If a person is mentally unstable or not is really not an excuse to break the law. Should mental health be more accessible yes . Gun control is a big topic and unfortunately there has been quite a few school shootings some kind of arrangement or agreement should be made towards this issue be it with the government , schools, parents people in general.

Here is a list of Personality Disorders. That of course is not an excuse.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/personality-disorders/basics/symptoms/con-20030111


Antisocial personality disorder
•Disregard for others' needs or feelings
•Persistent lying, stealing, using aliases, conning others
•Recurring problems with the law
•Repeated violation of the rights of others
•Aggressive, often violent behavior
•Disregard for the safety of self or others
•Impulsive behavior
•Consistently irresponsible
•Lack of remorse for behavior





Personality disorders




Symptoms
By Mayo Clinic Staff


Types of personality disorders are grouped into three clusters, based on similar characteristics and symptoms. Many people with one personality disorder also have signs and symptoms of at least one additional personality disorder.

Cluster A personality disorders

Cluster A personality disorders are characterized by odd, eccentric thinking or behavior. They include paranoid personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder and schizotypal personality disorder. It's not necessary to exhibit all the signs and symptoms listed for a disorder to be diagnosed.

Paranoid personality disorder
•Pervasive distrust and suspicion of others and their motives
•Unjustified belief that others are trying to harm or deceive you
•Unjustified suspicion of the loyalty or trustworthiness of others
•Hesitant to confide in others due to unreasonable fear that others will use the information against you
•Perception of innocent remarks or nonthreatening situations as personal insults or attacks
•Angry or hostile reaction to perceived slights or insults
•Tendency to hold grudges
•Unjustified, recurrent suspicion that spouse or sexual partner is unfaithful

Schizoid personality disorder
•Lack of interest in social or personal relationships, preferring to be alone
•Limited range of emotional expression
•Inability to take pleasure in most activities
•Inability to pick up normal social cues
•Appearance of being cold or indifferent to others
•Little or no interest in having sex with another person

Schizotypal personality disorder
•Peculiar dress, thinking, beliefs, speech or behavior
•Odd perceptual experiences, such as hearing a voice whisper your name
•Flat emotions or inappropriate emotional responses
•Social anxiety and a lack of or discomfort with close relationships
•Indifferent, inappropriate or suspicious response to others
•"Magical thinking" — believing you can influence people and events with your thoughts
•Belief that certain casual incidents or events have hidden messages meant specifically for you

Cluster B personality disorders

Cluster B personality disorders are characterized by dramatic, overly emotional or unpredictable thinking or behavior. They include antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder. It's not necessary to exhibit all the signs and symptoms listed for a disorder to be diagnosed.

Antisocial personality disorder
•Disregard for others' needs or feelings
•Persistent lying, stealing, using aliases, conning others
•Recurring problems with the law
•Repeated violation of the rights of others
•Aggressive, often violent behavior
•Disregard for the safety of self or others
•Impulsive behavior
•Consistently irresponsible
•Lack of remorse for behavior

Borderline personality disorder
•Impulsive and risky behavior, such as having unsafe sex, gambling or binge eating
•Unstable or fragile self-image
•Unstable and intense relationships
•Up and down moods, often as a reaction to interpersonal stress
•Suicidal behavior or threats of self-injury
•Intense fear of being alone or abandoned
•Ongoing feelings of emptiness
•Frequent, intense displays of anger
•Stress-related paranoia that comes and goes

Histrionic personality disorder
•Constantly seeking attention
•Excessively emotional, dramatic or sexually provocative to gain attention
•Speaks dramatically with strong opinions, but few facts or details to back them up
•Easily influenced by others
•Shallow, rapidly changing emotions
•Excessive concern with physical appearance
•Thinks relationships with others are closer than they really are

Narcissistic personality disorder
•Belief that you're special and more important than others
•Fantasies about power, success and attractiveness
•Failure to recognize others' needs and feelings
•Exaggeration of achievements or talents
•Expectation of constant praise and admiration
•Arrogance
•Unreasonable expectations of favors and advantages, often taking advantage of others
•Envy of others or belief that others envy you

Cluster C personality disorders

Cluster C personality disorders are characterized by anxious, fearful thinking or behavior. They include avoidant personality disorder, dependent personality disorder and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. It's not necessary to exhibit all the signs and symptoms listed for a disorder to be diagnosed.

Avoidant personality disorder
•Too sensitive to criticism or rejection
•Feeling inadequate, inferior or unattractive
•Avoidance of work activities that require interpersonal contact
•Social inhibition, timidity and isolation, especially avoiding new activities or meeting strangers
•Extreme shyness in social situations and personal relationships
•Fear of disapproval, embarrassment or ridicule

Dependent personality disorder
•Excessive dependence on others and feels the need to be taken care of
•Submissive or clingy behavior toward others
•Fear of having to provide self-care or fend for yourself if left alone
•Lack of self-confidence, requiring excessive advice and reassurance from others to make even small decisions
•Difficulty starting or doing projects on own due to lack of self-confidence
•Difficulty disagreeing with others, fearing disapproval
•Tolerance of poor or abusive treatment, even when other options are available
•Urgent need to start a new relationship when a close one has ended

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
•Preoccupation with details, orderliness and rules
•Extreme perfectionism, resulting in dysfunction and distress when perfection is not achieved, such as feeling unable to finish a project because you don't meet your own strict standards
•Desire to be in control of people, tasks and situations and inability to delegate tasks
•Neglect of friends and enjoyable activities because of excessive commitment to work or a project
•Inability to discard broken or worthless objects
•Rigid and stubborn
•Inflexible about morality, ethics or values
•Tight, miserly control over budgeting and spending money

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder isn't the same as obsessive-compulsive disorder, a type of anxiety disorder.

When to see a doctor

If you have any signs or symptoms of a personality disorder, see your doctor, mental health provider or other health care professional. Untreated, personality disorders can cause significant problems in your life that may get worse without treatment.

A pen ,some books , papers and a few frames.

Well the weekend is coming up I hope you can relax and enjoy it. It is 12:59 am here so I am wishing you a good Friday morning before I go to bed.

What a huge jerk off your ex called family Services on you ? Good the case is closed I would have taken him to court for harassment or something. Your more understanding then I am.

Your daughter taking her time to decide what to do in college is a good idea those two are good choices . Be interesting to see what she decides.

That is good you and your daughter are able to talk and help each other :)

Awesome she is going to college what is she taking?

That is a lot to deal with. Does your daughter help you out ? Hello to the rest of your family.

Ex's can be a pain that is for sure I'm not always as civil with mine and they can just live with it lol. Really though it is better to get along with them to a point at least when the kids are involved.

I hope that things get sorted out soon and that your days wont be so full of stress. I hope your chemo gets sorted out your starting again November 1?

I am sorry to hear of the loss of your friend.

Mass shooting at Oregon college


http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2015/10/01/mass-shooting-at-oregon-college-report


REUTERS

Thursday, October 1, 2015 4:02:57 EDT PM


A gunman opened fire on Thursday at a community college in Oregon, killing several people and wounding others, county officials and local media reported, in the latest mass killing to rock a U.S. school.

There were conflicting reports on the number of casualties and wounded. An official with the Douglas County local government told Reuters that 15 people had been killed in the rampage at Umpqua Community College.

CNN reported at least 10 people had died.

The Portland Oregonian newspaper and CNN reported that a suspect had been taken into custody following the shooting, citing Douglas County officials. That suspect was not identified but CNN reported he was in his late 20s.



The shooting is the latest incident of gun violence in the United States, raising demands for more gun control and more effective treatment of the mentally ill. Recent episodes of gun violence include the massacre of nine people at a South Carolina church last spring and the killing of five U.S. servicemen in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

CNN reported that one of the wounded was a female who had been shot in the chest. The Oregonian said that at least six patients were critically injured in the shooting, citing an official with Life Flight.

The Douglas County Sheriff's office said on Facebook that officers had responded to a shooting at the college following 911 calls at 10:38 a.m. local time (1738 GMT).

Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg said on Facebook that the hospital had received nine patients from the shooting and had been advised that three more were en route.

"Please continue to pray," the hospital said.



Local media reported that authorities were combing through the campus, which serves more than 13,000 students, 3,000 of them full-time. Fall term began at the college on Monday.

The Douglas County Sheriff's Office said students and faculty members were being bused to the nearby fairgrounds where they could be picked up.

The paper said agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were en route to Roseburg, a city of about 20,000 people some 260 miles (418 km) south of Portland.

In 2012, seven students at the small Christian college Oikos University in Oakland, California, were shot dead by a former student, marking the deadliest outburst of violence at U.S. college since April 2007, when a student at Virginia Tech University killed 32 people and wounded 25 others before taking his own life.

The Mothman Legend

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Paul

http://mysterious-sightings.com/myths-and-legends-origins/the-mothman-legend


Mothman is a legendary creature seen in the Point Pleasant area of West Virginia from November 15, 1966 to December 15, 1967. The first newspaper report was published in the Point Pleasant Register dated November 16, 1966, entitled “Couples See Man-Sized Bird…Creature…Something”.



In the 1975 a book titled The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel popularised Mothman and the book claiming that Mothman was related to a wide array of supernatural events in Point Pleasant and the collapse of the Silver Bridge. The 2002 film The Mothman Prophecies, starring Richard Gere, was based on Keel’s book.

The Mothman terrorized a town in West Virginia in 1966 and 1967, staring at locals with glowing red eyes, flying over their cars and causing radiation burns and even the collapse of the Silver bridge over the Ohio River.

The legend begins simply enough: a pair of young couples were driving around on November 15, 1966 near Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Their spot of choice was a former TNT factory, vacant since World War II. There they saw the figure of a large winged man with glowing red eyes. Fleeing in fear, the couples reported that the being took flight and shadowed their route home. They reported the sighting to police, and news spread.

Over the next few weeks, Mothman Mania took over Point Pleasant. Armed search parties scoured the TNT facility while numerous sightings poured in to the police and newspapers, each one describing a creature that was humanoid in shape, but grey or brown, with huge glowing red eyes and massive wings that unfurled from his back.


There’s been plenty of speculation about what was seen on November 15. One local Joe Nickell argued that they saw a barred owl. It’s native to West Virginia, has an unusual shape with large legs, is nocturnal and not commonly seen, has large eyes that can reflect light with a distinct red glow due to blood-rich vascular tissues within the eye, and has startlingly large wings. A lot of the witness drawings of Mothman do bear a remarkable resemblance to what a large barn owl might look like at night to observers who are already freaked out by being in a creepy abandoned TNT factory.

What followed that initial sighting was practically a textbook case of mass hysteria. A rash of sightings, only about a half dozen of which were well-documented in local newspapers. Many of the sightings bear little resemblance to the original Mothman description, involving men in black, strange lights and even poltergeists. Incidents ranged 50 or more miles from Point Pleasant. National tragedy the collapse of the Silver Bridge cause the Mothman stories and sightings to stop.

The Silver Bridge crossed the Ohio River, connecting Point Pleasant, West Virginia to Kanauga, Ohio. It was built in 1928 using a steel eye-bar design, innovative at the time. On the evening of December 15, 1967, one of the eye-bar connections failed due to a minute manufacturing defect exacerbated by stress and corrosion. The resulting bridge collapse killed 46 people. Suddenly, the people of Point Pleasant had far more important matters to deal with than Mothman sightings. Interest Mothman vanished almost instantly. The craze had passed.


It wasn’t till several years later that the collapse of the Silver Bridge and the sightings of the Mothman were connected by paranormal experts. The Movie the Mothman Prophecies suggests that The Mothman has been around for a long time and makes claims that the Mothman sightings were first recorded on cave walls and that Mothman has been sighted in areas around the world, just before major tragedy strikes.

The Silverbridge collapse

What ever really happened in Point Pleasant will remain a true mystery, the sightings, the radiation burns, the collapse of the Silver bridge.

Look for the Mothman to point to major tragedy and you just might find it!

Would definitely be an experience for them that is for sure lol.

That is definitely different :)

Glow-in-the-Dark Mushrooms Discovered

by Jeanna Bryner, Live Science Managing Editor | October 05, 2009 08:02am ET





http://www.livescience.com/9730-glow-dark-mushrooms-discovered.html

A newly identified luminescent fungus called Mycena luxaeterna was discovered in a forest in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The mushroom caps are tiny, under a half inch (8 mm) in diameter and the stems have a jelly-like structure. The glow is easier to observe at night (right).
Credit: Cassius V. Stevani, Chemistry Institute, University of Sao Paulo.

As if teensy night-lights were dangling from tree trunks and branches, glow-in-the-dark mushrooms illuminate the forests across the globe. Now, scientists have discovered several species of such radiant 'shrooms.

The freaky findings, reported today in the journal Mycologia, increases the number of aglow mushroom species from 64 to 71, shedding light on the evolution of luminescence in nature.

The newly identified mushrooms, which emit a bright, yellowish-green light 24 hours a day, were found in Belize, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia and Puerto Rico. They include four species new to science and three new reports of luminescence in known species.


"If daylight was not so bright you could see them during the day, but the greenish-yellow light does not stand out against daylight so we cannot visualize them," lead researcher Dennis Desjardin of San Francisco State University told LiveScience. "But take them into a dark room at any time of day, and wait until your eyes adjust to the darkness, and you'll see them glow very nicely."

Here are some of the highlights:
•Found on sticks in an Atlantic forest habitat, Mycena luxaeterna is tiny, each cap spanning 0.3 inches (8mm) in diameter, with jelly-like stems. (The species' name, which means "eternal light," was inspired by Mozart's "Requiem.")
•One psychedelic-looking mushroom, called Mycena silvaelucens, was found on the bark of a standing tree at the Orangutan Rehabilitation Center in Borneo, Malaysia. Each mushroom cap measuries just over a half inch (18 mm) in diameter.
•So-called Mycena luxarboricola was collected from the bark of a living tree in an old growth Atlantic forest in Paraná, Brazil. Each cap measures less than 0.2 inches (5 mm) in diameter. (The species' name, which means "light dwelling on a tree," was also inspired by Mozart's "Requiem.")

Three quarters of glowing mushrooms, including the newly identified species, belong to the Mycena genus, a group of mushrooms that feed off and decompose organic matter.

"What interests us is that within Mycena, the luminescent species come from 16 different lineages, which suggests that luminescence evolved at a single point and some species later lost the ability to glow," Desjardin said.

He and other scientists still have many questions about such glow-in-the-dark fungi, including how and why they light up. They know the luminescent process is similar to that of glowing bacteria and other luminescent organisms. For instance, the glowing involves a luciferin-luciferase mediated reaction that emits light in the presence of water and oxygen. But they are not sure of the exact chemical compounds involved in the reaction.

As for why, Desjardin says some fungi glow to lure in nocturnal animals that aid in the dispersal of the mushroom's spores, which are similar to seeds and are capable of growing into new organisms. Fungi, along with plants, animals and protists are considered eukaryotes by biologists, meaning "true kernel," due to the packaging of the genome into the membrane-bounded compartment called the nucleus. (Simple bacteria and archaea, which lack a cell nucleus, are considered prokaryotes.)

To date, Desjardin has discovered more than 200 new fungi species, including a phallic mushroom.

This research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society.

http://www.todaysparent.com/family/family-health/anxiety-disorders-in-children/

Anxiety disorders in children


An anxious kid’s days are dominated by tension and “what if?” thinking. Here’s how to help a child who’s struggling with an anxiety disorder.

Sep 29, 2015 Paula Schuck 44





anxiety disorders in children
Photo: iStock

It’s a maddening Tuesday morning, with our grab-the-lunches-coats-and-backpacks, hustle-them-out-the-door routine in full swing, when I notice that one of my two daughters has disappeared. Ten minutes tick by as I search for Payton, who’s 10, before I find her hiding in the closet, crying. When she first started avoiding school, around age six, I thought it was a game. Headaches and stomach aches came first, but hiding in the closet was clearly an escalation in her anxious behaviour. I check my watch. There will be late slips again today for both my girls. How will I explain this at the office?

Many children can manage a healthy bit of anxiety in life, but for others, like Payton, it becomes a force that interferes with development. I see her anxiety as an invisible opponent — a mental illness that creates paralyzing physical symptoms. She’s more than a worrywart. When Payton complains of an upset tummy or feels headachy, she is literally sick with worry.

The onset of clinical anxiety is typically around six years old, usually at the same time children start school full-time; symptoms can escalate around age 10. Generalized anxiety disorder (or GAD) affects about three to five percent of youth and often occurs with one or more of the other types of anxiety (such as separation anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or social anxiety). More girls than boys struggle with anxiety disorders. Payton and I characterize her anxiety a “worry bully,” who sits in the corner and is always telling her to expect the worst. But the good news is that today we have a better understanding of children’s anxiety than we have ever had before, and there are ways to help our children wrestle it into submission.

Read more: 5 ways to beat back-to-school anxiety>

What is an anxiety disorder?
Essentially, it’s any worry that’s out of control. But adults, including specialists, teachers and doctors, often misread children’s anxiety as a learning disorder, depression or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in October 2010 identified anxiety as the most common adolescent mental disorder, with more than 30 percent of the 10,000 adolescents surveyed meeting diagnostic criteria. (Nineteen percent had experienced behaviour disorders; 14 percent had experienced mood disorders.) Children with anxiety can appear oppositional or irritable, because they are so distracted by worries. They can be explosive, moody or tearful.

Here’s what anxiety can look like. Jack, 10, is a sensitive child attending a French first-language school in Kitchener, Ont. Recently, private assessments confirmed he is gifted. Last year, his mom, a teacher, celebrated the final day of school before the summer break. But her son couldn’t. He furrowed his brow, started wringing his hands, and hunched his shoulders. When she asked why he wasn’t excited about summer, he answered, “In two months I still have to come back.”

Meghan is a mother of seven-year-old twins. Her son has autism, and she’s seeking an anxiety disorder diagnosis for her daughter, who finds change stressful, has trouble getting to sleep, and has an intense need to know what to expect next. After a change in a daily routine — like a rescheduled, midday doctor’s appointment — her daughter peppers her with questions. “So what time are you coming again? When is that? What if I’m in gym class? What if I’m at recess? How will you find me then? What if the car breaks down? What if we get out early? What if you forget?” Meghan says parenting her daughter requires extreme patience. “I have to sit down with her and address each and every one of her concerns. It could be two or three questions, or it could take 45 minutes. You never know.”

Read more: New study: childhood shyness linked to adult anxiety>

Nine-year-old Jasmine has stomach aches every day before school starts. She tells her mom that her head often hurts, too. She can’t bring herself to eat lunch in front of the other children, and although she’s a straight-A student, she never raises her hand to speak in class. If she is called on by the teacher, her heart beats too fast, she gets knots in her stomach, her face flushes, her hands sweat, and she thinks she will faint. Her mother fields calls from the school secretary every week, reporting that her daughter is sick and wants to go home. But Jasmine never has a temperature and nothing irregular shows up in checkups or on X-rays.

Lynn Miller, president of the Anxiety Disorders Association of Canada, and an associate professor of educational and counselling psychology at the University of British Columbia, says it’s possible to find children who have an anxiety disorder as young as age four. “These children are often very intuitive, very sensitive and clever,” she says. “Most are also people pleasers. ” Like both Jasmine and Payton, Miller says the youngest children also frequently experience anxiety as tummy aches.

“It’s a typical response to a perceived threat,” she explains. This is rooted in biology and survival skills: An anxious feeling triggers the stomach to respond physically, making a child feel as if they need to vomit or defecate. Their bodies respond as if in survival mode.

Of course, a healthy dose of anxiety is normal. If we never felt any anxiety, we might not achieve things such as running a marathon, acing a test or delivering a dynamite presentation. Increased adrenaline can propel your healthy anxiety into a gold medal performance. But adrenaline in the bloodstream also causes the body to release cortisol. (Both adrenaline and cortisol are crucial to the fight-or-flight response.) Cortisol affects neurotransmitters in the brain, which are used by brain cells to carry information, and the disruption may cause confused thinking or disorganized behaviours. In children, anxiety that interferes with a child’s everyday living in one of the three domains — at school, at home or with friends — is a disorder needing treatment. The day Payton hid in her closet to avoid going to school was, to us, a clear signal she needed more help.

How to treat it
The key to helping a child thrive is early intervention. After an anxiety disorder diagnosis, Miller says even very young children can participate in their own treatment. When Payton was first diagnosed at age six, we tried multiple approaches. Art therapy and play therapy each had a turn, but they seemed limited. When we inquired about cognitive behavioural therapy (or CBT), a therapy aimed at teaching a patient how to change behaviour patterns, the standard reply was that it couldn’t be used before age 10 or 11. Miller disagrees, and recommends CBT as the first line of treatment — it can be adapted to work for patients as young as four. The Canadian Psychiatric Association and the Canadian Medical Association also support CBT as the first course of action.

Relaxation techniques, meditation, deep breathing and calm music at various times throughout the day can also help ease tension. Having a clear road map or blueprint of the day can help anxious children feel less stressed. For visual learners, it may be in the form of a pictogram schedule; for others, it is simply a verbal rundown of what to expect. With Payton, we have also used deep breathing techniques and relaxation CDs produced by Lori Lite, a mom and owner of Stress Free Kids. Her company makes books, lesson plans and CDs with soothing music, which my daughter listens to at bedtime. It helps her shut out the noises in her room and the worries racing in her head. Lite’s deep breathing techniques have helped both of our kids, and we use them at any time in the day when they’re feeling or acting overstimulated. (The technique is simple: Put your hand on your tummy and feel it going in and out, while breathing through the nose.)

Read more: Kids’ health: What’s in a label?>

Positive statements are another one of Lite’s favourite go-to tools. “Positive self-talk can reduce anxiety in minutes. Negative self-talk can increase it just as fast,” she says. (Negative self-talk is the inner critic in a child’s head: “I’m stupid. I can’t do this. I stink at math.”) Positive mantras developed by, or with, the child and repeated throughout the day can help override worry. It can be as simple as: “I can do math. I am good at it.” I’ve found it helps to get to know what triggers my daughter’s anxious thoughts.

Changes in routine, school work that isn’t perfect, airports, emergency drills at school — these all stress her out. Payton is also not a child who can function overtired or hungry. Some other treatments for children’s anxiety disorders include controlled exposure (which is repeated, gradual and planned exposure to the thing or event that the child is anxious about), and improving sleep-management skills with meditation or yoga.

Medication may be necessary if nothing else is breaking the pattern of anxious behaviour. After several years of trying to help Payton tackle her “worry bullies,” the day she hid in the closet I knew we had to start talking about medication. Our family doctor referred us to a child psychiatrist, who ran a series of assessments to determine a diagnosis. (A psychologist can also assess for anxiety, but they can’t prescribe medication.) After Payton told the psychiatrist she felt worried at least 45 percent of her day, and described the panic attacks she had every day before school, we decided on a combination of continued CBT, talk therapy and medication. A brief course of an antidepressant such as Prozac or Luvox is safe for children, we learned.

Family matters
In families with an anxious child, parents may feel as if they have to walk on eggshells. (I sometimes liken the experience to living with a pint-sized powder keg.) But that approach doesn’t do an anxious child any good; anxiety can feed itself if you dwell on it or give it too much attention.

Anxiety often runs in families, so if you suspect your child may be suffering from it, it may be a good time to assess your own anxiety levels and coping techniques. Other family members may need management strategies. In my family, our children are both adopted, and neither my husband nor I have anxiety disorders. (Most experts and doctors we’ve seen surmise that Payton’s anxiety is something she inherited from her biological family.)

This year, Payton is 11, and in grade six. She’s a typical tween, and happy about school again. In the spring, our family doctor will start to stagger her off the medicine to see if she just needed a short-term bridge. For a few years, a part of my daughter seemed broken, and we tried to treat it a million different ways. None seemed to work for very long. But now, we’re seeing her make friends and her confidence is flourishing. I know generalized anxiety disorder will always be in Payton’s life, but it no longer holds her prisoner.

CTVNews.ca Staff
Published Monday, September 28, 2015 6:24PM EDT

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/stubborn-goat-arrested-after-refusing-to-leave-saskatchewan-tim-hortons-1.2585279
RCMP in Warman, Sask., were forced to arrest a "stubborn" goat for refusing to leave a Tim Hortons on Sunday morning.

In a statement, RCMP said that employees initially "asked" the goat to leave and tried to walk him outside, but the rebellious animal turned around and sauntered back through the restaurant's automatic doors.

Eventually two RCMP members were called to deal with the "disturbance."


RCMP in Warman, Sask., were forced to arrest a "stubborn" goat for refusing to leave a Tim Hortons on Sunday morning.

The officers believed that the goat was "cold," and like many Canadians, was forced to take refuge in a Tim Hortons.

They added that the goat simply wanted to "sleep in the entrance."

Faced with a noncompliant citizen, the RCMP officers "arrested" the goat and escorted him into their vehicle.

RCMP says the goat was "very unhappy" at his treatment.

"The members decided to take him home instead of holding cells at the detachment," said the RCMP statement.

At first, they were unable to locate the owners of the goat after knocking on the doors of many local farms.

The goat was held at an animal hospital, until the RCMP tracked down his owners.

"We are happy to report that the goat is safe and sound, back with his owners after his adventurous night out on the town."

http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2015/09/30/771-tortoises-almost-smuggled-out-of-madagascar

771 tortoises almost smuggled out of Madagascar


ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar -- A Madagascar wildlife group says customs officials discovered more than 700 rare tortoises about to be smuggled out of the country, the largest ever case of its kind.

Herilala Randriamahazo of the Turtle Survival Alliance said 771 tortoises were found hidden in unaccompanied boxes headed for Malaysia. He said his organization is now looking after the tortoises.

He said the critically endangered tortoises were found on Monday in unaccompanied boxes due to fly to Malaysia. He said the animals were hidden in socks and baby diapers and then covered with clothing.

Randriamahazo said most of the tortoises were small -- about the size of a tennis ball -- and most were just a few years old.

The Turtle Survival Alliance said the smuggling of tortoises out of Madagascar is growing.

My 2 boys

A roof over our head

My garden

Mature

So much planning and work going into the construction of tombs and the Mummies . So a female may have a male mask and vice versa .Considering the tools being used masks must have been a chore to create.

I grew up around several varieties of orchards and grapes along with cows , sheep , goats and so on.

I never really got into canning or making jellies and jams. I still do some gardening . I prefer living in the city now.