Crosby leads Penguins to 4-3 win over Senators

PITTSBURGH (AP) ? Sidney Crosby had his second career playoff hat trick and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Ottawa Senators 4-3 on Friday night to take a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Brenden Morrow added his first playoff goal in more than five years, Tomas Vokoun made 19 saves and the Penguins rode their superstar captain to their fourth straight victory.

Crosby beat Craig Anderson three times in the game's first 22 minutes, sending the goalie to the bench after stopping 18 of 21 shots.

Kyle Turris, Colin Greening and Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored for the Senators, but couldn't stop Ottawa from falling into a deep hole against the Eastern Conference's top seed. The Senators have never won a playoff series after dropping the first two games.

Game 3 is Sunday in Ottawa.

The Senators insisted they didn't have to play a perfect game to hang with the Penguins, pointing to the way they controlled play at even strength for long stretches in a 4-1 loss in the series opener Tuesday night. Ottawa insisted if it could stay out of the penalty box and convert when it had the man advantage, it would be right there.

Despite doing both in the first period ? killing two penalties and converting on Turris' bank shot on the power play ? the Senators still trailed 2-1.

More to the point, they trailed Crosby 2-1.

The Pittsburgh captain became the fifth player in franchise history to record 100 playoff points in spectacular fashion. He collected an innocent-looking pass at the Pittsburgh blue line then darted up the left side. He split two Senators ? including Norris Trophy-winning defenseman Erik Karlsson ? then ripped a shot under Anderson's pad to give the Penguins the lead 3:16 into the game.

Turris tied it with the first soft goal Vokoun has allowed since taking over for Marc-Andre Fleury in Game 5 of the first-round series against the Islanders. Turris collected the puck near the left post and shot it off Vokoun and into the net.

Crosby one-upped Turris a few minutes later, zipping down the left side once again. This time, Crosby appeared to be looking to pass, eyeing linemate Pascal Dupuis as they raced in on Anderson. Only Crosby didn't pass. At the last second and without even peeking directly at Anderson, he flipped a wrist shot near the goal line that smacked off the goalie's pad and into the net.

Karlsson, who is still working his way back from an Achilles injury sustained when Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke inadvertently slashed Karlsson with his skate, drew a hooking penalty on Cooke early in the second.

Crosby didn't need any fancy stickwork to record his first postseason hat trick since 2009. Instead he powered a slap shot over Anderson's glove from the left circle to push Pittsburgh's lead to 3-1. Anderson skated to the bench in favor of backup Robin Lehner.

Greening responded almost immediately after the switch, beating Vokoun with a sizzling wrist shot 40 seconds later to get the Senators within one. Morrow restored the two-goal lead by redirecting Paul Martin's blast from just outside the crease. It was Morrow's first postseason score since May 14, 2008, while playing for the Dallas Stars.

The score was one of the few mistakes made by Lehner in his playoff debut. The 21-year-old was stellar otherwise in relief of Anderson. He made 20 saves in all, including series of point-blank stops. He robbed Jarome Iginla on a 2-on-1 shortly after entering and used perfectly a timed slide to stone Evgeni Malkin on the doorstep in the third period.

Lehner's play steadied the Senators, and Ottawa kept coming, pulling within a goal 2:01 into the third period when Pageau tapped the puck across the line following a mad scramble in front.

The Senators, however, couldn't tie it as Pittsburgh remained unbeaten since Vokoun replaced Fleury and moved within two wins of making it to the conference finals for the first time since 2009 when the Penguins went on to win the Stanley Cup.

NOTES: Crosby reached the 100-point plateau in his 75th playoff game, the fifth-fastest player to reach the mark in NHL history ... Pittsburgh went 1 for 6 on the power play and is 10 of 30 (33 percent) in the postseason. The Senators went 1 for 2 after going 0 for 6 in the opener ... Ottawa D Eric Gryba didn't play. He was injured in a collision with Penguins D Brooks Orpik in the second period of Game 1

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Gunmen seize elderly father of Syria's deputy FM

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ? The office of Syria's deputy foreign minister says gunmen have abducted his elderly father in the southern Daraa province.

The office says Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad's father was seized Saturday in the village of Ghossom in Daraa province.

An official in Mekdad's office said the elder Mekdad is over 80 years old, but did not immediately know his name.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gunmen-seize-elderly-father-syrias-deputy-fm-132111295.html

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Google Glass rooted and hacked to run Ubuntu live at Google I/O

Today at Google I/O the company held a session entitled "Voiding your Warranty" where employees demonstrated how to root Google Glass and install Ubuntu on it. What you're seeing above is a screenshot from a laptop running a terminal window on top and showing the screencast output from Glass on the bottom -- here running the standard Android launcher instead of the familiar cards interface. The steps involve pushing some APKs (Launcher, Settings and Notepad) to the device using adb, then pairing Glass with a Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad. After this, it's possible to unlock the bootloader with fastboot and flash a new boot image to gain root access. From there you have full access to Glass -- just like that! Running Ubuntu requires a couple more apps to be installed, namely Android Terminal Emulator and Complete Linux Installer. The latter lets you download and boot your favorite linux distro (Ubuntu, in this case). You're then able to use SSH or VNC to access Ubuntu running right on Glass. We captured a few screenshots of the process in our gallery. Follow the links below for more info -- just be careful not to brick your Glass okay?

Gallery: Glass hacking at Google I/O 2013

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Noah Baumbach on ?Frances Ha': Why it took 40 takes to make a little story feel epic

By Steve Pond

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Noah Baumbach's "Frances Ha" seemingly came out of nowhere to charm viewers at Telluride and Toronto last fall.

The Brooklyn-born director, whose previous films include "Kicking and Screaming," "The Squid and the Whale" and "Margot at the Wedding," made the made the movie quietly, co-writing it with his "Greenberg" leading lady Greta Gerwig and filming it in luminous black and white on the streets and in the subways and apartments of New York City.

The film follows Gerwig's title character, a 27-year-old aspiring dancer who's never quite gotten her life together; by turns funny, sad, touching and cringe-inducing, it approaches the mess that Frances has made with what TheWrap's Alonso Duralde described as "an optimism and empathy ? that feels genuine and earned."

TheWrap spoke to Baumbach about the Woody Allen connection, shooting up to 40 takes for each scene and the leap of faith needed on the part of financiers.

Warning: His final answer contains spoilers.

You approached Greta Gerwig about making another film together after finishing "Greenberg," but at that point how much of an idea did you have for this film?

I really just had a sense of a movie - doing something in New York that Greta would be the center of and maybe centering on being that age. I didn't really know much beyond that. But working with her on "Greenberg," I was struck by how hilarious she is, so I also had the sense that it could be funny.

So we just started emailing each other back and forth with pretty broad thoughts. They were things like, "Do you pay the surcharge at an ATM if you're in a rush and you're broke, instead of walking to a cheaper ATM?" Things like that that did make it into the movie, and then many things that didn't make it into the movie.

Did you decide to shoot in black and white early on?

That was one of my first ideas. I felt like the black and white would both contrast and support what was essentially a very modern story and a very contemporary character.

And also, there was something about the character as she developed where all my visual ideas started going toward a more classical mode of shooting. I wanted it to feel kind of elegant and beautiful and epic at times, and the black and white certainly was part of that, and later the music. There was something about the intimacy of the story that I felt should be told in a bigger, bolder way.

When you make the decision to make a movie in black and white in New York City, do you always feel the shadow of Woody Allen and his "Manhattan" cinematographer Gordon Willis? Well, of course we went right to that movie, to "Manhattan." And "Broadway Danny Rose." I felt like what we were doing was maybe in the tradition of it, but it was so much our story. It wasn't so much of a shadow so much as it was something to get inspiration from, as a kind of bar you want to try to hit.

You famously shot 30, 40 takes or more of many of the scenes in this film. What do you get out of a scene when you do it that many times?

Well, I'm often interested in how much story you can tell with one shot. And so sometimes I tend to shoot many pages in one shot, without a cutting point. If the scene were shot in a more traditional way, you'd ultimately be doing almost as many takes, because you'd be shooting a master and then medium close, then close ... So in some ways you'd be close to 40 takes anyway.

What we're trying to do, often, is to get many pages to work in one shot. Maybe that's where perfectionism comes into play. It's sometimes getting the camera move right or changing our minds in the middle and deciding to block it differently. Sometimes two actors are on different trajectories within a scene, and you need to get them both at the same place at the same time.

And sometimes it's me, and I'm having trouble figuring it out.

If you're shooting traditionally, using coverage, you can piece a scene together using the best lines from many different takes. But if you're shooting the whole thing in one shot, you have to hope that one take has everything you want. Exactly. My friend Brian DePalma says he thinks coverage is a bad word. He says anybody can shoot a scene with coverage. I do think it's more interesting to see how shots can evolve.

And it doesn't need to be with wild camera moves or anything. It can just be with blocking, having an actor start in the background and walk to the foreground as the scene develops. I was thinking in some cases of the way Woody Allen blocks scenes, or how Ernest Lubitsch would block a scene.

A black-and-white movie with a script that was kept under wraps - this must have been a leap of faith on the part of the financiers.

It was a major leap of faith. I told them I was going to be black and white, but I did tell them that it wasn't going to be experimental. I said it would be a movie that would stand with anything else I'd made. And they were really cool about it.

Not to give anything away, but there's something quite refreshing about an ending that feels like a small triumph, even though it's very much not what this character has spent the entire movie working toward and dreaming about.

Right. It was clear to me early on that the ending should be hopeful, that she should be rewarded for her struggles. At a Q&A recently, somebody said, "Did you ever think of not giving it such a happy ending?" And I think it was Greta who said the same thing you were just pointing out. She said, "It is a happy ending - but if you really kind look at it, she takes a desk job and gets a crummy little apartment. It's hardly like she's marrying a prince."

We really wanted to create a context where those moves seemed big. Heroic, in a way. It was a movie where acknowledging that you're not going to get what you fantasized about can be a very positive thing. That's what growth is, you know?

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/noah-baumbach-frances-why-took-40-takes-little-222224818.html

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9,000-acre wildfire in NW Wisconsin contained

TOWN OF GORDON, Wis. (AP) ? Firefighters battling a 9,000-acre in northwestern Wisconsin have contained the massive blaze.

Department of Natural Resources spokesman Robert Manwell said Thursday the fire in Douglas and Bayfield counties is 100 percent contained. Manwell says fire crews will be handling small brush fires and reworking the lines that contain the wildfire.

Authorities opened all roads in the area overnight and some residents headed back to their homes. The fire, which began Tuesday, destroyed 17 homes and 30 other structures. The DNR says no one has been hurt in the largest forest fire to hit northern Wisconsin in 33 years.

Gov. Scott Walker has declared a state of emergency in Douglas and Bayfield counties, which makes the Wisconsin National Guard available for recovery efforts. The governor plans to tour the area Thursday.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/9-000-acre-wildfire-nw-wisconsin-contained-123821625.html

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Soccer-Oceania club final showcases future of broadcasting

By Greg Stutchbury

WELLINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - The possible future of sports broadcasting will be further highlighted on Sunday when New Zealand's Auckland City and Waitakere United play the Oceania Champions League final, with the winner qualifying for the lucrative FIFA Club World Cup.

The match in Auckland, reduced to a winner-takes-all final after the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) streamlined the competition this year, will be broadcast not only on television but also live over the Internet on the OFC's YouTube channel.

"The coverage will be screened live in New Zealand ...while those living in other parts of the world will be able to watch live streaming of the match free of charge on the OFC Live YouTube channel," the OFC said in a statement on Friday.

Pacific Islands broadcasters would also carry the OFC feed on television, though New Zealand-based fans would be unable to access the YouTube feed.

Struggling to gain a foothold in the television market in rugby-mad New Zealand, OFC TV, a FIFA-backed project, came to public prominence about a year ago when the OFC were unable to reach agreement with a New Zealand-based broadcaster to cover the Oceania Nations Cup in the Solomon Islands.

Pacific Island broadcasters did show the tournament, while New Zealand fans were offered the opportunity to watch pay-per-view games on the OFC website.

The OFC broadcast two of this year's Champions League semi-finals over the Internet as they tested their technology and quality of feed.

OFC TV head Olivier Huc was unavailable for comment on Friday, though he told the New Zealand Herald newspaper earlier this month that the Champions League coverage was a precursor to the full launch of the OFC YouTube channel in July.

Despite the novel way of broadcasting the match, both teams have focussed on clinching the title which carries a lucrative $500,000 payday and qualification for the FIFA Club World Cup in Morocco in December.

It is the first time that teams from the same country have contested the final.

Ramon Tribulietx's Auckland City will be seeking an Oceania record third successive trip to the FIFA tournament, which involves club champions from all six confederations.

The amateur side shocked world soccer when they made the quarter-finals of the tournament in 2009 and were competitive in their only match last year in Japan.

"Records and milestones are not really part of any talks we have within the squad - our focus is firmly on what we have to do as a team to get the right result," Tribulietx told the OFC website (www.oceaniafootball.com).

"We are convinced that we can win and will prepare to do the things we consider to be important in this game." (Editing by Patrick Johnston)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/soccer-oceania-club-final-showcases-future-broadcasting-062953156.html

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Google+ Hangouts app hands-on - Engadget

Google's new, unified Hangouts platform focuses heavily on its mobile apps, which give Android and iOS users a common platform for text and video chats. In theory, they're the cure for the consistency problems Google's messaging systems have faced for years. But are they the fixes we've all been waiting for, the all-encompassing solutions that have us dropping the likes of Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp? We gave Hangouts a test on both Android and iOS to find out -- check our impressions after the break.

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Getting set up with either Hangouts app is certainly easy. It just requires a quick sign-in on iOS, and it's virtually automatic on Android if you've used Google Talk (which Hangouts replaces) in the past. Most settings, such as notification options, are also in familiar places on Android. Notification snoozing is new: you can now tell the app not to bug you for a set period, such as when you're at work or the bar. Google's approach to managing its newly persistent chat history is potentially confusing, though. Rather than implement a global control, Google manages policy changes on a chat-by-chat basis. If you don't want to ever have a permanent (if private) record of what you've said, you'll have to make that choice every time. Google tells us that chats will disappear after 24 hours when the history is turned off.

It's when you get down to business that the changes are truly conspicuous. Google said it was structuring Hangouts around conversations, and it wasn't kidding: the view on starting the mobile app usually involves active and recent text and video sessions, rather than a list of chat candidates. Contacts are there, but you'll have to start a new Hangout or invite new participants to see them. It's more of a calculated trade-off than a uniformly positive improvement, in our view. While a conversations-first approach is handy for resuming any earlier activity, it's a bit counter-intuitive when you just want to see if a friend is available.

We had no problems starting chats, however, and it's clear that Google spent a lot of time livening up the slightly boring Google Talk interface. It now behaves more like other recent messaging apps, with appealing uses of chat bubbles and emoji. Photos are new, and (mostly) work seamlessly -- hitting the relevant button brings up your device's default photo picker, and any image dropped into the chat should remain visible when switching devices. We do wish that audio and video were options.

Group video Hangouts are billed as new, although our experience showed that to be something of a misnomer. The minimalist interface will be familiar to those who've used Google's previous video-capable mobile apps. One nice touch in the new release is the slick integration with related chats. It's easy to tell if someone just posted a photo while you're in a video Hangout, and it's simple to rejoin that same session when it's in progress. Don't try to connect to a chat directly through AT&T (and possibly other carriers), though: at first blush, it appears that AT&T may be blocking Hangouts over its cellular network.

Cross-platform, the interaction and persistence were largely as good as we'd hoped. While we couldn't try Gmail integration on the desktop (we weren't getting the option), our Android and iOS testers could freely participate in conversations without feeling hamstrung, and completed Hangouts would reliably appear on other devices or the web. As many of us have multi-device households, we also have an extra level of appreciation for the smarter attitude towards notifications. Clear one alert on a device and you won't always have to deal with it on everything else you own, where OS features allow -- you'll still see an iOS notice on Android (or vice versa), but multiple Android devices and the web handle notifications elegantly. The Google+ web redesign (which could be a hands-on by itself) makes it a lot easier both to review mobile discussions and to see their related photos in one central location. Each session's photos are saved to a private album.

Our early takeaway? If you're a Google+ fan, use at least one of Google messaging services or just want to give Google's services a shot, the Hangouts apps are welcome additions. They're simple to use, keep conversations going across platforms and consolidate multiple once-disparate services into one framework. The question is harder to answer for anyone wedded to another cross-platform messaging system. Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp already take on text chat and photo sharing while occasionally doing more, such as audio clips or locations. Google also hasn't dethroned Skype for live video, and can't do voice alone in the current Hangouts version. These rivals have some momentum on their side, too; it's hard to ignore a billion-plus Facebook users, while Google+ is comparatively young. The appeal for the unconverted may come mostly from Google's sheer reach. When Hangouts offers both text and video chat, and serves them equally through mobile apps and the web, it may be the one service that's always on hand.

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/15/google-hangouts-app-hands-on/

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