Nicole LV Mullis: 'Old' is in the suitcase - Port Huron Times Herald

I turned 39 this week, an age I considered for maybe 39 minutes. I get it. I?m no longer pushing 40; I?m walking alongside it. Still, it doesn?t really bother me. I don?t feel much different than when I was 29.

Sure, there is extra hair in my hairbrush, extra lines by my eyes, and extra pounds on my scale, but that?s the stuff I notice while brushing my teeth. When I?m done flossing, I?m done caring.

Give me a suitcase, however, and I feel closer to 89.

I never used to pack my pillow. Whatever was around was good enough to dream on, up to and including my coat. A couple years ago, I nudged a disc out of my neck. Despite it nudging back in, I can?t sleep without my special orthopedic pillow. The fact that it is ?orthopedic? screams ?old.? The fact that I won?t sleep without it confirms this.

While I can justify the pillow, I can?t explain the laundry soap. I claim it?s for my daughter who has allergies, which is true, but, really, I can?t stand the scent of anything but original Tide.

Not always; just lately.

If space allows, I pack my own sheets. They aren?t a high thread count but they?re mine. Everything else is too scratchy or starchy or smoothy and I can?t sleep. I don?t know when this happened, just that it did.

If I could, I would pack my bed. I miss my bed more than I miss my dog when I travel. My bed isn?t anything special. I don?t remember researching mattresses. It?s just a queen-sized, poster-whatsits with a poufy top. Point is, it?s the only bed that doesn?t make my hips fall asleep.

And nothing makes me feel older than my hips falling asleep.

I struggle to eat when I?m away from my kitchen. I don?t have food allergies, diabetes, a political agenda or even vegetarianism, but I apparently I have a ?diet? that my body has grown accustom to and punishes me for violating.

I struggle to drink coffee that isn?t mine or even water that isn?t mine. I would never complain to my hosts. That?s beyond rude. Plus, it?s embarrassing. So, I smuggle. The best thing Starbucks ever produced are those instant coffee sticks. And bottled water is my friend. But, honestly, how did this happen? I was never a fussy eater and now I?m lining my suitcase with instant coffee.

Then, there are those foodstuffs I can?t smuggle ? a certain type of yogurt, a certain kind of apple, a certain brand of bread. I find myself making excuses to go to the store to find these items and I?m ridiculously giddy when I do.

Yes! Pomegranate DanActive! I?m saved!

I used to love eating while traveling. Oh, the sweets, treats and overeats! Not anymore. A couple restaurant meals and my grumpy guts grind to a halt. Soon I?m begging a ride to the nearest pharmacy to find ?my medicines.?

Forget 39 candles on a birthday cake. Rooting through acid controllers in a strange pharmacy is real Grim Reaper material.

Oh, well. I?ve made peace with the fact my bones will long for home long before my trip ends. And why not? The food is familiar, the bed is perfect and I feel young again.

Nicole L. V. Mullis can be reached at nlvm.columns@gmail.com

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Louis Vuitton exhibit: It's the bag, stupid - Boston.com

Louis Vuitton exhibit: It’s the bag, stupid - Boston.com HOME/COLLECTIONS/FASHIONLouis Vuitton exhibit: It’s the bag, stupidMarch 09, 2012|Thomas Adamson, Associated PressShareE-mailPrint

“Fashions fade, style is eternal,’’ Yves Saint Laurent once said.

An immutable fashion list must include the Ls Vuitton bag, on display demurely but proudly in Paris’ Decorative Arts Museum like the historical artifact it should be.

The bag pattern was first patented in 1877 but it can still be seen — almost unchanged — on the Parisian boulevards more than 130 years later. This is thanks to house founder Louis Vuitton, and since 1997, creative director Marc Jacobs.

Both their stories are woven together in a colorful exhibit that spans over a century of fashion history.

The exhibit takes the visitor from the founder’s humble beginnings as a case-packer to the fantastical runway shows that transformed the house into one of the world’s biggest names, with a revenue last year of euro2.5 billion. Though both men are from different centuries, the exhibition asks whether they have more in common than meets the eye.

There’s a small clue in the first room: portraits of the two men hang side by side, both sporting mustaches in the style of their age.

“They’re both visionaries, though they would be the last to admit it,’’ said museum curator Pamela Golbin, “and they both lived an exact same story at a decisive moment in fashion.’’

Louis Vuitton faced industrialization of the 19th century and new train travel while Marc Jacobs was confronted with 1990s’ changing demands for marketing “making fashion truly globalized for the first time,’’ Golbin said.

The story began for Louis Vuitton as a trunk-packer for rich Parisians, a job in which he was able to hone a mastery of every bolt, lock and corner of travel cases from across the French capital. He built on his knowledge, finally opening his own house in 1854.

The Orient Express was new and fashionable, and the meteoric rise of haute couture under Charles Frederic Worth meant better-dressed women went on trips with more and more clothes — that needed cases to fit them in.

Such was the demand that the norm in the late-19th century norm, as one display shows, was for a traveling lady to take a staggering 30 large cases on each trip.

From this a thousand trunks were born, all perfectly preserved with their original wax coatings and all viewable at the exhibit: hat trunks, toiletries trunks, trunks that pulled out as a chest of drawers, metal trunks for humid countries. For the trendy yet tired, there was a trunk that folded out into a bed.

As it still does under Jacobs, the house had a sense for the avant-garde as early as 1890: one gargantuan case boasts the title the “Never Full Bag.’’

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LV='s Graham Ashby joins Ignis - What Investment

Ignis Asset Management has appointed Graham Ashby as manager of the ￡90.6 million Ignis UK Equity Income fund.

Ashby joins the business from LV= where he was lead manager of its UK Equity Income fund.

He will replace outgoing manager Martin Brown, who has been running the fund since October 2008.

Ashby has more than 21 years of investment experience and was recently head of UK equities at LV= Asset Management, where he oversaw ￡1.3 billion of assets.

He was previously head of UK retail equities at Credit Suisse Asset Management and was lead manager of three of its UK equity income funds.

Mark Lovett, CIO for equities at LV= Asset Management, commented, ‘I have experienced his pragmatic and intuitive approach to investment first-hand at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell and he will be a valuable addition to the Ignis UK equity team.’

Ashby added, ‘My aim is simple – to achieve top quartile performance on a consistent basis for the Ignis UK Equity Income fund and to further enhance Ignis’ reputation for investment excellence within the marketplace.’

His appointment follows that of Mark Holden, who was brought on as manager of the Ignis UK Focus fund in October last year.

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Leicester book LV Cup final spot by beating Bath - Rugbyweek.com

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Leicester Tigers held on to win their Anglo Welsh LV Cup Semi-final clash by beating Bath 16-17 at The Recreation Ground in Bath on Friday.

The result means that Leicester Tigers will meet the winner of Sunday's other Semi-final between Northampton Saints and the Scarlets in the Anglo Welsh LV Cup final.

Leicester Tigers took the bold move of naming a young second string team for this match but the decision paid off.

The opening points of a breathless first quarter came on 18 minutes when another kick-chase led to a penalty and Ford made no mistake with the kick from 30 metres out.

Ford then produced a superb kick to pin back Bath and the hosts made a mistake at the line-out near their own line. When prop Charlie Beech lost possession under pressure from Julian White, Tigers lock Graham Kitchener dropped on the loose ball to score. Ford missed the conversion as Leicester led 8-0.

Fly-half Tom Heathcote got Bath off the mark with a 35-metre penalty after 24 minutes as the game continued to swing in the favour of one side and then the other.

Then Bath claimed the lead for the first time just after the half-hour with a converted try. A line-out on the left provided the platform and a sweeping attack, led by a 40-metre charge from Matt Carraro, took them within range of the tryline, the ball eventually coming to the right for hooker Lee Mears to dart between two defenders to score. Heathcote added a testing kick from out wide to give the hosts a 10-8 advantage.

The home crowd almost had more cause for celebration moments later as a sharp attack on halfway set Matt Banahan into space but, when he kicked ahead, Ford read the bounce of the ball and kept his cool to clear.

Bath enjoyed their best spell in the closing 10 minutes of the half, using Carraro and Banahan to crash the ball up in midfield, and the offloading game among the forwards to keep Tigers on the back foot.

They created two more chances on the right before the half closed with Tigers scrum-half James Grindal winning turnover ball at a close-range scrum and the visitors protecting possession as the clock kicked down to the break.

The home side almost had a dream start to the second half when Scott Hamilton's miscued kick gave away possession on halfway and Bath's Biggs got his side in dangerous territory. The ball was flun to the right butm, with men over, it drifted into touch.

The pressure was unrelenting though as Mears and Banahan got within reach of the tryline, but spirited defence kept Tigers in the game, eventually winning turnover ball near the 22.

Tigers won a penalty at the scrum and, after Ford had taken play up to halfway, international props Logoviii Mulipola and Marcos Ayerza replaced Boris Stankovich and White.

They were rewarded with a penalty at their opening scrum, giving Ford an opportunity to regain the lead with a kick from 35 metres. A big cheer from the travelling support signaled its success as Tigers regained the lead at 11-10.

But it was shortlived, though, when Biggs capitalised on a loose pass from Newby and, when Bath were awarded a penalty on the left, Heathcote struck it well to make it 13-11 to the home side.

The see-saw fortunes continued as Tigers were awarded a penalty from the restart after obstruction in the Bath forwards and Ford struck the kick to make it 14-13.

Back Bath game yet again, with Heathcote nailing a penalty in front of the posts after Kitchener had been penalised at a ruck. And they almost added to it with replacement Jack Cuthbert powering his way up to the 22 and kicking in behind, only for Twelvetrees to rescue Tigers with a race to the ball and then the composure to set up a clearing kick.

Thomas Waldrom and Julian Salvi entered the fray, replacing Ben Pienaar and Newby in the Tigers pack, but Bath had the next opportunity, gaining a penalty at a scrum close to halfway. But Heathcote was unable to maintain his 100-per-cent record, pushing the kick wide.

Steve Mafi had the away support on their feet moments later, cropping up in midfield and gaining vital metres, before Salvi and Mulipola carried into the Bath 22. But Tigers were whistled by referee Dave Pearson just as they looked to gain promosing territory.

Matt Smith replaced Andy Forsyth in the backline before play restarted, but there was no let-up in the pace of the game, both sides looking for the vital score.

The heavyweight contest at the scrum continued, with Bath celebrating prematurely when the referee's whistle blew, only to point first their way then to Tigers after a word from his assistant.

Ford remained the coolest man on the pitch to make it 17-16 to Tigers.

Barely a minute later, though, Bath were given their own chance when Twelvetrees was penalised for taking a man off the ball as Banahan looked to pass. Heathcote, though, hooked horribly wide from wide on the right.

Agulla almost produced a try out of nothing in response, taking a catch on his 10-metre line and racing 50 metres upfield before being tackled into touch barely five metres short.

Bath struggled to clear their lines, Mafi charging down a kick from Michael Claassens, Mulipola thumping the ball up twice and the Tigers forwards retaining both possession and composure as the clock ticked down to the last three minutes.

A series of reset scrums took the clock down to 90 seconds remaining before Tigers were penalised. Barkley kicked to touch, gaining the throw-in on the Bath 10-metre line.

Ball off the top got Bath going forward again but Carraro knocked-on as he met the Tigers defence and Tigers cleared into touch with time up. But there was one more chance as Bath recycled ball in midfield, only for referee Pearson to blow for a penalty.

Ford's punt into the crowd drew cheers from the away supporters and sealed a place in the final of the competition for the first time since 2008.

Final Score Bath 16 (10) Leicester 17 (8)

Scorers

Bath
Tries: Mears
Penalties: Heathcote 3
Conversions: Heathcote

Leicester Tigers
Tries: Kitchener
Penalties: Ford 4

Teams

Bath Rugby

15. Sam Vesty , 14. Matt Banahan , 13. Matt Carraro , 12. Olly Barkley , 11. Tom Biggs , 10. Tom Heathcote , 9. Michael Claassens , 1. Charlie Beech , 2. Lee Mears , 3. Duncan Bell , 4. Dave Attwood , 5. Ryan Caldwell , 6. Ben Skirving , 7. Francois Louw (c) , 8. Simon Taylor

Replacements:16. Pieter Dixon , 17. David Flatman , 18. Anthony Perenise , 19. Guy Mercer , 20. Carl Fearns , 21. Chris Cook , 22. Olly Woodburn , 23. Jack Cuthbert

Leicester Tigers

15 Scott Hamilton , 14 Horacio Agulla , 13 Andy Forsyth , 12 Billy Twelvetreees , 11 Alex Lewington , 10 George Ford , 9 James Grindal , 1 Boris Stankovich , 2 Rob Hawkins , 3 Julian White , 4 Calum Green , 5 Graham Kitchener , 6 Steve Mafi , 7 Craig Newby (c) , 8 Ben Pienaar

Replacements , 16 Tom Youngs , 17 Marcos Ayerza , 18 Logoviii Mulipola , 19 Julian Salvi , 20 Thomas Waldrom , 21 Scott Steele , 22 Jeremy Staunton , 23 Matt Smith

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LV Student Spells Her Way to State Bee - Patch.com

? Back to Article Embed | Share ?? ? Long Valley's Kaitlin Cheung, far left, with the other finalists of the New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs – Junior Membership Northern Region Spelling Bee. Mary Blanusa

It all began with some broccoli.

Now, Kaitlin Cheung, a fifth-grader from Flocktown-Kossmann School, is headed to the state championship spelling bee in New Brunswick on Saturday, March 10 after taking first place in the Northern Regional Spelling Bee competition on March 3.

Cheung, who won the Long Valley Junior Women’s Club’s annual spelling bee at the Benedict A. Cucinella School in January, correctly spelled broccoli then, and nailed down ‘banquet’ and ‘barrette’ consecutively to win the regional competition.

Cheung properly spelled humanitarian, bicentennial, porous, and gnome in the regional bee as well.

The top six spellers from the Northern, Central and Southern regional bees will take part in Saturday’s competition.

Following Cheung to the state bee from the Northern region are: second place winner Emily Walker who represented the Junior Women’s Club of Harrington Park; third place winner was Krutkia Thakkar of Euclid School in Hasbrouck Heights; coming in fourth place was Aayush Singh representing JWC Harrington Park; fifth place winner was Jennie Shih representing the JWC of River Edge and sixth place winner was Aditi Chiney of the JWC of Rutherford.

Information provided by Sue Cheung and Hasbrouck Heights Patch.

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Scarlets v Northampton LV Cup Semifinal Preview - Worldcupweb.com

Article Published: Friday 9 March 2012
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The Scarlets will play Northampton Saints for the third time this season in this weekend's Anglo Welsh LV= Cupsemi-final at Franklin's Gardens on Sunday.

Northampton Director of rugby Jim Mallinder says that the Northampton Saints players are excited by the prospect of playing the Scarlets.

It is the Saints' third Anglo-Welsh semi-final in the past four seasons, and while it is the first tournament meeting between the sides since November 2008 Sunday's game will be the third time the Saints and Scarlets will have clashed in 2011/12.

So far it is one win apiece, with each side coming out on top on opposition turf. But with a place in the first final of 2012 at stake Mallinder says there is plenty of incentive for the Saints to step things up this weekend.

"This weekend is a semi-final. It's exciting and a chance to win something," he said this week.

"We've got a home draw, but we've played Scarlets at home already this season and lost, so we've got to be on our guard.

"They're a successful side with players who like to play expansive rugby. They're well coached and while they like to put the ball through the hands they've got some good forwards as well.

"But if we play well we can win and get through to the final. Looking at the forecast it's looking like it's going to be dry and we're looking forward to playing some rugby."

The Scarlets make one change of personnel in their starting line-up that won against Connacht (38-10) last weekend, with Dominic Day coming into the second row, Aaron Shingler moves to the back row with Josh Turnbull and Kieran Murphy. J

Jonathan Edwards failed a late fitness test due to a calf strain.

Scarlets Head of Rugby, Nigel Davies said: "This is one of our three competitions we're still in the battle to win and that's we are where we want to be - in the play-off stages. The more this group experience this type of intense rugby, the better.

"The vast majority of our Scarlets team on Sunday will not have been in this type of scenario before and they are eager and ambitious to prove themselves as a group.

"This game provides these with a great opportunity to go to Northampton and show what they can do, a lot of our emerging players have really pushed the more established players in our squad this season and so it is a great chance for them now on a bigger semi-final stage."

"We have a lot of respect for the quality that Northampton bring, they will look to dominate up front and particularly at set-piece. They've come back strongly from the start of the season and will be fired up for this game on the back of our last meeting at their home and they'll have less disruption in terms of squad international commitments than us.

Match : Scarlets vs Northampton Saints
Date : Sunday 11th March
Venue : Franklin's Gardens
Kick off : 1pm

Northampton

15 Paul Diggin, 14 Vasily Artemyev, 13 George Pisi, 12 Tom May, 11 Scott Armstrong, 10 Stephen Myler, 9 Martin Roberts, 8 Roger Wilson, 7 Tom Wood, 6 Calum Clark (capt), 5 Christian Day, 4 James Craig, 3 Paul Doran-Jones, 2 Andy Long, 1 Alex Waller

Replacements: 16 Ross McMillan, 17 Soane Tonga'uiha, 18 Tom Mercey, 19 Mark Sorenson, 20 Ben Nutley, 21 Ryan Glynn, 22 Ryan Lamb, 23 James Downey.

Scarlets

15 Dan Newton, 14 Liam Williams, 13 Gareth Maule (capt), 12 Adam Warren, 11 Andy Fenby, 10 Stephen Jones, 9 Liam Davies, 1 Rhodri Jones 2 Emyr Phillips , 3 Deacon Manu, 4 Lou Reed, 5 Dominic Day, 6 Aaron Shingler, 7 Josh Turnbull, 8 Kieran Murphy.

Replacements: Kirby Myhill, Phil John, Peter Edwards, Sione Timani, Matt Gilbert, Gareth Davies, Nick Reynolds, Iongi Viliame.

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Louis Vuitton's Campaign Against Free Speech - Slate Magazine (blog)

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Part of America's trend over the past couple of decades toward insanely overbroad readings of intellectual property concepts has been a trend toward firms trying to assert that their ownership of trademarks constitutes some kind of wide-ranging repeal of the first amendment. Thus, Luis Vuitton has decided to send a cease and desist order to the University of Pennsylvania Law School over the poster you see on the left.

Their lawyer, Michael Pantalony, writes that "this egregious action is not only a serious willful infringement and knowingly dilutes the LV Trademarks, but also may mislead others into thinking this type of unlawful activity is somehow 'legal' or constitutes 'fair use' because the Penn Intellectual Property Group is sponsoring a seminar on fashion law and 'must be experts.' "

The university's general counsel is mounting a fairly narrow defense based on the right to parody, and of course that's the smart legal strategy since the lawyer's job is to win the case and not make a point. But from a journalistic perspective, quibbling over whether or not this poster constitutes a parody is really missing the boat. In a decent society you have to have an overwhelming presumption that a person is allowed to put whatever he wants on a poster. That's what it means to leave in a country featuring the freedom of speech and freedom of the press. There are of course restrictions on where you can place a poster, but that's not what's at issue here. The claim is that Louis Vuitton has the authority to say what kinds of posters Penn Law School may and may not print and design. But why would that be? Under what circumstances would we want to grant private firms wide-ranging authority to censor the speech of academic institutions? I can't really think of any.

Now consider a different situation. Penn, like most universities, licenses and sells Penn-branded apparel. Louis Vuitton is also in the apparel business. You can imagine Penn or a Penn-licensee creating some Penn-licensed apparel that featured a pattern which might lead a consumer to believe that it was Vuitton-designed Penn-licensed apparal. Louis Vuitton might then reasonably order them to cease and desist their dilution of Vuitton's distinctive mark. Then you might have a controversy as to whether the pattern constituted some kind of parody worthy of an exemption. But when it comes to a poster there's simply no possible question of trademark law. Imagine Penn researchers want to host a discussion of research on the public health effect of soda, and want to advertise that panel with a photograph of a Coca-Cola can. If Coke tries to turn around and sue them, we don't want Penn's right to discuss Coca-Cola to be limited by some kind of parody concept. The issue is that Coke is in the beverage trade and Louis Vuitton is in the apparel trade whereas these are posters. There's no possible confusion or dilution.

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