Attitude

• NEW YORK, Feb. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Coach today unveiled "Find Your Courage," a campaign featuring virtual human, model and digital creator imma and Coach Family Lil Nas X, Camila Mendes, Youngji Lee, Kōki, and Wu Jinyan.
• Set in a virtual universe, the campaign introduces the Coach Spring collection within a story about finding the courage to discover what it means to be real in your own way.
• It also introduces pieces from the Coach Spring 2024 collection, inspired by Creative Director Stuart Vevers' vision of youthful interpretations of Coach's American design language, including new quilted explorations of its Tabby shoulder bag.
• Coach will additionally bring " Find Your Courage" to life with new collaborations with gaming platforms where users can dress their avatars in the Coach Spring collection as well as a new multi-sensory iteration of The Coach Tabby Shop, inspired by this season's Quilted Tabby shoulder bag.

• As the Official Beer of the Natural Selection Tour, Pub Beer by 10 Barrel Brewing Co. is set to enhance the après snowboarding experience for athletes and fans alike, embodying the tour's spirit of adventure and innovation.
• Coming from Bend, Oregon, 10 Barrel is known for its ethos of “Drink Beer Outside,” and for innovating award-winning brews that defy convention.
• Once a radical concept for the craft beer brand, Pub Beer reinvented norms with an easy-drinking, economical lager that quickly became a mainstay.
• "We're thrilled to introduce Pub Beer as the Official Après Beer of Natural Selection Tour," said 10 Barrel Brewing Marketing Director, Brian Hughes.

• The idea of getting a mortgage with just their own income is often unthinkable, and those who do own property often have an uncommonly early inheritance to thank.
• While housing crises rage across Europe, many members of Generation Z – those born after the year 2000 – may soon find that the shoe is on the other foot.
• Generation Z therefore stands to benefit from Europe’s declining birth rate, one of the lowest in the world at 1.53 children per woman.

Mortgages: an increasingly unattractive prospect

• If you meet these criteria, you are then locked into, on average, a 25-year commitment.
• The prospect of getting one is especially unappealing at a time when rising mortgage rates are driving the cost of living up in Europe and beyond.

Home ownership in Europe today

• The average mortgage duration is 25 years, meaning payments are typically completed by the age of 59, just before retirement age (65 in most EU member states).
• This does vary widely across the continent, and there is little correlation between ownership rates and the number of active mortgages.
• In contrast, this percentage is far lower in countries like Italy, where only 14.6% of homeowners have a mortgage.

Spain: a case in point

• It is above average in life expectancy and rates of home ownership (especially among older generations): the average Spaniard first purchases property at age 41, and receives an inheritance at 51.
• From 2021 to 2022 the number of homes inherited in Spain rose by 3.7%, with over 17,800 homes inherited per month within its borders.

Leaving the family home

• However, the value of inheritances varies widely across different countries and wealth distributions, and it is difficult to make predictions for all of Europe.
• There is also huge variation in factors such as the age of leaving the family home.
• In Finland, on the other hand, people typically leave home at age 21.4, with similarly low figures across Scandinavia.
• Spain’s staggering drop of 62.54% in new mortgages from 2007 to 2023 is reflected in data from across Europe.

Impacts on Generation Z

• Though they will face plenty of other problems, such as securing stable employment contracts, housing might not be the primary concern for much of Generation Z in the future.
• This will benefit Millennials to a certain extent, but with fewer siblings, many wealthier members of Generation Z might not need to divide inheritances from parents who often own multiple properties.

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• Though pin-swallowing is still sometimes identified in individual medical cases as having suicidal intent, this is often not the automatic conclusion.
• But in early modern British society, where pins were ubiquitous, there were widespread fears about them being consumed.

• The ready availability of pins meant that they were also a potential danger to those who wished to do themselves harm.
• A young woman named Helen Fairfax was tempted to end her life using a pin at her family home in Yorkshire in 1621.
• Early modern people believed that the devil was constantly looking for ways to tempt them towards sin.
• The girl tried to swallow the items so often that they had “a box near full” of confiscated pins.

Hysterical women

• It was increasingly associated with “hysteria”, an historical illness involving anxiety and excess emotion which was commonly associated with women, and the asylum.
• By the 19th century, self-injurious behaviours such as swallowing or inserting pins into the body gained an increasingly moral dimension.
• In his 1857 work, A Collection of Remarkable Cases in Surgery, the American surgeon Paul F. Eve (1806-1877) detailed a vast number of medical accounts.

• This is despite the fact that the act of suicide was both a crime and a sin in this period.
• Though early modern people were expected to resist the devil’s temptation, they were not necessarily held responsible for experiencing it.

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Imogen Knox receives funding from the M4C/AHRC