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The Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant's revenue rose 17% to $6.7 billion. Excluding advertising sales that Google shares with partners, a figure also known as traffic acquisition costs, the company Jordan 9.5 reported sales of $4.95 billion, which beat analysts' forecast of $4.92 billion. Google's sales had not reached double-digit growth since the fourth quarter of 2008. During the first nine months of 2009, sales slowed to a crawl, increasing just 5% during that period. Prior to the Jordan Spizikes first quarter of 2009, Google's sales had grown at least 10% in every quarter since its 2004 IPO. Sales got a boost as the struggling advertising market made a strong comeback. Advertisers paid 5% more per click on ads served on Google's Web site in the fourth quarter than they did a year ago. That figure was up 2% over the third quarter of 2009. In a sign that consumers are increasingly willing to spend, more Internet users clicked on ads. The number of paid clicks on ads served on Google's Web sites rose 13% from last year and 9% from the third quarter of 2009. Google said that companies, especially retailers, increased their adoption of online advertising last quarter as more consumers looked to the Web to buy goods. Both paid clicks and click traffic were down significantly in the first nine months of 2009, which dragged down Jordan True Flight Google's revenues during that time. Jordan 6 (Six) Rings Jordan foamposite lite ED Hardy ED Hardy Jeans 6. Air America going dark Starting at 6 p.m. ET Thursday, Air ED Hardy America will broadcast "encore programming" though Jan. 25 and then cease to air. Current employees will be ED Hardy Jeans paid through Thursday, and severance packages will be offered Friday to full-time employees with more than six months of tenure. Formerly known as Air America Radio, the network launched in 2004 with personalities including Rachel Maddow and Al Franken, now a Democratic U.S. senator from Minnesota. In October 2006, Air America Radio filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection but was able to stay on the air while it reorganized. Green Family Media bought the network in March 2007, and it eventually grew to 100 radio outlets nationwide. The network called itself "the only full-time progressive voice in the mainstream broadcast media world" at the time of its launch, according to its statement Thursday. Air America presented dissenting views on issues like the Iraq War at a time when such statements "were often denounced as 'un-American,' " the statement continued. But the changing media industry crippled the network's growth. "With radio industry ad revenues down for 10 consecutive quarters, and reportedly off 21% in 2009, signs of improvement have consisted of hoping things will be less bad," the statement said Starting at 6 p.m. ET Thursday, Air America will broadcast "encore programming" though Jan. 25 and then cease to air. Current employees will be paid through Thursday, and severance packages will be offered Friday to full-time employees with more than six months of tenure. Formerly known as Air America Radio, the network launched in 2004 with personalities including Rachel Maddow and Al Franken, now a Democratic U.S. senator from Minnesota. In October 2006, Air America Radio filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection but was able to stay on the air while it reorganized. Green Family Media bought the network in March 2007, and it eventually grew to 100 radio outlets nationwide. The network called itself "the only full-time progressive voice in the mainstream broadcast media world" at the time of its launch, according to its statement Thursday. Air America presented dissenting views on issues like the Iraq War at a time when such statements "were often denounced as 'un-American,' " the statement continued. But the changing media industry crippled the network's growth. "With radio industry ED Hardy Hoody ad revenues down for 10 consecutive quarters, and reportedly off 21% in 2009, signs of improvement have consisted of hoping things will be less bad," the statement said ED Hardy shoes Women's ED Hardy T-Shirt Women's ED Hardy Jeans ED Hardy Belts

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Troops surround Filipino massacre clan targets: army

GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines — The Philippine army on Thursday sent hundreds of extra troops to contain a powerful Muslim clan whose members have been indicted for the political massacre of 57 people last week. The extra battalion of 400 soldiers brings to more than 3,000 the number now guarding the home of the Ampatuan clan and government offices in Maguindanao province, military Air Jordan Shoes spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Romeo Brawner said. "Our forces are now stationed in the area. They are restricting their movement within the compound (home)," Brawner told AFP. "We have added one more infantry battalion." Supporters of the clan, which has ruled Maguindanao for a decade and has its own private army, were Michael Jordan Shoes being barred from entering the home in the provincial capital of Sharrif Aguak, Brawner said. The move is also meant to support the national police if and when warrants of arrest are issued for several clan members who could be charged with murder, including the patriarch Andal Ampatuan Snr, he said. "Right now the security is Air Jordan 7 very tight in the area. We are stopping their supporters from entering their home," Brawner said. The patriarch's son and namesake, Andal Ampatuan Jnr, was arrested three days after the November 23 massacre and has been charged with 25 counts of murder so far. Authorities said he will likely face more charges. The savagery of the murders, which included the deliberate targeting and execution of at least 30 journalists, has shocked this Catholic nation as well as the international community. Police have indicted Ampatuan Snr and four other family members for their alleged role in the massacre, and are waiting for the justice department to decide whether to charge them in court. Police allege Ampatuan Jnr and 100 of his gunmen shot dead the occupants of a convoy that included relatives of his rival for the post of Maguindanao governor in next year's elections, as well as a group of journalists. The rival, Esmael Mangudadatu, said the killings were carried out to stop him from running for office. Many of the journalists killed were from General Santos, a major port city a few hours' drive from where the massacre took place. Ampatuan Jnr and Snr were members of President Gloria Arroyo's ruling coalition until being expelled last week because of the killings.

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Moves by U.S., China induce India to do its bit on climate

NEW DELHI -- Recent announcements by the United States and China to cut carbon dioxide emissions are propelling India to make its own commitment to slow greenhouse gas emissions and go to the upcoming Copenhagen climate summit with a firm proposal on reductions. The move marks a significant shift for India, which until recently had insisted that wealthier nations should bear the brunt of carbon cuts rather than emerging nations, whose economies are less Air Jordan Shoes developed. But President Obama's pledge for the United States to cut emissions by 17 percent by 2020 and an offer by China to lower by 40 percent its carbon intensity -- that is, carbon dioxide emissions relative to the size of its economy -- have put new, unexpected pressure on India, a senior government official said Tuesday. A new carbon-intensity target may be announced by New Delhi this week, said the official, who is part of India's climate negotiation team and spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not Air Jordan 11 authorized to discuss the matter publicly before a formal announcement is made. "The Americans are now on board after President Obama's offer. China has expressed its willingness to stick its neck out. Now, we are also willing to do our bit, China-style," the official said. "The two developments signaled to us that the global politics has moved beyond everybody sitting behind their tables and doing nothing. So, a lot of number-crunching is going on now." India previously insisted that Air Jordan 12 wealthy nations help support carbon cuts in less developed countries. The new proposal will be a domestic initiative, however, and will not be dependent on international financial or technological support, the official said. India's rapid economic growth over the past decade and its billion-plus population have made it the world's fourth-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases.

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On Afghanistan, Obama finds friend in India

WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama, faced with a wary Western public days before he unveils a new strategy on Afghanistan, is embracing the role of India, one of the countries most worried about a Taliban resurgence. India -- not a traditional donor -- has been Air Jordan 12 a top aid supplier to Afghanistan, but greater commitment could hit a major obstacle -- Pakistan, a frontline nation in the US-led war effort and one which resents historic rival India's growing influence. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in Washington for the first official visit of the Obama presidency, signed a Air Jordan Shoes joint statement pledging to "enhance" cooperation to root out extremists in Afghanistan. Obama and Singh in their statement voiced "their shared interest in the stability, development and independence of Afghanistan and in the defeat of terrorist safe havens in Pakistan and Afghanistan." Ashley J. Tellis, a South Air Jordan 13 Asia expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said India's reconstruction efforts fit in neatly with the Obama drive to ensure Afghanistan will no longer be a haven for extremists. "India has a comparative advantage in this area and it provokes the least Pakistani anxiety," Tellis said. Owing to India's cheaper labor and proximity to Afghanistan, Tellis estimated that Indian-led reconstruction projects cost up to 10 times less than a Western-driven efforts. Since the US-led military operation ousted the Taliban in November 2001, India has committed 1.2 billion dollars to Afghanistan including for social services such as health and education. India is constructing the new parliament, roads and power lines as well as building new tube-wells, improving sanitation and giving medical assistance. India has historically been a top contributor to UN peacekeeping missions but there has been little talk of sending Indian troops to Afghanistan. Pakistan, fearful of being trapped between hostile nations, had reportedly urged the United States to limit the Indian presence. Army chief Ashfaq Kayani told US national security adviser Jim Jones in a meeting this month that India's role in Afghanistan was "counterproductive in the war on terror," according to Pakistan's The Nation newspaper.

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Two executed over tainted milk that killed babies

Two men have been executed in China for selling hundreds of tonnes of contaminated milk that killed six babies and made 300,000 ill. The scandal that erupted in September last year highlighted the shoddy safety standards of food in China and the readiness of the authorities to hush up problems that could Michael Jordan Shoes have cast a shadow over the Beijing Olympics in August. Officials have never admitted a cover-up to avoid any tarnishing of China’s image during last Air Jordan 14 year’s Games but many parents of ill babies suspect that there was one. Zhang Yujun and Geng Jinping were put to death after their appeals were turned down. Zhang, a cattle farmer, had been convicted of producing and selling more than 770 tonnes of protein powder laced with the industrial chemical melamine between July 2007 Air Jordan 15 and August 2008. The chemical was mixed into milk to give the appearance of a higher protein content in tests. Geng was found guilty of selling milk tainted by the powder to dairy brokers as well as to the now-defunct Sanlu Group, a state-run dairy company that was at the heart of the fraud. A court statement said that Zhang was executed “for the crime of endangering public safety”. Geng was found guilty of producing and selling toxic food. All death sentences are reviewed by the Supreme Court and many are now carried out by lethal injection rather than firing squad.

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Former Thai Prime Minister Samak dies

Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Former Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, who was ousted from office last year for appearing on television cooking shows for payment, died Tuesday. Samak died after a two-month hospitalization Air Jordan Shoes at Bangkok's Bumrungrad International Hospital for liver cancer, said his personal secretary, Paisarn Akkasarakul. Samak was 74 and had battled cancer for a year. His funeral will be held at Benjamaborpit Temple and a royally sponsored bathing rite is set for Wednesday, the Thai News Agency said. Samak steered the People Air Jordan 13 Power Party to victory in December 2007 in the first democratically held election since a bloodless coup the year before. But the veteran politician and former governor of Bangkok was accused of being a nominee of friend and former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose administration was mired in allegations of corruption. Samak also faced allegations of corruption, appealed a three-year prison sentence for defaming a deputy governor and Air Jordan 14 dealt with an election commission decision that his party had committed fraud in the 2007 balloting and should be dissolved. His nine months in office ended last year with political crisis in Thailand. Thousands of protesters camped outside the government's headquarters and blocked Samak from entering. But it was his television show, "Tasting While Grumbling," that ultimately ended Samak's career. As host, Samak served up his favorite Thai dishes, as well as commentary that struck his fancy He was forced to step down as prime minister in August 2008 after Thailand's Supreme Court ruled that he had violated the constitution by accepting payment to host the popular show.

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China’s Coal-Mine Explosion Death Toll Rises to 104

Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- China’s worst mining accident in almost two years killed at least 104 in a coal-mine explosion in Heilongjiang province, raising concerns of a crackdown that may close mines and tighten supply in the world’s biggest producer. Four miners are still trapped underground, the official Xinhua News Agency said. A total of 528 were working when the blast occurred at 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 21 at the Xinxing mine in northeastern China, the State Air Jordan Shoes Administration of Work Safety said on its Web site. The accident may spur China, which relies on the fuel to generate 80 percent of its power, to order its second nationwide safety check on coal mines in three months. The death toll at the Xinxing mine is the highest since 105 were killed at the Xinyao pit in Shanxi in December 2007, the China Daily said. “The incident will have an impact Air Jordan 8 on future coal supply,” Li Dagang, a coal analyst with Essence Securities Ltd, said by telephone in Shanghai today. “It may trigger stringent safety checks all across the country,” Coal prices at Qinhuangdao port, a Chinese benchmark, have risen for nine weeks, gaining 1.6 percent to between 640 yuan and 660 yuan for the seven days ended Nov. 16. Prices at Australia’s Newcastle port, an Asian Michael Jordan Shoes benchmark, have jumped 32 percent since March 27, according to the globalCOAL NEWC Index. China has the world’s worst safety record for coal mines. The Asian nation consumed 1.4 billion tons of oil equivalent of coal in 2008, 42.6 percent of world demand, according to BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Coal Gas The Xinxing mine, owned by Heilongjiang Longmay Mining Holding Group Co., has an annual production capacity of 1.45 million tons and a high concentration of coal gas, according to the work safety administration. Officials at the company, including at the rescue unit, declined to comment or identity themselves when contacted today.

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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

There's a deranged grandeur to Nicolas Cage's performance in "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," in which he plays a police officer who plunges into drug addiction after a heroic on-the-job accident. Cage throws himself into a role of a man Air Jordan Shoes not so much battling as fervidly dancing with his demons, allowing him to indulge in his most manic, unhinged mannerisms. Like a jumpy, coke-fueled Pied Piper, Cage takes viewers to the very precipice of depraved self-abasement, while preserving just enough self-conscious humor to keep from tumbling in. In a season featuring an exceptional number of films about characters going rogue -- from "Where the Wild Things Are" and "Antichrist" to the upcoming movies "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" and "The Road" -- "Bad Lieutenant" may be the most true to its own Air Jordan 8 anarchic, subversive impulses. Director Werner Herzog, a filmmaker never known for half measures, has taken the basic character, plot points and leitmotifs from Abel Ferrara's 1992 "Bad Lieutenant," and given them more heat, humor and stylized action. His most provocative decision -- aside from, at least symbolically, resurrecting a character created and killed off by Ferrara and actor Harvey Keitel in the original film -- was to move the Michael Jordan Shoes story from New York to post-Katrina New Orleans. That turns out to have been a perceptive and aesthetically fruitful move, giving Herzog exactly the right atmosphere to explore his cardinal themes of man's inhumanity to man and the indiscriminate brutality of nature, in a city stripped to its swampy, morally murky essence. Moonlight and magnolias are thereby banished in Herzog's film, which instead presents a city still scarred and reeling from the deluge, a city not of beignets and Sazeracs but of featureless casinos, banal sports bars and the pervasive stench of rot from within. The New Orleans where Cage's Lt. Terence McDonagh investigates a homicide (scooping up generous helpings of controlled substances along the way) is a Wild West frontier of generalized squalor, where everyone is either jacked up or numbed out, including Terence's hooker girlfriend, played by the sensational Eva Mendes in a turn that recalls Ava Gardner in her earthy sexuality and innate warmth. With a hitched-up shoulder as pronounced as his jones for anything he can snort or smoke, Cage begins to resemble a dope-sick Richard III as the vortex of his addictions threatens to swallow him whole. For admirers who still miss the Cage who delivered the searing, Oscar-winning performance in the 1995 movie "Leaving Las Vegas," and who have despaired of his subsequent choices (ranging from the "National Treasure" franchise to driving a motorcycle with his hair on fire in "Ghost Rider"), this will represent a return to form for an actor who at his best represents the ferocity and uncompromising commitment of great acting.

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FAA Cites Software Failure in U.S. Flight Disruptions

Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Aviation Administration blamed a four-hour software failure for causing airline delays and cancellations across the U.S. in at least the third such disruption since September 2007. The shutdown lasted from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. New York time after “a software configuration” malfunction today in Salt Lake City, the FAA said. The agency is talking with Harris Corp., the vendor hired in 2002 to replace tens of thousands of connections and circuits, to prevent a recurrence. Today’s incident underscored the Air Jordan Shoes findings of a September 2008 report from the Transportation Department’s inspector general, who urged the FAA to improve the reliability of upgrades to its telecommunications system. “Technical problems are causing unscheduled outages and creating risks to air- traffic control operations,” the inspector general said. FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt was meeting with representatives from Melbourne, Florida-based Harris “to discuss Michael Jordan Shoes system corrections,” the agency said in a statement. Harris’s $2.4 billion FAA project called for improving circuits that carry phone calls and e-mail as well as information such as radar and weather data. The FAA’s aim is to consolidate seven networks into one system to boost efficiency and reduce costs. The upgrade is “one of the most reliable” in the government, said Sleighton Meyer, a company spokesman. Catching Up The air-traffic system was still Air Jordan 9 catching up at 4 p.m. Washington time after Delta Air Lines Inc. reported “significant” delays and cancellations. AMR Corp.’s American Airlines, US Airways Group Inc. and AirTran Holdings Inc. also were affected. Harris fell $1.20, or 2.7 percent, to $43.35 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. The shares have climbed 21 percent this year. The Transportation Department’s 2008 report noted two other incidents in which FAA telecommunications failures disrupted flights. In September 2007, radar, flight and voice communications were lost in Memphis, Tennessee, causing 566 delays, according to the report. In November of that year, service was lost in Jacksonville, Florida, causing 85 delays, the report said.

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Best bets: Jacob gets to howl in ‘New Moon’

Movies Are you ready to abandon Team Edward in favor of Team Jacob? It looks like Bella (Kristen Stewart) just might do that in “New Moon,” the latest installment of the “Twilight” series. We’ve heard all about Taylor Lautner’s newly buff bod and Robert Pattinson’s unbelievable popularity Air Jordan Shoes with fans, but will all that translate to a true box office bonanza? (Opens Nov. 20) How can you possibly resist this Werner Herzog “reimagining” of Abel Ferrara’s gritty 1992 film, "Bad Lieutenant"? In “The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,” Nicolas Cage stars as a drug-addled Michael Jordan Shoes detective in post-Katrina New Orleans. Variety wrote, “The film is offbeat, silly, disarming and loopy all at the same time.” (Opens Nov. 20) Music Norah Jones trades her silky smooth style for a more rocking sound with her new album, “The Fall.” Spin magazine Air Jordan 6 gave the album three and a half stars and calls it “a hot-blooded soul record from the queen of the even keel.” (On sale Nov. 17) Two of Simon Cowell’s prodigies have new albums this week. “X Factor’s” Leona Lewis releases “Echo,” and “American Idol’s” Kris Allen puts out his self-titled album. Who will win this battle of the talent-show winners? (On sale Nov. 17)

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