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No. 13-684.
Larry D. JESINOSKI, et ux., Petitioners v. COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC., et al.
135 S.Ct. 790 (2015); 574 U.S. __ (2015)
Supreme Court of the United States: Argued November 4, 2014; Decided January 13, 2015.
Petitioner's Perspective
The Truth in Lending Act provides that a borrower "shall have the right to rescind the transaction until midnight of the third business day following . . . the delivery of the information and rescission forms required under this section . . . by notifying the creditor . . . of his intention to do so." 15 U.S.C. § 1635(a). The statute further creates a "[t]ime limit for [the] exercise of [this] right," providing that the borrower's "right of rescission shall expire three years after the date of consummation of the transaction" even if the "disclosures required . . . have not been delivered." Id. § 1635(f).
The question presented is: Does a borrower exercise his right to rescind a transaction in satisfaction of the requirements of Section 1635 by "notifying the creditor" in writing within three years of the consummation of the transaction, or must a borrower file a lawsuit within three years of the consummation of the transaction?
I.A. Section 1635(a) of Title 15 both creates the right to rescind and specifies the method of its exercise: "by notifying the creditor." The ordinary meaning of this phrase is that the borrower must inform the creditor that the borrower rescinds the mortgage contract. Every dictionary definition of "notify" confirms that ordinary meaning and none mentions a lawsuit. In accord with that ordinary meaning, Congress consistently used "notify" and "notice" elsewhere in the statute to mean "inform." There is thus no textual basis in the statute to impose an unstated requirement that the borrower file a lawsuit to exercise the right to rescind.
B. The structure of the statute confirms that there is no requirement to file suit to exercise the right to rescind. Section 1635(a) creates a single right to rescind that may be exercised within three days of either the consummation of the transaction or the delivery of the required disclosures. Even respondents do not take the position that the statute requires a borrower to file a lawsuit within three days of the transaction. Yet it is untenable to interpret the statute to require different methods of exercising the right when the statute specifies the method by a single instance of the phrase "by notifying the creditor." Section 1635(b), in turn, establishes carefully scripted procedures to unwind the transaction that explicitly do not require the involvement of a court and therefore no lawsuit is required to initiate them. Finally, Section 1635(f) limits the life of the right to rescind not by imposing a statute of limitations on filing suit but by providing that the right "shall expire" three years after the consummation of the transaction. This manner of limiting the 12 duration of the right demonstrates that no lawsuit is required to exercise it.
C. The statutory and legislative history of Section 1635 provide further confirmation that notifying the creditor is sufficient to exercise the right to rescind. Congress actively engaged with the statute in the years after its original enactment, amending it multiple times without altering the method to exercise the right to rescind. Tellingly, Congress considered and rejected an amendment in 1977 to create a cause of action "to determine the consumer's right to rescind." Congress's action took place against the backdrop of the Federal Reserve Board's interpretation of Section 1635(a) to require only written notice to exercise the right to rescind. The subsequent statutory history thus demonstrates that Congress understood that Section 1635(a) did not require a lawsuit and that it acquiesced to the Board's interpretation.
The legislative debates preceding the original enactment of the statute further illuminate Congress's intent to create a simple, non-judicial remedy. Both statements by the sponsoring members of Congress and the conference report evince the intent that notice alone be sufficient to exercise the "vitally important" right Congress created to give the statute's disclosure requirements "real teeth."
D. The text, structure, and history of Section 1635 manifest its purpose to create a non-judicial right of rescission. In creating the right to rescind, Congress meant to provide a simple mechanism for borrowers to reconsider their credit decision for three days after they receive all the disclosures required by the statute. To that end, Congress codified core components of the longstanding common-law remedy 13 of rescission. At common law, a party effectuates a rescission simply by notifying the non-rescinding party. A lawsuit for restitution is required only if the non-rescinding party refuses to tender what must be returned under the rescission that had been accomplished by notice. In codifying that well-established common-law remedy, Congress achieved the statute's remedial purpose to promote the informed and efficient use of credit.
A requirement to file suit would frustrate Congress's purpose by manufacturing thousands of needless lawsuits from a statute it passed to protect borrowers without resorting to burdensome litigation. Moreover, such a requirement is not necessary to prevent "uncertainty" regarding title because notice informs a creditor that the right has been exercised just as readily as does a lawsuit, and any dispute about the validity of the exercise of the right may be resolved promptly.
II. The Federal Reserve Board and now the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have long interpreted Section 1635 to require only that the borrower notify the creditor in writing to exercise the right to rescind. The Bureau has confirmed in amicus briefs before the courts of appeals that neither the statute nor the regulation imposes a further, unstated requirement to file suit. These interpretations by the agencies charged by Congress with implementing the statute warrant this Court's deference.
III. Section 1635(f) provides only that the right to rescind "shall expire" after three years and in no way alters the manner in which that right may be exercised. The text, history, and purpose of Section 1635(f) demonstrate that it was enacted to address the specific problem of unexercised rights of rescis- 14 sion that could create uncertainty. This Court's decision in Beach v. Ocwen Federal Bank, 523 U.S. 410 (1998), confirms that Section 1635(f) was narrowly targeted to prevent the exercise of the right after three years, not to impose a requirement to file suit within three years. Because petitioners notified their creditors within three years of the consummation of the transaction of their intention to rescind, their exercise of the right was timely. Because petitioners' subsequent lawsuit to enforce their exercise of the right was filed within any possible statute of limitations that might apply, their lawsuit was timely.
Respondent's Perspective
When a borrower sends notice of his intention to rescind and the lender disputes the borrower's right to rescind, must the borrower bring any suit for rescission before the right of rescission expires under the three year statute of repose?
I. A. Section 1635(a) gives certain borrowers the "right to rescind" their mortgage loans and requires that they "notify[]" their lender of their "intention to do so." That provision, however, says nothing about what a borrower must do to effectuate a rescission of his loan. Congress provided that direction in section 1635(b) and (g), where it created two rescissionary procedures for a borrower to pursue, depending on whether his right to rescind is in fact in dispute. In neither case does the borrower's notice of "intention to" rescind effectuate a rescission.
Where a borrower's right to rescind is uncontested, section 1635(b) prescribes a series of steps for the mutual accomplishment of rescission, including the lender terminating the security interest and the borrower tendering the loan principal. In contrast, where, as here, more than three days have elapsed since the loan closing and the lender denies it failed to provide the required disclosures, the Act prescribes a different procedure for a borrower seeking rescission: He must go to court and sue for an "award" of "rescission." 15 U.S.C. § 1635(g); see id. § 1640(a)(3). Thus, in this contested case, where petitioners' right to rescind is in dispute and the parties accordingly have not restored each other to the status quo ante through the statutory procedures in section 1635(b), petitioners were required to sue for any rescission.
This interpretation of TILA is reinforced by the common law, which created two alternative ways of accomplishing rescission. Under the common law, rescission can be effectuated unilaterally (at law) only upon a valid notice accompanied by tender, thereby ensuring restoration of the status quo by the rescinding party.
By contrast, the intervention of a court is necessary (in equity) to award rescission where a party's right to rescind is contested. Petitioners and the United States insist that TILA is meant to mirror common-law rescission at law, but that is clearly wrong. First, Congress separated notice from the obligation of tender, both of which are necessary under the common law to accomplish a unilateral rescission. Second, by underscoring the need for judicial intervention to "award" "rescission" in the case of a dispute, Congress enacted a regime that more closely resembles rescission in equity, whereby rescission must be decreed by a court.
B. TILA originally placed no time limit on a borrower's ability to seek a rescission. In response to concerns from federal regulators that unexpired rescission rights placed clouds on title and the enforceability of loans, Congress enacted a three-year statute of repose. In an amendment titled "Time limit for right of rescission," Congress categorically stated that a borrower's right of rescission "shall expire" three years after the consummation of the loan transaction. Pub. L. No. 93- 495, § 405, 88 Stat. 1500, 1517 (1974).
As the Court unanimously confirmed in Beach v. Ocwen Federal Bank, 523 U.S. 410, 416 (1998), that provision, codified at 15 U.S.C. § 1635(f), "'operates … to extinguish the right which is the foundation for the claim'"—i.e., rescission. It therefore necessarily "limits … the time for bringing a suit, by governing the life of the underlying right." Id. at 417. Because petitioners filed their lawsuit seeking rescission after section 1635(f)'s three-year limit, their rescission claim is timebarred.
II. Petitioners' interpretation would frustrate Congress's objectives in enacting TILA's statute of repose.
On petitioners' view, as long as a borrower sends a notice of intention to rescind within the three-year period, the borrower has an indefinite number of additional years to bring suit to obtain an "award" of "rescission." Any limit on the time for filing suit—an issue, petitioners oddly say, the Court need not even address—should be drawn from state statutes of limitations or from 15 U.S.C. § 1640, even though section 1635(f) already imposes a three-year statute of repose. But section 1640 applies to claims for damages, not rescission. And it is highly implausible that Congress, after creating an extraordinary remedy and then enacting an uncompromising three-year limitation on the underlying right, meant to leave the time for actually seeking an award of that remedy subject to a patchwork of 50 States' laws as interpreted by various courts.
As petitioners see it, Congress's solution to the problem of clouds on title was not to extinguish the borrower's right of rescission three years after closing, but instead to require the borrower only to notify the lender within those three years, and take no further action if his notice is rejected, placing the burden on the lender to sue for a declaratory judgment. That would proliferate avoidable and unnecessary litigation. It is a no-lose proposition for a borrower to send a lender written notice of his intention to rescind—an act outside the requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure—even where, as here, he has previously acknowledged receiving his disclosures. Lenders would thus be required to initiate countless declaratory judgment actions against frivolous notices of borrowers' intention to rescind or suffer the very clouds on title Congress sought to eliminate. But there is no indication Congress contemplated anything like that. Rather, under the scheme set forth in section 1635, it is the borrower—the one who claims a violation of TILA and seeks an "award" of "rescission" based on that claim—who brings suit.
III. TILA's text should be the end of the matter. But in any event, no deference is due the CFPB's litigation views. First, the CFPB's regulation concededly provides no clarity on the relevant statutory interpretation issue here: What must a borrower do to obtain resolution of a contested assertion of rescission, and by when must the borrower do it? Second, the CFPB's view on that issue, set forth in its amicus briefs, finds no footing in TILA's text, disregards Congress's intent, and has no basis in any special agency expertise.
Exactly three years after borrowing money from respondent Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., to refinance their home mortgage, petitioners Larry and Cheryle Jesinoski sent Countrywide and respondent Bank of America Home Loans, which had acquired Countrywide, a letter purporting to rescind the transaction. Bank of America replied, refusing to acknowledge the rescission's validity. One year and one day later, the Jesinoskis filed suit in federal court, seeking a declaration of rescission and damages. The District Court entered judgment on the pleadings for respondents, concluding that a borrower can exercise the Truth in Lending Act's right to rescind a loan, see 15 U. S. C. §1635(a), (f), only by filing a lawsuit within three years of the date the loan was consummated. The Jesinoskis' complaint, filed four years and one day after the loan's consummation, was ineffective. The Eighth Circuit affirmed.
Held: A borrower exercising his right to rescind under the Act need only provide written notice to his lender within the 3-year period, not file suit within that period. Section 1635(a)'s unequivocal terms—a borrower "shall have the right to rescind . . . by notifying the creditor. . . of his intention to do so" (emphasis added)—leave no doubt that rescission is effected when the borrower notifies the creditor of his intention to rescind. This conclusion is not altered by §1635(f), which states when the right to rescind must be exercised, but says nothing about how that right is exercised. Nor does §1635(g)—which states that "in addition to rescission the court may award relief . . . not relating to the right to rescind"—support respondents' view that rescission is necessarily a consequence of judicial action. And the fact that the Act modified the common-law condition precedent to rescission at law, see §1635(b), hardly implies that the Act thereby codified rescission in equity. Pp. 2–5.
729 F. 3d 1092, reversed and remanded.
David C. Frederick, Washington, DC, for Petitioners.
Seth P. Waxman, Washington, DC, for Respondents.
Elaine J. Goldenberg for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the Petitioners.
Lynn E. Blais, Michael F. Sturley, Austin, TX, Michael J. Keogh, Keogh Law Office, St. Paul, MN, Erin Glenn Busby, Houston, TX, David C. Frederick, Counsel of Record, Matthew A. Seligman, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, for Petitioners.
Noah A. Levine, Alan E. Schoenfeld, Jason D. Hirsch, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, NY,Andrew B. Messite, Reed Smith LLP, New York, NY, Seth P. Waxman, Counsel of Record, Louis R. Cohen,Albinas J. Prizgintas, Christopher D. Dodge, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC, Aaron D. Van Oort, Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, Minneapolis, MN, for Respondents.
Justice SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court.
The Truth in Lending Act gives borrowers the right to rescind certain loans for up to three years after the transaction is consummated. The question presented is whether a borrower exercises this right by providing written notice to his lender, or whether he must also file a lawsuit before the 3-year period elapses.
On February 23, 2007, petitioners Larry and Cheryle Jesinoski refinanced the mortgage on their home by borrowing $611,000 from respondent Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. Exactly three years later, on February 23, 2010, the Jesinoskis mailed respondents a letter purporting to rescind the loan. Respondent Bank of America Home Loans replied on March 12, 2010, refusing to acknowledge the validity of the rescission. On February 24, 2011, the Jesinoskis filed suit in Federal District Court seeking a declaration of rescission and damages.
Respondents moved for judgment on the pleadings, which the District Court granted. The court concluded that the Act requires a borrower seeking rescission to file a lawsuit within three years of the transaction's consummation. Although the Jesinoskis notified respondents of their intention to rescind within that time, they did not file their first complaint until four years and one day after the loan's consummation. 2012 WL 1365751, *3 (D.Minn., Apr. 19, 2012). The Eighth Circuit affirmed. 729 F.3d 1092, 1093 (2013) (per curiam).
Congress passed the Truth in Lending Act, 82 Stat. 146, as amended, to help consumers "avoid the uninformed use of [135 S.Ct. 792] credit, and to protect the consumer against inaccurate and unfair credit billing." 15 U.S.C. § 1601(a). To this end, the Act grants borrowers the right to rescind a loan "until midnight of the third business day following the consummation of the transaction or the delivery of the [disclosures required by the Act], whichever is later, by notifying the creditor, in accordance with regulations of the [Federal Reserve] Board, of his intention to do so." § 1635(a) (2006 ed.).[^*] This regime grants borrowers an unconditional right to rescind for three days, after which they may rescind only if the lender failed to satisfy the Act's disclosure requirements. But this conditional right to rescind does not last forever. Even if a lender never makes the required disclosures, the "right of rescission shall expire three years after the date of consummation of the transaction or upon the sale of the property, whichever comes first." § 1635(f). The Eighth Circuit's affirmance in the present case rested upon its holding inKeiran v. Home Capital, Inc., 720 F.3d 721, 727-728 (2013) that, unless a borrower has filed a suit for rescission within three years of the transaction's consummation, § 1635(f) extinguishes the right to rescind and bars relief.That was error. Section 1635(a) explains in unequivocal terms how the right to rescind is to be exercised: It provides that a borrower "shall have the right to rescind … by notifying the creditor, in accordance with regulations of the Board, of his intention to do so" (emphasis added). The language leaves no doubt that rescission is effected when the borrower notifies the creditor of his intention to rescind. It follows that, so long as the borrower notifies within three years after the transaction is consummated, his rescission is timely. The statute does not also require him to sue within three years.
Nothing in § 1635(f) changes this conclusion. Although § 1635(f) tells us when the right to rescind must be exercised, it says nothing about how that right is exercised. Our observation in Beach v. Ocwen Fed. Bank, 523 U.S. 410, 417, 118 S.Ct. 1408, 140 L.Ed.2d 566 (1998), that § 1635(f) "govern[s] the life of the underlying right" is beside the point. That case concerned a borrower's attempt to rescind in the course of a foreclosure proceeding initiated six years after the loan's consummation. We concluded only that there was "no federal right to rescind, defensively or otherwise, after the 3-year period of § 1635(f) has run," id., at 419, 118 S.Ct. 1408, not that there was no rescission until a suit is filed.
Respondents do not dispute that § 1635(a) requires only written notice of rescission. Indeed, they concede that written notice suffices to rescind a loan within the first three days after the transaction is consummated. They further concede that written notice suffices after that period if the parties agree that the lender failed to make the required disclosures. Respondents argue, however, that if the parties dispute the adequacy of the disclosures — and thus the continued availability of the right to rescind — then written notice does not suffice.
Section 1635(a) nowhere suggests a distinction between disputed and undisputed rescissions, much less that a lawsuit would be required for the latter. In an effort to sidestep this problem, respondents point to a neighboring provision, § 1635(g), which they believe provides support for their interpretation [135 S.Ct. 793] of the Act. Section 1635(g) states merely that, "[i]n any action in which it is determined that a creditor has violated this section, in addition to rescission the court may award relief under section 1640 of this title for violations of this subchapter not relating to the right to rescind." Respondents argue that the phrase "award relief" "in addition to rescission" confirms that rescission is a consequence of judicial action. But the fact that it can be a consequence of judicial action when § 1635(g) is triggered in no way suggests that it can only follow from such action. The Act contemplates various situations in which the question of a lender's compliance with the Act's disclosure requirements may arise in a lawsuit — for example, a lender's foreclosure action in which the borrower raises inadequate disclosure as an affirmative defense. Section 1635(g) makes clear that a court may not only award rescission and thereby relieve the borrower of his financial obligation to the lender, but may also grant any of the remedies available under § 1640 (including statutory damages). It has no bearing upon whether and how borrower-rescission under § 1635(a) may occur.Finally, respondents invoke the common law. It is true that rescission traditionally required either that the rescinding party return what he received before a rescission could be effected (rescission at law), or else that a court affirmatively decree rescission (rescission in equity). 2 D. Dobbs, Law of Remedies § 9.3(3), pp. 585-586 (2d ed. 1993). It is also true that the Act disclaims the common-law condition precedent to rescission at law that the borrower tender the proceeds received under the transaction. 15 U.S.C. § 1635(b). But the negation of rescission-at-law's tender requirement hardly implies that the Act codifies rescission in equity. Nothing in our jurisprudence, and no tool of statutory interpretation, requires that a congressional Act must be construed as implementing its closest common-law analogue. Cf. Astoria Fed. Sav. & Loan Assn. v. Solimino, 501 U.S. 104, 108-109, 111 S.Ct. 2166, 115 L.Ed.2d 96 (1991). The clear import of § 1635(a) is that a borrower need only provide written notice to a lender in order to exercise his right to rescind. To the extent § 1635(b) alters the traditional process for unwinding such a unilaterally rescinded transaction, this is simply a case in which statutory law modifies common-law practice.
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The Jesinoskis mailed respondents written notice of their intention to rescind within three years of their loan's consummation. Because this is all that a borrower must do in order to exercise his right to rescind under the Act, the court below erred in dismissing the complaint. Accordingly, we reverse the judgment of the Eighth Circuit and remand the case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
It is so ordered.
[^*]: The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U.S. 321, 337, 26 S.Ct. 282, 50 L.Ed. 499.


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Match 42 IPL 2017 (2017-05-4) @ Delhi (FSK)
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These two teams have not meet yet this season despite it being well over half way through. They will play again in Kanpur 6 days after this fixture.
Last season it was one win a piece when the two sides met. Both teams won their away fixture. Here in Delhi The Lions set a total of 172 thanks largely to half centuries at the top of the order by Dwayne Smith and Brendon McCullum. In reply Delhi suffered an early collapse before Chris Morris blitzed 82 runs from 32 balls to get them within 1 run.
Delhi started the season with 2 wins from their first 3 matches. Their strategy was to put a big score on the board batting first and then use their strong balling attack to defend it. They then suffered a 5 match losing streak that culminated in being bowled out for 67 by Punjab on Sunday.
Delhi's batsmen finally got their act together on Tuesday against the Sunrisers. Having been set 185 runs to win their batsmen chased it down with 5 balls to spare. There was quick runs and sensible partnerships from the top 4 Indian batsmen. Then Corey Anderson and Chris Morris finished the job off. Anderson's 41 from 24 balls was his first significant contribution of this year's IPL.
The Gujarat Lion's season has been disappointing after they finished top of the league last season. They started struggling for the right combination of overseas players and injuries to Jadeja and Dwayne Bravo. Bravo never recovered and Jadeja has not been bowling at his best. They played 4 overseas batsmen early on and suffered from weak bowling. The introduction of Andrew Tye into the team gave immediate improvements but he too is now out due to injury.
Despite all this they got very close to beating Pune on Monday. They scored 161 thanks to decent opening stand from Ishan Kishan and Brendon McCullum. Then they dismissed the Pune top 4 all for single figures thanks to good fast bowling from Sangwan and Thampi. Sangwan was impressive playing his first match. They ultimately lost the match because of a brilliant century by Ben Stokes.
The two teams have almost identical Cricsq ratings. Delhi have 78.6 points and The Lions have 78.4 points. The Lions are just favorites on Betfair at the time of writing. Their price is 1.93 compared to 2.06 for Delhi.
70% of IPL matches at Delhi since 2014 have been won by the team batting second. The Lions have won 73% of matches batting second and just 9% batting first. Delhi also have a better record since 2014 batting second and showed on Tuesday that the current team can successfully chase here. Given that I cannot split the team on ratings I shall wait until the toss and back the chasing team.
Sanju Samson and Karun Nair opened the batting for Delhi on Tuesday. Sam Billings had been recalled against KXIP but was dropped again after a second ball duck.
Samson and Nair got the run chase off to a great start in the powerplay. Samson scored 24 off 19 balls. He is Delhi's top scorer for the season and now has 313 runs at a strike rate of 137. Nair played his first significant knock of this IPL scoring 39 from 20 balls. He now has 128 runs for the season.
Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer batted at 3 and 4. They both contributed quick fire 30s to maintain the momentum of the innings. Pant now has 186 runs with a strike rate of 157. Iyer has 190 runs with a strike rate of 138.
Corey Anderson made his first significant contribution of the season scoring 41 not out off 24 balls. He hit 3 sixes and 2 fours. He now has 102 runs from 6 innings. Chris Morris came in at the end and hit 15 from 7 balls. He has 154 runs with a brilliant strike rate of 164.
Angelo Mathews was selected as an overseas player instead of Sam Billings. He neither batted nor bowled. With both Billings and Tare scoring so few runs Delhi went with the all-rounder option rather than playing Pat Cummings as an extra bowler.
Chris Morris is Delhi's top wicket taker with 12. He has an economy rate of 7.8. He is joined in the seam bowling department by Pat Cummings, Kagiso Rabada, Zaheer Khan and Mohammed Shami.
Cummings has bowled well taking 9 wickets from 7 matches with an economy rate of 7.4. He is unlucky not to be selected for the last 2 matches. Rabada has been preferred. He went for 59 off his 4 overs against the Sunrisers on Tuesday. Rabada has 3 wickets from 4 matches with an economy rate of 9.6 an over.
Khan is currently injured. He has 7 wickets from 7 matches with an economy rate of 8.2. Mohammed Shami has been expensive going at 9.2 an over. He has 2 wickets so far.
Amit Mishra is Delhi's top spinner with 9 wickets with an economy rate of 8 runs an over. Jayant Yadav has played 2 matches. He has no wickets but has been economical going at 7 an over. Shahbaz Nadeem has only gone at 5 an over and has 4 wickets from 4 matches.
The Lions started the season playing 4 overseas opening batsmen and no overseas bowlers. Jason Roy has now returned to England after only getting 3 chances to bat and scoring 59 runs.
The current opening pair is Brendon McCullum and Ishan Kishan. McCullum has 318 runs for the season with a strike rate of 149. Kishan has 149 runs from 6 innings with a strike rate of 134. He has looked a much better player since he has been promoted up the order.
Suresh Raina bats at 3. He is joint top Lion's run scorer on 318 runs. He has a strike rate of 139. His form has dropped off slightly since he scored a match winning 84 in The Lion's win over KKR on 21st April.
Aaron Finch has opened the batting but currently bats at 4. He has 199 runs with a strike rate of 170.
The middle order now consists of Karthik, Jadeja and Dwayne Smith. Smith returned to the side after the injury to Andrew Tye. He has only scored 94 runs from 8 innings. Karthik has 221 runs with a strike rate of 127. Jadeja has 100 runs from 6 innings.
The Lion's lead wicket taker is Andrew Tye with 12. He is now out for the season.
The seam attack is now lead by Basil Thampi. He has 8 wickets from 9 matches with an economy rate of 8.9 an over. Sangwan played his first match of the season against Pune. He picked up 2 wickets. Nathi Singh has only played 2 matches but has an amazing economy rate of 3.75 an over.
James Faulkner is now firmly in the side as an overseas player. He has 4 wickets from 4 matches with an economy rate of 8.7 an over. Dwayne Smith returned after the injury to Tye. He is more of a batsman than a bowler. He has 2 wickets form 7 matches with a terrible economy rate of 11 an over.
Ravindra Jadeja has been disappointing leading the spin attack. The top rated Test bowler has only 4 wickets from 8 matches and has an economy rate of 9.3 an over. The other spinner currently in the side is Ankit Soni. He 2 wickets from 3 matches and has an excellent economy rate of 5.4 an over.
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Uganda beat Botswana (52 runs)
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Shieldaig vs Lochcarron: highland darts challenge
The Ashes… Rangers vs Celtic…. the north London Derby….. England vs Germany…. Ross County vs Inverness Caledonian Thistle….these are just some of the great sporting rivalries in the world. And now, ambulance we can add to this list: the darts challenge between the villages of Shieldaig and Lochcarron.
You're going home in a Lochcarron mini-bus
Nestled in the picturesque highlands of Scotland, cialis 40mg passing tourists will admire the landscape and the rows of whitewashed cottages. However, prostate unknown to them, underneath this picture-postcard facade, there lurk the beating hearts of some of the fiercest darts competitors in the northern hemisphere.
Kenny Cool with Cuddy: brilliant arrows when sober
The Shieldaig team, captained by my good friend, Kenny 'Cool' MacLeod, threw down the gauntlet (or 'Claymore') to Gus and the gnarled, arrow-chuckers from Lochcarron. Only few weeks before, Shieldaig had beaten Lochcarron, and now there was the smell of revenge (and scotch eggs) in the air.
Tommy and Mattie: the future of darts
The Shieldaig team comprised of the veteran players – as well as the younger athletes including Tommy and Mattie. They obviously look delighted here, as being selected for the Shieldaig team is a great honour, and the result of a rigerous training regimin that invloves early morning runs, complicated mental arithmatic and a strict diet of Irn-Bru and Tennants.
Jim: Shieldaig's expert pub sportsman and botanist
Over eight singles matches, and four doubles the advantage swayed one way and then the other. For a while it looked like Lochcarron would be a pushover. But they came back strong and Shieldaig had to rely on players like fisherman, one-time botanist and local pub legend, Jim Alexander, to bring Shieldaig back into the game.
Kenny Cool, Shieldaig's team captain
The main personal rivalry is between the two teams best players and captains, Kenny and Gus. Last time they played, Kenny won. Gus was clearly determined to restore his personal honour and Lochcarron's reputation as the bully-boys of highland darts.
Gus, Lochcarron's team captain
This time, Gus's power game shone through and he won his match with Kenny. But before long, Kenny bounced back with the nights only 'one hundred and eighty' and this highlight helped win his doubles match.
Murdo John wins a match for Lochcarron
The tension mounted. Lochcarron's Murdo John clinched a nail-biter. Meawhile, a phenomenal amount of beer was washed down with numerous multi-coloured shots; players and spectators alike were then thankfully kept on their feet by a well timed arrival of scotch eggs, pizza and haggis drumsticks.
Its thirsty work being a Shieldaig WAG
Despite the Shieldaig WAGS best attempt to distract the Lochcarron fellows with their ravishing good looks and a fine exhibition of speed-drinking, after twelve matches, the teams were even.
To decide the game, it was going to be a team match of '1001.' The darts equivalent of a penalty shoot-out. Initially, Lochcarron stormed into the lead as each player took it in turn to throw. But when all looked lost, boy-band look-a-like, and local heart-throb, Scott Taylor, calmly threw a 140.
Throwing on the McFly: an old head on young shoulders
Nevertheless, Lochcarron were way ahead and throwing to win. But they just couldn't close out. Even so, it seemed a certainly Shieldaig would lose any minute.
Gary: shortly to have a rendevous with destiny
Cometh the hour, cometh the man….. with all eyes on the dart-board (except the Shiledaig WAGS who were sinking another round of shots), Gary calmly stepped up to the ocky.
The WAGS relive the tension with another round of shots
The last time I can remember this amount of sporting tension, Colin 'Monty' Montgomery, was putting to win the Ryder Cup.
What would happen? Would Gary cover himself in glory? Would this be the moment of failure that would haunt him to his dying days? One can only imagine the pressure he felt.
He threw… HE SCORED!
The moment of victory: Gary hits the spot
The bar errupted. It was a magnificent victory for Shieldaig, but more than that, it was a victory for darts.
There were handshakes and congratulations all round. Lochcarron were spirited losers, knowing their day would surely come, sometime in the future when the two giants of highland darts meet again.
The darts over, its time for the 'sesh' to begin
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A Siren is a Light Fae species that can placate, control, banish, kill, heal, and alleviate pain with his or her song (which is produced as either a whistle or sonic waves).
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A true Siren sings the First Song at the one they intend to banish and the song needs to come into contact with the person being banished (Like Father, Like Daughter).
Sirens are not shown to have any other abilities besides their longevity and vocal power. They do not appear to feed on humans or other Fae.
Among the Fae, Heathcliff Santiago is the first Siren. Hale was a Siren and he inherited his species from his mother (The Girl Who Fae'd With Fire).
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In Greek mythology, the Sirens were dangerous yet beautiful creatures, portrayed as femme fatales who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island. Roman poets placed them on some small islands called Sirenum scopuli. Although they lured mariners, the Greeks did not portray the Sirens as sea deities. Roman writers linked the Sirens more closely to the sea. The Sirens were called the Muses of the lower world. Sirens were believed to combine women and birds in various ways. In early Greek art, Sirens were represented as birds with large women's heads, bird feathers and scaly feet. Later, they were represented as female figures with the legs of birds, with or without wings, playing a variety of musical instruments, especially harps. Sirens continued to be used as a symbol for the dangerous temptation embodied by women regularly throughout Christian art of the medieval era. The term "siren song" refers to an appeal that is hard to resist but that, if heeded, will lead to a bad conclusion.[1]
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Do you lose hours pinning all your home hopes and dreams on virtual boards? Well, you're not the only one. But you can actually turn your interior fantasies into reality and create a Pinterest-perfect home within your own four walls.
There are thousands, if not millions of pins on Pinterest, and we've explored some of the most popular to identify the biggest home decorating trends out there based on the number of pins. These pins total well into the hundreds of thousands and will give you some serious house envy.
From creating a cosy country cottage to filling your home full of Hygge, we bring you our easy top tips to create a beautiful interior worthy of pinning.
Trend 1: Country living
Vintage, retro, rustic, country-style living… whatever you want to call it, the trend has skyrocketed in recent times and shows absolutely no signs of slowing down.
Our favourite pins
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The two country-living pins we love the most are shown above – they show our dream bathroom and kitchens that brings this trend to life in the most perfect way possible. We especially love all the jars in the bathroom!
How many pins would you guess each one had?
Bathroom: 115.7k
Kitchen: 311.9k
Here are our tips to create the Pinterest-perfect country living look…
Tip 1: Put everything on show
Gone are the days of the perfectly pristine kitchen and bathroom. Having things on show is the new way to go.
In the kitchen, display your pasta, cereal and baking goods in jars to achieve true country chic. Stacked bowls, plates and jars for cookies, tea and coffee only enhance this look.
In bathrooms, have a huge jar of Epsom salts on hand to sprinkle in a bath, and bunches of cotton buds and big piles of fluffy white towels look elegant rather than disorganised.
When it's done right, you'll feel as though you've stepped straight into a luxury country cottage.
Tip 2: Go for plenty of white
White minimalism isn't just synonymous with elegant New York penthouses. When this colour is used right, it's perfect for a rustic yet stylish country look.
Using white in this way instantly brings a chic vibe to any room. You can either go more neutral and natural with hints of brown and green, or if you love a bit of flair, bright pops of colour can pair well with white. Yellow is a gorgeous colour for a kitchen, while a soft blue is a little more neutral and goes just as well with white in a cosy living room or bedroom setting.
Tip 3: Use distressed wood
For the ultimate finishing touch on your country living home, you can't go wrong with distressed wood.
Furniture is a way to create stunning focal points in your home – perhaps you could go for a distressed wood chest of drawers, a side table or a coffee table? Avoid overly painted or varnished furniture – a gorgeous natural grain is the look we're going for here. The more battered and distressed the better.
If you've already got your furniture, you can still add this look to any room you choose with wallpaper. Our beautiful Windward platinum grey is the perfect choice.
Design pictured: Windward platinum grey
Trend 2: Lavish luxe
A common sight on Pinterest, this is a look of elegance and glamour that can provoke serious interior envy. And if you're thinking that you need to spend a lot to recreate this look, then think again.
Our favourite pins
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The two pins above take luxe living to the max. Effortlessly chic and stylish, who wouldn't want to live here?
How much love do you think these got?
Attic closet: 115.7k
Grey and white bedroom: 120.9k
Here are our tips to create the Pinterest-perfect lavish luxe look…
Tip 1: Go for sleek metallics
Lavish luxe can easily be achieved by turning to the metallics. While copper and rose gold have risen to prominence in interior design, they're colours best saved for a more rustic look. For this trend you should stick to the classic gold and silver, as their shine creates a sumptuous look you won't find anywhere else.
Adorning your walls is a quick and easy way to incorporate metallics into your interior. Our favourite choice is our Carrick Gold wallpaper.
Design pictured: Carrick Gold
Tip 2: Introduce focal points
To finish off a luxe interior, the eye needs to be drawn to a particular spot – something that makes you go "wow!" and is preferably nice and shiny.
Our top ideas include a gorgeous gilded mirror in gold – a popular Pinterest theme is to have an oversized mirror leaning against the wall rather than hanging – or a chandelier in silver that stands out and is a little more on the lavish side.
Trend 3: Perfect pastels
Show off your feminine side with pastels. But it doesn't just have to be pink. Any colour can go pastel, so the sky really is the limit when it comes to this trend. Let your imagination run wild.
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Pretty in pink takes on a whole other meaning with these stunning pins. How many people do you think saved these beauties?
Pink bedroom: 101.7k
Pink collage: 81.6k
Here are our tips to create the Pinterest-perfect pastels look…
Tip 1: Stick to softer colours
This trend is all about looking at the softer, paler end of the colour spectrum. Steer clear of bold and bright colours, and instead opt for pale pinks, baby blues and soft sunshine yellows.
Design pictured: Vintage Lace Marshmallow Damask
Tip 2: Pair with neutrals
Pastel shades go better with more neutral hues. The top contenders are off-white, cream, silver or grey – the latter is especially popular on Pinterest as grey is a trend that just doesn't seem to end. It's the perfect way to avoid your room looking like a stick of candy floss and helps to ground the colour so it looks chic rather than overwhelming.
Trend 4: Scandinavian Hygge
Hygge has exploded on to the scene in recent years. A trend from Denmark (pronounced as hue-gah) is, according to Hygge House, "a Danish word used when acknowledging a feeling or moment, whether alone or with friends, at home or out, ordinary or extraordinary as cosy, charming or special."
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The three pins we love the most make us want to read hundreds of books on Hygge and live like Danes for the rest of our life. As the numbers show, people on the internet adored these looks as much as we did:
White bedroom: 176.7k
Rustic bathroom: 128.9k
Cosy bedroom: 104.2k
Here are our tips to create the Pinterest-perfect Scandinavian Hygge look…
Tip 1: Keep it pure and simple
When it comes to colours, the Danes aren't huge fans of loud colour schemes or bright pops when inviting hygge into their home. Hygge is all about creating a calm, relaxing and tranquil place in your home. The goal should be to keep it free of clutter and noise (both visual and audible) and promote a peaceful environment.
For the ultimate Scandinavian look, choose colour schemes that are monochromatic (shades of black, white and grey) or that are softer (such as blues, purples, forest greens and elements of gold). If you're going for the monochromatic look, try our Tweed Soft Grey Striped wallpaper.
Design pictured: Tweed Soft Grey Striped wallpaper
Tip 2: Make your house a home
This is where you can really let your creativity run free. There are no rules – simply accessorise your home exactly the way you want to. Texture is a big part of Hygge, so don't be afraid to surround yourself with knitted throws, thick blankets, comfy pillows, rugs and comfy furniture you can just sink into.
Personal objects and nature are also important elements of Hygge – small potted plants and succulents are perfect – as are frames filled with photos, favourite books and unique handmade gifts.
Tip 3: Get a fire going
The warm, natural and inviting glow of fire just cannot be replicated by artificial lighting. There's something so beautiful about a flickering candle or crackling fire, which is why it's an essential part of Hygge. If you're up for a bit of DIY, incorporate a log burner into your living room with piles of log wood on either side. Or if you want to go for an easier option, simply light a lot of candles and relax. For full Danish points fill your space with white candles.
Trend 5: Terrific tiles
Using blocks of colourful tiles is a quick, easy and often cheap way to decorate your home. It's a trend most use in kitchens or bathrooms, but why not think outside the box and adorn the walls of your office or living room with tiles?
Our favourite pins
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Are you ready to take your tiling to the next level? The two pins above are our absolute favourites and serve as true inspiration for our next interior design project, but how much love did they receive?
Light blue bathroom: 98.7k
Moroccan tiles: 170.9k
Here are our tips to create the Pinterest-perfect terrific tiles look…
Tip 1: Go for chic and cheerful bright colours
With tiles we say the brighter the better, but if you're completing a minimalistic look then white or black can look gorgeously chic. For a pop of colour we recommend our London Tile Aqua wallpaper.
Design pictured: London Tile Aqua wallpaper
Tip 2: Create a feature wall
Having a full room coated with vibrant tiles could be too much for some. For a much more sleek and polished look, take your chosen design and instead coat a single wall to make a feature or focal point. That way you can use a more neutral colour to make your design stand out even more and decorate around it.
There you have it. A gorgeous interior doesn't have to cost the earth – you can even create a Pinterest-perfect home on a budget. Just pick your trend and get decorating. Fancy sprucing up your walls? Check out the rest of our wallpaper designs here to create a home you're proud of.


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We've just returned from California where the farming season is well underway, and local produce of all types is widely available. The tomatoes in restaurant salads look like the ones we'll see here in August. Leafy greens, artichokes, broccoli, strawberries, and much more are all local in the Bay Area. In Southern California, you can grab a sweet juicy orange or grapefruit from suburban backyard trees.
In the face of all this early spring bounty, I wondered how Connecticut farmers were getting on and how farm-to-table restaurants are keeping up their commitment to local, sustainable ingredients in our short growing season.
To find out, I called Chef Robert Ubaldo at the Farmer's Table in New Canaan, Chef Renato Donzelli at Basso Cafe in Norwalk, and the Pirraglia family at Oak and Almond on Main Ave. These restaurants seek out local suppliers to fulfill their mission. I also got in touch with Charlotte and Jonathan Janeway at Sweet Acre Farm in Lebanon, Connecticut to see how the Spring was going.
Spring is a tough time of year in the local food scene. As the weather warms and days lengthen, the restaurant business emerges from the winter doldrums, but the supply of local produce lags behind. Seeds and sprouts are just going in the ground now and won't be ready for months.
At the Farmer's Table, Ubaldo scours the region for early produce. His brother farms in upstate New York and connects the restaurant to a network of sources. Greenhouses enable some farms to get a head start on the growing season. Early crops coming onto the menu now include spinach, fiddleheads, asparagus, and mushrooms.
Ubaldo is looking forward to arugula and sorrel to brighten up his menu with fresh spring flavors. In the meantime, the sea is a source for local dock to dine menu items. New Bedford scallops have been a menu feature through the cold weather scallop season. Atlantic swordfish has been on the menu too. Some farmers are getting into the meat business, so Ubaldo has been working with slow-braised New York State short ribs.
Still, he concedes, it will be a few more months before the menu is filled with local produce. That's just the way it is in New England.
At Sweet Acre Farm, the extended winter has allowed Charlotte and Jonathan more time with their new baby boy, but now the spring crunch is on. Last week, they transplanted kale seedlings into their rows. The greenhouse is filling up with more trays of seedlings in shades of green – lettuce, chard, kale, choi, beets, flowers. Their heat-loving tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants are at a friend's nearby heated greenhouse getting a head start.
There's endless work prepping fields, tuning up equipment, and getting seeds and root stock into the ground. Friends and family pitch in, but still the to-do list never seems to get done. The only thing they're offering at this point is shares in this season's CSA. No fresh produce yet.
At Norwalk's Basso Cafe, hands-on Chef/Owner Renato Donzelli is known for his innovative South American accented Mediterranean cooking. He's committed to locally produced and grown ingredients but also admits that it's pretty tough through the winter and early spring.
Donzelli haunts the year-round Westport Farmers Market for whatever might be available. In recent weeks, he's scored some beets, pea shoots, microgreens, and salad makings. He's looking forward to new potatoes, sunchokes, and local asparagus. Morels and chanterelles occupy a special place in his spring menu plans.
New England lobster is a winter mainstay on the Basso menu, he told me. One of the most popular presentations is in saffron risotto. It's halibut season now. Donzelli likes to put it over roasted spring vegetables – beets, carrots, and spring onions – when he can get them.
At Oak and Almond on Main Ave in Norwalk their tag line is, "A Farm to Table Restaurant." The menu names a half dozen local ingredients among their extensive choices: local oysters from Norm Bloom and Sons; Hamden burrata; Ambler Farm kale; local beets, carrots, leeks, and squash; and meat from Craft Butchery in Westport.
It's a pretty impressive showing for this time of year. Their website lists eighteen local farms and suppliers that they work with year round. You can see they've made a commitment to supporting small, local, sustainable producers.
In California, the "local" season for fruits and vegetables can run eight or ten months – a bounty they take for granted. Kudos to the chefs of New England who are pressed to be more creative, look harder for local sources, and treasure the flavors of each season as they come.


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I delight in my proximity to RFK Stadium, home of the new Washington Nationals baseball team. This afternoon, as the innings scrolled by at RFK, I was just down the street in my house, passing my own time. But I finally decided the afternoon was too magnificent, and major league baseball too close, for me to stay inside and do freelance work. I hopped on my bike and was sitting in the center field bleachers five minutes later.
This proximity to baseball is a wonderful gift for having chosen the East Hill as my home. I can reach an RFK bleacher seat in less time than it takes most people to grab a Snickers from 7-11. In three years the Nats will leave RFK for a new home a few miles south of here. Until then, there will be many more afternoons like this one.


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ELON � Kiplinger�s magazine ranked Elon University the 22nd overall best value in among private collegesin its annual ranking of the 200 top values in private colleges and universities.
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Kiplinger�s says Elon and the other top-value schools �provide high-quality academics at a reasonable cost during these continued tough economic times,� according to a university press release.
Kiplinger's ranks Elon No. 13 on its total cost list, and No. 22 in overall best value.
Elon�s total cost is $15,000-$20,000 lower than the other top-25 private universities ranked by Kiplinger's. Among the best-value universities, Elon is one of just 13 schools with a total annual cost of less than $41,000.
Tuition at Elon is $40,946, which is relatively low compared to some of the $50,000 and $60,000 schools Kiplinger�s reviewed. The financial and investing magazine said Elon uses a �low tuition, low discount� cost model.
�That means what you see in terms of sticker price is more or less what you get.� The magazine writes.
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iOS apps should be inside a network sandbox
With my recent publications, most importantly "Trusting SDKs" it became clear that hijacked or malicious iOS apps cause major security and privacy risks for users, and allow attackers to reach a high number of users through a single point of failure.
Most of the times, the consequences of those attacks are about data:
- Usernames and passwords
- Location data
- Facial data
- Advertising data
- Address book entries
- Payment information (e.g. credit cards)
- Other personal information
Notice how sandboxes in software are designed to keep data inside that box (in the form of a filesystem), but for some reason they stop when it comes to network requests.
If an attacker manages to hijack an iOS app, the first thing they would do is sent the collected data to some server in their control.
Initially just tweeting my shower thoughts and reaching 300 likes & 50 RTs, this idea grew more and more:
Apple should require every iOS app to define a list of web hosts that should be accessible, all other web requests will fail:— Felix Krause (@KrauseFx) February 10, 2018
- If an app gets compromised no data can leak
- It forces the use of SFSafariViewController
- Users should be able to see the host list
App Transport Security
At WWDC 2016 Apple announced ATS, an iOS 9 feature to enforce the use of HTTPs across all iOS apps. It was said to be made mandatory by end of 2016, however the deadline was moved to an undefined date. The idea makes perfect sense: All the infrastructure and tools around HTTPs encryption people already have with their web browsers to verify the security on websites, don't work on the iOS platform. If you use your banking or dating app, how can you as a user be sure the company didn't mess things up? It's not like it happened before.
Web vs iOS
On the web, browsers started marking HTTP websites as "Not Secure", HSTS is built into browsers to force HTTPs for certain hosts, people use HTTPSEverywhere to enforce HTTPs connection across more hosts and people use uBlock to block certain tracking and ad widgets that slow down websites.
On iOS, you install and use an app, and hope that the app developer uses proper encryption, securely stores your personal information, and doesn't use any sketchy SDKs that you wouldn't trust yourself. If you don't agree with something (e.g. an Analytics SDK), there is nothing you can do about it.
Step 1:
Finish the ATS plans. It's been 2 years now, enough time for app developers to update their apps. Allow developers to file for an exception, and mark them accordingly on the App Store page with a badge of shame (similar to how Chrome marks all non HTTPs websites nowadays)
Step 2:
Introduce the concept of network sandboxes. Each app should define a list of hostnames they are allowed to access.
Imagine a ride-sharing app having access to
- my-ride-sharing-app.com
- stripe.com
- google-analytics.com
- maps.google.com
This list serves multiple purposes:
- The app can only access those hosts. Meaning if an SDK is malicious or your app got hijacked in some way, they can't access the scary internet and leak the user's data.
- The app review team will see a list as they approve the app. At the same time, they can see a diff of the hosts between app releases
- The user should have a way to see that list as part of the App Store page
- In the future we could even put the user in control by distinguishing between primary hosts (e.g. twitter.com) that are needed to have the app running, and secondary hosts (e.g. random-analytics-service.com). This however would come with many implications when it comes to revenue models of the majority of mobile apps.
As always, exceptions should be possible, third party browsers should exist, and some apps might have to support so many hosts that they can't follow those rules. And that's okay, those apps will be marked as "Can access any host" as a little warning in the App Store.
While the above doesn't solve all the problems, it is a good first step into the right direction. We'll run into problems, and we'll solve them. It's a necessary change for the mobile ecosystem, catching up with where we're already at with web browsers nowadays.
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Going nomad
I got rid of all my stuff and live off only a suitcase - staying in Airbnbs to explore different areas 🏡🚀 excited to live nomad life pic.twitter.com/nWGf7AFKiZ— Felix Krause (@KrauseFx) November 9, 2017
Update: Check out the One Year Nomad post from 2018
I moved to San Francisco summer 2015 to join Twitter. I lived in a furnished apartment for my first year, which I really enjoyed, as I didn't have to buy all the essentials myself after moving across the globe into a new country.
After my 1 year lease, I decided to do what "grown-ups" are supposed to do: get their own apartment, buy furniture, decorate the place, and make it your home. After living in my little studio for about 1.5 years, I noticed a few things:
- In 2017 I only spent about 200 nights in my apartment, causing me to still pay about 5 months worth of San Francisco rent without actually living there (the average monthly lease for a studio apartment is about $3,000 + utilities, resulting in about $15,000 of my after tax money being lost)
- While I enjoy having my own space, I never invested enough time and effort into making it nice: Until the day I moved out after 18 months, I still didn't have enough closets for all my things and I had my clothes piled up in some corner
- I didn't like being bound to one location in the city. In particular, in the common case of getting acquired by another company (#justSFthings), your commute changes, and you can't just move around
- I didn't like the fact that I was always surrounded by the same places and things became routine. Same subway station, same spots you walk by every day, same views, same commute, etc. after a month it gets boring and I need a change.
The idea
Ever since I first started reading @levelsio's blog in 2014, about living out of just a backpack, and traveling across the world, while working on his own startups, I was fascinated by the idea. However I always assumed it doesn't work if you have a full-time job at a large company like Twitter or Google.
2014 was also the time I met @orta, who told me about his first year in New York City, where he lived in a different neighborhood in a random Airbnb each month. This allowed him to see what NYC has to offer, and what area he liked the most. I loved the idea, and kind of knew I want to do this at some point in life.
Only in October 2017 I realized that combining those two things might actually just work.
Making the move
After living in San Francisco for 2.5 years, I wanted a change. With my lease ending in October, I decided to reduce my life to just
- 1 suitcase
- 1 carry-on luggage
- 1 backpack
and lived in an Airbnb in San Francisco until the winter holidays, for which I went back home to Austria. I got really lucky with my SF Airbnb, as I got it from Zeus Living a company that rents out apartments for people like me: rent a place per month, all utilities included, and enough space with a desk to get work done.
For the last 6 months I've lived the nomad life, with just the things listed above. So far I've stayed in 6 different neighborhoods in NYC, 2 areas in SF and spent time with my family in Austria for New Year's. While I plan flights ahead of time due to costs, I don't book places longer than a month ahead, something that took some time getting used to.
Spending time in a single city
While being a different city each month might sound like a dream to many people, I learned it comes with many downsides:
- It's hard to build up a social circle of close friends
- It's hard to really get to know a city, and make use of all the things it has to offer
- It's hard to learn more about the culture
- Cities change with seasons, a summer is usually quite different than a winter
- It's stressful changing cities too often
Last year I spoke at conferences in 9 cities. I knew I wanted to fly less in 2018.
In January 2018, we started the new fastlane.ci project, which requires us to work closer with other Google teams, that are partially based in New York. I used that opportunity to "move" to NYC. So while I move to a different Airbnb every week, I do so within the same city. I grew up in a village with a population of less than 2,000, with not a single traffic light. Living in New York has been an amazing experience, with almost as many people living here, as in the whole country of Austria.
For now, this seems like the perfect balance for me personally: Not getting bored by day to day routine (e.g. same commute) by moving to a new Airbnb every week, but also being able to hang out with the same friends, and get to know the whole city. Long term, I'll switch to a monthly cycle for even less overhead.
Frequently asked questions
How do you handle physical mail?
Online orders: I'm lucky that I can use the Google office to order from Amazon, and pick them up at the end of the work day. It's offered in most major cities, and even allows me to order something for a specific location. For example: When I flew to Amsterdam I ordered an umbrella to the office, ready for me to pick up.
Letters: I use the VirtualPostMail service. They scan your letters, and sends them to you via email. If you need the original, you can tell them to forward them to your current address (or office in my case)
My first thought was: Staying in Airbnbs must be more expensive than having my own place! For multiple reasons:
- Short term leases have to charge more to account for the vacant nights
- Airbnbs are furnished, and include some basic services and utilities
- Airbnb charges a pretty hefty fee for each booking
Circling back to the number of days I'm not at home for about 5 months each year, I realized that I don't pay my (SF/NYC) rent when:
- I speak at a conference, and the organizers cover the hotel costs
- I go on vacation
- I go back home
- I crash on a friend's couch / extra bed
- Google plans a team-offsite in a different location and covers the accommodation
- I take a red eye flight (a flight that leaves at about midnight, and lands in the morning)
Every night I don't need to pay for my own place, I save about $100 after-tax money (NYC/SF)
Do you keep any physical memories
You can either ask your parents nicely to keep your things, or you can rent storage somewhere to keep it. I decided to bring my things back home to Austria, by just having an extra bag with me the first time I flew back.
How did you get rid of so much stuff?
I don't care about physical things. If I were to lose all my devices, or all my clothes today, I'd buy new ones (probably the same ones). So getting rid of things was rather easy, and I personally never understood why it's difficult, unless there are certain memories attached.
All I did was: Do I really need this? If the answer wasn't an immediate yes, it's a no. If I wanted to keep the "memory", I made sure to take a picture before giving it away.
I created a spreadsheet with all the things I give away, and shared it with my friends on Facebook, from furniture, to kitchen stuff, to light bulbs, and I got "rid" of everything, as 2 of my friends just moved to a new place, and needed almost everything. The remaining things I donated or threw away if it wasn't usable any more.
I went from
It is tricky though to buy new stuff, since I need to get rid of something else, for every single new item I buy. While my suitcases still have some space left, the weight limit of 22kg of most airlines is what I have to be careful about.
How do you keep things organized?
Those travel cubes have been pretty useful, I got a lot of them, for shirts, socks, underwear, electronics, etc. and can recommend them to anyone traveling.
Did you buy any travel gear for this?
Yes, there are some really cool things out there, that made my life easier:
- Portable Bose SoundLink Revolve+
- Roost Stand (MacBook stand for ergonomic working wherever you are in combination with Bluetooth keyboard + trackpad)
- Travel cubes to keep things organized
- Travel scale (I'm into fitness, and started tracking my weight every morning)
Is that "Minimalism Life"?
I've read a bit about this topic, including a great blog post of my friend about owning 200 things. I love the concept of owning just the things you really need, and forget the rest.
I also watched the "Minimalism" documentary on Netflix, which covers some of the concepts. Personally I don't want to count things, or reduce life in areas I don't want to. For example, I still carry around a rather high number of shoes with me, just because I like having the right shoes for the right occasion.
I'd argue the goal is to live a normal day-to-day life, when going to work or hanging out with friends, while still being very flexible.
Security concerns
That's something I've been thinking more about recently: Breaking into an Airbnb is probably super easy, just stay in a place, copy the key and then steal from the next person, with the next person probably blaming the host or cleaning staff. Unfortunately it's not common for Airbnbs to have a safe.
- I generally don't own anything of real value, besides my MacBook
- I don't leave anything valuable in my Airbnb but put them in the Google office instead
- All of my documents are stored online
- Hourly backups on different continents, using hard drives and custom cloud backup solutions, all end to end encrypted, on a total of 5 different locations
- Even if I were to lose 100% of my things including all my devices, I have a clear recovery path where I can recover my complete online identity, documents and everything else within less than 24 hours. For security reasons I can't share more about this specific topic, but I can recommend everyone to draw a map of dependencies between the services/software/hardware you use, and how you can recover them step by step.
What else is nice about not having a fixed lease?
- If you stay at a place for just a week, you'll never have to clean the apartment
- You learn how other people live day to day, e.g. how they set up their rooms and get a good idea of what you enjoy
- You learn more about yourself, like what things are important to you when it comes to having a living space
- When you own a home, you have to deal with maintenance, repairs and other things quite often. When renting an apartment building, at least some things are being taken care of by the owners. If you stay in Airbnb, there is literally nothing you have to worry about, if something doesn't work, you notify the host and that's it.
I wrote this post in Taipei, Taiwan, where I work remotely from the Taipei Google office for 2 weeks before heading to San Francisco.
Being able to escape the cold winter feels amazing 😎
Update: Check out the One Year Nomad post from 2018
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How I use Twitter
For most people, using the official Twitter client works fine. It's optimized to show you new content you might be interested in, makes it easy to follow new users, and shows content that might be most relevant to you first. If you have an engineering mindset, chances are you want to be in control of what you see in your timeline.
I use Twitter to stay up to date with certain people. I want to hear about new projects or new content they published, new blog posts, thoughts of them, etc. I'm not interested in hearing political opinions, sport scores, etc, which I already have Facebook for. If I follow someone, I'll read every single tweet from them. For the last 5 years, I didn't miss a tweet in my timeline, so I have to be very careful about who to follow, and what content to see. So I set out to customize Twitter to achieve that goal, and to only see about 50-75 tweets per day.
I've been using Tweetbot for the last few years, the technique described below might work with other third party Twitter clients also.
Muted Keywords
Very basic list of words, that as soon as a tweet contains one of them, it will be hidden, examples include:
- headphone jack
- drake
- podcast
- president
Muted users
I stopped using this feature, now that I use secret lists to follow people (see below), and disabled RTs. Muting users for a given time period or forever is useful for a few situations:
- Some users in your timeline might promote a product, so you can mute that product
- If a user is at a conference/event you're not interested in, you can mute them for a few days
Muted Regexes
A very powerful feature of Tweetbot is to define a regex to hide tweet. I use it to hide annoying jokes like
remember \w+
german word for \w+
\w+ is the new \w+
or to hide tweets from people that think we're interested about their airplane delays or #sports
- twitter.com/i/moments
- For every #sports #event there are also custom-made mute filters (truncated):
(?#World Cup)(?i)((?# Terms)(Brazil\s*2014|FIFA|World\s*Cup|Soccer|F(oo|u)tbal)|(?# Chants)(go a l |[^\w](ole\s*){2,})|(?# Teams)(#(B....
Hide all mentions
This very much changed my whole timeline (for the better). Turns out, I follow people for their announcements, what they work on, what they're doing, what they're thinking about, etc. I actually don't want to see 2 people communicating publicly using @ mentions, unless it's a topic I'm interested in. So I started hiding all tweets that start with an
@ symbol using a simple Tweetbot regex
If I want to see responses to a tweet, I'd swipe to the left side, and see all replies.
Muted Clients
Muting certain clients has been amazing, very easy to set up and cleans up your timeline a lot. Some of the clients I mute:
- Buffer (to avoid "content marketing", so many companies make the mistake of tweeting the same posts every week or so using Buffer)
- IFTTT (lots of people use that to auto-post not original content)
- Spotify
- Foursquare (I follow friends on Swarm already, no need to see it twice)
Secret Lists
One issue I had was to balance the number of tweets in my timeline, and then also being polite and following friends. To avoid the whole "Why are you not following me?" conversation, I now use a private list to follow about 300 people only. I open sourced the script I used to migrate all the people I used to follow over to a private list.
Disable RTs
This has been a great change: As described above, I follow people for what they do, what they think of, and what they're working on. Some people have the habit of RTing content that might be interesting, but not relevant to why I want to stay subscribed to their tweets. On Tweetbot, you can.
Muting hashtags
I thank everyone for using hashtags for certain events, making it easy to hide them from my timeline :)
Disadvantages of this approach
Some of the newer Twitter features don't have an API, and therefore can't be offered by Tweetbot. This includes Polls, Moments and Group DMs. Since I don't want to miss group DMs, I set up email notifications for Twitter DMs, and set up a Gmail filter to auto-archive emails that are not from group DMs.
I've spent quite some time optimizing that workflow, and it's very specific, and probably not useful for most people. I try to minimize my time on social media, I only browse my Twitter feed when I have a few minutes to kill on the go. Meaning I work through my timeline only on my iPhone, and reply to mentions and DMs only on my Mac. I don't want to come across uninterested, I do follow people on Facebook, I do read news and stay up to date. Twitter is a place for very specific content for me, and I want to keep using it as that.
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iOS Privacy: Track website activities, steal user data & credentials and add your own ads to any website in your iOS app
Most iOS apps need to show external web content at some point. Apple provided multiple ways for a developer to do so, the official ones are:
Launch a URL in Safari
This will use the app switcher to move your own app into the background. This way, the user has their own browser (Safari), with their session and content blocker, browser plugins (e.g. 1Password), etc. As launching Safari puts your app into the background, many app developers are worried the user doesn't come back to them.
Check out the first video to see how this looks in action ➡
Use in-app SFSafariViewController
Many third party iOS apps use this approach (e.g. Tweetbot).
It allows an app developer to use the built-in Safari with all its features, without making the user leave your application. It features all the Safari features, but from within your application.
Check out the second video to see how this looks in action ➡
Current state with larger social network apps
Many larger iOS apps re-implemented their own in-app web browser. While this was necessary many years ago, nowadays it's not only not required any more, it actually adds a major risk to the end-user.
Those custom in-app browsers usually use their own UI elements:
- Custom address bar
- Custom SSL indicator
- Custom share button
- Custom reload button
Problems with custom in-app browsers
If an app renders their own WKWebView, they not only cause inconvenience for the user, but they actually put them at serious risk.
User session
The user's login session isn't available, meaning if you get a link to e.g. an Amazon product, you now have to login and enter your 2-factor authentication code to purchase a product.
Browser extensions
If the user has browser extensions (like password managers), they won't have access to them in a custom in-app browser.
Deep linking
Deep linking itself has multiple open issues on the iOS platform. By using a custom in-app browser, it adds an extra layer that doesn't work well with deep linking. Instead of opening the Amazon app when tapping on an Amazon link in "Social Media App X", it opens the product in a plain web-view, with no login session, and no way to open the product in the app.
Content blockers
If the user has content blockers installed, they're not being used by custom in-app browsers.
There is no way for the user to store the current URL in their bookmarks.
Share a website
Apps use this opportunity to force their users to use whatever "social features" they think are useful to them. Usually that means locking the user into their ecosystem, and not allowing people to share the content on the platform of their choice. There should be an explicit App Store rule against this.
Security & Privacy
This is basically the main reason why in-app browsers are still a thing: It allows the app maintainer to inject additional analytics code, without telling the user. This way, the app's developer can track the following:
- How long does the user visit the linked website?
- How fast does the user scroll?
- Which links does the user open, and how long do they stay on each of them?
- Combined with watch.user, the app can record you while you browse third party websites, or even use the iPhone X face sensor to parse your face
- Every single tap, swipe or any other gesture
- Device movements, GPS location (if granted) and any other granted iOS sensor, while the app is still in the foreground.
User credentials
email = document.getElementById("email").value
password = document.getElementById("password").value
That's all that's needed: just inject the code above to every website, run it on every user's key stroke, and you'll get a nice list of email addresses and passwords.
To run JavaScript in your own web view, you can just use
NSString *script = @"document.getElementById('password').value";
[self evaluateJavaScript:script completionHandler:^(id result, NSError *error) { ... }];
User data
Once the user is logged in, you also get access to the full HTML DOM + JavaScript data & events, which means you have full access to whatever the user sees. This includes things like your emails, your Amazon order history, your friend list, or whatever other data/website you access from an in-app web view.
Usually the web browser has a standardised way of indicating the SSL certificate next to the browser's URL. In the case of custom in-app browsers, the SSL logo is being added by the app's author, meaning you trust the app's maintainer to only show the logo if it's actually a valid SSL certificate.
Custom in-app browsers allow all app developers to inject their own ad system into any website that's shown as part of their app. But not only that, they can replace the ads identifier of ads that are already shown on the website, so that the revenue goes directly to them, instead of the website owner.
And more
These are just some of the things that immediately come to my mind, every time I use an in-app browser, there are probably a lot more evil things a company or SDK could be doing.
How can we solve this?
- Reject apps that don't use SFSafariViewController or launch Safari directly to show third party website content
- There should be exceptions, e.g. if a webview is used to show parts of the UI, or dynamic content, but it should be illegal to use webviews to show a linked or third party website
I also filed a radar for this issue.
Similar projects I've worked on
I published more posts on how to access the camera, the user's location data, their Mac screen and their iCloud password, check out krausefx.com/privacy for more.
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Constitution was created by white people to benefit white people – WOW!!!!
After reading Gary Newcomer's March 2 letter in the News Journal, I got to thinking.
He asked how much do illegal aliens cost taxpayers. Then he expounded on how the Founding Fathers gave us the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Well, I don't know how much illegal aliens cost taxpayers, but I do know that most of them work undesirable jobs at low wages. Very low.
As for the Founding Fathers, I would like to know how legal they were when they came to this country and what happened to the people who were here before them. In Mr. Newcomer's own words, he says "half the truth is the same as a lie." If you're going to tell it, tell it all.
One reason non-whites have problems in this country is because these documents were written by white people for white people. There were no Native Americans, black, Latinos or Asians at the table.
A lot of non-white cultures have been criminalized in this country because they don't fit the standards and rules created for the benefit of white people. A lot of whites fall back on the Constitution because they know that no other culture was present when it was written. Do not say it was representing everyone because it wasn't. We blacks were slaves, so you know we didn't count, but what goes around comes back around.
People complaining about illegal aliens should try to understand how Native Americans must have felt and still do. Look how slavery backfired. God works in mysterious ways. If me paying extra on my taxes means helping my fellow man, then so be it.
Ahmad Rashad
Dale Rhoads · Top Commenter · Fort Worth, TexasIf it wasn't for WHITE REPUBLICANS, you wouldn't have the Emancipation Proclamation, a war to free them (mostly white soldiers) the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment to "THE CONSTITUTION"! You also have the Voting Rights Act AND Civil Rights Act of 1964. All this done by White Republicans. GASP!
John DeChiara · Top Commenter · Mansfield, OhioYou said it all when you said they don't fit the standards and rules of the constitution. Try obeying he laws sometime. They were made for everyone.
Jerald Miller · Top Commenter · Works at RetiredBlacks were not slaves when the constitution was created, they enslaved themselves !Reply ·
Jodie Fry · Top Commenter · Lexington High Schoolactually there were slaves before the constitution "In 1625, there were only 23 Africans present in the colony of Virginia, according to historian Betty Wood. Thirty-five years later, this number had only increased to 950, or around three to four percent of the colony's population. "
Jodie Fry · Top Commenter · Lexington High School"During this period, slaves of African descent and white indentured servants often worked, socialized and even ran away from their masters together. But by the end of the 17th century, the colony became more reliant on slave labor as the number of British and Europeans willing to indenture themselves declined and as the leaders of the colony feared uprisings among the poor, landless whites.
Daniel Campbell · Top Commenter · Lexington Sr. HighYeah…damn those slaves for leaving Africa, putting themselves in chains, putting themselves aboard a slave ship and then allowing themselves to be enslaved for the rest of their life! Hey Jerald…here's a tip….read a history book.
Dale Rhoads · Top Commenter · Fort Worth, TexasDaniel Campbell, actually they were captured in Africa by other blacks/tribes just like it had been done for a thousand years prior to Christ even being born. Slaves were sent to slave markets to be sold by other blacks and bought by mostly Muslims. The Europeans didn't have a corner on the market.
Daniel Campbell · Top Commenter · Lexington Sr. HighNot what I even remotely said Dale…you love to put words in other people's mouths on this page. I said they did not put "themselves" in bondage….I did not say by who. And ALL races have been enslaved through out time…not just blacks.
Dale Rhoads · Top Commenter · Fort Worth, TexasDid you know the first freed black slave was a slave owner?Reply ·
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Robert L. Eichof · Top CommenterHang in there Daniel,
Don't be surprised if one of these…………………
…..uh………………f olks will try to convince you that the American Indian self-deported themselves to Reservations for a better life.Reply ·
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Free Craigslist Finds - Year 0018 Week 1
As a way to motivate myself to be more resourceful in bringing various projects currently existing as a swirl cloud into fruition, and to update this blog, I'll be posting some weekly free craiglist finds from around my area and maybe beyond. What do we have this week, as of the New Year? A seven month old kitten, a baby grand piano, and, as any craigslist-free hounder knows, tons of free pallets!
- Please take the kitten. Look at its eyes :(
- I can't - and don't entirely - believe that this baby grand piano is free free, but it seems worth checking out if all it will need is a tuning.
- No link for the pallets. There are too many.
Also worth a mention are:
- an electric organ
- handmade dollhouses made by a mother and daughter and, it seems, left out on the street
- firewood of locust, hickory, maple, poplar, and oak
Side note: if anyone knows where I can get some free rocks, like the smooth, large-pebble kind used in a garden or as a paperweight, please let me know.
... In the 18th year after the armageddon that destroyed our computers and, subsequently, our entire infrastructure - to include our calendar system - we forage through the internet's tatters and our neighbors' yards for the things they have abandoned, finding for them unexpected uses in this new, wild era where the poisonous yet tiered and predictable economic crystal has been left chaos and barter is always a real option when you spend your life wandering along the road....


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