Sunday, August 4, 2013

Tiny Wandering Spider Discovered in Laos

Scientists have discovered a new spider species in Laos, in Southeast Asia.

The spider, dubbed Ctenus monaghani, was discovered crawling across a researchers path while he was filming a nature documentary called "Wild Things."

The unobtrusive little creature measures just 0.4 inches (1 centimeter) across and is part of a genus of wandering spiders, meaning it catches prey without weaving a web. Instead, wandering spiders typically prowl the jungle floors at night, pounce on unsuspecting prey and deliver a deadly sting.

Southeast Asia is teeming with biodiversity. Scientists have discovered several endangered frog species in Laos in recent years. Southeast Asia is also home to several endangered lizard species, such as the Komodo dragon.

Peter J?ger, an arachnologist at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, was filming "Wild Things" when he noticed the little spider scurry across his path.

J?ger decided to name the species after Dominic Monaghan, an actor in the movie.

This isn't the only spider that J?ger has discovered while filming his documentary. In 2012, the researcher found the daddy of all daddy longlegs, an arachnid with 13-inch-long (33 centimeters) leg span was found lurking in caves in the country as well. The longest daddy longlegs every found had a leg span of 13.4 inches (34 cm).

And there are likely many more undiscovered spider species in Laos. Scientists estimate that about half of all species haven't been described yet.

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NGL partners scoops up water-disposal assets in the Eagle Ford

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NGL Energy Partners LP has bought water-disposal assets from Oilfield Water Lines LP for $168 million in cash. Oilfield is a partnership between High Roller Wells and Mark Cuban Companies.

Tulsa, Okla.-based NGL Energy Partners LP has purchased Oilfield Water Lines LP?s water disposal and hauling business in the Eagle Ford Shale.

NGL purchased the operation ? a partnership between High Roller Wells and the Mark Cuban Companies ? for $168 million in cash, shares of its stock and net working capital.

The deal adds four oil-and-gas water disposal facilities to NGL?s array of water treatment and gathering infrastructure, bringing its total number to 10. In addition, it boosts the number of water trucks in NGL?s fleet to 55.

?We are pleased to join the NGL team and help expand the NGL presence in water services for the energy sector,? Senior Vice President of Water Services Jim Winter said in a written statement.

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Saturday, August 3, 2013

GOP in key states tries to slow anti-abortion push

MILWAUKEE?Abortion is still legal but getting one in many states will be difficult if laws passed this year are upheld by the courts. In a march through conservative legislatures, anti-abortion Republicans passed a wave of new restrictions that would sharply limit when a woman could terminate a pregnancy and where she could go to do so.

The push brought the anti-abortion movement closer to a key milestone, in which the procedure would become largely inaccessible in the three-fifths of the country controlled by Republicans even if still technically legal under Roe vs. Wade.

But rather than continuing to roll across the GOP heartland in synch with the pro-life movement's plan, the effort may now be hitting a wall. The obstacle comes not from opposing Democrats but from GOP leaders who believe pressing further is a mistake for a party trying to soften its harder edges after election losses last year.

The resisting Republicans include governors and top legislators in more than a half-dozen states, including some of the largest and most politically competitive in the party's 30-state coalition. They are digging in to stop the barrage of abortion proposals, hoping to better cultivate voters not enamored with the GOP's social agenda.

"It's a huge mistake if your ear is not in tune where people are," said Republican state Sen. Dale Schultz in Wisconsin, who is trying to fend off more abortion legislation in the state's GOP-controlled legislature, even though he says he personally supports it. "And we were pushing people too fast. All we're going to do is panic people and this is going to blow up if we don't begin to moderate on some of this stuff."

The Ohio Senate president, Republican Tom Neihaus, blocked a bill in November that would have banned abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy.

"I just didn't think it was appropriate," said Niehaus, a supporter of earlier anti-abortion measures. "It's a distraction from our primary focus of getting the economy back on track."

But anti-abortion leaders say they are determined to push on into more Republican strongholds, taking advantage of the party's majority status.

"It is definitely the case that the future for us lies beyond what is considered your traditional pro-life states," said Dan McConchie, vice president of Americans United for Life, which circulates model legislation to state lawmakers.

The dissension, strongest in the Midwest and southern border states, is flaring as the GOP prepares for competitive races in the contested regions next year. The anti-abortion movement is poised to press for constitutional amendments giving legal rights to fetuses, bans on abortions based on gender, and an end to abortion exceptions for victims of rape and incest.

Anti-abortion Republicans have gotten more than 170 new abortion laws passed in 30 states since the party won control of a majority of statehouses in 2010. This year's push was highlighted by some of the strongest restrictions yet passed in North Dakota, Arkansas and Texas.

The key measures banned abortions after approximately six weeks, 12 weeks or 20 weeks, depending on the state; required women to see the fetus on an ultrasound; required doctors to have hospital admitting privileges; and required clinics to have full hospital-type facilities. More than a dozen GOP states in the South and West adopted all or most of the package.

If the new laws are upheld by the courts, many providers would close. Only six of the 42 abortion clinics in Texas are expected for remain open, serving the nation's second largest population. Already, only one clinic remains open in Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming.

In the midst of the push, Republican legislatures in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and several other swing states enacted restrictions, but not the tougher ones. Republican majorities in Florida did not add new restrictions and leaders don't expect to. In Virginia, a key anti-abortion measure didn't pass. Republican Gov. Pat McCrory in North Carolina is balking at more action.

GOP officials there object to the idea of legislating abortion repeatedly and to proposals they consider extreme.

"We just passed the biggest abortion bill in Wisconsin in 15 years," said Wisconsin state Sen. Glenn Grothman, among the chamber's leading anti-abortion crusaders. "But to ask our members to do that again, they might not have the stomach for that."

In these states, GOP leaders say they are worried about alienating women and young people, who disproportionately favor abortion rights. These groups voted in lesser numbers than usual for GOP candidates last year. Democratic President Barack Obama won the women's vote by 11 percentage points.

Nationally, most voters approve of restrictions on abortion but 54 percent think it should be legal in most or all cases, according to a poll conducted in July by the Pew Center for People and the Press. The support for abortion rights was 10 percentage points higher in the Great Lakes and South Atlantic regions than in the South.

In Michigan, "There's just not a whole lot of legislative things left do" on abortion, said GOP Senate President Randy Richardville. "We lean conservative, but we're not crazies."

Michigan's Republican House Speaker Jase Bolger blocked one tough abortion bill this year and Republican Gov. Rick Snyder vetoed another last year, which opponents are now trying to circumvent with a ballot initiative.

But abortion rights supporters say that even if the GOP's anti-abortion push loses momentum, the measures already passed in Republican states will have a major impact on women seeking abortions.

"Even if this wave of restrictions stops, it's not like access will be restored," said Elizabeth Nash, the state policy analyst for the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.

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Source: http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_23783312/gop-key-states-tries-slow-anti-abortion-push?source=rss

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

Zimmerman pulled over in Texas for speeding, given warning

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Zimmerman is pulled over for a traffic violation, then given a warning
  • The officer tells Zimmerman, "don't play with your firearm"
  • Zimmerman had a "heavy foot ... nothing more," his brother tweets
  • The Zimmerman family continues to face "many death threats," it says

(CNN) -- George Zimmerman -- who was acquitted earlier this month on murder charges tied to Trayvon Martin's death -- was stopped this weekend for speeding in northern Texas, according to police.

Zimmerman was apparently traveling with a gun when he was pulled over. Dashcam video released by Forney, Texas, police shows him and a police officer talking briefly before the officer tells him to shut his glove compartment

"Don't play with your firearm, OK?" the officer says.

The Forney police officer ultimately sends Zimmerman off with a verbal warning to "slow down."

In a tweet, Zimmerman's defense team said Wednesday that they would protect his privacy and wouldn't make any comments on their client's whereabouts "for his safety."

His brother, Robert Zimmerman Jr., explained what happened with a brief tweet of his own: "A heavy foot ... Nothing more."

The traffic stop occurred shortly after noon on Sunday. The dashcam video shows the officer turning on his sirens and saying, "Get 'em," as Zimmerman's 2008 gray Honda pulls away.

Moments later, the officer pulls up behind Zimmerman's car, which is by then parked in the breakdown lane with its hazard lights on.

The officer asks for a driver's license, and after a short exchange with Zimmerman and recognizing the name, he says, "What a coincidence."

"The reason you were stopped is for your speed," the officer adds later. "And as long as you don't have any warrants, you'll be served a warning."

The entire episode -- from when Zimmerman was stopped to when he was cleared -- took about four minutes, according to the police report.

Forney City Manager Brian Brooks said he couldn't answer several questions about the incident, including about the type of gun that Zimmerman apparently had, in part because the incident was short and no citation was issued.

Zimmerman helps family out of overturned SUV

A Florida jury found Zimmerman not guilty of second degree murder on July 13 for fatally shooting the 17-year-old Martin in a Sanford, Florida, neighborhood.

After the trial, the Sanford, Florida, Police Department turned over all evidence related to its investigation into Zimmerman -- including a gun -- to federal authorities weighing whether to pursue a civil rights case against him, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

The case stirred fervent emotions on both sides -- from the 29-year-old's supporters who argued that he had a right to protect himself, to others who argued he profiled the black teenager, then willfully ignored a police dispatcher's advice by pursuing him.

The passions contributed to an "enormous amount of death threats" against Zimmerman and his family, his parents told ABC News earlier this month.

After the trial, Zimmerman's lawyer Mark O'Mara described his client as a marked man who wore a disguise and often strapped on body armor when he left home.

"He has to be very cautious and protective of his safety because there is still a fringe element who have said ... that they will not listen to a verdict of not guilty," O'Mara said.

Given such concerns, Robert Zimmerman Jr. told CNN's Piers Morgan after the verdict that he didn't see "any reason why (George) shouldn't" have a gun.

"I think he has more reason now than ever to think that people are trying to kill him because they express they're trying to kill him, all the time, every day, on my Twitter feed, on the Internet," Robert Zimmerman Jr. said.

In a statement released Wednesday, after news got out about the weekend traffic stop, Zimmerman's family made no mention of George carrying a gun then or at any time.

But they reiterated that he, and other family members, remain under pressure.

"Our family receives many death threats," the family said. "We all continue to take our security seriously and to ensure our safety in accordance with the law."

This week's incident in Texas marks the second time George Zimmerman has made headlines since his acquittal.

Zimmerman was mentioned in news stories for helping, with another man, a family of four get out of an overturned vehicle in Sanford, said Seminole County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Heather Smith.

Zimmerman did not witness the July 17 crash, and he left after making contact with a sheriff's deputy, Smith said. No injuries were reported.

Read more: Zimmerman juror: He 'got away with murder'

CNN's Vivian Kuo and Winnie Dunbar contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/31/us/texas-zimmerman-traffic-violation/index.html?eref=rss_mostpopular

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