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text: Located opposite the famous open-air party space that is the sleek Ushuaïa Ibiza hotel in the heart of Playa d'en Bossa, Hï Ibiza is embracing the open-minded spirit of Ibiza, bringing together music lovers to dance, discover and experience the magic of the island. Designed with the dancer in mind, the state of the art club showcases the most exciting names in electronic music throughout the summer, from the biggest stars in the scene to the leading lights of the underground, continuing the island's legacy as the clubbing capital of the world. Hï Ibiza has made a huge impact on the island, offering a wide selection of fantastic residencies that ensures there is something for every musical taste during its weekly schedule. Monday night welcomes RichBitch, getting the week off on an urban tip. Bodyworks is a brand new Tuesday night party, Armin van Buuren, Sunnery James and Ryan Marcio are back every Wednesday, Thursday is all about Afterlife and Friday sees the much anticipated arrival of David Guetta's FMIF party. Saturday is all about Black Coffe as the talented South African returns and Hï Ibiza finishes the week on a disco tip as Glitterbox moves to a brand new weeky spot. The venue offers a selection of VIP options, including the stylish pods that give you an unprecedented view of the Theatre, not to mention a place to soak up what has become one of the most famous atmospheres on the party island.


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I first heard about blockchain back in the summer of 2016 through my internship with a financial services company and through this blog post. At that point, blockchain was still a fuzzy, almost fictional concept created by a mysterious figure named Satoshi Nakamoto. In a short span of two years, cryptocurrencies and their underlying
implementation technology have become hyper-mainstream. Professors, bankers, software engineers, students, even kids have hopped on the
bandwagon. But what exactly is all the hype about — are there meaningful implications of this fast-moving technology?
The first step is to clear up the confusion between bitcoin and blockchain. They are actually not synonyms. Bitcoin is the best-known type of cryptocurrency. Blockchain is a technology, a distributed, digital, and decentralized ledger, that keeps track of all transactions carried out on a peer-to-peer network. Blockchain was initially developed for bitcoin transactions, but it has use cases beyond crypto.
Reading this article from Entrepreneur, I find that many use cases of both bitcoin and blockchain are still highly conceptual. However, I was particularly
drawn to the 3rd item — ethical business practices. Because blockchain allows full transparency of all financial transactions, companies could ensure that every interaction or settlement is permanently stored in the digital network.
Other promising use cases include digitalized voting and sharing of encrypted patient information among healthcare providers.
I understand this post was highly surface level, but I plan to publish a more technical and in-depth post on the implementation of blockchain technology and its short-term future applications. More to come soon!
Here is an expanding laundry list of resources I want to use:
The original paper on Bitcoin by Satashi Nakamoto- https://bitcoin.com/bitcoin.pdf
5 Sectors Blockchain Is Disrupting That Are Not Cryptocurrency
For a few years now, "blockchain" and "cryptocurrency" have gone hand-in-hand. The blockchain concept is complicated…
A Brief No[d]e on Blockchain was originally published in Data Driven Investor on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.


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SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL (because it is wonderful)
By John Burgeson, www.burgy.50megs.com
We've looked at the large. We've looked at the old. How about the very very small. Listen to a high school teacher tease a recalcitrant student. "Why don't you glow in the dark? he asks. "Because I am just too cool!" comes the flippant answer. "Correct!" says the teacher! Do you know why? Keep reading.
The "stuff' our material universe is made of consists of really really small particles. Consider a spoonful of tap water. In that spoonful there are (about) 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules of water. That's a trillion trillion, or one octillion H-two-O particles, all moving about at incredible speeds. More water molecules than there are stars in the universe!
In any second, as you gaze at that innocent spoonful, 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 (one hundred sextillion) water molecules are evaporating, flying away from the spoon, some towards you, at an average speed of 1,000 miles an hour! For the most part, none of them get very far, as they generally collide with an air molecule in about a thousandth of an inch. Air molecules are, of course, also moving about at 1,000 miles an hour!
That's at room temperature, however. Step outside in Rico on a February night. The molecules have slowed down to "only" 950 miles an hour. Travel to the Arctic on a -120 degree night, and they still move at nearly 800 miles an hour. It is not until a temperature of - 459.67 degrees is reached that they finally stop. You don't want to go there.
Most of that spoonful of water is, of course, empty space, just like, for instance, a school desk, or an automobile, or you. Hydrogen for instance, consists of a single proton and a single electron. Think of the proton as a BB on the 50 yard line of a football stadium and the single electron a point charge flitting around -- somewhere -- in spectator seating. It is one of the wonders of quantum mechanics that if we try to measure where the electron is, we lose all sense of its speed; conversely, if we measure its speed, we have no idea where it is. This is not a failure of scientific instruments, it is the way this marvelous world is actually made up!
But back to our fast moving air molecules. When they collide with each other they emit flashes of light, or photons! Light a candle -- you see those protons as light. Turn on a lamp. The light you see comes from molecules in the filament colliding with one another. And at all times, molecules are flying off YOU.
So why don't you glow in the dark? Actually, you do, as continuously flying off you are molecules moving just a tad faster (you are at 98.6 degrees) than air molecules. But the human eye cannot see (except with night vision goggles) the low frequency light flashes that result. You are just too cool.
John Burgeson, for the Rico Bugle, February 8, 2006


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Let the tropical magic of the island of Bali conquer your heart. Explore one of its mystical temples, walk along breathtaking terraced fields, and laze for days in the white sands of its world-class beaches.
Upon arrival in Denpasar, transfer to your hotel.
Overnight at the hotel.
|Denpasar → Sanur
|10 km
After breakfast, free day to relax on the beach and attend the cultural activities offered by the hotel.
Overnight at the hotel.
After breakfast, drive to the center of Bali. Visit Butterfly Park, Batukaru Temple, Jatiluwih rice terraces. After lunch, head for Ulun Danu Temple at Lake Beratan before returning to the hotel.
Overnight at the hotel.
|Sanur Beach → Jatiluwih Rice Terraces
|54 km
|Jatiluwih Rice Terraces → Ulun Danu Temple
|18 km
|Ulun Danu Temple → Sanur Beach
|59 km
After breakfast, head to Tanah Lot, a temple perched on a small rocky island.
Continue to Taman Ayun Temple, then stop at the Monkey Forest of Alas Kedaton, and continue to Ubud. Check-in at the hotel.
Overnight at the hotel.
|Sanur → Tanah Lot
|27 km
|Tanah Lot → Ubud
|33 km
After breakfast, enjoy a day at leisure.
At noon, a brief tour of Ubud, with particular emphasis on its role as the center of the arts in Bali.
Overnight at the hotel.
After breakfast, depart for the north with stops en-route in Mas village, a wood carving center, Elephant Cave temple, and Tirta Empul, a Hindu temple in the middle of Bali famous for its holy waters where hindus go for purification.
Then on to Kintamani with Lake Batur for lunch, after this we will continue our trip to Penglipuran, a traditional countryside village with a unique life, society and culture.
Finally we will visit Kehen temple, one of oldest temples in Bali, located south of Bangli in Cempaga village. In the afternoon arrival and check-in at your hotel in Candidasa.
Overnight at the hotel.
|Ubud → Kintamani
|33 km
|Kintamani → Candidasa
|52 km
After breakfast, free day to relax on the beach.
Overnight at the hotel.
After breakfast, visit the numerous historical sites of the Karang Asem regency, including the ancient Puri Agung Karang Asem or Karang Asem Palace, as well as Taman Ujung, the water palace of Tirta Gangga, and a stop in Tenganan village, the oldest traditional Balinese village on the island.
Overnight at the hotel.
After breakfast, we set off to see the traditional Arak making process at Sidemen village, then we continue to Kertha Gosa, with its 17th century hall of justice, and then Kamasan, famous for its community of Balinese traditional painting artists. Its originality, authenticity, and long time development resulted in a different style of Balinese paintings, called Kamasan style. Although the materials that are used to paint have undergone evolution, the theme of the painting is still the same, wayang characters (Balinese puppets). These village artists are not only good at painting, but also at other arts like gold and silver sculpting and the latest popular art, bullet sculpting.
Next we will visit Nyoman Gunarsa Museum. This museum was built to honor the famous and powerful king Dalam Waturenggong who protected Bali from Muslim influences. It is home to a large collection of classical and contemporary Balinese artwork of its founder, Dr. Nyoman Gunarsa. A selection of masks, puppets, ceramics, and stone carvings dates from the 17th to 19th century.
Overnight at the lodge.
|Candidasa Beach → Kertha Gosa
|25 km
|Kertha Gosa → Gianyar
|12 km
After breakfast, we will spend our day to visit Bali Safari & Marine Park. Here you can observe a variety of local animals. This institution has been conserving and protecting rare species like the Sumatran tiger, wild elephants, orangutans and rare birds. In the afternoon time depart for Legian.
Overnight at the hotel.
|Gianyar → Legian Beach
|34 km
After breakfast, free day to relax on the beach or enjoy our optional activities.
Overnight at the hotel.
After breakfast, enjoy a complimentary 2-hour Balinese spa treatment and sunset dinner (one day in advance reservation).
Overnight at the hotel.
After breakfast, transfer to Ngurah Rai International Airport for your flight to your next destination.
|Legian Beach → Denpasar
|7 km
|Prices per person
|2 pax
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The Urban Decay Elements Palette is the latest eyeshadow palette from Urban Decay and, as the kids say, I'm shook!
From what I understand, shook means to be surprised or shocked. And I am! The texture of these shadows is unlike anything I've seen from Urban Decay to date. There are 3 mattes and 16 shimmery shades within.
I will say this set of 19 eyeshadows is visually stunning from the outer packaging to the actual choices of the eyeshadow shades. This foiling is eye catching!
The Urban Decay Elements Palette is inspired by the four elements of the earth, which are water, fire, air and earth. As you can see by the design of the palette, all the shadows revolve around a shimmery white shade inspired by the moon right in the middle called Luna. Here's a closer look at the shadows.
The reason I'm feeling all kind of shook over this palette? The textures! Urban Decay's shadows run the gamut when it comes to texture and color payoff. This is the first time ever I've seen Urban Decay release a palette with those interesting cream/silicone-y feeling eyeshadows. They remind me of the eye colors in the Huda Beauty Obsessions Palettes , Morphe Jaclyn Hill Palette, Flesh Palette and the shimmery shades in the Makeup Revolution The Emily Edit The Wants palette.
For this look I used Tectonic in the outer corner of my lid, Heavy Water on the inner corner, Fortune Teller in the Middle, Luna on the tear duct and Volcanic on my lower lid with Sapphire Dream as the liner.
In my opinion, this isn't a bad thing, but it also makes me wonder – is this the direction the beauty industry is headed in? Is this the texture we can expect from the upcoming Urban Decay Naked Cherry collection? These shadows are, for lack of a better term, cheap! The difference between these shadows and the ones in the recent Urban Decay Born To Run eyeshadow palette are vast!
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On Monday, Ms Candi got a call asking if a few of our students would like to participate in a memorial at Flowers Bank. I asked what that meant and she said it meant that she and I and a few students would need to be on the bus at 5:30 am. Of course I said, "Sure, why not?"
I don't know if our 5 students learned anything, but I did. We picked up a few other people (adults) on the way out of town and drove out the northern highway. We turned toward Burrell Boom and before we got to the baboon sanctuary we turned off the paved road onto a gravel road. A few miles later we picked up the chairman of the village and proceeded to a small memorial park.
At the park we heard the story. In the early days, England colonized Belize for its logwood and then its mahogany. Purple and black dyes were made from the logwood. When chemical dyes were created then the mahogany was imported from Belize for fine furniture. Flowers Bank is a village where the logs were gathered before being floated down the river.
We gathered around the marker and heard the story of the vote. On June 1, 1797 (hence the memorial trip on June 1) there was vote in Belize town (the current Belize City). The Spanish had gathered in the Yucatan and threatened to invade Belize. The vote was to decide whether to evacuate or to stay and defend. The vote was 51 to evacuate and 65 to defend, the defenders won by 14 votes. By coincidence 14 people from Flowers Bank and other villages along the river, who had the property holdings and wealth required to be able to cast a vote, had paddled their dories down to the city to take part in the historic vote. Those 14 are commemorated here. The plaque mentions that Raybon and Robertson were white. All the rest were black.
The rest of the story is that the Spanish were defeated in the battle of St Georges Caye and Belize remained under English rule.
The marker is on the edge of the Belize river. The photo below is much different from the seaside photos you usually see from me but quite as beautiful.
Following the commemoration, we gathered in the community center to share a little food.
After the formal gathering the village chairman shared with me, "When we were young we would paddle across the river there and then walk and ride horses over that way for a long ways, most of a day." He paused and smiled, "All to go see girlfriends."
I smiled too and said, "And worth every minute."
Then we headed back to the city just in time to take the first group to computer lab at 9:00.


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Nets trade guard Jeremy Lin, a 2025 second-round pick and the right to swap picks in 2023 to Atlanta in exchange for a 2020 second-round pick, via Portland and the rights to Isaia Cordinier.
The deal was first reported by Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN. It's not a game-changing trade by any means, but it does give the Hawks a backup point guard to Trae Young and makes it even more obvious that they'll end up trading Dennis Schroder before this upcoming season starts, which has been rumored most of the off season. Lin is still productive, assuming he is able to bounce back from a ruptured patella tendon that he suffered this past season and at the price of $12.5 million going into the final year of his contract considering what they gave up this is solid value as the Hawks continue to rebuild.
For the Nets they just shed some salary and get even younger. They'll be running D'Angelo Russell and Spencer Dinwiddie as their main point guards this season, which isn't a bad 1-2 combo at all if you haven't watched the Nets much. Those are actually two nice young pieces they have.
Denver trades Kenneth Faried, Darrell Arthur, a 2019 protected first-round pick (protected 1-12) and an unprotected second-round pick to the Nets for Isaiah Whitehead.
This deal was also reported by Adrian Wojnarowski and this is really just a salary dump. Woj is also reporting that the Nuggets will immediately waive Isaiah Whitehead.
The Nuggets will shed a good chunk of salary in this deal ($21 million) and will save even more in luxury tax penalties that they would've incurred after giving Nikola Jokic a max extension and giving Will Barton a very nice pay raise. The Nuggets appear to be in a pretty good spot going forward and they'd been reportedly looking to part with Faried for a while now. Even though he is very athletic his style of play has become pretty obsolete in today's NBA.
I also like this move for the Nets. Not the additions of Faried and Arthur because those won't do much for them, but they were able to get a first-round pick out of it. Granted if they are able to end up using the pick it won't be an incredibly high pick, but they are still paying for the historically bad trade they made with the Celtics. Brooklyn is still stuck in the middle of a huge rebuild but really anything they can do to begin to replenish their draft picks at all is a good thing for the future of the team.


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Knock is a python based tool for enumerating subdomains on a targeted domain. You can use a custom wordlist and also you can scan a domain for DNS zone transfers. It also supports queries to Virus Total subdomains.
Very simple interface, you just have to type the domain you want to test. If you want, you can use your own custom wordlist. Also, it gives you the option to export your results in json or csv format.
Download: https://github.com/guelfoweb/knock
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The rich and varied collection of The Museum of Modern Art constitutes one of the most comprehensive and panoramic views into modern art. From an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing, The Museum of Modern Art's collection has grown to include ... more
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The term art most often refers to an object which stimulates thoughts and emotions in the human mind but it may also encompass the human activities to create these objects including painting, sculpture, music, dance, photography, literature, media and ... more