LOS ANGELES, May 9 (Reuters) - When Nick Bonino's game-winning shot found the back of the net on Wednesday the Anaheim Ducks finally found the overtime result that had eluded them during a playoff series full of late-game heartbreak.

Despite controlling long stretches of their series with the Detroit Red Wings, two gut-wrenching overtime losses had kept the second-seeded Ducks from booking a quick trip to the Western Conference semi-finals.

So when a streaking Bonino converted a pass from Ben Lovejoy less than two minutes into overtime, it gave the host Ducks a 3-2 triumph, a 3-2 edge in the best-of-seven series as well as a breakthrough in pressure-packed moments.

With an enhanced confidence, Anaheim can now close out the series with a win in Detroit on Friday.

"We definitely wanted to prove we can play well (in overtimes)," Ducks goalie Jonas Hiller told Reuters after making 29 saves in the win.

"We were talking about it (in the locker room after regulation). We want to keep pushing and put pressure on them. It was great we could finish it off."

The Ducks, who cruised to the Pacific division title in the regular season, had failed to complete the job in previous make-or-break situations during the 2013 postseason.

Anaheim skated with ease in Game One and Game Three wins, but it was the overtime shortcomings in Game Two and Game Four that felt attached to their sticks, and could potentially mean doom.

Those struggles were not lost on the team when faced with a familiar challenge in Game Five.

"You look back at the series, it was definitely relevant that they had scored two OT goals," said Kyle Palmieri who scored in the opening period Wednesday.

"They are really relentless in their pursuit. We wanted to neutralize their chances early."

If Anaheim needed a source of calm in the face of repeated adversity they only had to turn to their ice-in-veins captain, Ryan Getzlaf.

The Ducks' big center was once again a steadying presence. With his team trailing 2-1 in the second period, Getzlaf stole the puck and drew a penalty, then converted a power-play goal to tie the game.

The sequence gave him a team-leading three playoff goals and five points, numbers that are particularly crucial with line mate Corey Perry struggling to get going as he remains goal-less for the playoffs.

Getzlaf and Perry share a deep connection as both have spent their entire careers together with the Ducks and each signed lucrative eight-year contract extensions this season.

Getzlaf's lengthy experience with the franchise, which includes the 2007 Stanley Cup, is proving vital for the rest of the roster in the face of playoff pressure.

"I've tried to have a level of calmness throughout," Getzlaf said. "This might be the first year I've been able to keep my head (calm in the playoffs). A lot of times emotions get the best.

"I've been through a lot, and got to win at a young age and that really helps."

Anaheim coach Bruce Boudreau agreed with his captain.

"When you've been the guy on a team that's won it before, that's important," Boudreau said. "I thought he brought it. Guys followed him. That's what captains do."

The Ducks will be hoping their newfound good vibes travel to Detroit on Friday when they will be greeted by a passionate Red Wings fan base backed by a history of success.

Anaheim, on the other hand, will lean on their most recent history of just two nights earlier. (Editing by Frank Pingue)

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt predicted on Tuesday that there will be more than a billion smartphones in use featuring its Android software within the next six to nine months.

Schmidt also noted that Google had no intention of blocking access to a new app from Facebook Inc, saying he was "phenomenally happy" with the app from Google's rival, which replaces the homescreen on Android phones.

The new Facebook Home app was released on Friday and gives the social networking service prominent placement on Android phones.

Removing Facebook Home from Google's app store would be counter to Google's "public statements, our policies, our religion," Schmidt said at a conference in New York on Tuesday organized by the technology blog AllThingsD.

Because the Android software is open source, companies are free to tinker with it and customize it to their needs. Facebook's Home app prominently displays Facebook's newsfeed and messages on the homescreen, stealing the spotlight from Google's own services such as Web search and maps.

The five-year old Android software has been a huge hit for Google, giving the Internet search company a strong footing with consumers who increasingly access the Web from mobile phones rather than from PCs. Android is now the world's No.1 mobile phone software, with more than 750 million mobile devices featuring Android in use across the world.

At the current rate, Schmidt said that Google should cross the 1 billion mark within six to nine months and will be "nearing 2 billion in a year or two."

Schmidt also said the European Union antitrust regulators were not looking at Android issues and he noted that regulators could be done evaluating a proposal to settle an investigation of the company within the year.

"If that proceeds think it will be a pretty good outcome for everybody," Schmidt said.

The European Commission, which began investigating Google's business practices in 2010, said Google may have violated antitrust rules by pushing its own services over those of rivals, copying travel and restaurant reviews from competing sites without permission and restricting advertisers from moving to competing services.

The world's most popular search engine formally submitted a package of concessions to European regulators last week. Neither the Commission nor Google have given details of the proposals. But people familiar with the matter have told Reuters these could include Google labeling its own services to differentiate them from rivals', and also imposing fewer restrictions on advertisers.

(Reporting By Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Alden Bentley)

ISLA NEGRA, Chile (Reuters) - The body of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, dead nearly four decades, was exhumed on Monday after his former driver said the poet was poisoned under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

Neruda, famed for his passionate love poems and staunch communist views, is presumed to have died from prostate cancer on September 23, 1973.

But Manuel Araya, who was Neruda's chauffer during the ailing writer's last few months, says agents of the dictatorship took advantage of his illness to inject poison into his stomach while he was bedridden at the Santa Maria clinic in Santiago.

"We're hoping for a positive result because Neruda was assassinated. Pinochet made an error when he ordered Neruda be killed," said Araya. Results are expected in coming months.

Neruda was a supporter of socialist President Salvador Allende, who was toppled in a military coup on September 11, 1973, nearly two weeks before the poet's death at age 69. Around 3,000 people are thought to have been killed by the brutal 17-year-long dictatorship that ensued.

Neruda was buried in his coastal home of Isla Negra beside his third wife, Matilde Urrutia.

His remains will be brought to Santiago for analysis. Some samples could be sent to laboratories abroad.

Ricardo Eliecer Neftali Reyes Basoalto, better known by his pen name Pablo Neruda, was a larger-than-life fixture in Chile's literary and political scene.

While best known for his collection "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair," published in 1924, Neruda was also an important political activist during a turbulent time in Chile.

He organized a ship to bring about 2,000 Spanish refugees fleeing the civil war there to Chile in 1939, campaigned for Allende and was ambassador to France during the socialist's presidency.

The Andean country's intelligentsia frequently congregated in Isla Negra, as well as in his Santiago home "La Chascona" - so named for his then-mistress Urrutia's messy red hair - and La Sebastiana, his ship-themed home in the port town of Valparaiso.

Democratically elected Allende committed suicide in the presidential palace as it was under attack by the military, experts confirmed last year, amid accusations he had been murdered during the coup.

Chilean courts are also investigating the death of ex-President Eduardo Frei Montalva, who is presumed to have died in 1982 of an infection after a hernia operation. Some say he was poisoned by Pinochet's agents.

(Reporting By Rodrigo Garrido; Writing by Alexandra Ulmer; Editing by Eric Beech)

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Once there, the work by the U.S. Geological Survey's water expert became part of the data stew the weather service relies upon to regularly update crest projections for rivers like the Red, which rose again this spring to briefly threaten Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn. And the complexity of the science was never more evident than this year, when an early forecast of 40 feet prompted costly sandbagging only to be repeatedly revised downward until the Red barely broke a harmless 33 feet.

The apparent false alarm irritated some residents who questioned why the city spent $2 million preparing for the flood that wasn't. And that irritated Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker, who has sparred with the weather service himself in the past.

"They all become experts," Walaker said. "You can't believe how many times I get stopped throughout the day by people who tell me the water is not going to get to a certain level."

Greg Gust, the weather service's warning coordination meteorologist in Grand Forks, acknowledged the agency had heard criticism of its projections for Fargo. He said it is constantly studying ways to improve its performance, but will always have limitations.

"Many times the weather service is being asked to do the impossible," Gust said. "We're being asked to forecast an unknown situation out into the future. We don't have a perfect knowledge what's going on today in the system, and yet we're supposed to be able to forecast some unknown point in the future where clearly we have no knowledge.

"That said, that's the task of a forecaster."

Flood fights have become routine on the Red River at Fargo, but this one came nearly a month later than ever before due to winter conditions that refused to loosen their grip.

"We don't have anything to go on when these things go on so late," Steve Buan, a weather service hydrologist who works on river forecasts in the region, lamented as the Red was rising.

Flood forecasting in this part of the continent starts with models for determining how much snow is on the ground. Observers record every snowfall. But it's even more important to figure out how much water is in that snowpack, which requires melting samples. It can also be done by going airborne to measure the natural radiation coming from the soil a factor affected by the water in the snowpack.

Next up is more modeling on what will happen when the snow melts, which includes a dizzying number of variables. Is the ground frozen? How deep? How much moisture is in the soil?

Months of drought worked in Fargo's favor this year. So did a freeze-thaw cycle that melted snow and warmed the soil during the day giving runoff a place to go and then slowed or stopped the melting overnight.

Weather service hydrologists get data on snow depth, water content, frost depths and soil moisture levels from many different sources, including their network of observers. That network has been bolstered in the Red River Valley over the last couple years by several high schools and middle schools participating in the River Watch program of the Fargo-based International Water Institute.

The students melt snow samples to see how much water is in their local snowpack, institute director Chuck Fritz said. They use frost tubes placed in the ground that contain chemicals that change color to show how deep the frost goes. And they use infiltration rings to measure how fast the ground can absorb water.

Wayne Goeken, a monitoring and education specialist with the institute, explained how infiltration rings work. They drive a 10-inch ring of PVC pipe about 2 inches into the ground in the fall. Then when the ground starts to thaw in the spring, students pour 4 inches of water into the ring and use a ruler to measure at one minute, three minutes, five minutes and longer intervals whether and how fast the water soaks into the ground. Then the schools feed that data to the weather service.

Forecasters run actual and predicted rainfall through their models, Buan said. They use more modeling tools for how the water will flow downstream. And they have to take into account potential changes in how much water is held back in reservoirs, such as Lake Traverse at the southern end of the Red River watershed.

Once forecasters have an idea of how much water is coming, their models also tell them about the relationship between the projected stream flows and how high the river will be at any given flow rate, which ultimately helps them predict how high the river will rise.

Most of those broad principles hold true for most river systems, Buan said. Perhaps the biggest difference between forecasting the Red and more southerly systems like the Mississippi's is the need to account for frost in the ground in northern states and how it affects runoff rates, he said. The different topography is also a factor. The Red River Valley has almost no slope; the Mississippi has considerably more.

Predicting flooding on the East and West Coasts is a bit different from the nation's midsection, he said. The Mississippi River watershed drains most of the country between the Appalachians and the Rockies, so floods in it tend to last longer. Eastern watersheds tend to be smaller and steeper so the floods come up quickly and fall quickly. Western rivers are often heavily dammed.

Thomas, the USGS hydrologist who was working on the Red earlier this week, said he finds the work fascinating.

"To me, just to see how deep the river is and how fast it is flowing is interesting," Thomas said.

And Goerken said he reminds students that what they're doing isn't just an academic exercise.

"Maybe you can't be there laying sandbags in Fargo, but this is a valuable contribution to the flood fight, too, so people know what's coming their way," he said.

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Karnowski reported from Minneapolis. Associated Press writer Doug Glass also contributed from Minneapolis.

Once they saw Ron Rolston in charge, those plans quickly changed.

Rolston was hired as head coach of the Sabres on Tuesday, dropping the interim title he was given on Feb. 20. He becomes the 16th head coach in Sabres history.

"When we first brought Ron in as the interim coach that was the intention, to interview other candidates," Sabres general manager Darcy Regier said. "As it progressed and seeing Ron's interaction with the team, both as a teacher and a motivator ... for me personally it became more and more evident that he was a very good fit not only for the present but for the future."

Rolston was the only candidate considered for the job by the Sabres. He led Buffalo to a 15-11-5 record after being promoted from Buffalo's AHL affiliate, the Rochester Americans. The team began the season with a 6-10-1 start that led to the firing of Ruff, the longtime Sabres coach. Ruff spent 16 years as coach of the Sabres and 10 years as a player.

"It's both exciting and humbling to be the head coach of such a great organization," Rolston said. "For me, coming in as an interim coach, it's allowed me the opportunity to get familiar with the organization, the players, the capabilities and the potential here."

The 46-year-old Rolston is known for his teaching abilities and attention to detail. He joined the Sabres organization in 2011 as coach of the Americans after spending seven seasons as head coach of USA Hockey's national team development program. During that time, he became first coach to lead the U.S. Under-18 team to win three gold medals (2005, 2009, 2011).

He faces a difficult task in Buffalo. Rolston is charged with improving a team that has fallen on hard times after missing the postseason in four of the past six years. Last week at the season-ending press conference, Regier used the words "patience" and "suffering" while discussing the long-term turnaround.

"In life I think the big thing is struggling isn't an option, I think it's a requirement," Rolston said. "From where we're at, patience is a really hard thing for our society in general, especially with the fans in Buffalo, what kind of team they want to have. They expect something that we're going to provide for them.

"So the patience is in the process of how we have to go about that and how we have to keep moving on the path that we're on."

Rolston takes over a young Sabres team that could get even younger. The status of Buffalo's two best players, goalie Ryan Miller and leading scorer Thomas Vanek, is in question as the Sabres begin the rebuilding process. Regier hasn't ruled out trading one or both as they enter the final year of their contracts.

"We would love to have them be a part of our opening day lineup, but they have decisions to make and from there the organization has to make decisions on how to move from that," Rolston said.

Rolston has a multi-year contract that began when he took over as interim coach, Regier said. Neither would disclose the exact length of the deal.

Rolston expects to pick the rest of his coaching staff within the next week.

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Specifically all devices running the BlackBerry 10 Enterprise System and Android Knox now meet the DoD's Security Technology Implementation Guide. And iOS 6 should get the okay in coming weeks. As of right now that includes a small roster of phones: The two new BlackBerry's—the Z and Q10s—and the Samsung Galaxy S IV. BlackBerry has maintained a high enough level of security to appease the likes of the Pentagon for some time. But, what makes Knox and iOS 6 good enough now?

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Borrowing a feature from BlackBerry, Samsung now lets IT admins to keep work and personal information separate using what it calls "partitions." Workers no longer have to lug around two gadgets. Security Enhanced (SE) Android, as its called, creates a container that separates out business from personal use. When you turn on the phone, Knox will launch with certain apps such as email, contact, calendar, and file sharing. Each of those programs are isolated and encrypted at all times, which means it meets the high security standards for sending internal emails. 

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Administrators can't access any programs not in that bin, but have complete control over those ones in Knox. That also means when someone leaves the company they can remote wipe just the corporate secrets part. 

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With all the hacking going on all over the place, Secure Boot prevents any non-verified apps from running on the device. Which is especially important on Android phones, which aren't known for their security. This will prevent any malicious programs from compromising a business's security.

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If a device is lost or stolen, the software not only track it, but it can recover all the lost information. Even if a thief resets the device, using the security system , the administrator can pull a new copy of the lost information out of firmware. .

If and when the Pentagon approves Apple phones, it would block access to the App store, iMessage and Safari because they post a security risk, .  Employees will instead get a special Pentagon approved browser that will be routed through their servers. 

Busch said Tuesday after she voted in Mount Pleasant that she is predicting victory.

Colbert Busch, the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert (kohl-BEHR'), plans to spend the rest of the day manning phone banks to get out the vote in South Carolina's 1st Congressional District. Although the district is Republican on paper, the race is considered close.

Sanford is trying to make a political comeback after his career was sidelined by scandal four years ago. He said earlier that if he loses Tuesday, he will not again seek public office.

That includes being mentally tough enough for the verbal abuse he'll surely hear in places like Philadelphia, where the San Diego Chargers play their first road game next season, and Oakland's infamous "Black Hole."

"After the couple months I've been through, I think I'm pretty prepared," Te'o said Saturday in his introductory news conference. "As far as going into another stadium, you can't worry about that stuff. You're with your family, you're with your brothers out there. That's all that matters. That's all you can really pay attention to. Yeah, it's a football game, and you play with the guys that you've prepared with, and you focus on what's important, and that's making sure that when the Chargers walk off, we're victorious."

The Chargers' rookie brain trust, general manager Tom Telesco and coach Mike McCoy, said they weren't bothered by the scrutiny Te'o has been under the last four months. The Chargers traded up in the second round to pick the star Notre Dame linebacker.

Te'o visited with Telesco and McCoy in San Diego before the draft and gave his version of what happened with the girlfriend hoax and his poor play in Notre Dame's blowout loss to Alabama in the national championship game.

"I just concentrate on me being me," said Te'o, who seemed relaxed in facing the media. "What I learned from that is you can control certain things and you can't control other things. So, learn to control the things you can and leave the things you can't control up to those people. I was just happy to get out there and share my side of the story, to just tell them that hey, what happened was what happened and what I'm here to do is play football. Hopefully guys saw that."

Te'o said Friday that he had expected to go in the first round on Thursday night. He was with his family in Hawaii when the first round came and went without him being drafted. The Chargers took him with the 38th pick overall after trading spots in the second round with Arizona and giving the Cardinals their fourth-round pick.

Te'o said he's been welcomed by his new teammates, with quarterback Philip Rivers being the first to text him with congratulations. He's even getting on well with Alabama right tackle D.J. Fluker, the Chargers' first-round pick.

Te'o became the butt of national jokes after it was revealed he was duped into an Internet romance with a girlfriend he never met.

The too-good-to-be-true story began with Te'o's incredible performances after learning his grandmother and what he believed was his girlfriend had died within hours of one another in September. Te'o said it inspired him to play his best football all season, and it was so compelling that it helped turn Te'o into a Heisman Trophy contender as he was leading the Fighting Irish to an undefeated regular season and into the national title game.

On Dec. 26, Te'o notified Notre Dame officials that he had received a call from his supposedly dead girlfriend's phone three weeks earlier.

The school investigated and after Deadspin.com broke the story of the fake girlfriend athletic director Jack Swarbrick announced at a news conference that Te'o had been duped. Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, 22, later said he created the online persona of Lennay Kekua, a nonexistent woman who Te'o said he fell in love with despite never meeting her in person.

Te'o struggled in Notre Dame's loss to in the national championship game to Alabama and its offense full of future NFL draft picks.

One of those players, Fluker, was drafted by the Chargers with the 11th overall pick Thursday night. Fluker posed for a group photo with Te'o and California wide receiver Keenan Allen, the Chargers' third-round pick. Fluker then stood to the side as Allen and then Te'o answered questions.

"He's one of the funniest dudes in the world," Te'o said of Fluker. "Having D.J. on our team and the energy he brings to the game, if you watch him on the field he's one of the meanest dudes but off the field he's one of the coolest guys to get to know. Now we're here and Keenan's here. We all knew each other before we came here. We're very lucky to be here."

Te'o said he's dealt with the circus the last few months by "just finding time for myself. I found time for myself with my family. I found a lot of peace and a lot of joy just hanging out with my friends, hanging out with my family. Me going back to Hawaii was the best thing that happened to me, just to be around my family."

What should people know about him?

"I'm just a regular 22-year-old kid," Te'o said. "I just love to hang out with friends, love to play football. Just normal. Just like everybody else."

Te'o said his biggest influences were the late Junior Seau, who starred with San Diego for 13 seasons, and Ray Lewis, who retired after leading Baltimore to the Super Bowl win against San Francisco.

"It starts off with Junior," Te'o said. "Me being a Polynesian-Samoan kid, you look up to Junior. He's a Samoan man who was a trailblazer for kids like me. Everybody knows what Ray Lewis does, not only as a player but what he does as a teammate, rallying his guys, being that leader. When he says something, people listen. I've always watched that, the enthusiasm, energy and tenacity."

The Congressional Medal of Honor Society said it chose Rachel D'Avino, Dawn Hochsprung, Anne Marie Murphy, Lauren Rousseau, Mary Sherlach and Victoria Soto to receive its Citizen Honors Medal, the highest award it gives to a civilian, after receiving dozens of nominations for their actions during the shooting.

The women exemplified courage, sacrifice and selflessness in trying to protect students from gunman Adam Lanza, the society said in announcing the honor.

The organization also planned to honor every other member of the school's staff with a Certificate of Commendation.

"Many teachers and staff members disregarded their own safety that day to hide and protect the children in their care," said Harold Fritz, the society's president.

The society honored four other people with the award this year. They received their medals during an annual ceremony on March 25 at Arlington National Cemetery.

The society decided to honor the Sandy Hook heroes separately and arranged to present the awards to family members at Monday's ceremony inside Newtown High School.