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People walk by the grave of Przemyslaw Gosiewski, a Polish lawmaker who was killed in Russia in 2010 along with President Lech Kaczynski, in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Gosiewski's remains were exhumed on Monday so a new autopsy can be performed on them due to reported mistakes in an initial Russian forensic investigation. Gosiewski is one of three of the 96 people killed in the April 2010 crash whose remains are being submitted to new autopsies due to alleged mistakes in the Russian documentation. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
People walk by the grave of Przemyslaw Gosiewski, a Polish lawmaker who was killed in Russia in 2010 along with President Lech Kaczynski, in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Gosiewski's remains were exhumed on Monday so a new autopsy can be performed on them due to reported mistakes in an initial Russian forensic investigation. Gosiewski is one of three of the 96 people killed in the April 2010 crash whose remains are being submitted to new autopsies due to alleged mistakes in the Russian documentation. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? One autopsy report describes organs that had been removed years before. Another adds 20 centimeters (nearly 8 inches) to a short man, making no mention of bones disfigured by childhood polio. One family doubts whether an autopsy was performed at all.
Polish investigators have exhumed the remains of three of the 96 Poles killed in the 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed President Lech Kaczynski due to what they say are flaws in the initial autopsies performed by Russian officials.
Two of the 96 victims were exhumed this week in Poland, following a first such exhumation last August. More could follow, prosecutors say.
"There were discrepancies. Evidence gathered in Poland differed from information in the Russian documentation," said Col. Zbigniew Rzepa, spokesman for the chief military prosecutor's office. "We had to carry out the exhumations to clarify all the doubts."
Surviving relatives of the three have been enraged by the faulty autopsy reports, which have added to their private grief. News of the flawed reports has also added to suspicions held by some Poles that the Russians were, at best, sloppy in their handling of the crash aftermath, and, at worst, trying to cover something up.
At one extreme, the flawed autopsies have encouraged Polish conspiracy theories claiming Vladimir Putin and other Russian leaders ordered the downing of Kaczynski's plane, which crashed in fog on April 10, 2010. According to one fanciful theory, Russians produced fake fog to blind the pilots. Another claims there were survivors of the crash who were later shot.
No ranking Polish officials voice such views, which are seen as fringe by many Poles ? though they have been encouraged by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, a conservative party leader who is the late president's surviving twin.
A Polish government investigation determined that the crash was primarily caused by inadequate pilot training and errors but that poor guidance from Russian air traffic controllers also contributed.
The new autopsies form part of a separate investigation by military prosecutors aimed at determining whether anyone bears blame for any crimes. No charges have been brought yet.
Andrei Kovalyov, the head of the Russian Center for Forensic Expertise, which conducted the autopsies, defended his group's work, and said if there are errors it is because the bodies were very badly disfigured in the plane crash.
"We have performed the genetic research and inspections of the bodies to international standard," Kovalyov told The Associated Press. "Any discrepancies, if they exist, are likely rooted not in badly performed autopsies but the fact that the bodies were fragmented. When remains of the numerous victims get mixed up inside the cabin there can be problems regarding the attribution of body parts."
Many Poles easily accept the Russian explanation and see no need for the exhumations, feeling that it doesn't change the larger picture of the tragedy.
Even Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said it's hard to expect perfect reports given "what state the bodies were in after the crash."
But, he added: "You have to respect the needs of the families, who want to have 100 percent certainty that the Russian documentation is consistent with their knowledge and the findings of Polish prosecutors."
The first victim to be exhumed, the late conservative lawmaker Zbigniew Wassermann, had a report filled with mistakes. News reports said it described organs that that been surgically removed years before and incorrectly described bone fractures he had suffered.
Neither prosecutors nor his family would give precise details, but his daughter Malgorzata Wassermann confirmed that general picture.
"The document from the Russian autopsy was taken out of the blue," she told AP. "It disagreed with the facts: It described things that did not exist and did not describe things that were there."
His new autopsy, carried out in August, corrected the record but did not change the larger conclusions about the cause of his death, said Col. Ireneusz Szelag, a spokesman for the prosecutors.
Another lawmaker, Przemyslaw Gosiewski, was exhumed on Monday. The Russian autopsy report described him as 1.8 meters tall (5 foot 9), when in fact he was 20 centimeters (nearly 8 inches) shorter, according to the law firm representing the family.
The report also failed to mention bone defects resulting from childhood polio.
"Glaring irregularities in the documentation mean there can't be certainty if an autopsy was even carried out," said Rafal Rogalski, the Gosiewski family lawyer.
In the case of the third exhumation, family members of Janusz Kurtyka, the head of a state historical institute, doubt that an autopsy was performed because they saw no marks on his body indicating a post-mortem, Szelag said.
Neither officials nor the family would reveal further details about Kurtyka's case.
Lech Kaczynski was a deeply patriotic leader who was skeptical of Russia, a historic foe that invaded Poland's eastern half during World War II and controlled the country during the Cold War. Most of the people traveling with him were political allies who shared his views, so it's no surprise their families would voice distrust in Russia after the crash.
The presidential delegation was traveling to honor 22,000 Polish officers murdered by Josef Stalin's secret police at the start of World War II in the Katyn forest and other locations. That symbolism only added to the national grief and to the suspicions.
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Associated Press writer Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow contributed to this report.
PHOENIX (AP) ? Rick Pitino once told Billy Donovan that he should stick to finance and not go into coaching.
Donovan has done all right for himself in the coaching world and now gets a chance to see how he measures up to his former boss.
Fabulous freshman Bradley Beal scored 21 points and Florida knocked off Marquette 68-58 Thursday night, setting up a desert showdown with Pitino and Louisville for a spot in the Final Four.
Pitino's Cardinals shut down top-seeded Michigan State 57-44 in the other West Regional semifinal to set up Saturday's mentor-protege final.
"Both teams have earned the right to play," said Donovan, 0-6 against Pitino with two of the losses in Louisville-Florida matchups. "And the competition part of it will never, ever get in the way with me for our relationship, ever."
Louisville (29-9) got the night started by overpowering Michigan State, using its amoeba-like zone and Senegalese shot-blocking sensation Gorgui Dieng to hold the NCAA tournament's best-shooting team to 28 percent from the floor.
The Cardinals gave the Spartans (29-8) fits all night.
Instead of trapping like it normally does, Louisville played a bait-and-switch game with Michigan State and Draymond Green, the Spartans' multitalented forward. The idea was to jump out on screens and make the Spartans work on every possession and, hopefully, wear them out.
It worked, in large part because Dieng was in the back to clean things up.
Tent-pole thin when he arrived in Louisville, the Senegalese center worked hard on his body and his game, developing into the one player the Cardinals had to have on the floor during his sophomore season. When he got in foul trouble, Louisville labored, so one of the key parts of Pitino's game plan was to make sure the Cardinals protected him.
They did and he protected the rim in return, getting five of his blocked shots in the second half to prevent Michigan State from mounting any kind of rally. Dieng finished with five points, nine rebounds and three steals while matching the school record for blocked shots in an NCAA tournament game.
"He was very disruptive," said Green, who had 13 points and 16 rebounds in his final game with Michigan State. "We're not going to back down from anyone. We took it at him. He pulled off some great blocked shots. That's what he does. That's his strength."
Michigan State started slow and never got going against Louisville's zone.
The Spartans got the shots they wanted and usually make, but couldn't get many to fall against Dieng or anyone else while being outscored 20-14 inside by the leaner Cardinals.
Brandon Wood added 14 points for the Spartans, who were outscored 17-4 off the bench.
"They disrupted us a little bit and we didn't have enough guys who could play well," Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said.
Florida (26-10) made it a coaching-tree final in the West behind the NBA-player-in-the-making Beal.
A player Donovan has been pushing to be more assertive, Beal hit 8 of 10 shots and scored on some dazzling drives to the basket. He also had six rebounds, four assists, two steals and two blocked shots to send the Gators to the regional final for the second straight year.
"Whenever you're missing shots from the outside, you should keep attacking the basket," Beal said.
Marquette (27-8) struggled in the first half with Big East player of the year Jae Crowder in foul trouble and never really recovered.
Crowder finished with 15 points on 5-for-15 shooting while another Marquette senior, Darius Johnson-Odom, also went 5 for 15 in a struggle to reach 14 points. Buzz Williams' team shot 31 percent and was held 18 points under its season average.
"You have to make shots, particularly on this stage in a tournament setting," Williams said. "If you don't make shots, the easy thing is to say we didn't make shots we typically make. That's not what happened. They were really good, they were outstanding and credit goes to them and their game plan with what we were trying to do offensively.
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All the talk these days is of the new iPad and its magical screen. Apple isn't the only one who can do that, you know. In fact, most display makers are looking forward to post-HD resolutions as one of the big selling points of the next generation of displays. Other tablets are already approaching iPad levels of pixel density and it would be foolish of the likes of Google and Microsoft not to be planning for it. Fortunately, Microsoft is well aware of the trend and has plans in place for dealing with displays with pixel-dense displays (or "Retina" to the vulgar).
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I have been a blogger for about three years now, specializing in home improvement and green technologies. It?s been a way for me to make my own schedule while writing and learning about things that I think are extremely interesting. I have been writing for my entire life, and this has been a great way for me to actually make a living off of my writing instead of dreaming about it.
I have a lot of motivations for being a good writer. First, I have a very self-critical eye. Whenever I write something, I have a tendency to read over it a few times before I actually submit it, analyzing the heck out of it the entire time. Most of that motivation is based on what I expect from myself as a writer. However, a lot of it is also the fact that my name is going to be attached to that blog piece. I don?t want anything attached to my name that isn?t my best work.
Another motivation I have is my personal desire to learn and grow as I go. Sure, I want to show my best work for marketing and self-esteem purposes? I like the ?feeling? of being a good writer. However, I also genuinely want to learn about the things I?m writing about as I go. This is why I spend so much time writing for home improvement and green technology blogs. It?s great to make a living learning about cool projects and interesting technologies, all while I?m flexing my writing muscles and getting a byline for it.
For anyone looking to get started in blogging for money, there are a few things that I think are very helpful to understand. These fall mostly in the arena of style, but there are some major grammatical points that I think are really important, too. While these are just tips? and many people have gone quite far in blogging with their own path? these tips have worked out great for me.
First, I think bloggers can benefit a lot from finding their own voice. People that hire bloggers read Internet copy for a living, and it can all seem to run together over time. The goal is to make your writing stand out from the rest of the pack by having a unique voice and tone with everything you write. It?s sort of like your signature. I think it?s important that bloggers do this because we?re sort of trained to write a ?specific? way when we?re in school, and that type of writing isn?t really well suited to blogging. Blogging is much more conversational than matter-of-fact, and as such it requires you to break from that mold that we?ve all been pushed into since grade school. The way I help this along is by reading everything I write out loud, asking myself ?does it sound like something I would actually say while talking about this subject with another person?? If not, then I ditch it.
Second, the majority of people that hire bloggers are looking for people that have a grasp of AP style. I recommend brushing up, but there are a lot of bloggers that do very well without having any knowledge of AP. Also, learning basic HTML and the back-end of popular blogging platforms will really make you more marketable. I recommend starting up a personal blog and writing for it once a day. This way, you?ll get to practice your voice while also learning how to easily navigate the user interface of a blogging platform.
Throughout my blogging career, I?ve hit a number of snags. I think it?s important for anyone that wants to get involved with blogging to understand that this isn?t exactly a 9-5 job. You can?t just show up at a temp agency and get a ?job? as a blogger. Bloggers need to be constantly combing employment sites for leads on possible blogging jobs, meaning you?re constantly in job search mode. This can be a little stressful for some people, since it can be tough not knowing how much money you?re going to pull in each week. Even now, the amount I bring in every week can vary a couple hundred dollars, but always evens out by the end of the month.
In the end, the best advice I can give a budding blogger is to stay flexible. Flexibility helps you to roll with the punches, take what comes, and spring back after each storm. Without flexibility, working as a blogger can be a stressful existence.
Field-wide effort builds consensus for path forward
Geneva | Brussels| Johannesburg (March 20, 2012) Against a backdrop of growing concern about the impact of tuberculosis on children, top scientific experts today published a global plan of action for developing the vaccines that are seen as critical to eliminating the disease. Published today in a special issue of the journal, Tuberculosis, the strategic blueprint for the TB vaccine field represents consensus reached by the TB vaccine community.
The TB Vaccine Blueprint provides an enormous opportunity to coordinate efforts to halt the spread of this devastating disease, said Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi, the Minister of Health of South Africa, a country that has played a vital role in ongoing clinical trials for TB vaccines. Governments have an important role to play, and guided by this common strategy we will do our part to make a vaccine a reality.
The Blueprint editors conclude that effective solutions will remain out of reach unless the world scales up efforts to solve the scientific puzzles now hindering development of vaccines against the airborne pathogen. According to the World Health Organization, more than 10 million children have been orphaned by the disease. In addition to great human suffering, the disease causes significant financial and economic damage, and more is expected. Worldwide, there are well over half a million cases of multi-drug resistant TB, representing a trend that adds urgency to the Blueprints call to action.
To develop a new TB vaccine that will be fully effective, researchers, donors and other partners will need to collaborate and coordinate their efforts as they address tough research questions, said Dr. LucicaDitiu, Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership. We cannot allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by either the costs or the obstacles. It is time to be bold and dare to do more in TB, especially in supporting the development of a new vaccine."
To address the many challenges posed by TB, ideal vaccine regimens must protect babies at birth from childhood TB, and prevent infection with the organism in older children and adults. The only currently existing vaccine is limited in its ability to impact the global TB epidemic. Known as BacilleCalmette-Gurin (BCG), it protects children from severe forms of TB in the first years of life, but it doesnt prevent pulmonary TB, which affects the largest group of people infected with the diseaseadolescents and adults.A vaccine also is needed to protect people with latent TB who have not yet developed signs of disease.
Creating more effective, safe vaccines against TB is a task that no one country or organisation can do alone. The blueprint, titled Tuberculosis Vaccines: A Strategic Blueprint for the Next Decade emphasizes that effective vaccines will remain out of reach unless the world scales up efforts to solve the scientific puzzles now hindering development of vaccines. Authors call for researchers, scientists, clinicians, advocates in endemic communities, vaccine manufacturers, and governments around the world to work together on creative new approaches from initial research in the laboratory to clinical trials in the field to global introduction.
The new Blueprint represents the best thinking of the field, said Dr. Jelle Thole, director of the TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI) and co-editor of the Blueprint with Dr. Michael J. Brennan, senior advisor for scientific and global affairs at Aeras. It makes clear that the next 10 years will be vital in moving forward the global search for a dramatically improved vaccine against tuberculosis.
TB vaccine research over the past decade has made advances that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. Between 2000 and 2010, scientists in the public and private sectors were able to move an unprecedented 15 vaccine candidates into clinical trials in a quest to see which scientific approaches held the most promise. Still there is much work to be done and now, more than ever, there is a need for intensified global collaboration, leadership, partnership and commitment.
We began 10 years ago with an empty clinical pipeline, and we have made astounding progress, said Aeras Brennan. But we have to persevere. Given the trends we are seeing globally, failure to develop effective new vaccines for this disease puts everyone at risk.
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About the Blueprint:
Tuberculosis Vaccines: A Strategic Blueprint for the Next Decade was produced under the auspices of the Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New Vaccines with support from the World Health Organization, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Aeras, TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative, the EC FP 7 framework programme and the US National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The complete blueprint, including relevant opinion editorials, was published in the journal Tuberculosis (Brennan, MJ and Thole, J, Vol. 92, Supplement 1, ppS1-S35, March 2012) and is available at www.tuberculosisjournal.com.
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Field-wide effort builds consensus for path forward
Geneva | Brussels| Johannesburg (March 20, 2012) Against a backdrop of growing concern about the impact of tuberculosis on children, top scientific experts today published a global plan of action for developing the vaccines that are seen as critical to eliminating the disease. Published today in a special issue of the journal, Tuberculosis, the strategic blueprint for the TB vaccine field represents consensus reached by the TB vaccine community.
The TB Vaccine Blueprint provides an enormous opportunity to coordinate efforts to halt the spread of this devastating disease, said Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi, the Minister of Health of South Africa, a country that has played a vital role in ongoing clinical trials for TB vaccines. Governments have an important role to play, and guided by this common strategy we will do our part to make a vaccine a reality.
The Blueprint editors conclude that effective solutions will remain out of reach unless the world scales up efforts to solve the scientific puzzles now hindering development of vaccines against the airborne pathogen. According to the World Health Organization, more than 10 million children have been orphaned by the disease. In addition to great human suffering, the disease causes significant financial and economic damage, and more is expected. Worldwide, there are well over half a million cases of multi-drug resistant TB, representing a trend that adds urgency to the Blueprints call to action.
To develop a new TB vaccine that will be fully effective, researchers, donors and other partners will need to collaborate and coordinate their efforts as they address tough research questions, said Dr. LucicaDitiu, Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership. We cannot allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by either the costs or the obstacles. It is time to be bold and dare to do more in TB, especially in supporting the development of a new vaccine."
To address the many challenges posed by TB, ideal vaccine regimens must protect babies at birth from childhood TB, and prevent infection with the organism in older children and adults. The only currently existing vaccine is limited in its ability to impact the global TB epidemic. Known as BacilleCalmette-Gurin (BCG), it protects children from severe forms of TB in the first years of life, but it doesnt prevent pulmonary TB, which affects the largest group of people infected with the diseaseadolescents and adults.A vaccine also is needed to protect people with latent TB who have not yet developed signs of disease.
Creating more effective, safe vaccines against TB is a task that no one country or organisation can do alone. The blueprint, titled Tuberculosis Vaccines: A Strategic Blueprint for the Next Decade emphasizes that effective vaccines will remain out of reach unless the world scales up efforts to solve the scientific puzzles now hindering development of vaccines. Authors call for researchers, scientists, clinicians, advocates in endemic communities, vaccine manufacturers, and governments around the world to work together on creative new approaches from initial research in the laboratory to clinical trials in the field to global introduction.
The new Blueprint represents the best thinking of the field, said Dr. Jelle Thole, director of the TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI) and co-editor of the Blueprint with Dr. Michael J. Brennan, senior advisor for scientific and global affairs at Aeras. It makes clear that the next 10 years will be vital in moving forward the global search for a dramatically improved vaccine against tuberculosis.
TB vaccine research over the past decade has made advances that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. Between 2000 and 2010, scientists in the public and private sectors were able to move an unprecedented 15 vaccine candidates into clinical trials in a quest to see which scientific approaches held the most promise. Still there is much work to be done and now, more than ever, there is a need for intensified global collaboration, leadership, partnership and commitment.
We began 10 years ago with an empty clinical pipeline, and we have made astounding progress, said Aeras Brennan. But we have to persevere. Given the trends we are seeing globally, failure to develop effective new vaccines for this disease puts everyone at risk.
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About the Blueprint:
Tuberculosis Vaccines: A Strategic Blueprint for the Next Decade was produced under the auspices of the Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New Vaccines with support from the World Health Organization, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Aeras, TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative, the EC FP 7 framework programme and the US National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The complete blueprint, including relevant opinion editorials, was published in the journal Tuberculosis (Brennan, MJ and Thole, J, Vol. 92, Supplement 1, ppS1-S35, March 2012) and is available at www.tuberculosisjournal.com.
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