Are you sure you want to create this branch? The intention, he says, is to promote conservation of Wan Chai through his stories, as well as what he calls Hong Kong's "property hegemony". This one is better. "It is a labour right as well," Mr Mak argued. Chinese settlement was recorded in Wan Chai as early as 1819. This article is about the administrative district. Historian Dr Yamaguchi agrees: "I think the ideal situation is still that Hong Kongers have to feel that we should stop this trend to demolish old buildings. ", "Flag to enable ros2 controllers for manipulator. The spokesperson denied that it would be renovated as part of the Hopewell Centre II, a 55-story hotel under construction just opposite the preserved old house. She said: "I've been to a similar tour in Edinburgh and that was more chilling and haunted. "Path to xacro or URDF description of the robot, relative to share of `description_package`. ", Ukraine hits 'Wagner HQ' in weekend of fighting, Stansted suspends all flights due to bad weather, Shooting of three women at cafe shocks Italy, They are K-pop's next stars and theyre entirely virtual, The themes of two unexpected World Cup semi-finals, The secret diaries of women protesting in Iran. Tai Yuen Street is called 'Toy Street' as this street has a lot of toy shops. The House of Trousers is a household belonging to one Mr Trousers who is beacon to all who refuse to leave the "Wan Chai Bubble". Or, to stick with the solution you have now. But as a Wan Chai resident Mr Mak is not just about nostalgia and ghost stories. Purpose of visibility_control files in ros packages. Many Git commands accept both tag and branch names, so creating this branch may cause unexpected behavior. The first tour of the year took place during Hong Kong's ghost festival month of August. This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository. 2022 BBC. After the market's relocation in 2008, the back of the listed building was knocked down, making way for what is now an elegant condominium block. Many Git commands accept both tag and branch names, so creating this branch may cause unexpected behavior. One haunted house could eventually become a restaurant.". Wan Chai was once a district filled with Chinese commoners, Dr Yamaguchi says she loves Wan Chai for being a community that people walk through to get to their destination. Developments like the old market "will destroy the whole cosy atmosphere of Wan Chai and old Hong Kong all together", she said. Five minutes away from the noisy polluted streets is Bowen Drive, popular for jogging and walking by politicians, movie stars, and government officials. "These supernatural events are all recorded by media, with traces, and only a community with such a long history can achieve this. node_namePythonExpressionstr You can also make this file executable. Of the four on Hong Kong Island, it is north-central, and had 152,608 residents in 2011, a fall from 167,146 residents in 2001. The spokesman mentioned in its reply a recently completed "pure preservation-cum-revitalisation project", where a cluster of 10 pre-war historic buildings known as the Green House were converted into the Comix Home Base, an art centre dedicated to local comics. This is a popular tourist spot in Hong Kong for mainland visitors and also the location of the flag-raising ceremony which occurs daily and in a special form on Chinese National Day and other occasions. The zone colloquially known as Wan Chai is loosely that surrounding Tonnochy Road and the Wan Chai station of the MTR, which is between Admiralty on the west and Causeway Bay on the east. The first tunnel that crosses Victoria Harbour, the Cross-Harbour Tunnel, links the former Kellett Island, now part of Wan Chai, with Hung Hom in Kowloon. You signed in with another tab or window. Many believe that the city is brimming with ghosts during that time. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. and change the import once it becomes available upstream. Today Wan Chai is sometimes described as the heart of the city, representing the epitome of the Hong Kong lifestyle it has a well-established arts centre, the large exhibition and conference complexes, luxury apartments, five-star and non-five-star hotels, shopping malls, metropolitan office towers and a large government building cluster. This code works, but is ugly: I know I could instead use is_v1_bag:=T/F and is_v2_bag:=T/F, but is there a neater way of testing strings? Wan Chai District houses a mosque, as well as cemeteries for several different faiths. A 25-year-old Mexican man who had stayed at the hotel was later found to have the viral infection. Video, One of Central America's most active volcanoes erupts, Nasa's Orion capsule makes safe return to Earth, Four children fall into icy lake near Birmingham, Serbian leader holds talks over Kosovo unrest, Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer, Twitter's paid blue tick re-launches after pause. Load yaml configuration based on package name and file path relative to its share. pan@pan-System-Product-Name:~/moveit_test$ ros2 launch panda_moveit_config ex_fake_control.launch . The building's fate, however, remains unknown. [6], According to a household survey by the Census and Statistics Department, the median household income is the second highest of Hong Kong. Deanne Catmull, a research assistant at the University of Melbourne, was visiting her friends in Hong Kong. The ceremony of the handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China was performed in the then new wing of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai North. It is interesting to find out the past of this whole area.". Juliana Liu went on a ghost hunt around the old Wanchai district with Mak Tak-ching. It is said that during the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941, a Japanese bomb fell into the shelter before it detonated, killing hundreds. Pubs and night clubs along Lockhart Road depend on their custom. The next stop was the old Wan Chai market on Queen's Road East. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. """Configure and setup move group for planning with MoveIt 2""", # TODO: Re-enable `default_planner_request_adapters/AddRuckigTrajectorySmoothing` once its issues are resolved, "default_planner_request_adapters/AddTimeOptimalParameterization default_planner_request_adapters/ResolveConstraintFrames default_planner_request_adapters/FixWorkspaceBounds default_planner_request_adapters/FixStartStateBounds default_planner_request_adapters/FixStartStateCollision default_planner_request_adapters/FixStartStatePathConstraints", # TODO: Reduce start_state_max_bounds_error once spawning with specific joint configuration is enabled, "moveit_simple_controller_manager/MoveItSimpleControllerManager", "trajectory_execution.allowed_execution_duration_scaling", "trajectory_execution.allowed_goal_duration_margin", "trajectory_execution.allowed_start_tolerance", # ros2_control_node (only for fake controller). Built between 1915 and 1921, it is now an empty, locked-down Grade I historic building. Mr Mak denies this and for most of my companions that night, it was not his political alignment but the ghost stories and learning a bit of history which drew their attention. For instance, residents claim they heard women screaming and youngsters who got inside say they saw "dark shadows" waving their hands. It was a government-sanctioned urban renewal project. ", "Prefix for all robot entities. PythonExpression substitutions. The broader administrative "Wan Chai District" includes the areas of Wan Chai, Wan Chai North, Causeway Bay, Happy Valley, Jardine's Lookout, Stubbs Road, Wong Nai Chung Gap and Tai Hang. The numerous bars and strip joints in the red-light district part of Wan Chai are popular with tourists and visiting US sailors. For Mr Mak, conservation is not just about keeping the building, but allowing the public to have access to the site. Generate list of all launch arguments that are declared for this launch script. "I love ghost stories but I don't think I would enjoy one that only scares the hell out of you. This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. Read about our approach to external linking. ", "Lower and upper margin for position limits of all safety controllers. Load yaml configuration based on package name and file path relative to its share. It is a relatively affluent district, with one in five persons having liquid assets of more than HKD 1 million.[3]. Once the PR changes are available upstream, you will be able to do something like: Before the LaunchConfigurationEqualscondition is available I guess your best bet is to copy the condition locally: The famous Lovers' Stone is on scenic Bowen Road. Queen's Road East has many stores selling Chinese style wooden furniture. There seem to be some tutorials online for ROS + Qt, but all of them are . Although Mr Mak conducts a tour with stories of phantoms and horrors, streets like this one are also included as it is precisely this kind of history that Hong Kong risks forgetting, he says. Lee Tung Street - also known as Wedding Card Street - is famous for being where the printers of traditional Chinese wedding invitations used to be. PythonExpression substitutionsPython, LaunchConfigurationsubstitutionsPython, numLaunchConfigurationsubstitutionsPython, PythonExpression substitutions, node_namePythonExpressionstr, abc abc. Next to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre is the "Golden Bauhinia Square". Parse yaml from file, given its absolute file path. You signed in with another tab or window. According to local tales, it was looked after by maids after the war but later left abandoned. ", "The output control command interface provided by ros2_control ('position', 'velocity', 'effort' or certain combinations 'position,velocity'). A tag already exists with the provided branch name. It then, according to local tales, became a brothel where "comfort women" were kept by the Japanese army and forced to become sex slaves for troops. Cheng, Jonathan; Ye, Juliet; Stein, Peter, Last edited on 14 November 2022, at 22:51, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China, "2011 Population Census: Summary Results", "Swine flu scare: China puts 460 in isolation", "Population and household statistics analysed by district council district", List and map of electoral constituencies (large PDF file), Introduction of Wan Chai District by Home Affairs Department, HKSAR Government, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wan_Chai_District&oldid=1121931363, The location of the 1957 novel and 1960 film, This page was last edited on 14 November 2022, at 22:51. Export clothing shops line Johnston and Luard Roads predominantly. And for decades, it has been the landing point for visiting US Navy sailors. "I like this one because it has more light-hearted stories. It was a distinctly unspooky location. This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository. Mr Mak knows that time for that could be in short supply. Of the four on Hong Kong Island, it is north-central, and had 152,608 residents in 2011, a fall from 167,146 residents in 2001. There is also a Police Museum near the junction of Stubbs Road and Peak Road. ", "Flag to enable MoveIt2 Servo for manipulator. Johnston Road and Queen's Road East are the two major streets in the area. . "The basement storeroom used to be a makeshift mortuary during the Japanese occupation," said Mr Mak. BTW, the only other example of this I could find is this Japanese page so perhaps the official repo needs an extra example or two? description="Path to xacro or URDF description of the robot, relative to share of `description_package`.", In 1985 residents in the area experienced "supernatural events", which they thought were ghosts escaping from the now defunct air raid shelter. The Star Ferry operates a ferry route from Wan Chai Pier near Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre to Tsim Sha Tsui. https://github.com/ros2/launch/blob/m VideoOne of Central America's most active volcanoes erupts. VideoThe secret diaries of women protesting in Iran, One of Central America's most active volcanoes erupts. The Old Wan Chai Post Office is a declared monument. "The URA has also all along made its best efforts to preserve and retain the local character, social network and economic vibrancy of each project.". Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters. Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0. But lurking in between them are pockets of old Hong Kong soaked in a history at risk of being forgotten, as new buildings and developments shoot up, says Mak Tak-ching, the man organising a tour of the "haunted" spots in Hong Kong's old Wan Chai district. The 1960 film The World of Suzie Wong, starring Hollywood's William Holden and Hong Kong's very own Chinese-British actress Nancy Kwan, was based entirely in this district on the north coast of Hong Kong Island. Look at the skyline and all you see of Hong Kong is an ultra-modern city with glistening buildings scraping the clouds or hugging the harbourfront in weird and wonderful shapes. "I think it's disastrous," says Dr Kiyoko Yamaguchi, architectural historian and artist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. What was Genghis Khans secret weapon on the battlefield? A cash point in a bright, blaring underground train station. It is said that during the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941, a Japanese bomb fell into the shelter before it detonated, killing hundreds. The district has the second-highest educationally qualified residents with the highest-bracket incomes, the second-lowest population and the third-oldest quotient. He had travelled to Hong Kong from Mexico via Shanghai.[4][5]. It sits on the top of the granite-laid steps from Ship Street which before the 1921 reclamation overlooked Victoria Harbour. ", "The ros2_control plugin that should be loaded for the manipulator ('fake', 'ign', 'real' or custom). The two-storey red brick house got a reputation for being haunted after its owner To Chak-man died of unknown causes inside it during WWII. ", "Parametric k-position factor of all safety controllers. ", "The level of logging that is applied to all ROS 2 nodes launched by this script.". ", "Flag to enable safety limits controllers on manipulator joints. "Wan Chai has fewer British colonial official buildings or churches than some other areas in Hong Kong island," she said, adding that the neighbourhood's "smaller scale Tong Laus [pre-1960s Chinese residential blocks] and small shops" are part of its charm. Generate list of all launch arguments that are declared for this launch script. "Wan Chai has the most haunted locations in Hong Kong," Mr Mak said. This is what Mak Tak-ching believes should be done - more urban renewal projects, where people can interact with history. Wan Chai District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. Spring Garden Lane and Tai Wo Street are lined with stalls selling for vegetables, fruit and household items. Wan Chai Market is an example, he said. The "haunted house" he brought us to was Nam Koo Terrace. While parts of the interior were knocked down, it became a small community garden. IfCondition(PythonExpression()) - am I doing it right? "It works as a family outing," she said. Within this Fenwick Pier hosted the only McDonald's that served alcohol in Hong Kong until 2004; its replacement is an up-market restaurant. The problem is that Qt requires app.exec (), and ROS requires node.spin () to be run, both of which are infinite loops. The Stubbs Road Lookout is a viewing point of the Victoria Harbour. $ ros2 pkg create ros2_tutorials_py --build-type ament_python --dependencies rclpy. I found a way to do it :D Here is an example: from launch import LaunchDescription, LaunchContext from launch.actions import OpaqueFunction from launch.substitutions import LaunchConfiguration from launch_ros.actions import Node def example_func(context: LaunchContext, arg1: LaunchConfiguration): value = context.perform_substitution(namespace) value +="/miracle/" # you can use it as a python . my_python_pkg/ my_python_pkg __init__.py package.xml resource my_python_pkg setup.cfg setup.py test test_copyright.py test_flake8.py test_pep257.py "Although we are talking about people's right to live in their community, instead of labour relations at workplace.". Its proximity to the then HMS Tamar also saw the district fitted with military facilities such as the Naval Dockyard and Royal Naval Hospital. Cannot retrieve contributors at this time. It seems that a neater solution is on the way: https://github.com/ros2/launch/pull/453. Built in 1937, this is one of the few remaining examples of German Bauhaus-style architecture in town. "You can see those historic spots that I bring people to are disappearing, or rapidly changing. I want it to be able to subscribe to ROS2 topics and update the GUI according to the messages received, and publish data when a button is clicked. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. But there I stood among 20 strangers, all of us on the trail of phantoms. He passed around newspaper cuttings, explaining the history behind each location and lamenting the disappearance of the old communities. With many ethnic Chinese residents from all walks of life, it came under heavy bombardment during World War II by the Japanese army. But the district's history stretches back even further. It has a multitude of home decoration shops, bars and Mahjong centres. ", "Flag to enable collision geometry for manipulator's arm. Cannot retrieve contributors at this time. Please start posting anonymously - your entry will be published after you log in or create a new account. #!/usr/bin/env -S ros2 launch """Configure and setup move group for planning with MoveIt 2""" from os import path from typing import List import yaml . Mr Mak fears turning it into part of the hotel could make it less accessible to the community and the wider public. There is a huge sculpture of a bauhinia, which is the representative flower of Hong Kong, in the square. Wrap rclcpp::Node with basic Lifecycle behavior? In a written reply to the BBC, Hong Kong's Urban Renewal Authority says it adopted a "people-first, district-based, public participatory" approach, aiming to "balance the interests and needs of all sectors of the community". Video, The secret diaries of women protesting in Iran, One of Central America's most active volcanoes erupts. But another, Ms Tong, had brought her husband and three children along. Two women on his tour said they were not feeling well and left early. The upper floor of the old market is now an apartment block and the lift lobby is only accessible by residents with a pin number to open the door. rviz2 does not show the images published on the topic, Define custom messages in python package (ROS2). Mr Mak led us to the entrance of Star Street air raid shelter. Your Answer Please start posting anonymously - your entry will be published after you log in or create a new account. ", "Parametric k-velocity factor of all safety controllers. Read about our approach to external linking. Tai Yuen Street specialises in toys in stalls and shops. Wan Chai is well-known to the world. A tag already exists with the provided branch name. load_yaml,yaml.safe_load (file) . Wan Chai was once a district filled with Chinese commoners . Adventurers break into the site from time to time and more spooky tales fly. The air was musky with smoke even though we started from a less-than-scary place: a construction site where a new shopping mall and residential development is being built. [citation needed][7]. If modified, then joint names in the configuration of controllers must also be updated. Wan Chai District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. The district has the second-highest educationally qualified residents with the highest-bracket incomes, the second-lowest population and the third-oldest quotient. Since moving to Hong Kong seven years ago, she has fallen in love with Wan Chai, which inspired her to draw impressions of the district and host her own exhibition. 'Brutal - this England exit is even more painful', The plotters who wanted to take over Germany. In that month people burn offerings on the streets to placate their long-deceased ancestors. For the, Day view of Causeway Bay in the Wan Chai District. Brides, grooms and interfering in-laws spent decades traipsing up and down, probably arguing over what to say on the card. ", "Flag to preserve fixed joints and prevent lumping when generating SDF for Gazebo. Are you sure you want to create this branch? Mr Mak has been running tours like this since 2004. The secret diaries of women protesting in Iran. A bunch of files will be created inside the new package. I'm trying to write a launch script to allow me to say ros2 launch foo.launch.py bag_full_path:=/v1_bags/foo.bag bag_version:=v1 and ros2 launch foo.launch.py bag_full_path:=/v2_bags/bar.bag bag_version:=v2, but the code I am getting is quite long-winded, so I suspect I am missing a trick or two. First, if you don't really know where to put your code: create a ROS2 Python package, and place the Python file inside the folder that has the same name as the package. Parse yaml from file, given its absolute file path. Wan Chai North, where major buildings such as the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre and Central Plaza stand, refers to the zone north of Gloucester Road, reclaimed from the sea after the 1970s. It became the easternmost part of the City of Victoria - technically the "capital city" of Hong Kong under British colonial rule. The URA stressed it had planned the whole project together with the local community. It feels more surreal with all the history stuff mixed into it.". In May 2009, 300 guests and staff members at the Metropark Hotel Wanchai were quarantined, suspected of being infected or in contact with the H1N1 virus during the 2009 swine flu pandemic. He also has a personal interest in seeing the character of the area preserved and is a campaigner at the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, a pro-democrat body. Lee Tung Street was in the 2010s converted into a Lee Tung Avenue zone of luxurious residential apartments, shopping, restaurants and bars. A spokesperson for Hopewell Holdings, the developer that owns Nam Koo Terrace now, told the BBC it was still studying what to do with it. The district council of Wan Chai has 13 elected members. ", "Flag to enable collision geometry for manipulator's gripper (hand and fingers). $ cd ~/ros2_ws/src/. 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