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...Maps that may have also incorporated otherworlds and spiritual realms. Tupaia sailed with Captain Cook to New Zealand....
...Like an ocean the Tapajós had its sudden moods. The wind whipped up ragged waves on its surface (a phenomenon that has its own local name, banzeiro)....
...So essential are these pollinators to farmers that the state’s beekeeping association now offers rewards of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of hive thieves....
...State law requires associations to have a schedule to pay for big repairs, but there is a loophole: homeowners can vote to waive paying into a reserve fund....
...But from January, when the new SB9 zoning bill takes effect, homeowners will be allowed to divide their plot in two and build two properties on each....
...“We’re not trying to boil the ocean,” she says. “There needs to be a very focused engagement by investors with the companies that need to make the transition.”...
...officer at catastrophe risk modelling company Risk Management Solutions, said building on floodplains “shouldn’t simply be prohibited” but that it was crucial to ensure effective resilience measures were incorporated...
...Owners pay service charges (or homeowners association fees) that can often be offset by putting the residence into the hotel rental programme and earning an income — Rosewood residences at Baha Mar command...
...O’Brien, a board member of the Hollywoodland Homeowners Association, insists that tourism in the area has become such a problem that she would even welcome moving the sign elsewhere....
...Prospective homeowners have to go through a lengthy application process, and there are restrictions on renting homes out....
...“You see it every day and you see every hill, every valley, every pothole . . . every town, every forest from border to border and ocean to ocean.”...
...Diogo Gaspar Ferreira is president of the Association of Portuguese Resorts....
...Freddie Mac, the government-controlled mortgage finance giant, on Tuesday finalised the sale of a new kind of derivative that regulators hope will be a template for private capital to shoulder losses when homeowners...
...From China and Korea, ginkgo spread to Japan and became incorporated in the indigenous religion of Shintoism....
...“No matter how much we do to make homes and businesses more resilient, the fact of the matter is we live next to the ocean and the ocean comes with risks that we just cannot eliminate,” the mayor said....
...By definition, any regeneration project in America’s most unfortunate city is a drop in the ocean. There are slums in Calcutta that offer more hope than parts of Detroit....
...Affluent homeowners armed with easy credit poured huge amounts of money into building houses during the past decade, as a property boom gripped many parts of the industrialised world....
...“The taxes raised would be drop in the ocean compared to the enormous budget deficit on which the Chancellor should concentrating....
...It is a similar story in the US, where the total gross sales of residential real estate sold at live auction increased by 46 per cent from 2003 to 2007, according to the National Auctioneers Association....
...By early 2007, it was clear that the US subprime market had a problem and by that summer, homeowners all over the US were defaulting on their mortgages....
...And between PSL and the ocean is another major amenity, the Indian River....
...“Protected parks give the homeowner legal protection under the Mobile Homes Act 1983....
...“Now flat-screen televisions can easily be incorporated into the home design.”...
...These allow employees and owners of incorporated small businesses to cut their NI bills by forgoing salary, or waiving a bonus, in exchange for a pension contribution....
...One of the leading architectural photographers of the 20th century, Julius Shulman developed a close association with the leading modernist architects of the 1950s and 1960s....
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