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1. Steve Wozniak wishes iPhone's Siri worked like Android voice command
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... smartphone. Jobs had said that he felt Android was copying his ideas, and long vowed to destroy them. According to AfterDawn, former Apple engineer and Android Inc co-founder, Andy Rubin, an old friend ...

2. N.J. charter school law gets low marks
(N.J./State)

... said that the state's existing charter law needs big changes. Spokesperson for Save Our Schools NJ Julia Rubin said, according to newsworks.org, "New Jersey's charter school law is better than those ...

3. On BBC's '50 Greatest Music Recordings of All Time'
(Entertainment/Movies)

... no Rubinstein, no Wunderlich, no Rethberg, no Melchior, no John McCormack, no Chaliapin, no Rosa Ponselle, no Ezio Pinza, no Horowitz, no Rachmaninov (as a pianist), no Rostropovich. I missed the ...

4. Emmy Awards 2011: Preview and nominations list
(Entertainment/Movies)

... and HBO Miniseries Kate Winslet as Mildred Pierce Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story • Lifetime • High Street Films, Inc in association with Lifetime Taraji P. Henson as Tiffany Rubin Upstairs ...

5. Yes, let the charters schools prove themselves.
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... Schools, NJ. (Really, when SOS spokesperson Julia Sass-Rubin testified before the Education Comittee, he winked at her. I was there!) Recently arguments have been put forward that SOS is actually a schill ...

6. The history of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
(Entertainment/Movies)

... guest conductor is now Gianandrea Noseda. Guest performers have included Arthur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz, who injured his bowing arm while in Israel, Itzhak Perlman, and just about every famous soloist ...

7. Do school vouchers discriminate against N.J. public schools?
(N.J./State)

... Florida’s 270 Charter elementary and middle schools saw 15 failures. Charters failure rates in Florida were 740 percent higher than those of public schools. Julia Rubin, of Princeton, from Save Our ...

8. Who were the three greatest pianists?
(Entertainment/Movies)

... no Chopin, no Beethoven. The top three turned out to be: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Arthur Rubinstein, and Vladimir Horowitz. The panelists themselves were certainly an impressive bunch, including as they ...

9. Joseph Budis, 61, of New Providence get four years in prison for falsely obtaining government contracts
(N.J./State)

... the Clinton Town dam in Hunterdon County. Budis, 61, was sentenced by state Superior Court Judge Stephen B. Rubin in Flemington. Budis pleaded guilty on March 18, to two second-degree counts of making ...

10. Tips on dealing with hospital debt collections
(Health/Healthquest)

... debt from the former Pascack Valley Hospital (PVH). These appear to be another round of the old claims made in 2008 and 2009 by another debt collection agency, Rubin and Raine. When PVH was sold by ...

11. Bob Dylan’s close encounters with New Jersey
(Entertainment/Movies)

... alive.” Five years later in 1975, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer from Paterson became the subject of a popular Dylan song. “Hurricane" chronicled Carter’s arrest and conviction on murder charges and ...

12. Jon Stewart - Bill O'Reilly debate centers on White House poetry slams and Common invitation
(Entertainment/Movies)

... songs. Bono sang “Native Son” with U2, about activist Leonard Peltier, who had been convicted of killing two FBI agents, while Dylan recorded “Hurricane,” about the conviction of Rubin “Hurricane” ...

13. Apple iPhone 5 has stiff competition from Google
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... device is expected to be released by Google to be stiff competition for the iPhone 5 in the coming months. Android head Andy Rubin seemed to be pointing toward summertime and the holidays, indicating ...

14. Bed bug control called into N.J. courtroom
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... for more than three hours before someone finally got him - and the blood-sucking parasites - to leave. According toThe Trentonian, Dr. Joseph Rubino, who heads the city’s health and human services department, ...

15. Report: It pays to work at Passaic Valley Water Commission
(N.J./State)

... cheaper than hiring new employees. Former Commissioner Simon Grubin disagrees, according to NorthJersey.com, "The pay scale is way above what is in the private sector, but apparently, they are unwilling ...

16. Black history month in New Jersey: Local favorites of distinction
(Life/Style)

... LeRoy Jones in Newark, where he attended Barringer High School. Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (May 6, 1937- ) is a former professional middleweight boxer from 1961 to 1966 and a member of the New Jersey Boxing ...

17. Dr. Ross Finesmith of Bernards gets probation for possessing child porn
(Health/Healthquest)

... was a pediatric neurologist, was sentenced by state Superior Court Judge Stephen B. Rubin in Flemington, state Criminal Justice Director Stephen J. Taylor said. He is also now banned from practicing medicine. ...

18. Former pastor Enoc Sotelo and wife, Vereli Sotelo, found guilty of stealing from immigrants
(N.J./State)

... 3rd Degree conspiracy to commit theft by deception, said Assistant Prosecutor Ann Rubin who prosecuted the case along with Assistant Prosecutor Joshua McMahon. The verdicts came after a five-week trial ...

19. REVIEW: ‘Blood From A Stone’ drips with dismal doings
(Entertainment/Movies)

... of cash from their stony parents. Their feckless behavior is exhibited over several days while pill-popping Gulf War vet Travis trifles with an old flame (Daphne Rubin-Vega) and the thieving Matt announces ...

20. ‘Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune’ movie review and trailer
(Entertainment/Movies)

... with the people who knew and admired him: Joan Baez, Tom Hayden, Peter Yarrow, Pete Seeger, and Jerry Rubin, a co-founder with Ochs of the Yippies. It also presents his life and career as symbolic of a ...