It has come to the knowledge that Sampath Bank in association with Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) has reinstated the BASL Affinity Master Credit Card. And as a result of the same, BASL Affinity Master Credit Card, at the moment, is available in Classic and Gold types and is specially designed and branded for the BASL members. It has also come to the knowledge that this card can be made use of for both local and international transactions

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vip news : Sampath Bank reinstates BASL Affinity Master Credit Card

Marsh, one of the largest and also acclaimed insurance broker and risk advisors across the globe, has set up a novel Collateral Solutions Group (CSG) and the first and foremost objective of it is to ensure that the clientele receive the best possible collateral terms and most fitting solutions to meet their individual needs time after time. The new group, it has come to the knowledge, consists of in excess of 30 senior casualty experts from around the firm who, in tandem with several leading banks, will lend clients a hand to attain the best collateral outcome. These banks include MMC Securities Corp.

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vip news : Novel Collateral Solutions Group (CSG) from Marsh

Max New York Life Insurance has brought ‘Platinum Protect’, the newest chronicle of term plan to the fore, and by means of the same, it is increasing product portfolio of risk protection solutions.

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vip news : ‘Platinum Protect’ of Max New York Life Insurance launched

ARTINFO – Rick Norsigian, whose decade-long quest to prove that negatives he purchased for $45 at a Fresno garage sale are the work of Ansel Adams has now entered the spotlight, is being confronted by a new dissenting voice — that of 87-year-old Miriam Walton, who is sure that the glass-plate negatives were the work of her uncle, one Earl Brooks.

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Are the Contested Ansel Adams Negatives the Work of Uncle Earl?
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ARTINFO – For two decades, Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang has been making large-scale drawings with little more than paper, gunpowder, and a flame, often created in public performances in front of large audiences. Now he has been asked by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston to make what might be his largest, most explosive drawing yet, a 162 by 10 feet work titled “Odyssey” that will adorn the museum’s new Arts of China Gallery when it opens on October 17.

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MFA Houston Recruits Cai Guo-Qiang for a Big Bang
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ARTINFO – It turns out that what seemed like a solid step forward in the bureaucratic crawl toward breaking ground on billionaire collector Eli BroadÂ’s downtown Los Angeles museum doesn’t represent much progress at all.

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Broad Museum Clears Hurdle in L.A., though Plenty More Remain
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ARTINFO – After ten years of running an esteemed Chelsea gallery, representing artists like Scott Hug and Assume Vivid Astro Focus, art dealer John Connelly is closing shop to become the director of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres foundation.

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Gallerist John Connelly to Lead Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation
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ARTINFO – The 2011 iteration of the Venice Biennale, that art-world exhibition that combines the Olympic thrill of awards (the Golden Lion for best in show and the Silver Lion for best emerging artists) with World’s Fair-style pavilions, is still more than a year away.

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The 2011 Venice Biennale: Japan Selects Tabaimo
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ARTINFO – With the recent proliferation of Picasso shows popping up across the globe, news of another work by the artist going on display just doesn’t set the heart pounding the way it used to.

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World’s Biggest Picasso Shimmies into the V&A
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Business continuity can mean success or failure if data and applications on a production server are lost. Disaster recovery planning ensures organizations have the capability to continue essential functions across a wide range of situations that could disrupt normal operations. However, traditional data protection strategies focus on just the data and not the application

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Layers of Disaster Recovery Defined

So each week we try to give you something–just a little something–to help with the pain of the work week to come. Consider this post your leather belt to bite down on as the Wild West surgeon extracts the bullet that is your humdrum life from your leg.

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Your Monday Morning Mental Sorbet: The Surreal World of Bacon

Motocross is a loud, dirty, and exciting sport. Sometimes held inside arenas, most often held outdoors on dirt tracks, motocross is never dull. Motocross, or MX, photography is not difficult once you know the tricks but there are specific challenges to photographing motocross.

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Motocross Photography

The National Theater in London is offering many end-of-the-world visions, most notably Mike Bartlett’s “Earthquakes in London.”

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Theater: ‘Earthquakes’ at National Theater in London

It may be hot outside, but there is one heck of a cold heart on display in “Romance,” the best of the four works in Series A of “Summer Shorts 4,” the annual festival of new American short plays.

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Theater Review | ‘Summer Shorts 4′: Drama by Neil LaBute in ‘Summer Shorts’ at 59E59

Troy Diana and James Valletti have fashioned a play, “Tales From the Tunnel,” out of stories from subway riders.

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Theater Review | ‘Tales From the Tunnel’: Subway Stories at Bleecker Street Theater

A small group of libertarians created their own, floating vision of the future in the Sacramento Delta recently. It was, as organizers billed it, a little like Burning Man on the water — minus the giant, flaming effigy and with a fraction the number of festival goers.

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Libertarians Celebrate Freedom With ‘Burning Man on the Water’

Reuters – Art works that once adorned the British and European offices of former banking powerhouse Lehman Brothers are to be auctioned off next month, the bank’s administrators said Sunday.

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Lehman Brothers art work to go under the hammer
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In Fresno, Calif., 17 percent of the Hmong/Laotian community has Hepatitis B. The disease is a liver killer, fairly easy to transmit, and most of the people infected don’t know they have it. The problem is, even if Hmong did know they had it, most of them wouldn’t treat it.

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Treating Hepatitis B Runs Up Against Hmong Culture

Attorney Mohammed Mostafaei arrived safely in Norway, and Iranian opposition figures are reporting that his wife has been released from custody in Iran. Despite his troubles, the lawyer told NPR that he still hopes someday to resume his human rights work in Iran

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Lawyer Flees Iran After Client’s Stoning Sentence

The Obama administration is trying to turn a corner on its response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP reached a milestone last week when it achieved a static kill of the blown-out well. And the government is touting a new report that indicates the impact of the spilled oil is diminishing

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Officials Try To Calm Fears In Spill Aftermath

Host Liane Hansen talks with Dr. Mina Chamberlin — mother of 5-year-old Maya Chamberlin, who recently underwent a second bone marrow transplant. Maya was the focus of a December Weekend Edition interview about the difficulties of finding mixed-race bone marrow donors.

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Maya’s Mom: Cherishing The ‘Well’ Moments

The idea of rough, tough Kathleen Turner playing a nun is fairly delicious, though her character in “High” is no demure, soft-spoken model of reticence.

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Theater Review | Connecticut: Kathleen Turner is a New Kind of Nun in ‘High’

“Def” has been a part of hip-hop lexicon since the early 1980s, but for Sean Forbes, it means something different. The 28-year-old rapper from suburban Detroit was born deaf, but says his disability hasn’t stopped him from making music. He recently released a new single called “I’m Deaf” and is busy recording more songs for an upcoming album.

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Sean Forbes Paves The Way For Deaf Musicians