Holiday Hours for Canadian Thanksgiving, October 8, 2012

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 08:19 AM PDT

Monday, October 8 is Thanksgiving Day in Canada. Given that our headquarters is also in Canada (Toronto, to be precise), most of us have the day off. Like the American Thanksgiving Day, we’ll be spending the day overeating and watching Canadian football.

We have no idea what is happening in this photo, but it’s of some Canadian Football League players. For the record, the Edmonton Eskimos stink and the team is really named the Eskimos.

We’ve never really explained what Canadian football is so here’s a quick guide for those not in the know.

The game is relatively similar to American football, and nothing at all like the football the rest of the world plays (aka soccer). Some key differences in the far superior Canadian game – there are only three downs, the field is 110 yards long with 25 yard end zones and, of course, rouges.

The rouge, or single point, is a cleverly Canadian innovation. We don’t like to call out failure, so even if a team misses a field goal, as long as the ball gets over the goal line into the monstrous end zone, they can still score a single point by preventing the receiving team from running the ball out of their own end zone. Even our crappy kickers can still score a single point – no need to apologize (although, obviously, they would still say sorry to the rest of the team, and the rest of the team would then say sorry for not putting the ball in a better position for the kicker to make the field goal).

Sorry about the length of that explanation…here’s the info you really came here for:

Hours by department:

Our Technical Support team continues to be available 24/7 to assist you.

Department	Dates and Hours
Reseller Support	Regular hours
Payments	Email support: payments@opensrs.org
Compliance	Closed October 8th (Monday)
Service Bureau (for transactions requiring manual processing)	Closed October 8th (Monday)

Our normal hours will resume on Tuesday, October 9.

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martes, 2 de octubre de 2012