Dominaria: We had basically a quick pitstop to kill a demon and only really got a glimps of the plane. There is so much hope on this plane and a cabal to take down, there is much to enjoy in a return here.
Ixalan is super easy do to the Immortal Sun was taken from the plane, thus walkers like Vivian can come and go as they like. Much much easier to return. Much fall out and continuing powerstruggle of the factions… and come on: Pirates and Dinosaurs. We are going back someday, you can count on it
(amonkhet is talked about on the linked post above)
Kaladesh is damn easy too, the issue there is more dealing with artifacts and energy. They are going to be key to a return and will require some balancing. Prediction: New spells that can sap or transfer/interact with energy so that it’s not a constant and not as easy but can still be pushed. Artifacts answer is more colored artifacts so that there is less ‘just put it in every deck’. How they flavor that might be tied to legendary inventor creatures maybe?
Innistrad is still standing folks. Yes, the angles and werewolves have taken a hit, but two things to remember: 1) there is still Arlinn and her pack and likely other wolves about and 2) Angles aren’t born like normal creatures, and we are likely to see some being reborn at the end of the next return. ALSO: Freaking Olivia Voldarien on the march for Thraben and conquest. (also, wizards owes us a Hal and Alena card/s and a return would be the best place to print them)
Zendikar: easy answer in one card: ZENDIKAR RESURGENT. The very card shows you how the plane is going to snap back, and with nissa back there to help tend the regrowth, we are likely to return to a set all about a new form of roils where the spirit of zendikar itself is now trying to help along the healing that Nissa started (or something of the like).
Tarkir: Humans rise and we will likely see a new balance between the dragons and Clans established.
Theros: Elspeth, nuf said.
More thoughts some other time. Just mostly wanted to hit Zendikar and Innistrad, but it felt kinda lame to just do the two of them, so figured i’d just work backwards in order.
Zendikar will also likely include more of a dungeon-delving, exploration feel. Losing that in RoE was a big mistake, but one they couldn’t easily undo without (in the lore) dealing with the Eldrazi. But now people have to reclaim lost cities, etc, so likely to feel more like D&D again.
And Ravnica gets a D&D supplement in November, so possible other planes could as well. Zendikar was basically Magic’s take on D&D, so…
Making new friends at Commander night can be as simple as pulling out a stack of Planechase planes.
Two of the people I was playing with had never played with Planechase cards before, and both of them ended up loving them immensely. One of them even looked up where to buy all 86 planes and phenomena online mid-match so she could play Commander with them whenever she wanted.
The other asked for my number so he could contact me and coordinate more games with me in the future. This was an incredibly successful night.
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The anti-straw movement took off in 2015, after a video of a sea turtle with a straw stuck in its nose went viral. Campaigns soon followed, with activists often citing studies of the growing ocean plastics problem. Intense media interest in the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a floating, France-sized gyre of oceanic plastic – only heightened the concern.
However, plastic straws only account for about .03 percent of the 8 million metric tons of plastics estimated to enter the oceans in a given year.
A recent survey by scientists affiliated with Ocean Cleanup, a group developing technologies to reduce ocean plastic, offers one answer about where the bulk of ocean plastic is coming from. Using surface samples and aerial surveys, the group determined that at least 46 percent of the plastic in the garbage patch by weight comes from a single product: fishing nets. Other fishing gear makes up a good chunk of the rest.
The impact of this junk goes well beyond pollution. Ghost gear, as it’s sometimes called, goes on fishing long after it’s been abandoned, to the great detriment of marine habitats. In 2013, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science estimated that lost and abandoned crab pots take in 1.25 million blue crabs each year.
This is a complicated problem. But since the early 1990s, there’s been widespread agreement on at least one solution: a system to mark commercial fishing gear, so that the person or company that bought it can be held accountable when it’s abandoned. Combined with better onshore facilities to dispose of such gear – ideally by recycling – and penalties for dumping at sea, such a system could go a long way toward reducing marine waste. Countries belonging to the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization have even agreed on guidelines for the process.
That’s where all that anti-straw energy could really help. In 1990, after years of consumer pressure, the world’s three largest tuna companies agreed to stop intentionally netting dolphins. Soon after, they introduced a “dolphin safe” certification label and tuna-related dolphin deaths declined precipitously. A similar campaign to pressure global seafood companies to adopt gear-marking practices – and to help developing regions pay for them – could have an even more profound impact. Energized consumers and activists in rich countries could play a crucial role in such a movement.
Not to mention the fact that Mrs. White isn’t qualified to teach.
She should be required to take a remedial English course.
“I have went”? please. It’s “I have gone”, Mrs. White.
first, my kid would not sign anything without me seeing it first. 2nd, upon seeing it i would be at the superintendant’s office the next morning.
then we would speak to the teacher.
black folk gotta nip it in the bud.
Dont let your children be controlled like this. I remember back when I was in school my mom always told me “if you really need to use the bathroom or attend to an emergency and the teacher won’t let you, then just leave the classroom and I’ll deal with teacher and principle”
Mom had my back
If I was this kid I would use up those passes and then just fuckin’ throw up or get a severe nosebleed in the classroom and then refuse to leave because “sorry, I can’t go to the nurse, I already used up my two passes for the fucking MONTH”
There was a student at my high school, who we will call John Doe, who actually did that. When teachers gave him a limited number of bathroom allowances (usually 3 per semester, which was the standard at my school), he would use them in the first week, and then induce vomitting my eating rotten food he found around the school garbage cans. If teachers refused to let him go, he would just throw up on something they had to touch. Light switches, keyboards, whatever was available.
Instead of making admin do anything about this toxic policy, they just doubled down harder, to the extent that one girl politely informed a teacher that she felt like she might be about to have a seizure and could she go to the nurse, please. She was denied, sat back down at her desk, and promptly passed out and concussed herself on the concrete floor when she fell.
Another girl had severe vertigo-induced fainting, could not get a teacher to excuse her from a phys ed class, and fell off a monkey bars and split her head open, and nearly lost an eye because her glasses broke when she landed.
A student with, I believe, diabetes had a severe blood sugar drop and tried to eat a candy bar in a class with a “no food or drinks” rule. The candy bar was taken away, and she had to be taken out by EMTs.
This kind of human rights abuse in public schools is not new. I graduated a full decade ago.
I’m glad it’s being publically discussed again, (briefly around 2003-2005 this was also a popular subject of discussion). I hope that this time, concrete changes in policy are actually affected.
When i was in grade 7 we had an exam that the teacher said “no one could leave for any reason as cheaters are smart enough to leave and come back with there cheat sheets”
Im was a smart guy for 7th grade but i was also a petty kid. I ate 4 full packets of Mr. noodle brand ramin noodles. And i didnt chew a single noodle. Just sucked them down. And i did so just before class.
Of course eating 4 packs of a salt filled chicken flavor noodles (topped off with a school carton of milk) i was a bit queezy. I waited until after the exam instructions and raised my hand.
“May i go to the washroom i dont feel well” i asked knowing i wouldnt go. The teacher said no, and i knew why. I said okay, not going to ask more then once.
About 5 minutes into the exam it happened. All the fulling intact noodles came rushing out of my mouth and onto the floor next to me.
It was horrible smelling and looking. The teacher yelled “omg go to the bathroom” i said no i cant. Im not a cheater or a quiter i must finish the test.
They had to call the principle to excuse me from the room and revoke the rule before i left. The teacher came to mw the next day and told me that I should have pushed to leave more. I looked him in right in the eye said. It would’nt have mattered, you dont care until you feel bad after the fact. And walked away.
I didnt mention that the teacher was my sisters best friends dad. I have never let him live it down.
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