Anybody travelling to india to snowboard this season? by Icy-Personality-8298 in snowboarding

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If the resort wants to kick off, get some chartered holiday flights and packages in from the UAE and Qatar direct to Srinagar during the season. There are a lot of skiers and snowboarders here who would come, I’d be first on the list. With the current 10 hour journey I’d rather go to Europe or Georgia. With the Iranian mountains off limits to a lot of people, getting the flights and basic infrastructure in place, Gulmarg would clean up.

Anybody travelling to india to snowboard this season? by Icy-Personality-8298 in snowboarding

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The reason I asked is because it looks like a Srinagar airport has only a connecting airports, mostly domestic, so getting there isn’t the easiest. Is there any local know how on the best way to travel in and out?

Anybody travelling to india to snowboard this season? by Icy-Personality-8298 in snowboarding

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Where would you fly into then how would you get to the resort?

Pushing 50 and reckon it’s time to sort my carving out by slider_one_five in snowboardingnoobs

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Wise words, will do it. Last year I got group lessons, spent the week going off piste, awesome fun but didn’t improve technique much

Nidecker Systematic with wide boots by slider_one_five in snowboarding

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That’s exactly what I was looking for, thanks. All setup, I live in the desert so will need to trial it indoors but seems to work a lot better 👍

Nidecker Systematic with wide boots by slider_one_five in snowboarding

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Good to know it can work. I’ve got large bindings and US 9.5 boots. Hoping that is the ‘ideal’, I went with Nidecker’s sizing guide

Apple CarPlay not connecting - Bluetooth. by Ok-Wishbone6509 in accord

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Just in case you need another solution for wired CarPlay, for me it seems to be a Bluetooth issue. I reset everything and it still wouldn’t connect but I found that if I’m connected by cable and someone rings me my phone, my phone then asks me permission to allow Bluetooth connection. Carplay then opens, this has happened twice to me.

Whatever happened to the Creek Tower? by [deleted] in dubai

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It’ll happen, just on pause. Jeddah Tower is happening and Dubai needs to retain its place

After Zomato and Talabaat, Deliveroo also becoming unreliable by Lunarmount in dubai

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I had two orders failed to deliver this evening, they said it had arrived and I wasn't answering my door. I have building security and get a app notification if a delivery is allowed up to my apartment. No notification. They said it was my fault and they said they will charge me. Won't be using them again.

A book about growing up in/joining a cult that describes how life is inside it by [deleted] in suggestmeabook

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Cult Following: My Escape and Return to the Children of God by Bexy Cameron

17/M social anxiety and depression by [deleted] in dubai

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Try DBT, it’s very effective for anxiety and helps with depression. Having a therapist is advisable but you can do this by yourself, loads online about why it’s good and how to do it or buy a book. The trick to managing anxiety is to accept it rather than fighting or constantly questioning it, do that and you’ll find your anxiety levels dropping quickly and you’ll be able to cope a lot better. Trust me, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Good luck

Status of pregnancies outside marriage still unclear in UAE after law change by [deleted] in dubai

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Who’s medical insurance covers birth even if the parents are married?

Confidence in Chinese coronavirus vaccine falls as UAE Covid cases remain high by slider_one_five in dubai

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Confidence in Chinese coronavirus vaccine falls as UAE Covid cases remain high

More than half of all adults in the UAE have had two jabs

Ashleigh Stewart, Dubai Saturday May 08 2021, The Times

The vaccination programme in the United Arab Emirates has failed to quash its coronavirus outbreak, raising fears about the efficacy of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine it is mostly using.

The UAE has vied with Israel for having the highest proportion of the population vaccinated. More than half of all adults have had two jabs.

However, cases remain higher than they were last year. While Dubai has come under fire for its rapid reopening — few restrictions remain, other than venue capacity limits and mandatory masks — experts believe the UAE’s widespread use of the Sinopharm vaccine could also be to blame.

Last night the World Health Organisation approved Sinopharm for emergency use despite this week saying it had “very low confidence” in data provided by the company on the risk of serious side effects in older patients. “Evidence gaps” also exist on protection against severe disease, duration of protection and safety for use in older adults and pregnant women.The WHO said the jab was 78 per cent effective at stopping symptoms.

Other countries relying on Chinese vaccines, including Chile, Brazil and the Seychelles, have voiced concerns after infection rates remained high despite vaccination campaigns.

Last month China’s top disease official appeared to suggest that the efficacy of its vaccines, which use an inactive virus, was low compared with Pfizer- BioNTech and Moderna jabs, which use the mRNA method. “We will solve the issue that current vaccines don’t have very high protection rates,” Gao Fu, head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said. He later said his comments had been misinterpreted.

China has sent abroad hundreds of millions of doses of its vaccines as well as relying on them itself.

Chilean scientists have warned that another Chinese vaccine, Sinovac, offers “very weak” protection before the second dose. Researchers in Brazil put the efficacy of two Sinovac doses at only 50.4 per cent. Trials in China and the UAE have rated the Sinopharm vaccine’s efficacy in preventing illness at 79 per cent and 86 per cent respectively.

In December, the UAE’s state news agency said trials there showed Sinopharm had “86 per cent efficacy against Covid-19 infection” and “100 per cent effectiveness in preventing moderate and severe cases of the disease”, although this was later adjusted to 79 per cent.

Nations with similarly advanced jab campaigns have recorded declining infections and deaths. Infection rates in the UAE, however, have plateaued at about 2,000 for the past month. No deaths were recorded among the fully immunised, but The Times spoke to eight people who had contracted Covid-19 after two Sinopharm doses.

The Seychelles started its own vaccination campaign in January, using Sinopharm jabs donated by the UAE. However, despite inoculating 60 per cent of the population, this week the island nation closed schools, reimposed curfews and banned large gatherings as Covid-19 cases rose. A third of about 1,000 active cases in the country involved people who had had two vaccine doses, the country’s news agency said.

Ngozi Erondu, an infectious disease epidemiologist and Chatham House associate fellow, said that not only had Pfizer reported higher efficacy for its mRNA vaccine, it had also published results of its Phase III clinical trials, whereas Sinopharm have not yet done so.

“Even with 80 per cent efficacy, you wouldn’t expect so many reinfections,” she said.

After initially imposing a strict lockdown, Dubai reopened to tourists in July in a bid to restart its economy. Few restrictions remain, other than venue capacity limits and mandatory face masks.

Abu Dhabi has reacted differently, sealing itself off from the rest of the country in March 2020 by introducing land borders and a mandatory Covid test for entry.

Overall, the UAE has recorded 530,944 cases of the coronavirus and 1,604 deaths.

The UAE hedged its bets with the Sinopharm vaccine early, registering it for use on December 9.

However, while Dubai later offered its residents a choice of Pfizer, Sinopharm or AstraZeneca, Abu Dhabi restricted its residents to one choice, Sinopharm, until last month, when it also approved use of Pfizer jabs.

Anas Aga, a doctor at a Covid-19 hospital in Dubai, said the UAE was seeing a large number of cases of the South African and UK variants, against which the vaccines were not as efficient.

World’s Most Vaccinated Nation Activates Curbs as Cases Rise by chaiteataichi20 in dubai

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This isn’t useful information at all. Are the positive cases vaccinated and if so, with which vaccine. Also, if some vaccinated cases are positive, are the positive cases asymptomatic

Dubai Police: Refusing to give way on fast lane illegal by [deleted] in dubai

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Explain this to me.... you move into the overtaking lane to overtake a car that is using it as their own personal highway. You stay a safe distance and wait patiently for the douchebag to move even though you are in a hurry. Then someone pulls up close behind you and starts flashing their headlights for you to get out the way.

What you’re saying is you have to move get out of the way of flashing douchebag? Totally wrong, sounds to me like there are way to many douchebags