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First Sgt Elena S. Maene,
who’s been serving in the US
Army for 16 years, with her
daughter Kaitlyn smiling for
the Samoa News camera.
Read story in English below.
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PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA
Sgt. 1st Class Elena Maene:
“It’s natural for mothers to
go beyond expectations…”
by Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu, Samoa News Reporter
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“I was first deployed to Iraq when my daughter was only
10 months old, it was the hardest day of my life… but like the
other soldiers who took the oath, that is the sacrifice we make,”
said Sgt First Class Elena Maene who’s been serving for 16
years in the U.S. Army. Maene, who’s a single mother, is currently on compassionate reassignment to the island to take care
of her elderly parents. She was approved to come home two
weeks prior to her father’s passing last year in June.
Maene is the daughter of the late Sauileone Maene and
Maria Maene of Nu’uuli. She’s a 1991 graduate of Tafuna High
School, where she was the class Valedictorian. Responding to
Samoa News questions, Maene said while on deployment she
missed two of her daughter’s birthdays, and there was very limited access to a phone, so she did not have any contact with her
daughter on those birthdays. She said that, although it was difficult, she focused her energy on the reason she was sent to Iraq.
While on island, Maene is working at the Army Reserve
as a US Army Reserve Career Counselor, also known in the
Army as Retention NCO.
When soldiers are nearing the end of their service, they
often struggle over whether to reenlist or leave for a career in
the private sector, and that’s when they come in to see Maene.
Army career counselors are officers who advise soldiers based
on their needs and desires, which may include transitioning to the
Army Reserve or training for a new military specialty. Ultimately,
she said, a counselor’s first goal is to retain quality soldiers.
Asked about the highlight of her career in the military,
Maene said all her life she’s wanted to be an officer. However
while on duty in Iraq she suffered a non-combat injury and this
limited her chances of being in the field again and to continue
serving in the military that she loves. Maene went Active Duty
and was based in Colorado. She told Samoa News she put in
a request to transfer to Tutuila so she could take care of her
parents, who were both ill.
She said she was very fortunate to have spent two weeks
with her father prior to his passing. Maene was very emotional
when speaking of her father, saying that he looked forward
to being up-to-date with everything that’s happening on the
island with Samoa News. “My two weeks here, I was told to
pick up a newspaper and that was the daily routine—a newspaper every morning, so whenever there’s an issue going on,
my father was always up to date about it and he knew every-
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Thursday, May 7, 2015
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Tri Marine says world tuna
boat association move to
decrease fishing not a ‘fix’
It will not solve problem of a “sick” tuna industry
by Fili Sagapolutele, Samoa News Correspondent
Tri Marine International says the decision by
an international purse seine boat association to
reduce fishing days as a conservation effort will
not fix the problem of overfishing and said the
tuna industry is “sick”, with depressed prices a
symptom of the disease.
Industry online news service, Undercurrent
News, reported Monday that the World Tuna
Purse-seine Organization (WTPO) announced
that its members are, “concerned about the current tuna industry and optimal conservation and
sustainable use of valuable tuna resources”, and
have agreed to cut their fishing efforts.
In a statement to its members following a
meeting in Guam on Apr. 26, the organization
says that WTPO members have agreed to adopt
a 35% reduction of fishing effort from May 15,
2015 to Dec. 31, 2015, according to Undercurrent News. They will also meet on July 21,
2015, to assess the situation and “take further
action if necessary”. The WTPO will also coop-
erate closely with Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) for better management of the tuna
fishery, the statement reads.
Another online news service, atuna.com,
reported last week that the fishing reduction
excludes fleets in the Eastern Pacific Ocean
(areas of the coast of North & South America).
Reduction in fishing has prompted concerns
from local and off island industry officials
because of the impact it will have on the purse
seine fleet which supplies the local canneries.
They also believe that WTPO’s decision was
due to the low tuna prices. Tri Marine’s local
operations include Samoa Tuna Processor Inc.,
and about ten locally based U.S. purse seiners.
Responding to Samoa News inquiries, Tri
Marine chief operation officers, Joe Hamby
said, the company — which is not a member
of the WTPO — sympathizes with the WTPO
boat owners’ predicament as the current price
of tuna is below their cost of fishing.
Sixty-three year old Malaine Burgess-Tilei of
Aua village joined the U.S. Army in 1973 and in
1980 — and while still on active duty — became
the first American Samoan female to work at the
local U.S. Army Reserve, when it first began. She
recalled the early stages of the Army Reserve,
when reservists didn’t have uniforms, and would
show up for training in their ‘ie lavalva and
t-shirts, and used wooden guns.
While working at the local Army Reserve, Burgess-Tilei said it was very difficult to leave behind
her young children while traveling off island for
Army duties in places such as Hawai’i, Korea and
Germany. Additionally, it was difficult to tell her
kids that she couldn’t be home for Mother’s Day.
“Being a soldier and a mother was never easy,
but telling your husband that you are a soldier
24-hours a day is even worse. The military has
always been part of my life — it has molded me to
become who I am today,” said Burgess-Tilei, who
retired from the military in 1997 and later worked
in ASG, where she is still currently employed.
Read her story in Samoan in the To’asavili section of today’s edition.
Samoa News is celebrating our military
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samoa news, Thursday, May 7, 2015
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 TAITO of the village of VATIA by ALIITASI AFUOLA MAUGA of the village
of VATIA, county of VAIFANUA, 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 TAITO shall be registered in the name of ALIITASI AFUOLA MAUGA in accordance
with the laws of American Samoa.
POSTED:
MARCH 29, 2015 thru MAY 29, 2015
SIGNED:
Taito S.B. White, Territorial Registrar
Fa’aaliga o le Fia 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 TAITO o le nu’u o VATIA e ALIITASI AFUOLA MAUGA o
VATIA faalupega o VAIFANUA, 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 ALIITASI AFUOLA MAUGA e tusa ai ma aiaiga o le tulafono a
Amerika Samoa.
04/07 & 05/07/15
MOMENTS IN TIME
The History Channel
 On May 19, 1836, during a raid, Commanche
Indians in Texas kidnap 9-year-old Cynthia Ann
Parker and kill her family. Adopted into the Commanche tribe, she lived a happy life with them for
25 years until Texas Rangers recaptured her and
forced her to live again among Anglo-Americans.
Weakened by self-imposed starvation, she died of
influenza.
 On May 18, 1920, Karol Jozef Wojtyla is born
in Poland. Wojtyla went on to become Pope John
Paul II, history’s most well-traveled pope and
the first non-Italian to hold the position since
the 16th century. Pope John Paul II issued the
Catholic Church’s first apology for its actions
during World War II.
 On May 21, 1932, aviator Amelia Earhart
becomes the first pilot to repeat Charles Lindbergh’s feat, landing her plane in Ireland after a
2,000-mile solo flight across the North Atlantic.
 On May 23, 1941, Joe “The Brown Bomber”
Louis beats Buddy Baer to retain his heavyweight
title at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C.
Baer knocked Louis through the ropes in the first
round, but Louis clawed his way back and eventually gutted out a victory.
 On May 22, 1969, the legendary actor, philanthropist and automobile enthusiast Paul Newman
makes his onscreen racing debut in the film “Winning.” Three years later, Newman launched a racing
career of his own, driving a Lotus Elan in his
first Sports Car Club of America race.
 On May 24, 1971, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, an antiwar newspaper advertisement signed
by 29 U.S. soldiers supporting the Concerned
Officers Movement appears. The ad was in support
of the group’s members who opposed the departure
of the carrier USS Constellation for Vietnam.
 On May 20, 1995, President Bill Clinton permanently closes the two-block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to all
vehicular traffic, citing the need for security.
The road had been opened to traffic for nearly
200 years.
(c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.
ALL PUZZLE ANSWERs on page 14
A Mother’s Day tradition
continues — full flights
between the two Samoas
by Fili Sagapolutele
Samoa News Correspondent
With Mothers Day this coming Sunday,
flights on the inter Samoa route are extremely
busy, with Polynesian Airlines operating full
flights since yesterday. Mother’s Day week
is traditionally a busy travel time for the inter
Samoa route and flights are usually fully booked
in advanced.
Polynesian’s local station manager Toe Loia
said that since yesterday, the Samoa government owned airline is operating full flights—
utilizing two Twin-Otter 19-seater planes—on
the inter Samoa route.
Beginning yesterday and extending through
Saturday, the airline is operating ten flights a
day, due to the “heavy traffic demand for Mother’s Day,” Loia said in a phone interview. However, people wanting to travel to Apia are still
calling the airline hoping for a confirmed seat.
“We are telling passengers to come standby
and we have also informed them that flights
are full,” Loia told Samoa News yesterday
afternoon.
Some people who are hoping to get a seat
on any flight, said they have been trying since
last week, but the flights are full. “But it
doesn’t stop me from calling the airline and
my last choice is to standby at the airport with
hope to get a seat,” said one male passenger,
who asked not be identified by name, but was
hoping that Samoa News has “inside friends
or knows a top official” at Polynesian to get
him a confirmed seat.
(The male traveler was told that Samoa News
“does not have friends in high places” in either
the government or private sector, nor does it get
involved in getting people seats on flights.)
With the many passengers heading to
Samoa, this has also kept the Samoa Consulate
Office in Fagatogo busy issuing permits for
U.S. Nationals to enter Samoa.
Despite uncooperative weather from yesterday morning through the early afternoon,
Loia said there have been no flight delays. As
for cargo, he said, there is still cargo coming
in and it will be taken on flights when possible.
For ocean transportation between the two
Samoas, Polynesia Shipping said there is still
room for passengers on today’s sail to Apia.
However, they won’t know how much cargo
can be taken until later today.
MANU’A FLIGHTS
Loia said there are no extra flights planned
for the Fitiuta Airport on Ta’u island—which
operates Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Friday.
He also confirmed that the inaugural flight
to the Ofu Airport in Manu’a is still set for
tomorrow morning, and it’s a full flight which
includes Lt. Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga, who is
currently the acting governor.
The Ofu flight will operate weekly—on
Thursdays— while the airline monitors the
demand, to see if it requires an additional
weekly flight. Polynesian is currently operating
Manu’a flights on a cabotage waiver from the
U.S. Department of Transportation.
COURT
R E PORT...
by Joyetter
Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu
Samoa News Reporter
MAN ARRESTED
FOR ASSAULTING
PREGNANT WIFE
A man in his 40’s was
arrested and charged on allegations that he assaulted his
wife. Samoa News is withholding the name of the defendant to protect the identity of
the victim in this case. During
his initial appearance in the
District Court the defendant
denied the charges of public
peace disturbance and third
degree assault.
According to the government’s case the incident came
to light when the pregnant
woman contacted the police
that her husband allegedly
struck her with an electrical
fan. The incident, according
to the wife, happened because
someone called her husband’s phone, and when she
answered it, the caller did not
say anything. Court filings
say that when the wife called
the number back, her sister
answered. The wife alleges
that when she tried to talk to
her husband about it, he got
upset and assaulted her.
According to the police
report the woman said this is
not the first time she has had a
disagreement with her husband,
because she suspects that her
husband is having an affair with
her sister — despite her husband
denying there is nothing going
on. She further told the police
that her sister used to live with
them however she had since
chased her away because she
found her sister at one time in
their bedroom and she was massaging her husband’s legs.
The defendant, who has been
released on his own recognizance, was ordered not to contact the victim directly or indirectly, pending the matter before
the court. He was also ordered
to remain a law abiding citizen.
MAN WHO PUNCHED
officer, ARRESTED
and CHARGED
Etena Sanerivi of Pago
Pago has been charged with
three misdemeanor charges
after he allegedly punched a
police officer. The defendant
made his initial appearance in
the District Court this week.
According to the government’s case, early Sunday
morning police received a
call about a man who was disturbing the peace in front of the
Aeto Mart in Pago Pago. Police
arrived at the area where they
observed the defendant who
was intoxicated. It’s alleged
that the police tried to walk the
defendant to the police vehicle,
however one officer was surprised when the defendant
punched him and in response
the officers apprehended the
defendant.
During his initial appearance the defendant was ordered
not to go to the area in which
the incident occurred. He was
also ordered not to consume
alcohol as part of the condition
for his release. The defendant
is scheduled to appear in court
next week for his case.
KILISITINA SEIGAFO
BACK IN JAIL
A woman who was ordered
to pay back $260 she stole from
the wallet of a businessman in
2012 has been rearrested after
the High Court issued a bench
warrant. She was charged with
stealing, which she pleaded
guilty to and was sentenced to
probation of five years under
certain conditions — among
those is that she pay back the
money. The bench warrant was
issued after Probation Officer
filed a motion with the court
that Kilisitina Seigafo violated
her probation.
It’s unclear as to what condition she violated, however a
hearing has been scheduled on
May 27, 2015 to hear the matter
before the court. According to
the government’s case, Seigafo
allegedly took off with the wallet
of the man that she met at the
hospital, and then later had a
few drinks with a restaurant- bar.
It’s alleged that after the ‘few
drinks’, Seigafo took off with the
man’s wallet. She is alleged to
have used the man’s ATM card
(no mention is made of how she
knew the man’s ATM code for
the card) and withdrew $260.
Seigafo was caught on camera
while she was making the transaction at the ATM machine the
same day the man lost his wallet.
samoa news, Thursday, May 7, 2015 Page 3
➧ Less fishing not a ‘fix’…
Continued from page 1
“WTPO believes that reducing the fishing effort will help
balance supply and demand and allow prices to increase,” he
said yesterday. “That may happen, but slowing down the boats
will not fix the problem of excess fishing capacity.”
“The tuna industry is sick — depressed prices are a symptom
and overcapacity is the disease. This is a global problem and it’s
time for all stakeholders to sit down together and find solutions,”
he pointed out. “Until we do, we will be faced with price levels
that threaten the economic sustainability of the boats and the
communities that rely upon the island-based processing plants.”
“We need leadership, especially from the Parties to the Nauru
Agreement, to freeze fishing capacity so that new boats cannot
enter the fishery unless they are replacing comparably sized
boats that have been scrapped,” he said.
American Tunaboat Association executive director Brian
Hallman, in response to our request for comments, told Samoa
News yesterday that, “hopefully, the [WTPO] announcement will
have a positive impact. Right now, there is no shortage of fish; on
the contrary, there are too many boats catching too much tuna.”
“So anything that slows this down would be beneficial to the
fish stocks and the fishermen,” he said and noted that the association is not a member of WTPO, but a cooperating non-member.
Undercurrent News quotes an unidentified U.S. based tuna
executive saying that the move by WTPO is not connected to
the price increase in tuna. However, the news agency did point
out that although prices are up, there is still no shortage of fish.
It quotes the U.S. based source saying that although boats
in the Western Pacific Ocean have had to migrate east to try
and improve catches, there is still a bundle of fish around, with
America Samoa plugged with boats and no real signs that canned
tuna sales are picking up.
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THE BOB FRANKEN COLUMN
The Outside-In Media
By Bob Franken
I used to go to the White House Correspondents’ Association
Dinner, but wouldn’t now, even if I was invited, which I’m not. It
has evolved into a country-come-to-town grabfest where those who
skulk around Washington’s power centers mingle with Hollywood
stars, corporate sponsors and their political sources, playing like
they’re exciting, or even interesting.
One of the highlights, though, is the speech from the president,
where the chief executive pretends he likes the press while making
remarks dripping with sarcastic, and might I add funny, one-liners.
Barack Obama didn’t disappoint.
His best probably involved the shaky economy and Hillary Clinton’s campaign startup, where in her effort to demonstrate she’s not
the candidate of entitlement but just common folk, she piled into a
minivan with her courtiers and headed off to first caucus state Iowa.
“I have one friend,” quipped the president, “just a few weeks
ago, she was making millions of dollars a year. And she’s now
living out of a van in Iowa.”
Don’t worry one little bit about Hillary’s finances, although there
are a lot of people spending a ton of time examining how she and her
hubby, the ex-president and maybe future first dude, accumulated
their massive wealth since leaving the White House.
Imagine my horror when I suddenly was told that I had to give an
early morning TV news explanation, that is to say a superficial one,
about detailed articles in The New York Times that raised complicated questions about their moneymaking.
My shallow explanation was that it revealed many of the contributors to the Clintons’ foundation and the family themselves while
Hillary was secretary of state and how that juxtaposed to an eyeglazing record of business transactions that led to the Russian government owning 20 percent of a uranium mine in the United States.
Halfway through, I realized my viewers all had gone back to sleep.
A Washington Post report accounted for Bill Clinton’s speeches
at grotesque rates. Many overlapped the business of his foundations
to the tune of $26 million. That’s a quarter of the $100 million plus
he has made from speaking fees since he left the White House. And
that doesn’t count the huge bucks Hillary received before and after
she was secretary of state.
Actually, that begs a question: Would a President Hillary Clinton
keep up the tradition of speaking before the White House Correspondents’ Association shindig, since she couldn’t be paid her usual
$200,000?
All of this continues to fuel a Republican narrative against the
presumptive nominee, where they raise doubts about her honesty.
The respected Quinnipiac poll tallies that 54 percent of people
believe she is not to be trusted.
However, that same survey shows her beating any of the top
GOP candidates or expected ones, face to face. They’re so busy
appealing to the party’s base that Hillary Clinton’s perceived dishonesty seems to be preferable to what they’re offering.
Whoever does take over, the media here will continue sucking up
to the ones in power with displays of awkward hubris, like the White
House Correspondents’ Dinner. It’s a way for members of the press
corps to show that they’re Washington insiders. Never mind that
they’re supposed to be outsiders.
(c) 2015 Bob Franken
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South China Sea watch: New
islands rising, ASEAN worried
by The Associated Press
The dispute over the strategic waterways of
the South China Sea has intensified, pitting a
rising China against its smaller and militarily
weaker neighbors who all lay claim to a string
of isles, coral reefs and lagoons known as the
Spratly and the Paracel islands.
Only about 45 of them are occupied. The area
is the third-busiest global shipping lane, rich in
fish and potentially gas and oil reserves, but
has emerged as a possible flashpoint involving
world powers and regional claimants.
A look at some of the most recent key
developments:
CHINA’S ISLAND CONSTRUCTION
CAPTURED ON SATELLITE
A series of high-resolution satellite images,
the latest of which were taken in February and
March and released by defense publication IHS
Jane’s, show that China has intensified the construction of artificial islands by dredging sand
from submerged coral reefs and building up
land mass, sometimes doubling or tripling the
size of existing features. Among at least half
a dozen islands being reconstructed, work on
Fiery Cross Reef has attracted most attention
because of its speed and scale. According to
Jane’s, the new island is already big enough
for a 3,000-meter (9,500-foot) runway able to
accommodate big military planes.
Landfill work on Subi Reef also reportedly
includes a runway, and dredging activities on
Mischief Reef could accommodate another
runway, according to analysts.
The commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific,
Adm. Samuel Locklear, says the construction
provides ability for China to deploy, base and
resupply ships and exert greater influence over
the contested area.
China could also deploy long-range radars
and advanced missile systems as a means
of enforcing a future air defense zone over
the area. Such a zone would require foreign
aircraft to file flight plans, identify themselves
and follow the instructions of Chinese flight
controllers.
China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong
Lei says the work is largely to improve living
conditions for people in the area and help with
weather forecasting and search and rescue work.
Although China says its sovereignty claim
poses no barrier to freedom of navigation in the
South China Sea, its actions often speak differently, particularly when they involve the movements of foreign militaries.
ASEAN ISSUES much STRONGER
STATEMENT, CHINA TAKES NOTICE
The leaders of the 10-member Association
of Southeast Asian Nations — which includes
the Philippines and Vietnam, the most vocal
critics of China — issued a statement condemned Beijing. After an annual summit hosted
by Malaysia, ASEAN said that China’s landfill
work “eroded trust and confidence and may
undermine peace, security and stability in the
South China Sea.” It said members instructed
their foreign ministers to “urgently address this
matter constructively.”
However, Malaysia said separately that
ASEAN would avoid confrontation, after the
Philippines urged the group to “stand up” to
China and halt the reclamation work.
China responded by saying it was “severely
concerned” over the statement. Spokesman Hong
Lei said that reclamation and construction work
was entirely legal and shouldn’t be questioned.
PHILIPPINES SAYS CHINA HARASSED
MILITARY AIRCRAFT, FISHERMEN
The Philippines says China’s military
harassed its reconnaissance plane and fishermen. According to military spokesman Lt.
Col. Harold Cabunoc, the Chinese radioed
the Philippine pilot near Subi reef, saying, “’
You’re entering Chinese territory, leave,’” and
flashed powerful lights at the plane.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong
Lei said that Philippine planes had “illegally
flown over Chinese waters on numerous occasions recently” and that Chinese forces had
issued a radio warning. He denied that any
lights were used.
PHILIPPINES, US HOLD LARGEST
DRILLS NEAR disputed ISLANDS
More than 11,500 American and Filipino
troops held their largest exercises near the
South China Sea, simulating an amphibious
attack to retake an island.
The drills took place in Zambales province,
which includes Scarborough Shoal, which was
seized by China in 2012.
LAST WORD
“If China were to successfully claim the
entire South China Sea, which is what they
do claim, and apply their interpretation of the
rights of the country, then it would severely
restrict the military operations of the United
States, Japan, other countries. So it’s really
unacceptable to the United States.” — Retired
Adm. Dennis Blair, commander U.S. forces in
the Pacific 1999-2002.
Strong quake rocks
Papua New Guinea,
tsunami threat lifted
SYDNEY (AP) — A powerful earthquake rattled Papua New
Guinea on Thursday, the fourth strong quake to hit the South
Pacific island nation in a week. The temblor prompted officials to issue a local tsunami warning, but it was lifted shortly
afterward with no reports of damage. The 7.1-magnitude quake
struck about 150 kilometers (94 miles) southwest of the town of
Panguna on Bougainville Island at a depth of 23 kilometers (14
miles), the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said tsunami waves of
up to 1 meter (3 feet) were possible within 300 kilometers (186
miles) of the epicenter on the coast of Papua New Guinea. The
agency lifted the warning about an hour later.
There were no reports of damage, said Chris McKee, assistant director of the Geophysical Observatory in the capital, Port
Moresby. Because the epicenter was so far offshore, the chance
of serious damage on land was less likely, he said.
“The earthquake appears to have not been as big as first estimated,” McKee said. “I think the threat from that event is basically passed now. So we’ll just wait for the next one.”
Thursday’s quake was located in a different area of Papua
New Guinea than the previous three temblors that rattled the
region over the past week, and was therefore an unrelated event,
McKee said. Still, the area has been unusually active. “We think
it’s probably something along the lines of just regional readjustment — movements in one area allow stress to be redistributed
and that allows other areas to rupture,” McKee said.
Betha Lorenz, owner of Rising Sun Lodge in the town of
Arawa on Bougainville Island, said the quake delivered a powerful jolt, but did not appear to have caused any damage.
“One of my neighbors ... she ran down the stairs and I was
laughing and she said, ‘Am I gonna live?’ and I said ‘Yeah,
nothing will happen — just relax,’” Lorenz said.
When the shaking started, Lorenz ran outside, but the rumbling
ended a few seconds later. Her lodge weathered the quake with no
damage, and she hadn’t heard of any tsunami waves hitting the
coast. “Everyone is OK,” she said with a laugh. “We are happy.”
Delayed police report
due to complexity of
Aute Bar case, says
police commissioner
A SpaceX Dragon mock-up capsule blasts into the air, Wednesday, May 6, 2015 during a test
flight in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The unmanned flight was testing a new, super-streamlined launch
escape system for astronauts. The California-based company led by billionaire Elon Musk aims
to launch U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station as early as 2017.
(Craig Bailey/Florida Today via AP)
by Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu, Samoa News Reporter
“It’s a complex case and we are still compiling the proper
documents, that is why there is a delay in handing over the police
report to the Attorney General’s office,” says Commissioner of
Public Safety, Save Liuato Tuitele in response to Samoa News
queries about the delay with the police report, which by law,
is needed by the defense to begin to answer the government’s
charges again their clients.
The case which Save is referring to is the high profile case
against the owner of the Aute Bar, Tumuatutasi Lefataia also
known as Mama and her son Manu Lefatia, The defendants are
charged in separate criminal cases. Manu is charged with two
counts of felony assault second-degree and property damage in
the first degree. The Attorney General’s office charged Mama with
unlawful possession of controlled substance of methamphetamine.
Last week Tumuatutasi and her son appeared in court and
it was there the court heard that the government has yet to turn
over the police report in this matter. At the pretrial conference
for Manu’s case, his attorney, Sharron Rancourt informed the
court that as of Friday the Attorney General’s office has yet to
provide the police report. It’s the same situation with Tumua’s
case, her attorney, Fiti Sunia also provided the same concern.
Chief Justice Michael Kruse asked the prosecutor in this case,
Assistant Attorney General Russle Smith as to why ASG has not
handed over the police report and in response, he stated that the
police has yet to hand over the police report.
The said cases have since been postponed until May 18, 2015.
Save told Samoa News the last suspect was arrested on
March 23, 2015 and the Detectives have been working on this
case in compiling everything. Asked about “what is it they are
compiling” the Commissioner stated there are lab tests that they
are awaiting for the results and once that is completed he will
review it and then it will be handed over to the AG’s office.
“We want to make sure that everything is in order in this case,
because its a lengthy, difficult and complex case,” he said.
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Amount of carbon
dioxide in air keeps
rises, hits milestone
Sarah Amiri, Deputy Project Manager of a planned United Arab Emirates Mars mission talks
about the project named “Hope” — or “al-Amal” in Arabic — which is scheduled be launched in
2020, during a ceremony in Dubai, UAE, Wednesday, May 6, 2015. It would be the Arab world’s
first space probe to Mars and will take seven to nine months to reach the red planet, arriving in
2021. Emirati scientists hope the unmanned probe will provide a deeper understanding of the
Martian atmosphere, and expect it to remain in orbit until at least 2023. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
NEWS IN BRIEF
Woman celebrates 21st b-day
by performing “21 kind acts”
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee
woman celebrated her 21st birthday by performing 21 acts of kindness to people she had
never met across the city of Bristol.
The Bristol Herald Courier reports Alexa
Sexton and a few friends traveled across the
city to complete the task on April 25, including
taking food to people in the waiting rooms of a
hospital and taking breakfast to firefighters.
Sexton says she was spoiled and thought the
world revolved around her until about a year
ago when she was baptized. She says her mentality changed and she wanted to affect people
by kindness. Sexton says she plans to continue
the tradition and hopes her 12-year-old sister,
Abbie, will follow in her footsteps.
Prince William, wife Kate off to
country home with children
LONDON (AP) — Prince William and the
Duchess of Cambridge have packed up their
newborn princess and their 21-month-old son
Prince George for a stay at their country home.
Kensington Palace officials said Wednesday
the family is headed to Anmer Hall, their
restored country mansion on Queen Elizabeth
II’s Sandringham estate. They are expected to
stay there for several weeks as they get used to
taking care of a toddler and an infant.
Princess Charlotte was born four days ago.
She has already met close family members
including her great-grandmother, the queen.
William is on paternity leave from his new
job as an air ambulance pilot.
Singapore teen pleads not
guilty over online video
SINGAPORE (AP) — A Singaporean teenager has pleaded not guilty to two charges over
an online video he posted that was critical of
Christianity and the nation’s late founding
prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew.
Sixteen-year-old Amos Yee Pang Sang told
a packed courtroom Thursday that he would not
be taking the stand to provide further evidence
in the case. Prosecutors said they did not plan
to bring forward any witnesses. Yee faces two
charges, making offensive comments against
Christianity and transmitting an obscene image
over the Internet of Lee and former British
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
In an eight-minute clip that was posted on
YouTube in March, Yee said Lee and Jesus
were “both power-hungry and malicious.”
If found guilty, Yee could face jail time of up
to three years, or a fine.
LAPD officer charged with
trying to smuggle man into US
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Los Angeles police
officer and his girlfriend have been charged
with trying to smuggle a Mexican man into the
U.S. in the trunk of his car. A federal grand jury
on Wednesday indicted Officer Carlos Quezada
Jr. and Angelica Godinez.
Prosecutors say Quezada’s Nissan Juke
was stopped in March at the Otay Mesa border
crossing in San Diego.
Prosecutors say inspectors found a 26-yearold Mexican citizen in a compartment in the
spare-tire area of the car.
The officer and Godinez could face up to 10
years each in federal prison if convicted.
Prosecutors say neither is in jail. After-hours
calls to their attorneys for comment weren’t
immediately returned Wednesday.
UAE to explore atmosphere of
Mars with probe named ‘Hope’
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The
United Arab Emirates’ planned 2020 mission to
Mars will study the planet’s atmosphere and be
appropriately named “Hope,” members of the
project team revealed Wednesday.
Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid
Al Maktoum announced initial plans for the
unmanned probe last year. It is the first Mars
mission attempted anywhere in the Arab world.
An invitation-only event Wednesday in
Dubai was a chance for officials to unveil many
of the finer details. And they did it with a good
dose of Gulf flair — soaring music and computer animations projected onto a movie screen
in a chandelier-filled beachside palace.
One of the world’s largest yachts, Dubai, was
berthed outside.
“This mission to Mars is really for the hope
of the Arab world and will send them a message to say you can be better, you can improve
your country,” Sheikh Mohammed, who is also
the Emirates’ vice president and prime minister,
told reporters after the event.
Emirati scientists said they hope the probe,
which will not land on the surface of the red
planet, will provide a deeper understanding of
the Martian atmosphere. That includes charting
changes that happen over time and gathering
data on how features such as volcanoes, deserts
and canyons affect it. The plan is to launch the
probe in the summer of 2020 — the year Dubai
hosts the World Expo — on a journey of seven
to nine months. Engineers expect it to remain in
orbit until at least 2023.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Global levels of carbon dioxide,
the most prevalent heat-trapping gas, have passed a daunting
milestone, federal scientists say.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says
in March, the global monthly average for carbon dioxide hit
400.83 parts per million.
That is the first month in modern records that the entire globe
broke 400 ppm, reaching levels that haven’t been seen in about
2 million years.
“It’s both disturbing and daunting,” said NOAA chief greenhouse gas scientist Pieter Tans. “Daunting from the standpoint
on how hard it is to slow this down.”
He said it is disturbing because it is happening at a pace so
fast that it seems like an explosion compared to Earth’s slowmoving natural changes.
Carbon dioxide isn’t just higher, it is increasing at a record
pace, 100 times faster than natural rises in the past, Tans said.
Pushed by the burning of coal, oil and gas, global carbon
dioxide is 18 percent higher than it was in 1980, when NOAA
first calculated a worldwide average.
In 35 years, carbon dioxide levels rose 61 parts per million.
In pre-human times, it took about 6,000 years for carbon dioxide
to rise about 80 parts per million, Tans said.
Monthly levels fluctuate with the season, peaking in May and
then decreasing as plants absorb carbon dioxide. But they are
increasing on a year-to-year basis.
Levels are also higher in the Northern Hemisphere because
that’s where carbon dioxide is being spewed by power plants
and vehicles, Tans said.
The first time levels passed the 400 ppm milestone was for
just a few weeks in the Arctic in 2012.
Last year the monthly Northern Hemisphere average measured in Hawaii exceeded 400 and now the global average has
as well, said James Butler, head of NOAA’s global monitoring
division.
NOAA: http://1.usa.gov/1IgDMQK
Authorities find skeletons
in underwater lawn chairs
CIENEGA SPRINGS, Ariz. (AP) — A man snorkeling in
the Colorado River near the Arizona and California border was
terrified — and later embarrassed — when he came across two
fake skeletons sitting in lawn chairs about 40 feet underwater.
The man reported the skeletons to the La Paz County Sheriff’s Office on Monday, launching a hunt for what authorities
believed could be real bodies.
It turned out the skeletons were fake and had been strategically placed to appear as if they were sitting together, their
lawn chairs bound to large rocks.
A diver from the Buckskin Fire Department captured the
scene on a video camera attached to his head. The sheriff’s
office called the scene a tea party.
The skeletons are wearing sunglasses, and one is holding a
sign that includes the words “Bernie” and “dream in the river,”
although the entire sign is not legible. The sign also has the
date of Aug. 16, 2014, which is possibly when the skeletons
were placed there.
“I don’t think they were trying to set up anything to scare
anyone. I think they were gonna try to be funny,” Lt. Curtis
Bagby said.
The sign could be a reference to the movie “Weekend at
Bernie’s,” in which the two main characters lug around their
dead boss for days, losing and recovering his body several
times, Bagby said. At one point in the film, Bernie’s corpse
falls off a boat and into water.
The sheriff’s office won’t launch an investigation into who
left the skeletons there, Bagby said.
“Things happen. We go all the time to false alarms. That’s
just a first-responder’s life. We’re trying not to be overly concerned about it, not make too big a deal out of it,” Bagby said.
Instead, the sheriff’s office wants to have a little fun with
the situation. Bagby said divers will recover the skeletons
sometime this week and that he is considering placing them
outside the sheriff’s office as a joke.
“We like to show some things that are fun, some levity too.
But in the meantime, don’t think it’s OK to go put something
there,” he said.
Dr. Barbara Beano, President of the WASC Accrediting Commission for Community and
Junior Colleges (center), is seen here with members of the ASCC administration. Front Row (l-r):
President Dr. Seth Galea’i, Vice President of Administrative Services Dr. Rosevonne MakaiwiPato, Dr. Beano, Palau Community College President Dr. Patrick Tellei, who accompanied Dr.
Beano, and Human Resource Director Mrs. Sereima Asifoa. Back Row: Accreditation Liaison
[Photo: J. Kneubuhl]
Officer and Office of Institutional Effectiveness Director Mr. Sonny Leomiti.
President of WASC-ACCJC visits
Am. Samoa Community College
Visit generated a great deal of goodwill
and clarification, says ASCC admin & staff
By James Kneubuhl, ASCC Press Officer
Dr. Barbara Beno, President of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior
Colleges (ACCJC), a division of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC)
spent four days at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) last week to offer advice
and answer questions pertaining to the Show Cause sanction imposed on ASCC by the ACCJC
Commission this past February. Dr. Beno was accompanied by Dr. Patrick Tellei, President of
Palau Community College and a former ACCJC Commissioner.
Following their Monday night arrival, Dr. Beno and Dr. Tellei were personally welcomed to
ASCC by President Dr. Seth Galea’i on Tuesday morning prior to their first meeting of the day
with the Board of Higher Education.
Over the course of their four-day visit, the College arranged for Dr. Beno and Dr. Tellei
to also meet with a number of ASCC stakeholders, including administrators, committees,
faculty and staff, and students. The visitors also made themselves available for two questionand-answer sessions open to anyone.
“We are not here to evaluate you, nor to report back to the Commission on our findings
during this visit,” explained Dr. Beno during a question-and-answer session with the faculty
and staff.
“We’re here simply to share whatever information we can on the issues ASCC will be
addressing as a result of being placed on sanction. The ACCJC considers ASCC a valuable
member of the American Pacific educational community, and is concerned about your sanctioned status. While ASCC itself needs to do the necessary work, we are here to offer any
advice on areas of concern outlined in the sanction documentation.”
In their conversations with the ASCC community Dr. Beno and Dr. Tellei often focused
on the areas of Assessment and Program Review, explaining how in today’s world of higher
education, institutions need to utilize data-driven systems that include instruments for
measuring student learning outcomes and achievement, as well as the overall effectiveness of
individual programs.
They also touched on financial aspects of college operation such as Total Cost of Ownership, as well as the WASC-ACCJC standards pertaining to Governance. Dr. Beno also
explained how, in the big picture, WASC strives to regulate standards of education quality
and sound fiscal practices as mandated by the federal government, which in recent decades as
insisted on increased accountability among US colleges and universities eligible for financial
aid and other federal programs.
“The visit by Dr. Beno and Dr. Tellei generated a great deal of goodwill and clarification
among our administration, faculty and staff,” said ASCC Accreditation Liaison Officer Mr.
Leomiti, who is also the Director of the Office of Institutional Effectiveness.
“It demonstrates that even though the ACCJC has placed our institution on sanction, the
Commission continues to provide guidance and support to assist ASCC to fully address its
deficiencies so that it will be removed from that status.
In addition, the opportunity to personally meet Dr. Beno and Dr. Tellei and ask them questions went a long way towards helping our faculty and staff to bridge the gap between practice
and effectiveness.”
The next official WASC-ACCJC review of ASCC will take place in October, after which the
Commission will review the findings gathered during that visit at its next meeting in January
2016 and render its decision regarding ASCC’s accreditation status.
Until the results of the January 2016 meetings are announced, ASCC remains fully accredited, with no change in the financial aid status of its students or the transferability of students’
credits to other colleges and universities off-island.
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People take part in a yoga session on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Every week in May free Yoga classes are offered featuring different
(Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Tornadoes destroy homes, injure at least 12 in Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) —
Authorities are set to survey the damage
left behind after tornadoes swept across
the southern Plains, overturning cars
and destroying dozens of homes near
Oklahoma City. At least 12 people were
injured, but no deaths were immediately reported from the twisters that
also hit rural parts of Texas, Kansas and
Nebraska on Wednesday night.
“We’ll have much better picture of
how widespread the damage is when the
sun comes up tomorrow,” meteorologist Forrest Mitchell with the National
Weather Service in Norman said.
The Oklahoma City area seemed to
be the hardest hit. A twister destroyed
homes in Grady County, southwest of
the city, and it appeared another tornado touched down in the area later
Wednesday evening when a second
storm came through. “We do strongly
think there was a tornado on the south
side of Oklahoma City,” meteorologist
Michael Scotten said after the second
storm that hit around 8:40 p.m.
That storm flipped vehicles on Interstate 35 and left power lines strewn
across the roadway, Scotten said.
Lara O’Leary, a spokeswoman for
Emergency Medical Services Authority,
said late Wednesday that the company
transported 12 patients from a trailer
park in south Oklahoma City to local
hospitals. She did not have further details
about the extent of the patients’ injuries.
Grady County Emergency Management Director Dale Thompson said about
10 homes were destroyed in Amber and
25 were destroyed in Bridge Creek. As
the storm moved to the east, forecasters
declared a tornado emergency for Moore,
where seven schoolchildren were among
24 people killed in a storm two years
ago. When the first of the storms moved
through Wednesday, school districts held
their pupils in safe places.
Also in Grady County, all animals
were accounted for after a zoo in Tuttle
was hit by a tornado, Alisa Voegeli, a
dispatcher at the sheriff’s office, said.
The damage had initially prompted fears
that wild animals had escaped.
The Weather Service received reports
of 5 to 8 inches of rain in the area,
Mitchell said. A measurement of 7.1
inches at the Oklahoma City airport set
a new daily rainfall record, he said, topping the previous record of 2.61 inches.
At least nine tornadoes were reported
in Kansas, the strongest of them in the
sparsely populated north-central part of
the state. That included a large tornado
near the tiny town of Republic just south
of the Nebraska state line, where some
homes were damaged.
In Harvey County, a tornado
destroyed a hog barn and damaged trees.
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thing going on,” said Maene while fighting back her tears.
Maene further stated that in memory of her father, she has opted not to
read Samoa News for a whole year, until her father’s one year anniversary
of his passing next month. “We will make flowers out of the Samoa News,
because it’s one of the things that reminds us of our father. That’s why, when
I was asked to be interviewed, it was my honor because my father loved
Samoa News and it kept him going each day.”
“Thank you, Samoa News for what you do,” says Maene.
She told Samoa News that “when she made the choice to come home, she
was also instilling in her daughter that as a mother we make sacrifices.”
“When my parents were ill, I had to be there for my family. I want my
daughter to see and know that I’m a mother who has the courage, and determination to do what must be done without complaining, who would do anything for her family,” she said.
“That’s what we do, as mothers we are the caregivers and we make sure
that everything is in place, whatever it may be, it’s natural for mothers to go
far beyond the expectations.”
She said regardless of how crazy and difficult her job is, when she picks
up her daughter from school, the frustration just slowly fades away. “I am
grateful to be a mother to this beautiful little girl,” she said.
Maene is thankful that she gets to spend Mother’s Day with her bedridden
mother, this year, because in previous years it was very difficult to leave her
job because of the oath sworn and the commitment she made to the Army.
Asked if Maene would allow her daughter to be in the military, she said no.
“I would not want my daughter to serve in the military, just like how my
mother was when I was deployed. I won’t be able to go through my day
knowing she’s out there somewhere.
“While my mother lived through it, now I know how she felt, and I refuse
to let my daughter in the military… because I am being a mother.”
Maene has also worked in the ASG Department of Treasury. She worked
in the IT Division after obtaining her degree from the University of Notre
Dame in Computer Applications and Communications and Theaters.
Maene is thankful for the Army, saying she is big on taking care of soldier’s families.
She has received numerous medals and awards in her military life — four
Army Commendation Medals, an Army Achievement Medal; two Army
Good Conduct Medals; Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal;
National Defense Service Medal; Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary
Medal; Global War on Terrorism Service Medal; Humanitarian Service
Medal; Armed Forces Reserve Medal w/Device; three Non Commissioned
Officer Professional Development Ribbons; Army Service Ribbon; Overseas
Service Ribbon and Army Reserve Component Overseas Training Ribbon,
Meritorious Unit Citation.
Sgt First Class Elena S. Maene has been serving for 16 years and continues to serve
[photo: JL]
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Woman known for
trying to sneak on
planes lands in jail
In this May 2, 2015 photo, a giant heart hangs in the sky at sunset after skywriter Nathan
Hammond wrote several days-worth of messages, relating to hope and love, over New Orleans,
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. ➧ NEWS IN BRIEF…
Philippine volcano ejects
ash, but no violent eruption
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine
volcano has spewed ash for the second time in
less than a week but there were no signs of any
imminent violent eruption, the country’s chief
volcano expert said Thursday.
Mount Bulusan in Sorsogon province southeast of Manila ejected ash 250 meters (825 feet)
above the 1,565-meter (5,165-foot) volcano
late Wednesday, said Renato Solidum, director
of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and
Seismology.
The agency asked local officials to keep
people away from a 4-kilometer (2.5-mile) hazardous zone around the crater, he said. He said
aircraft should not fly close to the mountain to
avoid any sudden explosions and ash clouds.
Solidum said the explosion was due to ground
water coming into contact with hot rocks and not
rising magma. He says such “phreatic” explosions are typical of Bulusan. The ash explosion
lasted about 3-1/2 minutes, shorter than the
5-minute explosion recorded May 1.
A large explosion in February 2011 that shot
an ash plume about 2 kilometers (more than a
mile) into the sky prompted about 1,200 villagers to flee to shelters.
Bulusan is one 23 volcanoes considered
active by the volcanology agency, but it has not
had a violent eruption since in 1918.
The country is in the Pacific “Ring of Fire,”
where volcanic activity and earthquakes are
common. In June 1991, Mount Pinatubo in the
northern Philippines exploded in one of the biggest eruptions in the 20th century.
Sheriff: Woman held for driving
wrong way while drunk, naked
GRANT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) —
Michigan authorities say they arrested a naked
drunken woman who was driving the wrong
way after leaving her naked husband and their
child at a rest stop.
The Clare County sheriff’s department says
23-year-old Jessie Schwaub-Devault of Harrison left her husband and child along U.S. 127
about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday. It’s in Grant Township, about 15 miles north of Mount Pleasant.
The department says Schwaub-Devault
refused to stop but eventually got out of her
SUV and ran before being arrested.
The sheriff’s department says ShwaubDevault was arraigned Wednesday on charges
of drunken driving, fleeing police, indecent
exposure and child abuse. It says 32-year-old
Joshua Devault was arraigned on indecent
exposure and child abuse charges.
Both remain jailed Wednesday evening. It’s
unknown if they have lawyers to comment on
the charges.
UK police arrest 7 in fraud
linked to Syria extremists
LONDON (AP) — British police say they
have arrested seven men as part of an investigation into an alleged fraud linked to extremists
in Syria.
Counterterrorism officers raided six locations in the London area and detained the seven
on Wednesday. The men, aged 21 to 38, were
arrested for conspiracy to commit fraud and
money-laundering.
Police said the men were being investigated
for their alleged part in a large-scale fraud, in
which suspects posing as police officers call
vulnerable and elderly people at home to obtain
their bank account details.
Police arrested two other men in March in
connection with similar offenses.
Israeli-Arab group slams end of
police fatal shooting probe
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Arab civil rights
group has slammed Israeli police over closing
its investigation into the fatal shooting of an
Arab that sparked violent protests last year.
Adalah said Wednesday that the decision
“demonstrates the impunity enjoyed by the
Israeli police” and gives the police a “virtual
green light” to commit crime.
The police probe cleared officers of any
wrongdoing in the shooting of 22-year-old Heir
Hamdan last November.
Footage captured the man repeatedly banging
on the window of a police vehicle with a knife
in his hand. When officers emerged to confront
him, he started walking back and was then shot.
He later died in a hospital.
Thousands of Arabs took to the streets in
northern Israel after the incident, burning tires
and hurling rocks and firebombs at the police.
Russia’s failed cargo spacecraft to fall from orbit Friday
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian space agency
Roscosmos says the cargo ship that failed in its
mission to deliver supplies to the International
Space Station will fall from orbit on Friday.
The Progress was launched on April 28, but
entered the wrong orbit and went into an uncontrollable spin. Russian flight controllers were
unable to bring it under control.
Roscosmos said Wednesday that some fragments from the spacecraft may hit Earth on
Friday. Most of it will burn up harmlessly in the
atmosphere, as is the case with all Progress carriers once they have delivered their shipments
and are filled with trash.
Supplying the space station is mostly handled by the U.S. and Russia. The next launch of
a supply ship, by the U.S. company SpaceX, is
planned for June.
CHICAGO (AP) — A woman with a history of trying to
sneak onto planes without a ticket has been arrested twice in
recent days at both of Chicago’s international airports after
being spotted loitering in terminal areas, police said Wednesday.
Marilyn Hartman, 63, was arrested April 24 after she was
seen lingering in a restricted area near a ticketing counter inside
O’Hare’s international terminal, said Chicago police spokeswoman Janel Sedevic. She pleaded guilty to misdemeanor criminal trespassing on state land and was sentenced to a year of
court supervision, according to court records.
She was arrested again on Sunday at Midway airport after
Transportation Security Administration staff spotted her loitering near a checkpoint, Sedevic said. She was charged with
the same offense.
She is being held in the Cook County jail and it was not
immediately clear whether she had an attorney who could comment on the allegations against her. Her next court appearance is
scheduled for Thursday.
Hartman has tried several times in recent years to board
flights without a ticket. She has succeeded at least once, getting
on a Southwest Airlines flight from San Jose to Los Angeles
in August. In that incident, she slipped past an agent who was
checking a family’s boarding passes at Mineta San Jose International Airport, went through electronic security screening and
then somehow got past a gate agent. She was discovered only
after landing at Los Angeles International Airport.
A judge gave her two years of probation, which she violated
days later by reappearing at LAX.
She was then sentenced to jail time but was released early
because of overcrowding at the facility.
In February 2014 she made it into an airplane seat for a
Hawaii-bound flight at San Francisco International Airport but
was discovered when the actual ticket holder showed up and was
removed before takeoff.
On other occasions, she was arrested after raising suspicions
by loitering in terminals without a boarding pass.
After an August arrest in Phoenix, Hartman told reporters in a
teary and rambling explanation of her behavior that she suffered
from a mental illness and had been medically diagnosed with
major depression.
She also said she believed authorities were purposely allowing
her to be a plane stowaway so they could arrest her.
Authorities placed Hartman in treatment for mental disorders
in May 2014 but said she stopped attending after several months.
In the past, she has also said that homelessness drove her to
take “desperate measures” and that she feels safer in airports
than in the streets.
Woman sentenced
for digging up dad’s
grave for ‘real will’
LANCASTER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman
who told police she dug up her father’s grave in search of his
“real will” but found only vodka and cigarettes has been sentenced to 1 ½ to three years in prison.
Melanie Nash didn’t speak during her sentencing Tuesday.
She told police last year she dug up the grave “with respect”
and her father “would be okay with it.”
The 53-year-old Nash was one of four accused in the plan
to open Eddie Nash’s vault in Colebrook, then rifle through his
casket last May in a scene a prosecutor compared to an Edgar
Allan Poe story. Two pleaded guilty and one was acquitted.
Police said Nash felt she was shorted in her share of the
inheritance after her father died in 2004. But no will was found
in the casket.
Nash’s lawyer asked for a jail sentence of up to a year, with
home confinement after a few months. Family members testified that Nash suffers from chronic pain.
The Caledonian Record reports Judge Peter Bornstein
noted the smashed concrete vault that housed the coffin of
Eddie Nash and the disturbed body found the next morning.
“The patrolman said the gravesite of Eddie Nash did not
look right,” Bornstein said.
“That is the understatement of the century.”
The remains have since been re-interred at the cemetery.
Are bungled VA claims systemic?
Senators want an agency review
WASHINGTON (AP) — Troubled by
delays in handling veterans claims, a bipartisan
group of senators on Wednesday urged a widescale, independent review of the Department
of Veterans Affairs for mismanagement and
changes to improve budgeting and speed up
applications.
A report released by nine senators acknowledged recent efforts by the VA to reduce disability and pensions claims backlogs but said
it wasn’t enough. Pointing to the VA’s worst
performers such as the Philadelphia regional
office, the lawmakers were announcing legislation that would require the Government
Accountability Office to investigate all 56
regional offices for problems.
It was the latest sign of congressional concern that recent findings of mismanagement at
the Philadelphia VA — including neglected
mail, manipulation of dates to make old claims
look new and alteration of quality reviews
— might point to a broader, departmentwide
problem.
“The VA system again finds itself engulfed
in another scandal,” said Sen. Dean Heller,
R-Nev., co-chairman of the Senate’s VA
backlog working group. VA offices nationwide are suffering from poor management, he
said, proving “it is time for an overhaul of the
entire system.”
Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., the other cochairman, said he too was worried that problems were not isolated to Philadelphia. “It’s
simply unacceptable to have a veteran with a
disability wait hundreds of days for their claim
to be resolved,” he said.
The VA says there are 161,000 disability and
compensations claims on backlog, defined as
pending more than 125 days.
That’s down from a peak of 611,000 in
March 2013. But the VA inspector general has
questioned the accuracy of the data.
Based on a review of VA records, the Senate
report said the 10 worst-performing regional
offices as judged by wait times were Baltimore; Jackson, Mississippi; Reno, Nevada;
Philadelphia; Los Angeles; Chicago; Oakland,
California; Indianapolis; Boston; and St. Petersburg, Florida.
As of April, the VA’s inspector general had
documented doctored data or other problems at
five of the 10 offices.
The report calls on the IG to determine
whether claims processors should be held to
deadlines and calls on the department to beef up
manager training, complete an updated assessment of staffing and budget needs within six
months, and keep Congress informed about its
transition to an electronic claims systems.
Allison Hickey, the VA’s undersecretary for
benefits, has said she does not believe problems
in Philadelphia are “systemic” but more likely a
case of misunderstood policies.
Delays in compensation claims prompted
veterans groups to seek changes last year before
attention shifted to problems at the Phoenix VA
medical center.
The VA ultimately found that patient waits
and falsified records in its health network were
“systemic,” leading to the resignation of VA
Secretary Eric Shinseki.
Groups including Veterans of Foreign Wars,
American Legion, Disabled American Veterans and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of
America endorsed Wednesday’s report and the
legislation.
Los Angeles chief concerned
after cops kill homeless man
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie
Beck said Wednesday he has yet to see evidence that would
justify one of his officers fatally shooting an unarmed homeless
man near Venice Beach.
Beck cautioned that his department’s investigation was just
underway but told reporters he was “very concerned” by the
shooting that occurred Tuesday night as an officer struggled with
the man on a block lined with bars and restaurants. “Any time an
unarmed person is shot by a Los Angeles police officer, it takes
extraordinary circumstances to justify that, and I have not seen
those extraordinary circumstances at this point,” Beck said.
Department investigators have not interviewed the officer
because he is on medication to treat a knee he hurt during the
struggle, Beck said. The union representing officers criticized
the chief’s remarks as premature and prejudicial.
In a written statement, the president of the Los Angeles
Police Protective League called Beck “completely irresponsible” to publicly opine “without having all of the facts.” President Craig Lally said that by speaking out, Beck “essentially
renders the investigation process void.”
Tuesday’s confrontation began late at night when two officers responded to a 911 call saying the man, believed to be in
his 20s, had been arguing with a bouncer who would not let him
into a bar and was hassling passersby, police said.
The officers spoke to the man, who began walking away but
then came back and began struggling with someone on the sidewalk, according to a police news release. The officers tried to
detain the man, who was shot during the struggle, police said.
The man died at a hospital. No weapon was recovered at the
scene, police spokeswoman Liliana Preciado said.
On Wednesday, a small crowd of people shouted at police
at the scene. Beck later noted that the officer and the homeless
man were black. He said the department will hold a meeting in
the neighborhood Thursday.
The department was criticized after an officer fatally shot a
homeless man in March on Skid Row, near downtown.
The officers in Tuesday’s shooting were not wearing body
cameras, but police have surveillance footage from nearby
stores that shows the events. Neither police nor the coroner’s
office had confirmed the dead man’s identity, though Preciado
said a 911 caller and several witnesses identified him as one of
the Venice area’s many transients.
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Appeals court says
police can withhold
license plate scans
Musician Sir Elton John, right, greets Dr. Rick Warren on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday,
May 6, 2015, prior to testifying before the Senate State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
subcommittee in support of U.S. funding for global HIV/AIDS treatment.
➧ NEWS IN BRIEF…
Manhole explodes by Penn
Station; hotel evacuated
NEW YORK (AP) — A manhole explosion
near New York City’s Penn Station has led to
the evacuations of a hotel and the studios of Al
Jazeera America. It also has snarled traffic and
affected area phone, Internet and cable service.
Fire officials say there were no injuries
when the midtown Manhattan blast occurred
Wednesday morning.
The explosion produced flames that quickly
dissipated. But smoke and an acrid odor hung
over the busy commercial area.
Police evacuated The New Yorker hotel.
Utility Consolidated Edison and Verizon say
they have crews at the scene repairing underground cables that were damaged.
Verizon spokesman John Bonomo says the
company has received 140 reports of outages
within a few blocks of the blast. He says the
reports include problems with phone, cable TV
and Internet service.
Jeni’s traces listeria to ice
cream pint-filling machine
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jeni’s Splendid
Ice Creams says it has traced the source of listeria in its Ohio production facility to a pintfilling machine. CEO John Lowe says in a statement Wednesday that the company will never
be sure how the bacteria got into the machine,
which filled a portion of the pints for retail sales.
He says efforts continue to clean the Columbus
facility. Lowe says the company estimates it
will spend about $200,000 on changes to make
sure it doesn’t happen again.
Jeni’s announced April 23 that it would recall
retail products and close ice cream shops in six
states after listeria was discovered in some pints
and later in the factory.
The company said it would destroy 265 tons
of ice cream worth more than $2.5 million.
Cleveland police announce
arrest in quintuple homicide
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland police say
they’ve arrested a suspect in a shooting last year
that left five dead, including an unborn child.
Police would not provide any details on the
male suspect’s identity or his role in the Nov.
21 shooting at a home on Cleveland’s east side.
Police Chief Calvin Williams says the suspect was arrested Wednesday and is being questioned by police and county prosecutors.
The victims were 41-year-old Sherita
Johnson, Johnson’s fetus, 60-year-old Lemon
Bryant, 19-year-old Ja’rio Taylor and 17-yearold Shaylona Williams. Johnson was seven
months pregnant. Johnson’s 9-year-old daughter
was grazed by a bullet fired by a masked gunman
after he emerged from the home where three of
the victims were killed.
He then fired into a car, killing Johnson and
her unborn child.
Indianapolis man, 19, gets 50
years in Craigslist killing
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis
teenager has been sentenced to 50 years in prison
for the fatal shooting of a National Guardsman
lured to an apartment complex by a Craigslist ad
for an iPad. Nineteen-year-old Tyshaune Kincade pleaded guilty last month in the December
2013 killing of 32-year-old James Vester of
Lizton, about 25 miles northwest of Indianapolis. Kincade was sentenced Wednesday.
Prosecutors say Vester was responding to
an ad for an Apple iPad when two young males
robbed him at an Indianapolis apartment complex where Vester had gone to buy the device.
Vester was then fatally shot by one of them.
Vester had served more than a year in Iraq. Kincade’s 20-year-old brother, Tryon Kincade, faces
a June 8 trial on murder and robbery charges for
his alleged involvement in the killing.
Officer on leave amid inquiry
into threats against suspect
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis
police officer has been put on paid leave while
the department investigates a video in which he
can be heard threatening to break a suspect’s
legs. The Star Tribune eports police are investigating the video.
In the video, an officer is heard telling a suspect he would break his legs before “you get a
chance to run.” The officer’s face is not shown.
However, Lt. Bob Kroll, president of the Police
Officers Federation of Minneapolis, says the
officer has said it’s his voice in the video. Kroll
said he’s seen parts of the video and noted it
could have been taken out of context.
us Treasury to expand federal
government checking account
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government, concerned about possible financial market disruptions from events such as
cyberattacks, has decided to more than double
the amount of money it keeps in its checking
account. The Treasury Department announced
Wednesday that it will aim to run an operating
balance of between $200 billion to $225 billion, which would be enough to pay the government’s bills for about a week.
Since the 2008 financial crisis, the Treasury
has held a daily balance of around $80 billion.
Treasury officials said they believed it would
be prudent to keep more money on hand in the
event Treasury was blocked from raising funds in
the bond market by events like Superstorm Sandy,
the terrorist attacks of 2001 or a future cyberattack. While it will fluctuate, the plan is to keep a
minimum balance each day of $150 billion.
Treasury also announced Wednesday that it
planned to gradually increase the amount of its
debt held in short-term Treasury bills, which now
account just 11 percent of total Treasury debt..
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police don’t have to disclose license
plate records that advocacy groups sought to gauge how hightech surveillance was being used, a California appeals court
ruled Wednesday.
The unanimous ruling by the 2nd District Court of Appeal
rejected a California Public Records Act request for data compiled by the Los Angeles police and sheriff’s departments.
Law enforcement departments across the country are increasingly using automated license plate readers mounted on patrol
cars and fixed locations to check plate numbers against a “hot
list” of vehicles associated with crimes, such as stolen cars, child
abductions or arrest warrants.
Police can store the data for years to use in future investigations and Los Angeles police said they had used the information
to identify a vehicle linked to a homicide and another at the location of an armed robbery.
The American Civil Liberties Union and Electronic Frontier
Foundation contended the records were not for specific investigations, but data collected indiscriminately that could be used to
track anyone, such as political activists.
They sought a week of records from August 2012 to assess
the scope of government surveillance.
The 3-0 ruling sided with a Los Angeles County Superior
Court judge who said the records were exempt from disclosure
because they related to law enforcement investigations.
The court noted that technology had made the case different
from previous challenges.
“To be sure, the automated nature of the ... system, with its
capacity to capture and record millions of plate scans throughout
Los Angeles city and county, sets it apart from the traditional
investigatory techniques that courts have considered in earlier
cases addressing the scope of the investigative records exemption,” Acting Presiding Justice Patti Kitching wrote. “But that
distinction is irrelevant to the question of whether the ALPR
system’s core function is to ... investigate suspected crimes.”
Attorney Jennifer Lynch of the EFF said the group was disappointed and weighing its appeal options.
Construction worker
rescues Mich. boy
during a dog attack
SEVILLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Four Rottweilers attacked an 8-year-old boy in central Michigan, and his
mother said they would have killed her son if not for a construction worker who came to the rescue.
The dogs attacked Ethan Nokes, of Riverdale, on Monday
in the fenced yard of a relative in Gratiot County’s Seville
Township, state police said.
The boy was familiar with the dogs and was in the yard
with a brother, police said.
“They were out to kill him, no question,” Ethan’s mother,
Doris Gifford, told WWTV.
Kenneth Hansen, who owns a construction business and
was working nearby, heard Ethan’s screams, ran over and
jumped the fence into the yard.
“They were pulling on him in every direction. In another
30 seconds they would have torn him up,” Hansen told The
Daily News of Greenville.
Police said Hansen carried Ethan into the house as the dogs
were trying to pull the boy from his grasp.
The dogs followed them inside.
“I tried to keep my body between the dogs and him ... and
they were yanking on him trying to get him away from me,”
Hansen said.
Ethan, who had 22 bite wounds, was treated at a hospital
and released, police said.
Hansen wasn’t injured during the rescue.
Animal control was holding the dogs, which might be euthanized. The Gratiot County prosecutor’s office is expected to
review the case for possible charges against the dogs’ owner.
“I think that God put him there for a reason I have absolute
faith in that,” Gifford said. “I don’t know. I don’t have any
other explanation other than it’s God’s timing and that’s how
things work.
united states’ warships will no longer
accompanying commercial ships in Gulf
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says that U.S. Navy
warships are no longer accompanying American and Britishflagged commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz at the
mouth of the Persian Gulf.
Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, says the
order to accompany the vessels through the narrow strait along
Iranian territorial waters expired Tuesday. Warships began
accompanying the commercial ships last Thursday, two days
after Iranian naval vessels detained a Marshall Islands-flagged
cargo ship and its crew. Warren says there have been no other
incidents. He says the U.S. warships remain in the area and will
respond to any requests for assistance.
Iran officials have said the MV Maersk Tigris likely will be
released in two days after a fine is paid.
Iraq and other conflicts swell
global total of displaced people
BERLIN (AP) — A group that monitors the plight of people
forced out of their homes by conflicts says the number of people
displaced within their own countries surged to 38 million last
year, with a few countries led by Iraq accounting for much of the
increase. The Geneva-based International Displacement Monitoring Center said the number of internally displaced people
worldwide was 4.7 million higher than in 2013.
It said that 60 percent of newly displaced people were forced
to move inside just five countries — Iraq, South Sudan, Syria,
Congo and Nigeria. At least 2.2 million people fled their homes
in Iraq last year as the extremist Islamic State group took over
parts of the north. The report is based on data from governments,
U.N. agencies and aid groups.
Tornado causes widespread
damage in northeast German town
BERLIN (AP) — A tornado has caused widespread damage
in a small town in northeastern Germany, ripping off most of a
church roof and covering streets in debris. Elsewhere, a man was
killed by flying debris. Storms hit much of Germany on Tuesday
evening after an unusually hot day. In Hamburg, police said
Wednesday that a 26-year-old man was fatally injured when
he was hit by a roof swept off by gusts of wind. His pregnant
partner was seriously injured.
The most spectacular damage was caused further east by
a rare tornado in the town of Buetzow. Three-quarters of a
church’s roof was swept away, trees were knocked over and cars
destroyed, the dpa news agency reported.
Streets were strewn with cracked bricks, which mayor Christian Grueschow said “shot down like projectiles.”
kansas Cowboys round up cattle
after semi overturns on highway
MAIZE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas highway has reopened
after cowboys helped round up cattle who escaped a semitrailer
that had rolled over near Wichita. The Kansas Highway Patrol
says Kansas 96 near Maize reopened about noon. It was closed
when the truck crashed around 4 a.m. Wednesday northwest of
Wichita. The driver was not hurt.
The driver was hauling about 60 cattle from Hutchinson to
Eureka. About five cattle died in the accident. Several others
escaped the truck and roamed near the highway.
Cowboys and animal control workers were called in to corral
the cattle and get them into another truck. Authorities say heavy
rain may have contributed to the accident.
Driver locks kids on school
bus, lectures them on behavior
EL MIRAGE, Ariz. (AP) — A school bus driver has resigned
from a suburban Phoenix district a week after he locked
dozens of young students on the vehicle, berated them for their
behavior and drove off while angry parents pounded on the
door, demanding their children be let off. Dysart Unified School
District spokeswoman Polly Corsino confirmed the resignation
Wednesday, but she didn’t release the driver’s name.
According to surveillance video from the bus, the driver prevented more than 30 elementary school students from exiting in
El Mirage while he lectured them for hitting and yelling.
“The longer we stay here, the more your parents are going to
get upset — and not at me,” he can be heard saying. “They’re
going to be getting upset with you because it’s your fault you’re
not getting off the bus.”
At least one upset parent can be heard knocking, to which
the driver responds, “You break that door, you’re going to be
buying a new one. Your kid will get off the bus when I’m done
with them.”
Children can be heard crying for their parents to help them
get off the bus. They scream and cry more as he drives off.
Parents immediately called 911. “He’s actually driving away
with all our kids,” Adam Kautman told an emergency dispatcher,
according to an audio recording. “One of the dads tried ripping
the door open. And this guy’s screaming at the kids.”
El Mirage police met the bus at the school where the children
were let off. Police said the incident is under investigation.
None of the children were injured, Corsino said.
In this March 16, 2015 photo, Janet Curo, 9, takes a break from harvesting coca leaves with her
mother, in La Mar, province of Peruís Ayacucho state. Janet skipped school to help her mother in
the coca fields. They are in the remote Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro river valley, where 60 percent
(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
of Peru’s cocaine originates. NOTICE OF
FORECLOSURE SALE
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to A.S.C.A. §37.1105, that ANZ GUAM, INC. dba ANZ
Amerika Samoa Bank intends to foreclose a mortgage, recorded in the Office of the Territorial
Registrar in Native Land Title, Volume Number NLT 2 at page 300 on January 26, 2010, and
that the property subject to the mortgage will be sold at public auction.
Property to be Sold on “AS IS BASIS”: All of the mortgagor’s interest in that certain real
property of individually owned land, which include two residential structure, consisting of
approximately 1.24 acres, more or less, situated in the village of Nuuuli, American Samoa and
more particularly described as:
All of that certain real property lying in Land Square 29, Unit A, situated in
the village of Nuuuli, County of Ituau, Eastern District, Island of Tutuila,
American Samoa, being a portion of land known as “FANUAFOU”, more
particularly described by metes and bounds as follows:
Beginning at an iron pin which has coordinates of X=252,643.74 and
Y=293,474.45 based on American Samoa Datum of 1962.
Run thence southerly 100 18’ 00”, 46.95 feet to an iron pin. Thence 190 18’
00”, 300.00 feet to an iron pin; Thence 280 18’ 00”, 200.00 feet to an iron pin;
Thence 10 18’ 00”, 220.00 feet to an iron pin; thence 72 42’ 09”, 172.70 feet to
the point of beginning.
Containing 1.24 acres more or less.
Date of Sale: Friday, June 12, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. at the property, unless postponed or canceled
by public announcement.
Location: The property is located in Tafuna.
Minimum Bid: $293,000.00
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offers.
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St. Louis mayor signs police
oversight bill into law
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay
signed into law Wednesday a measure establishing a
civilian oversight board to review complaints against
police. The bill officially becomes law June 5. Slay,
who took the unusual step of being a co-sponsor of the
bill, is expected to nominate the seven members of the
board by Aug. 5. They must be confirmed by the Board
of Aldermen, who approved the plan last month.
The board will have the power to make recommendations, but will not have disciplinary authority.
It will review evidence and witness statements from
police internal affairs investigations, then report its
findings to the public safety director and police chief.
The often contentious relationship between police
and the black community in St. Louis and its suburbs
came to the forefront after August’s fatal shooting
of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was black and
unarmed, by a white police officer in Ferguson. St.
Louis police have fatally shot four people in the eight
months since Brown was killed.
The St. Louis board will have oversight in the city
only, not in Ferguson or any other suburb. Civilian
police oversight boards exist in more than 100 cities,
according to the National Association for Civilian
Oversight of Police.
Some social rights activists have called the measure a good first step, but the St. Louis Police Officers
Association opposed formation of the board.
Texas’ top officer: Snoop Dogg a
‘dope smoking cop hater’
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ chief law enforcement official called Snoop Dogg a “dope smoking
cop hater” before reprimanding a state trooper who
posed for a picture with the rapper, according to
emails made public Wednesday. Snoop Dogg posted
a photo to Instagram with Department of Public
Safety Trooper Billy Spears in March with the comment “Me n my deputy dogg.” It was taken during the
South by Southwest music festival, where Spears was
working off-duty as extra security.
Spears is now suing DPS after being disciplined
for taking a picture with a public figure who has a several convictions for drug possession. Emails obtained
by Spears’ attorney through open records laws show
that the incident went all the way to DPS Director
Steve McCraw, who is best known for overseeing the
state’s expansive border security operations.
“Apparently he would rather work the convention
while on a week’s vacation to earn additional money
rather than take an additional tour on the border,”
McCraw wrote. “He must not understand that he was
being lampooned by a dope smoking cop hater which
reflects very poorly on the department.”
Canadian gets Dutch burial
70 years after WWII death
BERGEN-OP-ZOOM, Netherlands (AP) —
Canadian Pvt. Albert Laubenstein found his final
resting place on Wednesday, 70 years after he was
killed during the Allied advance through the Netherlands in the closing months of World War II.
Laubenstein was buried with military honors at
the Canadian War Cemetery in the Netherlands, 70
kilometers (45 miles) from where he fought and died
in a battle amid Dutch canals and rivers to drive the
Germans back east. His remains were found only last
year and his burial was one of the highlights of a week
of remembrances and celebrations to mark Canada’s
part in the liberation of the Netherlands.
“Private Albert Laubenstein, at the going down of
the sun, and in the morning, we shall remember you,”
said military chaplain Murray Bateman during a ceremony attended by hundreds of onlookers in both
brilliant sunshine and high winds and driving rain.
Laubenstein appeared all but lost for decades. He
was killed in action during the Battle of Kapelsche
Veer in the winter of 1945 and was given a battlefield
grave that was soon forgotten in the chaos of war.
It took a hobbyist with a metal detector scanning
the southern banks of the Maas River last June to
pick up a suspicious signal of old cartridges and a
silver ring among human remains. A check of dental
records, historical documents and artifacts led to the
identification of Laubenstein. That discovery brought
memories of the soldier back to life for his family.
Fire at Washington state oil
refinery sends smoke across sky
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A crude oil fire at the
U.S. Oil and Refining Co. burned for almost two
hours Wednesday, sending plumes of black smoke
over the Port of Tacoma, but it didn’t cause any injuries, according to a company spokesman.
“All of the operators got the non-essential personnel out quickly and got things isolated,” said Dan
Yoder, spokesman for the refinery, which processes
crude oil and turns it into transportation products,
including gasoline, jet fuel and asphalt primarily for
the south Puget Sound market.
The blaze started at about 7 a.m. when one of the
tubes that carries crude through a heat source that
separates the oil began to leak, Yoder said. The operators quickly turned off the valve to stop the flow, but
oil that was still in the tube caught fire, he said. That
fire sent the black smoke up the tall stack, he said.
Instead of trying to put out that fire, they let it burn
off for safety reasons, he said. “From a safety perspective, it was better to isolate the source of the fuel and
let it burn out,” he said. “Once they started the shutdown, there were no concerns about an explosion.”
The company’s operators, who have fire-fighting
training, were joined by the Tacoma Fire Department, and ran water on the lower stack while the fire
burned off, reducing the risk of a collapse, he said.
Fugitive on lam since
1959 waives extradition
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A fugitive who had
been on the lam since walking away from a prison
farm in 1959 won’t fight his extradition back to Ohio
after his arrest in Florida.
Authorities along Florida’s Space Coast said
Wednesday that 79-year-old Frank Freshwater had
waived his right to formal extradition proceedings
and won’t resist efforts to return him to Ohio.
Freshwater was arrested Monday about a week
after sheriff’s deputies used a ruse to get his fingerprints, which matched those from his decades-old
arrest. He was being held without bond at the Brevard County Jail.
He originally pleaded guilty to manslaughter back
in 1957.
Major Tod Goodyear of the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office says jail officials are awaiting word from
Ohio authorities on when and how Freshwater will be
transported back to Ohio.
Jury again doesn’t reach verdict in Jamaican lottery scam
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal jury in
North Dakota has again not reached a decision in the
case of a man accused in a Jamaican lottery scam.
Sanjay Williams, of Montego Bay, Jamaica, is
charged with conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering in U.S. District Court in Bismarck.
Jurors deliberated for the second straight day
Wednesday before they were dismissed after not
reaching a verdict.
They had deliberated for 3½ hours Tuesday after
receiving the case.
Authorities say the scam cost victims around the
U.S. millions of dollars.
Jurors will begin deliberating at 9 a.m. again on
Thursday.
100 kidnapped migrants rescued
outside of the Mexican capital
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say
100 kidnapped migrants were rescued from a home in
Mexico State, near the capital.
The State Citizen Security Commission reports
that authorities were tipped off by a Guatemalan man
who claimed to have escaped the house.
Nearly 100 agents swooped in on the home in
the town of Axapusco and rescued the victims, who
included 14 children.
However, the migrants said the Guatemalan had
actually been working with the kidnappers and was
in charge of making sure they didn’t escape. He was
arrested along with five other suspects from Honduras and El Salvador.
The commission said Wednesday in a statement
that the suspects threatened to hand the victims over
to criminal gangs if they didn’t give phone numbers
to call family members and demand money.
In The High Court
of American Samoa
TRIAL DIVISION
In The High Court
of American Samoa
TRIAL DIVISION
Probate No. 17-14
Probate No. 13-14
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
APOLO FIALUA
MANUTAFEA MEREDITH
By: FAANAPE FIALUA TAVALE,
By: ELIZA MEREDITH,
REVISED AMENDED NOTICE OF
HEARING ON PETITION FOR
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION
AMENDED NOTICE OF
HEARING ON PETITION
FOR LETTERS OF
ADMINISTRATION
Decedent
Petitioner
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a Petition for Letters
of Administration has been filed in the High
Court of American Samoa, Territory of American
Samoa, by FAANAPE FIALUA TAVALE for the
ESTATE OF APOLO FIALUA (deceased). A
hearing on that Petition will be held on May 22,
2015 at 9:00am before the Trial Division of the
High Court of American Samoa located in
Fagatogo, American Samoa. All heirs of APOLO
FIALUA and any and all interested parties may
appear before the Court on said date to respond
to this Petition.
Dated: April 22nd 2015
Decedent
Petitioner
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a Petition for Letters
of Administration has been filed in the High
Court of American Samoa, Territory of American
Samoa, by ELIZA MEREDITH for the ESTATE OF
MANUTAFEA MEREDITH (deceased). A hearing
on that Petition will be held on MAY 26, 2015 at
9:00 a.m., before the Trial Division of the High
Court of American Samoa located in Fagatogo,
American Samoa. All heirs of MANUTAFEA
MEREDITH and any and all interested parties
may appear before the Court on said date to
respond to this Petition.
Dated: April 21st, 2015
Clerk of Courts
Published 4/23, 4/30, 5/7
Clerk of Courts
Published 4/23, 4/30, 5/7
Belarus requires the idle
to pay for not working
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Under a new measure in Belarus, people who work less than half
the year will have to pay the government for their
idleness. The parliament on Wednesday passed
the proposal by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, which requires work-capable
people who work less than 183 days a year to pay
an annual fine of $250. Disabled people, retirees
and those with young children are exempt. A
statement from parliament, where the measure
passed by a 100-2 vote, said “it’s necessary to
stimulate citizens who are capable of work and
ensure they fulfill their constitutional obligation
to take part in financing state expenditures.”
Labor Minister Marianna Shchetkina told
parliament the measure would be temporary.
Belarus’ economy is stumbling in the wake
of economic troubles in neighboring Russia.
The country’s official unemployment figures
are very low — of a potential workforce of
about 6 million, only 36,000 are registered as
unemployed. However, about 25 percent of the
country’s potential workforce isn’t registered as
having a job, suggesting many may be working
off the books and not paying taxes.
A 2014 study by the World Bank estimated
that nearly half of Belarus’ gross domestic
product was in the “shadow economy.”
EgyptAir pilots threaten to
resign, talks set for Saturday
CAIRO (AP) — Union officials say 224
EgyptAir pilots have threatened to resign
after disputes with the company and will meet
with managers and civil aviation officials this
weekend for talks.
In a Wednesday statement supporting the
pilots, Egypt’s pilot syndicate said that the civil
aviation authority had broken labor law by stipulating pilots can fly up to 14 hours a day.
Airport officials at Cairo International Airport said that only one flight had been delayed.
EgyptAir has some 850 pilots. An official there
confirmed the pilots had requested to resign but
added that talks including the aviation minister
were scheduled for Saturday.
EgyptAir later said in a statement that it had
been negotiating with pilots a day earlier and
now was considering the resignations.
Mexico blames drug gangs for
string of killings near border
HERMOSILLO, Mexico (AP) — Authorities in the northern Mexican state of Sonora
say drug cartel groups are behind a string of
murders in a disputed corridor along the U.S.
border. At least 11 people have been killed
since Friday around the town of Sonoyta, which
borders Arizona.
State Public Security Secretary Ernesto
Munro Palacios said Wednesday that the gangs
are trying to control the area to run drugs into
the United States. He did not specify which
groups are fighting. But handwritten signs
were hung on footbridges this week in the state
capital, Hermosillo, purporting to name gang
leaders who ordered the killings.
The groups are believed to be affiliated with
the Sinaloa cartel. Most of the dead have been
identified as coming from the state of Sinaloa,
which borders Sonora to the south.
Tunisia steps up security at
Jewish pilgrimage to Ghriba
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia says it has
increased security for the Jewish pilgrimage to
the age-old Ghriba synagogue after the Bardo
Museum attack in Tunis that left 22 people
dead, mostly foreign tourists.
Tour operators estimate that around 500 foreign visitors — including people from France,
Israel, Italy, Britain and the U.S. — will participate in the pilgrimage to Africa’s oldest
synagogue on Djerba island on Wednesday and
Thursday. Police and military presence has been
increased and roadblocks have been installed at
all entrances to the city and around its hotels.
Tour operator Rene Trabelsi says tourist
numbers are lower than normal, as some visitors may have changed their minds after the
deadly March 18 attack on the national Bardo
Museum.
Reporters press for open
session on u.s. defense bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — A group advocating for the Capitol Hill press corps asked
the chairman of the Senate Armed Services
Committee on Wednesday to open the panel’s
crafting of the annual defense policy bill.
The Standing Committee of Correspondents
wrote to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and urged
him to reconsider the panel’s April 23 decision to meet behind closed doors when it drafts
the legislation. The panel typically closes its
markup of the bill to the public, often citing the
classified information the committee discusses.
“We believe the American public would be
well served if the committee allowed them to
see their lawmakers at work,” wrote Kathleen
Hunter, chairwoman of the Standing Committee,
which includes reporters from The Washington
Post, Bloomberg and The Associated Press. The
reporters also argued that the House Armed Services Committee held its markup in open session.
In response, a spokesman for the committee
said an overwhelming bipartisan majority of the
panel voted last week to hold a closed markup,
as Republican and Democratic chairmen have
done in the past. The Senate committee is
expected to begin work on the bill next week.
Schools around Alaska
received threatening calls
ANCHORAGE (AP) — Authorities on
Wednesday were investigating threatening phone
calls to at least eight schools in Alaska in the past
10 days that prompted brief campus lockdowns
and students being kept in classes. However,
none of the calls resulted in attacks or violence.
The calls began on April 27 and targeted schools
in Fairbanks, Juneau, Anchorage, Kenai and
other communities. One call was received by an
elementary school at Fort Wainwright.
Juneau-Douglas High School was called
on two days, including Tuesday. A voice that
sounded automated or scrambled was heard on
one call saying there was a gunman on campus
and many casualties, police said. In the background, sounds like gunshots could be heard.
Authorities, however, reported no problems
at the campus. Calls to other schools also featured altered voices.
The FBI was advised of the incidents by
Alaska State Troopers and was determining
whether the cases fell under federal jurisdiction,
FBI spokeswoman Staci Feger-Pellessier said.
Troopers also said they were investigating
the calls but could not provide details.
A bit late, Vatican officially
approves Serra sainthood
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s
saint-making office has officially given its
thumbs up for the Rev. Junipero Serra to be
declared a saint — four months after Pope
Francis announced he would canonize the controversial 18th-century missionary during his
upcoming visit to the United States.
Serra is hailed by the Catholic Church as a
great evangelizer who established 21 missions
across California. Many Native Americans,
though, accuse him of forced conversions,
enslaving converts and helping wipe out indigenous populations as part of the European colonization machine in the Americas.
The unusual process that Serra’s sainthood
case has taken indicates that Francis personally
willed the canonization and that the normal vetting process by the Congregation for the Causes of
Saints, which ended with the Vatican announcement Wednesday, was something of a formality.
In fact, the congregation didn’t even approve a
second miracle attributed to Serra’s intervention
— the normal way someone is canonized. Rather,
Serra joins several new saints simply declared
such by Francis in an equivalent process.
The Vatican said Wednesday that the congregation’s cardinals and bishop members had
arrived at an “affirmative sentence” concerning
Serra’s canonization and that Francis had
approved their decision. Last month, a congregation official acknowledged that it would have
been difficult for the members to have done
otherwise given the canonization ceremony was
already scheduled.
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TILEI — Na valaau a’u e le
Atua ou te tautua i le malo
tusia Ausage Fausia
I le toe manatua ai o taimi faigata a o tautua i vaega ‘au
a le malo tele i le tele o tausaga ua mavae, na saunoa ai le
faletua o SFC. Maleine Burgess-Tilei i le Samoa News ananafi
e fa’apea, o lona tautua ai i vaega ‘au a le malo tele o Amerika,
o se valaau na aumai i le Atua mo ia.
“Ou te fa’afetai ai i le Atua ona o le avanoa sa ia tu’uina
mai ia te a’u, e fai ai sa’u filifiliga taua mo lo’u olaga, lea ua
ou vaaia ai tulaga manuia, ma ua manuia ai lo’u aiga”, o se
saunaoga lea a le faletua o Malaine, 63 tausaga o lona soifua
mai le afioaga o Aua.
I le tuana’i ai o tausaga e 23 sa tautua ai lenei tina i totonu
o vaega ‘au a le malo tele, sa ia taua ai i le Samoa News i se
fa’atalatalanoaga i le vaiaso nei e fa’apea, e ui i le faigata
ma le fita o ala sa ia asaina, ae o fa’amanuiaga ua foa’i e
le Atua i lona aiga, ua ia iloa ai ma talitonu “e fa’amaoni le
Atua i ana folafolaga”.
E ui i lagona eseese sa masani ona tutupu i aso Sa o Tina uma ao
tautua ai Burgess-Tilei i vaega ‘au a le malo, o lagona sa pito sili
ona misia i lona loto i so o se taimi e valaauina ai o ia e alu ese ma le
aiga ona o lana tautoga i le malo, o le misia lea o le aiga aemaise
ai le fanau. “E le faigofie le misia o le aiga i taimi e fa’amanatu
ai Aso o Tina, ao o’u tautua ai i totonu o vaega ‘au a le malo,
ma o taimi pito sili fo’i ia ona faigata i lo’u mafaufau, o le misia
lea o matua, o si a’u fanau, aemaise ai o si o’u to’alua”, o lana
saunoaga lea.
O le tausaga e 1973 na taua e Malaine na ulufale ai i totonu
o le malo i le vaega o le ‘active duty’ a le ‘US Army’ ma tautua
ai. O le tausaga e 1980 sa tautua ai i le vaega a le ‘US Army
Reserve (Active) i Amerika Samoa, ma malolo litaea mai ai i
le tausaga e 1997.
O Malaine le ulua’i fitafita tama’ita’i i Amerika Samoa na
tofia e galue i le vaega a le ‘Infantry Detachment Unit of 100th
Bn 442nd’ i Amerika Samoa.
(Faaauau itulau 26)
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Le faletua ia SFC. Maleine Burgess Tilei, 63 tausaga mai le
afioaga o Aua, o ia fo’i o le ulua’i Fitafita Tama’ita’i i Amerika
Samoa na galue i le US Army Reserve i Amerika Samoa. [ata foa’i]
O se va’aiga i le tama’ita’i faia’oga o Fia ma lana vasega Level 8 i Matatula Elementary ua
fiafia i latou e fa’ailoa mai le latou fa’afetai mo faia’oga uma lava ona o le latou galuega mae’ae’a
[ata: Leua Aiono Frost]
i aso ta’itasi e a’oa’o i latou mo se lumana’i manuia.
Saunia: L.A.F./Naenae Productions
FINAU PEA LE MANU SAMOA TAITOAFITU
E le faigofie le pulu o le a taaalo ai le au taitoafitu a le Manu Samoa i le faaiuga ole vaiaso i le
isi vae o le taamilosaga i Sikotilani. O lo o tulaga iva le Manu Samoa i le tuufaatasiga o tulaga o au
taitoafitu o le taamilosaga a le laolagi, ma ua le saofia ai i luga i au e fa pito i luga lea e mautinoa
o latou avanoa i taaloga o le Olimipeka i Rio de Janeiro i le tausaga fou.
O Niu Sila ma Fiti lea ua agai atu e faamautinoa o la avanoa mo le Olimipeka i le fa pito i luga
i le vae lea o lea faia i Glasgow, Sikotilani i le faaiuga o le vaiaso, ao finau atu ai Ausetalia mo le
faamautinoaina o sona avanoa e pei ona tulai mai ai i le tulaga lima ina ua maea le vae i Iapani,
ma e foliga mai e faaono ofi atu ma Samoa e sailia sona avanoa i le taamilosaga a le Oceania i
Aukilani. Na faaalia e le faiaoga lagolago a le Manu Samoa taitoafitu ia Galumalemana Rudolf
Moors, o lo o matua latou mataituina ma le totoa ia au mai o latou nuu tuaoi, ma e i ai le faanaunautaiga ina ia toe tulai mai Ausetalia i vae e lua o lo o totoe o le taamilosaga aua o lea na o le iva
ai au e tatau ona ausia.
O lo o i luga Egelani ae afai latou te le ausia le fa pito i luga pe a maea vae nei e lua, o lona
uiga o le avanoa lelei lea mo le Manu Samoa o le a taulai i ai mo le sailia o so latou avanoa i le
taamilosaga lea a le itulagi o le Oceania. Faaalia foi e Galumalemana, o lo o finau Samoa ma le
malosi ina ia faaiu manuia ana taumafaiga i vae e lua ia o lo o totoe o le taamilosaga e ui ina faigata
le pulu lea o lea finau ai i le faaiuga o le vaiaso faatasi ma Kenya, Niu Sila ma Aferika i Saute.
MOLIA OFISA LEOLEO SINIA I LE GAOI
Ua tolopo i le aso 18 o le masina nei i le Faamasinoga Maualuga le mataupu a le alii leoleo sinia
ia Tagaolo Iosefatu Wright, lea o lo o molia i moliaga o le gaoi ao avea ma tagata faigaluega. O le
aso Gafua o le vaiaso nei na tulai ai mo le taimi muamua i luma o le Faamasinoga Maualuga lea
alii leoleo sinia, peitai ua tolopo lea mataupu ao talia moliaga faaiu a le itu a leoleo.
O Wright sa fa’auluulu i ai le vaega o vaa ma galuega petolo a le vaa leoleo o le MV Nafanua,
ae na toe see mai i le ofisa tutotonu o le Matagaluega o Leoleo i Apia i le masina o Ianuari e
fa’aauau ai galuega ao suesueina moliaga faasaga ia te ia. O Wright e toafa i ai alii leoleo o lo o
faamalolo le tumau e le Komesina o Leoleo ona o tuuaiga i le auai i soligatulafono ma le le tausisi
i o latou tiute, aemaise o le faaalia o amioga le talafeagai.
(Faaauau itulau 26)
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TALA O LE
LAND COMMISSION
NOTICE is hereby given that LALOULU FAIAOGA TAUANU’U of NUA, American Samoa, has
executed a LEASE AGREEMENT to a certain parcel of land commonly known as UIALALO which
is situated in the village of NUA, in the County of ALATAUA, 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 FOUVALE ASIATA& SIMOA ASIATA as LESSEES.
Any person who wish, may file his objection in writing with the Secretary of the Land
Commission before the 30TH day of MAY, 2015. It should be noted that any objection must
clearly state the grounds therefor.
POSTED: MARCH 31, 2015 thru JUNE 30, 2015
SIGNED: Taito S.B. White, Territorial Registrar
KOMISI O LAU’ELE’ELE
O LE FA’ASALALAUGA lenei ua faia ona o LALOULU FAIAOGA TAUANU’U ole nu’u o NUA,
Amerika Samoa, ua ia faia se FEAGAIGA LISI, i se fanua ua lauiloa o UIALALO e i le nu’u o NUA i
le itumalo o ALATAUA, 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
FOUVALE ASIATA & SIMOA ASIATA.
A iai se tasi e fia fa’atu’i’ese i lea mata’upu, ia fa’aulufaleina mai sa na fa’atu’iesega tusitusia
ile Failautusi o lea Komisi ae le’i o’o ile aso 30 o ME, 2015. Ia manatua, o fa’atu’iesega uma
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FA’ASALA NI ALI’I AFGHANISTAN I LE OTI
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - E to’afa ni ali’i ua fa’asala e le fa’amasinoga maualuga i le oti,
ma isi ali’i e to’avalu ua fa’asala i le ta’i 16 tausaga i le falepuipui, ina ua fa’amaonia lo latou
auai i le fasiotia o se tina e 27 tausaga le matua i le masina o Mati 2015.
O le faalavelave lenei na tula’i mai i le aai o Kabul, ina ua lolofi atu se vaega to’atele o ali’i
ma latou ta kiki, ta tu’i, fetogi i ma’a ma sasa i laau le tina na a’afia, ina ua tu’uaia o ia i lona
susunuina o se Tusi Paia Isalama.
Ina ua maea ona fasi e le silia i le to’a 30 o ali’i o lenei tina, sa latou sasa’a loa penisini i lona
tino ae susunu o ia, ina ua mae’a, sa latou togi loa lona tino i lalo o le vaitafe.
O le vaiaso fou lea ua faamoemoe e fa’ataunu’u ai le fa’asalaga o le oti i ali’i e to’afa ua
ta’usala e le fa’amasinoga.
ULUA’I OSOFAIGA A LE ISIS I LAUFANUA O AMERIKA?
UOSIGITONE, DC - O le fa’alavelave lea na tula’i mai i le aai o Garland i Texas ina ua
taumafai ni ali’i fa’atupu fa’alavelave se to’alua e osofa’i se fa’atasiga tele sa faia ai, ae sa le’i
manuia ina ua vave gaioiga a leoleo ma fasiotia ai i laua, ua mapuna a’e ai le mau fesili i le
vaega a le FBI a Amerika, pe le o le ulua’i osofaiga lea ua faia e le vaega fa’atupu fa’alavelave
a le ISIS i laufanua o Amerika.
Na taua mai ini ripoti e fa’apea, ao lei tula’i mai le fa’alavelave e pei ona tafana ai e leoleo
ali’i e to’alua o Elton Simpson ma Nadir Soofi, sa la fa’aaoga fesootaiga fa’aonapo nei i luga o
le ‘tweeter’ e fa’ailoa ai a la taumafaiga, aemaise ai o le avea o i laua ma sui o le ISIS, ae ina ua
mae’a le osofaiga, na fa’alauiloa e se sui o le ISIS i luga o le ‘tweeter’ e fa’apea, “fa’atoa uma
ona fa’apapa e ni o tatou uso se to’alua fana”.
I fa’amaumauga ua maua e FBI, o lo o manino ai le i ai o ni taimi sa faia ai fesootaiga a i laua
nei ma i latou o lo o fa’atosinaina tagata e avea ma sui o le ISIS i totonu o Peretania.
FALEPUIPUI LE TAMA FAI ATA TIFAGA A INITIA
NEW DELHI, INDIA - E 5 tausaga lea ua faasala ai e le faamasinoga maualuga i totonu o
Initia se alii fai ata tifaga lauiloa i le atunu’u, ina ua fa’amaonia e se vaega iloilo iuga, o ia tonu
lea sa fa’afoeina le ta’avale lea na so’aina ni ali’i se to’alima sa momoe i luga o le auala i le 12
tausaga talu ai, lea na manunu’a ai le to’afa ae maliu le to’atasi o i latou.
E ui sa tete’e malosi le ali’i fai ata tifaga o Salman Khan e le o ia na aveina le ta’avale i le
po na tula’i mai ai le fa’alavelave, peita’i o fa’amaumauga a le malo na fa’amaonia ai, o ia
lava sa aveina le ta’avale, lea fo’i sa ia tuua le nofoaga na tupu ai le faalavelave ina ua mae’a,
ae sola ese.
O Khan, o se ali’i fai ata tifaga pito sili ona milionea i totonu o Initia, o ia fo’i o se ali’i e
manatu le to’atele, o le lona 7 lea mai le fa’asologa o ali’i lalelei i le lalolagi, e aofia ai Tom
Cruise, Brad Pitt ma isi.
E ui o lea ua tuuina mai e faasalaga a le fa’amasinoga, peita’i e le o ilioa tonu le taimi e
fa’ataunu’u ai lona tuliina, ae ua faalauiloa i ripoti i totonu o Initia e fa’apea, afai ae loka Khan,
o le a oo atu i le $31 miliona le aofa’i o le tupe o le a le toe maua e kamupani fai ata tifaga, o le
a afaina fo’i le maketi o ata tifaga i totonu o Initia.
TOE LOKA SE ALI’I PAGOTA NA MAGALO I LE PALOLO
SUVA, FIJI - E 23 tausaga lea ua toe loka ai i le falepuipui i Lautoka se ali’i pagota sa
magalo i le palola, ina ua fa’amaonia lona faamalosia o se teineititi e 9 tausaga i le 2011.
E lei faailoa e le alii pagota ni ona uiga salamo i le taimi na lau ai lona faasalaga, ae sa ia
ata ata ma faasaga i le itu o lo o nonofo mai ai matua o le teineititi na aafia. O le faasalaga faa
falepuipui ua tuuina atu i lenei ali’i, e le o agavaa ai o ia i se faasalaga palola.
Vai’s Flowers -N- Gifts
Mother’s Day Special
• Single Orchid Lei $7.50
• Assorted fancy Hawaiian Leis ranging
from $20.00 going up.
• Corsages - Range from $3.00 up.
• Roses are also available
“Let the Rose speak for you.”
Mother’s Day
Balloons,
Candies,
Cookies and
Goodies
Baskets are
also available!
• Hakus (pale) hairpieces (sei) are
also available to make Mom look
more beautiful. Check out our
assorted floral arrangements ranging
from $20.00 up.
Say it with flowers
Happy Mother’s Day...
Free Mother’s Day Pin will be Thank you for your continuous support
given to our first 150
customers. Free Balloons and
candies for kids.
Any purchase from now til
Thursday, May 7, 2015 noon
will qualify you for our (5)
individual Raffle for a FREE
Lei and Corsage. Winners
will be posted on 5/8/15
For more information,
please call
Fou or Vai 699-5073,
733-9464, 258-8363
LALOLAGI
Police in China fatally shoot
man seeking aid for family
BEIJING (AP) — Police fatally shot a man in northern
China who was on his way to Beijing to ask the central government to help house and take care of his children and elderly
mother, police and a lawyer said Wednesday. The man’s relatives received approval for the aid three days after the Saturday
killing, the newspaper Southern Metropolis Daily said.
Lawyer Xie Yanyi, who is working with Xu Chunhe’s family
on the case, said Xu, his mother and three children were on their
way to the capital when train station security officers in Harbin
recognized them and barred them from buying tickets.
The family had visited Beijing several times seeking aid, and
local media had reported their case. Local officials often try to
block such trips to avoid drawing scrutiny from central authorities. Southern Metropolis said Xu blocked other travelers at the
security checkpoint but was subdued by police. Once released,
he clashed with a police officer, who hit back with a baton, the
newspaper said. It said Xu then grabbed the baton and used it to
beat the policeman before the officer drew a gun and shot him in
his chest. Xie said witness videos contradict that account but did
not provide details.
Chinese with unsolved grievances often travel to the capital to
attempt to petition national authorities about land seizures, labor
disputes and other issues after making little progress with local
officials. Southern Metropolis said Xu, who had medical conditions and had difficulty taking care of himself, had been trying
for years to place his aging mother in a public nursing home and
board his daughter and two sons at a state-run juvenile facility.
China National Radio said his wife has psychological problems.
The children — all under age 10 — will be placed in a public
orphanage, the newspaper reported.
UAEALESI MOSOOI A
LE FAFIGE FAIKAKALA
“MUMUSU LE TO’ATELE E TUTO’ATASI
AMERIKA SAMOA”
Ua maua e le Fafige Faikakala i lana uaealesi mosooi, e
foliga mai e ta’u loa le upu o
le TUTO’ATASI, ona fefefe
loa lea o le to’atele o tagata
o Amerika Samoa ona o le
manatu, ne’i avea le tuto’atasi
o le atunu’u ma itu e motusia
ai le mafutaga ma le malo
tele, aemaise lava tulaga o
fa’amanuiaga i le itu tau tupe.
E foliga mai i le fa’alogologo atu a le Fafige Faikakala,
o lo o naunau lava ta’ita’i o
le malo e la’a atu le faigamalo a Amerika Samoa i se
isi la’asaga, a ia tumau pea
o la fesootaiga ma le Iunaite
Setete. Fai mai le isi uo a le
Fafige Faikakala, “e tatau ona
fa’amalamalama ia Tutuila
ma Manu’a, e le fa’apea
a Tuto’atasi loa Amerika
Samoa, ona alu ese motu mai
loa lea ma lima o le Iunaite
Setete, e leai, afai e tuto’atasi,
lona uiga, e tuto’atasi i pulega
ae o le a atili ai ona mafana
le sootaga i tulaga tau fesoasoani ma le tamaoaiga”.
Manaia fo’i mafaufau o si
ali’i e pei ona ia taua, ae mo le
mea moni, e i ai teritori o lo o
i lalo pea lava o le vaavaaiga
ma pulega a le Iunaite Setete
ua mae’a ona tuto’atasi mai
pulega a le malo tele, ae o
lo o fa’aauau pea ona fesoasoani i ai le malo tele i le
itu tau tupe. E manaia ae toe
fa’atalanoa le mataupu, ma
ia fa’amanino atili ia Tutuila
ma Manu’a, afai ae tuto’atasi
Amerika Samoa, o lona uiga,
ua tatala le isi faitoto’a mo
fa’amanuiaga i le lumana’i.
Ata si Fafige Faikakala ina
ua tago atu e tali lana telefoni
i le isi taeao ae faapea mai le
isi ana uo loomatua, “afai e
te toe faalogo i ni tagata o le
atunu’u o talatalanoa atu ia te
oe i le upu o le fefefe, ona e
fai lea i ai, e aua le fefe le fefe
i le fefe”.
AUMAI LE OLAGA
MATIVA E UFIUFI AI
LE SOLITULAFONO
E uu le gutu o le Fafige
Faikakala pe a fa’alogologo
atu ma le toto’a i le to’atele
o “tina” ua fa’asala e le
fa’amasinoga i le lima tago
vale i tupe a kamupani sa galulue ai, ina ua latou fa’ailoa i
ali’i fa’amasino e fa’apea, ua
avea le olaga mativa i totonu
o le aiga, ma le fia maua o se
tupe e tali ai manaoga ma itu
ua manatu e ufiufi ai le solitulafono sa fai. I le vaavaai a le
Fafige Faikakala i le to’atele o
‘tina’ talavou ma ‘tina’ matutua ua nofosala ona o le lima
tago vale, o le to’atele o i latou
sa gafa ma le fatu aiga tausi,
o le tausiaina lea o le fanau
fa’apea matua ma le aiga. Ao
tau masofa ai le mafaufau o le
Fafige Faikakala e saili se tali
o le mau fesili ua saputu mai
i lona mafaufau, poo le a se
matuia o le aafiaga o le gaoi
ina ua mana’omia se fesoasoani, sa te’i ai le Fafige Faikakala ina ua tatagi lana telefoni,
ma le tago atu e tali, o Satani
lea e i luga o le laina, ona ia
fesili lea i ai, “a’o le a sau
fika i le fesili o lo o mamafa
i lo’u mafaufau”, na ata le
tiapolo ma fa’apea mai lana
tala, “magakua fo’i le upu a le
Kusi, e kaga le gaoi i le fia ‘ai”.
Toe fesili atu le Fafige Faikakala, “o le a la sou magaku
ali’i kiapolo, fa’amaka la e le
kakau oga gofosala gai fafige
ia ua fa’amaogia i le lima kago
vale”, ae na toe tali le tiapolo,
“leai, e kaga le gaoi i le fia ‘ai,
ae o le gaoi i le maga’okele ma
le fiafia e gaoi, o loga iuga lava
o le koese i Kafuga, magakua
fo’i le upu fo’i lele, o le gaoi
lava o le gaoi, poo le isi fo’i
upu fai mai, o le ulupoo lava
o le ulupoo”. MANUIA LE
ASO SA O TINA.
O se va’aiga i le vasega Level K5 i Matatula Elementary, tama’ita’i faia’oga o Julia, ua faia
galuega o le a’oa’o o le fanau a’oga ae fesoasoani i ai nai tina o maua le avanoa e fa’aaoga ai latou
taimi i le potu a’oga. Na fa’ailoa mai e le vasega lea, “Fa’afetai Faia’oga!”
THANK YOU &
FA’AFETAI TELE
A BIG Fa’afetai and Fa’amalo to all our Sponsors and Donors for helping our
Fiafia Night. The following Individuals and Businesses who had made our Hope House
Residents, Staff & Families Fiafia Night and Pageant a memorable one.
Fa’afetai! Fa’afetai! Fa’afetai Tele Lava!
1. Lordship Rev. Bishop Petelo Brown - Bishop of
Diocese Samoa Pago Pago
2. Fr. Petelo Siliako - Hope House Chaplain
3. KVZK-TV Mr. Fagafaga Daniel Langkilde & Staff
4. HTC Fanene Morris Scanlan
5. SkyView - Mr. Ricky & Mrs. Ta’u Nomura
6. Steven & Sons - Mr. Steven & Family
7. HALECKS/Island Choice
8. Tradewinds
9. KS Mart
10. Afioga Faiivae Godinet - Godinet’s Tent Rentals
11. Nu’uuli Voc-Tech High School - Principal
Mr. Rod Atafua - free stage for the show
12. Mrs. Florina Scanlan
13. American Samoa Power Authority
14. TAOA - Mrs. Fiame Tafia Taimailelagi
15. Vai’s Flowers
16. Mr. David Robinson - Hope House Chairman
of the Board
17. Blue Sky Communications
18. McDonalds
19. Hope House Residents & Families & Staff,
Daycare, Nursing, Kitchen & Maintenance
20. Mr. & Mrs. Samau
21. Lunetta’s Family
22. Rosaline’s mother
23. Dr. Maria Gayapa
24. Mr. Tavita Lemisio & Mrs. Malia Perelini
(Emcees)
25. Mr. Pat Key - Fatuoaiga Hall - Chairs, Tables
26. Ms. Pat & Hevenly Letuli
Special THANK YOU to the SOFIA’s for the donation of $2,000 towards Hope House.
Fa’afetai! Fa’afetai! Fa’afetai Tele Lava!
We would like to wish our Nurses of Hope House a very happy & blessed Nurses week. Also, Happy Nurses
week to the Nurses of Public Health & LBJ Hospital.
A Happy Teachers Week for the Hope House Day Care Teachers.
May God continue to bless All our Nurses & Teachers on Island , we love and appreciate you.
Ms. Josephine Tavale
Hope House Administrator
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o le
fa’aolataga
IA USITAI I LOU
OLA FAASINOMAGA
Se vaaiga i ni isi o Tama’ita’i Foma’i i le fa’amanatuina ai o le latou auaunaga i lenei vaiaso.
[ata foa’i]
Fa’afetaia Tama’ita’i Foma’i le
lagolago a le malo ma le atunu’u
tusia Ausage Fausia
(Levitiko 16:1-10)
Ina ua uma ona aumai e Mose tulafono mai le mauga o Sinai,
i le faatonuga a le Atua, o le mea muamua lava sa fai, o le faiga
o tulafono e ola ai le fanauga a Isaraelu.
E le tele mea taua o i totonu o lenei Tusi, vagana ai le mala
lea na oo i le fanau faitaulaga a Arona, ina ua le malie le Atua i
ai laua.
Ina ua uma ona faapaiaina ma faauuina i le tofi o le osi-taulaga
ia Arona ma lana fanau (Levitiko 8:1-9) ma fai ai loa i Natapu
ma Aviu i le isi aso, le mea e ita tele ai le Atua ia te’i laua. E
lei leva ona maua e i laua le tulaga ma e o atu i totonu pe sau se
faatonuga ia Mose ia Arona, ona fai mai lea e Arona ia laua, e o
e susunu mea manogi e sauni ai le taulaga mu i luma o le Atua.
Ai ua oona Natapu ma Aviu, ua le faalogo i le faatonuga e
aumai ia Arona ia te’i laua, aua o le faia mea na se’i iloga ua fai
mai ai Mose, i le faatonuga e aumai i le Atua, ona faatoa fai lea.
A ua avea le siitia o la tulaga ma mea ua fai ai e i laua loto
ma la mafaufau, ua le faalogo i faatonuga, a ua fai lava le la
fiapopoto.
O le su’esu’ega lea na fai mulimuli i ai, o le isi aso na faatonu
ai e le Atua ia Mose, fai lea o Mose ia Arona, o Arona loa ia
Natapu ma Aviu.
Ae te’i ua oo i le aso lea na fasioti ai e le afi mai le lagi
(strange fire) e pei ona taua mai i totonu o le (Levitiko 10:1-10).
O le Tusi atoa o le Levitiko o tulafono na aumai e le Atua e ui
mai ia Mose, Mose loa i le fanauga a Isaraelu.
E faapena le mea nei ua tele lava i totonu o ofisa ma fale faigaluega, ua o mai le tupulaga na o e ao’oga i le atunuu i fafo, ma
a latou tekeri ma faailoga maualuluga ua musu e fia faalogo i le
faatonuga a le sili atu ia te ia.
Ua faapea lava e atoa lona atamai i le poto faaaoaoga, ae le
iloa e i ai le poto masani i le galuega, e pei o le fanau a Arona.
E le faavalevale lea le tulafono i galuega, o le poto i aoaoga e
gata, ao le poto mai le Atua e aofia ai le leva ona faigaluega ma
le poto masina, e seasea se tagata a na mauaina.
Amene.
A o fa’agasolo ai sauniga mo le fa’amanatuina o le tautua a Tama’ita’i Foma’i i lenei vaiaso i
le atunu’u, ua fa’afetaia ai e le Asosi o Tama’ita’i Foma’i le lagolago malosi a ta’ita’i o le malo
faapea ai le atunu’u atoa, e ala i fa’amanuiaga ua lagona ai le fa’amalosi e fa’atino a latou tiute i
aso ta’itasi.
I le fa’amanatu fa’atasi ai o le Aso Sa o Tina i lenei vaiaso, atoa ai ma le fa’atauaina o le tautua
a Tama’ita’i Foma’i, na taua ai e le Peresetene o le Asosi a Tama’ita’i Tausima’i ia Tofiga Tufele
e fa’apea, o se auala lelei fo’i lea e fa’amanatu fa’atasi ai e le atunu’u, fanau ma aiga le auaunaga
a tina i totonu o le aiga.
“O se galuega e faigata ae faigofie i le mafuta mai pea o le Atua, ma aumai le malosi, soifua ma
le tomai e fa’atino ai e tama’ita’i foma’i a latou tiute tauave i lea aso ma lea aso”, o le saunoaga
lea a Tofiga ina ua fesiligia i le fa’atauaina o le auaunaga a Tama’ita’i Foma’i i lenei vaiaso.
Na fa’afetaia e Tofiga ta’ita’i o le malo, ta’ita’i fa’aleaganu’u, aemaise ai uo ma aiga ma le
atunu’u, i lo latou fa’aavanoa o latou taimi e momoli atu ai feau fa’amalosi ma alofaaga mo
tama’ita’i foma’i i lo latou vaiaso fa’apitoa.
Sa ia taua, o le lagolago a le atunu’u ua lagona ai e tama’ita’i foma’i lo latou taua, ma fa’amalosia
ai i latou e fa’atino pea galuega lelei mo le atunu’u.
I le fonotaga a le kapeneta i le vaiaso na te’a nei, e le gata na fa’alauiloa ai e le ali’i kovana
ia Lolo Matalasi Moliga le sauni atu o le atunu’u e fa’ataua le aso mo tama’ita’i foma’i i lenei
tausaga, ae sa ia fautuaina ai sui uma o le kapeneta, ina ia auai i so o se fa’agaoiga e fa’amanatu
ai le aso mo tama’ita’i foma’i.
Na maitauina le to’atele o sui o le malo faapea ai le atunu’u atoa na lolofi atu, i le sauniga lotu
sa faia i le malumalu o le Ekalesia EFKAS i Fagatogo i le Aso Sa na te’a nei, e tatala aloaia ai
polokalame mo le vaiaso fa’apitoa o tama’ita’i foma’i, lea na ta’ita’ia e le susuga a Rev. Iasepi Ulu.
O le afioga i le kovana le tumau ia Lemanu Peleti Mauga sa fai ma sui o le ali’i kovana, e
momoli le fa’afetai i tama’ita’i foma’i, e tusa ai o le latou auaunaga le fa’atuaoia o lo o fa’aauau
pea i aso ta’itasi.
Saunoa le Fa’atonusili o le Matagaluega o le Soifua Maloloina ia Motusa T. Nua i le Samoa
News e fa’apea, e ui e eseese le Soifua Maloloina ma le falema’i o le LBJ, ae a o o mai loa i aso
fa’amanatu fa’apenei, “ona tasi loa lea o Tama’ita’i Foma’i uma o lo o galulue i vaega eseese ia a
O LE TOE MANA’O
le malo, o i latou o auauna mo le atunu’u”.
Na o i le taavale, lavea ai loa ma maliliu le ‘auvaega lea, o le
E tusa ai o le polokalame mo le vaiaso a tama’ita’i foma’i, o le aso Tofi ma le aso Faraile nei
e fa’atinoina ai a latou ta’aloga i le malae o le Su’iga’ula a le Atuvasa i Utulei, ma taualuga ai loa foma’i, o le faiaoga. Taunu’u i le Parataiso, o lo’o nofonofo mai
Peteru, fesili atu loa, “O le a le mea e tou manao ai, e fai e tagata
lo latou vaiaso fa’apitoa i lenei tausaga.
la e feola ia outou tino?.”
Feso’ota’i mai i le tusitala ia [email protected]
Tali le foma’i, “Oute manao oute faalogo atu o ‘au o se foma’i
lelei tele lava, ma o ‘au o se tama e lelei tele i le aiga.”
Fai mai le faiaoga, “Oute manao e te talanoa tamaiti aoga i le
lelei tele o lou faiaoga ao ou ola, oute manao e tautaua lou igoa
i aso uma lava e talanoa ai ia tamaiti aoga.”
O le tagata mulimuli lea e malie i le vave ona lavea le taavale
ma maliu ai loa, fesili atu loa Peteru, “O le a sou manaoga
mulimuli lava ?.” ae sau le tali a le tagata, “Oute manao e fai mai
tagata, ‘oi o la e ola Sa’o, vaai foi i le minoi mai a le ‘ie-afu…
…..o lona uiga a le e ola…”
E LE FEA…E LE FEA
Ina ua uma le faamasino i le Lagi, tietie atu le alii lea ua uma
lana faamasinoga, ma le agelu i luga o ‘ao (clouds) ma le vaai
atu, o lo’o tietie mai le faamatua ‘ai puaa i le vaitaimi o soifua,
ae o le matua’i ‘aulelei lana teine la e ifo.
Fai atu loa i le agelu, “Sole e le fea le mea nei, se’i vaai a i le
‘ai puaa muamua le la i Samoa, ae vaai i le manaia lana teine ?.”
Ae o le la e alu lava le ao, toe fanu atu loa lou tama lea i lona
ita tele i le mananai o le teine o le ‘ai puaa, “Sole….agelu…..
agelu, tilotilo foi la i le fetaui o le mea, o le ‘ai puaa sili sili lena,
ae se’i e vaai i ai i le manaia a lana teine, mea oute ita ai i faamasinoga faapenei….e le fetaui lava iuga e fai.”
Ae fai mai loa le agelu, “Tapuni lou gutu, tiga taliga ia te oe
ia…faapea o lou loto leaga lava lena isi tama o Lua, e te le iloa
fesuia’i lou mafaufau ?. “
O se va’aiga i se tasi o viliga o le ata fa’asolo ia Iosefa na fa’atino e le vasega o ata fa’asolo a le
Toe fai atu loa le Agelu, “O le faasala a le fafine le la…o lana
[ata: Leua Aiono Frost] taui o Lua. Tapuni laia o le gutu o le tiga taliga.”
Kolisi Tu’ufa’atasi i le vaiaso na te’a nei.
E te fia
Poka?
American Samoa Government
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
PROCLAMATION
NATIONAL CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS DAY
WHEREAS, addressing the the complex mental health needs of children, youth and families today is fundamental
to the future of American Samoa; and
WHEREAS, the need for comprehensive, coordinated mental health services for children, youth, and families
places upon our community a critical responsibility; and
WHEREAS, it is appropriate that a day should be set apart each year for the direction of our thoughts toward our
children’s mental health and well-being; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Human and Social Services, through its Community Mental Health Services Program under the Behavioral Health Services Division, is effectively caring for the mental health needs of children,
youth and families in our community; and
WHEREAS, it is important to reinforce the message that positive mental health is essential to a child’s healthy
development from birth;
NOW THEREFORE, I, LOLO M. MOLIGA, Governor of American Samoa, do hereby proclaim May 7, 2015
to be “NATIONAL CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS DAY”, and urge our citizes and all agencies
and organizations interested in meeting every child’s mental health needs to unite on that day in the observance of
such exercise as will acquaint the people of the Territory of American Samoa with the fundamental necessity of a
year-round program children and youth with mental health needs and their families.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed my signature and Seal of my Office, on this 28th day of April,
in the year of our Lord, two thousand fifteen.
POLOA’IGA FA’ALAUA’ITELE
MO LE FA’ATAUAINA O LE SOIFUA MALOLOINA
O LE MAFAUFAU MO FANAU LAITI MA TUPULAGA TALAVOU
TALUAI, o le fa’alauiloaina o le lavelave o mana’oga mo le soifua maloloina i le mafaufau o fanau laiti, tupulaga
talavou, ae maise aiga, o se la’asaga taua lea mo le aga’i manuia i luma o le atunu’u o Amerika Samoa; ma
TALUAI, e mana’omia le fa’alauteleina o tautua ma le galulue feso’ota’i o matagaluega e fa’afoeina galuega mo le
soifua maloloina i le mafaufau o fanau laiti, tupulaga talavou ma aiga ona o le taua o lenei matafaioi; ma
TALUAI, ua talafeagai on a aloa’ia se aso fa’apitoa i tausaga ta’itasi in a ia taula’i iai mafaufauga o tagata nu’u uma
mo le fa’atauaina o le soifua maloloina i mafaufau o fanau; ma
TALUAI, o le Matagaluega mo Alagamanuia Lautele, e tauala mai i porokalama ma ‘au’aunaga o le Soifua Maloloina o le Mafaufau i lalo o le lala o le Puna’oa mo le Soifua Manuia, ina ia agatonu le tausiga o mana’oga o le soifua
maloloina o le mafaufau o fanau, tupulaga talavou ma aiga i le tatou atunu’u; ma
TALUAI, e taua le toe fa’amalosia o le fe’au e lelei ma aoga le soifua maloloina lelei mo le tuputupu a’e o le tamaititi
mai lona fanau mai;
O LE MEA LEA, O A’U, LOLO M. MOLIGA, Kovana o Amerika Samoa, ou te fa’alauiloaina le ASO 7 O LE
MASINA O ME 2015, E AVEA MA ASO E FA’ATAUAINA AI LE SOIFUA MALOLOINA O LE MAFAUFAU
MO FANAU LAITI MA TUPULAGA TALAVOU, ma ou te fa’amalosi atu i tagata nu’u uma, ofisa o le malo ma
fa’alapotopotoga tu ma’oti e galulue fa’atasi ma le mamalu lautele o le atunu’u i polokalama e fa’atauaina ai mana’oga
o fanau laiti ma tupulaga talavou mo le tausaga atoa, ina ia manuia le aga’i i luma o lo latou soifua maloloina i le
mafaufau.
UA OU FA’AMAONIA, fa’amau fa’ailoga i lo’u sainia o lenei Poloa’iga Fa’alaua’itele i le aso 28 o Aperila i le
tausaga o lo tatou Ali’i, lua afe sefulu ma le lima.
LOLO M. MOLIGA
Governor of American Samoa
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People take part in a yoga session on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Every week in May free Yoga classes are offered featuring different
(Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)
yoga instructors in Ottawa. Japan zoo apologizes
for naming newborn
monkey “Charlotte”
TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese zoo has apologized for
naming a baby monkey Charlotte after the newborn British
princess following complaints
at home.
The Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden said
Thursday it was considering
renaming the macaque. It was
flooded with angry calls and
emails Wednesday hours after
announcing the name for its
first monkey born this year, a
tradition at the city-run zoo in
southern Japan.
Charlotte was the favorite
in a public ballot, receiving 59
out of 853 votes in just over a
month until Wednesday, when
the female monkey was born.
Opponents largely said
giving the princess’ name to
a monkey is disrespectful to
British royals.
According to zoo official
Akira Asano, some of them said
that the Japanese people would
feel offended if a monkey
were named after Japanese
princesses.
He said the zoo has also
received support for Charlotte,
and the views are now largely
divided. “We deeply apologize
for causing trouble to many
people over the naming of the
first baby (monkey),” said a
statement posted on the zoo
website. “We take these opinions seriously.”
Asano said he was not aware
of any complaints from British
citizens.
Officials of the zoo and the
city of Oita were still discussing
what to do with the monkey’s
name.
The British Embassy in
Tokyo declined to comment,
while Japan’s foreign ministry
said it was not involved with
the issue.
World Fireknife Championships at PCC begin today
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Press Release — Laie,
Hawaii – May 4, 2015 – The
world’s “hottest” international competition, the World
Fireknife
Championships,
will light up the stage at the
Polynesian Cultural Center
(PCC), May 7-9, to determine
the best at this traditional
Samoan art.
Now in its 23rd year, the
World Fireknife Championships draws its roots from
the Samoan ailao, a warrior’s
knife dance, performed before
battle with the nifo oti, or
“tooth of death.”
This
year’s
competition features 22 entrants
in the senior or elite division, including defending
champion Via Tiumalu, Jr.
of Orlando, FL, 15 entrants
in the older junior division
(ages 12-17), and 13 entrants
in the younger junior division
(ages 6-11).
The competitors, especially those in the senior division, will dazzle the audience
Hawai’i High School students will showcase the traditional cultural arts and dances of Samoa during the High School Samoan
with spectacular displays of
Cultural
Arts Festival. [photo:PCC]
fireknife dancing, twirling
one, two and, sometimes,
three flaming fireknives to a
choreographed routine, often
while contorting their bodies
or laying on their back. (See
the competition schedule
below.)
Logo Apelu, PCC Chief
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Another featured event is the
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from Oahu demonstrate their
knowledge of Samoan culture. (See schedule below.)
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To’atele e talitonu taui ma sui Woman seeks help
tulafono o pemita a Samoa… from boyfriend in
online pizza order
tusia Ausage Fausia
E ui o lea ua fa’amanino e le Konesula a
Samoa i le teritori, le afioga a Auseugaefa
Va’asatia Poloma Komiti, e le fa’aitu ‘au pe taui
ma sui fo’i tulafono o pemita a le malo o Samoa,
peita’i na taua e ni isi o tagatanu’u o Amerika
Samoa e aofia ai fo’i ma ni isi o tagatanu’u o
Samoa, “e fa’aitu ‘au ma taui ma sui” tulafono
o pemita a Samoa.
“E leai lava ni pemita ta’i $10 sa mana’omia
e malaga ai tagata Tutuila i Samoa i la tausaga,
e fou nei faiga, ai ona ua fiu e talosaga mai i
le malo o Amerika Samoa e fa’aagafua pemita
o lo o ulufale mai ai Samoa i le teritori”, o le
saunoaga lea a le faletua ia Luapene Mauga,
64 tausaga o Tafuna. Na taua e Luapene e
fa’apea, na laititi mai lava o malaga i Samoa
i fa’alavelave a lona aiga, ao lea fa’atoa
fa’amamalu e le malo o Samoa lana tulafono
mo pemita i se taimi e le i mamao atu.
“Ou te talitonu, na mafua ona fa’amalosia e
Samoa lana tulafono o pemita, ina ua le talia le
fautuaga sa tu’uina mai e fa’aagafua ai pemita
ta’i 30 aso o lo o ulufale mai ai tagata Samoa i
le teritori nei”, o le isi lea saunoaga a Luapene.
E ui i lagona fa’asea o ni isi o le atunu’u
fa’asaga i pemita a Samoa, peita’i na taua e se
ulugali’i i le Samoa News i le vaiaso nei, lo la
fa’afetaia o le tautua a lea Ofisa, ina ua mafai
ona talia talosaga mo le pemita e malaga ai i
Samoa, i se taimi puupuu sa latou talosagaina la
latou fesoasoani.
“E ui i fa’asea fa’asaga i le tulafono o pemita
a Samoa, ae fa’afetaia le tautua a lea Ofisa i le
vaiaso nei, ina ua vave talia talosaga mo pemita
matou te malaga ai i Samoa i se taimi puupuu
ma le fa’afuase’i”, o le saunoaga lea a le susuga
a Malaki Aiono, o se aiga sa malaga mai i
Hawaii i le po o le aso Gafua na te’a nei, ae o le
taeao o le aso Lua na sosoo sa latou malaga atu
ai i Samoa.
saunia: Leua Aiono Frost
Na fa’amaonia e Aiono i le Samoa News e
fa’apea, o lo o tumau lava le totogi o le pemita
e $10, ae afai loa e vave mana’omia le pemita,
ona totogi loa lea o le isi tau fa’aopoopo e $10,
lea e mafua ai ona maua le tau fou e $20.
Na fa’amanino e Auseugaefa i le Samoa
News i le vaiaso nei e fa’apea, e le fa’aitu ‘au
pe taui ma sui le tulafono o le pemita a le malo
o Samoa, ae o tulafono lava ma ta’iala ua leva
ona i ai, peita’i o lea fa’atoa manatu le malo e
fa’amalosia i ni nai tausaga e lei mamao atu.
Na lagolagoina e le tama matua o Filipo
Unuto’a ni isi o finagalo fa’asea fa’asaga i
pemita a Samoa, atoa ai ma le le manino lelei
o auala o lo o fa’alauiloa ai e le Ofisa o le Konesula a latou tulafono.
Saunoa le susuga a Unuto’a e fa’apea, afai ua
manatu le Ofisa o le Konesula a Samoa e faia ni
suiga i ana tulafono, po o ni isi lava fo’i o suiga
e tusa ai o lana tautua i le teritori, e tatau ona uia
auala masani e pei o le faia o se fa’atalatalanoaga
ma Tusitala i leitio, nusipepa ma le televise, ina
ia logo ai le atunu’u e fa’atatau i suiga ua faia,
aemaise ai o auala e mafai ai ona fesoasoani mai
ai le Ofisa i le atunu’u. O se tasi o itu na fa’asea
ai ni isi o le atunu’u, o Ofisa uma a le malo o
Amerika Samoa e tatala i le itula e 8:00 i le taeao,
e ui o tagata faigaluega e amata a latou galuega i
le 7:30 i le taeao, peita’i o le Ofisa o le Konesula a
Samoa, fa’atoa tatala i le 8:30 i le taeao.
O le to’atele o le atunu’u e aofia ai ma
tagatanu’u lava o Samoa o lo o alala ma papa
aao i le atunu’u, sa fa’ateia i latou ina ua faitau
i le Samoa News ma latou silafia ai, ua sui le
Konesula a Samoa i le teritori.
O le aso 25 Mati 2015 na tofia ai Ausegaefa
e avea ma Konesula o Samoa i le teritori mo le
isi tolu tausaga, ma ua fa’alauiloa e le Konesula
fou ni isi o auaunaga a le Ofisa o le a mafai ona
fa’alautele, pe a mae’a fuafuaga mo le fausia o
se nofoaga fou i Tafuna.
SUI FOU O LE KOMITI FA’AFOE A LE ASTCA
Ua mae’a ona fa’ailo e le afioga Kovana Lolo Matalasi Moliga le afioga Lauvao Stephen
Haleck e se’ei i le avanoa o i ai nei i le Komiti Fa’afoe a le ASTCA. Peita’i e le o fou i lea ali’i
faipisinisi lauiloa lea ituaiga o tofiga, aua o ia lea, sa avea ma Sui Taitaifono o le Komiti Fa’afoe
a le Western Pacific Regional Management Council.
O Lauvao o le Pule Sili lea o le MHJ Development Corp. lea e fa’atautaia e i latou le tele o
Pamukesi ma pisinisi a Makisi i le tatou malo nei. O lo’o tele fo’i le sosia o le tomai fa’apitoa o le
afioga Lauvao i lana galuega sa tau’avea nei mo le vaega o el Gataifale ma Faigafaiva, aua e tele
na’ua fonotaga tetele ma fa’ai’uga e ono a’afia ai le tamaoaiga tausi o Amerika Samoa sa aofia
ai o ia i lona aiaiga. O lo ua fa’ao’o mai ma le finagalo fa’aalia o le afioga le Kovana, e faapea
o nei tomai fa’apitoa ma le sosia ua maua e lenei ta’ita’i iloga o le atunu’u, ma o se faipisinisi
lauiloa i le atunu’u, ua matua ou fa’amaonia ai, le tatau ona aofia o ia i lenei Komiti Fa’afoe, na te
fa’atumuina se avanoa ua i ai.” Peita’i, e le’i fa’ailoa maia, po’o le avanoa lea o le a fa’atumu e ia,
pe o le suafa o se tasi o le a le toe auai i le Komiti fa’afoe a le ASTCA.
AUAI OFISA TURISI I LE “POW WOW 2015 - FLORIDA” MO LE ULUA’I TAIMI
Ua fa’ailoa mai o le a auai aloa’ia le Ofisa o Turisi a le tatou Malo i le fa’aaliga fa’avaomalo a
le “Pow Wow 2015” lea e faia i Orlando, Florida mai ia Me 30 se’ia o’o ia Iuni 3, 2015. O le ulua’i
taimi fo’i lenei o le a auai le ofisa i lea fo’i fa’aaliga tele.
O le i ai i lea Fa’aaliga tele, o le a maua ai le avanoa lelei o le ofisa e talanoa sa’o ai i tagata
fa’atau oa mai atunu’u tetele, ma fa’ailoa atu nisi o tatou oloa e fa’atau atu, ma o se avanoa lelei
lea mo tulaga o fefa’ataua’iga.
O le tatou laulau e fa’aigoaina “Islanders” o le a tu’ufa’atasia i ai i tatou ma Guam, Puerto Rico,
Palau, CNMI ma isi teritori laiti o le a auai atu. O le tala mai e 1,100 laulau o le a fa’aalia a latou
oloa i lenei fa’aaliga, ae 5,000 sui o lo’o malaga atu i fafo ina ia auai e maimoaina nei oloa fa’atau
atu mai le 70 atunu’u lea ua mae’a fa’aavanoa o latou laulau i lea fa’amoemoe matagofie.
SAILIA SE PULENU’U FOU O FUTIGA
Ina ua mae’a nei ona fa’amavae le afio’aga o Futiga i lana pulenu’u sa tu i matagiolo, le afioga
Namu Aetui, ua alagatatau ai i le faiganu’u i le vasega o Fa’alupega, Ali’i ma Faipule o lea fo’i
afio’aga, ona sailia se latou Pulenu’u fou e tatau ona fa’ao’o mai i le Ofisa o Mataupu tau Samoa
lona suafa, pe a mae’a pasia lelei se sui e le faiganu’u i le afio’aga.
Ua fa’ailoa mai o le fa’ai’uga o lenei vaiaso, ua tatau ona tasi moemoe le fa’autaga a le afio’aga
i se latou sui e tula’i, aua e tele fo’i tiute e fa’atino e lei sui i totonu o le afio’aga, e aofia ai le
fa’amamaina o le afio’aga ia matagofie, paui fonotaga ma fa’ailoa fo’i mataupu e finagalo le Ofisa
o Mataupu Tau Samoa e fa’ao’o i afio’aga i ona aiga ta’itasi.
AVON PARK, Fla. (AP) — A central Florida woman helped
save herself and her children by sending a message in an online
pizza order that asked employees to call 911 because she was
being held hostage.
The Avon Park Pizza Hut employees spotted what Cheryl
Treadway wrote in the comment section of her online order.
Employees recognized Treadway as a regular customer and
called the sheriff’s office.
Highlands County Sheriff’s deputies went to the home, where
they were greeted by Treadway, who was carrying a small child.
She told them her boyfriend, Ethan Nickerson, 26, was inside the
home, armed with a knife. Her other two children were also inside.
Treadway and the child were escorted to safety.
WFLA-TV reports Lt. Curtis Ludden started talking to Nickerson through a closed door.
“His first words were, of course, ‘I’m not coming out because
I know I’m going to jail,’” Ludden told the TV station.
It took about 20 minutes for Ludden to talk Nickerson into
coming out peacefully. The children were not harmed.
According to an arrest report, the couple had been arguing
throughout the day, as Nickerson carried a knife. When
Treadway started to leave to pick up her children from school,
Nickerson grabbed her and took her phone away. He went with
her to the school. Deputies say she eventually talked Nickerson
into letting her use her phone to order a pizza. But immediately
after sending the request, Nickerson took the phone back.
Nickerson was arrested and now faces multiple charges
including aggravated assault with a weapon without intent to kill,
battery and false imprisonment. He remained in the Highlands
County Jail on Wednesday and bond has been set at $45,000.
Jail records didn’t indicate whether he has hired an attorney.
Authorities credit Treadway’s quick-thinking and the fast
response by deputies for a peaceful conclusion.
“I don’t know if I would have thought of it,” Ludden said of
the message in the pizza order. “I mean it’s just something she
did so naturally. The boyfriend never knew about it until he saw
us coming around the corner.”
The cry for help was also a first for Pizza Hut manager Candy
Hamilton. “We’ve never seen that before,” Hamiton said.
“I’ve been here 28 years and never, never seen nothing like
that come through.”
New Zealander, 25,
stands trial in China
on drug charges
GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — A 25-year-old New Zealander standing trial on charges of trying to smuggle methamphetamine testified Thursday that he came to China to buy a
muscle-building supplement and didn’t check the package he
purchased before trying to depart.
Peter Gardner, who also has Australian citizenship, was
detained in the southern city of Guangzhou on Nov. 8 when
police said he was trying to smuggle more than 30 kilograms
(66 pounds) of methamphetamine out of China. Gardner could
face the death penalty if convicted.
The trial in Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court was
broadcast live on a court website, but Gardner’s testimony in
English was barely, if at all, audible. A court interpreter gave an
audible translation in Chinese.
Gardner seemed to argue that he did not knowingly smuggle
drugs, though he also acknowledged wrongdoing and offered to
remedy the situation by helping police identify what he referred
to as Chinese suspects.
Gardner said he had come to China to buy several kilograms
of a muscle-building supplement, “but I didn’t check the parcel
after I got the delivery,” the translator quoted him as saying.
“The crime I committed affected my family, and I would do
anything that would help me in this situation, so I’d like to help
the police to identify other suspects. And I’d like to point out
the other Chinese suspects as soon as possible if police hand me
photos for me to identify,” the translator quoted him as saying.
Gardner arrived Thursday morning at the court venue in a
police truck. Relatives and consular officials also attended the
proceedings. He was detained in Guangzhou in November along
with a 22-year-old Australian woman who later was released.
Three accused of
operating fictitious
police department
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three people, including one who
works for California Attorney General Kamala Harris, were
charged after claiming to operate a police department with jurisdiction in 33 states and Mexico and that traces its roots back 3,000
years, authorities said Wednesday.
Brandon Kiel, David Henry and Tonette Hayes were taken into
custody last week on suspicion of impersonating officers as members of the Masonic Fraternal Police Department, Los Angeles
County sheriff’s officials said.
Detectives believe other people may be involved in the operation, sheriff’s spokeswoman Nicole Nishida said.
Deputies found ID cards, uniforms and law enforcement-like
vehicles along with other official police equipment during their
search of a home and office linked to the group, she said. However, Nishida said there were no indications the group was stopping the public or conducting other law enforcement activities.
State records show Hayes is licensed as a security guard and
has a firearm permit. She previously owned Masonic Security
Service, and she and Henry run the Beverly Hills-based MIB
Investigative Agency, though its state license is suspended.
Henry is a licensed security guard and also has a firearm permit.
Kiel, 31, worked as deputy director of community affairs at the
California Department of Justice since July 2013. He has been on
paid administrative leave from his $67,416-a-year civil service
job since Thursday. The Los Angeles Times first reported that
Kiel worked for Harris.
Department spokesman David Beltran said the agency can’t
comment on an ongoing personnel matter or criminal investigation. He said Kiel “worked with members of the public basically
on issues and questions regarding the work of the department.”
Kiel, Henry, 46, and Hayes, 59, were arrested April 30 and
released later that day, according to jail records. Telephone
calls and text messages seeking comment were not immediately
returned.
All three were charged on April 28 with multiple counts of
impersonating an officer and other misdemeanors, said Ricardo
Santiago, a spokesman for the district attorney’s office.
Henry has been charged with committing perjury under
oath for declaring the Masonic Fraternal Police Department is
a state agency. Kiel is charged with misusing his government
identification.
Hayes is a pastor and moderated a debate between sheriff’s
candidates in the most recent election, Nishida said.
Henry won an Emmy in 2002 for his work as a producer on a
Fox11 story, according to Variety.com. He also co-produced a
documentary with Hayes several years later about a longtime civil
rights leader, the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper reported in 2007.
The investigation started after various police chiefs in Southern
California received a letter in late January that announced new
leadership for the Masonic Fraternal Police Department.
The Jan. 20 letter obtained by The Associated Press was copied
to Harris. It was written by Kiel, identified as its chief board of
director, and Hayes, the grand chief director, and includes a badge
emblem with Henry’s name below.
In the letter, the group claims it is registered with the state and
is informing the chief it will be working with “Grandmasters, as
well as fraternities and sororities throughout Sovereign Jurisdictions around the country.”
The letter claims there are 5,686 lodges and that the department “will be able to acquire intel that is not accessible to nonfraternal entities.” It said one aim of the department was to restore
public trust.
A website for the Masonic police force says the group was created by the Knights Templar in 1100 B.C.
A man claiming to be Kiel and describing himself as chief
deputy director of the police force later followed up with various
law enforcement agencies to schedule sit-down meetings, officials said.
Capt. Roosevelt Johnson of the sheriff’s department’s Santa
Clarita Valley station said he met with members of the Masonic
Fraternal Police Department on Feb. 4.
Henry and Hayes showed up in black jumpsuits with Masonic
Fraternal Police patches and stars on their collars. Hayes had a
handgun on her utility belt, Johnson said.
Kiel was there too, wearing a dark navy business suit. They
told Johnson they were opening a new Canyon Country police
station.
Johnson said he grew wary when they couldn’t answer questions
about where they derived their authority, or jurisdictional issues.
“Brandon Kiel gave me a business card from the Department
of Justice, showing he worked out of Kamala Harris’ office,”
Johnson said. “That really raised red flags for me.”
The driver of a truck which crashed during severe weather on Interstate 35 gestures to his
rescuers after being cut from the truck in Moore, Okla., Wednesday, May 6, 2015.
(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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Performs administrative duties for executive management as primary communication between
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resolution of day to day administrative and operation issues. Compose and edit
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Responsibilities may include screening calls; managing calendars; making travel, meeting and
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visitors into the plant.
Requires strong computer and Internet research skills, flexibility, excellent interpersonal skills,
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Sensitivity to confidential matters may be required.
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• Excellent computer skills
• Excellent analytical/organizational skills
• Reliable and able to work with minimum to no supervision
• Team player, self-motivated, fast learner and open to assist with various projects
• Fluent in both English and Samoan
• Flexible schedule - able to work long hours/weekends
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➧ TALA MAI SAMOA…
O se va’aiga i le vasega o tama ma tina matutua ua avea i latou ma tagata faigaluega i le
TAOA i le vaega a le CSEP, lea ua toe fa’ailoa patino mai, ua maua le isi latou fa’atupega fou e
fa’aauau ai lea lava polokalama taua, ae ua si’itia fo’i le tulaga o nisi o tina i lea itu o le tautua,
Senevefa Pritt (ogatotonugalemu) lea ua si’itia e galue i totonu o le Ofisa o le TAOA i Pago Pago.
Tu’uaia se ali’i i lona
faaoolima i se leoleo
tusia Ausage Fausia
O le ali’i e 39 tausaga le matua lea o lo o
tu’uaia i lona tu’iina o se ali’i leoleo, a o taumafai leoleo e fa’a filemu ana amioga le mafaufau sa faia ina ua ova lona ‘ona, ua molia nei
e le malo i moliaga mama e tolu, lea e aofia
ai le moliaga o le fa’ao’olima i le tulaga tolu,
fa’atupu vevesi i nofoaga faitele, atoa ai ma
lona tagofia o le ‘ava malosi i nofoaga e le
fa’atagaina i le tulafono.
O le amataga o le vaiaso nei na tula’i ai le
ali’i o Etena Sanerivi i luma o le fa’amasinoga
fa’aitumalo, ma ia teena ai tu’uaiga fa’asaga ia
te ia. O le vaveao o le aso Sa na te’a nei e pei
ona taua i fa’amaumauga a le fa’amasinoga, na
logo ai e se molimau le ofisa o leoleo mo se fesoasoani, ina ua vaaia se tagata o pisapisao solo
i luma o le faleoloa o le Aeto Mart i Pago Pago,
leoleoa ma fa’aumuumu solo ai.
Na taua i fa’amaumauga a le fa’amasinoga
e fa’apea, ina ua taunu’u leoleo i le vaega na
tula’i mai ai le solitulafono, sa latou vaaia ai
Sanerivi o lo o ia uu se fagupia i lona lima, ma
e foliga mai fo’i ua alu le po atoa o inu pia o ia.
Na taumafai leoleo e ta’ita’i Sanerivi i totonu
o le latou ta’avale, peita’i na fa’ateia i latou ina
ua faliu le ua molia ma tu’i le isi ali’i leoleo, e
pei ona taua i fa’amaumauga a le fa’amasinoga,
o le taimi fo’i lea e le’i toe fa’atali ai isi ali’i
leoleo sa i ai, ae ua la tali atu loa i le gaioiga a le
ua molia, e ala i lo la taumafai e taofi le ua molia
ma ta’ita’i loa i totonu o le ta’avale.
Ina ua taumafai leoleo e fa’atalanoa le ua
molia e tusa ai o le mea sa tupu, sa maitauina
ai le faigata ona ia tautala, sa fa’alogoina fo’i le
malosi o le manogi pia sa sau mai lana manava,
ma faia ai loa le fa’aiuga e taofia loa o ia i le
toese i Tafuna, e fa’atali ai le aso e tula’i ai i
luma o le fa’amasinoga fa’aitumalo.
I luma o le fa’amasinoga fa’aitumalo i le
vaiaso nei, ua poloaina ai e le fa’amasinoga
Sanerivi, ia aua ne’i ona toe alu i luma o le
faleoloa o le Aeto Mart, pe teo taumafai fo’i e
fa’afeso’ota’i molimau a le malo o lo o taua i le
pepa o tagi sa fa’aulu e le malo.
Ua fa’asa ona ia toe tagofia le ava malosi,
fa’asa ona ia toe fa’afeso’ota’iina le ali’i leoleo
na a’afia, fa’asa fo’i ona taumafai e sola ese ma
le atunu’u, a o fa’agasolo ai taualumaga o lana
mataupu.
O le faaiuga o le masina nei lea ua fa’atulaga
e toe valaau ai le mataupu a Sanerivi i luma o le
fa’amasinoga fa’aitumalo.
Mai itulau 17
MAUA LE GAOI AUFAIGALUEGA A LE PAMU KESI
O se gaioiga na fafau e le aufaigaluega a se pamu kesi latou
te gaoia le tinoitupe e silia ma le $5,000 mai tupe a le pamu, na
faaleagaina ma maua ina ua tau e se sui o le aiga o se tasi o ia
alii i se tinoitupe tele i le taga o lona ofu i le taeao na sosoo ai.
Na logoina loa e lea tama, o le uncle o se tasi o alii sa aafia i
lea gaoiga, ia le pule o le pamu kesi. O lea tulaga na faailoa i le
Faamasinoga ina ua tulai alii e toatolu sa faigaluega i le pamu
kesi o le C & B Meredith i Vailoa, Faleata i le aso Gafua o le
vaiaso nei mo le lauina o a latou faasalaga. Na faasalaina le alii
o Petaia Lape Pe, lea sa taulamua i le fafauina o lea gaoiga, i le
nofosala i le falepuipui mo le tasi le tausaga ma le lima masina,
ae faasalaina Naulu Fiti ma Tuulimu Tyrell i le ta’i ono masina
i le falepuipui. Na faaalia i faamaumauga a le Faamasinoga e
faapea, o Pe sa supavaisa i le sifi po i le pamu kesi i le po na
tupu ai le faalavelave, ma sa la faitonu ma se isi ana uo e alu atu
ma se agaese e faafefe o ia ae sola ma le tupe. O le taimi lena
ua uma ona faatonu ia Fiti ma Tyrell e faataga momoe i le pito
i tua o le pamu kesi. Ina ua uma ona vaevae le tupe ia i latou e
toafa, sa faapea loa na faataga tuliloa e Pe, Fiti ma Tyrell le alii
na alu atu ma le agaese. Sa lagona e nisi o tuaoi le pisa o i latou
ua molia ma sa latou fesoasoani i le tuliloaina o le alii na alu atu
ma le agaese. Peitai, e lei maua ma e oo mai i le taimi nei, e lei
iloa lava po o ai lea alii. Na o le $3,800 le tupe ua toe maua.
FESILIGIA LE TULAGA LELEI O APA ELENI
Ua fesiligia e se sui faipule o le Palemene le tulaga lelei o apa
eleni o lo o faaulufale mai i le atunuu aua le fofoga taumafa o le
atunuu lautele. Na fesiligia foi e le faipule o le itumalo Faleata,
le afioga Lealailepule Rimoni Aiafi, le saogalemu o ia apa eleni
mo le fofoga taumafa. O lea manatu o le alii faipule na faaalia i
tauaofiaga a le Palemene lea sa talanoaina ai le lipoti a le komiti
o le soifua maloloina, ma le atinae o nuu ma afioaga i le Pili o
Taumafa 2013. Na fesiligia e Lealailepule ia sui o le komiti pe ua
maea ona latou suesueina auiliili ia ituaiga apa eleni o lo o faaulufale mai i totonu o le atunuu, aemaise o ituaiga pusa apa eleni
o lo o faaaoga i faalavelave. Fai mai a ia, o le tulaga lea ua i ai,
ua agai atu tagata ma pusa apa eleni e maua mai i faalavelave ma
faatau atu i faleoloa mo se seleni, e oo foi i pusa apa pisupo, ona
o atu foi lea o isi tagata ma toe faatau mai ia pusa apa mo a latou
faalavelave. Na saunoa Lealailepule, ona fai ai lava lea o lea
faiga o le faatau atu i faleoloa ma toe faatau ese e ia faleoloa seia
oo ina alu ai lava le mau tausaga ma e le taumate ua le talafeagai
ia eleni i le fofoga taumafa. Na saunoa le taitaifono o le komiti,
le afioga i le tamaitai faipule ia Gatoloaifaana Amataga Gidlow,
ma ia faafetaia le alii faipule mo lona mataala i ia tulaga. Fai mai
a ia, o fesili foi ia sa latou fesiligia ai le au faipisinisi o lo o faaulufaleina mai ia oloa, ma ua faamalamalama mai e ia faipisinisi
o lo o saogalemu lava ia eleni i le fofoga taumafa.
➧ Na valaau a’u e le Atua…
Mai itulau 17
“Ina ua ou fo’i mai ma tautua i le Vaega a le Army Reserve i
Amerika Samoa, sa ou lagona ai le fiafia e fa’aauau le tautua mo
le malo ma le atunu’u, peita’i o se tasi o itu sa sili ona faigata ia
te a’u i na taimi, o le tuua lea o la’u fanau a o laiti lava i laua i le
tele o taimi, ae ou malaga atu i aoaoga ma tulaga masani o la’u
galuega i Hawaii ma Amerika”, o le saunoaga lea a Maleine.
“O le avea ai o ‘au o se fitafita ma se tina, e le o se tulaga
faigofie lea i lou olaga, ae atili ai ona faigata lea tulaga, pe afai
e tau fa’amatala i lou to’alua, e 24 itula e te galue ai mo lau galuega”, o le isi lea saunoaga a Maleine.
Sa ia toe manatua aso a o tau amata mai le Vaega a le Army
Reserve i Amerika Samoa, i le faigata o le olaga sa ui mai ai,
Feso’ota’i mai i le tusitala ia
peita’i, ua manuia fuafuaga uma ona o le agalelei o le Atua. “Sa le’i
faigofie le tau amataina mai o le Army Reserve, sa leai se toniga i
na aso, e o mai lava nai tama i ie solosolo ma miti afu, a oo fo’i i
taimi o a latou koleniga, ona o lea ma fana laau e fa’ata’ita’i solo i
Continued from page 23 lalo o toga fa’i a aiga, e ese le fa’agalo gata o na aso, peita’i o suiga
ua vaaia i le taimi nei, ua ou talitonuina ai le alofa o le Atua ia te a’u
faapea ai le atunu’u atoa”, o le isi ana saunoaga lea.
WORLD FIREKNIFE CHAMPIONSHIPS: COMPETITION SCHEDULE
E ese mai i tausaga e 23 sa tautua ai Maleine i le malo, sa
Thursday, May 7, 7:45 p.m., Hale Aloha
mafai
fo’i ona ofo atu lona soifua e tautua ai le malo o Amerika
Junior/Intermediate Divisions (ages 6–11 & 12–17): Preliminary Rounds
Samoa,
amata mai lava i le 1999 seia oo mai i le taimi nei, o lo o
Senior Division (ages 18+): Preliminary Rounds
ia
tautua
pea i le Ofisa Palota a le atunu’u.
Friday, May 8, 7:45 p.m., Hale Aloha
Sa
ia
taua
e fa’apea, o lo o maua pea lona malosi e tautua ai le
Junior/Intermediate Divisions: Finals
atunu’u,
aiga
ma
le malo, e fiafia pea e tautua mo Amerika Samoa. I
Senior Division: Semi-Finals
le fa’aiuga o lana saunoaga, sa ia taua ai le le mafai lea ona aveesea
Saturday, May 9, 7:30 p.m., Pacific Theater
lona manatu i tausaga e tele sa tautua ai i le malo, ona o iina na afua
Senior Division Finals and Crowning of Champion
mai ai ni isi o suiga tetele ma fa’amanuiaga a le Atua i lona soifua
The three finalists face off during intermission of the evening show, “Ha: Breath of Life,” fa’apea ai lona aiga e pei ona vaaia i le taimi nei.
with the winner announced at its conclusion.
I le fai pa’aga ai o le Samoa News ma le kamupani telefoni
For more information, please visit www.worldfireknife.com.
o le Bluesky Communications i lenei tausaga, e momoli atu ai
The PCC will live stream all three nights of the World Fireknife Championships online at fa’amanuiaga ma alofaaga o le Aso Sa o Tina, mo tina uma o
https://new.livestream.com/polynesia-live-event.
lo o tautua i totonu o vaega au a le malo tele, fa’apea ai faletua
HIGH SCHOOL SAMOAN CULTURAL ARTS FESTIVAL
o ali’i o lo o tautua i totonu o vaega ‘au, ona o la outou tautua
Saturday, May 9, 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., Pacific Theater
fa’aauau mo le puipuiina o le filemu o tagatanuu o Amerika
Students compete in a series of traditional Samoan practices and life skills, including pro- Samoa faapea ai le lalolagi atoa.
tocol and speech making, basket weaving, coconut husking and fire making, costuming, poise,
Feso’ota’i mai i le tusitala ia [email protected]
dance movements, and interpretation.
➧ World Fireknife Championships at PCC…
Baltimore mayor seeks federal
civil-rights probe of police dept.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s mayor was emphatic
last week: She did not want
federal oversight of her police
department. “Nobody wants the
Department of Justice to come
in here and take over our city,”
Stephanie
Rawlings-Blake
declared as the National Guard
enforced a 10 p.m. curfew.
But it was hard to find any
opposition Wednesday after
she softened her tone and asked
the U.S. Justice Department
to launch a broad civil rights
investigation that could eventually force the city to make
changes under the oversight of
an outside monitor.
The Democratic mayor now
says she’ll accept outside intervention to rebuild public trust
in a city torn by riots over the
death of Freddie Gray, a black
man who suffered a fatal spinal
injury in police custody.
“I am determined not to
allow a small handful of bad
actors to tarnish the reputation
of the overwhelming majority
of police officers who are acting
with honor and distinction,” she
wrote in a letter to the new U.S.
attorney general, Loretta Lynch.
The mayor’s announcement
came the day after her closeddoor meeting at City Hall with
Lynch, who pledged to improve
the police department and told
faith and community leaders
that “we’re here to hold your
hands and provide support.”
Lynch has received the
mayor’s request and is considering it, Justice Department
spokeswoman Dena Iverson
said Wednesday. “I think that’s
probably a step in the right
direction,” Republican Gov.
Larry Hogan said.
The city’s police union and
City Council president also welcomed the development.
A key figure who didn’t
immediately respond was Police
Commissioner Anthony Batts,
brought in from Oakland, California, by the mayor 2 1/2 years
ago to reform the department.
The
mayor’s
request
could put Batts’ leadership
under a microscope. A police
spokesman had no immediate
response to requests for the
commissioner’s reaction. An
email and a text message were
not immediately returned.
Baltimore suffered days of
unrest after Gray died April
19 after a week in a coma fol-
lowing his arrest. Protesters
threw bottles and bricks at
police the night of his funeral
on April 27, injuring nearly 100
officers. More than 200 people
were arrested as cars and businesses burned.
Baltimore has already been
participating in a voluntary
Justice Department review,
requested by Rawlings-Blake
and Batts last fall. It would
enable police to implement
reforms without a court order or
independent monitor.
But City Council President
Jack Young said he’s been
warning since October that
police won’t change unless
they’re forced to. “The police
commissioner could have said,
‘Well, now, I don’t want to do
that,’ and he didn’t have to do
it,” Young said. “In my opinion,
it was a toothless tiger.”
The Justice Department also
is investigating whether Gray’s
civil rights were violated, a
much narrower review than
what Rawlings-Blake sought
Wednesday.
Meanwhile, six officers
face state charges ranging from
assault to second-degree murder
in Gray’s death. At least two of
them have filed motions challenging the prosecutor’s assertion
that Gray was arrested illegally.
The investigation the mayor
now wants is a wide-ranging
civil-rights probe, examining
how police use force, and
search and arrest suspects. A
similar investigation followed
the shooting of an unarmed,
18-year-old black man by a
white police officer in Ferguson,
Missouri. The department ultimately concluded that Ferguson’s police and courts engaged
in patterns of racial profiling,
bigotry and profit-driven law
enforcement, and directed local
authorities to make changes.
Local authorities still insist they
did nothing wrong.
At least 20 police departments have been investigated
this way for a variety of suspected systemic misconduct
in the past five years, more
than twice the number of cases
opened in the previous five
years, the Justice Department
said when it opened the Ferguson inquiry.
Baltimore police union president Gene Ryan said the union
also has “issues with many of
the current policies and proce-
dures of the department,” and
pledged to cooperate with any
investigation that could lead to
improvement in the department
and officers’ morale.
City
Council
Member
Brandon Scott also welcomed
the federal involvement.
“Like they have in most
places, they’re going to find
some things we’re doing well,
they’re going to find some
things we’re doing not so well,
and they’re going to have to be
stern and hard on our city to
correct those,” Scott said.
Stephen Rushin, a visiting
assistant professor of law at the
University of Illinois who is
working on a book about police
reform, said Rawlings-Blake’s
announcement shows she’s
serious about fixing the department. He said mayors don’t typically request civil-rights investigations, but it can be smart to
embrace them.
The Rev. C.D. Witherspoon,
who leads the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
in Baltimore, said he’s been
asking for years for the Justice
Department to run the city’s
police force from Washington.
“If this is just a probe and
bring forth recommendations, as
they have done in the past, that
won’t be helpful. If they find
things that are potentially problematic, I wonder if they will
be willing to put the department
under receivership and take the
reins,” Witherspoon said.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said it’s up to
Lynch to decide what to do next.
“She has a very good understanding of the way that those
law enforcement and prosecutorial enterprises should conduct
themselves,” Earnest said.
LAND COMMISSION
NOTICE is hereby given that ATUTASI LELEI PEAU of FAGASA, American Samoa, has executed
a LEASE AGREEMENT to a certain parcel of land commonly known as LUGAFUSI which is
situated in the village of FAGASA, in the County of ITUAU, EASTERN 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 EASTER WIGHTMAN UIA & PELE UIA as LESSEES.
Any person who wish, may file his objection in writing with the Secretary of the Land
Commission before the 30TH day of MAY, 2015. It should be noted that any objection must
clearly state the grounds therefor.
POSTED: MARCH 31, 2015 thru MAY 30, 2015
SIGNED: Taito S.B. White, Territorial Registrar
KOMISI O LAU’ELE’ELE
O LE FA’ASALALAUGA lenei ua faia ona o ATUTASI LELEI PEAU ole nu’u o FAGASA, Amerika
Samoa, ua ia faia se FEAGAIGA LISI, i se fanua ua lauiloa o LUGAFUSI, e i le nu’u o FAGASA i le
itumalo o ITUAU, Falelima i SASA’E 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 EASTER
WIGHTMAN UIA & PELE UIA.
A iai se tasi e fia fa’atu’i’ese i lea mata’upu, ia fa’aulufaleina mai sa na fa’atu’iesega tusitusia
ile Failautusi o lea Komisi ae le’i o’o ile aso 30 o ME, 2015. Ia manatua, o fa’atu’iesega uma
lava ia tusitusia manino mai ala uma e fa’atu’iese ai.
04/07 & 05/07/15
American Samoa Government
DEPARTMENT OF PORT ADMINISTRATION
FOR RENT
2 Office Space
(384 sq. ft. each)
Locat at the Airport Terminal
Available June 15, 2015
Pick up lease application at our
Airport Main Office in Tafuna.
Closing date to submit
application and business
proposal will be May 20, 2015
at 4:00pm.
For more information,
contact Muliagatele Gus
Godinet at 699-9103 or
770-1127.
Samoa Tuna Processors, Inc.
Employment
Opportunity
SECURITY GUARD
We currently have vacancy in the Human Resources Department for Security Guards.
Successful candidates must be high school graduate or have equivalent experience.
Acceptable police clearance required. Must possess or be able to obtain a Transportation
Workers Identification Credential (TWIC) ID. Competent English communications ability required.
Must be physically able to stand for periods of time and perform plant-wide walking inspections.
Must be able to work all scheduled shifts including weekends.
Security experience and/or training with references preferred.
Knowledge of relevant security procedures including screening and inspection of personnel,
personal effects and vehicles, reporting and documentation, etc. advantageous. Effective Samoan
communication ability preferred.
Competitive compensation for employment opportunities commensurate with qualifications.
For consideration, bring or send a copy of your resume including, relevant certifications,
references, ASG Immigration clearances (not required for US Nationals, US Citizens or AS
permanent residents) and application by May 12, 2015 to (applications may be obtained at):
Samoa Tuna Processors, Inc.
Attn: Sisamoa Mauga – Human Resources Manager
P.O. Box 957
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799
E-Mail: [email protected]
“An Equal Opportunity Employer”
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