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82-417: The channel also repeats shows, such as Tabaluga tivi from ZDF's main service. Kika's mascot is the puppet character Bernd das Brot , a chronically depressed loaf of bread. The channel uses live continuity announcers. Four of the most popular announcers were Juri Tetzlaff (1997–2010), Karsten Blumenthal (1997–2004), Singa Gätgens (1997–2010), and Lukas Koch (2003-2009). In the channel’s early years,

164-441: A four-day workweek , the three Sabbaths derive from the culture's main religious tradition: Friday ( Muslim ), Saturday ( Jewish , Adventist ), and Sunday ( Christian ). The present-day concept of the relatively longer "week-end" first arose in the industrial north of Britain in the early 19th century and was originally a voluntary arrangement between factory owners and workers allowing Saturday afternoon off starting at 2 pm on

246-463: A 48-hour workweek (8 hours × 6 days) running from Monday to Saturday, although it is uncommon in most industries to consistently work six full days per week. It is the custom in many industries and trades to work a half-day on Saturdays. Most public employees have a five-day workweek running from Monday to Friday, and many white-collar businesses use this schedule as well. Shops and retailers remain open on Saturday and Sunday in most large cities. Since

328-406: A 9/80 work schedule (80 hours over 9 days during a two-week period)—commonly 9-hour days Monday to Thursday, 8 hours on one Friday, and off the following Friday. Some government or corporate employees work a 10/40 schedule—10 hours per day over 4 days, usually with Fridays off. Jobs in healthcare, law enforcement, transportation, retail, and other service positions commonly require employees to work on

410-458: A Friday–Saturday or a Saturday–Sunday weekend to harmonize with international markets. A series of workweek reforms in the mid-to-late 2000s and early 2010s brought much of the Arab World in synchronization with the majority of countries around the world, in terms of working hours, the length of the workweek, and the days of the weekend. The International Labour Organization (ILO) currently defines

492-401: A Monday to Friday working week, with lunch breaks usually from 12:15pm–2:45pm on Fridays to allow Muslims to perform their prayers. The states of Kedah , Kelantan , and Terengganu follow a Sunday to Thursday working week. In Johor , while a Friday-Saturday weekend is officially observed, many companies in the private sector observe a Saturday-Sunday weekend. Starting from 1 January 2025,

574-462: A beautiful girl of pure ice, Lilli, and sends her to charm Tabaluga so he cannot end his search for the True Fire. Tabaluga falls in love with Lilli and the plan seems to be working, and during a battle, Tyrion dies trying to protect him. Crushed, Tabaluga wants to give up, believing that his life without his father has no meaning anymore. However, he then realizes he has finally found the True Fire, which

656-516: A crystal chain in exchange for it, and Tabaluga, free, soars away. He trades another chain for honey with the bees, gifts a sad river with another, uses another to mend the tree of life from his first adventure, grants another to a unlucky fellow, and gifts the penultimate to a dirty pig. He also meets the Silver Fox, a friend of Arktos who tries to steal his last chain, but Tabaluga gives it voluntarily and explains he only needs his fire to live. Free from

738-608: A few bus and share taxi lines are active. Employees who work Saturdays, particularly service industry workers, public sector workers, and pilots, are compensated with alternative days off. In 2014, the average workweek was 45.8 hours for men and 37.1 hours for women. The standard business office working week in Japan begins on Monday and ends on Friday, 40 hours per week. This system became common between 1980 and 2000. Before then, most workers in Japan worked full-time from Monday to Friday and

820-408: A five-day week, though many stores, post offices, banks, and schools are open and public transportation runs six days a week. Almost all businesses are closed during Saturday, and most public services except for emergency services, including almost all public transport, are unavailable on Saturdays. However, some shops, restaurants, cafes, places of entertainment, and factories are open on Saturdays, and

902-723: A five-day work week. Despite the aforementioned official hours, and many employees still work overtime, and in the case of the financial, service and artist industry in particular, working 12-hour days on a chronic basis is still not uncommon. Most commercial establishments in the retail sector such as restaurants, shops and cinemas, as well as public venues such as museums and libraries are open on Saturdays, Sundays and most public holidays. For schools, lessons are not normally held on Saturdays, but students may be required to go to school on Saturdays for extra-curricular activities or make-up classes. The standard working week for most office jobs begins on Monday and ends on Saturday. The work schedule

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984-641: A five-day workweek, instead of the prevalent six days, without reducing employees' pay. Hours worked stabilized at about 49 per week during the 1920s, and during the Great Depression fell below 40. During the Depression, President Herbert Hoover called for a reduction in work hours in lieu of layoffs. Later, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 , which established

1066-400: A five-day, 40-hour workweek for many workers. The proportion of people working very long weeks has since risen, and the full-time employment of women has increased dramatically. The New Economics Foundation has recommended moving to a 21-hour standard workweek to address problems with unemployment, high carbon emissions, low well-being, entrenched inequalities, overworking, family care, and

1148-662: A golden key who the evil Arktos has. Deceived, Tabaluga finds the world collapsing around him and wonders whether it was dream or reality. He feels he has lost Lilli, but the hermit crab Ostrakes talks to him about the power of love advices him to use his fire on her. By doing so, the ice of her heart melts and she gains sentience, and she and an overjoyed Tabaluga embrace. In the fourth album, Tabaluga und das verschenkte Glück , years after defeating Arkos, Tabaluga celebrates his seventh birthday. He receives many gifts, including from Arktos himself, but he ends up loaded with heavy jeweled chains he can barely move. The ice king offers to remove

1230-523: A gradual and more general reduction of hours across industries", culminating in a nationwide 44-hour week in 1939. In Australia the working week begins on Monday and terminates on Friday. An eight-hour working day is the norm. Working three weekdays a fortnight, for example, would therefore be approximately twenty-four hours (including or excluding traditional breaks tallying up to two hours). Some people work overtime with extra pay on offer for those that do, especially for weekend work. Shops open seven days

1312-658: A half day on Saturday, 45 to 48 hours per week. Public schools and facilities (excluding city offices) are generally open on Saturdays for half a day. It remains common for construction workers, particularly house-builders, to work six days per week, though some efforts have been made to introduce five-day work weeks to attract younger workers. The working week is Monday to Friday; 8 hours per day, 40 hours in total per week. Some institutions, however, also work 4 hours on Saturdays. Large malls are open on Saturday and Sunday; many small shops close on Sunday. Most Malaysian states except Kedah , Kelantan , Terengganu , and Johor have

1394-548: A half day on Saturdays. Shops, supermarkets and shopping centres are open seven days a week and on most public holidays. 'Foreign workers', for example domestic helpers and construction workers (typically from the Philippines and India, respectively), usually work 6 days per week, having Sunday as their only day off. South Korea In South Korea , the maximum working hours per week is 40 hours for employees but can be extended by at most 12 hours for overtime. In March 2023, there

1476-489: A learning quest as a punishment for not listening his admonitions. Tabaluga, who only reveres imagination, must therefore find reason. On his travel he meets the Moon , a queen of time and order; the giant Grykolos, related to the tree of life ; and the fire salamander Pyromella, who Tabaluga learns coexistence with. At one point, the stork Arafron advices him to consult the 200 years old turtle Nessaja and brings him to her, and by

1558-561: A mother show to the cartoon series. It featured the little green dragon Tabaluga, his friend Happy (a snow hare ), his enemy Arktos (a wicked snowman) as well as the Penguin Butler "James" (who is a loyal servant of Arktos). It consisted of games, sketches, cartoons and short documentaries and was hosted by Tabaluga and some human co-hosts that changed multiple times over the years. In the show, two teams play against each other in five competition rounds to win prizes for themselves, and to win

1640-518: A previous proposal by the Nepali government, i.e. Load-shedding Reduction Work Plan 2069 BS , for a five working day plan for government offices as part of efforts to address the problem of load-shedding . The proposal has been discussed in the Administration Committee; it is not yet clear whether the plan includes private offices and educational institutions. In New Zealand , the working week

1722-505: A six-day workweek and one-day weekend (6×1), which can be Friday only (in Djibouti , Iran , Somalia and Libya ), Saturday only (in Nepal ), or Sunday only (in seven countries) . However, most countries have adopted a five-day workweek and two-day weekend (5×2), whose days differ according to religious tradition: Friday and Saturday (in 17 Muslim countries and Israel ); Saturday and Sunday (most of

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1804-621: A stone and a mayfly explain he has not. Arktos kills the mayfly, though, so Death appears under the form of a strange fellow and explains Tabaluga that lives can have different lengths. Still wanting to learn about time, Tabaluga meets the Lion, king of beasts, but the latter believes time is money and you can never have enough of both. That night, Tyrion appears to Tabaluga in a dream and tells him time cannot be bought and that he lacked time himself with his son. Tabaluga's search for knowledge gets interrupted by his friends, who wish more time for everybody, and

1886-437: A strange noise and disobeys his father's warning not to travel to the ice kingdom. There he finds king Arktos sculpting a daughter made of ice for himself, and although an angry Arktos forces him to fly away, Tabaluga is smitten with the figure. Exhausted, he sleeps and meets his father on a dream, being told that he will have to know new things as part of life. Next morning, after being taught politeness by bees, Tabaluga discovers

1968-469: A two-day Thursday-Friday weekend. These variations allow employers flexibility in choosing working hours so that the legal requirement of working for 44 hours per week is met. However, shopping places are usually open for business on Friday as well. In 2015, President Hasan Rouhani recognized Saturday as the sabbath for the country's very small Jewish minority , allowing Jewish adults to stay home from work and students to stay home from school. In Israel ,

2050-431: A volcano operated by a Crater Man, and accidentally singes himself by triggering an eruption out of curiosity. He gets thrown to the webs of black widow spider Tarantula, whom he talks with about fear and love, and eventually finds an ice castle similar to a large casino. Arktos is here and offers Tabaluga to bet Lilli against his dragon fire in a play of dice; although the dragon wins, Lilli is revealed to move only through

2132-400: A week but there are local municipal restrictions concerning trading hours. Banks trade from Monday to Friday, with some branches opening on Saturdays (and in some cases Sundays) in high demand areas. The Post Office (Australia Post) trades Monday to Friday as per retail shops but some retail post offices may trade on Saturdays and Sundays in some shopping centers. A notable exception to the above

2214-411: A week in most states with opening hours from 9am to 5:30 pm on weekdays, with some states having two "late night trading" nights on Thursday and Friday, when trading ceases at 9pm. Many supermarkets and low-end department stores remain open until midnight and some trade continually, without closing. Restaurants and cinemas can open at all hours, save for some public holidays. Bars generally trade seven days

2296-408: A week remains 45. As a general rule, Brazil adopts a 44-hour working week, which typically begins on Monday and ends on Friday, with a Saturday–Sunday weekend. Brazilian Law , however, also allows for shorter Monday-to-Friday working hours so employees can work on Saturdays or Sundays, as long as the weekly 44-hour limit is respected, and the employee gets at least one weekend day. This is usually

2378-454: A week. In general, Colombia has a 48-hour working week. Depending on the business, people work five days for a maximum of 8 hours per day, typically Monday to Friday, or six days for eight hours a day, Monday to Saturday. In 2021, the Government enacted a law that reduces the weekly working hours from 48 to 42, which will take effect gradually between 2023 and 2026. Mexico officially has

2460-666: A workweek exceeding 48 hours as excessive. A 2007 study by the ILO found that at least 614.2 million people around the world were working excessive hours. Actual workweek lengths have been falling in the developed world. In the United States, the workweek length reduced slowly from before the Civil War to the start of the 20th century. There was a rapid reduction between 1900 and 1920, especially between 1913 and 1919, when weekly hours fell by about eight percent. In 1926, Henry Ford standardized on

2542-588: Is Western Australia whereby retail establishments are restricted to trading between the hours of 11am-5pm on Sundays. In China , there is a five-day Monday–Friday working week, prior to which work on Saturday was standard. China began the two-day Saturday–Sunday weekend on May 1, 1995. Most government employees work 5 days a week (including officials and industrial management). Most manufacturing facilities operate on Saturdays as well. However, most shops, museums, cinemas, and commercial establishments open on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. Banks are also open throughout

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2624-516: Is "Dibedibedab"! Tabaluga#Tabaluga tivi Tabaluga is a German media franchise featuring a fictional green dragon , created by German rock musician Peter Maffay , children's songwriter Rolf Zuckowski and author Gregor Rottschalk. Artist Helme Heine drew the image of Tabaluga as it is currently known. The character Tabaluga was first introduced by Maffay in the musical fairy tale Tabaluga ... oder die Reise zur Vernunft (Tabaluga or... The Journey to Reason) in 1983. This first studio album

2706-412: Is 48 hours per week, Sunday being a rest day. However, most government offices and the software industry follow a five-day workweek from Monday to Friday. All major industries along with services like transport, hospitality, healthcare etc. work in shifts. Central government offices follow a five-day week. State governments follow half-day working on the first and third Saturdays of each month and rest on

2788-645: Is Monday to Friday; 8 hours per day, except Friday which is 7 hours, and 39 hours in total per week. Official work hours run from 08:30 am to 05:30pm with one hour for lunch from 12:30pm to 01:30pm. On Friday, lunch hour runs from 2:00 pm to 6:00 to allow Muslims to attend Friday prayers. Saturday and Sunday are public holidays. The private sector often follows different schedule with most of them often working on Saturdays. Despite being an Islamic country , Morocco does not follow workweek conventions implemented in many Middle Eastern countries. The standard workweek in Morocco

2870-512: Is crushed by his father's death, but Death teaches him that Tyrion is now a star in the sky and that he will always love him. Next day, Tabaluga flies to the rainbow, where the Halfchild is now happy and with the Shining Silence, the mix of all colors. Looking upon all those he met in his travel, the dragon finally understands what love is. In the third album, Tabaluga und Lilli , Tabaluga hears

2952-410: Is from Monday to Friday , with Saturday and Sunday being public holidays. In South Africa , the working week traditionally was Monday to Friday with a half-day on Saturday and Sunday a public holiday. However, since 2013 there have been changes to the working week concept based on more than one variation. The week can be five days of work, or more. The maximum number of hours someone can work in

3034-489: Is just one day each week, but the preceding day (the Jewish Sabbath) came to be taken as a holiday as well in the 20th century. This shift has been accompanied by a reduction in the total number of hours worked per week. The present-day concept of the "weekend" first arose in the industrial north of Britain in the early 19th century. A day off is a non-working day, not necessarily on weekends. Some countries have adopted

3116-531: Is the " day of rest and worship ". The Jewish Shabbat or Biblical Sabbath lasts from sunset on Friday to the fall of full darkness on Saturday; as a result, the weekend in Israel is observed on Friday–Saturday. Some Muslim-majority countries historically instituted a Thursday–Friday weekend. Today, many of these countries, in the interests of furthering business trade and cooperation, have shifted to Friday–Saturday or Saturday–Sunday. The Christian day of worship

3198-589: Is the last of the dragons, and as revealed in the second season, is the crown-prince of Greenland, a magical place inhabited by talking animals of many different species. Tabaluga must defend his home from two rival kingdoms on either side of Greenland; a frigid arctic tundra, ruled by the evil snowman Arktos and a searing desert, ruled by an evil sand-spirit named Humsin. Tabaluga tivi was a 90-minute television children's entertainment and game show similar to Disney Club or its German derivative, Tigerenten Club , that ran on ZDF from October 4, 1997 to 2011, serving as

3280-526: Is typically Monday to Friday 8:30 to 17:00, but it is not uncommon for many industries (especially construction) to work a half day on Saturday, normally from 8:00 or 9:00 to about 13:00. Supermarkets, malls, independent retailers, and increasingly, banks, remain open seven days a week. In the Philippines , Article 91 of the Labor Code requires at least one rest day for workers in a week; the choice of selecting

3362-449: Is very popular among children in Germany. Kikaninchen is known for its entertainment, engaging children in fun and educational games with its friends, as well as featuring preschool shows during the segment. Kikaninchen airs only on weekdays , between 6:10AM (after Logo! ) and somewhere around 10:20AM (actual end time may vary). His friends are Anni, Jule and Christian. His famous catchphrase

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3444-529: The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America was the first union to demand and receive a five-day workweek. The rest of the United States slowly followed, but it was not until 1940, when a provision of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act mandating a maximum 40-hour workweek went into effect, that the two-day weekend was adopted nationwide. Over the succeeding decades, particularly in the 1940s to 1960s, an increasing number of countries adopted either

3526-555: The Augsburger Puppenkiste were also regularly being broadcast. After a time, more original broadcasts started appearing in Kika’s program, like Schloss Einstein , and The Tribe . The all-girl popular music band Saphir was formed of the 2007-2010 winners of the talent show KI.KA LIVE — Beste Stimme gesucht! (Best Voice Wanted). There have been some changes in the programming in recent years. Although it had been one of

3608-585: The Junior Eurovision Song Contest for the first time with the 2020 edition in Warsaw , Poland , the entry will be chosen in a national selection by members ARD and ZDF , it will also be written by singer-songwriter Levent Geiger, a finalist in a children's show Dein Song  [ de ] in 2015 and 2019. Kikaninchen is a segment on KiKA whose main character is a blue, friendly rabbit , that

3690-606: The Nepal Sambat (NS) calendar, which has the resting day on Saturdays and the working days of the week on Sundays to Fridays. Workweek starts on Sunday and ends on Friday. Schools in Nepal are off on Saturdays, so it is common for pupils to go to school from Sunday to Friday. In November 2012, the home ministry proposed a two-day holiday per week plan for all government offices except at those providing essential services like electricity, water, and telecommunications. This proposal followed

3772-468: The Gregorian or Chinese calendar, rather than a particular Monday or Friday as is the norm in some other countries. As a result, it is rare that a public holiday would naturally create a long weekend . As a result, around the time of public holidays, the government often shifts weekend rest days into weekdays to create longer continuous periods of rest. Swapped weekends are common between the actual holiday and

3854-684: The TheatrO CentrO, Oberhausen , and ran there until 30 June 2001. The little dragon managed to unite the High Society of German musical actors, with stars such as Andreas Bieber , Ross Antony , Paul Kribbe , Carolin Fortenbacher . Its plot is a combination of the second and third concept albums. In the musical, the race of the dragons is almost extinct in the battle against the kingdom of ice led by Arktos. The last great dragon king, Tyrion, has placed his hopes on his young son, Tabaluga, who must find

3936-402: The True Fire in order to defeat the evil. Therefore, aided by a wise wizard, Tabaluga sets out on a quest for the fire, avoiding dangers such as a black widow spider but also finding beautiful things like a group of dolphins. In this travel, Tabaluga learns that there is both good and bad in the world and that everything has its meaning a place in life. In order to defeat Tabaluga, Arktos creates

4018-824: The basis that staff would be available for work sober and refreshed on Monday morning. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the first use of the term "weekend" to the British magazine Notes and Queries in 1879. In 1908, the first five-day workweek in the United States was instituted by a New England cotton mill so that Jewish workers would not have to work on the Sabbath from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. In 1926, Henry Ford began shutting down his automotive factories for all of Saturday and Sunday, realizing that by giving workers more time off it would encourage more leisure activities such as vacations and shopping. In 1929,

4100-577: The case for malls, supermarkets and shops. The law also grants labor unions the right to negotiate different work weeks, within certain limits, which then become binding for that union's labor category. Overtime is allowed, limited to two extra hours a day, with an increase in pay. The working week in Chile averages 45 hours, most often worked on a Monday–Friday schedule, but is not uncommon to work on Saturdays. Retail businesses mostly operate Monday through Saturday, with larger establishments being open seven days

4182-553: The channel's original aims to broadcast both animated and live-action series, the former now predominate (85%). Apart from the numerous animated series , the afternoon soap opera Schloss Einstein is currently almost the sole live-action series in Kika's lineup during the day. There are only two other live-action shows, one of which is aired in the afternoon and the other in the evening. The channel sometimes offers continuous rebroadcasts of series that have come to an end. Similar to

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4264-592: The complementary parts of the week devoted to labour and rest , respectively. The legal weekdays ( British English ), or workweek ( American English ), is the part of the seven-day week devoted to working. In most of the world, the workweek is from Monday to Friday and the weekend is Saturday and Sunday . A weekday or workday is any day of the working week. Other institutions often follow this pattern, such as places of education . The constituted weekend has varying definitions, based on determined calendar days, designated period of time, and/or regional definition of

4346-559: The contents of a treasure chest, which they can donate to their school, a children's home, etc. The broadcast is transmitted by ZDF and also KiKa . In Summer 2005 the show celebrated its 400th transmission. The show is made for ZDF in co-production with Munich Production Company MingaMedia and is made in the Bavaria-Studios in Unterföhring, near Munich . The musical "Tabaluga & Lilli" celebrated its premiere on 24 September 1999 in

4428-533: The countries); or Friday and Sunday (in Brunei Darussalam , Aceh province (Indonesia) and state of Sarawak (Malaysia), with the previous evening post-work often considered part of the weekend. Proposals continue to be put forward to reduce the number of days or hours worked per week, such as the four-day workweek , on the basis of predicted social and economic benefits. A continuous seven day cycle that runs throughout history, paying no attention whatsoever to

4510-411: The dance is over, Tabaluga realizes that time only stops in dreams and that love is the only thing that can defeat it. The sixth album, Tabaluga - Es lebe die Freundschaft! , sees Arktos attacking Greenland with a massive snow storm, burying Tabaluga under an avalanche. Although a bug and an army of ants manage to shovel Tabaluga free, he has lost his memory, so the bug must help him recover it. He finds

4592-605: The early to mid-20th century the working week in the United States traditionally begins on Monday and ends on Friday, 40 hours per week, with Saturday and Sunday being weekend days. However, in practice, only 42% of employees work 40-hour weeks. The average workweek for full-time employees is 47 hours. Retail stores and restaurants are generally also open for business on Saturday and often on Sunday as well, except in some places where prohibited by law (see Blue law ). Increasingly, employers are offering compressed work schedules to employees. Some government and corporate employees now work

4674-494: The end of the rainbow he finds the Halfchild, the daughter of the Sun and the Moon, who cries because she cannot love herself without the Shining Silence. By advice of the rainbow, Tabaluga uses the stone to travel to a world without love, populated by robots who believe themselves to be perfect, and he only overloads them when he asks about love. Still desiring to know, he travels to the world of

4756-410: The fictional province of Greenland . He is about 7 "dragon-years" old (700 human years, as one year for a dragon is 100 for a human). His father Tyrion died when he was six. Little is known about his mother. Following his father's death, Tabaluga became the last of the dragons. In the first album, Tabaluga oder... die Reise zur Vernunft , Tabaluga is a young dragon who gets sent by his father Tyrion in

4838-480: The four seasons , who sing four songs. With the song of summer, Arktos starts melting, but an amused Tabaluga saves him on the say that the two of them belong together. The dragon later finds a bazaar, where a dealer offers him a watch with 13 hours in exchange for his fire, but the man turns out to be the ungrateful Arktos and Tabaluga passes. He then finds Time in the form of a young woman, and she grants Tabaluga his greatest wish, to dance one more time with Lilli. When

4920-453: The general lack of free time. The Center for Economic and Policy Research states that reducing the length of the work week would slow climate change and have other environmental benefits. A study from the University of Massachusetts concluded that a full day taken off of the workweek would cut humanity's carbon footprint by nearly 30%. In the 21st century, those such as Anna Coote,

5002-552: The head of social policy at the New Economics Foundation and British sociologist Peter Fleming, among others, have proposed the introduction of a three-day workweek. The arguments for its introduction include a better work-life balance, more family time, improved health and well-being, greater sustainability (such as via reduced carbon emissions), increased work productivity, and a reduction of overwork, unemployment and over-consumption. The official government working week

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5084-424: The office on Monday. In Hong Kong , a typical working week for local enterprises begins on 9am on Monday and ends at 1pm on Saturday, although most employees have alternate Saturdays off. After the introduction of the five-day working week for the majority of government departments in 2006, most multinational enterprises and large local companies followed suit, extended the working day from 9am to 5pm so as to adopt

5166-604: The phases of the moon and having a fixed day of rest, was most likely first practised in Judaism , dated to the 6th century BC at the latest. In Ancient Rome (753 BC–476 AD), every eight days there was a nundinae . It was a market day, during which children were exempted from school and agricultural workers stopped work in the field and came to the city to sell the produce of their labor or to practice religious rites. The French Revolutionary Calendar (1793–1805) had ten-day weeks (called décades ) and allowed décadi , one out of

5248-549: The previous week. The weekend-shifting arrangements are ad hoc from year to year and are announced by the government towards the end of each year for the next year. A number of provinces and municipalities across China, including Hebei, Jiangxi and Chongqing, have issued new policies, calling on companies to create 2.5-day weekends. Under the plan, government institutions, state-owned companies, joint-ventures and privately held companies are to be given incentives to allow their workers to take off at noon on Friday before coming back to

5330-581: The procedure of private commercial stations, these series are broadcast as double features. But most of the older series, which had been repeatedly broadcast from 1997 to 2004, are currently excluded from the lineup. The fact that ARD and ZDF no longer own the appropriate broadcasting rights partly accounts for this. The difference between the weekday and the weekend programming keeps vanishing steadily, since many series are aired daily. Thus some series, such as Pet Alien , Being Ian , and Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks , are almost continually part of

5412-498: The program consisted mostly of series and shows that were already being broadcast on ARD and ZDF. Whole programs were being broadcast simultaneously on the mother channels and the children’s channel, for example the afternoon program of ZDF. Kika showed German as well as international series, like cartoon classics from the 1970s and 80s ( Heidi , Biene Maja , Wickie , Little Amadeus or Nils Holgersson ). Classics of children’s TV like film versions of Astrid Lindgren books or

5494-706: The programme. Augsburger Puppenkiste , a rather old German television programme which had always been on the air on Saturday and Sunday mornings, ceased being broadcast on Kika for four years but returned to the channel's lineup in April 2008. Many programmes, especially older series, such as Pan Tau , Pippi Longstocking , and Es war einmal , can be seen only on the ZDF and regional channels. Two children's movies are aired on Kika, on Fridays and Sundays; these are more often animated films rather than live-action films. The channel on 8 July 2020 announced that they will participate in

5576-427: The rest day is left to the employer, subject to collective bargaining . Most workers avail of Sunday as their mandated rest day. However, government offices, banks, and many non-service industry establishments maintain a five-day (Monday to Friday) work week. In Singapore the common working week is 5-day work week, which runs from Monday to Friday beginning 8:30 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. – 6 p.m. Some companies work

5658-781: The second and fourth Saturdays, except West Bengal, Rajasthan, Bihar, Punjab, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, and Maharashtra government which follows a Monday–Friday workweek. There is usually no half working day in the private sector, and people work in two or three shifts of 8 hours each. Most schools follow a six-day workweek from Monday to Saturday with the second and fourth Saturdays off. Banks have second and fourth Saturdays off as well in India effective from 1 September 2015. The standard working week in Iran begins on Saturday and ends on Thursday. Thursdays are usually half-day working days. Many private enterprises which operate on an 8 to 5 basis take Thursdays off for

5740-536: The shapeshifting Dream Woman, where he meets Deimon and the snake Bilingua, embodiments of hate and envy. After a last travel to the Ice World, where the cold-hearted Ice Princess keeps souls frozen forever, Tabaluga is deceived by a stranger that takes him away from his father. Tyrion fights Deimon and his fourth winds in his search for Tabaluga, and after a long battle, the old dragon is killed by Deimon, dying in remorse for not having answered to his son's question. Tabaluga

5822-399: The standard workweek is 42 hours as prescribed by law. The typical workweek is five days, Sunday to Thursday, with 8.4 hours a day as the standard, with anything beyond that considered overtime. A minority of jobs operate on a partial six-day Sunday–Friday workweek. Many Israelis work overtime hours, with a maximum of 12 overtime hours a week permitted by law. Most offices and businesses run on

5904-485: The state will revert to officially observing a Saturday-Sunday weekend, bringing it in line with most of the other states as well as neighbouring Singapore . Mongolia has a Monday to Friday working week, with a normal maximum time of 40 hours. Most shops are also open on weekends, many large retail chains having full opening hours even on Sunday. Private enterprises conduct business from 9:00 to 18:00, and government institutions may have full working hours. Nepal follows

5986-504: The ten days, as a leisure day. From 1929 to 1940, the Soviet Union utilized a calendar with five and six-day work weeks, with a rest day assigned to a worker either with a colour or number. During the Han dynasty of imperial China , officials had a day off once every 5 days known as hsui-mu （休沐） . This rest day was known as "a day for rest and for washing one's hair". In cultures with

6068-460: The volcano from the third album and causes an enormous eruption the same way he did then, threatening both Greenland and the ice kingdom. Tabaluga and Arktos must work together to stop the volcano, and in the process they finally become friends. An animated television series was produced by Yoram Gross-Village Roadshow and Yoram Gross-EM.TV . It was broadcast from 1997 to 2004 with a total of 78 episodes split into 3 seasons. In this series, Tabaluga

6150-416: The way Tabaluga sees a pod of dolphins who just enjoy their existence. At the end of his journey, Nessaja tells him that she never wanted to grow and that she has remained a child deep down. In the second album, Tabaluga und das leuchtende Schweigen , Tabaluga steals a magical jade stone from Tyrion and, when the latter doesn't answer to his question about what is love, Tabaluga uses the stone to teleport. At

6232-602: The weekend and on most public holidays. In primary and secondary schools, before 1995, schools generally timetabled classes from Mondays to Saturdays, although in the 1990s some schools began to shift to a half-day on Saturday, or alternating between five- and six-day weeks. A government-mandated shift from 6-day (or 5 and a half day) weeks to 5-day weeks as standard took effect on 1 September 1995, although some high schools continue to have non-standard timetabling practices to this day. Public holidays in China are all set on fixed days of

6314-533: The weekend or to do shift work . A five-day, 40-hour week was introduced nationally from 1 January 1948 following a ruling of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration . A 44-hour week, usually taken as a half-day on Saturday, had been applied for some industries from 1927 following a ruling by the court in a case brought by the Amalgamated Engineering Union . The ruling "led to

6396-451: The weekend, so three-day or seven-day holiday periods are created. The nearby Saturday or Sunday may be changed to a normal working day. For example, if the actual holiday falls on a Tuesday, the Monday may be swapped as a holiday, and citizens are required to work on the previous Saturday instead, creating a three-day long weekend (Sunday to Tuesday) but a six-day work week (Monday to Saturday) in

6478-531: The weight, Tabaluga boastfully tries to lift an iceberg, but gets trapped underneath and Arktos takes advantage to try to conquer Greenland. Fortunately for Tabaluga, all the people he gave his chains come and form a living chain to get him free. Tabaluga ponders about friendship and, being then gifted a mirror by Nessaja, decides he doesn't want to keep holding doubts about himself. In the fifth album, Tabaluga und die Zeichen der Zeit , when Tabaluga accidentally breaks his alarm clock, he fears he has stopped time, but

6560-409: The working week (e.g., commencing after 5:00 p.m. on Friday and lasting until 6:00 p.m. on Sunday). Sometimes the term "weekend" is expanded to include the time after work hours on the last workday of the week. Weekdays and workdays can be further detailed in terms of working time , the period of time that an individual spends at paid occupational labor. In many Christian traditions, Sunday

6642-442: Was actually the fire of love. Arktos' powers then wane and good triumphs over evil. Tabaluga (also known as Tabaluga & Lilli ) was a 2018 animated film directed by Sven Unterwaldt Jr. and starring Wincent Weiss in the title role. The story follows Tabaluga, who teams up with an ice princess, Lilli, to help him find his fire, and save the world from the evil snowman, Arktos. Weekdays The weekdays and weekend are

6724-444: Was the step to success: within the next years some Helme Heine books, six sequel concept studio albums, two tours, a stage musical, Tabaluga und Lilli ( Tabaluga and Lilli ), based on the third concept album and many TV cartoons which have been broadcast in over 100 countries round the world followed and a children's game show. Over 100 kindergartens and child care groups carry the word "Tabaluga" in their name. Tabaluga inhabits

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