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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (86396)	1/25/2012 8:04:06 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217847

jeez, mq., i expected protests, pepper spray, etc., not a bunch of plein air park artistes in their birkenstocks, playing with grandchildren.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (86396)	1/26/2012 8:22:27 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 217847

Well, Mq, it looks like you have quite an enjoyable life. Nice to hear your actual voice and see your actual face after all this time. Your family is lovely. I had quite a day yesterday, myself, waiting from 9:30 to 3:00 for my case to be called and then listening to the other side make totally ridiculous arguments until 4:30, but I won everything, so it turned out all right. No way to take a video but it probably would not have been all that interesting, anyway. Bankruptcy court is so cut and dried most of the time, but the other side did not know me, and did not realize that when I fight, it's because I know I will win. Mongol General: Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life? Mongol: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair. Mongol General: Wrong! Conan! What is best in life? Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. Mongol General: That is good! That is good. Then on to a jolly bankruptcy bar association shindig, open bar, buffet dinner, and judge's roundtable discussion of the latest in bankruptcy news. My colleages and I are all still keeping busy. Bobby, my mentee, is finally making money. I told Nora that I would like it if she would send me her Chapter 13s as I now have time to take them, and she said she would be happy to do so. She only does Chapter 7s, the easy ones, Chapter 13s are harder but pay better. Number One Son was there with his boss. He looks very nice in his suit and behaves in a way that makes me very proud. I did not have cash for the bar and the boss bought me a drink, remarking, "maybe this way I don't have to give your son a raise, ha ha." Ha ha. But they are moving to nicer digs this weekend. One of the poobahs asked if I would be willing to serve on a task force to develop programs to educate new lawyers and old lawyers who haven't picked up the new tricks. One of the judges described how to get a lien strip motion granted, and the techniques he advised tracked exactly the method I developed and have been teaching to the new lawyers already informally. You know, we're here on the ground, so to speak, and if anything was coming at our clients, we'd see it first. I do not see a new disturbance in the force. In March, 2007, I saw the beginning of the groundswell of the disturbance in the force that began in late 2006. Bankruptcy filings are down quite a bit from 2009, by the way. I think 2009 was the nadir of the latest "collapse", and things continue to rebound, albeit slowly. But I don't have a crystal ball, as some do, I just see what I see when I look out my window, my various windows, home, office, car windshield.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (86396)	1/26/2012 9:26:24 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217847

One of my distant cousins, Austin Strong, designed a park in New Zealand. I checked to see if it was yours but no, it's Cornwall Park in Auckland. His family sailed the South Seas with Robert Louis Stevenson when he was a little boy. It's an interesting story... Stevenson's Pillow: A Sketch of Austin Strong By Joseph Theroux nha.org Once he stood before a grand carriage in fear for his life. As a child in Honolulu, he was walking near Kapiolani Park. In his hat he carried contraband — one of the king's goldfish. He had purloined it in a fishing expedition, defying the sign that banned the activity and promised punishment to "the full severity of the law." Seven-year-old Austin knew that the "full severity" meant death, yet he had caught the large goldfish anyway. Imagine the boy's shock upon being confronted with the king's own carriage on the roadway. He saw the royal crest on the carriage door and heard the king's booming voice: "Austin!" (for the king knew his parents) "What are you doing so far from home?" The boy blurted out his guilty secret, adding, "Oh, please don't cut off my head!" King Kalakaua replied, "I have no intention of cutting off your head." But the goldfish — really a carp — was revived with a calabash of water, and later a royal decree was delivered to the terrified boy at the Strong household. It gave Austin Strong permission "to fish in the Kapiolani Park for the rest of his days." It was signed with a flourish, Kalakaua Rex. P.S. Another of my distant cousins, Anna Louise Strong, escaped across the Gobi Desert to Russia with TJ's dad.