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The Recycling Research Foundation (RRF), a nonprofit organization closely associated with the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), has announced Army veteran Joshua Daniel as the recipient of its 2018 National Veterans Stipend. Recognizing the need for financial aid as veterans seek to complete their degrees, the scholarship awards up to $8,000 to those who have served in the U.S. armed forces. The stipend covers $2,000 per year and is renewable for up to four years or the length of study.

Mil-spec self-tapping screws are available with a pan or round head and can be used with metal or plastic components. These screws have tapered tips and can create threaded holes in materials without the need for pilot holes.

The names evoke images from elegance to sleaze, just like the actual clientele catered to. Hotel Metropole and Palace Hotel, The Beach Luxury Hotel and later, the Inter Continental Hotel were the crown jewels, while the Excelsior, Imperial, Taj and Central hotels offered a more risqué set of entertainment. And the artists were flown in from around the region; there were Turks, Lebanese, Australians, Egyptians and other nationalities regularly performing on the circuit.

Article excerpted from ‘The business of entertainment’, published in the November-December 2014 edition of Aurora.

Going back to the ‘Rhythm of Unity’ commercial or taking a look at the iconic PIA ad with an attractive dusky-complexioned woman extolling the East’s hospitality and a headline that reads ‘Our Unfair Advantage’, a case can be made that although local brands used to respect culture, they have lost their way.

His call was not universally embraced. Labeling it “the worst idea” of the campaign, the National Review’s Jim Geraghty blustered, with perhaps a touch of humor: “You will get my American system ruler when you pry it from my cold dead hand.” Advocates of the metric system are accustomed to such scorn. Back in 1972, Rhode Island senator Claiborne Pell was attacked by his Republican opponent for wasting time on low-priority items like the metric system. The politician leveling that attack? John Chafee.

In addition, friction-drilling screws create strong joints. Tests on high-strength sheet steel indicate that friction-drilling screws produce joints with greater peel strength than spot welding, clinching, self-piercing rivets. Tests of sheer strength show that friction-drilling screws performed at least as well as clinching and self-piercing rivets and only slightly less than spot welding.

A good torque wrench that has been recently calibrated/certified for accuracy is perfectly sufficient. Also keep in mind, that when using a torque wrench, the actual clamp load created can be altered when a fastener is installed “dry” (without lubricant, sealant, or thread locker on it) or “wet,” and the manufacturer’s torque guidelines should indicate the condition of the desired torque measurement.

In fact, it was Hashmi’s elder brother Mateen (he worked for Alpha Insurance), who opened Orient in a room in Dawn’s offices in New Challi in 1953. He told Hashmi to sit there and do some work. Any client who came to put an ad in Dawn was directed to Orient, and in this way, Orient earned a commission and the agency flourished. In those days, the clients were mostly textile companies.

This graph compares contact pressure vs. compressive yield strength for a hex-head cap screw and a flange-head cap screw. Contact pressure regions are based on the assumption of uniform loading of 75 percent of minimum proof load on contact areas of 0.18 and 0.52 square inch. The upper and lower edge of each region is the pressure exerted by a Grade 8 and Grade 5 screw, respectively. Source: Peak Innovations Engineering

Small-scale, localised advertising is largely undocumented and not part of published estimates. In radio, from the single state network monopoly from 1947 to 2001, to now over 150 private and university FM radio channels in 2018, advertising volume has grown dramatically.

An obstacle standing in the way is institutionalised thinking and a strong affection for the status quo. We need to take greater risks and encourage social to be a frontrunner instead of an add-on. The other big hurdle is disconnected campaign planning. The trust deficit between agencies working on different aspects of the campaign needs to be addressed and multiple partners need to work in tandem, not in silos.