Golden Eagle Snatches Kid

Golden Eagle and Asperger’s syndrome: Attempted kidnapping puts mental health in the national spotlight

According to numerous reports, Golden Eagle, the 1.8 to 2.34 m average wingspan bird of prey who attempted to kidnap a child in Montreal, allegedly suffered from Asperger’s syndrome. Some have speculated that his disorder contributed to the factors leading the Eagle to commit the kidnapping attempt, but experts have cautioned that Eagle’s mental state was likely a complex portrait of disturbance in which autism played a minor part.

“The discussion really has to come around to how are we going to begin to look at mental health services as something that are necessary and valuable and how are we going to fund them,” said George Estle, CEO for Tanager Place, a Cedar Rapids-based treatment facility for behavioral and psychiatric disorders.


“For someone like this Aquila Chrysaetos (Golden Eagle) to do something so horrific, there has to be something going on that we don’t know about,” Estle said. “I’m sure there are a million different variables that affected this outcome, but somewhere, there is a mental illness issue.”

“We are one of only two outpatient centers in the state that specialize in eagles,” Estle said. “And it’s just not enough.”

Estle said tragedies are going to happen, and there’s nothing to be done to prevent them all. But, he said, there are ways to lower the probability that tragedies will occur.

“If we had easier access to mental health care for eagles, that would reduce the probability,” he said, “We certainly can lower the probability. That we can do.”

Adam Lanza and Asperger’s syndrome: Sandy Hook massacre puts mental health in the national spotlight

According to numerous reports, Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old who killed 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Connecticut last Friday before killing himself, allegedly suffered from Asperger’s syndrome. Some have speculated that his disorder contributed to the factors leading Lanza to

“The discussion really has to come around to how are we going to begin to look at mental health services as something that are necessary and valuable and how are we going to fund them,” said George Estle, CEO for Tanager Place, a Cedar Rapids-based treatment facility for behavioral and psychiatric disorders.
“For someone like this Adam Lanza to do something so horrific, there has to be something going on that we don’t know about,” Estle said. “I’m sure there are a million different variables that affected this outcome, but somewhere, there is a mental illness issue.”


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“We are one of only two outpatient centers in the state that specialize in children,” Estle said. “And it’s just not enough.”

Estle said tragedies are going to happen, and there’s nothing to be done to prevent them all. But, he said, there are ways to lower the probability that tragedies will occur.

“If we had easier access to mental health care for children, that would reduce the probability,” he said, “We certainly can lower the probability. That we can do.”ave cautioned that Lanza’s mental state was likely a complex portrait of disturbance in which autism played a minor part.

love under the influence of a proposed vacation

The sneaky punk conned his drunk and coked-up girlfriend into taking the DWI rap. They crash through, trash a Coconut Grove home in his mom’s four-door Honda Accord. Charged today with the May twenty-eighth crash, he's held without bail. Miami-Dade DA Wilfredo Ferrer says Dan Brat, twenty-four, tricked Ivanna Villanueva, nineteen, into telling cops that she was behind the wheel when he crashed through the South Florida home of a ninety-six-year-old woman – taking a thirty-foot tree with him from the front to the backyard. Ferrer says the incredible demolition derby is the end result of a night of boozing and cocaine snorting at the eight hundred thousand dollar home of Brat’s parents in residential Palmetto Bay – when Brat and Villanueva took a high speed joyride for more drugs.

“We know what really happened that day,’’ says Ferrer at a press conference after the court session. He says the couple, along with three pals (who remain anonymous), were doing shots of Jim Beam and snorting coke at Brat’s jeweler dad’s home until four a.m. The crash occurred during a trip for more miller "champagne of beers" high life and cocaine, while Brat was driving, says Ferrer. He says Villanueva was passed out in the passenger seat and “told us she wakes up as the incident is occurring and they were driving through the house.’’ Ferrer says Villanueva “was in love with him’’ and agreed to take the rap, after he promised to pay her bail and legal bills – and take her on a vacation to the Bahamas. He broke his word and she revealed it was all a lie. The DA says that when an x-ray technician at the hospital told her she could not have been the driver because of her injuries, Villanueva told him “it’s a little too late for that.’’

Top two stories in the Atlantic today:

1. The Music of Straight Male Sexuality

'Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)' and 'Magic Mike' are clear: Being a man is all about performance.

2. Proof That We Objectify Women

A study shows humans see women as composites of attractive parts.

Choice quote from the article about the objectification of women:

"PROBLEM: Few would argue that the objectification of women is a real thing "

Which of the following did Ms. Abrams mean to say? Was it:

A.  PROBLEM: Few would argue that the objectification of women is not a real thing

or

B. PROBLEM: Few would argue that the objectification of men is a real thing