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The Best Education is Not School?

Via USA TODAY 

Brangelina argue that the traditional outdated public educational system (at least currently in the USA) is not what they prefer for their kids. Rather, they have a vision for homeschooling coupled with real life experience. I get it, I support it and I couldn't agree with them more. Obviously, most people cannot a) bring their kids with them to work and b) afford the private and/or home schooling options. So what are some other options for the everyday family out there, assuming a revolution within the public system is still way off? What do you think?   

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Photography is not used to illustrate dialogue or a performance,” Chivo said. “We’re using it to capture emotion so that the movie is very experiential. It’s meant to trigger tons of memories, like a scent or a perfume.” ~ Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki
 

How Did Brad and Angelina Ring in the New Year?

Source: DoSomethingGood - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are not only known as superstar A-list actors, but also as two of the biggest philanthropists in Tinseltown. The couple and their children spent Christmas in Namibia (the birthplace of their daughter Shiloh!) and rounded out 2010 with a partnership with the N/a'an ku sê Lodge and Wildlife Sanctuary, a $2 million donation on behalf of the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, and a very CGG-esque start to the new year.

Founded in 2007, the N/a'an ku sê Lodge & Wildlife Sanctuary is dedicated to conserving Namibian wildlife and rescuing threatened species; it provides a safe haven for orphaned and injured animals to be cared for while they cannot survive on their own in the wild. The Jolie-Pitt Foundation's donation will help maintain a clinic that offers free medical care, in addition to being used for large-scale animal conservation projects.

Mom and Dad weren't the only ones doing some good – during their stay at the lodge, Shiloh and her siblings even helped feed orphaned baby baboons and foxes. Talk about getting up close and personal!

Angelina Jolie Defends Bosnian Directorial Debut

Source: Reuters - Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has hit back at criticism of her directorial debut, saying most people back her portrayal of a love story between a Serbian man and Bosnian woman on the eve of the 1992-95 Balkans conflict.

Speaking in Paris ahead of next week's premiere of a very different film -- romantic action comedy "The Tourist" in which she stars with Johnny Depp -- Jolie said her intention had never been to stoke controversy with her movie set in wartime Bosnia.
Bosnian victims of sexual violence during the 1990s have written to the United Nations, for which the Oscar-winning actress is a goodwill ambassador, saying she didn't deserve the position and did not know enough about the ethnic conflict.

"There's one person who has a gripe," Jolie said.

"The absolute majority of the people, population, the cast, prime minister, president have been extremely supportive," she said, adding that 95 percent of the film's cast had lived through the war.

Jolie has described her movie, which is still untitled, as a love story between a Serbian man and a Bosnian Muslim woman on the eve of the 1992-95 war in which 100,000 people died.

The production team has cut back on filming plans in Bosnia, however, moving some scenes from Sarajevo to be shot in Budapest, after a Bosnian minister canceled the filming permit in October, citing incomplete paperwork.

The move came after the minister met with female victims of the Bosnian war who said they objected to details of the plot.

Jolie, who also wrote the screenplay, said she had initially set out to just write to express her frustrations over how long the international community took to intervene in conflicts.

"It kept leaning toward Yugoslavia at the time, I wanted to learn more about it and the people, the more I read and learnt I was drawn to that part of the world," she said.
"I met artists from that part of the world and found they were extraordinary for what they'd gone through, so I wanted to give them a platform."

The "Tomb Raider" star has asked women war victims in a letter to hold judgment until they have seen the film in which she said "there are many twists in the plot that address the sensitive nature of the relationship between the main characters."