Melvin Figueroa suffered a stroke a couple of months ago. He was diagnosed with diabetes. He's now on a half-dozen medications.
Stress will do that to you.
Figueroa is only 47. But he sounds old and tired, like a man who's survived unspeakable tragedy.
Line 1 said the Reds should trade Adam Dunn for Houston's Roy Oswalt. He thought that'd be a sweet deal for all involved. OK, I said, but Oswalt is among the best starting pitchers in the game and has a new, long-term contract. Dunn basically hits long flys and would be entering his option year.
I also suggested that Dunn wouldn't have a position in Houston, which could be an issue. "He could come off the bench,'' Line 1 suggested. The Reds need pitching, the Astros need hitting, right? It could work. (The biggest difference between writing a column and doing talk radio is, one invites silence, the other ignores it. Take a guess at which option is golden.)
"OK," I said. "I'll pass it along to Wayne Krivsky.''
St. Andrew Methodist UMC, Easley, is planning a Panama Canal Cruise on the Holland America 5 Star Volendam ship. Cruise dates are Oct. 23 to Nov. 3.
Some of the ports of call will be Aruba, Half Moon Cay and Curacaco. Motor coach to Fort Lauderdale Fla., for one night. Call Magdalene Williams at 864-306-1133 for complete details
When William Friemann joined real-estate firm Prudential Fox & Roach last year as its vice president of technology operations, he was alarmed at how much it was costing his information-technology department to continuously troubleshoot the company's patchwork wireless network.
The network, which uses a wireless technology known as Wi-Fi, kicked people off if they moved away from the immediate area around a wireless access point (the antenna that receives signals from a wireless device). When employees tried to connect to the office network through a Wi-Fi connection at home, some users got bounced off the system without warning, while others were unable to make a remote connection. As a member of the help desk, Mr. Friemann often spent hours trying to solve employees' problems with the system.
Ruckus Wireless CEO Selina Lo talks about how to eliminate the headaches of wireless networking.
When Marina Lambert was 4, her father enrolled her in judo classes because he was concerned for her safety.
Eleven years later, she is the U.S. national champion in her weight class. She is a powerfully built 170-pounder who also wrestles with the Indian River High School team and, in judo practice, often throws men weighing 270.
Yet her father still has the same worries. Enough of them that Marina might have to sit out next month's Pan American Games, an international competition considered second only to the Olympics in prestige.
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