5DmkII 2.0.4 firmware bug with Canon F2.8L IS 100mm Macro lens and it seems many others!
This has been reported by a number of people I know but I haven't tried it yet! When using the Canon 100mm Macro IS F2.8L in manual focus mode the iris changed on it's own. This happens only with the new firmware, not the old 30p only version. It happens in stills and video. For much more info please visit the 5DmkII improvements team's website. From the looks of the comments it seems many other lenses are suffering from this too. Damn!
Please check the full detailed report to understand in what mode this issue occurs.
The REAL problem occurs in "Movie Display" mode, which is the correct mode to get "full manual control" in movie/video mode.
Note that "Exposure simulation" can give this apparently buggy behavior, but it is normal because it's not "full manual" on movie mode.
Funny you say that, I noticed the same thing with my 7D + 35mm f/2, when adjusting the aperture it sometimes goes smaller when I dial it larger and the other way around.
With previous 1.1.0 firmware I've this problem with 24-70 f2.8 L (no more with 2.0.4 firmware).
nope – it's more widespread. i have same problem with canon 100mm f2.8 macro.
Been testing the EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens with a 5D MK II for two weeks now. Had no exposure bugs so far, but i've experienced a LOT of those so-called weird noises (and i'm dealing with the real thing. No third parties lenses). Guess it's all because of the Hybrid IS?
No, it's not because the Hybrid IS system.
P.S.: Please Philip, check why our previous post on this thread is not appearing as "awaiting moderation" (maybe the system took it as spam?).
The Canon 180mm f3.5L Macro is affected the same way. When racking focus you can hear the iris click and change exposure. Have you noticed this as well with 2.0.4?
Let me correct you Philip. As everyone can see on this vídeo the lens that is having some problems, is the first version of 100mm macro, without IS.
You need to see the clip until the final, when they show the lens.
I believe its the exposure simulation mode. Ive been able to recreate it without using 100 macro(i dont have that lens so i used a 17-40 L) if you switch it to movie display mode i notice it doesnt happen.
No, it's not exposure simulation mode.
Please read the full detailed REPORT, which also includes two videos showing everything.
After 1 week of tests we have confirmed it.
Several users have tested with many different copies and camera bodies and found the exact same result. So we concluded without a doubt it is not an isolated lens or camera problem at all.
We cannot confirm yet if the new "L" version has the same problem.
But we received reports from many users about other lenses (especially from 3rd party) with similar behaviors. We discarded some of them due wrong camera settings, but others seem to be real issue.
This malfunction is NOT exclusively to the Hybrid IS system.
There is an explanation of the EXACT situation and settings where it occurs.
We must say we have never seen any lens with this behavior with previous firmware versions (Canon 24-70 2.8L worked and still seems to work fine).
Maybe this issue also happens on firmware 1.2.4. but since firmware 1.2.4 wasn't widely adopted nor even tested by the community nor this Team, we cannot confirm that at this moment.
NOTE: As we wrote in our report, we understand the HUGE work that Canon engineers have done with firmware 2.0.4.
To fix this malfunction is a priority, but we SINCERELY hope Canon take this chance not only to fix this issue, but also to add a bit more fixes/improvements, so much requested by thousands of users since more than 1 year ago (that CAN be made via Firmware, even VERY easy in many cases).
Thanks a lot to Canon and everyone supporting.
P.S.: We also expect a new update in near future.
All I am saying Philip is that I can not emulate the problem and the lens mentioned in the article is a different lens. I mean no disrespect.
BTW, who else had a problem with the IS version (numerous people)? I cannot find any specific comments online… Thx.
Philip I just tried my lens with and without IS and I think that makes this defect!!
It's happening on my non-IS 100mm macro. Very strange indeed. Hope Canon will address it soon.
Have exactly same problem with Canons new ts-24!
Those lens are friggin' nervous!!
Loud motor …….almost like the motor is working O.T on my canon 70-200 IS f2.8 when 5d is engaged in live mode. Anyone else have this problem? Phillip you have the same lense, any problem? Thanks guys and I hope they fix this.
I wouldn't know if it was like this on previous firmware as I did not use 5DII until they were able to do 25fps.
We would like to know more about that.
Are you sure you have set Live View to "Stills+Movie-Movie Display"?
If so, please could you explain step-by-step all the procedures to reproduce what you describe?
Include all camera settings please, so we can check it too.
We updated the Report, including the link to a video that one reader has sent to us.
He tested his Canon 300mm F/4L IS, showing the same issue. Proving this is not only related to Macro lenses.
Please check the updated report, and watch the two videos included: one showing the iris jitter, and another the image suffering from that jitter.
We feel confident that Canon will fix it at some point.
We really hope this also encourages Canon to take this opportunity fix and add some features (many of them are really easy, and hugely requested), why not?
It is a GREAT chance to demonstrate once more that Canon is really listening to customers, and doing their best, being steps ahead of the competition.
That's our hope, because we love this camera and know its huge potential.
If someone do a video test on other lens to show the IRIS jitter, following all the correct settings and showing full details, please feel free to contact us. We might post other lenses tests too if they show a real issue.
Please note this is a firmware issue, not a lens issue. But it's only noticeable with some lenses, most of them "Macro", but not limited to that kind of lenses.
They better fix it soon..
sorry im not the greatest narrator but it shows the problem.
thankfully people are on it. lets hope they fix it!! cos i like this lens a lot!
Have I just wasted my money on this lens?!
Did you report the malfunction to Canon?
Please note this is a Firmware issue, not a lens issue. The lens is great.
We are confident Canon will fix it, but the more customers reporting the issue, the better..
Was about to purchase a 5D mk11 body to use with my Olympus om zuiko lenses but presumably this iris changing problem will still occur with these lenses too whenever I pull focus? In that case I may have to settle for the 7D and sacrifice the frame crop, which seems a shame as I've got some nice wide primes. Though judging by an earlier comment something similar also happened with the 7D! ? ? Anyone ?
If you use "manual" lenses (with aperture ring), on which the camera has no aperture control, then you won't experience any iris issue at all.
Please check the reports if you still have any doubts. We posted video tests with 3 different lenses and reported 2 additional affected ones.
But please note this is a firmware issue, mostly affecting "macro" lenses and some very few other non-macro ones.
5D Mark II is a GREAT camera, don't let only this issue change your final decision.
We are confident Canon will fix it, because it's a real malfunction. But maybe Canon doesn't make any official statement until the fix/new update is released..
It seems Canon is aware of this problem, as we report in our latest post.
We will publish more news when we get them. We are also working on an additional report regarding an improvement (not a bug!) on the latest firmware.
has anyone suffered an audio fault with the new firmware. I was filming for a good hour with the 5DmkII with the 70-200 2.8 L – everything ok for the first 20 minutes – then a horrible loud permanent clanking audio sound throughout all recordings appeared on the rest. Im sure I hadn't touched/altered the audio levels just by holding the camera!
Never heard about something like that, nor experienced anything similar!
what about jerky 24p videos rumours? stuttering or dropeed frames?
If you analyze the footage "frame by frame" on your NLE software, you won't find dropped frames (or duplicated frames). That can you give you full confirmation the footage is fine.
Instead, we found the refresh rate of your display is a key factor when you see "stuttering" issues on your footage when played back.
If you set the refresh rate of your monitor/display to 75hz and playback a 29.97fps (30p) 5D2 footage, it will appear with noticeable ("randomly") stuttering.
We tested this on many displays and found it's amazing how it can change the showing experience.
25p recorded by 5D Mark II and played back on a 100hz monitor/display looks smooth as 25p should be.
Besides of that, we found a specific improvement (at every frame rate). We'll write about it on our Blog.
Actually it does do actual, true, 100% real frame drops at times, almost like it suddenly does a little book keeping and you get a hitch like a video game that is not carefully programmed and decides to do some disk access or memory allocs or something and hitches the frame from time to time.
It seems to be easier to get it happen if you do a bunch of really fast pans, maybe it sometimes overwhelms the compressor or something?
It appears to be exceedingly rare if you are shooting without panning or only doing, ever, very gentle pans.
Perhaps panning over alternating bright dark like tree trunks in teh winter quickly in 24p makes it most likely? Hard to say why it will be perfect much of the time and then suddenly drop some frames.
i was about to buy a mark ii instead of 7d. but debates like those (http://www.cinema5d.com/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=11949) confused me.
now, which one is right choice? i really don't know. and i think its hard to believe that a forced and later on firmware upgrade for 24p can be succesful as 7d's "feature 24p".
just got a new lens 120-400mm sigma and its all good exept when i zoom in i see the iris change. well im not zooming much so its not an issue really.
but i think it shows that there is something going on that should not happen.
well just wanted to let you know.im sure when they fix the issue with the macro lenses that will be salved too.
is it a constant aperture zoom? if not then that is your problem as you zoom in the iris stops down!
If you read this post, please specify what exact lens is that yours.
is there anyone who knows if it's also effecting the nikkor lenses used via adapter?
I am not able to comment on information posted on third party websites.
on the Canon USA website at http://usa.canon.com.
We'll be updating as soon as news come up.
"Thank you for your email reply.
Be advised that Canon Europe have not issued such a release regarding "Iris Jitter" thus far and as such I cannot give you an estimated release date for a quality issue that has not yet been publicised by Canon Europe. If such a statement is made in due course by Canon Europe, it will be published via the FAQ section of the Canon Europe website.
Hopefully you have been sufficiently informed but should you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to reply directly to this email by navigating to the link below.
I don't really see any sort of a clear pattern emerging.
I have several L-lenses from Canon but have only experienced the problem with the Canon F2.8L IS 100mm Macro. I have a 7D. It's actually quite annoying and a pity, since the lens is very good otherwise.
Feel free to give your feedbacks. What we only request is to be as accurate as possible, giving full details on your findings.
Regarding the 7D, we would need some users to do the tests and make a video to show the problem (we can post only youtube videos).
Don't forget to report it to Canon.
We can confirm with 100% accuracy that some lenses are affected by the IRIS jitter WHEN ZOOMING on firmware 2.0.4.
Aside the fact that the light decreases in a non constant aperture zoom lens when zooming, some zoom lenses also suffer "IRIS JITTER" when zooming in and out (ironically they seem to be not affected while changing focus).
Indeed, we will keep updating this, because it's 100% clear that this issue DOES EXIST, and is affecting lot of lenses and not only Macro lenses, and Canon USA is still not giving a clear answer.
WE HOPE CANON FIX IT SOON. This "iris jitter" issue appears not only while changing focus in some lenses, but now we also confirmed it occurs while zooming in and/or out on some lenses.
We'll probably post a new report about it, with a video example.
We encourage all users to politely REPORT it to Canon with full details CLEARLY explaining that you ARE experiencing this problem and not only re-reporting what a website is telling. (To help users, we provide full Canon contact information at our blog).
The IRIS jitter is VERY easy to reproduce with a 100mm 2.8 Macro lens (even easier with non-L version), but also with the lenses listed on the Blog post.
So there is no chance to delay the investigation and work to fix it. We reported it with full details and videos one month ago… And we're still updating the information to help Canon and Canon users.
IF the zoom is a "constant aperture" lens and it suffers some kind of iris change/jitter whilst zooming or focusing, then that could be an issue or abnormal behavior that needs to be investigated.
So far, there are VERY few reports of that kind and we couldn't confirm it.
HOWEVER the "iris jitter" reported when using 100mm 2.8 Macro lens (and some other lenses) IS a real issue/malfunction that needs to be fixed.
Sorry for the previous wrong post.
We updated and corrected our Blog post as well.
This problem was happening a ton to us on a shoot with the Canon 50mm f/1.4, with no focus, light, or other changes…just seems to happen randomly.
Noticed this problem a TON in the footage for a shoot we recently did. I believe it was happening with the Canon 50mm f/1.4.


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Niagara University Professor Donating Book Proceeds To Vietnamese Orphanage
Submitted by Michael Freedman, Associate Director of Public Relations
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Topics: Families, People, Schools
A disparity in earning power can make it more difficult for an English professor to financially support a cause than, say, a doctor, lawyer or C.E.O.
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Dr. Little sits on the nonprofit's eight-person board of directors. His involvement with the Friendship Village stems from some volunteer work that he and his wife, Samantha, conducted there during a backpacking trip a few years ago. Dr. Little said that he felt a connection to the organization and stayed in touch upon returning home.
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The Vincentian spirit Dr. Little refers to is Niagara University's St. Vincent de Paul-inspired mission of serving the poor and oppressed. NU students contribute more than 1,000 hours per week of community service during the academic year.
Dr. Little learned that his book would be published by Homebound Publications while leading NU students on an eight-day backpacking trip in the highlands of Guatemala. Five years in the making, Letters from the Other Side of Silence will be released in paperback form, for the Nook and Kindle, and as an audiobook in March 2017, and be distributed in about 10 countries.
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WaPo on Iran in Syria: The Lens Reflects a Mirror
February 12, 2013 Farideh Farhi
by Farideh Farhi
This Washington Post article about Iran and Hezbollah building networks in Syria in the event of Bashar al-Assad's fall is certainly eye-catching. It's also suggestive of Iranian shrewdness in trying to make the best out of every situation they face in the region.
Assad's turmoil was supposed to have been a dream come true for those who consider Iran as the source of all troubles in the Middle East. If Syria could be peeled away, a weakened Islamic Republic would either implode or be feeble enough to give in to Western demands. Now, a couple of years into the Syrian tragedy — fueled by the urges of all sides that hope to turn the democratic aspirations of a population into a proxy war — we are informed by US officials that Iran has a long-term plan to protect its interests in Syria in the event of Assad's departure and the country's fracturing into ethnic and sectarian enclaves.
How can we confirm this? According to a "senior Obama administration official", the evidence can be found in the words of the Iranians themselves, of course! Citing "Iranian claims that Tehran was backing as many as 50,000 militiamen in Syria," the official said. "It's a big operation… The immediate intention seems to be to support the Syrian regime. But it's important for Iran to have a force in Syria that's reliable and can be counted on." To boot, a senior Arab official agrees that Iran's strategy has two tracks, "one is to support Assad to the hilt, the other is to set the stage for major mischief when it collapses."
I am naturally intrigued. An Iranian official has "claimed" that Tehran was building a force of as many as 50,000 militiamen in Syria, and this hasn't made headlines in Iran (or in the always-on-the-lookout BBC Persian, Radio Farda and Voice of America Persian, for that matter!). So I began searching (one can also use Google in Persian) and I couldn't find the statement anywhere. Not that there isn't any reference to Jaysh al-Sha'bi. There are indeed a few references to Jaysh al-Sha'bi as a popular militia, as well as the claim that since its creation, it has been able to engage in pushback against the rebel forces.
One person, identified as a "political expert for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the province of Semnan," goes as far as to suggest that perhaps Assad has decided to use the "model" of the Iranian popular militia — the Basij — in Syria. He ends the interview that Mehr News conducted with him this past August by stating that the Islamic Republic should relay its experiences with the Basij — which, he says, was the most useful instrument for fighting the war against Iraq in the early 1980s — so that the Syrian government can "liberate itself from the trap set for it by superpowers." The Basij model, he argues, does not work everywhere, but can be tried in order to draw from popular energy.
Another "expert on political issues" tells the Iran Student News Agency (ISNA), during an interview at a book fair of all places, that the Basij indeed serves as a "model" for Jaysh al- Sha'bi.
Then there are the direct words of the commander of the IRGC from a September press conference. In response to a question regarding Iran's involvement in Syria, he explicitly states first that Hezbollah's decision-making process and relations with Syria are independent of Iran: "if they decide to help Syria or not, depends on them," he says. And second, that Tehran assesses that Damascus does not need external support for its security since its "50,000-strong popular forces known as Jaysh al Sha'bi… is active" on the side of the Syrian military.
Apparently the mixing of these various statements is good enough for the Treasury Department to release a statement noting that "Iran's Revolutionary Guard commander" has said that Jaysh al Sha'bi was "modeled after Iran's own Basij," which it described as "a paramilitary force subordinate to the IRGC that has been heavily involved in the violent crackdowns and serious human rights abuses occurring in Iran since the June 2009 contested presidential election."
This is all the evidence that's mustered to delineate Iran's effort to build its Syrian militia networks. The rest of the article is speculative analysis regarding what might happen in Syria if Assad falls. After all, Karen DeYoung and Joby Warrick want us to know: "Iran has a history of profiting from chaos, even without control of the government ostensibly in power. Hezbollah arose out of the Lebanese civil war of the 1970s (sic), when Iran was able to exploit the grievances of that country's Shiite population, a pattern it also followed in Iraq during the chaos that followed the U.S. invasion."
Setting aside the glaring error of attributing the rise of Hezbollah to the 1970s Lebanese civil war and not even mentioning the 1982 Israeli invasion and occupation of Lebanon (the Iranian revolution did not even occur until 1979!), and the fact that Jaysh al-Sha'bi's roots go back to pre-uprising Syria, there is a problem with the formulation of Iran as an all-knowing and all-conniving power — and the only one at that — in the region. To be sure, it's not very hard to imagine that Tehran is trying hard not to "lose Syria", particularly given the way that the Syrian tragedy and fall of Assad has been framed by a host of regional and extra-regional powers as a "loss" for Iran. It's also not difficult to imagine that, given Iran's longstanding presence in Syria, its relationships may extend beyond Assad, providing Iran with the opportunity to salvage something even if Assad falls. Whether Tehran can actually pull any of this off is another question that's certainly not answered by the flimsy evidence and stretched speculation that we're provided with.
What is most bothersome about reports like these — which highlight Iran's shrewdness and sinister designs in benefitting from every situation that the US finds unable to address or control — is the full regurgitation of the US government position. Not to mention the failure to challenge the core paradox that exists in the elevation of the Iranian threat while consistent policies deal with Iran as mostly a nuisance, open to pressure, and certainly not worthy of treating with adequate respect for its leverage in the region.
In their book, The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor provide a perfect example of how this paradox works out in practice. They point out that General David H. Petraeus rejected overtures of cooperation in Iraq from Iran's lead man in the country, General Qasem Soleimani, and saw him as "a truly evil figure." But according to the authors, Soleimani's wickedness did not prevent Petraeus from having back-channel interactions with him through intermediaries. Indeed, apparently Petraeus became convinced that being able to send messages to Soleimani was useful, but that meeting with the Iranian general, even secretly, would have elevated the Iranian's stature and reinforced his notion that he was entitled to have a say over Iraq's future.
Iran's power is then a useful reference when trying to explain away the failures of US policies. Syria's imbroglio can be blamed exclusively on Iran's clever and devious hands and not the premature and unreflective policies that under-estimated the staying power and will of the Assad regime to dish out violence in order to survive. At the same time, Iran's alleged extended reach does not make it a sufficiently entitled or significant player in the region. The contradiction that exists at the core of US policy towards Iran is exposed when Iran's presumably formidable power and options in the region are highlighted for political purposes while the premise that it can be pressured into submitting to something willed by extra-regional players continues to reign supreme.
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Farideh Farhi
Farideh Farhi is an Independent Scholar and Affiliate Graduate Faculty at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. She has taught comparative politics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, University of Hawai'i, University of Tehran, and Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran. Her publications include States and Urban-Based Revolutions in Iran and Nicaragua , Power and Change in Iran: Politics of Contention and Conciliation (co-edited with Dan Brumberg), and numerous articles and book chapters on comparative analyses of revolutions and Iranian politics. She has been a recipient of grants from the United States Institute of Peace and the Rockefeller Foundation and Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the International Crisis Group.
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1. What rule governs the relationship between the size of an island and the number of species it can support?
(a) The greater the fertility of the soil, the greater the number of species.
(b) The longer the coastline the greater the number of species.
(d) The taller the highest point on the island, the greater the number of species.
3. How does Quammen find fault with other scientists studying extinctions?
(a) By saying that their fundamental premises were ungrounded.
(d) By saying that their vocabulary is insufficient to the problems.
4. Why is Krakatau scientifically important?
(a) It is just being populated now.
(b) It is an exception to most rules of population dispersal.
(c) It is a controlled experiment.
(d) It is so isolated.
5. What was Tasmania's environmental history, according to Quammen?
(a) It was separated from Australia by water.
(b) It experienced a catastrophic eruption that killed off everything on the island, before life returned slowly.
(c) It was isolated by a growing mountain range in India.
(d) It was formed by a volcano in the sea.
1. Why was the thylacine killed off?
2. What does Quammen say about each of the pieces?
3. What ecosystem does Wallace distinguish from ecosystems that developed in isolation?
4. What does Quammen say about the overall pattern on this hypothetical rug?
5. What does Quammen say an island is?
1. Who is Philip Darlington, and what was his contribution to the discussion of island size and species count?
2. What example does Quammen draw from the island of Guam?
3. What is the governing metaphor in the opening chapter?
4. What is the first explanation Quammen offers for the relationship between island size and species count?
5. What took David Quammen to Madagascar?
6. What is archipelago speciation?
7. Describe the process by which scientists generate policies for managing ecosystems.
8. What was the understanding about the variety of life forms before the theory of evolution came along?
9. What examples does Quammen use of dispersal ability?
10. What does Quammen say about the overall pattern of the Persian rug?


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A diszkalkulia jelentése számolászavar. A szó görög-latin eredetű, a görög "düsz" szóból ("rosszul"), a "calculia" pedig a latin "calculare" (számolni) szóból ered. Calculus = kövecske.

A diszkalkuliát elsőként baleseti sérülteknél állapították meg. Náluk az agy speciális területe sérült. Ezt nevezik szerzett diszkalkuliának vagy akalkuliának.

A kutatások fényt derítettek arra, hogy nemcsak külső sérülés okozhat számolási zavart, hanem az öröklötten is megjelenhet. Az egyén elmebeli működésének széles területeire hat, úgymint a megértésre, emlékezetre; arra a képességre, hogy számokkal manipuláljon, vagy számadatokat kezeljen. Gyakoriak az időérzékeléssel, a térbeli tájékozódással, és a mennyiségek becslésével kapcsolatos nehézségek. Gyakorisága a diszlexiáéhoz hasonló, 5-10%. Ez a fejlődési diszkalkulia. Az újabb kutatások a diszkalkulia, diszlexia, diszgráfia okaként a csecsemőkori agytörzsi primitív reflexek rendellenes fennmaradását valószínűsítik.

A diszkalkulia az általános intelligenciaszintet nem érintő, a matematikai teljesítményben bekövetkező zavar, melynek oka a neurológiai struktúrát, ill. funkciót érintő eltérés, örökletes és/vagy szerzett sérülés eredményeként. Nem függ az intelligenciától: a különben jó képességű ember éppúgy lehet diszkalkuliás, mint bárki más. A diszkalkulia megjelenésének formáját, méretét, kiterjedtségét a környezet nagymértékben befolyásolja, de nem képez oksági tényezőt (pl. családi szokások, oktatási módszerek). (F. Gönczi Rita, 2008.)

A korai diagnózis megkönnyíti a fejlesztést, és a későbbi nehézségek leküzdését. A szakértői vizsgálat elmaradása azzal fenyeget, hogy a gyereket butának, vagy lustának tartják. A diszkalkulia egészen a középiskoláig rejtve maradhat.

A diszkalkuliás tanuló, ha diszkalkuliája elég súlyos, felmentethető a matematika osztályozása, vagy a matematika alól. Ha fel volt mentve, akkor nem kell matematikából érettségiznie; választhat helyette egy másik tárgyat. Ez lehet egy második idegen nyelv, földrajz, vagy egy készségtárgy. Elméletben választható lenne biológia, kémia vagy fizika is, de ezekből kevésbé szoktak jól teljesíteni a diszkalkuliás tanulók. Biológiában ugyan a genetikáig nincsenek képletek, de utána jön még biokémia is, ami még arra is riasztó hatású, aki könnyedén vette a korábbi éveket.

Ha a diszkalkuliát nem ítélik elég súlyosnak, akkor a tanulónak továbbra is kell osztályzatokat kapnia matematikából, fizikából és más számításokat igénylő tárgyakból; csak éppen azt engedik meg, hogy számológépet használjon. Azonban ez is demotiváló lehet, hiszen egy diszkalkuliás számára nemcsak maga a számolás, hanem a képletek megtanulása, a tételek bizonyítása, a geometriai szerkesztések elvégzése is gondot jelenthet. A kormány azzal érvel, hogy az osztályozás hiányában ellustul a tanuló, nem fog kellő lelkesedéssel a fejlesztésen részt venni. Azonban a kapott rossz osztályzatok éppen az ellenkező hatást érik el, mint amit a kormány szeretne.

Jellegzetes tünetei
Ennek a tünetegyüttesnek is többféle megjelenési formája lehet:
 Gyakori nehézségek számoláskor (összeadás, kivonás, szorzás, osztás).
 Nehezen tudnak számokat összehasonlítani.
 Gyakran számolnak az ujjaikon.
 Gondot jelent a visszajáró ellenőrzése és az idő leolvasása analóg (mutatós) óráról.
 Nem tudnak pénzügyi terveket készíteni.
 Nem vagy csak nagyon pontatlanul tudják megbecsülni egy kosárban levő termékek árának összegét, tárgyak súlyát és távolságát, meg az eltelt időt.
 Nehezen igazodnak el menetrendeken és órarendeken.
 Jól teljesítenek azokból a logikát igénylő tárgyakból, amelyek nem tartalmaznak magasabb szintű számolást, például biológiából vagy geometriából.
 Rossz az időérzékük.
 Nehezen különböztetik meg a jobb és bal oldalt, és az égtájakat, még iránytű segítségével is.
 Rosszul vagy sehogy sem tudnak eligazodni elforgatott térképeken.
 Nehezen értik és jegyzik meg a matematikai szabályokat, képleteket, sorozatokat. ("Az egyik napról a másikra elfelejti.")
 Nehezen jegyzik meg számolást igénylő, vagy bonyolult pontozást használó játékokban, hogy ki hogy áll (pl.:póker).
 Nehézségeik vannak a sorozatokkal, azok megjegyzésével matematikán kívül is, például tánclépések.
 Különféle lelki problémák alakulhatnak ki, akár matematikafóbia is.

Altípusai és okai
Három fő típusa létezik:

Az egyik típus számára a mechanikus számolás, a másik számára a matematikai gondolkodás jelent problémát. A számolásos típus esetén a számfogalom fejletlensége okozza a zavart, így az kifejezetten a számokra, tovább víve a képletekre, így az átmatematizált logikára (lásd matematikai logika) is vonatkozik. Nehezen jegyzi meg a számokra vonatkozó tényeket, például egyjegyű számok összegét és a tízes kiegészítőket. Mindkettő megjelenhet ugyanannál az egyénnél, ezzel a diszkalkulia súlyos formáját idézve elő. Létezik egy olyan típus is, amiben a sorozatok, a sorba rendezés a fő gond. Nem tudja sorba rendezni az információkat, a matematikai műveleteket. Mindegyik típus lehet egészen enyhe, nagyon súlyos, vagy akármilyen súlyos a kettő között.

A fogalmat gyakran használják olyan zavarra, amely specifikus nehézséget okoz aritmetikai műveletek végrehajtásában, másfelől az oktatáselméletben és a kognitív pszichológiában meghonosodott definíció szerint egyfajta nehézség a számok, mint mennyiségek összehasonlítására szolgáló absztrakt fogalmak értelmezésére. Azok, akik szükségesnek találták ezt az összetettebb definíciót, gyakran használják diszkalkulia helyett az aritmetikai nehézségek (arithmetic difficulties, AD) fogalmat. Ezzel kihangsúlyozva a fogalom mögötti számolási és memória deficitet.

Lelki problémák

Az iskolák és az oktatási rendszer csak a mérhető teljesítményt – írást, olvasást, számolást – tudják értékelni, az attól eltérő tehetséget nem. Ha nem ismerik fel, és nem kezelik a diszkalkuliát, a gyerek önértékelése nagy károkat szenved: lustának vagy butának tartja magát; szorong, esetleg agresszív lesz, akár matematikafóbia is kialakulhat. Sokan viszont elnézőbbek azzal, hogy valakinek nem megy a matematika, mint az olvasással kapcsolatos gondokkal.

A német szakirodalom "ördögi kör" kifejezéssel említi a személy, teljesítménye és a környezete között kialakult diszharmóniát, mely az érintett személy számára frusztrációt okoz. A negatív helyzet megszüntetése a körbe történő beavatkozással lehetséges.

A kezelés nélkül maradó diszkalkuliások önértékelése általában rossz, önképük negatív, ennek következményei pedig egész életükre kihatnak: lemaradnak, és sokkal kevesebbet tanulnak meg, mint amennyire szakszerű segítséggel képesek lennének. Ez a későbbiekben negatív hatással van a mindennapi életükre, akár bevásárláskor, akár az idő leolvasásában. Nagyon fontos, hogy a tanulási zavart időben felismerje a szülő vagy a pedagógus és a gyermek megfelelő kezelésben részesüljön.

Segítségnyújtás
Fontos, hogy a szülő azonnal logopédushoz forduljon, mihelyt a diszkalkulia tüneteit észleli. Ilyen lehet például ha a gyermek kerüli a számokkal kapcsolatos játékokat, ha gyakran téveszti össze a jobb kezét a ballal, ha a legtöbb esetben szükségét érzi összeadás, kivonás, szorzás, osztás alkalmával a keze vagy bármilyen más segédeszköz használatát. Ha egy eredmény kiszámolása az általánosnál hosszabb időt vesz igénybe és nem feltétlenül azért mert nem érti a számolási módszert.

Az ha a gyermek kevésbé érdeklődik a gyurmázás vagy a rajzolás iránt az egyáltalán nem jelenti azt, hogy diszkalkuliás lenne, bár annak valószínűsége nagyobb. Mindegyikük más iránt érdeklődik és vannak olyanok akiknél a művészi hajlam hamarabb megmutatkozik. Több olyan diszkalkuliás gyermek is ismert, akik habár érthető okok miatt nem érdeklődnek és nem teljesítenek jól a matematikával kapcsolatos tárgyak terén, azonban minden másban kitűnőek. Tehát a diszkalkuliás gyermeket nem illendő elkönyvelni olyannak, aki nem viszi majd a jövőben semmire.

A diszkalkulia nem betegség és nem fogyatékosság, hanem az információfeldolgozás egy módja. Az önértékelés javítására dicsérni, biztatni kell a gyereket, és sikerélményhez juttatni. A szülő keresse meg azokat a területeket, melyeken a gyermek kiemelkedőt tud alkotni, és hagyja, hogy kibontakoztassa képességeit. A gyakorlás legyen változatos, érdekes és szemléletes, gyakori pihenőkkel. A nem tanulási célú közös játékok mellett a gyermek sikerélményhez juttatása is elősegíti fejlődését.

Kezelés
A fejlesztés megkezdése előtt részletes vizsgálatokkal mérik fel a tanuló képességeit, és azt, hogy hol tart. Ezekre építve indulnak meg a foglalkozások, amik fokozatosan fejlesztik a képességeket, készségeket és jártasságokat alakítanak ki, majd ezeket az új ismeretek megszerzéséhez használják; először direkt, majd egyre absztraktabb szemléltetéssel, végül szemléltetés nélkül.

Fejlesztik az emlékezetet, a figyelmet, az észlelést, a logikai gondolkodást és a beszédet. Segítenek eligazodni a tanuló saját testén, a geometriai síkban, térben és időben.
A gyakorlás fontos része a cselekedtetés, amit addig végeznek, amíg lehetővé nem válik annak szimbólumokra váltása. A készségek fejlesztésén túl a számokkal kezdődően beépítik az aritmetikai és geometriai fogalomrendszert, jeleket, szabályokat a tanuló gondolkodásába. Mindez sok gyakorlást igényel.

A terápia célja nemcsak az, hogy a diszkalkuliás tanuló megtanuljon számolni. Ezen kívül lényeges a szorongás oldása, az önfegyelem és a kitartás erősítése, ösztönzés a feladatvégzésre, végső soron pedig harmonikus személyiség kialakítása.

Kapcsolódó szócikkek

 Diszkalkulia tesztek
 NUCALC diszkalkulia teszt
 Hármas kód modell
 Szerzett számolási zavarok
 Genetikai rendellenességek numerikus zavarai

Irodalom

 Krajcsi Attila: A számolási zavarok idegrendszeri alapjai = Neurologische Grundlagen der Rechenstörung. In: A Magyar Tudomány Ünnepe 2006 : konferencia a tanulási akadályozottságról Mesterházi Zsuzsa tiszteletére / [Szabó Ákosné et al.] - [Bp.] : ELTE Bárczi Gusztáv Gyógypedagógiai Főiskolai Kar, [2006]. - 20., 46. p.
Farkasné Gönczi Rita (2008): Diszkalkulia a gyógypedagógia és határtudományai aspektusából, Gyógypedagógiai Szemle, 2008/3. sz., p. 204-214
Farkasné Gönczi Rita (2011): Diszkalkulia – Terminológiaváltás, a diagnosztika forradalma a terápia megújulása in A diagnózistól a foglalkozási rehabilitációig (szerk. Papp Gabriella) ELTE BGGYFK, p. 197- 224.

Jegyzetek

Források
 Diszkalkulia oldalak a Szegedi Tudományegyetemen
 Tipikus tünetek, fejlesztés
 Tanítók a hálón a diszkalkuliáról
 A Démoszthenész Egyesület a diszkalkuliáról
 https://web.archive.org/web/20091213042830/http://fkoai.freeweb.hu/Logopedia/diszlexia.htm
 http://www.szoforgato.hu/Page022.html
 https://web.archive.org/web/20090623222600/http://wcs.oisz.hu/18162/diszkalkulia---szamolaszavar/krasznar-es-fiai-konyvesbolt.html
 https://web.archive.org/web/20161004075556/http://dyscalculiaport.hu/

Részképességzavarok
Számolási zavarok
Tünetek

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What's your favorite thing about working at Greenville University?
My favorite thing about working at GU is the chance it gives me to be a part of a working Christian academic community. While we oftentimes joke about the word, "community," it really does represent who we are and what we aim to be. Within the scope of this community, we seek to bring along students into the rigors of asking the most important and lifelong questions and we have the audacity to believe that this is crucial to the task of reconciling the entire creation back to God through Christ.
What attracted you to the Religion Department, and how do you use it outside of the classroom?
I function not only as a professor but as an ordained minister-and I find these two roles to be compatible though they require me to make adjustments in each. I was attracted to teaching partly because of my own experience as both an undergraduate and graduate student, but more so because it allows me to continue to research and think through what I consider to be the most important questions one may ask-questions about God, the world, and the very meaning of life. As an historical theologian, I oftentimes remark that most of my best friends are dead (that is, I have textual companions that stretch back thousands of years). And, I make it my goal to introduce my students to many of these friends as lifelong traveling companions on the Christian journey of faith. I also attempt to model in my own life and ministry a sense of balance and order that embraces the everyday, ordinary, and mundane as essential elements of God's good creation.
"Media, Mystery, and Audience Myths," at the North American Academy of Liturgy, Montreal, PQ, Canada, January, 2012.
"The Challenge of Worship in the Free Methodist Church: A White Paper for the Study Commission on Doctrine," prepared for the 2011 General Conference of the Free Methodist Church of North America.
"The Liturgy of the Hours: Some Reflections from an Evangelical Wesleyan," in Sacramental Life 21.3 (Summer, 2009): 17-22.
"The Liturgical Reordering of the Ecclesia Anglicana: Faithful Understanding in the Elizabethan Homilies of 1563," Anglican Episcopal History 76.4 (2007): 489-519.
"Understanding the Authority of the Elizabethan Homilies," Proceedings of the North American Academy of Liturgy (2007): 88-117.
"Disinterring the Bones of John Foxe: Suffering in the Acts and Monuments as Weapon in Ecclesiastical Definition," at the Wesleyan Theological Society, Kankakee, IL, March, 2007.
"The Queen and her Homilies: Resolving the Problem of Theological Authority in the British Reformation," at the North American Academy of Liturgy, Toronto, Canada, January, 2007.
"'Tuning the Pulpits': Forming the Faithful by Fiat (or, Sermons in the Service of the Virgin Queen)," lecture delivered at the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, St. John's University and School of Theology, Collegeville, MN, October 26, 2006.
"Wesley, Tradition, and the Homilies," lecture delivered at Tyndale Seminary, Toronto, Canada, May 31, 2005.
"Sixteenth Century Predecessors of John Wesley: Intimations of Eucharistic Ecclesiology in the Elizabethan Homilies of 1563," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Wesleyan Theological Society, Seattle Pacific University, March, 2005.
Review of John Wyclif: Scriptural Logic, Real Presence, and the Parameters of Orthodoxy by Ian Christopher Levy. Review of Biblical Literature ( October 23, 2004).
Chair and Convener, Preaching Seminar ("Word in Worship"), North American Academy of Liturgy.


A rare butterfly debuts in the Rio Grande Valley.
Butterfly photographer David Hanson thought the aqua-and-black beauty perched beneath the wild olives at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park last April 13 was a rainbow skipper — a significant sighting for any South Texas naturalist.
But soon after he e-mailed a photo of his find to a New Jersey friend, Jeffrey Glassberg, president of the North American Butterfly Association (NABA), Hanson's phone started ringing.
"Do you know what you have?" Glassberg asked.
Glassberg's trained eyes — and many such are focused on Texas' Lower Rio Grande Valley these days — had spotted a U.S. butterfly first. Hanson had photographed not the more common rainbow skipper, with its smaller wing "windowpanes," but the only Phocides belus, a.k.a. beautiful beamer, ever recorded in this country.
Hanson's find becomes the 723rd butterfly species documented in North America and the 294th for this three-county region, which rivals entire states such as California and Florida for its butterfly diversity.
An increasing number of butterfly enthusiasts — with their close-focusing binoculars and digital cameras in hand – are trekking to Cameron, Hidalgo and Starr counties in South Texas. Their destinations are the riparian woodlands and thorn forests preserved at places such as Bentsen. Their goal might be a banded orange Heliconian slurping up nectar from a Texas lantana, or a two-barred flasher sunning on a wild olive — or any of the Mexican "vagrants" that wander into the United States most frequently at the southern tip of Texas.
News of Hanson's sighting has added to the boom in butterfly tourism already in progress here. Less than a mile from Bentsen, NABA is planning a 100-acre International Butterfly Park along a picturesque bend of the Rio Grande. A few miles away, the Edinburg Scenic Wetlands' wing of the World Birding Center has planted six of its acres in blue mist flowers, Turk's cap and other flowering plants that butterflies love. The Edinburg WBC is part of a nine-community collaboration with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, dedicated to birding and nature tourism.
Other butterfly-friendly sites in the Valley include the Valley Nature Center in Weslaco, the Sabal Palm Audubon Center & Sanctuary in Brownsville and Santa Ana and Laguna Atascosa national wildlife refuges, all of which recently have expanded their native plantings.
The man who found the beautiful beamer, David Hanson, only recently became a butterfly-watcher. A pilot, radio-controlled aircraft buff and birder, he is a winter Texan from Wisconsin who makes a beeline for South Texas each fall.
Hanson was in the right place at the right time last April when he stopped by the flowering wild olive trees at Bentsen's front gates, a butterfly hotspot. Walking toward the trees, Hanson nearly collided with a blue-and-black specimen that abruptly disappeared into the undergrowth. He lay on his back on the sidewalk to capture a digital portrait of the butterfly, which was hiding under a low-hanging leaf.
Only two years ago, Hanson says his universe of lepidoptera was divided into "white butterflies, yellow butterflies and monarchs." Then a long-tailed skipper wandered into his home and he picked up a guidebook and a digital camera. Now a U.S. record is attached to his name. He says the butterfly enthusiasts flocking to the Rio Grande Valley share common passions.


Going into someone's home and exploring their collections is one of my favorite things to do. A collection is a wonderful way to express who you are in your interior. In our home we collect art, but in others I have seen everything from snow globes, to something that came to mind this morning – vintage cameras. While vintage black and white cameras might not be in use that much these days, the cameras that your mom and dad, or your grandparents once used, can be beautiful pieces to put on display. These images show that just a few, like six, or a host of them, like 26, can make a pretty cool and unique display. With all of this talk about cameras, I also want to be sure that you are checking out the Interior Angle with Patrick Cline articles on the AphroChic About.com page. Be sure to check out his latest, The Life Styled, as he explores the lifestyle branding in some New York's hottest stores, including Ralph Lauren Home and Club Monaco.
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'Dick Figures' Goes Branded With Jack Link's Beef Jerky
Dick Figures is back, and it has brought a hairy character to its latest party. Zack Keller and Ed Skudder's web series (which spawned its own movie in 2013) has returned with a three-episode series of branded videos sponsored by Jack Link's beef jerky.
The first of the three new videos arrived on the Mondo Media YouTube channel on October 1st. In it, the crudely-drawn Dick Figures protagonists (who have always had a penchant for pranks) look to pull a fast one on Sasquatch during a homecoming dance. Regular TV viewers will recognize this as a spin on Jack Link's long running Messin' with Sasquatch ad campaign, in which passersby encounter Bigfoot, yank his chain in some silly way, and receive due punishment when the legendary cryptid retaliates.
Given their shared interest in slapstick humor, Dick Figures studio Six-Point Harness and Jack Link's ad agency Carmichael Lynch are natural partners. The videos appear to perturb some Dick Figures fans, who, if their comments are any indication, are hungry for more unsponsored episodes after waiting more for a year for them, but other viewers have come to the conclusion that beef jerky-loving Dick Figures is better than no Dick Figures at all.
If you fall into the latter group, you can return to the Mondo Media channel on October 19th, when the second episode of the series will be released. The third and final installment is slated to arrive sometime in November.


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MUST READ: Mother who went to a herbalist to help cure her cancer shares shocking story to warn other cancer patients
Gloria Chinyere, a mother who suffered cancer, has shared the shocking story of how she visited a highly-recommended herbalist to help treat her ailment.
Gloria narrated how her cancer returned at a time when she was unemployed and couldn't afford cancer treatment.
People then suggested a herbalist in Jos who they claim has a high success rate in treating cancer patients.
She said she went from Abuja to Jos in search of the herbalist and on getting there, she met a number of other patients, male and female, who claimed they got better after receiving treatment from the herbalist. Her aunt, whose cancer was treated by the same herbalist, also assured her that the herbalist can be trusted.
Gloria went for the surgery in Jos and went home with herbs given to her by the herbalist to drink and use in cleaning the wounds.
But she got worse and went back to the herbalist in Jos only to find so many other patients whose cases had deteriorated. The aunt who advised her to go to the herbalist also slipped into a coma and died.
It was at this point that Gloria rushed back to the National Hospital in Abuja where professionals gave their best to save her life.
She shared her experience to warn others about taking the short cut when it comes to treating cancer.
Read her story below.
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Growing up, I got a lot of advice from my mom. She's a good mom and that's what moms are supposed to do. Of all the things she told me, I think that "Life's not fair. Get used to it." is the best advice she gave. Oh and did she give it – and often!
As an adult, I find I say this to myself nearly every day. No matter my age, it will always be true – "Life's not fair. Get used to it." So thanks, mom, for all the great advice over the years, especially this one.


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