Cutting back on conferences attendances by your employees could come back to haunt your community if fewer conferences are held... meaning fewer conferences might bring their benefits to your local hotels, restaurants and shops. That can have a detrimental economic impact right here at home — the last thing most communities want during lean times.

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Monday, March 18, 2013

Peanut Butter Brownies

This Mother's Day in the UK, instead of buying gifts, the girls made brownies for Granny and Auntie. This was an easy recipe to do with the girls. I did all of the heating up and they did all of the pouring, mixing & adding. The best part was how excited they were to give the gifts away once completed. The time for our guests to arrive couldn't come soon enough and jackets were barely off before they were each shoving a box in someone's face. As for the brownies they are lovely with a perfect flaky crust. Just as brownies ought to be.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Crazy Hair

I finally managed to get C's hair into braids. It took me about 10 minutes per braid and they were so tight that they stood stiff in the air like antlers, none-the-less they were braids. No small feat as the hair gods haven't really blessed her with lovely long locks.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

St. Patricks Day boutonniere and necklace

St. Patrick's Day is just days away (and its snowing outside) so C and I used colored paper, a cookie cutter, pipe cleaners and sticky tape to make necklaces for the girls and boutonnieres for H and I.

Monday, March 11, 2013

Perfect Sugar Cookies (Easter Themed)

I have to say, I think that these cookies taste fantastic and the girls think they are incredibly cute. They are a perfect balance of butter and sugar appealing to both children and adults.  The dough is so easy to work with that even kids can handle it and mine did. The frosting recipe is easy and dries hard for mess free storage.

Friday, March 8, 2013

A Talent of Sorts: Ear Inserter

C, my youngest, is two and a HALF. If you ask her, she will emphasize the "HALF" because she is a kid and desperately wants to be older, until she turns thirty when she will want to be younger.


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Former Barclays bankers jailed for Libor fraud

Former Barclays traders handed lengthy jail terms for Libor riggingManipulating benchmark rates for gain

Four former Barclays bankers have been handed down jail time following a three-month trial at Southwark Crown Court in London, England. The charges related to conspiring to fraudulently rig global benchmark interest rates between 2005 and 2007 and the convictions represent a victory for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), which has been pursuing investigations into the Libor scandal for some years but has achieved just one other successful prosecution against six acquittals. Two more Libor-fixing cases by other former Barclays bankers are still under investigation. Read more…

Trouble at the top as Barclays oust boss

Barclays Chief Executive ousted in boardroom falling outBarclays Chief Exec ousted in boardroom falling out

British bank Barclays has announced that boss Antony Jenkins has been ousted from his job by a disgruntled board just three years after he was promoted to the job in the wake of the Libor scandal. Jenkins is being replaced for now by chairman John McFarland following unrest over the board’s desire for bigger cost cuts and more focus on the investment bank’s performance. Read more…

Barclays sets aside £800m for forex penalties

Barclays profits hit by forex and PPI penalties

British bank faces fresh fines

Barclays has had to carve another £800m off the bank’s bottom line to pay its share of the international forex rigging scandal and to settle further compensation claims for mis-selling payment protection insurance to customers. The bank’s penalties will total around £2bn from regulators in the UK and US charged with investigating the manipulation of the £3.5tn-a-day forex markets. Read more…


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Clube Atlantico - 3 bedroom villa superior with pool - Casa Shambala

Season Period Rates per night in Euros
Winter 2016/2017 01-11-16 / 31-03-17 163
Mid season 2017 01-04-17 /31-05-17 239
High season 01-06-17 / 30-06-17 304
Peak season 2017 01-07-17 / 31-08-17 443
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The Villa

This beautiful modern villa is very tastefully furnished and decorated. Lots of privacy and space. The beautiful beach "Praia do Carvalho" can be reached in 10 min. by walking.

The Outside

Lovely manicured garden with lots of palm trees and rockery which wraps itself around the (heatable at extra cost) large kidney-shaped pool (ca. 10 x 4 m). Concrete steps lead into the pool.  There is a covered roof terrace with barbeque and sitting area, providing a wonderful view to the lighthouse and the ocean.

The Inside

Beside the entrance hall, this villa has a small, cosy study/library with comfortable seating, built-in fireplace and equipped with video, Sat TV and music system. Elegant dining-room connected by a few steps to a spacious beautifully furnished living-room also with a built-in fireplace and a DVD. Split-level modern kitchen with a practical dining bar area and all modern conveniences – Electric hob,oven,grill and micro-wave, dishwasher. Maid´s room contains a washing machine and tumble-dryer. The over-sized, tastefully decorated bedrooms are - a special feature in this villa – all in a separate wing of the house (two with king-sized; one with two singles) ,ensuite bathrooms and walk-in closets and with separate access to the pool and garden.

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Alarm system, air-conditioning, safe. Telephones in almost all rooms. Nicely tiled floors.Free internet/WIFI


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PANAMA -- As reported by Reuters: "Celebrity property tycoon Donald Trump plans a joint venture to build a 65-story complex in Panama City as developers ride a wave of excitement generated by a proposed Panama Canal expansion.

"Developers expect an influx of foreign professionals as the waterway undergoes its biggest overhaul in history. A referendum on the Canal project is expected later this year.

"The 2.4 million-square-foot (223,000-sq-metre) Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower will cost more than $220 million and include 500 luxury condominiums, 312 hotel units, a private beach, a marina and a casino, the project's developers said on Tuesday.

"Construction will start this year and be completed in 2009.

"The Trump Organization, Panamanian luxury resort developer K Group and Colombian construction company Arias Serna Saravia will carry out the work…"

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Day Six Part 1: Jericho, Dead Sea, Camels & more

by Steve Ray on September 16, 2012

Day 6, Part 1 Breakfast and Mass at Notre Dame, then off to the Israel Museum to walk into first century Jerusalem at the Temple Model before seeing the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Shrine of the Book. Then a ride into the Judean Wilderness descending 4,250 feet down from Jerusalem, about 30 miles in distance.

We arrived at the exact place Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. This is the lowest place on the face of the earth. We renewed our baptismal vows in the Jordan.

Next it was lunch in Jericho before seeing the Mount of Temptation where Jesus was tempted by the Devil and a look at a sycamore tree like the one climbed by Zaccheaus (Luke 19:2-10). Blind Bartimaeus was also healed along the road we were driving on (Mark 10:46-52).

Day Six, Part 2: Off to Qumran where we learned about the Essenes and the Dead Sea Scrolls and the probably membership of John the Baptist and their familiarity with Jesus the Messiah. Floating in the Dead Sea is always a wonderful experience and so is riding a camel. We have lots of good videos and pictures of both. Enjoy.

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Hello Grandma and Grandpa! (Harold and Lora Lobmeyer) We hope you are having fun. We look forward to watching these videos everyday at lunch! We like to pause it whenever we see you. We are learning so much about the Holy Land and the places you are visiting! Love you lots!! Love, Xavier, Gabriel, Michaela and Dominic Ferguson

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The set of changes to Canada's impaired driving laws, which was introduced alongside the sexier marijuana legalization bill, sounds fairly benign.

It includes harsh penalties for drug-impaired drivers and supplemental rules about breathalyzer tests to detect drunk drivers. In essence, the new rules crack down on driving under the influence of alcohol – and driving under the influence of anything else you shouldn't be taking before getting behind the wheel.

Keeping roads safe is a legitimate government function, and it's responsible to make sure that removing criminal penalties for using pot doesn't leave people free to engage in reckless "high" driving with no consequences. But the details of the changes are problematic.

Saliva tests

Police can already take roadside saliva samples to test for marijuana intoxication, but the legislation now links such tests with punishment as serious as a decade in jail. (If the saliva test is positive, a blood test may follow, and if certain levels of THC are detected therein, significant penalties can now be imposed. In the past, the saliva samples very rarely led to convictions.)

The problem? We're actually not very good at accurately figuring out if people are currently high on marijuana, or how high they might be.

The saliva tests can deliver a positive result based on marijuana that entered a person's system up to a month before the test, which is rather unhelpful when trying to determine if the guy in the sports car who just blew a red light did so because he was stoned, or simply a terrible driver.

Two different people who smoked the same amount of marijuana can end up with significantly different levels of THC in the blood depending on how their particular bodies metabolize pot, and now, they can also end up with significantly different criminal sentences.

In time, these methods will be, if not perfected, at least fine-tuned enough to be extremely reliable. But it would have been nice if the government had waited for that accuracy before piling on the punishments.

It's especially hard to tell how dependable we can consider the drug testing of drivers when the legislation doesn't even specify what specific method should be used. Ideally, that would be spelled out in advance of locking people in prison for 10 years.

Breathalyzer tests

The other troubling change is the circumstances under which police can demand a roadside breathalyzer test.

While police currently have to have a "reasonable suspicion" that a driver is intoxicated by alcohol in order to administer a test, the new legislation allows officers to order a breathalyzer for anyone they've lawfully pulled over, even if it's for something as innocent and unrelated as a burned-out tail light or an expired registration sticker.

The government says ditching the "reasonable suspicion" condition is necessary because it has allowed too many drunk drivers to get away without being caught. That is a difficult claim to understand; if the suspicion of these drivers wasn't strong enough to be considered legally reasonable to administer a breathalyzer, how can it be, at the same time, strong enough for the government to somehow know these people  "got away" with drunk driving?

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But perhaps more importantly, we have Charter rights that protect us from unreasonable search and seizure. How can a mandatory breathalyzer for no good reason – or even no reason at all – not violate those rights?

And it's not enough for the government to simply say (as it has) that it wants to reduce legal action over whether officers had "reasonable suspicion" of alcohol impairment. That's like saying: "You know that thing about giving people a trial before convicting them of a crime? That's a real pain in the behind, and it leads to annoying legal wrangling. We'd really reduce the burden on the courts if we just did away with it and put people directly in jail."

Government doesn't get to dispose with legal protections of citizens just because the protections are inconvenient. The inconvenience is an indication the protections are actually working.

RCMP impaired driving roadblock in Coquitlam, June 27, 2014

We can't let "getting tough on impaired driving" be a sufficient criterion for this legislation's success. (CBC)

The crux of the debate is this: Are the impaired driving law changes as carefully thought-out and crafted as they should be? If they almost immediately result in a major constitutional challenge – as seems inevitable given the sanctioning of arbitrary breathalyzer demands – the answer is probably "no."

They fail to strike the appropriate balance between protecting crucial civil liberties and protecting people from harm inflicted by others — and the Trudeau government doesn't even appear to have made much of an effort to balance the scales, which is a disappointing indication that it will be no better than the Harper government about giving proposed legislation careful constitutional scrutiny.

We can't let "getting tough on impaired driving" be a sufficient criterion for this legislation's success. Due process still matters.

It would be an ironic shame if the small win for individual freedom afforded by cannabis legalization were cancelled out by sloppily crafted, broad new criminal penalties for intoxicated driving.

This column is part of CBC's Opinion section. For more information about this section, please read this editor's blog and our FAQ.


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Jackson And Mother Katherine Had Unbreakable Bond

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - When ABC wanted to make a miniseries about the Jackson family's life in 1992, Michael Jackson had one major requirement before he would give his blessing: Someone beautiful had to play his mother.

The pop superstar adored Katherine Jackson, who ended up being portrayed by Angela Bassett in the miniseries. Jackson's will designates her as the guardian of his three children, and she, along with his kids and children's charities, inherit his family trust, according to a source who requested anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak about the matter.

Katherine Jackson had sought to retain control of Jackson's assets, but a judge ruled Monday that attorney John Branca and music executive John McClain had been designated in Jackson's 2002 will as the people he wanted to administer his estate.

Jackson died June 25, deeply in debt. But a court filing estimates his estate will be worth more than $500 million.

He had a fractious relationship at times with various family members and other confidants, but friends say Jackson saw his mother as the one flawless, angelic constant in his life.

A Jehovah's Witness, Katherine Jackson, 79, is universally described as a gentle, loving matriarch who has doted on her family and fought to keep them united through tough times.

Born Katherine Scruse, she was reared in Chicago and overcame polio as a child (she still walks with a slight limp). She married Joe Jackson at age 19, and they had 10 children (Marlon Jackson had a twin who died shortly after birth) in nearby Gary, Ind.

Katherine and Joe Jackson are still married and recently marked their 60th anniversary. But their relationship has long been difficult and they have not lived together for years, according to a close friend of the singer who did not want to be identified because the person was not authorized to discuss the family.

Though it was Joe Jackson who managed Michael Jackson and his brothers to early stardom, Michael credited his mother with giving him his vocal gifts. He described her as a pianist and singer in her own right who was the first to identify and encourage her children's musical talents.

"Every child thinks their mother is the greatest mother in the world, but we Jacksons never lost that feeling," Jackson wrote in "Moonwalk," his 1988 autobiography. "Because of Katherine's gentleness, warmth and attention, I can't imagine what it's like to grow up without a mother's love."

Michael Jackson's three children have not had their biological mothers in their lives. But people close to the Jacksons say Katherine Jackson has an incredibly close relationship with her grandchildren, perhaps more than anyone else in her late son's life.

"She was never out of favor (with Michael), so she was able to spend a lot more time with the kids than anybody else," said J. Randy Taraborrelli, a friend of Jackson and author of the biography "The Magic and the Madness."

Katherine Jackson was by her son's side through some of his greatest triumphs and tragedies, from his stunning "Thriller" success to his 2005 acquittal of child molestation charges.

"They just loved each other unconditionally," said Taraborrelli. "Even when he was illogical in some of his decisions ... she didn't care, she just defended him and supported him without reservation his entire life."

Michael Jackson lived with his mother, along with siblings Joe, Janet and LaToya, at the family's Encino, Calif., compound until he was almost 30. After he moved to his vast Neverland estate, his mother remained part of his inner circle.

L. Londell McMillan, who is part of the legal team representing Katherine Jackson in her bid to control Jackson's estate, said Jackson trusted his mother completely and wanted to make sure she was always well provided.

"Michael would often say to those of us in his life, 'Please make sure you help me to protect and take care of my children and my mother Katherine,'" McMillan said.

Rob Goldstone, a former Jackson publicist who spent time on the road with him during his 1989 "Bad" tour, described him as "a momma's boy. He loved his mom."

"The one thing that was very apparent that everywhere we went, he would want to go shopping and buy something, and his mom was the one he wanted to buy something special for," he recalled.

Jackson's relationship with his mother was the opposite of what he had with his father, who managed Michael and his children's careers until they reached adulthood and business ties were severed.

Michael Jackson had a complicated relationship with Joe Jackson. He had described his father as physically and emotionally abusive. Even the sight of Joe Jackson would sometimes make Michael so nervous he would vomit, the son had said.

Joe Jackson was the parental figure who spent the most time with Jackson during his formative years. Katherine Jackson didn't go out on the road with the Jackson 5, staying at home to raise LaToya, Janet and Randy.

But the mild-mannered mother would stand up to her husband and defend their children when she thought things were getting out of control, Taraborrelli said.

"She's very strong, and a very powerful woman who would stand up to Joe," he said. "That's the only reason why it worked. ... She had the tenacity to defy him when it really mattered."

Though the pair do not live together, their lives are still intertwined. Ten years ago, they filed for bankruptcy, listing nearly $24 million in debts that included court judgments, auto loans and credit cards. Court records show the only valuable asset listed was a house in Las Vegas then valued at $290,000.

Now that Katherine Jackson has been granted temporary guardianship of her grandchildren, some wonder what influence Joe Jackson might play in the grandchildren's lives. A person with knowledge of the situation, who asked not to be identified because the person was not authorized to talk about the relationship, said the children have a loving relationship with their grandfather, but said that Katherine Jackson would be their primary caregiver.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson said she has already assumed that role, shopping for clothes for her grandchildren over the weekend.

"She's doing very well," he said Sunday. "She is the matriarch of this family. She is so deep in her religion. She has a real insulation, not an isolation, kind of a spiritual, so she sees her family in the broader sense and all of them kind of gravitating a certain way to mom as they were."

AP video journalist Mark D. Carlson contributed to this report from Los Angeles.

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Latest Maths News

UKMT Team Maths Challenge

On Tuesday 3rd February, four of us (Rohit and Lydia from Year Nine; Margaret and George from Year Eight) attended the regional final for the Team Mathematics Challenge

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Hunger was sated on Pi Day at the Spitfire Cricket Ground in Canterbury where the annual Maths Feast took place

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UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge February 2018

A record year for our Intermediate challenge results, with 14 gold, 25 silver and 19 bronze certificates! We are very proud of the students who achieved such high scores in this challenging maths competition.

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Year 10 Maths/MFL Visit to Paris

Students enjoyed a three night stay at the Disneyland resort including a full day in Paris

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British Mathematical Olympiad (round1)

Hal Mutton and Joshua Attwell took the 3.5 hour paper and achieved impressive scores of  27 and 39 respectively.

Hal got a certificate of qualification and Joshua a certificate of distinction. Well done to both of you! What a fine way to finish your UKMT and BMO careers spanning seven years!

UKMT Senior challenge

We have had another brilliant year in the UKMT senior challenge with 90 students (mostly sixthformers) taking part. There were 4 gold, 17 silver and 20 bronze certificates, with 5 students being selected for follow on rounds.

Kazki Fairman (yr 11), Shivay Sachdeva (yr13) and James White (yr13) made it to the follow on Kangaroo round, an even more challenging one hour competition.

Hal Mutton and Joshua Attwell (yr 13) were selected for the British Olympiad paper, which is 3.5hours of demanding mathematics.

Maths Bowling Data Collection

The Maths department  took the whole of year seven to Bugsy's for our annual data collecting lesson.

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Royal Institution Celebration event

Following the Royal Institution Mathematics masterclasses that took place at the University of Kent in the Spring term, some CCGS Year 9 students welcomed the opportunity to attend a RI celebration event

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Junior UKMT Maths Challenge

This year 80 of our best mathematicians, in years 7 and 8, took part in the UKMT Junior Maths Challenge

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UKMT Junior Challenge

This term we entered 80 of our best year 8 and 9 mathematicians into the UKMT junior challenge.

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UKMT Intermediate Kangaroo

The following students succeeded in progressing to the next round of UKMT intermediate challenge. This is a national competition for the most talented mathematicians aimed at those in year 10 and 11.

Year 11 Sam Dynes

Year 10 Callum Musselwhite

Year 9 Harrison Leach, William Parkinson and Leon Munt, Ashwin Ganesaratnam

Year 8 Lydia Nottingham

Leon Munt achieved a Merit in this follow on round, well done! All other students received a certificate of Qualification.

UKMT Intermediate Mathematical Olympiad.

Kazki Fairman qualified for this challenging round of the competition where he had to sit a 2 hour written paper with 6 difficult questions. He scored a merit, well done!

UKMT Junior Team Challenge

On Tuesday 21st March a group of four mathematicians from years 8 and 9 travelled to Ashford School to take part in the UKMT Junior team challenge

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Intermediate UKMT challenge 2017

Another successful round of this challenging national competition with brilliant results from our students in years 8, 9, 10 and 11.

Altogether there were 7 gold, 14 silver and 31 bronze certificates, with 8 students progressing to the next rounds.

Well done to Kazki Fairman in year 10 who achieved the highest score and 'best in school' certificate. Lydia Nottingham in year 8 was our second highest (and also the youngest) mathematician. She was closely followed by Sam Dynes (yr11) and Ashwin Ganesaratnam (yr9). Well done to all who took part.

Gold certificates: Kazki Fairman, Callum Musselwhite, Lydia Nottingham, Sam Dynes, Ashwin Ganesartnam, Leon Munt and William Parkinson.

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Year 10 students with their certificates

Maths Trip to Disney 2017

This year our 7th trip to Disneyland Paris involved 116 students and 12 staff.

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Alan Turing Cryptography

The Alan Turing Cryptography competition started this term and we currently have 4 teams of students from years 8 through to 10 taking part.

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Maths STEM Day

On Thursday 26th January we were lucky enough to have STEM ambassadors from Canterbury Christchurch University in school.

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Maths Masterclasses

Saturday 21st January saw the first of the 2017 Masterclasses at the University of Kent

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UKMT Senior Team Challenge

December 7th saw a team of 4 6th formers brave the cold and travel to Canterbury for the UKMT senior team challenge.

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UKMT Senior challenge Nov 2016

Another brilliant set of results from our sixth form mathematicians who were joined by some very promising year 11, 10 and even a year 8 student for an hour of serious mathematical problem solving.

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Year 7 Bowling Trip

The maths department organized their annual bowling trip for the whole of year 7 towards the end of November this year.

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July 2016- Year 8 activities week- Team challenge competition

We've had another great competition-packed day with our keen mathematicians in year 8. Students worked in teams of four competing in 4 UKMT style team challenge rounds: group round, crossnumber, mini relay and running relay. The challenge finished with a practical round, where teams had to make the longest colour coded pi chain. There were lots of prizes for the best teams in each round and the overall winning team. It was great to see our young mathematicians enjoy the day. Thank you to all the sixthformers and staff who helped to make the day such a success.

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Wnners of the year 8 maths day.

 July 2016- Year 9 activities week- Code-cracking day

Year 9 spent the day experiencing a range of coding and encryption methods used down through the ages; from Caesar Shifts (named after  Julius Caesar) through to the WW2 secrecy of Bletchley Park and the Enigma Code, culminating in the coding used to ensure the safety of modern day credit/debit cards.

 There was a competitive element to the day’s proceedings as the pupils worked in teams against each other across a range of encryption/decryption tasks. So congratulations are extended once again to the winners (Charlie Mair, Dylan Mogg, Callum Musselwhite and Fergus Rogers) and indeed to all who took part ensuring an enjoyable and informative day was had by all.

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Winners of the year 9 day

2016 Intermediate UKMT Individual Challenge

Our best mathematicians from year 9 to 11 sat the UKMT Intermediate challenge with outstanding results. There were 13 gold, 25 silver and 42 bronze certificates.

Congratulations to the following students who achieved gold certificates

Year 11 James White, William Dean, Hal Mutton, Alistair Manclark, Menno Kramer

Year10 Linley Rich, Connor Smith, Jarvis Stevens, Samuel Dynes, George James

Year 9 Kazki Fairman, Timothy Attwell, Jonah Worledge

Follow on rounds

Year 9 students Timothy Attwell, Jonah Worledge, Toby Attwell together with Lydia Nottingham from Year7 scored high enough to make it to the follow-on Grey Kangaroo round. Timothy and Jonah achieved a merit in this extra round, well done!

Linley, Connor, Jarvis and Sam from year 10 and James, William, Hal and Alistair from Year 11 progressed to the next next Pink Kangaroo round. James and Hal achieved a merit in this round, well done!

Kazki Fairman, who had the highest score in year 9, did so well that he was invited to sit the extra challenging Cayley Olympiad, which required him to sit a 2 hour paper. He went on to achieve a merit in this highly selective competition. Well done!

2016 Junior UKMT Individual Challenge.

Another set of fantastic results from our growing talent in year 7 and 8 who perforemed brilliantly in their individual UKMT challenge. Overall, we have had 7 gold, 21 silver and 19 bronze certificates across the two year groups.

In year 8 the gold winners were Leon Munt, Pawel Lisowski, Hang Cao and Shiam Srikumar.

The gold certificates in year 7 were awarded to Lydia Nottingham, Louis Sotiri and Jessica Booth.

We are especially proud of Lydia, whose score was the highest in school and she was invited to take part in the Junior Maths Olympiad. Lydia achieved a merit in this follow-on round showing her brilliant mathematical skills! What an impressive achievement in year 7, well done!

Well done to all those who took part in this challenge.

3rd place in the regional final of UKMT team challenge-March 2016

Following on from the school round of the team challenge organised by Mrs. Atkins, the best team of four mathematicians travelled to Dover College to compete in the regional final against 14 other teams.

Kazki Fairman, Timothy Attwell (yr 9), Reginold Baskaran and Leon Munt (yr 8) practised for the competitions in lunchtime sessions and showed off their mathematical skills in four varied rounds. They gained almost full points in the group round, maths shuttle (mini relay) and cross number. They finished the competition with some fast running and problem solving in the maths relay. We were very pleased to achieve 3rd place overall and had a great day cracking difficult problems. Well done to the team!

Trip to Disneyland Paris

The annual year 10 Maths and MFL trip to Disneyland and Paris took place just before February half term.

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Maths Feast

Friday 4th March saw a group of 4 year 10 students travel to Canterbury to take part in a Maths Feast run by the Further Maths Support Network.

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January 2016 Year 7 Maths Enrichment

All of our year 7 students were treated to a series of outstanding maths/science sessions organised by Canterbury Christ Church University PGCE department as part of STEMNET. These sessions  included Sherlock trigonometry mystery, Star Wars treasure hunt ending in a top trumps battle and solving a dragon mystery. All students had a great time and left enthused about maths and science.

December 2015- Senior Kangaroo.

The results are now in and Joe, Matthew, Amy and Sam achieved a qualification certificate. Joshua Attweel (year 11) did brilliantly again, achieving Merit Certificate, which is awarded to the best 25% of candidates taking part in this challenge nationally. Well done.

November 2015- UKMT Senior Challenge

Our sixthform mathematicians secured another excellent set of results in the UKMT Senior Challenge. They were joined on the day by our best 20 Year 11 mathematicians and one year 7 student. Altogether there were 8 gold, 21 silver and 47 bronze certificates. Well done to all who took part.

The best scores were achieved by:

Year 13: Joseph Wheelan, Ethan Perry and Susannah Grace

Year 12: Matthew Lacey, Sam Nicholson and Amy Clayton

Year 12: Joshua Attwell, Menno Kramer and Harrison Mogg-Walls

Joe, Matthew, Sam, Amy and Joshua did so well that they made it to the follow on Senior Kangaroo round taking place in December.

Year 7 Bowling Trip

In November the maths department took the whole of year 7 to Bugsy's in Cliftonville for an afternoon of bowling and data collection

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Just for Graphs

On Friday 4th Dec the Maths Department organised a trip to the Theatre Royal

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World Maths Day

This year World Maths Day was held on 14th October. All students were registered and the maths department organised prizes for the top 3 students in each category

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Maths in Motion Centre of Excellence

Chatham & Clarendon Grammar School has been awarded a Challenge Centre of Excellence status for the Jaguar cars sponsored Maths in Motion competition.

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July 2015 Year 8 Maths Challenge day

Our year 8 mathematicians took part in a super maths challenge day. They worked in groups of four, helped by a sixthformer, working through a set of exciting mathematical challenges. The day started with a group round and cross number challenge, followed by mini-relay, where teams were put under time pressure.  Practically-minded teams were at an advantage during the pi chain competition and sporty mathematicians were given a chance to shine when racing in the relay round. The day was finished with making pi loom bands in the afternoon. There were lots of prizes for each round and our overall winners were announced in the afternoon.

Congratulations to the overall winners: Team LotraePI: Bethany Lloyd, Esabel Carter, Rosie Axon and Claire Meakins.

Here are some comments from our students and photos from the day:

I enjoyed all of today as all of the acitivites were imaginative and fun. Especially the loom bands. Hope it is as good next year!

Today was quite fun, some acitivities were really fun. Our 6th former, Hannah, was really nice and helped us.Some activities were quite brain-hurting, like some of the quizes.

I hated the loom bands, they kept breaking, but I liked the rest.

Today was marvellous and all of the people in my group enjoyed it.

It was utterly amazing! Love maths even more now.

I thought today was fun. I liked the quizes and the loombands, which was basically everything.

This day was jolly well marvellous, loved it tons. The loom bands were super fun!

Today, I enjoyed the relay activiity because it was fun.

I enjoyed the maths relay and paper chaings, also the pi bracelets.

I have liekd the maths day because it was challenging but quite fun as well.

I thought it was brilliant!

I liked the maths day as it was a fun day of learning but was challenging at times!!

Today was quite good and the sixth former was good. I liked today as it was new and showed fun side of maths.

The maths day was much better than I expected.

July 2015 Year 9 Cipher Challenge day

As part of the activities week, our year 9 students had a great day cracking mathematical codes and ciphers. They found out about transposition ciphers, Caesar shift ciphers, the importance of frequency analysis in code breaking and pig pen ciphers. They also worked with credit card and ISBN ciphers, followed a web quest about Alan Turing and had a go at cracking a code conundrum. Sporty mathematicians had an advantage in the grid relay and the fastest code crackers could improve their score by completing a challenging crossnumber puzzle. We all enjoyed watching The Imitation Game telling the story of Alan Turing; the great mathematician who helped to break the Enigma code during WWII.

Our lovely sixthformers helped keeping the score during the day and there were lots of prizes to sweeten the end of the day for seven of the best teams. Thank you to everyone who helped to organise and run the day.

The overall winning team: Oscar Keyworth, Matyas Pesci, Jamie Ford and Ralph Williams

Another one of the winning teams

Sixthform score keepers: James Weston, Hannah Musindi, Jacob Crook, Amy Jarvis, Rob Cook, Joseph Wheelan and Clifford Beak.

June 2015- UKMT Junior Kangaroo Results

Finally, the results are in and we are so proud to announce that Kazki Freeman (yr8) achieved a Merit in the Junior Kangaroo Competition. Both Rosie Axon (yr8) and Tom Piggott (yr7) achieved a ceritificate of qualification. Well done to all three students.

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May 2015 UKMT Junior challenge results

It's wonderful to see that we have some brilliant talent growing in KS3. Our brightest mathematicians in year 7 and 8 achieved some outstanding results!

In total there were 9 gold, 17 silver and 24 bronze certificates across the two years.

The gold winners are (in order)

Year 8: Rosie Axon, Kazki Fairman, Callum Musselwhite, William Burgess, Timothy Attwell, Thomas Curtis
Year 7 : Tom Piggott, Leon Munt, Ashwin Ganesaratnam.

Rosie, Kazki and Tom have been invited to take part in the follow on Kangaroo Olympiad round. We are especially impressed with Rosie, whose excellent score guarantees her the best in school certificate. Well done to all who took part in this challenge.

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April 2014 UKMT Follow on rounds

The results are finally in and we are delighted to report that both Menno Kramer and Joshua Attwell received a MERIT for their competent performance in their Intermediate Mathematical Olympiad Hamilton paper.

Chris Norwood and Matthew Lacey receive a Merit for their performance in the Kangaroo round.

Well done to all who took part.

 Year 10 Olympiad certificate winners

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Chris (year 11)

March 27th 2015 Maths Inspiration Trip

The maths department took sixty year 10 and 12 mathematicians to the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury for the latest installment of Maths Inspiration lectures. We were treated to three fantastic talks hosted by the maths celebrity Matt Parker (worth looking up on youtube).

Bestselling maths author Rob Eastaway gave a talk on Pepsi, Penalties and Politics, where he showed us the importance of mathematics and game theory and what it can tell us about why peace, harmony and love are not quite as easy to achieve as some songs might suggest.

Channel 4 documentary presenter Hugh Hunt gave a lecture titled How Many Cows Does it Take to Win a War? In this WWI
100th anniversary talk, he took a mathematical look at the genius of the Zeppelin, and the remarkable story of how feeble British biplanes eventually managed to shoot the Zeppelins down.

Hal Mutton (year 10) managed to win the main prize for answering the Busting Myths in A level exams quiz. We are sure he is going to spend the £25 on popular maths books. Another highlight was to get Matt Parker's autograph on a calculator.

We had a brilliant day out discovering the role maths plays outside the classroom. Certainly, not just the maths teachers were left inspired by the day!

March 2014 UKMT Inermediate Challenge Results

Another fantastic set of results from our year 10 and 11 mathematicans in the UKMT individual chellenge. The top 40% of the selected students nationally receive a gold, silver or bronze certificate in the ratio 1:2:3.  Our talented mathematicians achieved 11 gold, 19 silver and 29 bronze certificates.

Congratulations to the students below who have achieved a gold certificate (you will have to do the ratio problem above to find their percentile nationally):

Year 10:  Joshua Attwell, Menno Kramer, Hal Mutton, Alastair Manclark, Oliver Benjamin

Year 11: Chris Norwood, Katie Knight, Amy Clayton, Matthew Lacey, Hansaka Seneviratne, Peter Clapham

Chris Norwood achieved the Best in Year award in year 11 and Joshua Attwell achieve Best in Year and Best in School awards.

The following students were invited to the follow on Mathematical Olympiad rounds:

Pink Kangaroo (a 1 hour multiple choice problem solving test) : Chris Norwood, Katie Knight, Amy Clayton, Matthew Lacey, Hansaka Seneviratne, Hal Mutton

Hamilton Paper (a 2 hour problem solving paper): Joshua Attwell and Menno Kramer.

12th March 2015- Another fantastic second place at UKMT team challenge

Another outstanding achievement from our year 8 and 9 mathematicians who came second in the Regional Final of the UKMT team challenge held at Dover College. Our team consisting of Nicole Lay, Alika Jenkins, Tim Attwell and Kazki Fairman did brilliantly at all of the rounds but a little error somewhere along the way cost them the first place we were all hoping for. This just proves what maths teachers say all along: every point counts! Nevertheless, it was such an exciting mathematical day for all of us and next year, surely, we will win! The team met regularly in the weeks before the competition and trained hard for the event and are now hoping that they will be picked as the runner up team for the national final in June.

Prize presentation and our team hard at work.

4th March 2015- Year 10 Maths Feast in Canterbury

Two teams of four year 10 mathematicians  represented our school at the regional Maths Feast competition in Canterbury Academy. Maths Feast is an enjoyable and challenging team competition testing mathematical, team-working and communication skills. Each year the format of the competition changes slightly so that the rounds remain interesting and exciting. It is organised by the Further Maths Support Network and included 4 fun rounds of tasty mathematical meals (group round, origami round, four in a row and even learning new maths of set theory).

A big well done to our teams for winning one of the rounds in the competition. We are very proud of you!

Left: Winners: Georgina Raye, Alistair Manclark, Emma Hudson, Johua Attwell

Right: Beatrice Lever, Hal Mutton, Menno Kramer, Isha Mandke

Columbus cubes: working hard on the origami round, one of the skills we may need to practise for in the future.

10/2/15-13/2/15 Maths in Disney

Just before half term we took a group of 120 students to Disneyland Paris for a joint maths and MFL trip. On their first night students enjoyed an evening at the Buffalo Bill Show. Wednesday was spent in Paris, where we were lucky enough to have a sunny but cold day exploring the famous sights in Paris, this included a Bateau Mouches boat trip along the Seine and a visit to the top of the Monparnasse Tower, not forgetting a chance to practise using our French at lunchtime in the shops and restaurants of the Montparnasse region.
Thursday and Friday were spent in Disneyland Paris enjoying a mixture of maths workshops and lectures and of course exploring the rides in the two Disney parks.
A fantastic time was had by all.

28/01/15 Year 7 Girls' Stemnet Day

Our year 7 girls got stuck in some exciting Stemnet activities as part of the national drive to encourage  girls into Science and Mathematics based careers. The activities were run by Canterbury Christ Church University College PGCE Students, training to become maths and science teachers. The girls thoroughly enjoyed two out of the following three sessions:

Mission impossible: Mathematical Mission to get into a volt and crack a safe

Pirate Adventure: Three different maths activities to earn materials to build a raft which would be able to float and carry lego pirate and cannon

Monsters Ink: Activities on ecology and natural selection using monsters as the organisms to compete for food.

An added bonus for us, the teachers, was to see two of our own ex students running the sessions. Miss Henrietta Dubbins and Miss Francesca Smith are both in the final stages of their PGCE course, training to become brilliant maths teachers. It was so lovely to have our home-grown talent back with us and we are sure that we will see our year 7 girls doing the same in 10 years' time!

December 2014 -Senior UKMT Olympiad Results

Chris Norwood from year 11 and Andrew Kerrigan from year 13 have been selected for the follow on Kangaroo round, having scored highly in the Senior individual UKMT challenge.

Chris has achieved a MERIT with an impressive score of 65.

Andrew has achieved a certificate of participation.

Well done to both of our mathematicians for doing so well, especially to Chris who has competed against year 12 and 13 mathematicians in this round.

Andrew (year 13)

Mrs Sonnen and Mr Fergusson took a group of year 12 Further Mathematicians to the University of Kent Gulbenkian Cinema to see The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing. We enjoyed this wonderful and sad film which sheds light on the top secret code breaking work that went on at Bletchley Park during Worl War II. An excellent mathematical Sunday afternoon out! We are planning a trip to Bletchley Park next.

21/11/14- Year 7  Bowling trip

The maths department took our year 7 boys and girls ten pin bowling. The pupils had a great time playing two games and collected data for their statistics project. They are summarising their data in tables and producing charts and graphs to explore whether there was an improvement from first game to the second. There was an overall winner on each day who will be presented with a bolwing related prize. The students' project posters will be displayed around the school and we will put some photos of the posters here too.

17/11/14-Excellent results in UKMT Senior Challenge

Our year 11,12 and 13 mathematicians achieved 3 Gold, 9 silver and 23 Bronze certificates in this year's UKMT Senior Maths Challenge. The best scores in each year and gold certificates were achieved by Chris Norwood (year 11), Lloyd Taylor (year 12) and Andrew Kerrigan (year 13).

Andrew and Chris have been invited to sit the follow on Senior Kangaroo challenge on 28th November.

The following students achieved silver Certificates:

Year 13: Charlotte Crabb, Shadi Abushams, Karmen Murphy and Darren Castro

Year 12:David Whatley, Joseph Shelley, Steven Jones, Callum Elliott, Harry Pennington

Well done to all of you!

12/11/14 Regional Finals of Senior Team Maths Challenge

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Duchess Kate will be celebrating her 31st birthday “privately” in Wales

Happy birthday to Duchess Kate – she turns 31 years old today. Many don’t even realize that she’s six months older than her husband, but it’s true – he doesn’t turn 31 until June 21 of this year. Just for fun, here’s a trip in the Way Back Machine – on this day in 2007, Kate was swarmed by paparazzi in London following widespread tabloid speculation that William was going to propose to her on her then 25th birthday. What people didn’t realize until a few weeks later was that William dumped Kate on or around her birthday. That was the big breakup where they spent months apart while William dated other, much more aristocratic girls, and Kate patiently waited him out, going out to parties with all of his friends and wearing revealing miniskirts and pushing sympathetic stories to the press. William came around eventually, although Kate had to wait another three and a half years until he proposed. And personally, I think William only proposed to her at that point because everyone (his family, the military, the press) threw a hissy fit over the prospect of Kate (as his girlfriend and nothing else) coming to live with him in Wales, which is what he wanted.

And that was your brief moment in the Way Back Machine. Because today’s Will & Kate industry thrives on royal propaganda about how normal these two are and how they’ve always been super-duper in love and William always knew that Kate was The One. So, how will Kate celebrate her birthday? Quietly. Normally. Privately.

Even with so much to celebrate, the Duchess of Cambridge is unlikely to be partying into the night or toasting her 31st birthday with glasses of bubbly.

Pregnant Kate, 31 on Wednesday, and entering her second trimester, is said to be keeping a low profile and spending her special day “privately,” according to her office.

Having spent the recent New Year’s holiday apart, Kate has since been reunited with husband William in time to spend the day with him.

Some reports suggest they are at their rented home in North Wales – a perfect secluded place for a quiet walk in the winter sunshine and fresh air with their cocker spaniel Lupo.

This time next year, she will have another family member to help her celebrate her special day.

Says royals author Judy Wade, “She has already taken the world by storm and now will cap it all by giving the Monarchy an heir, which is the culmination of their dreams.”

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Eh. I’m not going to slam her for having a low-key celebration at home in Wales with her husband. Maybe her parents came for a visit too. That’s the thing about birthdays beyond the age of 21 or 25 – after that point, you really don’t feel like celebrating that much. Especially if you’re pregnant and pukey.

To celebrate Kate’s birthday, The Mail has a lengthy piece with lots of photos, something about “The Year in Kate’s Style” or something – go here to see. Vogue UK also did a lengthy piece called “Katepedia” all about how Kate has developed her royal style and the gradual changes she’s made to update her wardrobe, etc. Lainey excerpted some of the story here – apparently, Vogue UK was very tongue-in-cheek and somewhat bitchy, which is hilarious.

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  1. brin says:

    Huzzah! Happy Birthday to Kate and her royal bump!

  2. Christina says:

    ”Many don’t even realize that she’s six months older than her husband, but it’s true – he doesn’t turn 31 until June 21 of this year”

    This makes it sound as though there’s some massive age difference between them when in fact they’re almost exactly the same age! Why should people ‘realise’ that she’s – shock horror – a few months OLDER than him?

  3. Lem says:

    Judy wade sounds like a dolt. Kate has taken the world by storm? Sure, if by storm you mean a gentle spring shower that lightly sprinkles on and off for so many days you get to the point you don’t really realize it’s even still raining.

  4. LAK says:

    I read that vogue article. It is seriously snarky and bitchy. Quite surprising for a main stream publication, and the general tabloid media’s wish to paint her as a fashion star. Vogue, says no!

  5. V4Real says:

    I don’t think I have ever commented on a Will and Kate post but for some reason I feel the urge to do so today. Why do people care where this woman celebrates her bday? Why is the media trying to make her out to be some kind of fashion queen and beauty? In honesty she is pretty plain looking; nothing special about her. The only thing she did was marry a Prince.

    Sorry I’m in bitch mode today.

    • Alexandra Bananarama says:

      Because it’s another example of how the image of how normal and low key she is. Nothing lavish because they’re frugal.

      It is just a precursor to the articles later saying how she spent too much taxpayer’s money on herself for her “quiet” birthday. Soon will come the endless vacations again and blowing off any public events that haven’t already been outright cancelled. She sure gets around being a woman with crippling morning sickness.

    • bluhare says:

      I’ll tell you why. Because the Palace PR Machine (or PRAM for short . . . yeah, I took liberties) said that Kate’s HG was so serious she was staying in London or Bucklebury so she had access to doctors. Because, you know, in Wales no one is ever sick and they don’t have doctors there.

      So it says to me that whatever sickness Kate has is dissipating, and there’s no reason she can’t do an appointment or two.

      • Angelic 20 says:

        Happy birthday Kate!
        My sentiments exactly, iisn’t it amazing how she becomes fit to attend awards functions, dinner parties,galas, Christmas church with her family, travel up and down the country but when she have to do work or attend something with rf then she gets severe morning sickness that can only be treated at a super hospital only in London. It’s amazing how her hg compromise with her travelling and social plans but refuse to get along when it comes to boring non glamorous engagements.

      • bluhare says:

        Angelic: Not to mention she’s doing all that stuff in Bucklebury with a waft of flaming horse poo in the air (according to some articles anyway)!!

        Makes me want to puke just thinking about it, and I’m not pregnant!

  6. JL says:

    Well Bloody Hell, a party at home when you’re 31? What about the ponies and the sparkles?
    Reunited, walks in the sunshine, fresh air with the dog and the culmination of all thier dreams.

    Excuse me while I go puke! Kate I now understand you illness. BARF!

  7. William says:

    OMG why is her stomach in the first pic look like she has zillions of stretch amrks?? :O 31 years of nearly no work, countless holidays !

  8. s says:

    whatever I might say about her, I looked through the vogue retrospective and her style is impeccable.

  9. Red Snapper says:

    They spent New Year`s apart- does anyone know more about that…

    • Alexandra Bananarama says:

      I didn’t! But I am not surprised. Unless they’re on vacation or at a public event together it seems she’s with her mother and he’s with his friends on vacation.

    • bluhare says:

      William was actually working, according to all the Brave William stories on NY day. Apparently, a poor man got swept out to sea while walking his dog, and a helicopter was sent out to look for him. And Brave William was in the cockpit.

      • LAK says:

        Wait, are you saying the SJP statement that NYE was to be spent at PC’Scottish estate was lying? i wonder why….. ;)

      • bluhare says:

        LAK: Why would they lie? I really don’t understand that.

      • LAK says:

        Bluhare – several things;

        1. I doubt very much that his NYE shift was a last minute put up job. In general, most jobs have their holiday workers for the xmas week locked down in the first week of December because no one wants to work that week unless they have to.

        2. SJP initially put out a statement speculating on how well Kate would be to spend Xmas at Sandrigham before there was a media planted story about Carole and Mike being invited to spend it at Sandrigham.

        3. When invite didn’t materialise, SJP put out a second statement saying William would spend it in Baerkshire. Statement was careful to say that POW and HM approved.

        4. when that created a backlash, another statement was released saying WK would spend sometime at Sandrigham and Scotland at PC’s estate. [implication he would be spending time with HM and PC over the holidays]

        5. Sandrigham happened alright. if only for william to participate in the shoot. However, PC wasn’t there because he always leaves on boxing day.

        6. Scotland was obviously a lie because he had a NYE shift.

        as i discussed with another poster, SJP really needs to learn that silence is golden plus all their statements should always be read as INTENTIONS and reviewed later to see if they actually happened.

        The majority of time they are trying to claw back goodwill but in the process they create other problems either by saying too much which invites negative criticism or by putting out definitive future plans that don’t happen making them look like liars.

      • Lem says:

        LAK once I realized you weren’t talking about Sarah Jessica Parker …
        With Kensington the official press house of Wills, Kate, & Harry with Charles & Camilla at Clarance and HM at Buckingham… Why is SJP releasing statements? They have no one to speak for but uh.. all those girls? Right? No?

      • bluhare says:

        LAK: OK, I understand now. They should just shut up because they keep digging themselves deeper, in other words.

        But I don’t understand why they wouldn’t say Brave William would be sacrificing his NYE with Kate to work. Especially if it could be worked in that Housewife (and Now Pregnant) Kate would be in Wales frying up a big British breakfast for him on New Years Day (whilst holding back the vomiting, of course).

      • LAK says:

        @lem – The office hasn’t officially transitioned to KP. The official move will be when WK move into their apartment. After that date, they will start releasing statements as KP. For now, they remain SJP.

        @Bluhare – Have you noticed how his ‘rescues’ always happen when he is getting backlash for not working or when comments appear questioning his work commitments?

        Also, Kate is the ‘brave’ one. Not William.

  10. Less is More says:

    Kate’s facial features are harsh just like Anne Boleyn. She could be her reincarnated. Poor William :-( esp today.

  11. kibbles says:

    I like going in the Way Back Machine. We should do that more often. Celebitchy is one of the few major gossip sites who brings up details of Will and Kate’s 9-year long on-off relationship that led to them getting married. The media and the Royals are trying to erase history and make their courtship look like a fairy tale romance.

    I agree that Wills was pressured into marrying Kate, but they seem to be made for each other. Two lazy and entitled brats whose idea of work is showing up for a few photo ops each month.

    Who at British Vogue hates Kate? That piece is not at all flattering.

    • bluhare says:

      I agree, kibbles. I’ve learnt a lot from the Brits who post here. I’m British too, but living in the US, we never really heard of Kate until she got engaged to William. Certainly not the stories that were in the British press.

      It’s interesting about British Vogue too. I remember a while back, Kate was asked to pose for the cover and the Palace said no. Maybe they’re ticked off about that, because Diana posed for them. Plus, if I recall, Diana used them to help her with outfits for her engagements, and Kate hasn’t.

      • Angelic 20 says:

        Blue hare,
        Kate is boring, most of get clothes are average and every once in a while she looks good. She might not make major offence when it comes to fashion but she is safe and average who looks every now and then. I don’t think vogue is mad about her not poising, that was almost two years ago. IMO the media love affair is slowly fading, vogue is a fashion magazine so not controlled or dependent on rf unlike tabloids. She is as I said boring safe with her fashion with no personality , so I don’t think they will be as memorised by her. to be fair they did try to make excuses for her lack of style and said nothing that is not true. They are just not as wiped as rest of the media outlets so it looks very harsh but in reality it’s not.

      • vava says:

        Kate is so conservative, EXCEPT she doesn’t seem to understand about wind. (ie. her skirts flying up). Or the paps. (her nude top AND bottom photos!!!!!). Since she’s been the Duchess, quite frankly she hasn’t really been what I would consider any kind of so-called fashion icon – she dresses like an old lady. (that pale yellow monstrosity from last spring/summer is a case-in-point.) The media blitz is absolutely ridiculous and finally a bonafide fashion magazine has called their bluff.

  12. KellyinSeattle says:

    I like Kate and don’t really blame her if she wants to lie low right now.

  13. Louise says:

    People is the only one reporting that she is in Wales, everybody in the uk is writing that she is still at the Middleton Manor. LOL at “taken the world by storm and now will cap it all by giving the monarchy an heir, wich is the culmination of their dreams.”

  14. Jade says:

    So the lazy git stays home for another day what’s new?

  15. La Calabaza says:

    Please, stop the Anne Boleyn’s comparisons. Let that poor woman rest in peace. Comparing her to Kate is almost insulting to her memory!

    • bluhare says:

      I agree, La Calabaza. It *is* insulting to Anne’s memory. She actually made history. All Kate’s done is made jam or something. I think part of it is the ambitious family aspect, though, as the Boleyns got a lot by way of Henry through Anne. Same thing’s happening to the Middletons.

    • GIGI says:

      I love Anne Boleyn (and her daughter Good Queen Bess). She was a major figure in history and had a great influence in real matters of state, unlike Katie Cambridge, whose only influence is in hight-street fashion.

      • LAK says:

        That snarky Vogue article is disputing any and all influence on fashion or sales including the high street. Business managers from her favourite high street brands like Reiss and Whistles state flat out that she has no influence at all on their sales.

        As much as it pains me to write it, Kate really is just a breeder in this family. Nothing more and nothing less. And unlike some of the females who have married in before her, she meekly accepts her position.

      • vava says:

        Kate is purely a breeder.

        In this day and age, wouldn’t a woman want more than that???? I guess if you are Waity, the answer is: NO.

      • Hmmm says:

        Truer words about Waity have rarely been spoken. I think you nailed her entire raison d’etre for the royal family. Which is sad in itself.

        And then there is her acquiescence. I don’t think she cares about how she is perceived given her (and her family’s) gimlet eye on the main prize. Can’t feel sorry about her.

        I want the monarchy to die. Their values in contemporary times are an abomination, IMO.

    • Another K says:

      Once Anne Boleyn lost bipolar Henry’s interest she had no choice but to become a pawn in the hands of powerful men (i.e., Uncle Howard). If the scenario took place today, Henry would be prescribed strong meds and Anne would be the equivalent of Hillary Clinton. An intelligent respected awesomely powerful woman!

    • kibbles says:

      Agreed. There are some excellent books on Anne Boleyn, but for the sake of not turning Celebitchy into a history class, here is a quote I found on Wikipedia by a historian describing what Boleyn was like as a person:

      The American historian Retha M. Warnicke writes that Anne was “the perfect woman courtier… her carriage was graceful and her French clothes were pleasing and stylish; she danced with ease, had a pleasant singing voice, played the lute and several other musical instruments well, and spoke French fluently… A remarkable, intelligent, quick-witted young noblewoman… that first drew people into conversation with her and then amused and entertained them. In short, her energy and vitality made her the center of attention in any social gathering.”

      Yes. To compare Anne, a woman in the 1500s who was bilingual, fashionable, talented in music, and well-spoken, to Waity Katie is an insult to Anne’s memory. From what I’ve read about Anne Boleyn and from the somewhat fictionalized portrayals of her in television shows and movies, she seemed to be a very intelligent, fashionable, and assertive woman for her time. Anne was ahead of her time while Kate has reverted to a more traditional feminine role. In no way is Kate going to rock the boat the way Anne did. The only comparison is that both came from a family of social climbers.

  16. Elly says:

    yes, “Katepedia” is a little bit bitchy, but it´s the Vogue (Vogue = bitchy)! Kate is no real style icon and Vogue knows it. Was Kate really asked to pose for the cover? Evidence? Or only wishful thinking by her hardcore-fans?

  17. rara says:

    I don’t know who Judy Wade, is, but either we live in parallel universe or something is off about how she perceives reality.

    To say that Kate “has already taken the world by storm and now will cap it all by giving the Monarchy an heir, which is the culmination of their dreams.”

    Kate is a very plain woman who wanted to marry a guy and did nothing else. Which is fine. How would anyone’s in the world, or just in England change or what impact is there if she gives birth or not?

    Not to mention to say that she had any impact on the world?
    That’s ridiculous.
    Her husband does not have any impact, not does his grandmother.

    They are merely paid celebrities, living off public funds.

    I wish her all the best as I would to any other person on earth, but nothing she or any of her husband’s family has done, bears any importance of any kind. They are fluff.
    Very expensive one, that I cannot fathom why would a nation pay for, but nevertheless, they are still fluff.

    At least Kim Kardashian’s family doesn’t demand any public funds to support their lifestyle.

  18. JulieM says:

    One thing: I think WaityWills were living together for years before he proposed. In Wales and elsewhere. What an insufferable pair. They deserve each other.

    Yay, Harry comes home next week!

  19. Sparkly says:

    Hm. Everyone has focused on her weight a lot since the wedding, and while I don’t deny that she surely dieted beforehand (I did too for mine :P ), looking back at that Vogue piece, she’s always been quite the skinny-Minnie. More than I’d realized, anyway.


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Cute British singer Lily Allen was on hand to open famed London department store Harrods for the start of their Winter sale this morning. She posed somewhat self-consciously with her hands across her stomach, but didn’t hide her growing pregnancy bump. Allen, 22, is expecting a baby with Ed Simons from the Chemical Brothers, 27. They’ve only been together since September, but are planning on moving in together to help raise the baby. It is not know how far along Lily Allen is, with her rep merely saying that the pregnancy “was at such an early stage” when she confirmed the news.

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