LV= Cup: Leicester Tigers 26-14 Northampton Saints - BBC Sport

Tries: Mafi, Hamilton Cons: Ford 2Pens: Ford 4Leicester Tigers withstood a barrage of Northampton Saints pressure to win the LV= Cup final at Sixways.

Steve Mafi scored the only try of the first half with teenage fly-half George Ford impressive with the boot as Tigers led 16-9 at the break.

Scott Hamilton ran the length of the pitch to extend their lead but the Tigers spent most of the final half hour defending their line brilliantly.

By the time Christian Day did cross for Saints, it was too little, too late.

Tigers director of rugby Richard Cockerill had said he would keep faith with the youngsters who had sent his side to the final, but opted to bring in some experienced players to face their East Midlands rivals.

The early stages were all Northampton's and Stephen Myler scored two penalties from distance to give them a 6-0 lead.

Leicester were massively struggling in the scrum, with Boris Stankovich at fault on more than one occasion for a collapse and he was replaced after 12 minutes by Marcos Ayerza with a calf injury.

One Tigers youngster to keep his place was fly-half Ford, who turned 19 on Friday, and he did not let Cockerill down, scoring his first two kicks of the afternoon to level the scores.

Saints went back ahead when Myler overcame the Worcestershire sun in his eyes to make it 9-6.

Leicester made another change in the scrum, with Tom Youngs coming on for Rob Hawkins and after breaking through from a scrum, they won a penalty which Ford converted to level it up.

Then came the opening try after 25 minutes, Billy Twelvetrees' break setting up the move and Mafi dodging Saints tackles to cross. Ford added two more points to make it 16-9.

Leicester could have considered themselves unlucky not to lead by more at the break as Martin Roberts denied Geordan Murphy, who looked set to pounce on his own kick through the defence to cross.

After the break, Saints pushed straight from the restart but failed to cross the line and Ford scored another penalty from distance.

Saints went again but George Pisi's brilliant jinking run ended up in a knock-on after he was tackled and then Scott Amstrong lost his footing when he looked through.

And perhaps the defining moment of the sold-out final came when Hamilton intercepted Myler's pass and ran 75 yards to touch down, with Ford's conversion making it 26-9.

This was the arch-rivals' first ever meeting in a cup final in 132 years

The Tigers defence were magnificent throughout the second half and every time Saints looked destined to score, Leicester won the ball from a scrum or turned possession over near the line.

Vasily Artemyev knocked the ball on when he had a chance and then Soane Tonga'uiha found a gap but was barged out of play by fellow prop Logoviii Mulipola.

Leicester had Murphy yellow carded for conceding a series of penalties but their defence continued to hold firm, with Mafi tackling Armstrong in the corner.

With five minutes remaining, the Saints eventually got their try, with Day crossing in the corner after Pisi started the move.

But Ryan Lamb missed the conversion and Tigers never looked like throwing it away.

Leicester director of rugby Richard Cockerill:

"I was delighted with the performance, delighted for some of those guys on the fringes that were playing in a big game for the first time.

"We were a bit fortunate with the interception taking us out of sight but I thought we were good for the win.

"There was some good grit and determination out there - we were under the cosh for the whole of the second half virtually but the attitude of the players has been outstanding for the last four or five weeks.

"It was a fierce game. I'm sure it was a great spectacle for the neutrals - if there were any in the stadium."

Northampton Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder:

"Sometimes that happens [Myler's misplaced pass that led to Hamilton's try]. I think he saw someone coming out of the line and tried to get the pass over him.

"It just didn't happen for him. It's just unfortunate - I don't blame him for trying it.

"On our day we could easily have won that game, But it wasn't our day.

"If we had looked after the ball a bit better in the first half, we wouldn't have gone in seven points down."

Leicester: Murphy, Agulla, Smith, Twelvetrees, Hamilton, Ford, Grindal, Stankovich, Hawkins, Mulipola, Skivington, Kitchener, Mafi, Newby, Waldrom.

Replacements: Forsyth for Smith (72), Flood for Ford (64), Salvi for Newby (51). Not Used: T. Youngs, Ayerza, White, Green, Steele.

Sin Bin: Murphy (71).

Northampton: Diggin, Artemyev, Pisi, Downey, Armstrong, Myler, Roberts, Tonga'uiha, Long, Doran-Jones, Craig, Day, Clark, Wood, Wilson.

Replacements: Sorenson for Artemyev (66), Lamb for Myler (51), Glynn for Roberts (68), May for Tonga'uiha (66), McMillian for Long (68), A. Waller for Craig (66), Nutley for Wood (68). Not Used: Mujati.

Att: 11,895

Ref: JP Doyle (RFU).

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LV White Castle offering free burgers Saturday - Pocono Record

To officially mark the opening of Pennsylvania's only White Castle, officials are giving away some freebies this Saturday.
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The first 100 customers at the White Castle on Whitehall Township's MacArthur Road on Saturday will receive an insulated tote bag with a coupon for a free sack of 10 Sliders, the chain said.
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The customer appreciation event is being held from 10 a.m. -- 2 p.m.
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White Castle has been open for months now. The 2,500-square-foot restaurant, which sits on a flood plain, has been delayed since 2009 for a series of reasons.
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The Ohio-based chain is known for its small burgers, dubbed sliders, and signature castle-like white buildings. The chain was celebrated in the 2004 comedy "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle."
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White Castle has announced plans to build a restaurant in the Pohatcong Plaza II on Route 22 in Phillipsburg.
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The chain, which opened its first restaurant in Wichita, Kan., in 1921, has more than 400 locations around the country.

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Louis Vuitton exhibit: It's the bag, stupid - CBS News

(AP) PARIS - "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."

Then there was the radical facelift of the 1990s. Glossy fashion magazines landed and globalized demands meant that labels had to up their game and expand, or sink. Creative talent was no longer the only criteria sought by the industry: instead "marketing" became the buzz word.

Enter Marc Jacobs, already a big name in the fashion industry, to design the Louis Vuitton house's first ready-to-wear collection, 143 bag-filled years later.

Using his corporate knowledge and irreverent humor he revamped the bags and shoes — the company's financial lifeline.

A vivid display of mannequins kneeling captures the transformation from past to present perfectly: each model has a classic Louis Vuitton bag placed on her back — covered in graffiti.

The exhibit shows other irreverent sources of musings for the designer, including a 2003 manga film by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami that is used to revamp the traditional LV monogram.

The continued growth of the house comes down to his versatility.

Marc Jacobs fall-winter runway show featured models in Edwardian hats exiting a reconstructed train that might have been the turn-of-the-century Orient Express. So there we have it, the full circle.

But, the designer mused backstage, "Whatever you try, clothes never really can live in the past. They are worn now so they are modern, with a modern take. I'm not nostalgic."

The exhibit "Louis Vuitton-Marc Jacobs" runs March 9-Sept. 16.

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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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