Use These Self Improvement Tips To Help With Your Business ...

Occasionally, we all go through a stage where we have a lack of confidence. There are times when we do not feel like we are on top of what we are doing in both our professional and personal lives. Our confidence may seem to wane and diminish. We can feel a lot of stress in our life, but it is even worse when it comes to the business world. Losing confidence in yourself when you are trying to run a business hurts you both in terms of your self-esteem and your profit margin.

The following tips will help you learn more about business, and also how you can profit more with the business you are in.

Don?t pursue one goal. If it makes you upset to consider such a move, back burner the goal instead. We are not saying you have to give it up all the way. We?re simply asking you to walk away from this for at least seven days. Sometimes we spend so much time focusing on something that we lose sight of what it is really about. It is almost impossible to be objective about it. Instead of being able to fix it, you find it harder to actually complete the task. Putting it away for a while gives you a break from the stress of it. This will allow us to have a fresh outlook on what it is we are trying to accomplish. We will look at the project in a new way because of this. It might even help you make your project better! Prioritizing is a skill you need to develop. Prioritizing is something that many people have a difficult time learning how to do. After all, everything seems important, doesn?t it? The truth is that some things are just more important than others. You should be writing out things in the order that they actually need to be accomplished each day, month, etc. Do the most important things first. This can help you feel so much better about yourself and it will keep you working toward the things that don?t matter quite as much. Failing to prioritize things you need to do every day doesn?t just risk you losing time for everything, it lowers the risk of you not accomplishing the more important things because you spent too much time on the less important things.

Take time every day to sit and write down what you are thinking and feeling about both your life and your business. It?s not necessary to separate the two. One of the things that is difficult for many people to do is leave their work at work. You can write out your feelings, about work or how you feel, so you can put it to rest at the end of the day. It?s a way of freeing yourself. So instead of taking your problems with you, you can, in essence, leave them behind with the written word. The weight of your personal and professional life can be lifted off your shoulders by doing this.

There are so many things that you can do to use self improvement techniques to improve your business performance. You have just read a few of them. Just use a few of these strategies and watch your business really take off!

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Fake Customer Reviews and Internet Law - Internet Lawyer Blog

Professor Eric Goldman has an excellent post about Internet fake customer reviews: What Are Appropriate Compensatory Damages for 3 Fake Competitor Reviews? The Surprising Answer?Fireworks Restoration v. Hosto.

Nominal actual damages were awarded but $150,000 in punitive damages were slapped against the guy writing negative fake customer reviews against his former business partner.

As I?ve explained to my Internet law clients, there are plenty of ways to compete fairly online without resorting to ?black hat? marketing tactics that end up costing your business far more than you?ll ever make by using them.

Given the importance of online customer reviews to many companies, both Internet-based and brick-and-mortar establishments, this issue will continue to wind its way through the courts because the temptation to post fake negative reviews is simply too great for some to pass up. You see it all the time in reviews on Google, Amazon, etc. Someone with an axe to grind decides to smear the reputation of a company by posting a false customer review.

No one says you have to promote your competitor?s business online. But it?s good practice to treat your competitor?s reputation the same way you?d like your competitor to treat yours when engaging in Internet marketing strategies and tactics.

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Insight: Israel gas finds launch navy into troubled waters

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - When Israeli economists contemplate their country's untapped natural gas finds far out in the Mediterranean, they dream of energy independence and lucrative export deals.

Those charged with Israel's defense, however, worry that the navy - small and long a middling priority in budgets - may be hard put to protect the multinational drilling platforms and rigs out at sea.

"We will do our best, but without a major boost to our capabilities, our best will not be enough," a senior military planner said in one of a series of Reuters interviews with Israeli decision-makers on the subject.

That all spoke on condition of anonymity indicates concern that such doubts over security might scare off investors and, perhaps, even encourage sea-borne attacks by Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese guerrilla movement hostile to Israel and to its exploration of gas fields also claimed by Beirut.

There are internal political considerations, too. With Middle East instability spiraling, Israel's Finance Ministry is poring over an unwieldy plan for fiscal cuts combined with new spending on national security. The navy is lobbying for cash but is loath to challenge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly.

Maps and other dry facts speak amply.

The huge gas fields centered 130 km (80 miles) from the port of Haifa in northern Israel, along with Yam Thetis, the existing gas-production rig just off Ashkelon in the south, make for a body of water covering 23,000 square km (9,000 square miles) - more than Israel's territory on land.

Guerrilla raids from the north appear the main threat, with Palestinian Hamas militants penned in Gaza to the south and rumbling discontent from the Lebanese government over Israel's drawing of a maritime border unlikely to take a military turn.

Providing rapid response in an emergency would strain the Israeli fleet of three corvettes - which have a crew of about 70 and can carry helicopters - 10 other missile boats and fast patrol vessels, and three diesel submarines, not least given their existing roles of enforcing the Gaza Strip blockade and the occasional foray through the Suez Canal to the Red Sea.

"You would need to have at least two missile boats in the vicinity of the rigs at all time," said a senior officer.

Another declined to give a specific number, saying only the navy required "several" new vessels to meet future missions.

TALL ORDER

That would mean major expansion of the fleet - a tall order, not least as Israel bought another submarine for $335 million in March.

Visiting Israeli joint defense headquarters in Tel Aviv reveals the navy's junior status, its cramped command centre overshadowed by the marbled tower of the well-funded air force.

The navy also faces skepticism from an Israeli cabinet stiff with former army generals and a finance minister, Yuval Steinitz, who is a civilian expert on maritime security.

In the spirit of what Israelis mordantly call their "ad-hocracy", an unwillingness to spend on things that seem less pressing, the government may not agree with naval commanders about the urgency of protecting gas fields which are years away from being fully exploited and operational.

One of the handful of gas development projects under way, Tamar, has finished a well 70 km (45 miles) from Haifa. An underwater pipeline will run from there to a production rig that will be erected next to Yam Thetis, 25 km (15 miles) from Israel's southern coast, by July 2013.

Another project, Leviathan, is 130 km (80 miles) off Haifa - a remoteness from shore that would itself appear to provide protection from guerrilla raids - and is not expected to produce gas before 2017. A number of firms hope to find undersea oil reserves, as well as the gas.

Robin Mills, head of consulting at Manaar Energy in Dubai, predicted an eventual increase in such activity off Israel and Cyprus, with several new exploration wells supported by supply ships and pipe-laying vessels.

"It won't be like the North Sea, but not a negligible presence either," Mills said. "I wouldn't say the security discussion is premature."

Asked about prospects for protecting the gas fields, a senior Finance Ministry official said only: "This is one among the Israel Defence Forces' various missions. We are confident that the IDF will successfully rise to it."

MISSILES, DIVERS, DRONES

Like its foreign counterparts, Israel's navy prides itself on a spit-and-polish proficiency, especially in carrying out missions of strategic importance. The officers who spoke to Reuters chafed at the idea that, in a fix, they might be forced to call on NATO powers which sail the Mediterranean, such as the United States.

The Israeli navy has fended off a variety of threats over the decades, including at long range. Last year it captured anti-ship missiles which Israel said were destined for Palestinian guerrillas in the Gaza Strip. From there, the weapons could potentially have been used to blow up Yam Thetis.

Citing intelligence assessments, the navy fears Hezbollah guerrillas in boats could fire similar missiles against Israeli targets in the northern gas fields. Other scenarios include remote-controlled flying bombs crashing into rigs, or miniature submarines striking from below. A separate possibility is of gunmen approaching the platforms in civilian vessels or with divers' gear, then storming aboard to kill or capture the crews.

"We designated these kinds of attack as having a 'reasonable likelihood' of occurring," one Israeli officer said.

Anthony Skinner, Middle East analyst at London political risk consultancy Maplecroft, voiced doubt about the imminence of any such incident. He argued Hezbollah has a role as a reserve reprisal arm of its patron Iran, should the latter's controversial nuclear facilities be bombed by the Israelis.

"Were Hezbollah to target gas platform and production rigs, such an attack would likely provoke a robust response from Israeli forces, which may in turn precipitate a broader conflict. One of Iran's key cards against Israel would be removed from the table," Skinner said.

But merely menacing the energy assets could have value in the eyes of Hezbollah and its allies: "It is altogether conceivable that Hezbollah will seek to deter or frustrate Israeli extraction. Iran too does not want Israel to be able to exploit massive oil and gas wealth in the Mediterranean," Skinner said.

MUTUAL DETERRENCE?

Though outgunned by Israel, Hezbollah guerrillas fought its army to a standstill in a border war in 2006 and have since maintained a tense standoff while making clear they are honing their military capabilities for any new conflict.

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader, indicated in a speech last July that any attack on Israeli offshore gas facilities would be in retaliation for an attack on Lebanon.

Israel's navy says that in addition to enhancing its own fleet it expects stepped-up air force patrols of the gas fields and espionage further abroad.

"If there is a Hezbollah guy training in South America to attack a gas platform, we want to know about it," an Israeli officer said, speaking hypothetically.

There is hope for stop-gap measures such as unmanned, machinegun-equipped naval patrol boats that can travel long distances and remotely challenge suspect vessels. Navy officers also hint at the development of electronic counter-measures that would allow gas rigs to block incoming guided missiles.

"The IDF knows how to provide a response for all of Israel's military needs," said Ohad Marani, a former Finance Ministry director-general and now CEO of ILD Energy, which plans to begin drilling the first of two new offshore wells in June.

Texas-based Noble Energy, the main foreign company developing the gas fields with Israel and its maritime neighbor Cyprus, declined to discuss security measures for the platforms.

One of the Israeli officers said the rigs had private guards who coordinate closely with the navy. But they have not yet held sufficient joint emergency drills, the officer said, citing reluctance to disrupt work that costs around $1 million a day.

"Noble was the only company crazy enough to work with us," the officer said. "We don't want to be inconsiderate."

That leaves the hope that Hezbollah will shrink from the geographical, and geopolitical, hurdles of strikes at sea.

"The targets are so distant, and if they miss, then they hit the water and get no effect whatsoever," an Israeli officer said, channeling Hezbollah thinking. "And if they do get the target, then they hurt Americans and Filipino crewmen rather than just Jews. So maybe they'll think it's not worth it."

(Additional reporting by Ari Rabinovitch; Editing by Giles Elgood)

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Another Benefit Of The Armed Forces: Easy VA Loan Requirements ...

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By Warner C. Judge

VA loan Requirements are relatively simple and stress-free for members of the United States military and their spouses to meet. Whether you are a first time homebuyer or are hoping to relocate to a different home, you can have access to one of these loans as long as you are qualified military personnel or a military spouse.

To acquire a VA mortgage, one must be a military veteran or active duty staff member. However, all members are required to serve for at least 180 days or have 90 days on a tour of duty before they are totally eligible to get this type of loan. Widow or widowers whose spouse died either during service or in a service-related accident may also qualify for these loans as long as they have not remarried at the time of application.

Many individuals who have pursued this type of loan in the past have found the process to be quite easy. While the VA is not the one responsible for lending you any money, they will make sure that you get a special type of deal from the private lender you choose to do your financing with. Not many people are awarded the luxury of having a lender agree to give them the terms they are looking for, but when you have the full support of the VA, lenders will make an exception for you and give you what you need.

Once approved for a Veteran?s Association backed loan, participants will discover that they are afforded multiple benefits, many of which can save the applicant thousands of dollars over time. One way that they truly help you out is the fact that they try to make it so that you pay no money down and no closing costs. In the event that an applicant is unable to pay their mortgage because of an accident, injury or job loss, the Veteran?s Association will generally help with payments for a short period of time; also there is no need to buy additional mortgage insurance if you go with this type of program. There are several other terrific benefits you have to look forward to, from flexible loan terms to low interest and more.

As a member of the military or military spouse, you have made great sacrifices for your loved ones. You could say that you?ve more than earned this incredible type of loan simply by enlisting and putting your life on the line. With VA loan requirements being relatively lax and the benefits being so great, it only makes sense that active duty personnel, veterans and widowed spouses would consider using this type of program to get a home of their very own. If you are considering taking advantage of this type of loan, you should pick up an application at your preferred lender today.

When you?re buying a new home, there are many home loans available in now a days. Through VA home loans you will have all the opportunities to have the lowest interest rates available. Visit here for more benefits and savings available today.

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Win 5 Tickets to the Atlanta @BabyShowerExpo June 9 & 10th ...

Moms here?s the chance to celebrate motherhood on a massive scale at the Atlanta Baby Shower Expo June 9th and 10th at the Gwinnett Center!

Atlanta Diaper Relief has proudly partnered to host the Atlanta Baby Shower Expo?s Diaper Party!And we have FIVE tickets to give away to YOU!

PLEASE Like Atlanta Diaper Relief on Facebook and Follow us on Twitter and Tweet US telling us you want a ticket to the Atlanta @BabyShowerExpo! Once we receive your TWEET you are entered into our contest! Please TWEET? by June 4th!

Here?s MORE about the EXPO!

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Atlanta Baby Shower Expo is Atlanta?s #1 Baby Shower Event!

And we?re also looking for sponsors to sponsor us at our booth! So contact us for more info. With more than 20,000 guests expected to attend, your business will get maximum exposure to families who visit our booth at the event! They have come to buy items for their babies and take part in the Deluxe Diaper Party. So you?re in a great position to partner and sponsor us and boost your business!

About the Atlanta Baby Shower Expo:

Whether you?re expecting, have a toddler, planning a BABY SHOWER or having your BABY SHOWER with us. There?s lots of exciting activities, games & helpful information throughout this 2 day event.

BABY SHOWER THEATER
The Baby Shower Theater (seats 2,000) where our Celebrity guest speakers will provide helpful information from maternity to party planning. For detail info about Theater tickets please view the ticket guide.

BABY SHOWER LUNCHEON
The Perfect atmosphere to celebrate with your family and friends. This cheerful enchanted gathering is complete with festive decorations, yet elegant and cozy. We will treat you and your guest to a scrumptious/delicious lunch, followed by a delectable baby shower cake. Plus games, prizes, giveaways and the prettiest shower favors to take home. Tickets are required for the luncheon.

LIFE SIZE BABY SHOWER GAMES

• The Cotton Ball Game
• Belly Painting Contest
• Baby Food Game
• The Daddy Relay
• The Newly Parent Game
• Diaper Derby

KID?S CORNER

MOM SPA INDULGENCE
A perfect time for mom-to-be and her guest to be pampered, Featuring massages and prenatal massages to ease lower back pain, relieve tired legs or simply enjoy being nurtured. Plus milk foot bath ritual (courtesy of Milkology Beauty)

DAD?S ZONE
Games and activities Tailor made for dad, including- the dad relay for the chance to win great prizes.

SOCIAL MEDIA?LOUNGE

• Featuring several live twitter parties during the two day event
• Giant screens TV, comfy seating and delicious snacks.
• For rules and detailed information about the twitter and facebook lounge, please view our detail event guide.

AMENITIES

• TRADITIONAL MEDICINALS Nursing Area
  If you?re looking for a comfortable & private area to nurse your baby, relax in the?Traditional Medicinals?Nursing room with Comfy seating, nursing pillows, breastfeeding information etc..
• Changing Area
  BSE will provide a range of diapers and wipes free of charge to The Baby Shower Expo attendees.

SAVE THE DATE! June 9^th & 10^th Gwinnett Center
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Powerful new approach to attack flu virus

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

An international research team has manufactured a new protein that can combat deadly flu epidemics.

The paper, featured on the cover of the current issue of Nature Biotechnology, demonstrates ways to use manufactured genes as antivirals, which disable key functions of the flu virus, said Tim Whitehead, assistant professor of chemical engineering and materials science at Michigan State University.

"Our most potent design has proven effective on the vulnerable sites on many pandemic influenza viruses, including several H1N1 (Spanish flu, Swine flu) and H5N1 (Avian flu) subtypes," said Whitehead, the paper's co-lead author. "These new therapeutics are urgently needed, so we were especially pleased to see that it neutralizes H1N1 viruses with potency."

From its earlier research, the team used computer-aided design to engineer proteins that targeted vulnerable sites on the highly adaptable virus. From there, researchers optimized their designer proteins by comprehensively mapping the mutations that gave the proteins a strong advantage when attacking the viruses' targeted areas.

The team improved their proteins through a process called "DNA deep sequencing." This allowed Whitehead and his colleagues to simultaneously sequence millions of variants of their manufactured proteins, identify and keep the beneficial mutations and optimize the proteins' performance.

"By taking only the best mutations, we can reprogram our proteins to burrow into viruses at key locations and render them harmless," he said. "Our work demonstrates a new approach to construct therapeutic proteins, which we hope will spur development of new protein drugs by the biopharmaceutical industry."

This research also laid the groundwork for future treatments of all flu viruses as well as other diseases such as smallpox, Whitehead added.

Whitehead's co-authors included researchers from the University of Washington, the Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, Calif.), Naval Health Research Center (San Diego) and the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel).

The research was funded by Defense Research Projects Agency, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

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Powerful "Flame" cyber weapon found in Iran

BOSTON (Reuters) - Security experts said on Monday a highly sophisticated computer virus is infecting computers in Iran and other Middle East countries and may have been deployed at least five years ago to engage in state-sponsored cyber espionage.

Evidence suggest that the virus, dubbed Flame, may have been built on behalf of the same nation or nations that commissioned the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran's nuclear program in 2010, according to Kaspersky Lab, the Russian cyber security software maker that took credit for discovering the infections.

Kaspersky researchers said they have yet to determine whether Flame had a specific mission like Stuxnet, and declined to say who they think built it.

Iran has accused the United States and Israel of deploying Stuxnet.

Cyber security experts said the discovery publicly demonstrates what experts privy to classified information have long known: that nations have been using pieces of malicious computer code as weapons to promote their security interests for several years.

"This is one of many, many campaigns that happen all the time and never make it into the public domain," said Alexander Klimburg, a cyber security expert at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs.

A cyber security agency in Iran said on its English website that Flame bore a "close relation" to Stuxnet, the notorious computer worm that attacked that country's nuclear program in 2010 and is the first publicly known example of a cyber weapon.

Iran's National Computer Emergency Response Team also said Flame might be linked to recent cyber attacks that officials in Tehran have said were responsible for massive data losses on some Iranian computer systems.

Kaspersky Lab said it discovered Flame after a U.N. telecommunications agency asked it to analyze data on malicious software across the Middle East in search of the data-wiping virus reported by Iran.

STUXNET CONNECTION

Experts at Kaspersky Lab and Hungary's Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security who have spent weeks studying Flame said they have yet to find any evidence that it can attack infrastructure, delete data or inflict other physical damage.

Yet they said they are in the early stages of their investigations and that they may discover other purposes beyond data theft. It took researchers months to determine the key mysteries behind Stuxnet, including the purpose of modules used to attack a uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, Iran.

If Kaspersky's findings are validated, Flame could go down in history as the third major cyber weapon uncovered after Stuxnet and its data-stealing cousin Duqu, named after the Star Wars villain.

The Moscow-based company is controlled by Russian malware researcher Eugene Kaspersky. It gained notoriety after solving several mysteries surrounding Stuxnet and Duqu.

Officials with Symantec Corp and Intel Corp McAfee security division, the top 2 makers of anti-virus software, said they were studying Flame.

"It seems to be more complex than Duqu but it's too early to tell its place in history," said Dave Marcus, director of advanced research and threat intelligence with McAfee.

Symantec Security Response manager Vikram Thakur said that his company's experts believed there was a "high" probability that Flame was among the most complex pieces of malicious software ever discovered.

At least one rival of Kaspersky expressed skepticism.

Privately held Webroot said its automatic virus-scanning engines detected Flame in December 2007, but that it did not pay much attention because the code was not particularly menacing.

That is partly because it was easy to discover and remove, said Webroot Vice President Joe Jaroch. "There are many more dangerous threats out there today," he said.

MAPPING IT OUT

Kaspersky's research shows the largest number of infected machines are in Iran, followed by Israel and the Palestinian territories, then Sudan and Syria.

The virus contains about 20 times as much code as Stuxnet, which caused centrifuges to fail at the Iranian enrichment facility it attacked. It has about 100 times as much code as a typical virus designed to steal financial information, said Kaspersky Lab senior researcher Roel Schouwenberg.

Flame can gather data files, remotely change settings on computers, turn on PC microphones to record conversations, take screen shots and log instant messaging chats.

Kaspersky Lab said Flame and Stuxnet appear to infect machines by exploiting the same flaw in the Windows operating system and that both viruses employ a similar way of spreading.

That means the teams that built Stuxnet and Duqu might have had access to the same technology as the team that built Flame, Schouwenberg said.

He said that a nation state would have the capability to build such a sophisticated tool, but declined to comment on which countries might do so.

The question of who built flame is sure to become a hot topic in the security community as well as the diplomatic world.

There is some controversy over who was behind Stuxnet and Duqu. Some experts suspect the United States and Israel, a view that was laid out in a January 2011 New York Times report that said it came from a joint program begun around 2004 to undermine what they say are Iran's efforts to build a bomb.

The U.S. Defense Department, CIA, State Department, National Security Agency, and U.S. Cyber Command declined to comment.

Hungarian researcher Boldizsar Bencsath, whose Laboratory of Cryptography and Systems Security first discovered Duqu, said his analysis shows that Flame may have been active for at least five years and perhaps eight years or more.

That implies it was active long before Stuxnet.

"It's huge and overly complex, which makes me think it's a first-generation data gathering tool," said Neil Fisher, vice president for global security solutions at Unisys Corp. "We are going to find more of these things over time."

Others said cyber weapons technology has inevitably advanced since Flame was built.

"The scary thing for me is: if this is what they were capable of five years ago, I can only think what they are developing now," Mohan Koo, managing director of British-based Dtex Systems cyber security company.

Some experts speculated that the discovery of the virus may have dealt a psychological blow to its victims, on top of whatever damage Flame may have already inflicted to their computers.

"If a government initiated the attack it might not care that the attack was discovered," said Klimburg of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs. "The psychological effect of the penetration could be nearly as profitable as the intelligence gathered."

(Additional reporting by Jim Wolf in Washington, Daniel Fineran in Dubai and William Maclean in London; editing by Edward Tobin, Ron Popeski and Mohammad Zargham)

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Five Reasons to Watch Henry Rollins' Animal Underworld

Five Reasons to Watch Henry Rollins' Animal Underworld

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findghar ? Posts: 23 Joined: 12.Apr.2012 Status: offline Business Real Sector It is also divided into several categories like commercial, manufacturing etc. The sector is divide into- Appraisal: Professional valuation services Brokerages: A fee charged by the mediator who facilitates a real estate transaction between the two parties. Development: Improving land for use by adding or replacing buildings Net lease Property management: Managing a property for its owner Real estate marketing: Managing the sales side of the property business Real estate investing: Managing the investment of real estate Relocation services: Relocating people or business to a different country Corporate Real Estate: Managing the real estate held by a corporation to support its core business. Residential Real Sector If you are invest in residential areas, then you will have homes or property of different size like single family or multi-family home. If you are looking at a multi-family unit, you can expect to have a big and spread home or attached home. A single family home will be completely independent and will be small shaped home. The sector is divide into- Attached / multi-unit homes . Apartment - An individual unit in a multi-unit building.. . Multi-family house - Often seen in multi-story attached buildings, where each floor is a separate apartment or unit. . Terraced house - A number of single or multi-unit buildings in a continuous row with shared walls. . Condominium - Building or complex, similar to apartments, owned by individuals. Semi-detached homes .Duplex - Two units with one shared wall. _____________________________ Regards: Findghar

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