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President Barack Obama's 2014 Budget Message
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By President Barack Obama
Thanks to the hard work and determination of the American people, we have made significant progress over the last 4 years. After a decade of war, our brave men and women in uniform are coming home. After years of recession, our businesses have created over six million new jobs. We buy more American cars than we have in 5 years, and less foreign oil than we have in 20 years. Our housing market is healing, our stock market is rebounding, and consumers, patients, and homeowners enjoy stronger protections than ever before.
But we know that there are millions of Americans whose hard work and dedication have not yet been rewarded. Our economy is adding jobs—but too many people still cannot find full-time employment. Corporate profits have skyrocketed to all-time highs—but for more than a decade, wages and incomes have barely budged.
It is our generation's task to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth—a rising, thriving middle class. It is our unfinished task to restore the basic bargain that built this country—the idea that if you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from, no matter what you look like, or whom you love.
It is our unfinished task to make sure that this Government works on behalf of the many, and not just the few; that it encourages free enterprise, rewards individual initiative, and opens the doors of opportunity to every child across this great Nation.
A growing economy that creates good, middle class jobs—this must be the North Star that guides our efforts. Every day, we should ask ourselves three questions as a Nation: How do we attract more jobs to our shores? How do we equip our people with the skills they need to get those jobs? And how do we make sure that hard work leads to a decent living?
This Budget seeks to answer each of these questions. Our first priority is making America a magnet for new jobs and manufacturing. After shedding
jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added more than 500,000 jobs over the past 3 years. Companies large and small are increasingly deciding to bring jobs back to America.
To accelerate this trend, the Budget builds on the success of the manufacturing innovation institute we created in Youngstown, Ohio last year, and calls for the creation of a network of 15 of these hubs across the Nation. In these innovation hubs, businesses will partner with universities and Federal
agencies to turn regions around our country into global centers of high-tech jobs.
The Budget also includes new initiatives to support manufacturing communities, including a new tax credit to strengthen their ability to attract investments and jobs. And it expands my Administration's SelectUSA initiative to help draw businesses and investment from around the world to our shores.
If we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas. That is why the Budget maintains a world-class commitment to science and research, targeting resources to those areas most likely to contribute directly to the creation of transformational technologies that can create the businesses and jobs of the future.
No area holds more promise than our investments in American energy. The Budget continues to advance my "all-of-the-above" strategy on energy, investing in clean energy research and development; promoting energy efficiency in our cars, homes, and businesses; encouraging responsible domestic
energy production; and launching new efforts to combat the threat of climate change.
Modeled after my successful Race to the Top education reform effort, the Budget includes a new Race to the Top energy efficiency challenge for States, rewarding those that implement the most effective policies to cut energy waste. And it establishes a new Energy Security Trust funded by royalty revenue from oil and gas leases to support initiatives to shift our cars and trucks off oil, cutting our Nation's reliance on foreign oil.
Over the last 4 years, we have begun the hard work of rebuilding our Nation's infrastructure. We have built or improved over 350,000 miles of road and more than 6,000 miles of rail. And we have repaired or replaced over 20,000 bridges. But to compete in the 21st Century economy and become a
magnet for jobs, we must do more. We need to repair our existing infrastructure, and invest in the infrastructure of tomorrow, including high-speed rail, high-tech schools, and self-healing power grids.
These investments will both lay the foundation for long-term economic growth and put workers back on the job now.
My Budget includes $50 billion for up-front infrastructure investments, including a "Fix-it-First" program that makes an immediate investment to put people to work as soon as possible on our most urgent repairs, like the nearly 70,000 structurally-deficient bridges across the country. And to make sure taxpayers do not shoulder the whole burden, the Budget creates a Rebuild America Partnership to attract private capital to upgrade what our businesses need most: modern ports to move our goods; modern pipelines to withstand a storm; and modern schools worthy of our children.
The Budget also supports efforts I announced earlier this year to modernize and improve the efficiency of the Federal permitting process, cutting through the red tape that has been holding back even some of the most carefully planned infrastructure projects. These efforts will help us to achieve the new goal I set to cut timelines in half for infrastructure projects, while creating new incentives for better outcomes for communities and the environment.
All of these initiatives in manufacturing, energy, and infrastructure will help entrepreneurs and small business owners expand and create new jobs. But none of it will matter unless we also equip our citizens with the skills and training to fill those jobs.
And that has to start at the earliest possible age. But today, fewer than 3 in 10 4-year-olds are enrolled in a high-quality preschool program, and the high cost of private preschool puts too much of a financial burden on middle class families.
The Budget therefore includes a proposal that ensures 4-year-olds across the country have access to high-quality preschool education through a landmark new initiative in partnership with the States. And it increases the availability of early learning for our youngest children to help their growth and development during the formative early years of life.
Providing a year of free, public preschool education for 4-year-old children is an important investment in our future. It will give all our kids the best start in life, helping them perform better in elementary school and ultimately helping them, and the country, be better prepared for the demands of the global economy. Not only that, it could save hard-working families thousands of dollars each year in child care costs. This is an investment we need to make, and it is fully paid for in this Budget by imposing a new tax on every pack of cigarettes sold.
The Budget also builds on the historic reforms made during my first term to improve our elementary and secondary school system by rewarding excellence and promoting innovation. To help ensure that our high schools are putting our kids on a path to college and a good job, the Budget includes a new
competitive fund that will help redesign America's high schools to prepare students with the real world skills they need to find a job right away or go to college. The fund rewards schools that develop new partnerships with colleges and employers, and create classes focusing on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)—the skills today's employers seek to fill the jobs available right now and in the future.
Even with better high schools, most young people will still need some higher education. Through tax credits, grants, and better loans, we have made college more affordable for millions of students and families over the last 4 years. But skyrocketing costs are still pricing too many young people out of a higher education, or saddling them with unsustainable debt. And taxpayers cannot continue to subsidize higher and higher costs for higher education.
To encourage colleges to do their part to keep costs down, the Budget includes reforms that will ensure affordability and value are considered in determining which colleges receive certain types of Federal aid. My Administration has also released a new "College Scorecard" that parents and students can use to compare schools.
To further ensure our educational system is preparing students for careers in the 21st Century economy, the Budget includes additional measures to promote STEM education, such as launching a new STEM Master Teacher Corps, to leverage the expertise of some of America's best and brightest teachers in science and mathematics, and to elevate the teaching of these subjects nationwide. It also includes a reorganization and consolidation of STEM education programs to improve the effectiveness of Federal investments in this area.
The Budget takes other critical steps to grow our economy, create jobs, and strengthen the middle class. It implements the Affordable Care Act, giving every American access to the high-quality, affordable health care coverage they deserve, and reducing the deficit by more than $1 trillion over the next two decades. It implements Wall Street reform, ending too-big-to-fail and protecting consumers against the abuses and reckless behavior that contributed to the financial collapse in 2008. And it includes measures to strengthen our housing market and ensure that every responsible homeowner has the opportunity to refinance at today's rates, saving $3,000 a year on average.
Our economy is stronger when we harness the talents and ingenuity of striving, hopeful immigrants. That is why I have proposed a plan to fix our broken immigration system that secures our borders, cracks down on employers who hire undocumented workers, attracts highly-skilled entrepreneurs and engineers to help create jobs and drive economic growth, and establishes a responsible pathway to earned citizenship—a path that includes passing a background check, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, learning English, and going to the back of the line behind the folks trying to come here legally.
The Budget makes investments that will make our immigration system more efficient and fair and lay a foundation for this permanent, common-sense reform.
The Budget also builds on the progress made over the last 4 years to expand opportunity for every American and every community willing to do the work to lift themselves up. It creates new ladders of opportunity to ensure that hard work leads to a decent living. It rewards hard work by increasing the minimum wage to $9 an hour so an honest day's work pays more. It partners with communities by identifying Promise Zones to help rebuild from the recession. It creates pathways to jobs for the long-term unemployed and youth who have been hardest hit by the downturn. And it strengthens families by removing financial deterrents to marriage and supporting the role of fathers.
We also know that economic growth can only be achieved and sustained if America is safe and secure, both at home and abroad. At home, the Budget supports my initiative to help protect our kids, reduce gun violence, and expand access to mental health services. We can protect our Second Amendment rights while coming together around reforms like eliminating background check loopholes to make it harder for criminals to get their hands on a gun—common-sense reforms that will help protect our kids from the scourge of gun violence that has plagued too many communities across the country.
To confront threats outside our borders, the Budget ensures our military remains the finest and best-equipped military force the world has ever known, even as we wind down more than a decade of war.
Already, we have brought home more than 30,000 of our brave servicemembers from Afghanistan. Our remaining forces are moving into a support role, with Afghan security forces taking the lead. And over the next year, another 34,000 American troops will come home. This drawdown will continue and, by the end of next year, our war in Afghanistan will be over. Beyond 2014, the Budget supports our continued commitment to a unified and sovereign Afghanistan.
To maintain our national security, the Budget supports our ongoing fight against terrorists, like al Qaeda. The organization that attacked us on 9/11 is a shadow of its former self. But different al Qaeda affiliates and extremist groups have emerged—from the Arabian Peninsula to Africa. We will confront these emerging security challenges through the full range of U.S. capabilities and tools, including diplomatic, security, intelligence, and economic development.
The Budget also provides the resources we need to act on our commitment to and interests in global development, by promoting food security that reduces dependence and increases prosperity; by investing in the increasingly successful drive toward an AIDS-free generation; and by maintaining our leadership as a global provider of humanitarian assistance that saves lives and reflects American values.
We must also confront new dangers, like cyber attacks, that threaten our Nation's infrastructure, businesses, and people. The Budget supports the expansion of Government-wide efforts to counter the full scope of cyber threats, and strengthens our ability to collaborate with State and local governments, our partners overseas, and the private sector to improve our overall cybersecurity.
The Budget also focuses resources on the Asia-Pacific region, reasserting American leadership and promoting security, stability, democracy, and economic growth. Importantly, the Budget upholds our solemn obligation to take care of our servicemembers and veterans, and to protect our diplomats and civilians in the field. It keeps faith with our veterans, investing in world-class care, including mental health care for our wounded warriors, supporting our military families, and giving our veterans the benefits, education, and job opportunities that they have earned.
The Budget does all of these things as part of a comprehensive plan that reduces the deficit. All of these initiatives and ideas are fully paid for, to ensure they do not increase the deficit by a single dime. By making investments in our people that we pay for responsibly, we will strengthen the middle class, make America a magnet for jobs and innovation, and grow our economy, which will in turn help us to reduce deficits. But economic growth alone will not solve our Nation's long-term fiscal challenges.
As we continue to grow our economy, we must take further action to cut our deficits. We do not have to choose between these two important priorities—we have to do both. Over the last 4 years, both parties have worked together to reduce the deficit in a balanced way by more than $2.5 trillion. That is more than halfway toward the goal of $4 trillion in deficit reduction that economists say we need to stabilize our finances. As we wind down two wars, we have protected our military families and veterans while cutting defense spending on outdated military weapons systems. Domestic discretionary spending is approaching its lowest levels as a share of the economy since President Eisenhower was in office; and we have moved aggressively to cut waste, fraud, and
abuse. And together, we have begun to ask the wealthy to do their fair share while keeping income taxes low for middle class families. Overall, we have cut the deficit in a balanced way that protects the investments in education, manufacturing, clean energy, and small businesses we need to grow the economy and strengthen the middle class. There is more work to do, and this Budget is designed to finish the job.
But we should not do it by making harsh and arbitrary cuts that jeopardize our military readiness, devastate priorities like education and energy, and cost jobs. That is not how to grow the economy. We should not ask middle class senior citizens and working families to pay down the rest of our deficit while the wealthiest are asked for nothing more. That does not grow our middle class.
The American people understand that we cannot just cut our way to prosperity. That is why I have repeatedly called for a balanced approach to deficit reduction. And that is why I have offered proposals on multiple occasions that cut wasteful spending, strengthen entitlements, and eliminate special tax breaks and loopholes so the wealthiest pay their fair share.
In my negotiations with House Speaker Boehner in December over the so-called "fiscal cliff," I again offered a compromise proposal that was balanced and comprehensive, and would achieve our $4 trillion deficit reduction goal. That proposal is still on the table. I am including it in this Budget to demonstrate my commitment to making the kind of tough and balanced choices that are needed to put our Nation's finances in order.
To be clear, the package I am offering includes some difficult cuts that I do not particularly like. But these measures will only become law if congressional Republicans agree to meet me in the middle by eliminating special tax breaks and loopholes so millionaires and billionaires do their fair share to cut the deficit. I will not agree to any deal that seeks to cut the deficit on the backs of middle class families. I am willing to make tough choices that may not be popular within my own party, because there can be no sacred cows for either party. And I look forward to working with any member of Congress who takes a similar, balanced approach. This plan is built on the kind of common ground that Democrats and Republicans should be able to reach.
In total, the Budget will cut the deficit by another $1.8 trillion over the next 10 years, bringing the deficit below 2 percent of GDP by 2023 and putting our debt on a declining path. This is not an end in and of itself—the best way to grow the economy and cut the deficit is by creating good middle class jobs. But this plan to reduce the deficit in a balanced way is a critical step toward ensuring that we have a solid foundation on which to build a strong economy and a thriving middle class for years to come.
Finally, this Budget continues my commitment to reforming and streamlining our Government for the 21st Century. It builds on my Campaign to Cut Waste by further targeting and eliminating wasteful spending wherever we find it. It reorganizes and consolidates agencies and programs to make them leaner and more efficient. It increases the use of evidence and evaluation to ensure we are making smart investments with our scarce taxpayer dollars. And it harnesses new technologies to allow us to do more with less.
No single Budget can solve every challenge and every problem facing the country. But this Budget shows how we can live within our means while growing our economy, strengthening the middle class, and securing our Nation's future. It is not a Democratic plan or a Republican plan. It is an American plan. And it is a plan that I hope can serve as an outline for us to write the next great chapter of the American story…together.
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This page gives rough and short information for other cyclists about the route we took in May 2014 from San Pedro de Atacama in Chile to Salta in Argentina. Crossing Reservas Nacional Los Flamencos, entering Argentina at Paso Sico and going to Salta via San Antonio de los Cobres. 550 kilometers in total, about half of it on gravel road. The information focus on supply points - orientation is easy, the gravel road is in general not that bad, climbing not that much (except going up to "plateau level").
be fully acclimatized. do not underestimate the altitude. within the core section you will always be between 4.000 and 4.600 meters.
carry always enough water and food. do not rely on a single supply point!
there have been just a few cars a day, in the border area for 2 days no car at all! so be self sufficient. do not rely on quick help from other people.
although the weather seems to be often clear and sunny, do not underestimate bad weather conditions. we unfortunately had to experience extremely strong wind (general from west to east), low temperature, icy-cold wind, snow and snow storm. one afternoon we nearly failed in putting up our tent (which could have been fatal as there have been no cars passing!) because of tornado-like storm. going in the other direction during these weather conditions is impossible.
We got information from the following website. Thank you very much for your effort!
Please note that i have taken all information carefully. But nevertheless i will take no responsibilities for any wrong information or mistakes. The situation can also change during the time. Check carefully with locals before heading off.
1 San Pedro de Atacama – Immigración 0 0 paved road shops, hotels, restaurants, gasoline. touristy, but it is not a big place though.
NOTE: you have to get your exit stamp here, there is no immigration office on chile side behind San Pedro!
6 El Laco 34 190 gravel road a few houses to the left. 2 very nice people live here, they will most likely offer you water and even a bed. but do not rely on it, and please do not take advantage of them.
7 carabineros 7 197 gravel road check of your passport, but there is no immigration (see point no. 1). maybe you get water, but they have to save the water for themselves.
9 Immigración Argentina 11 231 gravel road immigration and custom of Argentina. because of the weather we asked to camp there, and they offered us 2 beds! but water is more or less for the border crew.
you can turn left to Catua and then further on to Cauchari. we kept straigth on the main road (RN 51) directly to Cauchari – this route is a few km longer, but the road eventually(?) better.
12 San Antonion de los Cobres 63 361 gravel road shops, hotels, restaurants, gas station, ATM.


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Introducing Madhu Muthukumar & Bertie Thomson, our new Chief Product Officer and Chief Communications and Creative Officer
By Ivan Zhao
It's often said that you're on average as good as the people around you. At Notion, this is much more than a saying. We're on a difficult mission to make toolmaking ubiquitous. Which is why I'm so excited to introduce two new leaders who will be uniquely helpful in making this mission come true: Madhu Muthukumar, our new Chief Product Officer, and Roberta (Bertie) Thomson, our new Chief Communications and Creative Officer.
Madhu comes from Robinhood, where he scaled the product organization 10x, helping the company go public in mid-2021. He'll focus on the next evolution of our product, making it possible for every team and person to build tools that fit their exact needs. And Bertie joins us from Meta, where she spent 7 years building out multiple communication functions. She'll lead our comms and creative teams to keep building Notion into a ubiquitous, enduring brand. Together, they'll weave our product and storytelling, growing both efforts and doubling down on the things people love about Notion today.
To usher Bertie and Madhu in, I asked them to speak to some of the most important topics that they'll be tackling and where they see Notion headed in the future.
What made you decide to join Notion? What do you find inspiring about the company?
Bertie: I studied Classics at university and have always been fascinated by ancient civilizations and prehistory, where toolmaking was one of humankind's first and most enduring obsessions. So the idea of making tools available to everyone, and telling that story, is really appealing. I've also used so many workplace tools over my career that caused more pain than productivity, so I'm deeply grateful to be building the tools that the next generation will actually want to use, and in ways we can't even dream of yet. What about you, Madhu?
Madhu: I've always been inspired by Notion's simplicity and elegance. It's a tool that I've been using daily for the past few years because it's such a pleasure to work in. It's clear to me that Notion cares about maintaining a high level of craft for the people using the product. And I think Notion users recognize that too — the passion I see in the community excites me so much.
Was there a lightbulb moment in your journey with Notion?
Madhu: As the pandemic settled in, I kept wondering why I had less time — even though I wasn't commuting and, theoretically, it was easier to spend time with my kids. I started exploring a bunch of productivity and collaboration tools, both at work and at home. I showed Notion to my wife, and we started using it for our recipe book. That's how it began. Then we started trip planning in it, and sharing recommendations for friends. We realized that by putting a little investment into organizing our personal projects and info, we got so much time back.
I can only imagine the new level of productivity and alignment created for whole companies using this tool. I've seen how that's the case now for so many of our customers. And that's the special part about Notion — the fact that you can use it for both a simple to-do list and to run a 60-person product team if you want. You can build any tool of any size.
Bertie: For me, it was the painful experience over many years of trying to manage projects and collaborate with other people, and how I wasted so much time going from one tool to another. Then the realization, finally, that a tool like Notion allows you to do everything in one place, which is huge.
Is there anything you've learned from your time at Meta and Robinhood that you're excited to bring to Notion?
Bertie: The work I'm proudest of over the past 15 years is helping companies build their character and reputation through culture and values — then communicating it in a way that's transparent, truthful, and meaningful. The best companies build a brand that stands the test of time. So I'm excited to come and do that here and help Notion become a once-in-a-generation company.
Madhu: At Robinhood, I saw firsthand how work is changing for everyone and the new ways in which we need to collaborate. We transitioned from being entirely in-office to remote, and grew tremendously despite that. Applying some of that knowledge and empathy to build a tool that helps with in-person and remote collaboration is going to be so fun.
Are you nervous about anything?
Bertie: I'm more excited than nervous! I've worked at many different sizes of companies, and they each have their pros and cons. At a really big company, you often have more resources available. You can try out different jobs. But at Notion's size right now, there's so much opportunity to build. We can all step outside of our lanes and contribute in cross-disciplinary ways. It's even more exciting because we get to do this with a set of incredibly smart and humble leaders.
Madhu: I feel the same way. The only thing that makes me nervous is maintaining the incredible trajectory that the team has accomplished so far. But other than that, the mission and values alignment is really high. Everyone here is low ego, super smart, and wants to do anything they can to help our customers.
What are your top priorities going to be as our new Chief Product Officer and Chief Communications and Creative Officer? What are you excited to build here at Notion?
Bertie: My priority is to build on the incredible work that everyone here has done so far to create Notion's brand and reputation. Put simply, I'm here to make sure that the entire world knows about Notion's product and vision.
Internally, it's also a crucial part of my job to make sure everyone on the team is aligned about our mission, vision, and goals so they can do their best work. All of those pieces are necessary to ensure we can accomplish what we've set out to do.
Madhu: Priority number one is to keep the momentum, and preserve the core spirit that fuels this team. My second priority is to live up to the expectations that our customers have. People think Notion is much bigger than it is. We have to keep listening to our customers first. For teams, we need to make sure the product is secure and can scale with you. For individual users, let's make this thing delightful and your favorite tool, period.
Building the product alongside the story is really important for Notion. How do you both think about doing that together? How do these two things connect?
Madhu: People choose what tools they use based on what makes them feel the best. And that feeling comes from trust — in the product and the humans who are behind it. I'm excited to work with you, Bertie, on showing people that they should be using Notion not just because the product is great, but because they believe in and know what we stand for. We're in the early innings of our story and what we're going to build.
Bertie: That's exactly right. You mentioned the word "human" very early on in your answer. I've been doing product communications for years, and you realize that you're not communicating about the product — you're communicating stories about people, and how products can meaningfully improve people's lives. So I'm super excited as well to get to work together and tell some awesome stories.
Can you speak more about the work it takes to build that long-term story, Bertie? How do you approach storytelling for a generational company, and what excites you about the Notion story?
Bertie: Good communication is about transparency and trust. And trust is something you can't just speak into existence. You gain trust from behaving in a way that's consistent over a long period of time. At the core of Notion's story is the community. It's not about us. So I want to harness that passion, support the community, and strengthen that trust even more — by telling more stories around the amazing creators and economy springing up around the product, and the meaningful ways in which people are using Notion.
Thanks for sharing, Madhu and Bertie! We're so glad to have you join this journey with us. And keep an eye out, reader — lots more to come this year.
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It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that, over the past year, Obsidian has become as essential to my workflow as Shortcuts. As I have been thoroughly documenting in the My Obsidian Setup series for Club MacStories members, Obsidian – which is the MacStories Selects 2021 App of the Year – is more than a text editor: it's something more similar to an OS for writers that encompasses note-taking, Markdown writing, journaling, research, and more. At this point, just like I can't imagine using Apple devices without Shortcuts, I can't imagine taking notes or writing articles without Obsidian.
Which means that it shouldn't surprise anyone either that I wanted to combine my two favorite apps and figure out a way to integrate Obsidian with Shortcuts.
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Today, I'm thrilled to introduce Obsidian Shortcut Launcher, a free Obsidian plugin – available in the Community Plugins section of the app – that lets you trigger shortcuts as commands from Obsidian. With Obsidian Shortcut Launcher (or 'OSL'), you'll be able to trigger any shortcut you want from Obsidian, passing along values such as the text of the document you're working on, its name, text selection, and more. Obsidian Shortcut Launcher is free to use and works on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.
Obsidian Shortcut Launcher is the result of weeks of planning and work from me and Finn Voorhees, and it has created an entirely new dimension in how I use Obsidian and Shortcuts on a daily basis. Because OSL is available in Obsidian's Community Plugins list, you can find its source code here. Read on below to find out how OSL works behind the scenes, how I've been using it for my setup, and how you can start using it yourself with Obsidian and your favorite shortcuts.
By John Voorhees
Editor's Note: Getting a Handle on Links By Treating Them Like Email is part of the MacStories Starter Pack, a collection of ready-to-use shortcuts, apps, workflows, and more that we've created to help you get the most out of your Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
I've had a link problem for a long time. Links accumulate everywhere: in Messages, mail clients, text files, Discord, Trello, research tools, and elsewhere else imaginable. If they weren't digital, I'm sure I'd be tripping over links on my way to the kitchen for breakfast each morning.
Part of my problem is an occupational hazard. Links to apps, articles I may want to link on MacStories, images on our CDN, podcast episodes uploaded for publication, and materials from advertisers are just a small sampling of the links I deal with every day.
But links are part of everyone's lives. Friends and family send us links to things to read, videos to watch, itineraries for trips, and a lot more. Companies send us links to things we buy online and deals we want to check out. Most of all, though, there are the many links we collect ourselves throughout our day. The Internet touches every aspect of our lives, which means links permeate every corner of our days, yet links are collected, organized, and processed haphazardly on an ad hoc basis by most of us.
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Over the holidays, I sat down to think about links and how I deal with them. It didn't take long to realize that thinking about links in the abstract is about as useful as thinking about email messages and tasks. The trouble is that links can represent almost anything from a short video that will take two minutes to watch to an expensive purchase that you will need hours to research. They vary widely in importance, the attention required to deal with them, and relevancy. As a result, it doesn't do you much good to treat links without also considering what they represent.
Leaving links locked inside the app where you found them isn't much use either. I'd never considered that links could benefit from a more structured processing approach like email or tasks, but having just reorganized my approach to email, I realized that they absolutely can. The trick is to keep the system lightweight and flexible and to be willing to delete most of your links to avoid clutter.
Breath of the Wild, framed with SwitchFrame in Shortcuts.
Editor's Note: Frame Nintendo Switch Screenshots with SwitchFrame is part of the MacStories Starter Pack, a collection of ready-to-use shortcuts, apps, workflows, and more that we've created to help you get the most out of your Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Following the release of version 11.0 of the Nintendo Switch firmware in December 2020, I released ShortSwitch, a shortcut that simplified the process of importing screenshots and videos from a Nintendo Switch console on the same Wi-Fi network as your iPhone or iPad. ShortSwitch continues to be one of my favorite utilities I've built in the Shortcuts app, and it's become my default way of transferring media from the Switch to my iPhone before tweeting it. With ShortSwitch, you don't need to scan the second QR code displayed on the console, and you can quickly preview or save multiple files at once. It still works reliably, and you can download it here.
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That said, I've always wondered if I could improve another aspect of screenshots captured on the Nintendo Switch: framing them with a physical device template of a Switch console, just like I can frame iPhone, iPad, and Mac screenshots with Apple Frames. So a few months ago, Silvia and I got to work. After finding a Switch template we liked, Silvia modified it, and I was able to put together SwitchFrame – a shortcut that frames Switch screenshots with a classic Nintendo Switch console featuring red and blue Joy Cons.
Editor's Note: Why I Abandoned the Search for the Perfect Email App and Am Making Do With a Hybrid Approach is part of the MacStories Starter Pack, a collection of ready-to-use shortcuts, apps, workflows, and more that we've created to help you get the most out of your Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
I've been revisiting my approach to email every year for what seems like forever. No matter which app I picked, I was never satisfied. On one level, that's surprising because I don't think my email needs are unique or complex. Even so, the features I value in an email app are ones that I care about a lot. The trouble is that a lot of MacStories readers could say the same thing but would pick an entirely different set of features they care about the most. This is a problem and conversation that goes back to the early days AppStories, and really, long before even that.
As 2021 came to a close, I knew something had to change and that I'd have to let go of my longstanding preference of using the same app across all of my devices. I don't abandon that approach lightly because I don't like the mental overhead of juggling multiple apps with different features to accomplish the same task. However, what started as patience as I waited for Apple to modernize Mail or a third-party developer to build something better, began to feel like stubborn inflexibility on my part. I knew it was time to make the most of an imperfect situation by cobbling together a hybrid solution that I hope will provide readers with some pointers on how they can improve how they manage email too.
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Before I get to the apps I'm using to manage my email day-to-day, I want to cover how I dealt with my email backlog. My email accounts get messy as the end of the year approaches because it's our busy season at MacStories. I used to feel bad about it, but I don't anymore. It's not my job to have a perfectly organized inbox, which is good because it can be a mess at times. Still, a backlog of messages makes any email app harder to use no matter how good it is, so I spent some time over the holidays tidying up.
MacStories Starter Pack: Clean Up URLs and Remove Tracking Parameters with URL Cleaner
URL Cleaner for iOS.
Editor's Note: Clean Up URLs and Remove Tracking Parameters with URL Cleaner is part of the MacStories Starter Pack, a collection of ready-to-use shortcuts, apps, workflows, and more that we've created to help you get the most out of your Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Picture this:
You've just come across an interesting article or product you want to share with someone, so you copy the URL and you're ready to send it over iMessage, tweet it, link it on your site – you name it. Then, you notice that the URL has a bunch of ugly tracking parameters appended to the end of it. I'm sure you've seen them too: it's those ?utm and soc_src1 and similar strings of text that some web publishers rely on to monitor where traffic is coming from and track other parameters about clicked URLs. For a publisher, those bits of data can actually be useful; for the end user, however, I've always wished there was an easy way for apps or extensions to "clean up" URLs and return the vanilla version of a link without any tracking parameter attached.
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So, for the debut of our MacStories Pack event, I decided to fix the problem myself with a shortcut I appropriately called URL Cleaner. With this shortcut, which you can download for free at the end of the story and find in the MacStories Shortcuts Archive, you'll be able to instantly remove popular tracking parameters from any URL and get a "cleaned up" version of it copied into the system clipboard. Best of all, URL Cleaner has been specifically optimized for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, taking advantage of desktop-specific actions in macOS Monterey all while remaining integrated with the share sheet and Siri on iPhone and iPad.
Let's take a look.
BetterTouchTool: Introducing the Notch Bar [Sponsor]
By MacStories Team
BetterTouchTool is an indispensable Mac app that has stood the test of time. The app was one of the first covered by MacStories back in November 2009. In those early days, BetterTouchTool was a simple app for adding customizable gestures to MacBook trackpads and the Magic Mouse.
Nowadays, the app can configure gestures for the Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad (1-3), it enables full Touch Bar customization, allows users to define keyboard shortcuts, including a powerful Hyper Key, bind the buttons of mice, create custom mouse gestures, customize the Siri Remote, and connect and configure MIDI devices. Also, it works great together with the new Shortcuts app on macOS Monterey.
BetterTouchTool's developer, Andreas Hegenberg, recently introduced a new feature that is rapidly evolving: the "Notch Bar". It is in an early development stage but already has quite a few fans, and now, Andreas would love to get your feedback on the feature to make it even better.
The Notch Bar is a customizable menu bar add-on that allows you to create completely custom bars with only the functions and widgets you regularly use. It works best on screens with a Notch, but can also be used on standard screens. It leaves your standard menu bar intact but hidden, so you can easily switch between standard and Notch Bar modes - e.g. by setting a keyboard shortcut to do so.
The Notch Bar comes with lots of default widgets, e.g. to show an emoji picker, calendar events, Shortcuts, weather, date/time, or your clipboard history. It can easily be extended using custom and third-party script widgets too. For example, the amazing Crypto Touch Bar app can now export crypto widgets for the Notch Bar.
For more info on the Notch Bar and a Quick Start Guide, please have a look at:
The Notch Bar documentation
Here are a few examples of how Andreas is using the Notch Bar himself:
And don't forget to send Andreas your feedback and ideas how to improve the Notch Bar.
BetterTouchTool comes with a 45-day trial, after which you can choose between a license that includes all updates for 2 years and a lifetime license.
For a limited time, MacStories readers can purchase BetterTouchTool for 20% off by using the coupon code MACSTORIESBTT at checkout. So, don't delay. Go to folivora.ai to learn more about this fantastic Mac app and take advantage of the special limited-time, 20% discount on BetterTouchTool.
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MacStories Unwind: The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap and The Protégé
This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico revisits The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, a game originally released for the Game Boy Advance in 2004, and John enjoys an action-thriller movie starring Samuel L Jackson, Maggie Q, and Michael Keaton about a pair of globe-trotting assassins.
Federico's Pick:
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
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MacStories Rewind
Federico Shares a Starter Pack of Shortcuts on Apple's App Store
AirBuddy 2.5: A Refined Experience That Adds Shortcuts Integration and Other New Features
WordleBot 1.1, Now Fully Accessible with Native Emoji-to-Image Conversion
Start The Year Off Right with Next Week's 2022 MacStories Starter Pack Event
Monday, we're launching a brand new special event: The MacStories Starter Pack. The idea is simple. As our busy OS review season winds down, Federico and I dig into a wide range of experiments every year. We build shortcuts, try new apps, and look for new ways to get more out of the technology we use. This year, we've collected the best of what we've learned from that annual process into a series of stories we'll publish over the course of next week.
You'll find a lot of variety in what we've got planned, but the common thread is that every story will have something you can take away and use right away. There will be shortcuts, app recommendations, workflow ideas, and more, spanning everything from ways to work more efficiently to making the most of your downtime. We think you'll love what we've got in store for you.
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Would you be shocked to learn that Federico has a bunch of shortcuts lined up for the Starter Pack? I've had a front row seat to what has to be one of Federico's most inspired periods of shortcut creation ever. I won't spoil his surprises, but what Federico has in store for next week represents weeks of reverse engineering, testing, and refinement of a collection of shortcuts that is incredibly useful on all of Apple's platforms and will include two advanced, Club MacStories-only automations. Federico also has a special surprise for Obsidian users that I've been testing and has quickly become a cornerstone to my own note-taking and writing workflows.
The MacStories Starter Pack isn't just about automation, though. A substantial part of what I do at MacStories changed in 2021 with the introduction of Club MacStories+ and Club Premier. Most of those changes happened behind the scenes, but changes in how we produce everything from Club newsletters to podcasts strained my existing workflows. As I headed into the holidays, it was clear that the old ways of doing things had to be rethought and adapted to last year's changes and where MacStories is heading in 2022.
As a result of my holiday workflow experiments, I've done more than mix up the apps I use. I've also reconsidered how those apps fit together, which is something that is more important to me than ever and dovetails nicely with the app interoperability trend that Federico and I recently covered on AppStories. I also spent the holiday season reevaluating how I manage the torrent of information that crosses my desk every week, so I spend less time looking for things and more time writing about them.
Next week, I'll share the apps I'm using, how I've improved the way they fit together, and how I'm managing more information more efficiently than ever. Along the way, I'll share what's worked, along with tips and strategies on how to adapt the workflows to suit your own needs. I'll also round out the week with a hardware review.
The MacStories Starter Pack will begin Monday and continue throughout the week with new daily stories on MacStories. We'll have special treats just for Club MacStories members on Friday, too, so be sure to stop by the site throughout the week to get the latest installment of the Starter Pack. We've got a Starter Pack hub and RSS feed you can follow too.
The MacStories Starter Pack is just the start of what promises to be a big 2022 at MacStories. Our WWDC coverage, the Summer OS Preview Series, each fall's review season, and the MacStories Selects Awards have become traditions that the MacStories community looks forward to every year. With the Starter Pack and plans we're working on for the spring, our goal is to offer something special you can look forward to throughout the year, regardless of whether an Apple event is on the horizon. We've got a packed schedule in store for everyone in 2022 and can't wait to get started next week with our first-ever MacStories Starter Pack.
You can follow the MacStories Starter Pack on our hub, or subscribe to the dedicated Starter Pack RSS feed.
Source: App Store.
Today, the App Store published an interview with our very own Federico Viticci, who shared seven shortcuts for users who want to learn more about what Apple's automation app enables on the Mac. Federico explains his interest in Shortcuts in the interview:
It's all about removing friction from everyday tasks.
As the story recounts, Shortcuts has been Federico's obsession for years and the tool that permeates every aspect of what we do at MacStories.
To help newcomers get started exploring and building their own shortcuts, Federico shared seven shortcuts that work on the Mac, iPhone, and iPad that are linked in the App Store's article and can also be found in the MacStories Shortcuts Archive:
Create Reminder
Quickly create a new reminder from anywhere on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad. Optionally, the shortcut can also attach a URL previously copied to the clipboard as a rich link to the reminder.
Get the shortcut here.
Open Copied Link
Quickly open a link previously copied to the clipboard with Safari. The shortcut works on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.
Get Image Resolution
Get the resolution of any image passed as input. This shortcut supports images copied to the clipboard, the iOS and iPadOS share sheet, picking images from Files, or images selected in Finder on macOS. The shortcut can also run as a Quick Action on macOS.
Load Calendar Set
This shortcut lets you reopen one of your existing calendar sets in Fantastical. Optionally, you can also pair a specific set with a specific calendar view in Fantastical.
The shortcut works on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, and it uses Fantastical's native Shortcuts integration.
LookUp Definition
Look up a word definition using LookUp. The shortcut lets you choose among different definition types, and it can also add a word to a collection.
Things Checklist Template
Create a task with a checklist in Things based on a fixed template that is stored in the Shortcuts app.
Get Articles from Reeder
View articles saved for later in Reeder. You can choose a specific article from your read-later account in Reeder, or open a random article in the app.
These and many more shortcuts are available for free on the MacStories Shortcuts Archive, a collection that has grown to over 200 shortcuts, that run the gamut from simple, single-purpose utility shortcuts to complex shortcuts comprised of hundreds of actions like MusicBot and to Club MacStories members.
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A drink-driver was "speeding and swerving" down a main Derby road as he went to collect his mother whose car had a flat tyre.
Adam Hibbert told a court his mum was concerned because she had suffered the flat in a Normanton street where, the previous week, a man had been stabbed to death.
The father-of-two told his hearing he had been drinking while watching the football and had gone to bed but was woken by a telephone call from his mum.
The 29-year-old said he then made the decision to drive and fetch her but someone who knew him called the police to report that he was getting behind the wheel while drunk.
Police spotted him in Osmaston Park Road, followed him and pulled him over in Warwick Avenue where he was found to be almost twice the legal drink-drive limit.
He replied: "I would just like to explain the details around what happened. It was a Sunday, I had been out watching the football and had some drinks.
"I went to sleep and, sometime after that, my mum called me to say she had a burst tyre.
"She explained to me that she was in Portland Street where she said, the week before, that someone had been stabbed in the neck and murdered.
Peter Bettany, prosecuting at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court, said the offence took place on the evening of March 11.
He said someone called the police to report Hibbert was driving having been drinking earlier that day.
Mr Bettany said: "They went in search of him and saw his car in Osmaston Park Road.
"He was speeding and swerving in the road so they stopped him in Warwick Avenue where he failed a roadside breath test.
The legal limit is 35 and Hibbert, of Potter Close, Mitcham, Surrey, pleaded guilty to drink-driving.
He was disqualified from driving for 16 months, fined £400, and was ordered to pay £85 prosecution costs and a £40 victim surcharge.


Vincent Willem van Gogh, most commonly known as Vincent Van Gogh was born in the southern Netherlands, in a town called Zundert, in March of 1853. The Dutch painter became one of the most famous figures in art history – if not the most famous – creating over two thousand artworks during about a decade of production. Van Gogh concluded an enormous amount of paintings during the last two years of his life as he was afflicted, becoming known as the "tortured artist." He grew up in a religious household, his father was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, a path Van Gogh was passionate about and began to study after he worked as an art dealer with his uncle.
In was only at twenty-seven years of age that Van Gogh began following an artistic career of his own, enrolling in the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in 1880, located in Brussels, Belgium. In 1885, the Dutch artist concluded his first masterpiece entitled The Potato Eaters, an oil painting portraying a family of peasants sitting at the table in a dark room. This artwork, along with many other of Van Gogh's works, was influenced by the past Dutch masters of the Baroque movement like Peter Paul Rubens, with its dramatic shadows, as well as the Realists, who often painted workers of the rural areas.
Throughout his entire artistic career, Van Gogh was unable to sell his paintings, even with the constant help of his brother, Theo, who was an art dealer. Theo was one of the main supporters of Van Gogh's production, receiving his work by mail and attempting to sell them. In fact, most of the information known about the artist's production came from the letters he wrote to his brother in exquisite detail about his artistic process, as well as details about his personal life, his goals, and ambitions. At the beginning of his production, Van Gogh had a dark and earthy color palette, and after receiving some insight from Theo, he began to brighten his paintings. During this period, the Impressionists were gaining a great deal of attention for their avant-guard style of work, which inspired Van Gogh to experiment with a more modern style of painting.
In 1886, because of financial troubles, the artist moved to Paris to live with Theo and came in direct contact with the Impressionist painters. During this period, the Post-Impressionist's work changed radically, experimenting with brighter color pallets and looser brush strokes. Two years later, Van Gogh moved to Arles, where he began an art studio called The Yellow House in hopes of working alongside Paul Gauguin. Van Gogh produced his series of sunflower paintings to show his friend his enthusiasm with the new studio, but after attempts of working together, the artists reached a crises point, and Van Gogh had an enormous breakdown mutilating his own ear. During the last phase of his career and life, the Van Gogh entered the Saint-Rémy asylum, where he produced his most famous artworks. The artist passed away in July of the next year at the age of 37.


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Interpretations of Rabelais
Author: Parkin, John
"In this follow-up to his Interpreting Rabelais: An Open Text Reading of an Open Text (1993), Parkin (Bristol Univ., UK) considers the following topics: Rabelais and Guillaume Coquillart and their presentations of trials; Pantagruel's early years (his birth, education, and meeting up with Panurge); the two wars (Dipsodian and Picrocholine) compared; Pantagruel's later years (his role in Rabelais' Le Tiers Livre and Le Quart Livre, where Pantagruel states, "These are books where he has fulfilled his destiny and is in the curious position of having a literary identity which depends on his companion Panurge. . ."); the question of interpreting Bakhtin; and Le Cinquiesme Livre. On this last topic, Parkin tackles the question of authenticity by asking, "Can we read the Cinquieme Livre as in any way relevant to Rabelais' work...?" Although he never takes a stand on this thorny question, Parkin does present some interesting theories, as he does in each of the topics covered. This study may leave some with many unanswered questions, but it is a valuable addition to Rabelais scholarship." - CHOICE
"Dr. Parkin's book is characterized for me above all by its thoughtfulness and its intellectual honesty, and in the way in which, while (rightly) emphasizing the dialogic nature of Rabelais' work at the same time opines up a potential dialogue with its own reader. Dr. Parkin already has an eminent reputation as a Rabelais specialist, and I am sure that this book will cement that reputation even further." – Stephen Bamforth
"Parkin's last chapter deals with the vexed question of the authenticity and aesthetic value of the Cinquième livre. . . . His judgment is nuanced and judicious, doing justice to the often overlooked strengths of the disputed work without glossing over its weaknesses. All in all, John Parkin's latest book makes a significant contribution to our appreciation of the kaleidoscopic genius of his author" – Max Gauna
Foreword; Preface; Introduction
1.	Rabelais and Coquillart
2.	Pantagruel, the early years
3.	Two wars compared
4.	Pantagruel, the latter years
5.	The Bakhtin Question
6.	Polytechnics in the Cinquième livre
Bibliography; Index
1993 - Middle French Translation of Bernard Gui's Shorter Historical Works by Jean Golein
2006 - Linda LÊ, L'Écriture Du Manque
2010 - ProblÉmatique Du PoÈme En Sonnet: Ronsard, Heredia, Baudelaire
2008 - Humor of Marguerite De Navarre in the Heptameron. a Feminist Author Before Her Time
2002 - Interpretations of Rabelais
1997 - Humour Theorists of the Twentieth Century
1994 - Interpreting Rabelais an Open Text Reading of an Open Text
1990 - Henry Miller, the Modern Rabelais
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Snagged! Dutch town attracts Scottish tights maker amid Brexit deal doubt
Dispatch worker holds scanner at new headquarters of Snag Tights in Venlo
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Fearing a trade deal between Britain and the European Union might be elusive, Snag Tights, a Scottish newcomer in the hosiery business, set up a hub in Europe this year to avoid potential tariffs, bringing 30 jobs to the Dutch town of Venlo.
Snag Chief Operating Officer Polly Letson said she kept hearing informally from British customs officials in 2019 that everything would turn out fine. But she wasn't so sure.
"As it got into the early part of this year, especially with COVID, I was just thinking 'Oh, I bet nobody is really going to be able to fix this by the end of the year'."
Dutch officials say Snag, founded in 2017, is one of hundreds of companies to have shifted jobs to the Netherlands from Britain over the past two years.
Snag's tights are made and dyed in Italy, and until recently, were sold and distributed from Livingston, Scotland.
Without a Britain-EU trade deal by Jan. 1, Snag's tights would face 12% in tariffs upon arrival in Scotland from Italy. Then shipments back to Europe — a third of its market and growing — would mean a second 12% tariff on top of that.
The business risked devastation.
After some wooing by Dutch officials Snag chose to open a new packaging and distribution centre in Venlo in the southeast, due its strategic location and the availability of English-speaking workers. Company founder Brie Read also has Dutch ancestry.
"It won't come as a surprise that we are very busy due to Brexit," said Michiel Bakhuizen, spokesman for the Netherlands' Foreign Investment Agency.
"Through 2019, 140 companies opted to move to the Netherlands and we were talking to 250 companies, but that has now increased to nearly 500."
There was a party atmosphere at the newly opened Venlo warehouse on Monday, with some workers modelling their favourite products.
"It's not good for England, but it's good for Holland," said Kebba Sissawo, a Gambian immigrant who works in packaging, of the company's arrival.
The Venlo hub will serve European customers, while Livingston will serve Britain, as well as Australia and the U.S. depending on which trade deals Britain eventually strikes.
Asked what the company would do if a Britain-EU agreement emerged at the last moment in 2020, Letson paused.
"It wouldn't bother me," she said.
"We probably would have gotten a bigger warehouse in Scotland but instead we're here… it's cemented the ties that we hoped to build with our customers in Europe because we can deliver faster here."
(Reporting by Toby Sterling. Additional reporting by Esther Verkaik and Anthony Deutsch; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)
Polly Letson, CEO of Snag Tights is seen at the new headquarters in Venlo
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and that right there is why I'd never be able to do a customer service job.
Okay, a few continuity errors I notice on this page, the first, and most glaring one, is that the uniforms seem to have changed in colors and even with the logo on the opposite side of the uniform than they used to be (see: Cast page, for Nick's icon).
The second thing: the radioactive machine in the third panel is missing the yellow leak from the second panel under the radioactive symbol.
Now for my general commentary of this page: ...Yeah. I used to work a job involving customer service, back in 2015. Still have nightmares about it. And why does a restaurant have a radioactive machine in there to begin with? O_o Isn't that a safety hazard? From what I know about the restaurant industry, there's already a couple of violations: the flies, and the radioactive machine, never mind the leaks from said machine and the dirt on the wall above it--they better hope the food inspector doesn't decide to pop in at that moment.
Can we get more of a background on the tigress woman. I for one like the larger lady and curious on her. Maybe. *fingers crossed and hopeful*.


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This isn't exactly what you asked for, but I couldn't find an image that wasn't grainy when I expanded it.
I put (n the left side) Mind Twist, Balance, Black Lotus, Jace, the Mindsculpter and Umezawa's Jitte. Right side is Necropotence, Skullclamp, Ancestral Recall, Recurring Nightmare and Lingering Souls. Just a few cards that have been banned/restricted that you could get with Spike. The quote is the flavor text for Dark Confidant.
Feel free to use the image. If you do, I would love to have you post a picture with the deck. I have been tempted to make one as well.
Oh, I'm not making a deck, I just really like the art work on the card.
I think he meant post a picture of the custom playmat with whatever deck you are playing on it, so that we can see the final playmat in action.
Here's a basic 24"x14" RGB .jpg (7200x4200) pixel version based off of the 2560 wallpaper and enlarged with Corel Draw.
Oh on the clarifications and as to the work you did, what's with the giant redish orangeish triangle thingy? Otherwise that looks amazing.
That's how the high-res wallpaper downloads from WotC.
Inkeyes may be able to use my image to make a better version (since he said the image he was using pixelated) ringed with cards, especially If you know which cards you would want represented.


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Alia Bhatt Celebrates 30 Million Followers On Instagram, Shares Clips From Her Filmography
Along with the video, she wrote: "It's been a wonderful journey so far... but it's just the beginning. 30 million."
Actress Alia Bhatt has crossed over 30 million followers on Instagram.
Celebrating it and thanking her fans for making her reach the mark, Alia on Wednesday uploaded a special video on the photo-sharing app. The one minute-video gives a glimpse of her seven-year-long film journey.
Along with the video, she wrote: "It's been a wonderful journey so far… but it's just the beginning. 30 million."
Its been a WONDERFUL journey so far.. But but it's justtttt the beginning ??.. 30M ❤
A post shared by Alia ? (@aliaabhatt) on Mar 26, 2019 at 9:13pm PDT
Release Date Of Diljit Dosanjh's Arjun Patiala Gets Postponed!
Ranveer Singh's '83 Team Gets Bigger! South Actor R Badree Joins In
The 26-year-old made her Bollywood debut in 2012 with the film "Student of the Year". Later, she featured in films such as "Highway", "2 States", "Udta Punjab" and "Dear Zindagi". Her role of a spy in Meghna Gulzar's "Raazi" helped her bag the Filmfare Award this year.
She has films "Kalank" and "Brahmastra" in her kitty.
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Father Figures: A Little Bit of Validation
"We had Elliot's first ever parent-teacher conference on Wednesday. I was mildly nervous about it even though I knew it would be fine. Elliot got absolutely glowing reviews. He's 'brilliant, kind, well-behaved, and the most hilarious student I've had in years.'
Even though I knew all of this, it's so nice to hear this from someone else. A couple weeks ago at the Greek Festival a random guy complimented Elliot and Philip (age 3) on how well-behaved they were.
A lot of you out there with kids know that parenting takes a tremendous toll on your mental health. Even with the support of probably the Mother of the Century in my wife Amy, I'm constantly second-guessing myself. Did I handle that right? Was I too mean? Was I too lenient? Is he gonna need therapy? Did I just create a serial killer?
I'm kidding of course (kinda) but wondering if I'm doing the right thing is constantly in the back of my mind. I can only imagine that other parents live with this kind of constant anxiety and self-doubt. At the same time, I don't want false feedback. If my kid is being a piece of shit, I want to know. It happens. Kids are self-absorbed people and they can't help it. It's my job to steer them the right way.
So for those of you out there that are involved in a child's life in some way, even if you don't necessarily have kids of your own, or even if you just see a randomly well-behaved kid at Costco, take a moment to praise the kid and his parents. Everybody is fighting a thousand little battles every day, and a little bit of validation that we're doing the right thing goes a long way."
– Michael Weir
Check out the previous editions of Father Figures here.
Josh Gad Brings Macchio, Zabka, and Shue Back Together for Karate Kid Reunion
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At the start of quarantine, everybody's favorite talking snowman, Josh Gad, created a YouTube series called "Reunited Apart." In this series, he brought together the casts of some classic movies, like Goonies, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, the Lord of the Rings, and more.
They were fun trips down memory lane, both for the cast members and the viewers.
A few of those specials featured what may be the best chance we have for an actual reunion. That's certainly true for the Back to the Future team! But Ghostbusters is having a redux, and Goonies has a show coming out soon – about remaking Goonies. Bizarre, I know. And Gad's latest special features the cast of another 80s classic that has had a recent revival: The Karate Kid.
Ralph Macchio and William Zabka, who star together in Netflix's Cobra Kai – season three – came together, a song with Gad and Elisabeth Shue (Ali with an I!), and other cast members from the classic flick to raise money for Action Against Hunger charity. They swapped stories about the making of the movie and paid tribute to late star Pat "Mr. Miyagi" Morita.
Check out the fun reunion:


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The Shadow of The Future
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The Shadow of the Future was created by Coney, commissioned and designed for Imperial War Museum Duxford.
Set in a playful-fiction, you were recruited by the RAND Corporation to make decisions and advise President John F Kennedy as to whether the United States of America should launch (Defect) their nuclear weapons on Russia, or not (Cooperate).
Set-up in 1945, the RAND Corporation are institution that still operate to this day, to help improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis. The RAND Corporation advised President John F Kennedy throughout the Cold War.
Coney created The Shadow of the Future to be played on site in Imperial War Museum Duxford, to help you learn about the Cold War: specifically to investigate how decisions were made, to deepen understanding about the consequences and to consider the impact of decisions made during the course of the Cold War and how they impact society today.
If you'd like to know more then head The IWM site here
Representing Coney were: Natalie Adams, Alexey Averkin, Gareth Damian-Martin, David Finnigan, Jessica Latowicki, Toby Peach, Richard Popple, Tassos Stevens & Ben Jones