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Having more than a vested interest, I tend to keep track of autism news. Two recent articles - here and here - have shown a genetic link to autism-like symptoms. There's still some controversy over what 'causes' autism but more and more evidence shows a common factor is in the genes.
Which, for better and for worse, means autism is part and parcel of our son. It is in him, a inseparable and fundamental fact.
That doesn't have to be a reason for mourning, and it certainly isn't a reason to celebrate. It just is - part of him from the ground up, so to speak.
And while it has to define who he is in many ways, I want his main identification to be whatever he wants it to be - reader, dancer, flirter (oh yes. He can work a room in a way that Valentino would envy and take notes on) or his apparent current one of 'raiser of daddy's blood pressure'. He is a fill in the blank who happens to be autistic, not an autistic person who happens to be fill in the blank.
I've said it a lot, and I will continue to say it: My son is very, very smart and very, very cunning.
Now, cunning may have a negative connotation to it - someone who sneaks, who cheats, who cuts corners and does barely-legal or just-barely-illegal things to get an advantage. And, don't get me wrong, there may be some of that in what he does.
Take school. Just yesterday, one of his teachers was telling him how much better he was doing in her class, even talking a bit to her. I went and got him and we were walking down the hall and he was sort-of chatting to as he does. He has a thing, where he will answer some kinds of questions if you cue him with the sound of the correct answer. This may, sort of kind of, be a bit of a cheat for him, but he usually answers the question with the correct answer out of a bunch of possibilities with the same start so I'm really not sure.
He was doing that with me on some stuff and that teacher heard him, and said, "Xander! You've been holding out on me! I'm gonna make you talk more to me!"
This may or may not be to his liking. There is a possibility he had been underdoing what he could do, so he wouldn't have to do more. I'm not ruling it out.
BUT - it may also simply be a survival mechanism.
Autistic people have a huge problem with sensory issues - I used this example to a friend a few nights ago. We were out in a parking lot after tae kwon do, and I was talking/bragging about my son and how well he did things with all the assaults on his senses. I pointed to the parking lot lights and the florescent lights back in the classroom, and said "You know we see these lights as solid, but they're really flickering super fast, too fast for us to see. But some autistics can tell that. It would be like almost continually living in a strobe light, every second." Add to that the flickering on a computer screen - which is why when you see a computer screen on a TV during a news broadcast interview you'll see diagonal lines skittering down the screen over and over.
Imagine trying to work on something like that. Or be in a place with continual strobe lighting. The agonizing headache, the eyestrain, the jitteriness.
Now I don't think Xander has that issue, or if he does it's to a much lesser extent. But I think he does have pressure sensitivity, where holding things that dig in - like the ridges on a pencil, or the edges of a zipper or a button - dig in more and hurt, because the times he's tried to hold those things, he's jerked his head away like you or I would if we grabbed a hot pan off the stove. Or with talking - perhaps the teacher's voice, as pleasant as it is to you and me, may have some frequency that hits him hard and odd. Or the room full of chairs and tables make the sound bounce around, so one ear hears the words a beat after or before the other, like a CD playing the same track at different speeds through different speakers. (I seem to recall a recent report that showed nerves impulses did travel oddly in autistic people's brains, but can't recall it for sure.)
If that's the case, why not fake being unable to do something that hurts to do?
Now of course, sadly, I can't know. He can't tell me. And many things that may be troubling him is simply things he has to learn how to do, if for no other reason than to find OTHER ways to accomplish that things. Say, pens instead of pencils.
What I call cunning may be survival, or even intelligence, a necessity to getting through a day. The challenge is figuring out which box he's in - won't because he can't; won't because it hurts; won't because he doesn't want to. Given he has already showed some flashes of cunning - taking out papers he thought would get him in trouble, like I talked about earlier - it's even more difficult, since I know he's smart enough, but is he capable enough, to do certain things?
Smart AND cunning. (Like he needed any more advantages!)
One of the books I've read recently had a line in it that stuck with me. It was about getting into running, and that inevitable time when you go out and do something you've done so much before - but this time it hurts bad, and it's a struggle to finish something you've gotten through with no trouble before. It said, "Sometimes the hard is easy, and sometimes the easy is hard."
That really struck a chord with me. I think, with a little modification, that may be the perfect description of handling an autistic child.
Of course, for parents of autistic children, our easy doesn't equal most other people's easy. Since Xander's nonverbal, an easy time might be, say, if he runs out of his room screaming "ARE YOU OKAY ARE YOU OKAY?" and rubbing his back. Means he was probably bouncing on a ball in his room- see the blog entry Weightless, on the first page - and managed to scrape his back on the dresser, or the bed. A fast mystery, easily solved.
There have been other times when he's come out from his room in that upset mode we've come to recognize as "I did something wrong and know I'm going to be in trouble." A search then ensues, with the fever and zeal of DeLeon's search for the Fountain of Youth, and more often than not the same success as well. Times like those, we can only be thankful it wasn't something as obvious as a broken ceiling fan or scribbles on the wall (check and check) and wait and see wait we find later. (Of course, then I have to wonder if when I punish him for a past action he really understands that or he feels I'm just mean...)
Other moderately easy times - once again, Xan banged his head at school this week. But this time it appeared to be a flat-out 'I don't want to do what you say' moment, since when it happened his teacher said "I'm telling Daddy" and he immediately said "Gonna calm down gonna calm down." (And then, in an example of the cunning I often write about, when I picked him up he went to his lunch box, opened it up, and got out some papers that had been stuck in there and put them aside, thinking one of them was a note to me about this) Didn't work, but I gave him points for slickness.
This week I was unfortunate enough to have a migraine. For those of you who never suffered from these agonies (and there's a precise reason people 'have' headaches but there are migraine 'sufferers'), a woman I knew in my teenage years who also suffered from them told me it was the closest pain a man could get to natural childbirth. Yeah. Roll that around in your mind for a minute.
Anyway, I got nailed by one and was fortunate enough Tracy was able to come home after I got Xander so I could go to our room, crank all the fans on high, and huddle in bed while waiting for the pain to pass. There have been times I've had to handle Xander while suffering from a migraine, and while many of those times have been easy and he's been awesome, there's been the flip side as well.
Times like that make it hard to do anything, much less decipher a cryptic clue. Much as I hate to admit it, there's often been times when I've forced to just tell him to wait until Mommy gets home and see if she could figure it out. We've been lucky these times were either not too important, since he didn't repeat it for Mommy, or he worked it out for himself.
These things, and a lot more, tend to make having an autistic kid like always having to parent while having a low-grade headache and on occasion a full-blown migraine - those times when you have no idea what's going on and feel helpless you can't help and sick your child has to suffer because you can't understand him. The easy isn't always easy, and the hard can be unbearable.
Then again, these hard times do make me cherish every step he does make towards being his own person. It makes every accomplishment wonderful and something to be proud of, and respect it so much more because I know it's harder for him to do that.
That's some silver linings you won't ever get in a migraine.
Is head-banging pretty common in autistic kids? I think so, based on all my personal experience, reading and researching, volunteering with autistic kids and talking to people. It may not be a 100% correlation - autistic = head banging - but based on all I know it seems to be a usual thing.
I wonder why? I understand Xander getting frustrated for many reasons and not being able to express it, or not understanding why something only bothers him (imagine being in public and only you being able to see or hear something that drives you crazy), or just getting fed up with something that would bother anyone and having to express himself, but I wonder why it takes that form, slamming the head down.
There is one benefit - as anyone who has witnessed this will say, it's very effective at getting attention. Perhaps you imagine head-banging as some old 80's-punk-rock/heavy metal thing, where kids would bang their heads up and down near - note that word - the stage. Yeah. From what I've seen, there's rarely contact, and when there is the banger usually takes pains to not have it happen again.
Not the way Xander can do it. It be can "gentle". I've had some times when something's happened to him and he's just overwhelmed by pain, or anger, or frustration, and he'll pull me down to him and tap his head to mine. One time he had his hand slammed in a door, another time he was really sick, things like that. He takes care to be gentle, for a head butt, and it's usually not too bad. It hurts a touch, and the more he does it the more likely I'll get a bruise, but he can control himself and I can live through it with usually nothing more then a dull throb while he calms himself down.
But there are times...I wrote he banged his head on concrete getting out of the pool. Hard, no pulling back at all. All the adults around him were shocked and scared, half expecting blood to shoot out of his skull like a hose. That time at Barnes and Noble in another post, you could hear the thunk of the skull on the floor, like a soft watermelon being thumped and I felt vibrations through the floor. I saw a young child slam his head into a long table so hard everything on it jumped, from one end to the next.
It gets its message across.
People who aren't used to this can be shocked and may panic when it happens, which if you only see it now and again makes sense. It's already happened a few times at school this year - once in computer lab and once in his therapy. Both times the teachers let him stop work.
Which, I'm fairly sure, was his main goal. And hey, if it works...
(I did something like this once, doing a fairly harmless yet effective faint. I had just been diagnosed with hypoglycemia, low blood sugar. It was found that a sudden large influx of sugar combined with a equally sudden action would make me faint. In middle school, a place I hadn't exactly set afire with my intellectual prowess, I had forgot about a history test. Failing it would have dragged my grade down to single digits. LOW single digits. So at lunch, I chowed down a whole bag of Red Hot candies, and when the test was handed out stood up to ask a question. For a second, anyway.
Got me out of the test.)
Xander is both smart and cunning, a dangerous combination. He knows that freaking some particular teachers out will equal stopping some assignment he doesn't want to do. I was told about it, and checked out the rooms it happened in to see if I could see anything that might have caused him problems with his sensory issues. I didn't. Doesn't mean there's nothing there but...
This tactic loses its impact with most parents, some sooner, some later. I don't remember the exact date this happened with me, but I remember it had been a long, hard day and he was banging his head on the couch arm. I sighed and told him, "If you're going to do that, go ahead and knock yourself out, 'cause I'm tired of it all and could use a break." Now I only notice it for punishment purposes, as in if I see you bang your head and I can tell it's because you're mad, now you can be mad and in trouble as well. He's mostly stopped - it still happens and he still gets in trouble for it, but it's almost always a sign of anger or frustration. Naturally, if it happens for pain reasons, we don't punich - but we also don't freak out, just checking it out and seeing why it happened instead of being shocked or scared.
The impacts have lessened.
But there are other, less obvious ones we still have to lessen.
If we hear about a head butting incident, we tend to investigate and see if there was some cause besides stubborness or not wanting to do something. Since we can't see or feel what Xander feels, we're pretty wide open in our guessing. We've been pretty lenient too, giving him the benefit of the doubt every time we could - the 'kicking the puppy' feeling being avoided. The problem with that is he may get away with stuff a lot.
So now he's been warned we're going the opposite way, only giving him credit if it's an obvious problem. We're doing this for several reasons, not only to get him to understand the get-out-of-jail (by headbutting through a wall) card won't work anymore, but more importantly, we're trying to get him to explain what's happening. Instead of using the head butt as a catch-all reason and leave it to us to understand, we're trying to get him to make us understand by telling us what's going on.
This will lead to misunderstandings, guilt, and more than likely some trouble sleeping for me, because I know I'm going to get some things wrong. But I'm doing it anyway, trying to get him to do more, to grow some, to get a glimpse into him and give him a chance to help himself AND us by telling us his problems. We hope the impact from his head butts will be replaced by the impact from his words.
However, I fully expect some more bruises on my forehead - this time from self-impacts.
Having a nonverbal autistic child - which, really, Xander isn't, since he CAN talk, but he isn't as adept as he should be for good, or even nominal, communication - is a challenge for many reasons I've posted about before. It's kind of comparable to having a baby who isn't old enough to talk - but in some ways, much harder and worse. You don't expect or need a baby to have a give-and-take conversation with you, but with a older child you do and need to.
The hardest thing I've had to adjust to with Xander is the hurting knowledge that much of his inner life will be a mystery to me, and that ranges from the superficial to the deep.
His birthday and Christmases are not fun times for me. To be honest, I've never been a Christmas spirit man. If I'd have been a Who, I would have taken vacation every December or gone crazy from all the cheer. That precedes my little guy. But with his autism, it's gone deeper.
You want to get your child things he likes. (And of course some socks and underwear style gifts, just to be a parent.) Other parents gets hints, clues, or outright demands for what their kid wants. With Xan, it's not so easy. Probably over half of the gifts I've tried to get him are metaphorically shrugged at, maybe politely tried for a minute, and then forgotten or ignored. Unless it's obvious, I'm probably going to be wrong.
Some things can be guessed at. He liked the first Tickle-Me-Elmo, so when the next version came out I got it. But the voice was just slightly different, a bit higher, a bit more obviously electronic. If I could tell that, to Xander it was probably like the difference between a cat's meow and a snake's hiss, and it just didn't fit. I was wrong, but at least I knew why. We thought he'd enjoy riding a horse at one summer camp, but a helmet was required and anything on his head bothers him immensely.
But other things I could have sworn he would like, he doesn't, and I have no idea. Same character or same kind of game or same kind of activity or whatever.
Because he can't tell me, all I have to go on is his reaction after the fact, and a guesswork game of why. Too loud? Too hard? Colors too bright? Figure not exactly like the character on television?
But even that, as annoying, painful and frustrating as it is, is nothing compared to the fact that I don't know my son like I want to.
Does he like football? He'll watch it with me, but wil leave a lot. Baseball? Soccer? Does he want to PLAY football, or baseball, or soccer?
I know he likes How To Train Your Dragon - who's his favorite character? Toothless, Hiccup, Astrid, Gobber? Why? I don't expect deep psychological bonding or identification, but I can't even get 'I like the color black' or 'He talks funny'.
Other parents can build a mental image of their child from their likes, their dislikes, what they want to do or be and what they don't want to do or be. They can use this for the most basic things, like ruling out gifts because of a wrong color or character. Or it can be used to shape their child - since he likes to read, let's discuss his favorite book; or since he enjoys this martial arts movie let's try them out on Tae-Kwon-Do. Or it can be used to know their child - he's going to be a athlete, a scholar, good with girls.
It's harder for us to get any information like that for the easy things, and often the things we do get to know aren't the fun kind.
Most of all, I miss the chances to have a give-and-take conversation with my son, where I can learn about him and know about him more and can explain what I know and feel. To have a chance to dig deeper and get something straight from him, instead of guessing at things. To be able to get the things I can use to help him, from getting the right gift to doing things he likes to perhaps getting him into things he'll resist but love later. And having him get me more too, of course - but I really want to get to know him.
He's my son, and I love him totally. But he is very much unknown to me.


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Tell Iaaf to stop screwing up their site.
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I had lunch today with the publisher who created the website, he was very interested to hear that there were problems with the site and wants me to email him with suggestions of how it can be corrected and improved
If people want to post here with specific issues i'll make sure he hears about them and hopefully we can get them sorted
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i couldn't agree more
I only ever go on there to look up results and now can't find anything
Just to find out the yearly lists you have to about 8 times. Why are all events grouped into sprints/vertical jumps etc ?? why would anyone want to see a list of all time performers instead of all time performances ?? and why can't you just click on all the change instead of doing the whole search again ? Why does it default to men if you want to look up something else and you have to start from beginning every time ?
The same on the athletes profiles. Pics are good but it's so messy why not have all the info in front of you instead of on different pages ?
Why can't i find results for specific events in at the WC, you can only look by day :-S
Why is every page cluttered up with news stories and irrelevant photos ?
Why are there no results from 83 or 87
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Mump, apparently the rule is that the top strata of an organization are absolved if you've known them for "decades" and have had drinks/dinners with them
There is NO WAY that a dedicated track fan would have made those changes. No way. But, its part of the problem with the people in these organizations. Yes, these people are stewards of the organization that administer the sport but I think the adulation, patronage, venues, rules, pomp etc has removed their ability to be FANS. They're so used to being adored, genuflected to and held up as "heroes" that they've forgotten what really drives the sport.
gh, says that we should pay Tilastopaja, etc...well, doesn't the IAAF and many of the meet directors already do that? (who is Tilastopaja paying to get the info?) And, it would be one thing if it were only the results but it's the whole FREAKING site. Nothing works intuitively and NOTHING works better than what they had before. So it begs the question: why change? Surely it had many man-hours to redo the site. Was that a donation? Was there no cost involved? This is an organization that had to put out public messages barely 4 years ago that it wasn't broke yet they spend money to build THAT? And, did no one consider the user experience? Just, "hey we changed it" and everyone who should have given a damn said "ok" and went back to their continental breakfast.
1. go back to the old site and don't change back until they have something better. There are so many changes to list that it really just makes more sense to scrap this.
-once you choose an athlete you can't just look up other athletes quickly in the same country like you used to.
-Are they being paid by the click? cut out the seperate tabs for progression, honours and personal bests
-why have they NEVER had the original World Juniors from 1986?
-how come Greg Foster's name has NO honors?
-Roger Kingdom isn't recognized for winning the Olympics in 1984?
I could go on forever. The site sucks. Tell him some asshole on a messageboard said that it sucks and he won't take it personal, but if this is his life's work he may want to consider masonry or plumbing because his hands and mind are not good for organizing a site through code.
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If you want to PM me with detailed specifics instead of expletive ridden rants i'll be happy to pass on
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I find it a fine site with changes since last time... what a shame for crabby chaps who can't bear change. Preston is probably some old git who wants no changes if he has not given the same his approval.
Any body who cant find their way around it is possibly a little "challenged"
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A change should ideally result in an improvement. The IAAF site change has not improved my experience using the site. The opposite is true. So now I avoid the site. I doubt that that is the objective they hoped to achieve. Then again, who knows?
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I avoid the site, too, as the information it now has is sometimes near or below wikipedia. It's definitely not worthy of the site it replaced in any way that I can see.
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As one of the editors of the site, I should perhaps chip in with some responses/assistance...
On the old site, if you wanted to find any list other than a senior men's list, you'd have to click between 3-9 times and go through two page loads to get to the list you want. On the new site, the most clicks you have to make for any kind of list is seven times, and you'd only ever have to experience one page load. And remember on the old site from the home page you'd need to use the old navigation menu with that extra-sensitive hover and drop-down menu to get to the top lists section, and from there you'd then have to click/select to get to any ranking list. On the new site, with one click from the home page you can get to a rankings list (the default, men's 100m).
The old site used to display a big long list with all events merged into one with no clear dividers between event groups and which took up a load of space to display, creating a big void of white space on the right-hand side of the page. Whether you have to scroll further down the page (as you did on the old site) or click on an instantly-loading tab (like on the new site), it takes the same amount of 'finger-on-mouse' "effort".
In case you wanted to see where someone ranks on the all-time list. I for one used to hate having to filter through the extra performances on an all-time performers list and manually count where someone ranks on that list.
Granted, this is a fair point and I know that the tech team are working on getting the 'all' option to work properly.
Another fair point. I'll raise this with them if it hasn't been already.
The other info (progression, honours, etc) isn't a different 'page' as such; it's just a different tab contained within the same page. As I mentioned above, is a click much more effort than a scroll (as would have been required on the old site which displayed everything on one looooong page)?
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(continued as character limit was reached)...
One of the features of the new site is the results archive (much easier than the old site, which had past major champs results buried in a historical archive within the 'competitions' section). So from the home page, click on "Results". Open filter, tick "World Championships", select the year, click "Find results". Voila - results of every World Champs, listed by event.
The more the site grows, the more relevant the related stories/photos will be. It's standard practice now for sites to have 'related articles' sections on the page; it's what keeps people on the same website (and is why Daily Mail is the most visited website in the world - look how many 'related articles' they have listed down the right-hand side of their web site).
http://www.iaaf.org/results/iaaf-world- ... thletics-3
http://www.iaaf.org/results/iaaf-world- ... thletics-4
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The reaction towards the new IAAF site reminds me of every change/development that facebook goes through. After each major change, your timeline gets full of people complaining about how crap it is (never highlighting the positive changes, of course), but within a few weeks everyone has forgotten about the old version and happily continues to use the new version. People simply don't like change. But trust me when I say that the people who have created the new IAAF site are experts in their field and they have consulted 'athletics people' throughout the whole process. With every part of the site that the designers have redeveloped, it has begun with the question: "what can we do to cut down on the amount of navigation that the user experiences to get to where they need to go? And how can we make the pages look less cluttered and more streamlined/relevant?"
When you're used to a site, sometimes you almost don't notice how many clicks it can take to where you need to go. Yes, during this transitional phase while people are re-learning where their most oft-visited sections of the new site are then they may take a few wrong turns, resulting in more clicks/page loads than need be. But once you know where to go, it will most likely be quicker and more intuitive than the navigation on the old site. And if it's not, then let me know and I can consult with the developers.
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Without answering every individual point (i'll probably come back and do that when i get bored at work later) it will just say that as one of the editors of the site it may be easy for you to navigate but let me tell you that for the layman it doesn't make any sense at all.
As you know Jon i had a number of issues with the old site but none of these changes address those issues, it may look nicer but it is complicated, unclear and frustrating. I'm with others i'll quite happily find somewhere else to look up results rather than go through this rigmarole every time.
Constant unnecessary changes are one of the main reasons i no longer use Facebook half as much as i used to and this will go the same way.
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I'll go to work in a minute
Just because the old one didn't work very is no excuse for this one not to either.
there shouldn't a need for any more than 4 clicks
Click on results
Click on men/women
click on year
click on event
if you want to look at another event you should just click on it without having to start again. If i'm looking at w100 i should be able to click on 200m and see the women's list for the same year not have to start from the top again.
does it very well
Why would anyone need events grouped into events !! there's nothing wrong with a list, i like looking at lists it's what i go to results for !! even the casual fan who is interested enough to look on here for lists knows what events they want to look up without needing a dumbed down options incase they don't know the different between horizontal and vertical !!
each to their own, that didn't bother me at all. I still don't think it should be the default list. It's distorting and simplistic
The difference between a new page and a tab is non existent to me. Yes i'd rather scroll if looking for information it is better to have it all on the same page so it's easier to compare. There would be no need for any kind of scrolling if there weren't MASSIVE pictures taking up so much space. I'm all for pics but not as the main purpose of the page, i can google pics of people, i come to this page to find out info and to just have PB on the first page (rather than honours for sample) seems rather strange.
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I've been looking for results through competitions as i couldn't find them on results. The first thing you see when you click on competitions, info about World Champs ? It then encourages you to click on previous WC where it gives you the timetable (who would want a timetable rather than event results ?) but incomplete results and none for 83 and 87
When i click on results i don't get to choose World Champs i get a confusing load of boxes and areas to choose from
OK found it, not obvious at all that you should click on competitions and get a drop box to chose from. I've never seen a tab that says 'open filters' before i had no idea what that meant. Why wouldn't that be the default instead of Geographic ??
I'm all for pics and related stories to be listed DOWN THE SIDE OF THE WEBPAGE
these aren't down the side they're all over the place and they're not even related. One of the best/worst things about DM, youtube etc if the related stories but they are specifically don't interfere with the main page. On this site it's difficult to even see that you're trying to look up because an unrelated stories dominates each page. If i click on World Championships on the front page i get this
http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-w ... mpionships. A story about the Jen Suhr competing indoors this winter !! Only if i scroll down do i get some info (timetables once again) about Deagu !! which isn't really what you would have expected anyway. Underneath that i can get more pics of things like Darren Cambell in Paris 03
I still can't get this to work. i click on results, competitions, World champs, Helsinki and nothing just the same page refreshing. If you try and click on a year from the drop box it only goes down to 97 !! The results also need be in the competition archive.
The links you provide work but for a site that wants to be so easy on the eye the page is ugly and not as user friendly as previous one was.
Sorry to moan a lot but this site has the feel of changes having been made by people who would never use it and doesn't feel like it's actually been tested by anyone who might.
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Jon, do you know if IAAF will continue to offer fantasy and if yes, are they going to improve the product?
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Because companies have never made bad and embarrassingly short-sighted changes, no? Coca-Cola with New Coke? Apple with Apple Maps? It just come down to people bitching because they don't like change, right? The crazy part is that you barely acknowledge that the site has utterly failed to do what it ostensibly sets out to do: present the information in a more intuitive way. This, imo, was nothing more than patronage (like a Mayor's Brother-in-Law getting the contract to repave a road that doesn't need paving.)...graft.
But what seems most apparent and what shocks me that you confessed that you were involved are said best by the person who I agree with on EVERYTHING in life!
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I'm not one of those facebook complainers you speak of, nor was I making any such comparison. I simply wrote of my experience with the new site, which is by no means improved in relation to the old site. It looks hideous. Others have expressed sentiment similar to mine, with more specifics, so I need not repeat it all.
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it's just dreadful. the old site was bad enough, but this really is bad, and I have been going back and forth to it to try and get used to it, but it's just getting worse.
for me the biggest problem is that i find that on each page my eye isn't really drawn in and anchored. i'm on the homepage and there seems to be so much stuff (pictures, links, HUGE social media boxes, etc.) everywhere and while the headache-inducing vomit of colours on the old site has gone, now this new site is mostly white or pale turquoise - while that may be a little more soothing, it's hard to read and it just feels like everything is floating on a page that hasn't been quite finished yet.
and is there a reason why athlete bios are positioned to the right of the web page? for me the eye is naturally drawn more to the left of the page ... so little things like this just make it a very counter-intuitive browsing experience that really puts me off wanting to come back.
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find it a great site with plenty of info; what are posters whingeing about?. Its not perfect , that will never do
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Nothing happens when I click the "All" link (beside the "Best by athlete" link) at the header of the lists. Same problem all 3 browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Opera). Is it just me?
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You must be joking. The new site is utterly atrocious, one cannot navigate to where they wish to go without jumping through numerous hoops, and even that does not guarantee one arrives where they desire. I think the new site is a piece of shit, and they should have left well enough alone. If there were a way to say it is worse than a piece of shit, I would type it. Utterly garbageous chunk of dung?
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Definitely a little clunky and very buggy. Here is an example. I was looking at the year lists for the men's 100m. http://www.iaaf.org/records/toplists/sp ... enior/2012
At the top there are two options Best by Athlete or All. All is in bold but it is obviously the 'Best by Athlete' list that is shown. When I hit the All link still shows the Best by Athlete option. To get the All option I had to hit the Best by Athlete link and then hit the All link. This can't be designed to work this way so it must be a bug.
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I would like to add my complaint. I still find the new site incredibally difficult to navigate.. I have not got used to it as suggested earlier.
I am also still saddened that in Top Lists they have removed the breakdown of events for the Heptathlon and Decathlon. You used to be able to see what result they had gained from the indvidual event as well as the total score. Often this was a great way of seeing form or if one event had cost them. For example, Jessica Ennis 69** (12.54, 1.86, 14.61... ) etc. Why in improving the site, have they taken away stats?? It makes no sense. I have complained to the IAAF I hope they add this back to the results or at least in a PDF form if they can't add to the main site.
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I'm having a meeting with the developers next week so if people do have specifics they would like brought up please PM me
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Why can't they just name it "performers" and "performances"? I find "all" just a tad nebulous!
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Agree, there is a problem if you have to look at the list to figure out what they mean.
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also makes me crazy that if you go to Olympic field-event results there are no series available, but if you click on the >> next to each person it will.
Maybe it's just me, but those look just like arrows pointing to each of the people. What possible clue is there that something lies buried underneath? This isn't an Easter Egg hunt.
And if you've got the data, why not just show it from the get-go?
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I wouldn't even mind it it actually worked, you can click on 'All' all day and nothing happens
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On relay results don't bother clicking on the arrow hoping to find out the team or split times you get this
2:28.58 1
what use is that to anyone ?!!
in the lists you don't even get that info
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I had a look again yesterday you can emphasise enough how bad it is! So much data missing surely they must know the only people looking want as much data as possible! No teams in the relay, no date of births on 2012 lists, no relay teams is terrible! Re clicking the year and event and update EVERTIME you want to swap events!
It's not just like changing Facebook like Jon said its dreadful and has of some reason taken away data that they had. I really hope they read this page and make the changes.
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I've been trying unsuccessfully to find the London Olympic results - anywhere. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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From the home page, click on "Results" in the main navigation. From there, click on 'Open filters', then select 'Olympic Games', and select year '2012', then click 'Find results'. It should then give you a link to this page:
http://www.iaaf.org/results/olympic-gam ... games-4871
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Thanks Jon, that works.
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But you shouldn't need someone to explain how to do the basics it should be obvious
What would we do without Jon ??
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Yes but why the time-consuming extra step? When I open that page, it opens with the Olympics (and all the other categories of meets) visible at the top… for a microsecond.
Then the window closes down, and you have to hit "open filter" to get them back. And it's not a shift in pages, just moves the other material farther down.
While I know that an elemental rule of web design is to avoid having to make people scroll wherever possible, I'd think that's trumped by the rule of never introducing a link where it isn't needed. And to me, this is one of those places (just like the >> for field series).
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I can't speak on behalf of the web developers* but my guess is that if that panel were open from the get-go, then it wouldn't be obvious that the user has to scroll down the page to see the search results.
*I should perhaps clarify that I wasn't involved with the design/development process from the outset. I was simply brought on board right at the end and I can only control the content of the site. But at the same time, it's not as though I received any special "training" as to how to use the site. I genuinely find the navigation more intuitive than the old site. When the odd person asks me where such-and-such is located on the new site, I simply start from the home page and think: "right, where's the most logical place it will be?" Pretty much every time without fail I'm able to find what I'm looking for without hitting a dead end. I think the main problem is that many people are trying to navigate the new site as they would the old one (which had a LOT of navigational issues which most people seem to have forgotten!). But the sooner you get the old site out of your head, the easier the new one is to navigate.
I should also add that I am in contact with the development team pretty much every day, and I have been alerting them to any glitches that have been discovered.
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so while I'm kvetching about Olympic results, let me add this. So you get to the page you want, let's say for London, and the screen presents this
The XXX Olympic Games Olympic Games London GBR 27 JUL 2012 - 12 AUG 2012
So you've got 5 columns, 3 of which are inactive, 2 of which are live (I won't even mention that the differential between the two, at least these eyes, is so not enough shades of grey; it's not readily evident where the link is).
Logic says that at that point your cursor is over on the right side of the page (where you've just clicked on "find results"), and you're ready for more detail. Maybe it's just me, but my first instinct is simply to stop at "Olympic Games" as the closest live link, as opposed to "The XXX Olympic Games." Neither of them hints at the actual results, so you've got to guess.
And if you guess wrong? Bingo! It repaints the whole page with all the Olympic sites/dates and you need to start again.
I agreed with your earlier assessment that much of the carping about the site was akin to every time Facebook gets a makeover and everybody hates it for a day or two and then they're settled in. In terms of much of the front-page content of the IAAF site that's very much the case.
But not so in trying to find data. Just strikes me that too many things have been done in a counter-intuitive fashion. My guess being that because much of the design was by an engineer, not anybody with any experience at being an end-user.
What I'd call Microsoft Syndrome (as manifested in yearning for the glory days of simple, easy to use WordPerfect, rather than the kludginess that is Word).
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They seem to If you want to find out who won a multi event you can't click on decathlon and get a result !! You have to click on '1500m' to pull up the results of the last race and then 'points' to get the final score
Just because something is better than the old version (it's not) doesn't mean it's any good
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Here's another kvetch (I think; I might always just be blind).... take today's Karlsruhe meet. In the old days, in addition to the by-event results format, there was always a "click here to see meet in text form" button. Which saves immeasurable time over having to open x number of links.
Is that feature still there somewhere?
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I'm looking to find out what happened on this date(March 14) at the 1993 World Indoor Championship in Toronto.
None of the links(startlist, results) under the timetable-by-day heading work. I have to scroll down to the "Winners in Toronto (SD)" section, where the results of all events are available.
This might just pertain to the 1993 Worlds, since I just checked a couple of other years, and the daily links appear to be working.
Another issue--when I look at the results from a heat or a semi-final, there are no "Q/q''s" to indicate who advanced.
Is there an easy way to find the original IAAF report on a specific Championship, complete with articles, previews, etc?
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Walt, the old site didn't go back to 1993 (or the 1986 WJC), iirc, so they probably haven't added the data yet, but for ease of use for older champs you might want to use the following link http://www.iaaf.net/history/index.html#WIC
A comparison of results for 2010 WJC M100m
old version: http://www.iaaf.net/wjc10/results/event ... 100_hash_f
new version: http://www.iaaf.org/results/iaaf-world- ... nal/result
at a glance I'm given lane and reaction time in the old version and in the new...I have to press a "v" to get to reaction time while apparently the lane is kept a secret unless you press "view" or "download".
I've pretty much given up on the new site. The only defenders of the new IAAF site are the people either consulting, assisting or drawing a paycheck from it.
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New power electronics knowledge platform goes online
Nuremberg, 05.09.2011: SEMIKRON, global leader in power electronic systems, goes live with its new power electronics knowledge platform. The knowledge platform www.powerelectronics-base.com provides excerpts, in both German and English, from the Power Electronics Application Manual, a valuable power electronics reference for amateurs and professionals alike.
The new knowledge platform www.powerelectronics-base.com provides basic information on semiconductor physics and power electronics, as well as detailed information on IGBT, MOSFET, diode and thyristor component selection and applications. The knowledge platform is to facilitate and make more efficient the work of development engineers.
The printed version of our application manual opens up the doors to a vast knowledge base that draws upon a wealth of expertise and years of field experience. Now, this vast knowledge base is being opened up to interested parties online, explains Gerlinde Stark, Head of International Communication at SEMIKRON.
The power electronics knowledge platform aims at both professional development engineers and professors and students of relevant subject areas. Besides containing examples of field applications and first-rate papers on technologies and innovations, this platform represents an endless knowledge base that draws upon many years of engineering experience and development expertise. Users can also post comments on a variety of subject areas, participate in online discussions, and subscribe to the latest chapters, e.g. by RSS feed.
Five publications dealing with power electronic basics will initially go online when the power electronics knowledge platform goes live, with more articles being published at regular intervals. In addition, the knowledge platform will be continually improved on with additional new features and functions.
SEMIKRON, leading innovator in semiconductor technology, already enjoys a strong position in the power electronics sector. The introduction of the knowledge platform is the company's example of service in the digital age.
For those who would rather have the print version of the Application Manual, this is available for purchase from bookstores (ISBN No. 978-3-938843-56-7) or the Sindopower power electronics eCommerce portal at www.sindopower.com for a price of €9.90.
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Semikron is an internationally leading power semiconductor manufacturer. 2011 marks the 60th anniversary of the German-based family enterprise which employs 3600 people worldwide. A global network of 35 companies with production plants in Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Korea, Slovakia, South Africa and USA guarantees fast and competent on-site customer care.
Semikron is a one-stop provider of chips, discrete semiconductors, transistor, diode and thyristor power modules, power assemblies and systems for markets such as industrial drives, wind and solar, hybrid and electric vehicles, the rail industry and power supplies. Globally Semikron technology powers nearly every second windmill. According to a survey carried out by BTM Consult ApS, the total wind power capacity installed until 2009 was 122 Gigawatt. 57 Gigawatt comprises power semiconductors from Semikron.
The dedication to the hybrid and electric vehicle market is evident in the development and production of power semiconductors for this market but also the majority take-over of Compact Dynamics GmbH, a development specialist for innovative control systems, the joint venture with drivetek, a provider for application-specific control technology, and the take-over of VePOINT, developing and producing inverters, DC/DC converters and chargers.
Semikron is the market leader in the field of diode/thyristor semiconductor modules, enjoying a 30% share of the worldwide market. (Source: IMS Research "The global power semiconductor market 2010")
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Commencement is a recognition and celebration of academic achievement and the lasting contributions that students have made to Ringling College of Art and Design. The faculty, staff, and graduating class of Ringling College of Art and Design announce Commencement exercises on Friday, May 9, 2014 3:30pm (Seniors please arrive at 2:30pm!) at the Bradenton Area Convention Center in Palmetto, Florida.
President's Reception:
Ringling College of Art and Design President Dr. Larry R. Thompson will host a reception for graduating seniors and their families on Thursday evening, May 8, 2014 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. at the Ulla Searing Student Center on the Ringling College of Art and Design campus.
A Baccalaureate service will be held on Thursday, May 8, 2014, preceding the President's Reception at 3:30 in the Academic Center Auditorium.
Graduation rehearsal for students will be held Wednesday, May 7 at 10 a.m. at the Diane Roskamp Exhibition Hall.
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Each graduate will receive 12 announcements and 8 tickets to use at their own discretion. Tickets are distributed evenly per Graduating Senior based on the graduating class size. Seating at the Bradenton Area Convention Center is first come/first serve. There will also be an online video feed available for viewing the day of Commencement. Website links will be available on the College website the day of Commencement.
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March 14, 2014 - Deadline to order Cap, Gown, and Tassel. Please visit the Campus Bookstore or email firstname.lastname@example.com with your name, height, and weight.
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Options for buying individual personalized class rings can be found on the Jostens website: http://www.jostens.com/rings/class_rings_lp_college.html.
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Designed for slicing panini, this specialized German knife is equipped with a scalloped high-carbon-steel blade that cuts easily through crisp golden crusts without squashing the sandwich's contents. The contoured handle is offset, providing additional clearance for knuckles while slicing.
- Knife is precision forged from a single piece of sturdy high-carbon steel that resists stains and corrosion.
- Long, sturdy blade has a scalloped edge for slicing through bread without compressing soft fillings.
- Full tang is triple riveted to the handle for exceptional durability and control.
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The Compaq IJ 700 is a color inkjet printer with user functionality and simplicity in mind, perfect for the home or sole proprietor that will print on an occasional basis. It will produce high quality graphics, images, and texts with resolutions up to 1200 x 1200 dpi. The compact and space-saving design will enable users to easily fit this printer onto any desktop or work area. This Inkjet printer contains 2 easily replaceable Compaq ink cartridges that will automatically realign when changed. And when the printer shell is lifted, the cartridges will automatically align at the center for easy replacement. This printer features a Parallel interface for set-up and connectivity to computers.
The Compaq IJ 700 ink cartridges eject Thermal Pigments giving projects bright color and good detail with more resistance to water and smudging. It will be able to print directly onto a wide range of specialty papers including envelopes, glossy photo paper, Iron-Transfers, and more. This machine will print with speeds up to 8 pages per minute for black and white documents and up to 4 pages per minute for color projects. The Input Tray can hold up to 100 pages and is particularly easy to fill. Simply slide up to 100 sheets into the top slot until they stop and you're ready to print. This also helps when trying to print onto specialty paper because you can actually see the paper that is about to be printed onto.
For the best deals on ink for Compaq printer use Remanufactured cartridge which will lower the cost of printing. The best value being offered is the 6 Pack Combo of Remanufactured Lexmark Ink cartridges consisting of 4 black 12A1970 cartridges and 2 color 12A1980 cartridges. For individual purchase and still a great deal, you can get the Remanufactured Lexmark 70 Black Ink cartridge (12A1970) and the Remanufactured Lexmark 80 color ink cartridge (12A1980). Also available are the Original Equipment Manufactured cartridges in the Genuine Lexmark 70 Black Ink cartridge (12A1970) and the Genuine Lexmark 80 color ink cartridge (12A1980).


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There are over 60 species of rockfish found along the U.S. West Coast, and many are important in commercial and recreational fisheries.
Some rockfish species are overfished and the status of many others is unknown because of a lack of available information. Recovery plans introduced since the late 1990s are slowly helping vulnerable rockfish populations increase, but full recovery for the most depleted and slow-growing species is not expected for many decades.
Most rockfish are long-lived, late to mature, slow growing, and are affected by environmental factors such as warm ocean temperatures. This makes them especially vulnerable to fishing pressure and lengthens recovery time for overfished species.
This fish may have moderately high levels of mercury that could pose a health risk to adults and children. More info here about mercury in rockfish. Check out our mercury in seafood section.


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Battambang province lies in the far western region of Cambodia; bounded to the west by Thailand, the south by the Cardamom Mountains, the east by the Tonle Sap Lake and Pursat, and to the north by Banteay Meanchey province. The landscape, often picturesque and highly varied in this large province, morphs from vast marshes and wetlands around the lake's rim into extensive rice paddies dotted with limestone outcrops and then rolling orchard-blanketed hills around the Pailin enclave, before finishing with rugged forest-clad slopes abutting the southern mountain ranges. Battambang is home to the kingdom's best farming land and the provincial capital was traditionally a wealthy trading town as well as being the second largest city of the kingdom.
'Bourgeois' Battambang with its large ethnic Chinese population suffered greatly during the Khmer Rouge era. With nearby Pailin being one ... Read our complete Battambang travel guide