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I get asked a lot how I manage to do everything I do and still survive the day. Last week, I briefly touched on balance and how I no longer strive to achieve that notion…which is honestly half the battle in me doing as much as I do. If you didn't see that post you can find it here and then come back for this edition of "Alecia's Freaking Crazy Life." 😉
So today I wanted to a day in the life in hope you'll see how I manage to get things done, show that my life is far from perfect and that my doing it all doesn't look pretty or glamorous but it works perfectly for our family.
My day starts at about 5:00 – which is really code for my alarm goes off at 5. I have all of these dreams and aspirations of actually getting up that early and getting some much needed alone time buuuuttt I hit the snooze. Some day I really will break this habit. At 6 Jared's alarm goes off and that's when I realize I'm a complete failure cause I didn't wake up at 5 and figure the whole day is shot anyways soooo might as well sleep some more. Jared doesn't help the matter cause he also presses snooze. Woops! So really my day starts at about 6:30, if I'm being completely honest.
Mornings are interesting, for lack of a better word. The older two feed themselves, since my dreams of being Betty Crocker were shot a long time ago. I make me a morning shake, cram a bottle down the babies throat, throw some milk and nourishment (usually a banana and breakfast bar) at the toddler and then park my groggy butt on the couch to catch up on the news. I also spend this time catching up on social media, doing a morning post and catching up on business e-mails. Because I'm trying to balance a phone, a bottle and my shake – half of those things end up on the front of my shirt because – I'm a disaster in real life.
Note: I will refer to social media a lot in this post but I just want to clarify that both of my businesses require a lot of social media presence, marketing and networking soooo don't think I'm just leisurely catching up on what people had for dinner. Alas, those days are over.
Once everyone is fed I have to then go around picking up the toddler's banana peels he has left all over the house, sweep up crumbs from the breakfast bar (I swore I would never give to him again because of said crumbs) and wipe up the yogurt mess my older two have created on the kitchen table. I don't know what it is with my boys and eating but I swear they finger paint with their yogurt instead of eating it. Ugh. I then turn on cartoons for the toddler who is now demon possessed at this time because he is upset his brothers left for school and needs to have food for comfort, which mom doesn't allow. I stick the baby in the walker, which is also pointless since he will just scoot himself against a wall and then wail he isn't going anywhere. This literally happens every 60 seconds. I run to the bathroom and attempt to get ready for the day, all while running back into the living room every 2 minutes to get the baby pulled away from the wall. Ladies, never say you don't have time to apply makeup. It's a miracle how fast you can slap that stuff on your face. BAM!
During my makeup and hair routine I'll listen to some "personal development" or "teachings" on youtube. This consists of all sorts of things from Oprah's Life Classes to her Super Soul Sunday episodes, or I'll type in one of my favorite authors and listen to their TED talks or interviews with them, I'll listen to something by Esther Hicks or Brene Brown or I'll even type in my favorite athletes and listen to interviews or speeches they have given about how they got to where they are today. Really anything goes. This has been a huge part of my morning since the beginning of the year. As a businesswoman who is always looking to grow and improve not only in business but as a person this has been a great way to start my morning. I'm also killing two birds with one stone so that's a key.
Jared has usually gone down for work in the garage at this point so time to start the day. Boden naps around 9:00 so I put him down and while rocking him will catch up on more e-mails and plan out my must do's for the day. I run two businesses, so depending on the day, one will get more focus than the other. For example, on the days we ship products, I have to focus more on our woodworking business than on my fitness business. So anyways, planning is key. After Boden is down I throw laundry in and clean the kitchen (if I didn't do it the night before). Gavin sits at the table and colors or plays with stickers that he sticks on every surface he can find. I also realize I was never going to give him stickers again when I spend the next half hour peeling them off the walls, furniture and out of his hair. By this point he usually needs a snack, cause he ALWAYS needs a snack, so I give him some crackers and sit down at the table with him and we chat. I usually really need to be starting on work at this point but I also know he needs some undivided attention so I take that 15 minutes to give him some. After our chat about what his friends on Sesame Street are up to he runs off to play with his trucks and cars and I head downstairs to ship products before the mailman gets here. It's always a race to get everything packaged and ready before noon. It's like morning mayhem where I am usually covered in bubble wrap, tape and have likely stepped on 4 screws by the time the whole thing is over. Seriously, I should wear shoes.
Once all of that is over it's lunch time for all people. I swear every time I turn around it's time to eat. Boden has usually woken up about 3/4 of my way through packaging and has been crying in his crib. This is where it gets real cause guys I do let my kids cry. Look, I don't like it but honestly when you have this many kids you're just used to it and it's OKAY if they cry. If I went running in there every time my kids cried I would literally be at one of their sides 24/7. Not realistic. So he fusses a bit, I finish and then I rescue him from his room. When the toddler sees me getting out the bib and baby food to feed Boden he then throws a massive fit because he knows lunch will be slightly delayed. Oh the HORROR!!! Thankfully, the baby beast eats like he is in a food competition. I mean for real I can't even scoop the stuff fast enough. After clean up the Gavin man gets fed, Jared gets fed and I get a moment to inhale some food. I also spend lunch (after Gavin and Jared are done) checking e-mails again, doing another post and catching up on anything from the morning.
Gavin takes a nap around 12:45-1 and if I'm lucky I can get Boden down for another nap around that time. This is when I workout (thank God it's only 30 minutes) do my blogs, print off labels and stuff for the next days shipments, catch up on social media, fix the boys' lunch for the next day and have a little coffee break with the hubs. 9/10 times Boden wakes up as soon as my coffee is made and decides he really needs my attention. So he typically joins us for coffee but if not it's a great midday catch up with my favorite guy in the house before we go back to work. The afternoon is spent playing with the kiddos, taking pictures, cleaning and dinner prep.
The kids get home around 4:45 and dinner has to be on the table within 15 minutes, otherwise, starvation is sure to happen. This is also begins the time that Gavin starts his screaming. He is so excited the boys are home but also needs to control them and have them submit to his will that really it all just means screaming. Ugh my ears!!! We sit down to eat (which is filled with bribery, dodging thrown food, begging the toddler to stop screaming and telling the older two to sit down on their butts and eat). I then clean up the disaster of the kitchen, the boys do chores and we will then have some family time. Family time includes playing outside, watching a movie, games, reading or some nights it's just staring at each other since we are all so exhausted. Literally, we sit and stare. hahaha! We also spend several evenings watching the kids destroy every inch of the living room with paper airplanes, cars, toys, swords, crayons, glue and stickers….God, more stickers!!!! I typically shut my eyes and pretend it's not happening and that I have 4 girls that sit around and play barbies, quietly in their room. Sigh.
Someone always gets hurt between the hours of 5:30 and 8. An eye is poked, an ankle is twisted, someone has a paper cut, an earlobe is sore…YES, I said earlobe. (Insert eye roll) The list goes on and on. I 100% ignore all cries of pain, literally. My famous line is "unless there is blood or a bone sticking out I don't care." I know what you're thinking "My lands, did she just say that? How heartless." Trust me, they're fine. I promise. Boys are an occupational hazard. The quicker you accept that the sooner you'll survive.
Boden goes to bed around 6:30-7 and depending on the night this can take 30 minutes or an hour. He no longer likes to be held in a cradled position so he always is on my shoulder staring at the back of the rocking chair, which means he is drooling and or spitting up all down my back. Yummy! So because I can no longer stare into his sweet eyes I finish up any e-mails, social media and other things I need to do electronically. All the other minions go to bed at 8 and 3-4 nights a week me and Jared head back down to the garage to finish up the displays that need to be shipped the next day. We call this a "hooker party" since it involves screwing, drilling and straightening an astronomical amount of hooks. We play music, chit-chat, go over our status of where we are at in the week with orders and such, make smoochy faces at each other and I'm not gonna lie there is a lot of butt slapping. (Hey, just keeping it real)
10:00 rolls around and we are usually finishing up so head upstairs to watch the news and sit in peace for a blissful few minutes. The rest of the night is pretty much spent in a state of delirium, coming in and out of consciousness since even breathing at that point is just plain exhausting. I mean running businesses and wrangling kids is no joke but it can be done.
To be completely fair I now have help that comes 3 mornings a week to help me wrangle my crazy and catch up on some errands/work. So this has helped tremendously! So please don't be fooled that my life is perfect or filled with leisurely afternoons watching Dr Phil. Quite the contrary, but honestly it really is perfect in every way. I don't say that because "I'm supposed to say that." I say that because it really is true and I'm sooooooo soooooo soooooo grateful we have created this life for ourselves. It's not a normal life, it's not a typical life but it's ours and we love every single part of it.


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Crappy Little Dreams is a movie that follows me, Craig Flipy, on two weird Sasquatch expeditions ten years apart. In 2005 I filmed my moped trip from Southern California to the Olympic Peninsula in search of bigfoot. Ten years later and after the birth of my first child I got on the moped again to relive my original journey and ask the question; Why do I keep chasing such crappy dreams?
But Crappy Little Dreams is more than just a road trip movie. It's a family saga that features footage from my childhood. It's a 90s memoir, featuring footage from my "Time to Destroy" period in NYC and LA, and it's a look inside the culture of bigfooting, with interviews with inspirational/shocking/titillating weirdos I meet up with along the way. This is a unique production but in a lot of ways, my story is universal. Lots of people come to a point in their lives when they have to decide if it's worth the sacrifice to follow their passion when they don't know where it will lead them.
This movie has been decades in the making, I want to share my story in hopes that it inspires others. Everyone has crappy little dreams, but not everyone is stupid enough to live them.
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Credit Scoring Models: Missing Information and the Use of Data from a Credit Register
We study the problem arising from the lack of information on some debtors' behavior in the databases used to develop credit scoring models, and the use of the behavioral information stored at a Credit Register as a potential solution to the problem. To this purpose, we use yearly information provided by the "Central de Deudores del Sistema Financiero" (Credit Register) of the Argentine Central Bank. A limitation of this Register is the removal of a significant number of debtors, on a regular and widespread basis, without recording the reasons for such removal, which may be due to two opposite situations: debt cancellation or default (and the decision by the bank not to continue with the collection procedures). The goal of this paper is not to model the process of missing data, but to focus on: (i) estimating the risk of the removed debtors and (ii) taking advantage of the additional behavioral information of other creditor institutions –recorded in the Credit Register– so as to estimate the risk mentioned in (i) and improve the prediction of the score. In this way, we can also assess the impact of not considering this missing information when the portfolios' risk of credit institutions is assessed. The main strategy consists in using the behavioral data of other entities and comparing the results provided by three methods: 1) ignoring the records with missing data (listwise deletion), 2) using direct imputation (i.e., in the case of missing information, imputing to behavior the value applicable to the worst behavior of that particular debtor in the system) and 3) using a fractionally weighted imputation method. The paper proves that the commonly-used procedure of removing from the sample the debtors that are no longer in the database, when the reasons behind their disappearance are unknown and cannot be modeled, is not innocuous. The bias that may be introduced is difficult to correct and, even when a correction is attempted, its accuracy cannot be known for certain. Therefore, we underline the importance of making sure that the design of credit risk databases rules out any "holes" that might hinder the follow-up of individuals. In addition, the comparison among the different methods being explored seems to indicate conclusively that the risk is overestimated when direct imputation of behavior is applied, using the worst status observed in other institutions. The model that appears to be more precise is the so-called "fractionally weighted multiple imputation" model, whereby the behavioral information of the Credit Register is used in an imputation model using a logit regression. This approach is innovative in scoring literature and apparently preferable to direct imputation. However, we cannot be conclusive regarding the convenience of using it in all cases. In particular, the analysis of the Argentine "Central de Deudores" suggests that a calibration adjustment to a simpler model using the listwise deletion method may solve an important part of these deficiencies. But this conclusion will depend on the case and the period under analysis. The specific data used in this study refer to an exceptionally good period in the domestic default rates. In addition, as in previous studies, there is evidence that the outcomes from scoring models developed on the basis of public credit information are very good, despite the limited selection of explanatory variables. The results of this study are of interest to the banking industry, supervisors and researchers, since it is common practice to develop models from a sample where a group of debtors has been removed because their information is incomplete, is of poor quality, or shows other deficiencies.
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Volume (Year): 1 (2009)
Issue (Month): 56 (October - December)
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BBC 3 Counties Radio visited Knebworth House recently, to interview Henry about his personal memories of our concert history. The radio interview is available to listen again via their website.
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The wives of three prominent hedge fund managers are among the victims of a raft of jewelry thefts at one of the world's most exclusive addresses.
Millennium Management founder Israel Englander's wife Caryl, Level Global Investors co-founder David Ganek's wife Danielle, and former Bernard Madoff feeder fund manager J. Ezra Merkin's wife Lauren all lost valuables in the scam, in which more than $250,000 in jewelry was lost, the New York Post reports. The thefts occurred at the three couples' apartments in 740 Park Avenue, which has been dubbed "the world's richest apartment building."
Law enforcement officials believe the thefts, which occurred between May 30 and July 4, while the victims were out of town, were inside jobs.
"It's a very secure building," a law-enforcement source told the Post. "No one is going to just walk in and gain access to these apartments."
The police have questioned one worker at the building, who has since been fired, but didn't have enough evidence to make an arrest and did not recover any of the stolen items.
The Ganeks appear to be the hardest hit, losing some $100,000 in items, including diamond earrings and two Patek Philippe watches. Lauren Merkin is out tens of thousands of dollars' worth of jewelry as well, including a $47,000 diamond necklace, diamond earrings, a watch and two wedding bands. And Caryl Englander saw a $7,500 watch stolen.
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Amelia Carolina Sparavigna (Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino)
Published in compu.philica.com
AbstractHere we apply the Retinex tool of GIMP software for filtering the digital images of the masterpieces of an artist that used the Chiaroscuro, a strong tonal contrast between light and dark, in his painting technique. In particular, we use the GIMP Retinex for some works of Gerrit van Honthorst, known in Italy as Gherardo delle Notti. The filter allows the vision of significant details in the shadows of the images.
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GIMP Retinex filter applied to arts: Gerrit van Honthorst and his Chiaroscuro
Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
Politecnico di Torino
Abstract: Here we apply the Retinex tool of GIMP software for filtering the digital images of the masterpieces of an artist that used the Chiaroscuro, a strong tonal contrast between light and dark, in his painting technique. In particular, we use the GIMP Retinex for some works of Gerrit van Honthorst, known in Italy as Gherardo delle Notti. The filter allows the vision of significant details in the shadows of the images.
Keywords: Image processing, Retinex filtering, GIMP, Chiaroscuro, Arts
It is true that only a direct vision makes us appreciate the masterpieces of artists. However, when for several reasons this is impossible to achieve, we can use the resources that the web is giving us through its huge gallery of images, to see and study the works of artists.
Among painters, many used the technique of Chiaroscuro, characterized by a strong tonal contrast between light and dark, and able to give a dramatic effect to the scenes depicted in their works [1]. Great masters of Chiaroscuro are Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, and Rembrandt. In fact, Caravaggio was the crucial artist for a further development of this painting technique. In his works, he used a very pronounced Chiaroscuro, characterized by spotlight effects [2]: it is the Tenebrism technique, which was popular during the Baroque period [3].
Sometimes, the digital images of masterpieces made in a very pronounced Chiaroscuro are not able to give us all the beauty of the original works. Moreover, it is hard to appreciate all the contents that the artist had included in the painting, contents that can have some symbolic intent too. For appreciate the details in the digital images, we can try to filter them by some tools of image processing. Here we show the use of the Retinex filter; the reason for this choice is in the specificity of the Retinex approach.
Retinex filters - among them we have that provided by GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program – had been developed to reproduce the mechanisms of the human vision, according to experimental observations. In fact, experiments are showing that it is easy to find discrepancies between an image recorded by a camera and the directly observed scene. The reason is that humans are able to see details both in the shadows and in the nearby illuminated areas, whereas a photograph of the same scene is showing either the shadows as too dark or the bright areas as overexposed [4]. Actually, the human vision possesses peculiar features concerning colors, brightness and contrast, which are quite different from those of recording devices [5,6]. Retinex filters are therefore used to adjust the digital images to mimic a direct observation of a scene.
The first Retinex algorithms for image processing had been proposed by Edwin H. Land, an American scientist and inventor best known as co-founder of Polaroid Corporation [7-11]. Through the years, Land evolved several models until his last one proposed in 1986 [4]. Even the term "retinex" was coined by Land himself, combining the words "retina" and "cortex", to indicate that the human vision is involving processes ranging from the retina to the cerebral cortex. Today, different Retinex approaches exist [6,12]: the single-scale Retinex (SSR), the multiscale Retinex (MSR), and, for color images, the MultiScale Retinex with Color Restoration (MSRCR).
Among the MSRCR filters we find the GIMP Retinex, a freely available tool developed by Fabien Pelisson [13]. This tool is easy to use. The resulting image can be adjusted selecting different levels, scales and dynamics. The "levels" are three: "uniform", which tends to treat both low and high intensity areas fairly, "low" that "flares up" the lower intensity areas on the image, and "high" that tends to "bury" the lower intensity areas in favor of a better rendering of the clearer areas of the image. The "scale" determines the depth of the Retinex scale. Minimum value is 16, a value providing gross, unrefined filtering. Maximum value is 250. Optimal and default value is 240. A "scale division" determines the number of iterations in the multiscale Retinex filter. The minimum required and recommended value is three. The "dynamic" slider allows to adjust the color saturation contamination around the new average colour (default value is 1,2). In some previous papers, we have proposed the use of GIMP Retinex for several applications and evaluated it by means of the image entropy [14-20].
In the following examples we will filter some Chiaroscuro masterpieces using uniform level, scale 240, scale division five and dynamic slider on 1,2. The artist whose works we use is Gerrit van Honthorst.
Gerrit van Honthorst was a Dutch Golden Age painter, who became especially noted for his depiction of artificially lit scenes. He received the nickname Gherardo delle Notti in Italy [21]. Early in his career he visited Rome, where he had great success painting in a style influenced by Caravaggio. He was much employed by the prince Giustiniani, for whom he painted one of his finest works: St. Peter delivered from prison and Christ before the High Priest. Honthorst visited England, soon after his return from Italy. On leaving England he settled at the Hague, and was taken into the employment of the Prince of Orange [21].
The first proposed example of the use of Retinex is exactly the "St. Peter Being Freed from Prison", 1616-1618, Berlin State Museums. In the Figure 1, we see the original image on the left (it is that we find in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_van_Honthorst on January 18, 2017). On the right, we see the image processed by the GIMP Retinex filter, with the values of the parameters chosen as previously told. In the Figure 2, we see the result we can obtain by combining the original image and the filtered image of the Figure 1.
Figure 1: "St. Peter Being Freed from Prison". Original image on the left; on the right, the output of the GIMP Retinex filter.
Figure 2: The result of the superposition of the two previous images. Note the chains on the wall behind St. Peter.
As we can see in the Figure 1, the Retinex filter allows seeing the details in the shadows of the image. In fact, a direct vision of this painting can show them, but the digital reproduction needs an adjustment to mimic the direct vision. In order to have a more natural reproduction, the best seems to be the use of the original image and of the filtered image as two layers combined into a single image. This is what is shown in the Figure 2. In it, such as in the filtered image, we can see the chains on the wall behind St. Peter. Let us stress that the subject of the painting is the liberation of St. Peter, an event described in the Acts of the Apostles, in which the Saint is rescued from prison by an angel. "Acts 12:3–19 says that Peter was put into prison by King Herod, but the night before his trial an angel appeared to him, and told him to leave. Peter's chains fell off, and he followed the angel out of prison, thinking it was a vision (verse 9)" [22]. Then, the chains are a significant element in the work painted by Gerritt van Honthorst.
Here some other examples. In the following figures (Figs. 3-6), we see, on the left, the original digital image that we find in Wikipedia and, on the right, the image we obtain combining the original and the filtered image (as in the example shown in the Figure 2).
Figure 3: Adoration of the Child. On the left the Wikipedia image and, on the right, the image we obtain combining it with the output of the Retinex filter. Note the wings of the angels.
The Adoration of the Child is a 1619-1621 oil on canvas. It is in the collection of the Uffizi in Florence. The painting shows Mary laying the Child in white clothes. Joseph is looking over her shoulder and two angels are leaning over the crib. In the image, we see that the Child is the light source, as shown by the faces of the characters. The same happens in the Figure 4.
Figure 4: Adoration of the Shepherds, 1622, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. On the left the original image and, on the right, the combined image. Note the presence of the animals.
Figure 5: The Denial of Saint Peter, c. 1620. On the left the Wikipedia image and, on the right, the combined image. Two light sources are present in this work, creating two scenes in the same painting.
Figure 7: Christ before the High Priest, 1617, National Gallery, London. Note the soldiers in the background.
Let us conclude showing two other examples, where the artist represented two moments of the passion of Jesus Christ. The first shows Christ before the High Priest (Figure 7), and the second shows the Mocking of Christ (Figure 8).
In this last example, the painter represented Christ mocked by soldiers. One of them is pushing a crown of thorns on his head; another one has a fork or fire iron that he is pushing into Jesus' right hand as a scepter. As told in [23], the Chiaroscuro "illuminates Christ and casts the mockers in shadow; one soldier throws up his hand to hide the light of the flame from his face, bringing Jesus' words in John 3 to mind". That is, John 3:19, Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. [23] continues telling that "the most mesmerizing moment in the painting is the contrast in the behaviors and expressions of the central Roman soldier and Christ", the soldier whose laughing face is illuminated by the torch.
In the examples we have here proposed, the original images are very good examples of the Chiaroscuro technique, but do not allow the vision of all the characters and details that the artist collected in his work. A Retinex filtered image, combined with the original one, shows us the true scene that the artist had depicted. This helps us in understanding the subject of the work and the symbolism the artist used in it.
[1] Glossary of the National Gallery, https:// www.nationalgallery.org.uk/ paintings/ glossary/chiaroscuro
[2] Fichner-Rathus, L. (2011). Foundations of Art and Design: An Enhanced Media Edition. Cengage Learning. ISBN 1-111-77145-6.
[3] Warwick, G. (2006). Caravaggio: Realism, Rebellion, Reception, University of Delaware Press, 2006
[4] Barnard, K., & Funt, B. (1999). Investigations into multi-scale Retinex, in Colour Imaging: Vision and Technology, L. MacDonald, Ed. and M. Ronnier Luo. Ed., John Wiley and Sons, pp. 9-17. ISBN: 978-0-471-98531-0
[5] Zhixi Bian, & Yan Zhang (2002). Retinex image enhancement techniques: Algorithm, application and advantages, EE264 final project report for Image Processing and Reconstruction.
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Almost a month has gone by since Kim Kardashian was robbed at gun point. At the time her bodyguard Pascal was guarding her sisters at a night club, so he was not present to save her.
Now we are hearing that he has been let go.
Kim and Kanye fired Pascal Duvier who has worked for them since 2012 in an effort to reshape their security team. One source says, "Pascal along with a couple other security members of their team we let go." That same source told Entertainment Tonight, "It's a pretty tough situation overall and while they love Pascal they couldn't take any chances."
Kim does not blame Pascal for the robbery, but said it did inspire them to rethink their entire security detail. Now TMZ says they have at least two armed former secret service members taking care of them.
Some people say Pascal's past might have played a part in him being fired. The Daily Mail reports his ex-wife had filed a restraining order against him for allegedly assaulting her to the point that she passed out. That incident reportedly happened three years ago, but just recently Pascal filed for bankruptcy for his high-profile security company.


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Great article by John Bardos. I am reposting it here as it appears on Jet Set Citizen
If you are reading this blog post, I think it's safe to say that you are from a wealthy country and are probably looking to find more meaning and fulfillment in life. Finding purpose and a way to contribute to the world has certainly become the predominant focus of my life. The problem is that I still don't know what that really means.
What are we trying to maximize?
Imagine that life were a quest to be the best we could be. What would we be trying to maximize?
Despite our actions, I would say that we are not trying to maximize such factors as:
- number of hours of television watched
- hour spent behind a desk in a cubicle
- number of Tweets or Facebook updates
- how fat we can get
- total trash produced
- volume of fossil fuels consumed
- the size of our house
- the speed of our cars
- the number of stamps in our passports
- the number of marathons we run
Those kinds of metrics seem somewhat foolish to mention as ultimate goals of being a good human, yet those types of activities end up taking a massive amount of our attention. Why is that?
What are Good Factors to Measure?
In our productivity focused age of 'what gets measured, gets managed' there must be valuable activities to measure our effectiveness at being good humans. I don't have all the answers but I would suggest that some of them might be:
- hours spent with family and friends
- number of healthy meals eaten per day
- days with adequate exercise
- time spent learning foreign languages or a musical instrument
- volunteer hours
- contribution to the most disadvantaged in the world
- time spent in artistic or cultural activities
- time spent on meditative activities like gardening or yoga
- number of personal development books read
Don't activities like that make more sense to maximize than the first group?
We are still Cave Men
No matter how evolved we pretend to be as humans, we are still fundamentally driven by animal desires. We have strong biological tendencies designed to make us procreate and protect our offspring. Basically, we are preoccupied with sex and it makes sense. If we don't have children, we die as a species.
In humans, these biological signalling traits get expressed through our consumption and experiences. We try to impress potential mates and intimidate potential competitors, real or imagined, by what we buy and do.
It's the reason why women buy expensive high heel shoes and young men tend to do dangerous activities like driving fast or adventure sports.
Buying an expensive car or wearing fancy clothes shows we have the resources to take care of offspring.
Running marathons and climbing mountains is an indicator of the quality of our genes.
We see it in all the advertisements around us. Men buy cologne, cars, watches and certain brands of beer to pick up beautiful women.
Women buy perfume, clothing and jewelry to attract men.
Sex sells.
Even after we are married or older, when there is little need to impress the opposite sex, these signaling traits still dominate our lives. Think of middle aged men buying big motorcycles or older women buying expensive purses.
The worst part, is that much of our consumption doesn't matter or is counter-productive to our sexual desires. Do men really care if your high heels cost $50 or $500? Is your beer drinking going to make you more attractive to women?
Conspicuous consumption of goods or activities no longer serve a biological purpose, yet as a species, we still can't stop. Our wants seem insatiable. No matter how much we have, it's never enough.
Does Contribution Make us Better Humans
With all the suffering and poverty on this planet, I can't help but thinking that contribution should be the ultimate goal of being a good human. Why should people go without food, water, education and basic human dignity when there is so much wealth in this world?
We could provide clean drinking water to everyone on this planet for as little as $20 billion dollars. That's less than two weeks of US military spending. Shouldn't clean drink water for everyone on the planet be one of our primary goals?
Shouldn't we all be striving to lessen the suffering of the most disadvantaged? For the price of a cable TV bill, each of us could provide permanent clean drink water for 5 people. Or, we could send 3 or 4 girls to school in the developing world.
Aren't sacrifices like that a better measure of the quality of human beings we are?
I'll Give More When I'm Richer
In every conversation I have on this topic, I hear something to the effect of "I'll give more when I earn more. I have to provide for myself first."
That's a fair argument. If you can't provide food and shelter for your family, you definitely don't have enough to give to strangers on the other side of the world.
The problem with that argument is that there is no income level when we have enough for ourselves. We all suffer from lifestyle inflation, in that our consumption almost always rises to meet increases in our incomes, and then some.
Imagine if you are making $100,000 per year and you are just getting by. You have a big mortgage to pay. Payments on two cars. You just bought that vacation home and a new boat. Life is rough and you are strapped for cash, as always, so you contribute about the average in the developed world, 2% or less of your income.
What happens if you suddenly start making one million dollars per year after tax. At ten times the income, are you likely to give the surplus of $900,000 to social causes? Not very likely. If you are the average person, you'll still contribute around 2% per year. Your consumption will massively increase and you'll probably save and invest a lot more money, but it's unlikely you'll donate much more. Why is that?
If we are relatively wealthy globally speaking (close to 2 billion people still live on less than $2 per day) and living comfortably, why don't we give 25% or 50% of our incomes to the poorest in the world. Is a dinner out with our family, worth more than the total monthly living expenses of a family in the most impoverished countries?
These are difficult issues for me to reconcile. I've had monthly living expenses ranging from $1000 to $5000 per month. Having more money to spend, didn't make me want to contribute more on a percentage basis. More money, just encouraged me to spend more on selfish pursuits. That is a big reason why my wife and I decided to give up on most of our possessions. More consumption was not making us better humans, in fact the opposite was happening. We got lazier, watched more TV, exercised less and ate more unhealthy food.
Why do Humans Keep Making the Wrong Choices
We all know that our preoccupation with economic growth is burning too much fossil fuels, cutting down too many trees, over-fishing our oceans, making wildlife extinct and millions of other problems, yet very few of us are altering how we live our lives.
- I like to travel, even though I know air travel is incredibly destructive to the planet.
- I want to buy new electronics, while knowing that underpaid workers on the other side of the world are committing suicide in factories making those components.
- I choose to buy inexpensive clothing even though workers, often children, in countries like Bangladesh have died to keep costs low.
Our everyday decisions, my everyday decisions, have an impact on this one and only planet we inhabit.
We may not think about it very often, but I think we all know that how we live is destructive, yet as a whole, we are not really altering our lifestyles. We continue to consume, pollute and waste more every year. In fact, the health of our countries is measured primarily by economic growth. We don't seem to value any other measures.
It really doesn't make sense to me.
Isn't there a better way?
What if the smartest people in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street dedicated their lives to solving the world's most pressing social problems? We don't need more iPhone games or financial derivatives. Sure those things make more money than providing education and food to the poorest in the world, but is making lots of money on socially useless businesses really the best that humans are capable of?
What if more of us focused on making the biggest contribution we could?
- Instead of watching TV every night, we could volunteer our time.
- Instead of buying that new SUV, we could decide to bicycle more and use public transportation.
- Instead of short weekend vacations to Las Vegas or Mexico, we could spend time in our communities.
Wouldn't those types of activities make us better humans?
Our excessive consumption has made us fat, lazy and stupid. If consumption doesn't make us better humans, what does?
Special thanks to Chris Kirkland of HoboCEO and ArtWeb for having these crazy conversations with me.


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Gaddafi digs in for last stand as rebel advance grinds to a halt
The lightning rebel advance which drove back Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's forces over the weekend was stalled 60 miles from his birthplace of Sirte last night.
The ragtag wave of militia which had earlier swept onward with the aid of Nato air strikes, ran into stiffer opposition as it approached his family and military stronghold.
Nato, which is now in charge of the coalition action, was forced to deny its air strikes were being used as cover for the advancing rebels.
Reports last night suggested that the US Air Force has been using heavy bombers to pummel Libyan armoured forces.
Lt Gen Charles Bouchard of Canada, its commander for Libya, said the goal of air strikes was simply to "protect and help the civilians and population centres under the threat of attack".
Coalition strikes continued on government targets yesterday. The Ministry of Defence confirmed that British Tornados had destroyed ammunition bunkers in the Sebha area of the southern desert. The French said that aircraft had struck a military command centre south of the capital, Tripoli.
While Gaddafi's troops abandoned the towns of Ajdabiya and Ras Lanuf with barely a shot fired, they showed no sign of fleeing Sirte so quickly.
A fluid front formed on the highway around 20 miles east of Bin Jawad as the now skittish rebels scouted forward, hoping Gaddafi loyalists would fall back as before. But with each hesitant advance, the convoys of pick-up trucks soon sped back recklessly amid rumours of enemy tanks, or snipers and minefields.
"We are worried about what is up ahead," said Abdullah Mohammad, a 35-year-old from Benghazi. "Some of those houses are full of Gaddafi loyalists and they are shooting at us as we pass."
The day began with false rebel reports that Sirte had fallen, leaving the road open to Tripoli, the capital. Nearer the front, it became clear the militia had only managed to travel a few dozen miles in 24 hours.
"God willing we will take Sirte this evening", said one rebel unconvincingly, setting off a chant of "Tonight! Tonight!" from his comrades.
But their enthusiasm failed to translate into progress along the narrow strip of tarmac which has become the main battlefield. Further NATO air strikes were critical, the rebels said. They said they were unable to deal with Col Gaddafi's armour. The advance was further hampered by a chronic shortage of petrol.
Cars and trucks queued 20 or 30 deep at pumps.
Lack of electricity meant that the remaining petrol had to be drawn by hand in water bottles dangled on string.
Rebel leaders claim to be pumping thousands of barrels of oil in their captured refinery at Ras Lanuf, but it was deserted yesterday. "There's petrol, but there is no electricity, so we cannot get it out," said Sala Hamed. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister David Cameron will chair a conference on Libya today in London.
Forty foreign ministers and Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary-General, will attend the event in London, where Britain and France will call upon Col Muammar Gaddafi's supporters to "drop him before it is too late". (© Daily Telegraph, London)
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My Fiance' and I have been together for 2 and a half years. Just recently I started feeling like I'm holding onto him with bloody fingernails, some days. Other days, it's fine, but he's hiding things from me now, like e-mails and I'm finding them anyway. What's going on?
What should I look out for?
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Firstly, 17 is too young to be engaged.
Think about your situation now, and how long this kind of thing could go on after you are married before you get really unhappy. A guy who is going to be your husband hiding things from you is seriously bad news. Marriage is based on trust, understanding and mutual respect. If he is too immature to be completely open with you about everything that is going on in his life then you don't want to think about marrying him.
What's the point in holding on with your bloody fingernails? A good marriage should feel like a strong, sturdy rope holding you firmly onto the side of the boat in rough waters. Don't stop looking until you find it.00|00|0
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Well, if you two are the same age (under 18), then he may be curious to know what he may be missing out on because he has been with you. He may want to live a little.
If that is not the case, then you should talk with him about what he wants. Of course if you bring up the emails he will see you as a snoop and try to hide them from you even more. So, you have to have an open conversation about where you two are going in your relationship.
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Explore the exceptional facilities at many ESPA spas and how they help enhance your physical and emotional wellbeing.
Oversized beds for one or two people to relax on during their spa visit, usually suspended from ceiling height or secured on the ground.
Often used in between heat experience or to prepare for treatments, experience showers use different types of water flow, aromas, temperatures, pressure and lighting to enhance the senses.
Area dedicated to additional grooming and beauty treatments, such as manicures, pedicures and make-overs.
A workout area with the latest gym equipment, free weights and floor mats. Personal training pods are a more frequent feature within these gyms allowing for more private, personal training sessions.
With origins in the Middle East, 'Hamman' means 'you are being washed' and in this humid and warm treatment room guests experience a Hamman ritual, which combines heat and steam with pouring of free flowing water, plus massage with traditional black soap, body scrubs and masks.
Crushed ice is often used in between heat experiences to cool and revitalise the body, allowing for better penetration of heat into the systems of the body to help increase circulation and aid relaxation.
Also referred to as an exercise or swimming pool, lanes may be included to allow these guests who wish to swim to stay fit.
A mosaic or stone-clad room used privately or for a couple. Within the anteroom, guests apply therapeutic muds to face, body and hair before relaxing in the main dry heated chamber. Once the mud has dried, steam is released into the chamber at a temperature between 42-46°c with humidity set at 100%, where the mask becomes supple again. After the programmed time, the herbal steam will clear and guests will be doused in an overhead shower to gently wash away the mud and impurities from the skin.
Transforming relaxation into pure wellbeing, beds vary in size and material and are curved to shape the body for the highest level of comfort and tranquility.
Varying in size, shape and material, loungers are often shaped to fit the body contour and heated to ensure total rest and relaxation.
Using a dimly lit, quiet room including relaxation beds where guests can rest and relax before, in between or after treatments.
A Finnish tradition usually made from Hemlock wood or stone and heated to a temperature between 80-100°c with minimal humidity, this room creates a dry and intense heat to give a purifying effect on the body. Humidity can be periodically infused into the cabin via automatic infusion or by manually pouring water on to exposed hot rocks.
A private bed within a dark or dimly lit area or room where guests rest and relax in peaceful quiet before, in between or after treatments.
Most spas will offer a healthy selection of nutritious food and beverages. From restaurants, cafés and libraries, areas will vary from calm to social and active.
A mosaic or stone-clad finished room which is heated to a temperature between 42-46°c with humidity set at 100%. Periodically releasing steam infused with aromatherapy oils, a steam room helps to cleanse and detoxify the skin, relax the mind and body in preparation for treatments and can help with respiratory conditions.
Indoors or outdoors, this area is dedicated to fitness classes such as Yoga, Pilates and Tai Chi.
A warm seating area where you can relax pre and post-treatments.
A sociable, open space including a series of heat experiences to help soothe, relax and detoxify the body, such as a sauna, steam room, ice fountain, experience showers, salt grotto and foot bath, along with a relaxation area or room.
Private room, perfect for one, two or occasionally a small group of friends. Often includes private changing and relaxation areas plus two or more treatment beds or rooms to enjoy treatments together.
Heated to a soothing temperature between 35-37°c, a Vitality Pool often includes air tubs, swan neck fountains, air loungers and water jets. Benefits are cleansing and detoxification of the skin, relieving tired and aching muscles, increasing circulation and relaxing the mind and body before treatments.
'Natural'. Everyone will tell you they are. But if they don't tell you what they mean by it, you really don't know what's in your skincare.
So, when we say we use natural ingredients, we mean we use ingredients from one of only four sources:
Physically-processed ingredients - like cold-pressing avocado oil or steam distillation to extract rose oil. These time-honoured techniques are designed to release the delicate oils in their purest form.
Laboratory-processed ingredients - where we use water, glycerine etc to extract the ingredient from its natural source.
Naturally derived ingredients - where we take a natural raw ingredient – like coconut or olive oil – and process it to produce something that performs better than its natural form.
Nature identicals - where, in a very few cases, if a natural ingredient is too rare to be used sustainably for example, we replicate it exactly in a lab.
We think that what you leave out says as much about your business as what you put in.
The following is a list of ingredients we either avoid completely or use the minimum possible.
Synthetic colour and fragrance - Because some have been shown to irritate skin, we use only natural colours and scents. This is particularly important in the realm of scents, where essential oils and flower waters provide the beautiful fragrances our products are noted for.
Mineral oil - We don't use mineral oil at all as it's derived from petroleum and so isn't renewable. Instead we use some of the many natural plant-based alternatives like jojoba.
Silicone - Many cosmetics use silicone to create a film that gives the skin an artificially smooth feel. Unfortunately, this can block the skin's pores – which is why we use don't use silicone at all. Instead we use olive and coconut oil extracts to make our products feel as smooth as silk.
Alcohol - We use only plant derived alcohol and then only where essential – since many people worry about alcohol drying their skin.
Parabens - Parabens are preservatives widely used in cosmetics and also foods and pharmaceuticals. Available naturally or synthetically, they prevent fungi, bacteria and mould. Questions have been raised over their safety so as a result, we stopped using parabens completely, replacing them with natural preservatives where possible.
PEGs and PEG derivatives - While they have a long, safe history of use in skincare, some still regard them as contentious. Wherever a suitable and effective natural alternative is available, we have replaced PEGs. We only use them in our bath oils and some cleansing products where we feel there is no pure natural ingredient that works as well.
SLS & SLES - Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) and Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES) are both very widely used surfactants – ingredients that help foaming and lathering. We believe there are more gentle, more natural alternatives so instead, we use mild, plant based surfactants like coco-glucoside and sodium cocoyl sarcosinate. We also use Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate and Sodium Lauryl Sulfoacetate which although they start with the same letters are not SLS or SLES and are completely different in structure and effect to SLS & SLES.
Because we obsess about quality, we control every element of our products - from conception to manufacturing.
We have our own chemists, our own R&D and, above all, our own factory in Somerset meaning we control our own production facilities.
To do anything else would be a compromise.
Above all, ESPA formulations are created to be as safe as possible and not to irritate skin.
Every ingredient we use has a long, safe history and each formula has been screened and approved by a qualified safety assessor. You can find a full ingredients list next to each product with links to an ingredients glossary explaining what key elements of our products do.
In everything we do, we hope to make life a little more beautiful. But never at the expense of the environment, which is why we follow the 3 Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle.
Cartons - Our product cartons are completely recyclable, biodegradable and are made from cardboard taken from FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) forests.
Liners – Our liners are completely recyclable and biodegradable. Where possible, we have removed the liners in our cartons to reduce the waste. We only use them where we have concerns about items getting damaged in the post.
Leaflets - Our leaflets are completely biodegradable, recyclable and from FSC sources.
Shipping cartons and protective packaging – As standard we use cardboard boxes, reinforcement and paper wrap all of which are completely recyclable and biodegradable and in doing so have hugely reduced and restricted the use of bubble wrap and biodegradable chips.
Protective Shredded paper - Our shred is completely biodegradable, recyclable and from certified sources.
Glass - Despite the extra production and shipping costs, we have stuck with glass packaging because it is so much more easily recycled.
Caps – Our stone effect caps are made with materials from Natural Gas and also include 32% cellulose from sustainable plant sources.
Plastic - We use the minimum plastic possible, and then only in containers that can be recycled.
Tubes – Where possible, we have changed the specification for the majority of our tubed products to a single, more readily recyclable material.
Airless pumps – we have changed the specification of our pump bottles and caps so they are now made of the same material making them more easily recycled.
Professional use products – when developing professional products for use in Spas and Salons we have increased the use of larger pack sizes and the ease of refilling to minimize packaging.
This ESPA experience delivers triple results by targeting three key areas – the back, the face and the scalp, making it the ideal treatment for anyone.
Ideal 'the morning after the night before', it features a deep brush cleanse, personalised skin analysis with our SkinVision™ to first prep the skin ready for tailored techniques and products. Pumpkin Enzymes then remove dull, dead cells to visibly boost your complexion, tailored massage with cool Rose Quartz Crystals tones the skin and a potent serum containing Mulberry, Bearberry, Liquorice and encapsulated Vitamin C invigorates skin, leaving it looking smooth, supple and energised.
Deeply cleanse and refresh your complexion while removing dull, dead cells and boosting cell regeneration. Personalised facial massage and a cooling and toning mask complete this treatment, to leave skin toned and supple.
We encourage our male guests to experience this personalised treatment that combines a relaxing shoulder, neck, face and scalp massage with a tailored solution to your skin's needs.
Ideal for those who suffer with tension headaches or neck strain, it effectively soothes tight muscles and calms the mind, leaving you feeling revived and invigorated for the day ahead or relaxed and calm for a peaceful night's sleep.
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"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author." -J.R.R. Tolkien
In his foreword to the second edition of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien boldy declares his dislike of allegory and notes that, whatever critics and readers have suggested, the novel is most certainly not an allegory. Nonetheless, Christian readers have insisted on finding parallels to Christian theology throughout his works, to the extent that they commonly consider various characters—Gandalf in particular—to be explicitly Christ-figures.
Given Tolkien's adamant rejection of any sort of allegorical reading of his text, we surely cannot admit of an accidental allegory; such a thing would not make sense. More, when we hold The Lord of the Rings up against works that are explicitly allegorical—C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia, for example—we note that there is a real and even profound difference between the two in character and tone. We should therefore grant that Tolkien is not to be argued with here and move on.
Still, Christian ideas keep popping up in his works: the death and resurrection of Gandalf, the unambiguously demonic evil that the heroes oppose in its various incarnations of Sauron or the Balrog, the king returning to claim his throne after a long stewardship, the long-awaited marriage of that triumphant king to a radiant bride, and so forth. While these do not have the sorts of explicit allegorical turns that characterize, for example, Lewis' explicit identification of Aslan with Jesus, clearly there is something going on here. What is more, Tolkien himself would freely admit it. [1]
References and Footnotes
- Chris Krycho - http://mereorthodoxy.com/a-distant-glorious-echo-tolkien-and-typology/ ↩


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Hi guys.
I think a lot of us know how to play Karthus well at this point, and there are some good tools to discover how to do so, watching streams or tourny matches and the like, all are great methods.
However I thought it would be equally valuable to tell you how NOT to play Karthus, so that you don't get confused or mess up your build mid game because you're cooking your Cheetos in the microwave with some Dulce de Leche con Flan.
Here we will not be going over anything you should do in a game. I'm not a Karthus pro and I'll leave the proper methods and their explanations to the professionals. Here, we will be going over my own personal expertise... Which happens to be what you should NEVER do when playing Karthus.
Wow, those items.
Marvelous isn't it?
Doran's blade, because I can't play AP champions to save my life, and therefore I am bad at League of Legends.
HoG; more gold, are you bad? Ofc we want more gold. Also, I've got a hot date with Morganna and if she sees my heart of Gold maybe she'll like me more! 8D
Berzerkers greaves, and again, this is because I am bad at League of Legends and the sum of my educational career amounted in me being able to tie my shoes correctly on 55% of my attempts.
Oracles on a champion who's passive allows him to not fear death as much as the average champion. Nope, we WANT to fear death, we are going to CREATE that fear where fear need not exist. Oracles all day every day!
Soraka is a counter to Karthus? HAH... Says who? Just wait till I come to lane with my Executioner's Calling you fool, then we'll see who counters who... Oh, and good luck healing... *****.
Obviously the next item in line is Atma's Impaler. This is the logical choice to pair with my Executioner's Calling. That's called SYNERGY folks. Synergy. Get learned.
What's left to buy? It already looks so perfect. Nashor's Tooth, the SLAM DUNKEROO. The time has come to strike fear and confusion into your enemies hearts, and believe me, at least one of those things is going to happen when you show up to your next teamfight.
Cherry on top? Frozen Mallet. You mad, bro?
Duff, those masteries look good though.
No. No they don't.
Slap yourself, dump a bucket of ice water on your head, do whatever you need to do, but please realize that those masteries are complete garbage.
Are we going to be pushing any towers with Karthus?
Well, on second thought, yes you very probably will be, if you're dumb enough to take masteries like these ones, so never you mind.
Runes, Duff, explain please?
What is this. I'm scared.
Is... Is that a ****ing... Are those 4 seals of Might?
Skill order.
So good, right?
I don't take my ultimate until last because global map presence is over rated and boring.
I'd rather just aggressively kick my enemy's *** you know? And KS'ing with ult is stupid and if your team can't get the kill on their own then they are baddies. If I never ulti then my opponent can't use the excuse that I got fed on other lanes, they have to recognize that I am more skilled than them and deal with it.
So I just max Defile. Oh and I suck at skillshots and I can't aim and sometimes I get confused which team I'm on and end up targeting my own team mates, so I don't get Lay Waste untill I have to, but it is still a little better than my ult so I get it before that.
I like to max defile and the wall skill because the Synergy is too good with my items.
And then from there, I bombarb my enemy with auto attacks, which usually makes me forget to use my Q which is another reason why I don't level it at all early. Why Q, when I can crit..?
You know, it's really all about good synergy, at the end of the day, and this is what works best for me!
Also when you land a wall, they can't escape, so you can Promote a minion and watch the destruction happen. I have gotten killed a lot doing this but sometimes it works really well. Also if you use Surge at a good clutch moment you can really win the fight for your team it's really amazing when you think about my items and the skills I use you should certainly never try this.
Playstyle with Karthus.
Well since you have an Oracle, you really won't want to be dying very often.
You're going to want to kite along the outside.
If you're lucky, you can hit something, maybe some minions with your Defile.
They tell me Lay Waste is better but obviously not because I can't ever land it so uhm the jokes on them stupid people.
I mean I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be a targeted skill but they forgot to add the target into League because it seems like it's broken and just follows my cursor like it loves my cursor or something lol, you know what I mean? Like wow Riot way to make your skills love my cursor lol, I bet you feel stupid now Riot hahahahah idiot.
So you'll wanna kite around the edges of fight and it's better if you just use your ult every time it's on cooldown because it really sucks in team fights and to be honest it does like zero damage and feels useless which is why I barely max it like ANY DAY Riot you'll buff Karthus ****ing ult so maybe I'll finally win a game. Make it scale off of AD too please so my build works with his kit better you morons.
So yeah just spam ult whenever it's off CD, at least it'll count towards like one auto attack in lane or whatever and their Sona will probably just heal it off in like two skills or whatever but it's better than nothing. Fking useless ult...
So because you have Oracles you don't wanna die, so you need to play carefully and this is going to require skill, and it's skill you may not have but if you can pull it off just right it's amazing man I have won at least 4 games over the past 3 weeks using this strategy and I play Karthus like 4 games a day because I want the best technique and this works for me really well.
I mean when you really think about it Karthus passive sucks because dying is for noobs and you're gonna have a horrible KDA at the end of the game so **** his useless passive, pros never die ever and im getting better i usually go negative in most games but im getting better and the other day i even went 7/5 so im getting good ok?
Yeah so that's sorta the core concept. Use auto attacks on squishy targets, it hurts a lot more that way but don't get focused down because you can't auto attack with your ****ing worthless passive only cast spells.
Hopefully by now you have a pretty good and clear idea of how you should NEVER under ANY circumstances play Karthus.
Good luck not doing any of this ****, summoners!


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