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Concern over asbis after report finds people jailed for sleeping rough and feeding birds
2025-05-05 02:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Almost 250 people have been imprisoned for breaching antisocial behaviour injunctions (asbis) since 2020, with people being jailed for sleeping rough, begging, feeding birds and making a noise.Analysis from academics at the universities of York and Coventry found that out of 242 cases examined from 2020-2024, there were 72 cases of imprisonment for general nuisance, 61 for abusive language and 51 for noise.They found that 57% of people did not have legal representation at the breach hearing that led to their imprisonment: out of 97 recorded cases, 55 defendants were not represented.People are not getting proper representation and they get sent to prison for sometimes long periods, weeks and months. Theres no sentencing guidance for this, said Prof Caroline Hunter from York Law School. People might have a lot of issues that need to be dealt with, but theyre not dealt with by sending them to prison.An asbi is a civil injunction used to tackle antisocial behaviour, and can be issued...
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Marvel's Young Avengers Project Canceled
2025-05-05 01:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
The Young Avengers wont be reassembling after all. Last year, Marvel Comics editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski announced that the teen team who debuted in the pages of 2005s Young Avengers #1 by co-creators Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung would be reuniting for their 20th anniversary in 2025. There have been two Young Avengers teams, but now were deciding which characters for natural story reasons are going to join the new Young Avengers team, Cebulski said at Osaka Comic Con, naming founding members Iron Lad, Patriot, Hulkling, Wiccan, and Hawkeye as potential recruits. Videos by ComicBook.comBut in a recent update posted to his Substack blog, original Young Avengers editor Tom Brevoort revealed that those plans have fallen through.RELATED: Marvel Editor Reflects on the Young Avengers 20 Years Later: Nobody Liked the IdeaRight this second, there isnt any Young Avengers project on the horizon, the Marvel Comics Executive Editor, SVP and X-Men Group Editor wrote in response to a...
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Scammers are posing as IRS agents and stealing people's money. One man's story proves it can happen to anyone.
2025-05-05 01:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Credit: Jeffrey Hazelwood / Mashable Composite; Liudmyla Lishchyshyna/OlyaSolodenko/Allvisionn/iStock/Getty Images Plus Brad K. was to put it mildly exhausted. In May 2024, he was a brand-new father to a weeks-old baby, balancing the new responsibility with his role as a husband and dog dad."They say the three biggest life stressors are having a kid, moving, and starting a new job," he said in an interview with Mashable. "And I did all three at the same time, within a month of one another."Sleep deprived and facing one of life's most stress-inducing transitions, Brad, admittedly, wasn't his normal, clearheaded self when an unknown number called him after a long day of grocery and Home Depot runs, driving home with dinner for him and his wife.A man was on the other end, speaking in what Brad recognized as a regional accent. He explained, with the lack of urgency stereotypically associated with civil servants, that Brad had misfiled his taxes. He still owed more than $800 to the fede...
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