WKNJ Newscast October 24, 2013 Leslie Hubilla

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In Local News . . . Violence in Newark hit a dramatic peak leaving four dead and two injured after a twelve hour spree ending at three oclock this morning. The Star-Ledger reports four separate attacks which culminated in this shocking death toll. Ruby Green, a fifty-four year old grandmother, was stabbed and beaten to death in her home along with her sixty-four year old boyfriend. In separate attacks two men, ages thirty-eight and twenty-two, were gunned down in drug-related murders. Two other men were shot around three A.M but are expected to survive. Newark is close to reporting more deaths this year than in any other year since 2007. Local political figures are calling out for an end the bloodshed.

In National News . . .

A study shows improvement in math and science test scores for eighth graders in the United States. Despite concern over American students performance in comparison to to rest of the world, a majority of students tested above the international average according to The New York Times. The National Center for Education Statistics compared scores from individual states to those from other countries. The highest scoring states include Massachusetts, Vermont, and Minnesota. Even in light of this positive change, the report shows few students performed at the highest levels found in other countries.

Be careful what you tweet. Wise words Jofi (JOE-FEE) Joseph, former White House Official, should have listened too. Jofi (JOE-FEE) Joseph lost his job as the director of Nuclear Issues on the National Security Council after he was found responsible for the twitter account @NatSecWonk (AT-NAT-SEC-WONK). The twitter account posted numerous harsh negative remarks over the past two years about various political figures including his bosses and even colleagues. This comes as a surprise as Joseph was a well-liked man at work, reports The New York Times. Joseph has issued a public apology claiming the twitter account began as a parody but turned into what he called a series of inappropriate and mean spirited comments.

In international news . . .

Recent spy allegations brought against the United States by members of the European Union are expected to be discussed at the upcoming two-day summit in Brussels, Belgium. German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke with President Obama yesterday claiming the United States may have been monitoring her phone. Within the past week, a French newspaper reported more than 70 million phone calls in France were intercepted by the U.S National Security Council within a 30 day period. The French Prime Minister announced he would bring up the issue of electronic surveillance at the summit which begins Thursday evening. According to CNN, both the President and U.S. director of national intelligence James Clapper have denied the allegations.

Updates on sports, weather and more after this . . . .

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In Sports . . .

In game one of the 2013 World Series, the Boston Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals 8 to 1 in front of a sold out crowd.

In a pre-season game, the Brooklyn Nets lost to the Boston Celtics 97 to 101. Former Celtic starters Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett since traded to Brooklyn did not play last night.

The New York Giants week to rebuild their offensive line with center David Baas now out for the rest of the season with a knee injury. Guard Chris Snee may possibly retire opening up another spot on the offensive line.

Now for your WKNJ weather . . .

Layer up everyone, its getting cold out there. Its partly cloudy with a high today of 55 degrees and a chilly low of 37.

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In entertainment news . . .

Forbes has ranked Michael Jackson number one among the highest-earning dead celebrities for the past year. Michael Jackson's earnings of one-hundredsixty-million dollars includes two Cirque du Suleil shows as well as his own music. Jackson beats out Elvis Presley who holds second place with about fifty-five million dollars and Charles Shulz, the creator of the popular cartoon Peanuts, with thirty-seven million. Elizabeth Taylor, last year's number one highestearning dead celebrity, falls to fourth place with twenty-five million. Bob Marley closes off the top five with eighteen million.

In Health news . . .

We all know the joys of working out to music. A study described in the New York Times is taking the relationship between music and exercise to a new level. Researchers looked at the effects of actually making music while working out. Electronic kits were installed into work out machines to produce electronic sounds reflecting their movement. Participants essentially created their own beats by working out. In studying the results, scientists found participants found the workout less strenuous and used less oxygen. The movements were also steadier and generated more muscular force when using the music-making-

machines. Maybe in the future we can all be DJs while pumping some iron at the same time.

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Latest surge in Newark killings leaves 4 dead, including grandmother By James Queally (The Star-Ledger) It was an act of violence that left even the most hardened observers of Newark crime bewildered. Ruby Green, a 54-year-old grandmother who cared for the sick despite a heart condition, was stabbed multiple times in her South 11th Street home Tuesday afternoon, her body discovered by her daughter, police sources and family friends said. Her 64-year-old boyfriend was found in the bathroom. He, too, had been beaten and stabbed to death inside the home the couple shared just blocks from the church where Green attended services every Sunday, according to her pastor

and police documents. The violence did not end there. Hours later, about 8 p.m. Tuesday, a group of people opened fire on 38-year-old Dana Andre Pridgen on West End Avenue, unloading more than 30 rounds at the East Orange man, Police Director Samuel DeMaio said. The hail of gunfire left Pridgen dead and bullet holes in nearby cars and homes, according to the documents. Then, just before 11 p.m., 22-year-old Jahid Jordan of Irvington was gunned down on South Orange Avenue. The deaths of Pridgen and Jordan were drug-related "assassinations," according to DeMaio, who said two other men were shot and wounded in the citys South Ward about 3 a.m. yesterday. Both are expected to survive, he said. In all, the 12-hour wave of violence, the latest spasm of bloodshed in the states largest city, left four people dead, bringing the citys homicide total this year to 82. None of the incidents appear related and no arrests have been made. With Newark in danger of recording the most homicides in a single year since 2007, the latest killings have left city leaders frustrated over what they called a cycle of violence that is nearly impossible to stop. "Everybody we see thats involved in these shootings are people that have absolutely no business being in the street," DeMaio said. "And just turning them back out on the street, theres only two ways they are going to stop committing crimes: One, theyre going to get killed, or two, theyre going to commit the ultimate crime of murder." The latest killings have reverberated from City Hall to the pews of Providence Missionary Baptist Church, where dozens of mourners gathered last night to remember Green. "She was sitting in the front row, smiling, on Sunday," said the Rev. J. Vincent Grove, the church pastor. "And then this happened." Green attended Sunday services every week and had been a member of the churchs nurses ministry for nearly 20 years, Grove said. Her grandchildren sang in the choir. Along with her boyfriend, Green shared the South 11th Street home with her daughter and granddaughter, neither of whom was home when the killings

occurred. "She was a mom to everybody," said Audrey Daniel, a church member. "She was warm and friendly. She didnt have a mean bone in her body." Investigators have not revealed a motive or identified a suspect in the slaying of Green and her boyfriend, but DeMaio said both were targeted. He did not elaborate. Prosecutors have declined to identify Greens boyfriend. Meanwhile, Pridgens death was the result of a drug dispute, DeMaio said. Pridgen, who also went by the name Tykal Linder, was released from prison three months ago after serving three years for assaulting a police officer, court records show. In the weeks before he died, Pridgen was trying to reclaim his old drug turf, DeMaio said. "It appears that when he got back from jail, he tried to get right back into the game," DeMaio said. Jordans death was likely the result of a drug dispute as well, DeMaio said. Jordan was shot in the back of the head, and a bag of cocaine was found at the scene, according to the police documents. DeMaio said he is growing increasingly frustrated with the drug-related slayings that are causing homicides to surge at the same time other crimes, such as nonfatal shootings, have dropped by 16 percent. "When someone has the drive and the motive to pre-meditate, calculate, stalk and kill someone, its a difficult thing to stop," he said. "What were seeing is more of these types of shootings that are out-and-out assassinations. " North Ward Councilman and mayoral candidate Anibal Ramos also expressed frustration with the recent surge in homicides. "We need to take immediate action to stop the bloodshed on our streets," Ramos said in a statement. "How many more people have to die before we do something?" Shavar Jeffries, a former assistant state attorney general who is also running for mayor, agreed. "We dont have to read article after article of more Newarkers murdered," he said. "We dont have to live like this but well continue to live like this if we dont have leaders who know what theyre doing."

White House Official on National Security Is Fired After Twitter Posts Are Unmasked By Jackie Calmes (NY TIMES) In his day job at the White House, Jofi Joseph was known as a generally collegial guy, a junior but experienced staff member working on some of the nations most serious business specifically arms proliferation, and especially involving Iran. But after hours? That is when he became @NatSecWonk: Im abrasive and I bring the snark, he wrote anonymously on his now-closed Twitter account. Unapologetically says what everyone else only thinks on the foreign policy and national security scene. Now that Mr. Joseph has been unmasked as @NatSecWonk, call him unemployed. White House officials confirmed on Wednesday that Mr. Joseph, formerly the director of nuclear nonproliferation issues on the National Security Council staff, was fired last week after he was exposed as the author of numerous Twitter messages that over more than two years knocked public figures, reporters and even his colleagues. Mr. Josephs writings did not seem to divulge national security secrets, like details of new nuclear talks with Iran. They tended to be less substantive than sophomoric, skewering people in both parties. I can tell you that the individual does not work here anymore, Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, told reporters. Mr. Carney declined to say anything more about personnel matters. But Mr. Joseph said plenty in items of 140 characters or less on his Twitter feed, with many of the posts recycled before the account suddenly disappeared within the past week. Among those poked by his caustic digs were former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser for communications; and Representative Darrell Issa, Republican of California, and a thorn in the side of the administration as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Mrs. Clinton was a particular target of Mr. Josephs self -described snark. As secretary of state, he wrote, she had few policy goals and no wins. He also had disparaging remarks about Mr. Issa, but added, Hes on to something here with the @HillaryClinton whitewash of accountability for Benghazi, referring to the terrorist killings of four Americans including the ambassador in Benghazi, Libya, last year.

Mr. Josephs firing was first disclosed on Tuesday night by the Web site Daily Beast and its reporter Josh Rogin, who was one of the subjects of Mr. Josephs tweets. Just a hunch, but I have the sense lots of people would like to punch @joshrogin in the face, Mr. Joseph wrote on Twitter after news reports that Mr. Rogin had been hit by a comedian at a Washington club. White House aides and former officials said that Mr. Joseph was generally well respected and popular, so his secret life took colleagues by surprise. At the National Security Council, he was among about a dozen directors, the lowest level of officials in the organization. But his portfolio included two of the most important countries on the nuclear proliferation agenda, Iran and North Korea. At 40, Mr. Joseph already had a long rsum in foreign policy jobs, working for Democrats on Capitol Hill before joining the Obama White House, including a stint on the Senate Foreign Relations Committees staff when Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was the panels chairman. But he also had connections in the neoconservative establishment, including among the foreign policy architects in the Bush-Cheney White House. Mr. Josephs wife, Carolyn Leddy, is on the Republican staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. During the Bush administration, she served at the State Department and on the National Security Council staff, and in 2007 was part of a delegation that visited North Korea and its Yongbyon nuclear facility. Early in the Obama administration, Mr. Joseph was a senior adviser to Ellen Tauscher, the former Democratic representative from California, who was Mr. Obamas under secretary of state for arms control and nonproliferation issues. Before that, he was a foreign policy adviser to Senator Bob Casey, Democrat of Pennsylvania, and served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under Mr. Biden. According to Mr. Josephs biography on the Web site of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a neoconservative group where he was a fellow for 2011, between his stints on Capitol Hill, Jofi was a senior consultant with a professional services firm, facilitating strategic planning and policy analysis for the Department of Homeland Securitys efforts on critical infrastructure protection. Among the associates at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies are John Hannah, formerly national security adviser for Mr. Cheney; Representative Eric Cantor, Republican of Virginia and the House majority leader; the conservative syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer, and Gary Bauer, a conservative Christian activist and former Republican presidential candidate.

Mr. Joseph did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment. But he apologized in remarks to Politico. What started out as an intended parody account of D.C. culture developed over time into a series of inappropriate and meanspirited comments, he said. I bear complete responsibility for this affair, and I sincerely apologize to everyone I insulted.

Better News in New Study That Assesses U.S. Students By Mokoto Rich (NY TIMES) Amid growing alarm over the slipping international competitiveness of American students, a report comparing math and science test scores of eighth graders in individual states to those in other countries has found that a majority outperformed the international average. But the report, to be released Thursday by the National Center for Education Statistics, an office of the Education Department, showed that even in the countrys top-performing states which include Massachusetts, Vermont and Minnesota fewer students scored at the highest levels than students in several East Asian countries. Its better news than were used to, said David Driscoll, the chairman of the National Assessment Governing Board, which sets policy for the national exams commonly known as the Nations Report Card. But its still not anything to allow us to rest on our laurels. A study this month found that American adults lag behind their peers in most other developed countries in math, technology and literacy. Business groups and advocates for market-based changes in public education regularly point to such international comparisons when calling for higher standards to prepare American students for the global work force. The latest study found that students in 36 states outperformed the international average on math exams given through the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, which was administered in 2011 to students in 38 countries and 9 educational systems, like those in states or provinces. The tests are administered to a random selection of demographically representative students, and in 2011, nine states also participated in the tests. The National Center for Education Statistics then compared the performance of

the remaining states, the District of Columbia and Defense Department schools on the Nations Report Card exams, adjusting for differences in the exams. In science, the study found that public school students in 47 states achieved average scores that were higher than the international average. There is certainly some support here for the were doing quite well position, said Jack Buckley, the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics. But when you do look at those comparisons of the very high percentages of kids at the very highest levels of performance, thats where we do see those gaps that are actually very stark. In math, for example, 19 percent of eighth graders in Massachusetts, the highestperforming state, scored at the advanced level on the exams, compared with close to 50 percent in South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. In science, students in the top-performing states fared somewhat better: 24 percent of students in Massachusetts achieved the advanced level, compared with 40 percent in Singapore. In Mississippi, 3 percent of students reached the advanced benchmark. Mr. Buckley said that some of the differences could be attributed to demographics. The United States has a far more diverse population in its public schools than many of the top-performing countries, with a high and growing number of students for whom English is a second language. But differences in curriculum and teaching quality most likely affected performance as well, Mr. Buckley said. In Massachusetts, Mitchell Chester, the education commissioner, said the state had raised its math and science standards over the past decade. He said that since 2009, new elementary and special education teachers in the state had also been required to pass a math proficiency test to be licensed. A growing chorus of critics have said that claims of deteriorating American student performance have been exaggerated. In her recent best seller, Reign of Error, the education historian Diane Ravitch wrote, Contrary to the loud complaints from the reform chorus, American students are doing quite well in comparison to those of other advanced nations. But others say the international comparisons are apt. Paul E. Peterson, the director of the program on education policy and governance at Harvard and a fellow at the conservative-leaning Hoover Institution, said the study provided less good news than people might think. He pointed out that the pool of countries taking the math and science exams

included many developing countries, and that several industrialized nations, including France, Germany and Denmark, did not participate. So if you really want to compare the U.S. to the developing world, then we do look good, Mr. Peterson said. The comparisons in the study also do not include test results from developing ountries that have become economic competitors: India and China.

(Article originally used as source is now unavailable. Link has been replaced on CNN.com with the following story.) Germany's Angela Merkel: Relations with U.S. 'severely shaken' over spying claims By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN (CNN) -- "Trust needs to be rebuilt." That's what German Chancellor Angela Merkel firmly asserted early Friday -- as she had the previous day -- in the wake of reports the U.S. National Security Agency had eavesdropped on her cell phone. This claim and others that she and other world leaders have been spied on had "severely shaken" relationships between Europe and the United States, the German leader said. "Obviously, words will not be sufficient," Merkel said in the wee hours Friday at a summit of European Union leaders. "True change is necessary." Talk of the NSA's reported spying on Germany and other allies dominated Merkel's news conference in Brussels, Belgium. It illustrated the anger over this story in Europe and the challenges facing Washington because of it. The Chancellor insisted she isn't the only one concerned; other European leaders, she said, voiced similar sentiments during the first day of the summit Thursday. Her comments echoed some she'd made upon arriving Thursday in Belgium, when she said that discussions of "what sort of data protection do we need and what transparency is there" should now be on European leaders' agenda. "We need trust,..." she said. "Spying among friends is never acceptable." France angry over US surveillance tactics Germany: U.S. might have monitored Merkel's phone U.S. President Barack Obama understands it's a "necessity" for change from his nation's perspective, according to Merkel, who spoke with the American leader on Wednesday after Germany's government said it had information the United States might have monitored her phone. She told Obama that eavesdropping among friends is "never acceptable, no matter in what situation," she said. On Thursday, White House spokesman Jay Carney repeated what he said Wednesday -- that Obama assured Merkel that the United States is not

monitoring and will not monitor her communications. And in a USA Today op-ed published online Thursday night, Obama's homeland security and counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco conceded that recent "disclosures have created significant challenges in our relationships." To address them, the President has ordered a "review (of) our surveillance capabilities, including with our foreign partners," she wrote. "We want to ensure we are collecting information because we need it and not because we can," said Monaco. The German allegation comes in the same week that French daily newspaper Le Monde reported claims the NSA intercepted more than 70 million phone calls in France over 30 days. And The Guardian newspaper -- citing a document obtained from U.S. government contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden -- reported Thursday that the NSA monitored phone conversations of 35 world leaders. The confidential memo is from 2006, which is before Obama became president. None of the monitored world leaders is identified. The phone numbers were among 200 handed over to the NSA by a U.S. official, the memo states. Others were encouraged to share their "rolodexes" with the agency, according to the document, even though tracking until then had yielded "little reportable intelligence." Like Carney, NSA spokeswoman Caitlin Haden refused "to comment publicly on every specific intelligence activity." "As we have made clear," she added, "... the United States gathers foreign intelligence of the type gathered by all nations." European leaders push for data protection It's not clear how well such explanations will be received by Washington's allies in Europe elsewhere, or how significantly it has and will continue to affect the European Council meeting. The two-day summit was supposed to focus on the digital economy and economic and social policy issues, as well as concerns about EU migration after a recent shipwreck off an Italian island in which hundreds of migrants from Africa died. But French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told the French National Assembly on Tuesday that France would ask for the question of electronic surveillance to be added to the agenda. The EU leaders were expected to discuss data protection issues as part of their debate on the digital economy. Viviane Reding, vice president of the European Commission, called for EU nations to commit to adopting a data protection law in light of the recent spying scandals. "Data protection must apply to everyone -- whether we are talking about citizens' e-mails or Angela Merkel's mobile phone," she said. "We now need big European rules to counter big fears of surveillance. "At the summit today, Europe's heads of state and government must follow words with action: They should commit to adopting the EU Data Protection Reform by spring 2014. This would be Europe's declaration of independence. Only then can

Europe credibly face the United States." 'Completely unacceptable' Even before the latest allegations, Germany and other nations had expressed concerns about alleged U.S. spying after Snowden -- a former National Security Agency contractor -- leaked classified information about American surveillance programs. Spy chief: reports of NSA logging French phone calls are false German news magazine Der Spiegel reported in June that leaks from Snowden detailed how the agency bugged EU offices in Washington and New York, and conducted an "electronic eavesdropping operation" that tapped into an EU building in Brussels. Merkel spoke with Obama by phone in July about allegations that the United States was conducting surveillance on its European allies. Merkel made it clear that if the information about the U.S. having monitored her phone were true, it would be "completely unacceptable," spokesman Steffen Seibert said of Wednesday's call with Obama. A spokesman for David Cameron declined to answer questions Thursday about whether the British Prime Minister's phone had been tapped by the United States, following Germany's suspicion about U.S. monitoring of Merkel's cell phone. "I am not going to comment on matters of security or intelligence," the spokesman told reporters at a regular briefing. Ayrault: 'Shocking' claims Ayrault described the report of widespread spying by the NSA on French calls as "worrying" and "shocking," saying that security should not be guaranteed at the price of a loss of freedom. Report: U.S. intercepts French phone calls on a 'massive scale' However, U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper suggested that the claims made by Le Monde were false. The articles "contain inaccurate and misleading information regarding U.S. foreign intelligence activities," a written statement from his office said Tuesday. It added that the United States does gather intelligence of "the type gathered by all nations." Nonetheless, the allegations prompted a flurry of diplomatic activity this week between the United States and France. Obama and French President Francois Hollande spoke about the claims Monday. "The President and President Hollande discussed recent disclosures in the press -- some of which have distorted our activities and some of which raise legitimate questions for our friends and allies about how these capabilities are employed," a White House statement said. "The President made clear that the United States has begun to review the way that we gather intelligence, so that we properly balance the legitimate security concerns of our citizens and allies with the privacy concerns that all people share." Hollande's office said the President expressed his "deep disapproval with regard to these practices" to Obama and that such alleged activities would be unacceptable between allies and friends.

The two Presidents agreed that French and American intelligence services would cooperate on investigating the report, according to the statement from the French President's office. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry also met Tuesday to discuss the claims. The U.S. ambassador to France, Charles Rivkin, was summoned to the French Foreign Ministry in Paris on Monday to discuss the alleged spying. Claims of U.S. spying, resulting from leaks by Snowden, have also soured U.S. relations with Mexico and Brazil. Der Spiegel recently published allegations, citing Snowden as its source, that the U.S. National Security Agency "systematically" eavesdropped on the Mexican government and hacked the public e-mail account of former Mexican President Felipe Calderon. Mexico to summon U.S. ambassador over spying allegations

Fall for St. Louis; Classic for Boston By ZACH SCHONBRUN (NY TIMES) BOSTON Getting to this, baseballs biggest stage, had never been the Boston Red Sox strong suit. Generations passed without World Series appearances. Seasons were too often marred by misfortune, blunders, collapses; promise was unfulfilled, and hopes were annually dashed. The team won titles in 2004 and 2007, of course, but success has been so coveted that the Red Sox still greet the World Series with what seems like an unquenchable thirst. It was palpable in Fenway Park on Wednesday night, all that coiled aggression, and the Red Sox took less than an inning to unleash it. With five runs in the first two innings, and with the help of multiple defensive miscues by the St. Louis Cardinals, the Red Sox steamrollered to an 8-1 win in Game 1 in front of a capacity crowd. It was their ninth straight victory in World Series games, dating to 2004, a streak during which the Red Sox have barely even trailed. Regardless of whos on the roster, Manager John Farrell said, were more than prepared to play. The Red Sox flipped the calendar back to 2007 or maybe more like 2004, when they swept St. Louis as their Cowboy Up crew of misfits and mangy stars banded together in a memorable October run. Only one Red Sox player remains from that team (David Ortiz), but the ingredients are echoed in this years roster with the teams play as well as its members beards. Wednesday was the ninth anniversary of the beginning of that series, and in the lead-up to the game, figures like Curt Schilling, Pedro Martinez, Kevin Millar and

Keith Foulke were around, in roles with the news media or just lingering. Boston trotted out other celebrated players from its history, too, like the Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski, who threw out the first pitch, and the former pitcher Luis Tiant, who delivered the game ball. But as gloomy gray skies gave way to a brisk and hazy night, the Red Sox needed no help from their past. From the start, they put pressure on St. Louiss ace, Adam Wainwright, who walked the leadoff hitter, Jacoby Ellsbury, on seven pitches. Two batters later, after Dustin Pedroia had singled, Ortiz grounded to second baseman Matt Carpenter, who flipped to shortstop Pete Kozma. Although Kozma mishandled the ball, Pedroia was initially ruled out at second as the umpire Dana DeMuth thought the drop occurred during Kozmas attempt to turn a double play. (contd) Without Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett, Nets fall to Celtics, 101-97, in preseason game By the associated press BOSTON New Celtics coach Brad Stevens has a week to figure out his starting lineup before Boston opens the regular season and he may use every bit of that time. The Celtics closed out their first preseason under Stevens on Wednesday night with a 101-97 victory over the Nets, who rested a lot of their lineup including former Celtics Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce. Boston (2-6) opens the regular season Oct. 30 at Toronto. "I wouldnt call any of our lineups definitive as definitive as Id like. But I think were moving in a good direction playing together," said Stevens, the former Butler coach who turned 37 on Tuesday. "Its going to be a day-by-day process. Thats the way its going to have to be with this group." Avery Bradley and Brandon Bass scored 16 points apiece and Vitor Faverani added 15 points and seven rebounds for Boston. Gerald Wallace had 14 points and five assists and Jeff Green scored 12 points for the Celtics. Tyshawn Taylor scored 15 points and Reggie Evans finished with 11 points and eight rebounds for the Nets (4-2).

Regardless of the outcome of Wednesdays game, Boston sports fans werent going to be talking much about it on Thursday. With the Red Sox opening the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals just a few miles up the Charles River at Fenway Park, turnout was light for the Celtics final preseason game. And any fans who came to welcome back Pierce and Garnett were disappointed as the former Celtics greats joined many other Nets veterans in a night of rest. Pierce and Garnett should make their return to Boston when the Nets visit the Celtics on Jan. 26. Jason Terry, who also went to the Nets in the draft-night blockbuster trade, did play and finished with seven points and three assists in 24 minutes. "It was special just to see some of my fans that were courtside that I used to talk to and throw headbands and stuff to," he said. "They gave me a warm welcome and that was good." All-Star point guard Deron Williams dressed, but did not play because of a right ankle injury that has kept him out of every preseason game. The Nets close the exhibition season Friday at Miami. Jared Sullinger was sick and didnt play for Boston. And the players who did compete were almost a side note as Red Sox highlights periodically showed up on the scoreboard monitor and drew louder cheers than the basketball game, which was close throughout. Mirza Teletovic hit a 3-pointer to pull the Nets within 93-92 late in the fourth, but the Celtics scored the next six points and held on. The Nets opened the game on a 7-0 run and led by as many as 10 points in the first quarter. Brooklyn took a 30-21 lead on a free throw by Evans early in the second quarter, then Lee made a 3-pointer to open a Boston run and the Celtics outplayed the Nets the rest of the half. Boston closed the quarter on a 12-4 run and led 49-44. Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo missed the preseason while rehabilitating a torn ligament in his right knee. He said after the game that hes been fitted for his first brace and hopes to begin contact drills soon. He has not set a timetable for his return. "I hope I can play against the Raptors, but thats not likely," he said. "I know its getting stronger each week."

Giants links: Reconstruction of offensive line is underway By Dave Hutchinson/The Star Ledger

The remaking of the Giants offensive line began in earnest yesterday when the team placed veteran center David Baas on season-ending injured reserve with a knee injury. It likely marked the end of Baas brief Giants career. His two-plus seasons with the Giants have been plagued by injuries. He had multiple offseason surgeries one report put the number at five and battled through knee and neck injuries this season. Baas, in his ninth season, signed a five-year, $27.5 million contract with $11.5 million guaranteed in 2011. He has never lived up to those lofty numbers. If hes released after the season, the Giants will save roughly $7 million on the salary cap over the next two seasons ($2 million in 2014 and $5 million in 2015). The departure of Baas coupled with the possible retirement of guard Chris Snee (hip), who is also on injured reserve, opens up two spots along the offensive line. Third-year pro Jim Cordle, who has replaced Baas, looks like the long-term solution at center. The club has been pleased with his play thus far and hell have the rest of the season to improve. The replacement for Snee may not be on the roster yet. Veteran David Diehl is there now and hell likely be released following the season. Third-year pro James Brewer hasnt stepped up. Neither has second-year man Brandon Mosley. Thus, the Giants are expected to enter next season with Will Beatty and Justin Pugh at the tackles, Kevin Boothe at one guard, Cordle at center and a yet to be named player at the other guard. What do you think? Can that unit get the job done? Michael Jackson Leads Our List Of The Top-Earning Dead Celebrities Dorothy Pomerantz, Forbes Staff Madonna was the top earner on our recent Celebrity 100 list, raking in $125 million between June 2012 and June 2013. Not bad for a living person. Her late buddy Michael Jackson easily topped her though, earning $160 million over the past year by our estimate. Its the third time in the past five years that the topearning celebrity in the world has come from the graveyard.

Much of Jacksons money comes from two Cirque du Soleil shows. Immortal, a touring show, has grossed over $300 million since opening last year. One, which opened at the Mandalay Bay in May, is routinely sold out. Both shows feature the usual Cirque du Soleil acrobatics but One comes with a bonus: a hologram-like illusion of Jackson performs Man in the Mirror at the end of the show. (For more on Jacksons new show read Zack OMalley Greenburgs story here.) The King of Pop also still earns from his music and his half of the Sony SNE +1.09%/ATV catalog, which includes hits by The Beatles, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift among others. Jackson reclaims the No. 1 spot on our list from his friend Elizabeth Taylor. The movie star, who passed away in 2011, earned an estimated $210 million in the 12 months to October 2012 thanks to a series of lucrative auctions at Christies of Taylors art, jewels and clothes. This year her earnings dropped to an estimated $25 million, landing her in fourth place. Over the past 12 months, the stars estate earned big bucks from her White Diamonds perfume, which in 2012 brought in $53 million in retail in the U.S. alone, according to Euromonitor International, her rights in old movies and her smart stock and real estate investments. Taylors estate, now represented by Hollywood talent agency UTA, is at work on several licensing deals. Expect to see Taylors name on high-end clothing and cosmetics in the near future. Our list looks at earnings between October 2012 and October 2013. We count money coming into the estate and we dont deduct for how the estate handles it. To come up with our estimates we talk to estate managers, licensors and lawyers involved in the dead celebrity business. Ranking second on our list is Elvis Presley with an estimated $55 million in posthumous earnings. The King of Rock n Roll may have taken a back seat to the King of Pop, but his estate is still earning steadily thanks to his eternally popular image and his famous home, Graceland. That was enough to convince billionaire Leon Black and his firm, Apollo Global Management, to buy CKX, the parent company of American Idol and the estates of both Elvis and Muhammad Ali, for $509 million in 2011. Peanuts creator Charles Schulz ranks third for the second year in a row with $37 million. The Peanuts are still big but Iconix, which now runs the Peanuts license, thinks they could be even bigger. A new movie, starring the whole gang, is in the works at Fox. Rounding out our top five is Bob Marley with $18 million. The iconic reggae singer might find it strange that his name has become part of a capitalist enterprise. There are Bob Marley speakers and messenger bags as well as a line of

Bob Marley drinks that come in mellow mood and one drop (A.K.A. coffee). New to our list this year is Jenni Rivera. The Mexican-American singer perished in a plane crash last December; since then, she has sold over 880,000 records, nearly as many she did in her life. Her postmortem earnings are boosted by the reality show I Love Jenni, which reached an audience of 5.5 million in its third and final season, and her autobiography Unbreakable: My Story, My Way, which has moved over 400,000 copies since its release in July.

How Music Can Boost Our Workouts By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Making music and not just listening to it while exercising makes the exercise easier, a remarkable new experiment finds, suggesting that the human love of music may have evolved, in part, to ease physical effort. Researchers and exercisers have long known, of course, that listening to music alters the experience of exercising. Earlier studies have shown, for instance, that briskly paced music tends to inspire equally briskly paced workouts, and that music also can distract and calm nervous competitors before a race or other highpressure situation, improving their subsequent performance. But to date, no one had thought to investigate whether creating and not merely hearing music might have an effect on workouts, let alone whether the impact would be qualitatively different than when exercisers passively listen to music pumped through gym speakers or their ear buds. So, for the new study, which was published online last week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognition and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, and other institutions began by inventing an electronic kit that could be integrated into the internal workings of weight-training machines, transforming them into oversize boom boxes. Once installed, the kit would produce a range of propulsive, electronicstyle music with a variety of sound levels and rhythms, depending on how the machines weight bar or other mechanisms were manipulated during workouts. The researchers installed the kits into three different workout machines, one a stair-stepper, the other two weight machines with bars that could be raised or pulled down to stimulate various muscles. They then recruited a group of 63 healthy men and women and divided them into groups, each of which was assigned to use one of the musically equipped machines during a strenuous though brief six-minute exercise session.

As the volunteers strained, their machines chirped and pinged with a thumping 130 beats per minute, the sound level rising or falling with each individuals effort and twining with the rhythms created by the other two exercisers. Participants could express themselves on the machines by, for instance, modulating rhythms and creating melodies, said Thomas Hans Fritz, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute who led the study. The groups were, in effect, D.J.ing their workouts, creating sounds that echoed their physical efforts. During a separate exercise session, each group used the same machines, but minus the musical add-ons, while elsewhere in the gym, other volunteers sweated at the musically equipped machines, meaning that one group was passively listening to sounds created by another. Throughout each workout, the researchers monitored the force their volunteers generated while using the machines, as well as whether the weight lifters movements tended to stutter or flow and how much oxygen the volunteers consumed, a reliable measure of physical effort. Afterward, the scientists asked the volunteers to rate the tolerability or unpleasantness of the session, on a scale from 1 to 20. Tabulated afterward, the results showed that most of the volunteers had generated significantly greater muscular force while working at the musically equipped machines than the unmodified ones. They also had used less oxygen to generate that force and reported that their exertions had felt less strenuous. Their movements were also more smooth in general, resulting in a steadier flow of music. Creating their own rhythms and melodies had lowered the physiological cost of exercise and greatly increased its subjective allure compared with when the exercisers passively listened to virtually the same music, Dr. Fritz said. A similar dynamic may have motivated early humans to whistle or hum while they hunted or tilled and later to raise their voices in song during barn raisings and other intense physical labor, he said. But why orchestrating your own soundtrack should have more physical benefit than merely hearing similar music in the background is not altogether clear. We think that the observed effects are most probably due to a greater degree of emotional motor control, when you actively engage in making music, Dr. Fritz said. Emotional motor control, as opposed to the more workaday deliberate type that normally guides our muscular movements, he said, operates almost below consciousness. Your body responds to it with little volition and you move, he said, with reduced effort and increased joy. This is musical ecstasy, Dr. Fritz said, and it seems to have permeated, to some degree, the gym where the

exercisers composed music while sweating. Unfortunately, the musical kits that Dr. Fritz and his colleagues have developed are not available commercially, although they may be in the future. For now, he said, you may need to content yourself with purposely ignoring the supplied soundtrack at your local gym and instead singing to yourself. Perhaps harmonize, no matter how tunelessly, with a workout partner. Disdain naysayers and music lovers. You will be, in the felicitous phrasing of Dr. Fritz, jymming; thats like jamming, but with a y from gym.

CHECKLIST FOR PLAGIARISM 1) (X) I have not handed in this assignment for any other class. 2) (X) If I reused any information from other papers I have written for other classes, I clearly explain that in the paper. 3) (X) If I used any passages word for word, I put quotations around those words, or used indentation and citation within the text. 4) (X) I have not padded the bibliography. I have used all sources cited in the bibliography in the text of the paper. 5) (X) I have cited in the bibliography only the pages I personally read. 6) (X) I have used direct quotations only in cases where it could not be stated in another way. I cited the source within the paper and in the bibliography. 7) (X) I did not so over-use direct quotations that the paper lacks interpretation or originality. 8) (X) I checked yes on steps 1-7 and therefore have been fully transparent about the research and ideas used in my paper. Name: Leslie Hubilla Date: 10/24/13

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I changed the source material for my news script by picking out the essential information. I edited the information together in a way I thought we be attentiongrabbing and also memorable. I rounded numbers off to be not only easier to say for the talent, but easier to remember for the listener. I edited specifics like job titles; simplifying them again for both the talent and the listeners. A director for the committee concerned with the proliferation of nuclear weapons on the American Security Council became a Director on the National Security Counsel or a White House official. For sports coverage, I included only the major highlights and facts like scores, who won and lost, any major injuries. I took out the most important parts of stories so the listener could hear it and process it quickly without devoting too much time or attention.