Ad veteran Anil Kapoor bags AAAI lifetime achievement award

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Accepting the award, Kapoor said, “There is never a dull moment in advertising. For me, it was simply a passion. I strongly believe advertising agencies are solution providers and not suppliers of creativity.”

Making his opening remarks, AAAI president Arvind Sharma said Kapoor is a huge influence on the industry.

Kapoor was appointed chairman emeritus of Draftfcb+Ulka in 2010, after a 22-year stint with the company and its associated agencies. He is a past president of the AAAI, chairman of the Audit Bureau of Circulation of 2007-08 and was also on the management board of the National Readership Survey and the Television Audience Measurement Research. In May 2002, Kapoor was also inducted into the Foote, Cone & Belding’s Worldwide Board.

Before joining Draftfcb+Ulka, Kapoor was with Boots for 14 years, where, as marketing director, he launched a string of brands, all of which went on to become market leaders. Before that, he was with the legendary agency MCM. He graduated in English literature from St Stephen’s College, Delhi, and then did his MBA from IIM,
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When discussing how the NFL went away from the Larry Csonka and Franco Harris fullbacks of the 1970s to the West Coast versions of the 1980s, he made it a point to bring up Jackson.

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Parcells called Craig "the best example" of a West Coast fullback.

"They were catch and run the ball," Parcells said. "They were not slug-it-out blockers. They weren't the old, traditional I-formation blocker like I had with Mo Carthon."

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Not Dallas Gordey. The Estevan teen, who is three months removed from his high school graduation, looks at shoes and sees an art canvas.

And his innovation and creativity have punched his ticket to a top Vancouver art school.

The shoe art began 18 months ago. Gordey was thrilled when the movie "The Hunger Games" was released. So he painted his shoes with characters, scenes and themes from the movie.

"I thought it would be really cool to have my own, custom shoes, and everybody would comment on them," said Gordey. "I always love to be different."

The shoes drew rave reviews. So he painted footwear to celebrate the release of "The Avengers," "The Amazing Spider-Man" and other Hollywood blockbusters.

"People were asking 'Can I have a pair of shoes,' and they were suggesting that I turn this into a business," said Gordey. "It grew from there."

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Weekend Reading: Clinton’s Body Man, Lapham on Mortality, and More

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On the Web site of the Poetry Foundation, Ruth Graham profiles a different sort of behind-the-scenes figure: James Leippert, a.k.a. Ronald Latimer, “a deeply and deliberately mysterious man” who published significant works by Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, among other famous poets, when he was in his twenties. An air of fakery surrounds Leippert, whose episodic traipsing brings to mind the world’s Clark Rockefellers. But there’s an important difference: his true identity seems unformed, not hidden.

It’s not every day that one sees the byline “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg”—in this case at the top of the Supreme Court Justice’s new essay for Politico, about her admiration of Sandra Day O’Connor. (Jeffrey Toobin hhiking boots sale On Sale - Shop our selection of Hiking Boots On Sale,www.qdgoutdoor.com.as also touched on this topic, in his Profile of Ginsburg from earlier this year.) The piece contains some affecting details, from O’Connor passing Ginsburg a kind note as she read her first opinion to O’Connor shooting hoops (missing the first, making the second) with the U.S.hi-efficiency filter bags is supplied by manufacturer. women’s basketball team, and it evokes values that Ginsberg herself holds in high esteem: collegiality, understated directness, unflappability. There is another underlying point that Ginsburg makes by quoting a line O’Connor once spoke in a production of Shakespeare’s “Henry V.” “Hap’ly,” she writes, “a woman’s voice may do some good.”

A final weekend-reading option, from the new “Death” issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, is an essay on mortality by Lewis Lapham. (It isn’t available on the publication’s Web site, but you can find it, in slightly adapted form, on the site of Mother Jones.) He begins wryly: “At the age of 78 I know I won’t be skipping out on the appointment.” Rooting the piece in his own sense of aging raises the stakes—his words have volume and resonance. “Plants and animals become the stuff of human beings, the stuff of human beings food for fish,” he writes. “Men die not because they are sick but because they are alive.”
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Obama Concerned about Iceland’s PM Foot

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“I met Obama on Monday evening. He asked about Sigmundur’s health and whether his foot was recovering,” Gunnar wrote on his Facebook page, posting a picture of himself and his wife, Elva Bj?rk Guemundsdóttir, with Obama and his wife Michelle.

Gunnar is in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly and give a speech next Monday.

According to visir.is, Sigmundur has recovered fully since the foot infection incident and auctioned off his famous Nike sport shoes, one of which he was wearing when he met Obama.


In 1988 Switzer was bought out. He was making $88,000. The stadium seated 75,000. Players were given scholarships.

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Players are given scholarships.

See where I'm going with this?

The business of college football has changed dramatically -- especially in the last few decades -- and it has changed for damn near everyone. For everyone but the players, that is. Salaries, stadium seating and ticket prices have skyrocketed. The compensation for the athletes we're watching? Stagnated.

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Max George bags Adam Levine’s ex Sports Illustrated model Nina Agdal

The ladies’ man’s latest conquest was exposed by rival boyband member Ryan Fletcher from Lawson, who was letting all the cats out the bag during a night of partying with Metro.

Fletcher exposed The Wanted heartthrob’s secret after he was first linked to the Maroon 5 star’s ex-lover in May.

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But her dalliance with The Voice USA coach was soon dubbed ‘nothing serious’.

Once Levine quickly became engaged to his ex-girlfriend and fellow Victoria’s Secret model, Behati Prinsloo, 24, the Dutch stunner came running back into George’s arms.

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‘We saw her billboard in Times Square (New York) and thought she was fit,’ he said at Samsung Galaxy’s Note 3 and Gear smartwatch launch at the Radio Rooftop Bar at the ME hotel in London on Tuesday evening.

‘So we looked her up on Twitter and checked to see if we had any mutual followers and it turns out she was following Max.’

‘We text him straight away and said “mate, guess who’s following you? You have to get in touch” and now they’re together!’

Agdal signalled she was keen to go public with the news herself when she tweeted pictures of herself with George in Las Vegas over the weekend.

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Then came a photo of what appeared to be her and George lying in bed. She captioned it: ‘By Vegas. It was real [sic].’

George was linked to troubled star Lindsay Lohan, 27, earlier this year before admitting that the pair did have a ‘little snog’.

The 24-year-old still keeps in touch with his American pal and recently revealed he had called her after her court-ordered stint in rehab, saying she is ‘off the booze and doing great’.

Meanwhile, George’s bandmate Nathan Sykes has been more forthcoming by revealing he is dating 20-year-old Nickelodeon star Ariana Grande.

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A banjo-inspired line from Holly Aiken

In honor of this weekend’s Wide Open Bluegrass Festival in downtown Raleigh, Raleigh accessories designer Holly Aiken has created a new line of bluegrass-influenced bags, wallets, clutches and wristlets. Featuring a banjo design in Aiken’s signature colorful vinyl, the bags will be available at the festival and in Aiken’s Stitch store on the corner of Wilmington and Hargett streets.

Cancer fundraiser at Dress

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Gem Chat

Joint Venture Jewelry in Cary offers its Gem Chat informational series this week. Topics include “Famous Women Jewelers” on Thursday at 5 p.m., “Periods and Styles” on Fridayat 5 p.m. and “Love and Jewelry” on Saturday at 11 a.m. The chats are free, and wine will be served on Friday and Saturday with mimosas on Saturday. For more information, call 919-678-0092.

‘Secrets of Style’

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Dancing into fashion

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“Non-biodegradable plastic bags are a serious menace to natural ecosystems and present a problem in terms of disposal,” Professor Dusan Losic, ARC Future Fellow and Research Professor of Nanotechnology in the University’s School of Chemical Engineering, said in a press release. “Transforming these waste materials through ‘nanotechnological recycling’ provides a potential solution for minimizing environmental pollution at the same time as producing high-added value products.”

Carbon nanotubes are tiny cylinders of carbon atoms, one nanometer in diameter, which is about one-ten-thousandth the diameter of a human hair. These nanotubes are hundreds of times stronger than steel but six times lighter. The material has unique mechanical, electrical, thermal and transport properties present, making it an exciting tool for researchers. Carbon nanotubes are already being used in industries such as electronics, sports equipment, long-lasting batteries, sensing devices and wind turbines.

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The process used by the researchers is seen as a jumping point for a future where plastic waste can be used without generating poisonous compounds.

The University of Adelaide researchers are not the only scientists trying to make carbon nanotubes more affordable. Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) have found a way to provide low-cost, industrial scale manufacturing of the material. They have even devised a way to use carbon nanotubes to make a gas sensor that could be integrated into food packaging to gauge freshness.
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This follows a Council decision to stop selling refuse bags from 1 July 2013 due to a substantial drop in bag sales which made it no longer viable to provide the service.

The proposal to stop providing the service was first publicised in February and the decision to withdraw from kerbside refuse collection was made on 6 June 2013. 

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Some retailers continued to sell-off excess stock after 1 July, but surveys indicate Council refuse bags are now virtually out of circulation. 
A PERFORMER had a day to remember when she won two big roles within just a few hours. 

Kaylea Nicholls from Broughton, who attends Arts1 School of Performance in Milton Keynes, successfully auditioned for Dunstable’s pantomime at the Grove Theatre, where she will star as a dancer alongside Leslie Grantham in Dick Whittington. 

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A man faces charges after 100 kilograms of marijuana buds were found in seven hockey bags during a traffic stop Monday morning. 

An officer with the S?reté du Québec stopped a vehicle around 11 a.m. on Route 323 in Lac-des-Plages for speeding. 

The officer noticed the smell of marijuana when the driver rolled down his window. 

The driver of the vehicle was then arrested for drug possession and possession for the purpose of trafficking. 

The suspect was released from police custody on a promise to appear in court on Dec. 10, 2013. 

Police are continuing to investigate. 

The man’s name will not be released until he appears in court.

Designer Outlet in Wembley

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Skechers will open a store in the 350,000 foot square centre offering up to 70 per cent of retail prices. 

The company specialises in footwear for men, women and children and the new store will offer a variety of lifestyle, children’s and performance shoes at discounted prices. 

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High-end homeware brands Villeroy & Boch and Oneida will also open branches as will restaurants Prezzo, Handmade Burger Co and Las Iguanas. 

Currently in its final phase of construction, LDO has leased 70 per cent of its units and will open for business on October 24. 

James Saunders, chief operating officer of Quintain,Massive selection and lowest prices on wholesale sunglasses, over 30 brand names. All our wholesale cheap sunglasses come one dozen assorted colors. who are managing LDO, said: “Skechers is a fantastic addition to the London Designer Outlet sports retail offering. 

“This high quality trusted global brand will complement the sought after range of fashion and homeware retailers also have confirmed for the centre”. 

Located adjacent to Wembley Stadium and Arena and a new four star Hilton hotel, London Designer Outlet is easily accessible by road, rail and tube. 

With poll numbers slipping in the final weeks of the mayor’s race, key aides to mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn were compiling a list of prominent New Yorkers to reach out to for endorsements. 

One boldface name tossed around was pop star and LGBT icon Lady Gaga, reports the Daily News’ Annie Karni. 

The match made sense on paper: Gaga considers herself a social-justice activist and runs a youth empowerment nonprofit organization called the Born This Way Foundation. Quinn was running a historic bid to become the city’s first female and openly gay mayor. 

But the campaign quickly realized any Gaga offensive would be a nonstarter when the hit maker’s dad, upper West Side resident Joe Germanotta, began voicing his support for rival Bill de Blasio. 

“Let’s NOT vote for Spitzer, Weiner or Lieu [sic]. Pass on Quinn and vote for De Blasio and Stringer. They are listening to the people of NYC,” Germanotta, a restaurant owner, tweeted on Aug. 6. 

Like Quinn, de Blasio also saw the political value of a connection to Gaga and her online network of more than 40 million Twitter followers. 

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“The most significant thing I saw was what de Blasio was doing to assist the small-business owners in the health department," said Germanotta, a frequent critic of Mayor Bloomberg and the city health department. “He was taking a very proactive role in how the fines and the activity were affecting their businesses,” he told the Daily News. “He came into my restaurant and thanked me for my support and I got to meet his son, Dante. I’m a big supporter.” 

Asked if Gaga’s clan would become more involved, spokesman Dan Levitan said, “stay tuned.” 

Political insiders say Gaga could have helped move the needle on Quinn’s failed bid. The onetime front-runner finished a distant third in the primary. 

“Lady Gaga still has influence politically and in the media,” said one gay political operative. “Her endorsement in the mayoral race would help sway some LGBT voters and women. A single tweet from Gaga to her millions of followers can still generate headlines.” 

Despite Quinn running as the only woman in the race, de Blasio was the top choice among female voters. 

“My daughter doesn’t get involved with political requests like that,” Germanotta said when asked about Gaga’s involvement in the mayor’s race. A spokeswoman for Lady Gaga wouldn’t comment on the star’s involvement in the local political scene. A spokesman for Quinn said the campaign never reached out to Lady Gaga. 

Council to Discuss Success of Plastic Bag Ban, New Fire Engines

That single-use plastic bag ban worked. The city enacted the 10-cent charge and San Jose’s shoppers adapted accordingly, bringing their own reusable bags instead of opting for single-use recycled paper bags, according to city staff. It’s a good thing, too, because that good behavior is pushing the city to consider canceling a fee increase that would have come into effect Jan. 1,hiking boots sale On Sale - Shop our selection of Hiking Boots On Sale,www.qdgoutdoor.com. upping the price-per-paper bag to 25 cents. 

“The bag regulations have modified shoppers’ behaviors, as intended, resulting in a reduction in single-use plastic bag little in city creeks and streets, reducing waste and improving recycling operations,” Director of Environmental Services Kerrie Romanow writes in a memo. “Since the anticipated surge in demand for single-use paper bags did not materialize and observations indicate increasing use of reusable bags,Private label and custom ｛%｝. Family owned and run for over 30 years.Shoes Manufacturer staff believes the scheduled increase in the minimum charge for a recycled content paper bag is not necessary at this time to continue the positive trend away from single-use bags.” 

More from the San Jose City Council agenda for September 24, 2013: 

? San Jose will pay $4.95 million to a man shot 20 times by police after they found him dressed up as a surgeon for Halloween,hi-efficiency filter bags is supplied by manufacturer. armed with a toy gun and pass-out drunk in a hotel stairwell. 

? Two 1,500-gallon-a-minute fire engines will cost the city about $1.3 million. The new ones will replace a couple older engines, one 17 years old and the other 18. 

? The School of Arts and Culture will get $450,000 a year for the next five to run programs from the Mexican Heritage Plaza. It’ll get $425,000 annually from year six and onward. 

? Fees to develop big office projects in north San Jose may get a lot cheaper–as long as there’s a tenant lined up. The plan, proposed by Mayor Chuck Reed, would lower traffic impact fees from the already-discounted $5 per square foot to just $2 per. The regular fee is $13.50. The proposal would also up the square footage allowed to 4 million square feet. 

WHAT: City Council meets 
WHEN: 1:30pm Tuesday 
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INFO: City Clerk, 408.535.1260 
Tagged: Politics, Business, Culture, Chuck Reed, City Council, City Hall, Kerrie Romanow, plastic bag ban, Police, SJFD 
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