Now that I have your attention

18 April 2011 by Leave a Comment

“A well-trained man knows how to answer questions, they reasoned; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.”

The Beginning

I started up the stairs from the subway station to the street level, but my date was dawdling.  Some years ago at this corner on a sleepy Sunday morning, I had politely corrected a driver for turning right on red.  The driver apologised and claimed to be from New Jersey.  In most areas of the US, a law permits one to turn right at a red stoplight on a two-way street, if you treat the red light as one treats a stop sign.  In New York City, there is no such law, so autos must wait for the light to turn green before turning.

At the bottom of the stairs leading to the street, my companion was talking to someone, or she was looking at something out of my line of vision.  In hindsight, I realise she was probably intentionally dawdling or being delayed to cause me to pause.  As I came to the top of the stairs exiting the subway heading southwest, I looked to my left across Centre Street to the southeast at the Brooklyn Bridge.  On the northeast corner was the old City Hall, the building where Persistence and I had received our wedding license.  Under that building, although I was unable to see them at the time, there was a camera crew filming in my direction.

I turned back around to my right to look back down the stairs for the woman.  As I turned, while glancing west southwest, I saw a plane bank over New Jersey, and appear to head into the World Trade Center (WTC). I then suddenly realised what I had just seen, and quickly turned back to look for the plane.

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the stairs

Behind me on the other side of the street, filming over my shoulder in the direction of the banking plane, and the twin towers of the WTC was the camera crew.  In front of me was the World Trade Center.  The camera crew would have film footage of me facing the camera, then turning around while standing in front of the Twin Towers appearing to observe a practice run of 9/11.  The real 911 was to occur less than a week later.

The plane had now turned so it was heading straight for the WTC, and I was standing behind the World Trade Center, so I could no longer see the plane.  However, the camera crew had taken footage that appeared to be the exact angle of footage replayed scores of times on television a few days later.

My date eventually ascended the stairs.  We crossed the street where I then first saw the camera crew under the old City Hall building.  The woman and I then walked to dinner.

The food was terrible, and my date and I did not enjoy each other’s company.  I missed my wife.  After dinner, the woman took the subway home from Brooklyn Heights, and I went for a walk in our old neighbourhood.

Dear Diary

This is an account of my life.  I have related only facts true to the best of my knowledge and belief.  Wherever possible in Alog I have endeavoured to relate facts chronologically.  For purposes of illustration, some facts are not in chronological order, but facts not in chronological order are generally indicated as such.  Facts that are particularly chronologically significant are indicated by date or time.

In the decades this manuscript has evolved, I now realise that had I not made a proper record of many of these people and Events, I would not believe this happened.  Also, had I not gone back and reviewed this document I would not have realised I misunderstood the Events for years after the Events occurred.  I have found my experience to be surreal at times, and, except for two or three occasions, not encouraging.

I suspect readers will find my account to be bizarre and unbelievable.  Thanks to the ability to hanker back to this manuscript, I can see the larger picture.  Had I reached back to these memories relying on only my mind’s recollection, and without the help of this manuscript, I would not be able to persuade the few of you that may find my account believable.

Like a travel writer, I feel as though I am recounting a strange journey for the education and entertainment of my readers.  I thought that others might be interested to know this sort of thing occurs.  I did not believe this sort of thing occurred until I struggled in this contest of ethics, trust, morality, and legality.  If I had read this treatise 20 years ago, I am not certain I would believe me.

However, the people who will find this most believable will be a few, less than a dozen I would guess, who recognise their own experiences in my account below.  One purpose for writing this is so the reader, including other Incubatees, may learn from my encounters, improve on my knowledge, prosper, and do me one better.  “The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.”

Choose your Reality

By the following account, I am not asking the reader to determine if every fact I have relayed here is true.  Most importantly, I do not wish to persuade the reader that I am in a position affecting significant outcomes resulting in Events.  I am asking the reader to look at the amount of circumstantial evidence to come to a certain conclusion.

Some of my goals in writing this are to persuade the reader that my basic theories and presumptions are valid, to help others learn from my situation, and learn myself from the writing of this treatise.  I am trying to show that seemingly unrelated Events cannot be explained by luck, chance, or coincidence.  No single piece of information is sufficient to incontrovertibly prove my theories, but there are simply too many interrelated Events, and connected people for the Incubator to be a figment of my imagination.

As explained below, two purposes of the Incubator are to surreptitiously collect information, and to practice surreptitiously collecting information.  Plausible deniability4 is required to make the Incubator function.  If there were concrete, smoking-gun proof of activities, the surreptitiousness would be lost.  If the surreptitiousness is lost, the efficacy of the Incubator is lost.  If the Incubator is not effective, the Actors, Handlers, and Freelancers would cease to use the Incubator.

No person or entity will admit to what is happening because that would prevent continuing the work, and destruction of, what is to some people at least, a useful tool.  However, I hope the following presents enough correlations, seeming coincidences, and apparently chance events that eventually the reader agrees there is concerted influence by determined Actors.

 

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Middle School: 1973

18 April 2011 by Leave a Comment

My father bought a water ski boat, and taught my brother and me to ski.  My mother took all five children skiing at Bristol Mountain, where I skied quite a bit in the following years.  Both sports give you a rush, a thrilling sense of freedom from speed and balance.

In December 1973, we again visited the Youngs, this time they were living in Caracas, Venezuela.  Afterwards our family stayed at a beach resort in Cumaná.  At Cumaná we went on several excursions.  On one excursion while staying in Cumaná, we passed a rural shanty.  The home was a simple lean-to of corrugated metal, and several out buildings housing a family with several children and a number of domesticated animals including chickens, who all lived in the compound.

My father thought visiting the family that lived there would be educational, so we stopped, piled out, all five kids and my parents, and toured around the place.  The family we visited was pleasant.  My mother was not pleased.

Another family excursion, a bit more to my mother’s liking, involved visiting the Edwards.  Helen Edwards nee Burdick was a friend of my mother’s, and Helen’s father had started Burdick Blueberries, which is still in operation.  Helen passed on in 2009, and the pick-your-own blueberry farm on 40 acres is now run by her daughter, Paula.  They have these huge, juicy blueberries, probably the tastiest I have ever had.  As a child, more than once, our family visited them for the weekend.

My brother and I have fond memories of staying in their “bunkhouse.”  One day, while driving in the car, my father explained to us that as practicing Christian Scientists, they did not seek medical attention when their father, Roger, injured his leg.  The leg did not heal well.

My father thought very favourably of Christian Scientists.  He spoke very highly of the Christian Science Monitor.  He said the periodical was one of the most accurate, unbiased publications in America.  At times my father has a good eye for propaganda.

My mother, my younger brother, and I participated in the Indian Guides.  The Indian Guides were an alternative to the Boy Scouts.  One reason for the Indian Guides may have been to counter Puritan, colonialist, and militaristic tendencies of the Boy Scouts.  Certainly, my mother was alert to these sorts of implications and indoctrination.

Political Beast

Long before I was born, my family was a fairly politicised animal.  This likely encouraged the interest of the Incubator’s Administrators.  Whether the political nature of our family is the cause or the effect of the Incubator is difficult to judge.  Either the Incubator or my innate uncommon interest in politics at an early age certainly escalated the influence of the Incubator in my life.

My father noticed my peculiar early social awareness, and our neighbours noticed as well.  My parents socialised regularly with university professors, executive officers of banks and others who were linked in.  When these people came over to borrow our tennis court, or attend social occasions at our home, I often spoke with them.

Part of the reason I came to suspect a sort of tracking in the shape of the Incubator began very early is because of conversations I had with people.  Some of these conversations were peculiar, and some of these conversations took on new meaning in hindsight or with other events and conversations.  Some of these conversations occurred when I was a child, and some are explained below.  This tracking began because, I believe, for many years there has been a worldwide effort to manage the growth of and influences on certain individuals to grow international political leaders.  I suspect these leaders are being cultivated to unite people across national boundaries to create a cohesive international economic and political unit, i.e. an effective and efficient world government.

In 1974, although I was only ten years old at the time, I was very interested in the administration of then President Richard Nixon.  I watched him announce his resignation on television, and recall running to tell my family members after the broadcast.

On another occasion, my father asked me if I knew the name of the American Secretary of State.  I immediately responded Henry Kissinger, and my father praised me, saying, he doubted he knew the name of the Secretary of State when he was my age.  Perhaps partly because of that encouragement, I am still a great admirer of Mr. Kissinger.

I have been told I was a precocious child.  One day when I was home sick from school, my mother gave me the Autobiography of Malcolm X to read.  The book had a tremendous influence on me.  I think I read the entire book the same day, or within a few days.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull was another book I gave much thought to as a young child.  The first time I read the book was when I woke up early on a Saturday morning.  I sat in the sunroom of our home, in the big, black faux leather recliner chair, and read the entire book before anyone woke up.  The book is a short one, and simply written.

Another example of my supposed precociousness: one of the things I thought about at approximately this age was the effect of our surroundings on our physical bodies.  For example, the shoes we wear shape our feet.  I wondered what sort of body humans would have if no external influences affected our physical development.  From time to time, I thought about what sort of body would grow from a human if, for instance, the body was floating in a zero gravitational environment where there were no tangible external stimuli to influence the body.  Like many factors, I am not sure whether this sort of thinking may have been the cause or effect of the Incubator.  This sort of thinking may have led to an increasingly Incubatorised life.

In 1976 I began playing freshman football, even though I was in the eighth grade.  I was not big for my age, but the coach made me the center, normally a position for larger kids, who can handle being run over in the scramble to the ball holder.  In American football, defence is frequently abbreviated as D.

In a newspaper article in 1976, my mother was quoted in a newspaper regarding our 1965 move to Rochester: “With our return we made a theological switch from Baptist to Unitarian.  We are in accord with the Baptist belief in the priesthood of all beliefs, so it was not such a big switch.”37

As a family, we often attended the First Unitarian Church, which was across the street from the largest synagogue in the metropolitan area, and about half the congregation was ethnically Jewish.  In high school social studies our teacher told us that when religions other than the Church of England were first legalised in England, Unitarianism was the only religion not legalised.  I asked the teacher why Unitarians were excluded, and she explained: Unitarian beliefs were too unconventional.

Unitarian religious beliefs are a bit esoteric, and unconventional, to say the least.  The word ‘___’ was never used in worship, and few of the congregation believed in a ___ in the traditional sense of the word.  I also learned that until late in the twentieth century, the majority of all US Supreme Court Justices were Unitarian.  This was due, I was told, due to the overwhelming percentage of Unitarian intellectuals escaping religious persecution in the Old Country for the first century or so in America.

When I was about 14 my mother took my brother and I on occasion to a meetinghouse of the Religious Society of Friends.  The Friends, also known as the Quakers, are a pacifist organisation dating back to 1650.  I enjoyed the meetings, and spoke at one.

“Quakers are known for their social activism, having been instrumental, for example, in the campaign against the transatlantic slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as campaigning for the rights of women, prisoners and gay people.”38

I distinctly recall a theory I had at about this age regarding OriginSun.  At this time in America, OriginSun and the OriginSun people were just beginning to receive some decent exposure in the mass media.  I had heard that the OriginSun people were very polite, despite living in densely populated communities.  I recall thinking on more than one occasion, and perhaps suggesting to someone else while waiting for an elevator, that the reason the OriginSun people were so polite was not despite being crammed into a small area, but because they had been crammed into a small area.

 

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Home Alone: 1965

18 April 2011 by Leave a Comment

My father and sisters are fond of telling a story of my antics as a two year old in GrandHill.  As our visit to OriginSun ended, we were checking out of the hotel to go to the airport.  The other four kids and my parents were at the front desk when they realised I was not with them.

A frantic search ensued, and they went back up to the rooms to look for me.  After desperately calling my name and receiving no response, they were becoming a bit concerned.  Finally, one of my sisters pulled back the shower curtain, and found me in the bathtub, wearing a shower cap, fully clothed.  Apparently, I had a good chuckle, and judging from when I see my daughter do similar things now, no doubt I thought myself fabulously entertaining.

After returning to America, my father and sisters taught me tremendous respect and admiration for the East, far more than what is common even now in America.  I frequently heard stories of our experiences there, and my family’s impressions of the people and places were invariably favourable.  My mother and sisters would regularly make Burmese food for dinner.

When we returned to America, we settled in the Rochester, New York metropolitan area, initially in Penfield, and then in Pittsford, both suburbs of Rochester.  On at least one occasion when I was about five years old or so, our family went for a picnic in Powder Mill Park with a number of other families.  As I recall, there were probably a hundred or so people gathered in a large clearing around picnic tables.  The clearing was large enough for several baseball fields, at least.

I distinctly recall starting to walk away from the gathering.  I walked in a fairly straight path to the tree line on the far side of the clearing.  I kept walking once I crossed the tree line, despite their being some undergrowth, fallen trees to climb over, and just normal brush in the woods.  I think I walked for a long time, perhaps an hour or so.

The weather was pleasant.  I recall not being the least bit afraid.  As I recollect this incident now, I can’t help thinking I was a bit of an idiot, but then this would not be the last time I did something which in retrospect might seem excessively adventurous.

Eventually, I came to a clearing in the woods with several picnic tables.  Except a couple, perhaps in their twenties or thirties, enjoying a romantic, soon-to-be less than solitary picnic, there was no one there.  One can imagine the surprise look on their faces when this approximately five year old boy comes walking out of the somewhat dense underbrush.

I vaguely recall their surprise.  This was before mobile phones were common.  After their initial concern was overcome, I think they flagged down a police patrol car that was out looking for me.  I distinctly remember the police car by the side of the road in those woods, a forest that, to a five year old at least, seemed fairly dense in retrospect.

I also vividly recall my triumphant return.  Not every five year old gets to ride by himself with a cop in a police car.  The drive back to my family’s picnic was not far or long, but one can imagine the social kudos I must have received from my peers when I alighted from the back of that police car.

Hippies, fags and freaks

Rochester is a curious blend of progressive conservatism.  In 1960 the City of Rochester had just over 300,000 people.28 However, Kodak, Bausch & Lomb, Ritter, Lawyer’s Cooperative Publishing, Gannett, the Mormon religion and Xerox are headquartered and/or started in or near Rochester.  Rochester is more than 400 kilometres from New York City, but less than 400 kilometres from Cleveland, Ohio.  This geographic location makes the Rochester culture more Midwestern than East Coast, despite being “New York.”

Many of the families of the executives of these large multinational companies lived in our neighbourhood.  For example, across the street lived the parents of the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of Xerox, known as Fuji Xerox in OriginSun.29 The family of the founder of Gannett, the leading printing and publishing company in the US,30 lived a few streets over.  The closest cross street to our home was the street on which George Eastman, the founder of Kodak, built his home.31 In 1820, the Mormon God first revealed the faith of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the prophet Joseph Smith about 30 kilometres from our home.32

According to Incubator wisdom, the Rochester metropolitan area is a test market for new products.  Rochester had an independent phone company, Rochester Telephone (RT),33 years before the antitrust action splitting up American Telephone & Telegraph, the national phone company.  The Incubator claimed that, despite serving only the Rochester municipal area, RT was the second largest phone company in America because there were so few phone companies in the United States before the AT&T antitrust action.

Beginning in the 1960s, America began a system for a single phone number for all emergency calls.34 I suspect because of RT, our area was one of the first areas to try the new system.  Instead of 119 as used in OriginSun, America reversed the sequence to 911.

Besides sensual exposure of a positive nature, I was also exposed to several incidents causing me to question the heartlessness of my surroundings.  I suspect this is also historically rooted in Asian methods to breed compassionate individuals.  For example, about this time my brother and I were riding in the back seat of the car while my mother was driving, pulling out of the driveway of our home.

Our car collided with the blade of a snowplough.  I was told that if anyone had been sitting in the passenger’s seat, they would not have survived.  I still have an image in my mind of my brother and I sitting in the back seat of the car, looking out of the passenger side of the front seat of the car, the exterior of the automobile peeled away to expose the snowplough and the outdoors.

On another occasion, I was leaving the Wegman’s supermarket in Pittsford Plaza with my mother.  In those days, the cars would pull up in a line in front of the supermarket.  A supermarket employee would load customers’ groceries into the cars from a metal track that began inside at the registers.  My mother and I only had a few bags of groceries, so my mother and I carried our groceries out to the car.

As we were five or ten meters past the line of vehicles being loaded with groceries in front of the store, we heard a crunching noise and both turned around.  Someone standing behind their car loading bags into the trunk was crushed at the knees by the car pulling up.  The victim keeled forward into the trunk.  As my mother pulled my hand to bring me back to her Delta 88 convertible, a steady pool of blood was forming into a stream flowing in our direction.

In 1971 we moved from one suburb to another in the Rochester metropolitan area: from Pittsford to Brighton.  In academics, the public school systems I attended rank at the top.  From my observations, my classmates who left to attend private schools did so because they were not performing well, not because the public school was not performing well.

The house we moved to in Brighton was considerably larger, and I told my Pittsford friends we were moving to a “mansion.”  My sister heard from someone that I had said this, and my siblings enjoyed teasing me for years because I told people we were moving to a “mansion.”  I now live in a mansion35 in OriginSun.  The OriginSun people use the British term ‘mansion’ to refer to a large building divided into apartments.36

Pittsford is a predominantly Christian suburb, and Brighton is predominantly Jewish.  During adolescence, I regularly attended Jewish Temples, including the Bar and Bat Mitzvahs of many of my schoolmates.  As an adult I later attended weddings in Temples and Churches.

Due to our family’s domestic situation, my elder siblings enjoyed the influence of our family as their primary source of upbringing during their adolescence.  Our domestic situation deteriorated such that during my adolescence, I enjoyed the influence of the community to a greater extent than my elder siblings did during their formative years.

One example to illustrate the differing domestic situation for the elder and younger siblings in our family would the contrasting recollections of my second eldest sister’s most memorable incident with our parents, and my most memorable incident with our parents.  My second sister once told me that her most vivid image of our biological parents was of them dancing together in formal dress in a ballroom.  She recalls her approximate age, the place, and the experience of seeing them enjoying each other in a happy atmosphere.

In contrast, my most vivid image of my biological parents would be my mother telling my father she wants a divorce, and my father dismissing her request as not serious.  I recall approximately where my parents and my younger brother were standing at the time our parents had this heated discussion.  My younger brother, in contrast to his elder siblings, received very little attention or influence from the community, or our family, including myself.

Also, because my elder siblings moved to the predominantly Jewish enclave at a later age than I, I had more opportunity to acclimate myself to Jewish surroundings, Jewish culture and Jewish friends.  To a much greater extent than any of my siblings, until college, I had considerably more Jewish friends than Christian friends.  Although our home was not Jewish, a DNA test indicated I have Ashkenazi blood.

Essentially, I was raised more Jewish than Christian for several reasons.  First, my surroundings were predominantly oriented to Jews, Jewish custom, and Jewish thinking due to our move from Pittsford to Brighton.  Second, as explained above, due to familial circumstances my home life was not terribly influential during my adolescence.  Third, we had no formal religious structure or upbringing in our home.  The extent to which the Incubator is the community is an issue which is unclear to me.

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Born in the Sixties: 1962

18 April 2011 by Leave a Comment

I was conceived about December 1962.  In February 1963, our family went to visit India for three weeks.  One of my mother’s relatives, Emmy Lou Young, who was a distant cousin, and close childhood friend, was married to Bill Young, a US State Department employee stationed in India at the time.  We visited them, and with their three children, Kenneth, George and Douglas.

We visited the Taj Mahal by moonlight, and the Pink Palace.  We rode elephants in Jaipur, and stayed at the former palace of a Maharajah.  My mother, and I in her womb, stayed in Delhi, while my father went to Sol India, Bombay, Pakistan, Kashmir, and Nepal.21

I believe the Incubator exposed me to some sort of sensitivity training and sensual stimulation before I was born, perhaps at this time.  That might be the reason for my attraction to Asian femininity, and the practice of multiple, simultaneous marriages.  Then again, perhaps having a Burmese nursemaid helped too.  This method of exposing young children to sensual pleasures has a long history in Asian and Buddhist tradition.  The theory goes that if a caregiver sensually awakens a child at a young age, the child is more likely to have a peaceful outlook, generally more kind and openhearted.

I was the first son after three daughters.  Being the eldest son in the family was significant in the 1960s, particularly in Asia.  At the time I was born, the Secretary General of the United Nations was U Thant, a Burmese citizen.  U Thant was the third Secretary General of the UN from 1961 to 1971.22 My father met him at least once.

Rangoon, now called Yangon, still has the feeling of a large town, although the population is more than four million people.23 Almost fifty years ago, the communal feeling was probably even stronger than now.  The community is very closely knit, and people in the foreign community know each other well.

My father was close to people who were close to the UN Secretary General.  In 1965 my brother was born, and we departed Burma.  By the time we left Burma, my next eldest sibling spoke better Burmese than English.24 After we left Burma my father went by way of FragrantPort25 to deliver precious stones.  The rest of the family went directly to the WestoftheGateway,26 where my father met us.  This was the year after the CapitalEast27 Olympics.  According to the Incubator, GrandHill, which is a city in the WestoftheGateway, is the financial hub of OriginSun.

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Nippon

18 April 2011 by Leave a Comment

Before I say anything potentially embarrassing to OriginSun or the OriginSun people, I would like to apologize.  Until I renounced my American citizenship, I considered myself a guest of OriginSun.  I tried to behave as a guest should, and always be respectful to my OriginSun hosts.  Occasionally, this is not possible, and for that, I am sorry.

The following chronology contains embarrassing descriptions.  I will endeavour to relate only the most relevant information.  However, if I have erred on the side of providing too much information, I have done so purposefully.  On more than one occasion, I have attempted to explain some of these hypothesises, and I have been less than successful.  I partly attribute my lack of success to explaining myself orally, and not completely.

Each of us bases our reality on previous perceptions.  Because of personal factors, what may seem reasonable to one person may not seem reasonable to another.  That is the greatest difficulty in explaining this Incubator hypothesis.  Because I have witnessed peculiar, albeit sometimes illusory events, my conclusions seem rational to me, but irrational to those unfamiliar with the factors leading to my convictions.

Naturally, I am unable to relate every environmental and genetic factor influencing my reality.  Consequently, I have tried to choose the most illuminating, communicable events to explain how my basic instinct is different from the norm, yet reasonable given the circumstances.  Unfortunately, explaining why one definition of rationality differs from another definition of rationality requires much personal and cultural background.  Because of that, there is much information below.

As if I did not have enough boilerplate already

Considering the amount of information here, I have likely incorrectly related or perceived some of facts.  Some prologues use a polite: ‘the mistakes, if any, are mine’ disclaimer. A purpose for writing this manuscript was to illustrate that none of us really own our mistakes.  Nor do any of us really own our flashes of brilliance.

If I have made mistakes, I will not apologise for them, but I do encourage you to bring them to my attention, particularly mistakes of fact.  To some degree, my purpose in writing this account is to discover where I am wrong, and be corrected.  If none of my presumptions are wrong, then I have not pushed my conclusions far enough.  If I have taken no risks, I will have made no mistakes, but risks, not mistakes, is the priority here.

I suspect somewhere in this narrative I have insufficiently or incorrectly pieced together facts.  I have done so because I wish to push beyond what is obvious.  My errors may be trivial facts or fundamental theories.  Clearly I am taking a risk by drawing conclusions with incomplete information.  However, I am disclosing all this information without a complete understanding of the facts because the reader may understand the facts better than me.

You may not agree with me.  You may not even believe I am being truthful.  However, if I have done my job, you will say: ‘Yes, if all this happened to me, I would be more likely to agree with Steven McIntire Allen than to disagree with him.’  A word of caution to you before you lead yourself down that path of agreeing with me: the likelihood of this occurring to you will increase.

The subject matter defies explanation.  Rather than words, a tacit understanding is necessary.  Some things are better left unsaid.

 

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To you: imaginary, real & otherwise

17 April 2011 by Leave a Comment

A more serious word of caution concerns reality and perceived reality.  On many occasions in this account, I appear to ascribe responsibility for conduct to entities that I know only through third parties.  For instance, in the following narrative, I am led to believe Bill Gates or another entity is responsible for some act(s).  I do not mean to assign responsibility for the acts to Bill Gates, the entity, or other Identities I name.  I am only suggesting that I am supposed to believe the responsibility is that individual’s or entity’s.

In this context, the difference in assigning responsibility and attributing responsibility is subtle, but substantial.  By creating this distinction, I may appear to be trying to shirk responsibility for attacking others.  I am not.  By reporting my supposed beliefs here, I hope to determine if I am mistaken.

Specifically, there are two distinct situations I will call Accusation Type and Deduction Type.  Accusation Type involves me being an observer of facts.  This could be construed as an accusation.  Deduction Type involves me drawing conclusions.  This is not an accusation.

In Deduction Type, I am warning the subject(s) by my conclusion.  For example, Accusation Type would be a statement regarding comments made to me.  I am accusing a person of making a remark.  In contrast, Deduction Type would be that the facts appear to suggest responsibility for a situation.

Deduction Type may be the conclusions I drew from an Accusation Type.  For example, someone says something, and she and I have no disagreement about the words she has spoken.  A Deduction Type would be me assigning the remarks to the speaker, not attributing the meaning of those remarks to the speaker.  Deduction Type is my warning to the speaker to whom I am assigning apparent responsibility, even if I know the speaker did not intend that meaning.

Also in Deduction Type, I hope to put a party on notice that individuals are acting reprehensibly using the Identity of that party.  I do not mean to suggest that I am informed sufficiently to determine whether that Identity has acted wrongly or not.  Deduction Type often includes an Accusation Type against a third party.  In Deduction Type, I may not be informed enough to determine whether the Identity is responsible.  I do know that the Identity has been made to appear responsible.

In situations where I appear to indicate the third party in a Deduction Type, I am also trying to warn that third party by assigning the appearance of responsibility in a Deduction Type.  Again, I am not attributing responsibility to the third party in a Deduction Type.  In Deduction Type, the third party Identity I am warning may not have engaged in any act related to my conclusion.  If the party of apparent responsibility in a Deduction Type is not responsible, that party should be grateful that I am notifying them that someone may be trying to harm their Identity.  They should not punish me for trying to be a conscientious person.

I don’t mean to offend you, butt . . .

I can name only five or so people whom I dislike.  A few of them are included in this b log.  There are others named in this treatise to whom I would like to apply the term ‘friend’ whom I may have painted in an unfavorable light in this chronology.

I will not apologise for that.  I like, respect and, in some cases, admire you.  For reasons you and I may never know, you and I have taken different paths.  Were you not there, I could not compete on a Playing Field of one, so I am grateful for you.

I may have written this treatise for you.  I hope your path will be better tread because of what I have written here.  I hope you will not disagree with my appraisal of you as my friend.

 

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Open letter(s)

17 April 2011 by Leave a Comment

There is some thought here that a name change would be in order.

Ted Johnson, Esq.
Partner, Corporate Department
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP
107-6034
東京都 港区
赤坂1-12-32
34th Fl. Ark Mori Bldg

Dear Mr. Johnson:

This is to confirm the contents of our conversation today, which is further to our conversation of several months ago. I telephoned your office from my mobile phone, and you personally picked up the phone on the second ring. We spoke for 3 minutes, beginning at 17:29 JST on Sunday 17 April 2011. I invited you to speak with me tomorrow, and after hearing your tone, I suggested we do our best to have an amicable conversation.

I explained some ideas, and you treated me as if I were a deer caught in the headlights. I again suggested you call me back tomorrow. When you told me you were busy, I responded that you then had ten minutes to call me back. The time is now 18:08 JST. I have not received your phone call.

Regards,

S. McIntire Allen

Dear Client:

In 1999 I worked on a matter for you as a project attorney for Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP. Please have a person approach me at dinner tomorrow with a yes or no.

Regards,

S. McIntire Allen

Message received from the two gentlemen when I picked up dinner just now. Unfortunately, I require an audible response. Please have the three people meet me at dinner tomorrow.

Regards,

S. McIntire Allen

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OLOUGHLINS – Michael Connelly     14 April 2011 14:19
To: “minamoto@gaiben.jp” <minamoto@gaiben.jp>, “S. McIntire ALLEN” <allen@gaiben.jp>, “steven.mcintire.allen@originlaw.net” <steven.mcintire.allen@originlaw.net>
Dear Mr Allen
Throughout June and July 2010, you may recall that we had some correspondence with one another regarding an Australian client of ours who suffered a motor cycle accident whilst in Japan in 2008. Our client made inquiries through us as to whether he could make a claim in relation to that accident. We contacted you in an attempt to get a handle on the Japanese legal process of making such a claim.
You were kind enough to refer me onto Mr Ryutaro Sano, of Midosujilaw.
I confirm that on your recommendation, we contacted Mr Sano seeking his advice in regard to our client’s options for pursuing compensation for that accident under Japanese law. Mr Sano subsequently provided us with a letter, containing a general and useful overview as requested.
We then requested that Mr Sano provide us with an invoice of his fees for that advice. Mr Sano responded with an e-mail to Ms Jennifer Brook of our firm dated 3 September 2010, a copy of which I attach with this email for your reference.
In that e-mail, Mr Sano indicated that his hourly rate is JPY 33,000, which roughly equates to $AUD405.00. He has requested that we wire the sum of $AUD1,300.00 to his bank account, for his services. We concede that this is a reasonable hourly rate for an experienced solicitor to charge, and paid him that sum.
However, you will note that in his e-mail, Mr Sano also requested that our client deposit the sum of $AUD50,000.00 into his bank account as an “initial payment taking into account the processes we should go through”. Further, he noted that a formula is used to “calculate payment [to him] at the end.”
Whilst it is common in Australia for a law firm to request that a client place sums of money into its trust account in anticipation of potential fees and disbursements, the sum of $AUD50,000.00 seems grossly excessive in the circumstances, or in any circumstance for that matter. At this stage of the matter, our client is still yet to obtain full details from police regarding the accident, or from his doctors regarding
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the extent of his injuries, and therefore is still unsure as to whether there is any merit in pursuing a claim. In any event, it is unlikely that our client has a spare $AUD50,000.00 immediately available to him at this point in time.
In motor vehicle accident claims in Australia, in particular where there is no issue of liability on the insured’s part (as is the case with this client), it is common for the solicitor to charge the client on an hourly basis , but render an account only once the process has settled or been resolved. It is highly unlikely that a solicitor here would request such a large amount of money into trust, well before the matter is underway.
I write to ask your opinion on whether such a request by Mr Sano is standard procedure in Japan for this type of matter. We also request your opinion as to whether you are familiar with such procedure in Japan that is similar or the same as occurs here in Australia, as I have described above, as it would certainly be a more preferable one to our client.
Mr Sano has unfortunately recently advised that he can no longer assist us, as he is now working in a different area of law, and would require a substantial sum to be paid into his trust account (as stated above) if he was to reconsider acting for our client.
If you could recommend another English speaking Japanese solicitor practicing in the personal injury field, and who would consider acting on a basis similar to that as I have described as that which occurs in Australia, it would be most appreciated.
I am sorry to trouble you with this matter again, however we have contacted both the Japanese Consulate in Australia, and attempted to contact the Tokyo Bar Association, without much luck.
Kind regards
Michael Connelly | Associate | O’Loughlins Lawyers Level 2, 99 Frome Street, Adelaide SA 5000 | T +61 8 8111 4000 | F +61 8 8111 4099 | mconnelly@oloughlins.com.au
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ALLEN, Steven McIntire <steven.mcintire.allen@originlaw.net>    14 April 2011 15:03
To: OLOUGHLINS – Michael Connelly Mr. Connelly:
Thank you for letting me know. I sincerely apologize for the difficulties you have encountered. May I approach him on your behalf?
Regarding another referral, how about if I handle the matter for you? If I need local counsel, I will hire them as required.
Regards, McIntire Allen
S. McIntire ALLEN (源 眞久) Origin Law Offices, Professional Corporation California Bar License #210750 & New York Bar License #2785913 [Quoted text hidden]
OLOUGHLINS – Michael Connelly
To: “ALLEN, Steven McIntire” <steven.mcintire.allen@originlaw.net>
Dear McIntire
Many thanks for your prompt response.
14 April 2011 17:03
If you wish to approach Mr Sano, you are welcome. However, we bear no ill feelings to Mr Sano (or you for your recommendation) – we just considered his request rather excessive, and certainly beyond our client’s means.
Before we engage you, we would greatly appreciate it if we could get your assistance in terms of getting a “ball park” idea of whether it is worth engaging someone to pursue a claim (and, if in your opinion it is, we would like to engage you) to act for us.
By way of more recent background, I attach some correspondence between us and Mr Sano, in the form of annexures to our letter to him dated 1 April 2011. I also attach his e-mail in response, advising that he could no longer act for us.
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As you will see from the correspondence, and by reason of the fact that we are most unfamiliar with the Japanese legal system in respect of this area of law, we are mostly (still) trying to get an idea as to whether there is any point in our client pursuing a claim. Mr Sano’s suggestion to place such a large sum into his trust account would suggest that there is a prospect of receiving a large compensation sum – however to us, this is still very unclear.
Finally, we note from Mr Sano’s attached e-mail of 8 April 2011,that the applicable statute of limitations in personal injury claims is 3 years generally in Japan. Our client’s accident occurred on 8 May 2008, and therefore, if Mr Sano’s advice is correct, and our client does decide to file a claim, then we must act quickly.
I thank you for your assistance once again, and look forward to your response.
Kind regards
Michael Connelly | Associate | O’Loughlins Lawyers
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From: ALLEN, Steven McIntire [mailto:steven.mcintire.allen@originlaw.net] Sent: Thursday, 14 April 2011 3:33 PM To: OLOUGHLINS – Michael Connelly Subject: Re: Personal Injury Claim – Australian client
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———- Forwarded message ———- From: Sano Ryutaro To: OLOUGHLINS – Michael Connelly Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 19:15:33 +0930 Subject: Re: Personal Injury Claim – Australian client Dear Michael,
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I just received a message from you. Thank you.
When it comes to the satute of limitation for driving accidents in Japan, the default rule is 3 years, and in particular, 2 years for insurance related payments.
I wish I could be of some assistance to you, but I am afraid I cannot. Please refer to other lawyers. This seems to be an accident to be governed by Japanese laws, I have to outsource my tasks to other Japanese lawyers of my friends if I am retained by your client. I talked to some of my friends but I cannot locate my friend helping in this case assuming we cannot get paid as usual.
I fully understand what you mentioned in your letter as to the fee payments in your country but my friends are traditional Japanese lawyers who cannot handle English language case and who only work based on the retainer agreements common to them. And, it took so much time from the previous contacts to the last letter from you, and we have to review the entire case all over again, which would cost our working time.
As such, I am afraid I cannot start working on this case, and please refer to other lawyers. I am a transactional lawyers with a focus on M&A, and I cannot come up with any appropriate friends at this stage.
Finally, I just got independent. Please use the following contact information hereafter:
Hojo Bldg. 4th Floor, Minamisemba 2-10-30, Chuo-ku, Osaka, 542-0081, Japan Sano Law Office Tel: 06-6121-2547 Fax: 06-6121-2540
Email: ryutarosano@sanoandsano.com
Best regards, Ryutaro Sano 2010年9月23日16:52 OLOUGHLINS – Michael Connelly :
Dear Ryutaro I must apologise for our delay in responding, and in payment of your fees.
I will arrange for our accounts department to deposit the sum of $AUD1,300.00 into your account tomorrow, Friday 24 September 2010.
Please note that we are currently drafting a letter in response to your letter and e-mail to Ms Jennifer Brook of our firm, which we hope to have to you in the coming days.
My apologies for the unintentional delay once again. Kind regards
Michael Connelly Associate ___________________
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—–Original Message—– From: 佐野隆太郎 [mailto:rsano@midosujilaw.gr.jp] Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2010 3:23 PM To: OLOUGHLINS – Jennifer Brook Cc: OLOUGHLINS – Michael Connelly Subject: Re: Personal Injury Claim – Australian client
Dear Jennifier, I hope this email finds you well.
This is a reminder for the “reasonable fee” of AUD 1,300. If you need to discuss anything, please let me know.
Best regards,
Ryutaro Sano Attorney-at-Law Tel: 81-6-6251-7282 Fax: 81-6-6245-5520 Osaka Toyoda Bldg 2nd Floor, 4-3-11 Minamisemba, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan 542-0081
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:50:36 +0900 佐野隆太郎 <rsano@midosujilaw.gr.jp> wrote:
> Dear Jennifer, > > Thank you for your message. > > And thank you for my fee to date. > > My hourly rate is JPY 33,000 and I spent approximately four hours. > For your convenience, if you could wire AUD 1,300 to the bank account as > designated in the attached, that would be great. > I would be more than happy to send to you a little more formal invoice > or receipt on this. > > For your information, please let me explain about my fee in the event of > the retention. > Frankly speaking, I am employing almost the same rate, which was > established and already abolished by Japanese bar association, as used > for accidents where I represent a Japanese person. > As in the attached chart, we, Japanese attorneys, tend to wish to get > paid one third at the beginning, and the two thirds at the end. > The one at the beginning is just based on the expectation as to economic > benefit the client is likely to be entitled, or on the volume of work we > expect. > I would like ASD 50,000 for this initial payment taking into account the
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> processes we should go through. > We use certain formula to calculate the payment at the end. > The attached spreadsheet can tell the last payment, contingent on how > much economic benefit (in Japanese yen) the client is entitled. > Say, if it is 10 million yen, I would get paid 1.18 million yen at the > end. > Or, if it is 3 million yen, I would get paid 480,000 yen at the end. > This type of payment at the end of the case is to be made in addition to > the initial payment. > I am not sure the amount of damage in this case, and I just think I > would like to assist if the client needs assistance. > Needless to say, we can do this on time-charge basis, if the client so > requests. > Either way, actual costs regarding inquiries or registrations will be > borne by the client in addition to my fee, but I presume such costs are > minimal in this case. > > Best regards, > Ryutaro Sano > > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 10:32:36 +0930 > OLOUGHLINS – Jennifer Brook wrote: > > > Dear Ryutaro, >> > > Thank you for your below email and attachments, which were extremely helpful. >> > > We would be grateful if you could email us your invoice/account for your preliminary advice to date. >> > > We will now take our client’s instructions regarding whether he wishes to pursue one of the three avenues of compensation discussed. We will keep you informed. >> > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> > > expressly provided by law to the contrary) our entire liability will be limited to resupplying the material.
Kind regards,
Jennifer Brook Associate _________________
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> > —–Original Message—– > > From: 佐野隆太郎 [mailto:rsano@midosujilaw.gr.jp] > > Sent: Friday, 27 August 2010 11:32 PM > > To: OLOUGHLINS – Jennifer Brook
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Subject: Re: Personal Injury Claim – Australian client Dear Jennifer, Attached please find my preliminary comment on this case.
I really appreciate your thoughtfulness as to “reasonable” fee for this comment of mine. Please send such fee by wire transfer to my bank account whose information illustrated in another attachment.
In the event Mr. Brice will retain me, I will send a draft retainer agreement to be signed by him.
I look forward to hearing from you. Best regards,
Ryutaro Sano Attorney-at-Law Tel: 81-6-6251-7282 Fax: 81-6-6245-5520 Osaka Toyoda Bldg 2nd Floor, 4-3-11 Minamisemba, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan 542-0081
> > Ryutaro Sano > Attorney-at-Law > Tel: 81-6-6251-7282 > Fax: 81-6-6245-5520 > Osaka Toyoda Bldg 2nd Floor, 4-3-11 Minamisemba, > Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan 542-0081
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ALLEN, Steven McIntire <steven.mcintire.allen@originlaw.net>
To: OLOUGHLINS – Michael Connelly Michael:
I hope you will permit me to write frankly. If not, too late, because here goes.
15 April 2011 01:18
I suspect, although am uncertain, that Mr. Sano does not want the stigma of withdrawing from your matter at this time. Consequently, he has used this work around. I would like to approach Sano regarding this. Do I have your consent to do so?
For future reference, rather than exchange documentation via email, may we do so via Origin’s virtual law office platform? If so, please create an account via the <login> item on the menu on the right side of www.originlaw.net. Please disregard any information about payment at this time.
I could contact an attorney I know, a Mr. Toshifumi Nose, JP Bar Reg. #18818, to find a ball park figure for you. His rates are reasonable, and I wish I had known of him at the time I referred you to Sano. Mr. Nose is my personal counsel.
I suspect pursuing this claim would not be cost effective for your client if the client uses your firm, or a Japanese attorney. I have a proposal. I will find a law student, perhaps graduate level, perhaps undergraduate level. I will employ the student for say, JPY1,000 per hour, and pursue this claim. I will do this work for you for 1/3 of the recovery, minus what the law student charges my firm for an hourly rate. Please let me know if that seems fair or not.
McIntire
S. McIntire ALLEN (源 眞久) Origin Law Offices, Professional Corporation California Bar License #210750 & New York Bar License #2785913
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———- Forwarded message ———- From: Sano Ryutaro To: OLOUGHLINS – Michael Connelly Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 19:15:33 +0930 Subject: Re: Personal Injury Claim – Australian client Dear Michael,
I just received a message from you. Thank you.
When it comes to the satute of limitation for driving accidents in Japan, the default rule is 3 years, and in particular, 2 years for insurance related payments.
I wish I could be of some assistance to you, but I am afraid I cannot. Please refer to other lawyers. This seems to be an accident to be governed by Japanese laws, I have to outsource my tasks to other Japanese lawyers of my friends if I am retained by your client. I talked to some of my friends but I cannot locate my friend helping in this case assuming we cannot get
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paid as usual. I fully understand what you mentioned in your letter as to the fee payments in your country but my friends are traditional Japanese lawyers who cannot handle English language case and who only work based on the retainer agreements common to them. And, it took so much time from the previous contacts to the last letter from you, and we have to review the entire case all over again, which would cost our working time.
As such, I am afraid I cannot start working on this case, and please refer to other lawyers. I am a transactional lawyers with a focus on M&A, and I cannot come up with any appropriate friends at this stage.
Finally, I just got independent. Please use the following contact information hereafter:
Hojo Bldg. 4th Floor, Minamisemba 2-10-30, Chuo-ku, Osaka, 542-0081, Japan Sano Law Office Tel: 06-6121-2547 Fax: 06-6121-2540
Email: ryutarosano@sanoandsano.com
Best regards, Ryutaro Sano 2010年9月23日16:52 OLOUGHLINS – Michael Connelly :
Dear Ryutaro I must apologise for our delay in responding, and in payment of your fees.
I will arrange for our accounts department to deposit the sum of $AUD1,300.00 into your account tomorrow, Friday 24 September 2010.
Please note that we are currently drafting a letter in response to your letter and e-mail to Ms Jennifer Brook of our firm, which we hope to have to you in the coming days.
My apologies for the unintentional delay once again.
Kind regards
Michael Connelly
Associate ___________________
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To: OLOUGHLINS – Jennifer Brook Cc: OLOUGHLINS – Michael Connelly Subject: Re: Personal Injury Claim – Australian client
Dear Jennifier, I hope this email finds you well.
This is a reminder for the “reasonable fee” of AUD 1,300. If you need to discuss anything, please let me know.
Best regards,
Ryutaro Sano Attorney-at-Law Tel: 81-6-6251-7282 Fax: 81-6-6245-5520 Osaka Toyoda Bldg 2nd Floor, 4-3-11 Minamisemba, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan 542-0081
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:50:36 +0900 佐野隆太郎 <rsano@midosujilaw.gr.jp> wrote:
> Dear Jennifer, > > Thank you for your message. > > And thank you for my fee to date. > > My hourly rate is JPY 33,000 and I spent approximately four hours. > For your convenience, if you could wire AUD 1,300 to the bank account as > designated in the attached, that would be great. > I would be more than happy to send to you a little more formal invoice > or receipt on this. > > For your information, please let me explain about my fee in the event of > the retention. > Frankly speaking, I am employing almost the same rate, which was > established and already abolished by Japanese bar association, as used > for accidents where I represent a Japanese person. > As in the attached chart, we, Japanese attorneys, tend to wish to get > paid one third at the beginning, and the two thirds at the end. > The one at the beginning is just based on the expectation as to economic > benefit the client is likely to be entitled, or on the volume of work we > expect. > I would like ASD 50,000 for this initial payment taking into account the > processes we should go through. > We use certain formula to calculate the payment at the end. > The attached spreadsheet can tell the last payment, contingent on how > much economic benefit (in Japanese yen) the client is entitled. > Say, if it is 10 million yen, I would get paid 1.18 million yen at the > end. > Or, if it is 3 million yen, I would get paid 480,000 yen at the end. > This type of payment at the end of the case is to be made in addition to > the initial payment.
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> I am not sure the amount of damage in this case, and I just think I > would like to assist if the client needs assistance. > Needless to say, we can do this on time-charge basis, if the client so > requests. > Either way, actual costs regarding inquiries or registrations will be > borne by the client in addition to my fee, but I presume such costs are > minimal in this case. > > Best regards, > Ryutaro Sano > > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 10:32:36 +0930 > OLOUGHLINS – Jennifer Brook wrote: > > > Dear Ryutaro, >> > > Thank you for your below email and attachments, which were extremely helpful. >> > > We would be grateful if you could email us your invoice/account for your preliminary advice to date. >> > > We will now take our client’s instructions regarding whether he wishes to pursue one of the three avenues of compensation discussed. We will keep you informed. >> > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> > > expressly provided by law to the contrary) our entire liability will be limited to resupplying the material. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential to the intended recipient and may be privileged. We do not guarantee that this material is free from viruses or any other defects. >> >> > > > > > > > > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > >
Kind regards,
Jennifer Brook
Associate _________________
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Dear Jennifer,
Attached please find my preliminary comment on this case.
O’Loughlins Lawyers Level 2, 99 Frome St Adelaide SA 5000 T: +61 8 8111 4000 F: +61 8 8111 4099 E: jbrook@oloughlins.com.au W: www.oloughlins.com.au
—–Original Message—– From: 佐野隆太郎 [mailto:rsano@midosujilaw.gr.jp] Sent: Friday, 27 August 2010 11:32 PM To: OLOUGHLINS – Jennifer Brook Subject: Re: Personal Injury Claim – Australian client
I really appreciate your thoughtfulness as to “reasonable” fee for this comment of mine. Please send such fee by wire transfer to my bank
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account whose information illustrated in another attachment.
In the event Mr. Brice will retain me, I will send a draft retainer agreement to be signed by him.
I look forward to hearing from you. Best regards,
Ryutaro Sano Attorney-at-Law Tel: 81-6-6251-7282 Fax: 81-6-6245-5520 Osaka Toyoda Bldg 2nd Floor, 4-3-11 Minamisemba, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan 542-0081
> > Ryutaro Sano > Attorney-at-Law > Tel: 81-6-6251-7282 > Fax: 81-6-6245-5520 > Osaka Toyoda Bldg 2nd Floor, 4-3-11 Minamisemba, > Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan 542-0081
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OLOUGHLINS – Michael Connelly     15 April 2011 11:59
To: “ALLEN, Steven McIntire” <steven.mcintire.allen@originlaw.net>
McIntire
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Many thanks for your response, once again.
I am currently taking instructions and will respond to you once they are received.
Kind regards Michael Connelly | Associate | O’Loughlins Lawyers
Level 2, 99 Frome Street, Adelaide SA 5000 | T +61 8 8111 4000 | F +61 8 8111 4099 | mconnelly@oloughlins.com.au
GPO Box 2410, Adelaide SA 5000 | Please visit our website: www.oloughlins.com.au
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From: ALLEN, Steven McIntire [mailto:steven.mcintire.allen@originlaw.net] Sent: Friday, 15 April 2011 1:48 AM
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19 April 2011 08:05
To: OLOUGHLINS – Michael Connelly , tedjohnson@paulhastings.com Michael:
I have copied Mr. Theodore John Son here. He appears to have a burning interest in pro bono work. Perhaps he could serve?
Teddy Bear:
Are you too busy too retain counsel? If not, have the three people present their business cards to me at tonight’s dinner, and have each of the three people audibly introduce themselves as your representative. Do you agree with the expression: ‘I don’t care what you write about me, just spell my name right’? You have until noon to reply to this email. Stay well.
Regards, Mak your Daddy
S. McIntire ALLEN (源 眞久) Origin Law Offices, Professional Corporation California Bar License #210750 & New York Bar License #2785913
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20 April 2011 08:24 JST

Dear Ted Air:

Did you miss the post Rutan Redux? Time’s up! What’s it gonna be my nigga, yes or no?

Mak yo daddy no mo

Dear Edward Stokes Johnson Jr – #169665:

I understand you have discovered I have taken your balls. Thanks very much for having a real men leave me a voice mail message because you do not have the cahones. I hope that works for you.

Hugs & kisses,
Mak

ALLEN, Steven McIntire <steven.mcintire.allen@originlaw.net>

JFBA
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David R. Socher 22 April 2011 10:15
To: jfba@gaiben.jp

Dear Sir,

 

I am a former member of the Dai-Ichi Bengoshi Kai.

 

My gaiben license was active from 2000 to 2004.

 

Can I be a LinkedIn member of JFBA?

 

Thank you,

 

David R. Socher

Attorney at Law

3443 Golden Gate Way, Suite F

Lafayette, CA 94549

Tel: (925) 962-9191

Fax: (925) 962-9199

www.drsocher.com

 

This e-mail message is confidential, is intended only for the named recipient(s) above, and may contain information that is privileged, attorney work product or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this message in error, or are not a named recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this e-mail message from your computer. Thank you.

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Allen, Steven McIntire <cle@gaiben.jp> 22 April 2011 10:17
To: “David R. Socher”
Cc: jfba@gaiben.jp
No, and be sure and say good morning to Ted. 

Regards,
McIntire Allen

S. McIntire ALLEN (源 眞久)

California Bar License #210750 & New York Bar License #2785913 Not licensed by Japan
Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Coordinator 

Japan Law Society web page membership: LinkedIn Group
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My Ancestors: 1871

13 April 2011 by Leave a Comment

Maternal

My maternal grandmother was born Doris Currey Martin 14 September 1900 in Buffalo, New York.  Dot, a nickname she preferred to be called many years later, was raised in Buffalo, New York, where her family had lived for generations.  She became a nurse before marrying a doctor, George Theodore Hagen, born 18 January 1900 in Syracuse, New York.  He passed away 11 months after they married due to hepatitis contracted while performing surgery.
Her second spouse, my maternal grandfather, was born Sidney Chester McIntyre on 10 October 1871 in Medford, Massachusetts.  He was the first male of his family to have been born in Boston.  The generations before were born in York County, Maine.  He went to law school in Boston, where he began spelling his name with an “i” instead of a “y.”  Before law school he began using the nickname Mac, short for McIntire.  He is the namesake of my middle name.
Dot and Mac went to Honolulu for their honeymoon about 1928, and decided to move there.  Mac continued his legal career in Honolulu with an office on Fort Street.  In Honolulu, Dot had a live-in ethnically OriginSun servant whom she called: ‘You’16.
My mother was born Marcia McIntire on 19 August 1930 in Honolulu, the United States Territory of Hawaii.  She later adopted the middle name Leilani.  She was an only child.
On 23 May 1931 Dot and Marcia left Honolulu.

inscription typed by the baby in the photo

Marcia had not yet turned a year old. Marcia was raised in Rochester, about 100 kilometres from her maternal grandparents in Buffalo. My grandfather remained in Hawaii.  He and Marcia never saw each other again.
He had a stroke about 12 days after the OriginSun military attacked Pearl Harbor.  He was hospitalised until he died in 1944.
My mother graduated from Middlebury College in 1952.  Following graduation she went to Europe on The Experiment in International Living.  She lived for six months in France on a home stay with the Dubots.

Paternal

My paternal grandfather was born Harold Brainard Allen on 27 September 1896 in Detroit, Michigan.  Harold arrived in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1915 to enroll in Kalamazoo College.  My father told me Harold’s mother had been active in the Woman’s Temperance Union.  As the story goes, Harold’s father, William E Allen born 13 Feb 1867 in Elsie, Michigan,  had deserted his wife and child when Harold was very young, and Harold’s mother had raised him alone.
Harold was a staunch Republican, and despised Franklin Delano Roosevelt for not permitting market forces to correct the economic Depression.  Harold was a Michigan attorney and served as General Counsel and Secretary on the Board of Directors at the Upjohn Company from 1949 to 1962.  The Upjohn Company “is one of the largest ethical drug manufacturers in the United States.”17 Harold Allen was also active in many social causes, such as being one of the founding members of the local NAACP Chapter, and starting the first Goodwill Store in the area.
His eldest son was born Dennis Brainard Allen on 03 May 1925 in Kalamazoo.  Dennis was a conscientious objector during the Pacific War.  Because he was a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Dennis served in the US Army for 18 months as a medical assistant.18
“The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FoR or FOR) is the name used by a number of religious nonviolent organisations, particularly in English-speaking countries.  They are linked by affiliation to the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR).”19 Dennis moved to Seattle after the military.
My father was born Bradley Moore Allen on 01 May 1928 in Kalamazoo.  While I was a child, Bradley was a devout Republican.  Some of his acquaintances included the Upjohn family’s children and Channing E. Phillips, “an American minister, civil rights leader and social activist, who made history as the first African-American placed in nomination for President of the United States by a major political party.”20 I vividly remember staying at Mr. Phillips home, and playing with his children.
I suspect my paternal grandfather was a person who supported developing strong, capable world leaders.  He may not have had my family or me in mind, but he probably recognized that international coalitions would be required to encourage the sort of global growth people like him knew was possible.  My grandfather’s control of my father’s life, both economically and emotionally, was complete.  Consequently, I suspect my grandfather was instrumental in arranging for my parents to live in Asia when I was born.  By doing so, my grandfather was able to develop my bond with Asia.

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More mind games that pass for practicing law

13 April 2011 by Leave a Comment

Ms. Vicki Beyer from TUJ Law had married an Australian, Mr. John Adams.  To this day, Adam plays a significant role in the Incubator, as does Australia.  One reason for Australia being a recurring theme in the Incubator may be the value of thinking globally, and acting locally.
Another reason for the significant role by Australia may be regionalisation.  If OriginSun’s power increases, so does the region’s and so does Australia’s.  Also, Australia, like all neighbours, has good reason to understand their neighbourhood.
Part of better understanding one’s neighbours is understanding their language.  The non-expat Australian’s are the largest, closest native English-speaking people to OriginSun.  This results in Australia focusing proportionately more on the OriginSun language study than many other native English-speaking countries.  For instance, to translate many of the proper nouns in this treatise I am using Jim Breen’s JDIC based at Monash University in Australia.  This resource is arguably the premier online dictionary.
The top-level Internet domain name for Australia is the same as the name of the company which was my mobile phone provider in 2004: au by KDDI.  I wondered then if au could be an Affiliation Product.  Perhaps the au by KDDI corporation served purposes other than simply providing communications.
In contrast, another mobile phone provider in OriginSun, DoCoMo, which is more than one-third government-owned238, might serve the purposes of the OriginSun government.  Some years later, I switched to DoCoMo to test this hypothesis.  I did not notice a difference.  Now I use a different mobile phone provider, Softbank because Softbank is the only company that offers the iPhone in OriginSun.
The iPhone is a wonderful gadget: for about a week. If the reviewers who rank the iPhone so lovingly reviewed the phone after they used the phone for a year or so, would the phone receive such rave reviews? Has Mr. Jobs elevated built-in obsolescence to an art form?
Adams and I regularly discussed politics.  Beyer, Adams, and I attended a theatrical performance of Shakespeare in RelayStationNew.239 During the intermission, Beyer introduced me to a Caucasian woman in the audience.  While I was speaking with her, Beyer left to speak with someone else.
This Caucasian woman had been born in Hong Kong, and I replied I too am a “White Asian.”  I wondered aloud why the term White African was in common use, but no one ever called us White Asians.  The woman was visibly disgusted at my suggestion she was a White Asian.  I am not certain why she took offence, but I suspect she considered herself a loyal subject of Her Majesty the Queen of England, and my suggestion that she was a White Asian seemed to contradict her loyalty to the Queen.
During our conversation, this woman looked intently into my eyes, as if she were clinically searching for something.  I still do not know what she was looking for in my eyes.  I can think of three possible reasons why this woman was looking at me peculiarly.
The three reasons are, first, she may have tried to see if I was being sincere.  Second, she reminded me a bit of Kate Harris, whom I worked for in Austria, and if she was Ms. Harris, she was looking for an indication that I recognised her.  The third possibility involves an experience when a different person asked me if I thought I had been brainwashed.  This White Asian at the theatre in RelayStationNew may have thought I had been brainwashed, and was looking for some indication.
On our way home from the theatre, Beyer asked me what the woman and I had discussed.  I reported to Beyer that I asked the woman what she did, and the woman had responded she was a travel writer.  Beyer scoffed, and suggested that she was not really a travel writer.
Beyer commended me on being able to ask her what she did. Beyer admitted Beyer had never been able to ask her what she did.  Beyer continued by stating that Beyer had heard of John Seward II’s connection with the American Central Intelligence Agency.
Beyer wondered aloud about John Seward III connection with the Central Intelligence Agency.  Career paths have a tendency to run in families, and the intelligence gathering career path is no exception.  Beyer seemed to think the White Asian woman from the theatre, a British National, worked for an intelligence gathering operation.

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Y?

13 April 2011 by Leave a Comment

A store opened across the street from the Asahi offices in the ATT New Building.  The store was exactly the sort of mountain bike shop I had patronized in the past.  The store’s name was Y’s Road.  In 2009, a Y’s Bikes opened up near my home in GrandHill.
In the spring of 2001 the letter Y began appearing prominently in a variety of places in my daily life.  The initials for the fictional client Yusen Yagi were both Y.  “Y!” is the logo for Yahoo.  The symbol for OriginSun currency, ¥, includes a Y and an ‘equals’ sign.  Y represents the male chromosome.
In English, ‘Why’ is pronounced the same as the letter Y.  I ask myself ‘why’ to an extent that was clearly frustrating to attorneys at Rutan & Tucker, Asahi and others.  People tell me I think too much, usually people who think their life would be easier if I thought less.
I was not sure of the significance, or of the relationship, if any to the ‘X’ symbolism at Rutan.  Perhaps this Y was to represent the yin to the ‘X’ of Rutan’s yang.  Perhaps the Aerospace Project has some significance to the X and Y symbolism, particularly the chromosomes of the genders of prospective passengers.
Regarding the ¥ symbol, one of the matters I worked on at Asahi involved liquefying substantial OriginSun assets supposedly belonging to Yagi.  The process seemed to take more time, and steps than necessary.  Mr. Justice WisteriaThatOne236, the supervising partner, may have just been educating me in the process, or testing my teamwork with himself and the associate.
However, after a particular conversation with J. WisteriaThatOne, I began to suspect that Asahi testing me to transfer the client’s funds for my personal use.  Yagi’s fictional personal name, Yusen, is pronounced the same as the word for: right of way.237 Naturally, transferring funds for my personal use would have been illegal, and I never did anything to indicate I would do so.  Even so, a simple internal sale and transfer of international assets began when I started at Asahi, but was not finished when I quit.

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