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Neil Hamilton (actor)
James Neil Hamilton (September 9, 1899 – September 24, 1984) was an American stage, film and television actor, best known for his role as Commissioner Gordon on the Batman TV series of the 1960s.
Neil Hamilton
Hamilton, c. 1931
James Neil Hamilton
(1899-09-09)September 9, 1899
Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S.
September 24, 1984(1984-09-24) (aged 85)
Escondido, California, U.S.
Elsa Whitmer (m. 1922–1984; his death); 1 child
An only child, Hamilton was born in Lynn, Massachusetts. His show business career began when he secured a job as a shirt model in magazine ads, similar to fellow silent film performer Reed Howes, who was known in advertisements as "The Arrow Collar Man".[1]
After this, he became interested in acting and joined several stock companies where he gained experience and training as an actor in professional stage productions. This allowed him to secure his first film role in 1918 in Vitagraph's The Beloved Impostor, however, he obtained his big break from D. W. Griffith in The White Rose (1923). In 1924, he traveled to Germany with Griffith and made a film about the incredibly harsh living conditions in post-World War I Germany, Isn't Life Wonderful.
While filming America in 1924, a soldier's arm was blown off. As fellow actor Charles Emmett Mack recalls, "Neil Hamilton and I went to neighboring towns and raised a fund for him—I doing a song and dance and Neil collecting a coin."[2]
Hamilton was signed by Paramount Pictures in the mid-1920s and became one of their leading men. He often appeared opposite star Bebe Daniels. In 1926, he played one of Ronald Colman's brothers in Paramount's original silent version of Beau Geste. In 1926, Hamilton played Nick Carraway in the first production of The Great Gatsby, now a lost film. He starred in John Ford's Mother Machree with Victor McLaglen, and with John Wayne in an early bit role before he was well known, the title of which would coincidentally become sidekick Chief O'Hara's catchphrase in the Batman television show nearly four decades later. He was steadily employed in supporting roles and worked for just about every studio in Hollywood.
He made the transition to sound pictures at the end of the 1920s and continued appearing in noteworthy productions.
In 1930, he appeared in the original production of The Dawn Patrol (retitled "Flight Commander" after its remake), playing the squadron commander, a role played by Basil Rathbone in the 1938 remake. Hamilton was billed above newcomer Clark Gable in the 1931 Joan Crawford vehicle Laughing Sinners, in which he plays a cad who deserts Crawford's brokenhearted character. He originated the role of milksop Harry Holt, Jane's fiance, in the 1932 film Tarzan the Ape Man, and he actually received top billing in the film. Hamilton reprised the role in the 1934 pre-Code sequel, Tarzan and His Mate, at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
He appeared in 268 films, both silents and talkies, and made five films in England in 1936 and 1937.
"A"-level work in Hollywood dried up for Hamilton by the 1940s, and he was reduced to working in serials, "B" films, and other low-budget projects.
He starred as the villain in King of the Texas Rangers, one of the most successful movie serials of all time for Republic Pictures in 1941.
In Since You Went Away, a 1944 epic about life on the home front in World War II, Hamilton is seen only in still photographs as a serviceman away at war. His family's travails during his absence are the center of the movie. Hamilton reportedly shot scenes for the movie before filmmakers decided to keep his character off-screen. He appeared in the 1944 film noir classic When Strangers Marry with Robert Mitchum.
In a 1970s book interview for Whatever Happened To ..., Hamilton said he had been banned from A level work for insulting a studio executive. A Roman Catholic, Hamilton said that his faith got him through the difficult period of late 1942 to early 1944, when he could not obtain film employment and was down on his luck financially.
When television came along, Hamilton hosted Hollywood Screen Test (1948-1953), co-starred in the short-lived sitcom That Wonderful Guy with Jack Lemmon (1949–50), at the same time as Hollywood Screen Test, and did guest shots on numerous series of the 1950s and 1960s such as seven episodes of Perry Mason, five episodes of 77 Sunset Strip, as well as Maverick, The Real McCoys, Mister Ed, Bachelor Father, and The Outer Limits. During the late 1940s and early 1950s Hamilton performed on Broadway in such shows as Many Happy Returns (1945), The Men We Marry (1948), To Be Continued (1952), and Late Love (1953–54).
In 1960, actor Richard Cromwell was seeking a comeback of sorts in 20th Century Fox's planned production of The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come but Cromwell died of complications from liver cancer. Producer Maury Dexter quickly signed Hamilton to replace Cromwell in the film, which co-starred Jimmie Rodgers and Chill Wills. During the 1960s, Hamilton appeared in three Jerry Lewis films: The Patsy, The Family Jewels, and Which Way to the Front?
Hamilton is best remembered today as Police Commissioner James Gordon in the Batman television series (1966–68), appearing in all 120 episodes of Batman. Yvonne Craig, who played Commissioner Gordon's daughter Barbara, said Hamilton "came every day to the set letter perfect in dialogue and never missed a beat—a consummate professional."[3]
Hamilton was married to Elsa Whitmer from 1922 until his death in September 1984. They had one child.
Hamilton was a Roman Catholic, and a member of the Good Shepherd Parish and the Catholic Motion Picture Guild in Beverly Hills, California.[4]
Hamilton died at the age of 85 on September 24, 1984, after suffering a severe asthma attack. After his cremation, his ashes were later scattered into the Pacific Ocean.
The Beloved Impostor (1918)
The Great Romance (1919)
The White Rose (1923) as John White
America (1924) as Nathan Holden
The Sixth Commandment (1924) as Robert Fields
The Side Show of Life (1924) as Charles Verity-Stewart
Isn't Life Wonderful (1924) as Paul
Men and Women (1925) as Ned Seabury
The Little French Girl (1925) as Giles Bradley
The Street of Forgotten Men (1925) as Philip Peyton
The Golden Princess (1925) as Tennessee Hunter
New Brooms (1925) as Thomas Bates Jr.
The Splendid Crime (1925) as Bob Van Dyke
Desert Gold (1926) as George Thorne
Beau Geste (1926) as Digby Geste
The Great Gatsby (1926) as Nick Carraway
Diplomacy (1926) as Julian Weymouth
The Music Master (1927) as Beverly Cruger
Ten Modern Commandments (1927) as Tod Gilbert
The Joy Girl (1927) as John Jeffrey Fleet
The Spotlight (1927) as Norman Brooke
Mother Machree (1928) as Brian
The Shield of Honor (1928) as Jack MacDowell
The Showdown (1928) as Wilson Shelton
Something Always Happens (1928) as Roderick Keswick
Don't Marry (1928) as Henry Willoughby
The Grip of the Yukon (1928) as Jack Elliott
Hot News (1928) as Scoop Morgan
The Patriot (1928) as Crown Prince Alexander
Take Me Home (1928) as David North
Three Weekends (1928) as James Gordon
What a Night! (1928) as Joe Madison
Why Be Good? (1929) as Winthrop Peabody Jr.
A Dangerous Woman (1929) as Bobby Gregory
The Studio Murder Mystery (1929) as Tony White
The Love Trap (1929) as Paul Harrington
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929) as Dr. Jack Petrie
Darkened Rooms (1929) as Emory Jago
The Kibitzer (1930) as Eddie Brown
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930) as Dr. Jack Petrie
The Dawn Patrol (1930) as Major Brand
Anybody's War (1930) as Red Reinhardt
Ladies Must Play (1930) as Anthony Gregg
The Cat Creeps (1930) as Charles Wilder
Ex-Flame (1930) as Sir Carlisle Austin
The Widow From Chicago (1930) as 'Swifty' Dorgan
Command Performance (1931) as Peter Fedor / Prince Alexis
Strangers May Kiss (1931) as Alan
The Spy (1931) as Ivan Turin
Laughing Sinners (1931) as Howard 'Howdy' Palmer
The Great Lover (1931) as Carlo
This Modern Age (1931) as Robert 'Bob' Blake Jr.
The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) as Larry
The Wet Parade (1932) as Roger Chilcote, Jr.
Are You Listening? (1932) as Jack Clayton
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) as Harry Holt
The Woman in Room 13 (1932) as Paul Ramsey
What Price Hollywood? (1932) as Lonny Borden
Two Against the World (1932) as Mr. David 'Dave' Norton
The Animal Kingdom (1932) as Owen Fiske
Terror Aboard (1933) as James Cowles
The World Gone Mad (1933) as Lionel Houston
The Silk Express (1933) as Donald Kilgore
As the Devil Commands (1933) as Dr. David Graham
One Sunday Afternoon (1933) as Hugo Barnstead
Ladies Must Love (1933) as Bill Langhorne
Mr. Stringfellow Says No (1934) as Jeremy Stringfellow
Tarzan and His Mate (1934) as Harry Holt
Here Comes the Groom (1934) as Jim
Blind Date (1934) as Bob
Once to Every Bachelor (1934) as Lyle Stuart
One Exciting Adventure (1934) as Walter Stone
Two Heads on a Pillow (1934) as John C. Smith
By Your Leave (1934) as David McKenzie
Fugitive Lady (1934) as Donald Brooks
Mutiny Ahead (1935) as Kent Brewster
Honeymoon Limited (1935) as Dick Spencer Gordon / Gulliver
Keeper of the Bees (1935) as James 'Jamie' Lewis McFarland
The Daring Young Man (1935) as Gerald Raeburn
Parisian Life (1936) as Jaques
Southern Roses (1936) as Reggie
Everything in Life (1936) as Geoffrey Loring
You Must Get Married (1936) as Michael Brown
Secret Lives (1937) as Lt. Pierre de Montmalion
Mr Stringfellow Says No (1937) as Earle Condon
Lady Behave! (1937) as Stephen Cormack
Hollywood Stadium Mystery (1938) as Bill Devons
Army Girl (1938) as Capt. Joe Schuyler
The Saint Strikes Back (1939) as Allan Breck
Queen of the Mob (unbilled; 1940) as First FBI Chief
Federal Fugitives (1941) as Capt. James Madison / Robert Edmunds
They Meet Again (1941) as Gov. John C. North
Father Takes a Wife (1941) as Vincent Stewart
Dangerous Lady (1941) as Duke Martindel
King of the Texas Rangers (1941) as John Barton
Look Who's Laughing (1941) as Hilary Horton
The Lady Is Willing (1942) as Charlie (uncredited)
Too Many Women (1942) as Richard Sutton
X Marks the Spot (1942) as John J. Underwood
Secrets of the Underground (1942) as Harry Kermit
Bombardier (1943) as Colonel (uncredited)
All by Myself (1943) as Mark Turner
The Sky's the Limit (1943) as Navy Officer on Train (uncredited)
When Strangers Marry (1944) as Lieutenant Blake
Brewster's Millions (1945) as Mr. Grant
Murder in Villa Capri (1955) as Police Capt. Brady
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1961) as Gen. Dean
The Devil's Hand (1962) as Francis Lamont
The Outer Limits (1964, Episode: "The Invisibles" as Hilary J. Clarke, Episode: "The Bellero Shield" as Richard Bellero, Sr.)
The Patsy (1964) as The Barber
The Family Jewels (1965) as Attorney
Madame X (1966) as Scott Lewis (uncredited)
Batman (1966) as Commissioner Gordon
Strategy of Terror (1969) as Mr. Harkin
Which Way to the Front? (1970) as Chief of Staff
Barry Monush. Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the Silent Era to 1965, p. 308
Tildesley, Alice L. (July 1926). "Prop Boy to Star (Continued)". Motion Picture Classic. Chicago, IL: Brewster Publications. Retrieved September 3, 2015.
Cassell, Dewey (February 2010). "Growing Up Gordon: The Early Years of Batgirl". Back Issue!. TwoMorrows Publishing (38): 70.
Church of the Good Shepherd: Our History, goodshepherdbh.org; accessed October 31, 2015.
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Where, this week, to find Stella Creasy MP for Walthamstow
Sunday 18th December- helping to host a christmas party for Walthamstow Labour Party.
Thursday 22nd December - attending the Community Hub Christmas Lunch for older residents.
Friday 23rd December - attending the Salvation Army party for volunteers.
My office will close on Friday 23rd December for the Christmas and New Year period. It will re-open on Tuesday 3rd January 2017. During this time if you need to contact me in an emergency please call the Waltham Forest Direct service on 020 8498 3000 and they are able to contact me. The e-newsletter service will return in the new year- best wishes for this festive season and for the New Year to all Walthamstow residents.
Walthamstow CLP members - don't forget - festive social this Sunday (18th)
Stella Creasy MP for Walthamstow invites you to join her and Cllr Chris Robbins,
the Labour Leader of Waltham Forest Council, for a festive afternoon tea party on
Sunday 18th December between 3-5pm in central Walthamstow
This informal social event is open to all members of our local Labour party and their friends to join us as we look back on 2016 and ahead to 2017. Whether our work to help the refugees in Calais, helping to get Sadiq Khan elected as a Labour London Mayor, making the case for Britain to stay in the European Union or winning the campaign to save the Butterfields residents from eviction it's been quite a year!
As well as lots of festive food, there will be entertainment and a visit from Santa Claus...
To help us plan for this event please RSVP for full details of the venue. Children are very welcome and to help us plan for Santa Claus when you RSVP please let us know the ages and number of anyone under 10 coming with you.
Finally, we would appreciate help with catering so if you can bring cake or mince pies please do let us know- all contributions gratefully received.
We hope you will be able to join us for this festive and fun event next weekend,
Monday 12th December- in parliament to support legislation to help credit unions in the Savings (Government Contributions) Bill.
Tuesday 13th December- starting work as a member of the Children and Social Work Bill Committee. The time this committee will take means I will be in Westminster for most of the week until mid January. Please see below for the details of the legislation I am tabling as part of this process for child refugees and sex and relationship education.
Thursday 15th December- in parliament for the Children and Social Work Bill Committee.
Friday 16th December- in parliament to support private members legislation on ratifying the Istanbul Convention and then holding a party to introduce the residents of Butterfields to their new Landlord Dolphin Living.
Saturday 17th December- attending the bazaar to raise donations for child refugees.
Putting Consent on the Curriculum:
Providing Sex and Relationship Education to Safeguard Children
This week I tabled legislation in parliament to make the provision of sex and relationship education part of safeguarding all children in schools in England. This follows on from the work I have done for many years with residents in Walthamstow about how to support all young people to make positive choices about their relationships with each other.
Currently composting and recycling are part of our national curriculum. However, whilst children are taught about the mechanics of reproduction, concepts such as consent and equality are not required learning. It's time to change this- One in three young girls say they have been sexually harassed in school. There have been 5,500 assaults reported in schools in the last three years alone. Sex and relationship education which covers consent, sexual violence, healthy relationships and domestic violence is a crucial part of preventing harm.
The proposal I have put forward would ensure all pupils were given lessons not just in the biology of sex, but healthy relationships and consent. It would also require these lessons to be age appropriate, balanced, inclusive and religiously diverse - and give young people themselves the right to say if they want to take part in these sessions.
Teaching these skills isn't about replacing the role of families in guiding young people - it is about ensuring the peers of every child share the same respect for other students any parent would wish for their child. If you would like updates on this proposal which is for the Children and Social Work Bill or to discuss it please do get in touch. You can also watch my speech on this, and the child refugees campaign here.
What's Your StowStory? We17 Campaign
We17 Part 2: What's Your StowStory?
Community Social Saturday 10th December
As part of the We17 campaign to tackle the impact of the brexit vote on the local community, on
Saturday 10th December at 2pm Walthamstow Labour will be holding an informal social event to share the stories of how different communities came to live in Walthamstow and their role in the history of our area. This event will hear in particular from representatives of several different refugee communities living in Walthamstow about their life stories and how they came to be part of our local community.
This informal event is open to all local residents and hosted by Hibo Wardere, a local award winning campaigner. It is free to attend and informal, but participants are asked to bring an item of food to share with others - if you would like to take part in this event or learn more about this project please email.
Saturday 3rd December- launching the StowXmas Business Map as part of Small Business
Saturday at Today Bread in Central Parade at 3pm. Details below.
Sunday 4th December- attending the Poets Corner Christmas Fair and the E17 Designers Market.
Monday 5th December - please note my office will be closed for staff training. I will also then be speaking in parliament in the debate on the Children and Social Work Bill.
Tuesday 6th December - attending the Waltham Forest Asian Seniors Club AGM
Wednesday 7th December- Dj'ing at the Labour Women's Network Christmas Fundraiser
Thursday 8th December- holding an appointment only residents advice surgery. To book an appointment please call 020 8521 1223.
Saturday 10th December- taking part in the StowStory community cohesion event.
Chingford & Woodford Green CLP fundraiser quiz with Neil Gerrard - Sunday 11th Dec
Come and join Chingford & Woodford Green Labour Party on Sunday 11th December 2016 for a bit of fun and the opportunity to raise money for the local Party
All Saints Church Hall, Church Avenue, Highams Park E4 9QD
The quiz starts at 8.00pm
£10 per person (Light refreshments included but do bring your own drinks and glasses)
Former Walthamstow MP, Neil Gerrard, will be quizmaster for the evening
Booking essential to reserve your place. Pay on the door.
phone 07504 739520, 02085319836
or email m.dore27@ntlworld.com
Organised by Chingford and Woodford Green Labour Party, E4 6LP
Saturday 19th November- speaking at a trade union conference on hate crime in Bedford.
Monday 20th November- co-sponsoring amendments to the Higher Education Bill to prevent students being retrospectively charged higher costs for student loans
Wednesday 23rd November- attending the Autumn Statement debate in parliament
Thursday 24th November- discussing funding for nursery education in Walthamstow with local providers and supporting an event regarding Cooperative Councillors. See below for more details.
Friday 25th November- speaking at a breakfast seminar on workplace change, supporting the Salaam Peace bike ride in Walthamstow and holding an appointment only advice surgery for local residents. To book an appointment please call 020 8521 1223.
Becoming a Coop Councillor: Event for Local Labour and Cooperative Members
On Thursday 24th November, Waltham Forest Co-op Party are holding a 'Be a Co-op Councillor' evening in Walthamstow. This is an event for Labour and Co-operative party members in Waltham Forest who are interested in standing as Labour and Co-operative candidates at the next London local elections in May 2018.
As well as Labour and Cooperative MPs who represent the cooperative tradition within the Labour movement, there are also hundreds of Labour and Cooperative councillors around Britain. This event will be a great opportunity to hear about the role of the Co-op in local government and more generally what it is like to be a Councillor, and how Labour Party and Co-op Party selections work. If you are interested in attending this event, then please register online so that the organisers can get an idea of the numbers, as space is limited.
Online registration and further venue details here: http://party.coop/be-a-cllr-wal-for.
Monday 7th November - attending the Prime Ministers statement in parliament regarding the high court ruling on triggering Article 50 and then speaking at a debate at the Royal Geological Society on the impact of Brexit on London.
Thursday 10th November - taking part in a discussion at the National Theatre on gender politics to discuss the outcome of the American presidential elections.
Saturday 12th November- running a women's leadership workshop at the Fawcett Society conference in central London.
Sunday 13th November- taking part in Remembrance Sunday in Walthamstow at the Town Hall.
Interested in becoming a Labour Councillor? 'Be a councillor' events
Labour Councillors play a vital role in their communities and can make a real difference to people's daily lives. The Labour Party needs people of vision, leadership, integrity, ambition and commitment to help deliver strong leadership and quality public services. If you think this could be you but you would like more information and the opportunity to discuss with serving councillors, the London Labour Party is working with the Local Government Association to deliver a number of Be a Councillor Events. This will cover the role of a councillor and the process to become one either in the near future or later on.
The first of these will take place on 5 November and there will be another taking place at the London Regional Conference on 12 November with further dates specifically for women members and young members later this year. To register for any of these events please sign up on http://www.labourinlondon.org.uk/events
Please email london2016@labour.org.uk or phone 020 7783 1170 if you have any questions. An agenda and further information will be sent out to all delegates and visitors closer to the day.
There will also be local 'Be a councillor' events specific to Waltham Forest. More details here soon.
Butterfields Estate - Dolphin Living completes purchase. No evictions of tenants for at least 5 years
Residents of the Butterfields estate, and those who have been following the case with much concern, will be pleased to hear that Dolphin Living - a charitable housing association established in 2005 - carries the following news on its website today:
"Today we announce the completion of the acquisition of the long leases of 49 homes on Walthamstow's Butterfields Estate. The vendor is the private company Butterfields E17; Glasspool Trust will remain the Freeholder of the Estate.
"This announcement follows an agreement between Butterfields E17, the Greater London Authority, local Member of Parliament, Stella Creasy, and the London Borough of Waltham Forest over the future ownership of 49 properties, and how best to secure its residents' immediate future on the Estate."
Earlier posts in this blog about Butterfields
Stella on Butterfields in The Guardian (April this year)
Sunday 30th October- participating in the We17 Community Cohesion Women's Dinner in support of the Forest Nightshelter.
Monday 31st October- taking part in Home Office questions to continue to press the Government to help the children in Calais
Tuesday 1st November- supporting Walthamstow Labour Party Secretary Phil Creasy and Waltham Forest Coop Chair Andy Dixon as they give evidence to the Boundary Commission about the importance of keeping the Walthamstow constituency together and meeting the National Audit Office to discuss my concerns about PFI.
Thursday 3rd November- attending the Waltham Forest Coop Fundraiser with special guest Chuka Umunna MP which is to help support the campaigning work the Cooperative party is doing on refugees and housing in Walthamstow. All local residents welcome- to buy tickets see the link below.
Waltham Forest Coop Fundraiser: The keynote speaker at this event will be Former Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Ummuna MP and ticket prices include a three course indian meal.
You can find the link to buy tickets online here
or by contacting the organisers directly on coopcampaignse17@gmail.com
or ringing or texting the campaign's office 07957228019.
Sunday 23rd October- appearing on the Sky Murnaghan programme to discuss the situation in Calais
Tuesday 25th October - speaking at an event on tackling misogyny and hate crime organised by Nottingham University and then hosting the discussion on how to support the Yazidi community in their quest for justice following the actions of Daesh. See below for more details.
Friday 28th October- attending parliament to support the Homelessness Reduction bill and then speaking in Colchester at the Civic Oyster Festival
Sunday 30th October- participating in the We17 Community Cohesion Women's Dinner in support of the Forest Nightshelter - for more details and tickets please see below.
Many residents are concerned about what is happening in Iraq and Syria. As part of supporting those brutalised by Daesh, I will be hosting a parliamentary meeting in the House of Commons on Tuesday 25th October alongside local Walthamstow campaign 'UK Supports Yazidi Women and Girls'. The meeting will be to discuss what the UK government can do to help women and children who have escaped sexual slavery and torture at the hands of Daesh and are now living in unsafe refugee camps with little to no medical care or psychological support. For more information or to get involved please email eventsukyazidi@gmail.com
In the light of concerns about community cohesion and to promote and encourage women's leadership within Walthamstow, there will be a special We17 community dinner from 7pm on Sunday 30th October. This event is to bring women of all ages and all backgrounds together and to raise funds for our local homelessness night shelter, the Forest Nightshelter. I hope women in Walthamstow will be join me at this special evening to help break down barriers within our community - tickets are £10 each and this will take place at 455 Chingford Road. To book a ticket or find out more please contact the organisers Fatima 07552 611843 Roshan ben 07460 542172 and Ruquyya 07872 479069.
'Not a refugee problem but a political problem' - Stella Creasy MP in tonight's Standard
Susannah Butter writes in tonight's Evening Standard 'MP Stella Creasy has led the fight to bring the children of Calais to London. As the first wave to arrive sparks a row over age, she tells Susannah Butter why she will take the grief to get it right'
"What's happening in Calais is a legal process" says Creasy. "The children are being extensively checked. The idea that we've gone 'let's just let them all over and figure out what to do later' is not the case. It's important that when a process like this has been put in place, we acknowledge it and support it."
So why are the refugees overwhelmingly male? "The children that have come here so far are 'Dublin' kids, But a lot of the girls are Dubs so there are around 40 of them still in Calais, in limbo, waiting to be processed." She's referring to the EU Dublin III regulation, which allows a child to come to Britain if they have family here, and the Dubs amendment to the Children and Social Work Bill that allows unaccompanied children to be offered safe refuge in the UK if it is in their best interests. The Dubs amendment was passed in May but the infrastructure to enforce it is still being implemented."
Chuka Ummuna at Waltham Forest Co-op Party curry night November 3rd
Chuka Umunna Labour MP for Streatham joins Labour and Cooperative MP for Walthamstow Stella Creasy for a Curry evening hosted by Waltham Forest branch Cooperative Party to raise funds to support the party's local campaigning.
This is on Thursday 3rd November at Waltham Forest Community Hub 18A Orford Road E17 9LN (map).
Doors open at 8pm. There will be a three course curry meal (with vegetarian options), a donations bar and raffle.
Tickets are £25, with concessions for unwaged, £80 for groups of 4, and £150 for groups of 8.
Book: online at Billetto, by email, or by call / text to: 07957 228019
Monday 17th October- returning to parliament to continue the fight for child refugees
Tuesday 18th October - attending a memorial service. Please note my office will remain open for queries.
Thursday 20th October- taking part in a statutory instrument debate on the Misuse of Drugs Act and then speaking at the Northwood and Pinner Labour Party fundraiser
Friday 21st October- holding an appointment only residents advice surgery - to request an appointment please call 020 8521 1223.
Saturday 22nd October- running a session at the Why? Festival to encourage young people to take part in political campaigning. More details can be found here.
Stella Creasy MP, councillors Angie Bean, Richard Sweden, Peter Barnett, and Khevyn Limbajee met residents of Butterfields this afternoon to share the promising news about developments in negotiations over the future of the Butterfields estate. . .
"Breaking Walthamstow News: I'm pleased to now be able to announce that after several weeks of negotiations a deal has been agreed between Dolphin and the Butterfields E17 to enable Dolphin to purchase this estate, subject to contract. If completed, this deal will enable all the tenants to remain on the estate and end the threat of evictions as they will all become tenants of Dolphin. . . . "
Stella Creasy MP on Facebook.
Watch video footage on facebook here
Help the Butterfields residents by
welcoming Dolphin Living to Walthamstow @dolphinliving
and thanking RBS for their help with this matter @RBS
Tuesday 11th October - taking part in the Day of the Girl young mentoring project at the London Southbank
Wednesday 12th October- attending a discussion in parliament about human rights in Kashmir to support the call for independent investigations.
Friday 14th October- holding an appointment only residents advice surgery - to request an appointment please call 020 8521 1223.
Saturday 15th October- supporting action to help the child refugees.
Stella says: "Please note my diary is subject to change this week depending on events in the Calais Refugee Camps."
How You Can Help Safeguard Children in Calais - from Stella Creasy MP
Click here to watch this short video
The French Government have confirmed their intention to evict the whole of the Calais refugee camp- including over 1,000 children - by the end of October 2016. Please join our fight to safeguard them.
Right now our Government has the paperwork for 387 of these children who we believe have the right to be in the UK legally. Yet still they fail to act. Working across political parties we are proposing the Dub II law - an amendment to the Children and Social Work Bill which will force the Government to protect these children. Read more about this law here.
Here are four actions you can take to help these children right now:
Please consider making a donation to pay for mobile phone credit so we can keep in touch with them if they are evicted, and buy suitcases with wheels so they can try to keep any belongings they have. You can do so online here.
Please ask your MP to support the Dubs II amendment to the Children and Social Work Bill. You can find a suggested text below to use and if you get a positive or negative response please let us know!
Please contact members of the House of Lords online to ask them to support Dubs II amendment - you can find a list of twitter handles here
Please share this email with family and friends around the country to ask them to join us acting to help child refugees. I'm sending you this email as you have been in touch about how to help our campaign and shown support for my work to help child refugees - if you know others who would like to receive these updates on this campaign please ask them to email me to be added to this mailing list.
With your help we can ensure no child is left in the Calais Camps by Christmas.
Stella Creasy MP
Labour and Cooperative MP for Walthamstow
Suggested text for contacting MPs
As my MP I'm writing to you to ask you to pledge to safeguard child refugees in Europe.
The Dubs Amendment was passed by parliament in March 2016- it committed us to taking our fair share of the refugee children in Europe who have fled persecution. Yet six months on not a single child has come here under its protection – now there are over 1000 children alone in the Calais camp, which the French Government has said it will evict by the end of October 2016. These children live in tents with strangers, begging for food and hiding from traffickers for want of someone to process their paperwork. The French asylum system has ground to a halt- without action by the UK these children face a very uncertain future.
The Home Office currently has the paperwork for 387 children currently in the Calais refugee camps who have the right to be in the UK legally under either international law or the Dubs amendment. That's why a cross party group of MPs has tabled the Dubs II amendment to the Children and Social Work Bill to require the Government to put in place a safeguarding process for these children and so protect their welfare. This will be debated in the Lords in October 2016 and will then come to House of Commons for approval.
There is not a moment to lose in the fight to protect these children. When the French evicted part of the camp earlier this year, 100 children went missing. With your help we can ensure these children have a better future. Please let me know if you will pledge your support for this campaign- or let the office of Stella Creasy MP know if you wish to cosign this amendment.
Thank you for your support for this important campaign.
Statement on Refugees by Waltham Forest Council leader Chris Robbins
I'm sure that you, like me, have been appalled by the continuing tragedy in Syria and Calais, the children and families who have been left devastated by the worst humanitarian crisis in recent history and face another hard winter.
Having watched these terrible events unfold, I made a commitment last year that Waltham Forest would be prepared to house 10 Syrian refugee families by 2020.
Our support for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Waltham Forest is already doing a lot to help those in need. At the start of this year the Council provided support to 40 'Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children'; finding new homes and loving families in the borough for young people from countries like Syria and Afghanistan who have been left with nothing.
The ongoing conflicts around the world have meant that demand for our help has soared, and we now support almost three times as many Asylum seeking children as we did just in 2013, when 15 children were in our care. As a borough Waltham Forest have stepped up to manage this increase in demand, which has exceeded the average across the country over the last year – a 38% increase on last year in Waltham Forest, compared to 35% across the country.
The care that we provide does come at a cost, however. Each vulnerable child that we place with a foster carer costs the council in the region of £25,220 per child or young person fostered. This equates to a cost of over a £1,000,000 to place asylum seeking children with foster carers in Waltham Forest - £630,500more than in 2013.
Following our campaign last year 12 additional foster carer families in Waltham Forest came forward to provide homes for children, including those who have had to flee from their country. The Council has been instrumental in its support to ensure that these vulnerable children are cared for within the Waltham Forest community, as opposed to through external companies.
Including adults, the Council now continues to provide support for a total of 218 asylum seekers, which is 37 more vulnerable people than in 2011. On top of this we also provide homes and support for 159 children in 67 families with 'No Recourse to Public Funds' – vulnerable families who have come to this country but are not yet eligible for support from the government.
We know that there is always more that we can be doing, and that's why Waltham Forest has also committed to taking in an additional 20 Asylum Seeking children by 2020: five additional children per year. I am very proud that we are continuing to do our best to help these children despite the huge rise in demand and cost to the council.
Our asks of the Government
At the same time, we need to make sure that we receive the right level of support from the Government to allow us to properly support these vulnerable refugees, and ensure that the funding will cover essential costs such as suitable accommodation, social care support, assistance to register for schools and GPs and English language classes.
One of the hardest challenges is housing refugees in London, and sourcing private rented accommodation that is both available and affordable. The Government's funding is set at a flat rate across the country, which means that councils in areas of the country with low house prices and low demand for housing are allocated the same amount of money to support refugees as London councils where two bedroom flats can cost half a million pounds.
Unfortunately, due to the extremely high cost and low supply of temporary accommodation in the area, our financial projections are that accepting more families under the current scheme would leave the Council filling a funding gap of around £10,000 per refugee per year.
We know this isn't realistic if London is to do its bit. That is why we've worked with other boroughs and the Mayor of London's office to ask for a fairer deal, and why it is so important that we are given clarity as soon as possible from the Home Office and Mayor of London's office over whether councils in London are going to get the support they need to take in Syrian refugees.
Twenty eight of London's thirty three borough councils have still not been able to take in the refugees they want to rehouse, because they are awaiting final guidance around Government funding. I know that this is not acceptable and that's why I am pushing for a clear steer from the Government in the coming weeks. I will update you once we have this.
Cllr Chris Robbins
Monday 3rd October- please note my office will be closed for queries due to building works taking place.
Tuesday 4th October - participating in a briefing for Citizens UK volunteers on how to participate in the campaign to help child refugees.
Thursday 6th October- holding a residents advice surgery. This is by appointment only so please call 020 8521 1223 to request an appointment.
Saturday 8th October- taking part in the Old Vic " If I Had A Voice" debate to talk about attempts to silence women in the public domain.
Sunday 25th September - Wednesday 28th September- heading to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool to support Walthamstow's fight for safeguarding child refugees
Thursday 29th September - holding a public meeting for the somali community in Walthamstow about public services and then attending the Walthamstow Labour Party General Committee Meeting
Friday 30th September - holding an appointment only residents advice surgery. To book an appointment please call 020 8521 1223.
'Don't leave children to rot in the mud of Calais' – plea to Conference from Stella Creasy MP
Writing on the LabourList website, Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy has issued an urgent plea to delegates to the Labour Party Conference that Children must not be left to rot in the mud of Calais
"Five months ago Parliament voted to help unaccompanied child refugees in Europe. Leading this humanitarian call to offer them sanctuary against those who argued they were someone else's problem was our own Yvette Cooper and Lord Alf Dubs.
Alf himself came to Britain as a child as part of the kindertransport during the Second World war. Three weeks ago I sat with Alf in the camp in Calais and listened to testimony from children who have a right under this law to be here on our shores now. Children who had been in the camps for months, with only volunteers to protect their welfare. Children who face a French asylum system creaking at the seams and unable to even begin reviewing their needs for months. And contrary to stereotype, they were children. Young boys trying to act tough, with fear and despair in their tired eyes.
Despite the vote in May, still not one child has come here to Britain. Those who say providing this protection will simply encourage more to come ignore the reality that they are coming anyway. Running from conflict and war, whether in Eritrea, Sudan, Afghanistan, Syria or Ethopia because however grim the camps and the journey may be, to stay in their home is not an option either."
She continues . . .
"Conference delegates have the chance to show solidarity and unite the party in common voice saying not on our watch will children as young as eight be left to rot in the mud in Calais. Walthamstow CLP is asking for your support for our contemporary motion [see below] on ensuring no child is in the camps by Christmas in the priority ballot this weekend. Please ask your delegate to vote for this motion to be one of the four chosen for debate to put this issue on our party's national agenda too."
If you want to join our campaign and help secure the rights of these children please email:
stella@workingforwalthamstow.org.uk
Earlier this month Walthamstow Labour Party agreed the following 'contemporary motion' to go before Conference:
To Ensure No Child Refugees In Calais by Christmas
Walthamstow CLP notes:
There are now over 21 million refugees fleeing conflict and persecution across the world.
At least 3.5 million are children, and in the Calais 'jungle', the same distance from Walthamstow as Southampton, there are currently 850 unaccompanied children living in subhuman conditions.
Previous 'evictions' at the camp by French authorities have led to vulnerable young children going missing.
Britain has committed to take around 20,000 Syrian refugees. By comparison, Germany accepted over 1 million Syrian refugees in 2015.
Peace talks on 25th August in Geneva have failed to secure a ceasefire, despite the worsening humanitarian situation inside Aleppo and other regions inside Syria.
The work many in Walthamstow are doing to support refugees in Calais and commends this initiative.
Walthamstow CLP believes
The refugee crisis is a global humanitarian crisis on a scale not seen since WWII and we have a moral duty to act by giving asylum to those we are able to and leveraging our influence in the world to secure peaceful solutions to conflicts and support human rights.
In light of threats to conduct more 'evictions' at the Calais camps in September 2016, the Labour Party must lead urgent action to ensure the Dubs Amendment of March 2016 to help refugee children is honoured.
Calls on the Labour Party to back proposals to legislate to ensure no children are left in the Calais refugee camps by Christmas.
Saturday 17th September- meeting with volunteers from the Christian Kitchen which feeds our local homeless and joining the march for refugees in parliament square.
Sunday 18th September- supporting the Curryoake to raise funds for Walthamstow's Nightshelter.
Tuesday 20th September- meeting with Waltham Forest CCG to discuss the Healthy E17 campaign and patient participation. All welcome so if you would like to attend please reply to this email.
Wednesday 21st September- supporting the launch of the Cultural Map of Walthamstow at the William Morris Gallery
Saturday 24th September- supporting the #We17 campaign to celebrate Sonita's birthday and then helping with the Wonder Women of Walthamstow campaign showcase. Details below - all welcome.
Sunday 25th September- heading to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool.
Mark Carney, Stella Creasy,
Caroline Criado-Perez, Jane Austen
The Wonder Women of Walthamstow: Local Campaigners Showcase and Networking New Date + Caroline Criado Perez
Our Campaigns showcase for projects being run by women from the Walthamstow community has been changed to Saturday 24th September between 3.30pm to 5.30pm. We will now also be joined by special guest Caroline Criado-Perez who helped to secure women's representation on British bank notes and is a leading feminist campaigner.
This event will showcase projects tackling violence against women, supporting the Yazidi women in their quest for safety and justice and promoting good sexual health education and services for all. We'll hear first hand from local activists about their campaigns and crucially how you can support or join them.
This event will be held in central Walthamstow and is free to any woman from our community over the age of 14 - to help us with the logistics attendees are asked to RSVP by email for further details of this event including the venue. Although there won't be a creche, children are also welcome to attend - I'll be providing tea, coffee and juice but attendees are welcome to bring cake. I hope women in Walthamstow can join us in supporting these amazing campaigners and helping ensure their voices are heard.
15th Sept Polling day phonebank in Walthamstow for Labour's Philip Glanville as Hackney Mayor
Thursday September 15th is polling day in the Hackney Mayoral Election. Walthamstow Labour Party office will be running a phonebank to get out the vote for Labour candidate Philip Glanville from 17.30-20.30. All supporters very welcome to help us - 23 Orford Road London E17 9NL. Find us
http://www.hackney-labour.org.uk/philip-glanville
Information about the Leadership Election on ballot papers and reissues
Leadership election ballot papers and reissues
The Labour Party has sent the following message to constituency party secretaries
"By now, over 99% of eligible electors have received their ballots, excepting a tiny number of more complicated cases where checks have taken longer than anticipated.
Ballot reissues
If a member or supporter believes they have not received their ballot, email reissues can still be requested until 5pm on Monday 19 September. Reissues requested before 5pm on Monday 19 September will be dispatched by email by midnight Tuesday 20 September. The ballot closes at 12 noon on Wednesday 21 September and votes must be received by then to count. To be sure ballots arrive in time, it may be worth suggesting to people to go online to vote, which is possible even if people just receive a paper ballot.
The easiest way for members and supporters to request a reissue is by going to www.labour.org.uk/re-issue. They can also do this by calling 0345 092 2299 or by emailing: leadership2016@labour.org.uk.
Before requesting a reissue, please encourage members and supporters to double check their junk folder, search their inbox for an email from labourelections@electoralreform.co.uk with the subject line 'VOTE NOW: Labour Leadership Election' and add the email address to their contacts to stop it going to junk. Please also ask members and supporters to double check that the email address we hold for them is correct. You can do this for them by checking their record on MemberCentre.
Thank you once again for all your hard work and support throughout this process."
When 'Amber' means the Calais traffic(kers) ain't moving . . .
In parliamentary questions Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy asks Home Secretary Amber Rudd why the Government has done nothing about child refugees in Calais (click the channel 4 logo)
Sunday 11th September- attending Walthamstow Cricket Club Multi Faith Game at Greenaway Avenue. All Welcome
Tuesday 13th September - supporting the Women for Refugee Women campaign evening to call for the closure of Yarlswood Detention Centre
Thursday 15th September - helping campaign for the next Labour Mayor of Hackney in their Mayoral by-election. If you would like to join us please email.
Friday 16th September - Visiting local premises in partnership with Waltham Forest 4 Dogs and supporting the Quiz for Calais Fundraiser. See below for more details.
Saturday 17th September- meeting with volunteers from the Christian Kitchen which feeds our local homeless and holding a workshop to support women campaigners.
Dog Day Afternoon: Waltham Forest 4 Dogs Event Friday 16th September
Waltham Forest 4 Dogs is a local voluntary group of dog owners who have been working to support responsible dog ownership in our community and encourage Walthamstow to be a more dog friendly place. To support the great work done by this group in creating a database of businesses that welcome canine companions, on the early afternoon ofFriday 16th September I will be visiting different local dog friendly cafes and businesses involved in this scheme to encourage more to join - representatives of the Kennel Club will also be joining us to hear the views of local dog owners on dog control orders and to feature the work these volunteers in Walthamstow have been doing (plus they've promised to bring some goodies for local dog owners too!)
If you are a Walthamstow dog owner and interested in joining us next Friday please email my office to sign up .
Sunday 4th September-attending the More in Common events in Walthamstow and the Pak Cultural Society Pakistan Independence Day celebrations
Monday 5th September - parliament returns and I will be holding the Adjournment Debate on the future of Private Finance Initiatives and their impact on our public services. This is likely to be very late at night so please watch social media for updates on timing.
Tuesday 6th September - supporting proposals to extend parental leave entitlement to bereaved parents via a cross party private members bill.
Thursday 8th September - attending the Walthamstow Labour Party Special Meeting to discuss Labour Party Conference motions.
Saturday 10th September- supporting the opening of Lee Valley Rowing Clubs new facilities.
Stella Creasy MP: "We can't abandon refugee children – and that includes us, the politicians"
Writing in The Guardian online about the Calais Refugee camp Stella Creasy MP for Walthamstow says:
"The unaccompanied children at the Calais camp are just a fraction of the people fleeing violence worldwide. The UK must do more to help them . . . . .
When parliament passed the Alf Dubs amendment to help child refugees in April this year we trusted the government to put it into practice. But not a single child has yet come here under its auspices. When parliament returns on Monday we will table further new legislation to make good on our pledges and try to get these kids out of the camps by Christmas. Because all of us can do more to help those running from terror in their home nations than just shout at the sky – and that includes us, the politicians."
As part of a group from the constituency she is off to the Calais refugee camp this weekend delivering cars full of clothes and following others who have taken food to the camps. They all know that however well-intentioned such actions are, nevertheless they are like "shouting at the wind to stop blowing."
Brooke Road 'More in Common' & Play Street Sunday 4th September 3-5pm
A Brooke Road Labour party member writes: "The anti-racist organisation Hope Not Hate are organising a More In Common Weekend on 3rd & 4th September. The idea of the campaign is to highlight how much people from so many backgrounds have much more in common, than things that divide us. The idea is to encourage communities to come together, and the beauty is that in Walthamstow we already do this! On Brooke Road we recently saw this with how we responded to our flood. As part of the More in Common campaign Brooke Road residents are involved with 2 Community Events.
Brooke Road Play Street Sunday 4th September 3-5pm
For 2 hours every Sunday in the Summer traffic along our road to restricted to resident access only and everyone on Brooke Road, and their neighbours, are invited to come out and reclaim our street from traffic and enjoy each other's company. Kids can play together and adults can chat/clean their cars. Wherever people have come from and whatever our backgrounds are, once a month the community can meet up and get to know each other.
For those of us who regularly enjoy Play Street, none of this will be a surprise and our event will continue as normal. However, if you want to wear a football/sports shirt or indeed do anything to celebrate your cultural Heritage, it's, as always, very welcome.
Manual Instruction Centre Community Clean-Up Day 10am – 4pm
The Manual Instruction Centre is at last being reclaimed by our Community. To help this happen the Friends of the Manual Instruction Centre are organising a Community Clean-Up Day. We really need some volunteers to help out. Equipment and refreshments will be provided and all are welcome to come along (and enjoy Play Street from 3pm). Any questions please contact Twitter @E17_MIC / manualinstructioncentre@gmail.com
Welcome to Mini Holland Plant Beds - as part of the Manual Instruction Centre Clean-Up Day the new plant-beds in the traffic filter will need some planting." Email for more info
Friday 26th August- helping to host the Olympic homecoming party for Lutalo Muhammad in Walthamstow Town Centre at the Night Feast. All Welcome.
Monday 29th August- sorting donations of men's clothes to go to the Calais Refugee Camps. Details below of how you can help.
The Refugee Mens' Pantalonathon- Can You Help Pay for A Ticket for A Second Car?
Thank you to everyone who has been in touch so far to offer to help with donations for the refugees in Calais. Brilliantly, we have now received enough donations to require at least two vehicles to go to Calais and so I am appealing for donations of money to cover the cost of the transport of these items. You can donate men's clothes pr money for this onMonday 29th August at 23 Orford Road between 2-4pm.
A reminder too, that The Refugee Kitchen volunteers in Walthamstow are also seeking to take 2000 flapjacks to Calais for refugees in the next week as well. They are asking for donations of such bakes with no nuts, cut small, packed with clingfilm or foil between layers and in Tupperware or a clingfilmed box or shoe box. These can be delivered to the Italian Deli on Hoe Street, The Hornbeam Centre at the Bakers Arms or Debbie Bliss's shop on Orford Road 27/28/29/30 August with the cut off 5pm on the 30th to make the Calais visit.
Finally, you can also help the Side by Side Caravan project which is renovating caravans for refugees to live in and kitting them out by buying items for these caravans from Amazon. The link to be able to do this is here.
Monday 22nd August - meeting with Waltham Forest Council to feedback on the management of social services cases.
Tuesday 23rd August- holding a residents only advice surgery
Thursday 25th August- working with campaigners on the case for reforming PFI and PF2 ahead of parliamentary debate on 5 September.
Monday 29th August- sorting out donations of men's clothes for the Calais refugee camps. Please see below for how you can help.
The Refugee Men's Pantalonathon - How, What and Where You Can Donate in E17
Thank you to everyone who has been in touch so far to offer to help with donations for the refugees in Calais and our next Walthamstow action day. We are focusing this time on helping collect clothes for men at the camp, ahead of the autumn. The Help Refugees Warehouse in Calais is desperately short of small and medium men's clothes and is also asking for unused underwear for refugee men or donations of money to purchase underwear for them.
All this coming week 22-26th August you can drop off donations of these items or money towards them at my office at 23 Orford Road between 9.30am and 6pm. Thank you to the Higham Hill Hub who have also offered to collect items via the Homemade Cafe and Patisserie - 311 Higham Hill Rd from 10am to 5pm. Finally, you can also drop off donations via 123 Salop Road by prior appointment. Please email and we will put you in touch with Abigail to arrange delivery. Please do also share the details of where and what to donate these items with other local residents.
The Refugee Kitchen volunteers in Walthamstow are also seeking to take 2000 flapjacks to Calais for refugees in the next week as well. They are asking for donations of such bakes with no nuts, cut small, packed with clingfilm or foil between layers and in Tupperware or a clingfilmed box or shoe box. These can be delivered to the Italian Deli on Hoe Street, The Hornbeam Centre at the Bakers Arms or Debbie Bliss's shop on Orford Road 27/28/29/30 August with the cut off 5pm on the 30th to make the Calais visit.
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Question: Why are the Himalayan rivers perennial? Why are peninsular rivers seasonal?
Ans. Himalayan rivers have their source in the glaciers and snow fields. Hence they are perennial. For example Ganga from Gangotri glacier and Yamuna from Yamunotri glacier. The peninsular rivers are seasonal as they depends entirely on monsoonrains. For example Godavari, Narmada, Krishna, etc.
Question : What do you mean by watershed development?
Ans. The watershed is a basin of a tributary and the watershed development is the integrated development of small natural unit area. This is a holistic approach which includes moisture conservation, water harvesting, afforestation, horticulture, pasture development, etc.
Question : How did Non-Cooperation movement start with participation of middle class people in the cities ? Explain its impact on the economic front.
Why was Congress reluctant to allow women to hold any position of authority within the organisation ? How did women participate in Civil Disobedience Movement ? Explain.
Question : "The 'Print Revolution' had transformed the lives of people changing their relationship to information and knowledge." Analyse the statement.
Question : The great Plains have more railways than the Himalayan mountains. Why?
Ans : The distribution pattern of the railway network is influenced by physiographic, economic and administrative factors. The Great Plains of India has leveled land, high population density, rich agriculture and greater industrial activity.
Question : Describe the problem of unemployment in India with special reference to unemployment in rural areas.
Ans. When economy fails to generate enough jobs, the unemployment occurred is called structural unemployment. This is the result of the backwardness and low rate of economic development of a country.


As the SKWAWKBOX showed at the beginning of January, the Guardian claimed that Jeremy Corbyn was 'under pressure' from Labour members to come out in favour of a so-called "people's vote".
This was apparently part of the ongoing centrist propaganda attempt to create a perception that Labour under Corbyn is losing support – a perception that is entirely fake news, as has been repeatedly demonstrated over the course of this month.
Rather than correct its misleading article, the Guardian moved the news to its front page.
We are concerned that your article of 8 January, 'Labour grassroots step up anti-Brexit pressure' is misleading about grassroots pressure in Labour for changing the party policy.
Only at the end of the piece is it mentioned that far more Labour members support the party's current policy than oppose it. So the truth is that the majority of the grassroots are not stepping up pressure on Jeremy Corbyn at all, just a minority.
Jeremy Corbyn is providing serious leadership on the issue, ensuring that Labour is relentlessly and very effectively opposing both May's Brexit deal and a no deal. To date this is not being seriously reported by the Guardian.
The Guardian did not publish the letter.
At the time of the article in question, the SKWAWKBOX described the Guardian as a 'brazen example of mainstream fake news' about Labour's Brexit position, but only one of many. It seems it is cowardly as well as brazen.
The Guardian is poison. It would rather have another Tory government than a socialist Labour government under Corbyn.
Yet another statistic? What are the criteria for polling people? And what we're the exact questions?
More importantly, should YouGov be allowed to do political polling in the first place, given that anyone can join and claim to be a Labour supporter/member?
The Guardian is an Establishment Propaganda fake newspaper. Look at the way the treat Assange.
They have a deep hatred of Jeremy Corbyn and will do almost anything to stop a Corbyn led Labour Party. So don't be surprised or upset.
The Guardian is not a left leaning Labour supporting paper. It is part of the Evil Empire's Propaganda Machine.
I applaud the general gist of the effort to counter the notion that Party members are universally in favour of a second referendum.
But I cannot concur with the approval of Jeremy's position on the EU.
First, "No Deal" is the only option which restores UK sovereignty over public ownership and State Aids. It is therefore the only socialist option.
Secondly, the rejection of "No Deal" means the negation of all bargaining power on the part of a British government, including a Corbyn Labour government. Why should the EU give Labour anything it wants in negotiations – for instance on those governmental freedoms over public ownership and State Aids or control of migration policy – if it takes No Deal off the table? It means accepting whatever the utterly neoliberal EU wants.
Thirdly, there seems to be a woeful lack of knowledge about the Customs Union. It does NOT just mean free movement of goods with the EU Member States plus a common customs tariff with the rest of the world. It is difficult to imagine that a Customs Union would be acceptable to the EU without the level playing field of EU control of public ownership and state aids.
But in any event the Customs Union ALSO means adhesion to the Common Commercial Policy with the rest of the world including all the agreements which the EU makes with non EU countries. This means the CETA. It would have meant the TTIP had that agreement not come to grief, so it would mean any future successful version of the TTIP. These are agreements which tip the governance of all countries in favour of corporations and away from governments.
Jeremy having no doubt marched and demonstrated and spoken against CETA and the others it would be ironic if he made such agreements part of the permanent law of the UK by virtue of the customs union.
Clearly, Danny, you know what 'No Deal' means.
But the latest ICM poll shows that a significant proportion of those polled confuse 'No Deal' with 'Remain' – i.e. – things stay the same.
A frightening level of political misunderstanding of even a basic idea.
Correction, it was a Sky Twitter poll following up on the ICM poll.
Danny, TTIP collapsed the moment the Brexit result came through.
Have you still not got that it was the UK Government that was pushing this within the EU?
Yes – it was opposition across Europe that scuppered TTIP.
I'm afraid the 'No Deal' scenario as a realistic pain-free option is a mirage. You can't just abandon the past 40 years of collective agreements without massive disruption.
Jacob Rees Mogg will be fine, but the ordinary punter will suffer the consequences of this. That's not project fear – it's just rational analysis of what is entailed – and with experience of the massive incompetence of this government to back up the point.
The country will not regain any effective sovereignty (remember public sell-offs have been home-grown – not especially propelled by EU legislation, and can be changed even within the framework with creativity and imagination). In fact, the imposition of TTIP-type agreements will be much more likely, given the weak negotiating position of a fake sovereignty.
Err, it was halted by Donald Trump.
….and Europe is still in negotiations, albeit secret ones, with America for a similar neoliberal deal. A lot of people in Europe aren't happy but European governments love it.
The EU is eager and ready to hop into bed with TTIP. There are calls for it to be reinvigorated which is not surprising considering the EU is predominantly a trade body.
My instinct is still remain & reform – but if the only way to get a Corbyn-led Labour government is with Brexit – even a no deal crash out – OK.
I think we'll regret leaving, but OK.
I expect many of those polled might feel the same way.
Not expecting pollsters to risk asking that question though.
May's deal, no deal or remain are all disastrous if they keep her in power.
Anyone noticed anything about the figures in the first column?
I have reservations about Off Guardian. Its politics is confused and all over the place. I've just read one of its articles which seemed to make a meal of conflating the word 'socialist' with the Nazis. I don't trust Off Guardian.
NO POLLING COMPANY HAS CONTACTED THE LABOUR PARTY WITH REGARD TO POLLING IT'S MEMBERS. Labour couldn't give them that information, it would breach the data protection act.
YouGov is totally reliant on people joining and self-publicising their political affiliation.


On Saturday 30 November 2013 ETHC supported the EFKS New Vision Expo which was held in the centre of the Mangere Town Centre. There was a massive crowd there to enjoy the live performances and free giveaways.
Clinical Family Navigator Zhaobo Yang performed free blood pressure and blood sugar tests for the crowds, and together with Community Liaison Manager promoted awareness of rheumatic fever.
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A VIP Booth ticket package is available for $150 that includes entry for 6 people (make sure everyone arrives with the ticket holder!), 1 bottle of champagne, and VIP entry.


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Biostasis
The Science of Cryonics
What is cryonics?
Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics
Medical Biostasis Protocol
Tag: Robert Freitas
The Future of Aging: Pathways to Human Life Extension
This book review was originally published in Cryonics magazine, 1st Quarter, 2011.
Editor-in-chief, cryobiologist, and aging researcher Gregory M. Fahy and his associate editors Michael D. West, L. Stephen Cole and Steven B. Harris have compiled what might be the most impressive collection of articles on interventive gerontology to date in their 866 page collection The Future of Aging: Pathways to Human Life Extension . The book is divided into 2 parts. The first part includes general, scientific, social and philosophical perspectives on life extension. The second part is a collection of proposed interventions, which are organized in chronological order, starting with the (projected) earliest interventions first. Of course, such an organization of the materials necessitates a subjective estimation of when such technologies will be available and is bound to be controversial. The collection closes with a number of appendices about contemporary anti-aging funding and projects (SENS, Manhattan Beach Project).
I have read the book with the following two questions in mind:
1. Which approaches for increasing the maximum life span show clear near-term potential?
2. Is meaningful rejuvenation possible without advanced cell repair technologies?
What follows are my comments on selected chapters of the book.
I cannot say that I am a big fan of Ray Kurzweil's work. His general introduction to life extension, "Bridges to Life," co-written with Terry Grossman, starts out on a restrained note, discussing the benefits of caloric restriction, exercise, basic supplementation, and predictive genomics. But it then ratchets up into bold claims about the future that rest on controversial premises: about biology and health following the same path as information technology; about the technical feasibility of molecular nanotechnology; and about the nature of mind. One thing that remains a mystery to me is how such an accelerating pace of anti-aging technologies could be validated considering the relatively long life expectancy of humans. Presumably we are expected to adopt a lot of these technologies based on their theoretical merits, success in animal studies, or short-term effects in humans.
Associate Editor Stephen Cole contributes a chapter on the ethical basis for using human embryonic stem cells. I suspect that his argument in favor of these therapies relies on adopting a definition of personhood that has more far-reaching, and more controversial, consequences than just permitting the use of human embryonic stem cells. One of the most disconcerting aspects of the bioethical debate on stem cell research is that many of its advocates seem to feel that if they do not see an ethical case against it, government funding for such research should be permitted. In essence, this means that opponents of embryonic stem cell research are obliged to financially support it as well. This is a recipe for further aggravating what has already become a passionate political debate.
As someone with relatively limited exposure to the biogerontology literature I should be cautious in singling out one technical contribution for high praise, but Joshua Mitteldorf's chapter on the evolutionary origins of aging is one of the best and most inspiring articles in the field of aging research I have read and worth the hefty price of the book alone. Mitteldorf outlines a case for the theory that evolution has selected aging for its own sake and presents experimental findings that falsify other explanations for aging such as wear-and-tear and metabolic trade-offs. That aging is firmly under genetic control may appear the most pessimistic finding in terms of the prospects of halting aging but in fact allows for the manipulation of a number of selected upstream interventions that can inhibit or mitigate these programs.
It is clear from this ambitious book that cryobiologist Greg Fahy also has a strong interest in biogerontology but nothing prepared me for the encyclopedic knowledge that he displays in his lengthy chapter on the precedents for the biological control of aging. Fahy's chapter further corroborates the view that aging is under genetic control. He also reviews a great number of beneficial mutations and interventions in animals and humans that can extend lifespan. Reading all these inspiring examples, however, I found myself faced with the same kind of despair as when reading about all the neuroprotective interventions in stroke and cardiac arrest. There is great uncertainty how such interventions would fare in humans (or other animals) and, more specific to the objective of human life extension, how we ourselves can ascertain that there are no long-term adverse consequences. Fahy does not run away from the most formidable challenge of all, rejuvenation of the brain without losing identity-critical information, but points out that identity-critical information might be retained despite the turnover and replacement of components that a meaningful life extension program for the brain would most likely require. Fortunately, people who make cryonics arrangements can feel a little better about this issue because their survival is not dependent on safe technologies becoming available in their lifetime.
Zheng Sui's report on using high potency granulocytes to cure cancer in mice is one of the more exciting chapters in the book and a fine example of the role of chance discoveries in biomedical research (Zheng by accident discovered a mouse innately resistant to cancer). With substantial support of the Life Extension Foundation and other private donors, Sui is aggressively pursuing Leukocyte Infusion Therapy (LIFT) human trials instead of pursuing the torturous path of trying to illuminate the biochemical and molecular mechanisms that drive the successful results in mice. I should mention that a unique concern for cryonicists is that eliminating cancer in the absence of other effective anti-aging technologies could increase the likelihood of dying as result of identity-threatening insults such as cardio-vascular complications, ischemic stroke, or Alzheimer's disease.
I must admit being somewhat disappointed in the chapter about "evolutionary nutrigenomics" by Michael Rose and his collaborators. Michael Rose has always struck me as one of the more level-headed and empirical aging researchers, and his work with fruit flies is a resounding demonstration of using evolutionary tools to investigate and combat aging. His short contribution to this book reads more as a quickly thrown together status update of their company, Genescient, than a rigorous treatment of the issues. Dispersed throughout the text are a number of interesting perspectives on alternative approaches to aging research and the validation of anti-aging interventions, but these issues are not discussed in much detail. Michael Rose's work is of great interest, but this chapter is neither a good introduction to his work nor an in-depth treatment of the practical applications of his research.
Anthony Atala's chapter, "Life Extension by Tissue and Organ Replacement," is a fascinating update on the current status and potential of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. Unlike most of the chapters in this book, the author reports a number of examples of successful clinical applications. It is a good example of how working with nature (instead of trying to improve upon it) can have meaningful near-term benefits. Unfortunately, there is no discussion of the progress in regenerative medicine for the brain. Obviously, such strategies cannot involve a simple replacement of the brain with a newly grown brain but selected repair technologies can play an important role in brain-damaging diseases and insults. The inclusion of "life extension" in the chapter title seems somewhat artificial to me because there is no distinct treatment about how tissue and organ replacement will be expected to contribute to life extension. Additionally, there is little discussion of contemporary artificial and mechanical alternatives to organs (or biological structural components) in this chapter, or in any other chapters in the book, which I think is a minor oversight.
Robert J. Shmookler Reis and Joan E. McEwen contribute a chapter about identifying genes that can extend longevity. Their discussion of the prospects for mammals includes the sobering observation that "many of the gains we can attain by a single mutation in the simpler organism may already have been incorporated in the course of achieving our present longevities." Then again, unless aging is firmly under genetic control in simple organisms but the result of wear and tear in humans there should be (unique) approaches in humans that should confer similar benefits as well.
The publication of this book came to my attention when I learned about Robert Freitas's contribution, "Comprehensive Nanorobotic Control of Human Morbidity (PDF)," so I was quite interested in reading this final chapter of the book. I am not qualified to comment on the technical aspects of his vision of nanotechnology. I think it is fair to say, though, that if resuscitation of cryonics patients is possible they will most likely be resuscitated in a future that has nanomedical capabilities resembling those that are outlined in this chapter. For this reason alone, this chapter should be of great interest to readers of this magazine. Of particular interest is the discussion of cell repair technologies and brain rejuvenation, a topic of great interest to cryonics. Freitas devotes considerable space discussing how anti-aging strategies like SENS can be achieved with medical nanorobots but the chapter falls short of offering a distinct exposition of a nanomedical approach to aging and rejuvenation. With such profound molecular capabilities one would think that such an approach would not just consist of updating existing biotechnological approaches to eliminate aging related damage with more powerful tools. I think that the distinct capabilities that molecular technologies have to offer would have benefitted from a more extensive discussion of their transformative capabilities. In particular, the section on nanorobot-medicated rejuvenation could have benefitted from a more rigorous treatment of the question of how these interventions would produce actual rejuvenation. Rejuvenation will be a practical requirement for most cryonics patients and it would be interesting to see a more detailed technical discussion of this topic.
Robert Freitas introduces the phrase NENS (Nanomedically Engineered Negligible Senescence) for his vision of how the goals of SENS can be achieved through nanomedicine. This raises an important question: is there any reason to believe that the timeline for "conventional" SENS will be different from the timeline for mature molecular medicine? It is hard to tell, but one could argue that the development of mature nanotechnology is more comprehensive than any strategies designed to deal with the causes or effects of the aging process. So why not just fund the work of biological and mechanical molecular nanotechnologists to accelerate meaningful re-design of the human organism? I think that the best answer is that our current state of knowledge does not justify giving a privileged position to any particular approach and having these visions of the future compete may be the best hope that we have for seeing meaningful rejuvenation and the resuscitation of cryonics patients in the future.
If there is one serious omission in this impressive collection of articles it is a more comprehensive chapter on the topic of biomarkers of aging in humans. As reiterated throughout this review, the gold standard and most rigorous determination of the efficacy of anti-aging therapies and interventions is to empirically determine whether they increase maximum human lifespan. For obvious reasons, most medical professionals and healthcare consumers are pressed to make decisions based on less rigorous criteria and the development of a set of reliable biomarkers of aging is highly desirable. Of course, the most rigorous case for successful biomarkers would require the same kind of long-term studies, leading to an infinite regress problem. How to break out of this predicament while retaining a framework to make rational decisions about life extension technologies is not a trivial problem and can be the topic of a whole new volume of articles. Interestingly enough, one of the most insightful perspectives on this issue is given in Appendix A by SENS researcher Michael Rae when he points out that therapies aimed at rejuvenation can be tested at much more rapid timescales than therapies to retard the aging process or increase the maximum lifespan.
Michael Rae also notes that SENS's "engineering heuristic" is well established in other fields of biomedicine. It is certainly the case that aging research could benefit from a stronger emphasis on solving problems and repairing damage instead of completely trying to understand the underlying pathologies but it also needs to be pointed out that the engineering approach has not fared much better in areas of research that are notoriously resistant to effective solutions such as neuroprotection in stroke. Ultimately, the SENS approach cannot completely escape studying the mechanisms and metabolic pathways involved when treatments are compared and side-effects are studied. In this sense, the difference between SENS and alternative approaches is a matter of degree, not principle.
I think that the editors are justified in claiming that the prospects for solving the aging challenge have never looked better. A close inspection of all the chapters, however, shows that no significant interventions in the aging process in humans are available now, and I doubt they will become available in the near future. And even if the aging process can be eliminated, there will still be medical conditions and accidents that require placing a person in cryostasis until effective treatment is available. For the foreseeable future there is good reason to agree with Thomas Donaldson's advice* that making cryonics arrangements is the most fundamental and sensible decision one can make in order to reap the benefits of powerful future life extension therapies.
*Thomas Donaldson – Why Cryonics Will Probably Help You More Than Antiaging, Physical Immortality 2(4) 28-29 (4th Q 2004)
Baby boomers confront the reaper
One question that is going to be of great interest is how aging baby boomers will confront aging and death. Where previous generations have found peace in religion and silent resignation, there are reasons to believe that this generation will not be so complacent. The baby boom generation, or at least those who have shaped contemporary culture and politics, have been more secular and less inclined to accept the constraints of nature (as evidenced by the obligatory contempt for views that allow some degree of biological determinism). In a review for the Financial Times, Stephen Cave reports on no fewer than four new books on the topic of death:
In universities around the world, professors are now arguing that the Dark Angel deserves more respect. Contrary to Epicurus, Death is justly to be feared, say today's academicians – the common folk had it right all along; we should humbly hand him back his scythe and then run for our lives. Four new books insist that we are right to panic when the reaper comes – and that our very civilisation depends upon it.
There is a lot at stake here. Will the dominant opinion become that death gives "meaning" to life, or will death be seen as an outrage that can be pushed back by modern science? As is evident from this review, both perspectives are represented in these books. It almost seems obligatory for philosophers who write about death to present contrived arguments against immortality. Stephen Cave even talks about the "paradox of immortality," "the fact of death imbues our life with passion and urgency, but it is that very passion for life that makes death tragic." But what is a paradox (even a "fact") to some, is the lack of imagination of a rationalist philosopher to others. It is hard to imagine that (secular) academic pro-death views will persist when medical science has advanced enough to make these rationalizations less important, but it cannot hurt to be vigilant and turn the tools of logic against them.
Herbert Marcuse, one of the heroes of the protest generation that is currently ruling America, made an astute observation about the "ideology of death":
In the history of Western thought, the interpretation of death has run the whole gamut from the notion of a mere natural fact, pertaining to man as organic matter, to the idea of death as the telos of life, the distinguishing feature of human existence. From these two opposite poles, two contrasting ethics may be derived; On the one hand, the attitude toward death is stoic or skeptic acceptance of the inevitable, or even the repression of the thought of death by life; on the other hand the idealistic glorification of death is that which gives "meaning" to life, or is the precondition for the "true" life of man.
The authoritarian economic and political ideas of Marxists like Marcuse have little to offer to those inclined to critical thinking, but it is time for baby boomers to face the prospect of radical life extension and engage in direct action to fight the grim reaper.
Revival of cryonics patients literature
There is a growing literature that discusses the technical aspects of revival of cryonics patients. The following list of the published literature was compiled by Ralph Merkle and Robert Freitas and published as an appendix of their article on molecular nanotechnology in Cryonics Magazine 2008-4:
Robert C.W. Ettinger, The Prospect of Immortality, Doubleday, NY, 1964
Jerome B. White, "Viral Induced Repair of Damaged Neurons with Preservation of Long-Term Information Content," Second Annual Cryonics Conference, Ann Arbor MI, 11 April 1969
Michael G. Darwin, "The Anabolocyte: A Biological Approach to Repairing Cryoinjury," Life Extension Magazine (July-August 1977):80-83
Thomas Donaldson, "How Will They Bring Us Back, 200 Years From Now?" The Immortalist 12 (March 1981):5-10
K. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology, Anchor Press/Doubleday, New York, 1986, pp. 133-138
Brian Wowk, "Cell Repair Technology," Cryonics 9(July 1988)
Mike Darwin, "Resuscitation: A Speculative Scenario for Recovery," Cryonics 9(July 1988):33-37
Thomas Donaldson, "24th Century Medicine," Analog 108(September 1988):64-80 and Cryonics 9(December 1988)
Ralph C. Merkle, "Molecular Repair of the Brain," Cryonics 10(October 1989):21-44
Gregory M. Fahy, "Molecular Repair Of The Brain: A Scientific Critique, with a Response from Dr. Merkle," Cryonics 12(February 1991):8-11 & Cryonics 12(May 1991); "Appendix B. A 'Realistic' Scenario for Nanotechnological Repair of the Frozen Human Brain," in Brian Wowk, Michael Darwin, eds., Cryonics: Reaching for Tommorow, Alcor Life Extension Foundation, 1991
Ralph C. Merkle, "The Technical Feasibility of Cryonics," Medical Hypotheses 39(1992):6-16
Ralph C. Merkle, "The Molecular Repair of the Brain," Cryonics 15(January 1994):16-31 (Part I) & Cryonics 15(April 1994):20-32 (Part II)
Ralph C. Merkle, "Cryonics, Cryptography, and Maximum Likelihood Estimation," First Extropy Institute Conference, Sunnyvale CA, 1994
Ralph Merkle, "Algorithmic Feasibility of Molecular Repair of the Brain," Cryonics 16(First Quarter 1995):15-16
Michael V. Soloviev, "SCRAM Reanimation," Cryonics 17(First Quarter 1996):16-18
Mikhail V. Soloviev, "A Cell Repair Algorithm," Cryonics 19(First Quarter 1998):22-27
Robert A. Freitas Jr., "Section 10.5 Temperature Effects on Medical Nanorobots," in Nanomedicine, Volume I: Basic Capabilities, Landes Bioscience, Georgetown, TX, 1999, pp. 372-375
Ralph C. Merkle, Robert A. Freitas Jr., "A Cryopreservation Revival Scenario using MNT," Cryonics 30(Fourth Quarter 2008).
Robert Freitas discusses the future of nanomedicine
Nanotechnology idea-man Robert Freitas, Jr. has published an article in the January 2009 issue of Life Extension Magazine providing a tutorial in nanomedicine and documenting its progression toward real-world application.
In "Nanotechnology and Radically Extended Life Span," Freitas describes several theoretical medical nanorobots, such as the microbiovore, which would "act like an artificial mechanical white cell, seeking out and digesting unwanted pathogens including bacteria, viruses, or fungi in the bloodstream." In addition to fighting infection, medical nanorobots could invigorate old or diseased cells by replacing chromosomes with fresh new ones, correcting the cellular damage and mutations that lead to aging.
Freitas and colleagues have performed many analyses and simulations of the types of technologies and tools that will be necessary to create these nanoscale medical robots, filing two patents for the mechanosynthesis of nanorobots. Together with Ralph Merkle, Freitas founded the Nanofactory Collaboration to "coordinate a combined experimental and theoretical R&D program to design and build the first working diamandoid nanofactory." This effort has involved many collaborations with researchers from nine different organizations and four countries, and has resulted in a dozen academic articles.
Now Freitas is eager to test his theories with the help of scanning probe microscopist Philip Moriarty, who is attempting to build several of Freitas' mechanosynthesis tooltips. Presumably, the creation of working tooltips will lead directly to their intended purpose: the creation of nanorobots. Freitas hopes to manufacture medical nanorobots that can contribute to radical life extension therapies by the 2020s.
Of course, most cryonicists are of the opinion that nanotechnological interventions will be necessary for the reversal of aging and disease in cryopreserved patients. As we move closer to reversible cryopreservation with improved stabilization protocol and cryoprotectant solutions, perhaps the maturation of nanomedicine and cryonics will coincide.
In the past Alcor has supported Freitas' work at the expense of supporting research that could improve the quality of its cryopreservation procedures for existing members. It is therefore encouraging to learn that the Life Extension Foundation has contributed money to support Freitas' work on nanomedicine.
Warm biostasis through nanotechnology
One concern about chemical fixation as a low cost alternative to cryonics is that current fixatives may not be able to permanently fix all biomolecules that are important to preserve the identity of the person. A related concern is that postmortem delays may not permit adequate perfusion of the brain, resulting in pockets of decomposed tissue. On this issue, biostasis at cryogenic temperatures (cryonics) has a distinct advantage because extreme cold will also preserve tissues that were not, or were poorly, penetrated by the cryoprotectant agent.
But even if cryoprotectant toxicity will be overcome to enable reversible vitrification of humans, the procedures of cryoprotectant perfusion, cryogenic cooldown, long term care, rewarming, and resuscitation may often involve (unintended) imperfections that will require advanced cell repair technologies for successful resuscitation.
Perhaps those same advanced technologies could produce a form of biostasis that avoids the crude consequences of contemporary chemical fixation by making precise modifications within and between cells to arrest metabolism and decomposition.
Looking for discussion of this idea, Brian Wowk pointed this writer to Eric Drexler who envisioned such a form of warm biostasis in Engines of Creation. In chapter 7 (section 5) Drexler calls this form of warm biostasis "anesthesia plus:"
To see how one approach would work, imagine that the blood stream carries simple molecular devices to tissues, where they enter the cells. There they block the molecular machinery of metabolism – in the brain and elsewhere – and tie structures together with stabilizing cross-links. Other molecular devices then move in, displacing water and packing themselves solidly around the molecules of the cell. These steps stop metabolism and preserve cell structures.
This procedure would produce a state in which the person will appear to be dead (and warm) for all practical purposes:
If a patient in this condition were turned over to a present-day physician ignorant of the capabilities of cell repair machines, the consequences would likely be grim. Seeing no signs of life, the physician would likely conclude that the patient was dead, and then would make this judgment a reality by "prescribing" an autopsy, followed by burial or burning.
Such a form of warm biostasis would not only produce a true molecular alternative to cryonics, it would also enable long-duration space travel and could be employed as a means to provide trauma care in emergency situations. These kind of applications of molecular nanotechnology are extremely advanced and, as a result, literature, either fiction or non-fiction, about them is virtually non-existent. It seems that the first rigorous treatment of cellular and whole-body warm biostasis will be published in Robert Freitas' Nanomedicine Volume IIB and Nanomedicine Volume III (personal correspondence).
Perhaps the future of biostasis will be an advanced form of chemical fixation after all.
Biostasis 2020
Cryopreservation With Dignity
Nightmare of a Cryonicist
"Suspended Animation" in the Popular Press
1st Alcor New York Science Symposium
The Circle of Willes in Cryonics Perfusion
Biostasis.com
Good Cryonics is Local
Hybrid Standby Infrastructure
Why Don't You Start With Standby First?
Fight Aging!
A Few More Mammalian Species Found to Exhibit Amyloid-β and Tau Pathology
Klotho Links Inflammation, Salt Sensitivity, Hypertension and Mortality in Aging
A Hypoxia Mimetic Drug Improves the Bone Marrow Environment to Treat Osteoporosis
The 2020 Year End Fundraiser Brought in More than $2 Million for the SENS Research Foundation
A Continued Focus on Metformin, a Demonstrably Poor Approach to Treating Aging
Senescent Cells Provoke Excessive Sympathetic Nerve Fiber Growth, with Harmful Consequences
KAT7 Inhibition via Gene Therapy Reduces Cellular Senescence in the Liver and Extends Life in Mice
Targeting TGFβ to Treat Fibrotic Disease
Predicting Alzheimer's Disease via Detection of Misfolded Amyloid-β in a Blood Sample
Looking Forward to the Longevity Industry in 2021
21st Century Medicine
3Scan
Alcor Life Extension Foundation
Alcor News
Ben Best's Cryonics Page
Brain Preservation Foundation
Chronosphere
Cryonics Institute
European Biostasis Foundation
FDAReview
Future of Humanity Institute
Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
Less Dead
Safar Center for Resuscitation Research
SENS Foundation
Society for Cryobiology


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