In England for example the fixed date bank holidays (Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year) get postponed: eg the Christmas and Boxing Day holidays last year were on 27th and 28th December.
In Czechia on the order hand I believe this isnβt the case, and this year 5 out of the 13 public holidays will fall on a weekend.
Itβs a genuine issue for people with decreased mobility not to be able to use the handrail to hold on when using stairs in pubs, restaurants and shops. Even preschoolers struggle if they donβt have something to hold on to.
As a non-boring American, I sincerely wish the day after Halloween was a day off. As it is, we have to wait for it to fall on a Friday or a Saturday for us to enjoy Halloween to its full potential.
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It would make the observant Catholics happy, as the day after is November 1st.
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The rest of us could sleep it off!
What about in your country?
I have travelled to and lived in many cities around the world, and I can safely say that Russian cities (or at least the major cities i.e. Moscow, SpB, Kazan) have undoubtedly the most comfortable, well maintained and well thought out public spaces, parks and promenades (Iβve come to learn on Yandex Maps these are referred to as Naberezhnaya).
All spaces are large and spacious, with ample and comfortable seating available for everyone. Within these spots are also a number of (free) entertainment for kids and adults alike such as sports courts, live music etc. And there just seems to be a general culture and atmosphere of communal leisure that I havenβt really seen in any other country, winter or summer. Iβve heard of Π³ΡΠ»ΡΡΡ culture, and wondering if this culture has arisen because of the spaces and environment created?
I find it great that there are so many of these clean and safe recreational spots where people can go to as a citizen and not a consumer. Whether itβs a family day out with the kids, hanging out with friends or spending some intimate time with a Significant Other.
Gorky Park has an amazing vibe in summer with people drinking and dancing. VDNKH is beautiful in winter. Khodinskoye Pole by Aviapark is uniquely great. In Kazan, the Kremlin Promenade and the Uram Sports Park is something Iβd expect to see in Singapore or Dubai or London. Itβs that impressive. And if it did exist in one of these cities, it wouldnβt be free to use. And yet in Russia, itβs completely free.
Does anyone else share these sentiments or observed the same thing when contrasting it to other places? And do the locals agree? And what are the contributing factors for the impressive development of recreational facilities compared to other countries?
I am an hourly worker and have been told different things about if today is public holiday rates or just normal Sunday rates and can't find anything clear online. Is today public holiday rates?
Prithvi Jayanti is celebrated on the occasion of founder of modern Nepal's King Prithvi Narayan Shah's birthday!!
I'm a kindergarten teacher at a public school. I've taught in 4 different states and this school is what I would consider Christmas crazy. The Christmas crafts are so intense they asked parent for donations, there's a field trip to a place to ride a Christmas train and meet Santa, and there is a breakfast with Santa.
My family celebrates Hanukkah, so for social studies I planned a holiday around the world unit and had a few very secular hanukkah activities. I got an e mail today asking me to tone down Hanukkah. The principal's exact words were maybe just pick one. I'm not one to complain or be offended, but 3 Hanukkah activities seems quite minimal in comparison to the Christmas festivities. I'm not quite sure how to respond. Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks!
10 new stations added to moscow metro I remember reading somewhere that during the soviet time there were plans to create underground metros system in every Soviet city with more than a million inhabitants. While some have been completed many have not got any metro (like in the case of chelyabinsk,omsk,Krasnoyarsk or Rostov). Recently they have opened 10 new metro stations in moscow but in St Petersburg they haven't opened that much in pretty much for the past couple of years and in some cities with like yekaterinburg they are in desperate need for expansion of the metro due to the fast growth of the city.i also read that some team or light rail lines are purposefully being destroyed or shut down like the ones in St Petersburg or the entire kaliningrad tram system because of some political lobbying because many duma member have thier own Marshrutka services owned by them. I want to ask Russians from provincial russia on how good public transportation there is and do you think that your city need better transportation facilities or infrastructure like new metro or light rail systems.
Hi everyone! I have a small question regarding public holidays in Germany. I live in Bavaria but work remotely for a company in another federal state. This week, Bavaria has a public holiday on January 6 but my employer's state does not. There is no mention in my contract of anything regarding this (of course my contract also does not mention anything regarding remote work, just my address and the company address in the intro part)
My question is: normally, which public holidays are taken as base? I would love to have holidays at the same time as my SO but somehow I feel like the law might not be on my side on this :(
Sidenote: I am aware now that this was something that I should have thought before signing a contract, but the urgency of getting a job prevailed on that occasion and I did not ask all the questions I should have.
With Orthodox Christmas coming up, I wanted to ask you guys; What are the rules of public holidays in Ukraine?
Are shops closed? Reduced opening hours?
Any specific Do's or Don'ts a foreigner should know about?
Thanks
Today Halloween is one of the most hyped holidays. In many countries, they organise parties, dress up in costumes, do trick or treats and make pumpkin decorations. And the holiday is also celebrated in Russia.
But the main question is... WHY? There are no trick or treats, no cut pumpkins all over around, no legends. And of course we don't have any religious origins to celebrate!
So the question is: do you celebrate Halloween? And if yes, why?
Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez has declared, with support of the King, a new holiday on 17th of April- the Day of Recognising the Victims of the Spanish Civil War. "Many innocents lost their lives in this conflict", Sanchez said "It is important to remember them, and deal with our past". Spain invites the nations that aided both sides, Germany and Italy on one side and Russia on the other, to join it in the inauguration of the commemorations to be held in Madrid, which shall hopefully become a yearly event. Event will be held next year.
Edit- With further thought, the government of Morocco is also invited
In Colombia there are bus stop advertisements saying βno es chistosoβ (βitβs not funnyβ) with a roulette wheel pointing to different bad things that can happen when you get too drunk - examples include losing your cell phone, calling your ex, racking up debt, etc. Have you seen anything similar in your country around this time?
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... keep reading on reddit β‘I just put on Github https://github.com/derekp7/gne, "Tar Genie", which is a tar implementation that includes optional file encryption (at the archive member level, leaving the tar headers in place). Since this requires compressing the individual files first before encryption, that meas the file size wouldn't be known at the time of writing out the tar header. So I wrap this up in another extension that archives the file in segments.
With that extension, I can now include additional features that I'll be working on, such as virtual files. That is, you can do something like `tar -cvf filename.tar --virtual-file /path/to/backup="pgdump ..."
Another extension I was going to add in is an index that would appear after the EOF indicator at the end of the tar file (so the index would be ignored by regular tar programs, but can be processed by gne). Will also be making the index work with compressed tar files as long as a block compression method is used (initially I'll support lzop).
Another item enabled by segmented files is single-pass sparse files (this format will not be compatible with GNU tar sparse files, so it will be another localized extension). More to come on this later.
Anything other feature requests out there?
