Mortgage rates improved nicely today with the average lender more convincingly back under the 3.0% threshold for conventional 30yr fixed scenarios. In general, that refers to 740+ credit and 20% equity/down-payment on an owner-occupied single family home with a loan amount at or under the conforming loan limit. Stray very far from that path and rates can increase rather quickly. [Top Tier Scenarios 30YR FIXED: 2.88%] emphasis added
Tuesday:
• At 10:00 AM, ISM Manufacturing Index for August. The consensus is for the ISM to be at 54.5, up from 54.2 in July.
• Also at 10:00 AM, Construction Spending for July. The consensus is for a 1.0% increase in construction spending.
• Also at 10:00 AM, The BLS is scheduled to release Labor Force projections through 2029.
• All day, Light vehicle sales for August. The consensus is for light vehicle sales to be 15.2 million SAAR in August, up from 14.5 million in July (Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate).
Mortgage rates improved nicely today with the average lender more convincingly back under the 3.0% threshold for conventional 30yr fixed scenarios. In general, that refers to 740+ credit and 20% equity/down-payment on an owner-occupied single family home with a loan amount at or under the conforming loan limit. Stray very far from that path and rates can increase rather quickly. [Top Tier Scenarios 30YR FIXED: 2.88%] emphasis added
Tuesday:
• At 10:00 AM, ISM Manufacturing Index for August. The consensus is for the ISM to be at 54.5, up from 54.2 in July.
• Also at 10:00 AM, Construction Spending for July. The consensus is for a 1.0% increase in construction spending.
• Also at 10:00 AM, The BLS is scheduled to release Labor Force projections through 2029.
• All day, Light vehicle sales for August. The consensus is for light vehicle sales to be 15.2 million SAAR in August, up from 14.5 million in July (Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate).
The move, a response to pressure to pay publishers when their stories are posted on the social network, could add to internet silos springing up around the world.
A man wears a shirt calling for freedom for Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, the man who allegedly shot protesters in Wisconsin, during a US President Donald Trump Campaign Rally, the day after the end of the Republican National Convention, at Manchester airport in Londonderry, New Hampshire on August 28, 2020.
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President Donald Trump, at a press conference on Monday, defended Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old supporter charged with double homicide in connection with the killing of two men in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
"That was an interesting situation," Trump said. "He was trying to get away from them, I guess, it looks like, and he fell, and then they very violently attacked him."
Trump did not mention that, prior to the scene he described, authorities say Rittenhouse had already shot and killed another person, according to a criminal complaint filed on Friday.
Rittenhouse was charged with first-degree reckless homicide, first-degree intentional homicide, and attempted first-degree intentional homicide.
President Donald Trump refused to condemn the actions of a 17-year-old supporter who has been charged with double homicide in connection with the killings of two men last week in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
"That was an interesting situation," Trump said at a press conference on Monday, regarding the actions of Kyle Rittenhouse. "He was trying to get away from them, I guess, it looks like, and he fell, and then they very violently attacked him."
Trump did not mention that, prior to the scene he described, Rittenhouse — a vigilante who crossed state lines to patrol the streets of Kenosha amid protests and unrest in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake — had already shot and killed another person: Joseph Rosenbaum, showing "utter disregard for human life," according to a criminal complaint the state of Wisconsin filed last Friday.
An autopsy revealed that Rosenbaum was shot multiple times, including in the back, fracturing his pelvis and perforating his right lung and liver. He also had gunshot wounds to his thigh and forehead.
Rittenhouse has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree reckless homicide, and attempted first-degree intentional homicide, among other charges.
Rittenhouse's attorney has claimed the shootings were in self-defense, but the criminal complaint says video of the incident that police reviewed showed the victim "appears to be unarmed."
The complaint says that after the first shooting, Rittenhouse, who was carrying an assault weapon, tried to flee, prompting a chase, during which he fell and then shot two men, Anthony Huber and Gaige Grosskreutz, killing the former and severely wounding the latter.
"He was in very big trouble," Trump claimed. "He probably would have been killed. It's under investigation."
But according to the criminal complaint, and video of the incident that law enforcement reviewed, Huber was not attempting to kill anyone; rather, he "appears to be trying to pull the gun away from the defendant."
According to an autopsy, Huber died of a "gunshot wound to his chest that perforated his heart."
Biden immediately condemned Trump's comments
Former Vice President Joe Biden, in a statement, condemned Trump's comments.
"Tonight, the president declined to rebuke violence," Biden said. "He wouldn't even repudiate one of his supporters who is charged with murder because of his attacks on others. He is too weak, too scared of the hatred he has stirred to put an end to it."
WISCONSIN, USA - AUGUST 25: Jacob Blakeâs father Jacob Blake speaks during the press conference in front of the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States on August 25, 2020.
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In a live interview on CNN, Jacob Blake's father refuted President Donald Trump's account of the White House trying to get the Blake family on the phone.
Less than an hour earlier, Trump said during his press briefing that he was unable to get in touch with the Blakes because "they wanted to have lawyers involved, and I thought that was inappropriate so I didn't do that. But I did speak with the pastor of the family."
White House Senior Communications Adviser Ben Williamson tweeted, "The President was referring to the pastor of Julia Jackson—Jacob Blake's mother."
In the same CNN interview, the family attorney said Blake's mother, along with a pastor close to her side of the family, were coordinating with the White House for a call, "but for some reason, the call never came."
Minutes after President Donald Trump explained why he wasn't able to get on the phone with Jacob Blake's family, Jacob Blake Sr. refuted the president's stated reason.
Thousands of Americans have been protesting against police brutality and racism anew after a Kenosha police officer shot Jacob Blake in Wisconsin on August 23. He is paralyzed from the waist down, and the officer is on administrative leave while the state Department of Justice investigates.
Earlier on Monday evening, Trump said from behind the White House lectern during a press briefing that the Blake family "wanted to have lawyers involved," so the president ended up speaking to the "family pastor" instead.
"We don't have a family pastor," Blake Sr. said on CNN when host Jim Acosta asked why Trump claimed he spoke with a pastor and not the family.
Blake Sr. was adamant that he did not want to "play politics" with his son's life, later adding, along with his lawyer, that he and his family received threats deemed serious enough that they had to temporarily relocate.
Benjamin Crump, the family attorney, told Acosta that the White House had been coordinating with Blake's mother and a pastor for her family to work out a phone call with the president.
"But for some reason," Crump said, "the call never came."
After the CNN interview aired, White House senior communications adviser Ben Williamson tweeted, "The President was referring to the pastor of Julia Jackson—Jacob Blake's mother."
"I'm sorry I missed your call," she said on CNN, addressing Trump. "Because had I not missed your call maybe the comments that you made would have been different and I'm not mad at you at all."
Jackson said she has the "utmost respect" for the president, adding: "Like I said before, and I'm not saying this to him directly, we should always get the details from the right source before we start throwing bricks."
"I am concerned your presence will only hinder our healing," Evers wrote in a letter to the White House on Sunday. "I am concerned your presence will only delay our work to overcome division and move forward together."
He’s one of the most influential journalists of the last three decades, but he’s shadowed by a 1994 magazine cover story that claimed to show a link between race and I.Q.
While Walmart has a big opportunity to roll out new technology and use store data to compete with Amazon, ad budgets are significantly smaller than Amazon ad budgets. Curtis Rummel, lead client strategist at e-commerce agency Marketplace Strategy, estimated that clients put 5% to 10% of the budgets that are spent advertising on Amazon on Walmart campaigns.
Apple, Amazon, Twitter and other tech companies hire considerably more international talent than many others due to their size and need for people with unique skills.
Apple paid a creative director $300,000 while Google paid a director of product marketing $315,000.
Ashley Rodriguez reports that the Wall Street firm estimates that Netflix has 17 million paying subscribers in Brazil (compared to more than 60 million paying subscribers in the US). Netflix was the first big streaming company to launch a subscription service in Brazil. And rivals HBO Max and Disney Plus could enter the country soon.
On average, English-language programming filled six of Netflix Brazil's top 1o titles each week from March to August, suggesting that there may be room in Netflix's library for more local-language content.
SpaceX is aiming to launch three rockets on Sunday, including two back-to-back Falcon 9 launches in Florida and a Starship test flight in Texas, if weather permits.
The aerospace company said it intends to launch its twelfth Starlink mission at 10:12 a.m. EST from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending 60 Starlinks into orbit.
The second Falcon 9 launch is scheduled to occur nine hours and six minutes later, taking off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:18 p.m. and sending a SAOCOM 1B spacecraft into orbit.
Separately, SpaceX is also reportedly aiming to launch the Starship SN6 from Boca Chica, Texas, for a low-altitude test flight. Earlier in August, SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted that the company is planning to do "several short hops to smooth out launch process, then go high altitude with body flaps."
Though it's unclear what time the Texas launch — if it goes forward — will occur, Cameron County in Texas has announced highway closures between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. CST "due to anticipated test launch activities for SpaceX."
On Friday, Musk acknowledged the efforts for the multiple launches on Twitter, saying there was a "good chance something will slip, but, yeah, Sunday is intense."
The US is now mostly reporting over 700,000 tests per day (fewer recently). Based on the experience of other countries, the percent positive needs to be well under 5% to really push down new infections, so the US still needs to increase the number of tests per day significantly (or take actions to push down the number of new infections).
There were 772 thousand test results reported over the last 24 hours.
There were 47 thousand positive tests.
There have been over 28,000 COVID reported deaths in the first 28 days of August. See the graph on US Daily Deaths here.
When you take part in a Webex meeting, you can share your screen with the other attendees – anyone can "take control" of the meeting and share content. Of course, only one person can share at a time, so if you start sharing, Webex will disable the previous presenter automatically.
No matter how you are joined to a Webex meeting – from the Windows or Mac desktop app, a web page, or mobile app – the process to share is almost identical, though the controls vary somewhat once you are sharing.
While a meeting is taking place, tap the "Share" button at the bottom of the screen. Most of the time, you should be able to see the "Share" symbol (a U with an upward arrow) to the right of the "Start Video" button. If you don't see it, tap the three-dot menu to see more options and you will find it there.
Tap or click the "Share" button to start the sharing process.
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Choose the kind of content you want to share. The first option should be to share the screen. If that's what you want, tap it. Otherwise, you can browse the other share options, such as a specific app or browser window, or even a whiteboard you can draw and write on. On the mobile app, you'll also have the option to share photos from your camera roll.
Choose which kind of content you want to share.
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The sharing experience varies depending upon what device or app you are using to share:
Windows or Mac desktop app: When you start sharing, you'll find a menu at the top of the screen. You can click "Share" to change the kind of content you are sharing. Click "Pause" to freeze the view that other participants see, or "Stop Sharing" to disable the screen share.
When you share from the desktop app, the Webex interface moves to the top of your desktop.
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Browser: While you're sharing, you can click the "Share" button to view or hide a pop-up that displays a preview image of your shared content. Click "Stop sharing" to end the sharing session.
You can stop sharing from the browser using the "Share" pop-up.
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Mobile app: While you're sharing your screen, you may leave the Webex app to show content from other apps. To stop sharing, tap the red time display at the top left of the screen and then tap "Stop." You can then return to the Webex app and tap any blank part of the screen to return to the meeting.
Tap the red time display to stop sharing and return to the Webex app.
The US is now mostly reporting over 700,000 tests per day (fewer recently). Based on the experience of other countries, the percent positive needs to be well under 5% to really push down new infections, so the US still needs to increase the number of tests per day significantly (or take actions to push down the number of new infections).
There were 772 thousand test results reported over the last 24 hours.
There were 47 thousand positive tests.
There have been over 28,000 COVID reported deaths in the first 28 days of August. See the graph on US Daily Deaths here.
If you'd like to upload a video to Vimeo, here's how.
How to upload a video to Vimeo on desktop
1. On Vimeo's homepage, click "New Video" in the top-right corner.
2. From the drop-down list, select "Upload."
Click "Upload."
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3. Choose your privacy settings and select what video you want to upload from your computer or cloud service, and then follow the on-screen instructions.
You can upload from your computer, or a service like Google Drive.
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4. While your video is uploading, fill in the title, description, and other necessary fields. When you're finished, scroll down and click "Save."
Set your video's options.
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5. Once the video has finished uploading, you can click the thumbnail image to view it, share it, and more.
How to upload a video to Vimeo in the mobile app
1. Open the Vimeo app and tap the plus icon at the bottom of the home screen.
Tap the plus button at the bottom of the screen.
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2. Choose the video you want to upload from your phone's camera roll.
3. If you'd like to trim or edit your video in any way, do so and then tap "Done" in the top-right corner. If you don't, do nothing and tap "Skip."
You can edit and trim your video here.
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4. Fill in the information section and choose your privacy settings, then tap "Upload" in the top-right corner to finish.
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