Category: General Interest

Forecast. Now it’s going to be cold! The temperature is expected to drop to as low as minus 6 degrees in the coming week, even in Vienna. It is supposed to get that cold on Thursday and Friday nights.Even more extreme: In Innsbruck, the thermometer reading plummets to as low as minus 11 degrees on Monday and Tuesday! It is a drop in temperature of 15 degrees compared to today.Low. The mega-cold is streaming to us from the Atlantic right now. Quiet “Birgit” moves across the ocean towards Europe and…

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The new amendment to the Road Traffic Act has been in force since October 1. Drivers should now pay particular attention when parking. Since October, road users must abide by new road rules. While cyclists are now allowed to turn right at traffic light-controlled intersections with appropriate signage even when the light is red, the rights of pedestrians have also been “strengthened.” For motorists, on the other hand, parking rules have been tightened considerably. If you park your car now as a cross-parker, you must ensure a minimum distance on…

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There is no exact date to get into the Christmas spirit…. But apparently, there is such a thing as the exact time to put up the Christmas tree. Decorating and putting up the Christmas tree is a very important tradition for many people during the Christmas season. Although there is no fixed rule for when exactly the Christmas tree should be put up, the first trees are already on the market at the end of November. So when should you put up the fir? The tradition around the Christmas treeAccording…

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In the view of the European director of the World Health Organization (WHO), the end of the CoV pandemic has not yet been reached. We are in a more favorable phase than ever before, but this is still a pandemic, Hans Kluge told the news agency dpa. However, he also sees signs that we are just entering a new phase of the pandemic. Kluge cited the easier transmissibility and lower disease severity of the dominant omicron variant, combined with the higher immunity of the population, as reasons. source: ORF.at/agencies/picture: pixabay.com

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The weekend starts with more snowfall. But in three provinces, there is a yellow weather warning because of strong southern foehn. On Saturday, an Italian low will again shovel milder air masses to Austria and end the early winter phase, forecasts by the UBIMET severe weather center. The country will remain in a foehn southerly flow over the weekend; warning level yellow has been issued for Salzburg, Tyrol, and Vorarlberg. The unsettled but relatively mild weather will remain with us until the beginning of the new week. In the recent…

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A study shows that mouth masks pollute our environment. Three million masks are thrown away every minute. Mouth masks protect us from infection with the coronavirus and are now part of our daily lives. Researchers at Southern Denmark have now found that 129 billion respirators are thrown away worldwide. That means three million masks end up in the trash every minute. Most of these discarded masks are disposable and made of microfibers like plastic. Given this incredible amount of plastic waste, scientists are concerned about the impact all these masks…

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Depending on your profession and earned income, you can expect your first pension to increase by 100 to 200 euros if you work one year longer. This is the conclusion of a study conducted by the Economic Research Institute on behalf of the association Aktion Generationengerechtigkeit, which was presented on Monday. The values for the pension refer to the corridor pension to be started between 62 and 68 and are calculated on an earned income from 2019. 100 to 200 euros more pension per month, with one year more workThe…

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Currently, there is an increase in scams and fraud attempts under the well-known deception plot “daughter trick request for money transfers.” A 57-year-old woman from Graz fell for scammers on November 28. An SMS with a new number. The sender would supposedly be the woman’s daughter. The wording:” I have a new number. Please contact me”. In the conversation, unknown persons demanded a cash transfer to a Lithuanian account. The 57-year-old did so. A day later, the scammers demanded the woman’s credit cards. She then filed a complaint. The damage…

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The disease monkeypox gets a new name: The World Health Organization (WHO) is now using Mpox instead of Monkeypox, announced Monday in Geneva. For one more year, both names would stand side by side before only Mpox would be used. The new name was chosen because it is also easy to pronounce and use in other languages, the WHO said. The virus also gets a new nameThe virus itself is also to be given a new name. This is the responsibility of an independent expert council (ICTV), which has not…

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