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Gayle Trent  authors two cozy mystery series, one for Bell Bridge Books and one for NAL. Her latest book is Dead Pan , the second book in the Daphne Martin Cake Decorating Mystery Series. In Dead Pan, several people become sick at Brea Ridge Pharmaceuticals’ annual holiday party for its employees, and one–Fred Duncan–dies. Fred’s mother insists on Daphne’s help in learning why Fred died; and since none of the food has yet been exonorated, Daphne feels compelled to find out what made everyone so ill. She’s pretty sure it wasn’t her cake, but she can’t be certain until the police complete the lab results. Was this an accident? Or did someone set out to kill Fred? Hmm…sounds like just the thing to read on a cold winter’s night, doesn’t it?! Want to win a copy? Read on… Have you got a writer on your gift list? If you have (even if that writer is YOU), and you don’t have a clue as to what gift to buy, I’m here to help. Let’s start with the simple things. I love these greeting cards/bookmark

The Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David Lukas Harper, 304 p, Isbn-0062012096 Synopsis: Late in the summer of 1877, a flock of purple-and-white hoopoes suddenly appears over the town of Constanta on the Black Sea, and Eleonora Cohen is ushered into the world by a mysterious pair of Tartar midwives who arrive just minutes before her birth. “They had read the signs, they said: a sea of horses, a conference of birds, the North Star in alignment with the moon. It was a prophecy that their last king had given on his deathwatch.” But joy is mixed with tragedy, for Eleonora’s mother dies soon after the birth. Read more »

Not only are Bitcoin wallets and exchanges vulnerable to security breaches but the heart of bitcoin i.e. Blockchain can easily be infected by permanently hosting malware inside it Bitcoin’s blockchain is designed such that it also allows injection of non-financial data through data insertion methods. This data can be either text messages or pictures up to 60-90 KiB in size or more by encoding arbitrary data as standard transactions. 2.24 2.23 2.22 2.21 2.20 2.19 2.18 2.17 2.16 2.15 2.14 2.13 2.12 2.11 2.10 2.9 2.8 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 According to a research done by German researchers from the RWTH Aachen University, over 1,600 files are stored in blockchain. Eight of those files contain objectionable content i.e. Child abuse imagery , two files contain 274 links to child porn sites . Read detail here Among popular images stored in bitcoin’s blockchain are: JPEG image of Nelson Mandela , two nude images of child abuse (which I can’t share) and an image of Mr. B