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MADISON, Wis. (AP) ? Rising political stars and personal friends, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker worked quietly behind the scenes to coordinate public policy, avoid each other's limelight and steer clear of political minefields that would haunt their campaigns, according to more than 1,000 pages of internal emails obtained by The Associated Press. But there was at least one pointed snub between them, too.
Ryan and Walker, both in their early 40s, have made Wisconsin a focus of the political universe. In June, Walker became the first governor to defeat a high-profile recall election. Ryan, the congressman from Janesville, Wis., ascended the national political stage in August when Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney picked him as his running mate. In the presidential race Wisconsin is a battleground state, one of a handful that will determine who moves in ? or stays in ? the White House.
The emails reviewed by the AP offered an unusual, behind-the-scenes glimpse of the interpersonal relationship between Ryan and Walker. Although as a congressman Ryan's emails are exempt from disclosure under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, messages sent by Ryan or his aides to Walker or the governor's staff are subject to Wisconsin's open records law. The week after Ryan was tapped as Romney's vice presidential candidate, the AP requested all such emails since Walker was elected in November 2010. It received 1,037 pages of them late Friday.
The day after Walker won his recall election, Ryan tried to call Walker to congratulate him. Was there a better phone number?
"He has his cell, but not able to get through often," wrote Ryan's scheduler, Sarah Peer. In another message, she wrote: "Yeah, they call each other frequently. I think Paul just wants to speak with him right away, which might not be a possibly (sic) at this time."
The emails showed that aides to Ryan and Walker, both Republicans, coordinated closely at times on political issues on behalf of their bosses. As Wisconsin's health services secretary, Dennis Smith, prepared to testify during a congressional hearing in January 2011 about the costs to states under President Barack Obama's health care law, Walker sent a preview of Smith's remarks to Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee and an outspoken opponent of the health care law.
"Good stuff," wrote Conor Sweeney, the committee's communications director. "Any chance you could hit the impact on Wisconsin families and Wisconsin's budget from Medicaid expansions?"
Walker's then-communications director, Chris Schrimpf, said he would forward the request to Smith's chief of staff to revise the testimony.
The emails also show how Ryan and Walker sought to steer clear of sensitive political traps, and how Ryan was sensitive as early as September 2011 about offering any praise to government projects funded with money under Obama's economic stimulus law. In August, the AP and other news organizations noted that Ryan ? a vocal opponent of the stimulus law ? sought to steer money under the program to companies in his home state, which Ryan first awkwardly denied then acknowledged to be true.
In the emails, Walker's director of federal relations, Wendy Riemann, sent a message to Ryan's aide, Kevin Seifert, to describe a new grant from the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department awarded for a local water project. Riemann asked whether Ryan wanted to be quoted in a press release praising the money being spent in Wisconsin.
"Not to create more work for you, but do you have any idea where the money for this grant came from? Was it stimulus/the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act?" Seifert replied. "Our concern is that, if it's stimulus funds, we won't want to highlight (and would think you guys wouldn't, either) .... We generally don't do press on things we actively oppose."
Riemann responded that she would check the source of the money, which turned out not to be stimulus funding. "Feel free to proceed without us on this one," Seifert wrote.
Sometimes, the rising political stars inadvertently overshadowed each other. Greta Van Susteren in July 2011 cancelled a television appearance by Walker on her Fox News cable program to instead interview Ryan about the debt ceiling.
"Did you mess with my trip scheduling for tomorrow?" Riemann asked Seifert. She included a smiley in her email, suggesting she wasn't genuinely upset.
"If I did I'm really sorry and had no idea that's what they were doing," Seifert replied. "They didn't mention Gov. Walker was on the schedule ... Had they even mentioned that you guys had something set, I wouldn't have done that ... You know me, that's not my style."
Sometimes, the powerful politicians handled mundane requests, too. Seifert emailed Walker's staff about a "random request from Laura Ingraham," noting that the conservative radio talk show host had contacted him and needed help hiring a new executive producer. But he made clear what he thought of Ingraham's request: "We've got a million other more pressing priorities," he wrote.
The emails included at least one embarrassing snub by Ryan. Riemann, from the governor's office, emailed the congressman's office to ask for help coordinating a tour of the U.S. Capitol for Walker's wife, Tonette, who expected to travel to Washington. Such tours are known as dome tours. Ryan's staff said he was too busy to accommodate the request.
"Sorry, Paul doesn't do dome tours," Ryan's scheduler wrote back. "He never has, so sorry we can't be of assistance there."
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Associated Press writers Ted Bridis, Jack Gillum and Andrew Miga in Washington, and Roger Schneider in Milwaukee, contributed to this report.
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Richard Eggers says the policy discriminates against low-level workers. He was fired in July for having been arrested 49 years ago for putting a cardboard cutout of a dime in a washing machine at a laundromat. Wells Fargo offered to rehire Eggers to his previous job, which had a salary of $29,795 a year.
"If Wells Fargo had agreed to our requests, I would have returned to work," Eggers, 68, told USA Today. "But this isn't just about me -- I'm eligible for Social Security -- this is also about the thousands of working families with children which have been hurt by the same rules."
According to USA Today, as many as 3,000 bank workers have been fired under the new federal rules, which prohibit banks from employing anyone convicted of dishonest behavior and carry $1 million-a-day fines for each violation. Wells Fargo had secured a waiver from federal regulators so that it could rehire Eggers.
Eggers' attorney, Leonard Bates, told USA Today that his client wanted to negotiate more humane terms for all Wells Fargo employees fired under the rule, however. Wells Fargo spokeswoman Vickee Adams says the company is disappointed that Eggers rejected the job offer and didn't recognize its "responsibility to apply the law equitably and fairly" for all employees.
Eggers' firing has been reported around the world. According to USA Today, he is scheduled to appear on Comedy Central's '"Colbert Report."
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DETROIT ? Long before Ryan Vogelsong went to Japan, before he had his elbow cut, before those years of misery in Pittsburgh or those two sets of Triple-A walking papers that forced him to look up to find the end of his rope?
He went to lunch. With Mark Gardner.
?Gardy and I were teammates,? said Vogelsong, on the eve of his first World Series start. ?That?s how we met for the first time. I was just a young pup then, and Gardy was one of our starters and he took me under his wing right away.
?He was one of those guys I bounced questions off a lot, and not just about pitching but making sure I was in the right place at the right time in spring training, and going through the drills and everything.?
Recalled Giants GM Brian Sabean: ?Looking back, Gardy shepherded a lot of the younger guys, whether it was taking them to lunch or dinner. You could tell he was someone who would stay in the game after he was done playing.?
Vogelsong still calls Gardner a friend, but not a teammate. The former right-hander from Fresno is the Giants? bullpen coach now, although in practice he is nearer to being a co-pitching coach along with Dave Righetti.
Righetti is getting another national upwelling of well-deserved accolades, now that the Giants? starting pitchers are punching up their performance once again with the baseball world watching. The Giants rotation is 5-0 with a 0.55 ERA and a .195 opponent?s average over the past five games ? three elimination victories against the St. Louis Cardinals to burglarize the NL pennant, and then a pair of tone-setting wins at home against the Detroit Tigers to set the tone in the World Series.
Barry Zito, Vogelsong, Matt Cain, Zito again and Madison Bumgarner have combined to issue just six walks and strike out 30 in 33 innings. They haven?t allowed a single home run over that span.
It?s a dominant run that club officials worried wouldn?t be possible, given the way so many of their arms lagged through September. Vogelsong was as lost as any of them, posting a 10.31 ERA over a seven-start span from mid-August to mid-September in which opponents hit .366 against him.
But Vogelsong kept after the flaws that had crept into his delivery, and after finishing the regular season by flashing power stuff in his last three starts, he has parlayed his hard, moving arsenal into a tremendous postseason. Vogelsong is 2-0 with a 1.42 ERA in three playoff starts, including a dominant effort against the Cardinals in Game 6 of the NLCS that kept the Giants alive.He credits two people who have known him since the first day he stepped in big league camp as a wide-eyed kid.
?I think they balance each other well,? said Vogelsong, who rejoined the Giants on a minor league deal last year to begin his inspiring renaissance. ?Gardy, he?ll get into a lot of the mechanical stuff with you, and Rags is more on the mental side. He does some mechanical stuff as well, but Rags is more of ? he?s been through everything in this game that you can do as a pitcher. He?s closed, he?s started, middle relief. There?s nothing as a staff we are going to encounter that this guy hasn?t done in the game. That goes for Gardy as well, who relieved and started.
?You know, I think they bounce things off each other all the time, and they come up with what they think is the best solution if there?s a problem going on. I know I go to both of them because I want to try to get as much information as possible. They do a tremendous job with our staff.?
They?ve been doing it a long time. How many bullpen coaches are on their third manager, instead of vice versa? And Righetti, with 13 seasons, ranks as the longest tenured pitching coach with his current club, now that Dave Duncan has taken a leave of absence from the Cardinals.Sabean is frustrated that Righetti, and bench coach Ron Wotus, have not received more interest on the major league managerial carousel. Then again, it?s not like he wants to see either man go.
?On the pitching side, we have two guys who are very patient, they?re good at their craft and also aggressive when need be when they feel adjustments need to be made,? Sabean said. ?The players trust them. They have confidence in their acumen in helping to turn them around, and the manager cooperates and goes with their lead.?
That was never more evident than this postseason, when Righetti told Bochy that Zito would give them a chance to bring them back from Game 5 in St. Louis. The left-hander responded with 7 2/3 shutout innings.
The Giants had to extend themselves to a seventh game to beat the Cardinals, so they didn?t have the luxury to set up their rotation for the World Series as the Tigers did. The Giants faced a soft spot for Game 2, and Bumgarner already had been yanked from the playoff rotation after getting battered for an 11.25 ERA in two starts, including 15 hits and three homers in just eight innings.But Gardner worked with Bumgarner on shortening up his torso rotation, Righetti helped him sharpen his slider just enough and the results in three bullpen sessions were encouraging enough.
Righetti recommended that Bumgarner take the ball. Just based on numbers alone, it would be like driving the jet fuel truck into a structure fire. But Bochy acted with faith, and Bumgarner rewarded it. The Tigers managed two hits in seven innings against the left-hander.
[EXTRA BAGGS: Giving rope to Bumgarner, etc.]
Now Righetti is getting the laurels. But save some for Gardner, too.
Gardner is just happy he's seeing the starters perform to their capabilities.
?We knew going into the playoffs the starting pitching would be so important,? Gardner said. ?You only go as far as they take you. And September, yeah, it was rough on them and you knew that going in. But there were times the bullpen stepped it up for them, and now you see they?re doing it.?
What gives Gardner such an eye for mechanics? Well, perhaps it?s because he was a shortstop at Fresno State who was learning pitching from scratch. He didn?t have to unlearn bad habits.
?They had us work with another guy and watch them, observe, and I think it started then,? Gardner said. ?You learn early on that everybody has their own style, but there are parts of a delivery you need to do. You have to have an eye for it and try to pass it along.?
Balance. Stride. Release point. Where you are when your foot hits the ground. When your hands separate, and where they are at every point in your motion.
?It?s all part of making a pitch,? Gardner said. ?With these guys here, all of them made 30 starts so you know every one of them is going to have a rough spot. But we?ve been lucky with these guys. They?ve been outstanding and durable and they get their work done, so it?s easy to have guys like that.?
It won?t be easy this offseason, though ? especially when it concerns Tim Lincecum, who has been successful in a relief role this postseason but plummeted from one of the league?s most effective aces to a pitcher whose shocking, 5.18 ERA was the highest among all qualified NL starters.
It?ll be up to Lincecum to tweak his mechanics and reinvent himself as a pitcher this offseason.?He?s just in transition,? Sabean said. ?He?s going to have to learn how to pitch with less velocity and he?ll have to get his arm or his release point in a better spot to make pitches. Because it?s about throwing strikes with consistency, and in his case he?s not going to miss as many bats. So he?s going to have to be resourceful and try to throw fewer pitches per at-bat and play to contact.?
Lincecum tends to adhere to his own process and listen to his own voices. But Righetti will lend his, and he?ll channel Gardner?s thoughts along the way.
Who knows? Maybe a nice, leisurely lunch would help, too.
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For more than a decade, studies have shown that some cancer patients benefit from taking aspirin, but who exactly might benefit remained unclear.? Now a new study appears to have found a specific patient population that may live longer by taking this drug: Colon cancer patients.
After reviewing data from 964 colorectal cancer patients, researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston found when patients whose tumors had a mutated form of the PIK3CA gene took aspirin after being diagnosed, they lived significantly longer than patients without the mutation.
The study is published in the October 25 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. Ninety-seven percent of patients with this mutation who took aspirin were alive five years after being diagnosed with colon cancer. Only 76% of patients with the mutation who didn't take aspirin were still alive five years later.
Patients who didn't have the PIK3CA mutation didn't seem to benefit from taking aspirin.
"Although these data are exciting and intriguing, they need to considered as preliminary and will require validation in prospective studies, given the small number of patients included in this study," says Dr. Boris Pasche, director of hematology/oncology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in an accompanying editorial. That's because only 66 patients taking aspirin had the PIK3CA mutation.
But he's excited about the prospect that something as simple and as inexpensive as aspirin could help some colon cancer patients live longer.? "Aspirin may well become one of the oldest drugs to be used as a 21st century targeted therapy," he writes.
"Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States when men and women are considered separately, and the second leading cause when both sexes are combined," according to the American Cancer Society.
If these study results are also seen in larger studies, it could be a major plus for colon cancer patients if simply adding aspirin could help them live longer, Pasche?tells CNN. In his editorial, he writes: "Since more than one in six primary colorectal tumors harbors PIK3CA mutations, targeted use of adjuvant aspirin could have a major effect on the treatment of colorectal cancer."
This research builds on a story that's been emerging over the last decade when it comes to aspirin as an added treatment for colon cancer, says Dr. Ernest Hawk, vice president for Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences at Houston's MD Anderson Cancer Center. ?Hawk, who was not involved in the research, calls this a "very compelling study" because it suggests "aspirin works better than some chemotherapies."? He also believes that testing patients for this particular genetic mutation should be completely doable, since most pathology labs today now have the ability to do testing the DNA of tumors.
Hawk agrees more research is needed because this is just one study in a highly selective population. The 900-plus patient records were drawn from the two studies involving female and male health care professionals, people who may be healthier and more compliant than other patients.
He says larger trials are needed not just to validate these results but to provide more clarity on optimal dosing, whether location of the tumor makes a difference in benefit and to determine how long patients have to continue to take aspirin. He says these are all pieces of this puzzle that must be found before recommending aspirin as a treatment.
While the exact role aspirin plays in cancer prevention is not fully known, Pasche?suggests that the same ability of the drug to block an enzyme called cyclooxygenase-2?or COX-2 and reduce inflammation may also block a cancer cell's ability to thrive and reproduce.
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