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"We're poster nerds," said Sam Cardozo, a collector who lives in Austin and stood at the front of the line with a handful of out-of-town friends, waiting to get into opening night at The Mondo Gallery.
Cardozo, who said he owns between 500 and 600 posters, queued up around noon Friday with his fellow paper-and-ink fiends, some of whom had driven from Denver after receiving a cryptic announcement about some sort of Mondo event. Dozens of others braved the unnaturally soggy spring weather, some having traveled from as far as Southern California.
Chase Tatum and three friends made the 16-hour drive from Colorado, only to stand for 30 more hours in front of the new gallery, which was filled with who knew what. "We're here to buy," Tatum said.
They would soon find out that the Mondo Gallery's walls were covered with 38 pieces of imaginative sci-fi artwork (see some of them, along with photos of the Mondo team, in the gallery above). Some pieces were rare originals, like a painting by movie poster legend Drew Struzan or Jason Edmiston's riveting acrylic-on-wood The Hand of Ming, while others were screen-printed posters from Mondo's vaults, created by artists like Olly Moss and Tyler Stout.
The new digs will serve as a base of operations for Mondo, an expanding enterprise that has fueled a revival of poster art in recent years by hiring outstanding artists to put their own spin on sci-fi and other genre films.
Mondo sprang from humble beginnings, getting started after Alamo founder Tim League bought a bunch of vintage T-shirt iron-ons a decade or so ago to sell as Mondo Tees. Original artwork eventually became the focus, and Mondo's star rose after the company cut a licensing deal with Lucasfilm to create a series of Star Wars posters that generated nerdgasms among sci-fi and poster fans. Mondo's posters were added to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences archives last year alongside official studio posters, becoming the first non-Hollywood art to be included.
Perhaps hard-core poster collectors felt a disturbance in the Force as the collectible art boutique, which is operated by the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, moved its headquarters from the theater chain's popular location on South Lamar. Mondo's T-shirt sales benefited from a steady stream of moviegoers at the old location, but Mondo creative director Justin Ishmael said the art boutique had outgrown the space at the Alamo. Plus, the high-end art that is Mondo's future didn't necessarily benefit from the foot traffic.
"If you're taking your kids to The Lorax, you don't care about a $50 poster.""People thought we were crazy for moving out of the lobby of the Alamo," Ishmael said during a press preview before the gallery's grand opening, timed to land during the annual South by Southwest Film festival. "But if you're taking your kids to The Lorax, you don't care about a $50 poster."
Ishmael figures Austin's strong film community will continue to support the operation, with T-shirt sales moving mostly to the internet. In the new location, already a destination for poster geeks, Ishmael plans to put up about nine themed exhibits a year while pursuing deals with movie studios so Mondo can continue to crank out sought-after alternative posters for current theatrical releases.
Mondo's limited-edition prints, which generally go for between $40 and $75, almost always sell out within minutes when the sales go online, as announced at random times on Mondo's Twitter feed. The frenzied buying opportunities give poster junkies a bit of an adrenaline buzz.
"Have you ever tried a Mondo drop?" asked Cory Bank, another member of the Denver contingent at the gallery opening. "It's addictive."
What could be worse than simply zoning out and missing the sale of a special poster for a movie you love? How about trying, and failing, to complete an online purchase, despite a rapid series of desperate mouse clicks – or getting "drymounted," as they call it in the online poster forums. You end up caught in a sort of wannabe buyer's limbo when the computer screen goes blank, stuck somewhere between PayPal and shipping, these veteran shoppers said.
"We call it the white screen of death," said Colorado poster collector Mason Stoneking. "If you get the white screen of death, you're done,"
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My analysis of the INSEAD application essays can be found here. My overall strategy for interviewing can be found here.
INSEAD alumni interviews, of which most applicants will have two of, are not necessarily that hard in any obvious way. The INSEAD website states that the majority of applicants will have two such interviews. These interviews are about fit as determined by alumni "gatekeepers." My analysis of INSEAD interviews based on my own personal knowledge as well as reviewing the reports of INSEAD interviews found at accepted.com and clearadmit.com.
Based on what I can see, aside from issues of availability, there is no specific pattern for who interviews you. Like most schools that use alumni interviewers, it is not necessarily the case that the schol has put any significant time into selecting who will interview you. Also, don't be surprised if INSEAD has to change one or both of the interviewers that they initially assign to you because of the potential interviewer's availability. I get the impression that is frequent. It can result in having slightly longer to prep for the interview, which is not a bad thing.
During a Q&A I conducted with INSEAD's Deborah Riger, she discussed the whole issue of the two interviewers:
ADAM: Sometimes when I read or hear about INSEAD interviews, it almost seems like one interviewer is being intentionally aggressive and the other much less so. Sometimes I think this is probably just a kind of post-facto perception, but is there some real distinction between the two interviewers?
DEBORAH: The interviewers are given the same instructions. We don't tell one to be more aggressive than the other. However, when possible, we do try to have applicants interview with one older alum and one more junior alum. We expect the more senior alum to have a stronger perspective on the overall leadership potential of the applicant and the future contributions one might make as part of the alumni community. We would expect a junior alum to assess the applicant from the perspective of a peer. i.e. Will this applicant be happy in the INSEAD programme?"
You may not necessarily find that more senior of the two interviewers is the more difficult one. It is also possible that you might have two interviewers who are not necessarily that different in terms of their age. Depending on where you are located, INSEAD may or may not have many local alumni to choose from. You should treat each of these interviews as separate experiences and if the first one does not go as well as you expected, don't give up. What matters is what both interviewers say about you.
You can provide your interviewers with either a resume or the application form information (non-essay pages) of the application. Some applicants just provide the entire application. I have not really detected any difference in outcomes between sending the application and sending a resume.
My colleague, H. Steven Green, has put the following organized list of INSEAD questions together by reviewing interview reports:
BACKGROUND (Expect answers to be probed for details.)
- Walk me through your resume. (Assumes applicant provided the interviewers with a resume, which is not required).
- What is rewarding about your current role?
- Tell me about yourself. / How did you get to where you are now?
- Tell me about your career progression to-date.
- How does one become CEO in your firm?
- Why did you choose your current firm / current position?
- Tell me about your current work responsibilities.
- Tell me, in detail, about one project in your current job.
- Tell me about your international experience(s) – both work and personal.
- Tell me about the major milestones in you life since university graduation.
- What do you do in your free time?
- What are your goals?
- What are your career goals after INSEAD
- What will you do if you do not get the job you want after graduation?
- Why an MBA?
- Why now?
- Why INSEAD?
- Where else did you apply? How would you prioritize your decision if admitted to two or more?
- Why (THE SPECIFIC AREA OF STUDY YOU WISH TO PURSUE)?
- What is special about you that will make me recommend you?
- Tell me 3 strengths
- Tell me 3 weaknesses
- What is the biggest challenge you have faced?
- When you are in a gathering, what attracts your attention first?
- What makes you angry?
- What are you most passionate about?
- What do you find intolerable?
- Where are your peers that started in the same class with you at your consulting firm?
- What is your style of negotiation?
- How do you deal with a boss who is not as smart as you?
- How do you deal with a person who's determined not to listen to you even though he/ she knows you are right?
- Tell me about a time when you were in control of a project.
- Tell me about a time when you were in a leadership position?
- What is your leadership style?
- What THREE things would you if a team member at INSEAD were not pulling his own weight?
- Tell me about your teamwork experience.
- Tell me about a time when you worked on a team.
- Tell me about time when you had to deal with conflict on a team.
- How do you handle cultural differences on an international team?
- Tell me your opinion about (CURRENT EVENT) (FOLLOW UP)
- Tell me about (SOME ISSUE IN YOUR INDUSTRY)
- How has the economic crisis affected your company/your industry?
- What do you think of (SOME CURRENT GLOBAL ISSUE: POLITICS, ECONOMICS, etc.)
- What is the main challenge your industry/company is facing?
Steve and I have been working together since 2001. Approximately half of my 19 clients admitted to INSEAD since 2008 have done mock interview preparation with him. Many of my clients to other schools like IMD, Stanford, HBS, and LBS have also done preparation with him. You can learn about his interview preparation services here.
You need to be able to explain in-depth why you should be admitted to INSEAD, what you can contribute, and what you want to learn. Be willing to openly discuss what soft and hard skills you need to improve/acquire. Show yourself to be open, dynamic, change oriented, and a highly motivated person because the alum will be.
Since there will be time for you to ask questions to the alumnus, you need to give some significant thought to formulating those. Consider what year the alumnus graduated and any other background information if you can determine that through Linkedin or other sources of information. Develop at least four or more questions to ask.
Whoever you interview with, they are likely to be quite friendly and the style of the interview is conversational. Just because your interviewer is friendly, it does not mean that you are doing well. Don't assume a friendly interviewer is not actually a super critical one. Take nothing for granted. Also keep in mind that the admissions process at INSEAD is holistic and a great interview is no absolute guarantee of success.
Reported interview length for interviews is from 45 minutes to 1.5 hours. It is a good idea to make sure that your own schedule is free for about 2 hours in the event that your interviewer wants to keep on talking. The setting for these interviews is typically the interviewer's office or a cafe.
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I am a graduate admissions consultant who works with clients worldwide. If you would like to arrange an initial consultation, please complete my intake form. Please don't email me any essays, other admissions consultant's intake forms, your life story, or any long email asking for a written profile assessment. The only profiles I assess are those with people who I offer initial consultations to. Please note that initial consultations are not offered when I have reached full capacity or when I determine that I am not a good fit with an applicant.


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The Universe seems to be just as queer as we could have supposed, or maybe less queer. The results from PLANCK, which came out in their first ever press conference, 15.5 months after the probe was launched, speaks of a Universe described almost entirely by what is known to be the Standard Model of Cosmology. In other words, there is nothing that should startle us, but a lot that should be enlightening and, frankly, quite exciting.
For cosmology virgins, Planck is a space probe launched into an orbit around Earth designed to pick up the radio and microwave radiations from the whole Universe. By charting out the whole sky, it creates a unique map, a map of the Universe, as seen from the microwave frequency regime, and not the optical regime that we are so used to. The Universe is extremely different in these frequencies from the star-filled Universe we know and love. But these frequencies tell a different tale – one of the early universe and what imprints of that we can see today. The story of Cosmology starts right at the beginning of the Universe, or rather, more accurately 10-32 seconds after it. The Universe underwent a sudden expansion phase, called inflation, and then stabilized, while continuing to expand. The radiation from the inflationary era have got both diluted (i.e. reduced in intensity) and 'stretched' (i.e. their wavelengths have increased, leading to a decrease in their energy) due to the expansion of the Universe which is continuing to this very day. So 'cold' have these radiations become that we need specialized probes to catch them, their temperature being just 3 K (i.e. 3 Kelvin above absolute zero). The redeeming fact about these strange low-energy waves is that they are everywhere – all over the Universe. They form a kind of 'background' radiation and are thus called 'Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation' (CMBR), the name being self-explanatory.
The theory goes that there arose minute quantum fluctuations in the radiation soup right after the inflationary phase. As the Universe expanded, these expanded, then gravity took over and clumped matter in these pockets of disturbed equilibrium. These manifest as galaxies or clusters we see today – the tiny quantum fluctuations have grown to giant scale. The imprint of these early fluctuations will be found in the radiation seen by Planck.
The Age of the Universe
First big observation – the Universe seems to be just a bit older than we thought it to be – about 70 million years older. So the official age of the Universe become 13.82 billion years, raised from the 13.75 (or 13.77) billion it was assigned earlier.
The constituents of the Universe
It seems that the known constitution of the Universe has changed slightly from previous estimates. The matter percentage of the Universe is slightly higher than what we had known. The constitution of the Universe is mostly unknown to us and we can only put in some percentages on the amount we know and the part we are ignorant about. For example, we know that matter forms a very small percentage, followed by dark matter which forms a large chunk and that dark energy – a strange form of energy responsible for the accelerated expansion of the Universe currently – forms the largest chunk of the matter-energy pie. The earlier estimates have been bettered by Planck which quotes 4.9% ordinary matter, 26.8% dark matter and the rest 68.3% as dark energy. This is a decrease in the estimate for dark energy from previous estimates and an increase in the estimate of normal matter and dark matter. This implies that we know a bit more about the Universe (we only know about the ordinary matter part) and that the Universe is expanding at a slightly less accelerated rate than what we thought. Our ignorance about most of the Universe is only slightly abated.
Closely related to this is the value of the Hubble's Constant which Planck calculates to be 67.3 +/- 1.2 km per second per megaparsec. This is a big surprise from the earlier value of the Hubble's constant 71.0 +/- 2.5 km per second per megaparsec. The lower value of the Hubble's constant means that the Universe is expanding slower than earlier thought.
CMB Spectrum: Cosmic Fingerprint
The whole Cosmic Microwave Spectrum as predicted by theory matches that seen by Planck to very high precision. We see the Universe at very high angular width as well as very narrow width. What Planck says is that at high multipoles, corresponding to very narrow angular width, the data matches experiment exactly. At low values of multipoles, the error bars are large, but Planck has seen as much as can be seen.
No probe in the future will be able to see at finer resolution, since the limit on resolution is not placed by the instrument anymore, rather by the Universe itself as a whole. Our Universe not only seems perfect, it seems good at hiding possible imperfections as well.
Asymmetry and Anisotropy
Planck gives an asymmetry in temperature over the two hemispheres of the Universe. This is a startling find, but nothing absolutely new. It's just that Planck has confirmed – at high resolution – something that WMAP had already hinted at.
An important point to be made here: The distribution of the fluctuations are exactly random, even though we might not feel it to be so. They pass all tests of randomness. Just to emphasize, the angular distribution of the fluctuations is really exactly random. The fluctuations could have been anywhere and they just happen to be where they are! What is important is that the amplitudes of the fluctuations are not random. The amplitudes – i.e. the real temperature of the fluctuations – are not random and one hemisphere seems to be on the whole hotter than the other. This wasn't expected! Note that a small patch of sky could've been warmer than the other, but this is seeing a whole trend in the temperature – one side is colder and the other hotter – and we have nothing to explain that. In fact, our cherished notions of isotropy of space (I.e. cosmological phenomena and features don't have a preferred direction) contradict this finding. We have to wait for a verdict on this. There is also a cold spot detected in the Universe – a region of space considerably colder than the other parts. No one knows why this is the case – is it just random or is there some forces at play there?
Let's look at a couple of more topics, both being a bit more technical.
Neutrino masses and the limit on them:
Planck puts a stern limit on the sum of the neutrino masses – a value of 0.23 eV. This is at a 95% Confidence level and this result is completely consistent with the neutrino mass being zero. However, the phenomenon of neutrino oscillation says that neutrino mass cannot be zero, no matter how small. Planck also says that the number of neutrino species is 3 and no more, well almost. This rules out those elusive sterile neutrinos, the possible fourth species of neutrinos which don't even interact via weak interaction and their effect is felt only through the gravity that they exert.
Spectral Index and Inflationary Theories
Inflation as a theory receives a major boost from these results. The simplest inflationary models predict that knowing the two-point correlation function would be enough since the whole spectrum of the fluctuations right after inflation can be modelled by a Gaussian. Planck reinforces that. The models also say that spectrum is scale invariant (or 'conformal') and Planck shows slight deviation from that. A quantity called 'spectral index', ns, quantifies the scale invariance. If ns=1, then the scale invariance is perfect, otherwise there is deviation. Planck gives the value of ns = 0.9603 +/- 0.0073. So inflation is also nearly as simple as we can imagine and all 'complicated' models of inflation can be ruled out. So Planck reveals our Universe in details we have never seen before. However, even after looking at the Universe this closely, we find that the Universe is indeed plain vanilla, with a couple of chocolate chips thrown in. People are calling it the MBU or Maximally Boring Universe. Is the Universe really less queer than we thought?
[For more technical references, I refer you to the clutch of papers published by the Planck collaboration. They can be found here:
http://www.sciops.esa.int/index.php project=PLANCK&page=Planck_Published_Papers]


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OIA: 10 percent jump in international travelers last year
Despite heavy traffic during the holidays, Orlando International Airport passenger growth is essentially flat compared to last year, but one segment that is growing quickly is international travel.
Whether it's the holidays or the middle of summer, Canada is sending more people to Orlando through OIA than any other country.
The Robinsons said central Florida has what they want -- theme parks and stores.
"I think there's so much to do. You won't get bored, going to all the parks. The weather, the weather is great most of the time. It's easy," said Amy Robinson. "(I got) souvenirs, sweatshirts, that sort of thing."
International travel is delivering powerful growth. Of the more than 35 million total passengers last year, OIA saw a slight drop in domestic passengers, but a big jump of more than 10 percent by international passengers.
"The economic impact of international travel is pretty substantial," said Jerry Harris, spokesman for Orlando International Airport.
Harris said foreign travelers are money in the bank.
"The international service coming in and out of Orlando accounts for about $2 billion annually," said Harris.
Overall, Brazil sends more travelers to Florida than any other country.
"It's like a dream come true to come here and to take a look, and the roller coasters, and my brother loves Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure," said Brazilian tourist Diana Mesquite.
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Recent actions taken by the SEC include charges against a hedge fund manager for running a $37 million Ponzi scheme; a former director in a compensation scheme that netted hundreds of thousands of dollars in undisclosed income; co-founders of a Chicago-area investment firm over misleading investors and supervisory failures that resulted in penalties of more than $1 million; and a private fund manager and his investment advisory firm over more than $17 million in losses in a Ponzi-like scheme.
Hedge Fund Manager Charged for $37 Million Ponzi Scheme
The SEC filed fraud charges against Jusaf Jawed, a Portland, Ore.-based investment adviser, who perpetrated a long-running Ponzi scheme that raised over $37 million from more than 100 investors in the Pacific Northwest and across the country.
The SEC alleges that Jawed used false marketing materials that boasted double-digit returns to lure people to invest their money into several hedge funds he managed. He then improperly redirected their money into accounts he personally controlled.
As part of the scheme, Jawed created phony assets, sent bogus account statements to investors, and manufactured a sham buyout of the funds to make investors think their hedge fund interests would soon be redeemed. He misused investor money to pay off earlier investors, pay his own expenses and travel, and create the overall illusion of success and achievement to impress investors.
According to the SEC's complaint filed in federal court in Portland, Jawed managed a number of hedge funds through at least two companies he controlled: Grifphon Asset Management and Grifphon Holdings. Jawed's marketing materials claimed that the Grifphon funds earned double-digit returns year after year, even as the S&P 500 Index declined. For certain funds, Jawed also falsely claimed they would invest in publicly traded securities and that their assets were maintained at reputable financial institutions.
The SEC alleges that Jawed instead invested very little of the more than $37 million that he raised. For one fund, 70% of the money raised was either paid in redemptions to investors in other funds, paid to finders, or merely transferred to accounts belonging to Grifphon Asset Management or other entities that he controlled. Jawed concealed the fraud by telling Grifphon's bookkeepers that the money transfers represented purchases of offshore bonds, although the "investment" was actually a sham entity that was supposedly managed by Jawed's unemployed aunt, who lives in Bangladesh.
According to the SEC's complaint, Jawed further deceived investors as the funds were collapsing by telling them that independent third parties were buying the Grifphon funds' alleged assets at a premium. In truth, the so-called third parties were more sham entities, originally formed by Grifphon and Jawed, and contained no assets, no income, and no ability to pay for the funds' alleged assets.
The SEC's complaint against Jawed additionally charges Robert Custis, an attorney hired by Jawed to assist him in the fraud. Custis sent false and misleading statements to investors about the status of the purported purchase of the Grifphon funds' assets. Custis consistently misrepresented that this purchase was imminent and would result in investors' investments being repaid at a profit.
The SEC filed separate complaints against two others connected to the scheme. One complaint alleges that Jacques Nichols, a Portland-based attorney, falsely claimed to investors that an independent third party would pay tens of millions of dollars to buy the hedge funds' alleged assets at a premium; the second alleges that Jawed's associate, Lyman Bruhn, of Vancouver, Wash., ran a separate Ponzi scheme and induced investments through false claims he was investing in blue-chip stocks.
Nichols and Bruhn agreed to settle the SEC's charges without admitting or denying the allegations by consenting to entry of permanent injunctions against violations of the antifraud provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and other relief. The SEC's litigation continues against Jawed, the two Grifphon entities, and Custis, alleging multiple violations of the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws.
The SEC's investigation is continuing. Five Years of Undisclosed Compensation
The SEC charged a former director at Port Washington, N.Y.-based consumer electronics retailer Systemax, Gilbert Fiorentino, for fraudulently bringing in hundreds of thousands of dollars in undisclosed compensation over a five-year period.
The SEC alleges that Fiorentino, who in addition to serving on the board was the former chief executive of Systemax's technology products group in Miami, obtained more than $400,000 in extra compensation directly from firms that conducted business with the firm, and also stole several hundred thousand dollars' worth of company merchandise that was used to market its products. According to the SEC's complaint filed in federal court in Miami, this occurred from January 2006 to December 2010.
Systemax sells personal computers and other consumer electronics through its websites, retail stores and direct mail catalogs. Fiorentino arranged the extra compensation as he dealt directly with external service providers, manufacturer representatives and others that conducted business with Systemax. For example, he demanded and received $5,000 to $10,000 monthly from an entity that supplied materials to Systemax's subsidiaries for use in retail and mail order operations.
The SEC also alleges that through his executive position at Systemax, Fiorentino had access to company merchandise used to market Systemax products in mail order catalogs and online, and routinely misappropriated some of this merchandise and failed to disclose it to Systemax and its auditors.
Because Fiorentino was one of Systemax's highest-paid executives, the company was required by U.S. securities laws to disclose all compensation, perks and other personal benefits he received each year. However, he failed to disclose his extra compensation and perks to Systemax or its auditors, and the amounts reported to shareholders were understated. Fiorentino reviewed and signed each Systemax Form 10-K from fiscal years 2006 to 2010 while knowing that it failed to make the required disclosures. He also routinely signed management representation letters to Systemax's independent auditors stating that he did not know of any fraud or suspected fraud involving Systemax's management.
Systemax placed Fiorentino on administrative leave in April 2011. After the SEC began investigating the conduct, Fiorentino agreed to resign from all of his positions with Systemax, surrender stock and stock options valued at approximately $9.1 million, and repay his 2010 annual bonus of $480,000.
He has agreed to settle the SEC's charges without admitting or denying the allegations, and has also agreed to pay an additional $65,000 penalty and consent to a permanent bar from serving as an officer or director of any publicly held company. The settlement is subject to court approval. Investors Misled, Supervisory Failures Cited
The SEC charged a co-founder of a Chicago-based investment firm with misleading investors in two private equity offerings, and charged the other co-founder with supervisory failures related to the offerings.
Advanced Equities, a broker-dealer and investment advisory firm, and co-founders Dwight Badger and Keith Daubenspeck were charged in connection with private offerings in 2009 and 2010 on behalf of an alternative energy company in Silicon Valley, which was not identified by name in the SEC's administrative proceeding.
Daubenspeck co-founded Advanced Equities with Badger, was the former chief executive of its parent company and is the chairman of the parent company's board. Badger, who led the sales effort for the offerings, made misstatements about the energy company's finances that Daubenspeck did not correct, thus failing to reasonably supervise Badger, according to the SEC.
According to the SEC's order, Badger said in the 2009 offering that the energy company had more than $2 billion of order backlogs when the backlog never exceeded $42 million. He also said it had a $1 billion order from a national grocery store chain, even though the store had only placed a $2 million order and signed a nonbinding letter of intent for future purchases. Badger said the company had been granted a U.S. Department of Energy loan exceeding $250 million when it had applied for a $96.8 million loan, and he again misstated the information about the loan application during the follow-up offering in 2010.
According to the SEC's order, Daubenspeck participated in at least two internal sales calls with Advanced Equities brokers during the 2009 offering and remained silent after he heard Badger make misstatements about the company's order backlog, grocery store order, and Department of Energy loan application. Despite the red flags raised by the misstatements and the obvious risk that false information would be repeated to investors, Daubenspeck did not take reasonable steps to correct the misstatements.
Badger, Daubenspeck and their firm agreed to settle the SEC's charges. Advanced Equities agreed to pay a $1 million penalty, and agreed to be censured and to cease and desist from committing or causing any future violations of the securities laws it was found to have violated. The firm also agreed to numerous undertakings including hiring an independent consultant to review its sales policies and procedures.
Badger agreed to pay a $100,000 penalty and be barred for one year from association with any broker, dealer, investment adviser, municipal securities dealer or transfer agent. Daubenspeck agreed to pay a $50,000 penalty and a one-year supervisory suspension. Advanced Equities, Badger and Daubenspeck consented to the entry of the cease-and-desist order without admitting or denying the SEC's charges. Fund Manager Emulates Ponzi, Says SEC
The SEC is seeking an emergency court order to freeze the assets of private fund manager Angelo A. Alleca and his Atlanta-based investment advisory firm, Summit Wealth Management, to prevent further investor losses, estimated to be $17 million among approximately 200 clients.
The agency has also announced charges against Alleca and his firm for defrauding investors in a purported "fund of funds," and then trying to hide trading losses by creating new private funds to make money to pay back the original fund investors in Ponzi-like fashion.
After receiving a tip, the SEC initiated an examination of Summit Wealth. As SEC examiners noticed something was amiss at the firm, they immediately coordinated with SEC enforcement attorneys to gather and assess evidence.
According to the SEC's complaint filed in federal court in Atlanta, Alleca and Summit Wealth Management offered and sold interests in Summit Fund, which they told their clients was operating as a fund of funds—meaning they were investing their money in other funds and investment products rather than directly in stocks and other securities. The fund-of-funds investment strategy is intended to diversify investor money and minimize exposure to risks.
However, Alleca instead engaged in active securities trading with his clients' money and incurred substantial losses. He concealed the Summit Fund trading losses from investors and provided them false account statements.
The SEC alleges that to meet redemption requests from Summit Fund investors, Alleca created at least two hedge funds to raise money from Summit Wealth clients: Private Credit Opportunities Fund LLC and Asset Diversification Fund LP. Alleca's plan was to cover up the losses he had incurred in Summit Fund by illegally transferring profits from the new funds in a Ponzi-like fashion in order to meet earlier redemption requests.
However, Alleca's plan backfired when those successive funds incurred further trading losses. He continued to issue false account statements to investors in Summit Fund as well as the additional funds in order to hide the actual losses on their investments. The SEC's complaint charges Alleca, Summit Wealth Management and the three funds with violations of the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws.


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Date: November 6, 2019 - November 6, 2019
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Fresh and upcycled ANGLES t-shirts will be awarded to students who submit their work or who get on the mic and read something short—an original work or lines that you love written by someone else. All are welcome.
Special thanks to the English Department for funding and to the Center for Sustainability for printing the upcycled t-shirts and providing reusable tableware for the tacos.
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Although overall annuity sales perked up a bit in the second quarter, purchases of the product were down from last year. Indexed annuities, however, showed the most growth, according to two Q2 reports.
According to LIMRA's second quarter 2012 U.S. Individual Annuities Sales survey, total sales jumped 4% from the first quarter of this year, increasing to $57 billion. Yet, total sales slumped 8% from the Q2 2011 tally of $61.9 billion. Year-to-date, total annuity sales also dropped 8%, going from $121.4 billion in the first half of 2011 to $111.8 billion between January and June of this year.
Bucking that trend were indexed annuities, which saw sales rise 6% to $8.6 billion in the second quarter compared to the same quarter of last year when the total for that segment came in at $8.1 billion, according to LIMRA. Further, in the first half of this year, indexed annuity sales improved 10% versus the first six months of 2011, rising from $15.2 billion to $16.7 billion. LIMRA noted that for the fourth consecutive quarter, indexed annuity sales outpaced traditional fixed annuities, capturing 47% of the fixed annuity market.
LIMRA theorized that the sale of indexed annuities is being driven by guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefit (GLWB) riders. In Q2, 87% of indexed annuity products offered a GLWB, with 71% electing a GLWB rider, the highest level since LIMRA began tracking indexed GLWB election rates a year ago.
Meanwhile, variable annuity (VA) sales declined to $38.6 billion in the second quarter, down 5% from $40.6 billion in the same quarter of 2011, reports LIMRA. Yet when compared to the first quarter of this year, Q2 VA sales were up 5%. Year-to-date VA sales decreased 6%, dropping from $80.1 billion in the first half of 2011 to the $75.4 billion amassed between January and June of this year.
In a release detailing the report, Joseph Montminy, LIMRA's assistant vice president of annuity research, said the "current economic conditions remain challenging for most insurers, driving overall annuity sales down." He added, however, that indexed annuities are on pace for a record year.
Q2 total fixed annuity sales dropped 14% to $18.4 billion versus the second quarter of 2011 when sales hit $21.3 billion. In the first half, fixed annuity sales fell 12% to $36.4 billion from the $41.3 billion recorded in the first six months of 2011.
LIMRA, based in Windsor, Conn., grounded its findings on data from 57 companies that represent 95% of total market sales. Jackson National Life took the top spot for total annuity sales in Q2 ($10.9 billion) followed by MetLife ($10.564 billion) and Prudential Annuities ($10.561 billion).
A second-quarter report from AnnuitySpecs.com further underscores the growth of indexed annuity sales. Its 60th edition of AnnuitySpecs.com's Indexed Sales & Market Report found that total indexed annuity sales in the second quarter climbed to $8.7 billion, a jump of 8% from the previous quarter. Viewed in comparison to the same quarter a year ago, sales were up nearly 6%. The report represents 99% of indexed annuity production.
Sheryl J. Moore, president and CEO of Pleasant Hill, Iowa-based Moore Market Intelligence, which owns AnnuitySpecs.com, pointed out in a statement elaborating on the recent report that Q2 sales were only 0.60% lower than the third quarter of 2010 when indexed annuity sales set a record.
"That being said, the second quarter was a period of flux for indexed annuities; nine different companies made changes to their products on 14 different occasions during this quarter," stated Moore.
Many of those changes were related to GLWBs. Despite the decline in fixed interest rates and a shift to guaranteed income sales, GLWB elections in Q2 dropped to 53% of total indexed annuity sales. The bulk of the adjustments to annuity products "affected the relative competitiveness of these annuity benefits," stated the AnnuitySpecs.com report.
In the indexed annuity space, Allianz Life once again was the number one carrier, grabbing 16% of market share. Next up was Aviva, American Equity, Security Benefit Life and Great American. Security Benefit Life's Security Income Annuity was the top seller in the quarter.
AnnuitySpecs.com also tracked indexed life sales, which amounted to $303.6 billion in Q2, an increase of nearly 19% from the previous quarter. In contrast to the same quarter of last year, sales were up roughly 45%.
Moore remarked that this level of indexed life sales was "nearly record-setting" and should continue as more companies gear up to introduce new indexed products and the distribution landscape for such insurance products is "changing swiftly."
Aviva retained its top spot in the indexed life market with 15% of market share, followed by AXA Equitable, Pacific Life Cos., AEGON Cos., and National Life Group.
AXA Equitable's Athena Indexed UL was the number-one selling indexed life insurance product for the fifth consecutive quarter. Average target premiums on indexed life increased to $9,070 for the quarter, according to the AnnuitySpecs.com report.


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How to Locate Your iPad on a MapLast updated: 05/31/2012
Did you lose your iPad? If you enabled Find My iPad, there's no need to worry. As long as the iPad is turned on and connected to a cellular or wireless network, you can access a map that pinpoints its exact location. This should be the primary tool in your recovery arsenal, whether you left your iPad under a couch cushion or on a table at the neighborhood cafe.
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The iPad is nothing if not portable. You can carry it with you and use it just about anywhere. It's great for doing work in cafes, airports, or even at the office. But the iPad's portability also poses a serious problem: It's easy to misplace!
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If you've ever rented an iTunes movie on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch, you know that the movie is automatically removed from your device 24 hours after you started watching it. But did you know that you can manually remove movie rentals after you finish watching them? Doing so allows you to free up disk space on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch and store even more music and movies.
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In another tutorial, we discussed how to save PDF files on an iPad. But where do you find the PDF files that you've saved on your iPad? They're stored in the iBooks app, but you might have to change collections to see them.
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If you own an AirPort Extreme and use it as a router, you can specify default DNS servers for all of the devices connected to your wireless network. This is a great way to enforce enterprise network policies using OpenDNS, which allows you to implement security and filtering controls.
Change the Background of Finder WindowsLast updated: 05/16/2012
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Here's how to change the background of a Finder window:
- Switch to the Finder. Open the folder you'd like to change.
How to Change Your Mac's DNS ServersLast updated: 05/15/2012
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On Feb. 7, 1867, a literary legend was born, seven miles north of the small Village of Pepin, Wis., to Charles Phillip and Caroline Lake (Quiner) Ingalls. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was the name to be given to this legend � a legend that lives on with the Ingalls family in Holmes County.
Laura was the second of five children born to the Ingalls. Laura�s older sister Mary Amelia was born on Jan. 10, 1865, Mary went blind at an early age. Next in the family of five siblings was Laura. There were three more children after Laura they were, Caroline (Carrie) Celestia who was born in August of 1870 and she died in June of 1946. Charles Fredrick was born on Nov. 1, 1875 and died nine month later on Aug. 26, 1876, the youngest of the Ingalls clan was Grace Pearl who was born on May 23, 1877 and died in 1941.
Charles, Laura�s father settled on some land that was not yet available to make homesteads upon in what is now known as Independence, Kan. When the Ingalls made there homestead there in the late 1800�s the land was Indian Territory. This phase in Laura�s life lead to her writing her most popular book Little House on the Prairie. Which later turned into the well-loved TV series and Movie by the same title.
When the family moved from the log cabin where the Ingalls children were born, they made a move to DeSmet, S.D. The family lived at this home site for the rest of Charles, Caroline and Laura�s sister Mary�s life. There lived on this land during one of the hardest winters in the Dakotas history this was the winter of 1880 and 1881. The winter of 1880 and 1881 inspired the writing of The Long Winter.
At the ripe age of 15 Laura received her teaching certificate on Dec. 24, 1882. When she was 18 she married Almanzo Wilder a bachelor homesteader he was 28 when they married on Aug. 25, 1885. Her live with Almanzo, which she lovingly called Mandy, is well preserved in her books Little Town on the Prairie and These Happy Golden Years.
The Wilders had two children � a daughter Rose, now known as the author Rose Wilder Lane. Rose was born on Dec. 5, 1886. The Wilders also had an unnamed son who was born in 1889 and died shortly after birth. Rose is believed to be the one that convinced her mother to write about her childhood as part of a pioneer family.
The log cabin where Laura was born inspired the �Little House� series that is loved by so many young and old alike. The cabin inspired the first book of the series Little House in The Big Woods.
In 1891 the Wilders and their young daughter Rose, moved for a short time to Westville. They were there for 22 months, just shy of two years, when in 1892 they packed up and went back to DeSmet and bought a small house. Two years later in 1894 they took their savings and made a down payment on a undeveloped piece of land just outside of Mansfield, Mo.
Some researchers suggest that the family�s stay in Westville influenced Laura�s literary career in some way. The family�s adventure in North Florida was shared by Laura�s cousin, Peter Ingalls. Peter stayed in Westville and married Miss. Edith McGowan, a local girl. Descendents of the two families have since inter-married and still live in and around the area.
Laura wrote a column for the Missouri Ruralist that was entitled �As a Farm Woman Thinks.� She eventually became the editor/columnist for the paper.
In 1922 Rose received the O�Henry Award for her story based on the families experience in Westville, entitled �Innocence.� The story was published under her married name Rose Wilder Lane.
Laura Ingalls Wilder stated the following about her stay in Westville: �After our marriage Almanzo and I lived in the little gray house on the tree claim. Then with our little daughter Rose, (now Rose Wilder Lane), we went to live in the piney woods of Florida, where the treed always murmur, where the butterflies are enormous, where plants that eat insects grow in moist places, where alligators inhabit the slowly moving waters of the rivers. But at the time and at that place a Yankee woman was more of a curiosity than these��
The home where Laura and her husband moved to in 1894 is where they lived out the remainder of their lives. Almanzo died in 1949 at the age of 92 and Laura died in her sleep three days after her birthday in 1957 after suffering a stroke. Almanzo, Laura and Rose are all three buried in Mansfield, Mo., in the town cemetery.
Their home where the family lived has been preserved and left just as Laura left it when she died. Inside the house, visitors get the feeling that the Wilders have just stepped out and will return shortly. Laura�s spices, mixing bowl and flour sifter are still in the kitchen where she left them in the cabinet. Visitors to the house will also notice that all the furniture was �made to size�, much of it was hand made by Mandy. Laura only stood about four-foot, 11 inches, Mandy was also of short stature. The white-framed house stands as a reminder of Laura and her family.
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society, Inc., was founded in Pepin Wis., in 1974. The town has earlier named a park after her in 1962. Over the years there have been markers placed at the home sites of the Ingalls-Wilder family. The last marker was placed on the home site in Westville on Oct. 8, 2006. This was the final home site to be marked.
The family may have moved nine times in three years, grasshoppers may have destroyed their crops, and snow storms may have nearly starved the family, but the family stuck together and survived.
Laura�s first book was published when she was 65 years old in 1932. That book was �Little House in the Big Woods.� She went on to publish 13 other books, including; �Farmer Boy� in 1933; �Little House on The Prairie� in 1935; �On the Banks of Plum Creek� in 1937; �By the Shores of Silver Lake� in 1939; �The Long Winter� in 1940; �Little Town on The Prairie� in 1941; and �These Happy Golden Years.�
Five of the 13 books were not published until after Laura�s death. Those books were; �On The Way Home� written with Rose was published in 1962; �West From Home� in 1974; �The Days of Laura Ingalls Wilder� in 1992; �Old Town in The Green Groves� in 2002 and �A Little House Traveler� in 2006. A manuscript that was entitled �The First Four Years,� was published in 1971. The manuscript was found in Rose�s belongings when she died in 1968.
The universal theme of the books of all families face similar situations in life has allowed the books to remain popular.
Picnic in the Piney Woods
Come out and join the family and friends of the late the Laura Ingalls Wilder at the 7th Annual Picnic in the Piney Woods to be held from 10 a.m. until on Sept. 29, at the home site of Peter Franklin Ingalls in Westville. There will be a Laura Ingalls Wilder costume contest, and a talent contest. There will also be a potluck lunch; bring your favorite foods, the chicken will be provided. The picnic is being hosted by the family of Peter Franklin Ingalls and sponsored by the Holmes County Historical Society. Come enjoy a day of fun with Laura�s cousins. The home site is located at 1225 Highway 163 in Westville. For more information call Mary Joe Craft at 956-2956 or Wayne Ingalls at 334-898-1115.


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Because I had a problem with my keyboard I enabled the on screen keyboard OnBoard. Now, I want to disable it, but I haven't been able to do so, even though I have googled for a solution.
Right now, the OnBoard screen doesn't appear on the lock screen, it just gets loaded on login and boot up and I want to disable that.
I have hidden the keyboard and the tray icon too, but I can still see it running with the ps command.
nuno@mozart:~$ ps -e | grep onboard
4138 ? 00:00:01 onboard
I have also tried the onboard command at the terminal, but that doesn't give me any "don't run on boot up option".
And I have also checked the start up appliications "Startup Applications" and it wasn't there.
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Lindenwood University has been singled out for recognition in the "Great Colleges to Work For" program conducted by the Chronicle for Higher Education. The results of the study were released July 26, 2010, in the Chronicle's third annual report on "The Academic Workplace" and were derived from a survey of more than 42,000 employees at 277 colleges and universities in the United States.
Lindenwood was among a handful of four-year institutions singled out in the study with recognition in the areas of collaborative governance and confidence in senior leadership. Collaborative governance refers to the degree to which "faculty members are appropriately involved in decisions regarding academic programs," and confidence in senior leadership indicates the level to which employees feel "the institution's leaders have the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary for institutional success."
The assessment was based on the surveys and an institutional audit that captured the demographics and workplace policies and practices of each institution. The primary factor in determining which institutions were recognized was the survey, according to a release by the Chronicle.
"This recognition from the Chronicle of Higher Education's 'Great Colleges to Work For' survey speaks volumes about the ethos of collegiality and other-centeredness at Lindenwood University," said Lindenwood President James D. Evans, Ph.D. "The campus community, as a whole, has been working to optimize a work climate of mutual support and respect here, and the high marks shown by this year's survey validate the success of our collective effort. Congratulations to everyone who learns, teaches, and serves at this extraordinary educational institution."
Dr. Richard Boyle, vice president for human resources at Lindenwood, said the recognition is a reflection of the school's efforts to foster a healthy work environment at the university.
"Dr. Evans had set the expectation that Lindenwood would be a place where all employees feel valued, respected, and appreciated," said Boyle. "It's nice to see an organization like the Chronicle for Higher Education recognizes those efforts. This is very exciting for us."


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Behind The Scenes At Four & Twenty Blackbirds
Editor's note: Please welcome Donny Tsang, whose camera will take you behind the scenes at some of our favorite spots in NYC. First up: Four & Twenty Blackbirds!
Just a little under a year old, Four & Twenty Blackbirds has become my favorite pie shop in the city. Ed praised their fruit pies, and they also made it to Kathy YL Chan's Top 5 New Dessert Spots of 2010. Their pies and shop feel comforting and personal.
Recently I was lucky enough to spend some time in the Blackbirds kitchen while they were prepping pies for the next day. (It was very difficult not to drop the camera, grab the pies, and beat an escape!) They start prepping pies around 5:30pm and work into the night. The night that I went, they prepared 3 types of pies—cranberry sage, salted caramel apple, and black bottom oat.
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The K-T Boundary marks a transition in geologic time from the Cretaceous to Tertiary periods. It is most famous for having a thin layer of iridium rich material which is theorized to have caused the famous dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago. The K-T Boundary is found all over the world is certain areas, this one being a very pronounced thin layer of claystone visible in the roadcut. Located in Trinidad Lake State Park, Colorado, as you drive around you will see other roadcuts looking just like this one, however they are all absent of the K-T Boundary. This site has white sandstone directly above & a shale-like material that had an abundance of fossil leaf stems.
The United States is one of the most diverse countries on earth, jam packed full of amazing sights from St. Patrick's cathedral in New York to Mount Hollywood California.The Northeast region is where it all started. Thirteen British colonies fought the American Revolution from here and won their independence in the first successful colonial rebellion in history. Take a look at these rolling hills carpeted with foliage along the Hudson river here, north of New York City.The American south is known for its polite people and slow pace of life. Probably they move slowly because it's so hot. Southerners tend not to trust people from "up north" because they talk too fast. Here's a cemetery in Georgia where you can find graves of soldiers from the Civil War.The West Coast is sort of like another country that exists to make the east coast jealous. California is full of nothing but grizzly old miners digging for gold, a few gangster rappers, and then actors. That is to say, the West Coast functions as the imagination of the US, like a weird little brother who teases everybody then gets famous for making freaky art.The central part of the country is flat farmland all the way over to the Rocky Mountains. Up in the northwest corner you can find creative people in places like Portland and Seattle, along with awesome snowboarding and good beer. Text by Steve Smith.


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The IFilter interface was designed by Microsoft for use in its Indexing Service. Its main purpose is to extract text from files so the Indexing Service can index them and later search them. Some versions of Windows comes with IFilter implementations for Office files, and there are free and commercial filters available for other file types (Adobe PDF filter is a popular one). The IFilter interface is used mainly in non-text files like Office documents, PDF documents etc., but is also used for text files like HTML and XML, to extract only the important parts of the file. Although the IFilter interface can be used for general purpose text extraction from documents, it is generally used in search engines. Windows Desktop Search uses filters to index files. For more information on IFilter, see the Links section.
There are already quite a few articles and pieces of information on how to use the IFilter interface in .NET (see the Links section), so why write another article you ask? Well, there are some problems with the implementations offered in those articles (details below) which caused me to take a different approach to using and loading filters. I'm currently using this implementation in a new product I'm developing (more details will be revealed here), and since it's working great, I decided to share it with you (yes, You!).
These are the issues I and others have found with the current implementations, I'll discuss each in detail below:
All of the sample code I found on using IFilters in C# provided a method that extracts the entire text of a document and returns that as a string. Usually, it's something like this:
public static string GetTextFromFile(string path)
Now, this might be OK for some uses, but for a general purpose indexer, I find that it isn't the most scalable way to extract text from documents. Some documents may be very large (30 MB PDFs or Word documents are not uncommon), and extracting the entire text at once can have negative effects on the garbage collector since these objects will be stored in the .NET "Large Objects Heap" (see the Links section for more information).
Since filters are essentially COM objects, they carry with them all the COM threading model issues that we all love to hate. See the Links section for some of the reported problems. To make a long story short, some filters are marked as STA (Adobe PDF filter), some as MTA (Microsoft XML filter), and some as Both (Microsoft Office Filter). This means MTA filters will not load into C# threads that are marked with the [STAThread], and STA filters will not load into [MTAThread] threads. Some people recommend manually changing the registry to mark "problematic" filters as Both, but this isn't something you want to do during the installation of a product, nor can you reliably do it because you don't know which filters are installed on the customer's machine. We basically need a way to load an IFilter and use it no matter what its threading model or our threading model is.
There are quite a few reports about problems with the Adobe PDF filter v6. See this and this for some examples. I researched this issue for some time, and I believe I found what the problem is. It seems Adobe forgot (or not..) to export the DllCanUnloadNow function from their PDFFILT.dll. Since a filter is implemented as a COM object, it should export this function to let COM know when it can unload this library. It seems that this causes problems for C# applications because the .dll is never unloaded, and when it does, it's probably a bit late.
In a previous version of my application, I managed to work around this issue by specifically unloading the PDFFILT.dll library. In the current implementation, this workaround is not needed.
I decided to go the hard way and implement a TextReader derived class called FilterReader. This solves issue #1 because we don't have to extract the entire text at once. Instead, you can simply use the reader to get a buffer at a time. If you still want to get the entire text as a string, use the ReadToEnd() method.
In order to get an IFilter instance, you should call the LoadIFilter API and pass it a file name. LoadIFilter eventually calls CoCreateInstance() to actually instantiate the filter, and thus abide to COM rules. To avoid the threading issues, I decided to bypass COM and instantiate the filter COM class myself. This has the following implications and assumptions:
To conclude:
Using the code is very simple: instantiate a FilterReader by passing it the file you want to extract text from, and use it like any TextReader derived class:
TextReader reader=new FilterReader(fileName);
using (reader)
Since I've decided not to use LoadIFilter, I needed to find a way to locate the correct DLL and class ID of the object implementing the filter for the file whose text we're interested in. This was a simple task, thanks to the excellent RegMon utility from SysInternals. I simply called LoadIFilter and traced which registry keys where read during that operation. I then used the same logic in my own implementation. The details can be found in the FilterLoader class. When a class\DLL pair is found for a certain file extension, this information is cached to avoid traversing the registry again.
During the research I made on how LoadIFilter works, I came across a utility called IFilter Explorer that shows which filters are installed on your computer. From that tool, I also learned that some indexing engines use methods not implemented in LoadIFilter to find filters. One of these methods uses the content type registered for that extension. My version of LoadIFilter also handles loading filters for files that have no filter registered for them but do have a filter registered for their content type.
OK, so we have the name of the DLL and the ID of the class implementing our filter, how do we create an instance of that class? Most of the work is handled by the ComHelper class. The steps needed to accomplish that are:
private static IClassFactory GetClassFactoryFromDll(string dllName,
string filterPersistClass)
//Load the dll
IntPtr dllHandle=Win32NativeMethods.LoadLibrary(dllName);
if (dllHandle==IntPtr.Zero)
return null;
//Keep a reference to the dll until the process\AppDomain dies
//Get a pointer to the DllGetClassObject function
IntPtr dllGetClassObjectPtr=Win32NativeMethods.GetProcAddress(dllHandle,
if (dllGetClassObjectPtr==IntPtr.Zero)
return null;
//Convert the function pointer to a .net delegate
DllGetClassObject dllGetClassObject=
dllGetClassObjectPtr, typeof(DllGetClassObject));
//Call the DllGetClassObject to retreive a class factory
//for out Filter class
Guid filterPersistGUID=new Guid(filterPersistClass);
//IClassFactory class id
Guid IClassFactoryGUID=new
Object unk;
if (dllGetClassObject(ref filterPersistGUID,
ref IClassFactoryGUID, out unk)!=0)
return null;
//Yippie! cast the returned object to IClassFactory
return (unk as IClassFactory);
Once we have an IClassFactory object, we can use it to create instances of the class implementing our filter:
private static IFilter LoadFilterFromDll(string dllName,
string filterPersistClass)
//Get a classFactory for our classID
IClassFactory classFactory=ComHelper.GetClassFactory(dllName,
if (classFactory==null)
return null;
//And create an IFilter instance using that class factory
Guid IFilterGUID=new Guid("89BCB740-6119-101A-BCB7-00DD010655AF");
Object obj;
classFactory.CreateInstance(null, ref IFilterGUID, out obj);
return (obj as IFilter);
We finally have an IFilter instance that can be passed to our FilterReader (after doing the standard filter initialization code):
IPersistFile persistFile=(filter as IPersistFile);
if (persistFile!=null)
persistFile.Load(fileName, 0);
IFILTER_FLAGS flags;
IFILTER_INIT iflags =
if (filter.Init(iflags, 0, IntPtr.Zero, out flags)==IFilterReturnCode.S_OK)
return filter;
Note that because we didn't use any COM calls during that process, we get a "raw" interface pointer to the filter class and COM does not create any proxy\stubs to protect that interface.
I've been using this approach for several months now without any problems. Here's a summary of the benefits and implications with this approach:
This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
public static Guid DOC_PROPSET = new Guid("F29F85E0-4FF9-1068-AB91-08002B27B3D9");
if (!_currentChunkValid)
IFilterReturnCode res = _filter.GetChunk(out _currentChunk);
_currentChunkValid = (res == IFilterReturnCode.S_OK);
textChunk = _currentChunkValid && ((_currentChunk.flags & CHUNKSTATE.CHUNK_TEXT) != 0);
valueChunk = _currentChunkValid && ((_currentChunk.flags & CHUNKSTATE.CHUNK_VALUE) != 0);
if (res == IFilterReturnCode.FILTER_E_END_OF_CHUNKS)
if (endOfChunksCount > 1)
_done = true; //That's it. no more chuncks available
// TODO: properties implementieren
if (textChunk)
uint bufLength = (uint)(count - charsRead);
if (bufLength < 8192)
bufLength = 8192; //Read ahead
char[] buffer = new char[bufLength];
IFilterReturnCode res = _filter.GetText(ref bufLength, buffer);
if (res == IFilterReturnCode.S_OK || res == IFilterReturnCode.FILTER_S_LAST_TEXT)
int cRead = (int)bufLength;
if (cRead + charsRead > count)
int charsLeft = (cRead + charsRead - count);
_charsLeftFromLastRead = new char[charsLeft];
Array.Copy(buffer, cRead - charsLeft, _charsLeftFromLastRead, 0, charsLeft);
cRead -= charsLeft;
_charsLeftFromLastRead = null;
Array.Copy(buffer, 0, array, offset + charsRead, cRead);
charsRead += cRead;
if (valueChunk)
// to due an unknown error/bug in HTML filter war are only interested in DOC_PROPSET
// this should be removed later if the bug was fixed
if (_currentChunk.attribute.guidPropSet.Equals(DOC_PROPSET))
string pname = null;
if (_currentChunk.attribute.psProperty.ulKind == 0)
pname = _currentChunk.attribute.guidPropSet.ToString() + ":S:" + Marshal.PtrToStringAuto(_currentChunk.attribute.psProperty.lpwstr);
pname = _currentChunk.attribute.guidPropSet.ToString() + ":N:" + _currentChunk.attribute.psProperty.propid;
PROPVARIANT pvValue = new PROPVARIANT();
// http://blogs.msdn.com/dimeby8/archive/2006/12/11/wpd-property-retrieval-in-c.aspx
// To convert from our C# PropVariant to the interop IntPtr:
IntPtr ptrValue = Marshal.AllocCoTaskMem(Marshal.SizeOf(pvValue)); // AllocHGlobal(Marshal.SizeOf(pvValue));
Marshal.StructureToPtr(pvValue, ptrValue, false);
IFilterReturnCode res = (IFilterReturnCode)_filter.GetValue(ref ptrValue);
if (res == IFilterReturnCode.S_OK || res == IFilterReturnCode.FILTER_S_LAST_VALUES)
PROPVARIANT propval = (PROPVARIANT)Marshal.PtrToStructure(ptrValue, typeof(PROPVARIANT));
MetaData data = new MetaData(_currentChunk, propval);
_currentChunkValid = false;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop;
private static IFilter LoadFilterFromDll(string dllName, string filterPersistClass)
// HS: This is a little modification to make sure the system knows where the IFilter is.
// It's intended to fix the 'AcroRd32.dll not found' popup error.
// Find out where the IFilter lives
string dir = Path.GetDirectoryName(dllName);
// Get the system path for this process
string envPath = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("Path", EnvironmentVariableTarget.Process);
// Add the path to the IFilter to the system path, if necessary.
if (envPath.IndexOf(dir) == -1)
if (!envPath.EndsWith(";"))
envPath += ";";
Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("Path", envPath + dir + ";", EnvironmentVariableTarget.Process);
// END HS modification
//Get a classFactory for our classID
IClassFactory classFactory = ComHelper.GetClassFactory(dllName, filterPersistClass);
if (classFactory == null)
return null;
//And create an IFilter instance using that class factory
Guid IFilterGUID = new Guid("89BCB740-6119-101A-BCB7-00DD010655AF");
Object obj;
classFactory.CreateInstance(null, ref IFilterGUID, out obj);
return (obj as IFilter);
IntPtr dllHandle=Win32NativeMethods.LoadLibrary(dllName);
private static IClassFactory GetClassFactoryFromDll(string dllName, string filterPersistClass)
//Load the dll
IntPtr dllHandle=Win32NativeMethods.LoadLibrary(dllName);
if (dllHandle==IntPtr.Zero)
return null;
private static IClassFactory GetClassFactoryFromDll(string dllName, string filterPersistClass)
// add DLL to PATH before loading the DLL
string dllPath = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(dllName);
string envPath = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable(
if (envPath.IndexOf(dllPath) > 0)
envPath + ";" + dllPath,
//Load the dll
IntPtr dllHandle=Win32NativeMethods.LoadLibrary(dllName);
if (dllHandle==IntPtr.Zero)
return null;
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