Join the Foothills Methodist Church, 17 Fremont St.
in Gloversville on Sunday, October 30, at 3:00 p.m. in the church
sanctuary for an exciting Halloween organ recital featuring a
smorgasbord of classics, favorites and surprises. Malcolm Kogut will
perform pieces such as the vivid and bristling with energy Dubois
Toccata and the ubiquitous Toccata in D Minor by J. S. Bach. Other
music will include Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," Boellmann's famous suite
Toccata, and "In the Garden." The organ recital is free and open to
the public.
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Halloween Organ Recital
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One thing Malcolm Kogut loves about living in New England is the endless number of mountain trails there is to explore. Malcolm loves challenging himself and friends to explore a new trail together and he enjoys both the defiance of and going with gravity. His favorite hikes over the years have been St. Regis near Saranac Lake, Mt. Baker in Washington state and Ice Caves Mountain in Ellenville, NY. Hiking is one of the best ways to get fit and explore nature at the same time. Malcolm's commitment to hiking is especially important to keeping up his musical pursuits for, hiking gives him something to play about. After all, nobody lies on their deathbed wishing they worked more.
One thing Malcolm Kogut loves about living in New England is the endless number of mountain trails there is to explore. Malcolm loves challenging himself and friends to explore a new trail together and he enjoys both the defiance of and going with gravity. His favorite hikes over the years have been St. Regis near Saranac Lake, Mt. Baker in Washington state and Ice Caves Mountain in Ellenville, NY. Hiking is one of the best ways to get fit and explore nature at the same time. Malcolm's commitment to hiking is especially important to keeping up his musical pursuits for, hiking gives him something to play about. After all, nobody lies on their deathbed wishing they worked more.
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Stop and Frisk App
Most everyone carries a phone with video
capabilities today so it is not surprising that when something happens
in the community, the footage we see on the news is from someone who
just happened to be passing by rather than a professional journalist.
Most all of the headline news video evidence against police wrongdoing over the past few years has been shot from bystanders who saw the encounter and pulled out their cellphones. These videos can not only help to get bad cops off the street but, it can also be used to protect the good ones who are often accused of negligence but later exonerated because of amateur video evidence.
The ACLU has developed an app called "Stop and Frisk App" or "Mobile Justice App" which was designed to serve this purpose, to both protect the rights of those suspected of malfeasance and the officer from those who foolishly resist their authority.
Here is how it works. You install the app on your phone and when you are pulled over or detained by the police, you trigger the app. It then sends out a message to nearby users where the police encounter is happening. Those community groups who monitor police activity can then go to the scene and record the interaction. The video is recorded live and also saved on the ACLU servers where it is inspected and preserved as evidence.
I have to repeat that this app is a great tool to both protect the police and protect the rights of those who are being detained by the police. It is also a message to Big Brother that Little Brother is watching, too.
Check it out at the ACLU website:
https://www.aclu.org/feature/aclu-apps-record-police-conduct
https://youtu.be/U1M-tLoiJ4s
Most all of the headline news video evidence against police wrongdoing over the past few years has been shot from bystanders who saw the encounter and pulled out their cellphones. These videos can not only help to get bad cops off the street but, it can also be used to protect the good ones who are often accused of negligence but later exonerated because of amateur video evidence.
The ACLU has developed an app called "Stop and Frisk App" or "Mobile Justice App" which was designed to serve this purpose, to both protect the rights of those suspected of malfeasance and the officer from those who foolishly resist their authority.
Here is how it works. You install the app on your phone and when you are pulled over or detained by the police, you trigger the app. It then sends out a message to nearby users where the police encounter is happening. Those community groups who monitor police activity can then go to the scene and record the interaction. The video is recorded live and also saved on the ACLU servers where it is inspected and preserved as evidence.
I have to repeat that this app is a great tool to both protect the police and protect the rights of those who are being detained by the police. It is also a message to Big Brother that Little Brother is watching, too.
Check it out at the ACLU website:
https://www.aclu.org/feature/aclu-apps-record-police-conduct
https://youtu.be/U1M-tLoiJ4s
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