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I'm Good Now

I'm Good Now is the sixth solo (and 4th studio) album from Bob Schneider, released April 13, 2004 through Shockorama Records and distributed by Vanguard. It was described by Allmusic.com as ' quite varied, echoing several singer/songwriter traditions', while popmatters found it 'an impressive batch of songs'. On the lyrics Schneider explained that 'none of them are autobiographical. They are all different narrators, they are all different personas'. No Depression magazine found the collection of song perhaps too eclectic and saying that 'even the most patient listener's endurance has been sorely, and possibly fatally, tested' towards the end. The album was awarded 'Album of the Year' at the Austin Music Awards of 2004. The album was produced by Billy Harvey, and featured contributions by Rafael Gayol and the Tosca String Quartet. The song "Love Is Everywhere" was featured in the film All About Steve.

Track listing
All songs written by Bob Schneider.

Personnel

 * Bob Scheider - vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, drums and percussion.
 * Billy Harvey - guitars, bass, keyboards, drums and percussion.
 * Adam Temple - guitar
 * Charles Reiser - guitar
 * Dave McNair - guitar
 * Bruce Hughes - bass, vocals
 * Derek Morris - piano
 * Kevin Lovejoy - organ
 * David Boyle - keyboards
 * David Robinson - drums
 * Michael Longoria - drums
 * Rafael Gayol - drums and percussion
 * Danny Levin - cello and arrangement on "Love Is Everywhere".
 * Tosca String Quartet - strings

Technical
 * Billy Harvey - production/engineering
 * Bob Schneider - production
 * Dave McNair - engineering/mixing
 * Jay Hudson - assistant engineering
 * Max Crace - assistant engineering
 * Noah Simon - assistant engineering
 * Rafael Laski - assistant engineering

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Dariush Forouhar

Dariush Forouhar (18 August 1928 – 22 November 1998) was an Iranian pan-Iranist politician and leader of Nation Party of Iran. In 1998, he and his wife were assassinated in their home and among the victims of the chain murders of Iran.

Early life
Forouhar was born on December 28, 1928, in Isfahan, 'Eshafah'. His father was a general in the Army who was arrested in WW2 by the British during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran after attempting to form an armed resistance.

Career and political activities
According to Ali Razmjoo in Hezb-e-Pan-Iranist, Forouhar was one of the founding members of the original nationalist Pan-Iranist Party of Iran in 1951 with Mohsen Pezeshkpour. During the Pahlavi era, he had been very active in the anti-Shah nationalist movement and was a strong supporter and close friend of the Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. In the midst of post-revolutionary tensions in Iranian Kurdistan in 1979, Forouhar was part of a delegation sent by Tehran to negotiate with Kurdish political and religious leaders. Although this delegation's recommendations were never implemented by the central government and Kurdish revolt was dealt with harshly, Forouhar's attempts to reach a peaceful settlement with Kurds earned him respect among Kurds.

Forouhar served as minister of labor in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979.

Death
Forouhar and his wife, Parvaneh Eskandari Forouhar, were overt opponents of Velayet-e-Faqih (clerical theocracy) and under continuous surveillance. They were assassinated in their home in 1998. The murders, which are believed to have been politically motivated, remain unsolved, although the general belief is that the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence was involved and had ordered the killings. It is thought that the murders were provoked by Forouhar's criticism of human rights abuses by the Islamic Republic in interviews with Western radio stations that beamed Persian-language programs to Iran. This "brought them to the attention of Iran's ubiquitous intelligence service."

Under pressure from public opinion, the then Iranian president Mohammad Khatami formed a committee to follow up the case, which eventually asked for the resignation of the Minister of Intelligence, Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi. One of the main characters behind the case, Saeed Emami, reportedly committed suicide while in prison.

Shirin Ebadi, the lawyer of the Forouhars' relatives quoting Parastou says: "All evidence shows that my father was preparing himself to go to prison, because at the time of his slaying, his shoes had no laces, he did not wear his wrist watch and had his wallet emptied of its contents and papers except for some money."

Their murders brought to light a pattern known as the chain murders of Iran.

Personal life
Forouhar had two children. Son, Arash, and daughter, Parastou, are both politically active and continue to raise awareness of the plight of political dissidents in Iran. In 2009, Parastou signed an open letter of apology posted to Iranian.com along with 266 other Iranian academics, writers, artists, journalists about the persecution of Baháʼís.

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Force (cereal)

Force was the first commercially successful wheat flake breakfast cereal. Prior to this, the only successful wheat-based cereal products had been Shredded Wheat and the hot semolina cereal, Cream of Wheat. The product was cheap to produce and kept well on store shelves. First produced in 1901 by the Force Food Company in Buffalo, New York, it was one of three companies owned by Edward Ellsworth and advertised using a popular cartoon figure called Sunny Jim.

History
The first advertising copy for the new product described the cereal as "The Food That is all Food", the advertising images showed rosy-cheeked children, and it was sold in a box decorated with images of muscular men wrestling with chains. Perhaps because it was not initially targeted at a well-defined market, it did not sell well.

In late 1901 Minnie Maud Hanff, a freelance jingle writer, invented the character Jimmy Dumps, a morose character who on eating the cereal was transformed into Sunny Jim. Dorothy Ficken produced line drawings, and Hanff produced lighthearted jingles describing Sunny Jim's transformation. The advertising appeared in magazines, on billboards, and on the sides of urban trolley cars from May 1902 through to the fall.

The campaign was wildly successful. Force was originally produced in a single plant in Buffalo, but by early 1904 the Canadian Grocer reported that there was one more Force food mill in Buffalo, a third mill in Chicago and one in Hamilton, Ontario, producing a total of 360,000 packages per day.

Ellsworth overextended and lost control of his companies in 1907. Thereafter Force cereal changed ownership frequently.

In 1903 a British subsidiary of the Force Food Company was formed to import the cereal to Europe. A slightly modified version of Sunny Jim and his jingles caught the fancy of British consumers. A. C. Fincken, a former employee of the Force Food Company, set up an agency in 1910 to import American cereals to the UK. The cereal, and the Sunny Jim character achieved wide success in Britain, at its peak in 1930 selling 12.5 million packages. In 1932 the cereal was reintroduced into the United States by Herbert C. Rice, an Englishman involved in radio production in Buffalo. He introduced The H-Bar-O Rangers, a popular radio adventure serial for boys involving another permutation of the Sunny Jim character, and linked to an advertising campaign for the cereal. It didn't last.

In 1940, Force sponsored The Adventures of Superman, a radio show which introduced key concepts to Superman like Kryptonite.

Since 1954 the cereal was manufactured in the UK for domestic sale. A.C. Fincken & Co., Ltd. was sold to Rank Hovis McDougall, a subsidiary of the Nestle Company, in 1985. An unusual marketing campaign in the 1970s was focussed on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway: perhaps successful, but exposed to a very narrow market. A pre decimal coin collection was available with all 10 coins of ER2 including the farthing, circa 1986-88.

Manufacture of Force cereal ceased in 2013, the reason cited being poor sales, although in the last few years of production the cereal had been difficult to find due to having very few retail outlets, latterly only Sainsbury's, Waitrose and Ocado.

Since then, the Force wheatflakes brand was revived for UK consumers, and was acquired by Nestlé. It was, but is no longer, for sale on the Waitrose website.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sawhorse

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Sawhorse
Sub-stub with dic-def. While it's entirely possible that there could be a sufficiently comprehensive article on the evolution of sawhorses, uses, and styles, I just don't see it happening here. Transwiki to Wiktionary and Delete Jeffrey O. Gustafson 07:43, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * NOMINATION WITHDRAWN, thus Speedy Keep. Send to Requests for Expansion.
 * Sorry, I should have requested expansion from the beginning. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson 00:31, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep, tools are inherently encyclopedic. Potential for expansion as above. Kappa 11:09, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable tool. Capitalistroadster 12:03, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, I created that stub, astonished that there wasn't already an article on sawhorses! --The_stuart 14:43, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Send to Requests for Expansion. It's called a saw horse because it has four legs and looks like a horsey.  Ought to include the it opens up.  Ought to have a discussion of carpentry in the past, etc.  As it is, it has been expanded from a dictdef and can stay, but it's dangerously close to empty still. Geogre 15:25, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Notable tool. Kaibabsquirrel 16:21, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Handy tool to have! ConeyCyclone 17:45, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Certainly notable. --Idont Havaname 18:20, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Jinkleberries 19:54, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Note: Junkleberries is a new account today and voted 'keep' on 37 articles within a 7-minute period. This user also received a vandalism warning today.  Tobycat 20:59, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mahogany (color)

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Mahogany (color)
Sub-stub with dic-def. Transwiki to Wiktionary and Delete. Jeffrey O. Gustafson 07:43, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable color. Kappa 11:04, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep agree with Kappa. --Chill Pill Bill 13:53, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete under criterion #1. If anyone thinks there is much to say about the color, they should start saying it instead of just musing that it could be said.  Delete also as dictdef.  Also delete as an unnecessary fork of Brown. Geogre 15:23, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Its brown! ConeyCyclone 17:44, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep Jinkleberries 19:54, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Note: Junkleberries is a new account today and voted 'keep' on 37 articles within a 7-minute period. This user also received a vandalism warning today.  Tobycat 20:59, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge with Mahogany (wood) page, sunja 21:37, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Mr Bound 23:31, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It's as good as any other article in the Color category. Pburka 01:30, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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CHEZ-FM

CHEZ-FM (106.1 MHz, CHEZ 106) is a Canadian radio station broadcasting a mainstream rock format in Ottawa, Ontario. The station is owned by Rogers Radio, a division of Rogers Sports & Media. CHEZ's studios are located at the intersection of Thurston Drive and Conroy Road in Ottawa, while its transmitter is located in Camp Fortune, Quebec, within Gatineau Park.

History
CHEZ was launched at 6 p.m. on March 25, 1977 by CHEZ-FM Inc., a company owned and operated by Harvey Glatt. Glatt owned Treble Clef music stores, a chain of retail record stores, and was also a major local concert promoter.

The initial signal strength was 100,000 watts, and the first song was "Isn't She Lovely" by Stevie Wonder. The original morning show host was Mike O'Reilly, better known at the time as frontman in the rock group Bolt Upright and the Erections. Other early DJs included Geoff Winter, Steve Colwill, Sheryl Nicholson, Brian Murphy, Pierre Bourque, Paul Hunks, and Kathy Donovan. Ken Rockburn provided news and Randy Burgess did sports.

The station focused on the 18-34-year-old demographic by playing English progressive rock music. CHEZ also ran children's programming, talk programming and even some French programming when it first launched on air. Shows like CHEZ Ottawa, The Source, Jazz 106, Medium Rare and In the City distinguished the station from others in the Ottawa market.

During the first few years on air, CHEZ competed with AM station CFRA, then a pop-leaning music station. In 1987, just a few weeks before celebrating its tenth anniversary on the air, CHEZ attained the number one position in the Ottawa market for the first time, with nearly 300,000 weekly listeners.

CHEZ had two sister stations, CHEQ and CJET, under the umbrella of Rideau Broadcasting, located in Smiths Falls.

In 1994, CHEZ shifted to classic rock, partly due competing station CJSB moving its mainstream rock format to FM.

The station and its holdings (Rideau Broadcasting), Canada's last major independent radio station, was sold to Rogers Radio in 1999, joining CKBY and CIWW as Rogers-owned stations in the Ottawa market.

In 2011, CHEZ changed their slogan to "World Class Rock", and began adding more current rock music to its playlist, shifting towards a mainstream rock format. In March 2014, the station added more currents, and their slogan was changed again to "Ottawa's Rock Station" reflecting their competitor CKQB switching from active rock to a Top 40/CHR format.

On June 6, 2016, CHEZ was rebranded to 106.1 CHEZ with a new logo and the station's new website was launched reflecting the change.

In June 2019, CHEZ announced a new morning show, The Biggs and Barr Show, which formerly aired on CHTZ in St. Catharines.

In May 2020, the station reverted to its old branding of CHEZ 106, but kept the same logo and format.

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Olga Masters

Olga Masters née Lawler (28 May 1919 – 27 September 1986) was an Australian writer, journalist, novelist and short story writer. Masters' children went on to be notable figures in journalism, media and film making.

Early life
Olga Masters was born in Pambula, New South Wales, the second of eight children. Her early life was characterised by the poverty of the depression era, her family moving around the South Coast region in search of work. Masters herself began working as a journalist at the age of 15 on the Cobargo Chronicle, a weekly newspaper serving the south coastal area between Bega and Moruya. In 1937, at the age of 18 she moved to Sydney, where she worked in office jobs and met Charles Masters, a teacher, whom she married in 1940. With him, she again travelled around country towns, including Grafton, Lismore and Urbenville, before returning to Sydney.

Career
Masters wrote as a journalist for most of her life, and supplemented the family income by writing for local newspapers in the towns she lived in with her husband. On their return to Sydney, she wrote for papers such as The Manly Daily and The Sydney Morning Herald.

While she wanted to write fiction from an early age, she was not published as a writer of fiction until the late 1970s. During this decade she wrote several radio plays, receiving many rejections, but on 29 April 1977, her radio play The Penny Ha-penny Stamp was broadcast. However, with the publication of her short story, Call me Pinkie, in The Sydney Morning Herald in 1978, she moved from writing drama to prose fiction. Between 1979 and 1980, she won nine awards for her short stories. She wrote fiction full-time from 1982, after the publication of The Home Girls.

Due to her late start from age 58 and her relatively early death 11 years later, Masters' published output is small but her impact was disproportionate in that her style and writings about writing inspired many others to take up the craft.

In an interview, Masters described her fiction: "All my writing is about human behaviour. There's not much drama, no great happenings in it. No violence. It's about the violence that's inside the human heart, I think, more than anything else". In the same interview she also credits her journalistic career for helping her creative writing: "you would sometimes take quite an ordinary and humble person and write a story about them, and you'd be surprised at the quality that there was in the ordinary human being ... I learned a lot about human nature, and human behaviour, as a journalist ... there is more in life, more in situations, than meets the eye".

Webby, in discussing The Home Girls, states that her writing is not experimental, that its "virtues are the classic ones of tight dramatic structure, strong characterisation and believable dialogue". In listing her books for adults and senior students to read, Shapiro wrote that Masters "has been called one of the best writers of fiction in Australia. Comedies of manners written with sensitivity, wit, and exuberance. Novels about mothers and daughters, fathers and sons. A very special novelist who only began writing novels and short stories in her fifties after raising a large family".

Awards

 * 1977: Tasmanian Literary Awards for The Creek Way
 * 1978: Grenfell Henry Lawson Awards, 2nd prize for A Dog that Squeaked
 * 1979: Fellowship of Australian Writers, Qld (FAWQ), R. Carson Gold Award for The Snake and Bad Tom
 * 1980: The South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies Award for The Rages of Mrs Torrens (jointly with Elizabeth Jolley)
 * 1983: National Book Council Award for The Home Girls

Short stories

 * The Home Girls (1982) Review
 * The Rose Fancier (1988)
 * Reporting Home (1990) [Journalism]
 * Collected Stories of Olga Masters (1996)
 * "The Snake and bad Tom"

Novels

 * Loving Daughters (1984)
 * A Long Time Dying (1985) Published as a novel, it can also be described as connected short stories.
 * Amy's Children (1987)

Drama

 * The Working Man's Castle (1988)

Family
Olga and Charles had seven children:
 * Roy Masters, rugby league coach and journalist
 * Ian Masters, radio broadcaster
 * Quentin Masters, (1946 – ) film maker
 * Chris Masters, (1948 – ) journalist
 * Sue Masters media producer
 * Deb Masters, media producer
 * Michael Masters, ( – 1989)

Death
Olga Masters died of a brain tumour in Wollongong Hospital in 1986.

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Center Party (Israel)

The Center Party (, translit. Mifleget HaMerkaz), originally known as Israel in the Center, was a short-lived political party in Israel. Formed in 1999 by former Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai, the aim was to create a group of moderates to challenge Benjamin Netanyahu on the right and opposition leader Ehud Barak's Labor Party on the left.

Platform
The Center party platform promoted new thinking about national unity, leadership credibility and strategic planning and hoped to establish new institutional rules to guide public life, including a written constitution.

History
The party was established on 23 February 1999, towards the end of the 14th Knesset's term, by Mordechai, David Magen and Dan Meridor from Likud, Hagai Meirom and Nissim Zvili of Labor, and Eliezer Sandberg of Tzomet. However, the most significant ally for Mordechai was General Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, the just-retired army Chief-of-Staff who had been a bitter rival for that post in 1994.

The party borrowed many of its themes from The Third Way, a group that split with the Labor Party in 1994 over the latter's willingness to negotiate the return of the Golan Heights to Syria for a peace treaty. However, by 1999 The Third Way was a partner of the Likud government and had lost public support due to its lack of influence on Netanyahu. Mordechai wanted further progress in the Oslo Accords, and clashed with the prime minister and other members of his cabinet.

Bringing Dan Meridor on board was important. One of the Likud's younger members, Meridor had a solid record as minister of justice from 1988 until 1992, was the son of Irgun resistance member and later Knesset member Eliyahu Meridor, and was a civilian counterbalance to Mordechai.

1999 elections
Prior to the 1999 elections the party changed its name to the Center Party. Mordechai was also a candidate in the direct election for prime minister but dropped out when it became clear that Ehud Barak was rising in the polls. In the Knesset elections, the Center Party won roughly 5% of the vote, enough for 6 seats.

Joining the government
The party joined Ehud Barak's One Israel coalition alongside Shas, Meretz, the National Religious Party and Yisrael BaAliyah. Mordechai became Minister of Transport and Deputy Prime Minister, whilst Lipkin-Shahak became Minister of Tourism. Following Shas leaving the coalition in August 2000, former mayor of Tel Aviv, Roni Milo, was made Minister of Health. Mordechai resigned in the wake of a sex scandal on 30 May 2000; Lipkin-Shahak replaced him as Minister of Transport. Milo and former Likud member Yehiel Lasry defected back to Likud, and Rabin-Pelossof, Lipkin, and Uri Savir formed the New Way after Barak lost elections for prime minister to Ariel Sharon in 2001. By the end of the Knesset term only Meridor and Nehama Ronen remained in the faction. The party did not run in the 2003 elections.

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John Godfrey (disambiguation)

John Godfrey (1942–2023), Canadian cabinet minister.

John Godfrey is also the name of:

 * John Godfrey (American football) (1921–2008), American football coach, head football coach at Whitter College (1960–1979)
 * John Godfrey (MP) for Tavistock in 1407
 * John Godfrey (composer), British composer and performer
 * John Godfrey (cricketer) (1917–1995), English cricketer
 * John Godfrey, bassist with Mungo Jerry, 1971–1972
 * John Henry Godfrey (1888–1970), head of British Department of Naval Intelligence during World War II and later head of the Royal Indian Navy
 * Captain John Godfrey, author of a fencing manual published in 1747
 * John Morrow Godfrey (1912–2001), Canadian pilot, lawyer and Senator
 * John T. Godfrey (1922–1958), American fighter pilot
 * John F. Godfrey (1839–1885), sailor, soldier and city attorney of Los Angeles, California
 * John Abram Godfrey (1833–1877), U.S. State Department Consul, politician and attorney
 * John Ray Godfrey, American basketball player
 * John Godfrey (diplomat), counterterrorism official and U.S. ambassador to Sudan

title: John Godfrey (disambiguation)