Lali. Senate rejects House loan amendment for LBJ funding

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1 Panetta: Combat in Afghanistan to end next year 7 Radiation could have escaped CA nuclear plant 6 The Floor family to promote wrestling in the territory B1 The local National Park Service Terrestrial Ecologist, Tavita Togia, has completed a study and co-authors the scientific publication of the effects of the Tamaligi tree, a destructive non-native invasive tree, on native forest and the positive results of its removal. Togia worked with Dr. Flint Hughes, Amanda Uowolo and the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station s Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry in Hilo, HI for several years on this study. National Park s Tamaligi research crew is pictured here in this September 2009 photo at the Mt. Alava area of the National Park of American Samoa they are responsible for the removal of the Tamiligi trees and for the field work support required for this research. [photo: NPS/Tavita Togia] samoanews.com C Y M K Treasure hunter says he has discovered a $3B WWII wreck 15 Daily Circulation 7,000 PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA Thursday, February 2, 2012 $1.00 C Y M K Le Lali 10 Te ena Senatoa suiga a Faipule pili tupe mo le falema i tusia Ausage Fausia Na togi i fafo e le Senate suiga a le Maota o Sui ua faia i a latou pili tupe e lua ia sa pasia ma le fa amoemoe e fesoasoani i tulaga fa aletonu tau tupe o lo o feagai ma le falemai i le taimi nei. O pili tupe e lua a le Senate lea ua mae a ona pasia, e fa asoasoa atu ai le $3 miliona mai le Teugatupe o Taui mo Tagata Faigaluega, atoa ai ma le toe fa aauauina o le lafoga e 2% o totogi faigaluega uma i le teritori, e tu u atu e fesoasoani i le tulaga pagatia lea o lo o feagai ma le LBJ i le taimi nei. O le agaga o le Senate, e le toe totogia le $3 miliona lea ua fuafua e avee se mai i le Teugatupe mo Taui o Tagata Faigaluega. Peitai o suiga e pei ona finagalo i ai le maota o sui, e le tatau ona ave sa o le $3 miliona mo le falema i, ae o le a avea o se nonogatupe, ae fa aaoga le tupe lea e maua mai i le lafoga 2% e toe totogi ai. Afai ae mae a ona totogii, ona tuu atu lea o le 50% o le tupe o lo o totoe mo le falemai, ae o le isi 50% e alu i le teugatupe lautele a le malo. [l-r] Gov. Togiola Tulafono, First Lady Mary Ann Tulafono, Chief Justice Michael Kruse, and Secretary of Samoan Affairs Lefiti A. Pese at yesterday s Territorial Prayer Breakfast service held at the CCCAS-Fagaalu. The 6th annual prayer service was led by Rev. Fosi Tumatavai, Chair of the Methodist Synod of American Samoa, who also presented the sermon. Prayer of Praise and Thanksgiving were offered offered by Rev. Kapeliele Pauga Lolesio of the Futiga Catholic Parish; Penitential Prayer by Rev. Talavale Ueligitone - Aunu u Assembly of God; and General Intercessions by Rev. Isaako Mata utia of CCCAS Masausi. The annual prayer service was first introduced by Togiola and this is the last time he will be presiding over it, as he is unable to run for governor after serving two consecutive terms. Government and traditional leaders attended the service along with cabinet members and members of the community. In a proclamation Governor Togiola said since the arrival of Christianity in these islands, the Territory embraced fully and wholeheartedly the Christian practices and principles which form the spiritual basis of our parent democracy the United States of America, as well as provide the foundation for our own Territorial government. These principles have largely shaped and modeled our people and our culture, as well as the lives of those who have led and served our families, villages, churches and island government for the past one hundred and twelve years, he said. [photo: AF] Senate rejects House loan amendment for LBJ funding Galea i: ASG not taking LBJ crisis seriously by Fili Sagapolutele Samoa News Correspondent Sen. Galeai M. Tu ufuli claims that the American Samoa Government does not take seriously the financial plight faced by LBJ Medical Center, which is in need of an immediate cash infusion. LBJ officials have stated that the hospital s immediate need is to restore the close to $3 million in ASG subsidy not received in fiscal year Meanwhile, senators agreed during a special meeting yesterday to reject amendments the House made to a Senate bill (S.B ) that proposes a loan of $3 million from the ASG Workmen s Compensation Account for LBJ. Senators insist this financial support for the only hospital in the territory should not be a loan at all. GALEA I S COMMENTS During yesterday s Senate session, Sen. Malepeai Setu cited the news media report that the hospital is moving forward with its rate hike effective Feb. 6, saying this plan by LBJ should be halted. Malepeai said the Fono is working on a financial solution to the hospital s needs and the Fono leadership should send a clear communication to LBJ about its opposition to the rate hike, adding that the Fono is finalizing a financial aid package for the medical center. Galeai acknowledged the concern and pointed out that it appears from the government s actions that ASG is not making this LBJ issue a priority. He said that from his research, and from others he has spoken with, it seems the government does not believe that LBJ is faced with a financial crisis and therefore is not taking this issue seriously. As for the rate hike, Galeai said he really does not fault the hospital because it needs funding as soon as possible, but ASG is doing nothing about sufficient funds for the hospital. He said the Fono continues to find solutions and the Senate itself is putting in a lot of work to ensure the hospital does get the appropriate financial assistance. Senate Gaoteote Tofau Palaie agreed that the Senate continues to work at finding ways to get sufficient money for the hospital and the Senate will continue to do so. $3 MILLION FUNDING Also at yesterday s session, senators were informed by a House communique that the House approved on Tuesday the S.B which provides $3 million for LBJ and the measure is to be funded with money in the Workmen s Compensation Account. (Faaauau itulau 12) (Continued on page 16)

2 Page 2 samoa news, Thursday, February 2, 2012 Notice for Proposed Registration of Matai Title NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section of the Revised Code of American Samoa that a claim of succession which has been filed with the Territorial Registrar s office for the registratio n of the Matai Title TAGOA I of the village of TULA by VAE P. TAGALOA JR. of the village of TULA, county of VAIFANUA, EASTERN District. THE TERRITORIAL REGISTRAR is satisfied that the claim, petition by the family and certificate of the village chiefs are in proper form. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that anyone so desiring must file his counterclaim, or objection to the registration of this matai title with the Territorial Registrar Office before the expiration of 60 d ays from the date of posting. If no counterclaim, nor any objection is filed by the expiration of said 60 days, the matai title TAGOA I shall be registered in the name of VAE P. TAGALOA JR. in accordance with the laws of American Samoa. POSTED:JANUARY 26, 2012 thru MARCH 26, 2012 SIGNED: Samuel B. White, Territorial Registrar Fa aaliga o le Fia Fa amauina o se Suafa Matai O le fa aaliga lenei ua faasalalauina e tusa ma le Maga o le tusi tulafono a Amerika Samoa, e pei ona suia, ona o le talosaga ua faaulufaleina mai i le Ofisa o le Resitara o Amerika Samoa, mo le fia faamauina o le suafa matai o TAGOA I o le nu u o TULA e VAE P. TAGALOA JR. o TULA faalupega o VAIFANUA, falelima i SASA E. Ua taliaina e le Resitara lea talosaga, faatasi ma le talosaga a le aiga faapea ma le tusi faamaonia mai matai o lea nu u, ma ua i ai nei i teuga pepa a lea ofisa. A i ai se tasi e faafinagaloina, ia faaulufaleina sana talosaga tete e, po o sana faalavelave tusitu sia i le Ofisa o Resitara i totonu o aso e 60 mai le aso na faalauiloa ai lenei fa aaliga. Afai o lea leai se talosaga tete e, po o se faalavelave foi e faaulufaleina mai i aso e 60 e pei ona taua i luga, o lea faamauin a loa lea suafa matai i le igoa o VAE P. TAGALOA JR. e tusa ai ma aiaiga o le tulafono a Amerika Samoa. 02/02 & 03/02/12 ALL PUZZLE ANSWERs on page 14 MOMENTS IN TIME The History Channel On Feb. 16, 1848, romantic composer Frederic Chopin plays his final concert in his adopted city of Paris, 18 months before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 39. After fleeing his native Poland, he spent the rest of his life amid the high society of France. On Feb. 19, 1851, an angry mob in San Francisco s business district tries two Australian suspects in the robbery and assault of C.J. Jansen. Vigilantes were fairly common during the Gold Rush boom in San Francisco, and they were so well regarded that they took over the Democratic Party in the late 1850s, and some became respected politicians. On Feb. 18, 1885, Mark Twain publishes his famous and controversial novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. At the book s heart is the journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on a raft. On Feb. 13, 1915, The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is formed. ASCAP collects and distributes royalties for copyrighted musical works. Today, ASCAP reports that it distributes more than $800 million in royalties annually to its members. On Feb. 14, 1929, Sir Alexander Fleming, a bacteriologist, discovers penicillin. Having left a plate of staphylococcus bacteria uncovered, Fleming noticed that a mold, similar to the kind found on bread, had fallen on the culture and had killed many of the bacteria. On Feb. 15, 1933, president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escapes an assassination attempt. Deranged, unemployed brick layer Giuseppe Zangara shouted, Too many people are starving! and opened fire with six rounds. Zangara s extreme action reflected the anger and frustration felt among many Americans during the Great Depression. On Feb. 17, 1966, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys rolls tape on the first take of Good Vibrations. Six months, four studios and $50,000 later, he finally completed his 3 minute, 39 second symphony, pieced together from more than 90 hours of tape recorded during literally hundreds of sessions. The First Lady promoting healthy food in California INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) -- First lady the White House. Michelle Obama on Wednesday said the campaign to bring healthy food to all Americans is financing a farmer s market near a housing Besides Northgate, other projects include happening neighborhood by neighborhood. project and a food delivery service for outlying Standing in a vacant Southern California store rural communities, said Tina Castro, director of set to be refurbished and reopened this summer, impact investing for The California Endowment, Obama lauded efforts to bring large grocery a Los Angeles-based foundation that focuses on retailers to inner-city areas that traditional supermarket chains spurn. That s how we solve this borhoods, she said. We re looking for those health issues. Health really happens in neigh- problem - one community, one household at a small to medium-sized, independent grocers to time, Obama said, speaking in front of a display give them access to capital and real estate. depicting an old-fashioned grocery store with Northgate opened the first of the three new crates stocked with fresh fruit and vegetables. markets last fall in the City Heights area of San We re not just making this generation healthy. Diego. The next will be a renovation of the Inglewood building. The third will be the construction We re making the next, and the next and the next. Obama, who is on the second day of her twoday visit to the Los Angeles area, made the stop tion next year. Each store creates about 120 jobs. of a store in South Los Angeles, slated for comple- in the blue-collar, largely Hispanic neighborhood The locations match the company s threedecade-long focus of providing quality, afford- as part of her Let s Move! campaign to boost healthy food and fitness. able foods in low income neighborhoods, which Part of the campaign includes promoting primarily comprise Hispanic immigrants but initiatives such as the $264 million California also include black and Asian residents, said Carl FreshWorks Fund, which finances grocery businesses willing to open in urban areas. Estate Co. We provide that homeland experi- Middleton, president of Northgate Gonzalez Real One of the fund s first projects was a $20 million loan to Anaheim-based Northgate Gonzalez The stores typically offer tortilla and taco counence for immigrants, Middleton said. Markets, which operates 34 supermarkets around ters, as well as products from Mexico and Central Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties, to America, including Coca-Cola made in Mexico, build the Inglewood store and two others. as well as fresh produce, meats, seafood, dairy and The FreshWorks Fund is one of a mushrooming number of initiatives to tackle so-called providing payroll check cashing and wire transfers. bakeries. It also caters to its immigrant customers by food deserts, which are mostly urban areas Part of the company s mission has been to where conventional supermarket chains are promote nutrition by providing lean cuts of reluctant to operate because of the low-income meat, preservative-free baked products and good customer base and safety concerns. quality fruits and vegetables, Middleton said. Nutrition experts point to food deserts as a The chain has launched a Viva la Salud (Long key reason why obesity and weight-related ailments beleaguer inner-city residents, since they denote healthy foods, such as olive oil rather than Live Health) campaign, which puts a special tag to must buy much of their food at overpriced corner lard, and holds cooking classes in stores. The company was founded by Mexican immigrant Miguel stores that sell a lot of highly processed packaged foods and snacks but little fresh produce, Gonzalez in 1980, who came to the US after his meat and dairy items. shoe store burned down in Jalisco. The FreshWorks Fund, which is a partnership of The California Endowment, banks and he had saved enough to buy an old liquor store in After working for several years in various jobs, health organizations, was launched last July at Anaheim and convert it to a grocery store. (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.

3 samoa news, Thursday, February 2, 2012 Page 3 Skyview, Inc. Located in Aua EVERYDAY PRICES by Fili Sagapolutele Samoa News Correspondent FONO APPROVES 6-MONTH SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET FOR ASPA The Fono has approved the $60.37 million in supplemental funding in the current fiscal year 2012 for the American Samoa Power Authority (ASPA), after the House approved Tuesday the Senate version of the appropriations, which cover the next six months up to July 31st. The measure was sent Tuesday afternoon to Gov. Togiola Tulafono for approval. Funding for the supplemental bill comes from utility rate revenues, fees and charges and fees and federal grants. ASPA returns to the Fono in July to discuss the budget for the last three months of the current fiscal year which ends Sept. 30, The Fono s new budget ceiling set for ASPA is just over $109 million. Meanwhile, ASPA continues to operate using its own budget of $118 million for the current fiscal year approved by its board of directors, who claim that the Fono does not have oversight final approval of the ASPA annual budget. The Fono is preparing a legal challenge to be filed in court over this issue. VALID MARRIAGE AGE BILL APPROVED BY the HOUSE The House approved on Tuesday in final reading the House bill that changes the age of both the male and female in order to get married. The original version of the bill would have increased the female s age from 14 to 17, while still maintaining the male s age at 17. However, there was strong support from Health Department officials and Department of Youth and Women s Affairs director Leiataua Leuga Turner to hike the age of both male and female to 18 or over. After it was amended the House endorsed the final version in which both male and female shall be at least 18 years old. The bill deletes a provision of the current law which states that if the female is less then 18 years old, she must have the consent of one of her parents or guardian. The bill was introduced in the Senate yesterday and assigned to the Senate Judicial Committee for review. SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING FOR SWAINS TRANSPORTATION The House this week in final reading approved a $35,000 supplemental appropriation to fund ocean transportation needs for Swains Island. This funding was initially included in the fiscal year 2012 budget proposal but when the governor line-item certain changes made by the Fono to the budget, it also deleted the entire amount for Swains Transportation service. Now the House hopes that this funding will be restored. The bill was introduced yesterday in the Senate and assigned to the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee for review. BILL TO AMEND VEHICLE HEAD LIGHT ILLUMINATION REGULATION The Senate approved yesterday in final reading a bill which seeks to amend the regulations for head lamp illumination and color, as well as amending the definition of license tag to conform with current regulations. The bill will now go to the House for consideration and approval. According to the measure, motor vehicles shall not be modified with any aftermarket colored transparent and translucent substance or materials installed, affixed or applied on or in front of the head lamps, the auxiliary driving lamp, or the auxiliary Malaysia grants license to Aussie rare earth plant KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysia on Wednesday granted a license for an Australian mining company to operate the first rare earths plant outside China in years, despite public protests over fears of radioactive contamination. Lynas Corp. says its refinery could meet nearly a third of world demand for rare earths, excluding China. It also may curtail China s stranglehold on the global supply of 17 rare earths essential for making high-tech goods, including flatscreen TVs, mobile phones, hybrid cars and weapons. The Atomic Energy Licensing Board said it would grant Lynas a license that could be withdrawn if any of its conditions are broken. Lynas must submit plans for a permanent disposal (Continued on page 14) passing lamp or combinations of the head lamps, auxiliary driving lamp or passing lamp that would obstruct, reduce or interfere with the visibility or effectiveness of the head lamps, increase the beam intensity, or that would change the color of light emitted. Additionally, motor vehicles shall not be modified with any aftermarket lighting accessories that may alter the appearance of the original vehicle from the manufacturer. This is to include any lighting alterations, in, on, around or under the vehicle. Exempted from the proposed amendments are police or authorized emergency vehicles, vehicles equipped for the purpose of warning of hazardous situations, or vehicles equipped with a lighting system intended to mark or signal a solemn procession or occasion, the bill states. Aftermarket is described in the bill to mean the market for replacement parts, accessories and equipment for the care or the enhancement of an original motor vehicle while auxiliary driving lamp means a lamp supplementing the light from the headlamps, such as a fog light or a spot light. The bill also gives the authority to the Police Commissioner for the issuance of license tags to be affixed to motor vehicles instead of the current law, which says it s the ASG Treasurer. 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4 Page 4 samoa news, Thursday, February 2, 2012 WOMEN S AUXILIARY DO NOT SUPPORT 500% INCREASE OF LBJ FEES by Rhonda Annesley Samoa News Editor Concerning the LBJ rates, set to be increased this coming Monday, Feb. 6, 2012, Samoa News received a visit from the Women s Auxiliary Coordinator and Public Relations representative Helga Lefiti yesterday, to express the nonprofit organization s concerns about the 500% raise in LBJ fees. She said, they wanted the public to be aware of their nonsupport of such a huge raise; but do see a gradual increase that would take into account the current state of the economy, which is very poor. The nonprofit entity sees the increases as going against common sense and lacking in compassion for the people. Highly concerned, Mrs. Lefiti said she has gone to see Gov. Togiola Tulafono, as well as attempted to speak with hospital officials on the issue, but to no avail. Sen. Galeai M. Tu ufuli, yesterday during the Senate session said, that from his research, and from others he has spoken with, it seems the government does not believe that LBJ is faced with a financial crisis and therefore is not taking this issue seriously. They were discussing the bill to meet the hospital s immediate need, which is to restore the close to $3 million in ASG subsidy not received in fiscal year The hike in LBJ fees are necessary, according to the hospital s CEO Michael Gerstenberger, because the hospital will not be able to meet its second payroll for the month February, and will continue to have financial constraints as help from the government and the Fono is not immediate. Mrs. Lefiti noted that their organization was formed in 1969, and has always been about helping the hospital to meet its patients needs through supplies and equipment donations to the different departments. It has also in recent years stepped in to help the Department of Health in cases of emergency need, i.e. they recently donated towels; as well as the EMS or ambulance service, when they have had no supplies to stock their emergency vehicles. The Women s Auxiliary raises funds for their efforts through a food concession at the LBJ Medical Center, which is managed and run totally by the group s volunteer worker- members. CORRECTION Samoa News inadvertently ran the wrong caption under the photo on page 8 in the Wednesday, Feb. 01, 2012 edition news section. The photo is being re-run today with the correct caption. We apologize to our readers and to the people in the photo, including Alex Messina from San Diego State University, a PhD student, who is on island conducting the first step in his Phd research, by quantifying the sediment flux, from the watershed in Faga alu, to the reef in Faga alu, which is funded by the Coral Reef Advisory Group. Messina was at the Department of Marine Wildlife Resources (DMWR) conference room on Tuesday afternoon explaining the study to members of the DMWR and the National Park Service. A PhD student, Alex Messina from San Diego State University, (pictured 4th. from left) is on island at this time conducting the first step in his PhD research, by quantifying the sediment flux, from the watershed in Faga alu, to the reef in Faga alu. The study is funded by the Coral Reef Advisory Group. Messina was at the Department of Marine Wildlife Resources (DMWR) conference room on Tuesday afternoon explaining the study to members of the DMWR and the National Park Service. Messina explained, we want to say how much dirt comes from Faga alu village and lands on Faga alu reef, because the dirt kills the coral, or it could degrade the health of the coral. We are interested in how much dirt comes from where in the watershed and actually how much stays on the reef and how much goes out to sea. Once we know how much comes from which areas, then we can go to those areas and bring in some kind of management practices to clean up those areas and keep that dirt from going into the reefs, he said. [photo: Jeff Hayner] A new challenge to schools: Embracing digital textbooks WASHINGTON (AP) Are hardbound When a student reads a textbook and gets textbooks going the way of slide rules and typewriters in schools? Genachowski said. Working with the same to something they don t know, they are stuck, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Commission chairman something they don t know, the device can let material on a digital textbook, when they get to Julius Genachowski on Wednesday challenged them explore: It can show them what a word schools and companies to get digital textbooks means, how to solve a math problem that they in students hands within five years. The Obama couldn t figure out how to solve. administration s push comes two weeks after Students can use the textbooks for video explanations to help with homework, they can interact Apple Inc. announced it would start to sell electronic versions of a few standard high-school with molecules, and they can manipulate a digital books for use on its ipad tablet. globe to see stories and data about countries, said Digital books are viewed as a way to provide Karen Cator, director of the Education Department s office of education technology. interactive learning, potentially save money and get updated material faster to students. We re not talking about the print-based textbook now being digital. We re talking about a Digital learning environments have been embraced in Florida, Idaho, Utah, and California, as well as in individual schools and environment to support learning, Cator said. much more robust and interactive and engaging districts such as Joplin, Mo., where laptops About $8 billion is spent annually in the replaced textbooks destroyed in a tornado. U.S. on textbooks for children in kindergarten But many schools lack the broadband capacity through 12th grade, said Jay Diskey, the executive director of the school division of the Asso- or the computers or tablets to adopt the technology, and finding the money to go completely ciation of American Publishers. Diskey said digital is difficult for many schools in tough textbook companies have been working on the economic times. And, in some places, adopting technology for the past five to eight years to new textbooks is an arduous process. transform the industry, but that in many cases, At a time when technology has transformed schools simply aren t ready. how people interact and even led to social uprisings in the Middle East, education has too often industry has embraced this, but the difficulty It s not only the future, it s the now. The lagged, Duncan said. does lie in the fact that schools are not yet fully Do we want kids walking around with equipped with the hardware. We hope that they 50-pound backpacks and every book in those get there soon, Diskey said. backpacks costing 50, 60, 70 dollars and many After the tornado last May destroyed several of them being out of date? Or, do we want students walking around with a mobile device that tially to go textbook free at three sites hosting schools in Joplin, the decision was made essen- has much more content than was even imaginable a couple years ago and can be constantly the Franklin Technology Center. The United high school kids from Joplin High School and updated? I think it s a very simple choice, Arab Emirates donated money to buy each student a laptop. Duncan said in an interview. Tied to Wednesday s announcement at a The response from students has been mixed, digital town hall was the government s release said Angie Besendorfer, the district s assistant superintendent. She said the transition has of a 67-page playbook to schools that promotes the use of digital textbooks and offers proved difficult for some kids accustomed to a guidance. The administration hopes that dollars standard routine of answering questions at the spent on traditional textbooks can instead go end of a chapter, but administrators are pleased toward making digital learning more feasible. with the online learning and hope 8th-graders Going digital improves the learning process, also will go essentially textbook free. and it s being rolled out at a faster pace in other It s a little bit more work on the side of the countries, such as South Korea, Genachowski students in that they are having to think and said in an interview. Genachowski said he s problem solve and do things differently, and hopeful it can be cost effective in the long run, some of our kids are not so fond of that, whereas especially as the price of digital tablets drops. other kids like it a lot, Besendorfer said. Osini Faleatasi Inc. reserves all rights. dba Samoa News is published Monday through Saturday, except for some local & federal holidays. 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5 samoa news, Thursday, February 2, 2012 Page 5 Where s the snow? Not in Lower 48 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Snow has been missing in action for much of the U.S. the last couple months. But it s not just snow. It s practically the season that s gone AWOL. What winter? asked Mike Halpert, deputy director of the National Weather Service s Climate Prediction Center. For the Lower 48, January was the third-least snowy on record, according to the Global Snow Lab at Rutgers University. Records for the amount of ground covered by snow go back to Last year, more than half the nation was covered in snow as a Groundhog Day blizzard barreled across the country, killing 36 people and causing $1.8 billion in damage. This year, less than a fifth of the country outside of Alaska has snow on the ground. Bismarck, N.D., has had one-fifth its normal snow, Boston a third. Buffalo is three feet below normal for snowfall this year. Midland, Texas, has had more snow this season than Minneapolis or Chicago. Forget snow. For much of the country there s not even a nip in the air. On Tuesday, the last day in January, all but a handful of states had temperatures in the 50s or higher. In the nation s capital, where temperatures flirted with the 70s, some cherry trees are already budding - weeks early. For the Northeast it s one of the warmest and least snowy winters on record, with most of the region s temperatures the last couple months averaging 5 degrees warmer than normal, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University. I am disgusted that golfers are golfing on my cross-country ski course, said New Jersey state climatologist David Robinson, director of the Global Snow Lab. Matt Dulli, an assistant golf pro at The Golf Club at Yankee Trace in the Dayton, Ohio, suburb of Centerville, said 115 rounds were played Tuesday amid balmy temperatures that reached a high of 60 degrees. The first thing you hear out of people s mouths is, `Can you believe we re playing golf in January? They re just ecstatic that they can get out at this time of year, Dulli said. But there is lots of snow and dangerous cold - it s just elsewhere in the world. Valdez, Alaska, has had 328 inches of snow this season - 10 feet above average - and the state is frigid, with Fort Yukon hitting a record 66 below zero over the weekend. Nearly 80 people have died from a vicious cold snap in Europe, and much of Asia has been blanketed with snow. January has been the ninth snowiest since 1966 for Europe and Asia, though for the entire northern hemisphere, it s been about average for snow this season. The weather is so cold that some areas of the Black Sea have frozen near the Romanian coastline, and rare snowfalls have occurred on islands in the Adriatic Sea in Croatia. Ukraine alone has reported 43 fatalities, many of the victims homeless people found dead on streets. More than 720 other Ukrainians have been hospitalized with hypothermia and frostbite. The reason is changes in Arctic winds that are redirecting snow and cold. Instead of dipping down low, the jet stream winds that normally bring cold and snow south got trapped up north. It s called the Arctic oscillation. Think of it as a cousin to the famous El Nino. When the Arctic oscillation is in a positive phase, the winds spin fast in the Arctic keeping the cold north. But in the past few days, the Arctic oscillation turned negative, though not in its normal way, Halpert said. The cold jet stream dipped in Europe and Asia, but is still bottled up over North America. That s because another weather phenomena, called the North Atlantic oscillation is playing oddball by staying positive and keeping the cold away from the rest of North America. About 90 percent of the time, the North Atlantic and Arctic oscillations are in synch, Halpert said. But not this time, so much of the United States is escaping the winter s worst. What s happening isn t just an inconvenience. Trees and plants budding early may lose their chance to bloom when the inevitable deep freeze returns, said U.S. Geological Survey ecologist Jake Weltzin, who heads a national network that monitors the timing of spring for plants and animals. He said peach trees are budding in Georgia and in Oklahoma forsythia and daffodils have been out for two weeks now, adding it s happening everywhere. If you think about plants and animals being kind of biologic thermometers, they are indicating a very early spring, Weltzin said. That s a problem. This could mean less fruit available this year, Weltzin said. In New York, it could weaken the grapes used to make wine, added Cornell University horticulturalist David W. Wolfe. But it is getting people outside more often. In the heart of the snow belt, Holden Arboretum saw a 32 percent jump in December attendance and a 20 percent jump in January visits. Over the two months about 4,200 people visited the site in Kirtland, Ohio, outside Cleveland, that features gardens, woodlands and trails. Along Lake Erie near Toledo, Ohio, a ferry service that carries visitors to islands was beginning winter routes Wednesday for the first time in six years. We ve just had a remarkable run of unusual winters in the past six years globally, said Jeff Masters, director of meteorology at Weather Underground in Ann Arbor, Mich. I have to say that winter hasn t really hit yet. Certainly not where I live. E valani s in Pago It s Super Bowl Time! Watch the Patriots take on the Giants Live on 2 Big Screens & 2 Flat Screens MILLER BEER SPECIAL $2.50 THROUGHOUT THE GAME Free Pupus Taco Specials Chili Dogs Breakfast & Lunch Menu Available $3.50 Well Drinks & more Specials!!! 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6 Page 6 samoa news, Thursday, February 2, 2012 Water trucked to nearly bone-dry town in Texas Steam rises from one of the two cooling towers Monday, Jan. 30, 2012, at the Byron nuclear generating station in Ogle County, Ill. A loss of power coming into the plant caused one of the reactors to automatically shutdown Monday morning. U.S. officials said they may have traced a power failure at a nuclear reactor in Illinois to a failed piece of equipment at a switchyard that delivers power to and from the plant. (AP Photo/Rockford Register Star, Max Gersh) Small radiation amount could have escaped California plant LOS ANGELES (AP) A tiny amount of Edison has historically not been candid about radiation could have escaped from a Southern the problems at San Onofre. That lack of transparency causes tremendous distrust and increases California nuclear power plant after a water leak prompted operators to shut down a reactor as a risk, Hirsch said. It makes one wonder about precaution, but plant workers and the public were the quality assurance for the replacement equipment, he added. This is not due to old equip- not endangered, officials said Wednesday. The leak was detected Tuesday afternoon in ment breaking but new equipment that wasn t up Unit 3 at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, to snuff in the first place. about 45 miles north of San Diego. The seaside The latest leak occurred in one of thousands of plant was taken off line while investigators tried tubes carrying radioactive water from the plant s to determine what happened. reactor. The leak was initially estimated at a rate While the leak wasn t large enough to require of 85 gallons a day an amount about half of the plant to declare an emergency, any possible what would require the plant to shut down. Alexander said the rate of the leak was much less, leak of radiation into the atmosphere is rare. Also concerning was that many tubes that carry but did not provide a figure. It s not clear what pressurized radioactive water were damaged, caused the pipe to fail, or whether the company according to a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. or a manufacturing defect that might be at issue was facing an isolated break in a single alloy tube The tubes are part of equipment that is virtually new, having been installed in The Dricks said radioactive gas that leaked from that elsewhere in the massive plant tube system. damage that they have found to many other tubes tube in the plant s steam generator was vented into is unusual, and they are attempting to identify the the auxiliary building. The radiation was detected reason, NRC spokesman Victor Dricks said. by monitors in that building, which is separate from News of the possible release of radioactivity the sealed structure that houses the reactor. was slow to emerge. Shortly after the incident, Because the auxiliary building is not sealed Southern California Edison issued a statement people come and go through doors it s possible radiation escaped into the atmosphere. saying, There has been no release to the atmosphere. On Wednesday morning, however, Each steam generator can contain as many as Dricks said a small amount of radioactive gas 16,000 tubes, each about 0.75 inch in diameter. could have escaped from a building that houses The hot, pressurized water flowing through the auxiliary equipment. tubes heats non-radioactive water outside the When asked, Southern California Edison tubes. The resulting steam is used to turn turbines spokesman Gil Alexander did not directly address to make electricity. why the plant used the language it did. H According to the NRC, the tubes have an e emphasized the relatively minor nature of the important safety role because they represent one incident. of the primary barriers between the radioactive I can t speak for the NRC but we would agree and non-radioactive sides of the plant. If a tube that there might have been an insignificant or breaks, there is the potential that radioactivity extremely small release, Alexander said. He said from the system that pumps water through the the amount might not be detectable by monitors. reactor could escape into the atmosphere. Dricks agreed, saying the radiation would not Alexander said he could not confirm any additional damage to other tubes, pending an inspec- pose a danger to anyone. The NRC was evaluating the plant s response to the leak, he said. tion of the equipment. In November, nuclear watchdog and environmental groups criticized plant operators for the San Onofre plant, said his office was notified U.S. Rep. Ken Calvert, whose district includes taking more than an hour to notify the public of an about the leak about three hours after the precautionary shutdown. The first word came from ammonia leak in a storage tank that prompted the evacuation of some workers. There was no danger federal regulators through , followed by the to the public, the company said at the time. company five minutes later. The Unit 3 reactor returned to full power in Calvert said he was satisfied with the response February 2011 after it was refueled and its two but was troubled by new equipment failing. aging steam generators were replaced. The plant s Obviously there s something wrong here. other reactor, Unit 2, had similar work. The total They need to get to the bottom of it, he said. retrofit cost more than $670 million. The plant is owned by Southern California Daniel Hirsch, who lectures on nuclear policy Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric and the City at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said of Riverside. Southern California Edison serves he was concerned that the problem occurred with nearly 14 million residents with electricity in recently installed equipment. Central and Southern California. SPICEWOOD, Texas (AP) -- Under dark clouds and rain, two tanker trucks for the first time delivered thousands of gallons of water Monday to a Texas town that came precariously close to becoming the state s first community to run out of water during a historic drought. The 8,000-gallon water delivery arrived in Spicewood after it became clear the village s wells could no longer produce enough water to meet the needs of the Lake Travis community s 1,100 residents and elementary school, said Clara Tuma, spokeswoman of the Lower Colorado River Authority. Several towns and villages in Texas have come close to running out of water during the driest year in Lone Star State history, but until now none has had to truck in water. Most found solutions to hold them over, often paying tens of thousands of dollars to avoid hauling water, a scenario that conjures up images from the early 1900s, when indoor plumbing was a novelty. In reality, water still ran Monday through pipes and faucets of the Central Texas town, though the source will soon be different. Instead of being pumped from wells into the community s 129,000-gallon storage tank - a two day s supply of water - the already treated liquid will be hauled in from 17 miles away, treated a second time and put into the town s water system. The hauling of water is just a Band-Aid approach. It s just a short-term approach, said Joe Don Dockery, a Burnet County commissioner that oversees the Spicewood area. LCRA realized last week how dire the situation was, and informed Dockery on Monday. By the next day, the situation was worse - the well had dropped another 1.3 feet overnight. The severest forms of water restrictions were put in place, and LCRA said there would be no new hookups to the town s water supply. Ryan Rowney, manager of water operations for the LCRA, said the agency plans to truck water into Spicewood for several more weeks while exploring alternatives, including drilling a new well or piping water from nearby Lake Travis. But the agency doesn t want to rush into any project, and prefers for now to pay $200 per truckload of water while ensuring the tens of thousands of dollars it will cost to find a permanent solution are well-spent. If we need to haul every day, we will. This will probably go on for several more months, Rowney said. Trucks, including at least one 6,000 gallon tanker, will make about four or five deliveries a day, he said, but the town will still have to remain under the severest water restrictions. All you can do is take a bath, a shower, and that s really all you re allowed to do. You can flush the commode, but even that we re asking people to do judiciously, Rowney said. Spicewood is a community about 35 miles from Austin, home to many retirees who spend their weekdays in the city and drive to their lakeside homes on the weekends. Residents are now being careful, taking shorter showers, and some are even bringing their clothes to Laundromats. For more than a year, nearly the entire state of Texas has been in some stage of severe or exceptional drought. Rain has been so scarce lakes across the state turned into pools of mud. One town near Waco, Groesbeck, bought water from a rock quarry and built a seven-mile pipeline through a state park to get water. Some communities on Lake Travis moved their intake pipes into deeper water. And Houston started getting water from an alternative, farther away reservoir when Lake Houston ran too low. Notice for Proposed Registration of Land NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN in accordance with the request which has been received by the Territorial Registrar for the registration of a certain land UTU which is situated in or near the village of ASILI, Country of ALATAUA Island of TUTUILA, from FOFOGAOALATAUA SIANAVA S NOA of the village of ASILI as a/an INDIVIDUALLY OWNED land of HEIRS OF NOA FATU. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that anyone claiming an interest in the above named land, may file an objection with the Territorial Registrar s Office within 60 days from the date of posting of this notice. If no objection is filed within 60 days from the date of posting of this notice, the land proposed herein will be registered as such in accordance with the law of American Samoa. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the survey and description of the said land are now on file in the Territorial Registrar s Office where they may be examined at any time prior to the expiration of the said sixty (60) days. POSTED: JANUARY 27, 2012 thru MARCH 27, 2012 SIGNED: Samuel B. White, Territorial Registrar Fa aaliga o le Fia Faamauina o se Fanua O LE FA AALIGA LENEI ua fa asalalauina ona o le talosaga ua fa aulufaleina mai i le Ofisa o le Resitara o Amerika Samoa ina ia fa amauina le fanua o UTU, e tu pe latalata ane i le nu u o ASILI, Itumalo o ALATAUA i le motu o TUTUILA, ina ia fa amauina e FOFOGAOALATAUA SIANAVA S NOA. ole fanua TOTINO o HEIRS OF NOA FATU. SO O SE TASI e aia ma fa atu iese i le fanua ua ta ua i luga ia fa aulufaleina mai sana fa atu ieseg a tusitusia i le Ofisa o le Resitara i totonu o aso e 60 mai le aso na fa aalia ai lea fa aaliga. Afa i o le a leai se fa atu iesega e fa aulufaleina mai i totonu o aso e 60, o le fanua lenei o le a fa amauina e pei ona ta ua i luga e tusa ai ma aiaiga o le tulafono i Amerika Samoa. O LE FA AFANUA ma fa amatalaga e uiga i lenei fanua, ua iai nei i le Ofisa ole Resitara, ma e avanoa mo se iloiloga i so o se aso i totonu o le 60 o le faitauina o aso. 02/02 & 03/02/12

7 samoa news, Thursday, February 2, 2012 Page 7 American Samoa 3M Burger Car Wash - Auto - Tinting HOME OF THE MARVIN BURGER On Tuesday evening, January 31st, a very special film held its World Premiere at Maliu Mai Beach Resort in American Samoa. Entitled Tuiga 2, the film was created by Samoan filmmaker Tanupo Aukuso, (pictured, center) as the second in a series of films he has written about his beloved homeland, and the social and familial problems which young people face there. His first full length film, Tuiga 1 was filmed in Samoa and held its World Premiere there. It has been featured in New Zealand film festivals, and he may enter it into stateside festivals once it is sub-titled. (The film is done completely in the Samoan language). As filmmaker, Aukuso was responsible for all aspects of the film, including the script, casting, editing, and sound production. He looks forward to collaborating with others, as the fledging film industry in Samoa grows. Pictured with Aukuso is the Reverend Samuel Fiu Unutoa, who came to the opening in honor of his wife, Mareta Purcell Unutoa, who played one of the leads in the feature film, which ran about 80 minutes. On Aukuso s right is Papali i Tafia Fiame Taimalelagi someone Lupe-lu (who MC d the evening) called our very own Elizabeth Taylor as Papali i also acted in the movie, much to the delight of family and friends. Aukoso told Samoa News that he was extremely happy with the acting abilities of the people whom he chose for the film, saying that there is a huge pool of talent here and that the Samoan people are natural born actors. The film played to a packed house of family and friends, including government officials, pastors, dignitaries and business owners. [photo: tlh] Panetta: American combat in Afghanistan to end next year BRUSSELS (AP) -- Defense Secretary Leon role to a training, advise and assist role, he said. Panetta laid out the administration s most explicit He added that this doesn t mean we re not going portrayal of the U.S. drawdown in Afghanistan, to be combat-ready, but rather that the U.S. and saying Wednesday that U.S. and other international forces in Afghanistan expect to end their formal combat role we re in now. other international forces will no longer be in the combat role in 2013 and continue a training and Panetta said the administration wants to make advisory role with Afghan forces through sure that the Afghan forces, after foreign troops Panetta s remarks to reporters traveling with depart, are sufficient and sustainable, but noted him to a NATO defense ministers meeting in that will require continuing financial support not Brussels showed how the foreign military role in only from the United States but also from allies Afghanistan is expected to evolve from the current and many other countries. high-intensity fight against the Taliban to a support A senior defense official traveling with Panetta role with Afghans fully in the lead. The timeline said the U.S. believes Afghanistan will not need as fits neatly into the U.S. political calendar, enabling big a force as is now being built. NATO has set a President Barack Obama to declare on the campaign trail this year that in addition to bringing all official, who spoke on condition of anonymity target of 352,000 Afghan soldiers and police. The U.S. troops home from Iraq and beginning a troop under ground rules set by the Pentagon, said the drawdown in Afghanistan, he also has a target U.S. thinks a smaller force would be adequate, but period for ending the U.S. combat role there. he would not be more specific It also serves to possibly bridge an apparent He likened this approach to the way Obama gap between France and the rest of the NATO managed the final two years of U.S. military partners of the U.S. on defining the end game in involvement in Iraq. Obama declared an end to the Afghanistan. All NATO members in November U.S. combat role there on Aug. 31, 2010 but kept 2010 endorsed a plan to keep forces in Afghanistan until the end of But France this week of last year to continue training and advising Iraqi tens of thousands of troops there through the end appeared to throw that plan into doubt when security forces. President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed, with Afghan Panetta said no decisions have been made President Hamid Karzai at his side and seemingly about how many U.S. troops would be required to in agreement, that NATO end its mission in 2013 remain there once the combat role has ended. He - one year earlier than planned. suggested, however, that large reductions, below Sarkozy also said, however, that France would the 68,000 troop level projected for this September, were unlikely in the months immediately provide support for the training of Afghan forces beyond 2013, so his approach might not be after the shift. The U.S. now has about 91,000 entirely different from the one Panetta outlined troops there as part of the International Security in which allied troops shed their combat role in Assistance Force. The fact that much military the second half of 2013 but remain through 2014 work will remain after 2013 demands that we to train, advise and assist. Panetta said he hoped have a strong presence there, he said. to hear more from the French delegation at the Although Panetta made no mention of it, U.S. NATO talks Thursday and Friday. Marines in Afghanistan already are making that Panetta called 2013 a critical year for the transition out of a combat role. They are operating Afghanistan mission that has dragged on for more in Helmand province in southwestern Afghanistan, where the Taliban have been greatly weak- than a decade with little sign that the Taliban will be decisively defeated. 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8 Page 8 samoa news, Thursday, February 2, 2012 C Y M K Some dead Tamaligi seen here on this July 2006 photo at the Siufaga area of the Fagasa unit of the National Park of American Samoa. The local National Park Service Terrestrial Ecologist, Tavita Togia, has completed a study and co-authors the scientific publication of the effects of the Tamaligi tree. He is in the forest daily with a NPS crew, made up of Samoan youth from across the territory, in an effort to protect the unique and fragile rainforest ecosystem. [photo: NPS/Tavita Togia] Business Spotlight Local National Park Service Terrestrial Ecologist completes scientific publication $5 00 Fried Chicken or Fish & Chips $6 00 Stir Fry with Mash FREE PUPUS on SUPER BOWL SUNDAY $7 50 El Pollo Chicken or Carne Asada also available: Rib-Eye or T-Bone $22.00 (USDA Choice Steak served with Rice & Veggies for reservations call Ili ili Restaurant Opens M-T: 12noon-10pm Fri: 12noon-Midnight Sat: 4pm - Midnight Small business client sponsored by the American Samoa Community College & Small Business Development Center (PRESS RELEASE) Pago Pago, American Samoa The National Park of American Samoa has continued its contribution to scientific work in the territory with the completion and publication of a new study on the effects of the Tamaligi tree, a destructive non-native invasive tree, on native forest and the positive results of its removal. Tavita Togia, national park terrestrial ecologist, has worked with Dr. Flint Hughes, Amanda Uowolo and the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station s Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry in Hilo, Hawaii for several years on this study. The forest plots for this research are located within the national park. Togia and the national park crew are responsible for the removal of the Tamiligi trees and for the field work support required for this research. Dr. Hughes and Togia have collaborated for many years to use science to better manage the native resources of American Samoa. Under the leadership of Togia, the national park crew, made up of Samoan youth from across the territory, is in the forest daily in an effort to protect the unique and fragile rainforest ecosystem. They have successfully eradicated all mature tamaligi trees from within the park boundaries. This work continues through the removal of saplings in the park. High Chief Atuatasi and the Fagasa Village Council have supported invasive species work in partnership with the national park within their village lands for many years. The national park has also been working with the villages of Pago Pago, Matu u and Faganeanea to remove Tamaligi from village lands near park boundaries. The national park has also begun eradication and research of other damaging invasive species in the forest. (Continued on page 14) C Y M K

9 samoa news, Thursday, February 2, 2012 Page 9 2 Texas missionaries found slain in Mexico C Y C Y M K M K MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A missionary couple from Texas were slain in their home outside the violence-plagued northern industrial city of Monterrey, the U.S. Embassy and their family said Wednesday The embassy identified the couple as John and Wanda Casias. Valerie Alirez, the eldest child of John Casias, told The Associated Press from her home in Greeley, Colorado, that one of her brothers found her father and stepmother Tuesday dead in their home in Santiago, Nuevo Leon. The family was originally from Amarillo, Texas, but relatives said John and Wanda Casias moved to Mexico in the late 1970s or early 1980s and made it their home. John Casias was a Baptist preacher and the couple ran the First Fundamentalist Independent Baptist Church in Santiago, Alirez said. Her brother, Shawn Casias, who lives in Monterrey, said he went to his parents home around 4 p.m. Tuesday to pick up a trailer. After he had hooked up the trailer outside he went into the home to say goodbye. He said he found Wanda Casias lying on the floor with an electrical cord around her neck and a gash from a blunt object on her head. Missing from the house were a couple of computers, a plasma television and a safe that had been chiseled out of the wall. The couple s Chevrolet Suburban was also missing, and Casias said he initially thought his father had been kidnapped. But about four or five hours later, he said, a forensic investigator informed him that his father s body had been found in a storage room of a small building on the property. His father also had an electrical cord around his neck. Fighting between the Zetas and Gulf drug cartels has inflicted a surge of violence and other crimes on Monterrey and the surrounding area since In poorer suburbs, entire blocks have been held up by gunmen and young people snatched off the streets. Casias said a sister-in-law in Dallas had spoken to their mother around 11 a.m. Tuesday and everything was fine. So he believes there was about a five-hour window when the killings could have occurred before he showed up. He said the killers did not take everything they could have, leaving two of the three TV sets. He said perhaps they were warned that he was coming, because anyone watching the winding road approaching the home could have alerted them. They re scum. They re not sophisticated, he said. Speaking from his parents home, Casias said the house was burglarized two years ago when the couple were on one of their periodic visits to the United States to talk at churches about their work in Mexico. John Casias was 76. He had recently priced a knee replacement because he couldn t walk more than 100 yards (100 meters) without having to sit down, Shawn Casias said. Wanda Casias was 67. Casias said his parents held services and prayer meetings at a church about 3 miles (5 kilometers) from their home. The couple maintained a website, with details of their lives and their missionary work It was the second slaying involving American missionaries in a year in the Mexican region bordering Texas. In January 2011, a Texas couple who had been doing missionary work in Mexico for three decades were attacked at an illegal roadblock in one of the country s most violent areas. Nancy Davis, 59, was fatally shot in the head while her husband, Sam, sped away from suspected drug cartel gunmen who may have wanted to steal their pickup truck, authorities said. WE RECOMMEND YOU PRE-ORDER YOUR PICK-UP OR DELIVERY REQUIREMENTS FOR SUNDAY PICK UP or DELIVERY MED. PIZZA SELECT ANY ONE TOPPING GAME DAY FAVORITES BUFFALO WINGS CHOICE MILD OR SPICY HOT $ $ WINGS 3 LARGE PIZZA SUPREME - PEPPERONI - 2 TOPPING $ 49.95

10 Page 10 samoa news, Thursday, February 2, 2012 Le Lali Le taimi na faia ai le iloiloga a le Fono Faitulafono ma le pulega a le ASPA mo le talanoaina o le latou paketi i le masina na tea nei. [ata: AF] Poloa ia taofia o Solofa e fa atali ai lona iuga faaliiu Ausage Fausia lautele i Honolulu, mo le tuuina atu o ia i leoleo Ua poloaina e le malo Feterale le alii ua o le falepuipui feterale, e faatali ai le lauina o ta usalaina o Paul Solofa ina ia tumau pea le lona faasalaga. tatalaina o ia i tua i le taimi nei e aunoa ma se O moliaga ia ua ta usalaina ai Solofa e le tupe faatulaga, ae tatau ona taofia o ia i Honolulu i le masina lenei e faatali ai le lauina o lona le toese mo le umi e le silia i le 20 tausaga, pe malo feterale, e mafai ona faasalaina ai o ia i faasalaga i le masina o Aperila. faasala foi i le salatupe e le silia i le $250,000, O le vaiaso na tea nei na ta usalaina ai e se mo le moliaga o lona taumafai lea e faaleaga vaega iloilo iuga le alii o Solofa i moliaga e lua mea molimau a le malo, ae o le isi moliaga o e aofia ai le taumafai e faalelavelave i molimau lona faalavelave i galuega a le faamasinoga, e a le malo, atoa ai ma le taumafai e faaleaga mea mafai ona faasalaina ai o ia i le toese mo le umi molimau a le malo, ona o le mataupu e uiga i le e le silia i le 10 tausaga, pe faasala foi i le salatupe e le silia i le $250,000. faatauina atu lea o totoga o pasi aoga. O le aso 27 Aperila lea ua faatulaga e lauina E oo mai i le taimi nei, e le o i ai se faamatalaga a le Vaega o Faamasinoga a le malo tele, ai lona faasalaga i luma o le faamasinoga feterale i Honolulu. E oo mai i le taimi nei e le pe o i ai ni a latou suesuega o loo faaauau pea i o mafai ona faamanino mai e le malo feterale le le mataupu e uiga i le faatauina atu lea o totoga mafuaaga o le a latou taofia ai Solofa e faatali ai o pasi aoga e pei ona aafia ai Solofa. le aso e lau ai lona faasalaga. E le o mafai foi ona manino mai i le taimi nei Ina ua ta usalaina Solofa i le vaiaso na tea pe ono faia ni moliaga faasaga i le alii pule o le nei, na poloaina ai o ia ina ia nofo pea i le setete kamupani o le Pacific Products, le alii o Oscar o Uosigitone, e faatali ai le isi ana iloiloga Mayer lea foi o loo taua lona igoa i totonu o lea ua faatulaga i le aso Gafua na tea nei, ma faamaumauga a le malo feterale. poloaina ai loa o ia e le alii faamasino o Reggie O loo taua i faamaumauga a le faamasinoga B. Walton o le faamasinoga faaitumalo feterale, feterale e faapea, o le kamupani a le Pacific ina ia tumau pea le tatalaina o ia i tua, ae ia taofia Products, o ia lea sa sapalaiina mai totoga o pasi o ia i le aso 12 Fepuari e faatali ai le lauina o aoga mo le Ofisa o Aoga a le malo. lona faasalaga. O loo tuuaia ai foi le aafia o Mayer o se tasi E tusa ai ma le poloaiga a le faamasinoga na lea sa aafia faatasi ma Solofa ma Gustuv Nauer taua ai, e tatau ona aumau le ua molia i Honolulu ao lei oo atu i le aso e tuuina atu ai o ia O le alii o Nauer lea sa avea muamua ma pule i lenei solitulafono. i alii leoleo, ma ia aua nei toe malaga ese atu o le vaega o pasi aoga, ua maea ona tuuina atu ma le aai o Oahu pe afai ae taunuu i Honolulu, lana tali ioe i le feterale e tusa ai o lona aafia i amata mai i le aso 31 Ianuari e oo atu i le aso 12 lenei mataupu, i le faamasinoga feterale i Honolulu, ma ua faamoemoe o le aso 5 Mati e lauina Fepuari, e faatali ai le lauina o lona faasalaga i le faamasinoga feterale i Uosigitone. ai lona faasalaga. O isi vaega o le poloaiga a le faamasinoga E pei ona taua i faamaumauga a le faamasinoga, o Mayer ma Nauer sa molimau uma mo le mo Solofa, e aofia ai le tatau lea ona faia ni feutanaiga ma le Ofisa Loia Fautua mo tagata itu a le malo faasaga ia Solofa. Pasia Fono paketi a le ASPA mo leisi ono masina tusia Ausage Fausia Ua pasia e le Fono Faitulafono le Paketi a le Fa alapotopotoga o le Eletise ma le Suavai (ASPA) mo le isi 6 masina, e ui e le o manino pe fa aaoga e le ASPA le paketi lea ua pasia atu e le Fono, pe o lo o fa aauau pea ona latou fa aaoga le latou paketi mo le Tausaga Tupe E $45,393, miliona le paketi a le ASPA na ulua i fa aulu i luma o le Fono i le masina na te a nei, peita i ina ua mae a iloiloga sa faia a le komiti ma le pulega a le ASPA, na suia ai e le fono le paketi i le $60,393, O lea suiga na afua mai ina ua fa alauiloa e le ASPA i luma o le fono, lo latou tau a aoina o se tasi o vaega tupe fesoasoani mai le feterale, e fa atupe ai nisi o tautua mo le kuata lona lua o le tausaga tupe lenei ua savalia. O lea paketi ua fa amoemoe le fono e mae a i le aso 31 Iulai 2012, ona latou toe tu uina atu foi lea o le isi paketi mo le masina o Aokuso ma Setema. I le masina o Setema 2011, na pasia ai e le Fono le paketi e $30.8 miliona mo masina e fa, lea sa aofia ai Oketopa e oo mai ia Ianuari. O lea fa aiuga a le Fono sa faia ina ua latou talitonu, e i ai faamaumauga tau tupe a le ASPA e le i mae a ona tuuina atu latou te iloiloina, ma latou pasia ai loa le toe faaaoga e le ASPA o le latou paketi o le Tausaga Tupe 2011 e faatino ai ana galuega mo uluai masina e fa o le tausaga tupe fou lenei Ae ina ua fesiligia e le Fono le pulega a le ASPA i le masina na te a nei i le latou paketi, na faamaonia ai e le latou pulesili o Andra Samoa e faapea, o le paketi lea o loo faatautaia ai a latou galuega i le taimi nei, o le latou paketi o le tausaga tupe 2012, lea na tuuina atu i le Ofisa o le Kovana i le tausaga na te a nei, ae le o le paketi lea na pasia atu e le Fono mo ulua i masina e fa o le tausaga. Na faamaonia e le ASPA i le Fono e faapea, e le taitai lava le tupe lea na latou pasia atu e faatino ai le latou tautua mo le atunuu mo masina e fa na tuana i atu nei, ona o le tautua e tatau lava ona atoatoa ma lelei mo le atunuu i soo se taimi, e aofia ai faafitauli e tutupu faafuase i mai ona o ni faalavelave le maalofia. O le paketi lea ua pasia mo le ASPA e aofia ai le $46.4 miliona lea ua faamoemoe e faatupe ai galuega mo le eletise, $6 miliona e faatupe ai galuega mo le suavai, $6 e faatupe ai galuega mo le lapisi, ma le $1.8 miliona e faatupe ai galuega mo le suavai lafoa i. O le aso Lua na tea nei na tuu aloaia atu ai loa le pili tupe a le Senate lea ua pasia i luma o le alii kovana mo le sainia, ae o le taeao ananafi na pasia ai e le maota maualuga i lona faitauga faatolu le pili tupe a le maota o sui, lea foi e tutusa ma le pili ua tuuina atu i le alii kovana, e faasoasoa atu ai le $60 miliona mo le paketi a le ASPA mo le isi 6 masina. Feso ota i mai i le tusitala ia ausage@samoanews.com O se va aiga i nisi o au uso sa maimoaina le Tuiga ma le latou ulua i fa asalalauga o le latou vaega 2 i le Maliu Mai i le afiafi o le aso Lua. Matagofie fo i lea taumafaiga. Theresa Tulili Samuelu & Monica Yandall o Leone. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost]

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O le ali i o e 50 ona tausaga, na maua atu i le aso Faraile i le Steven Rawlings e faia oga o ia i le mata upu fale i Southmoor, o le fale lea o lana uo mamae o le Physics i le St Peters College i Oxford, ma o Dr. Devinder Sivia. O Dr. Sivia, e 49 ona o ia lea na o o atu le ta avale a le falema i ua tausaga, ua taofia nei ona o lo ua masalomia o ia maliu e tusa ai ma le fanoga na vala auina e i na fa ao oina le oti i lana uo Polofesa lea o Rawlings. Ua tatalaina nei i tua Sivia ina ua mae a Ua fa ailoa mai e le vaega o Leoleo Su esu e latou sa i ai i lea fale na maliu ai lea ali i. totogia le tupe fa atulaga e tatala ai i tua se ia mai le a ai o Thames Valley e fa apea, e le o o i le amataga o lona iloiloga ia Aperila, o mafai lava ona maua se afuga o le maliu Ua fa aalia e le aiga o Sivia, e le o i ai so latou fa afuase i o Rawlings, peita i, o lo o fa aauau masalosaloga sa misa pe fete ena i ni manatu o pea lava sa iliga i le afuaga o lona maliu ma e nei ali i faia oga e to alua, aua e mamae lava le fa ailoa mulimuli mai lava. la ua fa auoga, e i ai fo i se la ua tusi ua mae a O lo o va ava ai uma lava i mea na tutupu fa atauina atu sa la ua tusia fa atasi. i lea fale i le vaitaimi tonu na maliu ai le ali i Ua fa aalia e le vaega o leoleo, o lenei faia oga, ma ua fa ailoa mai e le vaega o leoleo mata upu e tauau lava e le o o i se fa amasinoga, su esu e, ua matua tele lava fo i fa amaumauga se ia vagana ua o o mai le lipoti a le au su esu e o fa amatalaga ua mae a fa amau e mafai ona i tino maliu, pe mata e alia i mai ai ni isi masalosaloga sa fasia tuga le ali i maliu, pe mata o se ali i faia oga. Ua matua mautinoa lava e leoleo iloa patino ai se mafua aga o le maliu o lea mea na tupu fa afuase i ma maliu ai o ia, e le o su esu e, o le faigauo a faia oga nei e to alua, ua se mea na faia e se tasi. silia ma le 30 tausaga, ma e le o ave esea fo i i O le va o lenei fa auoga e le masalomia ai o latou mafaufau, le mau, e le o se faigauo e le ona fa ao o e Sivia le oti i lana uo, ua va aia malamalama le tasi i le isi, ma e le o alia i fo i lava le fa anoanoa tele o Sivia ina ua maliu ni mea e ono fe ese esea i ai o la ua manatu ma Steven, peita i, ou te iloa lava e a u o se mea misa ai. Ua fa ailoa mai fo i la, ua mae a sa ilia fa afuase ia na maliu ai Steven. O se tala mai uma lava nei vala o fa amaumauga e a afia ai le lea a le faletua o Sivia e tusa ai o le masalomia o to alua lea, ae leai lava se mea matuia o iloga si ona to alua i le maliu o lana uo mamae. mai ai i la latou sa iliga. 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12 Page 12 samoa news, Thursday, February 2, 2012 GALEA I: E le o talitonu le kovana e sii totogi a le falema i O se va aiga i le nofoaga o le tama ita i o Solo ma lona auaiga Sa Ma ae i lea afiafi i le maimoaga o le Tuiga 2. Aulelei avanoa fa apenei e fa atasi ai aiga! [ata: Leua Aiono Frost] tusia Ausage Fausia LEMISIO SKELTON O le tama talavou lea o lo o tu uaia i lona fa ao olima i se tamaitiiti a oga e 7 tausaga le matua, ua poloaina e le fa amasinoga ina ia aua nei toe taumafai e fa afesootai le tamaititi po o lona aiga, a o fa atalitali lona ulua i iloiloga, i le vaiaso fou. I fa amaumauga a le fa amasinoga o lo o taua ai e fa apea, o le tamaititi na a afia, e tuaoi lona fale ma le fale o le alii o Lemisio Skelton. I le taeao ina ua usu mai le tamaitiiti e alu i le aoga, sa ia tau mai i le telefoni feavea i a Skelton o lo o ta atia i luga o se nofoa, o lea na ia pikiina ai le telefoni ma alu ma ia i le aoga. Na aga i atu Skelton i le falea oga ma ia su esu eina le tamaititi e uiga i lana telefoni. Sa fai i ai le tamaititi, ua uma ona ia tu uina i le faiaoga. O le taimi lea na po ai e Skelton le gutu o lenei alualutoto ma tago atu ua u u lona ua, e pei ona tu ua ia ai o ia e le malo. O lo o tumau pea poloaiga a le faamasinoga o loo tatala ai le ua molia i tua e faatali ai lana uluai iloiloga lea ua faatulaga mo le masina lenei. LT. STEVEN CASKEY O le aso 14 o Fepuari lea ua toe tolopo i ai le iloiloga a le Fa amasinoga Fa aitumalo, i le mataupu a le alii o lo o fa auluulu i ai le Ofisa o le Coast Guard i Pago Pago, susuga Lt. Steven Caskey, ina ua talia e le fa amasinoga le talosaga a lana loia o Donna Clement mo se taimi sei fa aauau ai talanoaga ma le malo. O Lt. Caskey o lo o tuuaia i le ave ta avale ona ma le faatamala, i se fa alavelave na tulai mai i le masina na te a nei, lea na i u ina loka ai i le po Pili tupe mo le LBJ Mai itulau 1 O le agaga o le maota o sui, e pei ona saunoa le Sui Fofoga Fetalai, e le tatau ona aveese mai e le Fono le vaega tupe mai totonu o teugatupe a le malo, ona o loo i ai foi galuega ua uma ona fuafua e faatupe ai. O ai la e fai ma ia tupe nei pe afai ae uma ona toe totogi i totonu le nonogatupe lea ua finagalo i ai le maotao sui, o le fesili lea a le alii peresetene ina ua talatalanoa le Senate e uiga i suiga i le taeao ananafi, ma latou teena ai loa suiga. Na faamanino e Gaoteote Palaie Tofau i afioga i Senatoa e faapea, o le teugatupe lea o loo fuafua e faatupe mai ai le $3 miliona lea, e silia ma le $4 miliona le tupe o loo i ai i totonu, peitai, talu mai le masina o Aperila 2011, e na o le $283,000 le tupe na aveese mai ai ma faaaoga, ae o loo tupu pea le teugatupe i le $100,000 i le masina. O lea ua vavao tatou i lenei mataupu ma suiga, ae o le falema i ua matua manaomia lava se tupe mo ana tautua, o le saunoaga lea a le alii peresetene, ma ia fautuaina ai le maota ina ia faaali o latou finagalo e uiga i le mataupu lea. lava lea, ina ua musu e saini lana pepa sala mai le leoleo na suesueina lana mataupu. O lo o tumau pea poloaiga o lo o tatala ai Lt. Caskey i tua e fa atali ai le aso lea ua tolopo i ai lana iloiloga. TOLOPO ULUA I ILOILOGA A LE ALII LEOLEO O le alii leoleo lea o loo tu uaia i lona tau faamata uina o lona to alua i le tausaga na tea nei, ua toe tolopo le faaauauina o lana ulua i iloiloga i le aso Lua o le vaiaso nei, i le mae a ai lea ona talia e le faamasinoga o se talosaga mai lana loia. Na faailoa e le alii loia ia Fiti Sunia lea o loo tulai mo le alii leoleo lenei, o le vaiaso nei na faatoa ia taulimaina ai le ripoti a leoleo, ma e manaomia se isi taimi sei o la iloilo ma fetufaai ai ma le alii leoleo e uiga i le ripoti, a o le i tu uina atu nisi faafinauga i le faamasinoga. O loo tumua pea le teena e le alii leoleo o tuuaiga faasaga ia te ia, ona o se faalavelave na tulai mai i le tausaga na te a nei, lea o loo tuuaia ai o ia i lona faamata uina lea o lona to alua e ala i lona fanaina o ia, ina ua fesiligia e le fafine o ia pe sa tago i lana pepa tala tupe (ATM card) sa i totonu o le ta avale. Na taua e le fafine i leoleo, ina ua toe fo i atu i le mea sa paka ai le taavale, ua leai lana card mai totonu o lana ato sa i totonu o le ta avale. Fai mai le tina, o loo i ai le isi ki faaleoleo o le la taavale i le ua molia. O loo tumau pea poloaiga o loo tatala ai i tua le alii leoleo e faatali ai le isi ana iloiloga lea ua faatulaga e le faamasinoga. I faamaumauga a le faamasinoga o loo taua ai, e le o se taimi muamua lea ua faia ai e le alii leoleo lea amioga nei faasaga i lona toalua. O Senatoa Velega Savali Jr lava na muamua faaali lona finagalo ina ia teena uma suiga a le maota o sui, ma ia faatuina ai loa le mau ina ia palota le maota e teena suiga, ma faalua ai e Senatoa Galea i Tuufuli. Saunoa Velega, e le toe talitonu lava lona sui Senatoa i upu ia o le loan (nonogatupe) ma le general fund (teugatupe lautele). E le gata i le anoanoa i o nonogatupe a le malo o loo i ai, ae ua oo lava foi i tupe mai totonu o teugatupe lautele a le malo ua faaaoga e aunoa ma le silafia e le Fono, o le mea lana ou te le toe talitonu ai a u i upu ia e lua, o le saunoaga lea a Velega. O isi Senatoa na faaleo o latou finagalo e lagolagoina ai le faamoemoe o Fonoti Aufata, Mauga Asuega, Galeai, Fuata I atala ma Tulifua Tini Lam Yuen. Saunoa Tulifua e faapea, e ui i le faanoanoa o le fono ona o lea foi o le a toe faaopoopo le isi 2% ma avea ai o se avega mo le atunuu, peitai ua mafua ona faia e le Fono lea tulaga, e le faatinoina e le malo lana vaega, o le totogi atu lea o tupe i le falemai. Na faaiu felafolafoaiga a le senate ina ua siilima uma afioga i Senatoa e pasia le mau e teena ai suiga a le maota o sui. tusia Ausage Fausia Na manino i le saunoaga a le afioga i le alii Senatoa ia Galea i Tu ufuli, o ia foi o le taitaifono o le komiti o le Soifua Maloloina/LBJ i le taimi o folafolaga a le Senate ananafi e faapea, e foliga mai e le o talitonu le kovana ma le malo, e moni le faafitauli lea o loo fetaia i ma le falema i i le taimi nei. Saunoa Galea i, ua mafua ona ia taua lea tulaga, ona e le o atagia mai le i ai o ni gaioiga a le malo o faia e saili ai se tupe e foia ai le faafitauli o loo tulai mai i le falemai, e ui o se tasi o mafuaga tele o lea faafitauli o le faatamala o le malo e totogi atu tupe mo le falemai. Sa ia taua e faapea, o ni suesuega o loo faia o loo taua ai le leai o se gaioiga a le malo o faia e saili ai se fofo o le faafitauli i le falema i, ona o loo i ai le manatu a le malo, e le tupu le fuafuaga a le falemai e sii totogi o ana tautua. O le vaiaso na tea nei na tuuina atu ai e le taitaifono o le komiti faafoe a le LBJ ia Moananu Va sana tusi i le alii kovana, e faailoa i ai le fuafuaga ua tasi moemoe i ai le falemai ma lana pulega, i le amata faamamalu lea o ana siitaga i le aso Gafua o le vaiaso fou, le aso 6 Fepuari. O kopi o lea tusi na tufatufaina atu i taitai o le fono i le alii peresetene ma le fofoga fetalai, faapea ai ma taitaifono o komiti o le Soifua Maloloina/LBJ a le Senate ma le Maota o sui. O le afioga i le alii Senatoa ia Malepeai Setu na lagaina lenei mataupu i le taeao ananafi, i le taimi o folafolaga a le maota. Sanoa Malepeai e faapea, e atagia mai i le faaaliga a le falemai lea ua faalauiloa mai, ua mafua ona latou manatu e faamamalu loa a latou siitaga ona e le o faia ni galuega a le Fono e saili ai se fofo o le faafitauli. E tatau ona onosa i le falema i i se auala e foia ai lea faafitauli, o lea o loo galulue le fono e le o malolo, i le tau sailiina lea o se tupe e tali atu ai i le latou manaoga, o le saunoaga lea a le alii Senatoa ia Malepeai. E sili atu ona pagatia le atunuu pe afai ae faamamalu siitaga a le falemai i le vaiaso fou, ma o se tasi lena o popolega ia te a u, ina ne i avea le le gafatia e le atunuu o le totogi o tautua a le falema i ma itu o le a toe foi atu ai i o latou aiga e ui o loo manaomia se fesoasoani mai foma i, o le saunoaga lea a Malepeai. I le tusi a Moananu ia Togiola Tulafono i le vaiaso na tea nei, o loo manino mai ai lona faafetaia o le fono e tusa ai o pili tupe ua latou faauluina, atoa ai ma iloiloga o loo faagasolo, mo le fesiligiaina lea o pili tupe ia ua faamoemoe e tuu atu mo le falema i, peitai na saunoa Moananu, o lea ua silia i le 60 aso talu ona maea talanoaga sa faia ma le kovana ma taitai o le fono e uiga i se fesoasoani, ae o lea lava e le i vaaia se tupe e pei ona latou malilie i ai. Saunoa Galea i, e le faitioina foi e ia le faaiuga lea ua faia a le falemai e amata faamamalu ai a latou siitaga i le vaiaso fou, ona o lona popolega o loo i ai, ina ne i faatalitali le falema i i se tupe, ae emo ane le ata ua le mafai ai ona totogi tagata faigaluega ma faatino isi ana fuafuaga. Fai mai Moananu i lana tusi, afai e faaauau pea le tulaga o loo i ai le falemai, e ono le mafai ona totogi ana tagata faigaluega poo pisinisi o loo aitalafu ai, pe a oo atu i le aso 22 Fepuari. O lea ua sauni le falemai e sii totogi o ana tautua, ae o lenei lava e vavao le fono i pili tupe ua pasia poo ai suiga e tatau ona faia. Feso ota i mai i le tusitala ia ausage@samoanews.com NOTICE FOR SEPARATION AGREEMENT TO Members of the TAAMU Family and to all whom these present may come! NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ESETA LAULU 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 TUASIVI allegedly belonging to TAAMU FAMILY of the village of FAGATOGO. Said land TUASIVI 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: JANUARY 25, 2012 thru FEBRUARY 24, 2012 SIGNED: Samuel B. White, Territorial Registrar FA AALIGA O LE FEAGAIGA MO SE TU U ESEINA I tagata o le aiga sa TAAMU, ma i latou uma e silasila ma lauiloaina lenei fa aaliga! O le fa aaliga lenei ona o ESETA LAULU 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 atui na i luga o le fanua o TUASIVI e fa asino i le aiga sa TAAMU 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 ies e 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. 02/02 & 02/16/12

13 Vaega 105: E laualo e tasi, ae loto ese ese Ua taoto nei le finagalo autasi o le aiga ina ia sauni le tama a Tagiilima e nofo i le suafa matai o lo latou aiga, ae se i vagana ai le manatu e to atasi o le lo omatua o Faiane, lea sa ia le taliaina le manatu o Tagiilima e tusa ai ma le mataupu na folasia i luma o le aiga. I le taeao na soso o ai, na fa ate ia le aiga o Tagiilima ina ua afe ane le loli i luma o le fale lea o lo o i ai nisi vaega o le aiga i le taeao. Na iloa mai e tagata o le aiga o Tagiilima le uta tele o lo o alu atu ma le loli, o lo o i ai pusa apa pilikaki, o paelo, o pusa masi ma le tele o isi mea na i ai. Ua tau fai autilo mai nei i ai le agia o Tagiilima lea ua fa atasitasi nei i le fale o Lolesio, po o le a lenei loli ua afe ane. Na tu a e nei i luga Tomasi ma savali ane i lona fia iloa po o le a le mafua aga ua afe atu ai le loli, pe ai ua sese le fale, pe o tau su e fo i se aiga e onaina le uta lenei. Na iloa mulimuli e sa o lava, o le loli na alu atu ma le uta mai Apia mo Tagiilima ma lana tama o Loimataoapauala. Na tauvala au ane nei le toeaina o Tomasi i lona tuafafine o Tagiilima lea o lo o malolo e fa atalitali ai le malu taeao a le aiga, lea ua gao o mai i tua e tama ita i ma taulele a o le aiga. Ua nofo a e nei i luga Tagiilima na ta oto oto ma talatalanoa ma nisi tina o le aiga ma tau autilo mai i fafo i le vala au atu a lona tuagane o Tomasi. Na savali ane nei Tomasi ma tu u ane le tusi na o atu ma tama, a e ua amata ona la u mai i lalo le uta. Ua le mautonu le lo omatua po o ai na alu atu ai le uta tele lenei, ona e leai se tala e fa apea e alu atu se uta i tua, e le i logoina fo i Lameko ina ia fai se tulaga fa apea. Oi ta fefe e leai se tala na fai, ae po o a nei mea ua au mai, o lona uiga o tupe o le fa atoaga lenei ua sau ai le vaega lenei, se na o mea gau lava nei mea, ua le gau mitimiti, ae ua matua i gau a ano. Ua alu nei le talie a Analosa ma nisi o tina na talatalanoa ma Tagiilima i totonu o le fale. Ua tatala e le lo omatua le tusi ma na iloa ai, o le tusi na avatu i a Lameko ma lana fanau tama i Apia, o lea ua tuli atu ma tama o le au faigaluega a Lameko i tua. O upu nei na tusia i le tusi a Lameko mo Tagiilima ma lona afafine o Loimataoapaula. Tagiilima po o a mai oulua ma si o u afafine o Loimata, ia o mea na ua o atu ma tama, malie lou loto ua leai se taimi avanoa ou te o o atu ai, ae o mea na e fesoasoani ia te oe i le fuafuaga a le aiga, ua e tu atu lava e alu atu, ua e le logoa maia a u. O lea fa atoa ou maua le tusi na sau ma le tama, o le talanoaga a le aiga i le suafa matai, ae e te le i fa ailoa mai ia te a u le tulaga lea, ae ui i lea, se i e fo i mai ona ta talatalanoa ai lea, ia e iloa lelei, ua tasi si au mea se se ia te a u. Tagi, va ai mea na e fa asoasoa e oe mo si ou aiga. Ua misia lava oe i totonu o lo tatou aiga, ae maise o a u ma tama, ua leai se mea e toe lelei ina ua e alu ese atu. O le isi itu, Tagi, aua e te popole, e le o tupe o lau fa atoaga, e leai, o si a u seleni lava sa fa aputuputu, o lea ua ou manatu alofa atu ai ia te oe si o u to alua e pele i lo u loto ma lo u agaga ona ua ou iloa, o lou loto atoa o lou aiga. Alofa atu i si o u afafine o Loimata, ia va ai lelei le teine Tagi, tatou toe feiloa i i se aso lata mai, Alofa tele mo oe, tofa o Lameko. Na ona uma lava ona lau o le tusi e le i toe fa atali le lo omatua, E talofa e, i si o u to alua, leaga lava lenei tamaloa e lelei. Talofa e, i a Lameko, ua iloa lelei lava e si toeaina, o lo u loto ma lo u agaga o lo u aiga, a o lenei Upu Fou FATUA iupu? Fa aaoga i le Gagana Samoa: O lenei taumafaiga ina ia mafai ona fa aopoopo nisi upu i le tatou gagana samoa, ina ia mafai ona fa afaigofie ma fa apu upu u le taumafaiga e fa aliliu mai tala fa aperetania i le gagana samoa! Ia fa ao o mai lou lagona e ala i se tusi e fa ao o mai i le Fa atonu, po o le Imeli toasavili@yahoo.com tatou te feutaga i ai i nei galuega lelei mo i tatou uma lava! Upu: COBALT: elemeni e maua i le sami. Fa asamoa: KOPAI. Fa aaoga pea i tusitusiga le fa asamoa o i luga, ae fa aalia mai sou finagalo e talia gofie ai o tatou taofi. Fa ailoa mai, tatou feutaga i ma le fa aaloalo lava! ALOFA FA Avae ai Aiga ta te o o mai e fa apenei atu outou ua le maua ai se tonu. Ua lagona le mimita o le lo omatua ona o lea o lo o i ai uma ona tuagane ma lona aiga, a o lea ua palasi mai ma le uta tele, O lenei tamaloa e fai i ai ata faiga, ua iloa lelei lava e si toeaina o Lameko, o lo o teu pea le ie na au mai i si lo omatua o Timena, ia o lea ua toaga ai lava e teu mai le ma va fealoa i. Ua talie nisi, a o isi, ua nofo nofo ma mafaufau i uiga lelei o Lameko, le tamaloa, a o o i fa alavelave o le aiga, e le mafai ona tu fa aletonu i mea e fai. O mafaufauga ia o tuagane o Tagiilima fa apea ma lona uso o Malia. samoa news, Thursday, February 2, 2012 Page 13 FA ASALALAUGA S uafa UTUGA I AASU Taoto ia i paga Ti a o le tautiaga, le mamalu tele ma paia o Samoa. E afua mai i le tai samasama o le Tuimanu a, se ia paia le Fafa o Sauali i, Tulou. O Samoa o le atunu u tofi, e le gafataulimaina e sa matou fa amatalaga Tulou. Ae o le a fagatonu le malama, ma vili le ifi o Maina, Ae magalo ia so matou leo, e ala i lenei fa asalaulauga. Matou te fa asilasila fa aaloalo atu ai i le paia ma le mamalu tele, o Suli ma gafa e tau i le Suafa Utuga i Aasu. Matou te taalo fa aaloalo atu ai, e fia maua sa tatou feiloaiga i Aasu, i le Laoa o Neo Togiola, Utuga i le Aso Sefulu o Mati, 2012 i le itula e 10:00 i le taeao mo se talanoaina o se mataupu taua. Aua se sailiga o se Gafa o le fale. E le o pomalae i lo outou silafia, o lo o fa alupe i le vao le Suafa o le aiga. Ae e iai le manatu maualuga tatou te feiloa i i lena aso ua tu upoina, i le soifua maua ma le lagi e mama i le pule fa asoifua a le Atua Ma le fa aaloalo tele, O Suli o Utuga, Neo Togiola ma e o nonofo i le Aiga. American Samoa Government OFFICE OF PROCUREMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) RFP No: RFP Issuance Date: January 30, 2012 Date & Time Due: February 13, 2012 No Later than 2:00pm local time The American Samoa Government (ASG) issues a Request For Proposals (RFP) from qualified firms to provide: Warehouse Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Maintenance/Repair Submission: Original and five copies of the Proposal must be submitted in a sealed envelope marked: Warehouse Refrigeration & AC Maintenance for DOE School Lunch Program. Submissions are to be sent to the following address and will be received until 2:00 p.m. (local time), Monday, February 13, 2012: Office of Procurement American Samoa Government Pago Pago, American Samoa attn: Ivy V. Taufa asau, CPO Any proposal received after the aforementioned date and time will not be accepted under any circumstances. Late submissions will not be opened or considered and will be determined as being non-responsive. Document: The RFP Scope of Work outlining the proposal requirements is available at The Office of Procurement, Tafuna, American Samoa, during normal working hours. Review: Request for Proposal data will be thoroughly reviewed by an appointed Source Evaluation Board under the auspices of the Chief Procurement Officer, Office of Procurement, ASG. Right of Rejection: The American Samoa Government reserves the right to reject any and/or all proposals and to waive any irregularities and/or informalities in the submitted proposals that are not in the best interests of the American Samoa Government or the public. IVY V. TAUFA ASAU Chief Procurement Officer

14 Page 14 samoa news, Thursday, February 2, 2012 SUMMONS AND NOTICE Case No Judge Sandra Peuler IN THE THIRD DISTRICT COURT OF SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH, I n the matter of the Adoption of DESTINY MOANALEI LEASI, a minor STATE OF UTAH TO UNKNOWN FATHER A petition concerning the above-named child is pending in this Court and an adjudication will be made that shall include termination of your parental rights. The natural mother of the child is Fofo Leasi. You are hereby summoned and required to file with the clerk of the above Court at 450 South Street, Salt Lake City, Utah ( ), a written answer to the Petitioner s attorney Duane A. Burnett, Post Office Box 27, Bountiful, Utah 84011, within thirty (30) days of the first publication fo this Notice. Your failure so to do will result in a judgement by default and permanent termination of your parental rights in and to the child. Dated this 27th day of October Duane A. Burnett, Attorney at Law (02/02/12) Talofa Video ALL MOVIES $2 NEW RELEASES: Dream House Paranormal Activities 3 Big Year Treasuer Buddies Pavaiai Nuuuli Fagatogo Aua by Joyetter Feagaimaali i-luamanu Samoa News Correspondent MATAFUA MATAIPULE A man who was allegedly caught by police selling illegal drugs will be arraigned in the High Court today. Pago Plaza security guard, Matafua Mataipule is facing charges of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance (marijuana) and unlawful possession of a controlled substance (marijuana) with intent to distribute. According to court filings the vice and narcotics officers received a tip from a Confidential Informant (CI) that the defendant had given him a marijuana joint as a sample. It s alleged that on the same day police met with the CI and retrieved the marijuana joint. According to court filings police obtained a search warrant for the defendant and the CI was contacted for another controlled buy of four marijuana joints. Police then executed the search warrant on the defendant and found five hand-rolled marijuana joints inside the pocket of his shirt, in addition police found 10 marijuana joints inside the defendant s pouch. The document alleged police confiscated 19 marijuana joints that were tested positive for marijuana. Rare earth plant Continued from page 3 facility within 10 months and make a $50 million financial guarantee with the government. The board also said the residue that is produced is the responsibility of the company and if necessary, will be returned to its source in Mount Weld, Australia. The board can evaluate Lynas compliance at the company s cost. The $230 million (700 million ringgit) plant in central Pahang state has been the subject of heated protests over health and environmental risks posed by potential leaks of radioactive waste. Malaysia s last rare earth refinery by Japan s Mitsubishi group, in northern Perak state, was closed in 1992 following protests and claims that it caused birth defects and leukemia among residents. It is one of Asia s largest radioactive The defendant waived his right to a preliminary examination in the District Court yesterday. HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS IN COURT FOR FIGHTING Four female juveniles spent the night at the Juvenile Detention Center in connection with a school fight earlier this week. All four students from Tafuna High School are charged with public peace disturbance; however the government is looking at filing additional charges, says Assistant Attorney General Terrie Bullinger. The four girls appeared before District Court Judge John Ward, yesterday. It s alleged they were involved in a fight on the school premises and within their villages for two days straight. Bullinger said two of the girls involved are on probation for previous fighting incidents. Police said one of the juveniles walked into the classroom and grabbed the victim on her head and banged it on the desk in front of the teacher. The four juveniles were released to the custody of their parents and they are due to appear in the District Court Monday. Reach the reporter at news.newsroom@samoatelco.com waste cleanup sites. Lynas says its plant is equipped with stateof-the-art pollution controls and targets to start operations in the June quarter. The Lynas plant will refine slightly radioactive ore from its Mount Weld mine. Lynas has said the radioactive element, thorium, in its raw material was 50 times lower than those in Perak. Lynas also said waste products with low levels of thorium could be converted into safe byproducts such as cement aggregate for road construction. Malaysia, which granted tax breaks and other incentives to Lynas, hopes the facility will spur growth. An International Atomic Energy Agency team last year assessed the Lynas project and told the Malaysian government that the project lacks a comprehensive long-term waste management program and a plan to dismantle the plant once it is no longer operating. NPS Terrestrial Ecologist Continued from page 8 The work does not stop with destroying the invasive species. A healthy forest is a forest more likely to resist damage from invasive species or climate change. In the past ten years, the national park crew has replanted six acres of forest within the national park with native trees. These areas had been covered with non-native species and, after clearing the disturbed land, native tree saplings, such as ifilele and asi, were planted in their place. When the trees have fully matured, a healthy forest ecosystem will be in place in about six years. You can visit these one acre plots and see the progress of the forest by hiking the Mt Alava Trail starting at Fagasa Pass. The published paper, entitled Recovery of native forest after removal of an invasive tree, Falcataria moluccana [Tamaligi], in America Samoa, describes how effective native forest restoration can be with the removal of this invasive tree. It is published in the Journal of Biological Invasions, a Springer Verlang publication. The paper s abstract reads as follows, Here, we present results concerning the effects of invasion by a non-native, N[itrogen]-fixing tree, Falcataria moluccana, on native-dominated forests of American Samoa and the response of invaded forests to its removal... Biomass of native Samoan tree species following removal of F. moluccana accumulated rapidly at which point biomass of F. moluccana-removal plots did not differ significantly from native-dominated forest plots...once F. moluccana is removed, native tree species grow rapidly, exploiting the legacy of increased available soil N[itrogen] and available sunlight... Please contact Tavita Togia at x50 for access to a full copy of the paper. (Source: National Park of American Samoa)

15 samoa news, Thursday, February 2, 2012 Page 15 NUUULI PLACE CINEMAS $ Bargain Matinees All Shows Before 6pm $ Senior Admissions All Day $ All Day For Kids $ Adults Discount Tuesdays $ ADMISSION ALL DAY TUESDAY Excludes Holidays Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez shows a ring given to her by her mother when she turned 15, during a party ahead of her 127th birthday on Feb. 2, at her home near the neighborhood of Santa Rosa in Ceiba Hueca, where she was born in the Granma region of eastern Cuba, Wednesday, Feb.1, Bautista, who is also known as Candulia, was born on Feb. 2, 1885 according to the civil registry making her possibly the oldest person in the world. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) Treasure hunter says he found $3B WWII wreck PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- A treasure the find while he and his business partners hunter said Wednesday he has located the obtained salvage rights from a federal judge. wreck of a British merchant ship that was Salvage rights are not the same as ownership torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Cod rights, which are still unsettled. during World War II while carrying what he Britain will wait until salvage operations claims was a load of platinum bars now worth begin before deciding whether to file a claim more than $3 billion. on the cargo, said Anthony Shusta, an attorney If the claim proves true, it could be one of in Tampa, Fla., who represents the British government. He said it is unclear if the ship was the richest sunken treasures ever discovered. But an attorney for the British government even carrying any platinum. expressed doubt the vessel was carrying platinum. And if it was, in fact, laden with precious vessel, he said. Our initial research indicated We re still researching what was on the metals, who owns the hoard could become a it was mostly machinery and military stores. matter of international dispute. The U.S. government has not weighed in on Treasure hunter Greg Brooks of Sub Sea the court case yet, and Brooks said he doubts Research in Gorham, Maine, announced that that will happen, since the Soviets eventually a wreck found sitting in 700 feet of water 50 reimbursed Washington for the lost payment. miles offshore is that of the S.S. Port Nicholson, sunk in that the platinum bars were on board, Brooks A U.S. Treasury Department ledger shows He said he and his crew identified it via said, and his underwater video footage shows the hull number using an underwater camera, a platinum bar surrounded by 30 boxes that he and he hopes to begin raising the treasure later believes hold four to five platinum ingots each. this month or in early March with the help of But he has yet to bring up any platinum, saying a remotely operated underwater vessel. I m his underwater vessel needs to retrofitted to going to get it, one way or another, even if I have attach lines to the boxes, which would then be to lift the ship out of the water, Brooks said. hoisted to the surface by winch. The claim should be viewed with skepticism, Of course there are skeptics, he said. said Robert F. Marx, an underwater archaeologist, maritime historian and owner of Seven Maritime law is complicated, and there There s skeptics on everything you do. Seas Search and Salvage LLC in Florida. Both could be multiple claims on the ship s contents. an American company and an English company previously went after the contents of the English warship carrying Soviet gold bullion After the sinking of the HMS Edinburgh, an ship years ago and surely retrieved at least a as a payment to the allies during World War portion, Marx said. II, England, the U.S. and the Soviet Union had The question is how much, if any, platinum claims on the sunken treasure, Marx said. A is left, he said. Every wreck that is lost is the consortium that owned the salvage vessel was richest wreck lost. Every wreck ever found is given 10 percent of the prize, while the rest was the biggest ever found. Every recovery is the shared by the other parties, he said. biggest ever recovery, Marx said. In other big finds, treasure hunter Mel Fisher Brooks said the Port Nicholson was headed made international headlines in 1985 when he for New York with 71 tons of platinum valued discovered a $450 million mother lode of precious metals and gemstones from a Spanish at the time at about $53 million when it was sunk in an attack that left six people dead. galleon that went down off Florida in The platinum was a payment from the Soviet In another case, a Tampa exploration company has been ordered by the courts to return Union to the U.S. for war supplies, Brooks said. The vessel was also carrying gold bullion $500 million worth of treasure from a Spanish and diamonds, he said. warship to Spain. 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16 Page 16 samoa news, Thursday, February 2, 2012 Senate rejects House loan Continued from page 1 Friday, February 3, 2012 Open Mon-Sat for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Open on Sunday for Super Bowl XLVI with 3 BIG Screen TV s Happy Hour Daily from 4pm-6pm Karaoke for the star in you! Open Daily 7am til Closing Sunday 11am-10pm However, amendments by the House would have this money be a loan, to be repaid with a new 2% wage tax, to be paid by all workers in the territory. Once the loan is paid off, 50% of all future revenues from the wage tax would go to the LBJ off island medical referral program and the other 50% to the ASG general fund. Gaoteote assigned the amendments to the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, whose vice chair Alo Dr. Paul Stevenson then scheduled a hearing for the committee of the whole to convene following the session. During the hearing, Gaoteote explained that reports from the government show that the Workmen s Compensation account contains $4 million and about $100,000 a month goes into this account from ASG. He also said that the Senate passed a separate bill implementing the new 2% wage tax with all revenues earmarked for LBJ operations, but not to share the revenues with ASG s coffer. He said the hospital needs cash-flow help now and that comes from the direct payment of $3 million instead of a loan. Sen. Velega Savali Jr. quickly moved to reject the House amendments, saying that he does not like this word loan which is very bad, and the government already has many loans. He said he does not trust any new revenue going into the general fund because it may end up being spent by ASG without the Fono knowing about such spending. Sen. Fonoti T. Aufata suggested giving the House a chance to explain to senators the reason for making these amendments and at the same time, the Senate can explain why it wants to keep the bill in its original form. She said the Fono should have a united stand on its final decision. Sen. Mauga T. Asuega supported the original language of the bill but at the same he also supported Fonoti s suggestion. Sen. Tulifua Tini Lam Yuen told his colleagues that the hospital needs the $3 million as soon as possible for cash infusion and this was the unanimous opinion of the Senate when it approved the measure early last month before sending it to the House for endorsement. Tulifua also said that he has serious concerns over imposing another wage tax which will reduce the take home pay of the local workforce, however the hospital is in direct financial need. At the hearing s conclusion, the committee agreed to report today to the Senate floor to reject the House amendments and the Senate maintains its stand on the original language of the bill, where the $3 million is not a loan. Reach the reporter at fili@samoanews.com C Y M K In this undated photo provided by Sandia National Laboratories, a time exposure, a light-emitting diode, or LED, attached to a self-guided bullet at Sandia National Laboratories shows a bright path during a nighttime field test. The New Mexico-based Sandia National Laboratories announced Tuesday Jan. 31, 2012 that its engineers have invented a bullet that directs itself to a target like a tiny guided missile and can hit a target more than a mile away. According to Sandia Labs engineers, the bullet twists and turns to guide itself toward a laser-directed point. Officials say it can make up to thirty corrections per second while in the air. (AP Photo/Sandia National Laboratories) Ferry sinks off Papua N. Guinea with 350 aboard PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) -- Rescuers have plucked 50 survivors from the sea off Papua New Guinea s east coast after a ferry sank Thursday with as many as 350 people on board, officials said. An airplane from Australia, three helicopters and six ships were scouring the search area after the MV Rabaul Queen went down while traveling from Kimbe on the island of New Britain to coastal town of Lae on the main island, Australian Maritime Safety Authority said in a statement. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard called the incident a major tragedy and said her country was providing assistance to its near neighbor. Given the likely very high loss of life here, I think when this news comes to the attention of Australians around the country they will be thinking about the people of PNG as they respond to this tragedy, she added. The Australian maritime agency initially detected the ferry s distress beacon and alerted the PNG Maritime Rescue Coordination Center, which is coordinating the rescue effort. The Australian statement said approximately 50 people have been rescued so far. It said 350 people were believed to be on board, but Papua New Guinea s National Maritime Safety Authority (NMSA) rescue co-ordinator Captain Nurur Rahman said the true figure was likely lower. I cannot confirm or deny the 350 missing number. It is hearsay, Rahman said. I have not seen the manifest as yet, but it is likely around 300. Rahman said he was being fed information from an NMSA agent on board one of the ships. The dynamics of this thing are changing all the time, minute by minute, he said. Ship operator Star Ships could not be immediately contacted for comment. C Y M K