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Califone's debut album Roomsound - Originally self released in April of 2001. Roomsound covers the same rustic, slightly ramshackle back forty that Tim Rutili has been ploughing through since his previous band Red Red Meat. Only this time the tilled bedrock unveils the most vividly colored, luring crop of songs Rutili has ever harvested. The sleepy, country-blues picking and autumnal backwoods melodies are accented with striking splashes of electronic tone color, obsolete keyboards and off-kilter percussion. Lyrically, Roomsound penetrates the breath of pirates, poison apples at a tango contest and the waiting room between death and canonization where missionaries have quit and 19th-century prostitutes have been rescued for all the wrong reasons. Masterfully produced by Brian Deck, the album is vaulted far beyond the sum of its parts.
Roomsound is a hauntingly unique and distinctive record of crafted and sculpted beauty.
The preceding years have been extraordinary for Ryley Walker. In March, his second album, Primrose Green, emerged to critical hosannas from the likes of NPR, Village Voice, Uncut, and Mojo - in the process, earning admiration of musicians who had chalked up no shortage of turntable miles in Walker's life. Robert Plant declared himself a fan - as did double-bass legend Danny Thompson, with whom Ryley would later embark on a British tour. A sprawling tour of the USA around Primrose Green presented a perfect chance to workshop ideas for what would eventually become his third studio album, Golden Sings That Have Been Sung.
On the album, "The Roundabout" represents a symbolic return to Chicago, while other songs are directly wedded to Ryley's actual return there. Perhaps more than any other song on the record, the somnambulant sun-dappled intimacies of opening track "The Halfwit In Me" most audibly bear the imprint of Ryley's improvisational sessions with Wilco multi-instrumentalist, Chicagoan and producer Leroy Bach, while "Funny Thing She Said" is an unflinching study of separation set to a shimmeringly supple ensemble performance.
Soft, slo-mo explosions of melody intermittently burst through the distant thunder of the verses on "A Choir Apart". Intriguing, surreal images are meted out by "I Will Ask You Twice", like a malfunctioning slide projector; and, perhaps best of all, the stunning finale, "Age Old Tale", which spiders out from an Alice Coltrane-inspired reverie into a sustained rapture that very few artists have managed to achieve.
The preceding years have been extraordinary for Ryley Walker. In March, his second album, Primrose Green, emerged to critical hosannas from the likes of NPR, Village Voice, Uncut, and Mojo - in the process, earning admiration of musicians who had chalked up no shortage of turntable miles in Walker's life. Robert Plant declared himself a fan - as did double-bass legend Danny Thompson, with whom Ryley would later embark on a British tour. A sprawling tour of the USA around Primrose Green presented a perfect chance to workshop ideas for what would eventually become his third studio album, Golden Sings That Have Been Sung.
On the album, "The Roundabout" represents a symbolic return to Chicago, while other songs are directly wedded to Ryley's actual return there. Perhaps more than any other song on the record, the somnambulant sun-dappled intimacies of opening track "The Halfwit In Me" most audibly bear the imprint of Ryley's improvisational sessions with Wilco multi-instrumentalist, Chicagoan and producer Leroy Bach, while "Funny Thing She Said" is an unflinching study of separation set to a shimmeringly supple ensemble performance.
Soft, slo-mo explosions of melody intermittently burst through the distant thunder of the verses on "A Choir Apart". Intriguing, surreal images are meted out by "I Will Ask You Twice", like a malfunctioning slide projector; and, perhaps best of all, the stunning finale, "Age Old Tale", which spiders out from an Alice Coltrane-inspired reverie into a sustained rapture that very few artists have managed to achieve.
Ask Mitski Miyawaki about happiness and she'll warn you: "Happiness fucks you." It's a lesson that's been writ large into the New Yorker's gritty, outsider-indie for years, but never so powerfully as on her newest album, 'Puberty 2'. "Happiness is up, sadness is down, but one's almost more destructive than the other," she says. "When you realise you can't have one without the other, it's possible to spend periods of happiness just waiting for that other wave." On 'Puberty 2', that tension is palpable: a both beautiful and brutal romantic hinterland, in which one of America's new voices hits a brave new stride.
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Julianna Barwick's revelatory third full-length, Will, is a surprising left turn for the Brooklyn experimental artist. Conceived and self-produced over the past year in a variety of locations, the ominous, compelling Will is a departure from 2013's Alex Somers-produced Nepenthe. If that last record conjured images of gentle, thick fog rolling over desolate mountains, then the self-produced Will is a late afternoon thunderstorm, a cathartic collision of sharp and soft textures that sounds looming and restorative all at once.
Will comes off of Barwick's busiest period in her career to date following Nepenthe - a spate of activity that included playing piano for Yoko Ono, performing at the 25th annual Tibet House Benefit Concert alongside such kindred spirits as the Flaming Lips and Philip Glass, the Rosabi EP and an extensive touring schedule that included her first-ever shows in Japan.
Her life over the past several years has largely been lived in transit, and as such the genesis of Will was not beholden to location; Barwick reflects on this cycle of constant motion. "You're constantly adjusting, assimilating, and finding yourself in life-changing situations."
That sense of forward propulsion is largely owed to what Barwick describes as Will's "synthy flava," an ingredient she was inspired to add to her vocal loop-heavy formula after demoing equipment for synth maker Moog. Another new wrinkle Will introduces in Barwick's sound: Mas Ysa's Thomas Arsenault, who lends his richly complex vocals to "Same" and "Someway." The beguiling, beautifully complicated Will is the latest proof yet of Barwick's irresistibly engaging talent.
Singing Saw is a record written simply and realized orchestrally. In it, Kevin Morby faces the reality that true beauty - deep and earned - demands a whole-world balance that includes our darker sides. It is a record of duality, one that marks another stage of growth for this young, gifted songwriter with a kind face and a complicated mind.
Morby opens Singing Saw with "Cut Me Down", a song of tears, debts and a prescient vision of being reduced to nothing. "I Have Been to the Mountain", "Destroyer" and "Black Flowers" continue to explore beauty and freedom, seizing upon the rot that seeps into even the supposedly safest of realms; peace, family and romantic love. By the end of the record on "Water", Morby is literally begging to be put out once and for all, like a fire that might burn all the visions away.
Travels beyond his mountain walks, near his Mount Washington home in Los Angeles, inform songs like "Dorothy", which recounts a trip to Portugal, witnessing a fishing ritual and luxuriating in the aura of a bar light-tinged reunion with old friends. The touching innocence of "Ferris Wheel" stands alone in stark simplicity amidst the lush sonic textures of the album. Here, the album is balanced by Morby's signature sweetness and joie de vivre.
In the end, Morby fulfills the promise many heard on his first two albums, bringing his most realized effort of songwriting and lyricism to fruition. The songs of Singing Saw reflect the clarity that comes from welcoming change and embracing duality, and the distillation of those elements into an entirely new vision.
Los Angeles-based sister duo Jennifer and Jessie Clavin knew things were going to be different for their band Bleached sophomore LP Welcome The Worms. Not only had they managed to charm world renowned producer Joe Chiccarelli (Morrissey, The Strokes, Elton John) to join the sisters and their bassist Micayla Grace in the studio, but Jen and Jessie had been crawling out of their own personal dramas. While emotionally spinning, they dove head first into music.
The three girls spent time writing the 10 song LP at a remote house in Joshua Tree, away from the distractions of the city. Other times Jen and Jessie worked alone, just like when they were teenaged punk brats playing in their parents' garage, imitating their heroes The Slits, Black Flag and Minor Threat.
In the studio, Chiccarelli and co-producer Carlos de la Garza (Paramore, YACHT) helped the band perfect their fervent songs into fearlessly big pop melodies. They drew inspiration from the iconic hits of everyone from Fleetwood Mac to Heart to Roy Ayers. The result is an ambitious rock record with a new found pop refinement that somehow still feels like the Shangri-Las on speed, driven forward in a wind of pot and petals, a wall of guitars in the back seat.
"Each song is a character," says Marlon Williams of his self-titled solo debut: a remarkably assured and diverse nine-track tapestry, united by one of the most versatile and evocative voices you'll hear this or any other year. "I don't really ever sing out of character. Even if it's a very personal song, once it's written it doesn't belong to me." Recording the record at home, utilizing The Sitting Room in Lyttelton Harbour (New Zealand), Williams' deep-rooted bonds birth an eclectic, yet cohesive set that ranges from acrobatic opener "Hello Miss Lonesome" to the wry coffee house wisdom of "Everyone's Got Something To Say", via Rubber Soul-ful zinger "After All" and "Lonely Side Of Her"'s beauteous barroom empathy. Its author's easygoing gender fluidity is expressed through his revelatory, androgynous reading of the traditional lament "When I Was A Young Girl", previously hymned by Nina Simone and Feist, among others. This ability to truly inhabit his material illuminates Williams' majestic rendering of such diverse touchstones as classic orch-pop ballad "Lost Without You" and conceptual, 1974-vintage nugget "Silent Passage" (originally by Bob Carpenter, a Canadian of First Nations heritage). These covers blend seamlessly with novelistic noir standouts "Strange Things" and "Dark Child" (co-credited to childhood choral pal Tim Moore, now a palliative care nurse), which deliver gallows humor with a widescreen groove.
Having been nominated for 5 New Zealand Music Awards, an Australian ARIA Award and completed sold out album release tours, this Southern Hemisphere star's eagerly awaited international release should see Marlon Williams soar.
Mark McGuire's albums are, amongst many other things, strong arguments for the album and for the stereo system. They're not just music; they're statements, and they demand to be experienced by the best sonic means available. They're throwbacks, not in style, but intent and effect. Put another way -- they don't make them like this anymore.
The wall of sounds contained therein constitute a degree of ambition uncommon since the 70s heyday of McGuire's forebears -- Gottsching, Eno, Fripp. This is not laptop music.
Beyond Belief, his second full-length for Dead Oceans, finds McGuire now well on the way of his own trip. Fantastical liner note tales written to accompany and set the stage for his mostly-wordless songs delight and confound. Throughout nine tracks we find an unrelenting drive to refine, build upon, focus and maximize the effect of an already remarkably prolific body of work. Though deservedly known for his virtuosic multitracked guitar playing, McGuire in fact plays every bass / synth / piano note, and every beat on the album himself, his vocals more prominent than ever before. 26 months in the making, the passion going into Beyond Belief is self-evident, and the effect is overwhelming.
Like many before him, McGuire isn't entirely comfortable with the critically-bestowed 'new age' tag, but the resonance is there particularly in McGuire's prose, and it's not unreasonable that he appeared alongside venerated new age masters Iasos and Laraaji in The New York Times' appraisal of the new age music renaissance ('For New Age, the Next Generation', Mike Rubin, February 16, 2014).
Running nearly 80 minutes, the bold and fearless Beyond Belief is McGuire's magnum opus to date, but in truth, there is no end in sight for McGuire's vision, making any such assessment wholly premature.
In anticipation of Kevin Morby's Dead Oceans' debut in 2016 and in support of a thorough fall touring schedule, "Moonshiner" and "Bridge To Gaia" are two unreleased gems from Morby's reliably powerful, yet understated work.
Destroyer's Poison Season opens swathed in Hunky Dory strings. Dan Bejar's a dashboard Bowie surveying four wracked characters - Jesus, Jacob, Judy, Jack - simultaneously Biblical and musical theatre. This bittersweet, Times Square-set fanfare is reprised twice more on the record - first as swaying, saxophone-stoked "street-rock" and then finally as a curtain-closing reverie.
Broadway Danny Bejar dramatically switches scenes with "Dream Lover," all Style Council strut and brassy, radio-ready bombast (echoes of The Boo Radleys' evergreen earworm "Wake Up Boo!"). This being Destroyer, its paramours-on-the-run exuberance is judiciously spiked by his deadpan delivery: "Oh shit, here comes the sun…"
Like the other DB, Mr. Bejar has long displayed a chameleonic instinct for change while maintaining a unified aesthetic (rather than just pinballing between reference points). No two records sound the same, but they're always uniquely Destroyer. His latest incarnation often appears to take sonic cues from a distinctly British (usually Scottish, to be precise) strain of sophisti-pop: you might hear traces of Aztec Camera, Prefab Sprout, Orange Juice, or The Blow Monkeys. These songs merge a casual literary brilliance with intense melodic verve, nimble arrangements, and a certain blue-eyed soul sadness.
Playfully rueful, "Sun in the Sky" foregrounds cryptic lyrical dexterity over pop-classicist strum before gradually left-fielding into rhythmically supple, delirious avant-squall. It's as if Talk Talk took over a Lloyd Cole show. Originally released on a collaborative EP with electronic maestros Tim Hecker and Loscil (the latter's drones are retained here), a retooled "Archer on the Beach" suggests Sade swimming in The Blue Nile, smooth-jazz marimba melancholy dilated by ecstatic ambience. Flecked in heady dissonance, elusively alluring, Dan hymns its eponymous "impossible raver on your death bed" while implicitly beckoning the listener: "Careful now, watch your step, in you go."
That's Poison Season in essence: familiar yet mysterious, opaquely accessible. Arch, for sure, but ultimately elevatory.
Night Beds, the musical project of 26-year-old Colorado Springs native Winston Yellen, received much acclaim for his 2013 debut album, Country Sleep, scoring plaudits for its tortured take on alt country and Yellen's soaring vocals. But after finishing that album and before Country Sleep was even released, Yellen began experimenting with the kind of melancholic, neon-tinged R&B that makes up the mesmerising Ivywild.
The thread that weaves through all of Yellen's music and holds it together is his unmistakable voice - plaintive, yearning, soulful, heartbreaking. Whether it's ascending over the luscious epic-electronics of "Tide Teeth" or aching alone on Country Sleep's opener "Faithful Heights", Yellen's voice has a unique beauty matched by few of his contemporaries.
The second Night Beds album draws on Yellen's original love of Bill Evans through to J Dilla and is made up of what Yellen calls "sad sex jams" and was inspired by a long-term love and a break-up which looms large throughout the albums veiled lyrics. Its genesis can be found in the stoned night in Nashville when Yellen first heard Yeezus. Lying on the floor, Yellen blared the album at top volume.
Ivywild is a truly collaborative effort with a makeshift team of 25 musicians, notably Abe, Yellen's younger brother and closest friend - his credit on the album comes above Winston's own, so much value does he place upon the work Abe put in. Additional vocals come from Heather Hibbard, a singer from Maine who features on over half of the 16 track album, and was contacted by the gregarious Yellen through YouTube, after he found a video of her covering one of his songs. She came out to the studio the very next day.
Finessing the poignant assortment of songs was a sometimes painful task, but dedicated to the core. "I felt at some points we were losing our minds," he says. Initial versions of "Me Liquor and God" band "On High:" were 17 and 33 minutes respectively while "Finished" took four months to record. His editing process though was simple: "If it makes you cry, keep it in." Field recordings also flood the record, offering it a deep textural grain. "It is a luxury record, but it has a worn shirt feel," explains Yellen. "It's lived in. It's like a quilt - but it took forever, cutting up all the vocals and letting it breathe."
Strand of Oaks' HEAL was released early last summer on Dead Oceans, kicking off a year of big firsts and miles racked up on the odometer. Tim Showalter paid a visit to NPR's Tiny Desk - and to nearly every state (plus multiple continents) on a non-stop tour. As a result, Showalter's most personal songs to date were allowed the chance to expand and change shape. That's where the deluxe version of HEAL comes in - to celebrate this newfound life and share some fan favorites. It's bookended with two covers, firstly a cover of Ryan Adams' "My Wrecking Ball" taped in Showalter's home of Philadelphia at WXPN, lastly a woozy rendition of The National's "Pink Rabbits". Rounding out the mix is a version of "Goshen '97" from Acoustic Cafe and a life-affirming rendition of "Shut In" for Hear Ya. Finally, it features an alternate mix of "HEAL" at the hands of producer John Congleton that sounds like Showalter's heart being dragged through sludge and fed through an amp.
Dark Bird Is Home doesn't feel like it came from one time or one place. The songs were captured in various countries, studios and barns, carrying a weather-worn quality, some dirt and grit. This is Kristian Matsson at his most personal and direct, deeper and darker than ever at times, but it's also an album with strokes of whimsy and the scent of new beginnings.
Ask Bill Fay about his relationship with his instrument and he says something revealing, not "Ever since I learnt to play the piano," but "Ever since the piano taught me..." What the piano taught him was how to connect to one of the great joys of his life. "Music gives," he says. And he is a grateful receiver. But, it makes him wonder, "Who is the sender?" Fay - who after more than five decades writing songs is finally being appreciated as one of our finest living practitioners of the art - asserts that songs aren't actually written but found. He recorded two phenomenal but largely overlooked albums for Decca offshoot Nova in 1970 and 1971. After 27 years of neglect, people like Nick Cave, Jim O' Rourke, and Jeff Tweedy were praising those records in glowing terms. Recorded in Ray Davies' Konk Studios, North London, Who Is The Sender? sees Bill expanding upon themes he has touched on from the beginning, spiritual and philosophical questions, observations about the natural world and the people in the city he has lived in all his life.
Ryley Walker is the reincarnation of the true True American guitar Guitar player Player. That's as much a testament to his roving, rambling ways, or as to the fact that his Guild D-35 guitar has endured a few stints in the pawnshop.
Primrose Green begins near where All Kinds of You, his last record, leaves off but quickly pushes far afield. The title sounds pastoral and quaint, but the titular green has dark hallucinogenic qualities, as does much of the LP. The band is a mixture of new and old Chicago talent, blending both jaded veterans of the post-rock and jazz mini-circuits together with a few eager, open-eared youths.
Ryley didn't have much time to write this LP, so some of it he didn't. Bits of lyrics were improvised into full-blown songs in the studio, more often than not on the fly. The title track "Primrose Green" was nearly discarded after its incarnation on a bleak St. Patrick's Day spent in Oxford, Mississippi. "Primrose Green" is a colloquial term for a cocktail of whiskey and morning glory seeds that has a murky, dreamy, absinthian quality when imbibed, and a spirit-crushing aftereffect the morning after. "Summer Dress" is liftoff: seizing the mantle from Tim Buckley's Starsailor and perfecting its frantic jazz-induced fits. It was written in a dressing room in upstate New York, but perfected in rehearsal, veering between a six and ten minute epic. Contained here is the flawless conclusion, but reference the live set to experience the full possibilities of this anarchic work.
A forgotten roadside hotel in Tennessee yielded one song, "Same Minds", with just a hint of self-loathing. It was kicked around in rehearsal until taking its shape as a drifting bit of dreamy jazz. A 5-day stretch in Austin, mostly staying on Lechuguillas' Jason Camacho's tile floor with no blanket in a room barely large enough for one yielded most of the rest of the lyrics. "Griffiths Buck's Blues" was almost jettisoned but a thumbs-up from Jason kept it in the repertoire. Griffith Buck was named for a local artist and eccentric botanist in Ryley's hometown of Rockford, Illionois who has likely had few other songs named for him. "Love Can Be Cruel" spends almost two minutes "out" before becoming the song it was originally intended to be. Drummer Frank Rosaly pushes the song further and further until it borders on a cathartic meltdown to close out Side A.
Side B sets off with a shot of Americana, "On The Banks Of The Old Kishwaukee". It's an ode to the immersion baptisms Ryley's witnessed while walking along the banks. Unlike the idyllic memories of christenings under the weeping willows while a crowd looks on happily in their Sunday's best at the healthy young catechumens; the river was brown and polluted, and the participants dirty and tired and disinterested. "Sweet Satisfaction" presents some of Ryley's most intricate and ecstatic fingerpicking. It's hard not to recall John Martyn's early 1970s work, though Ben Boye's piano work is particularly revelatory here. "The High Road" was written while the trio of Ben, Ryley, and Brian Sulpizio (guitar) were on tour, opening for Cloud Nothings. Stuck crashing in a busted, unheated old house in New Orleans Ben sunk into a depression, Brian drank and Ryley drank, but also managed to turn out this ode to the rambling life.
"All Kinds Of You" is the oldest song included here. The title should seem familiar... it was written after his first LP, All Kinds of You, was finished, but the name seemed to fit that collection of songs better than anything else. Side B closes with a bit of tossback: "Hide In The Roses", the only solo jam included herein. Cooper Crain (Cave, Bitchin' Bajas), de-facto producer of the record, encouraged Ryley to use the extra studio time to bang something out, and this brilliant piece of Anglophilia emerged as the album's closer.
No one knows what the future holds for young Ryley Walker. Hardship and setbacks and dilapidated housing uncertainty only seem to spur him on creatively. Here, with this record, we risk limiting his access to personal disaster by flirting with success. A short lifetime of interminable practice and discipline have resulted in a masterpiece of an album, an album of a sort we haven't seen since the 1970s. If the world catches on, the Ryley that follows up this album may be a different sort of person, one who knows the taste of better liquor and comfortable bedding and might not be nearly as driven. I think he will be just as visionary, though less hungry, but either way... this is the time to get on the Ryley Walker bandwagon. Here, with Primrose Green, we risk limiting his access to personal disaster by flirting with success.


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The Apple Watch is more than a timepiece. The digital wearable, which provides precision timekeeping within 50 milliseconds of the definitive global standard, mates with an iPhone 5 or later model to provide an array of additional features and functionality. In addition to fitness, health, messaging, news, and travel information, the Watch possesses wayfinding, audio, payment, weather, and telephone speakerphone capabilities, among other features. Apple's watchOS powers the device.
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- Who this affects: The Apple Watch is targeted to Apple iPhone 5 and later users, business professionals seeking an advanced wearable that assists with conveying news, messaging information, map and travel data, and similar functionality. Fitness buffs will find the device extends health and fitness application functionality and shifts the programming and interface device from a bulkier phone to the wearable watch.
- When it was released: The Apple Watch was released on April 24, 2015. Pre-orders began on April 10, 2015. Apple Watch OS2 was released on September 21, 2015.
- How to get it: Apple Watch models can be purchased at Apple retail stores, from Apple's website, or using the iOS Apple Store app.
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In addition to mail, message, and phone calls, the watch supports returning emojis, leveraging dictation, sharing your location, freehand sketches, and even the ability to share your heartbeat with others. Numerous applications are built specifically with Watch functionality in mind, including:
- Messages
- Phone
- Calendar
- Activity
- Workout
- Maps
- Wallet
- Siri
- Music
- Camera Remote
- Remote
- Weather
- Stocks
- Photos
- Alarm
- Stopwatch
- Timer
- World Clock
- Numerous other third-party apps
- 38mm and 42mm models
- 7000 series aluminum (aluminum models)
- 316L cold-forged stainless steel (stainless models)
- Aluminosilicate glass (Ion-X models)
- Diamond wire-cut, precision machined, and polished sapphire displays (Apple Watch and Watch Edition models)
- 18-karat solid gold (Watch Edition models)
- Up to 48-hour performance
- Up to 6.5-hour audio playback
- Up to 3-hour talk time
- Up to 6.5-hour workout time
- Up to 72-hour power reserve operation
- Magnetic charger
- Heart rate sensor leveraging photoplethysmography technology
- Accelerometer
- Linear-actuator taptic feedback engine
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Why it matters
Apple Watch raised the bar for wearables to a completely new height. It set a new standard for intuitive interaction with smartphone functionality, fitness applications, and paying for purchases, as well as introducing attractive styles, high-quality displays, and elegantly integrated iPhone and application operation.
The Apple Watch changes the way business professionals interact with their digital devices. No longer must a bulky smartphone be removed from a pants or jacket pocket. The wearable enables more surreptitious and discreet viewing and responding to messages.
The Apple Watch places a vast array of capabilities on the user's wrist. The device makes it easy to pay for purchases, confirm flight status, find an airline gate, map a destination, perform searches using Siri and dictation, and even answer calls and use a speakerphone. With the watch, users can adjust music system playback and remotely control cameras and Apple TVs, including in meeting and board rooms.
As the Internet of Things (IoT) trend continues, devices such as Apple Watch are significantly changing the way people consume news, receive alerts and reminders, record health and fitness data, view and respond to email and instant messages, and interact and share data from myriad applications.
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Who this affects
Apple Watch buyers might include business professionals, athletes, students, and anyone else possessing an iPhone 5 or newer who wishes to further leverage popular iOS apps while decreasing the dependency on having to use one's smartphone for all mobile tasks.
Businesses are also impacted. As users increasingly bring their own devices (including iPhones, Watches, and tablets) into corporate environments, IT departments will receive requests to assist supporting the devices. While Apple Watches don't present many security risks within an organization, they can connect to smartphones, which are routinely configured with the ability to connect corporate applications, data, systems, and email platforms. Thus, the risk exists that, if an Apple Watch is mislaid or stolen within an organization, the individual possessing the Watch could access that user's mail, instant messages, contacts, calendar, and other information.
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When it was released
The Apple Watch was released on April 24, 2015, and pre-orders began on April 10, 2015. Apple hasn't released Apple Watch unit sales information.
The initial Apple Watches shipped with Apple watchOS 1. Shortly thereafter Apple released an updated version of the operating system, Apple watchOS2, on September 21, 2015.
watchOS2 introduced several new features and capabilities. The new OS added several Watch Faces, including cityscapes and Time-Lapse, which enables turning the Crown to fast-forward to view weather forecasts for the future, for example. Additional Complications, the important information items that can be customized and added to a Watch Face display, were included with watchOS2, too.
Various media reports suggest Apple may be readying a new Watch model that includes a camera for release in Q2 2016.
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How to get it
Apple Watch models can be purchased at Apple retail stores, from Apple's website, or using the iOS Apple Store app. Watch Sport, Watch, and Watch Edition models are available in 38mm and 42mm sizes.
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Watch Sport prices range from $349 for 38mm models to $399 for 42mm versions, all with sport bands. Watch prices range from $549 and $599 (for 38mm and 42mm) versions with stainless steel cases and sport bands to $1,049 (38mm) and $1,099 (42mm) for black stainless steel cases with link bracelets. Watch Edition models start at $10,000 for 38mm 18-karat gold versions with sport bands and range to $15,000 for 42mm gold models with classic buckle bands.
Apple also offers a variety of bands for all its Watch models. Sport bands, available in various colors, cost $49. The Milanese Loop runs $149. Classic buckle styles cost $149. Leather loops, available in multiple colors, also run $149. Modern buckle models, which include a smooth two-piece magnetic fastener, are available in several colors and run $249. Link bracelets made of 316L stainless steel alloy run $449 and are available in two colors.
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Archives for September, 2011
Exploring Idealization of Mother in "Alice"
[This is a continuation of the exploration of mother and daughter relationships - for prior posts, click here and here] Woody Allen's film Alice (1990) is a kind of heroine's journey. In it, Alice (Mia Farrow), married to a wealthy attorney, goes to Chinese herbalist Dr. Yang for help with a bad back. More than just curing the symptom, the doctor, through his various elixirs, helps Alice explore hidden parts of her psyche. [For a more detailed analysis of the whole film, click here] The scene that I focus on below exemplifies a daughter's idealization of her mother. In it, Alice meets her "Muse" (Bernadette Peters) who, in trying to find subject matter for Alice to write about, shows her the objective truth about her mother.
'The Book of Mormon': How to Practice Denial
I've been laughing myself silly all week, listening to the soundtrack (and watching YouTube videos) of the Tony Award-winning musical, The Book of Mormon. Its book, music and lyrics were written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone (of South Park fame) in collaboration with Robert Lopez, co-author and director of another successful Broadway musical, Avenue Q. While the melodies may be a bit generic, they're catchy and memorable; it's the lyrics that truly stand out, however. Profane and irreverent, they shed light on some of the more absurd aspects of Mormon theology. They also expose the type of guidance offered by the Church of the Latter Day Saints to members struggling with cognitive dissonance, as well as feelings they find unacceptable.
Exploring Mother & Daughter in "Postcards from the Edge"
Further exploring various dynamics of the mother and daughter relationship [For the first part in this series click here], we'll have a look at a scene from Postcards from the Edge (1990). This film is based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Carrie Fisher (daughter of actress Debbie Reynolds). Suzanne Vale (Meryl Streep) plays the addiction-prone actress daughter of movie star Doris Mann (Shirley Maclaine). Doris is portrayed as overbearing, controlling, manipulative, competitive, narcissistic and self-absorbed; Suzanne is very much in her shadow. In a particular scene towards the end of the film [click here to watch], Suzanne is doing a voice-over for a film she's just made. She has a heart-to-heart conversation with her director, fatherly Lowell (Gene Hackman):
Mel Gibson in 'The Beaver': The Uses of Splitting
I'd heard so much negative buzz about The Beaver (starring Mel Gibson and directed by Jodie Foster) that I stayed away from my local movie theater despite the film's interesting psychological subject matter. This past week, I finally saw it on DVD and was surprised to find myself appreciating it much more than I'd expected. While there's some truth to the criticism I've heard, The Beaver tackles a difficult subject -- suicidal depression -- with psychological insight and emotional honesty. It scorns the simplistic answers offered by pop psychology and rejects the widely propagated medical lie that depression results from a chemical imbalance in the brain. The film doesn't really try to explain depression (although it offers some interesting hints as to its origins), or offer a solution that leads to the happy ending. Instead, it explores a peculiar form of splitting, a desperate attempt to "cure" depression when all else fails.
Exploring (S)mothering in "Terms of Endearment"
In this next series of posts, I'm going to take scenes from a number of films to explore various aspects of mother-daughter relationships. It can be helpful to take stock of how we were mothered, how we've complied with and/or rebelled against the woman who raised us (or was supposed to and didn't). Also it is useful to identify the beliefs and messages that get handed down to us, often coming down through generations. Not only can these realizations help point the way to our own individuation (becoming fully ourselves), it can also help us to not pass on our "family legacies" unconsciously. Mothers can give too much, too little, or both in different areas; they can be on a spectrum anywhere from smothering or engulfment to neglect or abandonment. A "good enough" mother is somewhere in the middle. No one gets it perfect. Furthermore, what is optimal mothering for one child is not for another, and what feelings and behavior get evoked in the mother can be different from child to child. Here is a partial list of types of mothers (I'm sure you can come up with more of your own!), and of course there can be more than one of these running in the same person:
Exploring Covert Incest in "The Ballad of Jack and Rose"
Rebecca Miller's The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) presents an intimate look at how father-daughter relationships can cross the line into covert or emotional incest. Rose (Camilla Belle) is the 16-year old daughter of terminally ill Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis). They have been living in isolation, just the two of them, on a small island, the site of a failed commune; Rose's mother had long since left. From the start, we get the feeling of a complicit, intimate, and closed system between father and daughter. Not only has Rose taken the role of "wife" in the household, but having home-schooled her, Jack has shut her off from developing relationships with others.
Mia Wasikowska in 'Jane Eyre': Mental Illness as Moral Taint
If you're a fan of 19th century fiction like me, you've no doubt read Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and seen one of the many fine film and TV adaptations. The first such version was a silent film released in 1910, with eight or nine more to follow before the classic Orson Welles - Joan Fontaine film from 1944. Many other movie and TV adaptations have been made since then, some memorable, others not so much; but this latest version with Mia Wasikowska in the title role is a superb rendition of the classic tale. Both Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender as Rochester give stand-out performances; the direction by Cary Fukunaga is superb. Many important themes run throughout the novel Jane Eyre, and some of them make it onto the large or small screen: atonement and forgiveness, feminism, the search for home and family. The story also includes many vivid psychological portraits, rich in insight; I could discuss any one of them, but instead, I'd like to talk about its view of mental illness. It's a small part of the story but fascinating from a historical perspective. We live in an age where people commonly discuss the roots of emotional difficulties in childhood, and how family patterns of communication shape our psychology; it's easy to forget that 150 years ago, people thought quite differently.


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"What a wonderful funeral!" Cindy remarked as we walked out. Helen, our friend, had died. And friend after friend celebrated her by sharing stories of her all-around fun behavior. But Helen's life wasn't all jokes and laughter. Her nephew spoke of her faith in Jesus and her care for others. She had taken him into her home when he was young and struggling. Now in his twenties, he said of his Aunt Helen, "She was like a mom to me. She never gave up on me in my struggles. I am sure that if it wasn't for her, I would have lost my faith." Wow! What an influence! Helen leaned on Jesus and wanted her nephew to trust Him too.
In the Old Testament, we read that King David took a young man named Mephibosheth into his home with the purpose of showing him kindness for the sake of his father, Jonathan (David's friend who had died; see 2 Sam. 9:1). Years earlier, Mephibosheth had been injured when his nurse dropped him as they fled after the news that his father had been killed (4:4). He was surprised that the king would care for him; he even referred to himself as "a dead dog" (9:8). Yet the king treated him as his own son (9:11).
I'd like to be that kind of person, wouldn't you? Someone who cares for others and helps them hang on to faith in Jesus even when life looks hopeless.


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By Charles Biderman
Want to piss off homeowners? Tell them that while home prices have been cut in half since the bubble burst, stock prices are back to being down less than 15% the October 2007 peak. You heard that right: The S&P 500 (SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF: SPY) is down less than 15% and home prices are down 50%, a half-price sale, from the high.
Why? Obvious answer. The Fed is rigging the stock market and doing everything it can to push stock prices higher. Each Fed easing somehow or other lowered interest rates, which pushed money into stocks. On the other hand, the Fed has nationalized the mortgage market, and that has made it impossible for anyone without perfect credit to get a mortgage. From 0 down during the bubble to no mortgage money available, no wonder housing prices have been cut in half.
As I have said in many previous videos, investors believe religiously that stock prices are protected by the Bernanke Put. Remember how low stock prices plunged in March 2009? Stock prices back then had dropped more than half from the October 2007 peak, as had home equity. Well, that March the Fed announced a major new monetary-easing program and stock prices soared by around 50%.
Then after a 20% sell-off, the Fed rolled out QE2; stock prices popped 40%. Then after another 20% sell-off, the Fed announced something called Operation Twist and stocks rose 30%. Notice a pattern here? Every Fed easing produces a smaller bounce. Now we are about 5% down from the most recent market peak in April. And at the April high, the U.S. stock market was only down about 10% from the peak.
Yet home prices are still down about 50%. How many of you know that at the cycle top in 2007, total household holdings of stocks and all home equity net of mortgages were roughly the same, according to the Federal Reserve Z1 Flow of Funds? That's right. At the highs, home equity—the value of all homes minus all mortgages—was $13 trillion, and the value of stocks held by households was around $14 trillion. The most recent Fed Z1 reports that equity in all homes is about $6.6 trillion and total stocks held by households are about $13 trillion, just about double housing.
I am willing to bet very few of you know that back in 1982, the year before the 25-year bull market in stocks began, households owned about $1 trillion in stocks and $2.5 trillion in houses. What a turnaround. In 1982, stocks were 40% of the value of homes. Before the housing and stock bubbles burst, they were about the same. Now household home equity is half that of stocks.
Without the Bernanke Put, where would stock prices be? My answer is lower, lots lower. And I say the Fed fix will not work for very much longer. Interest rates and mortgage costs are as low as they can go. And yet after all the easings, the U.S. economy is barely growing. Wages and salaries of everybody who pays taxes, which to me is the most important metric of economic health, is growing by about $20 billion each month. And the U.S. government has to borrow $100 billion a month to pay its bills so wages and salaries can grow by $20 billion. Crazy!
Yes, everyone on Wall Street now believes that the stock market will surge when the Fed announces the next round of money printing. But then, have you ever tried to push on a string? Does not work. Neither will the Fed's next round of monetary easing. Zero cost money cannot get any cheaper. Once investors realize that the Fed easing is doing nothing, I say the stock market will roll over and die.
Ultimately, I see so reason why stock prices should be higher than housing prices these days. Both were huge bubbles helped out by cheap money. Without cheap money, housing prices are down big time. When cheap money loses its ability to prop up stock prices, look out below.


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"Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity."
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"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right."
"We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil."
"I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful / of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite."
"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world"


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Lady Gaga: 'Bad Romance' and What It Really Means to be Authentic
I find Lady Gaga such a fascinating figure, not because of her artistic talents as much as the paradoxical nature of her public self. On the one hand, she often comes across as naive or simplistic, with the "love yourself" message she constantly sends out to her adoring fans. As I've written before, you can't achieve authentic self-esteem in that way, but she nonetheless seems genuinely to believe in that message. During the many talk show interviews she has given, whenever she speaks to fans in the audience, she comes across as sincere and caring. On the other hand, here's what she said to Anderson Cooper about "fame management" during their interview on 60 Minutes: "One of my greatest art works is the art of fame. I'm a master of the art of fame." This makes her sound almost calculating, so entirely conscious of herself and the impression she makes at every moment of every day that you have to wonder whether her "love yourself" message is just another part of image management.
Exploring Covert Incest in "The Ballad of Jack and Rose"
Rebecca Miller's The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) presents an intimate look at how father-daughter relationships can cross the line into covert or emotional incest. Rose (Camilla Belle) is the 16-year old daughter of terminally ill Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis). They have been living in isolation, just the two of them, on a small island, the site of a failed commune; Rose's mother had long since left. From the start, we get the feeling of a complicit, intimate, and closed system between father and daughter. Not only has Rose taken the role of "wife" in the household, but having home-schooled her, Jack has shut her off from developing relationships with others.
Exploring Three Stages of Romantic Love Through Three Films
One way of looking at romantic love is through these three stages: - Love without Knowledge - Knowledge without Love - Love with Knowledge The first film we'll look at in this context is Sleepless in Seattle (1993), a prime example of Love without Knowledge. This film does much to promote the myth of romantic love, as prevalent today as it was 20 years ago. In it, Annie (Meg Ryan) hears Sam (Tom Hanks), a caller on a late-night radio show, talking about his feelings about his deceased wife. Based on this, Annie goes on a quest to meet him, feeling like he might be The One.
Exploring Relationship in "A Walk on the Moon"
Even though this film was made in 1999, and took place in 1969, many of the themes covered in A Walk on the Moon are still relevant for some women and some relationships today. Set in the 60's, a time of change, this film poses questions of unlived lives, longing, sacrifice, duty, and choice. Our characters grieve for what cannot be, explore new territory, and experience initiations. Pearl (Diane Lane) is our heroine, and Marty (Liev Schreiber) is her husband. They got married when Marty got Pearl pregnant at 17. Both of them have their share of unlived life. Teen-aged Marty's boss at the time would have paid for his college education had he not impregnated Pearl. Marty's dream was to be an engineer and instead he ended up working in a TV repair shop. Womens' dreams in this era were much more circumscribed, so that Pearl ended up with a nameless longing for something more out of life. On their yearly summer vacation, at a Jewish camp in upstate New York, Pearl meets Walker, the "Blouse Man" (Viggo Mortensen), a hippie who comes to the camp selling women's clothing and accessories. Right away, we see that there is chemistry between the Blouse Man and Pearl. We can see his diplomacy, sensitivity, and generosity in dealing with two ladies fighting over one blouse. We find out these qualities are genuine as we get to know him better.
Love Lost and Creativity at the Movies (Part II)
In Part I, I wrote about ideas of lost love and creativity; here are some film examples of these ideas. Facing Windows (Italian, 2003): Giovanna finds her creative passion, becoming a pastry chef, after realizing that the neighbor she's idealized and desired for so long is not the answer to her discontent and yearning. 500 Days of Summer (2009): Tom has been blocked creatively for years, writing Hallmark-type cards for a living instead of pursuing a career in architecture. After being jilted by his girlfriend, Summer, he falls into a long dark night of the soul, and emerges into a new creative state. Under the Tuscan Sun (2003): Frances (Diane Lane) moves to Tuscany to recover from a sudden divorce. She is then disappointed by a love affair and finds meaning and satisfaction in remodeling an old dilapidated villa.
Love Lost and Creativity at the Movies (Part I)
Certain films point to the creativity that can follow in the aftermath of an impeded, unrequited or lost love, or simply a love that just doesn't work out. Sometimes a juncture is reached in a relationship in which it can go no further, whether through death, divorce, rejection, betrayal, circumstance or choice. There are various ways we can react to such loss and grief. We can be in denial, numb out, avoid our pain through addiction of any sort (including busy-ness), become stuck in the past, or try to find another "love object" ASAP, among other things. We can sublimate, or something new can emerge (more about these further on).
Male Sexuality in Movies
Is this man sexy? It seems challenging to find a "good" man (especially a father) who is presented as a sexual being in movies. This seems to reflect the "split" in our society; having lots of sex and being sexy is touted as being supremely desirable, especially in advertising, yet we don't see many male role models in television or film depicting an integrated male sexuality. What I mean by this is a man considered both "good" and hot.
Attributes of a Good Father in "My First Mister"
Adolescence is a tricky time for fathers and daughters. The film My First Mister (2001) presents some ideas of how to skillfully traverse this territory. Jennifer (Leelee Sobieski), who goes by the name of "J," has just graduated from high school. She self-mutilates, is a "goth," and is alone, lonely and nihilistic. Her parents are divorced. Her mother (Carol Kane) is Pollyanna-ish; the mother and daughter are polar opposites who can't relate. Her father (John Goodman) is a pothead with whom she has very little contact.
Exploring the Ghostly Lover: "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman" (Part II)
In Part I we left off with Pandora regarding the portrait that Hendrick painted of her. The way she is portrayed in the painting is not as she has ever been, but as she would like to be. She says, "It's not me as I am at all. Why am I not like that?" This is tricky territory and requires psychological discernment. It's helpful to start understanding the difference between wanting only the "good" or ideal parts of ourselves to be seen, perhaps getting confused with a grandiose compensatory façade. On the other hand, sometimes it is true that the Other brings out "the best in us," qualities hidden even to ourselves, as in the case of Pandora.
Exploring the Ghostly Lover: "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman" (Part I)
The film Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) illustrates the archetype of the Ghostly Lover. An archetype is a symbol or pattern that consistently recurs and is recognizable as a part of human experience, often seen in myths or fairy tales. Viewing Pandora as if it were a fairy tale helps shed light on the dynamics of the Ghostly Lover who keeps us in the realm of dreams, not of earthly life. This lover can be someone for whom we "carry a torch," the one that got away, or a fantasy ideal of a soul-mate. He or she often resides in the land of "what if" or "what could have been," creating what Linda Schierse Leonard calls an "impossible possibility." This dynamic can set up an infernal longing for something that does not exist or can never be.


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IN RE: PARESH VASANT PATEL, DEBTOR. PARESH VASANT PATEL, APPELLANT/CROSS-APPELLEE,v.EMIL BENZAKRY AND EMIL & SONS LLC, APPELLEES/CROSS-APPELLANTS. IN RE: KALPITA PARESH PATEL, DEBTOR.KALPITA PARESH PATEL, APPELLANT/CROSS-APPELLEE,v.EMIL BENZAKRY AND EMIL & SONS LLC, APPELLEES/CROSS-APPELLANTS.
Appeal from: 11 B 7905 11 A 1218 Appeal from: 10 B 15570 11 A 447
Judge Feinerman
This is an appeal from final decisions of the bankruptcy court in the related and materially identical adversary proceedings captioned above. The cases will be discussed together, and all docket references are to Case No. 13 C 103 unless otherwise noted. Defendants-Appellants/Cross-Appellees Paresh and Kalpita Patel sought discharge of their debts under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code. Two of their alleged creditors, Plaintiffs-Appellees/Cross-Appellants Emil Benzakry and Emil & Sons LLC, commenced adversary proceedings in which they asserted three alternative grounds to deny the Patels discharge of their debts: (1) that the Patels made false or fraudulent statements to Plaintiffs, see 11 U.S.C. § 523(a); (2) that the Patels failed to retain business records "from which the debtor's financial condition or business transactions might be ascertained," 11 U.S.C. § 727(a)(3); and (3) that the Patels failed to "explain satisfactorily . any loss of assets or deficiency of assets to meet the debtor's liabilities," 11 U.S.C. § 727(a)(5). Doc. 1-3 at pp. 9-13. Plaintiffs moved for summary judgment on the §§ 727(a)(3) and 727(a)(5) grounds, and the Patels filed cross-motions for summary judgment on all three grounds. The Patels also moved to strike certain portions of Plaintiffs' Statements of Undisputed Material Facts.
The bankruptcy court granted Plaintiffs' summary judgment motions on both the § 727(a)(3) ground and the § 727(a)(5) ground, and denied the Patels' motions. The court articulated its reasoning in an oral ruling, the transcript of which reads as follows:
THE COURT: We have cross motions for summary judgment in two different adversaries [the adversary proceeding against Paresh Patel and the adversary proceeding against Kalpita Patel], and I will give you my decisions in the order that things are on the court's call.
I'll deny the motion to strike the plaintiff's statement of the undisputed facts. I think it's fine.
I'll deny [the Patels'] motion for summary judgment. It's not well-taken.
I will grant [Plaintiffs'] motion for summary judgment. I think the counts under 727(a)(3) regarding keeping records, and (a)(5) regarding not explaining lost assets, are both overwhelming and not subject to factual dispute. So the motion for summary judgment is granted. The clerk can close the adversary.
Similar rulings in the other matter, and the clerk can close the other adversary also.
The motion to strike is denied. [The Patels'] motion for summary judgment is denied, and [Plaintiffs'] motion for summary judgment is granted.
Doc. 12-1 at 2-3; see also Doc. 24 at 1 (where Paresh states: "The rationale by the bankruptcy judge for the decisions on various matters in this case is contained in the transcript dated December 7, 2012. . There is no other reference in the appellate record or bankruptcy record or elsewhere that contains the rationale for the decisions other than in the transcript as cited."). The Patels appealed to this court, and Plaintiffs cross-appealed the bankruptcy court's denial of their motions for costs under Bankruptcy Rule 7054.
This court has appellate jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 158(a)(1), which grants the district courts jurisdiction to hear appeals from final judgments of bankruptcy courts entered in cases referred under 28 U.S.C. § 157. Here, the bankruptcy court entered final judgments by disposing of Plaintiffs' adversary proceedings against the Patels in their entirety. See Zedan v. Habash, 529 F.3d 398, 402 (7th Cir. 2008) ("[T]he test we have utilized to determine finality under § 158(d) is whether an order resolves a discrete dispute that, but for the continuing bankruptcy, would have been a stand-alone suit by or against the trustee. . [T]he final disposition of any adversary proceeding falls within our jurisdiction."); Fifth Third Bank v. Edgar Cnty. Bank & Trust, 482 F.3d 904, 905 (7th Cir. 2007) ("A final resolution of any adversary proceeding is appealable, as it is equivalent to a stand-alone lawsuit."). Because the bankruptcy court granted summary judgment to Plaintiffs, this court's review is de novo. See Dick v. Conseco, Inc., 458 F.3d 573, 577 (7th Cir. 2006) ("In a second appeal from a bankruptcy court's decision, we apply the same standard of review as did the district court, which in the case of the bankruptcy court's grant of summary judgment, is de novo.") (internal quotation marks omitted).
The Patels' appeals raise five issues: (1) whether the bankruptcy court erred in granting summary judgment to Plaintiffs under § 727(a)(3); (2) whether the bankruptcy court erred in granting summary judgment to Plaintiffs under § 727(a)(5); (3) whether the bankruptcy court erred in denying the Patels' motion to strike; (4) whether the bankruptcy court erred in denying the Patels' motion for summary judgment on the §§ 523 and 727 grounds; and (5) whether the bankruptcy court erred in denying a discharge to the Patels. Plaintiffs' cross-appeals raise one issue: whether the bankruptcy court erred in ruling that the Patels' appeals to this court deprived the bankruptcy court of jurisdiction to hear Plaintiffs' motions for costs under Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 7054. Those issues are considered in turn.
I. The Patels' Appeals
The bankruptcy court's grant of summary judgment to Plaintiffs rested on two independent grounds-that the Patels failed to retain business records "from which the debtor's financial condition or business transactions might be ascertained," 11 U.S.C. § 727(a)(3), and that the Patels failed to "explain satisfactorily . any loss of assets or deficiency of assets to meet the debtor's liabilities," 11 U.S.C. § 727(a)(5). Only one of those grounds is necessary to sustain the bankruptcy court's judgment.
Section 727(a)(5) of the Bankruptcy Code provides in relevant part that "[t]he court shall grant the debtor a discharge, unless- . (5) the debtor has failed to explain satisfactorily, before determination of denial of discharge under this paragraph, any loss of assets or deficiency of assets to meet the debtors liabilities .." "Section 727(a)(5) is broadly drawn and clearly gives a court broad power to decline to grant a discharge in bankruptcy where the debtor does not adequately explain a shortage, loss, or disappearance of assets." In re Martin, 698 F.2d 883, 886 (7th Cir. 1983). In In re D'Agnese, 86 F.3d 732 (7th Cir. 1996), the Seventh Circuit affirmed the bankruptcy court's denial of discharge on the basis of § 727(a)(5) where the debtor conceded that she had possessed "various pieces of jewelry ., Waterford crystal decanters, and sterling silver serving pieces" with a combined value of over $300,000, and claimed that she had sold some of these items to a friend but provided no documentation of the sale. Id. at 733.
Although the Patels purport to challenge the bankruptcy court's ruling that they failed to provide the satisfactory explanation required by § 727(a)(5), they have forfeited their argument by failing to develop or support their challenge. On appeal, the Patels' argument on § 727(a)(5) is limited to the following:
A. There was no failure of the Debtor to explain satisfactorily any loss of assets or deficiency of assets to meet the Debtor's liabilities.
It is an untrue statement to say that Defendant has failed to explain satisfactorily any loss of assets or deficiency of assets to meet the debtor's liabilities. All the Purchase and Sale transactions regarding KAP Family Investments, LLC have been disclosed and a copy of all such transactions (Buy and Sell) has been provided to the Plaintiff. Also, the Tax Returns of KAP Family Investments, LLC show the balance sheet that reflects such transactions were valid and proper. (Dkt. 10, Paresh Patel's Answers to Interrogatories, p. 16, par. 3).
The defendant properly maintained all appropriate books and records, and turned over such records to the plaintiff's attorney, including the following: email communication between Paresh Patel, Devid Levin and Emil Benzakry; Financial Statement, Gas Sales, Store sales and other due diligence documents received from Petrol Corp. prior to purchase of the Rock Falls, Illinois gas station by KAP; KAP Tax Returns for 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009; Articles of Incorporation; KAP Business Checking bank statements from JP Morgan Chase, and Buyout Agreement between Kalpita Patel and Anjali Agarwal. (Dkt. 10, Paresh Patel's Answers to Interrogatories, pp. 10, 15).
Doc. 5 at 10-11; Doc. 5 (13 C 657) at 10-11. In their reply brief, the Patels merely repeat the second of the two paragraphs quoted above. Doc. 20 at 18-19; Doc. 17 (13 C 657) (adopting the reply brief in 13 C 103). Although the quoted passage includes a subheading A, there is no subheading B-the passage is immediately followed by Section III of the brief, which challenges the bankruptcy court's denial of the Patels' motion to strike. Doc. 5 at 11.
The Patels' argument regarding § 727(a)(5) is so thin as to constitute a forfeiture. All the Patels do is assert in conclusory fashion that they did not violate § 727(a)(5) and then name a litany of documents they claim to have turned over to Plaintiffs; they do not cite relevant legal authorities or even say where those documents are in the record on appeal, except for Paresh's answers to interrogatories. Even supposing that the Patels did turn over the documents they reference, they do not say how those documents explain what became of their assets or offer any argument as to why that explanation is satisfactory-which is a problem, as "§ 727(a)(5) requires a satisfactory explanation for the whereabouts of a debtor's assets." In re D'Agnese, 86 F.3d at 734 (emphasis in original). "A skeletal 'argument,' really nothing more than an assertion, does not preserve a claim." United States v. Dunkel, 927 F.2d 955, 956 (7th Cir. 1991); see also DDI Seamless Cylinder Int'l, Inc. v. Gen. Fire Extinguisher Corp., 14 F.3d 1163, 1168 (7th Cir. 1994) ("An issue must be pressed, must be argued and supported; a bare conclusion is not enough."); Ehrhart v. Sec'y of Health & Human Servs., 969 F.2d 534, 537 n.5 (7th Cir. 1992) ("Once again we observe that compelling the court to take up a burdensome and fruitless scavenger hunt for arguments is a drain on its time and resources.").
The most that can be said for the Patels, though perhaps even this is too generous, is that they turned over documents from which a person with the relevant expertise in accounting or recordkeeping could derive a satisfactory explanation of the whereabouts of their assets, and that they gave this court a vague description of those documents. If all that is true, then perhaps the court could dig through the record, find the referenced documents, analyze them at length in light of the governing legal authorities, and ultimately piece together a satisfactory explanation of what became of the Patels' assets. But § 727(a)(5) puts the burden of coming up with that satisfactory explanation on the Patels, not on the court. After all, "[j]udges are not like pigs, hunting for truffles buried in briefs," Contilli v. Local 705 Int'l Bhd. of Teamsters Pension Fund, 559 F.3d 720, 724 (7th Cir. 2009) (quoting Dunkel, 927 F.2d at 956), or in the record, Gross v. Town of Cicero, 619 F.3d 697, 702 (7th Cir. 2010). The record in these two appeals is substantial; Paresh's record "contains hundreds of documents spread across 86 docket entries," Doc. 22, while Kalpita's record "contains hundreds of documents spread across 34 docket entries," Doc. 20 (13 C 657). This court need not and will not "root through the hundreds of documents and thousands of pages that make up the record here to make [the Patels'] case for [them]." Corley v. Rosewood Care Ctr., Inc., 388 F.3d 990, 1001 (7th Cir. 2004).
Section 727(a)(5), taken alone, provides a sufficient ground for the bankruptcy court's denial of discharge. See In re Martin, 698 F.2d at 886 (referring to § 727(a)(5) as an "independent ground[] upon which a discharge must be denied to this debtor"). Thus, the bankruptcy court's disposition of the adversary proceedings can be affirmed on the ground that the Patels have forfeited their challenge to that court's § 727(a)(5) ruling. True, a violation of § 727(a)(5) does not require a denial of discharge-it is a sufficient, not a necessary, condition for denial. See In re Suttles, 819 F.2d 764, 766 (7th Cir. 1987) ("Because the bankruptcy court found that Marietta Suttles' violation of § 727(a)(5) was an innocent one, it therefore did not abuse its discretion in granting her a discharge."). But the Patels' sole ground for reversing the denial of discharge is their argument that the bankruptcy court's § 727 rulings were erroneous: "In reversing the Bankruptcy Court's finding of violations of Section 727 of the Bankruptcy Code, the Court must reverse the denial of discharge and direct the Bankruptcy Court to issue a discharge to the Debtor." Doc. 5 at 16; see also Doc. 20 at 22. Thus, the Patels have forfeited any argument that this court should reverse the denial of discharge even if the § 727(a)(5) ruling is affirmed. See Alioto v. Town of Lisbon, 651 F.3d 715, 721 (7th Cir. 2011) ("[w]e apply [the forfeiture] rule where a party fails to develop arguments related to a discrete issue"); Wojtas v. Capital Guardian Trust Co., 477 F.3d 924, 926 (7th Cir. 2007); Stransky v. Cummins Engine Co., 51 F.3d 1329, 1335 (7th Cir. 1995).
Because this court affirms the denial of discharge on the basis of § 727(a)(5), there is no need to address Plaintiffs' two other grounds for denial of discharge under §§ 523 and 727(a)(3). This disposition also moots the Patels' appeal of the bankruptcy court's denial of their motion to strike certain portions of Plaintiffs' Statement of Undisputed Material Facts. Even if those portions should have been stricken, the Patels do not explain how striking those portions would buttress their skeletal argument that the denial of discharge under § 727(a)(5) was inappropriate. Because discharge would be denied under § 727(a)(5) with or without the challenged portions, whether the bankruptcy court should have been stricken them is irrelevant.
II. Plaintiffs' Cross-Appeals
In their cross-appeals, Plaintiffs contend that the bankruptcy court denied their motions for costs under Bankruptcy Rule 7054 on the ground that it "believe[d] that [it] lost jurisdiction once [it] was notified orally that defendant had filed an appeal." Doc. 14 at 48. Plaintiffs do not provide any citation to the record to support their assertion that the bankruptcy court denied their motion for costs on that ground. But the Patels do not dispute Plaintiffs' assertion-indeed, their reply contains no response to the cross-appeal whatsoever-and so the court will take it as true.
Plaintiffs are right that a bankruptcy court retains jurisdiction to consider a Bankruptcy Rule 7054 motion for costs even after a notice of appeal to the district court has been filed. On this point, the court adopts the reasoning of Roth v. Mims, 298 B.R. 272, 299 (N.D. Tex. 2003). See also In re Borges, 2013 WL 1856437, at *1 (Bankr. D.N.M. May 2, 2013) ("A bankruptcy court retains jurisdiction after an appeal is filed, however, to award costs under Bankruptcy Rule 7054.") (citing Roth). As Roth explains, a district court retains jurisdiction to award costs under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(d) even where a notice of appeal to the court of appeals has been filed, and there is no reason why a motion for costs under Bankruptcy Rule 7054, which contains language similar to that found in Civil Procedure Rule 54(d), should be treated differently. So the bankruptcy court had jurisdiction to entertain Plaintiffs' motions for costs, and these cases will be remanded to allow the bankruptcy court to do so.
III. Plaintiffs' Request for Sanctions under Bankruptcy Rule 8020 Plaintiffs request sanctions in this court under Bankruptcy Rule 8020 on the ground that the Patels' appeals are frivolous. Doc. 14 at 9, 48-49. Rule 8020 provides that "[i]f a district court . determines that an appeal from an order, judgment, or decree of a bankruptcy judge is frivolous, it may, after a separately filed motion or notice from the district court . and reasonable opportunity to respond, award just damages and single or double costs to the appellee." See In re Sokolik, 635 F.3d 261, 270-71 & nn.3-4 (7th Cir. 2011) (discussing the standard applicable to Rule 8020 motions). Plaintiffs make their Rule 8020 request in their brief responding to the Patels' opening appeal briefs. Doc. 14 at 9, 48-49. But Rule 8020 is explicit in allowing for sanctions only upon "a separately filed motion or notice from the district court." There has been no such separately filed motion in this case, and nor has this court notified the parties that it is considering awarding costs. Because neither predicate for Rule 8020 sanctions is present, an award under that rule would be inappropriate.
This holding is in keeping with the Seventh Circuit's view of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 38, which allows a court of appeals to award costs for a frivolous appeal "after a separately filed motion or notice from the court and reasonable opportunity to respond"- essentially the same language as in Bankruptcy Rule 8020. Under Appellate Rule 38, "a statement inserted in a party's brief that the party moves for sanctions is not sufficient notice." Greviskes v. Univs. Research Ass'n, Inc., 417 F.3d 752, 761 (7th Cir. 2005) (internal quotation marks omitted); see also Smeigh v. Johns Manville, Inc., 643 F.3d 554, 565 n.4 (7th Cir. 2011) ("Rule 38 requires either a separately filed motion or that we give notice we are considering sanctions."). Because Bankruptcy Rule 8020 should be construed the same way, Plaintiffs' request for sanctions under that rule is denied. Cf. Kvinlaug v. Claire's Stores, Inc., 2013 WL 1195702, at *21 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 22, 2013) (holding that a request for attorney fees under 29 U.S.C. § 1132(g)(1) must be made by separate motion and not in a merits brief).
For the foregoing reasons, the bankruptcy court's judgments are affirmed, with the exception of its denials of Plaintiffs' Bankruptcy Rule 7054 motions for costs. These cases are remanded to the bankruptcy court solely to allow it to rule on the Rule 7054 motions. Plaintiffs' requests for sanctions under Bankruptcy Rule 8020 are denied.
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