US Police Detained 26 Yr Old Marine Without Charges, Have Him Lock Up on Psychic.

 Screenshot of 'Support Brandon Raub' group on Facebook

Brandon J. Raub has been ordered to stay in a mental health institution for a month without charge – and contrary to the American constitution, his defense says. His supporters are concerned any American could end up in Raub’s shoes. US police detained Raub, 26, a Marine Corps veteran, on Thursday, without presenting any charges and even without reading to Raub his Miranda rights, and took him to John Randolph Medical Center, where he is currently being held involuntarily, his defense said in a press-release.

A video of his detention emerged online, triggering outrage online, including among American citizens and human rights activists.

"For government officials to not only arrest Brandon Raub for doing nothing more than exercising his First Amendment rights [to freedom of speech], but to actually force him to undergo psychological evaluations and detain him against his will goes against every constitutional principle this country was founded upon," said John Whitehead, executive director of the Rutherford Institute, a civil liberties group that has come to the Raub’s defense.

The statement on the veteran’s situation posted on the Rutherford Institute website points out that Brandon Raub is no different from the majority of Americans “who use their private Facebook pages to post a variety of content, ranging from song lyrics and political hyperbole to trash-talking their neighbors, friends and government leaders.”

Raub’s mother Cathleen Thomas told in an interview with CBS 6, a local news network, that the evaluation, as she was told by her son, “was 15 minutes long, and basically the evaluator said that he was not ready to go back into society and he needed additional psychiatric treatment.”

At a hearing on Monday held in the mental institution, government officials confirmed Raub’s Facebook posts as the only reason for his detention, paying no attention to his comments that those online messages were wrongly interpreted.

Security forces are said to be using a piece of legislation called Virginia State Code §37.2-808 Emergency custody, under which it is permitted to detain a person in a mental institution without presenting any charges against him, only upon a medic’s recommendation.

A Facebook group supporting Raub has been created and has over 4,500 members as of now.

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Fam. of Joey Kovar In Shock Hard To Believe it Was Drugs

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Since this report the autopsy is been made and is clear what type of drugs he had in his system.  Those drugs like viagra, coke, pot, alcohol was probably because of a night of binging. Like he always said he was a ‘binger'.  He could not do something and then stop. But the important thing is that it does not look like a suicide, but a mixture of drugs that taken together will probably stop your  heart,  Still Toxicology results have not come in yet. They help determine any other drug and can give a better idea if it was suicide or lets say like if he was injected with something, as a example.Meanwhile it doesn’t help the family to know that it was Joey’s doing what brought a bout his early death,adamfoxie*

Reality-TV star Joey Kovar's family was reportedly in shock after the "Real World" and "Celebrity Rehab" personality was found dead Friday morning at a friend's house in the Chicago area.

"Everyone is in shock right now. He seemed fine, he was happier and he was doing better," David Kovar, Joey's brother, told the Chicago Tribune.

David Kovar also said the family was not suspecting drug use, despite a TMZ report that said they were, combined with the 29-year-old's previous struggles with addiction.

"Everything was going very well," David Kovar told the Tribune. "The very, very last thing that our family is suspecting is drugs." No foul play was suspected either, police said.

In the 20th "Real World" cycle, set in Hollywood, Joey Kovar left after several episodes to go to a 30-day rehab, then moved back into the house with his castmates before the season ended.

"I am all about being positive nowadays, and I do not and will not hold a grudge on anyone for anything," he said at the time, according to MTV, the network on which "Real World" airs. "At one time, I was a very negative person and held a lot of grudges — most of my life was one letdown after another. Now I'm in a very different place. The more positive I am and the more I give back, the better quality my life is and has 

been."

The trainer-bodybuilder and aspiring actor later appeared on "Celebrity Rehab," saying he struggled with cocaine, ecstasy and alcohol addiction.

Joey Kovar is survived by a 3-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter, the Tribune said. An autopsy was done last Saturday.  

By Christie D'Zurilla

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Boy14, Raped in Manchester Dept.Store Toilet

LONDON — Police are searching for two men after a 14-year-old boy was raped in a Manchester department store toilet on a Saturday afternoon.

The boy was in the Arndale Centre in Manchester city centre at around 5.45pm on June 2 when he went to the toilet.

"While there he was approached by two men, one Asian, one white, who stared at him," a Greater Manchester Police statement said.

"One of them said to him 'come with us, do what we say and if you try to run we'll get you' and he was grabbed by the arm, led out of the Arndale centre and taken to nearby Debenhams.

"He was then taken by the lift upstairs and was marched to a toilet where he was raped by the Asian man."

Police said the victim, described as "traumatised", reported the incident and has been supported by a team of specially trained officers who have spent the last two months working with him to build a picture of what happened.

The statement said police were also waiting for the results of forensics tests before making their appeal.

Detective Sergeant Liam Boden, of North Manchester CID, said: "This young victim has been absolutely devastated by what happened to him."

He added: "What makes this incident doubly shocking is that he was marched across a busy part of the city centre during the late afternoon on Saturday."

Police hope other shoppers saw the men and may be able to identify them.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact Greater Manchester Police.

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Prince Harry Might Have Been Peed on by Ryan Lochte

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over the weekend (along with Jennifer Lopez, Pauly D, and lots of other people who are really glad they're not famous enough to have their 4 a.m. exploits at XS written about on the internet ... not that we're speaking from personal experience or anything). At first blush, it seemed that Prince Harry kept to himself, but now a grainy video of him conversing with Lochte in the pool at the Wynn has surfaced. 

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For some inexplicable reason, Lochte is not shirtless, instead preferring to wade around in a wet tee. More importantly, doesn't Harry know not to stand so close to him in water? Particularly after alcoholic beverages have been consumed? Anyway, the video also shows them racing each other in the crowded pool, which basically amounts to them trying to clear people out of the way and then splashing around for a ten-foot distance. In short, we were totally wrong when we said that Lochte's post-Olympic tour was getting awkward; turns out we're not tired of him yet at all. You can see the full video, from the Daily News, here:

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HIV Tests Will Become Common Occurrence From Now On

By Salimah Ebrahim  Reuters 

 A U.S. health panel may soon make HIV testing as standard a practice as checking cholesterol levels, a move that would fundamentally change how the virus is detected and treated.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task force, a government-backed group of clinicians and scientists, is expected to make a new recommendation on HIV screening available for public comment before the end of the year.

Health officials close to the panel, speaking on condition of anonymity, see it making a positive recommendation for routine screening, updating their current position, issued in 2005, which leaves the decision up to doctors.

Under President Barack Obama's healthcare law, passed in 2010, insurers are required to cover preventive services that are recommended by the task force.

"This would be one of those major sea changes ... moving away from what has been somewhat the segmentation of HIV - either by population, by geography," said Michael Kharfen, chief of community outreach for the Washington, D.C., Department of Health. Kharfen, who worked on the frontlines of the HIV epidemic in New York in the 1980s, recalls when the prognosis for the disease was "practically certain you were going to die.

"It still will take culture change for medical providers, but this will be a tremendous leap," he said.

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'The Office' Out to Lunch } Wont Be Back

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It’s past time for the show to wrap up, especially because as soon as it does, I can put these recent seasons in their proper place — the so-so coda to a sharp, hilarious, squishy-in-the-middle show — and go back to appreciating the high-level sitcomery “The Office” practiced for so long and the single-camera comedy revolution it helped usher in.

Daniels, in the phone call, framed the decision to end “The Office” as an artistic one. “This year feels like the last chance to really go out together and make an artistic ending of the show,” he said, noting that the “format is really strong,” i.e., it would have been possible to make an “Office” with an almost entirely new cast, much the way “ER” wrapped up with almost 100 percent actor turnover from how it began.  (And even with the drop-off in quality, “The Office” remains NBC’s highest-rated sitcom. On NBC that isn’t saying much, except that the network would have been happy to keep it around.)

But given how rudderless the show felt last season after Steve Carell’s departure, Daniels doesn’t seem to be interested in finding out how the show would fare without other cast mainstays. Mindy Kaling and BJ Novak are scheduled to appear in only a handful of this year’s episodes, Rainn Wilson has signed on to an “Office”-spinoff, “The Farm,” and Daniels said he doubted Ed Helms and John Krasinski would have returned for a 10th season.

And so, instead of an interminable dragging on, there’s an end. Daniels says the final season will focus on Jim and Pam and reveal the identity of the documentary crew, whom I had long since ceased thinking of as real.

More important, I hope, it will go a long way toward scrubbing bad-”Office” taste from my mouth. A hard deadline should energize the writing staff, revitalizing a show that has been very droopy these last few seasons, giving it back its sharp edges and rescuing the exceptionally mushy scenes it’s always been so good at from pure sentimentality. And besides, even if this upcoming season is another disappointment, at least it will be over soon — at which point we can get on with remembering “The Office’s” better self.

 People

Willa Paskin is Salon's staff TV writer. 

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Rumors and Pics } ACooper and Ex Living Together Still

The CNN anchor and his longtime boyfriend seem to be still cohabitating despite reports that Maisani was cheating on him.

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Anderson Cooper and his boyfriend Ben Maisani were spotted leaving their apartment Tuesday morning.

News anchor Anderson Cooper is still sharing his berth with boyfriend Ben Maisani – two weeks after pictures of Maisani kissing another man surfaced online.

Cooper, 45, was photographed leaving his converted fire station townhouse Tuesday morning dressed casually in jeans and a baseball cap.

About an hour later, Maisani left out the same door of the West Village residence and hopped on his bicycle.

The longtime couple is weathering reports of a cheating scandal after the U.K.’s Daily Mail published photos of Maisani smooching an unidentified man in a leafy New York park earlier this month.

Maisani, 39, and his CNN squeeze have been together more than three years and just returned from a vacation in Croatia spent with pals Kelly Ripa and her hubby Mark Consuelos.

Anderson Cooper's boyfriend Ben Maisani making out with a mystery man in the park in a sunny afternoon in NYC. (Splash News)

Cooper is extremely private about his personal life, never mentioning his sexual orientation in his 2006 memoir. It wasn’t until July that he publicly confirmed he was gay in a statement to TheDailyBeast.com.

“The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud,” he wrote.

Cooper’s rep didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The son of famed designer Gloria Vanderbilt, Cooper posted a Twitter photo Tuesday showing his smiling face on the new set of his daytime talk show "Anderson Live," which premieres Sept. 10. 

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Rugby Player David Pocock Schools Pols on Gay Marrriage

 by Jim Buzinski.

One of the most eloquent and charismatic straight athlete allies for gay rights is David Pocock, an Australian rugby player. He and his partner, Emma, won’t marry until gays and lesbians have the same rights in Australia. He is up front and proud of his support for same-sex marriage, a hot topic being debated in parliament Down Under.

Pocock was on the Australian Broadcasting Company TV show “Q&A” (video below) to discuss gays in sports and gay rights in general and he totally outshined John Alexander, a former tennis great and now member of parliament for the Liberal Party, which opposes same-sex marriage. Alexander said that his party would not be changing its views, which drew this retort from Pocock:

The biggest thing in this debate is that we’re dealing with people here. And how can you blame someone for what they are? People don’t choose their sexuality and we marginalize the LGBTI community for what they are. I think that this is a conversation that needs to be had and that needs to be discussed compassionately and actually come to something that’s reasonable. And in my mind, that’s marriage for everyone. We’ve moved forward on so many issues and this is the next progression.

Alexander was obviously uncomfortable discussing the subject and at one point said: “I was just trying to squirm around and get out of it,” when asked how his views squared with that of his party’s. He then offered this weird parsing of the issue based on a conversation he had recently:

“As we talked we had this flippant conversation, maybe we should institute a gay marriage for women and call it a Navratilova and as the conversation went on possibly an Alexander for gay men, not after me but for Alexander the Great.”

Pocock was ready with this nice response:

A lot of gay people may not believe in the institution of marriage, but I believe it needs to be an option. How can we be challenging homophobia when we’re saying. ‘You’re equal to me but you’re separate. I’ll go sign this [marriage] document here but you can go have your civil union,’ which is the same, but not really.

The video (about nine minutes long) is worth watching, if only to see how dynamite Pocock is as a speaker and advocate:

Photo: David Pocock of the Wallabies runs with the ball during the Australian Wallabies captain’s run  on Aug. 17, 2012 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Matt King/Getty Images)

Hat tip to Andrew Glenn for the item. Andrew wrote a coming out story for us when he was a collegiate rower  and now lives in Sydney, Australia.

Outsports.com

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