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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:27 pm
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Sapp Daddy's mock draft
Carl Nicks
Jeremy Zuttah
Andrew Economos
Erik Lorig
Dekoda Watson
Jonathan Casillas
Free Agency:
4 yrs / 33 million
Alex Mack Center
Why the Bucs sign him: Mack is the best center that is available and would instantly improve our offense and offensive line immediately. I think that we need to make the move to go out and sign him at the earliest convenience as having a great center is a great start getting your trenches in tact.
Michael Johnson Defensive End
4 yrs/ 25 million
Why the Bucs sign him: If you are able to get an end for that has had multiple double digit sack years for less than 10 million dollars a year then you make the gamble for Johnson. I think the reason for his down year last season was attributed to the injury of Geno Atkins. I think that him paired with Geraldini could allow him to relive those double digit sack years.
Jason Campbell Quarterback
2 years /9 million
Why the Bucs sign him: With him being recently being cut, I think that the Bucs would be best served to sign him. In his last two starts with the Browns he looked nothing short of solid. Campbell was actually the best QB the Raiders have had in the last 10 years which isn't saying much, but he could be great competition for Glennon and could challenge for the starting position.
Note: I used the up to date CBS Draft rankings as of 1/20
Pick 1 Pick Seven: Tampa Trades pick to Arizona for their first round pick (pick 20), Second Round Pick ( pick 53), Fourth Round pick (pick 117) and next years first pick.
Why the Bucs make this trade: Because of the fact that they realize that Watkins and Lewan being their best potential picks here they could gain more by trading the pick that would most likely be Khalil Mack to team that might be in need of a 3-4 outside linebacker
Why the Cardinals would do this trade: They need a top tier pass rusher at that can play in the 3-4 position and Mack could be a solid pick.
Round 1 Pick 20: Ryan Shaizer OLB The Ohio State University
Why the Bucs take him: Plain and simple Shazier is the perfect match for Lovie/Leslie's defense as he is a true 3 down linebacker and has the ability to recognize plays quickly and easily and can go out and cover opposing tight ends as well as stuff the run.
Round 2 Pick 40: Cyril Richardson OG Baylor
Why the Bucs take him: Is an excellent run blocking guard, a solid pass blocking guard and has the mobility and talent to be a very good day one replacement to the lost Carl Nicks. And the give the Bucs a more solid offensive line then they had last year.
Round 2 Pick 53: Troy Niklas TE Notre Dame
Why the Bucs take him: He is a very solid tight end that continues the streak of solid tight ends from Notre Dame, and he provides the ability to be a solid blocker as well as a great pass catcher that could be an upgrade over Tim Wright/Tom Crabtree combo as a 3 down tight end.
Round 4 Pick 104: Robert Herron WR Wyoming
Why the Bucs take him: Like his talented QB he has fallen under the radar for far too long and can really excel at the next level as he can be the "Burner" that Bucs were looking for in the slot position.
Round 4 Pick 117: Seantrel Henderson OT U of Miami
Why the Bucs take him: Size and depth are the first two things that pop out when you think of Seantrel. But the guy does have tons of raw talent similar to our current Right Tackle, but I think Seantrel's ceiling is much higher, it is a matter of motivating him and I think that this is the team that he can be motivated by seeing the likes of Donald Penn a former undrafted free agent turned Pro Bowl Tackle. With him and Dotson I think that you then would have the ability to have a back up tackle in him and Carimi (if Lovie keeps him) that can play both Tackle positions.
Round 5 Pick 141: Aaron Lynch DE USF
Why the Bucs take him: Currently could be a great rotational Defense End with the possibility to be starter down the road. I think that he can be motivated into being a very good End down the road if properly motivated
Round 7 Pick 205: Logan Thomas QB Virginia Tech
Why the Bucs take him: A potential developmental QB that can be Arroyo's developmental prospect with the possibility to move over to tight end. Could see what he has at this pick and not lose too much of a value pick
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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:51 pm
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Shazier is a David clone. I don't see him playing in the middle.
Rest is pretty good.
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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:52 pm
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Love Everything But Henderson , Campbell, and Shazier
Henderson is Ingonito 2.0 hate his attitude and he a ok OT
Campbell is not worth 4.5 Mil a year. look to Mclown for 1-2 Mil less and we still need CB look to Tillman
Look to Murphy or Tuitt in at #20 instead of Shazier
Kwon Alexander
90 Tackles, 7 Tackles for Loss, 3 Sacks, 1 INT
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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:57 pm
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Shazier is a David clone. I don't see him playing in the middle.
Rest is pretty good.
I agree about Shazier, I still would have Mason in the Middle but I know that we have a need for another outside linebacker and that's why I went with Shazier
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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 9:00 pm
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SappDaddyDance wrote:
bucstopshere wrote:
Shazier is a David clone. I don't see him playing in the middle.
Rest is pretty good.
I agree about Shazier, I still would have Mason in the Middle but I know that we have a need for another outside linebacker and that's why I went with Shazier
Well when Lovie was at CHI the only LBs that were famous were Briggs and Urlacher, cause he manly had 2 LBs on the field that is the same here and Watson/Johnathon is a Good starter
Kwon Alexander
90 Tackles, 7 Tackles for Loss, 3 Sacks, 1 INT
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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 9:02 pm
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Eh I like the trade back idea but I don't like the shazier pick. I don't think he can play the middle. If we trade back I'd look at Jordan matthews , Jace Amaro or Trent Murphy.
Hate the Jason Campbell signing. Decent back up to a team with an established starter. We don't have that. Need competition at qb and that's why I think we take one high.
Again love Mack but I don't see us spending big money on just one guy.
Johnson I think is going to come cheaper than most think. The market will not overpay IMO and prob. Get a 5-6 mm a year deal. Nice.
I'd take Gabe Jackson over Richardson. Just like him more as a road graitor.
With another 2nd I'd definitely take Garapolo round 2.
Not a fan of Henderson. Britt from Missouri is a better pick IMO later on.
Overall I'm not gonna say I like it. Herron is probably my favorite pick. Niklas doesn't jump out at me in round 2. Also I'm staying far away from Logan thomas. Talk about a wasted pick. Besides a strong arm I see no upside to him at all and be cut in TC.
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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 9:20 pm
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I hate the draft honestly. The FA pick-ups are good though.
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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 10:41 pm
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Really solid.
Like the Mack move. Need tied with our coaching staff makes it an easy choice. Not the biggest fan of Johnson, would prefer Allen but the price looks right. Also like the vet qb grab but would rather have McCown.
Depends who is left when we are up a seven but I like the value for trading back. Don't like our first pick though. I would rather Maqise Lee or ASJ.
With the two seconds I'd like to go some kind of Gabe Jackon/Xavier Su'a-Filo/Aaron Donald combo. Make our fronts on either side nasty!
Don't see Herron lasting but like the pick. Worth the risk on Henderson at that point.
Jameis Winston
4,090 YDs 28 TDs 18 INTs
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We are inching closer to the Drive4COPD 300 at Daytona International Speedway on February 23rd as the NASCAR Nationwide Series will kick off their 2013 season.
Wednesday it was announced that former ARCA Series driver Chad Hackenbracht has signed a developmental contract with Tri-Star Motorsports. Hackenbracht had 47 starts in the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards. He recorded his first career ARCA win in 2012 when he won the August 4th race at Pocono Raceway and finished fifth in the point standings. Hackenbracht will run at least five races for the organization in the NASCAR Nationwide Series in 2013, he is excited to venture into NASCAR.
"I am excited for the opportunity to race with TriStar Motorsports in the Nationwide Series," said Hackenbracht. "I have not run any NASCAR events and I'm excited to make my debut in the Nationwide Series with an established team. My expectations are to finish every race I run this year, qualify in the top-20 and pull off top-15 finishes."
The 21-year olds exact schedule will be announced at a later date.
It was also announced Wednesday that Reed Sorenson will pilot the #40 Chevrolet for The Motorsports Group in the 2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series. Sorenson has 354 career NASCAR starts under his belt including 171 in the Nationwide Series where he has recorded four wins. Sorenson ran six races in the Nationwide Series in 2012 and recorded a best finish of 13th at Kentucky Speedway. Veteran crew chief Gary Showalter will be the crew chief of the #40 Chevrolet Camero.Tags: Chad Hackenbracht, Motorsports, NASCAR, NASCAR Nationwide Series, Tri-Star Motorsports

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500 million stolen financial records in the last 12 monthsCIO
Week after week a new breach is reported, followed by more advice on how best to protect yourself. But as this week's news roundup from SearchCIO's Fran Sales shows, the degree to which companies are unprepared for cybercrime is downright scary. She recounts the story of one organization that didn't know it had been hacked until the FBI was at its door with bad news: The company's network defenses, such as they were, had been breached and intellectual property stolen.
CIOs should take it as a good sign that the Feds came calling. When you read about what Sales heard from security experts this week at a cybersecurity conference in Boston, it's clear that fighting cybercrime will take a concerted, coordinated effort by both the private sector and the government. These criminal networks are organized, specialized and highly efficient. Staples realized this when it sought the help of the FBI this week in response to a possible breach of its systems. Experts strongly suggest other companies should follow suit.
In other news this week, robots may be able to help in the fight to contain Ebola, Apple's quarterly earnings report is out (and it's not too shabby), IBM is selling its unprofitable chip manufacturing business, and more in this week's Searchlight.
Is there a business workhorse behind the comely exterior of iPad Air?CIO
Not so long ago, SearchCIO cautioned CIOs to hold off on replacing PCs with tablets. Despite all the user-friendliness of tablets, there was not a whole lot of heavy duty work that we business workhorses could do on them. Then Apple and IBM announced a partnership to provide enterprise software services for the iPad, offering up the possibility that the tablet could be more than just a handy gadget for C-suite executives and mobile sales forces.
This week, on the heels of unveiling the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, Apple introduced the iPad Air. And who knows? Maybe the era of tablet productivity may really be upon us. But as Associate Site Editor Fran Sales reports in this week's Searchlight news roundup, it won't be the device's sleek exterior that wins over the business crowd.
In other news this week: Google introduced Lollipop (version 5 of its Android OS), which includes a way to remotely wipe your phone if it falls into the wrong hands; Facebook and Apple will cover egg freezing expenses for female employees; and Dropbox dodges a bullet. Find these stories and more in this week's Searchlight.
Machine learning, AI and the enterpriseCIO
By 2020, Gartner predicts that smart machines, which use machine learning to complete tasks humans would otherwise perform, will have a widespread impact on the business. And, in less than three years — by 2017 — virtual personal assistants will begin making a mark on the enterprise.
Here's an example of how machine learning is impacting one organization: Through a partnership with MIT, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston is exploring how to exploit nursing expertise in the labor and delivery department by using machine learning algorithms.
"It turns out, on the labor and delivery floor, when babies are born, it looks a lot like an air traffic control system," Julie Shah, assistant professor in the aeronautics and astronautics department at MIT, said. One nurse allocates resources for the floor and figures out which patients go where, who needs what, and helps determine when reinforcements should be called in, according to Shah.
"Some people are really good at it, and some people are not good at it all," she said. "And the people who are really good at it can save millions of dollars just by making better decisions — because they have the whole picture or more expertise or have been around longer."
But, the most experienced nurse is not always the one calling the shots. "So the question is, how can we support nurses in training or nurses who are newer to the role to be as efficient as the most experienced nurses?" Shah said. An answer could be machine learning.
Read more about how Beth Israel is leveraging machine learning in the ER and take a closer look at the work Shah's doing to solve the human-robot collaboration problem.
A quick lesson from HP's splitCIO
Everyone has been buzzing this week about HP's split into two smaller companies. The general consensus on the spilt? Smart move, HP.
It's clear consumers favor social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies, Associate Site Editor Fran Sales reports, and all consumers have their unique needs and preferences. It seems enterprises are catching on, as they should be.
SearchCIO expert Niel Nickolaisen says it well: "You might be able to remain competitive as a generalist, but I think it will be increasingly difficult as you compete with specialists."
Key words being used to describe HP's move, in addition to "specialized," include "smaller" and "nimbler." Now, it seems, HP will be able to focus its investments and more effectively drive innovation.
In other news this week, Samsung's Q3 profits are estimated to be the lowest in three years; there are vulnerabilities in Mozilla's bug-tracking tool; and an AT&T employee gained access to the telecom customers' social security numbers, drivers' licenses and purchase data. That and more in this week's Searchlight.
Box CEO Aaron Levie: A client call a day keeps cluelessness awayBox, CIO, Cloud storage, Collaboration tools
Aaron Levie, the voluble, vivacious 29-year-old co-founder of Box with an estimated worth of $100 million, spends 50% of his time on the road meeting with customers. He's been to construction sites, movie studios, GE, Toyota, Eli Lilly. "I was at Sea World a couple of weeks ago," said Levie at the recent EmTech conference, where he was interviewed on stage.
His nine-year-old company had trained itself to be more customer-focused about four years ago, Levie said. But his own intense customer focus was fairly recent, started about a year ago after he met with people he considers mentors — "my enterprise software heroes" — in what sounded like a taking-stock exercise. These heroes, as the story goes, asked to inspect his calendar then told him he wasn't spending enough time with customers. He should be doing at least a client call a day, if not more.
"We started out as a very product-focused company," Levie said of the cloud storage company. All the company's time and all of his time was spent on product innovation, on perfecting the underlying stack of the Box service. Then a funny thing happened on the way to doing business with the likes of Disney. A "robust and differentiated technology" gets you in the door at the Fortune 500, he said, but unless "you spend time with them and know their environment and can work at their level," you won't become one of their trusted vendors.
User-centric or bust
What has Levie learned by spending time with his customers?
"The single most important feature of this next-generation IT is that it is user-centric," Levie said. The CIOs he meets with are asking "'What is the problem the user is trying to solve — with technology to do that,' as opposed to 'Here is my existing set of technologies and what can I cobble together?'" The old "system-centric" approach to solving business problems is no longer viable, or shouldn't be.
Keep in mind that Levie, whose wild-and-crazy-guy coif is going gray at the temples, is a good talker (and very conversant in IT-speak, too). He also likes to drop names –.e.g. "What we saw happening with a lot of leading CIOs at companies like Netflix and Procter & Gamble and …."
In addition, the company's IPO, which was filed last spring but delayed because of a weak market for technology stocks, is expected to launch later this year or early 2015. So, whatever he's learned by spending 50% of his time with customers is also what he thinks investors want to hear. Indeed, an important feature of the "next-generation IT" these big-time CIOs are using are best-of-breed tools like Workday and MobileIron and Box.
All that said, who can argue with the idea that in order for IT organizations to solve business problems, IT organizations must look at the problem through the lens of the business customer?
Nimble and able: Bring on 'nimbility'
Levie was asked one hard question by his on-stage interlocutor, Jason Pontin, editor-in-chief and publisher of the MIT Technology Review. Box does business in a very crowded market, Pontin said, competing at one end with the likes of Google, Amazon and Microsoft on storage and at the other end with startups such as Quip, a cutting edge collaboration app that is getting (mostly) rave reviews.
"Where does Box fit into that? And how can it compete with these big-ass companies offering free services on the one hand and a lot of very nimble startups on the other?" Pontin said.
The question seems particularly relevant this week, with the news that HP has decided to split off its consumer and enterprise businesses in a bid to become both a more able and more nimble enterprise IT services provider.
For the record, Levie gave the right answer. The company aims to outdo the big guys on nimbleness and partner with the up-and-comers. "We have to balance user experience and security and compliance in a way that few of them can."
Email Linda Tucci, executive editor at SearchCIO, or find her on Twitter @ltucci.
Wozniak's five rules for building technology people loveApple, CIO
The two analysts who flanked Steven Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc., at last night's Gartner Symposium keynote might have landed the easiest speaker assignment in the world. All Ken Dulaney and David Willis had to do was open up a treasure trunk stuffed with tech items — a battery, a cable, a CD — and ask Wozniak what he thought. In seconds, Woz, as he's affectionately known, provided a breathless stream-of-consciousness analysis, each object acting as a trigger for an unexpected destination.
The talk covered immense ground — from wearable technology and mobile payments to the future of batteries and how he came to be chief scientist at Fusion-io, a startup recently acquired by SanDisk that specializes in flash memory solid state storage. (The answer: The company designed systems the way he did.) Tightly interwoven in all of the tech talk were personal anecdotes that touched on Wozniak's passion for Segways, his fascination with gadgets and the inspiration he finds in the world around him.
"I saw someone wearing Google Glass, and I wished I'd brought mine," he said. It might not do much for $1,500, "but what it does is so nice and small and convenient," he said. "It triggers ideas in your head of what the future could be."
The talk was breezy — more popcorn than peas — but it contained kernels for CIOs on how to build systems and processes for the business in a way that highlights simplicity and human nature. Here are five.
Build for yourself first. Why was the Apple II computer so successful? Because Wozniak so badly wanted to design a personal computer for himself. "That's where the greatest products often come from," he said. "Not thinking about what other people want or how to make a great product for other people, but how to make it for yourself." That kind of personal perspective influenced how Steve Jobs designed the iPhone and Elon Musk his electric car. "Why is it such a beautiful car? Why is the business model of that company so different and so right?" Wozniak asked. "It was thought out from his own personal point of view."
Convenience is king. It's hard to describe Wozniak's affinity for tech. "It's in my heart," he said, describing his drive to absorb manuals and textbooks from college courses. But just because he loves tech doesn't me he's a fan of every gadget on the market. Smartwatches? "I'm turned off by them," he said. For him, the experience is too much like what a smartphone offers. A ring that acts as a key or even a payment device by using two-step authentication connected to the phone, on the other hand? Wozniak would love to see it, but isn't holding his breath.
Voice recognition is the way forward. Wozniak said Apple's Newton tablet "changed his life forever." When he scribbled a reminder on the note pad and pressed the "assist" button, the random thought he jotted down — dentist, Tuesday, 2 p.m. — transformed into a calendar item. He sees the same kind of power in voice-recognition software and natural language processing found in technologies like Apple's Siri and IBM's Watson to cut out having to "go through the procedures" of typing or writing. "I want to deal with things the human way," he said. "To speak … and have machines understand me."
If it walks like a duck. The last item Wozniak pulled out of the trunk was a miniature trashcan. "On the Mac, we wanted to make things so human and understandable; we had a picture of a trashcan to delete files," he said. No one had to explain to the user what the trashcan (an icon still used on Macs today) was for because it "was too human," he said.
Invest in builders. Advancing systems such as voice-recognition technology or building something as intuitive as a digital eraser that actually erases won't happen without builders, Wozniak said. It's the engineers who have a keen eye on what new materials and resources are needed to get a product to market. But how do you spot the next Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak? "I don't know the answer to that, to be honest with you," he said. "I've tried to do it and failed." One tip? He suggested building relationships with universities to tap talent and even to just tap opinion. "Steve Jobs would keep in touch with young people — high school and university students who kept him apprised of what they thought about product — and that meant quite a bit to him," he said.
HP's distributed mesh computing solution for the IoTCIO
No one disputes that the Internet of Things has the potential to generate
large amounts of data. Gartner has predicted there will be close to 26 billion devices on the IoT by 2020.
The question is how to handle the IoT sensor traffic. One approach that is getting a lot of buzz is mesh networking, a computing architecture constructed of nodes that are wirelessly connected to each other. Data hops from node to node until it reaches its destination across the network. But while mesh networks show promise — and would be cheaper than using the Internet for this traffic — some enterprise IT folks are not so certain these self-organized and self-governed networks are a viable IoT architecture for enterprises.
Enter the newly bisected HP, which thinks it has found a way to use a highly managed cloud infrastructure to efficiently handle the sensor data.
HP calls this "distributed mesh computing", explained Bobby Patrick, chief marketing officer of HP Cloud (pictured, left).
Distributed mesh computing, as described by Patrick, consists of small servers "out on the edge" (literally on street corners collecting data close to the ground), medium sized servers and storage in the middle that store data, and big servers in a central location where the heavy analytics and long-term storage take place.
"All of these things will work together in one big distributed mesh computing system to serve this massive growth in data and connected devices expectation that we'll have in the next five years," Patrick said.
HP is not the only one working with this concept of distributed computing and storing data closer to the ground for the IoT. Cisco is also doing this and calling it fog computing.
As for distributed mesh computing's relation to mesh networks, Patrick said HP's cloud-based solution for IoT traffic is similar in that data is stored in multiple locations so that if one server goes down, the data can still be accessed. (The HP Helion hybrid cloud solution is built on OpenStack, the open-source cloud computing software platform.) With its always-on mesh infrastructure, the architecture would also be more resilient in a catastrophe, he said, because in order to completely eliminate access to the data stored in the servers, every single server would have to be destroyed.
Said Patrick: "This era of distributed mesh computing is something that I guarantee you, over the next few years, everyone will be talking about. This is really the new architecture of the future."
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Let us know what you think about the story; email Kristen Lee, features writer, or find her on Twitter @Kristen_Lee_34.
Desperately seeking the digital futureCIO
Man overboard! Or, in the case of The New York Times this week, make that 100 newsroom jobs cut loose, kaput, as the newspaper navigates the perilous seas of the digital economy.
"The job losses are necessary to control our costs and to allow us to continue to invest in the digital future of The New York Times, but we know that they will be painful both for the individuals affected and for their colleagues," said Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and CEO Mark Thompson.
In addition to the job cuts, the paper announced it is shutting two of its mobile apps, NYT Opinion, focused on editorial content, and NYT Now, aimed at younger readers. Neither had attracted enough subscribers to make them worth the paper's while.
As Associate Site Editor Francesca Sales lays out in this week's Searchlight News Roundup, the challenge facing The Times is to think digital-first. Its mobile apps must offer a new experience to users, not just recycle the same content the paper publishes in print and online. Here's hoping the Gray Lady figures it out.
Meantime, the paper's announcement sends an important message to every old-economy business out there seeking a foothold in the digital economy.
By coupling the announcement of layoffs with its struggle to create a digital future for itself, The Times has vividly illustrated the urgency of the task and the price to be paid for failing.
The sweet sound of enterprise social collaboration success
If a single email lands in a single inbox, does it make a sound? OK, that's an easy answer: It depends on the recipient's personal inbox settings. But if a single post lands on your company's intranet or is shared via another internal communications tool, you can bet it will make some metaphorical noise — and, in front of so many eyes, it might turn into a profitable prospect for your business.
Enterprise social collaboratioon success comprises a lot more than tweeting your company's latest press release or posting a photo of your newest product line on Facebook, Instagram or Pinterest. Yes, your customers are out there and consuming your company through these channels — so keep it up — but also consider that many of your employees would prefer to share ideas through social networks rather than singular emails or face-to-face communiqué, especially if they work in different offices or even time zones. In this SearchCIO's handbook, we explore various aspects of social networking, and explain how to keep your best employees engaged through enterprise platforms.
In our first piece, business writer Christine Parizo looks at how organizations including the San Jose Sharks are using social networks and gamification to steer employees toward profitable and productive online interactions. In our second piece, CIO columnist Harvey Koeppel traces the evolution of communications from smoke signals to SMAC—social, mobile, analytics and cloud. In our final piece, CTO Niel Nickolaisen shares his own experiences with enterprise social networking, offering valuable advice to CIOs undertaking their own social implementations.
Hear that ding emanating from your intranet? It's the sweet sound of a budding business opportunity. Seize it.
Learn more in the full handbook.
The Bash shell bugCIO
Another week, another security flaw, and it's a bad one this time. The Bash shell bug, as it's being called, has been living in your enterprise's Linux software for more than 20 years and can be found in every version of Linux up to 4.3. Affecting Linux and Mac OS X, the bug is also very versatile and can be exploited to take over any system.
The bug is so bad it was given a rating of 10 by US-CERTS National Vulnerability Database. (You really can't get any higher than that, folks.)
So (sigh), as SearchCIO's Fran Sales points out, it's time to test and patch away. There are various Linux variants available that provide patches; Apple has yet to speak out and address the problem.
If you're uncertain whether a particular system is vulnerable, Sales' news roundup provides an easy command to detect whether the Bash shell bug is present.
In other news this week, a hacker stole customer data from Jimmy John's restaurant, Apple has sold over 10 million iPhone 6 devices last weekend, UPS will be rolling out 3-D printing services at nearly 100 locations nationwide, and more in this week's Searchlight.


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More people queued over one long weekend to watch the her lying in state in Westminster Hall than visited the parliament of which the hall is a part in the five years from Tony Blair's election.
MPs should take note. The House of Commons, with its strange hours, long debates and petty rows, cannot hope to match last week's extraordinary spectacle. But a parliament whose public face is normally that of a stately home or an Oxbridge college, with visitors allowed in only on sufferance, could learn from the flexibility that saw Westminster Hall thrown open to the people through the night.
This matters not just out of democratic principle but because by failing to reach out to citizens parliament is speeding its own slide from relevance.
As things stand, a building that should symbolise democracy reeks of intimidation. From the stout policemen that guard the badly marked public entrance to the arcane language and member's only bars and private rooms inside, there is not much sign that parliament is run by the people, or for the people - or even that it welcomes the people.
Described as "strangers" in their own parliament the public is out of bounds in the Palace of Westminster and made to feel it.
As Stephen Twigg, the reformist Labour MP appointed last year to run the House of Commons as Robin Cook's deputy, told Guardian Unlimited Politics this week, parliament "is an extremely unwelcoming place".
Of course legitimate fears about security are the cause of some of this. Blame the IRA, not us, say MPs when they speed past the public, shuffling forward to be scanned by machines at the end of Westminster Hall (though the MPs do not know that the public are welcomed into the Northern Irish assembly, which, unlike the British parliament, has a public café and a shop).
And that stuffy atmosphere is in part a product of a stuffy Victorian building: nothing, except dynamite and a good architect, can change that.
It's true, too, that behind the formality most MPs are tolerant of outsiders. Any lunchtime visit to Westminster shows members of parliament shepherding visitors around the building and answering their questions. In fact in central lobby parliament can feel genuinely democratic.
The trouble is that most British citizens never get anywhere near central lobby, deterred by a political system that remains elitist and offputting and offers them no sense of ownership.
This is especially true of the House of Commons, a conservative institution that, shamefully, has lagged behind the House of Lords in almost every aspect of modernisation, from television broadcasts to the internet.
The Commons' outward appearance remains antique. Served by staff in white tie and tails, it echoes Victorian Britain.
So what can be done?
A start would be to welcome the curious, not make them queue in the street outside unsheltered, uninformed and constrained by crash barriers. There is no sign outside the Palace of Westminster welcoming visitors or explaining what they can do there or even what they must do just to get inside: visitors must confront a policeman to find the answers.
"The Palace of Westminster is primarily a place of work and public access to it must not impinge on that work," a House of Commons committee concluded this year, the voice of an institution that has never come to terms with mass democracy.
A building full of bars and restaurants has no place where visitors can eat or drink (though this is to change) and not even a visitor's loo. There's no one in the public gallery to explain what is going on in the chamber: visitors must guess for themselves or give up and leave.
Simple, inexpensive changes, could sort out a lot of this. As Mr Twigg suggests, Westminster Hall, currently underused, could take on a new role as the public heart of parliament.
This summer an existing tea shop off the hall will be redecorated and thrown open to all comers. Bigger changes such as a visitor's centre are in the pipeline. MPs ought to come down to explain what they do; a video wall with linked to cameras across the parliament ought to explain the institution at work.
In September citizenship becomes a part of the school curriculum, another opportunity for parliament, if it chooses to take it as Tony Breslin, from the Citizenship Foundation, argues this week.
It is perhaps idealistic to expect parliament to become an open, democratic a centrepiece of any visit to London as Congress is in Washington - although the transparency planned into the new home of the London Assembly and the German Reichstag are lessons in what is possible.
But electronic accessibility is certainly achievable. Parliament's website is about to get a makeover but welcome though this is the site will still fail to tell a voter anything about their MP's voting record, or interests, or their individual parliamentary activity - the very issues people want to know about.
Its layout will still be driven by incomprehensible traditions of Hansard columns and the legislative process that do not relate to the way politics is now reported and understood outside Westminster.
This affects television, too. The BBC's Parliament channel is available on digital television but broadcasters are banned from filming in most of the Palace of Westminster and even in the Commons chamber rules limit the cameras from using shots things that can be seen clearly from the public gallery. No pictures of MPs voting. No shots of David Blunkett's dog. And certainly no close-ups.
As a result television cannot capture the life of parliament; it comes across as closed, obscure and irrelevant even when it isn't. And to appear on TV beyond the Chamber MPs must leave the building for Millbank or College Green, sucking the life out of the Commons itself.
Yet the absurdity of allowing television cameras and lights in Westminster Hall only for the duration of the Queen Mother's lying in state has not produced an outcry.
It should have done. Speaking to Guardian Unlimited Politics this week Stephen Twigg argues that MPs have a "growing awareness" of the problem of parliament's inaccessibility.
Shocked by the collapse in turnout at the last election politicians are prepared to accept that all is not well with the political system.
They are less clear about what to do in response. Many proposals, from electoral reform to a rebalancing of the relationship between parliament and executive, require constitutional upheaval. Opening up parliament does not.
As the political system struggles to keep the trust of the people such a simple initiative would gain badly-needed goodwill. The Palace of Westminster has a great ability to smother change in velvet. But democracy is bound to suffer if it is shut away.


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As the federal government entered its first day of the shutdown this month, critics nationwide were quick to issue scathing statements on the partisan gridlock. The public's attention became instantly and intently focused on the showdown over the Affordable Care Acthow long it would last, and who would suffer as a result. But for some, Oct. 1 came with added bad news. Congress also failed to pass a new Farm Bill.
According to John Youngberg with the Montana Farm Bureau Federation, it's not the shutdown that has the state's ag industry panicked. It's the complete lack of progress toward a lasting Farm Bill. Without the measure and the safety nets it provides, he says, it's hard for producers to plan even one year down the road, let alone 10 years. And he says the impacts will spread to the consumer quickly; without a Farm Bill, milk prices could as much as double at the beginning of 2014.
"This was supposed to be done a long time ago," Youngberg says, referring to Congress' decision last year to simply extend the existing five-year Farm Bill another nine months.
Of course, the shutdown's influence on Montana agriculture can't be completely ignored. Hundreds of U.S. Department of Agriculture employees in the state have been furloughed and all 49 Farm Service Agency offices have been shuttered. The result, as Montana Farmers Union President Alan Merrill pointed out this month, is that farmers and ranchers will be unable to collect payments for USDA loans until those offices re-open. Additional services like disaster assistance and USDA conservation programs are also stalled out for the time being.
Whenever Congress settles its differences regarding the shutdown, elected officials will still have to come to an agreement on a new Farm Bill. That's proven a more-than-difficult task over the past year as Republicans have attempted to reduce or strip out provisions in the bill relating to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps. And the combined failures of Congress have already taken a toll on public opinion. Youngberg says the frustration among farmers and ranchers has only gotten worse. Their faith in the House, the Senate and the Obama administration is shaken, and they're no longer blaming just one party or the other.
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|Patriots Look Poised For Another Super Bowl Run
|Bruins Trade For Drew Stafford
|Black and Gold Bruins Turn Yellow On Parade Day
|Inconsistency Will Continue For Bruins Unless A Change Is Made
Following his worst season in the NBA, Marquis Daniels signed a one-year deal to stay in Boston for the 2010-2011 season.
Daniels, 29, scored an abysmal 5.6 points-per-game in just 51 games last season. After the Celtics signed the former Dallas Maverick and Indiana Pacer last September, many thought he was going to be a lot more effective then he proved to be.
Daniels never got into a rhythm and before long Doc Rivers had the 6'6" swingman on the end of the bench. With Tony Allen departing, the Celtics are in much need of replacement to play behind Paul Pierce. But it still remains to be seen whether or not Daniels is capable enough to fill that role.
When on the court, Daniels can bring a lot to the table. Daniels can defend both guards and small forwards, along with being able to bring the ball up the court offensively. Coincidentally, Daniels posted a career high scoring the basketball in 2008-2009, averaging 13.6 points-per-game.
The contract, which is worth $2.5 million over one season, is a low-risk, high-reward deal for the Celtics. On one hand, if Daniels continues not to gel with the team, the Celtics did not invest into a long-term deal or put themselves in a short-term financial bind. Contrary, if Daniels finally lives up to prior expectations, the Celtics find a cheap, formidable replacement for Allen.
The signing of free agent Jermaine O'Neal may have triggered this re-signing for Boston. O'Neal played with Daniels for two seasons in Indiana. The two seemed to have chemistry when playing together and they will look to build off that again this season as both will see minutes off the bench.
The Celtics continue to be busy this off-season and all signs point to Danny Ainge and the front office to continue to make moves to improve their 15-man roster.
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Mesures de l'efficience technique et de l'efficience allocative par les fonctions de distance et application aux banques européennes
[fre] Mesures de l'efficience technique et de l'efficience allocative par les fonctions de distance et application aux banques européennes Cet article propose une décomposition de l'inefficience coût en inefficience technique et inefficience allocative fondée sur la méthodologie des fonctions de distance en inputs. On utilise une approche paramétrique d'une frontière stochastique. L'application à un échantillon de banques européennes montre que l'inefficience allocative augmente les coûts bancaires d'environ 25 % en moyenne, soit autant que l'inefficience technique. On constate aussi une corrélation négative entre l'inefficience technique et l'inefficience allocative. [eng] Technical and allocative efficiency measurement using the distance function: the case of european banks This paper extends the input distance function methodology to decompose cost inefficiency into technical and allocative inefficiency. We use a parametric stochastic frontier approach. This methodology was applied to a sample of European banks. It is shown that allocative inefficiency increases costs by about 25 %, as much as technical inefficiency. We also find a negative correlation between technical and allocative inefficiency.
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This article describes what ported applications are and how to effectively test them.
Porting as the name suggest, Porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designed (e.g. different CPU, operating system, or third party library). The term is also used in a general way to refer to the changing of software/hardware to make them usable in different environments. The term is not generally applied to the process of adapting software to run with less memory on the same CPU and operating system, nor is it applied to the rewriting of source code in a different language (i.e. language conversion or translation).
Most of the time software developers claim that the software they write is portable, meaning that it will require little or no effort to adapt it to a new environment. All the time the amount of effort needed depends on several factors, including the extent to which the original environment (the source platform) differs from the new environment (the target platform), the experience of the original authors in knowing which programming language constructs and third party library calls are unlikely to be portable, and the amount of effort invested by the original authors in only using portable constructs (platform specific constructs often provide a cheaper solution).
Sometime people get confused between Migration and Porting, Migration is a type of Porting but within the same system software i.e. says we are working on Application X.X and there is a new version available in market Application Y.Y of the same software then we are doing a migration and not porting.
Let us see how Porting activities can be done.
Porting Concept and how it work
Porting team should be considered as a stand alone team with. Usually a Water fall model will be the best suit for the Porting because the porting is done for the application which is already built by a company. Hence no requirement changes no Project Change request strikes the porting work.
Porting usually happens in the three steps mentions below.
First Step: This involves creating config specs and streamlining the database. Most of the time porting is done with different database say SUN-WLS-ORL, AIX-WAS-DB2 and W2K-WLS-SQL. Each environment is considered to be a component here. Development team get involves in creating the build with latest config specs and Database team involves themselves in creating appropriate database scripts.
Second Step: : This stage involves SCM i.e. Software Configuration Management team to write scripts which can deploy the application on different platform an installer is created. Test team get gets all the information from the Reference Team (This is the group who is responsible for testing the application in-house on), an application handover is done; which also includes the defects summary sheet, test cases status and setup requirements if any.
Third Step: This stage is purely testing, Porting testing is done as System testing. All the tests which are supposed to be working fine on a Reference Platform should be working fine on ported platform. Usually a re-test is carried out on ported environment. Defects are again tested on the reference environment to re-check and confirming that the defects are either Porting or Core defects.
Testing a Ported application (Testing a Web Based –Three-tier Banking Application)
Reference Environment: W2K-WLS-DB2.
Porting Environment: SUN-WLS-ORL
Reference team had created total 1000 test cases which are in there test suit. Out of this according to there status report 934 test cases are passed and rests of the test cases are either Failed or Blocked. Porting Scope now is reduced to


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Houston Grand Opera
Daugherty, Michael
Jackie O (1997)Duration: 90 minutes
opera in 2 acts
Libretto by Wayne Koestenbaum
2S,2M,T,Bar,BBar, chorus 1(=picc).1(=corA).1(=Ebcl,bcl).ssax(=asax,tsax).1-1.1.1(=euphonium).1-perc(2)-harp-acoustic gtr-pft(=synth)-strings(1/1/1/1/1 or small complements).
Abbreviations (PDF).
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world.
World Premiere
Houston, TX
Conductor: Christopher Larkin
Company: Houston Grand Opera
|Jackie O
|Maria Callas
|Dramatic Mezzo-Soprano
|Aristotle Onassis
|Painter (Andy Warhol)
|High Baritone
|Liz Taylor
|Grace Kelley
|Paparazzo (male or female)
|Jazz Tap Dancer/Actor (silent role)
|Dancing Jackie
|Classical Ballerina on point (silent role)
|J.F.K.'s Voice
|Tenor (off stage or in orchestra pit; amplification
|Chorus (12 singers, minimum)
|3 Sopranos, 3 Altos, 3 Tenors, 3 Baritones/Basses (Additional chorus may be used as long as the voices are divided equally)
Time and Place
Andy Warhol's Factory, New York City, 1968
ACT I The Happening
The year is 1968, five years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The place: Andy Warhol's Factory in New Yark City. The event: a Happening. Cafe society in extremis. Hollywood celebrities Liz Taylor and Grace Kelly complain about the perils of fame. The partygoers wonder at all the stars who are not present at the event: where's Ringo? where's Mia? where's Jackie? The phone rings: Jackie Kennedy's back! She's on her way to the party. Her time of mourning JFK's death is over: she wants to re-enter society. She arrives at the Happening and must face her public: their attention thrills
but also fatigues and frightens her. She meets Pop artist Andy Warhol: she consents to pose, and he paints her portrait. The portrait turns into a Dancing Jackie ballerina, whom the real Jackie commands to dance. Then Aristotle Onassis, one of the world's richest playboys, arrives at the party with opera diva Maria Callas. The two squabble, and Ari jilts her. He introduces himself to Jackie, and in an attempt to win her favor invites her to flee the Happening and go to see a new art-house movie, I Am Curious (Yellow). Still immured in melancholy reflection, she is unsure: but when the phone rings, bringing the news of another assassination (Bobby Kennedy's? Martin Luther King's?) she accepts Arl's offer of security and, on his arm, leaves the party for the island of Skorpios to marry him.
ACT II The Island
One year later, Ari and Jackie are on the yacht Christina, moored at the island of Skorpios. Jackie is reading a book; Ari is carousing with his playboy pals, with whom he sings a drinking song. He offers Jackie a drink: she refuses. The marriage is clearly on the rocks. Jackie is increasingly given to fits of remembrance, of trance: she remembers Jack (JFK), her past life, the lost promise. The phone rings; it is Maria, who tells Ari of her career troubles. They agree to a tryst at the lido, a swank hangout. After Ari hangs up, the phone on the yacht rings again: Ari hears the tragic news that his son has been killed in an accident.
Dreaming of the new frontier, Jackie sleepwalks onto the island; Maria fallows her, and the two sing -apart, but more and more together -of their parallel traumas, their eternal flames. At the end of their duet, they embrace, reconciled at last. The Paparazzo, who has been following Jackie throughout the opera, bursts onto the island, and tries to take their pictures. Maria is happy to be photographed, but Jackie orders her to smash the camera. Maria relents and carries out the command, freeing Jackie from the spell. Maria wishes her well, and leaves the island. Jackie, alone, makes her long-awaited phone call to the other Side, to JFK, who asks to be forgiven for the suffering he has caused. Together they dream of what might have been. Strengthened and transfigured by her encounter with the voice of her beloved, she decides to return to America, to her children, to the fragments of the new frontier.
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Knicks Trade Guards J.R. Smith, Iman Shumpert To CavaliersThe Cavaliers have traded guard Dion Waiters to Oklahoma City and acquired guards J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert from the rebuilding New York Knicks in a three-team trade.
Carter-Williams Rising Above Adversity, Doing It All For SyracuseFocused Michael Carter-Williams is rising above off-court adversity and playing a leading role for the Syracuse Orange.
The Continuing Metamorphosis Of Fab MeloThe 7-foot center who made Syracuse an imposing team last season and now dons the famed uniform of the Boston Celtics hoping to leave his mark on the NBA.
Rothstein Files: High-Fives From NBA DraftNearly three months after winning the National Championship, Kentucky broke an NBA Draft record with six players selected.
Cavaliers Take Syracuse's Dion Waiters With No. 4 PickThe Cavs envision Waiters as a perimeter scorer and backcourt running mate for point guard Kyrie Irving, last year's No. 1 overall pick.
Rothstein Files: 5 Storylines To Watch For During 2012 NBA DraftThe Bobcats sent a major buzz throughout the basketball universe last week by hiring St. John's assistant Mike Dunlap as their head coach --- and don't be surprised if they make a splash of equal proportions on draft night.
Rothstein Files: This And That Around The 2012 NBA Draft Terrence Jones looked like a sure-fire top five pick after the first few games of his freshman season at Kentucky. Not any more.
Rothstein Files: 2012 NBA Mock DraftLet's face it, Anthony Davis is the obvious No. 1. But who should go next?
Rothstein Files: Boeheim: Dion Waiters More Ready For NBA Than Any Guard I've Ever Had The entire basketball world seems to be bullish on Waiters. Agents, general managers and college coaches are all raving about the combo guard.
Rothstein Files: NBA Draft Notebook No player could have a more perplexing night on their hands on June 28th than Iowa State's Royce White.
Rothstein Files: 5 Quick Hits After The NBA Draft Lottery Talk about a big winner. In addition to landing the top overall selection that will wind up being Kentucky big man Anthony Davis, the Hornets also have the tenth overall pick.
Syracuse Survives Gutsy Wisconsin, Moves On To Elite 8C.J. Fair broke out of a scoring slump with 15 points and top-seeded Syracuse held on for a 64-63 victory over fourth-seeded Wisconsin on Thursday night in the East Regional semifinals.


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› a special court or group of people who are officially chosen, especially by the government, to examine (legal) problems of a particular type:
a war crimes tribunal
She took her case to an immigration appeals tribunal.
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- He went to the industrial tribunal to seek redress for the way his employers had discriminated against him.
- She remitted the case to a new tribunal for reconsideration.
- His appeal will be heard by a tribunal.
- They set up a tribunal to deal with the petty criminals.
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Last week Utah's Supreme Court approved a new rule which will provide "news reporters" with broad protections against having to disclose information obtained during the news-gathering process. Before the Court's action, 33 states and the District of Columbia had enacted statutory shield laws extending similar protections to at least some journalists, while other states had done so through judicial decisions.
Utah, however, had no comparable constitutional or statutory rule and the state's judiciary had developed no clear guidelines about whether and under what circumstances journalists were entitled to such "privileges."
The Supreme Court received more than 50 public comments on the proposed rule before its enactment. Many were thoughtful arguments for and against, but few gave much attention to one of the central questions raised by the rule: Who should it cover?
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$500K diamond-encrusted jewels, Cognac and a 41-inch saber: The lavish gifts given to President Obama, Hillary Clinton and others from foreign leaders
- Saudi Arabian King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz gave Hillary Clinton diamond-and-ruby-encrusted jewels worth half a million dollars last year
- The gift was disclosed by the State Department, which has released a complete
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Foreign leaders gave lavish gifts to a number of U.S. officials last year, including the Saudi Arabian king, who gave Hillary Clinton diamond-and-ruby-encrusted jewels worth half a million dollars.
Clinton's gifts from King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz - which included a necklace, bracelet, earrings and a ring - were by far the most expensive items among the hundreds of gifts given to U.S. officials in 2012.
A complete list of the gifts received last year, as well as a couple dozen from previous years, were disclosed by the State Department on Thursday.
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President Obama's gifts included:
- Large book of original artwork and photographs by artist Marilena Ferrari from former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (124,000 including other gifts)
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- Leather cigar box from Mexico (worth $390 including other gifts)
- A female bare-breasted bust from Liberia (worth $540 including other gifts)
Former CIA Director David Petraeus's gifts* included:
- Rolex watch ($6,500), white Fendi watch ($1,000), silver Valentino watch ($500)
- Four silk rugs (worth a total of $14,900)
- Model of a four-masted ship ($3,500) and model of a two-masted ship ($1,500)
- Sword ($2,500) and dagger ($1,500)
- Burberry cashmere scarf ($395)
- Bottle of wine from 2001 ($1,700)
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The gift-giving continues a long-held tradition of international diplomacy, in which dignitaries show their appreciation for one another by exchanging artwork, jewelry, electronics and other presents.
Most of the items are required to be donated to the national archives, though a few may bought by the recipients. The Hill newspaper first reported on the gifts.
In addition to her jewels from Saudi Arabia, Clinton also received wine from Algeria; a two-piece bronze sculpture of a red chili pepper from Singapore; a cuff bracelet, necklace and earrings from Kazakhstan; caviar and a wool carpet from Azerbaijan; Cognac from Russia; and gold, sapphire and diamond jewelry worth $58,000 from Brunei.
Among President Obama's gifts were: Christmas mugs, coffee, and steak knives from Brunei; a basketball autographed by Chinese President Xi Jinping; a 'silver figure representing [an] oversized coffee bean' from Colombia; a leather wallet and tote bag from France; a porcelain vase decorated with images of the White House and Kremlin from Russia; a chest of liquor and a Coca-Cola bottle decorated with beads from Mexico; and a 41-inch saber from Mongolia.
Among President Obama's gifts were Christmas mugs, coffee, and steak knives from Brunei and a basketball autographed by Chinese President Xi Jinping
Gifts were also given to Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, former CIA Chief David Petraeus and Chief Justice John Roberts, among others.
Biden's gifts included a silver knife and chopsticks from Mongolia, a leather cigar box from Mexico, and a female bare-breasted bust from Liberia.
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