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DPS Officer sentenced
to 90-days in jail for
extortion scheme… 3
Police: Five officers
dead, 6 hurt in Dallas
protest shooting… 6
Griezmann’s double
gives France 2-0 win
over Germany… B1
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1st woman president:
How great a milestone?
Women differ… 24
These grinding stones
used to sharpen the adze
blade can be recognized
by
the
bowl-shaped
depressions on their surface. These were in Sogi,
Leone and attest to the
large scale manufacture
of adzes that took place in
Tutuila in pre history. See
story below for details.
[photo: National Park Service]
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Early Polynesian mariners were at the top of their game
Compiled by Patty Page
Samoa News staff
A long-standing debate on the colonization process of Oceania has been
put to rest with new research finding
Polynesia was deliberately settled in one
of the greatest maritime migrations in
human history. This according to Phys.
org in an article describing University of
Queensland research.
The University researchers used
chemical fingerprinting on stone tools
to show sailors traveled throughout the
Polynesian islands for several centuries
after colonization. UQ School of Social
Science researcher Professor Marshall
Weisler said tools were taken to the Cook
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Islands from across the eastern Pacific
from as early as AD1300. “Early Polynesians were mariners at the top of their
game, bringing all the necessary items to
settle and found a new colony,” he said.
The researcher says that geochemically
fingerprinting exotic stone artifacts from
a well-dated archaeological site in the
Cook Islands, they demonstrated that the
geographical voyaging network extended
beyond the Cook Islands to include the
Austral, Samoa, and Marquesas archipelagos — nearly 1500 miles in distance.
Much has been written about stone
adzes in Samoa including John Enright’s
2011 article entitled “The Adze Quarries
of Tutuila”. Enright, a former American
Samoa Historic Preservation Officer,
illustrates in his article that the quarries
were sophisticated manufacturing yards.
“A sense of the social order of the manufacturers takes shape when we realize
that tools were made in an assembly
line fashion with different stages of
tools completed at different areas in the
quarry,” Enright wrote.
Enright talks about Sogi on the Leone
coast where there are hundreds of bowlshaped depressions, (foaga) in the black
lava flow where the basalt adzes went
through the final sharpening and polishing step in their production.
And he asks the questions, “Why so
many? How many people sat here at the
high-tide line putting the final touches
on the island’s major prehistoric export?
How many voyaging canoes from different islands pulled at their stone
anchors in the bay?”
Enright points out that through developments in the elemental analysis of
basalt rock in 2011, it had become possible to trace to Tutuilan quarries adzes
discovered on the islands of Manu’a,
Western Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, and the Cook Islands.
“This examination of pre-contact
trade relations has just begun, but
already Tutuila has assumed a historic
role at the center of a great regional trade
(Continued on page 14)
National Park Crew Heads to California to Fight Wildland Fires
In partnership with Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, the National Park of American Samoa trains staff and local villagers in the skills required to fight fires at home
and within other areas of the United States. Shown here is a 16-person crew and crew leader of the NPS with families and friends, as the crew departed Wednesday
night from American Samoa for California to fight wildland fires for 30-days. To become wildland firefighters, this crew had to complete rigorous training and pass a
demanding physical test, as well as a written test. The fire crew is made up of National Park Service employees, and American Samoa Government and local business
employees. Local government agencies and businesses have wholeheartedly supported this effort by allowing some of their employees to be a part of the National Park
Service fire crew and to be absent for this deployment for the next month. This year, wildfires in California have destroyed hundreds of homes and burned thousands of
acres. Once in California, the national park’s fire crew will receive their assignment and work side-by-side with fire crews from across the nation.
As stated on the National Park Facebook Page, “The men and women that make up our fire crew area are all exceptional people,” said Superintendent Scott Burch.
“The National Park of American Samoa Fire Crew is well known throughout the United States as a dedicated, hardworking and valuable asset to the national wildland fire response team. This deployment is not only an opportunity for them to contribute to the greater good of our country; it is also valuable experience for them.
[Photo:THA]
Fa’amolemole, please join me in wishing them a successful deployment and in looking forward to their safe return.”
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samoa news, Friday, July 8, 2016
Latest murder case in
Samoa — victim and
defendant were drunk
Police note a strong relationship
between alcohol and violent crime
by Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu, Samoa News Reporter
Apia, SAMOA— “There is an increase in murder cases if
not one, two and sometimes several cases within a span of a
week, and almost all of the cases are a result of drinking sessions amongst friends,” said Samoa’s Police Spokesperson
Maotaoali’i Kaoineta Kitiona yesterday morning. His comments
were made during the weekly press conference with the Samoa
police, where Maotaoali’i explained that the latest murder case
allegedly occurred last week Friday around 7PM.
It’s alleged that the victim was in a drinking session with the
accused, and following a verbal argument, the accused, who
is 42 years old, got in his car and allegedly struck the 20 year
old victim. It’s unclear what injuries the victim sustained, as
Maotaoali’i declined to go into details of the case. He did, however, say that the accused is now in custody at Tafa’igata Jail,
and will appear in court next week Monday. He’s charged with
murder, and if convicted he’s looking at serving life in prison.
Maotaoali’i told Samoa News after the press conference that
alcohol plays a huge role in this case as it does in many cases that
have resulted in the deaths of so many. He said the use of alcohol
can negatively affect all aspects of a person’s life, and impacts
the choices they make when under the influence of alcohol.
“One of the most significant areas of risk with the use of
alcohol is the connection between alcohol and crime.”
He said while alcohol use is legal and pervasive, it plays a
particularly strong role in the relationship to crime and other
social problems, and as stated by many, alcohol is a factor in
almost all violent crimes today.
“Alcohol, more than any illegal drug, was found to be closely
associated with violent crimes, including murder, rape, assault, and
child and spousal abuse,” he said, adding that most cases are alcoholrelated, and half of all homicides and assaults are committed when
the offender, the victim — or both — have been drinking.
Among violent crimes, with the exception of robberies, the
offender is far more likely to have been drinking than under the
influence of other drugs, he stated, adding that alcohol is often a
factor in violence where the attacker and the victim know each other. ‘Hot, wet and wild’
2016 weather as US
has warmest June
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s warm, wild and costly
weather broke another record with the hottest June, federal
meteorologists say. And if that’s not enough, they calculated
that 2016 is flirting with the U.S. record for most billion-dollar
weather disasters. The month’s average temperature in the Lower
48 states was 71.8 degrees, 3.3 degrees above normal, surpassing
the Dust Bowl record set in 1933 by a couple tenths of a degree,
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported
Thursday. Every state in the nation was warmer than normal in
June, with Utah and Arizona having their hottest Junes.
“2016 has been hot, wet and wild for the contiguous U.S.,”
NOAA climate scientist Jake Crouch said Thursday.
The nation had its third hottest first half of the year. June’s
record heat is from a combination of natural variability and longterm global warming, Crouch said. Records go back to 1895.
But there’s been a wet and wild aspect of the year, too. So
far, NOAA calculates that there have been eight billion-dollar
weather disasters in the first half of this year, not counting the
West Virginia flooding, which is still being calculated. They’ve
been a combination of severe storms with tornadoes and heavy
rains and downpours that cause damaging flooding. Seven of
those have hit Texas.
NOAA calculates billion-dollar disasters , adjusting for inflation, to show trends in the most extreme and damaging weather.
Since 1980, the U.S. has averaged five billion-dollar disasters a
year, but in the last five years the country has averaged nearly 11 a
year. There were eight in 2015. The record is 16 different billiondollar disasters in 2011. “The main lesson is that it shows us how
vulnerable we are to climate change,” Texas A&M climate scientist Andrew Dessler said in an email. “People frequently think
that, ‘Oh, we’ll just adapt to climate change.’ But we’re learning
that it’s going to be a lot harder than people realize to do that.
How do you adapt to the amount of rain that West Virginia got?”
A woman rings the doorbell at the gate of the Governors Mansion as demonstrators gather in
St. Paul, Minn., protesting a police involved shooting early Thursday, July 7, 2016. A Minnesota
officer fatally shot a man in a car with a woman and a child in Falcon Heights, an official said.
St. Anthony Police interim police chief Jon Mangseth said the incident began when an officer
pulled over a vehicle Wednesday in the St. Paul suburb. Mangseth said he did not have details
about the reason for the traffic stop, but that at some point shots were fired. The man was struck
(Jeff Wheeler/Star Tribune via AP)
but no one else was injured, he said. NEWS IN BRIEF
Philippine president blames US,
UK for Middle East violence
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The new Philippine president has blamed U.S. intervention
for the bloody conflicts in Iraq and other Middle
Eastern countries in his latest critical remark
against Manila’s closest security ally.
President Rodrigo Duterte suggested in a
speech to Muslims on Friday that U.S. policy was
to blame for terrorist attacks on its soil, saying,
“It is not that the Middle East is exporting terrorism to America, America imported terrorism.”
Duterte says the U.S.-led invasion in Iraq,
which was backed by Britain, led to Saddam
Hussein’s downfall but caused the oil-rich nation
to descend into bloody strife, adding that America’s action had no legal basis.
Duterte describes himself as a leftist president
and has declared he would chart a foreign policy
not dependent on the United States.
Release of altered mosquitoes
to start in Cayman Islands
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (AP) —
An effort to reduce mosquitoes and prevent the
spread of viruses such as Zika in the Cayman
Islands by releasing genetically altered mosquitoes is to start next week, officials in the British
Caribbean territory said Thursday.
Mosquito abatement authorities in the Cayman
Islands and British biotech company Oxitec had
planned to release the GMO insects last month.
But the project was put off by a delay in getting
an occupancy permit for the lab in which mosquitoes are bred.
The release of the mosquitoes will begin on
300 acres in the West Bay area of Grand Cayman,
according to a government statement.
Plans call for releasing millions of modified
male mosquitoes of the species Aedes aegypti.
The males don’t bite, but they will mate with
females and produce offspring that die before
reaching adulthood.
Aedes aegypti are not native to the Cayman
Islands and spread Zika, dengue and yellow
fever. There has been one confirmed, imported
case of Zika in the territory.
GMO mosquitoes have been released in Brazil
seeking to halt the spread of disease there. Oxitec
and officials in the Florida Keys have proposed
testing there as well and are awaiting U.S. regulatory approval.
A referendum on the project is planned for
November amid environmental and health concerns that the company and advocates for the
project dispute.
Police captain’s son pleads not
guilty to terrorism charges
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Boston
police captain’s son accused of plotting an attack
on a college campus to support the Islamic State
group pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges
Thursday. Alexander Ciccolo, 24, was arrested last
July in a plot to detonate homemade bombs similar
to the pressure cooker bombs used in the deadly
2013 Boston Marathon attack. Boston police Capt.
Robert Ciccolo alerted the FBI after his son said he
wanted to join the Islamic State group.
The younger Ciccolo was arrested after he
allegedly received four guns from a person cooperating with the FBI. He was charged then only
with being a felon in possession of a firearm. But
last week, he was indicted on one count each of
attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and attempting to use
weapons of mass destruction.
Ciccolo’s lawyer did not immediately return a
call seeking comment Thursday.
Ciccolo has been held without bail since his
arrest. During a detention hearing last July, a prosecutor said Ciccolo “came under the sway” of the
Islamic State group, accepted its “call to action”
and began making plans to kill Americans.
Prosecutors said Ciccolo focused on a plan to
set off a pressure cooker bomb in the cafeteria of
an unidentified university during lunchtime so he
could kill as many people as possible.
Illusionist Copperfield buys
Vegas-record $17.5 million home
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A business group
says the $17.55 million paid for a northwest Las
Vegas home by Strip illusion show headliner
David Copperfield set an area record.
The Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors said Thursday the price eclipsed the $17.375
million paid in 2007 for a mansion at the Shadow
Creek Golf Club in North Las Vegas.
The broker, Berkshire Hathaway Berkshire
Hathaway HomeServices, tells the Las Vegas
Review-Journal Copperfield’s 31,000-squarefoot home has eight bedrooms, an office, gym,
wine cellar, two commercial elevators and a
movie theater. The nearly 1.6-acre property on
Enclave Court in Summerlin also features a spa,
nightclub, golf simulation room, Zen garden and
resort-style infinity swimming pool.
The seller, health care executive Kevin Hooks,
bought the land for $2.575 million in 2005 and
built the house around 2011. It was designed by
Swaback Partners of Scottsdale, Arizona.
samoa news, Friday, July 8, 2016 Page 3
DPS Officer given to 90-days in jail for extortion scheme
translated by Joyetter
Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu
Samoa News Reporter
Chief Justice Michael Kruse handed
down a 90-day jail sentence for Senior
Public Safety Officer Poe Leapai who
was criminally charged in connection
with a scheme to extort money from
fast food owners.
Targeting Asian-owned businesses,
Leapa, while in uniform, would place
dead cockroaches in the food he would
buy from these stores, and then ask
the store owners for money in return
for not contacting the Department of
Health.
Leapai was charged with three
counts of stealing, two of which are
Class C felonies, punishable with up to
seven years in jail, a fine up to $5,000
or both. The third stealing count was a
misdemeanor which carries a sentence
of up to one year in jail, and or up to
$1,000 fine, or both.
During sentencing this week, Leapai
who has been with the DPS for 17
years pled guilty to the stealing counts,
that were however reduced to misdemeanors as part of the plea agreement.
Kruse pointed out that what did
not sit well with the court was that the
Officer was in uniform.
Leapai was sentenced to two years
in jail however execution of sentencing was suspended on the condition that he serves 90 days in jail.
He was also ordered to pay a fine of
$1,000, and also pay back the money
he received from the restaurant/ fast
food outlets.
Kruse also stated that if the defendant continues to be employed by the
DPS he’s to wear his uniform and go
and apologize to the three restaurants
whose money he took.
During sentencing, Leapai apologized in tears and asked the court
for a second chance noting that he’s
remorseful of his actions. However
Kruse said the court does not believe
Leapai, and noted that it’s only because
he’s a police officer who was caught
red-handed committing a crime.
COCO MART INCIDENT
According to the government’s
case, on July 8, 2014 Captain Pierre
Clemens received information that a
police offer who ordered cooked food
from Coco Mart in Nu’uuli soon thereafter claimed to have discovered a
cockroach in his food.
It’s alleged that moments after
being informed of the Coco Mart incident, Captain Clemens proceeded to
Coco Mart and met with the owners. In
addition to confirming the information,
the couple showed video footage of the
incident to Capt. Clemens.
Upon reviewing the video, Clemens immediately recognized Leapai
as a DPS officer. According to the
government’s case, Clemens left
Coco Mart and went to the police station where he briefed Commissioner
of Public Safety, William Haleck,
who supported an investigation
into the matter. Clemens then met
with Assistant Chief of Police and
Commander of the Criminal Investigation Division, (CID) Lavata’i
Taase Sagapolutele, who assigned
the investigation to Detective Vasa
Wells. Court filings say that Leapai
was dressed in his DPS Marine Patrol
uniform when he purchased the food
from Coco Mart.
It’s alleged that while the police
were reviewing the video footage, they
saw Officer Leapai inserting something into the food he was carrying.
He ate from the plate and then set the
food down at the register and walked
outside. He came back inside and continued to eat from the plate and then
complained about something being in
the food.
It’s alleged that Leapai told the storeowner to proceed to the storage room
where he mentioned calling Public
Health. The storeowner asked Leapai
how much does he want and Leapai set
his price at $100, but it was negotiated
down to $40 which he accepted.
Interviews at Coco Mart also disclosed that at least two other establishments — Happy Mart in Nu’uuli and
Mandarin store in Malaeimi — “were
victimized by Leapai employing the
same method to appropriate money,”
say court documents.
HAPPY MART
Police proceeded to Happy Mart
where they obtained video footage
and audio recording and it was
learned that Leapai was also in his
DPS Marine patrol uniform when purchasing cooked food from the Happy
Mart store.
Court filings say that Leapai left
the store with his food only to return
moments later, claiming there was a
cockroach in it. Upon listening to the
audio recording, Leapai told the owner
that the matter could be reported to
Public Health which may result in the
store being shut down and they would
have to pay a fine of $10,000.
The store owner offered to return
his $20, then Leapai asked if that is all
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the store owner was going to offer for
Leapai to keep his mouth closed.
Leapai allegedly then said to give
him $300. Court documents say,
“This amount was negotiated down to
$150 and it is alleged that Leapai then
accepted the $150.”
MANDARIN STORE
According to the government’s
case, the video footage showed that
police officer Leapai was eating in
Mandarin store. In the video, he gets
up and walks to the register and shows
the cashier a cockroach head in the
food he was eating.
It’s alleged that in the storage room,
Leapai asks the cashier for $300, but it
was negotiated down to $100. “Leapai
takes the $40 from the cashier and
walks to the police car and the cashier
gets another $60 and gives it to Leapai
in the police car,” court documents say.
On July 11, 2014 Leapai was called
into the CID office where he met with
the investigating officer Det. Wells
and her superior. It’s alleged when
the audio recording was played, the
defendant was asked if he recognized
the voice and the defendant said “yes
it’s me.”
The defendant refused to write a
statement to the police. However,
shortly thereafter he requested to
speak with Lt. Ta’afua alone where
the defendant allegedly cried and
admitted to taking money from Coco
Mart, Happy Mart and Mandarin
Store. It is alleged that he told Lt.
Ta’afua that he was in need of money
and did not know where to go. It’s
alleged that Leapai then asked Lt.
Ta’afua for assistance in the matter
and he was told to seek an attorney.
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Samoa’s Parliament
initiates a probe into
Lands & Titles Court
by Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamamu
Samoa News Reporter
APIA, SAMOA — Some judges in the Lands and Title’s
Court (LTC) are not happy with the inquiry by Samoa’s Parliament, initiated by Samoa’s Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele
Malielegaoi during Parliament’s session last month.
During that session, Tuilaepa moved to establish a special
committee to investigate the work of the LTC Judges, and
they are to report back to Parliament at their next session in
August.
According to the Samoa Observer, Tuilaepa made the
unexpected announcement during parliament and stressed
the need to have checks on the judges in the Land and Titles
Court. “If the Court does not fix its internal issues, there is a duty
of the Parliament to make an order with the two thirds support
from the MPs in the House,” said Tuilaepa.”
He also pointed out that Parliament could submit an application to the Head of State to remove any judge who is not
performing their role with honesty.
“The matters they should look into are, firstly, the rules and
procedures of Land and Titles Court. “Secondly the appointments and scrutiny of the Land and Titles judges performances. He said the investigation will look directly into ways
to advise the Land and Titles Court development, mainly
on clearer rules and procedures to deal with matters before
the Court and to minimize wasted time of respondents and
the load of work for the Courts, where government has also
wasted money.”
He highlighted that the investigation should make it clear
that the appointments of LTC judges are contractual, so they
can be re-interviewed to determine if they are still qualified to
continue their duties. “I don’t have to say it, but every work place should have its
own checks to make sure that they are doing their duties. It’s
the same with the government Ministries and State owned
enterprises where, after every three years, the contract will be
re-advertised to see if there is anyone else better than the boss
(of the ministry).”
He further stated that there are a few concerns about the
criminal courts, which include the District and Supreme
Court, but 99% of the complaints have shown distress from
the public on decisions handed down from the Land and
Titles Court.
According to one of the judges a letter has been sent to the
Commission Chairman regarding this inquiry as the judges are
alleged to have been “boycotting this so-called inquiry” said a
Judge who did not wish to be named for fear of repercussion.
In the meantime, Samoa’s Head of State, His Highness Tui
Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi has endorsed Fepuleai Letufuga
Atilla Manutoipule Ropati as President of the Lands and
Titles Court on advice from Cabinet. This appointment will
officially commence on August 1, 2016 according to a press
statement issued by Samoa’s Press Secretariat.
According to the statement, Fepuleai is a lawyer by profession and has served in Government for many years, including
his recent post as Clerk of the Legislative Assembly for the
last three Parliamentary terms. He had also worked as Corporate Manager for the Samoa Ports Authority, an Associate
for the Petaia Law Chambers and was previously an Assistant
Registrar for the Land and Titles Court.
Fepuleai holds BA, LLB, and PDLP degrees from the University of the South Pacific, the University of New England
and the University of Tasmania. He hails from the villages of
Saleaula, Safotulafai, Iva, Salelavalu and Fasitoouta, and is
married with three children.
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Pictured here are some members of the Lions Club, including new board members, during their
recent dinner and induction of new officers, held on Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at A & E Cafe.
(L-R) Lions Larry Sanitoa, Chris King, Tafa Tua-Tupuola, Chande Lutu-Drabble, Lisa Togiai,
[photo: Saipai Cassens]
and Teri Hunkin. Lions Club roars into Centennial
Year with Lion King, new board
by Samoa News staff
On Tuesday evening, July 5, 2016, members
of the Lions Club of Pago Pago gathered at the
A & E Cafe in Tafuna, with families and friends
looking on, to install a new president and board
of directors for the 2016-2017 Lion year.
It is an especially significant year for the
Lions, as they will be celebrating their Centennial
Year in 2017. Founded in Chicago in 1917, the
Lions have grown to become the world’s largest
volunteer community service organization, with
over 46,000 clubs and 1.5million members in
over 200 countries and territories worldwide.
Their signature projects often involve eye
care, vision screening, and eyeglass distribution,
as their first convention’s keynote speaker was
none other than Helen Keller. She stood before
that first group of community minded people,
and challenged them to be “the knights of the
blind” and do everything possible to prevent
blindness in the world.
Picking up the challenge, Lions everywhere
still engage in activities that promote sight, as
well as healthy lifestyles, good citizenship, and
care for the environment.
For the third time since he became a Lion
over 15 years ago, Chris King took the helm of
the club to guide it through its new year. Turning
over the gavel to ‘Lion King’, as he is affectionately known, was outgoing Lion president
Tafaimamao Tua- Tupuola, who declared in her
farewell speech how wonderful the experience of
service has been, and in serving others we grow
as people. She said, “Thank you for allowing me
to lead, thank you for being a “heart print” in our
community, but most importantly, Thank You
for the experience of service.”
The list of accomplishments for this Lions
Club grows each year, and this past year was
no exception. For the first time ever, a “Campus
Club” was instituted at the American Samoa
Community College, and its first president was
none other than Chris and Danielle King’s eldest
son, Aiden. The example of community service
is one which the King family believes in, as
others in the King family are involved in worthy
causes and volunteer work, such as the American
Samoa Humane Society.
During the past year the Lions participated in
four Centennial Year service challenges.
The first, “Sharing the Vision” saw Lions
distributing eyeglasses at the Fagatogo Marketplace, and training Lion members and
future Campus Lion members on vision acuity
screening procedures.
To “Relieve Hunger and Poverty” the Lions
took it upon themselves, under the leadership of
new Lion member, Tuna Sunia, to collect and
distribute clothing and food to low income families during the Christmas holiday season.
“Engaging our Youth” meant involving the
newly formed ASCC Campus Lions Club in
the 1Day Stand Against Tobacco, and with the
support of the ASCC president, they promoted a
smoke-free campus for one day.
“Protecting our Environment” was met with a
campus-wide clean up during the Stand Against
Tobacco Day, again accomplished by the new
ASCC Lions Club.
The Lions signature service project, Project
Eye Care addressed the high number of cataract cases in the Territory, and succeeded in
procuring and donating a “Phacoemulsification” machine for the Eye Clinic at LBJ Medical
Center. Valued at over $100K, the machine was
made possible by the Lions partnership with
Alcon Laboratories, Oregon Health Sciences
University, Dr. Mitch Brinks, Dr. Ben Siatu’u
and shipping sponsors CSL Cargo Services and
Island Cargo Support.
Six “Centennial Members” were inducted
into the club during the past year, and as noted,
the first of its kind in this Lions constitutional
area, the ASCC campus club was chartered with
20 Centennial members.
Lions Club International also gave their
highest award, the Melvin Jones Fellowship
Award, to Chris King, and to Mrs. Olivia ReidGillette, for their outstanding support of Lions in
this community.
During the evening, which was punctuated
with much laughter and good-natured ribbing—
also known as “tail twisting— two new Lions
were installed into the club, and two were given
recognition as long serving members. Chris and
Terrie Bullinger were officially welcomed by the
club on that night, while Lions Teri Hunkin and
Isabel Steffany Hudson, both past presidents and
past zone chairs for the club, were each congratulated for 15 years of dedicated service.
Lion King noted in his remarks, “I am excited
to once again lead our Pride as we journey into
a new year of service. I look forward to working
with each of you as we strive to make our community, and the world, a better place for everyone.”
Lion volunteers everywhere serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage
peace and promote international understanding,
while their motto is simply, “We Serve”.
It has been their desire for one hundred
years to be a global leader in community and
humanitarian service, and they have been tireless
throughout those years, in good times, as well
as in times of disasters and emergencies, when
Lions are often among the first responders rendering comfort and aid.
Charter President Mike Sala, who was offisland for the event, was awarded the Lion of the
Year for his never-failing support of the club and
its members.
WE BELIEVE THE KEY TO SOLID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
BEGINS WITH WISE AND EFFICIENT USE OF
AMERICAN SAMOA’S ALREADY LIMITED FINANCIAL RESOURCES.
THEREFORE, WE ARE COMMITTED TO:
PROTECTING AND SUPPORTING OUR TUNA INDUSTRY
• EnsureALL policies and initiatives of theAmerican Samoa Government are aligned and coordinated at local,
national,regionalandgloballevelstokeepourcanneriescompetitiveandsupporttheindustriesthatdependon
thecanneriesforbusiness
BRINGING INTEGRITY AND RELIABILITY BACK TO ADMINISTERING GRANT PROGRAMS:
• Usegrantfundsexactlyhowwepromisedthefederalgovernmentwewould
• Ensurewemeetprogramobjectivesandcomplywithgrantrequirements
• Ensurereportsaresubmittedtimelyandreimbursementsarecompletedwithin30days
• RemoveAmericanSamoaGovernmentfromHighRiskdesignationbyallfederalagencies
CONDUCT A MORE FUTURE-ORIENTED REVIEW OF THE ASEDA BONDS AND TERRITORIAL BANK INITIATIVES
• Ensurethatallprojectsthatareundertaken,infrastructureorotherwise,withbondfundsarecarefullyvettedand
tiedtorevenuegeneration
• Carefullyreviewtherevenuestreamsbasedonactualcollectionsandadjustprojectionsaccordingly
• AssesswhetherASGshouldassumetheprivatesectorfunctionofabankfortheTerritory,especiallyinlightofpast
experiencewiththeBankofAmericanSamoa,theCreditUnionandtheDevelopmentBank
• EnsurethatanybanksetupintheTerritoryusingpublicfundscontainadequatesafeguardsthatinsulateitfrompolitics
UA MA’UA TALITONU O LE AUALA E AGA’I I LE ATINA’EINA O SE TAMAOAIGA
MAUTŪ E AMATA MAI LEA I LE FA’AOGĀINA LELEI MA LE FA’AUTAUTA
O ALĀ-MANUIA A AMERIKA SAMOA, E UI INA UTIUTI
ONA O LEA TALITONUGA, UA MA’UA TA’UTINO O LE A O MA’UA:
PUIPUI MA SAPASAPAI GALUEGA TAU FAIGA-FAIVA
• Iafa’amautinoaleōgatasileaotulafono-fa’afoemamatafaioialemalooAmerikaSamoamaleatunu’uatoa,le
malotele,leneiitulagimalelalolagiinaiamafaiaipeaekamupani-i’aonatauvāifefa’ataua’iga,masapasapai
kamupaniumaolo’ofa’amoemoeikamupani-i’amoalatoupisinisi
TOE FA’AFO’I LE MAOPOOPOGA MA LE FA’ATUATUAGA I LE FA’AFOEGA O POROKALAME E
FA’ATUPE E FOA’I MAI FAFO
• Iafa’aogasa’otupemaifoa’imaifafoetusaaimalemaliliegamalemalotele
• Iaausialeautūoporokalameumamausita’iatu’utu’ugaumaolefoa’i-tupe
• Iafa’auluinaripotiitaimietatauaimatoetotogitupemana’omiaitotonuoasoetolusefulu
• Iaave’esealetulaga-ma’ale’ale(highrisk)olo’oiaiAmerikaSamoaifa’amaumaugaamatagaluega‘ese’eseale
malotele
IA ILOILO MA SE MANATU MO LE LUMANA’I IA PONE FA’A-ASEDA (ASEDA BONDS) FA’ATASI AI MA LE
FALETUPE A LE TERITORI
• Iafa’amautinoa,opoloketiumaoleafa’atino,po’onigaluegaoleafaia,po’onisilavaauaunagaefa’atupeitupe
olepone,oleamauamaiainitupealemalo
• Iailoilomalefa’aetetealā-manuiaumaetusaaimatupeolo’omauamo’imaiai,mafetu’una’ileleifuafuagamo
tupemaua
• Toeliuliuletofapealagā-tatauilemalooamerikasamoaonafa’afoesefaletupemoleteritoriapeatoetomanatu
ifa’afitaulioga’ogaifutiauaalunaa’afiaailebankofamericansamoamaleiuniatagata-faigaluegaalemalo
• Iafa’amautūleiaileaonipuipuigafa’aletulafonoemalutiaaiso’osefaletupeefa’avaeileteritoriea’afiaaitupe
atagatalautelemaia’afiagamaagafa’a-polokiki
Open Invitation to the
Ma le fa’aaloalo tele,
1st Community Town Hall Meeting
Friday, July 8, 2016 at 5:00 p.m
Fāoa A. Sunia
Larry S. Sanitoa
Maota o le Afioga i le Ta’auso
Campaign Headquarters, Suite#4 Iosia Business Building,
P.O. Box 5033, Nu’uuli, AS 96799
684-699-0846 or 258-3200, [email protected]
Website: www.faoasanitoa.com
.
ia Leituala, Ili’ili
Future Meetings to be Annou
nced!
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Dallas Police respond after shots were fired at a Black Lives Matter rally in downtown Dallas on Thursday, July 7, 2016. Dallas protestors rallied in the aftermath
of the killing of Alton Sterling by police officers in Baton Rouge, La. and Philando Castile, who was killed by police less than 48 hours later in Minnesota.
(Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)
Police: 5 officers dead, 7 hurt in Dallas protest shooting
DALLAS (AP) — Dallas was in
shock and beset by uncertainty early
Friday after gunmen shot and killed
five police officers and wounded
seven during a peaceful protest over
fatal police shootings of black men in
other states, police said, in bloodshed
evoking the trauma of the nation’s
tumultuous civil rights era.
Police Chief David Brown blamed
“snipers” and said three suspects
were in custody while a fourth had
exchanged gunfire with authorities in
a parking garage downtown and told
negotiators he intended to hurt more
law enforcement officials.
Early Friday, Dallas Mayor Mike
Rawlings said the fourth suspect had
died.
“We don’t exactly know the last
moments of his death but explosives
did blast him out,” Rawlings told The
Associated Press.
He said police swept the area where
the standoff took place and found no
explosives.
Police did not identify any of the
suspects or mention a possible motive.
The shooting began about 8:45
p.m. Thursday while hundreds of
people were gathered to protest the
fatal police shootings in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, and suburban St. Paul,
Minnesota. Brown told reporters the
snipers fired “ambush style” on the
officers. A civilian was also wounded,
Rawlings said.
Brown said it appeared the shooters
“planned to injure and kill as many
officers as they could.” Video from
the scene showed protesters marching
along a downtown street about half
a mile from City Hall when shots
erupted and the crowd scattered,
seeking cover.
The attacks made Thursday the
deadliest day for U.S. law officers
since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks, according to The National Law
Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund,
which tracks on-duty deaths.
It also drew a comparison with the
November day in 1963 when a U.S.
president was slaughtered by a sniper
on a Dallas street only a few blocks
away.
“I think the biggest thing that we’ve
had something like this is when JFK
died,” resident Jalisa Jackson downtown said early Friday as struggled
to fathom the still-unsettled situation.
Officers crouched beside vehicles,
SWAT team armored vehicles arrived
and a helicopter hovered overhead.
Protests were held in several other
U.S. cities Thursday night after a Minnesota officer on Wednesday fatally
shot Philando Castile while he was in
a car with a woman and a child, the
shooting’s aftermath livestreamed in
a widely shared Facebook video. A
day earlier, Alton Sterling was shot
in Louisiana after being pinned to
the pavement by two white officers.
That, too, was captured on a cellphone
video.
Thursday’s shootings occurred in
area of hotels, restaurants, businesses
and some residential apartments only
a few blocks from Dealey Plaza,
where President John F. Kennedy was
assassinated.
The scene was chaotic, with officers with automatic rifles on the street
corners.
“Everyone just started running,”
Devante Odom, 21, told The Dallas
Morning News. “We lost touch with
two of our friends just trying to get out
of there.”
Carlos Harris, who lives downtown,
told the newspaper that the shooters
“were strategic. It was tap, tap pause.
Tap, tap pause,” he said.
Brown said police don’t have a
motivation for the attacks or any information on the suspects. He said they
“triangulated” in the downtown area
where the protesters were marching
and had “some knowledge of the route”
they would take.
Video posted on social media
appeared to show a gunman at ground
level exchanging fire with a police
officer who was then felled.
Authorities have not determined
whether any protesters were involved
with or were complicit in the attack
and were not certain early Friday that
all suspects have been located, Brown
said.
Rawlings said at the news conference that authorities will likely ask
some people to stay away from downtown Dallas on Friday. Rawlings said
a map would be posted online showing
an area where people should avoid on
Friday.
Early Friday morning, there were
dozens of officers of the corridor of the
ER at Baylor Medical Center, where
other injured officers were taken. The
mayor and police chief were seen
arriving there.
Four of the officers who were killed
were with the Dallas Police Department, a spokesman said. One was a
Dallas Area Rapid Transit officer.
The agency said in a statement that
43-year-old officer Brent Thompson
was the first officer killed in the line of
duty since the agency formed a police
department in 1989.
“Our hearts are broken,” the statement said.
Theresa Williams told The Associated Press that the injured civilian
was her sister, 37-year-old Shetamia
Taylor.
Williams said her sister was at the
protests Thursday night with her four
sons, ages 12 to 17.
When the shooting began, Taylor
threw herself over her sons, Williams
said. She was undergoing surgery early
Friday after being shot in the right calf.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott released
a statement saying he has directed the
Texas Department of Public Safety
director to offer “whatever assistance
the City of Dallas needs at this time.”
“In times like this we must
remember — and emphasize — the
importance of uniting as Americans,”
Abbott said.
Other protests across the U.S. on
Thursday were peaceful. In midtown
Manhattan, protesters first gathered in
Union Square Park where they chanted
“The people united, never be divided!”
and “What do we want? Justice. When
do we want it? Now!” In Minnesota,
where Castile was shot, hundreds of
protesters marched in the rain from
a vigil to the governor’s official residence. Protesters also marched in
Atlanta, Chicago and Philadelphia.
President Barack Obama said
America is “horrified” over the shootings and there’s no possible justification for the attacks.
Speaking from Warsaw, Poland,
where he was meeting with leaders
of the European Union and attending
a NATO summit, the president said
justice will be done and he’s asking all
Americans to pray for the fallen officers and their families. He also said the
nation should express its gratitude to
those serving in law enforcement.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Barack
Obama on Friday reaffirmed his confidence that
the U.S. and its European allies will continue
to work together on critical global challenges
despite the decision by Britain to leave the European Union.
Speaking at the opening of two days of meetings with European leaders, Obama said the U.S.
and the EU agreed they can do more to improve
security, share information and stem the flow of
foreign fighters to prevent terror attacks.
But he also said leaders on both sides of the
Atlantic need to address the economic frustrations of their people, who feel they are being left
behind by globalization.
“Our governments, including the EU cannot
be remote institutions,” said Obama, as he stood
alongside European Council President Donald
Tusk and European Commission President JeanClaude Juncker.
“They have to be responsive and move more
quickly with minimal bureaucracy to deliver
real economic progress in the lives of ordinary
people.”
In an op-ed published in the Financial Times
on Friday, Obama called on European leaders to
stand firm against Russia, Islamic State terrorism
and other challenges facing NATO — even as
a Britain is poised to retrench from Europe. He
argued that Britain’s looming exit only makes
the NATO alliance a more important force for
cooperation in the region.
“I believe that our nations must summon the
political will, and make concrete commitments,
to meet these urgent challenges. I believe we can
— but only if we stand united as true allies and
partners,” Obama wrote.
Obama and the two European leaders delivered a unified message that Britain’s exit, while
serious, will not divide the broader effort of the
nations to work together on matters including the
war in Afghanistan, the fight against the Islamic
State, the migrant crisis and climate change.
Arguments that the split suggests the “entire
edifice of Europe security and prosperity is
crumbling” are misplace hyperbole, Obama said
during remarks with Tusk and Juncker.
The exit negotiations have not yet been formally triggered by Britain and could take up to
two years.
“I am confident that the UK and the EU will
be able to agree on an orderly transition to a new
relationship, as all our countries stay focused
on ensuring financial stability and growing the
global economy,” Obama wrote.
Although the U.S. has a keen interest in the
talks, the president’s words have limited impact
and influence. Obama’s trip, which includes a
stop in Spain, is expected to be his last trip to
Europe as president. The president arrived prior
to the shooting attack that killed five police officers in Dallas.
The task of trying to shape the talks to serve
U.S. interests and mitigate damage largely will
fall to his successor. Still, in his remaining time
in office, Obama has sought to use his popularity
in Europe and his presidential megaphone to
defend international cooperation and the “European project” and will urge other leaders to
speak up more forcefully.
The White House has acknowledged that
Obama’s message has to some degree failed to
persuade on both sides of the Atlantic. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
has suggested he would seek to pull back from
Europe, even hinting the U.S. could withdraw
from NATO, the 67-year-old cornerstone of
European security. His Democratic rival, Hillary
Clinton, has suggested she would continue, if not
deepen, Obama’s approach. But even Clinton
has rejected the president’s push for massive,
multinational free-trade agreements.
That call for renewed focus on alliances
extends to NATO, which U.S. officials have said
stands at an “inflection point” away from its postSept. 11 focus on the mission in Afghanistan to
an era with more diffuse and varied threats.
Leaders in Warsaw for meetings on Friday
and Saturday will announce efforts to deter what
they see as continued aggression from Moscow.
They’ll discuss increasing NATO involvement
in countering the threat posed by the Islamic
State group in Syria, and the migration crisis
also sparked the Middle East and North Africa.
The officials will also discuss ways to improve
cooperation on cyberwarfare.
Obama met Friday with NATO SecretaryGeneral Jens Stoltenberg to review the agenda
before visiting with the summit’s host, Polish
President Andrzej Duda.
Typhoon drenches
Taiwan, kills two;
floods hit Manila
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Power was partially restored in
Taiwan on Friday after a powerful typhoon slammed into the
island’s eastern coast with ferocious winds and torrential rains,
killing two people and injuring 72. Typhoon Nepartak made landfall early morning in Taitung county, grounding planes and fishing
boats. More than 15,000 people were evacuated.
In the Philippine capital Manila and outlying provinces, government work and classes were suspended Friday as typhooninduced monsoon rains drenched many regions. Rescuers used
rubber boats to move people around in waist-high floodwaters.
By late morning, Nepartak had weakened to a medium-strength
typhoon, packing maximum sustained winds of 163 kilometers
(100 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 230 kph (143 mph), Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau said. It was forecast to reach mainland China’s Fujian province Saturday morning.
In Taiwan, about 430,000 households were affected by power
cuts, but half of them had electricity restored in the afternoon.
The island’s railway services also have been suspended, while
more than 600 domestic and international flights were canceled on
Friday. Although the typhoon was losing power, disaster response
officials said they remained concerned that the heavy rains would
trigger floods and landslides in the rugged terrain.
Taiwanese authorities reported that more than 15,400 people
have been evacuated from 14 counties and cities.
Nepartak is a Micronesian word for a local warrior.
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AUA & FAGAITUA 644-5000 / 622-5000
Notice for Proposed Registration of Matai Title
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 6.0105 of the Revised Code of American
Samoa that a claim of succession which has been filed with the Territorial Registrar’s office for
the registration of the Matai Title MALUIA of the village of NUUULI by VAEIAITU MULINUU
FILO MALUIA of the village of NUUULI, county of ITUAU MALOSI, EASTERN District.
THE TERRITORIAL REGISTRAR is satisfied that the claim, petition by the family and certificate of the village chiefs are in proper form.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that anyone so desiring must file his counterclaim, or
objection to the registration of this matai title with the Territorial Registrar Office before the expiration of 60 days from the date of posting. If no counterclaim, nor any objection is filed by the
expiration of said 60 days, the matai title MALUIA shall be registered in the name of VAEIAITU
MULINUU FILO MALUIA in accordance with the laws of American Samoa.
POSTED:
JUNE 24, 2016 thru AUGUST 23, 2016
SIGNED:
Taito S.B. White, Territorial Registrar
Fa’aaliga o le Fa’amauina o se Suafa Matai
O le fa’aaliga lenei ua faasalalauina e tusa ma le Maga 6.0105 o le tusi tulafono a Amerika
Samoa, e pei ona suia, ona o le talosaga ua faaulufaleina mai i le Ofisa o le Resitara o Amerika
Samoa, mo le fia faamauina o le suafa matai o MALUIA o le nu’u o NUUULI e VAEIAITU MULINUU FILO MALUIA o NUUULI faalupega o ITUAU MALOSI, falelima i SASA’E.
Ua taliaina e le Resitara lea talosaga, faatasi ma le talosaga a le aiga faapea ma le tusi faamaonia
mai matai o lea nu’u, ma ua i ai nei i teuga pepa a lea ofisa.
A i ai se tasi e faafinagaloina, ia faaulufaleina sana talosaga tete’e, po o sana faalavelave tusitusia i le Ofisa o Resitara i totonu o aso e 60 mai le aso na faalauiloa ai lenei fa’aaliga. Afai o lea leai
se talosaga tete’e, po’o se faalavelave foi e faaulufaleina mai i aso e 60 e pei ona taua i luga, o lea
faamauina loa lea suafa matai i le igoa o VAEIAITU MULINUU FILO MALUIA e tusa ai ma aiaiga o le tulafono a Amerika Samoa.
07/08 & 08/08/16
AMERICAN SAMOA
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
PUBLIC NOTICE
An election for party officers will take place on Tuesday, July 12 from 3pm
to 6pm at Toa Bar & Grill. The following offices will be elected:
Chair, Vice-Chair, National Committee Woman & National Committee
Man for four year terms and Treasurer & Secretary for two year terms.
Persons interested in running for office or participating in the election
need to be registered members of the party and must register by Monday,
July 11th by 11:59pm SST. Members can register by contacting us at the
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Nominations can be made on the floor from 3:00pm to 3:30pm on the day
of the election, balloting will start at 3:31pm and continue through 6pm.
For more information please contact Andrew @ 252-7219.
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Proud employees of the American Samoa Environmental Protection Agency (AS-EPA) celebrate the recertification of their laboratory by the United States
Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). After an intensive two-day review focused on laboratory practices, analytical methodologies, sample collection, handling and preservation, quality assurance and record keeping among personnel — the laboratory is now fully certified through 2019. AS-EPA’s lab analyzes water
[courtesy photo]
samples daily, and certification ensures that data presented to the public is factual and reliable.
Explosion
on a train
in Taiwan
injures 24
TAIPEI (AP) — The injury
toll from an explosion that hit
a commuter train in Taiwan’s
capital has risen to 24, with
some of the victims in serious
condition, police said Friday.
The police suspect the blast that
engulfed one train car in flames
at a station in Taipei was caused
by an explosive, the island’s
Central News Agency reported.
The explosive appeared to
be 15 to 20 centimeters (6-8
inches) long and looked like a
firecracker, the news agency
said, citing the director of Taiwan’s National Police Agency,
Chen Kuo-en. Police had said
that 21 people were hurt in the
explosion on Thursday night,
but later said another three
people went to hospitals on
their own to seek help.
Police bomb squad chief
Lee Tzu-wen told local television networks that investigators found “a 15 centimeterlong, broken metal tube stuffed
with explosive material inside
a black backpack” that they
believed caused the blast.
The self-ruled island’s premier, Lin Chuan, ordered government agencies to form a
team to investigate the blast, the
Central News Agency said.
“It looks like someone did it
on purpose,” Lin told journalists. “We will make our best
efforts to investigate this case.
Please rest assured that we will
provide effective and efficient
security for all passengers.”
Reports cited witnesses as
saying they heard a loud explosion before the train carriage
burst into flames.
Fa’afetai
ma le ava tele,
C
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K
Faataoto 31: 31
“Avatu ia te ia o le fua o
ona lima; o ana galuega fo’i e viia ai o ia i
faitoto’a.”
Proverbs 31: 31
“Give her of the fruit of
her hands, and let her
own works praise her
in the gates.”
E le lava upu o le gagana e sula ai le agalelei ma lo outou alofa na
faaalia mo matou le fanau i le manu’a o si o matou tina.
Fa’afetai fa’amafanafana.
Fa’afetai mo talosaga.
Ia agalelei le Atua ma faamanuia atu i aiga, uo ma e masani ae maise
le aufagaluega paia a le Atua ma le ekalesia.
C
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K
Words alone are not enough to express our gratitude for the love
that was shown to us during our mother’s funeral.
Thank you for your comfort. Thank you for your prayers.
May the Lord’s blessing be upon our families, friends, His servants
and church.
O Fanau a Helga Speck Lefiti
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➧ NEWS IN BRIEF…
Continued from page 2
Outgoing Lion President Tafa Tua-Tupuola gets ready to hand the gavel and bell over to incoming
president Chris King during their recent dinner, wherein the new president and board of directors
for Lion Year 2016-2017 were officially inducted and welcomed.
[photo: tlh]
This is a banner year for the international club, as it celebrates its Centennial.
PNA TUNA NEWS
PNA OFFICE RELEASES ANALYSIS OF NEW US AGREEMENT
The PNA has done its own analysis on the pros and cons of the latest US Treaty renegotiation. On
the upside, the US fleet is now subject to national laws (in the previous Treaty it over-rode national
laws), the US fleet will also be fully subject to the Vessel Day Scheme without exemptions, and
efforts by the US to meddle with the PNA’s Scheme have been rejected.
On the downside, PNA was less happy about the fact Vessel Day Scheme participants are obligated to offer days to the US fleet at a fixed price for 4 years and the US fleet doesn’t have to buy
them, plus the arrangement tends to undermine the leverage of the VDS for investment in domestic
development because it provides long term access for the US fleet without them having to invest in
Pacific countries. The PNA is also concerned with arrangements for the US Government to be notified of changes to the Vessel Day Scheme and arrangements for additional days.
They feel these concessions have been made solely for the purpose of securing the US Government $21m Pacific-wide contribution, which will largely benefit the non-PNA countries which
fishing nations are less interested in.
TRI MARINE CONFIDANT MSC STATUS BOOSTS BRAND
Tri Marine says its own Marine Stewardship Council Certification status, proving its tuna is
caught sustainably, will augur well for sales of the Parties to Nauru Agreement/Pacifical brand.
Tri Marine has achieved MSC certification of two fisheries. One is for skipjack and yellowfin
caught by US flag purse seiners operating out of American Samoa fishing in the Western and Central
Pacific Fisheries Commission Convention area. The other is for Solomon Island flag purse seiners
and pole and line boats catching yellowfin and skipjack within Solomon Islands’ archipelagic waters
and Exclusive Economic Zone. Tri Marine Internationals Managing Director Phil Roberts said they had been working closely with
PNA/Pacifical to supply PNA MSC skipjack to a major Australian brand John West: “This marked the
first major MSC contract for Pacifical and Tri Marine is proud to have partnered with Pacifical and
the brand concerned on this exciting project.
With the PNA fishery being the most sizeable source of MSC certified skipjack/yellowfin in the
world, we are confident that this will be a catalyst for much more MSC business for Pacifical.” Roberts said it will be business as usual in terms of its relationship with PNA: “Tri Marine’s client
vessels will continue to operate under PNA’s MSC certification and supply the volumes required as
demand continues to increase. In addition to our partnership with PNA, our own MSC fisheries certification expands MSC certification to now cover a larger proportion of the fishing grounds for our US
and Solomon Islands’ fishing fleets, which are not included in the PNA assessment, including Solomon
Islands archipelagic waters, US territorial waters, and the waters of other non-PNA member countries.”
VESSEL DAY SCHEME LONGLINE WORKSHOP A SUCCESS
The Chairman of the Parties to Nauru Agreement Technical Working Group and Director of the
Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Edward Honiwala said their first meeting held at Munda
Western Province recently was a success.
This meeting had brought together representatives from the eight PNA member countries to deliberate on issues relating to Longline Vessel Day Scheme and how it can be implemented by member
countries starting in 2017.Honiwala said the meeting also looked at minimum license terms and
conditions and reviewing the longline VDS Text.
Under the minimum license terms and conditions, all vessels are required to register on the Vessel
Day Scheme register, this is to allow all vessels to be access on the Fisheries Information and Management System (FIMS). “With this system, we can have control over the actual fishing days by
monitoring the fishing vessels activities within our EEZ”, he said.
Eastern Tuna Commission considers Ecuador proposal for global tuna ban
Last week, the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) met near San Diego to consider new measures to regulate the Eastern Pacific’s fishery, Pacnews reports. At this year’s gathering, the Commission faces an unusual request: the delegation from Ecuador’s
tuna industry – the largest in the region – has called for a “global ban” on tuna fishing.
The delegation, comprised of the leaders of Ecuador’s chamber of fishing and several fishing
industry executives, says that existing Eastern Pacific catch targets have been met, and it is time for
Asian tuna fisheries to take up similar measures. The Commission does not have members in the Western Pacific, and if adopted, the Ecuadorian
petition would be largely symbolic. The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, a separate body, coordinates fisheries in the South Pacific islands and in Asia. Others are also calling for widespread protections for tuna species. The overwhelming majority of
Mexico’s tuna firms have declared a voluntary ban on Pacific Bluefin take until the end of the decade.
NGOs have weighed in as well: on June 20, over a dozen environmental organizations petitioned the
U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to list the Pacific Bluefin as a federally-protected
(Reprinted with permission)
endangered species. Native American meeting gets
medical-pot provider as sponsor
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A medical marijuana company operating in New Mexico and Arizona has signed on as a
sponsor of one of North America’s largest powwows.
Gathering of Nations organizers announced their partnership
with Ultra Health this week, saying it’s similar to health and dental
clinics at previous powwows.
Founder Derek Mathews tells Albuquerque television station KOAT that marijuana has been used for medicinal purposes
throughout the United States, particularly in Indian Country. He
says it adds to the health and treatment options for the Native
American community.
Officials didn’t reveal the worth of the sponsorship, but it
will run through 2022 and can be extended for another five years
after that.
The powwow will relocate next year to Expo New Mexico.
The event draws tens of thousands of spectators to Albuquerque.
Man apologizes for stopping
Houston freeway to propose
HOUSTON (AP) — A 25-year-old Houston man who was
charged with a misdemeanor after stopping traffic on a downtown
freeway to propose to his girlfriend has been given a year of probation and apologized for his actions.
Vidal Valladares got down on one knee to propose in the
middle of Interstate 45 near downtown Houston in December.
Horns could be heard blaring at the couple in video posted online .
Valladares was charged with misdemeanor obstruction of a
roadway, but in a plea deal Thursday he was given deferred adjudication. That means the charge will be dismissed if he completes
32 hours of community service, isn’t charged with a crime for a
year and apologizes publicly.
He immediately apologized in front of reporters.
Florida judge who punished
victim will be reprimanded
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A central Florida judge who
jailed a domestic violence victim for not showing up to testify
against her alleged abuser faces sanctions from the state Supreme
Court. The court on Thursday ordered that Seminole County Judge
Jerri Collins take an anger management class and attend a domestic
violence course. Collins will also be publicly reprimanded.
Last year, Collins sentenced a Lake Mary woman to three
days in jail for contempt. The case drew public attention after an
Orlando television station broadcast the hearing where Collins
became upset and berated the crying victim.
Collins admitted her misconduct to a judicial panel, but contended she had a legal right to charge the women with contempt
since she ignored a subpoena. But she said she should have been
more patient and less aggressive.
Mega Millions jackpot hits
$540 million for Friday drawing
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Mega Millions jackpot has
increased to $540 million, as brisk ticket sales fuel the estimated
jackpot for Friday’s drawing. Paula Otto is executive director of
the Virginia Lottery and lead director for Mega Millions. She says
sales leading up to Friday’s drawing have exceeded expectations
resulting in the jackpot adjustment.
Friday’s drawing will be the 35th since Mega Millions had a
winner — the longest rollover stretch in the game’s history. Otto
says that since the last winner in March, Mega Millions ticket
sales have exceeded $1 billion. Sales prior to the last drawing on
Tuesday night also were higher than expected, at around $107 million. Sales were anticipated to hit $80 million.
Tickets are sold in 43 states, the District of Columbia and the
U.S. Virgin Islands.
Israel finds pieces of EgyptAir plane’s wreck on its coast
JERUSALEM (AP) — Pieces of wreckage believed to be from
the EgyptAir plane that crashed in May were found on Thursday
along the coast of Israel, according to the office of Israel’s prime
minister. The fragments were found in the morning hours north of
Tel Aviv, along the shores of the coastal city of Netanya, said Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office. It said that “parts were collected and it appears there is a high likelihood they are pieces of the
Egyptian plane.” It said the debris will be sent to Egypt.
EgyptAir Flight 804, an Airbus A320 en route from Paris to
Cairo, plunged into the Mediterranean Sea on May 19. The crash
killed all 66 people on board and the cause of the crash has not yet
been determined. The pilots made no distress call and no militant
group claimed to have brought the aircraft down.
The plane disappeared from radar between the Greek island
of Crete and Egypt. The current in that area flows toward Israel,
according to the Levantine Group risk consultancy.
Egyptian investigators say pilots tried to extinguish a fire in the
plane, according to data recovered from a cockpit voice recorder.
Radar data showed the aircraft had been cruising normally in
clear skies before it turned 90 degrees left, then a full 360 degrees
to the right as it plummeted from 38,000 feet (11,582 meters) to
15,000 feet (4,572 meters). It disappeared when it was at an altitude of about 10,000 feet (3,048 meters).
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Amata voices her support to
implement “Palau Compact”
(PRESS RELEASE)—Washington, D.C. –Thursday— Congresswoman Aumua Amata, who
serves as the Vice-Chairman of the House Natural Resources, Indian, Insular, & Alaska Native
Affairs Subcommittee, voiced her support for the implementation of the Palau Compact during
a legislative hearing yesterday on H.R. 4531, which would approve an agreement between the
United States and the Republic of Palau.
“I support both Mr. Sablan’s bill in the House, and Senator Hirono’s bill in the Senate, as they
both achieve the same goal, which is the implementation of the Compact,” said Amata.
“It is vitally important that the United States continues its long standing position as a nation that
honors its obligations,” she noted.
H.R. 4531 would rectify the long-outstanding implementation of the Compact which was
renewed in 2010, and has yet to be approved by Congress.
The Compact provides economic support to Palau, while allowing the U.S. to maintain its economic influence and national security interests in that region of the Pacific.
“It is time that we put this issue to bed and get it done,” stated Amata. “The people of Palau
deserve as much, and we owe it to ourselves to ensure that we continue to honor our obligations
and remain as an example to the rest of the world when it comes to our credibility. I want to thank
my colleague Mr. Sablan for introducing this legislation of which I am proud to be a cosponsor,
and I look forward to putting this issue to rest and seeing Congress fulfill its duties to the people of
the Freely Associated State of Palau,” concluded the Congresswoman.
Australian ruling party inches
closer to a re-election victory
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia
government appeared increasing likely to retain
power after a knife-edge election, with a third
independent lawmaker on Friday offering support to the ruling coalition if it falls short of a
majority.
But the opposition warned that while the
conservative Liberal Party-led coalition was
likely to cling to power, the government would
not survive a year.
Although vote counting was continuing
after the weekend election in a handful of seats
and official results could still be days away,
Christopher Pyne, the government leader in
the House of Representatives, claimed victory Friday, saying his coalition was certain
of 74 seats in the House and was likely to win
another three.
The government needs at least 76 seats to
form a majority in the 150-seat chamber.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said he
was not yet ready to claim victory.
“Christopher is a very confident colleague of
mine and he’s entitled to express his naturally
optimistic and confident view, but I’m the prime
minister and we respect the votes that have
been cast and one way we show that respect is
by waiting for the counting to be completed,”
Turnbull told reporters.
The opposition center-left Labor Party held
an upbeat meeting of lawmakers at Parliament
House, with opposition leader Bill Shorten
acknowledging the Liberals had likely won a
second three-year term, but saying its narrow
margin of victory meant it faced many problems
trying to govern.
“It’s likely in coming days that the Liberals
will scrape over the line,” Shorten told his
colleagues.
“But the combination of a prime minister
with no authority, a government with no direction and a Liberal Party at war with itself will
see Australians back at the polls within the
year,” he said.
Independent lawmakers Andrew Wilkie and
Cathy McGowan on Friday said they would
support a coalition government in the interests
of stability.
Another independent, Bob Katter, said
Thursday that he would also back Turnbull’s
coalition — meaning the government has the
support of three of the five independent and
minor party lawmakers in the chamber.
The Australian Electoral Commission put the
coalition ahead in 74 seats, Labor in 71, and the
minor parties and independents in five. Mail-in
and absentee votes that are still being counted
days after Saturday’s vote are favoring the
conservatives.
ABC election analysts — considered among
the most reliable — were forecasting that the
coalition had 73 seats, Labor 66, with minor
parties and independents leading in five seats.
Another six seats are still in doubt.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 6.0105 of the Revised Code of American
Samoa that a claim of succession which has been filed with the Territorial Registrar’s office for
the registration of the Matai Title MATAGAONO of the village of AFONO by I’AULUALO
FOLAU SOLOFA FATU of the village of AFONO, county of SUA, EASTERN District.
THE TERRITORIAL REGISTRAR is satisfied that the claim, petition by the family and certificate of the village chiefs are in proper form.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that anyone so desiring must file his counterclaim, or
objection to the registration of this matai title with the Territorial Registrar Office before the
expiration of 60 days from the date of posting. If no counterclaim, nor any objection is filed by
the expiration of said 60 days, the matai title MATAGAONO shall be registered in the name of
I’AULUALO FOLAU SOLOFA FATU in accordance with the laws of American Samoa.
POSTED:
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O le fa’aaliga lenei ua faasalalauina e tusa ma le Maga 6.0105 o le tusi tulafono a Amerika
Samoa, e pei ona suia, ona o le talosaga ua faaulufaleina mai i le Ofisa o le Resitara o Amerika
Samoa, mo le fia faamauina o le suafa matai o MATAGAONO o le nu’u o AFONO e I’AULUALO
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Hawaii Gov. David Ige signs a bill banning sex trafficking as members of the Hawaii Women’s Legislative Caucus applaud on Tuesday, July 5, 2016, in Honolulu.
(AP Photo/Cathy Bussewitz)
Hawaii became the last state in the nation to explicitly ban sex trafficking. ➧ NEWS IN BRIEF…
Serious damage after twister in
Kansas, no reported injuries
EUREKA, Kan. (AP) — Officials say the southeastern Kansas town of Eureka has been hit by a tornado that has caused significant widespread damage.
The National Weather Service says a tornado
warning for Greenwood County was issued just after
9:00 p.m. The tornado hit Eureka around 9:45 p.m.
Greenwood County Emergency Management
Director Levi Vinson confirmed at 12:30 a.m. that
there were no reports of injuries or deaths.
Vinson says there was a lot of structural damage,
including to a local nursing home, mobile homes and a
barn. People have been displaced from their homes and
have been asked to take shelter at the Eureka United
Methodist Church. Vinson said the American Red
Cross was on its way to the scene. Firefighters were
going home to home to check on residents.
Sheriff: Autistic woman kept outdoors with kennel-like crate
AMITE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana sheriff says
two men and three women are accused of keeping an
autistic woman outdoors with only a kennel-like crate
as her shelter and planning to use her as a prostitute.
Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards said in
a statement Thursday that investigators searched the
house last week after a report of a woman in a cage. He
says authorities found the woman in the back yard near
the crate draped with a blue tarp. Investigators say the
woman appeared malnourished and often was locked
in the crate at night to keep her from wandering away.
Sheriff’s spokeswoman Dawn Panepinto says
investigators later learned the five planned to prostitute
the woman. She says they were arrested on charges of
human trafficking and cruelty to the infirm.
India’s Modi in South Africa for
trade, remembering Gandhi
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi is in South Africa today on the latest
stop of a four-nation Africa tour to raise his country’s
economic profile on the continent. Modi is expected
to meet President Jacob Zuma on Friday and meet
with members of South Africa’s community of Indian
origin, which numbers more than 1 million people.
Zuma’s office says South Africa, which lists India
as its sixth-largest trade partner, wants to strengthen
those ties. On Saturday, Modi is expected to take a train
journey to commemorate Indian independence leader
Mohandas K. Gandhi. Gandhi’s experience with racism
while living and traveling in South Africa as a young
man shaped his decision to resist racial segregation with
nonviolent protest. Modi has already visited Mozambique and also will travel to Tanzania and Kenya.
Ex-federal official to be sentenced
in theft of old remains
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A retired National
Park Service official is awaiting his sentence for
stealing the remains of Native Americans who died
hundreds of years ago.
Thomas Munson is the former superintendent of
Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa. He’s
scheduled to learn his punishment Friday at the federal
courthouse in Cedar Rapids.
A plea agreement calls for one year of home detention with at least 10 weekends of confinement by the
federal Bureau of Prisons. The judge isn’t bound by
the agreement.
The monument houses burial mounds considered
sacred by many tribes. For years, the monument maintained a collection of bones tied to more than 40 individuals once buried there.
The 76-year-old Munson admitted he stole them in
1990, and kept them in his garage in Wisconsin for two
decades.
Family seeks answers in Asheville
police shooting death
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Relatives of a black
man shot and killed by a white Asheville police officer
are calling the man’s death unjustified.
The family of 35-year-old Jai Williams spoke at a
news conference Wednesday outside the Buncombe
County courthouse, demanding more answers about
the weekend shooting.
Authorities say Williams was fatally shot by Police
Sgt. Tyler Radford after a police chase Saturday evening. Officials said Radford was in fear for his life after
seeing Williams armed with an AR-15 rifle.
Williams’ mother, Najiyyah Avery, described her
son’s death as “an unnecessary, unjustified shooting.”
Radford was placed on paid administrative leave
during a review by the State Bureau of Investigation.
Driver speeding away from
gunman flips car, is shot in LA
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police say a
hired driver speeding away from a gunman who tried to
rob his female customer was shot after his car went up
an embankment and flipped upside down.
Officer Liliana Preciado says police are searching
for the suspect in the shooting that occurred early
Thursday on a twisting residential road in the Hollywood Hills.
Preciado says after the woman was dropped off at a
home, she was shoved to the ground by the gunman in
an attempted robbery. She had no cash so the gunman
ordered her to call back the driver.
The driver returned then tried to speed off when he
saw the gun. The car flipped and the suspect shot him
and ran away.
The driver was taken to a hospital for surgery. The
woman was unhurt.
Fire strikes sister building
of blaze-damaged Dubai tower
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Authorities
in Dubai say a small electrical fire has struck the sister
building of a Dubai tower damaged in a massive New
Year’s Eve inferno.
The Dubai Media Office said on Twitter the fire late
Thursday night hit the 26th floor of The Address Hotel
at the Dubai Mall.
It published a photograph of what appeared to be a
fire-damaged ceiling and electrical cabling.
The United Arab Emirates’ state-run WAM news
agency quoted Lt. Col. Ali al-Mutawa, an official
with Dubai Civil Defense, as saying the fire caused
no injuries.
The fire comes after a Dec. 31 inferno at the 63-story
The Address Downtown Dubai, also near the Dubai
Mall in downtown Dubai.
Police also blamed that fire on faulty wiring.
Police chase a black bear
through New Hampshire city
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A fast-moving
black bear has evaded authorities after police say officers chased it through New Hampshire’s largest city.
Police tell WMUR-TV the bear was first spotted on
Interstate 93 in Manchester on Thursday. It then moved
to another area and took off running when police
arrived. A chase ensued and continued until the bear
made its way up a tree. Police, firefighters and Fish and
Game officers surrounded the tree for about an hour.
The bear made its way down the tree as conservation
officers went up to try to capture it.
The bear then hopped the fence of a house next door
and took off running.
Police say they don’t know where the bear is but
believe it may have run into the woods.
Truck hits Texas bridge, debris
strikes car, killing child
SEALY, Texas (AP) — Investigators say a 12-yearold girl riding in the front seat of a car was killed when
part of a Central Texas highway bridge collapsed after
being hit by a truck.
Investigators say a truck struck the U.S. 90 overpass
on Texas 36 Thursday morning, raining concrete debris
onto a car.
Sealy police identified the girl who died as Brie
Bullock. Her mother, 35-year-old Leah Bullock, was
driving the car. Assistant Chief Jay Reeves says the
mother and the truck driver, 72-year-old Carl Weige
(WAY), were injured.
A child in the car’s back seat, 9-year-old Breanbon
Gardner, was not injured.
Bullock was listed in good condition at a Houston
hospital. Weige was treated and discharged from
another hospital.
Sealy is 40 miles west of Houston.
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In this Nov. 6, 2006, file photo, location not known, skydiver Dave DeWolf, of Elizabethtown,
Pa., celebrates his 12,000th landing.
Selected to be inducted into the Skydiving Hall of Fame during an Oct. 8, 2016, banquet in
Eloy, Ariz., the 83-year-old says he has made more than 13,000 jumps since his first two jumps
(Eric Forberger/LNP via AP, File)
while enlisted in the U.S. Army on May 18, 1962, in Fort Knox, Ky.
➧ Early Polynesian mariners…
in fine stone tools.”
Perceptively, Enright noted, “The exciting
thing about this story from the past is that it is
still unfolding before us as we explore it.”
The Queensland research found that voyaging
between the Polynesian islands lasted from about
AD1300 to the 1600s, suggesting that longdistance interaction continued to influence the
development of social structures in East Polynesia well after initial colonization.
Fieldwork for this recent study was directed
by Professor Patrick Kirch (University of California, Berkeley), and conducted on Mangaia
Island in the Southern Cook Islands. It was here
that the tools – stone adzes –were found at the
Tangatatau Rockshelter.
“We’ve been able to show that the Tangatatau
site was occupied around mid-1200s AD, and
there were several 100 years of post-colonization
interaction,” Professor Weisler told Phys.org.
“This provides very solid evidence that not
only was settlement purposeful, people were
maintaining interaction after colonization by
sailing to all these distant archipelagos,” he said.
IMPORTANCE OF STONE ADZES
Stone adzes were used for shaping canoe
hulls, bowls and other artifacts, felling trees for
forest clearance, and fashioning planks and posts
for house construction, and were an essential tool
in Polynesian societies, according to Professor
Weisler.
“Ownership of an adze from a distant island
such as the Marquesas could have been a status
symbol, but this tool was probably not the only
item of high significance that was traded.
“They would be bringing perishable items,
marriage partners and other things that don’t preserve archaeologically.”
Professor Weisler said the trading showed the
colonies were part of an integrated society, suggesting that boundaries between west and east
Polynesia may not have been as rigid as previously thought.
The research has been published this week in
the US Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences journal.
3-year-old kills self with gun
she found at California home
LEMOORE, Calif. (AP) — Central California authorities say
a 3-year-old girl found a loaded gun and fatally shot herself in the
head. Lemoore police Detective Matthew Smith told The Fresno
Bee on Wednesday that the girl and her family were visiting from
Southern California when she found a gun in an apartment bedroom.
Her mother, sibling and the mother’s friend heard the shot Saturday and tried to help. The child was taken to a hospital, where
she died. Smith says two people who live in the apartment were
gone when the girl fired the gun registered to a friend of one of the
roommates. He says no arrests have been made, but the gun owner
and the roommate could face charges.
The case is being investigated as reckless endangerment of a
child resulting in death and negligent storage of a firearm.
Woman finds lottery ticket
worth $470K while doing taxes
CLIFTON, N.J. (AP) — Officials say a New Jersey woman
found a winning lottery ticket worth more than $470,000 while
preparing to file her taxes. The state lottery announced on
Thursday that Yokasta Boyer, of Clifton, found the Jersey Cash 5
ticket from an April 2015 drawing and was able to file her claim
about two weeks before the ticket expired in April.
Boyer says she had her brother verify the winning numbers
after finding the ticket.
Boyer, who has a full-time and part-time job, says she plans
to pay off her debts and spend more time with family and friends
during the coming Christmas holiday season.
The ticket was bought at the Quick Mart in Clifton.
Virginia prosecutor: Culpeper
officers’ Taser use justified
CULPEPER, Va. (AP) — Prosecutors won’t pursue charges
against Culpeper police officers who used stun guns on a man
during a scuffle before his death.
Culpeper County Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul Walther
announced Thursday that his office has determined their use of
force against Dominick Ray Wise to be “objectively reasonable.”
Police said the 30-year-old black man tried to flee from an
officer who spotted him behaving erratically and appearing intoxicated in March 2015. Other officers arrived and he resisted arrest,
swinging and kicking.
Wise died in a hospital about 14 hours after police stunned him
three times with Tasers during the struggle. The medical examiner
said the cause was “acute stress-induced cardiac arrhythmia.”
An autopsy also found that Wise’s body had 11 times the
amount of PCP needed to be considered under the influence.
Police arrest man for after
body found in California field
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Police have arrested a 34-yearold man in connection with the death of a man whose body was
found in a California field last month. The Sacramento Bee reports
that the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department believes the
arrested man fatally shot 23-year-old Boakai Konneh.
A Sheriff’s Work Project crew found Konneh’s body while
cleaning up trash on June 14. Authorities say Konneh was shot in
the upper torso earlier that day.
Police say in a news release that the man they arrested knew
Konneh and shot him after a disagreement. It’s unclear if the
shooting took place in the field.
Argentine judge freezes bank
accounts of former president
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine judge
froze the bank accounts of former President Cristina Fernandez on
Thursday as part of an investigation into allegations of defrauding
the state in her administration’s handling of the dollar futures
market. Judge Claudio Bonadio issued the order after Fernandez
refused to post a 15 million-peso ($1 million) security.
Fernandez left office last year. She’s accused of having the
Central Bank sell dollars in the futures market at an artificially
low rate, causing the state to lose 5.3 billion pesos. If convicted,
she could face 5 to 20 years in prison.
Fernandez denies any wrongdoing.
On Wednesday, she filed a complaint against Bonadio accusing
him of conniving against her with opposition politicians.
Prosecutors are also investigating whether Fernandez had illicitly obtained money in safe-deposit boxes.
DC police release body camera
footage of fatal shooting
WASHINGTON (AP) — District of Columbia police have
released body camera footage from the fatal shooting of a man by
officers last month. Police have said 63-year-old Sherman Evans
was holding a weapon that turned out to be a BB gun. The June 27
shooting is under investigation.
The footage released Thursday shows officers with guns drawn
ordering Evans to drop his gun dozens of times over a span of more
than three minutes. The actual shooting is not shown because the
camera is pointing at a car the officer was standing behind. More
than a dozen shots can be heard.
After the shooting, one of the officers can be heard saying, “he
raised it,” referring to the weapon Evans was holding.
Police have not released the races of the officers or Evans.
HIGH COURT OF
AMERICAN SAMOA
TRIAL DIVISION
PROBATE NO. 03-2014
VACANCY
IN RE: THE ESTATE OF
KALASA S. AFUOLA,
Deceased,
American Samoa’s leading resort is seeking for an honest,
trustworthy and suitably qualified individual for the position of
by Nora A. Afuola,
Administrator
FINANCE OFFICER.
In this May 1, 2016 photo, an illuminated globe shows the South
China Sea at a museum in Pathumthani, Thailand. Five judges of
a U.N. tribunal will deliver July 12, 2016 their landmark ruling
on South China Sea disputes - and Beijing is already dismissing a
potentially unfavorable outcome. The Permanent Court of Arbitration will decide on a 2013 case filed by the Philippines, which asked
the court to declare China’s territorial claims that encompass most of
the South China Sea invalid because they infringe upon the country’s
own 200-mile exclusive economic zone. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
US says S China Sea
tribunal ruling presents choice for Asia
WASHINGTON (AP) — An international tribunal ruling next
week on a challenge to China’s expansive claims in the South
China Sea could determine whether the region is ruled by law or
“raw calculations of power,” U.S. officials said Thursday.
But the officials testifying at a congressional hearing declined
to say whether any move by China to militarize more disputed
land features would prompt a U.S. military response.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration will rule next Tuesday in the
case brought by the Philippines, a U.S. ally. China is boycotting the
case in The Hague-based court and says it will not accept the verdict.
Abraham Denmark, deputy assistant secretary of defense for
East Asia, urged both parties to comply with the ruling.
Denmark said it would be chance to determine “whether the
Asia-Pacific’s future will be defined by adherence to international
laws and norms that have enabled it to prosper, or whether the
region’s future will be determined by raw calculations of power.”
Rep. Randy Forbes, the Virginia Republican who chairs the
House subcommittee on sea power, said the world is watching
whether China behaves like a responsible stakeholder in the international system, and, if not, to see how America responds.
“What we do — or don’t do — to support our allies and the rulesbased international system in the weeks ahead will have echoes
across the region and in other corners of the globe,” Forbes said.
China claims most of the South China Sea, including islands
far from its mainland, where the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia,
Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims. China asserts it has historic
rights of sovereignty and that the tribunal lacks jurisdiction as it
did not consent to arbitration. It also says that the U.S. has no business intervening as it is not party to the disputes.
The U.S., however, says it has a stake in ensuring freedom of
navigation and commerce in seas that carry more than half the
world’s merchant fleet tonnage. Senior State Department official
Colin Willett told the hearing that the U.S. will not hesitate to
defend its national security interests and honor commitments to
Asia-Pacific allies and partners.
Some experts have speculated that China might militarize a reef
off the Philippine coast, the Scarborough Shoal, where a standoff
with China prompted the Philippines to initiate the legal case in
2013. In the past two years, China has constructed artificial islands
and placed military facilities on disputed features elsewhere in the
South China Sea.
Willett said the ruling in the case would not resolve sovereignty
issues, but could potentially narrow down the areas that are legitimately subject to dispute.
Denmark declined to comment on whether militarization of
Scarborough Shoal by China would hurt U.S. national security
interests, or invoke a U.S.-Philippine treaty, which calls for the
allies to help defend each other if there is an armed attack on their
armed forces, public vessels, aircraft or island territories under
their jurisdiction in the Pacific.
“Scarborough Reef is a disputed feature that we don’t recognize
any countries sovereignty over. That said our treaty commitment
to the Philippines is absolutely ironclad,” said Willett, adding that
occupying a currently unoccupied land feature or militarizing an
occupied feature would be very dangerous and destabilizing.
Requirements
• College/University graduate with a strong background in
Accounting.
• Have a sound knowledge of Accounting functions and principles
• Computer literate and familiar with Hotel Financial Management
Systems
• Have experience in Accounts Payables.
• Able to work under minimal supervision.
• Must display a willingness to learn and work within a team
environment.
• Must have excellent communication skills.
Application forms are to be picked up from the Front Desk at
Tradewinds Hotel and to be submitted no later than Friday, July
15, 2016 with a resume, copies of certificates and at least three (3)
references. All applications are to be submitted to the:
Tradewinds Hotel
P O Box 999
Pago Pago AS 96799
(Phone: 684-699-1000, Ext 716)
NOTICE TO
CREDITORS
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that Nora A. Afuola has
been duly qualified to act as the Administrator/trix
for the Estate of Kalasa S. Afuola;
All creditors with a claim against the Estate of
Kalasa S. Afuola are required to submit their
claims to the Administratrix of this Estate within 60
days of the first publication of this notice.
Submit all claims to: Estate of Kalasa S. Afuola ℅
Matailupevao Leupolu, Attorney at Law, P.O. Box
5007, Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799.
Dated: June 21, 2016
Matailupevao Leupolu Jr.
Attorney at Law
Estate of Kalasa S. Afuola
AMERICAN SAMOA
COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Department of Academic Affairs
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Position Title:
Employment Status:
MARINE SCIENCE COORDINATOR
Full Time / 12 Months – One Year Contract with Benefits
General Description:
The Marine Science Coordinator is responsible for teaching, planning, organizing, and administering the Associate of Arts Degree in the ASCC Marine Science program. The successful candidate in this 12-month academic
administrative position will report directly to the Dean of Academic Affairs.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
• ProvideleadershipinadministeringtheMarineScienceDepartment
• Concentrateonincreasingstudentenrollmentatthecollege
• Overseetheschedulingandinstructionofcourses
• Teachaminimumoftwomarinesciencecoursespersemester
• ServeasanadvisorandmentorforMarineSciencemajors
• Serveonthecurriculumcommittee
• Conductoutreachinthecommunitytobuildcapacityandaidincommunitydevelopment
• Developopportunitiesforstudentinternshipslocallyandabroad
• Seekextramuralfundingtosupportandexpandtheprogram
• Teacheachclassasscheduledandsuperviseexaminations,fieldtrips,internships,servicelearningactivities and practicum
• MaintainattendanceandscholasticrecordsandsubmittherequiredrecordstotheAdmissionsandRecordsOfficeattheassigneddateeverysemester/session
• Develop,implement,andassessStudentLearningOutcomes(SLOs)foreachcoursetaught
• Academicallyadvisestudentsregardingtheirchosenprogramofstudy.
• Assistandprovidestudentswithinformationoncareer,academicreferrals,andtransferopportunities
• Assistwithregistrationprocess;participateinfacultyorientation,commencementexercises,andprofessional development activities
• UsedataonSLOscollectedfromcoursestaughttosharewithdepartmentandothercollegestakeholders,
and provide recommendations for improvement on student learning.
• Performotherdutiesasassigned
Minimum Qualifications:
• Master’sDegreeinMarineBiology,Oceanography,orrelateddiscipline
• Musthaveatleastthreeyearsofteachingexperienceatatwoorfouryearcollege.
• Mustbecomputerliterate.
Salary: Salary will be commensurate with degree and experience.
Application Deadline: July 22nd, 2016 no later than 4:00 pm.
ApplicationsareavailablefromAmericanSamoaCommunityCollege,HumanResourcesOffice(699-9155Ext.
429/441/428),orbyemailingSilauleleiSaofaigaaliiats.saofaigaalii@[email protected].
“An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – And a Drug-Free Workplace”
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DR. ASAELI: E le
mafai ona e manuia
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O le sailiina o le lumana’i manuia o tupulaga talavou, atoa
ai ma le sa’o o le filifiliga i le ituaiga lumana’i e tatau ona o
o i ai le olaga o le tupulaga talavou, o le autu lea o a’oa’oga
mai sui o le Matagaluega o Aoga sa mafai ona fa’asoa i tupulaga talavou, i le aso lona 3 o le Youth Summit lea o lo o
fa’agasolo i le Pago Youth Center i le vaiaso atoa lenei.
E eseese uma ituaiga lumana’i ma galuega na fa’ailoa
e tupulaga talavou o lo o filifili i latou e manana’o i ai i le
lumana’i.
O ni isi na taua lo latou naunau e fia avea ma faiaoga,
o isi e fia avea ma tama’ita’i e galulue i luga o va’alele, e
to’atolu isi tama’ita’i sa naunau e fia avea i laua ma faletua o
se Faifeau, o isi e naunau e fia avea ma foma’i, ma le to’atele
sa taua lo latou naunau e fia avea ma tagata faipisinisi manuia
i Amerika Samoa.
“E fa’apefea la ona fa’ataunu’uina lau moemitiga ua
mae’a ona fa’ailoa mai”, o le fesili lea a le Matua o Faiva sa
gafa ma le a’oa’oina o mataupu e fa’atatau i le taua o le olaga
a’oa’oina, susuga Dr. Samasoni Asaeli mai le Matagaluega
o Aoga.
Na taua e Dr. Asaeli e fa’apea, e le mafai ona manuia taumafaiga a le fanau i le lumana’i, pe afai e leai se sini autu e
taula’i i ai lana vaai.
“E tatau ona i ai se sini e taula’i i ai lau vaai, e tatau
fo’i ona maualuga lau sini e fa’atula’i, ona e galue lea ma
le malosi ina ia ausia lena sini, aua afai e te sini i se vaega
maualalo, lona uiga e maualalo fo’i lou taunuuga, ae afai e
maualuga lau sini, e maualuga fo’i le tulaga e te taunu’u i ai”,
o le fautuaga lea a Dr. Asaeli.
(fa’aauau i le itulau 18)
Ua talosagaina e ta’ita’i o le malo le mamalu lautele o le atunu’u atoa, ina ia
auai i se sauniga lotu fa’apitoa ua fa’amoemoe e faia i le aso Sa o lo o lumana’i
nei, i le maota o le Fale Laumei i Utulei, e fa’ailoa ai le lagolagoina atoa ai ma
le amanaiaina o le tautua a le Faletua o le afioga i le ali’i Lutena Kovana ia
Pohakalani Dawn Mauga ua tu’umalo.
O lenei sauniga lotu ua fa’atulaga e faia i le itula e 2:00 i le aso Sa, aso 10
Iulai i le maota o H. Rex Lee Audotrium i Utulei, ma ua valaauina le atunu’u
atoa ina ia auai, e fa’ailoa ai lo latou fa’aaloalo aemaise ai o le tu’u atu o le
fa’amalo i lenei auauna, mo taimi e tele sa ia tautua ai mo Amerika Samoa.
I se pepa o fa’atamalaga sa tu’uina mai e le afioga i le ali’i kovana ia Lolo
Matalasi Moliga i le vaiaso nei, na taua ai e le afioga i le ali’i kovana e fa’apea,
e ui o toe sauniga o le Faletua ia Pohakalani e fa’ataunu’uina uma lava i Hawaii,
peita’i o se avanoa lelei lenei mo ana uo, aiga, aemaise i latou e fiafia i lenei
Tina, e o mai fa’atasi ai e fa’amanatu lona soifua tautua i le aiga ma le atunu’u.
E pei ona fa’amatalaina e le afioga i le ali’i kovana, o Pohakalani na tautua i
le teritori o Amerika Samoa o se faiaoga, faufautua atoa ai o se sui puleaoga mo
le aoga maualuga a Samoana i tausaga e tele.
Ae ina ua tofia lona ali’i ia Lemanu Peleti Mauga e avea ma Lutena Kovana
o le malo, sa filifili ai loa Pohakalani e ofo fua atu lona taimi atoa ai ma lona
tomai e avea ai o ia ma faiaoga mo fanau o lo o taofia i le Falepuipui o Tamaiti
i Tafuna. Sa avea fo’i o ia o se totino o le Komiti mo i latou e tete’e atu i le gasegase o le Kanesa i Amerika Samoa.
“I le avea ai o lenei tala fa’avauvau i le tuua o le malo e le Faletua ia Pohakalani, o se tala e matuitui ma oona i le to’atele o le atunu’u, o le a mafai ona
maua le fa’amafanafana mai o le Ali’i, e ala i lo latou ole atu ia te ia mo lana
fa’amafanafanaga, atoa ai ma lana fa’amaisega i le afioga ia Lemanu ma lona
aiga”, o se vaega lea o le saunoaga a le ali’i kovana.
“E talosaga tau ai fo’i i le atunu’u atoa ma le agaga maualalo, ina ia tatou
auai i lenei sauniga lotu taua, e fa’ailoa ai lo tatou aloaia o le soifua galue o lenei
Tina, ma fa’ailoa atu ai lo latou lagolagoina o ona toe sauniga”, o le fa’aiuga lea
o le saunoaga a le ali’i kovana.
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SAGELE SAGOTE
Sui o le Ofisa o le Soifua Maloloina sa latou fa’asoa le taua o le fa’amalosia o puipuiga mo le gasegase o le Zika i Amerika Samoa. [l-r] Michaela Howeils mai le University of North Carolina; Feauina
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Meaole, Surveillane Officer, ma Christopher Lynn mai le University of Alabama.
E a’afia lumana’i o le tagata pe a
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O se tasi o mataupu taua na mafai ona fa’asoa e sui
fa’apitoa mai le Matagaluega o le Soifua Maloloina,
o lo o a’oa’oina mataupu mo le puipuiga mo le gasegase o le Zika virus i Amerika Samoa, i le fonotaga a
Tupulaga talavou i le aso lona 3 ananafi, e le mafai ona
manuia le lumana’i o le tagata talavou pe afai e le lelei
le puipuiina o lona soifua maloloina mai taimi ao laititi.
Na fa’amalamalama e le tama’ita’i o Michaela
Howeils mai le Iunivesite o North Carolina i lana folasaga e faapea, o le to’atele o tupulaga talavou i le taimi
nei, e tele taleni ma mea alofa o loo ia tei latou e mafai
ai ona avea i latou ma tagata manuia i le lumana’i, ae
ua faigata ona o gasegase o le tino ua a’afia ai i latou.
“Afai o oe o se tagata ta’alo lakapi, basketball,
soccer, poo isi uma fo’i ituaiga ta’aloga lauiloa i le lalolagi i le taimi nei, e le mafai ona fa’aauauina lau taleni
ma avea oe o se tagata manuia i le lumana’i, pe afai e
a’afia lou ola i ma’i eseese o le olaga, lona uiga, e tatau
ona tausi fa’alelei lou soifua maloloina i le taimi nei, ina
ia avea ai oe ma tagata soifua maloloina pe a e matua”,
o le fautuaga lea Howeils i le silia i le to’a 200 Tupulaga talavou sa i ai i polokalame o le aso lona 3 talu ona
tatala le Youth Summit i lenei vaiaso.
O le fa’amamafa i fautauga sa tu’uina atu e sui o le
Soifua Maloloina i Tupulaga talavou, o le puipuia lea o
lo latou soifua maloloina, aemaise lava mai le fa’ama’i
o le Zika virus lea o lo o fa’aauau pea ona pipisi i le
atunu’u i le taimi nei.
“O lo o fa’aauau pea ona fa’aopoopo le aofa’i o
tagata ua a’afia i le gasegase o le Zika virus, aemaise
lava i Tina ma’itaga, o le fautuaga, e sili atu le taua o
le puipuia o lou soifua nai lo le tau togafitia o oe i le
lumana’i”, o le fautuaga lea a le tama’ita’i ia Feauina
Meaole, o le Surveillance Officer mai le Ofisa o le
Soifua Maloloina.
Na fa’ailoa e le isi sui o le Soifua Maloloina ia Christopher Lynn mai le Iunivesite o Alabama e fa’apea, e
to’atele tupulaga talavou ua a’afia lo latou lumana’i i
le taimi nei, ona ua a’afia latou i ma’i faigata o le olaga
a’o laiti pea i latou.
“E taua le puipuia malu o lou soifua maloloina, afai
e te soifua maloloina, e le gata e avea oe o se tagata
fiafia, ae mafai fo’i ona fa’aauau laasaga eseese uma
e te mana’o i ai mo le lumana’i o lou olaga pe afai e
te soifua maloloina”, o le saunoaga lea a Lyn, ma ia
fa’ataua ai le tausami i taumafa e maua ai le soifua
maloloina, ae fa’aitiitia le tausami i meaai e tele ai le
ga’o, masima ma le suka.
Sauniga lotu fa’apitoa ....
(mai le itulau 17)
I luga o le alaata fa’asalalau a le atunu’u, le KVZK-TV, na fa’asalalauina ai se saunoaga tu’u sa’o mai
le Sui Failautusi o le Ofisa o Mataupu Tau Samoa, le tofa i le Tama Matua ia Tuiagamoa Tavai, ma ia
talosagiana ai le atunu’u ina ia auai i lenei sauniga fa’apitoa.
Saunoa Tuiagamoa e fa’apea, talu ai o Samoa o le atunu’u e malosi lana agaifanua, o se fa’aaloalo
maualuga lenei a le atunu’u e fa’ailoa atu ai lo lo latou fa’afetaia o Pohakalani ma lana auaunaga i le teritori, e ala i le auai fa’atasi i lenei sauniga lotu.
“E pei ona masani ai upu a le atunu’u, ia toesea a nu’u potopoto, lona uiga, ia tatou auai fa’atasi mo le
lagolagoina o soo se vaega e autasi i ai le atunu’u, ina ia fa’ailoa ai lo tatou faaaloalo i lenei Tina ua tuua le
atunu’u, ae ua tele galuega lelei ua ia faia mo alo ma fanau a Amerika Samoa, e ala i le itu tau a’oa’oga”,
o le saunoaga fa’ai’u lea a Tuiagamoa.
(mai le itulau 17)
O le ali’i lea o lo o tu’uaia i lona fa’apa o se fana i se
vevesi na tula’i mai i le aso Lulu na te’a nei, ua tu’uaia
nei o ia e le malo i moliaga mama e tolu e aofia ai le
fa’atupu vevesi i nofoaga faitele, umia o se a’upega e le’i
lesitalaina, atoa ai ma lona fa’apa o se a’upega i se auala
fa’asolitulafono.
O se fa’alavelave laititi na tula’i mai i Tafuna na
mafua ai ona taofia e leoleo ia Sagele Sagote, ma ia teena
ai moliaga e pei ona tu’uaia ai o ia e le malo i le taeao
ananafi, i luma o le fa’amasinoga fa’aitumalo.
I fa’amaumauga a le faamasinoga o lo o taua ai e
fa’apea, na avea le tauivi o Sagote ma se tasi tagata i le
fana ma auala na faafuase’i ai loa ona pa le fana. E leai se
isi na manu’a i le fa’alavelave.
Ua fautuaina e le faamasinoga ia Sagote ina ia aua nei
ona toe umia se a’upega mata’utia pe na te toe faia ni
gaioiga e save’u ai le filemu o tagata lautele, ao tatala ai o
ia i tua e fa’atalitali ai taualumaga o lana mataupu, lea ua
fa’atulaga faia i le masina fou.
TO’ALUA ALI’I TU’UAIA FA’ATUPU VEVESI
TOTONU AIGA
E to’alua ni ali’i na taofia e leoleo i le vaiaso nei ma
tu’uaia i lo la faia lea o ni gaioiga e save’u ai le nonofo
filemu i totonu o la aiga. O le isi ali’i o lo o tu’uaia i lona
fa’ao’olima i lona to’alua, ae o le isi ali’i o lo o tu’uaia i
lona fa’atupu o le vevesi i le va o ia ma lona Tina, e ala i
lona fa’aleaga o meatotino a lona aiga ma musu e fa’alogo
i le fautuaga a lona Tina e soia le pisapisao ua momoe aiga
o le nu’u.
O le ali’i o lo o tu’uaia i lona fa’aoolima i lona to’alua,
ua tu’uaia o ia e le malo i le moliaga mama e lua o le
fa’aoolima i le tulaga tolu atoa ai ma le fa’atupu vevesi i
totonu o lona aiga.
O le fa’alavelave na tula’i mai i totonu o le fale o
le aiga, ina ua ‘ona le ua molia ma ia fa’aoolima i lona
to’alua i luma o le la fanau e to’a 3, e mafua mai ina ua
ia masalosalo o lo o i ai se isi ali’i o lo o talanoa i ai lona
to’alua.
O le tausaga e 2013 e pei ona taua i fa’amaumauga a
le fa’amasinoga, na ta’usala ai fo’i lenei ali’i i le moliaga
o le fa’aoolima i le tulaga tolu, e mafua mai ina ua ia
fa’aoolima i lona to’alua ao ma’itaga o ia i le la tama teine
laititi o lo o i ai i le taimi nei, lea ua 3 tausaga i le taimi
nei.
E $300 le vaega tupe lea ua fa’atulaga e le fa’amasinoga
e totogi ona fa’atoa mafai lea ona tatala lenei ali’i i tua, e
fa’atali ai taualumaga o lana mataupu, ae afai e mafai ona
tatala o ia i tua, ua fa’asa ona ia toe taumafai e fa’afesootai
lona to’alua ma le la fanau i le taimi, ae saili se isi nofoaga
e nofo ai, se’i vagana ua tu’uina mai se isi poloaiga a le
fa’amasinoga ona fa’atoa toe mafai lea ona toe oo i lona
aiga.
Mo le ali’i o lo o tu’uaia i lona le usitaia o se fa’atonuga
a lona Tina, ma mafua ai se vevesi i totonu o le latou aiga,
o lo o tu’uaia o ia i moliaga mama e lua o lona tagofia o le
ava ae le’i atoa lona 21 tausaga, atoa ai ma lona fa’atupu
o le vevesi i totonu o lona aiga.
O le vevesi na tula’i mai ina ua ‘ona atu le ua molia ma
pisapisao solo i totonu o le fale, ae ina ua fai atu i ai lona
tina e soia le pisa ua leva le po, sa ato solo e le ua molia
meatotino i totonu o le fale ma tali atu i lona Tina, ma vili
ai loa e lona Tina leoleo mo se fesoasoani.
Ua toe tatala i tua lenei ali’i talavou e fa’atali ai le aso
lea ua fa’atulaga e toe valaau ai lana mataupu, i lalo o
tuutuuga e ao ona ia usita’i i ai, e pei o le fa’asa lea ona ia
toe tagofia le ‘ava malosi pe toe le usita’i fo’i i lona Tina,
a ia avea o ia o se tagata e tausisi i le tulafono ma usita’i
i lona Tina.
E le mafai ona e manuia pe afai e fa’atamala lau filifiliga
Na fa’aaoga fo’i e le susuga Dr. Asaeli le avanoa
sa ia maua e fa’ailoa ai i fanau aoga ni isi o manulauti
ua mafua ai ona naunau le Ofisa o Aoga e unaia aoga
a fanau ina ia lelei i le lumana’i, ona o le naunau lava
ia maua e tupulaga a Amerika Samoa avanoa uma e
ulufale atu ai i aoga maualuluga i totonu o Amerika.
O le o fa’atasi o le gagana Samoa ma le gagana
fa’aperetania i le a’oa’oina o fanau aoga i totonu o
potu aoga, o le isi lea mataupu sa mafai ona aofia i le
folasaga a Dr. Asaeli.
Saunoa le ali’i faiaoga e fa’apea, talu ai o le to’atele
o fanau aoga e o mai i aoga Samoa, toe feso’ota’i i
le gagana Samoa i aso uma o le olaga, o le isi lea
mafua’aga ua manatu ai le Ofisa o Aoga a le malo e
fa’ataua le gagana Samoa i totonu o potu aoga.
O se tasi o ali’i talavou ua fa’au’u mai i le Vasega
12 i le tausaga lenei, sa ia fa’ailoa i luma o le vasega
lona fa’anaunauga o lo o i ai, o le fia avea lea o ia
ma faiaoga o le Gagana Samoa i totonu o le Kolisi
Tu’ufa’atasi.
Na taua e lea ali’i e fa’apea, o le a’oa’oina o tu
ma agaifanua a Samoa, aemaise ai o le malamalama
i le gagana loloto e pei ona feso’ota’i matai i taimi o
fonotaga fa’aleaganu’u, o se tasi lea o itu na mafua ai
ona unaia o ia e avea ma faiaoga o le gagana Samoa.
“O la’u sini ua mae’a ona fa’ataoto, ia ou ausia
tulaga maualuluga e avea ai a’u o se faiaoga o le
gagana Samoa, ina ia mafai ai ona ou fesoasoani
i tupulaga o le atunu’u”, o le fa’amatalaga lea a le
susuga a Tavita Uelese o Nuuuli.
AMERICAN SAMOA GOVERNMENT
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Office of Student Services/Records Management
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799
Phone: (684) 633-2678 • Fax (684) 633-1404
ANNOUNCEMENT
FA’AALIGA
The Department of Education’s Office of Student Services will
begin registration of ALL NEW STUDENTS, for School Year
2016-2017. Only Parents and Legal Guardians can register their
children. Registration hours are 7:30am to 3:00 pm. The official
dates for each School Division are:
Fa’asilasilaga a le Matagaluega o A’oga a le Malo Amerika Samoa.
O le a amata le resitalaina o tamaiti a’oga, fa’ato’a ulufale i a’oga a
le malo, mo le Tausaga A’oga 2016-2017. E tatala le Ofisa Resitala i
le Aso Gafua se’ia o’o i le Aso Faraile, 7:30am - 3:00pm. Na’o matua
po o tagata o lo’o tausia fanau e tusa ai ma le tulafono, e mafai on a
resitalaina fanau i aso ua faatulagaina.
1. MIDWEST DIVISION, MONDAY JUNE 20-FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2016
1. Tafuna High School
2. Tafuna Vocational & Technical High School
3. Lupelele Elementary
4. Manulele Elementary
5. Tafuna Elementary
1. ITUMALO SISIFO TUTOTONU
2. CENTRAL DIVISION, TUESDAY JULY 5 - FRIDAY, JULY 14, 2016
1. Samoan High School
2. Afonotele Elementary
3. Le’atele Elementary
4. Matafao Elementary
5. Mt Alava Elementary
6. Peter Tali Coleman Elementary
2. ITUMALO TUTOTONU
3. WEST DIVISION, MONDAY JULY 18 - FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2016
1. Leone High School
2. Alataua Lua Elementary
3. Leone Midkiff Elementary
4. Siliaga Elementary
5. Pava’ia’i Elementary
3. ITUMALO SISIFO
4. EAST DIVISION, MONDAY AUG 1 - FRIDAY, AUG 12, 2016
1. Faga’itua High School
2. A.P.Lutali Elementary
3. Tuato’o (Alofau) Elementary
4. Aua Elementary
5. Lauli’i Elementary
6. Masefau Elementary
7. Matatula Elementary
8. Olomoana Elementary
4. ITUMALO SASAE
5. MANU’A DIVISION, MONDAY AUG 15 - AUG 26, 2016
1. Manu’a High School
2. Faleasao Elementary
3. Fitiuta Elementary
4. Ofu/Olosega Elementary
LATE REGISTRATION - MONDAY, AUG 29, 2016 ONWARD
1:00pm - 3:00pm • Monday-Friday
1.
2.
3.
4.
THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS MUST BE
PRESENTED FOR REGISTRATION:
Original Birth Certificate (of Student)
Students transferring from Private and Off-Island School
MUST bring Records or Clearance from previous schools.
Photo I.D. of the Parent or Legal Guardian (registering the
student): and
Immunization record/Shot Record (of Student).
- ASO GAFUA, IUNI 20-ASO TOFI, IULAI 1, 2016
1. A’oga Maualuga Tafuna
2. A’oga Maualuga Matata’ese’ese
3. A’oga Lupelele
4. A’oga Manulele
5. A’oga Tulaga Muamua Tafuna
- ASO LUA, IULAI 05 - ASO FARAILE, IULAI 14, 2016
1. A’oga Maualuga Samoana
2. A’oga Afonotele
3. A’oga Leatele
4. A’oga Matafao
5. A’oga Mauga o Alava
6. A’oga Uifaatali Pita Kolumane
- ASO GAFUA, IULAI 18 - ASO FARAILE, IULAI 29, 2016
1. A’oga Maualuga Leone
2. A’oga Alataua Lua
3. A’oga Leone Midkiff
4. A’oga Siliaga
5. A’oga Pava’ia’i
- ASO GAFUA, AOKUSO 01 - ASO FARAILE, AOKUSO 12, 2016
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
A’oga Maualuga Faga’itua
A’oga A. P. Lutali
A’oga (Tuato’o) Alofau
A’oga Aua
A’oga Laulii
A’oga Masefau
A’oga Matatula
A’oga Olomoana
5. ITUMALO MANU’A TELE
- ASO GAFUA, AOKUSO 15 - ASO FARAILE, AOKUSO 26, 2016
1.
2.
3.
4.
A’oga Maualuga Manu’atele
A’oga Faleasao
A’oga Fitiuta
A’oga Ofu/Olosega
MO FANAU E LE’I RESITALAINA I ASO E PEI ONA FAATULAGAINA,
E TATALAINA LE OFISA O LE RESITALA I LE ASO GAFUA, AOKUSO
29, 2016 I LE 1:00PM - 3:00PM
O PEPA E MANA’OMIA ONA AUMAI I LE OFISA O LE RESITALA:
1. Pepa Aso Fanau a lou alo
2. Ripoti o togi, po o se tusi fa’amaonia le a’oga sa a’oga ai
3. Pepa fa’amaonia, e iai le ata, o le matua po o le tagata o lo’o tausia
le fanau.
4. Pepa Tui a lou alo.
For further information, call our Office @ 633-2678 or email [email protected]
Fa’afeso’ota’i mai le Ofisa o le Resitala mo tamaiti a’oga a le Malo i le
Telefoni 633-5729/633-2678 po o le imeli [email protected].
Thank You,
Ma le Fa’aaloalo Lava,
____________________________
Vaitinasa Dr. Salu Hunkin-Finau
Director of Education
___________________________
Vaitinasa Dr. Salu Hunkin-Finau
Director of Education
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Ola Aromaye, center, chants as he and Jamie Davis, bottom, protest the shooting this week in Baton Rouge, La., of Alton Sterling, Thursday, July 7, 2016 in front
of City Hall in Columbia, Mo. Protesters from Black Lives Matter and other groups and individuals marched through the streets.
(Daniel Brenner/Columbia Daily Tribune via AP)
Sterling was shot at close range after being pinned down by two officers.
Protests, violence after police shoot another black man dead
FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — A woman who
watched as a police officer fatally shot her boyfriend
during a traffic stop streamed the gruesome aftermath
of the slaying live on Facebook, telling a worldwide
audience that her companion had been shot “for no
apparent reason” while reaching for his wallet.
Within hours, the Minnesota governor was pressing
for the Justice Department to open its second investigation of the week into the death of a black man at the
hands of police.
“Nobody should be shot and killed in Minnesota for a
tail light being out of function,” Democrat Mark Dayton
said. “Would this have happened if those passengers
would have been white? I don’t think it would have.”
As night fell Thursday, national outrage over the
killings exploded into violence in Dallas, where snipers
fatally shot four police officers and wounded several
more, authorities said.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner said Philando Castile, 32, of St. Paul, died of multiple gunshot wounds. No other details about the injuries were
released.
It was the second fatal police shooting in as many
days. A 37-year-old black man was killed Tuesday by
officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Alton Sterling’s
death was caught on video.
The latest death happened late Wednesday in the St.
Paul suburb of Falcon Heights, a mostly white community of 5,000 people that is also home to Minnesota’s
annual state fair and part of the massive University of
Minnesota campus.
In that video, Diamond Reynolds describes being
pulled over for a “busted tail light” and says her boyfriend had told the officer he was carrying a gun for
which he was licensed.
Reynolds said Thursday that he was killed even
though he complied with the officer’s instructions. She
told reporters that Castile did “nothing but what the
police officer asked of us, which was to put your hands
in the air and get your license and registration.”
State investigators named Jeronimo Yanez and
Joseph Kauser as the officers involved. Both had been
with the St. Anthony Police Department for four years
and were put on administrative leave, as is standard.
Yanez approached Castile’s car from the driver’s
side, and Kauser from the passenger side, according
to a statement from the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. It said Yanez opened fire, striking Castile multiple times. No one else was injured.
Several videos, including squad car video of the
incident, have been collected, but St. Anthony officers
don’t wear body cameras, the statement said.
The bureau did not give the officers’ races. Reynolds described the officer who shot Castile as Asian.
Thomas Kelly, an attorney representing Yanez, did
not immediately return a call seeking comment after
the officers were identified. Kelly declined to comment
on the case earlier Thursday.
The St. Anthony Police Department’s 2015 annual
report points to Yanez’s volunteerism; he gave a tour of
the station to a local Cub Scout troop and volunteered
with St. Paul’s Cinco De Mayo celebration, participating in a parade with other members of the National
Latino Police Officers Association.
The previous year’s report includes a photo of
Yanez solemnly standing guard at a memorial to fallen
officers at the state Capitol.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it
would monitor the investigation by the Minnesota
Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. The governor said
he and other state officials would seek more direct
involvement.
On Wednesday, the Justice Department launched a
civil rights investigation into the Baton Rouge shooting,
which took place after Sterling scuffled with two white
police officers outside a convenience store.
In a Facebook post Thursday, President Barack
Obama called Sterling’s and Castile’s deaths “symptomatic of the broader challenges within our criminal
justice system, the racial disparities that appear across
the system year after year, and the resulting lack of
trust that exists between law enforcement and too many
of the communities they serve.”
As word of the Minnesota shooting spread, Castile’s relatives joined scores of people who gathered at
the scene and outside the hospital where he died. He
was a well-liked 32-year-old cafeteria supervisor at a
Montessori school.
Speaking to CNN, Castile’s mother said that she
suspected she would never learn the whole truth about
her son’s death. “I think he was just black in the wrong
place,” Valerie Castile said Thursday, adding that she
had stressed to her children that they must do what
authorities tell them to do to survive.
“I always told them, whatever you do when you get
stopped by police, comply, comply, comply.”
At a vigil Thursday evening outside the school
where Philando Castile worked, Valerie Castile called
her son “an angel.” She said she never thought she
would lose him. “This has to cease. This has to stop,
right now,” she told the crowd.
Hundreds of demonstrators braved the rain and
gathered to protest the shooting outside the governor’s
mansion in St. Paul, where a crowd had also convened
the night before. Dayton waded through the crowd of
about 1,000 as protesters chanted: “What do we want?
Justice! When do we want it? Now!”
Relatives were outraged that Castile was not tended
to after he was shot. Reynolds said it took about 15
minutes for paramedics to arrive.
William Moulder, a police consultant and former
police chief in Des Moines, Iowa, said all officers carry
first-aid supplies in their cars and are instructed to start
rendering aid as soon as it’s clear there’s no threat.
The Facebook footage shows Castile lying motionless in the car for several minutes, his shirt covered in
blood, while Reynolds speaks calmly to the camera.
“That’s time to start mitigating the damage,”
Moulder said.
The video posted Wednesday night on Facebook
Live shows the woman in a car next to a bloodied
man slumped in a seat. A clearly distraught person
who appears to be a police officer stands at the car’s
window, telling the woman to keep her hands where
they are and intermittently swearing.
Castile was driving the car, with Reynolds riding
beside him. But because of the way the video was
recorded or the way Facebook posted it, some versions
of the footage were reversed, making it appear that
Castile was in the right seat and his girlfriend seated
on the left.
UN report — People around the
world are consuming more fish
UNITED NATIONS (AP)
— People around the world are
eating more fish and global per
capita fish consumption topped
20 kilograms (44 pounds) a
year for the first time in 2014,
according to preliminary estimates in a U.N. report released
Thursday.
The Food and Agriculture
Organization report said the
record consumption, which
appears to have continued in
2015, is the result of increased
supplies from fish farming,
growing demand linked to population growth, reduced wastage,
rising incomes and urbanization, and a slight improvement
in some fish stocks.
According to The State of
World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2016, world per capita fish
consumption increased from an
average of 9.9 kilograms (21.8
pounds) in the 1960s to 14.4
kilograms (31.7 pounds) in the
1990s, 19.7 kilograms (43.3
pounds) in 2013 and 20.1 kilograms (44.2 pounds) in 2014.
FAO Director-General Jose
Graziano da Silva said fish
farming or aquaculture — using
coastal net pens or ponds to
raise freshwater and saltwater
species — now provides half of
all fish for human consumption.
China has played a major role
in the growth of fish farming,
accounting for 60 percent of
world aquaculture production,
the report said.
On a negative note, the
report said “the state of the
world’s marine fish stocks has
not improved” despite notable
progress in some areas.
It said almost a third of commercial fish stocks are now
fished at biologically unsustainable levels, triple the level
of 1974.
Global total production from
fishing in 2014 was 93.4 million tons — 81.5 million tons
from marine waters and 11.9
million tons from inland waters,
the report said. China was the
largest marine producer followed by Indonesia, the United
States and Russia.
For the first time since 1998,
anchovy was not the top-ranked
catch in 2014, falling below
Alaska pollock, the report said.
Anchovy catches in Peru
fell to 2.3 million tons in 2014
— half the amount in 2013 and
the lowest level since a strong
El Nino in 1998 — but the
report said production recovered in 2015 to more than 3.6
million tons.
Graziano da Silva said recent
reports by experts, international
organizations, industry and civil
society “highlight the tremendous potential of the oceans
and inland waters now, and
even more so in the future, to
contribute significantly to food
security and adequate nutrition
for a global population expected
to reach 9.7 billion by 2050.”
Obama says America quite
horrified over Dallas attack
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Barack Obama said
Friday that America is “horrified” by what appears to be a planned
sniper shooting targeting police officers in Dallas, and he said
there is no justification for the violence.
In a brief statement to reporters, Obama said the investigation
into the shooting continues but “what we do know is there has been
a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement.”
Obama called the shooters motives “twisted” and vowed that
justice will be done. “There’s no possible justification for these
kinds of attacks or any violence against law enforcement,” Obama
said, noting that he had spoken with Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings
and offered his support and condolences.
Obama spoke from Warsaw, Poland, where he is meeting with
NATO and European Union leaders. Obama arrived early Friday
shortly before snipers opened fire on police officers, killing five
officers and injuring six others during protests over two recent
fatal police shootings of black men.
Immediately after landing in Warsaw, and before the shootings,
Obama had expressed solidarity with protesters. He has acknowledged becoming out of the touch with the public mood during
past foreign travels and seemed determined to let that happen this
week. He aired his frustration with what he said were racial disparities in the criminal justice system.
But he also seemed attuned to the potential for backlash directed
at police. He argued that there was no contradiction between supporting law enforcement and working to see that biases in the justice system are rooted out. Past statements about other shootings
have stoked tensions with law enforcement, including with FBI
Director James Comey, who has suggested the intense public focus
on police officers’ conduct, fueled by caught-on-camera moments
could inhibit officers as they try to protect their communities.
Aiming to pre-empt that concern, Obama said that speaking out
about the issue is not an attack on police. Obama said that he and
other Americans appreciate the risks police officers take. “And so,
to all of law enforcement, I want to be very clear: We know you
have a tough job. We mourn those in uniform who are protecting
us who lose their lives,” he said prior to the Dallas shootings.
Obama emphasized another part of that message in the aftermath Friday. He called the shootings a “wrenching reminder of the
sacrifices” that police office make every day.
He welcomed the entry into
force on June 5 of an FAO
agreement “to prevent, deter
and eliminate illegal, unreported
and unregulated fishing” which,
among other things, allows a
country to ban ships it suspects
of having engaged in illicit
fishing, thereby preventing their
catches from getting to markets.
Illicit fishing may account
for up to 26 million tons of fish a
year, or more than 15 percent of
the world’s total annual marine
and inland fishing output, Graziano da Silva said.
LAND COMMISSION
NOTICE is hereby given that MAAELOPA BOB TUIASOSOPO of TAPUTIMU, American Samoa, has executed a LEASE AGREEMENT to a certain parcel of land commonly
known as MULIOTAFUA which is situated in the village of TAPUTIMU, in the County
of TUALATAI, WESTERN District, Island of Tutuila, American Samoa. Said LEASE
AGREEMENT is now on file with the Territorial Registrar to be forwarded to the Governor
respecting his approval or disapproval thereof according to the laws of American Samoa.
Said instrument names MAAELOPA BOB TUIASOSOPO & ELEITINO A.P. TUIASOSOPO
as LESSEES.
Commission before the 19TH day of AUGUST, 2016. It should be noted that any objection
POSTED:
SIGNED:
O LE FA’ASALALAUGA lenei ua faia ona o MAAELOPA BOB TUIASOSOPO ole nu’u o
TAPUTIMU, Amerika Samoa, ua ia faia se FEAGAIGA LISI, i se fanua ua lauiloa o MULIOTAFUA, e i le nu’u o TAPUTIMU i le itumalo o TUALATAI, Falelima i SISIFO ole Motu
o TUTUILA Amerika Samoa. O lea FEAGAIGA LISI ua i ai nei i teuga pepa ale Resitara o
Amerika Samoa e fia auina atu ile Kovana Sili mo sana fa’amaoniga e tusa ai ma le Tulafono a
Amerika Samoa. O lea mata’upu o lo’o ta’ua ai MAAELOPA BOB TUIASOSOPO & ELEITINO A.P. TUIASOSOPO .
07/08 & 08/08/16
MANU’A ISLANDS
A Nite of Fun! Dancing! Food!
to benefit the 50th Golden Jubilee of Manu’a High School
Friday, July 22, 2016
6:00pm - 10:00pm
Lee Auditorium, Utulei
Hosted by!!
$20
Manu’a High School Alumni Committee
Contact 733-3488 or 733-3191
South Pacific Academy
P.O. Box 520
Pago Pago, AS 96799
Ph: 684-699-9845 • Fax 684-699-4945
2016-2017
EmploymEnt opportunitiEs
South Pacific Academy is accepting applications for the following full-time positions:
• MATH TEACHER - MIDDLE SCHOOL
• SOCIAL STUDIES - MIDDLE SCHOOL
• SOCIAL SCIENCES - HIGH SCHOOL
Minimum Requirements:
•
•
•
Teachers - BA degree (Teacher certification and Praxis I a plus)
Excellent spoken and written English skills
Energy, enthusiasm, and teamwork approach
Qualified applicants can come by the office and pick up an application or call the school at the numbers
listed above for further information.
South Pacific Academy is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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In this June 2, 2016 photo, a woman holds hats to get them autographed by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a rally in San Jose, Calif.
Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hats proudly tout theyre “Made in USA.” Not necessarily always the case, an Associated Press review found. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Trump hats show challenge of proving products are USA made
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald
Trump’s “Make America Great Again”
hats proudly tout they are “Made in
USA.” Not necessarily always the case,
an Associated Press review found.
The iconic, baseball-style hats are
indeed stitched together at a small factory in the Los Angeles area. But at least
one of the hats in a small sample tested
by AP and an outside expert did not contain the specific type of American-made
fabric the hats’ manufacturer insists his
factory always uses to make each one.
The true origin of the fabric in that
hat remains a mystery — whether U.S.or foreign-made and by whom — and
a striking example of how difficult and
murky it can be to verify something is
actually “Made in USA.” The Republican presidential candidate has made it
a cornerstone of his campaign that U.S.
companies and individuals should aim
for that standard to bring back American
jobs, even if it means paying more.
Informed of the AP’s findings, Trump
said any misrepresentation would be
unacceptable. “I pay a good price for that
hat. If it’s not made in the USA, we’ll
bring a lawsuit.”
The AP review included a microscopic analysis of five hats bought from
Trump’s campaign website, which
showed the fabric in one was of a different type than that made by the supplier the manufacturer told the AP provides all his hat fabric.
In addition to the fabric analysis,
two of the manufacturer’s employees,
including a top sales agent, said the hats’
fabric, bills and stiffeners were imported
from overseas.
The factory’s owner, Brian Kennedy
of Cali-Fame of Los Angeles Inc., said
the two employees were wrong, but he
refused to explain the fabric discrep-
ancy. Federal law requires that items
labeled “Made in USA” be made from
materials “all or virtually all” from the
United States.
“I’m not using imported materials,”
Kennedy told the AP. “We’re playing by
the rules.”
On a broad level, the tale of Trump’s
hats shows the challenge of revitalizing
U.S. manufacturing, which has been ravaged by cheap competition from overseas. Trump has accused Asian countries
of unfairly manipulating their currencies
to boost exports.
Labor costs in Asia are so low that
hats or other clothing can cost less than
half the price of products made in the
United States. Asian fabric prices are
also lower, though less dramatically.
While Trump has tried to get Made in
USA hats for his campaign, knockoffs
of those hats, clearly made in China,
do a brisk business for other vendors.
And Trump’s private companies and
the clothing line run by his daughter,
Ivanka, routinely sell clothes and other
products made in China and other Asian
countries.
Trump has warned Ford Motor Co.
that he would place a 35 percent tax on
cars sent to the U.S. from a planned plant
in Mexico, and he has pledged to “get
Apple to start building their damn computers and things in this country.”
“All it takes is a commitment to winning and making ‘Made in America’ a
badge of honor like it used to be,” Trump
wrote last year.
But the Trump campaign’s experience shows how difficult it can be to be
utterly certain of a product’s provenance.
Trump told the AP that his staff had visited Cali-Fame’s factory and reviewed
paperwork guaranteeing the hats qualified for Made in the USA labeling. “It
was very important to us that these hats
be made in the USA,” he said.
The fabric tells a complicated tale.
Kennedy, the factory owner, provided the AP with a copy of a certificate dated March 24, 2016. It shows the
purchase of 1,488 yards of U.S.-origin,
red polyester-cotton blended fabric,
called Saxtwill, from Carr Textile Corp.
of Fenton, Missouri. Kennedy later provided copies of three other certificates
from Carr Textile, dated September
2015, for components of black and
white hats of U.S. origin.
Kennedy declined to comment further after the AP told him that a microscopic analysis of the fabric in a red cap
the AP purchased directly from Trump’s
campaign website did not match the red
Saxtwill material that the AP obtained
directly from Carr Textile. He said providing any further detail would reveal
proprietary information.
To do the microscopic analysis, the
AP obtained samples directly from Carr
of the same red polyester-cotton blended
fabric that Kennedy said was in the
hats: one type imported and one U.S.made. The AP asked Deborah Young, a
professor of textiles and clothing at the
Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles, to compare
two Trump hats that the AP had purchased from the campaign website with
the fabric samples.
The AP did not identify the fabric
samples to prevent bias.
Her conclusion: The material in one
Trump hat was inconsistent with either
Carr sample. The pattern of the weave
was noticeably different, later confirmed
by the AP using a school-grade microscope: All Carr-made Saxtwill fabric is
a 2/1 weave; the other Trump hat was a
3/1 pattern weave.
“I am completely confident of this
outcome,” Young said. “There’s no way
this hat was made out of either (Carr)
sample.”
The analysis was not able to determine where the fabric in that hat actually
came from.
Young said the other “Make America
Great Again” hat that the AP had also
purchased from Trump’s campaign
could have come from either the U.S.made Carr fabric, from Carr’s cheaper
imported fabric, or from an entirely different source.
After receiving Young’s opinion, the
AP bought an additional three hats from
the Trump campaign for review. Those
were also compatible with either Carr’s
Saxtwill or the cheaper fabric that Carr
imports.
In addition to the fabric analysis, two
of Cali-Fame’s employees, Andy Meade
and Angela Olague, told the AP and a
product distributor, separately, that the
hats were made from imported fabric
and other components.
The AP asked Kevin O’Brien, the
president of Ethix Ventures Inc. of
Boston, a distributor specializing in
U.S.-produced, sweatshop-free merchandise, to call Meade, Cali-Fame’s
top sales agent, on the AP’s behalf to
ask about the company’ hat prices and
the origin of the hats’ materials. The AP
asked O’Brien to call so that the company’s employees would respond as they
would to a regular industry customer.
“It’s domestic made of imported,”
Meade said.
An AP reporter separately called
Olague in the company’s sales department to ask which materials were
imported, disclosing that he worked for
The Associated Press when asked.
Trump to woo Hispanics
in Miami after heated
day on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after a
defiant Donald Trump clashed with some anxious Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill, the
presumptive GOP nominee is headed to another
potentially contentious spot: Miami.
Trump plans to deliver a speech titled “Succeeding Together” on Friday in Miami-Dade
County, home to the largest Cuban-American
population in the U.S. It was the only one of Florida’s 67 counties that Trump lost in the state’s
March 15 primary, an outcome that underscores
the billionaire businessman’s deep unpopularity
among Hispanic voters.
In his speech, Trump plans to touch on President Barack Obama’s historic decision to normalize relations with Cuba, emphasizing the
country’s poor record on human rights. Last
year, Trump said he agreed with the concept of
opening ties, breaking step with many of his primary rivals. But, he told the Daily Caller, “I think
we should have made a stronger deal.”
Trump is also expected to continue hammering likely Democratic nominee Hillary
Clinton on her use of a private email account and
server while at the State Department, as well as
touch on issues including trade and the economy,
according to an aide who spoke on the condition
of anonymity, not authorized to share details of
Trump’s remarks ahead of his speech.
Trump will also meet privately with several
dozen Hispanic business, government and religious leaders at a local Cuban restaurant.
The trip comes after Trump made it clear in a
Thursday visit to Capitol Hill that he’s of no mind
to change his brash approach to the campaign. In
a series of meetings with Republican lawmakers,
he blamed the media for stumbles that continue
to alarm party leaders and excite Democrats with
early voting scheduled to start in less than three
months.
The New Yorker repeatedly called for party
unity, but he also threatened several critics on a
day that was designed to rally anxious Republicans behind him. Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake declined
to address reports that Trump threatened to attack
him politically during a testy exchange that Sen.
John McCain said “everybody was talking about.”
“I’ll just leave it,” Flake told reporters. “My
position remains, I want to support the nomination. I really do. I just can’t support him given the
things that he’s said.”
There was a more cooperative tone inside
Trump’s meeting with House Republicans, even
if skeptical lawmakers didn’t necessarily hear all
of what they were hoping for.
“There was no talk of pivoting. There was no
talk of changing his style or anything like that,”
said Rep. Peter King of New York. “I think you
have to expect that you’re going to get Donald
Trump. But he showed today that he could be
Donald Trump and still work with Republicans.”
Trump’s mission Friday is to show he can
work to win over Hispanic voters. His declaration
in his campaign announcement that Mexico was
sending rapists and criminals into the U.S., along
with his vows to build a wall along the Southern
border and deport all of the estimated 11 million
people living in the country illegally have alienated Latino voters nationwide. They make up
almost a quarter of the Florida electorate.
“It’s really the only swing electorate left in
the state — and it’s growing,” said Florida pollster Fernand Amandi. “That is very bad news for
Donald Trump right now.”
Four years ago, President Barack Obama
edged out GOP nominee Mitt Romney in Florida,
largely on the strength of his support among
Cuban-Americans — a group that has historically favored the GOP.
But Amandi, whose research spans the state’s
diverse demographic spectrum, said Trump appears
to be underperforming usual Republican benchmarks in the Cuban community as its GOP loyalties are softening. A group that represents people
living in the country illegally asked the restaurant
hosting Trump on Friday to rescind the invitation.
“The Cuban electorate is not immune to the
Trump backlash,” Amandi said. “They see, hear
and react to the same sort of comments that other
Hispanics do, and many view his comments as
racist. They are policies they are simply not comfortable supporting.”
Trump may have compounded the problem in
February, when he questioned Cubans’ favored
status in U.S. immigration law that allows Cubans
who set foot on American soil to stay and obtain
legal status.
“I don’t think that’s fair. I mean, why would
that be a fair thing?” he told the Tampa Bay
Times. “You know, we have a system now for
bringing people into the country, and what we
should be doing is we should be bringing people
who are terrific people who have terrific records
of achievement, accomplishment.”
Supporters, however, argue Trump can
grow his support among Hispanic voters. He is
“making an argument about economic security
and the safety of your families. That appeals to
everyone,” said Deborah Tamargo, the Republican chairwoman in Hillsborough, who is the
granddaughter of immigrants.
Legal immigrants and the children of immigrants, she added, “appreciate that he’s speaking
the truth” about illegal immigration.
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In this Friday, June 10, 2016 photo, Dr. Sarah Schlesinger Hirschfeld poses for a portrait on the campus of Rockefeller University in New York. With fellow
Wellesley College alumnus Hillary Clinton poised to be the first female candidate of a major political party in the U.S., she says, “I can’t even articulate all the reasons it’s important to me. I think it’s tremendously important for all women, whether they know it or not, to see a woman in the most important leadership role in
the country — and for men to see it, too.” (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
First woman president: How great a milestone? Women differ
by JOCELYN NOVECK, AP National Writer
On the day Cheryl Lawson Walker graduated
from college, she hadn’t thought very much about the
future and her place in it — or the obstacles she might
face as a woman.
The place was Wellesley; the year was 1969, and
the women’s movement was just emerging as a force
in America.
But on that day, for the first time, a student had
been selected to address the commencement at the
women’s school: Hillary Rodham, the student government president. The two women lived in the same
dorm, where they’d chatted over their salads at communal meals.
Rodham’s speech sent a jolt through the class.
“We were just thrilled that she felt empowered
enough and articulate enough” to speak so boldly,
rebutting the remarks of the U.S. senator who spoke
before her, which many had found condescending,
Walker recalled. Rodham was “much more forwardlooking” than many of her classmates, she said, and
it would be some years before they, too, really recognized the obstacles they would have to overcome.
The speaker that day — now known as Hillary
Clinton — is edging closer to breaking the ultimate
glass ceiling as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president of the United States. Her election
would surely be a major milestone for women. But
her fellow alumnae don’t all feel the same way about
its significance.
To be sure, for some, the election of the first female
president would be a thrilling moment they’ve been
waiting for years to see, the culmination of a struggle
that lasted much too long. “I can’t even articulate
all the reasons it’s important,” Sarah Schlesinger
Hirschfeld, 56, a New York doctor, said. “I think it’s
tremendously important for all women, whether they
know it or not, to see a woman in the most important
leadership role in the country — and for men to see
it, too.”
But to others, the milestone has been eclipsed by
other advances — seeing women achieve positions of
power in different arenas, or witnessing the election
of the first African-American president.
Walker, now 68, supports Clinton, but falls into the
latter camp. “I know some people are hugely excited
by it, see it as symbolically an enormous step, but
I don’t happen to be among them,” she said. “I just
think it’s a good next step. Certainly not a milestone
like it was when Barack Obama was elected.”
And the recently retired literature professor said
her young female students, many of whom supported
Sen. Bernie Sanders (as have her own children, ages
32 and 35), feel the same way: “For them, the idea
of electing a woman is nowhere near as significant
as electing the first African-American president was.”
A recent poll found that while three-quarters of
registered women voters felt America was ready for a
female president, only about a third considered it very
important to see one in their lifetime. (The poll was
taken before Clinton clinched the nomination.)
“The numbers aren’t high,” Debbie Walsh, director
of the Center for American Women and Politics at
Rutgers University, said. She attributes it partly to
a generational divide, with younger women having
grown up accustomed to seeing women in positions
of power. “It’s almost as if (some) people feel like
it’s already happened, but it hasn’t,” she said of the
milestone.
You sense the divide when you talk to Wellesley
women of various generations — from women in their
70s who left college years before feminism took hold,
to contemporaries of Clinton, to women in their 20s
now emerging into the workforce. Though the women
interviewed all said they planned to support Clinton
over Donald J. Trump, some were vocal supporters of
Sanders in the primaries. Even among those who supported Clinton all along, their views on the milestone
aren’t necessarily what one might expect.
so many other urgent issue
In May, a group of Wellesley ‘62 grads gathered
for one of their frequent, informal reunion weekends,
meeting for meals on campus and in nearby Boston
and celebrating their 75th birthdays. They came from
an accomplished class, including a former head of the
United States Tennis Association, the first AfricanAmerican woman in the country to chair an academic
pathology department and the late writer Nora Ephron.
When conversation touched on the election, there
was certainly a sense of pride at the prospect of a president from Wellesley, one attendee, Martha Bewick,
said. But talk was more focused on issues than candidates, she said — on the economy, on terrorism, on
the scourge of drugs.
In fact, when the subject of a female president
came up, Bewick said, “the general mood was that the
question wasn’t pressing” — that it was more of an
issue back in 2008, when Clinton faced Obama in the
primaries. “When we elected a black American president, the issue sort of went away,” she said, summing
up the mood of the discussion. “There are so many
other urgent issues.”
Personally, Bewick, who’s voted both Democratic
and Republican in the past, said she’s found herself
warming up to Clinton over the months, becoming
increasingly impressed with her qualifications. But
gender is not foremost on her mind.
“Women have done so well in other fields,” she said.
“The presidency was going to catch up sometime.”
To classmate Susan Dworkin, a novelist and playwright, that day can’t come soon enough.
To her, a female president would signify a “huge
victory” for women.
“Younger women have such a different understanding of the importance of this thing,” Dworkin,
who lives in Becket, Massachusetts, said. “To people
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House backed
a measure Thursday that seeks to bar women from being required
to register for a potential military draft, a victory for social conservatives who fear that forcing females to sign up is another step
toward the blurring of gender lines.
By a vote of 217 to 203, lawmakers approved an amendment
that would block the Selective Service System from using any
money to alter draft registration requirements that currently apply
only to men between the ages of 18 and 25. The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, was added to a financial
services spending bill. The House also approved an amendment by
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., that would block any money in the bill
from being used for sanctuary cities, a term for jurisdictions that
resist turning over immigrants to federal authorities.
Davidson said much more study is necessary before such a significant, if largely symbolic, change to the draft is made. The U.S.
has not had a military draft since 1973, in the waning years of the
Vietnam War era, and the odds for another wide-scale draft are
remote. Still, the draft registration requirement remains for men,
and many lawmakers believe women should be included.
The House vote comes just a few weeks after the Senate passed
an annual defense policy bill that mandates for the first time in
history that young women sign up for a draft. That measure calls
for women to sign up with the Selective Service within 30 days of
turning 18, beginning in January 2018.
The push in the Senate to lift the exclusion was triggered by
the Pentagon’s decision late last year to open all front-line combat
jobs to women. After gender restrictions to military service were
erased, the top uniformed officers in each of the military branches
expressed support during congressional testimony for requiring
women to register. At the same time, they said the all-volunteer
force is working and they didn’t want a return to conscription.
Davidson said delaying the requirement gives lawmakers time
“to talk with our families, talk with young women, and then take a
more considered action.”
The House didn’t include a similar provision in its version of
the annual defense policy bill. Instead there’s a measure to study
whether the Selective Service is even needed at a time when the
armed forces get plenty of qualified volunteers, making the possibility of a draft remote.
The House on Wednesday rejected an amendment to put the
Selective Service System out of business by denying the agency’s
$23 million annual budget.
Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., who drafted the amendment, said
the Selective Service is obsolete and archaic. But other lawmakers
pushed back. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., said the $23 million
is a “small price to pay for an agency that has the potential to avert
a crisis should the draft ever need to be reinstated.”
This image provided by the European Southern Observatory shows an artist’s impression of the triple star system HD 131399 from close to the gas giant planet
orbiting in the system. A University of Arizona-led team used an ESO telescope in Chile to find the system 320 light years away.
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As amazing as three sunsets and sunrises are, “I think nature
will have some other surprises in store for us as we continue
exploring,” Wagner, a doctoral student at the University of Arizona at Tucson, said via email.
Triple-star systems with detected planets are rare enough; this
is believed to be just the fifth such discovery. But the giant gassy
world in this one — formally known as Planet HD 131399Ab —
has the biggest known orbit in a multi-star system.
Its orbit is double Pluto’s — or roughly 550 Earth years. That’s
how long it takes to orbit its system’s brightest star, a super-size
sun. The two smaller stars orbit one another and, as a pair, orbit
with their big stellar brother.
Planet HD 131399Ab has four times the mass of our own
Jupiter. With such a wide orbit and companion stars, scientists
would expect a planet like this to be kicked out in a tug of stellar
war. Yet that’s not the case.
During part of the planet’s orbit, all three stars are visible on the
same day, offering triple sunrises and sunsets and allowing for day
and night. For about one-fourth of its year — around 100 to 140
Earth years — there’s continuous daylight. That’s because as the
big sun is rising, the two smaller ones are setting.
“With three suns, the planet will see different weird combinations of sunrises and sunsets,” said co-author Daniel Apai, a University of Arizona astronomer.
He added: “This is a system for which I would not want to
design a calendar.”
The astronomers used the European Southern Observatory’s
Very Large Telescope in Chile to spot the planet 320 light-years
away. It is one of the few exoplanets — planets outside our own
solar system — to be directly imaged. Most exoplanets are identified by periodic dips in starlight as the planets pass between us
and their stars. The team reported the discovery Thursday in the
journal Science.
As for the planet’s alphabet-soup label, “I wish we had a better
name,” Wagner noted. There is an official protocol for naming
planets and their surface features. The International Astronomical
Union, in fact, has a relatively new group to handle public naming
campaigns. “Informally, we called in “The Planet,” Apai said in
an email. “But with more possible planet candidates in sight, we
will have to change this soon.”
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican court
declared Thursday it had no jurisdiction to
prosecute two journalists who wrote books
based in part on confidential documents
exposing greed, mismanagement and corruption in the Holy See, ending a trial that drew
scorn from media rights groups.
The court did convict a Vatican monsignor and an Italian public relations expert
for having conspired to leak documents, but
cleared them of having formed a criminal
association to do so.
A fifth defendant, the monsignor’s secretary, was absolved of all charges.
The verdict was an embarrassment to Vatican prosecutors, who had accused journalists Emiliano Fittipaldi and Gianluigi Nuzzi
of conspiring and putting pressure on the
three other defendants to get the information.
Prosecutors had accused the three of forming
a shady, secretive criminal organization that
conspired to reveal confidential Vatican
documents.
In the end, the president of the fourjudge tribunal, Judge Giuseppe Dalla Torre,
asserted the Vatican had no jurisdiction over
the journalists and ruled there wasn’t enough
evidence to show that any such criminal organization existed.
Speaking in the name of Pope Francis,
Dalla Torre prefaced his sentence by insisting
that the freedom of the press was enshrined
in the Vatican legal code and that freedom of
thought was “guaranteed by divine law.”
Fittipaldi and Nuzzi wrote blockbuster
books last year based on Vatican documents
exposing the greed of bishops and cardinals
angling for big apartments, the extraordinarily
high costs of getting a saint made, and the loss
to the Holy See of millions of euros in rental
income because of undervalued real estate.
The documentation had been compiled by
a pontifical commission ordered by Francis to
gather information about Vatican finances to
make them more transparent and efficient.
Monsignor Lucio Vallejo Balda, the
reform commission’s No. 2, admitted in court
that he gave Nuzzi 85 passwords to passwordprotected documents.
He denied the journalists threatened him
and put the blame of feeling pressured on
Francesca Chaouqui, the communications
consultant who was also a member of the
commission.
The court convicted Vallejo of passing
documents to the journalists and sentenced
him to 18 months in prison. While clearing
Chaouqui of actually passing documents,
the court found her guilty of conspiring with
Vallejo and sentenced her to a 10-month suspended sentence.
The fifth defendant, Nicola Maio, was
cleared.
It wasn’t immediately clear if anyone
would appeal. Chaouqui, who recently gave
birth, had said she would have gone to prison,
babe in arms, rather than appeal a conviction
or ask for a papal pardon.
Publishing confidential information is
a crime in the Vatican, punishable by up to
eight years in prison.
The journalists are Italian and had challenged the Vatican’s jurisdiction to prosecute
them. Prosecutors had asserted jurisdiction
over them anyway, but the court rejected that
argument.
It declared it had no jurisdiction since Fittipaldi and Nuzzi were not Vatican public officials and the alleged crime didn’t take place
on Vatican territory.
In fact, in the sentence, Dalla Torre recalled
that the 2013 Vatican law that criminalized
publishing reserved information only applied
to Vatican public officials exercising their
official jobs, suggesting that the law will not
be applied in the future to ordinary journalists
operating outside of the Vatican City State.
The Committee to Protect Journalists,
Reporters Without Borders and other media
watchdog organizations had criticized the trial
and called on the Vatican to drop the charges,
saying journalists must be allowed to do their
jobs without fear of repercussions.
They praised the decision but said the trial
never should have gone forward.
“Their trial cast a chilling effect on covering the Vatican,” said Nina Ognianova,
Europe and Central Asia program coordinator
for the Committee to Protect Journalists.
“By writing these books, we repeated that
they just exercised their right to provide information in the public interest and should not
have been treated as criminals in a state that
supposedly respects media freedom,” said
Pauline Adès-Mével, head of the Reporters
Without Borders’ Europe desk.
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico
Lombardi, defended the prosecutors for going
ahead with what he said was an arguably
unpopular prosecution, saying the Vatican
has a law on its books criminalizing the publication of reserved information that must be
applied.
The journalists had denounced the Vatican
for putting them on trial rather than the priests
and laymen whose wrongdoing they uncovered, calling the proceedings a “farce,” since
prosecutors accused them of being part of a
criminal conspiracy by their mere “availability” to receive information.
But they praised the verdict as a sign the
Vatican realized the error, and attributed the
turnabout to Francis’ pontificate.
“This has been a Kafkaesque process for
what concern the charges, but its conclusion,
in my opinion, has been very positive,” Fittipaldi said outside the tribunal.
The case has had several surreal moments.
At its start, the journalists complained they
had only seen the court file a few hours before
the first hearing.
Then Francis, the Vatican’s supreme legislator, executive and judge, intervened to insist
that the defense be given more time after the
court tried to rush the trial through in two
weeks.
Then Vallejo was put back under house
arrest after a friend sneaked a cellphone to
him inside a cake. Finally, Chaouqui’s son,
Pietro, was born June 14 and was brought to
court every day since.
The only criminal investigation that has
been opened stemming from the journalists’
revelations of wrongdoing concerned the
transfer of 400,000 euros ($444,000) from
the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesu pediatric
hospital to pay for renovations on the attic of
the Vatican’s former No. 2, Cardinal Tarcisio
Bertone.
The hospital’s former president and treasurer are under investigation by Vatican
prosecutors.
Bertone has said he was unaware of the
payment but has nevertheless repaid the hospital 150,000 euros ($166,000). He was not
put under investigation.
In 2012, in the first document leaks scandal
before the same Vatican tribunal, Pope Benedict XVI’s butler was convicted of giving
Nuzzi confidential documents that painted
Bertone in a bad light and was sentenced to
18 months in prison. Benedict eventually pardoned the butler.
Nuzzi wasn’t charged in that case, but the
Vatican City State later criminalized the publication of confidential information.
Folsom cop officer donates
a kidney to sheriff’s deputy
FOLSOM, Calif. (AP) — Eric Baade knew he wanted to
one day become a kidney donor.
Ever since his wife, Stacy Baade, received a kidney donation in 2008, Baade had wanted to give that gift to another
family. It was just a question of who he would donate to.
In January, the sergeant with the police department in
Folsom, California, came across a Facebook post by a fellow
law enforcement officer’s wife. It explained Sacramento
County sheriff’s deputy Nate Wise’s need for a kidney transplant. Baade responded within 24 hours. The two underwent
surgery June 27.
“I just knew that he and his family were going to be in for
a pretty rough patch through the whole dialysis process, much
like our family was,” Baade said. “And I knew that when he
received a kidney, he and his family would get their lives back.”
Before joining the Folsom Police Department, Baade had
also worked in the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department.
His wife’s donor was the wife of a fellow sheriff’s department
employee.
The two officers said they had never met prior to the Facebook connection, despite growing up near one another and
knowing similar groups of people.
Now, Wise said, they’ll always be brothers.
“It’s just amazing how the law enforcement community is,
especially in a time of need,” Wise said. “We’ve always been
a tight community, but when things like this happen, it reiterates how much of a family we are.”
From the time her husband raised the possibility of
donating, Stacey Baade said she knew it was a given that he
would donate if he could.
For her, being on the other side of the process was an emotional experience. In addition to worrying while her husband
was in surgery, waiting for the doctors to come out, she also
knew exactly what Wise was going through in his dialysis
treatment.
Seeing the two of them after the transplant made it obvious
how important the donation was, she said.
“Seeing Nate come out of surgery, you could tell how much
better he was feeling, how much it had helped,” she said. “You
could see all of the pain Eric was going through was worth it.”
Wise had been on dialysis treatment for months prior to
the surgery, experiencing nausea, fatigue and weight loss side
effects.
Since the surgery, his health has been like “night and day”
he said. He calls himself the luckiest guy in the world.
“I can’t describe how amazing it is. Eric coming forward,
it’s just astonishing. It’s crazy,” he said.
“He saved my life.”
Defaced winning $250,000
Lottery ticket investigated
STORM LAKE, Iowa (AP) — A criminal investigation
has been launched after someone tried to cash a possible
fraudulent lottery ticket worth $250,000, Iowa Lottery officials said Thursday.
The instant-scratch ticket is part of the “$250,000 Riches”
game that the lottery began selling in March. A ticket costs
$20, and the game has 18 tickets worth the top prize.
An individual attempted to cash a winning ticket in Storm
Lake on June 17. But the back of the ticket was covered with
ink scribbles that made it difficult to read the signature and
raised suspicions, Iowa Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer said. The prize has not been paid.
The Iowa Lottery requires every winning ticket to be
signed, legally purchased, possessed and presented before it
can be cashed.
“It is our job to ensure we pay the prize to the right person,
so we’re doing our best to ascertain the details in this case,”
she said. “The scribbling is over almost the entire back of the
ticket and it’s difficult to discern anything.”
Lottery security officials contacted the Iowa Division of
Criminal Investigation.
DCI spokesman Alex Murphy said in a statement that the
agency also was working with the local prosecutor, Buena
Vista County Attorney Dave Patton. Patton said he couldn’t
comment on the investigation until he gets a report and
decides whether charges are warranted.
Neubauer declined to say who attempted to cash the ticket
or reveal details about where or when it was purchased. She
said those details are part of the investigation.
The odds of winning the game’s top $250,000 prize are
one in 118,471.
Two top prizes have been legally claimed so far.
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One of the many topics that was explained to the youth of American Samoa during the third day of the 2016 Youth Summit was the education system in
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American Samoa. The presentation was given by DOE’s Dr. Samasoni Asaeli (standing) to over 200 students.
➧ First woman president: How great a milestone? Women differ…
of my age, to me, it’s gigantic!”
One reason for the divide, Dworkin suggested, is
that women her age “grew up with the real torment of
sexism — the things you couldn’t do, the places you
couldn’t be, the marriages you had to have, the work
you never got. We came of age in the middle of this
struggle, and we had leaders like Betty Friedan and
Gloria Steinem who pointed out to us what was wrong
with our situation.”
“I know that younger women don’t care,” Dworkin
added with a sigh. “They take it for granted, the things
that we work SO hard for ... we were of the generation that really went through all the crap. So Hillary,
if she becomes president, that’s the winning of a great
struggle for me.”
Laurel Prussing sees the milestone as more of a
logical progression — one that was always going to
happen at some point.
“Listen, if it happened 20 years ago it would be different,” said Prussing, who is the Democratic mayor
of Urbana, Illinois, and a supporter of Sanders. “But
people are used to women now. There’s a whole new
generation of young people who expect that women
are equal.”
Sure, she said, there hasn’t yet been a woman president, “but we have senators, we have governors, it’s
gotten to be part of the landscape now — rather than
an asteroid from outer space hitting the earth. It’s an
achievement, but it’s not earthshaking.”
Prussing was first elected to her post in 2005 and
has been in politics since the 1970s, when she was one
of the first women elected to her county board.
“I went through all this 30 years ago,” she said.
“It’s a new world now.”
Prussing recalled introducing Sanders at a rally
of thousands in Chicago. “I said I was supporting
Sanders, and I don’t think I’m going to hell! There
was a huge roar.”
She was referring to comments by Madeleine
Albright, the former secretary of state who said
in February while campaigning with Clinton that
“there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t
help each other.” Some female Sanders supporters
were offended by the suggestion that they shouldn’t
be able to choose their own candidate (Steinem was
also criticized when she said young women supported
Sanders because “the boys are with Bernie.” She later
apologized.)
“I mean, come on!” Prussing said. “We fought all
this time and we got the right to vote ... I don’t vote
for somebody just because they’re a woman.”
it’s going to happen
In a CNN/ORC poll conducted in March, just 35
percent of women voters said it was either “extremely
important” or “very important” to them to see a woman
elected president in their lifetime. (The number was
25 percent among male voters).
Walsh, of Rutgers, thinks things could change
once women see Clinton accept the nomination at
the convention in Philadelphia — potentially a visually powerful moment. Still, she said, “If you’re 26,
I don’t think you see your lifetime’s end looming in
front of you in the same way you do even in your 50s.
So you think, ‘It’s going to happen in my lifetime —
of COURSE it’s going to happen.’”
Emily DiVito, 23, graduated Wellesley a year ago.
Six months later, she went to work for the Sanders
campaign, canvassing in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New York. (She’s now working on a
local race in Florida.) When she went back to visit
Wellesley, she said, “I would step on campus and
think, ‘Oh gosh, do people hate me for whom I support?’ It’s such a strong community there.”
But Wellesley is not entirely Clinton country: In a
survey the school conducted in late May of graduating
seniors, 65 percent of 215 respondents supported
Clinton, 14 percent supported Sanders, and 2 percent
supported Donald Trump. The students also said the
gender of a political candidate mattered only a little
(51 percent) or not at all (31 percent) in this election.
DiVito, 23, said it is “completely important, hugely
important” to her to see a female president one day.
But she decided to support a candidate whose position
on the issues meshed with hers. “At the end of the day
I voted for a single person,” she said.
DiVito was particularly stung by the remarks of
Albright and Steinem. “I took them personally,” she
said. “Especially because I was working for Sanders
— it wasn’t just like I had a free bumper sticker!”
She understands what some older women say about
having gone through bitter struggle in order to get
women where they are today. But, she said, “I think I
can be a free thinker and an independent person and
come to my own conclusions — and STILL attribute
my existence in that sphere to Steinem and Albright
and Bella Abzug and Shirley Chisolm and all those
awesome kickass ladies that came before.”
Frankie Frank, a rising senior at Wellesley and
a science major, said that when Wellesley students
express support for Clinton — as she does — people
often assume it’s either because Clinton went to
Wellesley or because she’s a woman.
“But it’s not the only reason,” she said of the
gender issue. “It’s not the only thing we want.”
Still, Frank considers the milestone of a female
president a crucial one. “I think the fact that it hasn’t
happened yet is shocking,” she said. And, she added,
it’s not enough to say, “Maybe in 10 or 20 years.”
“I think the more you say maybe the next one,
maybe the next one ... I mean, 20 years is a really long
time!” she said. “Especially for me. I’m 21. Waiting
another lifetime? That’s absurd to me.”
women can do anything
On the day that Hillary Rodham made her splash
as a commencement speaker, earning a spot in a Life
magazine spread on prominent graduates around
the country, classmate Cheryl Brierton received her
diploma, too. Brierton doesn’t recall precisely Rodham’s words, but she recalls how they made her feel.
“She basically said to the senator, ‘We’re going to get
out there in the world and do all KINDS of things, and be
all KINDS of things ... ,’” Brierton recalled. “It sure felt
great to have someone speaking up for all of us.”
Years later, Brierton said, she applied for a job as
a county prosecutor and was told that though she was
the best candidate, she wasn’t getting the position —
because people might have trouble accepting a female
prosecutor. It was a dispiriting experience. But a few
years after that, Brierton found herself in San Diego at
a state bar meeting. There, she saw something deeply
moving to her.
“I saw all these women who were justices on all different courts,” she said. “I didn’t realize the importance
of seeing something like that. The tears came pouring
down. It was so powerful that it made me realize how
important symbols can be in addition to words.”
“I thought, ‘Yes, just like Hillary said at graduation — women can do anything.’ I don’t think people
realize how important it is to SEE it.”
Another graduating classmate that day was Pamela
Colony. A biology professor in Cobleskill, New
York, who identifies as an independent voter, Colony
said she looks around at the rest of the world and sees
prominent women leaders.
“I mean, look at all the countries that have had a
woman president. What’s wrong with us, this great,
liberated country?”
Not that Colony thinks women are, necessarily,
better politicians than their male counterparts, based
on their gender. “It’s not to say women are infallible
or better than men,” she said. “But it IS important. It’s
a step we need to make.”
“And I think now is a good time.”
➧ police shoot…
Facebook Live is a form of internet broadcasting that can be
initiated in seconds from the Facebook app. In a few taps, users
can send live video straight from their smartphones to friends or
to a wider audience.
On the video, the officer tells her to keep her hands up and
says: “I told him not to reach for it. I told him to get his hand out.”
“You shot four bullets into him, sir. He was just getting his
license and registration, sir,” the woman responds.
The video goes on to show the woman exiting the car and
being handcuffed. A young girl can be seen and is heard saying at
one point, “I’m scared, Mommy.”
The woman describes being put in the back seat of the police
car and says, “The police just shot my boyfriend for no apparent
reason.”
A handgun was recovered from the scene, police said.
Because of its small size, Falcon Heights is served by the nearby
St. Anthony Police Department. Interim Chief Jon Mangseth said
he was aware of the Facebook video but did not comment on it.
Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner Ramona Dohman
promised an “expedient” investigation but would not discuss the
traffic stop, any video footage or whether Castile was legally carrying a firearm.
Minnesota court records online show Castile had some misdemeanor violations, mainly related to driving.
Castile had worked for the St. Paul school district since he was
19. A principal described him as “a warm person and a gentle
spirit” who loved his job and never missed work.
Katherine Holmquist-Burks hired Castile three years ago to
supervise the cafeteria at J.J. Hill Montessori, a St. Paul magnet
school with 530 students and 85 staff members.
“He stood out because he was happy, friendly and related to
people well,” she said.
After learning of his death, she went to the governor’s
mansion, in the same neighborhood as the school, to take part in
a vigil.
“I want his name respected,” she said.
➧ Trump hats…
In this May 17, 2004 photo, Miss Brazil 2004 Fabiane Niclotti poses for photos at a hotel in
Quito, Ecuador, ahead of the Miss Universe beauty pageant.
Police in Brazil say Niclotti, 31, was found dead inside her apartment in the southern city of
(AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa, File)
Gramado on Tuesday, June 28, 2016. American Samoa
Telecommunications Authority
(ASTCA)
The hats “are made in the USA, but all the materials are not,”
Olague told the AP of the company’s Made in America product
line. Pressed further, she said the factory could hypothetically produce hats from American-made fabric — but only if the customer
supplied domestic fabric with the same specifications of the material Cali-Fame used.
Meade and Olague declined subsequently to speak to the AP.
Kennedy, the factory owner, said the two employees had their
facts wrong.
Closely policing all U.S.-made claims would take considerable
bureaucracy and expense.
The Federal Trade Commission considers a product made in
the U.S. only when “all or virtually all” the product is U.S.-made.
It defines that as cases where “all significant parts and processing
that go into the product are of U.S. origin.”
The FTC generally requires Made-in-USA labeled products to
be assembled or “substantially transformed” in the U.S. and to
contain “negligible” foreign content.
Under the FTC rules, if a hat were made from imported fabrics,
the maker could comply with the law by using a different, more
qualified label, such as “Made of U.S. and imported fabric” or
“Made in U.S. of imported fabric.”
The FTC can punish violators in an administrative process
that prohibits unfair or deceptive practices. The agency can and
sometimes does investigate such cases when it receives a formal
complaint.
Through a spokeswoman, the FTC declined to comment
on Trump’s hats specifically, referring the AP to its guidelines
requiring all significant components to be domestically made.
State law also regulates Made in USA claims. Under California law, 95 percent of a “Made in the USA” product’s value
must come from U.S. sources unless key components are unavailable domestically. Foreign fabric is often in greater supply, but
domestic fabric is available.
Ironically, even as the Trump campaign strives to provide Made
in USA hats, unofficial knock-offs of Trump hats, made in China
and not endorsed by Trump’s campaign, are widely available.
Trump’s campaign sells its hats for $25 to $30 each on its website. It was unclear how many it has sold, but the campaign has
paid Cali-Fame nearly $1.5 million for hats through the end of last
month. The knockoffs, sometimes worn by Trump supporters at
his rallies, can be had for as little as $6 on Amazon.com.
Trump acknowledged there appeared to be a demand for the
cheaper, foreign hats. He said he was unsure whether supporters
buying those hats ever checked the tags. “I don’t know if they
know,” he said.
Trump said his organization has been writing letters trying to
force the knockoff makers to stop.
“Maybe we’ll end up suing companies,” he said. “Who knows
where they are.”
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Excellent team work and interpersonal skills
Ability to coordinate with different departments/divisions
Excellent communications and networking skills
Exceptional presentation skills
Excellent level of technical and selling knowledge in all areas
Ability to lead and supervise.
Qualified applicants: Please submit a completed ASTCA Employment Application with a copy of your resume to
ASTCA (address listed above) by the deadline listed above. Please attach copies of credentials and transcripts.
Candidates selected for hire must pass examinations (when applicable), pre-employment clearances & test negative on
pre-employment drug test. ASTCA reserves the right to waive education and experience requirements as necessary.
Qualified
Applicants
Apply To:
Human Resources Division
American Samoa Telecommunications Authority
(A.S.T.C.A.)
P.O. Box M
Tafuna, American Samoa 96799
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Tel: (684) 699-1121 ext. 408
(684) 733-9093 cell
Fax: (684) 699-9026
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The crowd at the airport last night was in for a treat when members of the 16-person crew that departed Wednesday night from American Samoa for California
to fight wild land fires for 30-days performed for friends and families on hand to say goodbye.
[Photo:THA]
We wish them a very successful deployment and a safe return home.

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