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Help should stop at fighter jets

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Help should stop at fighter jets  Good evening. Volodymyr Zelensky has urged Britain to provide Ukraine with fighter jets, as he made an impassioned speech to MPs and met the King at Buckingham Palace during a historic visit to London. Fighter jets would be a mistake and will cause issue with Russia and every other country.

A Deere in satellites

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  A Deere in satellites Illustration: Dianna “Mick” McDougall, Photo: John Deere From soil to sky, the agricultural industry has largely embraced the digital revolution. Ag companies have integrated drones, machine learning, AI, and automation into their everyday operations, all with the aim of helping farmers save time, money, and labor. Look up:  Soon, you may be able to add satellites to the list. John Deere, which has previously debuted tech like self-driving tractors, crop-spraying drones, and weed-identifying sprayers, said in January that it was “finalizing a satellite partner” in an effort to create geospatial maps to help analyze crop growth and bring connectivity to remote and rural farmers. The push to connect farmers comes as Deere looks to digitize its revenue sources—last year, it set a  goal to get 10% of its revenue  from software subscription fees by 2030. The company currently offers its customers free connectivity services through its  JDLink platform . Deere spokesp

Pee Power Toilets

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 Pee Power Toilets By installing 'pee power' toilets - urinal installations that convert urine into electricity for lighting - at one of the world's most famous music festivals of course. image from https://www.powerful-thinking.org.uk/pee-power-uwe-project-glastonbury-festival/ For 5 years, between 2015 and 2019, University of the West of England partnered with the Glastonbury Festival to provide the toilets that powered the internal lighting, nearby phone charging station and illuminated information panels. As well the engagement with thousands of festival visitors, the initiative made major news channels and generated significant awareness about the challenges of global sanitisation and UWE's innovative research.

Destinations London Olympia!

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  Destinations London Olympia !  Doors Open Until Sunday 5.30pm... We've had a brilliant couple of days at  Destinations London Olympia !  If you've not visited us yet, catch some of our show highlights in our video, or browse the not-to-be-missed features below!

Fine Art: The Bubble That Never Pops

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  Fine Art: The Bubble That Never Pops The artists are hand-picked, and the buyers and sellers hand-picked.  This is so that the art price can be inflated over time with an urgency.

Women need to be more interested in money

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  Women need to be more interested in money, finance, and how to make the most of it for now, the near now, and the future

M2 (a broad-based money supply measure) shrinkage

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M2 (a broad-based money supply measure) shrinkage A growing economy needs a growing money supply to keep this from happening, not unlike how the aforementioned 12-year-old becoming a teenager needs ever-larger shoe sizes. If a 16-year-old tried to make do with his 12-year-old shoe size, his feet would hurt and eventually it wouldn’t work at all. On top of that, a routine expansion of the money supply is necessary to keep prices stable, or otherwise rising in a gentle and predictable manner. This dovetails with human behavior in terms of wage expectations. If an economy grows while the money supply does not, wage levels have to fall, and people understandably hate that. It's easy to give an employee a raise and justifiable to keep an employee's pay the same, but almost no employer says, “Guess what, we're reducing your pay this year by 10% to account for deflationary trends.” At any rate, those factors help explain why, in normal times, an expanding economy and a reasonably