Okkervil River: Tiny Desk Concert

At first blush, Okkervil River is obviously a good rock 'n' roll band, but listen closely — especially to its lyrics — and you'll hear a great rock 'n' roll band. The group has been making sharp, thoughtful music since the late '90s, with the first of its seven albums coming out a dozen years ago.

The songs in this Tiny Desk Concert are from The Silver Gymnasium, a record inspired by the childhood of 37-year-old singer-songwriter Will Sheff; he grew up a bespectacled, crooked-toothed redhead in the small New Hampshire town of Meriden. His lyrics are drenched in specific memories, pop-culture references and youthful insecurity. Look at these lines from "Down Down the Deep River":

Tell me 'bout the greatest show or the greatest movie you know

Or the greatest song that you taped from off the radio

Play it again and again — it cuts off at the ending, though

Tell me I'm always gonna be your best friend

Now you said it one time — why don't you say it again?

The stories pop a bit more in this acoustic set-up for Okkervil River, but they rock plenty hard in concert and on their albums. If you've missed the past dozen years of this band, start here and then work your way back through its catalog. The Stage Names is my favorite, but nothing disappoints.

Set List

• "On A Balcony"


• "Pink Slips"


• "Down Down The Deep River"

Credits

Producers: Bob Boilen, Denise DeBelius; Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait; Videographers: Denise DeBelius, Becky Harlan, Abbey Oldham; photo by Meredith Rizzo/NPR

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Team Listens for Enemy Communications | DoDLive

U.S. soldiers assigned to Combined Task Force Dragoon are providing security and over-watch for a convoy of friendly forces passing through a small village in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. However, this isn’t a typical security patrol. Army Sgt. Partain is a part of a low-level voice intercept team searching for enemy communication signals.

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Bridget Moynahan Joins Keanu Reeves Thriller 'John Wick'

Bridget Moynahan has joined the cast of John Wick, a contemporary revenge thriller starring Keanu Reeves, which began filming Monday in Mill Neck, N.Y.

The film stars Reeves as a former hit man, who is forced to return to action after thugs steal his car and kill his dog. He finds himself going up against a Russian crime boss, played by Michael Nyqvist. The cast also includes Willem Dafoe, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki and Dean Winters. Moynahan plays Reeves’ wife.

Wick is being directed by Chad Stahelski and David Leitch from a screenplay by Derek Kolstad. Producing are Thunder Road Pictures’ Basil Iwanyk and executive producer Peter Lawson with H & W Movie Partners’ Mike Witherill.

Second-unit directors and stunt coordinators, Stahelski and Leitch -- who both worked with Reeves on The Matrix films, where Stahelski was Reeves’ stunt double -- are making their feature directorial debut. The duo, repped by WME, first met with the producers about directing the picture’s second unit only to be offered the directorial reins.

Filming is slated to take place in and around New York City and the greater New York area.

Moynahan, repped by WME and Brillstein Entertainment Partners, also has roles in the upcoming Small Time and Midnight Sun.

Lionsgate is handling international rights, and CAA is representing the film’s domestic rights.

 

 

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Strong quake kills at least 20 in central Philippines

By Rosemarie Francisco

MANILA (Reuters) - A strong earthquake measuring 7.2 struck islands popular with tourists in the Philippines on Tuesday killing at least 20 people, some while praying in a centuries-old church, officials said.

Low-rise buildings collapsed on at least two islands and historic churches cracked and crumbled during the quake, which sparked panic, cut power and transport links and forced hospitals to evacuate patients.

Rey Balido, a spokesman for the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), said at least 15 people died on the island of Cebu.

Residents ran from their homes in Cebu city, about 570 km (660 miles) southeast of the capital, Manila, and hospitals moved patients to open spaces as aftershocks rocked the city of about 870,000 people.

Balido said another four people were killed on nearby Bohol island, where the epicenter of the quake was located, and another on Siquijor island. Dozens were injured.

He said at least eight people who had been queuing with others for government aid payments in Cebu were hurt in a stampede caused by the quake.

There were no reports of any foreign tourists among the casualties.

Airline Cebu Pacific canceled flights to Cebu and Bohol due to the aftershocks and partial damage to airports. Ferry services were also suspended.

Transport Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya told Philippine radio that parts of the Tagbilaran port in Bohol had cracked and collapsed.

The Philippine volcanology agency reported at least 20 aftershocks after the initial quake, which was measured at a depth of about 56 km (35 miles).

No tsunami warnings were issued although Indonesia's Disaster Mitigation Agency put out a precautionary warning of possible high waves for an area stretching from North Sulawesi to parts of Papua. It did not order any evacuations.

Archbishop Leonardo Medroso of Tagbilaran city in Bohol said two people were killed by falling debris while they praying in a church in the town of Loon. The church is Bohol's biggest and dates back to 1753.

He said a church in Loboc town was also damaged. Both churches were designated historical treasures, he said. The belfry of the Baclayon church in Bohol province had also crumbled and its facade cracked.

"The damages, at least based on our initial assessment, are enormous," Medroso told Philippine television.

"The quake was really strong. I am 75 years old already, I have undergone so many earthquakes, but this is the strongest I have experienced," he said.

Television pictures showed that the belfry of the Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño de Cebu, which was also built in the 1700s, had collapsed.

Strong quakes are not uncommon in the central Philippines.

Tens of thousands of people were ordered from their homes when a tsunami warning was issued after an undersea quake in the region in September 2012.

One person was killed in that quake, which resulted in only minor damage and small waves in some areas.

(Additional reporting by Manuel Mogato and Erik dela Cruz in MANILA and Jonathan Thatcher in JAKARTA; Editing by Paul Tait)

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The Week in Fall TV: Reign Gives Mary, Queen of Scots the Gossip Girl Treatment

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There’s only one new show premiering on television this week — but it’s a doozy. The CW’s Reign (Thursday, 9pm) takes a piece of real life history and turns it into something that is so wonderfully, cynically constructed to appeal to the target audience that you almost have to applaud by the shamelessness of the entire enterprise.

The story of Reign is, technically, the sixteenth century story of Mary Stuart, better known to the world as Mary, Queen of Scots. I say “technically,” because Reign is far less an honest version of history than a version that takes as much inspiration from Gossip Girl, George R.R. Martin and Team Edward tribalism as from actual events. Sure, when Mary was a teen she was indeed sent to French to marry the French Prince Francis, as the pilot explains — but, in reality, Francis was a sickly kid who died soon after claiming the throne, unlike the televisual hunk with the equally swoon-worthy half-brother who didn’t actually exist in the real world.

That Reign plays fast-and-loose with history is hardly surprising — it is a CW show aimed at a teen audience, after all. But what’s more impressive is the way in which the series manages to successfully bring the social dynamics of contemporary teen dramas to the fictional sixteenth century and remake itself with a cleaned-up, broadcast-friendly Game of Thrones aesthetic and confused love triangle straight from Twilight seeming like an uneven patchwork of influences.

Make no mistake; Reign is something that will definitely appeal to its core audience, and doubtless many others, as well. It’s a slickly-made, fast-moving piece of television that lacks the self-consciousness of the CW’s Arrow, say, or the jokiness of Supernatural or Smallville. It definitely commits to the bit; the only problem being that there will doubtless be those who don’t realize that the actual history behind the gloss was far more interesting, tragic and, ultimately, more worthy of a television show than the version onscreen.

Elsewhere this week: For those who enjoy the watchable procedural fluff of the USA network, this is a great week — both White Collar and Covert Affairs return on Thursday (9pm and 10pm, respectively). Beautiful people making dull quips while solving impossible problems in an hour has rarely been such fun.

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Jefferies Upgrades Apple - Business Insider

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Apple CEO Tim Cook

 

Apple is getting an upgrade from previously bearish Jefferies analyst Peter Misek. 

Misek is rating the stock a "buy" with a $600 price target, up from being a "hold" with a $450 price target. 

The reason for his newfound optimism? Improving margins and the iPhone 6. 

Apple's suppliers have become "far more lenient on price," says Misek. This is going to boost Apple's gross margins. Earlier in the year, suppliers were telling Misek that they would be able to dictate prices to Apple, and Apple's margins would get hammered. That's no longer the case. 

Suppliers also say Apple is targeting a 4.8-inch iPhone for the iPhone 6.

Misek thinks that over 50% of the smartphones sold today are bigger than 4-inches, the current size of the iPhone. Apple has been missing out on over half the market by not offering a bigger phone.

As the bigger iPhone gets further into development, he expects investor enthusiasm. 

There is some negativity in Misek's report, though. He says Apple is cutting orders for the iPhone 5C because it's not selling as well as hoped. He thinks Apple could end up cutting prices to boost sales. 

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Iraq executes 42 'terrorists', including woman, as violence worsens

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq executed 42 people, including a woman, for mass killings and other "terrorism" offences over two days this week, the justice ministry and the United Nations said on Thursday after a surge in sectarian violence.

The U.N. mission in the country said it was concerned about the executions, which took place on Tuesday and Wednesday, and repeated its call for Baghdad to suspend the death penalty.

Rights groups say executions have been on the rise in recent years.

Sixty-eight death sentences were carried out in 2011, according to Amnesty International. The 42 hanged this week amounted to almost a third of the total number the campaign group said were executed in all of 2012.

"The criminals were found guilty of terrorist crimes... (that) led to the deaths of dozens of innocent citizens, as well as other crimes aimed at destabilizing the security and stability of the country and causing chaos and terror among the people," Minister of Justice Hassan al-Shimary said in a statement.

More than 6,000 people have been killed in attacks across Iraq so far this year, as Sunni Islamist insurgents including al Qaeda regain momentum.

After invading Iraq in 2003, the U.S.-led interim authority suspended the death penalty, citing its use as a tool of repression under dictator Saddam Hussein, who left behind mass graves filled with thousands of bodies.

But as sectarian carnage began to take hold of the country in 2005, Iraq reinstated the punishment for those who commit "terrorist acts", as well as people who provoke, plan, finance and enable others to perpetrate them.

Kidnapping and murder, but also lesser offenses like damage to public property, in certain circumstances, are also punishable by death.

Members of Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority accuse the Shi'ite-led government that came to power after Saddam's overthrow of using the death penalty to persecute their sect.

The ministry did not announce the names of the 48 executed this week, nor their religious affiliation.

A raid by Iraqi security forces on a Sunni protest camp in April touched off a backlash by militants that is still ongoing.

At that time, Human Rights Watch said at least 50 people had been executed by Iraqi authorities during the past month and that the concurrent increase in militant attacks and executions showed the death penalty was ineffective.

(Writing by Suadad al-Salhy; Editing by Isabel Coles and Andrew Heavens)

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