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Surprise, Surprise! CDC Recommends Gardasil for All Young BoysVaccination
No doubt emboldened by the recent legislative victory of AB499 in California which allows children as young as 12 to accept vaccines for sexually transmitted diseases without parental consent, the CDC seized upon its momentum and announced yesterday a major expansion of the Gardasil vaccine to boys as young as 9 years old.
Why is the CDC recommending children so young be vaccinated for the HPV virus?
The cleverly spun answer to this question given by the CDC is that the vaccine is "no longer effective" once a person becomes sexually active, hence the need to vaccinate the very young.
The truth is that the HPV virus is so common in sexually active girls (and overwhelmingly self clearing and not a health issue) that vaccinating them with Gardasil dramatically increases the chance of cancerous lesions by 44.6% (Journal of the American Medical Association).
Hence, the reason for vaccinating very young children with untested, unproven HPV vaccines (Gardasil and Cervarix) that account for nearly one quarter (24%) of adverse vaccine reactions out of the entire 76 vaccines approved by the FDA!
How is it possible for Gardasil to be untested you say?
Consider the fact that cervical cancer takes 2-3 decades to develop and yet the longest clinical trial for Gardasil was only 4 years in length. With such a short clinical trial, not only is Gardasil not proven to be safe, it is also not proven to be effective!
The Journal of the American Medical Association (August 2007) says as much, "No significant evidence of a vaccine therapeutic effect was observed in analysis …."
"It is unlikely that vaccination (with Gardasil) can have a significant beneficial impact …."
Why then is Merck still so aggressively pushing Gardasil with the CDC now cavalierly recommending it for young boys in the third grade?
If money and greed come to mind, then I believe you have hit upon the most likely answer to this not so difficult question – for those with an IQ at least two points above a napkin that is.
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I'm on your side, but I'm not clear how your connecting to the JAMA study… It seems youtube have taken it out of context.. I can only access the abstract at this point, but I'm not sure it supports our cause. I want people to educate themselves, but not sure this is accurate portrayal or useful info at this point.. I'm going to try to access full study. http://jama.jamanetwork.com/Mobile/article.aspx?articleid=184404 thanks somuch for posting this information, though!
Once again someone comes out with another immunization.
So in YOUR mind it HAS to be a conspiracy by several hundred thousand health care workers to make a ton of money for a few dozen fat cats.
Yea, right.
Its good to hear about it. Thanks for implementing this vaccine not only for the women but also for men. I hope it would be legally successful for us to live in healthy and safe way.
Everytime I had taken my daughter, who is 19 now, to her pediatrician, I was asked if they could give her the Gardisil vaccine. I always declined. I thank God that I never gave in to the pressure that the pediatrician put on me to allow my daughter to get this awful vaccine. I really want to know why they put so much pressure on parents to allow their daughters to get vaccinated. The pediatricians seem way to pushy. Are they receiving bonuses? Are they getting kick-backs?
jason and lisa
Heres an idea.. Lets restore traditional family values in society.. Lets stop marketing everything in every industry with sex.. Lets stop praising people like lady gaga and others with the "live for what feels good now" mindset.. Lets teach our children that its not ok to sleep around with whoever whenever rather than teaching our children that its ok to sleep around, there are drugs that will protect you if you do so.. Wouldnt that teach children a degree of responsibility?? That perhaps in life you have to live with the consequences of your actions?? Maybe, just maybe they will have to learn to plan their actions of today by weighing the consequence of tomorrow?? Couldnt this apply to several different areas, not just casual sex?? Wouldnt that lead to a more mature, responsible society??
-jason and lisa-
Thanks for the head's up on this! I got an email from my kids' pediatrician's office today detailing the new recommendations for vaccines that included this one. I counted all the shots they're supposed to receive starting at birth and it was over 30!
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As a female in her late 20s, I have two friends with cervical cancer. One who had to get a total hysterectomy and chemo. The other was told that she will likely need a hysterectomy in the next 2-3 years. I think the vaccine sounds like a great idea. Sure 8 is YOUNG, but we have to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Speaking from working in a primary care office, MANY 13 year olds are having sex and their parents are clueless!
I respect your opinion, but how would you feel if you had your daughter vaccinated and then your daughter experienced the awful side effects of the vaccine? And exposing someone to the dangers of the vaccine doesn't make sense concidering that more than likely many of these young girls will never get cervical cancer anyway. Being sexually active does not mean that you will get cerivical cancer. If that were the case every female would have cervical cancer. Getting the vaccine makes no sense at all, and it should be banned in this country.
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When I was pregnant with my son we discussed vaccines. The class leader said this "I'm not going to tell you whether you should vax or not. I will say you should read the CDC data, not the summery or interpretations of the data, but the actual data and decide for yourself". I did this and the most compelling reasons not to vax I found *in the CDC's own raw data*. Surprisingly I find that this to be true of a lot of "medical" (read: big pharma) recommendations.
Before I left my career to stay home with my kids I had a wealthy client. The kind of wealthy that makes a difference in these things. We got to talking about disease and vaccinations. He told me of research his foundation was doing on genetics and vaccinations. They were really excited over the idea of genetic testing to predict if you would actually be likely to die or suffer serious effects of various diseases so that a person could be vaccinated only for the diseases that would truly harm them if they contracted them. However because of patents on genetic testing, and genes, they kept hitting legal brick walls. They were also working on vaccines without the toxins in them but the drug companies had zero interest. Could you imagine how different the vaccine debate would be if we could have truly safe vaccines for only those things that would do us, as individuals, real harm?
Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist
That is very interesting Heather. I have always conjectured that drug companies WANT the toxins in the vaccines because it creates lifelong clients for their products, i.e., DRUGS.
Only sick people need drugs after all. Why else would they vaccinate a newborn baby with Hep B jab which is for a sexually transmitted disease? Cradle to grave clients = massive residual income.
I have never felt such concern for our country as I do now. We are in some rough times and seems to be getting worse. Whatever happened to Land of the Free. Now you see forced vaccines on children, parental consent is becoming less and less valued, and raw milk sellers held at gun point. This all sounds like tyranny and not soft tyranny either. I just watched the TED presentation by Bill Gates, I can't believe what I am hearing and seeing anymore!!! God help us.
Elaine K (@SoothingSuds)
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I went to the gyno with pain and bleeding after intercourse. I had spotting every couple of days. A few tests found I was HPV positive and I had lesions all over my cervix. I had precancerous changes on my cervix that would have to be removed via surgery. The gyno decided that before she did that I would get the gardasil vaccine as maybe that would clear everything up. After my shots I went back for a checkup. The vaccine worked and my cervix is back to normal. I don't get bleeding, spotting or pain anymore. I'm not part of some pharmaceutical bandwagon. Gardasil is free for women my age in Australia. But I do know that this vaccine is the only thing that stopped me from needing invasive, potentially fertility-altering surgery. And if the guy that gave me the HPV virus had've been vaccinated too, I'd have saved hundreds of dollars of health bills for my specialist.
Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist
With all due respect, I am highly suspect of your story. The Gardasil vaccine doesn't work if you are already infected with the HPV and in fact getting the vaccine when you are already infected increases the odds of cervical cancer by 44.6% per the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Meredith Johnson via Facebook
Asking for assistance from my like-minded friends….the Memphis, TN…NBC affiliate, Action News 5, has asked for comments on Gardasil. I have two small kids, not yet affected by relentless Gardasil vaccination demands, so perhaps I am not as well versed as others and I am facing an onslaught of nurses and doctors on the thread…I would appreciate any contribution you could make on their thread. Here's their FB link: https://www.facebook.com/ActionNews5?ref=ts
THANK you for bringing this to everyone's attention. Just last week in microbiology class my professor said they were going to be doing this. I was horrified and wanted to puke. I am more horrified and want to puke NOW!
I am so outraged! It is mandated for many to get flu/petusses vaccines to keep their jobs. I am in that situation now. The mandates will cont. to expand to everyone and every situation. Soon you won't be able to buy a tomato without proof of up-to-day vaccines. Free country my #$$.
Actual deaths from cervical cancer are so low it doesn't even warrant a vaccine anyway. This is just another profiteering racket by Pharma.
Jennifer Thompson via Facebook
No offense but MN doesn't seem like the trend setters in holistic health nor the hub of intelligence.
No offense? How is that not supposed to be offensive? It's sad that so many other Minnesotans feel this is a good idea, but there are quite a few of us up here who want no part of this as well. Please try not to make such broad putdowns.
Paul Hardiman via Facebook
this is a great article – thank you. i have re-posted it as far and wide as possible. people need to Wake Up.
My older son turned 7 in August. I CANNOT IMAGINE giving him this vaccine in a couple of years… this is just insane!! Both my boys are completely unvaccinated. I have been able to use a religious exemption and will continue to do so. Thanks Sarah for this timely reminder to do our homework and research!!
Heather Wojciechowski via Facebook
No, they will not be experimenting on my child! And that's what vaccines are, in my opinions, experiments.
thehealthyhomeeconomist via Facebook
@Heather I know only 20% opposed to this vaccine in the MN poll seems discouraging .. but I find it encouraging as just a few years ago it would have been less than 5%. Awareness is growing and more an more folks are becoming suspicious of vaccines and the true motivation behind them.
Thank you for so concisely and accurately stating why this is insane. I reposted to my Facebook page so my friends and family understand what the organized crime syndicate known as the CDC/FDA is trying to pull. Your work is spreading awareness!
thehealthyhomeeconomist via Facebook
@Candace – it's difficult keeping up with everything that is going on. I get exasperated myself at times. I try to limit my mental energy to focusing on what info I need to keep myself and my family healthy and happy. That's enough for me and basically what this blog is all about.
Heather Flannery Giese via Facebook
P.S. My son is 7 and I'd like to add that there is no way!
Heather Flannery Giese via Facebook
There was a poll on the news out of Minneapolis St. Paul last night and according to that…80% of people believe boys should be given this shot. Lovely.
That's so tragic, Heather. The sheeple must wake up or, to continue the metaphor, they're lambs docilely going to slaughter. Thanks for your work in spreading awareness of the corruption, which your comment indicates you're engaged in.
Jan Seawell Reckers (@veggienut)
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Lura Diestelhorst via Facebook
wth?? this is so insane!!
Lura Diestelhorst via Facebook
wth?? this is so insane!!
Candace Ireland via Facebook
wow! I really need to educate myself.
Candace Ireland via Facebook
wow! I really need to educate myself.
I am sick of patients coming into my office on drugs ten times worse than the conditions they are being treated for. Big pharma is about nothing but profit. These are crimes against humanity.
Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist
Robert – stay in the game. We need more practicioners like you out there.
Stanley Fishman
Well said. Thank you for sharing the truth.
I've been skeptical of this vaccine from the beginning, but then I heard the report adding boys and I knew it was a scam. The argument was: Boys don't need it, but they will share protection with girls. So altruistic! And BS. Since when do we do ANYTHING to help someone else – second hand smoke, air quality for asthmatics, stop fracking for water quality, stop gulf oil drilling to protect coastline, label GMO, …? Do I make my point? No one is going to go out of their way to protect one group if it inconveniences another group, unless the benefit ($) outweighs the trouble. Neither my son nor my daughter will get this vaccine.
Lisa B.
Or the easiest way for them to test reactions in children legally is by having parental consent. HPV is a STD this is bogus. I thought it was bad when the vaccine came out for 12 year old girls who were having bad reactions. The best prevention is a check up and an HPV test. I will never give this to my children unless it's properly diagnosed.
Sarah Tangalakis Breinich via Facebook
My sentiments exactly, not for MY boy!
Samantha Salyer Jacokes via Facebook
NOT for my boys! No chance.
Annika Rockwell FoodforKidshealth via Facebook
There just seems to be no end to the incompetency of conventional medical recommendations. What's next? Soon, infants will be recommended to get this vaccine, just like the Hepatitis vaccines. And all the while, medicine is continuing to ignore all the children who have died or been damaged permanently by these and other vaccines, as well as the recall on the vaccine.
jason and lisa
you know what.. im changing what i said.. were not possibly crazy.. i see what "normal" has become in our society.. possibly crazy could also mean possibly normal.. i dont want to fit in with our "normal" society..
most definitely crazy,
-jason and lisa-
Adrienne @ Whole New Mom
Thanks, Sarah. I continue to be appalled about vaccine, health, economy news. It just keeps getting worse and worse.
Shared on FB. Thanks.
jason and lisa
am i the only one here who thinks that some of this stuff might be related to population control?? the vaccines they inject everyone with, all of the GM foods, pesticides, soy everything…… lab tests are showing that GM foods are causing tested animals to become steril.. wouldnt it make sense that it would have the same effect on humans?? according to a recent article, soy in men has been shown to kill the sex drive, drive testosterone and sperm counts down while raising the estrogen counts.. think about second and third generation side effects of these vaccines.. how about pesticides.. they are designed to kill.. why would the poison not have some sort of side effects on a human?? these studies are out there for all to see yet we continue to have the vaccines, GM foods, pesticides and soy shoved down our throats.. i dont know, maybe im crazy..
possibly crazy,
-jason and lisa-
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
I used to think the population control thing was pure conspiracy theory and completely nuts but then I saw Bill Gates give a TED presentation about how vaccines were going to help with population control and realized there might be something to it.
Stanley Fishman
In 1995, the Supreme Court of the Philippines halted a UN vaccination program that was supposed to inoculate women against tetanus. The court found overwhelming evidence that the vaccines contained a sterilizing agent. The women were not told that they would be sterilized if vaccinated. Three million women were sterilized without their knowledge or consent, thinking they were getting a vaccine against tetanus only.. This is a well documented, established fact.
Sounds like population control to me.
@Jason and Lisa: you're not crazy. This is called collateral damage. Far enough into the future that no one will put 2 and 2 together and come up with 4 when the real side effects start to surface. Drug companies are rich because they're devious.
Also crazy like a fox.
Barbara Roundtree Grant via Facebook
Makes me angry.
Linda Giangregorio via Facebook
Quite honestly I'm so grateful that I have woken up enough during my lifetime to be able to be aware of situations like this. It also makes me appreciative of the fact that I homeschool, that I want to learn what the best food options are for my family, and the best health care options. Meaning holistic, naturopath, alternative treatments that are less invasive and harmful to the body than standard care they want to shove on us. Just as far back as my grandmother's mother, the women in my family were the local healers and they didn't treat with medicine. All the things that are coming out now are so absurd and a blatant display of how the gov. feels about us as people. On the positive side without them being this way now, we wouldn't fight for changes as hard. Out of the bad they're trying to inflict, more of us are waking up and seeing it for what it is, and fighting to get our God given rights back.
cindy L.
I've seen some of these videos before. I believe that this vaccine is an issue (i.e., not proven to be successful in treating/inhibiting HPV) but these videos don't address the cause of the side effects. Can no one link all these issues? Is anyone studying it? The medical drs in the video are saying there are too many side effects or enough is not known about them, but what about all these women who've had adverse reactions? That is a separate and far worse issue than whether the vaccine is effective in preventing cervical cancer.
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I thought the point of trying to force kids to get vaccines was because schoolkids spend a lot of time in close quarters so they wanted to stop the spread of easily communicable illnesses (whether the vaccines are actually effective is another issue). So why the push to get kids vaccinated against STDs which are not easily communicable without, umm, having sex? They must be teaching some special kind of sex ed in schools nowadays…
Meredith Johnson via Facebook
9 million bottles of Hydroxycut were sold and they had only one death and 23 cases of liver damage, but they were recalled. The number of deaths with Gardasil (35 million doses) is closer to 100 now, but also countless issues of paralysis. Where's the recall?
Ann Hauer via Facebook
This shot was approved to be consented to by 12 year old children in California just recently. And that consent is given w/o a parent's approval. How wrong is that!?
And many wonder why we raise a fuss when parental rights are bullied every day, but heaven forbid how a parent is legally responsible until that child is an adult and the government is allowed to dictate on their greedy chunk when it comes to profit for them.
Susan C. Wheeler via Facebook
I heard this yesterday. The age of vaccines. We are in TX where the wonderful gov made it a mandatory. Messed up I do say.
I don't envy you living in Texas. That is just sickening they force this on your children.
Jennifer Thompson via Facebook
I didn't let my 1 hr old baby get the Hep B….she didn't get her first vax till she was 2 months old in fact. At this time she didn't get vaccinated against Hep A either. She's only 18 months! She will get all of her vaccines but on a delayed scheduled…there certainly isn't any reason to get vaccinated against a sexually active virus especially since there isn't a history in our family and there isn't any risk factors for it. If you don't think it's necessary parents…..stand up and say something! walk out!
Meredith Johnson via Facebook
The above link^ helps you look up if your doctor is on the take with big pharm……a fam friend and I had a spirited debate over Gardasil and turns out, her employer makes 70k a year, averaged, just off one big pharm…
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Taryn Gray via Facebook
In a few years they will be giving this at birth, just like the hep b.
Stanley Fishman
I wonder how many parents realize that the drug industry and the government view our precious children as a vehicle to make money?
This is all about risking the health of children to increase profits . When even the journal of the vaccine loving AMA finds no benefit to this vaccine, why is it being used?
The medical profession and the drug industry have lost their way. Money has become far more important than healing. They are willing to risk the lives and health of children for profit, even when there is no therapeutic benefit. And the government agencies that are supposed to protect us from them are controlled by them.
Thank you Sarah, for exposing the truth once again.
Sarah Schneider via Facebook
Maybe the CDC can lead by example and either take it themselves and see what happens. My son is 8, is home schooled and he focused on nouns, wanting to be an artist and other non-sexual activity. It is sick what people are trying to do in our country!
Holly Gartner via Facebook
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Jenna Darby Laughter via Facebook
Maybe the CDC should invest their time and resources into advocating abstinence and proper parenting skills, instead of pushing deadly vaccines down our throats! They benefit no one but the pocketbooks of the drug manufacturers who are in bed with the CDC, FDA, USDA and other useless government entities…Maybe they're the folks that need to be vaccinated instead 😉
I always hafta wonder how many of the employees at Merck, or any other drug company for that matter, will vaccinate their sons and daughters with this stuff?
Reckless scientific data is easy to spot when you work for them and those people MUST know that all vaccinations are for profit, not health. That's something an ambitious young reporter should try to find out. Probably wouldn't get straight answers, though.
Such disregard for human life means we have advanced not a whit since the days of the Roman Gladiators and their ilk.
Amy Snow via Facebook
Pure BS
Laurie Burt Jones via Facebook
I am appalled – not surprised, mind you, but appalled.
Annie Pants via Facebook
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I completely agree Annie.
Stuff like this makes me feel sick. Ugh.
Jennifer Thompson via Facebook
I can't believe the age of sexually active boys is 8!!!??? Ok that is a bit much in my opinion. Better parenting and education seems healthier.
Olga Biondi via Facebook
it was bound to happen – as long as they were allowed to administer it to girls, why not boys? – too little protest was made the first time around – maybe now more of us will say something????
Iyisa Gardner via Facebook
as a grown woman positive for a particular strain, i wish my mother had the option to vaccinate me.
Yes, as long as it stays an option, and the side effects are told to the person receving it.
As the body rids itself of HPV infection on its own 95% of the time within 2 years with no intervention, your mother would've hopefully weighed the risks of the vaccine versus the perceived benefit and made a decision whether to vaccinate or not- if it was available back then. As I hope all parents will have the option to do today.
Louise Brown via Facebook
My daughter was very small when I first heard about this the vaccine and the fervor to vaccinate all young girls; she is now 8. I knew then that it was bad news and I will most definitely make sure that she does not get this vaccine.
Florence Arquitt via Facebook
This is scary!!
Dorthy McConnel via Facebook
They don't care about children's safety at all. If they did a lot of the junk in vaccines would not be in them. It's all about greed, I totally agree. My son will not be receiving that shot. (if I had a daughter she would not either.)
Mary Schaefer Shellenbergar via Facebook
@Melissa that is unfathomable to me. How can they think it's okay to circumvent parental rights? Can you fight that??
Melissa French via Facebook
I HIGHLY recommend, getting a medical exemption, especially, if you live in California, where parental consent is no longer needed!
Becky Lee via Facebook
Saw it coming.
Dawn Lane via Facebook
Ashley Smith via Facebook
I agree with Ann – too many just buy into it and never do research!!! My girls are NOT going to get this ever!
Mary Schaefer Shellenbergar via Facebook
Not just "no" but HELL NO!
Christina Dugdale via Facebook
Rick Perry pushed for mandatory vaccination in Texas. Half the FDA consists of former pharma executives. Our government has become nothing more than a corporate machine. It picks and chooses which corporations it will support and which ones it will demolished based on how much of a kick back the government official gets…trip to Hawaii, gifts, etc.
Deidre Dede Houston via Facebook
Over my dead body!
Ann Hauer via Facebook
What kills me is many in the public just fall in line for it without a second thought. I've been burned by the medical community – I will not be again.
thehealthyhomeeconomist via Facebook
@Ann I agree = totally about greed and profits.
Ann Hauer via Facebook
Ignorance at it's best. Or is it Ego/Greed? Either way this confirms that the CDC is in it for the money.
Sorry, but I feel it's too new to be trusted when so many have died or have been injured. And there is no recourse now that the Supreme Courts back the vaccine manufacturers.
Definitely the money. I can't see any other reason why pediatricians are so pushy about giving this vaccine. My daughter's pediatrician tried to pressure me at every office visit. I guess the vaccine manufacturers realize how much more money they can make if they include boys as well. It's sickening.
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Zaslavl is a very old town dating back to the 10th century when Vladimir the Great sent his wife to live here.
We came here as a side trip from Minsk which took about half a day. On the train we met some local Minsk people which also were on an outing that Saturday. Shenya spoke English and his Russian wife Shenya had printed out information about the town. So we ended up spending time sightseeing together. Thank you both for showing us around :-)
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Lovely page Sonja! The wooden houses are lovely!
I just finished a book on this area. Quite a history and your trip sounds fantastic with wonderful sites. Keep on "truckin" as we say in crude USA
How nice that you made new friends on the train with whom you could explore this lovely town! Like you I love the brightly painted wooden houses - and your great photo of the gost crossing the railway line ;-) What a beautiful blue sky you had too - it makes the churches especially look so good in the photos!
A very interesting trip to the town which is even older than Moscow! Hope to find myself there someday when visiting Belarus... Thank you Sonja for sharing!
The colourful wooden houses looks pretty. It was from this town I got a postcard from you (Thanks again!).
What a beautiful town. Love the wooden houses and especially the one where the ethnographic museum is located at. Funny icecream - Rotk�ppchen :-)
Looks like a nice day out
More beautiful wooden houses and churches! YAY! Very interesting page. The Swiss train (Stadler Rail?) looks totally out of place, LOL!
Interesting little place with its charming architecture and peaceful setting. Almost seems as if it was from another time in history. Nice photos!
Hi Sonja, I enjoyed seeing you again last week at the VT meetings in Paris. I?m glad to see that you have started posting pages on Belarus. This seems to be quite a contradictory place, with modern Swiss trains but only hole-in-the-ground toilets at the station. Good that you met some local Minsk people who showed you around.
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Grond was the great warhammer of Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, which he wielded in the First Age. It was also referred to as the Hammer of the Underworld.
Created at an unknown time and in an unknown place, it was only mentioned once in the history of Eä. Morgoth wielded Grond whilst in combat with Fingolfin, the High King of the Ñoldor, who challenged him to single combat after much of the Ñoldor and their allies were tragically defeated in the Dagor Bragollach.
With every blow from the hammer that struck, a crater was formed and lightning struck the ground. Fingolfin managed to evade these blows, and gave Morgoth seven great wounds, which caused enough of Morgoth's blood to pour out to fill the pits. However, Fingolfin eventually stumbled into one of the craters and was pinned by the Dark Lord's left foot. And as Morgoth readied the finial death blow to slay him, Fingolfin made one last strike, stabbing Morgoth in the foot. And as Morgoth was weakened by the power that he had spent on corrupting Arda and by touching the hallowed Silmarils, Morgoth was crippled for the rest of his life in Arda, forcing him to walk with a limp.[2]
During the Third Age, Sauron, Morgoth's most trusted servant and his successor as the Dark Lord, perhaps in homage to the Hammer of the Underworld, gave the name Grond to an enormous battering ram forged in Mordor to break the gates of Minas Tirith, during the Siege of Gondor.[3]
The name Grond means "Club", from the Quenya rud- or runda ("rough piece of wood").[4] In Sindarin, the name means "very weighty and ponderous".[5]
Translations around the WorldEdit
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|Chinese (Hong Kong)
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|Grond (Martello da Guerra)
|Молот Гронд
|Barrow-blades • Sting
|Durin's Axe • Orcrist
|Grond • Grond (Warhammer) • Morgul-blade
|Aeglos • Anglachel • Anguirel • Angrist • Aranrúth • Belthronding • Dailir • Glamdring • Orcrist • Ringil
|Andúril • Black Arrow • Dagmor • Dramborleg • Gúthwinë • Gurthang • Herugrim • Narsil • Red Arrow
- ↑ The History of Middle-earth, Vol. 3: The Lays of Beleriand, III: "The Lay of Leithian", Canto XII
- ↑ The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Chapter XVIII: "Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin"
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book Five, Chapter IV: "The Siege of Gondor"
- ↑ The History of Middle-earth, Vol. 5: The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies"
- ↑ Parma Eldalamberon, Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien


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Since 2012 we have been developing an initiative named the 'Fin Whale Project', which aims to study and preserve fin whales as they pass along the Catalan coast (between Barcelona and Tarragona; Spain). It is an extraordinary undiscovered phenomenon that takes place each spring, from February to June. During this period, not only are we able to observe a high presence of fin whales, but also other species of cetaceans and many species of seabirds.
Un año más nos embarcamos con los amigos de Blue Force a la búsqueda de tiburones centrando este año en localizar a los esquivos tiburón tigre y martillo gigante. Aprende con nosotros la biología y costumbre de los escualos y cómo y porqué debemos proteger a estos majestuosos animales!!
Big Sunday beach cleanup on the main beach of Matemwe, where fishermen, hotel guests and kids spend most of their time during the day. The high tide early in the morning will leave many pieces of plastic and others debris, including fabric clothing, used ciment bags, lonely flip flops and many other items that get stuck in the lagoon. We will get the help from Zanrec, a recycling company which works on the island and has set educational and awareness programs for the local population.
I am very proud to lead amazing group of 10 divers to dive against debris within Global Week of Service organized in DoubleTree by Hilton Resort & Spa in cooperation with PADI Regional Manager Teo Brambilla.
You are invited to our Annual PROJECT AWARE Clean-Up Weekend 20th & 21st September 2014. Come along and help us clean the lake and surrounding area, lots of fun for divers and non-divers, everyone can take part. There will be trade stands, Hog Roast and BBQ, massive raffle with prizes donated from our very kind suppliers including SUUNTO, Zoggs, Zone 3, TUSA, Scuba Travel and the prize list is growing daily! Raffle tickets are on sale at the lake up until Sunday 21st September when the winners will be drawn. Help us raise loads of money for Project
Meeting Point: Upper Gate of the Fredericksburg Quarry
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We'll have a BBQ 12:30 for lunch! Water, drinks and munchies provided!
The big run for sharks:
- Over 32 special education events
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Gli Stati membri dell'Unione europea verranno incoraggiati a tassare o vietare le buste di plastica consegnate nei negozi, sulla base di alcune proposte per arginare l'utilizzo di tonellate di questo materiale che entra nell'ecosistema e ne uccide la fauna.
Alcuni Paesi, come la Danimarca, hanno già ridotto notevolmente l'utilizzo di questi sacchetti introducendo tasse obbligatorie e la nuova iniziativa della Commissione europea cerca di spingere in questa direzione anche altri dei 28 Paesi del blocco.
Keep our oceans, coastal waterways and marinas clean in Abu Dhabi.
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Back when Jenny and Bill Moore of Providence, Rhode Island, were dating, they liked to take long drives in the country and talk about their future together. Eventually, the talk turned to children, and before the pair married, they had already agreed upon names for both a son and a daughter, decided what sort of parental discipline they would mete out, and determined that Jenny would stay home for a few years after having children. Jenny and Bill were pleased that they seemed to be in sync on all of the most important issues involved in raising a family. But several years later, they found themselves blindsided by one very small detail: their newborn son's penis.
"We argued about circumcision from the day my pregnancy test turned up positive until the day we came home from the hospital with the baby," says Jenny Moore. "I told Bill that he would cut off the end of Sam's penis over my dead body. And he told me that no son of his would go around with a 'strange'-looking penis. Eventually I won, because he would have had to literally rip the baby out of my arms to have it done. I also wouldn't have signed a consent form. Really, he is still very annoyed with me about it. It caused the biggest disagreement we have ever had in ten years together. We were both relieved when our next baby was a girl."
The Moores are not alone in their turmoil over the issue of male infant circumcision, one of the most hotly debated of all contemporary American parenting issues. Circumcision--the surgical removal of the "prepuce" or foreskin, the sleeve of skin and tissue that covers the head of a healthy penis, engenders passionate opinion by those both in favor of and opposed to it.
On the surface, the issue of circumcision seems deceptively simple. Why in the world would modern American parents choose to medically or ritually slice off a part of their child's body that science has revealed to house three feet of veins, arteries, and capillaries, 240 feet of nerves, and twenty thousand nerve endings, as well as muscles, glands, and epithelial tissue? As Jewish anti-circumcision writer Debra S. Ollivier has written in Salon magazine: "It doesn't take much to realize that nature didn't intend the foreskin and the penis to be separated at birth. Try retracting the foreskin of a newborn's penis and you are struck by the steadfast, tenacious grip it has on the glans, or head....But it's far more than just a sheath. The foreskin contains thousands of highly sensitive sensory receptors called Meissner corpuscles, which are more abundant than in any other part of the penis. Richly endowed with a profusion of blood vessels, it also has a ridged band of peripenic muscles that protect the urinary tract from contaminants, and an undersurface lined with mucocutaneous tissue found nowhere else on the body....With its frenar ridges and thousands of nerve endings, the foreskin...accounts for roughly one-third of the penis' sexual perceptivity."
Opponents of circumcision claim that the practice constitutes a painful and unnecessary violation of a boy's human rights, in which a significant body part is removed without consent, leading to potential complications and lifelong alteration of his sexual functioning. Proponents, on the other hand, claim that circumcision is a minor, relatively painless procedure, akin to piercing a baby girl's ears. American parents who choose circumcision cite their desire to provide their son with a "cleaner," "more attractive" penis, one with the same look as circumcised fathers. Additionally, for the majority of Jewish and Muslim Americans who circumcise their sons, the practice is viewed as an integral part of their right to freely raise their children according to the tenets of their religious faiths.
Although the percentage of American parents choosing to circumcise their sons has dropped from a high of ninety percent over the past three decades, the operation remains the most common surgical procedure performed on American children, with well over half of all families still choosing to have their son's penis altered at birth. Internationally, however, circumcision is comparatively rare, with only twenty percent of all boys around the world circumcised. Of this number, the great majority are from Jewish or Muslim families.
Despite the continuing American popular support for circumcision, however, major Western medical organizations are increasingly taking a vocal stance in opposition to the practice. In 1996, the Australian College of Paediatrics stated that "Neonatal male circumcision has no medical indication. It is a traumatic procedure performed without anesthesia to remove a normal, functional, and protective prepuce [foreskin]." In the same year, the Canadian Paediatric Society's Fetus and Newborn Committee announced that "[The Committee] does not support recommending circumcision as a routine procedure for newborns." And in 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics released an exhaustively researched and strongly worded new policy statement on circumcision, stating: "After analysis of almost 40 years of available medical research on circumcision, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued new recommendations stating that the benefits are not significant enough for the AAP to recommend circumcision as a routine procedure.... The new policy recommendations are based on analysis of all available medical literature on circumcision currently available, including new studies published in the last 10 years."
Despite the fact that uncircumcised adult men swear that the foreskin is one of the most sensitive areas of their body ("Think how much men complain if it gets caught in their zipper!" remarked one), the vast majority of circumcised infants are given no pain relief at all before, during, or after their surgery. Parents, religious leaders, and medical personnel who attend circumcisions have long observed that some infants cry loudly after a circumcision, while others retreat into a deep sleep, which can indicate a type of mild shock. A number of medical personnel have noted that many newly circumcised babies have trouble sleeping and eating for hours and even days afterward. Although for many years parents were told that circumcision--whether done for secular or religious reasons--did not cause significant pain to a baby, this belief has now been conclusively debunked by modern scientific inquiry. The AAP's 1999 Policy Statement on Circumcision takes note of the pain involved in this procedure: "For the first time in AAP circumcision policy history, the new recommendations...indicate that if parents decide to circumcise their infant, it is essential that pain relief be provided....Considerable new evidence shows that newborns circumcised without analgesia experience pain and stress measured by changes in heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation and cortisol levels. Other studies suggest that the circumcision experience may cause infants to respond more strongly to pain of future immunization than those who are uncircumcised.
Many parents who have their sons' foreskins altered for religious reasons are adamant that ritual circumcision--as opposed to routine medical circumcision--is less painful, citing the skill of the mohel (the person who performs the circumcision), the fact that ritual circumcision sometimes removes less of the foreskin than a medical circumcision, that a ritually circumcised baby is often held and comforted during the procedure, or even that the baby is allowed to suck a drop of wine from the finger of an adult while the actual cut is made.
Lara Pappas (a pseudonym) is a thirty-year-old lawyer in New York City. Although Pappas is not Muslim, her husband is, and together, they decided that their son--now two--would be raised a Muslim, including having him circumcised. Pappas does not believe that circumcision is particularly painful or traumatic for a child. "My husband wasn't circumcised until he was about seven," explains Pappas. "Perhaps one of the reasons I am not queasy about my decision to have my son circ'ed is that I believe my husband when he says that it was not very painful for him at the time (and he remembers it) and that it causes him no pain now and never did after the fact."
Leah Cohen, a Jewish parent from Clarksville, Tennessee, says that she is certain that neither of her infant sons experienced any "real pain" during their circumcision ceremonies eight days after birth. "Jewish circumcision is fundamentally different from medical circumcision. At eight days of age, there is less chance of complications than on the first or second day. Both of my sons smiled and laughed immediately after their circumcisions and never seemed to experience a moment's discomfort," says Cohen.
However, based on research into the pain of the procedure, the AAP now unequivocally recommends pain relief for all circumcisions, stating that "analgesia has been found to be safe and effective in reducing the pain associated with circumcision, and should be provided if the procedure is performed. Analgesic methods include EMLA cream (a topical mixture of local anesthetics), the dorsal penile nerve block and the subcutaneous ring block."
Given the growing medical evidence against circumcision, it seems odd that the procedure continues to be a topic for debate. But the complex and multifaceted history of male circumcision reveals why parents today continue--and continue to be empowered by society at large--to subject their baby boys to this surgery.
Circumcision's roots can be traced at least 3,000 years to ancient Egypt, where it was performed as both as a ritualistic practice and as a hallmark of slavery. Jews and Muslims who even today continue to circumcise their baby boys believe that they have been commanded by God to circumcise in memory of Abraham, their shared ancestor. Circumcision is addressed in the Torah in Genesis 17:10-11: "Such shall be the covenant between Me and you and your offspring to follow which you shall keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. You shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and that shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and you."
For contemporary Jewish and Muslim families who circumcise, the practice--performed as a significant religious rite--irrevocably commits their sons to their cultural and religious heritage and indeed, to God himself. Jewish families generally circumcise their sons in the second week after birth, while many Muslim families wait until well past babyhood.
Until the late nineteenth century, male circumcision in the United States was virtually unknown outside the (at that time) relatively small Jewish and Muslim communities. In 1870, however, an American physician named Lewis Sayre began publicizing his views linking the intact male foreskin to a wide variety of medical maladies, including gout, asthma, curvature of the spine, and tuberculosis. Universal infant circumcision, claimed Sayre, could prevent such diseases. Although Sayre's views gained a wide audience, the pseudo-scientific hypothesis that most significantly fueled the secular-medical circumcision craze in the United States was the growing belief during the Victorian era that circumcision would "cure" masturbation, a practice believed by most Americans of the era to be both sinful and dangerous. Physicians frightened concerned parents into circumcising their babies by threatening that masturbation could send a boy to jail, the insane asylum...or straight to hell.
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, an American physician and medical reformer (as well as the inventor of corn flakes), wrote in his 1888 popular health manual, Plain Facts for Old and Young, of the "Secret Vice [Solitary or Self-Abuse]. Kellogg advised that "A remedy for masturbation which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment." For baby girls, Kellogg noted that the application of pure carbolic acid to the clitoris provided "an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement."
Few parents today are aware that this was the original justification for widespread popular adoption of circumcision. Instead, modern families are likely to explain their choice to have their sons' foreskins removed by saying that they prefer the "look" of a cut penis and that they understand that intact penises are more likely to be "dirty" and prone to infection and disease. Each of these beliefs regarding circumcision is deeply rooted in issues of class and culture that also date back to the late nineteenth century. At a time when United States society was being shaken up from top to bottom by an influx of vast numbers of immigrants from all over the world, circumcision became a way to mark one's son as a "native" American. Additionally, circumcision increasingly became a sign of class status, with middle- and upper-class Americans adopting the practice in much greater numbers than the underclass. Even today, many older Americans think of an intact penis as a sign of low status and poor hygiene, much the way they think of breastfeeding. Among younger parents, these class biases have morphed into a desire to see their son "fit in" among his peers and the men in his family. While mothers and fathers are no longer concerned with their sons being mistaken for recent immigrants, they do worry that leaving him uncircumcised will subject him to "teasing in the locker room" or "problems attracting women."
Although few Americans accept it as so, the parallels between our beliefs and practices regarding male circumcision and the now widely reviled, mostly African practice of female circumcision (often called "female genital mutilation" by human rights groups) are clear and compelling. According to the World Health Organization, female circumcision is routinely practiced in approximately twenty-eight countries, with about 130 million African women circumcised. African women are circumcised at some point between infancy and puberty, either by clitoridectomy, the partial or complete removal of the clitoris, or, in most cases, infibulation. With this latter method, the inner and outer lips of the vagina and the clitoris are completely removed. The wound is then sewn shut, leaving only a small hole for urine and blood to pass through. Later, on a girl's wedding night, another ritual takes place in which the girl is cut open again so that her groom can penetrate her during intercourse.
Clearly, infibulation is a much more radical and dangerous procedure than male circumcision. With all that is now known about the extreme sexual sensitivity of the male foreskin, however, the argument can be made that clitoridectomy and the removal of the foreskin are similar in more ways than parents might like to believe. In both cases, the affected individual is left with the ability to have sexual intercourse...but with reduced sensation. As one circumcised Senegalese woman said to writer Vivienne Walt, "I feel I have full sexual pleasure with my husband, but then I wouldn't know what it is to be uncircumcised."
The parallels between male and female circumcision aren't particularly surprising, since the roots of both spring from the desire to lessen interest in sexual habits thought by various cultures to be sinful and undesirable. In the case of female circumcision, the practice originated in an attempt to prevent women from engaging in sex before or outside of marriage. Uncircumcised women are also thought to be more likely to engage in lesbianism. Similarly, and as was previously noted, American medical circumcision can be traced to the desire to prevent men from engaging in masturbation.
In the case of both male and female genital alteration, however, the practice has become something much more than simply an attempt to control sexuality. In African cultures where female circumcision is the norm, girls who are left with their genitals intact are considered highly unattractive, of low caste, and "dirty." Mothers and grandmothers insist that their daughters be circumcised so that they will "fit in" with other women and not risk being ridiculed by the circumcised majority. Uncircumcised girls are also believed to be at greater risk for disease. In the United States, parents who circumcise their sons often do so for exactly the same reasons.
Although the risks of medical complications from female circumcision are obvious and have been well publicized by the international press, complications caused by male circumcision in the United States have received little attention. They are not common, but they can include excessive bleeding, serious infection, and surgical mistakes, including loss of glans and, in a few extremely rare instances, loss of the entire penis.
Complications in adult males who were circumcised in infancy are more common, and may include scarring, skin tags and skin bridge, curvature of the penis, tight, painful erections, and difficulty reaching orgasm. According to the anti-circumcision medical group Doctors Opposing Circumcision, many men don't recognize these medical problems as related to the loss of their foreskin.
With the recent publication of the new AAP position statement on circumcision, and as the facts regarding male circumcision become more widely known, it is likely that the number of parents choosing the procedure for their own sons will continue to drop. In the Jewish community, there is a burgeoning movement to develop meaningful ceremonies for infant boys that will provide an acceptable alternative for parents who are not comfortable with ritual circumcision (see sidebar). Perhaps in the next millennium more families will listen to the advice of the pioneering Dr. Benjamin Spock who said, "My own preference, if I had the good fortune to have another son, would be to leave his little penis alone."
Katie Allison Granju lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, with her two uncircumcised sons and one uncircumcised daughter.
Katie Allison Granju is a contributing editor to Minnesota Parent.
Caring for Your Son's Intact Penis
If you choose not to circumcise, your son's intact penis will require no special care (unlike the cut penis, which will need to be treated as a painful and infection-prone wound for several weeks after the procedure). Your baby's whole, healthy penis will also be less inclined to develop diaper rashes and irritation. But one very important thing to know about a baby's intact (uncircumcised) penis is that the foreskin should never be forcibly retracted. According to pediatrician Paul Fleiss, M.D., M.P.H., "Forcibly retracting a baby's foreskin destroys the beneficial bacterial flora that protect the penis from harmful germs and can lead to irritation and infection." Sometime in the first one to five years of your son's life, his foreskin will loosen and begin to retract naturally on its own. If your pediatrician is not familiar with uncircumcised babies, she may try to convince you to force the foreskin back or even retract it herself. This can tear your baby's delicate tissues and cause permanent scarring.
Once your son's foreskin begins to retract on its own, you can teach him to gently wash himself, just as you would teach your daughter of the same age to clean the folds and crevices of her own external genitalia. A child's foreskin, like his eyelids, is self-cleansing. Just as you would never lift the eyelid to "wash" the eyeball, it isn't necessary to pull back the foreskin to wash the glans, which is essentially an internal organ. Rinsing in warm water is all that is needed to keep the intact penis clean. Applying soap to the inner lining of the foreskin or the head of the penis isn't recommended, because it can cause irritation.
The white emollient under the child's foreskin is called smegma. Dr. Fleiss notes that "Smegma is probably the most misunderstood, most unjustifiably maligned substance in nature. Smegma is clean, not dirty, and is beneficial and necessary. It moisturizes the glans and keeps it smooth, soft, and supple. Its antibacterial and antiviral properties keep the penis clean and healthy." The best way to care for a child's intact penis is to leave it alone.
Resources for Learning More
About the Circumcision Issue:
Circumcision Exposed: Rethinking a Medical and Cultural Tradition, by Billy Ray Boyd. (Crossing Press, 1998).
Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma, by Ronald Goldman, Ph.D. 1996. $21.95. Write to: Vanguard Publications, P.O. Box 8055, Boston, MA 02114. Credit card orders: 1-888-445-5199.
Circumcision: The Rest of the Story, Peggy O'Mara, ed. 1993. For information, write to: Mothering, P.O. Box 1690, Santa Fe, NM 87504.
The Joy of Uncircumcising! Exploring Circumcision: History, Myths, Psychology, Restoration, Sexual Pleasure, and Human Rights, by Jim Bigelow and James L. Snyder (Hourglass Books, 1997).
Prisoners of Ritual: An Odyssey into Female Genital Circumcision in Africa, by Hanny Lightfoot-Klein. 1989. Now available in German. $22. Write to: Lightfoot Associates, 4040 Via Del Vireo, Tucson, AZ 85718.
Questioning Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective, by Ronald Goldman, Ph.D. 1997. $14.95. Write to: Circumcision Resource Center, P.O. Box 232, Boston, MA 02133. Credit card orders: 1-888-445-5199.
Web sites
The Circumcision Information and Referral Pages
National Organization of Circumcision Information and Referral Centers:
Doctors Opposing Circumcision
Circumcision: An online peer-reviewed medical journal
Mothers Against Circumcision
The Female Genital Mutilation Education and Networking page
Usenet Newsgroups
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Oakland's Response to Its Protesters Makes Mayor Bloomberg Look a Little Better
Clashes elsewhere cast our mayor's decision-making in a new light.
Police use of tear gas to scatter occupying protesters in Oakland last night exhibited the dangers of a law enforcement option that New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has managed to avoid. It also serves as an unfriendly reminder of what could have been in New York — and what could still occur if matters are not handled delicately.
Faced with the possibility of a clash between protesters and police on the morning of October 14, Bloomberg called off the scheduled cleaning of Zuccotti Park. The last-minute nature of the decision and deferral of authority, according to the mayor, to park owners Brookfield Properties indicates Bloomberg's confusion about how to respond. Nevertheless, with thousands of demonstrators gathered and vowing not to leave, further clashes with law enforcement, which fueled media coverage of Occupy Wall Street in its early days, were avoided.
While he's never quite shown sympathy for those gathered at Occupy Wall Street, the mayor — himself a proud member of the 1 percent club — has evolved some, from arguing initially that the protests aimed "to destroy the jobs of working people" to last week praising the First Amendment and insisting, "We just want to make sure that people have the right to protest."
Things are different in Oakland, where Mayor Jean Quan has evolved in the opposite direction from Bloomberg. The death of Oscar Grant, shot dead in 2009 by a public transit police officer later found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, still casts a pall on the city and has sparked protests and riots at least once a year since. Knowing the ongoing anger and instability (and 9.7 percent unemployment rate), Quan (a student activist in the sixties) initially chose to act deliberately. She cited public safety and health concerns, and was supportive of the protesters, saying sometimes "democracy is messy."
Raids were eventually ordered nonetheless, with the mayor's assistant insisting the decision was made as a group: "We have the mayor, the City Administrator, the police chief, and the fire chief," she said yesterday. "They cannot occupy our parks."
Similar action was taken last night in Baltimore and Atlanta, where dozens were arrested in a crackdown on local occupations. Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed is fortunate that most eyes were on the other side of the country, but is still facing heat over the decision, with one state senator claiming that SWAT squads in riot gear were "overkill." The critic added, "This is the most peaceful place in Georgia. At the urging of the business community, he's moving people out. Shame on him."
Bloomberg's buddies on Wall Street might not be happy that he's allowed the protests to continue, but since the reversal on October 14, he's been doing better in the PR war. Presiding over the most media-conscious city in the world, the mayor knows full well that tear gas (or even pepper-spray) is the quickest way to invite unnecessary attention and scrutiny, while simultaneously conjuring sympathy for protesters. Mass police action all but guarantees incident, and in the age of YouTube, outcry is unavoidable.
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In order to debug failing requests I would like to print all information coming from HttpServletRequest.
Now, it's possible that a request will partially fail (for ex. Several matches are successful, yet one has failed) in which case I would like to catch the exception in the internal method that failed, print the error + the ServletUtil.toStringHttpServletRequest() and continue providing service (degraded but still useful vs. complete request failure).
Our current implementation either catches the exception and prints dumb info ("getRules failed") or throws the exception all the way to doGet() (effectively canceling service for the user) where as in doGet() I have access to HttpServletRequest where I can print at the relevant debug info (headers, parameters...).
Passing HttpServletRequest to every function called during the request that might fail seems a bit ugly, I will do it if no other elegant solution will pop up.
Making a before head ServletUtil.toStringHttpServletRequest() and storing it in a ThreadLocal map would be wasteful both in memory and CPU time. For some reason it feels wrong to store the HttpServletRequest object in ThreadLocal (please correct if I'm wrong).
Debug information is written both to local machine log and is emailed directly to devs (Great work log4j TLSSMTPAppender), so logging in several places won't be practical (Will need to assemble several emails to understand what's going on) and ssh'ing into the server is old age :) (We're all cloudy here... server might not exist by the time I get to look at the error)
So, my solution is gaining access to a "PrintErrorUtility" (TODO: better name it). That will receive (String errorMsg, Throwable t, HttpServletRequest) which will print the error together will all the relevant info... This will be called from internal try {} catch blocks that will notify about the error but will not cancel the request because of it.
Obviously I'm taking about servers running in production.
Comments? Please advise.
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Medrano and her niece Emily Purcell, 7, both of Canadian, went missing June 23 after horseback riding near the Canadian River.
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Created using this Craftsy indie pattern
This project was made from an independent Craftsy designer's pattern:
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If you tend to load your bag heavy, you may want a fabric strap instead of the chain. For this one, I made a 1" wide strap, 24" long with snap clips at the ends to clip onto the loops.
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Cherie, You are an amazing seamstress. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! The pattern link is right there on the left under the photo. Vintage Style Frame Bag Pattern


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