Cerebellum..

 

Table tennis heavily engages the cerebellum, the brain's coordination center, due to its demands for fast reflexes, hand-eye coordination, and rapid processing of the ball's spin and trajectory, requiring integration between motor skills (cerebellum, parietal/occipital lobes) and strategic thought (prefrontal cortex) for successful execution. 

This rapid, coordinated action boosts neural pathways, improves cognitive functions like attention, and enhances brain connectivity, making it a "brain sport" that benefits mental agility. 

The cerebellum is crucial for coordinating movements, and table tennis trains it intensely with its quick back-and-forth action, linking vision to motor response.

• You must track the ball, anticipate spin, and plan shots, all involving the cerebellum for coordination and the parietal/occipital lobes for visual processing.
• The prefrontal cortex plans tactics, while the cerebellum and prefrontal cortex work together to execute the physical follow-through.
• Studies show ping pong players have increased dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) in areas including the cerebellum, hippocampus, and visual cortex, indicating better network flexibility.
•  This comprehensive engagement improves attention, memory, and overall cognitive function, making it a great workout for the brain, especially for aging adults. In essence, table tennis is a "chess on steroids," demanding constant mental and physical integration, strengthening the neural networks controlled by the cerebellum and other key brain regions. 

Gold..

 

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his administration’s new “gold card” visa was open for sale, offering an expedited and “direct path to Citizenship for all qualified and vetted people” in exchange for a $1 million “gift,” or $2 million if their company is footing the bill. 

Hours earlier, U.S. Customs and Border Protection formally proposed requiring visitors from visa-exempt countries in Europe and Asia to provide a five-year social media history and detailed information about family members as a condition of entry to the U.S.

The intrusive new “social media snooping rule” for visitors from the 42 countries in the Visa Waiver Program would “come into effect early next year shortly before hundreds of thousands of football fans” travel to the U.S. for the World Cup, 

Comment:

For those who hate this USA and wish it's destruction, should not be welcomed here. 

They should immigrate to the Countries they love, and most likely are not welcomed there either.

let many of those coming to USA who are will establish, and can contribute to the success of this country instead of the illegals, Kayotes, scam artists, sex trafficker. 

Sanctions..

It is widely acknowledged by experts that the U.S. and Western sanctions on Russia, combined with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and blockade of Black Sea ports, have contributed to global inflation and exacerbated food shortages, primarily through disruptions in global commodity markets. 

 Russia is a major global exporter of key commodities, including oil, natural gas, wheat, and fertilizer. Sanctions and the war have disrupted the supply of these goods, leading to price spikes in global markets.

Inflationary Pressure: The rising costs of energy and agricultural products have been passed on to consumers worldwide, contributing to general inflation in the U.S. and beyond. This has compounded pre-existing inflationary pressures from the COVID-19 pandemic, such as supply chain bottlenecks and labor shortages.

 Sanctions, coupled with the physical destruction of Ukrainian agricultural infrastructure and the blocking of its ports by Russia, have threatened global food security. The UN has warned that the number of undernourished people globally could increase due to these disruptions.

Lopsided..

 

For nearly two decades, esteemed economist Nouriel Roubini has worn the nickname “Dr. Doom” with honor. He earned it in the mid-2000s for warning of a housing crash that Wall Street dismissed, until he was proven catastrophically right.

In a new essay for the Financial Times, the economist argues that the conventional view—that America’s “Liberation Day” tariffs would trigger stagflation, tank the stock market, kneecap the dollar, and end U.S. exceptionalism—is simply wrong. 

Instead, he sees something close to the opposite: a short period of cooling growth, followed by a powerful rebound led by technology and capital spending that keeps the U.S. firmly in the top spot.

The now common view that the U.S. stock market is in a massive bubble and bound to crash is incorrect over the medium term,” he wrote. 

On the other hand, what he predicted isn’t necessarily the rosiest. 

The near-term picture looks like a “growth recession,’ he said, meaning slower, below-potential GDP. It’s not the hard landing or 1970s-style stagflation many have predicted, and it isn’t a bubble popping, but it’s a lopsided economy, as many Wall Street analysts have also noticed.   Just a thought.

Fraud..

 

They’ve made grave errors.

The Social Security Administration must do more to prevent benefit checks from going to dead people and Congress should step up to pass safeguards to protect taxpayer dollars from fraud, according to one GOP senator known for cracking down on pork barrel spending.

Ernst cited examples where authorities eventually discovered that dead people were still getting checks, which were often taken by their relatives.

In one instance, Canadian national Ellis Kingsep allegedly cashed in some $420,000 worth of checks for his mom between 1995 and 2023, when she would’ve been 103 years old. The feds later caught Kingsep with books on how to make fake IDS and photocopies of his mother’s signature.

Vetted..

The Afghan national accused of shooting two National Guardsmen just blocks from the White House on the day before Thanksgiving served in an elite CIA counterterrorism unit in Afghanistan, according to new details that emerged Thursday about the suspect’s background.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal

 entered the U.S. legally in 2021 under humanitarian parole as part of the Biden administration's Operation Allies Welcome that followed the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover of the country. 

The operation aimed to support and resettle vulnerable Afghans, including those that had helped U.S. troops in the past.

 The shooting is an example of what happens "in this country when people are allowed in who are not properly vetted." 

The Biden administration allowed "thousands of people into this country without doing a single piece of background checking or vetting."

Net-Fkix..

 

Convict..

 

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has picked a controversial rapper who did seven years in state prison for armed robbery to advise him on the criminal justice system, The Post has learned.

Mysonne Linen, 49, a Bronx convict-turned-activist who was found guilty of two felony heists in the late 1990s, was appointed by the democratic socialist to sit on his mayoral transition’s “criminal legal system” committee — just one of many questionable picks.

According to officials at the state Department of Correction and Community Renewal, Linen was hit with a sentence of seven to 14 years and was sprung on parole on July 5, 2006.

Comment:

The coming 4 years will be a great watch. Just a thought.

Memba?..

 

After the U.S. Congress voted to release all of the files connected to the late, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's case in late 2025, social media users began recirculating a painting of former President Bill Clinton purportedly found in the financier's New York City apartment.

The painting is authentic — as in, Australian-American artist Petrina Ryan-Kield genuinely created it using oil on canvas, not with artificial intelligence or photo editing tools. As of this writing, prints of the painting, titled "Parsing Bill," were available to purchase from the prominent online art gallery Saatchi.  

Ryan-Kield reportedly told Artnet News that Clinton's attire in the painting is a reference to Monica Lewinsky's blue dress, a central part of the media circus around his affair with his former intern, who later became an anti-cyberbullying activist. According to ArtNet, Ryan-Kield said the painting, as part of a series of work she made, was supposed to be about "how opposition parties caricature presidents."

Fak..It..

 

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville argued on Friday that the changing economy has left young people behind, and that Democrats must ditch radical cultural agendas to win their support.

Commentators on both the left and right have warned that there is an affordability crisis as young people struggle to join the middle class and obtain the same lifestyle previous generations did. 

Housing prices continue to climb, while employers in key industries rely more heavily on foreign H-1B visa workers, contributing to tougher competition even for entry-level jobs.

Carville then called out Democrats, saying they must stop getting distracted by unpopular culture-war issues and refocus.

"I think the Democrats, as I've pointed out in the piece, it is quit f---ing around with all this cultural stuff and start talking about people's wages, start talking about what we can do to protect people who are trying to make it, and particularly young people," he said,  

Comment:

What happened to Protecting Democracy?     Just a thought.