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Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge
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- CLOSED TEMPORARILYFood:
- Complimentary cold buffet
- Complimentary hot buffet
Other amenities:
- Complimentary soft drinks
- Complimentary full bar
Our review
- Accessible
- Air conditioning
- Flight information monitors
- Newspapers and magazines
The Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge at London Heathrow opened in 2014 as part of Star Alliance's move to Terminal 2, "The Queen's Terminal." The club is located in Terminal 2B, in the vicinity of Air Canada's departure gates, a 10 minute brisk walk from the check-in area.
Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge LHR design
The Maple Leaf Lounge features Air Canada's latest design, which was premiered at Frankfurt airport. The décor celebrates Canada through the use of slats of maple wood, Eramosa marble from Ontario, and maple hardwood floors from Quebec. The reception area sets the tone with an impressive yet delicate and tasteful oversized maple leaf carved into maple wood.
The main seating area is bright and open, with a large window wall which offers sweeping views of the tarmac. The high ceilings, elegantly supported by marble partitions by the windows, foster a sense of space and openness. Yet, the overall seating layout is a somewhat awkward, with an elevated platform along the wall, which breaks out the space but also creates congestion at peak times. Also, the glass sculptures that were supposed to be the highlight of the room were never installed, leaving the niches in the marble columns decidedly empty.
Adjacent to the main room is the Bistro, which combines a bar, buffet and coffee stand around a large central shared dining table. The setup is opulent and elegant, though the space is excessively dark and under-dimensioned for peak usage.
Connecting the Bistro with the main seating area is a hallway with a magazine rack and iPads in a bar setup. The passage is somewhat narrow and impractical, and the real estate may have been better used for additional seating in our opinion. Indeed, while the Air Canada Maple Leaf lounge is gorgeous in many regards, the layout is somewhat difficult to grasp – it's as if the designers had broken the space into as many corners as possible, making the club feel more cramped than it really is.
A highlight of the design is the board room: a stunning and serene space decked maple wood slats, which doubles as a business center.
Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge LHR amenities
Air Canada offers a selection of hot and cold entrees, with Canadian staples such as pancakes in the mornings. Typical dishes include sugar snap peas with mustard, potatoes with paprika, macaroni and cheese, and beef and beer stew. Paninis and smoothies are made to order throughout the day. The selection is sufficient for a light meal or substantial snack, though it pales in comparison to the feast on offer at the other Star Alliance lounges operated by United, Singapore Airlines and Lufthansa.
The bar is a highlight, with a large selection of wines and draft beers, including Molson Canadian on tap. Coffee lovers will enjoy the high end espresso machines and the baristas. There's also a Vivreau tap water dispenser, in line with the trend of the moment.
Towards the back of the main room are three semi-private booths with recliner chairs and an audio-video system featuring a noise cancelling headset and satellite programming. The rooms don't have a door – which simultaneously limits privacy and enhances the chance of a booth actually being available.
The Maple Leaf Lounge features three elegant and well-appointed shower suites. Decked in Eramosa marble, the rooms are decidedly posh, though perhaps a bit too dark. They come equipped with a rain shower, towels (but no washcloth), and generic bath amenities in shared dispensers. The controls are somewhat counter-intuitive, but water temperature, pressure and ventilation are top notch.
Other amenities include (fixed) iPads, and a selection of newspapers and magazines.
Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge LHR bottom line
Overall, there's lots to love about the Air Canada Lounge at London Heathrow Terminal 2: the high end finishes and elaborate craftsmanship, the elegant shower suites, the great views on the runway. However, the club gets busy at peak times, and the somewhat odd layout makes it feel crowded. The Singapore Airlines SilverKris Lounge facing the entrance may be quieter, while the United Club a short walk away is often equally as busy, but significantly more spacious.The pluses
The minuses
- The high-end materials and finishes imported from Canada.
- The semi-private relaxation booths.
- The cooked to order food.
- The crowds at peak times.
- The somewhat odd layout, which doesn't enable light to flow from room to room.
You may have access to Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge as a premium customer of one of the following airlines, or as an elite member of their frequent flyer program. Check the Access rules tab for more details.
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Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge at London - Heathrow (LHR) welcomes:
- Air Canada Business class passengers (+1 guest)
- Air Canada Maple Leaf Club members (no guests)
- Air Canada Altitude Super Elite 100K, Elite 75K and Elite 50K members departing on any Air Canada flight or a Star Alliance flight (+spouse or domestic partner, dependent children, and one guest). These members may also use domestic Maple Leaf Lounges upon arriving at airports in Canada.
- Business Class passengers departing on an international Star Alliance flight (no guests)
- First Class passengers departing on an international Star Alliance flight (+1 guest)
- Star Alliance Gold Members (+1 guest)
- One time pass holders, whether acquired through a Latitude or Flex fare travel option or through mileage redemption.
- American Express AeroPlanPlus Reserve, AeroplanPlus Platinum, and Corporate Platinum card holders.
- United Club members departing on a Star Alliance flight (no guests)
Additional guests may accompany qualifying passengers for $20 CAD per person before 11 a.m. and for $30 CAD per person after 11 a.m.
Cards accepted
When flying Star Alliance. North America Plus and Worldwide memberships only
When flying Star Alliance.Foursquare53b16116498e345e4a2eaac7Yelp4.5Based on 8 ReviewsNicky D S.2018-10-16 08:57:45The lounge was excellent, I was very impressed with my visit to the lounge, was a first for me...great work Air Canada!! The good: - Food and drink were...Vincent L.2018-06-16 22:59:00A sleek, modern, comfortable lounge that, like its United counterpart nearby, beats anything that either Air Canada or United have to offer back home. While...Onik R.2017-11-29 00:11:04It's fine for an Air Canada lounge, but the United Club just a few minutes away is so much better. It was empty when I was here in the morning, as most...Sammie S.2016-11-03 03:34:11Bright, clean, spacious. Comfy chairs. Some longer couches where people can grab a nap. Mostly quiet except for one loud dude in the business area who has...CommentsOverall:
Paul Riley2 years ago0 people like this.
Worst of the three Star Alliance lounges near to the gates in Terminal 2. Choice of food and beverages very poor I just walked out and went to the United Lounge.
Meilensammler4 years ago0 people like this.
The lounge is nice an modern with plenty of seating and apron view.
There is a bar and a buffet. Breakfast selection was ok choice of beverages was good.
Free WIFI, newspapers and magazines, business-centre and ipad bar. Restrooms are nice.
loungereview.com Post author4 years ago0 people like this.
The Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge at London Heathrow is an elegant lounge with a substantial array of amenities, but it is often crowded, and the layout is somewhat cramped.
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This is a letter to the Editor of Lakewood Community News sent in response to John Kelly's letter published in the October 2006 edition:
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Yes! Is there a presale code for this? Didn't see one yet and the tix go on sale in a couple days I think?
they took it off their website but should be re-added when more dates are announced
on sale tomorrow Dec 6 at 10am
edit: presale already available apparently
How the hell did this one slip through the cracks like this? Missed the presale, onsale has mediocre tickets. Pretty disappointing.
Do people think this will be another solo tour or will he bring the band out finally?
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he's doing these few dates in Australia so guess he'll do a few more in the east coast but just a few I'd say, prob NY
I almost missed this too. All the different sites are overwhelming, and I haven't been here for a while. I wonder if the old mailing list is gone. I'm so happy I got the presale code. It was pretty public in the Facebook group.
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anyone know set times tonight or if there will be an opener?
If anyone wants 4 tix for tonights show and lives in CT area , i will give them to you, U Just need to drive to my house to pick them up, just a last ditch effort to part with them as I cant go :(
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Welcome to the second part in my series on examining motivational quotes for fitness! If you need a reminder as to what we are doing here, many people look online for a quote before they start a workout or an exercise program to get their blood pumping and their minds ready for the work they are about to undertake.
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If you want to take a look at the other parts of this series, check out the links below:
- Motivational Quotes For Fitness – Part 1: Progress or Perfection?
- Motivational Quotes For Fitness – Part 3: Fighting With Food
- Motivational Quotes For Fitness – Part 4: Action Required
- Motivational Quotes For Fitness – Part 5: Sore vs. Pain
- Motivational Quotes For Fitness – Part 6: Celebration or Punishment?
Today's quote is one you have most likely heard: "You are stronger than you think!"
Mind Over Matter – How Much Does It Matter?
When we get to the root of what this quote is about, it boils down to the age-old idea of mind over matter. In essence, this is absolutely true! We all have instances in our lives where we have been met with challenges and either convinced ourselves we could or could not overcome them.
Whether we succeed or not is largely based on what we THINK we can or cannot do.
For example, if I keep thinking to myself, "I'm never going to be able to write this article", chances are I will convince myself and end up not writing a sentence. However, if I think positively, looking back on my past successful experiences of writing, I most likely will be able to overcome any hesitation and move forward until completion!
This brings up a very important point. Notice how I talked about drawing on past experiences? If I just stay in the moment and how I feel overwhelmed by the idea of writing, I can't move forward. That's why in order for this quote to mean anything to me, I have to base my thinking more on what I know than what I feel!
This is effective for all aspects of life, not just exercise!
Overcoming Depression – My Personal Experience
Let's face it. There will be times when our feelings are so strong that we can't reach back to what we know is true.
After my son was born, I fell into a deep depression during a time that should have been joyful. Our son was a high risk for coming very early, so it had been a hard pregnancy. My wife had to be on bed rest for the last three months. This brought on a lot of stress for me, as I was always wondering if I was going to get a phone call at work telling me to rush to the hospital.
I also took on a lot of the responsibility at home that we normally would have divided up, including caring for our three-year old daughter. Every day seemed like there were just too many things to do and I was always in go-go-go mode.
When my son finally came (going full-term, thank God) I made it my goal to help my wife as much as possible since she had experienced postpartum depression with our first child. I wanted to make sure I did everything I could to prevent that from happening again at the detriment to my own health. I stopped taking care of myself and eventually just crashed.
During the early days of the depression, what I knew to be true became clouded by what I felt to be true. I was nowhere near stronger than I thought! As I went to counseling, I was taught how to keep a mood journal. In this, I would write down whenever I had a negative thought or feeling, record how strong it was, and write what the truth was.
This forced me to think deeply about the feelings I was having and calling them out for the lies they were. Through this practice, I learned to trust more in what was true than what I was feeling. Eventually, I didn't have to write anything down anymore, because I could recognize the negative thoughts and correct them in the moment. However, I never would have gotten to that point if I hadn't started with the written portion!
The Strongman – Pushing Past Your Perceived Limits
While on the topic of being stronger than you think you are, I work at a school, and recently we had an assembly in which a professional strongman/motivational speaker came. As he gave his story, it began to resonate with me more than any of the feats of strength he performed (including rolling up a frying pan and bending a piece of rebar over the bridge of his nose, which were amazing!).
He spoke of how when he was born, he was allergic to everything. He had a hard time getting the nutrition and sleep he needed to grow well. He dealt with ADD in school, was teased by his peers, and struggled because of his lack of focus. He was called lazy.
Do you think he would be where he is today if he spent all his time thinking about what he couldn't do?
He eventually became interested in martial arts, weightlifting, and after some time decided to become a professional strongman after gaining an interest in the subject! Feel free to check him out here!
There was one example he gave that really stuck with me after the presentation was over. There were several times he met failure and became dejected. He was not stronger than he thought or even hoped he was. However, instead of quitting and proving those from his childhood right, he pushed forward.
Through a combination of knowing the different feats he had accomplished before and receiving constructive encouragement from his coach, he was able to overcome! In fact, he has become a world-record holding strongman.
When he didn't feel strong, he drew on what he knew and the encouragement of trusted others to help him accomplish his goals.
So What? How To Effectively Apply This Concept
Why do I give you these personal stories and what do they have to do with the quote?
My hope is to drive the point home that while this quote is true, you can't just take it at face-value. Telling someone they are stronger than they think they are will only help them if they have the tools to overcome how they are currently feeling! The mind must supersede the emotion.
For exercise or life in general, this is why I recommend (and use for myself) some sort of journal to track your progress. This will give you a concrete place on which to look back and see evidence of your accomplishments that can bust through your feelings of failure.
In my opinion, the only way to truly be stronger than you think you are is if your thinking is informed by what is true. You don't have to believe the lies you tell yourself. Instead, give yourself the tools to counteract them and prove to yourself that success has been possible in the past and can be again in the future!
Even if you overcome your negative thinking, try to accomplish your goal, and fail, don't get discouraged! Be realistic (see my article on setting SMART goals for help), challenge yourself, and don't be afraid to fail. Many times, when you fail, you are only one or two steps away from succeeding. If you give up, you'll never know what could have been!
With Knowledge Comes Strength
I hope this article has been an informative look at another one of many motivational quotes for fitness and has given you some practical advice on how to make it work in your life.
We absolutely are stronger than we think, but only if that thinking is informed by evidence more than current feelings. The best way I know how to stay informed is to keep a record of your progress and successes!
Let me know if this has been helpful to you. What is your opinion of the quote? What is your own experience with tracking your progress? Have you had times when your "in the moment" feelings got the best of you? How did you overcome them? Let me know in the comments and thanks so much for reading! As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
If you are interested in any other resources and tools to help you with motivation, feel free to check out the links below:
- Fitness Motivators – Overcome Your Best Excuse Part 1
- Why A Support System Is Important – Staying On Track
- Live Faith Not Fear – How Prayer Showed Us Emmanuel
- No Sweat by Michelle Segar – Reviewing The Book On Motivation
- Cape May Point 5 Mile Race: A Runner's Experience
- The Importance Of Rest For Recovery – When Life Happens
- What Is The Best Budget Fitness Tracker? – Letscom ID115 Plus HR Review
- Mi Band 4 Watch – How Does Xiaomi's Latest Fitness Tracker Stack Up?
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- The FITINDEX Bluetooth Body Fat Scale – Body Measurement Made Easy!
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That's all for now! As always, God bless and be strong in body and mind!


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A pint and a half sir? You're nicked
Last updated at 20:40 31 March 2008
As many as 200,000 motorists, who currently drive perfectly legally, could lose their licences.
That, of course, is not an unwelcome consequence, it is the whole point.
Ministers may try to dress it up as a major contribution to road safety, but the truth is that it's just another excuse to punish, bully and fine us.
Coincidentally, this latest assault on motorists comes at the same time as the introduction of new "fairer" parking enforcement, which will see penalty notices issued not by traffic wardens but by CCTV cameras and is expected to significantly increase the £3.5billion a year which councils already make out of parking fines.
Now before the "if it saves one life" lunatics start bouncing up and down, I don't drink and drive and I've never had a speeding ticket in my life.
My sympathies go to anyone who has ever lost a relative as a result of a crash caused by a drunken driver.
But this latest proposed measure won't bring them back, nor will it prevent future road deaths.
"Experts" claim that if the limit was lowered to just one pint of beer or a single glass of wine it would save "up to" 65 lives a year.
Come on, chaps, you can do better than than that. Why not 10,000, or a million? What does "up to" 65 lives actually mean - 64? One? They haven't got a clue. They made it up.
Even if it was true, in the context of a population of 60 million, 65 is statistically irrelevant. Britain already has the safest roads in Europe, which given the state of our highways and the saturation levels of traffic is little short of a miracle.
And what they don't tell you is that the 540 "drink-related" road deaths also include drunken cyclists and drunken pedestrians who have stumbled in front of cars driven by people who are stone-cold sober.
Motorists who drink a pint and a half or a couple of small glasses of wine before getting behind the wheel are not the problem.
It's those who drive after swallowing 16 pints of Wifebeater or a bottle of scotch. And, as this column has long maintained, they wouldn't take any notice of the limit if it was cut to half a pint of milk.
Perhaps if a few more coppers could be taken off diversity training, filling in forms and gawping at CCTV cameras all day and diverted to traffic patrols that might serve as a deterrent.
Don't hold your breath. This government wants us to break the law.
It needs the money. Does anyone seriously believe that speed cameras exist primarily to save lives? Of course not.
They're there to raise money and pay for the burgeoning bureaucracy set up to collect the fines. It's just another stealth tax.
If police forces were serious about tackling dangerous driving, they'd be mounting highly visible patrols. Instead, they're skulking behind bushes, hoping to catch us going a few miles an hour over the limit.
Only yesterday it was revealed that the Mad Mullah's latest wheeze is hiding members of the North Wales Traffic Taliban in a horse box to prey on unsuspecting drivers.
One of the main reasons ministers have revived cutting the drink-drive limit is simply to give themselves something to do. They're clutching at straws to find any kind of justification.
Listen to patronising pipsqueak Rob Gifford, of the parliamentary advisory group on road safety.
"The climate has changed because of growing concern over binge drinking and the health impact. The mood music is now conducive to lowering the limit."
No, it hasn't. And no, it isn't. The idea that this has got anything to do with binge drinking is a monumental insult to our intelligence.
Since when was one-and-a-half pints of beer "binge drinking"?
This won't do anything to address the tanked-up hooligans who pour out of the rock-around-the-clock drinking barns which this government is so keen on.
And as for the "health impact". For heaven's sake.
You could drink a pint and a half every day and still fall way within the Government's own "safe" drinking guidelines - which are in themselves fictitious nonsense.
To put all this in perspective, last year 70 people were killed and 99,000 seriously injured in DIY accidents in the home. If they're so keen on saving lives, why don't they make electric drills illegal and send in the police to close down Homebase?
More to the point, if they really gave a stuff about preventable deaths they might do something about our filthy NHS hospitals, which kill at least 7,500 patients a year by infecting them with superbugs.
As I've argued before, they could start by bringing corporate manslaughter charges against hospital administrators. That would put a stop to it overnight.
What we're really dealing with is a government which has run out of sensible ideas (not that it ever had many), hasn't a clue what to do about the real problems and is flailing around firing in all directions just to give the impression of activity.
This is a bankrupt government of punishment freaks and tax junkies, who see the law-abiding paying public as a lumpen rabble to be persecuted and bled dry - none more so than the poor bloody motorist.
They long ago lost any sense of justice, common sense or proportion.
It's enough to drive you to drink.
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Terminal 5 chaos: Great weekend for polar bears
I wonderwhat happened to that "flash mob" of 1,000 climate change protesters who were supposed to invade Heathrow's Terminal 5 on Thursday.
Maybe they did turn up, but got lost in the flood.
Has anyone considered the possibility that all the problems at the airport may have been the result of sabotage by eco-fascists?
After all, think of all the ozones and carbons saved by the hundreds of cancelled flights.
The eskimos must have been dancing in their igloos. Trebles all round in the rainforests.
It may have been a bad weekend to be an air traveller, but it's been a great weekend for polar bears.
Unless, of course, you just happened to be a polar bear on your way home from a holiday in Miami only to find your connection to the North Pole via Heathrow had been cancelled.
Send them private, Ed - you can afford it
The three children of Ed Balls and his minister wife Yvette Cooper all attend a school in North London which may face closure because it is failing to provide pupils with a proper education.
Given that Balls is supposed to be in charge of schools, I'm tempted to say it serves him right. But I wouldn't wish a fourth-rate education on any child.
Perhaps the Balls-Coopers will now have the excuse they need to follow so many of their fellow Labour ministers and educate the children privately.
Between them, they pull in £580,000 a year in wages and allowances, so they can certainly afford it.
Either that, or they could send their children to a local primary near their house in Yorkshire, which for expenses' purposes they claim is their "principal residence".
Sorry, but you won't find any April Fool spoofs in this column.
Why bother making it up when the Government contrives to fill this page for me?
For instance, academics at the University of Essex have been given £82,000 of taxpayers' money to study the experiences of Irish homosexuals living in London.
It gives a whole new meaning to the expression Fiddly Diddly Men.
Freeze! Step away from the perfume
It's been revealed that the head of security at Heathrow airport is a woman who until fairly recently worked as a store detective.
Donna Boote beat an impressive field of terrorism experts, ex-military men and former members of the security services to clinch the job.
Her meteoric rise has nothing to do, of course, with the fact that she lives with Heathrow's managing director. Perish the thought.
Miss Boote's only other claim to fame is that after joining the Army a few years ago, she sued for sex discrimination when they tried to send her to a war zone - which puts her in the running for an honorary Here We Go Looby Loo award.
It is a great comfort to us all (not least Al Qaeda) to know that the responsibility for tackling terrorism at the world's busiest airport is in the hands of someone last seen feeling the collar of a passenger nicking a bottle of perfume in duty free.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
Semi-literate parents are giving their children text-speak names, such as Flicity and Lora.
There's also a trend to follow the example of the Beckhams, who called their son Brooklyn after the place he was conceived.
But what happens when these children grow up? "Hello, I'm Camron, and this is my wife, White Van."
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NO-sensitive guanylyl cyclase: Identification and purification of the dimerization domain
BMC Pharmacology volume 5, Article number: P57 (2005)
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The nitric oxide (NO)-sensitive guanylyl cyclase plays a key role in diverse signalling pathways by catalysing the biosynthesis of the messenger molecule cGMP. To date, two isoforms of the enzyme (α1β1 and α2β1) are known, both of which contain a prosthetic heme group bound to the histidine 105 of the β1 subunit. The α1β1 isoform is ubiquitously expressed and is considered to be soluble, whereas the α2β1 isoform is mainly expressed in brain and is located to the membrane via interaction with PSD-95. The three-dimensional structure of NO-sensitive guanylyl cyclase has not been solved. Yet, by sequence comparison the subunits are generally divided into three domains. An N-terminal regulatory domain, a central domain postulated to be involved in dimerization and a C-terminal catalytic domain. For catalytic activity dimerization of the α and β subunit is mandatory, but until recently the regions involved in the interaction were unknown.
By coprecipitation of several deletion mutants of the α1 and β1 subunit, expressed in Sf9-cells, we have mapped the α1 dimerization domain to amino acids 61-462. Within this region, we identified two binding sites. One, as postulated, covering the central amino acids 367-462, the other, quite unexpectedly, located in the N terminus of the α1-subunit (amino acids 61-128). By itself neither region was sufficient to mediate full dimerization. Of the β1 subunit the N-terminal and central amino acids 1-385 exhibited wt-like binding to the identified α1 domain. To further characterize the short, but stable, dimeric NO-sensitive guanylyl cyclase we purified the mutant from Sf9-cells and analysed heme-coordination and binding of NO in spectrophotometric measurements. The dimeric state of the mutant was confirmed by gelfiltration analysis.
As β1 is the binding partner for both the α1 and α2 subunit, we reasoned that dimerization of the α2β1 isoform must be mediated by parts of the α2 subunit homologous to the α1 dimerization domain. Accordingly, we cloned the respective sequences of α2 (amino acids 76-501) and analysed binding of the mutant to the N-terminal and central regions of β1.
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The average is that a person who buys an SUP board has a big probability of wanting to acquire new SUP board and/or add another one to his collection in less than a year. Of course, all depends how deep you go into the SUP Life style, cash flow and the space to have more boards in your house. The SUP paddle works in a different way, this tool has a long lifespan with their owners. People who end buying a cheap paddle, spend more in the end; compared to the ones who invest in a serious paddle since day one.
The paddle is too personal, an extension of your arms and body. It is the first SUP item that you need adjusted and customised based on your physical body; sometimes you can find some paddles around for sale that may match your length requirements, but is rare to see paddles for sale as often compared to SUP used boards. If you bought for the first time a SUP combo (board with a paddle) or a entry level SUP board, always ask for a paddle upgrade (yep, cost a little more, but in the end you will save more). Most stores allows buyers to get a better quality paddle for an extra fee in their combo specials. There is a hight chance that you will start doing SUP and will stay in the sport (over 90%), that is why SUP is the fastest growing sport worldwide. There is a great chance to stay doing the sport and worth the effort to do a little research prior to buy anything. We have three rules before you buy: read, ask and try. We also recommend our readers to hold off their urges to run and buy (happened also to us); go out and rent SUP boards, save a little bit of more money and get a better product (this will give you a long life product and in the end you spend less money).
People rent boards for many reasons (space, fun, testing, curiosity, etc...) and sometimes induce the urge to run and buy their SUP equipment; we always recommend to have a personalised and good quality SUP Paddle first. Just imagine, you can share your clothes, but not your toothbrush? the paddle is your toothbrush, your nice underwear, a partner in crime for years to come...The probability to change or add more boards to your collection is three times compare to run and buy a new paddle, why? A paddle is way too personal and some, expensive.
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capture the attention of SUP lovers. I had the opportunity to try some of these paddles (not all yet) and I learned one thing, you get what you paid. As a conservative paddle user for years, I use
Now that you understand or philosophy regarding paddles, let's move us to the review we want to do regarding one new paddle.
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away the difference compared to my other paddle, specially the cadence (how many paddles you do to propel the board), at that moment I decided to give it a try for real.
I contacted the local rep of Kenalu in our arena, ask for pricing and he gently explained the difference between paddles, uses, etc... (a complete science). At the same I started a research online and found out how many great elites competitors changed their blades to small ones...hmmmm, I wonder why? Cadence. Also, I contact a few friends who owned Kenalu paddles to learn about their experience with this new paddle. You may question, why so much research for a paddle? this SUP instrument need to remain with me for years. My other SUP paddles has been with me for almost three (3) years already and are in well shape. I do paddle a couple of days a week for some years already and my paddles looks great; except two things. I have them full of stickers (love it) and my Werner Nitro have a little dent, that I fixed with resin and another sticker (I hit it the paddle against a reef doing Sup Surf); that was my fault and I am sure a cheap paddle will be destroyed.
I was not sure in which model and size was the perfect one for me; so many alternatives. I talked with some SUP Elite racers who use this paddle, specially the ones like me (5'6" height); small guys like us without the body of Thomas Maximus it is not advocated to have huge blades. The research is need it to induce a good decision on this investment. Finally I decide to buy the new Kenalu Ho'oloa paddle 84". I grab the phone and order the paddle from the local Kenalu rep; they explained me how the exchangeable parts works and they Warrior of the Paddle 2014).
cut/adjust the shaft to my arm size (top). Sadly, I had to wait for a week to try this new paddle because I was commissioned to do some SUP downwind photo shooting that week and I was not going to paddle (photos: amateursup.com -
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Finally I had the chance to get to the water in a family SUP fun day, as usual we went to an open ocean. At the begining using the new paddle the feeling was strangely nice, was so light that I imagined I was using my kids paddle at the beginning. The paddle was extremely fast; the construction of the shaft was amazing, Kenalu Ho'oloa paddle has a reptile skin!...(joking). The shaft allows you to move your hands from the upper side to bottom very easy and smooth, at the same time the paddle has something that I called "reptile skin", allowing you to stay in the position you wanted without wax and any additament (bottom to the top). After a pair of hours doing paddle at open sea, I finished like new; my arms was and body was not tired compared to my old big paddle. Overall the paddle performed great and the new blade size made a big difference for me.
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I know what you think, diferent paddles for different conditions? yep.
If you play golf, the driver do not help much in the green or running shoes in a mudding hiking will be hard (shoes are shoes and clubs are clubs but at the end are not the same). A normal day of paddle need to be different than your SUP Surf session, diferent paddles... (that is why you envision so many different boards for different conditions). Of course you can habituate the same paddle for all conditions, but the experience and efficiency will not be the same. Remember the running shoes in the hiking mud?, yes you can run with running shoes in a mudding hiking day, but you will fall less if you apply the correct shoes (just a comparison) and you will do a better score in golf if you use the right club. Paddles are the same...
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This afternoon the governor, after further consideration and consultation with religious organizations, has determined that "parking lot services, where congregants stay in their vehicles and avoid person-to-person contact" would be in compliance with the Safer at Home order. The changes in guidance now allow churches and religious services to be conducted via the following examples:
1. Parking lots w/congregants staying in cars, avoiding person-to-person contact;
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3. Having small gatherings (fewer than 10 people in each room) with multiple services.
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Please remember, if you choose to participate in a 'drive-in' service, you still need to follow the rest of the Safer at Home Order: stay in your vehicle and avoid person-to-person contact with people that are not in your household. This would mean you should only have people from your own household in your vehicle. The goal is to keep everyone safe and limit exposure to the virus while being able to participate in the service.
Chilton, WI – On March 24, 2020, Governor Evers issued a Safer at Home order, directing Wisconsinites to stay at home in order to slow the spread of COVID-19. This order is in effect until Friday, April 24, 2020, or until a superseding order is issued.
The order does not allow for gatherings of 10 or more people in a room or confined space at a time. A confined space is not only limited to indoor gatherings, but also includes any defined space, including parking lots and festival grounds. This includes religious gatherings, drive-in services, weddings, and funerals. It is also important to limit gatherings only to people living within the same household to avoid transmitting the virus through social networks.
Therefore, based on directives from Wisconsin Dept. of Health Services, there can be no drive-in religious services until the Safe at Home order is no longer in effect.
Physical distancing is our only defense against this virus. Community, faith- and spiritual-based organizations have an important role in slowing the spread of COVID-19, especially among high-risk populations. These organizations often nobly serve these high-risk populations.
"This is a challenging time for all and we have to make big sacrifices for a little while to protect the health of our community," said Bonnie Kolbe, RN, Calumet County Health Officer. "For many in our communities, coming together to practice our religious and spiritual beliefs provides hope, strength and social connectedness. We look forward to the day we can again allow in-person gatherings to take place. In the meantime, we ask that you stay connected with one another through phone calls, video chats, text messages, and other ways that do not include physical gatherings."
Thankfully, with modern technology, there are many creative options available for staying connected and nurturing spiritual health during this challenging time which do not include actual physical locations. Many churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, and other places of worship are offering services through television, radio, podcasts, and live streams on the Internet.
We sympathize with congregants of faith- and spiritual-based organizations that miss the services and fellowship, but the goal is to keep everyone safe and healthy by following the practices put in place by the Safer At Home order.
If you have questions or immediate needs related to COVID-19, call 2-1-1 or text COVID-19 to 211-211. For up-to-date information, please frequently monitor the Calumet County website, the DHS website for updates, and follow @DHSWI on Facebook and Twitter, or dhs.wi on Instagram. Additional information can be found on the CDC website.


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(CNN) -- By sheer volume, one might assume that letters for Santa Claus were accidentally rerouted to P.O. Box 162 in Fountain Green, Utah. But all the letters, notes and cards coming in are addressed to 6-year-old Addie Fausett.
"Thank you for my cards," Addie told a postal worker on a recent trip to pick up her bounty of seasons greetings. In the small town of just more than 1,000 residents, her letters have outnumbered the population.
Addie made the mailing lists of thousands of strangers around the world after her family asked the public to give her a lifetime of Christmas cards after a gloomy prognosis. She has a mysterious condition which will probably cut her young life short, doctors have told the family.
The Fausetts were told this would probably be Addie's last Christmas. Although her condition remains undiagnosed, she suffers from cerebral atrophy which has severely affected her speech and motor skills. According to her mother, at age 3, Addie just stopped growing. At 6, she weighs only 23 pounds.
"She likes to laugh and have a good time and hear stories, but lately she has had a lot of days she will just cry all day long," Tami Fausett, Addie's mother, told CNN affiliate KSL.
As the handwritten letters pour in, Addie's family hopes they will spark a little Christmas cheer during the tough times. They've created the Facebook page for "Little Addie" to update followers with pictures of Addie opening letters and celebrating Christmas.
"She doesn't get to play with kids. So we thought if everyone sent her a card, we could tell her they were all her friends and it would just help make her Christmas a little bit better," Fausett said.
Amber Brosig, managing trustee of the charity Children and the Earth, said Addie's family never fathomed such an amazing response with the letters. The charity has been helping the family with medical costs.
Addie is appreciative of the kind words that have been flooding in and she had a message for KSL's camera: "Merry Christmas."
"There's no other way to describe her other than she's an absolute sweet soul," Brosig told CNN.


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Stepmother's Day 2021 is on Saturday, May 1, 2021: Happy Mom's Day to all the Stepmother's out here?
Saturday, May 1, 2021 is Stepmother's Day 2021. Stepmothers Day - Blissfully Domestic Stepmothers Day Celebrations
i am a step mom of 3 and gave birth to my 3.my 3 step kids are being kept away from us due to a mentally ill mother, as a step mom, i am fighting for these kids, they deserve to have their father in their lives. courts these days really favor moms. i hope my 3 step kids realize we are behind them and trying to help them.
what shall I get my step mum for mothers day?
Mother's Day is special to every woman who has ever nurtured a child in their lives. Many of those women happen to stepmother's and not all of them a wicked like the one in 'Cinderella'. Stepmother's are actually a special type of woman. She's the one that is willing to help raise and nurture a child who is not her own, giving of herself and sacrificing for them as if they were the ones who spent thirty-six hours to give them birth. So on Mother's Day, they shouldn't be forgotten. If you have a stepmother, make sure you honor her on Mother's Day - even if you are not especially close. The thought that you cared enough to remember her and all that she has done for you will mean more to her than you will ever know.
You're Mother's Day gift does not need to be anything crazy or unique. It could be as simple as a card with a handwritten note inside addressed to your stepmother telling her how much she means to you. Offer to give her a hand around the yard one day, a gift of your time. Maybe just a simple bouquet of flowers would be appropriate, something bright and colorful in an arrangement she would like. Add an inexpensive vase that you can buy at a dollar store in a style that she would like compliments and finishes off your inexpensive Mother's Day gift quite well. The idea is to simply make your stepmother feel loved and honored on this day.
Does your stepmother like jewelry? Then maybe a small token of your appreciation would work. Go to someplace like Claire's jewelry or the large selection at your local Wal-Mart and select something that represents your stepmother's personal style. Only you can define what you consider an inexpensive Mother's Day gift, so you have a wide variety to chose from at either of these locations that can start for as little as $5.00 and go over $100. Ask them for a small gift box, wrap it or add a bow, and give it to your stepmother with your card. She will appreciate the effort that you put into to finding a piece of jewelry that matches her unique tastes.
You can always go with the simple gift of a gift card or gift certificate to your stepmother's favorite restaurant, clothing store, or even salon. She could use her Mother's Day gift to get a new hairdo, have her nails and toes done or even just have an enjoyable dinner. Why not take her shopping? Spend the day together. Tell her the day is on you and simply enjoy letting her be pampered.
No matter what you do for your stepmother on Mother's Day, make sure that she knows how much she means to you. The gesture, no matter how expensive or inexpensive, should come from your heart and that is the best gift you could give your stepmother for Mother's Day.
What Does Mother's Day mean to you?
Mother's Day is the day where I celebrate the female character who:
- gave birth to me,
- brought me up right,
- gave me guidance through my sixteen years of life,
- gave me support -- no matter how much time, effort, or money it took,
- and most importantly, will love me no matter what.
My mom [ROCKS]!!!