This Convenient, Compatible Camera Is Your Mirrorless Deal Of The Day

The fine folks at B&H Photo are heavily discounting the Canon EOS M 18MP Mirrorless Camera for a limited time. $300 gets you the camera body with the EF-M 22mm f/2 STM Lens, and you also have the option of bumping it up to $350 to get a 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM Lens instead. These prices are significantly lower than we've seen before, and in no-brainer range if you want Canon glass while conserving maximum real estate in your bag, and who doesn't want both of those things?

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Fourth of July

There will be no regular Moneysaver or Dealzmodo post on Thursday July 4th. However, my Twitter and the Dealzmodo Twitter will still send out any amazing deals that may come up.

As always, follow me on Facebook, Google Plus, Tumblr, or Pinterest to get Moneysaver and Dealzmodo in your social networks of choice. You should also follow Dealzmodo on Facebook if you aren't already.

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Top Deals

? Sony MDR-7506 Pro Headphones ($76) | Amazon via eDealinfo | $100+ elsewhere

? Seagate GoFlex Ultra-Portable Hard Drive for Mac w/ Thunderbolt Adapter ($125) | Best Buy via eDealinfo | Originally $280 | Will not last

? Element ELDFW406 40" Class LCD 1080p 60Hz HDTV ($259) | WalMart | Clearance

? Microsoft Wired Keyboard 200 for Business ($10) | Amazon | Matches lowest price ever

? $20 PS Network Card and a 3-Month PS Plus Subscription ($28) | Best Buy via Deals Kinja

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Storage

? Seagate GoFlex Ultra-Portable Hard Drive for Mac w/ Thunderbolt Adapter ($125) | Best Buy via eDealinfo | Originally $280 | Will not last

? Patriot Supersonic Rage 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive ($45) | Amazon via FatWallet

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Audio

? Sony MDR-7506 Pro Headphones ($76) | Amazon via eDealinfo | $100+ elsewhere

? Pyle PLWCH12D 12-Inch 1,200-Watt Ultra Slim DVC Subwoofer ($32) | Amazon | Lowest price ever

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Video

? Insignia 55-inch 120Hz 1080p HDTV ($500) | Best Buy via Deals Kinja | Lowest price ever by $50

? Element ELDFW406 40" Class LCD 1080p 60Hz HDTV ($259) | WalMart | Clearance

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? ViewSonic VA2342-LED 23? Full HD 1080p LED Monitor ($130) | Rakuten | Use promo code 52A7E58

? Five 6-Foot HDMI Cables ($8) | Amazon via Deals Kinja | Less than $1.50 per cable

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? Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard with Backlighting ($37) | Meritline via Deals Kinja | Use promo code MLCKEM02L1 with the $20 rebate

? Microsoft Wired Keyboard 200 for Business ($10) | Amazon | Matches lowest price ever

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? Take Your Pick of Three Laptops ($500) | Microsoft Store, OneSaleADay, BestBuy via Deals Kinja | Save $100 or more

? Timbuk2 Swig Laptop Backpack ($57) | Amazon via Deals Kinja | Lowest price ever

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PC Parts

? Galaxy GeForce 670 2GB ($280) | Amazon via DealNews | $320+ elsewhere | Rebate in page

? Corsair ATX Mid Tower Case ($30) | Amazon via Deals Kinja | Use promo codeEMCYTZT3754

? FREE after rebate Kingwin CF-12LB 120mm Case Fan | TigerDirect

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Tablets and Phones

? iPad Mini ($300) | eBay via 9to5Toys | Normally $330

? ASUS Vivotab Office 2013 10.1-Inch 64GB Windows 8 Tablet ($400) | Amazon | Lowest price ever

? ASUS Transformer Pad 10.1" Tablet w/ Keyboard Converter Dock ($280) | OneSaleADay | Lowest price ever

? Galaxy Note II 16GB 4G Unlocked ($500) | eBay via Dealzon | $550+ elsewhere

? XtremeMac InCharge X2 ($30) | Groupon via Ben's Bargains | Charge 2 iDevices at once

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To get all the gaming deals all the time, check out the Kotaku Moneysaver. I would know.

? $20 PS Network Card and a 3-Month PS Plus Subscription ($28) | Best Buy via Deals Kinja

? Max Payne 3 Complete + L.A. Noire Complete OR Max Payne 3 Complete + GTA4 Complete [Steam] ($20) | Amazon

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? Stargate: Atlantis and SG-1 Collections at their Lowest Prices Ever ($35 and up) | Amazon via Deals Kinja | Lowest prices ever

? Drive [Blu-ray] ($9) | Amazon via DealNews

? Firefly Complete Series [DVD] ($13) | Amazon

Music

? FREE "Proud Mary" by Creedence Clearwater Revival | Google Play

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? Canon PowerShot A2500 16MP Digital Camera with 2.7-Inch LCD ($86) | Amazon | Lowest price ever

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? Ticket to Ride ($3) | Normally $7

? Bastion ($1)

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? Casio Men's Classic Analog Watch ($8) | Amazon via DealNews

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? Lego Star Wars Boba Fett Clock ($15) | Amazon via Deals Kinja | $20 and up elsewhere

? Celestron Microscope ($24) | Amazon via Deals Kinja | Lowest price ever

? Igloo 3.2 cu. ft. 2-Door Refrigerator and Freezer ($130) | Walmart | Save $30

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? Papa John's Buy One Large, Get One Free | Use code FIREWORKS

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From Bad Boy to Doting Dad: Johnny Depp Through the Years

From controversial movie roles like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to real-life drug use and arrests, Johnny Depp made his mark as Hollywood’s bad boy on-and-off the big screen.

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Egypt: Morsi's 2 spokesmen quit

Fireworks light the sky as opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi protest outside the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 1, 2013. Egypt's powerful military warned on Monday it will intervene if the Islamist president doesn't "meet the people's demands," giving him and his opponents two days to reach an agreement in what it called a last chance. Hundreds of thousands of protesters massed for a second day calling on Mohammed Morsi to step down. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Fireworks light the sky as opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi protest outside the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 1, 2013. Egypt's powerful military warned on Monday it will intervene if the Islamist president doesn't "meet the people's demands," giving him and his opponents two days to reach an agreement in what it called a last chance. Hundreds of thousands of protesters massed for a second day calling on Mohammed Morsi to step down. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi protest outside the presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 1, 2013. Egypt's military on Monday issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the Islamist president and his opponents to reach an agreement to "meet the people's demands" or it will intervene to put forward a political road map for the country and ensure it is carried out. The banner at center, with Arabic writing, reads, "leave." (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans during a protest outside the presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 1, 2013. Egypt's military on Monday issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the Islamist president and his opponents to reach an agreement to "meet the people's demands" or it will intervene to put forward a political road map for the country and ensure it is carried out. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Supporters of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi wave national flags and his posters during a rally in Nasser City, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 1, 2013. Egypt's powerful military warned on Monday it will intervene if the Islamist president doesn't 'meet the people's demands,' giving him and his opponents two days to reach an agreement in what it called a last chance. Hundreds of thousands of protesters massed for a second day calling on Mohammed Morsi to step down. Arabic reads " Mohammed Morsi for Egyptian presidency. " (AP Photo/ Amr Nabil)

Opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi wave national flags during a protest outside the presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 1, 2013. Egypt's military on Monday issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the Islamist president and his opponents to reach an agreement to "meet the people's demands" or it will intervene to put forward a political road map for the country and ensure it is carried out. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

CAIRO (AP) ? A foreign ministry official says two spokesmen for President Mohammed Morsi have quit in the latest defections from his embattled administration as protesters and the military challenge his authority.

The official says career diplomats Omar Amer and Ihab Fahmy have stepped down after nearly five months speaking on behalf of Morsi.

The official spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

The move compounds the woes for Morsi as he faces massive protests calling for his ouster.

On Monday, six Cabinet ministers quit and the military gave the president a 48-hour ultimatum to work out his differences with the opposition or it will intervene and oversee the implementation of its own political road map. The ultimatum expires Wednesday.

Associated Press

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Clock ticks for Egypt's Morsi as army ultimatum deadline looms

LIVE VIDEO: Protesters gather in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt.

By Charlene Gubash and Ian Johnston, NBC News

CAIRO - The clock is ticking for Egypt?s President Mohammed Morsi to meet the demands of millions of protesters seeking his ouster and fresh elections after an ultimatum issued to the Islamist leader by his own armed forces.

If Morsi does not meet the demands by Wednesday, the military has said it will impose its own ?road map? for the future.

Morsi rejected the army?s call in a statement issued at 2 a.m. local time Tuesday (8 p.m. Monday ET) by saying his administration would continue on its "previously plotted path" toward reconciliation. Violence during the protests at the weekend saw 16 people killed and hundreds injured.

Barack Obama and the United Nations have each urged Morsi to listen to his people, as a vast crowd gathered once again in Cairo's Tahrir Square Tuesday.

Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the United Nations? High Commissioner for Human Rights, told a briefing Tuesday that they were following the ?extremely tense situation? in Egypt with ?great concern.?

?We urge all political parties and social groups to urgently engage in a serious national dialogue in order to find a solution to the political crisis and prevent an escalation of violence,? Colville said.

?We call on the president of Egypt to listen to the demands and wishes of the Egyptian people, expressed during these huge protests over the past few days, and to address key issues raised by the opposition and civil society in recent months, as well as to heed the lessons of the past in this particularly fragile situation,? he added.

NBC's Richard Engel reports from Cairo, where he says "it feels like a new revolution could be underway" as opponents of Mohammed Morsi are demanding he be removed from the presidency.

He welcomed assurances given by the military and law enforcement agencies that ?no measures will be taken that could lead to excessive use of force against peaceful demonstrators.?

The White House said in a statement Tuesday that Obama had called Morsi on Monday, urging him to listen to ?the voices of all Egyptians.?

Obama told Morsi that the United States was ?committed to the democratic process in Egypt and does not support any single party or group.?

But the president also ?stressed that democracy is about more than elections.?

Suhaib Salem / Reuters

The headquarters of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood was ransacked as widespread protests against President Mohammed Morsi turned violent.

?It is also about ensuring that the voices of all Egyptians are heard and represented by their government, including the many Egyptians demonstrating throughout the country,? the statement said.

Obama encouraged Morsi ?to take steps to show that he is responsive to their concerns, and underscored that the current crisis can only be resolved through a political process,? it added.

?President Obama also underscored his deep concern about violence during the demonstrations, especially sexual assaults against female citizens,? the White House said. ?He reiterated his belief that all Egyptians protesting should express themselves peacefully, and urged President Morsi to make clear to his supporters that all forms of violence are unacceptable.?

Amid the heightened tensions, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo was closed on Tuesday with regular consular service suspended. It was also closed on Sunday. U.S. citizens were advised to ?avoid areas where large gatherings may occur.?

On June 28, the State Department allowed a ?limited number of non-emergency U.S. government personnel and family members? to leave the country ?due to the ongoing political and social unrest.?

Canada said on Twitter that its embassy in Cairo would be ?closed until further notice for security reasons.?

According to an airport security source, ?a list has been circulated containing the names of 48 leading members of political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood, who must now inform national security officials before leaving the country. The use of private jets has also been temporarily banned.

It remains unclear whether the Egyptian army was actually calling for Morsi to stand down, or whether it would accept some attempted compromise.

However, a statement issued by Morsi?s office complained said that it was not consulted about the army?s ultimatum and said ?the presidency sees that some of the statements in it carry meanings that could cause confusion in the complex national environment.?

It added that his administration was ?going forward on its previously plotted path to promote comprehensive national reconciliation ... regardless of any statements that deepen divisions between citizens.?

Protesters attacked and stormed the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo, calling for Egypt's president Mohammed Morsi to step down. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports.

Morsi?s office, discussing the call with Obama, said the U.S. was ?working with the Egyptian leadership elected by the Egyptian people and supports peaceful democratic conditions in Egypt.?

?The president confirmed that Egypt is moving forward in a peaceful democratic transition built on constitution and law,? Morsi?s office said.

It also said that Egypt?s ?democratic, civil, modern state? was ?the most important achievement? of the revolution that deposed former President Hosni Mubarak.

?We will not allow Egypt with all its forces to return backward under any circumstances,? Morsi?s office said. ?Egypt has paid dearly from the blood of its sons and its stability and security and its delayed the path to development, these are the high prices it paid to build a new state. We all chose democratic means as the only safest way to manage our differences of opinion."

Ian Johnston reported from London.

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Chemistry and physics: one needs the other

?Quantum theory has opened to us the microscopic world of particles, atoms and photons,? explained Nobel Laureate Serge Haroche, who shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics with David Wineland. In this sentence, Haroche answered why two physicists certainly belong onstage at the 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting for chemistry. Haroche?s talk, called ?Controlling Photons in a Box, Quantum,? dovetailed with Wineland?s lecture just before on ?Superposition, Entanglement, and Raising Schr?dinger?s Cat.? (?Though in half an hour, it?s very difficult to give you details,? quipped Haroche.)

Serge Haroche explaining how physicists and chemists help each other. Photo by Kathleen Raven

During his presentation late Monday morning, Haroche offered at least one concrete example of how physics propelled chemistry research forward: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Chemists working today have Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell ? both awarded the Nobel Prize in 1952 ? to thank for their tireless puzzling (and discovering) about nuclear magnetic properties.

Throughout their speeches, Haroche and Wineland dipped into bodies of research as deep as Lake Constance herself. Most of the terms became entangled and stayed superimposed over my head, much like the atomic ions and energy states Wineland described in his talk.

David Wineland just after his lecture in the morning. Photo by Kathleen Raven

The researcher sitting next to me in the audience nodded his head enthusiastically when Wineland showed a slide with the ideal ?controlled-NOT? gate between internal states. I heard some low murmurs of agreement when we moved on to the possibilities that exist with ?gold-coated alumnia wafers.? But I appreciated Wineland?s main message: We are ever closer to entering the world that Schr?dinger dreamed about. He wanted scientists to test his theories in experiments with just one electron or atom or other small molecule.

Thought experiments and taxi drivers

Wineland?s presentation slide on ?alumina gold trap.? Photo by Kathleen Raven

Before delving into the famous Bohr-Einstein debate at the 1927 Solvay conference, in which those two great minds debated quantum mechanics using thought experiments, Haroche offered the audience a real-life application. On the topic of atomic clocks and GPS, Haroche explained that such technology could lead to geo-localization accuracy to within 1 meter anywhere on Earth. ?Taxi drivers everywhere use quantum physics!? Haroche said to laughter in the audience.

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And see our In-Depth Report and the 30 Under 30 series on the main site.

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This blog post originates from the Lindau Nobel Online Community, the interactive forum of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. The 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, dedicated to chemistry, is held in Lindau, Germany, from 30 June to 5 July 2013. 35 Nobel Laureates will congregate to meet more than 600 young researchers from approximately 80 countries.

Kathleen Raven is part of the official blog team. Please find all of her postings on the Community blog.

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Psychology influences markets

July 1, 2013 ? Economists argue that markets usually reflect rational behavior -- that is, the dominant players in a market, such as the hedge-fund managers who make billions of dollars' worth of trades, almost always make well-informed and objective decisions. Psychologists, on the other hand, say that markets are not immune from human irrationality, whether that irrationality is due to optimism, fear, greed, or other forces.

Now, a new analysis published the week of July 1 in the online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) supports the latter case, showing that markets are indeed susceptible to psychological phenomena. "There's this tug-of-war between economics and psychology, and in this round, psychology wins," says Colin Camerer, the Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the corresponding author of the paper.

Indeed, it is difficult to claim that markets are immune to apparent irrationality in human behavior. "The recent financial crisis really has shaken a lot of people's faith," Camerer says. Despite the faith of many that markets would organize allocations of capital in ways that are efficient, he notes, the government still had to bail out banks, and millions of people lost their homes.

In their analysis, the researchers studied an effect called partition dependence, in which breaking down -- or partitioning -- the possible outcomes of an event in great detail makes people think that those outcomes are more likely to happen. The reason, psychologists say, is that providing specific scenarios makes them more explicit in people's minds. "Whatever we're thinking about, seems more likely," Camerer explains.

For example, if you are asked to predict the next presidential election, you may say that a Democrat has a 50/50 chance of winning and a Republican has a 50/50 chance of winning. But if you are asked about the odds that a particular candidate from each party might win -- for example, Hillary Clinton versus Chris Christie -- you are likely to envision one of them in the White House, causing you to overestimate his or her odds.

The researchers looked for this bias in a variety of prediction markets, in which people bet on future events. In these markets, participants buy and sell claims on specific outcomes, and the prices of those claims -- as set by the market -- reflect people's beliefs about how likely it is that each of those outcomes will happen. Say, for example, that the price for a claim that the Miami Heat will win 16 games during the NBA playoffs is $6.50 for a $10 return. That means that, in the collective judgment of the traders, Miami has a 65 percent chance of winning 16 games.

The researchers created two prediction markets via laboratory experiments and studied two others in the real world. In one lab experiment, which took place in 2006, volunteers traded claims on how many games an NBA team would win during the 2006 playoffs and how many goals a team would score in the 2006 World Cup. The volunteers traded claims on 16 teams each for the NBA playoffs and the World Cup.

In the basketball case, one group of volunteers was asked to bet on whether the Miami Heat would win 4-7 playoff games, 8-11 games, or some other range. Another group was given a range of 4-11 games, which combined the two intervals offered to the first group. Then, the volunteers traded claims on each of the intervals within their respective groups. As with all prediction markets, the price of a traded claim reflected the traders' estimations of whether the total number of games won by the Heat would fall within a particular range.

Economic theory says that the first group's perceived probability of the Heat winning 4-7 games and its perceived probability of winning 8-11 games should add up to a total close to the second group's perceived probability of the team winning 4-11 games. But when they added the numbers up, the researchers found instead that the first group thought the likelihood of the team winning 4-7 or 8-11 games higher than did the second group, which was asked about the probability of them winning 4-11 games. All of this suggests that framing the possible outcomes in terms of more specific intervals caused people to think that those outcomes were more likely.

The researchers observed similar results in a second, similar lab experiment, and in two studies of natural markets -- one involving a series of 153 prediction markets run by Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs, and another involving long-shot horses in horse races.

People tend to bet more money on a long-shot horse, because of its higher potential payoff, and they also tend to overestimate the chance that such a horse will win. Statistically, however, a horse's chance of winning a particular race is the same regardless of how many other horses it's racing against -- a horse who habitually wins just five percent of the time will continue to do so whether it is racing against fields of 5 or of 11. But when the researchers looked at horse-race data from 1992 through 2001 -- a total of 6.3 million starts -- they found that bettors were subject to the partition bias, believing that long-shot horses had higher odds of winning when they were racing against fewer horses.

While partition dependence has been looked at in the past in specific lab experiments, it hadn't been studied in prediction markets, Camerer says. What makes this particular analysis powerful is that the researchers observed evidence for this phenomenon in a wide range of studies -- short, well-controlled laboratory experiments; markets involving intelligent, well-informed traders at major financial institutions; and nine years of horse-racing data.

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Egypt's Morsi Rejects 48-Hour Ultimatum (Voice Of America)

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Poor planning skills found to contribute to income-achievement gap

Public release date: 2-Jul-2013
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Children from low-income families tend to do worse at school than their better-off peers. Now a new study of a large ethnically and socioeconomically diverse group of children from across the United States has identified poor planning skills as one reason for the income-achievement gap, which can emerge as early as kindergarten and continue through high school.

The study, by researchers at Cornell University, appears in the journal Child Development.

"Low-income children appear to have more difficulty accomplishing planning tasks efficiently, and this, in turn, partially explains the income-achievement gap," according to Gary Evans, Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor of Human Ecology at Cornell University, one of the study's researchers. "Efforts to enhance the academic performance of low-income children need to consider multiple aspects of their development, including the ability to plan in a goal-oriented manner."

Researchers used data from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, which looked at almost 1,500 children from 10 geographic sites across the United States.

Planning skills were assessed when the children were in third grade, through the widely used Tower of Hanoi game. The Tower of Hanoi starts with a stack of rings placed on a rod so that the biggest ring is at the bottom and the smallest is on the top. Using two other rods and moving only one ring at a time without ever placing a wider ring on a smaller ring, the children have to recreate the original stack on one of the two spare rods.

The study found that the children's performance in fifth grade could be explained, in part, by how they did on the third grade planning task, even when taking IQ into consideration. Using income as well as math and reading scores, the study also found that the lower the household income during infancy, the worse the children's performance on reading and math in fifth gradereplicating the well-known gap between income and achievement.

The researchers suggest several reasons why poverty may interfere with the development of good planning skills. Individuals living in low-income homes experience greater chaos in their daily lives, including more moves, school changes, family turmoil, and crowded and noisy environments, and fewer structured routines and rituals. In addition, low-income parents may be less successful at planning because of their own stress levels.

Researchers believe the group of skills called executive function, which includes planning skills, can be strengthened through interventions. Such interventions are being developed and tested for children as young as the preschool years.

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202-289-7903
Society for Research in Child Development

Children from low-income families tend to do worse at school than their better-off peers. Now a new study of a large ethnically and socioeconomically diverse group of children from across the United States has identified poor planning skills as one reason for the income-achievement gap, which can emerge as early as kindergarten and continue through high school.

The study, by researchers at Cornell University, appears in the journal Child Development.

"Low-income children appear to have more difficulty accomplishing planning tasks efficiently, and this, in turn, partially explains the income-achievement gap," according to Gary Evans, Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor of Human Ecology at Cornell University, one of the study's researchers. "Efforts to enhance the academic performance of low-income children need to consider multiple aspects of their development, including the ability to plan in a goal-oriented manner."

Researchers used data from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, which looked at almost 1,500 children from 10 geographic sites across the United States.

Planning skills were assessed when the children were in third grade, through the widely used Tower of Hanoi game. The Tower of Hanoi starts with a stack of rings placed on a rod so that the biggest ring is at the bottom and the smallest is on the top. Using two other rods and moving only one ring at a time without ever placing a wider ring on a smaller ring, the children have to recreate the original stack on one of the two spare rods.

The study found that the children's performance in fifth grade could be explained, in part, by how they did on the third grade planning task, even when taking IQ into consideration. Using income as well as math and reading scores, the study also found that the lower the household income during infancy, the worse the children's performance on reading and math in fifth gradereplicating the well-known gap between income and achievement.

The researchers suggest several reasons why poverty may interfere with the development of good planning skills. Individuals living in low-income homes experience greater chaos in their daily lives, including more moves, school changes, family turmoil, and crowded and noisy environments, and fewer structured routines and rituals. In addition, low-income parents may be less successful at planning because of their own stress levels.

Researchers believe the group of skills called executive function, which includes planning skills, can be strengthened through interventions. Such interventions are being developed and tested for children as young as the preschool years.

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Rain doesn?t dampen spirits of football prospects at Nike event

Some of South Florida?s finest high school football players were shining bright ? at least until the rain drowned them out.

The Nike 7-on-7 Football Challenge took place Saturday, featuring 24 South Florida high schools and more than 200 players. But the event was cut short when rain and lightning hit Amelia Earhart Park in the afternoon. The tournament was suspended and will resume at 9 a.m. Sunday.

Several athletes used the event as a primer to The Opening, one of the nation?s premier events for Class of 2014 recruits on Monday through Wednesday at the Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Ore.

The third-year event provides an opportunity for the nation?s best players to compete in 7-on-7 games and skill events, to nurture relationships with one another and provides a chance to sway certain players when it comes to picking a college.

Miami Central running back and University of Miami commit Joseph Yearby said he?s so excited about the opportunity that he probably won?t sleep Sunday night before flying to Oregon on Monday morning. Along with cherishing the opportunity, he has one goal in mind.

?I?m really excited to get close to Ermon Lane,? Yearby said of the 6-3, 193-pound wide receiver from Homestead who has offers to play at Miami, Alabama and Florida. ?That?s really the only person that stands out.?

Yearby?s backfield teammate, UF commit Dalvin Cook, said he isn?t going to let Yearby get the best of Lane during the festivities.

?I?m definitely not going to let that happen,? Cook said. ?We?re going to fight.?

Yearby and Cook will be joined by teammate Trevor Darling, a UM offensive tackle commit. Central and Fort Lauderdale University School, which is sending defensive lineman Richard Yeargin, safety Quincy Wilson and quarterback Sean White, are two of just five schools in the country to be sending three players. Florida and California each have 27 players participating ? the most from any state.

Other invitees from Miami-Dade and Broward counties include: Booker T. Washington quarterback Treon Harris and defensive tackle Chad Thomas; UF defensive lineman commit Anthony Moten and wide receiver Corey Holmes from Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas; Miami Northwestern wide receiver and FSU commit Jojo Robinson; Hollywood Chaminade-Madonna defensive tackle Khairi Clark; and Plantation defensive back Chris Lammons.

As for the event close to home, Yearby still took value in the exhibitions.

?The tournament is very good; these will get more competitive as it gets closer to the season,? Yearby said. ?The tournament will definitely help us a lot. Seeing the quarterbacks and receivers [and what they do], then they can go and practice what they need to.?

The teams played 7-on-7, two-hand-touch football, with the action spread over six fields. Families, friends and fans took in all the sights, with loud music and food creating a picnic-like atmosphere around the football.

By the end of play Saturday, many schools had already qualified for the playoff portion of the tournament. Booker T. Washington, Central, Northwestern, Miami Columbus, Miramar, Coral Reef, Champagnat and Northeast made it to the elimination stage, with four spots still up for grabs when play resumes Sunday morning.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/30/3477764/rain-doesnt-dampen-spirits-of.html

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200 homes destroyed in blaze that killed 19

YARNELL, Ariz. (AP) ? A wildfire that killed 19 firefighters in Arizona also destroyed an estimated 200 homes in a central Arizona community.

Dry grass near the communities of Yarnell and Glen Isla fed the fast-moving blaze, which was whipped up by wind and raced through the homes.

Nineteen firefighters died fighting the blaze.

Most people had evacuated from the town of 700, and no injuries or other deaths were reported.

The Red Cross has opened two shelters in the area ? at Yavapai College in Prescott and at the Wickenburg High School gym.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/200-homes-destroyed-blaze-killed-19-061035357.html

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