Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA GFK, Jr.
AKA The Sly, Slick and the Wicked
AKA The Voodoo Child
The Guide to Getting More out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com
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.
“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.
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.
The French palate was not very refined at that time; despite the royal rejection, however, the Russians and Persians were the first to commercialise caviar all over the world. Back in the 16th century, it was even being eaten in the United States, although, oddly, by the poorer classes.
It is because of the sturgeon that only a minority these days can enjoy this delicacy. The fish looks ugly, tastes worse, and produces what are the golden eggs of contemporary gastronomy. Of the 24 species of sturgeon that exist in the world, five live in the Caspian Sea, but only four produce edible caviar (the most famous is the Beluga sturgeon). The extraction process is highly delicate. It is important not to kill the sturgeon, because once it is dead, the fish produces a bitter substance which ruins the flavour of the caviar. To avoid this, a blow behind the head puts the fish to sleep, and within ten minutes, the eggs are extracted and tinned.
Russia and Iran are currently the world’s main producers of wild caviar. However, abuses in the capture of the species and illegal trade mean that wild sturgeon are now almost extinct.
Swimming pool caviar
Sturgeons bred in captivity have become a practical alternative in many European countries. France is the world’s biggest producer of farmed caviar, especially in the Gironde region, which, through over-exploitation, has lost the wild sturgeon which were originally to be found there. Other countries such as Spain, Sweden, Uruguay and the United States are trying to break into this one market which does not seem to have been affected by the recession. The current price in Europe for farmed caviar is about 1.443 euros (£1.22) per kilogramme, compared to 2.103 euros (£1.78) for Iranian Beluga.
However, even the poor can have access to caviar sometimes. Germany was the most socialist of them all when it began to sell what became known as ‘German caviar’ or ‘red caviar’ at accessible prices, although it is produced in Iceland, Norway or Denmark rather than in Germany, and has a slightly more salty taste than caviar.
However, for examples of fake caviar, we need to come back to France. In Russia, the word for purée is ‘икра’ (‘ikra’ – which means caviar). Euphemistically, the French call courgette or aubergine purée ‘caviar’, leading to linguistic confusion – no doubt the fault of some heir to Louis XV’s palate.
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA GFK, Jr.
AKA The Sly, Slick and the Wicked
AKA The Voodoo Child
The Guide to Getting More out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com
Benny Goodman Orchestra Sing Sing Sing from Hollywood Hotel