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If we can reallocate our inadequacies to athletes we do not and cannot know, it alleviates our perceived sense of failure." “If we can assign our loyalty, our enthusiasm, and even our love to a man or to a team, then we don’t have to locate or deal with these emotions in our real life. We subjugate our desires, we hide from commitment and we run like hell.” Or, put another way by JW Nix, in the comment thread to Part I: “Most of the media who sensationalize events are folks who don’t want you to look into their closets to find skeletons." “They cry freedom of the press in the other breath, but is stalking really journalism" “We won’t know these two, no matter how hard the media tries to capsulize sic their lives into a neat little package with a bow on top.” Here’s the media’s dirty little secret; buy into it at your own risk: When you’re on top of the world, they will make you into a demigod. Hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of articles will blow smoke up your bum, minimizing your failures and extolling your successes to a comedic degree. But that’s just the setup for the fall. Before you can say, “Ding, dong, the witch is dead,” let your human missteps and failings become public, and the media will portray you as evil, selfish, and two-faced. Paparazzi will snap your picture leaving the toilet at Exxon, people will go through your trash, and your every location will be tracked on the Internet for junkies and psychotics to follow you. And then, you go from the toast of the town to the butt of the joke. You are the worst person to ever be a product pitchman. How long is it before someone tells a cruel, off-color joke on late night television about Chris Henry and his plunge off the back of a moving pickup Or has it already happened I wager you that right now, some cheating husband is getting caught, and he’s telling his wife, “Well honey, it was just one indiscretion. At least I didn’t pull a Tiger Woods and fck women all over the world.” Fill in the blank with whatever the latest convenient number is. Somewhere between 10 and 18, unless I haven’t kept up (not that I’m really trying). One of the tragedies I take from the Woods and Henry affairs is that, as a society, we’ve got to stop using athletes as cure-alls. If your favorite team wins a game, it doesn’t solve your problems, and if “your guy” is the hero today, you still have to pay your own mortgage tomorrow. Conversely, when you get into a place where you feel like you can’t do anything right, I know how tempting it is to find someone else and play the “at least I’m better than him” game. And the more famous he is, well, the better you feel about yourself. It’s easy to look at Chris Henry’s arrest record, his untimely death, and think, “At least I didn’t do all of that.” It’s easy to say, “I will never be as arrogant, duplicitous, and entitled as Tiger Woods.” And we might write an article about it, how terrible this guy is, and put it on the Internet for the world to see. When others agree, we’ll feel so good that we forget about our own failings for a fleeting moment. But what of the children I beg of you to think about this, the other tragedy in the wake of these seemingly disparate events. Because, when researching a recent tennis article, I found a web page that was 15 years old, still hanging around on a server, and I was immersed in a treasure trove of information that kept me enthralled for hours. In that amount of time Chris Henry and Tiger Woods’ children will all be teenagers, old enough to fully absorb every painful jab whether rooted in truth or falsehood (many the latter) thrown at their fathers’ legacies. Would you be proud to look them in the eye and say, “I wrote that about your Daddy” How would you feel if it were your teen-aged children reading the exact same thing about you As writers, and as members on the cusp of the new media revolution, we have an obligation to ask and satisfactorily answer those questions before we press the “Publish” button. I’m not here on a soapbox preaching “peace and love and understanding.” I’m not saying that we should excuse or even forgive Tiger Woods, nor am I minimizing Chris Henry’s past crimes and foibles. I’m just suggesting that we all exercise a little common decency. Is that too much to ask.

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"Our 2009 guidance is driven by expected improvements in contributions from pastacquisitions, our efficiency initiatives and organic revenue growth, includingfurther contributions from our Specialty Division," stated William F Borne,Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Amedisys, Inc. Graham, the Companys President andChief Operating Officer, has been appointed to the Board of Directors, expandingthe number of directors to seven Mr. Graham has been employed by Amedisys since1996, where he has served as Vice President of Finance and Senior Vice Presidentof Operations. He became Chief Operating Officer in 1999 and was appointedPresident in 2004 From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Graham served as Director of FinancialServices for General Health Systems, a regional multi-faceted health care systemin Baton Rouge. From 1989 to 1993, he worked for Arthur Andersen where his finalposition was as a Senior Accountant Mr.

Graham received a Bachelor of Sciencedegree in Business Administration from the University of Southern Mississippi. "Larrys extensive experience in the home health care industry, his leadershipand dedication to the company, as well as his successful record of growing ourcompany will make him a tremendous asset as a more active member in future Boarddeliberations," said Mr Borne Amedisys, Inc is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Its common stocktrades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol "AMED." This press release includes statements that may constitute "forward-looking"statements, usually containing the words "believe," "estimate," "project,""expect," "anticipate" or similar expressions.Forward-looking statementsinherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results todiffer materially from the forward-looking statements.Many of the factors thatcould cause or contribute to such differences are described in the Companysperiodic reports and registrations statements filed with the Securities andExchange Commission, and include, but are not limited to the following: generaleconomic and business conditions, changes in or failure to comply with existingregulations or the inability to comply with new government regulations on atimely basis, changes in Medicare and other medical reimbursement levels,ability to complete acquisitions announced from time to time, and any financingrelated thereto, the ability to meet debt service requirements and to complywith covenants in debt agreements, adverse changes in federal and state lawsrelating to the health care industry, demographic changes, availability andterms of capital, ability to attract and retain qualified personnel, ongoingdevelopment and success of new start-ups, ability to successfully integratenewly acquired agencies, changes in estimates and judgments associated withcritical accounting policies, business disruption due to natural disasters oracts of terrorism, and various other matters, many of which are beyondmanagements control. LeBlanc, 225-292-2031Director of Investor Copyright Business Wire 2009. Since then, the list has gone like this: Kelly Holcomb, Trent Dilfer, Charlie Frye, and Derek Anderson.The current starter is Brady Quinn, who has also had his ups and downs. Why is it that the Browns can never get it right at this positionWell, here is an interesting theory: having a franchise quarterback is not how you win in Cleveland.If you look back at the Browns in their glory days, you will see that they have never really had a franchise quarterback. It is not because they were bad; it is because they were the kind of quarterbacks Cleveland needed.That is, a guy who won't kill you with crucial mistakes and will manage the game.