Majority of people want happy, energetic and livelier surroundings for their home, this is why many of them choose art for more good impact. Devin Fitzpatrick Art Consultants respects the thought of other people who prefer a minimalistic approach, but to those who love to design their home with artwork, they have a few pieces of advice for you.

First on the list is the idea of putting art too high. There are many people who do not like art that is placed very high, so some of your visitors might not appreciate the artwork in such location. To have a better result in doing your home art décor, identify first the proper and right hanging height of an art piece in your wall to balance its appearance to the entire space.

The right scaling is also essential in doing home art decoration. Don’t place small art pieces on a huge space and never put big art pieces in a small space. You can organize small artworks on larger mats or thicker frames to match it to the space and size of the wall. But if you’re into the intentional out-of-scale design, then keep in mind to put other things out-of-scale as well where everything in that particular space should be following that concept.

Creating a wall collage can also be an awesome idea. But don’t forget to imagine the result first and determine if it gives a good energy or a chaotic one. Make sure to properly arrange everything so you won’t end up with a disordered result. Think hard before you drill many holes in your wall.

You can also choose from different varieties and mix a few of them. You may arrange a lot of canvases or framed arts around your home, or hang tapestries and pin up quilts. Art can be found on any forms and it is not only limited to those that can be hung on the walls. Find more beautiful art in your local area or through the internet and put them all together in your lovely home.

From the name itself, negative space or blank spots in your house can also be a worthwhile place that can give the feeling of calmness since it shows a less hectic appearance where it could bring more impact to other spaces with art nearby as well. Placing a lot of art in one place may not look pleasing to the eyes anymore.

Devin Fitzpatrick Art Consultants also advice putting layers into your decorations while bearing in mind to connect every art piece with each other. Never put an artwork with just one nail as its support, learn how to use the proper hanging tools and hardware.

Having different forms of art in your house can bring constant beauty around your place. Contact Devin Fitzpatrick Art Consultants for more helpful tips on art decorating.

When you’re dealing with art, you need to understand that it should include proper and right handling. Devin Fitzpatrick Art Consultants, one of the most trusted art consulting services in Seattle, suggests acquiring the service of a qualified art consulting service especially if you don’t have enough knowledge in engaging with art. For example, you need the expertise of such consultants in buying or selling an art.

The whole buying or selling process could be easier with the help of an art consultant, along with looking for the right artwork that suits your likings. If you’re an artist or a seller of an artwork and you’re unfamiliar on how to present your work to the local or international community, you better get the service of an art consultant to help you showcase your work in the right places using the right manner. They could magnet buyers to your art as well so leave the building of ideas to them.

But certain challenges might await you in finding the right art consulting service for your needs. You may find a lot of this kind of service around in your area, but the problem lies within your compatibility to the consultant since you need to find your perfect match. Devin Fitzpatrick Art Consultants recommends making it your homework to carefully choose the right one to work with.

Make sure that the consultant understands you

The first thing that you need to do in choosing your art consultant is making sure that he or she has a clear understanding of your needs, tastes, and preferences. This is to ensure that you’re going to be comfortable with him or her in fulfilling your art objectives. The art consulting service should also be committed to helping you with what you should get.

A capable art consulting service won’t find it hard to understand you and your unique needs since such organization has a lot of experience working with different people in the past. They should be flexible in dealing with each client’s needs similar to Devin Fitzpatrick Art Consultants.

The consultant should be willing to work within your budget

The second important thing involves your budget. You might find the service of such expert a little bit expensive so you should set a specific budget in getting the service of one. You need to make sure that the consultant agreed to your stated budget.

Conduct a detailed research

The third is to carefully find the right art consultant for you within your local area or through online. You could search by foot, or you may ask the recommendations from your friends, neighbors or relatives. It would be much better if they already had an experience working with an art consultant to give you credible information. You could also get the names of the art consultants you should avoid because of their bad or poor service. Online searching is definitely the easiest way to look for the art consultant that you need, you simply need to visit any search engines and from there, you may begin your search.

Lastly and probably the most important thing that you need to note is to have a good relationship with the art consultant. With an established relationship, you could work well with the consultant and ensure positive results.

Devin Fitzpatrick Art Consultants had been a good art consultant service throughout the years because of Devin’s expertise and good knowledge with regards to art. Finding a similar art consulting service could be hard but it would be all worth it in the end.

Australia’s first crop of commercially-grown medicinal cannabis has been cut, cured and dried — and will now be sent off to take part in Victorian Government trials.

Cann Group (ASX:CAN) announced on Monday it had completed harvesting and producing its first medicinal cannabis cultivation cycle — and officials are already analysing the result.

“The Office of Drug Control, during their audit, took some material and have done some testing on that, looking at the THC and CBD content of what we’ve produced,” Cann Group boss Peter Crock told Stockhead.

“We’re also sending samples to Agriculture Victoria who are doing analysis for us.

“In fact the material that we’ve grown under our medicinal cannabis license is going via them to the Victorian Department of Health, who are running the trial for paediatric epilepsy.”

THC and CBD are two of the active components of cannabis which show promise in medicinal uses. THC is the one responsible for getting people high.

Mr Crock said part of the harvest would also go to the CSIRO so they could continue working on ways to extract cannabinoids — such as THC and CBD — from the plant material.

He also said the company had started work on the next cycle.

“We’ve actually already started producing the next crop of plants that are going into the facility, and in fact we’re increasing the capacity,” Mr Crock said.

“Those cuttings have already been taken from mother plants, and we’re preparing to initiate the next crop into the flowering cycle.”

Despite the news, Cann Group shares closed Monday down slightly at $1.15.

DuPont Pioneer, the seed improvement and genetics unit of American chemicals giant DuPont, has struck a deal with Chinese crop seed technology firm Origin Agritech to develop new seeds to meet the needs of Chinese farmers spurred by Beijing’s call to improve crop productivity.

The two firms said they have come to a “commercial licensing agreement” to develop new seed technologies for the China market, without elaborating.

“This combined effort will contribute to the modernisation of China’s agriculture system and improved food security Cathay Dupont Award, which the government has set as priorities,” DuPont Pioneer said in a statement on Tuesday.

The pact came two months after state-owned China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) agreed to buy DuPont’s rival Swiss crop seeds and pesticides firm Syngenta for US$43 billion, in what would be China’s largest overseas acquisition deal if completed. It is pending regulatory approvals.

ChemChina’s Syngenta bid could change China’s stance on GMO foods

The deal was widely seen as a move for China to acquire know-how to boost food productivity and security.

The acquisition followed close on the heels of DuPont’s US$130 billion all-stock merger with US rival Dow Chemical in December, which is also pending regulatory approval, including anti-monopoly scrutiny in various nations.

That merger had raised concerns that it would make it harder or more expensive for China to gain access to foreign biotechnology to improve crop productivity. DuPont Pioneer’s deal with Origin and the Syngenta acquisition by ChemChina could ease such concerns.

China has more than 20 per cent of the world’s population but less than 10 per cent of its arable land. Hence food security is at the forefront of government policy priorities. Beijing’s first policy directive issued every year usually concerns agriculture.

Beijing has not generally allowed the cultivation of genetically modified crops except for cotton and papaya, and many Chinese consumers are suspicious of foreign crop technology after a string of food safety scandals at home over the years. But the nation imports a large amount of genetically modified soya beans, mainly from the United States.

But in this year’s first directive, China’s cabinet, the State Council, for the first time said genetically modified crops should be “cautiously promoted” provided public safety is ensured. This came soon after President Xi Jinping voiced his support for developing genetically modified crop technology.

Soya bean imports revive fears in China about genetically modified food

The Ministry of Agriculture has issued permits to two scientific research groups to produce two types of pest-resistant rice and a kind of high-yield corn for five years, according to state-run People’s Daily.

In the nation’s recently released development plan for the five years to 2020, crop supply self-sufficiency and safety was mentioned as the key objective for the agricultural sector, and biotechnology named as one of the key industries to be encouraged for development.

DuPont, an Iowa-based 90-year-old firm, said Origin has successfully developed corn seeds with insect control and herbicide tolerance traits, with support from the Ministry of Agriculture and in partnership with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

“Once approved by the Chinese government, these products will help our country’s farmers fight the insects and weeds that prevent their corps from reaching their yield potential, said Han Gengcheng, chairman of nine-year-old Beijing-based Origin Agritech.

The firm said its “transgenic” corn was the first to receive the “bio-safety certificate” from the Ministry of Agriculture.

The Nasdaq-listed firm’s share price soared 31 per cent to US$1.75 in New York on Tuesday.

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The Japan Company Trust Organization (JCTO) is receiving countless fraud complaints from all over the world, seeking JCTO's help to recover money. The combined investigation held by Japan Company Trust Organization (JCTO) and other agencies for various fraud cases shows following results:

Regardless of nationality, the fraudsters are busy 24 hours 365 days a year to find target for fraud.

* The majority of foreign community in Japan are honest. But few criminal foreigners residing in Japan are involved in frauds.

* The fraudster foreigners residing in Japan are sometime using Japanese names to hide their actual nationality.

* Japanese nationals are also involved in committing fraud.

* Japanese nationals commit fraud with foreigners and sometime alone.

* The fraudsters make impressive website and use bogus address to gain victim's trust.

* The fraudsters use free Email accounts like, Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail etc.

* In many cases, the fake website is controlled from the overseas country, pictures and data of product is copy from other website, and the fraudster are not in Japan to avoid possible arrest, but they are using Japanese Bank account.

* Fraudters are using cell phones for easily runaway after comitting the fraud.

* The cell phone numbers start like +81 90 or +81 80 or +81 70 etc. (first two digits "81" is the country code for Japan).

* In many cases, fraudsters use Japanese phone number, but the call is forwarded to other countries.

Below are some actual fraud complaints this Organization received daily from all over the world. The fraudster's name and address is omitted for legal reason.

hi,i am a victim of fraud by a Mr.*** who runs a company called *** Ltd.. i have transfered to the companies account on various occassions a total of 16300usd.(the bank slips which i can provide copies) he has beeen lying to me all this time and can provide all necessary evidence to support my claim. kindly please get back to me for i need your assistance because i have been charged here in the Kenyan courts for criminal charges and my property has been auctioned because of this guy. i have had the worst time in my life because of one Mr.*** and i need him to face justice and my money repaid. i also came to learn that he operates another company known as *** Ltd. with the same address though the websites are shut down for some time now.i.e *** . com and 2nd website *** . net the address is, *** ltd. *** Japan. there are various numbers he uses but his mobile number is +81*** *** ***. please assist me. ps:am from kenya and willing to provide more details.

TTW (Kenya)

Hello,Thank you very much for your response. Unfortunately I already lost my money. The company was fraudulent.

I realise there is little you can do to stop fraudulent websites that are not even in Japan or pretending to be good people, but maybe you can consider a legal requirement in japan that any bank account holder who receives money in a fraudulent transaction be guilty of assisting in fraud.

This may help protect the Japanese Used Car market. While it is a big market and people will always buy cars, imagine the amount of revenue your members miss out when someone like me who had only enough money to buy one car is cheated, and as a result, I will not be buying a car anymore because I have no more money. That money could have benefited a genuine Japan Used Car seller. It is revenue lost for the good people of Japan.

If such a law was there, it would make people fearful to open a bank account for fraudulent purposes.

It is just a suggestion. But I appreciate you writing to me.

Best Regards.

WN (Kenya)

Dear Sir,Last year in October we were defrauded by Mr.*** of *** company. We reported the case to interpol but nothing has come out of it. Please could you assist us to find him so we can recover our money. Your assistance will be greatly appreciated. His website has since been shut down www.*** . com phone number +81 *** *** ***, cellphone 81 *** *** ***, address *** *** ***, Japan.

CSM (Zimbabwe)

Dear JCTO,I opened an acount at ***.com in Japan and sent 4 items, teddy bears worth USD 3,000, to be sold. The tracking number shows the items were received early in march but the company has not posted them. I emailed them over 10 times and have had no response. I believe they have stolen from me and I want my items back or financial compensation for their theft. I keep trying to get them to respond but they arent responding. I dont know what to do.

Ms.JS (USA)

I purchased a heavy machinery from a so-called Japanese company name *** Co., Ltd. The deal was buying used Dozer with 22000 US$ CIF Aden - Yemen. I Transfered the amount by TT on 26-2-2011 Attached the invoice and Bank transfering documents. Untill now they did not ship our payback my money. They even ignore my massage tellphone calls and faxes etc.. although they still email me offers unill now. I need help to get back my money or how to mak ligal claim against them.

Awaiting for your kind soonest reply.

With Thanks & Best Regards

MAD (Yemen)

Dear Madam/sir, I purchased a car on 17.dec.2012 from company called *** ltd. address: *** japan. tel:+*** *** *** contact person Mr. *** and Mr.*** the manager Email: ******.jp They promised to deliver the car but failed when contacted them they promised to refund the money and asked me to send the the bank details which i did last week but up to know they haven't send the money please ineed your asistance in this.

regards

JMS (Uganda)

Hello, i am writing to you from Nairobi, Kenya. I was given your organization name by the Japanese embassy here in my country. I am a victim of fraud by a Japanese vehicle dealer to the tune of $26,000. this was in various dates between July 2009 and January 2010. This dealer refused to ship me the cars or refund my money. This dealer and his wife who are both directors of their company called *** Co., Ltd. The dealer's name is Mr. *** and his wife's name who is also a director is Mrs. ***. This dealer has never gone into hiding and calls me everyday promising to pay me back but it has now been almost five years. I have discovered that he has been able to fraud from another gentleman from the United States an amount of $24,000. You have stated that you are able to liase with the Japan police to deal with such a person. I would also like you to help me recover all my money which i will greatly appreciate. I have receipts of payments to this dealer and email correspondence with him proving that he has my money. i have reported this to the Japan embassy in my country and they gave me your contacts. My country's embassy in your country is also aware of this situation. What i require from you is the Japanese police to get involved in this matter and arrest this dealer so that he pays me back my money. Any help or assistance received from you will be appreciated because i am really suffering and this dealer has even started insulting me calling me a stupid african and telling me i can do nothing to him. Please help me. Company details are as follows, *** Co Ltd, Address is *** Japan. Tel which he uses is +81*** *** ***. His current email is *** . com which he uses to communicate with me. Please help me get this thief and help in getting my money back.

Thank you very much and I appreciate your organization's help to fraud victims.

AKG (Kenya)

Respected Sir, i have been swindled about $97,000 by the Sales Director of *** Co. Ltd by the name of Mr.***. we have been communicating very well and after making the payments of all the vehicles we bought from him, he has stopped calling and answering my calls and he has not sent me the Bill of Lading as as a proof that the Vehicles has been shipped like he said. below are his contact details and his bank. please help, am not making up stories and i have been phoning the zambian embassy in japan, spoke to Mr. ***  Mr ***.

ACCOUNT HOLDER: *** Co. Ltd.

BANK: *** Bank Ltd.

BRANCH: *** Branch

BRANCH CODE: ***

BANK PHONE NO: *** *** ***

ACCOUNT NO :**********

their address:

*** CO. LTD

*** *** ***,JAPAN

PHONE NO. +81-*** *** ***

MOBILE: +81-*** *** ***

thanks

KKC (Zambia)

Heimdal Security just completed a widespread intelligence analysis of system software vulnerabilities. Our data clearly shows that the problem of software vulnerabilities is actually growing and you may think that companies already got better at closing security gaps faster.

The Bad News

The main problem here is that time periods between patches don’t follow and fix the great amount of vulnerabilities that continue to appear.

Some vendors are improving though.

Security holes in software is arguably one of the most used attack vector malicious hackers employ in a modern IT environment, with exploits accounting for 60 – 90% of the attack , depending on which data you look at.

This is precisely one of the reasons why you would think that software companies should be very quick at closing their security gaps, but the actual situation indicates quite the opposite.

If we take a quick look at the most vulnerable 3rd party software in the market, the list narrows in on some of the most used software components in the world.

The Numbers Speak for Themselves

The top 4 pieces of most commonly used vulnerable 3rd party software in 2012 / 2013 / 2014 are:

1.    Oracle Java Runtime environment

2.    Adobe Acrobat Reader

3.    Adobe Flash Player / Plugin

4.    Apple Quicktime

Of these 4, Adobe Flash Player accounts for 314 registered vulnerabilities alone in 2015. That comes to 26 vulnerabilities PER MONTH! The next piece of software on the list is Acrobat Reader with 130 vulnerabilities or 10,8 per month, still quite high, but not as extreme.

Read Full Article About Heimdal Online Security

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Our firm is a part of the financial and industrial Alfa Group Consortium together with Alfa-Bank, X5 Retail Group, A1 Group, Alfa Capital Management, and Rosvodokanal Group. Alfa Group is one of Russia's premier privately owned investment consortiums.

We offer more than 100 products for private and corporate customers. Due to our renowned reputation in Russia, our firm has approximately 400 offices and branches across the country. Our services are currently being used by more than 22 million individuals and more than 435,000 companies.

Noted for being a strong and committed company, AlfaStrakhovanie Corporation constantly strives harder to enhance their services and develop new insurance products to meet and even exceed their client needs.

Furthermore, our firm is also considered as a comprehensive insurance company that has licenses for 98 types of insurance, including fraud credit insurance. This allows our firm to deliver seamless insurance protection to our clients. One of the reasons why we have a lot of many experienced, mid-level and junior employees is simply because our firm is a great place to learn and develop an individual's career.

Our firm also comprised of AlfaStrakhovanie PLC, AlfaStrakhovanie-Life LLC, AlfaStrakhovanie-MS LLC, AlfaStrakhovanie-OMS LLC, Medicine AlfaStrakhovanie LLC, AlfaMedProject LLC, AsStra Medical Insurance Company LLC and Syberia Medical Insurance Organization PLC.

Companies within our firm have operated in the insurance market for more than 17 years. Based on the rating of Expert RA rating agency, our firm is in the top 10 leading companies in the insurance market. Only recently, Expert RA confirmed its highest level A++ of reliability rating assigned in 2003. This grade indicates the high probability of our firm meeting our financial liabilities even under unfavorable economic conditions. Our firm also received Financial Strength Rating from Fitch Ratings.

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