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Jocelyn Butler has been hiding from her past for years. But all her secrets are about to be laid bare...
Four years ago, Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. Her solitary life is working well—until she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street where she meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core.
Braden Carmichael is used to getting what he wants, and he's determined to get Jocelyn into his bed. Knowing how skittish she is about entering a relationship, Braden proposes an arrangement that will satisfy their intense attraction without any strings attached.
But after an intrigued Jocelyn accepts, she realizes that Braden won't be satisfied with just mind-blowing passion. The stubborn Scotsman is intent on truly knowing her... down to the very soul.
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Chapter 1
Eight years later
It was a beautiful day to find a new home. And a new roommate.
I stepped out of the damp, old stairwell of my Georgian apartment building into a stunningly hot day in Edinburgh. I glanced down at the cute white-and-green-striped denim shorts I'd purchased a few weeks ago from Topshop. It had been raining nonstop since then, and I'd despaired of ever getting to wear them. But the sun was out, peeking over the top of the cornered tower of the Bruntsfield Evangelical Church, burning away my melancholy and giving me back a little bit of hope. For someone who had packed up her entire life in the US and taken off for her motherland when she was only eighteen years old, I wasn't really good with change. Not anymore, anyway. I'd gotten used to my huge apartment with its never-ending mice problem. I missed my best friend, Rhian, whom I'd lived with since freshman year at the University of Edinburgh. We'd met in the dorms and hit it off. We were both very private people and were comfortable around each other for the mere fact that we never pushed each other to talk about the past. We'd stuck pretty close freshman year and decided to get an apartment (or flat" as Rhian called it) in second year. Now that we were graduates, Rhian had left for London to start her PhD and I was left roommateless. The icing on the cake was the loss of my other closest friend, James, Rhian's boyfriend. He'd run off to London (a place he detested, I might add) to be with her. And the cherry on top? My landlord was getting a divorce and needed the apartment back.
I'd spent the last two weeks answering ads from young women looking for a female roommate. It had been a bust so far. One girl didn't want to room with an American. Cue my What the fuck? face. Three of the apartments were just . . . nasty. I'm pretty sure one girl was a crack dealer, and the last girl's apartment sounded like it got more use than a brothel. I was really hoping my appointment today with Ellie Carmichael was going to go my way. It was the most expensive apartment I'd scheduled to see, and it was on the other side of the city center.
I was frugal when it came to my inheritance, as if as if spending as little of it as possible would somehow lessen the bitterness of my good" fortune. But I was getting desperate.
If I wanted to be a writer, I needed the right apartment and the right roommate.
Living alone was an option, of course. I could afford it. However, the God's honest truth was that I didn't like the idea of complete solitude. Despite my tendency to keep eighty percent of myself to myself, I liked being surrounded by people. When they talked to me about things I didn't understand personally, it allowed me to see things from their point of view, and I believed all the best writers needed a wide-open scope of perspective. Despite not needing to, I worked at a bar on George Street on Thursday and Friday nights. The old cliché was true: Bartenders overhear all the best stories.
I was friends with two of my colleagues, Jo and Craig, but we only really hung out when we were working. If I wanted a little life around me, I needed to get a roommate. On the plus side, this apartment was mere streets away from my job.
As I tried to shove down the anxiety of finding a new place, I kept my eye open for a cab with its light on. I eyed the ice cream parlor, wishing I had time to stop in and indulge, and almost missed the cab coming toward me on the opposite side of the street. Throwing my hand out and checking my side for traffic, I was gratified that the driver had seen me and pulled up to the curb. I tore across the wide road, managing not to get squashed like a green and white bug against some poor person's windshield, and rushed toward the cab with a single-minded determination to grab the door handle.
Instead of the door handle, I grabbed a hand.
Bemused, I followed the tan masculine hand up a long arm to broad shoulders and a face obscured by the sun beaming down behind his head. Tall, over six feet, the guy towered above me. I was a smallish five foot five.
Wondering why this guy had his hand on my cab, I took in his expensive suit, wondering why this guy had his hand on my cab.
A sigh escaped from his shadowed face. Which way are you headed?" he asked me in a rumbling, gravelly voice. Four years I'd been living here and still a smooth Scots accent could send a shiver down my spine. And his definitely did, despite the terse question.
Dublin Street," I answered automatically, hoping I had a longer distance to travel so that he'd give me the cab.
Good." He pulled the door open. I'm heading in that direction, and since I'm already running late, might I suggest we share the taxi instead of wasting ten minutes deciding who needs it more."
A warm hand touched my lower back and pressed me gently forward. Dazed, I somehow let myself be manhandled into the cab, sliding across the seat and buckling up as I silently questioned whether I'd nodded my agreement to this. I didn't think I had.
Hearing the Suit clip out Dublin Street as the destination to the cab driver, I frowned and muttered, Thanks. I guess."
You're an American?"
At the soft question, I finally looked over at the passenger beside me. Oh, okay.
Perhaps in his late twenties or early thirties, the Suit wasn't classically handsome, but there was a twinkle in his eyes and a curl to the corner of his sensual mouth that, together with the rest of the package, oozed sex appeal. I could tell from the lines of the extremely well-tailored expensive silver-gray suit that he wore, that he worked out. He sat with the ease of a fit guy, his stomach iron flat under the waistcoat and white shirt. His pale-blue eyes seemed bemused beneath their long lashes, and for the life of me I couldn't get over the fact that he had dark hair.
I preferred blonds. Always had.
Yet none of them had ever made my lower belly squeeze with lust at first sight. A strong, masculine face stared into minesharp jawline, a cleft chin, wide cheekbones, and a Roman nose. Dark stubble shadowed his cheeks, and his hair was kind of messy. Altogether, his rugged unkemptness seemed at odds with the stylish designer suit.
The Suit raised an eyebrow at my blatant perusal and the lust I was feeling quadrupled, taking me completely by surprise. I never felt instant attraction to men. And since my wild years as a teen, I hadn't even contemplated taking a guy up on a sexual offer.
Although, I'm not sure I could walk away from an offer from him.
As soon as the thought flashed through my head I stiffened, surprised and unnerved. My defenses immediately rose, and I cleared my expression into blank politeness.
"Yeah, I'm American," I answered, finally remembering the Suit had asked me a question. I looked away from his knowing smirk, pretending boredom and thanking the heavens that my olive skin kept the blushing internal.
Just visiting?" he murmured.
As irritated as I was by my reaction to the Suit, I decided the less conversation between us the better. Who knew what idiotic thing I might do or say? Nope."
Then you're a student."
I took issue with the tone. Then you're a student. It was said with a metaphorical eye-roll. Like students were bottom-feeding bums with no real purpose in life. I snapped my head around to give him a scathing set-down, only to catch him eyeing my legs with interest. This time, I raised my eyebrow at him and waited for him to unglue those gorgeous eyes of his from my bare skin. Sensing my gaze, the Suit looked up at my face and noted my expression. I expected him to pretend he hadn't been ogling me or to look quickly away or something. I didn't expect him to just shrug and then offer me the slowest, wickedest, sexiest smile that had ever been bestowed upon me.
I rolled me eyes, fighting the flush of heat between my legs. I was a student," I answered, with just a touch of snark. I live here. Dual citizenship." Why was I explaining myself?
You're part Scottish?"
I barely nodded, secretly loving the way he said Scottish" with his hard t"s.
What do you do now that you've graduated?"
Why did he want to know? I shot him a look out of the corner of my eye. The cost of the three-piece suit he was wearing could have fed me and Rhian on crappy student food for our entire four years of college. What do you do? I mean, when you're not manhandling women into cabs?"
His small smirk was his only reaction to my jibe. What do you think I do?"
I'm thinking lawyer. Answering questions with questions, manhandling, smirking . . ."
He laughed a rich, deep laugh that vibrated through my chest. His eyes glittered at me. I'm not a lawyer. But you could be. I seem to recall a question answered with a question. And that"he gestured to my mouth, his eyes turning a shade darker as they visually caressed the curve of my lipsthat's a definite smirk." His voice had grown huskier.
My pulse took off as our eyes locked, our gazes holding for far longer than two polite strangers' should. My cheeks felt warm . . . as did other places. I was growing more and more turned on by him and the silent conversation between our bodies. When my nipples tightened beneath my T-shirt bra, I was shocked enough to be plunged back into reality. Pulling my eyes from his, I glanced out at the passing traffic and prayed for this cab ride to be over yesterday.
As we approached Princes Street and another diversion caused by the tram project the council was heading up, I began to wonder if I was going to escape the cab without having to talk to him again.
Are you shy?" the Suit asked, blowing my hopes to smithereens.
I couldn't help it. His question made me turn to him with a confused smile. Excuse me?"
He tilted his head, peering down at me through the narrowed slits of his eyes. He looked like a lazy tiger, eyeing me carefully as if deciding whether or not I was a meal worth chasing. I shivered as he repeated, Are you shy?"
Was I shy? No. Not shy. Just usually blissfully indifferent. I liked it that way. It was safer. Why would you think that?" I didn't give off shy vibes, right? I grimaced at the thought.
The Suit shrugged again. Most women would be taking advantage of my imprisonment in the taxi with themchew my ear off, shove their phone number in my face . . . as well as other things." His eyes flicked down to my chest before quickly returning to my face. The blood beneath my cheeks felt hot. I couldn't remember the last time someone had managed to embarrass me. Unaccustomed to feeling intimidated, I attempted to mentally shrug it off.
Amazed by his overconfidence, I grinned at him, surprised by the pleasure that rippled over me when his eyes widened slightly at the sight of my smile. Wow, you really think a lot of yourself."
He grinned back at me, his teeth white but imperfect, and his crooked smile sent an unfamiliar shot of feeling across my chest. I'm just speaking from experience."
Well, I'm not the kind of girl who hands out her number to a guy she just met."
Ahh." He nodded as if coming to some kind of realization about me, his smile slipping, his features seeming to tighten and close off from me. You're a no-sex-until-the-third-date, marriage-and-babies kind of woman."
I made a face at his snap judgment. No, no, and no." Marriage and babies? I shuddered at the thought, the fears that rode my shoulders day in and day out slipping around to squeeze my chest too tight.
The Suit looked back at me now, and whatever he had caught in my face made him relax. Interesting," he murmured.
No. Not interesting. I didn't want to be interesting to this guy. I'm not giving you my number."
He grinned again. I didn't ask for it. And even if I wanted it, I wouldn't ask for it. I have a girlfriend."
I ignored the disappointed flip of my stomachand apparently the filter between my brain and my mouth. Then stop looking at me like that."
The Suit seemed amused. I have a girlfriend, but I'm not blind. Just because I can't do anything doesn't mean I'm not allowed to look."
I was not excited by this guy's attention. I am a strong, independent woman. Glancing out the window, I noted with relief that we were at Queen Street Gardens. Dublin Street was right around the corner.
Here's good, thanks," I called to the cab.
Whereabouts?" the cab driver called back to me.
Here," I replied a little more sharply than I meant to. I breathed a sigh of relief when the cab driver's turn signal started ticking and the car pulled over to a stop. Without another look or word to the Suit, I handed the driver some money and slid a hand along the door handle.
I froze and shot the Suit a wary look over my shoulder. What?"
Do you have a name?"
I smiled, feeling relief now that I was getting away from him and the bizarre attraction between us. Actually, I have two."
I jumped out of the cab, ignoring the traitorous thrill of pleasure that cascaded over me at the sound of his answering chuckle.
As soon as the door swung open and I first saw Ellie Carmichael, I knew I was probably going to like her. The tall blonde was wearing a trendy playsuit, a blue trilby, a monocle, and a fake mustache.
She blinked at me with wide, pale-blue eyes.
Bemused, I had to ask, Is this . . . a bad time?"
Ellie stared at me a moment as if confused by my very reasonable question considering her outfit. As if it suddenly occurred to her that she was in possession of a fake mustache, she pointed at it. You're early. I was tidying up."
Tidying up a trilby, monocle, and a mustache? I glanced behind her into a bright, airy reception hall. A bike with no front wheel was propped against the far wall; photographs and an assortment of post cards and other random clippings were attached to a board braced against a walnut cabinet. Two pairs of boots and a pair of black pumps were scattered haphazardly under a row of pegs overflowing with jackets and coats. The floors were hardwood.
Very nice. I looked back at Ellie with a huge grin on my face, feeling good about the entire situation. Are you on the run from the mafia?"
The disguise."
Oh." She laughed and stepped back from the door, gesturing me into the apartment. No, no. I had friends over last night, and we had a little bit too much to drink. All my old Halloween costumes were dragged out."
I smiled again. That sounded fun. I missed Rhian and James.
You're Jocelyn, right?"
Yeah. Joss," I corrected her. I hadn't been Jocelyn since before my parents died.
Joss," she repeated, grinning at me as I took my first steps inside the ground-floor apartment. It smelled greatfresh and clean.
Like the apartment I was leaving, this one was also Georgian, except it had once been an entire town house. Now it was split into two apartments. Well, actually, next door was a boutique, and the rooms above us belonged to it. I didn't know about the rooms, but the boutique itself was very nice, with handmade, one-of-a-kind clothes. This apartment . . .
The walls were so smooth, I knew they had to have been plastered recently, and whoever had restored the place had done wonders. It had tall baseboards and thick coving to compliment the period property. The ceilings went on forever, ...
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Board members of the Claremont Unified School District recently learned from school staff that the conditions reported were being repaired.
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No one had heard the song Alone Yet Not Alone when it received an Academy Award nomination for best song. Now plenty of people have heard about the song, but probably still not heard the actual song. It comes from the movie of the same name and was written by Bruce Broughton who used to be the head of the music branch of the Academy. He sent an e-mail to everyone on his e-mail list asking for their support. The song made the cut. Then big record labels started getting angry because big names like Beyonce and Taylor Swift didn't make the cut. There is nothing like sales for getting to perform a song during the telecast watched by a billion people across the planet. The next thing you know the song's nomination was rescinded. The problem for the big record labels is they still won't get one of their singers in because the Academy didn't replace the song with another.
Yes, this guy used an e-mail list and former position to get some buzz for his song. Is it any different though then studio heads sending out gifts and whatever else it takes to get a nomination? It is all about who you know to get a nomination. There are so many songs up for consideration and the voters don't listen to them all. They usually vote by the biggest name to have a song. It is tough for a no namer to get nominated.
A consolation is that the video for the song now has 500K views and will probably make money.


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MINNEAPOLIS — Target has announced plans to remodel several stores in the Charlotte area. According to the company, the remodeling will begin March 27 and will add such features as open-market fresh food layout, complete a selection of fresh produce, fresh meat and baked goods. The new layout also includes reinventions in several other areas throughout the store such as beauty, home, baby and shoes.
The remodeled stores, according to Target, will offer guests approximately 40% more food offerings (on average) than a general merchandise location.
"We heard from our guests that they wanted more fresh food options in the convenience of their local Target store," said Annette Miller, senior vice president of grocery, Target. "Our guests lead busy lives, and with the increased food selection, we've made it easy to complete their grocery list or pick up tonight's dinner during their regular Target shopping trip."
In addition to the expanded food layout, remodeled stores also include upgraded beauty department displays featuring softer lighting and curved fixtures.The home department has added wider aisles and lower product fixtures offering easier navigation. The baby department has broadened the visibility between baby gear, supplies and apparel. The shoe department provides better product visibility and has enhanced guest comfort with additional seating and mirrors.
Target stores in the Charlotte-area completing remodels in March include:
Charlotte Midtown, 900 Metropolitan Ave, Charlotte, N.C.
Charlotte South, 7860 Rea Rd., Charlotte, N.C.
NE Charlotte, 8120 University City Blvd, Charlotte, N.C.
Charlotte SE, 1900 Matthews Township Pkwy, Matthews, N.C.
Additional stores now under construction for June completion:
Pineville, 9531 South Blvd, Charlotte, NC
Additional stores now under construction for July completion:
Huntersville, 9801 Sam Furr Rd, Huntersville, NC
Rock Hill, 1900 Springsteen Rd, Rock Hill, SC


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NYC Taxpayers Shelling Out Big Money to House Inmates
It's costing taxpayers a lot of money to house inmates in NYC. According to a study released by the Independent Budget Office (via NY Post), the city spent about $167,000 per inmate last year. When you also take into consideration that NYC had over 12,200 inmates on an average day and you realize that taxpayers are paying a hefty amount.
According to IBO's Doug Teretsky, the cost per inmate number also covers staff salaries, facility maintenance, fringe benefits, and capital expenditures. According to the study 57 percent of NYC inmates were black, 33 percent Hispanic and 7 percent white.
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The 2014 ACM Awards' 10 most memorable moments
(Yahoo!) - When George Strait wins, everybody wins.
Normally, when Entertainer of the Year is announced, we'd be studying the faces of the losers at the Academy of Country Music Awards to see just how talented they are at pretending to be gratified that the other guy got it. But nominees Luke Bryan, Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert, and Blake Shelton didn't have to do a lot of faking in their reaction shots when everyone's favorite Strait man won out. (Some doubted the 61-year-old legend would claim the award decided by popular vote, but George's triumph was expected by others, given the love for his "farewell tour" and a similar win at the CMAs in November.)
[PHOTOS: Red Carpet at the Academy Of Country Music Awards]
"Our hero! Our hero won tonight!" exulted Shelton, wrapping up his co-hosting duties as if he'd forgotten he'd just been shut out.
There was plenty to tweet about, positive and negative, before that feelgood finale. The ACMs packed as much live music into a three-hour telecast as any awards show ever has, thanks to two factors: (a) the near-absence of actual awards, with nary a trophy being given out during the entire first hour, and (b) a lot of the performances lasting only as long as a single verse and chorus.
[PHOTOS: The Best of the Academy Of Country Music Awards]
Beyond the re-coronation of King George, here are the rest of our picks for the night's 10 other memorable moments:
1. Mano y mano legends: Strait salutes Haggard. The ACMs happened to coincide with Merle Haggard's 77th birthday, which found the man who is arguably country's greatest still-living male artist getting a lifetime achievement award. In tribute, Strait sang "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive," followed by Miranda Lambert doing "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down." This sampling of Hag helped put the rest of the show in perspective: Imagine the reaction if a contemporary country singer tried releasing a single about being on the lam... or about alcohol not leading to greater happiness.
2. Dierks Bentley and Sheryl Crow duet: a Grammy moment at the ACMs. The Grammys have become renowned lately for unexpected duets, something country awards shows have been slow to pick up and try. But it was a Grammy-worthy moment — at least — when Bentley was joined on "I Hold On," his latest airplay chart-topper, by Crow, who's now a Nashville mainstay. Bentley's single is one of the best and most heartfelt country has had in a long time, and Crow really knows how to find and hold onto a harmony part, in addition to ably taking some of the lead vocals herself.
3. A cameo by "Daft Punk." The monologue by Shelton and co-host Luke Bryan was almost as tame as the one they did last year, characterized by an unwillingness to take even the lightest shot at anyone in the audience. But the hosts scored later on in the show when they came out in motorcycle helmets as the anonymous, Grammy-winning, French EDM duo. "How the hell are you supposed to get lucky in that thing?" asked Bryan, gasping as he took off the headgear. "I couldn't even breathe." We knew it was Bryan all along; we could spot his bright choppers through the visor.
4. Rascal Flatts: utterly flawless... unfortunately. At the top of the show, co-hosts Shelton and Bryan got off a good lip-synching gag, talking about how the Las Vegas-based telecast would celebrate truly live music: "And if you don't like live music, you need to go down the block and see Britney Spears." (Britney's little sister Jamie Lynn was actually in the audience.) The ACMs kept to that vow nearly to the end. But when Rascal Flatts did their new single "Rewind," there was no doubt in anyone's mind that what we were hearing was straight out of the studio. It's not as if Gary LeVox is known for not being able to deliver live, and not as if anyone could use the old excuse about "the choreography is too taxing," when that choreography consisted of LeVox making hand motions emulating rewinding a tape. Maybe there was a last-minute technical snafu that prevented Flatts turning in a live performance? Or, maybe making people think of Memorex was meant to reinforce the metaphor of the song title?
5. Brad Paisley gets just beachy. The Vegas poolside setting was corny, yet effective, as Paisley sang about laughing all the way to the "River Bank." It's about as transparent an attempt at achieving a No. 1 summer single as you can get, but the pun in the title phrase would make it all worthwhile if Paisley's gorgeously pyrotechnic soloing didn't. And as he walked out onto a transparent platform over the pool to shred, it was the first time in a long time we ever wished we were among a bunch of mostly submerged, drunken frat boys on the Strip.
6. Blake goes R&B. Shelton got two performance slots on the show, and the "money" one was supposed to be his duet with Shakira on "Medicine" from her new album. But just as he towered over his fellow "Voice" coach by what looked like about a foot, his vocals were also much louder than hers, and it was hard to tell whether that had to do with her inability to project as much as him or just a mix thing. Anyway, we preferred his other performance, where "Voice" alumnus Gwen Sebastian joined him to harmonize on his own new single, "My Eyes." It was reminiscent of a 1970s/'80s era in which sexy country and slinky rhythm & blues were much more closely related.
7. Miranda gets "Automatic" for the people. The show was short on solo females, with Kacey Musgraves getting a much-deserved Album of the Year win, but no performance slot. So it was up to Lambert to represent in a big way. Anyone who hasn't seen her reduced size recently may have been shocked, and her unusual makeup and styling made her even less recognizable. But the ability to take some familiar country tropes — like lyrics about how everything used to be better — and make something really compelling out of them? That couldn't be more recognizably Miranda.
8. Tim, meet Faith. It shouldn't be a shock at this late date when Faith Hill walks out in the middle of a Tim McGraw song. But since he was introducing a brand-new one — something he's kind of made a tradition of at the ACMs — it felt surprising and welcome anyway. The new single, "Meanwhile Back at Mama's," is similar to Lambert's "Automatic," in that it takes the well-trod country theme of fetishizing the good old days and finds something lovely and true in it. Plus, it can't be overemphasized how well a tux goes with a black hat on the right man, even before his better half brings out the gown glam.
9. Florida Georgia Line overshadowed by bicycles. "This is How We Roll" is one country-lyric trope that is never going to weather well. So we were glad for the distraction of massive pyro and stunt cyclists, with the very life of their drummer seemingly standing in the balance.
10. Lady Mac-beth: a "CMT Crossroads" summit meeting, revived. Lady Antebellum and Stevie Nicks proved an inspired pairing on an edition of "Crossroads" last year, and they revived it here, first with "Golden," then "Rhiannon." No fool, Nicks stepped aside and let Hillary Scott take the sole lead on the "would you stay if she promised you heaven" high notes she can no longer hit herself, while proving a pretty able harmony singer on the rest of their shared tunes. She may have had some practice.
The complete 2014 ACMs winners list is below:
Entertainer of the Year - George Strait
Album of the Year – Kacey Musgraves, "Same Trailer Different Park"
Vocal Group of the Year - The Band Perry
Female Vocalist of the Year - Miranda Lambert
Male Vocalist of the Year - Jason Aldean
Song of the Year - Lee Brice, "I Drive Your Truck"
Single Record of the Year - Miranda Lambert, "Mama's Broken Heart"
New Artist of the Year - Justin Moore
Vocal Duo of the Year - Florida Georgia Line
Video of the Year - Tim McGraw featuring Taylor Swift & Keith Urban, "Highway Don't Care"
Vocal Event of the Year - Keith Urban & Miranda Lambert, "We Were Us"
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Have any of you seen Fight Club?
If you're encountering a barbed wire fence, throw a thick blanket over the top then climb like a regular fence.
Have any of you seen Fight Club?
If you're encountering a barbed wire fence, throw a thick blanket over the top then climb like a regular fence.
guess what i found...
a working laser printer.
at first i didn't think it would work, i was planning on scrapping it to use the fan for a magnetic stirrer. plus i got a stack of DHL labels...
lucky me.
You can pick locks with hair pins if you bend them into the right shape, its very hard with more complicated locks though.
what about with straightened paper clips? would that work not that i lpan on picking any locks ahaha
google home made lock picks, you can make them out of a hack saw blade and a dremal. very easy to make, easy to use, can even make ur tension wrench if u have a lil torch. these are effective for almost all locks if you use the proper shape head
i have some bolt cutters, and they go threw chainlink like scissors on paper!
Another good way to do this is to go into a store and pick out a few cans you want, throw them in a garbage can inside the store, either remember what color the trash bag is or put a sticker on the outside of the bag. Go to the dumpster later, abra fucking kadabra.
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lots of places use those dumpsters attached to the building now. im pretty sure walmart does anyway
its called a trash compacter jroc......
and i was supposed to know how? it aint like ive ever asked what it was. just assumed it was a dumpster cuz it smelled horrible
hahaha dont lash out at me nukka(that my new favrite word : P)i was just sharing some info.....
kinda sounds stupid...to much work involved...
scored loads of magazines the other day nearly like 20 different mags cause some were a month old :| just sitting on the top of shit in a box
To any one who opposes this. Just do what you gotta do. If jumping in some smelly garbage will get you free shit then go for it.
If theres a party near your house and it goes late and everyones drinks wake up early when there too groggy to know whats going on. Go in the back door and take what beer they havent drank, walk in there house as someone may have passed out in the back door, I've seen his before, walk in there may be a six pack or two left.
They will just think they drank it, you can also recycle the bottles and cans for a nice shiny nickel.
the weirdest think happened to me. about a year ago me and my friends were chillen at a middle school and i walked past the garabage and i found 2 packs of UNOPENED beer still in the box thingy. i dont drink so we just tried making molotov cocktails out of them but it didnt work. so we eneded up throwing the rest at cars. =)
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A's Burns hoping to outrun his weaknesses02/26/2014 10:00 AM ET
By Ashley Marshall / MiLB.com
No power. Below-average arm.
Those two succinct scouting notes can all but destroy a prospect's career before it gets going. Can a player drafted 967th overall -- and a 24-year-old barely out of Class A at that -- even be thought of as a prospect?
Regardless of the answer, a more pressing question awaits: is it possible that a skinny outfielder with zero pop -- Billy Burns -- is the most intriguing player in the Minors?
This 32nd-round Draft pick was the Nationals' Minor League Player of the Year in 2013 and, according to Bill James' speed score (SPD), the fastest player in all of pro ball. Despite blazing raw speed, advanced plate patience and a plus work ethic, Burns' other deficiencies have kept him off every top prospect list.
The statistics paint a black-and-white picture, but Burns' value lies in that gray area in between: that sea of intangibles where work ethic and determination meet good fortune and opportunity.
Burns batted .315 and scored 96 runs last year, but he hasn't hit a homer since 2011. He committed only two errors in 238 chances (a .992 fielding percentage) but recorded just seven assists between left field and center.
The Georgia native is out to prove there's a place for someone with his skill set. He's keen to show his season of 74 stolen bases in 81 tries was not a fluke, and speed is just one reason why Burns' journey is exciting.
He was selected in the 16th round of the 2008 Draft by his hometown Braves but turned down the opportunity and instead went to Mercer University in Macon. Despite developing into one of the nation's premier leadoff hitters -- his 73 runs scored ranked 25th in the NCAA while his 30 steals placed him 34th in 2010 -- he fell almost 500 spots in the 2010 Draft before the Nationals took a chance on him.
With speed to burn and a work ethic to match, Burns has never looked back.
In 2013, more than 40 percent of his hits never left the infield. He had more infield singles (58) than flyouts (54), more walks (72) than whiffs (54) and as many bunt hits (16) as popups. He was a Carolina League All-Star just one year after learning how to switch-hit, and he embodied Billy Beane's Moneyball philosophy as an undervalued high on-base guy.
In December, Beane traded veteran left-handed reliever Jerry Blevins for Burns straight up.
Burns' Potomac team kept its own scouting reports on every team it faced, and the speedster often contributed to a constantly updated sheet highlighting the weaknesses of each pitcher in the league. "Knowledge is half the battle," he said.
"It starts during the game when I'm watching the pitcher, watching his tendencies so I can get as much information on him, so that when I'm on base I can take that risk with all the information I've gathered."
That diligence helped the 170-pound Burns wreak havoc on the basepaths. He induced five balks and caused six throwing errors on botched pickoff attempts. He reached first base on nine fielding miscues and five throwing errors, bunted for a double down the first-base line and he nearly scored all the way from first when a routine pickoff attempt sailed into shallow right field.
Burns can't remember the last time he lost a race, but he's looking forward to working with Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson to learn how to keep the ball on the ground and make even better use of his wheels.
"I always try to put the ball on the ground," said Burns, who's hit just one homer -- a grand slam -- in 276 games. "If I pop it up, that's a big mistake for me because that takes the whole element of speed out of my game.
"People have told me that they sometimes rush their throws when I'm running to first because they know they have to get rid of it quick, and that can cost them a bad throw. With the bunting, I guess it really helps because it lets me get some cheaper hits if I put it in the right spot."
Burns made 160 ground-ball outs (almost three times as many as fly-ball outs), and he had nine games with multiple infield hits. The 5-foot-9 left fielder was on first base 215 times, not counting the times he left after a debilitating hit-by-pitch, slapped a walk-off single or when a runner made an out at another base on the same play to end an inning. On 51 of those occasions, there was a runner ahead of him on second base. Of the remaining 164 times, Burns tried to steal second 62 times -- or 38 percent of the time.
Burns was 56-of-62 stealing second base, a perfect 18-for-18 swiping third and 0-for-1 stealing home. He was 60-for-66 against right-handed pitchers and 14-for-15 against lefties.
Anecdotally, it's easy to see why he's exciting.
Take the third inning of the P-Nats' game with the Wilmington Blue Rocks last May 15. He dropped down a bunt far enough from the mound that Wilmington pitcher Spencer Patton was unable to make the play at first base. Patton threw the ball away trying to pick Burns off and later uncorked a wild pitch that sent him to third. The following batter, Cutter Dykstra, grounded into a fielder's choice at third base as Burns eluded a rundown to score.
With the bases loaded against Carolina on June 21, he bunted down the third-base line for a base hit to bring home a run. On Aug. 20, Burns doubled to left field for Double-A Harrisburg and raced home on the same play when Javier Herrera uncorked an errant throw back to the infield. A week later, he legged out a double to left field leading off the bottom of the first inning, swiped third and scampered home when catcher Ali Solis' throw sailed into the outfield.
"If the ball bounces twice, he'll get a hit," said Mark Harris, Burns' hitting coach in Hagerstown and Potomac. "With a guy that doesn't have a lot of opposite-field power like Billy from the left side, they'll put the left fielder up short and the shortstop in the hole.
"But what happens with Billy, they're in trouble from the start. The third baseman is halfway between the mound and home plate and the shortstop is playing four or five steps closer because he knows if he waits back for that second hop, they're not going to throw him out. It makes defenses have to change things right from the start."
All signs point toward Burns fitting in well in the Bay Area with Beane, who is featured prominently in the Moneyball book Burns read intensely several years ago while playing summer ball. It was at that point Burns realized he had a real chance of making it, that his lack of light-tower power wouldn't necessarily block his path to the Majors.
According to James' SPD metric, Burns left other speedsters in the dust. SPD takes into account a player's stolen base success, the frequency with which he tried to steal, the percentage of balls in play that were hit for triples and how many runs he scored vs. how often he was on base.
Full-season 2013 SPD rankings
Individual plays and weighted metrics aside, Burns' baserunning is what got him noticed in 2013.
Over the past nine years, only seven Minor Leaguers (Billy Hamilton, Delino DeShields, Rico Noel, Eric Young, Micah Johnson, Anthony Gose and Ovandy Suero) have stolen more bases in a season than Burns' 74 last year.
Of those other speedsters, none could match Burns' 91.4 percent success rate. In fact, only 10 of the other 471 players who ranked among the top 50 for stolen bases from 2005-13 had a higher percentage.
Seeking a more relevant parallel, Hamilton stole 75 bases in 2013 -- albeit at a higher level -- but he was thrown out more than twice as many times (15) than Burns. Remember that when Hamilton set the single-season Minor League stolen base mark in 2012, he was caught 37 times in 192 tries. Similarly, Johnson swiped 84 bags last year but was caught 26 times.
"I've seen him hit one-hoppers off the dirt in front of home plate and, when the third baseman looks up, Billy's standing at third base," joked Harris, who said that Burns' speed is game-changing.
"It helps the guy behind him because he gets fastballs to hit. The pitcher is more worried about Billy, and he has more of a tendency to make a mistake. The second baseman will play closer to the bag and the first baseman might hold him close, so those things open up holes. Guys in the outfield know he will go first-to-third on a ground ball so they hurry their throws -- it all lends itself to a guy on the other team making a mistake. Billy's an 80 runner [on the 20-80 scouting scale], and there aren't many of those in baseball. You can see what havoc they can wreak on other teams."
The reason the light-hitting Burns had so many chances to run was a .425 on-base percentage that ranked sixth among full-season Minor Leaguers.
Burns hit safely in 85 of 121 games and reached safely in all but 15 contests. His OBP was .001 points better than that of Byron Buxton, baseball's consensus top prospect. Only nine other full-season Minor Leaguers had a better walk-to-strikeout ratio than Burns.
Even though he posted a sub-4.0-second time from home to first from the right side of the dish, the Nats saw an opportunity. Wanting to take full advantage of Burns' speed, the organization told him to start switch-hitting when he reported for the instructional league prior to his second season in pro ball.
Burns had not swung a bat left-handed since he was a toddler, but his work ethic allowed him to become efficient in a hurry. From the left side, he shaved up to three-tenths of a second off his time -- more, Harris said, if he's cheating.
Burns hit .320 as a left-hander against right-handed pitching in the Class A South Atlantic League in 2012 (.324 from the right side), then batted .307 from the left side (.339 from the right) between the Class A Advanced Carolina and Double-A Eastern Leagues -- two circuits known to be pitcher-friendly -- last year. Harris expects continued growth with the A's.
"The progress he made from season to season was remarkable, especially for somebody who had not switch-hit ever before," Harris said of Burns, who was told to bunt two to three times from the left side every game in the instructional league in 2012. "He has superior strike zone recognition. It's hard enough to learn to switch-hit even from a young age, let alone to start in pro baseball.
"Billy is a wonderful character guy. He's the kind of kid you want your daughter to marry. He's the kind of kid that you're proud of when he speaks in public and he's a great representative of your organization, no matter who he's playing for. He appreciates what he has and where he came from, and the next day is always another day to get better. I've never been a fan of anyone as much as I have for Billy. My wife actually cried when he got traded."
Harris likened Burns to 17-year Major Leaguer and All-Star Brett Butler; Burns said his game is similar to that of Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner, who signed a four-year, 2 million contract earlier this month.
"Billy will have to prove himself from level to level," Harris noted. "To get where he got with us was even more than people expected. They drafted a tool in speed and he was very raw. He could run, but he didn't have the greatest swing from the right side and he had a somewhat below-average throwing arm. That's what you get with that [32nd-round] pick.
"There were probably more teams than one that saw Billy as someone who could make the big leagues. I won't put anything past him, I won't put a ceiling on what he can do. It wouldn't be surprising to see him play in the big leagues. If he continues to make adjustments and create havoc and play his game, that will be a big selling point for him. Speed is a tool you can't teach."


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Take a page from the military: Risk management could reboot climate change debate
Co-authored by Nick Mabey and originally appeared in The Hill's Congress blog
Once a serious issue becomes politicized and turns into a virtual weapon in the culture wars, it can seem impossible to move beyond partisan bickering and identify a reasonable and responsible course of action. But as those whose job is protecting national security have shown us time and again, it is important to chart a path forward --despite political battles-- when a situation is dangerous and the future is in doubt.
Defending the nation routinely requires making weighty decisions despite uncertainty, incomplete information, and limited resources. To do its job in these difficult situations, the military routinely uses an approach known as risk management. Risk management provides a systematic way to consider threats and vulnerabilities, "knowns and unknowns", and to take steps to minimize risk.
Risk management is a more formal version of the analyses families do every day, when buying insurance, deciding where to live, or investing 401(k) money. And risk management can offer an apolitical way forward-- perhaps the best way forward --on the complicated and highly politicized issue of climate change. That's the conclusion we've drawn from a year of closed-door meetings with national security, intelligence, and defense officials around the world as we researched the findings in a new report, Degrees of Risk: Defining a Risk Management Framework for Climate Security.
This approach isn't unique to security professionals – from time immemorial grandmothers have been admonishing their offspring that prudence is the better part of valor. And few among us are so risk tolerant that we'd rather ignore a threat than take steps to protect and prepare ourselves as best we can. We don't have fire insurance because we think our homes will burn down, we have fire insurance because we know there is a risk of a home burning and the consequences are too grave to ignore.
On the national security front, risk management approaches have allowed countries to plan and act in the face of even the most terrifying threats. For example, the United States' nuclear deterrent during the Cold War —a response to the uncertainty of an arms race with a mysterious and potentially deadly enemy in a nuclear age—worked. It was expensive and included redundant measures, but it prevented a much more terrifying and unquantifiably damaging result – nuclear war.
On the other hand, France's failure to accurately assess the threats posed by Germany's abilities in the lead up to World War II shows what can happen when a nation facing uncertainty and internal political squabbling fails to analyze the full suite of risks and make a comprehensive effort to manage them. In that case, France ignored the risk that German armored maneuvers could make the massive investment in the Maginot Line obsolete.
When it comes to climate change, uncertainty must not be a barrier to action. Uncertainty doesn't mean we know nothing; just that we do not know precisely what the future may hold in a given place at a given time. But we have a good handle on what the risks of climate change look like. Will the oceans rise by two feet or six? Will global average temperatures rise by two degrees, or five? Other weighty public policy decisions– from military procurement to interest rates to financial system regulation – are taken under far higher uncertainty than exists when it comes to climate change science.
It is time to re-boot the conversation about global warming, to focus not on politics but on the risk to global security that climate change represents. Like other such threats—nuclear proliferation, terrorism or failing states-- climate change requires responsible planning that takes into account the full range of uncertainty. It requires that our leaders truly explore what level of risk we are willing to take and put in place effective strategies to manage the risk to us all.
Nick Mabey is chief executive of E3G, an international nonprofit. He was a senior advisor in the U.K. Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, leading work on energy, climate change, and countries at risk of instability.
Jay Gulledge, PhD, is the director of the Center's Science and Impacts Program and a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security.


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in the water now. anyone got a womens suit round size 8-10 somewhere in there.
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in the water now. anyone got a womens suit round size 8-10 somewhere in there.
you know surf shops tend to carry wetsuits
No really I was asking if anyone knows of any good sales on full suits anything like that. what a tool.
check out endless summer at 38th st in ocmd. they were having a clearance on rubber. my buddy scored a hurley 3/2 for about 50 bucks.
full suit as in 4/3 or is she looking for a 3/2? cause most shops have sales going on around this time for all there 4/3's and 5mil suits. no one really has sales going on for 3/2 or summer suits now cause they are in season. best deals are when suits are out of season. i just got a size 10 4/3 xcel (about a 300-350 suit) for like a little over 200 at spellbinders in allenhurst nj
Keep your eye on Whiskey Militia. They've been posting women's suits like once or twice a day for really cheap. I almost bought my wife a spring suit just because it was like $50!
I will prob do a 4/3 because she is naturally really cold and I would like her to be able to get into fall with it. I actually got a three two from endless summer. they are out of the hurleys now.
Don't forget booties. All girls I have ever taken out into the ocean, booties were a must.
Too many "squishy" things to step on and you will deal with less drama if she is wearing booties.
Sound advice, man.
Nah she is cool on that count she loves the ocean it is just too cold for trunking it yet.


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LEWISBURG, Pa. - For the second time in his career, senior midfielder Devin Lynch provided a double-overtime game-winning goal. This time around, Lynch's score with 3:30 on the clock put the exclamation point on a 6-5 Army win over No. 15 Bucknell in Patriot League lacrosse action at Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium. The Black Knights' victory ended an eight-game win streak for the Bison.
The last time Army (5-6, 2-2 PL) played a double-overtime game, Lynch came up with the game-winner at the Carrier Dome as his Black Knights shocked Syracuse in the opening round of the 2010 NCAA Tournament. Lynch's heroics two years later spelled Army's second Patriot League victory and first win over a nationally ranked opponent this season.
"The second overtime is a time when anything goes and it's just about making a big play," Lynch said after the game. "They 10-manned us, which we expected, and it left the corners and the wings open. Luckily, I was open and saw a lane and went for it.
"As I fell, I heard the crowd erupt and figured the game was over or a save must have been made," the tri-captain added. "Having the guys jump on me definitely signified that we got it done."
Lynch's timely goal marked his only point of the afternoon, while junior attackman Garrett Thul and senior attackman James MacGibbon tallied two goals apiece. Freshman midfielder John Glesener added two points (1G, 1A), while senior attackman Conor Hayes (2A) and junior midfielder Alex Van Krevel (1A) each registered assists.
"It was a tough game all the way through against one of the best teams in the country," said seventh-year head coach Joe Alberici. "All week long we had talked about expecting to win. We've been right there in a number of close games and it just hasn't gone our way."
After entering the locker room tied 2-2, Army found itself facing deficits of 3-2 and 4-3 before regulation came to a close. The Black Knights gave up an extra-man Bucknell goal with 1:16 to play in the fourth quarter which eventually resulted in the Black Knights' second overtime test of the season.
"The guys showed some great mental toughness out there today," Alberici continued. "There was a lot of confidence in our huddle and I think that's what carried the day."
Neither team found the back of the net in the first overtime despite combining for five shots. The teams played much of the opening two minutes of the second overtime period unsettled in the middle of the field. The Black Knights accounted for the only shot, Lynch's game-winner, of the final frame.
Bucknell (8-4, 3-1 PL) sophomore attackman Todd Heritage paced the Bison with two goals, while senior attackman Billy Eisenreich, junior attackman Chase Bailey and sophomore midfielder Tom Black each registered single goals. Eisenreich entered the game ranked third in the nation averaging 4.73 points per game and finished Saturday's affair with two points (1G, 1A). Army junior close defenseman Brendan Buckley spent the majority of the afternoon silencing Eisenreich.
"We played a lot of defense today with some costly clearing errors, but I have to tip my hat to the entire `D' for their outstanding efforts today," Alberici said. "Our goaltending was terrific. Zach (Palmieri) did a great job in the cage making saves when he needed to. For Brendan Buckley to lead a defensive effort in holding one of the leading scorers in the country (Billy Eisenreich) to one (goal) and one (assist), it was a critical element to today's success."
Senior goalkeeper Zach Palmieri made 10 saves, including two in the final seconds of regulation to preserve the tie and force overtime. Buckley amassed a game-high five caused turnovers as Army racked-up a season-best 16 forced miscues on the day. Senior captains Brian LoRusso and Tim Henderson added four and three caused turnovers, respectively. Henderson led all players with seven ground balls. Army edged Bucknell 36-30 in ground balls for the day.
Army struck first on a play that began with a caused turnover courtesy of senior long pole Tom Dalton and finished with an unassisted Thul goal at 11:54. The Black Knights' 1-0 lead stood for nearly eight minutes, but a close-range goal from Bucknell's Heritage with 3:46 on the clock evened the score a 1-1.
Each team netted a single goal in the second quarter as well, but it was the Bison striking first 2:18 into the action. Army answered just over a minute later as Glesener fed a streaking MacGibbon for his third goal of the season at 11:06. While both teams had plenty of chances over the remaining 11 minutes of the quarter, neither could add to its goal total and entered halftime tied 2-2.
Bucknell took a 3-2 lead with an Eisenreich goal just 2:30 into the third quarter. That advantage lasted exactly two minutes before Van Krevel hit a wide open Glesener for a 10-yard score with 10:30 on the clock. The Bison wasted little time regaining the lead, as Heritage's second goal of the day at 9:16 gave the Bison a 4-3 edge.
Neither team scored over the final nine minutes of the third quarter, but the Black Knights leveled the score for a fourth time less than two minutes into the fourth quarter. After Palmieri came up with his eighth save of the afternoon, Hayes hit Thul in stride for his second goal of the day with 13:17 on the clock.
Army went on to take its first lead since the opening minutes of the game as Hayes found MacGibbon wide open just outside the crease for his second goal of the day. MacGibbon's fourth goal of the season paid dividends after a long possession at the 9:10 mark.
The Black Knight defense held up over the next eight minutes of regulation before a pushing call with just under two minutes to play put Bucknell's EMO unit on the field. The Bison converted as Bailey netted his only goal of the day with 1:16 left in regulation. Over the final minute of regulation, the teams combined for three turnovers and Palmieri made back-to-back saves to preserve the tie, force the extra sessions and lead to Lynch's late-game heroics.
Army will look to carry momentum into next Saturday's service-academy showdown against Navy at Michie Stadium. Face-off for the April 14 contest is set for 12:06 p.m. for a game that is set to air live on CBS Sports Network. Fans are encouraged to arrive early for the contest to take part in a bevy of pregame activities to include Black Knights Alley beginning at 10 a.m.
Game Notes: Bucknell is the sixth nationally ranked opponent Army has faced this season ... senior defenseman Larry LoRusso carried the American flag onto the field ... Army has scored first in eight games this season ... senior midfielder Derek Sipperly won 9-of-16 face-offs ... he added four ground balls ... senior goalkeeper Zach Palmieri reached double-figure saves for the fifth time this season.


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I bit my tongue as I read through a few recent discussions around here - specifically the ones dealing with world issues. I decided that instead of derailing those discussions I would vent in a separate thread. Who knows? Perhaps some share my view.
Look, I'm all for peace on earth. I would love to see everyone have freedom and be happy. There are some horrible things going on in the world and I wish that none of them were happening. I see how certain governments and policies encourage violence, oppression, greed, hate, damage to the environment, etc., and I also see how individuals do the same. The problems and the wrongdoings are obvious, but implementing solutions have proven difficult to say the least.
But please answer me this; where does it say samsara is supposed to be fun? Is the reality of our situation here not blatantly obvious? At what point does that truth actually come through in how we live; in how we talk about the world? Is a pleasant samsara our goal or the cessation of dukkha?
If you are passionate about making the world a better place, then by all means go for it. I wish you the best. We have seen many people make tremendous, lasting change for the better in this world, and with the dhamma at your side I am sure that there is a lot of good that can be done.
I have been looking for the source of the world's problems my whole life; always searching the outside world, sure that the solution was out there. And it was in a way. I found the Buddha's teaching "out there", but I was quickly instructed to look the other way - within. I am the problem, the whole problem. By taking the proper action this problem can be solved. For me, attempting to be "IN" this world is a nightmare, but I see it through the best I can. I extend a caring hand to anyone that crosses my path; I encourage positive and helpful change when I have the power to do so. But I am not going to burn my time here fretting and beating my fists at the failures of those around me, attempting to pinpoint what they are doing wrong. I know what it is like to misunderstand the world and my position in it. Seeing through that misunderstanding, even a little bit, is hard, so it is not a surprise that many in the world are having the same difficulty. All I know is that I have found something that is making a difference in my understanding and I am so fortunate to have had the time and the freedom to explore it. I wish I could bring everyone along for the ride, but I think I will be lucky if I can get one in my lifetime.
So I guess this is where some may ask, "Well shouldn't the whole world have the opportunity you did?" Perhaps even more basic than that, "Shouldn't everyone at least have basic rights? Shouldn't that be the way the world is?" I wish it was, but in short, I do not know the way the world is supposed to be. Where does it say that is the way it should be? According to the Buddha, everything is quite accurate. IT SUCKS! Hence the reason we are attempting to bring an end to it all.
I am not sure how any of this is coming off. All I know is that I do not like seeing people getting all wrapped up. So there it is.


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Jailbreaking a smartphone means fiddling with its OS so you can load the applications of your choice, bypassing the requirement to download digitally signed apps only from, say, Apple's iTunes App Store. Opinions tend to be binary: Either jailbreaking is an unalloyed act of end user liberation and empowerment, or it's the Digital Apocalypse.
Recently, Apple quietly and without explanation disabled a new API, introduced in iOS 4.0, intended to be used in discovering whether an iOS device had been jailbroken. Software vendors of mobile management applications insist they can, and do, use other techniques to discover that.
Apple's decision sparked a new round of debate over jailbreaking, but without shifting the binary terms in which the debate has been framed. We went into more details about jailbreaking and the enterprise with Jeremy Allen, a principal consultant with Intrepidus Group, a New York City consulting firm specializing in mobile security. Allen has a background in security and application development, and he focuses on iOS and applications that run on it.
Some will argue that jailbreaking iOS is a right, not a risk. How do you see it?
My general thought on it is that, as shipped, iOS devices add a lot of security due to the code signing of everything on the device. When you live and play in the "Walled Garden of Steve" as I have seen it called, you get a lot of benefits for that...The problem I have is that, usually, big organizations don't let users have administrative privileges on corporate-owned devices [e.g. laptops], so why would we be letting users have them on a corporate-owned iPad?
What does code signing bring to the table for mobile security?
Code signing is a pretty giant roadblock to malware.
On a Windows PC, when you download a program from the Internet, you get a popup that tells you "publisher: unknown" or "publisher: Adobe" and so on. Windows figures that out through code-signing - the code publisher gets a certificate from Verisign, and "signs" the code. That lets you, as the developer, prove you're the author of the code and that it's trustworthy.
For iOS devices, you as a developer get a certificate signed by Apple. When the code is downloaded, Apple will lookup the code and make sure it's properly rooted to the certificate. For iOS devices, if the code signing is not from Apple, and Apple only, you can't run it. It creates a secure playground. By forcing any code that you want to run on the mobile device to be [first] signed from Apple, you can eliminate a lot of problems.
So what does jailbreaking actually do?
It disables most of the code signing checks.
Apple offers [in iOS] public and private APIs. Any apps in the App Store use only the public APIs. Private APIs aren't necessarily secret but only Apple can use them, and Apple can change them at any time.
Jailbreaking lets you use the private APIs. Then, you can implement things like multitasking in iOS 3.0 [before Apple partly enabled it in 4.0]. You have more control over the apps you write. And you can put anything you want on your iPhone. At bottom, it's a Unix device. [So] you can install SSH [Secure Shell] and tunnel into your phone and use it, for example, for tethering. You can change the graphical look and feel of the iPhone pretty significantly.
What are the risks with jailbroken devices?
Any code can run on your phone: You could get malware that could steal all your emails or whatever.
Usually, jailbreak users install software from Cydia [an open source code package manager and, now, online store], and who knows where that code came from? You could throw some backdoor on those programs a lot more easily than you could on Apple's servers.
Second, if you install and configure SSH, the root user password would be weak and make it easy for anyone to take over your phone. There are all kinds of bad and unexpected outcomes with jailbreaking.
Having said that, the chances of someone currently targeting jailbroken iPhones are low, because there are not that many of them. From the standpoint of a developer writing 'malware that will run anywhere,' it's a very small user audience.
[Apple has a list of problems encountered by iOS users who have jailbroken their devices.]
Based on your work with enterprise IT in mobile deployments, how do they see jailbreaking?
They want a way to detect it. The iOS 4.0 release was focused on mobile device management: Jailbreaking sidesteps all that. Even when it's a personal [iOS] device, IT is saying "we know this is your personal device, but if you want to access to corporate email on you phone, you need to have some security configured."
A lot of endusers may not realize all the other risks they take when they jailbreak.
Some say "jailbreaking is not a big deal." And it's not, from my perspective. But you don't need a lot of the features you get with a jailbreak, and the phone is less secure. So why do it?
Why do you say jailbreaking is no big deal?
At Intrepidus Group, we're always talking about this. We agree that jailbreaking isn't an instant death sentence. If you're a "consenting IT practitioner," and you jailbreak your device, you probably know what you're getting into. You know the risks.
But a lot of end users who do this, they don't even change the root password on their device. That's the problem: If you make an informed decision, it's like being on your laptop as "administrator," which you have to be in order to install programs. But in iPhone, you can't do that [legally], and the phone is intended to take care of itself. If you change this by jailbreaking, you take on the responsibility for doing what the phone was doing for you.
So, I would say it is a big deal for end users to jailbreak their phones. But the result is not technically different from most of the other devices out there on the Internet today.
But I think if a user wants to bring their mobile devices "into the corporate fold," they need to accept some things like "not removing things that make your device more secure."
Do third-party mobile management applications offer reliable jailbreak detection mechanisms?
Apple's mobile device management APIs have been released to these vendors, but they're under NDA. You or I can't see these, or how they're used. Apple doesn't even give this information to the Department of Defense.
The classic mechanism is to write an application that tries to do things it shouldn't be able to do. But the question is, will that still work in six months, with the hackers always one step ahead?
John Cox covers wireless networking and mobile computing for Network World.Twitter: http://twitter.com/johnwcoxnwwEmail: email@example.com RSS feed: http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/2989/feed
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Where there's smoke, there's fire, and where there's software, there must be bugs. Though we like to think the work we do as programmers is important and we're the cornerstones of the industry, we make mistakes like everyone else. It's just a matter of time before they're discovered.
Time was, in fact, of the essence, when I worked for about eight years in a facility with a large data center that was home to a large travel reservation system. Reservation agents worked around the clock and used this system to book travel for car rentals, hotel rooms, and airline seats.
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Like many other companies at the time, we put in a lot of effort upgrading systems and running tests to verify that no problems would occur related to Y2K. It was a boom time for contractors and vendors. Many systems were upgraded, not because of actual problems, but simply because software and hardware vendors typically would not certify old products as being Y2K-compliant.
Tonight we're gonna program like it's 1999
The last evening of 1999 arrived, and I was assigned to be at the office for that shift. We had a large contingent of IT people prepared to identify and resolve any problems that might occur. Another shift was prepared to take over in the morning if there was a need. Jan. 1 was a Saturday, so most of us would not normally be working during this time.
The first part of the shift was mostly uneventful. We snacked on food that had been brought in and shot the breeze. Just before midnight, we manned our stations and set about the task of verifying the systems and software for which we had responsibility.
We counted down the last 10 seconds to issue in the new year and held our breath, our eyes glued to the systems. Midnight came and went. Nothing broke, blew up, crashed. The world did not end. The systems changed over just fine for the most part. I am aware of only one problem that occurred that was actually related to the year 2000, and the team that worked with that software spent several hours working to correct it. All our preparation efforts had paid off.
But with so many programmers and IT personnel closely scrutinizing every last detail, it wasn't too surprising that we found other problems that had not been previously reported. For instance, we noticed the reservation system had a problem that prevented the users from displaying airline seat availability for the first hour after midnight. After the hour was up, everything worked normally.
The hour of truth
One problem prevented the software from working properly for the first hour of every year. The other problem had a similar effect for the first hour of every month. These bugs had been in the system for years! We found out later that the reservation agents using this application had noticed the problem, but simply tried again after 1 a.m., when the system worked properly, and never reported it.


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