Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane . . . You need a little bit of insanity to do great things. - Henry Rollins

If any of you signed up for Coursera classes after reading my last newsletter [#5626] "Never Stop Learning"  I hope you'll consider signing up for the first group linked below.

“Hello Guys, I am Scrungy. I am new to this place. Er – is this a colony? ” said dejectedly, the recently thrown crushed paper ball to fellow dumped paper balls.
“Hi,I am StainedBoy, 137 hours old and the senior most crumpling here. Yes it’s a temporary colony. We garbage people stay here near the dustbin before we attain – Ouch, who is this?” said he, a badly crimpled paper ball, to the recently thrown crumpled paper which hit his head.

“Your world is ending as we speak,” said the tall stranger barring Elliott's passage from her room.

There wasn't much she could do about it, really. At five-foot-four and a hundred and fifteen pounds, she had no chance of escape through main force. She'd tried- the stranger hadn't even had to move to knock her back. She had felt a familiar sort of thrumming energy in that moment, a sure expression of power, constructing a solid, unseen barrier without visible effort.

As a mage herself, she knew any contest of skill would inevitably turn explosive. Magic interacting with magic was a recipe for disaster, sure to wake the entire house and cause a scene. She would have to talk the stranger down.

“It was the best of times it was the worst of times” one of the world’s most renown phrases and I believe it applies to this particular prompt. We live in the time of technology in abundance, and to me, this has turned out to be the greatest downfall of modern society.

Technology without a doubt benefits our daily lives or even saves our lives, yet I believe our modern generation has come to be too dependent on technology and cannot function without it. You find a potential partner on the internet; you order food, furniture and much more through your iPhone. Contact with other humans crumbles at a rapid speed.

         This wasn’t the first time that Jason Hunt had wandered into a damn ‘dead zone’, leaving his ability to communicate with his office in the dark; this time, in the middle of one of their most important client conference calls. He wondered just what the words, ‘state of the art’ meant nowadays.

         The communication device that he was using was touted to be reliable from outer space if need be, yet it had failed him not more than 13 miles from his main office. It could talk, walk, show video, record, do dynamic statistical analysis at the speed of light with a .999999 degree of accuracy, access anything on the ‘net within seconds, and provide nearly anything his heart desired, but apparently, only when it wanted to.

If ever a child has been planned, Daphne was. Her parents, Curtis and Janie, made all the right choices. They completed their six year stent with the Coast Guard and their education at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, compliments of the GI Bill. When it was time to send out resumes, one priority was above all others. Where should they raise their family?

The rural mountains of Western North Carolina seemed like the perfect place. The population was miniscule when compared to the thriving metropolis of Charlotte. No more traffic jams, bustling city streets, blaring sirens or crowded shopping malls.

The Oxford dictionary claims that justice is “the quality of being fair and reasonable and the administration of the law or authority in maintaining this”. Justice is widely disputed and often classed as not fair. So if it’s not fair, how can it be justice?

The Oxford dictionary claims that in injustice is “lack of fairness or justice”. The exact opposite of justice. They are so closely related and so often people claim that something isn’t justice, that they state it’s unjust. What’s the point of trying to find justice, when every single time someone is going to complain about it?

Tesla was born at the stroke of midnight on July 10th in 1856 with the most violent thunderstorm and electricity on the sky of Smiljan Lika, small alluring mountainous village in Croatia. (It is known as Yugoslavia today, which consist of Slovenia, Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Bosnia)His childhood was spent playing in the woods, and fields in the company of animals. In 1862 when Tesla was six years old; the family moved to Karlovac. (It is a city in central Croatia) where Tesla went to school. He showed notable aptitudes for mathematics and science. At the age seventeen Tesla enrolled in Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria. Later the young man transferred to the University of Prague. He wanted to specialize in physic and mathematics, but later he became fascinated with electricity.

It’s 2013 Ladies, and it is time we take our seats. What do I mean? Our toilet seats.

Do you believe men must put the toilet seat down for you, Ladies? Are there arguments in your house about the seat position? Do you walk into the bathroom, see the seat left up and walk right back out to find the male culprit? Have you sat down on the cold rim in the middle of the night and your first thought was to blame your husband? If so, you might not want to read any further. If you must read on, I ask you to keep an open mind.

When Bryce and Carrie met in 1972, she was 14 and he was 13. Neither one realized they had met each others soul mate. They met through Carrie's best friend Dora, who was Bryce's sister. They hated each other initially and it took several years for cupid's arrow to find them. They started dating three years after meeting and it was an intense relationship. Having both come from highly dysfunctional families, they had no idea how to form a healthy relationship. They fought and argued furiously, to the point where it would get physical. Bryce had grown up in an alcoholic household and had seen his parents fight endlessly. Carrie's parents were divorced but she had seen them fight and argue many times before they split up. Since both had grown up feeling unloved, they clung to each other and the love they felt for one another.