By continuously measuring surface tension, the OL-55 monitors the level of surface active chemical additives in water-based process liquids. Based on the information from the measurement the operator can either manually dose chemicals into the process or the optional auto-dosing system can be used.
On-line tensiometer
Continuous monitoring of surface tension and other parameters, including pH, temperature, and conductivity, in various process liquids for optimising the dosing of chemicals
Rugged design for factory applications
Fully automatic computer controlled operation
Patented technology
Benefits
Eliminates overdosing of surfactants - reducing costs
Controls processes - improves efficiency and quality
Reduces waste and improves yield
Improves environmental control
Extends chemical lifetime in processes
Specifications
Surface tension measuring range
20 to 80 mN/m
Resolution
0.1 mN/m
Update time for liquid
3 minutes from change in process liquid
Temperature measuring range (optional)
15 to 85°C
pH measuring range (optional)
2 to 14
Flow rate
18 l/h
Self-cleaning filter
Standard 100 μm (others by request)
Voltage
100-240 V (automatic) 50/60 Hz
Power consumpiton
< 60 W
Fuses
315 mA
Dimensions
544 x 428 x 236 mm (H x L x D)
Optional features
On-line pH monitoring
On-line conductivity monitoring
On-line process temperature measurement
Automatic dosing of surfactants and clean water based on measurement data
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Dit betekent dat wij als één van de weinigen voldoen aan alle door de AFM gestelde eisen, zoals op deskundigheid en integere bedrijfsvoering. Hierdoor bent u ervan verzekerd dat de investeringen bij GoedInvesteren streng worden gecontroleerd. Hieronder vindt u een afbeelding van de webpagina van de AFM waar onze vergunning op vermeld staat. De AFM heeft op 10-10-2007 de vergunning aan GoedInvesteren verleend in het kader van de nieuwe wet Wft. Hiermee behoort GoedInvesteren tot de selecte groep van aanbieders van beleggingsobjecten die voldoen aan de eisen van de AFM (6 van de 44 aanvragers).
De nieuwe wet Wft is door de regering opgesteld ter bescherming van consumentenbelangen op het gebied van beleggingen. De Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM) controleert procedures en informatievoorziening nauwlettend. Tevens wordt de financiële vastlegging en verantwoording van de geld- en goederen stromen volgens vaste regels bestudeerd om te controleren of de inleg van investeerders wordt aangewend zoals vermeld in onze beleggingsprospectussen.
De AFM controleert of de gelden naar de juiste rekeningen worden overgemaakt. Ook de reservering voor onderhoud bij Stichting GoedInvesteren wordt op die manier streng gecontroleerd. De controle op financiële zekerheid, transparantie en zorgplicht vallen onder het doorlopend toezicht van de AFM. Deze controle wordt periodiek gedaan onder andere om te controleren of alle investeringen op de juiste wijze worden gebruikt. Overigens heeft GoedInvesteren de laagste overheadkosten. Wij besteden dus extra veel geld aan uw bomen en het onderhoud.
Wat ook erg belangrijk is dat de AFM controleert of de aanbieder alles met betrekking tot de plantage in overeenkomsten heeft vastgelegd. Alle zaken die betrekking hebben op bedrijfsvoering, financiën en onderhoud moeten duidelijk vastgelegd zijn. Een jaarlijks verplicht gestelde controle van de plantages door een onafhankelijke taxateur maakt daar onderdeel vanuit. Van deze jaarlijkse taxaties ontvangt u als investeerder elk jaar een afschrift zodat u exact weet hoe uw investering erbij staat.
Hoe kan ik controleren of een aanbieder een vergunning heeft?
Er zijn tot nu toe slechts 6 van de 44 aanvragers in onze branche die een vergunning hebben gekregen. Er zijn nog maar een paar aanvragen in behandeling, de rest is al afgewezen, dus veel vergunningen zullen er niet meer bijkomen. Dat maar weinig aanbieders deze vergunning hebben verkregen was te verwachten en geeft u als investeerder nu eindelijk de mogelijkheid om een duidelijk onderscheid te kunnen maken tussen gecontroleerde en niet-gecontroleerde aanbieders. Degenen die geen vergunning krijgen, mogen namelijk niet meer doorgaan met verkopen van hun investeringsprojecten onder de Wft. Vraagt u dan ook altijd of de aanbieder waarmee u in zee wilt gaan beschikt over een AFM vergunning. Of bel de AFM op tel.nr. 0900-540 0540.
Kan een bedrijf zonder vergunning toch investeringen aanbieden?
Er is helaas nog een gat in de wetgeving die verkoop zonder enig toezicht (!!) onder bepaalde voorwaarden mogelijk maakt! Dit is de zogenoemde vrijstellingregeling. Door gebruik (lees: misbruik) van deze regeling te maken wordt men totaal niet gecontroleerd op financiële huishouding, deskundigheid, bedrijfsvoering, etc! En men ‘mag’ (kan) ook alles beweren wat men maar wil! Daarom vindt u vaak bij de partijen zonder vergunning zeer hoge rendementen zonder goede onderbouwing! Met name in de vastgoed wordt van deze vrijstelling al veel gebruik van gemaakt. Slechts 10 van de 90 vastgoedprojecten heeft een vergunning.
In de vrijstellingsregeling staat dat men niet onder de Wft valt als een bedrijf investeringsprojecten aanbiedt waarbij een investeerder minimaal € 50.000 moet investeren om te kunnen deelnemen. De AFM is – net als GoedInvesteren - niet gelukkig met deze regeling. De AFM controleert de wetgeving maar stelt deze niet op, dat doet de overheid. De gedachte achter deze regel is dat mensen die € 50.000 kunnen investeren zelf wel kunnen (laten) controleren met wie ze in zee gaan. Echter de ervaring leert, dat dit niet zo werkt in de praktijk omdat de drempel veel te laag is. Begin oktober zijn hier kamervragen over gesteld. Een andere vrijstellingsmogelijkheid is de grens van maximaal € 2.500.000 per jaar en per project. Door regelmatig ‘nieuwe‘ relatief kleine projecten aan te bieden kan men toch nog steeds veel geld bij investeerders ophalen, zonder enige verantwoording te hoeven afleggen aan wie dan ook. Er is dus totaal geen controle (ook niet door de AFM).
GoedInvesteren dringt er bij de overheid en de AFM op aan dat deze gaten in de wetgeving, snel worden gedicht. Aanbieders die gebruik maken van deze vrijstellingsmogelijkheden staan nergens geregistreerd en staan niet onder vergunning en controle van de AFM. Investeerders blijven hierdoor grote risico's lopen en worden al gauw de dupe van dubieuze aanbieders, zoals de vastgoed aanbieders die recentelijk in het nieuws waren.
Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance regulation has proved to be one of the biggest operational challenges banks, accountants, lawyers and similar financial service providers worldwide have had to overcome.
World-Check, the industry standard KYC compliance solution, provides an overview of KYC compliance and its origins, and outlines the compliance mandate as applicable to banks, accounting firms, lawyers and other regulated financial service providers – not just in the UK, Europe and the USA, but all around the world. Relied upon by more than 3,000 institutions worldwide, this KYC database solution provides effective legal and reputational risk reduction.
Why “Know Your Customer?”
The 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre revealed that there were sinister forces at work around the world, and that terrorists activities were being funded with laundered money, the proceeds of illicit activities such as narcotics and human trafficking, fraud and organised crime. Overnight, the combating of terrorist financing became a priority on the international agenda.
For the financial services provider of the 21st century, “knowing your customers” was no longer a suggested course of action. Based on the requirements of legislative landmarks such as the USA PATRIOT Act 2002, modern Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance mandates were created to simultaneously combat money laundering and the funding of terrorist activities.
What is Know Your Customer (KYC)?
Know Your Customer, or KYC, refers to the regulatory compliance mandate imposed on financial service providers to implement a Customer Identification Programme and perform due diligence checks before doing business with a person or entity.
KYC fulfils a risk mitigation function, and one its key requirements is checking that a prospective customer is not listed on any government lists for wanted money launders, known fraudsters or terrorists.
If preliminary KYC checks reveal that the person is a Politically Exposed Person (PEP), for example, Advanced Due Diligence must be done in order to ensure that the person’s source of wealth is transparent, and that he or she does not pose a reputational or financial risk in terms of their finances, public positions or associations. Beyond customer identification checks, the ongoing monitoring of transfers and financial transactions against a range of risk variables forms an integral part of the KYC compliance mandate.
But to understand the importance of KYC compliance for financial service providers better, its origins need to be examined.
Origins of Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance
The arrival of the new millennium was marred by a spate of terrorist attacks and corporate scandals that unmasked the darker features of globalisation. These events highlighted the role of money laundering in cross-border crime and terrorism, and underlined the need to clamp down on the exploitation of financial systems worldwide.
Know Your Customer (KYC) legislation was principally not absent prior to 9/11. Regulated financial service providers for a long time have been required to conduct due diligence and customer identification checks in order to mitigate their own operation risks, and to ensure a consistent and acceptable level of service.
In essence, the USA PATRIOT Act was not so much a radical departure from prior legislation as it was a firmer and more extensive articulation of existing laws. The Act would lead to the more rigorous regulation of a greater range of financial services providers, and expanded the authority of American law enforcement agencies in the fighting of terrorism, both in the USA and abroad.
In October 2001, President George W. Bush signed off the USA PATRIOT Act, effectively providing federal regulators with a new range of tools and powers for fighting terror financing and money laundering. During July 2002, the US Treasury proceeded to introduce Section 326 of the PATRIOT Act, a clause that removed some key burdens for regulators and added significant enforcement muscle to the Act.
What 9/11 changed, in essence, was the extent to which existing legislation was being implemented. Using the provisions of the earlier anti-terrorism USA Act as a foundation, it included the Financial Anti-Terrorism Act, which allowed for federal jurisdiction over foreign money launders and money laundered through foreign banks. Significantly, it is this anti-terror law that would make the creation of an Anti Money Laundering (AML) programme compulsory for all financial institutions and service providers.
Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act dealt specifically with the identification of new customers (“CIP regulation”), and made extensive provisions in terms of KYC and the methods employed to verify client identities.
In accordance with this piece of updated KYC legislation, federal regulators would hold financial institutions accountable for the effectiveness of their initial customer identification and ongoing KYC screening. Institutions are required to keep detailed records of the steps that were taken to verify prospective clients’ identities.
Although current KYC legislation does not yet demand the exclusion of specific types of foreign-issued identification, it recommends the usage of machine-verifiable identity documents. The ability to notify financial institutions if concerns regarding specific types of identification were to arise, combined with a risk-based approach to KYC, proved to provide a robust mechanism for addressing security concerns.
Effectively, the risk-based approach to customer due diligence grants regulated institutions a certain degree of flexibility to determine the forms of identification they will accept, and under which conditions.
KYC compliance: Implications for banks, lawyers and accounting firms
The KYC compliance mandate, for all its positive outcomes, has burdened companies and organisations with a substantial administrative obligation. Additionally, KYC compliance increasingly entails the creation of auditable proof of due diligence activities, in addition to the need for customer identification.
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But is an RTOS always necessary? The answer is application-specific, so understanding what one will deliver is key to determining whether it becomes a requirement or an extravagance.
In general, an RTOS can be used anywhere a non-RTOS is employed. However, it’s rare to find an operating system with a matching RTOS that has exactly the same application programming interface (API). Many of them, though, embed an RTOS within a conventional operating system. For example, Lynux- Works LynxOS and Bluecat Linux share a Linux API. LynxOS is a hard RTOS, while Bluecat inherits its base from Linux.
Linux continues to improve its real-time performance, but its worst-case interrupt latency still doesn’t meet what would be considered hard real time for an RTOS. It all comes down to quality of service (QoS). Platforms like RTLinux Free augment Linux, providing hard real-time class QoS.
It’s important to note that this type of addition often incorporates an RTOS programming environment that’s distinct from the original operating system. An RTOS is typically small compared to a conventional desktop or server OS. They often target more smaller, resource-constrained microcontrollers. For instance, CMX’s CMX-RTX and CMX-Tiny+ can run on 8-bit MCUs up through 64-bit processors.
The increased power and memory capacity of 8-bit processors is making an RTOS more desirable for these platforms. But, an OS or RTOS is usually a requirement in 16-bit platforms and up with RTOS products like Express Logic’s ThreadX, Wind River’s VxWorks, Micrium’s uCOS-II, and Green Hills Software’s velOSity being common selections. Depending on requirements, MontaVista’s Linux meets 16- and 32-bit platform requirements in the low microsecond range.
THE RTOS CORE: SCHEDULING AND PARTITIONING Most programmers aren’t familiar with RTOS constraints and requirements. Most usually opt for an RTOS due to its performance. Most RTOS products are small and fast, yet an RTOS also adds consistency. Beyond the fact that an RTOS gets the job done quickly, it can guarantee a job will get done.
In many applications, a late result can be catastrophic. Thus, a poor result within the proper timeframe is preferable. These applications are generally called hard real-time systems. Hard real time doesn’t indicate how fast the system may be or how quickly a system may respond. Rather, it refers to how reliably a system can meet the specified requirements.
A hard real-time system may have a fixed cycle time of one minute with a response time of one second. In theory, it’s something almost any operating system could handle. This isn’t always the case, though, as anyone can attest to when waiting for a desktop application to respond within a minute.
Hard real-time systems typically have shorter cycle times and tighter response requirements. Faster processors always help, and multicore platforms can improve response time, too. The trick for developers is to match system requirements to the hardware and software, hence the importance of an RTOS in embedded applications.
An RTOS can implement a range of scheduling policies, and the application will often restrict a programmer’s choices (see the table). Non-preemptive scheduling is trivial to implement but useful in some applications. On the other hand, non-preemptive scheduling within a task can be implemented on top of a preemptive system.
Non-preemptive should not be overlooked, especially in light of new multicore processors. Here, hardware may be tuned to handle an event-based operation in which a thread will wait for an external event to occur. This approach is usually unsuitable for a single-core processor handling multiple threads. On multicore systems with many cores, though, it’s often typical to dedicate one core to handle one peripheral. It then makes sense to have that core idle while waiting for an event to occur.
As a result, preemptive, interrupt-driven RTOS architectures make up the majority of platforms deployed. These platforms have a range of requirements, issues, and solutions (see the figure). Interrupt latency is always an issue, although hardware— multiple register sets, hardware scheduling and task switching, and hierarchical priority interrupt systems—can significantly reduce this overhead.
Several issues coincide with preemption. Most are timing-related, like race conditions, deadlock, starvation, and priority inversion, which occurs when a low-priority task A owns a synchronization resource of a higher-priority task B, and a task C with priority higher than A is running.
Without a feature like priority ceilings, task C can prevent task A and C from running. A priority-ceiling feature changes the priority of task A to that of task C, allowing it to run and eventually release the resource needed by C. At this point, task A’s priority returns to normal and task C can run.
The other timing-related issues, which the programmer must address, are often the sources of bugs that are difficult to locate and correct. Trace tools become valuable assets in locating these kinds of bugs, since symptoms such as blocked tasks are the only indication of the problem
Networking is a wide ranging and loosely defined area in the industry. With all broadband and MSO applications using a network structure to deliver its signal, networking applications have a significant contribution in virtually every area. The defining difference is networking focused on the conduit and method of delivering a signal or content, rather than creation, switching, or termination.
With the increasing bandwidth requirements associated with broadband services, service providers and network operators are expanding and extending fiber optics further down line to accommodate present and future requirements. This network extension and expansion requires multiple fiber optic connectivity products in a myriad of forms. Trunk cables, distribution cables, high-density interconnect cables, and standard patch cords are just a few of the many types of products. Timbercon manufactures reliable fiber optic networking cables to support these networking applications.
Add Scanning Capabilites to Your Huntron Tracker Model 30 System
Adding a Huntron® Scanner to your Tracker Model 30 system lets you access components using standard DIP clips and cables, custom cables to PCB connectors or interface to a bed-of-nails. You can compare one component with another in real-time (64 pins max.) or use your PC to automate testing and scan up to 128 pins. Huntron Scanners can be used with a Huntron Access Prober to provide Common line connections while the Prober is probing a PCB. This method gives you up to 128 selectable Commons to use. For example, you can connect the Scanner to a connector on a PCB mounted in the Prober using a common ribbon style cable. While the Prober is probing, any one of the lines on the connected ribbon cable can be selected as the Common reference. This would provide you true point-to-point testing capabilities. Note: The ProTrack Scanner will be replaced by the Scanner II and/or the Scanner 31S effective 1/1/2008. This applies to commercial sales only.
Scanner II and Scaner 31S users may want to consider these Optional Accessories to enhance their test capabilities.
Highlights:
The Scanner II and Scanner 31S accessories add scanning capability to the Tracker Model 30
All Scanners have a minimum 64 pin capability
The Scanner II can scan up to 128 pins when the A and B channels are combined
The Scanner 31S use standard IDC style connectors
The Scanner II uses the common SCSI-2 (68 pin) style connectors
Up to 8 Scanner IIs can be “daisy-chained” to increase the available number of test pins
Selecting Accessories for your Scanner II The Scanner II accessories for interfacing to your printed circuit board come "ala carte". This means that you select the accessories you want included with your Scanner. Choose from SMT or through-hole style DIP clip and cable kits (Scanner Adapter required with Scanner II) or a mutli-pin breakout cable. Details on these accessories are provided on this page.
Experience the 9th edition of the Hôtel de Glace, January 4 to March 29, 2009.
The Hôtel de Glace is a nordic event that brings to life a one-of-a-kind experience combining fun and learning, with a focus on the magic of nature and the great outdoors.
Set off on a journey of discovery
Enter a magical world where snow and ice are transformed into fabulous decors. Since it opened its doors in 2001, the Hôtel de Glace has wowed over half a million visitors! With snow archways towering over 5 meters tall and crystal ice sculptures standing by the warmth of the fire, North America's only ice hotel has made a name for itself not only through its architecture and artistry, but also its warm hospitality.
Every year, the Hôtel de Glace is redesigned and rebuilt in its entirety. With time, it has evolved with the technical and artistic wizardry of its creators. Our team pulls out all the stops to amaze you, winter after winter.
A whole new way to experience winter
The Hôtel de Glace offers a contemporary twist to life in the Far North. Inspired by Inuit igloos and the snow forts of our childhood, it brings together nature and city living.
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