Within the next few days, [Greg Lawrence] will sign a development deal with MTV that’s been more than eight months in negotiation. In exchange for a significant chunk of cash, Lawrence will submit at least three series ideas to MTV over the next year. If MTV likes any of them, it will pay Lawrence to write a treatment. MTV and Paramount have been the most aggressive of several U.S. companies to show an interest in Lawrence’s Comedy Network satire, [Butch Patterson]: Private [Andy Dick], since he began shopping the series around last year. Butch Patterson, a bargain-basement comedy series shot entirely in Ottawa, stars Lawrence as an unrehabilitated stereotype from a 1940s film noir movie, who’s given to cheap cigars, drunken stupors and surreal similes (“It felt like having two incontinent, hydrocephalic weasels fight to death in your pants”). The second season of Butch Patterson will air on Comedy in the new year. Still, he’s reacting cautiously. Originally MTV and Paramount wanted one deal that would give them both Butch and Lawrence. Lawrence’s agents separated the negotiations. Once the development deal is signed, Lawrence will start talking turkey about Butch.
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Atherton, Tony

Full Text: The Ottawa Citizen 1999 Oct 28

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This article evaluates the evidence to support the use of biochemical measurement of significant reduction (SR) rates among pregnant smokers as a new behavioral indicator of “harm reduction” (HR). The results of four studies–three randomized patient education clinical trials of pregnant smokers (Trials I, II, and III) and an epidemiological study (Study IV)–are presented. Among Trial I, II, and III cohorts of pregnant smokers, control group SR rates of 7% (I), 9% (II), and 20% (III) were increased among experimental groups to 17% (I), 18% (II), and 32% (III) by the same patient education methods. Analyses of infant birthweight data in Study IV found that a patient SR rate representing a 50% or more decrease between a baseline and follow-up test was associated with an increase in adjusted birthweight of 92 grams.
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Array

Full Text: Health Education and Behavior Oct 1999

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Roach discusses the reversal of the aging process. Dr. Michael Roizen says that it is easy to drop ten years; all one needs to do is change a few habits of body and mind.
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Roach, Mary

Full Text: Health Oct 1999

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In the largest study ever to show a link between physical activity and smoking cessation, researchers have found that women of all ages who started exercising were twice as likely to quit smoking and only gained seven pounds of additional weight.
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Full Text: Health Oct 1999

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For the past four years I have chaired a golf tournament at my home club outside Boston to benefit Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, Dublin. The proceeds of this event are substantially augmented by an auction conducted in conjunction with the awards dinner. Over the years, a pin flag from a Major championship, signed by the winner, has been demonstrated to be a consistently popular item, and since I am the one with presumed access to said champions, it has fallen unto my lot to secure the signatures. I had two Pinehurst flags – one for our event, another to be donated to the golf classic Eamonn Coghlan runs at Luttrellstown Castle each June to benefit the same hospital – in my possession at the conclusion of this year’s US Open, but in the clamour that reigned following Stewart’s third Major win, the opportunity for a private moment never presented itself, and the flags went for the moment unsigned. Not a big deal, I thought. I’ve got nearly nine months to take care of this. After the Luttrellstown Castle event the following week, however, the matter acquired some urgency. Undeterred by my failure to secure the signatures, Eamonn Coghlan auctioned off a Pinehurst flag signed by Payne Stewart for, I believe, (pounds) 1,000 – on the promise that it would be delivered immediately after the British Open.
tobacco facts for kids

Kimball, George

Full Text: Irish Times 1999 Oct 28

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c7428 – TORONTO : MEDIA ADVISORY – Kodak Moment of the Century – Gala – October 28, 8:00 p.m. (Kodak-hosts-gala) c8038 – TORONTO : NOTICE TO THE MEDIA – EQAO to release Provincial Report on Achievement at 10:00 AM on Friday – October 29 (EQAO- Provincial-Repor) c8048 – TORONTO : MEDIA ADVISORY: Roger Moore at Ryerson Friday – Media Conference – October 29, 10:30 a.m.; Convocation ceremony – 3:00 p.m. (RogerMoore-at-Ryerson)
facts on smoking tobacco

Full Text: Canada NewsWire 1999 Oct 28

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GUELPH, ON, Oct. 28 /CNW/ – The Ontario Smoking Cessation Initiative (OSCI), a new and innovative approach to helping smokers quit, was launched today under a funding partnership involving Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd., a leader in respiratory care, The Homewood Behavioural Health Corporation, a developer and provider of innovative health programs, and the Ontario Ministry of Health as part of the Ontario Tobacco Strategy. This 12- month pilot utilizing the QuitCare(R) smoking cessation program is available at no cost to the 577,000 residents of Waterloo Region and Wellington-Dufferin Counties. Seventy seven percent of smokers would like to quit smoking, according to Health Canada statistics. The OSCI is aimed at those smokers by removing the principal barriers that keep them from making a serious quit attempt. “The concept is simple,” said Ken Murray, Chairman of the Homewood Behavioural Health Corporation. “We first develop a state-of-the-art behaviour change program in QuitCare(R); we then make it available in the comfort of participant’s homes, and at times convenient to them; and finally, we do all of this at no cost to the participant.”
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Full Text: Canada NewsWire 1999 Oct 28

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c8038 – TORONTO : NOTICE TO THE MEDIA — EQAO to release Provincial Report on Achievement at 10:00 AM on Friday – October 29 (EQAO-Provincial-Repor) c8048 – TORONTO : MEDIA ADVISORY: Roger Moore at Ryerson Friday – Media Conference – October 29, 10:30 a.m.; Convocation ceremony – 3:00 p.m. (RogerMoore-at-Ryerson) c8151 – TORONTO : Toronto Announces “Cardiac Safe City” Program to Reduce Deaths from Cardiac Arrest and Heart Attack (Toronto-Cardiac- prgrm)
tobacco interesting facts

Full Text: Canada NewsWire 1999 Oct 28

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c7428 – TORONTO : MEDIA ADVISORY – Kodak Moment of the Century – Gala – October 28, 8:00 p.m. (Kodak-hosts-gala) c8038 – TORONTO : NOTICE TO THE MEDIA — EQAO to release Provincial Report on Achievement at 10:00 AM on Friday – October 29 (EQAO-Provincial-Repor) c8048 – TORONTO : MEDIA ADVISORY: Roger Moore at Ryerson Friday – Media Conference – October 29, 10:30 a.m.; Convocation ceremony – 3:00 p.m. (RogerMoore-at-Ryerson)
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Full Text: Canada NewsWire 1999 Oct 28

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Offensive line coach Jim Hanifan, back to work after having a heart artery unclogged Wednesday, received hugs from the support staff. “I feel fine. I feel very good,” Hanifan said. “Thank gosh for the medical world. The guys I was around were marvelous individuals, obviously, and extremely skilled and talented. It is just an amazing thing.” “It’s always good to have good coaches and good friends with you,” [Dick] Vermeil said. “He’s very, very much loved and a respected guy in this organization. He’s a unique personality. He’s a throwback.”
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Gordon, Jeff

Full Text: St. Louis Post – Dispatch 1999 Oct 30

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