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The Sea Shepherd's vessel, an one-hundred-and-eighty-four-foot ship called the Sam Simon (Photo: Fábio Nascimento / The Outlaw Ocean Project) More than eighty percent of the world’s wild fish stocks have collapsed. With global demand for seafood doubling since the 1960s, this appetite is outpacing what we can sustainably catch and is pushing bigger fishing vessels into smaller nations’ waters.  The Gambia, a tiny West-African country, remains among the poorest in the world, and its fish stocks are unable to withstand more industrial fishing. Meanwhile, the fish that Gambians rely on for...

The Simpsons: This Week's Episode Has An Amazing Tie To Season 5 On Sunday night, The Simpsons writer Samantha Martin took to social media to tell the story of how that night's episode, "Yokel Hero," had come together. Martin isn't just a second-generation The Simpsons writer -- her father Jeff Martin worked on the show from seasons two through five -- but actually brought her dad back into the fold to write the episode with her. Even more impressive? Martin says that she was the basis for "Baby on Board," one of the original songs her father wrote for a season five episode of the long-runn...

Sep 14, 2015 Egyptian security forces mistakenly killed 12 people in a tourist convoy in the country’s western desert, the Interior Ministry said Monday, NBC News reported.... The security forces were pursuing terrorists there when they accidentally hit four SUVs carrying Mexican tourists and Egyptians who were in a banned area, the ministry said. Ten other people were also injured. Mexican Foreign Secretary Claudia... Sep 5, 2014

The Port Arthur Manufacturing Complex is North America's largest refinery. PHOTO SOURCE: Motiva Saudi Aramco-owned refiner Motiva Enterprises reported Thursday that it has executed a technology deal with a fuel delivery and logistics firm to develop a “revolutionary” digital fuel ordering platform for its wholesale customers. “Our vision is to create our own version of Uber for the fuel delivery business,” Bill Spurgeon, Motiva executive vice president of marketing and sales, said of the refiner’s agreement with The NOW Network. “We are partnering with The NOW Network to develop a...

Motiva Forms Pact to Create 'Uber' of Fuel Delivery HOUSTON — Motiva Enterprises executed an agreement with fuel delivery and logistics company The NOW Network to develop a digital fuel ordering platform intended to improve the fuel ordering process for its wholesale customers. "Our vision is to create our own version of Uber for the fuel delivery business," said Bill Spurgeon, Motiva executive vice president of marketing and sales. "We are partnering with The NOW Network to develop an innovative digital solution which will vastly improve our customer experience by fundamentally tran...