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Here's Why I'm Obsessed With Hair Lotion– and You Will Be, Too
If you're a beauty fanatic like me, you probably have a monthly subscription to Birchbox or Sephora's PLAY! box. It's fun to try samples without committing to buying a full-size that might not be right for you. Although I enjoy using up my Birchbox samples, I had yet to follow through and buy a product—until I tried R+Co's WATERFALL Moisture + Shine Lotion.
After just three uses from a sample size of this stuff, I could tell I had a good thing going. Naturally, I decided to take my research one step further, and invested in a full size to really put it to the test.
First of all, if you've ever bought an R+Co product, you can appreciate the gorgeous designs. Every product is like a mini piece of edgy pop art in your shower, and WATERFALL is no exception. It's described by the brand as "a light yet intensely hydrating lotion designed for fine to medium and extra long hair." I've tried hair oils, detanglers, masks, and leave-in conditioners, but never a hair lotion. If you're familiar with R+Co's HIGH DIVE Moisture + Shine Crème, the brand describes WATERFALL as a lighter version. I don't like the feeling of having a lot of product in my hair, and this lotion doesn't weigh me down at all. Just like your favorite body lotion, this weightless formula soaks right in. If you're picky about scents, WATERFALL shouldn't be a problem. The scent, called SERIOUS GAZE, is bright, fresh, and not overpowering.
Apply WATERFALL to clean, wet hair and simply air dry or blow dry before styling per your usual routine. I talked to celebrity stylist and co-founder of R+Co Garren via email about proper use of the product, and he doesn't suggest layering it over any other products post-shower. You can also use a bit of it on dry hair to smooth or tame frizz and flyaways, but Garren said it works best on hair that's a bit damp (note: it does not need to be soaking wet, either).
"I would evenly distribute through the hair with a quarter sized droplet, work it through hands then apply to roots and ends," Garren said. "Then if you have a lot of hair, you'll have to use more, roughly three-four applications to get through the entire head. Then comb through the hair with a wide-toothed comb."
Although the product description says it's formulated for fine to medium or long hair, it's gentle enough for any hair texture, and Garren said it works great on naturally wavy and curly hair. It's extremely moisturizing for damaged or dry hair of any texture because ingredients like glycerin, sunflower seed extract, and vitamin B5 help retain hydration and add shine. This lotion is vegan, paraben-free, sulfate-free, gluten-free, and certified cruelty-free, not to mention that it also serves as a heat protectant if you use heat tools often.
Another bonus tip from Garren that's perfect for summer: "If you're going swimming, you might want to coat your hair prior to going in the water or even if you're sunbathing, as having this in your hair makes sure it's protected and conditioned. It works for both the beach or at the pool."
I'm not exaggerating when I say that my hair has never felt softer or looked shinier than after using WATERFALL. I've achieved similar softness from leave-in products before, but never shine like this. The amazing thing is that my hair looks just as good air-dried as styled when I use WATERFALL. I'm lucky that I have easy, mostly straight texture that doesn't require much styling, but it always looks more put together after blow-drying. Since using WATERFALL, I've let my hair air-dry more days than not, and it's never looked better.
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If your hair is dry, damaged, or lackluster, WATERFALL would be an ideal product for you too. I was wary of trying out a hair lotion, and now I'm hooked. After a few weeks of using WATERFALL, I can confirm: It. Is. Amazing.


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Be part of something bigger
Founded by Stephan Schambach, the NewStore mobile retail platform empowers brands to deliver an extraordinary end-to-end shopping experience for consumers. Built entirely from a mobile perspective, it integrates with existing ecommerce platforms. NewStore raises the omnichannel bar with one-touch purchase, scalable clienteling, and on-demand delivery — all optimized for the small screen. For more information, visit www.newstore.com.
Product Management is a critical function at NewStore. It is the bridge between the company and its customers.
Follow your passion
You will not only have the opportunity to develop your own skills, but to redefine what "shopping" looks like! You will be involved in the product lifecycle from conception through execution. You'll lead the development of a product with a team of world-class engineers and product managers. You'll be synthesizing customer, user, and engineering input to establish priorities for product development. You will design and develop products that strengthen NewStore's market position.
You'll be part of a flat, fast-moving organization motivated by collaboration. As part of our product management and engineering team, you adapt and evolve our agile development processes to accelerate the rate at which NewStore delivers value to customers.
Enjoy understanding other cultures and perspectives? You'll also have the opportunity to travel in the US and Europe!
You're Hungry
- You get things done and take ownership. You are curious, and inquire before assuming. You are open to new ideas, and share your own with candor. You leave your comfort zone. You make mistakes and learn from them, and you share your learnings and information. You disrupt current processes and ways of working, by asking: how can we be more effective? You aren't complacent.
You're Humble
- You put the team's interest above your own. You know that when our customers and team members win, we all win. You listen and you propose solutions based on looking at the problem from several different perspectives.
You're Smart
- You understand our business and our people. You know what motivates our teams, and our customers and how to unlock their potential. You respectfully challenge ideas, even when doing so is uncomfortable and exhausting. You ensure compromise does not come for the sake of social cohesion.
- 6+ years product management or product owner experience
- 2+ years experience with B2B enterprise solutions, e.g. BI, ERP, Order Management or other similar systems
- 2+ years experience with retail or Ecommerce solutions, e.g. mobile shopping apps, Ecommerce platforms, Content Management Systems, Point of Sale or other similar systems
- Excellent organizational, analytical, and communication skills
- Proven ability to build and maintain relationships among distributed teams
What we offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
- Medical, dental, vision, life & disability coverage, and 401(k)
- Personal development budget
- Lunches together
- Opportunity to travel to other offices
- Flexible working hours
- Generous paid time off policy
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JustEarth is holding another training workshop to prepare Fridays for the Future (and others who have not lobbied before) on how to lobby a federal MP.
Lobbying 101 – a Climate Action...Read more
St. Matthew's United Church in The Oakwood Room, 729 St. Clair W, Toronto, one block west of Christie St., enter from Rushton.
Join us for an evening to imagine a zero waste future for Ward 21 and Toronto, and to talk about how we can get there. It is more achievable than you might think!
In a zero waste future, waste isn't wasted. It becomes a valuable resource in a circular economy. Zero waste is good for our environment, our economy, and our community. Find out where Toronto is on this path, and what remains to be done. Find out why getting organics out of landfill, and out of the recycle bin, is so critical for success.
We will end by brainstorming ways to make rescuing organics and recyclables from landfill easier, better, and more popular. Bring your ideas and your questions for our two wonderful waste expert presenters:
Emily Alfred, Waste Campaigner from Toronto Environmental Alliance
Kim Stemshorn, Support Assistant, Solid Waste Management Services from City of Toronto


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The Path to Prosperity?
Beware of right wing Republicans bearing platitudes.
When smug plutocrats like Paul Ryan unveil budget proposals with names like 'The Path to Prosperity," that sucking sound you hear is the hoovering of the spare change in your pocket. No, this is "The Path to Poverty, " unless of course you number yourself among the top 1% of the population in this country of ours, the ones who own just about everything, including a large proportion of our representatives and senators. Who would've thought after 8 years of Bush, under our first African-American president, a democrat propelled into office by a tsunami of political will, we would find our future held ransom to the greatest transfer of wealth in the nation's history? No, I can never forgive Barack Obama for squandering his political capitol, but perhaps it is just as Eric Alterman says in Kabuki Democracy:
"Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us. Sure, presidents can pretty easily pass tax cuts for the wealthy and powerful corporations. They can start whatever wars they wish and wiretap whomever they want without warrants. They can order the torture of terrorist suspects, lie about it and see that their intelligence services destroy the evidence. But what they cannot do, even with supermajorities in both houses of Congress behind them, is pass the kind of transformative progressive legislation that Barack Obama promised in his 2008 presidential campaign."
Meanwhile, Paul Ryan, cut from the same mold as Florida's boy senator Marco Rubio, unveils the budgetary trail to the America that House Majority WHIP Eric "The Smirk" Cantor spoke about in a speech Cantor gave at the end of March at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, in which he said Social Security "cannot exist if we want America to be what we want America to be."
And what might that be, boys and girls? In a 2005 report to investors, three analysts at Citigroup declared that "the World is dividing into two blocs—the Plutonomy and the rest":
In a plutonomy there is no such animal as "the U.S. consumer" or "the UK consumer", or indeed the "Russian consumer". There are rich consumers, few in number, but disproportionate in the gigantic slice of income and consumption they take. There are the rest, the "non-rich", the multitudinous many, but only accounting for surprisingly small bites of the national pie.In her recent Atlantic article, Chrystia Freeland writes "What is more relevant to our times, though, is that the rich of today are also different from the rich of yesterday. Our light-speed, globally connected economy has led to the rise of a new super-elite that consists, to a notable degree, of first- and second-generation wealth. Its members are hardworking, highly educated, jet-setting meritocrats who feel they are the deserving winners of a tough, worldwide economic competition—and many of them, as a result, have an ambivalent attitude toward those of us who didn't succeed so spectacularly. Perhaps most noteworthy, they are becoming a transglobal community of peers who have more in common with one another than with their countrymen back home. Whether they maintain primary residences in New York or Hong Kong, Moscow or Mumbai, today's super-rich are increasingly a nation unto themselves."
Sound good to you?


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Cell Phone Signal Boosters for Particular Phone
Cell Phone Boosters have achieved a huge success in homes or offices or cars. Companies are also making cell phone boosters for particular Cell Phones also. For example:- Wilson iBooster which is especially made for Apple iPhone as everything on iPhone is depending on the strength of its network. It is also heard that some companies have started manufacturing special type of boosters according to different models of companies like for Nokia, HTC or Samsung.
Change for 2G to 3G to 4G.
Cell phone signal frequency level has been upgraded double in the recent years; first of all, 2G system was improved to 3G and then the 3G got improved to 4G. But the main idea is that, these entire three signal spectrum are now common worldwide. Due to some reasons 2G has the maximum number of consumers even today. In the starting of the cell phone signal repeater for office or home when it was introduced, it was only made for 2G networks. But with the increase in high demand booster companies were involved in the making of cell phone repeater boosters for 3G Network also. This was the starting phase of cell phone boosters for home when it was not too old in market. It is not very old story when 4G Network was introduced by numerous companies; this gave birth to booster for 4G network. Yeah, the main reason was the growing population which has helped in improving the level of cell phone booster technology. This is because of the fact that such growth in population has increased the usage of cell phones worldwide which have created huge distortion in signal receiving worldwide. To handle the increasing problem day by day or minute by minute, there is lot of pressure on the boosters manufacturing companies to improve them in quick regular periods.


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"There is perhaps no greater influence on modern Texas Music than Walt Wilkins." ~ galleywinter.com
Walt has made top shelf recordings that are direct evidence of the emotional depth of the man and the harmonious skills of the artist and his fellow muse compadres – Bull Creek Souvenir (1994, out of print), Fire, Honey & Angels (2000), Rivertown (2002), Mustang Island (2004), Hopewell (2006). He cut Diamonds in the Sun with his Tejas soul brothers, the Mystiqueros, in early 2007, after about eight or nine months of initial seasoning and finding their tongues, treads and grooves. The release of Diamonds in the Sun was followed with critical acclaim, many best of the year pick lists and considerable airplay on XM and Texas radio.
Walt completed his 7th record called Vigil in 2009 and it is a beautiful, honest and graceful kaleidoscope of the life cycle. Vigil documents the ranging and interconnected thoughts of the author, who expresses concerns for his child, throws questioning fireballs at God, honors those close friends that fade too soon by carrying on, wonders what will happen to his life's works when he passes, bathes in healing waters prior to his final judgment and mostly exercises a grateful heart and an agile mind.
Walt has produced and cultivated creative records by a variety of artists including Brandon Rhyder, Jamie Richards, Jason Eady, Ryan James, Josh Grider, Bonnie Bishop, Autumn Boukadakis, Sam Baker, Monty Russell, Brian Langlinais, Bobby Duncan, Brad Hines and his lovely wife, Tina Mitchell Wilkins. Tina is a senorita muy bonita with a velvet sky voice, who used to dance with me back before I started squirting on shots of Shine(r)-ola, sometimes called the Musk of the Mid-South or the Lube of da Boobs.
Occasionally, Walt needs a trim but more often some deep rest and another Lone Star or Shiner or Jameson to help lube that night's delivery of trials and truths. His bark has been peeled and trunk bared by wind and rot – yet the deep roots underground have sustained the peach buds amid southern droughts and released the wondering muse with earthbound doubts.
The Mystiqueros released their second record, Agave, in April 2010. Agave bookmarks a ripening and simmering of the MQ roux and a well-rounded distribution of the burdens shared. There's been four years of Mystiquero maturation and fermentation, amongst the May Jams and Thursday evenings with joyful faces polishing the receptive benches and dance floors at Gruene. Plus celebrations of country and collective spirits under the live oak clusters along South Grape Creek with Lone Star Lights from the Luckenbach well and the West Texas comforts at the Gage Hotel.
Walt has churned multi-miles beneath his wheels and gathered up the ragged thoughts and discarded pearls that help him to render the distinctive images and characters that follow. Many nights he needs more listeners in the seats to hear the wit and layers of his reflective art. Those live muse listeners get the benefit of him strumming the rhythms and painting the prose of where he's rambled and who and what he's observed amongst his meanderings. His songwriting is southern roots and road-worn gospel and the deep creases and genuine smile help to authenticate the honesty of his witnessing.
Whether performing solo, as a duo with his wife, Tina, or amped up with his brethren, the Mystiqueros, Walt entertains those of us with Bocks and Buds and Vino in hand and helps us lay our burdens down. So come out to hear a good friend enjoy himself and please us with his vivid fictions and post card realities.


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A Proven Methodology
Helen Doron MathRiders is based upon a proven, successful methodology that looks into the different learning styles of children and opens up the language of maths in the minds of children and teens. Children respond enthusiastically when maths is presented in a fun, intuitive way.
Designed by experts in child development and education to promote enthusiasm and understanding of maths through fun and encouragement, MathRiders classes work. A combination of small group learning, positive reinforcement, and a dynamic learning setting, keeps students engaged and eager to learn maths, week after week. Research has shown that an enhanced learning environment improves the quality of the process of gaining knowledge or skills.
The advantages of small group learning.
MathRiders was developed with an understanding of the advantages of both individual attention and group activities. To reach a perfect balance, all classes are comprised of 4 to 8 children. This creates the perfect setting for dynamic learning—small enough for personalised attention and large enough for group activities to be fun and rewarding. This small group, collaborative learning environment has been shown to significantly improve student performance. Students of ages respond and succeed.
Confidence from positive reinforcement
Children thrive in an environment that encourages instead of judges, supports instead of criticises. Helen Doron-certified MathRiders teachers provide this positive encouragement in the classroom. The feeling of success brings motivation, which in turn brings more success.
Dynamic, creative and effective course materials
Students learn problem solving skills through enjoyable activities that help develop mathematical thinking. Students are motivated to learn and this motivation propels them to succeed. MathRider's teaching methods take into account children's unique learning styles and uses age-appropriate games, movement and music to maximise kids' natural love of learning. Highly experienced, specially trained teachers who are devoted to creating a nurturing and dynamic learning environment ensure that learning is enjoyable and effective.


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