q

The Quikie....kinda Edit

we tried to keep things quick and light...how'd we do?.

This item belongs to: audio/opensource_audio.

This item has files of the following types: Metadata





q

Get 96% OFF iZotope Music Maker’s Bundle @ Plugin Boutique

Plugin Boutique is running a no-brainer 96% OFF deal on the Music Maker’s Bundle by iZotope. The bundle includes eight popular iZotope plugins like Stutter Edit, Break Tweaker, Iris 2, Ozone Elements, and more. iZotope Music Maker’s Bundle contains all four Elements plugins from iZotope (Ozone Elements, Neutron Elements, Nectar Elements, and Rx Elements, along [...]

View post: Get 96% OFF iZotope Music Maker’s Bundle @ Plugin Boutique




q

“Me uní a 'Los Danieles', porque quiero defender la prensa independiente”

El periodista colombiano Daniel Samper Pizano escribirá su columna cuando quiera y cuando pueda




q

“No son actuaciones inscritas y vamos a tomar medidas": Ejército




q

Aerolíneas estarían vendiendo tiquetes de junio en adelante: Supertransporte

El superintendente de transporte afirmó que será el presidente Iván Duque quien finalmente, avale el reinicio de operación de vuelos




q

“Estábamos aquí de vacaciones y nos cogió el cierre de todos los aeropuerto”

Constanza Henao, colombiana atrapada en la isla de San Martín




q

"Estamos muy complacidos porque el diario AS es el líder entre los medios deportivos" Sarah Castro

"Estamos muy complacidos porque el diario AS es el líder entre los medios deportivos" Sarah Castro




q

Presidente y equipo técnico se reúnen para evaluar extender la cuarentena




q

"Pico del Covid-19 debería llegar a finales de junio": MinSalud




q

Hijo de Luigi Echeverri trabaja en firma receptora de contrato de Duque




q

¿Es Bueno que el Comité de la Regla Fiscal permita más déficit al gobierno?




q

"Venezolanos en todo el mundo quieren recuperar la libertad de su país": J.J. Rendón




q

“Los efectos de la crisis son mucho más graves de lo que se previó"




q

Si Dios quiere, a final de año estaremos en Colombia: Chilindrina




q

“Quería ayudar a familia con esa plata para el dinero del mercado”




q

Maia lanza 'Sensus', album musical que le apuesta a la salsa




q

MCI Calls Qwest's Bid 'Superior' to Verizon's

MCI Inc.'s board of directors embraced a cash-rich offer from Qwest Communications International Inc. after months of saying the company was a financially weaker and strategically less desirable merger partner than Verizon Communications Inc.
-The Washington Post




q

Corona: US-Arbeitslosenquote auf historischem Höchststand

Die Arbeitslosenquote in den USA ist im April auf 14,7 Prozent gestiegen - der höchste Wert seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Die tatsächlichen Zahlen könnten sogar noch höher liegen.




q

"Covid-19" sicherer Kandidat für nächsten Duden

Social Distancing, Corona-Party oder Covid-19 - seit der Pandemie benutzen wir Wörter, die vor einigen Wochen noch unbekannt waren. Einige davon könnten es in den nächsten Duden schaffen - wenn sie eine Bedingung erfüllen.




q

Esther Bejarano im Interview: "Es war eine Befreiung für alle"

Russische und US-Soldaten verbrannten ein Bild Hitlers, sie spielte dazu Akkordeon - so erinnert sich Esther Bejarano an das Kriegsende. Als Auschwitz-Überlebende kritisiert sie die aktuellen politischen Geschehnisse scharf.




q

EU-Spitzen: Europa ist "momentan sehr zerbrechlich"

Die Spitzen der EU haben sich besorgt gezeigt über den Zustand der Gemeinschaft. Durch die Corona-Krise drohe eine Schwächung Europas - zulasten der Ärmsten. Erhebliche Kritik gibt es an den Grenzschließungen.




q

Liveblog: ++ Dynamo Dresden-Team muss in Quarantäne ++

Das gesamte Zweitliga-Team des Fußballklubs Dynamo Dresden wird nach zwei weiteren positiven Coronafällen in eine zweiwöchige Quarantäne geschickt. Die Zahl der Neuinfektionen in Italien ist rückläufig. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.




q

Former Washington State tackle Andre Dillard donates strength equipment, nutrition items to alma mater


The Woodinville grad, who plays for the Philadelphia Eagles, sent packages the school will distribute to its athletes.




q

Grooming Anthony Gordon: Meet the two men who prepared WSU Cougars’ record-setting QB for the draft


The quarterback is expected to be a third-day pick in this week's NFL draft.




q

Big question at NFL rookie webinar: locker room assimilation


Seahawks WR DK Metcalf and former Cougars QB Gardner Minshew shared their experiences as first-year players with 547 players in the NFL’s first rookie webinar after the draft last month.




q

Two White House coronavirus cases raise question of if anyone is really safe


WASHINGTON — In his eagerness to reopen the country, President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Americans that it would be safe to go back to the workplace. But the past few days have demonstrated that even his own workplace may not be safe from the coronavirus. Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary tested […]




q

Revenue Quality & Leverage

The coronavirus issue is likely to linger for some time.

Up to 70% of Germany could become infected & some countries like the UK are even considering herd immunity as a strategy:

"I’m an epidemiologist. When I heard about Britain’s ‘herd immunity’ coronavirus plan, I thought it was satire"
- William Hanage

What if their models are broken?

Many companies like WeWork or Oyo have been fast and loose chasing growth while slower growing companies have been levering up to fund share buybacks. Airlines spent 96% of free cash flow on share buybacks. The airlines seek a $50 billion bailout package.

There are knock-on effects from Boeing to TripAdvisor to Google all the way down to travel affiliate blogger, local restaurants closing, the over-levered bus company going through bankruptcy & bondholders eating a loss on the debt.

Companies are going to let a lot of skeletons out of the closet as literally anything and everything bad gets attributed to coronavirus. Layoffs, renegotiating contracts, pausing ad budgets, renegotiating debts, requesting bailouts, etc. The Philippine stock market was recently trading at 2012 levels & closed indefinitely.

Brad Geddes mentioned advertisers have been aggressively pulling PPC budgets over the past week: “If you have to leave the house to engage in the service, it just seems like it’s not converting right now.”

During the prior recession Google repriced employee options to retain talent.

In spite of consumers being glued to the news, tier one news publishers are anticipating large ad revenue declines:

Some of the largest advertisers, including Procter & Gamble Unilever, Apple, Microsoft, Danone, AB InBev, Burberry and Aston Martin, made cuts to sales forecasts for the year. With the outlook for the spread of the virus changing by day, many companies are caught in a spiral of uncertainty. That tends to gum up decisions, and ad spending is an easy expenditure to put on pause. The New York Times has warned that it expects advertising revenue to decline “in the mid-teens” in the current quarter as a result of coronavirus.

More time online might mean search engines & social networks capture a greater share of overall ad spend, but if large swaths of the economy do not convert & how people live changes for an extended period of time it will take time for the new categories to create the economic engines replacing the old out-of-favor categories.

[IMPORTANT: insert affiliate ad for cruise vacations here]

As Google sees advertisers pause ad budgets Google will get more aggressive with keeping users on their site & displacing organic click flows with additional ad clicks on the remaining advertisers.

When Google or Facebook see a 5% or 10% pullback other industry players might see a 30% to 50% decline as the industry pulls back broadly, focuses more resources on the core, and the big attention merchants offset their losses by clamping down on other players.

At its peak TripAdvisor was valued at about $14 billion & it is now valued at about $2 billion.

TripAdvisor announced layoffs. As did Expedia. As did Booking.com. As did many hotels. And airlines. etc. etc. etc.

I am not suggesting people should be fearful or dominated by negative emotions. Rather one should live as though many other will be living that way.

In times of elevated uncertainty, in business it is best to not be led by emotions unless they are positive ones. Spend a bit more time playing if you can afford to & work more on things you love.

Right now we might be living through the flu pandemic of 1918 and the Great Depression of 1929 while having constant access to social media updates. And that's awful.

Consume less but deeper. Less Twitter, less news, fewer big decisions, read more books.

It is better to be more pragmatic & logic-based in determining opportunity cost & the best strategy to use than to be led by extreme fear.

  • If you have sustainable high-margin revenue treasure it.
  • If you have low-margin revenue it might quickly turn into negative margin revenues unless something changes quickly.
  • If you have low-margin revenue which is sustainable but under-performed less stable high-margin revenues you might want to put a bit more effort into those sorts of projects as they are more likely to endure.

On a positive note, we might soon get a huge wave of innovation...

"Take the Great Depression. Economist Alexander Field writes that “the years 1929–1941 were, in the aggregate, the most technologically progressive of any comparable period in U.S. economic history.” Productivity growth was twice as fast in the 1930s as it was in the decade prior. The 1920s were the era of leisure because people could afford to relax. The 1930s were the era of frantic problem solving because people had no other choice. The Great Depression brought unimaginable financial pain. It also brought us supermarkets, microwaves, sunscreen, jets, rockets, electron microscopes, magnetic recording, nylon, photocopying, teflon, helicopters, color TV, plexiglass, commercial aviation, most forms of plastic, synthetic rubber, laundromats, and countless other discoveries."

The prior recession led to trends like Groupon. The McJobs recovery led to services like Uber & DoorDash. Food delivery has been trending south recently, though perhaps the stay-at-home economy will give it a boost.

I have been amazed at how fast affiliates moved with pushing N95 face masks online over the past couple months. Seeing how fast that stuff spun up really increases the perceived value of any sustainable high-margin businesses.

Amazon.com is hiring another 100,000 warehouse workers as people shop from home. Amazon banned new face masks and hand sanitizer listings. One guy had to donate around 18,000 cleaning products he couldn't sell.

I could see online education becoming far more popular as people aim to retrain while stuck at home.

What sorts of new industries will current & new technologies lead to as more people spend time working from home?




q

Here’s a mental health tip to get you through coronavirus quarantine: Find tranquility in nature


Since humans are such social animals, this time of confinement and isolation makes it more crucial than ever to connect — with friends and family, but also with nature. Here’s why being around nature can help your mental health during this stressful time.




q

Trump raises question of ultraviolet light and COVID-19. We ask doctors, scientists.


President Donald Trump speculated about ultraviolet rays. But artificial UV techniques are ineffective and likely deadly for treating an infected person, scientists say — and some can be extremely dangerous used at home for disinfecting.




q

JetBlue is the first major U.S. airline to require masks for passengers


The coronavirus has changed how we travel in many ways including the increased use of face masks on flights and in airports.




q

Quercetin solved a spring allergy problem


Q: I had such a terrible allergy attack that I couldn’t get my head off my desk to drive myself home. It was 1987, and I was very reluctant to take any medication. My boss gave me a pill she said was safe because it was plant-based. It was quercetin. When she checked on me […]




q

Earthquake shakes Utah, rattling frayed coronavirus nerves


SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A moderate earthquake Wednesday near Salt Lake City shut down a major air traffic hub, damaged a spire atop a temple and frightened millions of people already on edge from the coronavirus pandemic. There were no reports of injuries. The 5.7-magnitude quake just after 7 a.m. damaged the spire and […]




q

Former Washington State tackle Andre Dillard donates strength equipment, nutrition items to alma mater


The Woodinville grad, who plays for the Philadelphia Eagles, sent packages the school will distribute to its athletes.




q

Grooming Anthony Gordon: Meet the two men who prepared WSU Cougars’ record-setting QB for the draft


The quarterback is expected to be a third-day pick in this week's NFL draft.




q

Big question at NFL rookie webinar: locker room assimilation


Seahawks WR DK Metcalf and former Cougars QB Gardner Minshew shared their experiences as first-year players with 547 players in the NFL’s first rookie webinar after the draft last month.




q

As coronavirus looms over sports world, fans must ask themselves some tough questions


As we face a unique health-care crisis with the proliferation of the coronavirus, the ramifications for sports are just one piece in a giant, complicated puzzle. But I can’t remember an event in my lifetime with the potential to have a greater impact on the world of athletics.




q

Seahawks announce signings of former WSU QB Anthony Gordon, ex-UW WR Aaron Fuller


The Seahawks announced the signings of five rookie undrafted free agents Friday, including former Washington State quarterback Anthony Gordon and ex-Washington receiver Aaron Fuller. Others announced: Mississippi State tackle Tommy Champion, Albany defensive end Eli Mencer and Texas A&M cornerback Debione Renfro. None was a surprise, as all five were among the undrafted free agents […]




q

Watch: Seahawks Shaquill and Shaquem Griffin give a virtual commencement speech to alma mater Central Florida


Dressed in "half suits'' bearing UCF colors, the Griffin twins took turns speaking, each saying they didn't want to read off a piece of paper but instead that they wanted to speak from the heart.




q

Analysis: The Seahawks need a backup QB, but Cam Newton seems to be an unlikely fit


Timing has not been on Cam Newton's side throughout his free agency. Recent speculation has connected Newton and the Seahawks, who are still in need of a backup quarterback behind Russell Wilson.




q

Greyhound to require passengers to wear face masks


In addition to the face mask policy, Greyhound said it also stepped up cleaning procedures, sanitizing buses after every trip and frequently cleaning locations.




q

Jagger, Quincy Jones react to the death of Little Richard


Reaction to the death of rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Little Richard, who died Saturday at 87. — “I’m so saddened to hear about the passing of Little Richard, he was the biggest inspiration of my early teens and his music still has the same raw electric energy when you play it now as it did […]




q

Costco to require masks for shoppers to protect against coronavirus


Costco will require shoppers to wear masks that cover their mouth and nose while in the store starting Monday, the company says.




q

Boost your pH IQ, and then test — and amend — your soil


With a fall application, your soil should be at the right level by the beginning of next season.




q

Panic buying comes for the seeds as coronavirus quarantines prompt surge in gardening


Companies struggle to meet surging demand, especially for vegetables. “It feels like we are selling toilet paper,” said the founder of a seed company.




q

Court overturns Quincy Jones’ win in Michael Jackson lawsuit


LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California appeals court on Tuesday overturned most of a 2017 jury verdict awarding Quincy Jones $9.4 million in royalties and fees from the Michael Jackson estate over the use of Jones-produced Jackson hits in the concert film “This Is It” and two Cirque du Soleil shows. The state’s 2nd District […]




q

Court overturns Quincy Jones’ win in Michael Jackson lawsuit


LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California appeals court on Tuesday overturned most of a 2017 jury verdict awarding Quincy Jones $9.4 million in royalties and fees from the Michael Jackson estate over the use of Jones-produced Jackson hits in the concert film “This Is It” and two Cirque du Soleil shows. The state’s 2nd District […]




q

GOP’s Freed withdraws request for court order; lawsuit over coronavirus ban on religious gatherings continues


Inslee's stay-home order, initially issued in March, bans church and religious services, but permits one-on-one "religious counseling," state lawyers argued.




q

Mike Hopkins on UW Huskies point guard Quade Green: ‘He makes the game easier for others’


Quade Green is expected to start for Washington in Friday's regular-season opener against No. 16 Baylor.




q

Analysis: Are UW Huskies finished without Quade Green? And what happened to Isaiah Stewart?


Coach Mike Hopkins faces his first serious adversity during his three-year tenure and his handling of the point-guard situation will likely determine the course of the season.