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The recent launch of large numbers of small satellites by Space X is a reminder of the troubling issues ahead for the growing fleets of satellites that are zipping across our skies. We rely on these satellites for common things like finding our way around on the streets, getting on the internet, watching television, forecasting the weather, planning crops and much more; to say nothing of national defense. Although estimates vary, since the 1960s, around 9,000 satellites have been launched by a dozen countries of which around 5,000 are still in orbit and around 2,000 are still in service. That is all dramatically changing now.

For most of this period, satellites were the primary preserve of large governments, mainly because of their great cost/complexity and military implications. Although a few U.S. and European companies either manufactured or operated communications satellites, these were either closely regulated or actually controlled by governments. A typical satellite might cost over $200 million to build and launch, take five years from start to operations, and involve as many as a dozen government approvals; not least of which were national security related.

Through the 1990s, communications and many other types of satellites were placed in a very high orbit of 23,000 miles directly above the equator, where they would orbit the Earth at the same speed the Earth itself was rotating. This geostationary (GEO) orbit would make any satellite appear to be stationary in the sky so it could serve as a suspended relay tower for TV, telephone, and data across the oceans and continents. The ground equipment consisted of large dish antennas and bunkers that often required a staff. Putting satellites into this orbit is enormously complex and costly, and consequently these GEO satellites were built to last ten years or more. And there were very few entrepreneurs.

For lots of reasons, this landscape began to change dramatically in the 1990s and more so around 20 years ago. Telecommunication deregulation, combined with the same dramatic advances in technology that gave us smart phones, opened opportunities for satellites never previously imagined. These opportunities were stimulated by a tidal wave of data and video generated through the internet and further deregulation in areas such as picture-taking (called remote sensing) satellites.

Add to all of this venture capitalists aggressively looking for the next iPhone investment, the rise of new technological and superpowers like China, India and Japan, the spread of rocket technology and the deregulation of rocket launches and you get the satellite environment of the 2020s: Hundreds of businesses have been started in over a dozen countries that would if they all took place deploy 50,000 to 100,000 new satellites.

Most of these would be small, inexpensive satellites in low earth orbit (LEO) of a few hundred miles, where they orbit the Earth every couple of hours. And they would connect to ground equipment ranging from a smart phone to a sheet of paper. By relying on smartphone-type technologies, mass production techniques, deregulation and the global outsourcing of launches and manufacturing, these new satellites will eventually wind up costing tens of thousands of dollars instead of hundreds of millions of dollars each. These dramatically lower costs will in turn create a feedback loop of new experiments, innovations and entrepreneurs that will drive the global satellite industry even further.

Governments, UN agencies and industry have been quite aware of the growing list of issues that this new satellite environment is creating, and for over a decade serious international negotiations and national programs and regulations have been under way.

Nothing has been more worrying, for example, than the prospect of tens of thousands of abandoned satellites and spent rockets zipping around the orbital lanes at 17,000 mph space debris. To prepare for this, the U.S. Air Force (and now the U.S. Space Force) which prides itself for always knowing everything orbiting the Earth, has built a massive new generation of monitoring facilities, called The Space Fence. Even various astronomy organizations have begun to voice concern over the impact of thousands of small satellites crisscrossing the skies on their ability to observe the stars. And now, proposals have surfaced for a variety of orbital garbage trucks that might pick up space debris and clear the orbital lanes.

To be sure, space including the areas of orbiting satellites is vast by any human standard. And the likelihood of small satellites or space debris colliding in the near future is remote. And many satellites can maneuver if they are aware of a pending collision. But if collisions do occur in orbit, they are likely to create thousands of tiny new debris zipping around orbital space at 17,000 mph.

While industry has done a lot to set standards, entrepreneurs have developed solutions and governments are negotiating frameworks, a core problem is the lack of an effective policy/legal framework to manage this risk on a global scale which is the only scale on which it could be effective.

Most of the international legal framework to deal with the prospect of a demolition derby in orbital space is based on the 1960s-1990s satellite era: large satellites in geostationary orbit under military supervision. There is not, for example, even a universally-accepted definition of where national air space ends and outer space begins or of who has the right-of-way in orbital space.

Many would assert that this lack of a universally-accepted, international legal framework is beneficial because it invites experimentation and innovation and would compare it to the unregulated environment that gave rise to the internet. Others suggest that unregulated orbital space compares with the high seas in that, to a large extent, what one does on the high seas has always been between that person and their own country.

But the high seas analogy gives rise to another analogy that could also emerge in orbital space: flag of convenience registrations. Just as ships in the high seas might be registered in countries described as flags of convenience for regulatory or economic reasons, little would prevent satellite operators from formally registering their satellite fleets through flag of convenience countries for regulatory or economic reasons. In the satellite environment of the 2020s, this could easily be done while outsourcing the manufacturing of the satellites to businesses in one country, the launch to businesses in another country, and the management of the satellites to businesses in yet another country.

Whether orbital space in the 2020s evolves into a nationally-regulated, an internationally-regulated, a code-of-conduct-regulated or an unregulated environment, it is rapidly changing and few of the tools developed between the 1960s and the 1990s will fit it well.

Roger Cochetti provides consulting and advisory services in Washington, D.C. He was a senior executive with Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) from 1981 through 1994. He also directed internet public policy for IBM from 1994 through 2000 and later served as Senior Vice-President & Chief Policy Officer for VeriSign and Group Policy Director for CompTIA. He served on the State Departments Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy during the Bush and Obama administrations, has testified on internet policy issues numerous times and served on advisory committees to the FTC and various UN agencies. He is the author of the Mobile Satellite Communications Handbook.

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Returning to work after an exhausting Christmas has been very satisfying. Much as I love spending time with my family, I do get bored with dragging the children outside and away from their screens in inclement weather, trying to ignore their demands for sweets and how spoilt and ungrateful they have become after too many presents and late nights.

My mother and I decided, after a hiatus of 15 years, to buy another hotel, this time in East Sussex. We completed on the deal in mid-December, four weeks later than we had hoped, with an equivalent delay expected in respect of our opening this summer.

The builders are just back from their Christmas break, and this is a really fun part of the proceedings. We have received our planning permission and are going hell for leather with the demolition necessary to create the internal courtyard. There are clouds of dust, and I have just had my first complaint from a neighbour. It must be horrid to live next to our site. I am very sympathetic, but cant offer much immediate consolation; we are only a month into our refurbishment and my poor neighbour has months still to endure.

However, we can begin to see the impact it will have and it is satisfying indeed to look at the falling layers of ugly tiles, cracked plaster, stud walls and rotten timber.

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It is not all pleasure, though. My mother is buying lovely pieces of furniture for the hotel while I am stuck debating the pros and cons of gas versus electric commercial dryers, cloud versus server-based phone systems, and how much it is going to cost to move the fire alarm panel.

The technological requirements of the hotel are virtually incomprehensible to me, and I hate admitting that I dont understand some of the things suppliers explain to me. It is, I keep telling myself, good for the soul; there is no chance of me getting too full of myself.

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The weather has lifted and with it my mood. As I took the 07.23 from Clapham Junction the other morning to Polegate, near Eastbourne, and saw the gorgeous pink sunrise that presaged an icy but cloudless day, I had the encouraging feeling that we had passed the worst of winter and that spring would soon be upon us.

I spent an hour at the end of last week planting hyacinths in bowls around the house. I dont garden at all; this is pretty much the only green-fingered thing I do all year. There is a visceral satisfaction in watching my bulbs grow, scenting every room in my house. A visible harbinger of seasonal change.

***

My best friend and I took the Eurostar to Brussels for an overnight treat to compensate us for all our hard work over Christmas. There was a Magritte-Dal exhibition that we used as our excuse.

We try to get away one night a year. Two years ago it was the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam last year the altarpiece in Bruges. We manage it by the skin of our teeth every time, in spite of ill children, unreliable husbands and the demands of work. It is, pretty much, the best night of my year, and we both protect it ferociously. I come back with a smile on my face and a song in my heart, and the knowledge that I have one friend who has known me all my life and still likes me.

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And then disaster! My wonderful, beloved nanny gave in her notice. She is going to Australia to be with her boyfriend. I am simultaneously happy for her and completely devastated not for the children, but for me.

All my plans for this year opening the hotel, doing some work on the house, my son moving school in September now fill me with dread. Like any working mother, I am only as good as the help I have at home. My in-laws have promised to help where they can, but that is just a temporary solution.

My husband, Marcus, and I are already trying to work out how we apportion the kids over the endless summer holidays. Until now, I have been able to take off a big chunk of time as I am self-employed, but I wont have that luxury this year because of the hotel. I hate missing any time with them as I can see how quickly they are growing up. But this had seemed the perfect year to work a bit harder, with my son Rocco spending another year at a school he loves, my Olga happily landed at secondary school and my Kate as capable of keeping the plates spinning as I am. The best laid plans, as they say.

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I dont think I like having my diary with the whole year planned out already. The only way to tackle it is going to be with my grandfathers advice firmly in mind: just do one thing at a time and try to do it well. Back to the technological demands of the hotel I go

Alex Polizzi is a television presenter and writer

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After years of delay, crews began demolishing the World War II-era Riverside Terrace housing development on 5th Avenue this week, to make way for 246 new senior and family apartments.

Demolition is expected to take six months, said Israel Roizman of Roizman Development which is undertaking the approximately $105 million construction project at the 17-acre site. He said 30 buildings have to be knocked down. Site preparation work, road work, sewer and plumbing, and electricity work is being done simultaneously with demolition, he said.

Roizman said groundbreaking will likely be held in March.

Municipal officials welcomed the latest development.

Its a good sign that they have started. The property has been derelict and vacant for some time, said councilman William McKoy. He represents the 3rd Ward where the project is located. Over the past decade, the rotting housing complex became a magnet for drugs and gun violence.

McKoy said the proposed development will provide much needed housing. He also pointed to the opening of the area through new roadways. The previous development had many dead ends and the complex was isolated from the existing neighborhood. Proposed senior low-rise and the townhomes will be better integrated with the existing neighborhood, he said.

They did 2 or 3 buildings, said Lilisa Mimms, councilwoman at-large, speaking of demolition. She lives half-block away from the development. Im glad they started the process. I pray it stays on task without delays or additional costs.

Irma Gorham, director of the Paterson Housing Authority, had hoped to demolish the development in summer of 2017 and start construction in the fall of that year. However, she ran into delays in moving the existing tenants from the building.

Federal officials approved the demolition in Jul. 2018. Next month, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) gave $1.54 million in housing choice vouchers to the Paterson Housing Authority to relocate remaining residents out of the development.

In the first phase, Roizman will build 81 senior citizen units in a low-rise building that is expected to be finished by Jul. 2021. In the second phase, he will build 160 family apartments in townhouses which is expected to be finished by Jun. 2022. The project includes a community center. Separately, the Paterson Housing Authority plans to build 55,000 square feet of retail space fronting Route 20.

Much of the funding for the new 246-unit housing development will provided by the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (HMFA) and other low-income tax credits, according to officials. Roizman Development will receive an almost $13 million developers fee. Paterson Housing Authority is leasing the 17-acre site for 15 years for $1.4 million to the firm.

Were looking forward to the quality housing that will be brought back to that area, said McKoy.

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Bill and Bunny Hines didn't move just their family to an LSU area subdivision; they moved their house, too.

The couple was ready to build on their University Acres lot when they heard that an old house downtown on North Sixth Street was going to be torn down to make way for a parking garage.

"I got a bee in my bonnet to move the house to our lot," Bunny Hines said.

Two contractors told the Hineses they were crazy. Homeless people were living in the house, and lots of things were missing, like floors and the stairway banister.

"It was a wreck," she recalled.

"Both contractors told us we needed to build something new," said Bill Hines, a retired pulmonologist.

Then they heard about master carpenter Tom Darensbourg.

Darensbourg took the house down piece by piece, dividing it into three piles at the back of the couple's new lot. He salvaged all of the doors and original single-pane windows and enough heart of pine for the downstairs floors.

Then he and his crew put the house back together, but with a few changes.

Bill Hines estimates that the home was built around 1890. Workers found a newspaper from 1888 behind one of the mantels.

They've heard that the home may have been built as a wedding gift for a member of the Hooper family, and carvings of bells and ribbons on a fireplace mantel give that rumor some credence. But, over the decades the house had several different uses, including as the Sigma Nu fraternity house when LSU was located at its earlier site near the present State Capitol.

During World War II, the home was a boarding house for women who worked at the telephone company, which was just a short walk away. It's most recent use had been as a law office before it was earmarked for destruction, and the Hines bought and moved it.

On its new site, the home retained its basic floor plan with a large center hall and two rooms on each side.

It was sort of like that old saying about a dog chasing the car: Youve caught it, now what?

What had been a tiny kitchen became a powder room, and a room at the back was extended to create a much larger kitchen and sitting room. Leftover bead board became cabinets and salvaged marble from an old bank the counters.

New wiring and plumbing went in along with new heating and air conditioning.

Bunny and Bill Hines spent almost every free hour in salvage yards looking for items to replace what had been taken from the old house. They even found a 19-foot banister that fit the main stairway perfectly.

"We ended up with new construction in old stuff," Bill Hines said.

On one side of the hall is the dining room, separated from the den by pocket doors. Across the hall is a study as well as the large master bedroom and bath.

Upstairs are four bedrooms and two baths.

The home is filled with antiques and family collections, including a bottle collection Bill Hines started when he was a Boy Scout. Many are displayed on a desk in the dining room.

"Patients would bring in all kinds of bottles," he said. "Most of the ones I have are over 120 years old."

From the time the Hineses and their four children moved to the house in 1987, it has been about family. It continues to this day, when every Sunday night the children and grandchildren come for dinner. The grandchildren play soccer in the center hall and games in the "grandkids area" upstairs.

"We have a music room, which is our bedroom, and a screaming room, which is the guest bathroom," Bunny Hines said. "Fortunately, only one grandchild has ever gone to the screaming room."

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BAY CITY, MI - A Columbus area neighborhood will see improvements this year thanks to a project that will demolish multiple dilapidated and blighted properties.

A neighborhood revitalization agreement between the Bay City Housing Commission, the City of Bay City and the Bay County Treasurer was approved earlier this month.

The Bay City Housing Commission approached the city and the Bay County treasurer to work in a collaborative project to acquire, demolish, and rehabilitate properties in a target area.

Seven properties are in the agreement. Two houses are owned by the Bay City through tax foreclosure while four others are owned by Bay County. One property is a vacant lot that sits adjacent to one of the city owned blighted homes.

The houses that will be demolished as a part of the project are located at the following addresses:

- 108 N. Monroe, county owned

- 109 S. Madison, county owned

- 115 N. Grant, county owned

- 206 N. Jefferson, county owned

- 234 N. Jefferson, city owned

- 232 N. Jefferson (vacant lot), city owned

- 406 10th Street, city owned

The terms of the agreement state that the Housing Commission offered to fund up to $120,000 for the acquisition, environmental testing, abatement and demotion cost of the city and county owned properties. The Housing Commission will then acquire properties, after the sites have been environmentally tested, at a cost of $100.

Bay City is expected to aid in coordination of asbestos and environmental testing, handle request for bids and oversee demolition.

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My Chemical Romance are back with their latest cryptic teaser. Following a slew of European gigs announced earlier this week (including a third U.K. show), theyre sending fans into yet another frenzy.

In mid-January, the band finally resolved the cryptic-U.K. teasing by releasing a short film titled An Offering Starring a previously introduced skeleton figure, the clip includes music many believe to be part of a to-be-announced project with potentially more to come.

Ahead of that reveal, the band posted flipped the imagery where the skull was being used as the caption while a U.K. flag hid among an array of symbols.All of the imageryfurther supports theories surrounding a Wicca-inspired new era, and now its continuing to be backed.

Today, the band shared another short teaser, cycling through more symbols. These ones appear to be sigils much like the one frontman Gerard Way wore for the bands return show. However, fans have begun decoding them and discovering they might be cities such as Chicago.

Twitter user suckmydanzigdck decoded many of the sigils starting with Chicago. Since the reveal, theyve uncovered Los Angeles, Dallas, Brooklyn, Toronto, Atlanta. You can see the full thread here.

Other users uncovered Tacoma, Newark, Philadelphia, Boston, Sacramento, Detroit and Denver.

The tease comes amid speculation of U.S. tour dates first rumored the day they announced their return. When announcing their only U.S. reunion show in Los Angeles for December, several sources confirmedwith AltPress that a tour will reportedly happen in the U.S.Rumors later followedthat the band would be playingCoachella, but theywerent announcedwith the festival lineup.

Two weeks ago, the band fueled hopes with the Dangers Days teaser by captioning it with an American flag. Now, rumors are flying on Reddit that a tour will be announced tomorrow, according to an anonymous Live Nation source.

That statement comes after a Dallas venue allegedly leaked My Chemical Romance would be playing Sept. 30. The American Airlines Center reportedly posted and immediately deleted a parking package option for the gig.

Shortly after, a radio DJ in Houston allegedly did the same by announcing the gig on-air. Despite better judgment, the personality proceeded in promoting a ticket giveaway for a Sept. 29 show at the Toyota Center.

However, thats not the only thing in the clip. Hidden within the static, a couple can be seen facing a cross about halfway through.

Many fans took to Twitter to say they felt it could be the Demolition Lovers, who are referenced in the closing track of I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love. The couple also iconically appear on the cover of Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge. The duo also return in a photographic form on the cover of Life On The Murder Scene.

The appearance follows past teases alluding to other album imagery such as the Danger Days car and the Bullets meets Welcome To The Black Parade hospital room.

With this latest teaser dropping, the rumors could very well be right, or MCR might be alluding to something entirely different. Check out the full teaser below.

Check out all of the confirmed My Chemical Romance dates below with tickets here.

03/20 Melbourne, AU @ Melbourne Showgrounds (Download Melbourne)03/21 Sydney, AU @ Parramatta Park (Download Sydney)03/25 Western Springs, NZ @ The Outer Fields at Western Springs03/28 Osaka, JP @ INTEX Osaka03/29 Download Japan @ Makuhari Messe Event Hall06/18 Milton Keynes, UK @Stadium MK06/20 Milton Keynes, UK @ Stadium MK06/21 Milton Keynes, UK @ Stadium MK06/23 Dublin, Ireland @ Royal Hospital Kilmainham07/04 Bologna, Italy @ Sonic Park Fest07/06 Bonn, Germany @ KUNST!RASEN07/11 Moscow, Russia @ Gorky Park

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OLDHAM COUNTY, Ky. Some people in Oldham Co. are now trying to save the old courthouse in La Grange.

The countys Project Development Board recently voted to demolish it and build a new one.

Some residents are doing what they can to fight the decision.

Barbara Manley Calloway grew up in Oldham County. The courthouse has always been a symbol of town and county pride that, in part, has existed for more than a century.

It has stood here as the anchor to this town, Manley Calloway said.

When she found out about plans to demolish the courthouse, Manley Calloway formed a plan of her own.

Somebodys got to do something and I thought well, you know, if not me, who else? Manley Calloway said.

She started a Facebook page to save the courthouse that got 1,700 likes in its first week.

Manley Calloway asked Preservation Kentucky and The Heritage Council of Kentucky for help.

But, it might not be enough.

No matter how many likes, comments, or shares the page gets, Judge Executive David Voegele says the courthouse is just not salvageable.

You cant even raise the facade, it might fall apart, said Voegele.

He says efforts to save the building are misinformed.

People dont know whats behind the walls, they dont know whats in the ceiling, said Voegele. They dont know whats underneath it. They just have a knee jerk reaction to a circumstance that they dont like.

RELATED: Committee votes to demolish Oldham County Courthouse, making room for new building to serve next 100 years

Voegele asked a restoration expert to examine the building and he agrees - nothing can be done to save the building.

But the vote to demolish the building wont stop Barbara Manley Calloway.

My momma always told me, and the one lesson I learned from her is, never let anybody tell you no, you cant do something, Manley Calloway said.

Voegle will publish an article in Wednesdays Oldham Era, debunking some misconceptions about the courthouse and the project.

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The plan was to save money by remodeling an existing building. The building at McKenzie Avenue was the home of EMS units that were moved after Hurricane Michael.

PANAMA CITY The Bay County Courts and Clerks facilities committee met Tuesday afternoon to discuss a plan to move the clerk functions into an unincorporated building at 225 Mckenzie Ave.

The plan was to save money by remodeling an existing building. The building at McKenzie Avenue was the home of EMS units that were moved after Hurricane Michael.

The plan to remodel the existing building at 225 McKenzie Avenue will save an estimated $500,000, said Keith Bryant, Bay County Public Works Director. It will decrease construction from 31,000 square feet to 28,000 square feet for the new courthouse.

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The new facility that will hold clerk functions is still on courthouse grounds, adjacent to the county courthouse. According to Bryant, the committee was all in agreement for the plan.

I think the main thing was that nobody was aware that the building at 225 McKenzie Avenue was not being used, Bryant said. With repairs to the courthouse, it just made it cheaper to remodel at that location (McKenzie Avenue).

The remodeling of the McKenzie building is expected to take six to eight months.

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LAKE FOREST, California, Jan. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- InMode Ltd. (Nasdaq:INMD) ("InMode"), a leading global provider of innovative medical technologies, introduces Evoke, a breakthrough non-invasive solution for facial remodeling.

Evoke is the first hands-free device for the face and submental area cleared by the FDA. This advanced radiofrequency-based platform addresses patient aesthetic concerns with uniform and controlled heating of the skin and subdermal tissue.

Dr. Michael Kreindel, InMode Chief Technology Officer, and inventor of Evoke commented, "The idea of a facial hands-free treatment has been circulating in the market for about 8 years. I'm proud that InMode, after years of research and development, is the first company to bring this solution to patients worldwide."

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ceramicist whose brilliant glazed tile work changed the face of Jerusalem in the early days of the British Mandate and continues to be one of the citys most iconic art forms.

Moughalian did not know her maternal grandfather. Nor did she know much about the Armenian genocide perpetrated by Turkish Muslims in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. This cataclysmic series of persecutions forced the Ohannessians into exile from their Anatolian mountain village, first to Syria and then to Palestine in 1918, where Ohannessian established Dome of the Rock Tiles so named because of that first, lifesaving commission to retile the vast Muslim structure built in 691 CE.

Growing up in Highland Park, New Jersey, Moughalian learned about the Holocaust in school and read books, including Elie Wiesels Night, found on the bookshelves of her many Jewish friends. She learned much more about the Jewish tragedy during World War II than about the Armenian tragedy in World War I, a traumatic topic that was difficult for her mother to talk about.

Feast of Ashes is the result of Moughalians quest to learn about her grandfather and his art pieces of which she began to seek out and collect and about the cruel persecution that shaped her familys fortunes.

She is not a professional writer; she is an accomplished flutist and artistic director of the Perspectives Ensemble. One manifestation of her inexperience that escaped the editors attention is her inconsistency in referring to her grandfather. She alternately calls him Tavit and Ohannessian, often in the same paragraph.

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