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Wells Fargo Investment Bankers Bringing Buffett-Assisted Revenue
The sun was rising over San Francisco's financial district in November 2009 when Richard Kovacevich picked up the phone in his 12th-floor office to call Omaha, Nebraska.
It was about a year after Wells Fargo & Co. and Kovacevich, the bank's chairman at the time, had announced a plan to purchase Wachovia Corp., and now he was reaching out to Warren Buffett for help, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its March issue. Just days before, Buffett had heralded his own acquisition of railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. for $26 billion.
The billionaire chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A) had lined up JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) for financing, Kovacevich recalls. Berkshire also is Wells Fargo's largest shareholder. The two men spoke for no more than 10 minutes, Kovacevich says, and the banker's message was simple.
"Here we are, our largest shareholder, and we had never done any meaningful investment banking for him," recalls Kovacevich, 68, who stepped down as chairman in 2009 but continues to consult with management and represent the company to customers. "I called him and said we've got some great bankers here now, this is important and we'd really like to show you what we can do."
The phone call marked a turning point for Wells Fargo, founded in 1852 to serve gold rush pioneers. Far from Wall Street, the bank, the fourth-largest in the U.S. by assets and the biggest by market value, had long rejected the more volatile and transaction-oriented culture of investment banking. In 2005, Kovacevich, then also CEO, said having superstar bankers focused on one-time deals was "incompatible" with his company.
Head Winds
Now, Wells Fargo, which avoided most of the mortgage- related mistakes made by the largest investment banks, is pushing into the business it once shunned, even as rivals facing fickle markets, meager revenues and new restrictions scale back.
Financial firms worldwide announced plans last year to cut more than 230,000 jobs as global stock offerings plunged 29 percent and U.S. bond issuance fell 6.8 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The move may help Wells Fargo, led since 2007 by CEO John Stumpf, weather head winds facing commercial banks. Firms are struggling to find growth as rules limit overdraft and debit card fees and lending remains sluggish.
Record Earnings
Wells Fargo said third-quarter revenue fell to $19.6 billion from $20.4 billion in the second quarter, missing analysts' estimates. The stock dropped as much as 8.9 percent on Oct. 17 when the results were announced and was down 11 percent for 2011. Still, the bank has been profitable for 12 consecutive quarters through the three-month period ended on Dec. 31, setting records in the past six. It reported net income of $15.9 billion in 2011.
"The government has really limited their ability to grow their operations, so I can understand why they are trying to move out of traditional banking, but it's a tough thing to do," says William Frels, CEO of St. Paul, Minnesota-based money manager Mairs & Power Inc., which held more than 3.6 million Wells Fargo shares at the end of September. "It's not a positive. My take is that they are desperate to find new avenues of growth."
After Kovacevich's call, Buffett added Wells Fargo to the Burlington deal. The bank has gone on to manage Burlington bond issues and in January 2011 helped underwrite Berkshire's $1.5 billion debt offering. Buffett declined, through a spokeswoman, to comment.
'Landscape Has Changed'
"Before the crisis, we would have had to compromise both our culture and ethics in order to compete," says Kovacevich, who, during an almost 35-year banking career that began at Citicorp, pursued his own agenda in defiance of industry trends.
His refusal to engage in the empire-building of peers such as Citigroup Inc.'s Sanford Weill and Bank of America Corp. (BAC)'s Kenneth D. Lewis earned him a reputation as a maverick. The collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and the sales of Bear Stearns Cos. and Merrill Lynch & Co. in 2008 led Kovacevich and Stumpf to rethink their stance.
"The landscape has changed," says Stumpf, 58. "Some of the pure investment banks, like Lehman and Bear, are gone, and some of the foreign competition has retreated back to their own countries."
Big Hill
Buffett's imprimatur notwithstanding, Wells Fargo has a big hill to climb. Even insiders overlook the lender.
When Vulcan Materials Co. CEO Don James needed advice in fending off a hostile takeover in December, he didn't turn to the bank. Instead, he chose Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which had advised the company since at least 1999. James, a former director of Wachovia, is on Wells Fargo's board. Meghan Stafford, a spokeswoman for Vulcan, declined to comment.
The bank ranked 12th among U.S. debt underwriters in 2011, with 1,824 deals valued at $53.1 billion, behind London-based HSBC Holdings Plc and France's BNP Paribas SA, according to Bloomberg data. In U.S. mergers and acquisitions, Wells Fargo ranked 21st, lower than boutique investment bank Moelis & Co., advising on 31 deals last year valued at $27.6 billion, the data show.
Wells Fargo also will have to convince naysayers it won't go the way of other commercial banks that have sought to enter the investment-banking business only to retreat, says Brian Foran, a New York-based analyst at Nomura Holdings Inc. Bank of America tried expanding into investment banking with limited success until it purchased Merrill Lynch, he says.
"Investors are nervous," Foran says. "They feel like they've seen this movie before."
Exterminator's Son
The man Stumpf chose to lead the investment-banking expansion is John Shrewsberry, a 6-foot-4 (193 centimeter) son of an exterminator. A former Goldman Sachs vice president, Shrewsberry has been at Wells Fargo for more than a decade.
His domain now stretches from three floors of a San Francisco skyscraper to New York and Charlotte, North Carolina, where Wachovia was based and where Wells Fargo is converting 240,000 square feet (22,300 square meters) at the 48-story Duke Energy Center into a home for 1,600 salesmen, traders and bankers.
"This gives us more capacity," Shrewsberry, 46, says on a mid-December morning of his new West Coast aerie, walking across the 34th-floor trading space in a gray pinstriped suit, a lavender shirt and a floral-print tie as employees unpack cardboard boxes and adjust computer screens.
Bay View
The space allows Shrewsberry to squeeze in 175 trading desks on each floor, an upgrade over the 135 spots and scattered operations the investment bank had at a previous location. In his office overlooking San Francisco Bay, a small collection of books lining a glass wall includes Thomas Friedman's "The World Is Flat" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995), an accounting tome and the "Yale Book of Quotations" (Yale University Press, 2006).
Shrewsberry was an obvious choice for the job, current and former colleagues say, citing his deliberate decision-making and consensus-building. He wears a suit every day in a city where bankers and traders often dress in slacks and open-collared shirts. His athletic build has been sharpened by years of downhill skiing and basketball, which he has played at least once a week for most of the past 30 years.
"He has always been a guy that made the team better," says Fred Terrell, vice chairman of investment banking at Credit Suisse Group AG, who hired Shrewsberry out of Yale's business school in 1992 to work in CS First Boston Corp.'s mortgage- markets department. That's rare in the business world, Terrell says. "It generally happens around a person who appreciates what everyone does, from the smallest person on the team to the most senior person."
Shrewsberry attended high school in Chino, California, about 35 miles east of Los Angeles. He graduated with an economics degree from Claremont McKenna College in 1987, worked for three years as an auditor at Coopers & Lybrand and then went to Yale, where he got a master's degree in business administration.
After the CS First Boston stint, he took a job at Goldman Sachs's principal strategies unit. A year later, he and colleague Marc Furstein left to start their own firm. The company, American Commercial Capital LLC, was based in Carlsbad, California, and made loans to restaurant franchises. The debts were then packaged into bonds for sale to investors.
With an office about 3 miles from the Pacific Ocean, Shrewsberry honed his surfing skills, and he and his partners would sometimes wear shorts and flip-flops to the office.
By 2001, investors had grown wary of purchasing bonds backed by unconventional lending commitments, and the industry was changing to favor banks with enough capital to keep loans on their balance sheets. That May, Wells Fargo agreed to buy American Commercial. Shrewsberry stayed to run the business.
Shrewsberry's Rise
By the time of the Wachovia acquisition, Shrewsberry had worked his way up to lead Wells Fargo's securities and investment group. He helped examine Wachovia's books before the merger was announced and emerged as one of the most vocal champions for keeping the bank's securities unit.
Kovacevich says his trust in Shrewsberry's leadership helped soften his anti-Wall Street leanings. Less than two years after the merger was announced, Stumpf promoted Shrewsberry to president of Wells Fargo Securities LLC, the broker-dealer that succeeded Wachovia Capital Markets LLC, which includes both investment banking and sales and trading.
'More Fun'
Now, Shrewsberry is looking to take advantage of a seismic shift reshaping the industry. New financial rules are forcing banks to divest some capital-intensive businesses and shutter proprietary-trading units. Regulations also require the largest U.S. securities firms, as part of bank holding companies, to be supervised by the Federal Reserve, which subjects them to scrutiny absent during the run-up to the most recent crisis, Kovacevich says. That has leveled the playing field for new entrants such as Wells Fargo.
"It became a lot more fun and worthwhile both for Wells Fargo and our customers to do more business together," Shrewsberry says.
Wells Fargo's strategy is to build on its commercial- banking strength, Kovacevich, Shrewsberry and Stumpf say. Borrowers, depositors and other long-time clients with underwriting and advisory needs will be referred to investment bankers, while traders and salespeople hawk securities underwritten by the bank to institutional investors and more than 15,000 advisers at the third-largest U.S. retail brokerage bring in money from customers.
Cross Selling
"Think of a customer where we have had a lending relationship with them for 10 to 15 years and now they want to issue some debt," Stumpf says. "Who would know that debt better than us? We've analyzed it, and we've been with them through cycles. And now we have this big retail platform that can help them sell equity or debt into the marketplace."
The new capabilities mean Wells Fargo can expand its mission to convince existing customers to use the bank's other services -- much as Kovacevich appealed to Buffett. At a Goldman Sachs investors conference in December, Stumpf highlighted the opportunity to pursue what he called "deepening cross sell" with the bank's more than 6,800 corporate customers.
Such cross selling has long been the Holy Grail of bankers eager to expand their business without having to find new customers. Kovacevich helped pioneer and refine the strategy at Wells Fargo, and Citigroup adopted it as part of its financial- supermarket model before the bank wrote down tens of billions of dollars in bad subprime debt.
500 Hires
"Everybody talks about cross selling," says Bert Ely, a banking consultant in Alexandria, Virginia, who has followed the industry for 30 years. "First of all, it's hard to do. It's even harder to measure. Wells is pretty good at it. Whether they're better than JPMorgan or Bank of America is anybody's guess."
For Kovacevich, changes in the industry provided a rare opportunity to get into the business at what he considers a minimal cost. The $12.7 billion Wachovia purchase gave Wells Fargo a group of bankers ready to offer underwriting, advisory and hedging products that customers have always needed, he says.
That Wachovia's bankers witnessed their unit's role in the firm's collapse and became believers in Wells Fargo's culture only helped matters, Kovacevich says. Shrinking operations at other firms also meant fewer opportunities to jump ship.
Shrewsberry's unit has added more than 500 people in the 22 months ended on Oct. 31, an increase of 15 percent, hiring bankers from UBS AG, Deutsche Bank AG, Leerink Swann & Co. and Chicago-based hedge fund Citadel LLC, led by Ken Griffin, which shuttered its securities business in 2011.
Rock-Tenn, Targus
Wells Fargo has started getting larger mandates. Last year, Norcross, Georgia-based Rock-Tenn Co. (RKT) sought its advice and that of head industrials banker John Church in a $4.92 billion purchase of cardboard-packaging maker Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.
In October, the bank was the sole adviser to Targus Information Corp., the maker of CallerID, in its $650 million sale to Neustar Inc. (NSR), which was completed in November. The lender also has won debt-underwriting business for Cisco Systems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co.
The bank has done better in U.S. loan syndications, where it ranked fourth last year, and U.S. leveraged loans, where it was third behind Bank of America and JPMorgan, according to Bloomberg data. Loan-syndication volume jumped 72 percent in the third quarter from the first compared with growth of 4 percent for the industry, according to a Dec. 14 report by Vivek Juneja, an analyst at JPMorgan in New York.
Fastest-Growing Unit
Shrewsberry's unit is the fastest-growing business at Wells Fargo, according to Kovacevich and Juneja's report. Revenue from investment-banking fees rose 27 percent in the first nine months of 2011, the company said in a presentation. Juneja estimates trading revenue at about $700 million to $900 million a quarter during the first half of 2011.
The firm, which doesn't report financial results for its investment-banking business, has been equally guarded about specific goals. Kovacevich says he expects Wells Fargo to be among the top five U.S. investment banks in plain-vanilla products such as U.S. debt and equity underwriting.
While bank analysts such as Nomura's Foran and Betsy Graseck at Morgan Stanley support Wells Fargo's expansion, citing the company's evolution from a small regional lender and its strong risk management, they don't see the company gaining top-tier status anytime soon.
'Gradualist Approach'
The challenge will be to build the business gradually without committing "more capital in a big, flashy way" or offering guaranteed compensation to lure high-profile bankers, Graseck says. "They will continue to be a mid-size investment bank, not one of the largest. To move into the top tier is a culture shift. Their strategy is more of a gradualist approach."
That's fine with Stumpf, who says Wells Fargo doesn't expect investment banking to displace commercial lending or real estate. Kovacevich says the unit is unlikely ever to account for more than 10 percent of the firm's total revenue or profit.
In addition to persuading CEOs to give Wells Fargo their business, the bank will have to convince investors its strategy won't lead to lower valuations.
"The perception in the market is that investment banking is more volatile," Graseck says. "That's multiple-destroying, not enhancing."
'So Simple'
Kovacevich shakes off the criticism.
"If we had the discipline for 156 years not to be in investment banking, why would we be in it today unless we thought there was a fundamental change?" he says. "This is so simple, we just had to do this."
Kovacevich's nod to the past and Wells Fargo's efforts to remember its roots are themes Shrewsberry probably won't forget. While executives hold meetings in conference rooms named for the bank's largest acquisitions, such as Wachovia and First Interstate Bancorp, the one nearest Shrewsberry's office commemorates a much smaller deal, one that brought him to the bank a decade ago yet was so tiny that the details weren't announced.
A sign attached to the frosted glass reads: "American Commercial Capital, 2001."
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This script fetches your Xbox Live friend list - Gamertags and activity, removes offline Gamertags, and finally encloses them in XML tags making it easy for you to further export/customize them.
This script was created as a replacement for the one in this thread which became incompatible when Microsoft changed the main content xbox.com friend pages to load with javascript. Instead of xbox.com we now use bungie.net
Known Issues:
Just like the outdated script, there is still the inconvenience of having to export cookies daily. Hopefully someone who finds this useful is also an expert with cookies and sessions.
Here is a screenshot of the final product, customized for Conky.
Now let's begin!
wget - Most distributions have it by default. But if you are running on a server install for some reason there is a chance you could be missing it (Is it Debian Server that is missing it?).
Working Directory The script works best if everything is in the same directory (Cookie file, actual script). This is especially useful if your method of automation (cron, conky, etc) makes things funky.
By default, this script changes directory to ~/.xbl_friends
If you don't mind seeing it in your home folder, change the script to non-hidden location since it will be easier to put the new cookie file in daily. If your advanced, just do what you want. But the further away from hardcoded paths, the tougher it will be to troubleshoot.
You need to have a cookie file for WGET to use each time it connects.
1) I use Firefox for this. If you can not use Firefox you will have to figure out your own solution for these steps. The latest Firefox versions keep cookies in database instead of a text file. To get what we need we will This Firefox Extention.
2) Once installed, visit bungie.net and sign in, making sure you check "Save my Login and Password". After you have signed in, click Tools in Firefox and choose the new option "Export Cookies" Save the file in ~/.xbl_friends (or where you edit the script to look) and name file cookies.txt and click export.
The Script
Make a new file in ~/.xbl_friends (once again, or wherever) and name is whatever you want (I chose xbl.sh).
Then paste the following code inside
Run the command from the terminal to test it.Code:#!/bin/bash # # Xbox Live Friends List 0.3 - Slightly Less Ugly Edition (how do I program?) # Feedback: kingbilly @ ubuntuforums # # I put this line in because I don't understand cron and working directories. # It is recommended that you force the script to intentionally use a directory. # Comment this line out if you have different intentions. cd $HOME/.xbl_friends # # Remove existing files so WGET won't create names with prepended numbers each time the script is run rm ./friends.aspx # # The language between Firefox Export Cookies(depending on method) and Weget Load Cookies is different, this takes the guesswork out # Preventing the script to fail over one tiny letter ( "s" ). # This line stays in the script since exporting cookies must happen daily until a workaround if found. if [ -e cookie.txt ]; then mv cookie.txt cookies.txt fi # # Download file from website wget --load-cookies=cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies --ignore-length --no-check-certificate --output-document friends.aspx https://www.bungie.net/Stats/LiveFriends.aspx # # Create list of Gamertags cat friends.aspx | grep '
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/<tag>/g' | sed -e 's/<\/li>/<\/tag>/g' | sed '/^$/d' | tr -d ' ' > online_friends.xml # # Create list of current activities cat friends.aspx | grep -A 2 '
' | sed 's/\x0D$//' | sed -n '/ /p' | sed 's/ /<act>/g' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//' | sed 's/$/<\/act>/g' > online_status.xml # # Join two files side by side, which matches each Gamertag with the Activity. # Remove offline Gamertags. # Remove tab character that is a result of the paste command. paste online_friends.xml online_status.xml | tr -d '\011' | sed '/Offline/ d' > online_friends_status.xml exit
You will see the wget command being executed.Code:cd ~/.xbl_friends sh xbl.sh
There will now be two additional files in your .xbl_friends folder.
The xml file will have tags around the data insideCode:richard@rich-hp-ubuntu:~/.xbl_friends$ ls cookies.txt friends.aspx online_friends_status.xml xbl.shThis makes it easy for anyone to remix the information for their own needs. But maybe you just want this in Conky without the XML tags?Code:<tag>Gamertag</tag> and <act>Activity</act>.
Simply add this code to the script, on the second to last line (before exit)
Now you can just have Conky read the contents of online_conky.xml.Code:cat online_friends_status.xml | sed 's/<tag>//g' | sed 's/<\/tag>//g' | sed 's/<act>/ - /g' | sed 's/<\/act>//g' > online_conky.xml
To have Conky display the contents of online_conky.xml, add this to your running conkyrc file:
Which will have Conky refresh this file every 5 minutes. Of course, the Xbox Live Friends script needs run every 5-10 minutes to make this relevant.Code:${execi 300 cat ~/.xbl_friends/online_conky.xml}
Also, since I only own a few games I have my copy of the script change the color of each Gamertag and Activity that matches a game I have. This way I notice it faster on my desktop that I have an opportunity to play with a friend. Here is an example:
This makes the entire left-to-right line turn white (as opposed to green, which is how Conky displays for me if you check the above screenshot).Code:cat online_friends_status.xml | sed 's/<tag>//g' | sed 's/<\/tag>//g' | sed 's/<act>/ - /g' | sed 's/<\/act>//g' | sed 's/Halo: Reach/${color white}Halo: Reach${color green}/g' > online_conky.xml
Note: For this type of example you will have to change the execi command in Conky to execpi so that it parses the ${color] statement.
AutomationCode:${execpi 300 cat ~/.xbl_friends/online_conky.xml}
I prefer to use cron for automating this script.
You are welcome to use your own preferred method, but keep this in mind;Code:crontab -e
When I first made the script and used cron I had this:
But that didn't work. Checking the system log files I was able to see some error messages. Adding /bin/bash to the cron table however made them go away, and made the script workCode:0-59/10 * * * * /home/richard/.xbl_friends/new.sh
So the point is make sure that your method for automating the script is something you understand, and can control.Code:0-59/10 * * * * /bin/bash /home/richard/.xbl_friends/new.sh
Future Versions
I plan to update the script to offer a few more features.
1) Show offline friends if they have only been offline for a few minutes.
2) Utilize the notification system (At least on Gnome where I currently am) to show when someone a friend appears online.
3) I am not the right person for this job - If someone can figure out how cookies work maybe we can fix the issue of having to export the cookies every day. If you browse with Firefox/Chrome every day you don't have to login. So why does wget lose the privilege every 24 hours?
Eveyone is welcome to assist with these future items. Maybe someone knows how to make these show up in Pidgin or other buddy lists.


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I. What is Lake Superior State University's policy on Plagiarism and Cheating?
According to the Lake Superior State University 2000-2002 Catalogue, p 14 :
II. What is "Academic Dishonesty"?
"Academic Dishonesty" is a broad term that refers to a violation of any of the many standards for truth and honesty in research and education traditionally associated with a college education. These standards are usually held to be universal and apply to all your work at any university or college in North America or Europe. Generally, these standards are:
Different professors and instructors have different interpretations of these standards, of course. Nonetheless, there are several things that everyone seems to agree constitute a violation of them. Among these are:
These are also considered among the more grievous examples of "Academic Dishonesty" and are usually prosecuted to the fullest extent possible. At LSSU, this can mean dismissal from the University.
III. What do you consider plagiarism?
Since my background is in Rhetoric and Composition, my view of plagiarism is based on two assumptions. First, I can't help you learn to be a better writer if the writing I am looking at wasn't written by you. Second, as a beginning writer you may have problems with things like citing sources, or have been taught that a research paper is nothing more than a bunch of quotations from other sources strung together with transitions written by yourself. This makes my view of plagiarism somewhat more complicated than that of some people, and at the same time, somewhat stricter.
So let's start with a definition—plagiarism is the use of someone else's words or ideas as your own without giving appropriate credit or without the person's consent to use his or her words or ideas without acknowledgment. This can be somewhat confusing, because at its core, plagiarism isn't just about stealing someone else's words or ideas, but also about claiming to have done work you actually haven't. Thus, many professors, me included, would see using a paper or research you have done for one course in fulfillment of an assignment in another as plagiarism, even though you are the paper's author. You can plagiarize yourself!
There are several factors at work here, but primarily the thing you need to remember is that you have been given an assignment in order to further your education in a particular way. Turning in a paper you wrote for a high school English course, for example, to fulfill an assignment in EN 110: First-Year Composition would not help you further your education. This does not mean that you can't use your time in EN 110 (or especially EN 111) to work on assignments from other classes. It does mean that you need the permission of instructors from both instructors before you do it.
Finally, there are things about citations and quotations of other people's work that you probably don't know. And you may not even be sure whether or not you need a citation in a specific case (such as when paraphrasing or using statistics). We'll talk about these things throughout your course, and I'll point out problem areas in your rough drafts. (I only apply penalties for plagiarism to final drafts, not rough drafts. The penalties for Academic Dishonesty may apply to rough drafts and final drafts.) If you have questions after that, ASK!
IV. Can write papers in my Writing Courses for other classes?
It's possible, and in EN 111 (starting in the Fall of 2002), it may even be required, especially if the content of your paper is of a highly technical or discipline specific nature. But remember that the crucial word is permission. And you'll need it from both me and the instructor of the other course.
If you would like to explore this option, let me know and I'll provide you with the necessary paperwork and an overview of the approval process. Provided that the instructor of your other course and I can reach an agreement about grading criteria and so forth, you can use a Writing course as a chance to work on projects for other courses. (see also the Writing FAQ)
Remember, it is critical that you receive permission from both instructors to do one project for two classes, otherwise it will be treated as plagiarism or cheating!
V. Why should I acknowledge my sources?
There are three main reasons most writers acknowledge their sources:
VI. What are the most common forms of Plagiarism?
VII. When should I cite a source?
All of the following require citation:
VIII. Are there any situations in which a writer may use ideas provided by others without acknowledging a source?
Different academic disciplines have different standards in this regard, but generally the safest course is to follow the strictest guidelines. These require that:
IX. What are the chances of getting caught?
Extremely high, my track record is between 90% and 95%. While I don't check every single paper that comes across my desk for plagiarism, there are some "symptoms" of a plagiarized paper that are dead giveaways. You should also be aware that all of the major paper mills in North America (both those on and offline) have papers on file that I have written; so if you use a paper mill, you stand a fairly good chance of turning in a paper that I am the author of. (I've poisoned the well, you see.)
I will not, of course, make an accusation of plagiarism unless I have proof. But if I suspect that a paper has been plagiarized, a significant effort will be made to prove it.
X. What are the most common penalties for "Academic Dishonesty" and plagiarism in your classes?
My official line is:
Here's the scale of severity I generally rely on (though individual applications may vary, according to circumstances):
Again, these standards apply only to final drafts, and certainly not every case of plagiarism is covered here. If I have questions about your rough draft of a paper, we'll discuss them in conference so you will have a chance to correct your mistakes. (But if you do not correct your mistakes in the final draft, then the penalties will apply.)
XI. What is the LSSU Writing Studies Committee Policy on Academic Honesty?
In recent years, Academic Honesty has become a major issue at American universities--largely as a result of the growth of the Internet. In response to growing concern among the full- and part-time faculty in the Writing Program, the LSSU Writing Studies Committee developed a detailed statement on Academic Honesty in the Spring of 2002--a policy that was approved by the Dean's Council later that semester. The policy is enforced in all writing courses, and in any other course when the instructor so chooses. In my courses, the policy is always enforced--even when the course is not a writing course.
Your instructor will provide you with a copy of the policy on the first day of classes. Alternately, a copy of the policy can be found in the Course Materials Archive.
If, after reading this FAQ, you still have questions, don't hesitate to schedule an appointment to discuss them with me.


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GRAND RAPIDS, MI - The San Francisco 49ers faced the media Thursday ahead of Sunday's Super Bowl XLVII, and Joe Staley was again an interesting interview.
The Rockford High School graduate, who on media day Tuesday told of once wanting to leave Central Michigan when moved from tight end to the offensive line, didn't seem bothered by the daily media attention.
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"It's alright, I don't mind it," he said. "I don't mind this stuff. I'm a big 'look at me' guy so I like it. It's a lot of the same questions though. Yesterday I answered the same question about 10 times."
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When asked about the need for opposing defenses to improve communication to stop the 49ers' successful read-option:
"I have heard a lot of communication on the football field against us by the defense. Whatever they think is the reason why. It's difficult to defend against because they have to play 11-man team defense on every single snap. If someone doesn't do their job and someone doesn't do their assignment, then it created hesitation. It's difficult to prepare for. I don't think it's an offense that you can just run, the pistol read-option, and be successful. You have to be able to do a lot of different things. That's what it is for us; it's a package in our offense. We are not exclusively a read option team. A lot of people look at it because it's unconventional and something that you don't see every day. We run a lot of straight up formations and all of that stuff out of it too as well."Is it difficult to turn on the professional attitude around the media after coming from a locker room setting?
"No, myself speaking I don't think it's difficult. Those are my personal thoughts. You know when you are in front of the media and in front of the fans. Whatever your thoughts are, there is a right time to say it."
Did he ever think about playing in the Super Bowl when he was in college at Central Michigan?
"No, I was just worried about going to the cafeteria and not getting sick from all of that cafeteria food. I really didn't think about going to the pros until my senior year. I was trying to have fun in college and play a little football. I developed into a halfway decent player my senior year and that's when I thought that I could possible make a career out of this."After practice Wednesday, Staley tweeted it was the best practices of the season. Why was it so good?
"I think the energy level was amazing. I think everyone was relieved to get onto the football field after the first couple of days and all of this media stuff. With all of the distractions and stuff, I think everyone was really excited to get onto the football field and doing what we do and what got us to this point. The energy and focus level was amazing. The execution was really good."
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The Rev. David Beckmann discusses Bread for the World's lobbying on behalf of hungry people in the United States and abroad.
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The Rev. David Beckmann, the president of Bread for the World, discusses the plight of hungry people in the United States and abroad, and how his organization works to lobby Congress to maintain financial support for those less fortunate. He also explains how government support is essential to fighting hunger—charities alone are not sufficient—and how U.S. aid for the poor has had a real impact during these difficult economic times.


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The federal government has proposed that the adoption of a software language to automate the lodgement of finance statements to ASIC online be mandatory as a voluntary scheme has failed.
Standardised Business Reporting allows companies to lodge financial statements to the ATO, ASIC, APRA and state government agencies online and automatically populate government systems.
Large businesses have been slow to adopt the system as it requires updates to accounting and tax software that incorporates the use of extensible business markup language (XBRL) which applies machine readable tags to financial information so it can be automatically read without the need for re-keying.
But while there has been a big increase in recent months by small business lodging tax returns and Business Activity Statements, an options paper released by the federal Treasury says software companies haven't included XBRL because it isn't compulsory.
"The use of SBR for the lodgement of financial reports is currently constrained by the limited number of SBR-enabled software products in the market, particularly for large business, and the voluntary nature of the SBR program," said the paper.
But equally it said "a sufficiently large number of users has not emerged that would act as a catalyst to generate the development of software products for financial reporting more widely usable across industry".
Once implemented it allows finance teams to employ less staff and reduces errors.
Since July, more than 100,000 lodgements of tax information had been made via SBR, nine times more than in the same period in 2011.
The use of SBR is being made mandatory for the electronic transfer of superannuation funds between member accounts under the super reforms being introduced.
It is now mandatory for the largest companies in the US to report using XBRL to the Securities and Exchange Commission and Brazil is planning to make it compulsory as well.
Once in place, the ultimate beneficiary should be investors and analysts who will be able to use the same software language to extract data and compare financial reports the options paper says.
Chair of the international accounting standards board, Hans Hoogervorst, said earlier this year he was disappointed in the take-up of XBRL, especially that they had failed to convince investors of its worth.
Submissions to the options paper close on March 15, 2013.
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An average American family: father John, mother Julia, and thirteen year-old daughter Bri journey back to Glooscap Island, Maine, the place of John s birth and early childhood, to care for his father Frank, who s suffered a stroke. John is less than thrilled with this move. They soon find they are being stalked by a kind of wraith that seems to be related to a dark secret from someone s past.
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Harvard epidemiologist to chair NZ scientific group
Harvard epidemiologist to chair NZ scientific group
Harvard epidemiologist Professor Carlos A. Camargo has been appointed the new chair of the Expert Scientific Advisory Group for the Growing Up in New Zealand (GUiNZ) longitudinal study.
The Advisory Group is comprised of New Zealand and international experts in child development, health and longitudinal research, and provides strategic advice on longitudinal study design and policy-relevant outcomes to the GUiNZ research team. Professor Camargo is a founding member of the group, providing expertise in a number of scientific areas relevant to the study.
"The Growing Up in New Zealand study is a national resource" says Professor Camargo. "I look forward to working closely with both the Auckland-based research team and the Expert Scientific Advisory Group on achieving the many important study objectives."
Dr Camargo is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health and the Conn Chair in Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He holds an international reputation in respiratory/allergy emergencies, health services research in emergency care, and several other public health issues.
Professor Camargo and his team study the causes and management of respiratory/allergy disorders, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and food allergy in several large cohorts. His team first described the strong association between obesity and risk of developing asthma, and discovered that higher intake of vitamin D by mothers during pregnancy was associated with a lower risk of wheezing in their children. Subsequent randomized trials demonstrated beneficial effects of vitamin D supplementation on winter-related atopic dermatitis and acute respiratory infections in children – findings that have opened up new avenues for the prevention and management of several respiratory/allergy disorders.
Professor Camargo took up the position on March 6, 2014.
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Unlike previous longitudinal studies in New Zealand, this study has collected multidisciplinary information about children's development on five occasions, from before birth to age 2 years. The study aims to provide evidence of whether existing government policies are reaching the families they were designed for and, if so, what effect they're having. This will enable the development of new policies that can be better targeted to address entrenched problems, and to harness success and solutions. It will also provide unique information about what shapes children's early development and how interventions might be targeted at the earliest opportunity to mitigate longer term effects of a poor start in life.
Growing Up in New Zealand currently offers access to information on vulnerable children, housing, breastfeeding/early solids, immunisation, languages, early childhood education, interaction with health and other key services, paid parental leave and maternal return to the workforce.
It is University of Auckland-led research. The government contract for the study is managed by the Families Commission. The study is funded by multiple government agencies.


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Amendments proposed by the Canadian Senate will restore the financial security of production tax credits, two senators announced today. Under the proposed changes, the Canadian government will not have the power to deny tax credits based on vague guidelines.The non-elected upper chamber has heard from over 50 witnesses in examining the legislation over several weeks. The omnibus tax bill, C-10, threatened to withhold production tax credits should a production be found contrary ...
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We have gotten very good performance from netapp and postgres 7.4.11 . I was able to push about 100MB/s over gigE, but that was limited by our netapp. DAS will generally always be faster, but if for example you have 2 disks vs. 100 NFS mounted ,NFS will be faster. NFS is very reliable and I would stay away from iscsi. Regards, Dan Gorman On Apr 26, 2006, at 7:35 PM, Steve Wampler wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 10:06:58PM -0400, Ketema Harris wrote: >> I was wondering if there were any performance issues with having a >> data >> directory that was an nfs mounted drive? Say like a SAN or NAS >> device? Has >> anyone done this before? > > My understanding is that NFS is pretty poor in performance in general, > so I would expect it to be particularly bad for a DB. You might run > some (non-DB) performance tests to get a feel for how bad it might me. > (Someone once told me that NFS topped out at around 12MB/s, but I > don't > know if that's really true [they were trying to sell a competitive > networked filesystem]). > > In any event, you're at least limited by ethernet speeds, if not more. > > -- > Steve Wampler -- swampler(at)noao(dot)edu > The gods that smiled on your birth are now laughing out loud. > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
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Lingerie Has Evolved, But The More Things Change The More They Stay The Same by Gregg Hall
Ask any woman what their definition of lingerie is and the answer that you get may depend on their age and what was viewed as sexy when they were coming up.
Lingerie comes in so many styles, fabrics, textures and colors that no matter which way a woman's tastes run, there will be something that they find appealing. While the younger generation may consider themselves to be wearing the latest innovations in intimate apparel, this is not the case at all.
Seamed stockings, a popular item with most women, are not a modern invention. Long before women were allowed to wear short skirts, our ancestors wore them under long, floor length dresses where men never had the opportunity to see and admire them. They were not designed to heighten sex appeal but were worn so the legs would be warm. Don't forget that there was no such thing as central heating back then and if you wanted to remain warm you had to dress accordingly. After short skirts and dresses entered the fashion world, only then were these stocking viewed by men and considered to be sexually appealing.
The same theory applies to the corsets that are very fashionable to wear these days. Modern women wear them as tops and they come in every type of color, even camouflage. The women who first wore them did so because they did not have bras and girdles back then. This all in one piece would support the breasts, cinch in the waist and girdle the tummy. They could actually be dangerous because they were often laced too tightly and caused the woman wearing it to faint due to lack of oxygen. Today's corsets are worn more for fashion than figure flaws but you can still get the form correcting ones in lingerie shops.
The older generation of women often donned negligees and penoir sets made of silky materials that highlighted the breasts. You can watch an old black and white movie and see the actresses sail across the room in their flowing gowns wearing high healed slippers with fuzzy trim. This was during the time when being glamorous was considered sexy. Women would get "dressed" for bed, brushing out their hair and donning silk and satin to sleep in.
Their fashion trends didn't stop with actual garments. The same high heeled fuzzy slippers are still considered fashionable and are still very much in demand today. They can usually be found in the more well known lingerie shops or online. Speaking of high heels, today's shoe wear would have the ladies of previous generations screaming, "copycat!" Today you see many women wearing espadrilles with the long ribbons that lace up the leg and are tied at the top of the calf. Far from being a new fashion in footwear, these very same shoes were worn decades ago by the same women that today's generation would call old fashioned.
Gregg Hall is an author living in Navarre Beach, Florida. Find more about this as well as women's lingerie at http://www.hotlingeriesuperstore.com
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May 24, 2006
Birmingham-Southern music student places in national choral composition contest
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Mary Elizabeth Neal, a graduating senior music major at Birmingham-Southern College, recently won third place in the fifth annual student NITLE composition competition for choral music. This year's competition was open to students at the 90 NITLE member schools.
As a winner in the competition, Neal will be an invited guest at the 2006 NITLE Music Technology Workshop and New Music Festival at Rollins College in June where her work will be performed and professionally recorded.
Neal, a native of Albertville, is the daughter of Donald and Kelley Neal. She will graduate from Birmingham-Southern May 27 with a bachelor of fine arts degree.
NITLE is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting liberal education. It provides opportunities for teachers in liberal arts contexts to create transformative learning experiences for and with their students by deploying emerging technologies in innovative, effective, and sustainable ways.


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The incidence of Alzheimer's Disease will double over the next 20 years. North Carolina currently has more than 150,000 older adults with Alzheimer's Disease, and by 2030, the total number is projected to rise to more than 294,000. Caregiving of a person with a cognitive impairment can be a distressing role that can lead to care providers developing medical conditions of their own.
The National Center on Caregiving has provided information entitled Caregiver's Guide to Understanding Dementia Behaviors with 10 tips for communicating with a person with dementia.
Ten Tips for Communicating with a Person with Dementia
1. Set a positive mood for interaction.
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4. Ask simple answerable questions.
5. Listen with your ears, eyes and heart.
6. Break down activities into a series of steps.
7. When the going gets tough, distract and redirect.
8. Respond with affection and reassurance.
9. Remember the good old days.
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For additional information, contact the National Center on Caregiving, Family Caregiver Alliance at: http://www.caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=391
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Kendrick Lamar To Open Pop-Up Shop In San FranciscoLamar's pop-up shop tour will kick off in Dallas, Texas and will arrive in San Francisco on August 4th.
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5 Spots To Fill Your Easter Basket With GoodiesMake your own Easter basket filled with wonderful edible items, all handcrafted by artisan makers and family-owned companies working out of San Francisco and Oakland.
Best Places For Easter Candy In San FranciscoBesides finding the perfect hat, get the perfect candy for your Easter basket at these great stores in San Francisco.
Best Places For St. Patrick's Day Attire In The Bay AreaWhile many stores carry a limited selection of St. Patrick's Day buttons and accessories, there are a few that offer a wider range of clothing options.
5 Spots For 'Must-Have' Valentine's Day GiftsHere is a small sampling of five of the best places to buy Valentine's gifts for her in San Francisco, all of them pleasantly unique to the City by the Bay.
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UPDATE 4:15 p.m.: U.S. intelligence officials have confirmed that an anti-air missile downed the plane, though they have yet to determine who shot it, according to The Wall Street Journal.
A Malaysia Airlines plane has reportedly been shot down over Ukraine, a Ukrainian interior ministry official told the Associated Press. Malaysia Airlines has confirmed that it lost contact with the plane, MH17, over Ukraine, though it did not provide any other information.
The Ukrainian official, Anton Gerashchenko, claimed in a Facebook message that pro-Russian separatists downed the airliner with a Buk missile. However, the rebels denied any involvement, saying they did not have the necessary firepower to bring down a jet.
A Voice of Russia report last month claimed the Donetsk People's Republic — a rebel group — had taken control of an eastern Ukrainian military base equipped with anti-aircraft missiles. Rebel forces also reportedly downed a military jet earlier this week, one month after they claimed credit for taking out a military transport aircraft as it prepared to land in Luhansk, killing 49.
MH17 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, and was reportedly carrying 295 people.
The White House said President Obama had been briefed about the plane crash. Jon Terbush
On Monday, newly minted White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci announced the return of televised briefings. "The TV cameras are back on," Scaramucci tweeted.
In his introductory appearance at Friday's press briefing following the news that Sean Spicer was resigning as White House press secretary, to be succeeded by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Scaramucci said he'd "have to talk to the president" about resuming on-camera briefings. On CNN on Sunday, he said his "personal opinion" was that "we should put the cameras on."
There were no on-camera briefings from the White House from June 29 until July 21, the day Spicer resigned and Scaramucci and Sanders held the briefing addressing the news. Kimberly Alters
The program that spawned your works of art in elementary school computer lab is getting the ax. Microsoft Paint has been relegated to the "features that are removed or deprecated" list in the upcoming Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, The Guardian reported, meaning that the image-editing application has been tagged by Microsoft as "not in active development and might be removed in future releases."
Microsoft Paint has been around since Windows 1.0, which was released in 1985. The new frontier of Microsoft art is Paint 3D, which was introduced in April. Wired noted that while the apps have a name in common, "the new 3D version works in a very different way and doesn't resemble the original in pretty much any way."
It's been fun, Paint. Becca Stanek
Americans are evenly divided over whether President Trump should be impeached, USA Today/iMediaEthics poll results released Monday reveal. While 42 percent believe impeachment is appropriate, exactly 42 percent say it isn't. In another even split, the same survey found 34 percent of Americans would be upset about such an impeachment, and another 34 percent would not.
Though impeachment does not necessarily entail removal from office, as in the case of former President Bill Clinton, more than a third of those surveyed — 36 percent — said they think it likely or certain Trump will not complete his first term. There, as with the impeachment questions, partisanship is amply evident: Just 1 in 10 Republicans doubt Trump will finish out the first four years.
At present, no impeachment efforts have credible momentum in Congress. Bonnie Kristian
Among President Trump's most dramatic campaign promises was his pledge to "drain the swamp," to clear out unethical arrangements and backroom deals of all sorts in Washington, a feat made possible by Trump's outsider status.
Six months into the Trump presidency, Walter Shaub, who this month resigned as director of the United States Office of Government Ethics citing "the current situation," isn't quite sure Trump understands how "drain the swamp" works. He took to Twitter on Monday to offer an explanation:
Can someone tell POTUS "drain the swamp" refers to ethics problems not to folks who disagree with him? Not sure he knows he's using it wrong
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) July 24, 2017
Trump himself also had "drain the swamp" on his mind while tweeting Monday morning, suggesting that "drain the sewer" might be a more apt phrase:
Drain the Swamp should be changed to Drain the Sewer - it's actually much worse than anyone ever thought, and it begins with the Fake News!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 24, 2017
To spare Shaub some time, let me go ahead and clarify that sewers already have drains — in fact, as this diagram helpfully shows, sewers are a systems of drains — while swamps are natural ecosystems known for their stagnant or slow-moving water. Bonnie Kristian
Kellyanne Conway christens Trump supporters who stood by him after the Access Hollywood tape the 'October 8th coalition'
While heaping praise on Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), White House counselor Kellyanne Conway unveiled the Trump administration's special name for those who stood by then-candidate Donald Trump in the wake of the Access Hollywood tape's release on Oct. 7. In the tape, Trump can be overheard bragging about grabbing women by their genitals. "We will always remember how tenacious and loyal Mark and Debbie Meadows were, especially after October 7. They're definitely members of what we call the 'October 8th coalition,'" Conway said in an interview with the Washington Examiner published Monday.
After the tape was released, Debbie Meadows "boarded a 'Women for Trump' bus with 10 other wives of congressmen, and defended the candidate," the Washington Examiner recalled. That sort of loyalty — perhaps alongside the fact that Debbie sends Conway cookies — has given the head of the House Freedom Caucus and his wife a certain power under the Trump administration. "In the final month, beginning with her boarding that bus ... in the face of a great deal of pressure to do otherwise — tells you something about their tenacity and loyalty," Conway added.
Read more on Meadows, an increasingly influential player in Trump's Washington, at The Washington Examiner. Becca Stanek
Putin reportedly told Trump that Russian hackers are too good to get caught. Trump believed him.
A New York Times story published Monday on the Russian sanctions deal made in Congress over the weekend — and President Trump's response to it — relays an anecdote from an unnamed White House aide which sees Trump accepting an argument from Russian President Vladimir Putin that Moscow could not be responsible for 2016 election meddling because Russian hackers are too competent to have their work discovered.
When "Mr. Trump met Mr. Putin in Hamburg, Germany, two weeks ago," the Times reports, Trump "emerged to tell his aides that the Russian president had offered a compelling rejoinder: Moscow's cyberoperators are so good at covert computer-network operations that if they had dipped into the Democratic National Committee's systems, they would not have been caught."
Trump seems to have believed this rationale, as new White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci made the same case in his appearance on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday. Had the Kremlin hacked the DNC, "you would have never seen it," he said. "You would have never had any evidence of them, meaning that they're super-confident in their deception skills and hacking." When CNN's Jake Tapper asked Scaramucci for his source on that claim, Scaramucci cited Trump. Bonnie Kristian
President Trump kicked off his week by tweeting about Russia. On Monday morning, Trump took a quote from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) criticizing Hillary Clinton for blaming her loss on outside factors as a suggestion that it's time to move on from the Russia investigation since "after one year of investigation" there's been "zero evidence" found.
Trump conveniently cropped out the portion of Schumer's quote about Clinton losing "to somebody with 40 percent popularity":
After 1 year of investigation with Zero evidence being found, Chuck Schumer just stated that "Democrats should blame ourselves,not Russia."
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 24, 2017
Trump then questioned why investigators and "beleaguered" Attorney General Jeff Sessions aren't "looking into Crooked Hillary's crimes":
So why aren't the Committees and investigators, and of course our beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked Hillarys crimes & Russia relations?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 24, 2017
Joshua Green, author of Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency, pointed out the reason Sessions is so "beleaguered" is because he "put his career on the line to endorse Trump — who has now turned on him."
Trump also took a swing at Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Trump's potential ties to Russia:
Sleazy Adam Schiff, the totally biased Congressman looking into "Russia," spends all of his time on television pushing the Dem loss excuse!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 24, 2017
Before diving into his Russia tweetstorm, Trump tweeted out a proposed change to his signature campaign phrase: "Drain the Swamp should be changed to Drain the Sewer — it's actually much worse than anyone ever thought, and it begins with the Fake News!" Becca Stanek


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Washington, DC
Lunch is more than a meal in this city, where restaurants cater to politicos and are often the setting for legislation negotiations. Power lunch spots include the many steak houses just steps from the U.S. Capitol Building.
Where to Eat: The Caucus Room is a popular bipartisan choice: It's owned by former Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour, prominent Democrat lobbyist Tom Boggs and Ed Mathias from the Carlyle Group, the third largest private equity firm in the world. Superstar chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten's J&G Steakhouse and Charlie Palmer Steak have discreet private dining areas and serve many congressmen and senators every week. Restaurateur Michael Landrum's unpretentious spot Ray's the Steaks in nearby Arlington, Virginia, is a low-key favorite of locals.