A Ventura County farmer and former local water agency board member has pleaded guilty to grand water theft.Daniel Conklin Noman, who owns and operates Noman Family Farms in Oxnard, pumped $29,301 worth of groundwater between 2019 and 2021 without paying required fees to the Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency, according to a news release from the Ventura County District Attorney.Nauman was a longtime elected member of the United Water Conservation District board and an alternate board member of the Fox Canyon Agency. He resigned from the United District that month.Investigators with the Ventura County Sheriff's Office discovered that diversion lanes…
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A man visits the United Nations headquarters while Security Council delegates postponed voting for an additional day on a proposal demanding that Israel and Hamas allow aid to reach the Gaza Strip via land, sea and air routes and establish United Nations monitoring of the Strip. Humanitarian aid, at United Nations headquarters in New York, United States, December 20, 2023 Eduardo Munoz | ReutersThe United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon said that three United Nations military observers and a Lebanese translator were injured on Saturday while patrolling the southern Lebanese border after a shell exploded near them.The military observers are…
Hey folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch's newsletter that recaps the tech highlights of the past few days. This week, TC's auto reporter Sean O'Kane revealed how electric vehicle startup Fisker temporarily lost millions of dollars in customer payments as it scaled up deliveries, triggering an internal audit that began in December and took months to complete. Elsewhere, Lorenzo reported on how Facebook snooped on Snapchat users' traffic in a secret project known internally at Meta as “Project Ghostbusters.” According to court documents, the goal was to intercept and decrypt network traffic between people using the Snapchat app…
There are lots of ways to describe what's happening to Earth's climate: global warming. Climate change. Climate crisis. Universal strangeness. They all try in different ways to capture the phenomena caused by weather systems in our world. However, despite the options available in the thesaurus, it is still a very difficult concept to make relatable. However, researchers at MIT may finally have an answer. Instead of forecasting Category 5 hurricanes or record-breaking heat days, they developed a tool that lets people see how many “outdoor days” their region might see between now and 2100 if the growth of carbon emissions…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a joint press conference with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis outside the Transfiguration Cathedral, destroyed by Russian bombing, in Odessa, Ukraine, on March 6, 2024. ocrinform | norphoto | Getty ImagesUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fired a longtime aide and several advisers on Saturday in an ongoing cabinet reshuffle as Russia launched new attacks overnight.Zelensky fired his top aide, Serhiy Shefir, from the position of first aide, where he had worked since 2019. The Ukrainian president also let go of three advisers, and two of the president's representatives who oversee volunteer activities and soldiers' rights.No…
in March, The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill that could force ByteDance to do so Take down TikTok or face a ban in US app stores. MLots of discussion and debate related Centered on America Data security and rights of expressionBut the potential move also highlights something else: TikTok is increasing its focus on e-commerce, but the interplay between the tech giants and geopolitics is putting pressure on small merchants. Over the past few months, merchants – many of them from China – looking for an alternative to Amazon, have flocked to TikTok to sell clothing, cosmetics,…
Washington – As Donald Trump campaigns on promises of mass deportations and pardons for those convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, his ideas have met with little opposition and some enthusiasm from a new era of Republicans in Congress.It's a shift from the first time the presumptive Republican presidential nominee faced early skepticism and, from time to time, the uproar of condemnation.Rather than being dismissed as a threat on the campaign trail or Trump speaking his mind to rile up his most loyal voters, his words are being adopted as party platforms, potentially able to move…
On TikTok you will find millions of users self-diagnosing themselves with the term “high-functioning” – high-functioning anxiety, high-functioning depression, high-functioning autism.The term “high performer” is not actually clinical, but generally refers to those who perform well at work and school. So, if someone has high functioning depression, it means they are excelling at their job, despite being in poor mental health.After the pandemic, when levels of depression and anxiety rose, people became more aware of the fact that you can be depressed or anxious and still excel in certain parts of your life, says Irina Gorelick, a psychologist at Williamsburg…
Will Lawrence, co-founder and CTO of Iron Sheepdog, likes to say that sometimes building something simple can be very difficult. Building easy-to-use technology for the short-haul trucking industry is Iron Sheepdog's goal. This approach is also why the company believes it has been able to see a level of adoption from the industry that its competitors have not seen. The Williamsburg, Va.-based company's software looks to make the short-haul trucking space, which largely involves outsourcing short-haul jobs to truck drivers booked through brokers, more streamlined and efficient. Companies can track their contracted trucks through Iron Sheepdog, giving them more transparency…
Hedge fund manager Mark Yusko expects Bitcoin to double this year to $150,000.“Get away from zero,” Morgan Creek Capital Management's CEO and chief investment officer told CNBC's Fast Money this week.Yusko believes that investors should allocate at least 1% to 3% to Bitcoin in their portfolios. “Bitcoin is king. It's the dominant token. It's a better form of gold,” he said.As of the stock market close on Thursday, Bitcoin It has risen by about 159% over the past year. It topped $73,000 earlier in March, but was trading at around $70,700 on Thursday evening.”The law of large numbers has emerged.…