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My friend recently suffered a severe heart attack while conducting class in his dojo. He would have surely died if not for the quick actions of his students. One immediately called 911 while the other administered CPR until the ambulance arrived.
It was truly a miracle that my friend lived, but part of that miracle was the actions of his students.
You measure a Sensei by his students. My friend must be a great Sensei because his students were able to save his life. It is easy to have students who are strong, good fighters, high ranking, famous, etc. But how many Sensei can say that his students saved his life?
Could you administer CPR to your Sensei if he needed it? Could you administer CPR if your spouse, parent, co-worker, or friend needed it?
I have signed up for a CPR and AED ( automated external defibrillator) course. You can find CPR and other courses at the American Heart Association website.
Charles C. Goodin
A Great Sensei (CPR)
My friend recently suffered a severe heart attack while conducting class in his dojo. He would have surely died if not for the quick actions of his students. One immediately called 911 while the other administered CPR until the ambulance arrived.
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Thursday, May 26, 2011
Kata Should Not Change Unless...
On the subject to kata, and whether or not they should change...
If my Sensei tells me to do a certain kata a certain way, that is how I will do it. If he later tells me to change it back, I will do so. If he tells me to perform the kata backwards, that is what I will do.
My Sensei is my Sensei. I learn from the kata, but they are not my Sensei. Kata are tools, not memorials. A kata cannot take the place of a skilled Sensei.
I learn kata from my Sensei and will perform the kata as he directs. Of course, this does not mean that I cannot study and appreciate other versions.
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Tearing Down Others
Sometimes you will meet a Karate instructor who has something bad to say about everyone. My friend and senior, Sensei Pat Nakata, mentioned to me that during his first visit to Okinawa in the early 1960's, he met an instructor who proceeded to say bad things about many other Karate instructors. Then he met Chosin Chibana. In contrast, Chibana Sensei was very courteous and had only good things to say about other instructors. Nakata Sensei was very impressed by this, and became a lifelong student of Chibana Sensei.
I'm sure that Chibana Sensei knew the strengths and weaknesses of the other Karate instructors on Okinawa, both in terms of Karate technique and character. However, he chose not to speak ill of others. And why would he want to say bad things about other Karate instructors to a visitor from Hawaii?
So why do some instructors say bad things about other instructors? I think that it is because they think that by tearing down others, they are building up themselves. Of course, just the opposite it true. We build ourselves up by training, not by criticizing others.
And even if a criticism is true, what good comes from it? Is the person criticizing others just because he likes to gossip? This, in itself, is a statement about his character.
I was raised with the saying, "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all."
Rampant criticism is bad. So is false praise. To say good things about another instructor, when they are not true, can be just as bad sometimes as speaking badly about him. Suppose a visitor hears your praise and becomes that instructor's student, only to find that he has a poor character and equally poor Karate technique. It would have been better to say nothing at all, and at least to advise the visitor to find out more about the instructor from trusted sources.
We have to be careful about what we say and how we say it. And remember that you cannot build yourself up by tearing down others.
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Wednesday, May 25, 2011
1925 Motobu Article Online!
Please see:
If you click on each page of the slideshow, you will be taken to very large images of this historic article about Choki Motobu. There is also a translation of the article. What an excellent presentation!
Charles C. Goodin
Hawaii Okinawa Today: Hawaii Karate Parts 1 & 2
Now that they are both online, here are links to Parts 1 and 2 of Olelo Karate program:
Thank you very much to everyone who helped with the production, demonstration, exhibition, and the whole event!
Charles C. Goodin
Nekko Ashi Dachi (Cat Stance)
Most styles of Karate use nekko ashi dachi (cat stance) in one form or another. In some styles, the weight is distributed 90% on the back foot and only 10% on the front foot (with the heel raised). The percentages may vary.
The usual explanation for the cat stance is that it makes it very easy to kick with the front foot, since it only holds 10% of the weight. Obviously, it is difficult to kick if that foot is holding a lot of weight. You would have to shift the weight to the other foot first. Essentially, the cat stance is a stance in which the weight has been shifted to the back foot.
So I was thinking: if the cat stance is used for kicking with the front foot, how many times does this occur in our kata? I realize that everyone's kata may differ, but in my own kata sylabus, the answer is... never. At least I could not think of even one instance in which a kick was executed with the front foot from a cat stance.
For Kishaba Juku people, have I missed one? Even if I did, there certainly are not many cases of this.
So why? Why do we put 90% of the weight on the back foot and then not kick with the front foot?
Here is my answer. The 10%/90% weight distribution is just one of many states of the cat stance. The weight distribution changes depending on what you are doing.
Take the Pinan kata. They all start with a left cat stance (turning to the left with the left foot forward). I used to do this with 10% of my weight on the left foot (front) and 90% of my weight on the right (back) foot. When I first went to Okinawa in 2002, I was corrected. I now do these stances, initially, with about 40% of my weight on the left foot (front) and 60% of my weight on the right (back) foot. Depending on the movements, my weight might shift back and forth. In the second movement of Pinan Shodan, for example, my weight will shift to about 75% or 80% on my left foot (front) during the right strike.
Again, looking at the first movements of the Pinan kata, how many are followed by a kick with the front foot? None.
In fact, when there are kicks from cat stances in the Pinan kata, they are done with the back foot! That's right. You take a cat stance to kick with the back leg, which supports most of the weight. So you have to shift some weight to the front foot in order to kick with the back foot.
OK, there are places where you kick with the front foot, sort of. We do kick with the back foot from kosa dachi (cross stance). But the back foot in kosa dachi is like the front foot in nekko ashi dachi (cat stance). If you take a cat stance and bring your front foot back, you will be in kosa dachi. We do tend to kick from this stance.
So here is my point, if cat stance is for kicking with the front foot, then why is it not more common in the kata? If cat stance is not for kicking with the front stance, then why do so many people use a weight distribution based on such a kick?
Why, why, why? I feel that it is good to ask questions.
Of course, and I know you have been thinking it... all stances represent transitions. They are not rigid and fixed. As we move and shift our weight and feet, the stances will change. Rigid, fixed stances only exist in books because photographs are two dimensional representations of a split second in time. As we shift back and forth, we will go through many versions of a cat stance, and the stance will change or morph into others. As we shift and extend forward, we take zenkutsu dachi. As we twist or shift back, we take kosa dachi. As we stand straight up, we take shizentai dachi. We can take many stances in just seconds.
There is not a single, rigid, fixed cat stance. A 10%/90% distribution represents one of many possible versions of the stance. The weight distribution will depend on what you are doing.
So what are you doing? That is a good question to ask. Whenever you perform a movement in a kata, ask yourself what you are doing? Then ask yourself, how does your stance help you to accomplish this? Or does it?
OK, I thought about the nidan geri (double kick) in our kata. We do jump from a cat stance, but in nidan geri you kick with your back foot first, no?
And, as a last thought, of course you can always kick with your front foot if it is opportune to do so. Just because it is not common in the kata does not mean that you cannot do it. If you are in a nekko ashi doing a shuto, for example, you can catch the attacker with the shuto and then kick him with your front foot (or your back foot). You can do whatever works best. Kata are not meant to limit your arsenal -- but for many people they do just that!
Charles C. Goodin
Hawaii Okinawa Today: Hawaii Karate Part 2 - Demonstrations Online
Wow, the new Karate program (Part 2) is online already. Please see:
Thank you very much to David A. Williams for notifying me of the upload and link.
I also want to thank my good friends (and seniors) at the Hawaii Karate Kenkyukai, and their many students, for demonstrating that day. I also want to thank Henry Isara, Steven Arashiro, and the good people at Olelo for producing and hosting the video. Our demonstration and all related events were dedicated to the memory of Mrs. June Arakawa.
Just a reminder, the program will be shown again on Saturday, May 21st at 5 p.m., on 'Olelo, Oceanic Channel 53 (in case you missed it the first time, like I did because I was at training).
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Something Else I Don't Like
I also don't like it when the formalities of the beginning and end of the kata take longer than the kata itself. Just do the kata already!
Disclaimer: Of course, students should follow the formalities required in their dojo or school. I just don't like exaggerated formalities... but that's just me.
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Parking Etiquette
After Karate training, the students and I walk down to the parking lot, where sometimes we chat before heading home. I have a student. Over the years I have noticed that if we get in our cars at the same time, he will always wait for me to leave first. He is showing courtesy even in the parking lot.
Karate is not just what you do in the dojo. What you do in the dojo should really just be the tip of a very large iceberg.
And don't forget that we don't only show courtesy to our Karate instructors and seniors. We should be respectful to our parents, elder family members, co-workers, fellow students, and people in general. Karate applies to all aspects of daily life.
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Yelling Kata Names
I know that I've written about this before, but I was watching some kata videos online...
I really don't like it when the strongest part of a kata performance is the yelling of the kata name at the beginning. Actually, I don't like even saying the kata name at the beginning of a kata. It seems so unnecessary and "loud". I would much rather have the kata speak for itself.
But it seems that some people really get worked up about yelling the kata name, even louder than the kiai during the kata.
I am working on a saying: "Less drama and more trauma." I realize that the "trauma" part needs some work. But when I watch a kata, I hate the "drama." I don't like yelling kata names, or taking a long time to bow at the beginning or the end, or theatrical, posed movements, or shaking hands and arms to represent power, or gi with patches or writing, or belts with patches or writing, or wearing jewelry during training, or colorful gi, or movie-like expressions, or stomping the feet just for sound, or snapping gi (made to snap), or raggedy old belts or gi worn for show, or loud, prolonged, screaming kiai. Perhaps another expression would be: "Less show and more go."
When I observe a strong kata, I think: "I really would not want to get hit by that person."
I also like the classic expression: "Walk softly and carry a big stick." Perhaps for Karate, it could be: "Walk softly and have a strong hit." Again, I am still working on these.
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Today -- Hawaii Okinawa Today Program on 'Olelo -- Okinawan Karate Part 2
This program will be on today:
Hawaii Okinawa Today, a cable program on 'Olelo, Oceanic Channel 53, will feature Part 2 of the program on Okinawan Karate, specifically the Hawaii Karate Kenkyukai's demonstration to celebrate the donation of the Hawaii Karate Museum rare book collection to the University of Hawaii. The program will premiere on Monday, May 16th at 7 p.m., and be shown again on Saturday, May 21st at 5 p.m. It will be one hour. Again, that is on Oceanic Channel 53.Respectfully,
Charles C. Goodin
Matsumura Sensei Visits
This is a story.
Matsumura Sensei had a time machine too. In 1907, he visited his student, Anko Itosu, who was teaching his five Pinan kata at the Okinawan Teacher's College. Poof!
Matsumura watched as Itosu led the students through the five Pinan kata (which Itosu had created to teach in the Okinawan school system).
When they finished, Itosu eagerly asked, "Sensei, what do you think?"
Matsumura Sensei replied, with a Yiddish accent, "The kata I taught you weren't enough, that you had to create five more?"
Itosu was an innovator. If we copy him, are we to copy his specific kata, or copy his innovative approach to Karate training and education?
Oy vey!
Charles C. Goodin
This is a story.
A dojo was having a demonstration. A hundred students were participating and there were hundreds of spectators. All of a sudden, Anko Itosu appeared... poof! Once again, he had used his time machine (which also has a built in English translator for people who are wondering).
The head of the dojo was so happy! With tears in his eyes he introduced Itosu Sensei, who was one of the leading masters of his own style of Karate (Shorin-Ryu). All of the students and the audience erupted with applause.
To celebrate Itosu's visit, the dojo head had the students perform the five Pinan kata. They did so in perfect unison, and then stood at attention, awaiting Itosu's comments.
"Eh," began Itosu stepping up to a microphone, "that's not how I designed the Pinan kata, I remember...."
Before he could finish his sentence the dojo head took the microphone from him and yelled, "Imposter!"
Before the security guards could arrive poof, Itosu Sensei returned to the past.
Charles C. Goodin
Original Kata
This is a story.
A Karate instructor was alone in his dojo, practicing the Pinan kata, when all of a sudden, poof! Anko Itosu appeared.
"Hello," said Itosu Sensei. "I was watching you practicing the Pinan kata back at my home in Okinawa in 1903. Well, since I have a time machine, I thought I would visit you."
"Thank you, Itosu Sensei," exclaimed the instructor. "I practice Shorin-Ryu and we have preserved your Pinan kata unchanged from the time you created them!"
"Well, not quite," replied Itosu Sensei. "Here, let me show you how they are supposed to be done." With that, Itosu Sensei performed each of the five Pinan kata. He then explained the body dynamics for each movement and the applications.
The instructor was beside himself. He could not believe what he had just witnessed. His eyes filled with tears and he sobbed in gratitude.
Itosu Sensei smiled and said, "Well, I have to return to the past. I am just glad that you will now correct your kata and you can teach your students the proper movements, body dynamics and applications."
"There must be some confusion," said the instructor. "I cannot correct the kata. I would get in trouble with my own Sensei if I changed the movements. And I cannot teach your body dynamics for the same reason. People would think I changed styles. We have a fixed set for applications as well. I have to follow them. Otherwise, I would be kicked out of my association and I could lose my dan ranking and titles. Plus, for all these years I have assured my students that I was teaching the authentic Pinan kata. We perform them in tournaments. If I changed them now, they would call me a fraud. I hope you understand."
Itosu Sensei shook his head and poof! He vanished.
The moral of the story is this. Even if Itosu Sensei were to appear and teach his true Pinan, there are people who would not accept it because they are too invested/trapped in a structure or system that prevents them correcting their poor techniques. They would have too much to lose.
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Sunday, May 15, 2011
Why Kata Differ -- Interpretation
Here is a simple kata. Please try to visualize it.
- Stand in a ready position.
- Block to the left with a left downward block in a left long stance.
- Step to the left with a right forward punch in a right natural stance.
- Pull back and turn to the right and step forward with a right downward block in a right long stance.
- Step to the right with a left forward punch in a left natural stance.
- Turn to the front and block to the front with a left downward block in a left long stance.
- Step to the front with a right forward punch in a right natural stance.
- Step to the front with a left forward punch in a left natural stance.
- Step to the front with a right forward punch in a right natural stance.
So here is the catch. Each of us will probably visualize this kata (as I have described it) using our own basics. The only movements I described were downward blocks and forward punches. Only two movements -- but we probably all do them a little (or a lot) differently.
We could all do the movements of the kata, but because we are doing our own interpretations of the movements, we are doing essentially different kata.
I once watched a video of my Sensei giving a seminar to Goju-Ryu students. No matter what he did, they seemed to interpret it in terms of Goju-Ryu basics. Their minds were translating what he did into what they understood (Goju-Ryu). My Sensei would demonstrate a Shorin-Ryu (Kishaba Juku) middle block and they would do a Goju-Ryu middle block. They were the same (in terms of the names of the movements) but quite different (in terms of the execution of the movements).
In our Hawaii Karate Kenkyukai, one of our members is a Goju-Ryu Sensei in the Seko Higa line. When we compare our Fukyugata Ni kata (which was developed by Chojun Miyagi at the same time and as part of the same process by which Fukyugata Ichi was developed by Shosin Nagamine), they seem alike (in form) but quite different (in execution). For example, after the first kick, we strike with the left elbow. So does my friend. Then we block down with a left downward block. They strike to the face with a backfist first, then strike down with something that looks like a hammerfist/sideways ura ken. We block -- they strike twice.
Now who do you think is giving a truer rendition of Fukyugata Ni? My school traces to Shoshin Nagamine. My friend's school traces to Seko Higa, a fellow student of Chojun Miyagi under Kanryo Higashionna. Could it be that we are both interpreting the same kata in light of our own basics? Of course. And, for the record, I am pretty sure that the Goju-Ryu people are doing this kata correctly, or at least closest to the way that Chojun Miyagi designed it. (I still like our way better, because I am comfortable with it, but I appreciate their applications, which I borrow at every opportunity.)
I have also had the opportunity to teach "our" kata in Kishaba Juku to other Shorin-Ryu yudansha from a closely related style. Essentially, we know the same kata, and I used to study and teach that style. You would think that this would be easy since we know the same kata. But no. It is harder than teaching the kata to someone who never learned it. Why? Because they see what I am doing in terms of what they know. I am not doing what they think they are seeing. They are seeing their own images projected onto me. I have to break this illusion and help them to see that I am doing something very different.
Learning kata is an interpretation process. Even if you learn from the source, it is extremely hard to see things as they are.
And that is just the beginning. Once you can see "what" someone is doing, you have to learn to see "how" they are doing it! Now that is really something.
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Sunday, May 15, 2011
Kata Should Never Change?
I often hear that kata should never change. The people saying this, usually also say that they are practicing and teaching the kata exactly as they were created by their originators.
If that is true, something is definitely wrong! Take the Pinan kata. They are only about 110 years old, young by comparison to other Okinawan kata. These kata were taught in the public schools by Anko Itosu and his students and now are widely practiced in many styles of Karate.
But... each style seams to to perform the kata a little differently, sometimes a lot differently. So who is right? Who is wrong. If no one changed the kata, how is it that they are all different?
Obviously, kata do change. OK, I know the answer -- everyone else changed the kata, but we did not.
But even in the same style, kata are often practiced differently by senior instructors. Even one instructor may perform the kata differently over his lifetime. A little change here and a little change there, and soon the kata changes a lot.
I question the basic idea that kata should not change. Why? Since when are kata sacred things? I do not practice Karate for religious reasons. Kata are not like prayers to me. Kata are like tools to me.
Imagine a big toolbox filled with tools and some student putting it on an altar and worshiping it rather than using the tools for their intended purposes. That would be crazy.
Kata are tools. I do not mean that we should change them. The basic form of a kata should not be changed (unless the Sensei decides to do so, in which case the students will follow along).
But each movement in a kata is not a single movement. Each movement is an invitation of a range of movements and variations. How and where we punch, for example, depends on the attacker. We cannot follow the exact specifications of a kata. That would also be crazy.
Rigid, fixed, stuck, frozen. This is how it is when we have a strict interpretation of kata and movements. Kata should not handcuff us, they should free us to movements and applications.
How much of a kata translates into self defense? This is a very fundamental question. How much? What percentage or proportion? In some cases I have seen, I would say none at all!
Kata have no value in and of themselves. They are only valuable if they teach us a useful skill. So what if a kata "looks good?" An attacker won't care. And the odds are that you will not think of the kata when you are attacked. Actually, if you do think of the kata you will almost certainly get beaten very badly. When someone attacks, we have to react (basically without even thinking). No one attacks in the pattern of a kata. We have to be able to appropriately apply each movement of the kata, as needed, adapted to the situation at hand.
Kata should not change, but they have changed. We are missing the point when we elevate kata to items of religious worship. They are tools.
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Friday, May 13, 2011
Hawaii Okinawa Today Program on 'Olelo -- Okinawan Karate Part 2
Hawaii Okinawa Today, a cable program on 'Olelo, Oceanic Channel 53, will feature Part 2 of the program on Okinawan Karate, specifically the Hawaii Karate Kenkyukai's demonstration to celebrate the donation of the Hawaii Karate Museum rare book collection to the University of Hawaii. The program will premiere on Monday, May 16th at 7 p.m., and be shown again on Saturday, May 21st at 5 p.m. It will be one hour. Again, that is on Oceanic Channel 53.
Part 1 of the program featured my lecture on the early history of Karate in Hawaii at the Hamilton Library at the University of Hawaii. Please see: Hawaii Okinawa Today Episode 335
I hope that you can watch it!
The program is sponsored by the HUOA (Hawaii United Okinawa Association) and was created by Mr. Henry Isara, who came to my office earlier this week to film an interview. I was first interviewed by Hawaii Okinawa Today back in 1999. At that time, Mr. Isara was the cameraman and the interviewer was Wayne Miyahira (who passed away not so long ago). Mr. Isara now conducted the interview and edited the program. I really appreciate his hard work and dedication to Okinawan culture.
We all practice Okinawan Karate. Let's not forget to study the "Okinawan" in Okinawan Karate!
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Monday, May 09, 2011
Eh, Not So Good
This is a story.
A Karate instructor visited a great Karate master to observe the kata of the master's top student. The student performed each of the kata of the ryuha flawlessly. The visiting instructor sat and watched in awe. After the student completed the kata, the visiting instructor proclaimed, "That was the most magnificent performance of kata I have ever seen in my life!"
"Eh," replied the master, "It was not so good -- his character is better."
No matter how skilled we may become at the techniques of Karate, our character should always be better.
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Sunday, May 08, 2011


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We have come to that time of month again – blog party. This time, the party is hosted by Jorge Segarra (aka SQLChicken) (Blog | Twitter). The rules have also changed this month, though ever so slightly. Now, we must insert a pic into our blog post rather than include the TSQL Tuesday in our blog title. BTW, this month we are discussing features in SQL 2008 (supposed to be R2, but I am only discussing something that came out with 2008).
Pick your Poison…err Feature.
The feature that I have chosen is compression. In SQL 2008 we have the option to compress backups as well as compress the data. The data can be compressed in two methods as well. I will just be discussing my experience with Page level compression. I will touch lightly on the differences between row level and page level compression.
Do you recall a nifty utility that Microsoft gave us back in the glory days called Doublespace that was later renamed to Drivespace? I do!! Oh the memories are painful still. That little compression agent was renamed due to the inaccuracy of the name. You didn't truly get double the space on your hard drive by using it. I remember numerous support calls related to compression and all of them turned out ugly. Something about compressing your drive and then losing everything because you used a Drive Overlay to access a larger disk drive than the BIOS supported and then used Doublespace to compress it. Or another good one was to lose the doublespace bin files from a compressed drive. You could also see heavy fragmentation issues. All of these have created a heavy bias for me against mass compression utilities.
Ch Ch Ch Changes
Despite my heavy bias against compression, I have always like the ability to compress selectively certain files or folders. The reasons for compressing in this method, for me, have largely been for archival purposes. There are several file compression utilities out there on the market for use in performing this.
How does that relate to database compression? I see database compression, as offered with SQL 2008, to be more like these file compression utilities than DriveSpace. Data compression in SQL 2008 is not an all or none implementation. You get to pick and choose what gets compressed. That is a big time bonus for me.
The Setup
After some research and having learned a bit about compression, I decided to test it out. I have yet to test performance as I have only tested the disk savings that compressing could generate. There is a good demonstration on performance by Jason Shadonix here, for those that are interested. I will be baselining and testing performance at a later time – that is just a bit beyond the scope for this article.
I decided to use a database from our warehouse that resides on SQL 2000, on Windows 2003 32 Bit, currently. I created a backup of that database and restored it to a test box that is running SQL 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 64 Bit. The starting database size was 164GB. The database was also left in SQL 2000 compatibility mode. The selection criteria for tables to compress was to select any table larger than 1GB in size. I used a script I showed in the table space series to determine which tables to target. The script can be found as follows.
DECLARE @dbsize DECIMAL(19,2)
,@logsize DECIMAL(19,2)
** Summary data.
SELECT @dbsize = SUM(CONVERT(DECIMAL(19,2),CASE WHEN type = 0 THEN SIZE ELSE 0 END)) * 8/1024
, @logsize = SUM(CONVERT(DECIMAL(19,2),CASE WHEN type = 1 THEN SIZE ELSE 0 END)) * 8/1024
FROM sys.database_files
** We want all objects.
WITH FirstPass AS (
ReservedPage = CONVERT(DECIMAL(19,2),SUM(reserved_page_count)) * 8/1024,
UsedPage = CONVERT(DECIMAL(19,2),SUM(used_page_count)) *8/1024,
PageCnt = SUM(
WHEN (index_id < 2)
THEN (used_page_count)
ELSE lob_used_page_count + row_overflow_used_page_count
)) * 8/1024,
RowCnt = SUM(
WHEN (index_id < 2)
THEN row_count
FROM sys.dm_db_partition_stats
--Where OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID,'IsMSShipped') = 0
,InternalTables AS (
SELECT ps.OBJECT_ID,
ReservedPage = CONVERT(DECIMAL(19,2),SUM(reserved_page_count)) * 8/1024,
UsedPage = CONVERT(DECIMAL(19,2),SUM(used_page_count)) *8/1024
FROM sys.dm_db_partition_stats ps
INNER Join sys.internal_tables it
ON it.OBJECT_ID = ps.OBJECT_ID
And it.internal_type IN (202,204,211,212,213,214,215,216)
WHERE it.parent_id = ps.OBJECT_ID
--And OBJECTPROPERTY(ps.OBJECT_ID,'IsMSShipped') = 0
GROUP BY ps.OBJECT_ID
,Summary AS (
ObjName = OBJECT_NAME (f.OBJECT_ID),
NumRows = MAX(f.rowcnt),
ReservedPageMB = SUM(IsNull(f.reservedpage,0) + IsNull(i.ReservedPage,0)),
DataSizeMB = SUM(f.PageCnt),
IndexSizeMB = SUM(CASE WHEN (f.UsedPage + IsNull(i.UsedPage,0)) > f.PageCnt
THEN ((f.UsedPage + IsNull(i.UsedPage,0)) - f.PageCnt) ELSE 0 END) ,-- Equivalent of max_record_size from sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats
UnusedSpace = SUM(CASE WHEN (f.ReservedPage + IsNull(i.ReservedPage,0)) > (f.UsedPage + IsNull(i.UsedPage,0))
THEN ((f.ReservedPage + IsNull(i.ReservedPage,0)) - (f.UsedPage + IsNull(i.UsedPage,0))) ELSE 0 END),
DBSizeMB = @Dbsize,
LogSizeMB = @logsize
FROM FirstPass F
LEFT Outer Join InternalTables i
ON i.OBJECT_ID = f.OBJECT_ID
GROUP BY f.OBJECT_ID
SELECT ObjName,NumRows, ReservedPageMB, DataSizeMB, IndexSizeMB, UnusedSpace, DBSizeMB, LogSizeMB,
PercentofDB = ((IndexSizeMb + DataSizeMB) / @DBsize) * 100
INTO #LargeTables2Compress
FROM Summary
ORDER BY PercentofDB DESC
In this script, you will note that I am dumping the results into a temp table. I wanted to be able to run a few different cases against the data to check results quickly without running the entire query over again. Though, running this particular query would not take that long in most cases. Consider the temp table a fail-safe to prevent long execution times of the query.
To determine which tables from the previous query I would target, I employed a script similar to the following.
SELECT 'Alter Table ' + objname +' rebuild with (Data_Compression = Page);'
FROM #LargeTables2Compress
WHERE DataSizeMB > 1000
This is pretty straight-forward. I am only selecting those tables from the temp table that are larger than 1 GB. I am also concatenating a string to those tables for manual execution purposes. I can now see which tables are "large" and compress them with Page level compression or not (note: the same sort of script would work for Row Level compression). After, I was happy with the result set and which tables would be compressed, I proceeded with compressing the tables. Recall that the database started at 164GB. After compression of the handful of tables (30 versus the 460 tables in the database), the database used space was now down to 84GB. That is a reduction of ~49% in space requirements for this database. For me, that is a pleasing result.
What if…
Should you decided to run this process again, the tables that you have already compressed will be included in the result set. Should you proceed with running the table alter scripts again, you will not get any better compression and the compression will remain in effect. Or, you could eliminate those tables that are compressed by altering the script provided to also read from sys.partitions as in the following script.
SELECT 'Alter Table ' + objname +' rebuild with (Data_Compression = Page);'
FROM #LargeTables2Compress
WHERE DataSizeMB > 1000
And objname in
(SELECT OBJECT_NAME(p.OBJECT_ID) FROM sys.partitions p
WHERE p.data_compression =0
And OBJECTPROPERTY(p.OBJECT_ID,'ISMSShipped') = 0
Without hard and fast numbers concerning performance, a final conclusion could not be made concerning whether to compress or not. Having run a few dry runs to test if processes still worked, I am pleased with the performance (it is faster – I don't have the final data to back that now though). The disk savings and even with a stalemate on performance, I like the compression that is offered in SQL 2008.

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An Ocean of Blessing
Yesterday I started reading A Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. A friend suggested it, saying that her writing reminded this friend of my own. Only a few chapters into as of yet, there is much on the pages that resonates with me spiritually and philosophically but today the sun is out after reading some of this book mostly what I am feeling is a longing to be near the coast. Nothing in all the world feels as good and perhaps as close to home for me as warm sand between my toes and the sea's gentle breath on my cheeks.
Growing up my family spent at least two weeks at the coast every summer in a small town called Manzanita a few miles south of Cannon Beach. My parents' friends, the Walters, owned a small rusty red house almost across the street from the beach. Every summer we would return there, usually in August when the sun in the city was just starting to reach the point of sweltering miser-ability for us all. To this day I can remember the sisal rugs in the little red house, the plexi-glass shower door, the small winding staircase with a water heater underneath, and how the paint was more faded each summer and always peeling ever so gently from the edges of the shingles. Inside I can picture in my mind the big round tufted chair from the 1920s covered in a horribly itchy moss green fabric. I would spend ours on it in my swimsuit with an itchy butt paging through one of the books that lived at the house. There was one large black and white photography book with pictures of naked and bare chested women from the same era as that old green chair and we, as in whatever other children happened to have joined us at the beach that year, would sneak peeks secretly when no adults were nearby. The dining room was to the left of the living room when you walked in the front door and there in the cupboard in the corner were stacks of old board games. On colder or rainy days and at night we would sit for hours playing Sorry and Monopoly. At night, if it was too cold or the weather conditions were not ideal for a campfire, we would keep a fire burning in the wood stove which lived directly across the room from the green chair and next to the kitchen door. Here we would perch ourselves on the brick surrounding the stove and toast marshmallows and make s'mores. It was always a little bit cold in that little red house, especially at night and we drank a ton of hot cocoa with mini marshmallows when we were at the beach. These were a big treat for my brother and I and the special treats to be had at the beach didn't end there. We got to have all those mini boxes of sugar cereal that you pour the milk right in to whereas at home it was always oatmeal with raisins (yuck), or generic Cherrios. In addition, everyday at the coast we were given a quarter or two and would stroll downtown to the Big Apple Market and purchase Laffy Taffy and Jolly Ranchers for two cents each. I recall that sour apple was my favorite and my least favorite banana, a taste preference which has stayed with me until this day.
It seems in my memory that my brother and I were given complete freedom to roam around town as we pleased. We could come to and fro to the house and to the beach and back several times each day. And although we each got a new pair of saltwater sandals each summer, we always skpped around town barefoot. Where there were not sidewalks, which was most places, there were gravel roads. And no matter how much you walked on them, it always hurt tremendously. I can still feel the sensation of hundreds of small jagged pebbles poking into my heels and the balls of my feet as I jetted around quickly, endlessly willing myself to be weightless in their sharp pain. Funny that all the willpower in the world never worked and yet and still sandals always just felt much too constraining.
During the day we spent most hours, as one should when at the coast, on the sand and in the water. And sometimes, in the sand too, buried. When I think back to how deep we would go into the ocean I can hardly believe it primarily because it is so dangerous and secondly, because this is Oregon and its so damn cold! These days during even the warmest beach weather its all I can do to wade in the icy water for a few hundred feet before I have to escape again for warmer and dryer land. We would hunt for rogue jellyfish and buy cheap plastic kites which always seemed to break more than they ever flew; surely operator error. My mom would usually accompany us down to the beach but here she became more sedative than in most other moments of her life whereas we would go crazy as soon as our feet touched the sand kind of like my dog does today, electrified by the pure freedom and joy of it all. My mom on the other hand, and other adults who might also be joining us for a few days or a week, seemed to morph into big boring slugs. They would always bring a blanket and a book and would find a warm spot and just park it there for hours on end. At the time it looked like the most boring thing in the world to me but at the ripe old age of thirty, a day or even a few hours spent laying on a beach in the sun with a book and nothing but the sound of the sea and the birds to keep me company sounds almost exactly like heaven. Every few hours my mom would rise from the green and blue plaid blanket we keep in the trunk of our car the rest of the year and take off on a long walk, disappearing into the coastal horizon. About an hour or so later she would return and find herself a spot back on the blanket and either take another nap or read. She was always so quiet in this place.
On some afternoons we would go for long walks throughout town and on one such occasion we happened upon an alley full of wild blackberry bushes. On all the summers that followed we returned to this spot and strolled back to the house merrily with pink stained fingertips to make homemade blackberry ice cream in our old-fashioned, hand-crank ice cream maker.
One summer my mom took myself and four friends in our old split-pea green Volkswagen bus for my birthday. We only made it as far as Seaside before the clunker broke down and my dad and grandpa had to drive out and shuffle us a few dozen miles south to the house in Manzanita and then return a few days later to pick us back up and bring us back to the city. One summer I had a broken arm and had to come back into the city for my arm to be examined by the doctor and then we returned all the way back to the coast that afternoon.
Another summer my mom espied a rusty old claw foot bathtub in the old shed out back of the beach house. My mom's friend Ginger, the owner of the house, sold it to my mom for a few hundred dollars I think. I always thought that was kind of stingy of her charging us for a bathtub that had very obviously been there much longer than she had been in possession of the house and because it was very clear that she had no intention of every doing anything with it. In any event, by this point in time my brother and I were on the cusp of our teenage years and we had traded in our old Volkswagen bus for a spiffy new Nissan minivan that had captains chairs for the middle row of seats and what I thought was the coolest thing ever, a tiny fridge big enough to old a six pack of soda between the two front seats. That summer we took all the seats out of the van and in the bathtub went. Somewhere there's a photo of my mom, her face red and sun-kissed and her hair windblown into a soft crown of grey around her face, laying in that bathtub in the back of the minivan. She had the bathtub refinished and painted the feet gold and the outside black. On top of the black she painted a sea of soft pink roses. I was happy to see a few years ago when the house I grew up in was for sale by the people my parents had sold it to when I was thirteen, that despite other changes and remodeling they had done, my mom's flowered bathtub remained.
The last time I stayed at this house or in Manzanita was the summer before what was I think, my senior year of high school. My parents had been divorced that spring and my mom took my friend Lizzy and I for several days to stay in the little red house and escape the city and our newly unfamiliar lives. At the time Lizzy and I both had our permits, had been learning to drive for several months, and were both anxiously awaiting our soon approaching drivers' tests. One morning my mom handed me the keys to her car and some money and told us to take ourselves out to breakfast. In that single moment, probably for the first time since I had become a teenager, my mom became cool again. I still have a picture of myself somewhere sitting proudly in the driver's seat getting ready to drive without an adult in the car for the first time, sheer exhilaration radiating from my smile. The temptation was, of course, too good to resist and Lizzy and I spent several dozen minutes cruising around town before we headed to and quickly inhaled our breakfast.
I hadn't though about much about any or all of this until most of these words poured onto the page today. I guess memories of my life run deeper than I often realized. And I suppose reading the perspective that being at the coast brought Anne Morrow Lindbergh's and the grace she felt around her during her own time at the there, brought my past to the surface. I think in this moment, that these many weeks spent by the ocean with my family and sometimes my friends over the years just might be some of the very happiest moments of my life thus far. Its funny that I can still recall today with perfect clarity the way things in that place looked and felt and smelled and tasted and sounded and yet, it feels a world away. So very much besides the aging of my mind and body have happened in the years between the last time I slept in that little rusty red house when I was sixteen. When I was a teenager Jim Walter, who owned the place with his wife, was in a car accident with his son Trevor, several years my junior. Trevor survived, Jim did not. As fate would have it, about a decade later my mom's life would end the same way that Jim's did. I often wonder about Jim's children and how his sudden death affected them, if they are able to commune with and feel him with them when they have returned to their family's little red beach house over the years. I will probably never be able to go to the coast and not feel a twinge of sadness that my life will never be as simple and carefree an full of love as it was all those many year ago despite the peace and serenity that seem to inevitably wash over me when I am there. Yet and still today I am feeling so thankful to have such truly blessed memories even if they exist in a place that can never ben revisited in real life. To think that for a time I had it so damn good, that so many people wish they could be so lucky.
In the years between then and now wars have stared and ended, millions of babies have been born, perhaps billions, global warming has sped up its cycle and in my own life, in my own miniscule world there have been deaths and divorces and graduations and there have been new kinds of love, crippling self-doubt and astounding spiritual revelations that have come as a result of all of these things. Returning to that time and place of innocence is not now nor will it ever be an option. But so long as I am living, I will be ever searching to be enlightened by grace moments of clarity about the purpose of my life like those that seem to so easily settle in when my feet are buried in the sand and I witness the world breathing in and out with every giant ebb and flow of the ocean's tide. I will always be trying to live as much of my life in the state of momentary grace and wholeness that my mom seemed to be in whenever she laid there in silence on the sand letting the sun's warmth settle into her every pore.
I am greedy for the world and for peace and for solitude as well as for the company and companionship of others souls. I am greedy for enlightenment of any kind and for perspective like one can find in the quiet company of their own spirit at the coast. May we all strive to be so at peace with our lives despite and because of their brokenness and their beauty. May we be able to revisit happy places from our past in our minds during moments when a sneaker waves comes up and rolls over us unexpectedly, knocking us momentarily off of our feet until we can sure again our footing in the sand and see that whatever this wave is, it too shall pass. And lastly, may we always be looking for opportunities to create new traditions and find evermore places and people and things around us to be thankful for. In memory of my of my dear old mom who would have turned 58 next week and the place she loved to be more than any other in the world, Namaste.


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The department of nursing at Hope College and the Grand Valley State University Kirkhof College of Nursing have entered into a partnership intended not only to benefit students but to help address a national need.
Through the agreement, GVSU will designate a total of four spaces in its graduate-level nursing program each academic year for qualified applicants from Hope: two in the master's-level Clinical Nurse Leader (MSN-CNL) program, and two in the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. The agreement is effective for the 2012-13 academic year.
Dr. Susan Dunn, who is an associate professor of nursing and chairperson of the department at Hope, noted that the U.S. faces a nationwide shortage of nurses. According to projections in 2007 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than one million new and replacement nurses will be needed by 2016, with government analysts projecting that more than 587,000 new nursing positions will be created through 2016, making nursing the nation's top profession in terms of projected job growth. The need for nurses with advanced education, she said, is particularly acute.
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The relationship with GVSU continues the Hope department's outreach to graduate-level programs. In 2009, Hope and the College of Nursing at Michigan State University entered into a partnership that assures two seats to qualified applicants from Hope in the university's accelerated BSN to Ph.D. program.
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TMZ cameras caught up with Cowell as he left a dinner date (platonic, mind you!) with fellow new 'X Factor' judge Demi Lovato. The polite-yet-aggressive film crew asked Cowell, "Do you think you're going to get to 20 million viewers?" Cowell gave a sly smile and replied, "I think we'll get close."
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Since I celebrated my "Medicare Birthday" this week, I thought it would be a good chance to chronicle all of my female ancestors at the same age! . . . all the female ancestors that I have pictures of, that is! Each one of my grandmothers are either exactly 65 or a year on either side of it
Can you figure out who I resemble? Hint: it is not my mother!
My great-great grandmother, Amelia D. Gode, at least 65 years old
(my mother's great grandmother)
My great-great grandmother, Catharine Auxer Niess, age 65
(My father's great grandmother)
My Great Grandmother, Minnie Goda von Breyman, age 65
(my mother's grandmother)
My great-grandmother, Carrie Carvell Niess, age 65
(my father's grandmother)
Catharina Dorothea Schultz Lindgren
(my mother's grandmother)
My grandmother, Nellie Viola Niess Sherman, 60+ years old
(my father's mother)
My grandmother, Bertha E. von Breyman Lindgren
(my mother's mother)
My mother, Catharine Dorothea Lindgren Sherman
. . . .and now you know who I'm named after! My name is:
Dorothea (after my great-grandmother Lindgren and my mother)
Linda (after my grandfather, who was called "Lindi" and had nobody named after him!)
and of course, Sherman, carrying on my father's name!
We all reached the age of 65, but only myself, my mother and my two grandmothers ever saw Social Security benefits.
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Rees was pulled over shortly before 3:00 AM for a traffic violation. According to Las Vegas police, when they attempted to arrest her, "she became physically aggressive towards the officer."
Cops tell us they were just going to cite Rees but when she went nuclear, they took her in. FOX5 in Las Vegas broke the story.
Rees was famously stripped of her crown after salacious photos surfaced, showing Rees in some interesting positions with a few other babes.


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District Attorney Craig Ladd said he is declining charges in the Jan. 25 slaying of Jeremy Kildow.
"The investigative report submitted by the Carter County Sheriff's Department indicates that the decedent, Jeremy Kildow, died as a result of stab wounds he sustained on or about January 25, 2013, at the hands of his brother (Chance Jacobs, 23). The investigation further revealed that, at the time of the stabbing, Mr. Kildow was in the process of physically threatening and assaulting at least four family members, including his brother, in a confined area. Considering the circumstances during the time period in question in conjunction with prior behaviors of Mr. Kildow, the actions of his brother appear to have been a reasonable effort to defend himself as well as other family members," Ladd said Friday. "The incident is tragic, and this family is dealing with a tremendous amount of sorrow. Nevertheless, I do not believe that the filing of criminal charges is warranted based upon the information known to me at this time."
Kildow's body was discovered lying in a field near the intersection of State Highway 53 and Butler Road near Springer about 2 p.m. Jan. 26. The Carter County Sheriff's Department responded to the location. At the time Sheriff Ken Grace said deputies had responded to a report of a domestic disturbance about 14 hours earlier at a trailer located near the field. The mobile home was occupied by several members of Kildow's family. Grace said Kildow had left the residence before deputies arrived.
The sheriff said it appeared the 27-year-old victim had walked out of the residence and into the field before dying of "what appeared to be multiple stab wounds." Grace said, 'He was found about 75 to 100-yards away (from the residence)."
His body was sent to the state Medical Examiner's Office for autopsy and an official cause of death determination.
CCSD Criminal Investigator Rick Batt was assigned to lead the investigation, which included what was described as "a number of persons of interest."
Just days later the sheriff confirmed Jacobs had confessed to stabbing his brother, but he said evidence surrounding the altercation indicated, "it could be the result of self defense." Jacobs was not arrested at the time nor detained. The sheriff said Jan. 29 all reports concerning Kildow's death were being forwarded to Ladd for review.
Friday Grace said his department was "fortunate" to have a person with Batt's abilities.
"Rick has unique capabilities that far exceed the norm. In cases, like this one, involving a tragic set of circumstances he is able to be empathic while still maintaining his professionalism. As a result Rick is able to gather a thorough and complete set of facts quickly and efficiently. Rick also is able to work hand in hand with the district attorney and his staff in order to secure whatever additional information and or evidence they may need to make prosecutorial decisions," Grace said.
"We are also very appreciative of the district attorney and his staff for their willingness to work as a team with the sheriff's office."
DA rules Kildow slaying self-defense
District Attorney Craig Ladd said he is declining charges in the Jan. 25 slaying of Jeremy Kildow.


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America needs one million new farmers; returning war veterans need jobs.
Enter Ground Operations, the new documentary that follows vets who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan only to face a daunting transition back to civilian life. As filmmakers Dulanie Ellis and Raymond Singer show, organic food production is creating a restorative road home. Working with soil, plants, and animals, veterans de-escalate from the high velocity of combat in a revitalizing natural setting. "I realized I could be a nurturer instead of a destroyer, and that was a significant realization for me," says a Marine.… Read more >>


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Bush and Gore in Their Own Words
Following are excerpts from the speeches given by Texas Governor George W. Bush, a Republican, and Vice President Al Gore, a Democrat, in accepting the presidential nominations at their parties' national conventions this summer.
George W. Bush
This is a remarkable moment in the life of our nation. Never has the promise of prosperity been so vivid. But times of plenty, like times of crisis, are tests of American character.
Prosperity can be a tool in our hands used to build and better our country, or it can be a drug in our system dulling our sense of urgency, of empathy, of duty. Our opportunities are too great, our lives too short, to waste this moment.
So tonight, we vow to our nation we will seize this moment of American promise. We will use these good times for great goals.
We will confront the hard issues, threats to our national security, threats to our health and retirement security, before the challenges of our time become crises for our children.
And we will extend the promise of prosperity to every forgotten corner of this country: to every man and woman, a chance to succeed; to every child, a chance to learn; and to every family, a chance to live with dignity and hope. . . .
. . . Tonight in this hall, we resolve to be the party not of repose but of reform. We will write not footnotes but chapters in the American story. We will add the work of our hands to the inheritance of our fathers and mothers and leave this nation greater than we found it.
We know the test of leadership. The issues are joined. We will strengthen Social Security and Medicare for the greatest generation and for generations to come.
Medicare does more than meet the needs of our elderly; it reflects the values of our society. We will set it on firm financial ground and make prescription drugs available and affordable for every senior who needs them.
Social Security has been called the third rail of American politics, the one you're not supposed to touch because it might shock you. But if you don't touch it, you cannot fix it. And I intend to fix it. . . .
. . . As governor, I've made difficult decisions and stood by them under pressure. I've been where the buck stops in business and in government. I've been a chief executive who sets an agenda, sets big goals, and rallies people to believe and achieve them. I am proud of this record, and I am prepared for the work ahead. If you give me your trust, I will honor it. Grant me a mandate, I will use it. Give me the opportunity to lead this nation, and I will lead.
And we need a leader to seize the opportunities of this new century: the new cures of medicine, the amazing technologies that will drive our economy and keep the peace. But our new economy must never forget the old, unfinished struggle for human dignity. And here we face a challenge to the very heart and founding premise of our nation.
A couple of years ago, I visited a juvenile jail in Marlin, Texas, and talked with a group of young inmates. They were angry, wary kids. All had committed grown-up crimes. Yet when I looked in their eyes, I realized some of them were still little boys.
Toward the end of the conversation, one young man, about 15 years old, raised his hand and asked a haunting question, "What do you think of me?" He seemed to be asking, like many Americans who struggle: Is their hope for me? Do I have a chance? And, frankly, do you, a white man in a suit, really care about what happens to me?
A small voice, but it speaks for so many: single moms struggling to feed the kids and pay the rent; immigrants starting a hard life in a new world; children without fathers in neighborhoods where gangs seem like friendship or drugs promise peace, and where sex sadly seems the closest thing to belonging. We are their country too. And each of us must share in its promise or the promise is diminished for all.
If that boy in Marlin believes he's trapped and worthless and hopeless, if he believes his life has no value, then other lives have no value to him, and we're all diminished.
When these problems are not confronted, it builds a wall within our nation. On one side are wealth, technology, education and ambition. On the other side of that wall are poverty and prison, addiction and despair. And my fellow Americans, we must tear down that wall.
Big government is not the answer, but the alternative to bureaucracy is not indifference. It is to put conservative values and conservative ideas into the thick of the fight for justice and opportunity.
This is what I mean by compassionate conservatism. And on this ground, we will lead our nation.
We will give low-income Americans tax credits to buy the private health insurance they need and deserve.
We will transform today's housing rental program to help hundreds of thousands of low-income families find stability and dignity in a home of their own.
And in the next bold step of welfare reform, we will support the heroic work of homeless shelters and hospices, food pantry and crisis pregnancy centers, people reclaiming their communities block by block and heart by heart. . . .
. . . My generation tested limits, and our country in some ways is better for it. Women are now treated more equally.
Racial progress has been steady; it's still too slow. We're learning to protect the natural world around us. We will continue this progress, and we will not turn back.
At times we lost our way, but we're coming home.
So many of us held our first child and saw a better self reflected in her eyes. And in that family love, many have found the sign and symbol of an even greater love, and have been touched by faith.
We discovered that who we are is more than important than what we have. And we know we must renew our values to restore our country. . . .
. . . So when I put my hand on the Bible, I will swear to not only uphold the laws of our land, I will swear to uphold the honor and dignity of the office to which I have been elected, so help me God.
I believe the presidency, the final point of decision in the American government, was made for great purposes. It is the office of Lincoln's conscience, of Teddy Roosevelt's energy, of Harry Truman's integrity and Ronald Reagan's optimism.
For me, gaining this office is not the ambition of a lifetime, but it is the opportunity of a lifetime, and I will make the most of it.
I believe great decision are made with care, made with conviction, not made with polls.
I do not need to take your pulse before I know my own mind. I do not reinvent myself at every turn. I am not running in borrowed clothes.
When I act, you will know my reasons. And when I speak, you will know my heart.
I believe in tolerance, not in spite of my faith, but because of it.
I believe in a God who calls us not to judge our neighbors but to love them.
I believe in grace because I've seen it, and peace because I've felt it, and forgiveness because I've needed it.
I believe true leadership is a process of addition, not an act of division.
I will not attack a part of this country because I want to lead the whole of it.
Al Gore
This election is not an award for past performance. I'm not asking you to vote for me on the basis of the economy we have.
Tonight, I ask for your support on the basis of the better, fairer, more prosperous America we can build together.
Together, let's make sure that our prosperity enriches not just the few, but all working families. Let's invest in health care, education, a secure retirement and middle-class tax cuts.
I'm happy that the stock market has boomed and so many businesses and new enterprises have done well. The country is richer and stronger. But my focus is on working families, people trying to make house payments and car payments, working overtime to save for college and do right by their kids.
Whether you're in a suburb or an inner-city, whether you raise crops or drive hogs and cattle on a farm, drive a big rig on the interstate or drive e-commerce on the Internet, whether you're starting out to raise your own family or getting ready to retire after a lifetime of hard work: So often, powerful forces and powerful interests stand in your way, and the odds seemed stacked against you, even as you do what's right for you and your family. How and what we do for all of you -- the people who pay the taxes, bear the burdens, and live the American dream. That is the standard by which we should be judged.
And for all of our good times, I am not satisfied. To all the families in America who have to struggle to afford the right education and the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs, I want you to know this: I've taken on the powerful forces. And as president, I'll stand up to them, and I'll stand up for you. . . .
. . . And I will never forget a little boy named Ian Malone, who suffered from a medical mistake during childbirth and needs full-time nursing care for several years. I met him and his parents in Seattle, near Everett, Washington, their home. Their HMO had told the Malones it would no longer pay for the nurse they needed, and then, actually told them they should consider giving Ian up for adoption. That's when his mom and dad got really mad. They told their story in public, and the HMO was embarrassed. Because they fought for their baby, today Ian has the care he needs to stay alive. But no family in America should have to go on national television to save their child's life. Dylan and Christine Malone are here with us tonight. Ian's here, too. And I say to them, and to all the families of America: I will fight for a real, enforceable Patients' Bill of Rights.
It's just wrong to have life and death medical decisions made by bean-counters at HMOs who don't have a license to practice medicine and don't have a right to play God. It's time to take the medical decisions away from the HMOs and insurance companies and give them back to the doctors, the nurses, and the health care professionals. Let's make that a bipartisan issue.
So this is not just an election between my opponent and me. It's about our people, our families and our future -- and whether forces standing in your way will keep you from living a better life. To me, this election is about Mildred Nystel, Jacqueline Johnson, Caterina Gutierrez, Ian Malone. It's about millions of Americans whose names we may never know but whose needs and dreams must always be our calling. And so here tonight, in the name of all the working families who are the strength and soul of America, I accept your nomination for president of the United States of America. . . .
. . . I'm here to talk seriously about the issues. I believe people deserve to know specifically what a candidate proposes to do. I intend to tell you tonight. You ought to be able to know, and then judge for yourself.
If you entrust me with the presidency, I will put our democracy back in your hands, and get all the special-interest moneyall of it -- out of our democracy, by enacting campaign finance reform. I feel so strongly about this, I promise you that campaign finance reform will be the very first bill that Joe Lieberman and I send to the United States Congress.
Let others try to restore the Old Guard. We come to this convention as the change we wish to see in America. And what are those changes?
At a time when most Americans will live to know even their great-grandchildren, we will save and strengthen Social Security and Medicare, not only for this generation, but for generations to come.
At a time of almost unimaginable medical breakthroughs, we will fight for affordable health care for all so patients and ordinary people are not left powerless and broke. We will move toward universal health coverage, step by step, starting with all children. Let's get all children covered by 2004. And let's move to the day when we end the stigma of mental illness, and treat it like every other illness, everywhere in this nation. And I thank you, Tipper, for leading the way.
Within the next few years, scientists will identify the genes that cause every type of cancer. We need a national commitment equal to the promise of this unequaled moment. So we will double the federal investment in medical research. We will find new medicines and new cures, not just for cancer, but for everything from diabetes to HIV/AIDS. . . .
. . . There's one other word we've heard a lot of in this campaign, and that word is honor. To me, honor is not just a word, but an obligation. And you have my word: We will honor hard work by raising the minimum wage so that work always pays more than welfare.
We will honor families by expanding child care, and after-school care, and family and medical leave so working families have the help they need to care for their children because one of the most important jobs of all is raising our children.
And we'll support the right of parents to decide that one of them will stay home longer with their babies if that's what they believe is best for their families.
We will honor the ideal of equality by standing up for civil rights and defending affirmative action.
We will honor equal rights and we will fight for an equal day's pay for an equal day's work.
And let there be no doubt: I will protect and defend a woman's right to choose. The last thing this country needs is a Supreme Court that overturns Roe v. Wade.
We will remove all the old barriers so that those who are called disabled can develop all their abilities.
And we will also widen the circle of opportunity for all Americans, renew the Voting Rights Act, and enforce all our civil rights laws with the budget and personnel that are necessary. Hear me well.
We will pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
And we will honor the memory of Matthew Shepard, Joseph Ileto and James Byrd, whose families all joined us this week -- by passing a law against hate crimes. They are different. We need to embody our values in that new law. It's time. . . .
. . . I know my own imperfections. I know that sometimes people say I'm too serious, that I talk too much substance and policy. Maybe I've done that tonight. But the presidency is more than a popularity contest. It's a day-by-day fight for people. Sometimes, you have to choose to do what's difficult or unpopular. Sometimes, you have to be willing to spend your popularity in order to pick the hard right over the easy wrong.
There are big choices ahead, and our whole future is at stake. And I do have strong beliefs about it. If you entrust me with the presidency, I know I won't always be the most exciting politician. But I pledge to you tonight: I will work for you every day and I will never let you down.
If we allow ourselves to believe, without reservation, that we can do what's right and be the better for it, then the best America will be our America.
In this City of Angels, we can summon the better angels of our nature. Do not rest where we are, or retreat. Do all we can to make America all it can become.


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