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Of all the blessings I've received from my time on a High school campus, being in the Auditorium when the Schiffs came to speak is the most profoundly emotional and stirring. But for the miracle of my grandfather's immigration my own beloved father might have gone up in Hitler's flames, or died on the Eastern front. The idea that the Holocaust can be denied, that facts are twisted to make it just one more in a long line of human atrocities, is specious at best and horrific at the core.
My school is socially, ethnically and economically diverse. We have students with notched eyebrows, gang tats and some who routinely get sent home for dress code violations when they show up wearing colors. There is sometimes tension between students, for all of these reasons. These reasons are also why the painful memories shared with us that day were so important, and the student's reactions to those memories nothing less than wonderful, miraculous.
I apologize for the length of this post, but I couldn't bring myself to edit and thus perhaps diminish the power of the Schiffs message. It's been almost three years now, and the reminiscence that follows has appeared elsewhere but, in light of a post that seeks to diminish specific atrocities of WWII, I thought it appropriate to repost.
Mr. B sent out a notice that he had invited Holocaust survivors, the Schiffs, Rosalee and William, to speak to some students. It was set for about 100 students in the tech area of the Library. He opened it up to any other teachers who wanted their students to hear this living history lesson and any of us who could come, too. It quickly got moved to the cafeteria to accommodate a few hundred students; by yesterday, it was 1200 students, their teachers, and all of us admin folk who could make the time to go. I decided early on that no matter what was on my desk, I would take the time to hear these people speak.
The Theatre folk and Mrs. W, the Assistant Principal in charge of press, publicity, and events placed six silver pillars graduated in height, an assortment of fresh, green plants, two of our more comfortable chairs and glasses of bottled water on the Auditorium stage. Kids filed in, noisy as teenagers are but they were made to sit with their classes and their teachers kept them orderly, as did the various APs and others of us lining the walls as they came in.
When nearly every seat was taken, first Mrs. Schiff rolled out with her walker, then Mr. Schiff, surprisingly spry after a recent stroke. They took their seats, a sip or two of water and Mrs. Schiff settled her notes across one arm. The seats filled up. Mrs. W took the stage and channeled her cheerleader voice - the good mics were with the Schiffs but she needed none. She gave a warm welcome and explained to the audience how honored we were to have two living members of history here to bring it to life for us. She turned it over to the Schiffs and as the kids applauded in welcome, one by one, they spontaneously rose to their feet and gave this little old couple they had never seen before a standing ovation. They had survived.
As soon as she started speaking most kids were quiet, but when Mrs. Schiff began, a few students and teachers shushed the stray talkers. As Mrs. Schiff talked, no more shushing would be required, for the next hour or so, you could've heard a pin drop in that Auditorium as she told their stories. Sometimes she'd make a small joke, talk about the young man, the friend who became her husband, "He's an old man now..." in that wry way an old woman has, and the kids laughed with her. When she told of her mother, diagnosed with breast cancer at the beginning of the war, having her breast removed without anesthetic because there was none (or none for Jews), while young Rosalee and her two siblings waited outside the hospital listening to her scream, a collective gasp rippled through the Auditorium.
I think she had them at hello. She opened by explaining that she and William were witnesses to something awful and that there are those who like to say it didn't happen at all. She and her husband are witnesses to the horror, reliving it and speaking out so that it won't happen again. One point she made very clear: "White people, Black people, Spanish people.... none of this matters. We are only ONE race. The Human Race," and our rainbow of students applauded.
She told how her friend (Mr. Schiff) would remove his yellow star at night and go in search of food for her, her two younger siblings, her frail mother and his own aunt; of Nazi officers throwing babies in the air and shooting them like skeet; of a street in Krakow literally running with blood and strewn with the tiny body-parts of the children the Nazis had murdered from the Jewish orphanage there; of Oskar Schindler pulling her out of a work line, telling her she was too pretty for that line and to come work for him instead. "Oskar Schindler was an alcoholic and a womanizer. Oskar Schindler saved my life, saved the lives of over 1,000 of us, and when you multiply that by our children, grandchildren.... Oskar Schindler was an amazing man. A very good man… I will always love him." I love that our kids heard that: Oskar Schindler was an alcoholic, a womanizer and an amazing man who saved over 1,000 people and therefore, all their descendents, too. A complicated, not-so-great man who did the right thing at the right time. Despite his flaws, he rose to the occasion. Do you know how much kids need to hear that these days? That you don't have to be a saint to do good in the world?
She was saved by Oskar Schindler at just the right time - her family had been told to report for transport the next day, which is why she was desperately looking for work - if you worked, you lived. Her mother wasn't as lucky and was transported the next day with the two younger siblings. Rosalee never saw any of them again. Her father had fled ahead of the Nazis just before the invasion of Poland when rumors went through Krakow that all Jewish men were to be rounded up and shot. Begged to do so by his wife and children, he reluctantly packed a small suitcase and left, telling Rosalee, "Remember how I lived my life. Remember how important good deeds are to me." He never made it to his destination, and they never saw or heard from him again.
Her mother had insisted on her "friend" marrying her before she was left to work for Oskar Schindler, and so they set up life together in the Krakow Ghetto. William was eventually transported to Auschwitz, surviving two years there, repeated escape attempts, medical experiments (one of the doctors liked him and so shielded him from Mengele's more brutal procedures), starvation, forced labor and illness. At liberation, he weighed just 69 pounds on a six-foot frame.
After the war (nearly dead, she was liberated by the Russians) she spent time in a hospital (Schindler's factory had been closed down by then and the Jews scattered), then made it back to Krakow to see if any of her family had survived. None had, but an old friend recognized her on the street and told her that her husband had made it through the war - was in Krakow looking for her. She fainted, and had to be carried into a neighboring house and revived.
Reunited, they spent a couple years in the Displaced Persons camps; their first child was born there. In 1950 they came here, to Texas, settling in Dallas. Both faced years of recuperation and surgeries to put right the damage done to them. Rosalee admitted that the psychic scars took longer, "It took me many years to come back to God.... but of course God didn't do this. Evil people did this."
After Mrs. W politely, tenderly stopped Mrs. Schiff what seemed like five minutes after she started, Dr. H came out and thanked the students for their attention and the respect they had accorded our guests. He assured them he knew that once they were outside the Auditorium doors they would have much to discuss but, to honor our guests and what we had heard from them, perhaps the best way to leave would be in silence. After another spontaneous standing ovation, 1200 students, their teachers, administrators, etc, left the Auditorium in complete silence. On their way out, they donated over $500 dollars to the Holocaust Museum in Dallas.
I heard that Mrs. Schiff later told Mr. B that of all the schools they had been to, ours was the best reception they received, the best-behaved, the best school they had been to. We are all so proud of our students.
Perhaps the Schiff's message of survival means more to our students. One day, standing and chatting at the front counter with a colleague, she remarked that, "We just don't know what these kids might face at home, in their lives, outside of these walls," and she's right. I was blithely redacting some information on forms for Dr. H one day and noticed in the field where the athlete would list his mother and her contact information, there was nothing. No mother. And maybe that's okay, but it's a hardship. Two students lost their mother when their father murdered her. Last week one of our teachers discovered one of his students living out of his car, parking in the school lot on the weekends. No, we just don't know what our kids go through when they leave our doors. Oh, hopefully they will never go through the things the Schiffs did, but some of them can relate to being treated like garbage, to the loss of parents and siblings, to being displaced.
I'm so glad they had this experience. I know it will be lost on a lot of them, but I also know that at one point I looked around and saw a big kid in a letterman's jacket leaning forward, elbows on his knees and chin on his fists, his attention fixed on the old woman on the stage, telling her horrible tale. Some of them will get it, will get the connection between discrimination and unimaginable violence, the subjugation of a people for no good reason. They'll get that the most flawed individual yet has it within to rise to the occasion, and do the right thing. And they'll carry that fire forward so it never happens again.


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I have followed Mark Baumer's cross-continental journey for months. He spent months walking across the country, and not like that Levi's-sponsored video. He actually did it. And he told the tale on his blog as he walked via his phone. Here is his story.
Before he began answering my questions, he wrote:
Read on for a fascinating interview with Mark about running around naked and bloody down the highway, among other things.My feet are still numb. I have not walked in two and a half weeks and my toes still do not have feeling. I cannot put on sandals with my eyes closed. The tips of my toes are tingling. My immune system is suffering too. I have been sick a week. I took two Benadryl so I will be tired soon.
Urlesque: Tell us a bit about yourself and your background.
Baumer: In the winter of my twenty-fifth year I asked my girlfriend for $70 so I could apply to the MFA writing program at Brown. Someone began giving me money to create content for a pet website. I began going to movies every Friday. Los Angeles began to fill the hole burrowed into my belief in an idea I was now somewhat capable of forming. A few months passed. I made pictures of cats with thought bubbles and dogs wearing sunglasses. A man named Gail who worked at Brown called me and asked if I wanted to move to Providence and attend the university. I said, "Sure," and asked if they would give me money. Gail said, "I personally won't give you money, but someone will give you money." I moved to Providence. Someone gave me money. I used some of the money to walk across America.
What inspired you to embark on this journey?
My dad said he would give me a million dollars if I walked across America. Somewhere in Louisiana I remembered my father didn't have a million dollars. I became very sad. I almost gave up on the trip, but a man in a pickup stopped and said, "I will give you a million dollars if you let me be your father." I thought of this man in the pickup hugging me and kissing my forehead. I got scared. I started walking again. The pickup left. I began to cry. I continued walking. I did not stop. I forgave my father for not being a millionaire.
Got any advice for would-be cross-country trekkers?
Before I began the trip I visited many bookstores and looked at thousands of shelves full of guidebooks on how to walk. I Googled the idea of walking on the internet and came up with 64 million in less than 0.241833 seconds. I did not read a single sentence about how to walk across the United States before I left. Everything and everyone in the world will try to give you advice on any journey you decide to take. I suggest you ignore them all. Let the road take you where it wants you to go. Throw yourself into a trip. Use your common sense. If you try to gather every piece of advice before you leave you will never leave. A journey isn't a journey if you have every footstep planned out.
What was your strategy for staying fed, hydrated, etc.?
Strategy #1 lasted about two days and consisted of five cans of tuna, ten carrot cake Clif bars, a jar of peanut butter, two 1L Nalgene bottles I repeatedly refilled with water, an empty 3L camelback water sack that remained unfilled, and a bag of almonds. For two days I stopped at every gas station I passed to fill up my water bottles and wash my hands. I ate four Clif bars. At gas stations and convenience stores I either bought an apple or banana or a bag of overpriced trail mix. I did not eat any almonds. I ate Subway twice. I did not feel very hungry the first two days. I ate because I figured it was important to eat.
Strategy #2 lasted about three hours and consisted of a Starbucks iced tea and leftover pork chops. On the third day of my trip I stopped in Statesboro, Georgia and drank an iced tea and then went to Wal-Mart. Outside of Wal-Mart a woman asked if I wanted to spend the night in her family's guest bedroom. I said I would. She brought me home and fed me porkchops.
Strategy #3 spanned maybe five or six days. In Statesboro, Georgia I bought a baby carriage. I filled it with canned tuna, trail mix, peanut butter, and apple sauce. There was no order to what I bought. I stopped for sandwiches when there was a place to stop for sandwiches. One time I was looking for a place to buy a sandwich but they were all closed so I got a haircut and when I finished with the haircut a lady said, "Let's go eat some fried chicken and cane syrup." So I went with the lady and ate the fried chicken and drank sweet tea.
Strategy #4 lasted about three hours in Macon, Georgia and consisted of sitting around while a friend of a friend grilled some meat and vegetables. It was one of the most relaxing moments of the entire trip. I sat on the floor cross-legged and ate the grilled meat and vegetables. In the morning I ate a bowl of cereal.
Strategy #5 was a return of sorts to strategy #3. The only difference is I now carried an emergency gallon jug of water in the carriage. I continued buying bread and peanut butter at grocery stores and filling up my water bottles at gas stations. I also filled up my 3L camelback water pack whenever I had a chance. This strategy of buying random groceries and throwing them into my carriage lasted through Georgia and Alabama. At one point I stopped at a Subway in Tuskegee, Alabama and a woman was talking on the phone and her child asked her a question and the woman slapped him. I ate a cold cut trio.
(Ed. Note: Mark gave me five more strategies. They were interesting, but this is a blog.)
What were your sleeping arrangements?
The first two weeks I slept in a tent, but then the tent broke. I did not like the tent. I bought a chair at Wal-Mart for $9. I slept in the chair the majority of the nights. I would sit in the chair and then prop my legs on the food bin. The only time I didn't sleep in a chair was when I got a motel room. I usually slept in a bed when I got a motel room. The safest place to sleep was under the awning of a church. For much of Mississippi, Louisiana, and east Texas I slept under awnings at churches. In west Texas and New Mexico I mostly slept ten to twenty feet from the interstate. I was never bothered by people or animals when I was sleeping. Occasionally ants would attack my food bin while I slept. They were a small nuisance and I got into the habit of taping my lid shut at night. Another nuisance was the spotlight of law enforcement. On a few occasions I woke up to a law enforcement spotlight asking me questions. I answered the spotlight's questions and then it shut off and drove away and I went back into sleep.
Did you get hassled along the way?
Aside from one incident in Alabama the police officers and highway patrolmen I met from Georgia through New Mexico were mostly curious and only stopped me to make sure I was alright. Arizona posed my first real problem. A little outside of Tucson a highway patrolman and patrolwoman stopped me. They told me I couldn't be on the interstate. They said, "Either walk back to the nearest exit [exit 279 which was a mile behind me] or follow the dirt trail bordering the highway." The highway patrol officers would not let me continue walking west for another couple miles and vacate the interstate at exit 275. Because I refused to retrace my steps I decided to follow the dirt path. Unfortunately, a barbwire fence separated me from the dirt path. I had to empty my cart and lift it and all my supplies over the barbwire fence individually. The whole time the two officers watched me and did not offer to help me over the barbwire fence. It seems funny now that they said they were worried about my safety and used 'safety' as a reason why I couldn't be on the interstate but let me climb over a barbwire fence. At this point in the trip my legs were mostly useless in any activity besides walking in a straight line and I was basically being forced to climb over a barbwire fence. Luckily, I'm tall and was able to use my food bin to prop myself up and over the fence but there was a brief second when I was straddling the barbwire that I wished I would suffered major wounds from the fence and then could run to the highway patrol bleeding and cursing and hug them and bleed on their uniforms and not stop screaming until they were forced to draw their weapons and then I would get naked and run bare and bleeding across the highway and they would have to shoot at me, but instead they would shoot a man driving a Range Rover because I am very fast when I am naked and the man driving the Range Rover would get pissed and sue the highway patrol and the patrol officers would lose their jobs and at some point I would stop bleeding and get dressed.
What surprised you about your trip?
People are good and god might be real.
Did you meet any interesting people or animals?
I saw a coyote kill a rabbit.
Any problems with weather?
In Texas it rained for three days
How did you dress?
At the start of the trip I planned to wear a Hartford Whalers hockey jersey the entire trip along with two pairs of swim trunks I would rotate every five or six days. After the first day I did not wear the hockey jersey again. The sleeves were too short and my forearms got burned. Instead, I wore a long-sleeve, collared, white, synthetic shirt from LL Beans. I continued to wear the shorts even though the back of my legs were getting burned. Sunscreen lotion was an option, but I didn't enjoy the oily feel it left on my body. Around the beginning of week three I bought two long sleeve white synthetic shirts and a pair of white Dickies painters pants from Wal-Mart. For the rest of the trip I was dressed in white from head to toe. I wore this hat the entire trip and it was my best purchase.
What did you take away from the experience?
I am not sure yet. Since it has finished the trip does not feel real. I am not sure if I did what I did. It is now in the past and I have had trouble looking back on it.
Any further plans for long walks?
Nothing on the horizon, but I do want to do other trips. I have an idea for a bike trip in which the goal would be to produce a net waste of zero. By all means I am not an environmental extremist, but after spending two days walking through Georgia smelling the waste being hauled to a landfill and passing huge landfill craters in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona I've begun to give the environment more thought. In my travels I definitely added to the problem as I usually produced a shopping bag full of trash each day. Some companies (Bear Naked granola) have started programs where you can mail them the packaging and they will recycle it. The bike trip I have in mind would take advantage of such programs and request similar type programs from other companies whose products I would consume. My pipe dream would be to have Chipotle sponsor the trip and somehow come up with a plan to recycle the tinfoil of all the burritos I eat or maybe even make a giant tinfoil ball and deliver it to the company headquarters.
Was there any point at which you thought, "What am I doing?" or were tempted to quit?
For the first three or four weeks I ended each day with thoughts of sadness, but quitting was usually difficult because when I had moments of sadness I was usually in the middle of nowhere and it was easier to keep walking than to quit. I'm not even sure how I would have quit. I guess it would have been some combination of stopping, hitching a ride, and then going to an airport. This all seems like quite an effort. Walking was much easier.
How did you maintain an internet connection/battery power to update your blog?
I have a Motorola Cliq. I'm not sure if it's a good phone but it connects me to the internet and Google Maps. I probably did 99% of my blog updates on my phone. From Georgia to Sweetwater Texas I charged my phone off random power outlets at Subway, middle schools, churches, and gas stations. On the rare occasion when my phone was dead and I wasn't near an outlet I charged my phone off a netbook computer I had brought with me on the trip but used very little. In Sweetwater I got a solar charger at RadioShack which helped my phone stay charged through west Texas and Arizona.
What was it like being removed from society/pop culture for so long?
I have no idea what music is popular anymore. I asked a friend what the summer jam of 2010 was and he gave me a few songs, but I haven't listened to them. He also said I was on the cover of the new Eminem album. I've seen the cover. It's Eminem walking down a road. I guess that could be me. People seemed to be going crazy over Justin Bieber before I left and I imagine they still are. As for the rest of society and pop culture I tried to ignore it. Early in the trip my goal was to not to read the internet and I succeeded for the most part. My dad would give me basketball updates in the daily emails he sent. I was hoping Steve Nash and the Suns would win it all even though I'm a Boston fan. I have this weird fascination with all the great players getting their championships. I'm always disappointed in repeat champions. The only exception was Lebron. For the past two years I accepted the idea that once he started winning championships he wouldn't stop for five or six years. This idea seemed okay with him wearing a Cavs uniform. Now it doesn't which is okay. I think Lebron taking his talents to South Beach was a good thing. It sprouted a lot of hatred. Sports are better when there is hatred.
I finished the trip. I flew home. I saw a friend who likes soccer. I said, "Too bad about the US soccer team." He said, "They won their group, but I guess they should have beaten Ghana." I was confused. For over a month I thought the US soccer team had tied twice, lost their final game, and gone home. My friend then went on to tell me about the greatest victory in US soccer history. He explained Donovan's goal in extra time against Algeria. He told me about barrooms erupting in screams and flying beverages across the United States and how this all seemed to lead to chants of 'USA'. He said, "It was one of the greatest moments of my life." I've since seen highlights of the goal and the US team piling on Donovan. I've watched more than twenty videos of barrooms from around the United States turn into a frenzy after the goal and then begin chanting USA as if scripted. Each video I watch gives me chills. These recordings from across the United States have re-inspired my belief in America and sports more than any moment from my walk across the United States.
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By Annemarie Dooling
I can't even imagine walking all that way.
By yovinny
I can't imagine any serious school admitting him into a graduate level writing program, if he writes like he speaks. Wannabe gonzo journalist. Hunter S. Thompson must be puking in his grave.
By KK
Exit 279... where you got hassled...Vail Rd. I grew up around there. Sorry for the lack of hospitality.
By will
get a real job
By maribel
hi.... i admire you , sometimes we have too do does thinks for people under stand the we are human beens ...god bless you ,
By Dan
I tried that 20 years ago. And I was stopped by a state trooper, and he had a bad attitude any way and it ended up in a fist fight. He struck first, it got thrown out of court..No one can tell you where you can't walk unless it's posted. That's how we ended up in a fight. If people can mind their own business, fist wouldn't have to fly. Cops are criminals with a badge.
By bonefish
Cool - keep the dream alive! Read a sad "dear abby" about a kid who quit college because he wanted to be a river guide etc. His parents were all crabbed about it. I don't blame anyone for trying to live the life they want instead of worying about which degree etc. will make the most money. Can't you just picture an mba in whitewater skills!
By you
try walking a mile in a Police officer's shoes and be that harsh of a critic. I guarantee you wouldn't.
By you
and he seemed nice by allowing you to sit in the front seat. You may not agree with his reasoning, but at least understand his job is tough, you are wrong if you do and wrong if you don't.
By moshulu
cool dude, wish I could have smoked a joint with him.
"Cops are criminals with a badge."
Best quote EVER, a vast majority are just that!
By Sluggo
and how would you know?
By Will
2 things.
1. I wanted to do this but don't know if I'd ever have the balls. Kudos.
2. His writing is pretty tedious. Likely he's gone through some amount of enlightenment after all this, we can only hope that book he wants to write inspires him to find an engaging voice that's his own and not full of groan worthy language.
By Grizz
He needs to go back to junior high. He writes like a ten year old!
By Warrren
Not to long ago the Los Angeles Times had an article about a grandmother in her late eighties who walked across the US (3000 miles). She lived in New Hampshire or Vermont and at age 95 she ran for the US Senate and lost the election but she got 35% of the vote. The write up was becasue she had just passed away at age 100. Look it up. She did not have the problems or the supplies or means of carting it that you did. Guess you could live to 100 if you do it again backwards when you turn 80. But please do not run for public office. You gotta have some passion for what you do. You seem a litttle unsure of why you do what you do.
By Blake Mauney
I feel as though I should be inspired after reading this journey but somehow I am almost saddened by the almost lack-lustre of emotions expressed. Just in a simple walk around any town in the US or anywhere abroad you can find intrigue, humor, quirks, etc. I feel as though this gentleman was more on proving to himself that he could accomplish the goal rather than to enjoy the process of the entire experience. Regardless of the scale of the journey you have to sometimes just enjoy the simplicity of each moment along the way.
By sher
I think the only time it might be ok to hit a woman would be theo ne that he witnessed slap a child. Kind of weird he felt indifferent about that. A lady never hits a kid and a man neverl watches a child be abused. A real lady, that is, and a real man, that is. Gee his folks must be so proud. If my adult son ever acted indifferent about a kid getting slapped, I'd smack him too
By jaguignon
In reference to the man that said that he would "slap his adult son if he witnessed a wonam slapping a child and doing nothing about it"! Really! The man was a considerable distance from the conversation and heard nothing. The kid may have cursed at her! Or made some off color remark about the "man walking on the road". I'm sure the kid deserved the slap and he probably needed it.
By BubbaDog
Great, just what we need, another pretentious jackass who thinks he's Douglas Adams. Why the hell are we feeding into this guys narcissism by giving him a platform? There are people out there who can actually write, you know.
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Wale's new album features the biggest names in hip-hop and one unusual guest, Jerry Seinfeld. The D.C. rapper realized one of his dreams when he recruited the comedian for The Gifted.
"He's a very wise person," says Wale during an interview with DJ Drama. "He's probably the richest person I know so his perspective on everything is different. So I love to hear his insight, just how he looks at stuff."
Wale has been a longtime fan of Seinfeld and his NBC sitcom. "When you in this rap community, all we know is the maximum is Jay-Z as far as winning in life. [Seinfeld is] on another level of success outside of music."
He is later seen in the studio with his "favorite human being." But when Seinfeld comes to record, he doesn't have anything for him. "This is The Gifted session," Wale tells him, while Seinfeld responds, "Then I guess I'll come back."
The actor appears on "Outro About Nothing" on The Gifted, which serves as a segway to Wale's next album, The Album About Nothing.
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Two Russian fighters violated Japanese airspace on Thursday, Tokyo's defence ministry said, prompting Japan to scramble its own warplanes in what was reported to be the first such incident in five years.
The planes were detected off the northern island of Hokkaido for just over a minute, shortly after Japan's new prime minister said he wanted to find a "mutually acceptable solution" to a decades-old territorial row between the two.
Japan's foreign ministry lodged a formal protest over what it said was an incursion by a pair of Russian Su-27 fighters. Four Japanese F-2 fighters were sent up to visually confirm the Russian planes, according to Kyodo news.
"Today, around 3:00 pm (0600 GMT), military fighters belonging to Russian Federation breached our nation's airspace above territorial waters off Hokkaido's Rishiri island," the foreign ministry said.
If confirmed, it would be the first breach of Japanese airspace by Russia since February 2008, according to Japanese media reports.
However, Moscow denied any incursion had taken place, in a statement by the spokesman for the military command's eastern district, Roman Martov, given to Russian news agencies.
"Flights by the air force of the Pacific Fleet take place regularly in this region, in strict adherence to the international rules, without violation of state borders," it said.
The alleged incident came hours after hawkish Japanese premier Shinzo Abe — who swept to power in December with pledges to get tough on diplomacy — offered apparently conciliatory comments toward Moscow over the Russian-administered Southern Kurils, known as the Northern Territories in Japan.
Abe's tone was in marked contrast to his uncompromising stance on a dispute with Beijing over the sovereignty of a different set of disputed islands.
"There is no change in my resolve to do everything I can towards sealing a peace treaty with Russia after resolving the issue of the Northern Territories," Abe said.
In December, Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to restart talks on signing a peace treaty formally ending the hostilities of World War II that has been stymied by the dispute.
"In the telephone talks, I told President Putin I would make efforts to find a mutually acceptable solution so as to ultimately solve the issue of the Northern Territories," Abe told a government-backed rally of around 2,000 former islanders and their descendants in Tokyo.
Soviet forces seized the isles, which stretch out into rich fishing waters off the northern coast of Hokkaido, in the dying days of WWII and drove out Japanese residents.
The islands were later re-populated by Russians but remain a poor and undeveloped part of the country.
Abe's comments come as tensions between Japan and China have intensified over the sovereignty of the Tokyo-administered Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, claimed by Beijing as the Diaoyus.
On Tuesday, Japan said a Chinese frigate had locked its weapons-targeting radar onto a Japanese military vessel, the first time the two nation's navies have locked horns in a dispute that flared badly last summer.
Abe on Wednesday called the radar move "dangerous" and "provocative".
On Thursday, Beijing shot back that Tokyo has been "hyping up crisis and deliberately creating tension to smear China's image".
The Japanese prime minister has repeatedly said there is no room for negotiation over the East China Sea islands. But he has also stressed the row should not harm overall ties with Beijing, an important trading partner.
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Practical Science on Movement and Pain
Practical Science on Movement and Pain
[…] may recognize this process as a simple application of the SAID principle, which in the case of nerves might work something like this. If you mobilize a nerve (without […]
[…] help to prevent injury. This makes perfect sense according to the SAID principle. As discussed in a previous post, the SAID principle means that we will get better at exactly what we practice. In the context of […]
Can I make a plea to remove the implication that Armstrong took illegal drugs? He's nearly the only athlete I stand behind, since he's one of the most tested athletes in history, and has never been found guilty of taking anything illegal.
I just read that he's been tested over once a week in the last 10 months leading up to the tour.
Hmm, I guess its unfair to smear Lance without really knowing anything about the issue. How about this, if he performs well on the tour I'll take it back. But if he gets crushed I will leave it up.
hi mate
loved this article. agree totally with the stretching pre game statement and think fitness professionals within sports team have alot to answer for.
do tyou think the implementation of, not incorrect, but less functional techniques by fitness trainers with regards to top athletes leads to a slight detraining effect within their activity, as there is still far too many non-impact type injuries ocurring in high level sports.
I am convinced these would be avoided if the athletes are being trained in ways that more functionally meet the demands of their sport.
would be great to hear your views on this via email. take care
Good question. I think many top athletes are training in ways that are "wrong" such as an overemphasis on stretching, but who can argue with the results. Amazing athletes will overcome a poor training program even a poor diet. I assume they would be better with an optimal diet and optimal training, but its possible that at their level of genetic freakishness, there is only a minor additional benefit to be gained from from optimizing these factors. Maybe for the average trainee there will be more benefit to diet and training optimization. I know for me this the difference between being a player and a spectator.
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Very good post! But (and forgive me if this is answered elsewhere, I just found this blog) you seem come very close to suggesting that the only training necessary for soccer is playing soccer, the only training necessary for cycling is cycling, etc. But isn't true that greater strength, in general, helps an athlete perform better and that improving strength requires loads that you just don't get from playing the specific sport?
E.g. a stronger athlete can jump higher, but jumping alone does not necessarily make you stronger. (Actually, vertical jumping is a bad example, because it is an explosive movement that actually does recruit the fast-twich fibers in a way that other sports movements don't, but you get the point.) Squats done with a sufficient load will build stronger quads, hams, glutes, etc. which do translate to things beyond "being better at squatting."
Would you suggest that someone who squats 315 and deadlifts 405 would be no better at moving a sofa compared to someone who squats 135 and dealifts 185?
Anyway… maybe you address this somewhere else, but it seems this post is eliding, somewhat, the difference between skill adaptation and the overal strength adaptation that comes from a good program of compound-lift weight training.
That aside, this is a great blog!
Thanks for the comments. I'm not saying strength gains will have no carryover on the field, just that it will probably have less than most people imagine. I would imagine that about 90% of getting good at soccer is achieved by playing soccer or doing soccer specific running or skill drills on the field. The weightroom will help prevent injuries and maybe improve some other factors a little, but most of it is just playing the game.
As far as moving sofas goes, I will take a guy who moves a lot of sofas over a guy who does a lot of deadlifts. Of course all things equal I'll go with the guy who has a bigger deadlift.
I see your reply to my comment, but not my comment… or am I missing something?
With all due respect, I have to disagree. The idea that strength training has little benefit for athletes, who should mainly just practice their sport, is about three decades out of date.
You are vastly overstating the applicability of SAID (and defining it very narrowly). What SAID means is that if I do partial squats and don't activate the posterior chain, I won't get a stronger posterior chain. If my knees collapse because of weak abductors, I have to target my abductors, because they will only grow if I stimulate them. But… it does NOT mean that if I do proper squats and develop stronger legs, then I have only gotten stronger at performing squats. Strength is not that narrow.
I do heavy squats to develop a stronger vastus lateralis, biceps femoris, glute max and med, etc. When they get stronger, they are stronger. Period. I may need to develop the neural motor pathways to apply that strength to soccer kicks, e.g., but the strength itself does not flick off when I do leg work other than squats, and then mysteriously flick back on again when I put a barbell on my back.
You are also omitting a whole host of other responses that are elicited by heavy resistance training, including bone, tendon, and ligament strength; training the CNS to recruit fast-twitch fibers; the hormonal response, etc.
Despite this disagreement, I still love this blog!
Thanks for the comments. I think I added your original comment is restored I'm not sure what happened there.
I don't think I'm overstating anything here by saying most of getting good at sports is playing the sport. If you wanted to get much better at soccer and had 10,000 hours to practice, what percentage would you be on the field playing or practicing soccer versus time spent in the weightroom? I would hope you would spend at least 90% of your time and energy on the field as opposed to working on your squat or deadlift. The weightroom would be supplementary and would mainly help to prevent injuries. Sure it might make you a little faster or quicker too, but most of soccer ability comes from playing soccer, not squatting.
If you get "stronger" glutes from squatting they are not stronger period. They are stronger at squatting and doing similar activities. Although the muscle fibers might be bigger period, they are hooked up to a nervous system that gets to decide when and how they fire. So yes, the strength does flick on and off when you change activities. "Stronger" legs won't necessarily help you kick a ball harder or cut faster. In fact, lots of squatting could easily make you worse at ether activity if they cause a little pain, take time and energy away from skills practice, or change your movement patterns in some way.
Changes to bone tendon and ligament strength are certainly elicited by strength training and could be helpful for injury prevention on the field. Of course, they are also elicited by playing your actual sport, and in this case they are gained in exactly the places and amounts where they are needed, and not where they aren't needed, as would be the case with adaptations gained in the weightroom. Look at the pic of Nadal above. His left arm is way bigger than the right. That is from hitting a tennis ball, not lifting weights.
One final point. I don't think that weight training is useless for athletes. I think it pales in comparison to actually playing your sport. Because you can't play your sport all the time without getting hurt, it makes sense to get in the gym now and then. But this is supplementary, not primary.
Thanks for the reply… and your points are well taken. I think we may still disagree slightly on the percentages, but it's just quibbling at this point.
Looking forward to any new posts!
[…] this logic, it makes sense under the SAID principle that to get better at doing something easy, you should practice doing easy things. What would […]
Glenn mades ome good points but I would have to agree with Todd
I was a professional (competitive) arm wrestler for 15 years and
even though I'm retired from the sport it's still a big part of
my training because I train others at AW as well.
Arm Wrestling may be the best example I can think of that's inline
with what Todd is saying. If you look at all the elite arm wrestlers
in the world and ask them about their training they will tell you that
pulling other people is MOST of their training. Yes, many use weights
in a fashion similar to AW movements but nothing can compare to actually
arm wrestling to be good at arm wrestling. There's not one National or World Champion AWer that I know of that got stronger at AWing by lifting weights.
The greatest arm wrestler ever in the sport, John Brzenk (whom I know personally)
will tell you that he achieved his arm wrestling strength/power from arm wrestling
ONLY. You want to be the BEST, observe waht the BEST are doing.
Great blog here! Learned a lot.
Great information, thanks for sharing, and yes, great example of the SAID principle. I have never arm wrestled, but would imagine there is a huge amount of skill involved, in addition to the brute strength.
Hi Todd,
nice post
couple quick questions:
do you have references to show how get that cycling is less complex than running? i'd appreciate taking a look at 'em.
running, as bipedal, means that there's less balance involved than cycling, no? the biggest difference seems to be that in running there is more upper body work than cycling, so arms unused to moving are going to fatigue? so would be keen to see how the researchers were factoring this?
likewise, there's no doubt about lance armstrong's vo2 strength, but i'm not sure he was running to win per se? or that he was particularly flattened by the end of it, or had been training for very long – i don't know in other words how conditioned or not he was relative to the event.
If we think about threat modulation
armstrong's training program for races is to go out and ride entire segments of a race course so that he is familiar, comfortable, reduced threat with the course – in all kinds of weather.
Did he go through these same adaptation rituals with his running? did he care? or was he going just for fun?
So i'm not sure we can make the comparison that there was a "lack of transference" in terms of cardio vascular preparedness, vs other factors of familiarization/practice that reduce threat.
SO SAID yes, but perhaps not so much in terms of physical systems alone, but with those threat components in z?
on the music front? my experience is you can hand a musician just about anything and they'll shortly get good sounding music out of it. agreed keyboards transfer more readily to keys and strings, seemingly to strings, but haven't seen that been a particular barrier to most musicians who feel comfortable improvising. Perhaps lower threat about performance so easier to apply skills from one domain to another?
just some thoughts
Thanks for the comments.
Here is a ref that (supposedly) shows that running transfers better to cycling than vice versa. Tanaka, H. (1994). Effects of cross training. Transfer of training effects on VO2max between cycling, running and swimming. Sports Medicine, 19, 330-339.
I am not an expert on cycling but would guess that it is far less complex than running. Gait is like a signature or fingerprint. There are a million ways to run, some better than others. You could recognize a familiar person walking or running in silhouette from one hundred yards in an instant. You would instantly recognize a great runner even at a glance. I don't think any of this is true with biking.
I admit Lance apparently didn't train very hard, didn't expose himself to the specific threats of running and wasn't prepared for the race. That's why he didn't do well, no specific training. He said it was one of the hardest things he ever did.
Of course the cycling had lots of transfer, but not as much as many people would expect. He is one of the fittest athletes in the world and ran a time that many people can run without even being a runner in high school.
With regard to music, I agree that there is definitely some transfer from one instrument to another. I would imagine that the similarity of the skill set is a more important factor in the transference than the similarity of the threats.
[…] that point, we in the exercise field are familiar with the SAID Principle, or Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demand. It means we adapt to the stresses and stimulation […]
I have a question for example if you were practicing boxing and trained with components that made you work harder at the sport like heavier gloves or a vest weight or footweights would you then improve your strength and skill at boxing or other sport while doing the sport instead of working out at the gym? for example if you were running and you were trying to improve balance would it be beneficial for someone to try and push you for you to get better balance or running an obstacle course? or if you were trying to get explosive power and speed for running would it be beneficial to strap on a parachute for resistance? or in boxing for strength would it beneficial to strap some sort of concoction that adds resistance to your movements while boxing? basically im just asking does adding resistance to specific movements in sports increase your strength or speed at the sport itself? or to a lesser extent endurance?
Good questions. Many athletes have tried to improve their speed or strength at a sport related activity like throwing or hitting or kicking by increasing the resistance while throwing or hitting, such as using a heavier ball to throw with. The verdict on this type of training activity is definitely negative. Studies show that using extra resistance to perform a sport specific activity actually makes you worse, not better. The explanation is that doing the activity with extra resistance is actually a slightly different skill than the actual sport activity, so that the new skill interferes with the one you want to perform in the game. So, for example if you throw with a heavier baseball, this practice this will actually make you worse at throwing with the regular baseball, partly because it will subtly alter your throwing mechanics for a different ball. I think the same logic applies to parachute for running, although I don't think I've read studies on this specific issue.
If you want to get better at running an obstacle course, I would practice running on obstacle courses. Maintaining balance while someone pushes you is likely a completely different skill, useful on the soccer filed maybe, but irrelevant if your sport doesn't include people pushing you while you run.
This S.A.I.D. principle is simple yet at the same time so complex its almost like saying. training at whatever it is that you do, sports specifically, is all you need to do to get better at it. It definitely does seem to make sense when you look at it from a point of view that is different from all the meathead's point of view, who train all their live's in the gym and boast that they're better athletes without any scientific or sport specific backing. Me personally I train at the gym for aesthetic purposes but with this new info I think I'll take my sports training elsewhere thanks for the free info you put up here it really brought insight into how I should handle future training methods.
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Hey Todd – One thing I've always been curious about is 'fitness training' for tennis players. Agassi talked in his book about how he kept failing to go the distance until he started hitting the weights, running, and doing hill sprints with Gil Reyes. I've always thought this is a coincidence and he simply got better at playing 5 set matches by playing more 5 set matches. That combined with the mental factor of knowing he put in that time in the gym (even if it didn't really do much for your tennis) may have helped him push past the finish line. Big surprise that Federer and Rafa can go the distance when they go 5. They have belief AND they've played more best of fives than almost anyone.
It's funny because you hear it SO often in professional tennis from commentators that 'the guy really put in a lot of work on his fitness in the off season and it really shows' What do you think? Are they just blowing smoke or is there something to it?
I'm not really sure how much off court work contributes to match fitness. I'm sure it must help some but the question is how much. I would take a wild guess that maybe 80% of the physical qualities required to play tennis come from playing tennis. But you can only play so much tennis without getting hurt. The off court work is a potential way to practice more hours of the day without stressing areas that are overworked on the tennis court. Those hours won't transfer as well to tennis as simply playing tennis, but they must transfer a little. I think this is particularly the case when the qualities developed off court are more mesodermal (e.g. bigger muscles, more mitochondria) as opposed to ectodermal – (e.g. neural adaptation to exercise.)
[…] video also reminds me of the SAID principle – Magnusson's movement appears almost comically oafish until he gets near the bar, but […]
Please let me know if you're looking for a author for your site. You have some really great posts and I believe I would be a good asset. If you ever want to take some of the load off, I'd love to write some material for your blog in exchange for a link back to mine. Please shoot me an email if interested. Kudos!
Now now Danette, but thanks for the offer.
Hi Todd,
Your blog is terrific. Did you write for the Courant in high school? If not, we sure could have used your talent.
I teach Reading to high school students in Palm Beach County. Many of my students are interested in careers as professional athletes. I think they'll find your articles both interesting and informative.
Best regards,
Kathy (Eich) McPherson
Hey Thanks Kathy! I did not write for the Courant. But no loss I could barely form a sentence in high school!
[…] As you gain familiarity, you will gain strength rapidly. And this strength will not necessarily be transferable to contexts that are unfamiliar. Studies have demonstrated that strength gains from a six-week […]
[…] we were to extend all the categories of strength to their logical conclusion and respect the true specificity of strength, we could simply say that great deadlifters have great lifting strength, that […]
[…] have a previous post on the SAID principle which makes the point that exposure to any kind of stress, including resistance exercise, will […]
[…] is that you move in some way that puts the body under enough stress to provoke a compensatory adaptation, such as making a muscle bigger, or more capable of generating energy. The best exercise is simply […]
[…] you need to keep challenging your body. If you want to get scientific about it, Google the SAID Principle. On a separate note, please stop hogging the machine when you can see others are waiting for it: […]
[…] what is the take away here? For me, it is that the structure and function of the body are always adapting to imposed stress in highly specific ways. Some of the adaptations will probably be harmless, and […]
[…] (2) http://www.bettermovement.org/2009/0110111/ […]
My brother in law just sent me this post so any comment of mine is way late but I love the exchanges and the comments. For us who do performance training applying the SAID principles along with many others is a must. I understand Todd's, Glen's, MC's, and Jefrey's points.
I think Todd was just trying to say is if an athlete is a good/great soccer player then strength, power, and performance training will make him/her a better soccer player in several areas. Buti if that athlete doesn't have good/great soccer skills or ability then all the strength training in the world won't make him/her a better soccer player.
Years ago Wilt Chamberlain, on eof the greatest basketball players of all time and in his prime many considered one of the greatest athletes in the world (at 7'!" he had high jumped, long jumped, sprinted 400 & 800 meters at high levels, later played voleyball and arm wrestled).Somehow he got the idea that he could defeat Cassius Clay (Muhammed Ali) inthe boxng ring, many people were fueling this to him and he was seriously considering it. Well a mutual friend of theirs Jim Brown (the great football running back and a great overall athlete as well met Ali on the track one workout to see if Wilt would really have a chance boxing Ali. So Jim coerced Ali into Boxing him on the track. Jim said he tried his best to hit Ali but he couldn't even touch him while Ali just played and boxed with him at will. This gave Jim enough info and ammo to go back to Wilt and explain that it wouldn't be worth embarrassing and damaging his reputation and legacy over.
Even though Wilt was a great basketball player and athlete he wasn't a good enough boxer to beat a great boxer, maybe the greatest boxer because at that level their respective training had become very specific.
Sorry to go off tangent a little but that's a fascinating story and example. Michael Jordan would be another example. Just a thought!
Great article. One correction though. Stable surface=righting reflex. Unstable= tilting reflex. Your book is great BTW.


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|Dad, G. Oliver, me and Mom at the start of our three-day adventure last June.
Crookston has the largest concentration of late 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings in the region, and its downtown business district is on the National Register of Historic Places. Many of those buildings were already built when G. Oliver and Islea arrived in 1898 or were erected during G. Oliver's time as bandleader.
|The former Palace/Wayne Hotel before its demolition.
During our walking tour of Crookston last year, we stood in front of the empty parking lot where the opera house once stood, and I tried to imagine what it had been like for G. Oliver to perform there. I tried to picture what it had been like for the whole town to come out, twice, to hear John Philip Sousa's band perform on its stage. The architecture of the parking lot didn't do much to stir the imagination.
I've recently learned that another one of Crookston's historic buildings, the Union Building, 111 W. Robert St., is a potential candidate for transformation into a parking lot.
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I know it's not easy, especially in these economic times, to advocate for preserving buildings like the Union and the Palace/Wayne Hotel. But I also know it is possible for towns to find ways to re-purpose their historic commercial spaces, turning them destinations for locals and tourists alike. I've seen it done.
I wrote a travel piece for the Star Tribune about Crookston last summer, and I have since written several travel pieces about towns like Crookston that are noteworthy in large part because of their historic buildings. Those that have found inspiring ways to revitalize their downtowns through art and cultural efforts include Faribault and Fergus Falls.
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