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FMS 2016: Liqid Combines Quad M.2 in to Powerful Packages
Subject: Storage | August 11, 2016 - 11:18 AM | Allyn Malventano
Tagged: FMS, FMS 2016, Liqid, kingston, toshiba, phison, U.2, HHHL, NVMe, ssd
A relative newcomer this year at Flash Memory Summit was Liqid. These guys are essentially creating an ecosystem from a subset of parts. Let's start with Toshiba:
At Toshiba's booth, we spotted their XG3 being promoted as being part of the Liqid solution. We also saw a similar demo at the Phison booth, meaning any M.2 parts can be included as part of their design. Now let us get a closer look at the full package options and what they do:
This demo, at the Kingston booth, showed a single U.2 device cranking out 835,000 4k IOPS. This is essentially saturating its PCIe 3.0 x4 link with random IO's, and it actually beats the Micron 9100 that we just reviewed!
How can it pull this off? The trick is that there are actually four M.2 SSDs in that package, along with a PLX switch. The RAID must be handled on the host side, but so long as you have software that can talk to multiple drives, you'll get full speed from this part.
More throughput can be had by switching to a PCIe 3.0 x8 link on a HHHL form factor card:
That's 1.3 million IOPS from a single HHHL device! Technically this is four SSDs, but still, that's impressively fast and is again saturating the bus, but this time it's PCIe 3.0 x8 being pegged!
We'll be tracking Liqid's progress over the coming months, and we will definitely test these solutions as they come to market (we're not there just yet). More to follow from FMS 2016!
Not the USB thumb drive of the 00's; Kingston's HyperX Savage 128GB USB drive
Subject: Storage | January 26, 2016 - 04:41 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: kingston, HyperX Savage, 128GB USB drive, usb 3.1
Once USB drives were everywhere, they weren't particularly fast nor large but they were more portable that HDDs and much more durable. With the arrival of SSDs, flash storage moved from slower thumb drives to SATA which has now become the bottleneck for speed as the drives themselves can actually exceed the transfer capabilities of SATA. That leaves the USB drive out in the cold, with prices matching or even exceeding lower end SSDs and a form factor only slightly more portable than an SSD in an enclosure.
Kingston's Digital HyperX Savage 128GB USB drive is $86 and Kitguru saw sequential reads topping 400MB/s and writes around 200MB/s which comes close to the limits of the USB 3 connection it uses. The question is, does the smaller size and admittedly attractive packaging draw you to choose this over a low cost SSD and enclosure?
"Kingston has earned a reputation with its HyperX brand over the last few years. Today, we are taking a look at the HyperX Savage 128GB USB drive, which supports first-generation USB 3.1 technology and promises 'blazing fast' read and write speeds. How does it hold up? Let's find out!"
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- Basic Solid State Drive Features Explained @ eTeknix
- QNAP TS-451+ @ Legion Hardware
- Synology DiskStation DS216play 2-Bay Multimedia-Optimized NAS @ eTeknix
- Adam Elements iKlips @ Kitguru
CES 2016: HyperX Teases New Predator NVMe SSD
Subject: Storage | January 10, 2016 - 02:15 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: pci-e, NVMe, M.2, kingston hyper x, kingston
The 2016 Consumer Electronics Show is over, but news is still trickling out from attendees. Maximum PC spotted HyperX's first NVMe solid state drive on the show floor. First shown off at IDF 2015, the HyperX Predator NVMe M.2 SSD made an appearance at CES and the company released a bit more information.
Specifically, the new NVMe SSD will come with an optional PCI-E add-in-card for desktops without an M.2 slot much like its non-NVMe predecessor (AHCI protocol). It will come in 240 GB, 480 GB, and 960 GB capacities and will hit speeds up to 2,585 MB/s reads and 1,354 MB/s writes. Further, Overclockers.com observed a 480 GB model at CES benchmarking at 1,775 MB/s sequential reads and 1,675 MB/s sequential writes.
Beyond that, HyperX (which is the enthusiast division of Kingston Technologies) is not talking details just yet and we do not know which controller or NAND flash they are using. The previous generation Predator uses Toshiba A19 toggle NAND though which is promising.
The new NVMe drive will be available sometime in the second quarter of 2016. Pricing has not yet been announced. Stay tuned to PC Perspective for more details closer to launch. I'm looking forward to the full reviews and what moving to supporting NVMe will do for end users' experiences.
PC Perspective's CES 2016 coverage is sponsored by Logitech.
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CES 2016 Podcast Day 3 - New ROG Monitors, M.2 PCIe Drives, a giant case from EVGA and more!
Subject: General Tech | January 7, 2016 - 02:47 AM | Ken Addison
Tagged: video, ROG, podcast, patriot, nuc, maximus VII, M.2, kingston, Intel, evga, compute stick, CES 2016, CES, asus
CES 2016 Podcast Day 3 - 01/07/16
We wrap up CES 2016 by talking about new ROG monitors from ASUS, Plenty of M.2 PCIe Drives, a giant case from EVGA and more!
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When you need fast portable storage, the Kingston HyperX Savage Flash Drive
Subject: Storage | November 17, 2015 - 01:35 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: kingston, hyper x savage, thumb drive, usb 3.1
Kingston has added a USB drive to their HyperX lineup, the Savage flash drive which connects via USB 3.1, albeit not with the new Type-C connector. That standard theoretically allows faster transfers than the previous 3.0 standard, Kingston quotes 350MB/s read and 250MB/s write as the maximum speeds this drive is capable of. Overclocker's Club tested the 128GB model, there are also 64GB and 256GB models available. Their testing showed that the drive is capable of hitting those speeds in some scenarios and certainly performed faster than the Patriot drive they compared it against. The speed does come at a premium, the 128GB model is $130 on Amazon.
"After running the HyperX Savage USB 3.1 drive through the test suite, it's hard not to like this drive. The quote on Kingston's web site is a performance rating of up to 350MB/s read and 250MB/s write. In a couple of tests, it surely got there covering both ends of the rating. However, in some tests it struggled to reach the rated 250MB/s write rating. Overall though, this has to be the highest performing flash drive I have tested to date."
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- Toshiba Canvio Desk 4TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive Review @ NikKTech
- QNAP TS-451+ & QTS 4.2 @ techPowerUp
- Kingston HyperX Predator M.2 PCIe G2 480GB SSD Review @ NikKTech
- Crucial BX100 250 GiB SSD Review @ Hardware Secrets
- Crucial BX200 960GB @ eTeknix
Thirtysomething cents per gigabyte; Kingston's HyperX Fury versus the SanDisk Ultra II
Subject: Storage | September 23, 2015 - 02:28 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: kingston, HyperX Fury, Ultra II, sandisk, SandForce SF-2281, Marvell 88SS9189
The Kingston HyperX Fury 240GB SSD is currently $90 and the same size SanDisk Ultra II is $86 though the 960GB model that The Tech Report actually reviewed is a relatively decent $300. At those prices they can be quite attractive although there is a big difference between the two drives, Kingston's uses SandForce's SF-2281 while SanDisk opted for the Marvell 88SS9189 controller. Once the benchmarks started the difference did not show in real world applications, both are good performers overall though the HyperX did show some delays in the IOMeter testing. The OCZ Arc 100 that they included did end up on top overall, a strong showing for a drive that is getting a little long in the tooth.
"Kingston's HyperX Fury 240GB SSD and Sandisk's Ultra II 960GB drive both offer solid-state storage at budget-friendly prices for their capacity. We put them through their paces to see whether they're worthy of builders' hard-earned cash."
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- Intel SSD DC P3608 @ The SSD Review
- The Compact NAS Battle: Synology DS414slim vs. QNAP TS-453mini @ Legion Hardware
- Seagate NAS Pro 6-Bay 24TB NAS Server Review @ NikKTech
- PowerNAS CMA 8TB @ Kitguru
- Synology DiskStation DS715 @ Kitguru
- Kingston DataTraveler microDUO 3C USB 3.1 Drive @ Modders-Inc
- Kingston 32GB Data Traveler Micro Duo 3C Review @ OCC
Kingston Announces HyperX Savage DDR4
Subject: Memory | September 19, 2015 - 04:32 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: kingston, ddr4
With Skylake bringing DDR4 to mainstream desktops, Kingston has updated another one of their product lines to the higher standard. Previously, the company had a line of XMP-compatible RAM with a low heatspreader, called Fury, and a line of high-performance sticks with tall heatspreaders. This means that there was no combination (from Kingston at least) that brings 3 GHz RAM to systems with big CPU coolers that hangs over RAM slots.
As expected, kits are available all the way up to 64 GB (8x8GB). That pack is rated at 2800 MHz with a CAS latency of 14, versus the highest-bandwidth 3000 MHz kit (4x8GB) with a CAS latency of 15.
The RAM is supposedly available now, but I cannot find any listing online. Overclockers claims that they found a 2 x 4GB kit on Newegg.com for $72 USD, but I cannot verify that because the listing appears to have been removed. Kingston HyperX Savage DDR4 comes with a lifetime warranty.
Podcast #363 - DX12 Benchmarking, Skylake News from IDF, Intel Optane Storage and more!
Subject: General Tech | August 20, 2015 - 03:51 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: XPoint, video, Skylake, podcast, Optane, ocz, NVMe, kingston, Intel, idf2015, fms2015, dx12, ashes of the singularity
PC Perspective Podcast #363 - 08/20/2015
Join us this week as we discuss DX12 Benchmarking, Skylake News from IDF, Intel Optane Storage and more!
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Program length: 1:13:03
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IDF 2015: Updated: Kingston NVMe PCIe Prototype Shown With New Phison E7 Controller
Subject: Storage | August 19, 2015 - 09:26 PM | Allyn Malventano
Tagged: ssd, pcie, NVMe, kingston, IDF 2015
**Edit** There was some speculation about which controller was in this SSD. It has since been solved. Here's a shot of the top of the PCB:
Now lets compare that with a shot I caught at FMS 2015 last week:
...from the Phison booth. I hadn't wirtten up my Phison post yet but this new Kingston SSD is most certainly going to be using the Phison E7 controller. Here's the placard stating some high level specs:
***end edit***
We saw a draft copy of Kingston's HyperX Predator at CES 2014. That demo unit was equipped with a SandForce 3700 series controller, but since SandForce never came through on that part, Kingston had to switch gears and introduce the HyperX Predator with a Marvell 88SS9293 controller. The Marvell part was very capable, and the HyperX Predator turned out to be an attractive and performant PCIe SSD. The one catch was that Marvell's controller was only an AHCI part, while newer NVMe-based SSDs were quickly pushing the Predator down in our performance results.
Kingston's solution is a newer generation PCIe SSD, this time equipped with NVMe:
We have very little additional information about this new part, though we can tell from the above image that the flash was provided by Toshiba (toggle mode). They also had Iometer running:
We were not sure of the exact workload being run, but those results are in line with the specs we saw listed on Silicon Motion's SM2260, seen last week at Flash Memory Summit.
We'll keep track of the development of this new part and hope to see it in a more disclosed form at CES 2016. Kingston's IDF 2015 press blast appears after the break.
Killing those end of summer blues
As we approach the end of summer and the beginning of the life of Windows 10, PC Perspective and Gigabyte (along with Thermaltake and Kingston) have teamed up to bring our readers a system build guide and giveaway that is sure to get your gears turning. If you think that an X99-based system with an 8-core Intel Extreme processor, SLI graphics, 480GB SSD and 32GB of memory sounds up your alley...pay attention.
Deep in thought...
Even with the dawn of Skylake nearly upon us, there is no debate that the Haswell-E platform will continue to be the basis of the enthusiasts dream system for a long time. Lower power consumption is great, but nothing is going to top 8-cores, 16-threads and all the PCI Express lanes you could need for expansion to faster storage and accessories. With that in mind Gigabyte has partnered with PC Perspective to showcase the power of X99 and what a builder today can expect when putting together a system with a fairly high budget, but with lofty goals in mind as well.
Let's take a look at the components we are using today.
|Gigabyte X99 System Build
|Intel Core i7-5960X - $1048
|Gigabyte X99 Gaming 5P - $309
|Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4-2666 32GB - $325
|Graphics Card
|2 x Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 960 2GB - $199
|Kingston HyperX Savage 480GB SSD - $194
|Thermaltake Core V51 - $82
|Power Supply
|Thermaltake Toughpower Grand 850 watt - $189
|CPU Cooler
|Thermaltake Water 3.0 Extreme S - $94
|Total Price
|$1591 - Amazon Full Card (except CPU)
$1048 - Amazon Intel Core i7-5960X
Grand Total: $2639
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Vonfuzzball posted on Sep 12, 2010 8:37:08 AM - Report post
I usually squeeze from the middle apart from when it's almost empty, in which case i roll the tube up and push out whatever's left.
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SuperSkyline89 posted on Sep 12, 2010 10:29:10 AM - Report post
End, otherwise I have to stand there getting all the paste in the bottom to the top.
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Project-A posted on Sep 12, 2010 11:05:43 AM - Report post
The front. More paste 4 me.
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well, it depends on the amount of tooth paste.
[Edited by springer13, 9/12/2010 5:48:35 AM]
Yeah pretty much that.
If it's a brand new tube filled with toothpaste, I press a little at the top. When half of it is gone, I squeeze at the middle. When there's only a quarter of it left, I squeeze at the bottom all the way to the top.
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Atal posted on Sep 13, 2010 2:20:10 AM - Report post
Front, more easy.
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i usually squeeze from the End and work my way up.
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If its full, I usually squeeze it from the middle, and when its half empty, at the front. Only when it's pretty much empty do I squeeze it from the end.
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This is the fourth article in a five-part series on how to use Rational's latest best-practices development process guidance and modeling tools to design and construct robust, flexible IT solutions based on service-oriented architectures. Rational SOMA 2.9 provides detailed best practices development process guidance for successful IT service solution design. Rational Software Architect provides industry-leading modeling tools that support the new SoaML services modeling standard from the Object Management Group (OMG).
In the first article we introduced Rational Software Architect and Rational SOMA 2.9 as a unified tool set and process guidance offering for accelerating service solution design and development results. The second article provided an overview of the process guidance content and features of Rational SOMA 2.9. The third article described the Rational Software Architect tools for building business process models using Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), and showed how to use them to build a simple example of a business process.
This article describes Rational Software Architect's support for service solution design and how the capabilities can be used to build robust, enterprise-scale service models. The article also describes how Rational Software Architect enables organizations to deepen the alignment between business and IT. This is done by using business models, built using Rational Software Architect and other IBM tools, to drive service discovery and service solution development.
Tool support for service solution design activities
Process and Representations Overview
As has been described in Parts 1 and 2, Rational SOMA 2.9 is IBM's commercially-available method for service solution design. Briefly, the method provides best practices for identifying and specifying services and for making service realization decisions.
Service identification is where we first start to cross from the business domain into the IT domain. Business-oriented inputs can include, for example, business process models, business functional models, business goals, and business domain models. Service identification involves analyzing these and other inputs to discover and describe "candidate services" that represent capabilities that IT could potentially provide to automate the business. In SoaML, we represent a candidate service as a Capability (or, more precisely, a UML class with the SoaML «Capability» stereotype applied to it).
We begin service specification by evaluating the candidate services according to several criteria in order to prioritize them for further design and implementation. The set of prioritized service candidates serves as an input into other service specification activities.
Once the candidates-to-be-specified have been selected, we make architectural and interface design decisions to more formally and completely describe the services that are to be realized and implemented. This includes basic interface definitions in terms of the operations and their parameters and such, but also includes any other constraints or responsibilities that potential providers or consumers of the services must adhere to or fulfill. In SoaML, we represent a service specification primarily in terms of a Service Interface (a UML interface or class with the SoaML «ServiceInterface» stereotype applied to it). More complex service specifications might involve a Service Contract (a UML collaboration stereotyped as a SoaML «ServiceContract») to capture constraints or requirements above and beyond what can be appropriately expressed through interfaces alone.
As part of the service model, we specify conceptual components that provide and/or consume services as Participants (a UML component with the SoaML «Participant» stereotype applied to it). Services and Requests are represented using UML ports applied to Participants and marked with SoaML «Service» and «Request» stereotypes, respectively. Services and Requests are typed using either Service Interfaces or unstereotyped UML interfaces.
Making service realization decisions involves just that – deciding how the specified services will be realized using run-time components. Several modeling techniques, including using some aspects of SoaML, conventional UML-based component modeling, and technology-specific solution modeling, can be used to document these decisions.
Tooling to support the method
Practitioners can substantially automate their SOMA-based SOA design work using the service modeling features in Rational Software Architect, which are based on the SoaML standard from OMG, and other Rational Software Architect capabilities:
- Rational Software Architect's SoaML features, their integration with the tool's BPMN-based business process modeling functionality, plus general-purpose UML modeling capabilities help automate the Rational SOMA service identification and specification activities;
- Rational Software Architect's support for SoaML, general-purpose UML modeling, domain-specific modeling of JEE and .NET solutions, and domain-specific modeling of deployment topologies can be used to help make and document service realization decisions.
SoaML and Rational Software Architect
Rational Software Architect supports service modeling by providing a SoaML profile (UML extension) and additional SoaML-specific tooling. SoaML support was added in Rational Software Architect 7.5.4 and has been enhanced in subsequent releases. This support is integrated with the BPMN-based business process modeling support that was the focus of Part 3.
Service Modeling with SoaML
In this section we will introduce service modeling and SoaML as we build a service model. We will use the business process model from the previous article as input into service identification. Then we will produce a service specification based on that.
Creating a Service Model
The first step in service modeling in Rational Software Architect is to create a service model in a project. We will use the Model wizard to create a service model in the same project in which we created our business process model in the previous article. If you are not already in the Modeling perspective you should open it at this point by selecting "Open Perspective > Other..." from the "Window" menu. Then you can invoke the Model wizard by selecting "New > Model" (or "New > UML Model") from the "File" menu.
In the Model wizard (see Figure 1), we select the option to create a new model from a standard template, and press "Next".
Figure 1. The first page of the Model wizard
On the next page of the wizard (Figure 2), we select the "Services Modeling" category and then the "Blank Services Model" template. (Note that we do not select the Software Services Profile, which is deprecated.) We accept the default file name, "Services", ensure that the destination folder is set to the root directory of our project, and press "Finish".
For more rigorous service modeling than we are demonstrating in this article, we would have selected the "Service Design Model" template from the wizard. This is a pre-structured template that includes substantial internal advice regarding how to use it, as well as a rich collection of pre-defined model building blocks that can be used to create a consistently-structured service model. Rational SOMA 2.9 includes a comprehensive set of tool mentors that describe how to build a service solution model using this template.
Note: If the "Services Modeling" category is not listed, try selecting the "Show All Templates" checkbox just beneath the "Categories" list. If it is still not listed then you probably do not have the service modeling features of the Extension for SOA and WebSphere feature installed, in which case you will need to install that before proceeding.
Figure 2. The second page of the Model wizard
We end up in the model editor opened on the default diagram, "Main," in our new service model. It is empty to start with. The model itself, "Services.emx," is also opened, but we do not need to edit that so we close it. At this point the workbench looks like Figure 3.
Figure 3. Workbench with new service model
Service-related Workbench Elements
Let's take a quick look at each relevant section of the workbench.
The big empty space in the middle is of course our new (empty) service model opened in the model editor. That is where we will be doing most of our work as we do service modeling. The Properties view, just below (see Figure 4), shows the properties of the diagram itself at this point because nothing is currently selected. As usual, there are more properties than could be shown at once, so there are tabs along the left that let you select whatever category of properties you are interested in.
Figure 4. The Properties view for the new service model diagram
Along the right-hand side of the editor is the Palette. The contents are what we would normally get when editing a UML model, except for the addition of a Service drawer. The Service drawer is available whenever we are editing a service model. It provides most of the types of elements we will need to use while doing service modeling. Figure 5 provides an expanded view of the Service drawer so that you can see the full set of available elements.
Figure 5. The Service drawer of the Palette
We won't be using all of these elements in the service model we will build in this article, so here is a brief description of each. This will also give you a brief overview of the kinds of things you can describe using SoaML. We describe them here in a different order than they appear in the Palette in order to minimize having to mention items that we haven't already described.
- A Capability is used to represent a candidate service, as we mentioned above. The Palette offers three ways to create one.
- The Capability tool simply creates a Capability that isn't initially related to any other modeling elements.
- If we are identifying services based on a BPMN business process model (as we will be doing here), it is convenient to select Capability from BPMN element. This lets us select a BPMN Process, Lane or Task, from which it will create a new Capability that is named after whatever we selected and already contains operations named after the contained or selected Tasks. It will also automatically create traceability links from the Capability back to the BPMN elements we choose.
- If we've described our business processes using UML Activity diagrams, it is convenient to select Capability from UML Activity. This lets us select a UML Activity, Partition or Action, from which it will create a new Capability that is named after the contained or selected Actions. It will also automatically create derivation links from the Capability back to the Activity elements we chose.
- A Service Interface is used to describe the interface to a
service in terms of the operations it provides and (optionally) operations that
consumers of the service must provide.
- We would use Service Interface (simple) in the case where the service provides operations but does not require its consumers to provide any. A simple Service Interface is based on a UML Interface.
- We would use Service Interface (collaborating) if the service will also require consumers of the service to provide one or more operations, perhaps to support asynchronous communication. A collaborating Service Interface is a UML Class. Like a simple Service Interface, it specifies the operations that the service will provide, but it might also specify that it uses other Interfaces in order to so, thereby specifying operations that consumers of the service will have to provide.
- We would use either Service Interface (simple) from BPMN element or Service Interface (collaborating) from BPMN element if we wanted to create a Service Interface based on a BPMN element, bypassing the creation of Capabilities. We don't do that in this article.
- We would use Expose to create a SoaML Expose relationship from a Service Interface to the Capability (or Capabilities) that it represents in order to maintain traceability. As we will see later, Rational Software Architect provides tooling that can generate both a Service Interface and an Expose relationship for a selected Capability.
- A Service Contract is used to help specify a service for which Service Interfaces alone cannot capture some kinds of more complex constraints or responsibilities. A Service Contract typically contains parts, typed by Service Interfaces or UML Interfaces, that represent the roles played by potential participants in the service. The Service Contract might also include a UML behavior that describes how the roles interact. For example, a Service Contract could contain a UML Interaction whose Lifelines represent potential participants. Its message sequence could be defined to indicate the required (valid) ordering of operations.
- A SoaML Message Type (based on a UML Data Type, Class or Signal) or UML Data Type is used to specify service messages, which represent the data that are to be passed between service participants.
- A Participant represents a component that will provide or consume services (or both). If we are creating Participants directly from business process elements, it is convenient to use Participant from BPMN element.
- Agent is a generalization of Participant that can define "a classification of autonomous entities that can adapt to and interact with their environment" [SoaML specification, pg. 50]. See §7.1.2 of the SoaML Specification for more details. We do not use Agents in the examples in this article.
- A Participant provides or consumes a service via a Service or Request Port, respectively. A Service or Request Port is typed by a Service Interface or a simple UML Interface to indicate which service it participates in and how. A Participant can have an arbitrary number of Services and Requests.
- We can add a Provided Interface or Required Interface to a Service or Request Port. This adds an Interface to those provided or used by the Port's Service Interface (type).
- A Service Channel represents a connection between a Request and a Service Port over which service operations are to be invoked. Service Channels appear in UML composite structure diagrams, for example to illustrate how the elements of a set of services are connected at runtime.
- A Services Architecture is a stereotyped UML collaboration that describes how a set of Participants work together to collectively realize either a higher-level Participant or a process of some type, commonly a business process.
Service Identification
We are going to start service modeling by identifying some candidate services and representing them as SoaML Capabilities. In order to keep ourselves organized, we will want to create a package for this. We will use the Main diagram in our Services model as an overview of the packages we create, so we edit it and drag a new Package onto it (from the Class drawer of the Palette) and name our new Package "Candidate Services". This also creates a diagram in our new Package, which we rename from "Main" to "Candidate Services" for clarity as shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6. The new Candidate Services Package
To start identifying some candidate services, let's take another look at the business process model that we built in the previous article (Figure 7).
Figure 7. The business process model
Several service candidates are apparent. We first notice that we probably want a service for receiving an order based on the Order Received Start Event in the Order Processing Lane. So, in the Service Candidates diagram, we use the "Capability from BPMN element" tool in the Service drawer of the Palette to create one. In the Select Element dialog, we select the Order Processing Lane and set the traceability link options we want (Figure 8). We click "OK" and accept the default name, "Order Processing."
Figure 8. The Select Element dialog
We can confirm that the traceability link got created for us by selecting the Capability and choosing Navigate / To URL, bringing up the properties of the Order Processing Lane from which we can show it in the Project Explorer (Figure 9).
Figure 9. Following a traceability link
We want an operation to represent handling the event, so we add one to the Capability and name it Receive Order.
We can see that Order Processing will need to be able to invoke a request on each of the other three Lanes, so we'll create candidate services for each of them, each as an operation in its own Capability. Let's start with Production. We use "Create from BPMN element" again, but this time we select the Production Lane. This creates a new Capability for us named "Production" (as well as traceability linkage to the Production Lane), but it also automatically creates a Request Production operation within the Capability because the Production Lane contained a Task with that name. See Figure 10.
Figure 10. The Production Capability
We can go ahead and create Capabilities for the Finance and Shipping Lanes as well, ending up with what is shown in Figure 11.
Figure 11. The initial service candidates
Looking at the business process again, we decide that we want to make some changes to our initial service candidates.
- In Finance we see that Prepare Invoice is something that it will do internally so we don't need an operation for it, so we delete that operation. But we will need an operation for Shipping to invoke in order to provide Finance with the shipping price, so we add an operation, "Receive Shipping Price," to it.
- In Shipping, we delete the Price Shipping operation because it is internal.
- In Order Processing, we see that Finance and Shipping will need a way to provide the invoice and shipping schedule, so we create operations for those.
We then have something like what is shown in Figure 12.
Figure 12. The revised service candidates
We have skipped over an important part of service identification, which is to identify existing services that we might want to leverage. In this small example project we don't have any because we are essentially starting from scratch. In the real world, however, this is seldom the case.
We have now expressed the incoming business requirements (as represented by the business process model) as a set of candidate services. These candidate services represent IT capabilities which, when implemented, will meet the requirements and support the business process. The next step is to more concretely and precisely specify how the services will be exposed and how they can be used.
Service Specification
We are skipping the first step of service specification, in which we evaluate the candidate services according to a well-defined set of criteria which we then use to prioritize them and select those for subsequent specification, design and development. In this small example, we are essentially prioritizing all of them. In the real world, however, priority-based choices will need to be made.
To get started, we create a "Specifications" Package in our Services model (and rename the diagram accordingly). In our Main diagram we create a dependency relationship between the Specifications and Candidate Services Packages as a matter of good organizational form. See Figure 13.
Figure 13. The Specifications Package
Creating service interfaces
Looking first at the Order Processing Capability, we realize that there are really two kinds of things going on here. The Receive Order operation is fundamentally different than the other two because the former is (conceptually, at least) going to be exposed to the outside world while the latter are used only internally by the business. We therefore decide to represent these as two separate interfaces.
First, we will create the externally exposed interface. Because it is useful to have the service candidates visible while creating our service specifications, we drag the Order Processing Capability from the Project Explorer onto our Specifications diagram. Now we can select it and invoke Add Services Modeling > Service Interface (simple) from its context menu. We'll name it External Order Processing. Notice that we also got a SoaML Expose relationship between the Service Interface and the Capability from which it was created. This provides traceability linkage in this phase. We only want the Receive Order operation in this Service Interface, so we delete the other two. We also rename the remaining operation so that it better reflects our IT naming standards. In the same way, we also create a Service Interface named Internal Order Processing that contains just the other two operations. See Figure 14.
Figure 14. Service Interfaces related to order processing
We've made the appearance of the Capability different here in order to make it clear that it's defined in a different package and is included in this diagram just for context.
The other three Capabilities are more straightforward because they are all used only internally. We create a single Service Interface for each, as shown in Figure 15.
Figure 15. All of the Service Interfaces
Note that one could make a case that the operations in, say, the Shipping Service Interface should be in separate interfaces because they will be needed by different participants. Order Processing needs requestShipping() but does not need scheduleShipping(), for example. Having the two operations in the same Service Interface means that we don't have the flexibility to design separate providers for them. One could make a similar argument about the operations in Finance. In this example, for simplicity, we have chosen not to do this.
Creating service data
We know that our service operations are going to need to pass data around in order to do their jobs. Sometimes a business process model already contains some kind of data definitions, although typically just very high level business terms. In this case it did not, so we'll have to start from scratch.
First, we will define a Data package within the Specifications package in which we'll create our data definitions (Figure 16).
Figure 16. The Data package
To start off, we can see that receiveOrder() will need something to represent an order that is received. We'll use a SoaML MessageType (Class) for this (from the Message Type stack in the Service drawer of the palette), naming it "Order". We can then add to it the attributes we know it will need (Figure 17).
Figure 17. The Order Message Type
Real, robust data analysis and modeling for services is a critical part of the process but is outside the scope of this article series. For completeness, however, let's say we've specified all of the data types required by these services as shown in Figure 18.
Figure 18. Data specification
Finishing the service interfaces
Now that we have our data specified, we need to add parameters to the operations in our Service Interfaces that use them. When we're done, we have something like what is shown in Figure 19.
Figure 19. The completed Service Interfaces
Creating a service contract
Let's say that we want to specify that our service operations must be invoked in a particular order. One way to do this is to create a Service Contract that contains a UML Interaction with a Sequence Diagram that specifies the allowed ordering.
To create a Service Contract, we use the Service Contract item in the Service drawer of the palette. We'll name our new Service Contract "Ordering Contract". Then, we can select it in the Project Explorer, bring up its context menu and select Add Diagram > Sequence Diagram. We'll name the new Interaction and Sequence Diagram "Ordering Interaction" and "Ordering Sequence", respectively (Figure 20).
Figure 20. The Ordering Contract with an Interaction and a Sequence Diagram
We want to create a Lifeline for each Service Interface so that we can use them to show the order in which the operations are to be performed. An easy way to do this is to select the Service Interfaces in the Project Explorer and drag them onto our Sequence Diagram. A nice side-effect of this is that for each Service Interface it creates an attribute in our Ordering Contract that has the Service Interface as its type. Each Lifeline corresponds to (represents) one of the attributes.
With five Lifelines, the Sequence Diagram is pretty wide due to the widths of their headings. We can do a couple of things to bring it down to a more manageable size. First, we select all five Lifelines in the diagram and, in the Appearance tab of the Properties view, we select the "Decoration" radio button in the "Show Stereotype" group. This removes the stereotype name ("«ServiceInterface»") which saves some width. Note that this merely affects the appearance of the Lifeline; it does not actually remove the applications of the stereotype. Another thing we can do is to delete each Lifeline's name. Since there is only one of each type, we do not need them to have names for us to be able to easily distinguish them from each other. After we delete their names we have something like Figure 21.
Figure 21. Lifelines in the Sequence Diagram
Now we can draw the events in the order we want to specify. To start with, an order is received by the External Order Processing role. To draw this, we place our cursor near the left-hand edge of the diagram, wait for the connector handle to appear, drag a line to the External Order Processing Lifeline, click on Asynchronous Message, then double-click on the receiveOrder() operation. Figure 22 shows the sequence.
Figure 22. Drawing a message event
We then draw the other message events in the desired order, using a Parallel Combined Fragment to show the possible parallelism, after which it should look about like Figure 23.
Figure 23. The completed Sequence Diagram
Putting this Interaction into the Service Contract means that any participant in the service must, in addition to implementing the operations specified by the Service Interface for its role, abide by the ordering specified by this Interaction. For example, a participant playing the Finance role must not invoke the receiveInvoice() operation on the Internal Order Processing participant until it has had its initiatePricing() and receiveShippingPrice() operations invoked.
At this point we have fully specified our service.
Service Realization
Now we are ready to make some decisions about how the services will be realized by deciding what the participants will be and how they will be connected to realize a functioning system. In SoaML, we use a Participant to model a component that will provide and/or consume one or more services. To start with, we'll create a Realization Package with a dependency on the Specification Package (Figure 24).
Figure 24. The Realization Package
First, we decide that we want to realize both the External Order Processing and Internal Order Processing services with the same Participant. In the Realization diagram, we use the Participant entry in the Service drawer of the palette to create a Participant, which we name "Order Processing". We then select it and, from its context menu, select Filters > Show External View. This will let us add and see its ports around on its borders. We then use the Service palette item to add a Service Port to it by dropping it somewhere on its border. You'll know you're in the correct "drop zone" when the Participant's border is highlighted. When we create the Service Port it asks us what we want the Port's type to be. We choose Select Existing Element and then select the External Order Processing Service Interface. Finally, we enter "ordering" to be the Port's name. Figure 25 shows the sequence and results.
Figure 25. Creating a Service Port
We decided that we want this Participant to also provide the Internal Order Processing service, so we add a second Service Port, naming it "internal". It also needs a Request Port for each of the other Service Interfaces is uses: Finance, Shipping and Production.
We'll create three more Participants as follows:
- The Finance Department Participant will have a Service Port whose type is the Finance Service Interface. It will also have Request Port whose type is Internal Order Processing because it needs to invoke one of its operations.
- The Production Department Participant will have a Service Port whose type is Production and a Request Port whose type is Shipping.
- The Shipping Department Participant will have a Shipping Service Port, a Finance Request Port, and an Internal Order Processing Request Port.
After we do this and tidy up a bit, the result will be similar to what is shown in Figure 26.
Figure 26. The Participants
We also want to show how these Participants will be interconnected at runtime in order to actually do their jobs. To do that, we add another Participant to our Realization Package by selecting the Package in the Project Explorer and selecting Add Services Modeling > Participant from its context menu. We'll name it "Ordering". Then we'll add a Composite Structure diagram to the Ordering Participant by selecting it and then selecting Add Diagram > Composite Structure Diagram from its context menu. We'll name the diagram "Ordering" as well.
First, we add a Service Port to it, setting its type to the External Order Processing Service Interface (Figure 27).
Figure 27. The Ordering structure with a Service Port
We can easily add parts to the structure (to represent the Participants) by simply dragging each Participant into the Ordering structure diagram from the Project Explorer. This will add a part for each Participant and set its type accordingly. See Figure 28.
Figure 28. The Ordering structure with its parts
Now we need to create Service Channels to show how the Participants' Ports are to be connected together. First, we'll connect the external ordering Port to the corresponding one on the order Processing part in the structure. To do that, we put our pointer next to the external Port, grab the outgoing connection handle, drop it on the ordering port of the order Processing part, and select Service Channel from the list of possible connections. Figure 29 shows the sequence.
Figure 29. Drawing a Service Channel
Now we'll make the other Service Channel connections that we need, rearranging the layout as we go, after which we'll have something like Figure 30. Note that we've hidden the «ServiceChannel» labels on the Service Channels in order to make the diagram a little less cluttered.
Figure 30. The completed Ordering structure
In this article we described the Rational Software Architect tools for building service models using SoaML. First, we briefly explained what service modeling for service identification and service specification is, who typically does it (and why), and how it fits into the overall process. Then we gave a brief overview of the service modeling elements that are supported by Rational Software Architect. Finally, we showed you how to use the service modeling tools to build a small service model that contains some candidate services, some service specifications, and a possible realization.
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Part 5, the remaining article in this series, describes how service models built using Rational Software Architect can be used to accelerate the creation of valuable service solution artifacts. Specifically, it focuses on leveraging service models to create SCA-related content.
- BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) is a standard from the Object Management Group that specifies a notation for describing business processes.
- SoaML (Service Oriented Architecture Modeling Language) is a specification of the Object Management Group. SoaML defines a notation and a meta-model for describing and specifying service-oriented systems.
- Watch the two-part video series Business Process Modeling and SOA Design with Rational Software Architect 8.0 .
- Learn more about SOA and service governance in Bobby Woolf's developerWorks article, Introduction to SOA governance.
- To learn more about IBM Global Business Service's proprietary method for service design and development, read SOMA: A method for developing service-oriented solutions.
- IBM now delivers its commercial best practices content in the form of largely-separable, discretely-adoptable practices. Visit Welcome to IBM practices on developerWorks to learn more about our Practices.
- One of the major sources of inspiration for the detailed service design method in Rational SOMA is the IBM Redbook, "Building SOA Solutions Using the Rational SDP". The latest update to the Redbook occurred in 2008, thus the tooling it illustrates is dated. Nonetheless, this is a good service design resource to have on your "book shelf".
- Rational SOMA 2.9 borrows much of its approach to service modeling using SoaML from Jim Amsden's 5-part IBM developerWorks series, "Modeling with SoaML, the Service-Oriented Architecture Modeling Language".
- Visit the OASIS Service Component Architecture (SCA) site to learn more about these open-industry specifications for creating service components using a wide range of implementation and run-time technologies.
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- Download Rational SOMA 2.9. This is IBM's commercially-available best practices content for service solution design. The URL points to a pre-published evaluation version of Rational SOMA 2.9 and to a full version, which can be published using Rational Method Composer. Rational SOMA also is productized as a Process Advisor configuration that ships with variants of Rational Software Architect, Version 8.0 and higher, that include the service modeling tooling.
- Download a trial version of Rational Software Architect for WebSphere Software. If you have a choice of versions, we recommend Version 8.0 or higher. To experience the enhanced service solution design capabilities of Rational Software Architect, you will need to use Version 7.5.4 or greater. If you download Version 7.5, then use IBM Installation Manager – which is installed along with Rational Software Architect – to upgrade to the current version of the product that is in the 7.5.x code stream.
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Paris — A new front has been opened in the luxury war —with the crosshairs trained on high-profile analysts.
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Tensions among analysts reached a new zenith Tuesday with the disclosure that LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton has sued Morgan Stanley, charging it with bias and alleging conflict of interest.
Morgan Stanley has close ties with LVMH's arch-enemy Gucci Group, advising it on mergers and acquisitions. The suit, seeking $100 million in damages, also singles out its chief luxury goods analyst Claire Kent, claiming an anti-LVMH bias in her research and ratings.
"The relationship has always been tense between analysts and some companies, but now this is a war," said one equity researcher who spoke on condition of anonymity. "It's pretty sad. And if it happened once, it can happen again."
The lawsuit certainly won't foster an environment where analysts feel free to express their true opinions. Speaking only if they would not be named, several analysts told WWD they are already fearful of voicing negative views on stocks. They feel pressure mounting both from the investment banking operations of their home institutions and from the companies they cover — all against a backdrop of intensified corporate scrutiny in the wake of countless scandals and improprieties.
"In general, the atmosphere is incredibly hostile," said one London-based analyst.
Luxury groups routinely discriminate against analysts who express negative opinions by snubbing them when it comes time to do investor road shows, which are scheduled encounters between company management and a bank's clients meant to drum up investor interest. Fashion firms have also been known to blacklist analysts from their presentations and conference calls.
And there have been some bloodcurdling private admonishments and colorful public skirmishes between luxury firms and the analysts who cover them.
In January 2000, Gucci Group chairman Domenico De Sole lashed out against Lehman Bros.' John Wakely, who questioned Gucci's multibrand strategy and downgraded the stock.
Kent's salvo earlier this month wasn't likely to placate LVMH, Gucci or many other luxury firms. As reported, she and Mandy Deex cut sales and earnings estimates for the two luxury rivals as well as Bulgari, Hermès, Companie Financiere Richemont and Swatch, noting that the outlook for luxury firms appeared "considerably worse since the Bali tragedy, not better." Only Burberry, a Morgan Stanley client but not a pure luxury issue, avoided the downgrade.
Defending Kent's most recent downgrades, one U.S.-based analyst, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said, "I think she was 100 percent right. She was negative on the group and, truthfully, the group has been a disaster. I believe they [LVMH] are using the relationship with Gucci and Morgan Stanley as an excuse."
Gucci and LVMH have been turning up the heat on journalists, too. Tom Ford barred Le Monde fashion critic Laurence Benaim from his Gucci show last October because of an alleged anti-Ford bias, and LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault uninvited International Herald Tribune fashion editor Suzy Menkes to a Givenchy show last year when he took offense to one of her Christian Dior reviews.
But the LVMH lawsuit against Morgan Stanley is a lightning bolt for a long-simmering problem — and will no doubt further tighten the lips of many industry commentators.
"I find it a bit of a desperation move for LVMH to do that," one analyst commented. "I don't think it really helps LVMH's reputation. [The company] can't seem to let go of the problem it has with Gucci."
The analyst was referring to the long-raging and acrimonious war between the groups, which stemmed from LVMH's failed bid in 1999 to do a hostile takeover of Gucci.
Sources said LVMH's suit charges Kent and Morgan Stanley of factual errors in its reporting of the French group's financials and of distorting its performance and prospects. "[Kent] is consistently negative," one source said. "She amplifies all the bad news about LVMH while downplaying the good news."
The suit was quietly filed in Paris commercial court in recent weeks, but the public is privy only to any pending judgments. The first hearing is tentatively scheduled for Jan. 21.
Morgan Stanley issued a brief statement Tuesday defending the work of Kent and her team. "Morgan Stanley categorically rejects LVMH's claim and stands by the integrity of its research," the bank said. "Morgan Stanley intends to defend this suit vigorously."
It is believed LVMH lawyers will present evidence suggesting Morgan Stanley favors clients its investment banking side advises, including Burberry, Bulgari and Gucci Group. The overall implication is that the investment banking side pressured its equity researchers to favor clients — and/or disadvantage their competitors.
The action adds more tension to an already nervous investment community in which analysts have seen their motives and recommendations questioned as a trickle of corporate corruption scandals has grown into a torrent. Most notably, New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer has been investigating telecommunications analysts Jack Grubman of Salomon Smith Barney, who had continued to advise clients to buy WorldCom shares until a few days before accounting irregularities were disclosed at the now-bankrupt company. Salomon Smith Barney included WorldCom among its clients.
"It's hunting season against the analysts. It is either Eliot Spitzer or the companies themselves," said one analyst not affiliated with Morgan Stanley, adding that most analysts are simply looking to execute nothing more than "real good fundamental work."
Members of the media have been holding their collective breath this week after the New York Stock Exchange proposed that analysts speaking with reporters about a company be required to disclose whether they own the stock or their firm has a business relationship with that firm. If the Securities and Exchange Commission were to approve the proposed guidelines, analysts would be expected to discontinue contact with any reporter who didn't publish the information provided about these potential conflicts of interest.
Whatever the fate of the LVMH suit, it is clear that the days of laissez-faire investment research could be drawing to a close. Analysts polled Tuesday acknowledged the need to fortify the so-called "Chinese Wall" between research and banking functions.
"We need to separate equity research from the investment banking interests to eliminate the conflicts of interest that could force analysts to give positive ratings," said one analyst at a Milan-based bank. "The things most at risk are the investment banking contracts."
In a recent guest column in WWD, Peter J. Solomon, head of the investment bank that bears his name, suggested that investment research be pooled in much the same fashion as earnings estimates.
"To keep the banking fees rolling in, banks try to have a good relationship with these clients with positive research reports," agreed another analyst who works for a Milan-based brokerage without investment banking interests.
On the investment side, LVMH is often advised by Goldman Sachs, but the list of banks it works with spans Credit Suisse, ABN Amro and others.
Meanwhile, the LVMH lawsuit is bound to stir wider debate about how luxury firms communicate with investors. European companies are notorious for their Byzantine reporting methods: often trumpeting impressive increases in profits, while burying exceptional items that cut into earnings.
Luxury analysts give mixed grades when assessing the openness of the companies they cover. Gucci, Swatch, Bulgari, Luxottica are generally described as communicative, while LVMH, Companie Financiere Richemont and Hermès were seen as being stingy with information.
One analyst noted that Gucci and LVMH tend to share details on their flagship brands, Gucci and Louis Vuitton, respectively, but tend to lump together financial results on their smaller brands or recent acquisitions, making it difficult to discern how each part of the business is performing.
"That lack of disclosure is not justified unless there is something to hide," one analyst suggested.
According to some observers, increasingly stringent disclose demands may have been at least one factor behind LVMH's recent decision to delist its stock in New York and Brussels. LVMH said it ended its American Depositary Receipt program and Brussels listings because the trading volumes were negligible and the listings were costly to maintain. More than 99 percent of investors trade LVMH's stock on the Paris Bourse.
However, LVMH remains registered with the SEC in the U.S. and must still comply with its reporting ordinances, an LVMH spokesman said. Only companies with less than 300 U.S. shareholders are relieved of the onus.
News of the lawsuit comes amid increasingly tough times for Morgan Stanley.
People close to the bank said it is axing about 2,000 jobs as it seeks to cut costs in an economic downturn. Most of those job cuts will be in North America and they will be across all business division of the bank, these people said. Morgan Stanley declined to comment.
U.S. analysts took in the news with reactions ranging from pride to defensive.
Jeff Stinson, an analyst at Midwest Research, said, "I have never felt pressure myself to change a report or to put out positive research."
Rich Wyler, a spokesman for the Association for Investment Management and Research, a nonprofit organization for investment professionals, characterized the conflict-of-interest issue as one of the "unintended consequences" of the SEC's sweeping deregulation measures of 1975. Those changes altered the way banks funded their research departments so that they relied heavier on investment banking income rather than fees from investor clients.
The organization condemned companies that force analysts to give positive opinions. "For companies to threaten analysts, to try to get them fired or complain to their bosses when what [the analysts] are trying to do is independent thinking — that, in our view, is unethical."
Still, Wyler said he's optimistic that the climate is improving for more independent research, citing an increasing percentage of sell ratings from analysts and the example set at Citibank, which spun off its research arm into a separate subsidiary.
"We are seeing improvements and expect to continue to see them in the future," he said.


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For the last two years, Citadel catcher Joe Jackson has flashed the signals to Austin Pritcher, telling him which pitch to throw.
Palmetto State Picks
State players taken in the MLB draft:
Player Pos. State tie Team Rnd Pick
Nick Ciuffo C Lexington HS Rays 1 21
Akeem Bostick RHP W. Florence HS Rangers 2 62
Daniel Palka 1B Lyman D'backs 3 88
Jacob May OF Coastal Carolina White Sox 3 91
K.J. Woods OF Fort Mill HS Marlins 4 112
Joe Jackson C The Citadel Rangers 5 160
Cory Thompson SS Mauldin HS Reds 5 165
Nate Smith LHP Furman Angels 8 247
Jake Zokan LHP Coll. Charleston Mariners 9 267
Taylor Grover RHP USC Aiken Red Sox 10 293
Emilio Pagan RHP JL Mann Mariners 10 297
Tyler Webb LHP South Carolina Yankees 10 314
Ryan Gunther RHP Charleston So. Braves xx 373
LB Dantzler 1B South Carolina Blue Jays xx 415
DeAndre Asbury OF Brookland-Cayce HS Cardinals xx 455
Will Remillard C Coastal Carolina Cubs xx 558
Scott Firth RHP Clemson Rockies xx 559
Austin Pritcher RHP The Citadel Tigers 19 576
Zach Loraine RHP Coker College Cardinals 21 635
Zach Hayden RHP USC Aiken Twins 23 680
Gaither Bumgardner RHP USC Upstate Mets 23 686
Trey Wimmer C Greenwood (Liberty) White Sox 23 693
Josh Miller C USC Aiken A's 23 701
Bud Jeter RHP Presbyterian D'backs 25 750
Matt Pierpoint RHP Winthrop Rockies 26 769
Adam Westmoreland LHP South Carolina Marlins 26 772
Eli White SS Wren HS Reds 26 795
Brison Celek 1B South Carolina Blue Jays 31 925
Taylor Johnson OF Furman Angels 31 937
J.D. Osborne LHP Wofford Astros 36 1067
Will Callaway 2B Eastside HS (App State) 37 1122
Ben Carlson RHP Furman 40 1207
So it's kind of fitting that it was Jackson who signaled to Pritcher on Saturday the immediate future of his pro career.
Pritcher, the Southern Conference pitcher of the year, learned from his battery mate that he had been drafted in the 19th round of the Major League Baseball draft.
A senior from James Island, Pritcher was the No. 576 overall pick of the three-day draft, which ended today.
Also, Charleston Southern senior Ryan Gunther, a Stratford High School product, was taken in the 12th round by the Braves, the No. 373 overall pick.
Pritcher was watching South Carolina's Super Regional game against North Carolina when he got the word from Jackson.
"I was checking my phone and the computer here and there, and then I got a text from Joe telling me I'd been drafted," Pritcher said.
Pritcher got a call from the Tigers shortly afterwards, and expects to report shortly to a mini-camp on Florida, where he will learn his first minor-league assignment.
"I'm pretty excited about it," said Pritcher, a 6-1, 200-pound right-hander who was 8-3 with a 2.99 earned-run average this season. "It's something I've dreamed of my whole life."
Jackson was drafted in the fifth round by the Rangers on Friday, but Pritcher had to wait until the third day. That was nerve-wracking, he said.
"I was kind of numb when I didn't go on the second day," he said. "But once you get to a certain point in the draft, it doesn't matter anyway. I'm just excited that I will get a chance."
Gunther, a right-hander, was 7-5 with a 3.97 ERA, including a 4-2 mark and 2.86 ERA over his final seven starts.
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Skip to comments.Flags from Apollo moon landing still standing, photos reveal
Posted on 07/30/2012 7:11:53 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
(LRO slewed 19° down-Sun allowing the illuminated side of the still standing American flag to be captured at the Apollo 17 site.)
An enduring question ever since the manned moon landings of the 1960s has been: Are the flags planted by the astronauts still standing?
Now, lunar scientists say the verdict is in from the latest photos of the moon taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC): Most do, in fact, still stand.
"From the LROC images it is now certain that the American flags are still standing and casting shadows at all of the sites, except Apollo 11," LROC principal investigator Mark Robinson wrote in a blog post today (July 27). "Astronaut Buzz Aldrin reported that the flag was blown over by the exhaust from the ascent engine during liftoff of Apollo 11, and it looks like he was correct!"
Each of the six manned Apollo missions that landed on the moon planted an American flag in the lunar dirt.
Scientists have examined images of the Apollo landing sites before for signs of the flags, and seen hints of what might be shadows cast by the flags. However, this wasn't considered strong evidence that the flags were still standing. Now, researchers have examined photos taken of the same spots at various points in the day ...
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I haven't heard of anything to blow it down. Not much wind in the Sea of Tranquillity.
So, are these LRO photos of the Apollo sites going to quiet down the conspiracy theorists? I'm sure there will be diehards, but I don't think they will have much traction.
Shelia Jackson Lee(D-TX) wants to know if the flag our astronauts planted on Mars is still standing.
Just wait till the Chinese go and play capture the flag and stick theres in its place
If the worst happens and Obama stays in our White House for four more years (God forbid!), it's nice to know that our flag will still fly somewhere. I'd take a planet with no atmosphere over one ruled by a communist thug. I wonder how close we are to being able to settle the moon as a private expedition.
Unless of course the gargomytes trample it down.
Didn't you even read the thing?
That is pretty amazing! They've kept the Burbank studio set intact all those years?
On a visit to the JPL she asked if the Mars Rover would be able to show "the flag the astronauts planted there before".
I wonder when obama is going to pay the Russians, the Chinese, or some private company to go get that flag back. Then he can apologize to the whole world. And the universe.
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I can foresee the day when the US taxpayer will foot the bill for an "international" mission to Mars, maybe we'd get a Rainbow flag.
To date, the Apollo missions have been the high point of the American experiment.
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What is Their Current Condition?
US flags still standing? Wait till the kenyan CSer piece of filth hears about this!
Actually, the first flag was placed there by the Blackstronauts, if I may say, or point out, or state, if you will.
"...gave proof through the night, that our flag was still there..."
You would think they would have been blown over by a hurricane or something by now.
"Even on Earth, the colors of a cloth flag flown in bright sunlight for many years will eventually fade and need to be replaced. So it is likely that these symbols of American achievement have been rendered blank, bleached white by the UV radiation of unfiltered sunlight on the lunar surface. Some of them may even have begun to physically disintegrate under the intense flux."
Bleached white. Sure as hell wouldn't be able to see colors after all this time.
Sort of ... good guess!
Okay, THAT was hilarious. I am still laughing at poor Stinky Pete and the white African American Studies expert with the "thuglife" t-shirt.
The conspiracy went so far as to remove September 31st from the calendar, if I might point out.
I can't believe "Buffalo Butt" was the first man on the moon.
I can't believe the USPS dropped stopped orbit to earth letter delivery. No wonder FedEx is beating the pants off them.
Of course the right answer could be provided by her fellow D-Moron compatriot Congress idiot Hank Johnson, who would respond that the rover couldn't get too close to the flag because the combined weight would capsize Mars.
Oh great! Now the aliens are gonna think the French got to the moon first.
lol — okay, I might have made that up.
And I see the gargomytes in your pic are communicating to us in the "universal language".
Little gravity, little atmosphere (if any) equal low resistance to movement. The motion of the flag was caused from the action of the shaft being moved by the astronaut after handling the flag.
Not sure what episode number, but Mythbusters did a good job of completely debunking every major contention of the conspiracy nuts.
President Obama, America did that (while you were likely somewhere else.)
President Obama, America did that (while you were likely somewhere else.)
Old Glory. Long May She Wave.
An excellent episode, particularly their investigation of "moonwalking" ... but it must be said they came up a little short on the footprint. They were not able to reproduce it, I thought, under their experimental conditions, but bluffed their way through. A mere blemish, but in these matters, blemishes count.
|LROC's most frequently asked question answered:LRO slewed 19° down-Sun allowing the illuminated side of the still standing American flag to be captured at the Apollo 17 landing site. LROC Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) observation M113751661L, LRO orbit 1897, November 25, 2009; 52.5 cm resolution, angle of incidence 56.73° from 44.87 kilometers [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
|Charlie Duke captures John Young saluting the flag while jumping, (twice). A great demonstration of the lower gravity on the Moon. Apollo 16 Lunar Module (LM) Orion and the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) are in the background. View the re-master original indexed at the Apollo 16 Lunar Surface Journal, HERE - MET: 120:25:42 - (AS17-113-18339) "He is off the ground about 1.45 seconds which, in the lunar gravity field, means that he launched himself at a velocity of about 1.17 m/s and reached a maximum height of 0.42 m. Although the suit and backpack weigh as much as he does, his total weight is only about 65 pounds (30 kg) and, to get this height, he only had to bend his knees slightly and then push up with his legs." Video Clip ( 3 min 21 sec 0.9 Mb RealVideo or 30 Mb MPEG ) [NASA].
|The flag was captured in this image of the Apollo 16 site with the spacecraft slewed 15° towards the Sun; the shadowed side of the flag is seen by LROC. NAC frame M175179080L, orbit 10950, November 6, 2011; native resolution 40.4 cm per pixel, angle of incidence 41.91° from 23.56 kilometers [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
The shape of things to come.
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico "NASA has begun drafting guidelines to protect the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 landing sites, listing them as off-limits, and including ground-travel buffers and no-fly zones to avoid spraying rocket exhaust or dust onto aging, but historic, equipment"
Oh, oh. The Apollo "truthers" will grab onto that and claim NASA wants the sites off-limits because they don't want future astronauts/cosmonauts to see there is nothing there.
i thought the mother ship from INDEPENDANCE DAY blew it down.
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In the world of show biz, the NFL has had their fair share of celebrities.
Some of them, however, seem to stand alone.
There are mediocre dances like the spike and the jumping back bump, and then there is the Joe Horn, cell phone in the field-goal padding celebration.
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J.McCall (2016) "Teaching History With Digital Historical Games: An Introduction to the Field and Best Practices." Simulation and Gaming (the abstract is at http://sag.sagepub.com/content/early/recent)
Teacher Design Notes: Using Civilization IV to Learn about Agrarian Societies
(Originally posted on PlaythePast.org 5/21/14 http://www.playthepast.org/?p=4737)
Before I begin, a short preface. I have made it something of a personal mission, both as a researcher and writer on historical simulation games and as a classroom teacher, to crack the Civilization IV code. In other words, to find ways to make its educational value commensurate with the significant amount of time and effort it takes for my students to learn to play and become really familiar with the game. Over the years I have made progress here and there building on what I have learned in each implementation. This coming year, I plan to take a big step forward in using Civ in my 9th grade ancient world history class. In the hopes that my process of reasoning, planning, and implementing may prove useful, or at least interesting. I am going to "work out loud", so to speak, posting blog entries of the work I'm doing reconceptualizing the use of Civ 4 in my classroom. It may well be that some readers will find me to be stating what is obvious to them or confirming ideas and practices they have already adopted in their own classes. I am hopeful, though, that enough readers will find something of interest. Don't hesitate to let me know whether you find this useful or mundane.
For some time now I have been struck by the parallels between the world systems that Civilization IV presents and the world systems of agrarian civilizations presented by Big Historian David Christian in his excellent, Maps of Time. And it occurs to me that, so long as one believes comparative work and big-picture trends are important components of an ancient world history course, Civilization IV might well be an outstanding tool for examining those trends. So that's what I'm going to do with Civilization IV in my next course in Ancient World History, use it explicitly to illustrate the core features of agrarian societies and the major trends in ancient world history. I have certainly done bits of this in the past, like using Civ to illustrate Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel hypothesis, but I have never systematically approached the year-long play and investigation of Civ in this way.
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IPad and History Games
I've stayed pretty quiet about IPads. It's clearly becoming increasingly important that people who are making a decision whether to go with an IPad or with a Windows/Mac option for games and learning in history or any field know this important detail. At this point, going with IPad effectively shuts one out of playing most (80-90% ?) of the commercial history games and all of the free Flash-based games (which are essentially 99% of web games) (please correct me if IPad now runs flash programs (not just the movies)).
I was doing a bit of foraging today for some friends on the IPad and came up with a few games that are excellent options for gaming in the history class and are all on IPad (they do require purchase). I wanted to share these for those who need IPad assistance. Please feel free to post more — there are thousands of apps to browse through, and a lot of dross around the gems.
New article on Ed-Tech and Games by Mercedes Bell
Mercedes Bell, Reevaluating Ed-Tech Tools and Learning Games, at OnlineUniversities.com
New articles on simulation games and history
Posted two recent articles of mine.
From November 2012 The History Teacher: Navigating the Problem Space: The Medium of Simulation Games in the Teaching of History
From spring 2012 Journal of Digital Humanities: Historical Simulations as Problem Spaces: Criticism and Classroom Use
Navigating the Problem Space: The Medium of Simulation Games in the Teaching of History
The History Teacher published my article in the November 2012 volume. It reflects my latest research and theory on simulation games as a medium, how they compare to more familiar narrative media, and what that means for the classroom. Give it a look and let me know what you think.
The History Teacher is available at most college libraries and through many online databases.
Playful Learning Initiative on Edgamer
Listen to Zack Gilbert, Gerry James, and I discuss the Playful Learning Initiative and find out how you can participate.
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At least eight Brumbies – including Rory Arnold and Sam Carter are expected to be picked in the Vikings side before the National Rugby Championship season launch.
At least eight Brumbies – including Rory Arnold and Sam Carter are expected to be picked in the Vikings side before the National Rugby Championship season launch.
Kahurangi Tori Kapea is trying to carve out a career on the catwalk, but that doesn't mean she'll shy away from the tough stuff when she plays in the Canberra women's rugby union grand final on Saturday.
Jamie Marmont was a hero in an era where hearing the roar of a two-stroke engine chainsaw was commonplace at every Whites game.
Northern Suburbs have ended 41 years of heartbreak after beating Sydney University 28-15 to lift the Shute Shield for the first time since 1975.
A Kiwi from a rugby coaching dynasty has led a club rugby revival in Sydney.
It took a handful of phone calls from a club veteran to Wallabies coach Michael Cheika but Test rookie Tom Robertson has been cleared to play for Sydney University in Saturday's Shute Shield final.
Sydney University captain Tom Carter says this will be his last year of club rugby and hopes his side can continue their impressive momentum with a win against Warringah in the Shute Shield semi-finals this weekend.
Less than 20 hours after playing in what could be his last match for the Waratahs, the international hooker made a shock appearance for Parramatta against Sydney Uni.
Born and bred into a rugby family, Paremo Marsh raised eyebrows when she joined the Canberra Mustangs for the inaugural Ladies Gridiron League last year.
Former Waratahs centre and Sydney University captain Tom Carter believes their top of the table clash against arch-rivals Randwick will be decided at the breakdown.
At Randwick Rugby Club's season launch last Thursday, in a boardroom 38 storeys high looking out towards Sydney Harbour, ARU chief executive Bill Pulver arrived and took his seat at an event not many expected him to attend.
Former Wallabies coach and Randwick president Bob Dwyer has launched a scathing attack on ARU chief executive Bill Pulver for financially neglecting Sydney rugby clubs after asking for their help two years ago because the game's governing body was "going to go broke".
Injuries have struck early for NRC side NSW Country Eagles. And they're expecting to be pushed hard by Canberra Vikings on Saturday.
Eastwood have gone back-to-back in the Shute Shield for the first time in 12 years after a tryless 15-12 win over Manly at Concord Oval.
Despite errors creeping into their game, Randwick claimed their first Shute Shield win.
Sydney University centre Tom Carter won't go as far as to say the club "are the underdogs" of the Shute Shield competition this year.
The Gordon Highlanders came to Woollahra Oval and conquered Eastern Suburbs in their Shute Shield opener to clinch an away win they can owe to their strength at the breakdown.
South African Jacques Potgieter didn't waste time leaving an impact on the Waratahs in his first season for them last year when they won their first Super Rugby title.
The Randwick rugby team will take part in a pioneering concussion research program in which all first grade players will wear a biosensor to record impact levels in contact.
Manly capitalised on the strength of their massive pack to beat Shute Shield leaders Warringah and take first place on the ladder from them with an emphatic home victory on Saturday.