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A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying nearly 300 people has crashed in eastern Ukraine, near the Russian border. In the immediate aftermath, it is not clear whether the plane was shot down, but Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is calling for a swift investigation.
It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish.
And I'm Robert Siegel. We begin this hour with a crash of a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet. It went down in eastern Ukraine with 280 passengers and 15 crew members. The plane crashed in the part of Ukraine that has seen intense fighting between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces. Each side is now accusing the other of shooting the plane down. Video of the site shows wreckage spread over a wide area. Emergency workers say they have counted more than 100 bodies. NPR's Corey Flintoff joins us now from Moscow. And Corey, what do we know so far about this crash?
COREY FLINTOFF, BYLINE: Well, we know the plane was a Boeing 777 - a jumbo jet. And it was on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. The airline says it lost contact with the flight over Ukraine just as it was about to cross into Russian airspace. Ukrainian aviation officials say the flight appeared to be normal right up until the time it disappeared.
SIEGEL: That might be seen as supporting the idea of foul play here.
FLINTOFF: Yes, and that's what the Ukrainian government is saying - specifically, that the plane was shot down at an altitude of around 33,000 feet by a ground to air missile. The Ukrainian officials are even specifying that it was a kind of Soviet and Russian missile known as a Buk - that's a mobile missile launcher on tracks. They say that Russia provided these Buk missile launchers to the rebels and that the rebels must have shot the plane down.
SIEGEL: But the rebels are claiming that Ukrainian forces fired the missile that shot the plane down.
FLINTOFF: Yes they are. And Ukrainians also have these Buk missile systems. But, you know, it's worth remembering that the two sides are involved in this very intense and bloody conflict right now. And they both seize on any opportunity for propaganda. And frankly, they both lied about things that have happened.
One thing that's worth noting is that the rebel's military commander - he's known as Strelkov - Igor Girkin is his actual name, he's a Russian citizen. He said on Twitter that his forces had shot down a Ukrainian military cargo plane just at about the time that this Malaysian jet disappeared. And that tweet was later deleted from his account.
SIEGEL: Corey, this is not the first plane that has gone down in the area recently. What can you tell us about that?
FLINTOFF: Well, Ukraine says that one of its military transport planes was shot down on Monday. They say it was shot down by a missile fired from the Russian side of the border. The Ukrainians also say that one of their jet fighters was shot down yesterday by an air-to-air missile. And since the rebels don't seem to have fighter aircrafts, that would seem to imply that their missile was fired by a Russian military jet. And that's the strongest allegation so far from the Ukrainian government - that Russia's military is now taking a direct part in this fighting. Russia, of course, is denying that it has any military involvement in the conflict.
SIEGEL: A U.S. official has said on background that the U.S. believes the plane was, in fact, shot down by a missile. And NPR reporters have heard from congressional sources that U.S. officials expect to have a pretty clear idea of what happened there by tomorrow. Does that seem possible given the conditions on the ground?
FLINTOFF: Well, the area where the plane went down is under rebel control. It's actually not very far from Donetsk. And, of course, there's been speculation that whoever controls the area basically controls the evidence. Russia has offered to work jointly with Ukraine to investigate the crash, but that seems pretty unlikely, frankly. One thing about this conflict though is that this region has been under very intense scrutiny by NATO analysts who've been looking at satellite data. So it may actually be possible to figure out what happened on the basis of that data.
SIEGEL: OK, Corey. Thank you.
FLINTOFF: My pleasure.
SIEGEL: That's NPR's Corey Flintoff reporting on today's crash of the Malaysian airliner in eastern Ukraine, speaking to us from Moscow. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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I'm often asked why the majority of Fortune 500 companies, more than 60% actually, have chosen to incorporate in the small state of Delaware. Why are more than 75% of all new initial public offerings in the U.S. done by companies incorporated in Delaware, a state with fewer than 1 million residents? Why is Delaware able to generate more than 25% of its general fund revenue from the incorporation business? And why have other states been unable to steal this business away from Delaware?
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The issue:
Even after a hard-fought deficit-cutting deal in 2011 and a tax-increase measure in January, Washington still has a considerable way to go to wrestle intractable budget deficits under control. The Congressional Budget Office estimates cumulative deficits of roughly $7 trillion over the coming decade and warns "such high and rising debt would have serious consequences," including higher interest costs for the government, reduced national savings and investment and a potential fiscal crisis.
The campaign promise:
"I've put forward a specific $4 trillion deficit-reduction plan." — President Barack Obama, Oct. 3, 2012, presidential debate.
The prospects:
Obama based the $4 trillion claim on last year's budget and updated it in the budget he released in April. It incorporates $2.6 trillion in deficit savings already achieved by capping annual appropriations bills over a decade, the January tax increase on wealthier earners and the resulting savings on interest payments on the debt. The rest would come from a 10-year $583 billion tax increase, an additional layer of tax increases from slower indexing of tax brackets for inflation, modest curbs to federal health care programs and further savings on interest payments on the $16 trillion national debt.
In budget circles, $4 trillion in deficit cuts is an important figure because that's the amount of savings claimed by Obama's own deficit commission, co-chaired by former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles. Bowles' plan set an enduring marker in the deficit debate in late 2010; it went after sacred cows of both Democrats and Republicans, proposing large tax increases and controversial cuts to benefit programs like Social Security and Medicare, including raising the eligibility age for both.
Bowles' 2010 plan was actually far tougher than Obama's and would generate significantly greater deficit savings. One reason: The same policy prescriptions that would have yielded $4 trillion over a decade in deficit savings if enacted in 2011 would produce far more in a 10-year time frame starting now.
Obama's accounting can be iffy, too. His plan fails to account for deficit-increasing moves also enacted during his presidency, like a two-year, approximately $240 billion reduction in the Social Security payroll tax and another two years of additional unemployment benefits. It also assumes its mix of tax increases and spending cuts would replace the automatic spending cuts going into place now.
Regardless, it's questionable whether Washington will get to $4 trillion. A round of talks between Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, collapsed in December. The two sides were not that far apart, at least on paper, as they looked to add $2 trillion or more in deficit savings on top of those already accomplished. Boehner broke off the talks.
Instead, Obama won more than $600 billion over 10 years in higher taxes on wealthier earners, but the episode produced lots of bad feelings and Boehner and every other GOP leader on Capitol Hill promise there will be no further tax increases now — even though some of them had once supported a higher net new revenue figure than Obama won in January.
Obama, for his part, says there will be no budget pact without additional revenues.
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Any budget deal with both tax increases and cuts to politically popular benefit programs will ultimately have to pass through a gauntlet of tea party Republicans and liberal Democrats. The need to raise the government's borrowing cap also may be pushed off until the fall, delaying the moment in which it all comes to a head.
Republicans say it'll take presidential leadership and a willingness to take on liberal interest groups to break the impasse. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., thinks a smaller-scale agreement is more likely than an elusive "grand bargain."
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — For the Giants, playing the Philadelphia Eagles is a long-shot last chance at making the playoffs.
For Andy Reid, it's probably a last chance in Philly.
The Giants (8-7) try to finish what has turned into a frustrating season on a good note Sunday when they face Philadelphia (4-11) in what likely will be Reid's final game as Eagles head coach.
Having blown a 6-2 start and two-game, late November lead in the NFC East, the defending Super Bowl champions need to beat the Eagles, have Minnesota and Chicago lose and have the Redskins either beat or tie Dallas just to get a wild-card berth.
It's not likely, especially after being torched the past two weeks by Atlanta and Baltimore by a combined 67-14.
"The last two weeks have been pretty embarrassing," said Lawrence Tynes, who kicked the Giants into the Super Bowl twice in the past five seasons. "There is no other word to say when you go out and play like we have. It's not a reflection of our head coach or this organization, and what they have done in the past. It puts a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths, so we have to play better. We have to dig down deep and figure something out between now and Sunday to at least go out, if we are not in the playoffs, thinking: 'OK, I played well the last game of the year.'"
Turning things around against the Eagles is not going to be easy. Philadelphia has won seven of the last eight against the Giants, including 19-17 in late September, just before the Eagles fell apart.
Making things even tougher will be how much the Eagles will be motivated to send Reid out a winner. They also will have Michael Vick returning to the starting lineup for the first time since suffering a concussion against Dallas in early November.
Giants defensive captain Justin Tuck saw the irony in Vick's return, especially because he has always made life miserable for the defense.
"They are going to be fired up," Tuck said. "We expect to get their best shot, no question. Regardless if it is Andy Reid's last game or whatever it may be, Vick there, whoever, this rivalry between these two teams, it always means something. I expect it to be one of those old-school Philly versus Giants football games."
Reid refused to discuss his future, saying he had not even thought of this as his final game as coach.
The Giants also want to end the season on a high note, especially after losing five of seven in the second half of the season.
"We're not defeated," safety Antrel Rolle said. "We still have one game to go in the season and we know no matter what the outcome will be after that game, we're going to go out there and fight extremely hard. Like you said, we're playing against the Eagles. We're playing against a division rival, we're going out there and playing a game and trying to be as effective as we can."
Defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka still believes.
"It's not all gone yet," he said. "We're still looking forward. At the end of the season we'll reflect and see where things went wrong. But for right now, it's about getting a win and doing what we have to do so if things happen to fall how we want them, we're still in a position to get to the playoffs."


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Fate and design, weather and the story of beauty: painting as a way of life for Mark Alsterlind '76
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The paintings Mark Alsterlind '76 creates nowadays are becoming more and more like objects, even turning into sculpture. And they have something to do with the geography of memory, nourished by sketchbooks: tales of rivers, rocks, and trees. The physical works themselves are even shaped for months or years by the elements, at least when Alsterlind works outside—something he began doing decades ago out of necessity. The young artist was offered a place to live and paint in Provence—an empty house with no electricity and no windows—so he began working in the outside light. That has meant, as his works take shape and stories unfold, twigs and pine needles might find their way in; animals might walk across. But theirs won't be the only footfalls; in animating and enlivening his work, Alsterlind has said, "Often, I find myself dancing with my canvases."
France has been Alsterlind's home for three decades; he still has a studio in Provence, another in Paris, and normally he's working on 150 or so paintings at any given time. There's the quality of endless pursuit in what he does. But also, he says, "There's always the element of serendipity to wing me along." His work has been shown scores of times—from Paris to San Francisco, Basel to New York. A 2007 book, Perspectives (Lucie Éditions), offers a 20-year retrospective.
|St. Romain (2010).
At Santa Clara he studied European history and interned at the de Saisset Museum—which, indirectly, led him to discover that, for him, painting is a way of life. As an apprentice artist, he was enlisted in a project to create a replica of the famed Lascaux cave paintings.
Along with his daily work, there's a newer, delicious endeavor that asks participants to violate a fundamental rule: Don't eat paint. With chocolate and colored cocoa butter, Alsterlind creates edible art. This scrumptious idea was inspired by an exhibit of Alsterlind's paintings at a three-star restaurant where he decided, "I'd rather work in a plate than on the wall." That's also led to collaboration with San Francisco chocolatier Michael Rechiutti.
This enticing evolution stems from a fire that has kindled Alsterlind's work as a whole for years: "I like playing with light, color, and paint. It keeps me alive."
- Jacky Recchiuti said on Jul 18, 2012
- It's been a pleasure to work with Mark for the last eight years and develop a friendship enriched by art, food & wine. We look forward to many, many years to come. Jacky & Michael Recchiuti
- Séverine G. said on Jul 19, 2012
Living by Mark's side is a constant wonder. So sometimes, I wonder: what drives Mark's endless energy to create? I have yet to come up with an answer to that question. If any of you knows what soft and secret madness drives artists' lives and choices, please let me know! Séverine G.
- brad said on Jul 19, 2012
- Hmmm. . . What drives an artist's soul? It is a mystery. But it is, indeed, a kind of madness. I, too, have been consumed by an artistic project to the point of forsaking everything else, and I have learned from that experience. What did I learn? For me: that the art is temporal, temporary, mercilessly self-indulgent, and not worth the sacrifice of spiritual, eternal things. For another, who has no spiritual life, making art IS their spiritual life. I do not judge them. I am glad they make art for our sake, to observe and enjoy.
Summer 2012
Table of contents
The Makers
What does it mean to teach the arts—and to create art in all its forms—here and now? By that, we mean here at Santa Clara, in the heart of Silicon Valley, with threads reaching out to the rest of the world.
Respect the game
Now they're the subject of dreams-may-come true movies. But in the beginning, they were women who just wanted to play soccer.
Mission Matters
People, prosperity, and the planet
A new fuel cell design brings top honors to student engineers.
In the zone
First Julie Johnston '14 was freshman of the year. Then All-American. Now the Under-20 World Cup is calling.
Truth, justice, and coping with atrocities
Legal scholar Beth Van Schaack tapped for State Department post tackling war crimes—from Cambodia to the former Yugoslavia.


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KDevelop 3.4 has been released, bringing many new features to KDE's Integrated Development Environment. The first major release in over a year closes more than 500 bugs. There is an impressive list of additional features including improved Qt 4 support, new debugging abilities, more attractive default user interface layout, and improvements for C++, Ruby, and PHP support. The developers have put together a slideshow to showcase the new features.


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Opinion: Issues
Church & State & Sharia Law
The leader of the Anglican communion, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams, is advocating that the UK accommodate the sharia law of Islam. While counseling that sharia law must never be allowed to trump basic human rights, the Archbishop believes that in "some cultural and religious settings" Muslims should be allowed to resolve… READ MORE >
Opinion: Issues
Why the Bearded One is Right about Sharia Law
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is an unusually courageous and thoughtful man, one of the few leaders in Britain willing to risk public outrage in order to point up uncomfortable truths. His lecture yesterday in the Royal Courts of Justice was exactly what is needed in the UK now: a challenge to the Positivism which is in gradual… READ MORE >
Opinion: Issues
No, Accommodating Sharia Law Would be a Mistake
When I read Austen Ivereigh's provocative essay, "Why the Bearded One Is Right About Sharia Law," defending the recent speech by Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, I was compelled to respond. With all due respect to Mr. Ivereigh, I believe that he and Dr. Williams… READ MORE >
Opinion: Issues
Defending the Archbishop: It's All in the Details
My defense of the Archbishop of Canterbury's proposals for Britain to accommodate sharia law omitted to mention that the devil is in the detail, as an excellent Reuters report points out, and as Dr. Williams himself indicated. But the recent press, calming now after the storm, confirms the point I was making: as Tom Heneghan, religion… READ MORE >
Opinion: Issues
Sharia Controversy: A Storm in a Teacup
One of the alarming things about the furor over the Archbishop of Canterbury's lecture at the Royal Courts of Justice is how a call to "think a little harder" about a complex and important issue in our society has resulted in the exact opposite: a lot of people thinking less and shouting louder. The newspapers and other media have led… READ MORE >
What lies beyond Lambeth's Sharia humiliation?
What is happening here, it seems to me, is that the dilemmas of a withering and shrinking (if not dying) institution, the established Church of England, are being awkwardly welded onto the insecurities and threats experienced by other minority communities in order to produce a case for the preservation of one in conjunction with the granting of new influence to the other. This is misguided for all kinds of reasons. From a Christian point of view, the church should be [a church] … willing to take risks more than it craved safeguards. One committed to the ethos of peacemaking rather than the ethos of armed defence. One willing to move away from internal squabbling, resist tempting absorption into the government's contract culture, and abandon rearguard actions against the demise of the old Christendom era where its allegiance rested on the status quo much more than on the subversive company of Jesus. These are the challenging yet exciting issues one would hope an archbishop of a resourceful church in England, rather than a fading Church of England, might be willing to tackle. It would take imagination, bravery, intelligence and prayerfulness. But he has those in spades." READ MORE >
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LAKEWOOD Business was brisk but quiet around Colorado as shoppers took advantage of Black Friday deals, with the exception of a Lakewood Walmart where dozens of protesters marched outside the store in support of the workers.
Some held signs playing off the retailing giants corporate slogan, Live better. They accused the company of corporate greed and underpaying its workers.
While some shoppers expressed concern with crossing the protest line and entering the stores, customers were able to go in and out of the store without incident.
Jenevieve Beaulieu, who was at the store to buy a Christmas tree, said, A lot of people dont have jobs. Wal-Mart is very cheap. I dont know what theyre thinking. Hostess shut down.
They striked and they shut down, Beaulieu said. Wal-Mart is not going to shut down, but this isnt a good idea.
Protester Charlie May, of the Industrial Workers of the World, said, This is the way you get a fair shake. Youve got to fight for it. Youve always have. His unions membership peaked in the 1920s.
A union-backed group called OUR Wal-Mart was staging demonstrations and walkouts at hundreds of stores across the country on Black Friday. It was unclear how many people participated in those protests or what effect they had on business.
The OUR Wal-Mart group doesnt speak for the 1.3 million Wal-Mart associates, David Tovar, vice president of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. corporate communications said in a statement. We had our best Black Friday ever, and OUR Wal-Mart was unable to recruit more than a small number of associates to participate in these made for TV events.
The Lakewood Walmart parking lot was half-empty by midmorning on one of the busiest shopping days of the year, while shopping was brisk in other areas. KUSA-TV reported long lines overnight outside Target, Best Buy and Toys R Us stores in Denver.