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Am Donnerstag 12 Juli 2007 16:14 schrieb M. Edward (Ed) Borasky: > Florian Philipp wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I've got two questions concerning LVM2. > > > > Number one: What stripesize parameter would you use? The manual of my > > mainboard advises to use 64k for a RAID-0. Would that be useful for my > > portage tree or a more conventional partition like /usr and /var? > > > > Number two is not really a performance issue but it's LVM2-related: > > LVM2-mirrors need an extra log device but the man pages don't tell > > anything about how large it has to be or if it can be a partition or loop > > device on the same hdd as one of the mirrors. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > Florian Philipp > > Sizing I/O subsystems is highly workload and filesystem dependent, and > there's really no such thing as a one-size-fits-all quick answer. There > are models and there are some really good I/O subsystem benchmarks you > can use once you know what your workload characteristics are. > > I highly recommend the book "Storage Network Performance Analysis" > http://www.amazon.com/Storage-Network-Performance-Analysis-Huseyin/dp/07645 >1685X/ for the tools to do this. But one thing you can do first is to run > your workload on a system and capture data with "iostat". If you don't have > "iostat", you'll need to emerge "sysstat". The "iozone" benchmark is in > Portage, as is bonnie++. The I/O benchmark I like most is IOMeter, but that > requires a Windows system to run the control console and > downloading a Linux agent from their web site. Thanks for the tips! Just for the record: I've solved problem number two: The log is not bigger than a few MB for 20GB of storage space. To create it you have to use two commands: At first, you create the mirror without log device: lvcreate -n $Name -L $Size -m $Number_of_mirrors --corelog $Volume_group Then you use lvconvert to attach a log and to create it anywhere: lvconvert $Volume_group/$Logical_volume -m $Number_of_mirrors --alloc anywhere Using "--alloc anywhere" with lvcreate is not wise because lvcreate tries to create all volumes on one device, then. Regards, Florian Philipp
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You know how it goes. You're attending that excruciatingly boring, semi-obligatory neighborhood party, sipping on that not-quite-premier brand scotch and checking your watch every six minutes to calculate when you can politely slip out, when somebody suggests, as an alternative to Pictionary, a little BDSM. And before you know it, you're wearing nothing but a leather hood, handcuffs, and nipple clamps, and your hostess, who is taking a few practice strokes with her crop, is asking you for your Safe Word.1 Well, Bunkie, if you haven't thought through that answer already, it's a little late once she straps that ball gag in your mouth.
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Observations On A Sub's Suboptimal Safe Words
1. Cognitive dissonance can be problematic. For example, using "More, More, Harder, Harder," "Green Light," or "Yes! Yes! Yes!" as a Safe Word may prove sufficiently confusing to cause a transient but uncomfortable delay in the desired cessation of festivities.
2. Homographs are iffy. Your more exacting Doms won't find "You say tomato, I say tomato" all that amusing.
3. Likewise, homonyms (e.g., plays on "bear" the burden and "bare" your ass) can be tricky. I reference Master Murphy's Law: Any safe words that can be confused will be confused and its corollary: "Momentary confusion" takes on a entirely different meaning when the "momentary" part occurs during a flogging.
4. Multi-syllabic, sesquipedalian words, especially those of the sort most often found in medical or scientific literature or novelty books about word play are not ideal. Even if you can routinely recall such monstrosities as "floccinaucinihilipilification," "hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies," and "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis," it's showing off, and, believe me, nobody likes a smart ass sub.
5. Safe Words that aren't words (e.g., "833646520034") fall into the same category as #4.
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7. The subjunctive mood (e.g., "It's as though I can't take any more" or "I wish it would quit hurting") is typically inappropriate for ones Safe Word.
8. " " It didn't work for Prince and it won't work for you.
9. AAAA. ("Assiduously Avoid Acronyms, Asshole"). "NGSCB" may mean "Next-Generation Secure Computing Base," to you, but does your Dom know that?
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11. Using something on the line of "Is that the best you can do, Mistress?" and "You're such a wuss, Master" is just asking for trouble. (Handy memory aid: Taunts are for Tops; Begging is for Bottoms)
12. Some words and terms just don't fit the context. For example,
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13. "Fuck You, Master" is a Safe Word probably best left to the very experienced, hard core players.
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- "Norm one projections on Banach Spaces", Quaestiones Mathematicaes 24(4), 491-492 (2001).
- "Randomized arguments are transferable. Philosophia Mathematica" 17, 363-368 (2009).
- New results for random walk learning. In S. Dasgupta & A. Klivans (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on Learning Theory, Montréal, Canada (pp. 267-276). Madison, WI: Omnipress (2009).
- "On Learning Random DNF Formulas under the Uniform Distribution" (with R. A. Servedio), Theory of Computing 2, 147-172 (2006).
- "Uniform-Distribution Learnability of Noisy Linear Threshold Functions with Restricted Focus of Attention", Proceedings of the 19th Annual Workshop on Computational Learning Theory, 304-318 (2006).
- "Exploring learnability between exact and PAC" (with N. Bshouty and T. Tamon), Journal of Computer and System Sciences 70(4), 471-484 (2005).
- "Learning Random log-depth Decision Trees under the Uniform Distribution" (with R. A. Servedio), SIAM Journal on Computing 34(5), 1107-1128 (2005).
- "More Efficient PAC-learning of DNF with Membership Queries Under the Uniform Distribution" (with N. Bshouty and T. Tamon), Journal of Computer and System Sciences 68(1), 205-234 (2004).
- "Preference Elicitation and Query Learning" (with A. Blum, T. Sandholm, and M. Zinkevich), Journal of Machine Learning Research 5: 649-667 (2004).
- Distant Reading and Mapping Genre Space via Conjecture-based Distance Measures. Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2010 Conference Abstracts 319-320, King's College, London (2010)
- Psycholinguistically Plausible Events and Authorship Attribution. Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2010 Conference 320-321, King's College, London (2010).
- JGAAP: A System for Comparative Evaluation of Authorship Attribution. Proceedings of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, 1(1), 5 pp. Retrieved January 13, 2010, from
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- "Authorship Attribution for Electronic Documents", in International Federation for Information Processing Series in Computer Science, Olivier & Shenoi (Eds.), 222:119-130, (2006).
- "A Prototype for Authorship Attribution Software" (with Sofko, John and Brennan, Patrick), Literary and Linguistic Computing, 21:169-178, (2006).
- "Encapsulating Architecture and Encapsulating Processes", Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25(6), 759-759 (2003).
- "One Word, One Module?", Cortex 39(1), 135-137 (2003).
- "The Time Course of Language Change", Computers and the Humanities 37(1), 77-96 (2003).
- Probability, Laws of. In N. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Research Design (pp. 1104-1109). Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications Inc (2010).
- "Total Curvature and Total Torsion of Knotted Polymers", (with Patrick Plunkett, Michael Piatek, Akos Dobay, Kenneth C. Millett, Andrzej Stasiak, and Eric J. Rawdon), Macromolecules, 40(10):3860-3867, (2007).
- "Pig Data and Bayesian Inference on Multinomial Probabilities", Journal of Statistics Education, 14(3), (electronic-only journal, http: //www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v14n3/datasets.kern.html), (2006).
- "Variable Exponent, Linear Growth Functionals in Image Restoration" (with Chen, Y and Rao, M.), SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, 66(4):1383-1406, (2006).
- "An Adaptive Variational Model for Image Decomposition", in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Rangarajan, Anand; Vemuri, Baba; Yuille, Alan L. (Eds.), 3757:382-397, (2005).
- "The Existence of the Heat Flow of H-Systems" (with Y. Chen), Journal of Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, 8:1 219-236 (2002).
- "Diffusion Tensor and Continuous Approach of Neural Networks in Image Processing" (with Y. Chen), Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 13, 156-175 (2002).
- "Anisotropic Diffusion Driven by Diffusion Tensors" (with Y. Chen). Proceedings of SPIE, Mathematical Modeling, Estimation and Imaging 4121:148-157, (2000).
- Ruggieri, E. (2012), "A Bayesian Approach to Detecting Change Points in Climatic Records," International Journal of Climatology. doi: 10.1002/joc.3447
- Ruggieri, E. and Lawrence, C.E. (2012), "On Efficient Calculations for Bayesian Variable Selection," Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 56, 1319-1332. doi: 10.1016/j.csda.2011.09.026
- Comment on "Phylogenetic MCMC Algorithms Are Misleading on Mixtures of Trees", (with Ronquist, F., Larget B., Huelsenbeck, P., Kadane, J., van der Mark, P), in Science, 312, p. 367, (April 2006).
- "A Bayesian approach to the estimation of ancestral genome arrangements", (with Larget, B. and Kadane, J.), , in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 36, Issue 2, 214-223, (August 2005).
- "A Bayesian analysis of metazoan mitochondrial genome arrangements", (with Larget, B., Kadane J., Sweet, D.), in Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22, 486-495, (March 2005).
- "On a Bayesian approach to phylogenetic inference from animal mitochondrial genome arrangements" (with B. Larget and J. Kadane), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B 64, 681-693 (2002).
- "Phylogenetic inference from mitochondrial genome arrangement data" (with B. Larget), in Computational Science - ICCS 2001. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2074, 1022-1028 (2001).
- Agnostically learning under permutation invariant distributions. 51st Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 113-122 (2010).
- New results for random walk learning. In S. Dasgupta & A. Klivans (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on Learning Theory, Montréal, Canada (pp. 267-276). Madison, WI: Omnipress (2009).
C. Software | [Top of Page] |
- "JDiffuse" (with Jon Stanich), August, 2003.
- "Exact Bayesian Inference in Regression (EBIR)" (with C. Lawrence), March 2012
- "The Bayesian Change Point algorithm", June 2012
- "The Bayesian Change Point and Variable Selection algorithm" (with C. Lawrence), August 2012
- "Bayesian Analysis to Describe Genomic Evolution by Rearrangement (BADGER)" (with B. Larget) Version 1.01 beta, (April 21, 2004).
- "Bayesian Analysis in Molecular Biology and Evolution (BAMBE)" (with B. Larget), version 2.03, (May 2001).
D. Presentations | [Top of Page] |
- "A Retrospective Analysis of HealthCare Utilization by Somali Bantu refugees in Pittsburgh", (with Harris, Drew (presenter)), Pennsylvania Academy Family Practice Research Day Conference, Philadelphia, PA, (April 13, 2007).
- "Access and Availability of the Internet as a patient education tool", (with Vikram Arora, MD (presenter)), Pennsylvania Academy Family Practice Research Day Conference, Philadelphia, PA, (April 13, 2007).
- "Assessment of Intefrnet Usage and Applicability of Internet Based Patient Communication", (with Vikram Arora, MD (presenter)), Northeast Regional Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Annual Conference, Boston, MA, (October 21-23, 2006).
- "Clinical Epidemiological Concepts in Research", Invited three hour workshop to faculty and residents at Johnstown Hospital, Johnstown, Pa. (April 25, 2001).
- "Meta-Analysis in Clinical Practice", Invited one hour workshop (Part II) to UPMC family practice residents. Pittsburgh, PA, (April 23, 2001).
- "Clinical Decision Making Research Tools", Invited 90 min workshop to faculty, residents and medical students at Annual Pa. Academy Research Day Conference, Philadelphia, Pa., (April 6, 2001).
- "Designing the Clinical Question", Invited 2 hour workshop to Ph.D. health science students at University of Pittsburgh, (March 16, 2001).
- "Meta-Analysis in Clinical Practice" Invited one hour workshop (Part I) to UPMC family practice residents. Pittsburgh, Pa., (October 25, 2000).
- "Name that Study - Diagnosis: A unique approach to examining the evidence on journal articles on diagnosis", Three hour workshop presented at the National Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Conference, Orlando, Florida, (May 5, 2000).
- "A Comparison of Continuity of Care Between Traditional and Longitudinal Family Practice Residency Curriculums", Co-presenter with Dr. Merenstein of Alexandria, Va., at the National Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Conference, Orlando, Florida, (May 6, 2000).
John Fleming
- "Analysis of the Convergence of Fourier Coefficients Using a Variational Approach", 2006 Fall Central Section Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, University of Cincinatti, Cincinatti, OH, (October 22, 2006).
- "Uniform-Distribution Learnability of Noisy Linear Threshold Functions with Restricted Focus of Attention", 19th Annual Conference on Learning Theory, Carnegie Mellon University, (June 23, 2006).
- "Average-Case Learnability", Mathematics and Computer Science Department Seminar, Clarkson University, (March 2005).
- "Harmonic Analysis in Learning Theory", Yale Workshop on Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (invited participant), Yale University, (September 2004).
- "On Quantum Learning of Small DNF Functions", SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, San Diego, CA, (February 2003).
- "Exploring Learnability Between Exact and PAC", 15th Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, (2002).
- "On the Efficiency of Noise-Tolerant PAC Algorithms Derived from Statistical Queries", 13th Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory, Stanford University, (June 2000).
- "Future Trends in Authorship Attribution", Third Annual Conference of the IFIP Working Group 11.9, Orlando, FL, (January 2007).
- "Context-Sensitive Computer-Aided Index Generator", (with Lukon, Shelly (presenter)), Digital Humanities 2006, Paris, France, (July 2006).
- "Killer Applications in Digital Humanities", Digital Humanities 2006, Paris, France, (July 2006).
- "Towards an Automatic Index Generation Tool", Canadian Symposium for Text Analysis (CaSTA-04) "The Face of Text", Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. (November 2004).
- "Proving and Improving Authorship Attribution" (with J. Sofko), Canadian Symposium for Text Analysis (CaSTA-04) "The Face of Text", Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. (November 2004).
- "On Composership Attribution", Proceedings of the 2004 Joint Annual Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ALLC/ACH 2004). Goteborg, Sweden, (June 2004).
- "Ad-hoc Authorship Attribution Competition", Proceedings of ALLC/ACH 2004. Goteborg, Sweden, (June 2004).
- "Becoming Jack London", Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Quantitative Linguistics (QUALICO-2003), Athens, GA, (May 2003).
- "A Controlled-Corpus Experiment in Authorship Identification by Cross-Entropy", (wth H. Baayen) Proceedings of ACH/ALLC 2003, Athens, GA, (May 2003).
- "Temporal Factors Underlying Linguistic Change", 2003 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Atlanta, GA, (January 2003).
- "A Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis of Longitudinal Frequency Data Using Piecewise Linear Regression", Joint Statistical Meeting, Seattle, WA, (August 8, 2006).
- "PDE and variational based methods for image processing: image decomposition, segmentation, registration, inpainting", New Directions in Complex Data Analysis for Emerging Applications, Breckenridge, CO, (March 2007).
- "Variational Methods in Cartoon+Texture Decomposition", SIAM meeting on Imaging Science, Minneapolis, MN, (May 2006).
- "An Adaptive Variational Approach for Image Decomposition", PDE-based image processing and related inverse problems, Oslo, Norway, (August 2005).
- "An Adaptive Variational Approach for Image Decomposition", American Mathematical Society Fall Eastern meeting, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, (October 2005).
- "Noise Removal and Texture Extraction using Nonstandard Growth Functionals", Mathematical Imaging and Vision, Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada, (October 2004).
- "Nonstandard Diffusion in Image Restoration" (invited), Mathematical Methods in Imaging and Vision Workshop, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, (January 2004).
- A More Efficient Approach to Bayesian Variable Selection, AMS Special Session on Groups, Algorithms, Complexity, and Theory of Security, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Boston, MA, January 2012
- Statistics in the World Around Us, Novel Ways to Incorporate Writing into Mathematics Classes Contributed Paper Session, Mathfest, Lexington, KY August 2011
- "Phylogenetic Inference from Mitochondrial Genome Arrangement Data", (with Bret Larget). 2001 International Conference on Computational Science, San Francisco, CA, (May 2001).
E. Grants | [Top of Page] |
John Fleming
- "Efficient Computation of Electrostatic Potential for use in Molecular Dynamic Simulations", Duquesne Faculty Development Fund, May 2007-June 2008. Amount awarded: $9,972.
- Grant from the National Science Foundation, 2008.
Amount awarded: $250,519. - "Fourier Analysis of Learning Problems and Function Classes", National Science Foundation, September 2002-August 2006.
Amount awarded: $200,567.
- Grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2008 .
NFS amount awarded: $212,000, NEH amount awarded: $131,465. - Faculty/Student Research Grant, McAnulty College, Spring 2007.
Amount awarded: $500.
- "A Model of Aphasia using Dictionary-Derived Natural Language Semantics", Oxford University Press. Supported by provision of research corpora from the Digial Reference library. (2003).
- Faculty/Student Research Grant, McAnulty College, Spring 2007.
Amount awarded: $500.
- "Variational and PDE based methods for image processing", National Science Foundation, August 2005-July 2008.
Amount awarded: $139,900.
- "Fire Scar Detection and Analysis: Assessing Future Fire and Flood Hazards via Partial Differential Equations" Duquesne University Faculty Development Grant, May 2004-May 2005.
- "Diffusion Based Models for Image Processing", 2001 Duquesne University Faculty Development Grant, May 2001-May 2002.
Amount awarded: $6,113.
Lili Shashaani
- "Diversity in Computation Technology", Alcoa Foundation, October 2000- August 2012.
Amount awarded: $350,000. - "Increasing the Participation and Achievement of Female and Minority Students in Computer Science", Wimmer Family Foundation grant, summer 2007.
Amount awarded: $3,500.
- "Improving Bayesian Phylogeny" with B. Larget and D. Baum (U. of Wisconsin at Madison), J. Kadane and M. Derthick (Carnegie Mellon U.) from the National Institutes of Health, June 2003 - May 2008.
Amount awarded: $1,449,570.
F. Scholarly Service and Activities | [Top of Page] |
- Recipient of the MAA Allegheny Mountain Section Award for Distinguished Service (Spring 2004).
- Member, MAA Committee on Professional Development.
- Member, MAA Coordinating Council on Meetings.
- Member, MAA Committee on Sections.
- Inducted as an alumni member into the Delta Omega National Honor Society for Schools of Public Health (membership is equivalent to Phi Beta Kappa for undergraduate studies in Letters and Science or Alpha Omega Alpha in Medicine) (2007).
- Member, Board of Directors, Association for Computational Learning (2004-present)
- Reviewer for Learning Theory track, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2006.
- Founding Member, Digital Humanities Development Consortium (2003-present)
- Program Committee, QUALICO-2003
- Member, NSF Review Panel, Information Technology Research "medium", text and multilingual processing, May 2003
- International Quantitative Linguistics Association (Member-at-Large of Executive Board, 2000-present)
- International Steering Committee, New Methods in Language Processing (Member, 1999-present)
- Duquesne University President's Award for Excellence in Teaching (2007).
- National Project Next Fellow - Mathematics Association of America, 2000-2001.
- Associate of the Center for Philosphy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
Lili Shashaani
- Accepted an invitation to join the editorial board of the international journal Computers & Education (2007-2012).


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Springfield Electric (615) 384-6770 Email Springfield Electric
GENERAL INFORMATION The Springfield Electric Department is responsible for the purchase and distribution of electric power to approximately eight thousand two hundred (8,200) customers within the city of Springfield. A team of eighteen (18) employees is responsible for the construction, maintenance and operation of the distribution system. The City of Springfield purchases its electrical power from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
ELECTRIC CODE The current edition of the National Electric Code, as prepared by the National Fire Protection Association and as adopted by the State of Tennessee, has been adopted as the City of Springfield electric code.
HOW TO INITIATE ELECTRIC SERVICE The City of Springfield is a full service city that provides electric, water, wastewater, gas and sanitation utility services which are collectively billed on one monthly statement as a convenience for our customers. New service can be initiated by visiting the new services window on the first floor of City Hall, completing an application, and paying all service fees and deposits. City Hall is located at 405 North Main Street and the telephone number is (615) 382-2200. The current rates and fees for electric service can be found on the City of Springfield home page by clicking on Rates and Fees.
HOW RATES ARE STRUCTURED Electric rates are made up of three components including a customer service charge, a demand charge, and an energy charge. The customer charge is a flat monthly charge which recovers fixed costs such as materials, operations and maintenance, and accounting costs. Demand charges are in the form of dollars per kilowatt. Demand charges recover the supplier's capital investment and substation costs associated with providing sufficient capacity to a customer, regardless of energy used. The energy charge is in the form of cents per kilowatt-hour and is for purchased power and fuel. Customers are grouped into classes according to expected energy and demand needs. Small commercial and residential customers pay only customer and energy charges. Large commercial and industrial customers pay customer, demand and energy charges.
For current rates and fees call (615) 384-6770 during normal business hours.
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Two of the Springfield Electric Department's substations were acquired from TVA through a lease-purchase program initiated by TVA in the 1970's. The substations are now completely paid for.
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE REGULATIONS The Electric Department has implemented a scheduled maintenance program for its substation equipment. Generally, all maintenance and testing work on equipment must be performed in conformance with National Electric Testing Association (NETA) requirements. Painting is performed in accordance with the Steel Structure Painting Code (SSPC). At a minimum, all operations and construction practices must conform to the National Electric Code (NEC) and the National Electric Safety Code (NESC). Other codes and agencies govern the department's operations in whole or in part including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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Seven years ago, Bandu Dhotre was like any other wild life buff clamouring for an entry into the forests of Tadoba to be part of the pugmark and machan census. Now, the 32-year-old has come of age. After going through the ground realities over the years, he strongly believes that the future of tigers cannot be secured unless drastic policy changes are made, backed by political will. Adopting the non-violent way of fasting, Dhotre, with support from other NGOs, has been instrumental in bringing about a change.
Hailing from a humble background, Dhotre's 'fast unto death' against Adani mines in Lohara near Tadoba in 2009, brought him closer to the issue of tiger conservation and led to the setting up of an NGO, Eco-Pro. There are several others who are working to increase tiger numbers but nobody before Dhotre has felt the need to sit on a fast. From July 2, he would be camping outside the state forest headquarters in Nagpur to push for various demands to save tigers.
TOI spoke to Dhotre to find out what drives his passion.
Q. You are born and brought up in Chandrapur, a district which is known for its tiger population. Why is it now that you have raised your voice for tiger conservation?
A. Tiger crisis has aggravated due to habitat destruction amid increasing tigers. Protection measures are not up to the mark. The series of tiger poaching incidents have exposed government's insufficiencies and lack of understanding about the issue. Time and again I have communicated to forest officials and the government, and also suggested changes needed at the ground level. However, the government doesn't seem to be serious about saving tigers. On one hand it allows coal mines and detrimental projects near tiger habitats and talks of conservation on the other. Both cannot go hand-in-hand. My sentiments are coupled with fear that tomorrow our people should not stand against tigers dubbing them as villains and stop development.
Q. Earlier you had launched a fast against mines and pollution. Why an indefinite fast for tigers now?
A. Fasting or protesting for tigers is not a new thing for me. In the past, I fought against Adani mines in Lohara which threatened to destroy the wildlife corridors. Chandrapur is a highly polluted district and its related problems are very serious. In order to address these issues I protested several times. Eco-Pro group picks up issues related to the aam admi too. It has brought us good public support to fight environment related problems. I'm fasting to save tigers as they are at the top of the food chain pyramid. Presence of tigers is proof of healthy environment. Chandrapur is one of the best breeding areas for tigers. There are more than 100 tigers in the district and we need to ensure no harm comes to them. Despite several letters and memorandums to forest minister and several others, there has been no action.
Q. There are many companies in Chandrapur. Why didn't you study and get employed in one of them?
A. Everyone lives for himself but since childhood I had a feeling to do something for the nation. I was good in studies and had scored 60% in Std XII exam. I was interested in joining the Army, but I couldn't complete my BA final due to poor financial background. Looking at the way the industries were polluting environment here, I never felt like taking up a job in any one of them. But I always thought there could be nothing better than working for forests and wildlife in Chandrapur. Though I couldn't join the army, I'm happy that I could create an army of local youths to save tigers.
Q. You come from a weak financial background. So, how do you manage your family and a team of so many volunteers?
A. As a youth I worked as a vegetable vendor and also sold masala in a mutton market. I had no alternative to make both ends meet. Even now many times I share tense moments with my family. I work as an LIC agent but my passion for tigers doesn't allow me to devote time to the profession. When I started working for the cause of tigers, I never thought of how I would financially manage my personal life. It is this attitude that motivates my volunteers. Even the green trousers and white T-shirts, the uniform of Eco-Pro, is stitched by spending my own money. They are self-motivated to save the district from pollution and conserve tigers, hence I don't have any problem in convincing them.
Q. Is it true that other NGOs from Chandrapur are not supporting your fast as you are promoting the Eco-Pro banner?
A. There may be differences among NGOs but we agree that the demands are genuine. Different NGOs and individuals in Chandrapur have always supported my stirs as they deal with burning problems. There may be personal disagreements but on issues all are one. Right now my aim is to achieve the goals by keeping the bickering aside. The NGOs affiliated to the Nagpur Environment Protection Group (NEPG) have wholeheartedly declared support to my fast. It's a big achievement.
Q. How many times you have launched a fast in the past? Does it take a toll on your health?
A. Fasting is an effective weapon to win battles. It is in our culture. It doesn't affect one's health and in fact it can cure many health problems. This will be my 7th indefinite fast. The longest fast was for 14 days against Adani mines in Lohara in August 2009.
Q. Has fasting helped solve the problems?
A. Not always, but fasting puts across the message that the issue is serious. The art of fasting comes when you are pursuing any issue from your heart. Take the example of social worker Anna Hazare. He managed to put his points across to the government on corruption. Only launching a fast isn't enough and the problems you are raising should also be important. Going on a fast is a testing time as people will join you only if you are serious about your intentions.
Q. How have forest officials viewed your forthcoming fast?
A. Forest officials also feel that tiger conservation is need of the hour. The 16 demands which I have raised are such that no official would contradict. But not everything is in the hands of the officials. Some policy decisions have to be taken at the government level and by fasting I hope to draw the state's attention.
Q. You have sought Anna Hazare's support. What are his views?
A. I met Anna at Ralegan Siddhi last Thursday and explained to him the problems. During his recent Chandrapur visit, Anna had visited Eco-Pro office and had expressed concern over degrading environment in the district. He gave me a patient hearing and said he will write to state forest minister Patangrao Kadam and forest secretary Praveen Pardeshi.
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What do Buffy The Vampire Slayer, a wisecracking child prodigy, a rookie cop, and extraterrestrial high schoolers have in common? They're all offspring of Gail Berman, who, as head of the new Regency Television, has turned a production house pip-squeak into one of Hollywood's big boys.
Tucked away in West L.A., Regency hardly seems like competition for the likes of Disney and Sony but a downscale ethos is part of its charm. ''When [Buffy creator] Joss Whedon and I first walked through here,'' says Berman, giving a tour of her dilapidated warehouse-style digs, ''he kicked a hole and a bunch of roaches came out and we ran screaming. We knew it was the place to do Buffy.''
Not exactly your basic high-maintenance exec, Berman's one of the few who seems more concerned about her product than her perks. And this season her product looks pretty good. For Fox, Regency is producing the promising comedy Malcolm in the Middle, about a reluctant child genius, and the teen-cop drama Ryan Caulfield. And The WB picked up Regency's new hybrid alien/teen-angst drama Roswell.
Unlike big studios, which make a pack of pilots that never fly, Regency limited its production slate to those three shows, giving it a perfect batting average for the season. ''If you're digging for oil and you find it in three holes, you don't dig anymore,'' says New Regency Productions founder Arnon Milchan, who brought Berman aboard.
Berman ''sniffs out good projects,'' says WB exec VP Jordan Levin. ''She put Buffy and Roswell together and succeeds without the support of a $100 million budget a testament to her unique ability.''
''We don't look at who's the flavor of the day,'' says Berman, who began her career as a Broadway producer (Hurlyburly) before moving to L.A. to head up the Sandollar TV production company. ''We're not the big guy, so we have to get there before anyone else.''
There are drawbacks to being small, of course. Take Roswell. Though Regency had the rights to Melinda Metz's Roswell High book series, Berman reached out to Twentieth Century Fox TV president Sandy Grushow for creative help. The show was initially developed for Fox, but the network wanted to overhaul it before giving it the green light. The WB wanted it as is, but Grushow didn't want to alienate his sister net by selling it to a competitor. Regency sweated it out as politics took priority over product. Fortunately, Twentieth got The WB to commit to a full season (and a post-Dawson's Creek slot), which made it less painful to take the show away from Fox.
So what's next on Regency's roster? A potential CBS mid-season drama about firefighters, cops, and paramedics (St. Michael's Crossing), plus a mission to double its output. ''We have no plans beyond that,'' says Milchan, adding ''Does Gail have a sister?''


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@Rick K. Thanks for the feedback, Rick. Glad to see that I am improving. Another decade or two and I might finally get good at this blogging thing. And no worries, I never take the corrections personally. Only helps me improve.
@ltbu yep, he landed with the Rays for a few weeks, but they just cut him loose. He's a free agent now.
I've been to Fresno. I don't know that it is the armpit of America, but California....
@Carl LaFong @monkeywithahalo no, Carl, WAR is apples and apples. The WHOLE point of WAR is to be able to compare value across position and era.
@Carl LaFong three of the last four years, Howie has had a higher WAR than Aybar. He's more valuable. That isn't to denegrate Aybar, he's very good and right now there is a scarcity at shortstop, which is why I believe his value is inflated and worth exploring on the trade market. But as you said and as I said in the article, Aybar would be much harder to replace due to the lack of organizational depth.
Also, Dipoto never said he wouldn't trade Kendrick. He recently said he's inclined to hold onto him, which is what GMs say when they are trying to drive the price up on a player they are shopping.
@imindless why would the Padres want Howie? They are rebuilding. One year of Howie doesn't help them, plus they already have Taylor Lindsey. If they trade Cashner, it is going to be for a load of young talent.
@Carl LaFong Does it make anymore sense to trade Kendrick who was categorically better than Aybar? As I said in the article, I ultimately agree that it is too risky to trade Aybar, but if there is a chance to trade an asset at a time where you can charge a premium, it needs to be considered. I considered it with Aybar, it doesn't quite work.
@ltbu Bedrock will get a chance at some point, Dipoto likes having lots of options. But as of right now, the Opening day bullpen looks like Street-Smith-Jepsen-Morin-Salas-Ramos-Pestano. Rasmus (if he doesn't become a starter), Bedrosian, Diaz and McBryde will all get looks at some point though.
@Rick K. Yeah, that part was a little off. Catcher is probably the thinnest position in the entire Angels organization. I like Jett Bandy a lot, but even I'm not sure he can be a replacement level back-up in the bigs. It only gets worse from there.
@sportsguy13 I'm just going to go ahead and leave this right here: http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=1534&position=OF#fieldingadvanced
@Rick K. D'oh! Can't believe it took this long for someone to notify me. Left the in the wrong status. They are up now, though extremely late. Apologies.
@Rick K. Uh, yeah. Fixed now. Tweet embedding apparently does some very weird things to the formatting.
@Rick K. You mean to tell me that you aren't excited about facing King Felix in a one-game playoff? Can't imagine why.
@ltbu Sure, they could, but it would come at the expense of Stamets' development. He'd seldom ever get to bat, so his offense would be stunted. Plus, he doesn't have experience at 3B right now. Besides, the real reason that Johnny Mac is on the team is his leadership, not his ability to be a defensive upgrade over Freese for a few innings four or five games per week.
@laa1055 because of the money involved, if you claim a big money player, you risk just getting stuck with the whole contract, so only serious teams put in claims. Also gives the other team only one chance to unload the contract or get stuck with it the rest of the year.
@Toby Ziegler Toby, relax and please don't attack anyone here with profanity (I deleted your other comment). The point of this article is to give an assessment of the prospects. Just because you don't like the assessment doesn't mean that someone is out to drag someone down. The hype around Borenstein, for better or worse, is part of his profile as a prospect. There is nothing wrong with pointing out that he isn't living up to the hype.
@bblaseck the way to turn up the heat is to actually just rebuild the bullpen and give him so much talent that he can't screw it up
@A83sanchez83 That's a great idea except for the part where A.J. Burnett has a no-trade clause and blocked a deal to the Angels a few years ago. And the part where the Angels already have Kendrick at second and don't need Utley. And the part where Utley also has a no-trade clause. And the part where taking on all this salary would send the Angels flying into the luxury tax.
Other than that, great idea.
It isn't too late to convert him to pitcher!
@hossmandu not saying ONLY the main team can celebrate. I'm just saying that a lot of the celebration, IMO, comes from watching the guy do it for so long. Angels fans don't have that connection.
I think a good analogy would be Chone Figgins getting a World Series ring in 2012. How excited could he really be for that? He was only on the regular season roster for a cup of coffee and only helped in the post-season as a pinch-runner. Everyone else did the work and he was just around to witness the crowning moment.
@Rick K. Yeah, I forgot about Sutton. They acquired him when I think he was already over 290 wins. Clearly it made a big impact on my memory.
@hvnsangel67 I'm glad you liked it! But now I am going to be obsessed about figuring out which of the posts you hate and why :(
Victor Rojas is a very good play-by-play guy. He can be a bit bombastic, but picks his moments well. He's also pretty in tune with sabermetrics and the internet culture around baseball.
Mark Gubicza is about as vanilla as they come. The best thing about him is that outside of the occasional corny joke or pitching mechanics observation, is that you barely notice him.
I also have to nitpick a bit here that Jose Mota is not included on the list. He still does some pre-game and post-game reports, which is terrific because he is the world's greatest natural resource for unintentional comedy.
I'll also add, as a Seattle resident, that Dave Sims is a fun announcer but a HORRIFIC homer. Probably fun if you are an M's fan. If you aren't, then... guh.
@sinatrasratpack The second the Angels released him, they were on the hook for his full salary, even if he never threw another pitch. If he retired while still on the roster, he would've lost the money. Oh well.
@Rick K. I figured it was in poor taste to kick Blanton even more as he headed out the door. What's done is done.
@sinatrasratpack Right DDLR was the go-to guy there, but he is out. Still, Salas is the WORST possible choice there because he is an extreme flyball guy with an average K-rate. Kohn is the same guy with a better K-rate. Not a great choice, but better.
As for the 90% of managers thing, yes that is true, but that doesn't mean it is right. Conventional wisdom doesn't mean it isn't stupid.
@ElChippy Yeah, it is a lose-lose situation. Smoak has been legitimately bad as a righty and Cano handles lefties just fine. What bothers me is the inconsistency in allowing Santiago to pitch to Cano the very next night in a very similar situation.
@thierrion Nope, the 1998 Yankees did lose their first three games, but they were on the road. Ironically two were in Anaheim. I was only looking at teams who lost their first three games of the season and were at home for all three losses.
@Rick K. man, banging on my poor sentence structure and spoiling The Blacklist for me, Rick? Party foul!
Just find it interesting that Dipoto, a noted stat guy, is actively investing in team chemistry, a very "old school" concept that the sabermetric community generally dismisses.
@ShuebBaafe$300 million on 8 years would be an average of $37.5 million. That's an absurd number for him to get when he has very little leverage and even more absurd when you consider the fact that he'd be getting well below that during the three arbitration years covered by the deal. $40 million per year is only being floated by anonymous agents and MLB executives that have no tie to Trout or the Angels and really only being mentioned because it makes for a good headline. That was the whole point I was making in the article. Anonymous sources like to throw out big numbers, like they did with Kershaw supposedly getting $300 million, but the reality always comes up well short.
You can say it is possible, but I am telling you that it is not happening.
@Joemromerobecause they were an 84-win team before that trade ;)
@GeorgeKaplan8I agree, the $300 million figure seems like a stretch, but I used that figure as a sort of pie-in-the-sky number just to put in perspective how things might be if he really does get a crazy extension. I really can't envision the extension being much bigger than that. I think the rhetoric about how great Trout is and how much he should be paid has inflated the numbers to unrealistic levels.
@angels1961Yes, they will need to be replaced, but they have plenty of time to figure that out and hopefully Tanaka would be able to join Trout as a franchise cornerstone to build around.
@ChaseKimuraA good point, one I touched on in a previous article, so I didn't want to dwell on it here. I strongly believe they should just pay the tax this year. They should have a relatively easy time getting back under the tax line next season, so they won't get hammered with the increased tax rate.
@Rick K.Not saying that at all, just saying that I can foresee a scenario in which Dipoto sacrifices Kendrick's productivity in order to clear his salary and get back under the luxury tax line.
@ShuebBaafeha, yeah, that was a pretty glaring typo. I guess I just have Trout on the brain. Although, now it makes me ponder what Trout actually would fetch in a posting scenario for Trout.
@Joemromero Miami does not seem inclined to trade Stanton, at least not this winter. Even if they did, the Angels have nothing close to the kind of package that it will take to get him.
@Under_Dog_Leftyfirst off, Robbie Ray is a starting pitcher and was the centerpiece of that deal. Second, the story came out later that the Angels offered Kendrick for Fister and got shot down. There were also several GMs that later came out and said they had no idea Detroit was shopping Fister. Yes, Detroit got a poor return that maybe the Angels could've matched, but it was the fault of Detroit's GM for not actually surveying the market.
@SoImTheBadGuy Ha, funny. That would never happen though. I'm sure I'be fine. Hey, what this red laser dot that suddenly appeared in the middle of my che-
@bginsc We can debate about how much Trumbo was worth offensively, but consider this. Were the Angels going to win if Pujols and Hamilton tanked again even with Trumbo? They had Trumbo last year and it didn't help. As for the team speed, did you forget about Kendrick and Aybar? I mean, the Halos are no longer speed-based, but they definitely still have some speed. So maybe just relax a little bit.
@RyanAguirre That's a really tough question to answer because we obviously don't have the medical reports on either player. I'd venture that Halladay would get more than Santana, but both should at least get $5 million guaranteed, maybe as much as $10 million. That is purely a guess though.
@Under_Dog_Lefty Settle down, the Angels weren't a match here. Detroit traded Fister for salary relief and prospects. Kendrick is neither of those things. Boshers is barely a prospect and Carson most certainly is not. The Nationals hardly gave Detroit a prized package of prospects, but it is still better than anything the Angels could realistically offer.
@rjb1101 I think that might have accelerated the deal, but their interest in Freese was legit even before the Fielder-Kinsler swap.
I will say that I am pleasantly surprised. I would love for the Angels to have Price but my goal here was to provide analysis of how realistic that scenario really is. I'm sorry that my conclusion isn't one that coincides with your wishes for the team but it is a lot less "useless" than your wish casting.
How dare you, Joe! You listed so few teams as suitors! I mean, I only see 20 teams that you mentioned at least 3 times. What is up with that? I don't care about accurate analysis, I want you to suggest that the Rockies and Astros are going to pursue all the top shelf free agents! It doesn't matter if a team doesn't have money to spend or a need to fill!! Frankly, I think you should list even MORE teams. Where are the Yakult Swallows? The El Paso Chihuahuas? The St. Paul Saints? The Chico's Bail Bonds Bears? THIS IS A TRAVESHAMOCKERY!!!!


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A screen shot is a picture of your computer screen, in whole or in part. For example, a few screen shots I have used on my blog:
Screen shots are helpful when you need to incorporate what you see on web pages into essays, blogs, videos, and other documents you are creating. As with most things, Macs and PCs do this in slightly different ways.
Taking and Saving Screen Shots on a Mac
To take a screen shot of anything on the screen using a Mac, hold down at the same time:
SHIFT + Command Key + 4
The Command Keys, also known as the Open Apple keys, are to the right and left of the Spacebar, and look something like this:
This will bring up a cursor that looks like a large + sign. Move the cursor to the top left of the area of the screen you want to capture. Click, hold, and drag the cursor over the entire area. Release the click. You may hear a sound that sounds like a camera shutter.
An image will automatically be saved to your desktop (or wherever the default save is on your computer), called Picture #.png.
Screen Shots For PC and Mac Users
For PC users I recommend using a free application called, Jing (if you know of others, let me know so I can add them to this). Jing allows users to take screen shots and also take video of what they are doing on the screen. It is easy and fun to use. To create your screen shots, follow these steps:
- Go to Jing. Watch the introductory video and download it for free.
- When you are ready to make your screen shot, open Jing.
- Hover over and then single click on the Jing sun. Select the cross-hairs (the left most ray).
- Move the cross-hairs to the top left of the area you want to capture. Click and drag and a box will open over the area you want to capture.
- Select the image icon in the lower left of the box. A pop-up window will appear with the screen shot in it.
- Create a meaningful file name and save the image to a place on your computer designated for this class so you'll be able to retrieve it easily later.


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Since joining The New York Times in 2002, David Carr has become America's most visible and influential writer on the media. His weekly "Media Equation" column is closely followed by people in the industry. Last year, he was featured in Interview magazine (interviewed by screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, no less), and he was the star of the 2011 documentary Page One: Inside The New York Times, in which he comes across as a gruff and indefatigable truth-teller.
That documentary showed Carr in the act of reporting his stellar article on the disastrous decline of the Tribune Company under Sam Zell. For the piece, Carr interviewed more than 20 current and former employees of the company. He then described how, under the direction of Randy Michaels, a former radio executive and shock jock chosen by Zell to run the company, the Tribune Tower in Chicago came to resemble a frat house, full of sexual innuendo, profane invective, and poisonous workplace banter. Carr showed how Michaels and other executives received tens of millions of dollars in bonuses while laying off hundreds at the Chicago Tribune and other papers. It was a devastating account of the hubristic destruction of one of America's top media companies.
This is the hard-hitting David Carr—a relentless interviewer, incisive analyst, and gifted writer all rolled into one—and the piece on Zell and company showed the powerful effect he can have when he applies those qualities to an important subject.
But there's another David Carr, one who is breezy, knowing, star-struck, and insidery, and it's this David Carr who, alas, more often than not shows up in his weekly column. Take, for example, "Digital's Ever Swifter Incursion," which ran on June 18. Carr opened with a description of a magazine launch party on the rooftop of the Gramercy Park Hotel, with an "open bar ringed by thirsty media reporters, groaning trays of shrimp, a D.J. playing music just soft enough that it didn't drown out the chatter." In the past, Carr noted, he had attended many such events for print magazines, but this one was for Huffington, a sleek new online weekly created by Arianna Huffington, to be available in tablet form. It was, he wrote, "a particularly acute reminder" of the transformation taking place in journalism, away from "legacy media" and toward digitally based ones. Last year, he observed,
The Huffington Post was sold to AOL for $315 million, less than a year after Newsweek was sold for a dollar, and in April the site won its first Pulitzer, for David Wood's 10-part series about wounded veterans. More unique Web visitors now go to The Huffington Post each month than The New York Times, according to the research company comScore.
In the past, Carr went on to note, he had complained that The Huffington Post, though "one of the fastest build-outs of an editorial brand in history," derived much of its value from "digitally kidnapping the work of others." But, he continued, he now saw that
it doesn't matter what I think is right and wrong, or what I think constitutes appropriate aggregation or great journalism. The market is as the market does.
It's a valid point: The market rules, good journalism or no. But in this column, as in many others, Carr seems bewitched by the market, evaluating everything by its judgments. Rarely does he get around to the journalism itself. Of the 1,200 words in this column, for instance, he spends virtually none of them assessing content. But if, as Carr insists, the transition from traditional to new media is inevitable, doesn't the quality of the journalism on the latter matter? I'd like to know how much of the content on The Huffington Post resembles that 10-part Pulitzer-winning series and how much resembles "Kris Humphries Makes Outrageous Claim About Kim's Sex Tape" or "The Shocking Reason Why Adele's Ex Supposedly Dumped Her" or the nonstop parade of titillating and gossipy links along the site's right rail. Carr doesn't bother to say.


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George W. Bush is back on U.S. television screens, thanks to an interview on ABC's This Week (7/7/13). He doesn't speak to the press much, but based on this fawning interview, he might want to re-consider.
At one point he and ABC correspondent Jonathan Karl joked about how presidents tend to get criticized–but "not from you of course, Jon." It was in jest–but also perfectly captured the tone of the piece, which was all about rehabilitating Bush's image.
The subject matter was Bush's ongoing charity work in Africa, which grew out of some of the policies he pursued in office, particular on combating AIDS.
"You're something of a rock star here," Karl told Bush. He went on to remark that Obama had called Bush's President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) policy "one of your crowning achievements. Do you agree with that?" Not exactly tough stuff.
Unsurprisingly, Karl didn't raise any of the criticisms made of PEPFAR, such as that it "wasted much of its funds on scientifically questionable programs designed to please American religious conservatives" (CBSNews.com, 2/25/08), or that its "abstinence-only approach to AIDS prevention" led to rising rates of infection in Uganda (Voice of America, 11/30/11).
And then there was this:
KARL: I know you're not into psychoanalysis. Some, these are your critics that say that all of this Africa work you're doing, that part of it is, you're trying to make up for mistakes you made in Iraq or –
BUSH: Oh yeah.
KARL: What do you say to that?
BUSH: Let them continue to babble.
KARL: Not true?
BUSH: I'm trying to think of the proper word. Absurd psycho-babble.
OK, now that we got the your-critics-might-need-professional-help question out of the way, onto other matters.
Karl asked about gay marriage, since that had come up in a press conference during Bush's trip to Africa. Bush was asked about how same-sex marriage could co-exist with Christian values, and he said something about how "I shouldn't be taking a speck out of somebody else's eye when I have a log in my own."
Karl asked if his view on the issue had "evolved at all," and Bush refused to answer. saying he was "off the stage…unless I'm promoting something I strongly believe in, and I believe that what we're doing in Africa is incredibly important." In other words, interviews are to be limited to the subjects I want to promote.
As David Sirota argued at Salon.com (7/8/13), Bush's record is still his record–and shouldn't be swept away by TV journalists just because Bush doesn't want to talk about it:
But the former president's platitudes shouldn't wipe the historical record clean of his record doing exactly the opposite of what he now preaches.
In the midst of the 2004 election, Bush announced his support for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. That year, Bush presided over a Republican Party whose get-out-the-bigot-vote effort included putting anti-gay ballot measures in 11 states.
After the election, it was much the same thing. Bush's top strategist, Karl Rove, publicly bragged that the GOP's anti-gay crusade "was part and parcel of a broader fabric where this year moral values ranked higher than they traditionally do." Consequently, Bush had his administration publicly reiterate his commitment to constitutionally banning same-sex marriage.
So, in sum, 1) Bush was one of the most publicly anti-gay presidents in American history, 2) he made anti-gay demagoguery a more integral part of his electoral strategy than any president before him and 3) all of his anti-gay initiatives were fundamentally based on being "overly critical" of same-sex couples–so critical, in fact, that the initiatives championed official legislative restrictions on LGBT Americans' basic rights.
The Washington Post's Dana Milbank (7/9/13) summed it up:
Karl's interview had all the rehabilitative imagery Bush could want: clips of him in a T-shirt, painting a medical clinic in Zambia and dancing with the locals–and video of Obama asserting that Bush's devotion to Africa has meant "millions of people's lives have been saved."
It should be noted that Karl got into mainstream journalism thanks to the Collegiate Network, a right-wing outfit that supports conservative campus publications and funds internships at Beltway media outlets aimed at getting more right-wing journalists into news outlets (Extra!, 6/11). But maybe that was obvious.