Month: December 2023

Up to 15 degrees: Mild weather over Christmas

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There will be no white Christmas this year; the upcoming long weekend will be mostly mild and snow-free. Only the wind will be stormy over the holidays. Weather experts are expecting temperatures of up to 15 degrees in eastern Austria. Saturday will start mostly cloudy and rainy in places throughout Austria. Quite stormy winds will spread across the west. The snow line will be between 1000 meters in the west and initially 600 meters in the central mountains and the Mühlviertel. Temperatures will climb to a maximum of ten degrees.…

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Catch up the Art Exhibition of Helenna Jouja, Your International Star of Contemporary Art based in Europe

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Don’t miss out on the opportunity to visit the solo exhibition, “The Show Must Go On,” of world-class artist Helenna Jouja before it concludes on Saturday, December 22, 2023. The art exhibit is located at the Sechschimmelgalerie on Sechschimmelstrasse 14 in 1090 Wien, from 15:00 to 19:00. According to the artist herself, “this captivating “Show Must Go On” painting series, which may have originated before 2018, serves as a powerful testament to the enduring essence of art. I express my heartfelt gratitude to all my dear friends who have shown…

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Be on alert! Minister of the Interior warns: many fake police officers on the road at Christmas

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Fraud involving fake police officers has risen sharply in Austria in recent years. As the Christmas holidays, in particular, are used for such acts, Interior Minister Gerhard Karner warned at a press conference in Vienna on Tuesday that if a police officer stands in front of your door and demands money or valuables, they are “100 percent fake”, and you should contact the police immediately.In 2022 and 2023, the authorities registered 1,572 attempts across Austria by fake police officers to take money or valuables from their victims. The perpetrators succeeded…

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Report fake SMS & phishing messages: Here’s what you should do

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Time and again, spammers and scammers use text messages to send annoying advertising or dangerous messages. If you have received a suspicious message, you can report the text message. Where is the best place to do this? Who you report a text message to depends on the content. Depending on whether it is “just” annoying advertising or a fake text message with phishing intentions, you should contact a different department. Telekom customers with an iPhone will have a convenient option to report spam text messages at the end of 2023.…

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This is how effective the Omicron booster is against new Covid variants

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Despite the fact that the pandemic is over, more than 50,000 Austrians are currently on sick leave due to coronavirus. The current Omicron variants are highly contagious, but demand for the booster vaccine has been hesitant. Until now, there has also been a lack of proof of its effectiveness against currently circulating variants. This has now been provided by the Hannover Medical School (MHH) with a new study. In cooperation with the MHH Institute of Immunology and the German Primate Center Göttingen, researchers have published the world’s first paper on…

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The days will be longer again from Saturday

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December 22 at 4:27 a.m. is the winter solstice. On this day, the Earth reaches the point in its orbit around the sun where the northern hemisphere tilts away from the sun as much as possible due to the Earth’s tilted axis. From our position in relation to the sun, this means that it slips “downwards” as far as possible. Polar night prevails north of the Arctic Circle. This means it is dark all day. However, the shortest day of the year is not also the day with the latest…

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Fake business with cheap prices

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High discounts, non-existent goods: fake stores spoil Christmas It actually sounds too good: a 50 percent discount on exactly the gift that was missing for Christmas. If it sounds too good to be true, it really is, warns Joachim Leitner from the consumer arbitration service. Fake webshops lure customers with immorally high discounts.Consumers usually don’t see the goods they ordered and paid for. Or only worthless plastic scrap instead of the product that was promised. Extreme caution is required, especially in the Christmas and subsequent exchange businesses.The “Watchlist Internet” gives…

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New record level of COVID-19 sick leave

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A total of 52,338 people insured with the ÖGK health insurance fund were off sick with COVID-19 in the previous week (week 50). This is just over 25 percent more than the 41,690 cases in the previous week—a new high. In addition to the coronavirus sickness figures, the number of people registered as unfit for work with flu-like infections at ÖGK rose from 90,405 to 102,274 in the previous week. According to this data, there were 888 cases of “real” flu, i.e., influenza (week 49: 568). In total, more than…

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EU states agree: these plastic packaging items should disappear completely

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The EU member states agreed on uniform measures to reduce packaging waste across Europe on Monday in Brussels. This is according to a statement from the Council of EU Environment Ministers. Quotas will be set for reusable or recyclable packaging. Some single-use plastic packaging is to disappear completely. This includes, for example, small shampoo bottles in hotels or plastic wrapping for fruit and vegetables. However, the EU countries will be given some leeway for derogations. Furthermore, a reduction in packaging waste of five percent by 2030, ten percent by 2035…

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