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"When Paster Charles Taze Russel the founder of the Witnesses died in 1916 he was buried with a marker a few feet away by his tomb sculptured as a large pyramid five to six feet high, with the Mason logo embossed on it and remains to this day for all to see. Although putting up a smoke screen by writing articles in the Watchtower magazine that he was the editor of, against the Masons, evidence shows without a doubt he was greatly influenced by them , as well as into Egyptology as can be seen by the design and presentation of his books and the information used. If you do not believe me then check it out. Or how about this one: "Why was Charles Taze Russel buried in the Masonic Cemetery, under a pyramid with Templar inscriptions?" Source




  • Pyramidology. Following views first taught by Christian writers such as John Taylor, Charles Piazzi Smyth and Joseph Seiss, he believed the Great Pyramid of Giza was built by the Hebrews (associated to the Hyksos) under God’s direction, but to be understood only in our day. He adopted and used Seiss's phrase referring to it as "the Bible in stone". He believed that certain biblical texts, including Isaiah 19:19–20 and others, prophesied a future understanding of the Great Pyramid and adopted the view that the various ascending and descending passages represented the fall of man, the provision of the Mosaic Law, the death of Christ, the exultation of the saints in heaven, etc. Calculations were made using the pattern of an inch per year. Dates such as 1874, 1914, and 1948 were purported to have been found through the study of this monument.[43]
And this Source website states:

The newspaper and magazine industry has always been a cutthroat business – even in the world of Jehovah’s Witness publications. Charles Taze Russell began what is now known as The Watchtower publication in 1879 for use in the door-to-door ministry by the Jehovah’s Witnesses. They were unchallenged until 1889 when a new, radical door-to-door publication entered the marketplace.

A young journalist named David McStevens founded “The Loincloth: Exposing Christianity” in 1889 and immediately threatened the Watchtower’s door-to-door dominance. Within the first year, Watchtower’s circulation dipped down by 35 percent. Readership for the Loincloth increased even more when they began to give away tickets for the 144,000 available seats in heaven with crossword puzzle contests.

McStevens and Russell became embroiled in a heated battle; McStevens claimed Russell was buying some of the tickets to heaven and not coming by them the honest way – earning them or winning them. Russell did not deny the charges and then scalped 100 heaven seating tickets for a total of $2.3 million dollars.

With a little extra cash on hand, Russell increased the production and dissemination of his Watchtower literature. By 1910 McStevens had all but disappeared from the big picture. According to Witness Micah Onas’s annual list in 1911, the Fortunate 144,000, David McStevens had slipped in the rankings all the way from #58 to #143, 820 - putting his eternal existence in jeopardy. Charles Russell held steady at #3 behind Jesus and Booker T. Washington. Source



When a Jehovah's Witness comes to your door, answer it!
But don't let them in your house!
2 John 1:10-11, If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him. 11Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work.

Its always interesting when JW's come knocking with their current edition of the Watchtower and Awake magazine. They like to throw a softball article at unsuspecting home dweller.

The insidious wolf in sheeps clothing slowly maneuvers to control the flow of the conversation to their presentation and the goal of selling literature (they refer to placing literature) and logging hours of field service for their monthly time report.
The ultimate goal is to find a warm house to secure a bible study every week, that gets them off the street corner and off the frozen front porches during the winter. To proselytize in a 1 to 1 study of their version of bible truth.

The overall objective? To witness to the world about their organization which they claim is the only way to gain the salvation of God. They do not lead to Christ Jesus.

And to recruit more Watchtower slaves to the cause. Without work they have no salvation. You see one cannot be a JW without the door to door ministry.

The truth is they are not connected to God thru Christ, they have an Organization to follow rather then following Jesus Christ. Salvation is NOT available with out works for JW's.

For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
http://bible.cc/1_timothy/2-5.htm

They pay lip service to this bible verse, but do not believe it...

Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:
http://bible.cc/ephesians/2-8.htm


Over the last 46 years I have studied every part of the beliefs of JW's,
I was brainwashed and baptised in 1964 at the age of 10.
I was trapped in this cult for 30 years and I finally cut the ties it took me until 1995, powerful guilt/fear mind contolling sect/cult.

I started having doubts back in the early 1980's. The threat that was held over my head was that I would be disfellowshipped if I read any information that was contrary the the written books and magazines and beliefs of WTB+TS

Reading contrary material on the internet is considered apostate and punishable by disfellowshiping and shunning.

Fortunately my eyes begun to be open when I read the book published by Raymond Franz .

Raymond Victor Franz (May 8, 1922 – June 2, 2010) was a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses from 20 October 1971 until 22 May 1980,[1][2] and served at the organization's world headquarters for fifteen years, from 1965 until 1980. Franz claimed the request for his resignation and his subsequent disfellowshipping resulted from allegations of his apostasy from the faith.[3] Franz wrote two books that related his personal experiences with the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and his views on Jehovah's Witnesses teachings.

Franz wrote two books—Crisis of Conscience (1983) and In Search of Christian Freedom (1991)—presenting detailed accounts of his experiences as a Jehovah's Witness, a Governing Body member, and his experiences throughout various levels of the organization

The Internet has opened the door to mounds of information on the checkered past of the Presidents of the International Bible Students, Watchtower Bible+Track Society and since 1931 called Jehovah's Witnesesses . The majority of JW's will not want to discuss the failed prophesyies of their founder and the President (leaders) that followed CT Russell.

Over the last 20 years I have come to the conclusion that they are a man made sect with no connection to the truth. "The Truth" as they refer to their cult religion, bears no resemblance to the Good News of Jesus Christ.



Today 2 men came knocking witholding the Truth and hiding the 135 year history about the Truth!


The internet is filled with information that was not available to researchers prior to the 1996 world wide web being opened to the world.


For example:

In the 1 November 1995 Watchtower magazine, the Jehovah's Witnesses made a major doctrinal change concerning the "Generation of 1914." To better understand the significance of this change it is crucial to understand the importance they place on the year 1914 and how their beliefs concerning that year have radically changed throughout their history.
he denighed that 1975 was a a failed prophesy of the Jehovah's Witnesses, and he degned that a change in the Generation 1914 date. Source

For example:

In the Awake! magazine of November 8the 1995 the masthead of the magazine was significantly changed. This single change is perhaps the most significant and obvious. They have now totally rejected the original 1914 generation doctrine. Of course, most witnesses on the street, are not even aware of this yet because they are forbidden to read "apostate" material. What is apostate about this material? Did it not reveal truth to YOU??? Had you noticed the masthead change below in the Awake magazine? Source



This time I again ...I heard the same twisted lies from the elder slave that claimed 45-50 years in the Cult. They do NOT want the world where they preach to know the truth about Jehovah's Winessess.

So with the Watchtower slaves on my doorstep Saturday morning,
I decided to take control of the the direction of the conversation.
and I told them I didn't want their magazines, but I did have some questions...

Jehovah's witnesses never listen...but they love to talk, so by framing my inquiry as noted above, my questions would allow me to direct the conversation to the holes in their religious beliefs and the lies in their time table and bible chronology which is the crux of their message at the deeper levels of brainwashing. hence I can bring to the Knockers attention , the huge mounds of information, facts , inconsistencies false prophesy as well as outright bold face lies .


This preacher told me that NO WTBS ARTICLE HAD EVER CLAIMED that 1914 generation was going to see the end of the world. And the failed prophesy of 1975 was blamed on the over enthusiasm of the flock of Jw's and that the writers and Governing bidy of JW's NEVER made those claims.

The Big Lie

The Big Lie was Hitlers masterpiece... The Big Lie so too with the Witnesses, who have re-wriiten, buried their history because they have run out of time , ALL their significant time prophecy's have failed.

They are governed NOT by the Holy Spirit , I suspect they are controlled by a different spirit one that is determined to mislead the entire inhabitant earth.

Revelation 12:6-12

12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
12:8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.


So I told the 2 men that came to my door that I wondered how many times the Holy Spirit could be wrong?

The holy spirit was wrong when picking CT Russell and his 2 dates 1874 and 1914.

And the holy spirit was wrong when Rutherford took over the WTB+TS and he picked 1925 as the date when the end would come.

Then when Frederick Franz used the chronology based on CT Russells dates with his copycat chronology from The 7th Day Adventists, Millerites, Barbour , this date also failed.

Every President from CT Russell to the present day has changed the believes as their prophecy's fail. The web has captured 135 years of JW's written history on the Internet.

Today I challenged them on CT Russell claim about 1914 being the date when they would go to heaven, when the claim was made to ALL Jw's that the generation people that were of an age of understanding in 1914 would see the end conclusion of the system of things. These people are now those people would be 96 years of age. and Jw's were taught that the Remnant of Christs brothers on the earth would never die and be transformed in the twinkling of an eye and go to heaven before Armageddon.

"Likewise today, most of the generation of 1914 has passed away. However, there are still millions on earth who were born in that year or prior to it." (Watchtower April 8, 1988 p14) Another example of the "Generation" doctrine change

"When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him" (Deuteronomy 18:22).

Each President picked wrong dates...this is JR Rutherfords Book where he stated the year 1925 would be the critical date...later calling himself an ass for picking a date that came and went.

Millions Now Living Will Never Die! By J. F. Rutherford






  1. M. James Penton - 2004 - 412 pages - Preview
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Leo- Saturday, December 11, 2010

Leo- Saturday, December 11, 2010

It would be nice to get an instant lottery win, but a more realistic option and one that would really turn things around is a golden opportunity. And these come your way on a daily basis. Look up and expect something wonderful. One day in the not too distant future, you will look back to now and realize that it was a lucky turning point in your life.

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Sniff of death’ taints iconic beer brands

It’s enough to make a brewery executive cry in his beer.

For more than two decades, Molson Canadian and Labatt Blue duked it out for the title of Canada’s best-selling beer. Now, they’re not within sipping distance of top spot.

While there’s sometimes an upward bump in sales, the bottles that once dominated every beer fridge in the land, and taps behind saloons and pubs across the country, are disappearing bit by bit.

“There’s absolutely the sniff of death about Blue and Canadian,” said York University marketing professor Alan Middleton. “They’re being allowed to slowly starve to death.”

Both brands are suffering from a lack of advertising and a crowded beer market filled with far more choices than drinkers had in the big brews’ heyday, Middleton said.

Today, Canadian and Blue are in third and fourth spot respectively, and both have single-digit shares of the national market.

They’re being pushed out of the picture by discount beer, the marketing clout of big U.S. brands, and even, some observers say, a deliberate strategy by Molson and Labatt. The companies, however, say they’re still committed to the brands.

The decline has been as swift as it has been deep. In 2000, Blue and Canadian held an estimated 10-11 and 11-12 per cent of the national market, respectively, according to a former senior beer industry marketing executive. Blue’s market share peaked at around 16 per cent in the late 1980s after the Calgary Olympics and the introduction of twist-off caps, while Canadian peaked at around 15 per cent in the early ‘90s.

Today, those figures have dropped to roughly 4-5 and 7-8 per cent, respectively. In comparison, Budweiser and Coors Light each has 13 to 14 per cent of the national market, said the executive.

Breweries keep their market share numbers close to their vest, but industry observers and insiders say there is no question that the former beer behemoths are fading away.

Starting in January, Prime Restaurants, whose properties include East Side Mario’s, Bier Markt and Casey’s, will start delisting draft Blue at many of its 100-plus restaurants. Blue’s corporate siblings, Stella Artois and Budweiser, will still be on offer.

Marketing experts and former beer industry executives are surprised by the speed of the former giants’ decline. Competition from imports and craft beers at the high end of the market, and discount brews at the lower end, have squeezed Canadian and Blue, according to David Kincaid, president of Level5, a marketing and brand consulting company.

“It does surprise me just how much two brands that were so dominant have suffered,” said Kincaid.

Molson and Labatt are now part of larger international companies, and that’s part of the problem, said Kincaid. In both cases — Molson-Coors and AB InBev, respectively — the companies seem determined to focus on a few big international sellers, rather than any Canadian brand. In the case of Molson-Coors, it’s Coors Light. With AB InBev, it’s Budweiser, Bud Light and Stella.

What’s especially puzzling, said Kincaid, is that Labatt has seemingly given up on what used to be one of its most profitable products. A regular-priced, mass-appeal beer was a guaranteed boost to the company’s bottom line, said Kincaid, who left Labatt’s marketing department in 1999.

“I’m scratching my head as to why a company that had something with the margin structure that Blue had let it slide so precipitously,” said Kincaid. “Both brands had such strong consumer equity and very solid margins.”

When a company in any industry, from widget-making to cars to brewing, becomes part of a larger corporate family, the natural inclination is to pare down the number of brands they sell, said Middleton. In some cases, they can go too far.

“Companies try to strike a judicious balance between cutting and marketing local brands, which they can use to fill in gaps which could otherwise be filled by competitors. What the beer companies have done, stupidly, is grab the first part of that equation without taking into account the second part,” he said.

“I’d argue that those two brands have been mismanaged. Walking away from those brands so totally is questionable,” Middleton added.

While the decline for Blue began a while ago, Middleton believes it has been worse since 2004, when Labatt’s then-Belgian owner, Interbrew, was purchased by Brazil’s Ambev. In 2008, the combined company bought American brewing giant Anheuser-Busch, creating a global juggernaut.

“They’ve recognized how inefficient and costly their global operations were, and they’ve really done a lot of cutting,” said Middleton.

Labatt vice-president of marketing Richard Musson disputes the notion that the decline in Blue and Canadian sales is because of AB InBev or Coors. Budweiser, he noted, has been brewed in Canada by Labatt since 1980.

“Budweiser been built over 20 to 30 years. . . Blue and Canadian have been declining for a lot longer than foreign ownership has been in place,” said Musson.

While acknowledging that there has been a slide, Canadian’s brand director, David Bigioni, said things have picked up somewhat this year.

A marketing and advertising push that began shortly before the Olympics helped lead to a boost in sales, said Bigioni. He believes it’s not just a one-time special-event boost, however.

“We’ve experienced seven months of consecutive growth, so it’s not just an Olympic moment, but more of a springboard to re-engage with our drinkers,” said Bigioni, who would not say exactly what the increase had been.

The “Made from Canada” campaign includes sweeping images of barley fields, rivers and maple leaves. It’s helped give the brand more of a focus both in advertising and internally at Molson-Coors, said Bigioni.

Musson insists, meanwhile, that Labatt and AB InBev are still committed to Blue.

“Blue is still a very big volume seller for us. It’s absolutely a priority for us,” says Musson.

Much of that volume, however, is only there because the price of 24 Blue was slashed to $29.95, effectively making it a discount brand, says Kincaid.

For beer author and long-time industry watcher Stephen Beaumont, the first sign that Labatt was not interested in pushing its long-time champion was in 2006, when he noticed Blue was no longer being sold at the Rogers Centre. Its corporate siblings, Stella and Budweiser, were still hanging around.

“When they stopped selling Blue at the stadium, that to me was a sign that Labatt had given up on the brand,” said Beaumont.

Still, while a slide in Canada’s beer megabrands might have wounded a patriotic drinker’s pride a generation ago, that’s probably not the case now, Beaumont adds.

“I think the idea of Canadian beer patriotism is pretty much dead. If it weren’t, they wouldn’t be having so much success with Budweiser and Coors Light. People who want to drink a Canadian beer are more likely to be drinking a craft beer these days than something from one of the big brewers.”

The scope of things today...

The scope of things today...

Leo- Friday, December 10, 2010

Assuming that something which went wrong is all your fault is not the right attitude to adopt. Mistakes are stepping stones to wisdom. What happened, although it caused disappointment, was a necessary prelude to a wonderful change that is about to take place. Look at all you have achieved and be proud of it.

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A Big Week For This Leo

A Big Week For This Leo

Leo- Sunday, December 5, 2010

An adjustment needs to be made now that circumstances have changed. You’re settling into a new environment with which you are not very familiar. Looking back and thinking about how you miss the past won’t do you one iota of good. Trust your abilities and look forward optimistically to where this change is taking you.



The Call Her The Black Widow

The Call Her The Black Widow
INDEPTH: CRIME
Melissa Friedrich: Internet Black Widow


Friedrich
They call her the Black Widow. For Melissa Friedrich, it's another name on a long list that includes killer.

Melissa made headlines in Canada in 1991 when she was arrested and charged with murdering husband Gordon Stewart in Nova Scotia.

Known as Melissa Stewart at the time, she fed her husband a lethal dose of liquor, pills and rubbing alcohol. Then she ran him over with her car on a deserted road near the Halifax International Airport.

She was convicted the next year of the lesser charge of manslaughter, claiming her husband was an abusive alcoholic. The case propelled her into the spotlight as a spokesperson for victims of domestic violence.

In an interview in a 1994 documentary about abused women, Melissa said: "I put the car in gear and I didn't realize, but I put it in reverse instead of forward and I backed the car over him."

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Friedrich in 1994
But Kate Reeves, Gordon Stewart's sister, never believed Melissa's claim. "Obviously she's capable of anything, in my opinion," Reeves said.

Now Melissa Friedrich has ended up back in a jail cell, this time in Florida. She was arrested on Jan. 6, 2005, and charged with exploiting an elderly Florida man she met through an online dating service and bilking him of nearly $20,000 US.

"Just choose your friends carefully," Alex Strategos, 73, told reporters in January after leaving a hospital.

Friedrich still had the licence plates from her home province of Prince Edward Island on her car when she moved in with Strategos in Pinellas Park, 32 kilometres southwest of Tampa, Fla., last fall.

Neighbours say she introduced herself as one of Strategos' relatives from Canada. She told another neighbour that she was his wife.

Soon Strategos started getting sick. He was taken to hospital, where neighbours say they saw Melissa make him sign legal documents.

"He signed it with a frown on his face. He just looked so miserable that day and I had never seen him look like that," said neighbour Dottie Gibbons.

Police investigated allegations she poisoned Strategos but they now say they will not be filing a charge of attempted murder because Strategos' medical records don't show he was poisoned. They did pursue charges of the relatively new crime of targeting seniors for theft.

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Robert and Melissa Friedrich
The case caught the attention of Dennis Friedrich, the son of Melissa's last husband, Robert Friedrich, who suspected she had a hand in the 83-year-old's death in 2002.

Robert Friedrich died at home about 14 months after meeting Melissa. They had hooked up through a website and were married at a wedding chapel in Dartmouth, N.S., three days after meeting in person.

To Dennis Friedrich, Melissa is a "black widow," even though she was never charged in his father's death. By the time Robert Friedrich died, she had become the sole beneficiary of his estate.

Friedrich's sons took Melissa to court and eventually won back all but $15,000 of the $100,000 she got after his death.

Investigators in Florida discovered a wide web of stories as they looked for answers. Melissa had 13 aliases, several different birth dates, and at least two social insurance numbers.

On March 14, 2005, she was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to seven charges, including grand theft from a senior and forgery. In total she stole $18,000 US from Strategos.

But if she ever returns to Canada she may face even more charges. In Nova Scotia, RCMP are investigating allegations she defrauded the federal government between 1997 and 2003 by using two names, Melissa Shepard and Melissa Stewart, to get an extra $30,000 in old-age security payments.

Timeline

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--END IMAGE TABLE--> May 16, 1938:
Melissa Russell is born in Burnt Church, N.B.

1955:
At the age of 17, she meets Russell Shephard from Montague, P.E.I. They marry and have two children. Shephard and a daughter still live in Montague, while a son lives in Pictou County, N.S.

1977:
Melissa has her first major scrape with the law, according to her criminal record. She's sentenced to 11 months in a P.E.I. jail for forgery. Between 1977 and 1991 she spends more than five years behind bars for more than 30 separate fraud convictions.

April 1990:
Melissa marries Gordon Russell Stewart, a widower retired from the armed forces, in Las Vegas, then later in Vancouver once her divorce is final. Stewart, who has saved about $50,000 and is getting a monthly pension of about $800, soon notices his money disappearing. At the same time, Melissa starts accusing him of violence. Various stay-away orders are put in place, but both parties break them.

April 27, 1991:
Soon after the couple move to Dartmouth, N.S., Gordon Stewart is dead. Melissa drugs him and runs him over with her car at Goffs, near Halifax International Airport. She's arrested and charged with first-degree murder, but the charge is later reduced to second-degree murder. She tells police her husband raped her and she accidentally ran over him while trying to escape.

May 1992:
Melissa is convicted of manslaughter, a lesser charge, and is sentenced to six years in jail. The Crown's evidence included two eyewitnesses who reported seeing Melissa drive over her husband and back up over him. She didn't report it to police until three hours after, and by then she had changed her clothes. Melissa did not take the stand during her trial.

1994:
Melissa is featured in the National Film Board documentary Why Women Kill, about battered woman syndrome. She receives a grant from the Ontario government to set up a hotline for abused women. Later, Melissa is paroled after serving two years of her sentence at Kingston Penitentiary.

October 2001:
Melissa meets Robert Edmund Friedrich from Bradenton, Fla., through an online dating site. She travels from Nova Scotia to see him, and they're engaged within three days. They marry at the Wedding Chapel in Dartmouth, N.S., later marrying again in Florida.

Dec. 16, 2002:
Friedrich, 84, dies and his body is cremated. All of his assets had been signed over to Melissa. Friedrich's sons get suspicious and file a complaint with the sheriff's department alleging she killed their father by overdosing him with prescription medications. The sons go to court and win back all but $15,000 of the $100,000 Melissa got in insurance money. She is not charged with any crime.

October 2004:
After moving back to P.E.I., Melissa meets Alexander Strategos, 73, through an online dating service. She shows up unannounced at his home in Pinellas Park, Fla., and moves in. Strategos begins to get sick, and within three months he's placed in a nursing home. Strategos' son goes to police after reviewing a toxicology report and learning that money was withdrawn from a bank account.

Jan. 6, 2005:
Pinellas Park police arrest Melissa and charge her with exploitation of the elderly. She's granted bail of $7,500, but the Department of Homeland Security places a hold on her because she lied about her manslaughter conviction when trying to enter the U.S. in 2004.

Police later add several other charges, including grand theft and forging cheques. But after an investigation into allegations Melissa poisoned Strategos, police say they will not be filing a charge of attempted murder because Strategos' medical records don't show he was poisoned.

CBC News Online | March 14, 2005

Feb. 1, 2005:
RCMP in Nova Scotia issue a warrant for Melissa's arrest. She's charged with defrauding the government of Canada of $30,348.54 over a four-year period. She's accused of using two different social insurance numbers and two names (Melissa Shephard and Melissa Stewart) to get extra old-age security payments between July 1997 and October 2003.

March 14, 2005:
Melissa Friedrich pleads guilty to seven charges related to the Strategos case, including three counts of grand theft from a person 65 years or older, two counts of forgery and two counts of using a forged document. As part of a plea agreement, she's sentenced to five years in jail.

True Differences in discipline

True Differences in discipline

Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.

1960 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.

2006 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

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Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.

1960 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class.

2006 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money because Jeffrey has a disability.

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Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father's car and his Dad gives him a whipping.

1960 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.

2006 - Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy's sister is told by psychologist that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.

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Scenario: Mary turns up pregnant.

1960 - 5 High School Boys leave town. Mary does her Grade 12 year at a special school for expectant mothers.

2006 - School Counsellor calls Planned Parenthood. Mary is driven to the next province and gets an abortion without her parents' consent or knowledge. Mary given condoms and told to be more careful next time.

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Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from Halloween, puts them in a bottle, blows up a red ant hill.

1960- Ants die.

2006 - Fire Department and RCMP called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, Provincial Government investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list.

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Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary, hugs him to comfort him

1960 - In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.

2006 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in prison.

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The Year 2010 In Pictures
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Madoff appears to hold his victims in contempt, snapping: "**** my victims. I carried them for 20 years, and now I'm doing 150 years."

The journalist who wrote the piece said in an interview that the impression he got was that Madoff was being treated like a "rock star" in prison: "He was a celebrity, he had groupies, he had people clamouring for his advice, and his autograph."



Leo- Saturday, December 4, 2010

The sky above is offering help. There is the realistic and practical hope that you will soon witness the manifestation of a great dream. The events that are now taking may not be moving fast enough, but the pace will soon quicken. Just remember that flexibility will allow the entry of some wonderful elements into the equation.

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Why is gas at $1.10 a litre?

Why is gas at $1.10 a litre?

November 17, 2010 By Bryan Borzykowski

Gas prices in Toronto may have jumped 4.4 cents yesterday to $1.08 a litre, but in Peterborough the cost stayed at just 98.9 cents a litre.

What's going on, readers wonder? How can it cost a dime less a litre in more rural areas with presumably less competition?

Jason Parent, a senior associate with MJ Ervin & Associates, a London, Ont.-based petroleumm consulting firm, says it boils down to local price wars and stations and stores wanting to get people to buy goods rather than gas.

Parent lives in London where gas is about four cents higher than in nearby St. Thomas.

“The town just got a big box store so they’re selling gas with minimal margin to try and bring people to the store,” he says. “Local stations have to compete with that.”

Scott Maxwell, manager of website TomorrowsGasPricesToday.com, adds that areas outside of Toronto have more independents trying to grab market share from each other. These stations need to sell in-store wares to make money.

Another reason why prices are higher in Toronto is that we don’t get a lot of choice. Drive around the city and you’ll see big names such as Petro-Canada, Shell and Esso. Maxwell says the more popular brands have wiped out the independents who are usually freer to charge what they want.

Maxwell adds that Toronto drivers aren't likely to travel far to find the best price.

“If the big stations put stores everywhere and know they can charge more to make more, what’s forcing them to drop prices if they all do this?” he asks.

The oil companies companies argue that the price of fuel is set independently and based on a number of factors including the oil, refining and marketing costs and supply and demand in the particular market.

So why did Toronto’s gas prices increase so much yesterday?

“When you’ve got a majority of people located in one area we see lock-step pricing, gas companies take advantage of it,” Maxwell says.

New Link in Chain of Life Microbes Weave Poisonous Arsenic Into Their DNA, Upending Decades of Science

New Link in Chain of Life Microbes Weave Poisonous Arsenic Into Their DNA, Upending Decades of Science


By ROBERT LEE HOTZ

Researchers on Thursday said they had bred microbes that absorb the notorious poison arsenic into their DNA, in an experiment that could rewrite the rules of life.

Until now, all organisms were thought to have six essential elements in common: oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur, carbon and phosphorus. The researchers say the bacteria they grew in the lab now "very likely" use arsenic instead of phosphorus in critical parts of their working biology, including their spiral backbone of DNA. If the new findings hold up, scientists will have to add noxious element 33 to the construction kit for existence.

Moreover, by depending on an element so toxic to normal life, the microbes are a living demonstration of the exotic substances that biochemistry might, at least in theory, use in other worlds.

"It is building itself out of arsenic," said geo-microbiologist Felisa Wolfe-Simon at NASA's Astrobiology Institute and the U.S. Geological Survey, who led researchers from eight federal and university laboratories conducting the experiment. "All life we know is the same biochemically, and this is a little different. It is suggesting there is another way to be alive."

The researchers conceded that the odd microbes, in and of themselves, don't prove yet that there is a fundamentally different basis for life on Earth. "It is beginning to open the door a crack to possibilities," Ms. Wolfe-Simon said.

Several independent experts were convinced that these unusual organisms weren't so far out of the ordinary. "This is an interesting curiosity, a novel discovery but not a paradigm-breaking one," said New York University chemist Robert Shapiro, an authority on DNA and the origin of life who was not involved in the project. "It is a cousin of known living things that has some peculiar habits."

To be sure, life on Earth knows few bounds. Microbes can be found in rocks a mile underground and in clouds overhead. Some bacteria thrive in toxic waste or survive in brine five times as salty as the sea. Many species of single-cell creatures readily grow in the absence of oxygen, warmth and light.

Until now, however, they were all thought to share the same biochemistry, based on the Big Six, to build proteins, fats and DNA. Even the synthetic cells made in the laboratory, as announced earlier this year, rely on the same six elements. Phosphate is an essential building block for various macromolecules present in all cells, including nucleic acids, lipids and proteins.

"They made their case, and it is quite remarkable," said geo-microbiologist Clara Chan at the University of Delaware, who has studied the findings. "But it remains to be seen how common it is."

The scientists published the research in the journal Science and discussed their work at a NASA news conference Thursday.

"This will fundamentally change our definition of life and how we look for it," said astrobiologist Pamela Conrad at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "This is a huge deal."

Their finding comes as the hunt for Earth-like planets accelerates. With 22 space-based observatories and 100 ground telescopes, researchers are scanning tens of thousands of stars for evidence of a planet that could support life like that on Earth.

Scientists have speculated that an alternative scheme of biochemistry could give rise to other kinds of life in the solar system or on one of the 504 planets astronomers have discovered so far around other stars. In forms too strange to readily recognize, exotic life might thrive in seas of liquid methane, in plumes of exotic gases or in caverns of nitrogen ice.

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Indeed, rumors about the pending announcement this week fueled a fever of anticipation among space enthusiasts, with rounds of speculation about the discovery of life elsewhere in the solar system. But the researchers made it clear that their discovery was entirely down-to-earth.

The bacteria were dredged from the briny sludge of California's Mono Lake, where the water is richly laced with arsenic and with bacteria that can survive in it. In the lab, the researchers grew the bacteria in Petri dishes in which phosphate salt normally essential for life was gradually replaced by arsenic, until the bacteria could grow without needing phosphate. They confirmed their finding through a battery of tests with mass spectrometers, radioactive tracers, X-rays and conventional genetic screening.

The researchers weren't able to entirely eliminate all traces of phosphorus, leaving open the possibility that these bacteria were still eking out their existence in a normal way, the researchers said. "There does seem to be a low level of impurity," Dr. Wolfe-Simon said. But the traces of phosphorus were so minute, the researchers said, that no normal microbes could have survived.

"It probably has large implications for the evolution of life on Earth," said USGS microbiologist Ronald Oremland, a senior scientist on the project. "We want to see if there are more kinds of microbes that can do this, and we are trying to find that out.

Ontario auto theft statistics | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun

Ontario auto theft statistics | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun

The Lock it or Lose It campaign is urging people so lock their cars even if they’re dashing into the store.

Some statistics provided by the campaign:

•Auto theft costs Canadians more than $1 billion every year, which includes emergency response, court, policing, legal, and out-of-pocket costs, such as the deductible

•In 2009, 108,172 vehicles were stolen in Canada; of those, 27,175 were stolen in Ontario. This is a 13% reduction in Ontario compared to the previous year

•Auto theft is not a victimless crime — or just a property crime. Every year innocent people die or are seriously injured as a direct result of auto theft

•On average, auto theft costs every policyholder an additional $35 on his or her insurance premium

•Auto theft can mean a 10-year prison sentence, and a mandatory minimum sentence of six months in jail upon a third conviction

—Source: OACP, IBC



Ontario auto theft statistics | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun

This Week Turn Silver Into Gold

This Week Turn Silver Into Gold

Bloomberg's Michele Steele reports on the U.S. Women's Water Polo Team and its recent bare-all cover for ESPN The Magazine. Bloomberg: source



Leo- Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Planetary pressure is giving the impression that progress has come to a standstill in a crucial area of your life. The reason it seems to be taking so long is because it is being subjected to excessive scrutiny. Give it a little time, put away the magnifying glass and allow things to evolve without any intervention on your part.

Leo- Monday, November 29, 2010

You’ve had so many problems for so long, that you life doesn’t seem normal nowadays unless you’ve got something to stress you out. This is a dangerous frame of mind to be in, if you want to bring an end this self-perpetuating endless loop of crises. Let the world go its merry way towards disaster. You have another destiny in store and it’s one that’s got a lot of love in it.

Leo- Sunday, November 28, 2010

Certain fears are being blown way out of proportion. Look carefully at what’s bothering you and you’ll discover that you don’t have to feel so hemmed by these circumstances. A stroke of good fortune is about to surreptitiously enter the equation to your advantage. What was just a possibility is about to become a probability.



Leslie Neilson

Leslie William Nielsen, OC (February 11, 1926 – November 28, 2010)[1] was a Canadian American actor and comedian. Nielsen appeared in over one hundred films and 1,500 television programs over the span of his career, portraying over 220 characters.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Nielsen#


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Daniel Whitney before he started his Larry the Cable Guy acts.

Daniel Whitney before he started his Larry the Cable Guy acts.
Daniel Whitney before he started his Larry the Cable Guy acts.



This is Daniels Alter Ego Which Launched Him Into The Multi Million Dollar Redneck Humour

Robert Deniro SNL Homeland Security Funny Stuff!

Robert Deniro SNL Homeland Security Funny Stuff!

The Future Hand Held Application Called Pomegranate


A Big Week For This Leo ...

A Big Week For This Leo ...


Leo- Sunday, November 28, 2010

Certain fears are being blown way out of proportion. Look carefully at what’s bothering you and you’ll discover that you don’t have to feel so hemmed by these circumstances. A stroke of good fortune is about to surreptitiously enter the equation to your advantage. What was just a possibility is about to become a probability.

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Did Winston Churchill See The Future?

Did Winston Churchill See The Future?

The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan is an 1899 book written by Winston Churchill while he was still an officer in the British army.

The book provides a history of the British involvement in the Sudan and the conflict between the British forces led by Lord Kitchener and Dervish forces led by Khalifa Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, heir to the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad who had embarked on a campaign to conquer Egypt, to drive out the non-Muslim infidels and make way for the second coming of the Islamic Mahdi.

The River War was Churchill's second published book after The Story of the Malakand Field Force, and originally filled two volumes with over 1000 pages in 1899. The River War was subsequently abridged to one volume in 1902.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_River_War

About Mohammedanism he wrote:

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.[13]



Sarah Palin Calls On USA To Stand With North Korean's- DUH READ MUCH SARAH?

Sarah Palin Calls On USA To Stand With North Korean's- DUH READ MUCH SARAH?

WASHINGTON—Sarah Palin is drawing criticism from around the world after declaring that the United States has to stand with “our North Korean allies.”

Palin’s gaffe, made Wednesday during an interview on Glenn Beck’s syndicated radio show, was quickly corrected by her host. But it drew immediate fire from liberal bloggers, who cited it as an example of the 2008 vice-presidential candidate’s lack of foreign policy expertise.

Newspapers in Asia and Europe are repeating the criticism. The Times of India says Palin “did it again,” while London’s Daily Mail says she “may want to brush up on her geography.”

The conservative U.S. website The Weekly Standard came to Palin’s defence, pointing out that “she correctly identified North Korea as our enemy literally eight seconds before the mix-up.”

(Tears For Fears) Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Sungha Jung

(Tears For Fears) Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Sungha Jung
I had to share this talent ....
Look at the length of the fingers on this young musician...and enjoy a perfect performnce.

Armless Pianist Liu Wei - You're Beautiful (Winner of China's Got Talent Final 2010)

Armless Pianist Liu Wei - You're Beautiful (Winner of China's Got Talent Final 2010)
This is amazing!

Liu Wei lost his arms in an accident at age 10, Liu Wei from Beijing never gives up living strong. He managed to do everything with his feet and started to learn to play piano at age 19. His dream is to become a musician. He is now 22 and just won the China's Got Talent Show on Oct. 10, 2010. In the final, he played piano and sang the song "You Are Beautiful", perhaps his vocal is not the best render of this song, but the power and inspiration of his zest for life won him the final. Bravo! Liu Wei's motto is,"I have two options - I can die as fast as possible, or I can live a brilliant life. And I chose the latter."

Billiard Dominos And He Runs 4 Tables - Turn Sound Down And Just Watch

Billiard Dominos And He Runs 4 Tables - Turn Sound Down And Just Watch

Jimmy Devellano: A blueprint for success

Jimmy Devellano: A blueprint for success
Leo- Saturday, November 13, 2010

It would be so wonderful to follow the path of least resistance and coast along from success to success, rather than having to endure this incessant battle against the odds. Sadly, winning the lottery is not a viable modus operandi, but walking straight into an amazing opportunity is. Take time out to relax and calm your mind. If you ask the universe for help, it’ll send a search party out to find you!
For the leo's that surround us! You know who you are !



"I did it because I loved hockey," said Jimmy Devellano, senior vice president of the Red Wings, thinking about the letter he wrote nearly 44 years later on the eve of his induction today into the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. "I like hockey more than most people, who just want to sit around and watch it on TV. I had season tickets to the Toronto Maple Leafs, I coached a lot of minor league hockey and there were various junior teams in Ontario that I used to travel around and watch. That was my passion."

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20101108/SPORTS0103/11080319/1128/#ixzz14n4zqgJm



TORONTO – On the day he was inducted into hockey's Hall of Fame, Red Wings senior vice president Jimmy Devellano shared the secret to building a winning franchise.


You might want to write this down.

"You have to get good players," Devellano told Sporting News. "I know it sounds so simple just to say that, but you really do."

Well, yeah, there's that. But if it were that simple, every former GM would have the long list of accomplishments that earned Devellano a spot in this year's Hall of Fame class with Dino Ciccarelli, Cammi Granato, Angela James and Doc Seaman.

Devallano was part of the Islanders front office that won three Stanley Cups. In Detroit, he was hired over other candidates like David Poile and Pat Quinn to run the Red Wings, for whom he helped build four Stanley Cup winners.

He knew exactly what it took to win. On the day he was inducted into the Hall, he shared three crucial pieces to his blueprint:

Build through the draft. Devellano said he had many long conversations with Steve Yzerman before Yzerman left to run the Tampa Bay Lightning. One of the biggest things Devellano passed on was that long-term success comes only through player development.

The Lightning are off to a strong start under Yzerman, but he's committed to building the right way, which doesn't happen overnight.

Devellano preaches building with draft picks, and Yzerman is listening.

"It's something we're going to stress in our organization. We're going to do everything we can to build through the draft," said Yzerman, who traveled to Toronto to honor Devellano. "The secret of an organization is long-term success built through the draft and being patient with your players."

Find the right coach. After Bryan Murray was fired as Red Wings coach in 1993, Devellano got wind that Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch wanted to hire Mike Keenan. He did everything he could to prevent it.

"I went to ownership and really discouraged it," Devellano said.

Instead, Devellano suggested the Red Wings should hire Al Arbour or Scotty Bowman.

"He looked at me and said go get one of them. I said, 'Which one do you want?' He said, 'I don't care,' " Devellano said. "We got Scotty and the rest is history."

During his induction speech, Devellano also credited the role Jacques Demers played in reviving the Red Wings.

"Jacques re-invigorated hockey in Detroit," Devellano said. "Jacques, if you're listening, thank you, thank you, thank you."

Work for a strong, supportive owner. One of the reasons Devellano strongly encouraged Yzerman to take the Tampa Bay job was because of new Lightning owner Jeff Vinik. While it's possible for a team to win with a faceless ownership group, Devellano thinks a single committed owner dramatically boosts the rate of success.

"I prefer to work for one person, that was important to me. I feel sometimes in a group, you can go off on different tangents," he said. "If you have a singular committed owner, that's the best scenario."

In Detroit, that owner is Ilitch, who joked that Devellano's appreciation for Ilitch was for only one reason.

"He liked the way I spent. I hate the (salary) cap," Ilitch said. "I liked to go out and get players."

It was with Ilitch's support that Devellano was able to draft and then lure Europeans to the NHL at a time when other teams were scared off by the Iron Curtain.

"He gave me the assignment," Ilitch said, "and I had to do all the dirty work."



Read more: http://www.sportingnews.com/nhl/feed/2010-11/hockey-hall-of-fame/story/jimmy-devellano-a-blueprint-for-success#ixzz14n4GGWqI




Passenger says crew ignored warning about man in disguise on plane from Hong Kong

Passenger says crew ignored warning about man in disguise on plane from Hong Kong

A man in custody is shown with and without his disguise in this handout image released to Reuters on November 5, 2010.

ANDY CLARK/REUTERS

VANCOUVER—An Air Canada passenger says she spotted a man in a silicone mask on her flight, but was ignored when she tried to warn the air crew.

Nuray Kurtur-Balas says the October 29th flight was still on the ground in Hong Kong when she told three flight attendants she suspected a fellow passenger was wearing a disguise.

She was talking about the young Chinese man who boarded the flight disguised as an elderly Caucasian man.

Kurtur-Balas told C-N-N she feared the man was going to blow up the plane and she kept her iPhone close to call her family should anything happen.

The 35-year old clothing retail production manager says she told the flight attendants the passenger’s heavily wrinkled face looked like plastic and didn’t match his young looking hands.

She says one flight attendant complimented her on her observation, another said he’d look into it, and the third said the man might have a medical condition—but no action was taken.

It was only after the flight took off and the man removed his mask that the air crew alerted authorities to meet the plane when it landed in Vancouver.

The 22-year old Chinese man remains in detention while seeking asylum in Canada.

Maritime community hits jackpot as lottery winners give away prize

Maritime community hits jackpot as lottery winners give away prize


November 4, 2010

Maritime community hits jackpot as lottery winners give away prize

By OLIVER MOORE
From Friday's Globe and Mail

Elderly couple give away virtually all of their $11.25-million to close family, charity

After decades of living modestly, Allen and Violet Large suddenly had the money to fulfill their dreams.

But with $11.25-million in lottery winnings, the retired couple who live near Halifax knew that their dreams were a little different. No sports car, cruise or mansion for them. Instead, they worked quickly to give it away.

"We haven't spent even one penny on ourselves," says Ms. Large, 78. "Why spend money when you already have everything you need?"

Now, four months after cashing in their winning lottery ticket, the money is largely gone and they have little to show for their winnings. Nothing material, that is. But a long list of charities is reaping the benefits of their decision.

The decision caused a stir in the tiny community of Lower Truro and drew media attention from around the world. But the couple doesn't see it as a sacrifice. It didn't matter that the winnings would have allowed purchases impossible on working-class savings.

The couple drives the same five-year-old truck and 13-year-old car. There is neither microwave nor voicemail in their 19th-century home. The Larges are content with what they have. So when they hit the jackpot in July, it didn't take them long to conclude that others needed the money more.

"We wanted to look after our community and make sure they all had some," explains Mr. Large, who is 75.

The couple kept about two per cent for themselves, in case of emergency, and split the rest between immediate family and charities. They are unclear about the tax implications, but say they will deal with that next year.

They won't get into exact figures but say that recipients range from animal-protection agencies to churches to health-care services. Ms. Large was recently undergoing chemotherapy and facilities where she received her treatment got an extra chunk, her husband says.

A few possible scammers sniffed around but quickly were shut down.

"If anyone phoned, I would say, 'If you're looking for the money, it's all gone,'" Mr. Large says. "I wouldn't be sour or harsh but would say it gently."

On the long list of those groups that did get money is their church, Old Barns United.

"I've been surprised, they haven't even splurged in one instance that I've heard," said Reverend Ian Harrison, who said their gift will go toward keeping up the old building. "That says a lot about their character, their selflessness."

The couple has lived modestly since meeting in Ontario, where both where working at the time, at a dance.

"She was wearing a tartan skirt and I was wearing a tartan shirt and I said I must ask that girl for a dance," Mr. Large remembers.

They married in 1974 and continued working - he as a steelworker and welder and she at a cosmetics factory. They often didn't have much money and would stay home a lot. He'd watch television while she read, romance novels mostly.

The couple eventually retired to their native Nova Scotia. Their rural home is just close enough to town that Mr. Large can "crawl back" if he "gets souped," he jokes. "He never does that," his wife interjects, prompting him to add, a touch sheepishly, "it's a local expression."

In July their number came up on a 6/49 draw worth $11,255,272.70. At the time local media quoted them as saying that the win wouldn't change their lives. Instead it changed the lives of many other people.

It's a sharp contrast to the classic lottery story of a winner blowing through sudden wealth and ending up in penury.

"We're not big livers, we don't live high," Ms. Large says. "We're country. We weren't born with a silver spoon in our mouths."

NASA's EPOXI mission spacecraft successfully flew past comet Hartley

NASA's EPOXI mission spacecraft successfully flew past comet Hartley

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Toronto man charged in ‘grandparent scam’

Toronto man charged in ‘grandparent scam’
Carys Mills Staff Reporter

A Toronto man has been charged following a police investigation into a so-called “grandparent scam.”

The investigation, which dates back to last year, was started by Peel Regional Police after several complaints were received.

Police said victims in Canada and the United States received phone calls from the suspect, who claimed to be a grandchild or other relative.

The suspect then requested urgent financial help, asking for money to be transferred and for the victim not to tell any other family members, police said.

Later, the investigation expanded to include police in Toronto.

Police are warning the public, suggesting elderly family members be made aware of similar scams.

Johnathan Hunter, 40, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with 39 counts of fraud over $5,000, fraud under $5,000, defrauding the public and conspiracy to commit an indictable offence.