Quote:Accordingly, this order designates English as the official language of the United States.

(b)  Executive Order 13166 of August 11, 2000 (Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency), is hereby revoked; nothing in this order, however, requires or directs any change in the services provided by any agency.  Agency heads should make decisions as they deem necessary to fulfill their respective agencies’ mission and efficiently provide Government services to the American people.  Agency heads are not required to amend, remove, or otherwise stop production of documents, products, or other services prepared or offered in languages other than English.

THE WHITE HOUSE,
    March 1, 2025.

Quote:In a 17-minute video announcing his run, Mr. Cuomo, 67, attempted to reintroduce himself to New Yorkers on his preferred terms: as a tested manager, law-and-order moderate and forceful leader capable of rescuing a city that he said “feels threatening, out of control, and in crisis.”

He blamed “failed Democratic leadership” but did not explicitly mention Mr. Adams, and said he would try to work with President Trump where he could.

Sex Pest Enters NYC Mayor's Race

Saucers Over Appalachia Festival - Exploring UFO History in Bristol, VA

Quote:

A Taste of Appalachian Resilience

Few dishes capture the essence of perseverance and ingenuity like Bulldog Gravy. Born from the rugged landscapes of Appalachia during the throes of the Great Depression, this humble recipe served as a lifeline for countless mining families.

With its simple ingredients and stick-to-your-ribs heartiness, Bulldog Gravy is more than a meal—it’s a story of survival, community, and the indomitable spirit of the Appalachian people. Paired with fluffy biscuits, it remains a testament to the creativity that emerges in the face of scarcity.

The Setting: Appalachia in the Post-Industrial Revolution

The Appalachian region experienced rapid changes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as coal and timber industries transformed the area.

Company towns emerged around coal mines, where families worked tirelessly to extract the black gold that powered America’s industrial revolution.

These small communities were isolated, with workers often paid in company scrip instead of cash, restricting their ability to buy food or supplies from anywhere but the company store.

When the Great Depression struck in the 1930s, Appalachia—already vulnerable due to its reliance on mining—plunged into dire poverty. The collapse of coal prices led to widespread unemployment, and families often faced severe food shortages. Stretching every crumb became a necessity.

The 1930s Depression and its Impact on Appalachian Miners

For miners, the Great Depression meant not just economic hardship but physical hunger. Entire families depended on a single income that disappeared overnight. Gardens and wild foraging supplemented meager provisions, but meals were simple and sparse.

The resourcefulness of Appalachian cooks led to the creation of dishes that could make something out of almost nothing. Flour, water, grease, and a pinch of seasoning became staples, transformed into life-sustaining dishes like Bulldog Gravy.

Bulldog Gravy: A Response to Hunger

Bulldog Gravy was born out of necessity. Made from rendered grease (usually from bacon or sausage, if available), flour, and water or milk, it was designed to stretch limited resources.

The name “Bulldog Gravy” likely reflects its bite—a robust, savory sauce that could transform plain biscuits or cornbread into a filling meal. For miners and their families, this dish symbolized resilience, providing warmth and sustenance during cold Appalachian mornings.

The gravy’s simplicity and flavor cemented its place in Appalachian kitchens, even as times improved. Today, Bulldog Gravy carries a legacy of survival, a dish that connects modern cooks to the ingenuity of those who came before.

The Legacy of Bulldog Gravy

Though the hardships of the 1930s have passed, Bulldog Gravy remains a cherished comfort food. It is a reminder of how Appalachian families faced adversity with creativity and determination. Served alongside biscuits—a Southern staple—it represents the heart of Appalachian cuisine: humble, hearty, and rich in history.

Recipe for Classic Biscuits & Gravy

Quote:Through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services or CLPS initiative, NASA is purchasing lunar delivery services from American companies to carry science investigations and technology demonstrations to the Moon. The CLPS initiative aims to conduct science on the Moon for the benefit of all, improving our understanding of the lunar environment and surface characteristics, in advance of future crewed missions to the Moon as part of the agency’s broader Artemis campaign.

Under this innovative model, NASA is one of many customers, along with commercial companies, universities and international partners, all sending payloads to the Moon. With CLPS, NASA is embracing a higher level of risk tolerance by leveraging commercial solutions to send rapid, low-cost deliveries to the Moon, fostering a growing lunar economy and enabling a long-term presence on the lunar surface.

Quote:Firefly Aerospace is on a mission to make space attainable for everyone, including the next generation workforce. As part of this mission, Firefly’s DREAM (Dedicated Research Education Accelerator Mission) program was established in 2019 to encourage students to dream big and develop an interest in STEM by donating excess payload capacity on our Alpha rocket. DREAM eliminates the cost of entry for launch, allowing educational institutions to focus on developing and operating a small satellite program and training the next generation of aerospace engineers.

Firefly Aerospace Website

Quote:In December 2014, Tom Markusic's former employer Virgin Galactic alleged he had illegally provided Virgin intellectual property to the Alpha development team. Virgin also alleged that Markusic had "destroyed storage devices, disposed of computers, and reformatted hard drives to cover the tracks of his misappropriation of Virgin Galactic information". In August 2016, an independent arbitrator confirmed that Markusic had destroyed evidence. Thereafter, a major European investor backed down, leaving Firefly without sufficient money to proceed. The company furloughed its entire staff in October 2016. According to Markusic, the investor's drawback was not related to the litigation but to Brexit. Within the same month, Virgin Orbit filed suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Firefly and two of its officers. By December 1, 2016, Firefly Space Systems had permanently ceased engineering work.

In March 2017, it was announced that "virtually all" of the assets of Firefly would be sold at auction, organized by EOS Launcher, Inc., who had previously bought a US$1 million promissory note issued by Firefly to Space Florida and induced a foreclosure.

Quote:On May 17, 2018, Firefly Aerospace opened a Research and development (R&D) center in the city of Dnipro, Ukraine. The Firefly R&D center was announced to become, over time, a place of work for more than 150 employees, and is equipped with the largest 3D-printer in Ukraine, intended for industrial manufacturing of high-quality metal parts.

In November 2018, it was announced that NASA selected Firefly Aerospace as one of nine companies able to bid for Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), where the company would propose a robotic lunar lander called Firefly Genesis.

In December 2019, a group of primary shareholders of Firefly Space Systems filed a lawsuit alleging fraud and intentional bankruptcy of the company by Tom Markusic. According to the defendants, including Polyakov, the lawsuit was provocative and the plaintiffs' claims unfounded, three years after the updated Firefly Aerospace was a significant success. The lawsuit is pending.

In February 2021, NASA awarded approximately US$93.3 million to Firefly Aerospace to develop exploration technologies for Artemis Commercial Moon Delivery in 2023.

In late November 2021, Maxim Polyakov received a letter from the US Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS) asking Polyakov and his investment firm Noosphere Venture Partners to sell a stake in Firefly (nearly 50%) for national security reasons. Polyakov denied the threat to US national security, but agreed to comply. Noosphere Ventures has announced that it will hire an investment banking firm to sell. Even before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the future of the Firefly R&D center in Ukraine was uncertain; after the invasion started, the Dnipro factory was bombed and many of the Ukrainian engineers either joined the army or fled the country.

The government did not give reasons beyond Polyakov was Ukrainian and Ukraine and Russia had once worked together on rockets. Despite Polyakov's anger, he agreed, and on February 24, 2022, it was announced that Polyakov and his company Noosphere would sell their stake in Firefly to AE Industrial Partners. [coincidentally, the same day Russia invaded]

On September 14, 2023, Firefly successfully launched the Alpha rocket on its first mission for the United States Department of Defense, placing a spacecraft for Millenium Space into orbit and demonstrating rapid response launch for the United States Armed Forces.

In 2024, it was announced that Firefly would compete with the likes of Rocket Lab and SpaceX for small satellite launch contracts with the United States Department of Defense.

Quote:St. Prochorus was one of the 70 Apostles that Christ sent to preach the Good News. Christ told them to take nothing material with them. Their fruits were great. After Christ’s death and resurrection, St. Prochorus was among the first seven deacons in the Church of Christ, chosen by the twelve Apostles because they were full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom. Before going with St. John who was banished to the island of Patmos, St. Prochorus accompanied the holy Apostle Peter and was made by him bishop in the city of Nicomedia. At Patmos, he wrote down the Book of Revelation from the Holy Apostle John the Theologian concerning the final fate of the world. St. Prochorus returned from Patmos and converted pagans to Christ in the City of Antioch. There he received a martyr’s crown. St. Prochorus is commemorated on July 28, along with the Seventy Apostles.

St Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral of Los Angeles - Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.

Quote:The Michelangelo Virus

The Michelangelo virus was first discovered in February 1991 by Roger Riordan; an Australian anti-virus expert. Riordan realised that this new, then unnamed, virus was a variant of the Stoned Virus; a fairly passive little piece of code that utilised the randomness of your system clock to throw up the message “Your PC is now Stoned!” approximately 1 in every 8 boots. However, with this new virus, there was no message, no warning, it just did it’s thing and disappeared into the night. Unfortunately its thing was a lot more nasty than Stoned.

During a virus meetup in the Netherlands during April 1991, a date the media often touted as its discovery date, it was discussed by the community and identified as a possible strong future threat. Its payload was designed to activate on March 6th every year, Michelangelo’s birthday, the reason why Roger Riordan would name it the Michelangelo Virus. Of course, 1991’s March 6th had been and gone, but the virus by then, hadn’t had much chance to propagate, and therefore very minimal damage was done. However March 6th 1992, what would have been Michelangelo’s 517th birthday, could be a different matter. By October of ’91, most new anti-virus software of the time was able to detect and remove the virus, but back then, software didn’t automatically update, and most people weren’t even aware they should be using Anti-Virus. However with computers becoming ever more popular, disk sharing and file copying was rife, making for the ideal circumstances to spread chaos.

Now just like Stoned, and in fact, the real Michelangelo, who apparently slept in his boots, Michelangelo is a bootsector virus. This means that it doesn’t actually execute from within the operating system, which would have been DOS at the time. Instead it executes at BIOS level on AT based IBM PC Compatibles.

When you turn your computer on, there’s a small period of time where the BIOS is actually in charge of proceedings. The BIOS is really the gateway to your computer’s hardware, but at some point, it passes control over to operating system, and it does that by going to the first sector of your hard-drive, or floppy disk if one is inserted, and running whatever it finds.

The Virus Commeth

On 28th January 1991 various news outlets reported that American computer manufacturer Leading Edge had shipped up to 500 computers between December 10th and 27th infected with the Michelangelo virus. Warning of it’s dangers, Leading Edge had stated they planned to send customers special software designed to track down and eradicate the virus. Apparently the virus had spread from the driver disk of a modem vendor. The New York Times had also contacted John McAfee, president of McAfee Associates, who stated “It’s an extremely common occurrence. It just doesn’t happen all that often to companies the size of Leading Edge”, in what certainly would not be the last words we hear from him. In a fantastic move of foresight, Osicom Technologies also announced it would bundle an antivirus package with all personal computers on the same day.

The next day United Press reporter Jack Lesar stated that “Michelangelo could erase data of hundreds of thousands of computers around the world”, whilst Winn Schwartau, director of the International Partnership Against Computer Terrorism stated “usually a virus can’t be propagated by just reading a data disk. But it appears to no longer be true”, making Michelangelo seem like some kind of magical nefarious being. McAfee also piped up again stating “The Michelangelo Virus is the third most common in terms of reports of infection. It accounts for 14 percent of infection reports – a total of about 6,000 last year, each which may be one machine or 100”.

As February rolled around, things only got worse. On the 3rd, it was reported that Da Vinci systems had distributed 900 infected disks during January and by the 11th McAfee was back again, this time stating that 5 million computer around the world were infected. Something that Reuters reporter Wilson da Silva would relay to the masses.

By the 13th, the rest of the Anti-Virus world, was getting a little jealous of McAfee’s spotlight and decided to do something about it. Microcom announced a free problem to disinfect the virus, and by the 19th Symantec had announced their free program, which they advertised to the readers of Computerworld in a full page spread. Users could download a copy via Compuserve, go to a local dealer, get one delivered or use a Bulletin Board System. The only problem with the latter was that lots of the media were now incorrectly suggesting that Michelangelo was spread through Bullet Boards. Gotta love the media. Reporting news accurately since, well, since the dawn of time.

By the end of February, the hype was insane. Various “Anti-Virus” experts had piped up, along with computer columnists such as Lawrence Magid who suggested leaving your computer on from the 5th of March to the 7th in order to evade the pesky virus. All good Lawrence, unless you have a power cut on the 6th, and your computer automatically reboots.

On the 28th Seattle Based Egghead Software had offered to ship a copy of the Norton AntiVirus Michelangelo Edition for just $4.99, unfortunately, they wouldn’t actually ship most copies until after the 6th March, rendering it, a little bit useless.

March...

As Judgement day loomed, McAfee was back, this time on the today show, repeating his claim that 5 million systems are now infected globally. He doesn’t even use the word estimate. Apparently, now, this is a cold hard fact. It sends the media into further meltdown, as broadcasters and publishers rush to get last minute stories out, warning people of the global pandemic threatening life as we know it.

On March 3rd, Poland woke up to the headline “Michelangelo, The Mass Murderer, Will Attack on Friday”. Back in the States, not only had the Associated Press reported the Michelangelo had invaded Capitol Hill, but even Intel had problems, having to cease shipment of their LANSpool networking program, after discovering 839 disks infected with Michelangelo. They had been using anti-virus software, but it failed to detect the Stoned variant.

If Intel were having problems, then that didn’t bode well for the rest of us.

4th March: Ross Greenberg, the programmer behind Microcom’s Virex-PC Package disappears for four days. He won’t return until after the 6th.

5th March: Scattered reports from around the globe indicate Michelangelo had triggered a day early in some computers, who internal clocks failed to detect the leap year this February.

McAfee and Charles Rutstein argue on the News Hour Show about reports of how many will suffer.

V-Day Arrives. *panic* *confusion* *screaming*

As dawn broke on 6th March, the first news stories started rolling in. Most of them were just talking about the virus, what was expected to happen, etc. An acknowledgement of the day more than anything, after all, how can you have a printed article about events which are currently taking place. This wasn’t the internet.

But what we did have, even then, were timezones, with places like Asia and Australia able to report back just in time for Western media.

AP: “Personal computer users reported scattered outbreaks today of the Michelangelo virus, but no widespread damage from the much-hyped software invader”

UPI: “The long awaited Michelangelo virus struck around the world Friday, though it did not appear to be the data disaster that some had predicted”

These weren’t the frenzied, chaos laden headlines we were expecting. These sounded more like sedate weather reports than the dawn of a global pandemic. But maybe things would be different in the States, in Europe, maybe the virus had taken a stronger foothold in these technological havens.

At around midday, 1,200 automated teller machines in New York shut down. Shortly afterwards 3/4s of New Jersey’s lottery machines went offline. The New York Hilton’s systems went down, and Philadelphia cable TV subscribers found their sets locked to the channel they had been watching the prior day. Maybe Michelangelo really had taken hold here. Maybe sh*t was about to get real.

It turned out that CitiBank had suffered a power outrage affecting cash machines, a computer glitch had affected the lottery systems, a power lead had been knocked out at Hilton and cable TV was, well being cable TV. Although residents were quick to blame the virus, these turned out to be unrelated incidents, with the day rolling on with not so much as a harsh word being uttered.

Based on reports to his company, McAfee himself rapidly changed his estimate from 5 million to 10,000 computers worldwide, and sure, just like Y2K, some of the damage would have indeed been limited by the hyperbole and people taking anti-virus precautions, but .2% of the original estimate is quite a drop.

Symantec claimed that a quarter of a million users around the world had obtained a copy of their disinfector program, clearly helping to deaden the impact. But the actual shouts of infection were pretty limited. AT&T reported that two of their company computers had gone down, out of their quarter of a million machines worldwide. A bowling centre in Swanton lost their bowling league information, and Rev. Stan Wilkins of the New Salem Baptist Church lost his congregation records.

Further reports the following day would indicate that damage was a little more widespread, 750 computers in South Africa, responsible for managing the country’s pharmacies succumbed to the villainy. Scotland Yard reported that two British companies suffered considerable losses and three computers at Boston University were DOA.

What didn’t happen was 5 million machines needing a full reinstall.

McAfee would chime in with “The biggest loser in this whole thing is going to be the anti-virus community”. Which given the amount of sales they made from this escapade didn’t really seem to be a problem, and really, was nonsense anyway.

and Scotland Yard Reported that two British companies suffered considerable losses, and three computers at Boston University were dead upon boot.

Although the entire Anti-Virus world received some backlash, with some even claiming that anti-virus companies were to blame for planting the destructive code in the first place, it was McAfee who took the brunt of it, with countless newspapers jumping on his 5 million computer claim; a claim that McAfee himself refuted, noting that he had estimated between 50,000 and 5 million machines, with the media running with the upper limit. Perhaps the real problem here was actually the hypocritical media for being so damn sensationalist, in a bid to sell more of their own product; newspapers.

Or maybe, like most things, it’s a bit of both. Always both.

McAfee would resign from the National Computer Association the first business day after the Michelangelo media fiasco, concentrating on selling more and more McAfee product. His company would go public in October 1992, raising $42 million in its initial public stock offering, and of course, remains with us today, even if McAfee himself doesn’t, having allegedly been found hanged whilst inside a Spanish prison cell, just hours after a court ordered his extradition to the United States on tax charges.

Funnily enough Michelangelo is also still with us, with detections still happening in the wild. It appears that a few floppy disks are still very much infected and attempting to do their thang.

The main lesson the media learnt was that they should probably speak to experts instead of anti-virus salesmen when trying to gather facts and foresights. However, given a similar scaremongering tale had happened only a few years prior with the Datacrime II virus, which also wiped out hard drives on Friday 13th, although not very many at all, it seems like lessons take a few attempts before they’re learnt.

It’s no wonder that the next Friday 13th Virus, which funnily enough was due just a week after Michelangelo, went pretty much unmentioned by the embarrassed media.

Quote:    Air traffic was disrupted across Florida when a SpaceX Starship, a prototype of the spacecraft that Elon Musk says will one day take people to Mars, disintegrated during its latest test flight.

    For the second consecutive time, the upper stage of the most powerful rocket ever built malfunctioned. It started spinning out of control after several engines went out and then lost contact with mission control.

Quote:I have been reading “The Boys of Summer” (1971) by Roger Kahn. Considered by many to be one of the great sports books, it focuses on the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team who among other things broke down the colour bar in professional baseball in this period through the presence of the legendary Jackie Robinson. I must admit that some of it is hard going for a non-baseball fan but I was struck by the title of the opening chapter- “Lines from the Transpontine madness“. He attributes the phrase “Transpontine madness“ to Stanley Woodward of the New York Herald Tribune who complained in the 1940s that sports reporters sent to cover the Dodgers invariably ended up becoming passionate supporters of the team.

So why transpontine? Well if the word was popularised in the 19th century to refer to the south London areas across the bridges of the Thames it has also sometimes been applied in other cities divided by a river. In this case of course, Brooklyn is separated from Manhattan by the East River spanned by the famous Brooklyn Bridge. And as with South London, Brooklyn and the other transpontine boroughs have sometimes been looked down upon from the other side of the river, a condescension summed up in the disparaging phrase “bridge and tunnel” to describe the supposedly less sophisticated travelling into central New York to work and play.

I don’t think that the word Transpontine has really caught in a New York context but it is interesting to see the similarities with London and other cities divided by rivers where the different sides are often perceived as socially and culturally distinct.

Lines on the Transpontine Madness - Brooklyn as South London?

Quote:'Your Questions Answered': Wigan Pier
by George Orwell
BBC Overseas Service broadcast with Colin Wills, 2 December 1943

WILLS: I am going to try some more of these trick questions on somebody else in another programme. And now we've got time for just one more question, asked by Sergeant Salt and Signalman McGrath serving in India. They say: "How long is the Wigan Pier and what is the Wigan Pier?" Well, if anybody ought to know, it should be George Orwell who wrote a book called The Road to Wigan Pier. And here's what he's got to say on the subject.

ORWELL: Well, I am afraid I must tell you that Wigan Pier doesn't exist. I made a journey specially to see it in 1936, and I couldn't find it. It did exist once, however, and to judge from the photographs it must have been about twenty feet long.

Wigan is in the middle of the mining areas, and though it's a very pleasant place in some ways its scenery is not its strong point. The landscape is mostly slag-heaps, looking like the mountains of the moon, and mud and soot and so forth. For some reason, though it's not worse than fifty other places, Wigan has always been picked on as a symbol of the ugliness of the industrial areas. At one time on one of the little muddy canals that run round the town, there used to be a tumble-down wooden jetty; and by way of a joke someone nicknamed this Wigan Pier. The joke caught on locally, and then the music-hall comedians get hold of it, and they are the ones who have succeeded in keeping Wigan Pier alive as a by-word, long after the place itself had been demolished.

Quote:We finally know the true identity of the woman behind the iconic “Miss Atomic Bomb” photo.

After 25 years of investigation, the Atomic Museum said in a news release that founding museum member Robert Friedrichs discovered that the woman in the cotton mushroom cloud swimsuit is Anna Lee Mahoney.

The woman in Las Vegas News Bureau photographer Don English’s photo has long been identified as Lee Merlin, but birth records and communication with a relative revealed that Lee Merlin was Mahoney’s stage name, according to the museum.

“‘Miss Atomic Bomb’ captured the imagination of a generation and became a global symbol of the Atomic Age,” Friedrichs said in the news release. “To now put a name and story to her face is a tribute to the enduring cultural legacy of that extraordinary time in history.”

Creating the Atomic Age photo

Mahoney was working as a performer at the Sands Hotel Copa showroom in Las Vegas in 1957 when she was featured in English’s photo.

Inspired by the mushroom cloud that, at the time, was becoming a visual symbol of the atomic bomb and nuclear power, English’s team created the cotton mushroom cloud and attached it to a swimsuit to create a photo that “helped cement Las Vegas a cultural epicenter of the Atomic Age,” the museum said.

The photo was taken on May 24, 1957 — the same day as Operation Plumbbomb at the Nevada Test Site, now known as the Nevada National Security Site.

“We have 7.5 million images in the LVCVA Archive, and the ‘Miss Atomic Bomb’ photo is one of the most requested images that we have,” said archivist Kelli Luchs of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

Who was Anna Lee Mahoney?

Mahoney was born Aug. 14, 1927, in the Bronx, New York. She trained in ballet and modern dance in Los Angeles and danced in several shows and musicals under the name Lee Merlin.

After years of performing in Las Vegas, she moved to Hawaii in 1962 and worked as a mental health counselor.

She relocated in the late 1990s to Santa Cruz, California, to work for the Cabrillo College Foundation, raising funds for student scholarships.

Mahoney died in 2001 after a battle with cancer, according to the museum.

Exhibit opening to honor discovery

The museum said Friedrichs’ discovery and two-decade search will be honored with a temporary exhibit this summer showcasing how Mahoney’s identity was uncovered, and the image’s evolution through the years.

“Las Vegas played a vibrant and unique role in the Atomic Age, and ‘Miss Atomic Bomb’ has always been a symbol of that era’s colorful history,” Joseph Kent, deputy director and curator of the Atomic Museum, said in a news release. “Thanks to Robert Friedrichs’ tireless dedication, we now have the opportunity to connect her story to the history we preserve at the Atomic Museum.”

Who was ‘Miss Atomic Bomb’?

Quote:Cosmic conspiracy: six decades of government UFO coverups

Abstract:

Todd Zechel and Citizens Against UFO Secrecy took on the U.S. government in the 1970s to seek the release of UFO related documents. Zechel used the Freedom of Information Act to sue for records related to UFO witnesses and incidents.

This is the fourth in a six-part series on alleged UFO-related government cover-ups. This segment covers the 1970s. Todd Zechel knows how David felt the day he marched out to take on Goliath. Early in 1978, in otherwise out-of-the way Prairie due Sac, Wisconsin, Zechel help found Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, or CAUS. The group's mandate: to take on teh behemoth of the U.S. government, which had kept thousands of documents relevant to UFO researchers under lock and key for years.

In the past, getting to those documents had been virtually impossible. For the most part, they were buried within a paper labyrinth of agencies within agencies, each employing its own unique form of "bureauspeak" and filing. What was an "unidentified flying object" in one agency might be an "incident report" or "air space violation" in another. The reports might be in the form of a carbon copy, microfilm, or rapidly degrading thermal fax paper, barely legible in the original. Other files were lost or routinely destroyed on a regular basis.

The euphoria was not misplaced. As the Seventies unfurled, most UFOlogists felt that ;all they needed in the battle against the governmental Goliath was one good slingshot. And now that slingshot, in the form of the newly enacted Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, was here.

....

As far as the UFO community is concerned, the work of CAUS, Zechelstyle, remains undone. These days, says Todd, "getting any kind of document out of the government is a lengthy, time-consuming process. First, they consider the FOIA an annoyance; after all, they're understaffed and saddled with budget constraints. Second, the nature of any government is to control the flow of information."

Stacy, Dennis. "Cosmic conspiracy: six decades of government UFO coverups." Omni, vol. 16, no. 10, July 1994, pp. 54+.
Gale Academic OneFile

Quote:Grissom acknowledged that the ad buy absorbed a ”good chunk of my children’s inheritance.” But, he added, “they were supportive.”

“I’m proud to tell you that,” added Grissom, former CEO and cofounder in 1994 of Polaris Health Directions, which developed questionnaires administered by computers to diagnose and monitor treatment for behavioral health.

The Philadelphia Inquirer