Okay, so just to go ahead and get started, I just want to introduce you to the topic of beneficial insects because you may not think all insects are beneficial, and that's right, some are pests, but actually many of the insects that you find in your farms and gardens are actually beneficial, and we have those that are providing pollination services, like these bees here or the bumblebee, and that is a blueberry flower, and bumblebees have a very particular way of pollinating blueberry flowers. They use buzz pollination, so they actually vibrate their wings at a certain frequency that causes that flower to release more pollen, so there are lots of really cool biology that goes on. I primarily studied natural enemies of crop pests, things that attack crop pests, so predators and parasitoids. How many of you know what have seen a parasitoid or know what a parasitoid is? Just a few of you. So parasitoids are usually tiny wasps, sometimes they're flies, and they lay their eggs in or on the body of the insect that is their host, and that egg hatches, and the larva begins to consume the internal contents of that prey, and ultimately it will cut a hole and typically emerge and spin a cocoon on the outside of the prey, and then becomes a wasp and carries on that cycle all over again. So again, really tremendously interesting biology that goes on, and these organisms are extremely numerous. Pollination services, just some figures here, 87.5% of plants rely on pollination, and about 75% of our food crops require insect pollination, and they're worth a lot of money, $400 billion annually, and at least almost 10% of the world agricultural output is dependent on pollination, so pollinators are really important. And pollination, we think of primarily being done by honey bees, which are the managed bees that we manage in hives, but wild bees also provide a lot of pollination services and they contribute in large amounts to the sustain or the resilience in pollination services over long periods of time. So just a fun fact, Michigan is home to 465 species of bees, and many of them are brightly colored and metallic and really interesting organisms to look at. Pestopressin services are the things that are provided by the natural enemies, the predators and the parasites, and again, about a $400 billion value to U.S. cropping systems, but another thing that I think is really important is they help reduce the need for insecticides, and we've done studies that show that in many cases natural enemies are completely suppressing a cropped pest so that farmers don't have to spray pesticides or insecticides, and that goes on all the time without even being recognized, so the value is probably even higher than this, and it's really a combination of predators and parasites that cause this. I put this up here because it kind of goes from familiar to less familiar. Lady beetles, most people recognize as beneficial predators and are thinking about conserving them. Spiders, you might know, are always predacious, so they're always helping in the system, but then there are things that are less familiar.   Soldier beetles are something that you see commonly on Goldenrod later in the summer. They are predacious as adults and as immature, and then parasitoid wasps. And parasitoid wasps are probably the most species rich group of insects that we have in the world. There are millions of species of parasitoid wasps. Basically every insect in the world has a parasitoid that attacks it, oftentimes many different parasitoids, and parasitoids have parasitoids that attack them, and parasitoids that attack parasitoids sometimes have parasitoids that attack them, so these relationships are extraordinarily complex and really fascinating. So how do we harness that? Well, both pollinators and natural enemies have some requirements in there for just to support their daily living. They've got to have nectar. Bees use that to produce honey, honey bees use it to produce honey, other bees use it to fuel their activities, parasitoids use nectar to fuel their activities. They need pollen, bees of course collect pollen and feed it to their offspring, but many natural enemies also feed on pollen as a source of protein, and certain natural enemies can't lay eggs. They emerge as new females, they get mated and they're ready to lay eggs, but they can't do it until they have a protein meal. So searford flies or hoverflies need that protein meal from pollen. If you're a natural enemy, you may need prey in the system all the time. You can't just have the key pest that maybe the farmer wants you to control, you will happily feed on that, but you need food for the rest of your life too, so we call that alternative prey and we can help supply that, and then they need shelter as well, they need places to overwinter, they need places to have their nests and where they may lay eggs, so those are things that we need to provide in the agricultural landscape. And we do that through what we call habitat management. This is just a term that has come up where mostly scientists talk about this, but we manage habitats specifically for beneficial insects and we call them insectary plants or insectary habitats. Okay, this is a little hard to see with the light that we have in this room, but I just wanted to make the point that humans have really changed the agricultural landscape significantly and this is actually sort of a non-urban type of situation, but this is actually in Michigan, and we have parts of the landscape that are fairly complex, they have forests and wetlands and maybe some fence rows, and if you blow it up, you can see it a little bit better, but we have other parts of the landscape that have really become very highly simplified. We have taken out those forests and the fence rows and the wetlands, we've tiled the fields so that our productivity is higher, but what that's done is it has caused a lack of those former resources that these beneficial insects need. And so in landscapes like this, you can still find places that maybe have an old field or a little edge to the field that has some floral and nectar resources, but very little in the field itself. And then in these more simplified landscapes, we tend to have even fewer floral resources for natural enemies and pollinators. So we need to think about that because there's quite convincing evidence that currently highly managed landscapes are just not good places for pollinators to live, they can't get enough food, not picking on any particular state, but I have a former student who works in a Midwestern state, and he put honeybees out in a corn soybean landscape and they had to start feeding them by August. The honeybees were losing weight, they couldn't bring in enough pollen and nectar to even maintain the weight of the hive in those highly intensified landscapes they had to start feeding them. So the idea that the bees are starving in August is kind of crazy, but that's what was happening in that landscape. Okay, so what can we do to support beneficial insects? We can create these habitats, and this is sort of what habitat management looks like on the ground. Typically we're planting a mixture of flowering plants that bloom over long periods of time. The idea is that we could create higher abundance and greater diversity of both pollinators and natural enemies. Some people are concerned about rare species of bees and we can support them as well. And the goal is that we have increased pollination and pest control services. So what's the evidence that this actually works? Forget Blau's first name, Bret Blau and Rufus Isaacs conducted an experiment in blueberries in Michigan and what they found is in a typical production setting where blueberries don't absolutely require pollination but they benefit from insect pollination that when they planted these resource habitats it increased the yield of the blueberry field to the point that within three years the farmer could pay for the installation of the habitat patch. So definitely these services are valuable and particularly where pollination is required you can get a lot of benefit from it. Okay, so in the past we often used annual plants as insectary plants. Then there's a lot of research on that that shows that they can be beneficial. But we were often using non-native plants. There was a couple of plants from California that were really very good and people started planting them and you could actually increase pollination but people became concerned that they could become invasive. So more recently the focus become on native plants and on perennial plants. So perennials are plants that once they're established they're gonna live for many years without replanting in the system. And we are also interested in having overlapping bloom periods so that we have resources continually being present in the landscape for these pollinators and natural enemies. There's a lot of lists of insectary plants out there. You can just Google insectary plants and you will find many, many lists of them. Oftentimes they're based on pretty limited data and sometimes it's just expert opinion that these are plants that might support natural enemies. You might find a list but it's really from California so who knows whether those plants grow here or whether we should have them here. And the lists are actually not very specific in what type of insect they attract and support. They basically just say this is good for pollinators but they aren't very detailed in what they actually support. So we became interested about 10 years ago, a little more in thinking about how we could do research to identify the best insectary plants for use in Michigan. And we published a couple of papers. Actually we had a SARA grant. We did three years of work. We had multiple students working on that. They published their findings and what you have is in short this, I don't have one in front of me. This is the non-scientific version of the science papers that came out here. And if you open that up, you'll see this very nice insert here that shows all the different plant species that they found to be attractive to bees and natural enemies and their bloom periods, et cetera, and shows you what those plants look like in that border around the outside. That work was done in one location near East Lansing and it was done on a site that had what we would call mesic soils. The soils were held moisture well and so they supported plants that do well in modest to high moisture conditions. But a lot of our production in Michigan, particularly fruits and vegetables, is done on much sandier soils. So all the way up to the West Coast of Michigan, we have very sandy soils, but that's where a lot of our fruit production is concentrated. And so we knew that we needed to think about what plants could we use in soils or in situations where the soil was going to be very dry. So our questions were, what do Michigan native plant species that are suitable for dry soil vary and their attractiveness to natural enemies? Can certain plant species support both pollinators and natural enemies? And from a scientific viewpoint, we were interested in whether we could explain attraction through floral traits. Here are my farmer cooperators. They're not the normal farmer cooperators. These are native plant producers who provided us with the materials that we used and a lot of advice on how we should grow those plants. And we also consulted with the Michigan Commercial Beekeepers Association because they're very interested in having pollinator resources in the landscape and they gave us some suggestions to test as well. We did this in three locations across Michigan, Southwest Research and Extension Center, Clarksville Research Center and the Traverse City Research Center. 54 plant species, they were all planted out. You can see individual one meter blocks of these plants separated by seven meters so that they were independent from one another. We visited them weekly to collect insects and they use these giant vacuum cleaners. So this is a leaf blower turned around to become a giant insect vacuum cleaner and they vacuumed the insects off of the plants and we identified them and looked at them in three different bloom periods. So I know you can't read that but it's not important. I'll break it down for you later. Just to show, yes, we had plants that were in peak bloom throughout the entire season from May into October. Okay, so here we get into the details. These are for the plants that bloom early in the season. On the left are the bees, on the right are the natural enemies. The different kinds of bees are listed here. Basically we have a lot of leaf cutter bees and a lot of sweat bees, these bands here and some bumblebees and honeybees in blue. And then in the natural enemy side, we have a lot of those parasitoid wasps, a lot of hymenopter early in the season, relatively few other insects but you'll see later other types of beneficials become common more later on. Let's just focus our attention on the best, the very best plants and go through them one by one. So one of the most attractive plants to both pollinators and natural enemies is yarrow. How many of you have yarrow growing in your garden or on your property? So yarrow is a cosmopolitan plant, it's native to this area. You may also grow cultivars of yarrow. And I know that the yellow cultivar that we have in our garden attracts no insects at all. And in some cases when we breed plants to have very showy blooms, we don't concentrate on whether they're producing nectar or not and a lot of cultivars, I shouldn't say a lot, some cultivars actually provide very little or no resources to natural enemies. You have to be careful about that. Common milkweed can be a weed in the system but it is quite attractive to both pollinators and natural enemies. Butterfly milkweed as well, round leaf ragwort, primarily to pollinators and then prairie sink foil, again primarily to pollinators. In the middle season, again, we had the same sort of thing but you can now see that we have fewer mega-kylids, more elliptids and quite a bit more apids which are the honeybees and the bumblebees. And you might wonder why this bar is so prominently large. It's because bumblebees love monarda. If you have monarda growing in your garden, either the red varieties or this native type, they really love monarda. It's just covered up with bumblebees as it blooms. Goldenrod is quite attractive to both pollinators and natural enemies. Hairy Mountain Mint, kind of a surprise. That was one that was actually promoted to us by beekeepers and they wanted us to look at mountain mints. There's several different kinds and this Hairy Mountain Mint is actually quite attractive interestingly not to pollinators. That's why the beekeepers were recommending it but actually to natural enemies. Strawberry St. John's wort and Mountain Mint again. Okay, so now's the quiz period. Are you seeing any patterns in the types of flowers that are attractive to these insects? You've seen two sets so far. Any patterns? The ones that are hard to kill. Milkweed is hard to kill. What else? Flowers and clusters? Yes, definitely. All of these have flowers and clusters. We call that an inflorescence. They can be made up of multiple flowers that each have a little nectare in them. Any other patterns? Is color important? Yellow and white? But you know what? There's a lot of yellow and white flowers and it's really hard to find purple flowers. Color is probably not so important in this case and remember we see color in one way but bees and other insects are seeing color in the ultraviolet light. So color is actually not super important. If we think about the last part we now have lots more bumblebees and honeybees, very much fewer parasitoids, getting more beetles being attracted later in the season. Late in the season here, showy goldenrod, again a large inflorescence, tall coreopsis, stiff goldenrod, early goldenrod and silky aster. Silky aster is great. It starts blooming in August and it'll bloom up until hard frost. Yes. It's dryness. What's that? It's the planting. Yes, in fact we selected all of these plants. Absolutely true. All these plants were selected to grow in dry sites. So we knew from the start that they would probably do well in dry sites. Little science for you. We were interested in, can we just simply say things that are often attractive to natural enemies are often attractive to bees? And there's a general trend but it doesn't explain much of the variation and you have these big outliers, things that these are plants that are super attractive to natural enemies but don't really attract that many bees. And here you have Monarda which is super attractive to bees but doesn't really attract very many natural enemies interestingly. So you have this list. I won't spend a lot of time on that but I will sort of finish up with this idea of flower traits. So we tested 54 species. There are thousands of species of plants that you could potentially grow that might support natural enemies. And it's hard to test it. It took us three years to do this. One year to plant them and get them established. Two more years of research. It's a lot of work. So if we can find some traits, some characteristics of flowers that are oftentimes associated with attractiveness, if you're from New Jersey you might be able to use that information without having to go through this level of detail. So, and we can also think about what mechanisms might influence insect visitation patterns and that's more of a scientific interest. So we measured a lot of things about these flowers. Corolla width, pollen availability, flower height, the height of the tallest flower. Floral area, flower hue, that's part of the color. Numbers of flowers, the week of peak bloom. And we did a big statistical model to ask which of these might be correlated with attractiveness. And so here's our pollinators on one side and our natural enemies on the other side. And you get a lot of different trends. And it's kind of mind-boggling what's going on here. So I'll break it down for you. Floral area, floral area was most consistently the factor that was attributed or correlated with positive attractiveness to natural enemies and pollinators. And it's actually floral area per time of year. So early in the year, we tend to have smaller plants that have smaller flowers but the ones that have relatively more floral area compared to their neighbors or the other things that are blooming at that time tend to be the most attractive. Late in the season we tend to get bigger plants that just naturally have bigger flowers but the ones that have the biggest floral area that they're displaying to insects tend to be the ones that are most attractive. So that's actually a quite handy thing. Anyone in the world can probably use that information and possibly come up with positive results. So finally, just to wrap up, if you're thinking about doing this, you're gonna have some considerations. We did it in a research fashion but you would do it in an application. I would suggest starting small and first getting to know your native plant producers and what types of products they provide, whether you want to plant seeds or whether you want to plant actual plants. If you're doing it in sort of a garden-sized operation, planting plugs is probably a very practical way to go. If you're trying to seed a half an acre, you're definitely into using seeds to do that. What are your primary goals? Are you trying to support pollinators or natural enemies or both? Do you actually need more habitat? Maybe you're in a part of the landscape that is super abundant with floral resources and if so, research has shown that adding more is not gonna really give you a big benefit but most of us are in places that could benefit from more resources. You have to know your soil type to decide what type of plant's gonna grow there.  Are you with native connections by chance? Okay, so there's one of your contractors over there. You need to think about site selection. The soil needs to be prepared in the right way. You have to get the right plants, decide whether you're seeding or planting and know that you will, with these native plants that are more prairie style, be babying them along for about a year and a half. You actually plant the plants, or if you seed them, you seed them, let them grow but the weeds actually grow faster and you'll probably want to mow that patch maybe two or three times the first season, maybe once or twice the second season and it's really in the third year that they look like this. So you have to have some patience and you have to have some knowledge about what is the process that you wanna undergo. So places to get some more knowledge. Everything that I've talked about today here is really on this website, which you have a little bookmark that has the URL for that so you don't have to write anything down but we have our plant selection tool in there and you can go in there, for example, and say where you are in Michigan, what types of soils you have, whether you want to attract native or natural enemies or pollinators, your light conditions, bloom periods that you're interested in and when you click that, it will push out a list of plants that are appropriate for those conditions. That's up and running on the website. You can do that this afternoon if you'd like. And with that, I think I'm actually a few minutes over time but I want to thank all my colleagues, native plant producers and the undergraduates who really did all the work on the project.


Today we're going to be looking at something that I've mentioned a few times in previous videos again This is part of a series. Be sure to check out the link in the description for the full playlist And I want to speak badly. It's it works fine for what it does It's but it's not one of my favorite features of came live Although I do use it Regularly for for credits in a video and or just basic text is the title clip editor It actually does a fairly good job. It's just never looks that great But basically we're going to generate some text a so let's go ahead I'm going to right-click up here or click on this drop down here and choose Add title clip now right away you have a black screen now you can generate a Title clip with different color backgrounds black or Otherwise, but let's say you want to be able to Put text over an image first of all, let's go ahead and hit cancel here Let's clip somewhere in the middle here, and now I'm going to go back and say add title clip now I can click show background. You still don't see it though. We go here to background We're going to make the opacity zero now you can see the background and now I can click in here And I can start typing www.filmsbychrist.com and There we go. We have it in black. I can Grab it and move it around I can change the font size the font color I can change the font itself to any font that I have installed on my system I can also so one of the things I guess I should tell you is you know sometimes like if I put it over my hair there It's black. So let's say you wanted to subtitle so so basically a tight clip editor is good for credits small words at the bottom of the screen like Subtitles late so you're translating something and a big mistake with subtitles is lots of times I mean movies that don't put any care into it will Have like white like this, but then You'll have something like that where it's white in the background. You can't read it I think that was a skit in Austin Powers wasn't it? so One way to avoid that issue and making your font So you don't know whether the video is gonna be black or white in the background is to add a border around it So the way we do that Well, you can always add a shadow, but that's not really what I'm talking about Somewhere They moved it since last I used it Where did that go? They really have moved a lot of stuff around here in the last release Like right there right in front of me. It used to be up here I think anyway choose a color which if you're using white text you probably want a black outline So make that black and then you can start bumping this up until you start seeing if you look at my font now It now has a black outline So if I was to put that to zero again It's almost impossible to read in front of the window here But if I put an outline of in this case about 25 And I think we'll make a difference on the resolution of your video now It doesn't matter whether you're against a black background or white background. You can still read that text Now just like pan and zoom you can center your text Right justify left justify top bottom so you can put it down here We can center it here. So if you wanted at the bottom center, you would or let's say the top center You would say top and center or if you went at the bottom, you'd say bottom and center and it's centered there So that's that's pretty cool another option. You know you can use a gradient and You can choose different colors. Let's choose a red here You can choose where the colors fade from and you can also choose the angle I think I quickly showed that in an earlier video so there's that Again font you can underline italicize and letter spacing so you can put bigger spaces between the letters Line spacing if you have multiple lines and these can be multiple lines If you do adjustments like that, you're going to want to center it again if you want centered If you do have multiple lines, you can well, let's see Let's add a new piece of text here Oops just added two anyway blah blah blah enter blah blah enter blah blah enter blah blah So right now everything is left justified or left aligned We can center the text inside that box or put it to the right of that box If we wanted it centered centered We would center the text here and then also center it here and here and now it's centered on the screen If you want you can choose one and hit delete Choose another hit delete Well, and then there I was actually glided a word Sometimes What I find difficult about editing text in here is okay. I can grab this to move it around now if I want to edit it There we go. It's I sometimes it's hard to figure out whether you're editing the text or moving the text So that's one of my my complaints about it But really the interface is great. What does is great. It's just it doesn't really create anything spectacular So again, it'd be good for subtitles or credits really Another thing you can do. So let's go back to our background here. Turn the opacity back up to 255 So we have a black background. You can change the background to a different color. So Turn this up turn this here. Okay, so I have a blue background or a pink background and we'll go back to black So You can have different color backgrounds that's centered. That's not centered. Let's see centered centered. There we go Now animations, this is kind of useful if you are going to just use this and maybe as an outgoing text to a video Having it kind of zoom in or out. I always find kind of so let's go ahead and just click either start or end Depending on whether you want to zoom it in or out So I can do this and you can see both of these here and by default these clips are five seconds long and you can change that up here But I can grab this and I can zoom it down So this is our end clip and then I can use this I can center this and What's going to happen now is so the camera is zoomed out and then it zooms in so now if I click okay, I Can drag this here and as we watch you can see Oh, it slowly zooms in over the five seconds and that looks pretty good if you add in a From black to black make them a little bit shorter. So now it kind of fades in Fades out and I do do that a lot with just plain white text I won't usually make it all rainbow colored like that. Now. I just deleted that little overlay. That's that's If if I wanted the transparency to the next video underneath it So let's go ahead and go back into our our clip here by double-clicking it Go back to our background and set the opacity to zero again and click show Background we can click okay, and now when I drag it here We can see me behind it with this text zooming in and this is what's allowing that if I remove that Oh, it does still do it. I don't know what that's for then Just to be honest with you But yeah, so this is the title clip editor if you just need to do quick and easy text It's the way to go if you want to have a nice intro I recommend generating text somewhere else either blender or that cool text website I showed you in the previous video or design it yourself in like gimp or Was it draw is that what it's called in LibreOffice, you know if you're gonna work with that CVS files or CVG files I mean So yeah, I hope that that's a quick overview you could also do Let me go back in here something I haven't done much, but I know you can do Show background. Actually, let's make the background black again. Let's Delete this text. Can I delete this text? There we go Okay, well, that's center that center it center it and Let's see simple scroll. So there are presets here. Oh, I guess it will load a new template I guess you have to do that first So text here, let's do that again And I'm assuming Put this here now the text is going to scroll the screen So if you want and credits you can use that template there's I haven't really played around with these templates. So you have scrolling Simple with date and simple. Let's see what simple is Simple just seems to be playing text. I don't know if it does any type of animation. Oh It does it kind of Scrolls from the center. Let me add a new title clip right now I'm just no right now. I'm just playing around Like I said, I I Looked at this stuff a while ago Center Center Center. Oh, that's right. I got to choose a template first Simple with date. Yes. Oh, look at that little that's actually kind of nice if you want to have some sort of you know Who's talking? Chris smart guy And then the date we can say 2016 Whatever today's date is I don't even know what today's date is. I guess it's 21st. Oh, whatever Blah blah blah confused me that they put the year first. Anyway Okay And now I'm probably getting boring. So there we go. That's nice a little Underscreen thing there. I would personally make an image in Gimp to do something like that and make it look a little bit nicer, but if you need to do it quick, there you go So that is it for this this video. It's been 11 minutes. So it's hasn't been that long So that was the title clip editor again something I wanted to show you does come in handy I actually do use it all the time again just to like give credit for when I use creative commons music that I've Attribute somebody in or if I'm doing home videos and I just want to put the date So I remember when we went on that trip or when my kids did something But if I was going to do a real like text intro To something to a video I would probably create it in Blender is what I normally do but That's it again. 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Hi and how are you all today? I am Priyanka and let us discuss the following question together. It says if x by 3 plus 1 comma y minus 2 by 3 is equal to 5 by 3 comma 1 by 3, find the values of x and y. Here in this question we'll use the definition of equality of two ordered pairs. Example if a comma b is equal to c comma d then he can say that a is equal to c and b is equal to d. This is equality of two ordered pairs. Two ordered pairs are equal if and only if the corresponding first part, first elements are equal and the corresponding second elements are also equal. The knowledge of the ordered pairs and the equality is the key idea that we're going to use in order to proceed on with our solution. Now here we are given x by 3 plus 1 comma y minus 2 by 3 is equal to 5 by 3 comma 1 by 3, right? Equating the first element we get x by 3 plus 1 equals 5 by 3. Now here this will represent our a, this will represent our b, this is c and this is t. So as we discussed above if we have been given equality of two ordered pairs then the corresponding first part are equal and the corresponding second parts are equal. Now let us solve the following linear equation and we have x by 3 is equal to 5 by 3 minus 1 which gives us x by 3 equals 2 by 3 or x is equal to 2, right? Now equating the second elements we get y minus 2 by 3 equals 1 by 3 which can be written as y is equal to 1 by 3 plus 2 by 3 which is y is equal to 3 by 3 which gives us the value of y is equal to 1. After simplification we got our answer as the value of x is equal to 2 and the value of y is equal to 1, right? So for solving the given problem we use the definition of equal ordered pairs and found out the required values by solving what we learned in our previous classes linear equation in one variable. Okay, bye, take care, hope you can solve more of these types.


First question is from Jesse McDonald is the muscle building signal you send when you perform resistance training Specific to only the muscles you train or cannot have an overall effect on the body I recently sustained a knee injury and can't do lower-body training, but I am trying to preserve muscle it's largely specific, but there is a Proven systemic muscle building effect. In fact, I do state there's some interesting studies where they have people train one arm And not the other arm and most of the muscle and strength gains go to that arm that's being trained But they do see growth. Yeah, they still see some muscle and strength gain a little bit in the opposite arm That wasn't trained at all. So there is this systemic effect now This is also Supported by you know, lots of people's experience with certain exercises Some exercises seem to send a louder full-body signal for example a barbell squat or a Deadlift, you know, I know with clients I've had clients add deadlifts to the routine and get stronger at you know, tricep extensions and Curls as a result of getting stronger at this big loud Signal exercise like a deadlift. Same thing with squats. It was said back in the day that if you you want bigger arms You should squat more And I think there's a little bit of truth to that because these exercises use so much muscle and so much skill and requires so much From the central nervous system that yeah, you do get you know A lot of the gains go specifically to the body parts being worked But there is a systemic effect that happens. Do you think that's just your because you're still Investing in the CNS, you know I'm saying like you're still putting you're still putting an effort to develop that It's got to be part of it has to be part of it I mean if that's that if that's the hub of communication to all of your muscles, right from the brain that says fire move and do all this And if you just stop working out completely not only do muscles atrophy But I also would think that that neurological communication starts to slow down or weaken Right and so even though you may not have a good connection to the injury muscle that we're talking about right now You still are strengthening the hub of communication. Yeah, there's yeah, there's an irradiation Effect to that meaning like where I'm trying to stabilize my body Well, the other allowing the freedom for one part of my body to do the movement, but stay anchored stay grounded stay stable So that that's isometric tension is also something that builds muscle and I I can't help but think too That's gonna play a factor in that overall signal affecting other parts of your body Yeah, they do studies to where people will think about a movement and not actually perform the movement And they have improvements in the movement You know, they've done there's old studies would like people thinking about shooting free throws for example They don't shoot any actual free throws But they they go through in their mind and shoot them and they see an improvement in their skill and ability So it's it probably is a central nervous system thing happening muscle fibers themselves aren't being Directly stressed, but the central nervous system is constantly being trained through exercise And so you see a louder signal throughout the the whole body And so the exercises that work the whole body in you know, these big gross motor movements are probably the best at it Another thing is these you know, like trigger sessions which we find in our maps anabolic program, which are kind of these light Low level low intensity type workout sessions you do on the days in between your hard workouts I notice when I do trigger sessions I'll target certain body parts and I'll see the gains in those body But I see gains all over also from them and I think it's the trigger sessions They're just sending this loud full-body signal as I'm doing them frequently to Alive and active if you're making the case for like the loud signal I would I would push this person in the direction of like this is a great time to put a lot of energy and focus on your overhead press or your z-press right because this it's been called the You know the squat for the upper body So if you want a loud signal to send as far as related to the CNS and you can't train lower body whatsoever This might be a great time to be practicing your overhead press and getting really really good at in hopes to you know Have less atrophy happen totally and then here's the other thing of course Once you heal from your energy injuries, excuse me The muscle comes back a lot faster afterwards So it's not and I know it could be something you worry about especially if you're super concerned with you know your physique You know I've hurt myself and you watch my body part or whatever deteriorate it comes back so fast It's actually quite it's pretty easy to get the muscle back once you've had it the first time


Hi everyone, Joe for jazby's casebrace.com coming at you with 2022 tops tier one baseball. It's a double header, a dual case break, 24 boxes. Random team break number five, a double header, let's play two, as Ernie Banks would say. Big thanks to all of these folks for getting their spots straight up. I appreciate it. And congrats to the winners of these spots right here. And all the baseball teams are in. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it. Six and a four, ten times for names and teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, and a four, seven, eight, nine, and ten. And final time after ten, we got Kevin on the pole and a couple of nesters in the 29 and 30 spot. Brandon, what's going on? All right, six and a four, ten times for the teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten. And final time after ten, got the ATL down to Baltimore night. I saw that, Brandon. Thank you very much. We should be able to get to those tonight. All right, Kevin, you got the Braves in this double header. Barry with the Rockies. Greg with the Yankees. Jeremy with the Astros. Jake with the Red Sox. Anthony with the Angels. Dustin with the Rays. Nester, Reds and Tigers. Jimmy, you got the Rangers. Ryan with the Guardians. Adam with the Mariners. Tim with the Twins. Chad, you got the Giants. Barry with the Marlins. Michael with the Michael L with the Padres. Michael M with the Diamondbacks. Robert with the Phillies. Matthew with the White Sox. Nester with the Nats. Mike with the Cubs. Jeremy with the Mets. Andy with the Brew Crew. Ryan Rebin, you got my Dodgers. Joe with the Cardinals. Michael with the Pirates. Adam with the A's. Nicholas with the Royals. Nester, Blue Jays and Orioles. Couple birds on the bottom. Let's alphabetize it by team name here. And we're gonna pause the video. When we come back, we're gonna see if there's any trades and then we'll have the break. So stick around. We'll see you on the other side of the pause button. All right, welcome back everybody. No deals done. So the trade window is closed. So here's the final printout. You're on Thursday the 25th. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. Appreciate it. This box is all over the place. There's the first 12 box case. Good luck everybody. We did a filler break a little bit earlier. This is our first kind of main break of the day. So thanks everyone for joining us and for making this happen. Nail the shoe there. All right. Should have a blank card here to hide the hits a little bit. With the Jaspie sticker on there. Jason Jaspie, shots fired. We got Matt Olson, 47 out of 3.99. That'll be for Adam and the A's. The first auto is Alex Kirloff, 17 out of 2.99. That is for Tim and the twins. And another twin, Joe Ryan for Tim, 76 out of 2.99. Rookie auto. All right, box one in the books. Next one. Ooh, what is this? Whoa, what is that? A bat knob? Is that a bat knob? Got Mason Thompson, 105 out of 2.99.  That is for Nestor and the Nationals. Dylan Carlson, 64 out of 2.99 for the Cardinals. That's gonna go to Joe. It's a one of one Mike Trout bat knob. Wow. Who's got the angels? Wow. How many one of ones does that make this? That is awesome. Anthony got a spot in the filler, won a spot in this break, got randomized the angels and gets the one of one Mike Trout bat knob. Amazing. All aboard the Big Head Express. Woo-hoo. Should we just stop? No, we've got so many more boxes to go. I mean, now I'm expecting like cut autographs and one of one multi-auto books and stuff like that. Dual auto, dual relic book, one of ones. MLB Logo Men's. There's Kyle Lewis to 2.49. That'll be for the M's, Adam with the Mariners. Joe Barlow, 2.93 out of 2.99. Rangers, that's gonna be for Jimmy in Texas. Cool, Whit Merrifield, Jersey and Autograph. 32 out of 99. That was Chad keeping score with his buddy Jimmy. Yeah, please do so. Royals, Nicholas with the Whit Merrifield. We've got a Mike Piazza Padres edition, 111 out of 3.99. That will be for Michael L and the Friars. You got Stephen Ridings, 184 out of 2.99. That's Greg and the Yankees. And 148 out of 175, your Don Alvarez. His Autograph going to Jeremy and the Astros. All right, there's Manny Machado, 65 out of 2.49. That's for Michael and the Padres. Oh no, this is an old match. There's Derek Jeter, 187 out of 2.49 for Greg and the Yankees. Got Logan Gilbert, 14 out of 2.99 for the M's. That's gonna go to Adam and the Mariners. And Jorge Pesada to 125. That's for the Yankees, Greg. Next box, Bryce Harper. Dual Relic, 10 out of 25. His rehab starts going well. I'm not sure when he joins the teams, but rehab starts going well. Robert with that one. There's Joel Pozo, 285 out of 2.99. That's for Jimmy and the Rangers. And Alex Bregman, 58 out of 125 for Houston. That's Jeremy Razer and the Strokes. Paul Goldschmidt, 110 out of 2.49. That might be your NL MVP right here. That's gonna go to St. Louis. Joe has the Cardinals. And Dustin May, nice, 18 out of 2.99. He's back. His first start back looked really good. Hopefully he can continue to build on that. That's gonna be for Ryan Redman and the Dodgers. 34 out of 50. Josh Donaldson, Twins edition. That's gonna go to Tim and the Twins. He's got a little baseball in the background, this baseball brick. Got an extra relic in this box. Sometimes you'll get four hits. Kiki Hernandez, 106 out of 3.99. That's Jake and the Red Sox. 204 out of 2.99, McGee, Miguel Cabrera. Piece of his jersey going to Nestor in Detroit. Well, Catty Mojo. Louise Gill, old Gill. 226 out of 2.99, old Gill. Gee, this would be great for old Gill. That goes to Greg and the Yankees. And we got Neon Dion Sanders. 35 out of 49, jersey and autograph. You look good, you feel good. You feel good, you play good. Kevin with the Braves with the spot that you won. Neon Dion Sanders, prime time. And still coach now, right? Still coaching football? There's Freddie Peralta, 3.99. Game used jersey, going to Andy and the Brew Crew. They're all game used jerseys. Oliver says he is. Didn't, that's right. I think we didn't, Neon's, Neon. Didn't Dion Sanders like get some big recruit? Like poach him from a different team and then. So I'm sure there was some sort of name, image and likeness stuff involved there too. 88 out of 2.99, that'll be for Texas. That'll be for Jimmy. Juan, Gun, Gonzalez. And O'Neal Cruz, rookie auto, nice. 285, signed right over the numbers, 285 out of 2.99. And I'm sure some of you saw that he hit a ball where the exit Vila was like a record, like 122 miles per hour or something like that. Talk about a ball being smoked, right, geez. 122.6 to be exact, Oliver's saying. It's insane. There's Kento Maeda, 231 out of 349. It's for Tim and the Twins. Oh, Pirates, by the way, is Michael Lossia. Nice O'Neal Cruz, rookie auto, that's pretty strong. There's AJ Alexi, 100 out of 2.99. Another ranger for Jimmy. And Juan Soto, 104 out of 125. Nationals autograph for Nestor and the Nats. I will keep pulling those rangers, Chad. I will. I'm sure Jimmy would appreciate some more rangers.  Doesn't harass me in the chat. Here's Dave Wright for the Mets. Jeremy deserves all these hits. Jeremy Razor with the Metropolitan's. Jackson Coar for the Royals to 2.99. Nicholas with the Royals. We've got Ryan Howard, 56 out of 199. That's gonna be for Robert and the Phillies. Eddie's saying that Deion Sanders has had the 56th best recruiting class in all of college football. It's pretty amazing considering that division. And another Phillie, Aaron Nola, 55 out of 2.99. Austin's brother. That's another one for Robert Elias and the Fightin' Fills. Oh, I got one of those clear autos in the back there. 24 out of 2.49, Lucas Geolito. Matthew with the White Sox. Riley Adams, 24 out of 25 for the Nats. That's gonna be for Nester. And we've got Yvonne Rodriguez, Pudge. Clear one autograph, Marlin's edition. Going to Barry, who won this team in a filler. Or won a filler spot and then got randomized as team. Nice, it's a pretty cool Pudge. Those old Florida Marlin logos, I thought were always really cool. The F and the Marlin and just the color scheme and the trim. Oh, that was much, much smoother. All right, let's play two. It's a double header. Another fresh case of tier one. Now, we got more in the store. Jaspy'scasebreaks.com. Another dual case, random team break. We're planning on a couple fillers. We've already taken those spots out already, but we're planning on two fillers, but we ended up, the full spot seemed to be moving so quickly that last few times we've actually canceled that second filler, added spots back in. So, however way you want to do it, I'm down. In fact, we could probably get another case that is done tonight, if you want to. I see spots moving already. All right, Jaspy'scasebreaks.com, of course. Wilson Contreras, 64 out of 399. Got a bit of that Cubs pinstripe peeking out there on the right side of the window. Mike with the cubbies. Will Smith, 310 out of 399 for the Dodgers, Ryan Redman. Redman with the boys in blue. More Dodgers, 191 out of 299, Gary Sheffield. Famous for that bat waggle, of course. Really solid player, too. And back here is Tori Hunter, tier one talent, 203 out of 299 for the Halos. That's gonna be for Anthony. All right, next box. Ken Griffey Jr., 32 out of 199, piece of his jersey, going to Adam and the Mariners. Andre Jackson, 007 out of 299. Do do do do do do do. I'm sorry, Miss Jackson. Ooh, I am for real. For the Dodgers, that goes to Ryan Redman. There's two things that happened there. And Jose Altuve, dual relic and autograph, 25 out of 25. That's for Jeremy and the Astros. Andrew McCutcheon, Philly's edition, 192 out of 399. Robert with the fight and fills. We got a Charlie Barnes, 137 out of 299. Barnesy, going to Tim and the Twins. And I'll do an autograph recap at the end of this, too. Another Juan Soto, this one is 17 out of 125. So I'll win the last case. Another one in this case. That's two for Nestor and the Nationals. 258 out of 399. Garrett Cole for Greg and the Bronx Bombers. Piece of the Aways, the Away jerseys. Use the false, 85 out of 299. Luke Williams, Philly's, Robert. And Pudge again, 66 out of 99. Marlin's edition for Barry. Got the Pudge in the clear one autograph in the last case. He gets another autograph for him in the second case. Nice. Prime performers autograph. And, oh, I thought I accidentally grabbed the autograph, too. There's Gavin Lux, two color relic. Two color dual relic, 24 out of 25 for Ryan and the Dodgers. Gavin Lux having a really solid season this year. Got a lot more speed than I thought. He's been exhibiting that this season. 46 out of 299, Jake McCarthy. It's Michael M with the diamond bag, snakes on the board. And Alex Gordon for the Royals, 143 out of 299. Has there always been that sort of drop shadow tier one talent in the background? Am I just noticing that now? All right, Alex Gordon will go to Nicholas S and the Royals. Got Lance McCullers Jr., 261 out of 399. Jeremy and the Stroves. There's Kyle Seeger, Chad Dawes' favorite player of his favorite mariner, Kyle Seeger, 246 out of 299. If you have any extra Kyle Seeger, bass cards or commons or memorabilia or 17 by 20 photos or something like that, I'll give you Chad's address. He's open to receiving any and all Kyle Seegers. So just contact us. That'll go to the Mariners, Adam. Jake Cousins, 57 out of 299 for the Brew Crew. It'll be for Andy Owens. Adam, if you wanna sell this Kyle Seeger autograph to Chad, I mean, he'll pay top dollar for all Kyle Seegers. I don't know how many times he talks about how much he loves Kyle Seeger. This contributions to the team, how disappointed it is they didn't resign with the Mariners. Just a mariner for life, Chad says. When are they gonna retire his number? CS15, KS15, is that what that, when are they gonna retire 1-5's number? KS15, I think, Chad, do you have a KS15 tattoo? You're pretty sure you do. Who loves Kyle Seeger? 006 out of 399, giants for Chad Dawes. Chad on the board, Brandon Beltrellic. There's the Wizard Ozzy Smith, 32 out of 199, piece of his jersey, going to Joe and St. Louis. Oh, of course, I was gonna say, are you not counting Jimmy's relics or did he not have relics? Always a qualifier with Chad, a hit to hit, yeah. Don't qualify that, it's 4-1. 92 out of 299, Manuel Rodriguez for the Cubs. That'll be for Mike and the Cubbies. I've got Matt Olson, 277 out of 299, Oakland A's, Adam. Hits a hit, it's 4-1. All right, there's Cody Bellinger, 1 out of 25. The red is part of their number, of course, piece of his lumber. Is Cody Bellinger starting to turn things around a little bit? Let's see. No, not really, maybe the last two games. In the last seven games, he's seen 208, 5 for 24, a home run, RBI, a few walks. I feel like he's getting better contact all over. I'll take it. That's for Ryan. Couple autos. We got a one-of-one Paul DeYoung, gold ink autograph. Joe with the Cardinals, Joe B, a prime performers, one-of-one autograph. How has Paul DeYoung been doing this year? Not so good this year, but it's still a one-of-one. Joe with the Cardinals, all aboard the Big Hit Express. Hopefully he'll bounce back, finish the season strong. And we've got an O'Neill Cruz, nice. 54 out of 299, that is. Great rookie auto for Michael Lucia. There you go, Michael. A one-of-one and an O'Neill Cruz. Next box. Is DeYoung helping your Fancy team? I don't know, mlb.com says he's hitting under, he's two for 21 with a Homer, four RBIs, and a couple walks. We're rooting for him, though. We're rooting for him. All right, extra relic here. Got a Jared Walsh, 90 out of 399. He's out for the rest of the year with a thoracic outlet disorder, which apparently is a, I looked it up because he's on my fantasy, I was like, what is that? I feel like some other players have had it, too. Some sort of constricting of the blood vessels between your collarbone and your first rib, maybe, something like that, which gives you nerve pain and other sorts of related pain, so maybe that explains the slump for him. 44 out of 399, Chad Dahl with a Logan Webb relic. Then on to Detroit, Cecil Fielder, 120 out of 299. That's for Nestor and the Tigers. And another one-of-one, Austin Riley. Graves locked him up with a long deal. Kevin with the ATL. Yeah, I know he's having a nice season. Let's look up his numbers here. Yeah, I'm on a nice one-of-one streak here. Yeah, he's hitting 284, 31 homers on the season, 82 RBIs. It's a good season for him. There you go. Kevin and the Braves all aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo! All right, three boxes to go. The hot-hands show better buzz at that William McCovey cut-auto one-of-one. And then, Chad, you would still complain that Jimmy beat you 4-3. All right, we've got Alex Bregman, 282 out of 399.  The line is always moving. If the Mariners make the playoffs, then you'll complain they're not winning playoff series. If they win the first series, you'll be claimed playing they're not winning the next series. The line will keep moving. Tyler Glass now 291 out of 299. That'll be for the Tampa Bay Rays. Dustin with the Rays. We've got Jordon Alvarez, tier one. I guess they do have that shadow in the background there. Tier one talent, Jordon Alvarez. One, two, three out of 175, Jeremy. All right, fingers crossed, everybody. Two boxes left. Chad might cry the day they make the playoffs. All right, we've got Paul Goldschmidt, 005 out of 249. That is for Joe and the Cardinals. He brings it on himself, Steve. He brings it upon himself. There's Max Krannick. How much Krannick do you want? You want Max Krannick. Not low Krannick, not medium Krannick. You want Max Krannick. Pirates, Michael. Then we've got Mark Tashara, 0.45 out of 149, Yankees. And that's for Greg. Good luck, everybody. Final box coming up. Vladimir O'Jr, 287 out of 299. Game used Jersey for Toronto. All the hits are covering up in my list here. Toronto Blue Jays, Nestor and the Blue Jays. And a couple autos. We've got Angel Rendon, 33 out of 299 for the Cardinals. That's gonna go to Joe. And let's see what that last autograph is gonna be. And then we'll do a little autograph recap. Last auto is gonna be Big Mac, 71 out of 75. Jersey and Auto, Cardinals edition of Mark McGuire. Which will be for Joe. Nice break for you, Joe. And there you go, ladies and gentlemen. A double header in the books. And another double header in the store on Jaspy'scasebrakes.com if you wanna check that out. Here's a recap. Let's do the first case first. From the last box to the first box. Thanks everyone for watching. Thanks everyone for getting in. Love this tier one. Tier one delivers some nice autos, some nice relics, some train whistles. It's been a little bit since we've seen some cut autos. So maybe that's in the next two cases that we're gonna do. So here's the second case right here. Got a couple train whistles out of here, which was cool. There's the one of one, Austin Riley. Another O'Neill Cruz, one on one, Paul DeYoung. Chad Dawes' favorite player, Kyle Sieger. One on Soto, and Wilson Contreras. Oh, and of course, the Mike Trout Batnob. There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. There you go, boys and girls. I'm Joe for Jaspy'scasebrakes.com. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. We've got plenty of time. We're still pretty early in the day. So if we wanna knock out another tier one baseball, double header, another random team break, I am down. So check it out on Jaspy'scasebrakes.com. Bye-bye.