Improved Digital Control of Spiral Pipe Welding
The world population of spiral pipe mills has increased dramatically over the past ten years and continues to grow. Part of thisexpansion is driven by the acceptance of spirally welded pipe for oil and gas transmission. This application in particular imposes stringent standards on pipe quality and therefore on manufacturing processes.
To meet this need in respect of welding technology, Oxfordshire-based Meta Vision Systems has developed an integrated, networked digital control system as the enabling technology behind what it terms the digital spiral mill. It includes industrial networking, new digital SAW (submerged arc welding) power sources, the latest digital sensors and advanced digital controls.
All can be combined into a single, integrated mill control system. As sensors and controls are accessible, it is possible to improve significantly ease of operation, fault-finding, safety and maintenance. Further benefits include additional functionality, improved ease of operation through better HMIs (human-machine interfaces), integrated data logging and remote access.
New digital welding power sources facilitate a wider range of weld procedures while at the same time being easily interconnected for ease of use. This increases efficiency in various ways while at the same time facilitating accurate parameter control and data reporting.
The latest laser vision sensors from Meta are being used to achieve performance gains in several areas in addition to their established use for weld seam tracking. Laser sensors can now validate weld bevels, in combination with digital signal processing for gap and mismatch control on the mill itself, and inspect weld bead profiles.
Combining mill control and weld control into a single, integrated networked system brings major advantages in terms of performance, reliability, ease of use, safety and cost. Previously, the sensing, welding and control systems were separate. For example, control of the ID and OD weld heads was often from completely independent sub systems. This meant that the respective operators had to inch, start/stop and adjust parameters locally. With an integrated system, such actions can be handled from wherever is most suitable.
The central part of the control system is a pair of networked PLCs (programmable logic controllers). One PLC controls the mill feed section, including coil loading, edge milling and main drives. The second PLC controls the forming and pay-off section, including the weld controls and laser seam tracking.
The HMI to the integrated control system is via a main control console plus a pair of intelligent consoles for the ID and OD operators and the usual local operator stations at work points distributed across the mill.
Stability of operation is a key requirement in the forming section of a spiral pipe mill. Sources of perturbations which impact negatively on stability are camber and strip width variations. One serious problem which can result from lack of stability in the forming section is inconsistent edge milling, which causes problems with forming and welding.
To monitor this, a multi-function measurement system automatically checks edge milling by measuring the bevels. This is becoming even more important with the widespread adoption of two-step spiral mill technology.
During bevel inspection, the actual shape of both sides of the strip is measured continuously by two laser sensors mounted in opposition on each side of the strip, just after edge milling but before pipe forming. If
any out-of-tolerance conditions are identified, various actions can be programmed, ranging from informing the operator to stopping the mill.
There is enormous scope for using advanced sensing and control techniques in the forming and welding section of a spiral pipe mill. Gap control refers to controlling the mill dynamically to ensure good pipe formation and an absence of defects at the ID weld station, where the weld can burn through if the gap opens up too much. Mismatch control refers to the control of the difference in height across the weld. Maximum acceptable mismatch values specified by pipe mill customers are gradually getting smaller.
One example of where mismatch control is especially important is in large diameter water pipe. Controlling the mismatch is more difficult with very large pipe diameters, for example over two metres, and yet water pipe customers are imposing stringent limits on mismatch. This has led to increased interest in automatic mismatch control to satisfy these requirements.
A laser sensor measures the gap, typically just ahead the welding point, and any deviation from target value is used to open or close the mill to maintain a constant gap. It is actually the helix angle that is being controlled, normally achieved by controlling the payoff table although controlling the angle of the feed section is an alternative method.
The sensor can be used for ID weld tracking as well as for gap measurement, although alternative approaches have also been investigated, including combined gap and mismatch control, new mechanical gap measurement sensors and positioning the laser sensor outside the pipe.
An automated mismatch control system that is separate from non-zero gap control has to be designed to cope with the fact that the measurement is being made after welding. A laser sensor makes highly accurate mismatch measurements many times per second, for example to ±0.1mm at 25Hz. The automatic control moves the actuator by exactly the correct amount to eliminate the error. Timing issues are also controlled and performance optimised based on the known positions of the actuator and sensor as well as the mill speed.
In cases where there is no gap and the edge of the incoming strip is pressing tightly against the edge of the newly formed pipe, trying to change the mismatch under these conditions can lead to unpredictable results. The pipe is less constrained than the strip and tends to move more easily, but, depending on the pressure between the two edges, relative movement may not be smooth or well controlled.
When gap and mismatch control are not independent, an alternative regime is possible. In this case, the main focus is on measuring the mismatch, since the gap is always zero, and actuation is by controlling the helix angle.
One big advantage of digital spiral mill architecture is that the welding equipment can be fully integrated with the mill control. This is particularly true in the case of the latest digital SAW power sources, such as Lincoln Electric’s PowerWave AC DC 1000SD. This power source can be relatively easily connected to a mill PLC via a DeviceNet network and also provides easy data logging via an Ethernet connection.
Having the welding equipment integrated with the overall control provides additional functionality and opportunities for system improvement, including improved operator interfaces, customer specific database storage, live parameter monitoring and warning, integrated data logging and remote internet access.
Integrating the weld controls and the laser sensors in the same system also provides an opportunity to use adaptive fill. As well as seam tracking, the laser sensor measures the actual parameters of the weld joint and can adjust the deposition rates to match.
The same type of laser sensor that is used for weld seam tracking can also monitor the weld bead. The laser sensor measures the height and
width of the bead as well as classifying the shape. Such a laser sensor can be integrated, for example, with an online ultrasonic test system, tracking the weld bead to keep the test probes centred. At the same time, the laser sensor measures and classifies the weld bead. This is becoming more important as constraints on weld beads are becoming ever tighter to improve pipe coating.
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Automated Welding Improves Safety and Productivity in Nuclear Industry
Following the introduction of its new DLS range of 3D digital laser scanners, Oxfordshire-based Meta Vision Systems has put together a VistaWeld package designed specifically to automate welding jobs in the nuclear industry. These are characterised by multiple passes of the weld torch to fill deep, narrow grooves down to 8 mm across between plates up to 300 mm thick, mainly of highly reflective stainless steel.
The company claims that this is the first time full automation has been made available for such applications, which until now have been carried out by an operator watching a camera image of the seam and using a joystick to position the weld torch manually. This is significantly slower and with up to 50 weld passes needed for the root, hot, fill and cap phases, there is risk of human error, with consequent safety and cost implications.
Factors that complicate the welding process are a need for the sensor to see from top to bottom of the groove and to illuminate the sides to ensure positional accuracy, even though the walls can be angled at one degree (i.e. are nearly vertical). Another requirement is to preheat the plate to around 300 degrees Centigrade, ensuring that there is sufficient heat to fuse the material but not enough to cause cracking and compromise structural integrity.
The VistaWeld / DLS seam searching and joint tracking system is typically used for submerged arc welding of butt, V, and U joints. It not only tracks the seam and positions the weld electrode accurately and automatically, but additionally can record position correction data for each pass to provide certification of the manufacturing process. This is an important feature for the nuclear industry, as traceability is mandatory in the event of failure.
In fully automatic, multi-pass control mode, during the first pass of each layer, the system measures the joint width at that depth and determines the number of passes required for the layer. During the last pass of each layer, the system measures the remaining depth and determines whether to continue with filling or go to capping. Advanced adaptive fill to compensate for joint area variations by controlling welding parameters directly to adjust the deposition rate at each point on the joint is available as an option.
Alternatively, in semi-automatic mode, the operator manually selects the type (root, hot, fill or cap) and position (left, right or centre) of the next pass.
Digital laser scanner is unaffected by reflections
The DLS scanning-spot laser sensor has proved to be ideal for this application. It uses a 2048 element, linear CCD (charge coupled device) and has much of the signal processing integrated inside the sensor head itself. Compressed air cooling is provided to keep the unit within its operating temperature range.
Conventional laser vision systems based on triangulation use a laser stripe projected onto the target. As constant laser power is used, it not possible to vary the intensity along the stripe to increase the light reflected from dark areas and decrease the light received from lighter areas. The camera images the complete scene including either side of the stripe, which can lead to further problems with dynamic range and unwanted reflections.
In contrast, Meta’s DLS sensor is based on a scanning spot rather than a stripe, solving the two main problems of stripe-based triangulation when dealing with shiny materials like stainless steel. First, it is easy to implement effective automatic gain control to compensate for variations in workpiece reflectivity along the length of the stripe. Second, imaging is via the CCD, which only looks at the region of interest and is not affected by reflections.
Additional benefits of the scanning technology include a programmable field of view and independence of the sensor’s depth of field from its width of field, providing high quality in both axes simultaneously. Moreover, at the touch of a button, the sensor can project the spot to measure and control standoff – the height of the end of the electrode from the weld – and to assist manual horizontal tracking.
This is normal procedure when capping. The horizontal position is obtained either from path memorisation in the case of a longitudinal welding operation, or by tracking a line scribed at the same time as the root pass weld is laid down in case of circumferential welding. Fully automatic capping with memory replay is, however, also possible.
Overall, the use of VistaWeld / DLS provides numerous benefits including higher weld speeds, better quality irrespective of operator attention level, superior interpenetration of the weld zones, reduced scrap and rework, and lower manning levels. Meta has supplied over 2,700 laser seam tracking systems worldwide.
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Laser Seam Tracking Raises Quality and Productivity in Robotic Welding of Vehicle Exhausts
British-manufactured laser seam tracking sensors from Meta Vision Systems are increasing the efficiency of automated welding cells producing exhaust treatment products for heavy vehicles at the Nyköping factory of Swenox AB, Sweden.
European legislation on exhaust emissions is becoming increasingly stringent, which has prompted advanced on-vehicle treatment solutions to be developed by companies like Swenox to meet the requirements of lorry and bus manufacturers.
The products catalytically convert carbon monoxide, unburnt hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen to their harmless gaseous constituents and water vapour, and include filters to trap particulates. They are integrated into complete exhaust systems that Swenox also fabricates to customer requirements.
Design and manufacture of such system are extremely demanding, requiring gas tight joints on convoluted shapes. There are often conflicting criteria, such as a requirement to minimise weight while maintaining durability and operational reliability.
A considerable amount of arc welding is needed to join the individual components. The nature of the constituent materials results in spring back and heat distortion, making automatic welding difficult to achieve and so calling for the use of seam tracking. However, due to the large variation in reflectivity of the materials, most ordinary laser sensors struggle to detect the seams.
Oxford-based Meta Vision Systems' new SLS sensor, which forms part of its SmartLaserPilot system, has overcome the problem through its singular ability to remain unaffected by varying surface conditions and reflections from the metals being welded. It does this using real-time, automatic intensity control of the laser stripe, allowing the vision analysis software to deliver a high quality image at all times.
The Meta sensors are used in two twin-robot welding cells at Swenox, a single robot controller driving both ABB robots in each cell. The sensor head contains a megapixel camera and more computing power than a powerful laptop computer. With its weaving, seam search and reframing functions, it collects information on the position of the joint being welded and communicates it to the robot controller via an Ethernet link and switches.
Based on this data, robot motions are continuously adjusted when effecting multi-layer lap joints with tacks as well as circumferential and other welds. The welding equipment was supplied by Fronius CMT.
Glyn Powell, the engineer responsible for the robotic cells at Nyköping, commented, "Installation of the Meta SLS vision system has been a major success for Swenox.
"To be able to assemble and tack-weld components off-line and then move them into our robotic cells and weld them with consistent quality without any modification to the programs is a massive achievement.
"Our aim is to manufacture a top quality product that is the very best of its type available on the market today and without doubt the Meta laser tracking system is playing a major part in our achieving this goal."
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New Laser Guidance System for Automated Welding in Longitudinal Pipe Mills
Meta Vision Systems (Oxford, UK and Montreal, Canada), the world's leading supplier of optical seam tracking systems for tube and pipe mills, announces a new version of its market-leading VistaWeld system aimed specifically at increasing the speed and accuracy of submerged arc welding (SAW) in longitudinal pipe mills.
Based on a review of typical longitudinal SAW mill operations involving tack and OD (Outside Diameter) welding, the new system addresses some well-known issues. In particular, the latest VistaWeld includes accurate, non-contact tracking of the true root position and built-in look-ahead compensation as standard features.
The system harnesses the power of Meta’s recently introduced Smart Laser Sensor (SLS) technology. It integrates a high resolution, high performance SLS sensor head within an updated VistaWeld architecture based on an Ethernet backbone and Meta’s new, flexible Ethernet IO board. The combination has made it feasible to include the desired features while reducing system complexity and improving ease of use.
TruRoot tracking finds the actual root of the joint for OD SAW, even though the root may be covered by the tack weld. The software uses the higher resolution and quality of the SLS sensor, together with image analysis algorithms from Meta’s well known multipass welding system, to detect the edges of the tack weld in the bottom of the joint.
From this and the overall joint profile, the true root position can be computed. Tracking the actual root derived in this way improves penetration for the OD weld itself while also improving ID/OD weld interpenetration.
OD SAW on longitudinal pipe mills typically uses a multi torch configuration with as many as five or six individual wires welding in one pool. The weld head is therefore large, taking into account the number of torches and need for flux delivery and recovery.
As a result, the laser sensor has to be positioned a relatively large distance in front of the weld area. This so-called look-ahead distance can be 250 mm or more. Depending on the shape of the pipe, tracking inaccuracies can result if simple algorithms are used.
The standard tracking feature within the new VistaWeld uses the look-ahead distance, welding speed and other information to determine the correct position for the welding head at all points along the pipe. It is particularly beneficial if the pipe forming method has given rise to geometric distortion, as is often the case.
Tests on one series of longitudinal pipes showed that, in some cases, look-ahead tracking was four times more accurate than conventional tracking, significantly enhancing production by improving weld quality and minimising defects.
For example, the superior vertical tracking accuracy maintains the correct stickout (distance from contact tip to work) over the complete length of the pipe, improving weld quality and eliminating weld defects. The improvement in horizontal axis tracking precision combines well with the TruRoot feature to give a double accuracy benefit.
According to Bob Beattie, Meta’s managing director, “We have fifteen years of experience in longitudinal pipe mills, so we were able to identify precisely how to improve our system to give their welding engineers exactly what they wanted.
"We believe that, with the new features, the new VistaWeld system is the best available on the market.”
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New, Smart Laser Probe for Automated Welding Machines
Meta Vision Systems has launched a new laser seam tracking system that applies the company’s latest sensor technology to welding machine applications. Called Smart Laser Probe, it is manufactured at the company's Oxfordshire factory and will be demonstrated on the Meta stand at the forthcoming Fabtech exhibition in Atlanta, Georgia, 2nd - 4th November 2010.
The concept of Meta’s original laser probe was to provide laser seam tracking performance and reliability at a price roughly comparable with mechanical, tactile probe tracking. The system has proved successful in applications such as tank welding, railway wagon production, fabrication in shipyards and other automated welding operations involving simple linear, rotary or circumferential operations.
Using the latest advances in megapixel CMOS cameras, embedded electronics and high resolution displays, Meta has designed the new generation of Smart Laser Probe with significant improvements in performance, reliability and ease of use, while maintaining its competitive price.
The non-contact, seam-tracking system senses and compensates for any deviation from the nominal weld path to ensure highly accurate, automated welding, without the need for expensive fixturing or manual guidance.
Meta's SLS (smart laser sensor) technology incorporates the image processing hardware and software inside the sensor head. This greatly simplifies the architecture of the system, which uses an Ethernet backbone to communicate between the sensor head, colour touch screen display and integrated multi-function I/O board. Advanced anti reflection techniques have been incorporated in both the hardware and software, so system performance with more reflective metals such as aluminium and stainless steel is substantially improved.
Even though the electronics for image processing is now in the sensor head rather than a separate controller, as previously, a high sampling rate of 30 full frames per second at megapixel camera resolution underpins fast welding speeds and better accuracy. Additionally, partial frames can be analysed at substantially higher rates.
A further advantage of the new design is that it can tolerate a wide range of ambient temperatures from -40 °C to +55°C. The initial requirements for extended temperature operation came from applications in cross country pipelines and apply equally well to some extreme factory environments.
Ease of use has been improved by the inclusion of a controller with a colour touch screen instead of a simple monochrome video monitor. The touch screen is used for monitoring welding performance at a glance and for diagnosing any maintenance issues during operation. Multifunction I/O within the cabinet allows easy interface to a wide range of equipment.
The operator pendant has been completely redesigned to be more robust and informative. It includes multi-colour LEDs to give the operator status feedback directly from the pendant itself.
Meta starts KTP project on Weld Inspection with Oxford Brookes University
Meta is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Oxford Brookes University to start a new R&D project on 3D weld inspection. The two year project will be run under the UK government's Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) scheme which aims to encourage links between universities and companies.
Jonathan Moore, Meta's Technical Director, commented "We are very pleased to be developing our relationship with Brookes in this way and look forward to a highly successful project in a key area for us. We have seen a rapid increase in interest in automated weld inspection over the last few years, so we felt that the time was right to build on our existing expertise by working together with the academic community."
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Meta launches digital remote control system for submerged arc welding
META launches digital remote
control system for arc welding
Meta Vision Systems (Oxford, UK and Montreal, Canada) has launched a new, all-digital version of its patented MetaView system. It combines a laser-camera sensor head with a video monitor to allow a machine operator to control from a remote location both the horizontal and vertical positions of a SAW (submerged arc welding) head.
The digital version uses a colour touchscreen as the video monitor. Combined with a new, high resolution digital colour camera in the sensor head, it provides much improved image quality and noise immunity, together with many new features.
Bob Beattie, Meta’s MD, commented, “As an entry-level product, our MetaView system provides a user-friendly way of getting machine operators away from the welding head. At the same time, it actually improves their control over the position of the head in the joint, leading to better weld quality.
“Just as improved health and safety concerns rightly discourage operators from working at heights, so there is an analogous need for a system to allow welding machine operators to work remotely from a safe distance.”
In addition to providing a better, less noisy image, the digital MetaView’s functionality includes digital zoom, pan and tilt, enabling the operator to optimise the image to his or her preference. New also is the ability to add a second camera to provide an overview of the weld head to complement the detailed positional view provided by the MetaView sensor.
Release no: 1051(PR) (download PDF)
META to launch new robot welding sensor at Fabtech
Meta Vision Systems (Oxford UK and Montreal Canada) announces the launch of a new laser sensor at the forthcoming Fabtech show in Atlanta, Georgia, to be held from 11th to 13th November 2014.
Known as SLS ARC, the new model is an extension of Meta’s successful range of Smart Laser Sensors, optimised for robotic arc welding applications. It is suitable for seam finding and real-time weld seam tracking in all of the usual welding processes, including high current GMAW and FCAW.
Steve Thacker, Meta’s General Manager, commented “Meta was spun out of Oxford University in 1984 to commercialise a research project that developed a laser vision sensor for use in robotic MIG welding in the automotive industry. The SLS ARC represents the latest development in a thirty-year sequence which started with that first Meta sensor.
“The automotive sector represents an important and still growing part of our business, and one where we have had very good recent success. We felt it was timely to build on that success with a new sensor fine-tuned for aggressive robot welding applications. The ARC is just one part of an overall product development plan aimed at extending the state of the art in robot welding.”
By using some of the inherent advantages of SLS technology, including fully automatic image quality optimisation, combined with new sensor optics and a mechanical design matched to the requirements of robot arc welding, the SLS ARC provides a high performance laser sensor in a rugged package as demanded by the automotive industry.
The SLS sensor series is the cornerstone of Meta’s Smart Laser Pilot (SLPi) system, which exploits direct Ethernet connection from the sensor head directly to the robot controller to give excellent seam finding and real-time tracking performance with a simple system hardware architecture.
Jonathan Moore, Meta’s Technical Director, explained “The SLS family has been successful, not only because it was the first welding sensor to include the image processing inside the sensor head, but also because it encompassed several new developments and ways of improving particular features, all of which resulted in better performance while achieving a very competitive price. The ARC takes that approach one step further by using the technology features in the best possible combination for robot arc welding.”
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The AARP Driver Safety Program has announced the July lineup for its driving refresher course.
The class covers such information as defensive driving techniques and age-related changes to vision, hearing and reaction time. It’s a combination of discussion and videos; there are no written or driving tests. The two-part class costs $12 for AARP members and $14 for nonmembers. Preregistration is required.Concord: July 24-25, Horseshoe Pond Place, 26 Commercial St., 9 a.m.-1 p.m., call 228-6956 to register.Dover: July 11-12, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, 1-5 p.m., 742-6075.Nashua: July 8 and 10, St. Joseph Hospital, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., 595-3168.Nashua: July 16-17, Nashua Senior Activity Center, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., 880-8685.
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This paper reports the use of optical trasduction techniques to characterise solid state chemo-optical sensors prepared by Langmuir–Schäfer technique (LS) in thin film form based onto Cu(II) tris-(2,4-di-t-amylphenoxy)-(12-hydroxy-1,4,7,10-tetraoxadodecyl)-phthalocyanine macromolecules CuPcOH as active layers. The study consists in the UV–vis optical absorption monitoring of the active LS layers in the presence of specific five volatile organic compounds (VOCs) mixed in dry air in controlled atmosphere; in particular tert-butylamine, methanol, ethanol, hexane and ethyl acetate, all analytes of interests in the food quality control. The UV–vis spectra have been monitored by recording the dynamic variation in the integral of the absorbance curves in well defined spectral regions: 300–400 nm, 550–600 nm, 600–640 nm, 640–700 nm, covering the whole spectrum and centred around the typical absorption bands of phthalocyanine thin films. This simultaneous UV–vis four channel monitoring allowed to use only one active layer as sensing element where each selected spectral region generates independent sensors. The dependency of the above mentioned outputs towards the analytes has been discussed. A base optical characterisation of the investigated LS thin films has been performed.
Journal: Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical - Volume 113, Issue 1, 17 January 2006, Pages 516–525


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The humble red grape lessens blood pressure, cholesterol levels and even the risk of heart disease, Madrid University scientists have found.
The researchers believe that the antioxidants and fibre found in a combination of grape skin and seeds could be superfoods in the battle against heart attacks.
The latest discovery was given as a dietary supplement to volunteers, who saw their blood pressure reduced by up to five per cent and cholesterol by up to 14 per cent.
Many superfoods for the heart, such as the plant extract psyllium or healthy oats, are good for either fibre or antioxidants rather than both.
But the tests at Madrid University on grape antioxidant dietary fibre revealed that it was high in both potentially life-saving ingredients.
Researchers say the grape extract would boost the average Briton's intake of dietary fibre to recommended daily levels of 30g a day.
And combining the supplement with a Mediterranean-style diet which includes oily fish, olive oil and tomatoes would bring even greater health benefits.
Scientists found that mixing the two elements together made the supplement 50 per cent more effective in reducing the risks of heart attacks.
"The effects appear to be higher than the ones caused by other dietary fibres, such as oat, fibre or psyllium, probably due to the combined effect of dietary fibre and antioxidants," The Daily Express quoted Jara Perez Jimenez, the study's lead researcher, as saying.


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Sweet Strawberry Flatbread
Oh yeah. That looks delicious, doesn't it?
It was. I should know...I ate the whole thing myself.
Every last bite.
I've been loving all of the fresh, organic, homegrown produce coming from our garden lately. Basil, tomatoes, onions, carrots: I love all of them coming together on one little flatbread. But sometimes, you don't want savory. And sometimes, you have an abundance of sweet little strawberries instead.
A simple recipe of leftover pizza dough, walnuts, coconut, & agave.
Topped with a dozen or so super sweet strawberries from the farmer's market, it was just irresistible.
And so easy to prepare- it'll seem like you worked way harder on this one than you'll actually have to, I promise.
While I baked my pizza, I bet this would make an awesome on-the-grill meal, too.
To start, you'll need some dough for the flabread. You can use your favorite, or use our favorite:
1 sachet active dry yeast
1 teaspoon turbinado sugar
1 cup warm water
2 1/2 cups bread flour
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon salt
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
In a medium mixing bowl, dissolve yeast and sugar in warm water. Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes.
In a separate bowl combine flour and salt.Once yeast and sugar mixture looks creamy, beat until smooth. Let rest for 5 minutes then add dry ingredients and oil to yeast mixture.
Using a wooden spoon or whisk, stir all the ingredients together until just combined, about 2 minutes.
Then using either a bread hook attachment or your hands, knead and stretch dough until dough is elastic-y but softened, about 5-8 minutes.
Split dough into two halves. Set one in the fridge for later use, or prepare both to make two small pizzas.
Using your hands, gently pull the dough into a small round disc, about 7-9 inches around.
Grease a pizza stone or baking sheet, then lay the dough down for topping.
The rest of the ingredient list is short & sweet. You'll need:
1 tablespoon shredded coconut
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
2 tablespoons agave or coconut nectar
1 cup (about 7 large) chopped strawberries
sprinkle of nutmeg
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Once the flatbread dough is ready, spread evenly with 1 tablespoon of agave or coconut nectar. Top with shredded coconut and chopped walnuts.
Bake for 15-20 minutes. Be sure to check the flatbread halfway and use a spatula to gently toss around the walnuts and coconut, to make sure the coconut doesn't burn. It will slightly brown and get a little crispy during cooking, but thats okay!
The flatbread is finished when the crust is light golden brown and the walnuts and coconut are golden & toasted.
Remove it from the oven and move to a cooling rack or cutting board. Cover in chopped strawberries and the remaining tablespoon of either agave or coconut nectar. Sprinkle with nutmeg.
Cut into 4 even pieces, and eat it all up!
Its yummy, sweet, and perfectly delicious.
Perfect for an end of summer or back to school party!

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Without wasting much time let’s dive into Honor 20i new price cut, Specifications and availability in India.
Honor 20i new price, availability in India
Honor 20i with 4GB + 128GB storage variant in Midnight back color is now priced at Rs. 10,999 from it’s launch price of Rs. 14,999. While the Phantom Blue color variant is available at a price tag of Rs. 11,999. These Honor 20i can be purchased from Amazon and Flipkart.
Honor 20i specifications
Honor 20i is a dual SIM android smartphone with glossy finish design. It sports 6.21-inch IPS LCD panel with teardrop notch display. It comes with FHD+, 1080 x 2340 pixels resolution, 19.5:9 aspect ratio and 415 ppi density.
In terms of camera, On the back of Honor 20i comes triple camera module comprises of 24 megapixels primary sensor with f/1.8 aperture and PDAF. The secondary camera is a 8 megapixels senor with ultra-wide lens and f/2.4 aperture while the third snapper is a 2 megapixels depth sensor. Camera carries features like LED flash, HDR and panorama. The camera on Honor 20i can record 1080p videos @30/60fps. There is a 32 Megapixels camera sensor with f/2.0 aperture on the front which can take nice quality images.
Honor 20i is powered by Octa-core 2.2 GHz processor and it is accompanied by Hisilicon Kirin 710 chipset, Mali-G51 MP4 GPU and 4GB of RAM. Phone does packs with 128GB of onboard storage which can be further expanded up to 512GB via Hybrid slot.
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The idea that suffering makes for great art is one of those time-honored rock 'n roll tropes, so much so that Todd Rundgren named one of his albums The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect. And while Lucinda Williams has had her share of personal trauma, much of which has informed her work over the past few decades, the happily married musician still isn't buying it.
For her, happiness is an underrated part of the creative process, even if the name of her fine new double-CD, Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, doesn't sound all that cheerful.
"It's not that suffering doesn't help your writing, but I can't write when I'm in the middle of feeling like crap. That's the last thing I want to do," says the L.A.-based singer-songwriter. "There's this whole myth that you're sitting on the side of your bed drinking Jack Daniels while your tears fall onto your guitar and you're writing away. That's not how it works."
Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone marks something of a new phase for Williams, whose mainstream breakthrough came with 1998's Grammy-winning Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. She left former label Lost Highway, which had been reluctant to release a two-CD album for business reasons, and made this the first release on her own Highway 20 label.
It would be easy to imagine Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone going down a slippery slope of creative over-indulgence. But Williams managed to deftly sidestep that with a collection of songs that are all killer and no filler. With a big assist from Tony Joe White, the Louisiana native drawls her way through twang-soaked swamp-rock like "Protection," as well as "Stowaway in Your Heart" (which has echoes of Neil Young's Harvest period), "West Memphis" (which rails over the trio of teens framed in the 1993 murders of three Arkansas boys), and the honky-tonk ballad "This Old Heartache" (which serves up classic tear-in-your-beer sentiments).
Best of all is a near-10-minute reading of the late J.J. Cale's "Magnolia," which has an ethereal haze hanging over it thanks to the elegant and minimalistic support of guitarists Bill Frisell and Greg Leisz, whose strumming wraps the singer's vocals in a gauze of delicate riffs and chords.
But for anyone who's even remotely followed Williams' long and storied career, it should come as no surprise that she'd carry on this high level of creative brilliance as she enters her sixth decade of life on an upswing.
"It's given me more freedom, being happily married," she says, "and forced me to push myself to find other things to write about besides unrequited love. The other side of it all is that you can draw on those things that created the pain. I just look at it like an endless well, where I dip into it and pull stuff out that goes all the way back into my childhood. And not just my own life. It's really been liberating to be in that place as a writer."

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title: which way i fly is hel (1/3)
rating: r (for later parts, this one here is a friendly pg-13)
disclaimer: not mine.
word count: 3,800~
summary: There is no journey for love.
notes: After months of writing, re-writing, wine aplenty and numerous hours of Hans Zimmer soundtracks played for a touch of inspiration, finally, I’ve come close to finishing this travesty to a standard my perfectionist sensibilities can agree with. And seeing as it’s ridiculously long (for what was a one-shot), I’ve decided to post it in parts. Next one should, hopefully, be ready in the next few days.
On the pillar of life, someone once wrote:
There is no journey for love.
Love ends when it begins.
The universe begins when he is eight, appearance-wise.
Before the anguish and despair (and the delicate wants and floating hopes) have taken their caustic hold, and Loki sees her.
Sees her first.
Turns his head towards the horizon – over the rim of his book – and sees: a mass of golden locks and peachy skin stretched taught over jutting bones. Wholly beautiful. Wholly unusual – from the rest (the rut), spared not a measly thought. And there is a small sense of triumph bubbling, suddenly, deep in his belly. Now, that he has prevailed before Thor in something.
(He will take his victories where he can find them.)
Perched high on an edge – on the edge of the world – on a tree, willow and tall, she overlooks all (the training grounds). Strains her neck, widens her eyes and parts pinkish lips like a fish glimmering gold and swimming in water. There she sits day after day, noon-to-two-hours-past-noon and the cycle begins anew.
From there her eyes – eyes like burnt bronze (sulfuric) and glittering – feast upon the sight of Asgard’s future defenders. Study, memorise and scream despair, a desperate longing that leaves him baffled and dazed.
Time and time again he hears her dejected call and wonders what she seeks.
A boy turns his head and looks east.
And thinks of a girl (maybe it had been a dream – he’s been dreaming a lot lately). Only it is time the dreams came to a close.
The universe is young and ripe for the picking, and he likes the concept of “opportunity”.
One day, he decides to approach her.
All-of-a-sudden and out-of-the-blue, he climbs the tree without a peep and plants himself on a branch directly behind her. Wily and tricky, slithery and hidden (him and all his intents), Loki catches her by surprise.
“What are you doing here?”
The girl twists, lets out a shriek. Loses her footing and plummets to the ground, but not before reaching for his shirt and taking him down with her.
Loki yelps, feels the hard collision between gravel and bones. Resists the urge to groan, but the pain in his back is already a fading memory. The press of her palms on his chest, the feel of her ragged breaths against a cheek consume his senses entirely.
“Idiot! Just what were you thinking, sneaking up on me like that?!”
He blinks at her words, consumed in a moment of near rapture and overwhelming, excruciating shock. No one has ever dared address him, a Prince of Asgard, in such an impudent manner. No one! And he’s suddenly contemplating the many different ways to punish her for it, all of them oh so macabre and colourful–
off with her head and onto a silver tray.
“I wasn’t sneaking!”
Absent of daggers, he can always resort to words. Stinging, cutting words. Swift, sweep and slice, naturally they hit their mark. The girl scrunches her features into a rictus, on the verge of a verbal-physical assault. He glares at her, schools his face regal and stern thinking it will frighten her into submission: you wouldn’t dare!
It does not. (He feels wounded.)
“Why you… you, snake!” she hisses (ironically), punching him in the arm and pushing off his chest with a resounding, un-ladylike grunt.
At her retreating back, Loki rubs at his abused limb and struggles not to raise an eyebrow in indignant surprise.
He fails spectacularly.
In the summer, he travels with (trails behind) his older brother. Through forests and gardens and lakes enchanted where Loki weaves his magic and Thor boasts of his strength.
One day, he performs a trick with elated glee (wishes Father were there to see) – a flick of the wrist and he vanishes from sight. Thor can scarcely believe it; steps off the path and onto grasses and weeds springing forth from acidic soil. He creates deep marks in the dirt and slowly approaches, eyes wide and flabbergasted.
Loki waits, eager and expecting a word of gallant praise (from The Favourite)–
“Brother! If you spent half as much time on the practice fields as you do with your head in books, you would best even Fandral with a sword!”
(Should have known better all along.)
A good-natured jest – for Thor knows not cruelty – and still his smile wavers at the edge, threatens to topple over and pull him under, until his body runs dry and brittle.
His smile wavers, but does not fall.
For Loki has long acquired the gift of not looking back. No second glances and no self-doubts.
So when the nobles sneer and the other children jeer, he burnishes himself resolute in solitude. Tucks away the emotions drawn from his exhumed clay chest and lets them rest for another day.
He will show them all greatness in the end–
and devour the ashes from their cremated corpses.
A boy turns his head and looks out onto the horizon.
(And dreams of a girl, full of hopes, of hollowness, of hallowedness, of everything he has and is worth not.)
Fate is a precarious thing.
It likes to mock, and its decisions are force-fed, hell-bent, born from fire. From woe.
And so Fate decrees that Thor should meet her too.
In answer to his brother’s invitation to the world for a spar, she dusts herself off and takes him on to win. Thor is astounded (grinning), Loki is resentful (frowning). Wasting no time, his brother invites her to join him in training and her face lights up brighter than a dying star exploding.
In that moment, Loki feels as if he has already lost somehow. Forgotten. Vanquished into thin air. And he can’t help the twist of pain deep in his chest, festering and building momentum.
Because there is no such thing as conscience.
There is no such thing as concession.
There is only a taunting twist of circumstances and envy and more envy.
And when envy is not nearly enough, there is always hate.
So his pranks turn all the more vicious, frighteningly malicious. His tongue is a serpent fork and no one is spared, least of all her. Every bruising name and adjective in his vocabulary is volleyed her way until the world seems less green and her ire is sparked – he so does enjoy seeing her mad. So much so, it becomes like a game to him.
On the seventh day, she throws her practice sword to the ground and advances on him, fuming.
“My name is Sif,” she stresses, pokes every word into his chest with her forefinger.
Sif, she repeats and ingrains into him. Sif. Remember it.
The name sounds heavy and coppery like blood; it drips from the roof of his mouth and onto his tongue. He swallows, but the name remains like a scarred patch of burned flesh.
“Sif,” he tries it out loud, finds he doesn’t mind it so much.
The girl smirks, smug and triumphant and leaves him lost for words. A first.
Ensnared, Loki will never forget.
Unremitting in her praise, love, adoration, one and all, Sif zeroes in on the meaning of devotion.
Loki observes her training with Thor, sees them together more often than not. His brother is a plague, formidable in his devastation. But Sif takes all his brutality in and hones the shards into a sleek, cool blade. She is gaining speed, catching a storm.
Thor only scarcely dodges the blow, grin wide. As wide as her own. And so it goes, into perpetuity and beyond:
Sif-and-Thor, Thor-and-Sif. Sif-and-Thor-minus-him.
And when the blades have long been dropped, they take to reciting old legends and tales of war. Mouths only inches apart, always laughing and happy and deplorably noble in their vows to have the other’s back–
Loki scoffs, makes some offhanded remark on their foolishness.
Still, they persist. Like a nasty, vile thorn in his side. Poking and searing and penetrating the skin. Leaving him wishing he could spell them off to another realm where they won’t annoy him a second more. And yet, he finds himself more and more fascinated.
By the catch of sunlight in her hair and languid battle forms and slivers of chatter sent Thor’s way (the opportune toad). And it’s all he can do not to gravitate towards her. Like a common fly or worse, a bee – Loki hates honey and bees.
Repulsive. Sweet (sweat).
(Sif always smells like honey.)
One day, Thor offers her an apple from Idunn’s new harvest.
Loki watches out of curiosity (as to how she will respond). She takes the fruit awkwardly, bites into the golden flesh and beams.
“This is amazing!”
“I saw it on the tree and thought of you,” Thor confesses, almost bashful.
“Yes, that is, your hair.” And now he is blushing, feverish, a crimson tint crawling across his cheeks.
Sif grins, all flashing teeth and white euphoria.
Loki turns to leave and takes with him a knowing ache.
Today, he will grind him to dust. Victoriously, he will tower over him and smile in that elusive, astute way of his, assured of his worth (basking in a father’s prideful gaze). And all of Asgard will watch as he declares I am your equal.
However, today is not there yet.
Forlorn, exasperated at all around him, Loki sighs and returns to his studies.
Like a shadow slithering across the floor (a charcoal, stifling, creepy thing) he’s somehow managed to lock fingers with hers. And she is surprised, is bug-eyed at this, this advance.
Because it’s something that’s never been implied, never been touched, never let loose.
Her skin is radiating from the sweat of the day’s training, a sun-kissed bronze matted over by anticipation and white. He can see her eyes, hazel and bottomless like a volcanic abyss. And in them, he sees his reflection and mania (a premonition and promise of all too come).
“I can feel your gaze fleet over me.”
“What are you talking about?” she asks, suspicious.
“Don’t you like me, Sif?”
“What are you talking about?” (and this is all-the-more insistent).
“It’s in the blood, I know. But it’s my blood too! Doesn’t that make a difference? Doesn’t that even the odds? I just… I just want an explanation.”
“An explanation of what? I don’t understand what you’re… going on about.”
A denial, a rejection; veiled in perfect ambiguity.
Her fingers slip from his, leave him with a deadened thing in his chest. Loki waits for her to go, to retreat to his brother and dissipate into her comfortable oblivion of sharpened swords and weighty shields, beyond his sight (and reach).
Always just beyond.
Sif does not disappoint.
Loki wishes she would look at him with the same eyes she has for Thor.
Loki wishes she would just look at him.
And then, one day, an idea strikes: he will give her a gift.
Not flowers or measly golden trinkets, the usual and mundane, but something closer to heart. Something sure to bring pause, thought and perhaps even a smile.
For six days and six nights Loki sets about designing and forging a dagger, curved and sharp and a work of art.
All too deadly. All too beautiful.
Sif will positively adore it!
Smiling accomplished and hopeful, he makes his way to Sif’s appointed chambers with an uncharacteristic pep in his step. A jump here, a skip there, a hum rising deep from his chest and then… then he stops. Whispers and gossip ignite like a flame, lick at his ears with all too cruel and crushing intent:
Thor is to marry Sif.
Bloated and stuffed, like popped wheat or rye. So the court’s rumour mill goes (those bumbling peacocks never shut up), and his mind is abuzz, is ablaze. Incredulous and despaired. The illusive wisps of something intangible and unnamed slips from his fingers as he – the entire realm – comes to a screeching halt.
The dagger falls from his hand – makes a reverberating clank as it hits the hard, cold marble floor. Again. Again. Again he is–
To Thor. Always Thor. Alwaysalwaysalways–
Because… because there is something putrid inside him, foreign and frightening, on show for all to see. Debauching his thoughts (aims for the heart). It is the only explanation on why this – the distrust, the automatic dislike – has become ritualistic.
Caustic: like inhaling metallic, acrid dust in the heart of a desert-winter.
Infected with venom, resentment strikes (out of spite). Taints him to the core and he is suddenly running.
Running far and fast with chaos on his mind.
Sometimes, he can feel his heart ascending and aching, the rise and falls of a streamlined cadence.
In the thick of shadows, he travels down winding corridors. Follows the same path he’d set upon earlier in the day, now immersed in a cloak of black. Swathed and choked in residual heat, the air carries the acerbic flakes of retribution ensuing.
He can’t stop it, the movement. One step, two. Creep and crawl, he teeters closer to his target (to spoiling something Thor so sickeningly adores).
The dagger pulses in his hand.
Footsteps from outside his door, Loki turns his attention.
Footfalls from within, he lifts his gaze and meets: a tempest.
Sif storms towards him, picks up in fury. Her face turns livid, is vapid-churning. Golden locks shorn, hazardous cut and close to the scalp – beauty forgone – she paints a wonderfully gruesome picture.
Loki looks away (hides a hideous grin). He couldn’t be more pleased.
“You cut my hair!”
“Your point, Lady Sif?” he asks idly, raises his eyes away from the book spilled open on his lap.
Nonchalance, that is crucial and cemented to heart.
“You cut my hair, Loki! My hair,” Sif emphasises – again, as if that will make a difference (as if that will make him care).
“It’s just hair.”
Just hair. Just an issue of life or death.
A pause, thick with hurt, and her eyes begin to water, gleaming wet like lunar seas. His throat goes dry at the betrayal written plainly in them, but he pays it little heed. Not when she’s looking directly at him. At him.
Loki can scarcely contain the slight spark of excitement as he feels his heart skip a beat, stop, and drop. Giddy and swallowing suddenly, he dares not shift. And when she vise-grips his wrists, he lies back and lets her crush the softened bone-clay beneath death-pale skin.
“You will fix this!”
Demands and unspoken threats made, she releases him – abrupt – and storms off with all her Hel-wrought furies. Takes with her his bones, leaves him paralysed on the spot, malleable, like mushed, gunked up marsh as she burns a long, lonely path away from him.
Weary, a sigh escapes him. Closing his book, he pulls out a small lock of her hair from inside his pocket. It gleams like spun gold as he twirls it around his finger, fiddle and piddle, his mind busily unravelling possibilities. Means and spells with which to remedy this. Inaction would suit him just fine but he knows all too well of mischief and mayhem, and how the two always implode in a glorious shower of sulphur and retribution.
Unfortunately for him, Sif has the ability to skin him alive should she so want to.
(She already claimed his heart – ripped it from his chest – aeons ago.)
The dwarfs, he decides.
Eyes bright and tongue silver, Loki enters their realm and weaves a wager amid a string of calculated and poisoned words: doubt, I do, that you could forge gold so magnificent and fine as to rival the Lady Sif’s golden hair. Why, prove me wrong, and I grant you my head!
The dwarfs, not to be bested, set to work. He sits and waits like a snake coiled and ready to strike – and misses.
No one cares for his cunning when the time for collection comes, how he notes his promise of payment only ever entailed his head.
And not his neck.
Loki tries to run. Fast, lithe, he gains an easy stretch ahead of them. But they catch up quick; a club volleyed to the back of his head, and he’s a-tumbling down.
Rough, burly fingers keep him there, creep about his neck. They grasp (hold-burn) and won't release their clutch. Slowly, he begins to choke.
Feels the life being strangled out of his cold, cold soon-to-be-corpse.
And just as his vision begins to swim, like a miasma stretching forth, bleak and tinted murky black, he sees the outline of a long, rusty needle coming down–
down, right upon his face.
Loki struggles, pulse wild and in a-frenzy. The dwarfs laugh – acerbic, cacophonous – and promise: we’ll make you cry.
Then, he feels it – a slash at his lips. And then, sharp, the smell of ripe blood pollutes the air – carries with it a deluge of white-hot agony.
Without remorse, the dwarf before him brings the needle down again, for a second – third, fourth, fifth – swipe.
What’s wrong, Trickster Prince?
Loki tries to opens his mouth, finds he cannot. Echo, hollow, drowning on spittle, blood and bile, his scream falls and fails.
Are you afraid, boy?
The sun has set upon his return.
Loki observes the bright flashes of yellow and sudden, overwhelming bursts (like a blood cell dying) and feels an infinite swelling of aching and knowing.
That he is alive.
Alive and safe in Asgard, where gods rule unopposed (and sneer as ubiquitous vengeance is brought down upon the wasted, lower worlds, left to rot in filth). And so too Loki vows pain and terror upon those who beat him, scarred him–
will gut them deep and raw, hang them upside-tipsy-side toward the sky.
He almost smiles at the thought, something cruel and rotten, only to feel muscle and skin pull and tug against a brutal criss-cross of leather strips. And quick like his newfound hate spreading, he collapses (hasn’t the strength to disappear from inevitable, prying gazes). On his side, huddled and curled, the nauseating sensations of pain and weariness sap his muscles and arteries dry.
There he remains, brought out of delirium late in the hour by a cutting screech.
And there are hands on him, voices rising. Someone is carrying him, and he scarcely makes out the soft gold planes of Eir’s healing rooms amid a tumult of shouts and cries (muted chuckles and veiled snickers).
Warm fingers sweep over his forehead, his cheeks (mercifully avoid the lips) and there is a searing sensation of tears falling, rolling – dot – right on his face. Loki lifts his eyes and sees–
Feels a swell, just beneath his lungs. Whimpers in her arms and sits up, clutches the folds of her dress in a near death-grip. On the verge of crying, he buries his face in her chest as she holds him tight, the melody of soothing whispers and lulling coos echoing against his ears.
“Hush, little one. All is well now.”
With the easing of his fears and sorrows, he shifts his head to the side… to where… to where Sif stands.
And all Loki does is meet her gaze through glassy eyes. Tries to pour every ounce of loathing and resignation into it (it would be so much easier to hate her). Seethes and fumes until his eyes shriek with caustic ice: go on, say it.
–Say it, I’m wicked. I’m rotten. I deserve this.
As if goading, as if she’ll dare say otherwise.
Sif shifts, hesitant. Her gaze wavers – sees the fury in his and silent screams – and she has the good sense to take a step back. Another, and another before she turns and hastily retreats.
Better this way.
Easier this way.
Loki repeats the words like a mantra, twice, thrice until they sink, deep. Deep into every nook and cranny of his mind.
Where they cannot be removed.
Where they will eternally remain.
They do not speak again after that night (still cannot bear to meet her eye).
Icy and reserved, Loki masters the fine art of avoidance – all good, painless and indifferent.
He tries to forget, again and again only to fail and this, this is torture (the dreams still come, mocking, wound-up like some demonic incantations). In the festering recess crypts of his mind, a scene is cruelly trapped on rewind:
Sif stalking forth.
Sif reaching for–
Twist and tangle, high and dazzled, the images taunt him in synchrony. Drive him to brink of madness and back again. Until, one day, Sif sticks her head through his chamber doors, hawk-eyes searching, neck protruding like the scaly, writhing twist of a dragon about to roar.
An intruder (succubus, lush – hush, not now), he looks her down, cold in pale brutality, pretending not-surprise.
Unflinching, determined, Sif steps toward him.
Heedless she twists her mouth, hardens her gaze. Contorts minds and breaths, and expels a child’s lie–
“I forgive you.”
Plain, simple, absent the finesse of an artful preamble. Unravelled like a gaunt, blunt declaration of war, Sif drowns him in the filth of absolution.
And takes her leave, all said and done, back rigid and heart taut.
Leaves him with his not-thoughts, crippled and shockingly tranquil. He inhales deep and relinquishes a shaky breath, dazed and drugged on the faintest scent of honey and winter pine.
Slowly, his resilience and anger crumble. Like all coiled beasts, so too misshapen desires learn to rebel.
Loki believes her.
And for now, he pretends all is right and joyful.
That night, when she thinks he is asleep, Sif sneaks into his rooms and comes to a pause before a chest.
Curious, he watches her from beneath half-closed lids. Drenched in pale grey starlight, Sif resembles a statue. A small, fallaciously frail statuette, carved not of marble but of faint ivory and jade.
Shoulders squared, she quietly reaches into his wooden sanctuary of relics and pulls something out, silver and metallic and gleaming deathly sharp.
Loki instantly stiffens, expecting the worst – a war cry, a slice of pain. Drenched, crimson sheets and wonders–
if a blade plunged through the heart will be a swift, merciful death, like he always imagined it.
But Sif surprises him entirely when she does naught but leave.
Features slithered into a high, blank wall, stretching out thin, scrawny limbs, Loki pushes back sheets and furs and inspects the extent of her crime.
He opens the chest, inhales sharp and full (dreams of horizons and the end of battle, blood-lust sated with pillage and spoils) and grins.
The dagger is gone.
Floating blithely on aggrandized dreams, Loki awakes to bright sun rays (re-painting his insides, the charred and grim).
He breathes deep and for the first time in centuries knows peace.
When her hair grows back, it is to his surprise – and hidden glee – black. A little less like Thor’s and a little more like his.
The universe is beautiful that day.

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用"mirror"造句"mirror" in a sentence"mirror"怎麼讀"mirror"的同義詞
過去式:mirrored 完成式:mirrored 名詞複數:mirrors 進行式:mirroring
- She looked at herself critically in the mirror .
- She was sitting at her mirror in a robe .
- The mirror dropped and broke with a crash .
- The surface of the water is as smooth as a mirror .
- People just started gloomily into the mirror .
- One of the mirrors is fully silvered .
- Steam has fogged the bathroom mirror .
- She did a twirl in front of the mirror .
- The mirror reflects light back to the scatter plate .
- A simple periscope uses mirrors .
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MATTHEW FLECKENSTEIN & MATTHEW DEL BUSTO | STAFF REPORTERS
Vanessa Staublin, a senior strategic communications major, has night class most days. She walks to her home in the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood, Mace dangling on her keychain and using the flashlight app on her phone. Staublin felt safe when she first came to Butler University, but that feeling dissipated.
In less than two months, there have been four homicides in the Butler-Tarkington area, home to many Butler University seniors. All four cases are ongoing, with the youngest victim 10 years old. The most recent case was the shooting of 19-year-old Malik Perry on Oct. 13 on the 4100 block of Byram Avenue, just blocks away from Butler students who have houses in the Butler-Tarkington area.
Staublin did not know about the Oct. 13 homicide until she saw a Facebook post the next morning. The event took place about a half mile from her house, roughly the distance between Schwitzer Hall and Hinkle Fieldhouse.
“I was like, ‘What?’ I didn’t get a Dawg Alert or anything like that, so I clicked on it,” she said. “It was this whole story about how someone got shot. I kept reading, and it said something about like eight gunshots, and that really freaked me out.”
“Throughout the day, more and more people were posting about it and I still hadn’t heard anything from BUPD which I thought was really alarming,” she said.
Where are the Dawg Alerts?
Butler Police Chief John Conley said each individual situation is immediately evaluated. The Butler University Police Department then takes whatever action is needed to ensure students are aware.
“It has nothing to do with how close it has to be to campus, although that is one factor you look at,” Conley said. “The Dawg Alert is sent out if the incident is active, ongoing and poses a potential threat to the campus itself. It could be one block south of campus, or it could be on the entire east side of Indianapolis at county line.”
Anne Leighty, a senior pharmacy major and Butler-Tarkington resident, said she learned about the recent homicides and crimes through social media as opposed to Dawg Alert.
“I think they have done a pretty poor job because a lot of times when information goes out, it doesn’t really clarify really much of what’s going on,” Leighty said.
Despite homicides happening within walking distance from her house, she said there have been instances where she has not received anything from Dawg Alert. She said she and other college students depend on the alerts for information such as crimes, because many students do not watch the news or even have TVs. She found out about the last shooting via Facebook, like Staublin.
Holly Aviles, a senior biology major, also lives in the Butler-Tarkington area. Similarly, her main source for information has been the Indianapolis Star. She said she has not heard anything from Butler.
“The seniors don’t stop right on that 45th Street,” Aviles said. “We live several blocks back, and I think that’s the scariest part is that the majority of seniors are living off campus and in those houses. We aren’t being made aware from our university that the dangers of what’s happening right in our alleys or right next door to us.
Staublin said she would have considered a Dawg Alert about the recent homicide the most important one students had ever received.
“It still kind of freaks me out. I don’t know what else BUPD or Dawg Alert (isn’t) telling me (or) if there have been other cases that have gone untouched,” she said. “So it makes me wonder what other precautions I should take.”
Staublin said she is considering signing up for alerts from other media.
“To have my parents that live a half an hour away telling me what’s going on in my backyard is a little upsetting, as well,” Leighty said.
Is Butler-Tarkington a safe place for Butler students?
Conley said students views on safety differ.
“Some Butler students can feel very unsafe, but then I have also talked to a lot of other Butler students that understand,” Conley said. “They know what causes some of that to happen, and they don’t feel unsafe because they’re not wandering through that area. They’re not engaged in that sort of activity, so it’s not a factor for them.”
However, Conley said it is a matter of Butler students feeling comfortable, not how safe the neighborhood actually is.
“Whether or not you actually are unsafe is irrelevant,” he said. “It’s what a person feels and believes inside that’s important.”
Travis Freytag, a first-year actuarial-science major, said he has never felt unsafe at Butler, but he has not been far off-campus unless in a car.
“I’ve seen that there have been some shootings and some homicides,” he said. “I know it’s a pretty rough area, but that’s about all I know.”
Staublin said there is a stark contrast in the atmosphere of several neighborhoods in close proximity to Butler.
“Butler’s in a weird area,” she said. “You go down three, four streets and it’s not the best neighborhood, kind of sketchy. You go the other way three or four streets and it’s multimillion-dollar homes.”
She said she thinks Butler-Tarkington is an OK place for students to be because she is surrounded by other Butler students, but she said she might change her mind if danger persists.
“It’s convenient to live that close but if it keeps getting worse, I would maybe suggest to future students looking elsewhere,” Staublin said. “Maybe closer to the Hinkle area for houses.”
Conley gave some tips for students to stay safe.
“Be aware of their surroundings no matter where they’re at in the city itself (or) on campus,” he said. “It just comes back to common-sense thinking, especially when you’re out hours at night. It’s always good to be with somebody, let somebody know when you’re leaving and where you’re going, stay in contact with your friends, try to remain in lighted areas if at all possible.”
Michael Maxwell is the community resource liaison officer for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. He said if a student is driving and walking to his or her car, have keys ready, do not fumble for them. Additionally, he said students should keep their cell phones in their pockets until they are in their cars.
Staublin said she feels fine walking to classes during the day, but many of her strategic communications classes are at night.
“A lot of times I have to be walking home at like 9:30 at night by myself in the alley ways behind campus that doesn’t have any street lights or anything like that,” Staublin said.
Aviles said she gets concerned when she walks back to her home from Butler’s main campus at night. She always tries to walk where there is the most light and stay on the main sidewalks.
Conley said if there is a situation where students feel unsafe and they need an escort, BUPD would send a car to escort them.
“We can’t afford to become a taxi service and pick everyone up at home and take them wherever they want to go, but particular situations, if there’s a need,” Conley said.
Why the crime?
Maxwell said the recent surge in homicides is due to gang violence, but he is unsure why a war has erupted.
There are two groups, one in the Butler-Tarkington area and one in the 67th and Michigan Road area. He said it is a back-and-forth rivalry; when one group kills a member of another group, then the other group retaliates and kills one of their members. He said there may be a truce in the works, but that shootings are not just random acts. Rather, he said, they are planned.
He said students should be relatively safe walking to class but should still exercise safety measures.
IMPD has increased police presence significantly in the area through the use of overtime duty officers, bicycle officers and officers in everyday clothing.
What should Butler students do?
Maxwell said people often hear crimes but do not call 911.
“Don’t ignore that feeling of ‘that doesn’t feel right,’” Maxwell said.
Levester Johnson, Butler vice president for student affairs, said administration has been discussing long-term safety measures.
“We have started conversations with SGA leadership and through student initiatives board, we hope to come up with some ideas,” he said. “I’m sure within that, we’re going to be asking students what areas on campus they feel less safe in, may have to ask the city where are hotspots within Indy.”
Aviles said it is important to be aware of her surroundings, especially when she is walking back to her house at night. Staublin said she always locks her doors and is more cautious of her surroundings.
“Definitely be aware and realize that we aren’t just in our little Butler bubble,” Aviles said. “We are part of the entire Indianapolis community and it affects all of us. Even if it doesn’t affect us directly, it’s affecting our community, and it’s definitely something that needs to be improved upon. Our safety is really important.”
Great article. Great neighborhood. I hope we get a new Mayor who actually engages the 38th Street crime anchor. That is the key to safety further north.


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Welcome to our discussion on episode three of Ms. Marvel and please let me start with the apologies…
1. Kayleigh is on the show via a phone line and sadly in a couple of places you lose her for a second due to signal.. oops..
2. I totally missed the 10 rings reference. So in the episode at the start you get an aerial shot of 1942 India and you see the symbol denoting the 10 rings on the floor … bangles and the rings linked?
We do talk on the show a lot about the wedding, Kamala and the group and the Djinn history and mythology.
We hope as always that you enjoy the show!


Apple Hit With Multi-Million Dollar Fine For Slowing Down iPhones
PADDY & ROB
It had been brushed off as a conspiracy theory but two years after admitting to the practice, Apple has been punished for slowing down older iPhones
The tech giant has been hit with a multi-million dollar fine by the French consumer watchdog for a lack of transparency around the practice of throttling performance via software updates.
Tech expert Trevor Long explained exactly what happened this morning on Triple M's Paddy & Rob Palmer.
But that's not the only landmark event in the tech world this week; Google Maps is celebrating its 15th birthday!
And here's a fun fact for you: Google Maps was born in Australia. The more you know.
Trevor Long has that, plus the inside word on flip phones making a comeback, below.
Hear the full chat:


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Kraków, Poland (@ Henryk T. Kaiser/age fotostock)
- Wow, that\s some view of the skyline.""It\s just one of which city\s many cultural riches?
- Wouldn\t you love to recreate this picture on your travels?""Here\s the building to climb
- In 1978, a resident of this city, Karol Józef Wojtyła, got a big promotion at work.""Back then, he was just the local archbishop
- Remarkably, the city we\re in survived WWII virtually unscathed.""Want to see what the Polish were so keen to protect?

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Just when we thought James Bond couldn’t outdo himself, he goes and set a new franchise record. Skyfall has become the most profitable Bond movie in franchise history by crossing the $1 billion mark in global box office. Sony announced today that the 23rd James Bond film has smashed every record in the franchise’s 50-year rich history, joining the billion dollar club and becoming the 14th film in history to reach the coveted milestone.
The film, which cost $200 million to make, has earned $289.6 million in North America alone and $710.6 million internationally, and it still hasn’t been released in China as of yet.
Even though Skyfall hasn’t been shown in China, the film still would have blown out all of the other Bond movies in comparison to revenue. Its $710.6 million international revenue alone, would have catapult the film to the highest grossing 007 movie of all time worldwide. Prior to this film, the biggest Bond film was Casino Royale, which made $599 million worldwide in 2006.
Check out the list in which Skyfall joined as of the top earners of all time:
Global Box Office Year
1 Avatar $2,782,275,172 2009
2 Titanic $2,185,372,302 1997
3 The Avengers $1,511,757,910 2012
4 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 $1,328,111,219 2011
5 Transformers: Dark of the Moon $1,123,746,996 2011
6 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $1,119,929,521 2003
7 The Dark Knight Rises $1,081,041,287 2012
8 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest $1,066,179,725 2006
9 Toy Story 3 $1,063,171,911 2010
10 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides $1,043,871,802 2011
11 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace $1,027,044,677 1999
12 Alice in Wonderland $1,024,299,904 2010
13 The Dark Knight $1,004,558,444 2008
14 Skyfall $1,000,200,000 2012