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FOWC with Fandango — Firewall
We've got firewalls all over the place. Our modem, our router, Chrome, Microsoft are all busy protecting us. Theoretically, our ISP protects us, too. I think their idea of protecting us is to have such a bad service no one can get through, not even us. My phone blips out a dozen times a day and the computers die with regularity. If other people weren't having the same problem, I'd think it was us, but I know it's them.
If you call them, they will deny everything. Lying is a national sport.
Our many firewalls are obviously insufficient to protect us from anything.
I need protection. From life, politics, and the vast stupidity that is closing in around me.
I need to be protected from $1000 hikes in taxes when my town does absolutely nothing for us. We don't have buses or taxis or trains. We pay to have our trash hauled. We have our own well and septic system. No one prunes the trees or even sprays for mosquitoes which, as it turns out, is fine because it would probably kill the birds while leaving the mosquitoes. They also didn't spray for gypsy moth caterpillars.
Basically, we are on our own. Pay the taxes and figure out how to survive. The one time I called emergency services because we'd gotten frozen into our driveway and couldn't get out, they told us that was a real pity, but they couldn't help us. They said their trucks don't have snow tires so they couldn't help us. If we died in our house, that would be a real pity too. Oops. I wonder if they'd pay for the funeral?
So what am I paying for? So the town can waste money on some other stupid project? A townwide soccer team for kindergartners? We can't get them to expand the library (who needs a library after all?) … or repair the sidewalks. Or even add a minibus so older people can get in and out of town.
So far, the only "famous" person to emerge from this town is William Howard Taft which is pretty dismal. Though I hear his ranking as a Chief Supreme Court Judge was better than his record as President. It is unlikely to be worse. He was a hard tryer, but a big failure. Not a bad description of Uxbridge, come to think of it. Except I don't think we try all that hard.
I want protection from gigantic rises in the cost of oil to heat our house. I want them to fix the roads so that the repairs last more than the first month of winter.
I want to be firewalled from reality.
I want some of that money we pay to underwrite the cost of my drugs. I want the town to plow my driveway and clear away the monstrous piles of autumn leaves and other trash that accumulates. I want someone to come by and clean up the trash people throw from their car windows onto our "front lawn," which is actually a lot of trees that need to be cut down.
I want them to collect the trash and not make us pay for it! You know. Like they do in other towns.
I want them to give us a senior discount on our taxes like most other towns offer.
If they are going to leave us to decay here amidst the forest, I think they should stop charging us more and more for the privilege of being unable to afford to live here. I could understand it if they actually gave us something for our money, but they don't. Oh, but they built a firehouse.
So if the place burns down, they'll be sure to drop by with hoses. At least, in theory. There are no fire pumps along our road, so they better also bring tanks. Do we even have tanker trucks?
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Everton star Coleman is the favourite among bookmakers to join Manchester United today.
United have until 11pm to complete their transfer activity.
Manchester United transfers: Deadline day rumours rated
Mon, January 30, 2017
Football Whispers have rated Manchester United's chances in the transfer market ahead of deadline day (1 – unlikely, 5 – likely)
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But a swoop for Coleman appears wide of the mark.
"It is that time of year," Coleman said.
"I haven't heard about the story.
"I am preparing for a game on Wednesday and that is all I am concentrating on."
Everton travel to Stoke tomorrow (8pm) seeking to extend their current form to three wins on the bounce, while United host Hull.

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Team Lotus boss Tony Fernandes has no immediate plans to change the name of his team following the purchase of Caterham.
When asked about whether or not the name Caterham could be used for a possible rebranding of the team due to the current name dispute with Group Lotus, Team Lotus boss Tony Fernandes said: 'I don't know yet, to be honest,'
The takeover of Caterham was confirmed on Wednesday and many have speculated that this could be a hint towards a team rebrand if they lose their legal dispute over the Lotus name.
Speaking to Autosport Magazine he continued: 'I am waiting to see what happens with the case, and all these sort of things. But an ideal scenario would be a marriage of the two.
'The ideal world is both. People have said that Lotus has its own F1 team, but so what? There is Manchester United and Manchester City.
'People will come to understand what each brand stands for, and say – we want this, or we want that. It is no different to me, and I really hope we can keep both.'.
Fernandes did confirm that his AirAsia GP2 team would be rebranded as Caterham in the future.
The GP2 season starts next week in Turkey and Fernandes hopes that if regulations allow, the new name for the team will be AirAsia Caterham GP2.
Luiz Razia and Davide Valsecchi have been named as the teams drivers for the 2011 season.
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Team Lotus boss Tony Fernandes has no immediate plans to change the name of his team following the purchase of Caterham.


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Daily Inspiration: The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs. ~James Lane Allen
Today's Affirmation: God within, God without; all I am and all I see is a Blessing, and every breath is a Joy.
Today's Contemplation: Live your life in light and prove for yourself that your world is a blessing. To do it, to be it, is the only way to see it. And through this Solstice season you definitely deserve it so live the life you would choose and watch it inexorably draw into focus. Heaven is ours today because we have said it is so.


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SPAC Program Updates
Dear SPAC Members,
In these rapidly challenging times the Board of Directors, Program Director and Coaches want to make the best decisions possible for you and your athletes. Over the past week our world has been adapting to and reacting to the realities surrounding us. SPAC is no different and we need to make good decisions for our club.
SPAC is working with the resort and local authorities to monitor the spread and developments with respect to COVID-19 (Coronavirus) carefully. As always, our main objective in the program is safety, and we are approaching Coronavirus in the same manner.
In accordance with guidance we have reviewed from Health Canada, until further notice, program activities will continue as scheduled, as the risk of infection at this point in time is deemed to be "low", this may change rapidly, however, and we will advise you if any developments effect our operations.
We would ask that you do the following so that we can keep team activities safe:
- Now and always during cold and flu season, stay home if you are sick. Encourage those you know who are sick to stay home until they no longer have symptoms. If you or a family member is feeling sick, seek medical advice, and do not go to a SPAC event.
- If you or someone you have come in contact with have symptoms or a confirmed case of Coronavirus, please advise your coaches and SPAC as soon as possible.
- Practice frequent hand hygiene and coughing/sneezing etiquette, and please emphasize this with SPAC athletes.
- If you have traveled to a region that has had high rates of infection of Coronavirus, you can reduce the risk of spreading infection by following prevention measures when returning to Canada, including self-isolation in accordance with Health Canada guidelines. We would also ask that you report any such travels to SPAC.
The ski conditions are still phenomenal, although we are adjusting our ski program we look forward to seeing everyone over the next couple weeks. Although we are having to adjust our schedule, the programming is still focused on fun and learning. Please watch your inbox as we will be updating frequently.
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Your guide to Linwood, North Carolina assisted living facilities. With so many senior housing options available, how do you know which one is right for your family?
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And featured attractions of Linwood: Jersey Baptist Church Cemetery.
Linwood is a small unincorporated community a physician and early innovator in farming techniques. Part of the community (mainly the area industries) has been annexed by the city of Lexington. Public High Schools that have districts that are in Linwood are Central Davidson High School and West Davidson High School.Beallmont, Jersey Baptist Church Cemetery, and Jersey Settlement Meeting House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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McDonald Upsets Del Potro In Delray Beach
Mackenzie McDonald recorded one of the biggest moments of his career on Friday at the Delray Beach Open by VITACOST.com, holding off a determined Juan Martin del Potro in their quarter-final clash to defeat the top seed 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(5).
The win gave the American his first ATP Tour semi-final berth and first victory over a Top 10 player. Currently No. 84 in the ATP Rankings, McDonald is guaranteed to surpass his career-high of No. 76 when the newest standings are released on Monday.
"I've played a couple of these Top 10 guys before and it's always tough. There were some nerves at the end, but I'm handling it better each time," said McDonald. "I'm glad to finally get a win over one of them."
The match began with comfortable service holds from both men, but Del Potro's movement appeared hampered by the middle of the first set. With the top seed walking gingerly between points and letting mid-pace balls pass him by for winners, the American won 10 consecutive points to take the early advantage.
With the crowd chanting "Delpo", the Argentine battled valiantly in the second set. He increased the pace on his serve and gambled on his forehand in a bid to shorten the points. McDonald blinked first in the second set and floated a drop shot into the net down break point at 2-3. The slight advantage was all the top seed needed to bring the match to a decider.
Neither player dropped serve in the final set to force a tie-break. McDonald grabbed a mini-break advantage to lead 5/2 after a pair of forehand errors from del Potro. The American missed his first two match-point opportunities, but struck a forehand volley winner at 6/5 and threw his racquet to the ground in celebration.
Despite the loss, del Potro said he would try to take the positives from this week.
"I wanted to do a big effort tonight. I fought until the last ball and had many opportunities, but it's hard to win matches when you can't move at 100 per cent," said del Potro. "I played three matches [this week] after four months away, though, so I think that was the best thing for me."
Delray Beach is guaranteed to have a first-time ATP Tour finalist when McDonald next faces Radu Albot, who continued his top form with a comeback 1-6, 6-3, 7-6(5) upset over fourth seed Steve Johnson of the United States. The 29-year-old fought back from 4/5 in the third-set tie-break and jubilantly celebrated as he advanced in two hours and seven minutes.
"I was losing the whole time and was definitely not in control of the match, but was able to serve better, return better and get the win," said Albot. "This week is the best achievement I've had on the ATP Tour, so hopefully I can go one step further and make the final."
Two of Albot's three ATP Tour semi-finals have come this month. The Moldovan also reached the last four two weeks ago at the Open Sud de France.


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One of baba's son, Adejumo Boisala Emmanuel announced his death in the early hours of Monday.
"Baba has died. He died some minutes to 10pm on Sunday night. His remains had been taken to the morgue. He died of old-age related sickness. He came to church two Sundays ago and he was the one that said the benediction. Baba has gone to be with the Lord and he will be missed by many people including his fans," Haastrup said.


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Even when you have the perfect picture in your mind's eye, and a weather forecast to match, the elements can still work against you. But for Dennis Bromage, a flexible approach led to an unexpected addition to his portfolio
In a previous issue I wrote about my love of spending summer evenings on the North Yorkshire Coast, especially around Whitby. This seems to have been truer this year than ever before. Getting out with the camera on summer evenings and making the effort to get out of bed at silly o'clock to shoot the long quiet summer dawns has left me feeling refreshed, invigorated and inspired.
As I write this I am actively working on about a dozen coastal images. I have visited all the locations working out the compositions and I know exactly what conditions I need to get the very best from each of them. Of course the hard part is managing to be there when all the elements come together to allow me …
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Since the success of FOX Network's Empire, everyone's coming out of the woodwork saying how they could've snagged a role in the popular series… First, it was announced that actor Wesley Snipes was set to play the character "Lucious Lyons", instead of Terrence Howard. Then, Mo'Nique sat down with CNN's Don Lemon and revealed that she was the original "Cookie", the character now played by Taraji P. Henson. Now, a picture of the alleged actors originally slotted to play the cast of the Lyons family is circulating on social media, which includes Wesley and Mo'Nique along with actors Lance Gross (as Andre, the eldest son), Romeo Miller (as Jamal, the middle son), and Corbin Bleu of High School Musical fame (as the youngest son, Hakeem):
Let's just say we're glad the current cast made the final cut.
Andra Fuller, who stars in Adult Swim's series Black Jesus, revealed last week in an Instagram that he was also in the running to play the character of Andre on Empire, but Adult Swim came first, saying:
Quite a few of my friends keep saying that I should try to get on Fox's #1 Hit Show, 'Empire', well the truth of the matter is, at one point I was actually about a week away from playing the oldest son, Andre. I had already auditioned a few times and even met with Lee Daniels and the executive producers of the show. But the craziest thing happened, 1) Aaron McGruder offered me my role on BLACK JESUS first, and Empire was still about a week away from making their decision. And….of course you almost NEVER pass up your "Fa sho money, tryna get some mo' money", so I took the Black Jesus role. No regrets. And 2) They changed who was supposed to play 'Lucious', which also ultimately changed the "casting look" of his kids. Who was originally offered the role of Lucious?? Yep, Wesley Snipes.
PS: No shade, I think the casting ended up being perfect with Terrance Howard as the father. The 3 sons actually look like they could be his sons for real. And they all do a great acting job as well. #Kudos #LoveTheShow
Actor Trai Byers, who currently plays Andre on Empire revealed during his interview with Meredith Vieira that he almost became a PASTOR before being hired for the show. Byers said this was due to his frustration of not finding any work in the year of 2013 and because of that, he considered becoming a Pastor:
In 2013 I did not work at all just contemplating what I needed to do if I was walking in my destiny or not. Is this what Trai wants to do? I am a big Christian so I always talk about that or is what God wants me to do. I really contemplated changing going into something else. I am very passionate about God and religion and I thought maybe I am supposed to be a Pastor. I don't know. I am open to being used in any way that was aligned for me destiny wise and Empire came and right after Empire, Selma came. Then to look later down the line to see Empire was premiering on Wednesday night the same week on Friday Selma was going wide, you couldn't time it like that.
In other Empire news, actor Malik Yoba who plays Lucious's right hand man, Vernon, also did a little revealing of himself last week. In an interview with Black Film, Yoba revealed that Jussie Smollet and his character Jamal on the show share more in common than we thought: they're both GAY. In reference to Empire showing homosexuality and the controversy surrounding it, Yoba stated:
I think that our show represents a huge opportunity to stay in the culture beyond entertainment value and there's an intrinsic nature of you have the gay factor, right? So, obviously, Lee [Daniels, Empire's co-creator] is gay. That was an important storyline for him. I think it's important for people to see themselves. Even within the Black community. But if you aren't really, really taking it off of screen and making it live in the community in a significant way…like I know Jussie, he is gay, and he's very committed to issues around the LGBT community. He and I have a very close relationship. There a lot of things that I'm doing. I have a company called iconic32.com. We create or enhance cultural movements for social good using pop culture.
Although there was no malicious intent on Yoba's part, he probably should've consulted with Jussie before making comments on Jussie's sexuality. Jussie himself has flat out refused to admit to being straight or gay. In an interview with Sway in The Morning, when asked about his sexuality, Jussie responded:
I am not willing to confirm or deny anything, I live my life…if anyone is looking to put me in a box, then that's not going to happen. But if you really want to know about me, just watch, because I don't hide anything. I just don't choose to talk about my personal life.
We're not done with Empire talk just yet!!
During her sit down with Don Lemon, Mo'Nique revealed that Lee Daniels (Empire's co-creator) told her that she had been "blackballed" by Hollywood after appearing in Lee's film Precious. Lee denies these claims. The film also starred Gabourey Sidibe, who now plays "Becky" on Empire. While both Lee and Mo'Nique say they have love for each other, they disagree on whether or not Lee told Mo'Nique she was blackballed. Gabourey had this to say about her former cast member and current crew member fighting:
Let's try to keep the drama in the scripts, people! As usual, the Tea Maker will keep you posted on all things Empire…
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By: Pat Smith, Department Adjutant, As published in the September 2015 issued of the Internet Observer
What an incredible national convention! If you ever get the chance to attend a national convention, do it! You will see firsthand the power and respect this organization has with Congress, our military and our communities. We are an organization worth the effort. You will know why you belong.
I was asked what my favorite part of the convention was. Jokingly I said listening to all of the reports. Seriously, that is why we hold a convention, to set policy through resolutions for the coming year. But my favorite part was listening to the American Legion Youth Champions. If you want to reaffirm your faith in America's youth listening to them at the convention will do it. They were all articulate, shared their stories and their vision for a better America. Every one of these young people ended up on the stage of the convention because of their participation in a Legion program sponsored by a local Legion post. Every one proudly thanked their post for sponsoring them. Our founding fathers recognized the need to educate our youth to preserve our precious freedoms. Our youth programs continue that strong tradition. Go to Legion.org and you can listen to all of their speeches. It is worth the effort.
I can regale you with all of the details of the convention but I am not going to do that except to say Colorado sent two resolutions to the convention for consideration. We asked the national organization to delay the "dues increase" until April 15, 2016, to give our posts time to react and raise their dues if necessary. That resolution was defeated! Our membership team will be telling you more about that later. The other resolution came from Post 1980 in Woodland Park and it asked that The American Legion posts be permitted to honor deceased Boy Scouts with the presentation of an American Flag at their services. This resolution was referred to the Americanism commission for further study. And, it will be acted upon in the October meetings by the NEC.
Our Department Commander Tom Florez has announced that our Fall Conferences this year will be an event. He is asking the districts to do something special to attract members to the event. We need Legionnaires from all over the state to show up, meet their department officers and participate in dialogue to improve our organization. He has promised there won't be any boring reports or useless information passed out. The event will be uplifting and motivational. Depending on the venue he may show some of the Youth Champions speeches. The event will be all about making The American Legion stronger, not only in numbers but in influence.
We face many challenges as we seek to preserve our freedoms. We wore the uniform proudly for that very reason. Our younger veterans from the Global War on Terrorism need to understand that The American Legion is the best place for them to make a difference. They share our vision for a strong and free America! They too can make a commitment to work within the ranks of this organization and in doing so they too will secure their legacy.
"Vision, Commitment, Legacy – American Legion Strong – America Strong!"


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Tourism to Vietnam in 2015 showed 7.94 million international visitors, a 1% increase and generating receipts of US$15.4 billion, showing a very positive trend for Vietnam tourism into the future.
Statistics from the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism show a 5.15% increase in visitors year-on-year in July.
Since 1st July 2015 Vietnam has allowed visa free entry for 15 days to visitors from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Belarus. However, this means that Irish passport holders still have go through the time-consuming process. Under the visa on arrival system visitors must first pay a fee online and obtain a letter authorising entry into the country, and then pay an additional charge when they arrive in Vietnam.


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Ellia is a character in the Silicon Knights' GameCube title, Eternal Darkness.
1150 A.D. — Angkor Thom Region, Cambodia
Ellia was born into servitude and raised as a dancer in the court of Suryavarman II, the king who reunited the Khmer empire after years of unrest. After finding and reading a strange book, she yearns for adventure. Her curiousity leads her into a temple, where she uncovers secrets she was never meant to find.
Above text taken from game manual.


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Once upon a time, if you wanted to know what was stylish or what to wear during the coming season, you opened GQ, Esquire, or Harper's Bazaar. You went to a cool store, or flipped through fancy catalogues. The content of these glossy pages and shops was determined by an elite group of buyers, editors, and photographers. They went to fashion shows twice a year in New York and Europe to decide what you wanted and what you could buy. They picked everything for you.
Sound like Meryl Streep's monologue in The Devil Wears Prada? It more or less is. The movie was released in 2006, just before Garance Doré picked up a digital camera, stood outside of those fashion shows, snapped pictures of what she saw, and posted them on her eponymous blog. Over the next decade, Doré would create the template for what became known as street style blogging, open the world of high fashion to the masses, and eventually usurp the very fashion world she documented. "She established quality blogging," says Yvan Rodic, a fellow blogger known as the Face Hunter. "She was the beginning."
She established quality blogging. She was the beginning.
Yvan Rodic
This week, as models stalk catwalks in Paris, Doré celebrates the 10th anniversary of garancedore.com and her emergence as one of the highest-profile style arbiters in the digital (and real) world. It's hard to believe that she only picked up a camera because she felt bad about her wardrobe. An illustrator by training who started a blog in 2006 to showcase her work, Garance moved to Paris from Marseilles in 2007 and suffered a rude sartorial awakening. "I was probably one of the most stylish girls in Marseilles, but I got to Paris and I was the least. It was a disaster!" she says with a laugh. "And then one I day I decided I wanted to document style and learn about it."
She began photographing women whose style she admired. "I was seeing all these cool girls," Doré says. After asking permission to take their picture, she'd post the photos on her blog with dreamy narratives about the woman's look and attitude. She also posted things from brands she loved, encouraging readers to enjoy the beauty and design without worrying about the four- and five-figure price tags. Within months, "the blog became super popular in France," she says, and not just with readers. She remembers how brands and stores would report, "Oh shit, Garance—you talked about those pants and we sold out the same day!"
Ten Years of Street Style
In September, 2008, Doré decided to "keep the energy going" and flew to New York for fashion week for what she calls personal research. "I was very interested in the American sense of style," she says. When she arrived outside venues to photograph the fashionable types flocking to the shows, she encountered a handful of street style shooters like Rodic and Scott Schuman, who went by The Sartorialist. "There was not so many people shooting," says Rodic. "Blogging was not yet a thing. People were quite surprised to be photographed outside a fashion show."
It was during that season that I encountered Doré for the first time. She was a shy French girl who asked if she could take my picture between shows. I was holding an apple and wearing Keds with a neon pink sweater. She liked that I had an apple. ("I remember precisely the photo I took of you," she says eight years later. "How you made me feel.") She called the photo "Pink Apple," and it's this emphasis on feelings that helped distinguish Doré. Her contemporaries (at the time, all men) largely favored a photojournalistic style. Doré was a storyteller. She was more connected to the French style of blogging at the time, "which was all about your personal diary," she says.
Paul Martineau, a photo curator at the Getty Museum, attributes Dore's success to this approach. "What strikes me about Garance's work is that it's not overly self-conscious," he says. "That makes it feel very fresh, natural and easy. And I think people are comfortable looking at these pictures. They think, 'I could wear those clothes, and be in that place.'"
Doré also knew Photoshop and learned HTML, which helped her enhance the site. "You remember in the beginning images were super small? My blog always looked better. It was so easy!" Wordpress was, and remains, her platform. Doré also made sure to publish her blog in English and French. (This required a translator every day, almost in real time.) This exposed her to a much larger audience. Her real feat of determination, however, was insisting that the comments on her site from both languages meet in the same place. "For me," she says, "blogging at that time was really about people having a real conversation."
Conversation was not something the fashion industry was in a position to offer. Magazines worked top-down. (See: Prada, Devil Wears.) So too did communication between designers and their customers. Of course, clients could vote with their wallets—but that was so far down the line, and so slow, and so expensive.
Street style—blogs at first and then social media—have really broadened the sphere of influence past fashion magazines.
Scott Schuman
On the Internet, Doré learned, having a voice is free. "Street style—blogs at first and then social media—have really broadened the sphere of influence past fashion magazines," says Schuman, who became Doré's companion for a few years. "Back then, there were really just fashion magazines and people really only talked about Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. But after that it really spread out. And you had a lot of different voices and a lot of different people that the general public was interested in. So where before you had just a few voices, now you have a lot—a lot, a lot of voices."
Before long, Doré and her fellow street style blogger enjoyed followings larger than those of magazines that had been in business for decades. Major fashion houses did the math. Within a few seasons, these outsiders found themselves moving from the periphery of the most important fashion shows to the front row, rubbing shoulders with—and, in some cases, replacing—the fashion royalty whose styles they admired and captured on the street. Doré, the fan girl with her digital camera, became the establishment.
Her fiercely loyal, and fast growing, readership followed her wherever she went–via tweets, Facebook updates, and blog posts. "I don't believe in duplicating content," she says of her various platforms. "They are all coordinated, but they tell different stories." The fashion houses banked on her loyal following. Eventually, designers and retailers paid for access to Doré's audiences, and those of her fellow bloggers. Compared to an ad page in Vogue, bloggers were a deal. Plus, their connection to their readers was much more direct, personal, immediate—and effective in starting conversions. Doré and her pioneering street style bloggers created an entirely new space, offering readers access to the world of high fashion and turning an exclusive closed experience into a broadly accessible one.
This doesn't come without a cost. If Doré and her contemporaries left the door open for other digital influencers, platforms like Instagram blew the door off its hinges. "Instagram has revolutionized fashion, making new celebrities and creating new powers," she says. "A lot of it is real, a lot of it is not."
With extreme variations in quality, content and motivation, "it's a double-edged sword" for photographers like Doré," Martineau says. "It's all been opened up to just about anyone, so how do you distinguish yourself among the hundreds of thousands of images that are cropping up everyday? It's more democratic, but it's more difficult to have lasting attention."
Yet here is Doré, celebrating 10 years. She now employs a studio with 10 employees, including a photographer, to spread her work across different platforms. She is working on her second book, about Wellness, and she hosts the podcast series Pardon My French.
"It's a good moment," she says, "to have a stronger voice than ever."
Street Style Timeline
September 2005
Scott Schuman starts The Sartorialist on Blogspot. It becomes the first street-style blog to gain a following within the fashion world. "When I started, there were really just fashion magazines—the only thing online that anyone in fashion paid attention to was Style.com." –Schuman
January 2006
Yvan Rodic starts Facehunter on Blogspot, beginning with portraits of people at art shows. He shoots the nighttime events with a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T7. "I started with a very tiny compact camera—like a really tiny credit-card size point and shoot. It was actually my first ever digital camera. It was kind of fun, like a little toy, so I could bring it everywhere." –Rodic
Summer 2006
Schuman switches from a Canon EOS 10D to a Canon 5D with a 50mm lens right as he goes to shoot in Europe for the first time. "The really good version of the Canon camera came out right around the first time I went to Europe. It's funny, a lot of people think I got really good overnight—it's not that I got really good, it's just better equipment came out. I knew how to use the equipment, there just wasn't very good equipment." –Schuman
Candice Lake starts shooting street style online for Vogue UK. She uses the Canon 5D Mark II. "I'm a Canon girl. I started with a 5D Mark II and graduated to a Mark III. I swap lenses on the street from 24-70 to 85mm for portraiture. When I'm shooting a street-style-inspired campaign, I use Profoto B1 wireless kit and a California Sunbounce as a general rule." –Lake
Lake starts her Wordpress blog, Style Magnolia, at the advice of her editor at Vogue UK. The site becomes a home for street-style photography, diaries, and interviews. Later, she changes the site's name to CandiceLake.com. "She helped me set it up as I had no idea about blogging before this!" –Lake
October 6, 2010
Instagram launches its photo sharing/editing app. Now, six years later, the app is a focal point for the Fashion Week. "It's become the first destination for street style." –Rodic
September 2011
Snapchat launches. As it gains a following, it becomes another tool to cover Fashion Weeks around the world. "I shoot mainly with my camera but I do some Snapchat with my phone. I'm not trying to make the perfect shot necessarily on Snapchat. It's more like capturing a moment or a story or your one question." –Rodic
Garance introduces "Pardon My French." A YouTube series which later becomes a podcast. "We came to realize that the videos were a ton of production and took a lot of time and resources. We wanted to find a way to still have genuine conversations with people we admire and were interested in. We thought we would transition it into a podcast medium. Do it in a way that was still visual by incorporating photo." –Garance
May 2012
Schuman announces on The Sartorialist that he's been using Instagram for six months and has just made his profile public. Today, Schuman has 931,000 followers. "Now the blog's very important, but the whole conversation, if you're doing something visual, is on Instagram." –Schuman
After cycling through many compact cameras (including the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX1), Rodic finally switches to the Canon 6D, the company's first DSLR with built-in WIFI. "Within two minutes after I take the picture, I can upload it to my phone. So for me, that's the key feature—to have the quality of a DSLR but at the same time to be fast." –Rodic
October 2015
Schuman releases his third book The Sartorialist: X, in which he explains that he now uses both his Canon 5D and an iPhone to shoot on the street. He told me recently he thinks the new iPhone camera is "just about as good as the big camera now anyways." "It feels like I've got a pencil and a paintbrush. The camera is like the paintbrush—you can take a more artistic shot, you have more control. And the iPhone is like a pencil, it's for a fast sketch." –Schuman
September 2016
Street-style photography—on blogs, in magazines, and shared on social media—is now central to the Fashion Week experience. Since the start of this year's New York Fashion Week, over 789,364 images tagged #streetstyle have been posted on Instagram. Rodic says, "Now, it's a whole industry." "The photographers know that if they photograph someone with a lot of followers, they're more likely to get this person reposting the picture and then they get more followers themselves. I mean, it's a well-established game." –Rodic


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Raid Bosses
WrathionSingle Target
Twist of Fate for more boss damage, Misery for padding in intermission.
Major: Condensed Life Force
Minors: Focusing Iris, Lucid Dreams, Breath of the Dying
Pretty much a single target fight. Don't move more than you have to and utilise dispersion to reset stacks.
MautSingle Target
Major: Condensed Life Force
Minors: Focusing Iris, Lucid Dreams, Breath of the Dying
Single target fight.
Make use of your leap of faith to quickly return a friend after they drop off a zone.
The Prophet SkitraSingle Target
Major: Condensed Life Force
Minors: Focusing Iris, Lucid Dreams, Breath of the Dying
Mostly single target with occasional add spawns.
DoT up the add and enjoy your Twist of Fate uptime.
Leap of Faith friends to speed up their return to the group after they spawn an add.
Dark Inquisitor XaneshSingle Target
Major: Condensed Life Force
Minors: Focusing Iris, Lucid Dreams, Breath of the Dying
Single Target fight.
You can use Shields to help speed up slow kickers or even to help them get into position with Leap of Faith.
The HivemindHeavy Cleave
Major: Memory of the lucid Dreams
Minors: Focusing Iris, Blood of the enemy, Breath of the Dying / Purification Protocol
Heavy Cleave fight, so run misery and DoT stuff.
Run Purifcation Protocol for more AoE or consider Breath of the Dying for more boss damage. Iris major can also be considered, but you will be dropping a lot of boss damage with that.
Shad'har the InsatiableSingle Target
Major: Condensed Life Force
Minors: Focusing Iris, Lucid Dreams, Breath of the Dying
Full Single Target fight.
Avoid pools on the ground, stay close to the boss to make avoiding breaths easier. The farther away we are, the harder it is to avoid due to our limited mobility.
Major: Memory of the lucid Dreams
Minors: Focusing Iris, Blood of the enemy, Breath of the Dying / Purification Protocol
You can run Misery for more overall damage or Twist of Fate for more priority target damage.
Make sure you time your damage (fresh Void Form) just before picking the buff up and damaging the boss.
Twist of Fate for more boss damage, Misery for more overall damage.
Major: Memory of the lucid Dreams
Minors: Focusing Iris, Blood of the enemy, Breath of the Dying / Purification Protocol
DoT the bloods up, but make sure not to go too ham as to not wipe your raid.
Use Breath of the dying for more single target or Protocol for more AoE.
Use psychic Horror / Fear (Psychic Scream) to help control the mind controlled players.
Use your cooldowns, pretty much, as they come up and the timings will line up so that your big voidforms will carry over from organs to fresh boss phases.
VexionaSingle Target / Cleave
Major: Memory of the lucid Dreams
Minors: Focusing Iris, Blood of the enemy, Breath of the Dying / Purification Protocol
Until 40% boss health, the fight is heavy cleave, after that it turns into single target.
You can consider running Essence of the focusing Iris + Purification protocol to blast more damage in phase 1. Although, if you do this, you will be pretty useless during the final push, so I recommend running Memory of the lucid dreams major + Breath of the dying minor, which performs decently in phase 1 but is far superior in the last 40%.
Ra-den the DespoiledSingle Target / Cleave
Major: Condensed Life Force
Minors: Focusing Iris, Lucid Dreams, Breath of the Dying
Mostly a single target fight with some cleave.
Make sure to switch to adds and focus them down whilst keeping the boss dotted down, help save people with power word: shield.
Carapace of N'ZothCleave
Major: Memory of the lucid Dreams
Minors: Focusing Iris, Blood of the enemy, Breath of the Dying / Purification Protocol
While the fight might look complicated, it is actually very simple.
Start of by attacking the boss, pop cooldowns normally, DoT up the small tentacle when it spawns, but DO NOT interrupt it. Once the big tentacle with adds spawn, simply dot up the growths. Hit the boss after and sear smallies for a bigger void form.
During the intermission, simply run up and DoT all the things. Once the intermission is done, the boss will run to the final room, the name of the game is to nuke the boss before you run out of insanity.
N'Zoth the CorruptorCleave
Major: Memory of the lucid Dreams
Minors: Focusing Iris, Blood of the enemy, Breath of the Dying / Purification Protocol
In the first phase DoT up the Psychus and focus the correct tentacle that your raid is killing. You can dot up the next one you will be killing, but endlessly doting around is useless as they heal to full once one of them dies.
Use Memory of the Lucid Dreams on your second void form and dispersion the stun that happens when you're getting knocked to real phase.
Nuke the boss and when tentacles spawn just make sure to do your single target rotation on the tentacle you are assigned to and replace mind flay with the dots.
Use the Neck (Azeroth's Radiance) just before going into the "down phase" the second time. The second "down phase" is pretty much the same as the first one, just with half the raid instead of entire raid.
Once the down phase has been completed 3 times, the boss will go into the last phase, which is pretty simple execution wise. You should stack up with the group, move on puddles, soak the big circle with rest of the raid and time your cooldowns with bloodlust.
The Eternal Palace
Abyssal Commander SivaraSingle Target
Pure single target fight
Azerite Traits: 3x Chorus of Insanity, 2x Spiteful Apparitions, 1x Whispers of the Damned
Azerite Essences: Memory of Lucid Dreams major + Essence of the Focusing Iris minor
The fight is very linear, depending on your kill timer it might be an idea to delay your second shadowfiend for third Memory of Lucid Dreams.
Reset before going too high in stacks of the Frost mark or Toxic brand, help soak overflow venom / overflowing chill and be careful not to reset whilst raid is low on health.
Blackwater BehemothSingle Target
Single Target fight with a few low health adds.
Azerite Traits: 3x Chorus of Insanity, 2x Spiteful Apparitions, 1x Whispers of the Damned
Azerite Essences: Memory of Lucid Dreams major + Essence of the Focusing Iris minor
Make sure to dot up Pufferfish for Twist of Fate uptime. Also, if you see a friend is about to die don't be afraid to help them out with Power Word: Shield.
The fight is very linear, depending on your kill timer it might be an idea to delay the second shadowfiend for your third Memory of Lucid Dreams.
Make sure to have the Pufferfish buff (bioluminescence) up at all times, spread out and blast the boss.
Radiance of AzsharaSingle Target
Single target fight with few adds in intermission
Azerite Traits: 3x Chorus of Insanity, 2x Spiteful Apparitions, 1x Whispers of the Damned
Azerite Essences: Memory of Lucid Dreams major + Essence of the Focusing Iris minor
Leap of Faith people that get knocked by a tornado and help with dispels if healers are under pressure.
The fight is very linear, depending on your kill timer it might be an idea to delay the second shadowfiend for your third Memory of Lucid Dreams.
Stick with the group, nuke boss, during the intermission stun/interrupt/kill adds, rinse and repeat.
Lady AshvaneSingle Target
[Cyclotronic Blast] is very valuable for nuking Briny Bubble down instantly.
Azerite Traits: 3x Chorus of Insanity, 2x Spiteful Apparitions, 1x Whispers of the Damned
Azerite Essences: Memory of Lucid Dreams major + Essence of the Focusing Iris minor
Leap of Faith people that get knocked up, help power word: shield people that might be in danger of dying to rippling wave, dispersion dangerous empowered rippling wave hits.
3 shield strategy
If your guild is going for a 3 shield strategy use CDs as they come up and time your last use of memory of lucid dreams + shadowfiend + cyclotronic blast to nuke the boss in the last phase.
2 shield strategy
If your guild is using a 2 shield strategy simply do not use Memory of the Lucid Dreams and Shadowfiend on first void form but save it for second void form, it's gonna line up perfectly with bloodlust on 1st shield break.
I would recommend using the 2 shield strategy, it's much quicker, cleaner and easier.
Overall there isn't much to this fight, it's pretty much a DPS/HPS check. Soak if assigned, break corals in Phase 2, survive and nuke boss.
OrgozoaHeavy Cleave
This is a Heavy Cleave Fight.
Azerite Traits: 3x Chorus of Insanity, 2x Spiteful Apparitions, 1x Whispers of the Damned
Azerite Essences: Memory of Lucid Dreams major + Essence of the Focusing Iris minor
Make sure to dot up all the adds, while continuing to single target the boss, unless adds need to die super quick in which case hard swap to them and swap your use of mind flay for mind sear.
Help friends that are about to die with power word: shield, use vampiric embrace during periods of heavy damage (either when adds are up or dying) and Leap of Faith friends that are either slower than you or if anyone gets knocked by an orb a quick grip can save them.
Stack up, nuke the boss, dot up all the adds and keep the dots up whilst nuking boss. Remember to spread if you're about to get hit by Arcing Current.
Queen's Court2 Target Fight
2 target cleave with occasional extra adds.
Azerite Traits: 3x Chorus of Insanity, 2x Spiteful Apparitions, 1x Whispers of the Damned
Azerite Essences: Memory of Lucid Dreams major + Essence of the Focusing Iris minor
Dot up both bosses, make sure to focus 1 boss down to 35% first for 100% twist of fate uptime. Once sparks spawn make sure you dot up 2 sparks, yes 2, not all 3. You don't want the third one prematurely exploding and wiping the raid. You can and should put either shadow word: pain or vampiric touch (not both) on the third spark once it reaches 35%, for that sweet sweet twist of fate uptime.
Help power word: shield people with Fanatical Verdict.
Use CDs as they come up.
Do as much damage as possible and be mindful of your health and damage that is about to happen as there is a lot of AoE in this fight that it is all very predictable so just be wary of the timers and your own health as 300k damage overlaps are pretty common.
Za'qulHeavy Cleave
This is a Heavy Cleave Fight.
Azerite Traits: 3x Chorus of Insanity, 2x Spiteful Apparitions, 1x Whispers of the Damned
Azerite Essences: Memory of Lucid Dreams major + Essence of the Focusing Iris minor
Twist of Fate uptime would be high on this fight but there are too many adds not to run Misery.
Run 2 of your best DPS trinkets, however do consider Cyclotronic Burst since it's very good for killing high priority targets and for periods of increased damage on boss.
Boss Tips
Help Power word: Shield people that are about to die to Manic Dread explosion.
Start the fight with pre-combat voidform, use first memory of lucid dreams on 5 stacks of void form and DO NOT use shadowfiend. We do this to line up our second use of lucid dreams and our first shadowfiend with the first Maddening Eruption + Bloodlust overlap. Use cooldowns as they come up after that (unless you are going into Delirium Realm).
Min-Max your damage, power word: shield yourself before each and every dread cast and be mindful of crushing grasp.
delirium realm
If you are assigned to the delirium realm for the first Psychotic split you should save your lucid dreams and vampiric embrace. You want to enter delirium realm at about 50-60ish seconds before Psychotic Split, with a fresh voidform and you want to extend that voidform for as long as possible with lucid dreams when needed. Once there are about 5 seconds left on Psychotic Split you want to drop that voidform and instantly re-enter a new one for a massive amount of Chorus of Insanity and Lingering Insanity stacks. Once the split is dead you want to leave and pop dispersion, call for off-heals and externals as the dot you will have on you will do massive amounts of damage, you can also re-dot all the adds just before leaving for massive vampiric touch healing. Your actual focus in the delirium realm is adds, just dot them all up and stand next to the boss, to bring all the adds in, don't forget to fade if any of the adds actually do reach you. I do not recommend sending a shadow priest into the second or third delirium realms if you go with a skipping the summoners strategy, as you need small adds to outlast the dot.
Queen AzsharaMulti Target
Azerite Traits: 3x Chorus of Insanity, 2x Spiteful Apparitions, 1x Whispers of the Damned
Azerite Essences: Memory of Lucid Dreams major + Essence of the Focusing Iris minor
There is a massive amount of movement and Line of Sight issues in this fight so make sure to plan ahead, be ready for everything or you will die often as a shadow priest as we don't have any get out of jail free cards in terms of either mobility or immunity.
I recommend the Standard Raid Build as there are not enough adds to warrant running Misery and not enough sustained cleave in important phases to warrant Auspicious Spirits.
Consider cyclotronic blast for bursting priority targets.
General Tips
Time your fresh Void form windows for Overzealous Hulk spawns to nuke them down as fast as possible.
Leap of Faith is very good on this fight as it can save people from guaranteed death.
Death denied is also an especially useful minor trait for this fight.
Due to the raid having reduced health constantly Power Word: Shield is a very good spell on this fight, use it and use it a lot, you can save a lot of people.
Boss Breakdown
Have 30 insanity before the fight starts, as soon as the boss is engaged and your void form drains to 25, shield 3 people and pre pot, just before the bosses become active cast shadow crash and instantly enter void form. Use Shadowfiend on 10-12 stacks on the opener, you want it to line up with Azshara nuke in phase 2. Save your Cyclotronic Burst for the second hulk, if you played properly your second void form will end just before the second hulk spawns, dot him up, nuke him down and use your trinket on him.
First Intermission
During the first intermission follow what your decrees have ordered, there is nothing to attack so make sure to help people survive, shield and heal as necessary. As the intermission is ending make sure you have at least 50 insanity.
Phase 2
Once Azshara is active you instantly want to put both dots on her whilst she is immune to damage and then enter void form, simply continue with your normal "opener" rotation. Use lucid dreams at 25, delaying it is pointless as your next use lines up perfectly if you use it at 25. Save your second shadow crash and pop shadowfiend as soon as it's ready. At about 30-35 stacks adds will spawn, as soon as they're stacked up you will want to shadow crash and mind sear them, since there is so many of them mind sear is going to keep your insanity topped off, hence there being no point delaying Memory of Lucid Dreams. Use your cyclotronic burst when it's ready, if you've done everything right it's going to be with 100% crit chance. I use vampiric embrace as soon as Azshara reaches 70.5%.
Second Intermission
During the second intermission, do the same as the first one except now you can actually hit Azshara, use this to your advantage and build up insanity.
Phase 3
Once the third phase begins, make sure you have FRESH dots on Azshara. After about 5 seconds a Myrmidon will spawn, dot him up. Then roughly 4 seconds after that Lady can be attacked, instantly swap to her and nuke her down. Just before Arcane Detonation you want to go into line of sight of Azshara and re-dot her and start moving toward the second Lady. You should use memory of the lucid dreams here as it should line up perfectly. Once you reach the second pillar, nuke myrmidon and line of sight shield break, as soon as the shield is down attack the second lady, cyclotronic burst again once your void form drops. Continue doing your rotation and make sure to weave into Azshara line of sight to dot her up.
When you use your third shadowfiend is up to you to decide, you can use it as soon as it's ready or you can save it for bloodlust which gives you a bigger void form but means you lose a usage.
On the third lady, a lot of the time is spent killing myrmidons/Azshara and not lady herself. For me the following timing almost always happened. As we are pushing Azshara into last phase I am in void form at about 15-25 stacks, do not drop that void form, carry it over into bloodlust with memory of lucid dreams / shadowfiend and you will absolutely pump damage.
Last Phase
The last phase is the simplest part of the fight. Make sure you set up your damage for Bloodlust as mentioned before, after that simply use cooldowns as they come up and shield people that are about to die to console hits. If you're using the Azshara Staff you should talk to your healer and have it be assigned somewhere, as a bonus, not as something that is meant to carry the raid. You simply shield 4-5 times to make yourself go OOM. For example, I used mine on the second overload after the third hit.
Crucible of Storms
The Restless Cabal2/3 Target Fight
Recommended Azerite Traits:
Power word: shield is very valuable on this fight, you will be casting it a lot on yourself and possibly even team members.
You should talk with Healers who have Void Stones before the fight. You can survive many things with dispersion / Void Stones and sometimes even Power word shield.
The only times you will need dispels, if the encounter is played perfectly, will be for interrupt adds and storms.
Survival Cooldown Example:
- First crashing you survive with a power word: shield.
- Second crashing take a healer Void Stone (better than disperse since DPS add will spawn)
- Then you take a dispel since interrupt adds
- Start stacking again
- Next can be done with power word: shield (try and take the debuff on the second tick and not instantly to be safe).
- Next wave use dispersion
- The wave after, use Void Stone
This is just an example how can you can play it.
You will be needing to interrupt, so be ready to do so.
Leap of Faith is super useful. Keep an eye out for stunned teammates, maybe get a Weakaura that lights up the frame when they are stunned. Be ready to grip them if either the MC blast or a big void spawn atop of them.
If you are struggling with interrupts, you can use mass dispel. This will be depended on warlock to healer ratio. While doing this be careful you don't dispel too many others as it deals heavy damage. Simply run to a safe spot and aim it a bit over yourself and the water.
Also, always keep the fear add dotted, it will deal damage to it making it spawn later. The later it spawns the better. As this means you will only need to kill it twice during the encounter.
Uu'natSingle Target / Cleave
Recommended Azerite Traits:
Phase 1:
The hardest part is getting the correct damage on the adds. The aim is that no add is close to healing when Phase 1 ends, dealing too much damage to an add will cause it to heal right before. You might be required to not fully dot a add.
Power word: shield is your friend. Shielding yourself before soaking or while running is great.
Phase 2:
Adds in Phase 2 are high priority to kill. Dot them all fully while maintaining Voidform. On some waves consider casting vampiric touch before Shadow word: pain as they will overlap with marks. While running you can Shadow word: pain them.
Phase 3:
Phase 3 will be the hardest phase for you to play as the beams are super dangerous. Always only take 1 stack, while doing this make sure you continue to take good care of baits.
Don't bait at points when you need to run, don't screw over warlocks, don't bait on artifacts. Getting a good bait Weakaura will really help you here.
Just like in Phase 1 you want to control the add HP correctly. Don't have adds die but keep them low.
Gift of N'Zoth: Lunacy hits really hard, try shielding the people with Insatiable torment (every single one) just before this comes in as the extra HP is super useful.
Save dispersion for if you get Gift of N'Zoth: Lunacy yourself. If you play with many warlocks you can even take double beams, Disperse and stand in the warlock and leach off them.
Maintaining dots in the last phase is super important as tank damage is very high. The lower the HP, the less hard they hit.
Shadowfiend can be used once in Phase 1 and Phase 2 then twice in Phase 3.
Don't use it too late in Phase 3 as torment might be scary to stay alive with, just fit the first one into Bloodlust.
Highlighting your raid frames for people with insatiable torment will help you find who to shield before Gift of N'Zoth: Lunacy, getting a Weakaura to remind you to shield is also very helpful.
Battle of Dazar'alor
Champion of the LightSingle Target
Use single target azerite traits.
Don't dot adds, it doesn't increase your single target damage.
Check for warlocks Using havoc on targets, you might be able to snipe a quick Shadow Word: Pain tick for Twist of Fate.
Don't get blinded by Blinding Faith.
Grong, the Jungle LordCleave
Run Cleave azerite traits.
Dots are easy enough to maintain on robots + boss without misery.
Take a later interrupt, the adds die too fast for you to get it back.
If you are using the Incandescent Sliver you should create a trinket group, this also allows for separate group baiting of the missiles.
Before the adds spawn dot up the boss, even if the pandemic does not fully line up. This will allow you to pop all DPS you have onto the adds rather than having to re-dot the boss mid way.
Talk with your healing officer to use vampiric embrace correctly, preferably during add spawns to increase overall healing. Can be used to heal up a tank throw (Bestial Throw) for example.
Shielding yourself before every tantrum makes you very safe in surviving the actual ability.
Jadefire MastersCleave
Run cleave azerite traits.
Saving shadowfiend/fuse for after first dance is very effective, this is when Xuens / Living bombs spawn. Because of the amount of multi dotting, the extra Haste/Insanity regeneration is extremely useful.
During living bombs make sure to maintain dots on both bosses, even when dipping in and out.
During the Ring of Hostility maze run ask your warlocks to pre-place a portal. This way you can take the portal and skip the entire maze.
At the end of the maze, maintain as many dots as possible, mind searing the 3 middle ones will allow you to hit 3 if 3 force orbs are active next to each other.
Using dispersion during the multi-sided strike allows you to maintain high voidforms while being up.
While being up in the multi-sided strike you can keep dpsing, this does however require good attention to not screw up the dance and lose stacks. It is also reliant on tanks positioning the boss in the middle.
Azerite Traits - Option One
- 3x Searing Dialogue
- 1x Thought Harvester
- 1x Whispers of the Damned
- 1x Spiteful Apparitions
Azerite Traits - Option Two
- 3x Spiteful Apparitions
- 1x Whispers of the Damned
- 2x Chorus of Insanity / Death Throes
ONLY run 3x Searing Dialogue if its REALLY needed (I run this on farm, since we do splits we often lack AoE damage).
Bare in mind searing dialogue build should only be used if you have 3. However, if your other azerites are weaker you can consider using only 1 or 2 searing dialogue just for aoe reasons. Item level is king.
Chorus of insanity Gives Crit, because of the 100% Crit buff it makes the trait a lot less valuable.
Spiteful apparitions however scales excellent on this fight.
Get a good timer/weakaura for getting swapped on mythic and make sure you reapply dots right before getting swapped, they keep ticking.
Body and soul is super useful on the right side, While moving during the flames of punishment you can shield people with Power word: Shield To maintain voidform as it gives 6 insanity per shield. Make sure you prioritise Voidbolt over everything though. IF out of mana spam Shadow Word: Pain instead.
You are an excellent target for red gem. As void bolt is instant and Shadow Word: Void is a short cast time. Dot ticks do NOT reapply the buff only your direct spells will. You can spam Shadow Word: Pain to maintain the buff. if not assigned red gem OR yellow gem take Opal.
Keep dispersion in p2 for overlaps or Liquid gold and Surging gold. With disperse you can still drop it far out.
Gripping people in that just dropped their Liquid gold when the crit buff is active will increase overall raid dps.
The time between add spawns is 1 min, You can precast Dark Void right before they spawn, Dark Void again right on CD and will have it back for the 2nd add wave.
Be aware of timings of adds spawning in p2. Save Thought Harvester procs for these 100%. It's worth wasting some procs used on single target to make sure you have them for the adds.
Conclave of the ChosenCleave
Use cleave Azerite Traits.
Outside of pad damage, it's not worth to dot the second boss even WITH misery. This can be especially bad when warlocks are playing Flashpoint so you don't want to drop the boss under 80%.
Dropping voidform right before raptors spawn is an effective way of getting huge Crit from Chorus of Insanity. However, timing this will not always be worth it, just keep an eye out when they spawn. Make sure you quickly get back into voidform throughout for the increased spell damage alongside void bolt.
If raptors are up and you are trying to get back into voidform look if any raptors are stacked among the bosses for free cleave damage.
Mass dispel is very useful for Pa'ku's Wrath / mind wipe overlap, Well timed mass dispels can dispel every single mind wipe inside the "safe" Pa'ku's Wrath circle.
Using Leap of Faith on people that are far away from the Pa'ku's Wrath circle will reduce overall movement and thus gain a slight raid DPS increase.
Gift of wind can be dispelled from bosses and raptors. When Akunda is NOT up you can even mass dispel raptors when the buffs come out, clearing multiple at once, saving global cooldowns.
Popping vampiric embrace should be done when big AoE damage comes out. Giving lower chance of vampiric embrace trying to heal the people cursed with bwonsamdi's wrath.
King RastakhanCleave + Inside
Use Cleave Azerite Traits.
If staying outside use the Twist of Fate talent instead of Dark Void.
Dark void is used for Bwonsamdi damage when inside the Death Realm. As twist of fate won't impact this.
If Bwonsamdi is under 60% HP do not reuse dark void. Instead save it and cast it when you come outside to dot the boss and adds.
Your opener can be quite rough since no berserking is available. The Fuse trinket for this reason is very good (also for inside with Bwonsamdi). You still want to pre voidform this fight.
Keep Void bolt / Shadow Word: Void running on CD. Any time in-between, apply Shadow Word: Pains. Once safely inside voidform (hope for whispers of the damned crits) you can start applying vampiric touch, While keeping void bolt on CD.
After the 3rd add dies on pull, reapply dots on Rastakhan, these will keep ticking during his short intermission of Bwonsamdi entering the fight. Granting you free damage.
If running dark void, you can save this for the totems, applying dots instantly and refreshing on Rastakhan. If not, dot it up and focus it down.
Bare in mind there is 0 value + reason to dot Bwonsamdi during Phase 2. Dots do not give a single target damage increase.
If tanks have issues swapping, you can grip them with Leap of Faith if needed, just have a tank call for it.
Shackle undead can be used to CC the adds that spawn outside during phase 3. You can assign yourself to interrupt these.
A quick Shackle undead target macro will help a lot for this.
/target (name of the assigned add)
/cast Shackle Undead
Popping vampiric embrace outside can be very valuable as lots of damage will constantly be taken, lowering the chance of healing full HP people.
During inevitable end try and use dispersion to maintain voidform. If it is on cooldown, keep void bolting on CD and Power Word: Shield people close to Rastakhan to avoid them getting sucked in. Also using Leap of faith to save people can be extremely good at this point. If out of mana to shield people spam Shadow Word: Pain.
High Tinker MekkatorqueSingle Target
Use Single target azerite traits.
Your DPS will differ a lot between pulls based on the amount of mechanics you get.
Leap of faith is vital here, as not every single class has a way to deal with the knock up from Wormhole generator. Have people ask for a grip on voice and be ready to grip.
During Wormhole Generator, if you get the knock up yourself and another Leap of faith isn't available you can use levitate to keep yourself in the air. This will prevent you from getting one-shot by the boss.
Don't use dispersion here to save voidform, there is too much damage for you to waste your personal.
Vampiric embrace should be assigned by the healing officer for this fight. The healing it can do during this fight can have a big impact because of the constant damage being taken.
Seems quite obvious but never dot the robots, It's NOT a DPS increase and the shield reflection will likely kill you.
Avoid Leap of faith people when enormous as you will trample them. However, trampling them is still better than them dying of crash down, so if they really need the Leap of faith you should still use it.
If your healers are slow on dispelling and you have the awareness, you can mass dispel the remaining Discombobulation (polymorphs).
If someone fails the robot and gets knocked out. You can Leap of faith them away from the robots to avoid them getting chain stunned and dying.
Using Power World: Shield on people (with body and soul talented) when they get the Gigavolt Charge will be helpful for them to reach the stones to line of sight easier.
If spark bots go running around, you can stun them with Psychic horror.
Stormwall BlockadeSingle Target / Cleave
Either the left side or right side ship is fine for you, personally I prefer right side.
Shielding yourself with body and soul before every sea swell will allow you to quickly dip into an old pool, place the circle and take no damage; this way you can save space on the boat for the duration of that phase.
You can see sirens before they reach the ship and cast Tempting Song. They spawn on 2 sides of the ship, simply check both and you can have it dotted before it reaches the ship.
People who are targeted by the sirens might require a Leap of Faith if they get too close to the edge, be ready for your duty.
Vampiric embrace should be called out by one of your healers, as the damage on the ships can be quite high.
Refresh dots on the boss right before they swap, they keep ticking.
In Phase 2 always keep dots on both the boss and Energized storm adds. You will also want to switch to and fully focus on the sirens every time they spawn. Dots will do the rest.
When 2 Energized storm adds are active and stacked on top of each other, void bolt them instead of the boss, preventing multiple globals being needed to reapply the dots onto them.
Also on mythic difficulty make sure in Phase 2 to keep an eye out for people requiring Leap of Faith to save them from siren's tempting song.
If a siren spawns next to you, make sure you are aware early if it targets you. If it does you need to react fast as you have no possible way outside of another priest grips to survive. If positioning allows, as soon as you see it spawn run to the middle of the platform to be safe. To make it easier, in bigwigs you can emphasise an announcement for if the add is casting tempting song on you.
Lady Jaina ProudmooreSingle Target
Use single target Azerite traits.
You will gain more overall damage from running 3x Spiteful Apparitions, but the only real damage you need will be in last phase. All other damage is basically pad damage.
All of your utility is extremely valuable for this fight:
- Mass dispel: Ring of ice, we ran 4 priests to mass dispel everyone without dipping into fire. Even if you dip into fire you want to mass dispel after it in case people did not make it. Also after Phase 2 avalanche there will be ice spikes spawning. When these hit people they will be frozen, you can mass dispel this.
- Leap of faith: This can be very useful for people running out with avalanche, Siege breaker, Broadsides and the Hunter interrupting Jaina after the Wall of Ice. Grips are constantly used on this fight. You simply need the awareness and communication to use them to their full potential or to clutch a situation.
- Body and Soul: Extremely useful. You can use this on people who got hit by avalanche in Phase 1, from running first intermission to speeding up people who you see are slightly behind. With enough awareness you can do a lot with this talent.
- Vampiric Embrace: Has extreme use as people always are dropping low. For example at the Wall of Ice you want to always pop this. This allows healers to DPS as much as possible and Vampiric embrace will heal up the difference.
- Dispersion: The small shards that spawn from Phase 2 tank avalanche can be soaked with dispersion. Not needed, but if you end up popping it anyway to stay alive, you get a small additional raid benefit.
- Mind control: The Kul Tiran that spawn during Phase 1 can be mind controlled off the ship killing them instantly. Be careful that you don't Mind Control them MID fixate cast; during the Mind control they will run around for about 5 seconds, fixating during that is wasting your DPS potential.
Mind Controlling Phase One Adds
- When the adds spawn, you want to stun them instantly and run them off the boat with Mind control.
- What you can also do IF high voidform, is to wait slightly and stun the barrel cast (Set Charge) instead, this ability has a 20 second Cooldown. With this buffer you can finish your voidform and then run them off afterwards. This is more DPS effective BUT can cause annoying overlaps for you of other mechanics (Nova, Avalanche, Tank frontal, etc.), so do this at your own discretion.
- Sometimes the adds bug out, and will place the barrel mid air when they fly in. You can't prevent this barrel.
- As you sometimes have to mind control while gathering storm is stacking up. You will need an "escort" back towards the ship. As I mentioned its preferred unless high voidform stacks that you get the adds off the ship as soon as possible. You don't want to get frozen mid mind control.
- Make sure the mind control breaks of the adds dying. Even if they touch the smallest edge of the ship, they will run back up. Make sure they die mid mind control for safety.
Phase One
- Full dotting the frozen ballista is very useful DPS.
- There is no DPS check here, just make sure you are active with Leap of Faith / Mass dispels / mind controls / Power World: Shield.
You won't be great here. Your damage on the images will be quite low. Use your ranged interrupt (Silence) to avoid more balls of spawning. Shielding yourself and teammates in the back with body and soul to keep up with the group. Going into voidform here can be a good way to deal some damage to the images.
Phase 2
This phase has a lot of movement, paying attention to timers will minimize the DPS lose.
Void bolt on cooldown, Power World: Shield people and dotting with Shadow Word: Pain are important to keep doing while running inside voidform.
You are good for dealing with the barrels, but be careful of sudden spiteful damage. A general good rule is to dot a barrel up fully once and then check the HP before doing too much damage.
Phase 2 Barrels
- The first barrel you want to kill ASAP as its after the intermission so you single target it down.
- The second barrel will be killed during a fog of gathering blizzard (on Mythic difficulty), you want to make sure this barrel is low. At around 30% when the fog is incoming.
- The third barrel will be the slowest to kill, but needs to be switched to and killed fast when it has to die. The barrel will be broken quite a bit before it has to be used. Get it to around 50% when not needed, 30% before needing to be broken and then nuke it down when its time to use it.
Be careful with cooldowns in Phase 2:
- 2 minute cooldowns (fuse) should be used at the start. Don't pop them right before the wall or during the wall because you won't have them back during Phase 3 where it matters.
- 3 minute cooldowns should also be used at the start of Phase 2 and then saved for Phase 3 (NOT during Bloodlust).
Wall of Ice
- Before the wall we had to stop DPS to not push the boss during the fog of Gathering blizzard. As Method we made the agreement we would stop a bit earlier and have only the shadowpriest's continue DPS to maintain voidform. I always tried to enter the Wall of Ice intermission/phase with about 10-15 stacks of voidform.
- During the Wall of Ice you want to dot up the wall and move enough to be able to hit Jaina. DPS Jaina fully during the wall phase with bloodlust, do NOT use your 3 minute cooldowns.
- Stand max range of Jaina at all time. Right before the ice hits you, reapply dots on the boss, these will keep ticking on her while clearing the ice block of Nathanos. Whilst doing this just make sure you don't get frozen.
- While running back, quickly dot up the water elemental once whilst not being able to DPS Jaina.
Phase 3
- Void bolt will keep extending dots on the water elemental. Never reapply these manually unless there is no other option.
- A good time to reapply shadow word: pain on the water elemental would be while you are running around for mechanics. Running inside the orb of frost, away with heart of frost or broadsides.
- Make sure you do not prioritise it over voidbolting, shielding yourself for movement speed or reapplying dots on Jaina.
- Make sure you of course have all your cooldowns going into this phase.
- Be stood on the marked player (tends to be the raid leader) when not having any mechanics.
- Do not ever dot up the Prismatic image, its useless damage.
- Be ready to interrupt the water elemental during the ray. Melees might have issues interrupting this specific one.
- When siege breaker comes in and your tactic is the same as ours, aka you die. Warlock gateway out, do NOT disperse as it will likely save you. You want to die BEFORE it goes off so it doesn't go off at all.


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ESMOD celebrates its class of 2019 and 30 years of Fashion Business
ESMOD Paris | France news
On Wednesday, June 26, the ESMOD group celebrated two major events on its premises at 30 avenue Jean Lolive in Pantin.
First, the graduating class of 2019 was highlighted through the annual fashion show, showwcasing the creations of students from the Fashion Designer (State accredited Diploma Level II) and Creative Director (State Accredited Diploma Level I) programs. This fun 90's themes fashion show followed the showrooms and judging panels of June 4, 5 and 6, during which industry professionals judged the collections of future graduates and commended their favorites.
This fashion show was also an opportunity to highlight the strong link that unites creation and business in the field of fashion and for which ESMOD created in 1989 a dedicated school: ISEM. For 30 years now, ESMOD's business school has been training its students to meet the demands of a constantly evolving market, with state-level Tier II qualifications: Head of Commercial and Communication In Fashion Industry, and state-level Tier I: Manager of International Development in Fashion and Luxury Industry.
Always focused on innovation, like its founder Alexis Lavigne, the school offered its guests an experience in "augmented reality" tracing 30 years of Fashion Business in the ESMOD group. This evening has revived the trends of the 90s through the art of Voguing (Hip Hop Community), skate boarding and a remix of the greatest hits of the era (DJ Walkman), in the presence of previous years' graduates that were able to see the new premises of the school in Pantin, inaugurated in April 2018.
The graduation ceremony for Fashion Design was held at rue de la Rochefoucauld on June 28th. The students that were awarded prizes for their collections were announced at this event:
Gwendoline CORREIRA
Maxime LEDIEU
Maria Claudia ALVA DIAZ
Maxime BARDET
Petya SHOPOVA
Womenswear/ Knitwear
Capucine BONFANTE
Noémie LAURENT
Camille DELAHAYE
Thibault DESCAMPS
Auriane ETHUIN
Ryosuke MATSUURA
Siling CHEN
Andrea EPALLE
Alice FAUROUX
Grégoire MATOUT
Luxury Couture
Seitaro TAMURA
Yuka UCHIYAMA
Stanislas VANDENBERGE
Traditional Couture
Aymeric BOSSION
Tianying HUANG
Sara JUPILLE
Mathilde DRUJON
Mathilde DUPONT
Camille FOUILLIT
Children's wear
Chloé BOULAN
Romain CHAHMIRIAN
Julia NAVA GUTIERREZ
Costume design
Isabelle FUSZ
Ayaka TSUKUDA
4th year
Kaiwen XUE
Nadim NEMR
Golden Needle (aiguille d'or) awarded this year to :
Dgena MOUCLIER (Menswear)
LECTRA Prize :
LECTRA Modaris Expert :
Mélanie KOTIAN
Sibyle AMACKER
Océane Mallet
LECTRA Modaris Expert 3D :
Yi ZOU
Céline VACHEYROUX
Léa MARCEL (1er Prix)
PFFAF Prize :
Camille Fouillit


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Plenty of hate in the world today. Plenty of violence. The world needs God's love. But what does that mean?
How do you know when you are in the presence of love? Is it a feeling? A state of being?
The Bible, via the ever-direct Apostle Paul, devotes an entire chapter to the subject – and it's tough:
- It is patient (very patient)
- It is not possessive or competitive (is generous)
- It is not rude (or bitter or contemptuous)
- It bears all things (endures wrongs and doesn't share them with others)
- It believes all things (is not cynical)
- It hopes all things (stays positive)
- And it endures all things (resists the temptation to return evil for evil).
It governs its thoughts. But what is it exactly?
Fact is, we only know we are in the presence of love when we see it in action. Feelings of love without the expression of love are lifeless and powerless.
In his book, Love Does, Bob Goff writes:
I used to think being a believer was enough, but now I know Jesus wants us to participate, no matter what condition we're in.
Love acts. It reaches out. It does not refrain from doing good.
God so loved the world that He gave and loved and gave and loved. Here are a few more thoughts from Goff's book:
- Love is the strongest sustaining power in the universe. We can rest in the knowledge of God's love for us.
- Love is the strongest resisting power. When we are preoccupied with the work of love, temptation has far less effect on us.
- Love is the strongest attracting power. Few human beings can resist the power of God's love generously shared by His people.
As Christians we are children of God and, therefore, children of love. It is our ministry in the world. And families, in the way they conduct themselves toward one another in the home, are to be the incubator of its work.
No need to delay getting on with the business of love. Who knows what God is waiting to do through us in this broken world.
What could love be doing through you today?


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