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Australia / Sydney - Beaches, Friends and the Goodlife *Teaser* ( 2015 )
Just a few impressions about my first month in Sydney with some awesome people at some awesome beaches. Video still very blurred, reupload willcome by chance 😀 GoPro Video coming soon :)...

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Eduardo Munoz/Reuters A view of beaches just outside the main capital Basseterre June 13, 2009. The Caribbean's small island states resist natural hurricanes year after year, but they are fighting to stay afloat in a global economic storm that is battering the world's rich and poor nations alike. Picture taken June 13, 2009.

In 2006, the tiny Caribbean state of St. Kitts and Nevis was in deep trouble. Its sugar plantations had closed a year earlier, gang violence had given it the dubious distinction of having one of the worlds highest murder rates, and only two governments on Earth were more indebted. A three-hour flight south of Miami, the country of 48,000 people was more or less unknown. Certainly, the two specks of volcanic rock in the middle of the West Indies werent of much interest to the worlds rich. St. Kitts and Nevis had run a citizenship-by-investment programhad sold passportssince 1984, but it didnt get much attention and was never a moneymaker.

Then a Swiss lawyer named Christian Kalin showed up.

Thanks to Kalin, St. Kitts has become the worlds most popular place to buy a passport, offering citizenship for $250,000 with no requirement that applicants ever set foot on the islands sun-kissed shores. Buyers get visa-free travel to 132 countries, limited disclosure of financial information, and no taxes on income or capital gains. The program became so successful that St. Kitts emerged from the global financial crisis far ahead of its neighbors in the Caribbean. Its been a complete transformation, says Judith Gold, head of an International Monetary Fund mission to the country.

Just as Kalin put St. Kitts on the map, Bloomberg Markets will report in its April 2015 issue, the reverse is also true. It made his reputation. Before St. Kitts, Kalins firm, Henley & Partners, was an obscure wealth management and immigration consultancy, and Kalin was working out of a small branch office in Zurich. Tall, with a runners build, Kalin was known as a researcher, he says, not the hard-nosed dealmaker hes become. His claim to fame was having edited a 766-page guide to doing business in Switzerland, a tome found in every one of the countrys embassies.

Soon, prime ministers from around the world were seeking Kalins advice, in the hope he could reproduce the magic of St. Kitts, where he effectively created a resource out of thin air for a nation that had few. Many countries allow wealthy foreigners to buy residency cards through what are called immigrant investor programs, but before the financial crisis, St. Kitts and another Caribbean island called Dominica were the only ones selling citizenship outright. Since then, another five countries have gotten into the game. More are coming.

Kalin advised the governments of Cyprus and Grenada, which established citizenship-by-investment plans in 2011 and 2013, respectively. Also in 2013, he designed a program very much like St. Kittss for Antigua and Barbuda. In 2014, Kalin crafted a plan for Malta, the smallest member of the European Union. Pretty much every government that has even contemplated this has talked to us, he says. In St. Lucia, a task force is considering proposals from Henley and other firms. Albania, Croatia, Jamaica, Montenegro, and Slovenia are looking at programs, too.

The bottom lineits a phrase Kalin uses oftenis that more states are open to making citizenship rights available through investment, he says. And it makes a lot of sense. Why not give citizenship to people who contribute a lot to the country?

Since revamping the St. Kitts program in November 2006, Kalin has built Henley into the biggest firm in an industry turning citizenship into a commodity. Investors spent an estimated $2 billion buying new passports last year alone, and Kalin predicts demand will grow along with the ranks of the wealthy in emerging countries. Its a question of mobility and also security, he says. If youre from a country thats politically unstable, where youre not sure what the future holds, you want to have an alternative.

Henley is privately held and Kalin wont discuss its revenue, but he says by the end of 2014, the firm had helped dozens of governments raise $4 billion in direct investment through citizenship or residency programs. It has also advised thousands of multimillionaires on where and how to buy a passport of convenience, collecting fees and commissions from all sides. Last year, at 42, Kalin became Henleys chairman.

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Federal officials are flying a banner over central Florida beaches to warn boaters and spring break visitors to stay away from endangered right whales.

The banner flown Saturday from Cape Canaveral to Sebastian Inlet warns people to stay 500 yards away from the whales, which are migrating along Florida's Atlantic coast.

Only about 450 to 500 right whales remain worldwide. Cheryl Bonnes of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tells Florida Today that officials want people to give the whales a little more space.

The 500-yard rule applies to watercraft or aircraft, including paddle boards and surfboards. Fines for approaching or remaining closer to the whales can be thousands of dollars.

The right whale calving season off South Carolina, Georgia and Florida begins in mid-November and runs through mid-April.

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PACIFIC PALISADES (CBSLA.com) The August-like weather sent crowds to the Southlands beaches on Saturday, creating traffic jams as well asextra work for lifeguards, whose staffing remains at winter levels.

By 5 p.m. the sweltering temperatures had mostly abated, according to CBS2s Bobby Kaple, whotraveled from Santa Monica to Pacific Palisades on Saturday afternoon.

It was really hot, so we wanted to go to the beach and catch some waves, said Gracie Smith, whosummed up the sentiments of thousands as a major heatwave wallops the region.

The crowdflocking to the beach generated a whole of lot stop-and-go traffic along the way and wall-to-wall people heading into the water in Santa Monica.

One beachgoer noted that she was trying to stay in the shade as much as possible.

We have our fresh-squeezed lemonades, said another beachgoer, Shiva Lalezar. We brought ourorganic fruits and veggies, and the girls are munching on them.

One girl said she didnt think her dog was enjoyingSaturdays warmtemperatures.

I was telling everybody back home that they are calling the big shiny thing in the sky the sun, said Scott Dudley, a tourist from Washington. Were not typically used to this. This is all right.

Lifeguard Capt. Eric Howell said rip currents are causing problems, with more than a hundred rescues up and down the beach.

Yeah, were at max capacity, Howell said. Its extremely hot out today, and the water is uncharacteristically warm today. It seems like on days like this when you haverescues going on everywhere youre always short-staffed.

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