gallery owner Fayez Barakat told KTLA at the time.

The challenge is not just to widen your social network online.Research is demonstrating that people with strong social ties are less likely to experience cognitive declines than those who are alone.

Its true that time spent online does not provide the rich experience that in-person contact does.youll make new social connections while earning money.———————Judd Matsunaga.

As philosophers have argued throughout the ages.or even strangers can help both them and your brain.

or because they become envious when they compare their friends accomplishments with their own.

Prospecting (the ability to imagine what it would be like to make something happen) is an essential brain function.For almost a century basketball has been a part of Japanese American community culture.

they continued to play organized sports like basketball and baseball.basketball had surpassed baseball in terms of participation levels and youth basketball for boys and girls as young as five years old began to grow.

Japanese Americans in both Southern California and the San Francisco-East Bay area restarted their basketball leagues beginning in 1947.Lee and Chan will discuss their own participation and their experiences.