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Social workers win a victory
Don Lash reports on the gains that Los Angeles Country social workers made after a December strike--and the high stakes for the families and children they work with.
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AFTER TWO weeks of voting in early February, social workers employed in the Los Angeles County child welfare system ratified a contact with the county that achieved the demands that led the workers to strike for six days in December 2013.
The key demand in the strike was the hiring of nearly 600 new social workers--a 15 percent increase--to reduce caseloads to levels consistent with child safety. Before and during the strike, the county had said it was ready to hire new staff, but refused to commit to a fixed number or time frame, proposing instead a "joint management-labor committee" to study the issue. The new contract has both a hard target and a deadline.
The social workers, represented by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 721, were like other members of the county workforce in having gone without a raise for five years. Local 721 and the county had already come to a tentative agreement on a 6 percent raise over the life of the contract (2 percent per year for three years) for all of the 55,000 county employees represented by the local.
Los Angeles County social workers walk the picket line (SEIU Local 721)
This would provide some relief, but was inadequate to make up for the decline in real wages during the previous half decade, when increases in the cost of living were not offset by any increase in earnings. While the 3,500 social workers were prepared to accept the wage package, they could not agree to the settlement without caseload reductions.
Strikers set up daily pickets outside the headquarters of the county's Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). On the second day, Philip Browning, the head of DCFS, made a surprise appearance to plead with the workers to return to work, promising to hire new staff to reduce caseloads. When asked for a specific commitment, Browning said it was a budget issue and went back inside.
Carrying signs saying "Child Safety Now!" about 2,000 strikers and supporters rallied outside a county Board of Supervisors meeting on December 9, the last day of the strike. Seven strikers were arrested for sitting down in the street. The strike was settled with the county's agreement to hire the new workers that evening.
The caseload reductions were a stunning victory, and highlight the importance of public-sector workers organizing to reform the systems in which they work.
Some strikers adhered to demands that went beyond the caseload reduction formula adopted by the union. Citing a study recommending caseloads capped at 14, these strikers supported a demand for 1,400 new workers. The county responded that the study pre-dated technological innovations such as iPhones, which it said enabled workers to handle higher caseloads.
Workers demanding these lower caseloads also formulated a series of social justice demands, including closing a tax loophole allowing corporations to evade property tax, and a living wage for employees of private contractors doing business with the county. While these positions never became demands of the union, there is clearly rank-and-file support for social justice unionism, and the success of the strike may give these elements greater momentum.
ALTHOUGH THE strike is important, the background is equally relevant for what it says about the dynamics of race, class and politics in the child welfare system. In 2012, Los Angeles County had 18,523 children and youth in foster care.
About 55 percent were Latino, 31 percent were Black, 11 percent were white, and 2 percent were Asian. Using public school enrollment for comparison, Black students represent less than 9 percent of the county's public school census, meaning Blacks are grossly over-represented in foster care, while whites, Asians and Latinos are under-represented to varying degrees.
The county's "rate of removal," the rate at which children are removed from their families and placed in foster care, is among the highest among major metropolitan areas, with 19.5 removals per 1,000 impoverished children, and 4.3 per 1,000 for all children, compared to 4.6 and 1.1, respectively, for Cook County (Chicago).
Consistent with a national trend, the foster care population in LA County declined consistently from a peak of over 50,000 in 1998. Alone among the largest child welfare systems, Los Angeles saw a reversal of the trend, as the number of children in care dipped to 15,000 and then began to grow again.
Critics point to a number of factors, but the most dramatic increases in children being removed from their families followed a series of sensational stories about fatalities from child abuse by the Los Angeles Times in 2009, using new legislation opening investigative files from these cases to the media. As the series continued, removals accelerated in what some critics referred to as a "foster care panic."
The stories of children who die as a result of abuse are heartrendingly tragic, but the Times treatment of the stories ignored the factors of childhood poverty and societal neglect that contribute to the conditions under which these children lived and died. Instead, the Times used the deaths of these children to scapegoat parents living in poverty, front-line child welfare workers, unnamed "bureaucrats," and system change advocates.
The problems with the Times' articles were detailed by a number of critics, whom the Times dismissed as "writers who have taken a long-standing position in favor of keeping children out of foster care--even if that means leaving them with abusive parents." Nevertheless, critics catalogued the ways the Times misled readers and manipulated data, including inaccurately claiming there was an increase in the rate of deaths as a result of abuse.
While the Times advocated a return to more aggressive removal practices in the name of child safety, it ignored evidence that higher rates of removal do not enhance child safety and may do the opposite, by creating pressure to increase the number of foster beds and burdening oversight mechanisms within the system. Remarkably, the same reporter who had written the 2009 series that resulted in the spike in removals wrote a story in 2013 arguing that the system was putting children at risk when they enter foster care.
ONE SUPPORTER of the 2013 strike, who advocates for parents within the foster care system, stated that the Times "really helped to create the conditions that made this strike happen." She said they created the crisis by "throwing the elected officials into a panic."
She said the consequences for parents were increased risk of removal and delays in getting their children back because the system was overloaded. The consequences for children were increased risk of separation, longer stays in care and a decline in quality because of the pressure to expand the number of homes. For workers, the consequence was higher caseloads, unrelenting pressure to remove from administrators fearful of scandal, and inability to properly attend to cases. She added that, even though the strike meant her cases were further delayed, she supported the strikers, and thought most of the parents she worked with did as well.
The social workers' victory in the 2013 strike will bring lasting benefits for the children and families of Los Angeles if it emboldens a militant work force in the child welfare system continually organizing around social justice demands. Workers and families together can organize to counter the scandal-mongering and scapegoating press, and demanding change that addresses the real causes of childhood poverty and distress.
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Sajal Lahiri, Professor of Economics
Sajal Lahiri, Ph.D. earned his doctorate from the Indian Statistical Institute (1977). He worked at the University of Essex in England (1978-2002) and joined the faculty at Southern Illinois University in 2002 as the Vandeveer endowed chair in Economics and is a distinguished scholar at SIU.
Lahri has written extensively on issues related to international and development economics and was a member of the Restrictive Practices Court in the UK to hear a case on Retail Price Maintenance involving medicaments. He has worked as a consultant to international organizations like the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), and the World Bank. Lahiri has chaired over fifty Ph.D. dissertations.
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Trade and Industrial Policy under International Oligopoly, Cambridge University Press, 2004 (paperback edition, 2007) (with Yoshiyasu Ono)
"Input-Output Analysis with Scale-dependent Coefficients," Econometrica, 1976.
"Efficient Investment and Growth Consistency in the Input-Output Frame: An Analytical Contribution", Econometrica, 1977.
"Domestic Tax Reform and International Oligopoly," Journal of Public Economics, 1993 (with M. Keen)
"The Role of Free Entry in an Oligopolistic Heckscher-Ohlin Model," International Economic Review, 1995. (with Y. Ono)
"Competition for Aid and Trade Policy', Journal of International Economics}, 1997 (with P. Raimondos-Moeller).
"Foreign Direct Investment, Local Contents, and Profit Taxation," Economic Journal, 1998 (with Y. Ono).
"Destination and Origin Principles of Commodity Taxation: The
Comparison Under Imperfect Competition," Journal of International Economics, 1998 (with M.J. Keen).
"Lobbying by ethnic groups and aid allocation," Economic Journal}, 2000 (with P. Raimondos-Moeller).
"Foreign Aid and Illegal Immigration," Journal of Development Economics, 2000 (with Helena Gaytan-Fregoso).
"Will trade sanctions reduce child labour? the role of credit markets," Journal of Development Economics, 2002 (with Saqib Jafarey).
"Food for education and funds for education quality: policy options to reduce child labour," Canadian Journal of Economics, 2005 (with Saqib Jafarey).
"On the Provision of Official and Private Foreign Aid," Journal of Development Economics, 2006 (with Albert Schweinberger)
"Input-output analysis of virtual water transfers: Case study of California and Illinois," Ecological Economics, 2013 (with Stanley Mubako and Christopher Lant)
"Potential Pareto-improving Move Towards Most Favored Nation Tariffs," Economic Inquiry, 2015 (with P. Silva)
"Why direct counter-terror (CT) measures only may fail: an analysis of direct and preventive CT measures," Journal of International Economic Theory, 2019 (with Satya P. Das)
"Why do U.S. parents prefer private to foster care adoptions? The role of adoption subsidies, gender, race, and special need," Economic Inquiry (With Channary Khun and Sokchea Lim)
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Associate Editor, Bulletin of Economic Research
Associate Editor, Economics Bulletin
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It feels very exposing putting up a self portrait, does it not? Maybe it's just me. Anyway, I'm planning on putting another 1-2 hours into this, or however long it takes, but I would appreciate some feedback on the composition before I start wrapping things up. My initial composition is on the left, but I'm worried it looks too cheesy, like zoolander or something. I do like the diagonal force it's creating, so I took out that forearm to see if it would help, but then I'm thinking it looks a little empty. Maybe if I had a parrot on my shoulder? I'm really starting to understand the value of thumbnails.
Last edited by Grumpysaur; July 3rd, 2014 at 05:56 PM.
The one on the left is the better piece. It is not cheesy at all.
Do take your time to map out all the shapes and get your propotions just right. You are getting attitude in there, which is super key, but the drawing is off in some areas like the arms look two different sizes. If you can get the proportions and values accurate to what you see then you will have quite a good piece, especially if you hang on to the mood and attitude you are already capturing.
I've got it to a point where I think I can talk about it in the terms given for the properties of light. Like Revidescent, I was distracted with the fill light from the computer when trying to figure out a light source, so I just turned off the lights and used the monitor as the source. My mirror was quite close and I had a hard time seeing the composition as a whole, and I really struggled with the proportions. Changing my shirt helped me figured out shape relationships.
My light source created a low key painting. The mass light was quite obvious on my face and neck. For some reason my arms are darker and a warmer color temp than my face and neck and the mass light on my arms turned out to be darker, so it almost looks like they are half tone in comparison. I wonder if this is actually the case or if I didn't observe everything as a whole carefully enough.
Mass shadow was pretty apparent and almost seems to make those areas disappear into the dark background.
Halftones- I think they occurred most obviously on my forehead, cheek, and neck. Though maybe my cheek was part of the mass shadow?
Fill light- The only fill light I notices was on the part of my hand that was facing my neck.
Cast Shadow- My nose an lips created a pretty strong cast shadow. The cast shadow created by my arm onto my chest had a dark core and lighter, more diffuse edges. It got lighter and bigger the further I moved my arm away from my chest.
Highlights- Nose, cheek, eyelids, ear, and the edges of my mouth, all very subtle.
Thanks Jason. You're right about the mass shadow. Part of the problem is that when I open the painting in anything other than photoshop it is super dark. I tried lightening it in another program, but I don't think I went far enough. I will work on it.
Hey. that is looking great. I love the mood in the overall dark tone of the piece.
Your zoolander comment made me laugh. love that movie. I might have to give it a blue steel for my next self portrait.
hmm...it is a photoshop setting I think. Try googling the problem. There is a setting somewhere to tweak that you can keep that from happening.
Thanks. Haha. I would love to see a blue steel portrait from you, but I'm worried that your poor face would get a cramp!
I recalibrated my screen and I think things are more accurate between photoshop and external programs now. I don't understand how the darkening happened in this particular piece and not in others. I will have to research more. I had to adjust things with curves and levels, and I will check the accuracy when I work on this again from life. I adjusted my proportions, cause I was starting to get a big head. I will have to figure out what's going on with my lips as I think they are straying into duck lips territory.
Great painting! I like how the shadow in your face is in line with your shirt and that you're doing more then just your face.
Mayby a little more sharpness in the drawing hand to make it a third focus?
excellent work!! The improvement is inspiring. I am wondering if the darks in the shadows on the other side of the nose and the face are truly that dark. Your hair is handled flawlessly. I am also wondering if the far eye is fitting perfectly in the socket, and think that part of the portrait could be reinvestigated.
Agreed on having just a bit more light on the drawing hand...and outside these things perhaps the marks on the forehead are a bit rougher than life.
Keep up the great work. Beautiful stuff.
Hey, thanks you guys. I agree about the hand and I will work on it later. I painted from life again tonight and I re-assessed the eye. You were right. This is a reoccurring problem. I have proportion and placement problems in general, throughout my studies. I've been incorporating head structure into my perspective and constructive form studies here and there, and will tackle it more in depth once I get a better grip on other areas.
So, my painting is darker again. When I looked in the mirror, I realized I probably brightened it too much earlier. Now I'm thinking I went too dark, or maybe the values have been flattened a bit. I will get to that another night. Tonight I focused mainly on my facial structure and I think the likeness is a lot better. People tell me I have a stern face, and I am starting to see it show up in this portrait.
It was a struggle. It was an awkward art night.
keep it up. Make sure your eyes are of a closer value in the pupils/iris so that you dont look like you have one dark and one light eye (unless you do of course). The structure is starting to read really well.
While holding your eye on the focal area which you paint from, ie your eye and cheekbone 9when looking in the mirror), double check all your edges in your peripheral vision. You need to lock your eye in on the focus and paint all your edges in accurately, including the entire far edge of the face. Right now you have that far edge the same throughout it, yet i am confident that that form is shifting and changing and wrapping around and so the edges will tell a story if you look for them. just lock your eye down and relax. You will see them.
I worked on it a little bit more- don't know if you can tell. I'm not sure if I've improved my edges or not, though I tried. Everything else gets blurry when I focus on my eye on one point and I'm not sure if I can spot the subtlety of the edges yet.
try throwing a little more dark in the upper left quadrant on the background so that the dark of the hair and shadow on the face blend into the background more...conversely you could also lighten those areas up so they blend better atmospherically...right now its flattening just a little due to the contrast. think of it as atmospheric perspective.
with that said the next thing to look at is the overall big forms and space...the front hand on the left bottom for example...if you were to pop some more dark into the shirt on the lwoer left side of the image that hand will pull forward and the other arm will begin to read better in space. look at the image...the whole of it...at the same time...look into the piece...let your eyes relax and look into it...try getting the overall space to read just a little better.
great job on the face...beautiful.
Nice job Grumpy, you are brave to go for such a difficult pose, hands, arms and all that. Looks really good.
Jason, I tried to follow your advice the best that I could. I hope it looks a little better. I looked at this on someone else's monitor and it looks awful. . . almost like it's just two shades and highly contrasted. I hope it's not looking like that to you guys.
It seems dark on my monitor. The rendering looks great.
@cricketts- Thank you. I was wondering if the rendering is a bit boring. I see all these portraits with interesting mark making, and mine feels a little blah. I'm not sure about the dark thing. The room and light set up are pretty dark and my complexion is relatively dark, so I feel it's somewhat accurate, but maybe I should lighten it to make it look better? It's hard to say what it looks like for on other people's monitors as well. The other monitor I saw it on. . . it looked weird for this painting, but not weird for my Comp 1.1 stuff. Is my file cursed? Arg.
Hey, thanks Bri. I really admire your work with your own self portraits, so it means a lot. Also- thanks for saying that I don't look grumpy.
I like the last one a lot! Especially the eye that is in the light, it feels very alive. People I know called my portrait grumpy too... they just can't recognize our super focused faces. Painting portraits is serious business after all!
Even though I personally feel your rendition looks great, you could gently pass through the painting with a very low opacity brush to get a more painterly look? Just use the brush and gently follow the curves you see.
watch your edges on the lower arm...the whole of the arm has the same edge work. check out ingres portraits and you will find subtle edge play that describes both form and space. sargent as well.
The painting looks great, Its really nice to see how it continous to improve.
in the photoshop menu: view -> proof setup you can choose in what value condition photoshop is showing your picture.
When doing my composition 1.1 studies I usually opened a picture, removed the content and painted in there - thus I got the same viewing profile as the previous version, which probably saved me from this problem before.
part of the problem with darkpictures loosing their contrast when uploaded is the glaring light background of this forum. While painting in photshop you probably had a nice grey background behind your picture, creating a nice soft glow. When uploaded all the extra whites send out so much light that the pupils constrict and softer nuances is lost. Best way to counteract that is reducing the webbrowser site to just include the painting, and hold it up against a nice grey/dark background.
@SerJef- Thanks! I will play around and see what I can do about those "brushstrokes". Not feeling confident in that area. I think I'll have to study some master portraits in the future.
@Jason- I will work on it, thanks!
@Meilin- Wow, Meilin to the rescue! Thanks for being incredibly helpful. After playing around with the things you mentioned I think it's mainly that my lighting set up is dark, with a dash of too bright background and I think a little of the info gets lost when I save it to another format. Either way, you've provided me with a lot of good information.
That's really come a long way! Great detail in the shadows on the brow, and nicely drawn ear.
@Nathan- Thank you! An ear compliment is always welcome.
Ok, so I tried to tweak the arm. Blarg. Super hard. I also tried to amp up the highlight in the pen, the earring, and the reflection on the tablet from my arm.
Last edited by Grumpysaur; April 9th, 2014 at 01:47 AM.
Wow. Really great work. Nice touch with the reflection on the table.
Just wondering whether the light on your cheeck is keeping my eyes from looking at your eye first. But maybe that's how you intended it?


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Softball's frustration continues as Terps drop pair to Hokies 3-0 and 8-6
In a microcosm of the season, the Terps' bats fell silent when they got a quality outing from Kaitlyn Schmeiser and the pitchers couldn't hold a lead when the offense scored six.
By Todd Carton Apr 20, 2014, 12:00pm EDT
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If the frustrations of an unsuccessful season can be encapsulated in a single day, the Maryland softball squad's doubleheader loss to the visiting Virginia Tech Hokies Saturday did just that. The Terps dropped the first game 3-0 and fell in the nightcap by an 8-6 final score. The twin bill loss guarantees that the Terps will record the fewest wins in any season in the program's twenty year history, all but assures that, though they will host it, they will not participate in this season's ACC Tournament, and leaves them two losses shy of recording the most losses in a season.
Solid pitching, silent bats
In the opener, Maryland got a third consecutive strong effort from Kaitlyn Schmeiser who pitched all seven innings giving up three runs - only two of which were earned. However, as has often been the case this season, when the Terps have gotten a strong effort on the mound, their bats have fallen silent. And the bats couldn't have been much more silent as Maryland mustered only a single hit - an infield single in the bottom of the first by Shannon Bustillos - off Hokies starter Kelly Heinz. Coming into the game, Heinz had a respectable, though far from unhittable, 15-11 record with an ERA over 3.50.
Virginia Tech notched single runs in the second, third, and fifth innings. They strung together a two out double and single for their first run in the second. In the top of the third, a leadoff double, a wild pitch and a steal of home gave the visitors a 2-0 lead. The Hokies picked up the insurance run in the fifth with Lauren Gaskill eventually coming around to score on a sacrifice fly after reaching bas on an error by Terrapins third baseman Jessica Warner.
Other than Bustillos, the only other Terrapin to reach base was shortstop second baseman (thanks to Hollywood Unger for the correction) Corey Schwartz, playing in place of the injured Lindsey Schmeiser. Schmeiser, last season's ACC Freshman of the Year, tore her MCL in Wednesday's game against Delaware State and will miss the remainder of the season. Schwartz led off the Maryland third with a walk and moved to second on a groundout to the pitcher. She was doubled off the base when Amanda McCann flied out to center.
Offense awakens, pitching takes a nap
The second game was the opposite of the first. In this outing, the Terps certainly scored enough runs to win the game but they were victimized by ineffective pitching and a very questionable decision by Coach Laura Watten in the bottom of the seventh.
In the top of the first, it looked as though the visitors would win in a rout as they exploded for four runs chasing starter Brenna Nation before she recorded a single out. With one run in and the bases loaded with none out, Madison Martin came into the game in relief of Nation and was on the verge of escaping with no further damage after recording infield pop outs on the first two batters she faced. However, designated hitter Lauren Spaw smacked a bases clearing double to the fence in right center to give the visitors their four run lead.
The Terps bounced right back, though, picking up two in the bottom of the inning. McCann opened the inning with a walk and came around to score on Bustillos' triple. Bustillos would later score on Jessica Warner's ground out to short.
Martin settled in and held Tech scoreless through the fifth. Meanwhile, Maryland picked up a run in the bottom of the fourth when Sarah Calta, pinch running for Warner who had opened the inning with a single, stole second and came around to score on Juli Strange's single to right. Strange would get doubled off third on a line drive out to short to cut off the Terrapins' threat. The Terps pulled ahead 6-4 in the bottom of the fifth on Bustillos' three run homer to left that drove in Martin and McCann who had reached ahead of her on a single and a walk.
The Hokies finally got to Martin in the top of the sixth picking up two runs to square the score at six. A two out walk in the top of the seventh by Kaitlyn Schmeiser, who had come on in relief of Martin in the sixth, proved costly to the Terps as Tech followed that with a double and a single to score two more and take an 8-6 lead into the bottom of the seventh.
A puzzling decision
Down to their last out, Juli Strange drew a walk to keep the Terps fading hopes alive. Freshman Kylie Datil lashed a line drive to the fence in right and Watten made the very puzzling decision to wave Strange around third for what would have been a meaningless seventh run. Strange, who is not the Terps' fastest base runner, was out by several feet. Had Watten held Strange at third with two outs, the same hit needed to score Datil from second to tie the game would have also knocked in Strange.
I can only think that the coach thought Strange would score, Datil would advance to third on the play at the plate, and be in a position to score on a wild pitch, a passed ball, or an infield error. However, it seems to me that the risk far exceeded the reward. The Terps and Hokies close out the series at 1 pm Sunday.


Annually the school offers admittance for 80 selected students in its undergraduate Dentistry course.
It has graduate programs on Pediatrics (Master degree), Periodontics (Master degree), Oral Rehabilitation (Master and Doctoral degrees) and Restorative Dentistry (Master and Doctoral degrees). All of them are recognized by CAPES (country's graduate programs regulating body).
It also offers other graduate courses in many areas, some of which confer the Specialist degree.
The school's teaching body is composed by 88 professors, with most of them (over 90%) holding at least a Doctor degree.
The Clinical Supervision was created in 1982, with the purpose to organize and manage the clinics and didactic laboratories, important related services like sterilization, laundry, repairs, dosage and distribution of clinic material, as well as Patient Screening and Urgency and Emergency Care.
There are 197 dental offices installed in 7 clinics, available to both undergraduate and graduate students.
Supporting the clinics the school has 3 multidisciplinary laboratories and specific ones like Orthodontics, Dental Materials and Prosthetics, Ceramics, Casting, Microscopy, Histopathology, Anatomy and research laboratories like Genetics, Electromyography, Neurophysiology, Neuroendocrinology, Endodontics, Dentistry, Laser Welding, Corrosion Analysis, Cell Culture, Biomaterials Research, Restorative Dentistry with Laser, among others. It also counts with Specialized Service on Radiography and Orthodontics Documentation (SERDO), Laboratory for Analysis and Control of Odontological Radiographic Image (LACIRO), Integrated Center for Facial Deformity Studies and, in cooperation with the School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, the Clinic for Patients with Special Needs Care and the Clinic for Patients with Facial Mutilation Care.
Beyond teaching and research activities, our school provides health care to the community, performing several kinds of odontological procedures, ranging from the simplest to the more complex ones. Thanks to the support of the University of São Paulo's Dean our school has, in the last few years, undergone extensive building renovation. Also plenty of new equipment were acquired allowing us to continually provide dental care in full compliance with established biosafety rules.


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Mours est une commune française située dans le département du Val-d'Oise en région Île-de-France. Elle appartient à l'unité urbaine de Persan - Beaumont-sur-Oise.

Ses habitants sont appelés les Moursien(ne)s.

Géographie

Description

La commune se situe dans la vallée de l'Oise. Le village est bâti au bord du rû de Presles, à quelques centaines de mètres avant son confluent avec l'Oise.

Un important échangeur se trouve sur le territoire communal, connectant l'autoroute A16 et les anciennes RN 1 et 322 (actuelles RD 301 et 922).

Elle est desservie par la gare de Nointel - Mours, située à Nointel, où circulent les trains de la ligne H du Transilien (réseau Paris-Nord).

Communes limitrophes
La commune est limitrophe de Beaumont-sur-Oise, Nointel, Presles, L'Isle-Adam, Champagne-sur-Oise et Persan.

Hydrographie

La commune est limitée au nord par le lit de l'Oise, l'un des affluents principaux du fleuve la Seine.

Le Ru de Presles traverse la commune et conflue dans la Seine

Urbanisme

Typologie
Mours est une commune urbaine, car elle fait partie des communes denses ou de densité intermédiaire, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.
Elle appartient à l'unité urbaine de Persan-Beaumont-sur-Oise, une agglomération inter-régionale regroupant  et  en 2017, dont elle est une commune de la banlieue.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Paris dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire regroupe .

Toponymie
Murnum en 1170, Mor en 1210 Morum 1289.

Histoire

Le territoire de la commune est occupé dès le Néolithique, comme l'indiquent diverses découvertes : des armes et outils néolithiques, des monnaies et céramiques romaines à la carrière Mafa, ainsi qu'un torse gallo-romain y ont été retrouvés (actuellement au petit musée de Parmain).

Les terres sont cédées au  par le roi Dagobert à l'abbaye de Saint-Denis. En 1411, une charte de Charles d'Orléans indique que la seigneurie appartient toujours à l'abbaye. Le village constitue ainsi une des plus anciennes possessions des bénédictins de saint-Denis.

Le village connaît peu d'évolutions jusqu'au . Il faillit être rattaché en 1840 à Nointel ou Beaumont-sur-Oise. Les habitants s'y opposèrent.

L'église paroissiale Saint-Denis (ou Saint-Hilaire) datant du  est délaissée après la Révolution française et utilisée comme grange à compter de 1793, puis vendue aux enchères au profit de la paroisse de Beaumont en 1843. En 1850, les habitants tentent en vain de la racheter en vue d'une réhabilitation, mais elle est finalement démolie. En 1851, le conseil municipal décide la construction d'une chapelle pour remplacer cette église et lance une souscription. Les fonds ayant été recueillis grâce au soutien d'Émile Leemans, agent de change et bienfaiteur de la commune, la nouvelle chapelle du Clos est édifiée en 1860  sur une parcellé cédée par ce dernier. La chapelle est utilisée comme lieu de culte jusqu'aux années 1930, puis est abandonnée dans les années 1960.

La construction de la voie ferrée ouvre la localité sur l'extérieur et contribue à la prospérité de la commune. L'installation de quelques industries, notamment une minoterie et une fabrique de boutons, amènent un accroissement progressif de la population.

Le village subit des destructions durant la Première Guerre mondiale ; le génie français fait sauter le pont de chemin de fer sur l'Oise en 1914 afin de retarder la progression de l'ennemi.

Au , l'activité économique de la commune est stimulée par l'installation d'une cimenterie, fermée dans les années 1980.

Politique et administration

Rattachements administratifs et électoraux

Rattachements administratifs
Antérieurement à la loi du 10 juillet 1964, la commune faisait partie du département de Seine-et-Oise. La réorganisation de la région parisienne en 1964 fit que la commune appartient désormais au département du Val-d'Oise et à son arrondissement de Pontoise après un transfert administratif effectif au .

Elle faisait partie de 1801 à 1967 du canton de L'Isle-Adam de Seine-et-Oise. Lors de la mise en place du Val-d'Oise, la ville intègre le canton de Beaumont-sur-Oise. Dans le cadre du redécoupage cantonal de 2014 en France, cette circonscription administrative territoriale a disparu, et le canton n'est plus qu'une circonscription électorale.

La commune fait partie du ressort (droit) du tribunal judiciaire, ainsi que de celui du  tribunal de commerce de Pontoise.

Rattachements électoraux
Pour les élections départementales, la commune est membre depuis 2014 d'un nouveau  canton de L'Isle-Adam

Pour l'élection des députés, elle fait partie de la première circonscription du Val-d'Oise.

Intercommunalité
Mours est membre de la communauté de communes du Haut Val-d'Oise, un établissement public de coopération intercommunale (EPCI) à fiscalité propre créé fin  et auquel la commune a transféré un certain nombre de ses compétences, dans les conditions déterminées par le code général des collectivités territoriales.

Liste des maires

Équipements et services publics

Enseignement
Mours est dans l'académie de Versailles. Dans la ville on compte un établissement élémentaire.

Elle dispose du groupe scolaire Jacques Prévert, avenue des Grands-Champs, construit dans les années 1970 , qui, en 2021, compte  180 élèves répartis dans 7 classes élémentaires et 3 maternelles.

L'équipement sera totalement rénové en 2023 dans le cadre du plan France Relance mis en œuvre par l'Europe et l'État pour sortir de la crise économique liée à la pandémie du Covid-19 grâce à une réhabilitation qui en fera un bâtiment à énergie positive grâce l'isolation à l'isolation extérieure de l'école par des panneaux en bois, l'utilisation de la géothermie et de panneaux photovoltaïques pour le chauffage et l'électricité, et la capacité de l'équipement porté à 14 classes.

Culture

L'ancienne chapelle du Clos a été rénové et transformé en 2018 pour devenir le centre culturel Leemans destiné à accueillir des concerts, des expositions et des lectures.

Démographie

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments

 Maison Saint-Denis, rue du Moulin : Grâce à une fondation de la veuve Leemans dédiée au souvenir de son mari, ce grand complexe entouré d'un parc de  est bâti en 1882 pour abriter un orphelinat de jeunes filles. Il est initialement dédié à saint Roch et géré par les religieuses de la Sainte Famille de Bordeaux. En raison de l'Expulsion des congrégations, l'orphelinat est fermé au début du , et la maison vendue aux Pères blancs ou Missionnaires d'Afrique, rare congrégation catholique à être encore autorisée en France ; ils la transforment en maison de repos pour les religieux âgés et en centre de formation professionnelle pour les futurs missionnaires. L'établissement prend alors le nom de villa Saint Régis. Il comporte une chapelle devant la façade nord. La villa appartient toujours aux missionnaires.
 Ferme de Mours, 7 rue du Moulin : Ancienne propriété de la famille Leemans, elle date du  et occupe l'emplacement de l'ancien prieuré de l'abbaye de Saint-Denis transformé en manoir après la guerre de Cent Ans. Le bâtiment est vendu aux Pères blancs en 1950.
 Chapelle du Clos, rue de la Chapelle, près du cimetière : Édifiée en style néogothique et inaugurée en 1860, elle possède des façades soigneusement décorées, avec alternance des chaînages et ornementations en pierre de taille avec des bandeaux en brique rouge, des frises en haut des murs latéraux et des petits pinacles. La nef et le chœur sont percés de grandes baies vitrées voûtées d'ogives et terminés par un chevet à trois pans surmonté d'une tour très élancée. La chapelle étant devenue trop petite est inutilisée à partir des années 1930 et abandonnée dans les années 1960.Ses façades sont réhabilitées en 1992 par la municipalité Faivre et elle est restructurée en centre culturel en 2018, préservant le décor d'origine là où c'était encore possible, et avec un traitement plus moderne dans les autres parties de l'édifice.
 Ancienne minoterie, 5 rue du Port : Cet établissement industriel en pierre et briques remplace un vieux moulin à eau de type artisanal. Le bâtiment central est percé de nombreuses fenêtres en plein cintre.
 Lavoir couvert, rue du Moulin : Établi sur le ru de Presles, il se présente comme un abri en pierre de taille avec un toit couvert de tuiles. Il a été bâti au  en tant que premier lavoir construit dans la commune.
 D'anciennes fermes se rencontrent sur le territoire communal, dont certaines sont rénovées et servent d'habitations.

Personnalités liées à la commune

Émile Leemans, agent de change et bienfaiteur de la commune au

Mours au cinéma et à la télévision

Héraldique

Annexes

Bibliographie

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes du Val-d'Oise

Liens externes
 Site de la mairie

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Commune dans le Val-d'Oise
Unité urbaine de Persan - Beaumont-sur-Oise
Aire urbaine de Paris

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Trump sends personal wish on Kim Jong Un's birthday
South Korea said Friday it conveyed a message by President Donald Trump to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wishing him a happy birthday, which is believed to be Jan. 8.
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Returning from a visit to Washington on Friday, Chung Eui-yong, South Korea's presidential national security director, told reporters that Trump requested Seoul to deliver the message to Kim during a meeting at the White House this week.
Chung didn't disclose what the message specifically said, but said Seoul sent it to Pyongyang on Thursday through "proper means."
Kim last week opened the new year expressing deep frustrations over stalled nuclear negotiations with the Trump administration and vowed to bolster his nuclear arsenal as a deterrent against "gangster-like" U.S. sanctions and pressure.
The North in past months has severed virtually all cooperation with the South, while demanding Seoul to break away from Washington and restart inter-Korean economic projects held back by U.S.-led sanctions. But the Koreas still operate a liaison office in the North Korean border town of Kaesong.
Seoul had lobbied hard for the resumption of nuclear negotiations, with Chung shuttling between Pyongyang and Washington to help set up the first summit between Kim and Trump in June 2018.
But negotiations have faltered since the collapse of the second Kim-Trump meeting in February last year, when the U.S. side rejected North Korean demands for major sanctions relief in exchange for a partial surrender of its nuclear capabilities.
Trump and Kim met again in June and agreed to resume negotiations. But an October working-level meeting in Sweden broke down over what the North Koreans described as the Americans' "old stance and attitude."
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Despite the standstill in talks, Trump and Kim have both described their personal relationship as good. Trump has boasted about the "beautiful" letters he has received from Kim.
North Korea has never officially confirmed Kim's birth date. While covering a 2014 visit to the country by Dennis Rodman, North Korean state media said the former NBA star organized an exhibition game on Jan. 8 to celebrate Kim's birthday.


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Black gold () is a term used in the Republic of China (Taiwan) to refer to political corruption, underworld politics and political violence. The term refers to the obtaining of money (the "gold") through a dark, secretive, and corrupt method ("black", an adjective in Chinese that also means illegal or illicit).

The Kuomintang (KMT; Chinese Nationalist Party) has frequently been criticized in Taiwan for its connections to gangsters and black gold. The party has had a long association with underground societies, and its founder Sun Yat-sen had joined the Triads to gain support for the Republican Revolution. In its early years, the KMT relied on support from organized crime, gangs, and unions and clan organizations with criminal ties in its efforts to consolidate power in war-torn post-imperial China.  As a result, the party made concessions to local "crime bosses", such as the notorious Du Yuesheng in Shanghai, who were well-connected with its longtime leader, Chiang Kai-shek. During the Shanghai massacre of 1927, the KMT employed the Green Gang to exterminate suspected communists; the Green Gang also happened to be a major financial supporter of Chiang Kai-shek. The KMT's relationships with such organizations are believed to persist. KMT fled to Taiwan following the Chinese Civil War. As Minister of Justice from 1993 to 1996, former Taipei mayor and KMT Party Chairman Ma Ying-jeou is credited with attempts to fight black gold corruption and bring KMT out of corruption, and his removal from office by the KMT was widely attributed to him being too effective at fighting black gold.

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) gained considerable support in the 1990s through its reform agenda, even from those opposed to the DPP position on Taiwanese independence.  President Chen Shui-bian, former Taipei mayor, was noted for his attempts to clamp down on black gold throughout his career. However, Chen's presidential administration has been criticized, including by former colleagues and supporters, for exploiting their control of government for personal wealth in, a typical black-gold manner. Former DPP party leader Hsu Hsin-liang has criticized Chen in a public speech for betraying the ideals of the DPP after coming to power. After a series of high-profile corruption scandals, public support for DPP diminished in the 2005 "Three-in-One" election. Campaigning on a "save Taiwan from corruption" platform, the KMT-led pan-blue coalition won 16 of 23 county and town offices and became the majority party at the local level. Chen was charged with corruption after stepping down as president in 2008.

References

External links
Asiaweek: The Curse of Black Gold
Professor Jerome A. Cohen calls for Taiwan's legal scholars to speak out on law reforms

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Politics of China
Triad (organized crime)


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We are all road users. Have your say.
Influencing Change For Ontario's Roads.
CAA's annual Worst Roads campaign has influenced change, resulting in repaving and repair work done to many of the roads that have appeared on Ontario's Worst Roads list and there's more to come.
Learn what other road users and community leaders have to say about the impact this campaign has had on improving Ontario's roads in their communities.
Have Your Say About Ontario's Worst Roads.
CAA's annual Worst Roads campaign gives Ontarians a chance to make our roads safer by helping different levels of governments understand what road improvements are important to citizens and where they need to be made.
Ontario's Worst Roads Success Stories.
We've heard your stories and tallied the votes for our annual Worst Roads campaign for 16 years. It's clear that CAA's advocacy work has influenced change.
Top 10 Roads of 2018.
Your vote counts. See the Top 10 Worst Roads from 2018.
See all the Worst Roads winners since 2003.
Jamie Stuckless – Executive Director, Share the Road. A resident of Hamilton, she joined Share The Road in 2013.
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Driving is about lifestyle and with that, work-life balance. If we are constantly having to repair our cars because of the damage sustained while driving, that is going to affect our finances. CAA Worst Roads gives you a chance to have your voice heard and tell politicians what roads need to be fixed and why.
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Manchester United Football Club is one of the most recognised sporting brands, on a worldwide basis. And, with a fan base that exceeds half billion and several of its team members that have attained 'cult status'.
It's no surprise that this UK-based club's licensed merchandise, which is globally managed by a subsidiary company of Nike, sold over five million products last year including two million jerseys. Manchester United has 200 licensees in over 130 countries, and it entered India nearly 20 months back, in partnership with Indus League Clothing.
The licensed products here include apparel, accessories, and sports accessories, and to reach the 20 million local fans, an extensive distribution network has been quickly established including 16 exclusive stores, 50 multi-brands stores, as well as e-retailers like Jabong and Myntra.
Apart from licensing, Manchester United had earlier entered into a franchise agreement with Mirah Hospitality, to set up the popular sports bar – Manchester United Café Bars, here. And, these bars which are dedicated to live viewing of this club's matches, also help fans to experience the 'real' game via their signature 'dugout' area, 'Wall of Fame' and giant screens.
Gaurav Goenka, MD, Mirah Hospitality, highlighted that they plan to expand the number of such Cafe Bars to 25 over the next few years, from four currently.
Manchester United is a global icon. Kindly share your strategy in India?
Rachna Agarwal (RA): Manchester United entered India with its flagship store at Palladium, Mumbai almost 20 months back and the response from fans has been overwhelming. Our store network currently includes 16 exclusive stores and 50 multi-brand outlets.
socks and bags, amongst others, contributes nearly one-fifth to our overall business, and is also showing strong sales growth momentum.
Kindly highlight your outlook on the Indian licensing market?
The branded retail market plays a major role in licensing, as international brands are taking either the licensing or joint venture route to enter the Indian market. Fast growth is being witnessed especially in categories like apparels and lifestyle accessories, but consumers are also price conscious.
The growth opportunities here are attracting several overseas brands, and the key to success, is to constantly monitor and adapt to changing consumer behaviour. In addition, the social media is playing an increasingly important role on the availability of products and allied information.
How do you deal with counterfeits?
It is a key concern for us and we have stringent manufacturing codes, to enable easy identification of our original product range. In addition, we also have a competent legal team.
Your retail and distribution strategy?
A retailer should be based in the city where there is a sufficient number of fans for Manchester United, as well as cities where football is a growing sport.


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Q: How to resolve Reflected XSS vulnerability for querystring in node.js I was trying to solve it using inHTMLData() of xss-filters library like this answer. But it did not work as req.query is an object
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So, as we can see there are plenty of reasons to need cord, so then the question is, which one do I need? There are quite a few, well, let me say, there are quite a lot of different cords to choose from. Most typically (for the uses listed above) the most common sized cord used ranges between 1 and 3 mm in diameter, and depending on thickness, can weigh between 0.5 oz up to around 4 oz per 50 feet of cord.
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Saying all of this, Lawson has recently introduced some interesting line for sell on his own site, Lawson Outdoor Equipment. In this case, his Reflective Glowire is a high-viz orange color which makes it easy to see in low light, but also uses a 3M reflective tracer which will actually glow when light hits it, making it ideal for tent or tarp guy lines among other things.
You will never trip over your tent guyline again when you use our highly reflective Glowire. The cord is 2.0mm double braid that's suitable for all sorts of backcountry applications including tent guy lines, tarp ridge lines, bear bagging and anything else you can can think of. The cord is made with a high viz orange nylon jacket and uses a 3M reflective tracer. The core is a Dyneema/Dacron hybrid blend for low stretch, high strength and the ability to melt into the jacket.. The cord is rated to 225lbs at 6% elongation at break. Weight: 1.50oz per 50 feet. The cord works with LineLoc 3's.
Lawson recently sent me 50 feet of the Reflective Glowire to try out and upon my initial impression, I am pretty happy with it. It came twined around itself and before I unwrapped it, I set it on my scale to see how much it weighed. As delivered, it weighed in at 1.6 oz. Next, I unrolled it and measured out the length which was sent and it came to the specified 50 feet in length.
At 2 mm in diameter, this is pretty small diameter cord, however, it is listed to work with the LineLoc 3's (which due to their super easy use, I have grown to love). Once I received the cord, I pulled out some extra LineLoc 3's that I have on hand and threaded the Glowire through the LineLoc. They worked like a charm!
So, I immediately grabbed my new Six Moon Designs Swift pack and replaced the black compression cords found on each side of the pack with a section of the Glowire. The Swift uses a LineLoc 3 at the top of each side in which the compression cord is ran through and is used to cinch down and hold the compression on the pack, so it is a great thing that this cord works well with the LineLoc's. As well, with this highly reflective cord now on my pack, this will be a great way to spot my pack at night. And not to mention that by replacing the compression cords that came on the pack with Laswon's Glowire actually saved me 4 grams! So, other than on my pack, I plan on using the remainder of the cord to replace the guy lines on my Six Moon Designs Skyscape Trekker tent which I am currently awaiting to come in. Until then, I would like to thank Lawson for giving me the opportunity to try out some of this great cord!
And to everyone else, if you are in the market for some cord, I would highly suggest you look into some of Lawson's cord. It is a great product, with lots of potential uses. As well, Lawson offers great customer service, which is a great thing in itself.
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Today, I'm happy to announce the appointment of Fabrice Nadjari as our newest Kickstarter Fellow.
Originally from Paris, Fabrice trained as an engineer and a sociologist, specializing in innovation. He then pursued a globe-spanning career as an independent creator and entrepreneur — with his work taking him to places like Bolivia, Bhutan, and the Central African Republic. In 2011, he and a childhood friend set off for Afghanistan, where they shot a photography project documenting the lives of a nomadic tribe in the country's remote Wakhan corridor. The work caught the attention of the United Nations, earned Fabrice an Emmy nomination, and won accolades from National Geographic.
Residents of Sarhad-e-Broghil, a remote village in Afghanistan's Wakhan region.
Today Fabrice combines his love of culture, creativity, and innovation, helping organizations like UNESCO, the International Center of Photography, and American Ballet Theater bring their work to life through visual storytelling. As a Kickstarter Fellow, Fabrice will work with me to expand our Creators-in-Residence program, to create compelling localized content in various international markets, and to develop new ideas that engage creators across Kickstarter, Drip and The Creative Independent.
Our Kickstarter Fellows program is still new. Each Fellow's tenure and scope is designed to bring their unique expertise to life on a flexible timeline, but they all share a common interest in empowering creators to create. As our first Fellow, I spent a few months last year helping to launch Drip. We're now excited to learn as we go and develop the program further. In the meantime, please join us in welcoming Fabrice!


With over 800 million people on the planet who can't read and write, the Easy SMS concept app for Windows Phone is as easy as it gets - it uses text-to-speech and pictures instead of words to convey a message.
Considering that most of these people live in poorer countries, with less access to communication infrastructure, where often your sole means of wireless communication is a beat-up Nokia phone, the project might come in handy for Nokia's ideas to bring communication to the "next billion people" via cheap but capable handsets. Provided it can pull this trick off with Windows Phone handsets, of course, as opposed to Symbian devices, which was the original intention.
Easy SMS is developed by a team at the EPFL university in Switzerland as a class assignment, touched by stories of immigrants around them who can't find an easy way to stay in touch with their loved ones back home. Besides not being able to read or write, these people are having trouble even managing contacts in their phone books, recognizing people only by the last calls list, digits in their numbers, or the country code.
Have a look at the Easy SMS project presentation video below. The team needs some votes since it has submitted its work at the USA Imagine Cup 2011 competition, and is one of the 124 finalists invited next month in New York, so if you like what you are seeing, you can vote for their work.
This could really expand the use of WP7, but it would have to be on mid to low rnage handsets I'm guessing... I want high end WP7.


A troubled mother commits an unspeakable act to banish the demon that lurks in her root cellar. Ghosts from the past won't release their hold on a young woman. A girl in search of a new job as a nanny finds herself in charge of a mysterious package that requires much more care than any child.
often-hostile world to deliver justice, lower a vengeance hammer, or to simply revel in evil. Prepare to be unsettled, disturbed, and terrified.


We are authorized dealer of baker brand measuring instruments.
Suitable for quick and easy measurements of depths.
Base with 80 mm length hardened and ground to a high degree of flatness.
Supplied with a set of extension rods for measurement of wide variety of depths.
Supplied with Tungsten Carbide contact point for longer life..
For the American market, Depth Gauges meeting the requirements of AGD standard available.
We have 150mm,200mm,300mm 500mm digital ,dial and plain verniar caliper.
We have ready stock baker hip thread plug and ring gauges.
We have authorised dealer and service centre for baker products in gujarat.
Baker give 6month warrantee against mfg. Dfects all product.
With calibration certificate giving specified and actual values.
The metric gauges for markets like India, Europe, South America, Japan etc. conform to IS, ISO & DIN JIS specifications with anvil thread M2.5 and clamping stem dia.8mm.
The inch gauges for U.S.A and Canada markets conform to ANSI specifications with anvil thread #4-48 UNF and clamping stem dia. 3/8inch.
Suppled in INCH and METRIC least count.
Available in different throat depths, suitable for different measurement requirements.
In series J130, J138/L, and J142, measurement pressure is independent of the user, resulting in accurate readings of thickness without personal bias.
J138. 'Push Down Type' thickness gauge is particularly useful where fine measurement is not required - for example plywood. Pushing down the plunger with the index finger closes the measuring contacts.
Well-balanced frames and handgrips coupled with lightweight make these gauges easy to use for the measurement.
Available in different readings and travels.
Supplied with 10 mm anvil as standard. 20 mm and larger available on request.
For the American market, thickness gauges meeting the requirements of AGD standard available.
Robustly constructed, Stainless Steel column with clearly marked scale graduation.
A clear Multifunction Digital LCD display runs smoothly on the Analog vertical scale.
Fine adjustment with lock provided for ease of setting.
For easy and precise maneuverability the base has a specially designed thumb grip.
Functions consist of Power ON/OFF, bsolute/Incremental mode, mm/in., Preset, Hold, and Tolerance setting.
Powered by easily replaceable Silver Oxide Battery.
Operating environment – Temperature 5 to 45 degrees C at < or = 80% Humidity.
Each caliper carries a calibration certificate giving actual values.
Each micrometer supplied with a certificate of calibration.
Rotating display (270 degrees ) with extra large digits for excellent visibility.
Hardened and ground stainless steel plunger and stem.
Same gauge can be set to 0.01 mm/ 0.0005 in. reading depending on application.
Each gauge caliper carries a calibration certificate giving actual values.
Small dial diameter – convenient for use where the larger dial diameters are not possible to be used particularly in small places.
Ideal for smaller bore gauges like 10 to 18mm Bore gauges.
A unique face reading dial gauge with sensing plunger at right angles to the dial.
For the American market, Universal Test Set meeting the requirements of AGD standard available.
Small bores from 10mm to 18mm.
Highly versatile 18-50mm bore gauge covers a large range for which one needs to generally purchase 2 bore gauges having ranges Ø 18-35mm and Ø 35-60mm.
The third bore gauge covering a range of 50-150 mm, is widely used in Automobile, Aircraft, Engine and Pump manufacturers.
Extra wide bridge ensures automatic centering in the bore. Self- centralising feature of this bore gauge ensures that the measurement can be done with minimum of skill.
Furnished in a sleek wooden case containing measurement anvils and extension rods with necessary tools.
Highest degree of Ingress Protection to a hand-held instrument of its type, IP67 (according to IEC 60529).
Unconditional immunity to penetration of liquids or dust.
Reliability and Accuracy of measuring tool is assured even in the most hostile workshop environment.
High contrast Liquid Crystal Display Ergonomic beam design increases comfort; reduces fatigue.
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