Jennifer Garner Leaves London after Ben's Big Night at the BAFTAs

Posted Monday February 11, 2013 11:33 PM GMT

Heading back home after supporting her husband at the BAFTAs, Jennifer Garner smiled at Heathrow Airport in London on Monday (February 11).

The Alias star looked cute in a black jacket, blue jeans, and knee-high black boots with her dark-rimmed spectacles as she hurried to catch her flight.

And what a night it was for hubby Ben Affleck. His movie "Argo" nabbed the Best Picture award and the 40-year-old actor himself won Best Director.

Now famously snubbed in the Oscar category for best director, Ben graciously said during his acceptance speech, "I want to say this is a second act for me and you've given me that, this industry has given me that and I want to thank you and I'm so grateful and proud."

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Try it with Tabby and Tasha: Impromptu piercing - Arbiter Online ...

By Tabitha Bower Monday, February 11th, 2013

Tasha Adams / The Arbiter

?Try it with Tabby? is a weekly article chronicling the adventures of Tabitha Bower as she searches for out-of-the-ordinary and budget-friendly activities for Boise State students.

Spontaneity goes hand-in-hand with the college lifestyle,?especially that of traditional college freshmen, barely 18 years old and free, possibly for the first time, from parental restrictions.?This newly acquired adulthood brings up the question: How should I exercise this coming-of-age?

A few things on the list of ?things you can do now you?re a grown-up? are: buy cigarettes (don?t do it), vote (do it), porn (to each his own), tattoos and piercings.

While my thoughts on the first three can be summed up in parentheticals, tattoos and piercings are a bit more weighted and could use additional explanation.?This week for ?Try it with Tabby? I took an impromptu trip to Imperial Body Art to practice spontaneity.

It started much like any other Thursday afternoon. Classes were over and I had trekked to Papa Joe?s for a dollar PBR. With flash mob practice looming in my near future, the thought of embarrassing myself with my horrendous dance moves once again, on camera, left a bad taste in my mouth.

?Let?s just go get you pierced,? suggested Tasha Adams, managing editor of The Arbiter.

Despite my complete initial dismissal of this idea, minutes later we were en route to Imperial Body Art. And mere moments after, we were discussing placement and jewelry options with piercer Paul ?Paulio?
Birnbaum.

For Adams, who had been dappling with the idea of gauging her ears but was squeamish at the process, gauge piercing was on the agenda.

?It?s gauging for wieners,? she said of the process. And without much ado, some heavy breaths and larger than average needles, Adams? ears were gauged to 10mm.

?I love it, I am so excited it is finally done, I love it,? she said.

I was up next, decided on a diamond anchor, and delved into a dermal piercing (literally a skin piercing) under my left eye, after multiple recommendations by Adams.

?It is the easiest piecing that I have ever gotten and I?m not lying,? Adams said. ?I would probably be a disco ball if I could because I love them so much, it was my favorite. All of the dermals, everywhere.?

And, as told by Adams, the piercing was painless, until the insertion of the anchor, the step Adams failed to mention in her pro-dermal campaign.

?It is shaped like a lopsided ?T? so he puts the long side of the T in first and then shoves the short side in,? Adams said. ?I didn?t want to tell you about that shoving part.?

?Thanks,? I conceded, to which she responded simply, ?You?re welcome.?

At this point you may be thinking, where do the tattoos come in? And to that, I would say take the advice of the very helpful, gentle-handed piercer Birnbaum.

?Most college students don?t have much money and tattoos are more expensive,? he said. ?A lot of people go through a time of their lives when they are very impulsive and a tattoo is a lot harder to get rid of compared to a piercing.?

And as for my feelings the day after my impromptu piercing??While faced with the slight tinge of guilt in the wake of my financial irresponsibility, the love of my new dermal piercing and in-the-moment memory by far made up for it.

About Tabitha Bower

Tabitha Bower joined the Arbiter after taking a News Writing class. She wrote for the News and Features sections as a journalist for one semester before becoming this year's Arts and Entertainment section editor. She is double majoring in English with a writing emphasis and communication with a journalism emphasis. After college she dreams of being employed. Tabitha lived in Okinawa, Japan for three years prior to moving to Boise. She once spent a year backpacking, scuba diving and basking in a hammock with a drink in Southeast Asia. While there she mistook a lamp pole for a palm tree, climbed it and then severely injured herself falling out of it. When sleeping in her basement beware of her cats, which have been known to attack innocent sleepers. She also has the talent of juggling school, work, looking fabulous and being super mom to her two year old son, Aiden.

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Japan to get Fire Emblem: Awakening, Animal Crossing: New Leaf figurines

Photos snapped at the Wonder Festival in Japan this weekend show a new 1/8-scale figure of Fire Emblem: Awakening?s Tharja. Max Factory, the company producing the product, has also announced a Marth figure. Shizue from Animal Crossing: New Leaf will ?

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Report: Pickup Sales Poised to Gear Up in 2013 | RV Business

Pickup truck sales are expected to outpace the broader U.S. auto market this year helped by a recovering housing market and a slew of new models from the three big U.S. automakers, executives and analysts said on Sunday (Feb. 10).

Reuters reported that revamped models from General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Group LLC will be on view this week at the Detroit auto show.

Ford and GM are fierce competitors in the full-size pickup segment where profit margins are larger compared to cars. Pickup trucks made up about 11% of the U.S. market last year, well below the historical average of 17%.

?The pickup truck sector is poised to outperform the rest of the market this year,? said Citi analyst Itay Michaeli at a conference of the Society of Automotive Analysts.

Analysts said gas prices were unlikely to surge this year, which would support truck sales. Micheali said that a mix of pent-up demand and new models will drive pickup sales this year.

GM is counting on a new version of its Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra full-size pickup trucks to show investors and car buyers that the No.1 U.S. automaker is back on track after its $50 billion U.S. taxpayer-funded bailout in 2009.

GM?s new trucks are on view Monday, along with a new RAM 1500 pickup from Chrysler. GM?s arch rival in the pickup truck market, Ford, will tease a concept version of its upcoming F-150 truck Tuesday. The F-150 will be built for the 2015 model year.

?The majority of pickup vehicles on the road are about to be redesigned,? Micheali said. ?The product cycle will unleash demand.?

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Nike co-founder blasts Freeh report

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2011 file photo, former Penn State Coach Joe Paterno and his wife, Sue Paterno, stand on their porch to thank supporters gathered outside their home in State College, Pa. Sue Paterno says the family?s detailed response to a critical report on the handling of child abuse allegations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky is being released to the public. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2011 file photo, former Penn State Coach Joe Paterno and his wife, Sue Paterno, stand on their porch to thank supporters gathered outside their home in State College, Pa. Sue Paterno says the family?s detailed response to a critical report on the handling of child abuse allegations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky is being released to the public. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) ? Nike co-founder Phil Knight has issued a statement blasting the Freeh report's characterization of Penn State coach Joe Paterno in the child sex abuse scandal involving assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.

Following the release last year of former FBI director Louis Freeh's report, Knight issued a statement saying he was saddened that Paterno apparently made missteps that led to "heartbreaking consequences."

But Knight now says that he may have jumped to conclusions, after a new critique that was commissioned by the Paterno family and carried out by experts that included Dick Thornburgh, a former U.S. attorney general and governor of Pennsylvania.

In a statement released Monday, Knight called the findings of the Freeh report unjustified and unsubstantiated. He also criticized the NCAA's subsequent sanctions on Penn State's football program as unwarranted.

"When this tragic story first unfolded Joe cautioned all of us to slow down and carefully gather the facts before jumping to conclusions," Knight said in the statement. "We owed it to the victims, he said, to get to the truth. It was counsel we all should have followed."

Sandusky, 69, is serving a 30- to 60-year prison term for the sexual abuse of 10 boys over a period of 15 years, including attacks on children inside Penn State athletics facilities.

Paterno died in January 2012 at age 85. Knight spoke at Paterno's memorial service, but after the Freeh report was released he took the name off the Joe Paterno Child Development Center at Nike headquarters in Beaverton.

The Freeh report concluded that Paterno and other university officials covered up allegations against Sandusky to spare the university bad publicity. But the family's review said the cover-up claims were inaccurate, were unfounded and equated to a "rush to injustice."

Paterno's family released the review of Freeh's investigation on Sunday. The findings were posted on the website paterno.com.

"There's simply nothing in this record, in the Freeh report, that indicates he (Paterno) was involved in any way," Thornburgh told The Associated Press.

Freeh defended his report.

"I stand by our conclusion that four of the most powerful people at Penn State failed to protect against a child sexual predator harming children for over a decade," he said in a statement issued Sunday through a spokesman.

The NCAA took unprecedented action in the wake of the Freeh report by quickly levying strict sanctions on Penn State's football team, including a four-year bowl ban, strict scholarship cuts and a $60 million fine on the university. College sports' governing body also vacated 111 wins under Paterno, erasing what had been his major college record of 409 career victories.

Knight took issue with the sanctions in his statement, which was first obtained by ESPN.com.

"The NCAA acted outside its charter and rendered judgment absent any kind of investigation or judicial hearing. It was simply grandstanding," Knight said.

An NCAA spokeswoman said the organization stood by its previous statements and declined to comment Sunday.

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Video: The GOP?s image problem

>>> a bold headline on the cover of the new republic this week. the republicans, the party of white people , and it's an art -- by the way, its art is clever ode to the beatles' album, the white album . in this article the author investigates the root of a phenomenon he's been covering on "hardball" and we've been covering, the increasingly white male isolated republican party . he says it's derived from the political strategy of the pre- civil war pro-slavery vice president john calhoun of south carolina . he writes, quote, this is the politics of nullification, the doctrine nearly as old as the republic itself that holds that the state singly or in concert can defy federal actions by declaring them invalid or simply ignoring them. we hear the echoes of nullification in the venting of anti-government passions and also in campaigns to starve government, curtail voter renl stration, repeal legislation, delegitimize presidents. the sam town is with me tonight. he's editor of the "new york times" book review and willie brown is the former san francisco mayor . thank you so much, sam , and mr. mayor, thaup as well. sam , this is amazing. i love trying to find out our roots politically. i wish i could do a television show, in fact, where every time there's a news story take us back to where it all started, and did you here so beautifully. we have people like rick perry and all across the south mouthing phrases like secession and nullification and it all goes back to those fights they had in the house and the senate in the 1850s , but you have now pointed out this is now the stripe, sort of the road map the republican party has been taking since way back when.

>> well, yes, chris. and great to be here, great to be here with the mayor. there's a terrible historical tragedy and paradox here. in the 1950s as i say in the piece you read, republicans looked pretty good on civil rights under eisenhower, the brown decision, the central high and little rock where he did the tough thing and sent the troops in, and we had the first modern civil rights act . it wasn't great, it wasn't what lbj gave us, but it was somethi something. not one republican voted against that bill. think about it, what's happened. i'll tell you what happened, the conservative movement was born right then, and they decided the road not taken, they were not going to be pro- civil rights . they were not going to defend the rights of citizenship and economic justice and integration of african-americans in the south. no, they were going to side with the southern oppressors, and who was the great philosopher king of that argument? john c. calhoun . what happened? two things. first of all, the party which could have led the way on civil rights , the party of lincoln, turned away from it. also, they gave us this legacy of nullification, as you say. this nullifying government that we see today.

>> you know, i thought, willie, mayor brown, i thought the smart thing in your piece i had never read before, mr. mayor, and i liked it about the piece in sam 's article, was the fon confluence, a lot of libertarian thinking from barry goldwater , leave me alone , i don't like government. that got tied in states right. if you're an enemy of federal power you're on my side. a weird sick marriage between leave me alone and let's get together and nullify civil rights .

>> that's essentially what the republican party stands for even today, as a matter of fact. in sam 's piece, however, i think there should be a reference to the fact that during the nixon administration in reality the whole business of set asides, the whole business of what happens with reference to the philadelphia plan , all of that came because a guy named george schultz working for nixon put that together, and the republicans had a golden opportunity at that moment to really grab the leadership that lincoln had provided and by today willie brown may very well be saying positive things about the republicans.

>> let's put that to sam . not only that, not only did they create basically affirmative action with the philadelphia plan , the screw the eye tish, italians, and their unions, they were up to trouble in some extent, going after the union leaders and they're locked out. unless you're nephew of a kid you're not getting a job there. moynihan gave nixon credit for ending the dual school system . how could they be going in that direction and at the same time playing the southern strategy with strom thurmond and those boys?

>> that's why the great gary wills said richard nixon was the last liberal and there is a reference, willie brown is right, there should have been more, in a longer piece there would be more on that, on the philadelphia plan , but, yes, affirmative action , a phrase originated in the kennedy years, was seized on by the nixon administration . hey, daniel patrick moynihan said about nixon , this guy is not trying to undo the great society, he wants to outdo it. and what happened? ideologues within the conservative movement turned against nixon .

>> well --

>> women --

>> let me go to willie brown . i know nixon . i'm not necessarily a nixon hater by any means. he was a member of the naacp in the '50s. pret friendly with whitney young , getting to know martin luther king ahead of the kennedys. and then becomes a totally mean guy in terms of electoral politics , hooking up with strom thurmond figuring he was going to grab what was left of the segregationists in the south when they were dispointed with the democrats. what happened to this guy?

>> i think sam 's piece clearly indicates that not only would a politician like nixon find it convenient to go in that direction for potential success, but politicians generally, chris, all of us tend to want to move in a direction that points to success. in sam 's piece he talks about how kennedy clearly moved away from where he was as a liberal in massachusetts to try to make sure he didn't get tubed as he had been on the vice presidential nomination when he sought the presidential nomination . so we politicians are not like the moral standard on this issue.

>> okay. sam , great piece. boy, you put a lot of work into these pieces. that is one heck of a piece of work . it should be a book. why don't you just blow it up and call it a book.

>> thanks so much.

>> i think it's fabulous.

>>> up next, the man who shot osama bin laden is going to -- actually his writer is going to be here, the guy who covered this story. we still don't know what his name is but we got the whole story from a great reporter who interviewed him. this is really going to be great journalism coming up here. this is "hardball," the place for politics. the patient, presented with

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No. 4 Duke holds on to beat Boston College 62-61

Duke's Mason Plumlee (5) dunks the ball against the Boston College defense during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Boston, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

Duke's Mason Plumlee (5) dunks the ball against the Boston College defense during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Boston, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

Duke's Seth Curry (30) shoots over the defense of all five Boston College players during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Boston, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

Duke's Rasheed Sulaimon (14) drives against Boston College's Danny Rubin (31) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Boston, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

BOSTON (AP) ? Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski watched as all three teams ahead of the Blue Devils in The Associated Press Top 25 lost this week. Then he came to Chestnut Hill and nearly joined them.

"Nothing about today was easy," Krzyzewski said Sunday night after No. 4 Duke overcame early and late deficits to beat Boston College 62-61. "These are games anybody can lose, and throughout the country everybody is losing them. Our guys found a way to win against a team that was also deserving to win, so that's a real good thing."

Mason Plumlee had 19 points and 10 rebounds, hitting the game-winning free throw with 26 seconds left to lead Duke (21-2, 8-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) to its fifth consecutive win. Seth Curry added 18 points for the Blue Devils.

Olivier Hanlan scored 20 points for Boston College, which led by five points with 2:15 left and had a chance to win it after Plumlee made one of two free throws.

After a timeout, Hanlan dribbled down the clock before pulling up for an open shot inside the foul line that was wide. Ryan Anderson grabbed the rebound but lost control as he fell to the floor and the ball popped out of bounds as the buzzer sounded to end the game.

"When you get a defensive stop, it's five guys playing as one," Krzyzewski said. "For me, there's no better feeling than to win a game that way. And you see them on the floor and that red light goes off, and its pretty cool. It's a pretty cool thing."

Plumlee celebrated on his back as the Blue Devils improved their chance to move up from the No. 4 ranking after losses to the top three teams: Indiana, Florida and Michigan. The Blue Devils have been ranked No. 1 five weeks during the regular season, the last on Jan. 21.

"It's crazy to watch, but it's very entertaining," Curry said. "We've been the No. 1 team a few times this season. It's not something we're shooting for; we're just trying to win games."

The Eagles (10-13, 2-8 Atlantic Coast Conference) entered the day tied for last in the conference, but they jumped to an eight-point lead midway through the first half and held onto a tie at halftime. Duke quickly erased the deficit as the second half began and opened a six-point lead but then went cold again, scoring just one free throw over a 4 1-2 minute span and allowing BC to make it 61-56 with 2:15 to play.

But Quinn Cook made his third 3-pointer of the game, then Plumlee hit a pair of free throws with 47 seconds left to tie it 61-all. BC's Joe Rahon put a 3-point attempt off the top of the backboard and Plumlee was brought down hard as he grabbed the rebound.

The Blue Devils forward missed the first foul shot but made the second to make it a one-point lead. Hanlan faked the drive and pulled up, gaining space from Rasheed Sulaimon and a clean look at the rim, but was way off.

"He takes another freshman off the dribble, he gets a pretty good look," BC coach Steve Donahue said. "He normally makes those shots. I don't think he was nervous. He wants to be really good. Let's be honest: the reason you can play with Duke is because of Olivier Hanlan. I just thought he played great."

With Boston's Logan Airport closed by the blizzard most of Friday and Saturday, Duke changed its travel plans and flew into the city late Sunday morning. Fans dug themselves out to watch the Eagles play their best game of a season that includes losses to Harvard and Bryant. BC had lost six of seven, including a 22-point loss to No. 8 Miami on Tuesday.

Duke went scoreless for the first five minutes of the game and trailed by as many as eight points, 13-5, in the first half. It led 21-14 before scoring 11 of the next 14 points, taking its first lead of the game on Plumlee's three-point play with 1 minute left in the first half.

It was 27-all at the half before Curry and Cook hit 3-pointers and Curry followed with a four-point play that gave Duke a 39-34 lead.

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