Report: Bahrain police search home of top cleric

May 15 (Reuters) - Post positions for the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes, to be run at Pimlico on Saturday (Post Position, Horse, Jockey, Trainer, Odds) 1. Orb, Joel Rosario, Shug McGaughey, even 2. Goldencents, Kevin Krigger, Doug O'Neill, 8-1 3. Titletown Five, Julien Leparoux, D. Wayne Lukas, 30-1 4. Departing, Brian Hernandez, Al Stall, 6-1 5. Mylute, Rosie Napravnik, Tom Amoss, 5-1 6. Oxbow, Gary Stevens, D. Wayne Lukas, 15-1 7. Will Take Charge, Mike Smith, D. Wayne Lukas, 12-1 8. Govenor Charlie, Martin Garcia, Bob Baffert, 12-1 9. ...

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95 calorie pesto pasta (nutritious, vegan and gluten-free!) + ...

I?m full, which is weird! ? me

I am trying SO hard to eat well right now, but it?s pretty easy to stray.

Tonight I had a meal that felt really greedy but was actually pretty much as innocent as you can get. This dish uses an amazing pasta that?s available in health food shops and contains only 7.7 calories per 100g. It?s very chewy, which takes some getting used to, but it?s worth it for the lovely feeling of being full without the guilt.

The ?pesto? is super easy to make too and uses savoury yeast for flavour and nutrition, liquid aminos for a truly vegan seasoning, while fresh basil, baby spinach and garlic give that classic pesto flavour.

I?m really pleased with the results. If you?re vegan, coeliac, or on the 5:2 diet, this is a perfect dish for those days when you need something filling.

Here?s what to do (feeds one):

Ingredients

• 60g baby spinach (14 calories)
• 1 pack of Slim Pasta spaghetti (16 calories)
• 1/2 tsp olive oil (20 calories)
• 8 tsp water (0 calories)
• 1 rounded tbsp Engevita savoury yeast condiment with B12 (40 calories)
• 1 small handful fresh basil (2 calories)
• 1 spray of Liquid Aminos vegan soy sauce alternative (1 calorie)
• 1/2 clove garlic (1 calorie)

(Calories are estimated)

Instructions

1. In a large pan over a low heat, put the spinach, basil, oil, and garlic and half the water and cook until totally wilted ? add the rest of the water if it goes dry
2. Tip into a blender, add the liquid aminos and blitz for a few seconds
3. Drain and wash the ?pasta?, then cook over a medium heat for 2-3 minutes
4. Stir the sauce through and serve

Simple, yummy, filling. Will you try it?

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You share the goods, then I generally go round reading, commenting, Stumbling, Pinning and drooling over everyone?s entries. It?s that simple. So just link up below and let?s share the love.

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ShopSavvy Expands Its Mobile Shopping App to Focus on Product ...

ShopSavvy, the world's leading mobile shopping platform, today announced an all-new version 7.0.1 of the mobile shopping app that delivers a better shopping experience than ever before on iOS mobile devices. New features include completely redesigned navigation, easier list creation and improved look and feel, as well as enhanced exploratory features to find top products within the ShopSavvy community on both the iPhone and iPad.

The popular mobile shopping app retains its core value of helping people save money, but with this redesign ShopSavvy enters into the larger product discovery space.

"ShopSavvy has been successful in giving users what they want - the lowest prices on the products they need - but this update takes that a step further by showing them new products they might not know they want or need based on the items for which they've scanned and searched," said Chris Makarsky, vice president of product at ShopSavvy. "This redesign caters to the traditional, in-store window shoppers who are interested in looking at items and learning more by visually seeing new products."

By updating ShopSavvy on their iOS mobile devices, users can take advantage of its many new features, including:

* Categories that give users the ability to see the top trending products within the ShopSavvy community, including books, movies, electronics, video games and more
* Cleaner and simpler navigation that provides easier list viewing, product scanning and searching, history viewing and user profile access
* Larger, more prominent and higher-resolution product images to make browsing even easier
* Improved product and category lists through a user experience enhancement that allows shoppers to easily create, view and update lists by swiping from screen-to-screen and dragging and dropping products into the lists.

ShopSavvy's update not only helps consumers by providing new information on products they may not know about, but also benefits retailers and brands looking to reach new consumers through mobile advertising.

The redesign is the latest in a series of moves by ShopSavvy intended to continually improve the mobile experience for shoppers and help businesses of all kinds bridge the gap between themselves and their target audiences in new and innovative ways.

ShopSavvy 7.0.1 is Free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Utilities category.

Source: http://www.appcraver.com/app-news/shopsavvy-expands-its-mobile-shopping-app-to-focus-on-product-discovery/

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At least 6 confirmed dead in Texas tornado

GRANBURY, Texas (AP) ? At least six people were killed Wednesday as a spring tornado outbreak devastated parts of North Texas, destroying or damaging dozens of homes and injuring dozens of people.

The worst-hit city Wednesday was Granbury, where authorities say a deadly tornado tore through two neighborhoods about 8 p.m. Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds delivered the death toll at a midnight news conference.

"Some were found in houses. Some were found around houses," Deeds said. He also said the total could climb as crews pick through the rubble of shattered homes.

About 50 people were taken to a Granbury hospital, where 14 were admitted for treatment of injuries and two were transferred to a hospital in Fort Worth, about 35 miles to the northeast, Deeds said.

As many as 100 people were injured, said Matt Zavadsky, spokesman for MedStar Mobile Healthcare. His company sent three ambulances and a medical bus from its Fort Worth base to Granbury.

Deeds said officials were trying to account for 14 people, but it was not clear if they were missing or were away from the area for other reasons.

Hardest hit were two neighborhoods, Rancho Brazos Estates and DeCordova Ranch, in the southern end of the town of about 8,000 residents about 65 miles southwest of Dallas.

Ambulances from as far away as Fort Worth were being called to Granbury, said Tye Bell, Richland Hills police spokesman who was heading to Granbury on Wednesday night.

Rancho Brazos Estates resident Elizabeth Tovar said she rode out the tornado with her husband and sister as she clutched her 9-month-old daughter.

"We heard the winds whipping and glass smashing everywhere," said Tovar, 25. "I felt like a long time and when things died down I looked up and saw that the roof was gone."

Another resident of that neighborhood, Allacia Jenny, said she witnessed devastation in her neighborhood.

"The house across from mine looked like it was destroyed," said Jenny, 22.

Toppled large trees litter her yard, and "I saw power lines all over the place," she said.

At Stumpy's Lakeside Grill in Lake Granbury, the storm took diners and workers by surprise. Some people rushed inside from the patio and ducked under tables as the wind gusts and hail started, but nobody was injured, said Eric Martinez, a cook. Then they looked across the lake and saw several homeowners' boat docks "just get torn apart," he said.

"The boat docks just flew off, and they're actually gone," Martinez said, adding that the boards and other debris landed in some yards.

The same storm spawned another tornado that storm spotters told the National Weather Service was a mile wide. That twister tore through the southwestern quadrant of Cleburne, a courthouse city of about 30,000 about 25 miles southeast of Granbury.

There were no reports of deaths in that storm, Cleburne Mayor Scott Cain said, "but we do have the potential for some injuries." He had no estimates.

Cain had no estimate on the number of homes damaged, but he said he expected the number to soar into the dozens based on his inspection of damage ranging from roof damage to total destruction.

Another tornado hit the small town of Millsap, about 40 miles west of Fort Worth. Parker County Judge Mark Kelley said roof damage was reported to several houses and a barn was destroyed, but no injuries were reported.

Hail as large as grapefruit also pelted the area around Mineral Wells on Wednesday evening. A police dispatcher reported only minor damage.

___

Wallace reported from Dallas. Associated Press writers Angela K. Brown and Jamie Stengle in Dallas also contributed.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/least-6-confirmed-dead-texas-tornado-051752213.html

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Washington State Pot Proposal Sets Licenses At $1,000 Per Year Cost

Former President Bill Clinton

Bill "Didn't Inhale" Clinton has supported decriminalizing marijuana for more than a decade and more recently has spoken out against the war on drugs. ?I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be," he said back in 2000 in an <a href="http://norml.org/news/2000/12/07/president-clinton-states-marijuana-should-be-decriminalized" target="_blank">interview with Rolling Stone</a>. "We really need a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment.? He's since spoken about the issue of marijuana and drug prohibition a number of times. Last year, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-angell/bill-clinton-drug-war_b_2271885.html" target="_blank">he appeared</a> in the documentary, "Breaking the Taboo," where he argued that the war on drugs has been a failure.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)

Paul exhibited his libertarian tendencies earlier this year when he explained that he'd favor reforming marijuana laws to either decriminalize or reduce penalties for possession. ?I don't want to promote that but I also don't want to put people in jail who make a mistake," Paul <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/24/rand-paul-marijuana_n_2945307.html" target="_blank">said</a>. "There are a lot of young people who do this and then later on in their twenties they grow up and get married and they quit doing things like this. I don't want to put them in jail and ruin their lives."

Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas)

As a congressman, Paul took his opposition to marijuana and drug prohibition a step farther than his son has so far. He supported a number of bills that would have removed the plant from its current status as a Schedule I substance under federal law, where it is considered alongside heroin and PCP. Because his history on the topic is so expansive, just take a look at the video to the left for a selection of his comments.

Evangelist Pat Robertson

While the 83-year-old Robertson may say a lot of things that make him sound like a kooky old man, he's also made a few remarks to endear himself to marijuana advocates. "I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol," Robertson said in an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/us/pat-robertson-backs-legalizing-marijuana.html" target="_blank">interview with The New York Times</a> in 2012. "I've never used marijuana and I don't intend to, but it's just one of those things that I think: this war on drugs just hasn't succeeded." Robertson has made similar remarks on his "700 Club" show before, but the Times, like many others, perhaps felt they must have misheard him.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg

In a state of the city address earlier this year, Bloomberg made it clear that he supported a <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/press/01092013sostranscript" target="_blank">promise</a> by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to push marijuana decriminalization. "I support Governor Cuomo's proposal to make possession of small amounts of marijuana a violation, rather than a misdemeanor, and we'll work to help him pass it." A <a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/03/22/nyc_marijuana_reform_hits_pot_hole.php" target="_blank">similar effort specific to NYC</a> has made some progress, but faces an unclear path forward with New York lawmakers.

Actor Bryan Cranston

Some may think of Cranston as more of a meth guy thanks to Walter White, his character on AMC's hit show "Breaking Bad," but in real life he's spoken out against current pot laws, suggesting that recreational marijuana use isn't a big deal -- and shouldn't be treated like it. ?[T]o me, marijuana is no different than wine," he said in an <a href="http://hightimes.com/read/high-times-interview-bryan-cransto" target="_blank">interview with High Times</a>. "It's a drug of choice. It's meant to alter your current state -- and that's not a bad thing. It's ridiculous that marijuana is still illegal. We're still fighting for it ... It comes down to individual decision-making. There are millions of people who smoke pot on a social basis and don't become criminals. So stop with that argument -- it doesn't work.? <a href="http://marijuanamajority.com/?id=72" target="_blank">[H/T Marijuana Majority]</a>

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson (R)

Unlike many politicians, Johnson, a Libertarian presidential candidate in 2012, has <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/meet-gary-johnson-ron-paul-2012_520775.html" target="_blank">unabashedly admitted using marijuana</a>. But beyond his personal history with pot, he's been an outspoken advocate for legalizing and taxing it. From his <a href="https://www.garyjohnson2012.com/issues/drug-policy-reform" target="_blank">campaign platform</a>: "By managing marijuana like alcohol and tobacco - regulating, taxing and enforcing its lawful use - America will be better off. The billions saved on marijuana interdiction, along with the billions captured as legal revenue, can be redirected against the individuals committing real crimes against society."

Author Stephen King

King hasn't been shy about advocating for a legal marijuana industry that could give easy access to recreational users and revenue to the states. ?Marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry," he said in an interview with <a href="http://hightimes.com/read/interview-stephen-king-1981" target="_blank">High Times</a>. "My wife says, and I agree with her, that what would be really great for Maine would be to legalize dope completely and set up dope stores the way that there are state-run liquor stores.? <a href="http://marijuanamajority.com/?id=92" target="_blank">[H/T Marijuana Majority]</a>

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.)

Rohrabacher is a co-sponsor of the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/12/respect-state-marijuana-laws-act_n_3070501.html" target="_blank">"Respect State Marijuana Laws Act,"</a> which seeks to protect marijuana users or businesses acting legally according to state marijuana laws from being prosecuted under the federal Controlled Substances Act. While marijuana has been made legal for various uses in a number of states, the Obama administration continues to enforce federal laws across the nation. This has led to numerous raids of marijuana-based businesses, as well as prosecutions of growers and other people involved in pot. Washington and Colorado, where marijuana has been legalized for recreational use, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/26/doj-marijuana-policy_n_2766959.html" target="_blank">have still not received information</a> from the federal government on how it intends to respond to their implementation of a legal pot economy.

Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska)

Young is also a co-sponsor of the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/12/respect-state-marijuana-laws-act_n_3070501.html" target="_blank">"Respect State Marijuana Laws Act."</a> Hopefully <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/29/don-young-apology_n_2978242.html" target="_blank">he'll choose his words carefully</a> when explaining who he thinks should grow marijuana.

Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.)

Amash is also a co-sponsor of the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/12/respect-state-marijuana-laws-act_n_3070501.html" target="_blank">"Respect State Marijuana Laws Act."</a>

Conservative Commentator Glenn Beck

Back in 2009, when Beck had a Fox News show, he suggested that marijuana legalization could be a worthwhile solution to raging drug violence on the nation's border with Mexico. "I think it's about time we legalize marijuana," he said. "We have to make a choice in this country. We either put people who are smoking marijuana behind bars or we legalize it, but this little game we're playing in the middle is not helping us, it is not helping Mexico and it is causing massive violence on our southern border."

Billionaire Richard Branson

From an <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-branson/to-win-the-drug-war-follow-the-states_b_1852870.html" target="_blank">op-ed by Branson</a> arguing for an end to the war on drugs: "Decriminalization does not result in increased drug use. Portugal's 10 year experiment shows clearly that enough is enough. It is time to end the war on drugs worldwide. We must stop criminalising drug users. Health and treatment should be offered to drug users - not prison. Bad drugs policies affect literally hundreds of thousands of individuals and communities across the world. We need to provide medical help to those that have problematic use - not criminal retribution."

GOP Mega-Donor David Koch

Koch may have funneled countless dollars to conservative candidates who oppose reforming marijuana laws, but back in 1980, when he was the vice presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party, he <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ueUCAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA18&dq=criminalst&pg=PA20#v=twopage&q&f=false" target="_blank">suggested</a> that it was "ridiculous" to consider people who smoked pot "criminals."

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R)

In 2010, Perry told Jon Stewart that he believed in a federalist approach to marijuana laws -- that is, to allow states to determine their own approach and to tell the federal government to butt out.

Comedy Central's Jon Stewart

Stewart has made a habit of taking down politicians who exhibit an uncompromising stance on marijuana prohibition. In 2012, Stewart took New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) to task for vetoing a marijuana decriminalization bill. ?Alright, as much as I disagree, I don?t think marijuana should be illegal, but it is illegal on the federal level," Stewart began. "Christie is a former prosecutor, a man of conviction, of principle, doesn?t believe that the state should supersede federal law." The praise in the second sentence is a good sign that Stewart is about to shred Christie. Watch the rest of his takedown to the left.

Actor Jack Nicholson

In an <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1350653/Jack-Nicholson-I-used-feel-irresistible-women-Not-more.html#ixzz24C0fOK6Q" target="_blank">interview with the UK's Daily Mail</a> in 2011, Nicholson said that he personally still used marijuana, before making the case for ending the prohibition on pot as well as other drugs. "I don't tend to say this publicly, but we can see it's a curative thing. The narcotics industry is also enormous. It funds terrorism and - this is a huge problem in America - fuels the foreign gangs," he said. "More than 85 percent of men incarcerated in America are on drug-related offences. It costs $40,000 a year for every prisoner. If they were really serious about the economy there would be a sensible discussion about legalization."

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman (R)

In a 2013 <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/marriage-equality-is-a-conservative-cause485/" target="_blank">American Conservative op-ed</a> chock full of moderate Republican views, Huntsman snuck in a call to "applaud states that lead on reforming drug policy." While Obama and his <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/17/drug-czar-no-state-can-nullify-federal-marijuana-ban/" target="_blank">administration</a> have responded to state marijuana reforms by saying they must enforce federal laws against marijuana, the president has the power to reschedule the drug, which would allow federal authorities to shift resources away from a prohibitive approach.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R)

Palin spoke out on marijuana in 2010, saying she didn't support legalizing it but also calling it a "minimal problem" for the nation. "However, I think we need to prioritize our law enforcement efforts," Palin said. "If somebody's gonna smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody any harm, then perhaps there are other things our cops should be looking at to engage in and try to clean up some of the other problems we have in society." While Obama has spoken repeatedly about not being interested in prosecuting small-time marijuana users, he hasn't done anything to prevent them from being busted by law enforcement in states where the drug is still illegal.

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel

Kimmel notably took a shot at Obama while serving as host of the 2012 White House Correspondents Dinner, questioning a continued marijuana crackdown under the president's administration. He then <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/28/jimmy-kimmel-whcd-pot_n_1462140.html" target="_blank">went on to say</a> that the issue of its continued illegality was a serious political concern for many Americans. <em>(Check out the video to the left.)</em>

Former President Jimmy Carter

Carter hasn't minced words in expressing his opposition to harsh marijuana and drug prohibition policies. In 2012, the former president <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/jimmy-carter-marijuana_n_2283989.html" target="_blank">said he was fine</a> with state legalization efforts, though he himself doesn't necessary support legalizing the drug. ?As president 35 years ago I called for decriminalizing -- but not legalizing -- the possession of marijuana,? Carter <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/jimmy-carter-decriminalize-pot" target="_blank">said</a>. ?Since then, U.S. drug policies have been very horrible to our own country because of an explosion in prison populations.?

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli

A staunch conservative currently running for Virginia governor, Cuccinelli suggested earlier this year that he was "evolving" on marijuana legalization, and that he supported the rights of states to determine their own pot laws. "I don't have a problem with states experimenting with this sort of thing I think that's the role of states," Cuccinelli said, according to <a href="http://www.nbc12.com/story/21079505/cuccinelli-open-to-legalizing-marijuana" target="_blank">Ryan Nobles of WWBT</a>. For more on Cuccinelli's "evolving" views on pot, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/08/ken-cuccinelli-marijuana_n_2647028.html" target="_blank">click here</a>.

Columnist Dan Savage

Savage slammed Obama for perpetuating the war on drugs while on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher" in 2009. ?The proof will be in the policy. The war on drugs has gotten a really bad rap, when you ask people if they support the war on drugs they say no ... [Obama's] budget once again has the same old drug warrior policy ... I reject the assumption that everybody who is using drugs needs treatment or is an addict and needs to get arrested ... Not all drug use is abuse.? He's <a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/06/02/the-war-on-drugs" target="_blank">kept up the fight</a> for drug policy reform since. <a href="http://marijuanamajority.com/?id=765" target="_blank">[H/T Marijuana Majority]</a>

MSNBC's Al Sharpton

Sharpton has repeatedly spoken out in favor of reforming drug laws. In 2011, he suggested that the nation had wasted trillions of dollars in an ill-fated effort that had weighed particularly heavily on the African American community. ?We've been fighting the war on drugs since the '60s. And guess what? Trillions of dollars later, we are losing," Sharpton said during a segment on MSNBC. "When you look at the disparities in sentencing drug offenders, hasn't this kind of injustice undermined the legitimacy of our criminal justice system?? <a href="http://marijuanamajority.com/?id=430" target="_blank">[H/T Marijuana Majority]</a>

Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.)

Tancredo came out aggressively in favor of reforming marijuana laws in 2010, <a href="http://coloradoindependent.com/62723/tancredo-calls-for-legalizing-marijuana" target="_blank">telling the Colorado Independent</a> that the correct path forward was "Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it." Tancredo continued, ?The arguments against marijuana today are the same as the arguments against liquor years ago.? Years later, the former congressman agreed to smoke pot on camera with a documentary filmmaker, a deal that he <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/28/tom-tancredo-backs-out-of_n_2567360.html" target="_blank">later backed out of</a>.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/17/washington-state-pot_n_3289176.html

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NASA Says Kepler's Planet-Searching Days May Be Numbered

Kepler-22b, the discovery of which was announced in December 2011, is one of many planets that bear the space telescope's name.

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Kepler-22b, the discovery of which was announced in December 2011, is one of many planets that bear the space telescope's name.

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The planet-hunting career of NASA's Kepler spacecraft might be near its end.

Astronomers said Wednesday that a reaction wheel that keeps the orbiting telescope pointed at tiny, distant patches of sky to look for Earth-like planets has failed. If they can't fix it, Kepler will be relegated to a less prestigious mission, directing its gaze much closer to home in a search for so-called "near-Earth objects," i.e., meteors and asteroids.

As NPR's Geoffrey Brumfiel reports, Kepler, launched in 2009, was designed to "monitor 100,000 stars in a single patch of sky. It looked for tiny eclipses of Earth-like planets."

And it's done an amazing job in the past four years, Brumfiel says:

"Just last month, scientists announced the spacecraft had seen three new planets around distant stars. But Kepler has also been aging and mission managers now say it can no longer focus on the patch of sky it had been watching."

Bill Borucki, Kepler's principal investigator, says the space telescope has given his team plenty of potential planets to study.

"We have at least two years of work ahead of us with the data we already have," Borucki says.

While Kepler still has some life in it, scientists say it could use its remaining maneuvering fuel to watch out for asteroids like 2012 DA 14, which brushed past Earth in February, and (coincidentally) the meteor that slammed into Russia at almost exactly the same time.

Kepler has identified 115 planets and has a list of 2,740 other candidates. It has concentrated on stars in the constellations Cygnus and Lyra, "looking for dips in starlight caused by planets passing, or transiting, in front of their suns," according to The New York Times:

"Since Earth transits only once a year, two more years would have given astronomers a chance to see more transits of the planets they are looking for. Without the extra time, the data will be noisy, astronomers say, and so the answer will be a little more uncertain than it might have been.

" 'It was one of those things that was a gift to humanity,' said one astronomer who spoke on condition of anonymity because NASA had not yet made the news public. 'We're all going to lose for sure.' "

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/05/15/184287135/nasa-says-keplers-planet-searching-days-may-be-numbered?ft=1&f=1007

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At Cannes, Watson revels in post-'Potter' freedom

Actor Emma Watson poses for photographers during a photo call for the film The Bling Ring at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Actor Emma Watson poses for photographers during a photo call for the film The Bling Ring at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Actress Emma Watson poses for photographers during a photo call for the film The Bling Ring at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

From right, actors Emma Watson, Claire Julien, director Sofia Coppola, and actor Taissa Fariga pose for photographers during a photo call for the film The Bling Ring at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Actor Emma Watson poses for photographers during a photo call for the film The Bling Ring at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

From left, actors Emma Watson, Claire Julien and director Sofia Coppola pose for photographers during a photo call for the film The Bling Ring at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

CANNES, France (AP) ? Emma Watson is reveling in her post-"Potter" freedom at the Cannes Film Festival, relishing a Valley Girl role far from her wise-beyond-her-years Hermione.

The 23-year-old "Harry Potter" actress stars in Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring," which premiered Thursday at the French Riviera festival. The British actress plays a celebrity-obsessed, thickly accented Los Angeles teenager who, with a group of friends, burgles Hollywood stars such as Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan.

At Cannes, Watson told reporters that while she remains proud of her work on the "Potter" films, they now feel long ago.

"I'm not trying to run away from it," she said. "I've just had an amazing three or four years. I'm really re-enjoying having the chance to transform into new roles and work with new creative people."

"The Bling Ring" is based on a Vanity Fair article about the true story of teenagers who robbed celebrities like Paris Hilton and Orlando Bloom while they were out at premieres and other events. The character Watson plays, Nicki, is modeled on Alexis Neiers, who starred in the reality series "Pretty Wild."

Watson said she watched American TV shows like "The Hills," ''Keeping up With the Kardashians" and "The World According to Paris" to prepare for the role.

"It'd be very easy for Nicki to feel like a parody," Watson said. "Somehow I had to understand and empathize with her and that was really biggest challenge, second to getting the accent down. It's quite a specific dialect."

Since the "Harry Potter" films concluded in 2011 with the second part of "Deathly Hallows," Watson has gravitated to more adult films, including last year's coming-of-age tale "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" and Darren Aronofsky's Biblical epic "Noah," which recently finished shooting. She also makes a cameo as herself in this summer's "This is the End," an apocalyptic comedy.

"For Emma, it was, I think, really interesting to see an actress that you've seen in other things really transform into a completely difficult character," Coppola said.

Young actors often treat Cannes as a coming-out-party, a place to introduce themselves on a more artistically-minded stage. Watson shined with enthusiasm for her experience with the improvisation-friendly Coppola.

"I could work in a way that was a lot more loose than I was used to," said Watson. "I'm used to really having to stick to my lines because a lot of people know them by heart."

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