AIRPLANE CONVERTED TO HOUSE.

Bruce Campbell of Portland, Oregon,USA has converted a Boeing 727 Jet to a home. Paying $100,000 to Olympic Airways in Greece.He acquired the jet at the end of its flying life from Olympic Airways in Greece, had it flown from Athens to Oregon, and finally towed to his land. (The average home in the USA costs $186,000-so $100,000 doesnt seem too bad).

I do hope that the Nigerian aviation authorities are opening their eyes so that some "smart" business guys are also not buying any of these jets-repainting them and changing the paperwork to use in Nigeria. This guy's jet flew all the way from Greece to the USA-so its not that they cant fly-but they are way past their flying age-even with a change of engine.These jets cost about $10 million used-some crazy person could think of buying one of these dead ones for a mere $100,000 ( N15 million) -the cost of a Range Rover and start flying people in the air-a flying coffin.

“Aircraft are flying homes for people,” Campbell said. “They stay in the sky sometimes for 12 to 14 hours at a time and people have to eat and use the toilet and do almost everything else we normally do -- and all of those facilities are in there. They’re built along with lighting and climate control, everything.

“What I’m trying to demonstrate is that the conversion process can be really very simple and straightforward. If people want something different (inside), they can always redecorate.”

WISDOM PRINCIPLES FOR SINGLES

Never Mourn Your Singleness: Most singles in life worry themselves a lot about their being single forgetting the fact that singleness has nothing to do with marriage. To be single is just a state of life not a stage of life. Singleness is a state of boldness. Never mourn your state of being unmarried or single.

Never Take Your Heart On A Journey Without Your Brain: When going into a relationship of any kind, always allow your brain to be involved even if your heart will also be involved. Give the brain a chance to come in.Remember that the components of one’s life are;

·        Head

·        Brain

·        Passion

Every Relationship Must Be Defined: An undefined relationship is a dangerous relationship. The heart of a man is definitely dangerous. A man does not grow old but as a woman, a year you waste is 5years wasted.

Never Wave Away Warning Signals: If anything is going to happen or anybody is going to help you, a warning signal always comes which must not be ignored.

Look Before You Leap: If any plan fails to materialise, there is always a room to go for another. Get to know whom you’re dealing with and also get to know more about the other party’s family.

Never Look Down On Anybody: You  are not what you wear, or what you drive. Be nice to everybody you meet and remember ‘People are just people, their income,position in life doesn’t make them better or worse than anyone else. The same kind of people you meet on your way up are the same kind of people you meet on your way down.

Prepare For Marriage And Not For Wedding: After so many years of relationship or courtship with one another, people tend to prepare for wedding and not to prepare for marriage forgetting the fact that ‘Wedding is for a day, marriage is for a life time’. There is a big difference between a wedding and marriage.

Don’t Sacrifice Future On Unnecessary Pleasure:  Though,there are many temptations in one’s way to success but the future belongs to those who are ready to dare and confront the impossible with the determination to overcome. Your future depends on so many things but mostly on you. Your past is experience, present is experiment, future is expectation, so use your experience in your experiment so as to make your expectation come true.

Notes Taken

 from

 Olumide Emmanuel's Seminar

 by 

Talabi Abisola.

Facts about Michael Jordan

§  Nicknames include Air Jordan and His Airness.

§  He was born in 1963, Brooklyn, New York but grew up in North Carolina. He has 2 older brothers, 1 older sister and a younger sister.

§  When Michael Jordan was in his sophomore year, he tried out for the varsity basketball team but was rejected by the coach for being too short! Being left out of the team at first devastated him but he accepted the rejection as a challenge and strove to improve his technique and playing style to overcome for his “lack”. This spirit of dedication to improvement and that failure should only lead to success, is the belief and ideal that Michael Jordan based his sports career on.

§  Michael Jordan has a habit of dangling his tongue out of his mouth, while concentrating and especially while dunking or shooting. This quirk he picked up from his dad, who would do the same while tinkering with cars and electronics.

§  His impact on popularizing basketball and basketball products is like no other sportsman. Take Nike for example, which has a complete line of basketball shoes, dedicated to Michael Jordan. This line consisting of 22 models is called Air Jordans. Ultimately an entire brand line was formed called the Jordan Brand. This line generates an estimated $1 billion of sales revenue for Nike. Other successful brand tie-ups include Gatorade, McDonalds, Hanes and Coca-Cola.

§  His Chicago Bull’s team jersey numbers are 23 and 45. At the time of his first retirement, his jersey number of 23 was officially retired.

§  In 1993, Michael’s father James R. Jordan Sr. was murdered in North Carolina by 2 teenagers. The loss of his father made him lose his drive and competitive edge for playing basketball and he retired from the sport. He surprised a lot of fans and the world in fact, by joining a minor league baseball team, the Chicago White Sox. Apparently his father had wanted him to pursue a career as a professional baseball player.

§  He took over part-ownership of the Washington Wizards in 2000, becoming the 3rd African-American to become a team owner in the NBA. But sitting on the corporate bench did not satisfy him for long and in 2001, he joined the Wizards as a player. The team which was normally at an average playing skill level, excelled with his addition and reached the NBA playoffs for that year.

§  He is attributed with starting the basketball trend of wearing baggy or loose shorts as opposed to tight, form fitting shorts. Another signature basketball trend of sporting no hair or going bald, is also due to Michael Jordan.

§  He has 3 children from his marriage to Juanita Vanoy.

§  He was ranked by Forbes Magazine as the 20th most powerful celebrity in 2010.

§  In the 1984 NBA draft, he was the 3rd pick from the overall competition.

§  He has won 6 NBA championships, 11 Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards (both regular season and finals), 2 Olympic gold medals, 10 All-NBA First Team designations, 9 All-Defensive First Team honors and 3 All-Star MVP awards in his 15 year old career.

§  He is the first player in NBA history to win both a “Defensive Player of the Year” award and an MVP award in the same year (1988).

§  Michael Jordan played a total of 1,251 (playoffs + season) games in his career and his total points scored during that period is 38,279! He has played in 15 NBA seasons and 6 NBA championships. His in-game steal score is 2,514, which ranks him as the second highest total steal score behind John Stockton.

§  His points per game average is roughly 30.1 with a playoff average of 33.4 points per game, making him a NBA record holder for highest point per game average in both seasonal and playoff matches.

§  On the Associated Press’s list of athletes of the century, he is second only to Babe Ruth. Michael Jordan has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009. He was named as one of the “50 greatest players in NBA history”.

§  The Chicago Bulls won the NBA championship 3 times in a row from 1991-1993, with Michael Jordan. This feat was repeated in 1996, when the Bulls once again won the championship and continued to do so for the next 2 years (1997, 1998).

§  His drive and determination towards the game was never more apparent than during the 1996-1997 NBA season. Here he played a crucial series game while suffering from a viral infection. This game is infamously titled “the flu game”. Another game to look out for is the Chicago vs Utah game 6 of the NBA 1998 season.

§  This collection of facts about Michael Jordan’s life is just a rough glimpse into the raw talent and energy of this basketball god. The game has never been the same since his final retirement. But fans are left with memories of the games and the glory of the sport during the heyday of Michael Jordan.

THE TRAMP MAN

Once upon a time in the United States, the barbers and hairstylists wanted to give Americans a better image of their profession. So they hired a young public relations executive to handle the job. The public relation executive went to work immediately and here is what he did: He went to the slums of New York City to pick up a young man who was tramped with soil and tattered clothes. His hair was unkempt and his beard was dirty. After listening to the executive officer, the tramp agreed to a deal since there was some cash to the bargain.

The young executive took the tramp straight to a photographers shop and had some snaps of him the way he was; dirty and unkempt. Then he gave him a face-lift: A steam bath, a shave and a hair cut, and took him to the photographer for another round of snaps. But he was not finished. The PR executive took the young man to town and got him professionally made suits, shirts, ties and shoes. Then he had a third round of photographs snapped.

On the day the convention started, the young executive positioned three life-size photographs of his subject at the lobby of the hotel. And he wrote at the top of those pictures, “See what the barbers and hairstylists of America can do to a man.” The story immediately hit the headlines across America. For effect, the well-suited tramp was positioned at the hotel lobby to shake hands with the people as they came in for the convention. The gambit worked. The campaign was a success.

Now, the assistant hotel manager was touched and decided to do something. He gave the young man a job, and waited for him to resume work. But the young man did not show up. What happened? The young man was changed outwardly; inwardly he was the same old tramp. So, he had gone to his old slum lifestyle.

The barbers and hairstylists of America may change a man’s exterior, but until the man is changed inwardly, that change is the wrong type.

Dear reader, as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. A man cannot rise above the level of his thoughts. “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”

This verse simply states that we alter our lives only to the degree to which we alter our thoughts. Thoughts are powerful. Whether a man succeeds or fails, rises or falls, depends basically on the use of his mind. A man’s life will always move in the direction of his dominant thoughts.

As a man thinks, so is he. As he continues to think, so he remains poor. If he thinks things are difficult for him, they remain difficult. If he thinks anything is impossible, it remains impossible for him.As long as a man thinks he is the victim of circumstances, he will be harassed by those circumstances. The day he takes control of his mind and exercises his power to create new circumstances, he breaks free.

                 Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you are right.  (Henry Ford).

                               Drafted from the book “Think and Succeed” by Sam Adeyemi