Diana and Scott Anderson conservatively estimate they have spent $1 million living out their dreams at Disneyland. From 2012 to 2017, the couple, both 60, were members of Club 33, an exclusive private lounge where the wealthiest Disneyphiles escape crowds, sip cocktails and dine on gourmet fare. But it came to an end when their membership was terminated in September 2017, after Mr Anderson was accused of being drunk in a Disney park. He said he was suffering from a medical condition known as a vestibular migraine, which causes dizziness
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A Cornish town’s long-held tradition of lifting schoolchildren and bumping their heads on turf-topped boundary stones has been halted by a health and safety row. The annual beating of the boundaries ceremony in Helston, at the northern end of the Lizard Peninsula, is a centuries-old ritual to mark the perimeter of the ancient borough. But the tradition looks to be under threat after Helston town council unanimously voted to recommend that “lifting of individuals no longer be an accepted practice at the beating the boundaries event for health and safety and safeguarding reasons”
Health and safety blow to Cornish head-bumping tradition
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A serial job applicant accused of having made a career from suing businesses for discrimination is said to be using artificial intelligence to generate “vexatious” claims. The tribunal was told that the 49-year-old, who has a PhD in chemical engineering, had applied for about 4,600 jobs and been involved in more than 60 legal claims
Serial job applicant ‘uses AI to generate 4,600 vexatious claims’
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Sweden has announced a plan to move the start of primary school a year earlier in an attempt to arrest the long decline in the country’s educational performance. The country’s state school system, whose roots stretch back to the 19th century, was once held up as a template for others to follow, but it has slid down international rankings over the past two decades. After a period of apparent improvement in the mid-2010s, Swedish teenagers’ mathematics and reading comprehension scores went through their sharpest fall to date in the most recent study, which was published nine months ago
Why Swedish schools are swapping soft play for hard learning
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The business secretary has suggested that Amazon is wrong to force its staff back to the office five days a week. Jonathan Reynolds said letting staff work from home was good for both companies and staff, and insisted the practice can help revive “low-productivity, low-growth Britain”. Labour is planning to give workers the default right to flexible working under an Employments Rights Bill in October, which will stipulate that employers can only refuse such requests when it is not reasonably practicable
Amazon ‘ignoring evidence’ by ending WFH, says business secretary
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Almost half of first-class degrees awarded to university students cannot be justified, according to the university regulator. The Office for Students (OfS) regulator found that the proportion of firsts had fallen to pre-pandemic levels — 29.6% of degrees in England were at the top grade in the academic year 2022- 2023, 3.7 percentage points lower than the previous year
Quarter of pupils with three Ds at A-level get first-class degrees
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🔍 Analysis: Countless apologies and promises … but when will the Met actually change? Troubling patterns of inaction and carelessness in cases concerning violence against women and minorities beg the question: is the force capable of fixing its problems?
Countless apologies and promises … but when will the Met actually change?
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Portugal declared a “state of calamity” as scores of wildfires continued to rage, partially destroying a treasured national landmark and stretching thousands of exhausted firefighters to the limit. At least seven people died due to blazes in the Aveiro and Viseu districts, with dozens of houses destroyed and tens of thousands of hectares of forest and scrubland consumed. The flames reached the Passadicos do Paiva, the famous wooden footbridges within the Unesco Arouca geopark, where one of the longest pedestrian suspension bridges in the world is located. 🔗 Read more: https://lnkd.in/dF4QFvTG
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For first time in decades, Teamsters will not endorse a Democrat. Why? The battle for the endorsement of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters shows just how important union support is during a US election and how much Donald Trump is changing the Republican Party. On Wednesday the union’s president, Sean O’Brien, announced that his organisation was sitting out the election for the first time since 1996. But by choosing to withhold support from either candidate, the 1.3 million-member union dealt a blow to Kamala Harris, who had lobbied O’Brien earlier this week and becomes the first Democratic nominee to miss out on its backing since Bill Clinton
For first time in decades, Teamsters will not endorse a Democrat. Why?
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Do you need to be ‘nudged’ to eat healthily … by AI? Ken Murphy, the CEO of Tesco, said this week that he could imagine using the data from the supermarket’s 22 million Clubcard holders and AI to “nudge” people into making healthier choices in their food shopping. 🗣️ “I can see it nudging you over time, saying, ‘I’ve noticed over time in your shopping basket that your sodium salt content is 250 per cent of your daily recommended allowance. I would recommend you substitute this, this and this to improve your heart health,’” he said at the FT Future of Retail Summit
Do you need to be ‘nudged’ to eat healthily … by AI?
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