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Zee Edgell

Zelma Inez Edgell, better known as Zee Edgell, MBE (21 October 1940 – 20 December 2020), was a Belizean-born American writer who published four novels. She retired as a full, tenured professor of English at Kent State University.

Biography
Zelma Inez Tucker was born on 21 October 1940 in Belize City, British Honduras (now Belize), to Veronica (née Walker) and Clive A. Tucker. After attending St. Catherine Academy in Belize City (the basis for St. Cecilia's Academy in her novel Beka Lamb), Edgell studied journalism at the school of modern languages at the Polytechnic of Central London (1965) and continued her education at the University of the West Indies (1990). She worked as a journalist, first working for The Daily Gleaner in Jamaica in 1959, and later serving as the founding editor of The Reporter.

From 1966 to 1968, she taught at St. Catherine Academy in Belize. After serving as editor of The Reporter, she returned to teach at St. Catherine for the 1980–81 school year. From 1981 to 1987, she served as the first Director of the Women's Bureau in the Government of Belize, and later as the Director of the Department of Women's Affairs.

She has also lived for extended periods in such diverse places as Jamaica, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Somalia, working with development organizations and the Peace Corps. She has been director of women's affairs for the government of Belize, lecturer at the former University College of Belize (forerunner to the University of Belize) and she was an associate professor in the department of English at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio from 1993 to 2009, where she taught creative writing and literature. Edgell also toured internationally, giving book readings and delivering papers on the history and literature of Belize. She is considered Belize's principal contemporary writer.

Edgell was married to American educator Alvin George "Al" Edgell (1924–2020), who had a decades-long career in international development. They raised two children, Holly, a journalist, and Randall, a physician specializing in stroke treatment and prevention.

Edgell contributed extensively to the Belizean Writers Series, published by local publishing house Cubola Productions. She edited and contributed stories to the fifth book in the series, Memories, Dreams and Nightmares: A Short Story Anthology of Belizean women writers, published in 2004.

In 2020, Edgell died at her home in St. Louis, Missouri, at the age of 80. A remembrance ceremony for Edgell was held at the Government House in Belize City in 2022. Speakers included Francis Fonseca and Edgell's daughter, Holly.

Honours
Edgell was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honour List. In 2009 the University of the West Indies conferred upon her the honorary degree D.Litt. at graduation ceremonies in Cave Hill, Barbados.

Works
Edgell's debut novel, Beka Lamb, published in 1982, details the early years of the nationalist movement in British Honduras from the eyes of a teenage girl attending high school in the colony. Published a year after Belize became independent, Beka Lamb was the first novel to be published in the new nation and went on to claim the distinction of being Belize's first novel to gain an international audience, winning Britain's Fawcett Society Book Prize in 1982 (awarded annually to a work of fiction that contributes to an understanding of women's position in society today). Extracts from Beka Lamb have appeared in such anthologies as The Arnold Anthology of Post Colonial Literatures in English, edited by John Thieme (1996), Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby (1992), and Her True-True Name, edited by Elizabeth Wilson and Pamela Mordecai (1989).

Her subsequent novel, In Times Like These (1991), portrayed the turmoil of nearly independent Belize from the point of view of another female protagonist, this time the adult director of women's affairs (a post Edgell once held).

The Festival of San Joaquin (1997), her third novel, told the story of a woman accused of murdering her husband, and in her short stories, Edgell skillfully explores the layers of Belize's complicated social and racial stratification through the lens of her female protagonists. Edgell said she would eventually like to write about male protagonists as well as her extensive travels across the world. The Festival of San Joaquin, was re-issued by Macmillan Caribbean in October 2008.

Edgell's fourth novel was published by Heinemann's Caribbean Writers Series in January 2007. The events of Time and the River unfold during the heyday of slavery in Belize. It focuses on the life of a young slave woman, Leah Lawson, who eventually (through marriage) becomes a slaveowner herself. She even finds herself in the position of owning her own family members. The story is told against the backdrop of the brutal forestry slavery of the time and slave revolts, true historical moments in the history of the country that is now known as Belize. Edgell marked the release of this book in Belize with appearances at the University of Belize, Belmopan, and in Belize City.

Novels

 * Beka Lamb (1982)
 * In Times Like These (1991)
 * The Festival of San Joaquin (1997)
 * Time and the River (2007)

Short stories

 * "My Uncle Theophilus", The Caribbean Writer, 1998)
 * "Longtime Story" in The Whistling Bird: Women Writers of the Caribbean (1998)
 * "The Entertainment" in Great River Review (2001)

Lectures

 * "Belize: A Literary Perspective," presented at the Inter-American Development Bank on 30 September 1994, as part of the IDB Cultural Center's Lecture Series

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Why was my contribution deleted without comment by an anonymous person? It may be true that what I wrote belongs more in a "hamartia" article than a "tragic flaw" article. But I suggest that you look at modern English translations of The Poetics for discussions of hamartia, tragic flaw, and how right or wrong Aristotle was about things. I'm going to put back what was deleted for now.

What do you think about the article currently utilising Oedipus as an example of a character with "no clearly identifiable tragic flaws?" It seems to me that Oedipus' dogged refusal to ignore the direction of his inquiry - ignoring Jocasta's warnings to him - may serve as a tragic flaw. jglc | t | c 18:18, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
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Cash account

In business practice, cash account refers to a business-to-business or business-to-consumer account which is conducted on an immediate payment basis i.e. no credit is offered. It may also refer to an account held with a financial firm, in which a client deposits cash to buy stocks, bonds and other securities.

In accounting practice, "cash account" or "cash book" refers to a daybook (Main entry book) used to record all transactions related to cash, especially cash receipts and payments. Cash account is considered as a special daybook because of its dual accounting impact. Cash account acts as a main entry book as well as a ledger in accounting. The dual impact of cash book occurs due to the presence of two sides (entities): Debit and credit.

Cash account is the combination of cash receipts journal and cash payment journal and hence called as "cash receipts and payment journal". Receipt and payment voucher are the source documents of cash book. Receipt is an evidence to the cash receipts and payment voucher is an evidence to the cash payments.

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Unit of action

In acting, units of action, otherwise known as bits or beats, are sections that a play's action can be divided into for the purposes of dramatic exploration in rehearsal.

The concept was propounded by the Russian actor, director and educator Konstantin Stanislavsky, who initially liked to use the term kusok (кусок) an ordinary Russian word that can be translated as bit – as in a bit, or slice, of bread or meat. This was the term Stanislavsky preferred in the original drafts of his books. Stanislavsky also referred to these bits of action as episodes, events and facts.

The term “unit” was introduced in the standard early translations of Stanislavsky's writings. Use of beat in the place of bit has become mainstream in American method acting. This historic mistranslation may have helped spawn the common metaphor of the dramatic script as a musical score. Stanislavsky used the same metaphor to refer to detailed production plans. It was also taken up by the innovative Polish director Jerzy Grotowski as a score of physical actions.

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Stanislavsky conceived the segmentation of script as a preparatory tool for actors working on a play. Although he used the Russian word for "bit" (kusok) in the drafts he originally made for his planned books, he later preferred to speak in terms of "episode" (epizod in Russian), "event" (sobytie), and "fact" (fakt). These were the terms that Stanislavsky chose to use while teaching his system of acting to students at the Opera-Dramatic Studio in Moscow in the final years of his life, when he was concerned about the risk of losing sight of the play as a whole after breaking the action down into small bits. By this time, he was consistently distinguishing between more extended "episodes" (large bits or "events") and shorter "facts" (medium or small bits or "events"), using the Russian terms he had already employed in his notes and drafts earlier in his career. In Stanislavsky's conception, division into "episodes" can reveal the basic building-blocks of action, while subdivision into "facts" can help uncover the changes that occur from one moment to the next. Such divisions can be used to help players explore their characters and discover their actions through improvisation work during the early stages of rehearsal.

The frequently used term "units" derives from the somewhat less intuitive terminology introduced by Stanislavsky's original American translator, Elizabeth Hapgood (a fluent speaker of Russian who had married the diplomat Norman Hapgood). In addition to choosing more abstract terms for her translations, Hapgood was somewhat inconsistent in their use. For example, she sometimes confuses "bits" (i.e. "units") with the related "tasks" that actors must confront in their roles ("objective" is her translation of zadacha, the Russian for task).

The term "beats" is commonly used in American method acting. The transformation of "bits" into "beats" may derive from the pronunciation of émigré Russian teachers in America, possibly in conjunction with the image of a string of "beads" on a necklace. It has been suggested that oral teachings by Richard Boleslavsky of the Moscow Art Theater, who helped bring Stanislavsky's system to America, may have triggered the persistent mistranslation, and ultimately the metaphor commonly encountered in method acting of the script as a musical score. (Following the 1898 Moscow Art Theatre production of The Seagull, Stanislavsky had himself referred to the detailed production plan that can be made for a play as the directorial score, and later the metaphor was further developed by Jerzy Grotowski, who envisaged a physical score of action. ) The word "beat" is sometimes also employed as a stage direction to indicate a significant pause.

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Whanganui River

The Whanganui River is a major river in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the country's third-longest river, and has special status owing to its importance to the region's Māori people. In March 2017 it became the world's second natural resource (after Te Urewera) to be given its own legal identity, with the rights, duties and liabilities of a legal person. The Whanganui Treaty settlement brought the longest-running litigation in New Zealand history to an end.

Geography
With a length of 290 km, the Whanganui is the country's third-longest river. Much of the land to either side of the upper reaches is part of the Whanganui National Park, though the river itself is not part of the park.

The river rises on the northern slopes of Mount Tongariro, one of the three active volcanoes of the central plateau, close to Lake Rotoaira. It flows to the north-west before turning south-west at Taumarunui. From here it runs through the rough, bush-clad hill country of the King Country before turning south-east and flowing past the small settlements of Pipiriki and Jerusalem, before reaching the coast at the city of Whanganui. It is one of the country's longest navigable rivers.

The river valley changed in the 1843 Wanganui earthquake.

In the 1970s a minor eruption from Mount Ruapehu spilled some of the contents from the Ruapehu Crater Lake (the same root cause of the Tangiwai disaster). This toxic water entered the Whanganui River and had the effect of killing much of the fish life downstream. In the aftermath of the poisoning, eels as large as 8.2 kg and trout as large as 2.3 kg were washed up dead along the banks of the river. The tributary Whakapapa River had fish losses due to a lahar from Ruapehu in April 1975. Possibly this had effects downstream.

History
Māori legend explains the formation of the river in the Mount Taranaki legend. When Mount Taranaki left the central plateau for the coast, the land was split open, and the river filled the rift.

Another Māori legend explains that after Māui caught the giant fish that was to become the North Island of New Zealand, known as Te Ika-a-Māui, he prayed to Ranginui who then sent two tear drops to land on Māui's fish. These two tear drops then became the rivers Whanganui and Waikato.

According to Māori tradition, the river was first explored by Tamatea, one of the leaders of the original migration to the new land, who travelled up the river and on to Lake Taupō. Many places along the river are named in his honour.

The Whanganui River was an important communication route to the central North Island, both for Māori and for settlers, despite many stretches of white water and over 200 rapids. Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the area around the Whanganui was densely inhabited and with the arrival of the colonial settlers, the area near the river's mouth became a major trading post.

Although it was already a significant route to the interior, the major development of the river as a trade route was by Alexander Hatrick, who started the first regular steam-boat service in 1892. The service eventually ran to Taumarunui where rail and coach services connected with points north. One of Hatrick's original boats, paddle-steamer PS Waimarie, has been restored and runs scheduled sailings in Whanganui. Another of the Hatrick boats, MV Wairua, has also been restored and can be seen on the river.

During the early 20th century, the Wanganui River, as it was then called, was one of the country's top tourist attractions, its rugged beauty and the Māori kāinga (villages) that dotted the banks attracting thousands of tourists a year.

With the completion of the North Island Main Trunk railway, the need for the steamboat route to the north greatly diminished, and the main economic activity of the river area became forestry. During the 1930s, attempts were made to open the river valley up as farmland, but they were not successful. One legacy of that time is the Bridge to Nowhere, built to provide access to settlements long since abandoned.

In 1912–13 the French filmmaker Gaston Méliès shot a (now lost) documentary film The River Wanganui about the river, calling it the Rhine of New Zealand.

The settlement of Jerusalem is of particular note. Jerusalem was home to two famous New Zealanders, Mother Mary Joseph Aubert, whose Catholic mission is still located at Jerusalem, and New Zealand poet James K. Baxter, who established a commune at the settlement in 1970.

Other settlements are Tieke Kāinga, Pipiriki, Rānana, Matahiwi, and Koriniti.

Taonga and Māori land claims
The river is of special and spiritual importance for Māori, who also refer to it as Te awa tupua. It was the home for a large proportion of Māori villages in pre-European times. As such, it is regarded as taonga, a special treasure. Local iwi first petitioned Parliament in the 1870s, and efforts have since been made to safeguard the river and give it the respect it deserves.

For the same reason, the river has been one of the most fiercely contested regions of the country in claims before the Waitangi Tribunal for the return of tribal lands. The Whanganui River claim is heralded as the longest-running legal case in New Zealand history with petitions and court action in the 1930s, Waitangi Tribunal hearings in the 1990s, the ongoing Tieke Marae land occupation since 1993, and the highly publicised Moutoa Gardens occupation in 1995.

On 30 August 2012 agreement was reached that entitled the Whanganui River to a legal identity, a first in the world, and on 15 March 2017 the relevant settlement was passed into law (Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017) by the New Zealand Parliament. Chris Finlayson, the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations, said the river would have an identity "with all the corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a legal person". He said some people would consider it strange, but it is "no stranger than family trusts, or companies, or incorporated societies." The bill finalised 140-year-old negotiations between Māori and the government. The river will be represented by two officials, one from Māori and the other from the government.

Naming
Whanga nui is a phrase meaning "big bay" or "big harbour". Some very early maps show that European settlers called the river the Knowsley River, however it was known as the Wanganui River until its name was officially changed to Whanganui in 1991, respecting the wishes of local iwi. Part of the reason for this change was also to avoid confusion with the Wanganui River in the South Island. The city at the river's mouth was called Wanganui until December 2009, when the government decided that while either spelling was acceptable, Crown agencies would use the Whanganui spelling.

See Controversy over Wanganui/Whanganui spelling

Fauna and flora

Native fish species in the river include Cran's bully, upland bully, climbing galaxias (kōaro), longfin and short-finned eels, pouched lamprey, shortjaw kokopu, torrentfish, New Zealand smelt and black flounder. Introduced brown and rainbow trout are found, although not in high numbers, and there have been reports of catfish.

Other native aquatic species include koura and declining numbers of New Zealand freshwater mussels. The river and its tributaries are home to a variety of invertebrates such as mayflies, stoneflies and caddis flies.

Blue duck (whio) populations can be found at the junction of the Whanganui River and the Mangatepopo and Okupata streams. The Nankeen night heron established roosts along the Whanganui River in the 1990s and is breeding in New Zealand only in this location.

Much of the flora in the river basin can be characterised as a broadleaf and podocarp forest; understory species include crown fern (Blechnum discolor), and a variety of other ferns and shrubs.

River boats
In 1892 Alexander Hatrick was contracted by Thomas Cook & Son to carry tourists to Pipiriki on the paddle-steamer PS Waimarie, the journey was "The Rhine of Maoriland" tourist route into the interior of New Zealand. The river boat subsequently carried mail, passengers and cargo.

PS Waimarie operates on the lower stretches of the river, including dinner cruises to Avoca Hotel at Upokongaro and trips to Hipango Park for overnight camping.

On 18 June 2010 the Adventurer 2 river boat embarked, attempting to make the 230 km voyage to Taumarunui. The first voyage to Taumarunui in 82 years. The Adventurer 2 now offers this trip to tourist as an historic alternative to jet boating and canoeing the river. Though in low water flows it cannot make it all the way to Taumarunui.

River boat landings
The Whanganui River was the supply artery for the early communities along its banks. River boats used to ply the river, and also into the Ohura River and Ongarue Rivers unless these routes were log jammed after floods.

Between 1891 and 1958 the Alexander Hatrick Riverboat service operated on the Whanganui River. The paddle-steamer Wairere ordered from London and shipped in sections then assembled in Whanganui in late 1891.

It is said that Taumarunui was the highest reach of the Whanganui River that was navigable by river boat. The river flow was managed by the "Wanganui River Trust Board" which built containing walls to direct and deepen the rivers channels for river traffic. Even so, river boats sometimes found it necessary to winch themselves up the more difficult rapids. The River Trust existed from 1891 to 1940.

Recreational use
The flow of the river has been altered with the diversion of water from the headwaters by the Tongariro Power Scheme and into Lake Taupō. This may have been a contributing factor to the demise of the raft race and means river boats can no longer make the entire trip to Taumarunui during the drier months (see below).

 * Whanganui National Park
 * The Whanganui Journey is managed by the Department of Conservation under its Great Walks programme.
 * Hiking (north/south and east/west trails cross on the Whanganui River)
 * Te Araroa – The hiking trail the length of New Zealand and the Whanganui.
 * East Cape to Cape Egmont Traverse
 * Matemateāonga Range Tramping Trail (and others)
 * Canoeing – many historic aspects and sites to visit.
 * Annual Raft Race, Piriaka to Taumarunui – Last run in the 1970s
 * Annual Jet Boat Race, Taumarunui to Wangaunui – Last run in the 1980s

Bridges
Despite being New Zealand's longest navigable river, the Whanganui has few bridges. Only two are located on the 230 km stretch between Whanganui and Taumarunui. The complete list of bridges in order from source to sea are:

Whanganui – A bridge over the Whanganui to connect Raetihi to Taranaki was to be constructed in the Mangaparua area (where the Bridge to Nowhere) is located, but this plan was never implemented.
 * State Highway 47 Bridge near Tongariro National Park
 * Te Pōrere Redoubts Walk crosses the river just downstream from
 * The Western Diversion of the Tongariro Power Scheme crosses the river.
 * A private forestry road near Lake Te Whaiau
 * Hohotaka Road near Kakahi
 * Taumarunui (x4) (including Victory Bridge)
 * New Te Maire Bridge (1954)
 * Jerusalem, derelict swing bridge.
 * Ūpokongaro_cycle_bridge.jpg Mountains to Sea cycle trail (Ngā Ara Tūhono) crosses the river on Ūpokongaro Cycle Bridge, which opened on 2 December 2020. The 130 m long bridge and cycle path link to it cost $3.4m.
 * Dublin Street Bridge
 * Whanganui City Bridge
 * Cobham Bridge – 275 m long, 9 spans, designed 1959 by Ministry of Works, constructed 1962, abutments rest on raked prestressed concrete piles.

Rail bridges
The oldest bridges over the river are rail bridges; the Aramoho Rail Bridge of 1876 in Whanganui and the Matapuna Bridge of 1903-1904 near Taumarunui.

Notable people

 * Te Mamaku, Māori chief
 * Alexander Hatrick, tourism leader
 * John Tiffin Stewart, engineer
 * Mary Joseph Aubert, Catholic mission
 * James K. Baxter, poet
 * Henry Augustus Field, surveyor
 * Elsie Smith, 33 years ministering as a nurse and missionary
 * Billy Webb, rower
 * Andy Anderson, riverboat skipper, born in Pipiriki

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USS Vicksburg

USS Vicksburg may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy:

 * USS Vicksburg (1863) was a steamship, purchased and commissioned by the Navy in 1863, and sold in 1865
 * USS Vicksburg (PG-11) was a gunboat, commissioned in 1897; transferred to the United States Coast Guard in 1922, and out of service in 1944
 * USS Vicksburg (CL-81), was a Cleveland-class cruiser light cruiser, renamed Houston during construction; and served 1942–1947
 * USS Vicksburg (CL-86), originally named Cheyenne, was a Cleveland-class light cruiser, commissioned in 1944 and struck in 1962
 * USS Vicksburg (CG-69), originally named Port Royal is a Ticonderoga-class cruiser guided missile cruiser, commissioned in 1992 and in active service

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List of rulers of the Mahi state of Fitta

Fitta was a Mahi state in the territory of present-day Benin from the end of the 18th century until French colonization in the 19th century.


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Ummm..... I was just having a hard time decoding the chemical notation from the wiki notation. I suppose the single square brackets could be interpreted as external links, right?

like the page sez: "What do I do if I encounter valid unclosed square brackets, or other wiki syntax? Some example of valid use of unclosed square brackets are: The mathematical notation [a,b) or (a,b] The use of "[" in tables of character sets Articles about the languages of Africa where they make click noises, and apparently [ and Gzuckier 20:41, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

HMG CoA reductase pathway
Hi JFW. Can you take a look at the pathway diagram on the HMG-CoA reductase pathway please. Axl 13:48, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

JFW, there's one more thing on the diagram that I missed when I last looked at it: can you change the squalene > lanosterol step into 2 steps, please. Axl 19:33, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for correcting my typo in the And the Band Played On article. Uranographer 08:36, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

What are you talking about?
What nonsense have I supposedly been adding pray tell?

 * Please see your talkpage. JFW | T@lk  20:42, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thank you
Hello, no, I know the methods here, thank you for it and your welcome :) Regards --AnnaP 21:39, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you very much for your vote for my adminship. I greatly appreciate your support. ffirehorse 23:55, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hello Jfd, the subject is DNA damage checkpoints in S.pombe, so it's at the same time biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. I agree the Molecular Biology articles are not in a great state (one featured article on the subject is atcually pretty ... weird stuff). The thing is that I regard Wikipedia as a kind of hobby to escape from all the Molecular Biology stuff (doing a PhD can really put you off...), so I've been avoiding these pages so far. But once I'm done with my thesis, I'll probably put some serious effort into these pages. - pir 17:41, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hi there, Yes, I agree that it would make the category medicine quite big, and would put articles in more directly relevant categories. But can there be a way, where all such content can be organized in a more streamlined manner. vogon77 02:32, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

hello Jfd, A solution would be to categorize it like a textbook classification, maybe not the ideal way, but it will reduce the confusion vogon77 08:50, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)

hi there,

Let the primary classification system be based on organ systems. Multiple Layers of classification can then be added or in-built onto this, as we go along. The point I am trying to make is that the medicine page can be made easy to use and intuitive to navigate, if a simple broad layout is made. vogon77 10:50, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)

Kallmann syndrome
Hi Jfdwolff, WikiProject Clinical medicine shows you have a special interest in endocrinology. I have just created a brand new article for Kallmann syndrome and would welcome your feedback and/or contribution. Charm 11:23, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

 * I'm not actually familiar with the syndrome, but I will have a look. JFW | T@lk  11:59, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

reply to your note
Hi JFD I see from your personal page that you're very busy adding articles to the Wikipedia. I wish I had such energy! With respect to iridology, my own view is that it's the most complete rubbish. I'm usually preoccupied with other projects, but let me know if you need support at any given time.

I am amazed that people fail to see that iridology is exactly like ear-mapping and foot-mapping, and all the other 'systems' that claim to map visible signs of all the organs on to some minor part. Once you are aware of all these alternative systems that claim to be 'the only true way', you start to see how silly they are. There is a widespread human desire to have a simple, visible, magical correspondence between visible signs and disease. Of course, the scope of this desire is wider than disease diagnosis - I believe that all systems connecting visible signs with predictions have the same impulse, whether the aim is to diagnose disease or the future. They have in common the desire to avoid work (espec. the mental discipline of logic and dispassionate enquiry), but in a more positive light they also appeal to everyone's sense of wonder and delight, and they also tap a desire that there be some 'cosmic order' which is beyond our understanding but which nevertheless has a uniquely human, comfortable feel to it. The outstanding fact about the way Nature *really* works is that it is often rather challenging, uncomfortable and surprising. To my mind, a scientist is one who finds the uncomfortable truths of Nature to be more satisfying than self-deception.

Rhd 06:00, 2004 Oct 30 (UTC)

Traumatic masturbatory syndrome
IMHO Doug was an idiot not to leave well enough alone. He should have been very pleased that he managed to get a link to his site into Wikipedia. I actually pointed out to him that there is no such thing as bad publicity and that despite the disclaimers, the article said clearly this is the theory, this is the purported cause, this is the purported cure, and this is a site where you can find out more. I voted "delete" originally, BTW. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 01:06, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Your revert of Genesis
I agree the guy was a bit pedantic but you could have given some reason as to why you reverted him. Unless he was flatly wrong, you could have just neutralized his prose a bit. Unsigned by User:Yeago

Links
Absolutely right in your comments - I had no idea... but I just read an article there, and it's clear that they reproduce the fulltext to act as a reference for their articles.

I had thought that this was merely a source for the Soncino translation - which is why I have links to it in many of the Talmud articles... should I remove these?

Fintor  | talk | November 1 08:11 UTC

Categories for deletion
I just wanted to say that your comment "because people are bound to try this (especially Americans)" is a bit insulting. The phrase "bound to try" seems to imply that the thing being done is stupid and/or ridiculous, which an American spelling Pediatrics as such is not. That is how it is spelled in American English. One can't expect an American to spell "color" with a "u" or pediatrics with an "a". Lachatdelarue [[User talk:Lachatdelarue|(talk)]] 04:03, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Six degrees
According to the cache, there are (so far) 3 queries which needed more than 6 hops: sr_from: Thrush sr_to: Flush sr_hops: 7 path: +Thrush+The Man From U.N.C.L.E.+September 22+1928+Poker+Poker jargon+Flush sr_from: Squash sr_to: Wikipedian sr_hops: 7 path: +Squash+Squash (sport)+Zambia+Politics of Zambia+Non-governmental organization+Consultative Status+Wikipedian sr_from: Baruch Epstein sr_to: Signet cell sr_hops: 7 path: +Baruch Epstein+Lithuania+1998+Alice Faye+Stomach cancer+Krukenberg tumor+Signet cell
 * 1. row ***************************
 * 2. row ***************************
 * 3. row ***************************

This only counts from yesterday, though - the paths from the old version aren't included (as it didn't remember them). I think I'll add a "longest paths" list as well as the 'recent queries' one... — Kate Turner | Talk 18:37, 2004 Nov 2 (UTC)

 * Oops, sorry, missed. Linking accounts lets you enable history graphing (example) on your account (in the 'Prefs' option) - there were some privacy concerns about this, so it's opt-in rather than allowed by default for everyone.   — Kate Turner | Talk 20:27, 2004 Nov 2 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks, Jfd for your advice. From your advice, I will promise to work harder and try my best to meet the expectations that you stated. But how do you know that one is involved in cleanups and vfd (what is it and teach me how to work with it). Please reply my message as soon as possible.

Thanks, User:Chan Han Xiang

192.197.71.189
I just banned him too. Hopefully third time's a charm... If not, I'll contact a developer. --David Iberri | Talk 18:06, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

 * Odd. He seems to have simmered down for the moment. Maybe I can glean something from the developers on IRC. --David Iberri | Talk 18:11, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

 * I haven't received any helpful responses on #mediawiki, and BugZilla doesn't show any related open bugs, so I'm at a real loss as to why the blocks aren't sticking. I don't see any contribution-merging happening though. It's just that sometimes the anon's most recent edits aren't being displayed, and the sandbox edits appear at the top (I checked and he really did edit the sandbox on the three of those dates that I checked). I'll keep my IRC window open, but I'm not holding my breath... --David Iberri | Talk 18:36, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

Fact and reference check
Hello, many people want to move forward with the WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check project instead of waiting for 'smart' footnotes to be coded into MediaWiki. The first step is agreeing upon a formatting template used to fact check new articles. Several candidates are up for vote, and everyone is encouraged to vote and/or submit their own proposal. Comments on proposals are also very much welcome.

Thanks for your interest in our project, I hope you will vote :o). --ShaunMacPherson 22:46, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion
See these six categories up for "votes of deletion":

Categories_for_deletion and Categories_for_deletion and Categories_for_deletion and Categories_for_deletion and Categories_for_deletion and this one too: Categories_for_deletion

IZAK 10:10, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * I'm not voting for categories anymore. Too many edit conflicts. JFW | T@lk  13:40, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

SMILES
SMILES will hopefully be implemented into Wikipedia at some stage. Until then I really think the CAS code will be sufficient. JFW | T@lk  23:51, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * I have found a way to hide the longer SMILES strings in a scroll field, see strychnine :-) I think the SMILES string make alot of sense if you want to create or recreate molecule images in your molecule editor. Copy and pasting the SMILES string is way faster and less prone to error than trying to draw the whole structure over and over again. The CAS number does not do this. Cacycle 00:52, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Psychopharmacology
Hey Cacycle, you seem to be into psychopharmacology. Could you pinpoint some useful articles on Wikipedia where I could learn more? Specifically interested in depression, but then psychosis etc also has my interest. JFW | T@lk  23:51, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Sorry, I'm primarily interested in hallucinogens and have no idea what can be found about depression or psychosis here. If you are really interested in something I would go to the library :-) Cacycle 00:52, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Opinion for IZAK
Please see Requests for arbitration/IZAK/Evidence. Thank you. IZAK 06:59, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Avraham Danzig
You reverting 3 times on Avraham Danzig, as an administrator pls. ban yourself :)--Emax 13:26, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * I have responded on your talk page. JFW | T@lk  14:13, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Cyproterone
Done. I just removed the 200px thumbnailing, because my formulas are small enough. Regards, Mykhal 22:09, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Dating welcome messages
To welcome, I type in, which places in the contents of User:Meelar/wel. Unfortunately, I can't think of a way to minimize typing thusly while still having a correct date. Any suggestions would be appreciated! Best, [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 00:35, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

Port of call
I'm interested in bringing peace to the Middle East, but I'm not sure it's possible to get enough people to agree with making me an "arbitrator". I am an interested party to the dispute (having 2 Jewish grandparents and a Jewish mother).

I aim rather to facilitate understanding and communication. --user:Ed Poor (deep or sour) 15:52, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

203.199.213.194
This person continues to vandalize the Wikipedia. I saw your "last warning" on their talk page. If you can, perhaps you should ban him/her. JEL 21:46, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Lesch-Nyhan syndrome edits
Your edits on Lesch-Nyhan syndrome are making the article better. But, perhaps you should read over the "Signs and symptoms" section, which now has considerable repetition of material. Some of the paragraphs almost seem like different versions of each other. Is this what you intended? Paul August 21:59, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)
 * Having looked more carefully I see that the duplication has to do with your merging the text from the original "Description" "Lesch-Nyhan syndrome in males" and "Lesch-Nyhan syndrome in females" sections into one "signs and symptoms" section. Anyway Larsie has now reinstated the original organization. If you feel strongly about this I guess you should discuss this with him.  But perhaps you could content yourself with more incremental/less ambitious edits? Your new intro (which is better than what was there before) has with some tweaks, been reinstated by me - with Larsie's agreement (I think). I have reintroduced a bit of your rewordings myself, and may do more. Perhaps you could address the "genetics issue" as a separate edit?. Paul August 04:54, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

Hi, you left a message for Larsie on my talk page. You should try him. Also, if you are going to entirely re-organize an article according to some standard, you better make darn sure that is the standard the majority really want, and not just the way a few people have written some other articles. Maybe Larsie's way is better and the other articles should be re-organized. Anyway, talk it out on the talk page, or comment at the featured article candidate discussion. - Taxman 13:16, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

 * No, this is primarily something for the article talk page. JFW | T@lk  14:35, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Re, what you left on my talk page, that is all I was saying. Make sure it is an accepted standard, ie a wiki project, not just the way a few other articles conform to. It appears it is the accepted way, so then that is for the best. - Taxman 16:16, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

Hey there jfw what do think is it finished or what? --Larsie 20:00, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

well thank you for all your help and i look forward to what the good doctor has to say! --Larsie 20:10, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Opioid revert
Can you justify your revert of Opioid? Unless you do I'm going to revert back. Fugg 10:07, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * I have reworded the article slightly for neutral point of view, not all addicts are 'recreational users' and not all recreational users are 'addicts', changed to user in one case rather than either recreational user or addict /changed another instance to chronic user as, addiction is not required for "ramp effect" and "ramp effect is not typically noted in the mere 'recreational user', furthermore, the term "recreational" is misleading , see Recreation would prefer either simply user, when appropriate, or chronic user, or even non-medical user, but I think this version should feel good for all of us.Pedant 22:43, 2004 Nov 11 (UTC)

I've extended the abuse section, and added a recreational use section to clarify this issue. As an operator, you should know that Wikipedia's NPOV policy states that, "one should write articles without bias, representing all views fairly." To censor the recreational use POV violates the NPOV policy. 5000+ years of recreational opium use cannot be swept under the carpet because your view is narrowed to only seeing the effects of heroin abuse. --Thoric 22:18, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Polycythemia vera
I have been using Medical Qigong to addrees my polycythemia vera:
 * Case Studies of Walking Qi Gong on Chronic Diseases

Sure beats the leeches. Unsigned by Ed

 * Ed: as long as your hematocrit remains acceptable you're a lucky man. JFW | T@lk  14:35, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

filling the red
what would be good is if we could fill in all the red in the article for LNS, i think really there is not that much, pretty much the other syndromes like cornelia delange or whatever it was, and others. i think it would not be too difficult. --Larsie 20:42, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

i just checked there are 5 red links. --Larsie 20:43, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Forum for Encyclopedic Standards
I have drafted a proposal for a new voluntary association on Wikipedia (joining groups like the The Business and Economics Forum and the Harmonious editing club) to promote discussion of a sort of system of expert review on Wiki. Please take a look and add your ideas. 172 02:33, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Wonderful idea! I have joined. I will let some others know. Thank you. IZAK 03:26, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Matrilineality article
Could you please take a look at the recent changes to the Matrilineality article? There's some editing going on there that I dispute (and I think you might too), but I don't have time to deal with it right now. Jayjg 17:53, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, that looks good; we'll see if anon agrees. It might be worthwhile to check his other edits, he has made quite a few. As for me, I'm still spending time on the Arbitration, and battling vandalism. Jayjg 18:55, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Additions to Bible article
You might want to take a look at the recent anonymous additions to the Bible article regarding the occurence of YHVH in the Bible; it looks to me like it's the work of a Jehovah's Witness with a POV to push, and it's not particularly noteworthy, certainly not for the introduction. Also, anon is messing with Matrilineality again. Jayjg 22:47, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Talk:tramadol
G'day Dr de Wolff, if you have some time, would you mind having a look at the "antidepressant effects" section in Talk:Tramadol? I'm interested in what your thoughts are with regards to the discussion I've been having with 69.139.141.134. Techelf 08:47, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick response. Techelf 09:10, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Flecainide.
Jfdwolff, you asked me to stop reverting "your" work. What you have up on flecainide right now is not your work; they are words that you have stolen from someone else. I am going to put the copyvio notice up until you have the opportunity to write an article yourself. If you copy and paste words from another website, or from previous versions of this page that contain copyvio material, the page will be reverted again. I look forward to an origional article written by you. If you do not have the time or expertise to do it right now, we'll just leave the copyvio notice up until someone does have the time. Matt 03:35, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

INR link
I have put ONE link in the NPT bit of the INR article, just to make you smile! :) 138.37.188.109 16:00, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Oh! And here's something which I hope will make you laugh out loud. Did you know thrombosis has clinical uses? I was delighted to read on Roche's website that it does, as I previously just thought it was a big pain. But no - see this and check out the second link, after Birmingham. Good eh?? 138.37.188.109 16:21, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Don't worry about who I am - I'm an ex-user, and an irrelevancy! (sp?) :) I work in a medical college, am not a medic, and am lifetime anticoagulated - hence the - ah - interest in the topic...

But I am glad you liked the link. I hadn't thought of that particular "clinical use"! 138.37.188.109 10:15, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Stress (medecine)
Sorry, but when I see this "great quote" in your user's page: "In theory, yes. And in theory, theory is the same as practice, but in practice it is not"

I have some difficulties to understand that you censored the only practical link in that article, under the pretence of "accumulation"

Is that article the property of medecine academics only, as the only one having notions about stress? In that case it should be labelled as such. --Pgreenfinch 16:47, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * I've replied on your talk page. JFW | T@lk  17:08, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

What you say, Jfdwolff, is interesting, and thanks for explaining. But it would have been more to the point if you had discussed with me before supressing the link unilateraly, and then giving "accumulation" as a surprising reason, as only that link was aimed at, two things I don't really find to be examples of witiquette. Then we could have seen together the pros and cons whether this link has value or not. Well, the possibility stays open. --Pgreenfinch 19:01, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your reply in my user's page. Btw, you might be right about the overlinking issue, which is the topic of an article currently in VfD and for which I voted "keep". As for the antistress link, it is really an aside in my site, with about no synergy with my main topic. It was just that I thought it could be useful. If I see, after a few weeks, in my stats, that it is not much used, I will erase it. Also your idea of an automatized google link giving the most popular links about a wikipedia topic seems interesting. --Pgreenfinch 16:15, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I voted merge + redirect. It's a jargon issue, which belongs in hyperlink. JFW | T@lk  17:24, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Melarsoprol
My mistake. I wasn't sure whether it still constituted a US Government document, because the electronic USP DI stuff seems to be copyrighted to Thomson Micromedex Inc. these days. Thanks for reverting it. -Techelf 09:37, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Wikiproject "Clinical Medicine"
Hi JFW, thank you for the invite for the Wikiproject "Clinical Medicine"! This is my first talk page, so go easy... I'm a bit unsure about what it means to be associated with the Wikiproject "Clinical Medicine". What's expected of participants beyond what I've been doing so far (i.e. writing articles on diseases that interest me?). BTW, I have PhD in biochem & molec. bio & worked in a research hospital a while ago. -hfwd

OK - count me in. I'll focus on expanding stubs on diseases & biochemistry. My scientific field of expertise is amyloid & prions, both of which have pretty good explanations in wikipedia already. How do you input the "talk" on the four tildes? I've looked into the help pages, but couldn't find the info (sorry to bother you on simple things like that) Hfwd 23:57, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks but ...
Thanks for your kind comments, but I really am trying to stay away, to not log in to my old user account, etc ... cold turkey. Wikipedia is great - utterly brilliant, in fact - but not so great for people with addictive personalities and I found that I was spending too much time, and, worse, caring about it too much ... hence the reluctance to be involved very much more. I still use it as a reference source, which is why I came across warfarin and all the other cloggy articles and couldn't resist, as it were, a quick fiddle. So thanks, but ... :) 138.37.188.109 09:04, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Tophi
Hello, I notice in the tophi article you changed MSU to uric acid. It is my understanding that the crystals are, in fact, sodium urate and not uric acid. Do you disagree with this? Osmodiar 09:44, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Talk:Melarsoprol
There's a little note for you at the above page. :-) Best wishes as always, and I hope your autumn has been/will be a good one. Jwrosenzweig 17:50, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Metabolic vs X
I have not ever learned to distinguish syndrome X from metabolic syndrome. How do you distinguish them? Note I'm not arguing, just curious. I assume you don't mind if I expand your MODY article. alteripse 12:41, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi! Can you take a look at this and knock off any of the articles you can. I am trying to bring to 50 percent done. Thanks. Danny 15:39, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Reno 911!
Make sure you look at the "What links here" section before listing a thing as being out of context. While both of the articles you recently listed as being out of context were, a few words in each put them into context. -- user:zanimum
 * So when you edited Captain Duane Hernandez, why couldn't you include some context?? :-) JFW | T@lk  21:25, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * I did. Reno 911 is the context, all the context that it needs. -- user:zanimum

 * OK, I meant Lieutenant Suzy Kim. I doubt all these characters need special articles. Can't we simply redirect the whole kaboodle to Reno 911? JFW | T@lk  21:32, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Which I've also put into context. I am doubting we need article on these minor characters, as they had fairly limited runs, but this is a completely different and more justified reason to delete. -- user:zanimum

Merging two articles
Please assist with merging the following two articles: Bioethics of neonatal circumcision and Circumcision and law - Robert the Bruce 16:32, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * No, I will not touch the circumcision-related articles with a bargepole until all annoying POV-pushers have left Wikipedia. I avoid editing Yasser Arafat for the same reason. JFW | T@lk  22:03, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Coward ;-) - Robert the Bruce 05:27, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * BTW, I've added another study to Cervical cancer. Thought you would find it interesting. - Robert the Bruce 05:29, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

SARS
If you had checked the Talk page before contacting me, you would see that I already gave my reasons for moving the page. The issue should be discussed there. —Lowellian (talk)  00:52, Nov 28, 2004 (UTC)

I reread what I wrote above, and sorry for coming across rather terse. I appreciated that you let me know about your removing the page. —Lowellian (talk)  00:57, Nov 28, 2004 (UTC)

Eicosanoid
Er, the diagram in eicosanoid doesn't look any different to me. :-/ The most important change required is inclusion of the missing LTC4. Axl 10:12, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Prostate Cancer
I note the following study is not included in the Prostate cancer article which I believe it should. Maybe you would insert it in the most appropriate manner. Thanks. - Robert the Bruce 13:21, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * It is an old study of little relevance. I'm rather disinclined to clutter the article with hypotheses that have not been validated in large, cross-sectional studies. JFW | T@lk  08:25, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to... using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). Since you are among the top 1000 most active Wikipedians, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles.
 * 1) ...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
 * 2) ...all articles...

 * Nutshell: Wikipedia articles can be shared with any other GFDL project but open/free projects using the incompatible Creative Commons Licenses (e.g. WikiTravel) can't use our stuff and we can't use theirs. It is important to us that other free projects can use our stuff.  So we use their licenses too.

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the   template (or    for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace   with   . If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know at my talk page what you think. -- Ram-Man 21:21, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

Redirect you created at "Malkuth"
(Technically, you moved this to Malkhuth, but that's since been moved, and made into a redirect to Malchut, and this one's been adjusted to point there too.) Noel (talk) 00:21, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * I moved it to the correct spelling: Malkuth disregards the khaf. The redir can be deleted if the article was removed. JFW | T@lk  08:25, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

CheeseDreams
Since you seem to be involved, would you be interested in signing Requests for comment/CheeseDreams? -- 23:14, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Ten Commandments
I'm not going to get into an argument about Jewish perspectives on abortion, so I won't dispute your edit. Can you at least edit it to clarify the grammar? What do you mean by "this law is based upon other sources"? The Jewish position against abortion is not based on the "do not murder" commandment but on other parts of scripture? I think just changing the words "this law" to something clearer would fix the problem. Thanks. -leigh (φθόγγος) 20:54, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)

New "Israel-stub"
Hi Dr. Wolff: Is your Email working? Please see the new  Template:Israel-stub, and use it where applicable. Thanks. IZAK 13:37, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * My email is fine. Thanks. JFW | T@lk  14:27, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The "dr" Email address bounces back sometimes. IZAK 14:42, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Here is an up-date:

New "Judaism-stub"
See the new Wikipedia Template:Judaism-stub. Please use when coming across relevant "stub" articles. Hope it all helps. All the best. IZAK 14:42, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, was just trying to fix it
I was orginally on IP - 213.105.224.17. I wasn't trying to vandalise anything. A friend of mine's sister originally vandalised it, not knowing what she was doing. Said friend mentioned it to me and i attempted to fix it. Sorry for any blunders i may have made, i was only trying to help (first stuck something meaningful there and then realised i could set it to what it was originally by copying what was in the history, i didnt know how to revert (im guessing i have to have an account for that (only just registered to message you)). Unsigned by User:Aeternus

 * See your (new) talkpage! JFW | T@lk  20:28, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Gerovital
I would very much appreciate any help with the article on Gerovital H3, a venerable quack anti-aging drug currently under discussion in VfD. The original article was a short, advertising-like stub.

It seemed regrettably clear that it is notable enough to be kept so I've been trying to NPOV it.

Two things I'm trying to get a handle on.

1) Is it legal? (In the U. S., that is). It is clear that in the 1970s and 1980s the FDA considered it an unapproved drug, illegal in interstate commerce. But I haven't been able to find out what the current status is. Suppliers imply that it is a nutritional supplement, and thus presumably legal under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994. But I haven't been able to find any definite statement about this. Maybe it's in untested limbo? The FDA's own site seems to have nothing on it beyond a 1994 (odd coincidence) article in FDA Consumer magazine saying it's worthless.

Do you understand the 1994 act? Can anything be a nutritional supplement? Is it even wildly reasonable to call procaine a "nutrient" or (!) a "vitamin?"

2) Is it safe, though worthless? This is one I think you could really help on. It appears that the stuff is basically procaine with some other ingredients that are supposed to "stabilize" it and make it more effective. One supplier seems to be suggesting that its tablets and ampoules each contain 100 mg of procaine, and suggest two tablets per day by mouth or three injections per week. Random Googling gives me the impression that the dosages used for local anesthesia are much higher, maybe 500 mg or more, and that the minimum dose at which adverse effects are observed is 19.2 mg/kg (oddly precise, that figure) which would be 1000 to 1500 mg for an adult. It would be insane to say in the article that the stuff is safe. Right now I'm quoting the FDA consumer article as saying some people have experienced problems, while noting that suppliers (of course) say it is safe. But if I'm right about the dosages it might be appropriate to say that the dosages used in the (worthless) treatment are five to ten times lower than those used in anesthesia. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 03:16, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Responded on your talk and Vfd. JFW | T@lk  10:08, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

PE, warfarin dose, etc
Thanks for your kind note and for agreeing to look at the ideal dosage question. I really am, however, trying to disengage - not without some regrets - from my previous very busy, nay obsessive, involvement with WP. See "Thanks but ..." up there somewhere, which as you probably realised is also me. :) Gonegonegone 08:18, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I know exactly what you mean. As with alcohol, Wikipediholicism is an absolute thing. Once a Wikipediholic, always a Wikipediholic. From a professional point of view I would recommend that you disengage again, before you get sucked into that big black hole of >100 edits a day...
 * The developers would do well to install a function that autoblocks notorious Wikipediholics after 40 major or 80 minor edits :-) JFW | T@lk  10:08, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks, on both counts. :) (I mean the wiki stuff comments above, and the rewording about post-PE dosage, which is great.) Gonegonegone 07:21, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Electromagnetic spectrum
I'm 40 and have a BS in imaging and color science. Whoopie. I quit! ha! I want to do MRI/cat scan stuff (no $$$) or Physical Pherapy (big $$$) but I'll be old when I finish school

I slaughtered your Electromagnetic Spectrum. You can't use visible with the word light. no. no no. I added a little more down to earth example of how the psychophysical phenomenon of our eye/brain combo works to allow us to percieve different cominations of frequencies as unique colors.

You'll hate it. Fine, change it back.

But read my def. on Metamerism (color) it's sweet, simple, informative for all levels.

I'm going after Fast Fourier Transforms, with regards to image processing next. (NOT!)

Email address removed for protection against web spiders.

 * I'm not sure why you're addressing this to me. JFW | T@lk  10:39, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I thought for sure you were the electromagnetic man!!!

So have you decided for me?

MRI, CAT scanning, X-Rays or Physical Therapy?

Please take a wild guess, given I'm 40, and have one BS

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David I. Walsh

David Ignatius Walsh (November 11, 1872 – June 11, 1947) was an American politician from Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the state's 46th governor before winning election to several terms in the United States Senate, becoming the first Irish Catholic from Massachusetts to fill either office.

Born in Leominster, Massachusetts, Walsh was educated at the College of the Holy Cross, subsequently entering a legal practice in Boston after graduating from the Boston University School of Law. He served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1900 to 1901, establishing a reputation as an anti-imperialist and isolationist. In 1912, he won election as the 43rd lieutenant governor, becoming the state's first Democratic lieutenant governor in seventy years. He served as governor from 1914 to 1916 and led a successful effort to call for a state constitutional convention.

Walsh won election to the Senate in 1918, earning a reputation as a supporter of Irish independence and as a strong opponent of the Treaty of Versailles. He lost his re-election bid in 1924 but returned to the Senate two years later. Walsh became increasingly opposed to an activist government, and supported Al Smith over Franklin D. Roosevelt at the 1932 Democratic National Convention. Despite his lukewarm support for President Roosevelt's New Deal agenda, he introduced the Walsh-Healey Act that established labor standards for government contractors. Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Walsh opposed American involvement in World War II and was a leading member of the America First Committee. However, in a reversal from his earlier stance on the League of Nations, he voted to ratify the United Nations Charter in 1946.

Walsh lost his 1946 re-election bid to Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and died the following year. A maverick in the Senate who regularly broke with his own party, he was remembered chiefly for his isolationism, as well as his passionate defense of Irish and Catholic interests. Walsh, who never married, was also dogged by accusations of homosexuality during his lifetime, including a sensationalized scandal in his final term that he privately called "a tragic Gethsemane" to his political career.

Early life and education
Walsh was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, on November 11, 1872, the ninth of ten children. His parents were Irish Catholic immigrants. Walsh attended public schools in his birthplace and later in Clinton, Massachusetts. His father, a comb maker, died when he was twelve. Thereafter, his mother ran a boarding house.

Walsh graduated from Clinton High School in 1890 and from the College of the Holy Cross in 1893. He attended Boston University Law School, where he graduated in 1897. Walsh was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in 1897, later practicing in Boston.

Career in state politics
Walsh was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for two terms in 1900 and 1901, elected from a longtime Republican district. From the start of his political career, he was anti-imperialist and isolationist and opposed America's authority over the Philippines as part of the settlement of the Spanish–American War. Walsh's vote to restrict the hours that women and children could work to 58 led to his defeat when he sought another term. He next lost the race for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1910, but ran again and won in 1912, becoming the state's first Democratic lieutenant governor in 70 years. He became the first Irish and the first Catholic Governor of Massachusetts in 1914, successfully challenging the incumbent Democratic governor Eugene Foss for the party nomination, and then defeating a divided Republican opposition (and Foss, who ran as an independent) with a comfortable plurality. He served two one-year terms.

He offered voters an alternative to boss-dominated politics, expressing a "forthright espousal of government responsibility for social welfare". Walsh proposed increased government responsibility for charity work and the care of the insane and reorganized the state's management of these areas with little opposition. In his 1914 campaign for re-election, he cited as accomplishments an increase in the amounts paid for workman's compensation and improved administration of the state's care for the insane. As governor, Walsh fought unsuccessfully for a Women's Suffrage Amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution. He also campaigned for film censorship in the state after large protests were mounted against the racial depictions in D. W. Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation.

He supported the work of the Anti-Death Penalty League, a Massachusetts organization founded in 1897 that was particularly active and nearly successful in the decade preceding World War I.

As governor he asked the legislature to call a Constitutional Convention without success. When the legislature later called a convention, Walsh won election as a delegate-at-large as part of a slate of candidates who endorsed adding provisions for initiative and referendum to the state constitution, key Progressive-era reforms. He served as a delegate-at-large to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention in 1917 and 1918 that saw those reforms passed. His speech on behalf of initiative and referendum shows him in the role of populist and reformer:

"There are men—and you and I know them—who, though proclaiming their belief in democracy, really are believers in autocracy. There are men within the knowledge of us all who believe in a government of the few, of the college bred class only, of those only who have been successful in the commercial world, or those only who have been fortunate enough to have been born in an environment of ease and luxury. To this class of men no argument on the initiative and referendum can be addressed with any confidence of success. Consciously or unconsciously, they are recreant to the principles upon which this republic was founded."

In 1914, Walsh was challenged for the governorship by Samuel W. McCall, a moderate Republican. He narrowly won reelection, probably due to the presence of a Progressive (Bull Moose) candidate who took votes from McCall. McCall successfully reunited the Republicans and the Progressives the next year, and defeated Walsh, in part by supporting Walsh's call for a constitutional convention.

Walsh returned to the practice of law after leaving office, working with his older brother Thomas in his hometown of Clinton.

Career in national politics
In 1918, Walsh was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate, serving his first term from March 4, 1919, to March 3, 1925. He was the first Irish Catholic senator from Massachusetts, and second Massachusetts senator to be elected by popular vote, after the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. A noted orator, he introduced Irish Republic President Éamon de Valera at Fenway Park on June 29, 1919.

Walsh broke with Democratic President Woodrow Wilson on the subject of the Treaty of Versailles, joining fellow Massachusetts senator (and Republican) Henry Cabot Lodge in opposition. His initial objections stemmed from the fact that the proposed League of Nations would "make secure and assured the rights of every single nation in the world except Ireland." In general, he felt that the Treaty failed to adequately provide for the right to self-determination, which had been articulated in Wilson's Fourteen Points. Walsh also became a vocal critic of Article 10, which would have allowed the League of Nations to make war without a vote by the US Congress. Consequently he was labeled one of the "Irreconcilables", a bloc of 12–18 mostly Republican senators who refused to pass the treaty even with the "reservations" proposed by Lodge.

At the Democratic National Convention in 1924, he spoke in favor of condemning the Ku Klux Klan by name in the party platform: "We ask you to cut out of the body politic with the sharpest instrument at your command this malignant growth which, injected, means the destruction of everything which has made America immortal. If you can denounce Republicanism, you can denounce Ku Kluxism. If you can denounce Bolshevism, you can denounce Ku Kluxism." Walsh was one of nine Senators to oppose the Immigration Act of 1924.

Walsh failed to win reelection by just 20,000 votes in 1924, the year of the Coolidge landslide, and briefly resumed the practice of law in Boston. Following the death of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, the Republicans fought hard to retain his seat. Though Herbert Hoover and Charles Evans Hughes campaigned for his opponent, in the November 1926 special election Walsh won the right to complete the remaining two years of Lodge's term, defeating William Morgan Butler, a friend of Coolidge and head of the Republican National Committee.

Walsh's 1924 defeat also marked a turning point in his political philosophy. He had previously endorsed an activist role for government, but after 1924 his rhetoric increasingly attacked the "federal bureaucracy" and "big government". Though he had once advocated in favor of federal child labor legislation, he became one of its most consistent opponents.

In 1929, Time published a detailed profile of Walsh and his voting record. It noted that he voted for the Jones Act of 1929 that increased penalties for the violation of Prohibition, but said the Senator "votes Wet, drinks Wet". Its more personal description said:

"A bachelor, he is tall and stout. A double chin tends to get out over his tight-fitting collar. His stomach bulges over his belt. He weighs 200 lbs. or more. Setting-up exercises every other day at a Washington health centre have failed to reduce his girth. He is troubled about it. His dress is dandified. He wears silk shirts in bright colors and stripes and, often, stiff collars to match. His feet are small and well-shod. Beneath his habitual derby hat his hair is turning thin and grey. Society is his prime diversion. Of secondary interest are motoring, sporting events, the theatre. In Washington he occupies an expensive suite of rooms at the luxurious Carlton Hotel on 16th Street. A good and frequent host himself, he accepts all invitations out, is one of the most lionized Senators in Washington."

Time reported that some commented on the contrast between his political populism and his luxurious life style. The profile noted he was a "gruff and bull-voiced debater" but that "in private conversation his voice is soft and controlled." In sum, Time said that "Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: A good practical politician, a legislator above the average. His political philosophy is liberal and humane, except on economic matters (the tariff) which affect the New England industry, when he turns conservative. His floor attendance is regular, his powers of persuasion, fair."

When attacking the Hoover administration following the 1930 elections, Walsh identified two principal causes of voter dissatisfaction: "the administration's indifference to economic conditions and its failure to recognize the widespread opposition to prohibition".

Walsh won reelection in 1928, 1934 and 1940, failing in his final bid for reelection in 1946. During his Senate service, Walsh held the posts of chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor (73rd and 74th Congresses) and of the Committee on Naval Affairs (74th-77th and 79th Congresses). In 1932, he supported Al Smith against FDR for the Democratic nomination for president. He objected to Justice Hugo Black's failure to disclose his earlier membership in the Ku Klux Klan and promoted the appointment of Jews to the judiciary, notably that of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, a longtime friend. Though a Democrat, he gave only reluctant support to President Roosevelt's agenda. In 1936, when some Democrats looked for an alternative presidential candidate, he supported Roosevelt, "although their relations are none too good". A newspaper reported that "He is not of the insurgent type ... At heart, observers [in Boston] say, he dissents from many of the policies of the New Deal", but "he will stay on the reservation" and "he will avoid an open break". During the campaign, he failed to speak in support of the President until October 20, 1936.

In 1936, Walsh, as head of the Senate Labor Committee, lent his name an administration bill to establish labor standards for employees of government contractors, known as the Walsh–Healey Public Contracts Act It provided for minimum wages and overtime, safety and sanitation rules, and restrictions on the use of child and convict labor.

In 1937, he declared himself an opponent of the administration and joined the opposition to FDR's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court. Speaking at New York City's Carnegie Hall, Walsh argued his position in terms of the separation of powers, judicial independence, and the proper role of the executive. He described the public's reaction as "a state of fear, of apprehension, of bewilderment, of real grief, as a result of the proposal to impair, if not indeed to destroy, the judicial independence of the Supreme Court". He also emphasized the role of the Court in protecting civil liberties, citing two examples:

"One was the enactment, during the war hysteria, of a law in one of the sovereign States making it a crime to teach a child the German language ... [A] teacher in a German-language school was indicted and convicted ... The United States Supreme Court, nine old men, sworn to uphold the Constitution, struck down that law and released from jeopardy an American citizen whose only offense was that he was a victim of war hysteria. I wonder if young men would have had the courage to do it.

Another was an outburst during the Ku Klux Klan hysteria. A State Legislature and the Governor approved a law, supported by an initiative vote of the people, denying a parent the right to send his child to a religious school of his choosing. An independent judiciary, the United States Supreme Court, nine old men, struck down that law and proclaimed that it is an unalienable right under the Constitution for a parent to bring up his children and educate them as he may choose."

He continued:

"Who can say when some majority of the moment may attempt to harass a minority? Who dares predict that a future Congress in a time of hysteria may not succumb to the prejudice or passion of the hour ... Without an independent judiciary, I hesitate to even think of denials to minorities of constitutional guarantees if some of the doctrines preached by groups in this country today should be enacted into law."

One Cabinet official described his overall relationship to the administration as "not sympathetic ... to put it mildly".

Along with four of his colleagues, Walsh condemned antisemitism in Nazi Germany in a Senate speech on June 10, 1933.

World War II
Immediately following the defeat of France, Walsh was the sponsor, along with Representative Vinson, of the Vinson–Walsh Act of July 1940 that increased the size of the U.S. Navy by 70 percent. It included seven battleships, 18 aircraft carriers and 15,000 aircraft.

In the Senate, Walsh was a consistent isolationist He supported American neutrality with respect to the Spanish Civil War and opposed an American alliance with the United Kingdom until the attack on Pearl Harbor. Speaking in the Senate on June 21, 1940, he denounced Roosevelt's plans to provide armaments to Great Britain:

"I say it is too risky, too dangerous, to try to determine how far we can go tapping the resources of our own Government and furnishing naval vessels, air planes, powder and bombs. It is trampling on dangerous ground. It is moving toward the edge of a precipice—a precipice of stupendous and horrifying depths ... I do not want our forces deprived of one gun, or one bomb, or one ship which can aid that American boy whom you and I may some day have to draft. I want every instrument. I want every bomb. I want every plane. I want every boat ready and available. So I can say when and if it becomes necessary to draft him: 'Young man, you have every possible weapon of defense your Government can give you.'" At the 1940 Democratic National Convention, where Walsh supported James Farley for president rather than FDR, he and his fellow isolationist Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana proposed a plank for the party platform that read: "We will not participate in foreign wars and we will not send our army or navy or air force to fight in foreign lands outside of the Americas." When the President added the words "except in case of attack", they accepted the change. In that year's election, he out-polled Roosevelt in Massachusetts despite being opposed by the CIO for his anti-New Deal positions.

After the 1940 election in particular, he opposed any action that would compromise American neutrality, first in closed-door hearings of the Naval Affairs Committee, which he headed, and then in attacking the Lend-Lease program on the floor of the Senate. He was a leading member of the America First movement, opposing U.S. involvement in World War II. In 1940, The New York Times described Walsh as a "more moderate critic" of the administration's attempts to aid Great Britain even as he called the August commitment FDR made to Churchill one "that goes far beyond the Constitutional powers of the President and one that no other President in our history even presumed to assume. ... The President alone, and on his own initiative, has undertaken to pledge our government, our nation, and the lives of 130,000,000 persons and their descendants for generations to come."

When the Senate considered the Burke–Wadsworth Act to establish peacetime conscription for the first time in U.S. history, Walsh offered an amendment, which failed to pass, that would have delayed the law's effective date until war was declared. In June 1940, he authored an amendment to the naval appropriations bill, sometimes called the Walsh Act of 1940, which permitted "surplus military equipment" to be sold only if it was certified as useless for American defense. To aid Great Britain, the administration evaded the Walsh provision by substituting leases for sales and by trading equipment for bases. In 1941, when the administration used the Greer incident, an exchange of fire between a German submarine and an American destroyer, to authorize American forces to "shoot on sight", Walsh held hearings of the Naval Affairs Committee to demonstrate that the administration was misrepresenting the facts of the encounter to support its case for American military action against Germany. Walsh also was an outspoken fan of the periodical Social Justice, published by Father Coughlin.

"House of Degradation" scandal
On May 7, 1942, the New York Post, which had long favored U.S. involvement in the European conflict, implicated Walsh in a sensational sex and spy scandal uncovered at a Brooklyn male brothel for U.S. Navy personnel that had been infiltrated by Nazi spies. The charges went unreported by the rest of the press, but word of mouth made it, according to Time, "one of the worst scandals that ever affected a member of the Senate." The police operation led to the arrest and conviction of three foreign agents and the brothel's owner-operator, Gustave Beekman, though promised leniency for cooperating with the police, received the maximum sentence of 20 years for sodomy and was not released from prison until 1963.

The scandal was complex in that it implicated the Senator as a homosexual, as a patron of a male bordello, and as a possible dupe of enemy agents. Homosexuality was a taboo subject for public discourse, so the Post referred to a "house of degradation". At one point a sub-headline in The New York Times called it a "Resort". In the Daily Mirror, columnist Walter Winchell mentioned "Brooklyn's spy nest, also known as the swastika swishery." The Post first suggested a scandal. Over the course of several weeks it hinted an important person was involved, then named "Senator X", and finally identified Walsh by name. Its sensational treatment of the story detracted from the seriousness of its charges. The Post was not alone in its coyness; before Walsh was named, Winchell teased that the mystery man was "one of four Senators with the same last initial...the 23rd letter of the alphabet."

The brothel's owner and several others arrested in a police raid identified Walsh to the police as "Doc", a regular client, whose visits ended just before police surveillance began. Some furnished intimate physical details. President Roosevelt believed the charge that Walsh was homosexual was true. He told Vice President Henry Wallace that "everyone knew" about Walsh's homosexuality and he had a similar conversation with Alben W. Barkley, the Senate majority leader.

Without discussing details, Walsh issued a brief statement calling the story "a diabolical lie" and demanding a full investigation. He then conducted his usual Senate business without reference to the charges. An FBI investigation produced no evidence to support the New York Post specific charges against the Senator, though it accumulated much "derogatory information" in its files.

On May 20, 1942, with a full report from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in hand, Senator Barkley addressed the Senate at length on the irresponsibility of the New York Post, the laudable restraint of the rest of the press, the details of the FBI's report, and the Senate's affirmation of Walsh's "unsullied" reputation. He declined to insert the FBI report in the Congressional Record, he said, "because it contains disgusting and unprintable things". Without addressing Walsh's sexuality, he said the report contained no evidence that Walsh ever "visited a 'house of degradation' to connive or to consort with, or to converse with, or to conspire with anyone who is the enemy of the United States". He denied the charges related to espionage. He provided no specifics about the sexual activity at issue and said the details of the charges were "too loathsome to mention in the Senate or in any group of ladies and gentlemen". The press conflated the charges in a similar way. For example, The New York Times report of Barkley's speech said that the FBI reported that "there is not the 'slightest foundation' for charges that Senator Walsh, 69-year-old chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, visited a 'house of degradation' in Brooklyn and was seen talking to Nazi agents there."

Isolationist senators promptly denounced the charges as an attack on their political position. Senator Bennett Clark asserted that Morris Ernst, attorney for the New York Post, had contacted the White House trying to engage the administration to smear FDR's opposition. Senator Gerald Nye contended the incident represented a larger effort on the part of a "secret society" that for two years had been trying to discredit him and his fellow isolationists.

The press used these Senate speeches to cover the affair at last. Their treatment varied in tone:
 * The Boston Globe: Senator Walsh Story Denounced as Absolute Fabrication
 * The New York Times: FBI Clears Walsh, Barkley Asserts
 * New York Post: Whitewash for Walsh

Time reported Barkley's speech exonerating Walsh and that the Post in reply had repeated its charges. It concluded its coverage: "The known facts made only one thing indisputable: either a serious scandal was being hushed up or a really diabolical libel had been perpetrated." In private, the New York Post's publisher became concerned about the newspaper's libel exposure and hired a team led by Daniel Doran to conduct an investigation into Walsh's behavior and the Post's own reporting. Doran learned that Walsh had been in attendance at the Senate in Washington at the same times he was alleged to have been visiting the gay brothel. "Not a single item of legal evidence has been obtained," Doran reported back to the Post, which never amended or corrected its reporting.

Final Senate years
During the 1944 presidential race, with FDR seeking a fourth term, his running mate Harry S. Truman referred to Walsh as an "isolationist", a characterization Walsh resented. On November 2, just five days before the election, the President called Walsh at his home in Clinton, Massachusetts, and invited him to join the presidential party in Worcester, Massachusetts. Walsh accepted the invitation to the relief of the Democrats. The contretemps gave Walsh an opportunity to define his position, that he was no isolationist because he favored the war and seeing the war through to total victory. He also believed the troops should return home quickly, allowing only that some may be required to perform "police duties in enemy territory", and the reserves demobilized. He hoped for a "democratic peace ... free from the influences of political expediency which compromises with imperialism and surrenders to power politics".

In 1945, demonstrating that his isolationism was not absolute, Walsh voted in favor of the United Nations Charter. He was one of a dozen senators who protested the failure of the United Nations to invite a Jewish delegation to its founding San Francisco Conference.

Given his poor relationship with the White House, Walsh anticipated that the administration might even support an opponent in a Democratic primary when he next ran for reelection. He faced no such challenge, but was defeated in his 1946 race for reelection by Henry Cabot Lodge Jr by a landslide.

Personal life and death
Walsh was raised a Roman Catholic and throughout his life identified himself as a Catholic and practiced his religion both in public and in private. An altar boy as a youth, in his adult years he regularly attended retreats and participated in meetings of Catholic laymen. Senate colleagues recognized his Catholic faith and occasionally baited him by challenging him to defend himself as a partisan of Catholic interests, which Walsh did not hesitate to answer. Once when a senator accused the Catholic Church of attempting to involve the United States in the Church's battle with the government of Mexico, Walsh defended the Church at length, saying in part:

"I am unworthy to make any defense of the Roman Catholic Church but I want to remind every senator on this floor that everyone of them owes her an everlasting debt of gratitude. For fifteen centuries she alone held aloft the torch of Christianity in the world; she gave her blood to preserve it ... I speak in the name of the large, tolerant and superb non-Catholic citizenship of my state. I speak also in the name of the forty percent of soldiers and sailors in the last war who were Roman Catholics. I speak not less confidently in the name of the nearly twenty million Roman Catholics in these United States; and I say that the sons of my Church are loyal and true, on this issue, not less than every other, always and at all times loyal and devoted to our country, its institutions and its high aims and objects."

Walsh never married. He and his brother Thomas, who died in 1931, supported their four unmarried sisters, two of whom outlived the Senator. Some biographers and historians believe Walsh to have been homosexual. Writing in the 1960s, former Attorney General Francis Biddle hinted at the subject when he described Walsh in the mid-1930s as "an elderly politician with a soft tread and low, colorless voice ... whose concealed and controlled anxieties not altogether centered on retaining his job." According to Gore Vidal, interviewed in 1974, "There wasn't anybody in Massachusetts ... who didn't know what David Walsh was up to." Walsh's most recent biographer writes that "The campaign to destroy David I. Walsh worked because he could not defend himself ... David I. Walsh was gay."

He was a member of the Naval Order of the United States.

Upon his retirement from political office, Walsh resided in Clinton, Massachusetts, until his death following a cerebral hemorrhage in Boston on June 11, 1947. Walsh is buried in St. John's Cemetery in Clinton.

In his later years he received honorary degrees from Holy Cross, Georgetown University, Notre Dame, Fordham, Boston University, Canisius College, and St. Joseph's College (Philadelphia),

A bronze statue of him by Joseph Coletti was erected near the Music Oval on Boston's Charles River Esplanade in 1954. It bears the motto: "non sibi sed patriae", a tribute to his service to the U.S. Navy while in the Senate. Walsh's alma mater, Holy Cross, awards an annual scholarship in his name.

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