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My name is Gary Secor, I am a plant pathologist at North Dakota State University and I'm with my colleague Dr. Julie Pashie who is a potato pathologist at North Dakota State University as well. And we work together on lots of potato diseases and we're delighted to be here at this virtual presentation because of the pandemic and all the things that are going on. I think the first thing we need to do is thank our staff that does all this great field work. Russell and Dean and Corey and Daryl we've got a great crew and our field trials look just wonderful this year because of their hard work. Yeah it's too bad you can't be here to see them but they're doing fantastic work as they always do. And we need to thank our cooperators that work with us on all these trials. Heimberg Farms, Northern Plain Potato Growers, Area 2, Carl Hoverson whose field we're in now, Blackgold, RDO Farms. Minnesota Area 2 potato growers and hopefully we didn't miss anybody but sorry if we did. We've got a great field crew, we've got a great group of cooperators so thank you to all of those. So we've got some we're going to talk about two different groups of diseases here today. We're going to talk first about foliar diseases above ground and then we're going to talk about the work that we've been doing with below ground parts of pathology. So Gary you've been working on late blight for years what can you tell us about your work with late blight? You know late blight this year it's thanks to the good work that the industry does I think and I give them the credit because they have to implement the management practices. So far we have no late blight in North Dakota in Minnesota or Manitoba and this is as of Wednesday the what the 12th of August is that where we are? Close enough. Yeah the 8th of August or the 8th of August. So the 8th of August we have no late blight in our area okay but we do have late blight reported in Wisconsin on about the 10th of August late blight was reported in Adams County in Wisconsin it's also been late blight in British Columbia okay and also yes and yeah it's in British Columbia and there was one more place but I can't remember that. Okay I don't know. Anyway we don't have any late blight so I give the credit to the industry for for keeping late blight under control. Absolutely and and of course we expect our our growers will continue to stay vigilant on that effort. I think so and we have sport traps. We have sport traps that Andy is leading up heading up those and we've detected spores but yeah due to your good work we haven't haven't had any in the field. We've also got a lot of trials going with early blight and I think Julie I'd like to ask you to talk about some of those trials that have gone with early blight. Yeah so as in the past we've done many trials on early blight and and really I think both of us together look at at controlling our foliar diseases of potatoes as a complex and so maybe we do you know trials aimed at early blight or other things but we're really looking at that program approach helping our growers across the growing season not just for one disease and so certainly we've continued to do that with early blight but also this year we've added in some brown spot work and brown spot is caused by a relative of early blight but there we know that there are differences in certainly there are differences in symptomatology but there are also differences in cultivar susceptibility and what we're coming to find out is that there are differences in the fungicides and the way the fungicides control these these diseases we know that early or a brown spot in our area is caused by three pathogens and even amongst those brown spot pathogens we know that fungicide and cultivar susceptibility differs and so we're starting to take a little bit closer look at that and and as well as fungicide resistance amongst all those all those pathogens and so really kind of broadening that that scope of our foliar disease management package will you say and of course black dot is included in that as well and so you know growers want more information on on those trials and all of that information of course will be disseminated at the end of the growing season when we have more more results on all those trials and this is one of the sites for the fungicide trials yeah that we're doing yep yep and this is a great example of a complex of diseases here just right in front of us we have a combination of both early blight and botrytis and and really is quite difficult to tell the difference between them you know the lesions are a little bit different and and but right here amongst this you can see that we have both we have both pathogens and and both diseases yeah this is interesting because you can see these small little lesions for brown spot on here that are scattered throughout the leaves as opposed to as opposed to botrytis that we see here coming in at the end of the leaves and typically comes in there as well as in the hydrothodes and where your your early blight lesions tend to remain smaller and more angular and where the brown spot lesions tend to expand and so just important for the growers to really be able to distinguish among those to plan their foliar fungicide program and it's important yeah exactly because they they have different fungicides to control the different diseases so it's important to identify which ones they are in order to get the right fungicide absolutely so please let us know if you have questions specific questions about these things we're always happy to answer those and work with you on on your programs going forward um anything else gary no just if you've got samples that you need identified absolutely and the samples give us calls yep we're available yep thank you


Hi, this is George Cao and in this video, I invite you to an inquiry and the question is what is self-love and is it important? What do you think about it? I invite you to comment below if you'd like to share your thoughts about it and your experience with that and I also like to share my opinion about it. I've seen the idea of self-love come up more and more over the over the past few years among my audience and in social media and I think it seems to me it's in response to the feelings of self-judgment that a lot of people have of themselves. The self-judgment of I'm not good enough, look at me, I'm a failure, I failed again and again or what have I failed? I'm not worthy enough for success etc and I can understand that that is not a good mindset to keep wallowing in. It leads to erosion of creativity because creativity requires lack of self-judgment in fact. Creativity requires being open to whatever could happen. Lots of failures happen along the road to creativity and productivity. So I think the self-love is in reaction to self-judgment and I can understand that but I want to suggest an alternate route to dissolving self-judgment which is the alternate route is to know that you are profoundly loved. You are profoundly loved and how does that experience happen? Well you need to find I think a philosophical or spiritual path that you can believe in, that you can really adhere to, that can give you that kind of experience of either you are profoundly loved or that life is so precious and valuable that all you need to do is just to make the best use of it. So let me give you two traditions. One is of course Christianity and I have some experience with that. I used to identify as a Christian and during that time when I was in that school of thought I did experience sometimes profound sense of being loved by a being of the universe, the captain of the universe so that there was forever security and forever love and so I wish that for you if that is the right path for you because then it allows us to then always make every day the best as we can to be more and more worthy of that love knowing that we are perfect in God's eyes and we are perfectly loved right and then another tradition is Buddhism and in Buddhism interestingly there's the thought that there is no self and so there is no such thing as self-love if anything that that could suggest that you love the ego and the ego could take over and make you become too prideful and self-serving etc etc and I should also mention in Christianity that because we are so loved we are called to love others as God loves us and so there's this profound sense of being loved and therefore emitting that love and giving that love to others as well and I think that's beautiful and in Buddhism because there is no self what all there is is the sense of profound gratitude that we are alive and in some schools of thought in Buddhism it's this there's also this idea that wow you know so many beings so many spiritual beings want to be incarnated on this earth in order to have the opportunity to develop our behavior and our mindset even though there's no self so develop a better behavior and more service to others so that we can eventually not have to reincarnate back on earth right this is one one idea from some schools of Buddhism and so when we realize how valuable and precious life is so instead of self-love it's the love of life and the preciousness of this life and therefore there's this urgency to make the best of every day and to serve others as best as we can because that serving of others creates more creates more benefit to everyone which is wonderful we love seeing the benefit that everyone has other people get as a result of what we can do and it also grows us spiritually so they eventually we might no longer need to incarnate back on this earth and experience all of its sufferings so I encourage you to choose a path of spirituality or philosophy that you believe in that can allow you to overcome your self-judgment and the debilitating nature of that and so that you can increase your ability to be creative and to be productive in a calm and joyful way so until the next video I wish you love and I wish you a profound um overwhelming of gratitude that leads to service to others


in northern Wisconsin and was thanks to give him the opportunity to succeed that he had a successful life. Wisconsin has a rich tradition of being behind those progressive values. And today we are seeing that slip away. Opportunity for all. Responsibility to others. Fairness and air-plating are but a distant memory. And we need... Welcome to Legislative Update. I'm Renette Boulebache and you just heard the first part of this wonderful speech that our guest today gave four years ago when she ran for state chair, chairwoman of the state Democratic Party, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. I happen to be there.  I am biased for this show. I happen to be there and I volunteered for her first campaign for state senate in 2014 and I helped her when she ran for state party chair both times. She happened to win. I'm delighted that Martha could join us today because after four years she's stepping down to move on to other things and I hope we can talk about that. So we're going to talk about the things you've done, whether you achieved your goals as state party chair, how it transformed you, what were your challenges, what surprised you. And we're also going to spend some time, save some time at the end to talk about the Milwaukee 2020. This incredible news that the Democratic National Committee is going to have their convention before the presidential primary right here in Wisconsin in Milwaukee an hour away. That's huge. It's also huge that our own Martha Lening from Husband State Party chair. I knew you before even that when you were the director of generations, correct? I was volunteering there. I saw how you dealt with people so when I heard you were running for state senate I was just thrilled and you were an incredible candidate. And here you are. You have won two elections. You've led the party. Now you're stepping down. So tell us about this experience. Has it been a good run? Is it what you expected, what you hoped? Absolutely. I didn't come from politics originally. I had been in business and community development. And the reason I got involved is because like you heard on that clip, I really felt like I owed Wisconsin a lot. My dad had an opportunity to climb out of poverty by getting a good quality public school education in the GI bill, allowing him to become a chemical engineer. And when I saw what was happening in Wisconsin, politics has really changed in the last 20 years. It used to be that we brought people together. Money was not a big part of politics. It was just good common sense values. People of both parties coming together to talk about a problem and solve it. And instead what I saw before I became chair and before I ran for senate was we were making decisions that were siphoning money towards the wealthiest people in our community saying that they would create this opportunity and I just don't believe that. I believe that opportunity is created when everybody has the chance to get a good education, to start a business, to get good mentorship. And I saw that slipping away and I really felt Scott Walker was leading it with his lack of investment in education, with making bad fiscal decisions about not fixing our roads, causing us to spend far more money later to fix them. Healthcare, just taking healthcare opportunity away from people. So I got involved and I'm thrilled with the changes that we've made and the progress we've made. That's terrific. What surprised you? So first let's tell us briefly what the state party chair does. So the state party is here to build an infrastructure and frankly when I came in because of all the money that is now pouring into politics it was just difficult for our party to compete. We don't typically have people who write out million dollar checks. Just this last election, the Republican party has two people that write a one million dollar check to them. Just there you go. And for us we don't have anybody who writes us even a half a million dollar check. So it is a much more difficult process for the parties to be equal when one is so well funded and the other isn't. So what our party is here to do is to create an infrastructure to help candidates run for office, to support them in that run, getting them the training that they need to help us create an echo chamber around the state so that people know what Democratic leadership offers, what that candidate will do to make their life better, and to help them win. I'm very proud of what we've done because we have built an investment infrastructure. We are now a much better funded program. We have 11 people on the ground that are helping us all over the state organize our greatest resource, which are the activists, the people that help us share with their neighbors what our leadership does. And we have a strong team at the state office that is here to help candidates run for office. But we're still working on growing. And what I'm proud of most is seeing the increasing number in our party of minorities and women stepping up and running for office and volunteering for leadership positions. When I ran this last time in 2018, I believe I was one of 46, 47 women running for state assembly offices throughout the state. That's a largest number ever. Far more than the other party in terms of women running for office. We didn't know. We know. A couple of us did. So that is a good thing. And I hope that trend continues. Absolutely. And I think women are really inspired right now. I think when women are seeing the destruction that has occurred, that when we don't invest in our schools, kids lose the opportunity for success. When our colleges are so expensive that kids, even with scholarships, they may be able to pay for the tuition, but they can't afford the room and board. So opportunity is dripping away from them. When there are young men and women out there that are excited about the construction trades and yet they're having difficulty getting the classes in because they're family struggling just to make it day to day and they've got to work a job and they don't have time for that studying. There's so many challenges that our citizens are dealing with right now and it's really important that people get involved and women take action. When they see things happening, they don't like they take action and it was really unfortunate to see how many of our great candidates for assembly did not win, but that is simply because the Republicans have rigged the system. I mean Scott Walker and the other Republicans came together and they drew lines that literally prevent Democrats from winning office from taking the legislature and it's factual. I mean there were 54% of the votes placed in 2018 were for Democratic candidates yet only got 36% of the seats and if you want to look at it in a different way, if you use the 2009 congressional lines, Tammy Baldwin would have won 5 out of the 8 congressional seats and you know she won the state with 55%, but using the congressional lines that they've drawn now, she only won 3 out of the 8. So literally it's really a frustrating thing in a state where we were all raised with values of fairness and transparency that currently the Republican Party is led by a group of people who feel cheating is okay. Well let me play the devil's advocate. Right now we're taping this a week after an election that was statewide. Now this was for a judge and it's supposed to be a non-partisan position but we know that conservatives tended to back the other one, our party tended to back the one and it was very close where we're still hoping that Lisa Neubauer will win but that was a statewide so you cannot blame that on district boundaries. So if I were a conservative I would say come on, aren't you just kind of whining here? So the issue here is that it's not to say that elections are not, you know, that they aren't tight. I mean Wisconsin has been a really purple state. If you go back to Kerry and Gore, I mean we only won by 11 and 5,000 votes. So that's not the issue. The issue is when you're drawing lines that literally say you can get more than half of the vote statewide but you only barely get a third of the seats. That disparity is what we're pointing out. When you're talking about this spring election, you know, the issue here is that there were some really bad ads that were put out at the very end. Many of the information showed that Lisa Neubauer had strong support. When you have 98% of the judges in the state who endorsed all saying she is the person who's the most qualified, but unfortunately the Republican Party did make this a very partisan race and they came in and they said a lot of false things about Judge Neubauer and it did inspire people out of fear to come out and vote for Brian Hagan-Dorn. But right now, as of right now, almost a week after that election, it is too tight to call and it is too tight to call because so many great people who were well informed about who the best person is for that race came out and voted and now we as a Democratic Party we just have to be sure we grow our activism so that we can share with people that Judge Neubauer has never made any comments about the immigration of Donald Trump, his reforms and that we need to be moving forward in a way that gives facts to our voters and that we can dispel any rumors or false information that's given out there. Okay, I don't know how you can stay so optimistic. You always are so upbeat. I must admit, I go through periods of cynicism, especially when I look at the Leather of the Land in Sheboyin County, which we know Tony Evers won well. She did such a great wide statewide, but not here. Not here at all. It was very, very coincided and it has been for a long time and even if we redraw the boundaries, I'm not sure the 27th District will ever go progressive and what you alluded to earlier about the money I sometimes think, oh, you just can't better that so how do you stay optimistic? I think because you have to really separate the difference between the people who are putting out the false information and making a difference and telling a story that just doesn't have facts behind it versus the people who we live with in our community. I know a lot of phenomenal Republicans and they're really good people who care about our communities and really want to have a thriving community but we as Democrats have not had the resources to put our message out there and so as we build a stronger party and a stronger infrastructure and we can share that can make a big difference as an example and that is a lot of people will tell me that they're concerned about the Democrats handing out things to people who don't deserve it We don't believe that. We want to be sure that people have a hand up. We don't believe that we should be just giving out resources to anyone who doesn't deserve it but we also are deeply, deeply concerned about the greed of corporations so there was a report that came out when I ran for State Senate that won Walmart Supercenter, just won in the State of Wisconsin when you add up all the public assistance that the working employees of that store get. It's $900,000 a year of our tax money that go to the working employees of that store. Why? Because Walmart can't take some of their $12 billion in profit and pay them a wage that they can live on. That's just wrong why should we as taxpayers be subsidizing Walmart? They should pay their employees a fair wage and if they did we would have more money in our communities for the coffee shops and the car washes and all those great things. When we get that message out to the people in our communities people will look at Democrats in a very, very different way. And I think Tammy Baldwin did that. She had progressive principles that talked about fairness and equality and opportunity and in a big way she won with 55% of the vote. And how are we going to get that message out in this age when media is so scattered and such a shadow of what it used to be really years ago when I was a reporter we really covered all the campaigns at length. This year when I was running the local newspaper said okay you've got 200 words to tell us about yourself and send in a picture and that was it. No interviews, nothing. I was just, whoa. So there's no information and I know we depend on door to door and I get that. It's a lot of walking, a lot of energy a lot of time but it's like I feel like I'm just scratching the side of an elephant and there's this huge elephant but I don't know. It's a changing world. I mean it is, you know my mom Edward R. Murrow was her, you know like this was her icon that you just listened to him, Walter Cronkite when I was a kid and there's just so many places to get news from now and so many that are unreliable and it's hard to know which is true and which is not true and people are really struggling with that. I will tell you that I believe that the way we move forward is we keep working on getting the best information we can out there but we really need to ensure that our activists, the people in the community have the facts because the bottom line is are you going to relieve the mailer that comes in the mailer or the person on the TV or the person that you know has done good work in your community and cares about your community and has been active in making good choices for you, their opinion will mean more to you than the flyer that comes in the mail and that's why it's so important to us that we're building this activism around the state so that we can ensure we get out the best information. Where are you stepping down now? This is a job, I tell people it's like a relay. If you're in a four lap relay here and you're the first person, you don't say that you'll do the second, the third and the fourth. You give it everything you got in that first lap. We have dramatically grown the party. When I came on board we had seven people. We have 24 people on board now and this is during, there is no off year anymore. We are building every year. The capacity of our organizing team is amazing and they're doing great things empowering our grassroots and it's now time for me to hand that baton to the next person who can work on our communications and our echo chamber and technology and bring in their talents and skills to the table. I think a good leader knows when the time is for them to hand that baton and my time is now so that I can go on and use my talents and skills in a different way and have the next person stepping up to take us to the next level. Were you the first woman chair of the state? No, I wasn't and I'm proud to say that I wasn't because it just shows how progressive you are. We have two men running so far that I know of. Is it time for someone else to step in? Actually, I think there's three now that have announced interest. Yes, there is still time to run but we have some really good candidates and I have no doubt that we will be in good hands. That will be chosen at the state party convention in June so anybody who wants to have a say in the leadership of the party should go to that convention. You can find out at your local Democratic office. So what happens for Martha now? What are you going to do? I have several things that I'm looking at really trying to take some of the work that I did here in building infrastructure and empowering us to do more with less. That's the challenge as I said earlier. The Republican party has people who will just throw money at things. Millions of dollars easily come to them and on our side that it isn't that easy and so how do you ensure that every dollar that you're using is being used to its best potential and you're getting the most out of it and we did that in 2018. We did just an amazing job. So that still doesn't tell me what you're doing. I'm going to be involved in politics and most likely in fundraising and connecting and infrastructure building but I haven't made a final decision yet. The fundraising was incredible. I got to drive you while you did your phone calls and that was a very good lesson for me to watch you do your work. So I want to also talk about the Democratic National Committee choosing Milwaukee out of many other cities and really one of the final three I think our competitors were Houston and Miami and ultimately the DNC led by Juan Perez, is that his name? Tom Perez chose Milwaukee and there was a big roll out we have some photos that we hope Scott can share during the airing of this it's this huge. So tell us what are we going to feel the effects here in Sheboygan? Absolutely. I mean this is a huge event. There will be tens of thousands of people that will be coming to the Milwaukee area there will be millions of people who will be focused on what's happening there there will be political leaders from our party at all different levels coming here to Wisconsin. So it is a great opportunity for us to highlight the Midwest for us to highlight the working class. There's been a lot of big cities that have had a convention like this but bringing it to Milwaukee and letting people see that it's our big city in Wisconsin but it's not the size of city like Houston or Miami. It's a working class community where you can drive from the north side to the south side in 20 minutes. And we were really proud of that city and it's going to be a great opportunity for us to show it to the nation and bring a lot of people here for tourism. Yeah it is awesome. This is in July 2020, August? Yep, and it's in July and it's going to be right during some of the best weather. Everybody's going to be praying that we get no rain, wonderful weather. But people are going to be staying all around the area. When I was in Philadelphia in 2016, you know, my family came in and we went and visited parts of Pennsylvania. This will be a time where people will take a trip in here and why not go up and check out the golf courses up here in the Sheboygan area and the great restaurants and, you know, go on up to Monaco and see what the north woods is like. And there's Madison, go to the Concert on the Square or check out the Farmers Market. There's going to be a lot of traveling that goes on which will bring great economic opportunities for Wisconsin. And there also will be an opportunity to just show what Midwestern living is like, you know, to present that to the rest of the nation because some people have never been in the Midwest and so it's a great opportunity to show that. And not as shocking as it. Some people come here to Wisconsin and they're like, wow, there's like not very many buildings. I'm like, it's farmland, but I'm taking a Milwaukee. There's a lot of buildings. So it is shocking and, you know, I've traveled to places that I've never been before and been surprised going, oh my gosh. So this is our opportunity to show people the Midwest and just how beautiful it is and show how our democratic values and principles are right here in Wisconsin. And what impact will that have on the presidential election? We lost, but Wisconsin did not vote for, did not contribute to the 2016 presidential candidate meeting and that was a blow. Absolutely. I fully believe that Wisconsin would have been a blue state had we as Democrats talked more about what we were going to offer, what we would do to make people's lives better. People did not know that Hillary Clinton made a commitment to invest so much in infrastructure more than any president since FDR. It would have created 60,000 jobs right here in Wisconsin. It's those kinds of sound bites that never got to the voter. So having the national convention here, clearly if we have the national convention here, people are going to be hearing what democratic leadership will offer them, which is exciting, but it will also give us an opportunity to correct that wrong and be sure that never again will we be not sharing what our leadership offers. In 2018 we did a great job at talking about education and roads and health care and it made the difference and we swept all of our constitutional statewide races first time. Any party's done that since 1982. We plan to do it again in 2020. Don't you think we would have if Hillary had bothered to visit the state after the primary? Or if Bernie had won the nomination? Because a lot of, you know, when he came he packed South High School. You and I were both there. I just watched that speech again because it was like five, four years since then and I was struck by all these Shaborgan people cheering so loudly for Bernie. I think it's just really important that whatever political leader comes, they have to show up. They have to be there. They have to tell people what they're going to do to make their lives better. We can't just be against something. We have to be for something. We have to show that our leadership will make a difference in those people's lives. And I think that's part, if you ask me what I'll leave here with, it's the memories of the people I met with. The mother who was worried about how her child will survive because they had a medical condition and were worried about pre-existing conditions being eliminated and how that would affect her life. Or the senior who had worked their whole life and now has non-potable water in their house which they had invested their retirement in. That house was their savings and now how do you sell a house that has non-potable water? Because our government has decided to remove protections that ensure that we weren't polluting our water. What about chronic wasting disease? People all over our state rely on venison to put food in their freezers and now chronic wasting disease because we were ignoring deer farms. You hear these stories and you feel like people have really let down the people of Wisconsin too much. And it's time for politicians to show up and address these issues. We haven't even talked about our new governor and I guess I would consider that one of your achievements. You helped elect him. So we have this governor who is talking about all those things and does want to address public education the environment, climate change, women's health, all health. But we still have this Republican majority in the legislature that tried very hard to limit his powers and we will see how that plays out in court. So what gives you optimism that he's going to make the kind of change that you and I want to see? Because Tony Evers has the values that are Wisconsin values. He is not playing partisan politics. He is sitting down and talking to people about what are we going to do to make Wisconsinites lives better. And the things that he's bringing to the table are good things. The Republicans, if they refuse, if they continue to, this lame duck trying to strip a man of the power that the voters gave him, those are things Wisconsinites don't want to see. And I believe in Tony Evers. He has great values and he's going to be one of the best governors we've had. And he's not running for president. He's a voter in the Wisconsin which is great. Yes. Well, Martha Lanning, thank you so much for joining this. It's gone too fast. There's so much more I wish I could ask you. If you want to get involved in Milwaukee 2020, there is a website. I believe they're still looking for staff, still looking for volunteers, still looking for vendors. Absolutely. If you want to provide services, rooms, or food or whatever for that whole week-long convention, that's going to be really exciting. What else can you tell people about if they want to get involved in the Democratic Party? What can they do? So Milwaukee2020.com is where you can sign up to volunteer or if you're interested in getting involved in some way.  You can find out about your local county party and get involved because our Democratic Party is as strong as we are. We need more good Democrats to come in and help us make it stronger. All right. Thank you, Martha. Thank you, viewers, for watching. Whatever you do, get involved. Don't be complacent about politics. We're talking about your future. This is Narek Burabash. Thanks for joining us. Thank you.


Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another Stephen King video. I believe I'm calling this series My Life as a Stephen King fan. Today I just want to sit back, relax, and chat with you about how... In the last one I talked about my collections. In this one I want to talk about some of the ways I collected over the years. But the majority of this video is going to be about the Stephen King Library. I believe it's called. It's thestevenkinglibrary.com. Sadly it is no longer in business. From what I can tell the main page has only an option to make a payment on your account. But when I went over to stevenking.com after several hours of searching the internet over the past two weeks, I've only come across really one other person talking about it that wasn't actively trying to, I guess, not promote. But yeah, I guess that is the case, promote. Because they did a big push with bloggers and whatnot back in 2013. And I saw several posts from people who the Stephen King Library had reached out to asking them to help promote it to sell the calendar, which we'll talk about here in a second. But on top of that I can't find anything saying when they started. So if anybody in the community can find out for me, I would vastly appreciate it. Just leave your comments down there in the doobly-doo. If you knew the channel that's either the description or the comment section. But with the Stephen King Library you paid one fee and they sent you a new Stephen King book every single month. Well, not a new one. In fact, the last thing I heard on the Stephen King website, the official Stephen King website, is that they had lost the rights to do everything from the outsider on. So it looks like that might be the reason that they closed their doors. But there's also a Stephen King Library from Simon and Schuster. So I don't know if that has taken over. I didn't do much research into that because I wanted to focus on the Stephen King Library at the Stephen King Library dot com. Or maybe it's just Stephen King Library dot com. But there is that payment wall. I do know that the last book that I tried to get through them was the Green Mile Hardcover, which I still haven't gotten. I have the first editions which are all in, I don't know if you guys can see them, but they're up here underneath the Salem's Lot hat. Yeah, they're all up here. Those are the first editions that I bought. In fact, that's the oldest. As far as me buying them new, that's the oldest in my collection. And you can see why in the video prior to this one in the series. Not the video that was uploaded before this one. Anyways, so you get one of these every single year. It was the Stephen King Library desk calendar. This one is from 2014. I think this is the last one that I tried to get. This is the last year that I had it before I ended up cancelling because they sent me a letter saying that they didn't have any more copies of the Green Mile Hardcover in stock. Now, I just wanted that for my shelves. Everything you see up here on these shelves are first editions or they're limited editions, except for this carry over here. My first first to carry is in a lot of safety deposit box because of the hurricanes and everything I've been through. I still live in Central Alabama. And until I move from Central Alabama, my 25th anniversary it and my first first to carry will stay in safe deposit boxes. If you don't know, this office that I shoot in, the studio, whatever you want to call it, is not connected to my house. Now, all of the stuff back here I have doubles of because I bought doubles for so long before ebooks. So I have doubles of everything except for what's new. But all that stuff is in storage. That stuff is kept away. So if anything happens to this collection that I have here for the show, then I have backups. But at one point in time, the only option I had financially to get first editions, and they weren't first editions, but to get the original covers, they were, who knows, how many printings they had gone through at this point. Things like Firestarter and Night Shift and things like that that are usually tend to be hard to come by. Those books, I end up replacing the Stephen King Library ones later on in life. But mainly, I built up my collection just for show from the Stephen King Library. I think I got 15 to 16 books there. Those books are worth absolutely nothing. But they are a high quality book club edition. They are not the smaller copies like they used to be back in the during the double day book club editions, which is a funny side note because back when double day was doing their book club and they sent the Stephen King book club copies out, those books were the same size. Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Stand, The Shining, and I believe Night Shift were all the same size. The first editions were the same size as the book club editions, but they were first editions. It all depends on the anomalies that you find on the books. Like with The Shining, there's R24. I always get this confused. It might be R42 on a certain page and The Shining lets you know that it's the first edition. With, let's see here, Salem's Lot, it's the price difference. I think it was $8.99, marked down to $7.99 that they changed, but also the true first edition has the typo Father Cody in the description instead of Father Callahan. But back to the Stephen King Library. I had a lot of fun every single year, well every single month getting a new hardcover from my shelves that then I could replace. The reason why I spent the money to build up that collection, it was a bit of self-care, I guess. I had lost, at this point in time in my life, I had lost my Stephen King collection twice. My first edition Stephen King collection twice. Once in 1995 and then another time, I can't remember the year. I've kind of blocked out this period of my life because of drug addiction and all different kinds of things. Up until about the time when my first child was born, all that stuff is muddy up until 2005, but there was another hurricane that came through. I think it was Igor or Ivan that wiped out my collection again. So the only thing that I have from that time are those Green Mile paperbacks, and that's only because when Igor or Ivan, I can't remember which one it was, that came all the way up into Montgomery if you want to check yourself. When that one came up, it flooded the storage facility that I had it on, but those books in particular were sitting on top of, in a smaller box, on top of everything else, literally the only box that didn't get destroyed. But with this one, I wanted my collection back, and the quickest way I could think to do it other than getting stuff off eBay for dirt cheap, they weren't first editions, getting them dirt cheap was through the Stephen King Library, because I believe it was 14 or 1999, and most of the stuff that you found on eBay was, and now I wanted clean copies. So those of you out there going, you can find a decent reading copy. No, I wanted a pretty copy for my shelves, and these were brand new books, freshly printed. They just weren't first editions. They weren't even, they weren't anywhere near first printings. They had the same covers as the first editions, but they weren't the same thing. If you guys want to have a chat about that down there in the doobly-do, what the difference is between a first edition and a first printing, we can do that also, because not all first editions are first printings. But anyways, another thing is, I have a little bit of a story that I've told several times over the course of several videos, and this is the last time I'm going to tell it, but my first experience with the Stephen King Library is, at one point in time, when I was a kid, my early teenage years, from about the time I was 10 to the time I was 14, my mom, my dad never worked. My dad lived off my mother for 25 years. He cut grass to pay for his beers and beer and cigarette when she cut him off for that, those things, but my mom worked anywhere from two to three jobs at a time, nursing, sitting with people, hospital, all that stuff. She worked for Kaiser Permanente out in Fontana, California. But at one point in time, she didn't have a whole lot of money, so she couldn't afford the first editions off the shelf, and it was just much easier for her to set it and forget it with one of her credit cards, as one of the things that got her in debt with the Stephen King Library. So she set it and forgot it. And they would come in the mail every single month, and I believe back in the day, different books came also. I think there was a Stephen King, the Stephen King Library offered other books handpicked by Stephen King. Nowadays, or recently, like in 2014, when I have, from the time I have this desk calendar, that wasn't the case. I know they only offered the Stephen King books. But every single month, you would get a Stephen King book. And in 2014, I remember you could click the ones that you already had, so they wouldn't send you those. But back in the day, I want to say about between 90 and 93. I know this for a fact for 93. Every single month, they would send you a new book, and his newest book, the Loris Claiborne, had just come out. I went out to the, this is how I started my Stephen King fandom. I went out to the mailbox to get the mail after I had gotten home from school. And I found a Stephen King Library box. It had, of course, the Stephen King Library on it with the bill on the front and everything. And I took it inside, and I sat there staring at it for a little while, and I decided to finally open it. Because at this point in my life, my mother would not let me read Stephen King. I wasn't allowed to read anything but goosebumps, fear street, scary stories to tell in the dark, and novelizations of movies that she had already seen. So when this came, she wasn't home. Dad was asleep on the couch. She used to always fall asleep watching the Cubs. We never lived in Chicago, but the man was a die-hard Cubs fan. I decided to go ahead and open it. So my first, my first situation, my first experience with Stephen King was a theft. I literally stole my mother's book. I easily, not easily, but I eased it open, breaking the glue. So I, because I had plans to repackage it, which I eventually did, and then put it back in the mailbox. She never noticed. She wasn't paying attention. She was working so much. I don't even think at this point she was reading Stephen King anymore. But I opened it up and I read the book at night with a flashlight over the course of three nights. I just devoured that book. It's still one of my favorite Stephen King books, but that experience alone made me a Stephen King fan. After that, I tried to get my hands on as much as possible. I would walk down to the thrift store to buy, because they didn't care who bought books back then. They still don't, technically. You can go to Barnes & Noble if you're eight years old and buy a Stephen King book. It's not like video games. And I honestly don't feel that there should be an age limit on the King books, because the way he writes, it's vague enough that a kid, a child that doesn't understand adult concepts like sex and things like that, they're not going to understand what's going on. But with an adult, of course, they're going to catch it. So the only way you're going to catch it is if you have experience with those things or you've heard about those things. So I don't think there is an age that is too young, other than maybe literally not being able to read. Y'all can disagree with me down in the doobly-doo. But with my mom and that collection, eventually she finally had to cancel everything. She went bankrupt and we moved to Alabama. We got to Alabama and that's when the hurricane happened and we lost her collection of first editions. She had firsts of Carrie. She had been buying these books brand new as soon as they came out from Carrie on. So she had Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Shining, Stan, all those early books. She had brand new. And I still remember that collection. In fact, I have a picture of it that I believe I showed in the last video. If not, I will definitely show it the next time I do one of these videos. But with the Stephen King Library, I have a couple questions for you guys. Did any of you join the Stephen King Library? Did any of you remember the Stephen King Library? Did any of you use this library to complete your collections? Like I said, the third time I did my collection, I rebuilt it with using the Stephen King Library and eBay and some N.A. books and a couple other places.  Wayne, Cammie, Sarah, all you guys, if I missed anybody, I apologize. There are so many of you who have sent me first editions. Some of you I only know by your screen names, which is unfortunate. But I thank you guys so much for helping me out with that. But that's how I've rebuilt my collection so far now. And luckily in the past two to three years, ever since I started this channel, I have been financially stable enough to actually go out and hunt these first editions and get the special collectors editions and all that stuff. All this stuff is pretty much new to me. It's with all this stuff is within the last five years that you see on these shelves.  I don't know what you want to call it. But if you're worried about those things, all I have to tell you is be patient. It comes around. It really does. I mean, my copy of my first edition of the stand, my first, first, it's the original 800 page. It is a first edition and not the book club edition. My first, first of the stand I found for $35 on eBay, just a fluke. I tried it out. The guy was like, first, first, I guess nobody believed him because he only had the cover showing. And it's in terrible condition. It's ratty or what not. But yeah. And it's the, even the, even the spine is kind of, I hate touching this. That's why I haven't read this version yet. Another thing, if anybody out there has a paperback copy of the original one for a decent price, I need one. The original 800 page version of the stand. Just that one. That's the one that I'm looking for. But anyways, I'm going to wrap this up because I really don't have anything else to say on the matter. But down there in the comments section with these videos, these discussion videos, that's why I upload these videos to tell, to tell you my story and to get your story as well. If you just want to talk about Stephen King, that kind of thing, then that's what we'll do. Comment down there in the doobly-doo. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U. This has been another Stephen King video. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye!


Greetings and welcome to the Introduction to Astronomy. In this week's Misconception and Astronomy we are going to look at the planet Mercury and discuss if it is the hottest planet. We know it's the closest planet to the Sun, but we will find out that it is not the hottest planet in the solar system. So let's take a look at this. And what we find is that, yes, Mercury is indeed the closest planet to the Sun, but it is not the hottest. Now, you would think that temperature should decrease as you get farther away from the Sun, and that's true that less energy would be reaching each planet as you get farther and farther away. Now, this so you think that the planetary temperatures would decrease as well, and while it's generally true, this is not always the case. So let's look at what's happening here. When we have an object like Mercury, and in this case we're showing an image for our moon, but the idea is still the same. You have a certain amount of energy coming in and you have a certain amount of energy coming out. In this case, some of it is reflected and some of it is absorbed by the surface. And what you see is the exact amount that leaves is the same amount that is coming in. So the 342 units here are split into 318, which are absorbed. The 24 that are reflected go right back out into space. And those same 318, that amount is then radiated away. Now, while this says moon, the same thing would occur on Mercury. And Mercury can reach a surface temperature of over 300 degrees Fahrenheit. And you'll see a couple of different values here, 333 degrees Fahrenheit, 167 degrees Celsius, or in the scale that astronomers would use, 440 Kelvin. So we can see that it is a very high temperature. That's vastly hotter than anything we get here on Earth. However, we also have to look at other planets. And the planet that actually is the hottest is not Mercury, but is the second closest planet and that would be Venus. So let's go ahead and clear some of this. So let's take a look at the same kind of diagram for Venus. And actually, you'll see it says for Earth, but Venus would be comparable. So again, we have a certain amount of incoming radiation coming in.  Now, why is it so much more complicated for Earth or Venus? That's because there's an atmosphere there. So some of that material is reflected in the atmosphere. Some is absorbed by the atmosphere. Some is reflected off the ground. And then some heats up the surface and some is radiated out to the surface. And we do have the greenhouse effect that radiates energy back. Now, in all, everything pretty much balances and that keeps the temperatures relatively stable. However, Venus has a really thick atmosphere. Over 90% of the atmosphere is carbon dioxide. So it has a very intense greenhouse effect. And that means a lot of heat is trapped inside it. Now, Venus is constantly shrouded in clouds. And you may notice if you go out in the morning sometimes and you feel it feels very cold on, say, a nice fall or spring day and you look up and the sky is perfectly clear. That's because there were no clouds there to help hold in that energy and more energy escaped out into space, cooling the atmosphere in that small region. Now, on the other hand, if you go out on one of those days and it's very warm and stuffy, you'll generally see that everything is shrouded in clouds. Those clouds are better able to hold the heat in. And those clouds being made up of water vapor here on Earth are very good at holding in heat. So what this does to Venus is give it an extremely intense greenhouse effect, raising its temperature in this case to over 700 Kelvin or well over 850 degrees Fahrenheit. So if we look at the temperatures here, Venus is easily two and a half times hotter than Mercury even though it is nearly twice as far away from our Sun than Mercury is. And again, part of that is due to the fact that Venus has this thick atmosphere and intense greenhouse effect that help to heat the surface. So let's go ahead and finish up here with our summary and see what we've looked at. And what we've discussed is that Mercury is indeed the closest planet to the Sun, but it is not the hottest planet. We know that Venus has a very thick atmosphere composed mainly of carbon dioxide. And because of this, a runaway greenhouse effect on Venus makes Venus the hottest planet in the solar system. Now that said, and probably not and definitely not the hottest planet in the universe, we discover many other planets that are much closer to the Sun and could be even hotter than Venus in the universe. But within our solar system, Venus is easily the hottest of the planets. So that concludes this discussion on why Mercury is not the hottest planet in the solar system. We'll be back again next week for another misconception in astronomy. So until then, have a great day, everyone, and I will see you in class.


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