X-Message-Number: 16248 Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 07:03:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Best <> Subject: Re: INC History [was CryoNet #16233; Re: How PayPal works ..] On Wed, 09 May 2001, Kitty Antonik wrote: > > Message #16233 > > Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 20:54:23 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Ben Best <> > > Subject: Re: How PayPal works, a little more detail, and could work very well , indeed > > > I'm not sure if this would be necessary for PayPal, and > > I'm not sure about opening a business account for INC at this time. To > > put the matter delicately, relations between Paul Wakfer and myself are > > currently very "strained". I don't have access to the INC website or > > e-mail address. > > This last statement deserves to be corrected. Ben Best was given all > the .html files for the INC website. Those related to the research were > in the process of being updated. He was told that he could have access > to the website for whatever purposes he wished; no inquiry has been > forthcoming. While an e-mail address for INC is probably possible > through the server housing INC, such was never used by Paul. > > As a correction to a previous Cryonet post by Ben, he was provided with > hard and soft copies of *all* records for INC from the time that Paul > Wakfer assumed the Presidency from Thomas Donaldson plus whatever > records Paul received from Thomas. *Nothing* was retained by Paul. In > addition, Paul offered some verbal history and answered those questions > that Ben raised at the time of the presidency transferal; all the > history of INC is contained within the documentation that Ben has. > Claims by Ben of not having the INC history can only be because he has > not read it (and ask clarifying questions) because HSCP is to end in > June - a reasonable thing to do. Insinuations of not *having* the > history is at least misleading. These statements are true. Paul went to some trouble to insure that I received all of the INC files and records. It is a massive amount of material and I have only scratched the surface of going through it and I would frankly rather not have to -- I have so many other demands on my time. As I said, I only took on the job of Presidency of INC with the greatest of reluctance. I have done a lot of work on INC -- but mostly on fundraising, administrative tasks and trying to disseminate the scientific value of the project. I have spent very little time going through records. Probably information on the INC website and passwords is in the material I have been given. > No "strained" relations exist with Paul towards Ben in regard to INC; > Paul continues to be available to answer any further questions, to give > advice if asked, to immediately transmit to Ben whatever arrives at the > INC mailing address, and to sign any checks for INC that Ben asks him to > sign. I have never seen Paul more angry with me than he was a couple of weeks ago -- over issues unrelated to INC. And part of the problem is that I simply do not want to deal with large doses of Paul's anger and try to avoid it -- both in personal contact and in written form. If this is a personal defect of mine, so be it. I never claimed to be perfect. Paul is a person of integrity, and he has not let bad feelings get in the way of a responsibility to INC that he still feels. He has helped with INC problems & issues when needed and probably would help me with INC problems related to PayPal if I wanted to get involved. So it was completely a matter of my own discomfort which has motivated my reluctance to ask him questions. And concerning PayPal, I must apologize to all interested but I do not have the intelligence or the time now to make a decision to use PayPal which I could feel comfortable with -- especially involving INC. If INC/HSCP were not so quickly coming to a close and there way the possibility of regular monthly payments it would be a different matter. Contributions to The Institite For Neural Cryobiology are 501(c)3 tax-deductable. Please send donations to: The Institute for Neural Cryobiology 238 Davenport Road #240 Toronto, Ontario M5R 1J6 CANADA -- Ben Best, President The Institute for Neural Cryobiology Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16248