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Income property garden Garden buildings

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(This section would benefit from more material on garden buildings in China and Japan)

Arguably, the oldest fragment of a garden building is at Pasargadae in Iran. It was an encampment garden and the building was a pavilion dwelling for Cyrus the Great. The Romans erected numerous small pavilions in gardens and examples survive at Pompeii. The making of luxury gardens resumed with the renaissance and so did the construction of garden buildings. The taste for garden buildings then spread north of the Alps and small buildings became characteristic of the English Landscape Garden.

The small and highly decorative garden buildings in Chinese and Japanese gardens originated as Buddhist temples. They were well-cared for and frequently rebuilt after fires (often caused by lightning).

Garden buildings remain popular in modern gardens but their use tends to be more functional than aesthetic. They are used to store equipment, for games, for swimming, as garden offices, as summer houses, as sun rooms and for plant propagation.

The most contemporary use for garden buildings is indeed as garden offices. These can range from much loved garden sheds that have been upgraded by their owners garden offices.

Many people installing garden buildings in Britain are unaware of the controls and restrictions. Even a shed can be subject to planning permission or building regulations, if it is used to house human activity.


See also

  • Garden design
  • Garden structure
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Social Social issues

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Social issues are matters which directly or indirectly affect many or all members of a society and are considered to be problems, controversies related to moral values, or both.

Social issues include poverty, violence, pollution, injustice, suppression of human rights, discrimination, and crime, as well as abortion, gay marriage, gun control, and the teaching of evolution, to name a few.

Social issues are related to the fabric of the community, including conflicts among the interests of community members, and lie beyond the control of any one individual.


See also

  • Abortion
  • Abuse
  • Adolescent pregnancy
  • Crime
  • Discrimination
  • Gay rights
  • Gun control
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Homelessness
  • Human rights
  • Justice
  • List of sociology topics
  • Peace
  • Pollution
  • Population
  • Poverty
  • Racism
  • Social discrimination
  • Social equality
  • Social integration
  • Social issues in the United States
  • Social work
  • Sociology
  • Underage sex
  • Unemployment
  • War


References

  • WiseTo Social Issues Digest


External links

Google Scholar search on “social issues”

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Estate Ballycraigy

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Ballycraigy is a loyalist housing estate in Antrim, about 10 miles north of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Ballycraigy has its own band “Ballycraigy Sons of Ulster” with Purple/Lilac attire for their uniform. The ballycraigy estate is made up of the mostly Protestant religion group. Every July 12th they celebrate it by lighting a bonfire in the centre of the estate. The bonfire for 2006 was the largest bonfire in Northern Ireland.


Education

  • Ballycraigy Primary School


Census

According to the census for ballycraigy ward the estate has approximately 865 Residents. More Information (NI Census - Ballycraigy

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Real Farm property

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Farm property is a niche in the real estate market specialising in either agricultural estates or leisure developments planned in an agricultural setting.

  • FarmingUK Agricultural Properties around the UK
  • Equestrian Real Estate Property Network Farms Properties Specializing in Horses
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Estate Executor

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This article is about the legal term. For other uses of the term, see Executor (disambiguation).

An executor, in the broadest sense, is one who carries something out (in other words, one who is responsible for executing a task).

Executor (female form: executrix) is also a legal term referring to a person named by a maker of a will, or nominated by the testator, to carry out the directions of the will. Typically the executor is the person responsible for offering the will for probate, although it is not absolutely required that he or she do so. The executor’s duties also include the disbursement of property to the beneficiaries as designated in the will, obtaining information about any other potential heirs, collecting and arranging for payment of debts of the estate and approving or disapproving creditors’ claims. An executor also makes sure estate taxes are calculated, necessary forms are filed and tax payments made, and in all ways assists the attorney for the estate. Also the executor makes all donations as left in bequests to charitable and other organizations as directed in the will. In most circumstances the executor is the representative of the estate for all purposes, and has the ability to sue or be sued on behalf of the estate. The executor also holds legal title to the estate property, but may not use that property for the executor’s own benefit unless expressly permitted by the terms of the will.

A person who deals with a deceased person’s property without proper authority is known as an executor de son tort. Such a person’s actions may subsequently be ratified by the lawful executors or administrators if the actions do not contradict the substantive provisions of the deceased’s will or the rights of heirs at law.

Where there is no will, a person is said to have died intestate - “without testimony”. As a result, there can be no actual ‘testimony’ to follow, and hence there can be no executor. If there is no will or where the executors named in a will do not wish to act, an administrator of the deceased’s estate may instead be appointed. The generic term for executors or administrators is personal representative.


See also

  • executorial trustee
  • estate
  • inheritance
  • literary executor
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Subsidiary Paper railroad

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In the United States, a paper railroad is a company in the railroad business which exists “on paper only”: as a legal entity which does not own any track, locomotives, or rolling stock. Frequently, paper railroads were set up as subsidiaries by larger parent railroads. Paper railroads were also known as non-operating subsidiary railroads of the parent railroad. In most cases, paper railroads were still known as such even after plans to build them may have been canceled.

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Estate Wah Fu Estate

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Wah Fu Estate (Chinese: 華富邨) is a public housing estate located by the Kellett Bay, Southern District, Hong Kong. It was built on a new town concept in 1967 and was renovated in around 2003.

There are several primary and secondary schools in the estate. Some of these are Pui Ying Secondary School, SKH Lui Ming Choi Secondary School and Caritas Chong Yut Ming Secondary School. They provide education to children in the local and surrounding areas.

Funtana Theatre is the only cinema in the estate.


External link

  • Hong Kong map of Wah Fu Estate
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Buyer. Alright Jack

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Alright Jack is a UK slang term used to indicate that a person, or company, has no need to make changes to their existing behaviour - even if these changes would be beneficial to someone else, or would have a chance (although not a certainty) of being beneficial to the person or company concerned. It carries a slightly pejorative tone and is relatively rarely used to describe the speaker.

For example, a person might be heard to complain that “I had a great idea, that could have made them lots of money, but they refused to buy it because they’re alright jack” - with the implication that the buyer was happy in their current state, and therefore had no need to take a risk, even though the speaker believes it could have provided them with a benefit; and that the speaker resents them for this.

It was used in the title of the film I’m All Right Jack.

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Estate Villa Saetta

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Villa Saetta is an aristocratic mansion in Monteroni di Lecce, Puglia, southern Italy, originally built by the local barons as a farming estate.

The name comes from that of the monk that a legend tells living in this country-area in very ancient times. The estate includes a chapel and many building for baronial or for staff’s usage. Some members of the Lopez y Royo family are buried in the mansion’s chapel.


External links

  • Comune di Monteroni di Lecce — Monumenti e palazzi
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Property Australian Property Legislation

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Australian Property Legislation varies between each jurisdiction in every State of Australia there is a different scheme of regulating property rights that combines legislation but is also receptive of the common law. Despite differing statutes, the substantive effect in each jurisdiction is quite similar. The reason there is no unified national system for regulating property is the reservation of this power to the states in the constitution. There have been discussions about a co-operative system of regulation to be implemented between the states, conferring jurisdiction on the federal commonwealth in a similar manner done in The Corporations Act 2001.

Property Legislation in all states is grounded upon the Torrens principle of registration of title. This posits that each state have a central register of all land in the state and that the register also show the ‘owner’ of the land. This system was devised to reduce the amount of fraud relating to land due to falsification of title deeds. The system also provides for registration of other entitlements to land such as a mortgage, by which land is used to secure a loan. Another major principle of this system is ‘indefeasibility’ of title - where a right has been entered on the register, it cannot be defeated by later rights except in certain circumstances.


List of Legislation by State or Territory

  • Real Property Act 1900 (NSW)
  • Transfer of Land Act 1958 (VIC)
  • Real Property Act 1925 (ACT)
  • Property Law Act 1974 (QLD)
  • Law of Property Act (NT)
  • Real Property Act 1886 (SA)
  • Real Property Act 1862 (TAS)
  • Property Law Act 1969 (WA)
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See also Real estate Jeonse

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Jeonse (전세) is a real estate term unique to South Korea that refers to the way apartments are leased. Instead of paying monthly rent, a renter will make a lump-sum deposit on a rental space, at anywhere from 50-100% of the market value. At the end of the contract, usually two or three years, the landlord returns the amount in its entirety to the renter. This practice is especially used during times of high interest rates, where landlords can make alternative investments during lease periods to make their profits. The homeowner is free to invest the deposit as he or she wants, as long as the same amount of money is returned to the tenant at the end of the contract.

During times of lower interest rates, the wolse (월세), or monthly rent, is more often used. With a wolse lease, a renter will sign a one or two-year lease and make a deposit on the apartment equal to perhaps 10% of the market value. The renter then pays monthly rent.

This system is popular for two main reasons. First, there are very few mortgages in South Korea, limiting consumer ability to own a home. Also, real-estate prices continue to increase at large rates during what some see as a worldwide housing bubble.


See also

  • Real estate in South Korea
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These types List of Chesapeake and Ohio locomotives

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Locomotives operated by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.

Contents


Steam locomotives


Class A: 4-4-0 and 4-4-2


Class B: 2-10-2


Class C: 0-6-0, 0-8-0, 0-10-0, and Shays


Class E: 2-6-0


Class F: 4-6-0 and 4-6-2


Class G: 2-8-0


Class H: 2-6-6-2, 2-8-8-2, 2-6-6-6

Class H ws used for the 2-6-6-2, 2-8-8-2, and 2-6-6-6 Allegheny types

  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class H-1 2-6-6-2
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class H-2 2-6-6-2
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class H-3 ex-Hocking Valley Railway 2-6-6-2
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class H-4 2-6-6-2
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class H-5 2-6-6-2
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class H-6 2-6-6-2
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class H-7 and H-7-A 2-8-8-2
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class H-8 2-8-8-2


Class J: 4-8-2 and 4-8-4

Class J was used for 4-8-2 Mountain and 4-8-4 Greenbrier types

  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class J-1 4-8-2
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class J-2 4-8-2
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class J-3 and J-3-A 4-8-4


Class K: 2-8-2 and 2-8-4

Class K was used for 2-8-2 Mikado and 2-8-4 Kanawha types

  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class K ex-Hocking Valley Railway 2-8-2
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class K-1 2-8-2
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class K-2 2-8-2
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class K-3 and K-3-A 2-8-2
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class K-4 2-8-4
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class K-5 ex-Pere Marquette Railway 2-8-2
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class K-6 ex-Pere Marquette Railway 2-8-2
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class K-8 ex-Pere Marquette Railway 2-8-2


Class L: 4-6-4

Class L was used for 4-6-4 “Hudson” types.

  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class L-1
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Class L-2 and L-2-A


Class M: Steam-Turbine-Electric

Class M was used for a single class of 2-C1+2-C1-2 Steam-turbine electric locomotives.

  • Chesapeake and Ohio class M-1


Class T: 2-10-4

Class T was used for a single class of 2-10-4 “Texas” types

  • Chesapeake and Ohio class T-1


Diesel locomotives


References

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Estate Cabot, Cabot & Forbes

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Cabot, Cabot & Forbes was founded by Francis Murray Forbes in 1897 as a real estate management firm.

Notable American business leaders who have worked at this firm:

  • Mortimer Zuckerman
  • Gerald Blakeley
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Estate Twin Tower

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This article discusses an architectural design. For the specific buildings, see Twin Towers.

Twin Tower (雙塔型) is a 1970’s design of residential block of Hong Kong public housing estate. The plan looks like two hollow squares joining one corner of each square. Two towers are of different heights although their shapes are the same.

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Real Real GDP

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Real GDP is a macroeconomic measure of the size of an economy adjusted for price changes and inflation.

Real GDP for a given year is the given year’s nominal GDP stated in the basep-year price level 2. Real GDP growth on an annual basis is the nominal and abnormal GDP growth rate adjusted for inflation and expressed as a percentage.

Because Real GDP is adjusted for changes in prices and inflation throughout the year, it can be thought of in terms of ‘purchasing power.’

Real GDP per Capita reflects GDP purchasing power of each individual in the economy.

Real GDP per capita is found by dividing real GDP by the size of the population.


See also

  • Real versus nominal value
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Property waterfront homes Waterfront-SEU (Washington Metro)

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Waterfront-SEU is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Green Line.

The station is located in Southwest Washington at 4th and M Streets. “SEU” refers to the nearby Southeastern University and was added to the name in 1997. Service began on December 28, 1991.


Notable places nearby

  • Arena Stage
  • Fort Lesley McNair
  • Waterside Mall
  • Women’s Titanic Memorial


External links

  • WMATA: Waterfront-SEU Station
  • StationMasters Online: Waterfront-SEU Station
  • The Schumin Web Transit Center: Waterfront-SEU Station