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ADAM MAGYAR IS A computer geek, a college dropout, a self-taught photographer, a high-tech Rube Goldberg, a world traveler, and a conceptual artist of growing global acclaim. But nobody had ever suggested that he might also be a terrorist until the morning that he descended into the Union Square subway station in New York.
At the time, Magyar was immersed in a long-running techno-art project called Stainless, creating high-resolution images of speeding subway trains and their passengers, using sophisticated software he created and hardware that he retrofitted himself. The scanning technique he developed—combining thousands of pixel-wide slices into a single image—allows him to catch passengers unawares as they hurtle through dark subway tunnels, fixing them in haunting images filled with detail no ordinary camera can capture.
Magyar set up his standard array of devices—camera, scanner, voltage meters, blue and black cables, battery pack, tripod, laptop—and waited for a train to roll into the station. He hadn't anticipated the vigilance of post-9/11 New Yorkers, several of whom complained to the police about the longhaired man wielding what looked like a jerry-built piece of surveillance equipment. It didn't take long before a transit cop approached him.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"I'm scanning trains," Magyar said.
The policeman led Magyar to a room in the bowels of Union Square, then summoned a pair of plainclothes officers to interrogate him. They inspected his equipment, pored through his digital files. "Tell us who you're working for," they said.
Once Magyar convinced them that he was not scrutinizing the subway for nefarious purposes, that he was an artist (his website, featuring examples of his work, helped), the police settled on a $25 fine for violating a regulation against using a tripod on the platform, and sent him on his way.
IT WAS NOT THE FIRST TIME that Adam Magyar has had to explain his work to mystified observers. Born in Hungary in 1972, Magyar began taking pictures in his late twenties, roaming the streets of Asian cities and capturing images of Indian street vendors, Hindu holy men, and Himalayan students. His work evolved rapidly from conventional documentary photography to surreal, radically experimental imagery that reflects his obsession with finding innovative new uses for digital technology. A self-taught engineer and software designer who assembled his first computer while in his teens, Magyar captures his images using some of the world's most sophisticated photographic equipment, modified with software he writes himself. Additional code, also of his own design, removes nearly all distortion, or "noise," from his data, producing images of remarkable clarity.
In a growing body of photographic and video art done over the past decade, Magyar bends conventional representations of time and space, stretching milliseconds into minutes, freezing moments with a resolution that the naked eye could never have perceived. His art evokes such variegated sources as Albert Einstein, Zen Buddhism, even the 1960s TV series The Twilight Zone. The images—sleek silver subway cars, solemn commuters lost in private worlds—are beautiful and elegant, but also produce feelings of disquiet. "These moments I capture are meaningless, there is no story in them, and if you can catch the core, the essence of being, you capture probably everything," Magyar says in one of the many cryptic comments about his work that reflect both their hypnotic appeal and their elusiveness. There is a sense of stepping into a different dimension, of inhabiting a space between stillness and movement, a time-warp world where the rules of physics don't apply.
"I grew up in my father's workshop. I learned to work with tools, I developed a general understanding of materials. And I learned how to combine things."
Magyar's work represents a fruitful cross-fertilization of technology and art, two disciplines—one objective and mathematical, the other entirely subjective—that weren't always regarded as harmonious or compatible. Yet the two are intertwined, and breakthroughs in technology have often made new forms of art possible. Five thousand years ago, Egyptian technicians heated desert sand, limestone, potash, and copper carbonate in kilns to make a synthetic pigment known as "Egyptian blue," which contributed to the highly realistic yet stylized portraiture of the Second and Third Dynasties.
By the fifteenth century, paint based on transparent walnut and linseed oil began to replace opaque egg-based tempera, infusing art with a new luminosity and naturalism that paved the way for Renaissance masters like Jan Van Eyck, Tintoretto, and Caravaggio. Nineteenth-century experiments with light-sensitive materials capable of capturing and stabilizing an image—beginning with Louis Daguerre's silver-plated sheets of copper fumed with iodine vapor—led to the invention of photography. In the 1950s, rapid improvements in emulsions and film speed allowed movie directors to take their craft outdoors and shoot in minimal light—propelling the naturalistic New Wave cinema of Jean-Luc Godard and other innovators.
Magyar has lived in Berlin since January 2008, yet has had few gallery exhibitions there and doesn't mingle with local artists. "The galleries are a bit punk, and my stuff is an engineer kind of thing," he told me, brewing espresso in the kitchen, while his girlfriend, Zazi Porcsalmy, a Hungarian translator whom he has known since high school, served Christmas cookies in the living room. Although he has lived in Berlin for six years, Magyar barely speaks German, a reflection of both his immersion in other disciplines—"I spent the time here learning two computer languages, I didn't have time for anything else," he explains—and the detached-observer quality that permeates his work. Like the subway passengers he pins down in his Stainlessseries, I've managed to pin down Magyar during a momentary pause in a life of constant motion: He's permanently passing through.
Magyar was born and raised in the Hungarian city of Debrecen, a regional center of 200,000 just west of the Romanian border. His mother was a dentist, his father an architect and interior designer who created bars and restaurants for a state-owned company during the Communist era. The elder Magyar moonlighted as an artist, making fanciful light fixtures and other household objects out of copper in a workshop beside his home. "I grew up in my father's workshop," Magyar remembers. "I learned to work with tools, I developed a general understanding of materials. And I learned how to combine things." Magyar's parents sent him to an elementary school that specialized in music, and he sang with Hungary's most prestigious youth choir, performing in Finland and Greece when most travel to the West was banned. He attended an advanced technological high school, but he found the curriculum too theoretical and rebelled against the discipline. "I was the only one in the class who didn't have to wear a uniform. I was never easily controllable," he says. Magyar dropped out of college, taught himself computer code, built rudimentary computers, and supported himself doing graphic design on a freelance basis and, for two years, running a one-man business that printed corporate logos on pencils and cigarette lighters. "It was horrible, but it was money," he told me.
By this point the Berlin Wall had fallen, the Eastern Bloc had dissolved, and Magyar could indulge a growing wanderlust. "I always wanted to travel, ever since I remembered. I was about four when I was dreaming about leaving for the world," he recalls. "My father once told me that there used to be people whose profession was 'traveler,' and I took it literally. I liked the idea of living from a suitcase, going from place to place. I think it stuck in my brain. When I received my first salary, I just left. I think I am a permanent traveler in a way." He backpacked through Morocco and, at 27, visited India for the first time. "It was the most difficult place I had ever been," he says. "The colors, the smells—it's heavy to digest. It became a kind of icon, and I started going back every year."
Magyar's life of travel honed his skills as an observer and reinforced his sense of being an outsider. At one level he seemed in constant motion. At another level he was capable of remaining still for long periods simply watching the flow of life. He once spent six months studying the movement of the river in Varanasi, the ancient Hindu capital on the Ganges. During that trip, he asked Zazi to bring him a book on introductory photography that he had won as a prize years before in elementary school. "I was almost 30," he said. "And I started learning about apertures and light and developing my stuff in a darkroom. I loved it." A year later, he documented daily life at a private school in Darjeeling, a Himalayan hill station in northeastern India, and his series of black-and-white photos won first prize in the annual Hungarian Press Photography competition. "He never worked too fast," Zazi remembers. "If he found a person or a place intriguing he'd stand around for hours."
But Magyar quickly found that straightforward documentary photography bored him. He set up a camera inside a movie theater in Varanasi, and shot one-minute exposures of the audience in near-total darkness. He shot images of passengers seated in the rear of taxis in Calcutta, and individuals framed inside doctors' waiting rooms and in an elevator in Shanghai. Hannah Frieser, the former director of Light Work, an artist-run cooperative that organized an ambitious exhibition of Magyar's work, Kontinuum, in three U.S. museums in 2013—Light Work in Syracuse, the Houston Center for Photography, and the Griffin Museum of Photography outside Boston—says that "the elevator series is pivotal to understanding him. It reflects this idea of taking your camera and making it the stationary part and photographing individuals over and over again. He doesn't look at people in a judgmental way. He avoids asking a lot of questions. Instead it is just this experience of observing and being present, and defining life through this flow." The work also reflected Magyar's growing interest in the limitations of the human sensory perception, compared to what was possible with certain new and old technologies, and prefigured his efforts to push the boundaries of what we can see and experience. "I wanted to surround people in a cage, in a way. I was thinking about how little choice we have when we select our path," he told me. "We are able to see just a narrow angle, whatever we do. Our knowledge is really limited, and small."
MAGYAR BEGAN EXPERIMENTING with scanning in 2003. "I wanted to get out of conventional photography," he told me. "I remember I didn't sleep too much. I was up whole nights, thinking about how to do it." In an early experiment, Magyar built his own primitive scanner, using an East German slide projector that cast a narrow light beam. Then he constructed a platform out of a stack of Lego bricks that permitted the beam to "scan" across a subject by slowly tilting from top to bottom. A standard reflex camera captured all of the scanned lines in a single shot, re-assembling them into one image during a minute-long exposure. In effect, the scanner was slicing a minute of time into thin sections, and the camera was stacking the slices back together, creating a single image composed of all those moments. Magyar took to scanning himself, experimenting with different physical movements that created distorted final images. "When you turned around, the image that came out showed your body as a corkscrew," he says. "It was an interesting technological experiment, but that was it. I put it away for years."
He remained fascinated, however, by the notion of capturing different parts of a person or of people at different times, constructing a still image out of "little pieces," he says. This matched his growing interest in what he calls "the ever-changing nature of the present," the constant flow of life that defied easy visual representation.
In 2006, during a months-long stay in Shanghai, he had an epiphany. "I had this feeling that I would, like, scan the flow of people. I began looking for the right kind of spaces where I could find a monotonous flow." Magyar first studied escalators in Shanghai shopping malls. Then his gaze shifted to city streets—particularly major intersections or bus stops with a continuous procession of humanity. Once he had the concept in his head, he set about to develop the technology to realize it. "It was continuous research," he says. "It took me a few weeks to figure it out."
The answer, Magyar realized, was a modified version of the "slit scan" camera, the type used to determine photo finishes at racetracks and at Olympic sporting events by capturing a time sequence in one image. Such cameras were rare and cost many thousands of dollars, so Magyar set out to build one himself. He joined a medium-format camera lens to another sensor and wrote his own software for the new device. Total cost: $50. He inverted the traditional scanning method, where the sensor moves across a stationary object. This time, the sensor would remain still while the scanned objects were in motion, being photographed one consecutive pixel-wide strip at a time. (This is the basic principle of the photo-finish camera.) Magyar mounted the device on a tripod in a busy Shanghai neighborhood and scanned pedestrians as they passed in front of the sensor. He then digitally combined over 100,000 sequential strips into high-resolution photographs.
The result was Urban Flow, a series of one-foot-high, eight-foot-long prints that captured a parade of humanity marching through time: Those at the far right had passed by the sensor approximately two minutes before those on the far left. "Each little fragment is the present, and all these present fractions come together to give you the story," Magyar explains. "By the time we see the story, it's like our memory. It's already past."
Eerie distortions of objects in motion and at rest reminded viewers that they were looking at a pictorial representation of time, not space. Speeding buses were compressed into Smart cars. Passing buses were elongated like Metroliners. Slower walkers had billowing pants legs, or feet like skis, or Oscar Pistorius–style blades. And because of the peculiar nature of the scanning technology, everyone was moving in the same direction. "The horizontal axis is not about space, it's not about left and right, it's about earlier and later," he says. "If two people are crossing the pixel at the same moment, they will look like they are walking together."
Urban Flow feels both comical and melancholy; like a time-bending, mind-bending vision of human destiny and mortality. The choice of black-and-white imagery came after long consideration. "I experimented with color, but people looked like colorful confetti, which was not my point," says Magyar. "This is not a carnival, this is a little bit sad for me. We are all heading toward the same destination, which is sort of a death."
Lars Torkuhl, a Shanghai-based design engineer, met Magyar in China, and visited his Shanghai apartment to see the new work in progress. "It was shocking to see the place," Torkuhl recalls. "You had to carve your way past water bottles and other debris into the room to navigate to the desk." After showing Torkuhl his jury-rigged prototype, Magyar displayed the first of theUrban Flow series on the computer screen. "I was blown away by the beauty, the crispness of the image," says Torkuhl. "I said 'Adam, this is extraordinary, are you going to show it?' But he hadn't even thought about it. . . . There was so much technology involved that he hadn't dealt with before. He said, 'this is nowhere near ready.' I replied 'What do you mean? It can be ready very soon.'"
Torkuhl introduced Magyar to a friend, the French artist Thomas Charvériat, who had just opened a gallery, Island6, in a renovated warehouse in the artist's district of Shanghai. Magyar's slit-scan photographs captivated Charvériat, too, and he offered to mount an exhibition. Magyar sold nearly every one of the dozen pieces he had on display—at modest prices of between $700 to $1,400—and received orders for several more. Magyar was amazed that his work had any commercial value at all: "I went back to Hungary, but I knew that I had to start building something from this."
"In Zen you can train for five years before you shoot a bow and arrow. And that describes exactly what Adam does. Time doesn't exist for him."
HIS NEXT MAJOR PROJECT was Stainless, shot inside subway stations in major cities like Paris, Tokyo, and New York City. It was a quantum leap forward. He invested in a high-quality industrial camera and a "line scan" device designed to capture high-resolution images of circuit boards, bottle tops, or other fast-moving objects on assembly lines, exposing micro-cracks and other defects incapable of being perceived by standard cameras. The resulting line-scan camera uses a single row of light-sensitive sensors to constantly scan moving objects at high speed, eliminating most distortion.
Stainless consciously calls to mind the realm of theoretical physics, with its references to the thought experiments of Albert Einstein. Magyar's stationary camera aimed at a moving train bears echoes of Einstein's hypothesis that "distant simultaneity"—the idea that two spatially separated events occur at the same time—is not absolute, but depends on the observer's frame of reference. In a famous thought experiment, Einstein imagined two observers—one standing inside a speeding train car, the other on a platform as the train moves past—who perceive the same flash of light at the exact moment that they cross paths. The passenger in the train sees the light strike the front and the back of the train car simultaneously; the stationary bystander sees it hit at different times. Similarly, Magyar warps time and reveals the subjectivity of human perception: His line-scan camera transforms a speeding blur into a frozen image of impossible clarity and stillness, a reality imperceptible to both passengers speeding into the station and bystanders waiting to board the train. The individuals in his trains ride together yet apart, lost in their own thoughts, often transfixed by their hand-held devices.
"You start paying attention to how these people interact with their technology, and how they barely interact with each other," says Hannah Frieser, the former director of Light Work. Yet the eerie images can also be seen as a celebration of the human community, something that Magyar grew increasingly to appreciate as he traveled the world. The straphangers he captured in Paris, Shanghai, Hong Kong, New York, London, Tokyo, Paris, Rome, and Berlin manifest striking similarities in appearance, expression, and attitude that transcend cultural and geographical differences. In her catalog notes for the show, Frieser drew a clear distinction between the street photography practiced by masters such as Diane Arbus, Gary Winograd, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Magyar's kind of image-making. "The life that he chronicles is made up of everyday people, not the most beautiful, eccentric, and destitute who typically draw the attention of photographers," she wrote. "They looked for differences whereas Magyar ascertains similarities. They kept moving through the city, while Magyar remains stationary and waits for people to move past his camera … He jumps to different cities in various countries and continents until the commonalities within mankind begin to emerge."
The Stainless photos also offered the most telling example of Magyar's relentless perfectionism. (Pictured above, Stainless #7649 New York) Magyar desperately wanted to shoot in the tunnels of Tokyo—"the ultimate subway system, the ultimate urban environment" —but a subtle flicker in the lighting produced over-exposed and under-exposed frames that appeared on his images as vertical lines. Magyar's solution: He rode the subways for a week with his light meter, taking readings at all 290 stations in the network. "I found five stations with high-frequency light, so I could start working there," he recalls. "But inside the train the light was still bad, so I spent three months making the software to get rid of those lines." Magyar also faced another problem after his tripod was banned from the New York City subway system. He was obliged to use a hand-held camera, which resulted in further distortions on his images; several weeks were taken up devising more code to eliminate them. Lars Torkuhl, the German design engineer, compares him to a Zen Buddhist master. "In Zen you can train for five years before you shoot a bow and arrow. And that describes exactly what he does," Torkuhl told me. "Time doesn't exist for him. He lives and executes his work in a crisp, detailed manner, exactly like his pictures."
SHORTLY AFTER COMPLETING Stainless, Magyar began to consider transitioning to moving images. After months of research, he persuaded the German manufacturer Optronis to lend him one of its $16,000, high-performance industrial video cameras—used in crash tests and robotic-arm studies, and even for analyzing the hind hooves of show-jumping horses. With a high level of light sensitivity and advanced TimeBench analysis software, the Optronis shoots high-resolution images at astonishing speeds: up to 100,000 frames per second, compared to 24 frames per second in a traditional film camera.
Magyar turned the concept of Stainless on its head: Instead of standing on a platform shooting passengers speeding past him, Magyar now positioned himself inside the moving subway car, recording stationary commuters on the platform as train and camera rolled into the station. Again, the ghost of Einstein permeates these images, and again, he was warping time: Magyar shot the footage at 56 times normal speed, turning 12-second blurs into nearly 12-minute films of excruciating slowness. His commuters stand, together yet apart, with the studied, three-dimensional grace of statues—only the twitch of a lip or a finger drawn toward an iPhone indicating that these people were caught in hyper-slow motion, inhabiting an elongated moment. Magyar extracts drama from an infinitesimal flash of time. "I want to capture something that happens in milliseconds, something that you don't even realize took place," he told me. "I'm extending the moments—the present, the now—because as humans we live only in the past and the future. But the only existence we have is now, and that is something that we don't even consider."
The breathtaking clarity of the Stainless videos is also the result of the most challenging software code he has ever had to write. In his experiments with industrial cameras, Magyar found that the image quality was ideal for measuring speed, distance, and volume, but not entirely suitable for the demands of an artist. He wrote complex programs to improve the quality of images shot in conditions of low lighting and poor contrast. Another problem was image noise—columns, rows, lines, and other random distortions, a typical issue with high-sensitivity digital sensors. He spent nearly two years, on and off, developing noise-reduction software, solving one problem only to confront a new one. "The engineers don't have to deal with this, but I do. I cannot sleep. I'm working on this for months, and I don't stop. You find a new problem, and you have to find a solution." (article : https://medium.com/matter/88aa8a185898)


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Team WOD, Saturday 09/01/2016
In teams of 2-3 complete the following:
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Row 2km
175 Sit Ups
150 Push Ups
175 Wallballs, 10kg (6kg)
Run 2km
-Partition reps however you like.
-Only one athlete works at one time except for run which is completed together.
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A variety of opportunities for adult education in faith is provided each year. They include:
The Altar Society is a group of parishioners who help with the weekly preparation of the church on a rostered basis (usually on a Friday morning at Carlingford and on a Saturday morning at Epping) for a couple of hours. Duties include arranging the flowers for the week, cleaning the sanctuary and sacristy, polishing the brass etc.
If you woul'd like to know more, please contact Judy Wright at Carlingford and Jenni Scarfe at Epping via the Parish Office.
Antioch is a group based in the Carlingford community (but serving both communities) for young people run by young people from Year 10 upwards. The group meets on Sunday evenings at 6:30pm in the Carlingford Parish Meeting Room. The group aims to give young Catholics a support community and a chance to develop their faith with friends in a parish setting. Normal introduction is through one of the two weekend experiences held each year.
Please contact the Parent Couple, Susan and Mark Burnet-Smith or the Youth Ministry Coordinator via the Parish Office if you''d like more information.
Care and Support is a parish based voluntary network which aims to provide companionship, practical assistance and social support for members of the parish community, especially during times of need. Volunteers participate in the following ministries: home and hospital visitation, transport to Mass and the Healing Mass, and cooking meals (for emergencies).
If you wish to become involved in Care and Support as a volunteer or would like to discuss your need for assistance from the network please contact the Parish Office.
Catechists are entrusted with the religious education of Catholic students in the State schools in our two communities. Please contact the Parish Office if you are interested in becoming a catechist or helper, or if you would like some more information and the office will put you in touch with one of the Catechist Coordinators.
The Children's Liturgy of the Word is celebrated each Sunday during school terms in both our churches, except on the first Sunday of the month at Carlingford and on the third Sunday of the month at Epping when we have our Children's Mass. It is held in the Parish Meeting Room during the 10am Mass. It is for children from Kindergarten to Year 6. It is not a Sunday School, but is rather a liturgical celebration of the Word parallel to that same celebration in the church with the adult community, but presented in a way that helps the children liturgically celebrate the Liturgy of the Word (Scripture readings). At the conclusion of the Liturgy of the Word the children return to the church to be with their families for the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
The Coordinators can provide further information and can be contacted via the Parish Office.
Every third Sunday of the month at Epping and every first Sunday of the month at Carlingford (excluding school holidays) at the 10.00am Mass the children of two communities are actively involved in the Mass. They look after the Procession of the Gifts, the choir and the Readings. They also have an opportunity to show their creativity and talents in their worship. It is an enjoyable and fun time for our children, without being hard or onerous. It also gives all children of the Parish community an opportunity to meet, regardless of which school they attend.
The children also take part in the Christmas Eve Vigil Mass which is our Christmas Children's Mass.
These Masses are organised by a roster of adults, each group coordinating one Mass a year.
If you would like to know more please contact the Parish Office.
The Dads' club gets together on the first Friday evening of every month in the Parish Meeting Room on our Carlingford site from 7.30pm - 10.00pm. All Dads are welcome to join us for a chat and some time together enjoying a few drinks and some pizza while watching some sport on a big screen. Our aim is to encourage us to have some time out together building connections and community and support each other in our efforts to balance family, work and parish life.
No RSVP needed just come along and feel free to bring a few Dads with you. For further information contact Mark Smith via the Parish Office.
Both communities are involved in a wide range of ecumenical activities with other Christian Churches in the area.At Pentecost 2004, a formal covenant was entered into by the Catholic community at Epping, the Anglican Parish of Epping, and Epping Uniting Church, Epping. This covenant gave formal expression to many of the joint activities that were shared by our three communities and expressed a commitment to continue these activities. As a result of an extended relationship that developed between our Catholic community at Carlingford and West Epping Uniting Church and Carlingford Baptist Church in Advent 2008 an extended covenant was entered into by our parish of Epping and Carlingford, the Anglican Parish of Epping, Epping Uniting Church, West Epping Uniting Church, Epping Baptist Church and Carlingford Baptist Church.
Each of the churches in our covenant group share a series of five weekly Ecumenical Liturgies during the Season of Lent. There is also a liturgy at Pentecost and in Advent. The clergy from the Churches preach to their neighbouring congregations once each year. There is also an annual joint sitting of the Parish Councils of each of our Churches in the covenant group.
Other ecumenical activities in our local area include:
These parishioners assist in the celebration of the liturgy at Holy Communion. They may also take Communion to the sick and elderly who are unable to attend Mass.
Eucharistic Ministers take Communion to those who are sick or no longer mobile enough to come to Mass. If you or a member of your family would like to receive Communion at home please contact our Parish Office.
Exposition of the Eucharist takes place on the Fourth Thursday of each month at St Gerard's Church Carlingford from after the 9:30am Mass until 10:30am and every Saturday at Our Lady Help of Christians' Church Epping after the 9:15am Mass until 10:15am.
A Family Group consists of 10-15 families, with a cross section of ages, including some children of the same age —like an extended family. The aims of the Family Group Movement are for members to get to know other people in the parish, support each other in times of joy and sorrow and to involve their children in Christian sharing, directly if possible; if not, then indirectly by their example. The Family Groups operate within both our communities and as such contribute to the life of the parish community.
For more information or to join a Family Group please contact the Parish Office.
The 50+ Social Group is for parishioners from both St Gerard's Carlingford and Our Lady Help of Christians Epping and activities are combined. The aim of 50+ is to plan a variety of activities, outings and gatherings which provide opportunities for leisure and social interaction. The Group is open to all —single, widowed, married, separated and divorced and no proof of age is required! Participants have planning meetings twice a year to organise a six month program of events.
The contact is Marie Saul and can be contacted via the Parish Office.
The Parish Finance Committee is appointed by the Parish Priest in accordance with the Code of Canon Law, and assists and advises the Parish Priest on the financial administration of the parish.
The current members of the Finance Committee are:
A Healing Mass is celebrated in each community once each month at Carlingford on the first Thursday of each month at 10am and at Epping on the third Wednesday of each month at 10am. During the celebration of the Mass, prayers are offered for those present, and for those who are being prayed for by those attending, and the celebrant lays his hands on each person's head as a sign of our prayer for God's healing strength. The morning concludes with a morning tea and good conversation. Every third month, the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick is celebrated within the Healing Mass.
For further information, please contact the Parish Office.
Junior servers assist in the celebration of the Mass and are rostered in pairs. Any boy or girl in year 4 or above are welcome to assist with this important ministry.
Please contact either Parish Office. for more information.
The Parish Library is located in both our parish Churches (in the crying room at the rear of Carlingford Church, in the crying room and in the Parish Meeting Room underneath Epping Church) and books may be interchanged between the two sites. They have a wide range of contemporary books available for borrowing by parishioners.
To borrow a book please see the available borrowing information and proceed from there. A maximum of three books can be borrowed at any one time, and may be borrowed for up to a month.
The World Community for Christian Meditation is an International Community that practices and teaches meditation in the Christian tradition. A group meets fortnightly for an hour on Monday evenings in a Parish home.
For further information, please contact the Parish Office.
There are a variety of choir/music groups active in our two communities. These groups illuminate the Mass with their singing and musical accompaniment. New enthusiasts are always welcome.
For further information please contact the Parish Office.
Our parish is divided into 12 Neighbourhoods for gatherings for particular purposes —for example an annual Neighbourhood Home Mass, our RCIA weekly gatherings, and an annual Advent Liturgy. Our aim in meeting in these smaller areas is to build the overall community of the parish by helping parishioners to get to know one another a little better. In the RCIA process by having our weekly catechetical meetings in the Neighbourhoods we provide an opportunity for our candidates who are seeking to join the Church to meet members of the parish at this local level and so help them to feel more welcomed into our community. Please support our Neighbourhood gatherings.
Please see the map of the Neighbourhoods by clicking the links below
Both before and after school care is available for children attending Epping Parish School. The Centre is on the school premises and is run by a Parent Management Committee elected at the Annual General Meeting. The Committee employs a Co-ordinator and several trained staff. The Centre provides a safe and friendly environment that includes activities such as craft, art, outdoor play, reading, games and quiet time. A light breakfast and afternoon tea are provided. Fees are reasonable.
Enquiries are welcome on 9869 3635.
The Parish Pastoral Council is the principal leadership body in the parish. Please click on the link Parish Pastoral Council' for a fuller presentation on the PPC.
Our Parish Schools provide an education grounded in Catholic faith for boys and girls from Kindergarten to Year 6.
The links to the websites of our two Parish Schools may be found on our homepage and the contact information for each school may be found by clicking on our Contact page.
A Pastoral Companions Group has been established in the Parish. It is a group of parishioners who visit members of the parish who are house-bound or who don''t have friends or family in the close proximity and who would appreciate a weekly social visit for some companionship and a chat. If you would like to have someone visit you, or if you know of someone who would appreciate this ministry, please contact the Parish Office.
There are two Playgroups in our parish based at each of the two centres within the parish:
The Play Group based at Carlingford meets on Mondays from 9:30am to 11am in the Parish Hall at Carlingford [except in school holidays]. For further information, contact the Parish Office.
The Playgroup based at Epping ('Little Engines') meets on Mondays from 9:30am to 11am in the Parish Hall at Epping. For further information, contact the Parish Office.
Prayer Ministry involves ministering to others in times of sickness or unhappiness by calling on the power of the Holy Spirit in prayer. Mindful that we come with our own wounds and pain when we respond to the needs of our brothers and sisters, we can participate in the work of God praying quietly at home for others: for strength and peace in illness, and healing where there are conflicts, worries and times of anguish. Prayer ministry does not involve contact by phone or home visitation.
If you would like to be part of our Prayer Ministry or would like to be supported in prayer please contact the Parish Office
Prison Fellowship is a ministry for providing Christian support to prisoners, ex-prisoners and their families. Volunteers visit prisoners and their families and help them with their needs and to cope with the rejection they may be experiencing from the community. They also help and support prisoners upon their release.
The Fellowship is ecumenical and training is given to volunteers.
Volunteers visit Long Bay Gaol every fourth Sunday for Mass. After Mass we have a cuppa and chat with the inmates. A special Christmas visit is also organised.
For further information, please contact Margaret Wiseman via the Parish Office.
We have a Parish-based Sacramental Program to prepare the children who are to receive the Sacraments of Confirmation, Reconciliation and the Eucharist. Children from the State and Parish schools are placed in small groups. Each group meets on one of the parish sites on three or four occasions prior to the celebration. A parent facilitator leads the group with materials provided by the Diocese. The materials are very child-focused with simple messages and fun activities. The programme is organised by our two Sacramental Programme Coordinators who are assisted by a team of volunteer parents.
Our Sacramental Programmes are done in a collaborative way between our two communities. Our Sacramental Programme Coordinator/s are employed by the Parish and the Parent Meeting for each programme is a joint meeting for our two communities, the venue for the meeting alternating on each occasion between our two churches.
In the Diocese of Broken Bay the proper ancient order of celebrating the sacraments is observed so that the final sacrament in which the children share is First Communion, Confirmation having been celebrated the year before.
For further information, please contact our Sacramental Programme Coordinators via either Parish Office.
Further information may be found by clicking on the link for Sacraments
The Scripture Study group meets on Fridays of each month at Carlingford (except December and January) and includes a short Scripture study and discussion to reflect on the Scripture passages for the coming Sunday. This takes place immediately after the morning 9:30am Mass and concludes by 10:40am.
The ecumenical group 'Together in Epping' (TIE) is a major focus of our social justice activity (see the section above on 'Ecumenism'). In addition we are currently exploring other ways that we can develop a social justice awareness and ministry within our two communities.
The St Vincent De Paul Society is open to all parishioners. An SVdP Conference exists in both our communities. Meetings are held weekly. Society members visit people at home who are needy, lonely, sick or bereaved.
For further information, please make contact via the respective Parish Office.
The Welcoming Group in each of our two communities provides hospitality in a variety of ways, including: greeting people as they arrive at church and handing them a copy of the parish bulletin, providing morning tea after the 10am Mass, morning tea at the monthly Healing Masses, suppers following ecumenical services and refreshments for new parishioner gatherings. Volunteers are always welcome.
Please contact the Parish Office.
Our two communities currently operate a youth group in conjunction with another one, namely "Cana" (for Years 7 to 9). This group has activities each Friday evenings during school terms, 7:30pm to 9:00pm, at the Carlingford Parish Hall. For further information about activities are advertised in the Youth Pages in the Parish Bulletin.
If you know a young person who would be interested in coming along or if you would like to assist as a young adult leader (aged 16 to 30) please contact our Youth Ministry Coordinator or the Parish Office.


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I love reading everything from fantasy to historical romances. On a constant quest for more books to read.
Rhea the millers daughter is if not happy with her life at least content. Even if she has to fish out the occassional mangled gremlin or the ongoing feud she has with a sandwich stealing swan. But her predictable life changed whenher parents tell her that a certain Lord Crevan wants to marry her and seem to think this is great news.
Rhea knew she would be getting married someday,someday she envisioned as not now but later.Much later. And not to a man old enough to be her father,and who gives her the creeps
Her parents and Lord Crevans say she has a choice to refuse but truth is she really hasnt. Not that her parents are wicked but they love her and wants whats best for her and she knows if she would refuse to marry ,Lord Crevan might go to his friend the Viscount and make them lose the mill and their livelihood.
But she is amazed that they cant tell that this is wrong and that there is something wrong with Lord Crevan. He asks her to come to his home in the forest ,oh and if she could come at night that would be great.
Rhea firmly convinced now that things arent as they ought but remembering that refusing could make things worse for her family,trudges on. When she decides to have a good cry a hedgehog appears with a leaf for her to dry her eyes with.
Its a bit odd to be sure but the hedgehog seems to want to come with her so she tucks it into her pocket.
When she arrives at Lord Crevans home she learns that he is not at home but more importantly that he has more than one wife.
"I'm sorry," said Rhea carefully, "but I think I must have misheard you."
The cook's eyes danced with a kind of jovial malice. "No, you didn't. Wives. Wives, wives, wives. As in married. As in more than one. As in me, and Sylvie, and Ingeth, and the clock-wife and the golem-wife and the Lady Elegans, who is lying out in the graveyard."
Once Lord Crevan arrives home he tells her if she can complete some tasks for him Rhea will be free of the betrothal but if she fails at these she will have to marry him.
Rhea accepts.
The inspiration for this clearly comes from the tale of Bluebeard but instead of a Prince saving the day there is just Rhea
I loved this book and its main character Rhea ,she is a very sensible person and someone I think a lot of Girls could identify with.Not just Girls either
Something I also noticed was that while we learn that Rheas hair and skin are dark and that her face is "not bad" and isnt that what girls ought to think of themselves that they are fine just as we are?
as well as some adult ones. Because while the Writing is humorous it also gets darker and darker as the book goes on.
A big part of what makes this so dark is our villain Lord Crevan who we dont find out a whole lot about him and what we do find out is through the smidgeon of information that Rhea leanrs.
But I know this.
The things he did was so evil and nasty.
I could only nod grimly when Rhea made a comparision between him and Swans.
He was wearing white again. He looked clean and elegant, and Rhea was reminded again of the swan from the millrace. Very noble, very beautiful, and vicious down to the bone.
Before I end this review I just have this to say.
1)I loved the hedgehog
2)I would love to read another adventure with Rhea and the hedgehog.


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Upcoming discussion: Bert Flinn Park, Aragon development; and Coronation Park neighbourhood
Excerpt, Council's 2015-2018 Strategic Plan (city webpage here).
Port Moody city council's first regular meeting after summer break is on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016. The complete agenda material can be accessed here or here. A couple of items are noted below.
Bert Flinn Park
This topic has attracted considerable interest recently, in part because of potential future land development. In early 2015, the Brilliant Circle Group purchased a large amount of land in both Port Moody and Anmore and held open houses in the summer and fall of 2015. Brilliant Circle Group website: iocolands.com.
Port Moody's Official Community Plan (OCP) shows a designated road right-of-way (ROW) through Bert Flinn Park on Port Moody's north shore. A motion has now been put forward to remove the road designation and incorporate the right-of-way into the park. See the agenda link above for more information. The Tri-City News has covered this topic with news articles and letters to the editor, including:
Survey taps Ioco Road residents for comment: Group seeking elimination of David Avenue road extension through Bert Flinn Park believes survey backs its cause (Tri-City News, Sept. 6, 2016), and Opinion (letters).
Aragon development
This development proposal (Moody/Clarke streets) was rejected at a public hearing on April 26, 2016. It is now back for review with some minor adjustments, with a public hearing (tentatively) to be held on October 11, 2016. See agenda link above for more information.
The most recent related post on this site is:
—Aragon proposal back to the drawing board (and the importance of public input)
Coronation Park neighbourhood
Open House at City Hall, Sept. 15, 2016
Another controversial topic. Port Moody council's strategic plan includes neighbourhood plan consultations for Moody Centre and Coronation Park, both established neighbourhoods that will be impacted by the Evergreen Skytrain line. The Moody Centre consultation has not yet happened.
In 2015 and on May 18, 2016, the city held events related to the Coronation Park neighbourhood plan.
For Sept. 15, 2016: "the City of Port Moody has developed a recommended land use concept for the Coronation Park Neighbourhood. We'll also present draft policies that chart the neighbourhood's evolution over the next 30 years." City webpage here.
—Tri-City News, Plans to be revealed for Coronation Park, Sept. 9, 2016.
—Coronation Park Neighbourhood Plan Open House
—2015-06-13: Neighbourhood planning — Moody Centre and Coronation Park


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Renowned for its ability to drive innovation, the Black Country is a first-class investment destination writes Black Country LEP board member Tom Westley as he joins the Greater Birmingham delegation to MIPIM.
Located at the heart of the Midlands, the Black Country will use MIPIM 2017 as a platform to present a mix of investment opportunities all demonstrating the Black Country's exciting economic future and showcasing why we are a first-class investment destination.
During MIPIM, 14 – 17 March 2017 we will showcase the £2billion of investment planned across the Black Country's strategic centres focusing on the regeneration of the Wolverhampton city centre, the exciting plans linked to our aspirations for a £1billion HVM City and the game changing proposals for our Garden City, which is set to be one of Britain's biggest ever brownfield site regeneration programmes.
This year we will be working alongside partners from across the Midlands, exhibiting on the Midlands UK Pavilion (C16.B) to collaboratively showcase the region's strategic plans and demonstrate how we are collectively driving forward investment opportunities.
Home to over 1.17million people and over 35,000 businesses, the Black Country economy is at a six year high. Business is booming, with an increase in new business starts, wages are up and in the last twelve months over 3000 new homes were built in the Black Country, now is the time to be part of our success story.
The Black Country will take part in a series of events at MIPIM 2017, from presentations to panel discussions and you can read about these here: http://www.investblackcountry.com/news/black-country-events-at-mipim-2017/
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Radio interview with Tom Westley - BBC WM
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This is beautiful KAYLA! She placed two children after marriage for adoption.
My name is Kayla Janssen and I am currently 20 years old. I am going to school full time for Criminal Justice a year behind what would be "my class". I had plans to go to school my first year out of high school, but I found myself in August of my senior year (2007) pregnant.
My pregnancy with my son was complicated, and frustrating. When I was a few months, my boyfriend at the time decided that he was going to join the Marines...so I spent nearly 3 weeks without any support. He came home earlier than expected because he was discharged for medical reasons. I was diagnosed with Preeclampsia and had high blood pressure and severe swelling through my entire pregnancy. I had to wear slippers to school, and sit sideways in the desks. I cannot even explain the hurt that I received from my fellow students over the looks and comments they made when they saw me. I was the perfect kid. I never did drugs, I never went to parties, I got straight A's, and I volunteered. I was the girl that NO ONE could have ever imagined would be a teen mom...but little did I know that my whole world was about to come crashing down.
(3D pictures 7 months along James)
I gave birth on March 25, 2008 to my son James. My boyfriend was a little supportive which helped. We had been dating for a little over a year when I got pregnant, but had been sexually active for almost 9 months before that. At this point in our lives, we were set on staying together, and raising our son as a family. On July of 2008 we got married, and I got pregnant that same week. I found out a couple months later and was terrified to tell my husband, as he only wanted one child.
So we made plans to give, what would be our daughter, Emma, up for adoption while keeping out 6 month old son James. On October 14 of 2008, my husband came home from work at 2am after work and told me that he wanted a divorce after less than 3 months of being married... So I found myself alone with my 7 month old son, and almost 3 months pregnant with my daughter, and I had NO idea what to do, or where to turn.
Backtracking a little bit... Earlier in my teen years (when I was 15) I lifeguarded in Waupaca, WI at Spencer Lake Christian Center, which was an hour away from my home. While I lifeguarded I lived with a couple whose names were Bob and Tracy. Tracy's mother, Mary Lou, worked with my mom in our church office, so that is how I met them. I stayed at their house when I would work 2 or more days in a row, so that I wouldn't have to drive every single day. After I stopped lifeguarding in 2007, I hadn't spoken to them......
I moved back in with my mom and dad on October 16 of 2008. After a while I told my mom I was pregnant again, and that I was looking into adoption for both of my children. She had heard through Mary Lou (remember, that lady that my mom works with) that Bob and Tracy had been trying to have children for going on 5 years. They had been trying to have their own children since the year before I stayed with them. They had looked into adoption in early 2008 and things hadn't been working out the way that they wanted. So, they stopped looking and in March of that year Tracy prayed this exactly... "God, if you want us to have children you need to drop them in our lap." That was right around the time James was born. I hadn't found out they prayed this until later.
So, in November I sent Bob a message on facebook of all places, just telling him my situation and that I had heard that they were looking into adoption. We met at Culver's for the first time and they met my son James. They were so excited, and I was too. After meeting there was a lot to think about and deal with. What if I did decide to do adoption? Would they take good care of James? Would they take Emma too? There were very few things that I was completely certain of when I decided to do adoption...James and Emma WERE going to stay together, and they deserved a mom AND a dad that loved them, and loved each other. So, the choice was made.
December 19, 2008 I signed temporary custody forms so that Bob and Tracy could have James in their home. My husband at the time (we were not together) refused to sign the papers, even though he knew it was what was best. So, Tracy, Bob, my mother, and I went to where he worked and had him paged so he could sign the papers. He had refused to return my calls, or return my emails, and he left me no choice. He hadn't seen James in nearly 3 months, so that day I brought James over for him to see him before he left. That day at his house we got into an argument over something that was probably really dumb now, and my x got violent with me, tried to pull me down a flight of stairs, and threw a mayonnaise jar at me... after filing domestic abuse, I KNEW that I had made the right choice in adoption. There was NO doubt in my mind.
(8 days before placing James for adoption )
I gave James to Bob and Tracy for Christmas on December 20, of 2008. It was his first one and I wanted them to be able to share that with them. They said he was the best Christmas present they ever got. :)
The days to follow were hard. I remember very vividly the day after James went to be with Bob and Tracy....I woke up in the morning thinking, "Why didn't James wake me up at all last night or this morning?"...Then I leaned over to pull him out of the crib...and it was all gone. I cried every single day in the shower for weeks after that...It was harder than I ever imagined.
A few weeks after that I went to visit him and when I walked in he didn't even recognize me. He wouldn't even smile at me, or come by me if I called his name...It broke my heart to know that I would NEVER again be his "mom" that he came to if he had a "boo boo" or if someone was being mean to him. That would be Tracy.
At this point, James was 9 months and I was 5 months pregnant with Emma (she was due on April 29...Bob's birthday).
Bob and Tracy kept up with me throughout my entire pregnancy with Emma, which was really good. I didn't have any issues the entire time I was pregnant.
(7 months 3d Emma)
I basically had the most perfect pregnancy that anyone can ask for. I gained a whopping 20 lbs, and could eat whatever I wanted whenever. Although she did wake me up at 3 am every single night. I can't complain too much. On April 17, 2009, I woke up, went to take a shower and "tada" there was my mucus plugg. I do have to say that it was one of the nastiest things I have ever seen...but it is all part of life I guess...At 11am I went into labor. We called Bob and Tracy, and let them know, we had called them earlier that morning to tell them I had lost my mucus plugg. They had an hour drive to get to where I was. They showed up, and all I saw was excitement in their faces. That night, after 9 hours of labor, and one giant push, she was born, and they named her Emma Rose.
They hadn't told anyone what they were going to name here, so it was exciting. We stayed in the hospital together, and the hospital actually gave them a room to stay in. Tracy had been taking supplements so that she could breast feed, so as night she stayed in their room, and during the day they all came into mine. On Sunday, I went home alone, and they went home with my daughter.
That day was probably one of the hardest. Me and my mom go into the car and just started crying. Neither of us knew what to say to the other because we were both hurting, and nothing was going to change that. The day I went home was terrible, not only because of the fact that I had just given Emma away, but me and my mom decided to go to Pizza Hut and pick up some pasta...We get all the way home, which is about 30 minutes away, and it's the wrong one. We started bawling over it, even though it wasn't a big deal, but our whole day had just fallen apart. Well, Pizza Hut came and delivered our right order after my mom gave them a guilt trip about how I had just given up my child and just wanted some stinking chicken alfredo.
We terminated our parental rights a couple weeks after Emma was born, and me and my x-husband filed for a divorce that same week. In June of 2009 his probation was revoked from the charge I had filed against him in December and he was put in jail for 45 days.
Our divorce was finalized on October 16, 2009, coincidentally exactly one year from the day I moved out.
Bob, Tracy, the kids and I keep in touch a lot, and it is a very open adoption. James is familiar with my family, and Bob and Tracy are comfortable with them calling my sisters "Aunt". I am just called Kayla, but James is catching on quickly to that and it makes me even more hopeful about my future relationship with him. I get to see them once or twice a month, which is awesome! I know that God orchestrated this whole situation with Bob and Tracy, before I even got pregnant, so that the relationship was there when I needed it.
This whole thing was never easy, and it still isn't. Seeing people with babies makes me cry, and seeing my own kids makes me cry. It is one of the hardest things I have ever, and probably will ever, have to deal with in my entire life. I know that there are people that hate me for the choice that I made, but they are the ones that wish they would have made the same choice themselves. But I also know that it was what was best for my kids. The unconditional love that they have now, from a mom AND a dad, is worth every second of pain that I have had to go through.
I have gone from being a married mother of 2, to a single adult. And I know that this will affect my life, and hopefully other peoples in a positive way. I just know that God has used me to bless Bob and Tracy's life, along with the lives of my two children. My dream is that this story will touch someone's life. Only one person, that is all I ask, and if it does, I would do it ten times over.
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Council of Cardinals continues planning for reorganization of Roman Curia
September 13, 2017
The Council of Cardinals held its 21st meeting at the Vatican this week, as it moves toward completion of a plan for the reorganization of the Roman Curia.
At a briefing on September 13, Greg Burke, the director of the Vatican press office, told reporters that the cardinals had discussed the role of the Congregation for Divine Worship (with a particular focus on the new motu proprio Magnum Principium), the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization, and the Congregation for Evangelization.
Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, who chairs the council, offered some thoughts on the statements that Pope Francis has made about the organization of the Roman Curia, during his meetings with Vatican officials and at consistories. He emphasized the Pope's interest in using the Curia as a means of evangelization, on decentralization of Church authority, and on the recruitment of a more diverse and professional staff.
The meetings of the Council took place on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, with morning and afternoon sessions. Ordinarily Pope Francis participates in all the working sessions, except on Wednesday when he holds his weekly audience. This week, however, he was absent from the Monday meetings, as he was returning from his visit to Colombia; he joined the cardinals only for their Tuesday-afternoon session.
Also absent from this week's meeting were Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, who was unable to make the trip from the Democratic Republic of Congo; and Cardinal George Pell, who is in Australia awaiting an opportunity to respond to criminal charges. Cardinal Pell—who, as head of the Secretariat for the Economy, had regularly briefed the Council on economic reforms—is unlikely to attend future sessions, since his health prevents him from long international flights.
Earlier this week, Bishop Marcelo Semeraro, the secretary to the Council, told Vatican Radio that the group is nearing completion of its main task: the preparation of a full plan for reorganization of the Roman Curia. The bishop said that he expected the group to deliver a plan to Pope Francis "within a few months."
The Council of Cardinals will meet again in December.
For all current news, visit our News home page.
Further information:
- Briefing of the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Greg Burke, on the 21st Meeting of the Council of Cardinals (Vatican press office)
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Australian Conservatives MLC Dennis Hood says South Australian families want to keep traditions such as Christmas Carols in schools showing how out of touch the Labor Party is with the people.
"The South Australian education department released a new policy regarding 'religious' activities in public schools which implied that schools must not promote such 'faith statements' like those found in Carols," Mr Hood said.
"SAASSO, the parent body governing councils and public education decided to test what people really thought about the issue and, in a survey, asked a straight forward question, 'Should Christmas Carols Be Banned in SA Public Schools?' – the overwhelming response was that more than 98% of people did not want to see Christmas Carols banned. In fact only 19 of the 1179 people surveyed voted for an end to Carols."
"As the written comments showed, a person does not have to be of the Christian faith to understand that these songs are part of our heritage and our tradition and that the messages they contain are positive and offer hope and a message of love"
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On Monday, Facebook Inc. unveiled the $200 Portal, the first-ever consumer hardware from the world's largest social network. The 10-inch gadget, along with a larger $350 version called Portal+, is a cross between a smart speaker, a video camera and a digital photo frame. But at a time when Chief Executive Zuckerberg's privacy and security decisions are a matter of congressional inquiry, how many people will trust one in their living room?
I had a chance to spend some time with the long-rumored Portal before its launch. As a camera, it offers a nice upgrade to the Skype or FaceTime video-chat experience that many of us have on a phone or computer. The Portal sits on a shelf or kitchen counter and lets your voice do the dialing. Call out, "Portal, call Geoffrey," and it'll ring my home Portal or the Facebook Messenger app on my phone.
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I see the value in tech that reduces the awkwardness of video chats. "We want to remove people from feeling that they are on a call — to the feeling of just being together," said Rafa Camargo, a Facebook vice president overseeing the product.
The Portal also has a few other tricks. You can share music over a chat for a long-distance dance party or spice up conversations with augmented-reality masks (which add bunny ears, funny glasses and other computer-generated effects to your face). There's also an augmented-reality storybook mode, which adds animated effects to your chat screen while you read a children's story.
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The Portal isn't a fully functional computer. It does less than the Echo Show or Google smart displays — there's no YouTube to make it double as a kitchen TV, for example. The Portal does have a few apps, including Facebook Watch for video and Spotify and Pandora for music.
But the elephant in the room is privacy. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that in the last year, 74% of Facebook members in the United States have taken a break, deleted the app from their phone or adjusted their privacy settings.
Facebook says it put a priority on privacy in designing the Portal, and it does appear to have learned some lessons. Facebook says it and your friends can't look into your house anytime they want: Video chats have to be explicitly accepted before the camera cuts on. (There's nothing like the "drop in" mode on the Echo Show, which lets approved friends remotely turn on your camera.)
The Portal's video chats are encrypted and not recorded, Facebook says, so the company can't hear or see what you're talking about or who is in the room. (Amazon keeps audio recordings of requests you make to Alexa through the Portal; Facebook does not.) There are no ads on the Portal — at least for now.
The Portal also has a button on the top that cuts off its microphone and camera. And there's a plastic privacy shield you can keep over the camera, though it looks like an afterthought.
Facebook is hardly alone in pushing the boundaries of privacy in our homes. Amazon's Echo speakers got millions of people comfortable with the idea of living with always-on microphones. Cameras are Silicon Valley's next frontier, and it's trying to persuade us to install them as video-chat devices and security systems.
But the Portal, reportedly delayed from an earlier launch by the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, will pay an extra price for Facebook's years of playing fast and loose with our privacy. I couldn't shake the feeling that Facebook eventually wanted to run its facial-recognition tech on my chats, or peer into my living room to see what products I buy in order to target future ads.
Facebook execs say that's not their intent. "We were very focused on building in privacy from the ground up," Camargo said. "Hopefully our values shine through."
The Portal is available for preorder online and will arrive in stores in November.