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FIFA Women's World Cup: Team Leading for the Win!

The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup has come and gone. Just like last year's FIFA U20 Women's World Cup, I volunteered as a guest services team leader . This experience is right up there with the 2013 Brier , the 2012 World Junior Hockey Championship , and the 2011 Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship as the best sporting event volunteer experience ever! Since I had volunteered last year, the sign up process was super easy. Basically, I just said yes I'd like to come back and that was that. I was notified of a volunteer orientation evening, which was less than exciting but I did get to meet with our supervisors and got briefed on being a team leader. I also attended the accreditation/uniform pick up night. Weird, so last year my uniform was too big so I went down a size on my volunteer profile account. Turns out last year everything was unisex, but this year it was all mens/womens, which meant going down a size screwed me. I was super anxious everything was going to be...

Book Review: Batgirl Vol. 1 - The Batgirl of Burnside

The August book club genre was "Published in the last 12 months". Hmm. So many options. Alas, I'm still trying to finish Game of Thrones so I opted for a short read: a collected volume of superhero comics. To preface I'll admit I've never really read comic books, besides Archie comics growing up and Fables (more of a graphic novel?), and certainly no superhero comic from the Marvel or DC universe. I like the superhero movies, and I usually like epic character driven stories (that are violent), but the superhero universe seems to be so...complicated. As someone who likes to read start to finish, it's extremely intimidating - where would I even start? There seems to be soooooo much backstory and inside references. Most of all though, the women always look slutty. Extremely slutty, and I don't buy into that, so even though I'd love to read a female driven superhero story, I've yet to come across any that weren't scantily clad and unrealistically b...

5 Tips Supaya Otak tetap Sehat

Dari sisi medis, banyak cara untuk membuat otak sehat, salah satunya dengan melatih otak setiap hari disertai dengan mengkonsumsi jenis makanan yang baik untuk pertumbuhan dan perkembangan otak. Namun, artikel kali ini akan menjelaskan tentang cara membuat otak sehat dan tidak banyak lupa melalui sisi religius atau secara keagamaan, apa sajakah itu? Berikut penjelasan tentang 5 Tips Supaya