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USA Today
7 hours ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Rams news: Tutu Atwell, Hawaii karaoke and other stories for Cardinals fans
A look at what has been going on with the Cardinals' NFC West rival Rams. We have made it through another week in the NFL offseason, and that means we will check in with the Arizona Cardinals' NFC West rivals. What is new with the LA Rams, San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks? Here are a few stories about the Rams from the last week that Cardinals fans should know. Tutu time? The Rams cut receiver Cooper Kupp and saw Demarcus Robinson leave in free agency. Former second-round draft pick Tutu Atwell now has the opportunity to take over as the Rams' No. 3 receiver. Head coach Sean McVay believes that Atwell is "ready to ascend." Rookie TE compared to Rams star The Rams drafted tight end Terrance Ferguson in the second round. He is the highest-drafted tight end by the Rams ever. He was compared to one of the Rams' greats from the past, Ernie Conwell. Rams concerned about LT Alaric Jackson The Rams re-signed Jackson but he has blood clots in his legs for the second time. This leaves the Rams with "some question marks" about whether he will be ready to play in September. They signed former Cardinals first-round pick D.J. Humphries soon after they learned of Jackson's condition. Karaoke in Hawaii The Rams held their minicamp in Maui last week. Apparently, they had a little fun, which included some karaoke singing. Stafford can move up all-time lists Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford is 10th all-time in both career passing yards and career touchdown passes. By the end of 2025, he could move up three spots in passing yards and, with a special season, two in touchdown passes. Get more Cardinals and NFL coverage from Cards Wire's Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify, YouTube or Apple podcasts.
Deccan Herald
23-05-2025
- Deccan Herald
Odisha man arrested for robbery at Geometry Brewery & Kitchen in Bengaluru
The suspect, Malipuram Dilip Kumar alias Tutu, a resident of Odisha, had allegedly forced open the back door of the brewery, entered the owner's office on the third floor, and stole around Rs 50,000 from the counter after breaking it open. He also cut off the power supply to the CCTV cameras, the police said.
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump's ‘opposite of apartheid' crusade contrasts with Reagan's approach
The 40-year arc of US relations with South Africa goes something like this: ► In 1984, President Ronald Reagan wrote in his diary that Desmond Tutu was 'naive' for pressuring him — unsuccessfully — to support sanctions to pressure South Africa to end apartheid. Reagan refused to confront South Africa's White regime in that way. ► In 2025, President Donald Trump cut aid to South Africa back in February and then ambushed post-apartheid South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with right-wing allegations of 'genocide' against the country's White minority that are not backed by evidence. He put the country's Black president on the spot in front of TV cameras on Wednesday. 'I will say, apartheid – terrible,' Trump told Ramaphosa, as he prepared to complain there isn't more awareness of the plight of Whites in South Africa. 'This is sort of the opposite of apartheid,' the US president said, although he did not mean it as a good thing. Trump came armed with videos of South Africa's militant political minority, printouts from right-wing websites, two professional golfers and Elon Musk to demand that Ramaphosa do more for the White minority that controls most of the farmland in his country. Repeatedly using the term 'genocide,' Trump created an uncomfortable scene when he lowered the lights to play video of the militant political opposition in South Africa and told Ramaphosa that White farmers in the country are being persecuted, repeating claims that percolate in the right-wing ecosystem. Read CNN's fact check. There is no 'genocide' against White South African farmers. It was a much calmer Oval Office scene when Reagan had to be pressured to make room in his schedule for Archbishop Desmond Tutu, newly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and on a mission to get Western democracies to impose sanctions on South Africa's apartheid regime. Tutu called the Reagan administration 'immoral' for pursuing an appeasing strategy of 'constructive engagement' with the regime. After meeting with Tutu, Regan wrote in his diary that Tutu was 'naive' about sanctions. Reagan thought 'quiet diplomacy' was doing plenty to improve the lives of Black South Africans. 'The Bishop seems unaware, even though he himself is Black, that part of the problem is tribal not racial,' Reagan wrote as if he were an expert on South Africa. 'If apartheid ended now there still would be civil strife between the Black tribes,' he argued in the diary. Reagan would ultimately veto sanctions approved by Congress in 1986, a decision that has not aged well. Lawmakers overrode Reagan's veto and imposed the sanctions anyway, one of only a handful of times lawmakers so overwhelmingly corrected Reagan. 'Because I have chosen to stand with those who struggle for freedom, I must stand apart from my president,' then-freshman Sen. Mitch McConnell said at the time. Tutu would go on to accuse Reagan of being racist for opposing sanctions. 'Certainly the support of this racist policy is racist,' Tutu told the New York Times in 1985. Now it's Trump all but accusing South African's post-apartheid government of racism for not doing enough to protect White farmers. Trump has also welcomed White refugees from South Africa into the US even as he closed the US to all other refugees. 'We have many people that feel that they're being persecuted,' Trump told Ramaphosa. 'And they're coming to the United States, and we take from many locations if we feel there is persecution or genocide going on,' he said. At the same time, Trump bragged that because of a Supreme Court ruling, he will be able to deport Venezuelans who he said are criminals. It was by coincidence that I was learning about Reagan's history with South Africa from the biography 'Reagan: His Life and Legend' by the historian Max Boot on the same day Trump created a scene with Ramaphosa in the Oval Office. I reached out to Boot to get his reaction. Here are his two cents, which he sent by email: South Africa has long been a touchstone for America's own racial relations, with opponents of civil rights in the United States decrying pressure on South Africa to end apartheid. Republican politicians — including Ronald Reagan — spent many years catering to those sentiments by opposing tough sanctions on South Africa. Yet when apartheid did fall, the result was not — as so many American conservatives predicted — a race war or a Marxist dictatorship. It was a free-market, multi-ethnic democracy in which the white minority continued to control a disproportionate share of the country's wealth. So it is dismaying to see President Trump today repeating the canards of white extremists who claim that Afrikaners have been victims of 'genocide.' This is dog-whistle politics at its most ridiculous. Patrick Gaspard was US ambassador to South Afrida under President Barack Obama. He told me that Trump's confrontation of Ramaphosa confirmed his worst fears of what might happen — 'a crass appeal to the worst element in society.' White South Africans, Gaspard said, represent a small minority in the country, but own much of the land. Farmers account for only a fraction of murder victims, so Trump's arguments are not backed up by fact. South African authorities strongly reject the allegation that there is genocide in their country, as CNN's Nimi Princewill reported in a larger story about Afrikaners who want to stay in South Africa with help from the US. 'It's astonishing to see that kind of behavior and performance in the Oval Office, but we all shrug it off and move on to the next scandal with this guy,' Gaspard said. He added that the inclusion of Musk and the South African billionaire Johann Rupert, who called for Musk's Starlink to be provided to South Africa, gave the meeting the feel of a grift. The more profound difference between the Trump era and the Reagan era is that 40 years ago, Republican lawmakers — like McConnell, who is still in office — rejected Reagan's approach. 'That's the gulf that exists here,' Gaspard said. 'It's not the gulf between Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. It's a gulf between the young Mitch McConnell and the party that he now helps to preside over that seems to have lost its tongue and its spine.' The domestic political effect of Trump's confrontation is that for Wednesday, at least, his failure on Capitol Hill was knocked off TV screens, replaced by the latest in a series of cringey dressings-down of foreign leaders. Trump might rather appear strong in the Oval Office than dwell on the reality that deficit hawk House Republicans in the Freedom Caucus have, for now, placed a blockade on the 'big, beautiful bill' that would extend his tax cuts and cut Medicaid and SNAP (food stamp) spending while still adding trillions to the national debt over the next 10 years. But it's hard to believe the trap Trump laid for Ramaphosa was simply to control headlines, given how prepared Trump appeared to be with his presentation. Reagan's belief was that free trade between the US and South Africa's apartheid regime would ultimately lead to change. It's another indication of how the GOP has shifted; Ramaphosa came into the meeting to talk about trade, but that part of the conversation did not happen in front of TV cameras. The topic of the day was for Trump to advocate for White farmers. Ramaphosa signed a law this year allowing the government to seize land if it is deemed to be in the public interest, something Trump criticized, although Ramaphosa compared it to the seizure of land in the US by eminent domain. It is a full-circle moment for American presidents.
CBS News
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Exploring the extraordinary tradition of Hawaiian lei making: "Your expression of aloha"
From its golden sun to its turquoise surf, Hawaii can always take your breath away. But it's the colorful leis that may dazzle the most. The island's exquisite array of flowers, valued for their fragrances, are harvested by Hawaiians for the ancient tradition of lei making. Hawaii native Meleana Estes picks flowers – like the valued flower puakenikeni, known as the perfume flower tree ten cent flower – to create a colorful palette for her leis. A single lei can use 300 individual flowers and take hours to make. An "expression of aloha" A single lei can use 300 individual flowers and take hours to make. CBS Sunday Morning Hawaiians have been proudly sewing leis for more than 1,000 years. It's a tradition that was introduced by early Polynesian settlers who wore garlands around their necks or heads as a gesture of respect for the gods. There's never a wrong time to bestow someone with a lei, Estes says. Today, Hawaiians hand out leis for nearly every occasion – from weddings to funerals, to airport pickups and beyond. "Really a lei is your expression of aloha. Your love," Estes explained, adding that it can also show a warm welcome to a house guest. Estes learned the intricate art of lei-making from her grandmother or "Tutu," and published a book called "Lei Aloha" to celebrate her traditions. "She was very intentional. I feel like my Tutu would think about it for three days prior, you know, as she'd start gathering with intention for that one person," Estes said. With dozens ofspecies of flowers growing on the islands, the designs are endless. Estes makes extraordinary creations for family and friends using a long needle and thread. "It's beautiful, very architectural," Estes said of the process. You can see the colorful creations on display at the Annual Lei Day Celebration in Hawaii, held every May 1 since 1929. Dozens of master lei makers enter their work for a chance of being crowned best in show by judges, including Jamie Adams Detwiler. "It's really difficult" to pick just one winner, Detwiler said, noting that she looks for "what feeling" the leis bring to her and that they stay true to the lei method. This year's winner: a customary lei kui or sewn lei. Getting creative Andrew Mau, who owns a small Oahu boutique called ISLAND-BOY, shows off some unique designs. CBS Sunday Morning But while lei making remains popular, its future could be in peril. Suburban sprawl has paved over many flower farms and climate change has overheated remaining land. An estimated 90 percent of flowers used in leis are now imported from countries like Thailand. Andrew Mau, who owns a small Oahu boutique called ISLAND-BOY, where he makes leis from mostly family sourced flowers, said he's seeing the impact firsthand. "Everybody's personal lei making stash or, you know, garden or mango tree or whatever you have, it's been reduced," he said. The fact that a lei only lasts around two or three days has also added more stress on the island's dwindling flower stock, forcing lei-makers like himself to adapt. "We work with what we can get. Sometimes we don't get enough flowers to make a lei. We use unripe fruit. An ornamental banana. We recently had someone bring in avocados from their tree," said Mau, though he admits it breaks from tradition. Mau's work – particularly his "forever lei" – is so popular it regularly sells out. "A forever lei is our response to the perishability of flowers. We work with wood beads – seeds, shells, nuts…it doesn't have an expiration date," he explained.
The Citizen
23-04-2025
- Health
- The Citizen
School of Medicine Named in Honour of Tutu
The NWU Desmond Tutu School of Medicine is set to be the 11th medical school in South Africa. The North-West University has announced that its soon-to-be-established medical school will be named after the late archbishop Desmond Tutu. The official naming ceremony took place on Tuesday at the Capital on the Park Hotel in Sandton. The name was unveiled by Dr Anna Mokgokong, Chancellor of the NWU, Bert Sorgdrager, Chairperson of the NWU Council, Prof Bismark Tyobeka, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the NWU and Dr Mamphela Ramphele, Chairperson of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu IP Trust. Others in attendance included Deputy Minister of Health Dr Joe Phaahla, Premier of the North West Province Lazarus Mokgosi, and various bishops of the Anglican Church. Archbishop Tutu's legacy Ramphele told those in attendance of Archbishop Tutu's early wish to become a doctor before receiving a higher calling, highlighting that it is fitting that 'Archbishop Desmond Tutu's name will now live on in every graduate of the NWU Desmond Tutu School of Medicine.' She also spoke of his unwavering commitment to the spirit of ubuntu. 'It is the obligation of the NWU Desmond Tutu School of Medicine to live up to the values of ubuntu, and it is the responsibility of its students to meet the high standards that Desmond Tutu would have approved of.' NWU Chairperson of Council, Bert Sorgdrager, shared that the decision to name the medical school in honour of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate was not only made to recognise Archbishop Tutu's lifelong contributions to the country, but to also create an enduring connection between his legacy and the values, character, and graduate attributes the university seeks to instil in future graduates of the NWU Desmond Tutu School of Medicine. ALSO READ: More than 1 000 arrested in NW during Operation Shanela crackdown 11th medical school in South Africa The NWU Desmond Tutu School of Medicine is set to be the 11th medical school in South Africa. This project is a collaborative effort between the NWU, the North West Department of Health, and private sector stakeholders. Amongst other things, it aims to address the severe shortage of healthcare practitioners in the North-West province, while providing a base for the growth of the country's medical expertise. What the school aims to address Mokgokong highlighted South Africa's current doctor-to-patient ratio, which currently stands at approximately 0.31 doctors per 1,000 people, and a nurse-to-patient ratio of about 4.59 nurses per 1,000. She further indicated that these, among other urgent healthcare challenges, are what the NWU Desmond Tutu School of Medicine aims to address. 'We are not merely building a school of bricks and mortar, we are laying the foundation for something much greater and more enduring. 'Today we open doors that will never close. Doors of opportunity, healing, compassion, and transformation. That is also why we have chosen the name of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. 'He was not only a man of faith and moral courage, but also a fierce advocate for justice, equality, and human dignity. He understood, better than most, that the essence of humanity lies in our capacity to care, to heal, and to uplift one another. 'His life's work taught us that no barrier is too great, no injustice too entrenched, and no dream too distant to be realised through perseverance and unity.' The first intake for the NWU Desmond Tutu School of Medicine is scheduled for 2028.
