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Blog I read: Jet Set Life

» 02 July 2009 » In People, Style, Travel » No Comments

Blog I read: Jet Set Life

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Jet Set Life has some pretty decent travel tips. And good information about establishing your “Muse”.

From their site:

Rob and Kim have always loved to travel. They experienced the world’s hottest destinations like Punta del Este, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Mykonos, Marrakech and Buenos Aires. Each time they would vacation, family and friends always had so many questions about the destinations they chose and how to create similar experiences. Apple computer made it easy to share their experiences through podcasting and iWeb, so they decided to start a personal website and a podcast called Travel the World with Rob and Kim. It’s wasn’t too long after that Tim Ferriss came out with the book The 4-Hour Workweek. This book turned Rob and Kim’s world upsidedown. Because of Tim Ferriss’s ideas such as mini-vacations, muses and dreamlines, Rob and Kim began to design their life (and work) around their passion for travel and made traveling into a business or in Tim Ferriss’s words, a muse.

This is when they created Jet Set Life. The goal with Jet Set Life was not to become a concierge service or a high end travel agent. The goal was to become the ultimate travel resource for jet setters, or those wanting to become jet setters. Rob and Kim purchased their Sony HD Video Camera, Sony Cyber Shot and Nikon D60 digital camera and were off to capture their travel experiences around the world to share with their viewers. They launched the website in 2008 and within thirty days they were close to breaking into the Top 100,000 websites ranked by Alexa. Their website let viewers into their travel experiences and provided them with a short video of the destination, photos of the destination and important information including when to travel, best way to get there and the type of currency. Rob and Kim also provide a free online guidebook that they call The Hit List. The Hit List includes Rob and Kim’s reviews of the best boutique hotels, restaurants, beaches, shops, nightlife and things to do in each destination.

Since, Jet Set Life has expanded adding a Lifestyle page that links viewers to Rob and Kim’s favorite companies in categories including villa and flat rentals, concierge services, boutique hotels, private jets, yachts, hip clothing, tailors, virtual assistants, social dynamics and even global charities like The Red Campaign.

Rob and Kim continue to find new destinations to bring to their viewers and they continually work on ways to improve the viewers experience. Any suggestions, ideas or comments are genuninely welcome.

Excuses are over. It’s time to live!

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Kim’s Blog

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Every Week on HBO’s Entourage

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Every Week on HBO’s Entourage

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I can’t be the only person that thinks this show is wack.

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How To Spot A Liar

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How To Spot A Liar

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“Certain behavioral traits, like averting eye contact, could be cultural and not indicative of a liar,” says Joseph Buckley, president of John E. Reid & Associates, which has provided interview and interrogation training to more than 500,000 law enforcement agents to date.

Liars are often reluctant to admit ordinary storytelling mistakes. When honest people tell stories, they may realize partway through that they left out some details and would unselfconsciously backtrack to fill in holes. They also may realize a previous statement wasn’t quite right, and go back and explain further. Liars, on the other hand, “are worried that someone might catch them in a lie and are reluctant to admit to such ordinary imperfections,” says DePaulo.

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Yet another clue: imprecise pronouns. To psychologically distance themselves from a lie, people often pepper their tales with second- and third-person pronouns like “you,” “we” and “they,” says Hancock. Liars are also more likely to ask that questions be repeated and begin responses with phrases like, “to tell you the truth,” and “to be perfectly honest,” says Reid.

When telling the truth, people often make hand gestures to the rhythm of their speech. Hands emphasize points or phrases–a natural and compelling technique when they actually believe the points they’re making. The less certain will keep gesticulations in check, says Hancock.

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The Street Price of Cocaine

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The Street Price of Cocaine

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THE street price of cocaine varies enormously. The drug costs less in South and Central America, where most cocaine is produced, but it is also low in Morocco, a trafficking destination. Worldwide, prices range from $2 a gram in Panama to over $300 in New Zealand, according to the UN’s World Drug Report. Generally, the farther away a country from the main producers and the more isolated it is, the higher the price charged. The priciest places for a cocaine habit are New Zealand and Australia, where a gram typically costs $312 and $285 respectively. Prices in Canada and America, after years of cheaper drugs for Canadians, are now on a par at around $97 a gram.



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Melbourne Gang War Update

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Melbourne Gang War Update

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A brazen gangland murder has shed rare light on Australia’s seamy underworld and captivated the public with surreal details of a mob scene that has already inspired a smash-hit television series.

Desmond “Tuppence” Moran became the latest victim of Melbourne’s notorious crime wars last Monday, when balaclava-clad gunmen surprised him in the Ascot Pasta and Deli Cafe and shot him several times.

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Within hours, police were unravelling an incestuous and amateurish plot allegedly implicating close relatives of the victim and associates with colourful pasts and nicknames to match.

Accused killer Geoffrey “Nuts” Amour appeared in court sporting a black eye, while Moran’s sister-in-law Judy, who arrived at the crime scene within minutes crying “Dessie, Dessie,” has been arrested as an accomplice to murder.

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Police searches reportedly turned up the getaway car, a self-loading rifle, pistols and a wig. Amour’s girlfriend Suzanne Kane, a member of another crime family closely linked to the Morans, was also arrested.

On Tuesday, a mysterious blaze broke out at Judy Moran’s home as she languished in a police cell, prompting suspicions of either a reprisal attack or an attempt to torch evidence. Arson investigators are probing the blaze.

“Fact is almost stranger than fiction with what we’ve seen,” said Victoria police commissioner Simon Overland.

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“If you were a scriptwriter and sat down and wrote this stuff you’d probably say: ‘Look, no, it’s a bit far-fetched. No one will believe it.'”

Newspaper articles have pored over the details, unearthing comment from retired gang figures such as Mark “Chopper” Read, anti-hero of the eponymous 2000 film starring Eric Bana.

“Whoever hatched this plan, it was their first attempt at it. It was a dog’s dinner — a pig’s breakfast of a plan,” he scoffed.

Media have also spoken of the Moran family’s “missing millions” and attempted to untangle the web of murders and grudges that wrapped Melbourne in a nine-year turf war and inspired the popular “Underbelly” TV show.

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The multi-award winning series was one of Australia’s top-rating shows last year, even though it could not be shown in Melbourne because some of the characters depicted were still facing trial in real life.

Among the underworld identities it dramatised was Judy Moran, a flashy 64-year-old blonde known as the family’s matriarch, who lost her husband Lewis and sons Mark and Jason to battles with the rival Williams clan.

Mark was shot outside his home in 2000, while hitmen murdered Jason in 2003 as he picked up his children from a football match, prompting a theatrical graveside threat from his mother.

“All will be dealt with, my darling,” Judy Moran famously vowed as she leant over her son’s coffin.

Husband Lewis, leader of the clan, survived until 2004 when he was chased through the Brunswick Club pub by a shotgun-toting assassin and dispatched as he cowered in a corner.

Kane, the alleged accomplice in Monday’s killing, also has a bloody past, starting from 1978 when she, her mother and her sister were locked in a bedroom by gunmen who executed her father, Les, with machine guns fitted with silencers.

Four years later, Suzanne’s uncle Brian Kane was killed by masked gunmen as he drank in a Melbourne bar, while her sister Trisha is Jason Moran’s widow.

With about 30 dead and gang boss Carl Williams in prison, Melbourne may have thought it had seen the last of its gang wars — until last week.

However, police and experts believe the murder is unlikely to spark another round of killing, speculating that the hit was prompted by simmering bad blood and a row over money.

“It’s just another insane chapter in an insane story. If you told a donkey this, he’d kick you in the head for telling lies,” Chopper Read told the Daily Telegraph.

“No one would believe it. It’s ridiculous.”

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