Joanne Brown retweeted
Watch how a runner from North Down Athletic Club (yellow vest) forgets his own race and helps. 👏👏👏🌟🌟🌟🌟
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Joanne Brown retweeted
If your child becomes a reader, about 80% of the education job is already done. That's my honest assessment after working in education for over thirty years. Everything else is secondary. Most parents think science education is important. Yes it is. But if you can't read the biology textbook, you're not going to learn biology.
Reading is the meta-skill that enables all other skills. History requires reading. Science requires reading. Even math increasingly requires reading as it becomes more sophisticated. The child who reads voraciously will figure out everything else. The child who doesn't will struggle with everything.
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Joanne Brown retweeted
It would be ironic if the assisted dying bill was coerced out of existence, when it still feels it has a lot to offer.
Assisted dying bill 'no hope' of passing unless Lords change approach, warns peer bbc.in/45DKUYK
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Joanne Brown retweeted
The Epstein files on the DOJ website allow you to highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it into another document, which reveals what was hidden. You can also press Ctrl+F and search for “Trump ” (with a space) to see his name appear more than 600 times. #OpDeathEaters
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Joanne Brown retweeted
Okay... I'm going to sound like real-life @ChrchCurmudgeon here, but here goes...
If you are a church musician, and you honestly want to "lead people in worship" through music, you may want to do the following:
1) Pick a singable key for the median person who doesn't sing all the time. Don't pick a key to highlight your voice.
2) Lower the volume so people can hear the voices of those around them, and themselves.
3) Let people sing the melodies that are familiar to them. While you may want to jazz up or do the latest CCM twist of "Hark the Herald" or "Silent Night"--people can't follow you. They just want to sing the song.
Picking keys to highlight your voice; playing at concert volume; doing creative rearrangements to make the familiar suddenly unfamiliar... all discourage us from singing.
There's NOTHING wrong with highlighting your voice, or playing at concert volume, or doing creative rearrangements of songs... if you are a performer.
Book a gig somewhere! Play out! Be great! Build a following! But please, when we all get together and sing, don't put up barriers to stop us.
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Joanne Brown retweeted
This is off the top of my head.
These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.
Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?
“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”
It is absolutely mind-boggling.
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Joanne Brown retweeted
I uploaded verified images of the “peace” document to Grok.
I prompted, “Analyze this document from a logistic perspective. It is in English, but assess whether or not it has been translated. If so, what is the likely language of the original?” 🧵
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Joanne Brown retweeted
Catherine, Princess of Wales is not even her correct title.
She's not divorced.
Her correct title is: Her Royal Highness, The Princess of Wales.
Just like William's correct title is His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales.
Their names don't feature.
I know this & I'm not British.
A reminder to @BBCNews to educate its broadcasters that the Princess of Wales has not been 'Kate Middleton' since 2011. Her correct title is Catherine, Princess of Wales. Get it right.
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Joanne Brown retweeted
Lurking underneath the 'compassion' and concern for autonomy of the #assistedsuicide campaign is a frightening utilitarian ethos that wishes to rid our society of inconvenient lives. Exactly the same arguments as today were heard in the 1930s.
Prof Martin Vernon, of the British Geriatrics Society, says there could be “pressure within the system” for assisted suicide to become a solution for the funding crisis in health and social care.
“I do think that is a very real and present threat.”
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Joanne Brown retweeted
The Equality impact assessment for assisted dying is 21 pages and was published late. The vaping bill one is about 273
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Joanne Brown retweeted
If someone is standing on a ledge wanting to throw themselves off, Chris Whitty thinks trying to dissuade them is coercion. This is absolute moral madness. These suicide cheerleaders have no idea of the chaos they have just unleashed.
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Joanne Brown retweeted
Just had a lovely woman in our shop in Donegal, searching for her lost twin sister. Appreciate it if my Irish followers would retweet this. Thank you.
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Joanne Brown retweeted
Dear BBC, I’m a Strictly fan but I only have a Nokia phone. Cheers.
#strictlyvoting
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