diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023846.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023846.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..87efce49ad460a7fa7355ea884aa25a62c956060 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023846.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +News and World Report's annual rankings weigh heavily on the +minds of the faculty and administration of universities who are in +the prestige game. But world-class fac- +ulty means faculty who care about research and not about teaching. While there certainly is no harm in going to Harvard or Yale, the suc- +cess of their students hardly depends on what they learned in those +places and depends a great deal more on the fact that the best and the +brightest are the ones who go there in the first... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023848.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023848.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..edab91a56b1566a1461ea0df0aa5b6c4d3779c33 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023848.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +102 +Teaching Minds +happen next in that arena. Dogs usually know the scripts that pertain +to them, as well. People seem astonishingly dumb when they can't predict what +is obvious to everyone else. Not knowing what will happen next in +a script you don't know, because you don't have the relevant experi- +ence, means nothing at all, of course. The question is: If you have +experienced something repeatedly, why haven't you figured out that +what you have seen before will happen again? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023849.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023849.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d6e8a99cbbc925653bee9a7529a246b4c95cd863 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023849.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +New Curricula for a New Way of Teaching +103 +are confused, or when a long-held belief is challenged, with a request +for evidence. She might have asked where she might try duck or what +duck tasted like since she had not understood it correctly. She might +have allowed for the possibility that she was wrong and asked to know +more. This kind of dull thinking is not so much a matter of genetics as it +a matter of not having been educated properly. If a child grows up in a world where questions... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023850.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023850.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6e3c40ebafc679ebd130a3c6b76ee9a3f2ac4ff7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023850.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +104 +Teaching Minds +found to be true. At the core of thinking, you find generalization and +explanation. Without failure +we don't try to generalize and explain because we have nothing to +generalize and explain. Thinking, therefore, looks like this: +Make a prediction +Prediction fails +Make a generalization +Explain your generalization +Make a new prediction +Let me explain how this works and why one cannot think well if one +cannot do this. There is, of course, an art to describing +Anyone who writes... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023851.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023851.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f119a78827e558e4ecea0422313bb6501e11b875 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023851.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +New Curricula for a New Way of Teaching +105 +got a week to talk about what his work was about. The goal was to try +to convince students to sign up for a special research seminar with +that faculty member the following quarter. My champion at Stanford was a psychiatrist named Kenneth Col- +by. He invited me to share his week and thus we would be a team for +which students could sign up the following quarter. He said: If you try to say everything that you +know in an hour, either of two things is true. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023852.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023852.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..600fc1df2bb92b4c1cdd28d18b22be40db4283ec --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023852.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +106 +Teaching Minds +do exactly this: They supply generalizations when a student needs one +and cannot come up with one by himself after a prediction that he +made has failed.) +The generalization that Colby supplied was, more or less: Be enter- +taining if you want to attract followers and be listened to. Is this a good generalization? The next step in thinking is: Explain your generalization. If possible, one wants to test out the new hypothesis. But I said that one needs to explain why it works. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023853.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023853.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c6ca1c4c91e00df675abcf2d38a12eaa3927dcc7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023853.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +New Curricula for a New Way of Teaching +107 +new predictions, and be prepared for these predictions to fail. This is +what thinking looks like no matter which cognitive process is being +thought about and practiced. DIAGNOSIS +Now let's talk about diagnosis. This seems on the surface to be a rather odd response, but when +we look deeper we can see that I was saying something like, She could +do this right if she wanted to, and he was thinking, Maybe she thinks +the request is too extreme, as happened... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023855.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023855.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bc2784582394e93cac716c83c9e112a8c4a3e7aa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023855.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +CHAPTER 9 +How to Teach the Twelve Cognitive +Processes That Underlie Learning +The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. +—Mark Van Doren +We need to completely redefine what we mean by school and what we +do in school. We need to think about education in a new way. Rather +than wanting people to be educated, which usually means being able +to quote Shakespeare or nod sagely when Freud's name is mentioned +we need to expect people to be able to think well. Education would be +better defined... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023856.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023856.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0418a2244a033a97db6e1b9e4f6325acb000cb98 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023856.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +110 +Teaching Minds +Britannica, if you will. It would be filled with knowledge from experts +that had been vetted by other experts and delivered seamlessly with- +out your having to search for it. You don't need to be a scholar in order +to make reasoned decisions. You just need to know how to find infor- +mation to help you think things out well. One way to think about school +is to ask about the significance and age-related properties of each of +the cognitive processes. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023857.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023857.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0c37743228072e96754626b5f4b63395aacbcae8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023857.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +How to Teach the Twelve Cognitive Processes +111 +So, upon reaching school age, a child can do some of the cognitive +processes. Now the question is, How to we teach him to get better at +them? First let's see what the cognitive processes fundamentally have in +common. This will give us a way of thinking about how to teach them. The first and most important thing they have in common is that +they all rely on a case base. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023858.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023858.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..602ba7bdc4dee86fe48b90ab5d189fbc3968ad7f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023858.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +What kinds of predictions do children regularly make, then? And, what can we teach and how can they learn? +1. Children predict the actions of the people that they interact +with, but they do not necessarily realize that they do this. +2. Children predict the reactions of objects and actions in the +physical world, but they do not necessarily realize that they +do this either. +3. Children predict their own feelings and mental states. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023859.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023859.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..816c9849bf44144491b0e7af782ce0814c277eb3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023859.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +How to Teach the Twelve Cognitive Processes +113 +This should start as early as 1st grade (or age 5—I don't really be- +lieve in grades). We design experiences for children that are age +appropriate and talk about what will happen in those experiences be- +fore they do them and how they can learn from and improve upon +those experiences after they happen. Then they undergo a slightly +more complex experience that builds on what they learned. The question is what experiences to design, +how to design... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023860.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023860.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..48ce57b5d8c3d3c22de78af7e34331dc6bd3b7b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023860.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +114 +Teaching Minds +very small. We keep learning about walking throughout our lives be- +cause things change. Babies predict what will happen when they cry. We predict what will happen next because +we know the script. But what if you want to teach them? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023861.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023861.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2dea7cabe26d305c26db2c65cf9a651658326c6c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023861.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +How to Teach the Twelve Cognitive Processes +115 +one foot going in front of the other foot or think about it very much. So if a teacher tries to teach us about it, it is doubtful that the words +will help us much. The only way to really learn a script is to do it again and again. So what does this tell us about teaching scripts? What if we don't +have the time to allow a student to practice? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023862.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023862.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c607cb3c48e7a3b6828b3c17e31e0eb9d34e7e4f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023862.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +116 +Teaching Minds +Never been to college but have been to high school? These are situa- +tions that happen to people. They usually assume that one is like the +other. They assume the girl they just met will behave like the last one they +went out with. They assume that their teacher will behave the way +their last teacher did. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023863.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023863.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b334e2e1797a940f4860b8f986045272361ba615 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023863.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +How to Teach the Twelve Cognitive Processes +117 +How do we teach prediction when there is no script and there are +no seemingly relevant prior cases? We can teach +people how to go about trying to make predictions. This is actually what +science is about. Scientists create theories that make predictions, which +they then try to verify with evidence. This process-hypotheses verified +by evidence-can be taught in the sense that it is a way of thinking that +can be practiced in various venues. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023864.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023864.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7463a2115c21f688f643c201fd5b505d14bb5d11 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023864.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +118 +Teaching Minds +The way to do this is to look at processes that children engage +in during the course of their daily lives and have them first explain +how and why the processes work and then try to improve upon them. They could carefully examine the operations of the school cafeteria, +for example. Of course, this has to be done in line with the interests +that the children actually have. The idea is building the model, not +telling them what models they have to build. Children need +to learn to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023865.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023865.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..51e1055fed6d3b74bc36b26f73770a00c35bf04b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023865.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +How to Teach the Twelve Cognitive Processes +119 +homes, cars, toys, games, lifestyles, behaviors, hairdos. ... We may not see ourselves as experimenting when we try out some- +thing new. We often experiment ineffectively. Learning to experiment +in a reasonable way is yet again something that can be done only +through experience. But, in this case, there really is an experimental +process to be learned. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023866.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023866.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d429910a2116ae1ad7b297e6c19d20f603b85de8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023866.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +120 +Teaching Minds +how best to throw a rock in order to hit the cat. For many of these +things, hypotheses can be formed, discussions about what makes a +good hypothesis can be had, and ideas for testing out hypotheses can +be sought. Knowing what would confirm or deny a hypothesis is important. If they want to learn to hit a baseball, having a theory about what +makes a good swing and what makes a bad one may matter to them. Here is +a typical one: +Gravity +The Earth tries to pull everything down... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023867.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023867.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9e23a21e87fc50c8518c6b49893dc4ef22b14f1b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023867.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +How to Teach the Twelve Cognitive Processes +121 +what is inside each egg by shaking and listening to the sound +generated. After he takes a first guess, show him the list of what +items are in each egg and have him guess again. See if he changes +his mind about some of the previous guesses. Now open the eggs +and see how close the guesses were to what was actually inside +each egg. Now, let's make a musical instrument called a kazoo. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023868.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023868.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fd4b759e1e4d6c73739da4fdfb4993509067d06b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023868.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +122 +Teaching Minds +evaluation verbally. He wasn't +trying to teach me that. He wasn't +trying to teach me that either. He wasn't trying to teach that. That, he was trying to teach me. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023869.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023869.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..12fbf7a14448cdf2bd737ccf99dfa7d5fa4ef966 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023869.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +How to Teach the Twelve Cognitive Processes +123 +hurt anyone very much. The idea of showing pain is big in values +campaigns. Campaigns against drunk driving like to show students +dead drivers and awful car crashes. Have +the students seen their parents drink and drive or friends drink and +drive? There is a way to teach these things but it isn't easy. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023870.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023870.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6117c6c6977e9d47e677692565301c843bb9e5b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023870.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +124 +Teaching Minds +repeated exposure and analysis. It always involves a lot of talking. Since appreciation and enjoyment are sub- +conscious processes, it stands to reason that these processes are best +addressed by a methodology that is less conscious. Telling me why I +should like something is not likely to do much more than teach me +how to talk about something as if I liked it. HOW TO TEACH DIAGNOSIS +Diagnosis is the same and it is different. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023871.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023871.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..158ae697788d95fdb09cf666a002f0cb1234daf7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023871.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +How to Teach the Twelve Cognitive Processes +125 +itself, is the knowledge that underlies the hypothesis and understand- +ing what constitutes evidence and the consequences of evidence. This +knowledge is very domain specific and is the reason that doctors don't +necessarily make good car mechanics, and vice versa. This knowledge +can be acquired only through practice and experience and can be ac- +quired only consciously. Diagnosis is thus a conscious process that is +very knowledge dependent. Someone... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023872.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023872.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0d5f147b787959cbaf489937fb7144a5f4bb2ad8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023872.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +126 +Teaching Minds +review (as the military calls the analysis process that takes place after +a plan has been implemented). Teaching planning means teaching about goals, how they typi- +cally are achieved, what obstacles might be encountered, and how to +deal with them. The principles of planning are the same no matter +what domain you are in, so children can learn to plan birthday par- +ties, hikes, class trips, how to deal with their problems, how to treat +their little sister, how to get along... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023873.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023873.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..714a101ff8842981a532763b3ed4987795761173 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023873.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +How to Teach the Twelve Cognitive Processes +127 +Thus, when we teach planning, there is either a lot to undo, or we +must start from the beginning. We can try to explain why each and +every old plan is not really helpful in a new situation, or we can teach +a series of plans that are relevant. If you are trying to teach financial planning, +you need to start with a child's allowance and work up. If you want to +teach battle planning, try a tug of war first. We need to use, again and again, plans in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023874.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023874.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8ad35d21d8d05f967597418c08e251d28da8cace --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023874.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +128 +Teaching Minds +Subject- based education makes the academic disciplines the center +of what needs to be learned, when there is really something else at +the base of learning. All human learning and all scientific inquiry is +about causation; attempts to determine what causes what, and why, +are what it means to be a scientist or an academic. Theories of cau- +sation, and tests to see whether those theories are true, are what it +means to be a scientist. The problem is that telling students that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023875.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023875.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3648d0d9cdad92fc9f9af05b332039e4e42fcb94 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023875.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +How to Teach the Twelve Cognitive Processes +129 +causation needs to be learned. Determining cause is a critical cognitive process that underlies nearly +all thinking. HOW TO TEACH JUDGMENT +How do we get good at making a judgment? Judgments are a kind of +prediction, of course. When a judge sentences a criminal, he is, in a +sense, making a prediction about what will happen in the rest of this +person's life. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023876.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023876.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d9daa79eb48201f89eb8823b2586d023b7478de5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023876.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +130 +Teaching Minds +Children normally make judgments about the behavior of their +parents and friends as well. So, children make judgments all the time. Children +decide what is good and what is bad mostly based on what they have +been told. No child discovers for himself that George Washington was +an admirable man. No child decides on his own that the United States +is the best country in the world. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023877.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023877.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c172c453bfeaca26c2580732fe6d595c78046806 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023877.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +How to Teach the Twelve Cognitive Processes +131 +a hero is and what leadership is, and they can determine for them- +selves who they know or have seen who is good at both. One doesn't create a nation of people who can think +by telling them what they should think. Kids know who is the leader +among them. They should learn to discuss what it is about their leader +that makes them want to follow. Here is a remark from a parenting book that I happened upon: +When adults praise their kids for smart... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023878.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023878.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e84d4421ae315b63d3cfb2837e05eabd30266a11 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023878.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +132 +Teaching Minds +Teaching people how to influence people involves putting them +in situations where it is possible to influence people and seeing how it +goes. We try behaviors and see what +works. What works for one person may not work for another. One way +or another, we learn how to get what we want, or we learn to hang +out with people who will respond to our needs. But this does not mean they can't be taught what works. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023879.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023879.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..324f0bde7ebb561b5a73429e5db59e8c9ef8851e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023879.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +How to Teach the Twelve Cognitive Processes +133 +may not work for another. The conscious part of +this is about learning who needs what from the leader in order for +the leader to get the most out of each individual so that the team's +goals are achieved. The subconscious part is about interacting with +others, which is rarely conscious behavior. If our team wins because we functioned well as a team, +we learn to repeat the behaviors that worked. HOW TO TEACH NEGOTIATION +My daughter was a little over... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023880.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023880.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9f94b8c910758d19e74abf3f22d008cc7265dfd0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023880.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +134 +Teaching Minds +our wives and children and friends and co-workers all the time. It is possible to teach negotiation, of course. My team once built +a course on negotiation, working with a Harvard Law professor who +taught negotiation. The course worked by having people negotiate. In the end, what we really know +about negotiation is what has worked well for us in the course of our +lives when we were negotiating. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023881.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023881.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1f94dc86d5acd8e81b7c8e64e03096ccc206d356 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023881.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +How to Teach the Twelve Cognitive Processes +135 +in every task they undertake. They must talk about and write about +what they do until the description process becomes second nature to +them. It must be part +and parcel of other events students undertake. SUMMARY +Proficiency at all the cognitive processes depends on discovery and +being able to extrapolate from one's experience about what has been +discovered. These processes depend strongly on prior cases, and prior +cases are best learned slowly in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023883.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023883.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..609c70b7d120c09333ea592be479c9cccd407418 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023883.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +CHAPTER 10 +Defining Intelligence +All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to +the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing +higher than reason. +-Immanuel Kant +What is school for? Another is, to make them ready for work. (This last one +seems almost laughable because it is clearly untrue in the modern +world, but people do seem to still believe it.) Another is, to prepare +them for more school. (People take this one very seriously.) My answer +is: School should make people... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023884.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023884.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1ff1107f6b83e6d1caaff7930d1fc3c5cbcf0514 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023884.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +138 +Teaching Minds +In this way: +"I personally believe, that U.S. I believe that our education like such as in +South Africa, and the Iraq, everywhere like such as ... and, I +believe they should uh, our education over here, in the U.S. +should help the U.S. or should help South Africa, and should +help the Iraq and Asian countries so we will be able to build up +our future, for us." +Millions of Americans upon hearing this interview, which was re- +played on every television outlet, thought this... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023885.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023885.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..313d203003ac58d1e394e18c1e3aa2e06dbf772d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023885.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Defining Intelligence +139 +The premise here is that she isn't actually stupid but was just con- +fused by the moment and that she is intelligent because she is on the +honor roll at school, can explain lunar eclipses, and could answer the +original question coherently, given sufficient time to do it (and maybe +with some help). The media, for reasons of their own, decided to make this a feel- +good story and get people to feel better about Miss South Carolina. I am not concerned here with Miss South... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023886.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023886.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0ec13ac09228b9078aab69e6e4f2554f11c375bb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023886.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +140 +Teaching Minds +So we have a Palin supporter who has no idea why she supports Palin +and asks for help. Neither supporter seems +to know much about Palin, but they are eager to meet her and they be- +lieve in her. (This is not a comment about Sarah Palin, at least not by +me. Supporters of most political candidates have difficulty explaining +why they like whomever they like. Or, alternatively, they can explain +it and those explanations leave you wondering.) +I will never forget attending a JFK... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023887.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023887.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9d306c59eedea85d09b534f74e691e7e3a303e3d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023887.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Defining Intelligence +141 +had boundary issues she had to deal with. We have boundary +issues right now with Mexico now. But he has beliefs and he believes in his beliefs. He has beliefs +about socialism (that it is bad, and that President Obama thinks it +is good) that are based on no real knowledge. And he has made up some beliefs about +"boundaries." +What does this tell us? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023888.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023888.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4c159fd5a8d144dd42d7034088fbf7dc13d1b97a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023888.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +142 +Teaching Minds +Young woman: Good judgment. Young woman: I think she would control the out-of-control +spending. Young woman: I think she would acknowledge the system of +government in the United States rather than focus on the +administration of czars. Interviewer: Yeah, and what is your problem with czars? Young woman: I'm an American and we don't have czars in +America. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023889.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023889.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..064afb8fdb4cfc25792b7bccbff5901ee6be26dc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023889.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Defining Intelligence +143 +Interviewer: Some of the viewers think there's not enough oil. Man with cap: We got us self-sufficient energy gas oil right +under our feet. Interviewer: Do you hope she runs for president in 2012? Interviewer: You will support her? Here is some of the famous ABC/Charles Gibson interview +with Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign: +Gibson: Do you agree with the Bush doctrine? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023890.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023890.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c1bec7a9f4b75ef65f198b619dba83a069433b4d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023890.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +144 +Teaching Minds +Palin: Charlie, if there is legitimate and enough intelligence that +tells us that a strike is imminent against American people, we +have every right to defend our country. But what is worse, is that after being told +what that doctrine is, Palin is content to ramble on incoherently. Here is some more from that interview: +Gibson: But this is not just reforming a government. When I asked John McCain about +your national security credentials, he cited the fact that you +have... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023891.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023891.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ac6a8c7db8fb67470d91a16d36f9e33a0d68d72f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023891.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Defining Intelligence +145 +generally is thought of as intelligence. IQ tests have been measuring +intelligence for decades with questions like these: +At the end of a banquet 10 people shake hands with each other. A. 100 +B. 20 +C. 45 +D. 50 +E. 90 +The day before the day before yesterday is three days after +Saturday. Friday +Which number should come next in the series 1, 3, 6, 10, 15? A. 8 +B. 11 +C. 24 +D. 21 +E. 27 +Library is to book as book is to +A. page +B. copy +C. binding +D. cover +It is a reasonable... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023892.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023892.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5877b839333560d4d25ef21ef09d906e1fc646fc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023892.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +146 +Teaching Minds +The schools make the same distinction. There might be those who would say that Palin and +her supporters probably didn't do well on the math SAT either. Plenty of +smart people don't do well in, nor do they care about, math. This is the essence of what it +means to be smart and to be educated. Here is a bit from the Katie Couric interview with Sarah Palin that +was shown on CBS during the 2008 campaign: +Couric: Why, in your view, is Roe v. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023893.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023893.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ac0fdba02c63087665bbc54d2a8821a17028b0e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023893.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Defining Intelligence +147 +Couric: Can you think of any? Palin: Well, I could think of ... any again, that could be best +dealt with on a more local level. So little of what Palin says makes sense that this interview was seen as a +national embarrassment, provoking multiple explanations for it from +the Palin camp, none of which said: She is just stupid and ignorant +Obviously that is what her detractors were thinking. Look at this next +piece of the Couric interview: +Couric: ... people have... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023894.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023894.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4095daad42a1d15398b966353349824bd61458cc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023894.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +148 +Teaching Minds +Similarly, these people probably can influence one another, work +in teams, and negotiate with one another to some extent. They may +not be great at it, but we wouldn't characterize the ability to influence +others well as a sign of intelligence. Many world leaders are very influ- +ential but not all of those are considered to be brilliant. Similarly, the ability to be a good team player is no way considered +to be a sign of intelligence. These things are not signs of intelligence. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023895.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023895.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cfdf2afa797ddd83df9b7e7dc27d8a333abb6120 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023895.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Defining Intelligence +149 +Does the ability to do diagnosis serve as a hallmark of intelligence? Certainly doctors do diagnosis on a daily basis and doctors are +highly respected in our society. Most people think that if you are a +doctor, then you must be smart, but if you push on this belief, you +find that what people actually think is that a doctor had to go to +school for a really long time, learn of lot of complicated material, and +then work really hard as an intern and then as a resident.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023896.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023896.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cf12112ab3b2e32e34ae0318fae46412d67d029c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023896.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +150 +Teaching Minds +In many ways this remark is as dumb as her early remarks. Because it makes it clear that she hasn't a clue, and doesn't really +care, about causation. And, this is exactly the problem with Sarah Palin's remarks to +Katie Couric as well: +Couric: ... people have questioned your readiness since that +interview. Palin: Well, not only am I ready but willing and able to serve as +vice president with Senator McCain if Americans so bless us +and privilege us with the opportunity of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023897.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023897.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2b5de47dd93c0bf0b888995c4f0c03bfe9e87883 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023897.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Defining Intelligence +151 +guess that she doesn't think about causation because no one ever tried +to get her to do so. Being good at understanding causation +and figuring what could possibly cause what and why is a hallmark of +intelligence. One of these hallmark processes is certainly causation. We could make Miss South Carolina smarter by teaching her how +to determine what causes what and asking her to figure things out and +explain them to others using a causation model that she could defend +Of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023898.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023898.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..241193b75325cd8af626110369a91c98cbadf7cd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023898.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +152 +Teaching Minds +It is not an unreasonable question to ask whether being a U.S. +senator prepares you to be president. It would not have been odd if +Palin had asked Couric whether we ever had a president who actually +was prepared for the job. But she didn't say +that because preparedness is a causative notion and Palin doesn't seem +to get causation. This is from a 2009 interview +on ABC: +Walters: Now let's talk about some issues-the Middle East. The +Obama Administration does not want Israel to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023899.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023899.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..08f35ec3ae8734279c07cc78ff563efdab759c98 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023899.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Defining Intelligence +153 +Great Pumpkin rises on Halloween if you like, but at some point you +might notice that this doesn't seem to take place. Causal knowledge should, however, enable +one to alter erroneous beliefs that don't stand up to what one knows +about causation. So what would cause Jews to suddenly flock to Israel? Is she privy +to information about another Holocaust or is this some fundamental- +ist religious belief? You can believe that New York will beat Philadelphia in football. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023900.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023900.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3b6857a403e58da582ea46dfe4db55e597d9fd47 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023900.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +154 +Teaching Minds +look like a genius. But what actually makes us feel that a scientist's +accurate predictions make him smart is the reasoning behind those +predictions, the causal explanation. And, we +can see why those Palin supporters seem so dumb. Let's look at one of +them again: +Interviewer: What do you think she would bring in terms of +policy to office? It +is a good guess that the young woman cannot cite examples of Palin's +good judgment and has no idea whether Palin was able to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023901.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023901.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d0334c218e7a9e7db59134e5a4a8dfde3254562c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023901.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Defining Intelligence +155 +one must be able to explain one's reasoning clearly to those who ask. And, one must have a knowledge base of relevant information to draw +upon. But our education system, in concentrating only on the knowl- +edge base and not on independent reasoning from that knowledge +base, has ensured that the knowledge base remains incomprehensible +to most people and therefore is immediately forgotten after school is +over. Those that cannot learn to do this would rightly be called... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023903.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023903.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4a0fc74e26c0664c8e024a40ae1c081b227c1cd1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023903.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +CHAPTER 11 +Restructuring the University +It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. +—Albert Einstein +When I moved from Stanford to Yale, it was entirely because of the +efforts of Bob Abelson, a psychology professor who became my good +friend and wonderful colleague during the 15 years I was at Yale. Bob +had been instrumental in helping to create the Computer Science +Department at Yale, which is the department that wound up recruit- +ing me Bob had hoped I would be outside the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023904.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023904.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ecbe2a9624edf9e1120ae107f5127156533c2d71 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023904.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +158 +Teaching Minds +department affairs, never about computer science. We had nothing to +say to one another about that. The same is true in every department. What +does an historical linguist have to say to a Chomskian linguist? I tried to facilitate that when I helped create +cognitive science as a discipline by founding the Journal of Cognitive +Science and the Cognitive Science Society. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023905.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023905.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9e6585df35e0a9d3284975a95d1b547c5738863c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023905.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Restructuring the University +159 +Instead of subjects then, let's take a fanciful tour through the +twelve cognitive processes and see what would happen to the univer- +sity if it organized itself around those processes. First let's look at the existing Yale departments and schools: +African American Studies +Anthropology +Applied Mathematics +Applied Physics +Architecture, School of +Art, School of +Astronomy +Biology +Biomedical Engineering +Chemical Engineering +Chemistry +Classics +Computer Science +Drama,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023906.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023906.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a8b1410c97c1eaae6229318114965b272ddddd66 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023906.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +160 +Teaching Minds +Music, School of +Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations +Nursing, School of +Philosophy +Physics +Political Science +Psychology +Slavic Languages & Literatures +Sociology +Spanish +Statistics +This list may be somewhat inaccurate since it is taken from a list of +possible majors, which is not the same thing as a list of departments. I just edited it to reflect my memory of Yale, which could conceivably +have added a new department or two since I was there 20 years ago +(but departments... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023907.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023907.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5431b6985480f6608621dedf9295f4bddabf36e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023907.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Restructuring the University +161 +Where is causation worried about? But those who +study diagnosis would benefit from being around others who were +doing diagnosis all the time. And those who are worried about de- +scriptions would do well to hang around others doing the same. In a research university, professors +really just talk with people who are doing more or less exactly what +they themselves are doing. Our research universities (of which +there are maybe 50 in the United States) are doing very... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023908.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023908.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c00794dadbf7591d3e1903c240146ec0025184d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023908.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +162 +Teaching Minds +chemistry that doctors need to know, they study the chemistry re- +search that their professors are doing. When they want to learn busi- +ness, they learn economics. When they want to learn how to write, +they learn about literature. All of this happens because of the nature of +the research universities' domination of our education system. We should or- +ganize universities around the kinds of work people do, where work +means the kinds of thinking that they engage in, not the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023909.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023909.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dfb3da77327cb8b7e641d4e7f21277d40ece1341 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023909.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Restructuring the University +163 +pushing the boundaries of what is known. Wouldn't this be a bet- +ter course than Introduction to Physics? The teachers could introduce +whatever aspects of physics they wanted to help students understand +the predictive process in that area, but other faculty who did predic- +tion in other areas would be part of the discussion. There would be a +set of interesting issues ranging from predictions that were thought +to be right but weren't, to predictions that are... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023910.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023910.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..513f11663dbec38cae11d9f033abe3d6ce0eb2ba --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023910.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +164 +Teaching Minds +evaluated regularly and evaluation is taught explicitly in business +school. Political scientists evaluate politicians and political systems. Historians evaluate what makes governments, battles, cities, and a +range of other things successful. All of these people could combine to teach students how to evaluate. First College Year Summary +It would be my contention that a freshman year made up of these +four processes, taught in four simultaneous courses that were designed +to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023911.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023911.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..06fc6324090957feaa57b3ab67ef01e33833bc19 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023911.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Restructuring the University +165 +processes discussed above. Second, students could choose to think +about diagnosis in some areas as opposed to others. Art experts might +teach about art fraud, and lawyers might teach about detecting busi- +ness fraud. They actually may not know much about that area of knowledge, +of course, and that would be the objection of the faculty to this idea. But it is my contention that faculty have had this wrong all these +years. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023912.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023912.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b51ceeb4779cff89e1de45bcc4ecbcf29fce1e47 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023912.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +What I said about diagnosis is also true of planning. There are economic plans, architectural +plans, medical treatment plans, business plans, and so on. Writing these plans is not so different in principle, but in +reality a business plan doesn't look much like a treatment plan. So +there is the idea of a good plan and the understanding of what a plan +looks like, what a plan's description ought to be like, in any area of +life. Students should have the opportunity to write all kinds of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023913.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023913.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e6afab641835b2394cff1103adf96bd77f436728 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023913.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Restructuring the University +167 +points of view, teaching what description is about not how to work +PowerPoint. After these 2 years, what will students be able to do and what +should the faculty do with them? Clearly, faculty, as I have pointed +out, want to teach what interests them-their own research subspe- +cialties. Faculty will want to continue to insist on there being majors. Students should not have to be forced to select a major subject because +majors (and, of course, subjects) are at the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023914.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023914.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e4aac32918a465f503d39544423b47a636a5a47d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023914.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +168 +Teaching Minds +Whenever you see a required course in a departmental major, +there is politics behind it. If +you make them take my course, then I will vote to make them take +your course. It is how requirements are created at every school. No one +is thinking of the students' needs, trust me. So what if we did think of the students' needs? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023915.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023915.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f301d9e7d956a947ef136c568941468a44fa2874 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023915.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Restructuring the University +169 +As it stands now, we can't. High schools teach what colleges tell +them to teach. So, I went to the P.S. 247 (Brook- +lyn) website and discovered that it is now a "New York City College +Partnership Elementary School." When I finished laughing, I started +to wonder when this "everyone must spend their entire childhood +worrying about getting into college" nonsense would end. A commenter on what I +wrote noted that the old trade schools, which used to dominate the +New... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023917.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023917.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d4c9f4b26b91e821d862db9a98de6f546fa49017 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023917.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +CHAPTER 12 +How Not to Teach +Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because +they understand everything too soon. +—Alexander Pope +My daughter learned a lot from me and from her surroundings when +she was small. All children learn all the time when they are little. When Hana was about 1-1/2 we lived in +Switzerland. Since they were in +New York, there were frequent phone calls back and forth and more +than the occasional visit. I figured she +might not know the word name so I asked... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023918.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023918.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..97ec2a1a7ca652edf0213706b93b6a22ef875c1a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023918.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +172 +Teaching Minds +Did I teach her to ignore stupid no left turn signs? "Oof," "oh come on," "ugh." +Whatever event on the field caused me to exclaim something, caused +my son to exclaim the same thing. Now, I could not tell you what +was an "oof" and what was an "ugh," and neither could he. He learned what I had to +teach, but he doesn't know what he learned and I don't know what I +taught. What does this have to do with teaching? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023919.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023919.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b2019f861b909f5f3fbc58637b9e1fa8b140a779 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023919.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +How Not to Teach +173 +Mistake #4: Thinking that students are not worried about the +purpose of what they are being taught +Mistake #5: Thinking that studying can replace repeated practice +as a key learning technique +Mistake #6: Thinking that because students have chosen to take +your course, they have an interest in learning what you plan +to teach them +Mistake# 7: Correcting a student who is doing something wrong +by telling him what to do instead +Mistake #8: Thinking that a student remembers what... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023920.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023920.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..76858c8af0ededb591ef736ab2f977819805d3e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023920.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +174 +Teaching Minds +Rule #1: A teacher should never tell a student anything that the +teacher thinks is true. How can you resist telling students the truth? Isn't that your job as a +teacher? Because, in general, students wouldn't believe you anyway. And, they tend not to +remember what you say. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023921.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023921.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..028d799dd3f3b1c33692aa4cd00b54a86fe8dfc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023921.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +How Not to Teach +175 +Of course, the system teachers teach in does not allow them to +separate assessment and teaching. But it doesn't allow them to teach +only cognitive processes either. For a cognitive process-based educa- +tion system to work, teachers must be allowed to teach, and others +should be the ultimate judges of success. Teachers need to help stu- +dents get where they are trying to go and let others decide whether +they have gotten there. So, we have rule #2 for teaching: +Rule #2: A... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023922.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023922.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..51fb3512253fa1b0a0aa6bc629728fce5094464b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023922.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +176 +Teaching Minds +Theory is a subject. Practice in a field means exercising the twelve +cognitive processes we have been referring to, and because of that, +progress is much harder to ascertain. It is harder +to test practice. One can gain a lot of knowledge about what doesn't +work while practicing and still produce nothing worthwhile. So we worry that students don't know +that George Washington was president, without asking what the use of +that knowledge is. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023923.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023923.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5cc2c283d07369748848d785a5892c529aca7c88 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023923.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +How Not to Teach +177 +Rule #3: Teach practice first, theory and facts second lif you +must teach theory and facts at all). It is the rare course that starts +with, let's build this now. Now let's move on to the next mistake. Mistake #4: Thinking that students are not worried about the +purpose of what they are being taught +When students ask what use algebra will be to them, they are told +they will need it later. Those were the subjects at Harvard in 1892; that is the only answer +that is true about... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023924.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023924.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5a3bc1772ecadc90b6101430318c28dde63120fa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023924.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +178 +Teaching Minds +Rule #5: No homework unless that homework is to produce +something. Mistake #6: Thinking that because students have chosen to take +your course, they have an interest in learning what you plan to +teach them +Professors who typically teach courses that students have chosen +voluntarily to take generally are under the illusion that students have +come to the course hoping to learn what they intend to teach. The reason for this is simple enough. Professors +are teaching a subject. The... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023925.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023925.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..81fecd69f3a2cbd9776dab0f1d0ef6769d90f74b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023925.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +How Not to Teach +179 +to satisfy the teacher or at least to satisfy their own needs in these +areas. The problem is, as I stated originally, that learning starts with a +goal and that the students' goals may not be the same as the teacher's +goals. Since the students have no Dickens-related goal, and actually +have a teacher satisfaction goal, they simply have misestimated what +will satisfy the teacher. Now let's consider real goals. They do not fail to ask out Mary Lou on a date because +they got... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023926.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023926.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..71f22bc6bf1de634988630bd8812195390339d3c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023926.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +180 +Teaching Minds +alternatives, and finally decided on an explanation, and then perhaps +you tested that explanation another time. We tend to remember what we +ourselves have said and thought more than we remember the words +of others. Rule #7: Help students come up with their own explanations +when they have made a mistake. Mistake #8: Thinking that a student remembers what you just +taught him +I can't tell you how many times I have said X in a lecture or dis- +cussion only to be asked why I... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023927.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023927.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ec8a5860bd5e8a677fe6dab3aa1a48312ead1d7f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023927.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +How Not to Teach +181 +in order for a student to defend a point of view and learn to be con- +vincing. Since coming to one's own conclusions is mostly how we learn, +the real job of a teacher is to force students to come to sensible con- +clusions by confronting what they already believe with stuff that is +antithetical to those beliefs. Rule #8: Never assume that a student is listening to what you are +saying or that what you are saying really matters. What I have been arguing so far amounts to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023928.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023928.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8d4b031252638daa827e84d40982aa78d29dbafc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023928.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +182 +Teaching Minds +In summary, a good teacher does the following: +• never tells a student anything that the teacher thinks is +true +• never allows himself to be the ultimate judge of his own +students' success +• teaches practice first, theory second (if he must teach +theory at all) +• does not come up with lists of knowledge that every +student must know +• doesn't teach anything unless he can easily explain the +use of learning it +• assigns no homework unless that homework is to +produce something +•... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023929.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023929.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c05a4fcac0672a05b0d39c092e7b8b149b9b5b42 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023929.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +CHAPTER 13 +How the Best Universities +Inadvertently Ruin Our Schools +We have met the enemy, and he is us. +—Walt Kelly +It should come as no surprise to readers of this book that I never re- +ally liked school. In the end I even wound up with +a Yale degree (all right, an honorary one-but it is printed in Latin). Truth be told, I did get a real Ph.D., but that was more a testament to +my figuring out how to work the system while avoiding the draft, than +it was a testament to my scholarship or... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023930.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023930.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..404429ce8cf1f3a2ff2c0d1364c7bb598caefd8d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023930.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +184 +Teaching Minds +liked it as a student. Who said that listening to what I happened to be +talking about was an important thing to do? And, who said students +should be graded on how well they had listened to whatever truth I +was espousing? What if I was saying nonsense? The system didn't make sense to me as a student +and it didn't as a professor. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023931.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023931.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a2c7b8e6d961ee05e0b148493a7813cfd82f1dea --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023931.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +How the Best Universities Inadvertently Ruin Our Schools +185 +a year (or whatever the tuition was at that time) to attend Yale and he +damn well was going to see me. There are many reasons for this. The +first is that if no one makes them see undergraduates, so why should +they? The second is that from long experience most professors have +come to understand that when an undergraduate wants to see them, +there typically is one of two motives. He was exactly the sort of student +professors very much... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023932.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023932.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d562c876d21c429d32ca83267d8f809bdf57a03b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023932.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +186 +Teaching Minds +As long as the customers keep coming, as long as people will do +anything to get their kids into Yale, Yale will not have to change. Now +bear in mind that going to Yale isn't such a bad experience. But Yale's attitude (and every other top university's at- +titude) toward what those universities are inherently about is seriously +harming the education of every high school student and almost every +college student in the country. The faculty of Yale didn't wake up one morning and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023933.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023933.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d23eaecedcacaeb8ca9989c7661d65b02033c21e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023933.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +How the Best Universities Inadvertently Ruin Our Schools +187 +however, professors don't really have bosses in the traditional sense. The provost is the guy who runs the +university. What he meant was that he could not ask any professor to +do anything without the professor asking what he would get in return. The real bosses in the university system are your colleagues. In +order to hire a new senior faculty member at Yale, we actually had +to write letters, at the beginning of the process, to all... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023934.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023934.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c0dfeec566a76e1a6cab63a395f7a4deb768409c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023934.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +188 +Teaching Minds +of engineering and after a year allow them to work on designing a +787. Such a project-based, real-world curriculum is, in my mind, an +important improvement on the way things are done now in school. At the very beginning of the meeting, this professor said that he +hoped the outcome of this high school curriculum redesign meeting +would be a curriculum that taught math and science better because +the average student at the University of Washington that he encoun- +tered had very... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023935.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023935.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..323a72ec56cbcdafa9f6cd10e7408e9baeee6234 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023935.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +How the Best Universities Inadvertently Ruin Our Schools +189 +obviously respected by Boeing, so he is a senior and successful man +in his field. To start this explanation, it is important to understand why pro- +fessors are "rewarded" with light teaching loads. (Note the word load. This is the normal way this is discussed in a university.) I was given +an extraordinarily light load at Northwestern for two reasons. So Northwestern had to beat Yale's offer in my case. At +Yale I taught one... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023936.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023936.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2bf0a7ae15266553b59352ef62979e1e505888d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023936.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +190 +Teaching Minds +Series that determines the winner. But the battle is real enough. News and World Report +started publishing annual rankings. When the current president was recruited at +Northwestern, he essentially was told that his job was to get North- +western into the top ten (in the U.S. Because Northwestern's football team won the Big Ten title and went +to the Rose Bowl. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023937.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023937.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4c6b07348cca13936443940587f198bc5bccd0d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023937.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +How the Best Universities Inadvertently Ruin Our Schools +191 +hire folks who can contribute. And, now you know what I did all day. Eventually my institute had 200 people working in it. I did what any +person in charge of 200 people does. This is +what any professor does who brings in grant money. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023938.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023938.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..96a769ba40ce633d1e9cf23f2bf3509442d16d7a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023938.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Every university has underground lists, written by students, +about courses that are easy or professors who readily give good grades. The real agenda of the majority of students is to take school just seri- +ously enough to graduate. Why does he want +high schools to teach more math? Because he doesn't want to teach it. In the ideal university, the one professors at top-tier universities +would have if it were possible, professors, who consider themselves +primarily to be researchers in very... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023939.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023939.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b996ea14db3945a1dccc4d1e33084981f472080f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023939.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +How the Best Universities Inadvertently Ruin Our Schools +193 +status. Teaching future professors in one's own field helps maintain +that status, so graduate students pursuing Ph.D.s are quite often taken +very seriously. Teaching graduate seminars is intellectually stimulat- +ing, may help with one's own research, and is therefore worthwhile +to do. They care about this because they won't +attract high-quality Ph.D. students unless they maintain that prestige. So professors have to teach them. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023940.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023940.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7db1f10458086f56677e97a9e75f35e82e44ccf8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023940.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +194 +Teaching Minds +are needed in college into the hands of the high schools so that the +university professor's life is easier and involves less teaching that he +doesn't want to do. So, of course, professors want high schools to do a better job. The +question is why high schools should care about what universities want +at all. High schools have their own problems, or should have, but they +have been convinced to ignore their problems and focus on the prob- +lems that universities have. But there... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023941.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023941.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f87935be8a6ffb5baad8a820e6d73c626a10ef8b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023941.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +How the Best Universities Inadvertently Ruin Our Schools +195 +the experience that this man had had working as an economic advisor +in the White House. The students played that role in the simulation +and learned how economics is used in the real world. I learned, during +these conversations, that at Columbia calculus is required in order to +be an economics major. And, in +New York City there are a lot of students interested in business. Colum- +bia and other Ivy League schools think that business... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023942.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023942.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..707a8c80341df1f45e572c4b091d13eb4047c383 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023942.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +196 +Teaching Minds +faculty to handle 60 courses with fewer than 20 students in each class, +you have a problem. Multiple sections of courses require multiple fac- +ulty and maybe even, God forbid, heavier teaching loads. Simply put, if there are too many majors, all the specialty courses +will overflow and you might need twice the faculty to handle them. The university is not going to let you hire twice the faculty in order to +handle them. Once you hire tenured faculty, they stay for- +ever. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023943.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023943.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..12c13ebd34634c142a37d09bd32988d37903ee95 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023943.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +How the Best Universities Inadvertently Ruin Our Schools +197 +In fact, diverting from that story for a moment, my secretary, who +never went to college, insisted that her daughters go, so one of them +found herself in an art history course that she hated and complained +to her mother who in turn complained to me. Why does she have to +take art history? She is a business major (at Hofstra), for God's sake, +said my secretary. Clearly the mathematics professors at Northwestern were simi- +larly... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023944.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023944.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..caf33c3383a2aefd682badeb9243b0f55f84009a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023944.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +198 +Teaching Minds +acclaimed by one and all to be brilliant, and many brilliant people +think that if you can't understand what they are thinking about, then +it is your fault not theirs. They are talking about complex issues that +interest them, and you should be able to follow along, and if you can't +then you are a dope. No MIT student happily admits to not +understanding what the professor is saying. Understanding what they said, or, worse, actually being able +to make use of what they said,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023945.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023945.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f87a14e93566d154be4ab3eed6310744985cb000 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023945.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +How the Best Universities Inadvertently Ruin Our Schools +199 +of a fraudulent institution. It is OK that Yale hires only intellectuals and only the best of the +best because Yale is not a state-run institution and Yale can do what it +wants. This is what it is getting-Yale. There are no faculty members at the University of Illinois in any +mainstream department (I don't mean agriculture, for example) who +do not consider themselves the equal of, and in some cases better +than, their Yale colleagues.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023946.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023946.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..92f2eb32618c993d6fdff3ee9d04630f18eda263 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023946.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +200 +Teaching Minds +work hard to be famous superstars. They are in exactly the same game +as their Yale counterparts, so it follows that they don't want to teach +either. But the numbers are much bigger at Illinois. So these same people, who would +readily move to an institution that didn't treat them like this, are stuck +competing with their Yale colleagues and, at the same time, having so +many more undergraduates to deal with. The faculty think they are (or +ought to be) at Yale, but the students... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023947.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023947.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..783c4714e67376a1dc762b771fb480b8c5985ad5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023947.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +How the Best Universities Inadvertently Ruin Our Schools +201 +how to or care to think about their subject as anything other than a +research area. Making a real living with what they teach is not on any +faculty member's mind. But students go to college precisely because +they think they will get a job afterward that college will have prepared +them for. Teaching how to survive in the real world is simply not the job of +an Ivy League professor. This is too bad because there are professors +who really... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023948.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023948.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b2bda07ed0182ef9c288bdc04394c98c210249a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023948.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +202 +Teaching Minds +how teaching occurs in a great university. (There are exceptions to this, +of course. But it always occurs in the presence of lots of theory.) +University professors are not practitioners. Usually they don't +know a thing about how what they teach actually is used in the real +world, never having been in the real world themselves, so they have +created a culture where theories and ideas are considered to be more +important than simply being able to do something. So one reason... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023949.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023949.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a837ce0c0f94a903bbc585c49f402fe1f85c3d3e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023949.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +How the Best Universities Inadvertently Ruin Our Schools +203 +The students objected that there were no faculty around and were +no classes, so they felt cheated in some way and asked why they had +to show up at all. The students were assigned mentors +who were on campus, but after a while students interacted with them +by instant message instead of walking down the hall even when the +students were on campus. Even the faculty in Pittsburgh came to appreciate what we were +doing in California. Carnegie... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023950.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023950.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..13e082484ab4dc9fd3346d85ceae60b3a08bb445 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023950.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +204 +Teaching Minds +Universities will not change until some equally prestigious online +university is developed that challenges their ability to attract students. As long as students show up at Yale, and there is no danger there in the +foreseeable future, Yale does not have to change. But Yale must understand what it is doing to the high school sys- +tem. It has to stop telling the high schools what to teach. Yale has to accept the idea that students +will arrive at Yale "unprepared" for college. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023951.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023951.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..42c099dd4db33442b4a10cbeb0723783b6fd6be5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023951.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +CHAPTER 14 +What Can We Do About It? It takes a very unusual mind to +undertake analysis of the obvious. +—Alfred North Whitehead +What is obvious here? What can we build as an alternative? It is a simple question really. We simply need to ask: What should one +teach children? while making no assumptions that what we have been +teaching is necessarily relevant. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023952.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023952.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5265131a3632953ce83e9b1e6ae66e912391a2fe --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023952.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +206 +Teaching Minds +A good place to start is to ask what a highly functioning adult can +do and moreover has to be able to do in order to live in this world. When we ask this question, the phrase "21st-century skills" will not +come up. Every time that phrase comes up, somehow the answer +turns out to include algebra and calculus and science, which, the last +I heard, were 19th-century skills too. In fact, let's not talk about particular centuries at all. What did a mariner from Ancient Greece have... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023953.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023953.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6da62fd2219d3d31f32738ca5c484ce83f56e21f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023953.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +What Can We Do About It? +207 +of how something works and the next we know, schools are teaching +that theory as a prelude to actually doing the work. You do not have to know calculus to re- +pair an engine. You might want to know calculus to design an engine, +but that is no excuse for forcing every engineer to learn it. Similarly, +you do not have to know theoretical physics to master the seas. Interestingly, Petronius, a lst-century +Roman author, complained that Roman schools were teaching... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023954.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023954.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a0049cf205f456e92f5e4c0003171deb9014eed9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023954.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +208 +Teaching Minds +How do we choose who studies the elite subjects? Stop making lists of what one must know and start +putting students into situations where they can learn from experi- +ence while attempting to accomplish goals that they set out for them- +selves, just as people did before there were schools. Education has +always been the same: learning from experience with help from wiser +mentors. So the "what" question is simple. Here is a piece from then-Senator Obama's +education speech given... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023955.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023955.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eb7c38b2d5932378b10c6bf4591235bd0dfd676b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023955.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +What Can We Do About It? +209 +And don't tell us that the only way to teach a child is to spend +most of the year preparing him to fill in a few bubbles on a +standardized test. I don't want them uninspired and I don't want our students +uninspired. Did he change No Child Left Behind? I will avoid +figuring out why here, although, once again, John Dewey had much +to say on the subject of how governments stay in power by making +sure that people aren't really educated. Today, John Dewey's +Lab School (in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023956.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023956.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..09077bd494e69aefe4c44007633c2d5a643d4f5f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023956.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +They must be learn-by-doing curricula consisting of series of +projects inside coherent stories about life in some aspect of +the real world. +2. They must be delivered on the web. Students should work on +projects where the background and help are web delivered. They would submit their work to mentors and receive +feedback online. +3. Mentors point students in the right +direction and react to their work as it progresses. +4. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023957.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023957.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..203b1edd90e343455887c9515186df78e5a7eae4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023957.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +What Can We Do About It? +211 +Here are some curricula that have been proposed that would meet stu- +dent's interests head on, that would be able to teach them to be good +at a variety of skills (including all 12 cognitive processes), and that +would make the students employable as well: +• +• +• +• +• +• +• +Criminal Justice +Sports Management +The Music Business +The Legal Office +Military Readiness +The Fashion Business +Aerospace Engineering +Computer Networking +. Homeland Security +Medical Technology +•... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023958.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023958.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8caffaa6cf18ba9bb2e6dedafa6023f1261f7476 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023958.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +212 +Teaching Minds +Obviously, this list could be much longer. The intention here is to +make any student excited about learning because what he or she wants +to learn about is offered. The trick for the designers of the curricula is +to make sure that students' interest is grabbed and maintained for a +full year, while teaching them how to hone their capabilities at the 12 +cognitive processes. Really there are only +four issues: +Finding people who know how to build the curricula +Paying the people... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023959.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023959.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9abd9e192b9060fabde38ec03d514f96cbecce80 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023959.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +What Can We Do About It? +213 +salvation. The most visible touter is the Secretary of Education, who +gives eloquent speeches about more rigorous testing that are, of course, +printed in The Washington Post. Why would President Obama want to do the same thing as Presi- +dent Bush did, especially when he campaigned against No Child Left +Behind, as I pointed out earlier? There is lots of +money invested in testing by powerful players. So the money for the new plan will not be coming from the +government. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023960.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023960.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8867353f81dd7008d4ce64daff2463ab92d45e3b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023960.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +214 +Teaching Minds +education except the one promoting more testing. So we are left with appealing to people who actually care about +kids and their education. The health sciences curriculum that we built was funded by the +Ewing Kauffman Foundation. We built it using our not-for-profit com- +pany, Engines for Education. We just have to find +people who care about education. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023961.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023961.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0bacec9c04a2a0ad96689cc242ca28d7c126c688 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023961.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +What Can We Do About It? +215 +people who have been teaching in the usual way. But they pick it up +and often find that they like it better. Here is Lynn Carter, one of the first mentors we trained to teach +in this new way at CMU's West Coast campus. He is a professor of +software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. How did we teach Professor Carter to mentor Socratically? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023962.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023962.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..16ee879aa896dc7887798c5ac6c4ace4c8832780 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023962.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +216 +Teaching Minds +Schools emphasize competition. Schools know the right answers. Schools enable bullying and peer pressure. Schools choose the subjects for students. Schools provide certification. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023963.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023963.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b66f93d14e204d92c75da1b7c9a56a2bc20beff9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023963.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +What Can We Do About It? +217 +children? Being left out terrorizes children. Why do we allow this to +happen by creating places that foster this behavior? Stifling of curiosity: Isn't it obvious that learning is really about +curiosity? Adults learn about things they want to learn about. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023964.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023964.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ce658abf8d554f1ac4c4404d63d09f28566e5f51 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023964.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +218 +Teaching Minds +hoops they have to go through. Similarly, +students try to get through high school so they can go on to college. As long as students are not in school to get an education, you can be +pretty sure they won't get one. Confined children: Children like to run around. Of course, in school sitting still is the +norm. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023965.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023965.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3d873a5c0ba7fa238ac429f59a8b07b5e4240e72 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023965.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +What Can We Do About It? +219 +thought that telling me what I just told them was the essence of +academic achievement. Self-worth questioned: School is full of winners and losers. I +graduated number 322 in my high school class (out of 678). In school, most +everyone sees themselves as a loser. Politicians in charge: Politicians demand reform but they wouldn't +know reform if it hit them over the head. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023966.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023966.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b2c2ab5f8966c4d4e6b7c84a7daa56503709cc64 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023966.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +220 +Teaching Minds +we keep trying to prevent this from happening with kids. Lots of TV, +that's the ticket. Major learning by-doing mechanism ignored: And last but not +least, scholars from Plato to Dewey have pointed that people learn +by doing. Unless you count filling in circles with number +2 pencils as doing. Build it right once and children +the world over will have the opportunity to learn how to think and to +learn how to work. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023967.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023967.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..62a5a61fbca333af84a7ce6481c3b78dbf14a14e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023967.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +In the United States it all stems from a meeting of the Committee of +Ten chaired by the president of Harvard in 1892. +2. John Adams, the second president of the United States, said that school +should teach us how to live and teach us how to make a living. Learning to Teach in Higher Education. "Seven Principles for Good +Practice in Undergraduate Education." The American Association for Higher +Education Bulletin, March 1987. +3. For more on the origins of the school system, see The Origins of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023968.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023968.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ef3e18adc2a92faf943cd9496a897ae63908bb49 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023968.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Report Urges Changes in Teaching Math, New York Times, March 14, +2. Daniel Willingham, Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist +Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the +Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2010 +Chapter 8 +(1981). +1. Scripts, Plans, Goals and Understanding (1977) and Dynamic Memory +Chapter 9 +1. Richard Neustadt and Ernest May, Thinking in Time: The Uses of History +For Decision Makers, Washington, D.C.: Free Press, 1988 +6. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023969.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023969.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0f8a9d408ae977c7335ea850aaeee9a4acd96644 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023969.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +About the Author +Roger Schank is the CEO of Socratic Arts and Managing Director of +Engines for Education. He was Chief Education Officer of Carnegie +Mellon West, Distinguished Career Professor in the School of Com- +puter Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and Chief Learning Of- +ficer of Trump University. He founded the renowned Institute for the +Learning Sciences at Northwestern University, where he is John P. 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To ensure delivery to +- your inbox, add ASMALLWORLD@travel.asmallworld.net to your address +Active Escapes, Quiet Getaways and More +Wednesday, July 27, 2011 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT023971 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023972.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023972.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2c78e32e57f635c2564183fcf48e16bb93833b1a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023972.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-023972 + +Some people do yoga on vacation; others go for the occasional run. This week we're thinking a little more... adventurously, +from active escapes at Travaasa Hana in Maui to racecar driving in Baja and hiking Moab with the experts at Austin-Lehman +Adventures. And after all that action, chill out with stays at the new Dream South Beach, the gorgeous Pavilions Phuket and +other luxe resorts worldwide. (Image: The Pavilions Phuket - on sale Fri, July 31.) +Sales this... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023973.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023973.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a0c9e8c036e97a7ff420c13c519a78442ef2d22f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023973.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort +Sofitel - Philadelphia +Hotel Derek - Houston +Arches to Moab +Spirit Ridge, British Columbia +Starting Friday at Noon BST +Hotel Allegro - Chicago +Starting Friday at 8pm BST +Vidago Palace - Portugal +The Manor On Golden Pond - NH +Candia Maris Resort - Crete +Starting Saturday at Noon BST +Round Hill - Jamaica +Fairmont Royal Pavilion +Experience Baja, Two Ways +Maca Bana - Grenada +Starting Sunday at Noon BST +Alila Sothea - Cambodia +Starting Sunday at 8pm BST +The Pavilions -... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023974.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023974.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..08951b042db4eefe2347df84ad4be3785d4c7d98 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023974.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +This South Beach newcomer lives up to the hype. Set in two landmark +Art Deco buildings on Collins Avenue, right behind the former Versace +Mansion, the boutique hotel has 108 sleek guestrooms washed in blue +and white, and access to soft, sandy beaches, a restaurant helmed by +chef Geoffrey Zakarian and a hip rooftop pool scene. Click here to visit sale +Now Live +Maui's Memorable Journey +Travaasa Hana - Hawaii +HOUSEOVERSIGHT023974 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023975.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023975.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..24ab286624cbb81270dbb41d5004ad5d00097a14 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023975.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Reinvented from the former Hotel Hana Maui, the brand new +Travaasa Hana combines - in concept and name - travel and pravaasa +("memorable journey" in Sanskrit). The mix of adventure, relaxation and +truly experiencing a destination are hallmarks of Travaasa. With the +beauty of Hana, Hawaii, all around, it's hard to imagine a better +marriage of purpose and place. Click here to visit sale +Now Live +The Royal Ferrari Hideaway +Esencia Estate - Riviera Maya +HOUSEOVERSIGHT023975 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023976.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023976.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..604d375c75dd2cfef43780445b86cac440ce3dc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023976.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +It's rare to find a luxury resort as down to earth as this Condé Nast +Traveler Hot List alum. Sitting on 50 wild acres of jungle by the beach, +this striking Italian-style villa has white sand-colored interiors that match +Now Live +a 29-room boutique wonder, where that local culture is so intrinsic to the +design that it can be found in the minutest details. Click here to visit sale +A Barefoot Hideaway in Zihuatanejo +Hotel Las Palmas - Mexico +HOUSEOVERSIGHT023976 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023977.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023977.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8c05abb07c09da6a3eab620f53b1eb1b5810b807 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023977.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +On a nine-mile stretch of Playa Blanca, just 20 minutes from downtown +Zihuatanejo, Hotel Las Palmas is unique escape between lush rain +forest and the open Pacific Ocean. All 10 suites were individually +designed by Enrique Zozaya in a sleek, modern-tropical style and +capture the unspoiled views on private terraces and balconies. With the +soaring Sierra Madre del Sur mountains in the distance and sleepy +fishing village of Barra de Potosi close by, the Hotel Las Palmas is a +true barefoot hideaway... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023978.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023978.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..971fc32dc794d10453d38b29c805019e2e5463b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023978.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +AVIA Hotel - Long Beach, CA +There's a lot to love in Long Beach. It's the sixth largest city in +California (with nearly half a million people), one half of the western +hemisphere's largest port, and it's finally coming into its own as a +magnet for travelers. The modern, 138-room AVIA Hotel sits at the +epicenter of all the action. And the cheery Long Beach lovers staffing +the property are happy to highlight the best of the city. Click here to visit sale +Now Live +Last-Minute London and New York... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023979.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023979.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d9599779eff3556543aedab9bf757d09cf7de69a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023979.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +house-oversight-023979 + +It's hard to imagine, but true: Summer will slip away before you know it. Which means it's time for a mini-getaway to one of +our favorite cities. And this is the time to go - the streets are quieter, the parks are in bloom and concerts, movies ar +erformances are staged nearly every day. We've got last-minute availability at the Landmark London and three Manhatta +standouts: the elegant Hôtel Plaza Athénée, the family-friendly Roger Williams and the über-sleek Thompson... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023980.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023980.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e1b12c34d2383b3756cc573ef715fdf65baaa428 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023980.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Hôtel Plaza Athénée +Starting Wednesday 27/7 at 5pm BST +The Landmark London +Starting Wednesday 27/7 at 5pm BST +Thompson LES +Starting Wednesday 27/7 at 5pm BST +Hotel Roger Williams +Starting Wednesday 27/7 at 5pm BST +Mediterranean Style in South Florida +Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort +HOUSEOVERSIGHT023980 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023981.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023981.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4d746f2e06ed14af79dd93c65a81321dd9c118a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023981.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Located 20 minutes north of Miami Beach in the heart of Aventura, +Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club mixes country club charm with +e Sleek styling of a boutique hotel. The 392-room property is home +o Raymond Floyd-designed golf courses and the Laguna Pool, whi +features a water slide, a lazy river and cabanas outfitted with TVs and +refrigerators (this is Miami, after all). With its family-friendly vibe, +Turnberry Isle falls somewhere between Grossinger's in the Catskills (at +its legendary... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023982.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023982.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..011ad2b5ee11f6e78c00cd84eaecb236e4a1193c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023982.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +In the city's former stock exchange building, the 306-room Sofitel is +retrofitted with streamlined rooms and an intimate brasserie. This +Philadelphia gem is where French and American style come together - +think Shaker quilts next to spacious marble bathrooms - in the French +Quarter of an All-American destination. Click here to preview sale +Starting +Thursday 28/7 at +Noon BST +Adventures in Utah with Austin-Lehman +Arches to Moab +HOUSEOVERSIGHT023982 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023983.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023983.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4ccc44cc131a48bd1702e9502591d70ba50de1b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023983.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Epic renderings of sandstone and the frothy beauty of the Colorado +River form the backdrop for Austin-Lehman's six-day exploration of the +Utah desert in and around its fabled adventure capital, Moab. Guests +hop on bicycles, bound down the river in rafts, clamber into 4x4s, and, of +course, hike into some of the most jaw-dropping geology on the planet. Evenings are as relaxing as the days are active, with a fixed homebase - +a lodge set against red-rock cliffs that happens to have its own winery.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023984.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023984.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..abd4674b038cae65eb8610e54d7915e301107212 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023984.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Known as Napa of the North, Canada's Okanagan region is a year- +round retreat east of Vancouver. The area is home to award-winning +wineries, Canada's warmest lake and a stunning desert landscape fit for +golfing virtually every day of the year. With exceptional service and +Pueblo-style architecture, Spirit Ridge Vineyard Resort & Spa is just as +much a hotel for oenophiles looking to unwind as it is for golf fanatics +and families looking to take advantage of mild weather and myriad +activities.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023985.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023985.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f0345d05d718ed3c0a11e16ed7bacf244c138287 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023985.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Near swank shops and Houston's art-gallery scene, the Hotel Derek is +designed to feel like a superhip home, with 60s-style settees, English +ingback chairs and cowhide rugs. The hotel works on the assumptic +at its quests have the same qualities as the fictional host. Dere +worldliness, a sense of humor and an eye for beauty. Click here to preview sale +Starting +Thursday 28/7 at +8pm BST +Chicago Shows its Quirky Side +Hotel Allegro - Chicago +HOUSEOVERSIGHT023985 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023986.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023986.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ca7704d4d0a37f172f8c866fa1e2427de522b073 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023986.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +It starts with a grand entrance: You'll walk in on a three-story staircase +as wide as an IMAX screen. A double-sided fireplace and baby grand +ano jazz up the lobby while Technicolor furnishings like cherry-re +fas and silver wallpaper add to the whimsical vibe. The Allegro, +Kimpton hotel, is a vibrant example of boutique-style hospitality in +Chicago that playfully tips its hat to old-world glamour without ever +taking itself too seriously. Click here to preview sale +Starting Friday +29/7 at Noon... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023987.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023987.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9d563b6db1819ca2be8de6bbed7d4bc518194ac8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023987.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +In the mountainous north of the country, just over an hour from Porto, +the recently opened Vidago Palace has, in one fell swoop, raised the bar +for luxury getaways in Portugal. As far removed from the sun and sand +of the touristy Algarve as you can get, this is a destination for the +discerning traveler and the lover of fine things, whether they be cigars, +hand-painted silk wallpaper, the country's best spa or a championship +golf course. Click here to preview sale +Starting Friday +29/7 at 8pm... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023988.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023988.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..310f5da64916c11174017e513908c578040c08cc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023988.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +With 285 rooms, Crete's Candia Maris beachfront resort is large by +Greek hotel standards. It shares the space between the large and airy +guestrooms, a choice of restaurants and a host of activities, whatever +your interest. Waterbabies will love the seven pools and sybarites can +camp out in the resort's Thalassotherapy spa. Overlooking Amoudara +beach just outside Heraklion, the resort underwent a top-to-bottom +renovation five years ago, adding modern style and amenities to this +uber-resort.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023989.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023989.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3dc2fcedfd40cbf9c22768d96efe5017efc0edf1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023989.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda made this elegant B&B famous +in the 1981 film On Golden Pond, but three decades later the 13-acre +estate on Squam Lake remains a revered and romantic New Hampshire +countryside escape. With unbeatable views of the White Mountains, +Manor on Golden Pond has distinctive guestrooms - from the Cotswold +Cottage to the Canterbury Manor - plus all the trappings of a +sophisticated inn, with the English heritage to back it up +Click here to preview sale +Starting... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023990.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023990.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..303f2c4d6456006c6bb74e7fe8d7ad57325271b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023990.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Grenada is known as the most gregarious of the Caribbean islands, +and Maca Bana, on a secluded cove on the Point Salines peninsula, +represents a microcosm of that, from the general manager to the +gardener. The boutique villa hotel (appropriately named after a tree in +le indigenous Arawak language) has an infinity pool and beachside +estaurant to entertain, plus each villa has a deck with a private hot tu +And even though the resort is just five minutes from the airport, it feels +worlds away.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023991.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023991.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c3599006d5341d1d3562dfcf250a3f3be339d526 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023991.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Round Hill - Jamaica +With room decor by Ralph Lauren, Round Hill is a true standout +Starting +Saturday 30/7 at +Noon BST +visitors feel as if they're literally floating in the sea. Click here to preview sale +A Barbados Stay Fit for Royals +Fairmont Royal Pavilion +HOUSEOVERSIGHT023991 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023992.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023992.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cfb920c2726278cfc3f1875606b16a2adb4fda5f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023992.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Skilled in the art of seduction, the Fairmont Royal Pavilion was one of +the first great beach hotels to open on Barbados. Refreshed by a major +2010 renovation, this graceful Colonial-style estate makes the most of +its location - by day guests swim, sail and cavort along the powdery +each or simply enjoy the views from a private terrace overlooking t +ater. And by niaht, one of the island's most elegant tables will b +available, where dinner is served with the serenading sounds of the surf. Click... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023993.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023993.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2f982e19d1c7dcc875b2b9a4ce1a0664566751f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023993.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +This six-day journey with Momentum Adventure explores the wild, +stark landscape of the Baja Peninsula, and balances adrenaline-infused +outings with relaxation at the iconic One&Only Palmilla. Navigate a Baja +Challenger racecar through sand washes, cactus forests and lone +beaches; score a hole-in-one at a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course; +and fish for blue marlins in a yacht off the shore. Come evening, sip +tequila in a breezy villa that overlooks the Sea of Cortez. Click here to preview... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023994.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023994.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6aa2b8a40a7ee0b5db91260550758172c9c13cf3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023994.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Over the last decade, Siem Reap, the gateway to Cambodia's +magnificent temples of Angkor Wat, has morphed from a dusty +backpacker hangout to a picturesque town filled with an array of five-star +Starting Sunday +31/7 at Noon BST +rooms, which surround a glittering slate-and-gold-leaf-tiled pool, offer a +tranquil, resort-like atmosphere that's rich with local culture and just 20 +minutes by car from Angkor. Click here to preview sale +Hilltop Romance on Phuket +HOUSEOVERSIGHT023994 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023995.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023995.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ad0b474844a67084193136e3cadbbaa2c8b1fce0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023995.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +The Pavilions - Phuket +These hilltop retreats are some of Phuket's most romantic crash pads +hanks to sublime panoramic Andaman Sea views and the island's mos +discreet staff. All villas include swimmable pools and roomy decks for +sun and shade. The 360 bar attracts the island's best dressed +inhabitants who flock here at sundown for the calm view then stay +sipping colorful cocktails late into the warm night. Click here to preview sale +Starting Sunday +31/7 at 8pm BST +From Cooking to Kickboxing on... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023996.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023996.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4f1b651f51e3c98c97e33be30a44bbfaf75a0521 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023996.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Anantara Bophut - Koh Samui +The best part of staying at the Anantara Bophut - besides the fact that +it's on a beautiful Koh Samui beach - is the activities menu, which keeps +every type of traveler entertained. Spend mornings windsurfing or +learning Thai kickboxing, and afternoons cooking authentic regional +dishes or snorkeling in the Gulf of Thailand. If you're craving some +slothful downtime, relax next to the giant lagoon-style infinity pool or in +the blissful spa. Click here to preview... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023997.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023997.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..14c6163bcec27eb4ee45ead4e50b2c57ef11ca2f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023997.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Siam Kempinski Hotel Bangkok +Though it's just steps from Bangkok's best shopping malls (and the +city's notorious traffic-thronged streets), the Siam Kempinski Hotel +Bangkok manages to provide a tranquil getaway that feels miles from +he city's chaos. Capitalizing on the hotel brand's European roots, the +design is an artful blend of Art Deco accents and Thai flourishes. In 303 +ooms, huge beds, baths and work/lounge areas provide ample space t +echarge, while the amenities - a pool area, a spa and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023998.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023998.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d3312b11e6c0143740b448b9f5de96d6ebd098ed --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023998.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Named for James Madison, the fourth president and "father of the +Constitution," this stately hotel has traditional style and refined service to +match - plus, a location that puts many of Washington's must-see +museums and monuments along the National Mall within walking +distance. Opened in 1963, the 353-room hotel has hosted the Dalai +Lama, the occasional celebrity and every U.S. president since John F. Kennedy except Barack Obama. Not to worry - you can stop by the +White House, just five blocks... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023999.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023999.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2cda5ed8741a1c45618eacf9dff2e9970bbbaea1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/23/house-oversight-023999.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Atlanta's Tranquil Retreat, Newly Updated +Grand Hyatt Atlanta +With 438 newly renovated cream-and-beige rooms (thoughtful details +include iPod docks and air purifiers), a quiet and plush restaurant that +serves locally-inspired Southern dishes and a beautifully manicured +9,000-square-foot Japanese garden, the Grand Hyatt Atlanta makes a +tranquil retreat in the heart of the city's Buckhead District. This is the +shopping mecca of the South, so boutiques, plus lots of award-winning +restaurants, are... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024000.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b52aa5c57b15e710ae4de4d592646a1ca194477a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024000.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +The Beer Baron's Classic Dallas +The Adolphus - Dallas +Built by beer baron Adolphus Busch in 1912 two blocks from Neiman +Marcus's flagship store, Dallas's Adolphus Hotel has kept its place as a +favorite among distinguished visitors for years. An Old World +aesthetic with traditional furniture and paintings, a hyperattentive staff +and an outstanding French restaurant - right in the middle of downtown. Click here to preview sale +Starting Monday +1/8 at 8pm BST +Beautiful Views in Washington... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024001.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77c91a1f462a0b239876895a24328b607ebfd1eb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024001.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Hotel Bellevue - Washington +While Seattle may be one of the smartest cities in the country, its next +door neighbor Bellevue is one of the most glamorous. Appealing to both +savvy business travelers and couples seeking a romantic respite, Hotel +Bellevue is an unassuming retreat in an environment where wealth! +esidents reign supreme. 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Jetsetter, 40 W 20th Street Floor 7, New York, NY, 10011 +To unsubscribe from ASW Travel Deals email advertisements, please click here. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024003.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d6e8775a9548947cc23d65bf7638b0ffa9d026e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024003.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +NEW LEAF VENTURES III, L.P. +- $375 MILLION LIMITED PARTNER INTERESTS - +CONFIDENTIAL PRIVATE PLACEMENT MEMORANDUM +APRIL, 2014 +NEW LEAF VENTURE +LV +PARTNERS +HOUSE +OVERSIGHT. +024003 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024004.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024004.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..15c78c0c590c1b90a67817acfc024f149c6c462b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024004.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Control No. +257 +NEW LEAF VENTURES III, L.P. +- $375 MILLION LIMITED PARTNER INTERESTS - +CONFIDENTIAL PRIVATE PLACEMENT MEMORANDUM +APRIL, 2014 +NEW LEAF VENTURE PARTNERS +Times Square Tower +7 Times Square, Suite 3502 +New York, NY 10036 +646.871-6400 +1200 Park Place +Suite 300 +San Mateo, CA 94403 +650.234.2700 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024004 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024005.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024005.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..715d4bd6e0135be9417b962d6532d0d73cf865a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024005.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Statement of Conditions +THIS CONFIDENTIAL PRIVATE PLACEMENT MEMORANDUM (THIS "MEMORANDUM") IS +BEING FURNISHED TO CERTAIN SOPHISTICATED INVESTORS ON A CONFIDENTIAL BASIS BY +OR ON BEHALF OF NEW LEAF VENTURES III, L.P., A DELAWARE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP ("NEV- +III" OR THE "FUND"), SO THAT EACH MAY CONSIDER AN INVESTMENT IN THE FUND. THE LIMITED PARTNER +INTERESTS (THE "INTERESTS") OFFERED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED, DISAPPROVED, +ENDORSED OR RECOMMENDED BY THE U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024006.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024006.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4e5c4ce508ff2d2ddf2c3bb4a8036b948f893ae4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024006.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +THE DISTRIBUTION OF THIS MEMORANDUM AND THE OFFER +AND SALE OF THE INTERESTS IN CERTAIN JURISDICTIONS MAY BE RESTRICTED BY LAW. FOR +INFORMATION REQUIRED BY THE SECURITIES LAWS OF CERTAIN U.S. THIS MEMORANDUM DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER TO SELL OR A +SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY THE INTERESTS IN ANY JURISDICTION TO ANY PERSON +TO WHOM IT IS UNLAWFUL TO MAKE SUCH OFFER OR SOLICITATION IN SUCH JURISDICTION. THIS MEMORANDUM IS NOT, AND UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS IT TO BE CONSTRUED AS, A +PROSPECTUS... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024007.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024007.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..24af5feb9bb56b4db2411b6cf73570b1122b4600 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024007.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +AN INVESTMENT IN THE FUND DOES NOT REPRESENT AN INTEREST IN ANY +INDICATED INVESTMENT OR ANY INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO OF ANY RELATED OR OTHER +INVESTMENT FUND, INCLUDING ANY INVESTMENT FUND MANAGED BY THE MANAGEMENT +COMPANY OR ITS AFFILIATES. WHILE THIS MEMORANDUM INCLUDES REFERENCES TO A +NUMBER OF RELATED AND AFFILIATED ENTITIES, INCLUDING CERTAIN AFFILIATED +INVESTMENT POOLS AND VEHICLES, AN INVESTMENT IN THE FUND AS CONTEMPLATED +HEREIN IS SEPARATE AND DISCRETE FROM ALL SUCH OTHER AFFILIATED... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024008.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024008.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ae63ff6f031cb5b81e775230c23372e619a422c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024008.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +INVESTORS SHOULD CAREFULLY REVIEW THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS +MEMORANDUM IN SECTION IX, "CERTAIN INVESTMENT CONSIDERATIONS," AND SECTION X, +"CERTAIN TAX AND ERISA CONSIDERATIONS'" INVESTMENT IN THE INTERESTS IS SUITABLE +ONLY FOR SOPHISTICATED INVESTORS AND REQUIRES THE FINANCIAL ABILITY AND +WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT THE RISKS AND LACK OF LIQUIDITY INHERENT IN AN INVESTMENT +IN THE INTERESTS. IN PARTICULAR, ONE OR MORE SUBSIDIARIES OF THE FUND OR OTHER +ENTITIES IN WHICH THE FUND INVESTS... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024009.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024009.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c70330a1429ee47441143427dca67659059ac354 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024009.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +CERTAIN INVESTMENT CONSIDERATIONS. AS SUCH THERE CAN BE NO ASSURANCE AS TO THE CONSEQUENCES OF +SUCH ACTIVITIES. INVESTORS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR OWN TAX ADVISORS AS TO THE RISK +OF AN INVESTMENT IN THE FUND. Forward-Looking Statements +CERTAIN INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS MEMORANDUM CONSTITUTES "FORWARD- +LOOKING STATEMENTS," WHICH CAN BE IDENTIFIED BY THE USE OF FORWARD-LOOKING +TERMINOLOGY SUCH AS "MAY," "WILL," "SHOULD," "EXPECT," "ANTICIPATE," "PROJECT," +"ESTIMATE," "INTEND," "CONTINUE," OR... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024010.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024010.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a33e7a955211327393cf8fe10d8dd679ad0ce43e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024010.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +house-oversight-024010 + +Suisse. These trademarks remain the exclusive property of Credit Suisse. The Interests being offered by NLV-Ill are +not sponsored, endorsed, promoted, offered or sold by Credit Suisse, and Credit Suisse makes no representation +regarding the advisability of investing in NLV-III. +vi +CONTROL NUMBER 257 - CONFIDENTIAL +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024010 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024011.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024011.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b386523d3315ff083a492e0069f36aeef38d3232 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024011.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Summary of Historical Investment Performance... Opportunity In The Healthcare Sector... New Leaf Venture Partners Investment Strategy +VI. Deal Sourcing & Investment Process ... Certain Investment Considerations ..... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024012.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024012.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fa4c7818dbc4cf27677a98538ce005938f636788 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024012.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +EXECUTIVE SUMMARY +FUND OVERVIEW +New Leaf Ventures III, L.P. ("NLV-III" or the "Fund") is being formed by New Leaf Venture +Partners, L.L.C. ("New Leaf or the +leader in health care technology investing Nevel compete serent private entity oven +focused on venture and growth stage investments in healthcare and life sciences companies +raised by the partners of New Leaf. NLV-III is the successor fund to New Leaf Ventures I, L.P. +("NLV-I") and New Leaf Ventures II, L.P. ("NLV-II"), which raised capital... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024013.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024013.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..320b2ae969325eda9e6f61cb96fe67a1eb6c3f45 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024013.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +New Leaf team five years ago and has made significant contributions to the NLV-II portfolio. Jim Niedel MD PhD has worked with the team continuously for over twelve years and will +continue to be a senior member of the NLV investment team for NLV-III, but will change his +status to Venture Partner with the closing of NLV-III. In this role, Jim will work full-time with +NLV during the NLV-III investment period in building and managing the NLV-III portfolio, +and he will continue with full oversight... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024014.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024014.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..93ab02306db7a63674b567af9742ef2022c493ba --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024014.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Exceeded relevant public equity indices by substantial margins on all realized funds: +Members of the New Leaf team invested $1.02 billion in the portfolios of healthcare +technology investments in four Sprout Capital funds (Sprout Capital IX, L.P., Sprout +Capital VIII, L.P., Sprout Capital VII, L.P. and Sprout Growth II, L.P.), and these are now +fully realized (or near fully realized in the case of Sprout Capital IX, L.P.). The net +annual IRR's on the healthcare technology portfolios in these... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024015.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024015.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..01c3ca83e242fa0cd06b57ffcb4fb47556f2af3a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024015.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +For a full overview of investment performance, please refer to Section III: Summary of +Historical Investment Performance. OPPORTUNITY IN THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR +The Fund Managers believe a number of macro market factors have aligned to create attractive +and lasting conditions for NLV-Ill's targeted investment strategy in healthcare technology. These macro market factors include the following: +• Strong and Sustained Growth in Global Healthcare Markets: Healthcare is one of the +strongest and most... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024016.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024016.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d56369fdc15abed87ff559b095b63ee1520fc3d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024016.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The Fund Managers +believe the massive expansion and integration of capabilities occurring in biology and +information technology is enabling a period of innovation in healthcare that sets a +uniquely positive environment for the investment of NLV-III. +• More Favorable Regulatory Environment For New Drug Approvals: Increasing +numbers of FDA drug approvals and recently passed U.S. regulatory legislation are +reflective of a more favorable regulatory environment. In addition, the +Food and Drug... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024017.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024017.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1bf6b71e66af138b5019ed509aaa13b05efceecd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024017.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The Fund Managers view this alignment of critical market factors as unprecedented. INVESTMENT STRATEGY +New Leaf's investment strategy is differentiated in the venture capital industry in terms of its +sector focus, specific approaches within each sector, and the depth of experience and long-term +track record that supports each element of the strategy. The Fund's primary focus will be on +investments in the Biopharmaceutical and Information Convergence sectors, with a secondary +focus on Medical... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024018.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024018.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..892975e2add27e169ede580e96c3edf93cb76a97 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024018.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Journal of Medicine editorial (November 2013), where Janet Woodcock, MD, the FDA's +Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and other senior FDA staff +members as co-authors, discussed the FDA's new breakthrough therapy designation +that can be granted to expedite the review and approval of new therapies to treat people +with serious or life threatening illnesses where inadequate treatment options exist. They +state that "The genesis of the new designation can be traced to several... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024019.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024019.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b681235f6f02dec963dc29dcb8b9cf7ceaaebc56 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024019.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The +HITECH Act created a $25.9 billion 3 Federal Government funded catalyst for the adoption of +information technology in healthcare in the U.S., and this is stimulating significant investment +in upgrading the information infrastructure at the provider level. The Fund Managers believe that smaller, +focused companies will play a key role in developing and deploying information based +products that address discrete problems within the U.S. healthcare market, and that a large +number of these will... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024020.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024020.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1cdfdcc14d07e299517d148bc05f8c38d98f6534 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024020.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +DEAL FLOW AND INVESTMENT PROCESS +The Fund Managers have a proactive approach to deal sourcing, which targets both private and +public opportunities. The established and proven sourcing activities rely on diverse networks +of deal sources that have been built and cultivated over two decades and focus on identifying +compelling healthcare technology investment opportunities, at attractive time points for +investment. The Fund Managers have refined and successfully executed this investment process... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024021.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024021.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..80a0cedd7cc3ad02f88fe5a37ae0c31005825335 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024021.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +NLV-III Investment Opportunity +The objective of NLV-Ill is to invest in a portfolio of healthcare technology companies that offer +attractive risk-adjusted returns. The companies that comprise the portfolio will be selected and +managed by a team of highly experienced senior partners who have developed and proven +their investment process over many years and multiple funds. The investment strategy for +NLV-III is similar to the strategies pursued in prior funds, in that it will have a core focus... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024022.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024022.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4b5c769d3089142a0c3f02be87a1baf68ceb0597 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024022.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +THE TEAM +NLV-III will be managed by the New Leaf team, which currently manages NLV-1, NLV-II, and +provides sub-advisory services managing the remaining healthcare technology investments in +the Sprout Funds. The following timeline shows the history and progression of the New Leaf team: +History and Progression of New Leaf Team +Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette ("DUJ") +Credit Suisse First Boston ("CSFB") +Independent (New Leaf Ventures) +Sprout Growth II +$204 million +HCT: 8% Cost +Sprout Capital VII +$250... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024023.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024023.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7ad9cfa283a5ba9542476d424af2f69e9d85b515 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024023.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +molecular immunology at The Pasteur Institute and earned an M.D. and Ph.D. from the +University of Paris, and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. Jeani Delagardelle, (57), Managing Director, helped found New Leaf in 2005. Jeani is currently on the +boards of directors of Access Closure, Altura, Cardiokinetix, Direct Flow Medical, Intrinsic +Therapeutics, ReShape Medical, and Spiracur. Prior to joining the healthcare investment team at Sprout, Jeani was a General Partner +at Weiss, Peck & Greer... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024024.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024024.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3638f6868b77637a81cf1fdfbcb076c29396dde5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024024.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +James Niedel, MD, Ph.D., (70), Venture Partner, joined Sprout in May 2002 and helped found +New Leaf in 2005. He was previously on the boards +of Intarcia Therapuetics (now currently a Board observer), Sirna Therapeutics (NASDAQ +RNAI, acquired by Merck in 2006 for $1.1 billion), where he served as Chairman; Oriel +Therapeutics (acquired by Novartis in 2010), where he served as Executive Chairman, and Pearl +Therapeutics (acquired by AstraZeneca in 2012). From 1995 to 2001, he led Global +Research... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024025.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024025.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e48162a3d33bcb60161fbcea9788522d6b6de1ea --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024025.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Kathy is +affiliated with Health Tech Capital and is a Venture Partner with New Leaf, collaborating on +sourcing of opportunities with an emphasis on the Information Convergence sector. Kathy was +one of the founders of New Leaf upon its spin out from the Sprout Group in 2005. Kathy received an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business +(Arjay Miller Scholar), and a B.S., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University. Mark Charest, Ph.D., (36), Portfolio Manager, joined New... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024026.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024026.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4420da39aa891142c304312b2dfdc8ed219667e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024026.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Slutzkin, (39), is Chief Financial Officer and manages the back office, compliance and +administrative functions for New Leaf. Craig joined Sprout as Vice President and the head of +its back office operations in August 2002 and transitioned to New Leaf at the time of the spin- +out. Prior to joining Sprout, he spent over seven years in the audit and assurance practices of +Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young in New York, attaining the position of Senior +Manager. Craig +received his M.B.A. in finance... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024027.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024027.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dff784049fc45d4b62b1cd2e520b0a1c095e3f5f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024027.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +He is currently Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess +Medical Center and also a practicing Emergency Physician and Professor at Harvard Medical +School. He is current Chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), +co-chair of the national HIT Standards Committee, and co-Chair of the Massachusetts HIT +Advisory Committee. Lee Newcomer, M.D., Senior Vice President, United Healthcare with strategic responsibility for +Oncology, Genetics and Women's Health. He is a board... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024028.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024028.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..43fc9b91000a7f5551d5fa8b0478bfc589c30455 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024028.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +David Whittlinger, Executive Director, New York eHealth Collaborative. Prior to working with +NYeC, served as the Director of Healthcare Device Standards and Interoperability for the Intel +Corporation in its Digital Health Group. Whitlinger was responsible for Intel's healthcare +device interoperability strategies and standards development. He has also led a large, cross- +industry consortium, the Continua Health Alliance, focused on the establishment of an +ecosystem of interoperable, personal... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024029.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024029.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..35ca1bb681a2652a513c5844af7cd16d6d9a890f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024029.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +The Fund Managers' track record is notable for the following +reasons: +• Performance has been consistently top-quartile +since +the mid-1990s: +NLV-1, NLV-II and the healthcare technology portfolios in the Sprout Capital funds +have invested over $1.6 billion in healthcare technology companies since 1995. Over this +time, The Fund Managers' returns have consistently exceeded Cambridge Associates' +top-quartile benchmarks for U.S. venture capital healthcare and/ or U.S. total venture +capital, 16 +•... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024030.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024030.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e214a15df2f20b4c24cdafe27a1d1a70efaeba91 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024030.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +New Leaf Funds +NLV-I has capital commitments of $310 million, and the Fund Managers began investing in +mid-2005. The fund completed its new investment period in early 2008 with a portfolio of 22 +companies. NLV-I has a distributed to paid-in-capital +ratio of 0.51x, and the Fund Managers believe the fund has significant future returns potential +from the remaining active investments in the portfolio as well as from potential payments from +CVRs on three realized investments. NLV-I is in the top... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024031.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024031.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..903592ee055f0bea8378f07b90f98ac959d1c5e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024031.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Sprout Capital Healthcare Technology Portfolios: +Since 1995, members of the New Leaf team made all of the healthcare technology investments in +the Sprout Funds while they were part of the investing team at the Sprout Group. The healthcare +technology investments in the four Sprout Funds included $1.019 billion in total cost, which +was invested in new and follow-on investments in 69 companies from 1995 to 2013. +healthcare technology investments in the first three of these funds are now fully... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024032.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024032.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..02cef145f23d5e16d94e23908cc87f01ffd69a03 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024032.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Current gross and net portfolio returns for the New Leaf funds and for the healthcare +technology portfolios in the Sprout Funds are detailed in the following chart: +Chart 1: Returns by Fund +As of March 31, 2014 +($ in millions) +Fund: +Fund Size: +Paid-In Capital +Vintage Year: +$15M Fund +Sprout VII +HCT +$95M Fund +Sprout VIII +HCT +$147M Fund +Sprout IX +HCT +$690M Fund +$15M +$690M +(1993 - 2007) +(1995 - 2011) (1998 - 2012) +(2000) +First Investment +1995 +1995 +1998 +2000 +Gross Fund Returns +Total... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024033.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024033.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..69df204d1065af22512de409da9a42caaec0f764 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024033.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE BY SECTOR +BIOPHARMACEUTICAL RETURNS SUMMARY: +The New Leaf team's biopharmaceutical investment performance has been strong in all funds. In aggregate, the New Leaf team has invested $945 million in 64 biopharmaceutical +investments, and the historic realized biopharmaceutical results are 2.29x gross realized cash- +on-cash return ("Multiple") and a 21.4% gross realized IRR. Table 1 summarizes the gross realized +and unrealized returns from biopharmaceutical investments in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024034.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024034.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aa3b74e8d17f09755d77a5611785e05793efba2c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024034.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +MEDICAL DEVICES RETURNS SUMMARY: +The Fund Managers have been an active investor in the medical device sector across the New +Leaf and Sprout Funds. Combined, the Fund Managers have invested $371 million in 29 +medical device companies, and have gross realizations of $394 million and a 1.82x gross realized +Multiple and 9.4% gross realized IRR. Table 3 summarizes the gross realized and unrealized +returns from medical device investments in each New Leaf fund and the Sprout Funds: +Table 3: Gross... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024035.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024035.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..83cde5ff2c8ac4fbe99ac7ff0f62199a70769214 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024035.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +OPPORTUNITY IN THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR +The Fund Managers believe a number of macro market factors have aligned to create attractive +and lasting conditions for NLV-Ill's targeted investment strategy in healthcare technology. The fact +that there are positive trends in all of them occurring simultaneously is unprecedented, and the +Fund Managers expect that this will create a uniquely positive environment for NLV-III's +investments in the healthcare technology sector. These macro market factors... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024036.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024036.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ea385055daebbfa56930372517be928c7e504754 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024036.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +For example, China's prescription drug market, which is projected to be the world's +second largest by 2020, is projected to grow to more than $110 billion by 2015 - up from $50 +billion in 2010.25 The medical device market in China is showing a similar growth pattern, with +the current $17 billion medtech market (world's fourth largest) projected to more than double +within the next five years.26 This growth in emerging economies is expected to continue for the +foreseeable future, and as it does,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024037.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024037.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f0ea6e4ec5312e2bfa9ac46077503188df19aec6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024037.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The ACA and other healthcare reform initiatives are challenged by dual and somewhat +conflicting objectives. They are focused on reducing costs and slowing growth rates in +spending, but at the same time expand the size of the population that has access to healthcare +covered by third party payment mechanisms. In order to cover the increased costs of the +expanded coverage, reform initiatives attempt to radically improve the efficiency of healthcare +delivery as a way of freeing up resources that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024038.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024038.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..34b811fb121e5d2462ef9679b3aad282d88e1a04 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024038.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +There is no question that the shift to value-based reimbursement models will have a major +impact on the economics of healthcare. This type of value-based review is now going on in all areas +within healthcare, and is resulting in changes that are having a major impact on what services +and products are selected, and who bears what percentage of the cost of that selection. At the same time that payers and other 'at-risk' organizations are looking for any and all +opportunities to move to lower cost... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024039.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024039.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5e32cc4d20c39721b98accab0df2dfd785e5d310 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024039.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +As this happens, huge markets will be created for entirely new biopharmaceutical +products. This period of rapid technology advancement establishes a +cycle of innovation in the market that creates great opportunity for highly focused, small, +companies. Information Convergence: +The rate of innovation in information convergence has already accelerated relative to the +historical rate of innovation in healthcare information technology ("HCIT") due to several +underlying factors. First, as mentioned,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024040.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024040.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e047d1c91b343dc07ea34f162f823d5089cf46cb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024040.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Over the last +several years, there has been a significant contraction in the size of the healthcare venture +capital industry in terms of amount of capital available to fund new companies, and the number +of active firms investing in new companies. The Fund Managers have benefited from the reduced level of +The ve a Managers ha +competition during the new investment period for NLV-II, and they believe these conditions +will remain in place for at least part of the new investment period of NLV-III.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024041.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024041.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a0901db98ada03045efd43c35bff9a10d4512e13 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024041.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +investors to grasp the complexities and opportunities of the small biotech companies before the +formal filing of their IPO registration statements, and the start of the traditional IPO road show. The Fund Managers believe the JOBS Act and the use of "testing the waters meetings" has been +one of the factors that helped open the current biotech IPO window, expanded the base of +investors (public market specialist and generalist investors) participating in the recent offerings, +and helped drive the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024042.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024042.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d7ba039bfe1f870fe88a3efa797c08863c672ee1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024042.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +NEW LEAF VENTURE PARTNERS INVESTMENT STRATEGY +New Leaf's investment strategy is differentiated in the venture capital industry in terms of its +sector focus, specific approaches within each sector, and the depth of experience and long-term +track record that supports each element of the strategy. NLV-III will be invested in a diversified +portfolio across four sectors: a primary focus on +Biopharmaceuticals and Information +Convergence, and a secondary focus on Medical Devices and Biological... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024043.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024043.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a808e2ebead39a5479101f5b994b2067cab97ca --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024043.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Focus: Private and public companies with novel product programs & product platforms +Investments in the biopharmaceutical sector within NLV-III will target companies that are +developing products that address clinically important unmet medical needs with competitively +differentiated technologies. The Fund will invest across all stages, usually in companies that fit +one of two different profiles. The first is companies with clearly differentiated, clinical stage +proprietary product programs... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024044.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024044.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a96d4f83588727e31978df32007c281a7a481389 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024044.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +These investments will be into private or small capitalization +public companies in situations where the Fund Managers believe that the key risk +inflection and the period of greatest value creation will be around regulatory approval +and demonstration of commercial attractiveness of the product. Examples of this +type of later stage investment in the New Leaf portfolio include Acadia Pharmaceuticals +(NLV-II, NASDAQ: ACAD, exited at 2.5x), Phase III, focused on psychosis associated +with... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024045.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024045.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..122fbf0a3db5b757a8bd9b308808c51f2b8da9c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024045.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Leadership: NLV are leaders in biopharmaceutical investing across all stages and transaction +types +The New Leaf team is well positioned to continue to play a leadership role in the sector. It is these efforts that have allowed the New Leaf team to create some of the best +performing portfolios of biopharmaceutical investments in the industry in the Sprout Funds +and in NLV-1 and NLV-Il, and has resulted in successful and consistent track records of returns +in the sector. The Fund Managers have... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024046.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024046.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b126ccb286bf00dfcdf07dc9c49fd5d4ff86d924 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024046.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Therapeutics (Sprout IX, formerly NASDAQ: RNAI, exited through sale to Merck, 8.1x +multiple). Structured Investments in Public Companies: The Fund Managers have led and +participated in a number of structured investments into small cap public companies. These have included Array Pharmaceuticals (NLV-II, NASDAQ: ARRY; led a structured +follow-on investment, NLV team member joined the board, exited at 2.25x), Acadia +Pharmaceuticals (NLV-II, NASDAQ: ACAD, exited at 2.5x) and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024048.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024048.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..273b58555fbb93e3152b98514579c404d0e6d934 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024048.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Strong growth potential is critical for +these companies to support their valuation metrics, especially in light of expected patent +expirations on their commercial products. In total, over $290 billion of revenue is at risk from +patent expirations between now and 2018.29 The large and mid-sized companies are addressing +this strategic need to a large extent through increased acquisitions and partnerships with +development stage companies that have maturing assets. +dynamic to increase competition... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024049.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024049.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c7d951d02d4ce7a3bf4fa74bafc7a3a4ae63dcfe --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024049.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The Fund Managers expect this combination of positive market conditions to remain favorable +for generating attractive returns in the biopharmaceutical sector for the foreseeable future. There is no substitute for experience in this sector, and the New Leaf team brings one of the +most powerful and proven combinations of team, strategy, and track record to investing in this +dynamic sector, and is positioned well for continued success in NLV-III. INFORMATION CONVERGENCE INVESTMENT STRATEGY +The... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024050.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024050.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..304b1bcb480a8d92383e852010549349a7d542f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024050.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +• Investment Theme - Care Coordination: Today in healthcare, most conditions require the +involvement of multiple healthcare professionals, including primary care physicians, +specialists, nurses, assistants, and therapists, and the care they provide must be +managed closely with participation from the patients themselves and their tamily +members. Investment Theme - Clinical Error Reduction: Administrative, medication and procedural +errors are responsible for billions of dollars of cost annually... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024051.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024051.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2470b9d9f50ec48e203ad42205201092cbabccb6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024051.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +in thousands of blogs and other written forums and converts this unstructured content +into structured information to support better-informed decision making by patients, +providers, and pharmaceutical marketing teams. +• Investment Theme - Patient Engagement / Shift to Low-Cost Setting: As incentives move +away from procedural volume and towards cost-effective quality and outcomes, +providers and care delivery organizations are seeking ways to deliver care outside of the +hospital or physicians'... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024052.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024052.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f61ecda1c1942729643623069322000525e7d9e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024052.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The New Leaf team is one of the most experienced and proven teams in this sector. The Fund +Managers' combination of proven track record, in-depth knowledge of the medical device and +diagnostics fields, a strong current I.C. portfolio, and a thought-leading network of I.C +advisors, puts New Leaf in a position of leadership within this sector. The Fund will +seek to identify investments in companies that are developing innovative and differentiated +medical devices, targeting large market... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024150.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024150.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ca97f6f8d7fcc97928436cb40f4ac7b7399f9a76 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024150.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Eurozone equities +Preference: underweight +Euro Stoxx (27 June): 217 (last month: 215) +UBS View +Euro Stoxx (6-month target): 223 +• The crisis in the Eurozone will remain the main driver in the coming months. Spain and Italy will also remain in the +spotlight with levels of government bond yields too high for being sustainable. +• With the sovereign debt crisis dragging on we expect the Eurozone market to stay highly volatile in +coming months. +• Economies in peripheral countries increasingly feel... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024152.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024152.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..046a80479f56681b3ee456072ec2a789cbf4174c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024152.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Swiss equities +Preference: underweight +SMI (27 June): 5,997 (last month: 5,818) +UBS View +SMI (6-month target): 6,200 +• Swiss listed companies generate a high share of profits in economies outside Switzerland. Consequently, +the Swiss equity market is affected by the recent weakening in global growth. +• Swiss companies try to mitigate concerns on the global economic prospects by maintaining tight cost +controls. A Positive scenario +SMI (6-month target): 6,900 +• Eurozone economic growth... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024154.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024154.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9d21b41513ad6d39ae808f8ec93591fabe58f2a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024154.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Emerging market equities +Preference: overweight +MSCI EM (27 June): 913 (last month: 907) +UBS View +MSCI EM 6-month target: 1,000 +• Currency weakness hurt emerging market (EM) equity performance in US-dollar terms year-to-date. We +expect EM FX to appreciate against the USD from current levels over a six-month horizon. +• As expected, China has started to ease monetary policy. In +emerging Asia, we prefer China. In Latin America, we prefer Brazil and Mexico. Central and Eastern +Europe remains the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024155.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024155.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d41bedb781a946f9a1ca58106e928b6627fa1b50 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024155.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Asian equities (ex-Japan) +Preference: overweight +MSCI Asia ex-Japan (27 June): 469 (last month: 466) +UBS View +MSCI Asia ex-Japan (6-month target): 515 +• The region continued to show high volatility last month, with its P/BV temporarily close to 2008 lows. +• Hong Kong and Singapore markets' domestic fundamentals remain solid. Hong Kong should benefit +from China's gradual recovery in 2H 2012, while Singapore's economy is rebounding and corporate +balance sheets and earnings remain solid. After the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024156.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024156.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d34a85e4098924a5a01ba7b7d4a7b0f8ef348a97 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024156.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Equity styles +UBS View +Prefer value and large caps in Europe, mid caps in US +• We recommend that investors look for value opportunities in Europe: The cheapest stocks within each +sector are at extreme relative valuations, which should begin to normalize. Within Financials, however, +investors should limit their direct exposure to the Eurozone debt crisis. We assess the cheapness of a stock +by looking at its price-to-earnings and price-to-book ratios relative to its peers. +• We believe US mid... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024158.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024158.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..74d91902118da4410ed3d8cb697f7b160ccb68df --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024158.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Bonds overview +Government bonds - Key points +• Government bond yields of major developed markets started to rise from their historical lows ahead of +Greek elections, in particular with hopes of more Eurozone integration (e.g. The new Greek government has at least eased concerns of an imminent and +disorderly Greek exit helping yields in their short term rise. However, further central bank easing, +including the extension of Operation Twist (OT) until end of 2012 by the Fed limited the further... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024159.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024159.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4213a368775a77fd828490412b8b9db74ee088a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024159.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +US rates +US 10-year (29 June): 1.6% (last month: 1.7%) +UBS View +US 10-year (6-month forecast): 1.8% +• US 10-year yields have recovered slightly from their June 1st 2012 lows after a reduction of political risks +in the Eurozone. However, Treasury yields remain near historical lows due to the extension of Operation +Twist (OT) coupled with recent setbacks of domestic economic data. +• We expect a marginal rise in yields since the US economy remains on a moderate cyclical growth path +with the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024160.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024160.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5cbe80277e88dcf02c0dace9b04ed8f37090bb19 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024160.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +European rates +Duration preference: neutral +EUR (DE) 10-year (29 June): 1.6% (last month: 1.4%) +UBS View +EUR (DE) 10-year (6-month forecast): 1.7% +• We believe the reasons for the recent rise in Bund yields are numerous: First, signs of more Eurozone +integration (e.g. However, this rise was muted given the extension of Operation Twist, weak global / German +data and Spain's return to the spotlight. +• Over a three- to six-month horizon, we expect growth momentum to remain subdued but still in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024161.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024161.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c9989572773e5c1647a735032970da8fc8046269 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024161.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Investment grade corporate bonds +Preference: overweight +Current global spread (26 June): 225bps (last month: 225bps) +UBS View +Spread target (6-month): 170bps +• We expect investment grade (IG) corporate bonds to achieve a total return of around 3% over the next +six months. This target spread is still above +its 15-year average of 130bps. +• Non-financial corporates: While total yields are at record lows, the pickup over government bonds and +money market rates is attractive. Credit quality should... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024162.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024162.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8af78c5d6b192c833e213752edb7c829123145b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024162.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +High yield corporate bonds +Preference: overweight +Spread USD HY (26 June): 660bps (last month: 660bps) +UBS View +USD HY spread target (6-month): 525bps +• US high yield (HY) bonds continue to offer attractive value; we expect high single-digit total returns over +the next six months. We forecast a modest rise in the +trailing default rate to 3.5% at the end of the year from 3.1% in May. Investors who are able and willing to hold on to their HY position will likely benefit over 6 months. +7 Positive... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024163.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024163.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1c2d01b56daf175224cc470323d9a149d9b05276 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024163.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Emerging market bonds +Preference: overweight +EMBI Global / CEMBI spread (27 June): 388bps / 430bps (last month: 410bps / 440bps) +UBS View +EMBI Global / CEMBI spread target (6-month): 340bps / 350bps +• Emerging market (EM) bond spreads are currently higher than implied by fundamentals, and we think +they offer attractive returns even against a more challenging global backdrop. +• The probability remains significant, though, that negative headlines out of the Eurozone or a weakening +global growth... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024165.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024165.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..490c6283e10dd37b28b3846eb5c4519aa55d7805 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024165.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Foreign exchange overview +Foreign exchange - Key points +• EUR: Greek election results reduce the near-term euro break-up risk. Now starts a difficult period with +re-negotiation of the Greek austerity program. The risk for either an ECB rate cut or an extension of bond +purchase program by ECB as well as the increasing risks to the banking system are weighing on the euro. +• The extension of Operation Twist in response to weakening growth outlook in the US has its pros and +cons for the USD. The... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024166.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024166.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2ccf273ac0bad64017d935aa58a8e69bd9d2015f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024166.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +G10 currencies +UBS View +see UBS FX forecasts, below-right +• The negative momentum on the EUR is likely to persist. The growth outlook has deteriorated in the last +couple of months to a point, which challenges the fiscal austerity efforts seriously. +• The USD profits from European troubles, but the upside remains limited by expansive fed policy +• The GBP is resuming its uptrend despite stimulus measures by the Bank of England. The main reason is +the need for diversification of the EUR and better... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024167.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024167.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f4a77317379468bf9b174e3987d611308039e668 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024167.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +EM currencies +UBS View +For current exchange rates and ClO forecasts see table +• With the risk of a Greek Eurozone exit subsiding, we think selected emerging market (EM) currencies +look attractive over the medium term against the USD and JPY and some even against the EUR. +• Global growth prospects remain intact, also due to recent policy easing in China, and the risk of a +broader European crisis remains contained, in our view. However, further bouts of volatility remain likely in the months... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024168.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024168.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a4b81a26c34b0c7ecb1ccf1e1821b586697381e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024168.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Section 2.D +Asset class views +NTAC: Commodities, Listed real estate, Hedge funds and +Private equity +SUBS +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024168 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024169.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024169.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..33e32eae59ff0844af86521d519b18b418f222ea --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024169.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Commodities overview +Commodities - Key points +• Broadly diversified commodity indices, which declined by about 10% in May, found some support in +June. The sideways move was visible across all commodity sectors, with gold (precious metals) +delivering a temporary price uptick after the May US nonfarm payroll release. +• Despite signs of price stabilization, diversified commodity indices are likely to decline in the +coming weeks. Production cuts for +cyclical commodities need to be incentivized,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024170.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024170.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..26013270ec1823a38f98f0ca9388d6210fe781a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024170.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Precious metals +Preference: neutral +Gold (25 Jun): USD 1,573/oz (last month: USD 1,573/oz) +UBS View (gold) +6-month target: USD 1,650/oz +• The price outlook for gold is largely tied to quantitative easing by the Fed. In the absence of any monetary stimulus, the gold market is likely to be oversupplied by more than +400 tons this year. +• Physical demand out of Asia remains lackluster. The higher probability of QE3 by the Fed poses an upside risk to the +gold price. Hence, we maintain our neutral... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024171.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024171.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..007a1016ad6e3f18be03adc208f16753fab604d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024171.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Energy +Brent (25 Jun): USD 91/bbl (last month: USD 109/bbl) +UBS View (crude oil) +Brent 6-month target: USD 100/bbl +• A combination of renewed economic concerns about the Eurozone, easing geopolitical tensions between +Iran and the West, and further inventory builds in crude oil triggered a sharp decline in the Brent crude oil +price to USD 92/bbl and USD80/bbl for WTI. +• We think the crude oil market is oversupplied, which is likely to push up OECD crude oil inventories to 62 +days of consumption... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024172.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024172.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ce52b3993e24453f9eae4e6713e2d65c3aaec4e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024172.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Base metals +Preference: neutral +Current (last month): copper USD 7,317/mt(7792); nickel USD 16,528/mt(16833); aluminum USD 1,825/mt(1989) +UBS View +5-month target: copper: UDS 7,400/mt nickel: USD 18,000/mt; aluminum: USD 2,200/mt +• With the exception of aluminum, base metal prices stabilized broadly in June. Deteriorating industrial activity in Asian countries, +weak US data and the Euro-zone crisis remain a price burden for the sector in the early part of 3Q12. +• To weigh on scrap supply and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024173.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024173.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..965264419e3e21d014844715a836b4cccbe96399 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024173.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Agriculture +Preference: underweight +Current (25 June) (last month): Soybeans, USD 14.79/bu (USD13.82/bu); Corn, USD 6.09/bu(USD 5.79/bu); +Recommendations +Wheat, USD 6.91/bu (USD 6.80/bu) +Tactical +UBS View +6-month target: Soybeans, USD 13.5/bu; Corn, USD 5.10/bu; Wheat, USD 6.00/bu +• The forward curve in corn already factors +• Besides the overall commodity price backdrop, prevailing dry weather conditions in the US have been +in a steep decline by the end of the year, +price supportive for the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024174.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024174.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1ca650b33d0b144968649167519c998b1e4a36b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024174.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Listed real estate +Preference: neutral +UBS Global Index DTR (28 June): 1,375 (last month: 1,320) +UBS Global Index DTR (6-month target): 1,400 +• A slight positive monthly performance has been driven by rebounds in the higher beta markets, +respectively Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. +• Listed real estate is still attractively valued on different earnings ratios and trade on a slight discount to +NAV. Earnings yields over 5 year swap rate are attractive currently attractive, yet the flattening of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024175.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024175.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8bf8fe0a85a35bfc074e4545210bbdbd5a5e5fa1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024175.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Hedge funds +UBS View +Prefer Relative value and Event driven +• We expect hedge funds (HF) to offer positive asymmetric returns characteristics vs. the S&P 500 due to +active management and stop-loss strategies. (HF were down 1.9% in May 2012 vs MSCI world at -8.5%) +• Decelerating global growth prospects, the next leg in the ongoing Eurozone crisis, is challenging mostly +equity long-short managers, who are net-long the market. While event-driven managers share some of +the performance drivers,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024176.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024176.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3443969525b4706759714ec849cee06e48ab3add --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024176.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Private Equity +Prefer small/mid-cap buyout in US / emerging markets; +UBS View +distressed debt in Europe +• Private equity deals in today's volatile and uncertain markets are conservatively financed, with an average +equity cushion of 40%. We like mid-market buyout strategies, which offer long-term exposure to attractive +corporate assets and which rely less on large bank debt syndications. +• Our house view sees large parts of Europe in a stagnation, and business owners are reluctant to sell... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024177.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024177.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ddc2c8a81cf1d7bd642bb6a25dd0f577e7013de0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024177.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Contact list +UBS WM Global Chief Investment Officer +Alexander Friedman +alexander.friedman@ubs.com +Global Head of Investment +Mark Haefele +mark.haefele@ubs.com +Global Investment Office +Themes / UHNW +Simon Smiles +simon.smiles@ubs.com +Kiran Ganesh +kiran.ganesh@ubs.com +James Purcell +james.purcell@ubs.com +Christopher Wright +christopher-zb.wright@ubs.com +Asset Allocation Advisory +Mark Andersen +mark.andersen@ubs.com +Karsten Bagger +karsten.bagger@ubs.com +Achim Peijan +achim.peijan@ubs.com +Philipp... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024178.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024178.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..86470ebd0976b6d4806ca0c10e372deefc07a454 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024178.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Disclaimer +This document has been prepared by UBS AG, its subsidiary or affiliate ("UBS"). The information is intended as a general market commentary and provided solely for marketing and information +purposes. Opinions expressed herein are those of UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank's Chief Investment Office. The information does not constitute UBS financial research. The statutory regulations regarding +independence of financial research are not applicable to this publication. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024179.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024179.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..54def69f667781d3d1920445fe6375fc9f85d76c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024179.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +PROGRAMME FOR THE PRESIDENT AND FIRST LADY FOR +THE 67 UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY +22-29 SEPTEMBER +NEW YORK +Saturdav, 22 September 2012 +02.15 PM: +President Arrives In JFK +Flight # EK 201 +Composition of the motorcade. +• Car 1: President + First Lady +Car 2: PR + Counsellor Javed +Departs to Helmsley Hotel, 42nd street between 2"d and 3"d +Ave +08.00 PM - 10:30 PM: +Private Dinner +Helmsley Hotel +Sunday, 23 September 2012 +08:00 AM - 09:00 AM: +Breakfast with Maldivian Delegates +Helmsley Hotel +12:30... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024180.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024180.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..914ab2530a3bad574dac009c688eacd03135fd72 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024180.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +04.00 PM- 04.45 PM: +06.15 PM: +07.00 PM: +08.00 PM - 11:00 PM: +Tuesday, 25 September 2012 +7:00 AM - 7:30 AM: +07.30 AM: +08.00 AM - 08.50 AM: +09.00 AM: +01.15 PM: +03.00 PM- 03.35 PM: +04.00 PM: +04.45 PM- 05.15 PM: +06.00 PM - 07.30 PM: +Helmsley Hotel +UNDP Administrator. Location: bilateral booth at the UN. (Walking distance) +President+ Foreign Minister + Environment Minister + AG ++ Ambassador Rasheed + PR +Depart Hotel to President Obama's Reception +President Obama's Reception +• Location: Starlight... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024181.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024181.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4832e9b8b61f9834bbf0326fb31cfb24e8dd7e46 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024181.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +08.00 PM - 11:00 PM: +Wednesday, 26 September 2012 +8:00 AM - 9:00 AM: +9.00 AM - 11.00 AM: +09.30 AM- 11.00 AM: +11.30 AM- 12.00 PM: +01.15 PM - 03.00 PM: +03.00 PM- 03.30 PM: +04.15 PM - 05.00 PM: +05.00 PM: +06.00 PM - 08.00 PM: +08.30 PM: +President + Foreign Minister + PR +Private Dinner +Helmsley Hotel +Breakfast with Maldivian Delegates +Helmsley Hotel +Museum Tour hosted by Mrs Ban Soon-taek +Location: Morgan Library 225 Madison Ave. + 36th street +First Lady +2012 Launch of the Climate Vulnerability... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024182.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024182.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..03f1e581735ee08b98c07e8ca43253f6f2d42036 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024182.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +11.00 PM - 12:00 AM: +Private Dinner +Helmsley Hotel +Thursdav, 27 September 2012 +8:00 AM - 9:00 AM: +09.00 AM- 09.30 AM: +Breakfast with Maldivian Delegates +Helmsley Hotel +Vanuatu Prime Minister +Location: bilateral booth at the UN.(Walking distance) +President + Foreign Minister+ State Minister +AG+ PR +09:00AM - 11:30AM +10:00AM - 11:30AM +12:30 PM - 01:30 PM: +03.00 PM - 09.00 PM: +03.00 PM - 06.00 PM: +06.30 PM: +06.30 PM - 08.30 PM: +08.30 PM - 11:00 PM: +Fifth Annual World Focus on Autism +Location: The... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024183.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024183.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..74ebc4b647fc8a1fbe26bf15b23796b17e20e581 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024183.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +09.00 AM - 10.30 AM: +CMAG Meeting +Location: Australian Mission +President +12.15 PM- 12.45 PM: +President of the General Assembly +Location: GA 200 (Behind GA Hall) UNHQ +President + Foreign Minister+ PR+ Aliny +04.00 PM: +OHCHR +Location: TBC +President+ AG +06.00 PM - 07.30 PM: +08.00 PM - 11:00 PM: +Commonwealth Reception hosted by Australia. (TBC) (RSVP) +Location: 1 Beekman Place, New York, NY 10022 +Head of Delegation + Foreign Minister +PR +Private Dinner +Helmsley Hotel +Saturday, 29 September 2012 +8:00... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024184.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024184.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0337dde33002c8bc6eb2f6f76403eb19934f2b87 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024184.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +PROGRAMME FOR LOS ANGELES SEGMENT +29TH SEPTEMBER - 5TH OCTOBER +NEW YORK +Saturday, 29 September 2012 +04.55 PM: +7.00 PM: +HEP Arrives In LAX +Flight # AA 117 +Extended Port Courtesies +Dinner at Navarro's house +Sstay at Shilo Hilltop Suites Hotel or alternative +Sundav, 30 September 2012 +XXX +Sail to Catalina Island, stay in Avalon (several hotels to choose from) +Monday, 1 October 2012 +XXX +Explore Avalon, 2nd night in Avalon +Tuesday, 2 October 2012 +Xxx +Sail or motor to another part of the island and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024185.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024185.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5b70cbebc5d64a05f1f58a53348c82a218558cd2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024185.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Updated on 20 September 2012 +PROGRAMME FOR 67h UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY +18 SEPTEMBER - 20 DECEMBER 2012 +NEW YORK +Friday, 21 September 2012 +08.30 AM: +03.00 PM: +Working Breakfast hosted by Ireland, Mary Robinson +Location: One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 885 2nd Ave. 19th +floor +PR +Shabeen's Arrival +Location: JFK +• Flight # QR 83 +Saturday, 22 September 2012 +02.15 PM: +President Arrives In JFK +• Flight # EK 201 +• Composition of the motorcade. +• Car 1: President + First Lady +• Car 2: PR +... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024186.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024186.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..03daab51043330da7e2d1a8c60bf6e6b77cb1a55 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024186.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +08.00 PM - 10:30 PM: +Monday, 24 September 2012 +8:00 AM - 9:30 AM: +08.15 AM - 10.00 AM: +10.00 AM - 05.00 PM: +12:30 PM - 01:30 PM: +01.15 PM - 02.45 PM: +02.00 PM- 02.30 PM: +03.00 PM- 06.00 PM: +04.00 PM- 04.45 PM: +06.15 PM: +07.00 PM: +08.00 PM - 11:00 PM: +Tuesday, 25 September 2012 +• Location: The Waldorf Astoria Hotel, 301 Park Avenue, New +• PR +Presidents Private Dinner Event - Jeffrey Epstine +Composition of the motorcade. +• Lead car: President +Breakfast with Maldivian Delegates +• Helmsley... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024187.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024187.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5516fd2d8a9d4417a74810c0c1b940d0934a68b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024187.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +7:00 AM - 7:30 AM: +07.30 AM: +08.00 AM - 08.50 AM: +09.00 AM: +11.30 AM - 12.00 PM: +01.15 PM: +03.00 PM- 03.35 PM: +03.30 PM: +04.00 PM: +04.00 PM- 04.30 PM: +04.30 PM- 05.00 PM: +04.45 PM- 05.15 PM: +Updated on 20 September 2012 +Breakfast with Maldivian Delegates +• Helmsley Hotel +Depart from Hotel to UNHQ (Walking distance) +Velcoming reception hosted by the Secretary-Genera +• Location: Indonesian Lounge, UNHC +• President + First Lady +Opening of the General Assembly +Location: UNHQ +• President+ Foreign... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024188.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024188.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e6fe1eef87b133bceb2fdae10fce82b20b3dd55f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024188.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +06.00 PM - 07.30 PM: +EVENING +08.00 PM - 11:00 PM: +Wednesday, 26 September 2012 +8:00 AM - 9:00 AM: +09:00 AM - 10:00 AM: +9.00 AM - 11.00 AM: +09.30 AM- 11.00 AM: +11.30 AM- 12.00 PM: +01.15 PM - 03.00 PM: +01:15 PM - 02:30PM +01:15 PM - 02:30PM +03.00 PM- 03.30 PM: +03.00 PM- 06.00 PM: +Reception hosted by Prime Minister of Australia +Location: Ambassador's Riverview, UN Headquarters +• President + Foreign Minister + PR +UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's Every Women Every Child +reception (TBC) +Venue: New... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024189.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024189.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bf30ec6073caebec97e0647542802aaed5d85d28 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024189.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +04.15 PM - 05.00 PM: +05.00 PM: +06.00 PM - 08.00 PM: +06.00 PM - 08.00 PM: +06.30 PM - 08.30 PM: +08.30 PM: +11.00 PM - 12:00 AM: +Thursdav, 27 September 2012 +8:00 AM - 9:00 AM: +08.00 AM - 09.30 AM: +09.00 AM- 09.30 AM: +09:00AM - 11:30AM +Updated on 20 September 2012 +All, Organized by IPU(Confirmed) +Location: Conference room 3 NLB, UNHQ +• Nihan+ AG+ Shabeen +Meeting with Commonwealth Secretary General, H.E Mr. Kamalesh Sharma. +• Location: Commonwealth Joint Office Large Conference +• President + Foreign... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024190.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024190.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..25ddbe2a0d5b48132be7a3756de9c09661b56f9e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024190.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +10:00AM - 11:30AM +10.00 AM- 10.45 AM: +10:00 AM - 01:00 PM: +11:00AM - 01:30 PM: +12:30 PM - 01:30 PM: +03.00 PM - 09.00 PM: +03.00 PM - 06.00 PM: +06.30 PM: +06.30 PM - 08.30 PM: +06.30 PM - 08.30 PM: +06.30 PM - 08.30 PM: +08.30 PM - 11:00 PM: +• Location: The Prestigious Roosevelt House +• First Lady +Feed the Future: Partnering with Civil Society hosted by the +President of Malawi and Hillary Clinton. +• Location: The Empire Room, Waldorf Astoria, 301 Park Ave. +• President, Foreign Minister and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024191.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024191.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8c6287e16b551bfca10d770ffabd99bf0049a37d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024191.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Friday, 28 September 2012 +8:00 AM - 9:00 AM: +09.00 AM - 10.30 AM: +10.00 AM: +09.00 AM - 01.15 PM: +12.15 PM- 12.45 PM: +01.15 PM - 03.00 PM: +04.00 PM: +06.00 PM - 07.30 PM: +08.00 PM - 11:00 PM: +Saturday, 29 September 2012 +8:00 AM - 9:30 AM: +09.00 AM - 04.00 PM: +01.45 PM: +07.00 PM: +Updated on 20 September 2012 +• Helmsley Hotel +Breakfast with Maldivian Delegates +Helmsley Hotel +CMAG Meeting +• Location: Australian Mission +• President +H.E. Mohamed Rasheed, Departure +Flight #UA 755 +ligh- Level meeting on... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024192.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024192.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..687f6bba9eba74190cbaa4e515c116feddcf55a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024192.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +11.40 PM: +Monday, 1 October 2012 +10.00 AM- 06.00 PM: +Around 04.00 PM: +Tuesdav, 2 October 2012 +10.00 AM- 10.30 AM: +1.00 PM: +11.00 PM: +Thursday, 4 October 2012 +11.20 AM: +Incoming Requests +TBC: +Between 24th & 29th Sep: +TBC: +24-28 September +... ... ....... Shabeen's Departure +Location: JFK +• Flight # QR 84 +Forum of Small States (FOSS) Conference on Small States +Location: UN North Lawn Building, Conference Room 3 +FM+PR +Singapore Foreign Minister (Confirmed) +Location: on sidelines of FOSS, UN North... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024193.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024193.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c6d792dec729119836b350d987f344f7953bcc59 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024193.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Updated on 20 September 2012 +Contact: Mr. Ileung Kim, First Secretary, PM/Korea +212-439-4087, iekim99@mofat.go.kr +Ms. Sun A Yoon, 212-439-4059, yoons.rok.un@gmail.com +Bilateral Requests sent +His Excellency the President (22 September - 29 September 2012) +• +India +• Sri Lanka +Pakistan +Nepal +Bangladesh +Afghanistan +• +Bhutan +• +Canada (not available) +• China +• Japan +USA +Germany +Denmark +• +World Bank +His Excellency Dr. Abdul Samad Abdulla, Minister of Foreign Affairs (22 September - 5... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024194.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024194.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8491aba7879c873504ea62c5864c6cb03037d121 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024194.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Eye on the Market +October 22, 2012 +J.P. Morgan +The most important energy developments of 2012: how countries are planning for Independence Day +First, a few updates: +• It looks like sub-2.5% global GDP growth is showing up in the weak outlook provided by some bell-weather cyclical +companies that reported so far (AMD, APD, BHI, CAT, ETFC, GE, GOOG, IBM, MCD, MSFT, PH). The recent pick-up in +leading indicators suggests that earnings expectations may stabilize early in the new year. +• September US... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024195.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024195.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..974a8b9ed17e1f3de813d4a34329171f4f92bff3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024195.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Eye on the Market +October 22, 2012 +J.P.Morgan +The most important energy developments of 2012: how countries are planning for Independence Day +I: What might US energy independence look like? The latest data (June 2012) show North Dakota now ahead of Alaska's North Slope. Crude oil production by region +Total US crude oil production +Million barrels crude oil production per day +Million barrels crude oil production per day +2.5 - +9.5 +2.0 +8.5 +Texas +1.5 +Alaska +7.5 +1.0 +6.5 +0.5 +Federal Offshore +Gulf of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024196.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024196.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..75cc5a75ae70a12f1bcced85962974446f83c041 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024196.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Morgan +The most important energy developments of 2012: how countries are planning for Independence Day +Some detail on the components of increased US energy independence: +Net increase in domestic production: we have modeled an increase of 1.8 mm bpd. For context, the 2012 Energy Information +Administration (EIA) outlook has a variety of crude oil production scenarios for 2025 ranging from no increase to an increase +of 2.8 mm bpd (the "technically recoverable resource" case). Any production... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024197.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024197.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..519fff403136176e2ba78f8f260dead5c3ce4eb6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024197.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Eve on the Market +October 22, 2012 +J.P.Morgan +The most important energy developments of 2012: how countries are planning for Independence Day +II: Is Germany making an impetuous mad dash into renewable energy? In the wake of Fukushima, Chancellor Merkel announced a plan to accelerate the closure of coal and nuclear power plants, with +the goal of relying more on renewable energy to fill the gap. Germany is by far the largest user of electricity in Europe and its +manufacturing to GDP ratio is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024198.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024198.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..72a0c587fe982c76104da643d8bc5a28e788d266 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024198.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Eye on the Market +October 22, 2012 +J.P.Morgan +The most important energy developments of 2012: how countries are planning for Independence Day +adding up, it is unclear how Germany will accomplish all of its goals simultaneously. That's probably why the ECB has been +doing the heavy lifting in the European bailout: that approach doesn't look like it will cost Germany any money (yet.....) +A brief comment on investment opportunities in wind. This compares to 45-50 Euros per MWh +for electricity in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024199.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024199.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed493ae7b033cb7bc11cb4e6fa0e34c2e256dc61 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024199.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Eye on the Market +J.P.Morgan +October 22, 2012 +The most important energy developments of 2012: how countries are planning for Independence Day +IV: What geopolitical consequences may result from China's rising energy needs? The penetration +rate of passenger vehicles in China is considerably lower than in other countries. Net imports of crude and petroleum products as a +Auto penetration rates +percent of total domestic consumption +Passenger and commercial vehicles per 1,000... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024200.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024200.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d894fa5091f313c4b8e0ca1171a5ca415a6a6e09 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024200.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Morgan +The most important energy developments of 2012: how countries are planning for Independence Day +Bottom line: China has a long history of economic, political and military co-operation with Iran. China has greater economic +linkages with the US, but for China, that fact does not negate the advantages of its relationship with Iran, particularly as its +energy needs continue to rise, and as it seeks to prevent U.S. domination of the Persian Gulf. A report by The National Regulatory... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024201.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024201.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9ec5db496b80eee7f519da9e4228dcbf06f1c289 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024201.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Eye on the Market +October 22, 2012 +J.P.Morgan +The most important energy developments of 2012: how countries are planning for Independence Day +IRS Circular 230 Disclosure: JPMorgan Chase & Co. and its affiliates do not provide tax advice. Accordingly, any discussion of U.S. tax matters contained herein (including +any attachments) is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, in connection with the promotion, marketing or recommendation by anyone unaffiliated with +JPMorgan Chase &... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024202.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024202.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7849271b4e6530722a2d79d30fcfe351e4630ef6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024202.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +ELECTRON +CAPITAL PARTNERS LLC +Global Utility White Paper +A Primer on Long/Short Investing in the +Global Utilities & Infrastructure Sector +Jos Shaver +Portfolio Manager +Electron Capital Partners LLC +March 08, 2013 +For exclusive of Jeffrey Epstein +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024202 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024203.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024203.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b18cc963efe759ce990e59f6b0141e35b2fe0346 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024203.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Structural Change - Advantageous Time for Global Utility Sector Long/Short Investing +• Structural Change in Electron's Research Process. +• Structural Change Cycle.. +• Investors Not Positioned for Structural Change Pickup... +o Long-Only Investors Substantially Underweight but Hedge Funds Turning... +3. Regional Structural Changes Driving Alpha Opportunity +• US Utilities +• European Utilities....... +• Asian Utilities. +• Japanese Utilities +• Latam Utilities. +4. Global Structural Changes Driving... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024204.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024204.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..53171f9fffb4adbe6d0b088c58a614152327bb16 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024204.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +1. Executive Summary +This White Paper discusses Electron Capital's ("Electron") views on the global utility sector and outlines why +now is a particularly advantageous time for long/short investing in the sector using Electron's research +approach that focuses on structural change. Electron will continue its approach with the Electron Global Fund, an absolute return product. (See +Appendices 1 and 2 for Electron's process and the sector's history.) +Electron invests in a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024205.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024205.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..724f83d5801893ff9bd4c5c1bb05f74c022751f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024205.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +• Leverage to higher power prices can be substantial. In Europe, where power is generated at close to cash production cost in many markets, +even a modest (e.g. 10%) combination of changes in coal, carbon and Euro prices can +have a 25-50% earnings impact on several European utilities. +• Global utility capex (ex-US) is rebounding after a recession-driven slowdown: +System-enhancing transmission capex is accelerating in Europe and Asia and is firm in +• US, European and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024206.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024206.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2539900519739294b3fcfc9947522f155e0b65ec --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024206.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +2. Structural Change - Advantageous Time for Global Utility Sector Long/Short Investing +The high level of structural change occurring around the globe makes this a particularly advantageous time +to be long/short investing in the global utility sector. The various examples for each region, the importance +of structural change to each region and the opportunities are listed in Section 3. +• Structural Change in Electron's Research Process +Since the original Electron was... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024207.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024207.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c1ef7dd843056acd2d48d127f5015f96a5ce0e9c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024207.txt @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +Global Sector Positioning +Tech +Industrials +Insurance +Pharma +Discretionary +Materials +Energy +Banks +Staples +Telecoms +Utlites +-30 +<= Underweight // overweight= ++10 ++15 +Source: Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Fund Manager Survey, Feb 12, 2013 +Substantially +underweight ++20 ++25 ++30 ++35 +Net % Overweight Global Utilities +8/2/13 ++10 underweight vs mean +- T += 170 +160 +150 +140 +130 +120 +-20 1 +110 +-30 +100 +-1o underweight vs mean +90 +Red circle = +crossing below +10... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024208.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024208.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ba65bdacbd049dfc58c2111429ce5937946e16f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024208.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +underperformance -39%, QE2 -12%, QE3 -5%), which signals exhaustion of selling pressure as the +relative value of the S&P versus utilities has stretched further. UTY/SPX Post QE Announcement +QE1 +US Utilities Price/S&P 500 Price +After every QE announcement, +utilities have underperformed +QE2 +-0.4000 +QE3 +-39% +-2 3500 +Source: Bloomberg +3. Regional Structural Changes Driving Alpha Opportunity +Structural changes are occurring in all regions. Those in which Electron is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024209.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024209.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e9cc856a345bc34ebb8ee455a49191e87f23362a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024209.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +US Utilities PE/SPX PE +-120 +Close to record +relative PE +нало +-ado +202 +2003 +Source: Bloomberg +2304 +246 +20% +2007 +hitt +While we will continue to see solid growth from the regulated names, and a total return argument can +still be made that justifies the current premium valuation of US utilities, we do see capex growth starting +to level off. This is the opposite of what will happen in Europe and Asia, where we expect regulatory capex +to increase. We believe there is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024210.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024210.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7b77f6d26cb1ed35b27fac450074ca8d0b860cfb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024210.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +• European Utilities +We believe European utilities have the potential not only for the strongest outperformance but also for +the greatest alpha generation. Since the financial crisis, European utility earnings have declined +approximately -45% which is slightly less than European broader market earnings declines of -51% (Stoxx +600 or SXXP) and -58% (Stoxx 50 or SX5E). Prior to the crisis, European utilities used to trade at a 20% +premium to the broader market. Most of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024211.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024211.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..080169abab6655dbdb03b6a83f0940d57101c0d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024211.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +Electron's structural changes: Europe +• EU energy efficiency directive and load growth +• EU ETS (carbon market) changes +Renewables build and power market distortions +Mismatches between tariff rises and costs/capex +Infrastructure spending impact on energy costs and power/gas competition +UK capacity markets +Large combustion plant directive (LCPD) (UK) +Power market impact of nuclear phase outs (Germany) and new nuclear build (UK) +Political interference on the continent... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024212.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024212.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5e2d5b257c7a1350d2c303ed68b7f236747c41f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024212.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +Electron's structural changes: Asia-Pacific ex-Japan +• China power market policy changes to address record pollution levels +• Impact on China's power market of selective coal plant approvals +• Accelerating development of shale gas in China +• Urgently-needed power reform in India to address fuel, power tariff and grid issues +• Potential carbon trading and Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) in China +• Increasing promotion of natural gas usage and price reform in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024213.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024213.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..36161555518ea1fce7620aab3892cd4f157f2d73 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024213.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +• Latam Utilities +Latin America will be a trading market for the next year or two. These markets, with the exception of +Chile, are subject to significant government intervention, which follows long cycles; Brazil is early in the +interventionist cycle (e.g., Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's recent politicization of electricity tariffs), +while other countries such as Argentina are closer to the end. Below is a partial list of structural changes driving long/short... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024214.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024214.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b21ab72fc2c894f560d63569a4e7cd4ac4429c1f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024214.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +US vs. UK Margin Analysis for Coal Power Plants +50 +S/MWh gross margin +20 +liquids shale production to remain much higher than gas. With the wide spread between oil and U.S. natural gas prices likely to continue, we expect the growth in +decade low and the Energy Information Administration expects gas production to be flat through 2014. +to focus on liquids-rich plays and de-emphasize dry-gas production. However, the current spot price ($3.42/mmbtu) +We believe a floor... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024215.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024215.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b90d8e25853452066ee2b303bb3509245f8350cb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024215.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +fundamentals that are supportive of higher natural gas prices; while we don't expect a return to the +commodity boom times of 2003-2007, a turn in trend will be very supportive of higher share prices. +• Capex (ex-US) is Rebounding Post-Recession +Capital spending precedes earnings, and utility capex (ex-US) is rebounding after a recession-driven +slowdown. In particular, transmission spending is accelerating in Europe (Germany, Spain, France) and +Asia while remaining... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024216.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024216.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4b45458728484b22709cdbe3f1b80e15371faad9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024216.txt @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +MSCI World Utility vs MSCI World Price Spread +(90-Day MA) +ility underperfo +--100 +• +• +Source: Bloomberg +Price +MSCI Global Sectors +Consumer Discretionary +Information Technology +Materials +Industrial +Consumer Staples +Health Care +Energy +Financials +Telecom +Utilities +Source: Bloomberg +1/1/2009 +68.5 +54.2 +146.1 +101.4 +104.7 +89.1 +181.9 +63.0 +51.0 +113.4 +12/31/2012 +132.4 +96.9 +237.2 +155.8 +160.5 +128.4 +238.9 +82.0 +56.9 +100.9 +Performance +93% +79% +62% +54% +53% +44% +31% +30% +12% +-11% +Reasons... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024217.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024217.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1f5667a887d80e01117f0f0bce554275e24e2a91 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024217.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +models/prospects. This can be triggered by improving sector fundamentals, better data points, or +conversely by events that instead lower investors' perception of economic growth prospects (e.g., policy +errors, rising European sovereign yields, higher commodity prices, etc.). Subsequent MSCI World Utility vs MSCI World +performance post lo underweights +40% +30% +20% +10% +0% +-10% +20.4% +Cumulative +outperformance +12.4% +6.6% +8.1% +8.0% +2.4% +12 mos +18 mos +MSCI World... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024218.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024218.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..57a44c4a5eba1a66cbe91481781ee28736b52331 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024218.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +Normalind As Of eL/08/195 +is be bie san hide 19, 153 +MSCI world utility vs MSCI world index +-Periods of major utility underperformance. +«NO BASE INSE WERE MAN NECT WERE AN AN +2001200z +209 200 mu +30 - 301 12-059 +Source: Bloomberg +Of course, not all investors sold utilities - some were astute buyers. Warren Buffett (at the time, +thought to be a bit out of touch with the new economy) acquired $12 billion worth of utility assets +between 1999 and 2002, namely MidAmerican... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024219.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024219.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..52c7369e571be3b5d6aa7796455b1ec4e76b5217 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024219.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +the broader market. Following the policy errors, Japanese utilities staged exceptionally strong +outperformance rallies lasting over 1.5 years, on average, and outperforming the Topix by 30-40% +(graph below). +1.1 +0.9 +0.8 +Japan's Two Major Policy Mistakes (Nomura) +zumi reform includ +general spending +2. capping new bond sales +This moderate fiscal consolidation +sent the economy back ino recession +0.4 +0.3 +0.2 +0.1 +Hashimoto fiscal tightening included: +1. hiking the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024220.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024220.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9e26f956b129ce04f5622be7016c2b76047ce1cc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024220.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +6. Interest Rate Risk - A Common Misperception +We find a common misperception among investors to be the degree of interest rate risk in the global utility +sector, as interest rate sensitivity has declined steadily since the modern utility industry came into being in +the early 1990s. European, Asian and Latam utilities are more levered to economic growth and therefore tend to be +no more interest rate-sensitive than broad market equities. US utilities/US 10-yr Treasury... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024221.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024221.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..42025cfed2bd6ba6266c7be6abe86a6128cea059 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024221.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +Appendix 1: The Team and Our Process +• Electron Focus +Electron's universe of utility and infrastructure stocks is deep, comprising 375 companies with a market +cap of $2.8 trillion. Our approach is truly global +as 40-60% of the portfolio's historical gross has been allocated outside the US. +• Electron Team +Electron's cohesive, long-standing team consists of 8 members, including 5 investment professionals who +have worked (with Jos Shaver as Portfolio Manager) at SAC... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024222.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024222.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ac9e18fce509313c41851679f1d19c80d94fbfcf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024222.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +of the earnings impact for the relevant companies, and assess what might be priced in by thoroughly +reviewing the Street's numbers and commentary. We travel extensively and, collectively, the 5 +investment professionals will have between 600 and close to 1,000 meetings a year as we speak with +companies, regulators, consultants, sell-side analysts and governments. +• Why We Take a Global Approach - The "Greatest Gift" +Electron takes a global approach (historically,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024223.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024223.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ca5b8075a46ae9f8149322d1523e89b9eb08f875 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024223.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +• Capitalizing on Structural Change Timing +Although some of the structural changes discussed earlier happen in days or weeks, e.g. fuel cost +passthrough adjustments, others will take years to implement, for example, new capacity payment +structures. Utilities often have earnings visibility 2-3 +years out (including Street estimates) which is in contrast to other sectors (e.g. tech) which often +times do not have 2-3 quarters of visibility. As such, utility stock prices... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024224.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024224.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4ca4c50dd475705177833d487c25bb97b0a13303 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024224.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +8 years tracks approximately 60 industry, commodity, and financial risk metrics and is a focus for the +Electron team. For example, consider oil price risk; although there may be no direct oil exposure in the +portfolio, there is indirect oil exposure if we were to be short Drax, a coal-fired generator that sells power +into the UK power market. In the UK, natural gas sets the marginal price of power, and in Europe, by +convention, natural gas is linked to the oil price;... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024225.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024225.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0ebbdd7cc0722ed9b5543dd19ec8ae2008107c26 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024225.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +They are in a capital-intensive business and need to preserve deep, low-cost access to both the equity +and debt capital markets. Moreover, collateral requirements for forward power price hedging +typically will spike if a utility loses its investment grade rating, which can spur concern about liquidity. Our process focuses +on researching capex flexibility, cost-cutting potential and asset divestiture potential to determine +the flexibility a company has under various... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024226.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024226.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2826faebf9efd4c976c8cd6a60a8be6ea8b8e718 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024226.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +Appendix 2: Global Utility Sector Background +• History +To gain a deeper appreciation of why the global utility sector is attractive for long/short investing, it is +helpful to briefly survey the history of the sector and describe the utility value chain's components. The utility industry as we know it began in 1882 when Thomas Edison built the world's first generating +station on Pearl Street in downtown Manhattan. In the 1980s, Lord David Howell (formerly UK Secretary... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024227.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024227.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dee6407c79bcc9ec88b3a4dc4bb816c41e3294ec --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024227.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +• Utility Value Chain +The electricity value chain for a modern day fully integrated utility consists of Generation + Transmission ++ Distribution + Customers (see diagram below). Each segment of the value chain is a different business, +with distinct risks and economic drivers. Competition has surfaced in each part of the value chain other +than transmission and distribution (which are fully-regulated assets as they are deemed to be natural +monopolies). Still,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024228.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024228.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5484e7625fc99d7601f24dc00975d65a406a1b25 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024228.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Global Utility White Paper + +Disclaimer +This report, which is attached as an exhibit to the Investor Presentation, is presented by Electron Capital Partners +LLC ("Electron") solely for information purposes to provide recipients with general information regarding Electron's +current view of the global utility sector. This report is a summary and does not purport to be complete. This report does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of any offer to buy or sell, any securities or... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024229.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024229.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9f762780d31924bfd64fc356b9b99a7ee3686316 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024229.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +It's an absurdly vast house, among the largest in +Manhattan, but the dining room is windowless, creating +a hermetic or stop-time sense, broken only by the +household staff ferrying in time-of-day-appropriate +foods and beverages. The real world seems terribly far away, but with +paparazzi often posted near by, it's dangerously close +too. Once I arrived for a visit and found several police +cars blocking the street and thought the worst—they'd +come for him again. In 2002, his +plane, a meticulously... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024233.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024233.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9139342c9a886dcc57414a20b9c0d863bb387752 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024233.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Epstein can find himself echoing aspects of +Thomas Piketty on the inequities of the accumulation of +wealth ("the divide is between people with assets, which +appreciate, and people without assets, who fail to +advance-that is, of course, the miracle of compounded +interest"), except for the fact that Epstein, knowing the +rich, understands a point that Piketty doesn't: "Nobody, +nobody, wants to give it all to their children. Everybody +now has the modern appreciation that one of the curses +of great... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024234.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024234.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..72cad6e54ad8c2f8ae2d1f77f67c81824e7b6f7b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024234.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +In fact, the life in the house, without wife or +children or conventional domestic demeanor, rather +conforms to the scripted fantasies: somewhere between +Daddy Warbucks and Eyes Wide Shut. There is indeed a +group of young women—in their twenties and thirties— +who act as Epstein's support staff and companions. His present girlfriend, whom he met four years ago at a +dinner party in New York, has just graduated dental +school. One former girlfriend, Eva Andersson Dubin, a +Swedish model and Miss... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024236.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024236.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7fbcc93e75f8e61fd18b04e544f466e24a8bbf4f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024236.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +It's Sunday lunch—in his schedule from a week +last fall-with Gates, Mort Zuckerman, the real estate +billionaire and owner of the Daily News, and Peter +Thiel, the PayPal co-founder and early Facebook +investor. That evening its Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim, the +foreign minister of Qatar. Hamad lives across the street +in a similarly furnished house—he and Epstein have the +same decorator. (Epstein, in his relaxed and amused +manner, keeps prodding: "Why are you financing the +bad guys? What do you get out... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024237.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024237.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e17a6dedd9d095db508a619c553bd8a9f66b6b99 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024237.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +chocolate made from pistachios grown on the Sheikh's +farm—and speculate about who actually controls ISIS, +with Weingarten arguing that the Turks are not getting +enough scrutiny. There is, in Epstein's dining room, +always an alternative version of world events— +"perception versus reality, +" says Epstein, "not to imply +that one necessarily has greater weight than the other." +"Why," I ask Weingarten, when Epstein briefly +steps out of the room, "do so many people keep coming +back here, everything... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024238.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024238.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..821db4a5a5c89a727d32cb10f3e426597180c8e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024238.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +seen as a figure of some probity and some intelligence +to being a figure of much less intelligence and much less +probity..." +"Well," says Pierce in seeming dramatic +understatement, "you are going to have some low +quality characters playing early in the space..." +That evening, in the Epstein dining room (he seems +rarely to use the rest of the house's 50,000 square feet), +there is a small cocktail party, which includes the former +Prime Minister of Australian, Kevin Rudd, and +Thorbjorn Jagland,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024239.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024239.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..36d3e064737fead757a44485fae6e65a178cb2bf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024239.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +That same dynamic, a form of signal intelligence, of +finding a terrorist in Europe, can be used to intercept +communication between cancer sells. Likewise if +you can decode biological signals you can jam them too, +that's the holy grail.") +Then Richard Axel, a Nobel prize winner in +physiology. Then Ron Baron who has $26 billion under +management in his Baron Fund. Then Josh Harris, the +co-founder of Apollo Global Management ($164 billion +under management) and owner of the New Jersey Devils +and the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024240.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024240.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9e8fd216958e3c11b114bd3ab779418bb8428889 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024240.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +But the conversations at +Epstein's are the conversations, I suspect, that rich men +dream of, but in the real world, such a buttoned-down +and agenda-driven place, are actually hard to have. "That's Jeffrey," says Mort Zuckerman, (whose +paper, the Daily News, is ever vitriolic in its coverage of +Epstein), with a twinkle in his eye. On Epstein's part, there is the wink: In his Paris +apartment, 10,000 square feet on the Avenue Foch, a +neighborhood otherwise occupied by foreign potentates, +there is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024244.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024244.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3f17f177f97e6ae798c25e3a01851edc95a87da4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024244.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Then, in his telling, he +was representing a series of vastly wealthy people and +families—not just doing their bidding or their investing, +but helping them to navigate the ambitions of their +wealth. If early in his career he might have seemed like a +sort of George Peppard (there's a physical resemblance) +in Breakfast at Tiffany's, a charming hustler, later he's +George Peppard in Banacek, a smart and astute operator. At just about this point in the narrative, the +incredulity about Epstein began... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024248.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024248.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..83fe8064375b1777a792092c4abe5f637cc510e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024248.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +He got out of jail in 2009, serving 13 months, and +moved mostly seamlessly back into his life, to the +shock-shock of tabloids whenever they are reminded of +his existence (notably, when Epstein's payment of +Fergie's debts slipped out, likely leaked by Fergie +herself). While surprisingly few +others dropped him, the Clinton's did, an irony of the +present tabloid interest in Epstein's old address book +with its many Clinton contacts. While he has regularly entertained PR proposals +aimed at his... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024249.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024249.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e274f4559b8cbb5367c3f943bf6ccd87e9524838 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024249.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +have many obviously hope the effect of derailing the +Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. It is a curious attribute of his character that, other +than perhaps being more circumspect about what legal +advice to follow, Epstein would have done little +differently. (When I suggested recently to Epstein that +one obvious way to blunt the animus bearing down on +him would be to get married, he said he'd rather go back +to jail.) His life, living it as he wants, seems to him to be +an extraordinary... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024250.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024250.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8d49a797995bc8ef1e3bdf92c14a0b529aa7aa26 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024250.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +everybody's confidant, everybody becomes his +confidant. This is the back and forth, the power loop. Which surely offers a unique sense of confidence that it +is possible to understand how the world works. And in a +time of such radical flux and existential instability, +everybody wants to seek out someone who might have +some answers or at least make you feel like he does— +even, and maybe especially, the rich. In the last days of my interviews with Epstein, he +was called by a particular world-stage... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024251.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024251.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..26df7488fd6e4214a88929d328844e84badf0282 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024251.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Richard Kahn | +7/22/2015 5:29:11 PM +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Republicans gird for the Donald Trump debate +Importance: +High +as you predicted.. +http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/07/republicans-gird-for-the-donald-trump-debate- +211033.html?ml=tl 5b# +Debate Schedule +August 6, 2015 +9pm ET - Republican Primary Debate +Aired On: Fox News Channel +Location: Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, OH +Sponsors: Fox News, facebook +Moderators: Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024252.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024252.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fb31073e1ae09c6893a9caaaaaf386f256f6f949 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024252.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Sponsors: CNN, Salem Media Group +Candidates: To be determined +2016 +January, 2016% +Republican Primary Debate +Aired On: Fox News Channel +Location: lowa +Sponsors: Fox News +Candidates: To be determined +February 6, 2016 +Republican Primary Debate +Aired On: ABC +Location: St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire +Sponsors: ABC News, IJReview.com (Press Release) +Candidates: To be determined +February 13, 2016 +Republican Primary Debate +Aired On: CBS +Location: South Carolina +Sponsors: CBS +Candidates:... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024253.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024253.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aed785ac521623ddd4b663e89181a4e585a6c72e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024253.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Top-Tier Media Stocks +Walt Disney +The Walt Disney Co. (DIS) is one of the strongest brands in the world. If there's going to be a turnaround for the +worse, it will take time to play out, giving you time to exit your position. (For related reading, see: This +Company Is No Mickey Mouse Operation.) +CBS +CBS Corp.'s (CBS) Q4 revenue increased 3% and diluted EPS improved 8%. CBS will once again have Thursday Night Football, and it will be the home of Super Bowl 50. It's +also home to regular-season... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024254.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024254.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..949e5a9b3ace63756c95190f35dc29bd5f70cbf0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024254.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Viacom +MTV, VH1, CMT, BET, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr, Comedy Central, TV Land, SPIKE, and more. Viacom, Inc. (VIA) is a profitable company that pays a small dividend. Time Warner +Time Warner Inc. (TWX) has 165 channels across 200 countries. Scripps Networks Interactive +Among Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.'s (SNI) properties are Home and Garden Television, Food Network, +Travel Channel, DIY Network, Cooking Channel and Great American Country. The risk here is the stock's +sensitivity to broader... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024255.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024255.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..827aa3c90c4ccace50b8fb3b25053a4b3b45b1c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024255.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-024255 + +The Top-Tier Media Stocks have outperformed Speculative Media Stocks over the past three years (for the most +part). Therefore, you should strongly consider the first set of stocks listed above. While it's entirely possible +they all underperform in 2015 if the market falters, these are elite names that are highly likely to be around for a +long time. Even if the worst occurs, you will have an opportunity to add more to your position at cheaper prices. +(For related reading,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024256.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024256.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5461d88f32aeb09f918f8d9f404de13c2d73041e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024256.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Internet & Society: The Technologies and Politics of Control +Professor Jonathan Zittrain co-taught with Professor Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab +Harvard Law School +Winter 2017 +Mon-Fri +10:30am-noon; 12:45pm-2pm +Milstein West AB +Syllabus +I. Course Description +This course offers a rigorous introduction to the field of cyberlaw. Course themes include the complex interaction between Internet governance organizations and +sovereign states, the search for balance between the ease of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024257.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024257.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6861fc8d27b30df6e78e216162c4b8a021bbef31 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024257.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Day 3: Cryptocurrency +Day 4: Private Infrastructures for Government Surveillance, John DeLong/Bruce Schneier talk +(morning session) +Day 5: Net Neutrality and Internet Architecture, Dialogue with Andy Ellis (afternoon session) +Day 6: Weaponized Social, Open discussion with John Palfrey (morning session) +Day 7: Free vs. Proprietary Code and Content, Dialogue with David Clark (afternoon session) +Day 8: Governance, Artificial Intelligence +Day 9: Conclusion +III. Class Requirements +The purpose of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024258.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024258.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bb425bd386f830bf3bfcf51d77b40c633377e754 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024258.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +For other general scheduling/appointment questions, please contact: +Amanda McMahan +Assistant to Professor Zittrain +Office Phone: I +Email: +Office location: Griswold Hall, 5th floor, Room #505 +Yuko Barnaby +Assistant to Media Lab Director Ito +Office Phone: | +Email: I +Office location: MIT Media Lab, E-14, Director's Office 245 +For course related (readings/paper) questions, please contact: +Samantha Bates +Research Associate +Email:| +Natalie Saltiel +Coordinating Editor for the Journal of Design and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024259.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024259.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..084d60f45efe65c3dc2cca2939c6cf98e80ad68c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024259.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Reading Assignments +Day 1: Introduction +Welcome! As you complete the readings, you might see how +you'd answer the question of what a state like France's view should be towards the scope of its +RTBF regulation, and whether the kind of "zoning" described in the Cato Institute article from +thirteen years ago (!), is realizable and desirable. Snow, "The Rede Lecture: The Two Cultures," (1959) pages 1-9 +http://s-f-walker.org.uk/pubsebooks/2cultures/Rede-lecture-2-cultures.pdf archived... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024260.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024260.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d088bce490630f7c7759b886b1b895d2681df131 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024260.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +[OPTIONAL: Right to Be Forgotten readings] +• Zoe Bedell, "Google to France: 'Forget You' - An Update on the Right to Be Forgotten" +Lawfare (May 25, 2016) +https://www.lawfareblog.com/google-france-forget-you-%E2%80%93-update-right-be-for +gotten archived at https://perma.cc/W9EX-5AGZ. +• Google Spain v. Mario Costeja González ECJ opinion (May 13, 2014) +http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/documentprint.jsf?doclang=EN&docid=152065 +archived at https://perma.cc/3ARS-3XC4. +• Read paragraphs 89-99 +•... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024261.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024261.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7faae061a1092d73f1ad34ffe815350388196549 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024261.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +• Matthew Green, Napster Opens Pandora's Box: Examining How File-Sharing Services +Threaten the Enforcement of Copyright on the Internet, 63 Oh. J. 799 (2002) +http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/students/groups/oslj/files/2012/03/63.2.green.pdf archived at +https://perma.cc/H77J-TN43. +• Brad Hill, "The iTunes Influence, Part I: How Apple Changed the Face of the Music +Marketplace," Engadget (April 29, 2013) +https://www.engadget.com/2013/04/29/the-itunes-influence-part-one/ archived... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024262.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024262.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3800099083ac8e5ab749013ca47bbeef5c753a6a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024262.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +• Coin Center, Blockchain 101, https://coincenter.org/learn archived at +https://perma.cc/M2TZ-B9YX +• Eli Dourado and Jerry Brito, "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics: +cryptocurrency," Online Edition, 2014 +http://coincenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/cryptocurrency-article.pdf archived at +https://perma.cc/3YFE-QS5P. +• Joel Monegro, "The Blockchain Application Stack" +http://www.coindesk.com/blockchain-application-stack/ archived at +https://perma.cc/4E3V-SCAL. +[OPTIONAL: for a more in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024263.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024263.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8fa73ee7d187939701f68aac7c919feff83ea69f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024263.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +https://coincenter.org/entry/what-are-smart-contracts-and-what-can-we-do-with-them +archived at https://perma.cc/BH6T-J6S7. +[OPTIONAL] +• Arvind Narayanan; "What Happened to the Crypto Dream, Part 1," Co-published by the +TEEE Computer and Reliability Societies (March/April 2013) +http://randomwalker.info/publications/crypto-dream-part1.pdf archived at +https://perma.cc/DX8U-QJ5A. +• Arvind Narayanan, "What Happened to the Crypto Dream?, Part 2," Co-published by the +IEEE and Reliability Societies... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024264.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024264.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6dd1911b5f43f06f85829164dcbfef23dce93d00 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024264.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +• Susan Landau, Testimony for House Judiciary Committee Hearing on "The Encryption +Tightrope: Balancing Americans' Security and Privacy" (March 1, 2016) +https://judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Landau-Written-Testimony.pdf +archived at https://perma.cc/N9D9-JTYQ. +• Bruce Schneier, "Data Is a Toxic Asset, So Why Not Throw It Out?," Schneier on +Security (March 1, 2016) +https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2016/03/dataisatoxicasse.html archived +at https://perma.cc/7NUL-W5YJ. +•... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024265.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024265.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..524285aa8b9ec92345b8aa952d3d6cd87bd38d91 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024265.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstractid=953989 archived at +https://perma.cc/FHE3-XUED. +• Tom Wheeler, "This is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality," Wired (February 4, 2015) +https://www.wired.com/2015/02/fcc-chairman-wheeler-net-neutrality/ archived at +https://perma.cc/C8DE-2PJB. Zero-rating +• Jeremy Malcolm, Corynne Mcsherry, and Kit Walsh, "Zero rating: What It Is and Why +You Should Care," Electronic Frontier Foundation (February 18,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024266.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024266.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..47fa6ad89264c29a45d9c5c90bbebe8f1fa94d70 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024266.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Readings: +The Problem +• Eugene Volokh, "No, there's no 'hate speech' exception to the First Amendment," The +Washington Post (May 7, 2015) +https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/07/no-theres-no-h +ate-speech-exception-to-the-first-amendment/?utmterm=.78330882267d archived at +https://perma.cc/A5ES-HMQE. +• Jon Ronson, "How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life," The New York +Times Magazine (February 12,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024267.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024267.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9ba7787dee711c53c3a10080ebba4fe076a07fed --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024267.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Proprietary Code and Content +This day examines quite different models for the development and distribution of software -- +which can also serve as models for hardware, and for content. And we will hear from the legendary David Clark, one of the framers of the Internet. Readings: +• Richard Stallman, "Original Announcement of the GNU Project," GNU Operating System +(September 27, 1983) https://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html archived at +https://perma.cc/2V5W-89P3. +• The Free Software... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024268.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024268.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cd3b8bef0a02cbcad828741bd01e14942a3c4c7a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024268.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Day 8: Governance +The tensions between free vs. proprietary software help focus us on foundational questions of +governance that are threaded through the course. Readings: +Governance: loT Security +• J.M. Porup, "Internet of Things' security is hilariously broken and getting worse" Ars +Technica (January 23, 2016) +http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/01/how-to-search-the-internet-of-things-for-photos-o +f-sleeping-babies/ archived at https://perma.cc/R8LZ-MULJ. +• Nicole Perroth, "Hackers Used New... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024269.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024269.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7d7173f92db9524ca7a96622e3510439a808247b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024269.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Artificial Intelligence +• Joichi Ito, Extended Intelligence (February, 2016) +http://www.pubpub.org/pub/extended-intelligence. +• Joichi Ito, Society in the Loop (June 23, 2016) +https://joi.ito.com/weblog/2016/06/23/society-in-the-.html archived at +https://perma.cc/AU7Y-BABZ. +• Kevin Kelly, "The Three Breakthroughs That Have Finally Unleashed Al on the World," +Wired (October 17, 2014) https://www.wired.com/2014/10/future-of-artificial-intelligence/ +archived at https://perma.cc/CA2Y-3T58. +• Kate... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024270.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024270.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1fe09e4f2867352937b5c884d0f8e89d8c2488c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024270.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +4 The Virgin Islands Daily News +VIRGIN ISLANDS +Saturday, June 24, 2017 +Feds explain sweet deal for billionaire sex offender Epstein +By JANE MUSGRAVE +The Palm Beach Post +WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Federal prosecutors in Florida went +on the offensive this month, deny- +ing allegations that they bowed to +Pressure +from +billionaire +Jef- +frey Epstein — a +resident +of the +Virgin +Islands +and Palm Beach, +Fla. +and his +high-priced law- +yers at the ex- +pense of dozens +of teenage girls +Jeffrey Epstein +he sexually... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024271.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024271.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e603dd050bfb9ba95718be5e55683644d3fdb531 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024271.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +BLOCKCHAIN CAPITAL, LLC +CCP II, LP +OCTOBER 2015 +BLOCKCHAIN +CAPITAL +ONE FERRY +BUILDING, SUITE 255 +SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111 +investor@blockchain.capital +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024271 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024272.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024272.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ea5f7eae863c423e976c16c86b869822eefc0c1a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024272.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +TECHNOLOGY THOUGHT-LEADERS ARE CONVINCED +Bill Gates: +"Bitcoin is better than currency...a technological tour de force." +Ben Bernanke +"[Virtual Currencies] may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations promote a faster, +more secure and more efficient payment system." +Eric Schmidt +"Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement and the ability to create something that is +not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value." +Milton Friedman (1999) +"I think the Internet is going... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024273.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024273.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0d96a06c6a558bcb43bfb87c36c2f31f8b109d5b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024273.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +INCUMBENTS EMBRACING THE BLOCKCHAIN +NASDAQ +citi +Santander +Standard +Chartered + RBS +The Royal Bank of Scotland +IIII +NYSE +NASDAQ - partnered with Chain to launch private company exchange +"As blockchain technology continues to redefine not only how the exchange sector operates, but the global +financial economy as a whole, NASDAQ aims to be at the center of this watershed development," - Robert +Greifela, NASDAQ CEO, +Citi - launched "Citicoin" project +"Blockchain technology not only has an... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024274.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024274.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6c118155c4f96cf16c1dbaf852679a99364d771a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024274.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +THREE TECHNOLOGY EVOLUTIONS OF DISRUPTION +2015 +1995 +1975 +The PC Era +Semiconductor Technology +(intel) +Microsoft +The Internet Era +TCP/P Protocol +Google +facebook +amazon +ebay +The Blockchain Era +Bitcoin Protocol +& coinbase +itBit +BLOCKCHAIN +CAPITAL +ONE FERRY BUILDING, SUITE 255 +chain +Change Tip +ripple +SAN +FRANCISCO, CA 94111 +investor@blockchain.capital +4 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024274 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024275.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024275.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..38505d03f3390dfabdd1505bb730df968777b9ca --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024275.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +EXPERIENCED TEAM IN INVESTING +EXPERIENCE +BART STEPHENS +• Stephens Inv. Mgmt. +• Ivanhoe Capital +• ETrade Group +• Princeton +BRAD STEPHENS +• Stephens Inv. Mgmt. +• Fidelity Ventures +• CSFB +• Furman Selz +• Duke +RECOGNITION +#2 U.S. Long/Short Hedge Fund +$500 Million AUM +2.5x Venture Fund, 11.5% IRR +Leaders in Technology +Investing +Incubated and Founded +Dozens of Startups +BLOCKCHAIN +CAPITAL +ONE FERRY BUILDING, SUITE 255 +BROCK PIERCE +PAUL STEPHENS +• Chairman of the +Bitcoin Foundation +Board +• Founded... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024276.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024276.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1cb5624695ce73b59ed2b59e3e0fbfe5371e0d0d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024276.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +SUCCESSFUL TRACK RECORD OF HOME RUNS +PRIVATE +PUBLIC +Q RelatelQ +2014 +25.0x +ValueClick +s/na +RUPTURE +ADDEPAR +2004 +2008 +2008 +2014 +8.1x +6.9x +5.0x +TBD +(7 IPOs and 13 Acquisitions ) +tencent.com +illumina +US AUTOPARTS +MiSILON® +SYSTEMS +"nCSOFT' +2014 +2009 +2010 +2011 +2007 +77.0x +39.0x +4.6x +5.1x +3.4x +( 17 Public Acquisitions) +Private and Public Exits through Multiple Market Cycles +BLOCKCHAIN +CAPITAL +6 +ONE FERRY BUILDING, SUITE 255 +SAN +FRANCISCO, CA 94111 +investor@blockchain.capital +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024276 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024277.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024277.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ea18b63c7e12d304a0fd651f4e9cdbba6e154e9f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024277.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +BROCK PIERCE - CHAIR OF THE BITCOIN FOUNDATION +NDUSTRY LEADER AND SPOKESPERSON +Money +20/20 +Singularity +University +I MILKEN INSTITUTE +ge +ZAM +IMI EXCHANGE +WIRED +TNABC +CoinSummit• +The +INSIDE +BITCOINS +the future of virtual currency +GOCOIN +O BLADE +c) COI +SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR +IGE (2001-2007) - Merged with ItemBay +Zam (2004-2012) - Sold to TenCent +IMI Exchange (2004-Present) +Xfire 2.0 (2011-Present) +Playsino (2011-Present) +Go Coin (payment processor) +Blade Financial (Bitcoin debit card) +Coin Congress... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024278.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024278.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..69ad30ff0163f44bd27d49e77fc004511e2e5894 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024278.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +PARTNERS AND ADVISORY BOARD +ALISON DAVIS +MARY CRANSTON +TERRY SCHWAKOPF +MICHAEL MCADAM +SIMON MCNAMARA +VINNY LINGHAM +BOBBY LEE +NICCOLO DE MASI +STEVE BEAUREGARD +CHRIS PALLOTTA +MATT OCKO +WILL O'BRIEN +CHARLIE LEE +1 Director: Royal Bank of Scotland, XOOM, Fiserv and First Data +1 Director: VISA, ex-CEO and Chair of Pillsbury Winthrop +EVP: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, banking supervision +CFO: Union Bank (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) +1 CTO: RBS, ex-CIO of Standard Chartered, BNP and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024279.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024279.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bdb211d495d74d523f22e41b0855116d894961e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024279.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +CRYPTO CURRENCY PARTNERS I, LP +NAUTHY +4 BLADE +AlphaPoint +• bex.io +[| Blockstream +CIRCLE +Kraken +BLOCKCYPHER +& coinbase +LedgerX +MARKETS +coinsetter +SFOX +PEERNOVA +BitFury +© BitGo + BCC +expresscoin +Gem +Freshpay +BitPesa +chain +GOCOIN +shapeard +xapo +BITACCESS +BITCOIN TELLER MACHINE +Change Tip +Koinify +3 ZIpzap +zenBox +The First Dedicated Bitcoin Venture Fund - 30 Investments, Fully Deployed +BLOCKCHAIN +CAPITAL +9 +ONE FERRY BUILDING, SUITE 255 +SAN +FRANCISCO, CA... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024280.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024280.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3a4761f3178e4bcac5441474208d5790a98a5f62 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024280.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +CRYPTO CURRENCY PARTNERS II, LP +ABRA +BITACCESS +BITCOIN TELLER MACHINE +© BitGo +BitPesa +Blockstream +BONAFIDE +Bitnet +& coinbase +expresscoin +it Bit +chain +coinsetter +Kraken +Change Tip +Gem +GOCOIN +OLedgerX +• ripple +PEERNOVA +Current portfolio - both contributed and new investments +BLOCKCHAIN +CAPITAL +10 +ONE FERRY BUILDING, SUITE 255 +SAN +FRANCISCO, CA 94111 +investor@blockchain.capital +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024280 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024281.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024281.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a23f30afb8c998583f2534487c6130c2d3c630e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024281.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +PIPELINE & PROCESS +600+ +Business Plans +200+ +Meetings +CONSUMER +• Exchanges +• Remittance +• Digital Wallets +INFRASTRUCTURE +• Side Chains +• Blockchain Apps +• Mining +ENTERPRISE +• Multi-sig workflow +• Payment Gateways +• Financial Tools +• Deep Global Domain +Knowledge +• Extensive Networks +• Proprietary Deal Flow +• Primary Investigative +Due Diligence +• Exhaustive +Management/Industry +Interaction +37 Portfolio +Companies +• Recruiting +Business Development +Capital... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024282.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024282.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e9ed1d8f1d12991550a1b220d70868c21b6b5fe --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024282.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +ACTIVE BLOCKCHAIN VENTURE INVESTORS +Google +ventures +khosla ventures +NEA. BENCHMARK + DFJ +Redpoint +SP +VENTURE PARTNERS +FORTRESS +greylock +partners. HIGHLAND +CAPITAL PARTNERS +Ribbit Capital +@ IDG +unions +ventures +bUost +RADAR +PARTNERS +PLUGANDPLAY +Silicon Valley in a Boxe +Foundation +CAPITAL +ANDREESSEN +HOROWITZ +FE +RRE Ventures +FOUNDERS FUND +Y Combinator +PANTERA +First Round +CAPITAL +Blockchain Capital has co-invested with these leading VCs +BLOCKCHAIN +CAPITAL +ONE FERRY BUILDING, SUITE 255 +SAN +FRANCISCO,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024283.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024283.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d11ee47ef7d7dbbcc65861b9066614c0610dfbe3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024283.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +CCP I| - 8 CONTRIBUTED INVESTMENTS +BitGo +Coinsetter +expresscoin +GoCoin +Kraken +LedgerX +BitAccess +BitNet +TOTAL +DATE INVESTED +June '14 +December '13 +November '13 +October '13 +April '14 +July '14 +September '14 +October '14 +$ AMOUNT +$75,000 +$50,000 +$25,000 +$100,000 +$70,000 +$50,000 +$25,000 +$75,000 +$470,000 +DETAILS +Series A preferred +Converted to Series A at 1.5x +Convert to Series A, $2.5m Cap +Converted to Series A at 4.5x +Series A preferred +Series A preferred +Note discounted to Series A preferred +Series... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024284.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024284.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8d9cf1ee7fe7a21a778933a36c97d28bc630cc12 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024284.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +CCP I| - 12 NEW INVESTMENTS MADE +DATE INVESTED +PeerNova +BlockStream +ChangeTip +Bonafide +BitPesa +Coinbase +itBit +Ripple +ABRA +Stem +Chain +Gem +September '14 +October'14 +November '14 +November'14 +December '14 +December '14 +January '15 +March '15 +July '15 +August '15 +September '15 +September '15 +TOTAL +BLOCKCHAIN +CAPITAL +$ AMOUNT +$50,000 +$100,000 +$250,000 +$50,000 +$100,000 +$200,000 +$250,000 +$250,000 +$100,000 +$250,000 +$250,000 +$250,000 +$2,100,000 +DETAILS +Converted to Series A preferred +Series A preferred +Series... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024285.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024285.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..13ed57826ae2fa8cc5558daf3f9d2c6033347bc7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024285.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +CCP I| - STRATEGY AND MAKE-UP +EXPOSURE +FUND POSITION +ALLOCATION +INVESTMENT STRATEGY +Diversified Sector-specific +50% New CCP Il investments +30% Reserves for CCP Il follow-on rounds +20% Option to use CCP I's follow-on rights +Leverage our network and industry expertise to find +investments that utilize Blockchain technologies and help +these portfolio companies disrupt legacy industries. Access to CCP's early seed deals as well as future deals +BLOCKCHAIN +CAPITAL +ONE FERRY BUILDING, SUITE... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024286.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024286.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..16c2acdab0f1f84332e4c317d99715b478a514d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024286.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +CCP || - SUMMARY OF TERMS +FUND TARGET +$10-15M +TERM +6-8 Years +FEE/INCENTIVE +2.5% / 25% +GP CONTRIBUTION ++5% Fund or +$1 m +INVESTMENTS +25 ($100k - $500k per deal) +STRUCTURE +4 x 25% capital calls, BTC Accepted +BLOCKCHAIN +CAPITAL +16 +ONE FERRY BUILDING, SUITE 255 +SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111 +investor@blockchain.capital +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024286 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024287.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024287.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bbddad1d93a79674055f4321dcfa677ca3726b08 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024287.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +CCP || - SERVICE PROVIDERS +ADMINISTRATION / CFO +Kranz & Associates +LEGAL +Sidley Austin +TAX / AUDIT +Crawford Pimintel +BANK +CUSTODIAN +Silicon Valley Bank +Merrill Lynch +BTC VAULT +Xapo & BitGo +BLOCKCHAIN +CAPITAL +17 +ONE FERRY BUILDING, SUITE 255 +SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111 +investor@blockchain.capital +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024287 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024288.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024288.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b4dfc8c3c796a39843cf9fda6c3531f86d97f922 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024288.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +USE CASES FOR BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY +Financial and Records +Legal / Health / Education +Bitcoin +Private Equities Bonds Public Equities +Shareholder Voting +Remittance +Crowd-funding +Spending Records +Micro-payments +Commodities +Trading Records +Derivatives +Mortgage/loan records +Digital Coupons Servicing records Micro-charity +Smart Contracts +Signatures/identity +Degrees +Wills +Genome data +Trusts +Licensing +Medical Records +Escrows +Delivery records +Arbitration +Grades +Patents +Copyrights +Certifications +Academic... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024289.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024289.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..282461552db0402aed5d0a99559aedfa61e1093c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024289.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +OPPORTUNITES FOR BLOCKCHAIN ADOPTION +B +Micro-Transactions +All Global Media Companies +Financial Settlement +Stock, Bonds, Derivatives, etc +Remittance Hot Spots +USA, UAE -> India, Mexico, Philip. Early-Adopt Millennials +USA, EU, AU +Currency Controlled Markets +Korea, S. Africa, China, India +Unstable Markets +Africa, Venezuela, Argentina +BLOCKCHAIN +CAPITAL +19 +ONE FERRY BUILDING, SUITE 255 +SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111 +investor@blockchain.capital +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024289 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024290.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024290.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6aa828b1a0432a83c7d28e1d0f5cb5d6af4d2d2b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024290.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +INDUSTRY GROWTH: 2014 to 2015 +Key Bitcoin Adoption Metrics +Commerce +Wallets +Merchants +Merchants' annual revenue ($bn) +ATMs +Unique bitcoin addresses +Industry +All-time VC investment ($m) +Number of VC-backed startups +Media +Mainstream media mentions +Technology +Network hash rate (billion/second) +Valuation +Bitcoin market capitalization ($bn) +June-15 +9,345,510 +100,000 +187 +426 +261,770 +$832 +113 +371 +Quarterly +March-15 +8,457,207 +88,000 +187 +374 +203,189 +$687 +105 +458 +Q2/Q1A Q1/Q4A +351,177,610... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024291.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024291.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7cb46dbce140c4c31a5eda23afbd92bc2779ed26 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024291.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +CASE STUDY: Change Tip +ChangeTip enables a "tipping" feature using Bitcoin on other companies' websites. It +has built a Bitcoin micropayment platform that is currently integrated with Twitter, +GitHub, Reddit, Googlet, Tumblr, and Youlube. We believe that Change Tip's micro transaction platform is poised to be the financial +equivalent of the "Like" button, and enabling new mechanisms for premium online +constant to be monetized. Social Accounts by Date +100k +ChangeTip +Sum of Social Accounts & Sum... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024292.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024292.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..959c1b3746322d5c9ed8c961f58fcb16aa0689a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024292.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +HYPER-GROWTH- 2013 to 2015 +Github repository references +Number of daily bitcoin transactions +6000 +5000 +4000 +3000 +2000 +1000 +PayPal +220,000 tx +200,000 tx +180,000 tx +160,000 tx +140,000 tx +120,000 tx +100,000 tx +80,000 tx +60,000 tx +40,000 tx +20.000 tx +Jun-11 +Mar-00 +Mar-13 +Jun-15 +Forecast for Total Bitcoin Wallets by End of 2015 +Maintained at 12 million +1º - 0 56060 +Nov-11 +Jun-12 +Jan-13 +Aug-13 +Mar-14 +Oct-14 +140,000 Bitcoin-Accepting Merchants +Forecast by End of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024293.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024293.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..57e62529a4bb2996035933a259f6c27b6d62a2d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024293.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +SUMMARY +BLOCKCHAIN +CAPITAL +FIRST DEDICATED BITCOIN VENTURE FUND +UNPARALLELED ACCESS TO DEAL-FLOW +PROVEN TRACK RECORDS +Building the Future Leaders in the Blockchain Economy +BLOCKCHAIN +CAPITAL +ONE FERRY BUILDING, SUITE 255 +SAN +FRANCISCO, CA 94111 +investor@blockchain.capital +23 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024293 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024294.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024294.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d229cfca5d054c586df448d706797ac697e309b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024294.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +VOTE STACEY +PLASKETT +UNDERS COS RENSESS 2016 +UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS +FIRST TERM ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2015-2016 +• Named to the Committees on Agriculture and Oversight and +Major Sponsored Legislation +Government Reform +• Named as the Freshman representative on the Democratic Lead- +• Virgin Islands Visa Waiver Act of 2015 (H.R. 2116) — Gives +ership Steering and Policy Committee +expedited visa process for members of the Caribbean Community +• Named by Southern Region as Regional Whip for... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024295.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024295.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fb4142b1a3a50d3a789b67cf39413e5626289d1b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024295.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Quora Digest [digest-noreply@quora.com] +7/7/2019 7:03:04 PM +jeevacation@gmail.com +What is the French paradox? Jeffrey's Digest +TOP STORIES FOR YOU +What is the French paradox? Olga Person, knows French +Written Jun 26 +People refer to French paradox when they are talking about the puzzling phenomenon of French +people getting away with murder vis-a-vis food and drink. Read More » +What's the legality of living on a boat (any size) off the coast in the U.S.? Jeanne Pockel, 28... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024296.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024296.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4e4afe315a447d30233faab35b496f60fd76fdfe --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024296.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +If x^2 + 16 = 0, then what is x? Dave Clark, studied Mathematics at Queens' College, Cambridge +Written Nov 15, 2018 +[math]x^2 + 16 = o[/math] +[math]\ therefore x^2 = -16[/math] +[math] \therefore x = (pm \sqrt{-16}[/math] +Negative numbers have no square roots in the real numbers, so if you are looking for real values +only then there are no solutions. Read More » +As a flight attendant, what is the most disrespectful thing a passenger has ever +requested from you? Susan Brown, Flight... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024297.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024297.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d39252730df3f97d7569cea70f22258f8b0a010f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024297.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +People in many countries enjoy bashing the French. What do you think is the source of +French-bashing in your country? Diane Allen, Self-Employed Pharmacy Owner 27 Years and Counting +Written May 3 +I find this an interesting question. Read More » +If a car pulls across your driveway and blocks your car in and you need to +leave is there any way to move the car without breaking the law? Erik Pistek, former Detective NYPD Retired +Written Jul 1 +Yes. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024298.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024298.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c5b895a3261582f37cc641b599c55478fd032cf7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024298.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Updated May 23 +His house is worth $650,000 +2. +3. +4. He flies by private jet +His California vacation home is worth $11,000,000 +He drives a Cadillac... Read More » +What indeed happens when you drop the soap in jail? Paul Passmore, Activist in the black community +Written Jun 30 +Usually, you have to yell really loudly to one of your friends or bunkmate and tell him to bring +you another bar of soap. Read More » +Do you think it's inappropriate for John Oliver to call President Donald +Trump an... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024299.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024299.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..daf3830efe9857db14fdfc64ab8f02df3b5bfb8a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024299.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +What's that my mother used to say about "if you can't stand the heat then get out of the +kitchen." He we have THE PRESIDENT of the United States giving childish and bullish... Read More » +What do they say in French at a restaurant when asking the customers "for +here or to go?" +Cathelène Dechesne, knows French +Updated Jun 24 +Hello! I'm French, and I would love to answer this question for you :) +In France, when ordering a meal at a restaurant, if the waiter/waitress asks a customer "for here +or... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024300.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024300.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3b0b25bcbf3b3826123ad1c6e171f60e78b6f6bf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024300.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Importance: +Richard Kahn +7/8/2018 7:24:05 PM +Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Bookstore owner calls police after customer confronted Steve Bannon | TheHill +High +http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/395982-bookstore-owner-called-the-police-after-a-women- +called-steve +Bookstore owner calls police after customer +confronted Steve Bannon +By Morgan GstalterJuly 07, 2018 - 10:38 PM EDT +X +A Richmond, Va., bookstore owner said he called the police on Saturday... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024301.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024301.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ea1de40725ca336c58bcbf3f0e7511cb0d7e149f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024301.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Bannon joins a growing list of political figures associated with President Trump who have +been confronted in public in recent weeks. Protesters in Kentucky followed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to his +car while he was leaving a Louisville restaurant on Saturday, threatening to vote him out of +office. Others, including White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Department of +Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, also have been confronted by protesters... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024302.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024302.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..290b2693afb76790faf34e2518616271f49e2cfa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024302.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +EDGAR pro +by EDGAR"Online' +CARVANA CO. FORM DEF 14A +(Proxy Statement (definitive)) +Filed 03/14/19 for the Period Ending 04/23/19 +Address +Telephone +CIK +Symbol +SIC Code +Industry +Sector +Fiscal Year +1930 W. RIO SALADO PARKWAY +TEMPE, AZ, 85281 +(480) 719-8809 + +CVNA +5500 - Retail-Auto Dealers and Gasoline Stations +Auto Vehicles, Parts & Service Retailers +Consumer Cyclicals +12/31 +Powered By EDGAROnline +http://www.edgar-online.com +© Copyright 2019, EDGAR Online, a division of Donnelley Financial... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024303.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024303.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..05a04057066b45651298d9ecb5c9c7ab5bdd26c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024303.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Table of Contents +UNITED STATES +SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION +Washington, D.C. 20549 +SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION +roxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of th +Securities Exchange Act of 1934 +Filed by the Registrant X +Filed by a Party other than the Registrant +Check the appropriate box: +Preliminary Proxy Statement +Confidential, for Use of the Commission Only (as permitted by Rule 14a-6(e)(2)) +Definitive Proxy Statement +Definitive Additional Materials +Soliciting Material Pursuant to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024304.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024304.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a344a273bad7aa461dcb7900605b1be282b91d93 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024304.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +(2) +Form, Schedule or Registration Statement No.: +(3) +Filing Party: +(4) +Date Filed: +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024304 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024305.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024305.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4c9194de4a8dd92d9005d35515c3ea492a864a58 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024305.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Table of Contents +) +CARVANA +Dear Fellow Stockholders, +We are pleased to invite you to attend the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Carvana Co. Date : +Time : +Address : +Tuesday, April 23, 2019 +8 AM (PDT) +3419 East University Drive +Phoenix, AZ 85034 +You can access our proxy materials online at www.proxydocs.com/CVNA. We will mail a notice containing instructions on how to access this proxy +statement and our annual report on or about Thursday, March 14, 2019, to all stockholders entitled to vote at... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024306.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024306.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..78c35c0466db9e1c1a625dbaaec15e654abf996f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024306.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Table of Contents +NOTICE OF 2019 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS +The 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of CARVANA CO. ("Carvana") will be held at 3419 East University Drive, Phoenix, AZ 85034, on +Tuesday, April 23, 2019, at 8:00 AM (PDT) for the following purposes: +to elect two nominees identified in the accompanying proxy statement to serve as directors, as recommended by the Compensation and +Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors of Carvana; +to ratify the appointment of Grant... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024307.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024307.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8c655c3090449a0256ad36b67da6d5ae46f05fa5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024307.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Table of Contents +TABLE OF CONTENTS +Commonly Asked Questions and Answers About the Annual Meeting +Board of Directors and Corporate Governance +ITEM 1-ELECTION OF DIRECTORS +Director Nominees +Continuing Directors +Independence Status +Controlled Company Status +Board Meetings and Committees +Board Leadership Structure +Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance. Risk Oversight +Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation +Communications by Stockholders and Other Interested... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024308.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024308.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d5575074bce68531f2db3daf2d1856bb241f5660 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024308.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Table of Contents +Policies for Approval of Related Party Transactions +Amended and Restated Operating Agreement +Exchange Agreement +Registration Rights Agreement +Tax Receivable Agreement +Indemnification of Officers and Directors +Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management +ITEM 2 - RATIFICATION OF APPOINTMENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM +Audit Committee Report +ITEM 4 - SAY ON PAY FREQUENCY +Incorporation by Reference +Availability of SEC Filings, Code of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024309.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024309.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..74372a94b2e7315aee7461f136efefc7af982b42 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024309.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The Board of Directors of Carvana Co. is soliciting your proxy to vote at our 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (or at any postponement or +adjournment of the meeting). Stockholders who own shares of our common stock (Class A or Class B) as of the record date, February 25, 2019, are entitled +to vote at the annual meeting. As of +the record date, Carvana had approximately 41,201,324 shares of Class A common stock outstanding and 104,336,303 shares of Class B common stock +outstanding. Holders of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024310.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024310.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d56a7219f90912b8c2afee7de9c5c0753ebde7ed --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024310.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Table of Contents +5. +to recommend, by an advisory vote, the frequency of future advisory votes on executive compensation (i.e., "say-on-pay frequency"); and +to transact other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment of the meeting. Q: How does the board recommend I vote on these matters? The board of directors recommends you vote for the following: +1. +2. FOR the election of Gregory Sullivan and Dan Quayle as Class II directors; +FOR the ratification of the appointment... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024311.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024311.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9be5b339b209bd57b4b387d3bf7ce265009f6a5f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024311.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Table of Contents +Q: How may I change or revoke my proxy? +vote. Beneficial stockholders should contact their broker, trustee, or nominee for instructions on how to change their proxy +2. +3. Rio Salado Pkwy, +Tempe, AZ 85281; +submitting another proxy that is dated later than the original proxy (including a proxy via telephone or internet); or +voting in person at the annual meeting. Q: Who can attend the annual meeting? If you attenc +lease note that you may be asked to present valid photo... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024312.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024312.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..49a108c2b71e37ee12a84a1a97c275d6a1dbe99a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024312.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Table of Contents +Q: When will the results of the vote be announced? Q: What is the deadline for submitting a stockholder proposal or director nomination for the 2020 Annual Meeting? Stockholder proposals pursuant to SEC Rule 14a-8 for inclusion in Carvana's proxy statement and form of proxy for Carvana's 2020 Annual +Meeting of Stockholders must be received by Carvana at our principal executive offices at 1930 W. Rio Salado Pkwy, Tempe, AZ, 85281, no later than the +close of business on November... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024313.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024313.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3ac5bc2bfa566ffdc0e977c03dc3d403a6d0d677 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024313.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Table of Contents +BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE +ur business and affairs are managed under the direction of our Board, which is composed of five directors. Our certificate of incorporatio +rovides that the authorized number of directors may be changed only by resolution of our Board. The following table sets forth the director class, name, age as of April 23, 2019, and other information for each member of our board of +directors: +NAME +Gregory Sullivan +Dan Quayle +Michael... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024314.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024314.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b80ea4bdbe44245acf6ad0f80af09ac3d4a00419 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024314.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +The Compensation and Nominating Committee has determined that all of our directors meet the criteria and qualifications set forth in the code +of conduct for the Board of Directors, the corporate governance guidelines and the criteria set forth above for director nominees. These +collective qualities, skills, experiences, and attributes are essential to our Board's ability to exercise its oversight function for Carvana and its stockholders +and to guide the long-term sustainable, dependable... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024315.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024315.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..68f280fd167fc94709d4dce9f3ac5537bb979daf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024315.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Table of Contents +The Compensation and Nominating Committee will consider stockholder nominations for membership on the Board. For the 2020 Annual +Meeting, nominations may be submitted to Carvana Co., 1930 W. Rio Salado Pkwy, Tempe, AZ 85281, Attn: Secretary, who will forward them to the +Chairman of the Compensation and Nominating Committee. The committee will apply the same criteria to the evaluation of those candidates as it applies to other director +When filling a vacancy on the Board, the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024316.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024316.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..890d0ce6fde8526a3f655fd345ca8c5c4309f81c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024316.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Table of Contents +ITEM 1—ELECTION OF DIRECTORS +Our Board recommends that the nominees below be elected as members of the Board at the annual meeting to serve for a three-year term +expiring at the 2022 Annual Meeting. NAME +Gregory Sullivan +Dan Quayle +AGE +60 +72 +DIRECTOR +SINCE +2017 +2017 +POSITION +Director +Director +chooses to nominate a substitute nominee, the persons named as proxies on the proxy card will vote for that substitute nominee. The Board of Directors recommends that you vote "FOR" each... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024317.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024317.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5d9bbbe3151e9409b225d5edde14913389f2ab1b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024317.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Table of Contents +CONTINUING DIRECTORS +Ernest Garcia III co-founded Carvana and has served as our president and chief executive officer since our inception in 2012. Garcia is +also Chairman of the Carvana Co. Prior to founding Carvana, Mr. Garcia held various roles at DriveTime from January 2007 to January 2013. From +January 2007 to December 2008, he served as a financial strategist. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024318.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024318.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3d7dff1c8e9e7a9132ab778912fbb810829977a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024318.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Table of Contents +board of Cleveland Clinic Florida, a non-profit, multispecialty academic hospital; and as a member of the board of the Cleveland Clinic. Maroone +previously served on the Cleveland Clinic Board of Trustees and was co-chairman of the Florida Leadership Board of the Cleveland Clinic. Maroone was selected to serve on our Board because of his advisory +experience and his extensive experience in the automotive retail industry +INDEPENDENCE STATUS +The listing standards of the New York... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024319.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024319.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..32115acbaa20c13ab49791db11a0dcac7090d36b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024319.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Table of Contents +In the event we choose to rely on some or all of these exemptions in the future, you would not have the same protections afforded to stockholders of +companies that are subject to all of the applicable corporate governance rules of the NYSE. BOARD MEETINGS AND COMMITTEES +During the year ended December 31, 2018, our Board held five meetings, our Audit Committee held nine meetings, and our Compensation and +Nominating Committee held four meetings. Each director attended last... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024320.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024320.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b6277e80220d70c88b0e3520188f108b416e14a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024320.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Our Board has affirmatively determined that Mr. Sullivan meet the definition of "independent director" for +purposes of serving on an Audit Committee under Rule 10A-3 of the Exchange Act and the NYSE rules. In addition, our Board has determined that +Mr. COMPENSATION AND NOMINATING COMMITTEE +The Compensation and Nominating Committee is responsible for, among other matters, +reviewing key employee compensation goals, policies, plans, and programs; +• reviewing and providing recommendations to the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024321.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024321.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7b5afe075baea59909e4157a221547ab0d7d1f86 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024321.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Table of Contents +BOARD LEADERSHIP STRUCTURE +The following section describes our board leadership structure, the reasons why the structure is in place at this time, the roles of various +positions, and related key governance practices. The mix of experienced independent and management directors that make up our Board, along with the +independent role of our lead director and our independent board-committee composition, benefits Carvana and its stockholders. Our Board has an effective mix of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024322.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024322.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..62e68dff55d279fcf0fb56ca98abf65b530638f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024322.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Table of Contents +SELF-EVALUATION +Our Compensation and Nominating Committee conducts an annual performance evaluation to determine whether the Board, its committees, +and the directors are functioning effectively. The +evaluation focuses on the Board's and the committees' contributions to Carvana and has an enhanced focus on areas in which the Board or management +believes that the Board could improve. As part of the annual Board self-evaluation, the Board evaluates whether the current leadership... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024323.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024323.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3c2ef14efd4e8af2440230a8c74106f6d4949558 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024323.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Table of Contents +COMPENSATION COMMITTEE INTERLOCKS AND INSIDER PARTICIPATION +No interlocking relationships exist between the members of our Board and the board or compensation committee of any other company. COMMUNICATIONS BY STOCKHOLDERS AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES WITH THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS +Stockholders and other interested parties may contact an individual director, the lead director, the Board as a group, or a specified board +committee or group, including the non-management directors as... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024324.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024324.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a6697ecc9daf3b01436e16e2b9b229d841973c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024324.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Table of Contents +NAME +Ira Platt +Gregory Sullivan +Dan Quayle +Michael Maroone +FEES +EARNED +OR PAIT +IN CASH +100,000 +95,000 +70,000 +90,000 +OPTION +AWARDS +(S) +ALL OTHE +COMPENSATIO! +(S) +TOTAL +(S) +100,000 +95,000 +70,000 +90,000 +NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTOR COMPENSATION STRUCTURE +As of March 7, 2019, we compensate our non-employee directors according to the following structure: +DESCRIPTION +Annual retainer +Board meeting fees +AMOUNT +Additional retainer for committee members +Additional retainer for chair of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024325.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024325.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..082b7f884bf98c947024363da535f4dfe91f4156 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024325.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Table of Contents +EXECUTIVE OFFICERS +Below is a list of the names, ages, positions, and a brief account of the business experience of the individuals who serve as executive officers of +Carvana Co. as of April 23, 2019: +NAME +Ernest Garcia III +Mark Jenkins +Benjamin Huston +Ryan Keeton +Daniel Gill +Paul Breaux +AGE +36 +40 +36 +41 +36 +35 +POSITION +President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman +Chief Financial Officer +Chief Operating Officer +Chief Brand Officer +Chief Product Officer +Vice President, General... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024326.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024326.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d859081c1e3834127ee907f8efec4f4ea3326700 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024326.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Table of Contents +Daniel Gill has served as our chief product officer since March 2015, overseeing all technology functions, as well as strategic partnerships for +the business. He co-founded and served as +CEO of Huddler from 2007 until the company's acquisition by Wikia in May of 2014. Gill holds a degree in biology from Stanford University. Breaux practiced law at the Houston, Texas +office of the firm Andrews Kurth LLP (now Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP) from 2008 to 2015. Breaux holds a J.D. from... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024327.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024327.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b4708bcefd8e347d6e88f1df65804c4f892e41f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024327.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Table of Contents +COMPENSATION DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS +'his Compensation Discussion and Analysis ("CD&A") describes our executive compensation objectives and design, our compensation-settin +rocess, our executive compensation program components, and the decisions made in 2018 with respect to our chief executive officer and our four othe +most highly compensated executive officers for the year ended December 31, 2018, who have been designated as our "named executive officers" under Item +404 of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024328.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024328.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..643d0d7cedb156566bffd52b0927f0193c55db8e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024328.txt @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Table of Contents +94,108 +51,955.5 +RETAIL UNITS +SOLD +TOTAL REVENUE (SM) +$858.9 +2.105 +2014 +18,761 +6.523 +2015 +2016 +2017 +2018 +41 new markets, bringing our total from 44 to 85; +8 additional car vending machines, bringing our total from 7 to 15; + +$41,7 +2014 +$130,4 +2015 +2016 +2017 +2018 +TOTAL MARKETS +AT YEAR END +CAR VENDING +MACHINES +2 +2014 +2015 +2016 +2017 +2018 +2014 +2015 +2016 +2017 +2018 +a $551 increase in gross profit per unit (incl. gift) from $1,539 to $2,090, and a $594 increase in gross profit per unit... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024329.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024329.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8d3a3eadd4c7cbe386c2782ceb2e5d26650978e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024329.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Table of Contents +•9,9% +GROSS PROFIT +PER UNIT +52.133 +- $2,090 +NET LOSS AND +EBITDA MARGIN +EX-GIFT +-13.0% +-16.90 +51,539 +$1.023 +$206 +5(201) +2014 +2015 +2016 +HELEN FLEET +2017 2018 +19.1% +-23.2% +-25.0% +-25.5% +-32.2% +-28.28 +-36.6% +2014 +2015 +2016 +2017 +NETLOSS UNCL-GIFT BE ERITDA MARGIN EX-GIFT +2018 +a one-year total shareholder return of 71.1%, significantly outperforming our peer group companies (see "Competitiveness of our +Compensation Program" below) as an index as well as the S&P 500 and S&P 500... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024330.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024330.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fc71cd91d3dd06466bf421cca35e7d5c44a67da1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024330.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Table of Contents +WHAT WE DO +A significant portion of compensation is "at risk" and tied to long-term +company performance +• Annual incentive plan metrics are solely based on company performance; +awards are determined based on pre-established targets +Market-based executive compensation levels are reviewed by +Compensation and Nominating Committee annually +• Performance-measured incentive awards are subject to a compensation +recoupment policy +• Executives are prohibited from hedging +• An... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024331.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024331.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c3cd5efb0bccd12989eaa842cc4f9e1ffc052606 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024331.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Table of Contents +COMPENSATION SETTING PROCESS +ROLE OF COMPENSATION AND NOMINATING COMMITTEE AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER IN SETTING EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION +The Compensation and Nominating Committee has responsibility for overseeing the design, development, and implementation of the +compensation program for our chief executive officer and other NEOs. INDEPENDENT COMPENSATION ADVISOR +Our Compensation and Nominating Committee believes that independent advice is important in developing Carvana's... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024332.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024332.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b0622449ea47f9731c21abfe95a68da57249e831 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024332.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Table of Contents +COMPETITIVENESS OF OUR COMPENSATION PROGRAM +Our executive compensation program is designed so that the sum of base pay plus total short- and long-term compensation is competitive with +market practices. The Compensation and Nominating Committee, with the +assistance of its compensation consultant, Korn Ferry, reviewed and selected potential peer companies based on revenue size, industry focus, growth rates, +complexity of operations, customer base, and market for talent. With the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024333.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024333.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..94bc590b7a5b3289a6d675d80b5395bde29f70f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024333.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Table of Contents +CEO and Other NEO Average Compensation by Type +Pay at Risk +81% +19% +19% +13% +• Base Salary +• Annual Incentive Plan +• Stock Options +• Time-based RSUs +• Performance-contingent RSUs +20% +The following table describes the material elements of compensation and the objectives of each element: +PROGRAM +ANNUAL COMPENSATION: +Base Salary +DESCRIPTION +Annual Incentive Plan +• Ongoing cash compensation based on executive +officer's role, responsibilities, competitive market +positioning, and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024334.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024334.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..04e7b23eabd38ff89f25a29e89c9e5bba74cbf2d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024334.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Table of Contents +BASE SALARY +The base salaries for the named executive officers are reviewed annually by the Compensation and Nominating Committee. In February 2018, the Compensation and Nominating Committee reviewed the base salaries of our executive officers, including our named +executive officers, taking into consideration the factors described above. Ernest Garcia III, our chief executive officer, had a base salary of $400,000 for both 2017 and 2018, with no increase. Mark Jenkins, our... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024335.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024335.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..86055d652a060776fb0bdb9f795057dcc82cd4b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024335.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Table of Contents +The resulting payout range for Mr. Jenkins, our +chief financial officer, and Mr. Performance Metrics and Goals +The performance period for the annual incentive is our fiscal year. The detailed definition of each measure and rationale of selection are provided below: +PERFORMANCE +METRICS USED IN +THE 2018 AIP +Retail Units Sold +WEIGHT +40% +DEFINITION +The number of vehicles +sold to customers in a +given period, net of +returns under our +seven-day return policy. Gross Profit per +Unit... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024336.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024336.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f743f6e7b45ebb73e3726d729465b88024b670d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024336.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Table of Contents +EBITDA Margin ex-Gift +20% Net loss before interest +We believe that EBITDA Margin ex-Gift is an important measure of the leverage +expense, income tax +in our business and a useful measure to us and to our investors because it focuses +expense, depreciation and specifically on operational performance. +amortization expense, and +the compensation expense +related to the 100k +Milestone Gift, as a +percentage of total +revenues. The target performance goal of each +metric is significantly... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024337.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024337.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5e71222c094667f41a52d6b6fcafcc575659e2f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024337.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Table of Contents +value is more leveraged to future value appreciation and depends upon a future increase in the value of our common stock. The committee also has +determined that restricted stock unit grants to NEOs should be used for the purposes of retention or recognition of outstanding performance in part because +restricted stock units are less volatile than stock options. +2018 Annual Grant +For fiscal 2018, the Compensation and Nominating Committee determined to award an equal blend of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024338.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024338.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e4777b5e2ac790e40d4f3abd459f59c87574b634 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024338.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Table of Contents +PERQUISITES AND BENEFITS +Currently, we do not view perquisites or other personal benefits as a significant component of our executive compensation program. We do not expect that any future perquisites or other personal benefits will be a significant aspect of our executive compensation program. All +future practices with respect to perquisites or other personal benefits will be approved and subject to periodic review by the Compensation and Nominating +TERMINATION, SEVERANCE AND... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024339.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024339.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d337b09fcad970688d6224c80a83071a4eb022b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024339.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Table of Contents +COMPENSATION-RELATED POLICIES +COMPENSATION RECOVERY ("CLAWBACK") POLICY +In 2018, the Compensation and Nominating Committee approved the adoption of a "clawback" policy, which would provide for the clawback +or recoupment of any compensation granted, earned, or vested that is tied to performance metrics, in the event of an accounting restatement resulting from +material noncompliance with certain financial reporting requirements that reveals that such performance (or level of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024340.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024340.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bf5d577c5aff84f79d787571850cf558a98f3178 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024340.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Table of Contents +• +individual executive pay generally targeted at median level against comparable executive roles at an appropriate set of peer +companies, except the chief executive officer, for whom we target significantly below median level due to his significant +ownership interest in us; +robust clawback policies permitting the recoupment of past incentive pay from executive officers in the event of certain kinds of +misconduct, and forfeiture of incentive awards in the event the executive... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024341.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024341.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f1a96b11bac42d56b4304b991844ba5a68769377 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024341.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Table of Contents +COMPENSATION AND NOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORT +The Compensation and Nominating Committee has reviewed and discussed the foregoing Compensation Discussion and Analysis with +management. Based on this review and discussion, the Committee recommended to the Carvana, Co. Board of Directors that the Compensation Discussion +and Analysis be included in this proxy statement and incorporated by reference into Carvana Co.'s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended +Respectfully... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024342.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024342.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4c30c20368bf963c742bf288fd5d10086b3654a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024342.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Table of Contents +COMPENSATION TABLES +SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE +The following table presents summary information regarding the total compensation awarded to, earned by, and paid to our named executive +officers for the past three fiscal years. NAME AND +PRINCIPAL POSITION +Ernest Garcia III +Chief Executive Officer +Mark Jenkins +Chief Financial Officer +Benjamin Huston +Chief Operating Officer +Ryan Keeton +Chief Brand Officer +Daniel Gill +Chief Product... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024343.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024343.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..46ab1fd0ef589a06a5088e56c8131ba63c559bf4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024343.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Table of Contents +NAME +Ernest Garcia III +401(K) +PLAN COMPANY +MATCHi +NON-BUSINESS +AIRCRAFT USAGEii) +INCREMENTAL COST +OF COMPANY CARiii) +CELLPHONE +EXPENSE(iv) +Mark Jenkins +Benjamin Huston +Ryan Keeton +Daniel... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024344.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024344.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..133aa9d8d0594d6204c3fb4b4807f19b87c5ee07 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024344.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Table of Contents +GRANTS OF PLAN-BASED AWAR DS +ESTIMATED FUTURE PAYOUTS +UNDER NON-EQUITY INCENTIVE +PLAN AWARDS (1) +ESTIMATED FUTURE PAYOUTS +UNDER EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN +AWARDS (2) +GRANT +THRESHOLD TARGET MAXIMUM THRESHOLD TARGET +MAXIMUM +ALL OTHER +ALL OTHER +STOCK +OPTION +EXERCISE +AWARDS: +AWARDS: +OR BASE +NUMBER OF NUMBER OF +PRICE OF +SECURITIES +OPTION +STOCK OR +UNDERLYING +AWARDS +OPTIONS #) (S/SH) +Garcia III 4/30/2018 +4/30/2018 +7/28/2018 +7/28/2018 +0 266,667 +530,667 +0 +14,572 +14,572 +13,987 +15,988... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024345.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024345.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..78aaacb19027a8e861ae7d0c5678eab74b2a44c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024345.txt @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +Table of Contents +OUTSTANDING EQUITY AWARDS AT 2018 FISCAL YEAR END +OPTION AWARDS +NUMBER +NUMBER OF +NUMBER OF +OF +SECURITIES +UNDERLYING +SECURITIES +UNDERLYING +SHARES +OR UNITS +UNEXERCISED UNEXERCISED +OPTION +OF STOCK +OPTIONS +OPTIONS +EXERCISE +OPTION +NAME +EXERCISABLE UNEXERCISABLE +PRICE +EXPIRATION +THAT +(#) +(F) +HAVE NOT +Ernest +(S) +DATE +VESTED #) +Garcia III +15,988(8) +44.21 +7/28/2028 +13,987(9) +Mark Jenkins: +14,989(8) +44.21 +7/28/2028 +13,113(9) +Class B +Units (2) +116,667 +Class B +Units (3) +50,000 +Class... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024346.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024346.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ee65ebb0c913bce524c5097e1a1d062c65ff640a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024346.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-024346 + +(9) These RSUs vest 25% on April 1, 2019, and the remaining amount vests in 36 equal monthly installments on the first of each month thereafter. +(10) These performance-contingent RSUs vest on the date Carvana files a periodic report (i.e., Form 10-Q or Form 10-K) with the SEC reflecting positive +EBITDA for a calendar quarter. +- 37 - +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024346 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024347.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024347.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..31519fb15d1de8edc2399289d90de1800f85d026 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024347.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Table of Contents +OPTION EXERCISES AND STOCK VESTED +OPTION AWARDS +NUMBER OF SHARES +ACQUIRED ON +NAME +EXERCISE (#) +Ernest Garcia III +Mark Jenkins +Benjamin Huston +Ryan Keeton +Daniel Gill +ALUE REALIZEI +ON EXERCISE (S +STOCK AWARDS 1) +NUMBER OF +SHARES ACQUIRED +VALUE REALIZED ON +ON VESTING (#) +VESTING (S) +226,384 +8,197,217 +226,384 +8,197,217 +107,624 +3,894,768 +144,152 +5,186,740 +(1) +Amounts include restricted stock units and Class B Units. The number of shares and values were determined based on the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024348.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024348.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1bb8f196e108ba3604611685f41d07b08206581d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024348.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Table of Contents +CEO PAY RATIO +The 2018 annual total compensation of our median-compensated employee other than Mr. We identified our median- +compensated employee by calculating the annual salary of all our employees as of December 31, 2018, annualized for those who joined Carvana during the +year and who were not seasonal or temporary employees. Garcia's 2018 annual total compensation was $2,075,726, as disclosed in the "Summary +Compensation Table' above. The Audit Committee may only approve... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024349.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024349.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..64680ca570b6b1e8c080279d2604336a899f074d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024349.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Table of Contents +In connection with the issuance of our senior notes (see Carvana's Annual Report on Form 10-K for 2018, page 66-67), Carvana Group +amended its LLC agreement to create a class of non-convertible preferred units, which Carvana Co. purchased with its net proceeds from the issuance of +The operations of Carvana Group, and the rights and obligations of the holders of our LLC Units (who we refer to as "LLC Unitholders"), are +set forth in the LLC Operating Agreement. EXCHANGE... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024350.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024350.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..339a95a12a35948b2639f5ae708bc4e87bec9e4d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024350.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The +registration rights described in this paragraph apply to (1) shares of our Class A common stock held by certain LLC unitholders, and (2) any of our capital +stock (or that of our subsidiaries) issued or issuable with respect to the Class A common stock described in clause (1) with respect to any dividend, stock +split, recapitalization, reorganization, or certain other corporate transactions ("Registrable Securities"). These registration rights are also for the benefit of +any subsequent... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024351.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024351.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a1e81d8d36075d366a96fad81c5519f61a76af3c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024351.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Table of Contents +CONTRIBUTION AGREEMENTS +On September 10, 2018, we announced a commitment by our chief executive officer, Ernest Garcia III, to contribute shares of Carvana Co. During the +year ended December 31, 2018, Carvana and Mr. Garcia entered into contribution agreements pursuant to which Mr. Garcia contributed approximately +0.2 million shares of Carvana Co. On November 1, 2014, DriveTime distributed the +units of Carvana, LLC to the unit holders of DriveTime on a pro rata basis, which we... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024352.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024352.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4f5ebd17ee3e8bfc96cdcb8a97fd5b2f257a6707 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024352.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Table of Contents +LEASE AGREEMENT +In connection with the Spinoff, we entered into a lease agreement dated November 1, 2014, with DriveTime that governs our access to and +utilization of space at DriveTime inspection and reconditioning centers ("IRCs") for vehicle inspection and reconditioning in Blue Mound, Texas, and +Delanco, New Jersey, and previously for inspection and reconditioning in Winder, Georgia. The lease agreement was most recently amended in December +2018. We increased our... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024353.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024353.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..768f1fca5130dda27e3c9941fdf11e9e5b266109 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024353.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Table of Contents +TOLLESON, AZ INSPECTION AND RECONDITIONING CENTER LEASE +In December 2016, we entered into a lease agreement with Verde Investments Inc. ("Verde"), an affiliate of DriveTime, for an IRC in Tolleson, +Arizona. The lease commenced in February, 2017. In August 2018, we entered into an additional lease agreement with a coterminous initial term with +Verde for contiguous space to use in connection with such center, which began that same month. Pursuant to the leases, we pay an initial... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024354.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024354.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..427709793b1b06b0973f82a7c00b5415b747059c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024354.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Table of Contents +CLEVELAND, OH AREA INSPECTION AND RECONDITIONING CENTER SUBLEASE +In November 2018, Carvana entered into a sublease agreement with Drive Time for an inspection and reconditioning center near Cleveland, +Ohio. Pursuant to the sublease, Carvana temporarily shared space at the IRC until DriveTime vacated the facility in February 2019, at which point we +purchased certain leasehold improvements and equipment at the facility from DriveTime for approximately $4.3 million (which amount... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024355.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024355.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7df92a059f3a2a35939db59e6df53300e263d4c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024355.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Table of Contents +MASTER PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT +In December 2016, we entered into a master purchase and sale agreement pursuant to which we sell finance receivables meeting certain +underwriting criteria to certain financing partners, including Ally Bank and Ally Financial (collectively, "Ally"). On November 3, 2017, we amended this +agreement to increase the aggregate amount of principal balances of finance receivables we can sell to $1.5 billion. During the year ended December 31, 2018, we... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024356.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024356.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..91c4e6862a9507c25a4a3fe4dbbb181675557055 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024356.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Table of Contents +REFINANCING TRANSFER AGREEMENTS +On August 6, 2018, in connection with a refinancing transaction, we purchased finance receivables we had previously sold under the 2017 +Master Transfer Agreement and simultaneously entered into a transfer agreement with a purchaser trust under which the trust immediately purchased such +finance receivables from us. On December 21, 2018, in connection with another refinancing transaction, we purchased finance receivables we had +previously sold... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024357.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024357.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..09c4345ee54150ad6a5ee115caecb79f2714e322 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024357.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Table of Contents +IP LICENSE AGREEMENT +In February 2017, we entered into a license agreement that governs the rights of certain intellectual property owned by us and the rights of +certain intellectual property owned by DriveTime. The license agreement, which was amended and restated on April 14, 2017, generally provides that each +party grants to the other certain limited exclusive (other than with respect to the licensor party and its affiliates) and nonexclusive licenses to use certain of +its... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024358.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024358.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..775bf65f6681d0b2185e6601eaf84009c24bff64 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024358.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Table of Contents +SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT +The following table sets forth information regarding beneficial ownership of our common stock as of February 27, 2019, by: +each person or group of affiliated persons known by us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of our common stock, +• each of our named executive officers, +• each of our directors, and +• all of our current executive officers and directors as a group. We have determined beneficial ownership... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024359.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024359.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cd42c9935ae49aa91493dca44bc1e35f8a6cbc17 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024359.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Garcia II c/o Verde Investments, Inc. Spruce House Investment Management LLC; Spruce House +Capital LL.C; Spruce House Partnership LP; Zachary +Sternberg; Benjamin Stein +Melvin Capital Management LP; Melvin Capital Master +Fund Ltd +FMR LIC +The Vanguard Group +Nantahala Capital Management, LLC; Wilmot B. Harkey; +Daniel Mack +CAS Investment Partners, LLC; Sosin Partners, L.P.; +Chfford Sosin +SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED +CLASS A COMMON STOCK (1) +CLASS B COMMON STOCK... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024360.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024360.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0081edc108c50724734d3100451f6feb5a4a4903 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024360.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Table of Contents +(3) +(4) +(5) +sole beneficiary of the Ernest Irrevocable 2004 Trust III and Mr. Garcia III Multi- +Generational Trust III. This number includes 52,937,458 shares of Class B common stock owned directly by Mr. Garcia Il is the 100% owner; 2,860,439 shares of Class B common stock owned by Drive Time Sales and +Finance Company LLC. This number also includes 11,952,000 shares of Class B common stock owned by the Ernest +Irrevocable 2004 Trust III, of which Mr. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024361.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024361.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8505d75d9a4047c95b99d55f178b918564cc1519 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024361.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +As a result, CAS Investment Partners, LLC, possesses the power to vote and dispose or direct the disposition of +all the shares owned by the fund. Sosin possesses the power to vote and dispose or direct the disposition of +all the shares beneficially owned by CAS Investment Partners, LLC as investment manager of Sosin Partners, L.P. The address for each of these reporting persons is 8 Wright Street, Ist FL Westport, CT 06880. +(10) Blackrock, Inc. reports sole power to dispose or direct the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024362.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024362.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ffc87bac1ead11f83eaa45d7662e4f5e3311ef43 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024362.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Table of Contents +(16) This number includes 6,120 shares of Class A common stock owned directly by Mr. Keeton; 404,966 shares of Class A common stock issuable in +exchange for vested Class B Units including those that will be vested within 60 days of February 27, 2019, based on an assumed price of $41.82 per +share (the closing price of our Class A common stock on the NYSE on February 27, 2019); 3,298 shares of Class A common stock issuable upon the +exercise of options that vest on April 1, 2019;... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024363.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024363.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..68ed7182d4f0fad2d3d010521f9bf68a83182962 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024363.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Table of Contents +ITEM 2 - RATIFICATION OF APPOINTMENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM +The Audit Committee has appointed Grant Thornton LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending +December 31, 2019. Services provided to Carvana and its subsidiaries by Grant Thornton LLP for the year ended December 31, 2018 are described below +and under "Audit Committee Report." +FEES AND SERVICES +years ended December 31, 2018 and 2017: +The following table... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024364.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024364.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..239a3d6d01f77defe3ece13a20cc39e806ea7037 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024364.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Table of Contents +Ratification of the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP requires affirmative votes from the holders of a majority of the shares present in person +or represented by proxy at the annual meeting and entitled to vote. If Carvana's stockholders do not ratify the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP, the +Audit Committee will reconsider the appointment and may affirm the appointment or retain another independent accounting firm. Even if the appointment +is ratified, the Audit Committee may... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024365.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024365.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..06bf2bb184d5979fc1511a4386457de0e0fae60a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024365.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Table of Contents +A UDIT COMMITTEE REPORT +The Audit Committee oversees our financial reporting process on behalf of the Board. The Audit Committee is composed of three independent +directors (as defined by the New York Stock Exchange Listing Standards), met nine times in 2018, and operates under a written charter, which is posted on +our website at investors.carvana.com/corporate-governance/governance-documents. In fulfilling its oversight responsibilities, the Audit Committee +• reviewed and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024366.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024366.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5d770d2c7c3c7a5f196dc1abc553725a3fab4e79 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024366.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Table of Contents +ITEM 3 - SAY ON PAY +We are asking stockholders to approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in the +"Compensation Discussion and Analysis," the "Summary Compensation Table," and the related compensation tables and narrative. This item is being +presented pursuant to Section 14A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Although this advisory vote is not binding, the Compensation and Nominating +Committee will consider the voting... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024367.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024367.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8ed4cac1077b9a184dd3cc664e4478863d2736af --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024367.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Table of Contents +OTHER MATTERS +We are not aware of any matters other than those discussed in the foregoing materials contemplated for action at the annual meeting. INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE +The "Audit Committee Report" included in this proxy statement shall not be deemed soliciting material or filed with the SEC and shall not be +deemed incorporated by reference into any prior or future filings made by us under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, except to the extent that we +specifically... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024368.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024368.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f298b35d0f9f61a57955b91930bab428472ebb2e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024368.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Table of Contents +COST OF PROXY SOLICITATION +Carvana is paying the expenses of this solicitation. Carvana will also make arrangements with brokerage houses and other custodians, nominees +and fiduciaries to forward proxy materials to beneficial owners of stock held as of the record date by such persons, and Carvana will reimburse such persons +for their reasonable out-of-pocket expenses in forwarding such proxy materials. In addition to solicitation by mail, directors, officers, and other... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024369.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024369.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..41f9339acd556e2a519a23c555190c4746495b58 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024369.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Table of Contents +ANNEX +100K MILESTONE GIFT +On September 10, 2018, we announced a commitment by our chief executive officer, Ernest Garcia III, to contribute 165 shares of Class A +common stock to us from his personal shareholdings for every one of our then-existing employees upon their satisfying certain employment tenure +requirements. In connection with these contributions, we have made corresponding grants of 165 restricted stock units under our 2017 Omnibus Incentive +Plan to each employee... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024370.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024370.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..afc5ae73631036e122ac94b8a57228d120b1e5da --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024370.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Table of Contents +A reconciliation of the gross profit ex-Gift amounts to each corresponding gross profit amount, which are the most directly comparable GAAP +measures and include expenses attributable to the 100k Milestone Gift, and calculations of each gross profit per unit ex-Gift amount are as follows (dollars +in thousands, except per unit amounts): +Used vehicle gross profit +100k Milestone Gift in used vehicle cost of sales +Used vehicle gross profit ex-Gift +Used vehicle unit sales +Used... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024371.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024371.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1f90f3b5e1ed9888fa5d0d49e6e99410838a253f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024371.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Table of Contents +income tax expense, depreciation and amortization expense, and the compensation expense related to the 100k Milestone Gift. EBITDA margin ex-Gift is +EBITDA ex-Gift as a percentage of total revenues. We use EBITDA ex-Gift to measure the operating performance of our business and EBITDA Margin +ex-Gift to measure our operating performance relative to our total revenues. We believe that EBITDA ex-Gift and EBITDA margin ex-Gift are useful +measures to us and to our investors because... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024372.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024372.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d34678c362e5a8bfde347655ca0c2743e93676e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024372.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Date: +April, 23. 2019 +Place: +8:00 A.M (Pacific Daylight Time) +3419 East University Orive, Phoenix, AZ 85034 +Please make your marka to this: [8J use dark black pencil or pen orty +The Board of Directors recommends that you vote "FOR" the directors in iter 1; +"FOR" items 2 and 3; and "ONE YEAR" for item 4. +1: election of directors; +Directars +For +Withhold +01 J. Danforth Quayle +02 Gregory Sullivan +For +For +For +Against Abstain +2: ratification of the appointment of Grant +registered public accounting... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024373.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024373.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2958815d9c65aef03a04d1109cf10c52f9b4074b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024373.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Table of Contents +T Please separate carefully at the perioration and return just this partion in the envelope provided. Annual Meeting of Stockholders +Tuesday, April 23, 2019, 8:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time +This Proxy is Solicited on Behalf of the Board of Directors +The undersigned appoints Paul Breaux and Jonathan Allred (the "Named Proxies") +and each of them as proxies for the undersigned, with full power of substitution, +to vote the shares of common stock of Carvana Co., a Delaware... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024374.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024374.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f6c23278c18e955da962214a3d6fc117d7ea4fa2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024374.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +REMEMBERING CAVALIER MAGAZINE +LAUNCHING A MAGAZINE +My friend Michael Simmons, who has been the editor +of National Lampoon, recalls that Cavalier hired fine scribes. A +few examples: Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, William Saroyan, +Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon. Characters show up from +Andy Warhol to Timothy Leary. Men' s magazine Cavalier (motto: "For the American Male" ) +was published the year before Playboy, to whom it has often +been compared. A slogan stated: "Your dad bought Playboy,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024375.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024375.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..43f18cd4230fac7288a4c50865d7269ba5a3053a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024375.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +squares from the hotel bedsheets slept on by the Beatles during +their first trip to America. Obviously, there wouldn' t be enough items to go +around, but it was announced that the Beatles' unwashed +towels and bed linens were to be cut into two-inch squares and +sold for $1 each. My second column was about Lenny Bruce-titled "Lenny +the Lawyer," +since he defended himself in trials He was arrested +for obscene performances only because there were no +blasphemy laws, and he ridiculed religious... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024376.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024376.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2d524dccc936568fdf714b8934998aee50383caf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024376.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +I say alleged because upon Ruby's own death. Dallas +District Attorney Henry Wade said he would dismiss the murder +charge against him, a promise which has since been kept, +although no such posthumous grace was ever officially +bestowed on Lee Harvey Oswald, considered a lone assassin +who shot President Kennedy. Now Jack Ruby's dirty little secret has been forever +sealed away in his armpit by the hymen of history. Oh yeah, and +at Lenny's funeral, that safety pin was still attached on his +denim... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024377.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024377.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9d530c75d7e3bbf9b8e586484a2947698e7248bc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024377.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +The point was that he +couldn't get work and his work was his life so he might as well +be dead. "What's the meaning of it?" one editor asked me. "There's a lot of excitement at the city desk." +"That is the meaning of it." +A few years later, without my permission, Jules Siegel, the +editor of a short-lived magazine, Cheetah, published a fake +obituary of me. An Associated Press +reporter called, and I explained that it was a hoax. His first assignment was +a profile of Sterling Hayden, an actor best... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024378.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024378.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e2465e119c4c39b779e05f041ab37a057cae31b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024378.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Journalist Adam Ellsworth described Siegel' s "Goodbye +Surfing, Hello God" with his most famous example of rock +journalism, though his most revolutionary was his article, "The +Big Beat." It appeared in the Playboy-esque Cavalier magazine +in 1965 and was one of the earliest writings he' d ever seen on +the development of rock and roll, from slaves singing in chains +on their way to America to Bob Dylan "going electric" at the +Newport Folk Festival. Then +Jules' +friend, +Arthur +Kretchmer, +became... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024379.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024379.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e8bca6ee19929b4b4adc7025ce1cb5e4cad48007 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024379.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Jules was one of the people who did it first. He was +a brilliant author, but neither Rolling Stone nor the New York +Times honored him with an obituary. COMIX +Art Spiegelman tells me his work at Cavalier 50 years ago: +I was first invited into the mag to do two full-color comix +pages in 1969 (when being printed in color was a Very Big Deal +for me as was Getting Paid more than 25 bucks for a drawing), +somehow in proximity to a big article on underground comix. It +was around the time Vaughn Bode... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024380.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024380.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..daddc6e906c4ac0b58849a5a7c0703f37d3dcdb3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024380.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +By the time l'd gotten incrementally better as a cartoonist in +the first half of the 1970s I was regularly doing illustrations for soft- +core +fiction +stories +in Cavalier's low-rent +sister +mags, Dude, Gent and Nugget (even wrote a story or two there +and got several of my San Francisco comix cronies - Spain +Rodriguez, Bill Griffith and Justin Greene) illustration gigs for +those mags as well. +[Note in Wikipedia: Maus is a graphic novel by American +cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024381.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024381.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a232e7cf3f2ab59fe512af27cc74efd625c64943 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024381.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +They declined to publish a particular column—-my review +of MASHas though it were a Busby Berkeley musical +called Gook Killers of 1970--ostensibly on the grounds of bad +taste, but I learned that three wholesalers had told the publisher +they were pressured by the FBl and would refuse to +distribute Cavalier if my name appeared in it. On top of that, my name was on a list of sixty-five +"radical" campus speakers, released by the House Internal +Security Committee. The blacklist was published in the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024382.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024382.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..233b3b59a0db14e7c38ed48f82d534c9834b480a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024382.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +reminded student groups of "rules prohibiting the collection of +funds and +the University facilities for the planning and +implementing of off-campus political and social action." +As a result, students held a sit-in lasted till 3 a.m. Next day, +ten tables were manned again, and a campus policeman +approached one of the tables (manned by the Congress of +Racial Equality) where a dozen persons were seated. One was +singled out and placed under arrest. One of +the folk songs to come out of the Free... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024383.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024383.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3b3ddc345196eef57d8098a8cac74a752f6d603a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024383.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +to be arrested by some 600 instructors of a new course called +Introductory Police Brutality. These were from the lab notes +student took: +"We should do like they do in them foreign +countries—beat 'em senseless first, then throw them in the +bus." +There was a freshman co-ed at Berkeley who-long after +she had forgotten what some professor spouted during an +official +lecture +about +Dostoevsky' s Crime +and +Punishment-would remember, with perhaps a twinge of +frightened pride, learning from a fellow... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024384.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024384.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4bfb2214066f6371141fe6730885335af50c0e9e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024384.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +From: +Sent: +Bill Siegel +2/8/2013 7:40:43 PM +Charlotte Abrams +Fro- The Control Factor - Frontpage Magazine interview +Attachments: +image001.gif; image002.jpg; image003.png; image004.png; image005.jpg; image006.jpg; image007.png +Bill Siegel hopes this might be of interest to you: http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/the-control-factor-our- +struggle-to-see-the-true-threat/ +The Control Factor: Our Struggle to See the True +Threat +February 8, 2013 By Jamie Glazov Comments (6) +22 +Print This... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024385.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024385.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..46ac22a141bdc1dcd29061bd577244ce9d299d15 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024385.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rather +than confront the facts I would present, they would find one clever way after another to avoid the frightening +truth of what America and the West truly face. FP: Tell us about the Control Factor, what you describe as "that effort our minds enga ge in in order to keep us +blind" and that "process of a voiding seeing the threats we face." It's also about, as you state, trying to believe +that the threat is under our control, when in fact it is not. Kindly enlighten us as to these profound... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024386.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024386.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a563419874e182e476fa777eb2ebce610a8a1247 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024386.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +house-oversight-024386 + +as projection, where we can assign to our Islamic Enemy traits we wish to see in them or introject traits from +them into ourselves that we wish not to acknowledge. When we add Western Guilt and Shame, our need to be liked, and o ther +psychological dimensions, basic thoughts solidify into larger fantasies. As these narratives ("Our courts will never allow that," "As a superpower we will always be able to win any +fight we put our minds to," "Assimilation will ensure... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024387.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024387.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3aa5b9aeb431f7d6aac964a96f8a83b3d7d9b9d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024387.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-024387 + +The Civilization Jihad includes situating such Jihadists in critical positions in the society, in the government, in +the legal system, the military, and elsewhere. It includes the control over university programs that distribute +propaganda about Islam and Islamic history which then filters down throughout textbooks for even younger +students. Most troublesome are the Muslim g roups (CAIR, ISNA, MSA and others associated +and/or joint venture partners with the Muslim... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024388.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024388.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a24df71cf6b65043bf46ea83687de7a947961d42 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024388.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +If the Obama narrative is swallowed- that the only threat is the Violent Jihad- we +will miss the other contamination fomenting within our borders. We must appreciate how these levels work +together and even unite with other forces such as the global Leftist movement that you, Jamie, have described +so forcefully in United in Hate. FP: You write about how we like to talk of "Good Muslims" and how we are always on the eternal search for +"moderate" Muslims (Khatami, Mousavi, Abbas, etc), while we... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024389.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024389.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d84ad95c02e256764fec025e171d570b6af49776 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024389.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The game of guilt, along with other Control +Factor tools, teaches our Enemy it is winning and to continue playing. FP: The reason Nidal Hasan was able to perpetrate his murder spree at Fort Hood is precisely because of our +Control Factor. Siegel: Just as I used to look at Hitler when I was young and be amazed that no one could see what he was +about, in retrospect the same applies to Hasan. It is precisely all the elements of the Control Factor that could +allow this man, a Soldier of Allah, to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024390.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024390.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b9c59c75785ac7fd3d0e5158239ed7c9b0ecee6a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024390.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +house-oversight-024390 + +transfer of responsibility for our Islamic Enemy's hate and resultant actions onto us with our response framed +essentially as an effort to do what we can to try to address the Enemy's grievance. (Your book, United in Hate, +describes this addiction to hate in detail. The key to the Inner Jihad is to learn to transfer responsibility for our Islamic Enemy's hate and resultant +actions back to it and take responsibility back for our own situation. We must support those... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024391.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024391.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9b578dbc8fc1cb146585ba49332a32faeada8ab9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024391.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +It +had always been a question of the harsh insensitive acts Westerners do against Muslims and the resulting hurt, +loss, shame etc. that Muslims experience. The Ground Zero Mosque incident, however, broke new ground +because all of a sudden non-Muslims' feelings became the focus and were cast as resulting from Muslim acts. Another example was seen in how quickly the attempt to blame the Benghazi murders on the video about +Mohammad fell apart. FP: What if we fail to engage in our own Inner Jihad... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024392.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024392.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9f9eb66d9455f02d77f54b98844eb6e5e8934fea --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024392.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Sort by: Date Rating Last Activity ++3 +AdinaK 86p • 11 hours ago +The war being waged has two components - mental and physical. The mental side is a minefield of constructs, deeply +implanted within generations of Americans, and its PC chickens are coming home to roost. So much so, millions of +Americans (westerners) cannot break free of its shackles. Adina Kutnicki, Israel - http://adinakutnicki.com/about/ +Report +Reply +1 reply • active 30 minutes ago +mw • 30 minutes ago +And I would think one "phy... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024393.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024393.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..940b6fcd89e76f1edf21b1c739f56f5b38924dee --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024393.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +@WolfyJam • 2 hours ago +Notice how celebrities basking in their narcissism think they can dictate culture to us while they live their lives in the +comfort of their ivory castles. As far as blacks go-- I grew up in the 70's coming home from Hallahan H.S. in Philadel phia, me and +my small group of girls were swarmed by a mob of black girls who would kick and slap and pull hair without provocation. +of course we would fight back but then that was back in the day when whites weren't sissies. So, in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024394.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024394.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..208d3323ceef472ab09a252ed51370b5a9538308 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024394.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Spam and advertising are not permitted in the comments area. +6. Impersonators will be banned immediately. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024395.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024395.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..58d57734c2e94857503bfd0babaf25ac7731a71f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024395.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +From: +Bill Siegel +Sent: +2/8/2013 8:10:04 PM +To: +jeevacation@gmail.com +Subject: +Re: Fro- The Control Factor - Frontpage Magazine interview +Attachments: +image001.gif; image002.jpg; image003.png; image004.png; image005.jpg; image006.jpg; image007.png +Importance: +High +You ok? I became friendly with shirley maclaine last year and went to her ranch in sante fe. I may go back and +remembered you own half the ranch land there or something. Do you still like it there? From: Jeffrey Epstein... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024396.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024396.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7408b973e66fb6eccb3cf39c7fa5d29ad7d3e78b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024396.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +THE +CONTROL +FACTOR +Our Struggle to See the True Threat +BILL SIEGEL +FrontPage Interview's guest today is Bill Siegel, a lawyer and business +executive. He is the author of The Control Factor: Our Struggle to See the True Threat. FP: Bill Siegel, welcome to FrontPage Interview. Siegel: Thanks for having me Jamie. As a young boy born in the mid 1950s, I was fascinated with footage of +Hitler and the Third Reich and could never understand how the Jews of the time could not see the evil that +seemed so... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024397.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024397.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b69c5d30d84bc0a29d47d271a7068898a7378de9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024397.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-024397 + +Similarly, the sense of control must be continuously maintained so the Control Factor operates constantly. In +turn, the sum of this active and continuous undertaking makes these perceptions all the more familiar and thus +seemingly all the more "real." In one sense, the Control Factor is the mechanism of what Andy McCarthy +entitled one of his numerous excellent books- willful blindness. The Control Factor is cleverer than we are +aware; that is almost tautological as, if... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024398.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024398.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..98db7e17c51d8688855373101156da9b84cef56a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024398.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-024398 + +Siegel: Simply stated, our Islamic Enemy seeks the totalitarian domination of Islam throughout the world - +Islamic supremacy. Islam, in all its varied expressions, permits dhimmis- those Christians, Jews, and some +others who are permitted to remain as protected non-Muslims as long as they submit to an inferior status. What +is critical is that Shariah (Islamic Law) ultimately rules the world. The most obvious method of Jihad is through +violence; it is the one most... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024399.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024399.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..85c5d1c978497624017e209b64fce85ed1fec3aa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024399.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +It essentially controls the vote in the UN's General Assembly and thus explains in part +the absurd and abject pro-Islamic, anti-Israel thrust of that organizat ion. This level seeks to use the power of +Islamic nations to work fro m outside the West to force changes within the West. Just as the Obama administration is beginning to cooperate with +international efforts to control gun ownership, so has Hillary Clinton's Istanbul Process become a dangerous +step in the effort to restrict speech... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024400.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024400.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b04c049ece6ac94d1c343154bb25baa0da29572a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024400.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +My +view is that the grammar "Islam is x" is itself problematic because Islam has expressed itself throughout +history in a variety of fashions. It is more useful to talk in terms of how seriously engaged with Islam, the +Koran and other texts, a Muslim is. What is significant is how Muslims today are using Islam and most of +those who are in power either throughout a large territory or within a small community tend toward, if not fully +advocate, the very supremacist ideas that we try to tell... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024401.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024401.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d5c4f75deb67f0c54ea93830b63d7e7b03b56434 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024401.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-024401 + +Siegel: These are separate sets of documents that outline the Muslim Brotherhood's goals and plans underlying +the Civilization Jihad. The 1991 Explanatory +Memorandum emerged in 2008 from the Holy Land Foundation trial and describes the Brotherhood's work in +America as a "Civilization-Jihadist Process with all the word means" and "a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating +and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their own... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024402.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024402.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0bb0801210e38480415dacf10c02c9ba124a38d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024402.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +FP: You suggest that "mirroring" should be used as part of our arsenal. Siegel: Mirroring is a literal approach to transferring back to the addict responsibility that we have been +inappropriately accepting. Critical to the addict/enabler relationship is asymmetry. Imagine (international law aside) if Israel announced that from now on it will mirror Hamas +such that if civilian populations are targeted by bombs from Gaza, Israel will do the same (it is accused of such +anyway). Just this week, an... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024403.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024403.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c1eca1da6b8ad69b7e864cc0eaeb0056c8148065 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024403.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +As Omar Ahmad, founder of CAIR, reputedly said, "Islam isn't in Amer ica to be +equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran is the highest authority in America and Islam is +the only accepted religion on Earth." Who makes law- the people or Allah? We encourage all o four readers to get their hands on The Control Factor: Our Struggle to See the True Threat +and to read it! Editor's note: To watch The Glazov Gang's recent discussion about the Muslim Brotherhood's +infiltration of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024404.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024404.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ad2c2d71d64782f91208cdf527b1c175b7f225fd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024404.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Reply +0 +1 reply • active 30 minutes ago +dmw • 30 minutes ago +And I would think one "phy sical constraint" is to not let them in in the first place. By & quot;them" I mean +those who have allegiance to a socio-political system disguised as a religion that seeks world dominance by +man imposed methodology/effort -- unlike Judaism and Christianity properly understood. If we are to +"believe", the world already has a King and does not need a Caliph. Report +Reply +0 +MikeWood • 6 hours... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024405.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024405.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6076ae57274d4f75def87aeebbe0172914e9b6df --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024405.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Report +Reply ++1 +(a WolfyJam • 2 hours ago +I read the Control factor and it was excellent. Islam's love for +violence coupled with ignorance and narcissim are a recipe for disaster. I hope Americans wake up in time to +save their future. Report +Reply +Post a new comment +Top of Form +Bottom of Form +Comment as a Guest, or login: +• +Login to Intense Debate +Login to WordPress.com +Login to Twitter +Top of Form +Name +Email +Displayed next to your comments. Bottom of Form +Submit Comment +Subscribe to +FPM... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024406.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024406.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3571f47ee3fbc760bc5facaf17f5187fbbc53686 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024406.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +The information contained in this communication is +confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may +constitute inside information, and is intended only for +the use of the addressee. It is the property of +Jeffrey Epstein +Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this +communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited +and may be unlawful. If you have received this +communication in error, please notify us immediately by +return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and +destroy... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024407.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024407.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c5e52f8d802c34e185eefa055a8b7003c919aed1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024407.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +2/8/2013 8:48:50 PM +jeevacation@gmail.com +Re: Fro- The Control Factor - Frontpage Magazine interview +Attachments: +image001.gif; image002.jpg; image003.png; image004.png; image005.jpg; image006.jpg; image007.png +Importance: +High +I will let you know when I go back. From: Jeffrey Epstein +To: Bill Siegel +Sent: Fri Feb 08 15:16:44 2013 +Subject: Re: Fro- The Control Factor - Frontpage Magazine interview +great, place.. when will you go.. did you get married? i m between alber... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024408.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024408.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9a46a38a12dad85da64ff65688f62267ade2d5fc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024408.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +THE +CONTROL +FACTOR +Our Struggle to See the True Threat +C +BILL SIEGEL +FrontPage Interview's guest today is Bill Siegel, a lawyer and business +executive. He is the author of The Control Factor: Our Struggle to See the True Threat. FP: Bill Siegel, welcome to FrontPage Interview. Siegel: Thanks for having me Jamie. As a young boy born in the mid 1950s, I was fascinated with footage of +Hitler and the Third Reich and could never understand how the Jews of the time could not see the evil that +seemed... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024409.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024409.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..23a29e10180eed642d9ffd43286e9f4f3114f81d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024409.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-024409 + +Similarly, the sense of control must be continuously maintained so the Control Factor operates constantly. In +turn, the sum of this active and continuous undertaking makes these perceptions all the more familiar and thus +seemingly all the more "real." In one sense, the Control Factor is the mechanism of what Andy McCarthy +entitled one of his numerous excellent books- willful blindness. The Control Factor is cleverer than we are +aware; that is almost tautological as, if... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024410.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024410.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..90331e6be58356bd144ec7d8113246545bd5f0de --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024410.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +house-oversight-024410 + +Siegel: Simply stated, our Islamic Enemy seeks the totalitarian domination of Islam throughout the world - +Islamic supremacy. Islam, in all its varied expressions, permits dhimmis- those Christians, Jews, and some +others who are permitted to remain as protected non-Muslims as long as they submit to an inferior status. What is critical is that Shariah (Islamic Law) ultimately rules the world. The most obvious method of Jihad is through +violence; it is the one most... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024411.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024411.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5dd70c4041b201b490cf9fe4c0b7c6fec28ee901 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024411.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The OIC is the largest Islamic +institution in the world. It essentially controls the vote in the UN's General Assembly and thus explains in +part the absurd and abject pro-Islamic, anti-Israel thrust of that organizat ion. This level seeks to use the +power of Islamic nations to work from outside the West to force changes within the West. Just as the Obama administration is beginning to cooperate +with international efforts to control gun ownership, so has Hillary Clinton's Istanbul Process become... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024412.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024412.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3184949be0ef1aca45873fe0e8b9bfd05bdd3535 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024412.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +My +view is that the grammar "Islam is x" is itself problematic because Islam has expressed itself throughout +history in a variety of fashions. It is more useful to talk in terms of how seriously engaged with Islam, the +Koran and other texts, a Muslim is. What is significant is how Muslims today are using Islam and most of +those who are in power either throughout a large territory or within a small community tend toward, if not +fully advocate, the very supremacist ideas that we try to tell... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024413.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024413.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8c954a751ab3a60b548ee18ad13c50d83f4b636e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024413.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Siegel: These are separate sets of documents that outline the Muslim Brotherhood's goals and +plans underlying the Civilization Jihad. The 1991 +Explanatory Memorandum emerged in 2008 from the Holy Land Foundation trial and describes the +Brotherhood's work in America as a "Civilization-Jihadist Process with all the word means" and "a kind of +grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable +house by their own hands and the hands of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024414.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024414.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e90efa9453cc94fbfda52066b64a642ecb127568 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024414.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +FP: You suggest that "mirroring" should be used as part of our arsenal. Siegel: Mirroring is a literal approach to transferring back to the addict responsibility that we have been +inappropriately accepting. Critical to the addict/enabler relationship is asymmetry. Imagine (international law aside) if Israel announced that from now on it will mirror +Hamas such that if civilian populations are targeted by bombs from Gaza, Israel will do the same (it is +accused of such anyway). Just this week, an... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024415.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024415.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b2e4eac8dc47346d109cfd2af13ec2f36076af0b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024415.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Seriously engaged Muslims MUST place the Koran above all law while in +America, the Constitution ranks supreme. As Omar Ahmad, founder of CAIR, reputedly said, "Islam isn't in +Amer ica to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran is the highest authority in +America and Islam is the only accepted religion on Earth." Who makes law- the people or Allah? Editor's note: To watch The Glazov Gang's recent discussion about the Muslim Brotherhood's +infiltration of the United States... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024416.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024416.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e2056bf3372cb5e2e43d00f92011d2ecc15f8258 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024416.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Report +Reply +0 +1 reply • active 30 minutes ago +dmw • 30 minutes ago +And I would think one "phy sical constraint" is to not let them in in the first place. By & quot;them" I mean +those who have allegiance to a socio-political system disguised as a religion that seeks world dominance by +man imposed methodology/effort - unlike Judaism and Christianity properly understood. If we are to +"believe", the world already has a King and does not need a Caliph. Report +Reply +0 +MikeWood • 6 hours... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024417.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024417.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..000c54106d35875e34c5145231aebe51458722f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024417.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +house-oversight-024417 + +experiences Blacks are the cause of racism and if they hate whites so much then they should stay away +completely and totally. Report +Reply ++1 +@,WolfyJam • 2 hours ago +I read the Control factor and it was excellent. Report +Reply +Post a new comment +Top of Form +Bottom of Form +Comment as a Guest, or login: +Login to IntenseDebate +. Login to WordPress.com +Login to Twitter +Top of Form +Name +Email +Displayed next to your comments. Bottom of Form +Submit Comment +Subscribe to +FPM... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024418.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024418.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d880e933a49d6cf00050bf3ddeb73b4f525a5b0b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024418.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +house-oversight-024418 + +The information contained in this communication is +confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may +constitute inside information, and is intended only for +the use of the addressee. It is the property of +Jeffrey Epstein +Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this +communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited +and may be unlawful. It is the property of +Jeffrey Epstein +Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this +communication or any part thereof is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024419.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024419.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..15c17f7528bd1f9d5059461900a819d2a5bb1c60 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024419.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +From: +Bill Siegel +Sent: +2/8/2013 9:02:08 PM +To: +jeevacation@gmail.com +Subject: +Re: Fro- The Control Factor - Frontpage Magazine interview +Attachments: +image001.gif; image002.jpg; image003.png; image004.png; image005.jpg; image006.jpg; image007.png +Importance: +High +Still lillIll just engaged. I meant shirley +From: Jeffrey Epstein +To: Bill Siegel +Sent: Fri Feb 08 15:49:51 2013 +Subject: Re: Fro- The Control Factor - Frontpage Magazine interview +shirley or your wife +On Fri,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024420.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024420.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..182e054722b171322139166cad9a798f2a7c6fea --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024420.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +22 +I Print This Post +THE +CONTROL +FACTOR +Our Struggle to See the True Threat +C +BILL SIEGEL +FrontPage Interview's guest today is Bill Siegel, a lawyer and +business executive. He is the author of The Control Factor: Our Struggle to See the True Threat. FP: Bill Siegel, welcome to FrontPage Interview. Siegel: Thanks for having me Jamie. As a young boy born in the mid 1950s, I was fascinated with footage of +Hitler and the Third Reich and could never understand how the Jews of the time could not see... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024421.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024421.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..232a717c2841ce1931f36a83c711c0e712d05c46 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024421.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +I describe the Control Factor as an "active and +continuous process" designed to maintain that sense, if not illusion, of control. Similarly, the sense of control must be continuously maintained so the Control Factor operates constantly. In +turn, the sum of this active and continuous undertaking makes these perceptions all the more familiar and +thus seemingly all the more "real." In one sense, the Control Factor is the mechanism of what Andy +McCarthy entitled one of his numerous excellent books-... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024422.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024422.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3332a0a0ca90d3f5e2536427cfbf7a304e02796b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024422.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Siegel: Simply stated, our Islamic Enemy seeks the totalitarian domination of Islam throughout the world - +Islamic supremacy. It seeks to have the West submit to Islam. Islam, in all its varied expressions, permits dhimmis- those Christians, Jews, and some +others who are permitted to remain as protected non-Muslims as long as they submit to an inferior status. What is critical is that Shariah (Islamic Law) ultimately rules the world. The most obvious method of Jihad is through +violence; it is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024423.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024423.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5ea3fa9cf860f7f5e992a5435030048b7b608163 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024423.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-024423 + +Gaffney, Andy McCarthy and others have done s o much to uncover this level of Jihad that your readers +should be urged to review as much of their work (including Steve's recent excellent documentary, The Grand +Deception, and Frank's important web video course, The Muslim Brotherhood in America) as possible. Here the most powerful international +institutions such as the UN and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and others seek to push into +America from without those... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024424.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024424.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e2c4861fe74399e8f38bc32c6d1d149b9169badc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024424.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +I call this the "Peaceful Muslim Disclaimer" as virtually everyone in the press and +government has been bullied into making some statement of the kind to silence those who will pressure them +that they are "Islamophobic" and Islam is being attacked. (These are the Islam hustlers who operate on the +same principles that black race hustlers so effectively used to extort concessions over the last six decades or +SO). My +view is that the grammar "Islam is x" is itself problematic because Islam has... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024425.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024425.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1e192fa3a73a99390e629ce760ff70493ae3a7a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024425.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Even after the +murders, we cont inue the denial by calling it "workplace violence." He is the Civilization-Violent Jihad +combo! FP: Tell our readers about "The Project" and "Explanatory Memorandum." These are realities that serve as +great threats to the Control Factor, right? Siegel: These are separate sets of documents that outline the Muslim Brotherhood's goals and +plans underlying the Civilization Jihad. The +1991 Explanatory Memorandum emerged in 2008 from the Holy Land Foundation trial and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024426.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024426.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f89deb2def1a6d79859f54622ebe754cc100a9f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024426.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-024426 + +Siegel: There is a moment in typical horror films where the central characters have been pushed to their +limit. As Lee Harris described +in The Suicide of Reason, it is the willingness o r license to be (not necessarily actually being) as ruthless +that is critical. Part of the Inner Jihad is to reach that Turnaround Moment sooner rather than later. Siegel: Mirroring is a literal approach to transferring back to the addict responsibility that we have been +inappropriately... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024427.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024427.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..010d6f89e2fd4034b7aec72e0b47ac18c312a7a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024427.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +FP: What if we fail to engage in our own Inner Jihad and the Control Factor stays firmly in place? Siegel: Critical to the Inner Jihad is the realization that our civilization is fragile; not to be taken for granted. Seriously engaged Muslims MUST place the Koran above all law while in +America, the Constitution ranks supreme. As Omar Ahmad, founder of CAIR, reputedly said, "Islam isn't in +Amer ica to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran is the highest authority... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024428.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024428.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7f0f9ded3e836bc06dc295347c245f0ec6f2cca9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024428.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Adina Kutnicki, Israel - http://adinakutnicki.com/about/ +Report +Reply +1 reply • active 30 minutes ago +0 +dmw • 30 minutes ago +And I would think one "phy sical constraint" is to not let them in in the first place. By & quot;them" I mean +those who have allegiance to a socio-political system disguised as a religion that seeks world dominance by +man imposed methodology/effort -- unlike Judaism and Christianity properly understood. If we are to +"believe", the world already has a King and does not... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024429.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024429.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..99dad3c93cba45b7d6c9ceed0ddd3542e06c48ef --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024429.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +As far as blacks go-- I grew up in the 70's coming home from +Hallahan H.S. in Philadel phia, me and my small group of girls were swarmed by a mob of black girls who +would kick and slap and pull hair without provocation. of course we would fight back but then that was back +in the day when whites weren't sissies. So, in short, based on my +experiences Blacks are the cause of racism and if they hate whites so much then they should stay away +completely and totally. Report +Reply ++1 +@WolfyJam • 2... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024430.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024430.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c50ab529acbdcf58cc881de4fdd93bb58eb6c56a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024430.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +The information contained in this communication is +confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may +constitute inside information, and is intended only for +the use of the addressee. It is the property of +Jeffrey Epstein +Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this +communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited +and may be unlawful. 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THE INFORMATION PRESENTED HEREIN WAS PREPARED OR OBTAINED BY KUE AND IS BEING +FURNISHED SOLELY FOR USE BY PROSPECTIVE INVESTORS IN CONNECTION WITH THE +OFFERING. INVESTORS +NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF ARGENTINA +THIS MEMORANDUM HAS NOT BEEN APPROVED BY ANY SECURITIES REGULATOR IN +ARGENTINA AND DOES NOT... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024437.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024437.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..94a3412c2147a7fbc99b07bfeab03d09215fc35f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024437.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +THIS MEMORANDUM IS NOT, AND UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS TO BE +CONSTRUED AS, AN ADVERTISEMENT OR A PUBLIC OFFERING OF THE UNITS IN CANADA. No dealer, salespersons or other individual has been authorized to give any information or to +make any representations not contained in this Memorandum in connection with the offer made +by this Memorandum and, if given or made, such information or representations must not be +relied upon as having been authorized by KUE or by the General Partner or by any... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024438.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024438.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3378d3ed552d3b69b236d28262938a344c7d5c9f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024438.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +MEMORANDUM AND EVERY PERSON WHO SIGNED THE OFFERING MEMORANDUM OR A RIGHT +OF RESCISSION AGAINST EVERY SELLER WHERE AN OFFERING MEMORANDUM CONTAINS A +MISREPRESENTATION. FOR PURCHASERS IN NEW BRUNSWICK, THESE STATUTORY RIGHTS ARE EXERCISABLE, IN +THE CASE OF AN ACTION FOR RESCISSION, 180 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF THE TRANSACTION +THAT GAVE RISE TO THE CAUSE OF ACTION OR, IN THE CASE OF ANY ACTION, OTHER THAN AN +ACTION FOR RESCISSION, THE EARLIER OF (I) ONE YEAR AFTER THE PLAINTIFF FIRST HAD +KNOWLEDGE... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024439.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024439.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..761f31c813eeecf80aedcbf329597fffe89ed196 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024439.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +ASSUMPTIONS, A PROSPECTIVE INVESTOR SHOULD NOT PLACE UNDUE RELIANCE ON THESE +FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS. THESE FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS SPEAK ONLY AS OF THE DATE OF THIS +MEMORANDUM. NEITHER KUE NOR THE GENERAL PARTNER IS OBLIGED, AND DOES NOT +INTEND, TO UPDATE OR REVISE ANY FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS, WHETHER AS A +RESULT OF NEW INFORMATION, FUTURE EVENTS OR OTHERWISE. FINANCIAL INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS MEMORANDUM HAVE NOT +BEEN PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH U.S. Representations of Canadian... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024440.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024440.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6ab3e0f6eb0f3a444df81e4722f92dc74a608694 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024440.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +ABOUT THE OSC'S INDIRECT COLLECTION OF SUCH PERSONAL INFORMATION IS THE +ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE FINANCE AT THE OSC, SUITE +1903, BOX 5520 QUEEN STREET WEST, TORONTO, ONTARIO MSH 358, TELEPHONE: (416) 593- +8086; AND (B) HAS AUTHORIZED THE INDIRECT COLLECTION OF THE PERSONAL INFORMATION +BY THE OSC. BY PURCHASING UNITS, THE PURCHASER CONSENTS TO THE +DISCLOSURE OF SUCH INFORMATION. Language of documents in Canada. UPON RECEIPT OF THIS MEMORANDUM, EACH INVESTOR IN +CANADA... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024441.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024441.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e6a49a1d7342b5d0f67a4198b08b60ce32560ed1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024441.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF FRANCE +THE COMPANY AND THE AGENTS HAVE NOT OFFERED OR SOLD AND WILL NOT OFFER OR +SELL, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, THE UNITS TO THE PUBLIC IN FRANCE, AND HAVE NOT +DISTRIBUTED OR CAUSED TO BE DISTRIBUTED AND WILL NOT DISTRIBUTE OR CAUSE TO BE +DISTRIBUTED TO THE PUBLIC IN FRANCE, THIS MEMORANDUM OR ANY OTHER OFFERING +MATERIAL RELATING TO THE UNITS. SUCH OFFERS, SALES AND DISTRIBUTIONS HAVE BEEN +AND SHALL ONLY BE MADE IN FRANCE TO (l) PROVIDERS OF INVESTMENT SERVICES RELATING +TO... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024442.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024442.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e4256904073908d933101098fc63b74ef831b0c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024442.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +IN ARTICLE 2 OF THE ICELANDIC ACT ON SECURITIES TRANSACTIONS AND THE +REGULATION OF THE TRANSACTIONS OF SECURITIES NO. 233/2003. ANY RESALE OF THE +UNITS IN ICELAND WILL NEED TO TAKE PLACE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE +ICELANDIC ACT ON SECURITIES TRANSACTIONS No. 33/2003 AS AMENDED AND ANY +APPLICABLE LAWS OR REGULATIONS OF ICELAND. NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF INDIA +THE ISSUANCE OF THE UNITS IS BEING MADE STRICTLY ON A PRIVATE PLACEMENT BASIS. THIS MEMORANDUM IS NOT A PROSPECTUS OR A... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024443.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024443.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cd395ff34d025932f23e9389141645a7bca1dd5f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024443.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF JAPAN +THE OFFERING OF THE UNITS HEREUNDER HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED +UNDER THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE LAW OF JAPAN. CONSEQUENTLY, THE UNITS MAY +NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, RESOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, +IN JAPAN OR TO OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANY RESIDENT OF JAPAN, EXCEPT PURSUANT TO +AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE JAPANESE LAWS AND REGULATIONS. NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF JERSEY +NOTHING IN THIS MEMORANDUM, NOR ANYTHING COMMUNICATED TO HOLDERS... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024444.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024444.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f76d31deb4b9f7da1b9a32e2b13debb146fba464 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024444.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +THIS MEMORANDUM AND OTHER OFFERING MATERIALS MAY NOT BE +PUBLICLY DISTRIBUTED IN MEXICO. NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF MONACO +NEITHER THIS MEMORANDUM NOR ANY OTHER OFFERING MATERIAL RELATING TO THE UNITS +MAY BE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC OR USED IN CONNECTION WITH ANY OTHER OFFER FOR +SUBSCRIPTION OR SALE OF THE UNITS IN THE PRINCIPALITY OF MONACO, AND THE UNITS +MAY NOT BE ISSUED, OFFERED OR OTHERWISE SOLD IN THE PRINCIPALITY OF MONACO. THE UNITS MAY NOT OTHERWISE BE OFFERED, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024445.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024445.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..87814df18b75fc62c6d93c410a31e76372b90efc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024445.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +OF SECURITIES REGULATIONS (THE "REGULATIONS"). IT SHOULD NOT BE DISTRIBUTED TO +ANY OTHER PERSON, OR RELIED UPON BY ANY OTHER PERSON. THE CAPITAL MARKET AUTHORITY DOES NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CONTENTS +OF THIS MEMORANDUM, DOES NOT MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION AS TO ITS ACCURACY OR +COMPLETENESS, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY WHATSOEVER FOR ANY LOSS +ARISING FROM, OR INCURRED IN RELIANCE UPON, ANY PART OF THIS MEMORANDUM. PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS OF THE SECURITIES OFFERED HEREBY SHOULD... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024446.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024446.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d96b092df9e195130ce64c8f79103a25af1378f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024446.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +As to the Common LP Units +THIS MEMORANDUM HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED AS A PROSPECTUS WITH THE MONETARY +AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE AND THIS OFFERING IS NOT REGULATED BY ANY FINANCIAL +SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY PURSUANT TO ANY LEGISLATION IN SINGAPORE. NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF SPAIN +NO PUBLIC OFFERING OF THE COMMON LP UNITS WILL BE CARRIED OUT IN THE SPANISH +TERRITORY, PURSUANT TO THE DEFINITION OF PUBLIC OFFER CONTAINED IN ARTICLE 30 BIS +OF THE SECURITIES MARKET LAW 24/1988, OF JULY 28. MEMORANDUM AND ANY... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024447.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024447.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..548295ccfe989e12b5182c40f2909da74e1b4972 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024447.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM +THE COMPANY IS AN UNREGULATED COLLECTIVE INVESTMENT SCHEME FOR THE PURPOSES +OF THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS ACT 2000 ("FSMA"), THE PROMOTION OF WHICH IN +THE UNITED KINGDOM IS RESTRICTED BY THE FSMA. IF MADE BY A PERSON WHO IS NOT AN +AUTHORISED PERSON UNDER FSMA, THE ISSUE OR DISTRIBUTION OF THIS DOCUMENT IN THE +UNITED KINGDOM MAY ONLY BE MADE TO AND DIRECTED AT PERSONS WHO (I) ARE +INVESTMENT PROFESSIONALS FALLING WITHIN ARTICLE 19 OF THE FINANCIAL... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024448.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024448.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a964d9f009a30f28a900c61abb76b20da6cad428 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024448.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES +EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDAR (including pro forma presentations thereof) and the +related ratios presented in this Memorandum are supplemental measures of our performance that are not +required by, or presented in accordance with, generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S. +("GAAP"). EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDAR are not measurements of our financial +performance under GAAP and should not be considered as alternatives to net... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024449.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024449.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4927cebc62b5ae2f3ce654750d6deced43f074d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024449.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDAR have limitations as analytical tools, and you should +not consider them in isolation, or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Some of these limitations are: +• they do not reflect our cash expenditures for capital expenditures or contractual commitments; +• they do not reflect the cost of our non-cash stock-based compensation or our SAR plan or long term +incentive plan or the expense associated with allocating Profits... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024450.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024450.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a99ae8b732e0ef70c993225df12cad15938943af --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024450.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-024450 + +anticipated by the forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on the +projections contained in this Memorandum or other models and forecasts they may receive or discuss in +connection with this offering. Important factors that could cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially +different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by those statements +include, but are not limited to,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024451.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024451.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..25d9afc52e5b2a8ba843049d5c47ea9f5da77665 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024451.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +BACKGROUND DATA +Industry and market data used throughout this Memorandum is based on independent industry +publications, government publications, reports by market research firms and other published independent +sources. Some data is also based on our good faith estimates, which are derived from our review of +internal surveys and independent sources. Some of the industry data +contained in this Memorandum has not been updated because we have been unable to obtain more +recent data. Although we are... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024452.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024452.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6b15b315d4c99fd99f642a7fd15c79202dc7bf38 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024452.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +You should carefully consider the information set forth under "Risk Factors". The term "KUE" refers +only to Knowledge Universe Education L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership. The terms "Knowledge +Universe Education", the "Company", "we", "us" and "our" refer to KUE and, where applicable, its subsidiaries, and +do not refer to the Agents. KUE's +existing portfolio of assets consists of: +(i) +KLC OpCo, the leading early childhood education +("ECE") company with 2,507 locations in 39... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024453.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024453.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4407a514e004222d4be06b0fba553273ea87702e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024453.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Education is one of the largest sectors in the world, representing approximately 5% of global gross +national income of $48 trillion. The Company's strategy is to grow its existing platforms both domestically and internationally and to +expand its assets globally across the pre-K-12 education continuum. Internationally, KUE +has identified several near-term opportunities to expand into Europe, the Middle-East and Asia, with some +of these opportunities in advanced stages of preparation. In May... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024454.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024454.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7781a9b8bd27287dba19cb06c209e5352a6ed1c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024454.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Education is one of the largest sectors in the world and represents a large portion of a country's +investments +- Represents approximately 5% of global gross national income of $48 trillion. The for-profit component of this industry (pre-K-12, post secondary and corporate +training) is projected to grow faster than the overall historical industry growth rate, at a 7.4% annual +rate, reflecting the increasing importance of for-profit operations in the sector, to reach a market +— In addition, these... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024455.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024455.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..37ef3023a2220332df9176a8dc95d2d7e1c1ed6b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024455.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +In the medium term, numerous opportunities for KUE should be generated by the increasing demand for +quality for-profit educational offerings by governments and citizens around the world +— Competitive pressures for development of human capital, deficiencies of national education +systems, growth of a middle-class in China, India and the Middle East, demand for English +language offerings and changing demographics are some of the primary drivers of increased +demand internationally. +- Under the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024456.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024456.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..20a395dc2da5b3b94628ff250b0decda89d6e867 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024456.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +capability that is expected to increase in line with the 13.5% Adjusted EBITDA CAGR projected +until 2011. +k12 continues to grow at an impressive rate, with annual enrollment growth projected in excess of 25% +over the next two years +— Many of k12's direct costs are semi-fixed in nature (e.g., school administration) creating strong +economies of scale as this business continues to grow. With $70 million invested in the development of the platform for kindergarten to 9th grade classes, +extension of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024457.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024457.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..276ff8406a1a8569564601c22d8d90129b33f549 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024457.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +house-oversight-024457 + +KLC OpCo has leveraged its scale and operational expertise to roll out a proprietary curriculum and to +provide enhanced corporate level services +- Curriculum has been developed, rolled out and refined over many years and provides a significant +competitive advantage in an industry where small independent players do not have the resources +to develop comparable programs. +- Operational leverage allows for enhanced marketing, back-office, legal and compliance... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024458.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024458.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8604a11c8f5c6efefd11017ecc651c013bcebb40 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024458.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +• Strong leadership teams +KUE +- Strong team of highly experienced professionals at the KUE level, led by CEO Lowell Milken, +Chairman Michael Milken and Vice-Chairmen Steven Green and Ted Sanders. KLC OpCo +— Highly experienced management team comprised of both experts in the field of education (COO Dr. Elanna Yalow has substantial experience operating for-profit ECE centers), as well as business +professionals. +- Seasoned executive and middle management team with average Company tenure of ten... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024459.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024459.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9ba20f8dee27a7279f870af49692b260edd093d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024459.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +— The ECE industry generates approximately $54 billion in total spending in the U.S. and has grown +at a compound annual growth rate of 10% since 1982. It is expected to grow at a 3.4% +compounded annual rate through 2010 according to Harris Nesbitt research. The ECE industry's +growth has been driven by several favorable social and demographic trends including: the increase +in working mothers and single-parent or dual-income families, historically high birth rates, and +increase in popularity of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024460.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024460.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0066d8c548e9db356ec36138594ab308120dfd32 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024460.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +SUMMARY TERMS OF THE TRANSACTION +Certain of the key terms of the offering, which are subject to and qualified in their entirety by reference to +the Limited Partnership Agreement of KUE, the organizational documents of the General Partner and +applicable Cayman Istands law, are outlined below. The terms summarized herein are set forth in detail +Issuers: +Securities Offered: +Minimum and Maximum Investment: +Closing: +Knowledge Universe Education L.P., a Cayman Islands +axempted limited partnership... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024461.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024461.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fa987f3fb04a49da6247b06b1c268fccb7bc79b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024461.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Use of Proceeds: +Capital Structure: +LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("KUE LLC") +through conversion of its preferred limited partner units, +including accrued dividends at the option of KUE LLC, into +Common LP Units) is U.S. $280.0 million. Investors admitted during the Offering Period after the first +closing of this offering and after September 30, 2006 will pay +an additional amount accruing at a rate of 0.67% per month +calculated from the first closing date of the offering (pro- +rated... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024462.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024462.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e2e17f0e87272a4e2432f0bb8db3abcbc7c7827b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024462.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Participation +LP Units as +"Distributions." +Assuming that 1,000,000 Units are sold to Investors by +March 31, 2007, and that the accrued dividends on the +preferred limited partner units are paid in cash, KUE LLC, +controlled by the Principals, will hold approximately +1,530,000 Common LP Units representing approximately +60% ownership in KUE (excluding Profits Participation LP +Units) and 1,530,000 Class A Shares. The Common LP +Units owned by KUE LLC will not be transferable, except to +(i) the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024463.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024463.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3aed547bf6057ab113023bdbf885e2a36482a80a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024463.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Distributions: +subsidiaries and joint ventures as designated by KULG other +than the Principals and their affiliates), the vesting schedule +of such interests, and whether certain tax elections are made +by the recipients of such interests; provided, however, the +total number of Profits Participation LP Units shall not +exceed a number equal to eleven percent (11%) of the +aggregate number of Partnership Units. Any increase in the +number of Profits Participation LP Units following the sale of +the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024464.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024464.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c9d63c7c28863309762908d0fb11c765f331b554 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024464.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Equal Merger Consideration Provision: +Profits Participation Limited Partner concurrently receives an +amount equal to a fraction of the amount the Common +Limited Partners and the General Partner received pursuant +to their Preferred Return (such fraction to be equal to the +portion of the Units held by the Profits Participation Limited +Partner attributable to members of the Profits Participation +Limited Partner other than the Principals), multiplied by the +number of Units held by the Profits... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024465.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024465.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..db1af1eaa45a2aa627a3821e0916fa9a9326626e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024465.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Fixed Overhead Payment: +Voting Rights: +Common LP Unit have substantially equivalent economic +provisions. The Investors will have no voting rights on matters affecting +Company business with respect to their Common LP Units in +KUE because the Investors will be limited partners of KUE. Notwithstanding the foregoing, subject to certain exceptions, +KUE must obtain the consent of (a) the holders of a majority +of the Common LP Units unaffiliated with the Principals to +amend the Limited Partnership... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024466.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024466.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..697b94caa52bd99bd7e2cf109b9587c9073c59ba --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024466.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Board of Directors: +Initial Listing Process: +outstanding Partnership Units of KUE. The General Partner will have a Board of Directors initially +consisting of up to 13 persons. Following the first closing of the offering and prior to the +"Initial Listing" (as defined below), the outside Investor +(including its affiliates) holding the greatest number of shares +in the General Partner at the first closing of the offering will +appoint two directors of the General Partner and the holders +of the Class... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024467.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024467.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..61fbb6ddfa459f922f7e0793ecc5446b2030dcd9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024467.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Related Party Transactions: +Partners to exchange their interests in KUE and the General +Partner for interests in a subsidiary of KUE. Related party transactions include transactions between (1) +any of the Principals or any of their affiliates or any entity +controlled by any of the Principals, and (2) KUE or any direct +or indirect subsidiary or joint venture of KUE involving more +than $1 million (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any +merger, acquisition, asset purchase or similar... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024468.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024468.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1678c97fd1155b495d2c1bccf9a961c3fde539d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024468.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Investment in Subsidiaries: +Transferability of Units: +Tag-Along Right: +Not in limitation of any commitments or restrictions the +Principals may have entered into, prior to an Initial Listing, +KUE may not permit any of its subsidiaries or controlled joint +ventures (which shall not include, for the avoidance of doubt, +certain exempt companies contemplated by the following +paragraph) to issue or grant any equity interests in such +subsidiaries or controlled joint ventures to any of the +Principals or... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024469.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024469.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1f0d7ae8628763680dbc4ab071cdfcd83fa16753 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024469.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Drag-Along Right: +Co-Invest Right: +Additional Listing of Investors' Units: +LLC), the Investors may sell a pro rata portion of their +Common LP Units and corresponding Class A Shares in the +proposed transfer on the same terms and in exchange for +the same consideration per Unit (and Class A Share) +received by KUE LLC and its affiliates. Prior to the Initial Listing, with respect to any proposed +transfer of a majority of the Units held by KUE LLC to a +proposed non-affiliate purchaser (and, unless... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024470.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024470.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1dc110b0ad1c3c4ea66841e6783fdddc2b18aec4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024470.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Term: +Illiquidity Period: +The term of KUE will be indefinite, unless terminated earlier +in accordance with the Limited Partnership Agreement. If there has not been an +Initial Listing by the end of seven years from the date of the +first closing of this offering, the Board of Directors of the +General Partner will determine whether to pursue a sale of +KUE or an Initial Listing (or a dual track process); provided, +however, in the event that not less than 75% of the value of +KUE at that time is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024471.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024471.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7ac6a550f6865ff601d8ed256ffef0f5660abf77 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024471.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Indemnification: +Independent Committee on this issue shall be binding on the +Board of Directors of the General Partner and will require the +Board of Directors of the General Partner to pursue such +action within ninety (90) days. KUE will indemnify the General Partner and its members, +officers, directors, and employees, and at the General +Partner's discretion, any other person providing services to +KUE, its subsidiaries or joint ventures. KUE has provided a +customary indemnity to the Agents in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024472.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024472.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c36bd40340ae0e419582f32c9b431b9506b1c506 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024472.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +USE OF PROCEEDS +The proceeds of this offering will be +used: (i) to expand operations, including through strategic +acquisitions in the U.S. and internationally, (ii) to develop new products and services, (iti) to repay, in +whole or in part, $150 million of existing debt plus accrued interest (including through application of a +portion of the proceeds of the initial closing of the offering after payment of expenses and preferred +returns), which currently bears interest at either the reserve... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024473.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024473.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1c0daf3f8c4cae3455946056436dfcbe35fc5113 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024473.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +CAPITALIZATION +The following table sets forth KUE's cash, cash equivalents and senior capitalization as of December 31, +2005: +• on an actual basis; and +• on a pro forma basis to give effect to the sale of $1 billion in Units in this offering by KUE after +deducting estimated offering fees and estimated offering expenses payable by KUE. You should read this table together with "Management's Discussion and Analysis of KLC's Pro Forma +Results of Operations" and the audited and unaudited... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024474.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024474.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5b67fcd62d448479c71c112a96e4da8b04dffdfa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024474.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Organizational Structure - Pro Forma for Funding of $1 Billion. Investors +900 +Class B +Shares +1,000,000 +Class A +Shares +Principals +100% +Knowledge Universe Holdings LLC, +a Delaware limited liability company +"KUH" +100% +Knowledge Universe Learning Group LLC, +a Delaware limited liability company +"KULG" +100% +Knowledge Universe Education LLC, +a Delaware limited liability company +"KUE LLC" +1,530,000 +Class A +Shares +1,000,000 +Common +LP Units +KUE Management Inc., a +Cayman Islands +exempted company +"General... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024475.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024475.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fa7c00717c862e79977e76ae39d747ea459cd02c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024475.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +SUMMARY FINANCIAL DATA +The following summary historical pro forma and projected financial data should be read in conjunction +with the financial statements and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of KLC's Pro Forma Results of +Operations" presented elsewhere in this Memorandum. See also "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" +elsewhere in this Memorandum for a discussion of the derivation and limitations of EBITDA, Adjusted +EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDAR. The historical information is pro forma for the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024476.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024476.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ea32d2507e97f9706e6f300f87c7a077d725636b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024476.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +KLC OpCo Historical Pro Forma and Projected Financial Summary +(S in millions, except for +Fiscal Year Ended December 31, +weekly tuition) +2004PF' +2005PF1 +2006P +OPERATIONAL DATA: +Revenue +$1,442.2 +Revenue Growth +Gross Profit +Adjusted EBITDA? Adjusted EBITDA Margin +Adjusted EBITDAR +Adjusted EBITDAR Margin +$233.3 +$143.3 +9.9% +$352.8 +24.5% +$1,477.7 +2.5% +$244.4 +$149.9 +10.1% +$367.4 +24.9% +$1,557.8 +5.4% +$290.7 +S161.7 +10.4% +$371.4 +23.8% +OTHER FINANCIAL DATA: +Interest Expense +Capital Expenditures +of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024477.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024477.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7d3a30c96e01c2d2e1418e65ea7c01f19ff200eb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024477.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +RISK FACTORS +Investment in the Units involves a substantial degree of risk and should be regarded as speculative. As a +result, the purchase of the Units should be considered only by persons who can reasonably afford a loss +of their entire investment. Prospective investors should carefully consider, in addition to matters set forth +elsewhere in this Memorandum, the following factors relating to the business of the Company and this +offering. The discussion in this +Memorandum contains... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024478.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024478.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..15b92b3e24cbc55af7f0443ede1d5ff7b6beb1c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024478.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-024478 + +The initial closing of this offering will require a minimum investment (including the amount attributable to +KUE LLC through conversion of its preferred limited partner units, including accrued dividends at the +option of KUE LLC, into Common LP Units) of U.S. $280.0 million. There can be no assurance of +additional closings after the initial closing of the offering, whether before the completion of the Offering +Period on March 31, 2007 or thereafter. Unless there are... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024479.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024479.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a870fe4eddbb99ed5fe86c943dccf51fc4e87154 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024479.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +house-oversight-024479 + +skilled personnel could limit the ability of the Company to increase sales of existing products and services +and launch new product offerings. +6.1.4 The Company has significant leverage, and expects to incur additional debt, +which could result in adverse effects on its financial condition +The Company has significant leverage and expects to incur additional debt in connection with the +acquisition and operation of its businesses. Although the Company intends to use... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024480.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024480.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5a96727694dfc9987b120c9009c8fe0c05ef9f2a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024480.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +In many markets, the Company faces competition from preschool services and before and after school +programs offered by public schools that provide such services at little or no cost to parents. In addition, local nursery schools, child care centers and in-home providers +generally charge less for their services than the Company. Many denominational and other non-profit +child care centers have lower operating expenses than the Company and may receive donations and/or +other funding to subsidize... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024481.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024481.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..db495b1b52726296993fce82ac50fef605d4bae6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024481.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-024481 + +Such interests may involve risks in connection with such third-party involvement, including the possibility +that a third-party may be in a position to take (or block) action in a manner contrary to the Company's +objectives or may have financial difficulties resulting in a negative impact on such interest. There can be no assurance that desirable +minority shareholder rights will be available or that such rights will provide sufficient protection of the +Company's... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024482.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024482.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..364f741f82cce518966fc91a884413bd4653f257 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024482.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Delay in obtaining or failure +to obtain and maintain in full force and effect any regulatory approvals, or amendments thereto, or delay +or failure to satisfy any regulatory conditions or other applicable requirements, could prevent operation of +the facility or sales to third parties, or could result in additional costs to the Company. +6.1.12 Conflicts of interest may arise with the Principals and their affiliates +The Principals will agree (on behalf of themselves and their affiliates) that KUE... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024483.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024483.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dc0fa6df9eb587419ba12e66137165ac140c737a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024483.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +6.1.13 The Company may not engage in certain businesses +On February 24, 1998, without admitting or denying liability, Michael R. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Securities and Exchange +Commission v. Milken et al., which judgment was entered on February 26, 1998 restraining +and enjoining Michael Milken from associating with any broker, dealer, investment advisor, investment +company or municipal securities dealer, and from violating Section 15(a) of the Securities Exchange... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024484.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024484.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9aaf38a9c0ddf63bd2b2f069f161555b16788120 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024484.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +KLC cannot be certain of the cost or coverage it will obtain with +replacements of existing policies, which will depend on the factors described above. +6.1.16 Factors beyond the Company's control, such as economic conditions, may +adversely affect the demand for child care services +Demand for child care services is subject to fluctuations in general economic conditions, and the +Company's revenues depend, in part, on the number of working mothers and working single parents who +require child care... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024485.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024485.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9cb3037ffd00d4a078a4e167a9951135b7059b0c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024485.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +house-oversight-024485 + +Child Care and Development Block Grant to provide child care assistance to needy families in lieu of +TANF funds, thereby reducing the amount of funds available to other families, including families that +utilize KLC's child care centers. +6.1.18 A termination or reduction of tax credits for child care could have a material +adverse effect on KLC's business +‹LC may enjoy heightened demand for its services because of tax incentives for child care programs +Section 21 of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024486.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024486.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4435b47b9930ac7e51d95fc6cd9ec87181330952 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024486.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Tax Risks +6.2.1 +Certain tax considerations generally applicable to Investors subject to U.S. tax +liability +KUE is expected to be treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Each Investor that +is subject to U.S. federal income tax liability will take into account its allocable share of items of income, +gain, loss, deduction, and credit of KUE (as determined under the Limited Partnership Agreement), +without regard to whether it has received distributions from KUE. As a result,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024487.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024487.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eeb3d802d04937f979a97b3c34758593426d17f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024487.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Investors may become subject to U.S. Tax +KUE business activities could generate income +that will be taxable to certain otherwise tax-exempt +Investors as "unrelated business taxable income." +Although, under the Limited Partnership Agreement, +the General Partner is required to use its reasonable best efforts not to engage in, or invest in (other than +through an entity that is not a pass-through entity) a pass-through entity that engages in, any activity +which constitutes the conduct of a trade or... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024488.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024488.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7523afaae731e9842525b7999d9d85b17c16512d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024488.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The +promulgation of contrary regulations or a successful challenge of either of these positions by the Internal +Revenue Service could materially reduce a holder's after-tax return and, thus, could result in a substantial +reduction of the value of the Units. +6.2.6 Currency Fluctuations +An investment in KUE is a U.S. dollar denominated investment. Fluctuations in value between the U.S. dollar and the Investor's +functional currency (if other than the U.S. dollar) may result in taxable income to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024489.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024489.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8ed84667192ae3719bcf49faf0b256fcd6120354 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024489.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +house-oversight-024489 + +The Projections do not assume that the Company will make any future material acquisitions, even though +the Company expects to use the +proceeds of the sale of the Units, among other purposes, for +acquisitions, which will likely affect actual performance and cause it to differ from the Projections. The +Projections assume the success of the Company's operating strategy, although no assurance can be +given that the Company's strategy will be effective or that the anticipated... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024490.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024490.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cde47ceda71489096281d2b15c2376bd3615f5b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024490.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +In addition, Investors have the right to access certain other +information regarding the Company as provided for in the Limited Partnership Agreement. As long as the +Units are not registered under the Exchange Act, the Company will not be subject to the reporting +requirements +conversion issues. +6.4.3 +Investors may never receive cash distributions on their investment; there is no +assurance of investment return +There is no assurance that KUE will be able to generate returns for the Investors or... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024491.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024491.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ac8f874cd432ce581746fbf4b44aff9eca52cb4b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024491.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +In addition, certain provisions of Rule 144 under the Securities Act, which permit +the resale, subject to various terms and conditions, of restricted securities after they have been held for +one year, do not apply to the Units because the Company is not required to file and does not file, current +reports under the Exchange Act and does not, and does not intend to, make comparable information +publicly available. +6.4.6 Purchasers of the Units are subject to Dilution +Although we have not... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024492.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024492.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a3c354bdeed3523d53daacc7ba2cfad53d989e42 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024492.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +house-oversight-024492 + +corporate or partnership investments. This restriction may adversely affect an Investors' ability to transfer +the Units in the future. +6.4.10 Under certain circumstances, the General Partner may cause an Investor's +interest in KUE to be redeemed or transferred +Under circumstances where the continuing participation in KUE by an Investor would have a material +adverse effect on the Company, the General Partner may cause an Investor's interest in KUE to be +redeemed or... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024493.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024493.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5d224780bc8a430f5b3f3973cb5e0362efc86bbc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024493.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +DISTRIBUTION POLICY +in the credit facility and indenture of KLC restrict distributions by KLC that could, in turn, be made +available for future distributions by KUE to its partners. +60 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024493 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024494.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024494.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f428da4f3936291b667ee02fc79e6ef31d22de73 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024494.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Human Capital +Historically, the world economy has been viewed as being driven by an asset base of natural resources. This perception is reinforced +through the statistics and measurements used by governments, as seen in the Federal Reserve's +representation of the U.S. balance sheet. Nobel Prize winning economist Gary +Becker estimates that in today's service based economy, human capital accounts for 76% of the assets in +2005 Human Capital - $238 Trillion Market +2005 U.S. Balance Sheet - $62... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024495.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024495.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2c4081f7a5037bd1200f288b4d8f32451f601d5e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024495.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Education and Wage Disparity: Lifetime Earnings (Ages 18-64) +$6.0 - +$5.0. +$4.0 - +$3.0 - +$2.0 - +$1.0 - +$0.0 + +$4.2- +$2.3 +$1.4 +$5.3 +$2.7 +$1.6 +1991 +— Professional Degree — +1995 +1999 +- Bachelor's Degree +2003 +- High School Diploma +Source: U.S. Despite the results of the study shown above, 35% of Americans over the age of 18 have not graduated +high school. Only one-third of the 25% of Americans who have received a bachelor's degree, or 8%, +have received a graduate degree. Studies by Nobel Prize... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024496.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024496.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b048bd32fd4470e21e9e5e9eb48806ce3df43105 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024496.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +The Education Market +Education is one of the largest sectors in the world, representing approximately 5% of global gross +national income of $48 trillion. US Education Industry: Revenues Generated by For-Profit Companies (1999-2010E) +(in billions) +$150 +$120 +$90 - +$60 +$30 +$0 +10.0% +- 9.0% +- 8.0% +- 7.0% +6.0% +5.0% +% of Total Spending +1999 +2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005E 2006E 2007E 2008E 2009E 2010E +• For-Profit Spending — +- For-Profit % +Source: Harris Nesbitt estimates, U.S. Department of Education... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024497.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024497.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fbe58a1ec568295bb43c671790d5e3388fe47cf1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024497.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +house-oversight-024497 + +outside the home grew from 10.6 million in 1999 to an estimated 12 million in 2003, an increase of 3.1% +annually. +8.3.1 Early Childhood Education's Role in the Economy +ECE enables people to pursue income-generating activities by allowing parents to participate in the +workforce and contribute to the economy. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the annual +number of live births in the U.S. was approximately 4.1 million in 2003, compared to approximately... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024498.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024498.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f97ed257fc5103223d318bc564adc7dfca68b3b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024498.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +house-oversight-024498 + +• Highly educated parents spend more on childcare. In 2001, 70% of children with college- +educated mothers attended childcare programs, while only 38% of children whose mothers had less +than a high school degree attended childcare programs. Department of +Commerce reveals that families with college degrees spent an average of $92.67 per week (per child) +on childcare in 2000, whereas parents without a high school degree only spent an average of $59.70 +ver week per child.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024499.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024499.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3f2eb44fde41e287eb4193004b30140d734ebd27 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024499.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +house-oversight-024499 + +There are also several national chains, such as Bright Horizons Family Solutions, La Petite Academy, +Learning Care Group (ABC Learning) and Nobel Learning Communities, or regional for-profit companies +with sizeable numbers of centers and similar economies of scale in curriculum development, marketing +and site development. Competitive Landscape within Early Childhood Education +Other +unurenes +5% +Public Sector +agencies +11% +For-Profit Child +Education +Family +Day... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024500.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024500.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7731731c725d7e731fe35ff94051a7f55347b575 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024500.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +As of February 28, 2006, +the company reported LTM sales and EBITDA of $411 million and $33 million, respectively. The +company has been owned by JP Morgan Capital since 1998. +• Nobel Learning Communities (Public) +Nobel is a for-profit provider of private pay education and services for education entities for the preschool +through 12th grade market. Affiliates of the Principals are currently significant shareholders of the company. +8.3.4 Government's Role in Early Childhood Education +Approximately... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024501.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024501.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..13da8382ebf87bd279e5a166aca7b9ed5b931822 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024501.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +According to Harris Nesbitt Research, industry experts estimate that the $21.8 +billion in revenues generated by for-profit education providers in 2004 will increase to over $29.7 billion in +2010, 5.3% annual growth. For-Profit K-12 Education (2004 - 2010E) +$29.7 +(in billions) +$30 +$25 - +$20 +$15 +$10 +$5 +$O +$26.8 +$28.2 +$25.5 +$21.8 +$23.0 +$24.2 +• k12 +J KLC +2004 +2005 +2006E +2007E +2008E +2009E +2010E +• Professional Development Print Publishing Supplemental Services +Technology = Assessment = School... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024502.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024502.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..86c1cdf1dcc0b70995b54c06a8124706e8a0fad1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024502.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +has increased 20% annually, outpacing the less than 1% average K-12 enrollment growth over the same +period.29 +K-12 Charter Schools and Enrollment (1995 to 2004) +Charter Schools +4,000 +3,000 +2,000 +1,000 +1,000,000 +2000 +2001 +2002 +2003 +2004 +- Schools +- Students +Note: Number of students in 1999-2000 school year was estimated. Source: Harris Nesbitt, Education and Training, September 2005 and Charter School Leadership Council and Center for +Education Reform. Supplementary Education Market.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024503.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024503.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..55953e6e1c13cce47533175276aecf84f4ac9899 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024503.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +For example, in Australia and +the United Kingdom, the government has subsidized a large portion of ECE. The opportunity for increased government spending on +pre-K-12 education is particularly apparent in growing economies such as China and South Korea as +those countries increase their share of world GDP. +• Potential opportunities in countries with declining populations. These include China, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. +8.5.1 China: Market Overview +With a population of 274 million... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024504.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024504.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4f3eae9ac1d204f11e9f18d455ccf4a9097aedfc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024504.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +house-oversight-024504 + +Kindergartens can be set up by the Ministry of Education, private enterprises, universities, communities +and individuals. Tuition +Overview of the Major Themes in Education Market in China +Only accept non-PRC citizens +Very high tuition (>US$10,000 pervear) +Free to use any curriculum +International +Usually affiliated with overseas schools +Examples: Shanghai American School, Yew Chung Shanghai +International School, British International School +"Elite" Public +Public schools... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024505.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024505.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8675f259e93c51459462dd635cd752a50aef44c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024505.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The U.K. government is focused on the ECE industry and expects to spend $18 billion on child care +schemes in the near future through +"Sure Start", an initiative designed to encourage additional +participation in high quality childcare through extensive subsidies. The government's intention is to create +3,500 additional children's centers in un-serviced, low-income communities. Comparison of per-child expenditure at Pre-Primary and Primary levels 2001 +($ per... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024506.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024506.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..449c11abc27e9ae20842b16e60ed7d69c0d6929e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024506.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +The controlling shareholders of the General Partner are Michael Milken, Lowell Milken and Steven Green +(collectively the "Principals"). Michael Milken and Lowell Milken each has more than two decades of +experience in the education sector through involvement in several for-profit and not-for-profit initiatives. Steven Green, a former U.S. ambassador to Singapore, has more than two decades of experience as an +international industrialist leadina major corporate restructurings and expansions in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024507.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024507.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1f723c238cbb5c80aefa6478a3a7c9c5ebf674fc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024507.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Management +Name +Lowell Milken +Michael Milken +Steven Green +Ted Sanders +Stephen Goldsmith +Nina Rees +Jeffrey Safchik +Richard Sandler +Adam Cohn +Geoffrey Moore +Michael Neumann +Position +Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of KUE +Co-Founder and Chairman of KUE +Vice Chairman of KUE, and Chairman and CEO of k1 Ventures +and Greenstreet Real Estate Partners +Vice Chairman of KUE +Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning and Worldwide +Government Programs +Senior Vice President, Strategic... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024508.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024508.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ff79de49e5dfe69723bfc0465b2ea9fb9cd7bcf8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024508.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF KLC'S +PRO FORMA RESULTS OF OPERATIONS +In January 2005, KLC acquired KinderCare and incurred $540 million of term debt (the "Acquisition Term +Debt") and $250 million of subordinated bridge debt to finance the acquisition. In November 2005, KLC completed +a transaction (the "Real Estate Transaction") in which KLC divided its business, with substantially all of its +real estate owned by special purpose subsidiaries (collectively, KLC PropCo) and all of its... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024509.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024509.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7e02bdce0be661ae7ba119bd13a5682ba66b4d35 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024509.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +The vast majority of KLC's net revenues are derived from center operations. The trends and drivers +discussed below relate to such center operations. KLC derives its net revenues primarily from the tuition it charges for attendance by children at its centers. KLC's tuition rates and net revenues can be significantly impacted by the enrollment characteristics at its +centers. Key factors include (1) geographic location, because KLC can command higher tuition rates in +certain geographic areas; (2)... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024510.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024510.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2a5e86bb8324f8f3ce92ecadc2042970e6c745ad --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024510.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Other Operating Expenses +KLC's other operating expenses include the costs associated with the field management and corporate +oversight and support of its centers and restructuring related expenses. Labor related costs are the +largest component of KLC's general and administrative expenses. Seasonality +New enrollments are generally highest during the traditional fall "back to school" period and after the +calendar year-end holidays. Results Discussion +Revenue increased to $1.48 billion in 2005,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024511.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024511.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..415334b7a449abf199b5d0b094fb2368da11e037 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024511.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +KLC Consolidated +2004PF +$1,442.2 +Revenue +Revenue Growth +Payroll and other +Rent +Other Operating Expenses +Gross Profit +Adjusted EBITDA +Adjusted EBITDA Margin +Adjusted EBITDAR +Adjusted EBITDAR Margin +Other Financial and Operating Data +Depreciation and Amortization +Interest Expense +Capital Expenditures +of Centers (at year end) +Average Weekly Tuition +(combined... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024512.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024512.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..999a0d1378d2d62088e766208b3271afe9f8db57 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024512.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Salaries, wages and benefits were $734.9 million, or 49.7% as a +percentage of sales, during the 52 weeks ended December 31, 2005, compared to $725.0 million or +50.3%, for the same period in 2004. +• Rent. Rent increased by $8.0 million to $121.1 million during the 52 weeks ended December 31, +2005, compared to the same period in 2004. Pro forma +rent does not include $96.3 million of intercompany rent payable by KLC OpCo to KLC PropCo as a +result of the Real Estate Transaction, +• Other costs.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024513.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024513.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..61d2c74fd148fa01d47bc0e67a2ab6560993bf1b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024513.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +KLC Consolidated +2004PF +$194.6 +2005PF +$174.7 +EBITDA +Adjustments to EBITDA +Restructuring Charge Addback! +(Gains) / Losses on Sales? +(Gain) / Loss on Minority Investment +Dividend Incomes +SAR Plant +IDS Expenses +Estimated Parallel Organization Costs® +Management Fee' +Adjusted EBITDA +5.1 +2.1 +(2.1) +(1.8) +0.0 +2.7 +28.1 +2.5 +$231.4 +29.4 +(1.3) +0.0 +(0.5) +9.9 +(0.0) +23.3 +2.5 +$238.0 +' Represents one-time, non-recurring costs of integrating the AER and KinderCare acquisitions in 2004 and +2005, respectively. +2... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024514.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024514.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fe6416f70de6e8f40b6aae8847a8ef21eb47bfdc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024514.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +house-oversight-024514 + +Capital Expenditures. The following table shows the breakdown in KLC's projected capital expenditures: +KLC Consolidated +2004PF +Maintenance +New Centers +IT Spending and Other Capex +Total Capital Expenditures +$34.4 +26.4 +9.8 +$70.6 +2005PF +$36.6 +32.4 +14.0 +$83.1 +In 2004 and 2005, KLC spent $34.4 million and $36.6 million, respectively on maintenance capital +expenditures, which includes refurbishment +of its existing centers and equipment and supplies +replacement costs. In... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024515.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024515.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8b7881a471403e68159c552518f30f7ac7afe33c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024515.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Based in Portland, Oregon, KLC consists of (i) KLC OpCo, a collection of operating +companies and (ii) KLC PropCo, a collection of special purpose subsidiaries owning substantially all of +KLC's real estate. +11.1. On a pro forma basis for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005, KLC OpCo generated +revenue and Adjusted EBITDA of $1,477.7 million and $149.9 million, respectively. KLC OpCo Business Units +KLC OpCo +Early Childhood Education ("ECE") +(Community +(Employer +Centers) +Sponsored... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024516.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024516.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fd29dc461155bb3be4ed91a13caef007bf475b2b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024516.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Programs stimulate the social, emotional, intellectual and physical needs of children and +each program is age appropriate. New enrollments are most often highest in September and January, with the largest +decrease in enrollment during holiday periods and summer months. Many centers offer summer day +camp programs for children up to the age of 12. The company will provide short-term child care until the parent's child +Community Centers +The 1,812 community centers are located in diverse... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024517.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024517.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..661b46e698ede7c6793c9d53cae7c74ea4620a20 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024517.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +School Partnerships Unit (3% of Pro Forma FYE December 31, 2005 Revenue) +Through the School Partnerships Unit, KLC OpCo provides customized before and after school +educational enrichment and recreational programs for school age and preschool children in partnership +with elementary schools. These before and after school programs are typically conducted in collaboration with public schools and +located on-site at public school campuses. KLC OpCo's November 2004 acquisition of EdSolutions, Inc.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024518.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024518.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..15d7beefd08724c9799ae2cc94f04ade312c2690 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024518.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Management closely monitors +underperforming centers and looks to rationalization opportunities which generally lead to improved +Utilization and higher EBITDA generation. +— As part of its rationalization, KLC OpCo has identified 50 centers which it intends to close and will +continue to evaluate underperforming centers. As a result, over the next six years KLC OpCo +expects to close approximately 250 centers with a decrease in revenues of approximately $120 +million. While +the closure of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024519.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024519.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..088ade38c919b6833ce3884faba6f2c576f00c81 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024519.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Although most of the marketing efforts are performed at the field level, corporate headquarters assists +centers in developing marketing programs, designing campaigns, preparing marketing brochures, +strengthening the brand name, identifying strategic partners, and providing advice on ways to advertise +and market the programs at the local level. In addition, KLC OpCo is actively involved in teaching the +staff and directors business enhancing skills, such as cost management, local marketing and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024520.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024520.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a3c83f1907078befc5eba2099a018b698f3e1eb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024520.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Many providers are currently offering incentives to children and families to enroll with them and +some are offering incentives to schools as well. The key challenge in marketing the SES programs to +families is offering something that is appropriate and that will add educational value for families while +enticing the children to participate. Failing +schools are schools that fail to meet established NCLB requirements for three years in a row. The amount in escrow is +payable to Educate on three... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024521.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024521.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e7e173e898d3b0436af4e15f26ccc382474c244e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024521.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Management Team and Board of Directors +KLC OpCo is led by a highly experienced management team comprised of experts in the field of +education, as well as business professionals. Name +Elanna Yalow +Mark Moreland +Toni Jaffe +Eva Kripalani +Marcy Suntken +Dan Frechtling +Sharon Bergen +Stephen Brown +Management of KLC +Position +Director, President and Chief Operating Officer +Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer +Senior Vice President, Human Resources +Senior Vice President, General Counsel... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024522.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024522.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a9a7ebbe2da88ec90e34ed107a7821b5cf2fd5bf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024522.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Employees +As of December 31, 2005, KLC OpCo employed approximately 40,000 non-unionized personnel. Of the +total amount, 39,639 are employed at the field level (including teachers and center staff, center directors, +facilities and field and regional staff) and 592 are employed at the corporate level. Most +of KLC OpCo's remaining employees, including District Managers as well as most corporate staff, are +salaried. The following table presents a breakdown of employees as of December 31, 2005: +KLC... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024523.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024523.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6f1a19ccefc25b0470535dd8fb4d73ee9a27663b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024523.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In addition, +each ECE center or school program is subject to a variety of state and local regulations. In most jurisdictions, these agencies conduct scheduled and unscheduled inspections ol +Repeated failures by a location to comply with applicable regulations can subject it to +sanctions that might include probation or, in more serious cases, suspension or revocation of the center's +or program's license to operate and could also lead to sanctions against the Company's other centers or +programs... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024524.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024524.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..674987ea0676250252c0b418052927fe34adc48c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024524.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +However, these tax incentives are subject to change. KLC OpCo is also subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act, which governs such matters as minimum +wages, overtime compensation and working conditions. All of KLC OpCo's employees are paid at rates +equal to or higher than the federal minimum wage. KLC OpCo is also subject to laws regulating its transportation of children. In 1998, the National Highway +Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, issued interpretive letters stating that automobile... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024525.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024525.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ccfe6c5fd19245e9c9a28f8a1e98bd82c2026691 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024525.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Real Estate +As a result of a November 9, 2005 Real Estate Transaction, substantially all of the real estate owned by +KLC OpCo was transferred to KLC PropCo. Although the expectation is that newly acquired real estate +will be owned by KLC PropCo and leased back to KLC OpCo, KLC OpCo continues to be actively +involved in new center design, development and management. The real estate group within KLC OpC +is headed by Wayne Pipes, Vice President. +11.15. Summary Financial Information and Projections... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024526.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024526.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..59aa2832ee0a7b8ae9ca9283ab5bb299fcdcca54 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024526.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +KLC OpCo Summary Historical Pro Forma and Projected Financials +Fiscal Year Ended December 31, +2004PF +2005PF +2006P +2007P +2008P +2009P +($ in millions) +OPERATIONAL DATA +Revenue +Growth +2010P +2011P +$1,442.2 +$1,477.7 +2.5% +$1,557.8 +5.4% +$1,656.5 +6.3% +$1,769.6 +6.8% +$1,919.7 +8.5% +$2,095.8 +9.2% +$2,290.8 +9.3% +Gross Profit +$233.3 +$244.4 +$290.7 +$320.6 +$354.0 +$501.3 +Adjusted EBITDA +Margin +$143.3 +9.9% +$149.9 +10.1% +$161.7 +10.4% +Adjusted... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024527.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024527.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..43226de3624deab261d5a44375c3495391ae56ee --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024527.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +($ in millions) +ECE Centers +School Partnerships +KC Distance Learning +Total Revenue +2006P +$1,488.7 +KLC OpCo +2007P +2008P +$1,572.8 +$1,668.4 +2009P +$1,797.1 +$1,557.8 +$1,656.5 +21.3 +$1,769.6 +26.7 +$1,919.7 +2010P +$1,947.4 +115.1 +33.3 +$2,095.8 +2011P +$2,111.1 +138.1 +41.6 +$2,290.8 +Sales Growth +From 2006 to 2011 KLC OpCo projects that revenue from the ECE centers will grow at a 7.2% CAGR. The growth forecast is based on the following assumptions: +• Tuition growth. Management projects that recent improvements... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024528.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024528.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e7e73ea84bbbeb055cfd852ce4591f699ee16f56 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024528.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +School Partnerships +School Partnerships is projected to grow from $48.5 million in pro forma revenues in 2005 to $138.1 +to offer supplemental services), and an increase in the number of parent pay locations in the U.S. KC Distance Learning +KCDL is projected to grow from $10.0 million in pro forma revenues in 2005 to $41.6 million in 2011. Gross Margin +KLC OpCo's pro forma gross profit is projected to increase from $244.4 million in 2005 to $501.3 million +in 2011. Selling, General and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024529.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024529.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fff6ddf417b0703205de3ffd3efdda0befb51069 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024529.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +2005PF +$86.6 +KLC OpCo +2006P +$146.3 +2007P +$167.8 +2008P +$188.1 +2009P +$217.8 +2010P +$257.1 +2011P +$296.8 +EBITDA +Adjustments to EBITDA +Restructuring Charge Addback' +(Gains) / Losses on Sales? SAR Plan +Estimated Parallel Organization Costs +Management Fee® +Long Term Incentive Plan +Adjusted... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024530.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024530.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9ce35c4c9f3d4b044820df9de1483f1efc3ace17 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024530.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +Capital Expenditures +The following table shows the breakdown in KLC OpCo's projected capital expenditures: +($ in millions) +Maintenance +New Centers (Furniture, Fixtures &Equipment) +IT Spending and Other Capex +Total Capital Expenditures +KLC OpCo +2006P +$41.1 +10.1 +18.6 +$69.9 +2007₽ +$40.8 +7.2 +12.2 +$60.2 +2008P +$41.0 +15.6 +8.4 +$65.0 +2009P +$41.8 +22.5 +8.6 +$72.8 +2010P +$42.6 +23.4 +8.8 +$74.8 +2011P +$43.5 +24.0 +9.0 +$76.4 +Between 2006 and 2011, KLC OpCo projects to spend between $41 million and $44 million... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024531.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024531.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e089281cf9cfda244e0086e641ceaabdfaa1adbc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024531.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-024531 + +Borrowings under the Revolver will generally bear interest based on a margin over, at KLC OpCo's option, +either the base rate (generally the applicable prime lending rate, as announced from time to time) or the +reserve adjusted LIBOR rate. The Revolver is fully and unconditionally guaranteed by KSI and on a joint and several basis by most of +KLC's direct and indirect domestic subsidiaries within KLC OpCo. The Revolver and guarantees are +secured by first priority security... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024532.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024532.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a02c282673ad4d4ac8f994cdc04b32a7de901692 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024532.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Stockholders Agreement of Knowledge Schools, Inc. KSI entered into a Stockholders Agreement on May 9, 2003 with Knowledge +Universe Learning Corp. (the "KSI Parent") and its minority stockholders (the "Stockholders"). The +Agreement provides (a) the KSI Parent (and/or any "Parent Entities" designated by the KSI Parent, which +include the KSI Parent and/or certain of the Principals and certain affiliates of the KSI Parent and the +Principals) with a right of first refusal over proposed transfers of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024533.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024533.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0674568bf4b477b943308c0611266587f64d80aa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024533.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +THE REAL ESTATE COMPANY ("KLC PROPCO") +On November 9, 2005, KLC transferred ownership of 845 ECE centers into wholly owned, bankruptcy +redee desi appraised at approximate s illne K +i Propto then issued 5700 millen ers Mes +debt secured by the 713 appraised centers and the stock of the CMBS borrower, and $150 million of +junior mezzanine debt, the proceeds of which were used to repay KLC OpCo debt. The table below +summarizes the revised corporate structure at KLC: +KLC OpCo +$100.0 million... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024534.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024534.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ce814326cb4d90cce80105e8cb45ef128154a55a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024534.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +• Leverage Greenstreet Real Estate Partners' significant expertise: +- KLC believes it is able to better maximize the potential of its real estate assets by having them +managed by a dedicated and highly experienced team at Greenstreet Real Estate Partners rather +than having them managed at the operating company level. +• Cash generated will be reinvested in acquiring more assets. +• Diversify the real estate portfolio: +— The Greenstreet Real Estate Partners team is actively looking at... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024535.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024535.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..613a9f726aeba1439e3e4702f8980e464bd9794d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024535.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +845 Centers in 37 States +37 +25 +11 +24 +25 +11 +28 +43 +73 +10 +26 +18 +10 +15 +10 +24 +19 +10 +17 +33 +92 +12.4. Summary Financial Information and Projections Discussion +The table below shows KLC PropCo pro forma historical results for 2005 assuming the division of KLC +OpCo and KLC PropCo in the series of transactions completed in November 2005 (the "Real Estate +Transactions") and related financing, together with the lease of KLC PropCo-owned centers to KLC OpCo, +occurred on January 1, 2004. Projected results... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024536.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024536.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f34120030880ba8c5deb82addc104e86af1309ea --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024536.txt @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +($ in millions) +Rental Revenue from KLC OpCo +Other Rental Revenue' +Total Revenue +Operating Expenses +EBITDA +KLC PropCo Summary Historical Pro Forma and Projected Financials +Fiscal Year Ended December 31, +2005 PF +$96.3 +0.0 +$96.3 +8.3 +$88.1 +2006P +$96.3 +0.0 +$96.3 +2007P +2008P +2009P +$96.3 +S100.8 +$96.3 +7.0 +$96.3 +9.4 +$103.3 +$105.7 +8.3 +$88.1 +8.3 +$92.6 +8.3 +$95.0 +8.3 +$97.4 +2010P +$96.3 +12.1 +$108.4 +8.3 +$100.1 +DEPRECIATION & AMORTIZATION +Depreciation +Depreciation From New Real Estate +Operating Income +INTEREST... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024537.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024537.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8f5504329ba4b6bdd0858ebcd48006df25c398f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024537.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Real Estate Company Operating Expenses +Greenstreet Real Estate Partners will operate all of the real estate investment functions on behalf of KLC +PropCo as detailed in the management agreement. Debt Summary +The table below shows KLC PropCo's outstanding capitalization as of December 31, 2005. KLC PropCo +Debt Capitalization +($ in millions) +12/31/05 +Cash +$ 24.5 +CMBS Debt +Junior Mezzanine Debt' +Total KLC PropCo Debt +$699.4 +150.0 +$849.4 +Net Debt? +' Represents face value; book value is approximately... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024538.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024538.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0387ab210e4c0cabacc7d3b1e7437aba4f726f02 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024538.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +house-oversight-024538 + +Principals and their affiliates in connection with the Real Estate Transaction. The Junior Mezzanine debt +is subordinated to the new CMBS debt. The Junior Mezzanine debt matures in May of 2016. The Junior Mezzanine +debt is nonrecourse to KLC OpCo. Terms of the Master Lease +As part of the Real Estate Transactions, in November 2005, KLC refinanced its indebtedness and divided +KUE into KLC OpCo and KLC PropCo, and KLC OpCo entered into a Master Lease with KLC PropCo for +713... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024539.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024539.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5d50ee085b3d453f553b3d1edc98c030d202a9fe --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024539.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +History +k12 was founded in December 1999, with the goal of leveraging technology to create the highest-quality +curriculum. k12 launched its first offering in September 2001 for students in grades K-2. This offering +was launched in conjunction with several of the world's leading education experts and included interactive +lessons in Language Arts, Math, Science, History, Art and Music. k12 launched grades 3-5 in the fall of +2002, grades 6 and 7 in the fall of 2003, grade 8 in the fall of 2004 and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024540.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024540.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..da8c493214f7f08c63984f09a7fbcd480f30d312 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024540.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +In the near-term it can do so by serving multinational +corporations with large employee bases comprised of expatriates. +k12 generated $6 million of revenue in 2002, its first year of operations, growing to more than $116.0 +million projected for FYE June 30, 2006. +13.3. Virtual Schools and District-Managed Virtual Programs (94% 2006E Revenue) +The past decade has seen an increase in the number of contracts and charters awarded to Education +Management Organizations ("EMOs"), which manage... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024541.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024541.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..daedf4dda5f82d6dca57af4728a5b7b8d28d79fa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024541.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-024541 + +whereby k12 sets up and manages the "virtual public" school. k12 offers an Internet-based curriculum +(providing the computer hardware and all necessary materials) outside of the conventional brick-and- +mortar setting of traditional public and charter schools. Virtual schools generally generate substantially +larger profits than conventional for-profit charter schools because they receive the same amount of per- +student funding as their traditional public school... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024542.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024542.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..64bfec61d12a69a88256fa6f9d0312bc8131a0fe --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024542.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +Virtual Schools Managed by For-Profit Educational Management Companies +Public Schools under Number of which are Students in Virtual +Management +Virtual Schools +Schools +Company +k12 +White Hat Management +Connections Academy +Pinnacle Education +Sequoia Charter Schools +Designs for Learning +Location +McLean, VA +Akron, OH +Baltimore, MD +Tempe, AZ +Mesa, AZ +St. Paul, MN +15 +38 +10 +9 +11 +10 +15 +2 +10 +1 +14,460 +3,508 +1,081 +212 +160 +50 +Note: Schools ranked by students in 2004-05 school-year. Source: Harris Nesbitt... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024543.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024543.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d98815ecdb7c017f5553d644d0fd033f9a7230d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024543.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +This was a meaningful 86% performing at or above +proficient compared to the District's 52% for 2005. In fifth grade, there was 22 percentage point gain (as +compared to a 15 point gain for the District). As a result of these scores, the 3rd and 5th grade +students met or exceeded the absolute AYP +goals for math instruction - a first for the school. +(Note: k12 did not supply the Reading curriculum, +therefore, only Math results are applicable to the +k12 program). The Hunter School +accomplished... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024544.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024544.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..02593576cc8bcc56c2d8ca2d0f05c57b1bb759b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024544.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Product Offering +Comprehensive K-9 Curriculum. k12 offers a comprehensive curriculum for grades K-9 directly to the +students in its virtual academies, directly to consumers and to school districts, summer schools and after- +school programs. k12 is creating rich and challenging proprietary educational material based on existing +best-of-breed content and traditional methods enhanced by technology. For example, k12's comprehensive curriculum for students in grades K-9 includes lessons in the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024545.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024545.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ad8f9d7cb2b2f31cc610e47f2c9d66dbcc0dfb4b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024545.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Management and Board of Directors +The following table sets forth certain information regarding k12's management and directors. Management +Name +Ron Packard +John Baule +Bror Saxberg +Thomas Boysen +Charles Zogby +Peter Stewart +Bryan Flood +John Holdren +Name +Arthur Bilger +Steven B. Tisch +Thomas Wilford +Liza Boyd +Position +Chairman and Founder / acting Chief Executive Officer and +member of the Board of Directors +Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer +Senior Vice President of Learning and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024546.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024546.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0b8eb780ffadb8ada8745e20aac02f4d17d46c42 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024546.txt @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +($ in millions) +Revenue +Growth +Operating Income +Operating Income +Margin +EBITDA +EBITDA Margin +Net Income +Net Margin +k12 Summary Historical and Projected Financial Information +Fiscal Year Ended June 30, +2002 +$6.7 +($30.4) +(454.3)% +2003 +$30.9 +362.1% +($28.0) +(90.4)% +2004 +2005 +$71.4 +$85.3 +131.0% +19.5% +($6.9) +($3.3) +(9.7)% +(3.8)% +2006P +$116.0 +36.0% +$2.0 +1.7% +($28.6) +($25.1) +(427.9)% +(81.1)% +($30.4) +($28.4) +(454.5)%... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024547.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024547.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eecb24040a9dc429ceadf7b9eedf60a3d52aaeac --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024547.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +These expenses were $25.4 million and $29.3 million +for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2004 and 2005 respectively. +13.9. k12 Equity +and outstanding approximately 45.1 million shares of Series C Preferred Stock, +approximately 51.5 million shares of Series B Preferred Stock and approximately 10.0 million shares o +Common Stock. The Series C Preferred Stock is senior to the Series B Preferred Stock and the Commor +Stock and has a liquidation preference equal to the greater of (a) two times the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024548.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024548.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..352b19ee13da3add35e171353e97fd2fce40a22f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024548.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +KUE +KUE is constituted as a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership under the Exempted Limited +Partnership Law (2003 Revision) (the "ELP Law"). A Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership is +constituted by the signing of the relevant partnership agreement and its registration with the Registrar of +Exempted Limited Partnerships in the Cayman Islands. The Limited Partnership Agreement of KUE limits the liability and reduces the fiduciary duties of the +General Partner to the Limited Partners... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024549.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024549.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..af0eb5eac6b686dd5386b0f62be801b3f667aea4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024549.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The day to day business of the General Partner will be generally be conducted by its directors, although +certain matters require the approval of its shareholders pursuant to the Companies Law and the General +Partner's Articles of Association. Classes of Units; Capital Contributions +Assuming that 1,000,000 Units are sold to Investors by March 31, 2007, and that the accrued dividends +on the preferred limited partner units are paid in cash, approximately 2,530,000 Units will be outstanding. The... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024550.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024550.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..42fc19deb48625b3a17e8fcdbb036b55500ebd91 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024550.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-024550 + +designated by KULG are members, will be the holder of the Profits Participation LP Units (the "Profits +Participation Limited Partner") with the economic rights as set forth in "— Distributions" below. KULG LLC- +1 will undertake that no more than 9% of the KUE Partnership Interests outstanding immediately after the +final closing of the offering or thereafter will be held directly or indirectly by or for the account of the +Principals and their Affiliates through the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024551.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024551.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9addb33b6b477709c13b189bc5b5f55f9807bf94 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024551.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Management of KUE and the General Partner; Voting Rights +The General Partner will manage and operate KUE. Investors will have no voting rights on matters +affecting KUE business with respect to their Common LP Units in KUE because the Investors will be +to the Common LP Unit holders and (b) the holders of at least 90% of the Common LP Units unaffiliated +with the Principals to amend the "Equal Merger Consideration Provision" described herein. In addition, +the General Partner may not take any... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024552.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024552.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..56328e25a07b5a25627475158ba0cdae08447bb8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024552.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-024552 + +"Independent Directors" of the Board of Directors of the General Partner shall be individuals who (a) are +not (i) a Principal, (il) a family member of a Principal, (ili) an employee of a Principal or any entity +controlled by one or more of the Principals, and (b) meet the definition of "independent director" set forth +in Rule 303A.02 of the New York Stock Exchange Listed Company Manual (as if the General Partner, +KUE and each of its Subsidiaries were the "listed... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024553.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024553.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..515c353736b74c07f2200833b9c809b1b27f69ba --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024553.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The General +Partner will make distributions at such times as determined by the General Partner. Distributions will be made in the following priority: +• First, to the Common Limited Partners and the General Partner in proportion to and to the extent +of their unreturned capital contributions, but in no case may a distribution pursuant to this bullet +exceed a Partner's positive adjusted capital account balance; +• +Second, pursuant to Subsections (a) and (b) in proportion as follows: (a) to the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024554.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024554.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..300eac15b766a1f53246a92e121861da5dbce99f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024554.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-024554 + +pursuant to their Preferred Return (such fraction to be equal to the portion of the Units held by the Profits +Participation Limited Partner attributable to members of the Profits Participation Limited Partner other +than the Principals), multiplied by the number of Units held by the Profits Participation Limited Partner +divided by the number of outstanding Units other than those Units held by the Profits Participation Limited +Partner; (iii) third, for the Profits... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024555.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024555.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d37081ddc0c26e7a9d7523d26643e57bea4131c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024555.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +• Fifth, to the Common Limited Partners, the Profits Participation Limited Partner, and the General +Partner in proportion to the number of Units held by each such Partner. In general (and subject to certain special tax and regulatory allocations), losses and deductions of KUE +will be allocated to the Partners in the following priority: +• First, to the Common Limited Partners, the Profits Participation Limited Partner, and the Genera +Partner in proportion to and to the extent of their positive... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024556.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024556.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6dd72c3938a47843bf58d130b84e9349bf632f00 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024556.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Under +the Limited Partnership Agreement, and in accordance with Section 704(c) of the Code and the Treasury +regulations thereunder, income, gain, loss, and deduction with respect to any property contributed to KUE +must be allocated for tax purposes among the Partners in a manner that takes into account the variation +between the adjusted basis of such property to KUE and its fair market value at the time the property was +contributed to KUE. As a result of this requirement, it is possible the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024557.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024557.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e418311b54e5f9feff01a98720cee4603f5c1420 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024557.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-024557 + +In the event that a sale of KUE or an Initial Listing has not occurred within nine years from the date the +first Investors are admitted to KUE, the Independent Committee shall determine whether to pursue a sale +of KUE (or an Initial Listing or a dual track process). A majority vote of the Independent Committee on +this issue shall be binding on the Board of Directors of the General Partner and will require the Board of +Directors of the General Partner to pursue such... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024558.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024558.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c1bd905dc0b784e9824a6a383358733900310864 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024558.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Investment in Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures +The Principals will agree (on behalf of themselves and their affiliates) that KUE will be their exclusive +vehicle for equity investment opportunities in and acquisitions of for-profit companies engaged primarily in +the business of pre-K through 12th grade education of children (other than companies in which the +Principals or their affiliates directly or indirectly owns fifteen percent (15%) or more of the voting stock (or +similar voting interests)... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024559.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024559.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5cd31fa505e072364dfe7930bd7e7a53121cdcec --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024559.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Although the Limited Partnership Agreement of KUE and the organizational documents of the General +Partner permit the foregoing transfers and the General Partner has agreed with certain investors to +approve such transfers, applicable Caymans Island law gives the General Partner full discretion to +approve or disapprove transfers of Units in KUE. Co-Invest Right +Prior to the Initial Listing, if KUE proposes to issue for cash any Units or securities convertible into Units, +then KUE is required to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024560.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024560.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2fa12215172d9f50a9d92303557b16853dc119d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024560.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Drag-Along Right +A "Drag-Along Transfer" means a sale or other transfer for economic value of a majority of the Common +LP Units held by KUE LLC or its affiliates (and, unless otherwise approved by the Board of Directors and +the Independent Committee of the General Partner, a corresponding percentage of Class A Shares held +by KUE LLC). Prior to the Initial Listing, in the event of a Drag-Along Transfer of Common LP Units and +corresponding Class A Shares to a proposed purchaser that is not a KUE... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024561.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024561.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..792175a73d586370a12c6f140c0a10305456f462 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024561.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +house-oversight-024561 + +The General Partner will provide such periodic reports if engaged in any business other than acting as +General Partner of KUE or if it owns any material assets other than an interest in KUE. +14.24. Indemnification +KUE will indemnify, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the General Partner, and its +members, officers, directors, and employees, and at the General Partner's discretion, any other person +providing services to KUE, its subsidiaries or joint... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024562.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024562.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..db080b641178754631944f434cb9b1d29d720177 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024562.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Jurisdiction +Any actions or proceedings under the Limited Partnership Agreement or with respect to the General +Partners or this offering and the related agreements are subject to binding arbitration in London, United +Kingdom. +14.28. Limitation of Participation +Under circumstances where the continuing participation in KUE by an Investor would have a materia +adverse effect on KUE or a subsidiary, the General Partner may cause an Investor's interest in KUE to be +redeemed or transferred. +14.29.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024563.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024563.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3704a7fdea29fd752fc4c6e7184605476b3ea2bb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024563.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +• The agreement of the General Partner and the holders of a majority of the Units held by the +Limited Partners holding Common LP Units; +• The sale or distribution of all or substantially all of KUE's assets; or +• As otherwise provided by law. If KUE is dissolved and not reconstituted and continued, the General Partner is then required to wind up +the affairs of KUE and to liquidate and sell its assets in an orderly manner. Upon the winding up and +termination of the business and affairs of KUE,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024564.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024564.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cdfb07cd4bf2633af192b0af1afcfccbc3aa2c57 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024564.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +MANAGEMENT INCENTIVE PLANS AND EMPLOYMENT +AGREEMENTS +Certain key terms of the following incentive plans and employment agreements of the Company, which +are subject to and qualified in their entirety by reference to any underlying documentation as applicable, +are outlined below. Long Term Incentive Plan and Agreements of Knowledge Learning Corporation +Effective as of December 6, 2005, KLC put in place a long term incentive plan ("LTIP") for officers, +ordered performalan, ra vitermin in by Kes... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024565.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024565.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..83a9f66886be0ec37050967f1f177465e9f693d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024565.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +She serves as KLC's President and COO with a fixed annual +base salary of $300,000 plus bonuses, +, as well as stock appreciation rights. Yalow's employment at any time, other than for death, disability or cause, KLC is required to pay as +i connection with employment arrangements for newly hired officers (including Peter Maslen, Dere +ena and Kal Raman. the Company is providina equity-based compensation in amounts to be agreed +which will be subject to customary terms and conditions. +15.6. KULG... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024566.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024566.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1ce6bc5ef1c5fa8fdc049c1f8a0b4f642d491d36 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024566.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Real Estate Support Management Agreement of Knowledge Learning Corporation +LC entered into a Real Estate Support Management Agreement with Greenstreet Real Estate Partners +formerly Greenstreet Realty Partners, L.P.), an entity controlled by the Principals, on January 4, 2006 +pursuant to which KLC obtains certain real property support services from Greenstreet Real Estate +Partners. The Agreement is non-exclusive and the Company may consider and solicit proposals from +other entities. Fixed... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024567.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024567.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..36c057ba20b9fca1b023f9d20f1935a492919ff8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024567.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Management Services Agreement +KLC is a party to a management services agreement with Knowledge Universe Limited LLC, one of our +affiliates controlled by the Principals, pursuant to which Knowledge Universe Limited LLC has agreed to +provide management, consulting and financial planning services on an ongoing basis to KLC and its +subsidiaries. In consideration of these services, KLC is obligated to pay Knowledge Universe Limited +LLC an annual management fee of $2.5 million payable in equal... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024568.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024568.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..def8ce4863cf258cde660a16689d00e36f1992be --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024568.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Indebtedness of KUE with affiliates +The proceeds of the $150 million term loan facility that KUE entered into on March 29, 2006 with an +affiliate of Credit Suisse, one of the Agents (as described in "Knowledge Universe Education (KUE) - +Term Loan Facility"), were used to repay existing debt of KUE to entities controlled by Michael Milken. +16.11. K12 +An affiliate of Michael Milken and Lowell Milken owns the k12 trademark and related domain names, and +licenses them to k12 for $25,000 annually... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024569.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024569.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..edb39d3be30a252a95f50d4eeb3287fc177083a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024569.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 +The Units will not be registered under the Securities Act, in reliance upon the exemption from registration +provided by Section 4(2) of the Securities Act and will not be registered under the securities laws of any +jurisdiction. Accordingly, the Units are initially being offered and sold only to "accredited investors." +representations, as follows: +that it is an "accredited investor" (as such term is defined in Regulation D under the Securities +• that it has... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024570.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024570.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9fc9f7376f3f88fbd6182b8c1bfb739a4b1b675d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024570.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Each investor should carefully read +the Subscription Agreement in its entirety so as to fully understand the representations and warranties it is +required to make pursuant to the Subscription Agreement. The Units cannot be resold or otherwise transferred unless they are subsequently registered under the +Securities Act and other applicable securities laws, or exemptions from such registration requirements are +available. It is not contemplated that registration of the Units under the Securities... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024571.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024571.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e06c5d3c3db9bde74bd3d395ce82ccefca1e64ea --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024571.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The General Partner intends to operate the General Partner and KUE in such fashion that, for purposes +of the plan asset regulations, the assets of KUE and the General Partner will not be considered assets of +any plan investing in KUE and the General Partner. The Limited Partnership Agreement (and the +organizational documents of the General Partner) will confer on the General Partner (and the Principals) +the authority to take any action necessary or desirable in order to prevent Company assets... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024572.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024572.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8096fb458fd3db73c6a4cdd86cf04774207feadc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024572.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-024572 + +If any person resident in the Cayman Islands knows or suspects that another person is engaged in money +laundering or is involved with terrorism or terrorist property and the information for that knowledge or +suspicion came to their attention in the course of their business the person will be required to report such +belief or suspicion to either the Financial Reporting Authority of the Cayman Islands, pursuant to the +Proceeds of Criminal Conduct Law (2005 Revision) if the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024573.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024573.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a8a5dcb068101ee11c6168b7eebec3050bb034f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024573.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +CERTAIN INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES +The following summary of the taxation of KUE and the taxation of the Partners of KUE is based +upon current law and does not purport to be a comprehensive discussion of all the tax +considerations that may be relevant to a decision to purchase Units. Cayman Taxation +There is, at present, no direct taxation in the Cayman Islands. The Government of the Cayman Islands, +will not, under existing legislation, impose any income, corporate or capital gains tax, estate... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024574.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024574.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f0449f19cd2c509fe508b0a5e52ae06d4bfdd651 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024574.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +United States Federal Income Taxation +The following summary sets forth the material U.S. federal income tax considerations related to the +purchase, ownership, and disposition of Common LP Units. Persons (as defined below) who purchase their Common LP Units in this +offering and who hold their Common LP Units as capital assets within the meaning of Section 1221 of the +Code. The following discussion is only a discussion of the material U.S. federal income tax matters as +described herein and does... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024575.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024575.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9dee55e2f3ae2844053bcc6c6ee2c581e8b923d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024575.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The +promulgation of contrary regulations or a successful challenge of either of these positions by the Internal +Revenue Service could materially reduce a holder's after-tax return and, thus, could result in a substantial +reduction of the value of the Units. The remainder of this section assumes that KUE will be treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income +tax purposes. +18.2.2 United States Federal Income Taxation of Partners +U.S. Persons +Allocation of Purchase Price. You will be treated as... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024576.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024576.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d3535dd7829bdef58e4dd2dd3a585ba0ec649b64 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024576.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +A decrease in a Partner's percentage interest in KUE because of KUE's issuance of +additional limited partner units ("Limited Partner Units") would decrease such Partner's share of Company +nonrecourse liabilities, if any, and thus would result in a corresponding deemed distribution of cash. A Limited Partner will have an initial tax basis for its Common LP Units equal +to the amount it paid for the Common LP Units plus its share of Company nonrecourse liabilities, if any. That basis will be... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024577.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024577.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cbf3cd954793f060b53e0a862e4cbd5b08304069 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024577.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +If KUE is required to withhold on amounts in +excess of cash distributions, Partners shall be required to contribute to KUE cash in an amount by which +such required withholding exceeds any such distributions. A Limited Partner that is a non-U.S. Person will be subject to U.S. federal income tax upon +the sale or exchange of its Common LP Units to the extent that such Limited Partner recognizes gain +upon such sale or exchange and such gain is effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024578.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024578.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f0c600bc29a68e60e1fc0f8236dd1a7ae2d8c900 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024578.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Persons will be required to file an IRS Form 8865 +with the Partner's U.S. Federal Income tax return for the taxable year in which the Limited Partner +purchases the Common LP Units. Persons may, depending upon the size of their +investment in the General Partner, be required to file an IRS Form 5471 with the investor's U.S. federal +income tax return for the taxable year in which the investor purchases Common LP ordinary shares in the +General Partner. Persons may be required to file additional IRS... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024579.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024579.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..261202f036ca2591957af84ad4993e8cbec99873 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024579.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +APPENDICES +INDEX TO THE APPENDICES +19.1. APPENDIX A: DETAILED BIOGRAPHIES +KUE MANAGEMENT +KUE ADVISORY BOARD +KLC MANAGEMENT +REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT TEAM / GREENSTREET REAL ESTATE PARTNERS +KSI BOARD OF DIRECTORS +k12 MANAGEMENT +19.2 +APPENDIX B: KLC MD&A FOR 2005, 2004 AND 2003 +MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND +RESULTS OF OPERATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, +2005, 2004 AND 2003 +19.3 APPENDIX C: KLC MD&A FOR FIRST QUARTER 2006 +ANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024581.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024581.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4a3cfb26a505232376cdb19116fb2c61b414b9dd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024581.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Principals +Michael Milken, Co-Founder and Chairman +Mr. Milken is Co-Founder and Chairman of KUE. One of America's leading philanthropists, he was called +"The Man Who Changed Medicine" in a Fortune magazine cover story that chronicled his three decades +he founded FasterCures, which seeks to shorten the path to breakthroughs for all deadly diseases. He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of California at Berkeley, and his MBA +from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024582.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024582.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..98aa25b47836006557f99a4915974acae243f169 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024582.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +organizations as the National Association of State Boards of Education, the Horace Mann League, and +the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Other Executives +Ted Sanders, Vice Chairman +Ted Sanders is Vice Chairman of KUE, as well as the Executive Chairman of Cardean Learning Group, +which develops online post-secondary education and degree programs. He has been the Chief State School Officer in three U.S. states +(Nevada, Illinois and Ohio) and University President at Southern... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024583.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024583.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d8dd4e75fde946545cbd7325a9a7e549fda8f007 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024583.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Jeffrey Safchik, Chief Financial Officer +Jeffrey Safchik is the Chief Financial Officer of KUE. Safchik is also Managing Director and Chief +Financial Officer of Greenstreet Real Estate Partners and also is one of its founders. Safchik is also Chief Operating Officer +and Chief Financial Officer of k1Ventures, a publicly traded Singapore-based investment company. He serves as a Trustee for the +Green Family Foundation, is Chairman of the University of Miami Department of Pediatrics... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024584.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024584.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..82454ca91b23520a0e8d4ea133b47727b0328d82 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024584.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Neumann was with TCW / Crescent Mezzanine where he +completed mezzanine financings primarily for leveraged buyout transactions. Neumann +worked in the investment banking division of Deutsche Bank (Bankers Trust) in the Financial Sponsors +Group. Neumann earned a Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame. +151 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024584 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024585.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024585.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a164860341c91af20351d46e3d5c0f6a5da0047e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024585.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +KUE Advisory Board +Les Biller +Leslie Biller is retired Vice Chairman & Chief Operating Officer of Wells Fargo & Company. Prior to that, he spent nearly 11 +years at Norwest, where he held various executive positions including Executive Vice President and head +of Strategic Planning and Acquisitions, Executive Vice President and head of the company's South +Central Community Banking operations, and President and Chief Operating Officer. Before joining +Norwest, he was Executive Vice President and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024586.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024586.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..70cc43b2923012cf2070dab3cf3d97fe43aaf293 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024586.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +KLC Management +KLC +Key Management +Name +Position +Years with Industry +Company +Exp. Elanna Yalow +Dan Jackson +Toni Jaffe +Eva Kripalani +Marcy Suntken +Dan Frechtling +Sharon Bergen +Steve Brown +Total +Average +President and COO +CFO +SVP of Human Resources +SVP & General Counsel +SVP of School Partnerships +SVP of Business Development +SVP of Education and Training +President, KCDL +19 +1 +1 +8.6 +9 +20 +1 +18 +1 +78 +9.7 +Elanna Yalow, Ph.D., President and Chief Operating Officer +Dr. Her educational degrees +include a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024587.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024587.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..defe85436839771870354d38b08fd11d87073260 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024587.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Willamette University College of Law in 1986 and her B.S. in Finance-Law, magna cum laude, from +Portland State University in 1983. Dan Frechtling, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Business Development +Mr. Frechtling was named Senior Vice President, Marketing and Business Development in 2005. Sharon Bergen, Senior Vice President, Education and Training +Ms. Bergen earned a B.S. in Chilc +Development from Minnesota State University and an M.A. in Early Childhood Education from... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024588.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024588.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d4bdcd9c375d189ba8fc519e161d35c5885972c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024588.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Real Estate Management Team / Greenstreet Real Estate Partners +Steven Green, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer +See KUE Advisory Board section for complete biography +Jeffrey Safchik, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer +See KUE Advisory Board section for complete biography +Steven Cox, Executive Vice President, Real Estate +Mr. Prior to joining Greenstreet, Mr. Cox was Managing Principal of Tishman Heskin Partners. +strategic direction, market analysis, acquisition, positioning /... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024589.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024589.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1bbfd4cecbcf621ad3007c572b3d7f0371c16c41 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024589.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +KSI Board of Directors +Les Biller, Director +See KUE Advisory Board section for complete biography. Finerman is the President of RFG Financial Group, +Inc., a position he has held since 1994. Finerman is a CPA and an attorney and practiced in New +York prior to forming RFG Financial Group, Inc. in 1994. +. Finerman also serves as a director of +Nextera Enterprises, Inc. and as an officer or director of other privately-held affiliates of KLC and Krest +LLC. Stephen Goldsmith, Director +See KUE... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024590.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024590.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..674a8ec00ed42379f66bb82daf692936081027a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024590.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +k12 Management +Ron Packard, Chairman and Founder +Mr. Packard serves as Chairman of the Executive Committee of k12 and as acting Chief Executive Officer. +nor to co-founding k12 and since 1997, Mr. Packard served as President of Forestal Trillium +Limitada, a South American company. John Baule, Executive Vice President of Operations and Chief Financial Officer +Mr. Bror Saxberg, Senior Vice President, Learning and Content +Bror Saxberg serves as Senior Vice President of Learning and Content of k12. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024591.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024591.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6f1fc0d78a9ca75c9e242b260fb04a159055c9fb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024591.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Appendix B: Knowledge Learning Corporation: Management's Discussion & +Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations for the Fiscal Years +Ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003 +158 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024591 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024592.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024592.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..42ad4a4eea7212d81f242dd2f4a924b7f40da1dc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024592.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +The +Shimon Post +Presidential Press Bulletin +25 August, 2011 +Article 1. Scientific American +Is Muammar Qadhafi Clinically Psychotic? John Matson +The Financial Times +Why Libya sceptics were proved badly wrong +Anne-Marie Slaughter +Foreign Policy +Sinai's Bedouin run amok in post-Mubarak Egypt +Mohamed Fadel Fahmy +The National Interest +Foreign-Policy Failure +Dimitri K. Simes +NYT +Cheney Says He Urged Bush to Bomb Syria in '07 +Charlie Savage +Ma'an News Agency +Palestine and Statehood: An historical... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024593.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024593.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2285ed3000895a1867a5983d8d2c9ececdf7112e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024593.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Scientific American +Is Muammar Qadhafi Clinically +Psychotic? John Matson +August 23, 2011 -- OUT OF TOUCH: The bizarre statements Col. Muammar Qadhafi has made in the past several months may result +from a self-imposed insulation from reality, rather than a delusional +detachment from it. Six months after a civil uprising began in Libya, +Col. To get some insight on +the Libyan leader and other out-of-touch dictators, we spoke to +Jerrold Post, a professor of psychiatry, political psychology... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024594.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024594.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4bbb70196bb3f32668fcb35913a61e507e7b9199 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024594.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +In terms of many of the autocratic dictators who went down with +bewildering speed in the Arab Spring, one of the reasons the public +dismay-what then becomes revolutionary fervor-is so startling is +they are really protected by this circle around them from +understanding how their popularity is ebbing. They can have a very +unrealistic understanding and believe, as Qadhafi stated again and +again, "My people, they all love me." I found this language of his +quite remarkable. And with Qadhafi as an... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024595.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024595.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..df96714601eb0c06cc0bddc598355642d9daa2fa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024595.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +4 +destroy it." +Are Qadhafi and other deposed leaders deluded in thinking all is +well in their kingdom or their country? Deluded isn't quite the word +!, because if you're surrounded by a group +of sycophants who tell you what you want to hear, not what you need +to hear, you can be in touch with reality by psychological tests but +quite out of touch with reality politically. With Saddam Hussein, this +was particularly true-where to provide criticism of him was either to +lose your job or lose your... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024596.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024596.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f1bac0b1c5bb48b270a143219662697583f33235 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024596.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +But in fact, 20 percent of the people's +committees had counterintelligence responsibilities for sniffing out +people plotting against him, who were always dealt with very harshly. Even when people fled Libya he would track them down, and he even +made an assassination attempt of a Libyan exile living in the United +States early on. In a profile that you wrote for Foreign Policy in March, you +mention that Qadhafi has some hallmarks of a borderline +personality. The two circumstances where +Qadhafi... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024597.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024597.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..61c8324e77c3bb12f7e91b1ecf13377c74ae0f4a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024597.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The U.S. was planning maneuvers in the +Gulf of Sidra and went inside this 200-mile zone. He said, "I want to thank the United +States for making me a hero to the Third World." Standing tall +against a superior adversary has great value in the Arab world. In your view, is there anything that Qadhafi could have done to +remain in power or is he just fundamentally out of touch with +Libya today? One should remember back to Saddam Hussein again, and how long +it was before we finally found him. A, would... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024598.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024598.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..894ea8abef16ffd3dfcb5c0a2e783bbaae3c3b31 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024598.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +But with Qadhafi, again, it's always the "me," +and that goes back to your narcissism. So how do you see this playing out for Libya? Well, it's quite clear that the rebels are in control, but things will not +really be fully clarified until Qadhafi is either killed, forced to +surrender when there's no one left around him or goes down in a +blaze of bullets. Of course part of what makes it so difficult for him to +leave is the indictment by the International Criminal Court in the +Hague. It's sounds... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024599.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024599.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8facef7fb6cf0617dc0b51603cd610257f813212 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024599.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +The Financial Times +Why Libya sceptics were proved badly +wrong +Anne-Marie Slaughter +August 24, 2011 -- Let us do a thought experiment. Imagine the UN +did not vote to authorise the use of force in Libya in March. Nato did +nothing; Colonel Muammer Gaddafi over-ran Benghazi; the US stood +by; the Libyan opposition was reduced to sporadic uprisings, quickly +crushed. The regimes in Yemen and Syria took note, and put down +their own uprisings with greater vigour. This week one of the leading proponents... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024600.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024600.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4cb1ad57c00281f09aec41062655c69d96556e36 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024600.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +This +value-based argument was inextricable from the interest-based +argument. East Timor, Bosnia-Herzegovina, +Kosovo, Libya - all cases where force evened out odds between a +brutal government and a widespread and legitimate social or national +movement. But the contrast with Iraq and Afghanistan, where +external invasion saw the US often labelled as an enemy, is +enormous. Central players mobilise others and create the +conditions and coalitions for action - just as President Barack Obama +described... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024601.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024601.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f19f5e2acf8d27f76d1bb88d2c36c21498cfa65d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024601.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +10 +Looking forward, it is really not up to the west, much less the US, to +plan Libya's transition. It is a relief to see so many articles and +statements reflecting lessons learnt from Iraq. But the Libyans are far +ahead of where the US was when the initial fighting ended in Iraq. The National Transitional Council has a draft constitutional charter +that is impressive in scope, aspirations and detail - including 37 +articles on rights, freedoms and governance arrangements. In a year, or a decade,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024602.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024602.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ec4f8005e8503a76de65cc7156d996c5c38246d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024602.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Foreign Policy +Sinai's Bedouin run amok in post- +Mubarak Egypt +Mohamed Fadel Fahmy +AUGUST 24, 2011 -- The landscape of Egypt's lawless North Sinai +governorate is punctuated by the bullet-riddled, torched police station +of Sheikh Zuweid, a densely populated town roughly nine miles from +the Gaza border. Hosni Mubarak's regime branded the Bedouin, a +largely nomadic and clan-based people, as outlaws who threatened +Egyptian sovereignty. But more +importantly, Sinai has become a breeding ground for... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024603.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024603.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b356d15ece8b7c9d1adfa31d264885a24bbcb72e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024603.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Amr Imam, a media spokesman for the Egyptian military, said that +the officers were killed by an Israeli Apache helicopter that fired two +rockets. Also on Aug. 18, a +man wearing an explosives belt blew himself up at an Egyptian +checkpoint 11 miles from the Sinai town of Taba, killing an officer +and injuring two others. "The body of the dead officer and the +unidentified head of the bomber were brought over to the hospital," +said Abel Wahab, a doctor in the emergency department of the +hospital in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024604.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024604.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dcc895732b2a0d8e326923822b11e4a23cc8d4b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024604.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The security vacuum may have turned Sinai +into a regional hot spot, but it is also an economic boon to Bedouin +leaders, who have thrived off what is literally an underground +economy. Menaei said that he spent $100,000 to construct a +subterranean tunnel large enough to smuggle cars into nearby Gaza. The smugglers showed me one of their blockade-busting +tunnels positioned to relieve the Gazans' suffering from the Israeli +blockade and sanctions. "I get $50 for +every Palestinian I smuggle into... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024605.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024605.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c0ae200af9141d87b17155e2a32e5bfd19a8f93a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024605.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +"We built the Gaza Zoo," Aenizan boasted. We had to drug it." +For the Bedouins, the profits that they reap from smuggling are only +compensation for generations of neglect and outright hostility from +Egypt's central government. "Only 10 percent of my people benefit +from the tourism industry," Aenizan said. "The rest is pocketed by +Egyptian tycoons." It is not unusual for Bedouins to refer to non- +Bedouins as "Egyptians" -- a sign of their detachment from Egyptian +society. Although most Bedouins... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024606.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024606.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1c2e2cf5418401e82b8ec50ef9474dd81ab0c612 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024606.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Saleh el-Masry, head of North Sinai security. Masry said that the attackers belonged to the radical Islamist group +Takfir wal-Hijra, as well as Palestinian factions that snuck through +the tunnels. "The Takfiris" -- extremist militants with a dogmatic, +exclusionary ideology -- "have become more active during the +revolution," he said, claiming that Egyptian security forces had +arrested 12 of the assailants in the el-Arish attack, including three +Palestinians. Ahmed Gamal El Din +told me in an... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024607.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024607.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1fbada7142cde2a4ebebc285913e0e42991d7816 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024607.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Several days later, another purported al Qaeda flier appeared around +el-Arish -- this time announcing that the organization was planning to +attack police stations on Aug. 12. On that day, stunned residents of el- +Arish woke to find thousands of troops from the Egyptian 2nd Army, +accompanied by police officers and border guards, deployed in an +"anti-terror" crackdown in Sinai. The offensive started on Aug. 15, as one Egyptian militant +was killed and 12 were arrested, according Hazem al-Maadawi,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024608.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024608.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e106cf8eb49143a11a52916ec39999fe6b5881c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024608.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +17 +and regain its full rights." Egypt's new government has made tentative +steps in that direction: Members of the Supreme Council of the +Armed Forces, accompanied by the deputy interior minister and +members of the military intelligence, held a meeting on Aug. 20 in +the el-Arish military club, in a conference hall with Bedouin sheikhs +representing each tribe in Sinai. At the meeting speakers from both +sides expressed their willingness to cooperate in bringing the security +situation back to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024609.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024609.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..626bccb37a7431a5a36986437266d3dca1617bfc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024609.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +The National Interest +Foreign-Policy Failure +Dimitri K. Simes +August 24, 2011 -- PRESIDENT BARACK Obama is in many +respects the opposite of Richard Nixon and George H. Bush, both +foreign-policy presidents who subordinated their domestic ambitions +to America's national-security requirements. Moreover, where +Obama has succeeded internationally, his successes have been largely +tactical rather than strategic, reflecting the fact that he is +fundamentally a domestic leader with a European-style... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024610.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024610.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e9e91f7c194c97f40f09b9a6555f07d79e7b6333 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024610.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +19 +government's ability to control its roughly one hundred nuclear +weapons is a vital American national interest; the loss of a single +warhead to extremists, whether through a government collapse or +through a disaffected anti-American faction in Pakistan's military or +intelligence services, could be devastating. Strikingly, U.S. policy has given relatively little weight to this +concern: the Bush administration subordinated a coherent U.S. +strategy in the region to the optional invasion of Iraq;... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024611.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024611.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ab4ca0c70aaaebea33b936c827fe480f51a05ec3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024611.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +20 +Can the United States afford to push Pakistan over the edge? If not, +we must find a way to balance our clear interest in defeating al-Qaeda +and the Taliban against Pakistan's continued stability-including our +relationship with Pakistan's government, military and citizens. In the longer run, China's rise will clearly be a historic challenge to +the United States. Two recent books, Henry Kissinger's On China and Aaron +Friedberg's A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the +Struggle for... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024612.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024612.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..455051da1223b61e4c6a05253682f8f4eee4a93b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024612.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Meanwhile, if the White House is seriously seeking to contain China +or, alternatively, to shape a global environment that would make +containment unnecessary, it is hard to imagine how this could be +done without precluding any rapprochement between Moscow and +Beijing. Russian concessions so far have been +halfhearted and Russian policies, whether on Iran or Libya, do not +coincide with those of America. For its part, the United States +appears unprepared to address Moscow's greatest... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024613.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024613.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e9e12ff5f68aaf8ebdb84d4cd29943c157b3e600 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024613.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +22 +Corruption in Russia is pervasive and is an obstacle to foreign +investment and ultimately to any political or economic progress in the +country. But with American blood and treasure safeguarding some of +the most corrupt governments in the world in Afghanistan and Iraq, +focusing on Russia's real and serious corruption in a way that could +endanger America's relationship with this important power is hard to +justify. Notwithstanding predictions of America's decline, the United States +is still the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024614.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024614.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c53bcbd770672ae0ca62ba285b0e8903fd58f03e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024614.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +NYT +Cheney Says He Urged Bush to Bomb +Syria in '07 +Charlie Savage +August 24, 2011 - Former Vice President Dick Cheney says in a +new memoir that he urged President George W. Bush to bomb a +suspected Syrian nuclear reactor site in June 2007. After I finished, the president asked, 'Does anyone here agree +with the vice president?' Not a single hand went up around the +room." +Mr. Bush chose to try diplomatic pressure to force the Syrians to +abandon the secret program, but the Israelis bombed the site... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024615.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024615.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..60a68a75d627549180331a34c855daf72beec6ac --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024615.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Tenet, the director of the Central Intelligence +Agency, resigned in 2004 just "when the going got tough," a decision +he calls "unfair to the president." He wrote that he believes that +Secretary of State Colin L. Powell tried to undermine President Bush +by privately expressing doubts about the Iraq war, and he confirms +that he pushed to have Mr. His resignation "was for the +best." +He faults former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for naïveté in +the efforts to forge anuclear weapons agreement... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024616.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024616.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f5147ff94b39c492a5d8ba193c8ce199eafaebdb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024616.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The book opens with an account of Mr. Cheney's experiences during +the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when he essentially +commanded the government's response from a bunker beneath the +White House while Mr. Bush - who was away from Washington +and hampered by communications breakdowns - played a peripheral +role. Cheney appears to relish much of the criticism heaped on him by +liberals, but reveals that he had offered to resign several times as +President Bush prepared for his re-election in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024617.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024617.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a77c4b2c1964ee551ccf16fd03ab0cc4824a0370 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024617.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Obama has failed to close the prison in +Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as he had pledged. Cheney's long struggle with heart disease is a recurring theme in +the book. He discloses that he wrote a letter of resignation, dated +March 28, 2001, and told an aide to give it to Mr. Bush if he ever had +a heart attack or stroke that left him incapacitated. During that period, +he wrote, he had a prolonged, vivid dream that he was living in an +Italian villa, pacing the stone paths to get coffee and newspapers. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024618.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024618.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f8cf7a0dd9166757f08b00c5f905f27d064b5daf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024618.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Ma'an News Agency +Palestine and Statehood: An historical +overview +Abdullah Abueid +24/08/2011 - Until 1923, Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. In 1922, the League of Nations issued the +Mandate of Palestine which authorized the United Kingdom to +become the Mandatory Power in Palestine. The Mandate Document, however, included several paradoxical +stipulations contrary to the Mandate System as set forth in Article 22 +of the League's Charter. The system +was intended to protect the territories... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024619.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024619.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1f2ad8e448bd58d15d38589c8a281c93540589d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024619.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The Legal Status of Palestine +The UK's rule over Palestine contained flaws and several breaches. The Mandatory Power (UK) was considered, by many international +lawyers, as a colonial power, which should have supervised the +Mandate Territory and developed it as an honest trustee, which it +failed to do. In regards to sovereignty over Palestine during the years of the +Mandate, many international experts consider that sovereignty was +inherent to the people of that territory and was temporarily in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024620.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024620.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5eba367c2ffd9c65651dd815770af3279589b361 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024620.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +29 +Nations General Assembly which issued in November 26, 1947 a +resolution dividing Palestine into two states: A Jewish state +consisting of 54 percent of the territory of Palestine, an Arab state +consisting of 44 percent of that territory, and the Jerusalem Area, as a +Corpus Separatum, consisting of 2 percent of Palestine. Furthermore, the Resolution decided to have an Economic Union +between the two states and stipulated that the Jerusalem Area, which +included Bethlehem, should be a separate... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024621.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024621.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b24b1598fa5bc289247bd6aef1941b9caf7669c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024621.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +At present, there are 10.5 million Palestinians, including around 5 +millions refugees, scattered in several Middle Eastern countries and +other Diaspora states. As for Palestinian Statehood: The UN General Assembly by great +majority has recognized the right of the Palestinian people to self +determination and statehood in more than 40 resolutions. In December 15, 1988, a month after the declaration of the State of +Palestine by the PLO conference in Algiers, the UN General +Assembly decided in its... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024622.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024622.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f8f7a582d510846f263808713778b3f17754ba1a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024622.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +This fact may push many members of the +International Community to support Palestine to end the occupation. However, there will be a slim chance for the admission of the state of +Palestine into the United Nations if the US, or any other permanent +members of the UN Security Council uses the Veto in this regards. In +this situation, the General Assembly cannot vote for the Admission of +Palestine, as the International court of Justice ruled in its Advisory +Opinion of March 3, 1950, in its... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024623.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024623.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9beed09d91778cc09abff2fe3eb4249932b367c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024623.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +One can give an example of the fruits of such good investment by +referring to what the prominent Israeli leading newspaper Ha'aretz +wrote in June 2011. It referred to what several Israeli jurists and international law experts +were aware of: "Palestine adhering to the Rome Statute of 1998 (the +ICC Statute), thus becoming a member of the ICC capable of +invoking its jurisdiction in cases of Israel committing war-crimes of +other similar crimes" +Such membership is possible if many states and/or... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024624.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024624.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77c0c26e49095e008d355509f490519b810d0d97 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024624.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +J [jeevacation@gmail.com] +5/15/2019 10:21:20 AM +paul krassner [ +Re: rather long and a few typos +On September 14, 1964, Dean Katherine Towle announced that existing University regulations prohibiting +advocacy of political causes or candidates, outside political speakers, recruitment of members, and fundraising +by student organizations at the intersection of Bancroft and Telegraph Avenues would be "strictly enforced." +shouldnt you write an artile 55 years later. on campus... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024625.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024625.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2706b364d444dfb508b5c986b784885d93f9d702 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024625.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +My second column was about Lenny Bruce-titled "Lenny the Lawyer," since he defended +himself in trials He was arrested for obscene performances only because there were no +blasphemy laws. Lenny was alone in his hotel room on Christmas Day when I presented it to him. And, +with a large safety pin, Lenny attached the $500 bill to the outside breast pocket of his denim +dungaree jacket. AFTER JFK ASSASSINATION +In another column of mine, "Jack Ruby and His Dirty Little Secret," it began, "Lenny... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024626.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024626.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5c4eb2508de4533ad0536bbe8902e3a8104009a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024626.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +"There's a lot of excitement at the city +desk." +"That is the meaning of it." +A few years later, without my permission, Jules Siegel, the editor of a short-lived +magazine, Cheetah, published a fake obituary of me. An Associated Press +reporter called, and I explained that it was a hoax. His first assignment was a profile of Sterling Hayden, an +actor best known in Dr, Stranglove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Journalist Adam Ellsworth described Siegel's "Goodbye Surfing,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024627.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024627.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..604b9c3ddb35a8b7a155f89dcc34de93f400c73c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024627.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +"Goodbye Surfing, Hello God!" is Jules's most famous +example of rock journalism, but I think his most revolutionary is his article +"The Big Beat." It appeared in the Playboy-esque Cavalier magazine in 1965 +and is one of the earliest writings I've ever seen on the development of rock +and roll, from slaves singing in chains on their way to America to Bob Dylan +"going electric" at the Newport Folk Festival. Jules Siegel died of a heart attack on November 17, 2012 at the age of 77. He was a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024628.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024628.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1d536d8f2814b5be8f869b736f4846baa5d3ef76 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024628.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +But, hey, I was proud to be in a mag that published pieces by Pynchon, +Manny Farber and you. By the time I'd gotten incrementally better as a cartoonist in the first half of the 1970s I was regularly +doing +illustrations +for +soft-core +fiction +stories +in Cavalier's low-rent +sister +mags, Dude, Gent and Nugget (even wrote a story or two there and got several of my San Francisco +comix cronies (Spain Rodriguez, Bill Griffith and Justin Greene) illustration gigs with Alan for those +mags as well. I was... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024629.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024629.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f3b43612ccd03d5c78fb8e15742f44870da407ae --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024629.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +I recall that Midnight Cowboy was 50 years ago. They declined to publish a particular column-my review of MASH as though it were a Busby +Berkeley musical called Gook Killers of 1970- ostensibly on the grounds of bad taste, but I +learned that three wholesalers had told the publisher they were pressured by the FBI and would +refuse to distribute Cavalier if my name appeared in it. On top of that, my name was on a list of sixty-five "radical" campus speakers, released by the +House Internal Security... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024630.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024630.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5a782ed685357e4f810d8bbb1006b7bdd84ef041 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024630.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +songs to come out of the Free Speech Movement incidentally, was If I Negotiate With You, to +the tune of the Beatles' If I Fell in Love With You. Over the next couple of months there was a series of sit-ins and attempted negotiations, and +then, on December 2, the infamous Sproul Hall sit-in. It took twelve hours for 800 students to +be arrested by some 600 instructors of a new course called Introductory Police Brutality. There was a freshman co-ed at Berkeley who-long after she had forgotten what... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024631.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024631.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0a935f65fb5af5fe676876cc30ca194f1b68e4fa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024631.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +2018 CANNABIS +INVESTMENT REPORT +2018 +GLOBAL CANNABIS CONSUMERS +Contents +Foreword +I Executive Summary +Il Cannabis Science 101 +Ill Cannabis Industry Segmentation +IV U.S. Legal Landscape +V Global Cannabis Regulation +VI U.S. and International Cannabis Market Estimates +VII Capital Markets for Cannabis Companies +VIII Top 100 Private Cannabis Companies 2018 +IX Cannabis Industry Risk Factors +X Glossary of Terms +Disclosures, Disclaimers, Sources and Use +Ackrell Capital Cannabis... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024632.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024632.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7670124600feeb1416420898d760cf7de3bfb103 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024632.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +REPORT HIGHLIGHTS +Select Countries with Legalized Cannabis Access (January 2018) +Recreational Law +Medical Law +State/Province Conflict +with Federal Law +Canada currently has a medical law. Assumes Canada enacts a proposed recreational law in mid-2018. State Cannabis Laws (January 2018) +Recreational Law +Medical Law +CBD/Limited Law +© 2017 Ackrell Capital, LLC | Member FINRA / SIPC +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024632 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024633.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024633.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2cce53272c2f01563bbe7a8bed21fc27093d07ce --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024633.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +State Cannabis Laws +1996 +2004 +2008 +2012 +2014 +TODAY +Recreational Law +Medical Law +© 2017 Ackrell Capital, LLC | Member FINRA/SIPC +CBD/Limited Law +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024633 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024634.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024634.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a88f18d64d94194ecf1dd316f565a503d6a06b4a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024634.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +$140,000 +$120,000 +$100,000 +$80,000 +$60,000 +$40,000 +U.S. Legalized Cannabis Market +Path to Federal Legalization +FDA Approves Cannabis-Derived Pharmaceuticals +More States Adopt Medical Cannabis Laws +More States Adopt Recreational Laws +FDA Routinely Approves CBD Drugs +FDA Routinely Approves THC Drugs +Federal Government Legalizes Cannabis +$20.000 +So sore 3017 +2018 +- 70 M +60 M +- 50 M +- 40 M +- 30 M +- 20 M +- 10 M +2019 +2020 +2021 +2022 +2023 +2024 +2025 +2026 2027 +2028 +2029 +2030 +0 M +Legalized Cannabis Market... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024635.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024635.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0b1adedf9122da20fa8d2d7deaae78ac099a958a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024635.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 28, 2017 +Foreword +Ackrell Capital is pleased to present our 2018 Cannabis Investment Report. Much has happened in the +nearly two years since we published our inaugural report: the cannabis industry grew significantly, com- +panies in the industry raised large amounts of capital and their stock prices performed well, and the legal- +ization movement continued worldwide as more countries and U.S. states implemented a framework for +legal cannabis... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024636.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024636.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2f3bc7ecdf53becae4bb9450f6d2cae1c9d75634 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024636.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +Table of Contents +CHAPTER I +CHAPTER II +CHAPTER III +CHAPTER IV +CHAPTER V +CHAPTER VI +CHAPTER VII +CHAPTER VIII +CHAPTER IX +CHAPTER X +Executive Summary ........ Global Cannabis Consumers +............ ... . . . . . . ... . . . ... . . . . ... 1 +To Watch in 2018 +Investment Outlook +Cannabis Science 101....... The Cannabis Plant +Cannabinoids +Terpenes +..................................... 15 +The Human Endocannabinoid System +Cannabis... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024637.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024637.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..43107253df620eb00abeedbf449db37845b338b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024637.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +ACKRELI +CHAPTER I +Executive Summary +• Global Cannabis Consumers +Cannabis has mass consumer appeal around the world. Millions of people use cannabis recreationally. In aggregate, across all state medical cannabis laws in the United States, +cannabis is legally recognized as a form of therapy or medicine for more than 50 medical conditions, +including Alzheimer's disease, anorexia, arthritis, cancer, chronic pain, epilepsy and post-traumatic +stress disorder. Cannabis is the most widely cultivated,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024638.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024638.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aa37fc6a6aa6720f9619bde9d661119cf3e9cf84 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024638.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +the U.S. market will exceed $100 billion annually, with more than 50 million consumers. The Global Legal Cannabis Market +Cannabis legalization is gaining momentum around the world. Notable countries with such +medical laws include Australia, Canada, Colombia and Germany; countries without such laws include +China, Japan, Russia and the United States. (Contrary to U.S. federal law, 29 states, encompassing +62% of the U.S. population, permit... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024639.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024639.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..860fbfaf89e6b59b467e6e0119e948858aea11ed --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024639.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER I Executive Summary +The U.S. State-Legal Cannabis Market +The legal landscape for the cannabis industry in the United States continues to be character- +ized by conflict between federal prohibition and the steady advance of state legalization. Accord- +ing to federal policy, Americans can access tobacco, alcohol and prescription drug products that +kill thousands each year, but they cannot access cannabis because it is a dangerous drug with no +currently accepted medical... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024640.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024640.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9c29758f6f250388f9599e29e2f30de3b58d6b6e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024640.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +The U.S cannabis industry has proven adept at navigating this federal-state conflict, and is experi- +encing rapid growth despite it. We estimate that the 2017 U.S. state-legal cannabis market was $8.0 +billion, with more than four million consumers. State-Legal Cannabis Market Estimate +Other States +$1.9B +$8.0B +California +$3.2B +Colorado +$1.5B +Oregon +$470 M +Washington +$929 M +Source: Ackrell Capital +U.S. Federal Law +Current federal law... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024641.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024641.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6c3ab099a6edb92a54cca305ea918c5050ae0d31 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024641.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER I Executive Summary +has prevented allocated funds from being used to prosecute conduct that complies with state medical +cannabis laws. And recent developments indicate the federal government may be pursuing policies and +practices that create space for cannabis research and approval of cannabis-derived drugs. The following chart shows three general areas of federal law that impact the cannabis indus- +try-food and drug regulation, banking and finance, and intellectual... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024642.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024642.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a194c7962e27f1e2e028c09e1af80b621144f74 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024642.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +The Path to Federal Legalization +We believe that the variable which will most impact the future size of the U.S. legal cannabis mar- +ket is the federal legalization process. Food +and Drug Administration (FDA) will begin approving individual pharmaceutical-grade drugs derived +from cannabis; (2) more states will adopt medical cannabis laws; (3) more states will adopt recre- +ational laws; (4) the FDA will adopt routine approval procedures... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024643.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024643.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..faf7a96c5de4d93e800447be7fc898a1dccb49b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024643.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Legalized Cannabis Market +Path to Federal Legalization +FDA Approves Cannabis-Derived Pharmaceuticals +More States Adopt Medical Cannabis Laws +More States Adopt Recreational Laws +FDA Routinely Approves CBD Drugs +FDA Routinely Approves THC Drugs +Federal Government Legalizes Cannabis +- 70 M +60 M +50 M +40 M +30 M +20 M +10 M +OM +Number of Consumers +2016 +2017 2018 +2019 +2020 2021 2022 2023 +2024 +2025 +2026 +2027 +2028 +2029 +2030 +Legalized Cannabis Market Size +- Consumers +Source: Ackrell Capital. Cannabis may... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024644.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024644.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..128f7171fa5504a3b5b4eece9dd6c79ece195fdf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024644.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +Nonetheless, we believe that California's state-legal market may double from an estimated $3.2 billion +in 2017 to approximately $6.5 billion in 2018. In April 2017, a proposed recreational +law was introduced in the Canadian parliament; the proposed Cannabis Act would allow adults to pur- +chase cannabis from federally licensed producers and to possess and share cannabis with other adults. If approved, Canada would be the largest country... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024645.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024645.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3550e962f407108be3249831984839082c0d8c13 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024645.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER I Executive Summary +MOUNTJOY +SPARKL +MOUNTJOY +SPARKLING +PEACH +MOUNTJOY +SPARKLING +cannabis infused +DANAL NO PARKLING WATER +mabis infused +PILING WATER +"Mainstream" Consumer Experience +© 2017 Ackrell Capital, LLC | Member FINRA / SIPC +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024645 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024646.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024646.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..68b1fb65b2ee20419cc1f838c94eda563fba8abf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024646.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +FDA Approval of Cannabis-Derived Pharmaceuticals +The FDA's first-ever approval of a cannabis-derived pharmaceutical may occur in 2018. In October 2017, +U.K.-based GW Pharmaceuticals submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the FDA for Epidio- +lex, an oral formulation of cannabis-derived cannabidiol, or CBD, intended to treat severe forms of +childhood epilepsy. (GW Pharmaceuticals also manufactures Sativex, a mouth spray used for... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024647.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024647.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ab7c5354ebde218767be558c18371111d6ec1ff4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024647.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER I Executive Summary +As prices decline, we are starting to see closer price parity between state-legal and illegal markets +(in the United States, cannabis is generally priced lower in illegal markets than in state-legal markets). In international markets, cannabis cultivators in South America, particularly in Colombia and +Uruguay, are expected to proceed with large-scale operations in 2018, with the anticipated supply of +cannabis entering the market in late 2018 or early... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024648.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024648.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f856b0cf30c18c4a4f3792db3a6645e0b30c91d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024648.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +Depository Institutions Making Marijuana-Related SAR Filings +350 +300 +250 +200 +150 +100 +50 +0 +Q2 2014 +Q4 2014 +Q2 2015 +• Banks +Q4 2015 +Q2 2016 +• Credit Unions +Q4 2016 +Q2 2017 +Source: Financial Crimes Enforcement Network +FinCEN has published guidance outlining how financial institutions can, consistent with their BSA +obligations, provide services to marijuana-related businesses. For example, according to American Banker, a spokeswoman for... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024649.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024649.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..527ef94e38c7b228189cdcea4226229b034aec46 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024649.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER I Executive Summary +current practice and aggressively enforce existing federal cannabis laws, including penalizing financial +institutions for serving the cannabis industry, it would have a dampening effect on the industry both +in the United States and abroad. Increasing Strategic Investor Activity; Continuing Funding Gap +We share the belief held by many that, ultimately, established companies from analogous indus- +tries—alcohol, pharmaceutical, tobacco and consumer... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024650.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024650.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f85ed419f5e083f29cadd968004ce1e98e5f1273 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024650.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +digital media. We further divide each segment into multiple subsegments. Each segment has unique +opportunities and risks. Cannabis Industry Segments +Cultivation +Dispensaries +Production +Production +Equipment and +Supplies +Distribution +E-Commerce +Production and +Testing Services +Business Solutions +Business +Software +Business +Services +Digital Media +Flower +Distribution +Services +Consumer Products +Infused Products +Online Content +and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024651.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024651.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6bfa202ab52ab5ad2ccf5df5b79c86019f6b90d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024651.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +ACKRELI +CHAPTER II +Cannabis Science 101 +• The Cannabis Plant +Cannabis is a genus of flowering plant indigenous to Eurasia. There are at least three principal cannabis species: Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica and Cannabis +ruderalis! These three species can be distinguished by their plant structures and leaves. The following pictures depict the Cannabis +sativa, Cannabis indica and Cannabis ruderalis plants and their leaves. Cannabis Sativa Plant +Cannabis Indica Plant +Cannabis Ruderalis... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024652.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024652.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c69c2eec02181f923713ffbc303e4d66e4feeaad --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024652.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +Cannabis Sativa Leaf +Cannabis Indica Leaf +Cannabis Ruderalis Leaf +Many hybrid varieties of cannabis— sometimes referred to as strains— have developed from these three +species, both through selective breeding and in the wild. Most cannabis varieties grown today are hybrids +that exhibit features of two or more of these principal species. Cannabis varieties consumed for physio- +logical effects generally are hybrids of sativa and indica... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024653.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024653.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..42c3c538a65c7f39daabd27964f1145affba3ae0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024653.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER II Cannabis Science 101 +TRICHOMES +node +stem +stigma +bract/calyx +cola +Cannabis Flower +fan leaves +FEMALE FLOWERS +MALE FLOWERS +Trichomes +Cannabis Plant Anatomy +Cannabis can be consumed in a variety of ways that introduce its active compounds into the body: +smoking cannabis flower or its extracts, vaporizing cannabis flower or its extracts, ingesting cannabis +extracts or food products prepared with cannabis and topical application of cannabis products. Although humans have... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024654.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024654.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..70ca236d19d8f1bccfb32abb216af4d3d48b6b4a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024654.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +The Human Endocannabinoid System +The human endocannabinoid system consists of nervous and immune system receptors involved in +regulating health and physiological functions. There are two types of endocannabinoid receptors, CB1 +and CB2 receptors, which are located in the brain and in other organs, tissues and glands throughout +the human body. The following illustration depicts the human +endocannabinoid system and the location of CB1 and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024655.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024655.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..980e83a97ae04a66e343ce4cf5e2da4c2346043c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024655.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER II Cannabis Science 101 +tors are located primarily in peripheral organs associated with the immune system, with the greatest +concentration in the spleen, and are responsible for managing inflammation and autoimmune func- +tion. Human Endocannabinoids +Endocannabinoids are the cannabinoids created naturally by the human body for delivery to CB1 and +CB2 receptors. One well- +studied endocannabinoid is anandamide (AEA). Endocannabinoid Systems in Animals +Nonhuman mammals,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024656.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024656.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..de7e828cb1edf37316496382a44a5974240692f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024656.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +Cannabinoids +Cannabinoids are compounds present in the cannabis plant that act on human cannabinoid receptors +in cells in the nervous and immune systems. Scientists have identified more than 100 cannabinoids in +the cannabis plant. Generally, the most abundant cannabinoid is THC, a psychoactive compound that +causes a euphoric "high," and the second most abundant cannabinoid is cannabidiol, or CBD, which +produces a relaxing physical... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024657.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024657.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6c2054097d71b1bbb54cf1e349ad75a554ac5a15 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024657.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER II Cannabis Science 101 +antidepressant, antiemetic, anti-inflammatory, antinausea and antispasmodic. It also is believed to have +therapeutic applications, such as appetite stimulation, bronchodilation, neuroprotection and pain relief. It is nonpsychoactive and is believed to counteract the psychoactive effects of THC. In addition, CBD is believed to have therapeutic applications, including appetite +stimulation, bone-growth stimulation, immunosuppression and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024658.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024658.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c0acb3c3bbd40aac4deae9edaa91433fe1a24a8b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024658.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +CBDA Cannabidiolic Acid: CBDA, the precursor to CBD, is nonpsychoactive and is believed to +have several medicinal benefits— anticancer, antiemetic and anti-inflammatory—as well as therapeu- +tic applications. Generally, CBDA is present in the cannabis plant in low levels, although recently some +strains have been grown with CBDA levels comparable to typical THC levels. Like THCA, CBDA +decarboxylates into other compounds when heated. (An... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024659.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024659.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c5d74d4aafea63367c37b3fc905c503f3b3a006c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024659.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER II Cannabis Science 101 +As examples of the decarboxylation process, consider the changes to THCA that result from heat +and aging. Cannabinoid Boiling Points +Cannabinoids boil at temperatures lower than the temperature at which cannabis flower burns. The approximate temperatures at which select cannabinoids boil and cannabis flower combusts +are shown in the following table. Compound Boiling and +Flower Combustion... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024660.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024660.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..83c583b5f214462083ac01c73f1e4b7956deda2f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024660.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +or dissolving with fats, inhibiting serotonin uptake and increasing dopamine activity in the brain. However, consumption of certain cannabis strains with particular terpene profiles and +corresponding aromas are generally associated with certain experiences. For example, cannabis strains +that smell of musk or clove (indicating the presence of myrcene) tend to cause sedative and relaxing +effects, strains with a piney scent (indicating the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024661.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024661.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d60f2789b5f1506cde22dec3acb26f7947fae6ce --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024661.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER II Cannabis Science 101 +Caryophyllene: Caryophyllene is known for its peppery, woody and spicy smell. It is believed to have +several medicinal benefits, such as antibacterial, anticancer, antifungal and anti-ischemic, and a thera- +peutic application as a bronchodilator. Caryophyllene is found in many plants, including Thai basil, +cloves, cinnamon leaves and black pepper. Humulene: Humulene is well known for giving beer its hoppy aroma and is believed to have... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024662.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024662.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1e7da0316f74cd9ff8ca738c0fd7f2b5a0702214 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024662.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +Cannabis Plant Terpene Profile +Myrcene is the most abundant terpene found in many cannabis strains, and other terpenes are gen- +erally present in lesser, varying amounts. The following chart shows the terpene levels (percentage by +weight) found in the flower of a typical strain of cannabis. +typical Cannabis Flower Terpene Levels (Percentage by Weight) +0.3% +0.3% +0.3% +0.6% +0.3% +0.3% +0.9% +• Camphene +Linalool +Caryophyllene +Myrcene +0.3% +|... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024664.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024664.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b10592b55a89e016987ccf6757577ff4e0dba1ae --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024664.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +for social anxiety disorders containing CBD, limonene and linalool; and sleeping medicines combining +CBD, THC, caryophyllene, linalool and myrcene. Genetics and Propagation +Selective breeding and other botanical techniques are being used to develop cannabis varieties with +desired profiles of compounds, and scientists are developing tools to synthesize isolated cannabinoids +in laboratory settings in order to study cannabis at the genetic... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024668.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024668.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2bff5ee75f322c0438513a470c637ae80384cb72 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024668.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report +December 2017 +Cannabis Industry Segments +Cultivation +Dispensaries +Production +Production +Equipment and +Supplies +Distribution +E-Commerce +Production and +Testing Services +Business Solutions +Business +Software +Business +Services +Digital Media +Distribution +Services +Consumer Products +Infused Products +Online Content +and Networking +Online +Directories +Flower +Concentrates +Vaporizers and +Accessories +Pharmaceuticals +Involves "touching the plant" +Does not involve... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024772.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024772.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..83fdcd60e45ea73132a39f58a6f3779a47794bd4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024772.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +products industries, especially as companies from those industries look to enter the cannabis industry, +through acquisition or by other means. As demonstrated by the more than $2.0 billion raised by publicly traded and private cannabis- +related companies in 2017, capital continues to be available to support the growth of the industry. In the public markets, we believe that Canadian stock markets will continue to be the most... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024773.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024773.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..07dc36b9168c13aa177451ad267c38d85b115f81 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024773.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +ACKRELI +CHAPTER VIII +Top 100 +Private Cannabis Companies 2018 +In this chapter, we present our current list of the Top 100 Private Cannabis Companies. Our determi- +nation to include companies on the list is subjective, and the list is intended to be a cross-section of the +types of companies in the cannabis industry. Our list comprises privately held companies, primarily +U.S. companies, companies we believe have a strong reputation or position in their market segments +and companies pursuing a line... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024774.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024774.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..282739b6d29fbd0c902ce6b972deb513af1577ca --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024774.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +AEssenseGrows +Ample Organics +Apeks Supercritical +The Apothecarium +Auntie Dolores +Baker Technologies +BAS Research +BDS Analytics +Beboe +Berkeley Patients Group +BioTrackTHC +Bloom Farms +Brewbudz +Bud and Bloom +Calyx Brands +Cannabis Reports +CannaCraft +CannaKorp +Colorado Harvest Company +Columbia Care +Confident Cannabis +Cultivation Technologies +Cura Cannabis Solutions +CW Analytical +Deep Cell +138 +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +Top 100 Private Cannabis Companies... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024775.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024775.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..08139f9e661ef8123216791daca135b06cfcda49 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024775.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER VIII Top 100 Private Cannabis Companies 2018 +AEssenseGrows 0ÆssenseGrows +Sunnyvale, California +www.aessensegrows.com +AEssenseGrows is a producer of modular aero- +ponic systems for cannabis cultivation. Ample Organics ampleorganics +Toronto, Ontario +www.ampleorganics.com +Ample Organics is a software developer for can- +nabis cultivators. APOTHECARIUM +Apeks Supercritical +apeks +Johnstown, Ohio +www.apekssupercritical.com +Apeks Supercritical is a provider of botanical +oil... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024776.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024776.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..59fc61a5975c40223f4db6c098929ea1636feb36 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024776.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Auntie Dolores +Oakland, California +www.auntiedolores.com +Auntie Dolores is a producer of branded can- +nabis-infused edibles. The compa- +ny's products are sold directly to cannabis con- +sumers and through cannabis dispensaries in +California. BAS +1 TM +RESEARCH +BAS Research +Berkeley, California +www.basresearch.com +BAS Research is a cannabis research and man- +ufacturing company. The company provides +its clients with bulk cannabis oil, cannabis-oil +extraction consulting services, contract... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024777.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024777.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3ce92c27ef1608be9e219d2369cc540840124cfd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024777.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER VIII Top 100 Private Cannabis Companies 2018 +P +• BEBOE• +Beboe +Los Angeles, California +www.beboe.com +Beboe is a producer of branded cannabis prod- +ucts. The company's cannabis oil vaporizers and +cannabis-infused edibles are available in dispen- +saries throughout California. Berkeley Patients Group +Berkeley, California +www.mybpg.com +Berkeley Patients Group is an operator of +a cannabis dispensary. Bloom Farms +BLOOM FARMS +San Francisco, California +www.getbloomfarms.com +Bloom... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024778.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024778.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..94b0e207f1687e396abb86d951a2709726244c35 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024778.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +BREWBUDZ +Brewbudz +San Diego, California +www.brewbudz.us +Brewbudz is a manufacturer of branded canna- +bis-infused products. SAL YI +Calyx Brands +Oakland, California +www.gocalyx.com +Calyx Brands is a cannabis distribution com- +pany. The company engages in the distribu- +tion, transportation and marketing of cannabis +products. +142 +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +Teall +Bud and Bloom +Santa Ana, California +www.budandbloomoc.com +Bud and Bloom is the operator of a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024779.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024779.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..39b5b198b652d6b3fd846aaee5dc0edb7daa4c3d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024779.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER VIII Top 100 Private Cannabis Companies 2018 +CANNACRAFT +CannaCraft +Santa Rosa, California +www.cannacraft.com +CannaCraft is a producer of branded strain- +specific cannabis concentrates and cannabis- +infused edibles. The company manufactures its products +under the AbsoluteXtracts, Care By Design and +Satori brands. Colorado +Harvest Company +HARVEST +Denver, Colorado +www.coloradoharvestcompany.com +Colorado Harvest Company is an operator of +recreational and medicinal cannabis... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024780.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024780.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8336d9f34af76c240d777c2ca5caddb1de21899a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024780.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Confident Cannabis +Palo Alto, California +www.confidentcannabis.com +Confident Cannabis is a cannabis lab-testing +and analytics company. CURA +CANNABIS SOLUTIONS +Cura +Cannabis Solutions +Portland, Oregon +www.curacan.com +Cura Cannabis Solutions is a provider of can- +nabis concentrates. Its products are available in dis- +pensaries throughout California, Nevada and +Oregon. +144 +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +Cultivation +CULTIVATION +TECHNOLOGIES, INC +Technologies +Coachella,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024781.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024781.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0d18d41ae7b67ffd9168c4d7edad2fdf41e109d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024781.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER VIII +Top 100 Private Cannabis Companies 2018 +DÉFONCÉ +CHOCOLATIER +Deep Cell +Seattle, Washington +www.deepcell.industries +Deep Cell is a synthetic biology and cannabis +intellectual property holding company. The +company provides licenses to companies who +wish to produce Deep Cell's cannabis-infused +sugar. Its products are available from Deep Cell +licensees. DIXIE +THE FutuRE of cannadia +N° +dosist™ +Dixie Elixirs +Denver, Colorado +www.dixieelixirs.com +Dixie Elixirs is a producer... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024782.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024782.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0b535e6495be68b970a365027281a22fdb81ab05 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024782.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +eaze +Eaze Solutions +San Francisco, California +www.eaze.com +Eaze Solutions is a developer and provider of +an on-demand cannabis delivery-service appli- +cation that enables consumers to order canna- +bis products via mobile devices. Elemental +Wellness +elemental +CANNABIA COLLICTIVE AND WELLNESS CENTER +San Jose, California +www.elementalwellnesscenter.com +Elemental Wellness is an operator of a cannabis +dispensary and wellness center in San Jose, Cal- +ifornia. The company offers a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024783.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024783.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..18705ce40a861467291eae91f9e44d2eea9e3228 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024783.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER VIII +Top 100 Private Cannabis Companies 2018 +Evolve +Therapeutics +THERAPEUTICS +San Francisco, California +www.evolvetherapeutics.com +Evolve Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical +company focused on the research and manu- +facture of cannabinoid-based medications. The +company produces a variety of cannabis prod- +ucts that are available in dispensaries located +throughout California. Evoxe +Laboratories +EVOXE +LABORATORIES +Oakland, California +www.evoxelabs.com +Evoxe Laboratories is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024784.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024784.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..26aec6be613e624c0dfe80207b1344eb11eced71 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024784.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Funk Sac +FunkSac +Denver, Colorado +www.funksac.com +FunkSac is a provider of compliant packaging +solutions for the medicinal and recreational +cannabis industry. GFarmaLabs +GF armalabs +Anaheim, California +www.gfarmalabs.com +GFarmaLabs is a producer of branded canna- +bis, cannabis-infused edibles, cannabis concen- +trates and vaporizer accessories. GFarmaLabs sells its products through +dispensaries in California and Washington. Its +products are marketed as being produced from +"100%... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024785.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024785.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fa8c9d5f2be63d0615e329cfc6e09c3c4f7c3a97 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024785.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER VIII Top 100 Private Cannabis Companies 2018 +GREENDOT: +Green Dot Labs +Boulder, Colorado +www.greendotlabs.com +Green Dot Labs is a cultivation and extraction +company that provides branded concentrates +to consumers. Green Flower +Media +GREEN +FLOWER +Ventura, California +www.learngreenflower.com +Green Flower Media is a digital media com- +pany operating a website that offers cannabis +industry information. The +company's website also offers informational live +streams from industry... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024786.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024786.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e3286936dd505fe2231c8302dab5e777f991e9da --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024786.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Harborside Health Center +Harboroidi +Oakland, California +www.shopharborside.com +Harborside Health Center operates cannabis +dispensaries. Headset +• HEADSET +Seattle, Washington +www.headset.io +Headset is a data analytics company for busi- +nesses within the cannabis industry. The com- +pany offers a SaaS product that tracks market +data, business intelligence and retailer-direct +data with clients located in states where canna- +bis has been legalized. +150 +Cannabis Investment Report |... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024787.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024787.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7dd0df0978ca06c3b9025b07f76765431af2fa38 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024787.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER VIII Top 100 Private Cannabis Companies 2018 +Humboldt +Legends +Humboldt +Legends +Trinidad, California +www.humboldtlegends.com +Humboldt Legends is a producer of canna- +bis flower products sourced from Humboldt +County, California. Incense +Specialties +#THISTHINGRIPS® +Lake Worth, Florida +www.thisthingrips.com +Incense Specialties is a producer of cannabis +vaporizers. The company designs and manufac- +tures a line of vaporizer pens under the brand +name "This Thing Rips." The... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024788.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024788.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..da87d12b61cf1575f1c487a6918cc0fad09cf295 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024788.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +KIVA +Confections +KIVA +San Leandro, California +www.kivaconfections.com +KIVA Confections is a producer of branded +cannabis-infused edibles. The company's award- +winning products are sold through cannabis +dispensaries in California and Colorado. +leaflink +LeafLink +New York, New York +www.leaflink.com +LeafLink provides a software platform to facili- +tate e-commerce B2B sales, CRM and order +fulfillment tracking of products for cannabis +brands and dispensaries. +152 +Cannabis Investment... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024789.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024789.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f09eed413ffbb63aa337e7b19da2e54812d2d38e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024789.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER VIII Top 100 Private Cannabis Companies 2018 +LivWell +Enlightened Health +Level Blends +LEVeL +San Francisco, California +www.levelblends.com +Level Blends is a producer of branded canna- +bis concentrates. The +company's products are available in dispensaries +throughout California. LivWell +Enlightened Health +Denver, Colorado +www.livwell.com +LivWell Enlightened Health is an operator of +medicinal and recreational +cannabis dispen- +saries and cultivation facilities.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024790.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024790.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2f462256ef6b2937ef575d676ea1e4bbe3f47e94 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024790.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Meadow +MEADOW +San Francisco, California +www.getmeadow.com +Meadow is a developer and provider of an on-de- +mand cannabis delivery-service application for +dispensaries. MINDFUL +MiNDFUL +Denver, Colorado +www.bemindful.today +MiNDFUL is an operator of recreational and +medicinal cannabis dispensaries. The com- +pany operates five retail locations in Colorado +and a single location in Illinois. The company +sells flower, concentrates, edibles, topicals and +branded accessories. +154 +Cannabis... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024791.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024791.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5d7e33d766179660a880f60049584cedda8bc254 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024791.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER VIII Top 100 Private Cannabis Companies 2018 +MIARDIN +PREM CLAINT +MJardin +Denver, Colorado +www.mjardin.com +Mardin is a provider of cannabis cultivation +management services. Los Angeles, California +MM Acquisition Co. is a provider of turnkey +real estate services and business services to can- +nabis cultivators and dispensary operators in +California. The company operates in three busi- +ness segments: Property Leasing Business, Ser- +vices Business and Other Related... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024792.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024792.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..92e439fe3f3eca076e8df37dc9fcaaa693f049cb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024792.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Northwest +Cannabis Solutions +COLTER +Olympia, Washington +www.nwcs425.com +Northwest Cannabis Solutions is a manufac- +turer of white-label cannabis products. Organa Brands +SEANESE +Denver, Colorado +www.organabrands.com +Organa Brands is a manufacturer and distribu- +tor of cannabis products and vaporizers. The +company manufactures and retails its products +under the Organa Labs, O.penVAPE, Bakked, +Magic Buzz and District Edibles brands. The +company's products are distributed... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024793.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024793.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..68e8d922671db48b1c93ff4523e89bc02f06b187 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024793.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER VIII Top 100 Private Cannabis Companies 2018 +PharmaCielo +Made in Colombia +PROHBTD +MEDIA +PharmaCielo +Rionegro, Colombia +www.pharmacielo.com +PharmaCielo is an emerging global supplier of +naturally grown and processed, standardized +medicinal-grade cannabis extracts. The com- +pany holds the first cannabis-processing license +issued under the legal framework of Colombia's +cannabis laws and has one of the largest culti- +vation platforms in the cannabis industry, with +more than... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024794.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024794.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c48b0d862f8d686f8c7f585e7ae8b2b24e754b4d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024794.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +RUBICON +ORGANICS +Rubicon Organics +Bellingham, Washington +www.rubiconorganics.com +Rubicon Organics is a licensed cannabis culti- +vator specializing in the growing, processing, +packaging and marketing of cannabis. The com- +pany is developing greenhouses in Washington +and California. +sclabs +i medleine +SC Laboratories +Santa Cruz, California +www.sclabs.com +SC Laboratories is a cannabis lab-testing com- +pany. The company also pro- +vides consulting services to cultivators,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024795.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024795.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..02dff091b4c33bd7585047ca03292e1e02eb4610 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024795.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER VIII Top 100 Private Cannabis Companies 2018 +SPARC +sparc +San Francisco, California +www.sparcsf.com +SPARC operates three cannabis dispensaries. It +also provides lab-testing services. Spectrum King +SPECTRUM +KING +Canoga Park, California +www.spectrumkingled.com +Spectrum King is a producer of cannabis grow +lights and accessories. Steep Hill +Steep Hill Labs +Berkeley, California +www.steephill.com +Steep Hill Labs is a cannabis lab-testing +company that tests cannabis and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024796.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024796.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..95474944c2b6e7a5af2d28d51f85fb22dac45804 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024796.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Strainz +strainz +Las Vegas, Nevada +www.strainz.com +Strainz is a cannabis-brand management com- +pany. Its +products are available in dispensaries located in +Colorado, Nevada and Washington. Tikun Olam +Safed, Israel +www.tikun-olam.info +Tikun Olam produces and supplies cannabis in +Israel. It conducts busi- +ness in Israel, Canada, Australia and the United +States. +160 +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +Teewinot +Life Sciences +MA TEEWINOT +LIFE SCIENCES +Tampa,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024797.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024797.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..71fcd9c59db4dc0845082775eedabf48fd9a0588 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024797.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER VIII Top 100 Private Cannabis Companies 2018 +trellis +Trulieve +Trellis +Oakland, California +www.trellisgrows.com +Trellis provides inventory-management software +for the cannabis industry. Trulieve +Quincy, Florida +www.trulieve.com +Trulieve is +an operator of medical cannabis +dispensaries in Florida, offering a selection of +concentrates in the form of capsules, syringes, +tinctures and vaporizers. UTOPIA FARMS +Utopia Farms +Santa Cruz, California +www.utopiafarms.org +Utopia Farms... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024798.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024798.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..885078c2e546af6e9ffe2da2df5bdd690b0293b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024798.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +apexhale +Vapexhale +San Francisco, California +www.vapexhale.com +Vapexhale is a vaporizer technology company +that designs and manufactures branded vapor- +izers that use conductive heating. VUBER +VENTURE HIGHER +Vuber +Seattle, Washington +www.vubervaporizers.com +Vuber is a manufacturer of cannabis vapor- +izers. The company's prod- +ucts are also available online. +162 +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +VCC +BRANDS +VCC Brands +Los Angeles, California +www.vccbrands.com +VCC Brands... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024799.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024799.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4421c5b517f482ce6e8a3bfe3d0e20cfe01a2efe --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024799.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER VIII Top 100 Private Cannabis Companies 2018 +Web Joint +webjoint +Los Angeles, California +www.webjoint.com +Web Joint is an online technology software- +as-a-service company. Weedguide +Nil weedguide +San Diego, California +www.weedguide.com +Weedguide is a digital media company that +operates a cannabis-centric search engine and +an informational website about recreational and +medical cannabis. The site offers a collection of +articles, videos, products, dispensary... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024801.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024801.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..65900a6ad9f8389156179e1a51df6c5d770a56c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024801.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER IX +Cannabis Industry Risk Factors +Companies in the cannabis industry are subject to many risks. The following discussion highlights some, but not all, of these +Risks Related to U.S. Federal Law +• The manufacture, distribution, dispensing and possession of cannabis are strictly controlled +under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), irrespective of whether such activities comply with +applicable state law. There can +be no assurance that in the future the federal government... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024802.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024802.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..58a9db562b8bdd6097acfd5feccfde9ebd566742 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024802.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +• Federal income tax law precludes a business that "consists of trafficking in" cannabis or cannabis +products from deducting certain operating expenses in determining its federal income tax. A lack of access to banking and other tradi- +tional financial products and services increases the time, effort and expense related to ongoing +operations and increases risks associated with cash transactions and the use of alternative prod- +ucts and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024803.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024803.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..052ca4feca5f04116794c802742d42291aa32c1b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024803.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER IX Cannabis Industry Risk Factors +• There is currently a lack of broad interstate reciprocity with respect to cannabis laws. +• Even in states where cannabis is legal under state law, local jurisdictions may impose bans or +restrictions that materially interfere with or effectively prevent the operation of cannabis busi- +nesses within their boundaries. Risks Related to the Manufacture and Sale of Cannabis Products +• Cannabis companies are exposed to various product... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024804.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024804.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..82e2e64d6717335ef85532b9c4a692255e645b4f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024804.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +Other Risks to Companies in the Cannabis Industry +• The cannabis industry is extremely competitive in most segments, with certain companies hav- +ing unique competitive advantages such as greater capital resources, first-mover advantage, more +scalable business models and greater brand recognition. +• To date, the research conducted on cannabinoid-derived pharmaceuticals and other cannabis- +based therapies is limited. There is no assurance... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024805.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024805.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ecfcecd81d587f7f7a6cf3884d6352f16b167e41 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024805.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +ACKRELI +CAPITAI +CHAPTER X +Glossary of Terms +Ackrell Capital, LLC a leading independent investment bank focused on the cannabis industry +ACMPR Canada's Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations +Aeroponics a method of growing plants whereby the roots hang suspended in a nutritional aerosol +solution +Bankruptcy Code Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 +BHO Butane hash oil. See Hash oil +Bong a device used to smoke cannabis flower via a water chamber through which the smoke passes +prior to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024806.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024806.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7ee7a4ce0bdc4c1e9ed6584347030f030fc1980a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024806.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +Cannabinoid a class of chemical compounds present in cannabis that act on cannabinoid receptors in +cells in the human nervous and immune systems +Cannabinol (CBN) a cannabinoid derived from THC degradation; shown to produce some psycho- +active effects and believed to have several medicinal benefits, including analgesic, antibacterial, +anticonvulsive, anti-inflammatory and anti-insomnia +Cannabis a genus of flowering plant consumed for... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024807.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024807.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..786a4935d926dded4cdfeb58ef6764aaa1ebdfe3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024807.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Drug Enforcement Agency, an agency of the U.S. Department of Justice +Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (THCA) a nonpsychoactive cannabinoid found abundantly in +raw flower; precursor to THC; decarboxylates into THC through the application of intense heat +DHHS U.S. Department of Health and Human Services +DOJ U.S. Department of the Treasury +Dronabinol a form of chemically synthesized THC included in certain FDA-approved pharma- +ceuticals; a Schedule Il or Schedule III controlled substance under... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024808.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024808.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..11b04b3e64b83925be4019df0d21fd27f62d8f8e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024808.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +Hash oil a concentrate prepared through extraction using a butane solvent; also known as hashish oil, +butane hash or honey oil (BHO), cannabis oil or liquid cannabis +Hashish (hash) a concentrate made up of compressed or purified trichomes +Hemp the fiber produced from the stalks of the cannabis plant, which can be used to produce goods +such as rope, paper and clothing; also refers to varieties of cannabis cultivated to produce... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024809.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024809.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a7ad3636ed9139e16800b0423d98089f378fb6b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024809.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +CHAPTER X Glossary of Terms +Oil a category of viscous cannabis concentrates +OTC over-the-counter stock market +Pipe a device used to smoke cannabis flower; commonly made of glass, wood or metal +PPM a private placement memorandum; used by issuers of securities in private offerings to market +securities +PVPA Plant Variety Protection Act +Ruderalis one of three principal cannabis species; ruderalis plants are shaggy and the shortest of the +three species +SAR Suspicious Activity Report;... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024810.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024810.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..821752f3e4287662526ed808829c5a002c601d91 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024810.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +UN United Nations +UNGASS United Nations General Assembly Special Session +UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime +USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture +USPTO U.S. Patent and Trademark Office +Vaporizer a device that heats cannabis flower or concentrate to a temperature at which its active +compounds boil and can be inhaled as vapor +Variety a plant grouping within a single botanical taxon of the lowest known rank (species)... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024811.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024811.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a881b9517d0278d8bed6af6cfb22d990e88e399e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024811.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +Disclosures, Disclaimers, Sources and Use +This report has been compiled for informational purposes only and is not a research report. This report is not +and should not be construed as an offer to sell securities or a solicitation of an offer to buy securities. Readers +should not rely on this report in making any investment decision. Ackrell Capital, LLC and its affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024812.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024812.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5d79ca5b7db61fa1bead44467c6333a8174af52b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024812.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Mike Ackrell +Founder +mackrell@ackrell.com +Tim Coxon +General Counsel +tcoxon@ackrell.com +Bryan Castillo +Partner +bcastillo@ackrell.com +Jeff Mathews +Partner +imathews@ackrell.com +176 +Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 +Ackrell Capital Cannabis Team +Mike Ackrell founded Ackrell Capital in 2003. Technology Investment Banking Group and the Head of Invest- +ment Banking at WR Hambrecht+Co. He also was a Senior Vice President in the +Technology Investment Banking Group of Donaldson,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024813.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024813.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fc0c1fd36a26c1ecb67fdac804005ceb8200d26d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024813.txt @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +ACKRELL CAPITAL +THE GREEN FIELD 2018 +Cultivation +PharmaCielo™ +CannaSol +AURORA +GROW OR +CANOPY +H!E! Production +Production Equipment +and Supplies +AEssense Grows +octant +TIG +CULTINATION +ForwordGro +ма +Grow Healthy +phria +apeks +Eden +terra +tech +Funk Sac +SPECTILN +KING +iUnU +The Herbel Chea +(hielscher +Mashed Gitas +Admanced +Nutriend: +SONICS +Cloudponics +Powertrew +VITALIS +go Yofumo +- Production and Testing. Services +sclabs +BES™ +Contract Cannabis +ICWENALTICAL +Green Leat Lab +extraktLAB +Averti Rex +Lower +420 +MILE... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024814.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024814.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..87ce1ecb28b895f17ee750130a28d37ab99f1fae --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024814.txt @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +ACKRELL CAPITAL +THE GREEN FIELD 2018 +Consumer Products +Flower and Concentrates +absolutextracts +curvana +MART +CW +a Wana +MEDICINALS +phab +panda +dàmà +Garmalabs +- GOLDEN LEAF +ODYSSEY +HARLEY +GREENDOT: +UTOPIA FARMS +WINK +Butter +Finea +LEGION +JUST HERB +LOLA O LOLA +Buddy boy +BRANDS +CANNACRAFT WILLIE'S +GANJAGOLD +RENERVE. Select +LEVEL +Humboldt +ISLAND +Legends +PHYTECS +THO +(> SHANGO CANMOESCENT +getst +SHERBINSKIS +& CANNAVEST +STATE +Sunday +BRITE +Goods +AQUARIS STATE +FLOWER +950a0t +Spliffen... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024815.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024815.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4e816d471d4e13d353418fe12d57d9929a0e22e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024815.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +ACKRELL CAPITAL +TOP 100 PRIVATE CANNABIS COMPANIES 2018 +AEssenseGrows +Ample Organics +Apeks Supercritical +The Apothecarium +Auntie Dolores +Baker Technologies +BAS Research +BDS Analytics +Beboe +Berkeley Patients Group +BioTrackTHC +Bloom Farms +Brewbudz +Bud and Bloom +Calyx Brands +Cannabis Reports +CannaCraft +CannaKorp +Colorado Harvest Company +Columbia Care +Confident Cannabis +Cultivation Technologies +Cura Cannabis Solutions +CW Analytical +Deep Cell +Défoncé +Dixie Elixirs +Dosist +Eaze Solutions +Eel River... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024816.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024816.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed287a7546cecb4cc380e8eef721e88e1f69dc36 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024816.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +ACKRELL +CAPITAL +Ackrell Capital, LLC +38 Keyes Avenue, Suite 200 +San Francisco, CA 94129 +www.ackrell.com / info@ackrell.com | 415.995.2000 +This report has been compiled for informational purposes only, and is not a research report. This report is not and should not be construed as an offer to sell securities or a solicitation of an offer to buy securities. Ackrell Capital has made investments in and conducted investment banking +services for companies mentioned in this report, and may do so in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024817.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024817.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aa29463c1bc64e9c71bbe618ce15af3bd0cadeff --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024817.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +COWEN +Equity Research +Cannabis +AHEAD OF THE CURVE® SERIES +COWEN'S COLLECTIVE VIEW OF CBD +This report is inten +FEBRUARY 25, 2019 +11 Cowen analysts across consumer, health +care, industrials, and regulatory offer a +comprehensive view of the global CBD +opportunity. Nearly 7% of adults in our proprietary U.S. +survey (n = ~2,500) reported using CBD as a +supplement, far higher than we expected. We offer +detailed analysis at the sub-category level, as +well as company-specific discussions,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024818.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024818.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a723fb6c0441a12df9ceafd1fc100b5a395b7836 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024818.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +COWEN +COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS +February 25, 2019 +This page left blank intentionally. This report is intended for michael.cella@cowen.com. Unauthorized redistribution of this report is prohibiter +2 +COWEN.COM +HOUSEOVERSIGHT024818 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024819.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024819.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f22beecaebe1ab996426c7a090cf4e26d704d5fe --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024819.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +COWEN +COWEN WASHINGTON +RESEARCH GROUP +COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS +February 25, 2019 +• Cannabis +COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS +COWEN RESEARCH +EQUITY RESEARCH +Cowen Research +646 562 1330 +cowen.research@cowen.com +Vivien Azer +646 562 1351 +vivien.azer@cowen.com +John Blackledge +646 562 1359 +john.blackledge@cowen.com +Andrew M. Charles, CFA +646 562 1332 +andrew.charles@cowen.com +Oliver Chen, CFA +646 562 1424 +oliver.chen@cowen.com +John Kernan, CFA +646 562 1324 +john.kernan@cowen.com +Phil Nadeau, Ph.D. +646 562... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024820.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024820.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c4537f52cb6da9b43f7f378cdde6cfd2a1593efa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024820.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +COWEN +COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS +February 25, 2019 +Synthetic Biology Provides Alternative Cannabinoid Production Method; Life Science Tools +Well Positioned To Benefit From QA/QC Testing Opportunity (Schenkel) +As an alternative to cultivation-based methods, cannabinoids can be produced using either +chemical or synthetic biology approaches. Synthetic biology methods, which harness +fermentation to produce cannabinoids, are particularly attractive considering they can +povertimental realitiety of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024821.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024821.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4690dbe3318b1b3e907bc45eb2316cdab44d97ac --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024821.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +COWEN +COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS +February 25, 2019 +Global Landscape (Azer) +products are now widely available in markets like the U.K., Italy and Switzerland, though +regulations vary with Italy allowing for "cannabis light" products, with allowable THC of as +much as 0.6%, while in Switzerland CBD products can have as much as 1% THC, and are +classified as a tobacco substitute. In Latin America, hemp has been in production since the +1500s is also rapidly expanding their regulatory frameworks around... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024822.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024822.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7c69d8b2b1ca6ff2ad083ced43c5bf658638a90d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024822.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +COWEN +COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS +February 25, 2019 +TABLE OF CONTENTS +Consumer Products Market Sizing (Azer) +The Science Of CBD (Nadeau) +CBD Hemp Cultivation (Neivert) +Synthetic Cannabis (Schenkel) +Life Science Tools Participation In The Legal Cannabis Market (Schenkel) +Consumer Products Opportunities (Azer) +Nutraceuticals +Topicals +Beverages.... The CBD Competitive Landscape - Public/Private Company Discussions (Azer) ... Health Care: Provider Perspective (Rhyee)... +eCommerce To Be A Key Consumer... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024823.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024823.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7d8344845c6bd6c97c1b989c6eddd83a5b0a5d9a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024823.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +COWEN +COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS +February 25, 2019 +COWEN'S COLLECTIVE VIEW OF CBD +In a collaboration featuring 11 analysts across Cowen's consumer, health care, +industrials and regulatory teams, herein we offer our outlook for the global CBD market, +with a particular focus on the U.S. While little science exists supporting medical efficac) +of CBD (with the exception of seizures, which GWPharma was able to prove with +Epidiolex for Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, as discussed in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024824.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024824.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e794f3a06669e6a1cde2ccc6e3794f92a3659ab1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024824.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +COWEN +COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS +February 25, 2019 +Consumer Products Market Sizing (Azer) +In our proprietary Cowen consumer survey (-2,500, 18+ respondents), we found that in +January 2019 close to 7% of respondents indicated that they use CBD as a supplemen +Vhile this is only the first month's reading of the data (which can fluctuate from montl +o month), this initial response piqued our interest considerably, as it was much highe +an we would have suspected. From a user perspective, category... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024825.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024825.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..779e913e3e10eca16278c15ce001a2ea5f3cb3fc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024825.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +COWEN +COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS +February 25, 2019 +While we are keen to gain more insights into the evolving use of CBD in the coming +months from our survey work, this initial snapshot offers a framework for sizing the +ultimate CBD opportunity. With growing consumer awareness, we conservatively +believe that CBD use can grow to 10% of adults in the U.S., or -25 mm consumers (using +current population) by 2025. We would note that using the U.S. Census forecastec +population would result in over $17 bn... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024826.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024826.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c9af2233b462fd00258e3aea437e2238012a79a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024826.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +COWEN +COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS +February 25, 2019 +The Science Of CBD (Nadeau) +The Endocannabinoid System +Cannabis' therapeutic potential is due to this valuable overlap between +phytocannabinoids (i.e. plant-derived cannabinoids) and the endogenous cannabinoid +system in humans, termed a "therapeutic handshake." However, though THC's activity in +the body has been fairly well elucidated (it acts through G-protein coupled cannabinoid +receptor 1 and cannabinoid receptor 2), CBD's pharmacokinetics are... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024827.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024827.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..01ea22846805f01a3c2ad77f12dc74080001f8d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024827.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +COWEN +COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS +February 25, 2019 +CBD Hemp Cultivation (Neivert) +2018 Farm Bill Legalizes Commercial Cultivation of Hemp: The 2018 Farm Bill legalized +industrial hemp at the federal level removing it from schedule | status under The +Controlled Substance Act. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 41 states have +set up cultivation and production programs to regulate the production of hemp. (CT, ID, +SD, IA, OH, TX, LA, MS and GA do not currently allow hemp... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024828.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024828.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d3a43f1675b0cc75712a48157a747888c910fde4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024828.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +COWEN +COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS +February 25, 2019 +will be destroyed.) Seeds that are certified (sold by domestic and international +hemp seed distributors) contain ... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024867.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024867.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a53a253dd13322f71d3aef84996905a428eb6804 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024867.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +COWEN +COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS +February 25, 2019 +Vapor +While vapor remains the major market share gainer across adult use cannabis, CBD only +offerings are much smaller, but represent a solid growth segment. Figure 95 Vapor Will Be Smaller, But Can Grow To Almost $400 MM +U.S. CBD Vape Sales ($ in mm) +$360 +$400 +$350 +$300 +$250 +$200 +$150 +$100 +$50 +$0 +$40 +2018 +Source: Cowen and Company +$160 +2019E +Figure 96 Our E-Cig Model Assumes Revenues Of ~$11 BN By 2020 +U.S. E-Cigarette Sales ($ in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024868.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024868.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8cd44159e0e8b5ada35038f1745206a56eb6f550 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024868.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In addition to CBD only-focused companies, we are starting +to see crossover from adult-use / medical focused companies including Green Thumb +Industries and Curaleaf Hemp. Notably, crossover does not pertain solely to cannabis companies, as Turning Point +Brands recently announced a minority stake in CASH, a privately held CBD extraction +and production company. With a rapidly growing vapor infrastructure in place already +(from Vapor Beast, Vapor Shark and Vapor Supply), TPB has a number of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024869.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024869.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c156590b3260ddfac173b45a4d393d84c2936679 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024869.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +COWEN +COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS +February 25, 2019 +The below chart provides a condensed visual snapshot on company pricing in the +preceding category discussions. Figure 99 Condensed Pricing Heat Matrix By Company And Category +Tinctures +CBD Price/MG Summary Matrix +Confections| +Bath Bombs +baceae +Beboe +Canna Hemp +Casa Luna +cbdMD +Charlotte's Web +CVSciences +Diamond CBD +Elixinol +Green Roads +Hemp Bombs +Highline +Lazarus +Lord Jones +Mary's Medicinals +Mr. Moxey's +Papa & Barkley +Premium Jane +Pure... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024871.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024871.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ee72431987093f51169ed0ff6aed9a425a4cec62 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024871.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +COWEN +COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS +February 25, 2019 +Curaleaf Hemp. Curaleaf (CSE: CURA; OTC: CURLF) is a vertically integrated U.S. multi- +state operator (MSO), based in Massachusetts that focuses on selling Curaleaf branded +products in its company-owned dispensaries. In September, the company launched a +separate CBD focused line called Curaleaf Hemp, which is currently sold in 47 states. With both ingestible and topical CBD products currently offered in select +Curaleaf believes women represent an... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024872.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024872.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..13ade94cd94544d4c757f5c2912d27b0de90a281 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024872.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +COWEN +COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS +February 25, 2019 +GTI has reported revenues of ~$41.7 mm (which includes adult use and medical), +reflecting a Yoy growth rate of over 300% and gross margin of 45%. We would note +:hat on a pro-forma basis including the acquisition of Essence, in the most recent +quarter, GTI would have generated revenues of over $35 mm (vs. $17.1 mm reported) +Khiron Life Sciences Corp. Khiron is a publicly-traded (TSXV: KHRN; OTCQB: KHRNF) +vertically integrated cannabis company... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024874.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024874.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..46c4a6558795f7d79b0cd1ba37a5ef549ea0ffa6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024874.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +COWEN +COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS +February 25, 2019 +The Green Organic Dutchman (TGOD) +"We are focused on becoming the Whole Foods of the cannabis industry and recognized +as pioneers in the THC/CBD infused beverage industry." CEO Brian Athaide (Shareholder +Letter) +HEXO Corp (Hexo) +"With respect to the United States, we are in the process of assessing adequate supplies +for hemp-derived cannabinoids. Using our intellectual property, we believe we can offer +a large range of CBD-based experiences." HEXO... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024973.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024973.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ee2bdc14143defdba75286866fd893eb4cb48865 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024973.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +16 +States for offering direct dialogue with North Korea while refusing +talks with Iran "without preconditions.' +He goes on to say that Washington does not seem to understand the +actual causes of proliferation, which he writes "were rooted much +deeper, in the extreme economic and social inequalities that prevailed +between North and South ... and the conflicts and tensions that +continued to fester in specific regions." Those tensions certainly lead +to proliferation, but "economic and social... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024974.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024974.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a2313c2660d123b207df1600d49270e253f9b8e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024974.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +It will be many moons and unerringly +effective inspections before leaders in Washington and Moscow +contemplate such a course. Nonetheless, "The Age of Deception" provides the grist for serious +debate even as it helpfully chronicles the International Atomic +Energy Agency's journey and tribulations as it evolved from a +relatively obscure group of technicians into an organization with +growing international clout. But if those following in ElBaradei's +path think they can combat proliferation... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024975.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024975.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9d0fa039e0c127a8e8d77eb112e497eb48260132 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024975.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Vanity Fair +Hillary Clinton - Woman of the World +Jonathan Alter +June 2011 -- It was four a.m. when Hillary Clinton's plane touched +down at Andrews Air Force Base, and by midmorning she was in the +Oval Office conferring with President Obama. The night before, as +her plane was en route from Tunis, they had agreed that the vote of +the United Nations Security Council to impose a no-fly zone on +Libya meant that it was now decision time on launching a third +American war in the Middle East, though no... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024976.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024976.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8037c4359d6c4e5959d953317e5a8f930e011f47 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024976.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +19 +regimes at a conference in Qatar that "the region's foundations are +sinking into the sand." Within days, demonstrators filled Cairo's +Tahrir Square, a vibrant plea for greater freedom that swiftly spread +to Jordan, Yemen, Bahrain, Oman, Libya, and eventually even Syria. But if Madam Secretary could be ahead of the curve, she was also +sometimes behind it, caught in a dizzying series of upheavals that left +her both exhilarated and exhausted. In early February, Hillary said +the regime of Hosni... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024977.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024977.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f73a8f7332d778b69ad7f6022a2bf454040752eb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024977.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +20 +A myth quickly arose that the women in the administration-Clinton, +U.N. ambassador Susan Rice, and national-security aide Samantha +Power, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning book on genocide was +influential in Obama's thinking-drove the debate. "The idea that the +girls pushed the boys into war is ludicrous," says Anne-Marie +Slaughter, who until recently served as director of policy planning at +State. "We were dismissed for months as soft liberals concerned +about 'peripheral' development issues like... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024978.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024978.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d43eb5a222873894d8d9cc31e56915cb0a7376ce --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024978.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Hillary's personal connection to Sarkozy helped cement the coalition. In 2010, Sarkozy had gallantly steadied her after a shoe had come off +her foot as she climbed the stone steps of the Elysée Palace. ("I may +not be Cinderella but you're certainly my Prince Charming!" Hillary +inscribed a photo, which sits in his office.) Now, over mixed fruit and +chocolate, the French president took the normal diplomatic flattery a +step further in their "bilat" (diplo-speak for bilateral talks). You are a good... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024979.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024979.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fce51ecc9d4263038ed161214c1a06934a8d160e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024979.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Whatever the burden-sharing logistics, the United +States was in deep now, on a course that no one could predict. Madam Secretary +For Barack Obama, the Arab Spring and its aftermath will shape just +one critical piece of his record. But, for Hillary Clinton, the swirling +challenges of the region are likely to determine her legacy. But Hillary's intense diplomatic efforts to forge a coalition to go to +war in Libya came at the exact worst time, only two months after +WikiLeaks, the whistle-blowing... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024980.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024980.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8c258366ab41fa9a78f1c581a44cbea90c70d790 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024980.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +23 +weak" or merely projecting his anger over allegations in the Italian +press about his relationship with a teenage Moroccan belly dancer +suspected of prostitution. Either way, he unloaded on Hillary during +an awkward one-on-one in Astana, Kazakhstan. According to a firsthand account I heard an hour afterward in a +hallway near the conference room, Berlusconi told Hillary, "The +press is all over me. I'm tired, Hillary, very tired. I had such a good +relationship with 'Beel,' "George,' and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024981.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024981.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..84e6255127f86c8a1aea0b0f1887fc63fa1cdc70 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024981.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Dean Acheson +helped rebuild Europe after World War Il. Henry Kissinger, who +acted like the secretary of state for Richard Nixon even before he got +the job, engineered the opening to China. But does anyone think +Colin Powell left State with a better reputation than he had before +becoming secretary? The State Department isn't called "Foggy Bottom" +for nothing. "Is it Bush-Baker?" the aide continues, referring to the +relationship between the first President Bush and James Baker, who +was so tight... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024982.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024982.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5025eddb56e6c0b8610634319c8aa33a74cbfcf5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024982.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Her second example is a full hug she and the president +shared in the Situation Room after the health-care bill finally passed. She accepted the post, in November of 2008, only after President- +Elect Obama—in an inspired move over the objections of many on +his campaign staff-twisted not just her arm, she informed friends, +but her fingers, toes, and every other bone in her body. He knows that she +represents the United States better than anyone but him and is-to +the surprise of many Obama... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024983.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024983.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..21465c878e0eb034554f8ffbf30a67e342d102f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024983.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Up, Up, and Away +As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton has flown more than half a +million miles to 80 countries in her two and a half years on the job. Her plane looks like Air Force One on the outside, but isn't as grand +on the inside. It's one of four Boeing 757s that the military fitted with +15 ordinary coach seats for reporters in the rear, a business-class staff +workspace with tables in the middle that seats about 25, and +Clinton's quarters up front near an area jammed with +communications... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024984.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024984.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f5a48dbdb8c2f45707e9f2aa1bb91f33cca56d14 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024984.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +27 +movies (despite a weakness for anything with Meryl Streep, +especially Out of Africa), reads yet more briefing papers than she's +already consumed in Washington, scans news on an iPad, and +sometimes manages a few pages of a mystery, but mostly she sleeps, +without any pills, often right through landing. "If she couldn't sleep +most of the way," says Philippe Reines, her longtime press secretary, +"she wouldn't be able to function." +Some of her best road stories involve Holbrooke, her close... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024985.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024985.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9cb536c7e727fddc753a348f60f0a5812aa29c6a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024985.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Since the beginning of the year, Hillary has said repeatedly +that she will leave office no later than early 2013 and retire from +public life. In Bahrain, just before the Middle East upheaval, I heard +her be more direct than ever before on the subject: "I've had a +fascinating and rewarding public career .... The 2000 Senate race, +for instance, was practically serendipitous. But it's hard to believe +"Clinton" and "ambition" have been fully sundered. When Bob Woodward said on CNN last fall that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024986.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024986.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d8cec66e5c484b39525a783febb6aa845fefca94 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024986.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +29 +Uncommon Ground +Hillary has often said that this is the hardest job she's ever had. "With each month there's more wear and tear," says Jake +Sullivan, a young lawyer and former Rhodes scholar, who has +emerged as one of her closest advisers. "She seems engaged, +happy, focused, determined, and very tired from all the travel," +observes Tom Vilsack, an early supporter from his days as governor +of lowa, who is now the secretary of agriculture. Despite running against each other, the president and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024987.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024987.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4cfd67f5abcb56b6cd8de6bc3380dfebe2ed553c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024987.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +On Egypt, it was Hillary who early on recommended +caution and Obama who insisted that U.S. policy should be to push +for an immediate transition. And they offer a domestic example for +good measure: had Hillary been president, she would likely have +sided with Rahm Emanuel and compromised much earlier on health- +care reform, which would have meant a less ambitious bill. Hillary likes the challenge of handling big, talented, +difficult individuals; it's what attracted her not just to Bill but also... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024988.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024988.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fb0f5e17b0066cc3f6f43f3b028a0fa12d47f8b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024988.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +They have lunch once a +week, where sometimes—as on the details of Af-Pak escalation— +they cordially disagree but know the president will decide anyway. The biggest problem between State and the White House used to be +that Cheryl Mills, Hillary's chief of staff, clashed with Denis +McDonough, the deputy national-security adviser, who is close +personally to the president. If she had her way, the White House would +have held three times as many state dinners and bilateral meetings +with foreign... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024989.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024989.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..58170fe433a387d1aa963ca791094948641b41a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024989.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +"And I said, 'I don't know how you do one without the +other."" +Hillary has already had some successes, most conspicuously her use +of American diplomatic leverage in the U.N. Security Council to get +China and especially Russia to help isolate Iran and North Korea. And ever since Obama bollixed up his relations with +Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in 2010, Hillary has +worked overtime to soothe Bibi. "She's indispensable the only one +trusted on all sides [of the Israeli-Palestinian... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024990.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024990.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cd7d491e2a05f7d06d98130d2a604fc1ee6c64d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024990.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +33 +herself shies away from the Cineplex imagery in favor of the notion +of "smart power." +"Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help +prevent and resolve conflict— not just send our military in," she says. +'Smart power' is closer cooperation between our development +experts, our diplomats, our military leaders." Hillary offers an +example: in Afghanistan, the Pentagon has a fund that allows a young +American officer to take $100,000 in discretionary funds and rebuild +a school... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024991.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024991.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..983e2c4cad29652c94867d10c140c59a4630f957 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024991.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Some men in the White +House are on the "society" side; some women in the State +Department are on the "government to government" side. The most common sentiment among foreign-policy +veterans reflects another familiar Bill Clinton line: "It sure was +simpler during the Cold War. She is midway through +a five-year plan to increase the size of the State Department's foreign- +service staff by 25 percent and double USAID. And she's taken a leaf +from the Pentagon playbook and launched a "Q.D.D.R."... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024992.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024992.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e93207c120ecceac1f8b229f7d4b1dd8219e00ff --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024992.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +"We present and she +interrogates, in the best sense of the word," says Patrick Kennedy, the +undersecretary for management. "Jeff, you've got to do better than that," she told Jeffrey Feltman, the +assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs, one day when he +presented a shopworn idea. She has Baker's obsession with +preparation, reaches out like Colin Powell (who advised her to resist +the efforts of bureaucrats to strip her of her BlackBerry), and offers +continuity with Condi Rice's policy on... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024993.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024993.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d0283c6db008a956392d645b99d39a764982aebe --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024993.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Often a questioner will refer to her in fractured +English as "President Clinton." In Asia, this can be especially +mortifying for the shy audience. Almost every trip includes meeting with +leading women from local NGOs, many of whom line up to tell +Hillary with what little English they can muster how inspirational she +has been to their efforts. "She has almost singular recall from years +back," says Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary for East Asian and +Pacific affairs, who recounts being amazed at... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024994.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024994.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cd5f6c6fdc0498c21ace181f1e9f916f73b55a2c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024994.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +On +weekends, when both are off the road, she often takes the shuttle up +from Washington—no government plane on Friday night and +returns to her house on Whitehaven Street in Northwest Washington +on Sunday night. They'll take long walks with their dog Seamus, a +chocolate Labrador and the great-nephew of their White House dog, +Buddy, who was struck by a car and killed in Chappaqua in 2002. Only a few staffers were invited to Chelsea's wedding, last July in +Rhinebeck, New York, including the tiny... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024995.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024995.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed422e417633e0e54d138a9273b6790337827b5c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024995.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +38 +When a young man at a town-hall meeting in Kyrgyzstan asks Hillary +which designers she wears, she answers immediately: "Would you +ever ask a man that question?" The crowd of young people laughed +and applauded. Hillary and Bill like to vacation at Oscar de la +Renta's Punta Cana resort, in the Dominican Republic, but she +wasn't about to mention that, or venture that Vera Wang designed +Chelsea's wedding dress. Like Albright and Rice, Hillary wants +women's issues to be substantive. Even amid the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024996.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024996.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8103292c34b1f1f8f24e58037767483de0b608e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024996.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Development challenges and global conflicts often seem +intractable, and that has to be a little discouraging at three in the +morning in the skies over Kabul or Cairo. "You can't just look at +these conflicts and issues and say, 'O.K., that's been solved, Hillary +says to me at the end of an interview, starting to chuckle. "Because +most of these problems are never solved." Now she's back in dutiful, +dogged mode, which happens to be the mode that best fits today's +Hillary—the one almost everyone... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024997.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024997.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6508cb1ac2952819160b60f70db8c0cefd53b788 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024997.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +1 +Shimon Post +SHIMON +POST +Presidential Press Bulletin +8 September, 2011 +Article 1. Today's Zaman +The UN report and Turkish foreign policy +Cenap Cakmak +Article 2. The National Interest +The Turkish-Israeli Cold War +Henri J. Spiegel +"What's Wrong with the Palestinians Appealing to the +UN?' +An interview with Arab League Head Nabil Elaraby +Article 5. Wall Street Journal +From 9/11 to the Arab Spring +Fouad Ajami +Article 6. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024998.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024998.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d05c74fa79c7ad4c0d8c0baaa0d49ead837b25a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024998.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Today's Zaman +The UN's Mavi Marmara report and +Turkish foreign policy +Cenap Cakmak +07 September 2011 -- The long-awaited UN report on the Mavi +Marmara incident has been finally published. The report, the release +of which was postponed for a while at Israel's request, was published +by The New York Times before an official statement was made by the +relevant UN authorities. Sources also say that shortly before the official deadline, US +Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked Turkey to agree to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024999.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024999.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1792d96f27b9db0556a259e6d1652d3ae6513b65 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/24/house-oversight-024999.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The use of force by Israeli defense forces during the raid was +unnecessary and disproportionate. This could have been avoided, but +Israeli forces chose not to. +2. It would be appropriate for Israel to pay some sort of compensation +to the families of those who were killed during the raid. +3. The report's recommendations fail to meet Turkey's demands. The statements in +the report that justify Israel's blockade of Gaza especially please +Israel. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025000.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..11b270fe4e842b5c9ad1866d575f83ad021e9797 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025000.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4 +blockade and will take action at the UN General Assembly to make +sure that the matter is discussed in the International Court of Justice +(ICJ. And finally, Turkey will extend full support to the families of +the Mavi Marmara victims in their pursuit of justice from Israel. Some of these sanctions could be considered radical; however, some +of these same actions, although with some slight differences, have +been taken before in Turkey's relationship with Israel. Diplomatic ties +between the two... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025001.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5a464ae0aa3c331b40a8f3ba0947470554b47c99 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025001.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +5 +Turkey to explain and justify its stance towards Israel. However, this does not necessarily mean +that Turkey's decision to impose sanctions against Israel is wrong. Any other decision would have meant Turkey was bowing to Israel's +demands. The policy Turkey has pursued since +the Mavi Marmara incident has served its interests so far. The presidential statement made at the +UN Security Council immediately after the incident as well as the UN +Human Rights Council's decision finding the Gaza... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025002.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0e8da7d0ad911646c6025624004177ad9335d257 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025002.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +The National Interest +The Turkish-Israeli Cold War +Henri J. Barkey +September 7, 2011 -- On Friday, the Turkish government declared a +Cold War on Israel. The Erdogan government is now +saying explicitly something it had implied for the last two years-that +Washington has to choose between two allies, Ankara and Jerusalem. The Arab Spring, especially events in Syria, and the planned U.S. +withdrawal from Iraq have catapulted Turkey to an unprecedented +level of importance. The Justice and Development... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025003.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d683171a4fc23ec84b74eff06f899f268ad67661 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025003.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +As a consequence of the incursion, Israeli-Syrian negotiations +that had made considerable progress under Turkish auspices fell +apart, depriving Erdogan of what he thought was an important +breakthrough. After the Gaza incident at the yearly Davos meetings in Switzerland, +Erdogan publicly berated Israeli President Shimon Peres, +paradoxically one of Turkey's greatest supporters. Received as a hero +after Davos in Turkey, Erdogan dramatically increased the stridency +of his rhetoric against Israel.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025004.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025004.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..456882233e27fdc9f01ad9b442a2cdb0019210c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025004.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The +commission's report, leaked to the New York Times, found that the +Israelis had indeed used excessive force but that the Gaza embargo +was legal. On the Israeli side, hard-line foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman at +every turn tried to prevent a negotiated outcome from being finalized. Turks did not make it easier either by taking inflexible positions that +made it hard for the Israelis to apologize. As I understand it, in +December 2010, the two sides had come close to an agreement:... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025005.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025005.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..63add07036515600250b323d08dd727ee2df3ec2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025005.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Israel, for historical, emotional and realpolitik considerations, has +been one of Washington's closest allies with great support of both +aisles of the political divide. This may be one of the outcomes +the Turks are banking on. The Netanyahu government has much to +answer for in its lack of leadership and navel gazing. But Washington +did not read Turkish intentions and goals accurately and therefore +could not prevent this turn of events. Henri Barkey is a visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025006.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025006.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8d7aef35de166803ccbf7e7051ac54206ec4bcca --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025006.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Los Angeles Times +Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat on +statehood moves at U.N. Defying the United States and Israel, the Palestinian +Authority is expected this month to apply for full membership in the +United Nations. If the Obama administration vetoes the application in +the Security Council as expected, Palestinian officials are likely to +turn to the General Assembly to upgrade their status from non- +member "entity" to non-member "state." Gaining de facto statehood +recognition from the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025007.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025007.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..96034855b1b86e8f97504065f5fcde6f101c5d44 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025007.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +And all those who support the +1967 lines [the border before Israel seized the West Bank during that +year's Middle East War] with mutually agreed swap [of land] should +support our endeavor. The Obama administration doesn't support your bid, though it +supports using the 1967 lines with swaps as the baseline for the +border of a Palestinian state. We are trying to preserve the +two-state solution in the face of an Israeli government that is +determined to destroy it. Going to the U.N. is an attempt... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025008.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025008.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9138e509201505da5f7511d81af53cfbee4e8171 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025008.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +12 +Assuming there is a veto, what would you gain by upgrading your +status in the General Assembly? The advantage is that you can be a full member of UNESCO, the +International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, +and you may be able to hold Israel accountable. So that's the plan if you fail in the Security Council? Was going to the +General Assembly discussed? If Mr. [Benjamin] Netanyahu [the Israeli prime +minister] thinks he can make this Authority in name only while he is +the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025009.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025009.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e5105ebff19759c82cc87af1bc65abdbea89bf61 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025009.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Palestinians know exactly what's happening. People don't have high +expectations.... But maybe the Palestinian leadership should tell the +people that after 20 years we don't have a partner and we cannot +continue to be an authority in name only. Wouldn't you be throwing away years of +progress, institutions, security forces and putting hundreds of +thousands of people out of work? But I'm asking: Is this the authority that will take us to +independence? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025010.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025010.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1245f2dd1b40cdc26617ea7e4c681c89894b3d20 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025010.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +14 +After 20 years of failed peace talks, is it possible that the two +sides' positions on borders, refugees and other issues are just +unbridgeable and no amount of talks will make a difference? Peace between conflicting parties is not about Saeb Erekat waking up +one morning and feeling his conscience aching for Israelis or Israelis +waking up and feeling their conscience aching for my suffering. It's +about the matrix of interests maturing. Once any conflicting party +believes that making peace is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025011.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025011.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e20e53d5d60d1fb16957b73230cdc313075ec92 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025011.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Spiegel +'What's Wrong with the Palestinians +Appealing to the UN?' +An interview with Arab League Head Nabil Elaraby +Pro-democracy uprisings are continuing in the Middle East and the +Palestinians could soon declare statehood. SPIEGEL spoke with +Arab League General Secretary Nabil Elaraby about the Syrian +regime's use of violence against protesters and how the US has failed +to force Israel to negotiate in good faith. SPIEGEL: Libya has been liberated from Moammar Gadhaft's +autocratic rule.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025012.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025012.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f1bb2c7ca1b16d30371d3e63d2f99661a83098d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025012.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +16 +SPIEGEL: That, of course, is far from the truth. Elaraby: I delivered a clear and unambiguous message to (Syrian +President) Bashar Assad. Elaraby: It was a sensitive issue that I couldn't make public at the +time. Elaraby: That's something for the Syrian people to decide for +themselves. SPIEGEL: What would have to happen for the League to take a +stronger position against the Syrian regime, as it did in Libya? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025013.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025013.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4e02930cee9b47b247f35cc6475d883f589d18da --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025013.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +17 +SPIEGEL: Many Arabs now feel that your institution is not very +efficient. Elaraby: The historic moment of change has gripped the entire +region, and sooner or later it will change all Arab countries. SPIEGEL: Surely there are a few member states, most notably Saudi +Arabia, which will hardly support such changes. SPIEGEL: How does Saudi Arabia's foreign minister explain that +his country supports the Syrian opposition, on the one hand, while at +the same time sending troops to Bahrain? SPIEGEL:... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025014.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025014.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..62083c0fe5c7c8fe9775c9510cebdd5921a42d34 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025014.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +18 +SPIEGEL: So you support the Palestinian initiative? SPIEGEL: The Americans have threatened tough consequences... Instead, someone from Tel Aviv or Jerusalem is telling them what to +do. SPIEGEL: Won't this stance lead to tensions between the Arab +League and the United States? Elaraby: I heard what (German Chancellor) Angela Merkel said. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025015.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025015.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..18048975bdeb4ed7be97034328585efb634863f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025015.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +19 +Elaraby: That shouldn't be happening. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas constantly implores +them to stop condoning the firing of rockets. The fact is that there are +extremists on both sides. SPIEGEL: Will there ever be another war between an Arab country +and Israel over Palestine? Elaraby: Completely out of the question. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025016.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025016.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..30239c4ab3f0a4a6e5113521a3b6ea8cc158990e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025016.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Wall Street Journal +From 9/11 to the Arab Spring +Fouad Ajami +September 8, 2011 -- The Arabic word shamata has its own power. And when the Twin Towers fell 10 years ago +this week, there was plenty of glee in Arab lands— a sense of wonder, +bordering on pride, that a band of young Arabs had brought soot and +ruin onto American soil. The symbols of this mighty American republic— the commercial +empire in New York, the military power embodied by the Pentagon— +had been hit. There were sympathetic... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025017.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025017.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3314e5d84bebc206aca085df20fe603656cfda0d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025017.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Those death pilots may have been +zealous, but now the Americans know, and for the first time, what it +means to be at the receiving end of power. Very few Arabs believed that the landscape all around them-the +tyrannical states, the growing poverty, the destruction of what little +grace their old cities once possessed, the war across the generations +between secular fathers and Islamist children—was the harvest of +their own history. In truth, in the decade prior to 9/11, America had paid the Arab... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025018.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025018.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed8398eb62224da4c5a5989c1141a20012a93f14 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025018.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +22 +The masters and preachers of terror had told their foot soldiers, and +the great mass on the fence, that the Americans would make a run for +it— as they had in Lebanon and Somalia, that they didn't have the +stomach for a fight. The Arabs barely took notice when America +struck the Taliban in Kabul. But the American war, and the sense of righteous violation, soon hit +the Arab world itself. Saddam Hussein may not have been the Arab +idol he was a decade earlier, but he was still a favored son of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025019.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025019.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..34ee45c5b396759ee27ceede4cb6516f6f1f8eb3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025019.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Guardian +Israel should be wary of celebrating the +'Shia crescent' setback +Jonathan Spyer +7 September 2011 -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's backing of the Syrian +regime during the recent upheaval has damaged his standing in the +Middle East. Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA +In recent years, Israeli strategists have identified an Iran-led regional +alliance as representing the main strategic challenge to the Jewish +state. It included, in addition to Iran itself, the Hezbollah movement in +Lebanon, the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025020.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025020.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fcb722cca43252f5d747195af44af618285d6117 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025020.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The Iran-created and sponsored Hezbollah movement +managed to precipitate Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon in +2000, and then avoided defeat in a subsequent round of fighting in +2006. In a poll of Arab public opinion taken in 2008, the three most +popular leaders were Hassan Nasrallah, Bashar al-Assad and +Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, in that order. First, the Saudis crushed a largely Shia +uprising in Bahrain which the Iranians backed. But more importantly, +Iran's tooth and nail defence of the brutal... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025021.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025021.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..930f755a178ceb800099803fbb7b09611e484f65 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025021.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +25 +some reports, this has led to Iranian anger and a cessation of the flow +of funds to the Hamas enclave in Gaza. But it does mean that in future the Iranian appeal is +likely to be more decisively limited to areas of Shia population. The less good news, from Israel's point of view, is that the new forces +on the rise in the region consist largely of one or another variant of +Sunni Islamism. AKP-led Turkey has emerged as a key facilitator of +the Syrian opposition, in which Sunni Islamist elements... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025022.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025022.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f1cf234eeb563a810aaef0a3e035260a4fe6b14d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025022.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Dally Beast +Mideast's Changing View of America +Randall Lane +September 8, 2011 - Among the findings: +- An exclusive Newsweek-Daily Beast poll of 1,000 Egyptians +reveals that a majority (53 percent) doesn't believe that al Qaeda +was responsible for the Twin Tower attacks-instead affixing +blame to Israel, the U.S. government, or an unknown entity. +- In the same survey, 62 percent either don't believe the U.S. +killed Osama bin Laden or they aren't sure. +- Only 11 percent of Egyptians think America... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025023.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025023.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..40203c6515e3cdb00d800eab3cf63aa74bf31784 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025023.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +27 +This duality-desperate need for love entwined with either willful +ignorance or even nuanced hate has underlain the Arab view of +America for a generation, unchanged even by the collapse of the +Twin Towers. But based on my recent trip across the region, a +confluence— Arab Spring and the technology that empowered it—has +provided the U.S. a new chance to push reset with a half-billion +Arabs, as long as it can shout louder than increasingly sophisticated +bunk merchants like El Aschkar. Shortly... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025024.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025024.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e208e6fa5368e310d998153496a19b6741a2a465 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025024.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +28 +magazine's scope was strictly cultural, the answer eight years ago, on +the heels of the Iraq invasion, usually came down to some +combination of the words "America," "Bush," and local expletives. Curious about whether that had changed, I repeated that itinerary this +summer, conducting a dozen panels in those same four countries, +with subjects representing the diversity of the Arab World, from fully +covered Persian Gulf oil heiresses to skirt-donning Beirut Christians +to democracy-minded... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025025.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025025.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7f915f1c4d5df481b71cf2e7e9730016fcc39cd3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025025.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Iraq was almost +never mentioned, nor was 9/11 or al Qaeda, and rather than rail at +what America had imposed on them, the young Arabs instead +criticized how America reacted to them. (President Obama's failure +to support Egyptian revolutionaries until after Mubarak was clearly a +goner, and his inconsistency helping Libya's rebels, but not Syria's, +were both widely criticized.) By taking control of their own fates, in +reality and perception-highly important in this prideful... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025026.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025026.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7de8241faa8a9d66151c732b14871b0433a96de5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025026.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Indeed, an exclusive Newsweek-Daily Beast poll of 1,000 Egyptians +reveals that, with the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaching, a +majority (53 percent) don't believe that al Qaeda was responsible for +the Twin Tower attacks, instead affixing blame to Israel, the U.S. +government or an unknown entity. In +the same survey, 62 percent either don't believe the U.S. killed +Osama bin Laden, or they aren't sure. Even among the friendliest audience that could be assembled—a +class at an American-run... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025027.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025027.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6bb22821820db8b024ee2a18ba6e1f74895e1a94 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025027.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +31 +qualities America inspires would warm the heart of any marketing +manager. As an ice-breaking exercise, I asked everyone I interviewed on my +trip to free-associate the first word they thought about when they hear +"America." There were numerous cynics ("greedy," "consumerism," +"McDonald's") and the occasional outlier ("Sex and the City"), but a +majority repeated affirmative terms like melting pot, power, +democracy, modernity. Even a majority of jaded Newsweek-Daily +Beast poll respondents said... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025028.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025028.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..adfe74292651b3bc6cdf175efaf23ff253f6d803 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025028.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] +2/8/2013 9:05:33 PM +Re: Fro- The Control Factor - Frontpage Magazine interview +Attachments: +image001.gif; image005.jpg; image007.png; image006.jpg; image004.png; image002.jpg; image003.pong +SAAAAAAAAAAAFe good boy +On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Bill Siegel < +StillillIll just engaged. I meant shirley +> wrote: +From: Jeffrey Epstein +To: Bill Siegel +Sent: Fri Feb 08 15:49:51 2013 +Subject: Re: Fro- The Control Factor - Frontpage... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025029.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025029.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a19e00936eb76efced6694817629f408d1af8b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025029.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +The Control Factor: Our Struggle to See the True +Threat +February 8, 2013 By Jamie Glazov Comments (6) +22 +- Print This Post +THE +CONTROL +FACTOR +Our Struggle to See the True Threat +BILL SIEGEL +FrontPage Interview's guest today is Bill Siegel, a lawyer and +business executive. He is the author of The Control Factor: Our Struggle to See the True Threat. FP: Bill Siegel, welcome to FrontPage Interview. Siegel: Thanks for having me Jamie. As a young boy born in the mid 1950s, I was fascinated with... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025030.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025030.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c58d765b6c5d79f2e0431e49406fe203862bb271 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025030.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Kindly enlighten us as to these profound +insights you make in terms of the Control Factor. Siegel: First, let's distinguish the "real world" where real battles are taking place from the mental battlefield +which occurs in each of our minds. I describe the Control Factor as an "active and +continuous process" designed to maintain that sense, if not illusion, of control. Similarly, the sense of control must be continuously maintained so the Control Factor operates constantly. In turn, the sum of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025031.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025031.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b16c11d92cca97fcd727334a10386558c3b749ee --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025031.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-025031 + +As these narratives ("Our courts will never allow that," "As a superpower we will always be able to win any +fight we put our minds to," "Assimilation will ensure Muslims are westernized" ...) gain consent from +others they tend to guide us deeply and become infused on our policies. Ultimately, what emerges is a +relationship we take with our Islamic Enemy that parallels that between an addict and an enabler. The Control Factor actively maintains +this relationship and makes... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025032.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025032.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c4c9a2ce720a4733cb60ef6a7f33c02dfe055617 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025032.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The Civilization Jihadists present one face to the American public which is completely at +odds with their true agenda and how they deal in private. Jamie, you and David and others such as Steve +Emerson, Frank Gaffney, Andy McCarthy and others have done s o much to uncover this level of Jihad that +your readers should be urged to review as much of their work (including Steve's recent excellent +documentary, The Grand Deception, and Frank's important web video course, The Muslim Brotherhood... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025033.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025033.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..47f182320c2e9164c3975c6e0e85f5cb899545dc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025033.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +house-oversight-025033 + +FP: You write about how we like to talk of "Good Muslims" and how we are always on the eternal search +for "moderate" Muslims (Khatami, Mousavi, Abbas, etc), while we stress how the "extremists" are the real +problem and how "few" they really are. Siegel: The Control Factor seeks to have us feel in control of the situation. We have been lectured for years about how Islam is a +"religion of peace" and that the violence we see (remember that we have already improperly limited... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025034.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025034.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..296773f00135e46f5776b8caef94934e3423365b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025034.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The game of guilt, along with other +Control Factor tools, teaches our Enemy it is winning and to continue playing. FP: The reason Nidal Hasan was able to perpetrate his murder spree at Fort Hood is precisely because of +our Control Factor. Siegel: Just as I used to look at Hitler when I was young and be amazed that no one could see what he was +about, in retrospect the same applies to Hasan. It is precisely all the elements of the Control Factor that +could allow this man, a Soldier of Allah, to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025035.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025035.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..78c1a8df7479f5956a5ccf6abb40c0c4f32cf1b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025035.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-025035 + +The key to the Inner Jihad is to learn to transfer responsibility for our Islamic Enemy's hate and resultant +actions back to it and take responsibility back for our own situation. We must support those Muslims who promote expressions of Islam that are +consistent with our principles. And we must stalk the Control Factor, constantly be on guard for its +intrusion. FP: Share with our readers what you mean by the "Turnaround Moment." +Siegel: There is a moment in typical... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025036.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025036.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..79b0f36e737757e1bc7d6e65705862d202205e0f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025036.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +It had always been a question of the harsh insensitive acts Westerners do against +Muslims and the resulting hurt, loss, shame etc. that Muslims experience. The Ground Zero Mosque +incident, however, broke new ground because all of a sudden non-Muslims' feelings became the focus and +were cast as resulting from Muslim acts. Another example was seen in how quickly the attempt to blame the +Benghazi murders on the video about Mohammad fell apart. FP: What if we fail to engage in our own Inner Jihad... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025037.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025037.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c2d07c92269769a3585f8637dbda575e06f2cf11 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025037.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Comments (6) +Sort by: Date Rating Last Activity ++3 +AdinaK 86p • 1l hours ago +The war being waged has two components - mental and physical. The mental side is a minefield of +constructs, deeply implanted within generations of Americans, and its PC chickens are coming home to +roost. So much so, millions of Americans (westerners) cannot break free of its shackles. Adina Kutnicki, Israel - http://adinakutnicki.com/about/ +Report +Reply +1 reply • active 30 minutes ago +0 +dmw • 30 minutes ago +And I would... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025038.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025038.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4bf5c81edd15a8ea753229d9f44b009d3d11f173 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025038.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +How about the fall of humankind recorded in Genesis Chapter 3 and following? Report +Reply ++] +@WolfyJam • 2 hours ago +Notice how celebrities basking in their narcissism think they can dictate culture to us while they live their +lives in the comfort of their ivory castles. As far as blacks go-- I grew up in the 70's coming home from +Hallahan H.S. in Philadel phia, me and my small group of girls were swarmed by a mob of black girls who +would kick and slap and pull hair without provocation. of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025039.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025039.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ccc2b5434989e62ab986488d255c15b928e8b277 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025039.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Bottom of Form +Submit Comment +Subscribe to +FPM appreciates your comments that abide by the following guidelines: +1. The information contained in this communication is +confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may +constitute inside information, and is intended only for +the use of the addressee. It is the property of +Jeffrey Epstein +Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this +communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited +and may be unlawful. It is the property of +Jeffrey... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025040.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025040.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..32bb72dba27d21ba3d627cb26c84cb95ba442b14 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025040.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +house-oversight-025040 + +The information contained in this communication is +confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may +constitute inside information, and is intended only for +the use of the addressee. It is the property of +Jeffrey Epstein +Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this +communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited +and may be unlawful. It is the property of +Jeffrey Epstein +Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this +communication or any part thereof is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025041.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025041.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9e7d2546619aa6753c01af8e7630a1acc11d942c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025041.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] +2/15/2013 12:42:34 AM +Larry Summers +as you asked +rticle 1. The Washington Post +In State of the Union +address, Obama lays out +his second-term agenda +Editorial +February 13, 2013 -- TWO DOMESTIC +concerns towered above all others as +President Obama addressed a joint session +of Congress on Tuesday night on the state +of the union. He was forthright +Office of Terje Rod-Larsen +Show details +Ads - Why these ads? Bar Mitzvah In Israel +Make... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025042.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025042.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2d59d0fcadc56d03cf7f2439ad941f78cbf4e374 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025042.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +But his plan to avoid it basically +repeated the offer of a "balanced approach" +— unspecified tax hikes and spending cuts +- which Republicans have already +rejected. Somewhat more substantively, he called for +a larger deficit-reduction deal built around +loophole-closing tax reform and what he +called "modest" reforms to Medicare and +entitlements. In an apparent effort to rally +Democrats to this cause, he called on +"those of us who care deeply about +programs like Medicare" to "embrace" +reform. Yet... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025043.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025043.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e71308aef0603dc91943b65206155db3e1ea94e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025043.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +As for raising the economy's growth +potential, the president was more +persuasive. His emphasis on reforming the +tangled and counterproductive corporate +tax code was especially welcome, and +relatively likely to draw GOP support. He sounded a ringing +call for greater federal attention to college +cost containment. As European trading partners had hoped, +the president endorsed negotiations for a +transatlantic free-trade zone, which would +help America's export industries and the +jobs that depend on... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025044.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025044.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..64e447bd25935b50b4f0fb429c93a3a865e0e460 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025044.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +remaining U.S. troops in Afghanistan +within the next year. But officials said the +withdrawal would be weighted toward +year's end, leaving most of the troops to +partner with Afghan troops for much of this +year. The president said the United States +would support democratic transitions in the +Middle East, "keep the pressure on [the] +Syrian regime" and "do what is necessary +to prevent" Iran from obtaining a nuclear +weapon - but he offered no specifics. Obama was right when he pointed to +the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025045.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025045.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4330d64e6daacbb7c2ad22adf4c5eea2101f8533 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025045.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +February 13, 2013 - If you want to know +what an American president's foreign +policy is likely to be, particularly in a +second term, don't listen to his State of the +Union speech. You'd probably have more +luck playing with Tarot cards, or reading +tea leaves or goat entrails. His first term contained no spectacular +successes (save killing Osama bin Laden), +but no spectacular failures either. And +more than likely, that's what the president +will settle for in a second, even as the Arab +world burns... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025046.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025046.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..af10ecddfe44fda164f2d7ef5b960d4d7ba78268 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025046.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +He is the president who has +wound down the longest and among the +most profitless wars in American history, +where victory was never defined by +whether we can win, but by when can we +leave. Not the Destroyer and Rebuilder of Worlds +Surprise, surprise: There was scant mention +of Syria in the president's speech - just one +throwaway line about supporting Syria's +opposition. Obama did not disengage from +Iraq and Afghanistan only to plunge +America into new black holes in the +Middle East. Obama isn't... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025047.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025047.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..158fa7427e7666c6d1f7177c5a21c6dc48e25718 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025047.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +That course would either +expose him to be truly weak and ineffectual +or lead to calls to do more. The +Iranian nuclear issue, the other potential tar +baby in the SOTU, followed a pretty +predictable rising arc of concern in the list +of presidential foreign-policy worries. In +2009, in Obama's address to a joint session +of Congress (a speech some regard as a +SOTU), Iran wasn't even mentioned. In the +2010 SOTU, Obama threatened that if Iran +ignored its international obligations, there +would be... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025048.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025048.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..81db8791124a1fe230d480e2ea14539cb1ad81a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025048.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Seizing the Nuclear High Road with Little +to Lose +Even as he confronts a real bomb in North +Korea (very bad options there) and a +potential one in Iran (bad options there +too), Obama is trying to make good on a +longstanding commitment to reduce +America's own nuclear arsenal. Backed by +the military chiefs and likely by the public +too (getting rid of nukes equals saving +money), but opposed by Republicans in +Congress, Obama will try to work around +the political obstacles by seeking a deal +with yes... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025049.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025049.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6ee24b93cb06768f7afd4801958986abc2b83d93 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025049.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Israelis and Palestinians, particularly Israeli +Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A second-term +president has committed himself early in +2013 to a trip to Israel and has an Energizer +bunny in Secretary of State John Kerry, +who wants to do the right thing and keep +the two-state solution alive. He spoke of standing with +Israel to pursue peace, but didn't mention +Palestinians or the peace process. He +mentioned his own trip to the Middle East, +but missed an opportunity to give what +might be a trip... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025050.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025050.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fa3932edf9a6562d322291b4360fb13641c98b03 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025050.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +The Middle East is violent and volatile and +may yet suck him in, but if he can avoid it, +he'll try. This was a State of the Union +address that stressed fixing America's +broken house, not chasing around the world +trying to fix everyone else's. The future of +America isn't Cairo or Damascus; it's +Chicago and Detroit. Aaron David Miller is a distinguished +scholar at the Woodrow Wilson +International Center for Scholars. Agence Global +Can the United States +Strike a Deal with Iran? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025051.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025051.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ef1fd261c174ad219e9e822e3d16627473a2777a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025051.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Patrick Seale +12 Feb 2013 - Negotiations with Iran are +once more on the international agenda. After an eight-month break, the five +permanent members of the UN Security +Council plus Germany - the so-called +PS+1 -- are due to hold a meeting with Iran +on 25 February in Kazakhstan. In a nutshell, that +would seem to depend more on the climate +in Washington than in Tehran. In a major speech in Tehran last Sunday, +President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad +addressed the United States: "Take your +guns out of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025052.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025052.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a0202d523835f1669d98cc914ee0c0911ab09e6c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025052.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +The only recent encouraging word from the +United States was a hint by Vice-President +Joe Biden at last week's Munich security +conference that the time may have come +for bilateral U.S.-Iranian talks. Iran's +Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi +responded positively to Biden's offer, +although he added that Iran would look for +evidence that Biden's offer was 'authentic' +and not 'devious' +The road to a U.S.-Iranian agreement is +littered with obstacles -- grave mutual +distrust being one of them. For one... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025053.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025053.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8ed039fe0ca624e077da58425311447e068c404b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025053.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +scientists and joined the United States in +waging cyber warfare against Iranian +nuclear facilities. Its belligerent prime +minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has for +years been pressing Obama to destroy +Iran's nuclear programme and - better still +-- bring down the Islamic regime +altogether. Obama would need to +mobilize strong domestic support if he is to +confront America's vast array of pro-Israeli +forces. They include Congressmen eager to +defend Israeli interests at all costs (as was +vividly... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025054.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025054.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..94d2f1dde20a9a1bf695e35f9ad68673ab627c42 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025054.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or on Iran, +there are issues he cannot avoid. His message is expected to be +twofold: Israel should not delay in granting +statehood to the Palestinians, however +painful that choice may be, and it should be +careful not to make an eternal enemy of +Iran. In his first term of office, Obama resisted +Netanyahu's pressure to wage war on Iran. This was no more than a semi-success, +however, since he managed to blunt +Netanyahu's belligerence only by imposing +on Iran a raft... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025055.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025055.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8b3c31ef1f7cc4ac2409e3c4d0dd904dc15ac29d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025055.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +wants: such as sanctions relief; acceptance +of its right under the Nuclear Non- +Proliferation Treaty to enrich uranium to a +low level for peaceful purposes; +recognition of its security interests, of the +legitimacy of its Islamic regime born out of +the 1979 revolution, and of its place in the +region as a major power. The P5+1, which are due to meet Iran later +this month, remain so divided that they are +unlikely to improve substantially on their +previous miserly offer, which was to +provide Iran... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025056.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025056.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a3e89652c5e3b93e73197b506ada1894a0b25ec1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025056.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +As +President Ahmadinejad stressed during his +visit to Cairo last week, Iran has no +intention of attacking Israel. It is +surely time for the United States to draw +Iran into the regional community of nations +and put an end to 34 years of unremitting +hostility. Patrick Seale is a leading British writer on +the Middle East. His latest book is The +Struggle for Arab Independence: Riad el- +Solh and the Makers of the Modern Middle +East (Cambridge University Press). David Ignatius +February 12, 2013 -... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025057.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025057.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..882ea372fa9d770fc15442ce1526f2e4961647e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025057.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +But Syrian sources caution +that the battlefield advances may accelerate +movement toward a breakup of the country, +as Alawite supporters of the regime retreat +to their ancestral homeland in the +northwestern region around Latakia. And +there's no sign that either Assad or his +Russian patrons are paying any more than +lip service to a political settlement. One potential game-changer is a request for +U.S. help in training elite rebel units, which +has been drafted by Brig. Salim Idriss, +the new... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025058.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025058.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6602b9d627596a60cfd173ceb3bfd4d4deac39d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025058.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +The gains include: +• The al-Jarrah air base, about 30 miles east +of Aleppo, which appears to have been +overrun by fighters from Ahrar al-Sham, a +battalion based in Idlib. Videos posted +Tuesday by the rebels showed them +walking past derelict Syrian warplanes and +inside a fortified hangar containing what +appeared to be two Czech-built ground +assault planes. On camera, the rebels +displayed dozens of bombs racked in a +warehouse, and other ammunition and +spoils of war. +•The Thawra hydroelectric dam... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025059.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025059.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0dd6241c1f64104258d51856d6a193acce5d148a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025059.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Syrian sources +said fighters are converging on Damascus +from different parts of the country, +expecting a decisive battle there soon. The al-Nusra Front has been a catalyst and +beneficiary of the rebels' success. According to Syrian sources, al-Nusra is +gaining strength in Homs, a city in central +Syria where the group was never strong. One Syrian source told the State +Department: "They have money, they are +helping people with everything including +daily living supplies. I heard that some +fighters... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025060.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025060.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b1174c3146f34c38f5c5dce758c5d0e75e5be7d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025060.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +But FSA [has] become a +jungle. ... My recommendation is ... to +start working on elite [forces that can] ... +initiate key attacks plus help as a buffer +from potential warlords and fights among +fragmented FSA factions. Plus, this unit +can handle other key tasks, like securing +chemical weapons." +This Syrian strategist argues in another +memo that the rebels must "speak to the +silent majority, many who did not care +about the revolution, and they want their +life back." He said that such a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025061.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025061.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e97a34eba6b8257295e4f8677b1e826159bbdbc3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025061.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +February 12, 2013 - Bulgaria's interior +minister announced on Feb. 5 the result of +his country's investigation into the July +2012 bombing of a bus filled with Israeli +tourists in the city of Burgas, which killed +five Israelis and the vehicle's Bulgarian +driver. Two of the individuals who carried +out the terrorist attack, he said, "belonged +to the military formation of Hezbollah." +It was not by chance that his statement +fingered only the military wing of +Hezbollah, not the group as a whole.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025062.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025062.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e66ade1066df758c54192f88e655a2702b3e524 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025062.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +It is also, +however, a result of the group's multiple +identities -- Lebanese, pan-Shiite, pro- +Iranian - and the group's multiple and +sometimes competing goals tied to these +different identities. Hezbollah's ideological commitment to +Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's +revolutionary doctrine of velayat-e +faqih (guardianship of the jurist), which +holds that a Shiite Islamic cleric should +serve as the supreme head of government, +is a key source of conflict. The group is +thus simultaneously... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025063.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025063.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b4c431a18fe6e76e2d653a25efab889a1a93f09c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025063.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +According +to a CIA document, even before Hassan +Nasrallah rose to the position of secretary- +general in 1992, he was "directly involved +in many Hizballah terrorist operations, +including hostage taking, airline hijackings, +and attacks against Lebanese rivals." +Time and again, Hezbollah's political +personalities have been tied to the group's +terrorist and criminal activities. Consider a +major case in the United States: In 2008, +while Hezbollah operative Ali Karaki was +planning a Hezbollah attack... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025064.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025064.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0d2de41e064e243c786ded707dc3783c3b94e337 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025064.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +issues portfolio within the group's political +echelon, sought to procure a long list of +sophisticated weapons in a black-market +scheme involving Hezbollah operatives +across the globe. According to court +documents, Hodroj wanted "heavy +machinery" for the "fight against Jews and +to protect Lebanon." But move forward +with caution, Hodroj counseled an +undercover FBI source, because someone +in the United States could "go to jail for +100 years" if caught dealing with +Hezbollah. In light of cases like... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025065.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025065.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..501b3269a565871102a4371e1fe42965e44768c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025065.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Marine Corps and +French military barracks in Beirut with his +brother-in-law, Mustafa Badreddine. The overall governing authority, the Majlis +al-Shura (Consultative Council), wields all +decision-making power and directs several +subordinate functional councils. Each +functional council reports directly to the +Majlis al-Shura, which, as Hezbollah +Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem +wrote in his book, is "in charge of drawing +the overall vision and policies, overseeing +the general strategies for... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025066.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025066.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8404735aa908b8f76fdf0abb09b85d3b1e7ed31e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025066.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +The Majlis al-Shura considers all +elements of the group's activities, including +its political and military wings, as part of +one holistic entity. According to Hezbollah's top officials, this +unity of purpose among the group's diverse +activities is essential to its success. "If the +military wing were separated from the +political wing, this would have +repercussions, and it would reflect on the +political scene," Qassem told a Lebanese +paper in 2000. "Hezbollah's secretary- +general is the head of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025067.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025067.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2656f6da290ded1795855a16b4578912f5c418b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025067.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Under this structure, Hezbollah's militia +and terrorist activities, along with its +security organ, all report to the Jihad +Council. Until he was killed, Mughniyeh +was Hezbollah's top militant commander +and reportedly led the Jhad Council +himself. By some accounts, he also held a +seat on the Majlis al-Shura, which would +be typical for the party's standing military +commander. According to the U.S. government, these +activities are "executed" by the leadership +of Hezbollah's military apparatus,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025068.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025068.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b02d41c37856a4b6c528a9e9833ae47cf418b986 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025068.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +The Netherlands, +however, designated Hezbollah a terrorist +entity in 2004 without distinguishing +between the group's political and military +wings. A 2004 Dutch intelligence report +highlighted investigations that show +"Hezbollah's political and terrorist wings +are controlled by one co-ordinating +council." +The European Union has taken action +against Hezbollah's interests in the past. In +May 2002, the European Union froze the +assets of a non-European terrorist group for +the first time by adding... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025069.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025069.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2e82255df95aeef12d864300711ccf06eb8da965 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025069.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +As the +Burgas bus bombing demonstrates, the +Party of God can and has mobilized +operatives for everything from criminal +enterprises to terrorist attacks well beyond +Lebanon's borders. And though Hezbollah is composed of +multiple committees and branches, it +operates as a single entity. Hezbollah, the +U.S. intelligence community has +determined, is "a multifaceted, disciplined +organization that combines political, social, +paramilitary, and terrorist elements" and is +one in which decisions "to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025070.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025070.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ea924fe953ea9cf1e5221ea238f77414fd87f046 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025070.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +He is author of "Hizballah and the Oods +Force in Iran's Shadow War with the West" +and the forthcoming book Hezbollah: The +Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of +God. The Atlantic +A Middle-Class Paradise +in Palestine? Armin Rosen +Feb 11 2013 - The sole outlet to Rawabi +sits off a dizzying two-lane highway +flanked by round, scraggly hills. In this part +of the West Bank, just north of where the +Jerusalem suburbs thin into a dry, granite- +gray wilderness, the mountains seem to aid +in the illusion... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025071.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025071.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..960a721db7875b18afc5d207fda1ef9e067537f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025071.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +area to settlements deep inside the northern +half of the West Bank. Ateret, a red-gabled settlement +of about 90 families that sits high above the +Rawabi junction -- a community which +would likely either be vacated or +incorporated into a Palestinian state under a +future peace agreement - flickers in and +out of view with every delirious knot in the +road. Last year was the first since 1973 in which +no Israeli citizen was killed in a terrorist +attack originating from the West Bank. "This road leads... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025072.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025072.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4af1a7520da73138434feb9bd98bd31d989a31f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025072.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +No one lives at the end of the road, which +is every bit as wavy and disorienting as the +adjoining highway. It empties into a scene +that seems engineered for maximum +bewilderment: three high-rise cranes, +topped with fluttering Palestinian flags, +tower over massive stone and concrete +building frames. Spotless SUVs with the Rawabi +logo on the door speed from one side of the +site to another. Rawabi, which will be the first Palestinian +planned city in the West Bank, runs from +the top of the mountain... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025073.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025073.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a5d16a5b11153c6607048736b7f01fa278eead0b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025073.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +It has the potential to shift the +conversation on the region's future on both +sides of the Green Line. It could convince +Palestinians -- and the rest of the world -- +that the future of the West Bank shouldn't +be shackled to Ramallah or Jerusalem's +vacillating willingness to hash out +fundamental issues. It could prove that +there's an appetite, both among Palestinian +consumers and foreign donors, for the +creation of a social and economic existence +in the West Bank that's de-coupled, +insomuch as... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025074.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025074.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..403b81ff5ec4e44cb16e7045ca71ab57c2c03d58 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025074.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +"This could be a huge, iconic +victory for the whole strategy of building +Palestine from the bottom up rather than +trying to build it at the negotiating table," +he says. Its success would prove just how much +power Palestinians can, and indeed already +do, have in shaping their future. And its +failure could prove the exact opposite. I visited Rawabi two weeks ago with a +group of national security professionals, as +part of a trip organized by the Foundation +for Defense of Democracies, a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025075.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025075.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d7be63c1079bf8cef5d2209163e7b4e2b804ae76 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025075.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +will bring in between 3,000 and 5,000 +permanent jobs within the next five years -- +hopefully, we were told, in the +informational technology sector (an +aspiration that might imply a certain +cooperation with the burgeoning tech +industry on the other side of the Green +Line). The engineer said that Rawabi had +already created 3,000 construction jobs for +West Bank Palestinians. The city is +Palestinian-designed and Palestinian-built - +- making the surfeit of Qatari flags at the +construction site... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025076.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025076.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c0934f772a6a9320de15db11e174d2581a08544f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025076.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +No bleachers have +been installed in the amphitheater yet, but +it's fairly far along, with the future seating +area fanning into a wide notch in the +mountainside. There are attractive stone +signs bearing the stylized Arabic names of +neighborhoods that haven't been built yet. The future commercial center is also well +on its way to completion. For now, the commercial core is +a jumble of dust and brutal concrete +surfaces, but in the future, someone +lingering in the cafés near the staircase... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025077.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025077.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..745288b5f698d031e6595d48c6b3a229fc162874 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025077.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +The project's future depends on +the Israeli authorities' willingness to allow +for the construction of access roads in +"Area C," or West Bank territory under the +direct control of Israel. The sole existing +route into the city only exists because the +Israeli government, after years of +bureaucratic and high-level diplomatic +wrangling, granted Rawabi's developers a +permit for a "temporary" road. And even if the +Israelis agree to make the road permanent, +one two-lane route is hardly adequate for... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025078.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025078.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5e038f075ae1a5cf1db91981fd43a4a83e462d4e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025078.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +quite materialized yet (although the +developers have a slight head start: +between 200 and 300 call center-type jobs +currently based in Ramallah are scheduled +to move into Rawabi when the first phase +of construction is complete). If the political +or security situation seriously deteriorates - +- if the checkpoints return, if the Israelis are +forced to re-occupy urban areas ceded to +the Palestinian Authority under the Oslo +Accords, as happened during the Second +Intifada; if Hamas wages a violent... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025079.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025079.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..61e5f1a5727f848ae20bdf7bb7d9c43227a78658 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025079.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +What, of that $1 billion investment, was +going to Israel, I asked? Israeli companies +were providing cement powder and sand, +she said, and the project had consulted with +"Israeli experts." "In some cases, you have +to do that," she said, alluding to the +comparative difficulty of importing +building materials through neighboring +Jordan. In other words, working with the +Israelis was a necessary business decision +for a project this large and complex. The fake street, fake valley,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025080.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025080.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ef57f0a7feaba4f6e76b2cb9d40ef7cd85640063 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025080.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +The group had a chance to visit with +Bashar Masri, the Nablus-born founder and +CEO of Massar International, the +Palestinian conglomerate financing a third +of Rawabi. Massar and Qatar Diar, the real +estate investment arm of the government of +Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, jointly +created Bayti Real Estate Investment +Company -- Palestine to build and market +Rawabi. But if two-thirds of the project's +money is coming from Qatar, the vision +behind Rawabi is Masri's. Massar invests in Harvest... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025081.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025081.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..461194f87e24e041a2e0e1ddea326b81a193a944 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025081.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +"On a good, clear day, you can see Tel +Aviv, Ashdod, and Ashkelon," he told me. "One-third of Palestine and Israel." Rawabi +is in the second-largest, yet most sparsely- +populated Area A in the West Bank -- from +the terrace, which faces away from Ateret, +you can see expanses of mostly-empty +hills. Perhaps in Mari's mind, they are +awaiting Rawabis of their own. When I +returned to Washington, I asked him in a +phone interview if he viewed his project as +the first of many such planned cities... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025082.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025082.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6dc0ef156d69e01066eddcb60c137a71eadb5c08 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025082.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +For instance, developers were surprised to +find out that, by a quirk in the West Bank's +notoriously Byzantine and palimpsestic +legal codes, they required the approval of a +joint Israeli-Palestinian water commission +created through the Oslo Accords to build a +sewage treatment plant in an Area A, +approval that they recently received. There's also the still-unresolved matter of +the access road. But thus far, Rawabi had +flourished in spite of delays and +inconveniences. "We're building everything... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025083.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025083.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7c6730dffa9708d1234d0d92ae635eba1e2d2b85 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025083.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +"This place is influenced by Reston, +Virginia," he said -- Masri is a Virginia +Tech alumnus, and had lived in the +Washington, DC area earlier in life. It was, +he said, influenced by planned suburbs +outside of Cairo. "And it's influenced by +Modi'in," he added, explaining that the +site's engineers and designers (who were +entirely Palestinian, we had been told +earlier), had traveled to the Israeli city, +which is built around similar topography, +for inspiration. They +knew that places like Rawabi... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025084.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025084.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0a309f700336cc49da5eabce8fd49bc59ce338d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025084.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +side of the showroom and see the city being +built, and reality starts sinking in." +It's a type of living closely associated with +the Palestinians' neighbors in Israel. The first thing that +goes through their mind is that this could +be for the Israelis." +But it is for them. Rawabi's significance +could lie in something more mundane than +basic issues of sovereignty and control in +the West Bank. It lies in the common, +human desire -- powerful on either side of +the Green Line -- for a comfortable... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025085.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025085.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5867b6197e25ba74b7e68ded355c3c8f9e836e26 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025085.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Danin says that Masri is faced with a +difficult balancing act. "But that doesn't mean you won't +work with Israel in order to improve the +Palestinian situation with the goal of +removing the occupation. Every construction project in Palestine +must have components from Israel. So it's +not like I'm doing something different." +Of course, he doesn't like that Israel has so +much control over Palestinian imports, and +the West Bank economy in general. "I'm not happy +about that and that's why we strive... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025086.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025086.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e3e24cadb3893ce964eb65c4cb45967ff3ad3959 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025086.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +The Gulf kingdom of Qatar has done more +than simply buy into the Rawabi paradigm: +It's also funding two-thirds of the project, +to the tune of over $600 million. This is +enough money to single-handedly finance +the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority +- which is effectively broke, thanks to +penalties imposed by the Israeli and U.S. +governments after Mahmoud Abbas's +successful push for a U.N. General +Assembly vote on Palestinian U.N. +membership, and a freeze in financial aid +from Gulf State... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025087.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025087.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4b04f6813a417e1a4bb0ee43ad4acd09acac3d79 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025087.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +"Unfortunately we have to do +that because the Palestinian Authority does +not have the funding and the donors let |the +PA] down." +There might be a political calculation +behind Qatar's decision to throw an amount +of money equivalent to two years of U.S. +financial aid to the PA behind a single +private-sector figure like Masri. Qatar +recently announced plans to invest nearly +$400 million in the Hamas-controlled Gaza +Strip, and in October of 2012, Qatari Emir +Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani +became... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025088.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025088.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6bb1cccb2f1e1928ee10259f4931d03812afe4c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025088.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +the Middle East's Islamists, and specifically +the Muslim brotherhood, whom the Qataris +view as the region's rising power. The +Qatari investment in Rawabi -- which feeds +an $85 million investment in the Israeli +economy, and which could not have +happened without some degree of official +Israeli approval -- is an example of this +larger geopolitical strategy, which is driven +more by perceived self-interest than by an +ideological affinity for political Islam. "Investments in the region are about... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025089.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025089.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2b6321d3e865f7b1c60129b8f9020ae5001a86bc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025089.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +"I think Qatar is going by the ground +reality," says Bokhari. "Fatah, the ruling +faction of the PA, is essentially tanking. There's a lot of +factionalism. It's almost like an oligarchy." +Rawabi could be Qatar's way of +encouraging the currently-calm status quo +in the West Bank, but without obviously +upgrading their ties to Israel, or throwing +their money behind a political +establishment that they don't fully trust. "On one end they need to make sure Fatah +does not completely collapse or weaken... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025090.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025090.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..342e29d32eb2ef809ebb5930ba95631aa05ad3e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025090.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Danin believes that Rawabi's Palestinian +and Qatari investors made a wise decision. Housing in Ramallah is expensive, and +Danin says that there is a sizable and +highly-educated Palestinian middle class in +need of an alternative to the West Bank's +de-facto capital. He expressed little doubt +when I asked him if the West Bank +economy could support Rawabi. When +President Barack Obama met with Israeli +officials in Washington in September of +2010, Rawabi was on the agenda. From one perspective,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025091.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025091.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ce9cdc0210083a09d8fe9769ced80595679e22ac --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025091.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Israeli officials are positively +disposed towards Rawabi, but it's still taken +years to resolve sovereignty and +governance issues around necessities like +water, and a single access road. Such +Israeli inertia was apparently at the heart of +Obama's concerns back in 2010, and +sources say that the president has discussed +the issue of the access road with Israeli +Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on +multiple occasions. Back in Washington, I asked Masri if he +believed the Israelis understood... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025092.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025092.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7de96d4113f3128b5798913974ba1f630daabe40 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025092.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +beaten Israeli flag and past the turnoff for +Ateret, the picture is still mixed. Armin Rosen writes for and produces The +Atlantic's International Channel. Click here to Reply or Forward +Why this ad? Ads - +Teach English Worldwide +Become an English Teacher Overseas Earn Your TESOL Online +at USC. +rossieronline.usc.edu +22.3 GB (10%) of 210.1 GBManage +©2013 Google - Terms & Privacy +Last account activity: O minutes ago +Details +Teach English Worldwide + +The information contained in this communication... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025093.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025093.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1de94a6eef34926ee1d29806b026f23bd4ded5c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025093.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +constitute inside information, and is intended only for +the use of the addressee. It is the property of +Jeffrey Epstein +Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this +communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited +and may be unlawful. If you have received this +communication in error, please notify us immediately by +return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and +destroy this communication and all copies thereof, +including all attachments. copyright -all rights... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025094.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025094.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..758445d41ccd3ebb54ad13dd711ed9f6fbce1b9f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025094.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Tel.: +E-mail: +Translated by Donna Lee Hicks +Cédula 001-1203435-0 +Celular: +www.sdlanguagesolutions.com +RPE No. 30793 +Cuba in its new stage: SWOT Analysis +Fundación Internacional para la Libertad ("International Foundation for Freedom") +New York, 8 November 2015 +On August 14th, 2015, the United States flag was raised in Havana, formally reestablishing diplomatic +Relations between the United States and Cuba, which had been interrupted since January 3"a, 1961, +some 54 years ago, when Ike Eisenhower... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025095.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025095.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..662d97f882ba1e7a0404c959b940b48bf63a0859 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025095.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +According to the surveys, support for Obama's measures is notably of the majority in +both the United States and Cuba, but there are reasons to believe that a substantial +percentage of Cuban exiles also support it. A quarter century after the disappearance of the Communist block, the Castro +government, together with North Korea, has shown itself to be the exception to the rule: +It has maintained control without renouncing the principles of Marxism-Leninism and +the single party system, although... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025096.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025096.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8669c003988edf2b10ab9922bc1671711b8aebe2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025096.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The Island, very beautiful and with dozens of beaches, +has at least 14 points on both coasts that are potentially transformable into ideal sites +for building tourism poles similar to Puerto Banús in Spain or Casa de Campo in La +Romana, Dominican Republic. Given the prestige (today somewhat reduced) of its health system, Cuba is potentially an +excellent site for medical tourism and a place to establish links with the North American +insurance systems. Havana is much closer to Key West than Miami... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025097.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025097.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ca7818e3d978fb3ff8c7734a3d3fc3e7cfa76013 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025097.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +If an entrepreneur wants to evaluate the country risk before investing anywhere, he +looks at the Moody's or Standard & Poor's ratings. According to these risk rating +companies, Cuba appears on the most dangerous fringe. They haven't been able to pay their debts due to a serious and basic +problem: Cuban society is very unproductive due to the collectivist economic system +that they have imposed on it, and because of the size and priorities of public +expenditures decided on by the government. The... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025098.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025098.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3c54628e984be0b54bc6d32357e0fc8fae2d5f9a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025098.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Although there is great pressure from the White +House, and surveys showing that the majority of Americans want the sanctions to end, +there are no guarantees that this will be achieved during this presidency. Two of the most prominent ones, Jeb +Bush and Marco Rubio, have criticized President Obama for his new Cuban policy. The repeal of the 1996 Helms-Burton is one of the key requirements for Cuba to be able +to approach the IDB, the IMF, or the World Bank. Without that credit, which... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025099.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025099.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d0b50e4524a258f65f95f2cdf80c9f9ac9c942de --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025099.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Although in the tourism sector there is an evident possibility of making money in Cuba, +it's doubtful that the North American hotel industry, almost all present on the Stock +Exchange, subject to North American legislation and union pressure, would lend itself to +collaborating with the Cuban counter-intelligence by facilitating eavesdropping/wire- +tapping and clandestine filming inside hotel installations, such as today occurs in Meliá +and other European chains, violating even Cuban law which... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025100.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025100.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5dd0a792e28f010ffc1d254bc9caf3b2f198446f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025100.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Michael Wolff [I +10/21/2016 7:48:57 PM +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Re: +Importance: +High +Ailes said he gave up trying to give advice, that Trump was the boy in pre-school who you just knew was going +to throw a truck at another kid's head. On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 3:46 PM, jeffrey E. < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: +did trump also ignore ailes? +wild +- \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025101.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025101.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..87321b46cea1fbaed1ddd5cfaf2c8b387d395264 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025101.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Pritzker, Tom +11/28/2016 6:47:56 PM +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +RE: Re: +Importance: +High +Cash or in-kind services? From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com] +Sent: Monday, November 28, 2016 12:47 PM +To: Pritzker, Tom +Subject: Re: Re: +comey knows that denise neeed to pledge 500k to foundation +On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Pritzker, Tom < +> wrote: +Read an interesting article on why Comey screwed Clinton. Ehud calls Clinton and says please pardon Marc Rich... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025102.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025102.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..196cd484734177b93be7344148f409346dca11ce --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025102.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +The information contained in this communication is +confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may +constitute inside information, and is intended only for +the use of the addressee. It is the property of +JEE +Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this +communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited +and may be unlawful. It is the property of +JEE +Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this +communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited +and may be unlawful. If you... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025103.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025103.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0d8f156d445e76c1845de963a3aad25e0883a489 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025103.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +JEE +Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this +communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited +and may be unlawful. If you have received this +communication in error, please notify us immediately by +return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and +destroy this communication and all copies thereof, +including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved +The contents of this email message and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may +contain... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025104.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025104.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d32e27eace707df2dbfa08f12c686a3c025d9a8e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025104.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +A14 +Saturday, March 18, 2017 +INSIGHT +Loved or loathed, +globalisation +is here to stay +Andrew Sheng says the danger for +the world is that its detractors - +chief among them the US president +- will make the system less fair +by ignoring their responsibilities +Depending on who you talk to, globalisation +appened enter to sees, when chasten +Olunbus cuscoveree mered In searen or ul. Hutman heinos miorate all overthe +world, andit was technology - the invention of +communications- that accelerated the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025105.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025105.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fb8bd4b3d3bc7b297a79eedb2a5bbfeb720be61b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025105.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Robert Kuhn [ +4/8/2017 6:28:05 AM +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Re: Kuhn - The Science of Sleep and Dreams +Importance: +High +Just arrived NY, here for ~10 days. Now with the Trump-Xi Summit over (utterly overwhelmed by Syria strike), back to Closer To Truth. Robert +On Mar 23, 2017, at 4:23 PM, jeffrey E. wrote: +Look forward to seeing you +On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 3:54 PM Robert Kuhn < +> wrote: +Hi: Just returned from a month in China. Attached... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025106.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025106.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cf41a2ee09f9c88c35fc81baf84e468d4c608335 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025106.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Dear Jeffrey: +As requested, the following addresses your two questions / concerns about our proposed Closer To Truth TV +series "The Science of Sleep and Dreams": +(i) Have there been sufficient breakthroughs in Sleep and Dreams (significantly beyond traditional +understandings) to justify a major TV series? +(ii) Even if 'yes' to (i), is now the proper time for such a foundational series, or are more years needed for +corroborative studies and further research to solidify the breakthroughs? In... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025107.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025107.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bfb27504aaf65dff688c2d6130d1009972bec9fd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025107.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +house-oversight-025107 + +Anxiety, Substance Abuse, many sleep disorders such as Nightmare Disorder, etc., in addition to PTSD and +Depression). This fact +that REM is associated with emotional memories is nicely consistent with the apparent psychotic nature of +dreams, because in REM Sleep the frontal cortex is 'down-regulated' (and the frontal cortex is associated with +rational planning, reflection, controlling impulses), while in REM Sleep the limbic system is 'up-regulated" +(and the limbic... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025108.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025108.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1aa9cc7efa1e54714ee42a485cfc37ec3a59bde2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025108.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Attached is Patrick's quick compiling of summaries of a few recent leading research papers (2009 - 2017, +especially 2015-2017). Love to do this series together with you. Much appreciate and warm regards, +Robert +-- +please note +The information contained in this communication is +confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may +constitute inside information, and is intended only for +the use of the addressee. It is the property of +JEE +Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this +communication... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025109.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025109.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9aecceb20491d374dd78b84a76a4ee3aa2cb1c06 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025109.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +destroy this communication and all copies thereof, +including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved +HOUSEOVERSIGHT025109 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025110.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025110.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0eab18c4a8390976a99a5a4c3e977bed906aee73 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025110.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Robert Kuhn [ +4/8/2017 5:56:40 PM +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Re: Kuhn - The Science of Sleep and Dreams +Importance: +High +Got it +On Apr 8, 2017, at 5:41 AM, jeffrey E. wrote: +will be back in new york wed happy passover +On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 2:28 AM, Robert Kuhn < +Just arrived NY, here for ~ 10 days. +> wrote: +Now with the Trump-Xi Summit over (utterly overwhelmed by Syria strike), back to Closer To Truth. Robert +On Mar 23, 2017, at 4:23... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025111.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025111.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0f619ced582e069b8fca8171fa6b004643866571 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025111.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ + +On Feb 15, 2017, at 4:17 PM, jeffrey E. < jeevacation@gmail.com > wrote: +is it a charity that received the funding? On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 1:27 AM, Robert Lawrence Kuhn < +> wrote: +Pardon the formality below - I want to approach your very legitimate questions / concerns in a serious +manner. Dear Jeffrey: +As requested, the following addresses your two questions / concerns about our proposed Closer To Truth TV +series "The... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025112.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025112.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8d28f142964512627b207a785344d91b0649adc6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025112.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +house-oversight-025112 + +Following are the key areas of breakthrough in sleep and dreams (from Patrick). The organizing idea is why and how are sleep and +dreams essential for normal memory consolidation and bodily health / well-being. There is a fundamental difference between REM and NREM Sleep for memory +consolidation: REM is for emotional memories, whereas NREM is for declarative and procedural memories. Hence, understanding and dealing with REM emotional memories can lead to treatment for the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025113.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025113.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1409989da22b07287b9c871cb1da9a57a2e90ee5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025113.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +by the dreamer is almost always in REM Sleep, rarely in NREM Sleep. (Why is a continuing question.) +"Lucid Dreaming" is a new area of fascinating research. Lucid Dreaming is where the dreamer "knows" that +he/she is dreaming while dreaming (a talent that a small minority possesses but more can be +trained/developed). Lucid dreamers, while sleeping, can now communicate with experimenters by altering +their brain activity and thus becoming detectable by neuroimaging techniques (see below). Finally,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025114.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025114.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cad2eee8f9e377867c40cf9780475fa5c720d95a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025114.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +The information contained in this communication is +confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may +constitute inside information, and is intended only for +the use of the addressee. It is the property of +JEE +Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this +communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited +and may be unlawful. If you have received this +communication in error, please notify us immediately by +return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and +destroy this... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025115.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025115.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0012a37043b4c4e6e41c5abfe748323c4e86a0e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025115.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +COMMENT +May 13-14, 2017 9 +OPINION +ChinaDaily +chinadaily.com.cn/opinion +Jean Pierre Raffarin and Xu Gai +A new growth point +for world economy +n Europe, the Belt and Road Initiative does not +- +get the attention it deserves. However, the history +orthe ancient sulk koad has ted our macinadon +for centures. loday, China speaks for reality +while Europe is limiting itself to curiosity. But newly +elected French President Emmanuel Macron can accel- +erate Hultones interest in the initiative +President Xi... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025116.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025116.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f08fbc38f36ecaa492660125ce1a78d9d0215918 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025116.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +CC: +Subject: +LHS L +5/28/2017 11:36:50 PM +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Ihsoffice +Re: Is Donald still feeling good +Importance: +High +More would represent Donald if Kaslowitz out of picture. My world thinks poorly of Gorelick for representing Jared +How guilty is Donald? Of crudity surely +Of gross ignorance surely +Of being utterly without the intellect temperament for job surely +Of being over line on family profiting very likely +Of gross disregard for appearances almost surely.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025117.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025117.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..49a7465a701c8f1415828b47ae13e16a4acce1e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025117.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: +Follow me on twitter @lhsummers +www.larrysummers.com \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025118.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025118.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cfeb0b5b3bf1ffb374f1d3588335f037589a93c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025118.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +CC: +Subject: +LHS [l +5/29/2017 12:49:27 AM +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Ihsoffice [lhsoffice@lawrencesummers.com] +Re: Is Donald still feeling good +Importance: +High +With demand happy to consider and likely do. Sent from my iPhone +Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: +Follow me on twitter @lhsummers +www.larrysummers.com +On May 28, 2017, at 7:49 PM, jeffrey E. < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: +BTW, still not sure why michael klein decided to try to attack me.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025119.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025119.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..85daea770d8e0e421363f6ddea32087b818c4dee --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025119.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Follow me on twitter (alhsummers +www.larrysummers.com +From: jeffrey E. +Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2017 7:28 PM +Subject: Re: Is Donald still feeling good +To: LHS WON +wild, there will be some changes this week.. funny but kaslowitz is getting turned down repeatedly, by +firms unwilling to represent donald. On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 7:22 PM, LHS <| +Ru still plugged in to the show? +wrote: +Sent from my iPhone +Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: +Follow me on... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025120.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025120.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bf318d4e157758ea1afbbf5c81ef489685eade53 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025120.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +JEE +Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this +communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited +and may be unlawful. If you have received this +communication in error, please notify us immediately by +return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and +destroy this communication and all copies thereof, +including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved +HOUSEOVERSIGHT025120 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025121.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025121.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ad518d75a867c812cfd3ba120c13e4a311fcb327 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025121.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +CC: +Subject: +LHS [ +6/2/2017 3:08:29 AM +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Ihsoffice [Ihsoffice@lawrencesummers.com] +Re: Is Donald still feeling good +Importance: +High +?? Sent from my iPad +Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: I +Follow me on twitter @lhsummers +www.larrysummers.com +On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 9:13 PM -0400, "jeffrey E." < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: +prospectus +On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 8:49 PM, LHS 1 +> wrote: +With demand happy to consider and likely... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025122.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025122.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..db7e1ff305816c2286f1b6ceec1a409d0e0e704e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025122.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Of crudity surely +Of gross ignorance surely +Of being utterly without the intellect temperament for job surely +Of being over line on family profiting very likely +Of gross disregard for appearances almost surely. Less clear +Of Russians helping in. Election w complicity of his campaign plausible but not certain +Strikes me if u work for Donald u don't free lance so he is guilty of whatever his campaign did. Sent from my iPad +Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: +Follow me on... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025123.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025123.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..12bf46a0585acca0506388f5a03030e9f77eeea8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025123.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +If you have received this +communication in error, please notify us immediately by +return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and +destroy this communication and all copies thereof, +including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved +please note +The information contained in this communication is +confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may +constitute inside information, and is intended only for +the use of the addressee. It is the property of +JEE +Unauthorized use,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025124.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025124.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cad6745644dc42ebd5ec1b9594bc36ac869a697c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025124.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Larry Summers +10/27/2017 3:10:13 PM +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Re: Trending Now: Friends for three decades, Trump whisperer says he is 'stunned' by president's rhetoric +Importance: +High +Softbank deputy guy i liked and seemed aware and honest re Son. I observed that half the IQ In world was possessed by women without mentioning they are more than 51 percent +of population.... War seems more likely than I used to think +DjT is world s luckiest guy in terms of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025125.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025125.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..21369e0b12826d23758f5cd04877d387475d56b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025125.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +From: jeffrey E. < jeevacation@gmail.com> +Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 6:51 PM +Subject: Re: Trending Now: Friends for three decades, Trump whisperer says he is 'stunned' by president's +rhetoric +To: Lawrence Summers < +saudi? On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Lawrence Summers < +Your pal should stay out of press. Sent from my iPad +Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: +Follow me on twitter @lhsummers +www.larrysummers.com +> wrote: +- Forwarded message --- +From: "The Washington... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025126.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025126.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..44b1faf0abb2e93e0811dff62272de2f22ae51ee --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025126.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Read more » +ADVERTISEMENT +You are signed up for the following breaking news alerts: Politics. You received this email because you signed up for breaking news alerts. Don't want to receive +Trending Now alerts? If you believe that this email has been sent to you in error, or you no +longer wish to receive email from The Washington Post, click here. 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If you have received this +communication in error, please notify us immediately by +return e-mail or by e-mail to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025128.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025128.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4adecac5345eaa7fdcf0a275185a050c46713ac2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025128.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Larry Summers I| +10/27/2017 3:46:57 PM +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Re: Trending Now: Friends for three decades, Trump whisperer says he is 'stunned' by president's rhetoric +Importance: +High +Lot of ruin in a nation +Sent from my iPad +Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: +Follow me on twitter (alhsummers +www.larrysummers.com +On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 7:46 PM +0400, "jeffrey E." < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: +evangelicals confirmed in their belief of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025129.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025129.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3dc8fa6ee983633690ac0e2c137e3206d3be9c0c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025129.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Larry Summers < +> wrote: +Was there. Spent time w Softbank deputy Najeev or some such PIF guy too. Sent from my iPad +Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: +Follow me on twitter @lhsummers +www.larrysummers.com +From: jeffrey E. < jeevacation@gmail.com> +Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 6:51 PM +Subject: Re: Trending Now: Friends for three decades, Trump whisperer says he is 'stunned' by president's +rhetoric +To: Lawrence Summers < +saudi? On Wed, Oct... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025130.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025130.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..82f302be68acc74a8dcdc2b2841b9e46f382938b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025130.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Democracy Dies in Darkness +Trending Now +Wed., Oct. 11, 2017 9:01 a.m. Friends for three decades, Trump whisperer says he is +"stunned' by president's rhetoric +Billionaire Thomas J. Barrack Jr. has done what few others in Trump's orbit have +done: He told the president, in effect, that he was wrong. "In my opinion, he's better +than this," Barrack said. Trump's relationship with Barrack is one of the most important, if little understood, of +the president's life, offering a case study of what it... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025131.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025131.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9de732e00155f3265a2f0bf105e1e8d7b211ee22 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025131.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +You received this email because you signed up for breaking news alerts. Don't want to receive +Trending Now alerts? For additional free email alerts and newsletters, or to +unsubscribe, click here. 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It is the property of +JEE +Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this +communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited +and may be unlawful. If you have received this +communication in error, please notify us immediately by +return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and +destroy this... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025133.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025133.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f5d230271db915310f73e8dd06040a9bb6c82f49 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025133.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Larry Summers +10/27/2017 3:59:04 PM +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Re: Trending Now: Friends for three decades, Trump whisperer says he is 'stunned' by president's rhetoric +Importance: +High +Hard to tell. General view Donald is a clown, increasingly dangerous on foreign policy. Sent from my iPad +Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: +Follow me on twitter @lhsummers +www.larrysummers.com +On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 7:52 PM +0400, "jeffrey E." <... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025134.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025134.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d838ec3cf2b16705351fce7a716d881aab7ace12 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025134.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +I'm trying to figure why American elite think if u murder your baby by beating and abandonment it must be +irrelevant to your admission to Harvard, but hit on a few women 10 years ago and can't work at a network +or think tank. DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT +Sent from my iPad +Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: +Follow me on twitter @lhsummers +www.larrysummers.com +On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 7:02 PM +0400, "jeffrey E." < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: +anyone stand out. . ? when we meet... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025135.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025135.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..61cbbb2c0d94822af33f53bc263ee78b7dee96ad --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025135.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Sent from my iPad +Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: +Follow me on twitter @lhsummers +www.larrysummers.com +-- Forwarded message --- +From: "The Washington Post" +Date: Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 9:04 AM -0400 +Subject: Trending Now: Friends for three decades, Trump whisperer says he is 'stunned' by president's +rhetoric +To: "Summers, Lawrence H." +Democracy Dies in Darkness +Trending Now +Wed., Oct. 11, 2017 9:01 a.m. Friends for three decades, Trump... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025136.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025136.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7567dc7cf95bbd9997b43bbf64da75996a29ab66 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025136.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +You are signed up for the following breaking news alerts: Politics. 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It is the property of +JEE +Unauthorized... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025138.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025138.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..02b3fc1a406832366eabf02cec899fa6788661f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025138.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +return e-mail or by e-mail to jcevacation@gmail.com, and +destroy this communication and all copies thereof, +including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved +HOUSEOVERSIGHT025138 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025139.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025139.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4c197b53d916665d590b33e66a3f1e866616ca53 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025139.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Robert Trivers +6/24/2018 6:11:37 PM +Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Importance: +High +Jeffrey +finally landed +very unpleasant journey +you had nothing to do with how Chapman acted and i apologise for suggesting it might be otherwise +it was entirely against me, partly motivated by a spiteful ex-friend +consulted two lawyers that Gordon recommended but they were very discouraging +the basic problem is simple-i am going against a strong national trend — well-known man after... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025140.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025140.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c42f287f89e5457e7e1faa908c24a2d79472b5fb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025140.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +From: +Robert Trivers +Sent: +6/25/2018 2:19:44 AM +To: +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Subject: +Re: +Attachments: +EPSTEIN.docx +Importance: +High +perhaps i misunderstood "let's concentrate on you" +Jamaica is bad enough but i have mastered that— at least the danger— 4th highest murder rate in the world +as for the US i have alienated large stretches of it—i will spare you the details +i was amused that you are now friends with JD Watson +he single-handedly prevented me from getting a Junior Fellowship... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025141.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025141.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..629ad9facfd56cfa66f3fa9d3b11da4a6b601109 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025141.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 4:23 PM, Robert Trivers < +> wrote: +Many thanks. By all means let's concentrate on me and not Trump. If Enhanced Learning can make its annual +gift of 30 that would have a huge positive effect on me and my future. Let the market take care of itself. All +best +Sent from my iPhone +On Jun 24, 2018, at 2:02 PM, jeffrey E. < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: +trump ok, lets concentrate on you. trade war maybe good. shakes things up +On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 8:11 PM, Robert Trivers < +n>... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025143.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025143.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7e3f8ff04c8e4d8fc7031a046e9c7c3b0799f17a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025143.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Africa, parasites, intelligence +To understand intelligence in the tropics, e.g. among dark-skinned Africans, you +need to understand the importance of parasites-both as an environmental factor +that exerts a negative effect on mental development and a positive effect on +selection for biological diversity of all sorts, including intelligence. +1. Taking first the well-known negative effect of parasite load on individual +intelligence— in the US the parallel factor is toxins and also indoor... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025144.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025144.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..272ffbe63c56b65bb8ecb2c67f3651351aa3b0b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025144.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +exception: temperate to tropics)-it is Mexicans and people further south who are coming +into the US, not Canadians and Eskimos. So Trump is erecting a barrier against +Darlington's Rule migration is always tropics outward. Africa is the center of the +tropics in the entire globe. Before that it was part of Gondwanaland (Africa, South +America, Antarctic) but it was the center of that super-continent, and therefore most +tropical section, so Darlington's rule held back then, as we know from fossils.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025145.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025145.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b5b030aea06b3181cf29b655787febdbd1b02ca2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025145.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +returned (though of course not whatever HIV-resistant genes may have been selected +among the Africans). Divergent human populations often show very similar patterns of strong selection for +genes though different in time--thus Europe and Yoruba-land showed similar peaks in +parasite resistant selection, though 10,000 years ago in the former and 8500 in the latter +Incidentally very striking that cases of strong outbreeding, e.g between sapiens and +neanderthalensis resulted in us acquiring ~3% of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025146.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025146.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d8dbd88041d37c278163e82e2d50c0ef937cc637 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025146.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +blankets' from infected English children to Indian mothers? It is estimated that ½ of all +Indians were slaughtered and the other ½ killed by parasites. Did the burst in cave art (40,000 years ago) have anything to +do with sexual selection related to increase in density and parasites— or is art unrelated to +music? And what is special about Jewish intelligence? Surely it is that it emerged in a +mercantile settings, natural home of numbers, logic and mathematics— itself the "gateway +to knowledge",... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025147.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025147.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d9fced409e523dae9f3a2151bda654aa16b46359 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025147.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Hotlist +Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 +LitAg / Hall 6.3 - Tables 13A, 13B, 14A and 14B +Katinka Matson +Russell Weinberger +Max Brockman +BALANCE OF POWER +The Race Between State and Society +By Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson +IUS - Penguin Press, UK - Viking, Germany - Fischer Verlag, Netherlands - Nieuw Amsterdam, Italy - +Il Saggiatore, Spain - Duesto, Brazil - Intrinseca, Greece - Livanis, Korea - Sigongsa, Taiwan - +Acropolis, Vietnam - Tre Publishing, Audio - Penguin RH; Proposal and sample chapter;... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025148.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025148.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a3ce4e571d3bfc5f20507a34d1de1c3650c14ce0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025148.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +"Until recent work by myself and my collaborators Tim Koslowski and Flavio Mercati, essentially only one +proposal had been made-in well over a century-to explain why, despite the time-reversal symmetry of all the +laws of nature, these pronounced arrows of time exist, and always have existed, throughout the observable +universe. As I explain in The Janus Point, this sole explanation is a manifest stop gap and satisfies no serious +scientist. "The Janus Point is clearly timely because it is about a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025149.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025149.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..36fc018f526cdfb5cdb6aab94e92f67f01c358cb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025149.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The Silk Road soon caught the attention of the Feds, who embarked on an epic two-year manhunt for the site's +proprietor. He gradually abandoned his +libertarian ideals to rule Silk Road with increasingly authoritarian force. He is the bestselling author of Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, +Power, Friendship, and Betrayal (The Wall Street Journal Reader's Choice "Best Book of 2013"), which has +been optioned by Lionsgate and is currently being turned into a television series. YOUR BRAIN IS... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025150.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025150.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..651d639b95045efaf53c0e7f964a36528a02d2bb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025150.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +SCIENCE IN THE SOUL +Selected Shorter Writings +By Richard Dawkins, Edited by Gillian Somerscales +[UK - Transworld; Manuscript; Pub Date: June 2017; 110,000 words] +A new book from Richard Dawkins, internationally bestselling author and one of the greatest scientists of our +age. As much as his full length books such as The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and The God Delusion, +have changed our perceptions of both science and the world it opens, his essays and articles are potent, pithy, +thought... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025151.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025151.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bc32dd92cf0b5fbc37663fe3d8f41e7b51db85c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025151.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +An agenda-setting book for a new generation of philosophers and other researchers, From Bacteria to Bach and +Back will delight and entertain anyone who hopes to understand human creativity in all its wondrous +applications. DENNETT is the author of Intuition Pumps, Breaking the Spell, Freedom Evolves, and +Consciousness Explained. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and +co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. A CRACK IN CREATION +Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025152.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025152.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..725cac455f90864099b192efe316e1dc4c55ca04 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025152.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +ENDURANCE +A Natural History of Exercise and Health +By Daniel Lieberman +[Proposal; Delivery: April 2019; 120,000 words] +Endurance is the new book from Daniel Lieberman, Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at +Harvard, and author of The Story of the Human Body, a New York Times bestseller. "Endurance," Lieberman writes, "argues that we need to rethink how we think about exercise using the dual +lenses of anthropology and evolutionary biology. Everyone knows +that exercise is vital... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025153.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025153.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..19aed367ad219f3bb45ce421354a3e8c210746a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025153.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +IMPROBABLE DESTINIES +Predicting the Future of Evolution +By Jonathan Losos +[US - Riverhead, UK - Allen Lane, German - Hanser, Audio - Penguin RH; Manuscript; Pub Date: June +2017; 110,000 words] +Evolutionary biologist and Harvard professor Jonathan Losos is widely known for his unique approach to +studying evolution in realtime and using experimental means. JONATHAN LOSOS is the Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America and professor +of organismic and evolutionary biology... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025154.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025154.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b516850117a6a42b396ffde44bc8db48e5e7393c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025154.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +In Europe, I was recently interviewed by +Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany's biggest daily newspaper, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung also ran a major +article. When I recently spoke in Denmark, the president of the University of Oslo chastised me for not +knowing that all the students had read CAM and had been discussing it all year. He is the author of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate +and Freedom From Speech. He has been published in the Wall Street Journal,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025155.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025155.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..28e27b7520c8d3e719a5a49c63cf1c642d934fc7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025155.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Robert Boyd, Peter Richerson, and Joseph Henrich, proponents +of the dominant mode of cultural evolution, postulate that people are easily influenced by prestigious individuals +- wherever their prestige comes from— and consensual opinions - whatever their value. "This is also the answer of dominant figures in anthropology and sociology, explaining the persistence of culture +by our tendency to suck in whatever ideas surround us without a second thought; in political science since the +ancient... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025156.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025156.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..874092dcdf2eda0dd13907bc8b54bb17a3a72e0d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025156.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +It is the first book written +on this subject, and more importantly, it is written by an insider who is helping shape and define the field for +conservation." +RYAN PHELAN is the Executive Director of "Revive & Restore", whose mission is to increase biodiversity - +specifically through genetic rescue, helping species that are either on the brink or are already extinct. The +Introduction and the Epilogue are by cultural icon Stewart Brand, creator of The Whole Earth Catlog, and author +of The Media... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025157.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025157.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d2a5c2dc4b5c5ec806129ee9098e9313ada5e0c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025157.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Ramachandran +[US - Penguin Press, Audio - Penguin RH; Proposal; Delivery: 24 months from signed contract; 60,000 - +A new book by neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran, author most recently of The Tell-Tale Brain. RAMACHANDRAN is the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and a professor with the +Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego. He is author of +Phantoms in the Brain, which has been translated into fourteen languages and formed the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025158.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025158.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6888d7fafd3f08bd018e963e89f535060357cccf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025158.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +What brings out the best in us? For every complex problem, there's a solution that's +simple, appealing, and wrong, H. Mencken famously said, and there are certainly many simple and wrong +answers to this most important of questions, the question at the root of the way we parent, the way we educate, +the way we manage, and the way we punish. For that, the great neuroscientist and primatologist Robert Sapolsky needed +ten years, and this book. ROBERT SAPOLSKY is the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025159.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025159.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0a9f5f71fee415e5e8b56a870bd062d18857b182 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025159.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +house-oversight-025159 + +"Calculus is one of the greatest ideas that anyone has ever had and certainly the greatest idea in all of +mathematics. Taming Infinity is the human side of calculus: the gripping story of +how it was discovered, and lost, and then rediscovered a thousand years later, or how it perplexed many of the +geniuses who struggled to invent it, and in a few tragic cases, drove them insane. "Central to the story is the mathematicians' quest to tame infinity, which begins with the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025160.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025160.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4567478758fb5270632f8364890562ffcbc26ec7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025160.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +"The Power of Human represents a call to action. His research has been published in leading journals such as +Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and +Psychological Review. Waytz received the 2008 and 2013 Theoretical Innovation Award from the Society for +Personality and Social Psychology, the SAGE Foundation Young Scholar Award, and the International Social +Cognition Network's Early Career Award. In 2015, Poets and Quants named him one... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025161.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025161.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..35a71b6d0bacef1bcd3d4c0a212bf1a687df1f50 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025161.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +West's work has been game-changing for biologists, but then he made the even bolder move of exploring his +work's applicability to cities. Recently, West has applied his revolutionary work on cities and biological life to the business world. West is a Senior Fellow at Los +Alamos National Laboratory and a distinguished professor at the Sante Fe Institute, where he served as the +president from 2005-2009. He has been featured in many publications world-wide including the New York +Times, Nature,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025162.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025162.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a6eedb55c23f81a592970ef8a9775f0e923dc31c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025162.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The World Is Very Big +Our neighborhood (Earth, Solar System, Milky Way). The World Is Very Old +The nature of time. How we measure the age of objects on Earth. Matter Is Built From A Small Menu Of Ingredients, Which Exist In Vast Quantities +Microscopy and its modern refinements. Wilezek is a regular +contributor to Nature and Physics Today and his work has also been anthologized in Best American Science +Writing and the Norton Anthology of Light Verse. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025163.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025163.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c836d67fb751de5bde9b661a22bf8015cc32ca33 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025163.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +11/28/2016 6:47:15 PM +Pritzker, Tom +Re: Re: +Importance: High +comey knows that denise neced to pledge 500k to foundation +On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Pritzker, Tom < +• wrote: +Read an interesting article on why Comey screwed Clinton. Comey as DA is hunting down Marc Rich to indict him. +2. Ehud calls Clinton and says please pardon Marc Rich he has done work for Mossad that has been valuable. +3. No idea if this is accurate... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025164.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025164.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..87202e9854b2db12acef397dc70c4e3e05f88f28 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025164.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +If you have received this +communication in error, please notify us immediately by +return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and +destroy this communication and all copies thereof, +including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved +The contents of this email message and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may +contain confidential and/or privileged information and may be legally protected from disclosure. If you are +not the intended recipient of this... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025165.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025165.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5f4a1859bcbccfb09e7e333517b88bdc595fd5aa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025165.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +destroy this communication and all copies thereof, +including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved +HOUSEOVERSIGHT025165 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025166.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025166.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5747777399633bf0575f00bee4dea190c4079862 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025166.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +11/28/2016 6:49:51 PM +Pritzker, Tom +Re: Re: +cash +On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Pritzker, Tom <1 +Cash or in-kind services? +> wrote: +From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com] +Sent: Monday, November 28, 2016 12:47 PM +To: Pritzker, Tom - +Subject: Re: Re: +comey knows that denise neeed to pledge 500k to foundation +On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Pritzker, Tom 1 +Read an interesting article on why Comey screwed Clinton. Comey as DA... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025167.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025167.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0ffcc56b56e700e0044578d2795b83fb44f73435 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025167.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +It is the property of +JEE +Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this +communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited +and may be unlawful. If you have received this +communication in error, please notify us immediately by +return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and +destroy this communication and all copies thereof, +including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved +The contents of this email message and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025168.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025168.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..90c5a02438f390dde5d5ffdc17797113dd3e5fd1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025168.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +house-oversight-025168 + +-- +please note +The information contained in this communication is +confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may +constitute inside information, and is intended only for +the use of the addressee. It is the property of +JEE +Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this +communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited +and may be unlawful. If you have received this +communication in error, please notify us immediately by +return e-mail or by e-mail to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025169.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025169.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..49e1f80ec28d6adbdc53d3e13375cb788e423e2c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025169.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +1/20/2017 12:10:12 PM +David Grosof [ +Re: Your Special Day +Importance: +High +pretty well +On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 7:02 AM, David Grosof +wrote: +Probability as a force rather than a what? I met him once through Gunther Stent, as well as Crick on another occasion. Sent from Android Nexus 6 phone. On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 1:28 AM, David Grosof < +At 10:13 PM 01/19/17, you wrote: +> wrote: +all good. Â Â thx. Â Â areas of interest, Â Â Â Â... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025170.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025170.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..64369aa3e9c603f936c3b69c31fb0e048965ca6f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025170.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +PS How to trade the Trump-GOP demolition of the welfare state, erratic elevation of risks of trade +disruptions and war? The Patriot Act was on a +'shelf' as you know, ready to be used. On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 1:07 AM, David Grosof < +> wrote: +Dear Jeffrey, +Â Congratulations on another spin around the sun. +Â I would like to offer you a birthday present: my best efforts for a few hours on something where I might be +able to contribute either to making something good happen for you or help you... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025171.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025171.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..86968cbfa81d80c71b891390cfa53943e2115314 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025171.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +destroy this communication and all copies thereof, +including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved +David Grosof +please note +The information contained in this communication is +confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may +constitute inside information, and is intended only for +the use of the addressee. It is the property of +JEE +Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this +communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited +and may be unlawful. If you have received... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025172.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025172.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e90e472592409aa50e7be2fc4783d55eac63c9d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025172.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +1/20/2017 12:14:31 PM +David Grosof +Re: Your Special Day +Importance: +High +probablity and statistics gets its strengh from the law of large numbers. centrifigal force is a pseudo +force but not distinguishable in the right frame. . like gravity. lets assume that there is a force pushing heads +and tails towards a 50 50 distribution. not merely recording it. +regression to the mean. etc. would. could +be a force similar to the EM one. On Fri,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025173.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025173.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f62461514d3be48898d9416a65d590035535d2d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/25/house-oversight-025173.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +My buddy Reese Jones has backed that; he has a fascinating set of beliefs and projects around what may +soon be understood as "consciousness hacking." He's on the board of Singularity University as one of the +founders. (His father was a pioneer UCSF MD researcher of hallucinogens, I believe!) +More to come in a day or so. David +PS How to trade the Trump-GOP demolition of the welfare state, erratic elevation of risks of trade +disruptions and war? The Patriot Act was on a +'shelf' as you know, ready... \ No newline at end of file