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Merrill 4 Marketing U: What is Your Response to Real Estate Photo ...

In this week?s post we want to try something different and put more focus on your response to the below issue. We are interested in hearing from real estate professionals from all over the country over a growing concern so we can get your feedback.

You would never want someone to take something that belonged to you without your permission, and as a human beings, many people pay that respect back to others whether they know the person or not.

When many people consider this idea however, they think of this act of respect and legal obligation in terms of tangible property, but what about the intangible?

Real estate photo copyright concerns are growing amidst a new problem. Consider the following case from AGBeat:

?In the real estate industry, brokers are growing acutely aware of what it means to syndicate listings and what it entails both technically and the positive and negative ramifications of sharing data, with some choosing to?stop syndicating listings, primarily to Zillow, Trulia, and Realtor.com.

This awareness has real estate professionals and brokers considering what other contracts that they have entered into, with?a new concern heating up concerning questions over who owns the copyright of real estate photographs. The catalyst was a recent email from the First Multiple Listing Service (FMLS) to members, notifying them that all photos would soon be watermarked, pointing to a recent escalation in copyright issues, noting that like many MLSs, they would watermark in an effort to protect content from ?scammers, scrapers, etc.?

Also in the email to FMLS members was a?notification?that all uploaded content, photos and tours is, noting that uploading to the FMLS transferred copyright from the uploader to the MLS. Georgia Realtor, Lane Bailey?noted?that when transferring ownership, the wording reveals that FMLS will grant back a non-exclusive permission to use the images. Additionally, because this area (like many others across the nation) is served by more than one MLS, similar wording in other MLSs can put Realtors in violation of the Terms of Service when uploading the same photos to both MLSs. Bailey said, ?After uploading them to one, we no longer own them, and therefore can?t transfer ownership to the other.??

So, a call to all real estate professionals, what is your response to this issue? Please share your response in a comment below.

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What are Dividend Paying Stocks? | Dividend Investing Made Easier

Dividend: A sum of money paid regularly (typically quarterly) by a company to its shareholders out of its profits (or reserves)

Dividend paying stocks represent an income solution for investors in today?s low?yielding?environment. But what exactly is a dividend??? This short video, by wallstreetsurvivor.com, offers a simple?explanation:

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What is a Dividend??

A dividend is a payment by a company to it?s shareholders. These payments are a sign that the company is doing well and can?afford?to pay the owners back.

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Here?s Don. Don has a design company called ?Don?s Studio?. Don?s Studio has been around for 10 years and has really hit it?s stride lately by creating some killer websites for some huge clients. Three?years ago Don raised some money to grow his business by issuing stock to investors. His company has ten investors who each invested $10,000 and were rewarded with one share in return. Because Don?s studio has been doing well, he has more profits then he ever had before. Now Don has two choices: he can reinvest the profit into the company?s growth or he can reward his shareholders by paying them dividends as a kind of thank you for taking on the risk of investing. This reward encourages the now happy shareholders to keep the company?s stock and also makes the stock more attractive to other investors, and therefore?more valuable.

In the real world, companies that pay dividends use a mixture of both these methods. Dividends are usually payed out quarterly. Not every company pays dividends though. Generally a company that is new or in the growth stage of its life needs all the cash it can get its hands on to fund its growth. Companies that do pay out dividends are usually large, much more mature companies. But there are exceptions to the rule.

You can see if a company has issued dividends in the past by looking at the company?s ?div yield? section on the quote page.

So how do you know if investing in a dividend paying stock is right for you? Well, if you are more interested in a stable, regular income then investing in the next big thing, then dividend investing is probably right for you. But in general, everyone should own at least a few dividend paying stocks in their portfolio?

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New Dating of Panama Formation Throws Cold Water on Ice Age Origin Ideas

Features | Energy & Sustainability

A geologist's revisionist theory pushing the formation of the Isthmus of Panama back 10 million years casts doubt on mainstream ideas of what caused the last ice age as well as the global glaciation cycle that generates the world's current climate

By Katie Worth ?| June 15, 2012

EARLIER ISTHMUS: The monumental excavations necessary to expand the Panama Canal have given scientists a rare chance to delve into Panama's ancient history. Image: Panama Canal Authority

A few years ago geologist Carlos Jaramillo stood in a man-made canyon in Panama staring at rocks he knew to be 20 million years old, and shook his head in confusion. According to conventional geologic theory, the Panamanian Isthmus didn't emerge from the sea until just a few million years ago. So what was a 20 million-year-old fossilized tree doing there?

A new body of data emerging from such questions threatens to upend what geologists thought they knew about our planet. The Isthmus of Panama plays an outsized role in ocean circulation and may be a reason that our planet currently undergoes ice ages, so the new theory could rewrite not just the history of continents and biology, but also global climate.

Science owes this research to an unlikely source: a public works project. Panama is expanding its namesake canal, which has required monumental excavations to accommodate the world's growing fleet of ships that are too large for the original channels. Those digs have exposed an abundance of ancient rocks across a land normally choked by jungle. Jaramillo, a staff geologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama City, is leading a team of about 40 scientists who are taking advantage of this brief opportunity to study the rocks before they again surrender to plants or water.

Until recently, scientific theory has dictated that up to about three million years ago, the Atlantic and Pacific formed a single wide and deep sea between the American continents. As continental plates collided, a chain of islands between the two rose up, forming the Isthmus of Panama and ending what preeminent 20th-century paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson famously described as South America's "splendid isolation."

But Jaramillo and his colleagues have proposed a new model: most of Panama existed as it does today 12 million years ago, with shallow, narrow channels connecting the two oceans periodically after that. The results are detailed in a recent issue of the Geological Society of America Bulletin (pdf), with more details in press in the Journal of Geophysical Research (pdf).

The discrepancy between the two theories is no small matter. The three-million-year time frame neatly accounted for an important sequence of events that began about the same time. The current global cycle of glaciation dates to this period and might have been triggered by a transformation of the world's ocean currents, which a slender rib of land separating Atlantic and Pacific would naturally explain. New currents began carrying warmth to northern Europe and precipitation to the Arctic. The Atlantic grew saltier and warmer; the Pacific grew more nutrient-rich. Flora and fauna began traipsing between the two American continents, often extinguishing each other. In Africa a savanna formed, which may have nudged forward the evolution of our species.

So if the new theory is right, and the oceans were separated much earlier?then what triggered all of those epochal events?

"This is the most interesting for me, because if you tell somebody living in Nepal that the isthmus rises three million years ago versus 10 million?who cares?" Jaramillo says[]. "But think about this: having ice in the Arctic is the reason we're in the climate we are right now, and we still don't have a clear mechanism for it. That's very interesting, no? How can we even think about modeling the climate of the next 100 years if we cannot model how to produce such a big feature of our climate today?"

Climatologists will have to begin taking seriously alternative theories about why the ice ages began, says geologist Peter Molnar of University of Colorado at Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. His favored alternative theory involves precipitation in Indonesia. "I think this will turn the field on its head," Molnar says.

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Baidu, Apple to share revenue on iPhone search

We've reported on how Apple is encouraging development in the Chinese market, and it's not going to be without financial reward for services over there. Bloomberg reports that Apple and Baidu, the Chinese search engine, will be sharing advertising revenue. Baidu said it's similar to contracts established with Google for its Android operating system. Baidu is used in 80% of the web searches performed in China, Bloomberg says and will be included in iOS 6.

The growing partnership between Apple and Baidu isn't a surprise. The Next Web first reported on this a couple months ago.

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Witnesses in Sandusky trial recall abuse, threats

(Editor's Note: Please be advised that this story contains content of a sexual nature)

BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Three more witnesses took the stand on Wednesday to accuse former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky of sexually abusing them - in showers, bedrooms, basements - and in at least one instance using threats and professions of love to keep his actions secret.

"I felt his body on my back and I kept lurching forward, but I didn't have anywhere to go," one accuser testified, choking up as he described an incident in a locker room shower on Pennsylvania State's campus during the summer of 2001. "I just felt his penis on my back."

The 23-year-old witness, known in court documents as Victim 5, said he first met Sandusky through a summer camp run by Second Mile, a charity founded by Sandusky, and later began a relationship that descended into abuse and shame - a narrative repeated again and again in the first three days of the trial.

The trial is taking place amid a heavy media presence in the small town of Bellefonte, the seat of Centre County, Pennsylvania, not far from State College, where Penn State's main campus is located.

Since the accusations became public last year, the scandal has shaken Penn State and its long-successful football program, while refocusing the spotlight on the issue of child sexual abuse.

Sandusky, 68, was once known as a top-flight football coach who dedicated himself to his charity. Today, he faces 52 counts of abusing 10 boys over a 15-year period. If convicted on all counts, he faces a sentence of more than 500 years in prison.

Earlier on Wednesday, a witness told jurors that Sandusky performed oral sex on him when he was a boy, then used threats to keep him quiet about the abuse.

WITNESS SAYS HE WAS ABUSED IN 1998

The 25-year-old man, dressed in a purple shirt and tie, said he first met Sandusky in 1997 through Second Mile, but began a relationship with him the following year, when he was 11.

He said he had gone to Sandusky's home in the fall of 1998, and with no one else apparently in the house, the two went to his basement and began wrestling on the floor.

"He kind of pinned me to the ground and pulled my pants down and started performing oral sex on me. I freaked out," he said, his voice low.

"He told me that if I told anybody I would never see my family again," said the man, who was living in a foster home at the time and is known in court documents as Victim 10. "I didn't say anything. Then he apologized for saying that and said he loved me."

The trial, which started on Monday, is moving at a rapid-fire pace, with a string of witnesses taking the stand and succinctly - sometimes emotionally - detailing charges of abuse at the hands of Sandusky. Judge John Cleland said the prosecution should be able to conclude its case by Friday.

Another witness who testified on Wednesday told jurors he would stay overnight at Sandusky's home in an upstairs spare bedroom when he was a boy.

The coach, sometimes shirtless and in mesh shorts, would come in as the boy was reading comics before switching out the light and lie next to him, putting his arms around the boy and stroking his nipples and chest, he testified.

"I would say I was ready to go to sleep and he would leave," said the man, described in court papers as Victim 7. "To this day I'm sort of repulsed by chest hair ... for whatever reason, looking at it, I just hate chest hair."

JANITOR'S TESTIMONY

Jurors also heard on Wednesday from two other witnesses, both of whom were told by others about the alleged abuse: Ron Petrosky, a school janitor, and John McQueary, the father of former graduate assistant coach Mike McQueary.

Petrosky said he was working in the Lasch Football Building in 2000 when he saw Sandusky leaving the locker room area, holding the hand of a boy while walking down a hallway.

Later, Petrosky testified, another member of the cleaning crew, Jim Calhoun, appeared noticeably shaken and said he had seen something he would never forget.

"He said that Sandusky was holding that boy up, licking on his privates," Petrosky testified.

Earlier, John McQueary testified that his son was "distraught" when he told him he had witnessed Sandusky molesting a boy in the same locker room in January 2001.

The elder McQueary said his son called him directly after seeing the incident. "His description to me was a slapping, rhythmic kind of thrusting, slapping sound," John McQueary said. That is similar to the description of the incident Mike McQueary provided to the court on Tuesday.

John McQueary said he and his son agreed the incident should be reported.

"We determined that it was imperative to report this to the authorities at Penn State," John McQueary said. They agreed to report it to head football coach Joe Paterno.

Paterno, who holds the record for the most wins among major U.S. college football coaches, was later fired by the board for his handling of the matter. He died of lung cancer in January.

Reuters' policy is not to identify victims of sexual crimes.

(Editing by Paul Thomasch, Eric Walsh and Mohammad Zargham)

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