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Good Game is just about to turn six months old (!!), and I can’t thank you all enough for supporting what is truly a project of passion and, I believe, need. I’ve already learned so much from delving deeper into the youth sports space, and hopefully, this newsletter has presented you with some intriguing food for thought. [Oh hey, since we’re spreading the love, what a great time to ask you to subscribe to Good Game if you haven’t already, and pass us on to a youth sports-invested friend!

Although a lot of people are adamant that they have no intention of looking in on tonight’s presidential debate, I have a feeling they’ll change their minds when 9 p.m. rolls around. The Associated Press reported this week that most Americans (six of 10) plan to watch at least some of the debate. After all, the fate of the nation — and to some extent the world — rests on November’s presidential election.

What follows is, on the surface at least, a story about paint, which will sound terrifically boring but, without wishing to give the game away, this isn’t really just about paint. In fact, it’s about everything. Look at the world from the vantage point of car paint and you begin to see various strands of the 20th century storyline unfurling: the early days of mass production and the modern factory, the ascent of mass consumption, the rise and fall of economic growth, all the way through to today’s “productivity puzzle” economists are trying to get their heads around.

By David Ofshinsky Deerpark. NYEnvironcom, a local environmental nonprofit, recently continued their legal efforts to hold Dragon Springs Buddhist, Inc., in Deerpark, responsible for water contamination by filing opposition to Dragon Springs’ motion to dismiss an earlier complaint in the US District Court, Southern District of New York. In 2022, Environcon and co-plaintiffs filed a complaint against Dragon Springs Buddhist, Inc., an entity of the Falun Gong religious group, alleging violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA) at its religious, educational, and residential compound in Deerpark.

[This article is a follow onto my article in the January 8 edition of Asia Times. I have used some of the information in that article in this one.] According to Bloomberg News, China had strategic missiles filled with water instead of fuel touching off a corruption scandal that led to Chinese President Xi's military purge of China's Rocket Forces.  Bloomberg reported that the information came from US intelligence sources. Bloomberg does not say where US Intelligence got the information although Bloomberg says that the information cannot be validated.

Behold Watergate. I refer not to the office, hotel, and residential complex you see in the background, site of an infamous break-in 50 years ago today, but to the ruins of an old tidewater lock, built in the 1830s, that separated the Potomac from the C&O canal. It’s no longer functional but it’s still there. A century later some marble steps were built nearby leading down to the Potomac as part of the Lincoln memorial complex.

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War in the Mideast. The possible reelection of Donald J. Trump. Unprecedented economic inequality. Catastrophic global warming. When this is the present, why not romp in the past? As I try to swagger into old age with originality and style, I’m abashed to realize that in many ways I’m like all the generations who have grown old before me, reveling in memories of my younger years and frequently waxing nostalgic about times that are gone.

Buffalo’s 34-year winless streak in the nationwide competition for James Beard Awards finalist spots ended on April 3, 2024. Waxlight Bar a Vin, a semifinalist last year as well, is a 2024 finalist for Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program. Southern Junction’s Ryan Fernandez is a finalist for Emerging Chef. Here’s the list. One of five finalists in each category, they’ll find out who takes to top honor on June 10, at the James Beard Awards ceremony in Chicago.