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Positive thinking is the natural software for your mind. God designed a positive software package that would permit your mind to function at full capacity and maximum efficiency. He created your mind to work best with a positive operating system. Negative thinking doesn't work well, because your mind was not designed to function with a negative operating system. Although your mind is an awesome biocomputer, it will not function well using the wrong software.
Severely depressed people run a negative operating system most of the time, and they illustrate how bad things can get when negative thinking takes control.
Positive thinking truly is the right type of thinking. Positive thinking is more than a good idea. It's the way your mind was designed to work.
No matter what happens, you must choose to think positive.
When I lived in Arabia, I spent my free time driving in the sand dunes south of Riyadh. In this picture, my Defender sits high and dry in the Bakra dunes. I am high-sided, and I'm not going anywhere until I recover the vehicle by digging out the sand from under the chassis (the hard way) or by having someone pull me off the top of the dune using a snatch strap (the easy way).
Getting high-sided on the top of a sand dune isn't a problem; it's only an embarrassment. It simply means I miscalculated my speed as I was going over the dune, and at the last minute, I slowed down too much, and I didn't have enough momentum to make it over the top.
If you want to enjoy driving in the sand, you must learn to think positive.
It's inevitable that you are going to get stuck many times when you drive in soft dunes. It doesn't matter whether you are high-sided or sunk to the chassis in soft sand, a positive attitude turns this inconvenience into a real adventure.
A few minutes of work with your shovel and sand ladders frees you from your sandy prison.
There's no need for panic, recriminations, or berating yourself for getting stuck. It goes with the territory. If you drive in soft sand, you will get stuck, so get over it and keep on trucking.
The goal isn't to never get stuck. Instead, the goal is to have an adventure and to live your sand dreams.
Driving in the sand dunes is a lot like life. You frequently find that you are up to your axles in problems and are high-sided by the challenges of life. That's to be expected, because you are living your dreams. If you don't panic, and instead, maintain a positive attitude, it won't be long before you escape the sand trap and start moving in a positive direction.
Everybody gets stuck at many points in their life, but not everyone thinks positive. Negative thinkers bog down in their problems, and they may stay stuck for years at a time.
Positive thinkers know that getting stuck is only a temporary inconvenience. No matter what happens in their life, they choose to think positive. For them, positive thinking is a choice they make dozens of time each day. They know that if they want to be positive, nothing and no one can stop them.
Think positive and install a positive operating system in your mind.
Dr. Dave is the Encourager In Chief of the Positive Thinking Network. He believes there are no limits. There are only limiting beliefs. Dr. Dave is committed to make a positive difference in your life. The wheel of change always turns in the direction of what you put into your mind, and Dr. Dave and the Positive Thinking Network have the resources to turn your life in a positive direction. It's time to develop a persistently positive focus so that you can have a consistently positive mind. It's time to change your world.
The best place to go to get your daily dose of positive thinking is The Positive Channel. With more than 500 websites, there is something positive for everyone. The Positive Channel is your definitive source for positive thinking on the World Wide Web. It's where you come to learn everything you want to know about positive thinking. Hundreds of family safe websites are ready to fill your mind with positive things. Thousands of positive graphics and affirmations change the way you think and feel about who you are and what you can do with your life. Positive music lets you hear the sound of your dreams, and positive videos help you visualize your dreams.
Dr. Dave is also known as Captain Dave of Team Maxing Out. He spent eleven years sailing around the world with his family on their sailboat, Exit Only. They sailed more than 33,000 miles around the world on their Privilege 39 catamaran including a trip through Pirate Alley and up the Red Sea.
Dr. Dave drives Land Rover Defenders when land cruising. His Defenders took Team Maxing Out to Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, New Zealand, and Australia. Soon the adventures will continue with a driving trip around the world and a sailing voyage back to Australia.
When you live your dreams, and everyone acts like you are crazy, you must keep going forward. A prophet is without honor in his own country while people half way around the world think you are totally amazing. Sometimes, it makes you want to purchase a one way ticket to your antipodal point on planet earth so that you can assume your rightful place in world history. But in the meantime, while you are saving up for that airline ticket, you should keep going forward.
We have been sailing around the world for eleven years on our catamaran, Exit Only, and what a trip it has been, full of agony and ecstasy, and everything in between. Captain Dave nearly died in a car accident in New Zealand, and I reckon that qualifies as agony. In the ecstasy department, we sailed 33,000 miles around the world, and have seen the things sailing dreams are made of.
Positive WWW contains a positive website for every country in the world. If you visit all 196 websites, you will make a photographic tour of the world and visit more than a hundred positive destinations. This is the only world tour you will ever take that is totally free. Don't pass up this opportunity to make your life better. It's time to develop a persistently positive focus in order to create a consistently positive mind.
At the end of each decade of your life, you should sit down and write a short essay entitled "What I Have Learned So Far." Each decade is different, and the lessons you learn are different as well. It's almost as if you get a new life during each decade. Your beliefs change about who you are and what you can do, and you actually become a different person.
Positive US contains positive websites for every state in the USA. You can visit 50 positive websites that push your life in a positive direction. Tour the USA with your tablet, smartphone, and computer from any place on planet earth. You don't need a passport or a visa to visit Positive US. A few clicks of the mouse and you are on your way to a positive adventure.
I am a hard core expatriate who lived outside the United States for twenty-eight years. During all of those years of travel, I became an expert at packing my bags to the hilt. I was allowed two eighty pound bags, and everytime I went overseas, I carried one-hundred and sixty pounds of luggage. Half of that weight was in books. Now things have changed. I carry nearly all my books on my tablets and smart phone. I easily carry ten tons of eBooks on my electronic devices without a problem.
If you are like me, you are always on the run, and it's not always easy to stay positive. UNTIL NOW! It just got a great deal easier because Dr. Dave created a series of positive websites that are smartphone friendly. The sites display just as well on the small screen as they do on the desktop. Now you can take your positive thinking with you wherever you go and have positive thinking on demand. If you are feeling down, simply turn on your smartphone and visit Mobile Positive Thinking.
There is no need to wade through the muck and mire in Google and other search engines to find positive things to put into your mind. It's all here at Positive URL. You are only a few clicks away from a positive mind.
People are always looking for miracles, but they overlook the obvious. They are a miracle of God's creation and love. Every breath they take and every beat of their heart resonates with the miraculous. From the top of their head to the tip of their toes, they are a miracle. Every time you think that you need a miracle, stand in front of a mirror and take a look at yourself. You are God's greatest miracle. For as long as you've been on planet earth, God has been working miracles in your life.
Rock your world with thousands of pictures and graphics that contain positive captions. The Positive Memes come from hundreds of Dr. Dave's websites. Give your mind a push in a positive drection with Positive Memes from the Positive Thinking Network.
It doesn't matter whether you are getting your kicks driving on Route 66, or standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, you can still download positive scriptures on your smartphone and tablet. In fact, you can download positive scriptures anywhere on planet earth as long as you have a wireless connection simply by visiting Mobile Scripture. You instantly discover fifty scriptures that you need to have in your mind. Anytime is the right time to put powerful positive scriptures into your mind.
Mark Twain once remarked that life doesn't consist so much of facts and events. Instead, it consists mainly of the storm of thoughts blowing endlessly through my mind. Most of the time, I can deal with the facts of life without too much difficulty. It's the storm of thoughts that causes such a problem. I will die a thousand deaths before my final day of reckoning comes. Most of my problems never happen anywhere except in my mind.
People act as if what they talk about doesn't matter. They don't understand that what they say expands into their life. No reasonable person would take a handful of toxic waste and put it into their mind. Nevertheless, that's exactly what you do when you talk about negative things. Every time you tell other people what's wrong with your life, and how your problems are driving you crazy, you put toxic waste into your mind. You are sowing the seeds of your own destruction.
God has given you all the tools you need to have a positive mind. God gave you the power of positive self-talk to fill your mind with positive things. If you consistently and persistently repeat positive thoughts, it is inevitable that your mind will start repeating those same positive thoughts back to you.
Birds are the only animals that can talk without the words changing their lives. Birds can say anything they want, even four letter words, without the slightest damage to their mind. The reason is simple. Bird's don't know what they are saying. Millions of people talk like they are parrots. They swear like salors and lace their speech with profanity. These folks would be better off if they were parrots, because at least their destructive words would not get into their mind.
The power of positive self-talk is immense. Take a lesson from God, and use positive self-talk to create a positive world. Tell yourself, "I am who God says I am, and I am who I say that I am." Get in agreement with God about who you are and what you can do with your life, and it won't be long before miracles start to happen. Christian positive self-talk will change your world.
Too many people die before their time. They place a period in the sentence of life where God only places a comma. Always remember that it's never over before God says it's over. There is no reason to quit until God says it's quitting time. Negative self-talkers tell themselves it's over years before God says it over. Their self-talk makes them die before their time. If these quitters had persisted for a few more nanoseconds, their dreams would have come true. Their mistake literally cost them their dreams.
Reprogramming your mind has never been easier. In the digital age you can take your programming tools with you wherever you go. Smart phones and tablets make it possible to reprogram your mind in planes, trains, cars, subways, at work, and at home. You can perform a mind transplant anywhere and anytime. A smart phone or tablet can contain a full library of positive resources without increasing the weight of the device by even an ounce.
Positive self-talk is not the invention of man. It's the invention of God, and it was given as a gift to mankind so that we could speak our new lives into existence. The Bible has lots of examples of positive self-talk being used to make good things happen in the hearts and minds of those who love and serve God. In the book of Joel in the Old Testament, the Bible encourages us to use positive self-talk. Joel 3:10 says, Let the weak say, "I am strong." It's very clear that self-talk is not about where you are at the present moment. It's about where you are going with God's help. Amazing things happen when people get in agreement with God about who they are and what they can do with their life.
You don't have to let the voice of depression control your inner dialogue. You can use positive self-talk to change the conversation. What you say to yourself determines the focus of your mind and helps you reestablish command and control over your thoughts. If you want to have a mind free from depression, nobody can stop you.
Fear and limitations are traveling companions. When one is present, the other is not far away. When I think limiting thoughts, it's usually because I am afraid, and when I think fearful thoughts, limitations suddently rear their ugly head. On the other hand, when I send fear packing, my limitations disappear, and when I ignore my limiting thoughts, fear melts away as well.
Positive Christian self-talk is more than positive thinking. It is positive preparation that makes miracles possible. It gets you to a place where miracles can occur. It helps you get in agreement with God about who you are and what you can do in your life. It's not a mindless mantra that you endlessly repeat hoping that things will get better. Positive Christian self-talk puts both feet on the ground and takes you to a miraculous destination.
Affirmations are a special form of positive self-talk designed to change the way I feel. The Bible says, "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he." Affirmations are not aimed at my mind. They are primarly aimed at my heart, and they give me the power to change what is in my heart. Affirmations do more than change the way I think; they also change the way I feel.
Self-talk is not optional. It's something you do every day all day long. The only question is whether your self-talk is positive or negative, whether it makes your life better or worse. If you don't like what you hear when your mind talks to you, you have the power to change the message. You don't have to accept the self-talk programmed into your mind by other people . You can make your self-talk into anything you want.
I like self-talk that puts things in perspective without resorting to hype and hyperbole. Hype makes extravagant claims that have no basis in reality, and hyperbole uses exaggeration to overstate the case. Writers need to avoid hype and hyperbole, because most readers are not adrenaline junkies in search of a new high. They are not easily fooled, and they want honest writing that tells things like they really are. That is why I go to great length to avoid hyperbole and hype.
Until you get your self-talk right, good things cannot happen in your life. Self-talk is a form of predestination, and if you can't put your destination into a self-talk format, then it's unlikely you will ever make the trip to your dreams. There are two major types of self-talk, and both of them are important. The first type gets you fired up and ready to go. The second type keeps you going once you are on your way.The first type decides whether you start on the path to your dreams.The second type determines whether you continue on the path.The first type lasts until you get started.The second type lasts until your dreams come true.
When I was ten years old, my parents gave me a tiny transistorized short wave radio that fit in the palms of my hands. At night I laid in bed and listened to broadcasts from around the world, and I imagined myself in hundreds of different destinations on planet earth. I didn't know how I would ever get there, but one day I would visit all of those places. Much later in life I discovered that I was addicted to freedom, and I became a citizen of the world. That is why I am Safari Daktari, and the world is my home.
Never underestimate the power of a single idea. On more than one occasion, a single idea has shaped my destiny. When I was in grade school, I read Dr. Paul White's book, Doctor of Tanganyika, and I instantly knew that I wanted to work as a doctor in developing countries. That single idea took root in my mind and still remains a compelling force in my life. Because of his influence, I worked overseas in Panama, Liberia, Kenya and Saudi Arabia in my carreer in international medicine.
A wise man once said, "If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans," and I am inclined to agree. My plan is to get in agreement with God about who I am and what I can do with my life. It's not that I don't have any plans. Rather I have a general direction to my life and my bucket list is half a mile long, but my time is in God's hands, and his plan is better than anything I can imagine. That's my plan, and I'm sticking to it.
I am a Daktari without borders who is a citizen of the world. The first time I went to Africa, people told me that I would experience culture shock, and that it would be hard to adjust to the compromises required living in another culture halfway around the world. For the past forty-five years, I have been waiting for culture shock to strike, and so far it has not happened. The only culture shock I experienced happened when I returned to the USA after being away for nearly a quarter of a century.
I am a swimming instructor, and I give swimming lessons in God's ocean of love. When you love people, they instantly recognize it. No explanation required. Jesus said you could recognize his disciples by their love. It's the hallmark that identifies them as children of God. It's their way of life. I can think of no higher calling than being a swimming instructor in God's ocean of love.
Positive thinking is the natural software for your mind. God designed a positive software package that would permit your mind to function at full capacity and maximum efficiency. He created your mind to work best with a positive operating system. Negative thinking doesn't work well, because your mind was not designed to function with a negative operating system.
Our Land Rover is parked at a rocky outcrop on the edge of the the Dhana desert in Arabia. In a couple of hours, we'll be sitting around a campfire with the milky way galaxy extending overhead from horizon to horizon. A Land Rover, giant star dunes, friends sitting around a campfire, and the milky way overhead is as good as it gets. It's also a terrific time to focus on a few great thoughts.
Outward appearances are deceiving, so don't be too quick to judge. Take caterpillars, for instance. Some caterpillars are a thing of beauty, but most of them aren't much to look at. They crawl around like colored worms, they eat leaves for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and they have the personality of a sea slug. When God passed out good looks, he apparently skipped the caterpillars.
God has given you all the tools you need to have a positive mind. People complain that it's difficult to live as a positive person in a negative world. They talk as if the odds are stacked against them. They should accept their miserable existence and learn to live with a negative mind.Nothing could be further from the truth. You can use the power of positive repetition to change your mind.
Since the beginning of time, astronomers have searched the sky for signs of life, and so far the only place where life is known to exist is on planet earth. Earth is unique because it's chock-a-block with life; it's everywhere, and it's relentless. The reason earth is such an awesome place is because it's a sanctuary for life in an otherwise hostile universe.
You only get one life, so you better get it right the first time. If you understand the CURVES OF LIFE, you have a better chance of getting it right the first time. There are actually three curves. The first is called the gusto curve, the second is the money curve, and the third is the time curve. Here's how they work. Your gusto curve and time curve start at the top and eventually go down to zero. Your money curve starts at zero and exponentially climbs throughout your life. When the curves of life cross, an alarm should go off in your mind, because from that point on, time becomes more valuable than money. You are sliding rapidly down the gusto curve, and you are running out of time.
After living outside the United States for twenty-eight years, I am finally connected. I completed my sailing voyage around the world on my sailboat, I'm back in the USA, and I now have a cell phone. Don't feel sorry for me because I wasn't connected for all those years. I was connected to other things, and I didn't need a cell tower to feel my life was good.
If you start thinking new thoughts and taking new actions, you get a new life. It's just that easy. You can get a new one anytime you want and anywhere you are. You simply think new thoughts and take new actions. If you want to sail on a small sailboat around the world, you must think and act your circumnavigation into existence. It's not rocket science. Anyone can do it.
I don't know how many years I have left, but in the time that remains, I intend to finish well. I am going to make a difference in the lives of the people I meet. My life will be a part of something great. I am a purveyor of dreams and an encourager, and I will send a message of hope around the world with my websites and books. You have been warned. I will do my best to rock your world.
People who are psychologically blind don't control what they put into their mind. They don't understand that what they put inside will come back to haunt them. Everything they put in their mind is important because it changes who they are. When they change the things they look at, the way they look at things changes.
Captain Cook sailed the uncharted waters of the Pacific with vessels that did not sail to windward, and with infinite patience and unstoppable persistence, he explored and charted the waters and islands of the Pacific. He sailed where no European had sailed before on the Positive Blue Marble called earth.
I can't say that I have ever been depressed. There have been plenty of times that I have been down and discouraged, but I have never lost command and control or believed the negative thoughts that occasionally blow through my mind. But when I get down, I know the cure. All I have to do is climb into my Land Rover, and suddenly I feel great. Once I get behind the wheel of my Defender, I am instantly transported to a positive destination, and I know that life is good.
For most people, negative thinking is simply a sign of fatigue. Fatigue is normal; it isn't a pathological state, and it's a mistake to regard it as such. Fatigue makes cowards of everyone. When you are tired, your problems appear insurmountable. Although the horizon of life was clear only a few hours earlier, now mountains of difficulty suddenly loom into view. Your fears are now overwhelming. All of the hobgoblins of your subconscious mind dance merrily in front of your eyes.
Before the advent of smartphones, I carried my mobile affirmations on file cards. Some affirmations have been with me for more than twenty years, and the file cards are dogeared and worn out. Those card were good companions that helped me get through the hard times. Some day I will frame them and put them on the wall of my office. The cards are more than paper with written affirmations. They also contain memories of all the major victories in my life.
The universe reveals the mind of God, and the Bible reveals his heart of love.The entire universe is an expression of God's creative power. We serve an awesome God who thinks and speaks worlds into existence. Our planet is only a tiny speck in our solar system, which is a tiny speck in the Milky Way Galaxy, which is a tiny speck on the edge of an expanding universe. We ask ourselves, "Who is man that God would think of him?" We act as if we are an afterthought of God. But we have it backwards. We are not an afterthought of God. We are the reason the universe exists.
Your brain is a powerful affirming machine that affirms the negative just as easily as the positive, the bad just as easily as the good. Your brain is positive about many things that are factually untrue. And when you are positive about the wrong things, your positive thinking actually gets you into trouble. It turns out that positive thinking is not always positive when you are affirming dark, destructive thoughts.
God's dream for your life is better than anything you can imagine. God's plan for your life is full of open doors that only you can close. God not only has a plan, He has backup plans just in case you have problems along the way. Your mistakes are not a surprise to God, and He has more contingency plans than you have faults and failures.
Jesus created a world ruled by expectations. You don't get what you want. You get what you expect. It doesn't matter if your expectations are positive or negative, you will still get what you expect. Jesus said, "As you believe, so shall it be done unto you. No matter how hard you work and how much you hope, it's what you expect that counts. The Law of Expectations will make or break your life. When I know your expectations, I can predict your future.
I am the Positive Expectations Doctor. When I get up in the morning, I don't have to think about what I am going to do on that day. I have one job and one job only. My job is to change people's expectations about who they are and what they can do with their lives. The easiest thing to do on planet earth is to pass out pills to patients, and the hardest thing to do is change their expectations.
Fear is a liar, and if you listen to the voice of fear, you will never live your dreams. When I was sailing through the Bab Al Mandeb in the southern Red Sea, I had fifty knots of wind on the port quarter, and I was soaked to the skin by breaking seas crashing into the yacht. Although I was wet and cold, there was no fear in my heart. My options were to sail on into the night and get extremely tired and wet, or to find an anchorage in the storm and hold on. Fear was not an option.
The Fear Doctor is in, and it's time to listen up. Fear and negativity always travel together, and you need to banish them both from your mind. You don't want them sailing with you on the ocean of your dreams. More than once during our sailing voyage around the world, our situation was a bit tenuous, but I can't say that I was ever afraid. Instead of listening to the voice of fear, I focused on doing those things that kept us safe, and you should do the same.
Fear should be a warning rather than a way of life. Unfortunately some people adopt a fear-based existence, and fear becomes a major driving force in their lives. Most people fear the wrong thing. Advertising loves the gospel of fear because it sells. Fearing the unlikely and the absurd is largely a waste of time and energy and misdirects your focus. In most cases, the thing that you fear is not the enemy. It is fear itself that is the real problem.
Although the Self Talk Bookstore is open for business, there are a few places on planet earth where downloads are unavailable. When you are getting pummeled with fifty knots of wind in the southern Red Sea, you quickly discover that there are no wireless towers in the Bab al Mandeb. It probably has something to do with pirates. Wireless companies are afraid that someone might do more than steal their signal; the pirates might also steal the cell towers.
I have been on the move for more than forty years in two Land Cruisers, six Land Rovers, four monohull sailboats and one catamaran. During many of those years I received my mail every two months in mail drops around the world. Things are different now. The Positive Mobile Web makes it possible to connect with people anywhere in the world from my Land Rovers and catamaran.
My green Defender is bogged down to the axles in the sands of the Arabian Empty Quarter. You might think that being monumentally stuck three-hundred kilometers off-road would make me sad, but if you thought that, you would be wrong. Why? Because if I am stuck, that means I am living my sand dreams.
Too many people have their life on hold waiting for the perfect place and time to work on their dreams. Unfortunately, if you don't work on them every day, they will never happen. You simply run out of time.Wherever you are is exactly the right place to work on your dreams.
Of all the challenges I face each day, living in the moment is probably the most difficult. I know I should be savoring each evanescent nanosecond that races through my life, but the truth is that too much of the time I'm somewhere other than here. No matter where my body is, my mind is someplace else.
More change is happening in the twenty-first century than at any other time in history, and the pace of change is accelerating. People who rise to the top in our new world will be those who are masters of change. They have done the math, and they are riding the exponential curve of positive change all the way to their dreams.
I have always wanted to be an explorer. Perhaps that is why I spent so much time sailing around the world on my catamaran and driving outback and beyond in my Land Rovers. Every time I explore a new world, I am reminded to not take my own world so seriously. After all, my world is not the world. It's only my way of looking at the world.
I am a daktari without borders. I am not sure when and where borders disappeared from my mind, but sometime in the last quarter century, I became a citizen of the world. Wherever I am on planet earth, I feel at home in my borderless world. Sometimes I get the feeling that borders are fictional boundaries created by the rich and powerful to maintain their power and wealth.
The sea is the final frontier. It's the last place on the planet that hasn't been divided up, regulated, restricted and strangulated by over-reaching governments. You simply point the bow of your yacht offshore, and instantly you are free on the final frontier.
Times have changed. I can now drive my Land Rover anywhere on planet earth and take all of my favorite books with me. In the bad old days, my mobile library consisted of four or five books because of weight and space limitations in our expeditionary vehicle. Now I can carry ten tons of books on my tablet and smartphone to the ends of the earth.
You are on a no limits expedition in which there is no limit to how good your life can become. Life is a test, and if you don't quit, you pass the test. Quitting is a terminal disease for which their is no cure, and doubting is nearly as bad. If you are going to doubt anything at all, you should doubt your limits.
Surviving sandstorms is easy. All you have to do is hunker down and hang on until the storm is over. Surviving the storms of the mind is an entirely different matter. The last time I checked the statistics, over eighteen thousand people used guns to commit suicide in the USA in a single year. When I listen to the news and talk with my patients, it's clear that there's an epidemic of depression sweeping over the land. Now is a good time to buy stock in drug companies that sell antidepressant drugs. So what went wrong? Lots of things went wrong, and nearly all of them are preventable. We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Although I have lots of things that I would like to see and do, my bucklet list does not contain any of those items. My list consists of great ideas that I want to make a part of my life. When that happens, my life will truly be my message. Until then, I have work to do.
Welcome to the twenty-first century where you can place an entire library of positive books in your shirt pocket. Taking your positive thinking books with you has never been easier. Your entire positive library resides comfortably in your pocket on your smartphone. You literally have a Positive Pocket Library that contains your Positive Pocket Books. Your library even includes Power Graphics that you can view and Positive Podcasts that you play on demand.
Smartphones are exceptionally smart, but they have a problem. Smartphones are not positive. Engineers are not interested in positive. They are interested in performance. I want smartphones to be positive, and it's my goal is to put the positive into smart phones around the world. The wheel of change always turns in the direction of what you put into your mind, and your smartphone gives you the power to fill your mind with positive things and to turn your life in a positive direction. For the first time in history, you hold in the palm of your hand everything you need to have a positive mind.
The war for a positive mind is fought on the battlefield of focus. A persistently positive focus creates a consistently positive mind. That is why positive eBooks and smartphones are so valuable. They help you maintain a persistently positive focus. You need to have a "pocket full of positive" with you at all times. Before the advent of smartphones and positive eBooks, I wrote positive quotes on file cards that I carried around with me. I ended up with a pocket full of file cards that I read through several times a day. Things are different now. I use smartphones and eBooks to push my mind in a positive direction.
The most powerful force in the universe is God's love, and when your heart is full of his love, it's full of God's presence and power. Positive Spiritual Power is not about you. It's about the power of love working through you to make a difference in the world. Spiritual power is not something that you possess; it's something you experience. If you want to have positive spiritual power, you simply become God's love in the world.
Don't believe everything you hear when your mind talks to you. Your mind is always in replay mode, and much of what it says is frankly wrong and out of touch with reality. If you don't like what you hear when your mind talks to you, you have the power to change the message. When your mind starts telling you twisted and depressing thoughts, it time to switch to a different channel. When the inner ogre gets out of control, you don't have to take the abuse. Instead, beat him into submission with positive self-talk from the Positive Self-Talk Store. A few mintues of reading Dr. Dave's positive self-talk will send the inner ogre on his way.
The Positive Thinking Network is the home of positive thinking on the world wide web. It's where you come to discover everything you want to know about positive thinking. There are Positive Podcasts, Power Graphics, Positive Scriptures, Positive Self-Talk, Positive Affirmations, and much more. Your entire family can cruise through hundreds of positive websites. This is web safe cruising at its best. Each web site lifts you up, pushes your mind in a positive direction, and makes it easier to live your dreams. There is something positive for everyone.
The battle against depression is fought on the battlefield of focus. As long as you let depression do all the talking and control your mental focus, the battle is lost. It's impossible to win the battle until you go on the offensive and control the focus of your mind. If you are going to win the battle, you are going to have to discover the power of positive focus and use every tool at your disposal to develop and maintain a positive mental focus.
The Self-Talk University is the home of positive self-talk on the internet. Dr. Dave is the Positive Thinking Doctor, and he has made his self-talk available in one hundred and ninety-six countries around the world. The self-talk comes in different formats so you can read self-talk on your mobile devices, tablets, laptops, and desktops. You can listen to Dr. Dave's self-talk on Positive Thinking Radio, and you can download his Positive Thinking Podcasts on iTunes.
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Too many people have a false model for change. They try to change their life by trying to change their life, and that is the recipe for failure. They are skipping all the steps that make change possible. Big changes don't involve tweaks. They involve jumps. This book contains quantum self-talk that you need to have in your mind so that you can make a quantum leap to the next level. One hundred Power Graphics make it easy to put positive self-talk into your mind. The power of positive repetition is immense, and when your mind starts repeating quantum self-talk back to you, hang on tight, because you are ready to make a quantum leap to the next level. You have thousands of quantum leaps to make in your life, and quantum self-talk is a great place to start. Happy quantum leaping. Quantum Self-Talk is now available in ebook format at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble.
Many people believe change is impossible. Most of the time they are confusing personality with personal behavior. The basic human personality is relatively constant over time, but human behavior can and does change. Personal change happens when people change the way they think. I have numerous patients formerly addicted to meth, cocaine, heroine, and alcohol, who escaped their addictions without ever going to rehab for treatment. They simply arrived at a point in their life where they no longer wanted to be prisoners of their addictions. They had experienced enough misery to last ten lifetimes, and they said no more. They changed their belief about who they are and what they can do with their life, and they became a different person who was chemical free. I am grateful to those patients, because they proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that people in the worst circumstances can and do change. Because of them, I am committed to helping people change their lives one belief at a time using positve self-talk. Positive Self-Talk Yellow Book is now available in ebook format at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble.
Mark Twain wrote, "Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing though one's head." Mark Twain was right. Life consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that blow through your mind. The events of life can be trivial, tragic, and even monumental in nature, but the events themselves have little power. It's the storm of thoughts about those events that controls our lives. Surviving the storm of thoughts is how we spend most of our time. No matter what we do, the storm still blows, and to a significant degree shapes our lives. Surviving the storm is something we do every day all day long. An entourage of thoughts accompanies each event in our lives. Those thoughts can be positive, negative, or most likely, something in between. Those thoughts are the battleground where we come to our agreement with life. Those thoughts define who we are and what we can do. You need to learn how to control the storm of thoughts blowing through your mind. Positive Self-Talk Gold Book is now available in ebook format at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble.
You can change who you are by changing what you say when you talk to your mind. Just be sure you are speaking a language your mind understands. Your brain speaks to you in its own language, and if you speak to it in the same way, it immediately responds in a powerful fashion. That's why change proceeds most rapidly when you talk to yourself using the language of the mind. If you don't speak the language of the mind, you may as well stop talking until you learn it. The three most powerful components of the language of the mind are images, sounds, and emotions. When my brain wants to get my attention, it does not send a text or an email. It blows me away with sights, sounds, and emotions. If you want to get your brain's attention, you need to do the same thing. Send a message full of sights, sounds, and emotions. Start speaking the language that your mind understands. Positive Self-Talk Silver Book is now available in ebook format at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble.
Living small serves no great purpose. Living as if you are a great person is a powerful idea that changes lives, and those who take it seriously change their world. Living as if you are great means you live as if your dreams are possible and work each day to make them happen. You act as if you cannot fail. In order to live as if you are great, you have to think the way great people think, talk the way great people talk, and act the way great people act. Great people think, talk, and act their dreams into existence. If you ever become great, it will be because you think great thoughts, repeat great self-talk, have great expectations, and act as if you cannot fail. Some people wrongly believe that change is impossible. Leopards don't change their spots, and zebra stripes are forever. But people are different. People change their stars. They change their stripes, and their spots disappear in an instant of time. That instant happens the moment they develop positive expectations and believe they have the power to change. Positive self-talk and positive expectations can take you anywhere you want to go. Positive Self-Talk Purple Book is now available in ebook format at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble.
A persistently positive focus creates a consistently positive mind. The same is true of your self-talk. It must be persistent, positive, and specific to have maximum impact. Lack of persistentce has laid more dreams to rest in the cemetery of failure than any other cause. There is zero chance that you will succeed on your first attempt. If your dreams are great, You will fail again and again on your way to the top. Before you can be great, you have to be good. Before you can be good, you have to be bad. Before you can be bad, you have to try. Millions of people stop at try. Thousands get stuck at bad. Hundreds quit at good. A few go all the way to great. If you don't have persistence, you willl never make the trip from try to bad to good to great. Positive Self-Talk Red Book helps you develop a persistently positive focus so that you can develop a consistently positive mind. More than one-hundred Power Graphics contain powerful thoughts that you need to have in your mind. Positive Self-Talk Red Book is now available at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble.


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Majority of China's Proposed Coal-Fired Power Plants Located in Water-Stressed Regions
ChinaFAQs experts from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have projected that China's coal use will peak in 2020 due to increasing energy efficiency and slowing energy demand. As ChinaFAQs expert Ailun Yang discussed, the continued expansion of coal in China faces many problems, such as economic problems with the power sector, strict control of energy prices, and the rising public concern over health and environmental impacts. In addition to these already substantial challenges, rising coal use in China will also run into substantial obstacles in the form of water stress.
The following post originally appeared on WRI's Insights blog:
To maintain its economic growth and provide for its massive population, China must reconcile two powerful, converging trends: energy demand and resource scarcity. One prime example of this tension is the country's coal use and water supply.
According to a new WRI analysis, more than half of China's proposed coal-fired power plants are slated to be built in areas of high or extremely high water stress. If these plants are built, they could further strain already-scarce resources, threatening water security for China's farms, other industries, and communities.
As of July 2012, China's government planned 363 coal-fired power plants for construction across China, with a combined generating capacity exceeding 557 gigawatts (for reference, installed capacity at the end of 2012 was 758 GW). This amounts to an almost 75 percent increase in coal-fired generating capacity. China already ranks as world's largest coal consumer, accounting for almost 50 percent of global coal use.
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Using WRI's Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas, we overlaid the locations of these proposed coal plants on our water stress maps for China. We found that 51 percent of China's new coal-fired power plants would be built in areas of high or extremely high water stress.
Coal Plants Would Add More Stress to Already-Stressed Areas
What Is Water Stress?
Water stress is the ratio of total water withdrawals to available renewable supply in an area. In high-risk areas, 40 percent or more of the available supply is withdrawn every year. In extremely high-risk areas, that number goes up to 80 percent or higher. A higher percentage means more water users are competing for limited supplies. See the high and extremely high-risk areas highlighted in red and dark red on the maps. For more detailed information, please see Aqueduct's Global Maps 2.0 metadata document.
This finding is especially troubling because coal-related industries—mining production, coal-to-chemical, and power generation—are extremely water-intensive. Coal mines depend on water to extract, wash, and process the coal, while coal-burning power plants need water to create steam and cool generating systems. If all of the proposed plants are built, the coal industry–including mining, chemical production, and power generation–could withdraw as much as 10 billion cubic meters of water annually by 2015. That's more than one-quarter of the water available for withdrawal every year from the Yellow River.
Other major takeaways from our analysis include:
60 percent of the total proposed generating capacity is concentrated in six provinces. Those provinces, however, only account for 5 percent of China's total water resources.
In those six provinces, competition for water between domestic, agricultural, and industrial users is already high: 60 percent of the proposed generating capacity is in areas of high or extremely high water stress.
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Managing China's Water-Energy Nexus
The Chinese government has also outlined three national goals for water, called the "Three Red Lines." These "lines" aim to cap annual maximum water use at 700 billion cubic meters (about 25 percent of annual available supply, increase irrigation use efficiency to 60 percent by 2030, and protect water quality to maximize sustainable development.
Those quantity, efficiency, and quality targets are an important first step toward addressing the water-energy trade-off at the heart of China's coal development, but it's important that the country go further. To meet its water cap targets, China needs to it slow down coal development and introduce a combination of significant water saving and efficiency programs into the coal industry.
How China responds to its coal conundrum will impact not only the country's water supply, but its farms, ecosystems, other industries, and communities. Will it build out the proposed coal-fired generating capacity without major technology upgrades and exceed water red line targets? Or will it carefully manage water resources and potentially limit coal capacity? Prioritizing water resource management in its decision-making will better position China to balance its competing economic and resource demands.
- LEARN MORE: For locations of proposed coal-fired power plants across the world, read our Global Coal Risk Assessment
Tianyi Luo, Betsy Otto, and Andrew Maddocks are part of WRI's Aqueduct Team.
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- Isabel Hilton , Chinadialogue
- Trevor Houser , Peterson Institute for International Economics
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- Angel Hsu , Yale Center for Environment and Policy
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- Albert Keidel , Atlantic Council
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- Bo Kong , University of Oklahoma College of International Studies
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Valentine's Day is on the way and heart shaped chocolates aren't the only way to celebrate. Several companies are selling chocolate that "has a heart."
Green Light magazine shares responsible chocolate buying guidelines and recommends five chocolate brands.
Tree Hugger announces a award-winning slave free chocolate brand.
And the San Francisco Chronicle recommends two brands not listed by Green Light that pass both the taste test and the clear conscience test.
Having tried my fair share of these bars, my recommendation is for Alter Eco's bars. They are organic, fair trade, support sustainable farming, and have no artificial ingredients. The Dark Blackout 85% chocolate bar in particular is creamy and rich with no bitterness and should satisfy even discriminating chocolate connoisseurs. Try it and you'll see what I mean.


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Horry County K9 officers get lifesaving tool
Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:00:36 GMT —
The president of the Grand Strand Humane Society, Elena Nicholas, presented seven first aid kits to the Horry County Police Department's K-9 team, Tuesday.
The kits contains everything from bandages and wraps to IV's and thermometers.
"Now we actually have the ability to provide first aid care in order to sustain them until we can get them medical care," said Horry County Police Chief Saundra Rhodes.
The officers were also trained on how to administer medical care to the dogs.
Lt. Brian Mahaffey, with Horry County Fire Rescue, says members of HCFR trained with veterinarians on how to treat the dogs and then passed that knowledge on to the officers who work with the dogs.
"How to start IV's, how to administer fluids, how to stop bleeding, even just assessing a dog is different than a human," Mahaffey said.
The kits cost just over $2,000 and will be worn by the dogs' handlers.


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Obviously, very few of these trades work straight up, so additional players/considerations would need to be included.
EDIT: Note that these are NOT straight up trades and some of the weaker trades would consist of many more players...
Josh Smith (really take your pick of underacheiving SG/SF/PF players...)
Long Shot - Al Harrington - Baby Al's been playing well in Atlanta recently...
Mark Blount - Maybe he can revive his career.... maybe not
Long Shot - Paul Pierce - His game is absurdly good... Will only be traded if Boston get a lot in return and decides to give up on the season
Primoz Brezec - This would be ironic
Long Shot - Gerald Wallace... some fabulous dealings would have to be done to acquire this up and comer
Ben Gordon - If the unhappiness rumors are true
Long Shot - Luol Deng - More long term upside
Luke Jackson - Were the rumors that Bird wanted to draft him true?
Long Shot - Larry Hughes - Perhaps Ron would actually fill this gap better... Ron said he wanted to play in Cleveland
KVH - Who really wants to pay him anyway
Long Shot - Marquis Daniels - Pehaps Dallas actually thinks he is talented...
Voshon Lenard
Long Shot - Andre Miller - They have quite a few PGs... but so do we
Dale Davis
Long Shot - Lets be realistic... there won't be a trade to Detroit...
Golden State:
Dunleavy - Ugh... Maybe GS realizes that they overpaid.
Long Shot - Pietrus... Huge upside
Juwan Howard -
Long Shot - Derek Anderson - Not all that long... also possibly David Wesley... Look for serious interest from the Rockets
LA Clippers - Wilcox - rumors is that he is on the trading block
Long Shot - Maggette - Flashy and solid
La Lakers - Devean George and Brian Cook - Old rumors revived
Long Shot - Odom - Perfect return for Ron Ron...
Memphis - Mike Miller - Do you think West actually like Ron?
Long Shot - Battier - Another Perfect player to get in return for Ron
Miami - James Posey - Solid return, but unlikely to be traded to an eastern contender
Long Shot - Antoine Walker - Only because we wouldn't want him
Milwaukee - Magloire
Long Shot - Bobby Simmons - new acquisitions not as great as planned.
T Wolves - Szczerbiak - A good possibility.. please don't say Skita
Long Shot - Eddie Griffin - Starting to finally play like he should
New Jersey - Zoran Planicic and Clif Robinson
Long Shot - Richard Jefferson - Some are starting to doubt him...
New Orleans - Desmond Mason
Long Shot - Macijausckas - Kinda of a risky return for Ron Ron...
New York - Stephon Marbury
Long Shot - Quentin Richardson - I really don't want either player though...
Orlando - Turkoglu
Long Shot - Steve Francis - A trade of troubled players...
Philadelphia - Iguodala - about as good as we could hope for in return.... Somone in Philly has to really like Artest though.
Long Shot - Webber
Phoenix - Jim Jackson - I'd take him...
Long Shot - James Jones
Portland - Ruben Patterson - Documented unhappiness...
Long Shot - Ratliff and Dixon
Sacramento - Peja - Not a fan, but always a good chance....
Long Shot - Kenny Thomas
San Antonio - none - I just don't see a trade to the Spurs happening in the near future
Seattle - Reggie Evans
Long Shot - Raschard Lewis - I love to dream... Another great trade
Toronto - Jalen Rose or Mo Pete
Long Shot - Bosh if he decides to leave
Utah - Devin Brown et al.
Long Shot - Boozer
Washington - So many possibilites... I'll go with Jarvis Hayes
Long Shot - Jamison
Let me know what you think


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WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role
Review by Psycho Penguin
"Someone at THQ better make sure Steven Richards didn't get his hands on this game.."
I seriously mean that. Because I can see it now. Some random worker at THQ is just minding their own business when suddenly out of nowhere, Steven Richards says ''this wrestling game is immoral. It promotes violence and scanitly clad women and that is simply not acceptable!''. Why do I say this? Because generally speaking, this is one of the most disappointing video games I have ever played. It was well hyped, and for good reason, but the final result was a lot worse than I expected.
Of course, I expected a lot out of this game. How could I not expect a lot? I enjoyed the original WWF Smackdown a lot, to the point I did a full guide for it. It was a fun game despite the fact it did have its flaws. I can go on for hours about the amount of flaws the game had. The story mode was bland and non descriptive, a lot of the videos were outdated, new characters were not added, etc. But the game still had a certain charm to it. It just was fun to play, and I did not get annoyed with it three hours into game play.
That is not to say WWF Smackdown 2 is a horrible game, because it isn't. In all honesty, I was actually kind of impressed with the quality of the game. It had a lot of good points, however three main things made the game turn into the clusterfrick I consider it as. Those three things are slowdown, loading times, and memory card problems. This is where Steven Richards comes into play, I say. I say he busted into THQ headquarters one night, and this is probably what he did..
Steven Richards: ''This game is immoral and will not be tolerated!''
Bull Buchanan: -random jibberish that no one can understand-
Steven Richards: ''That's right! We must fight the good fight and save the fans of this show from the violence and sexuality it promotes!''
Goodfather: ''I got a great idea, Steven! Let's make the game so it takes four years to get through a show in season mode! Then let's add all sorts of slowdown issues to some of the matches! Them, I got the perfect idea! Let's have it so the game erases files sometimes, even on brand new memory cards! When people get a hold of these errors, they aren't going to want to play it!''
Steven Richards: ''That's genius! Round the troops up! We will fight the good fight by censoring this game and it is for their own good!''
Well, they were right, and they were wrong. The fact that the game erased my file four times, with three different copies of the game, two brand new memory cards, and two Playstations, kind of annoyed me. It annoyed mt to the point where I may never play another season mode again, because my last four erased on me. I was able to unlock all the secret characters and other options, like the TLC Match, so I think I can review this game and give it my honest opinion now that I have played every match with every wrestler.
The story line of the game.. well it's different every time you play it. See, think of this game as an actual World Wrestling Federation television show. Different angles with different characters occur all the time on the television show, and it happens in this game, as well. So, I cannot really sit here and comment on an actual story line set in stone for this game, because quite honestly, there is not one. However, I can comment on the angles that the game uses, and to say I was not impressed would be a serious understatement.
One of the things I disliked most about the original WWF Smackdown was the fact the season mode featured incredibly boring and bland story line angles. This game is just as bad. For one thing, the hyped ''matches during shows lead to match at pay per view'' feature does not hold true. For instance, Buh Buh Ray Dudley was feuding with Road Dogg and X-Pac for a while. At the pay per view, I expected Buh Buh Ray Dudley to be involved in a match with either Road Dogg and X-Pac, or maybe both. So, what do I get? Buh Buh Ray Dudley vs. Kane in a falls count anywhere match! How in the hell does that happen? They didn't give a damn about each other during the series of shows in the month. Why are they fighting now? It is pointless, and I was definitely disappointed with that aspect.
Another thing that was kind of hyped about this game was the new scenes it would provide. But what new scenes were there, really? All of the exciting stuff only happens when you get a new wrestler to unlock. Like when the Mean Street Posse is hired by Shane McMahon to take out Steve Blackman, or when Shawn Michaels announces himself as the special referee for Judgement Day. Those are about the only types of scenes that are really any interesting, as the rest of the stuff is pure garbage. Some of the story scenes in the game are interesting and fit in well with the flow of the game. But some of the story scenes in the game just do not make any sense, whatsoever!
For instance, the camera is following Undertaker as he walks along. Suddenly he walks behind a wall, and the camera fails to follow. Loud noises occur, cameraman runs, Undertaker is down. Next match, then the following scene (after two long loading screens, featuring your not so favorite wrestlers), which is basically him saying ''I think my ankle is hurt''. WOW. What a damn doctor he is. ''Some guy just whacked my ankle with a metal rod 20 times, hmmm I think my ankle is hurt''. Gee whiz, I wish I had the Undertaker as a doctor, I doubt I would have the stomach problems I have today! Personally, I would go up to Undertaker and beat the crap out of him with a waffle iron instead of listening to him cry about his ankle, but the game doesn't let you do that, because that would actually be enjoyable.
Finally, the ''interviews'', which is basically ''let the wrestler say two lines, pause for 10 seconds, leaves and mumbling more stuff, as Michael Cole shrugs his shoulders to the cameraman.'' The same thing happens every time! I swear it is one of the most annoying aspects of the game. I will literally be bored to sleep as The Rock says such electfrying things as ''You may have won tonight, (insert wrestler name here) but it is not over yet!''. Then there are the two most wonderful scenes ever: ''(insert wrestler) is here!'' and ''(insert wrestler) is satisfied with the victory.''. The first one is plain dumb, as you better hope every wrestler is there, so why does one wrestler make a difference? Am I supposed to be excited that The Rock is here when I am Tazz and feuding with Kane? And the second one.. I would be satisfied with any win, so the thing makes no sense and is a waste of space.
This ends my ranting on the ''story scenes'' and other story aspects of the game.
Now, I will talk about the graphics in the game. These are not the best graphics I have ever seen, but I have definitely seen worse. The thing that irritated me most about these graphics was the slowdown that plagued almost every kind of match in the game. I got sick of having to watch my guy slowly do a move off the top rope in a ladder match, for instance. It got annoying very quickly because I have never been a fan of slowdown, at all, especially when it is unwarranted for. Did this game need to feature slowdown? Nope, not at all. Did it feature slowdown? Yes! I am definitely disappointed in THQ.
The rest of the graphics, besides the problem with slowdown, are actually pretty good. Let me talk about the character designs in the game first. One of the main problems I had with the original Smackdown when it came to graphics was the fact that the character designs did not look particularly realistic, especially when compared to their television counterparts. Especially Test, my favorite wrestler at the time, he looked like some 1980's punk rock band with his short tights and braided blonde hair.. what the hell? Fortunately, he looks much more up to date and realistic in this game, as do the rest of the character designs.
The ring models and other scenes look all right, but I was definitely disappointed by the look of some of the story scenes of the game. They looked okay, if you did not have the ability to see clipping and other polygon-related problems. Simply put, I was disgusted with how some of the story scenes in the game looked. Let's say, for example, The Undertaker is talking to Michael Cole about a recent match. The background is okay, but the characters look awful. Undertaker's entire face will look messed up, and his body will slow signs of extreme tearing. It's sort of like his leg is being eaten by parasites or something. I was definitely disappointed with the graphics featured in the story scenes of the game.
One of the things I liked most about the original Smackdown was the entrance videos featured in the game. While most wrestling games at the time had the wrestler come out to their entrance music (with the exception of WCW/nWo Thunder, which no one has played in a year, anyway), THQ decided to have wrestlers come out to their actual entrance videos. Yep, they would walk out in front of a ten to fifteen second clip of their entrance video, and it definitely was awesome. Well, I am pleased to say that not only did THQ decide to revitalize this aspect, they actually improved on it, as well. The entrance videos have been updated to their current status (besides The Rock, Billy Gunn, Ivory, The Undertaker, Triple H, and Rikishi), and they actually run longer.
All of the ring entrances are here too, despite the fact the ring is not shown. The Rock puts his hand up in all four corners, Chyna shoots off her little gun, etc. They definitely look awesome, and I also liked how the ring entrance name for the wrestlers would have a different design, depending on the show they were wrestling in, just like the actual television show. That was awesome! The ring entrances were definitely much improved over the original WWF Smackdown, and I loved them to death in that game, too! I am definitely a fan of the entrance videos and ring entrances featured in this game, to say the absolute least.
Now, I will discuss the music and sound effects featured in the game. To say I was disappointed with the music in this game would be a bit of an understatement. I remember the original Smackdown music to this day, as it had a nice beat to it and sounded pretty neat. But this game decided to go an opposite route in the story scenes and play this rock beat type music. The result is some of the worst sounding music I have heard, because it just didn't fit any of the scenes particularly well. I really did not like any of the music featured in any of the story scenes, at all, and I was disappointed by that fact, because I expected to like the music in the game. The music during actual game play was all right, and I definitely did not have to put the game on mute in order to enjoy it, but I was a little disappointed nevertheless, and felt the music could have been done better.
The sound effects in the game are all right but could have been better. One thing I remember reading about in a magazine preview of this game a while back was that the wrestlers actually had voice acting clips, well some of them did. So, of course, I expected them to be featured in the actual game play, matches, etc. Well, it turns out that this is not like WWF Attitude, where the voice acting clips are heard during the match. Nope, instead you only hear stuff like ''And that's the bottom line, because Stone Cold said so!'' and ''If ya smelllllll la la what the Rock is cookin'!'' only occasionally during the rare cool cut scene. That's it, so I was disappointed. The only sound effect you hear during the match is the sound of the bell ringing and the sound of you smashing through the cage or something. And the sound effect that plays when you want to choose a wrestler and go back and forth, ugh, it is so annoying!
Now, I will discuss the control of the game. It is pretty easy to control your characters in the game, as you do not have to type in insane button combinations just to do simple moves like a Pile Driver. Think of it as being just like the original Smackdown in terms of control and you will have a basic feel of what the control in this game is like when it comes to being able to pull off moves. It is easy to move your character around, although I had a bit of trouble at first with the Hell in a Cell and Tables matches. See, I did not know how to put your opponent or to go outside of the cage, so I was waiting for a while, trying to get out. I finally learned how to, and I have had no problems getting out of the cage ever since. The control in this game is just awesome!
The biggest portion of the game I expected to like was, of course, the game play. Let me talk about the variety of wrestlers you can choose from in this game. And let me tell you, if there was a wrestler in the federation at the time of this game, then chances are that wrestler is in the game. About the only wrestlers featured on television now that are not in this game are William Regal, Mideon, K-Kiwk, Molly Holly, and Just Joe. That's it. The rest of them, for the most part, are in this game. Even guys like Rodney and Gerald Brisco are in this game. I loved how I was able to make tag teams too, as I made teams like Dean Malenko and Essa Rios (Team Lightweight!) and the team of Edge and Jeff Hardy! Test and D-Lo Brown was an option, but I decided to keep them as a singles competitors, since they are always mired in tag teams, anyway.
Let me discuss how to make tag teams and stables real quick. Out of the many modes in the game, the one I enjoyed most was the Create a Stable mode. In this mode, you can modify existing stables and tag teams, and create new ones. A stable can have anywhere from 2-5 wrestlers, so you can make a stable, or tag team, and put anyone you want in there. Ever want to see Edge, Christian, and the Hardy Boyz kiss and make up (remember they were friends back in late 1999 around Survivor Series?)?. Well you can put them in their own stable, and have Gangrel or someone be their leader! The possibilities are endless, and I really enjoyed that particular mode featured in the game.
There are a lot of other modes in the game to choose from, as well. Not only does the game feature Create-A-Wrestler and Create-A-PPV modes, it also features a Create-A-Taunt mode, which allows you to basically make your own taunt. There is a lot of different options in this mode, which almost makes it like RPG Maker in terms of complexity. It is definitely fun, however. I remember everyone hated the original WWF Smackdown's Create a Wrestler mode, because you had to choose existing wrestler's body parts to make your own wrestler. Well, I am pleased to say THQ listened and fixed the flaws found in the original's Create a Wrestler mode. Now, it is just like WWF Attitude in terms of how you can modify your wrestler. The amount of options and body parts you can choose from is simply staggering. I really enjoyed this mode, as well.
The season mode in the game was supposed to be improved over the original's season mode, and for the most part is was, but I could not help but be disappointed in it. You now have the ability to go through years of season, but it takes longer this time. Because this time you do not get one show per month (something I never really understood about the original), but instead you get four shows and a pay per view per month. It is still not as much as real television, but come on now, if you had to go through eight shows and a pay per view per month, you would be burned out by the end of the first year. Especially with all the loading times that plagues the season mode and makes it almost unplayable, it just kills the mode basically. Well, I would probably still be playing through it (because you can unlock secret characters and matches in this mode) had the game not erased my damn file four times!
There is simply a staggering amount of matches you can choose from, as well. You can do single matches, which is basically one on one matches (with the ability to include or not include managers for the wrestlers participating in the match), tag team matches, hardcore matches, and anywhere fall matches (they take place in the backstage area, and you can go back and forth between areas, like the kitchen and stuff, it's rather fun). Also, there are handicap matches (two on one or three on one matches, definitely fun stuff), king of the ring (fight your way through three rounds to become king of the ring), royal rumble (basically like a battle royal but you throw your opponent out over the ropes only and a new superstar enters every 60 seconds), Survivor (Triple Threat, Fatal Four Way, or Battle Royal), and Special.
The amount of Special matches in this game is awesome. You can choose from the TLC match, which basically is a Tables, Ladders and Chairs match. You have to unlock this match, and the point of the match is to put your opponent through a table, but you can use ladders and chairs in the process. You can choose a Casket match, where the object is basically to put your opponent in a casket then shut the door of the casket. Or you can do a Cage match, where you and your opponent are surrounded by a steel cage, and the only way to win is to climb out of it. Try your hand in the Hell in a Cell match, which is like a steel cage match, only it has a ceiling. You can climb out of it and head to the top of the Hell in a Cell, which is awesome. Then there is the I Quit match, where the only way to win is to get your opponent to say they quit. There is the Iron Man match, which makes you pin your opponent more times than they pin you in a certain time limit.
Ladder matches are the specialty of the Hardy Boyz, the way to win is to climb a ladder and reach the item found hanging above the ring. You can use the ladder as a weapon during the match, which adds an element of excitement to the match. There is a special referee match, which basically allows you to screw one of your most hated superstars by throwing him in a match and then having his opponent pin him for the quick 3 count, which you count, by the way. Then there is the infamous Tables match, specialty match of those damn Dudleyz. Basically, first team to put their opponents through the tables wins. Finally, there is a slobberknocker match, which basically is like a Gauntlet match of sorts. Your goal is to eliminate as any opponents as you can by either a KO or pin. However, you need to do it before the time runs out, or before you are eliminated!
Overall, I can see why everyone else loved this game, but I am not being persuaded by the evil of THQ. Just look at this mess. The graphics could have been better, the music could have been better, everything could have been better! I loved how easy it was to do moves, and I loved the actual matches, but the season mode suffered greatly because of the slowdown, loading times, and memory card problems that plague this game. It is a fun game, but it is not as fun as everyone else claims, in my opinion. It is still worth at least a rental though, especially if you are a WWF fan.
Good Points
-The actual game itself is very fun to play, as the match speed is nice and fast.
-There is a nice variety of wrestlers to choose from.
-The Create-A-Wrestler mode is much improved.
-There is an awesome amount of modes and options to choose from.
-The control is great, as the moves are easy enough to pull off.
Not So Good Points
-The music and sound effects in the game are not that great.
-The graphics could have been improved.
-The season mode suffers from long loading times.
-The story scenes in the game suck and are generally boring.
-I hated how long it took to go through one show in season mode.
-My file erased four times! And it happened to my friend, too! With three different memory cards, three different copies of the game, and two different Playstations!
I Run Down The Ratings.. DaLadiesMan Style!
Story Line – 3.1/10
Graphics – 7.1/10
Music – 6.8/10
Sound Effects – 6.3/10
Control – 7.1/10
Game Play – 6.3/10
Replay Value – Average
Challenge – Above Average (Mike Sanders)
Is this game worth a purchase? - Yeah.
Overall - 6.4/10
Reviewer's Rating: 3.0 - Fair
Originally Posted: 12/29/00, Updated 07/16/01
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A change is coming at the start of the new year in the company collecting solid waste in the city of Bedford.
At the Tuesday, Nov. 17, Bedford City Commission meeting, bids were opened and considered for solid waste collection for 2016.
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Bedford will again be alight for Christmas. Kenny Greene and Charlie Liston representing the Bedford Rotary Club were at the Bedford City Commission to coordinate event for Dec. 4.
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State Rep. Rick Rand, D-Bedford, spoke to seventh and eighth graders Friday Nov. 20 at Trimble County Middle School. He discussed a wide variety of topics and allowed the students to ask questions. It was a great visit and the students were intrigued to hear what Rep. Rand had to say.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The honor roll information published last week for Trimble County High School was sent to us in reverse order. The corrected version is published below.
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