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Under the 1912 Straits Settlements Port Ordinance the Singapore Harbour Board was formed on 1 July 1913. On 1 April 1964 the Port of Singapore Authority came into being under the 1963 Port of Singapore Authority Ordinance to replace the Singapore Harbour Board and several organisations that have been operating in the port; Then Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew and Ambassador to the US Chan Heng Chee meeting with US Secretary of Defense William Cohen during a visit in 2000, Sports Other forms of monetary policy particularly used when interest rates are at or near 0% and there are concerns about deflation or deflation is occurring are referred to as unconventional monetary policy These include credit easing quantitative easing forward guidance and signaling in credit easing a central bank purchases private sector assets to improve liquidity and improve access to credit Signaling can be used to lower market expectations for lower interest rates in the future For example during the credit crisis of 2008 the US Federal Reserve indicated rates would be low for an "extended period" and the Bank of Canada made a "conditional commitment" to keep rates at the lower bound of 25 basis points (0.25%) until the end of the second quarter of 2010! See also: Volcanoes of Java (79.7) 27.1 Healthcare in Singapore is supervised by the Ministry of Health of the Singapore Government It largely consists of a government-run universal healthcare system with a significant private healthcare sector In addition financing of healthcare costs is done through a mixture of direct government subsidies compulsory savings national healthcare insurance and cost sharing. .

Because Ptolemy derived many of his key latitudes from crude longest day values his latitudes are erroneous on average by roughly a degree (2 degrees for Byzantium 4 degrees for Carthage) though capable ancient astronomers knew their latitudes to more like a minute (Ptolemy's own latitude was in error by 14'.) He agreed (Geography 1.4) that longitude was best determined by simultaneous observation of lunar eclipses yet he was so out of touch with the scientists of his day that he knew of no such data more recent than 500 years before (Arbela eclipse) When switching from 700 stadia per degree to 500 he (or Marinos) expanded longitude differences between cities accordingly (a point first realized by P Gosselin in 1790) resulting in serious over-stretching of the Earth's east-west scale in degrees though not distance Achieving highly precise longitude remained a problem in geography until the application of Galileo's Jovian moon method in the 18th century It must be added that his original topographic list cannot be reconstructed: the long tables with numbers were transmitted to posterity through copies containing many scribal errors and people have always been adding or improving the topographic data: this is a testimony to the persistent popularity of this influential work in the history of cartography. Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms era Mountbatten was a favourite of Winston Churchill. On 27 October 1941 Mountbatten replaced Roger Keyes as Chief of Combined Operations and was promoted commodore, His experience in the region and in particular his perceived Labour sympathies at that time led to Clement Attlee appointing him Viceroy of India on 20 February 1947 charged with overseeing the transition of British India to independence no later than 30 June 1948 Mountbatten's instructions were to avoid partition and preserve a united India as a result of the transference of power but authorised him to adapt to a changing situation in order to get Britain out promptly with minimal reputational damage. Soon after he arrived Mountbatten concluded that the situation was too volatile to wait even a year before granting independence to India Although his advisers favoured a gradual transfer of independence Mountbatten decided the only way forward was a quick and orderly transfer of independence before 1947 was out In his view any longer would mean civil war the Viceroy also hurried so he could return to his senior technical Navy courses.