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Discover Financial's profit falls 8 percent in 3Q
Monday - 10/21/2013, 8:28pm EDT
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Discover Financial Services' net income fell 8 percent in the third quarter, as the lender set aside more funds to cover potential loan losses.
The credit card issuer also said Monday that sales volume for its namesake credit card rose 3 percent to about $28 billion in the July-September period versus a year earlier, while card loans rose 4 percent to $50.4 billion. Overall loans, including private education and personal loans, increased 5 percent to $62.7 billion in the quarter, which coincides with the annual back-to-school spending season.
"These results show that in a tepid economic environment, Discover continues to achieve profitable loan growth," David Nelms, Discover's chairman and CEO, told Wall Street analysts during a conference call.
Even so, the Riverwoods, Ill.-based company's latest earnings just missed Wall Street expectations, and its shares dropped about 4 percent in after-market trading Monday.
Credit card issuers such as Discover typically benefit from an improving economy and increasing consumer spending. When cardholders charge more on their Discover cards, the company earns even more in interest income and a variety of fees.
Between January and August, the most recent figures available, the economy added an average of 180,250 jobs a month. Unemployment, meanwhile, was 7.3 percent in August, down from 7.9 percent in January.
Last week, American Express and Capital One Financial each reported increased spending by cardholders.
The federal budget standoff that led to a 16-day partial government shutdown earlier this month didn't have an impact on sales or loan growth at Discover, Nelms said in an interview.
But the executive noted that if consumers felt more certain about the economy, government spending, health care and other concerns, Discover's sales and loan growth would be stronger.
"I do not see consumers right now being willing to spend a little more or even gradually to increase their overall spending," Nelms said. "The consumer is still being very cautious."
Discover has been working to grow its credit card business, while also pushing further into direct banking, offering auto, personal and student loans. It also began offering home equity loans in August.
In the third quarter, private education loans rose 5 percent to $387 million, while personal loans jumped 26 percent to $830 million.
For the three months ended Sept. 30, Discover said that it posted a profit after paying preferred dividends of $579 million, or $1.20 per share, in the three months ended Sept. 30.
That compares with net income of $631 million, or $1.24 per share, in the same months a year earlier.
Revenue net of interest expense rose 3 percent to $2.06 billion.
Analysts polled by FactSet expected earnings of $1.21 per share on $2.06 billion in revenue.
Net interest income, or money earned from loans after factoring in interest expense, grew nearly 9 percent to $1.79 billion.
In the company's payments services business, which competes with Visa and MasterCard, revenue dropped 11 percent as volume declined about 2 percent.
The latest quarter included a provision for potential loan losses of $333 million, up from $136 million a year earlier. The twofold increase came about as the company amped up its reserves in anticipation of lower recoveries on older accounts that have been written off as unpaid and growth in loans. The prior-year quarter also included a hefty release of reserves for loan losses.
Despite the loan loss reserve boost, the rate of credit card loans at least 30 days past due improved to 1.67 percent. And card charge-offs declined to 2.05 percent.
Shares in Discover ended regular trading down 21 cents at $53.74. The stock fell $2.14 to $51.60 in extended trading.
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"This is not a huge surprise as such a move has been flagged in advance. The only question was will the PBOC cut before or after the latest batch of macro data release. Perhaps the central bank had a preview of the May macro data and felt that the underlying growth momentum is slowing faster than it is comfortable with. Rather than a more aggressive 50 pt, the 25 bp cut is an indication that the central bank is taking a more measured response than be panicked into a more aggressive response."
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A partnership between Metallica and Sessions, a leading snowboard and action sports company selling high-performance snowboard apparel and accessories for the youth-driven sports segment resulted in the making off the limited edition Metallica M4 Jacket equipped with a speaker/amp system from Skullcandy, which includes musically inspired designs from the most popular heavy metal band of all time.
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Available in August in a limited edition of only 800 units for a retail price of $330.- I haven't found an online store having the M4, it looks like the only way to get hands on one of these jackets is to be member of the Metallica Club.
The entertainment industry has been always on the forefront when it comes to new styles, new technologies (or both) by setting the direction where the future trends especially in fashion will go. Seeing the recent increase in technological enhanced stage-wear and now in artist branded consumer products, this is setting a clear signal of greater things to come to our (interactive) outfit of 2010 and beyond.
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HOLY GHOST!!! For sure, all the 800 units were already booked/reserved. This is one "state of the art" techy-gadget! Wish I could acquire one… FIVE STARS FOR M4 JACKET!!!
[...] Metallica M4 Jacket to kurtka stworzona (we współpracy z zespołem Metallica) przez firmę Sessions- producenta odzieży dla snowboardzistów. Ma wbudowane głośniki i podłączenie do iPhone'a, który w trakcie śnieżnych szaleństw spoczywa bezpiecznie ukryty w wodoodpornej kieszeni wewnętrznej. Kurtka dostępna w sprzedaży od sierpnia w limitowanej edycji 800 egzemplarzy dostępna jest w cenie 330$. Aby ją jednak kupić, trzeba należeć do fanclubu zespołu. [...]
so there is a few extra's out there people.i did not pre order one infact im not in the metallica club,however i put a down payment on one of these at a ski shop .do some reserch make some phone calls you can find one if you really want one.start with sessions they are very nice over there and will tell you where to get one…….good luck…
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CAPE CHARLES -- It's business as usual at Cherrystone Campground, eight days after a deadly tornado ripped through the site on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Northampton Co.
The Kurt Manz family was among the first to pull into the campground Friday morning. Kurt Manz says the tornado delayed the family trip from South Plainfield, New Jersey for a day.
'There was no way we were going to miss our week here. We wanted to support Cherrystone no matter what because of everything they've been through,' said Manz.
Kurt says he's been coming to Cherrystone since he was six years old.
The EF-1 tornado killed a New Jersey couple, injured their three children and injured nearly two dozen other people on the morning of July 24.
After a final push Thursdayby hundreds of volunteers to clean up the campground, Cherrystone is open just in time for the weekend.
Rep. Scott Rigell (R-2nd D.) told WVEC.com Friday, 'Teri and I are deeply grateful to the 200+ men and women who volunteered their time and energy this week to help with the campsite's recovery efforts. I have fond memories of taking our children camping on Virginia's Eastern Shore, and I look forward to our future visits. While we celebrate this welcomed news, Teri and I continue to pray for the families of those killed and for those recovering from injuries.'
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The North Carolina Black Leadership Caucus is urging Easley to veto the bill, which removes the 10% and 5% goals for contracting work out to minority and women-own businesses.
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SEC Game of
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Alabama (9-0) at LSU (6-2),
Why to watch: This Alabama's
chance to close the deal and take yet
another huge step towards a dream
season. With a win, the Tide would lock
up the SEC West and would be off to
likely play Florida for the SEC title.
But there's more on the minds of the
Crimson Tide, even if head coach Nick
Saban is doing everything possible to
temper expectations.
Ranked No. 1 in the BCS rankings,
Alabama has the clear path to the
national title if it can just wins out,
but beating LSU in Death Valley is
hardly a sure-thing. Mississippi State
and the rivalry game against Auburn are
going to be tough, defensive battles,
but anyone with a legitimate shot at
winning the national title has to put
those two home games away without much
of a problem. This week is the big
hurdle, even if LSU is having some major
This isn't the same LSU team that won
the national title last year, with
consistency problems on offense and a
suddenly porous defense that gave up 51
points to Florida and 52 to Georgia. The
Tigers are still in the SEC title race,
but they need to win this week, they'd
need to beat Ole Miss and Arkansas, and
they'd need another Alabama loss to play
for the SEC title. This has been a good
enough team to get by the average, but
it has yet to make a statement of any
sort. Beating Alabama would change all
of that.
Why Alabama might win: LSU isn't
getting good enough play out of the
quarterbacks to win a game of this
magnitude. Jarrett Lee has been fine,
but nothing special, and Andrew Hatch is
out with a leg injury. Alabama isn't
giving up anything on the ground, so if
Lee isn't special, LSU doesn't have a
shot to pull this off. Overall, this
isn't a tight enough LSU team to beat
Alabama without a lot of takeaways. The
Tide doesn't make a slew of big mistakes
and the defense has been tight as a drum
outside of a foot-off-the-gas second
half against Georgia. If Alabama plays
its game, and LSU plays its game, it'll
be tough for the Tide to lose.
Why LSU might win: If LSU can
force Alabama to throw, the score should
be kept relatively low. John Parker
Wilson has come up with the big pass
time and again, but he hasn't had to
throw to win. LSU's run defense isn't as
good as last year's, it was ripped up by
Florida and Georgia on the ground, but
it hasn't allowed more than 72 yards
against anyone else. The speed in the
linebacking corps has the potential to
overcome the power of the Tide ground
attack; the big runs should be kept to a
Who to watch: Alabama should be
able to win if RB Glen Coffee doesn't
have a big game, but LSU can't win
unless Charles Scott has a huge day. He
ran for 144 yards and two touchdowns
against Georgia, but he was held to 35
yards by Florida and he struggled to get
to 61 yards and two touchdowns against
South Carolina. He's the steadying force
that takes the heat off of Lee and the
passing game, and he's overdue for a
workhorse game with close to 30 carries.
He needs to keep the Bama offense off
the field, and he needs to tear off a
big run or two to keep the Tide safeties
What will happen: Alabama will
have to deal with its harshest
environment yet. It'll start out
pounding the ball, and it'll keep
pounding away to win a tough,
hard-hitting game.
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Why to watch: Georgia
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Bulldogs were hoping for, an
at-large BCS game is still in
play by winning out and hoping
for some stumbles along the way
by Alabama and/or Florida. There
have been injury issues on both
sides of the ball, but the
biggest problem has been
defensive breakdowns, especially
in the secondary, while the
offense isn't as good as the
stats might suggest. Kentucky
pulled out a tight 14-13 win
over Mississippi State to become
bowl eligible, and now it's
going for a good 13th
game. The Wildcats haven't been
consistent, and the offense has
had major problems, but the
defense, when healthy, has
occasionally been dominant and
should provide a strong test for
a wounded and down Georgia.
Why Georgia might win:
The UK offense has been awful
against the FBS teams. The
Wildcats scored 79 points
against Norfolk State and
Western Kentucky, and a mere 117
points in the other seven games.
This is an equally mediocre
offense both running and
throwing the ball, and there
isn't nearly enough of a passing
attack to get back in the game
if the Georgia offense puts up
big points on the board early
Why Kentucky might win:
The Kentucky defensive front
should get to Matthew Stafford.
The Georgia offensive front has
been able to fight through
injuries and has been more than
just decent throughout the
season, but it showed its wear a
bit against Florida. Stafford
got beaten up and banged around
a bit too much, and Kentucky
should keep up the brutality
with a defensive front four
that's as good as any in the
SEC. The secondary is good
enough to make Georgia one
dimensional running the ball.
Who to watch: Kentucky
will need big performances and a
few picks from top defensive
backs Marcus McClinton and
Trevard Lindley. McClinton, a
senior, has made 38 tackles on
the year with four
interceptions, and while he has
been good with the ball in the
air, his strength has been
against the run. Lindley is the
special playmaker in the
secondary, and while he's not
the hitter McClinton is, he's a
shut-down defender who has
fought through injuries to be
great when the ball is in the
air. These two will have to
combine to stop Georgia freshman
WR A.J. Green and keep the
Bulldog passing game under
What will happen:
Kentucky has the defense to keep
the down Bulldogs in check, but
it doesn't have the offense to
overcome a few touchdown runs
from Knowshown Moreno. Georgia
won't be razor-sharp, but it
won't have to be.
CFN Prediction: Georgia
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Arkansas (4-5) at South Carolina
1 EST GamePlan
Why to watch: South
Carolina still has an outside
shot at winning the SEC East,
but some big breaks need to
happen, and there have to be
wins over Florida next week and
Arkansas this week. Very
quietly, the Gamecocks have been
able to put together a nice year
after winning five of their last
six games, The offense continues
to be a work in progress, but
the defense has done just enough
to get by. Arkansas is coming
off a nice win over Tulsa, the
first loss of the year for the
Golden Hurricane, and needs to
win two of its last three games
to go bowling. With a road trip
to Mississippi State up next and
with LSU still to deal with, a
win this week could be a must to
get a 13th game. The
Hogs have ridden the legs of
Michael Smith and have played
steady, if not dominant defense,
to stay alive. Their last four
games have been decided by a
total of 13 points, while South
Carolina has played five games
this year decided by a
touchdown. This should be close.
Why Arkansas might win:
South Carolina has one of the
few offensive lines in America
that has as hard a time
protecting the quarterback as
Arkansas does. The Hogs don't
have a dominant pass rush, but
they have a good enough one to
make life difficult for Gamecock
QB Stephen Garcia, who might not
be all that mobile playing on a
banged up knee. The Arkansas
special teams aren't special,
but the punting game is just
good enough to keep the South
Carolina offense pinned deep.
The Gamecocks aren't equipped to
go on long, drawn out drives.
Why South Carolina might win:
Michael Smith might be a special
back, he leads the SEC in
rushing yards per game, but the
Arkansas offense mainly works
when it's throwing the ball.
That plays into the Gamecock
strength. Even though star QB
Captain Munnerlyn has had
problems with a stomach virus,
the USC secondary is nasty.
Arkansas will have to try to run
the ball early, but the pass
protection is mediocre and the
passing attack isn't consistent
enough to penetrate the brick
wall of a Gamecock defensive
Who to watch: Arkansas QB
Casey Dick and the Arkansas
passing game has deferred a bit
to Smith and the ground game
throughout the second half of
the season, but Dick came to
life against Tulsa with 385
yards and a touchdown with an
interception. It was his third
300-yard passing day on the
year, and the Hogs won all three
times. He's unlikely to go over
300 against the South Carolina
secondary that allows 144 yards
per game, but he needs to be
effective and efficient.
What will happen: It'll
be a tight, defensive battle
with South Carolina coming
through because it has the
tighter, better defense.
CFN Prediction: South
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SWTOR Vengeance Juggernaut DPS Guide by Rydarus
A guide to the SWTOR Juggernaut Vengeance DPS spec for PvE.
Vengeance Written and edited by Rydarus of The Ebon Hawk. Adapted from Rydarus' Vigilance Guardian Compendium
- 1 Discipline Utilities:
- 1.2 Rage
- 1.3 About the Author
Introduction to the Juggernaut DPS
Tired of those idiots who think you can only tank for YOUR raid group? Don't like wielding two lightsabers like one of those pesky Marauders? Do you actually want to kill things?! Fear not! I, Rydarus of the Ebon Hawk, am here to show you how to turn your benevolent protective neighborhood Guardian or Juggernaut Tank into a vicious murdering killing machine! Ready to have some fun? GREAT! Let's get started!
The Juggernaut class shares some inherent skills with the Powertech, such as wearing heavy armor and having access to a few basic tanking abilities, but requires the Juggernaut to stance dance in order to Area of Effect, or AOE Taunt, just like other tank classes. Juggs have significant survivability advantages compared to other DPS specced tank classes, and the excellent defensive cooldowns work for different aspects of every fight, and Saber Reflect can be used to easily avoid some lethal hits, including examples such as Orbs in Brontes or explosions from Subteroths. With Force Charge, single target and AoE taunts, an AoE incapacitate, high single target DPS, and high AOE DPS, the Vengeance Jugg is a great choice.
Defensive Cooldowns:
Discipline Utilities:
Discipline Calculator: http://dulfy.net/2014/10/13/swtor-disciplines-calculator-swtor_miner/?link=dGEAAAE8AwABFwIGAAAAAAAA
Utilities are very debatable, and for the most part, with the discipline system, you can pick what you want!
Essential Utilities: Warmonger
Useful: Unyielding (If there are stuns), Pathcarver (If AOE rotation is necessary), Deadly Reprisal
Situational: Payback (Only if you need survivability AND you can expect to need it when you are stunned.)
Absolute Junk: Stagger, Overwhelm (Only for PVP)
Essential: Sonic Wall
Useful: Crushing Fist (AOE AND Target Swapping), Emboldening Scream (If group needs to move), Oppressor (Only with Emboldening Scream as well)
Situational: Pooled Hatred (Underlurker HM)
Absolute Junk: Strangulate (PVP only), Seething Hatred
Useful: Through Passion (Great for predictable AOE and raid damage), Through Power (If movement is necessary)
Situational: Thrown Gauntlet (Movement Heavy Fights, ONLY WITH EMBOLDENING SCREAM), Intercessor (For maintaining uptime by Interceding to allies.)
VERY situational: Intimidating Presence (Draxus NiM? Maybe? Leap at a bulwark then interrupt add? Meh.)
Absolute Junk: Whiplash (PVP only)
- Single Target Dps: 8
- AoE Damage: 7 (DoT based)
- Group Utility: 6
- Rotation Difficulty: 7.5
- RNG Dependant: Somewhat on a few abilities.
- Burst: 6.5
- Sub 30% Talent or Ability Buffs: No (Execute available before 30% and execute very marginal in increase of damage)
Gearing & Stats Priority
Beginner Build:
- **Must Have** Accuracy: 110% Force – 110% special melee attack – 100% melee (1% from companion, 9% from Gear)
- **Must Have** 0 Alacrity (Gear levels do not warrant it yet, in a tier or two alacrity will be useful on select bosses)
- 63-68% Surge (1% from companion)
- 230-330 Critical Rating (1% from companion)
- All other secondary stats in Power
- **Must Have** Augments: Strength (Might) OR Power (Overkill), note that this is still in debate but personal results are higher in Strength Augments by a slight amount. Accuracy augments are debatable for dummy parsing since you can stack more surge, but not recommended for raiding.
- Relics: Serendipitous Assault & Focused Retribution
- Set Bonus: 2pc, 4pc, and 6pc Vindicator's Set Bonus
- Shien Form
Advanced Build (Not to be attempted without prior experience)
- **Must Have** Accuracy: 110% Force – 110% special melee attack – 100% melee (1% from companion, 9% from Gear)
- **Must Have** 728 Alacrity from 14 AUGMENTS!!!
- 63-68% Surge (1% from companion)
- 230-330 Critical Rating (1% from companion)
- All other secondary stats in Power
- **Must Have** Augments: ALACRITY
- Relics: Serendipitous Assault & Focused Retribution
- Set Bonus: 2pc, 4pc, and 6pc Vindicator's Set Bonus
- Shien Form
Gearing Overview:
Reaching the Accuracy cap should be your highest priority
In Resurrected Gear, the Power base is strong enough to allow higher, but not EXTREMELY high amounts of crit. Stacking an implant to a few mods of critical rating is reasonable.
Choice of relics should be Serendipitous Assault and Focused Retribution. Getting your set bonus as quickly as possible is highly recommended. It will increase your dps substantially enough that having lower item level armorings with the set bonus is still a SIGNIFICANTLY better option than higher item level armorings without it.
For enhancements, make sure to get LOW ENDURANCE enhancements AND low endurance modifications (in 3.0 Commendations Mods are lettered Mods, IE Deft Mod 36A, AND enhancements are unoptimized. Optimal gear requires Initiative, Adept, Acute, or Battle Enhancement and UNLETTERED Deft and Potent Mods (IE Potent Mod 36A is BAD, Potent Mod 36 is GOOD! Potent Mod 36 is still better than Potent Mod 37A!).
- With the old 2pc Dread Master Weaponmaster Set Bonus, you pull about the same sustained damage as the new full Vindicator's Set Bonus, but it is my opinion that this bonus is only decent on dummy, and in an actual raid, having an autocrit Overhead Slash/Impale every so often does more for burst damage, especially in higher movement fights.
What you need to know beforehand!
Before we begin to learn the rotation of the Vengeance rotation itself, you first have to commit to memory the various "Procs" that generate various outcomes and abilities in Vengeance. There are 4 Major Procs in Vengeance and 1 minor proc.
Major Procs
Abilities (NOTE THIS IS NOT A PRIORITY SYSTEM)
Knocks the target down for moderate damage
Rage Requirded: 3 Rage
Rage Cost: 2 Rage
Radius: Within 5 M
Type of AOE: Cleave
Sweeping Slash
AOE ability that does moderate damage to multiple targets. Does more damage to bleeding targets
Rage Gain: 3 Rage
Range: 10-30M
Cooldown: 15 seconds
Force Charge:
Closes the gap between you and your target instantly, cannot be used if character is under cover. Grants Unstoppable.
It's an adrenal. It gives stats. Buy them, use them on CD / when necessary.
Junk ability. Dump it. Vicious Slash
Junk ability. Dump it.
The Rotation (Opener, Priority, etc):
Since 2.6 and the major Vengeance improvements, plus the changes made in 3.0, the Vengeance rotation is far more set in stone. Vengeance has very little RNG besides crits, but most players have an inaccurate or simplified rotation. The general BiS (best in slot) RAID opener in Vengeance is:
(Some use Sundering Assault instead of Enrage, I disagree simply because it is not raid practical in the sense that the buff is generally insignificant, is part of your rotation anyway and therefore you are guaranteed use it later on, and also you cap out on Rage, and are using THREE low damage abilities in a row. It also means that if the Relics Proc on Saber Throw, only Impale gets the buff from your relics.)
You can always do this opener of you experience downtime, provided they are all off cooldown.
After this opener, you then flow into the main priority system.
Priority System
AOE priority:
AOE in Vengeance is fairly simplistic from a raiding standpoint, however I do want to illustrate one point about AOE DPS and this priority system: Big AOE numbers is NOT big boss numbers. The objective of raiding is not to kill random trash in a boss fight, it's to kill the boss. If all you are doing in a raid is using Sweeping Slash and DoT spreading cause those 4 mobs pad your DPS numbers, and you are completely ignoring your single target rotation, you are not a true DPS. Your priority stands something like this in a situation with 3 or more targets
1: Shatter
2: Impale
3: Force Scream
4: Vengeful Slam
5: Sweeping Slash
Depending on Resource you may only have time for 1 Sweeping Slash, as the cooldown on Vengeful Slam is a mere 6 seconds, leaving you few GCDs to reclaim your resource.
In a situation where you have 2 targets OR would like to keep the base rotation intact, the priority remains identical to the basic priority except Vengeful Slam is used over Force Scream and/or Vicious Throw and the occasional Sweeping Slash is employed.
Rotation Strategy
The Vigilance / Vengeance Rotation lasts 12 seconds for a minor rotation, and every Major Rotation is 36 seconds assuming the rotation is carried out perfectly. Every major rotation, the DoT's realign in a way similar to the opener for another pass at the rotation.
In every Vigilance/Vengeance minor rotation, you will perform:
1 Plasma Brand/Shatter
1.3 Overhead Slashes/Impales (The decimal is because the cooldown for Overhead Slash / Impale and Blade Storm '/ Force Scream is 75% of the CD of Plasma Brand / Shatter, every few Plasma Brands / Shatters there is an extra Overhead Slash / Impale and Blade Storm / Force Scream inside the cooldown of Plasma Brand.
1.3 Blade Storms/Force Screams
1 Master Strikes/Ravages
1-3 filler GCDs, 1 of them being Dispatch/Vicious Throw when it procs Due to the nature of Dispatch drifting in the rotation, SOMETIMES you will use it, sometimes you will not. The reason for the variable number of filler GCDs is due to the way Overhead Slash / Impale and Blade Storm / Force Scream drifting inside the CD of Plasma Brand
In addition, every 12 seconds of a Vigilance / Vengeance rotation requires 8 Focus/Rage throughout the entire cycle. 8 is the magic Vigilance / Vengeance number. Usually, a Sundering Strike/Sundering Assault or Combat Focus/Enrage with a Force Sweep/Smash or Saber Throw will fulfill this purpose. Combat Focus/Enrage can also be used while using an ability (besides Master Strike/Ravage) so that a filler in the filler window can consume resource rather than burning it.
Clipping Ravage
Congratulations! If you are reading this section, I assume you are ready to advance into the final frontier of Vengeance skill: The Ravage Clip.Due to a function of latency on the part of Bioware, our main ability Ravage, while having a full 3 second channel, the final damaging tick comes out at around 2.7-2.8 seconds. This means, with enough skill, a good Vengeance juggernaut can shave off the last few fractions of a second, and attain a higher APM than normally possible.
The dangers are ripe however, as clipping at the wrong time robs you of dps and potentially 1 or more ticks of Ravage. Clipping Ravage requires an intuitive feel of the class. Very few are able to achieve the level of control and precision to the level of the highest parsers, such as Kishekzun, who are able to achieve a level of insane precision in order to clip master strike/ravage at the same point every time.
The trick to the clip is not to button mash when Ravaging. Normally, button mashing increases APM for single gcd abilities, due to shortening potential gaps between abilities, but due to the precision required in clipping Ravage, and due to the way the GCD system works, button mashing DELAYS the clip. The best way to perform a crisp clip is to tap the button precisely once to break the channel cleanly. You will then notice that you tend to have sometimes a WHOLE GCD in order to spend on different attacks!
Hitting a Boss (Tips and Tricks!
The most important factor of dps, is UPTIME, often determined by APM, or actions per minute. Just because a sentinel does better on a dummy doesn't mean he or she does better than you on the boss. If the sentinel isn't leaping back to boss he will do less dps than you, and vice versa
Ask yourself:
- When leaping to kill an add like the Jealous Male in TFB, how often do you Force Push and leap back to boss to keep your uptime seamless? (NOTE: Guardian Leap / Intercede is sometimes better since it's 1 GCD and Force push + leap is 2 GCDs, just make sure to NEVER EVER EVER leap at a tank, Guardian Leap / Intercede can knock tank aggro BELOW ZERO)
- When DPSING, do you often have points in time where you don't know what to do?
- Know your abilities and their ranges and cooldowns, and use these abilities to get around faster.
- Do you know when to use Blade Storm/Force Scream at two stacks or forgo it and use 1 stack?
- Do you know that a basic attack is better than no attack, DPS is always better than nothing
- Do you know when to ignore your own DPS and use utility talents? Such as taunting the boss when tank dies or intercede to a dps with threat or use stasis to stun an add? (PS Refer to the first note about Guardian Leap / Intercede)
- Do you know when AOE is better than Single Target?
- Use your aggro drop when you get threat(Challenging Call/Threatening Scream ONLY in Shien and Shii-Cho Stance in 2.7)
- Use Focused Defense/Enraged Defense as your first defensive CD in these situations: Heavy AOE, Dots, etc. Think of it as a trauma probe, if you are taking damage in the next 30 seconds, this CD is the bomb.
How to analyze a parse?
For those who have problems with Vengeance and the hallmarks of a good parse, I have included a list of simplistic equations to determine how to know whether your Vengeance Rotation is good:
- Convert the length of your parse into seconds (5 minutes is 300 seconds)
- Be in the Damage dealt tab of torparse and be looking at "Damage Dealt Broken Down By Target"
Time Conversion equations
- D= Duration of Parse
- A=Abilities amount of times used
- G=Gap Between Use
Equation for detection of abilities usage per second:
Example: Ability A was used 34 times in 300 seconds. Using D/A=G we end up with: 300/34=8.8235 second gap between ability activations.
Master Strike/Ravage/other 3 tick ability Specific equation:
In this case, if D=300 and A=99, the equation would be 300/ (1/3*99)=9.09 second gap between ability activations.
Effect gain method
- Go into logview on torparse and type CTRL-F.
- Then enter: (Player Name) gains (Effect Name)
- Apply ability usage per second code: D/A=G
What to check for?
- Plasma Brand/Shatter every 12 seconds
- Overhead Slash/Impale and Blade Storm/Force Scream every 9 seconds
- Master Strike/Ravage every 12 seconds (fully achievable, check my personal parse, which is at 10.5)
- Dispatch/Vicious Throw every 19-20 seconds. (Keening/Destroyer procs and Dispatches must match.)
- APM at 35-36
How to Practice
The former highest skill Vigilance/Vengeance Guardian, Westfall, claims to parse for the duration of the "Today Show." This generally means he parses for a grand total of 20 minutes a day in one straight parse.
"In order to fully commit your rotation to memory for usage on a boss, you must first learn every single way to screw up your rotation" (Credit to Antonica/Daharel)
This means you go through with every parse you have regardless of mistakes to learn your rotation inside out. Vigilance is an easy to learn but hard to master spec, and the rotation SEEMS easy to pick up but has some of the most ruthless dot reapplication rotations in the entire game.
Sample Parse and Video:
Expected Numbers:
- Optimized 180s with old augments from previous expansion: 3600-3700
- Optimized 186s with old augments from previous expansion: 3800-4000
- Optimized 186s New Augmented: 3900-4100
- Optimized and fully augmented 192s: 4300-4500
Sample Parse (Note: Gear used was optimized 180s with some 186 mods and some unoptimized 192 mods. 186 Purple Crafter Ruusan Relics)
(Note2: I have a higher parse available, but as dissecting each parse I put up, which is relatively frequent, for a parse analysis is fairly inefficient, I will always analyze a parse of my own every month, but keep a link or image of my ABSOLUTE MOST RECENT parse.)
Parse Analysis
Lasted 6 minutes, and 21 seconds, for a total of 381 seconds. Note that the values divided are rounded simply because SWTOR combat logging can be affected by lag.
- Master Strike/Ravage did 25.3% of the damage and was most of my damage. I used it 32 times and used it every 11.906 seconds, roundable to 12 seconds.
- Overhead Slash/Impale was used every 9.07 seconds, roundable to 9 seconds.
- Blade Storm/Force Scream was used every 9.29 seconds, roundable to 9 seconds.
- Plasma Brand/Shatter was used every 12.29 seconds, roundable to 12 seconds.
- Dispatch/Vicious Throw was used 17 times, and Keening was gained 17 times. I only used Dispatch every 22.4 seconds however, as Dispatch sometimes can be RNG dependent.
- Vigilant Thrust/Vengeful Slam was used a similar amount of times as Dispatch, as it should be, being only 1 away from the amount of Dispatches used.
- Sundering Strike/Sundering Assault was used every 15.24 seconds, reasonable, and roughly kept on cooldown within the constraints of the rotation.
Overall, the parse was fairly average for it's gear, the crits were overall average and APM was average.
Highest Parse ATM: 4124
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Rates (1-10):
- Single Target Dps: 4
- AoE Damage: 10
- Group Utility: 6
- Rotation Difficulty: 4
- RNG Dependant: No
- Burst: 8
- Sub 30% Talent or Ability Buffs: Yes
Gearing & Stats priority:
- **Must Have** Accuracy: 110% Force – 100% melee (1% from companion + 3% from talent = 6% from Gear)
- **Must Have** 0 Alacrity
- 68-74% Surge
- 180-290 Critical Rating
- All other secondary stats in Power
- **Must Have** Augments: Strength (Might)
- Relics: Serendipitous Assault & Focused Retribution
- Set Bonus: 2 piece Vindicator's & 2 piece Weaponmaster's
- Shii-Cho Form
Gearing Overview
- Reaching the Accuracy cap should be your highest priority
- The dps bonus given by Alacrity rating is low enough that, even with the high amount of diminishing returns it will suffer, Surge rating will always be better. Also, considering that your resource pool does not regenerate over time, that aspect of Alacrity is wasted.
- The difference in overall dps between 180 Critical rating and 290 Critical rating is minimal, however since your highest damaging ability is a guaranteed critical hit on AOE, any Critical rating you use will adversely affect your overall AOE DPS, but increase your Single Target Average DPS
- Serendipitous Assault and Focused Retribution are your Best Relics.
- Getting your set bonus as quickly as possible is highly recommended. It will increase your dps substantially enough that having lower item level armorings with the set bonus is still a better option than higher item level armorings without it
Ability Explanation
- Smash is your hardest hitting ability in this spec, as it has significantly buffed damage as well as being a guaranteed crit. In addition, it gets a reduced CD from your ability use, is free, and your rotation cycles between reducing its CD and buffing it, so using as soon as it's available and fully buffed is necessary for maximum dps.
- Enrage is one of your Smash buffing abilities, as well as your primary method of generating Rage. Thanks to some of your talents, its cooldown is also significantly reduced. As such, the rotation for buffing your Smash alternates between Force Crush and Enrage. Due to Enrage's immense rage gain, spamming abilities to remain under 12 rage while reducing Smash's CD is generally a good idea, and keep in mind that Enrage doesn't have to be used immediately before Smash, as the buff it provides won't expire before Smash comes off CD. If, for whatever reason, Force Crush and Enrage are both available in the same Smash window, never use them together, as it's a waste of your Shockwave stacks and will lower your dps.
- Force Crush is your second Smash buffing ability, but it also deals high damage itself, so using this ability during the Cascading Power window whenever possible is ideal. Its damage is spread over 3 seconds, so to properly capitalise on the Cascading Power buff, you have to use it immediately following Smash.
- Force Scream is one of your filler abilities. As with several others, it reduces the active CDs of Enrage, Obliterate and Smash, however Force Scream additionally gains a buff from your Obliterate and Force Charge that makes it free. As such, using this as your primary damage filler is a must, and it's also an ideal ability to use during your Cascading Power window.
- Obliterate is a core part of your rotation due to the significant buff it gives Smash, as well as dealing high damage and leaping towards the target. Keep in mind that this charge has the potential to get you killed in certain situations due to AoE or movement mechanics, so ensuring you use it at the right time is imperative. Just like Force Crush and Enrage, using this ability correctly and in synergy should always result in an Obliterate between each Smash.
- Vicious Throw is your sub 30% ability, and whenever this ability is available it should replace Vicious Slash. When available, it should also be your first priority to use during Cascading Power.
- Ravage deals great damage, however it is of much less significance than for Vengeance. Using it during Cascading Power is ideal. The best uses for Ravage are during Cascading Power.Ravage will gain the most benefit from Cascading Power out of all of your abilities.
- Vicious Slash is the most important filler in this spec, as it reduces the CD of your most important abilities, as well as dealing improved damage. Spamming this ability as much as you can when everything else is on CD is necessary to reduce the time until your next Smash, however it will always be low on your priority list, and partially replaced by Vicious Throw when it becomes available.
- Sundering Assault is your Rage-building filler. It generates a large amount of Rage and should be used nearly on CD when it doesn't interfere with other abilities.
- Force Charge is your gap closer, and should be used to initiate fights. It has the same effect as Obliterate, buffing your next Smash and Force Scream. Whenever your cooldowns are all refreshed due to a transition phase, consider it as a fresh start to the fight, opening with Force Charge if feasible and delaying Obliterate for the second Smash window.
- Saber Throw is a really optional ability, as it's not required to perform your opener, but not having the extra Rage it generates can leave you slightly Rage starved during the first few rotations, forcing you to use either Assault or Sundering Assault during a Cascading Power window, which is less than ideal. Also consider that an empowered Smash happens very quickly in your rotation, creating a lot of aggro very early on. Having that extra GCD at the beginning can give your tanks some extra room to hold threat as well as giving you a benefit in the long run, maximising on your dps.
- Assault is used as a filler to reduce the CD on your main abilities. Use sparingly.
What to Check for on your Quickbar (Procs)
- Dominate: Makes your next Smash critical chance 100%. Procced by Force Charge and Obliterate
- Shockwave: Increases Damage from Smash by 33.3 percent. Stacks 3 times. Procced by Force Crush or Enrage
Rotation Priority
1. Smash (with Shockwave)
2. Enrage / Force Crush (Force Crush Always Under Cascading Power)
3. Force Scream (with Battle Cry): FS
4. Obliterate: Use between Smashes, but never delay a Smash with an Obliterate
5. Vicious Throw: Replace Vicious Slash with Vicious Throw when possible, be sure to save for Cascading Power as well.
6. Ravage: Place under Cascading Power
7. Vicious Slash: Main filler
8. Sundering Assault: Use on CD until Cascading Power, then use only as last resort.
9. Force Charge (gap closer)
10. Saber Throw (while moving or at a range): ST
11. Assault (Last Resort)
Cascading Power Ability Priority
How Cascading Power functions: Cascading Power is a buff triggered by your Smash and lasts 6 seconds. That's 4 GCDs, but the last GCD often clips, and only Force Scream is good in the final GCD. The buff looks like Cascading Power
Your priority under cascading power is:
Opening Rotation:
Rotation Strategy:
The Goal of Rage is to keep Smash on cooldown, whilst using Obliterate to grant the Dominate buff, Enrage and Force Crush to generate Shockwave Stacks (alternating), in order to buff smash and use it again. After every smash, the 4 GCDs after are used to follow the on demand burst with more sustained burst in the form of the Cascading Power rotation.
Sample Parse Analysis
Here is a sample parse from Antonica of the Ebon Hawk. 3340 on the 1.5 million dummy.
- Blade Storm / Force Scream is used every 14.4 seconds, this is close to the 12 second CD but not quite.
- Force Sweep / Smash should be used roughly 9-9.5 seconds, it varies due to the intervening various non cooldown proc abilities. The critical hit chance should always be 100, and the minimum and maximum hit range should not vary by more than 2k, so if your highest Smash/Sweep hit was 10000, it should be around 8000 at minimum. If it's something like 5000, 6000, or 4000, it means your rotation was done incorrectly at some point.
- Zealous Leap / Obliterate should be used the same frequency as your Force Sweep, or with 1 as a margin for error assuming you end the parse at a very specific point.
- Slash/Vicious Slash should be a very high part of your damage.
- Master Strike should be used nearly on CD (within 2-3 seconds). This parse here showed it at 31.8 seconds between uses. See heightened power priority.
About the Author
If you don't know me ingame, my name is Rydarus. My main is a Vigilance Spec Jedi Guardian (Go Figure) on the RP server The Ebon Hawk (Don't ask why I'm on an RP server I like KOTOR XD). I'm currently in the most awesomest guild ever, Aisthesis, and I like raiding and love Guardian DPS. I've played this spec since 1.4 and it was the first character I leveled. I was one of those knuckleheads addicted to autocrit dispatch and really liked the animations of a Guardian.
I wrote this guide to help myself by keeping track of what I learned while playing the spec and to help me when I took hiatuses from the game. I was inspired to write the guide on the forums when Mattmonkey, a Guardian theorycrafter, quit the game. With months of no updates to the guide I took matters into my own hands and took his guide and put my own spin on it. A few months of rampant forum PVP and parse experimentation and repeated "Holy jesus I've been doing this wrong the entire time" moments and we arrive at this guide! I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.


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A thermal imaging system for detecting cracks in a tooth. An ultrasonic dental cleaning tool is used to transmit ultrasonic energy through a jet of water to the tooth that causes cracks in the tooth to heat up. A thermal camera is used to detect the thermal radiation emitted by the heated cracks. The ultrasonic energy is in the form of a pulse where the frequency of the ultrasonic signal is substantially constant within the pulse. The control unit is employed to provide timing and control of the operation of the dental cleaning tool and the camera.
1. A thermal imaging system for detecting cracks in a tooth, said system comprising:
a sound source for directing sound energy into the tooth;
a thermal imaging camera directed towards the tooth and generating thermal images of the tooth; and
a controller coupled to the sound source and the camera, said controller causing the sound source to emit at least one pulse of a sound signal at a predetermined frequency and for a predetermined duration, and causing the camera to generate sequential images of the tooth, wherein the frequency of the sound signal has a substantially constant amplitude, and wherein vibrational energy from the sound source causes cracks in the tooth to heat up and be visible in the images generated by the camera.
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7. A method of detecting cracks in a tooth, said method comprising the steps of:
transmitting at least one pulse of a sound signal into the tooth to heat the cracks, said signal having a predetermined frequency and a substantially constant amplitude; and
generating a sequence of thermal images of the tooth while the tooth is receiving the sound signal.
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This application is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/397,585, titled Infrared Imaging of Ultrasonically Excited Subsurface Defects in Materials, filed Sep. 16, 1999 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,236,049.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to a system and method for detecting defects in a structural component by infrared imaging and, more particularly, to a system and method for detecting cracks in a tooth, including coupling sound energy into the tooth to heat the cracks and then thermally imaging heat radiating therefrom.
2. Discussion of the Related Art
Maintaining the structural integrity of certain components and structures is very important in many areas because of safety concerns and the like. Loss of structural integrity is typically caused by material defects, such as cracks, delaminations, disbonds, corrosion, inclusions, voids and the like, that may exist in the component or structure. For example, it is very important in the aviation industry that reliable techniques are available to examine the structural integrity of the aircraft skin and structural components of the aircraft to ensure that the aircraft does not suffer from structural failure when in flight. The structural integrity of turbine blades and rotors, and vehicle cylinder heads is also important in those industries. Therefore, techniques have been developed for the non-invasive and non-destructive analysis of different structural components and materials in various industries.
One known technique for non-invasive and non-destructive testing for material defects includes treating the structural component with a dye penetrant so that the dye enters any crack or defects that may be present in the material. The component is then cleaned, and the structure is treated with a powder that causes the dye remaining in the cracks to wick into the powder. An ultraviolet (UV) light source is used to inspect the material to observe locations on the component that fluoresces as a result of the dye. This technique has the disadvantage, however, that it is highly inspector intensive and dependent because the person inspecting for the fluorescence must be skilled. Additionally, the dye does not typically penetrate tightly closed cracks or cracks that are not on the surface.
A second known technique for inspecting a component for defects employs an electromagnetic coil to induce eddy currents in the component. The coil is moved around on the component, and the eddy current pattern changes at a crack or other defect. The complex impedance in the coil changes as the eddy current changes, which can be observed on an oscilloscope. This technique has the drawback that it is also very operator intensive, and also extremely slow and tedious.
Another known technique employs thermal imaging of the component to identify the defects. Typically, a heat source, such as a flash lamp or a heat gun, is used to direct a planar pulse of heat to the surface of the component. The material of the component absorbs the heat, and emits reflections in the infrared wavelengths. Certain types of defects will cause the surface temperature to cool at a different rate over the defects than for the surrounding areas. A thermal or infrared imaging camera is used to image the component and detect the resulting surface temperature variation. Although this technique has been successful for detecting disbonds and corrosion, it is ordinarily not successful for detecting vertical cracks in the material, that is, those cracks that are perpendicular to the surface. This is because a fatigue crack looks like a knife edge to the planar heat pulse, and therefore no, or minimal, reflections occur from the crack making the cracks hard or impossible to see in the thermal image.
Thermal imaging for detecting defects in a material has been extended to systems that employ ultrasonic excitation of the material to generate the heat. The article Rantala, J. et al, "Lock-in Thermography with Mechanical Loss Angle Heating at Ultrasonic Frequencies," Quantitative Infrared Thermography, Eurotherm Series 50, Edizioni ETS, Pisa 1997, pg 389-393 discloses such a technique. In this technique, ultrasonic excitation is used to cause the crack or defect to "light up" as a result of the ultrasonic field. Particularly, the ultrasonic waves cause the opposing edges of the crack to rub together causing the crack area to heat up. Because the undamaged part of the component is only minimally heated by the ultrasonic waves, the resulting thermal images of the material show the cracks as bright areas against a dark background field.
The transducer used in the ultrasonic thermal imaging technique referred to above makes a mechanical contact with the component being analyzed. However, it is difficult to couple high power ultrasonic energy into some materials, particularly in the case of metals. Significant improvements in this technique can be achieved by improving the coupling between the ultrasonic transducer and the component.
Additionally, the known ultrasonic thermal imaging technique employs complex signal processing, particularly vector lock-in, synchronous imaging. Vector lock-in imaging uses a periodically modulated ultrasonic source and includes a processing technique that synchronously averages successive image frames producing an in-phase image and a quadrature image both based on the periodicity of the source. This results in images that are synchronous with the periodicity and eliminates unsynchronous noise from the image. The periodicity of the image can also be induced by an external stimulus, such as a modulated laser beam, heat lamps, etc. The processor receives the frames of video images and stores them synchronously with the induced periodicity, and then averages the stored frames with subsequently received frames to remove the noise. U.S. Pat. No. 4,878,116 issued Oct. 31, 1989 issued to Thomas et al discloses this type of vector lock-in imaging.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,287,183 issued to Thomas et al Feb. 15, 1994 discloses a synchronous imaging technique that is a modification of the vector lock-in imaging disclosed in the '116 patent. Particularly, the imaging technique disclosed in the '183 patent extends the vector lock-in synchronous imaging technique to include a "box car" technique variation where the source is pulsed, and the images are synchronously averaged at various delay times following each pulse. The box car technique multiplies the video signal by zero except in several narrow time windows, referred to as gates, which are at a fixed time delay from the initiation of each ultrasonic pulse. The effect of these gates is to acquire several images corresponding to the states of component being imaged at the predetermined fixed delay times after the pulses. These different delay times are analogous to the different phases, represented by the sine and cosine functions of the periodic signal in the lock-in technique. During the acquisition of the gated images, the images corresponding to different delay times are combined arithmetically by pixel-by-pixel subtraction to suppress non-synchronous background effects.
The ultrasonic excitation thermal imaging technique has been successful for detecting cracks. However, this technique can be improved upon to detect smaller cracks, as well as tightly closed cracks, with much greater sensitivity. It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide such a defect detection technique.
In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a technique is disclosed for infrared or thermal imaging of surface or subsurface cracks in a tooth. A sonic or ultrasonic sound source is employed to transmit sound waves into the tooth. The sound source can be the conventional ultrasonic source used by dentists to clean teeth, where the ultrasonic energy is transferred to the tooth through a water jet. The sound source emits a sound pulse having a constant frequency amplitude for a predetermined period of time. A suitable thermal imaging camera is used to image the tooth when it is being excited by the sound source. A control unit is provided to control the operation of the sound source in the camera for timing purposes.
During initiation of the detection sequence, the control unit instructs the camera to begin taking sequential images of the tooth. Next, the control unit instructs the sound source to emit a pulse of ultrasonic energy at a predetermined frequency for a predetermined time period. A sequence of images is generated that shows cracks and other defects in the tooth as light areas (higher temperature) against a dark (lower temperature) background. The images can be displayed on a monitor, and a storage device can be provided to store the sequence of images to be reviewed at a later time.
Additional objects, advantages and features of the present invention will become apparent from the following description and the appended claims when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an imaging system according to the invention;
FIG. 2 is a broken-away, side view of the transducer, specimen and camera of the imaging system shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a graph with power on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis showing the ultrasonic signal used in the known thermal imaging techniques that employ vector lock-in synchronous imaging;
FIG. 4 is a graph with power on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis showing the pulsed ultrasonic signal used in the thermal imaging technique of the present invention;
FIGS. 5(a)-5(d) show consecutive images at predetermined time intervals of an open crack in a specimen that has been ultrasonically excited and imaged by an imaging system of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is an image generated by the imaging system of the invention, showing a closed crack excited by ultrasonic energy;
FIG. 7 is an image generated by the imaging system of the present invention, showing a delamination or disbond excited by the ultrasonic energy;
FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a person holding an ultrasonic transducer against an aircraft component, and using the imaging system of the present invention to detect cracks in the component; and
FIG. 9 is a plan view of an imaging system for detecting cracks in a tooth, according to another embodiment of the present invention.
The following description of the preferred embodiments directed to an ultrasonic and thermal imaging system is merely exemplary in nature, and is in no way intended to limit the invention or its applications or uses.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an imaging system 10, according to an embodiment of the present invention. The imaging system 10 is being used to detect defects, such as cracks, corrosion, delaminations, disbonds, etc., in a specimen 12. The specimen 12 is intended to represent any structural component or material, such as an aircraft skin, that may include these types of defects. It is stressed that the specimen 12 does not need to be metal, but can be other materials, such as ceramics, composites, etc. The system 10 includes an ultrasonic transducer 14 having a piezoelectric element that generates sonic or ultrasonic energy within a certain frequency band. The transducer 14 can be any transducer suitable for the purposes described herein, such as the Branson 900 MA ultrasonic transducer. In one embodiment, the ultrasonic transducer 14 generates a pulse of ultrasonic energy having a substantially constant amplitude at a frequency of about 20 kHz for a period of time of about � of a second and at a power level of about 1 kW. However, as will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, other ultrasonic frequencies, power levels and pulse durations can be used within the scope of the present invention.
The ultrasonic energy from the transducer 14 is coupled to the specimen 12 through a coupler 16. The coupler 16 is in mechanical contact with an end 18 of the transducer 14 and a front side 20 of the specimen 12. FIG. 2 is a broken-away, side view showing the transducer 14 in contact with the coupler 16 and the specimen 12. A support structure 26 is used to help maintain the transducer 14 in contact with the coupler 16. In one embodiment, the coupler 16 is a thin piece of a soft metal, such as copper, to effectively couple the ultrasonic energy into the specimen 12. Of course, other couplers consistent with the discussion herein can be used. For example, the coupler 16 can be a piece of cardboard or automotive gasket material. The coupler 16 can be any suitable piece of material that is typically softer than the end 18 of the transducer 14, and is malleable to be deformed against the end 18 of the transducer 14 and prevent the transducer 14 from bouncing from or walking along the specimen 12. In one embodiment, the coupler 16 couples about 30 to 40 percent of the ultrasonic energy from the transducer 14 into the specimen 12. It is noted, however, that the coupler 16 may not be needed in certain applications, such as testing for defects in a composite.
A thermal imaging camera 22 is provided and spaced from a back side 24 of the specimen 12, and generates images of the side 24 of the specimen 12 in association with ultrasonic excitations of the specimen 12. The camera 22 can be spaced from the specimen 12 any suitable distance to provide images of as much of the specimen as desired in a single image. In other embodiments, the ultrasonic energy from transducer 14 and the image generated by the camera 22 can be provided at the same side of the specimen 12. The thermal camera 22 can be any camera suitable for the purposes described herein, such as the Galileo camera available from Raytheon. In one embodiment, the camera 22 senses infrared emissions in the 3-5 micron wavelength range, and generates images at 100 frames per second. The camera 22 includes a focal plane array having 256�256 InSb pixels to generate the resolution desirable. In one embodiment, the side 24 of the specimen 12 is painted black to provide better contrast for infrared imaging.
A controller 30 provides timing between the transducer 14 and the camera 22. The controller 30 can be any computer suitable for the purposes described herein. When the detection process is initiated, the controller 30 causes the camera 22 to begin taking sequential images of the specimen 12 at a predetermined rate. Once the sequence of images begins, the controller 30 sends a signal to an amplifier 32 that causes the amplifier 32 to send a pulse to the transducer 14 to generate the pulsed ultrasonic signal. The ultrasonic energy is in the form of a simple pulse at the frequency being used. It is not necessary to employ any type of vector lock-in or synchronous imaging techniques between the pulse of energy and the imaging, as is currently done in the prior art. However, such signal processing techniques can be used to further reduce noise. It is stressed that the frequencies and pulse time periods being described herein are by way of non-limiting examples, in that different ultrasonic frequencies, pulse times, input power, etc. will vary from system to system and specimen being tested. After the end of the pulse, the controller 30 instructs the camera 22 to stop taking images. The images generated by the camera 22 are sent to a monitor 34 that displays the images of the side 24 of the specimen 12. The images can then be sent to a storage device 36 to be viewed at another location if desirable.
The ultrasonic energy applied to the specimen 12 causes faces of the defects and cracks in the specimen 12 to rub against each other and create heat. This heat appears as bright spots in the images generated by the camera 22. Therefore, the system is very good at identifying very small tightly closed cracks. For those cracks that may be open, where the faces of the crack do not touch, the heating is generated at the stress concentration point at the crack tip. This point appears as a bright spot on the images indicating the end or tip of an open crack. The ultrasonic energy is effective to heat the crack or defect in the specimen 12 no matter what the orientation of the crack is relative to the energy pulse. The camera 22 takes an image of the surface 24 of the specimen 12, providing a visual indication of any crack in the specimen 12 no matter what the position of the crack within the thickness of the specimen 12.
The present invention provides improvements over the known ultrasonic and thermal imaging techniques because the ultrasonic pulses used to heat the cracks and defects are simple pulses having a substantially constant amplitude, and do not need to employ sinusoidal signal modulation as used in vector lock-in synchronous imaging. To illustrate this point, FIG. 3 shows a graph with power on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis depicting the waveform of the ultrasonic signal used in vector lock-in imaging. The ultrasonic signal is generated at a predetermined frequency, and modulated with a low frequency sinusoidal modulating wave that provides amplitude modulation at a predetermined modulation period. The ultrasonic frequency signal rises and falls in amplitude with the low frequency modulation wave. Typically, the ultrasonic excitation is performed over several seconds. The image generated by this imaging technique is not the actual image of the particular component being imaged, but is a difference image generated by the subtraction process of the synchronous imaging. A more detailed discussion of this type of vector lock-in synchronous imaging to reduce noise in these types of systems is discussed in the '116 patent.
FIG. 4 is a graph with power on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis showing the pulses used to provide the ultrasonic excitation in the present invention. The ultrasonic frequency signal within each pulse has substantially the same amplitude, and is not modulated by a lower frequency sinusoidal waveform. The images generated by the camera 22 are real images, and not difference images of the type generated in the vector lock-in synchronous imaging technique. This provides a significant improvement in image quality and control simplicity. Although one pulse is ordinarily sufficient, more than one pulse can be employed, separated in time by a predetermined time period, for signal averaging purposes to reduce noise. The technique of "box car" integration can be used as discussed in the '183 patent. In this technique, a gate is used in each time window to identify an image for each pulse, where the gate is at a certain fixed time delay from the beginning of the pulse. During the acquisition of the gated images, the images corresponding to different delay times are combined arithmetically to suppress non-synchronous background effects.
FIGS. 5(a)-5(d) show four sequential images 38 of an open fatigue crack 40 in a metal specimen 42. FIG. 5(a) shows the images 38 of the specimen 42 prior to the ultrasonic energy being applied. FIG. 5(b) shows the image 38 of the specimen 42 14 ms after the ultrasonic energy is applied. As is apparent, a light (higher temperature) spot 44 (sketched as a dark region) appears at the closed end of the crack 40, where the mechanical agitation causes the heating. FIGS. 5(c) and 5(d) show subsequent images 38 at time equal to 64 ms and time equal to 114 ms, respectively. The light spot 44 on the specimen 42 increases dramatically over this sequence, clearly indicating the location of the crack 40.
FIG. 6 shows an image 48 of a closed crack 50 in a specimen 52 after being energized by the ultrasonic pulse. In this embodiment, because the crack 50 is closed, the entire length of the crack 50 generates heat creating a light spot 54 along the entire length of the crack 50 and providing an indication of a closed crack. Because the ultrasonic energy is so effective in causing the closed crack 50 to heat up significantly relative to the background, very short closed cracks, for example on the order of ⅔ mm, are readily ascertainable in the image 48.
FIG. 7 shows an image 66 of a specimen 68. In this image, a light spot 70 is shown, and is intended to represent the type of image generated from the thermal energy that is created by ultrasonically exciting a delamination or disbond. The thermal imaging technique of the present invention is particularly useful in identifying "kissing" disbonds.
FIG. 8 is a perspective view of an operator 56 holding a hand-held transducer 58 against a specimen 60, such as an aircraft fuselage. A thermal imaging camera 62 is directed towards the specimen 60 at a location that is separate from the point of contact of the transducer 58. FIG. 8 illustrates that the system according to the invention can be used in the field for testing such components.
The above described system 10 can be modified to provide defect or crack detection in various structures. For example, FIG. 9 is plan view of an imaging system 80 for detecting a crack 82 in a tooth 84. In this embodiment, a conventional ultrasonic dental cleaner 86 is employed to direct ultrasonic energy into the tooth 84. As is understood in the art, the conventional ultrasonic dental cleaner 86 provides a jet of water 88 that acts as the medium for carrying an ultrasonic or sonic signal (about 20 kHz) to the tooth 84. The signal vibrates the tooth 84 to loosen unwanted material on the tooth 84. The water 88 also acts to carry away the unwanted material that has been loosened from tooth 84.
In accordance with the invention, the ultrasonic energy transferred by the water jet 88 also vibrates the tooth 84 and causes the crack 82 to heat up in the manner as discussed above. Thus, infrared or thermal energy 90 emitted from the crack 82 can be detected by an infrared camera 92. The camera 102 can be, for example, the Indigo Systems Alpha infrared camera, that is lightweight, small and inexpensive. The ultrasonic signal from the cleaner 86 would be a pulsed signal of the type discussed above, and would be timed relative to the images generated by the camera 92. Particularly, the signal applied to the cleaner 86 is a simple pulse that generates pulsed sound energy into the tooth 84 having a substantial constant amplitude. A controller of the type discussed above would be used to provide timing signals for the camera 102 and the ultrasonic pulses.
The foregoing discussion discloses and describes merely exemplary embodiments of the present invention. One skilled in the art will readily recognize from such discussion, and from the accompanying drawings and claims, that various changes, modifications and variations can be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the following claims.
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Women accused of kidnapping boy plead not guilty
SAN AUGUSTINE, Texas Krystle Tanner and her mother, Gloria Walker, for years had successfully concealed the true identity of the boy that authorities say they kidnapped from Houston in 2004 when he was just 8 months old.
They hid him in homes in Central and East Texas, kept him out of school and didn't call him by his given name of Miguel Morin, instead renaming him Jaquan. The boy, knowing nothing of who he really was, called Tanner mother and Walker grandmother.
And their secret might never have been discovered if Tanner's newborn son in April 2010 had not tested positive for marijuana. That prompted an investigation by child welfare officials, who were told by Tanner she had another child.
However, attempts to find that other child, who turned out to be Miguel, would go on for nearly two more years as authorities say Tanner and Walker thwarted their efforts through elaborate lies and by secretly shuttling Miguel between homes.
Tanner, 27, and Walker, 50, who each face charges of kidnapping and injury to a child, pleaded not guilty Friday during their first court appearances since being indicted last month.
During the brief court hearing in San Augustine, the women were appointed attorneys, who didn't immediately return phone calls seeking comment. Tanner and Walker each remained in jail on $250,000 bond. Prosecutors said they hope to try the case sometime in August.
Miguel, now 8 years old, is in foster care as a Houston judge waits to hear next month from therapists on when the boy can be reunited with his parents, who are seeking custody despite allowing their four other children to live with another couple.
Investigators believe that in 2004, Tanner, then 19, wanted a child of her own "very badly," said San Augustine County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Gary Cunningham. She lived in the same Houston apartment complex as Miguel and his family, and often baby-sat him.
"Krystle Tanner saw an opportunity, as did her mother, to get this little baby," Cunningham said.
Authorities said that after being taken, Miguel apparently spent much of his time with Walker in a two-story home in Manor, located in the Austin metro area in Central Texas. He also lived with Tanner in a mobile home in San Augustine, a small town nestled in the East Texas woods, about 150 miles northeast of Houston.
During these years, Miguel didn't learn to read or write and never went to school. His long, dark hair, never having been cut, was braided. He was told his birthday was March 26 when it was actually March 1.
The first word of his possible location came in April 2010, when Child Protective Services in San Augustine County began investigating Tanner after marijuana was detected in her newborn son's bloodstream, according to Walker's arrest warrant affidavit. Tanner told CPS she also had a 6-year-old son who lived with her mother in Manor.
Walker denied such a boy existed, and Tanner later recanted her claim.
With no proof of the boy, CPS worked with Tanner, offering parenting classes and other support for her newborn, said CPS spokeswoman Julie Moody.


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Most Lemons Caught In One Minute While Blindfolded
Aaron Rand
Montreal, Quebec, Canada / May 26, 2011
Aaron Rand caught 21 lemons while blindfolded in one minute.
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- any type of lemon permitted
- must be blindfolded for duration of attempt
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Ian McGehee
I did not watch it but wowLIKE · REPLY response to previous attempt
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Jefferson Badger
Nice work guys but this seems sort of sketchy. There are a couple moments where you move your hands before the lemons makes any sort of contact. The most glaring instance for me is at the 1:05 mark where you bat away a lemon in midair that's considerably to the right of your hands. Pat and I will have to get back into the kitchen soon and go for 27!
Jefferson Badger
We taking over in Madison!
Patrick Lueck
Oh, didn't see it in my profile last time I checked - sorry! No special treatment necessary ha
Schuyler Van
According to this record page (and your profile page) you've already got credit for the record. Did you have something else in mind?
Patrick Lueck
We will do our best, definitely look forward to doing new things every day! Any way I can get credit for this even though I didn't submit?
Simon Kirk
Greetings right back to Madison WI
Schuyler Van
KILLED it guys. you guys now have 2 records on the Homepage. good work and keep em comin!
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Aaron's got some great lemon catching technique!
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This is awesome. I'm smelling a break attempt in the office this Friday!