Grazing land in Minnesota not only provides an economic benefit but it also means productive livestock. Haiti Clotter shows us how local farmers took a tour to discover opportunities including an increase in profits when using a grazing system. Landowners from Beltrami County and surrounding areas would on a grazing tour near Blackduck to learn techniques and other resources that will improve forage production. Utilizing a rotational grazing system it helps them to better manage their forages, better manage their cattle, provide cleaner water. A rotational grazing system moves livestock between pastures on a regular basis. It's something that Rachel Gray has practiced on the 1200 acres at her little timber farms for about 12 years. She has more than 300 cows and calves. We have really increased the productivity of our land. I feel that we've put more organic material back into our soil. According to grazing specialist Tom Gervais, Minnesota has nearly three million acres of grazing land. A grazing system may not be for everyone but it's something that requires long-term monitoring. Factors such as economics and infrastructure are considered when designing a system. We'll look at all the goals that a producer may have and we'll identify conservation needs for any particular farm and develop basically a plan of attack to address all of those things. Vince Gross has 20 pair of cow, calf, including red and black Angus at his farm. He's in the beginning stages of his system and has one pasture. Put in a new service for electricity, put a new hydrant in and I tied it into the system that I have. When the forage is in high production mode and growing well it gives the cattle an opportunity to grow. After investments ranging from fencing to a water system producers can expect to maximize their profits. Everything is just going to start working much better and better and better and and as you continue to grow it not only is better for the land but it then as part of that it grows the profitability for the producer. The grazing season typically is from early May through the end of September in Black Duck, Haiti, Clotter Lakeland News. Officials say one of the most cost effective ways to feed livestock is through the grazing process. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


France criticizes the U.S. for the trade war. French President Emmanuel Macron criticized the U.S. authorities on the first day of his state visit to Washington, telling the Joe Biden administration, it is over-aggressive towards French competitors. Macron said in an interview with congressmen and business leaders during a lunch held before his meeting with Biden, this is very aggressive against our businessmen. The head of the 5th Republic was referring to the Inflation Reduction Act, IRA, signed by the owner of the White House, according to which billions of dollars will be invested in environmentally friendly industries with the active support of American manufacturers. The U.S. administration is touting the IRA as a groundbreaking attempt to revive U.S. manufacturing and promote renewable technologies. But the European Union governments are outraged by the passage of such legislation in the U.S., threatening to start a trade war to subsidize their own green economy.


Now let's take a little bit closer look at the types of software. So we discussed that there's mainly two different types of software. There's what I would call professional software and then the individual software. Both are good softwares to use, but they have different uses. Professional software, by that I mean that a CPA firm is gonna be using that software for multiple different tax returns. Therefore the incentive is to have the data input as easy, as clean, and efficient as possible so you can crank out multiple tax returns. Individual software such as like a TurboTax and I'm not affiliated or advertising either of these softwares. I happen to use Lassert, but I'm not affiliated to them or anything like that. TurboTax is owned by Intuit, which is a large company that owns QuickBooks as well, but there's a lot of other types of softwares and we'll talk more about some possible free options that could be out there for individual softwares in future presentations. I just wanna make the general point that when you're practicing something or whatever your uses are, you wanna be considering these two major buckets of software and then possibly narrow down your search from that point to decide which software you want to be dealing with. So obviously if you're just doing your individual tax return, then the individual tax software might be easier, it might be cheaper to do. Your options for an individual tax return are gonna be if you're just doing your own tax return to do it by hand, which most people don't recommend these days because in part the software has actually allowed the IRS to want more information. That's just how things go, right? So it used to be that the tax forms were quite simple. If I didn't have much income, I remember being able to just call in at one point because I had such basic information that I can basically, it would be that easy to do. But as the information is more readily available through the use of software, the government wants more information. They want to be more intrusive, that's just how things work. So now even a fairly basic tax return has a lot of informational information in it and so you probably want tax software to basically help you out to do it. You might be able to get access to free tax software, we'll talk more about options on that in a future presentation. If your income is below a certain threshold, but some software would be worthwhile to do. Your other option of course is to pay for a tax professional to help out. In that case, in which case they're gonna be using software as well, but they're more likely gonna be using the professional software. So we'll talk more about that decision in a future presentation.


Here's the hard truth. A number of things can contribute to your product's success or failure. You might have a groundbreaking idea, but if your product idea wasn't tested properly, it could be a complete flop. So what do we do? As a designer, we concept test like our lives depend on it. So let's talk about what is concept testing, why we use it, a step-by-step guide, and what to do with the results. Then a personal failure story, more on that later. So what is concept testing? Concept testing is a user testing method. You show an approximation of the product or service, one that captures the key value proposition. This helps you determine if it meets the needs of the target audience. But why? Concept testing can help shed light on potential blind spots, inefficiencies, misinterpretations, and problem-resulting from market disinterest. Ooh, disinterest. Here are some reasons why I think this method is absolutely crucial. Number one is to chuck out your poor ideas. Remember, even the most successful executives make these mistakes. Number two is gain insights on the market readiness. You want to know if people are ready for your product. The websites have been running. I'm just reading, I'm in the compression. It just needs users.  Then understand customers' issues and pain points.  What about preventing financial losses? What are we talking about here? You want us to launch a cryptocurrency? And have you thought about, you can potentially discover new unexplored ideas and solutions?  The why? Okay, that's enough of the why. Let's give you the step-by-step guide. So this is what to do before you start. You want to define the problem you want to solve. Your problem statement must be a concise description of the issues that need to be addressed. Then define the market. When doing concept testing, emotions, human behaviors, and subjective opinions actually matter a whole lot. Three, decide on who to involve in the test. You should involve as many members of the product team as possible in concept testing. Thank you all for being here. Alan, Lisa, Josh, Yana, Katie, Ramon. Number four, define your success metrics and criteria. By defining this, you will decide upfront what positive and negative results actually mean. So you can then avoid based on the decision when you debrief. Number five, establish your hypothesis. At this point, there is not only one good solution for the problem. Problems can be solved in many different ways. Once you're settled, move on to finding a new perspective on your solution. So this is what you do after your concept testing. You want to one, brainstorm potential solutions. Two, storyboard your concept from end to end. Ask the following questions. Which are our most riskiest assumptions from our proto personas? Which are the most ambiguous statements the team has agreed on? Which are the least database statements? What happens if these assumptions are proven not to be true? Three, build prototypes. This enables you to provide users with a visual representation of the concept idea without engineering efforts. Important thing here, determine what needs to be tested. Number four, recruit your market. Examine what this character is trying to accomplish. What problems could your product solve for this person? Define your market criteria based on demographics, role, age and behaviors. Five, write the interview and test script. Six, let the testing begin. Focus on being empathetic and learning about your users. Discover your users' ultimate goals. Then determine your riskiest assumption. And which of the following elements are the most critical to test? For example, attention. Does the idea attract the audience's attention? What about comprehension? Is the idea clearly understood? How about motivation? Does the idea inspire the audience to take a desired action? What about personal relevance? Can the audience connect with the idea? Number seven, gather your notes. Debrief your team together on the positives and the negatives. And of course, a general comment in order to find patterns and decide whether your hypotheses or assumptions were validated or invalidated. Along with the team involved in the process, determine what should be the next steps. As promised, here's my personal failure story. I recently built multiple SaaS tools and let me tell you this. I was not ready for a flop, but that was precisely what happened. So I had this ingenious idea, a problem I was suffering from and I was pretty sure others felt the same. I was wrong. We released our tool called Divi, an auto-private-notion-page tool. We weren't getting to it. But it struggled to acquire users. We chose to build fast with a strong hypothesis. That was two months wasted. One easy way I should have validated my hypothesis without building an entire product is through concept testing, a method that could save our team from wasting time and money on products that, fundamentally, nobody wanted to use. And that hurt. Emotional damage! If you're interested in learning more about concept testing with detailed guides and templates, check out the link in the description. Hit the big red button for another Playboy Breakdown of UX Frameworks. Bye! Seriously, bye.


Greetings and congratulations for the seventy-third Independence Day. These seventy-two years since India became independent, many great strides the nation has taken in terms of economy, business, science, technology and establishing the sovereignty of the nation. All these things have been done. But in our hunger for development, in trying to fulfill the possibilities for the population that we have, because we must understand when we got independence in 1947, the average life expectancy of an Indian was twenty-eight years. So today it's nearly seventy or more, so we've come a long way as a nation. In all these efforts, one thing that's taken a big hit is our soil and water. We must free India of water crisis. This should be our pledge. Attaining political freedom is one thing, but ensuring that many generations of people who will be in this nation beyond us also live well is an important commitment that we need to take. Let us free India of water crisis and ensure that future generations will live wonderfully well in this nation.


This study examined the relationship between infant zinc levels and the composition of their gut microbiomes. Breast-fed infants had lower zinc levels than formula-fed infants, which was reflected in the lower diversity of their gut microbiomes. However, the authors did not find any correlation between zinc levels and the presence or absence of specific bacterial species. This article was authored by Maywish Durrani, Rubina Nasli, Navila Shur, and others.


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What are the ethical challenges raised by being able to measure everything? A couple of weeks ago, risk-bites tackled the knotty issue of the measurement conundrum. This occurs when new technologies allow us to measure incredibly small quantities of chemicals in the stuff we eat, drink, breathe and slather on our bodies. The trouble is, once you know something, you can't just unknow it. The result is an action challenge. What do you do when the available knowledge on something changes? But there's also an associated ethical challenge. What is considered right and appropriate when new information emerges? Imagine, for instance, that a hypothetical substance, called Greensave, allows soft drinks bottles to be produced that use less plastic and are cheaper to make than the alternatives. The result is higher profits and a smaller environmental footprint, a win-win situation. But what about the health risks of Greensave? Imagine, early testing shows no presence of Greensave in the drinks stored in the bottles. But a new measurement technology comes along that indicates minute quantities of Greensave in the drinks. Risk assessment shows that if you were to drink 10 Greensave bottles of pop per day for your entire life, your risk of getting cancer would be 1 in 10 million. In other words, the use of Greensave in soft drinks bottles is pretty safe. Technically, all is good in the world. Ethically, though, the new measurement technology has just made the world a more complex place. For instance, do you, as a consumer of soft drinks, have a right to know how much Greensave you are exposed to? And what information is a company that's using Greensave obliged to disclose? And how should it disclose it? As a consumer, you have a choice whether to use Greensave containing bottles or not, as long as you know which these are. But what if the bottle-making factory was releasing minute quantities of Greensave into the environment? Imagine that the new measurement technology now reveals that there is Greensave in your tap water. Previously, there was no indication that it was there. And risk management shows that if you were to drink this same water for your whole life, you would have a 1 in 10 million chance of developing cancer. The risk is negligible. But does this justify the exposure being imposed on you? Is someone obliged to tell you what you are being exposed to?  These are ethical questions. They arise from what society considers to be acceptable rules of behavior. And they come about because something can now be measured that could not be measured before. In this respect, being able to measure incredibly small quantities of substances is a two-edged sword. It enables a better understanding of the world we live in and how it impacts on our health. But it also demands complex ethical decisions that simply didn't exist before the new information was available. And these ethical decisions have the power to change people's lives for the better or worse, even though the actual risk associated with the substance being measured may not have changed. And that is a whole ethical challenge in itself. Don't forget to subscribe to RiskBytes for more insights into the science of risk and stay safe.