1. No category

Buckle up!
Fatalities CraSHES
1
LOCAL HIGHWAYS
01-01-15 to date
256
LOCAL HIGHWAYS
01-01-15 to date
office of highway safety
Galeai seeks gov’t
subsidy for Poly Air
flight to Ofu
5
C
M
Y
K
Leai se tali Satele
fa’aiuga a le Kovana
fa’asaga ia te ia 17
Members of the ASCC
student cast rehearse a scene
from the theatrical production “Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor
Dreamcoat,”
which will be staged this
Wednesday and Thursday at
7 p.m. in the Lee Auditorium.
See inside today’s issue for
more details with story and
[Photo: J. Kneubuhl]
photos.
online @ samoanews.com
Daily Circulation 7,000
PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA
Monday, April 27, 2015
$1.00
Lafo e Tuiasina le tofi Senatoa a le Itumalo ia Satele
SATELE: TUIASINA, O OE LAVA O LE TOA
tusia Ausage Fausia
Alapati Heatman A’asa did it again, winning his seventh
professional fight on Saturday night at the Samoa Sports Center
in the main event of the evening against Ioane Taulamago of
Samoa.The boxing matches occurred before a packed audience,
who cheered on both fighters.
A’asa in black cornered Taulamago during the second round
in which the fight was then called off by the referee as Taula[photo: Jl]
mago was unable to continue the fight.
Na fa’ateia le fonotaga a le afioaga o Vailoa i le fa’aiuga o le vaiaso na te’a nei, lea na fonoa
ai le malae i Asotau, o le maota e afio ai Satele le Alo o Salamasina, ina ua lafo atu e le afioga
i le ali’i Senatoa ia Tuiasina Sosene Esera le tofi Senatoa o le Itumalo o Tualatai, i le afioga i le
Alo o Salamasina ia Satele Galu Satele.
Na talia ma le agaga fa’afetai e le afioga a Satele le fa’aaloalo maualuga a Tuiasina, peita’i,
sa ia toe lafo le tofi o le Itumalo ia Tuiasina fa’atasi ai ma lana fa’amanuiga e fa’apea, “Tuiasina,
fa’afetai mo lau fa’aeaea, le tofi lena o le itumalo, alo e fa’aauau le tofi, ae o le aso ua ou iloa ai,
o oe lava o le Toa”.
Na tutulu le afioga i le ali’i senatoa ia Tuiasina, i le taimi na saunoa ai e lafo le tofi o le itumalo
(Faaauau itulau 18)
Lolo: final decision on fautasi race
ensures a peaceful community
by Fili Sagapolutele
Samoa News Correspondent
C
M
Y
K
Author Lani Wendt Young will be in American Samoa this
week to launch her new adult romance novel set in Samoa.
“Scarlet Lies” is the first in a new series. See story inside for
[courtesy photo]
details of her visit.
Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga says the Fautasi
Race Committee’s decision was to split the total
amount of money allocated for the race among
all fautasi that competed last Monday, but he
made the decision “to uphold the results of the
race to maintain peace in our territory.”
The governor was responding to Sen. Galeai
Tu’ufuli’s comments made in a news conference he called last Thursday. Galeai told
reporters that his greatest disappointment was
the involvement of the governor in the decision
making process of this committee.
Asked why he got in involved in the final
decision, Lolo told Samoa News last Friday
that the committee couldn’t make the final decision and therefore “somebody had to make the
final decision, which should have been made by
the committee right after the race — but not a
day later — in which the committee passed the
matter on to me for that decision.”
“This is the best decision I can make to
ensure that the community remains peaceful,”
Lolo said in a phone interview. “We cannot just
leave the outcome of the race without a final
decision, as the community and fautasi teams
and crews were waiting for it.”
Lolo said the committee came to him with
their decision to split the money prizes evenly
among all the fautasi who raced.
“But the question that came up was: is it fair
to the winner, the second place and third place
fautasi to get the same amount of money as the
other fautasi?” he asked. “I made the decision to
uphold the results of the race to maintain peace
in our territory, and among fautasi teams and
villages.”
He says the committee told him that there
was no dispute regarding the winning fautasi,
Manulele Tausala I, second place Don Bosco
200 and 3rd place Fealofani Samoa. “I don’t
think it’s fair to these fautasi if the money was
split evenly among all the nine fautasi,” he
pointed out.
Lolo acknowledged that there was a lot of
criticism following the race, as well as the recommendation from Galeai, who suggested that
in the future the government not get involved
in the race, but have it run by a private organization such as the Yacht Club, which members
include “people who know the sea — the positive and negative of the sea” and are not politically involved in government.
Lolo says he welcomes all recommendations
and advice, as this can be used to improve future
races. He also noted that there will always be
criticism in these events and that everyone has
their own take on what happens on the day of
the race.
“The recommendations from everyone we
can use to hopefully improve the race next
year,” he said.
Galeai had also told reporters that as
chairman of the Senate Government Operations Committee he plans to “demand” a complete financial report of Flag Day — in which
both public and private donations were used for
prizes and other expenses.
Lolo said they are waiting for all bills from
the Flag Day celebration to come in. “We have
to pay these bills to get a complete picture of
the revenue and expenditures of the Flag Day
celebration,” he said.
See last Friday’s Samoa News edition for
Galeai’s thoughts on the race.
Page 2
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015
Rescuers struggle to reach
remote Nepal as toll rises
People look at the debris of one of the oldest temples after it was damaged in Saturdayís earthquake, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, April 26, 2015. The earthquake centered outside Kathmandu, the capital, was the worst to hit the South Asian nation in over 80 years. It destroyed
swaths of the oldest neighborhoods of Kathmandu, and was strong enough to be felt all across
(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
parts of India, Bangladesh, China’s region of Tibet and Pakistan.
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The death
toll from Nepal’s earthquake soared past 3,700
Monday, and how much higher it would rise
depended largely on the condition of vulnerable
mountain villages that rescue workers were still
struggling to reach two days after the disaster.
Reports received so far by the government
and aid groups suggest that many communities perched on mountainsides are devastated
or struggling to cope. Udav Prashad Timalsina,
the top official for the Gorkha district, near the
epicenter of Saturday’s quake, said he was in
desperate need of help.
“There are people who are not getting food
and shelter. I’ve had reports of villages where
70 percent of the houses have been destroyed,”
he said.
He said 223 people had been confirmed dead
in the district but he presumed “the number
would go up because there are thousands who
are injured.”
Saturday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake spread
horror from Kathmandu to small villages and to
the slopes of Mount Everest, triggering an avalanche that buried part of the base camp packed
with foreign climbers preparing to make their
summit attempts.
Timalsina said his district had not received
enough help from the central government, but
Jagdish Pokhrel, the clearly exhausted army
spokesman, said nearly the entire 100,000-soldier army was involved in rescue operations.
“We have 90 percent of the army out there
working on search and rescue,” he said. “We are
focusing our efforts on that, on saving lives.”
Nepal police said in a statement Monday
that the country’s death toll had risen to 3,617
people. That does not include the 18 people
killed in the avalanche, which were counted
by the mountaineering association. Another 61
people were killed in neighboring India, and
China reported 20 people dead in Tibet.
Well over 1,000 of the victims were in Kathmandu, the capital, where an eerie calm prevailed Monday.
Tens of thousands of families slept outdoors for a second night, fearful of aftershocks
that have not ceased. Camped in parks, open
squares and a golf course, they cuddled children or pets against chilly Himalayan nighttime
temperatures.
(all ANSWERs on page 14)
(Continued on page 14)
Official request
to be made from
Senate to recoup
“illegal payouts”
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015 Page 3
PRE-MOTHER’S DAY
PLANT SALE
Saturday, May 2, 2015 • 7am - 3pm
“Bring the best exotic tropical plants to you”
Come and Check out our Tropical Plants to delight and satisfy your gardening experience
SEN. Galea’i: Not Lolo’s fault; “It was the
other guy who paid himself & left town”
by Fili Sagapolutele
Samoa News Correspondent
Sen. Galea’i Tu’ufuli has confirmed that the Fono’s legal
counsel is drafting a resolution making an official request
from the Senate for the Lolo Administration to look into the
nearly $1 million in payouts to the previous Togiola Administration and asking that all money owed the government be
recouped.
Speaking at a news conference he called last Thursday,
Galea’i said the resolution — which requires Senate approval
— would be introduced in July when the Fono convenes for
the 2nd Regular Session of the 34th Legislature.
Before holding the news conference, Galea’i said he met
with legal counsel, who are drafting the resolution dealing
with the payouts for former directors and top leaders of the
previous Togiola Administration.
Former governor Togiola Tulafono and former lieutenant
governor Faoa Aitofele Sunia also received payouts, and this
has been the subject of a probe by the Senate Government
Operations Committee, chaired by Galea’i, who reminded
reporters that the Senate launched the probe after Gov. Lolo
Matalasi Moliga raised the issue in his January 2013 State of
the Territory Address to the Legislature.
“We looked into these payments, and we asked the administration to recoup that money. So we’ve done our job, and it’s
now up to the Executive Branch,” Galea’i said, and noted that
the Committee held a closed door meeting earlier this month
with Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo Ale, who “admitted
that there were overpayments in paying [annual] leave and
sick leave.”
Additionally, “there was some compensatory time that
was overpaid, whereas the law says all [political] appointees
are not entitled to compensatory time,” said Galea’i of the
committee’s meeting with Talauega. “Political appointees
are not entitled to comp time payment. They’re entitled to
take leave to compensate for their time, instead of monetary
payment.”
He explained that the draft resolution would request that the
governor look into this matter and “recoup the money” for the
government.
“And then there is the case of the former governor and
former lieutenant governor. Now that’s a serious [issue]
because it clearly violates the law,” Galea’i said and reiterated
what he had previously told Samoa News — which is, that
these two top ASG officials are entitled to annual salaries, a
housing allowance and use of government cars as outlined in
the law.
“Any other benefits shall be prescribed by law — which
requires legislation,” Galea’i pointed out. “The current law
providing benefits to employees, such as annual leave and
sick leave are for career service employees only. Not political
appointees, an outgoing an governor or an outgoing lieutenant
governor.”
Galea’i insisted that his committee will “keep after this
issue until next year” and will not give up easily. He also
wanted to make clear that the payout issue was not Gov. Lolo’s
doing. “It was the other guy who paid himself and left town,”
he said, referring to Togiola.
According to the Treasury Department’s payout report submitted to the committee in 2013, the final check — after taxes
— for Togiola was $39,406 and the final check for Faoa was
$34,812.
Galea’i told Samoa News more than a week ago that
Talauega had told the committee that it was “common practice” when it comes to payouts for outgoing governors and
lieutenant governors in past years.
“And I told the attorney general that we need to put a stop
to this practice. This common practice is an ‘illegal practice’
that needs to stop,” he said.
LOCATION:
Leone-Sogi Road across from
Ripley Guest House
Call 733-5596 or 733-5989
for direction to the Plant Sale
Woman who broke into judge’s
house is given a second chance
Seven years jail time, deportation suspended
by Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu
Samoa News Reporter
A woman who broke into a judge’s residence, and stole two ice blocks, leaving with
the judge’s pair of sandals and coins valued at
$40 was sentenced to serve jail time.
Elega Sauaso of Tafuna was facing charges
of burglary first degree and stealing, however
in a plea deal with the government she pled
guilty to an amended burglary charge. In
return the government dismissed the stealing
count.
During sentencing, Sauaso apologized for
her actions and requested another chance to
return to her family to take care of her mother.
She also apologized to her family and
Associate Judge Fa’amausili Pomele and
his wife for breaking into their house and
removing items that belonged to them.
She further apologized to her parents for
being disobedient, which she said led to her
appearance in court and brought shame to her
family’s good name.
Assistant Public Defender Mike White,
who represented Sauaso stated that she has
alcohol problems and she needs help in that
area. He recommended that she undergo
alcohol counseling.
Assistant Attorney General Tiffany Oldfield pointed out that despite this being her
first time in the High Court, she’s not new to
the District Court, as she appeared there three
times for public peace disturbances involving
alcohol, for which she’s been placed on
probation.
The prosecutor said the defendant broke
into a residence at night and stole properties
that were not hers, and ate their food while
the woman who owns the house was sleeping.
Oldfield asked the court to sentence Sauaso
to 12 months in jail as part of her seven years
probation.
Chief Justice Michael Kruse, who was
accompanied by Associate Judge Muasau
Tasina Tofili, said that it appears that placing
Sauaso on probation does not work.
The defendant has been under probation
twice, yet she continues to consume alcohol.
However, the court opted to give the
defendant a second chance, and if she does
violate the law again the court will not hesitate to give her a harsher penalty.
Sauaso was sentenced to seven years in
jail, however execution of sentencing was
suspended and she’s placed on probation
under certain conditions.
Kruse ordered that Sauaso serve nine
months in jail, and that she remain a law
abiding citizen. She is also to apologize to the
judge and his wife and also to the police officers that she swore at.
Another condition of her sentencing is that
she will return to her home country of Samoa,
however the court has stayed that order, given
her good behavior and abiding by the conditions of probation.
Kruse told Sauaso that if she violates her
probationary terms she’ll be jailed for seven
years and then she’ll be returned back to
Samoa.
According to the government’s case, the
incident occurred in May 2014 where police
received a call about the alleged burglar.
It’s alleged that when police arrived at
the residence, they met with the woman who
owns the house, who told them what had happened and what had been taken.
Police interviewed the victim’s neighbor
where one witness said she saw the defendant
heading home in the early morning of May
18, 2014 and her pockets were filled with
coins.
The defendant apparently told the neighbor
that same day that she had broken into the
victim’s house, and told the neighbor not to
tell anyone.
The next day May 19, 2014 police interviewed the defendant where she admitted to
what she did and that she had been drinking,
according to the court filings.
Page 4
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015
Letter to the Editor
“50-MILE ISSUE”
Dear Editor,
The Government, Fono, Alia owners and longliner owners
on the 50-mile issue has gotten to the point that no one is
thinking clearly anymore. Here are some points that can make
this a win-win situation for all. A good businessman knows
that a good practice for an investment is to know where, how
and the feasibility of the project. Several factors are on the
table, and no one is looking at them.
First, the Westpac is trying to open the 50-mile zone, and
one of the reasons they say is “to collect data that has not been
collected for more than 10 years”.
Second, the local alias say that they don’t longline anymore, because there is not enough fish in the area. They are not
prohibited to go beyond 12 or even 50 miles, but they don’t do
it. So, they don’t know what is there. They don’t want to take
the risk.
Third, the longliners say that they need those waters to
follow the fish and catch it and hopefully save themselves.
They don’t know and want to find out if this solves their
situation.
Fourth, the government is ready to invest $2million plus in
10 super alias to fish inside the 50-miles without knowing if
this is profitable or not. There is no data available on such a
venture, but they’re willing to take this risk.
Fifth, the Westpac says that the amendment is not set in
stone and it will be reviewed every year. With what they have
now, they cannot move on as the super alia project has no
basis, no feasibility study.
If we put all of these points together, the results are:
a) The government is planning to invest $2million plus
without knowing in reality what is happening in this area.
Where is the money going to come from without a feasibility
study or a survey of this area?
b) The Westpac in reality is making a survey using the
longliners to collect this data without spending extra money in
surveys. Minimum time has to be 2 to 3 years.
c) If the super alia is going to be bought by investors,
with this survey, they will see if this investment is feasible, and
they can use the data to find the money, unless the government
is going to pay for these super alias, but they claim they don’t
have any money.
d) The longliners will have the opportunity to see if
staying in the US EEZ is worth it or not, and if necessary, plan
their way out and move to better waters.
e) The government will have some data to get the money
from USA, from the canneries or banks for this project that
they wont have without a survey.
f) The canneries will have the American fish for the US
federal programs.
I really don’t understand where this can cause damage to
the future or present generations. This is a decision that can be
seen as a win-win situation for all.
Business-wise, the idea of letting the longliners use those
waters to survey and find out the feasibility of any project is
a good one. Of course, this is looking from the business side,
because looking from the political side, I don’t know, because
I am not a politician.
Signed,
Carlos Sanchez
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Samoa News welcomes and encourages
Letters to the Editor. Please send them to our
email [email protected]
Box 909, Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799.
Contact us by Telephone at (684) 633-5599
Contact us by Fax at (684) 633-4864
or by Email at [email protected]
Normal business hours are Mon. thru Fri. 8am to 5pm.
Permission to reproduce editorial and/or advertisements, in
whole or in part, is required. Please address such requests to the
Publisher at the address provided above.
© Osini Faleatasi Inc. reserves all rights.
dba Samoa News is published Monday through Friday,
except for some local and federal holidays.
Please send correspondences to: OF, dba Samoa News,
Box 909, Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799.
Telephone at (684) 633-5599 • Fax at (684) 633-4864
Email advertisements to [email protected]
Email the newsroom at [email protected]
Normal business hours are Mon. thru Fri. 8am to 5pm.
Permission to reproduce editorial and/or advertisements,
in whole or in part, is required. Please address such requests
to the Publisher at the address provided above.
Please visit samoanews.com for weekend updates.
TELESA author to visit soon
(PRESS RELEASE) — Author Lani Wendt Young has released the first book in a brand new
series – and she’s coming to American Samoa to launch it.
SCARLET LIES is an adult contemporary romance novel set in Samoa available in both
e-book and paperback. Hosted by Christinna Lutu-Sanchez and the Lalelei Store, Lani will be
visiting several schools in the territory, as well as the ASCC College, to speak about her journey
as an author, and to share her insights and advice for aspiring writers.
The Feleti Barstow Public Library will also be holding an “Author Talanoa” with Lani on
Friday, May 1st, where she will talk about her wildly popular TELESA Series and welcome questions from the audience. The event starts at 6.30pm and is a free event open to the public.
On Saturday 2nd May, Lani will be meeting readers and signing their books at the Lalelei
Store, located in the Laufou Shopping Center complex from 10a.m. to 1p.m. A limited number
of copies of her new book Scarlet Lies, and all the books in the TELESA Series will be available
for purchase.
This is an incredible opportunity for readers in the territory to meet the international bestselling author whose TELESA Series has been optioned for a movie and whose stories of Samoa
are helping to fuel a love for reading in countless Pasifika youth worldwide .
The full program for Lani’s visit
Thurs 30 April – Samoana High, Tafuna High, Nu’uuli Vocational Tech.
Fri 1st May – Leone High, ASCC (12.30 and open to public)
Fri 1st May, 6.30pm – Author Talanoa, Feleti Barstow Library, Utulei
Sat May 2, 10am – Book Signing, Lalelei, Laufou Shopping Center complex.
For further info about Lani’s visit, contact Ms Lutu-Sanchez, Ph. 252-2222.
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015 Page 5
Galeai will seek gov’t subsidy for Satele Galu
Polynesian Airlines flight to Ofu Satele —
“God knows
the truth…”
by Fili Sagapolutele, Samoa News Correspondent
Sen. Galeai Tu’ufuli plans to pursue a government
subsidy for Polynesian Airlines in order to provide at
least one flight a week to Ofu while the U.S. Department
of Transportation (USDOT) has granted another 30-day
exemption from cabotage laws in order for the Samoagovernment owned airline to operate Manu’a air service.
Ofu Airport, which serves Ofu and Olosega islands,
has been without commercial service for many years,
and ASG requested Polynesian Airlines to provide service to Ofu for at least once a week, since it is already
flying into Fitiuta Airport on Ta’u Island in Manu’a.
As previously reported by Samoa News, ASG had
denied Polynesian’s subsidy request of $100,000 annually to guarantee ten seats on the weekly flight. Port
Administration director Taimalelagi Dr. Claire Poumele
told Samoa News two weeks ago that ASG just does not
have the money for a subsidy. (See Samoa News edition
of Apr. 13 for details.)
However, Galeai told reporters last Thursday that he
will work in the Senate on getting that subsidy in order
for Polynesian to operate “at least one weekly flight to
Ofu Airport. I’m going to see to it that Polynesian gets
some help from our government, because it’s worth it,”
Galeai said during a news conference. He said $100,000
“is not a lot of money. Look at how they — ASG —
spend other money. I think it’s more appropriate for the
people of Ofu to get at least one flight a week. If we have
to subsidize that, fine. I have no problem with that.”
The Manu’a senator says that residents traveling by
boat from Ta’u island to Ofu do so at times when seas are
rough, which is “very hazardous” and therefore Ofu and
Olosega residents deserve to get air service.
Galeai said the proposed subsidy will be included
under the Special Program budget category of the annual
budget. “I just feel that Ofu people need some help,” he
said referring to commercial air service.
The fiscal year 2016 budget, which begins Oct. 1,
2015 is the priority for the Fono when it re-convenes in
July for the 2nd Regular Session of the 34th Legislature.
Galeai agreed, when asked by reporters about Ofu service and tourism — that air service to Ofu would further
improve tourist visits — as they would be able to see and
enjoy the National Park of American Samoa on that island.
Galeai says he is very thankful to Polynesian Airlines
and the government of Samoa for operating flights to
Manu’a under a cabotage exemption from the USDOT.
He also says that he is working on a resolution for introduction in the Senate, when the Fono convenes in July
thanking Polynesian and the Samoa government “for
their kindness and their support of the Manu’a people.”
“It’s a good thing the federal government allows Polynesian to operate under the cabotage waiver, because they see
the need for that, until we have a local airline,” he said and
noted that travelers to Manu’a are happy with Polynesian
because the airline keeps a regular schedule for its service.
As reported by Samoa News in February this year, Polynesian conducted test flights into Ofu Airport and early
last month Polynesian Airlines operated a charter flight to
Ofu Airport for a group of tourists who are members of the
National Park Traveler’s Club. The club has as their goal
to visit as many of the just over 400 park sites in the U.S.
National Park system as possible, and last year due to no
dependable flights were not able to visit Manu’a. The group
made their own arrangements and paid for the charter.
ANOTHER USDOT WAIVER
Last Friday, USDOT’s assistant secretary for aviation
and international affairs Susan L. Kurland approved
Polynesian’s request for another 30-day cabotage waiver
— from Apr. 30 to May 29 — to operate Manu’a flights.
The approval came following an Apr. 10 request from
Polynesian, which states that no other U.S. carrier is
available to operate American Samoa’s domestic flights
and Polynesian remains the only one.
“Based on the record in this proceeding, we concluded
that no U.S. carrier had aircraft available that could be
used to conduct the operations at issue here,” Kurland
wrote in her decision.
translated by Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu
Samoa News Reporter
It’s been weeks since Governor Lolo Matalasi
Moliga removed Satele Galu Satele as Secretary
of Samoan Affairs, and for the first time Samoa
News was able to speak with Satele in person, after
seeking comment as to the reason for his removal.
However, Satele refused to say anything publicly about what happened, but he did congratulate
the newly sworn in Secretary of Samoan Affairs,
Paramount Chief Mauga Tasi Asuega.
Earlier this month Lolo issued a letter executing
his authority under the constitution of American
Samoa and appointed an Acting Secretary of
Samoan Affairs, and noting that Satele “is no
longer serving” as Secretary of Samoan Affairs.
Satele told Samoa News in Samoan “Satale
does not want to say anything about what happened, God knows the truth about what happened,”
when asked for a comment regarding his removal.
Samoa News further asked Satele about allegations regarding the disagreement he had with the
governor, and in response Satele said he does not
want to dwell in the past. Continuing to speaking
in Samoan, Satele quoted a verse from the Bible
in which Jesus told his Father in heaven to forgive
those, for they “know not what they do.”
Some of the Chiefs of Vailoa told Samoa News
that it was not pleasant news hearing that their
Paramount Chief had been removed from his post
by the governor.
F L A G DAY D E A L S !
Now until
April 30TH
2015
at ORIGIN ENERGY the LPGAS EXPERTS
For all your Outdoor Cooking,
Family Fa’alavelave, Large Gatherings or Indoor Cooking!
10% - 15% OFF
Talk to us for the
right gas advice
Our specialist
gas technicians provide
safe, reliable installation
AWARENESS TIP:
Gas is cheaper than
Electricity, Help us keep
the air we breathe clean.
AT402-2Burners
Hi Pressure Woks
HC700B-2Burners
GB01-CAST IRON
15% - 20% OFF
LpgasAGR2200AAW
-20inch
Lpgas-AMANACROSLEY-30inch
Four burner stoves
Lpgas- Lantern &
2kg, 4kg full
SELECT ITEMS
Lpgas-2burners BBQ GRILL
NOW $60.00 & $70.00 Was $382.95 NOW $160
Limited Stocks
Limited Stocks
WAS $101.25 & $113.58
CK107 –Single Bnr
Lpgas – Instantaneous
Hot Water Heater
RINNAI-5.5LTR RINNAI-10LTR
WAS $549.25
WAS $749.00
NOW $400.00 NOW $500.00
CALL into origin energy gas showroom at tafuna industrial park 699-9740
Page 6
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015
With the month of April dedicated to National Autism Awareness Month, level eight students
and teachers from Pago Pago Elementary School along with their parents, were out last Friday,
April 24 in front of their school conducting a wave in support of this awareness campaign.
The medical website, www.medicalnewstoday.com states, Autism is known as a complex
developmental disability. Experts believe that Autism presents itself during the first three years of
a person’s life. The condition is the result of a neurological disorder that has an effect on normal
brain function, affecting development of the person’s communication and social interaction skills.
According to the autism website www.autismspeaks.org, this past April 2, President Barack
Obama issued a White House proclamation recognizing World Autism Awareness Day (April 2),
declaring that “everyone deserves a fair shot at opportunity” and celebrating the work of “advocates, professionals, family members and all who work to build brighter tomorrows alongside
[photo: Jeff Hayner]
those with autism.” Guam’s tourism plan raises
concerns regarding funds
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Is the Guam
Visitors Bureau’s goal to raise tourist arrivals
from 1.3 million to 2 million in a year, starting
in 2020, too many, and too soon?
The question was raised at the island sustainability conference hosted by the University of
Guam last week, and a local businessman hopes
to get the community discussions on the topic
to continue, the Pacific Daily News reported
Monday.
Sonny Ada, former Guam Visitors Bureau
chairman and president of Ada’s Trust, is advocating for the continued discussion on the topic
because he said it impacts the quality of life of
Guam residents.
With GVB’s goal, Guam’s tourist volume
would increase by about 50 percent in just five
years, Ada said. If each additional visitor uses
just one disposable cup, that means an additional 700,000 cups ending up in the landfill in
a year, he said.
Ada said raising the question isn’t meant to
be critical of the plan; it’s aimed to help stir discussions about whether there’s a better way to
grow the economy without the massive volume
of tourists being aimed for.
UOG President Robert Underwood said he
hopes the discussions at the 6th Regional Island
Sustainability Conference at the Hyatt Regency
Guam on April 15 have provoked conversations.
The goal for 2 million tourists a year is stated
in the Guam Visitors Bureau’s Tourism 2020
plan.
That goal isn’t new; the island tourism
industry had aspired for that number in the ‘90s,
Underwood said.
The discussion on visitor arrivals should
include how the island will be challenged with
the additional strain to its limited resources,
Underwood said.
“I am not opposed to growth, or to economic
development, but is there a way to pursue economic development where you have a different
calculation?” Underwood asked.
Instead of aiming for 2 million tourists, who
might spend $100 a day in the local economy,
the goal could shift to aiming for fewer, but
higher-spending tourists, he said. One million tourists who spend $300 a day in the local
economy bring better results to the host community, because there’s lesser strain on the
island’s resources, he said.
Underwood mentioned Palau as an example.
Palau has calculated the value of protecting
a shark at around $1 million in tourism dollars
because tourists from all over the world visit the
island republic for its ecosystem, Underwood
said.
The island republic has also realized that
killing a shark results in a short-term gain of
about $10,000, he said.
UOG and Ada’s Trust joined efforts in
holding a video and essay contest among UOG
students to foster the public discussion.
The winners of the video essay contest are
Marcel Jardeleza, first place, who received a
$1,000 prize; and Francis Valencia, second
place, who won a $500 prize.
The winners of the written essay contest are
Huy Tran, first place, who received $500; and
Aguarin Iriarte, second place, who received
$250.
Underwood said the question being asked
seems critical of GVB’s goal, but many of the
essays came up with the conclusion that 2 million tourist arrivals might be doable.
So the answer to the question is not clear-cut,
Underwood said.
Ada said he hopes the contest will be
expanded next year to include high school
students.
He said it’s important for the community
to discuss the issue because elected officials
can’t just go along with the tourism businesses
without weighing the pros and cons to the host
community.
Tourism is like any other business -- it’s
about supply and demand, Ada said.
After Guam’s hotels went through years of
tourism slowdown, they’re currently in a “sweet
spot” with higher hotel rates and more tourists
to fill their rooms, Ada said.
If Guam is flooded with additional hotel
rooms, and another international crisis causes
the island’s tourism industry to slump, hotel
properties and the people who work there will
go through another tough economic time, Ada
said.
Tourism to the National
Park of American
Samoa creates $900K+
in economic benefits
(PRESS RELEASE) — PAGO PAGO, American Samoa —
A new National Park Service report shows that 13,952 visitors
to the National Park of American Samoa in 2014 spent $782,500
in villages near the park. That spending supported nine jobs in
the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy
of $952,500.
“The National Park of American Samoa is proud to welcome visitors from throughout American Samoa and around the
world,” said Acting Superintendent Barbara Alberti. “We are
delighted to share the story of this place and the experiences it
provides. We also feature the park as a way to introduce our visitors to this part of the South Pacific and all that it offers. National
park tourism is a significant driver in the national economy—
returning $10 for every $1 invested in the National Park Service,
and it’s a big factor in our local economy as well. We appreciate
the partnership and support of the villages and are glad to be able
to give back by helping to sustain local communities.”
The peer-reviewed visitor spending analysis was conducted
by U.S. Geological Survey economists Catherine Cullinane
Thomas and Christopher Huber and National Park Service economist Lynne Koontz. The report shows $15.7 billion of direct
spending by 292.8 million park visitors in communities within
60 miles of a national park. This spending supported 277,000
jobs nationally; 235,600 of those jobs are found in these gateway
communities. The cumulative benefit to the U.S. economy was
$ 29.7 billion.
The National Park Service cares for special places saved by
the American people so that all may experience our heritage.
According to the 2014 report, most park visitor spending was
for lodging (30.6 percent) followed by food and beverages (20.3
percent), gas and oil (11.9 percent), admissions and fees (10.2
percent) and souvenirs and other expenses (9.9 percent).
To download the report visit www.nature.nps.gov/
socialscience/economics.cfm. This report includes information
for visitor spending at individual parks, states, and territories.
To learn more about the National Park of American Samoa
and how the National Park Service works with the American
Samoa villages to help preserve local history, conserve the environment, and provide outdoor recreation, go to www.nps.gov/
americansamoa.
Truckers could stay home from
nation’s biggest port complex
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Truck drivers who haul goods
from the nation’s busiest port complex in Los Angeles and
Long Beach could stay home Monday in a long-running labor
dispute.
The results of a weekend vote from Teamsters are set to be
revealed and could lead to a partial work stoppage at the ports,
officials said.
About 16,000 drivers work at the ports, most of them independent contractors for trucking companies. The truckers say
they face shrinking wages and want to become employees of the
trucking companies, which they say would mean better wages
and workplace protections.
It was too soon to say what, if any, effect a work stoppage
would have on business, said ports representatives.
Earlier this year, tough contract negotiations with dockworkers nearly closed 29 seaports from San Diego to Seattle,
causing major delays in the delivery of billions of dollars of
imports and exports.
The drivers have been subjected to “persistent wage theft,”
said Teamsters spokeswoman Barb Maynard.
Trucking companies have argued that driver pay is good and
picketing at the ports did not represent the majority of drivers.
They object especially to the timing of the unrest as the port
is still recovering from a dockworkers strike.
“I believe now is a horrible time to introduce any slowdowns to the supply chain,” Weston LaBar, executive director
of the Harbor Trucking Association, said in a statement late last
week. “If they want to be a part of the real solution perhaps they
should suspend these efforts until we get closer to a normal flow
of cargo in the San Pedro Bay. We don’t want to put any more
jobs in our region in jeopardy.”
The Southern California ports are the primary West Coast
gateway for hundreds of billions of dollars of annual trade with
Asia.
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015 Page 7
Join us for
We are open:
HAPPY HOUR
TUESDAY – THURSDAY
4:00PM – 12:00AM
Tuesday – Friday
4:00pm – 7:00pm.
FRIDAY & SATURDAY
4:00PM – 2:00AM
• FREE Karaoke
• Silver Brothers Band
Fri & Sat 9:00pm-2:00am
• Drink Specials
• For those with an APPE-tite,
try our APPE-BREAKER menu
• 4 flatscreen TVs for your
viewing pleasure
“Come break the ice at Ice Breakers”
“Located on Iliili, Airport Road (Former Runway Bar & Grill)
• Call us today to
book your functions
699-6969, 258-9040
or 252-5037
LIMA FESOASOANI
QUICK FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS
PO Box 308, Pago Pago, AS 96799
Tel: (684) 699-3848 or 633-3848
Fax: (684) 699-3849 or 633-3849
E-mail: [email protected]
The following account holders are encouraged to visit or contact our Collection Representative, Masi Manila
at 699-3848 at our Tafuna Office, regarding your delinquent account.
Aetui, Ernest Samoa
Afoa, Oganiu
Agae, Lameta Siapu
Ah Ching, Faanaitaua
Ah Mu, Johnny
Aisau, Ioasa
Ala, Oliana
Alaelua, Kapeteni
Aliivaa, Taumasina
Allen, Lidwina
Allen, Mathew Waldie
Allen, Stoechkict
Alosio, Tuloto
Asiata, Muese
Atiae, Faatamalii
Atonio, Jason
Auelua, Uaite
Auvele, Atimalala
Auelua, Caroline
Avia, Elaine
Correia, Martina
Crosby, Miriama
Esau, Masua
Esau, Steven
Esera, Tauva
Eti, Lopa
Faaatuatu, Upuese
Faalii, Kalala
Faatamalii, Army
Fatitauai, Tesimale
Faaiu, Faletusiesile
Faaulusau, Iva
Faavae, Meaalofa
Falanai, Hana
Faamafi, Talamoa
Failauga, Mavaeao
Faumuina, Peniamina
Fetaui, Mollyvina
Fiaalii, Niko
Foleni, Faafua
Fruean, Saena Samuelu
Fuimaono, Esther
Fuimaono-Masaniai, Manino
Fuimaono, Michelle
Fuimaono-Porotesano, Tuumafua
Fulu, Alamai
Gaoteote, Dalton
Gaoteote, Tafaoata
Gaoteote, Tupouamoa
Grey, Augustine
Grey, Mark
Hun Fen, Fagaalofa
Husseini, Judy
Iaulualo, Therisa
Ilimaleota, Levelevei
Ilimaleota, Mikaele
Ioasa, Aisau
Isaia, Monte
Iupeli, Elvis
Iupeli, Pepelini Filemu
Kaisa, Johnny
Kerisiano, Sale
Kerisiano, Sivao
Kosene, Chevette
Kuresa, Faavela
Kuresa-Sokimi, Christina
Lake, Faasisina
Lalau, Taase
Laloulu, Toese
Laulu, Fuaao
Leaoa, Talavai
Leapai, Poe
Leasiolagi, Galen
Lefotu, Dora
Leilua, Selesitina
Leituala-Misiuepa, Ufanafana
Leo, Crystal
Leo, Tuisamoa
Leota, Imoa
Leota, “PJ” Pule T
Lepolo, Taleni
Letoa, Aloni
Levu, Jordan
Lilio, Ualesi
Limutau, Chanel
Loa, Tuanai
Loa, Winnie
Loe, Simo
Lokou, Poni
Lolani, Pope Paulo
Luaifoa, Diane Melesete
Luapo, Sesilia
Luavasa, Leua
Lui, Fiso ‘Isabella’
Maanaima, Fereti
Maea, Lui
Maeataanoa, Sarai
Mafua, Barbara
Magalei, Seugatalitasi
Mageo, Precious
Maiava, Filisi
Maiava, Fitiuta
Makiasi, Simativa
Maloata, Tugaluea
Malolo, Oliva
Malosi, Pola
Maligi, Taumanupepe
Maluia, Tiresa
Manaea, Chester
Mao, Pito
Mapu, Loreta
Mapu, Sineti
Mapu, Vitale
Marques, Aveta
Masaniai, Manino
Masui, Junior
Masunu, Toloa
Matalima, Alieta
Matamu, Kelemete
Matau, Esau
Matau, Faletui
Matau, Tikeri
Mauga, Hokiana
Mckenzie, Saofaiga
Meredith, Anthony
Mika, Utumoeaau
Milo, Pala
Minoneti, Lusila
Misa, Levei
Misi, Susau
Misioka, Miliama
Misiuepa, Suluifaleese
Misivila, Sophia
Moe, Lagisolia
Moemoe, Tailua
Monaco, Thomas
Mose, Junior
Moors, Harry
Moors Jr, Misimoa
BUSINESS HOURS:
10:00am - 4:00 pm • Monday to Friday
Moors, Matauaina
Muao, Ropeti
Muliau, Samasoni
Mulitalo-Ieremia-Foster, Anna
Musa, Sinatulaga
Navelika, Onosa’i
Netane, Luki
Niukini, Renee
Noa, Jr. Lautele
Nu’usoalia, Lokeni Jr.
Nu’usoalia, Lokeni Sr.
Nuutai, Petaia
Nyel, Naomi
Ofoia, Sose
Onosai, Saisavaii
Onosai, Savelina
Osoimalo, Samoa
Paepule, Lemusu
Palepoi, Faleata
Paselio, Fiapapalagi
Passi, Simamao Katherine
Pati, Apelu
Patu, Falealo “Johnny”
Peric, Taofegauiai
Pene, Ann
Peni, Suetena
Petelo, Anitelea
Poleki, Alofagia
Poloai, Elisapeta
Poloai, Fa’afetai
Puipuifatu, Malua
Puni, Ioane
Pule, Talosaga
Puletu, Monika
Ripley, Faamalele Tagoai
Sagapolutele, Frank
Sakaria, Paese
Salueletaua, Lemo
Samifua, Lemiga
Sanele, Vicky
Sani, Taetuli
Sao, Kuini
Saolele, Petelo
Satele, Suafai
Sauaso, Joyce
Saufoi, Lauina
Sauta, Paul
Savali, Liatama
Scanlan, Penina
Schwenke, Hanna
Semeatu, Ernest Thomas
Semeatu, Meleane
Sialofi, Taupale
Siaosi, Sean
Siofaga, Fetalaiga
Siliga, Eneliko
Siliga, Roina
Sio, Lyno
Sooto, Prescilla
Solia, Genevieve
Sotoa-Leota, Otilia
Spitzenberg, Rose
Sua, Faasasalu
Sua, Finau
Sualoa, Tuipine
Sue, Victoria
Suiaunoa, Brian
Suisala, Taulua Jr.
Tafaese, Onoiva
Tagaloa, Titae
Ta-Grey, Florence
Tago, Faasolo Malo
Tagovailoa, Valasi Aulava
Talopau, Toelau
Talosaga, Melesaini
Tapu, Fatu
Tapu, Luafitu
Tauanuu, Faatiuga
Tauai, Elena
Tauese, Keresoma
Taulafoga, Barbara
Taulamago, Iuliana
Taulelei, Tupuivao
Taumua, Pago Pago
Te’i, Lafoaina
Teve, Fa’aolaina
Thiel, Mathew Vincent
Tiapula, Lenora
Tiapula, Raymond
Timo, Lupi
Tini, Timena
Tinoifili, Kanana
Tipoti, Mike
Tiumalu, Nafanua
Tiumalu, Saimua
Toala, Suilefaiga
Toatelegese, Nofoagatotoa
Toeava, Spencer
Toilolo, Allen
Togi, Alipapa
Togiaso, Patisepa
Togiola, Yolanda
Toomalatai, Vaesavali
Toomata, Afereti
Tua, Alofagia
Tua, Epi
Tua, Meleane
Tua, Seneuefa
Tuiasosopo, Saufaiga Cecilia
Tuiletufuga, Fonotaga
Tuiloma, Isaia
Tuiolemotu, (Lee Chee) Lovi
Tunu, Laia
Tupua, Mekiafa
Tupuola, Calvin
Tusi, Sa
Tuufuli, Tuufuli
Tuupo, Doris
Ufuti, Tilomai
Uikirifi, Krystellen “Faga”
Va’a, Sala
Va’a, Liva
Vaeao, Naomi
Vaesau, Asisione
Vaieli, Maselino
Vaifanua, John
Vaina, Misionare
Vaivao, Benjamin
Ve’a, Joseph
Viliamu, Seiaute
Viliamu, Uili
Visesio, Pelenatete
Wanjau, Ruta
Aitulagi Bldg 2nd Floor, Fagaima Road • Ph: 699-3848
Fagatogo Square, Suite 208B • Ph: 633-3848
Page 8
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015
ASCC to stage “Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”
By James Kneubuhl, ASCC
Press Officer
Members of the ASCC student cast rehearse a scene from the theatrical production “Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” which will be staged this Wednesday and Thursday at
[Photo: J. Kneubuhl]
7 p.m. in the Lee Auditorium. For the first time since its
highly successful production
of “The Lion King” in 2009,
the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) Fine
Arts Department is mounting
a major theatrical production, “Joseph & The Amazing
Technicolor
Dreamcoat,”
which will be performed on
Wednesday, April 29 and
Thursday, April 30 at the Gov.
H. Rex Lee Auditorium (fale
laumei).
Doors open at 6 p.m. and
the performance will begin at
7 p.m. With the student cast
having been in rehearsal for
the duration of this semester,
“Joseph” will offer a lively
evening of drama, dance and
music sure to entertain family
members of all ages.
“The play is based on the
biblical story of Jacob, his
favorite son Joseph and his 11
brothers,” said music instructor
and Fine Arts chairman Mr.
Kuki Tuiasosopo.
American Samoa Community College FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT PR ESE N TS
A Spring Semester Musical Production Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Lyrics by Tim Rice
W ednesday, A pril 29, 2015 & T hursday, A pril 30, 2015
L ee A uditorium
Door O pens at 6pm Show begins at 7pm
$5 G eneral A dmission F ee
T ickets will be sold at ASC C L e Bookstore
also available at the door of the L ee A uditorium during show nights
“The play is not a serious
drama, but rather a comedy.
However, the message of the
story remains the same as in
the scriptures. The entire play
is driven by music composed
by Andrew Lloyd Webber,
with lyrics by Tim Rice, and
has absolutely no spoken
dialogue.”
Notable in the composition
of the music is the variety of
styles used by Lloyd Webber
including French ballads, rock
and roll, country, Charleston,
Calypso and more.
As with previous ASCC
Fine Arts stage productions,
“Joseph” is an artistic collaboration among its various
faculty.
Mr. Tuiasosopo has taken
the role of director, putting the
student cast through its paces
as they fine tune the staging of
the play. Visual Arts facilitator
Ms. Regina Meredith and her
students will create the appropriate backgrounds for the
production, Mr. Tuiasosopo’s
fellow music instructor Mr.
Poe Mageo is working with
the chorus on their singing
parts. In addition, the ASCC
Orchestra, under the direction
of Mr. Mageo, will entertain
the audience during the play’s
intermission.
Mr. Tuiasosopo explained
that a number of factors
account for “Joseph” being the
first ASCC stage production
since “The Lion King.”
“Our department has had
some faculty move on and
others join,” he said, “so in the
interim we’ve basically been
focusing on other aspects of
the Fine Arts.
This semester we felt we
had the necessary components in place to revisit a stage
production. A play requires
a substantial commitment of
time and attention from both
the faculty and the students
involved, plus staging it offcampus adds another layer of
complexity, but we think the
public will find the end results
well worth all the effort.”
He added that the pending
completion of the College’s
Multi-Purpose Center, which
will include a performance
space appropriate for theatrical
productions, bodes well for
future ventures in this area.
The student cast includes
Hertha Aumoeualogo Lutu,
Warren King, F.D. Seiuli,
Mathew Choi, George Mose,
Jermaine Tuiasosopo, Keith
Metuli, Quenton Burgess,
Edmund
Manoa,
Jocco
Asotau, Pale Lefiti, Al Leafa,
Lelei Tago, Ilena Williams,
Lama Vaisagote, Anneliese
Haleck, Lottie Haleck, Mona
Iakopo, Etenauga Voight, Tisa
Migi, Anna Sewell, Iloa Tavui,
Jeeyon Cho, Alton Faasala,
Harota Auvaa, Rosanna Faagata, Josephine Tupuola and
Iosia Pati.
For more information on
“Joseph & The Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat,” call
ASCC at 699-9155 and ask for
Mr. Tuiasosopo at extension
329.
C
M
Y
K
C
M
Y
K
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015 Page 9
Alofa’aga ma Sa’afi’afiga
Susuga i le Sa’o
C
M
Y
K
NAMU TUAMASAGAISAUTE
LEOTALEULUA’IALIITO’OMALATAI
ALE TOM AETUI
SUNRISE:
Sept 18, 1947
SUNSET:
April 09, 2015
“Ua ou tau le taua lelei, ua i’u ia te a’u le
tausinioga ma ua ou taofi i le fa’atuatua”
-2 Timoteo 4:7
C
M
Y
K
FAASOLOGA SAUNIGA MALIU
SAUNIGA AIGA (Family Service)
Aso Gafua:
Aperila 27, 2015 @ 5:00 pm- LBJ Chapel
SAUNIGA MALIU
Aso Lua: Aperila 28, 2015
7:30 am
Funeral procession from LBJ Hospital to Paepaetele (Maota o Namu) in Futiga.
12:00 pm
Funeral Service LDS Pavaiai Ward
Burial Service will be at his Resting Place immediately after
(Falelauasiga i lona oliolisaga tumau i Fatuolelupe, Futiga)
Alofa’aga e le mavae mai ia Su’eatuinu’umamao Asuega Aetui, Fanau ma le Aiga.
Page 10
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015
American Samoa Community College
Annual Schedule of Course Offering
FALL SEMESTER 2015
#
Course
Alpha Sec.
Course Title
Days
AGRICULTURE AND LIFE SCIENCE
1 AGR 100 I 01 Practical Job Experience
MW
2 AGR 152 01 Survey of Community and
TR
Natural Resources
3 ANS 150A 01 Animal Science
T
4 ANS 150B 01 Animal Science
R
5 AGR 197 / 01 Polynesian Culture &
TR
MSC 197
Natural Resources
Learning Project
6 NRS 180 01 Forests and Agroforestry
MWF
7 NRS 180L 01 Forests and Agroforestry Lab
F
8 NRS 250 01 Environmental Studies
TR
9 NUT 150 01 Nutrition
MW
ARTS AND HUMANITIES
1 ART 150 01 Art History Survey I
TR
2 ART 160 01 Design Fundamentals
MWF
3 ART 170 01 Drawing I
MWF
4 ART 172 01 Painting I
TR
5 DRA 150 01 Introduction to Drama
MWF
6 DRA 151 01 Drama Workshop
TR
7 MUS 150 01 Music Fundamentals
MWF
8 MUS 160 01 Music Literature
TR
9 MUS 165 01 Music of the World
MWF
10 MUS 170 01 Concert Choir
MWF
11 MUS 180 01 Band
TR
12 MUS 181 01 Samoan String Band
TR
13 MUS 187 01 Beginning Orchestra
TR
14 SPH 153 01 Introduction to Speech
MWF
15 SPH 153 02 Introduction to Speech
TR
16 PHIL 150 01 Introduction to Philosophy
TR
17 REL 150 01 World Religions
MWF
BUSINESS
1 ACC 150 01 Principles of Accounting I
MWF
2 ACC 151 01 Financial Accounting
TR
3 ACC 152A 01 Payroll and Income Tax
TR
4 ACC 210A 01 Managerial Cost Accounting
MWF
5 ACC 220 01 Automated Accounting
MWF
6 BUS 103 01 Introduction to Business
MWF
7 BUS 150 01 Financial Math
MWF
8 BUS 160 01 Business Communication
MWF
9 BUS 170 01 Ethics in the Workplace
TR
10 BUS 180 01 Applied Business Statistics
MWF
11 BUS 260 01 Business Law
MWF
12 ECO 250B 01 Principles of Macro Economics TR
13 MGT 250 01 Principles of Management
TR
14 MKT 195 01 Principles of Marketing
TR
COLLEGE LIFE PLANNING (CLP)
1 CLP 150
01 College Life Planning
MWF
2 CLP 150
02 College Life PlanningDays
MWF
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
1 CJ 150
01 Introduction to Criminal Justice TR
6 CJ 190
01 Juvenile Delinquency
TR
7 CJ 210
01 Constitutional Law
MWF
8 CJ 215
01 Foundations in Criminology
MWF
9 CJ 220
01 Survey of Law
MWF
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
1 HEA 140 01 Introduction to Health Occupation MWF
2 HEA 150 01 Introduction to Health Sciences MWF
3 HEA 151 01 Medical Terminology
MWF
4 HEA 152 01 First AID and CPR
TR
5 HEA 250 01 Introduction to Developmental TR
Disabilities
6 HEA 299 01 Health Science Practicum /
TR
Work Experience
7 PH 102 01 Essentials of Public Health
TR
Functions and Primary Health Care
HISTORY
1 HIS 150
01 American History I
MWF
6 HIS 162
01 Pacific History
MWF
7 HIS 162
02 Pacific History
TR
8 HIS 170
01 World Civilization I
MWF
9 HIS 170
02 World Civilization I
TR
10 HIS 171
01 World Civilization II
MWF
11 HIS 171
02 World Civilization II
TR
LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE
1 ENG 150 01 Introduction to Literature
MWF
3 ENG 150 03 Introduction to Literature
MWF
4 ENG 150 04 Introduction to Literature
MWF
5 ENG 150 05 Introduction to Literature
MWF
7 ENG 150 07 Introduction to Literature
TR
8 ENG 150 08 Introduction to Literature
TR
10 ENG 151 02 Freshman Composition
MWF
11 ENG 151 03 Freshman Composition
MWF
12 ENG 151 04 Freshman Composition
MWF
Time
CR Room Instructor
14 ENG 151 06
15 ENG 151 07
16 ENG 151 08
17 ENG 250 01
18 ENG 250 02
19 ENG 250 03
20 ENG 250 04
21 ENG 250 05
22 ENG 251 01
24 ENG 251 03
25 ENG 251 04
26 ENG 251 05
27 LIT 274
01
MATHEMATICS
1 MAT 151 01
2 MAT 151 02
3 MAT 151 03
4 MAT 151 04
5 MAT 151 05
6 MAT 151 06
7 MAT 151 07
8 MAT 155 01
9 MAT 250 01
10 MAT 250 02
11 MAT 250 03
12 MAT 250 04
13 MAT 280 01
NURSING
1 NUR 100 01
Freshman Composition
Freshman Composition
Freshman Composition
Survey of Literature
Survey of Literature
Survey of Literature
Survey of Literature
Survey of Literature
Sophomore Composition
Sophomore Composition
Sophomore Composition
Sophomore Composition
Pacific Literature
TR
TR
TR
MWF
MWF
TR
TR
TR
MWF
MWF
TR
TR
MWF
08:00-09:20
09:30-10:50
11:00-12:20
09:00-09:50
01:00-01:50
02:00-02:50
08:00-09:10
11:00-12:20
09:00-09:50
02:00-02:50
09:30-10:50
02:00-03:20
11:00-11:50
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
26
26
26
A5
18
26
8
8
27
27
19
26
27
MTAAMU
MFIAUI
MFIAUI
MTAAMU
VTAAMU
MTAAMU
JSIOLOGA
JSIOLOGA
JSIOLOGA
JSIOLOGA
VMATUU
VMATUU
JSIOLOGA
Intermediate Algebra
Intermediate Algebra
Intermediate Algebra
Intermediate Algebra
Intermediate Algebra
Intermediate Algebra
Intermediate Algebra
Vocational Tech
College Algebra & Trigonometry
College Algebra & Trigonometry
College Algebra & Trigonometry
College Algebra & Trigonometry
Calculus I
MWF
TR
MWF
TR
TR
MWF
TR
MWF
TR
MWF
MWF
TR
MWF
01:00-01:50
09:30-10:50
10:00-10:50
11:00-12:20
09:30-10:50
08:00-08;50
02:00-03:20
08:00-08:50
11:00-12:50
10:00-11:20
01:00-02:20
02:00-03:50
02:00-03:40
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
4
4
4
4
5
A5
A1
A1
A40
A40
A5
A40
A1
A5
A35
A35
A35
A1
AMOEFIAINU
AFELISE
AFELISE
TLEIATO
LLIUFAU
AMOEFIAINU
AFELISE
AFELISE
TLEIATO
LLIUFAU
TLEIATO
LLIUFAU
LLIUFAU
M-F
03:00-04:30
4
M-F
04:30-06:00
2
S
08:00-02:30
2
MT
WR
09:00-02:30
07:00-04:00
9
7
4 NUR 180L 01 Clinical Lab
F
08:00-02:00
7
5 NUR 203 01 Maternal Newborn
6 NUR 203L 01 Clinical Lab
MT
W
F
MT
R
F
09:00-01:50
07:00-04:00
08:00-12:00
09:00-01:50
07:15-04:00
08:00-12:00
4
2
4
2
2
TR
TR
MWF
MWF
MWF
MWF
MWF
MWF
TR
09:30-10:50
11:00-12:20
02:00002:50
04:00-04:50
09:00-09:50
11:00-11:50
03:00-03:50
10:00-10:50
02:00-03:20
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
GYM
GYM
GYM
GYM
GYM
GYM
GYM
GYM
GYM
MWF 06:00-06:50
MWF 08:00-09:20
TR
08:00-09:20
1
3
3
ROTC 1 MMOANA
ROTC 1 MMOANA
ROTC 2 MMOANA
TR
08:00-09:20
MWF 02:00-02:50
MWF 08:00-08:50
3
3
3
M4
M4
M4
TMCHEUNG
EFELETI
EFELETI
MWF
MWF
MWF
MWF
TR
TR
TR
MWF
MWF
09:00-09:50
10:00-10:50
03;00-03:50
02:00-02:50
11:00-12:20
09:30-10:50
02:00-03:20
11:00-11:50
01:00-01:50
3
1
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
M4
M4
M4
M4
M4
M4
M4
M4
M4
ANUUSILA
ANUUSILA
TCAUSAGE
ANUUSILA
EFELETI
ANUUSILA
TCAUSAGE
TMCHEUNG
EFELETI
MWF
W
MWF
M
MWF
W
TR
R
10:00-10:50
01:00-03:50
09:00-09:50
11:00-01:50
10:00-10:50
11:00-01:50
09:30-10:50
02:00-04:50
3
1
3
1
3
1
3
1
208
208
A45
A45
A45
A45
A30
A30
IFAASAVALU
IFAASAVALU
MGOPALAN
MGOPALAN
MGOPALAN
MGOPALAN
RDEWEES
RDEWEES
MWF 09:00-09:50
3
A30
RDEWEES
09:30 - 10:50 1
10:00 - 11:20 3
210
210
PMCFALL
PMCFALL
02:00 - 03:50 2
02:00 - 03:50 2
08:00 - 09:20 3
208
208
208
OHANSELL
OHANSELL
IFAASAVALU
08:00 - 08:50
01:00 - 03:50
09:30 - 10:50
08:00 - 09:20
3
1
3
3
208
208
208
210
IFAASAVALU
IFAASAVALU
IFAASAVALU
PMCFALL
02:00-03:20
10:00-11:50
01:00-02:50
09:30-12:30
08:00-08:50
09:30-10:50
02:00-02:50
09:30-10:50
10:00-10:50
09:00-09:50
02:00-03:20
08:00-08:50
11:00-12:20
09:00-09:50
11:00-12:20
09:30-10:50
11:00-11:50
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
1
1
1
3
3
3
3
B8
B8
B8
B8
29
9
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
19
8
8
RMEREDITH
RMEREDITH
RMEREDITH
RMEREDITH
PMAGEO
PMAGEO
KTUIASOSOPO
KTUIASOSOPO
KTUIASOSOPO
PMAGEO
PMAGEO
KTUIASOSOPO
Nurse Aide training
PMAGEO
KTUIASOSOPO 2 NUR 100L 01 Clinical Lab
MTAAMU
LTEMESE
TTAGO
09:00-09:50
09:30-10:50
08:00-09:20
03:00-03:50
10:00-10:50
11:00-11:50
09:00-09:50
08:00-08:50
02:00-03;20
02:00-02:50
01:00-01:50
11:00-12:20
11:00-12:20
09:30-10:30
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
20
20
23
20
23
23
23
23
23
20
23
23
20
23
ITAUAI
ITAUAI
ITAUAI
ITAUAI
ITAUAI
LLAMYUEN
FFAATOAFE
FFAATOAFE
FFAATOAFE
LLAMYUEN
LLAMYUEN
FFAATOAFE
LLAMYUEN
LLAMYUEN
09:00-09:50
10:00-10:50
3
3
7
7
ALEI
AVASAI
09:30-10:50
11:00-12:20
09:00-09:50
10:00-10:50
01:00-01:50
3
3
3
3
3
18
18
18
18
19
RAHCHEE
RAHCHEE
RACHEE
RACHEE
RACHEE
01:00-01:50
11:00-11:50
09:00-09:50
03:30-04:50
04:00-05:20
3
3
3
1
3
A1
A1
A1
A1
7
DCHANG
DCHANG
DCHANG
DCHANG
TTUPUOLA
06:00-08:50
2
A1
DCHANG
04:00-05:20
3
8
RFAUMUINA
10:00-10:50
01:00-01:50
09:30-10:50
08:00-08:50
08:00-09:20
02:00-02:50
02:00-03:20
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
RBAKER
TTAGO
TTAGO
RBAKER
RBAKER
RBAKER
RBAKER
09:00-09:50
10:00-10:50
12:00-12:50
01:00-01:50
09:30-10:50
11:00-12:20
10:00-10:50
11:00-11:50
12:00-12:50
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
26
26
27
26
27
27
27
20
26
VMATUU
MFIAUI
VMATUU
MFIAUI
BGOODWIN
BGOODWIN
BGOODWIN
MTAAMU
BGOODWIN
3 NUR 180
01 Intro to Adult Health
7 NUR 204 01 Nursing of Children
8 NUR 204L 01 Clinical Lab
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
1 PED 150M 01 Men’s Basketball
2 PED 151M 01 Men’s Weight Training
3 PED 151W 01 Women’s Weight Training
4 PED 152 01 Beginning Aerobics
5 PED 154 01 Golf
6 PED 155M 01 Men’s Volleyball
7 PED 155M 02 Men’s Volleyball
8 PED 155W 01 Women’s Volleyball
9 PED 156 01 Introduction to Tennis
RESERVE OFFICERS TRAINING CORPS
1 MSL 100 01 Introduction to Physical Fitness
2\ MSL 101 01 Introduction to Military Science I
3 MSL 201 01 Intermediate Military Science I
STUDIES OF SAMOA & THE PACIFIC
1 SAM 101A 01 Conversational Samoan I
2 SAM 101B 01 Conversational Samoan II
3 SAM 111 01 Introduction to the Samoan
LanguageDays
4 SAM 151 01 Freshman Samoan
5 SAM 151L 01 Freshman Samoan Laboratory
6 SAM 152 01 Introduction to Samoan Culture
7 SAM 154 01 Introduction to Samoan Literature
8 SAM 204 01 Samoan Mythology
9 SAM 251 01 Sophomore Samoan Composition
10 SAM 261 01 Samoan Oratory
11 SAM 271 01 Samoan Creative Writing
12 SAM 281 01 Translation
SCIENCE
1 BIO 155
01 Ecology
2 BIO 155L 01 Ecology Laboratory
3 BIO 180
01 Biology I
4 BIO 180L 01 Biology I Laboratory
5 BIO 180
02 Biology I
6 BIO 180L 02 Biology I Laboratory
7 BIO 250
01 Anatomy and Physiology I
8 BIO 250L 01 Anatomy and Physiology I
Laboratory
9 CHM 150 01 Chemistry I
N2
AHMU/
LONGNECKER/TAUILIILI
N2
AHMU/
LONGNECKER/LBJ/
DOH/TAUILIILI
N2
AHMU/
LONGNECKER/LBJ/
DOH/TAUILIILI
N2
AHMU/TAUILIILI
LBJ/DOH AHMU/FUGA/
MAREKO
N2
AHMU/
LONGNECKER
N1
LONGNECKER
LBJ/DOH R-LONGNECKER
N1
F-TAUILIILI
N1
LONGNECKER
LBJ/DOH R-LONGHECKER
N1
F-TAUILIILI
EIMO
EIMO
SSAMOA
LWADE
SSAMOA
SSAMOA
EIMO
EIMO
SSAMOA
Continued next page
Course
# Alpha Sec.
Course Title
Days
10 CHM 150L 01 Chemistry I Laboratory
W
11 MSC 202 01 MOP Seminar
F
12 MSC 150 01 Introduction to Oceanography
TR
13 MSC 150L 01 Introduction to Oceanography Lab F
14 MSC 160 01 Natural Marine Resources
TR
15 MSC 200 01 Introduction to Aquaculture
TR
16 PHSCI 150 01 Physical Science
TR
17 PHSCI 150L 01 Physical Science Laboratory
T
18 PHSCI 150 02 Physical Science
TR
19 PHSCI 150L 02 Physical Science Laboratory
R
20 PHSCI 150 03 Physical Science
TR
21 PHSCI 150L 03 Physical Science Laboratory
T
SOCIAL SCIENCES
1 GEO 160 01 Introduction to Geography
MWF
2 POL 150 01 Introduction to American Government
LTEMESE
3 POL 170 01 Introduction to Public Policy
MWF
4 POL 250 01 Comparative Politics
MWF
5 POL 251 01 International Relations
TR
6 PSY 150 01 Introduction to Psychology
MWF
7 PSY 150 02 Introduction to Psychology
TR
8 PSY 150 03 Introduction to Psychology
MWF
9 PSY 250 01 Human Development
MWF
10 SOC 150 01 Introduction to Sociology
TR
11 SOC 150 02 Introduction to Sociology
MWF
TRADES AND TECHNOLOGY
1 ABR 100 01 Introduction to Automotive Collision TR
2 ABR 100 02 Introduction to Automotive Collision TR
3 ADT 140 01 Residential House Wiring
MWF
4 ADT 150 01 Architectural Drafting I
MWF
5 ADT 160 01 Introduction to AutoCAD
TR
6 ADT 251 01 Electrical Designs
MWF
7 AUTO 100 01 Fundamentals of Automotive
MWF
Mechanics
8 AUTO 100 02 Fundamentals of Automotive
MWF
Mechanics
9 AUTO 178 01 Automotive Electrical & Electronics MWF
10 AUTO 178L 01 Automotive Electrical & Electronics MWF
11 AUTO 250 01 Advanced Auto Engine Performance TR
12 AUTO 250L 01 Advanced Auto Engine Performance TR
13 BPR 200 01 Blueprint Reading
TR
14 CARP 100 01 Hand and Power Tools
TR
15 CARP 100 02 Hand and Power Tools
TR
16 ELE 150 01 Electronic I
MWF
17 ELE 202 01 Computer Systems
TR
18 ELE 299A 01 Electronic Systems Practicum
R
19 ETP 100 01 Basic Electrical Therory I
MWF
20 ETP 100 02 Basic Electrical Therory I
MWF
21 ETP 120 01 Basic Electrical Therory II
TR
22 ICT 150
01 Introduction to Computers
MWF
23 ICT 150
02 Introduction to Computers
MWF
24 ICT 150
03 Introduction to Computers
MWF
25 ICT 150
04 Introduction to Computers
TR
26 ICT 150
05 Introduction to Computers
TR
27 ICT 150
06 Introduction to Computers
MWF
28 ICT 150
07 Introduction to ComputersMWF MWF
29 ICT 150
08 Introduction to Computers
TR
30 ICT 155
01 IT Essentials
MWF
31 WLD 100 01 Welding Fundamentals and
TR
Metallurgy
32 WLD 100 02 Welding Fundamentals and
TR
Metallurgy
Time
10:00-12:50
02:00-02:50
11:00-12:20
10:00-12:50
02:00-03:20
09:30-10:50
08:00-09:20
02:00-04:50
09:30-10:50
02:00-04:50
11:00-12:20
02:00-04:50
CR
1
1
3
1
3
3
3
1
3
1
3
1
09:00-09:50
MWF
3 8
TTAGO
08:00-08:50 3
7
C.A.P.P Schedule: Fall Semester: 1st & 2nd Session
10:00-10:50
01:00-01:50
02:00-03:20
02:00-02:50
11:00-12:20
09:00-09:50
11:00-11:50
08:00-09:20
12:00-12:50
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
19
8
8
8
9
19
9
19
18
LTEMESE
LTEMESE
LTEMESE
DHELSHAM
DHELSHAM
DHELSHAM
DHELSHAM
DHELSHAM
ACHEE
08:00-09:20
03:00-04:20
08:00-08:50
10:00-10:50
09:30-10:50
12:00-02:40
08:00-08:50
3
3
3
3
3
4
3
B18
B18
B18
B18
B18
B18
ATLA
ATUIOLOSEGA
ATUIOLOSEGA
AESERA
AESERA
AESERA
AESERA
PNGLAM
03:00-3:50
3
ATLA PNGLAM
09:00-10:40
11:00-02:50
10:00-10:50
11:00-12:20
02:00-03:20
08:00-09:20
03:00-04:20
10:00-11:50
02:00-04:50
04:00-04:50
08:00-08:50
03:00-03:50
08:00-10:50
08:00-09:50
10:00-11:50
02:00-03:50
08:00-10:20
02:00-04:20
08:00-09:50
10:00-11:50
09:30-11:50
01:00-02:50
08:00-09:20
5
4
1
2
3
3
3
4
4
4
3
3
4
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
4
3
ATLA
ATLA
ATLA
ATLA
B18
B23
B23
B23
B23
OFF
B23
B23
B23
LABB
LABB
LABB
LABB
LABB
LABC
LABC
LABC
LABA
ATLB
03:00-04:20
3
ATLB DBRANDT
10:00-10:50
02:00-02:50
3
3
TED1 TTALAMOA
TED 1 TTALAMOA
11:00-12:20
3
TED 1 SDELAROSA
08:00-10:20
02:00-02:50
4
3
10
SDELAROSA
TED 2 FLAUILEFUE
08:00-09:20
1
SS
01:00-01:50
11:00-11:50
3
3
TED2 SDELAROSA
TED2 FLAUILEFUE
11:00-12:20
1
SS
ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUE: First Session
1 ENG 70
151 Beginning Reading
DAILY 08:00-09:20
2 ENG 70
152 Beginning Reading
DAILY 09:30-10:50
3 ENG 70
153 Beginning Reading
DAILY 12:30-01:50
4. ENG 71
151 Beginning Writing
DAILY 08:00-09:20
5. ENG 71
152 Beginning Writing
DAILY 09:30-10:50
6. ENG 71
153 Beginning Writing
DAILY 02:00-03:20
7 ENG 80
151 Intermediate Reading
DAILY 08:00-09:20
8 ENG 80
152 Intermediate Reading
DAILY 09:30-10:50
9 ENG 80
153 Intermediate Reading
DAILY 12:30-01:50
10 ENG 80
154 Intermediate Reading
DAILY 11:00-12:20
11 ENG 80
155 Intermediate Reading
DAILY 02:00-03:20
12 ENG 81
151 Intermediate Writing
DAILY 08:00-09:20
13 ENG 81
152 Intermediate Writing
DAILY 02:00-03:20
14 ENG 81
153 Intermediate Writing
DAILY 12:30-01:50
15 ENG 81
154 Intermediate Writing
DAILY 09:30-10:50
16 ENG 90
151 Advanced Reading
DAILY 08:00-09:20
17 ENG 90
152 Advanced Reading
DAILY 11:00-12:20
18 ENG 90
153 Advanced Reading
DAILY 11:00-12:20
19 ENG 90
154 Advanced Reading
DAILY 02:00-03:20
20 ENG 91
151 Advanced Writing
DAILY 09:30-10:50
21 ENG 91
152 Advanced Writing
DAILY 08:00-09:203
22 ENG 91
153 Advanced Writing
DAILY 09:30-10::503
23 ENG 91
154 Advanced Writing
DAILY 12:30-01:50
MATH: First Session:
1 MAT 80
151 Preparatory Math
DAILY 08:00-09:50
2 MAT 80
152 Preparatory Math
DAILY 10:00-11:50
3 MAT 80
153 Preparatory Math
DAILY 01:00-02:50
4 MAT 80
154 Preparatory Math
DAILY 02:00-03:50
5 MAT 80
155 Preparatory Math
DAILY 11:00-12:50
6 MAT 90
156 Preparatory Math
DAILY 11:00-12:50
6 MAT 90
151 Elementary Algebra
DAILY 08:00-09:50
7 MAT 90
152 Elementary Algebra
DAILY 10:00-11:50
8 MAT 90
153 Elementary Algebra
DAILY 02:00-03:50
ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE: 2ND SESSION
1 ENG 70
251 Beginning Reading
DAILY 08:00-09:20
2 ENG 70
252 Beginning Reading
DAILY 09:30-10:50
3 ENG 71
251 Beginning Writing
DAILY 09:30-10:50
4 ENG 71
252 Beginning Writing
DAILY 11:00-12:20
5 ENG 80
251 Intermediate Reading
DAILY 08:00-9:20
6 ENG 80
252 Intermediate Reading
DAILY 11:00-12:20
7 ENG 80
253 Intermediate Reading
DAILY 08:00-09:20
8 ENG 81
251 Intermediate Writing
DAILY 09:30-10:50
9 ENG 81
252 Intermediate Writing
DAILY 02:00-03:20
10 ENG 81 253 Intermediate Writing
DAILY 11:00-12:20
11 ENG 90
251 Advanced Reading
DAILY 08:00-09:20
12 ENG 90
252 Advanced Reading
DAILY 02:00-03:20
13 ENG 90
253 Advanced Reading
DAILY 09:30-10:50
14 ENG 91
251 Advanced Writing
DAILY 09:30-10:50
15 ENG 91
252 Advanced Writing
DAILY 08:00-09:20
16 ENG 91
253 Advanced Writing
DAILY 11:00-12:20
MATH: 2ND SESSION
1 MAT 80 251 Preparatory Math
DAILY 08:00-09:50
2 MAT 80
252 Preparatory Math
DAILY 10:00-11:50
3 MAT 80
253 Preparatory Math
DAILY 01:00-02:50
4 MAT 90
251 Elementary Algebra
DAILY 02:00-03:50
5 MAT 90
252 Elementary Algebra
DAILY 08:00-09:50
6 MAT 90
253 Elementary Algebra
DAILY 01:00-02:50
7 MAT 90
254 Elementary Algebra
DAILY 02:00-03:50
8 MAT 90
255 Elementary Algebra
DAILY 10:00-11:50
9 MAT 90
256 Elementary Algebra
DAILY 12:00-01:50
C.A.P.P. - GENERAL REQUIREMENTS: 2ND SESSION
1 ENG 150 251 Introduction to Literature
DAILY 08:00-09:20
2 ENG150 251 Introduction to Literature
DAILY 12:30-01:50
3 ICT 150
251 Introduction to Computers
DAILY 12:00-02:20
4 ICT 150
252 Introduction to Computers
DAILY 02:30-04:50
5 MAT 151 251 Intermediate Algebra
DAILY 02:00-03:20
6 MAT 151 252 Intermediate Algebra
DAILY 09:30-10:50
7 SPH 153 251 Introduction to Speech
DAILY 11:00-12:20
TEACHER EDUCATION - 2 YR PROGRAM
1 ED 150
2 ED 157
3 ED 215
4 ED 240
5 ED 257
6 ED 257P
7 ED 280
8 ED 285
9 ED 285P
01 Introduction to Teaching
MWF
01 Introduction to Elementary
MWF
Curriculum & Instruction
01 Introduction to Exceptional
TR
Children
01 Instructional Technologies
TR
01 Teaching Language Arts to Elem MWF
School Teacher
01 Observation, Participation and TR
Practicum
01 Introduction to Bilingual Education MWF
01 Teaching Samoan Language & MWF
Culture
01 Teaching Samoan Language & TR
Culture Practicum
Room
A30
A5
A1
A30
A5
A5
A45
A45
A45
A45
A30
A30
Instructor
RDEWEES
JNEWTSON
JNEWTSON
JNEWTSON
JNEWTSON
KTAGARINO
MGOPALAN
MGOPALAN
MGOPALAN
MGOPALAN
RDEWEES
RDEWEES
FSUISALA
FSUISALA
FSUISALA
FSUISALA
AESERA
DFAUMUI
DFAUMUI
JLEAE
JLEAE
MLEAU
JLEAE
JLEAE
JLEAE
RMOORE
RMOORE
RMOORE
RMOORE
RMOORE
ESEIULI
ESEIULI
ESEIULI
JMARTINEZ
DBRANDT
FLAUILEFUE
FLAUILEFUE
TEACHER EDUCATION - 4 YR PROGRAM (300 Course Level)
1 ED 300
2 ED 301
3 ED 305
4 ED 312
5 ED 319
6 ED 325
7 ED 330
8 ED 330P
9 ED 335
10 ED 335P
11 ED 340
12 ED 350
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015 Page 11
35 Foundations in Education
35 Educational Psychology
35 Foundations of Curriculum &
Instructions(Elementary K-8)
35 Teaching Language Arts to
Elementary Teachers II
35 Children’s Literature
35 Principles of Child Development:
MWF 08:00-08:50
MWF 11:00-11:50
MWF 02:00-02:50
3
3
3
M7C
M7C
M7C
LPURCELL
LPURCELL
LPURCELL
MWF 04:00-04:50
3
TE1
LSCANLAN
TR
TR
04:00-05:20
02:00-03:20
3
3
TE1
M7C
LSCANLAN
FLAUILEFUE
35 Elementary Mathematics Methods
35 Elementary Mathematics Methods
Practicum
35 Elementary Science Methods
35 Elementary Science Methods
Practicum
35 Test Measurements
35 Health & Fitness Education for
Elem. Schl. Tchrs
MWF 08:00-08:50
TR
09:30-10:50
3
1
TED1 TTALAMOA
SS
TTALAMOA
TR
TR
02:00-03:20
11:00-12:20
3
1
TED1 TTALAMOA
SS
TTALAMOA
MWF 02:00-02:50
MWF 04:30-05:20
3
3
10
SDELAROSA
TED2 TMATUU
13 ED 350P
35 Hlth & Fitness Edu. For
MWF 11:00-11:50 1
Elem. Schl Tchrs Practicum
TEACHER EDUCATION - 4YR PROGRAM (400 Course Level)
1 ED 410
35 Elementary Social Studies
MWF 09:00-09;50 3
2 ED 410P 35 Elementary Social Studies
MWF 11:00-11:50 1
Practicum
3 ED 435
35 Creative Dramatics
TR
08:00-09:20 3
4 ED 435P 35 Creative Dramatics Practicum
TR
12:30-01:50 1
5 ED440
35 Elementary Samoan Language MWF 03:00-03:50 3
Methods
6 ED 440P 35 Elementary Samoan Language TR
09:30-10:50 1
Methods Practicum
7 ED 490
35 Student Teaching Seminar
MW 04:00-04:50 2
8 ED 491
35 Student Teaching Field Work
DAILY 08:00-03:50 10
SS
TMATUU
TED1 SDELAROSA
SS
SDELAROSA
M7C LPURCELL
SS
LPURCELL
TED2 FLAUILEFUE
SS
FLAUILEFUE
M7A
SS
FALAINUUESE
FALAINUUESE
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
M12B
E1
E1
E1
M12B
E2
E2
E2
E2
E2
E4
M12A
E1
E3
M12A
E3
E3
E4
E3
E4
E4
E3
E4
EZARRAGA
EFAALAFI
EFAALAFI
EFAALAFI
EZARRAGA
EZARRAGA
ESOKIMI
SFAULKNER
ESOKIMI
LSAUNI
LSAUNI
SFAULKNER
ESOKIMI
SFAULKNER
LSAUNI
SROPETI
JMAREKO
FCALUMPANG
FCALUMPANG
SROPETI
JMAREKO
FCALUMPANG
JMAREKO
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
M12C
M12C
M12C
M12B
M12A
M12B
A14
A14
A14
AMATAUTIA
SMOSE
ETOFILAU
SMOSE
MPORTER
AMATAUTIA
ETOFILAU
AMOEFIAINU
MPORTER
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
E1
E1
E2
E1
E2
E2
M12A
E3
E2
E3
E3
E3
M12B
E4
E4
E4
EFAALAFI
EZARRAGA
EFAALAFI
EZARRAGA
ESOKIMI
FAULKNER
LSAUNI
ESOKIMI
SFAULKNER
LSAUNI
SROPETI
FCALUMPANG
JMAREKO
SROPETI
FCALUMPANG
JMAREKO
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
M12C
A14
M12C
A14
A14
M12A
M12B
M12C
M12B
ETOFILAU
MPORTER
AMATAUTIA
SMOSE
AMATAUTIA
MPORTER
ETOFILAU
AMOEFIAINU
SMOSE
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
A40
7
LABC
LABC
7
M12A
29
BGOODWIN
DAGA
ESEIULI
ESEIULI
AFELISE
LLIUFAU
KTUIASOSOPO
Page 12
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015
Fa’asao and Marist Prom Queen Kanoe S. Reid and and Prom King Ikaika Pasia Mahuka.
FMHS had their 2015 Senior Ball at the Gov. H. Rex Lee Auditorium last Friday. [Courtesy Photo]
Internet billionaires face off
in renewed Texas space race
VAN HORN, Texas (AP) — An isolated
edge of vast West Texas is home to a highly
secretive part of the 21st-century space race,
one of two being directed in the Lone Star State
by Internet billionaires whose personalities and
corporate strategies seem worlds apart.
The presence of Blue Origin, LLC, the brainchild of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, barely registers in nearby Van Horn, a way station along
Interstate 10, a full decade after he began buying
land in one of Texas’ largest and most remote
counties. Few visitors are allowed beyond the
“No Trespassing” sign and a remote-controlled
gate and into the desert and mountain environment reminiscent of the Air Force’s renowned
Area 51 in Nevada. The privileged who do get
inside decline to describe what they’ve seen,
typically citing confidentiality agreements.
“No one gets in other than employees,” says
Robert Morales, editor of the weekly Van Horn
Advocate newspaper.
At the opposite end — of Texas and the competition — is the highly visible SpaceX venture,
led by PayPal co-founder and electric car maker
Elon Musk. His company contracts with NASA
to resupply the International Space Station and
is building a launch site about 600 miles from
Van Horn, on the southernmost Texas Gulf
coast, with the much-publicized goal of sending
humans to Mars.
SpaceX and Blue Origin are among several
U.S. companies engaged in the private space
business. Both men have seemingly unlimited resources — Bezos’ wealth is estimated at
nearly $35 billion, Musk’s at $12 billion — and
lofty aspirations: launching a new era of commercial space operations, in part by cutting
costs through reusable rockets.
Texas’ glory days of space exploration,
when “Right Stuff” Mercury astronauts trained
in Houston and the city’s name was the first
word spoken on the moon by Neil Armstrong,
are long gone. The utilitarian Space Shuttle fell
to budget cuts, depletion and age, leaving astronauts to hitch rides on Russian rockets.
Any success by the newcomers would offer
“significant potential for re-invigorating space
research and development in the state,” said John
Junkins, director of the Center for Mechanics
and Control at Texas A&M’s Department of
Aerospace Engineering.
Earlier this month, Bezos announced his
company’s new hydrogen rocket engine,
designed for suborbital missions, had completed hundreds of tests at the West Texas site,
adding, “soon we’ll put it to the ultimate test of
flight.” That could come late this year.
A more powerful engine for orbital flights,
fueled by liquid oxygen and liquid natural gas,
is being developed with United Launch Alliance, a venture of aerospace veterans Boeing
Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp.
Blue Origin officials declined requests for an
interview and site visit. “I’m so sorry,” spokeswoman Brooke Crawford said. “It’s just the
way it is.”
Bezos’ love of space originated in Texas in
the 1960s when his family moved to Houston,
which dubbed itself “Space City USA.”
“For me, space is something that I have been
in love with since I was 5 years old,” Bezos, 51,
said in a September interview with The Washington Post, which he purchased in 2013. “I
watched Neil Armstrong step onto the surface
of the moon, and I guess it imprinted me.”
Over the last decade, he has bought at least
seven ranches, totaling 1,900 square miles, near
the Texas-New Mexico border and Guadalupe
Mountains National Park.
Nuny Morriss, a Van Horn city council
member and FedEx delivery driver, said the site
includes a “big warehouse-looking building and
some offices ... But they don’t let us go around
in the back.”
Blue Origin’s presence in Van Horn is minimal. Morriss recalled word getting out a few
years ago about a scheduled launch. Traffic
at the local airstrip suggested that VIPs were
coming in, and local officials were eager to join
them. “No one in town got invited,” Morriss
said.
By contrast, SpaceX is frequently in the
headlines thanks to its nearly $2 billion federal
contract. Attempts to reuse booster rockets have
been rocky; it’s failed three times to land them
on a platform off the Florida coast.
SpaceX already has a rocket plant near Waco.
With more than $15 million in state incentives,
it’s also building a launch site at Boca Chica
Beach, near Brownsville. Musk hopes for at
least 12 rocket launches a year, starting late
next year.
David Kanipe, a former NASA division
chief now teaching at Texas A&M, says Musk
and Bezos were cool to his offers of assistance.
All of the private space businesses have had
setbacks, such as Richard Branson’s Virgin
Galactic, which lost a spacecraft and a pilot in
October over California’s Mojave Desert.
“There’s just a million ways it can go
wrong,” Kanipe said. “I think it’s doable, but
it’s just going to take a while.”
Gay mentor, belief
in dignity at roots
of Kennedy’s views
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Irish Catholic boy who
came of age in Sacramento after World War II is an unlikely
candidate to be the author of the Supreme Court’s major gay
rights rulings.
But those who have known Justice Anthony Kennedy for
decades and scholars who have studied his work say he has long
stressed the importance of valuing people as individuals. And
he seems likely also to have been influenced in this regard by a
pillar of the Sacramento legal community, a closeted gay man
who hired Kennedy as a law school instructor and testified on
his behalf at his high court confirmation hearings in Washington.
With three major gay rights opinions to his name already,
the 78-year-old Kennedy is the prohibitive favorite to write the
Supreme Court decision in June that could extend same-sex
marriage nationwide.
Kennedy’s friendship with Gordon Schaber began in the
mid-1960s when Schaber recruited the young lawyer to teach
at the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento. Schaber, who
served as the school’s dean for 34 years, was in the process of
transforming McGeorge from an unaccredited night school to a
respected institution that now is a part of the University of the
Pacific.
Schaber never married and was widely believed to be gay,
according to accounts from a dozen people who worked for him
or were active in Sacramento’s political and legal communities.
“Schaber’s sexual orientation was general knowledge among
the Sacramento community and the law school community,” said
Glendalee “Glee” Scully, the longtime director of McGeorge’s
legal clinic, where students got practical experience by taking on
cases for people who couldn’t otherwise afford a lawyer.
Among those who worked at the school when Schaber was
dean, not one could recall Schaber discussing his sexual orientation. “Generationally, it was not something gentlemen spoke
about,” said McGeorge professor Larry Levine, himself openly
gay.
Scully said, “As close as he and Tony Kennedy were as
friends, I would doubt they ever had a conversation about it. But
how can’t it have helped to some degree Tony’s willingness to
have an open mind?”
Only nine years older than Kennedy, Schaber was a mentor to
many of the young lawyers he brought to the school and looked
after them in ways large and small.
Schaber helped some become judges. Year after year, Kennedy reported the same gift from Schaber on his annual financial
disclosures, $400 worth of shirts.
Kennedy spoke at the dedication of the Sacramento courthouse in Schaber’s memory, but he has never talked about
how Schaber has influenced his views on the bench. Kennedy
declined to respond to questions for this story.
Schaber died in 1997, just shy of his 70th birthday.
By that time, Kennedy had written his first gay rights ruling
on the Supreme Court, striking down a Colorado constitutional
amendment that prevented local governments from enacting
anti-discrimination protections for gays and lesbians.
In 2003, Kennedy again authored the majority opinion in
Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down state laws that made gay
sex a crime.
“It suffices for us to acknowledge that adults may choose to
enter upon this relationship in the confines of their homes and
their own private lives and still retain their dignity as free persons,” Kennedy wrote. “When sexuality finds overt expression
in intimate conduct with another person, the conduct can be but
one element in a personal bond that is more enduring.”
Ten years later, Kennedy’s opinion for the court in U.S. v.
Windsor struck down part of the federal anti-gay marriage law.
“It seems fair to conclude that, until recent years, many citizens
had not even considered the possibility that two persons of the
same sex might aspire to occupy the same status and dignity as
that of a man and woman in lawful marriage,” Kennedy wrote in
the Windsor case. The decision left for another day the question
of whether states can keep same-sex couples from marrying.
That question is now before the court, with arguments set for
Tuesday. So what are the roots of Kennedy’s views?
Childhood friend Joseph Genshlea said the issue never came
up at Stanford University, where they attended college together
in the 1950s, or the Sacramento neighborhood in which both
grew up and later raised their own families.
“When we were in college, we didn’t even know there was a
closet,” Genshlea said. “I don’t have an answer to it except that
he’s a very bright guy and he certainly has thought through the
issue.”
Another longtime friend, former California Gov. Pete Wilson,
(Continued on page 15)
Technology and outdoor sports converge
at drone conference
Santa Cruz, Calif. (AP)
— Surfers catching waves
and mountain bikers pedaling
through forests are used to the
occasional low flying pelican
or diving hawk, but these days
outdoor recreationalists can
find what’s up in the air isn’t a
bird at all, it’s a drone.
This week top dronemakers, along with investors,
regulators and inventors, are
gathering in one of the most
popular regions for outdoor
activity in the U.S., California’s Central Coast, to show
off their devices, hear about
new uses for airborne robots,
and hit the waves and trails.
Drones Data X Conference Santa Cruz, from May 1
to 3, will also feature experts
explaining how unmannedaerial vehicles can map remote
areas or rescue hikers or
swimmers.
Federal regulators, who are
still sorting out drone rules,
will be on hand with updates
on regulations about whether
operators need to keep a drone
within their line of sight, how
high they can go and whether
they can fly directly above a
person.
Spending on unmanned
aerial vehicles is projected to
double over the next decade,
from about $6.4 billion a
year to $11.5 billion a year,
according to industry analyst
Teal Group.
McNamara said about 90
percent of the venture capital
flowing toward drone technologies comes from the nation’s
high tech hub, Silicon Valley,
about 30 miles from the conference. Santa Cruz economic
development director Bonnie
Lipscomb said the city hopes
some firms will like what they
see, from sandy beaches to
redwood forests, as well as a
university and tech startups.
“It was a great opportunity
to showcase not only our burgeoning tech scene but also our
outdoor enthusiast paradise,”
she said.
Local mountain bike and
kite surfing companies are
loaning gear and expertise to
the conference.
Sergio Capozzi at the
Society of Outdoor Recreation
Professionals said there is both
crossover and conflict between
outdoor recreationalists and
drone enthusiasts.
“There is likely an appropriate time and place for drones
in nature. The challenge comes
in finding the right balance of
when and where drones are
appropriate,” he said.
As prices go down and drone
technology advances, park
and wilderness visitors who
want to use drones also need
to make sure that everyone is
having a safe and enjoyable
experience, he said. He noted
that, on the plus side, drones
can be used to gather photos
and videos that wouldn’t be
accessible otherwise.
“Sharing these experiences
encourages others to seek out
similar experiences, in particular on public landscapes,” he
said.
But Richard Dolesh, a vice
president at the National Recreation and Park Association,
said park managers aren’t
paying enough attention to
increased drone use.
“Drones are going to be
everywhere and people who
are managing outdoor land and
outdoor recreation are pretty
clueless right now about what
it’s going to take to effectively
manage them,” he said.
Dolesh noted that national
parks banned drones after visitors complained about their
noise.
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015 Page 13
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II stands with Prince Philip, left, and Prince William, right, during
a ceremony at the Cenotaph to commemorate ANZAC Day and the Centenary of the Gallipoli
Campaign in Whitehall, London, Saturday, April 25, 2015. The ANZAC Day memorial Saturday
marks the 100th anniversary of the 1915 Gallipoli landings, the first major military action fought
by the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during World War I. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
American Samoa Government
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
PUBLIC NOTICE
American Samoa Government
Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
State Management Plan - Consolidated Grant
For Title 49 U.S.C. Sections 5310, 5311, 5316, 5317 & 5339
Title 49 U.S.C. 5310(a)(1) authorizes funding for public transportation capital projects planned, designed and
carried out to meet the special needs of elderly individuals and individuals with disabilities.
Title 49 U.S.C. 5310(a)(2) provides that a State may allocate the funds apportioned to it to:
a. Aprivatenon-profitorganization,ifpublictransportationserviceprovidedbyStateandlocalgovernmental
authoritiesunderSection5310(a)(1)isunavailable,insufficient,orinappropriate;or
b.
A governmental authority that:
1. isapprovedbytheStatetocoordinateservicesforelderlyindividualsandindividualswithdisabilities;or
2. certifiesthattherearenotanynon-profitorganizationsreadilyavailableintheareatoprovidethespecial
services.
Title 49 U.S.C. 5311 Enhance the access of people in nonurbanized areas to health care, shopping, education,
employment, public services and recreation. Assist in the maintenance, development, improvement, and use of
public transportation systems in nonurbanized areas.
Title 49 U.S.C. 5316 Address the unique transportation challenges faced by welfare recipients and low-income
persons seeking to obtain and maintain employment.
Title 49 U.S.C. 5317 Seeks to reduce barriers to transportation services and expand the transportation mobility
options available to people with disabilities beyond the requirements of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA)
of 1990.
Title 49 U.S.C. 5339 Provides capital funding to replace, rehabilitate and purchase buses and related equipment
and to construct bus-related facilities, or to transfer to supplement urban and rural formula grant programs.
The American Samoa Government invites public comments on the Federal Transit Administration Consolidated
Grant State Management Plan Draft. Public comments are invited for a 30-day period commencing on Monday,
April 27, 2015 to May 26, 2015. A public meeting on the State Management Plan Draft will be held at the Public Works Conference room in Tafuna on Friday May 29, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. Translation into and out of Native
Language (Samoan) that is widely spoken will be provided at the meeting.
The Federal Transit Administration of American Samoa complies with 24 CFR 91.220 (i) and Title II of the
Americans with Disabilities Act. Individuals with disabilities who may need auxiliary aids, services, or special
modificationstoparticipateinthepublicmeetingortocommentontheStateManagementplandraftmaycontact
Department of Public Works. This document is available in accessible formats upon request. Paper copies, emailed
copy of this document as well as information regarding this plan may be obtained by contacting the Department of
Public Works @ 699-9921 ask for Cathy Faoa-Danielson for assistance.
Page 14
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015
A Nepalese man cries as he walks through the earthquake debris in†Bhaktapur, near Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, April 26, 2015. A strong magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook Nepal’s capital
and the densely populated Kathmandu Valley before noon Saturday, causing extensive damage
(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
with toppled walls and collapsed buildings, officials said.
➧ Rescuers struggle to reach remote Nepal
Continued from page 2
They woke to the sound of dogs yelping
and jackhammers. As the dawn light crawled
across toppled building sites, volunteers and
rescue workers carefully shifted broken concrete slabs and crumbled bricks mixed together
with humble household items: pots and pans;
a purple notebook decorated with butterflies; a
framed poster of a bodybuilder; so many shoes.
“It’s overwhelming. It’s too much to think
about,” said 55-year-old Bijay Nakarmi,
mourning his parents, whose bodies recovered
from the rubble of what once was a three-story
building.
He could tell how they died from their injuries. His mother was electrocuted by a live wire
on the roof top. His father was cut down by
falling beams on the staircase.
He had last seen them a few days earlier
— on Nepal’s Mothers’ Day — for a cheerful
family meal.
“I have their bodies by the river. They are
resting until relatives can come to the funeral,”
Nakarmi said as workers continued searching
for another five people buried underneath the
wreckage.
Kathmandu district chief administrator
Ek Narayan Aryal said tents and water were
being handed out Monday at 10 locations in
Kathmandu, but that aftershocks were leaving
everyone jittery. The largest, on Sunday, was
magnitude 6.7.
“There have been nearly 100 earthquakes
and aftershocks, which is making rescue work
difficult. Even the rescuers are scared and running because of them,” he said.
“We don’t feel safe at all. There have been
so many aftershocks. It doesn’t stop,” said
Rajendra Dhungana, 34, who spent Sunday
with his niece’s family for her cremation at the
Pashuputi Nath Temple.
Acrid, white smoke rose above the Hindu
temple, Nepal’s most revered. “I’ve watched
hundreds of bodies burn,” Dhungana said.
The capital city is largely a collection of
small, poorly constructed brick apartment
buildings. The earthquake destroyed swaths of
the oldest neighborhoods, but many were surprised by how few modern structures collapsed
in the quake.
On Monday morning, some pharmacies and
shops for basic provisions opened while bakeries
began offering fresh bread. With power lines
down, spotty phone connections and almost no
Internet connectivity, residents were particularly anxious to buy morning newspapers.
Huge lines of people desperate to secure fuel
lined up outside gasoline pumps; prices were
the same as they were before the earthquake
struck.
“We are not raising prices,” fruit seller
Shyam Jaiswal said. “That would be illegal,
immoral profit.”
As aid began pouring in from more than a
dozen countries, aid workers warned that the
situation could be far worse near the epicenter.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake
was centered near Lamjung, a district about 80
kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Kathmandu.
While not far away, poor roads and steep mountains make Lamjung difficult to reach. Even
before the quake, it could take six hours to drive
from Kathmandu to parts of the area. Now,
many of the few roads are believed to be cut off
by small landslides.
The earthquake was the worst to hit the
South Asian nation in more than 80 years. It and
was strong enough to be felt all across parts of
India, Bangladesh, China’s region of Tibet and
Pakistan. Nepal’s worst recorded earthquake
in 1934 measured 8.0 and all but destroyed the
cities of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Patan.
The quake has put a huge strain on the
resources of this impoverished country best
known for Everest, the highest mountain in
the world. The economy of Nepal, a nation of
27.8 million people, relies heavily on tourism,
principally trekking and Himalayan mountain
climbing.
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015 Page 15
Thousands expected at Monday’s funeral for Freddie Gray
BALTIMORE (AP) —
Thousands were expected
Monday at a funeral for a
man who died after sustaining
serious spinal injuries while in
the custody of Baltimore police.
Funeral
services
were
planned for 11 a.m. EDT
Monday for Freddie Gray, the
25-year-old black man who
died April 19 after an encounter
days earlier with police left
him with grave spinal injuries.
Pastor Jamal Bryant, who was
to deliver Gray’s eulogy, said
he expected Baltimore’s New
Shiloh Baptist Church to be
filled for the service. A cemetery burial was to follow.
In Washington, the White
House said the head of President
Barack Obama’s initiative for
young men of color would attend.
Broderick Johnson, chairman of
the My Brother’s Keeper Task
Force and a Baltimore native, is
to be joined by two other administration officials, a White House
statement said.
Mourners who didn’t even
know Gray filed in a steady
stream for hours into a funeral
home for his wake Sunday afternoon. Some supporters stood
outside the Vaughn Green East
funeral home with signs that
read, “We remember Freddie”
and “Our Hearts Are With The
Gray Family.”
Inside, mourners passed
by Gray’s silk-draped, white
coffin where he lay dressed in
a white shirt, black pants, white
sneakers and an all-white Los
Angeles Dodgers baseball cap.
Above the lid to the coffin was a
floral arrangement and inside the
lid was a pillow with a screenprinted picture of Gray flanked
by doves and the quote, “Peace,
Y’all” at the bottom edge.
Melissa McDonald, 36, who
said she was Gray’s cousin,
wore a shirt with “Freddie Forever” printed on the back. She
described her cousin as a nonviolent person.
“He didn’t deserve to die the
way he did,” she said.
Gray’s wake followed demonstrations Saturday that turned
violent. Roughly 1,200 protesters rallied outside City Hall
on Saturday afternoon, officials
said. A smaller group splintered
off and looted a convenience
store and smashed storefront
windows. A protester tossed
a flaming metal garbage can
toward a line of police officers
in riot gear as they tried to push
back the crowd. Earlier, a group
of protesters smashed the windows of at least three police
cars.
Some 34 people were
arrested, according to Baltimore
Police Department, and six
police officers sustained minor
injuries.
During a news conference
Sunday, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called for
protesters to be peaceful.
“At the end of the day, we
are one Baltimore. We need to
support peaceful demonstration
and continue to enforce in our
communities that rioting, violence, and looting will not be
tolerated in our city,” the mayor
said. “Together we can be one
Baltimore and seek answers as
we seek justice and as we seek
peace.”
Gray’s death has prompted
near-daily demonstrations. Gray
was arrested one week before
he died when officers chased
him through a West Baltimore
➧ Gay mentor…
Continued from page 12
said Kennedy always has evaluated people as individuals, not as
members of a group. Kennedy, he said, sees everyone “based on
their merits.”
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested in an interview last
summer that one reason for changes in public opinion in favor
of same-sex marriage was that, as gay Americans became more
comfortable talking about the topic, people learned that they
had gay friends and relatives, “people you have tremendous
respect for.” She was describing what sociologists call the contact theory, the idea that the majority group’s interactions with
a minority will break down stereotypes and enhance acceptance
of the minority group.
Helen Knowles, the author of a book about Kennedy’s jurisprudence, said she doesn’t place too much emphasis on this
theory.
“Having said that, I have difficulty believing that Kennedy’s
friendship with Gordon Schaber didn’t affect his views,” said
Knowles, a professor of government at Skidmore College in
Saratoga Springs, New York. Her book is “The Tie Goes to
Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty.”
Knowles and political science professor Frank Colucci of
Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Indiana, said the earliest indication of Kennedy’s views about the treatment of gays
and lesbians can be found in a 1980 ruling that ironically upheld
the Navy’s dismissal of gay sailors.
“He rules in favor of the Navy policy, but it’s about as sympathetic as one could be to the plaintiff,” Colucci said.
Kennedy was a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
at the time. “Upholding the challenged regulations as constitutional is distinct from a statement that they are wise. The latter
judgment is neither implicit in our decision nor within our province to make,” he wrote then.
neighborhood and dragged him
into a police van.
Police said Gray was arrested
after he made eye contact with
officers and ran away. Officers
held him down, handcuffed him
and loaded him into the van.
While inside, he became irate
and leg cuffs were put on him,
police have said.
Gray asked for medical help
several times, beginning before
he was placed in the van. After
a 30-minute ride that included
three stops, paramedics were
called.
Authorities
have
not
explained how or when Gray’s
spine was injured.
Police acknowledged Friday
that Gray should have received
medical attention on the spot
where he was arrested — before
he was put inside a police transport van handcuffed and without
a seat belt, a violation of the
police department’s policy.
Location: Room 209, Tedi of Samoa - Fagatogo
Office Hrs. 9am to 2pm
(684) 633-0179
Family owned & operated since 1998. We are
American Samoa’s only full time Pest Control
Company. We provide a very affordable and friendly
service.
Do you have ROACH, ANT, FLEAS, TICKS,
TERMITE, RATS, AND OTHER PEST PROBLEMS?
• Call for a FREE PEST EVALUATION OR NO OBLIGATION
INSPECTION
• We do GROUND TERMITE TREATMENT &
CONSTRUCTION PRE-TREATMENTS
• We provide services for Houses, Boats, Cars, Offices,
Warehouses, Storage, Restaurants, Furniture pieces,
stores and cafeteria and health clinics
AMERICAN SAMOA GOVERNMENT
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES
PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA 96799
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
Department/Division:
Governor’s Office/Medicaid-State
Innovation Model (SIM) Grant
Posting Date: April 22, 2015 Serial No.: 068-15
Closing Date: April 28, 2015 Announement No.: 068-15
GS: 15/$21,715 - $51,875
Pay Scale & Salary Rage:
Type of Position: Temporary Appointment
Posting Type: Employment Opportunity/Open to the Public
Position Title:
PROJECTD IRECTOR
Note: This is exempted from the freeze as per the Governor’s General Memorandum
General Desciption:
The incumbent reports directly to the Medicaid Director and is responsible for the overall project management and the
administrative and fiscal oversight of the SIM grant. Key responsibilities are to ensure full satisfaction of all project
deliverables, sound fiscal management and personnel management to include that goals, objectives and tasks are on
track and met according to the operational plan and stakeholder engagement plan.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
• Provide effective fiscal management and oversight of SIM funds in the implementation of the grant requirements
• Provide administrative management on the SIM project to ensure tasks and activities are provided adequate
resources.
• Conduct quarterly evaluations of project status and provide updates at Healthcare Transformation task force/SIM
steering committee monthly meetings
• Prepare and timely submit monthly progress reports to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and SIM
project officer as required
• Provide guidance to SIM staff in the implementation of the project
• Prepare program and fiscal reports, presentation for executive leadership
• Provides financial accountability and quantitative measurements of activities from evaluation and registries
• Travel for meetings and training may be necessary and will be provided, as well as opportunities for advancement
• All other duties and responsibilities as assigned
Knowledge, Skill and Ability:
• Knowledge of:
• ASG financial system
• grant planning and implementation
• medicaid/medicare program state plan
• healthcare system
• Ability to:
• have excellent communication and client relations skills
• communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
• provides financial accountability
• supervise exempt/non-exempt, professional and/or technical employees
• Skills in:
• financial resources
• management/supervisory
• contracting/administrative
Academic and Experience Requirements:
• Applicant must have a Master’s degree in related field from an accredited college/university plus 4 years of work
related experience; 2 years of which at a supervisory level OR a Bachelor’s degree in related field from an accredited
college/university plus 5 years of work related experience; 3 years of which at a supervisory level. Years of progressively
responsible working experience may be substituted for portion of the academic requirement. Salary will be adjusted
according to experience.
Complete information concerning this vacancy may be obtained from the Personnel Division of the Department of
Human Resources, or please contact the Recruitment unit at 633-4485/633-5357.
Fa’afetai tele,
Sonny Thompson, Director
Department of Human Resources
Page 16
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015
• Promotion begins at 12:00am on Wednesday, April 1 2015.
• Promotion is for Prepaid Mobile Customers only.
• Promotion valid for Bluesky Lifeline and Capped Plan numbers only.
• Customer must have valid credit balance to make a call.
• Promotion does not apply to bonus minutes.
• Once a customer makes a call longer than 3 minutes, they will automatically
be charged at zero per minute from the 4th – 18th minute. Customer will be
charged normally on the 19th minute until the end of the call.
• Talk for 3 to Talk for Free only applies to on-net (Bluesky Prepaid to
Bluesky Prepaid & Postpaid mobiles) and excludes: Calls to ASTCA
landlines and mobiles, Calls to International numbers, Calls to Directory
and Calls to Bluesky short codes.
C
M
Y
K
C
M
Y
K
Fa’atonu tama’ita’i talepe fale fa’a
toese ali’i Fa’amasino ma leoleo
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015 Page 17
Lali
Le
tusia Ausage Fausia
C
M
Y
K
C
M
Y
K
O le tama’ita’i lea ua ta’usala e le fa’amasinoga maualuga
i lona ulufale fa’amalosi lea i totonu o le maota o le afioga i le
ali’i Fa’amasino Lagolago ia Fa’amausili Pomele, ua poloaina
e le fa’amasinoga ina ia alu e fa’atoese i le ali’i fa’amasino ma
lona faletua.
E le gata i lea, ua poloaina fo’i o ia ina ia fa’atoese i
tama’ita’i leoleo e to’atolu sa ia palauvale i ai ma lafo i ai upu
tau fa’amata’u, a o latou taumafai e fa’afilemu lona ‘ona i le aso
na pu’e fa’apagota ai o ia i lenei mataupu.
O ni isi ia o tuutuuga o le nofovaavaaia a Elega Sauaso na
tu’uina atu e le fa’amasinoga maualuga i le aso Faraile na te’a
nei, ina ua ta’usala o ia e le fa’amasinoga maualuga i le moliaga
o le talepe fale i le tulaga lua.
Na fa’atoese Sauaso i le fa’amasinoga e tusa ai o lana solitulafono sa faia, ma ia talosagaina ai se isi avanoa mo ia, se’i toe
fo’i atu ai i tua i lona aiga e tausi lona tina. Sa ia fa’atoese fo’i
i le afioga i le ali’i fa’amasino ia Fa’amausili ma lona faletua, i
lona ulufale fa’amalosi i totonu o le la maota ma goai meatotino
sa i ai.
Na fa’ai’u lana fa’atoesega i lona tina matua, (lea sa alala
atu i luga o le wheelchair i totonu o le potu fa’amasino), ina ia
fa’amagalo o ia i lona le usita’i ma le faia o amioga mataga ua
ta’uvalea ai lo latou aiga.
Na taua e le ali’i loia fautua ia Michael White na tulai mo
Sauaso e fa’apea, o le fa’afitauli numera tasi o lo o fetaia’i ma le
ua molia, o lona le mafai lea ona taofi le tagofia o le ava malosi.
E ui i le matuia o le gaioiga sa faia e Sauaso i lona ulufale
fa’amalosi lea i totonu o le maota o le ali’i fa’amasino ma gaoi
oloa sa i ai, ae na talosaga lana loia i le fa’amasinoga ina ia
fa’asala o ia i se fa’asalaga nofovaavaaia, ina ia maua ai le
avanoa e auai atu ai o ia i aoaoga e fesoasoani ai i lona tagofia o
le ‘ava malosi.
Na taua e le loia a le malo ia Tiffany Oldfield i le fa’amasinoga
e fa’apea, e ui o le taimi muamua lenei ua tula’i ai Sauaso i
luma o le fa’amasinoga maualuga, peita’i ua fa’atolu ona tula’i
o ia i luma o le fa’amasinoga fa’aitumalo, ona o tu’uaiga i lona
save’uina lea o le nonofo filemu o tagata, ae aofia ai lava le ‘ava
malosi.
Na taua e Oldfield e fa’apea, o le matuia o le gaioiga sa faia
e le ua molia, o lona ulufale fa’amalosi lea i totonu o le fale a le
ali’i fa’amasino i se taimi o le po, ma ia ave faagaoi ni meatotino
sa i totonu toe ai ma meaai sa i ai, ae o lo o moe i totonu o le fale
se tina matua e 63 tausaga.
Na fa’ai’u le talosaga a le malo i finauina lea o le fa’amasinoga,
ia fa’asala Sauaso i le toese mo le umi e 12 masina, o se tasi lea
o tuutuuga o lana nofovaavaaia e 7 tausaga.
Saunoa le ali’i fa’amasino sili ia Michael Kruse i le taimi na
ia fofogaina ai le fa’asalaga a Sauaso e fa’apea, ua la manatu ma
le afioga i le ali’i fa’amasino lagolago ia Muasau Tasina Tofili,
e foliga mai e le toe aoga se isi fa’asalaga fa’anofovaavaaia
mo Sauaso, ona o lea ua fa’alua ona nofovaavaaia i luma o le
fa’amasinoga fa’aitumalo, ae foliga mai o lo o ia tagofia pea lava
le ava malosi.
Ui l lea, na manatu le fa’amasinoga e toe tu’u tasi se isi avanoa
o ia, afai loa na te le usitaia tuutuuga o lana nofovaavaaia lea,
ona tu’uina atu loa lea o se isi fa’asalaga e sili atu ona mamafa
mo ia.
E 9 masina lea ua faasala ai Sauaso i le toese i Tafuna, o se
tasi lea o tuutuuga o la na nofovaavaaia e 7 tausaga, i lalo o tuutuuga e ao ona ia usita’i i ai.
O isi tuutuuga o lana nofovaavaaia e aofia ai le faasa lea ona
ia toe soli se tulafono, fa’asa ona ia toe tagofia le ava malosi,
fa’atoese i le ali’i fa’amsino ma lona faletua, atoa ai ma leoleo
sa ia palauvale i ai.
Ua poloaina fo’i e le fa’amasinoga le toe fa’afo’i o ia i le
atunu’u na malaga mai ai, peita’i o lea tuutuuga o le a taofia
lona fa’ataunu’uina, fuafua lava i lona usitaia o poloaiga uma ua
tu’uina atu ia te ia.
Na fa’ailoa e Kruse ia Sauaso, afai loa na te le usita’ia se
poloaiga se tasi o poloaiga uma ua tuuina atu, a le o le loka o ia
i le toese mo le 7 tausaga, o le a toe fa’afo’i o ia i lona atunu’u
na malaga mai ai.
Feso’ota’i mai i le tusitala ia [email protected]
Le afioga i le Alo o Salamasina, Satele Galu Satele i le taimi o le fonotaga a le afioga i Vailoa
[ata: AF]
i le fa’aiuga o le vaiaso na te’a nei.
Leai se tali Satele fa’aiuga a
le Kovana fa’asaga ia te ia
SATELE: MAUGA, IA MANUIA LAU NOFOAIGA
tusia Ausage Fausia
Na fiu le Samoa News e tu’i fesili le afioga
i le Alo o Salamasina ia Satele Galu Satele i le
fa’aiuga o le vaiaso na te’a nei, i sona finagalo e
tusa ai o le fa’aiuga a le afioga i le ali’i kovana
ia Lolo Matalasi Moliga, lea ua fa’amalolo mai
ai o ia mai le tofi o le Failautusi o le Ofisa o
Mataupu Tau Samoa.
Talu mai lava le aso na faia ai le fa’aiuga
a le ali’i kovana fa’asaga ia Satele, sa to’atele
le atunu’u na tu’u fesili i le mafua’aga o lenei
fa’aiuga, a’o le a fo’i se saunoaga a le afioga i le
Alo o Salamasina e uiga i lenei mataupu.
Na fiu fo’i le Samoa News e tau saili se
avanoa e feiloa’i ai ma le afioga i le Alo o Salamasina ina ua fa’atoa tula’i mai lenei mataupu,
sa le i manuia, peita’i o le fa’aiuga o le aviaso
na ta nei i lona maota i Asotau, na maua ai loa le
avanoa o le Samoa News e feiloa’i ma talanoa
ai ma le afioga Satele e tusa ai o lenei mataupu.
“E leai se tala a Satele i lenei mataupu, pau
le agaga o Satele, o lo o silasila le Atua o le lagi
i le moni ma le fa’amaoni o lenei mataupu”, o
le ulua’i saunoaga lea a le afioga i le Alo o Salamasina ina ua fesiligia e le Samoa News, i sona
finagalo e tusa ai o le fa’aiuga a le ali’i kovana
ua faia fa’asaga ia te ia.
“Pau le agaga ia te a’u, ou te fa’amanuia atu
i le afioga i le Maoputasi lea ua seei i le nofoa sa
ou tauaveina, Mauga, ia manuia lau nofoaiga”,
o le isi saunoaga lea a Satele.
Na fesiligia e le Samoa News le afioga a
Satele, i tu’uaiga e faapea, sa i ai ni “lafoga”
sa ia lafo i le ali’i kovana i le aso mulimuli sa
la fa’asoa ai e fa’atatau i le mataupu a lona
afioaga, peita’i na saunoa Satele, e leai sana tala
e faia i le mataupu atoa lava, e le mana’o fo’i e
toe talanoa i mea ua tuana’i.
“Pau le agaga o Satele, ou te aumaia le Fetalaiga a Iesu sa augani ai i lona Tama o i le lagi,
lea sa ia fa’apea atu ai, Lo’u Tama e, lo’u Tama
e, ia e fa’amagalo atu ia te i latou, aua ua latou
le iloa le mea ua latou faia”, o le saunoaga lea
a Satele.
Na taua e ni isi o le afioga e fa’apea, e le i
faigofie i le afioga ma le Itumalo le mataupu i
le va o le Kovana ma Satele, ina ua salalau i
le ea ma le atunu’u fa’amatalaga e fa’apea, ua
fa’ate’a e le kovana le afioga a Satele mai le
Ofisa o Mataupu Tau Samoa.
Na taua e ni isi o le afioga e fa’apea, sa i ai le
manatu o le afioga ma le itumalo, o le a talia e
le ali’i kovana le savali a le Fono Faitulafono sa
alu atu ia te ia e fa’atatau i le mataupu ia Satele,
peita’i o le itu na ofo ai le itumalo, ina ua fuli
mai le savali a le Fono Faitulafono, ae fa’asaga
le kovana ma fai lana tofiga fou, e aunoa ma le
tu’uina mai o sana tali e tusa ai o le savali a le
Fono sa alu atu ia te ia.
E pei ona silafia e le atunu’u, o le sauniga o
le sisiga fu’a a Amerika Samoa na se’i mavae
atu nei, na fa’atauto aloaia ai le afioga i le
Maoputasi ia Mauga Tasi Asuega, e avea ma
Failautusi o le Ofisa o Mataupu Tau Samoa.
E le i finagalo Mauga e talanoa atili e uiga
i le mataupu ia Satele ma le ali’i kovana, ina
ua fesiligia o ia e le Samoa News i le aso na ia
aloaia ai lona tauaveina o lenei tofiga fou.
Pau lana saunoaga, o le a ia fa’atinoina tiute
tauave uma sa fa’atinoina e Satele, o le puipuia
lea o measina a le atunu’u, e pei ona tofia i ai le
ofisa o Mataupu Tau Samoa.
Feso’ota’i mai i le tusitala ia
[email protected]
Page 18
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015
Vaavaai Galea’i tagata
talafeagai tauva mo
le tofi Kovana 2016
tusia Ausage Fausia
Le afioga i le ali’i Senatoa mai le Itumalo o Tualatai, le afioga i le Sa’o ia Tuiasina Sosene Esera
[ata: AF]
➧ Itumalo ia Satele…
Mai itulau 1
ia Satele, a o fa’afofoga le paia o le afioga i Vailoa, lea na ia taua ai le mamafa o le mataupu lenei
i lona loto, talu mai lava le taimi na faia ai le finagalo o le ali’i kovana, e fa’atula’i ese Satele mai
le tofi Failautusi o le Ofisa o Mataupu Tau Samoa.
“Talofa e Satele i lau afioga, i lou loto alofa, fa’amaualalo ma lou fai nu’u lelei, sa e taumafai
e fa’anonofo filemu lou nu’u, sa e manatu e te fautua ma le alofa ina ia lagona e le nu’u ma le
Ekalesia lou si’ufofoga fa’a Tama, ae ua a nei, ua avea lou alofa, o lou loto maualalo ma lou
agamalu ma itu ua faitauina ese ai oe, lea lava ua oo ina a’afia ai lou tofi i le malo ....” na motu
fa’afuase’i i le taimi lea le saunoaga a Tuiasina ina ua tutulu.
“Satele ...” o le isi lea saunoaga a Tuiasina, ona toe muta fa’afuase’i fo’i lea o lana saunoaga
ina ua tutulu, “ ... o oe o le fa’aao o le Itumalo, e tutupu nei mea ao fea o i ai lou nu’u, e tuliesea oe
mai le faigamalo, a o fea o i ai lou Itumalo, e satia oe i le ala a o fea o i ai lou aiga ma ou tagata, o
le mea lea, le tofi lea o le Itumalo”.
“O le tofi lea o le Itumalo sa e faa’alo’alo mai ai i se taimi ua sola, lea ua ou lafo atu i lau afioga,
manuia lau nofoaiga”, o le saunoaga fa’ai’u lea a Tuiasina na vaaia ai le sapaia e le afioga o le
fa’aiuga ua ia faia.
Na taua e se tasi o tama matua o le afioga e fa’apea, “o lau fa’aaloalo Tuiasina i lenei aso, ua
atagia mai ai o oe o le toa, e le mafai e se tagata ona fai lenei mea, ua atagia mai ai fo’i lou fa’aeaea
i le Itumalo, fa’atasi ai ma lou agaga, e te tausi tupu ia Satele”.
Na fa’afetaia e le afioga i le Sa’o ia Tuiasina Dr. Salamo Laumolia ia Tuisaina, e tusa ai o le
fa’aaloalo ua ia fa’aeaea ai ia Satele, aemaise ai tulaga fa’aletonu e pei ona tula’i mai i le fa’aao o
le Itumalo, lea ua fa’amalolo e le ali’i kovana ia Lolo Matalasi Moliga mai le tofi o le Failautusi
o le Ofisa o Mataupu Tau Samoa.
“O ai e fia vaai i sona tupu o fai fa’apea”?, o le saunoaga lea a Tuiasina ao fa’afofoga le afioga,
le afioaga e afio ai le Alo o Salamasina ma Alo o Fanene, susu ai le Sa’o ia Tuiasina ma lou aiga
Sa Tuiasina, ae puipui e le Fetalaiga i le Faletolu.
“Soo se tagata Samoa lava, e fia puipui i lona aiga, o lona nu’u, atoa ai ma lona itumalo, lea la
ua e lafo Tuiasina le fa’aaloalo ia Tuiasina, fa’amalo le fa’aeaea i le fa’aao o le itumalo, ua lava
lena fa’aaloalo e ta’u atu ai i le faigamalo, tusa lava poo a mea e tutupu, tatou te fa’aeaea lava ia
Satele”, o le saunoaga lea a Tuiasina Dr. Salamo Laumoli.
Na fa’afetaia e Satele le afioga i le ali’i senatoa ia Tuiasina e tusa ai o lana fa’aaloalo maualuga,
ua fa’ailoa atu ai lona amanaia o ia i le saofaiga a le afioga ma le itumalo, fa’apea le atunu’u atoa.
“Fa’afetai Tuiasina i lou fa’aeaea, ua lava le tofa lea ua e fa’ailoa mai ua ou iloa ai o oe o le toa,
fa’afetai atu i le tatou nu’u i lo outou fa’aeaea mai ia Satele, lea ua ou iloa i le aso, o outou lava o
lo o malu ma lelei ai lo tatou nu’u”, o le saunoaga lea a Satele.
Na taua e Satele i lona nu’u e faapea, e le faigofie le fa’aaloalo ua lafo atu e ali’i senatoa ia te
ia, lea fo’i ua talisapaia e le afioaga atoa.
Na saunoa fa’afetai Satele i le afioga, i lo latou amanaiaina o ia, talu mai lava le taimi na faia ai
le fa’aiuga a le ali’i kovana ia te ia, seia oo mai i le aso o le latou fonotaga.
Sa ia fa’ailoa i le nu’u e fa’apea, e ui i mea ua tutupu ia te ia, e le fa’avaivai ai lona loto, ae ua
atili ai ona tele lona fatu ma fa’alagolago pea lava i le ta’ita’iga a le Atua.
Na talia ma le agaga fa’afetai e Satele le tofi na fa’aaloalo atu ai le afioga i le ali’i senatoa ia
Tuiasina, ae i le fa’aiuga o lana saunoaga, sa ia fa’apea atu ai ia Tuiasina, “Tuiasina, fa’afetai mo
lau fa’aaloalo, o lea ua ou talia, ae sau ina alu e fa’aauau le tofi a le Itumalo”.
Feso’ota’i mai i le tusitala ia [email protected]
Na fa’alauiloa e le afioga i le ali’i senatoa ia Galea’i M. Tuufuli i se feiloaiga ma tusitala i le vaiaso na te’a nei, lona vaavaai
lea i se tagata talafeagai ma agava’a e tauva mo le tofi kovana i
le palota o le 2016.
Ina ua fesiligia po o le a se ituaiga tagata o lo o ia vaavaai i
ai, ae na saunoa Galea’i, “o se tagata e fa’amaoni ma fai le amiotonu, o se tagata e tautala i le fa’amaoni, ae savali ma ola ai,
se tagata fo’i e lelei le mafaufau, e toa le loto toe alofa i tagata”.
Ae ina ua fesiligia o ia e tusitala, po o le a sona finagalo i le
ali’i kovana o lo o i ai nei, le tofa i le tootoo ia Lolo Matalasi
Moliga, ae na saunoa Galea’i, o le ali’i kovana o lo o i ai nei, “o
se tagata e lelei toe loto alofa i le atunu’u”.
“Ua ou fa’alogo i le talanoa a Lolo, e talanoa mai i aiga,
aganu’u ma le Atua, ua tosina ai fo’i lagona o le atunu’u i lana
talanoa, ae le mafai ona fa’afoe se malo i ni auala fa’apena, pau
le mea e tupu e i’u ina fa’aletonu ai ma le malo”, o le saunoaga
lea a Galea’i.
Na taua e Galea’i e fa’apea, o ia sa lagolago malosi ia Lolo i
le taimi o lana fa’atosina, e oo mai lava i le taimi nei o lo o avea
pea lava o ia ma lagolago malosi mo le ali’i kovana, peita’i, e i
ai mea ua mafua ai ona sui lona mafaufau i le ali’i kovana, ina ua
le sa’o le faiga o ni isi o ana fa’aiuga i tulaga o galuega fa’atino.
Ina ua fesiligia Galea’i e aumai se fa’ata’ita’iga “o galuega e
le o sa’o” ua mafua ai ona sui lona mafaufau ia Lolo, na saunoa
le ali’i kovana, “O le faiga o le auala i Visa, e leai se tupe na
pasia atu e le Fono e fa’atupe ai lea galuega a o lea lava e fai”.
Sa ia talanoa fo’i i le tulaga ua i ai tupe o lo o alu i totogi o
tagata faigaluega a le malo, lea ua matua mata’utia le maualuga,
atoa ai ma le to’atele o tagata o lo o galulue i le ofisa o le kovana
i lalo o konekarate, o le to’atele o i latou o lo o amata atu i le ta’i
$40,000 totogi i le tausaga.
“O le isi mea ua ou maitauina, o le tele o nei mau tama’i ofisa
ua fa’apipi’i aga’i i le Ofisa o le ali’i kovana, ae sa le masani ai i
nofoaiga ua mavae”, o le isi lea saunoaga a Galea’i.
Na taua e le ali’i senatoa mai Manu’a e fa’apea, o le mea sa
tupu i le nofoaiga a Togiola ma Faoa i le tele o tupe e alu i totogi
o tagata faigaluega, o le mea fo’i lea sa tupu i le Fono i le taimi
a o avea Lolo ma peresetene, ao avea ai le susuga a Iulogologo
Joseph Pereira ma ana lagolago.
Mo se fa’ata’ita’iga e pei ona saunoa le ali’i senatoa, o le
suiga sa i ai le paketi a le fono i lea taimi, o le sui mai lea i le $2.8
miliona i le $6 miliona.
Na fa’ai’u le saunoaga a Galea’i i tusitala i lona saunoa e
fa’apea, “o le ituaiga ta’ita’i e fia vaai i ai, o se tagata e tautala i
le fa’amaoni ma savali ai, e tausisi fo’i i upu ma folafolasaga sa
ia faia i tagata ma le atunu’u”.
Utah couple married
74 years dies within
hours of each other
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Just after her mother died at
age 94, Carol Bradford went to see her 95-year-old father and
told him the news. “I leaned over and whispered in his ear,
‘Mom has passed, and she’s waiting for you in heaven.’ I think
after that, he knew he had accomplished what he needed, and
he felt that he could let go,” Bradford said.
Shortly after her visit on April 7, Bradford’s father, Marcus
Yensen, died of heart failure. Madelyn Yensen, his wife of 74
years, had died after suffering a seizure five hours earlier that day.
“They were always together, and they were always very
happy with each other,” she said. Her father always insisted
her mother should die at home with proper care, Bradford said.
The two married on Oct. 17, 1940, only a month after they
met when he took a dance lesson from her at a studio. They had
lived since 1949 in a quaint, brick home where they raised their
three children.
The couple’s son, Byron Yensen, said that while it was
painful to lose both parents in a single day, it was comforting to
know they weren’t apart from each other long. “It would have
been very difficult for Mom or Dad to live without the other,”
he told the Deseret News. “They really loved each other.”
“He didn’t want to die and leave her here. He wanted to take
care of her,” he added.
Marcus Yensen was a World War II veteran and Union
Pacific Railroad engineer, while his wife was a homemaker.
A funeral service will be held May 9 at St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church in Salt Lake City.
Tulimata’i A’oga Maualuga
i Faga’itua galuega lelei
tusia: Leua Aiono Frost
O le aso Faraile na te’a,
Aperila 24, na tamau e le
Pulega ma le vasega o Faia’oga
i Faga’itua High, e tima’i ai le
fanau a’oga i le Laumua o le
Vikings i avanoa ma ituaiga
o galuega eseese e mafai ona
tausailia pe a mae’a latou
a’oga, ma sa matagofie lea aso
aua na to’atele sui mamalu o
Matagaluega eseese o le Malo
ma Pisinisi tuma’oti sa auai
atu e tali lo latou vala’aulia.
Na tofusia Ofisa ta’itasi
ma pisinisi tumaoti sa auai,
e 25 o i latou, ma le potu
a’oga e fa’atautaia ai latou
vasega. O le fa’amoemoe o
Fagaitua High, sa auai uma
tamaiti a’oga e 557 mai le
vasega 9-12, mai itumalo e
fa, Sua, Vaifanua, Saole ma le
Ma’oputasi, lea o lo’o ao’oga
latou alo i Fagaitua.
I se va’aiga lautele, sa iloga
ai le auai atu o le National Park
American Samoa, Matagaluega o le Puipuiga o le Saogalemu Lautele, ASPA, DOC,
Public Works, LBJ, ASCC,
US Marines, NOAA Weather
Station, Public Information
KVZKTV, DHSS, Visitor’s
Bureau, ASDOE, ASEPA,
Homeland Security, OPAD,
DHR, DMWR, Hawaiian, US
Army, Blue Sky, Polynesian
Airlines, South Seas Financial
Services ma le Samoa News.
O le tatalo ana amata ai
faiva o i latou na fa’atino
folasaga i potu a’oga, ma
sa latou fa’aalia i le fanau
ituaiga o avanoa faigaluega,
tiute fa’atino ma tulafono
fo’i e tausisia i lea ituaiga o
faiva, ae maise o le maualuga
o le atamai po’o tusi pasi e
tulimata’ia e mautinoa ai ua e
maua nei avanoa faigaluega.
E ta’itolu vasega a nei sui
e faia i le va o le 9-12:15 i
le aoauli, ona toe fa’atasia
lea mo se ‘aiga fa’afetai
fa’apea fo’i le tali fa’afetai
mai a le Laumua i Faga’itua.
Na matua fa’aalia se lagona
fiafia o se tasi o sui o le fanau
a’oga na tula’i e fa’ailoa lana
filifiliga ua faia, ina ua mae’a
lenei fa’atasiga. “O a’u sa ou
manatu ou te alu i le vaega a le
Army, pe a manuia la’u su’ega
peita’i, o lea ua ou filifili ou
te alu i le vaega a le Maligi!
Fa’afetai lava tufa mai ia te’i
matou, ma ua fa’amautu ai
la’u filifiliga i le fa’ai’uga o
la’u a’oga i Fagaitua.”
“Pe afai e tele maua lea
avanoa mai le WIA, e talosaga atu i le pulega mo lea
avanoa, ae sa tele tausaga o
matou fa’afaigaluegaina nisi
o le fanau talavou e amata
tusitusi fa’apena, ma ua iloga
le atamamai tele o ia fanau i
a latou kosi o tau’avea i Iunivesite i lenei vaitau, peita’i e
tatalia pea lupe o foaga o lo’o
fa’alele, pe toe taliu mai afea,
e suia le ‘au vaega o le a litaea
mai lea matata i lenei vaitau.”
O se tali atu lea a le sui na
fa’afoea lea vasega.
3 young women jailed
in Russia for twerking
next to a monument…
MOSCOW (AP) — A court in southern Russia has sentenced three young women to brief jail terms for making a
video showing them twerking next to a World War II memorial.
Russia celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Allies’ victory in the World War II next month, an emotionally charged
holiday the Kremlin has been using for propaganda purposes.
The sentencing in the Novorossiysk district court of a
19-year-old woman to 15 days in jail and two women in their
20s to 10 days comes after prosecutors launched a probe into a
video showing a group of women twerking next to the memorial on the Black Sea.
Twerking is a sexually provocative dance involving
thrusting of the hips.
Prosecutors said in a statement Saturday that five women
were found guilty of “hooliganism” and two of them were
spared jail because of poor health. Hooliganism is the charge
that sent two members of punk band Pussy Riot to prison for
two years for an impromptu protest at Moscow’s main cathedral in 2012.
Prosecutors in Novorossiysk also said they were pressing
charges against the parents of one underage girl who was
twerking with the others girls for “the failure to encourage the
physical, intellectual, physiological, spiritual and moral development of a child.”
This is a second twerking scandal in Russia in less than two
weeks.
Investigators last week launched a probe into a dance school
in the city of Orenburg after a YouTube video of female school
girls dressed as bees and twerking in a sexually suggestive
Winnie the Pooh routine sparked outrage. The dance school
was temporarily shut down while officials in this southern city
not far from the Kazakh border ordered an inspection of all
dance schools in the region.
I le vasega a le Blue Sky
sa fa’atautaia to’alua e Lewis
Wolman ma lana soa, sa la’ua
fa’ailoa atu ai i le fanau, “O
le tele o avanoa ua i ai nei e
feso’ota’i lava ma lou malamalama lelei i le fa’aaogaina o
ala o feso’ota’iga o lo’o i ai i
luga o telefoni fe’avea’i, lua o
atamai masani o lou iloa talileleia tagata gasolo atu mo le
tautua a le Kamupani telefoni
lenei, ma ua i ai fo’i avanoa e
a’otauina ai oe, fa’alautele lou
iloa i lau matata, pe afai e talia
sau talosaga e te faigaluega ai i
le Blue Sky.”
I le mae’a ai o le
fa’amoemoe, sa tali fa’afetai
mai le Laumua i Fagaitua i
tusi fa’ailo o lea aso iloga i
le laumua, ina ua mae’a le
tausamiga o le aoauli, ma
taua’ao mai fo’i meaalofa
e fa’afiafia ai i latou na
fa’atautaia folasaga mo vasega
e tolu o lea aso a’oga.
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015 Page 19
FAASALALAUGA
SUAFA “LEAPAGATELE”
O NU’UULI
O UPU A SAMOA UA TA’OTO’OTO A’O SE ALA UA OO I LE PAIA O LE
ATUNUU MAI I LE TAI SAMASAMA O TUPU O SAMOA, SE’I PA’IA LE
TAIULAULA O NAFANUA LEA NA SAILI IAI AO O MALO. TULOUNA IA
LE PA’IA O LE AU FAIGALUEGA TOTOFI A LE ATUA, O LOO LATOU
TAUASUINA IPU O LE VAI O LE OLA, AUA SAMOA IA MAUA SE NOFO
FILEMU.
AE PATINO TONU LENEI FAASILASILAGA I SULI MA FEOI O LE SUAFA
“LEAPAGATELE” O NU’UULI. AEMAISE O SULI MA FEOI O LE
LEAPAGATELE O MAUA MAI LENEI FAASALALAUGA I SAMOA NEI MA
ATUNU’U MAMAO.
TULOUNA LO’U NU’U PELE I LE AGAGA, I LE AFIFIO O MAOPU MA
USOALII. ALALATA’I TAUMAFALOFI, A’O LE FETALAIGA MALU I LE
TOAFA MA UPU I LE ITUAU MALOSI
OU TE TALO ATU I FEOI MA SULI E TUSA AI MA LE FAAI’UGA O LE
TATOU FONOTAGA I LUMA O LE MATAUPU TAU-SAMOA MA LE OFISA
O LE FAAMASINOGA. INA IA TATOU SOALAUPULE.
O LEA E TALO ATU AI MA LE FAAALOALO TELE, E TUSA AI MA LEA
FAAMOEMOE, O LE A FAIA SE TATOU FEILOAIGA I LE MAOTA I
PAEPAEULI I LE LAUFANUA E FAASINO TONU IAI LE SUAFA
LEAPAGATELE, I LE ASO 16 O ME, 2015, I LE ITULA E 2 I LE
AOAULI. O LOU LE AUAI O LE A LE TAOFIA AI LENEI FAAMOEMOE.
IA ALOFAGIA E LE ATUA LO TOU SOIFUA MA SE FAAMOEMOE O LE A
TATOU FEILOAI I LEA ASO UA ATOFAINA.
MA LO’U FA’AALOALO TELE,
SIAOSI F. L. WESTBROOK,
SULI O LEAPAGATELE AKASINI
AMERICAN SAMOA
COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Learning Resource Center
EMPLOYMENTO PPORTUNITY
Position Title:
SOCIAL SCIENCE INSTRUCTOR
Employment Status:
Full Time 12 months (Career Service)
General Description:
Instructor will report directly to the Social Science Chairperson and will support the ASCC mission
and core values. Instructor will provide instruction to fulfill the General Education requirements for
all Associate of Arts and Associate of Science degree programs. Instructor will develop and
implement assessment of student learning for improvements to instruction and learning. The skills
acquired prepare students for both academic studies (college transferability) and the work place.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
• Collect, prepare, and present instructional materials for all classes to be taught
• Teach a full instructional course load of at least 15 credits or 225 instructional contact hours
per semester. However, loads may vary between 14 and 16 credits hours per semester.
• Prepare and distribute a comprehensive syllabi for all courses taught in a timely manner
requested by Academic Affairs.
• Teach each class as scheduled and supervise examinations, field trips, internships, service
learning activities, and practicum
• Maintain attendance and scholastic records and submit the required records to the
Admissions and Records Office at the assigned date every semester / session.
• Develop, implement, and assess Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) for each course taught.
• Use data collected from course taught on SLOs to share with department and other college
stakeholders, and provide recommendations for improvement on student learning.
• Academically advise assigned students regarding their chosen program of study
• Assist and provide students with information on career, academic referrals, and transfer
opportunities
• Assist with registration process; participate in faculty orientation, commencement exercises,
and professional development activities.
• Provide safety measures and fully exercise the enforcement of these measures in the
classrooms.
• Actively participate in academic committees and extra-curricular functions
• Assist and enforce all college rules and regulations
• Post and maintain class schedules and office hours to assist students.
• Perform other duties assigned by the Department Chairperson, Associate Dean of Academic
Affairs, Dean of Academic Affairs, or the Vice President of Student and Academic Affairs.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Master’s Degree in Education/History, and emphasis on World, U.S. and Pacific History,
Political Science, Anthropology plus fifteen (15) credits of 200-400 level courses in these
areas.
Must have at least three years of experience of teach courses at a two or four year college.
Must be computer literate.
Salary: Salary to commensurate with experiences, qualifications and credentials.
Application Deadline: May 6th, 2015 - no later than 4:00pm.
Applications are available from American Samoa Community College, Human Resources Office. 6999155 Ext. 403/335/436 or email Silaulelei Saofaigaalii at [email protected] or Roxanne
Moananu @ [email protected]
“An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
And A Drug-Free Workplace”
Page 20
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015
Philippines urges
ASEAN to stop China
in South China Sea
A protestor, left, fights with a bar patron outside of a bar near Oriole Park at Camden Yards
after a rally for Freddie Gray, Saturday, April 25, 2015, in Baltimore. Gray died from spinal injuries about a week after he was arrested and transported in a police van. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
NEWS IN BRIEF
Photographer says Baltimore
police beat him during protest
BALTIMORE (AP) — A photo editor for
a Baltimore newspaper says he was beaten by
police at a protest over the death of Freddie
Gray. J.M. Giordano, who works at the City
Paper, says Baltimore police “swarmed over”
him and hit him repeatedly. A video posted
to the newspaper’s website Sunday shows at
least two police officers in riot gear hitting and
kicking Giordano as the person filming screams,
“He’s a photographer! He’s press!”
The 41-year-old Giordano says his head hit
the ground during the beating, which he says
only stopped when someone pulled him out of
the fray. Sait Serkan Gurbuz, a photographer
with Reuters, says police detained him as he
shot pictures of the scuffle. Reuters says Gurbuz
was cited with failure to obey orders.
Fountain Valley police fatally
shoot man inside drug store
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. (AP) —
Police have shot and killed a suspected burglar
who resisted arrest and grabbed an officer’s
handgun in a Rite Aid store in Fountain Valley.
A statement from the city’s police department
said officers went to the store early Sunday after
an employee said a man had broken through
locked glass door and went inside.
The statement said that officers found him
standing on a ladder. When they tried to take
him into custody, the suspect bit one of the officers on the arm and grabbed another officer’s
handgun. After the man ignored orders to put
down the weapon, the officer who was bitten
fired a sing round at the suspect. The man was
taken to a hospital where he died. His name was
not released pending notification of relatives.
Obama to send aide to funeral
of arrested Baltimore man
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House
says the head of President Barack Obama’s initiative for minority males will attend the funeral
of a Baltimore man who died after sustaining
serious injuries while in police custody.
Broderick Johnson, the chairman of the My
Brother’s Keeper Task Force, will represent the
administration at Monday’s funeral for Freddie
Gray. Johnson is also the Cabinet secretary.
Gray is the 25-year-old black man who died a
week after an encounter with Baltimore police left
him with grave spinal injuries. He is being buried
Monday in Baltimore. The White House said
Sunday night that Johnson, a Baltimore native,
will be accompanied by two other officials.
Mourners paid their respects before Gray’s
coffin on Sunday, after a night of violent protests led to nearly three dozen arrests.
Surfer critically injured by
shark off southern Australia
ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — A surfer was
in critical condition after a shark attacked him
Saturday in southern Australia, police said.
The 26-year-old man suffered “serious leg
injuries” when he was attacked 40 kilometers
(25 miles) south of Port Lincoln in South Australia state, police said in a statement. He was
flown by helicopter in critical condition from a
Port Lincoln hospital to the main hospital in the
state capital, Adelaide, the statement said.
Adelaide’s The Advertiser newspaper reported
a witness’s description of a 6-meter (20-foot)
great white shark biting off the surfer’s leg, which
had an ankle strap attached to his surfboard. “I
was just watching the shark go out to the ocean
with his board still attached,” the witness told the
newspaper. “The shark still had his leg and he
was still swimming around with it.”
The witness, a surfer, said he was about 50
meters (164 feet) from the shark at the time and
could see its “massive” pectoral fin.
Sharks are common off Australia’s beaches,
but fatal attacks are rare.
The country has averaged fewer than two
deadly attacks per year in recent decades.
Google executive among hundreds dead from Nepal quake
NEW YORK (AP) — Dan Fredinburg, a
Google executive who described himself as an
adventurer, was among the hundreds who died
in a massive earthquake that struck Nepal on
Saturday. Google confirmed his death. Lawrence You, the company’s director of privacy,
posted online that Fredinburg was in Nepal with
three other Google employees climbing Mount
Everest. The other three, he added, are safe.
Google would not give further details.
According to the technology blog Re/Code,
Fredinburg was an experienced climber who
co-founded, in his spare time, Google Adventure. The project aims to “translate the Google
Street View concept into extreme, exotic locations like the summit of Mount Everest or the
Great Barrier Reef off Australia,” according to
Startup Grind, a global startup community.
Fredinburg also helped start Save the Ice,
an organization dedicated to raising awareness
about global warming “through adventurous
campaigns and events around the world,”
according to its website.
Fredinburg started at Google in 2007. He
served as product manager and the head of privacy at Google X, the company’s secretive arm
best known for “moonshot” projects such as the
self-driving car.
(Continued on page 21)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Philippines
on Sunday urged its fellow Southeast Asian countries to take
immediate steps to halt land reclamation by China in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, warning that failure to do
so will see Beijing take “de facto control” of the area.
Malaysia’s foreign minister, however, said that the 10-member
Association of Southeast Asian Nations will avoid confrontation
with China and continue negotiations with Beijing on a binding
code of conduct that would govern behavior in the area.
Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario told a
meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers that if China’s construction of artificial islands on reefs claimed by other countries is
allowed to be completed, Beijing will impose its claim over
more than 85 percent of the sea. Rosario urged the grouping to
“stand up” to China by urging it to halt its reclamation work,
which threatened to militarize the region, infringe on rights of
other states and damage the marine environment.
He warned that China, which has been dragging its foot on
ASEAN’s push for a code of conduct, will aim to complete its
reclamation activities before it agrees to conclude the code. If this
happens, he said the code will legitimize China’s reclamation.
“The threats posed by these massive reclamations are real and
cannot be ignored or denied,” he said. “ASEAN should assert
its leadership, centrality and solidarity. ASEAN must show the
world that it has the resolve to act in the common interest.”
China, Taiwan and ASEAN members Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Brunei have overlapping claims in the
South China Sea, which includes busy sea lanes and rich fishing
grounds, and is believed to have large undersea deposits of oil
and natural gas. ASEAN has maintained a cautious stand in the
dispute to avoid angering China, a key trading partner.
Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman told reporters that
ASEAN is “very much concerned” about the reclamation, but
that sending an ultimatum to China to stop work could backfire
and hurt peace and stability in the region.
“It will be much appreciated if China can stop work and
sit down with ASEAN countries to find a solution,” he said.
“ASEAN must send the right signal and make the right move.
We must avoid any measures that are counterproductive either
to ourselves or to China.”
Officials from ASEAN nations and China are scheduled to
meet in May and June to discuss the issue, he said.
The Philippines filed a case with an international arbitration
tribunal in 2013 challenging China’s claim.
Beijing has defended the reclamation, saying it is Chinese
territory and the structures are for public service use and to support Chinese fishermen.
Anifah has said that ASEAN leaders are expected to raise
concerns over Chinese land reclamation at their two-day summit
starting Monday and will seek to speed up plans for the code of
conduct with China.
Man driving motorhome
leads Alaska State
Troopers on a chase
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man used a
motorhome in a failed attempt to elude arrest by state troopers.
Eligah Christian of Wasilla was arrested Friday morning,
but not before he mashed the bulky vehicle into several patrol
cars. Christian, 49, was being sought on a $100,000 warrant
on charges of scheming to defraud, 15 counts of theft and 21
counts of issuing bad checks, troopers said in a release.
An officer spotted him driving the 2014 motorhome and
attempted to make a traffic stop. Christian ignored the trooper’s siren and flashing lights and took off at a high speed,
troopers said. Other officers joined the chase.
As Christian headed toward the busy Parks Highway,
troopers attempted to use spike strips to stop the motorhome.
As Christian tried turning the motorhome around, troopers
said, he struck several patrol vehicles. He also hit the spike
strips and was stopped outside a home, where he was arrested.
Christian was charged with felony failure to stop at the
direction of a peace officer, misdemeanor reckless driving and
felony criminal mischief.
He remained jailed Sunday at Mat-Su Pretrial Facility in
Palmer. Online court records indicated he will be represented
by the public defender agency, which does not routinely comment on pending criminal cases.
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015 Page 21
➧ NEWS IN BRIEF…
Continued from page 20
Teen, missing for 4 days, lived
off school’s fruit trees
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a 17-year-old
boy who went missing for nearly four days before he returned to
his Northern California home told his family he hid on his high
school campus, surviving on fruit from trees and drinking from
the water fountain.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports the boy went to his firstperiod class Monday morning and missed his remaining classes.
His disappearance led law enforcement officers to search his
school, shopping centers and local parks. They also contacted
hospitals in the area.
The teen’s parents said in a statement that their son came home
during dinnertime Thursday. They said the teen “has expressed
the deepest sorrow and regret for his actions.” The parents and
the Santa Clara County sheriff’s officials didn’t say why he
decided to go into hiding.
San Jose officer charged with
stashing pot in storage locker
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A San Jose police officer with 21
years on the force has been charged with marijuana possession
nearly a year after fellow officers found more than 12 pounds of
pot inside of a storage locker rented in his name.
Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Patrick Vanier
said 44-year-old Son Vu was booked on felony charges of possession with intent to sell and maintaining an illegal stash location, charges that carry a maximum prison term of three years
and eight months, if the officer is convicted.
Vanier says Vu has been on paid administrative leave since
last June, when the storage center’s owner had the locks on the
locker cut because the rent had not been paid, saw the marijuana
and summoned police.
Jail records show Vu was being held without bail on Saturday
and is scheduled to appear in court on Monday.
Dog reunited with Utah
family after 2 years apart
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A dog has been reunited with a Utah
family, two years after it went missing in Lexington, Kentucky.
Jennifer Lowe of Ogden says her family was thrilled to learn
the Beagle mix named Tilly was found in Lexington days ago
and identified through an implanted microchip with information
about the animal’s owners.
She told KUTV-TV of Salt Lake City the family thought
they would never see Tilly again after they moved from Lexington to Ogden.
After the dog wandered away in 2013, nobody turned Tilly in
to an animal control center.
But after the beagle recently got loose again, someone took
her to a facility where she was identified.
Christine Stoops of the Facebook group “Lost and Found
Pets of Lexington, KY” drove to Utah with Tilly and gave her to
the Ogden family on Friday.
The dog was a gift to Lowe’s daughter, Phoenix, after her
father returned from military duty in Afghanistan.
Quacking duck ringtone helps
firefighter rescue ducklings
SLIDELL, La. (AP) — Quack! Quack! A duck call ringtone
helped a Louisiana firefighter rescue six ducklings from a storm
drain. Spokesman Chad Duffaut of St. Tammany Fire District
#1 says even with realistic quacking sounds coming from his
cellphone, it took Firefighter Cody Knecht about 90 minutes
to catch the first four baby mallards in the southeast Louisiana
community of Slidell.
Duffaut says Knecht rescued the others after giving them
about an hour to calm down.
All six ducklings were reunited with their mother Saturday
in the canal behind a home, where residents had reported seeing
the ducklings go into the drain.
Duffaut says it was fire station’s second duck rescue in a
week. On April 19, firefighters rescued a duck that got stuck in
a chimney.
Police: NYC airplane cleaner
pocketed 1,429 liquor bottles
NEW YORK (AP) — Police say an airplane cleaner has
been arrested on charges she pocketed nearly $15,000 worth of
contraband from planes grounded in New York City, including
nearly 1,500 unopened bottles of liquor.
A spokesman for Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
police says Juanette Cullum has been charged with grand larceny
and criminal possession of stolen property. The spokesman, Joe
Pentangelo, says a witness told American Airlines security officials that the 48-year-old Brooklyn woman was stealing property at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
He says detectives interviewed Cullum and searched her
apartment, finding 1,429 bottles of unopened liquor, seven
iPads, two laptops, 19 Kindle tablets and toiletries.
Calls Friday to American Airlines and Cullum’s employer,
AirServ, weren’t immediately returned.
It wasn’t clear if Cullum has an attorney who could comment
on the charges.
(Continued on page 22)
American Samoa Government
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
PUBLIC NOTICE
The American Samoa Department of Health Early Intervention Program
“Helping Hands” would like to inform the public that the Annual State
Application under Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act as amended in 2004 for Federal Fiscal Year 2015 is available for
public comment for a period of 60 days.
A copy of the document is available to review at the American Samoa
Department of Health Main Office in Fagaalu as well as the DOH Helping
Hands Office in Fagaima.
Please call the DOH Helping Hands office at 699-4990 if you have any
questions regarding this public notice.
Signed,
Ruth Te’o, DOH Part C Coordinator
AMERICAN SAMOA GOVERNMENT
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES
PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA 96799
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
Position Title:
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
COORDINATOR
Department/Division:
Governor’s Office/Medicaid-State
Innovation Model (SIM) Grant
Posting Date: April 22, 2015 Serial No.: 069-15
Closing Date: April 28, 2015 Announement No.: 069-15
Pay Scale & Salary Rage:
GS: 09/$10,617 - $28,167
Type of Position: Temporary Appointment
Posting Type: Employment Opportunity/Open to the Public
Note: This is exempted from the freeze as per the Governor’s General Memorandum
General Desciption:
The incumbent reports directly to the Program Director and will serve as an advocate for the SIM project; acting as a
liaison between the SIM program and government and community stakeholders working cooperatively to promote SIM
as well on assisting in developing marketing strategies that advertise SIM objectives to the community. In addition,
responsible for presenting before stakeholders and coordinating outreach, leading meetings as required to all SIM
stakeholders.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
• Organize, attend, and/or participate in special events and promotions advocating SIM program activities
• Serve as spokesperson for the SIM program at meetings, special and media events
• Responsible for developing and implementing all outreach and marketing activities, campaigns, and strategies. This
can be done through a combination of personal contacts, brochures, public presentations, special events and the
Internet i.e. (Social Media, Website) etc.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with local, regional and federal agencies, and other parties
• Develop and implement an annual outreach plan that includes promotional and educational strategies
• other duties and responsibilities as assigned
Knowledge, Skill and Ability:
• Knowledge of:
• Implementing outreach campaign and programs
• Microsoft office programs/software
• Standard office procedures, modern office equipment including computer, copiers, fax machines, etc.
• Ability to:
• have excellent communication and client relation skills
• communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
• implement and work under changing requirements
• effectively prepare and present in front of various groups
• Skills in:
• hi-power-point presentations
• analytical and organizational skills
• customer service
• educational and outreach
Academic and Experience Requirements:
• Applicant must have an Associate’s degree in related field from an accredited college/university plus 4 years of work
related experience. Years of progressively responsible working experience may be substituted for portion of the
academic requirement. Salary will be adjusted according to experience.
Complete information concerning this vacancy may be obtained from the Personnel Division of the Department of
Human Resources, or please contact the Recruitment unit at 633-4485/633-5357.
Fa’afetai tele,
Sonny Thompson, Director
Department of Human Resources
Page 22
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015
➧ NEWS IN BRIEF…
Continued from page 21
Rescue workers remove debris as they search for victims of earthquake in Bhaktapur near
Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, April 26, 2015. A strong magnitude earthquake shook Nepal’s
capital and the densely populated Kathmandu Valley before noon Saturday, causing extensive
(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
damage with toppled walls and collapsed buildings, officials said.
Quake agony revealed quietly
on the trip from Nepal airport
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Soon after
landing at Kathmandu airport, the Thai Airways
captain made a bizarre announcement to passengers: Nobody is in the control tower.
That meant we could taxi no farther, and we
were trapped on the tarmac. It took the pilot
another half-hour to explain that air-traffic controller had left the tower because there had been
an aftershock, one of several that has struck fear
into this mountainous nation since Saturday’s
massive tremor killed more than 2,500 people.
Those moments and many others in my first
hours in Nepal’s capital revealed that while
much of Kathmandu appears to have been
spared physical damage from the earthquake,
other signs of trauma are everywhere.
We waited while airport officials inspected
the tarmac for damage and cracks. In the back
of the plane, an argument broke out. A Thai airways staffer was telling a Chinese businessman
to get off his cellphone.
“I will not!” shouted Jun Sun. “I’m speaking
to my family. This is important.
“I need to know they are OK now. I need to
know my wife and daughter are OK.”
Sun, who works in the telecommunications
industry, said he was returning from a conference in Bangkok. He tried to call his wife to
find out how she and his 10-month-old daughter
were, but could not get through because the network was so congested.
He spoke to her “for a few seconds” on the
Chinese social media service WeChat — it was
just enough to know they were alive.
On Sunday he was able to really talk to them
for the first time.
“They slept out in the open last night. I’m
going to get them out of here,” he said. “It’s not
safe yet. Something worse may yet happen.”
He pulled out his cellphone and showed several images of destroyed homes in Kathmandu
that colleagues had sent. “This is what we are
worried about,” he said, pointing to a picture of
a huge crack running up the side of the multistory apartment building he lives in.
When our jet finally got the green light to
move forward, well over an hour later, it taxied
past a large Indian military cargo plane. Soldiers
stood on the tarmac, unloading supplies and
trolleys filled with fuel — which Kathmandu
residents say is running precariously low.
On the walk into the airport, we could see
hundreds of people, mostly tourists, crowded
behind the glass walls of a terminal building,
clearly hoping for a flight out. One man’s face
was covered with large bandages.
Elsewhere, foreign rescue teams could be
seen sitting in groups, planning missions into
the city.
Flights also resumed — we saw a gray cargo
plane hurtling above.
After customs, it was clear nothing was
normal. The hotel reservations center was
empty. The Yeti Money Exchange was empty.
And in the parking lot outside the arrivals
hall, no taxis waited. Instead, thousands of
scared and frustrated Indian nationals stood in
huge lines, hoping to get on evacuation flights
their government was organizing.
Tempers frayed as the wait dragged on.
Ghan Shyam Son said he and his family had
been on a four-day trip as tourists and were supposed to leave Saturday.
“But our flight was canceled. We spent last
night sleeping outside, in the open. We’re trying
to leave here, we’re so afraid.”
Pooja Bhandari, standing beside him, was
blunt: “No water. No light. I am hungry. No
drinking water. No sleeping well. Very disturbed,” she said.
Another Indian national who had come to
Nepal as a tourist sat forlornly on the curb. Two
of her friends were missing, she said.
As I drove out of the airport with an Associated Press team of journalists, the line of desperate Indians wrapped around the block and
then some.
Although the part of the city we drove through
appeared largely undamaged, everyone, everywhere seemed to be sitting outside. The city’s
old quarter lies in ruins, but from above, most of
Kathmandu looked as it always did. Five-, 10-,
15-story buildings spread across terraced hills
that stretch into the distance.
Shops are shuttered, including Pizza Hut,
Baskin-Robbins and Himalayan Java Coffee
(“Serving Nepali Coffee Since 1999”).
Grassy parks were full of distraught people,
sitting, standing, talking. Many more congregated in groups, sitting on curbs, on steps, anywhere outside. They all fear another aftershock
may bring down buildings yet.
At the Hotel Annapurna, a two-story wall in
front of reception has a large crack in it. The
electricity is out. The hallways are dark. Foreign guests took blankets and pillows and cushions and sat down outside.
This short trip from the airport merely hinted
at the devastation this country has felt. The full
story, told from vulnerable mountain villages,
distant historic sites and other places, is still
being revealed.
Woman shot by California deputies dies
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California woman
shot by deputies after a wild chase has died of her wounds.
Santa Rosa police say Karen Janks died Friday at Santa Rosa
Memorial Hospital. The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports the
46-year-old woman was critically injured after deputies opened
fire on her car after she rammed into officials Wednesday night.
Three deputies were injured.
The incident began when someone called to report a motorist
driving the wrong way in the northbound lanes of Highway
101 in Windsor. Authorities say deputies stopped Janks but
then backed her car into a group of deputies. Multiple deputies
opened fire and hit her an unknown number of times.
Japan’s prime minister kicks
off his u.s. visit in Boston
BOSTON (AP) — Japan’s prime minister begins his second
day of a U.S. visit with a stop at the Boston Marathon finish line.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife will visit the site
Monday morning with Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh as a gesture of respect for the victims of the 2013 bombings that killed
three people. Abe then visits Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media
Lab. At each he will meet briefly with students and university
officials, including Japanese students and researchers.
On Sunday night, Abe visited the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and attended a dinner hosted by Secretary of State
John Kerry at his Boston home. Abe will travel on to Washington
Monday afternoon for talks with President Barack Obama.
Pentagon: US military sending
aid to quake-ravaged Nepal
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says a U.S. military
plane has departed from the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware
bound for earthquake-stricken Nepal. Onboard are 70 personnel,
including a U.S. Agency for International Development disaster
assistance response team, a Virginia-based search and rescue
team and 45 tons of cargo to provide assistance to areas hit by
Saturday’s massive quake that left more than 2,500 dead.
The Pentagon says the flight is expected to arrive at Kathmandu on Monday. More than two dozen Defense Department
personnel and a transport plane are currently in Nepal on a
training exercise. All personnel are accounted for.
The 7.8 magnitude temblor was felt in neighboring countries.
UNICEF staff has reported dwindling water supplies, power
shortages and communications breakdowns in the stricken areas.
Nearly 17 million watch Jenner interview
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Olympian Bruce Jenner
reached an audience of just under 17 million people for his declaration in an ABC News interview that he identifies as a woman.
The Nielsen company said Saturday 16.9 million viewers
watched the interview on ABC’s “20/20” newscast Friday night.
The audience was the biggest for a non-sports show on a
Friday night since 2003, which would exclude Olympics broadcasts. Friday is generally a light night for television viewing
because so many people have plans outside the house.
It was also the biggest audience for ABC’s “20/20” newscast
on a Friday night in 15 years. Nielsen said viewership peaked
just after 10 p.m. with 17.2 million viewers.
Nielsen Social also estimated that there were 972,000 tweets
sent Friday night about the Jenner interview.
Coyote collared after
lower Manhattan police chase
NEW YORK (AP) — A wily coyote is no match for the
NYPD. Police collared the creature near a sidewalk cafe in
downtown Manhattan on Saturday morning.
The coyote was spotted shortly after 7:30 a.m. in the Battery Park City neighborhood. Officers tailed her up and down a
marina and a Hudson River park for about an hour before using
a tranquilizer dart to subdue her. She is being cared for at the
Center for Animal Care and Control.
Police say there were no injuries to humans or animals.
It is unclear if the coyote was the same one that was spotted
in Riverside Park on Wednesday. At least four coyote sightings
have been reported in Manhattan this year.
Bill under debate would limit
farm antibiotics in Oregon
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — For decades, farmers have routinely fed antibiotics to livestock to fatten up the animals and
protect them from illnesses amplified by confined conditions.
But critics say repeated use of antibiotics has made bacteria
more resistant to the drugs, resulting in people developing antibiotic-resistant infections. As public pressure mounts nationally
against antibiotics, Oregon legislators are debating whether to
curtail their use in agriculture.
If the legislation passes, Oregon would be the first in the
nation to mandate stricter rules on livestock antibiotics.
Scientists, doctors and public health officials are unequivocal
about the need to stop the spread of antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Some farmers — including industrial operations — have
already made the switch. And many food chains and restaurants
now offer antibiotic-free meat.
(Continued on page 26)
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015 Page 23
HURRICANE SEASON – TAU AFA 2014-2015
November to April / Novema e o’o atu ia Aperila
O saoasaoa o savili ma ‘upu ua fa’aaogaina i Amerika
Wind speed and matching terminology during
Samoa i taimi o tala o le tau. Ia utagia mai ona ua iai
hurricane forecast in American Samoa.
nei ‘ese’esega o fa’asalalauga o le tala o le tau i
Take note that American Samoa and Independent
Samoa now has different forecasting when it comes Amerika Samoa ma Samoa tu to’atasi i taimi o Afa.
to hurricanes.
O se fa’ata’ita’iga: E amata Matagi Malolosi i
For example: American Samoa’s Tropical Storm
Amerika Samoa pe a 40-50 le saoasaoa o savili, a’o
starts when wind speed is at 40-50 MPH, where
Independent Samoa starts its Category 1 or Cat-1 at Samoa tu to’atasi e amata ai lo latou Afa numera-1.
Fa’aaoga lenei tapenaga e fesoasoani ai ia te oe i
the same wind speed. Take note of this graph as an
taimi o tala o le tau.
aid to assist you in the event of a forecasted
hurricane.
For more information visit us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RipCurrentAS or call 699-0411 (ASDHS) / 699 9130 (NWS)
A message from…
ASDHS-TEMCO and NOAA NWS
Page 24
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015
GALEA’I: E tatau ona
silafia e le atunu’u le
fa’aaogaina o tupe
tusia Ausage Fausia
Le afioga i le ali’i Senatoa ia Galea’i M. Tu’ufuli
[ata: AF]
Na taua e le afioga i le ali’i
senatoa mai Manu’a ia Galea’i
M. Tu’ufuli, e i ai le aia o tagata
o le atunu’u latou te silafia ai
auala sa fa’aaoga i ai e le malo
tupe a tagata totogi lafoga, atoa
ai ma tupe sa fesoasoani mai
ai pisinisi ma kamupani tua,
i le fa’amanatuina o le fu’a a
le atunu’u na faatoa mae’a atu
nei.
Ona o lea tulaga, sa ia
taua ai le sauni o le komiti o
le Fa’agaioiga o le malo a le
Senate, lea o lo o ia ta’ita’ifono
ai, e fesiligia se ripoti mai
le malo e tusa ai o tupe sa
fa’aaoga i le fu’a na se’i mavae
atu nei.
E pei ona silafia e le atunu’u,
e ese mai i tupe lotoifale a le
malo sa fa’aaoga i polokalame
o le fu’a, sa i ai fo’i foa’i tupe
mai kamupani tua ma pisinisi,
lea na tu’uina atu i le malo e
fesoasoani i polokalame o le
fu’a o lenei tausaga.
Saunoa le ali’i senatoa ia
Galea’i e fa’apea, e to’atele
tagata o le atunu’u sea telefoni atu ia te ia, ma fesiligia
sona finagalo i auala o lo o
fa’aaoga ai e le malo tupe e
tagata totogi lafoga, aemaise
lava ina ua le fiafia le atunu’u
i le fa’aiuga a le Komiti o
Tuuga Fautasi i le fa’aiuga o le
tuuga, lea o lo o totogi i tupe
a tagata totogi lafoga fa’ailoga,
ae le o fa’amaoni le komiti i le
fa’amalosia o a latou tulafono.
“E le valea tagata, o a tatou
tupe uma lea e fa’atupe ai
polokalame o le fu’a ma tuuga
fautasi, ae afai o ituaiga tuuga
nei e faia e le malo, e sili ai
pe a aua ne’i toe faia ni tuuga
fautasi i le lumana’i”, o le saunoaga lea a Galea’i.
E tusa ai o fa’ailoga tupe
sa fa’alauiloa mai e le komiti
o tuuga fautasi, e tusa ma
le $89,000 le tupe na faalu i
fa’ailoga o tuuga fautasi, ae ese
ai tupe sa fa’aalu i meaalofa mo
au siva ma pese fa’aleaganu’u,
atoa ai ma ta’aloga kirikiti o le
fu’a.
Saunoa le ali’i senatoa e
fa’apea, e tatau ona fa’aaoga
tatau e le malo tupe a tagata
totogi lafoga ma pisinisi o
lo o ofo atu, e fesoasoani i
le fa’aleleia atoa ai ma le
fa’atinoina o polokalame o le
fu’a, aemaise lava i tuuga fautasi, lea e tele ina tuli mata’i
i ai le vaai a tagata i so o se
tausaga e fa’amanatu ai fu’a a
le atunu’u.
Saunoa atili Galea’i e
fa’apea, afai o le tulaga
fa’aletonu lea e maitauina i
tuuga fautasi, e sili ai loa pe a
taofi le toe faia o ni tuuga fautasi i le lumana’i, po o le aumai
fo’i o tupe e fai ai fa’ailoga o
tuuga fautasi i taga a ta’ita’i o
le malo.
Sa ia taua, e sili atu ona alu
lona loto i tagata o le atunu’u
o lo naunau e fia maimoa i
tuuga fautasi, a o lea e le sa’o
fa’aiuga a le komiti o lo o
aumai i le atunu’u.
Ae ina ua fesiligia i sona
finagalo e fa’atatau i tagata
talafeagai e tatau ona latou
fa’atautaia tuuga fautasi i
le lumana’i, sa ia taua ai e
fa’apea, o lana fautuaga lelei
lava, e sili ai pe a aumai ni
tagata e leai ni o latou sootaga
ma nu’u o lo o fai fautasi, po o
ni isi foi o lo o i totonu o Faalapotopotoga e masani i tulaga
o le sami ma tuuga fautasi, o
i latou tonu ia e talafeagai ona
latou fa’atautaia tuuga fautasi,
e leai se fa’aituau, e usita’i fo’i
i tulafono latou te fa’atula’i.
Saunoa atili Galea’i e
fa’apea, o le itu e pito sili
ona mataga i le tuuga fautasi
na te’a nei, o le fa’atula’i e le
komiti o a latou tulafono mo le
tuuga, ae mae’a ane le tuuga ua
le fa’aaogaina tulafono.
C
M
Y
K
C
M
Y
K
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015 Page 25
C
M
Y
K
C
M
Y
K
Page 26
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015
Hawaii poised to become 1st
state to raise smoking age…
HONOLULU (AP) — A bill that would
make Hawaii the first state to raise the legal
smoking age to 21 cleared the Legislature on
Friday and is headed to the governor.
The bill would prevent adolescents from
smoking, buying or possessing both traditional
and electronic cigarettes.
“It’s definitely groundbreaking legislation,”
said Jessica Yamauchi, executive director of
the Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii, which
pushed for the bill. “It’s amazing to be the first
state in something. That’s very exciting for us.”
Gov. David Ige hasn’t yet decided whether
he will sign the bill, and his staff has to vet all
bills for legal issues, he said.
“The departments will be doing their review
and then we’ll have the opportunity to look at
it,” Ige said.
Those caught breaking the rules would be
fined $10 for the first offense, and subsequent
violations would lead to a $50 fine or mandatory community service.
Dozens of local governments have similar
bans, including Hawaii County and New York
City.
According to the state Department of Heath,
5,600 kids in Hawaii try smoking each year,
and 90 percent of daily smokers begin the habit
before age 19.
Meanwhile, 1,400 people die from tobacco
use or exposure in Hawaii every year, according
to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
“Today we have the opportunity to change
the paradigm,” said Democratic state Sen.
Rosalyn Baker, who introduced the bill.
Smoking prevalence would fall an estimated
12 percent if the minimum smoking age was
raised to 21, according to a report by the Institute of Medicine, which is part of the National
Academy of Sciences.
The favorite flavors among teens who use
electronic cigarettes are sweet tart and “unicorn
puke, which is described as a combination of
every flavor of Skittle in one,” Baker said.
“While the industry is not allowed to directly
market to children, it is still developing packaging and advertising products in ways that
appeal to children,” she said.
Sabrina Olaes, 17, got involved in promoting
the legislation after finding herself in restrooms
full of electronic cigarette fumes when her
classmates vaped at her high school.
“You feel like you want to hold your breath
because you don’t want to smell what they’re
smoking,” Olaes said.
“It’s pretty sad to know that they’ve fallen
under the addiction.”
Opponents say it’s unfair that a military veteran returning from service could be prevented
from smoking.
“It is not right because you are deemed an
adult when you turn 18,” said Michelle Johnston, owner of Sub Ohm Vapes in Kailua-Kona,
on Hawaii’s Big Island.
“You can sign up and be in the military and
basically give your life for your country. You
can vote,” she said. “Why shouldn’t you be able
to choose if you want to buy tobacco products
or vaping products, when you’re considered a
legal adult?”
Democratic Sen. Gil Riviere, who voted
against the bill in the 19-4 vote, said if the state
wants to eliminate smoking, it should ban it for
everyone.
“You can sign contracts, you can get married, you can go to war and lose an arm or lose
an eye ... you come back and you’re 20 years old
and you can’t have a cigarette,” Riviere said.
WASHINGTON (AP) — With debate
gearing up over the coming expiration of the
Patriot Act surveillance law, the Obama administration on Saturday unveiled a 6-year-old
report examining the once-secret program to
collect information on Americans’ calls and
emails.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence publicly released the redacted report
following a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the New York Times. The basics of
the National Security Agency program had
already been declassified, but the lengthy report
includes some new details about the secrecy
surrounding it.
President George W. Bush authorized the
“President’s Surveillance Program” in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
The review was completed in July 2009 by
inspectors general from the Justice Department,
Pentagon, CIA, NSA and Office of the Director
of National Intelligence.
They found that while many senior intelligence officials believe the program filled a
gap by increasing access to international communications, others including FBI agents, CIA
analysts and managers “had difficulty evaluating the precise contribution of the PSP to
counterterrorism efforts because it was most
often viewed as one source among many available analytic and intelligence-gathering tools in
these efforts.”
Critics of the phone records program, which
allows the NSA to hunt for communications
between terrorists abroad and U.S. residents,
argue it has not proven to be an effective counterterrorism tool. They also say an intelligence
agency has no business possessing the deeply
personal records of Americans. Many favor a
system under which the NSA can obtain court
orders to query records held by the phone
companies.
The Patriot Act expires on June 1, and Senate
Republicans have introduced a bill that would
allow continued collection of call records of
nearly every American.
The legislation would reauthorize sections of
the Patriot Act, including the provision under
which the NSA requires phone companies to
turn over the “to and from” records of most
domestic landline calls.
After the program was disclosed in 2013
by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden,
President Barack Obama and many lawmakers
called for legislation to end that collection, but
a bill to do so failed last year. Proponents had
hoped that the expiration of the Patriot Act provisions on June 1 would force consideration of
such a measure.
A bipartisan group of House members has
been working on such legislation, dubbed the
USA Freedom Act.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest
said Friday that Obama is pleased the efforts are
restarting in the House.
“Hopefully, the next place where Democrats
and Republicans will turn their attention and
try to work together is on this issue of putting
in place important reforms to the Patriot Act,”
Earnest said.
If no legislation is passed, the Patriot Act
provisions would expire. That would affect not
only the NSA surveillance but other programs
used by the FBI to investigate domestic crimes,
which puts considerable pressure on lawmakers
to pass some sort of extension.
The US unveils 6-year-old
report on NSA surveillance
➧ NEWS IN BRIEF…
Continued from page 22
Nigeria recalls diplomats from
South Africa over attacks
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria is recalling its top diplomats in South Africa because of “ongoing xenophobia targeting
foreigners,” according to a government statement.
Seven people have been killed in the attacks in South Africa
that began three weeks ago. Property has been destroyed and the
violence “created fear and uncertainty in the minds of African
migrants,” according to a Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement.
Nigeria’s ambassador in Pretoria, South Africa’s capital,
and the consul general in Johannesburg, the economic hub, will
return to Nigeria for consultations, said the statement.
The statement, dated Saturday, noted that some South Africans organized peace marches and that President Jacob Zuma
condemned the attacks as did Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini,
whose comments allegedly incited the violence.
Fighting rages in Yemen’s 3rdlargest city, strikes continue
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Deadly street battles raged in
Yemen’s third-largest city on Sunday, as airstrikes by the Saudiled coalition battling Shiite rebels struck targets in several cities,
security officials said.
The fighting in Taiz between government forces and rebels
was heaviest around government and security buildings in the
city center, killing some 20 civilians and wounding dozens
more, they said, adding that indiscriminately fired mortar
rounds hit several private residences and landed near a hospital
at one point.
Reached by telephone, Taiz residents described relentless
artillery, tank and heavy machine gun fire blasting through the
city as families sought shelter wherever they could.
“It’s like our homes have become a military target, they are
killing us in cold blood,” said resident Tawfiq Al Maamari. “We
left our homes with our children because the missiles are raining
down on us without mercy.”
The continued airstrikes and combat between rival factions
on the ground underline how a negotiated peace remains elusive
in the Arab world’s poorest country, despite a Saudi announcement last week that coalition operations would scale down and
shift to focus on diplomacy, humanitarian and counter-terrorism
issues. Both sides have said they welcome a return to dialogue.
Greenpeace spots 3-mile oil
slick off Spain’s Canary Islands
MADRID (AP) — Greenpeace has called on Spain’s government to dedicate more resources to cleaning up an oil spill rising
up from a sunken fishing trawler off the Canary Islands after
spotting a five-kilometer (3-mile) slick.
The group said one of its planes had detected “thick oil” covering the ocean just above where the Russian fishing boat Oleg
Naydenov sank on April 14, about 24 kilometers (15 miles)
south of the tourist hot-spot of Gran Canaria.
Development Ministry spokesman Julio Gomez acknowledged Sunday that slicks were being monitored; a day after
the government activated an alert, saying oil could damage the
islands’ vulnerable coasts.
The trawler, which carried 1,400 metric tons of viscous fuel
oil, sank after catching fire in an island port and being towed out
to sea as a precaution.
Police suspect 4 kids locked
in philly basement overnight
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say four children ages 9
to 13 were rescued from the basement of a Philadelphia home
where authorities suspect they’d been locked since the day
before.
Investigators say one of the children used a cellphone to dial
911 and crews went through a second-floor window to reach
them on Sunday.
The 13-year-old boy, 12-year-old girl, 10-year-old girl and
9-year-old girl were taken a hospital for evaluation.
Police say they are trying to track down the children’s mother.
Officials say heavy rains kill
37 in northwest Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Heavy rains and strong
winds tore through northwest Pakistan on Sunday, uprooting
trees, collapsing buildings and killing at least 37 people, officials said.
The storm also injured over 200 people, provincial Information Minister Mushtaq Ghani said.
Winds reached up to 120 kph (75 mph), said Lutfur Rehman,
a local disaster management official.
“It was very unusual. It took people by surprise,” Rehman
said. Pakistan typically experiences such rains during its monsoon season in June and July.
An emergency was declared at all local hospitals in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa province, where Peshawar is the capital, Ghani
said.
The rain started Sunday afternoon and caused heavy damage
to the region’s infrastructure, city commissioner Munir Azam
said. All flight operations at the Peshawar airport were suspended because more rain was expected overnight, he said.
(Continued on page 27)
➧ NEWS IN BRIEF…
Union: Judge won’t
dismiss officer’s
manslaughter case
CLEVELAND (AP) — A
judge declined to dismiss the
voluntary manslaughter case
against a Cleveland officer
in the deaths of two unarmed
people after a high-speed chase
that ended in a 137-shot barrage, police union officials said
Sunday.
The
Cleveland
Police
Patrolmen’s Association said
the decision in the case against
Patrolman Michael Brelo was
expected and it looks forward
to presenting his defense when
the trial resumes Monday.
Prosecutors allege Brelo
fired “kill shots” through the
car’s windshield at Timothy
Russell and Malissa Williams
after they were no longer a
danger to anyone’s life. Brelo
fired his final 15 shots while
standing on the hood of Russell’s beat-up Chevy Malibu,
according to prosecutors.
Brelo’s attorneys have
argued the shots at the end of
the November 2012 chase were
lawful because the pair was
still a threat until the moment
the patrolman reached into the
car and removed the keys.
Police union President
Steve Loomis said the union
has “every confidence in our
judicial system.”
In statement Sunday night,
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
Timothy J. McGinty questioned how that could be when,
he said, the union has been
encouraging officers not to
testify when subpoenaed, the
Northeast Ohio Media Group
reported.
“Why are they hiding?”
McGinty said.
Syrian insurgents
capture military
base in northwest
BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic
insurgents overran a military
base at a converted brick factory in northwestern Syria on
Monday, carting off tanks and
other weapons in the latest
blow to President Bashar
Assad’s forces in the region,
activists said.
The opposition offensive in
Idlib province has captured the
provincial capital, a strategic
town as well as villages and
military bases since it began
last month.
An array of anti-Assad
armed factions from across
the ideological spectrum has
demonstrated a degree of sustained coordination previously
unseen in northern Syria, contributing to the campaign’s
success.
After hours of heavy
fighting on Monday, the opposition fighters seized control
of the base at the brick factory northwest of the town of
Ariha, the Britain-based Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights
and the Jisr al-Shughour
activist coordinating committee’s Facebook page said.
The Observatory said the
insurgents captured seven
tanks, armored vehicles, heavy
machine guns and ammunition.
Hundreds of German
cinemas refuse to
show ‘Avengers’ film
BERLIN (AP) — Several
hundred movie theaters in Germany have refused to screen
the new “Avengers” film in a
dispute over rental fees with
Disney.
News agency dpa reported
that 686 theaters in 193 mostly
small towns refused to show
“Avengers: Age of Ultron,”
which opened on Thursday.
It said the dispute was over a
decision to raise the rental fee
for the movie to 53 percent
of ticket sales rather than the
47.7 percent usually charged to
small-town theaters.
Karl-Heinz Meier of I.G.
Nord, a group representing
cinema operators in northern
Germany, said it would have
been prepared to go as far as
a 50 percent fee. He added:
“Disney will have to do
without 686 screens on which
the film otherwise would have
been shown.”
Meier says moviegoers
have expressed understanding.
NYPD’s Bratton: Less
tension between city
officials, union
NEW YORK (AP) — New
York Police Commissioner
Bill Bratton says there’s
“much less tension” between
the police union and city officials now than there was in the
aftermath of the chokehold
death of a Staten Island man
last year.
Bratton spoke Sunday on
the CBS program “Face the
Nation.”
New Yorkers protested the
death last July of Eric Garner
after police placed him in a
chokehold on a Staten Island
street. The incident was a
flashpoint triggering discord
between New York City officials and the police union.
Bratton says he thinks New
York has mostly recovered
from that. The police commissioner says there’s “much less
tension, fortunately, in that
regard.”
Ceremonies mark
liberation of 2 Nazi
camps 70 years ago
BERLIN (AP) — Holocaust survivors and officials
gathered Sunday at the memorial site of the former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in
northern Germany in a solemn
ceremony to commemorate
the liberation of the camp 70
years ago.
The camp was liberated on
April 15, 1945 by British soldiers who found more than
10,000 dead bodies when they
entered the Nazi camp.
German President Joachim
Gauck thanked the British
soldiers for the liberation and
honored them as “ambassadors
of a democratic culture who
were not looking for revenge.”
Around 200,000 people
were deported to BergenBelsen during the Nazi reign of
terror. More than 70,000 people
died here — among them the
famous Jewish teenage diarist
Anne Frank.
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015 Page 27
Continued from page 26
White House to
unveil Obama
state china
WASHINGTON (AP) —
A hue of blue inspired by the
waters of Hawaii is a prominent feature of the Obama state
china service being unveiled
by the White House.
President Barack Obama is
a Hawaii native who returns
every Christmas for vacation.
Michelle Obama’s office
says the first lady chose what’s
being called “Kailua Blue” to
distinguish her family’s china
from the red, green, blue and
yellow used on more recent
state services.
A fluted band of Kailua
Blue, framed by a textured gold
rim and a simple gold inner
line, appears on all pieces of
the service, except the dinner
and serving plates, according
to a description provided by
the White House.
The solid white dinner
plates are edged in gold; the
service plates have a wide gold
rim and the presidential coat of
arms at the center.
The Obama state china service consists of 11-piece place
settings for 320 people.
The Obama state china service was paid for with money
from a private fund that is
used to buy fine and decorative
arts for the White House and
is administered by the White
House Historical Association.
The cost was not disclosed.
NOW HIRING!
TMO HARDWARE is looking for a dependable, hardworking,
“CASHIER/FLOOR-PERSON” with great customer service &
cash-handling experience. Full-Time position available
and must be able to work on Saturdays.
Applications are available at the store.
In The High Court
of American Samoa
FAMILY, DRUG & ALCOHOL COURT DIVISION
FDA/JR No. 65-14
IN RE: A MINOR CHILD
NOTICE/FAAALIGA
TO: Mr. LOFI (unknown last name)
Tafuna Village
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the abovenamed respondent that a petition has been
filed before the High Court of American
Samoa to terminate your parental rights in a
female child born on January 20, 2012 at
LBJ Tropical Medical Center, Fagaalu,
American Samoa. A hearing will be held
after two months and ten days from the date
of the first publication of this notice, in
which the Court may enter an order that you
have not acquired any parental rights to the
minor child and place the child for adoption.
If you have any objection, or wish to claim
or assert your parental rights, you must
appear within two months and ten days
from the date of the first publication of this
notice and file an objection or a claim with
the Court.
O LE FA’AALIGA E TUUINA ATU ia te oe, le
ua ta’ua i luga, ua iai le talosaga ua failaina i
le Fa’amasinoga Maualuga o Amerika
Samoa e iloilo ai ou aia fa’a-matua i se
teineitiiti na fanau o ia i le aso 20 o Ianuari
202, i le Falemai i Fagaalu, Amerika Samoa.
O lea iloiloga e faia pe a tuana’i le lua masina
ma aso e sefulu mai le aso o le ulua’i
faasalalauga o lenei fa’aaliga, mae ono
tuuina atu ai se poloa’iga a le Fa’amasinoga
e faailoa ai ua leai ni ou aia fa’a-matua i lea
teineitiiti. Afai e te tete’e, pe e te finagalo e
faamaonia ou aia fa’a-matua, ia e failaina se
talosaga tete’e i le Fa’amasinoga i totonu o
le lua masina ma aso e sefulu mai le ulua’i
faasalalauga o lenei fa’aaliga.
Dated/Aso: February 25, 2015
In The High Court
of American Samoa
TRIAL DIVISION
HCPR No. 9-15
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
MOEAVEAVE IOSIA
Decedent,
By: LOLENI MOEAVEAVE,
Petitioner
NOTICE OF HEARING ON
VERIFIED PETITION FOR
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a Verified Petition for
Letters of Administration has been filed in the
High Court of American Samoa, Trial Division,
Territory of American Samoa, by LOLENI
MOEAVEAVE, for the ESTATE OF MOEAVEAVE
IOSIA, Decedent, who died on March 5, 2006, in
Los Angeles, California.
A hearing on the Petition will be held July 10,
2015 at 9:00 a.m. or as soon thereafter as
counsel may be heard, before the Trial Divison of
the High Court of American Samoa, at the
Courthouse in Fagatogo, American Samoa. All
interested parties may appear before the Court
on said date to respond to this Petition.
Dated: April 06, 2015
Clerk of Courts
Clerk ofC ourts
Published 3/25/2015 & 4/27/2015
Published 4/14, 4/20, 4/27/15
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITY
Cost U Less is currently recruiting
for the following role:
MERCHANDISING MANAGER.
Accountabilities: Ensure the Merchandising
Department exceeds all standards of timely,
accurate and safe receipt of merchandise.
Manage the Grocery, General Merchandise and
Receiving areas of the store. Guarantee safe
operations of all equipment.
All interested applicants, please submit resume
to [email protected]
Page 28
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015
In this Thursday, April 16, 2015 photo, local tourists visit the Meroe pyramids in al-Bagrawiya, 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Khartoum, Sudan. Sudan’s
(AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy)
tourism industry has been devastated by a series of economic sanctions imposed over the countryís civil war and the conflict in Darfur.
Sudan’s pyramids, nearly as grand as Egypt’s, go unvisited
AL-BEGRAWIYA, Sudan (AP) —
The small, steep pyramids rising up
from the desert hills of northern Sudan
resemble those in neighboring Egypt,
but unlike the famed pyramids of Giza,
the Sudanese site is largely deserted.
The pyramids at Meroe, some 200
kilometers (125 miles) north of Sudan’s
capital, Khartoum, are rarely visited
despite being a UNESCO World Heritage site like those in Egypt.
Sanctions against the government
of longtime President Omar al-Bashir
over Sudan’s long-running internal
conflicts limit its access to foreign aid
and donations, while also hampering
tourism.
The site, known as the Island of
Meroe because an ancient, long-dried
river ran around it, once served as the
principle residence of the rulers of the
Kush kingdom, known as the Black
Pharaohs. Their pyramids, ranging
from 6 meters (20 feet) to 30 meters
(100 feet) tall, were built between 720
and 300 B.C. The entrances usually
face east to greet the rising sun.
The pyramids bear decorative elements inspired by Pharaonic Egypt,
Greece and Rome, according to
UNESCO, making them priceless
relics. However, overeager archaeologists in the 19th century tore off
the golden tips of some pyramids and
reduced some to rubble, said AbdelRahman Omar, the head of the National
Museum of Sudan in Khartoum.
On a recent day, a few tourists and
white camels roamed the site, watched
by a handful of security guards.
Sudan’s tourism industry has been
devastated by economic sanctions
imposed over the conflicts in Darfur
and other regions. Al-Bashir’s government, which came to power following
a bloodless Islamist coup in 1989, has
struggled to care for its antiquities.
Qatar has pledged $135 million to
renovate and support Sudan’s antiquities in the last few years. But Omar
said Sudan still receives just 15,000
tourists per year.
In this Thursday, April 16, 2015 photo, a view of the historic Meroe pyramids in al-Bagrawiya, 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Khartoum, Sudan.
The site once served as the principle residence of the rulers of the Kush kingdom, known as the Black Pharaohs. Their pyramids, ranging from 6-meters (20-feet)
(AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy)
to 30-meters (100-feet) tall, are some 4,600 years old.
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015 Page 29
Michigan vote tests pothole
angst vs. will to raise taxes
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP)
— Drivers in the state that put
the world on wheels are flatout embarrassed by the state
of their roads. Some are even
scared.
Mary Jo Walentovic was
driving on a Detroit-area interstate in February when a car
kicked up a large chunk of road
that smashed through her van’s
windshield, destroying the
rearview mirror and an armrest. If it’d struck inches either
way, the 50-year-old church
ministries coordinator is convinced that she, her teenage
daughter and other motorists
would be dead.
Fed up, she plans to vote for
a 1-cent sales tax increase on
Michigan’s May 5 ballot that
would put an additional $1.2
billion a year into fixing deteriorating roads and bridges in
the auto-centric state.
“It’s the least of the evils,”
Walentovic said.
Other states have asked
voters in the past year whether
to raise taxes or shift revenue to pay for road needs no
longer fully covered by fuel
taxes. The problem is particularly acute in Michigan, which
spends less on highway infrastructure, per capita, than any
other state except Georgia and
is a major trucking route to and
from Canada, the U.S.’s largest
trade partner.
The business lobby complains that key commercial
corridors, such as Interstates
94 and 69, are a patchwork of
cracks that only will become
more expensive to maintain
with time.
Roughly one-fourth of states
increased transportation taxes
or fees in the past two years.
But results were mixed in states
where voters had a say.
Missouri defeated a threequarters cent sales tax for transportation while Massachusetts
repealed a provision automatically tying future increases in
the gasoline tax to inflation.
Texas voters approved using
half the funds flowing annually into the rainy day fund for
roads.
Michigan’s measure may
have a harder time passing
because it wouldn’t just
increase road funding. It would
also raise an estimated $600
million more per year for education, local governments,
public transit and other services as part of a legislative
compromise.
“It’s got this other agenda
stuff to it that really isn’t about
fixing roads,” said Jerry Carpenter, who owns a car repair
shop a half-mile from the Capitol. “Yeah, everyone’s tired of
bad roads. But are they willing
to give up more money?”
Drivers can spend hundreds of dollars a year on
wheel alignments and suspension fixes because of streets
on which he’s been hesitant to
ride his motorcycle for fear of
being thrown off.
Crummy roads are good
business for Carpenter, but
even he said “we’re all going
have to give up something to
get the infrastructure built back
up.” He said he likely will vote
no, though, until a better option
is presented.
Paul Mitchell, a conservative Saginaw-area businessman and former congressional candidate who leads a
group opposing the measure,
said “voters deserve better
than a $2 billion tax hit, of
which only 60 percent goes to
transportation.”
The measure’s backers
span the political spectrum and
include Republican Gov. Rick
Snyder, legislative leaders,
local chambers of commerce,
businesses and labor unions.
They warn that the vote is a
one-shot deal with no viable
legislative Plan B in sight.
More than half of Michigan’s major roads will be in
poor condition within a decade
if nothing’s done, up from 38
percent in 2014 and 23 percent
in 2006, according to The Road
Information Program, a Washington-based research group
sponsored by road interests.
There’s scarce data showing
how the roads stack up against
other states’ infrastructure,
partly because pavement
conditions are measured differently around the country.
But drivers here are jealous
when they visit nearby Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin
— which spend between $125
and $230 more per person on
their highways.
“It’s embarrassing to have
people visit Michigan,” said
Carol Blotter, a retired consultant in the computer software
industry who lives in Chelsea,
outside Ann Arbor. “People
comment, ‘Your roads are
really bad.’”
Like Snyder and the influential Michigan Chamber of
Commerce — which is neutral
on the measure — she would
have preferred straightforward
gas and diesel tax increases
he unsuccessfully pushed in
the Legislature. She worries
about the sales tax hike disproportionally hitting lowerincome people but also likes
that schools would get more
funding.
“If you wait for the perfect
bill, you’ll wait forever,” said
Blotter, who’s leaning toward
backing the proposal.
Construction
contractors
and companies have poured
millions into the sales tax
campaign and have greatly
outspent conservative activist
groups. The advertising blitz
is needed because voters last
OK’d a net tax hike in a statewide vote 55 years ago.
An EPIC-MRA survey conducted a month ago showed
just 25 percent of 600 likely
FINAL ESTATE NOTICE
To All Vendors, Financial Institutions
or Individuals seeking any claim to the
Michelle Falanaoti Eneliko Estate.
Contact Herman Gebauer, Administrator of the
Michelle Falanaoti Eneliko Estate
at (684) 258-2962.
voters in support and 66 percent against, with 10 percent
undecided.
While campaigning around
the state, Snyder holds up plywood used underneath some
highway overpasses to protect
vehicles from falling concrete.
He emphasizes that putting the
matter to voters was the only
way to address a critique of
how Michigan pays for roads.
The state has among the
country’s highest taxes at the
pump yet spends less because
the sales tax applied to fuel
mostly goes to education and
municipalities. Under Proposal 1, the sales tax would
be removed from fuel and all
taxes at the pump would go to
transportation.
“We don’t like our roads.
Let’s do something about it.
This is our big opportunity,”
Snyder said.
NOTICE FOR SEPARATION AGREEMENT
TO Members of the FAAGATA Family and to all whom these present may come!
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that PAESE AU & MALO AU of FAGATOGO has offered for
recording in this office an instrument in writing which seeks to separate a certain structure which is
or to be erected, on land FAULOLOA, allegedly belonging to FAAGATA FAMILY of the village of
FAGATOGO. Said land FAULOLOA is situated in or near the village of FAGATOGO in the County
of MAOPUTASI, Island of TUTUILA, American Samoa.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that any interested person may object to the recording of such
instrument by filing in the Territorial Registar’s Office in Fagatogo, a written objection to the recording
of said instrument. Any objections thereto must be filed with in 30 days from the date of posting of
this notice.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that if no such objections are filed within the said 30 day period, the
instrument will be recorded and shall be valid and binding on all persons. The said instrument may be
examined at any time at the Territorial Registrar’s Office.
POSTED:
APRIL 21, 2015 thru MAY 20, 2015
SIGNED:
Taito S.B. White, Territorial Registrar
FA’AALIGA
O LE FEAGAIGA MO SE TU’U’ESEINA
I tagata o le aiga sa FAAGATA, ma i latou uma e silasila ma lauiloaina lenei fa’aaliga!
O le fa’aaliga lenei ona o PAESE AU & MALO AU o le nu’u o FAGATOGO ua ia fa’aulufaleina mai
i lenei ofisa se feagaiga tusitusi e fa’ailoa ai se mana’oga fia tu’u’eseina o se fale ua/po o le a, fa’atuina
i luga o le fanua o FAULOLOA e fa’asino i le aiga sa FAAGATA, o le nu’u o FAGATOGO. O lenei
fanua e totonu pe latalata ane i le nu’u o FAGATOGO, itumalo o MAOPUTASI, ile motu o TUTUILA,
Amerika Samoa.
O le fa’aaliga fo’i e fa’apea, so o se tasi e iai sona aia i lenei mata’upu e mafai ona fa’atu’i’iese ile
fa’amauina o lenei feagaiga pe a auina mai i le ofisa ole Resitara o le Teritori of Amerika Samoa i
Fagatogo, sana fa’atu’ese tusitusia. O fa’atu’iesega uma lava e ao ona fa’aulufaleina mai i totonu o aso e
30 faitauina mai i le aso na faíaalia ai lenei fa’aaliga.
Afai ole a leai se fa’atu’i’esega e fa’aulufaleina i totonu o aso 30 e pei ona ta’ua i luga, o le a
fa’amauina loa lenei feagaiga e taualoaina ma ‘a’afia ai tagata uma.
04/27 & 05/11/15
Human Resource Department, Tafuna
PO Box PPB, Pago Pago
American Samoa 96799
Phone No: (684) 699-3033
Fax No: (684) 699-3046
Email: [email protected]
American Samoa
Power Authority
PUBLIC JOB POSTING
Position Title
Department
Division
Position Type
Reports To
REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL
LAND SURVEYOR
Engineering Services Division
Operations
Contract for 2 Years
Posting Date
Deadline
Pay Range
Job Grade/Status
April 27, 2015
4:00 PM, May 1, 2015
$55K to $60K per year
L/9/A to L/11/B
Engineering Services Division Manager
Major Duties & Responsibilities
Actively manage survey operations for projects through planning, conducting, and recording of surveys to support
legal proceedings within ASPA. Plan and conduct surveys by identifying purpose of survey, such as, topographic,
hydrographic, construction, legal, cadastral, and control; researching previous survey evidence, maps, deeds and
related records; schedule travel arrangements; Locate and determine land by measuring and calculating points,
elevations, lines, angles, areas, and contours; laying out roads and improvements; Keep records of survey by
preparing notes, records, drawings; writing legal descriptions; applying computer aided design technologies; lead
the Geographic Information systems (GIS) team in getting the water and waste water and other utility asbuilts
corrected; assist in updating the asset management database for all existing ASPA assets. Prepare legally defensible
findings by following American Land Title Association (ALTA) and American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
(ACSM) guidelines and related federal/local laws and requirements; Support legal proceedings by collecting,
analyzing, and interpreting evidence; serving as an expert witness; Complete projects by coordinating requirements
with acquisition, planning, development, construction, and holdings improvement departments, and government
agencies; Update job knowledge by tracking changes and developments in property law and boundary
establishment and replacement; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications;
maintaining personal networks; and participating in professional organizations;Contribute to the enhancement of
ASPA reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; and exploring
opportunities to add value to job accomplishments; and Quality Control
MinimumR equirements
Education
Bachelor of Science in Surveying Technology and /or has an American Samoa or U.S.
Surveyor license
Experience
Qualified candidates must have 5 or more years of experience within the surveying field as a
Registered Professional Land Surveyor.
Skills,
Abilities, Job
Requirements
Registered Professional Land Surveyor, knowledge and understanding of ADA requirements,
surveillance skills, analyzing information, conceptual skills, map reading, reporting research
results, informing others, verbal communication, documentation skills, legal administration
skills, problem solving, and knowledge and understanding of most up to date survey
equipment. Must be physically fit to traverse all types of terrain.
Other Requirements: Be a self-starter, pick up on new things in this field & implement; be
punctual, maintain excellent attendance record.
Qualified applicants: Please submit a completed ASPA Employment Application with a copy of your resume to
ASPA Tafuna (address listed above) by the deadline listed above. Please attach copies of credentials and transcripts.
Candidates selected for hire must pass examinations (when applicable), pre-employment clearances & test
negative on pre-employment drug test. ASPA reserves the right to waive education and experience requirements as
necessary.
No phone inquiries accepted.
An Equal Opportunity Employer * A Drug Free Workplace
Page 30
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITY
Cost U Less is currently recruiting for the
following role:
CUSTOMER SERVICE SUPERVISOR.
Accountabilities: Ensure the Front End
exceeds all standards of customer
service. Monitor the handling of company
funds. Perform all tasks assigned by the
Customer Service Manager. All interested
applicants, please submit resume to
[email protected]
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITY
Cost U Less is currently recruiting
for the following role:
RECEIVING MANAGER.
Accountabilities: Ensure the Receiving
Department exceeds all standards of timely,
accurate and safe receipt of merchandise.
Ensure safe operation of forklifts and all other
equipment. Train and develop employees.
All interested applicants, please submit resume
to [email protected]
Volcano still active,
but Chile no longer
fears a major blast
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Authorities downgraded the likelihood of a major eruption at the Calbuco volcano, although the
mountain remained active Saturday and the ash clouds it already
ejected caused cancelations of more airline flights.
Rodrigo Alvarez, head of the National Mining and Geology
Service, told TVN television that Calbuco’s seismic activity had
changed and experts no longer expected any additional eruption
to exceed the two big blasts of Wednesday and Thursday. He
stressed that the volcano was likely to remain active and said more
eruptions are possible.
Officials urged people to keep using masks or handkerchiefs to
prevent breathing in dust and they warned against drinking water
from surface springs that could have been contaminated by falling
volcanic ash. A few airline flights were cancelled Saturday as
ash from Calbuco spread over more of the southern half of South
America, although most flights were unaffected.
At the foot of the volcano, authorities allowed some of the 1,500
people who evacuated the town of Ensenada to return temporarily
to their homes to carry out belongings and clean up damage from
the heavy ash fall. Numerous buildings were damaged by the
weight of ash blanketed Ensenada, which is the closest town to
Calbuco. “Here there is nothing else to do, rescue the little that you
can and move on. And there are no more words. All that happened
is in sight and this house is no longer good for anything,” Andres
Reyes said of his house.
Residents also sought to care for their cattle, the main livelihood of the town.
Interior Minister Rodrigo Penailillo, who visited the area
around the volcano about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) south of
Chile’s capital, said the government would compensate farmers
for losses from the eruptions. Fish farms, another major business
for the affected area, also had significant damage, with ash fall
choking thousands of fish in their tanks. More than 6,000 people
have been evacuated and authorities are maintaining a 12-mile
(20-kilometer) exclusion zone around the volcano.
Calbuco roared back to life Wednesday afternoon, after lying
dormant since a minor eruption in 1972. It billowed ash about 11
miles (18 kilometers) high in the initial blast, then several hours
later produced a second, spectacular outburst that turned the nighttime sky reddish orange and caused huge lightning bolts to crackle
through its ash plume.
Love, cookies helped
sisters lost in Michigan woods survive
CRISP POINT, Mich. (AP) — Two sisters from Oklahoma
and Nebraska said Saturday that they survived in a remote part of
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on love for their family, melted snow
and the little food they had in their snow-crippled SUV.
A day after being spotted by a police helicopter in Luce County,
Leslie Roy, 52, and Lee Marie Wright, 56, offered thanks to their
rescuers and others involved in the nearly two-week search after
they disappeared earlier this month.
“Through the days and nights while in the woods, we survived
using love and hope in our families,” they said in an emailed statement. “Our faith in God held our confidence that we would eventually be found. We took note of circling aircraft, available water
resources, the supplies we had with us. These factors eased our
mind and allowed us to stay alive for thirteen long days.”
Roy, of Valley, Nebraska, and Wright, of Depew, Oklahoma,
got stuck about 3 miles from Crisp Point Lighthouse along Lake
Superior. They had been visiting relatives in Ishpeming, near Marquette in another part of the peninsula. The sisters had planned to
head south on April 11.
They had a reservation at a hotel in Mackinaw City but never
showed up. Instead, they were trapped in snow on a little-used
road until a police helicopter pilot noticed a reflection Friday off
the Ford Explorer. There was no cellphone service and the vehicle
eventually lost power.
State police Detective Sgt. Jeff Marker told The Associated
Press that Roy and Wright wore layers of clothing to stay warm,
melted snow to drink and ate Girl Scout cookies and a bag of
cheese puffs.
The sisters were examined Friday at an area hospital and
released. “Lee and I would like to thank everyone. Friends, family,
strangers from afar for all of their thoughts and prayers,” they said
in the statement.
With legalization, lawyers
turn to the business of pot
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
Lawyers and pot dealers have
long intersected in criminal
court, but as marijuana goes
mainstream, attorneys have
been working to keep sellers
and growers legit.
Marijuana divisions are popping up at law firms to advise
pot shops on where they can
locate, what their websites can
say and how to vet new clients.
“It’s definitely something
that established firms are dipping a toe into, though they
are being very cautious, and
rightly so,” said Sam Kamin, a
professor at the University of
Denver Sturm College of Law
who teaches a class about representing the marijuana industry.
Kamin said the firms see
marijuana as a lucrative new
industry, but still worry about
the potential ethical and legal
pitfalls — and how it will affect
their reputations.
Marijuana has become a
multi-billion-dollar
industry.
California and more than 20
other states have legalized the
drug for medical use, and the pot
business has gotten a boost from
more recent approvals of recreational use in Alaska, Colorado,
Oregon, Washington state and
Washington, D.C. Pot advocates
hope growth continues, as they
push for voters to approve recreational pot in California, Arizona, Nevada, Maine and Massachusetts next year.
The drug remains illegal
under federal law, however, and
the American Bar Association’s
rules of professional conduct
prohibit lawyers from assisting
in criminal conduct.
With this in mind, attorneys
say they focus on providing
advice about what state marijuana
laws do and don’t allow, and
decline to answer questions about
how clients can bend the rules.
“We’re not your consigliere. We’re not an organized
crime family,” said Khurshid
Khoja, a legalization advocate
and founder of San Franciscobased Greenbridge Corporate
Counsel. “We’re legitimate
business people.”
Khoja’s firm is among a new
crop dedicated solely to marijuana clients, including packaging companies and investors.
But for law firms with other
practice areas, there is also concern about how non-pot clients
will view their marijuana work.
At the Seattle, Washingtonbased law firm of Harris Moure,
the marijuana practice group
has a completely separate brand
— Canna Law Group — with
its own website.
“It was a calculated defense
mechanism against the potential legal and reputational concerns,” said Hilary Bricken,
who heads up the group and
boasts a unique accolade on her
website — DOPE Magazine’s
attorney of the year.
Bricken started the practice
group in 2010 and now brings in
roughly $1 million of revenue
to the firm each year, she said.
Marijuana law, in many
ways, is no different from other
legal practices, attorneys say. It
involves contracts, real estate
transactions, trademarks and
regulatory compliance. What is
unique, though, is the constant
prospect of running afoul of the
law.
“Everybody’s
question
can be summarized like this:
How can I engage in this type
of activity without going to
prison,” said Aaron Lachant,
an attorney at the Los Angelesbased law firm of Nelson
Hardiman.
The legal issues that come
up also often have little or no
precedent, said Dan Garfield,
an attorney at Foster Graham
Milstein & Calisher in Denver,
Colorado.
Garfield, whose firm got into
the marijuana field several years
ago, was recently working on an
appeal of a federal court’s ruling
that a couple did not qualify for
bankruptcy protection because
their assets largely stemmed
from marijuana enterprises.
“Lawyers don’t like to say, ‘I
don’t know,’” Garfield said, but
for marijuana clients, he’s says
it far more often than for others.
For marijuana entrepreneurs,
legal guidance can bring peace
of mind.
Shy Sadis, 42, who has medical and recreational marijuana
stores throughout Washington
state, said Bricken has helped
him trademark “The Joint,” one
of his store names, locate properties that would comply with
the state’s recreational marijuana rules and create forms that
new patients must fill out.
“I haven’t been shut down.
I’m not in tax trouble,” he said.
“She’s shown me the right way
to run these businesses, so I
don’t get into trouble.”
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015 Page 31
FAASALALAUGA
SUAFA “TUANA’ITAU”
O PAVA’iA’i
E muamua ona ou fa’atulou atu i le paia mai Saua se’ia
o’o atu i Falealupo. Pa’ia foi i le Aufaigaluega a le Atua
i fata faitaulaga e fia, Tulou, Tulou, Tulouna Lava.
Ia fa’ata’alolo atu la’ia o pa’ia na.
A’o lenei fa’asalalauga e fa’asino tonu i Suli moni uma
o le Suafa “Tuana’itau” i le afioaga o Pavaiai.
Le afioaga o afio ai le Afioga i le Sa’o ma ona Tei, Susu
le Telesa, Susuga Ma’ava ma Taumafalofi, Fetalaiga i le
Matua, Nofo a Tualauta, Salemeana’i ma le Lufilufi.
O le a faia la tatou talanoaga i le Aso To’ona’i, Me
16, 2015 i le itula e 10:00 i le taeao, i le Maota
talimalo o Tuana’itau i Pavaiai lava. E vala’au atu ai,
ina ia tatou auai faatasi i lea aso ua atofaina. O lou le
auai o le a le taofia ai finagalo o aiga.
Faia ma le fa’aaloalo tele,
TOLUAO SEUTA’ATIA
47
CHANNEL * (E) English Subtitles
* (L)-Live Programming/News
* (R)-Rerun
*Note: If you need this Schedule, e-mail <[email protected]>. and I will send it to you every week!”
“TRUTH of DOKDO!”
<http://www.truthofdokdo.com>
<http://www.forthenexgeneration.com>
NATIONAL PACIFIC
INSURANCE LIMITED
“Working with the Community”
TEL: 633-4266 • FAX: 633-2964
Page 32
samoa news, Monday, April 27, 2015
C
M
Y
K
C
M
Y
K
O se tasi o vasega sa fa’atautaia i le potu e a’oa’o ai le Gagana & Aganu’u a Samoa i Fagaitua High, na matua tumu ma tau masuasua lea vasega, ma sa fiafia
tele i latou e talanoa e tusa o mea e tutupu i le tatou atunu’u fa’atasi ai ma ni agava’a e mafai ai ona avea i latou ma nisi e tusitala fa’asamoa. Igoa o le fanau aoga:
Tomi Tuifaiga, Jack Aifili, PJ Fagaima, Toliniu Lui, Selaina Tuato’o, Deuteronomy Tafaovale, Laralena Aab, Finau Tuitea, Toreka Fa’alanu Galu, Taufaiula Tali
Anoai, Eteuati Eteuati Jr, Shakinah Ga’opo’a, Meaalofa Tavita, Sebastian Auva’a, Jacinta Tavita, Oneil Leato, Regina S. Togia, Pesi Ta’alolo, Jedediah Manaea ma
Zarrenathien Vaiula.
[ata: Leua Aiono Frost]