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Basho and Open Source
July 23, 2013
This week is O'Reilly OSCON, a conference dedicated to all things open source. Basho is a sponsor and Basho engineer, Eric Redmond, will be delivering a presentation entitled "Distributed Patterns In Action".
Basho first open sourced Riak in 2009. It's a decision that helped us grow our business, and become a leader in newer, agile enterprise environments. Our participation in the open source community benefits our culture, our development process, and our business.
In honor of OSCON, we thought it important to explore the commercial aspects of our open source decision.
The Business of Open Source
Open source is in the DNA of our company, with both Riak and Riak CS available under the Apache 2 license. (It is worth noting that these products are but a few of our open source contributions, which also include Webmachine and Lager.) To turn this great code into a business, we chose to stay true to our roots as a software company, instead of just selling services. The enterprise versions of Riak and Riak CS offer the entirety of our open source software, with the addition of multi-datacenter replication and monitoring capabilities.
The decision to sell licenses to the enterprise, rather than to rely just on services, makes Basho unique. It allows us to engage with our enterprise customers in the transformation of their application architecture. They can be confident in the software's availability and in Basho's commitments to support them – as customers. Enterprises need an alternative to traditional database vendors, but one that can still fit — in license structure, operational management, and process integration — into a traditional organization.
Our licensing model for Riak Enterprise and Riak CS Enterprise lets us balance agility with tradition. Our community helps us develop groundbreaking software, while the enterprise license helps corporate IT and Operations sleep at night.
Open source drives adoption (a concept discussed at length in Stephen O'Grady's book The New Kingmakers). That means Riak is used across many different industries, powering thousands of applications. That commercial validation — our success in production deployments — is accelerated due to the open source availability.
We remain keenly aware, and tremendously appreciative, that our community (from the individuals to the large organizations) guides Riak and Riak CS updates, and has been crucial to the refinement and forward momentum of this software.
Basho's success is open source's success. Our strengths reside both in our team and in our community, as their combined efforts improve our technology and its utilization. We are excited to see what other open source showcases are in view at OSCON 2013.
Riak 1.4: Riak Control
July 16, 2013
Riak Control is a web-based administrative console for inspecting and manipulating Riak clusters.
Although Riak Control is maintained as a separate application, the necessary code for Control ships with Riak 1.1 and above and requires no additional installation steps. For details on setting up Riak Control, check out our docs.
Those are things you may already know about Control. Now let's look at the changes in 1.4.
Cluster Management with Staging
riak-admin command-line tool has offered staged clustering since Riak 1.2. Riak 1.4 brings that functionality to Control.
The new Cluster Management interface allows you to stage cluster node additions and removals. Once the changes have been reviewed, they can be committed to the cluster. After being committed, Control displays partition transfers and memory utilization changes as they occur.
Staged changes to the cluster:
Changes committed; transfers active:
Cluster stabilizes after changes:
Standalone Node Management Interface
Because the Cluster Management interface now operates on staged changes, actions that cannot be staged have been moved to the Node Management interface. Here, changes to individual nodes, such as stopping or marking them as down, can be applied.
Contributing to Riak Control
Riak Control's user interface is built using Ember.js, and for persistence, Ember Data. The backend is written in Erlang using Webmachine.
Riak Control's modular design prevents users from having to understand every detail of its existing functionality to contribute. If you're interested in contributing, we have outlined the process of setting up a development environment, as well as some basic rules for contribution.
Check out our Riak 1.4 announcement to learn what else is included in this release.
Basho to Speak About Riak at Lambda Jam
Chicago, IL – July 8, 2013 – Throughout the Lambda Jam Conference this week, Basho will be presenting twice about various aspects of Riak, as well as hosting a workshop on Webmachine. Lambda Jam is a conference for functional programmers and features a mix of sessions and workshops. It takes place in Chicago from July 8-10.
John Daily (Technical Evangelist at Basho), will be presenting first on "Distributed Programming with Riak Core and Pipe." During his talk, he will dive into how Riak Core and Riak Pipe can be used, both within and beyond Basho. His talk begins at 9am on Tuesday, July 9th.
On July 10th at 9:50am, Basho Architect, Steve Vinoski, will be speaking on "Addressing Network Congestion in Riak Clusters." In this talk, he will discuss an experimental approach to alleviating network congestion effects, such as timeouts and throughput collapse for Riak clusters under extreme load. In addition to exploring network scalability issues, this talk shows how Erlang can seamlessly integrate with non-FP languages.
Finally, Sean Cribbs and Chris Meiklejohn (Software Engineers at Basho) will be hosting a workshop entitled, "Functional Web Applications with Webmachine." This workshop will provide guidance for understanding and getting started with Webmachine. It will then gradually expose richer HTTP features, while building out an application that is used by browsers and API clients alike. Their workshop begins at 1pm on July 10th.
To see where else Basho will be speaking, please visit our Basho Events Page.
Webmachine 1.10.0: never breaks eye contact
May 3, 2013
We recently tagged version 1.10.0 of Webmachine and, in addition to a slew of bug fixes, it includes some notable new features. Those features are the subject of today's post; but first a bit of background on the driving force for these additions.
The development of Riak CS is great for dogfooding and bringing home some of the pain points in application development using Riak. The same is also true for Webmachine.
Webmachine has not received a great deal of attention recently because it had what Riak needed and, for the most part, Webmachine has just worked. With Riak CS we needed things from Webmachine that either were not possible or did not work in a way that suited our needs. Besides there was more pressing work to be done making Riak more awesome. With Riak CS that was not always the case. So we have been adding new features we needed and we believe these features will be of use and interest to the larger Webmachine community. Dogfooding FTW again!
We have now also created a
1.11.0 tag that includes an updated tag of
mochiweb so that Webmachine can be built and used with Erlang R16.
New features for 1.10.0
Run multiple dispatch groups within a single application
Users can now specify multiple groups of dispatch rules that listen on different IP addresses and ports within the same Erlang application. Read about how to configure this here.
Event-based logging system
The server modules that previously handled Webmachine logging have been replaced with an event-based system. Log event handlers can be added and removed dynamically and custom log modules can be easily added and run in concert with any existing log handlers. More details about the new logging system are here.
Ablity to specify a URL rewrite module
This feature is very similar to the
mod_rewrite module for Apache
httpd. A rewrite module specifies a set of rules for rewriting the URL and the rewritten URL is what is processed by the dispatch rules of Webmachine. Docs are here. The module used by Riak CS to rewrite S3 API requests can be found here.
Stream large response objects without buffering the entire object in memory
Streaming content has long been possible with Webmachine, but it was not suitable for use with large objects when not using
multipart/mixed because Webmachine buffered all of the content in memory to determine the size in order to properly set the
Content-Length header. This was important for Riak CS because it needed to stream back very large objects and the S3 API does not use multipart responses for this operation. Now streaming large content where the size can be determined in advance can be accomplished without having to pay the price of buffering everything in memory. More info on using this feature is here.
Ability to override the resource_module value in the request metadata
The impetus for this feature is more esoteric than the other features so an example is probably the best description. Take the case where the Webmachine resource modules duplicate a lot of code in implementing the required callbacks to service requests. One way to address this is to move much of that common code to a single module and use that common module as the resource in all dispatch rules. The ModOpts for each dispatch rule are used to specify a smaller set of callbacks for resource specialization so that logging data reflects the specialized resource module and not the common module. We will provide further details about the motivations this in a subsequent blog post focused on Riak CS. Documentation on how to configure this option can be found here.
Webmachine in the Data Center
May 19, 2010
While Riak is Basho's most-heavily developed and widely distributed piece of open source software, we also hack on a whole host of other projects that are components of Riak but also have myriad standalone uses. Webmachine is one of those projects.
We recently heard from Caleb Tennis, a member of The Data Cave team who was tasked with building out and simplifying operations in their 80,000 square foot data center. Caleb filled us in on how he and his team are using Webmachine in their day to day operations to iron out the complexities that come with running such a massive facility. After some urging on our part, he was gracious enough to put together this illustrative blog post.
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A Data Center from the Ground Up
Building a new data center from the ground up is a daunting task. While most of us are familiar with the intricacies of the end product (servers, networking gear, and cabling), there's a whole backside supporting infrastructure that also must be carefully thought out, planned, and maintained. Needless to say, the facilities side of a data center can be extremely complex.
Having built and maintained complex facilities before, I already had both experience and a library of software in my tool belt that I had written to help manage the infrastructure of these facilities. However, I recognized that if I was to use the legacy software, some of which was over 10 years old, it would require considerable work to fit it to my current needs. And, during that period, many other software projects and methodologies had matured to a state that it made sense to at least consider a completely different approach.
The main crux of such a project is that it involves communications with many different pieces of equipment throughout the facility, each of which has its own protocols and specifications for communication. Thus, the overall goal of this project is to abstract the communications behind the scenes and present a consistent and clear interface to the user so that the entire process is easier.
Take for example the act of turning on a pump. There are a number of pumps located throughout the facility that need to be turned on and off dynamically. To the end user, a simple "on/off" style control is what they are looking for. However, the actual process of turning that pump on is more complicated. The manufacturer for the pump controller has a specific way of receiving commands. Sometimes this is a proprietary serial protocol, but other times this uses open standard protocols like Modbus, Fieldnet, or Devicenet.
In the past, we had achieved this goal using a combination of open source libraries, commercial software, and in-house software. (Think along the lines of something like Facebook's Thrift, where you define the interface and let the backend implementation be handled behind the scenes;in our case, the majority of the backend was written in C++.)
"This is what led us to examine Erlang…"
But as we were looking at the re-implementation of these ideas for our data center, we took a moment to re-examine them. The implementation we had, for the most part, was stateless, meaning that as systems would GET and SET information throughout the facility, they did so without prior knowledge and without attempting to cache the state of any of the infrastructure. This is a good thing, conceptually, but is also difficult in that congestion on the communication networks can occur if too many things need access to the same data frequently. It also suffered from the same flaws as many other projects: it was big and monolithic; changes to the API were not always easy; and, most of all, upgrading the code meant stops and restarts, so upgrading was done infrequently. As we thought about the same type of implementation in our data center, it became clear that stops and restarts in general were not acceptable at all.
This is what led us to examine Erlang, with its promise of hot code upgrades, distributed goodness, and fault -tolerance. In addition, I had been wanting to learn Erlang for a while now but never really had an excuse to sit down and focus on it. This was my excuse.
While thinking about how this type of system would be implemented in Erlang, I began by writing a Modbus driver for Erlang, as a large portion of the equipment we interact with uses Modbus as part of its communications protocol. I published the fruits of these labors to GitHub (http://github.com/ctennis/erlang-modbus), in the hopes that it might inspire others to follow the same path. The library itself is a little rough (it was my first Erlang project) but it served as the catalyst for thinking about not only how to design this system in Erlang, but also how to write Erlang code in general.
Finding Webmachine
While working on this library, I kept thinking about the overall stateless design, and thought that perhaps a RESTful interface may be appropriate. Using REST (and HTTP) as the way to interface with the backend would simplify the frontend design greatly, as there are myriad tools already available for client side REST handling. This would eliminate the need to write a complicated API and have a complicated client interface for it. This is also when I found Webmachine.
Of course there are a number of different ways this implementation could have been achieved, Erlang or not. But the initial appeal of Webmachine was that it used all of the baked in aspects of HTTP, like the error and status codes, and made it easy to use URLs to disseminate data in an application. It is also very lightweight, and the dispatching is easy to configure.
Like all code, the end result was the product of several iterations and design changes, and may still be refactored or rewritten as we learn more about how we use the code and how it fits into the overall infrastructure picture.
Webmachine in Action
Let's look at how we ultimately ended up using Webmachine to communicate with devices in our data center…
For the devices in the facility that communicate via modbus, we created a modbus_register_resource in Webmachine that handles that interfacing. For our chilled water pumps (First Floor, West, or "1w"), the URL dispatching looks like this:
{["cw_pump","1w",parameter],modbus_register_resource,[cw_pump, {cw_pump_1w, tcp, "10.1.31.202", 502, 1}]}.
This correlates to the url: http://address:8000/cw_pump/1w/PARAMETE
So we can formulate URIs something like this:
http://address:8000/cw_pump/1w/motor_speed or http://address:8000/cw_pump/1w/is_active
And by virtue of the fact that our content type is text:
content_types_provided(RD,Ctx) ->
{[{"text/plain", to_text}], RD, Ctx}.
We use HTTP GETs to retrieve the desired result, as text. The process is diagrammed below:
This is what is looks like from the command line:
user@host:~# curl http://localhost:8000/cw_pump/1w/motor_speed
It even goes further. If the underlying piece of equipment is not available (maybe it's powered off), we use Webmachine to send back HTTP error codes to the requesting client. This whole process is much easier than writing it in C++, compiling, distributing, and doing all of the requisite exception handling, especially across the network. Essentially, what had been developed and refined over the past 10 years as our in-house communications system was basically redone from scratch with Erlang and Webmachine in a matter of weeks.
For updating or changing values, we use HTTP POSTs to change values that are writable. For example, we can change the motor speed like this:
user@host:~# curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/cw_pump/1w/motor_speed?value=50
user@host:~# curl http://localhost:8000/cw_pump/1w/motor_speed
But we don't stop here. While using Webmachine to communicate directly with devices is nice, there also needs to exist an infrastructure that is more user friendly and accessible for viewing and changing these values. In the past, we did this with client software, written in Windows, that communicated with the backend processes and presented a pretty overview of what was happening. Aside from the issue of having to write the software in Windows, we also had to maintain multiple copies of it actively running as a failover in case one of them went down. Additionally, we had to support people running the software remotely, from home for example, via a VPN, but still had to be able to communicate with all of the backend systems. We felt a different approach was needed.
What was this new approach? Webmachine is its own integrated webserver, so this gave us just about everything we needed to host the client side of the software within the same infrastructure. By integrating jQuery and jQTouch into some static webpages, we built an entire web based control system directly within Webmachine, making it completely controllable via mobile phone. Here is a screenshot:
What's Next?
Our program is still a work in progress, as we are still learning all about the various ways the infrastructure works as well as how we can best interact with it from both Webmachine and the user perspective. We are very happy with the progress made thus far, and feel quite confident about the capabilities that we will be able to achieve with Webmachine as the front end to our very complex infrastructure.
Caleb Tennis is President of The Data Cave, a full service, Tier IV compliant data center located in Columbus, Indiana.
Collecta Selects Basho's Riak EnterpriseDS to Scale Real Time Search Business
Collecta Collaborates with Basho to develop Basho's Riak Search Product
CAMBRIDGE, MA – Dec. 15 – Basho Technologies, Inc., a provider of commercial and open source distributed, highly scalable data store software and analytics tools, today announced Collecta has selected Basho's Riak Search as it continues to build its real-time search engine for the entire Web, not just social media.
Collecta, which already uses Webmachine, Basho's open-source RESTful application server, provided the initial requirements and critical input into the design and validation of Riak's new search and indexing features. Currently in testing with Collecta, as well as a handful of other clients, Basho will make Riak Search widely available January 15th.
"Collecta really provided the spark of motivation for us. Once they determined Riak EnterpriseDS met their stability and performance needs for document storage and retrieval, we collaborated with them to implement a search and indexing system for Riak," said Earl Galleher, Chairman and CEO of Basho Technologies, Inc.
"Traditional indexing systems are not designed for the needs of real-time search. Using Riak, we will get much better performance and save money on infrastructure." said Jack Moffitt, Collecta's CTO. "We already knew Basho made great software because we used and trusted Webmachine, but Riak Search takes it to the next level."
In reference to the Search features Mr. Moffitt said, "After an initial exchange of ideas about how to build a better indexing system on distributed databases like Riak, the Basho team went off and built a prototype. The results were so promising that we knew the combination of Collecta's domain expertise and Basho's data engine expertise will make for a perfect relationship."
"Collecta immediately grasped how an indexing solution on a truly distributed, scalable data store would change the game for search," said Justin Sheehy, Basho's CTO. "Riak allows users to add and remove capacity as traffic spikes and ebbs or data sets grow. With no special master nodes, distributed MapReduce, and other Riak technologies, Collecta can double their analytical power and storage by doubling the number of low-cost nodes in a cluster."
About Basho Technologies
Basho Technologies, Inc., founded in January 2008 by a core group of software architects, engineers and executive leadership from Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM) is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Basho produces Riak, a distributed data store that combines high availability, easily-scalable capacity and throughput, and ease of use. Riak's high availability data store means that applications built using Riak remain both read and write available under almost any operational conditions and without requiring intervention. Available in both an open source and a paid commercial version, Riak provides unprecedented performance and availability to web, mobile, and enterprise applications.
About Collecta
Collecta represents a new way to experience search, in real time. Collecta is the Web's most powerful streaming real-time search engine, posting matching stories, blogs, photos, and comments as they happen. By aggregating content in real time, Collecta offers a new and more comprehensive view of what's going on in the world right now. For more information, visit http://Collecta.com.
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Collecta Chooses Riak Search
December 15, 2009
Another big announcement for the team here at Basho: Collecta, which makes a truly cool real-time streaming search engine, has chosen to use Riak Search. They are longtime Webmachine users and when they learned about Riak, they partnered with us to define Riak Search and validate the prototype.
Look for a blog post later in the day from Justin Sheehy on what it was like to work with Collecta. (Hint: it was awesome!)
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iMoney.my Launches the Bahasa Malaysia Version of Their Credit Card, Loan and Investment Comparison Site Today
iMoney.my today announced the launch of the Malay version of their popular financial comparison site. Finally, the usually under-served Bahasa Malaysia-speaking market is now empowered to compare the most lucrative credit card, loan and investment deals in their native tongue.
Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur (PRWEB) December 20, 2012
iMoney.my today announced the launch of the Malay version of their popular financial comparison site, featuring Malay financial categories like kad kredit, pinjaman peribadi and pinjaman rumah, tapping into the vast ethnic Malay market.
"The Malay language financial comparison market is woefully under-served," says Lee Ching Wei, founder of iMoney.my. "To date, there hasn't been a website that has faithfully displayed such a vast array of financial offerings so that our Malay consumers can also enjoy the chance to save money by strategically taking advantage of the best rates. It's the first of its kind."
To create the bilingual version of the site, Lee spared no expense in hiring reputable translation talent to faithfully translate the vast article repository and hundreds of listings word-for-word. As a result, a new market can now enjoy iMoney.my's famous educational articles and transparent credit card, personal loan or insurance listings in their mother tongue.
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Lee adds, "We received a flood of email from the Malay market that told us that even though they thoroughly enjoyed our how-to and comparison content, they couldn't comprehend some of the complex financial terminology in English. Therefore, we thought that by translating the content, iMoney.my will be able to serve this market far better."
Within the next quarter, this target market will soon be able to enjoy iMoney.my's infographics and viral sensations in the native tongue as well. Boasting social media sharing far into the 4 digits, these popular infographic graphics include a graphical overview of the Malaysian budget, the intriguing mechanisms behind how credit card works, and the surprising truth behind credit card spending in Malaysia.
"iMoney.my aims to bring savvy financial education to anyone and everyone," concludes Ching. "And we believe the best way is to contextualize sound financial management advice into something even a person with no formal accounting training can grasp."
Ching Lee is a CFA charterholder and is a former investment consultant and wealth advisor. He is the founder of iMoney and a trusted authority on personal finance and investments.
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Everyday, millions of Malaysians fall victim to the complexities of the finance industry. Some experience pain and hardship when choosing or buying financial products; others make uninformed decisions that they regret for the rest of their lives.
It´s easy to blame the banks — after all, banks typically profit at the expense of consumers. While at times this is true, the reality is that there are banks that do look out for their customers and offer decent products. With over 200 credit cards, 300 savings, 500 loan and thousands of investment products available in the market, the trouble for consumers is in identifying the gems among the rubble.
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Boxes, bags, bathroom sinks, flower pots -- cats like to curl up in things, often things that are too small to fit them, leaving them comically muffin-topping out of odd items, like shoeboxes. And, despite being cats, it can often be a case of monkey see, monkey do, where if one cat does something, all the other cats want to do it too.
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Dan was a 12 year old boy back in 1967 when Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin made their world famous film. From the very first time he saw it, he was amazed and hooked on Bigfoot.
As a young boy, Dan was privileged to grow up out in the country where he and one of his friends used to play in the woods almost everyday. One day they came across a huge dome shaped enclosure with an opening on one end. It was big enough for both of them to fit in comfortably and used it as a ready made fort for about two weeks. One day when they went back to play in their fort, they found it was completely gone.
As a young boy, Dan had no idea of the significance of what they had discovered. It wasn't until years later that he realized what the structure was.
His Bigfoot research then began to take off and he has never looked back. Though he began with reading and online research, he has since spent a great deal of time in the woods researching and seeking answers as to what this creature is.
Dan Baker was a believer until June 15th 2013 when he had a nighttime sighting. From that time on he became a knower.
In July of 2014, he founded American Primate Exploration / A.P.E. . It is a closed group on Facebook with membership closing in on 800 people. It is a very serious, no nonsense group with research teams in 8 states, Manitoba,Quebec and the U.K.
Dan has had the pleasure of meeting many greats in the Bigfoot community such as Dr. Jeff Meldrum, Esteban Sarmiento, Lyle Blackburn, John Kirk III, The cast of Finding Bigfoot, and his hero and living legend, Bob Gimlin.
Nite Callers Bigfoot Radio Presents: Florida Bigfoot Researcher Mark Zaskey
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Mark Zaskey, is a Crypto-Zoologist, the creator, writer and host of "Crypto-Reality" radio show, investigative journalist, author of "Bigfoot: The Unavoidable Truth," and "Who Decides What is real."
Mark has been studying the Bigfoot species for over 16 years in the state of Florida. He is himself, an eyewitness and has had multiple encounters as have members of his field research team including his son Christopher in Myakka State Park.
His plain spoken and confrontational approach to skepticism and scientific bias are hard hitting and have yielded valuable information into dealing with these areas of our subject.
He is best known for his research into the ongoing resistance mainstream science has toward eyewitnesses regarding their encounters with the Bigfoot species.
Mark Zaskey's blog "The Bigfoot Researchers Journal" covers a variety of often overlooked yet very important aspects of the Bigfoot subject specifically presented to help other researchers to become aware of scientific bias and dogma concerning our subject of study, how it is used against us, how it effects our research and public opinion on subject.
He is the founder of "Bigfoot Researchers United" and "The Bigfoot Research Council."
Together they constitute the very first "Unified" front of Bigfoot activism for eyewitnesses, researchers and the general public.
The organization is geared to confront mainstream science at it's top levels and push for official funding, study and protection of the species.
Nite Callers Bigfoot Radio Presents: Florida Bigfoot Researcher Robert Robinson
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In continuing the series on the North American Sasquatch Researcher, Nite Callers Bigfoot Radio presents Robert Robinson from Florida. Robert Robinson was born at Hamilton AFB, CA. He grew up an Army brat and had the privilege of visiting Europe numerous times. After graduating high school at Lansing Kansas, Robert enlisted in the United States Army in June 1982. He received his Basic and Advanced Individual Training as a Military Policeman at Ft McClellan, Alabama.
Rob, when he was young, became interested in Cryptozoology after watching the TV cartoon series "Jonny Quest" and the movies" The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas" and "The Legend of Boggy Creek". His mother, who is from Scotland, related stories of the Loch Ness Monster, to him. Also, his uncle would relate scary stories of the Fouke Monster and Bigfoot. Because the whole subject of real monsters scared him, Rob started researching monster legends by reading every book he could. Rob also became interested in UFO and extratertriels after watching the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". His fear turned into intrigue and then became a hobby and passion. After retiring from the Army, Rob started going on Swamp Ape expedition with the Bigfoot Field Research Organization. Tracy (Rob's wife) also had an interest in the unexplained and accompanied him on his monster hunts. Tracy also conducted paranormal research investigations such as haunting and ghosts. Rob has stated that "When you are out at night, monster or ghost hunting, there is nothing better than being scared and excited at the same time. I would monster/ghost hunt 24/7 if I had the opportunity".
Nite Callers Bigfoot Radio Presents: California Bigfoot Researcher Kipp Morrill
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Nite Callers Bigfoot Radio Presents California Bigfoot researcher Kipp Morrill. Kipp was born in Redding, CA in the late 60's and by the time he was in grade school, he was already interested in the bigfoot phenomenon. By the age of 7, he owned several John Green books and was hooked. It wasn't until the advent of Facebook that reignited the spark. After joining several groups he began to get to know more about who was involved in the research and where. His first expedition was an invite by Bart Cutino where he was invited to assist with the re-creation of Bart's famous Sierra Site thermal footage. Since then he has been fortunate enough to meet many solid and respected researchers and feels fortunate to often be included in their research. Kipp refers to himself as more of an enthusiast than a researcher but truly enjoys being a part of the team when out on any expedition. Kipp is has been a federal wildland firefighter for over 20 years and is currently a program manager for a federal land management agency.
Nite Callers Bigfoot Radio Presents: Brenda Harris
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Brenda Harris is a Native American born in Shiprock NM and raised in Farmington NM. She has lived on the reservation in Upper Fruitland, N.Mex. since 1986. Brenda is married with three grown kids and works on the farm. She have been looking into the fact of bigfoot activity since she was a teen going into the early 90's. In 2012 they started their own team NM Shadow Seekers with the help of Jon Lee, William Woodall, Ryan Harris, Vincent Lujan, Hoyt Velarde. Brenda has been on several radio shows and TV shows Monster and Mysterious and Finding Bigfoot show. Brenda's goal is to inform the people of what's out there and take extra precautions to avoid unwanted encounters.
Nite Callers Bigfoot Radio Presents: Idaho Bigfoot Researcher Anthony Moffett
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Nite Callers Bigfoot Radio continues the series of the North American Sasquatch Researcher tonight with Anthony Moffett from Idaho. Anthony Moffett is a mountain man,explorer,adventurer,trail guide,and a Bigfoot researcher and investigator. His primary research area is in Idaho, in the Sawtooth National Forest north of Kethcum, Idaho. Anthony likes long day hikes deep into the mountains where he also does over night camping trips. When he is notified of a sighting in or around Idaho he goes to the location to investigate the sighting and interview witnesses. Anthony is a veteran Bigfoot researcher of 20 years off and on in many different states. In the last ten years, he has been doing it full time while trying to acquaint himself with the computer and internet that has become such an integral part of bigfoot research today. He does enjoy sharing what he does and has exciting plans for the upcoming summer.
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Nite Callers Bigfoot Radio Presents: Ohio Bigfoot Researcher Joedy Cook
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Nite Callers Bigfoot Radio is continuing the North American Sasquatch Researcher series tonight with special guest Joedy Cook. Joedy Cook
is one of the most active bigfoot researchers in the State of Ohio. Originally, he was a member of the Cincinnati UFO research group A.S.K. but realized that his interests were more in the field of cryptozoology. Joedy has been studying the bigfoot phenomenon since 1991 and is the author of several books; Bigfoot in Ohio, Legend of the Grassman, Bigfoot Encounters in Ohio: Quest for the Grassman, Traces of the Grassman: the Hunt for the Ohio Bigfoot, The Beginner's Guide to Bigfoot Research, Cryptid Ohio, Winged Entity Casebook, Humanoid Encounters: Books 1 & 2, Werewolves: Myths & Legends, Ohio Dogman :Werewolf encounters in the northeast.Zombies: What You Need to Know or You'll Die, and Zombie Survival Guide. He founded the Cryptid Seekers with Dina Palazini and Esteban Sarmiento, as well as the Ohio Center for Bigfoot Studies. He is the editor of Cryptid Seekers Magazine. Joedy is a member of the American Bigfoot Society. Joedy has appeared on several television programs, which discuss large primates in North America, including the History Channel's Monsterquest, SyFy Channel's Sightings & Encounters and The Learning Channel's Top Ten Mysteries of the World. Destination america's Monsters and mysteries in america' Ohio Grassman, Ohio Melonheads and Devil dogs.Today, Joedy lives in Cincinnati and can be seen giving presentations at paranormal and cryptid conventions across the state and Canada.
Nite Callers Bigfoot Radio Presents: Jim Whitehead
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Continuing the North American Sasquatch Researcher Series, Nite Callers Bigfoot Radio is honored to present Oklahoma Bigfoot field researcher, Jim Whitehead. Jim Whitehead grew up in the shadow of a local legend that roamed the creeks of Central Oklahoma. Having some strange encounters as a boy, and knowing people who had seen the creature,left him open to the possibility of the creature"s existence. As a boy, his father taught him how to track, and live off the land. Jim went on to study biology and did some volunteer work with the Oklahoma Biological Survey and Oklahoma Academy of Science, and eventually
earned degrees in Natural Science and Biology. After encountering the creature in 2006, Jim began to research the creature in question. Eventually he joined the
MABRC, and became the Western Oklahoma State Director and a scientific advisor to the group.
Nite Callers Bigfoot Radio Presents: Ohio Bigfoot Researcher Eric Tipton
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In continuing the series on the North American Sasquatch Researcher, Nite Callers Bigfoot Radio is honored to present Ohio Researcher Eric Tipton. Eric Tipton has lived in central Ohio his whole life and has been a believer in Bigfoot, Paranormal and UFO's since he was a young boy. The first time he saw a Bigfoot, he was watching the classic series In Search Of. Eric remembers being fixated on the tv during the whole show. At the end he looked over at his dad who said, " Son there are things in this world that have been here long before man and they will be here long after." That was it for Eric and he was hooked. In 2001, Eric was coming home from northeast Ohio on a back road and what he saw that night will be etched in his mind for the rest of his life. Eric didn't speak of it for almost a decade.It wasn't until his good friend and research partner Mike Kain began commuting together to a job that they realized they had a lot in common on the subject of Bigfoot. Mike was very open minded and it sparked Eric to finally reveal his experience.He felt a strong burn to find what he saw all those years ago and has since dove head first in everything that deals in Bigfoot. The field research Eric and Mike do consists of much off trail hiking. Eric says it"s very hard on the body, but has rewarded them extremely well. The most intense encounter they had was back in July which we will hear about tonight. Eric believes the reason they are so successful in field research is because they push the envelope every time they go out. Nite Callers Bigfoot Radio welcomes everyone to the show tonight. It's going to be another great one!
Nite Callers Bigfoot Radio Presents: Michael Johnson Colorado Bigfoot Researcher
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Continuing the series of the North American Sasquatch Researcher
Michael came to Colorado in 1977 from north of Salina, Kansas.
He instantly fell in love with the mountains and Colorado, and
has spent countless days and nights exploring its majesty.
He got started in this endeavor in the 1990's after finding 17″ footprints
in the snow at Rampart Range during Thanksgiving break.
In the same location, Mike had a Class 1 Bigfoot sighting when he saw a male Sasquatch in person. This sighting was investigated by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO).
Mike is very comfortable in the woods. He hunts elk and pheasant, and is well adapted to search for the legendary creature in the remotest areas of Colorado, in all four seasons.
Mike is a Christian man, he is a husband, a father of three, and a proud grandfather.
He is very spiritual, whether it be his religion or his search for his Indian heritage.
He is a man's man, who loves life, the outdoors, his friends and his family. He is painfully honest, which has been his biggest challenge in this field, much to his surprise.
Mike is interested in both the scientific side and spiritual side of the Sasquatch Equation, which makes him a unique individual in the field today.
Nite Callers Bigfoot Radio Presents: Todd and Diane Neiss
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In continuing the series for the North American Sasquatch Researcher, Nite Callers Bigfoot Radio is excited to bring you a husband-wife duo, Todd and Diane Neiss.
Eyewitness turned researcher, Todd Neiss is an Active Duty Staff Sergeant in the Oregon Army National Guard; and a veteran of the Iraq War. He founded the "American Primate Foundation" in 1998. Actively researching these elusive creatures for over two decades, Neiss has been the subject of many television shows and documentaries and has been a featured speaker at numerous Bigfoot conferences across the U.S. and Canada. He holds an Associate of Arts degree in Multi-Disciplinary Studies from Grantham University.
Diane Stocking Neiss is currently employed by the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) and founded "Stocking Hominid Research" in 2007. She too has given lectures at various conferences as well as appeared on television. Diane became interested in Bigfoot at a very young age and went on to conduct research in the Southeastern United States as far back as 1974. She co-authored the cryptozoological book "Elementum Bestia" in 2007. After visiting the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s, Stocking ultimately moved to Oregon, where she continues her research with her husband Todd. Diane holds an Associate of Science degree in Forestry from Lake City Forestry College in Florida.
Todd & Diane Neiss live aboard a 42-foot motor yacht christened "Jadoo Shikari" (Hindu for "Mystery Hunter") in Portland Oregon. Upon retiring, they plan to utilize the yacht as a research vessel; exploring the numerous wilderness inlets along the British Columbian coastline in search of Bigfoot. Equipped with a mast mounted remote-controlled FLIR camera, they intend to explore intercostal islands and scour their shorelines and interior for any evidence of these elusive creatures.
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United States Patent lnventor Donald R. Detar Stratford, Conn.
Appl. No. 625,893
Filed Feb. 23, I967 Patented Apr. 6, 1971 Assignee Litton Systems, Inc. Beverly Hills, Calif.
CONNECTOR WITH PROVISION FOR MINIMIZING ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE 2 Claims, 9 Drawing Figs.
US. Cl 333/79 Int. Cl H0lh 7/14 Field ofSearch 333/70, 79; 339/9, 255
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 3,275,954 9/1966 Coda et al 333/70X 3,435,387 3/1969 Reinkeetal Primary Examiner-Herman Karl Saalbach Assistant ExaminerTim Vezeau Attorneys-Earl R. Evans, Alan C. Rose and Alfred B. Levine ABSTRACT: An electrical connector provided with shielding and filtering of the contacts to suppress electromagnetic interference, i.e., leakage into or radiation of energy from the connector and conduction of undesired high-frequency current through the connector contacts. In the illustrative embodiment, the connector contacts are provided with filter units which are held in place on the contacts by resilient noninductive contact washers which protect the fragile filter units against damage and connect the elements of the filter in circuit. The outer electrodes of the filter units are connected through conductive gaskets to a metal plate forming a common ground plane for the respective filters.
Patented Aprilfi, 1971 3,573,677
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2 Sheets-Sheet 2 LP p/rw CONNECTOR WITH PROVISION FOR MINIMIZING ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE The present invention relates to shielded and filtered electrical connectors for the suppression of electromagnetic interference.
The object of the invention is to provide an improved connector having subminiature filter units connected to the contacts to prevent the undesired coupling of energy between the input and output of the connector, the connector also having electrostatic shielding.
A problem which has always plagued the users of electronic gear is that of radio frequency interference. High-frequency signals generated in one piece of electronic equipment are fed, by radiation or conduction, into another piece of equipment and cause interference or other difficulties. Radiation of highfrequency energy is usually prevented by enclosing the equipment in a tight metal cover which effectively stops the radiation component. However, the conductors passing through the shielding enclosure may also serve to conduct spurious signal currents which can be prevented or suppressed by the use of suitable networks.
The ideal location for such filter units is inside the connector mounted on the wall of the enclosure. An integrated network in the form of a subr'niniature tubular filter unit having a low-pass frequency characteristic is of a size which can be mounted within the connector. These filter units are quite fragile and must be mounted so that they are protected against undue stress. For efficient operation, low-resistance connections must be provided between the contact areas of the filter units and ground, and also between separated points on the connector contact.
In accordance with a feature of the invention, the tubular filter units are mounted on the connector contacts, for example, the pin contacts, and are held in position by spring washers designed to have a low inductance at the frequencies of the interference signal currents and to provide a low-resistance connection between the contact tips of the filter elements and the contact member of the connector. In this manner the filter unit is properly connected in the network circuit for effective operation and is protected against breakage when the connector contact is subjected to strain due to bending or thermal expansion.
Another feature of the invention relates to improved means for providing a ground plane and resilient conductive means for effectively connecting the ground electrode of each filter unit to the ground plane. The ground plane may comprise a metallic mounting plate passing through the central portion of the half of the connector which is mounted on a panel, for example.
Another feature of the invention is the provision of a panel connector which is separable at the ground plane interface to permit easy replacement or removal of any pin-filter assembly.
Another feature of the invention is the adaptation of a shielded connector design to the use of filtered contacts.
The miniature filter networks may be of a type well known in the art and require no detailed description. Essentially the filter consists of a tubular unit which can be assembled over a connector contact, for example, the pin contact. The tubular unit comprises a sleeve of ferrite or similar high permeability material and a surrounding tube of insulating material, such as barium titanate. The insulating tube is coated internally and externally with metal, as by plating, to form two capacitors with a common ground electrode on the outside. The highpermeability sleeve increases the inductance of the contact pin so that it serves as the inductive element of a pin filter. The capacitors serve to shunt the high-frequency currents in the connector ground through the connection from the ground electrode to the ground plane. The internal diameter of the hollow filter unit is preferably somewhat larger than the diameter of the pin so that fiexure of the pin will not damage the filter unit.
Other advantages and features of the invention will become apparent from the following description in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a side elevation view, partially in section, of a panel mounted multiple-contact connector embodying the invention;
FIG. 2 is an end view of the connector shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a view of a modification illustrating the use of a filter unit with pin contacts inside the enclosure where it is desired to use crimp terminations;
FIG. 4 is a detail view, to an enlarged scale, showing a section of a portion of the connector shown in FIG. 1, illustrating a suitable mounting arrangement for the filter connector contacts according to the invention;
FIG. 5 is a view illustrating one method of assembly of a filtered pin contact drawn to an enlarged scale; and
FIGS. 6-9 are detail views of alternative forms of spring contacts that may be employed for holding the filter in place.
Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2 of the drawings, a shielded, panel-mounted multiple-contact electrical connector embodying the invention is shown by way of example. The connector consists of a conventional socket connector 10 adapted to cooperate with a pin connector II shown as abutting against a plate 12 which may, for example, be attached to a wall or panel 13 of an enclosure for equipment to be attached to terminals 14 of the connector II. The socket connector 10 is provided with a series of socket contacts 16 arranged side by side, of which one is shown in FIG. 1. A corresponding series of pin contacts 17 is provided in the connector 11. The connector contacts 16 and 17 are mounted in molded insulating bodies 18 and 19, respectively, and enclosed in shielding metallic covers 20 and 21 to prevent leakage or radiation of highfrequency interference or inductive interference from the circuits including the connector contacts 16 and 17.
While the male or pin connector 11 is shown as provided with solder terminals 14, obviously it may be provided with any suitable type of terminals. Thus, as shown in FIG. 3, where crimped terminal contacts are desired, the connector may be provided with pin contacts 14a to extend the circuit connections from a first connector 10a to a second connector 10b to which crimped connections of the usual type may be made. The connector 110 is shown as mounted on a panel 13 similar to connector 11.
The pin connector 11 of FIG. 1 further includes a second insulating body 15 on the opposite side of the ground plate 12 from the body 19. The bores in the bodies 15 and 19 for the pin contacts are shaped so as to retain the contacts in position when the connector is assembled as shown in FIG. 4, with sufficient play to insure alignment with the mating contacts 16. The body 15 is removably secured to the ground plate 12 by threaded nuts 22 and 23 which engage the threaded ends of holding members such as bolt 24, so that the insulating body 15 may be removed for replacement or repair of the pin contact assemblies. The other end of the bolt 24 is adapted to receive the threaded end 25 of a jackscrew 26, 27 which is used to mate and unmate the pin and socket elements of the connector and to compress a sealing ring or gasket 29 between the inner end of the shield member 20 and the inside wall of the shield member 21. The sealing ring or gasket 29 is preferably made of resilient conductive material and thereby insures adequate shielding by eliminating any opening or crack in the shield surface at the end of cover 20.
The jackscrews 26 and 27 are mounted for rotation in the casing 20 in any suitable manner, as by means of a bracket 30 which is attached to the wall of the cover 20 by a screw 31. The bracket 30 is notched where it engages the screw so that, upon loosening the screw 31, the bracket 30 may be pivoted to permit the jackscrew to be withdrawn from the cover. The screw 31 also secures an auxiliary bracket 32 in position, said bracket serving to hold the insulating body 18 in place in the connector casing or cover 20. The jackscrew 26 is further provided with a cupped spring 37 underneath the knurled head or thumbpiece of the jackscrew. The spring 37 bears on a sealing ring 36 and a conductive gasket 35, which seals the opening through which the jackscrew passes when the screw is tightened.
The wires or cable conductors connected to the connector contacts 16 are shielded where they enter the cover 20. As shown, the cover is provided with an integral nozzlelike extension 38 to which the shield of cable 39 is tightly clamped. Any equivalent shielding arrangement may be used at this point.
In accordance with a feature of the invention, each pin contact consists of a tip portion 17 and a shank portion 40 of reduced diameter which passes through the bore of a tubular filter unit 41, as shown more clearly in FIGS. 4 and 5. The diameter of the shank 40 of the pin contact may be of the order of 0.040 inches, depending upon the dimensions of the filter unit. The filter 41 is an integrated filter network such, for example, as the type F filter of Allen Bradley Company of Milwaukee, Wis. 53204. The type F0 filter is a low-pass filter having tip contacts at either end and a central external elec trode surface to be grounded. The filter is fragile and must be protected against stresses that would be caused, for example, by bending of the contact pin. In addition, low-resistance electrical connections must be made to the electrode contacts of the filter unit.
FIG. 5 shows, by way of example, a method of assembly of the filter unit 41 and the pin contact, said filter unit being slipped over the reduced cross section 40 of the pin contact and held in place by the contact tip 17 with resilient contacts 43 at the ends of the filter unit. The contact tip portion 17 is held against the springs 43 with predetermined pressure while the end of the pin 17 is filled with solder to secure the tip contact in place and maintain the resilient contact springs 43 if firm engagement with the filter unit. The contact springs 43 thus secure the fragile filter unit in place and effect a low-resistance connection at spaced points to the pin 17. A hole 44 is provided in the contact tip 17 so that a flow of solder between the parts of the pin contact may be observed through the hole as an aid in securing a good solder joint. The holding contact springs 43 may be formed from cupped discs of spring metal, one of which is shown, to an enlarged scale, in elevation and cross section in FIGS. 6 and 7. Two of these cupped discs are placed face to face to form a conductive assembly of low resistance between the filter unit tip contacts and the connector contact 17. Other suitable compressible resilient contacts may be used, such as in the shape of a bellows 45 formed of thin resilient metal, as shown in end and side elevation views in H08. 8 and 9. The corrugated holding spring 45 would be inserted in place of the cupped spring 43 and serves the same purpose. Both springs constitute current-conducting elements of low inductance even at high frequencies, as compared with a coiled wire spring. Obviously other forms of low-inductance washers or gaskets may be employed.
The connection from the central external electrode surface of the filter unit 41 to the ground plane formed by the plate 12 may be effected in any suitable manner, as by a leaf spring contact. Preferably, however, a resilient conductive gasket 42 having a snug fit on the external surface of the filter unit is employed, said gasket being compressed against the face of the plate 12 in assembling the connector to provide a low-resistance ground connection for the ground electrode of the filter unit.
While a typical embodiment of the invention has been shown and described to provide a clear understanding of the underlying principles thereof, it is obvious that changes and modifications in the detailed construction may be made without departing from the scope of the invention. Thus, by way of example and not of limitation, the filter units may be mounted on the socket or female contacts of the connector instead of the pin contacts as shown, and the form and mounting of the connector contacts l6, 17 may be substantially changed. Furthermore all of the contacts need not be filtered, the filter units being omitted where not required.
l claim:
1. An electrical connector in which electromagnetic interference is suppressed, comprising:
a body of insulating material;
a plurality of contact members mounted in said bod a plate forming an electrically conductive ground p ane provided with apertures through which said contact members extend;
one or more tubular low-pass filter units mounted respectively on one or more of said contact members in conductive relation to said plate, said filter unit including contact tips at both ends and a central contact portion intermediate the ends of the filter unit and connected to said ground plane; and
resilient contact washers consisting of metallic discs forming an electrical connection of low inductance located at both ends of the filter unit to secure the unit in place and provide low-resistance connection from the filter unit to spaced points on the connector contact member.
2. An electrical connector according to claim 1, in which said resilient contact washers consist of corrugated tubular elements forming an electrical connection of low inductance.
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