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Nero doesnt do it nor does DVD shrink. is there any other software that i can download that will allow me burn these file to a DVD

They all seem to have problems and are a p in the rear. Some have been praising Power DVD, lately. I know I really don't like Nero. Check out Clone DVD. It is great for simply copying any DVD. The best thing for movies, in my opinion, is putting a dvd recorder and cheap dvd player in tandem with svhs cables. so I hear.

i think you have a serious problem with your com there!!!
nero burns avi/ mpg files for me just fine// but i have found another very good simple software that will burn avi / and mpg files to dvd too
here is the link very cheap for what it can do!!!

imtoo.com/dvd-creator.html

are you trying to mix files on the same compilation?
that can cause problems with (burning /// viewing)
use all the same files on each project you do // no matter if they are video /// data // photo /// don't mix different kinds of files together. hope you try the i'mtoo dvd creator
it will burn vob files to dvd (this) nero will NOT DO !!!!
hope this helps (oh and about dvd shrink) dvd shrink does NOT burn the dvd for you
it is a program that decrypts the dvd so that it can be burned
for instance: if you have a dvd (store bought) and try to simply copy it (and you get error cannot copy) thats where dvd shrink comes in // it prepares the files into what is called a (dvd folder file) that is un-crypted and dvd shrink is made to work automatically with nero burning software// it is best to have 2 dvd drives on your system(and nero burning software) /// and of course at least one of the dvd drives a dvd writer// because after you use dvd shrink once all you gotta do is decrypt/// with the reader drive and allready have a blank dvd in the burner drive and dvd shrink will automatically know how to tell your system what to do. it is kinda confusing(dvd shrink at first will tell you that one of the steps not need be done(just alittle bug i guess)// but it must be !!!) /// but once you do it// the second time will be a breeze !!! its quite amazing

i use idvd, but it wont do you any good if you dont have mac

Movie DVDs has a special file system. so you have to use a Movie DVD making program to for this task. Try to use AVS Video Converter from AVS Video Tools dvdvideosoft.com/avs-video-to…

It supports virtually all video formats and has built-in DVD, VCD burning engine.

Read step by step guide here: dvdvideosoft.com/guides/avs/b…

Hmm… Try: Clone DVD. Works well

and if you need to convert a file of ANY format, try: Total Video Converter

You can search on Google for DVD Creator, you will get the one you need.

ConvertXtodvd, converts almost any file except the obscure ones, and burns them to dvd, also makes menus chapters etc,

Easy convert avi to dvd – Total Video2Dvd Author,

google it or visit:effectmatrix.com/total_video_…

Try Movie DVD Maker or Photo DVD Maker

Both of them can burn videos on DVD

anvsoft.com

Is it legal to download software in a way that would be illegal normally if you already own the software?

I would not recommend it. Most places you can download copyrighted software usually have virus's integrated into them. It is also illegal to do so even if you own the disc. Depending on the software, you may be able to get it directly from the manufactures website via a trial download. Than you may be able to enter the serial number once you install it.

If its a windows disc you need, you can request a replacement disc from dell or whatever company you ordered the computer from. I know for sure dell has no problem sending out replacement disc.

as long as you LEGGALY OWN it. good day sir

Professor James Carey: Seminars are ‘a treasure trove,’ and he is happy to see UCTV’s new online repository of such presentations from around the UC system. (Kathy Keatley Garvey/UC Davis)

By Dateline staff

Seminars are like books, only better — because you get to hear from the experts themselves. and, like books, seminars are available to an infinite audience — but only if they are recorded. and assuming people can find them easily on the Web.

Now, thanks to UC Davis Professor James Carey, UC is gathering seminar recordings from around the system and putting them in a single place, easily navigated, on the UCTV website.

“This will not only help the UC system become a scholarly resource, but will fulfill our public service mission,” said Carey, of the Department of Entomology, whose idea has become a first-of-its-kind archive in a university — and who envisions seeing the UC archive become part of a national or global repository of academic seminars.

In 2008-09, while serving as chair of the University Committee on Research Policy, Carey called for a strategic approach to record, broadcast and archive the hundreds of seminars that take place weekly on the 10 UC campuses. he presented his plan to the systemwide Academic Council, received enthusiastic approval and then launched a pilot program at UC Davis.

His call for a “UC Research Seminar Network” became reality in may, under the name UCTVSeminars — including seminars, conferences, colloquia, distinguished scholarly lecture series, annual university lectures by eminent faculty, and the like — all free, for UC faculty and students and the public, too.

“Most UC research is funded by the taxpayers,” Carey said, “so it can be argued that the public should have direct if not immediate access to the results.”

The seminars may be viewed in Flash format, downloaded as audio and-or video podcasts, and embedded in outside websites. the presentations also are being posted on UCTVSeminars’ YouTube channel and on UCTV’s iTunesU channel.

Check out ‘Zoobiquity’

UCTVSeminars went live with a range of content that includes the six-part “Zoobiquity” conference, held at UCLA and featuring UCLA and UC Davis clinicians and scientists in human and veterinary medicine — all discussing the same diseases in a wide spectrum of animal species and human beings.

Also featured: presentations from the Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series hosted by the UC Davis Ecology Graduate Group.

Seminars like these take place every day in the UC system — 300 to 500 a week, more than 10,000 in an academic year. UC Davis hosts its fair share — and surely there are faculty members and researchers here who would like to take in seminars up and down the UC system, and vice versa.

But how can scholars keep up? and how can the campuses cut the costs of putting on seminars?

As lead author of an article published on Jan. 10, 2010, in the international journal Public Library of Science, Carey suggested that the UC Research Seminar Network would “encourage speaker sharing, reduce travel, augment outreach and provide electronic feeds for on-demand streaming and archiving.”

Professor Bob Powell, chair of the Davis Division of the Academic Senate, said: “We need every tool at our disposal to keep the high quality of UC academic programs during our unprecedented budget crisis. Jim has been especially creative in making knowledge at the forefront of scholarship available to researchers on all UC campuses for a minimal investment.”

$200 for webcam and software

Said Carey: “the cost to capture these seminars is low — a one-time expenditure of about $200 for both the webcam and software.”

His pilot project at UC Davis started with 49 seminars, including 16 in the Department of Entomology, eight in the Graduate Group in Ecology and Evolution, and 25 from a two-day conference hosted by the Humanities Digital Institute. “the audiences were universally supportive of the webcasting operation with no evidence of distractions due to the presence of the Camtasia-webcam system,” Carey said. see box for more information on Camtasia software.

Carey described seminars as “a treasure trove” and “one of the most forceful and efficient mechanisms for transmitting scholarly information.” “It takes an enormous amount of time, energy and resources just to plan a seminar,” Carey said. “It is foolish not to invest small amount of additional time to capture and post.”

‘Buried’ on the Internet

In fact, many are being recorded and put online, but before you could see them you had to find them.

“while many scholarly presentations are posted online after the fact, they often end up buried in departmental or conference websites, making it difficult for those unaware of the event to discover on their own,” a UCTV representative declared in a news release announcing the launch of UCTVSeminars.

The new web portal “offers a simple, cost-effective solution by providing a single destination for scholars to find and share peer-to-peer scholarly presentations in any academic discipline via video and visual media.”

Using UCTV’s existing online dissemination infrastructure and experience organizing large video collections for prime search engine optimization, UCTVSeminars offers an easy-to-navigate user interface that allows visitors to browse videos by subject area, event date, speaker name, conference, host organization or UC campus.

While presentations must originate from a UC campus or affiliated institution, they feature researchers from universities around the world.

Reinventing the academic conversation

“one of the great intellectual achievements of the University of California is its ability to bring the best minds from within the university and across the world to our campuses to share ideas, spark innovation and build collaboration,” said Peter Siegel, UC Davis’ chief information officer and vice provost for Information and Educational Technology.

“as Professor James Carey has demonstrated through some of his most recent work, technology offers exciting new opportunities for expanding and reinventing these conversations. “With the UCTV Seminars, we open a new chapter in providing this access not only to the citizens and policy makers of California, but to colleagues literally around the world,” Siegel said.

Carey said he hopes UCTVSeminars “will provide strong encouragement for researchers, seminar chairs, department heads and others to video-capture and share their seminars as well as visit this website.”

He said he is especially pleased that academia is catching up with modern technology.

“Academia is slow to adopt video, thus this development will encourage greater use of this technology that virtually all other sectors of our modern society are using in communication,” Carey said. “there are many domains in which these seminars can be used, not only for on-demand viewing but in digital textbooks and teaching.”

Alexander Harcourt, UC Davis emeritus professor of anthropology and ecology, could not agree more.

“This is one of those resources that is so obvious, so useful, that we can only shake our head in wonder that we did not have it years ago.

“Missed a seminar? Missed a diagram in a seminar? Missed thinking about what the speaker was saying because you were concentrating so hard on writing it down? With UCTVSeminars, you no longer need to miss anything.”

UCTV and Kathy Keatley Garvey, senior writer, Department of Entomology, contributed to this report.  

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INTERNATIONAL FUTURES GROUP, LLC

LEE GAUS, THOMAS FRITZ

 2011-05-15

  EDITION 152

CORN

CORN MARKET

2009-2010

2010-2011

2011-2012

Yield per Acre

152.8 bushels  

11.079 billion 

11.550 billion   

Ending US Stocks

1.708 billion

730million (+55)

900 million bu.

World Ending Stocks

145.43 MMT(-0.37)

122.19 MMT(-0.24)

129.14MMT

Uncertainty remains at a premium. the following questions are adding to the volatility of the corn futures trade.  Are the investment funds going to continue liquidating as the commodity indices roll over?  Has the dollar bottomed?  Are China and Japan going to buy a $1.00 break?  Are end users getting comfortable as world coarse grain stocks expand for the third consecutive month?  Does the US livestock producer have the will to buy corn or protein while livestock prices continue to fall?  Will ethanol demand diminish if crude and gasoline prices have topped?  Are excellent growing conditions and rapid planting in the Western belt bearish or is the above normal moisture and lack of progress in the Eastern belt bullish?  have we lost corn acres to the flooding, or is it just going to be planted late?  What are climatic conditions doing to our national average yield?  is the cash market finally showing the actual tightness of corn supplies, or do we have sufficient supplies to remain comfortable until new crop arrives? 

It is important to note general basis improvement in the last week:

Cedar Rapids (processor) improves 6 cents to -10 basis July

Peoria (export and processor) improves 4 cents to -3 basis July

Decatur (processor) improves 3 cents to +9 basis July……rumored to have paid +20 for quantity

Lincoln (processor) improves 5 cents to -8 basis July

Toledo (export) improves 15 cents to +2 basis July

Portland (export) improves 3 cents to +90 basis July

Gulf corn (export) unchanged at +51 bid, + 58 offered basis July

This general strength in the cash market would suggest the simple reality that sufficient corn is not moving to demand points.  Farmer selling has slowed due to the distraction of planting and lower prices.  We are also hearing the July shipment is showing marked improvement in the bid.  Ethanol crushers are said to have sufficient coverage in the short term, but planting delays should prompt them to consider additional purchases in the summer slots.  This may be the tight stocks to usage dynamic that the trade has been anticipating for months.

Until this year's crop becomes more of a certainty, we will remain in a broad, choppy market.  July corn has support at $6.35 and then $6.05.  Resistance is $7.05 and then $7.25.  We would not be surprised to see the market trade at both extremes this coming week.  Planting progress is expected to jump to 60% on Monday afternoon's USDA planting progress report.  the 6-10 day forecast is for below normal temperatures and above normal precipitation.  This is not the smooth start to our growing season that the market needs to produce adequate supplies.  Volatility will remain robust.  

SOYBEANS  

SOYBEANS

2009-2010

2010-2011

 2011-2012

76.6 million

Yield per Acre

160 million bu.  

3.359 billion bushels

3.329 billion bushels

1.752 billion bushels

1.650 billion bushels  

1.501 billion bushels

1.550 billion bushels (-30)

  1.540 billion bu.

Ending US Stocks

151 million bu.

170 million bushels (+30)

160 million bu.

World Ending Stocks

59.22MMT(+0.43)

63.81 MMT(+2.87)

61.85MMT

• For the week July soybeans closed 3 ½ cents higher, November soybeans 2 ¼ cents higher, July Soybean meal closed $4.50 lower, July Soybean oil closed 45 points higher
• Highlights of the USDA old crop Supply-Demand report, the USDA raised imports by 5 million bushels and lowered exports by 50 million bushels resulting in a carryout increase by 55 million bushels
• Old crop soybean weekly export sales were 23.7KT, Sales totals are 97.5% versus USDA projections,  sales are 3.505MT greater than last year at this time
• Weekly export shipments were 180.6KT, shipments so far are 86.5% of USDA projections 4.621MT yet to deliver vs. existing sales
• Old crop soybean meal weekly export sales were 62.1KT, Sales totals are roughly 82.4% of USDA projections, Meal sales are 1.671MT less this year versus last year at this time
• Old crop soybean oil weekly export sales were 2.0KT, Sales totals are roughly 78.2% of USDA export projections, Soybean oil sales are 3.2KT greater this year versus last year at this time
• New crop soybean export sales are currently 6.722MT versus 3.413MT one year ago

The soybean complex continues to be trading range bound.  the bearishly construed old crop data from the USDA did not have a lasting effect on the futures market due to a tightening interior cash market.  Farmers are reluctant to sell soybeans due to lower prices.  Crush rates remain slow and export demand remains slow but movement of cash beans are even slower.  the tightening cash market is not only supporting old crop beans but so is the USDA's early projection of new crop stocks at 160 million bushels.  it has been quite some time since we have seen the USDA project such a low carryout projection for so early in the season.  the new crop bean acres continue to be in question. the market continues to ask if the soybeans are going to gain acres from delayed corn planting in the Eastern Corn Belt, and/or delayed spring wheat planting in the US Northern Plains.  We do not believe the Eastern Corn belt farmer is ready to switch to soybeans quite yet but it has to be noted that the forecast for the balance of may continues to be wet for this area as do the forecast for the U.S. Northern Plains.  We do feel the Mid-South farmer will try and replant to soybeans after the flood waters of the Mississippi River recede if they recede in a timely fashion.  taking away some of the need for U.S. soybean acres is the large crop from South America as well as the slow down in crush rates and slow down in buying from China.  We do feel as we move forward China will work through its glut of beans and eventually return to the World market.  in the World Supply-Demand update the USDA is reporting near record large, if not record large stocks of soybean meal.  one of the major factors behind this accumulating supply is the growing usage of DDG's.  If any market is going to suffer from a smaller U.S. crop will be new crop soybean oil.  Going forward vegetable oil demand will continue to grow as bio-fuel mandates will have to be met.  as of this writing the carry from old crop bean oil to new crop bean oil continues to make new lows – just one moth ago the carry form July to December was 40 points, that carry now is now near 110 points.

As we move forward we feel the best the soybean market will do is what it has been doing, staying range bound.  it is our thought that if anything changes old crop beans will work into new low ground pressured by the overall lack of business.  the past week's price action resembles an up-flag and more times than not this type of price action is bearish.  the meal market continues to be a weight around the soybean market's neck as it continues to move lower.  If 44-48 lbs of the 60 lb bushel (soybean meal) can't sustain a rally then the soybeans won't either.  it remains our position to sell rallies in the soybean and soybean meal markets until something comes along that would suggest the current supply of soybeans, not only in the U.S. but the World as well, is not sufficient to meet the demand.      

WHEAT

WHEAT MARKET

2009-2010

2010-2011

2011-2012

Yield per Acre

976 million bu. 

839 million bu. 

881 million bu. 

Ending US Stocks

976 million bu. 

839 million bu.

702 Million bu.

World Ending Stocks

196.17 MMT(-1.74)

182.20MMT(-0.63)

181.26MMT

• Chicago July Wheat finished the week 31 ¾ cents lower, July Kansas City wheat finished the week 4 ½ cents lower, July Minneapolis wheat finished the week 3 ½ cents lower
• Highlights of the USDA U.S. Wheat Production Report, All Wheat 2.043 billion bushels versus 2.208 last year, All Winter Wheat 1.424 billion bushels versus 1.485 last year, U.S. Hard Red Winter 762 million bushels versus 1.018 billion bushels last year, U.S. Soft Red Winter, 427 million bushels versus 238 last year, see the tables above for demand and carryout comparisons
• Old crop U.S. Weekly export sales were 320.6KT, Weekly export sales are running 13.012MT ahead of last year's pace for the current time frame, Total sales to date are 101.6% of the USDA's total projection for the year
• Weekly export shipments were 1.026MT, weekly export shipments are running 10.316M T ahead of last year's pace for the current time frame, total shipments to date are at 87.9% of the USDA's total projection for the year there are still 4.771MT left to ship based on existing sales
• New crop wheat export sales are currently 2.873MT versus 2.235MT one year ago.

It was another volatile week for wheat trading.  the first two days of the week saw gains of nearly 50 cents and then the latter part of the week saw a sell-off of nearly 70 cents (Chicago).  the sell-off was prompted by the USDA's first U.S. winter wheat production report of the season.  Within this report the USDA reported sharp reductions in the Hard Red Wheat crop while reporting sharp increases in the Soft Red Wheat crop.  This is being reflected in the net weekly changes amongst the different varieties.  the unknown in the "All Wheat" production number is the unknown around the U.S. Spring wheat crop.  This crop is just getting sown and planting is way behind due to excessive moisture in the U.S. state of N. Dakota.  Canada is also saddled with the very same problem, excessive moisture due to a cold wet spring.  in the U.S. as of last Sunday, it was reported that spring wheat planting was only 22% complete versus the average of 61%.  in addition to the USDA reports weighing on wheat prices this past week we saw continued commodity fund liquidation prompted by a stronger U.S. Dollar. 

The look at World wheat has the spring dryness in Western Europe easing this past week with timely moisture.  it seems that this spring's concerns over the conditions of the China wheat have eased as well.  We know Russia and Ukraine are anxiously awaiting their return to the World export market as early as June-July.  We also have India contemplating the lifting of their four year old ban on exports as their stockpiles are supposedly four times as great as the country needs.  in their latest World update the USDA has foreign wheat production rebounding by nearly 26.0MMT.  Although the USDA does not see projected world ending stocks building the increase in foreign production would suggest the U.S. will not enjoy the export pace seen this past year.   the greater the competition for market share usually means lower prices. 

As we move forward we expect to see the $7.00-$6.90 level challenged in the Chicago market and the $8.25 – $8.00 level challenged in Kansas City especially if we continue to see the commodity funds liquidating.  Many commodity funds have been reducing their risk in commodities in general meaning liquidation in all commodities.  to date the better looking wheat crops elsewhere in the World is offsetting the poor U.S. Hard Red Winter crop.  We continue to view the futures positioning of being long the "hard" varieties versus the Chicago market as the way to go in the near term.  Rallies in the July Chicago contract will now be limited to the $7.75-$7.85 level.    

A word to the Wise

Past performance is not indicative of future results.  the information contained in this report is intended for informational purposes only and is the opinion of the writer and may change at any time.  This information was compiled from sources believed to be reliable but accuracy cannot be and is not guaranteed.  There is no warranty, expressed or implied, in regards to this information for any particular purpose.  There is SIGNIFICANT RISK involved in trading futures and or options on futures and may not be suitable for all investors.  Investors should consider these RISKS   and evaluate their suitability based on their financial conditions.  No one should ever consider trading futures or options on futures with anything other than RISK CAPITAL.  This information is provided freely and is NOT in the capacity of a trading advisor.  NO LIABILITY on the part of the author exists for any trading loss you may incur in the use of this information.  Information provided is not to be construed as an offer to sell or solicitation to buy any commodity or security named herein.   

I have a new software I want to install on my laptop, but the dvd burner on my laptop has gone out. so could I possibly hook up my dvd player to my laptop and put the cd-rom in my dvd player and download it from there to my laptop?

I believe your gonna need to replace the dvd player in your laptop because i know of no ways to connect a dvd player to your laptop and run program cd's from it

If you are talking about a run of the mill DVD player (like you use to watch movies on your TV with) then no. I would suggest purchasing and external DVD drive.

A class act

The new York Times carried an amazing story about how students at Stanford were told to create apps as part of their course work. No one expected what happened next.

The students ended up getting millions of users for free apps that they designed to run on Facebook. And, as advertising rolled in, some of those students started making far more money than their professors. almost overnight, the Facebook Class fired up the careers and fortunes of more than two dozen students and teachers. it also helped to pioneer a new model of entrepreneurship that has upturned the tech establishment: the lean start-up.

“Everything was happening so fast,” recalls Joachim De Lombaert (23). his team’s app netted $3,000 a day and morphed into a company that later sold for a six-figure sum.

Early on, the Facebook Class became a microcosm of Silicon Valley. Working in teams of three, the 75 students created apps that collectively had 16m users in just 10 weeks. many of those apps were sort of silly: De Lombaert’s, for example, allowed users to send “hotness” points to Facebook friends. yet during the term, the apps, free for users, generated roughly $1m in advertising revenue.

E-paper phone makes its debut

The Sunday Telegraph carried a story about the PaperPhone, a flexible piece of technology that can be controlled by being bent, written on or used as a touchscreen.

The PaperPhone, built to determine how people use a flexible device, is a collaboration between researchers from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Arizona State University, USA, and researchers from the E-Ink Corporation.

“this is the future. Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years,” Roel Vertegaal, director of the human media lab at Queen’s, said. “this computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper.”

The e-paper sheet, which uses the same e-ink technology found in the Amazon Kindle e-reader, is just millimetres thick and can be used to make phone calls, read e-books and play music.

Story of an ideas man

The Observer had a review of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s biography, Idea Man, about his early days at the world’s biggest software firm. according to the review, Allen’s contributions to the partnership were as critical as those of chairman bill Gates. Without the tools he developed, and his insight into the infrastructure that software development requires, Microsoft’s subsequent growth would have been impossible. when the Apple II arrived on the scene, powered by a processor for which Microsoft had no software products, it was Allen who came up with the solution that enabled owners of the Apple machine to run software written for non-Apple devices – a plug-in card running the CP/M operating system. it was a masterstroke that got Microsoft out of a deepening hole.

And it was Allen who pulled off the biggest coup of all in the company’s early development. when IBM was looking for an operating system to run its new personal computer, Microsoft didn’t have one; it did programming languages, not operating systems. but Allen had contacts with a tiny Seattle company that had developed a rudimentary operating system, QDOS (for "quick and dirty DOS"), and negotiated a deal to buy the rights to it, thereby enabling Microsoft to offer the increasingly frantic IBM designers a solution to their problem. the rest is history: the IBM PC became the de facto standard for a colossal industry, DOS became its operating system and Microsoft acquired a licence to print money – which it has been doing ever since.

Powerful voices

The Sunday Telegraph had an interesting story about new technology that allows mobile phone users to charge up their devices by talking. for mobile phone users, a flat battery or a lost charger are among the frustrations of modern life. Now new research promises a way to recharge phones using nothing but the power of the human voice.

Electrical engineers have developed a new technique for turning sound into electricity, allowing a mobile to be powered up while its user holds a conversation. the technology would also be able to harness background noise and even music to charge a phone while it is not in use.

However, there could be a downside to the innovation, if it gives people a new reason to shout into their phones as they attempt to squeeze in every extra bit of power they can.

Sony removes sweepstakes data from web

The Financial Times reported that Sony said it had removed from the internet the names and partial addresses of 2,500 sweepstakes contestants that had been stolen by hackers and posted on a website, and said it did not know when it could restart its PlayStation video games network.

The company, under fire since hackers accessed personal data from about 100m user accounts of its PlayStation Network and PC-based online gaming services, said in a statement details posted on the inactive website also included three unconfirmed e-mail addresses.

The data came from customers who entered a 2001 product sweepstakes contest. the list did not include information on credit cards, social security numbers or passwords.

“the website was out of date and inactive when discovered as part of the continued attacks on Sony,” Sony said, adding that the company took the website down shortly after finding out about the postings on Thursday.