Al-Hussein missiles displayed in their erector-launchers. Baghdad arms exhibition, April–May 1989.
The Soviet “Scud” missile family.
The United States and Soviet Union backed away from a nuclear showdown with the Cuba Missile Crisis. Although the two nations continued to build weapons, the countries agreed to reduce certain types and quantities of nuclear weapons, along with ballistic missiles ranging from the MRBM to a number of ICBMs. Unfortunately, other nations had witnessed how these weapons provided an avenue to strike strategically and to coerce or affect a rival’s behavior. These weapons also became a symbol of national pride so that their mere existence allowed states to demonstrate their resolve in the face of regional disputes or to gain domestic cohesion in the guise of protecting the nation. The Soviet Union and other countries sold technologies and complete systems to bolster client states and earn hard currency from foreign military sales. Two nations that acquired these systems were Iran and Iraq, traditional enemies, but both supported through arms sales by the Soviet Union. Iraq would use its missiles against Iran and would later use them against the United States.
The Middle East erupts: Iran and Iraq
In the late twentieth century, Middle Eastern conflicts had normally revolved around the Arab world and Israel. However, the picture of a unified Islamic world against Israel was not clear. Tensions between secular governments and others, dominated by Islamic fundamentalists, spilled over borders. Different Islamic sects vied for control over nations. Ancient claims over territory did not distinguish between countries that were Arabic, Persian, or Israeli. Other concerns involved economic ones, influence over oil fields and their potential wealth. These problems erupted between Iran and Iraq in 1980. At the end of the conflict, some experts claimed that the two Islamic countries exchanged over several hundred ballistic missile attacks.
Iranian revolutionaries had overthrown a government friendly toward the United States and the West in January 1979. Islamic fundamentalists had created a revolutionary government intent on creating a state that would replace many non-Muslim influences with their fundamentalist Muslim thought and philosophy. Tehran illustrated clearly its focus on removing Western influence by seizing the U. S. embassy. Although the United States gained release of these hostages, the effect was chilling for many nations around the Persian Gulf. One of the goals of the Iranian government was to transform other nations’ governments and societies around the region to mirror its image. Iran tried to export its revolutionary movement west into Saudi Arabia to wrest control over many holy Muslim religious sites. The fundamentalist Islamic Iranians viewed the Saudi monarchy as a decadent group that had betrayed Islam by its continued dealings with the “Great Satan,” the United States and the rest of the West. This same country had supported the former corrupt Iranian government until the revolution. Iraq was also a target, since it had subjugated its Islamic Shiite sect majority; Shiite members dominated Iran. Saddam Hussein and his Sunni sect seemed at odds with the Ayatollah Khomeini by dealing with the godless Soviet Union. Iraq was also a secular state that came into confrontation with the ideals of an Islamic state like the Iranian government. Iran had already deposed of its Shah, who had tried to develop an Iranian secular state.
Iraq was another country subjugated by a single voice. A secular government formed by Saddam Hussein had turned a former monarchy into a socialist government, at least in name. The nation became a threat to surrounding nations such as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab emirates, with the potential to spread political instability. These countries feared that Iran and Iraq would spread political unrest in their societies. A powerful Iraq could also threaten Israel directly or through its oil-funded support of its northern Marxist neighbor, Syria. Syrian and radical terrorist groups pressured Tel Aviv’s northern borders and Lebanon. The United States and other nations feared disruptions of oil supplies that could wreck their economies and throw their political futures into disarray.
By 1980, the collision between the Iranian Islamic government of the Ayatollah Khomeini and Saddam Hussein seemed inevitable. Iran had depended on weapon purchases and training with the United States. This relationship all changed significantly when Islamic fundamentalists took control of the country and held the U. S. embassy personnel hostage for over a year. The United States refused to sell weapon systems and spare parts to Iran. Similarly, economic problems continued as the United States maintained sanctions, including the refusal to buy oil from Iran. Iranian air power, once a top regional force, had fallen into disrepair. Political will was strong, but Iranian military capability was lacking and had limited sustainability.
Iraq had access to the Persian Gulf through the Shatt al Arab area. Iran and Iraq had forged an uneasy agreement in 1975 over the vital property that allowed Hussein to ship oil from his country to sea lanes for export. Hussein’s government, like those of other countries around the Gulf, depended on oil for its economy. Hussein wanted the Iranian government to allow him expanded access to the Persian Gulf by allowing Iraq to control some islands in the Shatt al Arab. Hussein threatened the Iranians to comply with his demand. The Iranians refused.
Hussein decided to launch an attack on his neighbor. Although Iraqi artillery units had conducted some shelling along the border, Hussein ordered no major attacks conducted on Iranian military units. Through early September 1980, Iraq started to prepare for war. Hussein could achieve many of his objectives if he could defeat Iran. He could preempt a possible Iranian supported revolution that might topple the Iraqi government. Since Khomeini had threatened to topple secular states like Hussein’s, removing this menace was paramount. If Iraq pushed Iran back from the Shatt al Arab, then Iraq would have a secure border. A military victory had the potential to make Iraq the regional military and political power in the Gulf. Hussein could also encourage counterrevolutionary forces in Iran to break Khomeini’s power in Tehran. Hussein had strong motivations to feed his growing economy by taking Iranian oil fields. These motivations helped convince Iraq to take Iranian territory on September 10. Iraq demanded that Iran cede the captured area; Iran again refused and started to mobilize. The Iranians and Iraqis soon found themselves in a long war of attrition that would last until 1989.
Iraq’s military had been supplied by the Soviet Union. Iraq did not have to conduct a major military rebuilding program due to any open conflicts with Israel, previous border conflicts, or revolutions before its fight with Iran. On paper, the Iraqi military had a great advantage over the Iranians. The Iranian military was half the size of its prerevolutionary self. The government in Tehran suffered internal problems as the revolution made radical changes. Iraqi government officials believed that taking the islands in the Shatt al Arab would result in some international debate and minor skirmishing but that eventually the territory would remain in Baghdad’s hands.
Iraq tried to knock the Iranians out of the war early, but it could not. On September 22, the Iraqi air force bombed major western Iranian airfields to destroy aircraft on the ground. If the Iraqis could eliminate the Iranian air force, then any danger of Khomeini bombing major industrial or military sites or Baghdad would be remote. Iraqi aircraft also attempted to annihilate the Iranian navy to ensure it would not interfere with its access through the Persian Gulf. Iraqi failure to remove the air and naval threats would encourage the Iranians and allow them to expand the conflict by striking the source of Iraqi wealth and power, oil. Iranian patrol boats, aircraft, and other forces would later attack shipping and oil terminals. Iranian and Iraqi air forces were roughly equivalent in size and strength. Iranian aircraft could bomb Baghdad, Kirkuk, and a key transportation site, Basra.
The Iraqis also misjudged Iranian will to continue the ground war. Despite the material and training advantages, Iran continued to attack Iraqi positions, and it would not cede any lost territory. Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces would conduct human wave attacks against the Iraqis. Soon, the conflict resembled World War I, with fighting between trenches and movements measured in yards, and it lasted for years. Control over areas around the Shatt al Arab and the borders was traded between the two sides. The Iraqis needed a new strategy to break the stalemate.
IRAQI MISSILES FALL SHORT
Saddam Hussein’s arsenal contained some rocket and missile systems before 1980. Hussein authorized his nation’s weapons inventory into operation against the Iranians. These systems focused on supporting battlefield operations. Iraqi systems were a supplement to artillery, not designed for strategic effects. The Iraqis did gain some experience by building and modifying these missile and rocket systems. Iraqi military commanders used multiple rocket launchers and missiles that had ranges of less than 100 kilometers (about sixty miles). The Soviet Union had sold the Iraqis some Free Rocket Over Ground (FROG)-7s (their Soviet designation is R65A or Luna), also deployed in the Cuban Missile Crisis, that had a limited range of sixty kilometers (thirty-seven miles). The FROG-7 was a development from the 1950s that was widely sold abroad. These rockets could not lift a sizeable conventional warhead in lieu of its designed twenty-five-kiloton yield nuclear payload. The FROG-7 had a 450-kilogram (about 1,000 pounds) conventional warhead capacity.
Iraqi military commanders started to use the FROG-7 in its early campaigns against Iran in 1980. The weapon had a single-stage construction powered by a solid propellant engine. This relatively primitive ballistic missile did not have a guidance system but was spin stabilized. The missile had limited usefulness and was very inaccurate, especially against entrenched Iranian forces. The FROG-7 had less capability than a German V-2, but it did possess a key advantage: it was launch capable off a single wheeled transporter/erector/launcher (TEL). An experienced crew could launch a missile every twenty minutes. Normally, another vehicle carrying three additional missiles followed the TEL. The Soviets had improved the FROG-7 by 1980, but it was still a primitive weapon.
Limitations of the FROG-7 forced the Iraqis to reconsider the FROG-7’s use against other targets, cities, or larger urban areas. Early Iraqi missile operations focused on two locations, Ahwaz and Dezful, that had limited military value. The strikes concentrated on supporting Iraqi ground movements into Iranian territory. These FROG-7 attacks were sporadic and of limited value, however. Crews used ten missiles in 1980 and then fired fifty-four missiles the next year. Iraqi military commanders later phased out the missile from a direct combat role with only a single missile in 1982 and two missiles in 1984. Even against relatively large targets like cities, the FROG-7 was ineffective. Some missiles, just like the earlier V-2s, missed the target entirely. Baghdad needed a new missile to strike Iranian cities with more punch and accuracy.
The Iraqi government sought to increase the yield and range of its ballistic missile inventory. It turned to its R-17 (NATO code named SS-1C SCUDB) missiles that the Soviets supplied to Iraq in the early 1970s. The SCUD-B was a single-staged, liquid fueled ballistic missile that used storable hypergolic propellants. A fully fueled and maintained ballistic missile could hit a target at an extended range of 330 kilometers (180 miles) with a CEP of about 450 meters (1,500 feet). SCUD-Bs could carry a 985-kilogram (2,175-pound) warhead. The missile had an inertial guidance system that used three gyroscopes to improve the accuracy of the missile over the FROG-7 despite the fourfold increase in range. Signals to the control vanes on the tail assembly would help correct the flight path of the missile in flight as long as the engine was operating.
The SCUD-B provided added capability to the Iraqis. Soviet engineers designed the SCUD-B to deliver nuclear, conventional, or chemical warheads. The warhead detaches from the missile’s body. This capability provided the Iraqis with an ability to select an appropriate yield with either a conventional or a chemical weapon. The SCUD-B was also a very mobile weapon, like the FROG-7. Crews launched it from a TEL that would raise the missile from a horizontal to vertical position, ignite it, and move to another position to fire another missile. Still, the SCUD-B had problems. Its range was not sufficient to hit Tehran or other key targets. Unless Iraqi forces could take more Iranian territory, the SCUD-B could do little against Tehran. The Iraqis needed improved capabilities since the ground war was a stalemate.
Hussein now faced the prospect of acquiring new longer-range SCUD-Cs which had a range of 600 kilometers (or 373 miles), which still could not reach Tehran. Another option for Baghdad was purchasing advanced ballistic missiles from the Soviet Union (like the OTR-22 IRBM or SS-12 Scaleboard) or building its own ballistic missiles. Soviet sales or deployments of IRBMs were not possible due to ongoing arms reduction negotiations with the United States. Sales of an SS-12 and a SCUD-C might also widen an ongoing arms race within the Middle East that could have long-term consequences for the Soviets. Expectedly, the Soviets declined to sell more advanced and more accurate weapons to Iraq. Saddam Hussein would have to gain ballistic missile superiority by modifying Iraq’s existing stock of SCUD-B missiles or by building variants of the delivery system. Iraqi missile engineers and designers would work on two variants of the SCUD-B, the Al-Husayn and Al-Abbas.
Modifying the SCUD-B into a delivery platform with an extended range required resources. Although the Iraqis had experimented with modifying some missiles, this was very different from extending the range of a relatively large ballistic missile. This effort required additional time, expertise, and funds. The ground war had slowed with no major effective offensive actions that had directly threatened either nation’s capitals. Expertise to improve Baghdad’s missile designs from other countries, such as the Soviet Union, would take time to find and then employ. The continued war on the ground, disputes in areas around oil terminals in the Shatt al Arab, and Iranian attacks on oil shipping lanes affected Iraqi finances. Trading off ballistic missile development against purchasing weapons to fight the war on the ground, air, and sea was a gamble. Still, Hussein started a program to modify the SCUD-Bs.
Iraqi launch crews would use SCUD-Bs and modified variants to attack some cities. Hussein directed these attacks against the cities to break the will of the Iranian population. These operations amounted to terror raids to force the Iranian government to either fail or negotiate an end to the war. On October 27, 1982, Hussein’s missile crews began to replace FROG-7s with SCUDBs. The crews would still launch a limited three SCUD missiles in 1982. SCUD-B crews began ramping up: to thirty-three launches in 1983; twenty-five firings in 1984; a huge barrage of eighty-two missiles in 1985; no launches in 1986; attacks in 1987 to match their record in 1984; and 193 attacks in 1988. There is some dispute about the actual number of missile launches, but most estimates place the number of launches at no more than 251. Iraq focused many of its early SCUD attacks on border cities such as Ahwaz, Borujerd, Dezful, and Khorramabad. Even with their greater range and improvement in payload, these missiles did not provide sufficient damage. Unless the missiles hit a large factory, school, or area where people gathered, they became merely terror devices.


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With an academic background that includes social sciences, curatorship and architecture, Michelle Mlati's trajectory is an interesting one; more so for the way her current work dabbles in these areas simultaneously.
Describing herself as an afrofuturist critical spatial designer, Johannesburg-based Mlati’s practise investigates elements of the city, from sustainability through to social dynamics, architecture to aural and visual cultures.
It was while completing her Honours project at Michaelis School of Fine Art that she started addressing spatial and architectural issues. The project explored gentrification in Cape Town and London. “The content of my curatorial work was a response to communities being displaced from significant cultural venues and spaces critical for sustaining their livelihoods,” she says.
She imagined spaces that were created in a speculative future where people had been evicted and all that remains are their voices. This prompted users of the space to reflect on present spatial issues in a future spatial context. Mlati says this was a defining moment for her in that she realised that her creative practise would be grounded in spatial invervention and socio-political issues.
A look at most of the world’s top cities and their development paths will be incomplete without acknowledging the scourge of gentrification. It brings to the fore the political nature of architecture more plainly than anything in recent history.
During her project, Mlati’s experience confronting affected residents alongside South African council members implicated in the displacement, gave her a greater sense of the way spaces are tied up in politics. On the other hand, councillors interviewed in the UK advocated for those being displaced. This disparity is interesting, but points to the gravity of political will and intervention in the make-up of our spaces.
She reminds me that architecture and curatorship are not so far removed after all. They’re both spatial practices. “They both have the power to create meaning using space.”
Her Master’s project Green-Smart City is a spatial critique of the city of Johannesburg, investigating the exclusivity of green spaces, and the socio-political context surrounding them. It was led by a contemplation on why the more affluent suburbs of the city tended to be greener, while the inner city and surrounding townships (predominantly occupied by black people), were defined by concrete and ‘brown’ spaces.
She staged an intervention to investigate this more closely. It involved planting vegetation in the township of Dunusa, alongside a solar powered artwork. Mlati found that the very establishment of the intervention encouraged public participation, but what was of more interest was people's responses to the intervention over time.
Day two saw the artwork removed, while on day three, the plant attracted passers-by to engage in conversation, signalling to the “vegetation’s potential for placemaking and to serve as a resting place for city inhabitants.” An unforeseen outcome, on day four, just like the artwork, the plant had been removed altogether, and replaced with waste of all sorts.
While her intention was to critique the lack of vegetation in urban spaces, she was left with alternative conclusions, among them is that theft is an unavoidable tragedy in these spaces. She says it highlighted “many systemic issues in the inner city which might be attributed to unemployment and people willing to do anything to get a quick buck.”
In this we see again how social context is intertwined in the way spaces are formulated. The damning takeaway from this intervention for Mlati was that creating beautiful and healthy environments for those not economically uplifted presents its own set of unique challenges. It also opens up the discussion further to broader issues pertaining to how we get beyond economic upliftment. Quite a departure from the initial investigation of green urban spaces.
This leads the conversation on the idea of the afrofuturist city. The world has recently experienced a surge in pop culture narratives drawn from and embracing this concept. It’s essentially a construct through which black bodies navigate rapid social change, a freedom from the history of oppression and marginalisation, according to academic Reynaldo Anderson.
Similarly, Mlati sees the afrofuturist city as a way to overcome the spatial issues inherent in the social and physical make-up of our places.
“I think of it as a city that fills a physical and socio-spatial gap in the lives and livelihoods of black people who feel like outsiders in spaces that were not created for and by them, which aims to create a more inclusive city that ensures their survival in an increasingly globalising world.”
Given South Africa’s brutal past, defined by colour, race, hate, segregation, this notion becomes increasingly important and urgent. It’s evident down to the construction of buildings that specifically serve the goal of segregation. For example, the research of Ilze Wolff looked at the ways a Cape Town landmark building, the Rex Trueform factory, is entangled in a greater conversation of race, gender and society.
This is the kind of history Mlati wants to rewrite:
“It is about spatially rewriting the city to not only mitigate apartheid spatial legacies that continue to spread in perpetuity in relation to other matters, such as climate change, but one that transforms with evolving black culture.”

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Web Sites That Propel Books To Another Level
There are additional benefits to developing a book-supporting Web site. Gordon found that it provides an easy point of reference for anyone who is Internet literate. "It is so easy to say to someone, when mentioning the book, that they should have a look at the Web site. This really compliments any author's book tours and lectures. Having a well designed site creates instant credibility among online book sellers, too."
To create a well-designed site a publisher must plan ahead, including allocating the hire of an experienced designer in the production budget. "Make sure it is professionally done," says Gordon. "There is nothing more off-putting than a lousy-looking site."
After the book has been released, the Web site can be used to further interest in the subject at hand. Links to subject-related Web sites, book reviews and write-ups, dates of lectures and other events can all be included. Feedback received from readers can also be helpful when researching future publications.
All things considered, developing a Web site to compliment a new book release will promote sales and aid in creating a community of enthusiastic readers who are ready and waiting for more. It just makes sense.
-Jake Gorst (president of Exploded View, a New York-based new media company)


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Starting on July 1, fast food workers will receive a boost in their paychecks across upstate New York.
Upstate fast food workers will now make be making $15 an hour, up from $14.50.
Over the past five years, the state has been gradually raising the minimum wage in a phased approach.
Fast food workers in New York City have already been making $15 an hour since December 31, 2018.
“It's hard work,” Saru Jayaraman, co-founder of One Fair Wage, explained. “It's skilled jobs. We rely on these workers, as we found out during the pandemic. We called them ‘essential.’ They have been the ones that have allowed us to continue to enjoy eating out, or to get meals delivered.”
However, Senator George Borrello says that raising the fast food minimum wage places an unfair burden on small businesses already competing to find employees to return to work.
Borrello says many fast food joints are also now switching to automation and technology.
“It's a one-size-fits-all plan essentially for the entire state now that you're talking about having parity with New York City,” Senator Borrello said. “And you look at the cost of living in places like my district, very rural versus New York City, and thinking that the same minimum wage should apply for all ages is just irresponsible.”
According to Greg Biryla with the National Federation of Independent Business, 39% of small businesses owners right now are increasing their compensation to try and fill jobs.
But many still can’t find employees.
“Forty percent of small business owners right now have jobs that they cannot fill,” Biryla said. “That is a record number and the NFIB has been keeping this statistic since the 1970s. So now businesses are able to be open again in New York state. And the ones that we talked about couldn't be more excited again to continue their chase the American Dream, put people back to work, grow their communities, support their local neighborhoods, and now we have new challenges that they're confronting and it's finding qualified workers.”
Jayaraman said One Fair Wage is working with Congress to help pass legislation that will raise the national minimum wage to $15 an hour.

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No real surprises here. ObamaCare was designed to fail; even as the gullible saps in the Democrat electorate were told fairy tales about deficit reduction and “bending the cost curve down,” the socialist power brokers of the Left were promising more radical audiences that the whole thing was just a gateway drug to overcome American resistance to the hell of single-payer socialized medicine. (And accept no snake oil from anyone who says it isn’t hell. ObamaCare will bankrupt you, destroy insurance plans you like, and maybe get you fired or cut back to part-time hours. Single-payer socialized medicine will kill you.)
But here’s Harry Reid choosing a rather inauspicious moment to admit that single-payer total State control was the objective all along, as reported by the Las Vegas Sun:
Reid said he thinks the country has to “work our way past”
insurance-based health care during a Friday night appearance on Vegas
PBS’ program “Nevada Week in Review.”
“What we’ve done with
Obamacare is have a step in the right direction, but we’re far from
having something that’s going to work forever,” Reid said.
then asked by panelist Steve Sebelius whether he meant ultimately the
country would have to have a health care system that abandoned insurance
as the means of accessing it, Reid said: “Yes, yes. Absolutely, yes.”
idea of introducing a single-payer national health care system to the
United States, or even just a public option, sent lawmakers into a tizzy
back in 2009, when Reid was negotiating the health care bill.
had a real good run at the public option … don’t think we didn’t have a
tremendous number of people who wanted a single-payer system,” Reid
said on the PBS program, recalling how then-Sen. Joe Lieberman’s
opposition to the idea of a public option made them abandon the notion
and start from scratch.
Eventually, Reid decided the public option was unworkable.
“We had to get a majority of votes,” Reid said. “In fact, we had to get a little extra in the Senate, we have to get 60.”
So there you have it. The people of the United States retained enough vestigial independence to shoot down a dreary British-style single-payer nightmare in 2009. It was necessary to keep them bamboozled and confused long enough to get the ObamaCare train wreck chugging down the tracks. The people who created ObamaCare knew all along it wouldn’t work. If they thought it would fulfill any of its promises about reduced cost, improved benefits, increased availability, and so forth, they wouldn’t be talking about it as a stopgap solution until the real Cuban-style government-controlled wonder could be rolled out. There is absolutely no way to reconcile anything ObamaCare apologists have ever said in favor of the system – including everything Barack Obama said about it at his press conference on Friday – with what Harry Reid said here.
The thing to keep your eye on is the ObamaCare singularity: the public exchanges. That’s the rotten, malfunctioning, high-cost, low-choice, subsidized hell more and more Americans are tumbling helplessly into. That’s the pit every labor union in America, and the six-figure sultans of Congress, refuse to fall into. The public exchanges will turn into a deficit bomb powerful enough to cause all-out panic in Washington, as their cost soars four, five, and six hundred percent beyond anything the ObamaCare con artists estimated in 2010. That’s when they’ll come back and tell us that only absolute government control – the outright nationalization of one-seventh of the American economy – is the only possible solution.

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Adele’s last album, 21, has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. If you didn’t buy it, you’re probably only a two degrees away from someone who did. Some people even bought it twice, having to own it on CD and vinyl. (I just went with the vinyl.) Billboard dubbed it the “Greatest Album of All Time.” How do you follow that up? Talk about being in the pressure cooker. You know there’s no way you can top the last album’s success, but you want to. More importantly, you don’t want to disappoint all of those people who bought your last record. What if you put out another album and people hated it? Then you’d be known for releasing one of the worst follow ups ever. That would make me so anxious I’d get writers block. I’d even consider never releasing another album, to go out on an extremely high note. Well, not surprisingly, both of these things plagued Adele. And when she finally was struck with inspiration again, it was to write an album about motherhood, something she was newly experiencing. But after the album was complete, she decided that it was too “boring” and wanted to go back to the drawing board. Then she had writer’s block again. Suffice to say, 25 was much more difficult to make than 19 or 21. She did not give up though. Instead, she tried working with a multitude of writers and producers, which apparently helped because she worked with over a dozen of them; there are as many listed in the album’s credits. I suppose some might frown upon that, but you have to remember that Adele has always worked with co-writers. Some songwriters just prefer writing that way. They find that other people’s input brings out the best in them, helps get the creative wheels rolling.
Adele might have had her worries about releasing a follow up to 21, but the public apparently did not. The album has already broken sales records. For example, it had the most CDs shipped for a new release since 4.2 million copies of *NSYNC’s No Strings Attached shipped in 2000. They’re selling like hotcakes, too. It hasn’t even be out for a full week at the time of this writing, but chances are you’ve already bought a copy. Or someone you know has. I bought the Target edition myself, being that it has 3 bonus tracks, which I’m quite enjoying.
The album opens with a ballad called “Hello.” Not that you need me to tell you it’s a ballad. Because, seriously, If you haven’t heard “Hello” yet then you’re probably not much of a music fan. I mean, I do have friends who aren’t into Adele and even they have gone out of their way to check out her big comeback single, which was written by Adele and Greg Kurstin in two sessions six months apart. But, hey, who cares how long a song takes to write if it’s good? And “Hello” is really, really good. Brilliant, even.
One of the reasons 21 was so popular was that it was a classic break up album, something everyone could relate to. People listened to it and felt as though they’d lived through it. They clinged to it during hours when they needed a friend who could relate to what they were experiencing. They listened to it so many times that they came to feel like they truly knew Adele, which makes sense because it was a very personal album where she pulled out her heart and put it on a table for all to see. It felt authentic, too, not like the sort of ballads that are scientifically engineered by robots to tug at your heartstrings. There was no way Adele was making things up, telling tall tales. And anyone who’s heard “Hello” can tell you that it’s just as honest. Not only that, it’s as relatable as anything on 21, being a song about wanting to reach out to somebody you’ve lost contact with, a lover you broke up with, a friend you really let down, etc. “Hello, can you hear me / I’m in California dreaming about who we used to be,” she sings, sounding like she’s about to start crying. It gives me chills sometimes.
The second track on the album is my least favorite. It’s called “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” and it’s the only song on the album that she wrote with Max Martin and Shellback, who also produced the track. I have nothing against them — I’m a huge fan of Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble,” for example — but this song feels out of place on the album. It has a peculiar rhythm that I don’t find very accessible either. Also, the beats are so heavy that you can’t hear Adele’s voice as prominently as you’re used to. It feels like it’s buried in the mix. I really do not like it.
“I Miss You” follows and is much, much better. Adele wrote it with Paul Epworth, who also produced it, and he’s one of the people she worked on 21 with. It also features sonorous beats and a different sort of rhythm than we’re used to hearing in Adele’s songs, but for some reason that works for me here. “I love the way your body moves / Towards me from across the room,” she sings and it’s enough to make you swoon. It also has an infectious chorus that demands you open your mouth and sing along to it. Even the pre-chorus is great.
A ’70’s style mid-tempo ballad co-written by Tobias Jesso Jr. (go listen to his song “Hollywood” on Youtube right now) and produced by Ariel Rechtshaid, “When We Were Young,” shimmers and shakes splendidly. When I listen to it, I picture people doing cocaine in the movies, and consequently having their lives fall apart. It should have been on the Boogie Nights movie soundtrack. It would be perfect for a downhill race montage. “You look like a movie / You sound like a song / My God, this reminds me / Of when we were young,” goes the pre-chorus and it totally sounds like Adele is going through a major nostalgic moment while she sings it. The sort where you don’t know if you feel happy or sad but you certainly feel strongly. When she sings the line “we were sad of getting old” during the chorus she sounds so angry about that, something her older listeners — like myself — can relate to.
“Remedy” is apparently the one song from the scrapped album that appears on 25. Adele has stated that she wrote it about her son, Angelo, but that she sang it “for everyone that I really love.” I suppose some might find it too sweet, almost sugary, but I think it’s tender and lovely. “But when the pain cuts you deep / When the night keeps you from sleeping / Just look and you will see / That I will be your remedy,” she sings. It’s not a lullaby, but you can still picture her singing it while looking down at her sleeping son in his crib. Or when he was in a crib; he was born in 2012 so I doubt that he sleeps in a crib anymore.
Many critics are feeling negatively about the second half of the album, but I think some of the album’s strongest tracks are there. I suppose it depends on how much time you spend with the album. The first half contains the most immediately memorable songs, so if you only listen to the album a few times then you might find the second half boring. Admittedly, I felt that way the first couple of times I listened to the record. But then I came to love some of its songs.
The second half begins with “Water Under The Bridge,” another collaboration with Kurstin. I immediately fell in love with the percussion of this track, which is quite heavy. But that alone doesn’t make a great song — not unless we’re talking about EDM — but it can help create a very powerful one and that’s precisely what it does here. It’s especially lively during the killer chorus, which is one of the album’s best choruses, being super catchy. “If you’re gonna let me down, let me down gently / Don’t pretend that you don’t want me / Our love ain’t water under the bridge,” she sings with an air of confrontation about her voice. If you’ve ever had a lover try to sneak off into the distance after sharing some precious time together and confronted them, this song is for you. You can just see Adele backing a guy into the corner and lecturing him here.
“River Lea” is the sole collaboration with Danger Mouse to make the album; he produced the song, which he co-wrote with Adele. Here, Adele sings about growing up by the River Lea and how it’s in her roots and what effect that has had on her. “It’s in my blood and I stain every heart that I use to heal the pain,” she sings during the pre-chorus. The production reminds me of the Norah Jones album Danger Mouse co-wrote and produced, Little Broken Hearts, which I feel is the strongest album of her career thus far. I’m sure he thought about that album when he was writing this with Adele. I’m not saying that he ripped himself off, just that he aimed for something in that vein, shooting for something with depth in its beats and lots of details — such as flourishes of guitar — but also something that allowed the singer’s voice to shine above it all, giving it a true singer/songwriter feel instead of having it sound like his own music.
“Love In The Dark” isn’t a bad song — it’s better than most ballads by other artists for sure — but it doesn’t quite reach the bar set by the other songs on the record. Not even with repeat listenings. I must have listened to it eight times before writing this, and I’m listening to it again as I do so, but it just falls short musically. The lyrics, which find Adele being the one to do the heart-breaking for a change, are fantastic. But the magic isn’t quite here, which is surprising because it was written with longtime Sia collaborator Samuel Dixon, who also produced it. It simply feels like more of the same. The album has already served up this sort of thing a few times. The same can be said about “All I Ask,” which was written by Adele and Bruno Mars with Philip Lawrence and Christopher Brody Brown. It was produced by Mars and Lawrence under the name The Smeezingtons, which is what they call their record producing team. It’s too bad Bruno didn’t duet with Adele on the song. That would have worked wonders for it, elevating it from its status of being just another piano ballad.
When I listen to “Million Years Ago,” I find myself thinking of Led Zeppelin and Robert Plant’s recent output. If he did a song with Adele, it would probably sound a lot like this. Except that he would also be singing on it. (Hmm, thinking about this is making me wish they would do an album together like he did with Alison Krauss.) This one pairs Adele’s voice with gentle acoustic guitars and is plenty magical. If you liked her cover of The Cure’s “Love Song” on 21, you should be swept away by this spell-binding gem. I was quite surprised to learn that Kurstin produced this one as I can’t recall him ever doing an acoustic song like this before.
The sole other collaboration with Epworth on hand is “Sweetest Devotion,” a very gospel-esque tune. It’s a love song, but most of the lyrics could be about God and they would seem to be playing with that idea here, but Adele has stated that it’s about being a mother to Angelo, an explanation that makes sense, but if I hadn’t read that I would totally think it was about God. You could even say it’s about experiencing a loss of faith only to come through on the other side. In any case, if you enjoy singing gospel songs then you should fall quickly in love with this song as it has that whole vibe going on in terms of the music and Adele’s powerhouse vocals, which truly soar on the chorus. This is the song that closes the album on the standard edition, which seems a bit bizarre to me. It just doesn’t have that final song vibe. “Million Years Ago” would have been better suited for that.
If you did not buy your copy of the album at Target, then you will be disappointed to learn that their exclusive edition has not one or two but THREE bonus tracks. That’s a quarter of the album. On one hand, I enjoy collecting Target exclusive editions of albums with bonus tracks but I also feel sorry for people who buy the albums elsewhere, not realizing there’s a Target edition with extra songs. For example, Halsey’s album has five extra bonus tracks on the Target edition and they’re not tacked on at the end like these Adele tracks. On the contrary, they’re in between other songs on the record, where they were presumably intended to be, totally making it feel like anyone who doesn’t have that version has been ripped off.
So, how good are the Target bonus tracks? Well, they are certainly well-worth spending the couple of extra bucks to get them. The first, “Can’t Let Go,” was written by Adele and Linda Perry; Perry also produced it. You might cringe over the fact that it’s another piano ballad, but it’s rather touching and certainly superior to some of the ballads that made the standard version of the album. If you were hoping for another Adele break up song, you should appreciate this one. “Why were you so cold, let the truth be told / Tell me was it all for the thrill? / What was I thinking, I gave you everything / But you still went for the kill,” goes the emotionally raw second verse. There she goes again, shooting you in the heart with one of cupid’s arrows, stopping you in your tracks.
“Lay Me Down” is another track written with Jesso, Jr. and it’s one of my favorite songs from all of these sessions. Interestingly, it’s the sole track on the album produced by Mark Ronson, one of today’s hottest producers. (There was also some additional production by one Lil Silva, according to the Wiki page.) I especially love the background vocals during the chorus, which would seem to be by a small chorus of female singers, as opposed to Adele doing her own backing vocals like on most of the record. This is one of the most epic songs on the album. To that end, it reminds me of many J-Pop ballads, the sort that grow more intense and emotive as they go on, right up until the climactic ending.
Finally, we have “Why Do You Love Me,” which Adele wrote with longtime Lana Del Rey collaborator Rick Nowels, though it was produced by Rechtshaid. It’s actually one of the most up-tempo songs on the album and it ultimately leaves you wishing there were a few more tracks in its vein on 25. It’s just bursting with energy and sounds fun, rather than soul crushing. If you’ve been wishing Adele would lighten up, this one is for you. As she sings “I want you to love me,” over and over on the chorus, you’re bound to find yourself smiling, if not singing along. I hope she does this one live because it would surely be a high point of the show. And, yes, this one does feel like a proper closing to the album, if only because it’s better than many of the other tracks on hand, ending the record on a very high note.


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“Given that the Senate rules to not allow for the use of cellular phones on the Senate floor, I feel quite confident that the senator from Kentucky is not aware of the Twitterverse that has been exploding,” Cruz declared. “So what I wanted to do for the Senator from Kentucky is give some small sampling of the reaction on twitter so that he might understand how the American people are responding to his courageous leadership.”
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Paul thanked Cruz for coming to the floor and “cheering him up,” admitting that he “was getting kind of tired.”
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Paul added that “it’s probably a good thing for every American eventually not to see their phone or their computer for about eight hours.”
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CHICAGO - Starbucks is going big on booze. Starbucks will expand its evening alcohol and light bites menu, which includes bacon-wrapped dates and Malbec wine, to thousands of stores, Chief Operating Officer Troy Alstead said in a phone interview.
CHICAGO — Starbucks is going big on booze.
Starbucks will expand its evening alcohol and light bites menu, which includes bacon-wrapped dates and Malbec wine, to thousands of stores, Chief Operating Officer Troy Alstead said in a phone interview. The rollout will take several years, he said.
“We’ve tested it long enough in enough markets. This is a program that works,” he said. “As we bring the evening program to stores, there’s a meaningful increase in sales during that time of the day.”
Starbucks has been focused on selling more non-coffee items, such as alcohol, juice, Teavana tea and food, to stoke U.S. growth. The company also is expanding and improving its rewards program and mobile applications. Starbucks said this month that it would soon test a way for customers to order items ahead of time with their smartphones.
Shares for the Seattle-based company have dropped 3.2 percent this year, compared with a 0.7 percent increase for the Standard & Poor’s 500.
The company first sold alcohol in October 2010 at a Seattle store. In January 2012, Starbucks said it was expanding the test to as many as 25 locations in Chicago, Atlanta and southern California. In Chicago, the after-4 p.m. menu includes fare such as truffle macaroni and cheese, chicken skewers, Chardonnay and chocolate fondue.
The evening food and drinks, which are in about 40 stores now, won’t work in all Starbucks cafes, Alstead said. He said they’ve seen success in some urban areas, near other restaurants and theaters, where people are out at night.
Last month, CEO Howard Schultz handed over the company’s day-to-day operations to Alstead, so Schultz could focus more on digital, mobile, loyalty and electronic-commerce initiatives. The company said yesterday that mobile payments now account for 14 percent of in-store transactions in the U.S.
Starbucks has more than 20,100 locations worldwide, including about 11,500 in the U.S.


The peak freight body in New South Wales fears the “integrity” of the supply chain could be compromised after Queensland announced stronger border rules will come into effect from Friday.
- NSW freight services and producers are worried that Queensland’s new border rules will seriously disrupt the supply chain and their livelihoods
- Freight NSW says truck drivers have done their best to get vaccinated but the health order will make a tough situation worse
- A cheese business based in both states says its staff have received conflicting advice from police and the Queensland government
Queensland’s chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young said anyone crossing the border from New South Wales into the Sunshine State must have had at least one COVID-19 vaccination.
“I’m asking that, at the latest by Friday … they must have had at least one dose of vaccine,” Dr Young said.
Queensland Health was unable to confirm if the freight industry would be included under the new rules.
Road Freight NSW head Simon O’Hara said that would cause problems for truck drivers.
“If this is the case for freight workers, it’s going to compound an already difficult situation.”
Mr O’Hara said freight workers had embraced vaccination where possible, including in south-west Sydney, where more than 500,000 additional doses were being prioritised for authorised workers in Greater Sydney’s areas of concern.
“We’ve also been calling for some months now for prioritisation across the entire supply chain for freight workers to get the vax,” he said.
The Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) is also calling on transport workers to be prioritised for vaccine access.
Western Australia is due to close its borders to unvaccinated New South Wales transport workers from tomorrow, and Queensland will introduce the same measure from Friday.
TWU assistant national secretary Nick McIntosh has warned the restrictions could see essential supplies cut off from communities.
“Now it is hardworking truck drivers — and the regional communities that rely on them most — that will suffer greatly.
“The Federal Government’s failure to provide national leadership in transport has meant truck drivers have struggled to get vaccinated, have waited hours for COVID-19 tests, have been drowned in paperwork to meet ever-changing border requirements, and have struggled to find open truckstops where they can rest, eat and shower.”
Truck drivers living in hotspot local government areas in New South Wales have been added to the priority list for vaccinations as of today.
‘Nightmare’ for Nimbin business
Paul Wilson said the entire team at Nimbin Valley Cheese had a received a first dose and would be fully vaccinated within three weeks.
However, the dairy farmer and cheesemaker was concerned what impact the Queensland border closure would have on operations this week.
Mr Wilson travelled to the company’s factory on the Gold Coast last night but other staff were turned away at the border this morning.
He said some staff who travel up to the Gold Coast from New South Wales each day were asked to reapply for a permit after 8:00pm yesterday, which they did, but when they approached the border at 6:00am today, “the cops just turned them around and said their paperwork’s not valid”.
“We were meant to have more milk arriving this afternoon, but some trucks with produce on them have been turned around, so maybe we won’t even get our milk up here.”
Mr Wilson said the police officer’s comments differed from what appeared to be the official advice from Queensland Health.
“The website says if you’re involved in the production of an essential supply – I would’ve thought food was pretty essential – then you can travel into Queensland, but the cops are just saying no,” he said.
Artisan cheese fed to pigs
The business was already hard hit last week after the cancellation of a number of farmers’ markets in the Northern Rivers.
Mr Wilson said that new homes had to be found for the cheese, but some of the artisan cheese was fed to the pigs.
“We dropped around 30 per cent of our income last week,” he said.
“The other thing is our orders have been all over the place — cafes and restaurants have been ordering and not ordering.
Meanwhile, New South Wales cross-border commissioner James McTavish said people could not go between the two jurisdictions unless they were entering either state for permitted purposes.
“That means they can go to permitted work, and there’s essential workers only included in that,” he said.
“So, if you’re a healthcare worker, if you’re an emergency worker, if you’re involved in those essential retail activities, you can go to work.
“But, if you’re a teacher, if you’re not a medical professional, if you’re providing non-essential retail services then you cannot cross the border to go into Queensland.”


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Sir Robert Naunton (1563 - March 27, 1635), was an English politician and writer.
The son of Henry Naunton of Alderton, Suffolk, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, becoming a fellow of his college in 1585 and public orator of the university in 1594. Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, commissioned him to spend some time abroad, sending information about European affairs. On his return, Naunton entered parliament in 1606 as member for Helston, and he sat in the next five parliaments; in 1614 he was knighted, in 1616 he became master of requests and later surveyor of the court of wards. In 1618 his friend Buckingham procured for him the position of secretary of state. Naunton's strong Protestant opinions led him to favour more active intervention by England in the interests of Frederick V, Elector Palatine, and more vigorous application of the laws against Roman Catholics. Gondomar, the Spanish ambassador, complained to King James I, who censured Naunton. Consequently, in 1623, Naunton resigned and was made master of the court of wards. He died at Letheringham, Suffolk.
Naunton's valuable account of Queen Elizabeth's reign was still in manuscript when he died. As Fragmenta regalia, written by Sir Robert Naunton, it was printed in 1641 and again in 1642, a revised edition Fragmenta Regalia, or Observations on the late Queen Elizabeth, her Times and Favourites, being issued in 1653. It was again published in 1824, and an edition edited by Edward Arber was brought out in 1870. It has also been printed in several collections and has been translated into French and Italian. There are several manuscript copies extant, and some of Naunton's letters are in the British Museum and in other collections.
See Memoirs of Sir Robert Naunton (1814).

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Ridgecrest Police Chief Jed McLaughlin was the speaker at the Rotary Club of China Lake luncheon Wednesday. In a wide-ranging talk, McLaughlin took questions and brought the club up to date on various developments affecting the community.
McLaughlin said RPD has increased social media use ten-fold in recent times.
“It is the new thing, we have had to adapt to it,” He said. The department also recently rolled out their NIXLE service. Text RIDGECRESTPD to the number 888777 to enroll and receive notifications.
McLaughlin said the service will be used to inform people of crime updates, lockdowns, natural disasters and other important bits of information. In addition, the Parks and Recreation and Streets Departments will also have NIXLE notifications, although people will specifically have to opt-in to take advantage of these.
McLaughlin also filled the group in on a new community outreach involving officers going door-to-door getting to know the community and their concerns.
“Has anybody had their door knocked at by one of us?” he asked. “If you haven't had that knock you will get one. We are hitting every house in Ridgecrest eventually.”
He added the officers try to make the visits on evenings and weekends because that is when people tend to be home.
He said the officers are making friendly visits to get to know the community and hear neighborhood issues. He said this project has been going on about three months, but that at times it is slow-going
“The guys can't get very far because the residents are keeping them at their houses for 15 minutes to a half hour each,” he said with a laugh.
'Drugs are a major issue'
Asked about major issues in town, McLaughlin replied that “drugs are a major issue. They have been, probably will be for the foreseeable future.”
A lot of this he attributed to the recent spate of laws decriminalizing or reducing the penalties for drug use.
“Now anytime you get somebody with a drug — it doesn't matter if its meth, heroin or crack, it doesn't matter. Where we used to take them and send them to jail and they would be gone for at least a couple of days if they didn't bail out and hopefully dry out a little bit. Now we write them a ticket, take their drugs, and send them on their way.”
He said theft is also up.
“Thefts are through the roof all over the state. There is not punishment for some of these crimes so its just running rampant,” he said.
McLaughlin mentioned the Reducing Crime and Keeping California Safe Act of 2018 which is attempting to get an item on the ballot reclassifying certain crimes. According to the group's website at keepcalsafe.org, the initiative would will “reclassify currently 'non-violent' crimes like rape of an unconscious person, sex trafficking of a child and 14 other serious crimes as 'violent” — to prevent the early release of inmates convicted of these crimes; Reform the parole system to stop the early release of violent felons, expand parolee oversight, and strengthen penalties for parole violations; Reform theft laws to restore accountability for serial thieves and organized theft gangs; Expand DNA collection to include those convicted of drug, theft, domestic violence and other serious crimes to help solve rape, murder and other violent crimes — and to exonerate those wrongly accused.”
Homeless situation in Ridgecrest
McLaughlin said the homeless situation in Ridgecrest appears to have gotten slightly worse.
“There's a few more than what we used to have. Not sure where they are coming from. We have taken down a few encampments,” he said. McLaughlin said that the homeless population seems fairly transient, with a different people turning up at different times.
He said RPD tries to help but is limited by lack of resources since most of the county resources for the homeless are in Bakersfield. He did not that the “Love in Action” program facilitated by Crossroads Church is still in operation.
Asked how the changes in marijuana laws are impacting the Ridgecrest community, McLaughlin said it is too soon to tell.
He said that there has been a small increase in use among students at the local schools according to RPD's officers but other than that the larger ramifications are still unknown.
He said RPD's main concern is “DUI crashes and stuff like that.” McLaughlin said RPD officers are trained to look for signs of marijuana intoxication and “even before marijuana was legal we were arresting people for being under the influence of it.”
School resource officers and other topics
In response to a question, he said RPD still has two school resource officers and they are trained on what to do during an active shooter event. In addition, RPD officers “train constantly” and have a policy that the first officers who arrive on the scene would engage the shooter.
“We won't wait around like Florida did,” he said.
McLaughlin also noted that in the last year RPD has logged well over 100,000 miles transporting people to Bakersfield—largely as the result of the closure of the Kern County jail in Ridgecrest. RPD does have a 24 hour holding cell, but can only hold people who are in good health with no ailments.
On a bright note, McLaughlin was full of praise for the new Crisis Stabilization Unit.
“The CSU has been huge,” he said, adding that it has significantly cut down on mental health transports. He thanked Ridgecrest Regional Hospital CEO Jim Suver and others instrumental in getting the new CSU going.


In2Elements started in 2017 as a solo, instrumental project by guitarist Adam Szopa, inspired by ambient/post music. After releasing "The World to Come EP" in 2018 and a well-received full length album "Cold" in 2019, the project evolved into a full band to work on a new releases. Joined by Krzysztof Rutka (ex-Transmission Zero) on bass and Michał Szendzielorz (Gallileous) on drums the trio recorded the new material in Nebula Studio in Warsaw in December 2019, and released it on April 17th 2020, naming the new album "Cycles". Two years after releasing Cycles, In2Elements is back with a new album called "It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn" released in September 2022, exploring darker themes and heavier riffs.
It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn
Released on September 02, 2022


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Our bodies are filled with water molecules coursing through the cells and tissues of every organ—including the brain and each of its neurons. Diffusion-weighted imaging can capture that movement at the microscopic level. These days, it’s widely used by scientists and clinicians alike to map the white matter tracts in the brain.
Some people are experts on remembering, and they say that anyone can train to be as good. The key is to use a technique called the ‘memory palace’, and now there is scientific evidence that this can be really effective even long term.
People with misophonia have normal hearing but the sound of chewing can drive them mad. We see this emotional outburst back in the brain as a sign of abnormal attention to trigger sounds.
Your hands and mouth are intrinsically connected to each other. This relationship presumably developed through eating behavior and, nowadays, it also plays an important role in language.
Is it even possible to remain non-judgmental about looks and avoid associated stereotypes? It seems that we all judge looks, even our own; and on top of being superficial, it can seriously affect our behavior.
Gratitude is a social emotion critical for maintaining social standing. It indicates to others when we’ve received a benefit, reinforces beneficial behavior towards the recipient, and motivates prosocial behavior in the future.

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- Natural parchment paper with non-stick coating
- SmartGrid lines for easy cutting
- Parchment paper can be re-used up to 3 times
Sourdough tips, videos & recipes
A must have for any home baker! Parchment paper prevents loaves from sticking to the bottom of the pot, and makes moving and transferring the dough a breeze. Heads up: not all brands are non-stick. My favorites include Reynolds (pictured here) and Kirkland (from Costco).
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RayPilot HypoCath from Micropos is a temporary urinary catheter with integrated transmitter that shows continuously the exact localization of the prostate in 3D and outlines the urethra . Knowing exactly where the tumor is located during treatment allows physicians to deliver a higher radiation dose in fewer number of fractions with tighter treatment margins, which spares healthy tissue from irradiation. This so called hypofractionation therapy shorten the total number of treatment sessions significantly. Treatment may be given in a week or even less instead of conventional up to eight (8) weeks. More efficient fractions with less irradiation to healthy tissue in shorter time saves cost and time for the hospital and the patient. And not at least to meet the objective to improve patients’ quality of life (QoL).
RayPilot HypoCath solution
- a real time tumor tracking system for any linac
The RayPilot system is designed for any linac to continuously tracking of prostate and outlines the urethra throughout every fraction of the radiotherapy. By knowing the exact localization of the cancerous organ, at any moment, the treatment can be more precise and significant less of the surrounding healthy tissue will be damaged. The RayPilot system consist of three parts, the RayPilot HypoCath that is placed in the prostate and urethra to be localized and motion tracked, the RayPilot Receiving system, which is placed on any treatment couch and the RayPilot Software giving a warning when the Region of Interest moves out the predefined margins.
Monitor movement of the prostate is critical for the outcome
Internal organs move and they are difficult to control. The prostate may move unpredictable in time, directions and lengths, approximately up to 15 millimeters. That is why it is crucial to monitor this movement in real time. RayPilot HypoCath is a unique solution (powered by AI) that tracks the tumor in real time without no additional ionizing radiation and it does not leave any tracks after the treatment is finished. The temporary RayPilot HypoCath’s transmitter sends signals that are recognized 30 times/s by antennas in the RayPilot Receiver, added on the linac couch top. The RayPilot Software interprets the data and presents the localization in 3D in real time. If the prostate moves outside the predefined allowed area the physician will be notified immediately to make corrective action with sub-millimeter accuracy.
- Add on for any linac
- Real time prostate tracking with high accuracy
- No need of surgical intervention
- Easy urinary catheter procedure
- Control of bladder filling
- Suitable for SBRT and hypofractionation protocols
- Remains throughout all sessions
- No foreign objects left after treatment
- Fits in normal IGRT-workflow
- Automatic patient identification
- Optional multi room installation