Dear Reader,

March 2008

We are pleased to announce the launch of the all new LuxuryLifestyle.com! With our refined design and site features we offer the affluent a more direct means to explore all things luxury; our clients a more engaging platform to showcase their fabulous wares; and a way to promote our partners to the ever growing LuxuryLifestyle.com Network, all while emphasizing the importance of giving back through charitable activities.

Over the next several months, LuxuryLifestyle will introduce new social features that mirror the real world referral ecosystem and our content provider platform will showcase articles from boutique luxury publications, bloggers and experts within our 23 niche luxury categories.

LuxuryLifestyle is also excited to in troduce a new LuxuryLifestyle Network partner; one that truly exemplifies our mission to promote giving within the luxury community: The 2nd Annual Fireball Run Transcontinental Rally to help find America’s missing children. They have redefined the concept of the transcontinental rally and transformed it into the ultimate experiential adventure by uniting top business executives with community leaders in a common cause benefitting the Child Rescue Network, our featured charitable organization. You can read more about both organizations below.

We are privileged and excited to introduce you to our first content partner, the larger-than-life J. “JJ” Sanchez. He is sure to become your go to guy for everything in the automotive lifestyle category, from Pebble Beach to the Southern Yosemite Auto Film Festival. I’m sure you’ll enjoy his first contribution below and look forward to more in the future with the launch of our content provider platform.

Live the good life!

Paula Gould
Editor
paula@luxurylifestyle.com

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The 2nd Annual Fireball Run Transcontinental Rally

Fireball Run Transcontinental Rally is America’s Adventurtainment rally™. The annual Fireball Run is a highly interactive live action “game” and America is the game board. One Hundred teams comprised of some of the most successful people on the planet embark on a 3500 mile 9 day transcontinental adventure of a lifetime. The 2008 event will start in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and will zigzag through the coolest parts of America to finish in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Each Fireball Run team is assigned a different missing child, through the Child Rescue Network, for whom the team must draw as much attention to as possible by speaking with the communities and distributing as many posters as they can along the 3500 mile trek. The inaugural year, 2007, helped to find 12 missing children.

For more information on how to get involved please visit: http://fireballrun.com

The Child Rescue Network

Child Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit missing and victimized children’s organization. The organization, which started in 2004, provides free programs and services in pursuit of its mission to protect children. Child Rescue Network (CRN) has the main goal of raising awareness regarding abducted and sexually victimized children while at the same time educating families on the best ways to help keep our children safe. CRN also assists in the search for abducted children utilizing professional, licensed investigators to work with law enforcement as well as case workers to help the families through this nightmarish ordeal. Child Rescue Network is dedicated to lowering the numbers when it comes to child victims and through community partnerships we are making an impact.

CRN is pro-active going into churches, PTAs, home owner associations, businesses, and other locations to provide FREE safety seminars for parents to teach them how to better protect their children as well as providing FREE tools like photo/fingerprint safety identification cards.

All of the programs offered by Child Rescue Network are free due to the support of private donations and corporate sponsors. www.ChildRescueNetwork.org

Amelia Island

by J. "JJ" Sanchez

I feel a brief introduction is necessary; I’m J. “JJ” Sanchez, the new automotive lifestyle editor for LuxuryLifestyle.com. While I may be new to you, I also pull double duty as the Organizer of the Fireball Run, a 3500 mile, 9 day, luxury adventurally. Just so you know, I’m less to do about THE VEHICLE- more about what can be done WITH your vehicle. If you want to buy the new Continental GTC that’s your business- now let’s put it on the track and have fun. I’m all about “agree to disagree”…hey, if we haven’t pushed any buttons, we haven’t made any progress. I welcome your opinions, both rants and raves.

So it’s my first day on the job with LuxuryLifestyle and here I sit downing a Bloody Mary at the local tiki bar while basking in frigid 70 degree weather on a typical Sunday afternoon in Orlando, Florida… and I ponder; what should my first article be? Then it hit me: its concourso season! And next week is the Amelia Island Concours d’ Elegance; the second most opulent concours in the country (Pebble Beach being the first). This Thursday begins one of my favorite automotive events, located about 20 miles outside Jacksonville, Florida in Amelia Island.

The concours is set on the greens against the back drop of the Ritz Carlton, in an incredible display of fantastic achievement of coach building. At Amelia you’ll find everything from a new Lamborghini Gallardo, to a one of a kind Dusenberg. The concours is organized by a guy who goes by the name of Bill Warner- ring a bell? No? – it will. Bill puts this amazing event together and gives 100% off the money to charity. A pretty selfless act given the logistics involved. The concours is crawling with heavy hitters (collectors) from all over the world, some come to display, others come to admire….but they all come to network and have fun and immerse themselves in the cars, the crowd and the action. Amelia Island is the real deal.

The crowd is a direct reflection of its organizer Bill Warner; kinda cool though a bit tautly. But hey, if you ask me he’s earned the right to be a bit tautly, after all he is in fact an original “Cannonballer”, and I’m not referencing its no-teeth incarnation known as One Lap. No, Bill did the real deal… hauled ass from one side of the country to the other… just because. So on that alone I give the man a bit of street cred. Plus this really is a great show, perfect coordination, perfect weather, perfect location, and perfect vehicles. Should you decide to jump on the plane and visit say hello to Monte Patterson, GM of Lamborghini Orlando, and tell him JJ sent ya- You’ll like him… everybody does.

Well there you have it, my first article for LuxuryLifestyle.com. I hope you enjoyed this brief on the Amelia Island Concours. Be sure to catch my post event wrap up in Luxury Auto Direct Magazine. If you’re at Amelia Island feel free to say hello, offer praise or a beating, whichever you prefer.

Till next time, “See you on the other side!”

JJ’s 0-12 Cylinder Rating

AMELIA ISLAND CONCOURS d’ ELEGANCE

Quality of Networking 12
Non-Profit Effectiveness 12
Vehicle Diversity 12
Lifestyle Quality 10
Event Organization & Access 10
Event Originality 6
Celebrity Attendance 6
Attendee Diversity 4
Cool Swag 4

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