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The ultimate Civic track car, 20+ years in the making
Oct 29, 2022 | Honda, Civic, GRM+ | Posted in Features | From the Feb. 2021 issue | Never miss an article
Photography by Tara Hurlin unless otherwise credited
Enthusiasts have been modifying Hondas for decades, taking advantage of these capable platforms and fostering a constantly growing aftermarket. Todd Reid has been at it for years, sticking with the same Civic since 1997. That puts him right in the middle of the sport compact scene as it came to a boil.
"I've owned it for 23 years and have been racing it for 22, and it's still competitive," he beams. Despite competition from modern technology and new race car platforms that offer all the latest driver aids, Todd's Honda still holds its own. And even after owning, building and racing other platforms, from a Lotus Super 7 to a Lancer Evo, he says this car remains his favorite.
"The car's power and grip are absolutely phenomenal," he explains. "It's light and nimble and very analog, with zero driver aids or electronic help. There's no ABS or traction control or even power steering."
Every project needs a goal, and one of Todd's has been to break a 2-minute lap at Virginia International Raceway. "Front-wheel drive makes it a little tougher to get under that magic 2-minute barrier, but I've always been a believer and lover of front-wheel drive, especially Hondas," he says.
He came close to that target at last year's Tire Rack Ultimate Track Car Challenge when he sped past the finish at 2:01.9 during the Knockout Race. That time earned him bragging rights as the fastest front-drive car at the event.
The original 102-horsepower engine is long gone, with the chassis receiving a series of more powerful replacements. The goal for the current setup, a turbocharged K24, is 600 horsepower.
"It has adjustable boost," he says. "Last year, when I was at the UTCC–as you know, it was hot that day–I had the boost set as low as it will go: about 15 psi. That's equal to about 450 wheel horsepower. It can be turned up to 510 wheel horsepower but it will overheat even faster, so I had it at 450."
Another factor in the car's on-track performance is the hard-to-miss aero. "It has an APR rear wing on it with a custom-built metal tube cage supporting it, going through the plexiglass rear window down to welded plates in the rear floor. Didn't want any chance of it breaking off like that Subaru a bunch of years ago that caused a massive crash in the Esses."
The front splitter and canards were built by the Fortune Auto crew, but they've been a work in progress. "The front splitter is shortened significantly now compared to years ago when it was first made for me," he explains. "Back then, the car was strictly a time attack car and was much lower to the ground with a much bigger splitter. Now that I also use it for hillclimbs, where the roads are super bumpy with jumps and humps, I've raised the ride height over 1.25 inch and cut back the front splitter nearly by half."
The final aero components include a rear aluminum diffuser plus the flat floor and sill extensions. All were made by Fortune Auto.
Recent suspension upgrades involved a swap to spherical joints–so all of the soft bushings were removed–along with a new, bigger radiator with additional ducting.
From Horses to Horsepower
An Ivy League-educated mechanical engineer, Todd runs his own successful IT support business. On weekends, he indulges his inner daredevil: racing, coaching, instructing and even crewing.
But Todd didn't start on four wheels, or even two. "I rode horses every day of my life until I was 18," he says. He did some bike racing during college, but it wasn't until he graduated and was working that he became aware something was missing from his life.
"It all started with autocross, the main focus being speed and accuracy," he says. "I did that for a few years, and by the third year I was consistently winning."
He bought his first racing helmet after discovering Porsche's driver education programs, which he ran in his Mazda Miata. His first track experience took place at West Virginia's Summit Point Motorsports Park. Todd's instructor deemed him a natural and moved him up to the intermediate group immediately after the first session.
When Todd Reid started running this Civic, it was still his daily driver. The constant upgrades–more power, less weight–have turned it into a track-only machine.
From there, Todd moved to wheel-to-wheel racing, first with the Civic but then with a Ford Probe GT for a while. "No one raced them," he says of the Probe. "In fact, everyone thought they were terrible."
But Todd figured out a way to make his Probe fast. "One year, I won 10 out of 11 races. No one was even close," he grins. "The next year, officials tried to even the playing field and added 100 pounds to my car, and then 50 more the year after. Even with the additional weight, the Probe and I were more often than not seen on the podium."
Todd's success hasn't come without roadblocks. His closest call on the track came just as he was planning to retire his Probe from serious competition.
The Probe was worn out and tired from years and years of hard racing, Todd says, and it was starting to slow down. He figured that it had one more big event left in it: HyperFest 2014 at Summit Point in West Virginia.
A fast, up-and-coming driver in a well-prepared CRX was the main competition, and the two cars spent the entire race swapping the lead. Todd recalls that on the last lap, going through Turn 9 side by side, something had to give. The cars touched.
The Probe went into the grass and straight up the embankment before it slammed, passenger side first, into the branches of a sizeable tree. "The tree cut halfway through my car, right through the passenger-side roll cage," Todd recalls. "It got my finger, which was on the steering wheel. I could hear my engine screaming. I had never let off the accelerator trying to save it in the grass. It was still floored while I was in the tree."
The Probe–with Todd still inside–soon fell to the ground. Then the tree collapsed on top of the car. He was trapped in the only intact part of the car, as the rest had been crushed.
Todd was promptly extricated from the cockpit and airlifted to a medical center, where he remained hospitalized for a few days to recuperate from a severe concussion, torn ankle ligaments and the partially amputated finger.
A longtime goal for this project has been a 2-minute lap around Virginia International Raceway. Just one more second is needed to get there.
A few weeks after the crash, he went to the wrecking yard and saw what was left of his car. It was a sobering moment. "It wasn't until I looked in the cockpit that I realized how lucky I was to be alive," he recalls. Amazingly, when he looked up the race results online, he discovered that he was the winner.
"After that, my daughter asked if I was going to give up racing," he adds. "But I can't give up what I do best."
Todd explains that racing isn't just about the competition, though: "It's about the people you meet, the family feel, and the spirit and camaraderie. Everyone helps everyone else, even if they are a direct competitor."
Owner's Log
In his own words: Todd Reid's Civic experience captures the evolution of the Honda racing scene
It's a 1995 Honda Civic DX–the EG chassis. I bought the car slightly used in 1997. I had totaled my only car/daily driver/HPDE car, which was a 1995 GTI VR6, up at Pocono in the rain, so I needed another car to drive to work immediately. One of the secretaries at the company I worked for at the time had the Civic and wanted to sell it, so I offered $7K and she said "Sold!" I drove it for a year as my everyday car, bone stock.
In late '98, I did a track event with it just for shits and giggles–bone stock on the stock 13-inch tires, stock brakes, stock everything, just about a hundred horsepower. It was a hoot, but slow.
In early '99, I put an Autopower cage in it, along with a DC Sports header, race exhaust with a muffler, cold-air intake and chipped ECU. It still had the stock D15B7 engine. I put on a set of Jamex springs and shocks–that's a blast from the past–and 15-inch Integra GS-R wheels with 205/50R15 Yokohama A032R tires. I installed Integra front spindles with 11-inch, redrilled Prelude VTEC rotors and Accord wagon front calipers–Type R brake swap–and installed a 1-inch Integra master cylinder. Then I took it to an EMRA road race school weekend, got my comp license, and proceeded to race with EMRA for that year.
Next year, I pulled the engine and trans and swapped in a bone-stock B18B engine and transmission from a 1994 Integra LS. I added a KOS four-into-one exhaust and raced that with EMRA for two years. All this time it was my only car–didn't have a truck or trailer–and I drove it to work every day with the cage and all.
I bought a truck and trailer–no more daily driving my race car!–so next I was pulling the motor and having it rebuilt with higher-compression pistons, a ported/polished head, a Skunk2 intake manifold, custom Web cams, a custom valve job, dual springs, titanium retainers and an Erick's Racing ECU. It was still non-VTEC and made about 180 wheel horsepower. I also added a big radiator and oil cooler and a 2000 Civic Si B16A transmission. I switched to Skunk2 coil-overs and Tokico Illumina adjustable shocks. I ran it that way with NASA Mid Atlantic in the East Coast Honda Challenge's H1 class. I was there in the very first race. I ran it that way until end of 2003–finished many times in second and third but never won a race. Every other H1 car at that time had a GS-R or Type R swap, and I was the lone non-VTEC holdout.
Photography Credits: Courtesy Todd Reid
In 2004, I pulled the built, non-VTEC B18B drivetrain and sold it. I installed a 2002 Acura RSX-S complete K20A2 drivetrain and six-speed swap. I was the first on the East Coast to do the conversion on a road race car. It wasn't easy. We had to make lots of the parts that you can now buy right off the shelf, but not back then. We made our own header, made our own return-style fuel system, and put an OEM Torsen and 5.0:1 final drive in the six-speed. I added a Hondata K-Pro ECU and had it dyno tuned. I switched to DMS coil-overs. Ran it like this until 2007 in Honda Challenge in many, many races with success.
In 2007 I stopped racing in Honda Challenge–costs were just getting too high in H1–and instead started racing my Ford Probe GT in PS1 and then PTE. But I didn't stop driving the Honda: I converted it to a turbo setup for time attacks, which were just starting to be a thing to do back then. Basically, I took out all the ballast, put in plexiglass and bolted on a basic GReddy street turbo for an RSX-S. Low boost at only 6 psi and no intercooler, but I did use my own custom-built water injection. It made about 280 wheel horsepower. The same K20A2 motor was still in there–stock internally and with many miles of racing on it–but now with the turbo. I spent most of 2007 and 2008 sorting it out and fixing things and making it work at driver education events.
Then the car sort of rested in my garage, not being used as I was driving a built Evo VIII for Fortune Auto at time attacks around the East Coast. Shortly after that, they asked to build up my EG into a FWD Limited Time Attack car. That's when the wing and ground effects went on it, along with the Fortune Auto 510-series coil-overs. Boost got cranked up to 10 psi, and an intercooler was added–about 330 wheel horsepower, I think. I ran it at a bunch of time attacks and did well with it. I finally blew that original stock motor to smithereens on the show "R U Faster Than a Redneck?" I'd have won the $10K, I'm almost positive, as I won every single race and blew up on the next-to-last-race just as I was crossing the finish line.
Fortune Auto replaced the K20A2 motor with a built-for-boost K24 bottom end with my K20A2 head and the little GReddy turbo. We had some issues with that, and it never made as good a power as the smaller K20A2 did with the GReddy. The GReddy turbo was just too small for the K24. I went to the UTCC with that setup for two years, and I think my best was a 2:10-ish. After that year, I put the Civic to sleep again for a few years and parted ways (agreeably) with Fortune Auto.
Around 2017, I decided to try a hillclimb event and brought the Civic out of retirement. Did three or four events and had a blast. Because of my mods from time attack I got put in the SMX class, which is populated by things like LS-swapped everything–FD Mazda RX-7, E36-chassis BMW M3, all over 500 wheel horsepower. I decided, of course, that I needed more power. Doesn't that fix everything?
In late 2017-'18, I upgraded the turbo to a BorgWarner EFR7163 setup with Full-Race manifold, bigger injectors and a whole bunch of goodies. At low boost–15 psi–it made 450 wheel horsepower; at 20 psi it made over 510. Now she was breathing. That work was all done at Atlantic Motorsports down in Maryland.
I took it to the 2018 UTCC running on the old 225/45R15 Nitto NT01s that had been on it since 2013 and did a 2:07 with massive wheelspin everywhere. But she was moving.
I then cut out the front wheel wells, added big flares, and put on some massive custom Jongbloed 15x10.5-inch front wheels with 295/35R15 Hoosier A7s; the rears were 225/45R15 Hankook Z214 C71s on 7-inch-wide Koseis. I ran a 2:01.9 at the 2019 UTCC on Saturday's Knockout Race. I was so thrilled with that 2:01. I won fastest front-wheel drive, too.
Over the winter of 2019 and into 2020, the Civic has been at a new shop, Tutomo Racing in Newark, New Jersey, getting a more serious tune-up. Tommy's the man when it comes to tuning Honda turbos, and we are shooting for 550-600 wheel horsepower at the next event.
That's where the car stands right now. I've owned it for 23 years and almost all of those have been racing years. I'll never sell her unless–gulp–she's totaled out in a bad wreck.
1995 Honda Civic DX
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calteg Dork
Absolutely love that car. I feel like an EG with a k swap would be the perfect DD
Matt B (fs) UltraDork
I still miss my EG Si. It proved to be formative for my tastes and shennanigans. I still drive a hatchback.
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4/4/22 12:14 p.m.
That's the smart thing.
Keep building an improving, push the line alittle each year. He has all that background data to help him make very informed decision instead of throwing money at an issue. I would bet if you amortized his investment over the 25 years he's had that car his cost are ridiculous now (in racing terms not normal life).
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LAWRENCE, Kan. – The University of Kansas baseball team will take the field for the first time at home this season as it hosts South Dakota State in a four-game series at Hoglund ballpark beginning Wednesday.
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a.) We use Google Analytics to analyse and regularly improve the use of our website. The statistics obtained enable us to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. In the case of activation of IP anonymisation on this website, however, your IP address will be shortened by Google beforehand. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to the USA. The service provider does not receive any personal data from us (and does not retain any IP addresses), but can track your use of the website, combine this information with data from other websites that you have visited and use this knowledge for its own purposes (e.g. controlling advertising). If you have registered with the service provider yourself, the service provider also knows you. The service provider is then responsible for processing your personal data in accordance with its data protection regulations. The service provider only informs us how our website is used. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
b.) The legal basis and revocation option for this data processing is your consent (DSG or Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. We will delete the data after 14 months at the latest.
c.) Information from the third-party provider: Google LLC (formerly known as Google Inc.), 1600 Amphitheat-re Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA. You can find out how Google processes your data in their privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de. Google LLC has concluded EU standard contractual clauses according to which the transfer to the USA is justified after a risk assessment has been carried out (DSG resp. Art. 46 DSGVO).
3.1.2 Google Analytics E-Commerce Measurement
This website uses the "e-commerce measurement" function of Google Analytics. With the help of e-commerce measurement, website operators can analyse the purchasing behaviour of website visitors in order to improve their online marketing campaigns. Information such as orders placed, average order values, shipping costs and the time from viewing to purchasing a product is recorded. This data can be summarised by Google under a transaction ID, which is assigned to the respective user or their device.
3.1.3 Google Signal
We use Google signal. When you visit our website, Google Analytics collects, among other things, your location, search history and YouTube history as well as demographic data (visitor data). This data can be used for personalised advertising with the help of Google Signal. If you have a Google account, the visitor data from Google Signal will be linked to your Google account and used for personalised advertising messages. The data is also used to compile anonymised statistics on the user behaviour of our users.
3.1.4 Google Ads
The website operator uses Google Ads. Google Ads is an online advertising programme of Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Google Ads enables us to display advertisements in the Google search engine or on third-party websites when the user enters certain search terms on Google (keyword targeting). Fer-ner, targeted advertisements can be played on the basis of the user data available at Google (e.g. location data and interests) (target group targeting). As the website operator, we can evaluate this data quantitatively by analysing, for example, which search terms have led to the display of our advertisements and how many advertisements have led to corresponding clicks.
The use of this service is based on your consent in accordance with DSG or Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO. This consent can be revoked at any time.
Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks and https://privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/.
3.1.5 Google Ads Remarketing
This website uses the functions of Google Ads Remarketing. The provider is Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Google Ads Remarketing allows us to assign persons who interact with our online offer to specific target groups in order to subsequently display interest-based advertising to them in the Google advertising network (remarketing or retargeting).
Furthermore, the advertising target groups created with Google Ads Remarketing can be linked to Google's cross-device functions. In this way, interest-related, personalised advertising messages that have been adapted to you depending on your previous usage and surfing behaviour on one end device (e.g. mobile phone) can also be displayed on another of your end devices (e.g. tablet or PC).
If you have a Google account, you can object to personalised advertising at the following link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.
Further information on Google advertising can be found in Google's privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=de.
3.1.6 Google DoubleClick
This website uses functions of Google DoubleClick. The provider is Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, (hereinafter "DoubleClick").
DoubleClick is used to display interest-based advertisements to you throughout the Google advertising network. The ads can be targeted to the interests of the respective viewer with the help of DoubleClick. For example, our ads may be displayed in Google search results or in banner ads associated with DoubleClick.
In order to be able to display interest-based advertising to users, DoubleClick must be able to recognise the respective viewer and associate the web pages visited, clicks and other information on user behaviour with them. DoubleClick uses cookies or comparable recognition technologies (e.g. device fingerprinting) for this purpose. The information collected is compiled into a pseudonymous user profile in order to display interest-based advertising to the user concerned.
The use of this service is based on your consent according to DSG or Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO. This consent can be revoked at any time.
For further information on how to object to the advertisements displayed by Google, please refer to the following links: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads and https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.
3.1.7 Elfsight Google Reviews Widget
Functions of the Google Reviews plugin service are integrated on our pages. These functions are offered by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Our Google Reviews plugin uses Elfsight, LLC, Yerevan, Paronyana str., 19/3, 201, 0015, Armenia, as the service provider. When loading the images and the reviews, Google and Elfsight can read out or store the IP of the user. If the user is logged in to his Google account at the time of the download, Google can assign the user's profile. Further information on this can be found in the privacy policy of Google https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/ and Elfsight, LLC https://elfsight.com/privacy-policy/.
3.1.8 Google Tag Manager
We use the Google Tag Manager. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
The Google Tag Manager is a tool with the help of which we can integrate tracking or statistical tools and other technologies on our website. The Google Tag Manager itself does not create user profiles, does not store cookies and does not perform any independent analyses. It is only used for the administration and playout of the tools integrated via it. However, the Google Tag Manager records your IP address, which may also be transmitted to the parent company Google LLC in the USA.
The Google Tag Manager is used on the basis of legitimate interest in accordance with the DSG or Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in a quick and uncomplicated integration and management of various tools on his website. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is based on the DSG or Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO. The consent can be revoked at any time.
4. How do we use social media?
We maintain online presences within social networks and platforms in order to be able to communicate with the customers, interested parties and users active there and to inform them about our services there. When visiting the respective networks and platforms, the terms and conditions and the data protection declarations of the respective operators (responsible parties) apply.
Unless otherwise stated within the scope of our data protection declaration, we process the data of the users if they communicate with us within the social networks and platforms, e.g. write posts on our online presences or send us messages.
We may also use so-called plug-ins from social networks such as Facebook, Insta-gram, LinkedIn, YouTube and Tiktok on our website. This is apparent to you in each case (typically via corresponding icons). We have configured these elements so that they are disabled by default. If you activate them (by clicking and logging in), the operators of the respective social networks can register that you are on our website and where, and can use this information for their purposes. The processing of your personal data is then the responsibility of the operator in accordance with their data protection regulations. We do not receive any information about you from them.
4.1 YouTube – Service from Google
We have integrated YouTube videos into our online offer, which are stored on http://www.YouTube.com and can be played directly or linked from our website. These are all integrated in "extended data protection mode", i.e. no data about you as a user is transmitted to YouTube if you do not play the videos. Only when you play the videos will the data mentioned in paragraph (2) be transmitted. We have no influence on this data transmission.
By visiting the website, YouTube receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding sub-page of our website. In addition, the following data is transmitted. This occurs regardless of whether YouTube provides a user account via which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be directly assigned to your account. If you do not wish your data to be associated with your YouTube profile, you must log out before activating the button. YouTube stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or designing their website to meet your needs. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, and you must contact YouTube to exercise this right.
Further information on the purpose and scope of the data collection and its processing by
YouTube can be found in the data protection declaration of Google LLC: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de. There you will also find further information on your rights and settings options for protecting your privacy: https://privacy.google.com/take-control.html?categories_activeEl=sign-in. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has therefore agreed to the standard contractual clauses, according to which the transfer to the USA is justified after a risk assessment has been carried out (DSG or Art. 46 DSGVO).
The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO, according to which the processing of personal data is possible even without the consent of the data subject if the processing is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the controller or a third party, unless the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject, which require the protection of personal data, prevail, in particular if the data subject is a child. Here we refer to our interest in direct advertising in accordance with the DPA and recital 47 of the GDPR.
4.2 Facebook Custom Audiences on – analysis tool from Facebook
We use the "Custom Audiences" remarketing function of Facebook Ireland Ltd. in Ireland ("Facebook") via our website. This enables users of the website to be shown interest-based advertisements ("Facebook ads") when they visit the Facebook social network or other websites that also use this procedure. In this way, we pursue the interest of showing you advertising that is of interest to you in order to make our website more interesting for you. Due to the marketing tools used, your browser will automatically establish a direct connection with the Facebook server. We have no influence on the scope and further use of the data collected by Facebook through the use of this tool and therefore inform you according to our state of knowledge: Through the integration of Facebook Custom Audiences, Facebook receives the information that you have called up the corresponding website of our Internet presence or clicked on an advertisement from us. If you are registered with a Facebook service, Facebook can assign the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered with Facebook or have not logged in, it is still possible for the provider to obtain and store your IP address and other identifying features. Deactivating the "Facebook Custom Audiences" function is possible for logged-in users at https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads#_. Further information on data processing by Facebook is available at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy. Meta also processes your personal data in the USA and has agreed to the standard contractual clauses, according to which the transfer to the USA is justified after a risk assessment has been carried out (DSG or Art. 46 DSGVO). You can revoke your consent at any time by sending an informal message to our contact addresses as per point 1.
4.3 Facebook Pixel – Analysis tool from Meta
By using Facebook Pixel, we analyse your click behaviour and your interactions on our Facebook posts. We learn from Facebook and Meta respectively whether you as a user have visited our website and/or our Facebook page(s).
Processed data: Usage data, meta data; if users are registered with Facebook, the data is linked to their Facebook profiles and data belonging to them (in particular inventory data).
Type, scope, mode of processing: permanent cookies, third-party cookies, tracking, conversion measurement, interest-based marketing, profiling, cross-device tracking, custom audiences via websites.
This will allow us to target you directly as a Facebook user in the future and provide you with needs-based information. With this information, we can measure our marketing strategies and optimise them accordingly. By default, the Facebook Pixel is not used in advanced data matching mode. For information on how your data is used when using the Facebook Pixel, please refer to the privacy policy of Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Irlnd at https://www.facebook.com/privacy . You can read about the specific data collected via the Facebook Pixel here: https://www.facebook.com/business/gdpr. Meta also processes your personal data in the USA and has agreed to the standard contractual clauses, according to which the transfer to the USA is justified after a risk assessment has been carried out (DSG or Art. 46 DSGVO).
The legal basis and revocation option for this data processing is your consent (DSG or Art.6 para.1 sentence 1 lit. a DSGVO). We delete the data after 14 months at the latest.
To prevent the collection of your data by the Facebook pixel, you can use the JavaScript code below or click here.
JavaScript code below or here: :
https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads, http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/ .
if (document.cookie.indexOf(fpdisableStr + '=true') > -1) {
document.write('<div class="text-center" style="margin-top:24px"><a onclick="activatePixelMDE()">Pixel aktivieren</a></div>');
document.write('<div class="text-center" style="margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:96px"><a onclick="fpOptout()">Pixel deaktivieren</a></div>');
4.4 What happens when using the video conferencing provider Zoom Video Communications, Inc. and any other video conferencing providers?
To conduct meetings, we may use the video conferencing provider Zoom Video Communications, Inc. ("Zoom"), 55 Almaden Blvd, Suite 600, San Jose, CA 95113, USA, or similar video conferencing service providers to conduct a meeting online. In this context, we would like to point out that in the course of our activities, video and audio recordings, chat content and names of the participants are transmitted to Zoom in the USA or, if applicable, to an alternative video service provider.
Zoom's privacy policy can be found here: https://zoom.us/de-de/privacy.html. Zoom has agreed to the EU standard contractual clauses, according to which the transfer to the USA is justified after carrying out a risk assessment (DSG or Art. 46 DSGVO).
To conduct meetings, we may use the video conferencing provider Google Meet from Google LLC or Microsoft Teams from Microsoft Enterprise Service Privacy (hereinafter "Micro-soft"), USA or similar video conferencing service providers to conduct a meeting online. In this context, we would like to point out that in the course of our activities, video and audio recordings, chat content and the names of the participants are transmitted to Google or Microsoft in the USA or, if applicable, to an alternative video service provider.
The privacy policy of Google LLC can be found here https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de. Google has agreed to the standard contractual clauses, according to which the transfer to the USA is justified after a risk assessment has been carried out (DSG or Art. 46 DSGVO).
Microsoft's data protection guidelines can be found here: https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement. Microsoft has agreed to the EU standard contractual clauses, according to which the transfer to the USA is justified after a risk assessment has been carried out (DSG or Art. 46 DSGVO).
We may also use other video conferencing providers if necessary. In this regard, we refer to their privacy policy.
The legal basis for the processing of personal data (right to one's own image) is in particular your consent in accordance with the DSG or Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a DSGVO. You can revoke your consent to the use of your image and video data via the above-mentioned video conference providers at any time.
5. Purposes of data processing and legal basis
We use the personal data we collect primarily to conclude and process our contracts with our customers and business partners (DSG or Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSG-VO), in particular in the context of video and photo productions with our customers and in the context of purchasing products and services from our suppliers and subcontractors, as well as to comply with our legal obligations at home and abroad. If you work for such a customer or business partner, your personal data may of course also be affected in this capacity.
In addition, we process personal data of you and other persons, insofar as this is permitted and appears to us to be appropriate, for the following purposes, in which we (and sometimes also third parties) have a legitimate interest corresponding to the purpose:
Offering and further developing our offers, services, operating our website and other platforms on which we are present;
Communication with third parties and processing of their enquiries (e.g. applications, media enquiries);
Testing and optimisation of procedures for needs analysis for the purpose of direct customer contact as well as collection of personal data from publicly accessible sources for the purpose of customer acquisition;
Advertising and marketing (including the organisation of events), provided you have not objected to the use of your data (if we send you advertising as an existing customer, you can object to this at any time. We will then put you on a blocking list against further advertising mailings);
Assertion of legal claims and representation in connection with legal disputes and official proceedings;
Prevention and investigation of criminal offences and other misconduct (e.g. conducting internal investigations, data analysis to combat fraud);
Guarantees of our operations, in particular IT;
Purchase and sale of business units, companies or parts of companies and other transactions under company law and the associated transfer of personal data as well as measures for business management and insofar as to comply with legal and regulatory obligations as well as internal regulations of FaceCraft GmbH.
Insofar as you have given us consent to process your personal data for certain purposes (for example, when you register to receive newsletters), we process your personal data within the scope of and based on this consent (DSG, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a DSGVO), insofar as we have no other legal basis and we require such a basis. Consent given can be revoked at any time, but this has no effect on data processing that has already taken place.
6. To whom do we pass on the data and is it transferred abroad?
Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential and will not be sold to third parties.
Within the scope of our business activities and the purposes set out in section 3, we also disclose data to third parties or order processors, insofar as this is permitted and appears to us to be appropriate, either because they process the data for us, in particular to fulfil our contracts, or because they want to use the data for their own purposes (DSG or Art. 13 No. 1 lit. e DSGVO). This applies in particular to the following bodies:
Our service providers (external partners such as tax consultants, auditors, banks, insurance companies), including order processors (such as IT providers);
if applicable, dealers, suppliers, subcontractors and other business partners – does not apply to affected persons as customers;
domestic and foreign authorities, official agencies or courts (where required by law);
social media: only possible if the data subjects themselves participate on platforms of the corresponding social media* and indirectly to social media when clicking on the plug-ins;
other parties in potential or actual legal proceedings (where there is a legal duty);
Acquirers or parties interested in acquiring business or FaceCraft Ltd;
all joint recipients.
These recipients are partly in Germany and partly abroad. Your data may be transferred to the following countries outside Switzerland where our contractual partners are located, where we are represented or to foreign authorities or companies in exceptional cases (in the event of legal obligation):
Contractual partner, authority or company Country
Adequate data protection,
Guarantee or exception according
to DSGDSG
Microsoft Enterprise Service
Privacy USA Standard contractual clauses
Zoom Video Communications, Inc. USA Standard contractual clauses
Google Ireland Limited (inkl.
YouTube)
Ireland (Datatransfer: USA) Standard contractual clauses
Meta Platforms Ireland Limited inkl. Facebook Ireland Ltd. and Instagram* Ireland (Datatransfer: USA) Standard contractual clauses
WhatsApp Ireland Limited Ireland (Datatransfer: USA) Standard contractual clauses
LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited
Company Ireland (Datatransfer: USA) Standard contractual clauses
GoDaddy.com LLC USA Standard contractual clauses
WeTransfer B.V. The Netherlands Adequate data protection
Hubspot, Inc. USA Standard contractual clauses
When we transfer data to a country without adequate legal data protection, we ensure, as required by law, after a risk analysis and by using appropriate contracts (namely on the basis of the so-called standard contractual clauses of the European Commission, which can be found at
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2021/914/oj?uri=CELEX:32021D0914&locale=de
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021D0915&locale-en=
or the model contracts of the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner at https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/de/home/datenschutz/handel-und-wirtschaft/unternehmen/anmeldung-einer-datensammlung/mustervertrag-fuer-das-outsourcing-von-datenbearbeitungen-ins-au.html) or so-called Binding Corporate Rules for an appropriate level of protection or rely on the legal exceptions of consent, the execution of the contract, the establishment, exercise or enforcement of legal claims, overriding public interests, published personal data or because it is necessary to protect the integrity of the data subjects (cf. DSG or Art. 13 No. 1 lit. f DSGVO). You can obtain a copy of the aforementioned contractual guarantees at any time from the contact person named in section 1, unless already stated above. However, we reserve the right to black out copies for reasons of data protection law or confidentiality or to supply only excerpts.
7. How long do we keep personal data (DSG or Art. 13 No. 2 lit. a DSGVO)?
We process and store your personal data for as long as it is necessary for the fulfilment of our contractual and legal obligations or otherwise for the purposes pursued with the processing, i.e. for example for the duration of the entire business relationship (from the initiation and processing to the termination of a contract) as well as beyond that in accordance with the legal storage and documentation obligations (in principle 10 years for business books, accounting vouchers and VAT-relevant vouchers in accordance with Art. 958f OR, for certain documents 20 years or longer). It is possible that personal data will be retained for the time during which claims can be asserted against our company and insofar as we are otherwise legally obliged to do so or justified business interests require this (e.g. for evidence and documentation purposes). As soon as your personal data is no longer required for the above-mentioned purposes, it will be deleted or made anonymous as far as possible. For operational data (e.g. system protocols, logs), shorter retention periods of twelve months or less generally apply. 8.
8. Do we guarantee sufficient data security?
We take appropriate technical and organisational security measures to protect your personal data from unauthorised access and misuse, such as IT and network security solutions, access controls and restrictions, encryption of data carriers and transmissions, and controls.
We always strive to ensure that no data breaches occur. However, should a data breach occur, we will ensure that we identify such a data breach at an early stage and, if necessary, report it immediately to you or to the competent supervisory authority (for Switzerland: the Swiss Data Protection and Information Commissioner), including the respective data categories that are affected.
9. Is there an obligation to provide personal data (DSG or Art. 13 No. 2 lit. e DSGVO)?
Within the scope of our business relationship, you must provide the personal data that is required for the establishment and implementation of a business relationship and the fulfilment of the associated contractual obligations (as a rule, you do not have a legal obligation to provide us with data). Without this data, we will generally not be able to enter into or perform a contract with you (or the entity or person you represent). It will also not be possible to use the website if certain traffic security details (such as IP address) are not disclosed.
10. What rights do you have as a data subject?
Within the framework of the data protection law applicable to you and insofar as provided therein, you have the right to information, correction, deletion, the right to restrict data processing and otherwise to object to our data processing, as well as to the release of certain personal data for the purpose of transfer to another body (so-called data portability):
For persons domiciled or resident in Switzerland: Federal Data Protection Act;
For persons with residence or domicile in the EU/EFTA: Art. 13 No. 2 lit. b DSGVO.
Please note, however, that we reserve the right to assert the restrictions provided for by law, for example if we are obliged to retain or process certain data, if we have an overriding interest in doing so (insofar as we are entitled to invoke this) or if we need the data to assert claims. If you incur costs, we will inform you in advance. We have already informed you about the possibility of revoking your consent in section 3. Please note that exercising these rights may conflict with contractual agreements and may have consequences such as premature termination of the contract or costs. We will inform you in advance if this is not already contractually regulated.
If you wish to invoke your rights, we ask you to make your requests in such a way that we can clearly prove your identity (communication of your personal data and enclosure of an identity card or by means of alternatives that clearly identify you).
In addition, every data subject has the right to enforce his or her claims in court or to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority (FADP or Art. 13 No. 2 lit. d GDPR). The competent data protection authority in Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (http://www.edoeb.admin.ch).
We may amend this privacy policy at any time without prior notice. The current version published on our website will apply. Insofar as the data protection declaration is part of an agreement with you, we will inform you of the change by e-mail or other suitable means in the event of an update.
12. Effective Date
This data protection declaration comes into force on 22 November 2022 and replaces all previous data protection declarations.
Lucerne, 22 November 2022
Note: The translation into English is for the ease of understanding of this privacy policy and is non-binding. Only the contents written in German are legally binding.


The new Louis Leeman flagship in Manhattan.
Just as some shoes transcend the category of mere footwear, some boutiques go beyond being just stores. That's why it's entirely fitting that the elite men's shoe company Louis Leeman tapped the highly respected David Collins Studio, an AD100 firm, to create its first flagship boutique.
Located on a prime corner of New York's Madison Avenue, the 927-square-foot space was conceived as a stylish mix of mix of 19th-century Parisian and mid-20th-century design elements. It's easy to see how the brand's founder Louis Leeman and his wife, Erica Pelosini, expertly blended old-world sensibility with modern style—especially upon viewing their selection of handsome slippers and Swarovski-emblazoned high-tops.
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The changing climate is causing upheaval and unrest on a large scale--rising sea levels, more severe storms and flooding, and worse droughts are already rendering populated parts of the world uninhabitable. In some places, this is occurring just around, oh, right now. In order to raise awareness of their plight documentarian Michael Nash has created the film Climate Refugees. It's an apolitical (interviews from both John Kerry and Newt Gingrich are included) look not at the intricacies of the science or government policy, but at what's physically happening right now due to climate change. Trailer's after the jump.
The human face of climate change really is an untold story and the very reason I felt the need to investigate. When I started this journey three years ago, there was very little data on climatic migration. There seemed to be a vast amount of spin on both sides of the climate change issue. I wanted to move beyond the politics and dig into the truth of whether our climate was really changing and if it was, how was it affecting humans? What I found was mass climatic migration. Victims forced to relocate, unable to live on the land, either from short-term or long-term climatic changes. Our changing climate seems to be all about water: too much in some areas and too little in others.
The film was an official selection at this year's Sundance Film Festival. I look forward to the wide release--projects like this are of greater importance now than ever before.


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Headed to court, Cardinal Pell is no stranger to controversy
by Barney Zwartz
Australian Cardinal George Pell, left, leaves after delivering a statement in the Vatican press office June 29, with Greg Burke, Vatican spokesman, about sexual abuse charges against the cardinal. (CNS/Paul Haring)
Melbourne, Australia — Cardinal George Pell, who this week will become the highest ranked church official ever to face sex abuse charges in court, may be the most polarizing religious leader in Australia's brief history.
The former Archbishop of Sydney will appear in the Melbourne Magistrate's Court on July 26 to answer yet-unspecified charges of historical sexual abuse involving multiple complainants, which he resolutely denies.
The complaints apparently long predate his present Vatican role as prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, often but misleadingly referred to as number three in the Vatican hierarchy behind the pope and secretary of state.
It is a staggering fall from grace for the combative cardinal. Even if he is utterly exonerated, mutterings from Rome suggest the 76-year-old will not return to his secretariat post. His credibility seems destroyed — largely self-inflicted in a series of appearances before official inquiries into how the church handled child sexual abuse. Increasingly he revealed himself — and confessed to being — a man who put the institutional church first, second and third. He also revealed a man deeply deficient in compassion and empathy. Of this, more below.
No Australian prelate has been so admired and so excoriated: He is adored by his followers for his fearlessly strident support for a highly conservative orthodoxy and old-fashioned authoritarianism and loathed by his critics for his relentless determination, often perceived as brutal.
Australian religious leaders tend to avoid the public eye, generally exercising whatever political influence they have behind the scenes. There are no equivalents to Martin Luther King Jr. or Billy Graham in this strongly secular land, where historian Manning Clark once called religion "a shy hope in the heart."
Australia's federal Parliament has considerably more active Christians per capita than the population in general, where fewer than two in 10 go to church as often as once a month, but unlike in the U.S., "God talk" by Australian politicians would incur suspicion and opprobrium.
None of this ever deterred Pell. As archbishop of Melbourne, then Sydney, he relished his battles inside and outside the church, expecting and giving no quarter as he fought on multiple fronts. He cultivated his public profile with a regular column in a Murdoch newspaper, Sydney's Daily Telegraph, appearances on flagship current affairs programs, and frequent contributions to social and theological issues like abortion, abuse and education funding. Probably the only religious leader most Australians could name, he was usually the first voice sought by the media.
Always driven to win
From his youth, George Pell's talent and drive were obvious. He grew up in the small Victorian town of Ballarat, some 70 miles from Melbourne, later to be notorious as the center of a destructive group of pedophiles. Pell was a gifted and ambitious student, whose attitude to life and the church mirrored his behavior on the football field, where he used his size and strength to crash through the opposition. He was good enough to be offered a contract as a professional football player, opting instead for the seminary. Journalist Louise Milligan in her 2017 book Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell, quotes a seminarian contemporary of Pell's, Michael Leahy: "Once he set out in pursuit of a cause — whether it be possession of the ball on the football field or winning a debate — he was unstoppable."
He studied in Rome, then Oxford, where he became possibly the first Catholic priest to earn a doctorate in the theology faculty since the Reformation. He was also the first Australian appointed to the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith.
As a young priest, Pell was given senior roles in Ballarat before becoming an auxiliary bishop in Melbourne, then archbishop in turn of Melbourne and Sydney, Australia's two most important dioceses. In Melbourne in 1996, he launched the first Australian protocol for handling abuse complaints, the Melbourne Response, infuriating the other bishops who were a few months away from introducing a national system. That protocol, Towards Healing, governed every diocese except Melbourne.
In Sydney, Pell survived the first serious threat to his career, a complaint that as a youth leader at a camp 40 years earlier (1961) he had abused a boy. Pell honorably stood aside immediately while a retired judge conducted an independent investigation. Although Pell always claimed thereafter that he had been completely exonerated, the judge in fact found both the complainant and respondent convincing and decided only that the complaint could not be established. Pell was soon given his red hat.
As archbishop in both cities, Pell seemed an irresistible force: combative, relentless, overbearing, determined to crush dissent and doubt inside the church, especially among the progressive members of the priesthood. His powerful personality allied with unstinting Vatican support — his conservatism and clerical authoritarianism was very much in the spirit of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI — meant few inside the church had the energy or tenacity to resist him.
The cardinal opposed what he saw as dangerous moral relativism in society, providing an orthodox Catholic voice on social issues, refusing communion to gay Catholics and instructing Catholic politicians who supported abortion that they should not take Communion. He was a notable defender of Catholic education (in Australia Catholic schools get state funding). In Melbourne he rooted progressives out of seminary leadership, and in Sydney he supported the Australian Catholic University, founded a campus of the Univeristy of Notre Dame, strengthened university chaplaincy and revived the seminary.
His fierce energy and willingness to engage the media and politicians stood in stark contrast to many of his peers and predecessors among church leaders, whom many Catholics felt to be too timid. Timidity would never be a Pell failing.
In 2006, a Sydney priest publicly accused him of being autocratic and inflammatory, but Pell was unmoved by the complaints of those he steamrolled. Yet his peers seem to have noticed, for his fellow bishops never elected him to the highest position in the Australian church, president of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference.
Under Pell, the unpleasant practice flourished of delating "offenders" to Rome: reporting "innovations" or minor infractions, or theological dissent, such as questioning clerical celibacy. Bill Morris was removed as bishop of Toowoomba,* a Queensland diocese, for merely suggesting that women priests might be worth discussing. Progressive Australian Catholics wryly noted that authorities in Rome acted far more quickly and decisively against a priest who altered the Mass or advocated ending clerical celibacy than one who abused children
A gifted networker and, reportedly, a convivial companion, Pell established influential friends early in his career, such as Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. His was much the most powerful Australian voice in Rome for the past 20 years, including — it is claimed — influencing episcopal appointments.
One of his achievements was bringing Pope Benedict to Australia for World Youth Day in 2008, featuring the biggest Mass in Australia's history, when more than 400,000 pilgrims joined the pope, Pell, 25 other cardinals, 420 bishops, and a 300-strong choir at a Sydney racecourse.
In 2014, Pope Francis appointed Pell to his Vatican "treasurer" role, a job for which his administrative skill and bulldog determination meant he was ideally equipped. The pope also named the cardinal as Oceania representative on the "group of eight" (now nine) cardinals to advise him on church reform.
It seemed his influence was still rising, but in fact it had passed its zenith, and some Catholics thought his removal from Australia to Rome followed his less than impressive testimony in 2013 to the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into how institutions handled sex abuse. He admitted a multitude of church failures and cover-ups, but none were his responsibility — a theme he was to amplify before the Royal Commission into Child Abuse, before whom he testified a number of times, and which has yet to release its final report.
(Both a parliamentary inquiry and especially a royal commission in Australia are high-level investigations with full judicial powers to compel answers.)
Not known for appearing empathetic
Evidence by victims' advocate Anthony Foster, two of whose daughters were repeatedly raped as young girls at a Catholic school, was particularly devastating. At the parliamentary inquiry, Foster spoke of Pell's "sociopathic lack of empathy" at a meeting arranged so the then-bishop could hear of their experience.
He said Pell was bullying and confrontational from the start. His wife and fellow advocate, Chrissie Foster, describe the encounter in her book Hell on the Way to Heaven. She had prepared a dossier of her varied church involvements but never had a chance to show it. The Fosters were shown into a cramped furniture storage room in the parish presbytery and given a small wooden bench for both of them to sit on. The only other seat was a throne-like red leather armchair in which Pell was stretched out intimidatingly.
When Anthony Foster told how Fr. Kevin O'Donnell repeatedly had raped Emma and Katie Foster, starting when each was 5 years old, Pell's response was: "I hope you can substantiate that in court."
As Anthony Foster began to outline reservations about the church's Melbourne Response protocol for abuse victims, Pell interjected: "If you don't like what we're doing, take us to court." When they showed him a picture of Emma (who later killed herself) after she had slashed her wrists, he said matter-of-factly, "Mmm, she's changed, hasn't she?"
But even this damaging account paled compared with Pell's own evidence to the Royal Commission, especially his final session in 2016, in which compassion and empathy for survivors were invisible. It seemed that everybody had let Pell down, those above him in the hierarchy, those below, those alongside, but he bore no blame for this conspiracy of silence. He had no particular responsibility to look after children. He adopted the usual hierarchy tactic of blaming the dead and the now-demented.
Pell had a tough time from a clearly skeptical senior counsel Gail Furness and the commission's chairman, Supreme Court Judge Peter McClellan. He amazingly managed to remain unaware of the pedophile cesspool in Ballarat, even while he served on the committee that repeatedly moved the worst offender, Gerard Ridsdale, from parish to parish. (Ridsdale is still in jail after abusing possibly hundreds of children.) Pell shocked observers by saying, "It's a sad story, but it was not of much interest to me." Similarly, when he was bishop and archbishop in Melbourne, he was apparently the victim of a conspiracy of silence in which those who should have told him what was happening concealed it from him — a claim robustly denied in evidence to the commission by the alleged conspirators.
It became evident that the official redress scheme Pell introduced for abuse victims, about which he so often boasted, was more a means of limiting damage to the church. Although the Melbourne Response protocol certainly introduced new avenues for victims, especially in cases where the alleged perpetrators were dead, it capped recompense at $AU50,000 ($40,000), while the national scheme, Towards Healing, had no cap. Church solicitors were told to "strenuously defend" cases where victims chose instead to go to court, even denying admissions the church had made to victims.
What all this blatantly showed the watching world was that Pell was first and foremost a company man: Protecting institutional church was always his overwhelming concern.
That of course does not mean he is a child abuser. He utterly rejected the allegations last month, saying he is completely innocent and that he finds the whole idea of sexual abuse abhorrent. He complained of relentless character assassination and said he welcomed the opportunity to clear his name.
Although unable on medical advice to return to Australia to face the Royal Commission last year, Pell has arrived in Melbourne — taking several days to return home and breaking his journey to avoid long flights.
This Wednesday the watching world — and it seems as though it is almost the entire world — will learn what charges have been brought against him, in the opening hearing. Supporters speculate that it may be impossible to get a fair trial, to find a jury not already influenced by reporting in mainstream and social media. He has certainly been the victim of some extraordinary bile, but these charges are surely not part of any witch hunt.
Journalist Tess Livingstone, who published a biography of Pell in 2004, concluded her book with a fanciful image of Pell standing on the balcony of St. Peter's in Rome, looking out at the massed faithful acclaiming his election as pontiff. Whatever the future holds for Cardinal Pell, that scenario now seems impossible.
[Barney Zwartz was religion editor of The Age in Melbourne from 2002 to 2013, and is now a senior fellow with the Centre for Public Christianity.]
*An earlier version of this article had the incorrect name of Bishop Bill Morris' diocese.
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So, Paris was amazing! I could have stayed there forever. We lucked out with the weather because we came prepared for rain and had sun shiny days all weekend. A few of my friends and I had decided to sign up for this weekend guided tour through the same company that did our schools orientation in London. The guide was great, a little British guy named Joel who was full of energy and information. We were very excited because we took the Chunnel to get there which was a big deal for me. Our train traveled 180 mph and got us there in 2 hours. Amazing right? Once we got there we were warned to hold on tightly to our belongings because there were real gypsies everywhere we went. Our first stop was the Cathedral of Notre Dame. It was exactly like I had pictured it and expected it to be like after watching the Hunchback of Notre Dame. I was expecting to see Quasi and Esmeralda walking around. No luck, just tons of disgusting pigeons. I'm sure you all know how much I despise birds, France is not a good place for bird haters to go. After the cathedral we went on a boat tour of the city. It was a beautiful way to see all the sights right when the sun was setting. However the wind made it a very chilly ride. The next morning we went on a walking tour of the city and ended up at the Louvre. I was thrilled to be there after learning to much about it in French class years ago. We got to see the Venus de Milo, Napoleon's Apartment and the beautiful Mona Lisa. Everything about the museum is incredible, I sound myself as fascinated by the building itself than I was with the art in it. From the Louvre we walked down the Champs Elysees, my favorite street ever, to the Arc de Triomphe. After that we walked over to The Eiffel Tower, I was in shock, I seriously couldn't believe I was actually there. It's a million times bigger than you would expect. And it's so beautiful. As you can see, I took a lot of pictures because I was so excited to be there. We climbed to the top where it was very cold and windy and looked out over all of Paris while the sun set. We spent our last day visiting the Moulin Rouge and Sacre Coure Cathedral. Both were incredible. We walked around the art district where Monet first started painting and bought souvenirs. Everyone knows that Paris has amazing food, I just didn't realize how good! I could have eaten crepes all day long. Well actually, I basically did. But between all the different pastries they were selling on the street corners, I was pretty much running on a constant sugar high. I can't wait to go back to Paris in a few weeks! It's my new favorite city.


Butterflies or Six Inch Knives?
One of the basic ideas of internal martial arts is that joints can open and close (kaihe). I talked about this in these two posts from last September. Joint Pulsing 1 and Joint Pulsing 2.
The elbow, like all joints, opens and closes quite easily.  In order to think about something it really helps to have words and metaphors which describe it. Since the elbow is something we rarely talk about, we also rarely think about it, and so for most people the opening and closing of the elbow joint is a completely unconscious process.
When I gained awareness of my elbows opening and closing my martial arts power tripled. Now you might think I'm exaggerating, you wouldn't be the first, but honestly--before I had this awareness life was gray, after gaining this awareness opponents started flying off of my arms.
First imagine that you have butterflies on your elbows, happy, light, delicate and beautiful. Practice moving about, do the form, even gentle push-hands, with out knocking the butterflies off your elbows.
Second, imagine you have six inch long double edged knives projecting out of your elbows; happy, light, sharp, and beautiful. Go straight to push hands and imagine you are joyfully cutting your way through your opponent. Be generous with your cutting techniques.