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A teenage photographer who met the Princess of Wales while pursuing a photography bucket list after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer has died. Liz Hatton was pictured hugging Kate after the princess invited her to take pictures of the Prince of Wales at an investiture at Windsor Castle in October. The 17-year-old from Harrogate started a photography bucket list appeal in January after she was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer. She was given between six months and three years to live. Announcing her death on X, her mother Vicky Roboyna said: "Our incredible daughter Liz died in the early hours of this morning. She remained determined to the last. "Even yesterday, she was still making plans. We are so very proud of the kindness, empathy and courage she has shown in the last year. "She was not only a phenomenal photographer, she was the best human and the most wonderful daughter and big sister we could ever have asked for. "No one could have fought harder for life than she did. There is a gaping Liz-shaped hole in our lives that I am not sure how we will ever fill." She asked people to share one of Liz's photos in tribute using the hashtag #LizHatton and to support the family's mission to fund research into desmoplastic small round cell tumours, which Liz was diagnosed with. She has set up a JustGiving fundraising page with a goal of raising £100,000. Read more from Sky News: Abandoned Cold War military base rediscovered New data reveals impact of war on civilians in Lebanon Follow our channel and never miss an update. In a personal message on social media after meeting Liz in October, William and Kate said: "A pleasure to meet with Liz at Windsor today. "A talented young photographer whose creativity and strength has inspired us both. Thank you for sharing your photos and story with us. W&C." Be the first to get Breaking News Install the Sky News app for free Ticking off items from her bucket list, Liz went on to photograph comedian Michael McIntyre, the red carpet at the MTV Europe Music Awards, the London Air Ambulances from a helipad and joined acclaimed photographer Rankin in leading a fashion shoot.Sitting around a North Hollywood rehearsal studio on a recent Wednesday evening, the members of the Hard Quartet are taking a break from prepping for the first concert by this indie-rock supergroup by recounting the first gigs they played with some of their other bands. Drummer Jim White volunteers a recollection of his first show with Dirty Three, which formed in Melbourne in the early 1990s because “this guy had a bar, and he wanted a band,” as White puts it. “We played three sets for three people, and we got 60 bucks.” “Each?” asks singer and guitarist Matt Sweeney, known for founding New York’s Chavez around the same time. “Total,” White answers. “Plus all you can drink.” Says Stephen Malkmus , indie-rock famous as the frontman of Pavement: “That’s a f— deal in Australia.” Does White reckon the Dirty Three downed more than $60 worth of booze? “Oh yeah,” the drummer says. “We left our gear there and came back again the next day. The drinks were still flowing.” Given their established-veteran status — the Hard Quartet’s fourth member is Emmett Kelly, who’s played with the Cairo Gang and with Will Oldham for years — these guys ranging in age from mid-40s to early 60s seem not in the least bit anxious about the fact that, 24 hours from now, they’ll make their debut in front of an audience at the Belasco in downtown Los Angeles. Sweeney passes around a tray of brie and raspberries as we chat; Malkmus is wearing tennis shorts and tennis shoes, having come here straight from an afternoon match at a friend’s place. Yet their laid-back attitude is accompanied by an endearing excitement about the music they make together. “It’s good, right?” Malkmus asks. “Some of the lyrics are kind of blah-blah-blah. But I get a kick out of the songs.” As he should: The band’s self-titled debut, which came out last month, is a tuneful blast of fuzz-bomb pop — glammy, folky, a little psychedelic — with great riffs and a loping, late-Beatles-era groove. Malkmus, Sweeney and Kelly take turns singing lead, evoking memories of each of their past projects (especially Pavement). Yet the pleasingly off-kilter way they combine these familiar parts feels fresh. The Hard Quartet came together after Malkmus and Sweeney worked on Malkmus’ 2020 solo album “Traditional Techniques.” Nobody in the band pushes back particularly hard on the term “supergroup,” though it does seem slightly embarrassing to all of them. The way Sweeney sees it, each member’s ample experience just meant “we didn’t have to talk about a lot of stuff” in order for everyone to find common ground. The Hard Quartet having more than one lead singer and songwriter was part of the deal from the get-go; Malkmus says that setup puts the band in a lineage that also includes the B-52’s , Sonic Youth, X and Royal Trux. “It adds this communal element,” he explains. Adds Sweeney: “Different points of view from the same spaceship.” So far, at least, the guy playing bass on any given Hard Quartet song is one of the guys who didn’t write the song — which shouldn’t lead anyone to conclude that bass is an undesirable instrument. In fact, Kelly says, “it’s the one that everyone wants to play the most — even Jim.” (Sitting behind his drum kit, White nods in agreement.) “There’s all these weird myths about rock ’n’ roll, but maybe the weirdest is that nobody wants to play bass,” Sweeney says. “Back in the hardcore days, it was a rite of passage that the new guy would be on bass,” Malkmus points out. “People wanted to move up to guitar. I don’t know why. I guess Johnny Thunders was cooler,” he adds of the famously dissolute New York Dolls member. “The guitar hero and all that.” “Which is hilarious now because nobody cares about the guitar anymore,” Sweeney says with a laugh. “Young people come up to me and ask how I do what I do, and it’s like they’re saying: ‘Oh, it’s so cool that you still sew your clothes by hand while everybody else wears real clothes.’ ” The Hard Quartet started recording its album in New York before finishing it at the storied Shangri-La studio in Malibu owned by producer Rick Rubin, for whom Sweeney has worked frequently as a session player, including on albums by Adele, Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond. (Fun fact involving the well-connected Sweeney: The rehearsal space where the Hard Quartet is practicing in North Hollywood is owned by Bob Brunner, whose father was a writing partner on TV’s “Happy Days” with the late Garry Marshall, whose son Scott played bass in Chavez.) For the sweetly shuffling “Rio’s Song” — which Sweeney wrote about his friend Rio Hackford , the actor and bar owner who died in 2022 — the band filmed a music video in the form of a shot-for-shot remake of the Rolling Stones’ charming early-MTV-era clip for “Waiting on a Friend.” Asked whether the Stones’ endurance is inspiring, Kelly says, “I think it’s cool that rock ’n’ roll still seems vital to them. They’re still trying to tap into it instead of being like, ‘I’m too old for this s—.’ ” Sweeney recalls seeing the Stones in 2002 at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom. “I went with [David] Pajo,” he says, referring to the prolific indie-rock musician with whom Sweeney played in Billy Corgan’s short-lived Zwan. “We were joking beforehand like, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if they did “Turd on the Run”?’ And then they did like every song we wanted to hear. They started ‘It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll,’ and the crowd’s going apes—. I’m like, ‘What’s going on?’ It was because Bono came out onstage. We had to leave in protest.” Speaking of the U2 frontman, has anyone in the Hard Quartet been to Sphere in Las Vegas ? “I know about it because Phish played there,” Malkmus says. “And I’m in the Phish hive. Accidentally. I clicked on something one time in my ‘For you’ feed, and now if I look over there...” “This is Twitter-related?” Sweeney asks. “Yeah, there’s this ‘For you’ thing — this dark, weird, instant algorithm that makes you regret your decisions immediately,” Malkmus says. “You know how you try heroin once and then your whole life’s over? It’s like that, except in a social-media way.”
Sir Keir Starmer praised the “sense of public service” among officials on Friday following a backlash from unions who accused him of unleashing a “Trumpian” attack on civil servants a day earlier. On Thursday the prime minister gave a speech in which he accused Whitehall of giving up on changing how government works. Setting out six “milestones” for his government, Starmer said that Whitehall had “totally lost sight” of how to drive through reform. In a nod to language used by Donald Trump , he said: “I don’t think there’s a swamp to be drained here, but I do think too many people in Whitehall are comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline; have forgotten, to paraphrase JFK, that you choose change not because
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The Baltic Exchange’s dry bulk sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, snapped a seven-session losing streak on Friday, supported by gains in larger vessels. The index, which factors in rates for capesize, panamax and supramax shipping vessels, gained 7 points to 1,167 points, but the index was down over 13% for the week. The capesize index edged up 5 points to 1,535 points. The contract posted about 28% decline for the week. Average daily earnings for capesize vessels, which typically transport 150,000-ton cargoes such as iron ore and coal, increased by $37 to $12,727. Iron ore futures prices slid and headed for a weekly loss on Friday, as the wave of restocking for seaborne cargoes from steelmakers in top consumer China receded and high portside stocks as well as falling steel margins weighed. The panamax index rose 27 points to 1,067 points, recording a weekly gain of 4.8%. Average daily earnings for panamax vessels, which usually carry 60,000-70,000 tons of coal or grain cargo, rose $242 to $9,606. Among smaller vessels, the supramax index edged down 5 points to 974 points. Source: Reuters (Reporting by Anmol Choubey in Bengaluru; Editing by Sahal Muhammed)What makes a good leader? Being able to listen, say young people
NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) — Chris Mubiru had 13 points to lead Northwestern State to a 71-58 victory over North Alabama on Sunday. Mubiru finished 5 of 6 from the field for the Demons (3-4). Jerald Colonel scored 12 points and added six rebounds. Landyn Jumawan had 12 points with two 3-pointers. Jacari Lane finished with 14 points to lead the Lions (4-3). Will Soucie added 13 points and Canin Jefferson scored nine. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .
Karen Jantzen knows what the Concord Coalition to End Homelessness does well. Dozens of people are in the coalition’s resource center daily – waiting to take a shower, do laundry, check their mail or connect with a case manager. The beginning of December marks the opening of the coalition’s emergency winter shelter, where 20 sets of bunk beds will be lined up side by side each night, providing a reprieve from the cold from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. It’s the only low-barrier shelter in the area, meaning anyone can spend the night regardless of substance use or felony convictions. Jantzen hopes that space will soon look different. The coalition is looking to build a new resource center as a part of its revised strategic plan. “We’re going to work on continuing to deepen the services that we provide here at the Resource Center, just to make them more robust and look to really develop out our work with other providers in the community,” said Jantzen. “Being very intentional about our Resource Center and the services we provide.” Jantzen envisions a one-stop shop where other providers would use the coalition’s resource center to host office hours. The coalition’s strategic planning process lays the road map for the organization’s work over the next few years. Staff conducted interviews with dozens of city leaders and stakeholders – from the police and fire departments to elected officials and housing developers – they looked at statistics from the national and city levels on homelessness and poverty and assessed the state of housing developments. Article continues after... Cross|Word Flipart Typeshift SpellTower Really Bad Chess The first clear trend is obvious to most – the state, and nation, are in a housing shortage. The second trend leaned into the strength of the coalition’s work – it serves as a central organization to advocate for people who are experiencing homelessness and engage different agencies to provide services. “If you think about our name, we’re a coalition and that’s what coalitions are about,” said Jantzen. Helping people access mental health and substance recovery resources – from treatment services to stable housing continues to be an ongoing challenge, and focus of the coalition’s work. The coalition’s services aim to be twofold – first, helping people who are currently experiencing homelessness with immediate needs: nighttime shelter during winter months, getting on apartment waitlists and accessing benefits like Social Security. The second part is transitioning those living outside into housing: when an apartment is available, the coalition helps to make sure the person is ready to be a tenant, has all the paperwork completed to sign a lease and is able to access the unit as soon as possible. “There are things that we can do in our services that we’re providing so that when an apartment does come up, people are ready to get into it,” she said. “Helping them to make that transition and be prepared to make that transition as best as they possibly can.” The work goes hand in hand with an overarching goal to continue to challenge, and change, the public perception of homelessness in the area. Jantzen often sees a consensus on homelessness – it’s solvable and people want to and are willing to work towards this goal. Putting that into practice, though, is trickier. “Everybody wants to solve the problem but no one wants to have it in their neighborhood,” she said. “It’s like, ‘yeah we should end this. Where are you going to do it?’” To Jantzen, tackling the public perception piece is like launching a public health campaign – a multi-step approach rooted in education about homelessness and minimizing the stigma of those who are currently unhoused. To some degree, solving homelessness in Concord is within the coalition’s purview. However, the other part recognizes that the issue falls within a larger context that is out of the organization’s immediate control: the state’s housing crisis. A shortage of units creates a domino effect. Potential first-time homeowners aren’t moving out of apartments because market prices are too high. In turn, the cost of rent is inflated. Current zoning practices are restrictive, with large lot sizes and parking mandates deterring against the small start home model that was available in the 1960s and 1970s. “How are we going to solve this housing shortage and get units built so we have a place for everybody that is safe, decent and affordable?” she said. “We don’t have a homelessness issue, we have a housing crisis.” The Concord Coalition to End Homelessness needs volunteers for both evening and morning shifts at the emergency winter shelter. To sign up, visit this link: https://pointapp.org/orgs/5016 Michaela Towfighi can be reached at mtowfighi@cmonitor.com.