Looking for Oil or Air Filters

post from Mad About Shanghai on 12 April 2008 10:46:00 PM. © Mad About Shanghai

I am posting this on behalf of a friend.

If you are sourcing for compatible, third party oil or air filters in export quantity, please let me know.

From the catalog I see here, there are compatible filters for Japanese, French and American cars. There are even filters for machines too.

Alternatively, you can also contact the company at this link. They are based in Shanghai with a office in HuNan Road.

If you need a product catalog, please give either one of us a shout.

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Free tickets for Met Opera's Friday dress
rehearsal

post from NewYorkology: A Free New York Travel Guide on 12 April 2008 08:41:04 PM. © NewYorkology: A Free New York Travel Guide

The Met Opera is handing out free tickets to the final dress rehearsal of Donizetti's "La Fille du Regiment" - but the only way to get them before they're available to the general public is to become Met Opera's Facebook...

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London Marathon & "Northern Line" Magazine

post from Going Underground's Blog on 12 April 2008 08:11:00 PM. © Going Underground's Blog

Very, very regular readers who've been with this blog some years (amazingly there are a few of you left) may remember that I used have a working relationship with the London Marathon and had to attend the expo there for a number of years. In 2004 it led to some strange posts about Train Tourettes Syndrome, Elephant & Gibberish and Rhinos on the Tube.

Later today, I'll probably be watching the London Marathon from my sofa, feeling sorry for my hard working ex colleagues & current friends who'll be cheering on the runners come rain, snow, hail or shine.

So it was some joy that another ex-colleague sent me a copy of a fab looking little magazine called the other side. Its rather snappy subtitle is "The cut and thrust of the Northern Line (not a pirate mag) Foisting its way into your heart."

There's the mag pictured next door to my Saucony trainers purchased at the 2004 London Marathon Expo and still going strong (probably through lack of use more than the quality of the brand).

The other side is a bit like smoke london but tries to focus on the Northern Line - a challenge in itself.

Apparently "The Other Side began following a conversation with an elderly gentleman onboard the number 73 bus regarding the London Lite. His exact words were 'I wouldn?t wipe my arse with that drivel.' And lo the Other Side was born.

Not only telling you where to go and what to do along the Northern Line, but also entertaining you as you get there. No more will you have to turn to the tabloid hackery of the gutter press to wile away those infuriating minutes when you're stuck in a tunnel. Now you can open a copy of the lovingly fashioned Other Side and the frustration will melt away!"

This month's edition carries a feature called "Wee Here" - "We've all been there, the Tube pulls into Tottenham Court Road and you're busting for a wizz. It's still at best, a four minute walk to the exits. Then it's decision time; where to go, is it that desperate that you resort to the McDonalds bog or can you hold your bladder long enough to make it to the tranquillity of the Oxford Street department store WCs. ....".

There's stuff on the mayoral elections, and a three page feature on Brit film Son of Rambow. It's wowing the critics at Sundance and is released in the UK next week. The director Garth Jennings is interviewed & Spaced actress Jessica Hynes (formerly Jessica Stephenson) also stars in the film and gives her views on writing & a possible Spaced reunion.

Even though the London Marathon takes the cover spot, the writers are less than impressed with the event "On Sunday April 13th, watch a bunch of ruddy idiots run for ruddy charity and show how amazing they are. Go on. Boost their ego and laugh at the fools who dress up in suits of armour and fall over. If you're lucky a smarmy celebrity will sick their guts up trying to impress the world."

However, you get the opportunity to "Sponsor our ruddy idiot who claims she's running 26 miles for dogs."

If you would like to contribute they are looking for new writers. Like most mags of this size I imagine they won't be able to pay you - but you get valuable exposure which could lead to something else.

Overall it's remarkably like the Northern Line - it's miserable, yet quite funny. It's not exactly polished and could do with some improved finishing, yet it sort of does the job. In magazine terms that's keeping you entertained on your commute. In Northern Line terms that's getting 206,734,000 passengers sort of from A to B each year. I wish them both well.

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Mike Figgis' Soho Composites last day

post from Going Underground's Blog on 12 April 2008 08:03:00 PM. © Going Underground's Blog

Today's the last day of Mike Figgis' Soho Composites at the Photographers' Gallery.

You may remember that I wasn't impressed with the last piece of Figgis' London content that I'd come into contact with. It was the rather strange "Considerate Londoners" film for Transport for London that was supposed to show how if Londoners thought about each other a bit more, the whole world - or at least the top deck of a London bus - would be a better place.

I wrote "I love Mike Figgis and thought that Leaving Las Vegas was amazing, but I really wasn't convinced by this film. I wonder how much artistic / creative licence Figgis was given for this, and whether the TfL powers that be turned it into a film made by committee..... It seems a waste of Figgis' talent specially as I bet he wasn't that cheap to hire."

Really pleased to say that Soho Composites was excellent. If you get a chance to go to the gallery today, it's well worth a visit.

"Well known for experimenting with the creative process, Figgis is spending one week prior to the public display intensively photographing in this central London location, and continuing during the week of the exhibition.

The images will be produced and printed on-site over the course of the week, in a temporary studio space within the gallery. These photographs will then be presented on the wall with Figgis adding and subtracting from the previous day's display."

I was pleasantly surprised to see a certain book in the Photographers' Gallery bookshop next door:

Always nice to see something in a bookshop that you helped to produce (I was chief researcher for the book).

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Mike Figgis's Soho Composites last day

post from Going Underground's Blog on 12 April 2008 08:02:00 PM. © Going Underground's Blog

Today's the last day of Mike Figgis's Soho Composites at the Photographers' Gallery.

You may remember that I wasn't impressed with the last piece of Figgis' London content that I'd come into contact with. It was the rather strange "Considerate Londoners" film for Transport for London that was supposed to show how if Londoners thought about each other a bit more, the whole world - or at least the top deck of a London bus - would be a better place.

I wrote "I love Mike Figgis and thought that Leaving Las Vegas was amazing, but I really wasn't convinced by this film. I wonder how much artistic / creative licence Figgis was given for this, and whether the TfL powers that be turned it into a film made by committee..... It seems a waste of Figgis' talent specially as I bet he wasn't that cheap to hire."

Really pleased to say that Soho Composites was excellent. If you get a chance to go to the gallery today, it's well worth a visit.

"Well known for experimenting with the creative process, Figgis is spending one week prior to the public display intensively photographing in this central London location, and continuing during the week of the exhibition.

The images will be produced and printed on-site over the course of the week, in a temporary studio space within the gallery. These photographs will then be presented on the wall with Figgis adding and subtracting from the previous day's display."

I was pretty surprised to see a certain book in the Photographers' Gallery bookshop next door:

Always nice to see something in a bookshop that you helped to produce (I was chief researcher for the book). So I was pleasantly surprised rather than shocked.

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More Spring Flowers

post from New Mexico PhotoJournal on 12 April 2008 07:54:00 PM. © New Mexico PhotoJournal

A flowering tree at the Rio Grande Botanic Garden.
~ purchase a print ~

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Sales Of Marijuana Seeds For Home Cultivation On
The Rise

post from Japan Probe on 12 April 2008 07:20:48 PM. © Japan Probe

Mainichi reports:A loophole in the drug laws has allowed a growing number of people to buy marijuana seeds on the Internet for cultivation.Last year, police confirmed 184 incidents of growing marijuana plants, more than four times the figure 10 years ago, according to the National Police Agency (NPA).The Cannabis Control Law bans people from growing [...]

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Capiztahan : New Capiz festival like rain in
summer

post from Philippine Travel Blog - Discover Philippines 7,107 Amazing Islands on 12 April 2008 06:56:00 PM. © Philippine Travel Blog - Discover Philippines 7,107 Amazing Islands

Department of Tourism (DOT) Supervising Tourism Operations Officer lawyer Helen J. Camarista likened to a rain in summer Capiz’s new festivity dubbed “Capiztahan” for breathing fresh air into the local tourism program.Organized by the provincial government to mark the 107th foundation anniversary of the creation of its local government unit on April 15, 1901, Capiztahan [...]

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