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LinkedIn is of course a social networking site that is designed mostly for the business community. The goal of Linkedin.com is to allow their registered members to establish networks of people whom they already know and trust in a professional environment. A LinkedIn member's profile page usually emphasizes the employment history and education of the person - such as on Nathan Halsey's linkedin page - https://www.linkedin.com/pub/nathan-halsey/7/b39/961 , As you can see his professional network consists of both news feeds and a number of customizable modules. Basic membership for LinkedIn is and always has been free. Network members are usually referred to as "connections." However, unlike other free social networking sites for example Facebook and even Twitter, LinkedIn.com requires connections to have a pre-existing relationship. This is a fundamental difference between the social media sites. With basic membership, a member, such as Nathan Halsey can only establish connections with someone he has previously worked with or knows professionally (either online or offline) or has gone to school with etcetc. Connections up to three degrees away are seen as part of that member's network, so when looking at Nathan Halsey on Linkedin one can see the other people he too knows. A member like Nathan is not allowed to contact them through LinkedIn without an introduction. However, Premium subscriptions can be purchased to provide members with easier access to contacts in the LinkedIn database - or even find their connection details. LinkedIn was co-founded by a man named Reid Hoffman who is the former Executive Vice President for PayPal. The site was launched in 2003 and currently has over 300 million members from 200 countries, representing 170 industries. According to Reid Hoffman, 27% of LinkedIn subscribers are recruiters. Nathan Halsey has been married for over ten years to his wife Kristin Halsey. They have 3 children, Jensen aged 8, Hudson, aged

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Forbes.com Inc., (www.forbes.com) a one of the foremost online media companies. It is amongst the most trusted resources for the world's business and investment leaders, providing them with concise analysis as well as relevant tools and real-time reporting. Forbes.com includes original reporting on business, technology, investing and lifestyle; stock and mutual fund quotes; comprehensive company profiles; a wide array of interactive tools, calculators and databases, including People Tracker, the annual Forbes Lists; a Lifestyle section that currently focuses on high-end vehicles, collecting, real estate and travel; and the complete online editions of Forbes' magazines. Nathan W. Halsey was born and raised in Texas and he graduated from Mary Carroll High School back in1994. Nathan attended the Texas A&M University, and studied Business, receiving a Bachelor of Business Arts. After graduating from college, Nathan Halsey spent two years in an Executive Management training program with Ericsson who is the North America subsidiary of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, a global Telecommunications provider. Upon graduating from Ericsson's Executive Leadership Program, he accepted a Management Consulting position with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (formerly Ernst & Young LLP). With its wide editorial lens, and iconic status in American media, Forbes.com is not just a business magazine or simply a website, but rather it is a media brand that documents and promotes innovation, politics, entertainment, culture, business and of course style. Forbes.com has a mission to deliver information on the people, ideas and the technologies that are changing the world and our business decision makers. What distinguishes. Through theirplatform of print and mobile products, Forbes.com is changing the way content is created, distributed, consumed as well as shared. After discovering a new technology advancement for skin care ingredient delivery in 2013, Nathan isolated this technology and u

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One of the most common types of knee surgery performed in the U.S. is no more effective than fake surgery, at least for the first year, according to a new study. The new evidence should give doctors pause before they try to repair the meniscus, which cushions the bones of the knee, according to the Finnish doctors behind the research published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The experiment involved 146 volunteers whose knee pain appeared to be caused by wear and tear of that cushion. None of the participants had a recognized injury or osteoarthritis, both situations for which the surgery is already known to be ineffective. After 12 months, the average improvement among the people who received real surgery and those who got "sham" surgery was essentially the same, said the research team, led by Dr. Teppo Jarvinen of University of Helsinki. There was no significant improvement in knee pain after exercise and no sizable improvement in the likelihood that a patient would require subsequent knee surgery. But Dr. Craig Bennett, chief of sports medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center, cautioned that the findings should not be over-generalized. One problem, he told Reuters Health in a telephone interview, is that such "sham" surgery is, in fact, a surgical procedure with potential benefit. People with knee pain who seem to be candidates for meniscal repair may be suffering because of debris in a swollen knee joint. "If you scope the knee (without touching the cushion), that will often help even if you don't completely address the torn meniscus issue," he said. During an arthroscopic examination, where fluid is injected to give doctors a good view, "you're taking out the junky, thick irritating fluid that can give a lot of people their pain," he said. During both sham and regular surgery, small holes are poked through either side of the knee, so doctors can insert instruments to examine the joint. With the surgery, kn

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Paul Chehade - Symbolic rebuke to President Obama over immigration. Where are we heading? What is our future? Emboldened House Republicans issued a stern but symbolic rebuke to President Barack Obama over immigration Thursday, passing a bill declaring his executive actions to curb deportations "null and void and without legal effect." Our nation has been traditionally headed by two political groups, the Democrats and the Republicans. In light of this political failure, what will the future bring to the American people and coming generations? What are the expectations to live a life with dignity and hope. The Democrats and the Republicans have promised, politically and publicly, to serve the nation for decades, but the reality is that both of them after consecutive failures, only prove that they serve the powerful economic groups that for generations have drained the economy of our nation and have left our citizens in the most precarious and fragile economic situation in the American history. In light of this political failure, what will the future bring to the American people and coming generations? What are the expectations to live a life with dignity and hope. Without desire to deepen into the subject I would like to mention the pillars for the growth and strengthening of our society which are essential for the development of every human being: Food, health, housing and education. In light of the economic crisis that our nation is confronting, mainly due to the bad administration of the last two governments, still today our President Obama is neglecting the fundamental issue of providing basic food supplies for the American people, especially for our children, the future of our nation, that are the most affected in this national crisis. We need to understand that the cost of food has increased almost 50 % in many cases and in other cases up to 100% in the last years. All of this without any real increase in salaries for the fortunate ones that still h

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Twitter.com is an online social networking service that, amongst other things, enablestheir users to send and read short messages - limited to 140-characters. These are called "tweets". Twitter.com has registered users like Nathan Halsey at https://twitter.com/nathanhalsey that can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. While Twitter may have started out originally as a micro-blogging service it is far from that today and it has grown into much more than just a tool to type in a quick status update. When Nathan Halsey was asked "What is Twitter?",he has often described it as a cross between both blogging and instant messaging, but he readily admits that doesn't do the Twitter Service justice. In other words Twitter.com is social messaging. Twitter has the ability to follow people and have what are known as followers, and then it has the ability to have interactions with Twitter on one's cell phone. For many Twitter has become the perfect social messaging tool! Twitter users can choose who they do and of course who they do not follow. Nathan Halsey may or not follow you back at https://twitter.com/nathanhalsey. Twitter users like Nathan have total control of what news they receive on their own homepage. When we refer to "homepage", we are referring to the feed that one sees when signed into twitter containing one's own followers tweets. This is different from one's personal twitter page (https://twitter.com/nathanhalsey) which contains all of one's tweets including one's replies to other users. If wanted you could have an unlimited amount of followers, but only follow a select few people if you want, making it easy to stay in touch with the people you care to stay in touch with. In 2003 Nathan Halsey chased his true passion, Entrepreneurship, and formed a boutique investment company based in Dallas, Texas. Between the years 2003 and 2008 he oversaw that investment and management of 10s of millions of dollars into

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A U.S. development worker kidnapped in Pakistan by al Qaeda two years ago appealed to President Barack Obama to intervene and help negotiate his release, in a video released on Thursday. In a 13-minute clip issued by al Qaeda's media wing and posted on several news websites, Warren Weinstein, 72, looked gaunt and tired. "I am not in good health. I have a heart condition. I suffer from acute asthma... Needless to say I've been suffering deep anxiety every part of every day," he said. "Mr President, for the majority of my adult life, for over 30 years I've served my country ... Now when I need my government it seems that I have been totally abandoned and forgotten." The video could not be independently verified. Weinstein was abducted in 2011 in the eastern city of Lahore where he worked for a U.S. consulting company. Pakistan's tribal areas on its border with Afghanistan serve as safe havens for al Qaeda, the Taliban and other militant groups, and the Islamabad government has been under pressure from the United States to do more to eliminate the insurgency.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For years, U.S. officials have pointed to the improvements in the everyday lives of Afghans made possible by billions of dollars in aid from the United States and elsewhere. In Afghanistan, people now live 20 years longer on average than under Taliban rule, they say; 7 million more children attend school and women are 80 percent less likely to die in childbirth. The specter of an abrupt departure of all U.S. and NATO soldiers from Afghanistan at the end of next year now imperils these gains, they warn, and endangers progress on the massive development challenges that remain. Unless the Obama administration can persuade Afghan President Hamid Karzai to sign a security pact that would permit a modest U.S. force to remain beyond 2014, the United States is almost certain to drastically scale back aid to Afghanistan. That would force aid groups to work under more precarious security conditions and compete for scantier aid dollars. It would be "a complete catastrophe" to pull the entire U.S. force from Afghanistan next year, said Andrew Wilder, who directs Afghanistan and Pakistan programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace and spent years working in the region. A deterioration in security conditions would hamper oversight of aid projects, possibly making a deeply skeptical Congress even more reluctant to fund Afghan aid. A smaller staff at the U.S. embassy in Kabul would also make it more difficult to sustain many U.S. aid programs. "My judgment is no troops, no aid, or almost no aid," James Dobbins, the U.S. envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, told Congress this month. "The political support for the aid comes from the military presence." Last year, the United States and other donors promised to provide Afghanistan $16 billion in aid through 2015, at least half of which must go through Afghan government coffers. Afghanistan's government also promised to work toward benchmarks in governance, human rights and fighting corruption. Since the Tali

LITCHFIELD, Maine (AP) - Some homes and businesses from Maine to Michigan and into Canada that have been without electricity since last weekend's ice may not get their power back for another day - or longer. Related Stories May be Friday before power restored in some areas Associated Press Coming snow could slow power restoration efforts Associated Press Thousands in Maine remain without power Associated Press Ice storm leaves 500,000 without power in US Associated Press Utilities in Michigan reported 105,000 customers without power Friday morning, while those in Maine reported more than 36,000 and Canada more than 101,000. Bangor Hydro Electric in Maine is advising people it will be the end of the day before its more than 11,000 customers are back on line. The number has fluctuated as some people get power back while others lose it. The utility said downed trees are the biggest problem facing line crews. "We've had two beautiful, sunny days in Maine and the ice isn't going anyplace," said Lynette Miller, spokeswoman for the Maine Emergency Management Agency. "They're very concerned about more weight coming down on trees that are already compromised by ice." Central Maine Power, with more than 24,000 customers still in the dark early Thursday, hoped to get power back for most by the end of the day but acknowledged that some will still be without electricity on Friday. More than 100,000 were without power at the storm's peak. More snow was forecast Thursday for Maine and parts of Michigan, and frigid temperatures were expected to keep ice from melting off power lines and tree branches, posing new risks for outages. From 2 to 6 inches of snow could fall in parts of Maine. Ashley Walter, 27, was still hunkered down with her husband, Jacob, and their month-old daughter, Leah, at a shelter set up in a school in Litchfield, Maine. The family lost power Saturday, got it back temporarily, then lost it again Sunday and have been with

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A U.S. development worker kidnapped in Pakistan by al Qaeda two years ago appealed to President Barack Obama to intervene and help negotiate his release, in a video released on Thursday. In a 13-minute clip issued by al Qaeda's media wing and posted on several news websites, Warren Weinstein, 72, looked gaunt and tired. "I am not in good health. I have a heart condition. I suffer from acute asthma... Needless to say I've been suffering deep anxiety every part of every day," he said. "Mr President, for the majority of my adult life, for over 30 years I've served my country ... Now when I need my government it seems that I have been totally abandoned and forgotten." The video could not be independently verified. Weinstein was abducted in 2011 in the eastern city of Lahore where he worked for a U.S. consulting company.

Our hearts go out to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, and our thoughts are always with them and their families. http://margaretmunro.wordpress.com. The cover story we are publishing this week falls within the traditions of journalism and Rolling Stone's long-standing commitment to serious and thoughtful coverage of the most important political and cultural issues of our day. http://margaretmunro.wordpress.com. The fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is young, and in the same age group as many of our readers, makes it all the more important for us to examine the complexities of this issue and gain a more complete understanding of how a tragedy like this happens. -THE EDITORS http://margaretmunro.wordpress.com Peter Payack awoke around 4 a.m. on April 19th, 2013, and saw on his TV the grainy surveillance photo of the kid walking out of the minimart. The boy, http://margaretmunro.wordpress.com. identified as "Suspect #2" in the Boston bombing, looked familiar, thought Payack,http://margaretmunro.wordpress.com. a wrestling coach at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. On the other hand, there were a million skinny kids with vaguely ethnic features and light-gray hoodies in the Boston area, http://margaretmunro.wordpress.com. and half the city was probably thinking they recognized the suspect. http://margaretmunro.wordpress.com. Payack, who'd been near the marathon finish line on the day of the bombing and had lost half of his hearing from the blast, had hardly slept in four days. But he was too agitated to go back to bed. Later that morning, he received a telephone call from his son. The kid in the photo? "Dad, that's Jahar." http://margaretmunro.wordpress.com "I felt like a bullet went through my heart," the coach recalls. "To think that a kid we mentored and loved like a son could have been responsible for all this death. It was beyond shocking. It was like an alternative reality." http://margaretmunro.wordpress.com People in Cambridge thought of 19-

Our hearts go out to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, and our thoughts are always with them and their families. http://margaretmunro.wordpress.com. The cover story we are publishing this week falls within the traditions of journalism and Rolling Stone's long-standing commitment to serious and thoughtful coverage of the most important political and cultural issues of our day. http://margaretmunro.wordpress.com. The fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is young, and in the same age group as many of our readers, makes it all the more important for us to examine the complexities of this issue and gain a more complete understanding of how a tragedy like this happens. -THE EDITORS http://margaretmunro.wordpress.com Peter Payack awoke around 4 a.m. on April 19th, 2013, and saw on his TV the grainy surveillance photo of the kid walking out of the minimart. The boy, http://margaretmunro.wordpress.com. identified as "Suspect #2" in the Boston bombing, looked familiar, thought Payack,http://margaretmunro.wordpress.com. a wrestling coach at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. On the other hand, there were a million skinny kids with vaguely ethnic features and light-gray hoodies in the Boston area, http://margaretmunro.wordpress.com. and half the city was probably thinking they recognized the suspect. http://margaretmunro.wordpress.com. Payack, who'd been near the marathon finish line on the day of the bombing and had lost half of his hearing from the blast, had hardly slept in four days. But he was too agitated to go back to bed. Later that morning, he received a telephone call from his son. The kid in the photo? "Dad, that's Jahar." http://margaretmunro.wordpress.com "I felt like a bullet went through my heart," the coach recalls. "To think that a kid we mentored and loved like a son could have been responsible for all this death. It was beyond shocking. It was like an alternative reality." http://margaretmunro.wordpress.com People in Cambridge thought of 19-

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Pay TV service providers are among a few groups of companies that customers love to hate, and sometimes they go out of their way to remind us why. As families across the country come together to celebrate the holidays, satellite TV giants Dish Network and DirecTV are wishing them a Merry Christmas by hiking the cost of their service plans. In line with years past, both companies have confirmed that they will raise the prices of various television packages and increase service fees as well. The increases come at a time when "cord cutting," or canceling pay TV service in favor of online video streaming services, is becoming an increasingly common trend - to the point where cable companies are producing awful, awful anti-cord cutting campaigns as a last-ditch effort to win back lost subscribers and prevent current customers from leaving. DirectTV and Dish will each hike their service fees by between $2 and $5 per month, and they began notifying customers of the change just before Christmas. Beyond the higher service fees, however, the companies' TV package pricing will increase as well. In a note to clients picked up by CNNMoney, Nomura Equity analyst Adam Ilkowitz said that the cost of DirecTV's average TV package will increase by 4.4% next year, up from the 3.2% average increase customers saw at the beginning of this year. The base "Entertainment" plan will jump to $58 per month from $55, and the price of DirecTV's top package will increase $5 to $130 per month.

Washington (United States) (AFP) - Two thirds of Americans say the current Congress is the worst ever, while three quarters slammed the "do-nothing" legislature, a CNN/ORC International poll found Thursday. The negative attitudes were expressed toward leading lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, with 52 percent saying the policies of Democrats would move the country in the wrong direction, compared to 54 percent for Republican policies. And 54 percent of respondents said the same thing about the policies of President Barack Obama, a Democrat. The 113th Congress did pass a budget agreement before its holiday recess, but less than 60 bills have been signed into law during its first year. And with a continued political stalemate likely in 2014, when mid-term elections will take place, the current Congress is poised to become one of the least productive in at least the past four decades, CNN noted. A total of 68 percent of those questioned said the current Congress was the worst in their lifetime, with only 28 percent disagreeing. The negative outlook toward Congress "exists among all demographic and political subgroups. Men, women, rich, poor, young, old -- all think this year's Congress has been the worst they can remember," CNN polling director Keating Holland said. "Older Americans -- who have lived through more congresses -- hold more negative views of the 113th Congress than younger Americans. Republicans, Democrats and independents also agree that this has been the worst session of Congress in their lifetimes."

WEST READING, Pa. (AP) - A terminally ill girl who received support from thousands of Christmas carolers outside her home over the weekend died early on Christmas morning, her family said. Delaney Brown, 8, of West Reading "passed away quietly with her loving family by her side," family spokesman Christopher Winters said in a statement Wednesday. On Saturday night, thousands gathered outside her home in eastern Pennsylvania to fulfill her wish for a huge holiday singalong. The crowd cycled through holiday favorites such as "Frosty the Snowman," ''Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer" and "Jingle Bells" and ended with a chorus of "Happy Birthday" to the girl, who turned 8 on Friday, The Reading Eagle reported. Shortly after the caroling began, the family's Facebook page showed a picture of Delaney giving two thumbs up with the text, "I can hear you now!!! Love you!" Delaney, whose nickname is Laney, was diagnosed in May with a rare form of leukemia. The community held fundraisers to defray the cost of her medical expenses. An update posted Wednesay on the "Team Laney" Facebook page said: "My heart breaks right now. Our little angel on earth earned her pink glittery angel wings in heaven. She took her last breath at home in her bed at 3:10 surrounded by all her family and friends. I miss her so much already." "Laney was a wonderful, kind, and loving child, who brought so much joy to our lives," the family said. "Even as her illness progressed, Laney never stopped having faith, she continued to smile in spite of her pain, and she showed more concern for all of us than for herself." Her family also expressed gratitude for the support they had received from people all

If your gifts didn't arrive on time to place under the tree this year, United Parcel Service might be to blame. The nation's largest package carrier failed to deliver all packages to consumers by Christmas Eve, deflating the holiday spirit for some irate customers. In a statement, UPS said it simply could not keep up with last-minute shipments as "the volume of air packages in our system exceeded the capacity of our network." READ: Global Champagne Sales Fall Flat The company spokeswoman called it "a perfect storm" of problems, blaming the delays on the normal surge in deliveries this time of year, the compressed shopping season, and the growth of e-commerce that increased demand for shipping right before the holiday. An ice storm that backed up air travel in Dallas also didn't help matters. Although UPS said only a small percentage of packages didn't make it to their destinations on time, consumers are not pleased. They took to social media, creating a series of hashtags including #UPSdelays and #UPSfail. @JeremyEich You didn't deliver mine and now my 10 year old doesn't get his present. #upsfail - The Mac (@themacinator) December 25, 2013 Thanks @UPS for ruining Xmas. Does a promised delivery date not mean anything to you? #upsfail - Tejas Mehta (@tpmehta) December 25, 2013 @UPS. @UPSHelp @UPS_News sadly the clock has struck midnight and you failed to deliver my package by 12/24. #UPSFail