A Few Benefits of Homeschooling

There are many many benefits to homeschooling. I will share a couple that my family has experienced.

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By Seth Abramovitch Morgan Spurlock Is for Sale In POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, director Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?) exposes the shady practice of product placement... by documenting his efforts to make a movie funded entirely by product placement. Got that? It's a plate-spinning act that actually works, offering a sly and entertaining glimpse into the strange landscape of 21st Century advertising. We talked with the filmmaker—who showed up in a suit covered in his corporate sponsors' logos—about being loathed by McDonald's, humiliated by Abercrombie & Fitch, and ultimately seduced by the art of the hard sell. Morgan Spurlock: So am I going to be eviscerated? Gawker: I don't think so. Although your naked body is all over the site right now. I saw! Somebody sent me a link to the article about Carrot Top and said, "I don't know what's worse—how Carrot Top looks or seeing you naked everywhere." So, are you sick of selling your movie yet? I better not be, because it's just started. This is Week 3 of the press tour in the United States, and I'll probably continue with the tour as it expands out for another two to three weeks. And then the international will start. So I'll be selling for months. And how does it make you feel? Are you a natural born salesman? It makes me feel like I'm going to have to get a couple more suits. This film made me a much better salesman. This film is all about the hustle. I had to hustle harder, work harder, pitch harder, sell harder than I've done on anything. And face more rejection and character assassinations! Like, I would call people like Abercrombie & Fitch and the person would say on the phone, "Have you looked in the mirror? Do you want me to tell you why are aren't Abercrombie material?" How many companies did you have to approach before one bit? Hundreds. Before the first one came on, we called every advertising agency, and they all said no, with the exception of Kirschenbaum and Bond. Every product placement company said no, and only two product placement people would even go on camera to do interviews. Their concern was that they would somehow ruin their business by shining a light on product placement. They want to be invisible. They want everyone to believe that this just happens. Ultimately what the film does a great job of doing is that it shows you Oz. It shows you how the sausage is made. How do you define the line between "acceptable" or "unacceptable" product placement? I'm a realist. I'm not someone who wants to see everyone drinking those white cans of beer like in Repo Man. We live in a world where people do drink Pepsi, and they drive Camaros, and wear Reeboks. Ultimately, if you want [your story] to be based in this place and time, those things are in the world. Walk outside: There's a Starbucks 50 feet away. Yes, you are going to see brands out in the world. But what I don't need to see is [he holds up a bottle of POM Wonderful] "brand" out in the world. Are you concerned at all that with this film you might be contributing to the perception that you are anti-capitalist or anti-corporate America? Look at the suit I'm wearing! How can I be anti-capitalist? I own a business. You can't run a business and not be a capitalist. But I'm a big believer that doing good and doing well don't have to be mutually exclusive. You can do something that is profitable and at the same time do something that is a public service, and create change and an impact. I think this film does a really great job of using their money — people who do this stuff all the time, advertise and market to certain people — to light that fire. I think it's a great way to start that conversation. Do you think you're responsible for the healthy menu choices you now see when you walk into a McDonald's? McDonald's says no. McDonald's says it has absolutely nothing to do with [Super Size Me] when they did interviews in the beginning. That's a big ship to turn around, and a lot of that happened very quickly after the film [came out]. Did some of that get fast-tracked? Were they already talking about it? Because literally, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic at that time. It was pre- the invasion of Iraq and post-9-11, so this was the demon at that time. I would say that yeah, the film probably helped fast-track [those changes] in some ways. In the film, you undergo a process called "neuromarketing." I wonder if you could describe that experience? Crazy. It's literally like A Clockwork Orange, when you see Alex strapped in a chair watching ultra-violent movies with eyelids peeled open, and they're putting the drops in his eyes. It felt like that. You're strapped into an MRI, you can't move. For the first hour they calibrate the machine, and for the next hour they're showing you commercials over and over again. And they measure the brainscan, and how you brain reacts to the commercials you're watching. In the film, I did it by myself, but usually when they do that they do it with two or three hundred people. They get an average to how those people reacted, and then they re-cut commercial to address just the "desire centers" — the parts of your brain that respond to fear, craving, sexual desire. So they end up putting out a commercial that affects most of the population. It's kind of like this Minority Report, "pre-cog" advertising that gets you to want to buy something before you even know that you want to buy it. [Photos of Spurlock at this week's premiere of "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold" and the premiere of "Super Size Me" (2004) via Getty Images] Share this:

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1. Should Tyler Clementi's Bully Be Charged With a Hate Crime?

Tyler Clementi's roommate - who broadcast the gay teen's sexual
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Dozens of people were killed on Friday as protesters across Syria were
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witnesses, up to 50 protesters were killed, including a 4-year-old girl,
who was reportedly shot in the head by a sniper. Thursday, President
Bashar al-Assad lifted the country's emergency laws which had been in
place since 1962, saying the concession took away the last pretext for
protest and that anyone taking to the streets afterward was simply a
rebel. Tens of thousands of people across the country defied Assad even
though they knew security forces had been authorized to use force. These
protests specifically targeted Assad, which is a marked change from
those in March, which were against the president's policies. Since the
protests began in Syria on March 18, at least 220 people have died.

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Pope Hosts Good Friday TV Show
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CASTING CALL
Jeremy Renner Chosen for 'The Bourne Legacy'
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Insider Tyler Perry's Temper Tantrum
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Today in Slate: The Great Global Freakout of 2011; Plus, Why David Foster Wallace Inspires Such Devotion

Today: April 22, 2011 Terminators to Tripoli Killer drones in Libya: The global expansion of remote-controlled warfare. By William Saletan READ FULL STORY | More Science The Great Global Freakout of 2011 Imagining the worst-case scenario if the United States even comes close to defaulting on its debt. By Annie Lowrey READ FULL STORY | More Business and Tech David Foster Wallace Why he inspires such devotion in his fans. By Nathan Heller READ FULL STORY | More News and Politics If Liberals Are So Outraged by Ryan's Budget, Where Are the Town-Hall Protests? Do You Know How Much Energy Your Appliances Use? Are You Sure? Take Our Quiz. Is America Really the Freest Country in the World? How Do You Measure That? Help! I Met a Wonderful Woman Online, but It Turns Out She's Fat. Advertisement Briefing What's up with Muammar Qaddafi's hats? What happens when two tornadoes collide? News & Politics Paul Ryan vs. Barack Obama: How they're improving the debate over government's role in America. Gary Johnson for president: Is the Republican Party big enough for two libertarian candidates? Arts Treme: David Simon's strange spat with New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu. Tim Hetherington's Diary: the short film that showed where he was going as a director. Life Anxiety gender gap: Are women really more anxious than men? Kate Middleton and Prince William are rahs—an English version of preps but with more paisley. Business & Tech EarthTainer: How to build your own container garden. Why focus on the size of banks? Great Britain shows other ways to achieve financial reform. Science It's Earth Day: A look back at how we photographed the planet long before Google Earth and the Apollo program. Acne science: What makes pimples so peculiar to people? Podcasts & Video Gastro Lab: What other foods can Thin Mints be used with (VIDEO)? Game of Thrones on HBO, Will Ferrell sends off Steve Carell on The Office, and new documentary Bill Cunningham New York on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.

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What's Hot at Tribeca

The annual New York film festival kicked off April 20 with 'The Union,'
a documentary from 'Almost Famous'' Cameron Crowe chronicling the making
of Elton John's album with Leon Russell. But that's only the beginning
of the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival's impressive lineup. There's 'Renee,'
which follows the struggles of transsexual tennis ace Renee Richards;
'Carol Channing: Larger than Life,' another documentary about the career
of the Broadway great; 'Detachment,' starring Oscar winner Adrien Brody;
and 'Last Night,' which pits Keira Knightley against Eva Mendes for
'Avatar' star Sam Worthington's heart. The fest runs through May 1 with
luminaries such as Nora Ephron, Dianne Wiest, and Whoopi Goldberg making
up the jury that awards $175,000 in cash and prizes to winners in six
categories. See our top picks and find out which movies can be seen
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