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Hastings is a town in Oswego County, New York, United States. The town is named after Hastings Curtis, a prominent citizen. The Town of Hastings is on the South border of the county. Major attractions include Brennan Beach RV Resort and State Fair Grounds. Among the biggest companies in Hastings are Affordable Cleaning Service, Monkey's Hand and Central Square Self Storage. The biggest schools here are Hastings Mallory Elementary School and P.C. & U school. One of the best places to visit when you are in Hastings is Emmons Siding - a location in the south part of the town near Oneida Lake. A famous person from Hastings includes Hastings Curtis, a prominent citizen.
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Happiness is a journey and getting those things you want is dependent on the mindset you have to obtaining them. A great year it should be for you, but are you willing to take a chance on improving your mindset and be happier? Here are 17 mindset twists that will certainly make you happier before the end of the year. 1. Become more productive Focus on productivity. Think of doing more in less time and performing less action. 2. Don’t procrastinate, act! Don’t procrastinate. Do what is necessary to make what you want happen. The best time to start is now. Instead of making excuses and complaining, act! 3. Spending too much time on social media Social media can be a burner. Yes you want to listen to the gossips and know what is happening with your friends. But if you want to be happier learn to say no to social media. It will save you any bruise on your self-esteem and keep you interacting with the real world instead. 4. Taking yourself too seriously Yes you will make mistakes. You cannot be perfect and don’t expect this, but always focus on what you can learn from your past errors. 5. Talk positive to yourself Expect the best and never the worst. You should know that such will only give you the confidence you need to actualize those things you desire. 6. Learn to say no A lot of things will catch your eye and want to take your energy. But your mindset should be focused on getting more out of less rather than less out of more. So say no to the things that are exhaustive and do not steer you towards your major goals. I learned this lesson the hard way 7. Be consistent There is no point in dilly-dallying. Follow any course of action to the end. Be consistent and solid. 8. Choose growth Don’t feel weighed down by criticisms or let downs. Think of how you will grow from a setback or a failure rather than allowing it to pull you down. 9. Take charge Be responsible for those things you can control. And your life or the direction you to take with it is your number one responsibility. 10. Prioritize Do the things that matter. Being organized adds to your self-esteem and helps you stay productive. 11. Appreciate yourself Learn to know your strengths and weaknesses. Know what you can take, your limitations and how far you can go. 12. Be realistic There is nothing wrong with aiming high. Yet make sure you can achieve whatever you set out to do. Better to reach a goal than live one of mere wishes. 13. Visualize Think of where you are going to and visualize success at it. Imagine or see yourself reaching these goals you have set out to accomplish. 14. Be tolerant Any feedback should be listened to or taken in constructively. Do not throw away what may lead to personal improvement. 15. Seek support Seek support from friends, family and colleagues. You cannot enjoy or be happy alone, you need constant connections to attain happiness. 16. Be result focused Think of how to make the best out of a challenging situation. Don’t think or dwell on problems, rather dwell on solutions and how to get out of a tight corner. Navigate possibilities, strategize and apply new techniques. 17. Disengage Disengage, take breaks, and find time to enjoy moments with your friends, family and yourself. You can only be happier when you disconnect from the drama of work and technology every now and then. This gives you time to focus and perceive what is around you. Besides you are able to offer yourself the clarity you deserve in the process. Featured photo credit: http://www.compfight.com via compfight.com Source: LifeHack.org Daily Newsletter By Casey Imafidon P.S. To be more Productive, you can use Google Calendar, a smart phone with any notes app, I use Google Calendar for my business and on my android phone, I also always have a notebook with me to write down blog post ideas. For visualize, I read in the book “The Miracle Morning” a chapter where Hal talked about creating a vision board, so my husband and I are working on our vision board. If you would like to read the book “The Miracle Morning” you can get the first two chapters free. You do have to learn how to say no, have people be respectful of your time, I had a very hard time with my youngest brother’s girlfriend, they have nine children between them. I was their go to person for babysitting that was right after my second back surgery, I had to learn to say no. I would babysit for a week, two or three children at one time until I was in so much pain, I would have to put the children to bed, run for bed myself to take my pain medication. Work With Me Personally Skype: lizenglish18 Email: itslizenglish@gmail.com Have any questions? Connect with me on Facebook Here
Why Snapchat is the ‘one to watch in 2016′
Why Snapchat is the ‘one to watch in 2016′ — at the expense of Twitter Evan Spiegel, CEO and cofounder of Snapchat. Getty/Scott Olson Snapchat is gearing itself up for a huge year in 2016 — and it might come at the expense of Twitter. That’s according to MEC Global head of social for North America Noah Mallin, who was speaking last week on Nomura’s fourth-quarter conference call on trends in internet advertising (for which Nomura provided us the transcript.) MEC Global is a big buyer of ads on social media and works for clients including Marriott, GoDaddy, and Renault. Mallin said Snapchat was “the one to watch in 2016,” thanks to the way it changed its offering to advertisers several times throughout this year. “They seemed to finally solidify what they’re offering to advertisers and tying together the video product, which is very exciting,” he added. While this is only the opinion of one ad buyer, for Mallin to predict Snapchat as the “one to watch” shows how far the photo-sharing app has come in a matter of months. Meanwhile, Jessica Lessin, founder and editor of The Information, predicted (in an email sent to subscribers on Thursday) that Snapchat would go public this year before other huge tech companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Dropbox even though “the company’s ad based business model has yet to prove it can scale, let alone be profitable.” That could be about to change next year. Snapchat began selling ads only in October 2014. When Business Insider pooled opinion about Snapchat from the advertising community back in July, many ad execs described a frustrating experience. Demand was outweighing the supply they were receiving from the Snapchat sales team, and some advertising and agency execs were unconvinced of the app’s merit because of a lack of data and case studies. But Snapchat is getting there. While it is still yet to offer the granular level of data about the effectiveness of its ads comparable to the likes of Facebook, Google, or Twitter, the company has been making some under-the-radar improvements to its measurement offering. The company has also been staffing up, with agencies telling Business Insider earlier this month that Snapchat had become a lot more proactive in its approach. Snapchat has also opened up more targeting options, letting advertisers target ads at specific age groups and by device, location, and context. In addition, Snapchat has rolled out numerous new ad formats, including sponsored lenses that let users overlay graphics and animations over their selfies and its native-video ad product called 3V, which stands for Vertical, Video, Views. It’s Snapchat’s video story that is getting marketers excited, according to Mallin. “Clients are really interested … things that they’re looking for like the metrics that show success, understanding what the actual offering is, all of those things weren’t really in place for most of this year. But they are falling into place in this quarter and I think as you go into first quarter and second quarter 2016, it’s going to accelerate quite rapidly,” he said. Could Snapchat eclipse Twitter on the video ad front? Asked whether Snapchat’s improvements might see it taking ad dollars from its social-media rivals, Mallin thinks it poses a “real threat” to Twitter. He explained: “Twitter hasn’t really built a compelling story around video, and Snapchat is tying themselves to events in a way that Twitter has as well. So that’s where the real danger to another company is. I don’t necessarily see them taking pieces of the pie away from Facebook or YouTube, but I do think it makes it a harder story for Twitter to tell about video.” It’s worth bearing in mind that Snapchat is a far younger and smaller company than Twitter, so the “danger” is unlikely to be existential to Twitter at this stage. Snapchat is reportedly on track to make around $100 million in ad revenue this year, while Twitter generated $569 million in revenue in the most recent quarter alone. Snapchat has around 100 million active users, while Twitter has 320 million monthly active users. Twitter Moments launched earlier this year. Twitter has been making its own moves in video too. It has its standalone livestreaming app Periscope and its six-second-video app Vine, and in October it launched its Moments tab. Moments brings together highlights of the day’s news and trending topics, curating the best tweets — which often showcases video. Brands can also purchase Promoted Moment ads. But Mallin says Twitter is falling behind its larger rivals on the video front, which could play to fast-mover Snapchat’s advantage in 2016. “Twitter, there’s still growth happening there for sure,” he said. “But video as a product, although they’ve been working very hard to revamp, amplify, and to add options there, it’s still not where Facebook or YouTube are.” Mallin said MEC Global’s clients’ spending on Facebook, for example, had increased 55% between Q4 2014 and Q4 2015, an acceleration that has been boosted largely by advertisers’ demand for video ads. “One of the things that’s driving it is the rising video as a vehicle for clients. When they’re looking at digital video, really Facebook and YouTube are top of the pack. For a long time it was really YouTube and others, but Facebook has kind of broken away from that pack and have really become a real rival to YouTube, and that’s where we’re seeing a lot of the money going into,” he added. 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Winter Solstice Traditions: Rituals for a Simple Celebration
Winter Solstice Traditions: Rituals for a Simple Celebration This year, let your winter solstice celebration be an occasion to look deeply at small things, to feel at home in the world and to be just where you belong. At day’s end on the winter solstice, the sun glows like a flame atop this stone circle. Photo By Joe Coca Photo By Susan Wasinger Early nightfall. Crisp mornings. The sharp silhouette of leaf-bare branches. Orion marching across the evening sky. These are some familiar signs of winter. We often speak of turning inward during these darker months, becoming quiet and introspective, staying home more often, sleeping longer. Yet there’s another side to winter that contrasts with our natural inclination to rest and contemplate—a side that insists we shop til we drop, eat and drink more than we care to, and rush around busy airports. Regardless of our spiritual or cultural heritage, if we live in North America today there’s a good chance we find ourselves caught up, perhaps involuntarily or out of habit, in a commercial swirl known as “the holidays” that leaves us depleted in more ways than one. Perhaps this year, with some preparation and planning, we can plant the seeds for a more intuitive, simpler, and natural holiday season. Winter solstice, which takes place in late December, can be a profound way to tune into the magic and beauty of the season. For people throughout the ages—from the ancient Egyptians and Celts to the Hopi—midwinter has been a significant time of ritual, reflection, and renewal. Creating a meaningful celebration of winter solstice, either in place of or in addition to other holiday activities, can help us cultivate a deeper connection to nature and family and all the things that matter most to us. Winter can become a time of feeding the spirit and nurturing the soul, not just emptying our bank account and fraying our nerves. Pre-Christmas celebrations While we don’t know how long people have been celebrating the solstice, we know that ancient cultures built huge stone structures designed to align perfectly with the sun at specific times, such as dawn or high noon. And some ancient peoples performed sacred rituals and made offerings when the sun dipped below the horizon to ensure its daily return, especially during the darkest days. Many of the traditions now associated with Christmas are believed to have originated centuries earlier with nature-based communities and indigenous peoples. For example, the idea of Santa Claus may have come from the story of the first shamans who were said to climb high into the upper worlds and return with gifts of wisdom and prophecies, postulates Tony Van Renterghem in When Santa Was a Shaman (Llewellyn, 1995). The word “yule” may derive from an Anglo-Saxon term that means “wheel,” and in pagan Scandinavia, village people sat around bonfires of burning yule logs throughout the night while drinking mead and listening to the stories of minstrel-poets. Richard Heinberg, author of Celebrate the Solstice: Honoring the Earth’s Seasonal Rhythms through Festival and Ceremony (Quest Books, 1993) describes the solstices as “times of danger and opportunity; times for special alertness and aliveness.” In Iran, families often kept fires burning all night to assist the battle between the light and dark forces. In ancient Rome, where it was called Dies Natalis Invicti Solis, or the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun, masters even celebrated as equals with their slaves. Throughout history, celebrating the solstice has been a way to renew our connection with each other and with the numinous through acts of goodwill, special rituals, and heightened awareness. Make your own rituals “Solstice” comes from two Latin words: sol meaning “sun” and sistere meaning “to stand still” because it appeared as though the sun and moon had stopped moving across the sky. This longest night of the year, followed by a renewal of the sun, demonstrates the cyclical order of the cosmos. In this way, celebrating the solstice can be a beautiful remembrance that our lives are part of a larger order, always changing, always renewing. In Celebrate the Solstice, Heinberg writes that “wisdom consists in knowing one’s place in any given cycle, and what kinds of action (or restraint of action) are appropriate for that phase.” Attuning our senses to the subtle changes and cycles of the seasons might help us attune more lovingly to the subtle changes and cycles in ourselves. By performing simple rituals with personal meaning to celebrate the solstice, these rituals will serve as touchstones to help us cultivate an attitude of receptiveness and appreciation that will carry us through the holiday season with more ease. A good starting point might be to make a promise this winter to spend more time listening, watching, and honoring the slower, quieter rhythm of the season. On the solstice, visit a place outdoors that’s special to you—a trail you can walk or a field you can lie down in, a hillside or mountain perch that provides the perfect view, or even the roof of your apartment building or a quiet place on the edge of your yard. Consider watching the sun rise or set from your little patch of the world. Write a poem. Make a list of loving wishes for friends, family, coworkers—even people you don’t know that well. Build a shrine of nature’s found objects. Light a candle. Reflect on your aspirations for the coming months. Throw the I Ching. Say a prayer. Sing an original song. Sharing food, an important part of any celebration, is particularly meaningful during the solstice, as it represents faith in the return of the sun and the harvest. Maybe you’d like to prepare a simple meal from organic winter vegetables to share with friends or family, or cook a dinner to enjoy in the welcome solitude of your own company. Silence is another beautiful way to celebrate the shortest day of midwinter. Reflect the stillness of the day by cultivating stillness in yourself. Consider honoring the threshold of solstice with an hour of intentional silence for you and your household. New traditions Creating a new tradition that brings more peace and heart to your holidays could also bring you closer to family and friends. Sharing a ritual founded on love of nature, on respect for the always renewing cycles of life, and on faith in the future has a way of bringing out the best in people. If you’d like to start your own, consider these suggestions found at CircleSanctuary.org. You might make a wreath with evergreens collected by loved ones on a walk through the woods. Evergreens, it’s said, symbolize the continuity of life, protection, and prosperity. Or build a circle of candlelight, one for each participant, and then blow them out and sit together in the darkness for a few moments offering gratitude before lighting one central, larger candle to symbolize your unity over the coming year. Ring a collection of bells at sunrise and sunset or offer seeds to winter birds and other outdoor creatures. If you have children in your life, you might organize some special activities to share with them, such as identifying winter plants and animals with a field guide on a short walk or drawing pictures of winter scenes in your neighborhood. Try writing an acrostic poem in which you use “solstice” as the root word and use each of its letters as the beginning of a line in the poem. Or watch together from a warm window as the sun sets and give thanks for both the darkness and the light. Source: Mother Earth Living “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful”. ~Norman Vincent Peale P.S. Yesterday was the first day of winter in the United States, my husband Dave is a land surveyor working outside in all different types of weather we’ve learned how to keep up with the different changes in seasons, that’s why I wanted to share what Winter Solstice is. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone. Work With Me Personally Connect With Me On Facebook