Tom Petty passed away on October 2 at the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica. At just 66 years old, the legendary musician died after suffering from cardiac arrest. The already traumatic event was made even more upsetting thanks to a mix-up with sources that led to outlets prematurely reporting his death. This was upsetting to fans, but even more so to Petty's daughter, AnnaKim Violette. In the midst of the confusion, she took to Instagram to scold the publications who incorrectly reported his death:

"my dad is not dead yet but your fucking magazine is ⚡️⚡️⚡️your slime😵 has been pieces of tabloid dog shit. You put the worst artists on your covers do zero research. How dare you report that my father has died just to get press because your articles and photos are so dated. I will fucking shit down your throat and your family's . Try not being a trump vibe. This is my father not a celebrity. An artist and human being. Fuck u"

Tom died later that same evening.

Throughout the night, AnnaKim continued posting on the social media, and changed her name, username, and bio to be tributes to her father. Her username was "dadlivesmatteronelove" and her name is listed as "Ilovemyfamily." She changed her username at the time of publish to "inviteloveinvitelove." Her bio reads: "Please respect my family and me we are fucking bad ass much love to you dear one."

She then began posting old and recent pictures of her father and his work, accompanied by captions like this one:

"One week ago today I was watching my dad play💚we showed up rushed to our seats💚I got stoned had a beer the lights went dark💚sat watching realizing I grew up on these songs💚everyone grew up on these songs💚🇺🇸this is real American Art made from the roots of real people who deeply love life💚🐛my father loves music more than anything and always put music first💚it's going to be healing to know I will never go a day without hearing his music💚I love his class honesty and how strange and funny he is💚Tom Petty is an American Icon because his heart has always put human rights first. We are one💚I love you dad your songs are dreams manifested 💌⚡️"

Click ahead to see AnnaKim Violette's full, heartbreaking tribute to her late father.

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Yesterday morning I was standing barefoot in the kitchen when a news alert buzzed on my phone: another mass shooting. At that point, the reports were just starting to trickle in. We didn’t know how many injured or dead, or who was responsible, or why. But we did know what would come next. How many times have we woken up to the worst massacre of modern times?

It would start with hearts and prayers from public figures, rote reactions spread through a vast digital web; followed by emojis, bespoke hashtags, and Facebook posts declaring that “we stand with [insert latest site of terror].” Then the gunfight: an outcry from anti-gun activists and pro-gun advocates, both of whom would accuse the other of co-opting a tragedy for their own ends — a recrimination that is also the truth. Ultimately, the shooting in Vegas will, like the ones that came before it, reflect political polarisation instead of communal heartache and horror.

It is not revelatory to say that, at a moment in history when we are as digitally interconnected as we have ever been, we are equally as divided. There won’t be a national day of mourning because there is no one to lead it; and also because if we marked every one of these events meaningfully we might have to acknowledge, collectively, that something has gone terribly wrong. And then we might have to agree to fix it.

While there are countless ways in which digital camaraderie has been a gift, the plain truth is that we have lost the ritual of sitting together in our sorrow and replaced it with sad-faced emoticons and Facebook statuses. All you have to do is examine your own heart to know that is not enough. But what should a ritual for collective modern grief — for human-inflicted violence that is at once random and predictable — look like?

“We live in a culture where everything is so individualised that we don’t have a communal space for us to mourn the deaths of people, who we may or may not know, and to feel all of the feelings that are part of living in a world where you or your children could be gunned down at any time,” Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg told me early Monday, while we were on the phone talking about the dearth of rituals supporting grief on a cultural scale. “We make the choice to numb out, so that we can go back to work and to living our lives, and to feeling that we’re safe and it’s okay.”

Except that we’re not safe, and it’s not okay. Pretending otherwise is both all we can do and the worst thing for us — particularly when the days and weeks thereafter will be stippled with bitter tweets and I-told-you-so’s that accomplish nothing except a widening of the chasm. The ancient Greeks, returning from war, used to sit through tragic plays meant to bring about a catharsis that would allow them to emotionally integrate back into everyday life. In the United States, we have no such mass ritual for soldiers — or for ordinary people — to process the aftermath of man-created catastrophe. Twitter is not the venue for an undertaking of such gravity; nor is there any single beacon capable of uniting us in common mourning. So where does that leave we, the people?

The structures that are in place tend to exist on an individual, subcultural, level. Rabbi Ruttenberg shared that, in Judaism, after a loss, people pledge to honour the memory of a person who has died, in myriad ways. “Embedded in our mourning rituals is the idea that we have to work to honour that memory. We need to do something.” But first, she said, we need to be sad: to sit with that feeling, and to go through it, so that we can get through it.

It’s a process at odds with our collective emotional pathos. After Virginia Tech and Newtown, after Paris and Orlando, depressed but personally unscathed, I searched for the line between empathy and over-identification. Does this grief belong to me? I wondered then, and now, sitting at my desk, a day after 59 people were shot dead at a country music festival. How sad am I allowed to be?

“It’s almost taboo to feel horrible grief and sorrow,” psychotherapist Toni Coleman told me, shortly after I hung up with Ruttenberg. “Certainly the people directly affected by that horrible tragedy will go through the grieving process. But the larger culture will forget, or take sides, and move on.”

Still. “We’re overwhelmed. There’s too much sadness, too much grief,” she says. “What happens is our defences kick in, and while they work, they can be very dysfunctional. One of those defences is denial; another is depersonalisation.” ( How sad am I allowed to be?) “But how do you work through horrible violence,” Coleman asks before we hang up, a detectable tremor in her voice, “when we know it’s going to happen again?” She’s right. The most predictable element of this weekend's massacre is that we know another plot is hiding in the wings.

That question in mind, I called Reverend Abby Mohaupt, who spoke from the perspective of her own Presbyterian faith; I have known Abby since we were children growing up in a mid-size midwestern town, back when Columbine seemed like an isolated incident. We walked the same hallways the day the Twin Towers fell.

For whatever reason, she told me this week, the human condition requires suffering. “Thank goodness we don’t always have to use our own words. We can use the words of the Psalms, and that helps give us strength to look and see the pain.” Prayers — rituals — are a processing, a way to both acknowledge grief and also a rubric to work through it. It’s easy to wall off this shooting (any shooting) as something unrelated to ourselves. But how do we get to the place where, as Mohaupt put it, “our hearts will break with whoever’s heart is breaking”?

As I sit here typing, my heart is still breaking. I am agnostic so I read a poem instead of saying a prayer and then keep making calls because that is the ritual of my grief: talking to strangers, and long lost friends, about something we have in common now. By mid-afternoon I’m on the line with New York University’s Professor David Elcott, an interfaith and community organisation expert (among many other bona fides). Our exchange is like trying to untie a knot made of knots.

“Because of political polarisation,” he says, “grieving becomes very complicated. Because if I admit to grieving, and to the larger picture of this suffering — in this case, caused by people shooting other people — that may force me to say: We need to do something about guns. It’s an environment where we can’t step aside and say we need to grieve together, irrespective of our political stance, in order to process the enormous pain caused by these losses.”

Put another way: If you’re pro-gun, there is no room to admit to grief. In 2017, the ritual response to a mass shooting is to defend your position on the Second Amendment. At the same time, if you’re anti-gun, you’ve been given a hand to play, and the next move is to make use of that opportunity. Fundamentally, that divides us into two camps, neither of which benefits from the catharsis of collective grief; we do not get to share our burden. “What happens to a society that cannot grieve together, to share in the feeling of owning the pain?" Elcott wondered toward the end of our conversation. All I can think is: this mess we're in.

But I can't leave things there — not today. So I get back on the phone, once more, this time to speak with Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. In Zen, he explains, the core aim is to sit with your mind and your heart; to cultivate silence around non-reactivity; to just be. “When things are sad, they are sad,” he tells me.

I am leaning on a brick wall down the street from my apartment, the sun is dropping in the sky, and people are going about their evenings as if there had not been a mass shooting the night before, and for the first time all day, I'm crying. Later, at home, I pull a book off the shelf in my office that was given to me sometime after my father passed away two summers ago, called Grief Is The Thing With Feathers. In it, a man who has lost his wife is visited by a large black bird, which sounds sinister but is not: Crow is a sentimental animal and human grief is the shiny tinsel that drew him to the man, and his two young sons, in the first place. It’s a slim novella — tender, wickedly funny, and yes, full of sorrow, all at the same time.

In the end, Crow flies away, not because the grieving is over, but because it has become a known entity, a familiar companion. What I am trying to say is that it is easier to live with heartache when you are no longer a stranger to your own sadness; what I mean is, to get through it, you have to go through it.

When things are sad, they are sad, I wrote down in a notebook and then pinned above my desk. It's a reminder to sit with sorrow and be sad when we are sad. To let our hearts break and to do the work of honouring the dead. To challenge any political leaning held dearer than beating human hearts. To grieve so that maybe someday we'll get through this, together.

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Editor's note: This story was amended on 9th October. Certain quotes from the interview were removed.

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Her work is a social documentary of what it means to be young and to have style. And as you’ll quickly see from the sporadic self-portraits on her Instagram, at 25 and from the Bronx, she’s the perfect poster girl for her aesthetic.

Ahead are photos from Renell’s thesis when she was a student at the prestigious Parsons School of Design. Depicting a group of friends in the Bronx over a two-year period, the project, ‘Untitled Youth’, won her the New York Times Blog Award.

Since then, Renell has photographed the likes of Bella Hadid, Kendall and Kylie Jenner, and A$AP Ferg. When we speak over the phone, she’s just wrapped a video for GQ featuring Cara Delevingne and is working on curating her first solo show, coming soon.

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Amazon is facing criticism for selling a hoodie that appears to promote and downplay the seriousness of anorexia, describing the disease as "like bulimia, except with self control".

Although the hoodie is actually made by ArturoBuch, the online marketplace has been blasted as "irresponsible" and for "trivialising" a serious mental health condition.

.@amazon Please remove this #anorexia 'hoody' item from sale. #eatingdisorders kill. It is not a joking matter https://t.co/Cf0ZNMqT8G pic.twitter.com/CKQdDE8shg

— Dr Andy Mayers FRSA (@DrAndyMayers) September 29, 2017

Anorexia sufferer Beth Grant called the hoodie "absolutely disgraceful", telling the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme that it could be extremely harmful to anyone with anorexia or bulimia. "I think it could damage their mental health even further and cause them to potentially harm their life," she added.

Critics have also left damning one-star reviews on the hoodie's Amazon page. "Are you f'ing kidding me???? My son died from anorexia. This is not funny," wrote one user, while another said such messages "[damage] the lives of the most susceptible members of our society. Making a profit by marketing eating disorders is pure evil."

Another user powerfully highlighted the manufacturer's basic misunderstanding of the eating disorder: "Anorexia isn’t a choice, and it has nothing to do with self control. When you have anorexia, you have zero control... No one who understands the first thing about anorexia would want it or wish it on their worst enemy. Selling this is completely irresponsible."

Beat, the UK's leading eating disorder charity, tweeted to criticise the hoodie, saying that downplaying the seriousness of eating disorders stops sufferers from seeking help.

The stigma surrounding #eatingdisorders stops many from seeking help. Trivialising them only makes it harder. https://t.co/8LuCJuoWPZ https://t.co/3zI1h41ls3

— Beat (@beatED) October 3, 2017

Meanwhile, many others, including eating disorder sufferers, also slammed the hoodie on social media.

Amazon hoodie supposed to be funny? Guess I had a humour by-pass during my 25yrs of anorexia (binge/purge type..) #VictoriaLIVE

— Mel (@RuftyRoo) October 3, 2017

This makes me so sad. Anorexia silently kills a person on the inside and then kills their entire body. Take it down!

— Andrea Carolina, LPC (@lightlypink) October 1, 2017

Who would even buy a hoodie like that?! Bizarre! They should be removed from the UK internet sites. Extreme bad taste. #VictoriaLive

— Lorraine Moore (@Community_Moore) October 3, 2017

who the fuck could think this was acceptable, let alone funny | BBC News - Calls for Amazon to ban 'anorexia hoodie' https://t.co/GRQzvIPdzI

— Rebecca Took (@rktook) October 3, 2017

Distasteful from Amazon, stop selling it now - turning eating disorders into a fashion statement is NEVER acceptable https://t.co/ye3uns7owE

— Gemma-Lou Stevenson (@gstevensonsport) October 3, 2017

That hoodie getting sold on @amazon is NOT in the slightest bit funny. Anorexia/Bulimia is NOT a joking matter. Mental Health IS NOT funny 😠

— Christine Spencer (@chris165281) October 3, 2017

Amazon has a history of selling clothes on its platform that trivialise mental illnesses, as many critics were quick to point out on Twitter. Along with numerous other items seeming to promote anorexia, the slogan on one T-shirt using the keyword 'schizophrenia' read: "It wasn't my fault the voices told me to do it!"

@AmazonUK have long story of selling products that stigmatise mental health despite complaints. just found this using keyword schizophrenia pic.twitter.com/H7YymSXYPV

— Nick Lloyd (@photographs_etc) October 3, 2017

if you think these are isolated examples you can easily find many more like this one: @AmazonUK #banmentalhealthstigma pic.twitter.com/YopmxfsuLx

— Nick Lloyd (@photographs_etc) October 3, 2017

Thank you for sharing this,Andy. Very concerning. They also have a 'humour' range of large 'I beat Anorexia' tshirts & even a baby bib... pic.twitter.com/A3WyezXchZ

— CaoilfhionnGallagher (@caoilfhionnanna) September 30, 2017

Amazon hasn't commented on the controversy.

If you are struggling with an eating disorder, please call Beat on 0808 801 0677. Support and information is available 365 days a year.

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Money Diaries is the regular R29 series where we tackle what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. And so we ask all different kinds of women to map out their seven days in money for us.

Now, though, Money Diaries is branching out – we’re going to find out exactly what people spend on their holidays!

This week we're with a 35-year-old Irish writer of commercial fiction based in Dublin who, after royalties, speaking fees and freelance work, just about makes a living from it. She says she's terrible with money and the fact that her income is paid in sporadic, irregular instalments really doesn’t help.

This week, though, she’s realising a dream: she’s going to spend a week at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris, a sort of youth hostel for Irish artists on the city’s Left Bank. But she’s down to the dregs of her last royalty payment and doesn’t expect the next until after she’s arrived back home. This trip is going to have to involve some serious budgeting. Just as well she won’t be doing much sightseeing, shopping or café crème-ing. After all, she’s going there to write. Right?

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So you think you get enough sleep, do you? Think you can exist on six, maybe seven hours a night? If, when your alarm goes off in the morning, you feel as though you could keep snoozing, then you’re likely not getting enough good quality sleep at night. If you can’t function without coffee before noon, you’re probably sleep-deprived. And if you’re sleep-deprived, you’re not alone: according to the World Health Organization, we are in the midst of a global sleep-deprivation epidemic.

Not getting enough shut-eye won’t just make you yawn on the Tube or wish for nap-time at your desk. According to one of the world’s leading sleep scientists, the less you sleep, the shorter your life will be. Matthew Walker is a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California and he’s just published the definitive manifesto on sleep science, called Why We Sleep – out this week.

In this important, elegantly written and obsessively researched book, Walker lays out some astonishing facts about the importance of sleep. If you’ll excuse my decision to use this phrase, it’s a serious wake-up call that we need to take our sleep much more seriously – and fast. Sleep deprivation (that is, sleeping six hours or less a night or not getting the quality of sleep you require) is linked to Alzheimer’s disease, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, suicide, stroke, chronic pain, cancer, diabetes, heart attack, infertility, weight gain, obesity and immune deficiency. It can damage the brain, exacerbate mental illness, tempt serious physical illness, weaken the immune system, rile up the nervous system, erase concentration, deplete productivity, eradicate creativity, ravage the body and, in extreme cases, kill. The importance of sleep, quite seriously, cannot be overstated. It is, Walker says, more powerfully linked to our mortality than nutrition and exercise.

If you’d rather look at it in positive terms, sleep is the Swiss Army knife of medicine. It is a miraculous cure-all that, done properly, makes us live longer, enhances our memory, ignites our creativity, makes us more physically attractive, lowers our food cravings, regulates our emotions, protects us from cancer and dementia, staves off cold and flu, lowers our risk of stroke, diabetes and heart attack, and makes us happier, less depressed and less anxious.

So what, then, explains what Walker calls “society’s apathy towards sleep”? Why are we all so chronically under-slept, particularly when we know how important sleep is?

“Firstly, increased work hours, I think people are working longer to begin with,” says Walker. “Secondly, we know that actual commute times have also increased, so people are leaving their houses earlier, they’re coming home later, and they’re working longer in between too, all of which starts to squeeze sleep in this sort of vice grip and starts to pinch it down.”

Then there are our drugs of choice: “Caffeine consumption is obviously up. Caffeine is the second most traded commodity on the surface of the planet, would you believe, after oil, which tells you everything about the state of our sleep-deprived society. If there was a commercial metric of how sleep-deprived we are, it is probably that. Caffeine keeps us awake, it makes it harder to fall asleep, we all know that, but some people might not know caffeine also prevents you from getting good, deep sleep. So someone might say to me, 'I’m just one of those people who can have a coffee after dinner and I’m fine, I fall asleep and it’s no problem'. The problem is that even if you fall asleep, the depth of your sleep won’t be as deep as if you had abstained from coffee.”

So giving yourself a cut-off time of midday, or at the latest 2pm, for your last coffee of the day is sensible. As for our other most-beloved drug, alcohol, well, Walker says we shouldn’t be drinking at all at nighttime if we want to get the best possible snooze in.

“Alcohol is probably the most misunderstood of all chemicals we use for sleep,” he says. “People often say you can have a nightcap, you fall asleep more quickly – it’s actually incorrect because alcohol is a type of drug that we call a sedative and unfortunately sedation is not sleep, it’s very different and it doesn’t give you the benefits of sleep. So when people say they fall asleep more quickly when they’ve had a bit of whiskey, they’re losing consciousness but they’re not falling into a natural sleep. Alcohol also fragments your sleep throughout the night so you wake up many more times and wake the next morning feeling unrefreshed and unrestored. It blocks your dream sleep or your REM sleep, which is vital for many aspects of brain and body health, particularly emotional regulation and control.”

The other things keeping us awake are light, technology and heat. Since Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb, we have chased away the darkness that naturally tells us when to sleep. Computer and mobile phone screens also contribute to this diminishing of darkness, which we actually need to trigger the release of the hormone melatonin, which tells the body to sleep. That, and we are setting our air-conditioners too high. Most people tend to go for about 20 degrees Celsius on their radiators but that’s actually too hot to sleep properly. Sleep requires a little cool – something more like 18 degrees Celsius. It also requires regularity – we should be going to bed and waking up at the same time each day, no matter what – but we rebel against this rule flagrantly.

Underscoring all these logistical factors is a dangerous disrespect for the act of sleeping. We tend to associate sleep with slothfulness, dismissing people who sleep eight hours or more a night as lazy, rather than sensible, as they are. We shame teenagers for sleeping in, shun night owls for their natural sleep cycles, tease habitual nappers and roll our eyes at anyone who wants to get an early night. We simply do not appreciate how important sleep is – in fact, we seem to celebrate sleep deprivation like it’s noble or remarkable in some way. It is not. It is dangerous and life-threatening.

Reading Walker’s book has shocked me into prioritising my own sleep more. I, for one, will be trying to lock in regular bedtimes, regulating my coffee intake, working on making my office hours sensible, switching off my phone an hour before bed, and checking my room temperature and my attitude. I’d suggest you do the same. Good luck, and sweet dreams.

Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker is out now.

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Glossy lids have taken over. With Pat McGrath creating a high-shine blush lid at Valentino this season, and over 23,000 #glossyeyes posts on Instagram, it's fair to say the latex-look lid is here to stay. As fresh and clean or as bold and bright as you choose, the look is part of the wave of more experimental and playful beauty seen both within the industry and online.

"They're definitely an antidote to the traditionally ‘made-up’ look that people are increasingly moving away from," Kirsty Gaston, freelance makeup artist for 3INA, reiterates. So how can we create the look at home? "The new Eye Gloss by 3INA is really easy to use, with a sponge applicator that means no brushes or applicators are necessary. It comes in four colours (including clear) so you can tone it down or up depending on how you’re feeling," Gaston explains. "Just swipe the applicator straight across the eyelid for a really easy application, or dab on with fingers for a more understated shine." Another favourite of ours? For a less high-shine and more glowy eye, EOS's Visibly Soft Smooth Sphere Coconut Milk Lip Balm glides nicely across any flash of colour, and is wearable all evening.

Of course, waterproof mascara is a must if you want your lashes to stay intact and your lids to remain unstained. Wait for the majority of the product to set before looking up, and you're good to go. Click through to find the looks we're loving and the products we're touting to recreate them ourselves.

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Some trends are born on the catwalk and some are born on the streets. This season's look led by street stylers, models and editors alike? Head-to-toe red.

Back in August, we tipped the colour to be the shade of autumn, thanks to everyone from Dior to Balenciaga via Valentino and Ashish featuring red in their AW17 collections. After the February shows, Instagram followed suit, with Freja Wewer, Emili Sindlev, Reese Blutstein and Jeanne Damas all donning the colour. So what's changed between then and now? Rather than pairing a red blazer with your blue jeans, or choosing a red bag to complete your get-up, girls on the street have made it clear: it's time to go all-in and colour block from head to toe.

Not sure where to start? The street style in New York, London, Milan and Paris this SS18 is all the inspiration you need. Go all-out with a red maxi dress and boots or mix prints, shades and fabrics for a patchwork of the timeless colour. Much like lipstick, there's a red to suit everyone, whether you're more burgundy (go for plush velvets) or pillar box (grab a scene-stealing suit).

This season, go bold or go home. Click through to see our favourite styling tips, straight from the streets of fashion month.

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Ah, Hollywood. A place where the Botox flows like milk and honey, and you can't get a callback if you're an actress over 40. It's no secret that the city has an ageism problem and it's one singer St. Vincent is ready to bite back at.

While the second single off her album is the perfect juxtaposition to her hit "New York", it's the just-launched music video that caught our attention. "Los Ageless" takes L.A.'s impossible beauty standards and roasts them to the fullest degree — echoing the sentiment that if you're going to survive in L.A., you better do it without developing a single stress line on your face.

The video, directed by Willo Perron, features Annie Clark cycling through L.A.'s most stereotypical spots — a yoga studio, a nail salon, and a plastic surgeon's chair. While her skin is tugged away from her face, her feet become engulfed in a green ooze, and her body is bent out of shape, you begin to get the picture. If you don't, she sends "No" through a paper shredder about 100 times just to make it clear.

As the video plays, Clark sings: "The last days of the sunset superstars/ Girls in cages playing their guitars/ But how can I leave?/ I just follow the hood of my car/ In Los Ageless, the waves they never break/ They build and/ build until you don't have no escape/ But how can I leave?"

Despite sitting as stiff as a doll, Clark manages to strum away at her guitar — defying the inherent pressure to stay young forever, especially for a musician on the continuous come-up. We know, we know, you probably wanted to hear more intimate details about her relationship with Cara Delevingne — but we like this better.

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At 27, Linda Jiang has already achieved a career highlight that others might spend their entire lives dreaming about: She designed a new phone that actually made it to market, and earned its fair share of industry hype in the process, with reviews that put it up against the giants in the business — Apple and Samsung.

Jiang is the Head of Industrial Design at Essential Products. These days, it's hard for any phone — let alone one from a no-name company — to earn industry attention when it's shipped in the same quarter as the new Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and Apple's iPhone 8 and 8 Plus. But that's what Essential did with its first flagship product, the Essential Phone (also known as PH-1) and its magnetic, 360 degree camera attachment. Jiang led the design for both.

When I meet Jiang in person, she's dressed in a tight-fitting grey ribbed top, high waisted burgundy pants, and Stan Smith Adidas sneakers. Her highlighted black hair frames her face. She has a gold nose ring, and wears wide, round glasses with lenses connected by a coil. She sits on the edge of her seat, with the palpable energy of someone who is rarely sitting still for long.

Jiang is well aware of the fact that she defies most people's presumptions about who designs tech hardware. "I think [people] expect me to be a man," she says. Her image, she goes on to point out, is a far cry from the tech industry's most prominent designer — Apple's Jony Ive. Ive voices most Apple product videos, with a regal British accent well known enough to have been spoofed by everyone from Stephen Colbert to Sacha Baron Cohen.

Among the members of the Industrial Designers Society of America who have identified their gender, less than a third are female. Aside from numbers, that's been Jiang's personal experience as well: Ever since the Michigan native enrolled in industrial design classes at Detroit's College for Creative Studies, she's found herself to be one of just a few women in her cohort — a narrative most women in tech are familiar with.

Still, it was a woman in her division at Motorola, where Jiang earned an internship after college, who helped her learn the ropes. "She was like, 'I'm going to help you through this. I'm going to tell you the tricks of how to work with these guys," Jiang says, referencing the predominantly male environment. "[Before,] there were times where I wanted to cry after a meeting because I felt like nothing I said ever got through."

After Motorola, Jiang joined Playground. The Palo Alto startup incubator was founded by Andy Rubin, who created the original T-Mobile Sidekick and then Android, the latter of which was bought by Google in 2004. Essential Products came out of that incubator, and because Jiang was part of Playground, she got involved early on. She was one of the first three employees, including Rubin, of what is now an over 100 person staff.

"When I joined, Andy said, 'Design me something beautiful that you would want to carry,'" Jiang says. "I thought, how do I design this in a way where the tech feels sophisticated?"

Jiang wanted to design a phone that looked "very modern, clean and really refined," something she believes Apple has achieved, but many Android products have not. "A lot of times in the Android market [phones] end up looking very playful and fun, compared to what Apple is doing which is very premium, very high end."

The result of her year and a half of designing is the Essential Phone, a $699 (£525) sleek, rectilinear phone with rounded edges, an edge-to-edge glass display, titanium body, and ceramic back. As with recent iPhones, there's no headphone jack, but there is a fingerprint sensor on the back (a feature Apple is ditching with iPhone X). One of the stand out design features on Essential Phone is what's missing: A logo or branding of any sort.

"Companies tend to put logos on the back so that when you’re holdng your phone and talking on it, you’re a walking advertisement — we didn’t want to do that," Jiang says. This thinking lines up with who she and the Essential team see the phone targeting: "People that are sick of being at the whim of Samsung and Apple and want to try something new."

Still, $699 is a lot of money to spend on the first smartphone from a new company, regardless of its founder's origins. Apple and Samsung have cultivated a fanbase over the last decade. While the Essential Phone has received largely positive reviews, its camera, one of the most important parts of any new smartphone, has been a point of criticism across the board from publications that reviewed it.

The PH-1's camera is a bit disappointing: The colours are much darker in most shots, and the picture quality is grainier than photos taken with the iPhone 8 Plus. For all its hype, much of which was fuelled by a striking image of the phone the company posted to Twitter, there are reports that the Essential Phone has seen disappointing sales since being announced in May. The phone will be hitting Sprint stores in September.

Still, Jiang is undeterred by the uphill battle of entering the smartphone ring with the big shots: "This is not an industry you can be standstill and comfortable — there’s always a new tech company, and you're constantly chasing after the giants. You really have to be on your feet, which is really exhilarating. I have all the energy to do that right now so I’m going to keep on doing it for awhile."

She doesn't have plans to leave Essential anytime soon: She revels in the freedom of making phones at a company without much design history from past phones and accessories. She can call the shots. It's too soon to say how the company will perform in the long run, but Jiang has hopes that she can continue to innovate and make an impact in the mobile space with her team. For her career goals, that's essential.

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Theresa May today was handed a fake P45 form by a jokester as she gave her leader's speech at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, according to the Evening Standard.

Simon Brodkin, whose previous pranks include interrupting Kanye West on stage at Glastonbury and giving out golf balls with swastikas on at the reopening of Donald Trump's Turnberry golf resort, was promptly removed by security and pursued by journalists, not before adding “Boris told me to do it,” referring to the current foreign secretary.

A P45 is the reference code of a form titled "Details of employee leaving work" which is given to workers when their employment is terminated.

Hi @BorisJohnson, I gave Theresa her P45 just like you asked. pic.twitter.com/gzW0UluDMv

— Simon Brodkin (@simonbrodkin) October 4, 2017

The prime minister's spokesperson confirmed that Brodkin was later arrested for breach of the peace.

May's speech went from bad to worse as she suffered a coughing fit and had to be given a lozenge on stage. In the speech May apologised to her party for losing seats in June's general election.

The speech concluded with a letter sign falling off the wall as she spoke.

The moment a letter falls off the slogan behind Theresa May as she makes speech to #CPC17 https://t.co/LfRIUs5u2U pic.twitter.com/mgvHKmm74Q

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) October 4, 2017

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Thanks to a whole host of social, economic and cultural factors, women in much of the world – including the UK – are starting families later than ever. Last year, the number of older women (over 40) having babies overtook the number of younger women (20 and under) giving birth for the first time in 70 years, and the average age of first-time mothers in the UK is now 28.6, according to ONS data.

And this trend can be found across Europe – not just in the western European countries you might have expected. In the mid-1990s, there was a marked age gap between women in western Europe, southern Europe and eastern Europe, but this disparity has almost completely disappeared, The Economist reported.

Twenty or so years ago, women in western Europe (including France, Germany and Sweden) generally gave birth for the first time in their late 20s, while women in the south of the continent (Greece, Spain and Portugal) did so slightly earlier.

However, the picture was pretty different in post-communist eastern Europe. In countries such as Poland, Bulgaria and Romania, most women started families in their early 20s or teenage years, with very few over-30s becoming first-time mothers.

But this all changed in the following two decades, with the disparity between the regions disappearing almost completely. According to figures from Eurostat, women from southern and eastern Europe began following the example of western Europe and postponing childbirth.

One of the biggest factors behind this was the increased availability of contraception – which was seldom used before the 1990s due, at least in part, to religious reasons. Meanwhile, another cause was the appeal of university over marriage for many women – the proportion of women with degrees nearly tripled between 2002 and 2016, as The Economist highlights. (Maybe they heard that having a baby in your 30s has been linked to a longer life span, too?)

Not only do women across Europe now have babies later than they used to, they're also having fewer of them, with the average fertility rate across the continent now standing at between one and two.

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If you've never had a child and only read the tabloid press and celebrity gossip sites, you might have a strong impression of what a "post-baby body" looks like. The supermodels and Hollywood A-listers that dominate the media are praised for their taut, lithe physiques that look virtually identical to their pre-baby frames.

But one mother, who was blindsided by the reality of her own body after giving birth, wants to debunk the myth that every woman magically "bounces back" straight after labour.

Elise Raquel, from west Australia, posted a candid picture of her belly following the arrival of her daughter, Willa, to "celebrate postpartum bodies, in all their glory" and challenge the shame many women feel about theirs. The image shows Raquel, who also has two other children, in her "rawest and most vulnerable state".

Let's talk postpartum bodies! I asked @belleverdiglionephotography to take this photo, just hours after giving birth to Willa, in my rawest and most vulnerable state. I was in pain and I was overcome by a flood of emotions. Elated to have welcomed our beautiful girl and so empowered and proud of what my body and I had just done! It's a strange feeling to look down and still see a bump, even though you're holding your baby in your arms, even after doing it three times. It's not easy to go home with a baby and still have to wear maternity clothes. With my first I was adamant I would just "bounce back". Everyone would say "you're young, you'll loose the baby weight in no time!" But you know what, I didn't, I never have in fact. With each baby I've gained a few more kilos and a few more stretch marks. I used to feel the need to cover up in this newborn stage, I didn't want to see my body in this state, so why would anyone else? It's taken me three babies, but I've finally realised this postpartum body isn't something to hide! I am beyond proud for what this body has given and sacralised. I am thankful that my body is able to carry and birth babies naturally. I am NOT ashamed of my (many) new stripes and my postpartum body. And neither should you! Let's celebrate postpartum bodies, in all their glory. The female body is incredible and I am so proud of what mine has done!

A post shared by Formerly eliseraquel (@raisingyoungloves) on Jul 14, 2017 at 3:12am PDT

"It's a strange feeling to look down and still see a bump, even though you're holding your baby in your arms, even after doing it three times," she wrote to more than 31k followers. "It's not easy to go home with a baby and still have to wear maternity clothes."

She added that while she had been adamant that her body would just "bounce back", it has never returned to what it was pre-baby and she's learned to be proud of it. "With each baby I've gained a few more kilos and a few more stretch marks."

Raquel continued: "I used to feel the need to cover up in this newborn stage, I didn't want to see my body in this state, so why would anyone else? It's taken me three babies, but I've finally realised this postpartum body isn't something to hide! I am beyond proud for what this body has given and sacralised."

After realising her image, originally uploaded in July, had gone viral earlier this week and been largely celebrated, Raquel posted a series of images and answered some of the questions she'd received about the photo.

My post labour photo has been shared a few times on the internet this past week. And although I received a huge amount of support and had so many mothers share their own postpartum stories, I also saw many people question my decision to share such a personal photo publicly on the internet. So I thought I'd explain why. When I was pregnant with Peyton I really had no idea what post birth was really like, and you don't fully understand until you actually have a baby! I was one of the first of my friends to get pregnant, so I didn't have that support group to ask all those TMI questions about pregnancy and birth. My doctor was more concerned about setting a medically unnecessary induction date rather than explaining to me what post birth would be like! No one told me the reality of the fourth trimester. I had no idea you could still look so pregnant even after giving birth. Everyone told me I was young, I would bounce straight back, and I believed them. Just like many women do, I too used to look up to the media, celebrities who would show off their supermodel like post baby bodies just weeks after giving birth! I thought thats how it would be for me too. So when I went home from hospital four days after giving birth, still looking six months pregnant, I thought I must have done something wrong. How come I didn't look like they did post baby? How come I didn't bounce back straight away like everyone said I would? How come it took me a year to fit back into my pre baby jeans? Well, because for many women, and for me, this post baby picture that was painted in my head just wasn't realistic! There's so much pressure from society and from ourselves to look a certain way post baby, but for many that's not the case, and that's ok! I posted that photo because I wish someone had posted a photo just like mine when I was pregnant. I wish that someone had told me what realistically might happen to my body and to my mind. The fourth trimester is such a taboo topic. I want other mums also walking in my shoes to know that they're not alone. That whatever their postpartum journey may be, it's ok, it's normal and it should always be priaised! I did it for me, for you and for her!

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"No one told me the reality of the fourth trimester," she wrote. "I had no idea you could still look so pregnant even after giving birth. Everyone told me I was young, I would bounce straight back, and I believed them.

"Just like many women do, I too used to look up to the media, celebrities who would show off their supermodel like post baby bodies just weeks after giving birth! I thought that's how it would be for me too. So when I went home from hospital four days after giving birth, still looking six months pregnant, I thought I must have done something wrong."

The media's portrayals of women's post-baby physiques is unrepresentative of most women's realities, she continued. “There’s so much pressure from society and from ourselves to look a certain way post baby, but for many that’s not the case, and that’s ok! I posted that photo because I wish someone had posted a photo just like mine when I was pregnant.”

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My most distinct childhood memory is being sprawled across the sofa on a rainy Tuesday, off from school with the flu but still sporting my trusty tie-dye leggings, fixated on the grainy VHS TV. It was 1999, and I was definitely celebrating the day’s lack of gym and maths class with the rewatching of my favourite Disney princess, a kickass gal named Mulan with a sassy miniature dragon and a sword that just wouldn’t quit.

As I grew up and grappled with my teenage years, upgrading my tie-dye to Clueless -esque mini skirts, followed by cargo pants, and then a short venture into the emo fringe, I came to find more female movie characters that instilled in me the same feeling I had watching Mulan dropkick a Hun for the first time.

From high school vampire slayers to cartoon superheroes and FBI agents, the '90s and early 2000s gifted us with a diverse range of badass sistas who, despite the occasional corny one-liner, flung us headfirst into narratives that subverted the passive female stereotype and endorsed headstrong women with a surprising amount of skill in combat. Growing up alongside their sisterhoods, their diversity, and their resilience against the patriarchy, millennials could envisage a new brand of feminism.

Defined as a movement that champions body positivity and reproductive choice and defies the conventions of gender performance, millennial feminism has been the most intersectional form of feminism in history, with woke guys and gals not only challenging gender inequality but also other facets of oppression such as race, class and sexual orientation. As a generation defined by technology and social media, millennial feminists have campaigned through an entirely different platform than in the past, uniting our voices through diverse online communities.

To honour this fresh chapter of female empowerment, we look to the onscreen characters that gave representation to millions of girls and women throughout their young lives and helped shape the face of millennial feminism.

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They say the content of a dream is really only interesting to the person who dreamed it, and anyone who's had to listen to their friend's play-by-play rambling about their "crazy dream" knows what we're talking about. Sometimes dreams are such a far cry from reality that they do make for somewhat entertaining cocktail party conversation. Other times, dreams are just a rendering of what goes on while you're awake, which isn't really that exciting to recount. But what does it mean if your dreams tend to be really boring or literal?

First, it's helpful to understand some outside factors that could cause interesting dreams, according to Michael Breus, PhD, a clinical psychologist and American Academy of Sleep Medicine fellow. For example, if you are on certain medications (such as antidepressants, beta blockers, or blood pressure meds), the drugs can make your dreams more vivid, Dr. Breus says. But otherwise, your dreams are likely based on what happened to you during the day.

[Dreams] are truly ways for us to consolidate emotions and memories, and to figure out what to remember and what to forget.

"Any stressful events that the person is thinking about immediately before they fall asleep will have an effect on the content," Dr. Breus says. So if you fall asleep stewing about how your flatmate never takes out the rubbish, you could have a dream about your flatmate failing to take out the rubbish. If you're bad at waking up on time, you might've internalised some anxiety about this and have a dream that you woke up, took a shower, then got ready to go. Mundane dream, taken at face value — but the story it tells is that you are, or should be, prioritising your morning routine.

Some people just tend to absorb or hold onto more content during the day that reappears in their dreams, Dr. Breus explains. Sometimes it can take days for these events to show up in a dream, which is a phenomenon that researchers call "dream lag." The foods that you ate at dinner or before bed may contribute to how well you remember your dreams, he says. But beyond these theories, it's not well understood exactly why we dream about what we dream about, or why certain things come up when they do.

The stage of sleep you're in might have something to do with your dreams, and people tend to dream more during rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep, the stage of sleep when your brain is very awake, says Shelby Harris, PsyD, director of behavioural sleep medicine at the Sleep-Wake Disorders Center at Montefiore Medical Center. Dreaming during REM is sort of "a way for your brain to figure out what to remember and file away in the filing cabinet, and what to shred and forget," Dr. Harris says. "This is why dreams tend to be jumbled at times, but also so literal — they're truly ways for us to consolidate emotions and memories, and to figure out what to remember and what to forget." Waking up during REM sleep can make your dream feel even more realistic, according to Dr. Breus.

Basically dreams are very nuanced and are often a reflection of a few different personal factors. Sometimes dreams are really odd and other times they're pretty boring, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you're odd or boring. Don't stress if you're a wild dreamer, either — because that just means you'll have a few stories up your sleeve next time you're at an awkward dinner party.

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I was recently on a first date when the guy I was with asked when my last serious relationship was. It's a fairly typical first date question, so I answered truthfully: My most recent boyfriend and I ended things a little over three years ago. "Wow, that's a long time," he replied. I was seriously taken aback. Shit, I thought. Have I been single for so long that I've missed the boat for a happy relationship?

It's not just me, either. People are constantly quantifying their love lives — how many dates they've been on, how many Tinder messages they've gotten, how many exes they have. "But the funny thing is, it's not just single people who do this. Couples do it, too," says Carlen Costa, PhD, a sexologist and psychotherapist based in Ontario, Canada. "That's why you've got people celebrating six-month relationships." But while the counting is typically framed in a positive light for couples, it's almost always seen as a negative when it comes to single people. Hence my question: Is there such a thing as being single for too long?

The answer is, of course, no. "There is absolutely no set time frame that counts as 'too long' for being single," says Megan Stubbs, EdD, a sexologist and relationship expert based in Michigan. Part of the reason why is because there's no set definition as what "being single" actually looks like. "Some people have lovers, some people have months-long relationships that never get 'serious,'" Dr. Costa says. "Does that count as being 'single'? That answer will differ depending on who you ask."

Take me, for example. I think that I've been technically single since my relationship with my last serious boyfriend ended. But that's not to say I haven't had other kinds of relationships. I've had an on-again, off-again friends-with-benefits relationship with the same guy since that "serious" relationship ended. I've also had a couple of relationships that have lasted a few months, but the term "boyfriend" was never used. Still, I consider myself having been single, even during those relationships, because they never got to be what I consider "serious." But someone else might think that my time-being-single tally is a lot lower than I do.

Thankfully, the actual numbers aren't important. "You need to ask yourself where this pressure is coming from," Dr. Stubbs says. "Is it family pressure? Were you just invited to another wedding and comparing yourself?" Once you figure out why you're feeling like you've been single for "too long," you'll be able to figure out why you may be thinking it's a problem. "It's not that serial monogamists have something up on you," Dr. Stubbs says. "It could be a myriad of reasons — you could be choosier, your priorities might be a little different." You may have also just not found the right partner yet, which is completely normal.

Instead of trying to nitpick the length of your single life and figure out what's wrong, it could help to reframe this time of your life. "Being single offers much more freedom, and can be an extremely expressive time in your life," Dr. Costa says. Dr. Stubbs adds that this is a fantastic time to focus on the things you want to do. "Time spent on yourself is never time wasted," she says. So sure, the numbers may say I've been single for (what some people consider) a hell of a long time. But I've done a lot of growing in that time, too. And I'm pretty happy with that.

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Westworld, as its title suggests, is about a western world. It's a futuristic amusement park created to allow humans to live out their most violent fantasies, against androids who are, for the most part, pretty damn lifelike.

But could there be more amusement parks out there mimicking reality and allowing humanity to act out their fantasies? We are both shuddering and cackling with glee at the thought.

Westworld is based on the 1973 science fiction movie of the same name by Michael Crichton, and his work also included a Roman World and a Medieval World that were never seen or referenced in season 1 of the HBO adaptation...other than that still-unexplained referenced to "Park 1" by Maeve in her letter.

The creators of the show were specifically asked about this at the 2017 Vanity Fair Summit. According to Deadline, creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan coyly suggested that we may see worlds in season 2 of the HBO show. Nolan replied, "we had to save something for season 2," which is making us go wild with anticipation. After all, the season 1 finale did end with that samurai training scene — it must mean something for the show's second season.

Nolan spoke ominously about artificial intelligence, musing that "I feel evenly split between the fear that A.I. will enslave us and make us do its bidding and my fear that it won’t. If you look at things that have gone down in the last year, humans are terrible at running this world. It’s clear that there’s room for improvement.” Ahem, he's definitely not wrong.

This leaves us with so many questions. Is Nolan trying to hint that the androids will take over all of the worlds? If we have more worlds to explore, does that mean that Dorothy will become Lady Dorothy of Abernathy Castle? Or Dorothius Abernathis? One thing is for sure, if there is a samurai version of Dorothy coming our way, season 2 just got a lot more exciting.

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Rev. Peta Evans, a non-binary transgender person, has made history by becoming a pastor at a church in Brighton. The Village Metropolitan Community Church isn't your ordinary church, however: LGBTQ people created it to have a place of worship where they'd feel included, Pink News reports.

"Returning to Brighton, I am excited to serve again in the community which first welcomed me and supported me in both my ministry journey and my gender transition," Evans said in a statement to Pink News. "I would love to see the sincere passion and integrity of The Village MCC reach out even more widely to people of all ages, gender identities, and walks of life."

Evans plans to use their position of power to change the way people interpret the Bible. Toward that end, they're starting a group aptly called ReTranslation for trans people to discuss alternative interpretations from what they've been taught.

Evans identifies both as non-binary and as a trans man, according to Premier. Some people have more than one gender identity because they don't feel that just one label captures who they are. Anybody who doesn't identify exclusively as male or female may consider themselves non-binary. "I am also enthusiastic about reclaiming the Bible from those who have tried to make it a weapon against those who are different," they said.

A Brighton church has welcomed a new, non-binary pastor: https://t.co/6Oxu8Pn8cL

— Trans Media Watch (@TransMediaWatch) October 2, 2017

While not all congregations are accepting of LGBTQ people, several others have recently made headlines for taking leadership at their churches. Over in Illinois, the United Methodist Church appointed a transgender deacon earlier this year. And Rev. S. David Wynn, a trans pastor in Fort Worth, TX, recently spoke at a protest against Texas's anti-trans bathroom bill, saying, "In the beginning, God created humankind in God’s image. ... So God is transgender." There's still much more work to be done before LGBTQ people are accepted in all places of worship, but these leaders are paving the way for greater acceptance and more opportunities.

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Best friends Busy Philipps and Michelle Williams are in France for Paris Fashion Week, and they seem to be having the time of their lives. They attended the Louis Vuitton Show, ate baked potatoes with caviar, took a lot of fun photos, and looked absolutely stunning the entire time.

A post shared by Busy Philipps (@busyphilipps) on Oct 3, 2017 at 10:49am PDT

I don't know about you, but I've never been more inspired to purchase a crop-top turtleneck and pair it with some chunky boots.

But what's even better than their sartorial choices is that after a long day of fashion and food, they went back to the hotel room, busted out the white wine, and decided that the only way to improve a perfect day would be to add more pink to their lives. Philipps, who recently added a pop of colour to her own hair, somehow convinced Williams to give her pixie a Millennial Pink upgrade, and thankfully, she documented the whole process via Instagram Story.

"Look at that hair," Philipps said into the camera as Williams giggled behind her. "It's gonna be pink."

Though hesitant at first, Williams eased up as Philipps massaged the dye into her scalp and refilled her glass.

After about 20 minutes, they rinsed out the dye, snuggled up in bed, and revealed the brand-new, slightly naked, slightly pink-haired Williams.

"It is fucking beautiful," Philipps said with a big smile, later adding that her bestie was "so sexy."

This isn't the first time Philipps has made us laugh through her Instagram account. The actress, who openly admitted that she is so down with posting sponsored content to make money, is all about honesty. She often documents the daily life of being a mom, her love for macaroni and cheese, her red carpet adventures, and some pretty incredible throwback pics.

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Japan is notorious for its work culture of long hours, presenteeism and employees not taking advantage of their holiday entitlements. Workers frequently report stress-induced illnesses and many even die through overwork, which even has its own term, karoshi.

These tragic cases tend to make global news and the most recent one is no exception, largely due to the age of the victim. Miwa Sado, a media worker at Japan's public broadcaster, NHK, had logged 159 hours of overtime and took just two days off in the month before she died from heart failure aged just 31, the Guardian reported.

Sado's employer has waited four years to make public her death, which a labour standards office in Tokyo ruled was caused by overwork, on account of her family's wishes. Sado, who was a political reporter, died in July 2013 three days after the country's upper house elections. She had been covering the Tokyo metropolitan assembly elections and the national upper house elections in June and July, reported the Guardian.

In a statement released through the organisation, Sado's family said they wanted to ensure her death wouldn't be in vain. "Even today, four years on, we cannot accept our daughter’s death as a reality. We hope that the sorrow of a bereaved family will not be wasted."

Masahiko Yamauchi, a senior official in NHK’s news department, admitted the young woman's death highlighted a “problem for our organisation as a whole, including the labour system and how elections are covered”.

Indeed, Sado's death reflects a national crisis of overwork – the Japanese government published its first white paper on karoshi last year and found that a fifth of all employees were at risk of dying from strokes, heart attacks and suicide resulting from overwork. Suicide is the most common cause, with the government saying that more than 2,000 people took their own lives in the year to March 2016, reported the Guardian.

Comparing Japanese employees' working hours with those in other developed countries highlights the seriousness of the country's problem even further. Employees took an average of just 8.8 days of their annual leave in 2015 – less than half of what they were entitled to. By contrast, their counterparts in Hong Kong and Singapore took 100% and 78% respectively.

Thankfully, the Japanese government knows it has a problem and has proposed a monthly overtime cap of 100 hours, although this wasn't entirely well received. It also plans to penalise employers that allow their workers to exceed the cap. Let's hope the government enforces its own target.

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