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Rob or ROB may refer to:

• The shortened form of Robert or Robin
• R.O.B., an abbreviation of "Robotic Operating Buddy", an accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985
• ROB 64, an important robot character in the Star Fox series
• Report on Business, the business section of the Globe and Mail
• Robbery, the crime of taking or attempting to take something of value by force or threat of force and/or fear
• Re-order buffer for out-of-order execution in microprocessors
• Roberts International Airport in Monrovia, Liberia
• Castlevania: Rondo of Blood, a PC Engine CD game by Konami released in 1993
• Rob (dog) (1939–1952), dog who was awarded the Dickin Medal
• Rob (TV series), a sitcom that premiered on CBS in January 2012 starring Rob Schneider
• Robertsonian translocation (ROB), a common form of chromosomal rearrangement that in humans occurs in the five acrocentric chromosome pairs

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Kenneth Edward "Ken" Mellons (born July 10, 1965) is an American country music artist who released his self-titled debut album in 1994. This album produced the single "Jukebox Junkie", a Top Ten hit on the Hot Country Songs charts. Mellons followed up his debut album with three more albums — 1995's Where Forever Begins, 2001's The Best of Ken Mellons and 2004's Sweet — in addition to charting six more singles on the country charts.

Biography[link]

Mellons was born in 1965 in Kingsport, Tennessee. He has been a native of Nashville, Tennessee since the age of three. He entered in many talent shows in high school, and played at various clubs around Nashville to help perfect his skill, while working day jobs to pay the bills.^[1] In 1989, Ken earned a spot at a show called Country Music USA at Opryland USA, a theme park in Nashville. Later, he became a member of the Grand Ole Opry, and was signed to Epic Records in 1993.^[1] His debut, self-titled album produced a Top 10 single in "Jukebox Junkie", a song which also received ASCAP and BMI awards for surpassing one million spins on radio. His second album, Where Forever Begins, failed to produce any successful singles, and by 1997, Mellons left Epic Records.^[2]

Shortly after leaving Epic, Mellons signed to Curb Records. Although he spent six years on that label, he released only two non-charting singles and one album (The Best of Ken Mellons) during his tenure on Curb. He later became frustrated with the label and asked out of his record deal with them in 2003.^[2] Mellons then moved to the independent Home Records, releasing the album Sweet in 2004. The album featured "Paint Me a Birmingham", which became a Top 5 country hit for Tracy Lawrence in the first half of 2004. Mellons also co-wrote the songs "Honk If You Honky Tonk" on George Strait's "Honkytonkville" album and "The Shoes" on Dierks Bentley's self-titled debut album.

Mellons continues to perform throughout the US and recorded Rural Route in 2009.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Singles[link]

Music videos[link]

References[link]

Evan Smith (born April 20, 1966) is the CEO and editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune.

Born in New York, Smith has a bachelor's degree in public policy from Hamilton College and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University (which inducted him into its Hall of Achievement in April 2006). He previously held editorial positions at a number of national magazines, most recently as deputy editor at The New Republic. Smith has written for Newsweek, GQ, and other national magazines. Since February 2003, he has hosted a weekly interview program, Texas Monthly Talks, which airs on every PBS station and some public radio stations across Texas.

Smith sits on the boards of the Austin Film Society, the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, the Headliners Club, and the Texas Book Festival. He is also the founding co-chair of the Texas Film Hall of Fame. He served for five years on the board of the American Society of Magazine Editors, most recently as its vice president; for six years on the board of KLRU, Austin's public television station; and for eight years on the board of the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin.

Work At Texas Monthly[link]

Smith joined the staff of Texas Monthly as a senior editor in January 1992. In February 1993, he was promoted to deputy editor, and in July 2000, he was made editor. In May 2002, he added the title of executive vice president. He announced his intention to resign on July 17, 2009, and stepped down on August 21, 2009.

During Smith's tenure over as editor, Texas Monthly was nominated for 16 National Magazine Awards, the magazine industry's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. In April 2009, Texas Monthly was awarded the National Magazine Award for General Excellence for only the fourth time in its history.

Work at the Texas Tribune[link]

Smith co-founded the Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, non-partisan public media organization, with Austin venture capitalist John Thornton and veteran journalist Ross Ramsey. It launched on November 3, 2009.

External links[link]

• New York Times story about Evan Smith's departure from Texas Monthly

Robert (Bob) John Day AO (born 5 July 1952) is a businessman in South Australia. A millionaire, he is a home builder and one of the founders of Home Australia.^[1] He is a former Liberal Party and Family First Party political candidate, and is the federal chairman of the Family First Party.^[2]

Early life[link]

Bob attended Gilles Plains High School and the University of South Australia.^[3]

Career[link]

Day's career started in the South Australian public service at the Highways Department Materials and Research Laboratories (now Transport SA). He qualified as a science technician after studying at the SA Institute of Technology (now UniSA). After six years he resigned and started in the building industry.^{[citation needed]}

He was a founder of Homestead Homes and Home Australia, which now also owns Collier Homes in Western Australia, Newstart Homes in Queensland, Ashford Homes in Victoria and Huxley Homes in New South Wales.^[1] These are all major constructors of new houses in their respective states. He is the founder of Oz Homes Foundation, and is managing director of Home Australia.^[4] Day's business activities have made him a millionaire.^[4] He is a past president of the Housing Industry Association the trade association which represents the residential housing industry in Australia.^[1]

Day was the long-time secretary of the New Right-influenced^[5] H.R. Nicholls Society^[4] and a founder of Independent Contractors of Australia (ICA) - a front group campaigning for labour market deregulation in Australia. According to John Stone of the H. R. Nicholls Society, "one of the most active members of that Association (ICA), Mr Bob Day, has been a member of the [H.R. Nicholls] Society's Board of Management almost from the outset. I do not think he will contradict me if I say that he has taken the ethos of the Society into the work of the Association."^[6][7] Day was also a former board member of the Centre for Independent Studies - a libertarian Australian think tank.

Day was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to the housing industry and to social welfare, on Australia Day 2003.^[1] As of 2010^[update] Day is a Board Member of the North East Development Agency and North East Vocational College in Adelaide.^[8]

In his community service role, Day has planted several thousand trees for farmers and land owners across the State. He undertook a roadside planting, irrigation and re-vegetation program along North East Road including a local school.^[when?][9]

Bob was elected Federal Chairman of the Family First Party in 2008.^[3]

Election candidacies[link]

2007 federal election[link]

Day was the candidate in the Division of Makin for the Liberal Party of Australia in the 2007 federal election,^[1] one of the three marginal seats in South Australia lost to the Australian Labor Party. On a two party preferred vote of 57.70 percent to Labor, it became the safest of the 23 seats they won from the coalition at the election. Day and the Liberals suffered a two party swing in Makin of 8.63 percent.^[10]

2008 Mayo by-election[link]

Day decided to run as a Family First Party candidate at the 2008 Mayo by-election, after resigning his 20-year membership of the Liberal Party, accusing the party of a "manipulated" process which saw former Howard government advisor chiefly for WorkChoices, Jamie Briggs, gain Liberal preselection.^[4][11] Although endorsed by former Treasurer Peter Costello, the Liberal preselection process saw Day gain 10 of 271 votes.^[12] Labor did not contest the blue-ribbon seat, and on a two-party result of 57 percent at the previous election, the Liberals retained the seat in the by-election with 53 percent of the two-candidate vote against the Australian Greens on 47 percent. Family First and Day received 11.40 percent of the primary vote, a swing of 7.38 percent, coming fourth out of eleven candidates, behind the Greens on 21.35 percent and independent Diane Bell on 16.27 percent.^[13]

2010 federal election[link]

Day was first on the South Australian Family First Party ticket for the Australian Senate at the 2010 federal election. Previously, the 2007 result (where independent Nick Xenophon polled 15 percent) saw the Family First Party in South Australia suffer a 1.09 percent swing, finishing with a state-wide primary vote of 2.89 percent. After preferences, a candidate needs 14.3 percent of the vote (a quota) to gain election. Some commentators claimed Day had a "strong chance of taking one of the last two South Australian Senate seats", citing "effective preferences from nine smaller parties".^[14] Other commentators rated Day a "slim" chance, citing campaign and financial troubles with the Family First Party.^[15] The 2010 result saw Day and Family First receive a swing of 1.19 percent to finish on 4.08 percent of the vote, compared with the party's lower house vote of 4.96 percent, receiving a swing of 0.91 percent.^[16] This was well short of a quota, with Liberal Party former MP David Fawcett projected by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) to win the last of the six South Australian Senate seats up for election. Progression of the count temporarily gave Day a 512 vote lead, with Day being listed by the ABC as the provisional sixth South Australian Senator.^[17][18] However further progression of the count put Fawcett back in the lead by several thousand votes and went on to win the sixth and final South Australian Senate seat.^[19][20][21]

In the 2009/10 financial year Bob Day made two loans totalling $405,000 to the Family First Party.^[22]

Political views[link]

Bob Day's political views are set forth on his website NationBuild.Com^[23]

Land use regulation[link]

Day advocates sustainable, balanced land and water use which takes into account Australia's scarce resources.^[24]

He has expressed his admiration for Houston's approach to zoning. He says they have none, yet there is a vibrant economy and housing prices are low. He claims the relative cost of housing in Australia compared to Houston is related to urban growth boundaries which limit the amount of land available for building.^[25]

Day takes the position that Australia's stringent urban planning regulations have the effect of driving home prices up artificially and pricing new and low income home buyers out of the market.^[26]

Industrial relations[link]

Bob Day strongly supports independent contracting as an alternative to the traditional employment relationship.^[27] He says "independent contracting offers people a real choice between traditional employment ... and ... arrangements which suit the parties themselves rather than one-size-fits-all, out-dated arrangements which have the added involvement of heavy-handed, self-interested third parties."^[27]

As a Liberal, Day had taken a position that WorkChoices, an industrial relations reform enacted in 2005 by the Liberal government of John Howard, did not deregulate the industrial relations system far enough. When he left the party and joined Family First, he supported the party platform which opposed WorkChoices. This position was viewed as a contradiction by Australian political journalist Phillip Coorey, Chief Political Correspondent of The Sydney Morning Herald^[28] who wrote in 2008:

In 2002, as secretary of H.R. Nicholls, he blamed the award system for high unemployment and the social ills of drugs, crime, violence, poor health, teenage pregnancy and suicide. In a March 2005 financial forum speech, he likened workplace regulations and protections to "Checkpoint Charlie" as he advocated his idea of workplace nirvana, called "Workforce Superhighway". Employment conditions would be determined solely between employers and employees and "no one else". "Hours of work, rates of pay, holidays, sick leave, long-service leave, hiring and firing, will all be agreed between the two parties". There would be no industrial relations commission and workers could settle disputes through either voluntary mediators or magistrates courts. In a January 2005 newspaper column, he urged a return to when apprentices were indentured to tradesmen and paid a modest wage that started at "10 to 15 per cent" of the tradesman's wage. Yet last week The Courier, a local paper in Mayo, featured a small interview piece with Day. "Even on Work Choices - the controversial industrial relations reform that was the biggest single factor in the Coalition's federal election loss - Mr Day said he shared the same views as his new party, which opposed the unpopular policy." Former fellow Liberals were bent double with laughter. "It's true to say his position was to oppose it but only because he thought Work Choices was too bound up with regulation and red tape," said one former colleague. "He was a complete deregulationist."^[12]

Personal life[link]

Bob and his wife Bronte have three adult children, John, Stephen and Joanna.^[3]

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Day, Bob (1 January 2007). Nationbuild: The Quest for Self-reliance. Connor Court. ISBN 978-0-9802936-7-8. 

External links[link]

• Family First profile
• BobDay.com.au

Pablo Moses (born Pablo Henry, c.1948, Jamaica)^[1] is a roots reggae vocalist.

Biography[link]

Pablo Moses has released a number of records over several decades, but he is best known for his debut, 1975's Revolutionary Dream, produced by Geoffrey Chung, which included "I Man A Grasshopper", engineered at The Black Ark by Lee "Scratch" Perry. His 1980 follow up, A Song, was well received by his fans and music critics. Also, the single "Ready, Aim, Fire" off "In The Future" album.

Album discography[link]

• Revolutionary Dream (1976, Jigsaw) (also released in 1978 as I Love I Bring)
• A Song (1980, Island)
• Pave The Way (1981, Island/Mango)
• In The Future (1983, Alligator/Mercury)
• Tension (1985, Alligator/Mercury)
• Live to Love (1988, Rohit)
• We Refuse (1990, Profile)
• Charlie (1990, Profile)
• Confession of a Rastaman (1993, Musidisc)
• Mission (1995, RAS)
• Reggae Live Sessions (1998, CRS)
• The Rebirth (2010)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Pablo Moses website
• Pablo Moses interview at Underyourskin
• Pablo Moses interview at Houseofreggae.de

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