🇪🇸 I Took A Job In Ibiza

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If you’re part of the Great Resignation, between 30-40 years old, not from Ibiza, and enjoy getting schmacked, we’ve got a job opportunity to consider.

• According to a local news outlet, Spanish police are looking to set up a “party-tracking” crew of foreigners to infiltrate parties flouting COVID regulations in Ibiza and report back to the government (police personnel are spread thin and locals recognize them when they try it).

Translation: You’ll get paid to party in Ibiza, but you’ll be working as a narc *ahem* 21 Jump Street-type undercover agent for the police.

📜 The backstory… In June, the Spanish government was mandating establishments like bars and clubs in the party zone stay shut between 9.30 p.m. and 8 a.m. – and business owners who organized parties and flouted the regulations could be fined up to $676,000.

• The fines haven’t stopped the parties, only moved them to private homes, despite the government also banning inter-household gatherings.
• As of August 4, Ibiza recorded a 14-day average of 991 daily cases, up from an average of 40 to 50 cases a day in May.

🔭 Zoom out… In June, the EU recommended its 27-member states allow travelers from the U.S., though each country can decide whether to impose additional requirements, such as a negative COVID test or mandatory quarantine period. Some EU members, including Greece, Croatia, and Cyprus, had been allowing Americans to visit since the spring.

• A few destinations, such as Spain, France, and Greece, have reinstituted some COVID restrictions to curb rising case numbers, but have so far stopped short of restricting international travel.

📝 The bottom line: Travel in the age of COVID is complicated and ever-changing. If you’re headed internationally soon, make sure you’re familiar and up-to-date with local rules and regulations – though if you take the Ibiza job, you’ll be helping make ‘em.

🎁 DONUT Headline: A Chinese state-run newspaper criticized online gaming as "opium for the mind" and called for tighter regulation, causing Tencent and other gaming companies to lose billions in market cap.

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CNBC's latest All-America Economic Survey found President Biden maintained his overall approval rating among voters but regressed in two key areas compared to last quarter's survey – the economy and COVID-19.

• Biden's 48% approval rating in July is lower than in February when a special online edition of the All-America Economic Survey found it stood at 62%.

📝 Polls, Polls, & More Polls... The latest monthly Gallup poll found Biden's job approval rating stood at 50% in July – the lowest it's been since he took office.

• Per Gallup, Biden's overall drop in approval can be tied to falling support among Independents and Democrats, while Republican approval - or lack thereof - is somewhat constant.

Biden also reached an all-time low in job approval in the RealClearPolitics aggregate polling average.

Interestingly, RCP data shows Biden's disapproval rating increased by nearly ten points over the past six months, while his approval rating fell by just five points.

• Translation: A portion of undecided Americans made up their mind about President Biden's job performance in the first few months following his inauguration.

📜 Historically speaking... U.S. presidents' job approval ratings are typically higher than average early on in their administrations.

👁️ Looking ahead... There's plenty of time for President Biden's approval rating to change – for better or for worse.

• Presidential approval ratings in recent years have been a decent indicator of what will happen in the midterms, per FiveThirtyEight.

💧 Respect the Drip

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Enrique Veiga, an 82-year engineer from Seville, first designed the machine during a harsh drought in southern Spain in the 1990s.

• The machine functions by using electricity to cool air until the water vapor in it condenses – effectively harnessing the process that causes condensation on air-conditioning units.

The device, which is capable of operating in a desert, can function at temperatures of up to 104℉ and can produce water in environments with as little as 10% humidity.

• A small version of the apparatus can produce nearly 20 gallons of water a day. A larger version can produce more than 1,000 gallons in the same amount of time.

Veiga’s company, Aquaer, is now scaling his invention, working to install the machines in refugee camps in Africa.

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Lawson Lundberg was recently admitted to Mensa, the national intelligence association, after scoring an impressive 151 on his first-ever IQ test. For reference, Albert Einstein was estimated to have an IQ between 160 and 180 in adulthood.

• “[After] about 21% of the IQ test, he didn’t get any of the questions wrong, so they ran out of questions to ask him.”

Lawson has memorized all 50 states and their capitals, every country and flag in the world, and understands complex phonics and currency problems.

• ‘Well yeah, I can do that too…’ you may be thinking. The catch? Lawson is only three years old.

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A) Fox News
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C) Bloomberg
D) CNN

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Cable News Network (CNN) was the world's first 24-hour television news network when it debuted in June 1980, but it wasn't until the network covered the Gulf War in 1991 that it became a household name.