Positivity, the hallmark of success

Positivity (the state of being positive) is the hallmark of success in any chosen field of endeavor. It makes you to say no to odds and stand on what you believe. It creates the passion necessary to drive your dreams home and repels the negative thoughts that try to set you back. When you are positive and optimistic about your dream you become mindful of the friends you keep, keep friends of like mind, like-dream and friends who have succeeded in your field. Positivity means that you approach seemingly unpleasant situations in a more positive, optimistic and productive way.  You are ever hopeful of the best and not of the worst result, you have an uncompromised and firm belief in your dream, which is why you will ever reject other ‘good’ dreams.

To be positive, you stand out of the crowd and can say no to certain things.  

When you are positive and optimistic about your dream you become mindful of the friends you keep, keep friends of like mind, like-dream and friends who have succeeded in your field.

The Oba of Bennin, Oba Erediauwa is dead

The Helmsman of the revered traditional stool of Benin the Oba of Benin, Omo n’Oba n’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Erediauwa, has passed on.

The information is contained in a statement released by the Governor of Edo State Adams Oshiomhole.

The statement reads: “Our hearts are heavy, laden with pains and grief, at the announcement of the passing on to glory of Omo n’Oba n’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Erediauwa of Benin, our highly revered Oba,” the Governor said.

He described the late Oba as” a distinguished Edo numero uno, an accomplished Nigerian, a seasoned bureaucrat, quintessential unifier, unique personage and exemplary Omo N’Oba, whose reign brought distinction, immense class, finesse and integrity to traditional institution in Edo state and the country at large.”

“To us at the Edo state Government, he was our strongest supporter; both in his uncommon faith in our ability and his readiness to offer uncommon advice to sharpen public discourse in our shared commitment to transform Edo state. It gladdens our heart, therefore, that our revered Oba was alive to witness the positive transformation of Edo state under his reign, and for standing with us through thick and thin in the course of making the Edo economy a treasure to behold. Being part of that eloquent history of transformation before his reunion with his ancestors gives us further reassurance that he will occupy a special pride of place in the hereafter.

“We are enveloped with a deep sense of nostalgia that our great Oba, a great-grandfather, grandfather, father, uncle and iconoclastic royal father of exemplary carriage and conduct, who sustained the dignity of the average Edo mind, has joined his ancestors. We are, however, encouraged by the fact that another great son of the Great Benin Kingdom, His Royal Highness, Edaiken N’Uselu, Crown Prince Eheneden Erediauwa, who is already showing manifest quintessential attributes of his great father, will step into his father’s big shoes.

“Edo people will miss our iconoclastic royal father of the great Benin Kingdom. Nigerians and Nigeria will miss this great exemplar of a Royal Father, an Oba of distinction and integrity. Adieu until we meet to part no more.”

Dealing a partner's annoying part

Finding a soul mate is one thing but having to deal and manage with your partners very annoying part is a different thing all together that needs utmost attention. We all have our low-lights or weak points of course nobody is Mr. Perfect, we need to find our partner's low-lights manage the ones that we could manage and deal restlessly with the ones that are not welcomed. You need not pretend at the beginning else your happiness in your home is jeopardized. How prepared are you or how have you been able to deal with them in your relationship?

Dealing with your partners annoying part

Finding a soulmate is one thing but having to deal and manage your partners very annoying part is a different thing all together. We all have our low-lights or weak points of course no body is Mr. Perfect, we need to find our partner's low-lights manage the ones that we could manage and deal restlessly with the ones that are not welcomed. You need not pretend at the beginning else your happiness in your home is jeopardized. How prepared are you or how have you been able to deal with them in your relationship?

World's longest tunnel slide opens on June 24

World's longest tunnel slide in London is set to open on June 24. the slide which is Designed by Artist Carsten Holler (who installed a pair of spiraling slides at the Hayward Gallery for an exhibition last summer), is 178 meter long (584 ft) helter skelter. The slide is the latest intervention to the 115 meter-tall (377 ft) Orbit, conceived by Anish Kapoor for the 2012 Olympics, following an abseiling attraction completed last year.
People who want to ride the Slide are to note that they must:

Buy a combined entry ticket for the ArcelorMittal Orbit and the Slide,

Select the time that you want to slide,

Be at least 1.3m tall,

Holler says "Since 1999, I have built a number of slides, both free-standing and attached to buildings, but never onto another artwork as in this case,"

 "Now that the two artworks will be intertwined with each other, I see it as one of these double situations that I am so interested in."

The Orbit Tower slide will be made up of 30 sections -- 12 of which are now complete -- and feature 12 turns, including a tight corkscrew twist. It starts at a height of 74 meters and has a top speed of 15 miles per hour, taking 40 seconds to go down.

Tickets for the attraction cost £15 ($22) and include access to the Orbit's viewing platform.

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Reformation and unity in ACC’s ecumenical resolutions

A call for Anglicans to commemorate next year’s 500th anniversary of the Reformation and the commendation of a number of new inter-denominational agreements and reports were amongst a raft of ecumenical resolutions adopted by the Anglican Consultative Council when they met in Lusaka, Zambia, earlier this month.
In Resolution 16.16, the ACC spoke of the “significance” of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, and recommended that Anglicans should mark the anniversary by taking part in shared services, study, and mission activities with Lutherans and other ecumenical partners. The ACC also encouraged Anglicans to “engage with the Lutheran World Federation’s focus: Liberated by God’s Grace”.
In a separate resolution – 16.17 – the ACC said that it “welcomes and affirms the substance” of the joint Lutheran and Roman Catholic Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, which the two churches signed in 1999.
The ACC say that it “recognises that Anglicans and Lutherans share a common understanding of God’s justifying grace, as the Helsinki Report stated that we are accounted righteous and are made righteous before God only by grace through faith because of the merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and not on account of our works or merits.”
The resolution goes on to recognise “that in 1986 the Anglican – Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC) produced a statement Salvation and the Church, which observed that our two Communions are agreed on the essential aspects of the doctrine of salvation and on the Church’s role within it.”
The Resolutions were two of a number which touched on ecumenical relations.
Continuing with the Lutheran churches, Resolution 16.18 recognises the relationships that already exist between Anglicans and Lutherans globally; and commends the steps being taken by North American, British and Irish Anglican churches, to bring the three regional agreements of Communion into relationship with each other. It goes on to encourage “Anglican churches in other regions to explore deepening relationships with churches of the Lutheran World Federation in a formal theological way following the guidelines offered in the 2012 Anglican-Lutheran International Commission report To Love and Serve the Lord.”
Resolution 16.13 deals with the relationship between Anglicans and Methodists. It calls for the creation of an Anglican-Methodist International Coordinating Committee to “oversee and foster relationships between Methodist and Anglican member churches”. The Commission would have five members each from the World Methodist Council and the Anglican Consultative Council as well as ecumenical participants.
The Commission will be given the task of monitoring and advising “the development of Anglican-Methodist relations around the world, giving attention to their consistency with each other and with the self-understanding of the two communions” and to “act as a catalyst for the development of Methodist and Anglican relations, and in particular for agreements of communion where these do not yet exist.”
The Resolution also “welcomes the report of the Anglican-Methodist International Commission for Unity and Mission – Into All the World: Being and Becoming Apostolic Churches” and commends it to the churches of the Anglican Communion “for study, action and response.”
In Resolution 16.14, the ACC praises the Anglican-Oriental Orthodox International Commission’s Agreed Statement on Christology as “a significant step of reconciliation across ancient divides” and commends it to the Churches as “a means to deepen faith in our Incarnate Lord, and as an opportunity to reflect on this faith together with members of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and with other Christians, as part of an ongoing process of reception.”
And in Resolution 16.15, the ACC welcomes the Buffalo Statement of the International Commission for Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue, In the Image and Likeness of God: A Hope-Filled Anthropology; as a “profound exploration of what it means that God has become human not only that we may share in the divine life, but also that we may become fully human” and commends it to Anglican provinces as “a resource for study, reflection and reception.”

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