The Curious Case of Brian Aitken

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Brian Aitken of New Jersey Proving that justice is not only blind, but sometimes quite dumb – and I don’t mean mute – the strange and tragic story of the plight of Brian Aitken is the epitome of the insanity going on in America.

Brian Aitken is a young man of 27 who moved to Colorado from New Jersey, where he was born and raised,  several years ago. There, he met a woman who was also from New Jersey, and the two married. Shortly thereafter, the couple had a son, but the pair broke up when the boy was just an infant, and mother and son moved back to New Jersey.

Wishing to be close to his son, Aitken later decided to move back as well, and began making the preparations. Those preparations included learning how to legally transport the three handguns he purchased in Colorado back to New Jersey, a state with very strict gun laws. Starting in late 2008, Aitken made the first trip back home to New Jersey, the first of several to bring his possessions to his parents’ home in Burlington County, until he could find his own apartment.

In December of 2008, Aitken and his friend Michael Torries – who had found an apartment together in Hoboken, NJ – made the final trip out to Colorado to retrieve the last of Aitken’s belongings, including the guns. Before they left, Aitken researched and printed out New Jersey and federal gun laws to ensure that he didn’t break any laws regarding transporting firearms across state lines. He also called the New Jersey State Police prior to leaving Colorado seeking their advice on how best to proceed. He wanted to make sure he didn’t run afoul of the law. He followed all directions to the letter. It didn’t help.

Brian Aitken and Son In January of 2009, Aitken drove to his parents’ house to get the rest of his belongings. He had been having difficulties with his ex-wife, who was refusing to let him see his son. He was obviously stressed about it, and his mother, Sue, noticed. A woman who works with children who have mental health problems, Sue Aitken has been trained to call police when someone appears distraught and may pose a threat to themselves, so when her son left, that’s what she did.

Concerned about her son after he left, Sue Aitken called 911, but thought better of it and hung up. Too late, the police were at her home a short time later. Sue told the police of her concerns, and the police called Brian, who was driving to his apartment in Hoboken with his possessions in his car. The police told him to return to his mother’s home, which he did, willingly complying once again with the instructions of law enforcement.

When he arrived, police determined that Brian was not a threat to himself or anyone else, but searched his car anyway. They found his guns, which were locked, unloaded, and stowed in the trunk, just as he was instructed for transport. Police arrested him for illegal possession of a firearm.

When Brian purchased the weapons in Colorado, he had to pass FBI and CBI background checks. He owned the guns legally, and transported them legally based upon the advice he sought from every law enforcement agency he could imagine he would need to avoid any trouble. Now he was facing trial in Burlington County, New Jersey.

The trouble really began when Brian drew Superior Court Judge James Morley, who was denied re-appointment by Governor Chris Christie after his inauguration. More on that later. A key element in Brian Aitken’s defense was his right to transport legally purchased firearms between residences in New Jersey, which is precisely what he was doing.

Superior Court Judge James Morley Police deposed that their search of Aitken’s vehicle revealed many of his other belongings, which he was in the process of bringing to his new apartment in Hoboken. Judge Morley curiously forbade the jury from hearing that testimony in court. The jury expressed a clear level of discomfort in the prospect of convicting Aitken by asking the judge – on three separate occasions –  about exceptions to the law regarding the transportation of firearms. The exemptions are primarily for off-duty officers and security personnel, but also extend to hunters and those transferring weapons between residences. Morley ignored all three requests.

Judge Morley defended his decision to deny the jury of such testimony, declaring that it “wasn’t relevant”. In a subsequent telephone interview, Morley said:

“There was no evidence that Mr. Aitken was moving. He was trying to argue that the law should give him this broad window extending over several weeks to justify driving around with guns in his car. There was also some evidence that Mr. Aitken wasn’t moving at all when he was arrested, but had stored the guns in his car because his roommate was throwing a party, and he didn’t want the guns in the apartment while guests were there drinking.”

Even if that were true, all it could possibly demonstrate is yet another, deeper level of responsibility on Brian Aitken’s part, to have enough sense to remove even unloaded firearms from an apartment full of drunken revelers. No matter to the state of New Jersey, or Judge Morley, whose manipulations forced the jury to convict.

So, the man who did everything he could to stay within the boundaries of the law is now in prison, and as a result of his incarceration, has also lost all parental rights to the son he so desperately wished to be near. In August of 2010, Brian was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison for a “crime” he tried valiantly not to commit, and by a judge who manipulated the trial to achieve a desired outcome. That judge, as noted earlier, was denied tenure by the state of New Jersey’s new governor for a few previous questionable decisions and their related opinions.

Judge Morley once opined after a case of a 45-year-old teacher’s aide, accused of having sexual relations with a 16-year-old student, that said aide was not a “sexual predator”. In another case, involving a former Moorestown officer charged with four counts of animal cruelty for having oral sex with cow calves, Morley ruled that there was no evidence of animal cruelty. Then the man, Robert Melia, was arrested for alleged sexual assaults of three girls, and a search of his computer revealed videos of him “allegedly” receiving oral sex from the cows. Now Melia is awaiting trial on 48 other counts.

And Brian Aitken is in prison.

If you’d like to help Brian, visit this site:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Brian-Aitken/159490174062865

Online Backup & Catastrophe Protection in the Cloud

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Cloud computing is the solution to a lot of nagging problems for businesses and groups of all sizes. How can we share access? How do we secure our work? Disaster recovery plan? Where are we after a fire or flood? How much do all the statutes and compliance regulations that make us hold on to mountains of files cost? Information is so critical and comes from so many places. How fast can we get it? Who is going to manage all this?

Moving your content to secure cloud storage solves so many issues. Your work is removed from local disaster. No need to worry about who took the backup tape home (and does it even work!). The office is closed or you’re on vacation. No problem at all. Your cloud storage is open 24/7 to any connection (validated of course). This is the right move but is it enough? If you wasted time searching and hunting through drives and servers, and emails, through stacks and piles and filing cabinets, did you just move the problem further away?

Filocity.com is the missing piece to the puzzle. Speed, security, access, sharing – all of the expected benefits – but now add in effortless organization and a way to maintain it. Apply the common sense of your business as you work and Filocity.com quietly guides your files to the places where everyone expects to find them. The newest team member is thinking your way on day 1. How about some real power? How often have you wanted copies of documents in multiple places? A simple correspondence has a “To” and a “From” and probably a “Subject”. A patient has a doctor. A contract has two parties. A property has a buyer and a seller, a lender, and attorneys. A school has a classroom with teachers and students. Filocity.com makes as many virtual copies of your documents as you need and matches them to all the dimensions you work and think in! Don’t isolate a file in one folder in some directory labyrinth with names to remember drilling down and back up until you find it. Put that file in all the places you might want it – and have everyone do the same! No more thumbing and digging and sending requests to locate files and documents. Pull all that you need on any subject from all your departments with a smart search. Pull multiple years or focus on one day – or a month or a quarter. Pull all of your contracts, or leases or patients, or maybe only those at the Main Street branch. Support your decision or prep for an audit in moments – get home for dinner.

Filocity.com understands files. Not just where to put them for instant retrieval but how to create them and use them together. Filocity’s Template Creator is tightly integrated with your contacts – in turn, tightly integrated with your files. Produce one document or sets of them merged with all the contacts involved. Even upload pdf forms and fill them in. Send work out for completion or signing. Filocity.com knows exactly where they go when they come back via snail mail or email. File it now – scan it later.

Filocity.com understands files. You create them, you store them, but most importantly you use them. Unless you are writing a never to be published autobiography you share your files and even collaborate on content. Filocity.com makes sharing and access control easy – files or folders or even file drawers! User by user, you set permissions, notifications and even expirations. Activity is logged with built in reports. Collect everyone’s comments in timelines and threads. Now focus on work. Anything that goes together can be put in a Project; deals, events, launches, tournaments, cases, matters, sales, whatever. Track progress with milestones. Break work into tasks and assign them with checklists and reminders. Even complex jobs with committees and members are tracked in your Calendar views.  

If you’re a professional, data loss won’t lessen your talents but it surely will change how your business is valued and how you are viewed as a professional. If your time is worth money how should you spend it? How much do you make at the filing cabinet or scanning machine? If your focus is finding not searching, producing not programming, then Filocity.com is for you.

Bariatric Support Groups

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Bariatric surgery support groups are beneficial in the total process of undergoing bariatric surgery from pre-op to post-operative. Many surgeons are now making bariatric support groups’ part of their prerequisite in order to even have the surgery.

Pre operative bariatric surgery support groups offer a lot to an individual considering under going such risks. They give the interested party and often times their loved ones and opportunity to ask questions they may not necessarily ask of their surgeon. Loved ones may have concerns about the risks involved and patient’s expectations may not always be clear. It also allows them to hear questions of others that are also considering undergoing bariatric surgery that they may have not thought to ask otherwise.

In preoperative bariatric support groups they discuss everything from the nutritional aspects , life style changes, exercises, to follow up plastic surgeries often needed and the emotional aspect of it all.

They often have guest speakers that educate interested pre operative patients on all aspects of the surgery. Bariatric surgery does not just affect the patient; it can affect the whole family. By bringing your loved ones to the support meetings, they also will have a better understanding of what to expect and ways of dealing with the new changes, not only in lifestyle but in physical appearance as well. Bariatric support groups can help you start a stronger support system in your own home. For those who do not have anyone in their home, it offers those individuals an outside network to help them through the process.

Postoperative bariatric support groups can be the best thing patients can do for themselves.

A postoperative bariatric support group connects them with others who have undergone bariatric surgery that understand their issues. There are people from all after stages of bariatric surgery there to support a new comer and give the newcomer the added support they may need to stop negative lifestyle habits that can play havoc on their health. It gives a visual and oral time line of what they can expect. Sometimes it is just in the knowing that can be comforting. All medical professional agree that recovery and dedication required to follow lifestyle changes after a bariatric surgery are more successful if patients have access to personal help through support groups or counseling. Post operative support groups can help your with nutritional and exercise counseling as well as emotional support. It is highly suggested not to have bariatric surgery with a surgeon where there is no support group readily available to you.

The Internet has made it possible for patients both pre and postoperative to get support when their local support groups are not available. It is still recommended to seek a out off line group, however an Internet based support group can help you through tough times when you may feel like resorting back to binging and no one else is available.

Affordable Contractor Painters In Florida

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If you have searched high and low through the many contractor painters in Florida and still have yet to find one that you feel confident in, perhaps you have not been searching in the right way for the right professional. You need to find someone who has the skill, experience and persistence to get the job done right, down to every little detail. Anyone can paint, but it takes a true professional of the trade to do an incredible job. Everything from your first phone call to them through to when they leave your home for the last time should be as pleasant and as stress free as possible.

Good painters in Florida are going to clean up as they go along, and will always try to keep inconveniences to you and your family down to a minimum. They will understand that their presence is a bit of a nuisance and will try to limit that. Make sure that when you are considering different professionals that you find out what their exact plan of action is with your property, including the preparation and clean up they are planning on doing for you as part of the job.

Painters in Florida who are true professionals need to start by covering or moving everything that needs to be protected from the paint, and the surfaces that are to be painted should be prepared or repaired. This includes things like having cracks repaired, stains sealed, holes filled and the surface pressure washed or cleaned. If it is necessary, the best painters are going to prime the surface and use a high quality paint to make sure the finish is beautiful and even. Every professional should always clean up, restoring moved items back to their positions and removing any and all traces that suggest they were ever even there. Here is the clincher that separates the best painters in Florida from everyone else: The best do not rest until their customer is completely happy and satisfied.

Customer care is the most important quality that every good professional should be concerned with, regardless of industry. Serious painters in Florida should always be happy to offer you free estimates for the work you need done. Usually you should be able to call a business and they should provide you with a pretty accurate free written estimate within about 24 hours. This leads to another important point: your budget. Not only should the best painters be affordable, but they need to stick fairly close to the estimate, consult you if they realize the cost will be more than what was quoted, and they should never, ever sacrifice quality to do it. Finally, the best professional painters in Florida are going to value your time, and they need to complete jobs quickly and on time.

Cheng delong of passenger traffic monitoring system can slip accident prevention

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According to reports Yanzhao Metropolis Daily, January 19 9 am, Longhua territory in a road accident, resulting in six passengers died on the spot, while nine passengers were sent to hospital for treatment. Traffic police prima facie cause of the accident for the snow after the ice road, rollover when the driver brakes.

Accident site in ruins

14 am yesterday and quickly rushed to the scene. Scene of the accident at Octopus Township in Baiyun Road, Longhua Hanguo Gong Shan village head. Scene of the accident is Hanguo Gong Road and the intersection of a rural dirt road, highway and dirt road half a meter of how much ground the formation of small Hom, Hom under the snow piled snow on a clear but not prescribe rules of tire marks. See also the scene littered with fallen fruit from the car and cabbage and other things, the windshield of the passenger train also fell to the scene.

Slippery snow brake roll

According to nearby villagers, the accident occurred around 9:14.

Then heard “bang” of a loud noise, came out and found a passenger bus rollover to the next street a small Hom. Some villagers see a passenger crushed in the car and got it from home to car window frame hacksaw saw off the injured passengers rescued from the car. To 9:40 or so, 120 emergency personnel, Fire Personnel and traffic police have rushed to the scene and immediately launched a rescue.

Villagers say, a total of 2 120 emergency vehicles rushed to the hospital to the car passengers. The incident caused a total of 6 people were killed. Villagers said the dead also, but the oldest 30 years old, of which there are only seven-year-old, a little girl and a high school student.

As of 11:30, basic end-site disposal.

According to villagers, the intersection near a number of traffic accidents have occurred, largely due to road vehicles in the Han Guogong faster result.

Then came to the county the county hospital. According to the hospital for observation of the surname passenger briefing, when the drive to Baiyun mountain village head, living in the camp of a child by Octopus car off the site, requested off, the driver brakes suddenly when normal driving, as ice road , speed faster, resulting in vehicle rollover from the road to Canton next. In the name of passengers said the rollover occurred, people pushed to the side of a luggage rack, causing the death of personnel squeeze.

Intelligent Transportation The intelligent control system features:

Urban traffic vehicles must be able to detect, identify, track and Alarm Intelligent functions, that have intelligent traffic system. This intelligent transportation systems must have the following components:

Intelligent Transportation System Vehicle Detection Can identify the vehicle shape, color, type, speed, traffic flow, road share etc, and feedback to the monitoring and management center. Mainly used in highways, ring roads and urban transport corridors Monitoring Traffic conditions. And identify whether there is illegal parking, whether there is fault vehicles. Compared with the general highway

highway, with good linear design Standard High, heavy traffic, traffic rate and so on, in the traffic volume, bad weather circumstances, easy traffic accidents and traffic congestion, some very large highway traffic flow are deployed throughout the monitoring system. Highway monitoring system consists of full monitoring, toll station monitoring, service area for the highway system monitoring and support services for power monitoring. Monitoring system which charges the charging station is mainly lane toll plaza, toll booths situation, the type of vehicles through the toll lane, toll operations and fees during the process of unexpected events and special events to observe and record effective supervision. The monitoring system can be implemented to run traffic and traffic monitoring, meteorological monitoring of key points, key sections of the timely implementation of traffic control, timely detection of anomalies and to take emergency measures, such as for speeding violation rows, effectively ensure the Highway speed, Security And economical operation and management.