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Before I can go crazy and gush about how awesome WROCK and TROCK are, let me first explain what they are about.
Wrock, short for Wizard Rock, is an indie music movement in which people write and perform songs inspired by the Harry Potter book series. It is a growing fandom within a fandom, with hundreds of bands around the world, many of whom tour and produce CDs. Wizard rock began as a Myspace phenomenon, but it is receiving recognition as a legitimate genre that spans all styles of music.
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FAQ I2P Mirror
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starting from the fact than the original page load too long - I copied it to get quick access to it .
original site here = http://www.i2p2.de/faq.html#reseed
What systems will I2P run on?
Whats an "eepsite"?
My router has very few active peers, is this OK?
What do the Active x/y numbers mean in the router console?
My active peers / known peers / participating tunnels / connections / bandwidth vary dramatically over time! Is anything wrong?
Is using an outproxy safe?
Most of the eepsites within I2P are down?
What ports does I2P use?
Why is I2P listening for connections on port 32000?
I think I found a bug, where can I report it?
What happened to *.i2p.net? What happened to jrandom? Is I2P dead?
I have a question!
My router has been up for several minutes and has zero or very few connections
Why is I2P so slow?
I'm missing lots of hosts in my addressbook. What are some good subscription links?
How do I set up my own eepsite?
Bittorrent / I2PSnark / Azureus I2P Plugin Questions?
How do I connect to IRC within I2P?
I can't access regular Internet sites through I2P.
I can't access https:// or ftp:// sites through I2P.
Is it possible to use I2P as a SOCKS proxy?
How do I configure my browser?
How can I access the web console from my other machines or password protect it?
How can I use applications from my other machines?
How do I reseed manually?
My router is using too much CPU?!?
How do I access IRC, BitTorrent, or other services on the regular Internet?
Is my router an "exit node"(outproxy) to the regular Internet? I don't want it to be.
I am opposed to certain types of content. How do I keep from distributing, storing, or accessing them?
Errors and Their Solutions
I'm using FreeBSD and when I start I2P I receive an error about libm.so.4!
In wrapper.log I see an error stating Protocol family unavailable when I2P is loading
What systems will I2P run on? (link)
While I2P has been reported to run PCs as meagre as a low-end Pentium II with 64 MB of RAM, you'll have a much better experience on a Pentium III (or better) with 128MB of RAM (or more). A chart comparing the performance of the various JREs can be found at http://trac.i2p2.de/wiki/java, but in short: it's at all possible, use Sun/Oracle Java or OpenJDK.
I2P has been tested on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD (see the note below), OSX, and OpenSolaris. There is work underway to bring I2P to the Android platform.
I think I found a bug, where can I report it? (link)
Here are some places, pick one or more.
trac.i2p2.de ticket (preferred method)
paste.i2p2.i2p and follow up on IRC #i2p
Discuss with the developers on IRC #i2p
Please include relevant information from the router logs and wrapper logs.
I'm missing lots of hosts in my addressbook. What are some good subscription links? (link)
The default subscription is to http://www.i2p2.i2p/hosts.txt which is updated rarely. If you don't have another subscription, you may often have to use "jump" links which is annoying.
Here are some other public addressbook subscription links. You may wish to add one or two to your susidns subscription list. You don't need to add all of them, as they sync with each other periodically. The links using a cgi-bin application employ various strategies to minimize the number of duplicate addresses delivered, so they should be more efficient. Note that subscribing to a hosts.txt service is an act of "trust", as a malicious subscription could give you incorrect addresses. So think about whether you want to trust any of these. The operators of these services may have various policies for listing hosts. Presence on this list does not imply endorsement.
What happened to *.i2p.net? What happened to jrandom? Is I2P dead? (link)
Jrandom was the lead developer of I2P and Syndie for several years. We do not know if or when jrandom will return. The *.i2p.net domains were left in a non-functioning state after a power outage at the hosting company.
See this page for jrandom's parting message and additional information on the migration of *.i2p.net to this website.
I2P remains in active development.
My router is using too much CPU?!? (link)
There are many possible causes of high CPU usage. Here is a checklist:
Try to use either OpenJDK or Sun/Oracle Java if it's available for your system. You can check which version of java you have installed by typing java -version at a command/shell prompt. Performance tends to suffer with other implementations of java.
Are you running a BitTorrent client over I2P? Try reducing the number of torrents, the bandwidth limits, or try turning it off completely to see if that helps.
Are your bandwidth limits set too high? It is possible that too much traffic is going through your I2P router and it is overloaded. Try reducing the setting for share bandwidth percentage on the configuration page.
Make sure that you're running the latest version of I2P to get the benefits of increased performance and bug fixes.
Has enough memory been set aside for use by I2P? Look at the memory graph on the graphs page to see if the memory usage is "pegged"—the JVM is spending most of its time in garbage collection. Increase the setting wrapper.java.maxmemory in wrapper.config.
Is the CPU usage simply higher than you would like, or is it pegged at 100% for a long time? If it's pegged, this could be a bug. Look in the logs for clues.
You may be using the Java-based BigInteger library instead of the native version, especially if you are running on a new or unusual OS or hardware (OS X, OpenSolaris, mipsel, etc.). See the jbigi page for instructions on diagnosing, building, and testing methods.
If your native jbigi library is working fine, the biggest user of CPU may be routing traffic for participating tunnels. This uses CPU because at each hop a layer of encryption must be decoded. You can limit participating traffic in two ways - by reducing the share bandwidth on config.jsp, or by setting router.maxParticipatingTunnels=nnn on configadvanced.jsp.
I am opposed to certain types of content. How do I keep from distributing, storing, or accessing them? (link)
Hmm. I2P is an anonymous network, so that's a tricky one. I2P is designed to withstand censorship, providing a means for everyone to communicate freely. The best way to keep your PC free of (encrypted) traffic that you dislike is to not use I2P. Freedom of speech has some costs. But let's address your question in three parts:
Distribution - All traffic on I2P is encrypted in multiple layers. You don't know a message's contents, source, or destination. All traffic you route is internal to the I2P network, you are not an exit node (outproxy). Your only alternative is to refuse to route any traffic, by setting your share bandwidth or maximum participating tunnels to 0 (see above). It would be nice if you didn't do this, you should help the network by routing traffic for others. Over 95% of users route traffic for others.
Storage - I2P does not do distributed storage of content. You must be thinking of Freenet. Nobody's content is being stored on your computer by running I2P.
Access - If there are some eepsites you don't like, don't go there. Or, use a blocking proxy like Privoxy or some type of "net nanny".
My active peers / known peers / participating tunnels / connections / bandwidth vary dramatically over time! Is anything wrong? (link)
No. This is normal. All routers adjust dynamically to changing network conditions and demands.
My router has been up for several minutes and has zero or very few connections (link)
You may need to reseed your I2P router. With recent versions of I2P you can go to http://localhost:7657/configreseed and click the Save Changes and Reseed Now button. If this method doesn't work—or you're using a very old version—you may need to reseed manually.
The reseed URL changed a few years ago. If this is your first install and you have installed an old (0.6.1.30 or earlier) release, or you have not run I2P in a long time, you must change the URL and then click "Reseed" on the console to find other routers. After your router is running, on configadvanced.jsp, add the line i2p.reseedURL=http://netdb.i2p2.de/ OR i2p.reseedURL=http://i2pdb.tin0.de/netDb/ (either should work), then click "Apply", then click the "reseed" link on the left.
This works if you are running 0.6.1.27 or later. If you are running release 0.6.1.31 or later, you probably don't need to do this. If you are running release 0.6.1.26 or earlier, either follow the manual reseed instructions below or install the latest release. Possible alternate method - add wrapper.java.additional.5=-Di2p.reseedURL=http://netdb.i2p2.de/ to wrapper.config, shutdown the router completely, then start again, then click "reseed". Let us know if this works.
...but you *really* should upgrade to the latest version.
My router has very few active peers, is this OK? (link)
If your router has 10 or more active peers, everything is fine. Changes in releases 0.6.1.31 and 0.6.1.32 improved the efficiency of the router and effectively reduced the number of active peers. The router should maintain connections to a few peers at all times. The best way to stay "better-connected" to the network is to share more bandwidth.
Is my router an "exit node" to the regular Internet? I don't want it to be. (link)
No. Unlike Tor, "exit nodes" or "outproxies" are not an inherent part of the network. Only volunteers who set up and run separate applications will relay traffic to the regular Internet. There are very, very few of these.
I can't access regular Internet sites through I2P. (link)
See above. There are very few HTTP "outproxies", they are not an inherent part of the network, and they may not be up. In addition, the old outproxies squid.i2p, true.i2p, and krabs.i2p have vanished. The only outproxy at the moment is false.i2p. To use it, edit your i2ptunnel settings for eepProxy and set your outproxy list to 'false.i2p' (only). Then stop and restart the eepProxy. If it doesn't work, the outproxy is not up. It is not I2P's fault. If your primary reason to use an anonymous network is to anonymously access sites on the regular Internet, you should probably try Tor.
I can't access https:// or ftp:// sites through I2P. (link)
Within I2P, there is no need for HTTPS, as all traffic is encrypted end-to-end. FTP is not supported for technical reasons.
There are no FTP "outproxies" to the Internet—it may not even be possible to set up one. Any other kind of outproxy may work if it's set up with a standard tunnel. If you would like to set up some type of outproxy, carefully research the potential risks. The I2P community may or may not be able to help with the technical aspects, feel free to ask.
As explained several times above, any existing outproxy isn't a core part of the network. They are services run by individuals and they may or may not be operational at any given time.
Update: Thanks to the work of h2ik, there is an https outproxy available for use via I2P. Starting with I2P 0.8.4 the tunnel is configured out of the box.
In case the https outproxy is not available in your version of I2P, you can add it easily by doing the following:
Open i2p tunnel manager. Scroll down to the bottom.
Choose CONNECT from New Client Tunnel dropdown list, click Create
In the new page, name and describe your new https tunnel as you like. The Access Point is your local port for the new https proxy recommended port's 4445. Outproxy should be the outproxy's .i2p address which supports https. See this forum post of h2ik's for the address. Make sure Shared Client, Delay Connect, AutoStart are checked. Other options should be left at the defaults. Click Save. In tunnel manger, click the Start button next to your new tunnel.
In firefox, click through Tools>Options>Advanced>Network>Setting. Untick Use this proxy for all protocol, set SSL proxy: to localhost:4445.
Is using an outproxy safe? (link)
This is a question that only you can answer because the correct answer depends on your behaviours, your threat model, and how much you trust the outproxy operator.
Like Tor, I2P does not magically encrypt the Internet. You are vulnerable to snooping by the outproxy operators. The Tor FAQ does a good job of explaining this.
In addition, you may be vulnerable to collusion between the outproxy operator and operators of other I2P services, if you use the same tunnels ("shared clients"). There is additional discussion about this on zzz.i2p.
How do I access IRC, BitTorrent, or other services on the regular Internet? (link)
Unless an outproxy has been set up for the service you want to connect to, this cannot be done. There are only three types of outproxies running right now: HTTP, HTTPS, and email. Note that there is not a SOCKS outproxy. If this type of service is required, try Tor.
Most of the eepsites within I2P are down? (link)
If you consider every eepsite that has ever been created, yes, most of them are down. People and eepsites come and go. A good way to get started in I2P is check out a list of eepsites that are currently up. inproxy.tino.i2p and perv.i2p track active eepsites.
How do I set up my own eepsite? (link)
Click on the My Eepsite Link on the top of your router console for instructions.
Why is I2P so slow? (link)
Why are downloads, torrents, web browsing, and everything else so slow on I2P? The encryption and routing within the I2P network adds a substantial amount of overhead and limits bandwidth. Anonymity isn't free.
In addition, you and everybody else probably need to increase your bandwidth limits. Two key settings are the inbound and outbound bandwidth limiters on the configuration page. With the default settings of 32KBps you will generally get no better than 15KBps data transfer in I2PSnark. Increasing the settings (but keeping within your actual connection limitations) will increase the potential transfer rate for I2PSnark and all other applications.
Also, do you have sufficient share bandwidth configured to allow participating tunnels to route through your router? Believe it or not, allowing participating traffic keeps you well-integrated in the network and helps your own transfer speeds.
I2P is a work in progress. Lots of improvements and fixes are being implemented, and generally speaking, running the latest release will help your performance. If you haven't, install the latest release.
Bittorrent / I2PSnark / Azureus I2P Plugin Questions? (link)
See the I2P Bittorrent FAQ (outside I2P)
How do I connect to IRC within I2P? (link)
On the I2PTunnel configuration page, start the ircProxy. Then tell your IRC client to connect to localhost port 6668.
How can I access the web console from my other machines or password protect it? (link)
For security purposes, the router's admin console by default only listens for connections on the local interface. However, with a little hacking, you can make it reachable remotely:
Open up clients.config and replace
clientApp.0.args=7657 ::1,127.0.0.1 ./webapps/
clientApp.0.args=7657 0.0.0.0 ./webapps/
Go to http://localhost:7657/configadvanced.jsp and add a new option: consolePassword=foo (or whatever password you want)
Go to http://localhost:7657/index.jsp and hit "Graceful restart", which restarts the JVM and reloads the client applications
After that fires up, you should now be able to reach your console remotely. You will be prompted for a username and password though - the username is "admin" and the password is whatever you specified in step 2 above. Note: the 0.0.0.0 above specifies an interface, not a network or netmask. 0.0.0.0 means "bind to all interfaces", so it can be reachable on 127.0.0.1:7657 as well as any LAN/WAN IP.
How can I use applications from my other machines? (link)
By default, the router I2CP interface (port 7654) binds to address 127.0.0.1. To bind to 0.0.0.0, set the router advanced configuration option i2cp.tcp.bindAllInterfaces=true and restart.
Whats an "eepsite"? (link)
An eepsite is a website that is hosted anonymously - you can access it by setting your web browser's HTTP proxy to use the web proxy (typically it listens on localhost port 4444), and browsing to the site.
What do the Active x/y numbers mean in the router console? (link)
x is the number of peers you've sent or received a message from successfully in the last minute, y is the number of peers seen in the last hour or so.
Is it possible to use I2P as a SOCKS proxy? (link)
The SOCKS proxy is working as of release 0.7.1. SOCKS 4/4a/5 are supported. There is no SOCKS outproxy so it is of limited use.
In addition, many applications leak sensitive information that could identify you on the Internet. I2P only filters connection data, but if the program you intend to run sends this information as content, I2P has no way to protect your anonymity. For example, some mail applications will send the IP address of the machine they are running on to a mail server. There is no way for I2P to filter this, thus using I2P to 'socksify' existing applications is possible, but extremely dangerous.
If you would like more information on the socks proxy application anyway, there are some helpful hints on the socks page.
How do I configure my browser? (link)
The proxy config for different browsers is on a separate page with screenshots. More advanced configs with external tools are possible but could introduce leaks in your setup.
What ports does I2P use? (link)
Okay, here's a rundown of the default ports (everything is configurable through various settings, of course):
Internet-facing ports Note: New installs as of release 0.7.8 do not use port 8887; they select a random port between 9000 and 31000 when the program is run for the first time. The selected port is shown on the router configuration page.
Outbound UDP from the random port noted on the configuration page to arbitrary remote UDP ports, allowing replies
Outbound TCP from random high ports to arbitrary remote TCP ports
(optional, but recommended) Inbound UDP to the port noted on configuration page from arbitrary locations
(optional, but recommended) Inbound TCP to the port noted on configuration page from arbitrary locations
Inbound TCP may be disabled on the configuration page.
Outbound UDP on port 123, allowing replies
This is necessary for I2P's internal time sync (via SNTP - querying a random SNTP host in pool.ntp.org or another server you specify)
Local I2P ports, listening only to local connections by default, except where noted:
1900: UPnP SSDP UDP multicast listener. Cannot be changed. Binds to all interfaces. May be disabled on config.jsp.
2827: BOB bridge, a higher level socket API for clients Disabled by default. May be enabled/disabled on configclients.jsp. May be changed in the bob.config file.
4444: HTTP proxy May be disabled or changed on the i2ptunnel page in the router console. May also be configured to be bound to a specific interface or all interfaces.
4445: HTTPS proxy May be disabled or changed on the i2ptunnel page in the router console. May also be configured to be bound to a specific interface or all interfaces.
6668: IRC proxy May be disabled or changed on the i2ptunnel page in the router console. May also be configured to be bound to a specific interface or all interfaces.
7652: UPnP HTTP TCP event listener. Binds to the LAN address. May be changed with advanced config i2np.upnp.HTTPPort=nnnn. May be disabled on config.jsp.
7653: UPnP SSDP UDP search response listener. Binds to all interfaces. May be changed with advanced config i2np.upnp.SSDPPort=nnnn. May be disabled on config.jsp.
7654: I2P Client Protocol port, used by client apps. May be changed to a different port on configclients.jsp but this is not recommended. May be to bind to a different interface or all interfaces, or disabled, on configclients.jsp.
7655: UDP for SAM bridge, a higher level socket API for clients Only opened when a SAM V3 client requests a UDP session. May be enabled/disabled on configclients.jsp. May be changed in the clients.config file with the SAM command line option sam.udp.port=nnnn.
7656: SAM bridge, a higher level socket API for clients Disabled by default for new installs as of release 0.6.5. May be enabled/disabled on configclients.jsp. May be changed in the clients.config file.
7657: Your router console May be disabled in the clients.config file. May also be configured to be bound to a specific interface or all interfaces in that file.
7658: Your eepsite May be disabled in the clients.config file. May also be configured to be bound to a specific interface or all interfaces in the jetty.xml file.
7659: Outgoing mail to smtp.postman.i2p May be disabled or changed on the i2ptunnel page in the router console. May also be configured to be bound to a specific interface or all interfaces.
7660: Incoming mail from pop.postman.i2p May be disabled or changed on the i2ptunnel page in the router console. May also be configured to be bound to a specific interface or all interfaces.
8998: mtn.i2p2.i2p (Monotone - disabled by default) May be disabled or changed on the i2ptunnel page in the router console. May also be configured to be bound to a specific interface or all interfaces.
31000: Local connection to the wrapper control channel port. Outbound to 32000 only, does not listen on this port. Starts at 31000 and will increment until 31999 looking for a free port. To change, see the wrapper documentation. For more information see below.
32000: Local control channel for the service wrapper. To change, see the wrapper documentation. For more information see below.
The local I2P ports and the I2PTunnel ports do not need to be reachable from remote machines, but *should* be reachable locally. You can also create additional ports for I2PTunnel instances via http://localhost:7657/i2ptunnel/ (and in turn, would need to get your firewall to allow you local access, but not remote access, unless desired).
So, to summarize, nothing needs to be reachable by unsolicited remote peers, but if you can configure your NAT/firewall to allow inbound UDP and TCP the outbound facing port, you'll get better performance. You will also need to be able to send outbound UDP packets to arbitrary remote peers (blocking IPs randomly with something like PeerGuardian only hurts you - don't do it).
Why is I2P listening on port 32000? (link)
The Tanuki java service wrapper that we use opens this port—bound to localhost—in order to communicate with software running inside the JVM. When the JVM is launched it is given a key so it can connect to the wrapper. After the JVM establishes its connection to the wrapper, the wrapper refuses any additional connections.
More information can be found in the wrapper documentation.
How do I reseed manually? (link)
An I2P router only needs to be seeded once, to join the network for the first time. Reseeding is nothing more than sending plain HTTP GET requests to fetch a directory listing and download multiple "routerInfo" files from a predefined reseed URL.
A typical symptom of a failed reseed is the "Known" indicator (on the left sidebar of the router console) displaying a very small value (often less than 5) which does not increase. This can occur, among other things, if your firewall limits outbound traffic, and blocked the reseed request.
To reseed an I2P router manually, do the following:
Stop your I2P router
Open http://i2pdb.tin0.de/netDb/ or http://netdb.i2p2.de/ using a web browser
Save a dozen "routerInfo" files to your I2P "netDb" directory (ignore the "leaseSet" files)
Alternate method (easier): Download http://i2pdb.tin0.de/latest.zip and unzip it into your I2P "netDb" directory.
Start your I2P router
I'm using FreeBSD and when I start I2P I receive an error about libm.so.4! (link)
When trying to start the router using "i2prouter start", you may see output like the following:
$ ./i2prouter start
Starting I2P Service...
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libm.so.4" not found, required by "i2psvc"
In order to be inclusive and try to ensure that I2P will run on as many systems as possible, we use a java wrapper compiled for FreeBSD 6.x. Most likely you do not have the necessary compatibility libraries installed. These libraries may be installed by performing the following steps:
Switch to the root user with su or log in as root.
cd /usr/ports/misc/compat6x
make install
If you cannot install these compatibility libraries (or do not want to), other possibilities would be to compile the wrapper for your system or starting I2P with the runplain.sh script.
In wrapper.log I see an error that states "Protocol family unavailable" when loading the Router Console (link)
Often this error will occur with any network enabled java software on some systems that are configured to use IPv6 by default. There are a few ways to solve this:
On Linux based systems, you can echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only
Look for the following lines in wrapper.config.
If the lines are there, uncomment them by removing the "#"s. If the lines are not there, add them without the "#"s.
Another option would be to remove the ::1 from ~/.i2p/clients.config
WARNING: For any changes to wrapper.config to take effect, you must completely stop the router and the wrapper. Clicking Restart on your router console will NOT reread this file! You must click Shutdown, wait 11 minutes, then start I2P.
I have a question! (link)
Great! Find us on IRC irc.freenode.net #i2p or post to the forum and we'll post it here (with the answer, hopefully).
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Daniel Tosh will pay dearly for insinuating Rob Dyrdek diddles 12-year-old boys -- in fact, sources close to the "Fantasy Factory" star tell TMZ, Dyrdek actually wants to FIGHT Tosh over a recent on-air pedophile jab.
In case you missed the sketch on "Tosh.0" -- the comedian dresses up like Dyrdek at a "Childish Dream Factory for Young Boys Only" ... filled with shirtless, 12-year-olds on Razor scooters ... and even plies his young guests with wine and drugs.
But Rob -- who also hosts an extremely similar clip show on MTV called "Ridiculousness" -- isn't laughing ... responding to the sketch on Twitter, writing, "The idea of having beef with @danieltosh is truly embarrassing ... for real ... imagine that 'clip show host' beef ... but now that beef is very real."
Dyrdek said he wanted to settle things "the old-fashioned way" -- and sources close to MTV reality star insist he isn't joking ... Dyrdek seriously wants to throw down with Tosh. He is NOT happy.
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Has there been a standard protocol in place for anal pap smears for hiv+ men and fi so for how long? I ask because I was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS at age 50 several years ago and have responded really well to treatment. I was never offered an anal pap smear as part of my preventive treatment and recently asked for one on my own initiative. The results showed lowgrade abnormalities that are awaiting biopsy. This apparent lapse on the part of my provider has caused me concern and a loss of trust.
Many healthcare workers providing HIV care do not routinely offer anal PAP smears. Personally I do recommend them. I'll post some information from the archives that addresses your concerns.
Dr. Bob
HPV, Anal Cancer and Cervical Cancer in HIV-Infected People
An Interview With Joel Palefsky, M.D.
By Bonnie Goldman
February 11, 2009
At CROI 2009, I had the opportunity to sit down with Joel Palefsky, M.D., a prominent physician/researcher in the area of cancers related to human papillomavirus. We discussed an important study he presented at this conference regarding the link between anal intraepithelial neoplasia and anal cancer, and also talked about the methods by which these lesions can be prevented and treated.
Could we begin by you talking a little bit about what you do in San Francisco?
I'm a professor of medicine trained in infectious diseases; my primary interest is in human papillomaviruses, HPV, which is the most common sexually transmitted agent. I'm very interested in the diseases associated with HPV that have the potential to progress to cancer. This is a problem of particular interest in inmmunosuppressed people, especially HIV-positive people.
Much of our work is in doing clinical studies of HPV infection and its consequences in HIV-positive men and women, in studying the interaction between the two viruses in the laboratory, and in putting effort towards trying to understand how they interact to cause more of a problem than you'd get in an otherwise healthy person.
What did you present here at CROI?
At CROI, we were dealing with one of the key questions that remains in terms of trying to understand the significance of one of the findings that we've made over the years: What does it mean to have a lesion called high-grade anal intraepithelial neoplasia, or HGAIN?1 In the cervix, the equivalent of this is known as cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, or CIN. It's well known that this is a lesion that has the potential to progress to cervical cancer. We have a pap smear screening system in place now, which is designed to detect the high-grade version of CIN, to treat it before it can progress to cancer. That's why women have colposcopies and biopsies and ultimately [receive] treatment. This system has been very, very successful to reduce the rate of cervical cancer. That's the reason why women get their pap smears annually or every other year.
How is cervical cancer related to HPV?
It's caused by HPV, just like it is in the anus; it's the same strains of HPV, the most common of which is called HPV-16.
Over the years, we've taken the lessons that we've learned in the cervix and shown that the same problem exists in the anal canal. Since a high proportion of men who have sex with men [MSM] have anal intercourse, we suspected that HPV infection might be common. The equivalent of CIN, which is AIN, might be common, too.
We have found, in fact, that it is very common: Nearly all HIV-positive men who have sex with men have anal HPV infection. Over 60% of HIV-negative men who have sex with men have anal HPV infection. A high proportion of HIV-positive men have high-grade AIN -- over 50%, in fact.
I've read that you don't really need to have engaged in anal intercourse to have HPV in the anus.
That's true. In women, that's clear. We don't really know in men, since such a high proportion of MSM have had anal intercourse at least once. So from an epidemiologic standpoint, it's hard to tease that out. But we know in women that you can have anal HPV infection in the absence of anal intercourse -- though we think that anal intercourse is the most efficient way to get it. In fact, we've shown that there's more anal HPV in HIV-positive women than there is cervical HPV infection.
Is this due to "migrating" HPV?
It's due to anal intercourse, and some degree of migrating from the cervix, and some degree of what we call in medical-ese "foamites". Namely, carrier status of an inert object -- such as a finger, for example: It's possible that if a person touches a genital region of themselves in an infected area, or an infected area of a partner, and then touches somewhere else where there isn't HPV infection, it can spread it. Having fingers in and around the opening of the anus is very common in the course of sexual relations, so it's possible that fingers could also transmit HPV to the anal canal.
What's the likelihood? You said it's possible, but has it been proven?
It's not been proven, and it's very hard to study.
I would imagine.
But since we know that some people with anal HPV infection have never had anal intercourse, there are only so many other possibilities for how it could have gotten there. We know that people can auto-inoculate.
What are the recommendations in terms of preventing this? Are people getting anal pap smears?
People are not getting anal pap smears yet, and that's really coming back to why we did this poster. The issue is that people don't really know what the meaning of this high-grade AIN lesion is. Does it have the potential to progress to cancer or not? If it does, how do we best treat it, and can we prove that the treatment reduces the incidence of anal cancer, as has been shown in the cervix? Some of these pieces of information have not yet been obtained, and in the absence of that information, some individuals feel that it's not appropriate to make generalized recommendations for anal cytology screening, like we have in the cervix.
One of the things we're trying to do in our group is plug the gaps in information so we can make the case for screening -- which we, in fact, already do in San Francisco, because we feel that it is the right thing to do. Nevertheless, there are legitimate reasons to want to have all the information possible before embarking on this because it will be intensive, in terms of labor, required training and some expense.
What we set out to do in this poster was provide more information showing, in fact, that the high-grade AIN lesion is the true precursor to anal cancer. In our clinic -- the UCSF neoplasia clinic -- over the years, we followed many people and looked through our records of the last 10 years to find people who've developed anal cancer. Then we went to their medical records to see if we had ever diagnosed a high-grade AIN lesion in the exact area where the cancer actually developed.
In fact, we found about 65 cancers overall in the population that we studied, and of those, it was clear that the high-grade AIN lesion was the source of the cancer in about 23 of those people. The other people, we simply couldn't document it.
This is the very first proof, in fact, that high-grade AIN can progress directly to anal cancer. There have been a few scattered reports of people who have high-grade AIN who are then shown to have anal cancer later, but they were not followed prospectively to show that it was that area of disease, high-grade AIN, that actually progressed to the cancer.
With this kind of information, we feel that we're adding a little bit more to the argument that treatment of high-grade AIN may be useful to prevent the cancers. We still have lots more work to do: We have to show that we can successfully treat the high-grade AIN, and we need to ultimately demonstrate that that treatment reduces the incidence of cancer.
Is yours the only clinic of its kind in the country?
We were the world's first clinic devoted to AIN, and we've been training a lot of people since then. There have been others springing up around the country. Some of them have been designed just for clinical care, others just for research -- particularly in the setting of the AIDS Malignancy Consortium, which is another one of our major activities.
Do you expect there will be recommendations that get people anal pap smears in the future?
There already are. The state of New York, actually, is the very first to officially recommend anal pap smears for HIV-positive men and women. The problem with that is that, like in many other places, there isn't sufficient infrastructure to really allow for the full spectrum of services to be provided. The pap smear is really only the first step. Once you have the pap smear, you need to do an anoscopy to show where those abnormal cells in the pap smear came from. Then you need to biopsy the abnormal areas that you see. Then you need to treat those areas.
The anoscopy, the biopsies and the treatment are procedures that require quite a bit of training. There's a substantial amount of infrastructure that's required to fully take care of patients. So I applaud the state of New York for taking that first step, but we really need to develop the full infrastructure, to allow it to be implemented properly.
In terms of treatment, what happens if somebody is found to have an AIN lesion?
There's no specific treatment for the causative agent, such as HPV, so what we're stuck with is physical removal of the AIN lesion. Usually by any number of methods, but most of them are done in the office. It could be as simple as applying 85% trichloroacetic acid, TCA, which sounds awful because it's got the word "acid" in it, but it's actually very well tolerated by patients. More recently, we've been using a technique called infrared coagulation, or IRC, which involves putting a light probe into the anal canal under direct visualization, touching the tip of this light probe to the lesion, and delivering a pre-specified amount of energy. It kind of burns the tissue a little bit, but it's also very well tolerated because we put some local anesthetic in and most patients actually go right to work after the procedure.
That clears it up?
In many cases. It does sometimes require repeated applications after time, but we can clear up at least 70% or 80% of them within two or three applications of this technique.
How many places in the country are doing this technique?
It's still limited, but we're training people. We train people through our affiliation with the ASCCP, the American Society for Cervical Colposcopy and Pathology, where we have courses in high-resolution anoscopy. People come to our clinic, as well, to watch what we do, and there are increasingly others around the country who are experienced enough and training others, including in New York City.
It sounds like there's a lot progress still to be made.
There is.
This is really the beginnings of understanding the disease, I think.
The other important thing to understand here is that anal cancer is a relatively uncommon cancer, but in the population that we're concerned with -- HIV-positive MSM and women -- it's not an uncommon cancer. In fact, in HIV positive men who have sex with men, the incidence is roughly 10 times higher than the incidence of cervical cancer in the general population of women. These are numbers that we would not consider acceptable in women, and I feel like we ought not to consider them acceptable in anybody.
Do you feel, at a conference like this, that a lot of clinicians are aware of all this?
I think that it's happening more and more. At the early stages of the epidemic, people were rightly more focused on more immediate issues, such as surviving HIV infection itself and some of the opportunistic infections. Now that we're in the ART [antiretroviral therapy] era, the focus is shifting more to the chronic complications of HIV infection. This is sort of the perfect storm of that.
We know that it may take many years to go from high-grade AIN to cancer, and in the past, this wasn't as big an issue because people didn't live long enough. But now that people are surviving, and surviving in a healthy manner, and not being screened for their high-grade AIN, they now have the opportunity for that lesion to progress over time.
This is a preventable cancer. We haven't proven that yet, but we're pretty confident that it's preventable. So, people are now starting to pay more attention. Along with the fact that, as we predicted long ago, the incidence of cancer would go up in the ART era, for the reasons that I just mentioned -- as opposed to down, which is what we've seen for some of the other HIV-related cancers, like Kaposi's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. There's a number of recent publications showing that the incidence of anal cancer may be as high as 137 per 100,000, as compared with, for example, eight per 100,000, which is the incidence of cervical cancer in the general population.
If people want to get either checked or need treatment, I understand you have a Web site?
We do have a Web site: it's www.analcancerinfo.ucsf.edu. We have information on that Web site for providers as well as for patients, and we have a list of people who've trained with us -- though that list may or may not reflect the group that's actually doing the procedure in their own location. There's a lot of general information about the disease and what we know about it at this point.
I also strongly urge people who are interested in this disease to consider participating in some of the clinical trials run by the AIDS Malignancy Consortium, where we're trying to determine better treatments for the high-grade AIN, and also how to better prevent it.
You asked about prevention. One way is through condoms, which -- in the cervix, at least -- have been shown to prevent up to 70% of infections, when condoms are used 100% of the time. That's OK, but not great. Abstinence. [Laughs.] Not great. It may be that the long-term solution to this problem, ironically, may be the HPV vaccine.
But it's not available for men.
It is not available for men yet, but we've just completed a study of the vaccine in men, and the study will be coming out soon. The anal cancer is caused by the same types [of HPV] that are [prevented by] the vaccine for women. It could be that the vaccine, if given to men -- particularly before they become sexually active, because the vaccine only prevents initial infection -- might actually be the long-term solution to preventing anal cancer. If you don't get the virus, than you don't get the cancer.
Thank you very much.
You're welcome.
Palefsky J, Berry M, Jay N, et al. Progression of high-grade anal intraepithelial neoplasia to invasive anal cancer among HIV+ men who have sex with men. In: Program and abstracts of the 16th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections; February 8-11, 2009; Montréal, Canada. Abstract 867.
Screening for anal warts (Anal PAP smears) Aug 3, 2001
What are the current recommendations for anal pap smears in HIV positive men and women?
Response from Dr. Dezube
Excellent question. There are NO official guidelines regarding anal PAP smears. (A PAP smear is a test by which a health care provider checks a patient's cervix and/or anus for cells which are precancerous or cancerous). The following is one approach used by many experts in the field. Again this is just an approach. The specifics will depend upon the expertise of your local facility, your specific situation, and so on.
HIV negative men with history of receptive anal intercourse (i.e. "bottoms") or anal warts. If the first anal PAP is negative, it should be repeated in 6 months. If the second PAP is negative, then repeat PAP should be obtained in 3 to 5 years.
HIV positive men with history of anal intercourse. If the first anal PAP is negative, it should be repeated in 6 months. If the second PAP is negative, then repeat PAP smear should be obtained in one year. Some clinicians screen patients with CD4 counts <200 more frequently.
3)HIV positive women with history of anal warts, high grade cervical pre-cancer (CSIL), or invasive cervical cancer. If the first anal PAP is negative, it should be repeated in 6 months. If the second PAP is negative, then repeat PAP smear should be obtained in one year. Some clinicians screen patients with CD4 counts <200 more frequently.


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I have the best friends ever, and not just because they're sending me to the Super Bowl.
Yeah, that's right. My friends helped me get tickets to the Super Bowl.
Scoring face-value seats to the big game is about as rare as a couple from "The Bachelor" walking down the aisle, and I still watch that show, too.
I'd been going to Broncos games since I was 7 years old. When my family moved to Colorado, we got on the waiting list for Broncos season tickets. Six years later we became season-ticket holders, and so began the fascination with the Broncos.
From Craig Morton and Tom Jackson to John Elway and the "Three Amigos," and "In-com-plete" chants, we lived and breathed everything Broncos, like most Coloradans.
The best part of games was attending with my late mom. She was the biggest — and definitely loudest — Broncos fan. Everyone loved cheering near her. We easily made friends in our section because her claps and chants were endearing.
I now have two Super Bowl tickets, and I wish I could've taken her to her first Super Bowl. She would've told her bosses she was going, and that would've been that.
She would've loved Peyton Manning and all those "Omaha" calls that became so popular they raised money for charity. She would've loved that Elway was instrumental in this Super Bowl from the front office.
When the Broncos won the AFC championship game over the Patriots, I wanted to call my mom. It's so instinctive. There's no phone line to heaven, so I did the next best thing.
I found an awesome photo of my mom from a game at Mile High Stadium. It depicted her in all her glory — smiling, laughing, cheering and larger than life. It was a shot of her and a couple of 20-something-year-old males in our section. I don't know many moms who could so easily make friends with anyone.
I wrote: "Heaven is a lucky place, getting to cheer with this lady."
My friends loved my mom, too, and they knew this was such a special event. They wouldn't take no Super Bowl tickets for an answer. Since my birthday is the week of the game, they started a special e-mail chain, determined to help me get a ticket. My friends started asking their friends and checking Web sites and connections for affordable tickets.
They started a birthday pool, too.
Unbeknownst to me, I was texting most of those friends, too, about my Super quest. I'd had an offer for $1,500 a few days ago, and I turned it down. I resigned myself to staying in Los Angeles. I was OK with it. That kind of money would be better spent on so many other things.
I asked friends to host a small, Broncos-fans-only gathering so I didn't have to deal with any of Seattle's 12th men who might re-enact Richard Sherman's postgame rant. They'd already ordered an orange tablecloth, orange cookies and promised that everyone — including the dog — would wear Broncos jerseys.
Then I had an offer for $1,000 for one ticket, and I was considering it with great angst. I texted a friend, who had been to many World Series games, to see if I was crazy for spending that much money on a game. This is when your friend knows you're just seeking confirmation that it's OK to make an emotional purchase that Suze Orman would've shot down in a New York minute.
"If you're looking for the crazy sports fan to assure you that you are not crazy, you've come to the right place," she texted.
When I agreed to the $1000, I got the call that instead, I had two face-value tickets, each south of $1,000.
Hello, Super Bowl! Hello, New York!
Thanks to Melissa, Arthur, Kelli, Samantha, Sherry, Mike, Brandi, Becky and many other friends, I picked up those tickets Thursday. And because of their generous birthday pool, the remaining amount on my ticket is less than one of those NHL Stadium Series hockey tickets from Dodger Stadium.
I had enough frequent-flyer miles to get to New York four days before the game (that was no small miracle), and I have a super friend who lives in Manhattan. She always hosts me when I'm in New York. Her cat loves my suitcases.
It's too short of notice for most of my Broncos friends to get affordable flights, so I'll probably find someone in New York that will want to buy a ticket and not get scalped.
Those friends have now posted on Facebook about my ticket for sale.
I think these friends are the same folks who helped make it rain a little bit Thursday in this Los Angeles drought. It sure seems like they have the power to do anything.
They're worried about me not enjoying the game with a Broncos friend, but I'll have plenty of new friends around me.
These friends are my MVPs.
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Los Angeles – As teammate Kobe Bryant became the youngest player in the history of the NBA to score 30,000 points, Pau Gasol trade rumors resurfaced once again.
With the Los Angeles Lakers triumphing over the New Orleans Hornets 103-87, Bryant joined an elite class of players that have surpassed the 30,000 mark.
I just don't want him to sulk about the change of things.
Needing just 13 points in Wednesday night's game to make history, Bryant went above and beyond scoring 29 total with 17 of them by halftime.
The only other players to score more than 30,000 are Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain.
"It's pretty awesome," Bryant said. "These are players I respect tremendously and obviously grew up idolizing and watching and learned a great deal from."
When Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni was asked before tipoff about Bryant's impending milestone, the coach joked, "That just means he is old."
However at 34, Bryant is younger than the other four were when they hit the mark, but Bryant also turned pro at 18, and is in his 17th season.
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As Bryant made history, the Lakers rebuffed at least two teams interested in acquiring his struggling team mate Gasol.
According to ESPN.com both the Minnesota Timberwolves and Toronto Raptors have expressed interest in Gasol.
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"I love Pau like a brother," Bryant told ESPNLosAngeles.comon Tuesday. "I really do. I want him to dominate like I know he can."
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Option 2: Return a Future (Caller Converts "Pull" Into "Push")
The "pull" model is great for many uses, but the example caller we saw above is a must-stay-responsive GUI thread. That kind of caller certainly doesn't want to wait for the "future" on any GUI thread method, because responsive threads must not block or stop processing new events and messages. There are workarounds, but they're not ideal: For example, it's possible for the GUI thread to remember there's a "future" and check it on each event that gets processed, and to make sure it sees it soon enough it can generate extra timer events to be woken up just so it can check the "future" but that seems (and is) a lot harder than it should be.
Given that a responsive thread like a GUI thread is already event-driven, ideally we would like it to be able to receive the result as a new queued event message that it can naturally respond to just like anything else.
Option 2 is to have the caller do the work to convert "pull" to "push." In this model, the callee still returns a "future" as in Option 1, and it's up to the caller turn it into a proactive result. How can the caller do that? One way is to launch a one-off asynchronous operation that just waits for the "future" and then generates a notification from the result. Here's an example:
// Example 2(a): Calling code, taking result as a future // and converting it into an event-driven notification class MyGUI { public: // … // When the user clicks [Save] void OnSaveClick() { // … // … turn on saving icon, etc. … // … shared_future<bool> result; result = backgrounder.Save( filename ); // queue up a continuation to notify ourselves of the // result once it's available async( [=] { SendSaveComplete( result.get() ); } ); } void OnSaveComplete( bool returnedValue ) { // … turn off saving icon, etc. … }
The statement
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SendSaveComplete; in this case, an asynchronous method that when executed ends up calling
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Option 2 Variant: ContinueWith
As written, the Example 2(a) code has two disadvantages:
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- Second, it incurs an extra wakeup, because when the "future" result is available, we need to wake up the asynchronous helper operation's thread and continue there.
Some threading platforms offer a "future-like" type that has a
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Tacking the continuation onto the "future-generating" work itself with
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// Example 2(b): Calling code, same as 2(a) except using // ContinueWith method (if available) class MyGUI { public: // … // When the user clicks [Save] void OnSaveClick() { // … // … turn on saving icon, etc. … // … shared_future<bool> result; result = backgrounder.Save( filename ); // queue up a continuation to notify ourselves of the // result once it's available result.ContinueWith( [=] SendSaveComplete( result->get() ); } </font>); } void OnSaveComplete( bool returnedValue ) { // … turn off saving icon, etc. … }
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When we spoke to former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler in December he was still hoping that Axl Rose would come to his senses and agree to perform with the group at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. "I know there's love between all five of us," he said. "I know there is. Not just four of us, five of us. We owe it to the fans. The LEAST we can do is give them one great performance."
Needless to say, the full reunion didn't happen and in a new interview with Rolling Stone, Adler says that he's finally given up hopes for a reunion and wants to move on with his life. He has a new group called Adler and they are releasing their debut LP and hitting the road this year. "The world needs a new rock and roll band," he says. "And were just the guys to do it. Its the greatest way to start a new chapter in my life."
Adler also says this is the last interview he'll ever give about Axl. "He showed his true colors to the world," the drummer says. "Im done with him, Im never mentioning him or talking about him again."
How did the induction ceremony go for you?
It was the greatest way to end that chapter of my life. It couldnt have gone better. It ended that chapter of my life great, and its starting this new chapter of my life, with my new band, even bigger and better. Its very exciting. Its fucking exciting. Life is exciting again.
You think the Guns N' Roses chapter is closed?
Thats done. Thats totally out of my system. I was hoping that the five of us would have been there to play and show our respect to the fans, but the three of us who really do care about what our fans think and how much theyve done for us were there, and we showed our love and respect. In my thank-you speech, I ended it with the words of the late, great Freddie Mercury. "Ive taken my bows, my curtain calls, youve brought me fame and fortune and everything that goes with it, and I thank you all." I think that says it. It couldnt have gone better. I showed my thanks and my love. Slash is really the main person from that band that is really super-duper theyre all important, but Slash is the most important, because we grew up together, we started the whole thing together, so it was really great ending that chapter with him.
How did it feel playing those songs with Slash and Duff again?
It was great, and Myles Kennedy did a fabulous job This is the only thing Im going to say about Axl, and this is the last thing Im ever going to say, ever, youre getting it, is I feel blessed and thankful that he was a part of my life for that chapter of my life, but thats it. Thats it. I have no desire to know him or work with him or do anything with him again. Letting go of that was like a huge weight was lifted off my body. I feel fucking free. Yay!
You and all the fans have wanted that reunion for years. That desire is gone on your part?
Yeah, its gone. If it was going to happen, thats when it was going to happen, and in Axls letter, he showed his true colors to the world. After that, thats it. Like I said, the main person I wanted to end that chapter with, and Im going to start a new chapter with, was Slash.
What true colors did he show in that letter?
I think its disrespect. He's not for the fans, which is everybody in the world. Basically, he told everybody in the world, "Fuck you, I dont give a shit what you think."
He mentioned you in his first letter. He said, "Steven was at our show at the Hard Rock, later in '06 in Las Vegas, where I invited him to our after-party and was rewarded with his subsequent interviews filled with reunion lies. Lesson learned."
That doesnt even make any sense. Thats Axl, he doesnt make any sense, and thats it, Im done with him, Im never mentioning him or talking about him again. Thats it. One last thing god bless him.
How did the rest of the night go? Did you meet any cool people?
I have to say, the coolest person I ever met in my whole life is John Mellencamp. I never met a person who was more secure about himself and his person. It was just incredible, hes the coolest person Ive ever met in my life. Steven Tylers the greatest person I ever met in my life, one of the most wonderful people I ever met, but John Cougar, the coolest motherfucker on this planet. This guy is so secure about who he is and what he does, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.
You also got to see your old friends Flea and Anthony Kiedis.
Anthonys wonderful, Ive known him for decades, hes great. Flea is the greatest, it was so great, the way he mentioned me, and he mentioned my grandmother. He used to practice his trumpet for my grandmother, we used to play football in the street, and hed come home from school and have his trumpet and practice for my grandmother. He mentioned it, and that was so great. That and he sent me a text saying the coolest thing that a rhythm brother could say to another rhythm brother, he said, "Stevie, last night, you were so deep in the pocket, it was beautiful." So that was the coolest thing for Flea to say that, because hes like the greatest bass player in the world.
The evening turned out pretty great especially considering Axl and Rod Stewart didn't show up.
Yeah, Myles Kennedy did a number on that other redhead. He did a phenomenal job, stepping into those big redheaded shoes. Hes got a powerful voice. Other than my new singer, if it wasnt Myles Kennedy singing, Id have wanted my singer to sing, because this guys amazing. I have the greatest new band, and its so great being part of a new band, being part of something thats fun again and real. Its real and its fun, and our new record we just finished, I recorded a whole record, I have 12 songs. In two weeks when Jeff Pilson gets back, hes on tour with Foreigner, when he gets back, were going to do one more song. 13 songs. The new record will be done. I havent been finished with something in 22 years.
Do you see the Hall of Fame induction as the biggest moment of your career?
Its the biggest moment of my career. Any musician who gets to be a part of that, its the biggest moment of their careers, of their life. Its like winning the Super Bowl. I won the friggin Super Bowl, its the coolest thing in the world. I have a ring and trophy and everything. I didnt get a ring, but I got a trophy.
I watched it on video, my guitar player came over with his computer and showed it to me. I was nervous, I dont know how I sounded or how I looked, because it was me, and I was doing it. I saw it and said, "Oh man " I was proud of myself. If I didnt know me, Id have been proud of me, and I was proud of me.
You guys really proved the band is bigger than one person.
Yeah. Im telling the truth, I never heard a boo like that in my life [when Axl's name was mentioned]. It was frightening. I was sitting there going, "Man, god forbid they were doing that at me." That would be soul-crushing, you would think. But that redheaded guy, I was standing onstage, I looked at Duff and said, "You know what the crazy thing is, Axls so back-ass backwards that he probably likes it." Instead of going, "Wow, thats harsh," hes going, "Yeah, fuck yeah, I love it."
Do you understand why that redhead seems so angry at everyone?
Hes got nothing in the world to be angry about. Its so great to move on from that, to get that out of my life and out of my system. You ever have somebody that you know, but theyre not in your life, you dont see them, you dont talk to them, but you think about them, and it makes your stomach get all tight, and you go, "Son of a bitch," and you dont even talk to the guy or see them thats what that asshole would do to me. Its just great to not have that feeling in my stomach anymore. Its good to move on. Its like getting off of heroin, "Oh, I feel so much better, my god, what a relief, Im not sick anymore."
You're sober now, right?
Yeah. I smoke cigarettes, and Im really tired of it, Im going to go see this doctor about taking that Chantix. I tried it before, it gives you terrible dreams.
What's the secret to staying clean this time?
I got to a point of being sick and tired of being sick and tired, and it just got too much. I survived, and I think once you survive it and go through it, you grow up and you just start feeling different about things and about your life. When I was a teenager in my early twenties, I would get in a fight pretty easily, and I wouldnt mind getting punched in the face. But Im 47 years old now, I mind it now. So you just grow up and change how you feel about things.
How did you meet the guys in your new band Adler?
It might sound corny, but God brought them to me. Thats all I can say, is I was blessed again with another group of real guys, great musicians, just sweethearts. My new band, Ive met a lot of groups in my day, and I thought my new band has the coolest guys, but the guys in Green Day are the coolest guys Ive ever met in my life. Those guys play hard punk rock kind of stuff these guys are the mellowest, sweetest, laid back hippies. They just love each other, theyre happy, they hang out with each other. In my band, me and my guitar player go out for breakfast every morning, and when my singers in town, we all three go out. Now with the new bass player, we all go out. We hang out and watch TV, listen to music, go over tunes.
It's gotta be nice to finally be in a functional band.
Its so great being part of a group, a group of guys. Were all on the same page. We all want the same thing, we all have the same goals, and we all respect one another.
Are you going to put any Guns N' Roses songs into your live set?
Out of the respect I have for what I did accomplish, my part of Guns N Roses, I am so friggin proud of my part. So Im fucking proud of that, and the fans are proud of that, and I love that, so of course, Im going to play one or two, but its all about the new band and the new songs. Obviously, it would only be Appetite for Destruction, and Im proud of that, but thats 25 years ago. Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out. Were just the guys to fucking do it, and were going to do it. The last great rock band that came out was the Foo Fighters, and they were like 15 years ago, right? Its 15, 20 years, the world is due.
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My apparel quip jus' reminded me of a guy who played guitar in a jug band with me back in high school: he used to wear a tux & tails with a World War I flying helmet and goggles to our gigs. Of course, that was in the days of Acid, MDA, Mescaline, etc. Best wishes.
Yeah, I hadn't thought about it before Jeff, but you had the organizer in a very vulnerable position,lol! You coulda played with the director a little on that one...bluejay wrote:Thanks for the kind words, Bubba. That's surely the upside of doing it for so long, even on an intermittent basis. The classroom and committee meetings may not be the same as giving a reading, but apparently they've helped polish the act somewhat. Of course, the library director was a bundle of nerves for the event, so it actually seemed to drain off some of my usual apprehension. I was pretty relaxed, the most ever in fact.
But, man, it makes you feel old when you start referencing your work in decades rather than years.
That kinda stuff would go over very well in some of the venues on the Wisconsin side of the Mississippi valley, as well as a coupla places farther inland, in Minn-ee-soot-a, eh. There's an old opera house in Alma, Wi., where one of the local musicians books regional acts. Those communities are very arts friendly, full of artists, craftsmen, retired educators, and hippie relics. Winter is always the best time to do that sort of stuff, cuz of course in the summer everybody's out on the river and in the woods. Check out http://www.crossingsatcarnegie.com. BTW, I'll have to check out your link from home tonite.bluejay wrote:Bubba, I love the tour and band names! As for wardrobe, when I read I kept it pretty simple, a wine red button-down shirt with blackish-blue Levis and a black leather sport coat. Sophisticated casual was the goal.
I've listened to almost half of the podcast. A bit of digital oddness around the edges, I think from background noise, but otherwise pretty good for the level of mic and recorder. Plenty of volume, certainly. My voice actually sounds better than I expected -- maybe it has finally stopped "changing". Someday I'll get brave (read "stupid") enough to try singing in public.
Maybe, Bubba, I should come over to your neck o' the woods and do a bar reading with harp accompaniment?
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I heard some kiter got dragged over the fence at Alameda beach today. Ambulance and fire crew were there .
Hope the kiter is OK
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I heard direct from Adam that this was entirely the launchers fault. Be careful who you let launch you in gusty conditions. I saw the pictures of this guys leg and it was really deep. He is lucky he didn't break anything. Be careful out there!
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That's really a shame. Any idea what specifically was done by the launcher to cause this?
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Probably let the kite go before getting the thumb up.
I've seen this kind of behavior before...
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That happened to me at 3rd last season.... launcher was a relatively new kiter and claimed she was comfortable with launching me. Before my lines were taught and before I gave any signal, my kite was tossed and drifted and somersaulted downwind. Had the leading edge not burst on the rocks, it would've been me on the rocks rather than the kite.
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I only saw a part of the action. I was too far to give any kind of assist. The rider was pulled into the fence, lower kite lines clipped the fence lines got tangled. Somebody tried to free the line(s), kite got freed.
Rider had a chance to punch out, instead, he did a superman style two hand vulcan death grip on the bar. I think he was trying to save the kite.
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damn... this last week was a disaster!
I had to call the CG on a inverted & deflating kite at Crissy at 7.30pm!!!! it was a GREY/BLACK rpm (?) of all camo colors, didn't self rescue and i was the only other kite out. Was descending back to the beach and saw it by mere luck. Took his board and by the time i got to the beach he'd drifted so far out i couldn't see him anymore.
careful out there people. i know you're eager to get in your first session of the season, but at what cost
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This is something that is not stressed enough when you get into kiting. This is the natural reaction as we attempt to assert control over the bar in this sort of situation. Several years into this and I still find myself fighting this reaction. I like the term "punch out", it's so clear and illustrative of what you need to do.
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But even if they punched out they would still be conected by the kite-leash right, the kite would just be fully depowered...?
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Hppe the guy's ok.....regardless of whether it was a fubar on the part of the launcher or equipment or whatever.
I think everybody will experience a bad launch now and again.....wind will lull right when the guy lets go, flying lines/steering lines out of sync......it ultimately is up to the pilot to be in charge of everything, including a bad launch.
Main thing that's already been alluded to in prior posting......if your kite drifts downwind of you and it looks like you're going to have a hot launch, let that bar out as far as you can....if it feels like it's going to pull you off your feet, let go of the bar completely. Most of today's kites have so much depower built into them that if you let go of the bar, you should be ok even without punching out.
Of course if you have a wrap on something, you could be really screwed so be ready to punch out if you need to.
If the spot will allow, always try to keep in mind the possibility of a bad launch and make sure that there are no obstructions downwind within the scope of the kite. Try not to panic when the kite goes downwind (DON'T CLENCH AND PULL THE BAR IN). Let it go, relax, keep the bar out......eventually you'll get enough tension on the lines that the kite will stabilize....if somebody can get to the kite, good.......otherwise you can steer the kite (slow is good) toward the edge of the window and you won't get too ganged if you keep the bar out.
The automatic reaction is to try to exert more control by pulling the bar in, which is the absolute worst thing you can do. Bar in with the kite downwind like that, you're gone. Bar out, usually no big deal.
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