Gas lift chairs are a form of the office chair that allow the user to modify their height in relation to the height of a desk, leading to an increase in comfort and ergonomic benefit.
The concept of using a gas spring to aid the adjustment of chairs is described in patent GB1261658[1], issued in 1972 to Drabert Soehne of Minden, Germany and cites the inventor as Drabert Fritz.
Lunar New Year Fair (年宵市場) is a fair held annually a few days before Lunar New Year in Hong Kong. The fair is held in various location in Hong Kong, notably Victoria Park and Fa Hui Park. Fair gathers hundreds of stalls for various goods. Half of the area is for selling auspicious flowering plants like narcissus, peony, chrysanthemum, peach and fruit plants like mandarin. Another half is for selling dry stuff for Chinese New Year.
The fair draws lots of people to visit. It is part of custom, hang nin siu (行年宵, walk the year night) or hang fa shi (行花市, walk the flower market). The crowd peaks at a few hours before and after midnight of the New Year's Day. The stall tenders would try to sell all their stocks in these few hours before the fair closes. Flower stall tenders would not take the flowers back when the fair closes but leave it to charity organisations.
In 2000s increasingly youths from various youth organisations, secondary schools and universities operate stalls their own.
In tradition, the Governor of Hong Kong visited the fair annually, usually in Victoria Park. The Chief Executive of Hong Kong continues this tradition.
At the time of 2006, it was held in:
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