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O le tofia ai o le alo tama’ita’i o le afioga a Satele Galu Satele na te paluina le ‘ava, i le taimi na faafeiloaia ai e le malo o Amerika Samoa le toai taunuu mai o au taaalo mai Hawaii, Kalefonia ma Utah i le aso Lua na te’a nei, ua fesiligia ai e le toatele o le atunuu le mafuaaga ua ala ai ona le tofia le Tausala a Amerika Samoa na te faatinoina lea matafaioi, ae ua tuu solo i isi tama’ita’i o le atunuu.
O le alo tamaitai o le Failautusi o le Ofisa o Mataupu Tau Samoa ia Jenna Salamasina Satele na gafa ma le paluina o le ‘ava i le aso Lua na te’a nei, e faafeiloaia ai le taunuu mai o au taaalo mai fafo mo le Samoa Bowl, lea sa faia i le Fale Samoa i le malae o le Su’igaula a le Atuvasa.
Na taua e le toatele o le atunuu na valaau mai i le Samoa News e faapea, e le afaina le filifilia o le alo tamaitai o le afioga i le Alo o Salamasina na te faatinoina le galuega, pe ana faapea e le o nofoia le nofoa o le Tausala a Amerika Samoa, ae talu ai o lo o i ai le ua faapaleina e avea ma Tausala o le atunuu, e tali-tonu la i latou, o le matafaioi tali-tonu lena a le Tausala a Amerika Samoa e tatau ona fai i soo se faagaioiga a le malo na mafua ai ona faapale o ia e avea ma Tausala o le atunuu.
Na faamanino e le Faatonusili o le Ofisa o Faatoaga ia Leala M. Purcell, o ia fo’i o se totino o le Komiti o le Samoa Bowl i le Samoa News e faapea, e le o le Komiti a le Samoa Bowl e tatau ona tuuaia e le atunuu i le mataupu lenei, ona o le polokalame mo le paluina o le ‘ava sa tuuina atu lea i le Ofisa o Mataupu Tau Samoa.
“Na pau le matou vaega na fai o le talosagaina lea o le afioga Satele ma le latou ofisa, ina ia fesoasoani mai ia te i matou i le paluina o le ‘ava, ina ia mafai ai ona vaavaai fanau aoga o lo o malaga mai i au taaalo mai fafo i le auala e faatino ai le ‘ava pe a feiloa’i Samoa, e le o se faaletonu la o le Komiti a le Samoa Bowl ae tatau ona fesiligia le afioga Satele,” o le saunoaga lea a Lealao i le Samoa News.
E le i manuia taumafaiga a le Samoa News i le sailiina lea o se finagalo o le afioga Satele e uiga i lenei mataupu.
Ina ua vili atu i lana telefoni feavea’i ananafi, ae na faailoa mai e lona faletua o Satele o lo o faigaluega ae ua galo lana telefoni i le fale, ae ina ua faafesoota’i atu lona Ofisa ananafi, sa faailoa mai e lana failautusi, o Satele o lo o fai lana fono ae mafai ona toe valaau mai i se taimi o le aoauli.
E lomia lava lenei ripoti e le’i toe fesootai mai le afioga Satele e tusa ai o le saunoaga a lana failautusi, sa taumafai fo’i le Samoa News e vili lana telefoni feavea’i i le aoauli ananafi ae leai se isi na taliina mai le telefoni.
Na taua e se tasi o tina i le Samoa News e faapea, na tupu muamua fo’i le faaletonu lenei i tausaga ua mavae a’o avea le tama’ita’i o Skyline Nua ma Tausala o Amerika Samoa, ina ua aami e se tasi o sui o le Ofisa o Mataupu Tau Samoa lona afafine e palu le ‘ava i se feiloaiga a le malo sa faia, ae o lo o nofo le Tausala o Amerika Samoa o lana matafaioi tonu lea e tatau ona fai.
“Na toe tupu fo’i i le tausaga na te’a nei ina ua aami e le Ofisa o Mataupu Tau Samoa le isi tamaita’i na te paluina le ‘ava i se sauniga a le malo sa faia ae nofonofo lava le tatou Tausala o Amerika Samoa e le valaauliaina, ma ua tula’i mai ai se fesili i lo’u mafaufau, o fea o i ai le Tausala o Amerika Samoa ua mafua ai ona aami solo mai nei tamaitai latou te paluina le ‘ava,
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E ui e toatele ni isi o le atunuu ua latou faaalia i le Samoa News lo latou faasea ona o le faaiuga ua faia e faaitiitia ai tupe mo a latou Food Stamp o lo o maua i masina taitasi, peitai na faaalia e le Faatonusili o le Matagaluega o Auaunaga ma Tautua Lautele a le malo (DHSS), e leai se isi gaioiga e mafai e lona Ofisa ona faia ina ia taofia ai le tupe ua faaitiitia, ona e pule mai lava le malo tele i le faatautaiga o le polokalame.
Na taua e ni isi o tama ma tina matutua na valaau mai i le Samoa News e faapea, afai sa mafai e le alii kovana ma le faigamalo ona fesoasoani e faaopoopo tupe i pepa ai (food voucher) a tagata matutua i le Ofisa o le TAOA, aisea fo’i la ua le mafai ai ona maua se fesoa-soani mo lenei faafitauli.
“Fai mai fo’i e faamuamua tagata a’o lenei ua leai se fesoasoani e maua mo le atunuu ma latou food stamp,” o le tomumu lea a le isi tama matua e le’i finagalo e faailoa lona suafa i luga o le Samoa News.
Na taua e le isi tootoo i le Samoa News e faapea, e foliga mai e le o finau le malo o Amerika Samoa e saili se isi auala e faatumua ai
pea faamanuiaga tau tupe nei mo tagata matutua ma tagata mama’i, ae soo se taimi lava e fai mai ai le malo tele o le a faaitiitia tupe o le poloka-lame, e talia lava e le malo e aunoa ma se toe talosaga atu i ai.
Na taua e le tofa a Taeaoafua Dr. Meki Solo-mona i le Samoa News ananafi e faapea, e tatau ona silafia e le atunuu, o le polokalame lenei e 100% o lo o faatupe mai e le malo feterale, lona uiga foi e leai lava se isi gaioiga e mafai e le malo o Amerika Samoa po o lana matagaluega ona toe fai i ai ina ia suia ai faaiuga ua aumai e le malo feterale.
“E leai lava sa tatou faaiuga e mafai ona fai ai ai, o le faaiuga lava e aumai i fafo o le faaiuga lava lena tatou te mulimuli ma usita’i i ai,” o le saunoaga lea a Taeaoafua.
“Aisea tatou te le faafetai ai i le Atua ona o lea o lo o maua pea lenei polokalame e fesoao-sani ai i nai o tatou aiga, ae silia i fo’i i lo lena, tatou faafetai i le Atua o lea e faaitiitia le polo-kalame ae le o faapea mai le malo tele e faauma loa ua le toe i ai se tatou,” o le saunoaga lea a Taeaoafua.
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O le aso 27 Tesema 2013 na fa’atumulia ai le Malae o le Talu i le to’atele o i latou sa moli-mauina le fa’apa’iaga o le fa’anofonofo le afioga le Toeali’i Mailo Ioane ma le faletua o Talita i le sauniga mamalu sa fa’atautaia lea i le Malumalu Ekalesia Kerisiano i Amerika Samoa, Fagatogo lava i le itula e 3:00 i le afiafi.
O le susuga le Fa’afeagaiga taulagi i le afio’aga, Rev. Iasepi Ulu sa ia ta’ita’ia lea sauniga mamalu, peita’i, ina ua o’o i le taimi o le fa’apa’iaga o le fa’anofonofo ma le faletua, sa ia vala’auina le pa’ia lasilasi o ositaulaga uma sa latou fa’atasi i le sauniga pa’ia, ina ia auai ma ia mo lea vaega taua o le sauniga i le malumalu, “Ki o le Malo o le Lagi.”
O le tele o fa’aaloaloga ma le ‘aiga mama ole afiafi, sa pa’au i ai aiga i ona itu tetele ma ona itu taulagi sa fa’atautaia lea i le Maota o le Malo i le Malae o le Talu, ma ua avea lava lea ma Maota i Fanuatanu, e fa’asino i le afioga le Toeali’i ma Aiga.
Na afifio fa’atasi i ai pa’ia o le itumalo fa’apea le afio’aga i lea fa’atasiga fa’apea ma le pa’ia o le aufaigaluega a le Atua i so’o se fata faitaulaga i le afio’aga o Fagatogo, ma sa mafuli fo’i aiga i fa’aaloaloga masani ina ua mae’a le taumafataga matagofie ma fa’ai’u ai le afiafi a tamali’i i le ulua’i aso o le fa’amoemoe.
Peita’i, ina ua toe malama taeao, sa ala usu aiga e tapenapenaga o le ava o le feiloaiga o le itumalo, Samoa ua atoa ma le afio’aga i Malaeoletalu ina ia fa’aofi le afioga le Toeali’i i lona nofoa i le itumalo ma lona afio’aga.
O a’ao i afioga i le Aloali’i, le susuga le Tupufia Faumuina Tagisiaali’i, ma nisi o le vasega o Tamali’i o le Fagaloa sa latou fa’ae’e a’ao ina ia fa’apa’ia fa’ale-aganu’u le afioga le Toeali’,i ona tapa ipu ai lea o ia i lona itumalo ma Samoa na auva’a potopoto e molimauina lea aso atofa mo lona o’o i le itumalo.
by Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu, Samoa News Reporter
The Attorney General’s office has charged two men, alleging they stole a vehicle’s computer in March, 2013. Maluaifonua Mamatuki and Tevita Tenefufu are each charged with felony stealing. According to the government’s case, on March 25, 2013 police visited the CBT Hardware in Tafuna doing follow up investigation regarding a stealing case. It’s alleged the owners of the vehicle told police the computer to their Chevy truck that was parked at the shop (CBT Hardware) had been removed. CBT provided the video footage to the police.
The incident came to light when the mechanic who was working on the vehicle couldn’t start it, and discovered the computer to the engine was missing.
Court filings say that the mechanic spoke to two Filipino men who were also working on the car regarding the whereabouts of the vehicle computer, however the two men said they were not aware of the computer.
According to the government’s case, when the police were viewing the video footage, one of the CBT employees recognized Mamatuki, who worked at a wholesale store nearby.
Police visited Mamatuki who allegedly admitted to police that he was with Tenefufu when Tenefufu unplugged the vehicle’s computer and handed to him. It’s alleged Tenefufu said he was looking at the truck that was for sale and saw it was a Chevy truck. It’s further alleged he then went to the truck, unplugged the computer and gave it to Mamatuki.
Tenefufu informed police that he would return the vehicle computer to the owner, which he did. The pair are represented by the Public Defender’s office in this case.
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O alii e to’alua lea o lo o masalomia na la ave faagaoi se totoga o se taavale sa paka i tua o le faleoloa o le CBT i Nuuuli i le masina o Mati 2013, ua molia nei e le malo i le moliaga o le gaoi, ina ua maua gaioiga uma sa laua faia i totonu o se masini pu’e ata a le CBT, lea na tuuina atu i leoleo mo le suesueina o lenei mataupu.
O i laua ua molia e aofia ai Tevita Tenefufu ma Maluifonua Mamatuki.
I faamaumauga a le faamasinoga a le faama-sinoga o lo o taua ai e faapea, o le mataupu lenei na tofu atu i le Vaega o Leoleo Suesue a le Ofisa o Leoleo i le aso 25 Mati 2013, mo le toe faaau-auina o le suesueina o le mataupu lea na ave faagaoi ai e se tagata se computer o se taavale pikiapu le ituaiga o le Chevy, lea sa paka i tua o le fale inisinia a le CBT i Nuuuli, ma tofia ai loa le alii leoleo suesue ia Det. Siliaivao Sea mo le faaauauina o le suesueina o lenei mataupu.
Na taua e se sui o le faleoloa o le CBT i leoleo e faapea, o le amataga o le masina o Mati 2013 na malolo livi ai le alii inisinia o lo o galue i le fale inisinia o lo o i tua o le CBT, ae o lo o atoatoa uma totoga o taavale sa paka ai i tua o le fale inisinia, ae ina ua toe a’e mai le malologa a le alii inisinia i le aso 25 Mati 2013, sa ia faailoa ai i lona pule ua leai se computer o le pikiapu Chevy o lo o paka ai i tua o le fale inisinia.
Na taua e le alii inisinia i leoleo e faapea, ao le’i alu e malolo i le aso 16 Mati 2013, sa i ai lava le computer o le pikiapu chevy i totonu o le taavale, sa mafai foi ona faaola le taavale, ae ina ua toe fo’i atu lana malologa i le aso 24 Mati 2013, sa ia iloaina ai ua aveese e le tagata le computer o le pikiapu chevy, ua le mafai foi ona toe faaola le chevy.
Na fesiligia e le alii inisinia lea isi alii ini-sinia e toalua sa galulue ai i le fale iniini-sinia i le taimi na malolo ai i le latou kamupani, pe la te le’i vaai i le computer o lo o tau saili, ae poo ai foi se isi o i latoua o lo o i ai ni faamatalaga e faatatau i le computer o le pikapu chevy o lo o tau supe, ae na faailoa i ai e alii inisinia ia e toalua, la te le iloaina se computer o se taavale.
A’o taumafai leoleo e saili se faamatalaga e uiga i lenei mataupu, sa mafai ona tuuina atu e le kamupani a le CBT se ata sa pueina e se tasi o a latou masini pueata i fafo ma tua o le kamu-pani, lea o lo o vaaia ai ni tagata o feofeoa’i solo i totonu o le lotoa.
Na faailoa e se alii e faigaluega i le CBT, o se tasi o alii o lo o ia vaaia i totonu o le ata sa pueina e le masini pueata, o le tagata e igoa ia Tene, ma e faigaluega o ia i le kamupani a le Panamex Wholesale Company i Nuuuli.
Na taunuu leoleo i le kamupani a le Panamex Pacific Company i Nuuuli ma latou talanoa loa i
se tasi o tagata faigaluega, (lea na mulimuli ane iloa lona igoa o Mamatuki) ma fesili i ai pe maua atu ia Tene, ae na faailoa i ai e le tagata faigaluega lea, o Tene e le’i leva ona manava ua alu i le fale.
Ae ina ua fesiligia e leoleo ia Mamatuki pe na te silafia le mataupu e faatatau i le computer o se pikiapu chevy lea na gaoia mai i tua o le fale inisinia a le CBT i Nuuuli, na tali ai le ua molia ioe, o laua ma le alii o Tenefufu na toalua i le taimi na faatino ai le solitulafono.
Na taua e Mamatuki i leoleo e faapea, i le aso 21 Mati 2013, na la o ai ma Tenefutu i le CBT, ma la agai atu ai loa i le fale inisinia o lo o i le pito i tua o le faleoloa, ma la matamata ai i se taavale pikiapu o lo o paka ai i luma.
Ao la i ai i tua i le fale inisinia, sa ia vaaia Tenefufu o savali agai atu i le pito o lo o paka mai ai le pikiapu chevy.
Ina ua fesiligia e leoleo ia Mamatuki pe sa ia iloaina gaioiga a Tenefufu na faia i le taimi lea, na tali le ua molia na te lei iloaina poo a gaioiga a Tenefufu sa faia, na te le i vaai foi o tatala e Tenefufu se computer o se pikiapu, na pau le tala a Mamatuki na fai i leoleo, ina ua uma ona aveese mai e Tenefutu le computer o le taavale, sa alu atu ma tuu atu ia te ia faatasi ai ma lana faaupuga e tuu le computer i totonu o le taavale lea na la o atu ai.
Ina ua fesiligia e leoleo ia Tenefufu, sa ia ioeina ai lo la o ma Mamatuki i le fale inisinia i tua o le CBT, ma ia vaaia ai se pikiapu chevy o lo o paka ai i luma o le faleoloa, sa ia vaaia foi se computer o le pikiapu o lo o i ai i totonu o le taavale, ona ia tago atu loa lea ua tatala ese mai le computer o le taavale mai le vaega o le afi sa pipii ai ae alu ma ia i le la taavale ma Mamatuki.
O le aso 25 Mati 2013 na agai atu ai leoleo ma toe aumai le computer o le taavale pikiapu na ave e Tenefufu ma teu i lo latou fale, ma ua toe faafoi atu i le kamupani a le CBT, ma ina ua fesi-ligia le faleoloa o le CBT e uiga i le computer, sa latou faamaonia i luma o leoleo, o le computer lea o le latou chevy sa ave faagaoi e se tagata.
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TO Members of the FONOTI Family and to all whom these present may come! NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that LEVI LEVI, MAFUTAGA LEVI & HELEN LEVI of TAFUNA 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 ALATUTU’I, allegedly belonging to FONOTI FAMILY of the village of TAFUNA. Said land ALATUTU’I, is situated in or near the village of TAFUNA in the County of TUALAUTA, 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: DECEMBER 16, 2013 thru JANUARY 15, 2014 SIGNED: Taito S.B. White, Territorial Registrar
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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 Samo a i Fagatogo, sana fa’atu’ese tusitusia. O fa’atu’iesega uma lava e ao ona fa’aulufaleina mai i toton u o aso e 30 faitauina mai i le aso na faíaalia ai lenei fa’aaliga.
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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 Samo a i Fagatogo, sana fa’atu’ese tusitusia. O fa’atu’iesega uma lava e ao ona fa’aulufaleina mai i toton u 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. 12/28/13 & 01/11/14
A team of cardiac pediatricians and technical support staff visited the territory recently from Oregon Health Sciences University to conduct research and evaluate the prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease in the territory. A novel screening program directed by Dr. Jen Huang (foreground, front row) screened over 200 high school students and identified about 30 with silent rheumatic fever that had begun to affect their heart. The program was begun due to the efforts of LBJ pediatri-cian Dr. Beth Parker (not shown) who solicited support from colleagues, LBJ, Dept. of Health, and off-island groups such as OHSU staff to tackle the problem of RHD among the youth here. [photo: tlh]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A 9-year-old boy from Southern California has become the youngest person in recorded history to reach the summit of Argentina’s Aconcagua mountain, which at 22,841 feet (6,962 meters) is the tallest peak in the Western and Southern hemispheres.
Tyler Armstrong of Yorba Linda reached the summit on Christmas Eve with his father Kevin and a Tibetan sherpa, Lhawang Dhondup, who has climbed Mt. Everest multiple times. They were in fine spirits Friday as they left Acon-cagua, whose sheer precipices and bitter cold have claimed more than 100 climbers’ lives.
“You can really see the world’s atmosphere up there. All the clouds are under you, and it’s really cold,” Tyler said, describing the summit to The Associated Press. “It doesn’t look any-thing like a kid’s drawing of a mountain. It’s probably as big as a house at the summit, and then it’s a sheer drop.”
Only 30 percent of the 7,000 people who obtain permits to climb Aconcagua each year make the summit, said Nicolas Garcia, who han-dled their logistics from down below. No one under 14 is usually allowed, so the family had to persuade an Argentine judge that Tyler could safely accomplish the feat. In their case, they took the “Polish Glacier” route, which doesn’t require climbing, and roped themselves together only when crossing steep ice-covered slopes.
“Any kid can really do this, all they have to do is try. And set their mind to the goal,” said Tyler, who worked out twice a day for a year and a half to prepare for the climb. He also held fundraisers, not only to defray the cost but to raise money for CureDuchenne, which funds muscular dystrophy research.
“I think Tyler’s record speaks for itself and because I think he’s doing it for a good cause, he’s doing it to help other people, I think the judge recognized that,” said his father, an emer-gency medical technician. Tyler’s mother is a pediatric neuropsychologist, and they also have another son, Tyler’s younger brother Dylan.
“Most people think we as parents are pushing Tyler to do this, when it’s completely the opposite. I wouldn’t climb it if I didn’t have to, but my wife makes me do it to keep watch on him,” he said.
“He’s a great dad,” Tyler said. “At 20,000 feet, he wanted to turn around but I kept him going. And the day we were getting off the mountain, he had a blister and it popped ... He
made it to the summit and everything but that dang blister made him ride a mule.”
Aconcagua’s previous record-holder was Matthew Moniz of Boulder, Colorado, who was 10 when he reached the summit in 2008.
There was one younger boy who climbed the lower slopes of Aconcagua, Garcia noted: An Inca boy was sacrificed some 500 years ago at 16,400 feet (5,300 meters) on Piramide, one of the mountain’s lower peaks. Scientific tests on the mummy, recovered in 1985, put his age at about 7.
Tyler had already climbed the 19,341-foot (5,895-meter) Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania at the age of 8, and with Aconcagua conquered, is determined to reach all “seven summits,” the highest mountains on each of the seven continents.
Luckily for Kevin Armstrong, who also coaches his kids in soccer, his younger son pre-fers a more earthly sport.
“I was not a climber. He got me doing this because he wanted to, and I wanted to experi-ence it with him,” Armstrong said.
Financially, these mountaineering expedi-tions have been difficult, Armstrong said.
“My wife and I have just kind of scraped everything we can together and put off family vacations and everything else so that Tyler can do this,” he said. “I’ve had to charge half of this on my credit card. But he did what he needed to do, so I felt I needed to support him.”
Asked to describe his most memorable moment of the climb, Tyler didn’t hesitate: “Seeing my dad reach the summit.”
“Tyler is a really happy kid, very open. And he’s prepared for these climbs very carefully,” Garcia said. “Neither he nor his father are in for ‘adventure.’ Their project is pretty conservative, with a guide who is very experienced, so from my perspective, their climb wasn’t imprudent.”
His mother Priscilla Armstrong, back home in Southern California, was apparently worried nonetheless.
“Didn’t sleep a wink thinking about you honey. Praying for you guys! Good luck and can’t wait to hear from you!” she posted on his Facebook page while they were climbing down.
Next on Tyler’s list is Mt. McKinley in Alaska, North America’s tallest peak.
“I do want to be the youngest for that, but we don’t have the money,” Tyler said. “If we get a sponsor, we can do it. If not, we can’t, because we’re broke.”
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Tyler Armstrong, from Southern California, poses for a portrait as he arrives to a hotel in Mendoza, Argentina, Friday, Dec. 27, 2013. The 9-year-old boy from has become the youngest person in recorded history to reach the summit of Argentina’s Aconcagua mountain, the tallest peak in the Western and Southern hemispheres. (AP Photo/Claudio Gutierrez)
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Based on all the commentary and recollections since his death, apparently I am one of the few people on Earth who never personally met Nelson Mandela. I could only admire from afar his superhuman magnanimity and willingness to bond with those who so brutalized him. But since I do the occasional guest shot on MSNBC, I obviously have met Al Sharpton and Chris Matthews. Although we don’t agree on everything, I emphatically embrace the thoughts that Sharpton expressed, seconded by Matthews, that the GOP politicians in the United States “don’t care if the country suffers.”
The Republicans, being the hand puppets of those who prosper from the growing gap between the have-nots and the have-nearly-everythings, foster a type of economic apartheid in our country. As a result, their principles fall short of those in South Africa who finally were willing to surrender power to the moral force of Nelson Mandela and abandon their country’s vicious system of apartheid.
The dictionary defines apartheid as “any system that sepa-rates people according to race, caste, etc.” In the United States right now, the top 10 percent takes in half the compensation. The typical CEO makes 273 times more than his or her average workers. Between 1970 and 2007, according to the Congres-sional Budget Office, the very richest saw income growth of 275 percent -- those at the bottom, just 18 percent. The gap keeps widening. Upward mobility, which defines our aspira-tions, is becoming a myth, and getting back to the comparison with South Africa’s ruling class, those in the U.S. continue to resist any effort to achieve a more equitable society.
It explains their fight to the death against labor unions, against raising a pathetic minimum wage, against paying their fair share of taxes or any semblance of it. Are we totally at the mercy of the powerful, who refuse to share their hoarded wealth and band together to stave off any efforts to make them do so?
When we hear the word “Alec,” right now, most of us think of Alec Baldwin. But the vastly more pernicious ALEC is the Amer-ican Legislative Exchange Council, which just met in Wash-ington. A variety of corporate and right-wing money people, the infamous Koch brothers among them, fund the group.
This year’s agenda includes planning to fight disclosure labeling for foods, even in the face of contamination. As always, they also discussed strategies to set up obstacles to union organizing; they bitterly oppose any environmental or climate-change initiatives; in other words, anything that might cause them to share for the greater good of society and to spread their wealth with anyone else.
They and their accomplices also are working hard to under-mine that most fundamental American birthright, the opportunity to participate in free elections. In various states under their control, they’ve taken actions to set up barriers against those who might cast ballots against their candidates or policies. It is reminiscent of the Jim Crow days, but nothing is too shameful for them.
Whether we met him or not, we all benefit from the example and accomplishments of Nelson Mandela. But he couldn’t do it alone. To rescue his country from oppression, he needed coopera-tion from the oppressors, and he got it. That isn’t happening here.
(c) 2013 Bob Franken
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The family of a 13-year-old girl declared brain dead says it has located a second nursing home willing to provide for her long-term care, after another facility backed out.
The family’s lawyer, Christopher Dolan, says the new facility is in Southern California, but he wouldn’t provide its name.
Dolan said Friday that he had held a tele-conference with the director of the facility and a lawyer for Children’s Hospital, where Jahi McMath is now being kept on a ventilator.
The hospital said it would cooperate with a transfer under certain conditions, including obtaining consent from the Alameda County coroner. Dolan says he has obtained that consent.
Jahi started bleeding heavily after tonsil sur-gery and went into cardiac arrest before being declared brain dead.
dRIvER SuRvIvES A 300-FOOt PLuNGE OFF CALIFORNIA CLIFF PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. (AP) — A driver who plunged 300 feet off of a Southern California ocean cliff was rescued after firefighters waded into the surf to free him from the car.
KNBC-TV says the 19-year-old man was hospitalized in critical condition and told para-medics that he intentionally drove of the cliff in the Bluff Cove area of Palos Verdes Estates.
Authorities were called to the scene at about 2 a.m. Friday. They found the car being slammed by waves.
Los Angeles County firefighters, lifeguards and local police helped in the rescue. The driver was finally pulled free and flown to a hospital.
The crash site is on the Palos Verdes Pen-insula, about 20 miles south of downtown Los Angeles.
ZIMbAbwE MAN FIStFIGHtS CROCOdILE tO SAvE CHILd HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — State media in Zimbabwe says a villager fought a crocodile with his bare hands to free his son from its jaws in northeastern rural Mutoko.
The Herald newspaper reported Tafadzwa Kachere and his 11-year-old son Tapiwa were trying to cross a river on Christmas eve when the crocodile attacked the boy. It reported that Kachere jumped onto the crocodile’s back and tried to force open its jaws, beating at its head with his fists and poking at its eyes with reeds.
The crocodile released the child and turned on Kachere who wrestled free of its grasp. The newspaper says the child lost a leg and his father’s arm was severely gored.
Both survived.
Crocodile attacks are common in rural Zim-babwe during the rainy season but many go unreported.
CHRIStMAS tREES SOuGHt AS tREAt FOR COLORAdO GOAtS GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — Your trash could become a holiday treat for some goats in western Colorado.
The Top of the Hill Ranch in Collbran, about 40 miles east of Grand Junction, is offering to pick up discarded Christmas trees from nearby homes to give their goats some extra roughage during the winter. Rancher Teresa Fletcher tells KKCO-TV that the goats can devour a tree in less than an hour.
The Little Mooo Ranch in Fruita and the 5-R Livestock Company in Loma are also collecting trees for the goats.
ARIZONA FAMILy SAyS CRuCIFIx FORMEd ON CHEESECAKE SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — A suburban Phoenix family says their Christmas cheesecake sent them the message of a holiday miracle.
The Arizona Republic reports that when the family in Scottsdale, Ariz., pulled their des-sert out of the oven, it cracked as it cooled and formed a crucifix.
The family members, who have not given their names publicly, say the crucifix is a message.
They say they won’t be eating the cheese-cake. Instead, they plan on selling it and donating the money to a local charity or church.
wASHINGtON judGE StRIKES PARt OF wAGE HIKE MEASuRE SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington state judge has struck part of the voter-approved $15 an hour minimum wage measure for airport workers in SeaTac.
King County Superior Court Judge Andrea Darvas says the measure applies to about 1,600 hotel and parking lot workers in the city of SeaTac, but does not apply to employees and contractors working within Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, which is operated by the Port of Seattle.
Darvas said the state Legislature has given municipalities like the Port of Seattle “exclu-sive jurisdiction” over their operations.
Supporters of the measure say they will file an appeal to the state Supreme Court.
Last month voters in the city of SeaTac narrowly approved the measure, which would apply to around 6,000 workers at the airport and related industries, like hotels and rental car companies.
A towing company worker prepares to pull the mangled wreckage of a car driven over a Palos Verdes Peninsula cliff by a 19-year-old Los Angeles man on Friday, Dec. 27, 2013, in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. The man was hospitalized in critical condition and told paramedics that he intention-ally drove of the cliff in the Bluff Cove area of Palos Verdes. (AP Photo/The Daily Breeze, Chuck Bennett)
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Edwin Mejia didn’t want to go out and steal that morning.
The $75 he and his buddy had made the day before from the stolen motorcycle felt like a fortune compared to the $5 a day he earned selling his mother’s tortillas. The 15-year-old lay in bed inside the wooden one-room house he shared with his 10 brothers and sisters, while his partner, Eduardo Aguilera, insisted they go steal another bike.
From yesterday’s take, their first job, Edwin could buy a cell-phone. If they did the same today, maybe Edwin could buy new sneakers. The boy relented.
A few miles away, in downtown Tegucigalpa, Santos Arita was starting a 12-hour shift as a traffic cop. At 42, he’d spent most of his career working in small towns. His new job in the capital made him nervous. He’d already been assaulted once by three gunmen on a bus.
With the world’s highest murder rate, Honduras is a dan-gerous country. People in the capital watch murders on You-Tube, wake up to photos of the dead in the newspapers and drive by bodies dumped on the outskirts of town. It is a nation that never developed democratic institutions that guarantee the rule of law. Instead, it is a largely lawless land where there are few choices for the poor, heroes are scarce, and violence is a given.
After gulping down a breakfast of coffee, the boys headed downtown. They would use the same strategy as the day before. Edwin would drive, Eduardo on the back seat. When they found a target, Eduardo would hold the person up, then drive off on the stolen bike. Easy.
It was illegal for two men to ride tandem on a motorcycle — a new law meant to cut down on drive-by shootings. The boys ignored it and made their way downtown. Oddly, amid the traffic chaos in one of the poorest cities on the continent and in a place where the law is rarely obeyed, what would bind the fates of Edwin and Eduardo with that of a humble traffic cop was a red light.
The boys stopped. They did not see Arita, helping a woman cross the street behind them.
Arita had been assigned to Tegucigalpa two months earlier and already had requested a transfer back home. He missed his family. They lived in Ocotepeque, a seven- or eight-hour bus ride from the capital, and with his $400 monthly salary, Arita couldn’t afford a ticket. He hitchhiked home every two weeks for just 24 hours — to see his wife and three children, go to church.
When he was in the capital, he stayed in a police barracks with dozens of other men. There was no running water for a shower, just a cup and a barrel. No heat for the chilly evenings. No meals.
On the afternoon of Aug. 7, the traffic camera at Arita’s inter-section captured his last day.
As soon as Arita saw the two teenagers on their motorcycle, he ran up to them. He ordered them off the bike and pulled out its keys.
He did not see Eduardo, dressed in black, reaching for some-thing tucked into his pants. A gun.
Eduardo fired two shots before the policeman wrestled him to the ground and attempted to disarm him. Edwin, in a blue T-shirt, rushed in as drivers sped out of the way.
Edwin tried to grab the policeman’s weapon. Eduardo man-aged to hand him the other gun. In the struggle, Arita fell down. As he tried to get up, Edwin shot him twice in the back of the head point-blank. Arita collapsed lifeless.
Edwin picked the bike keys up off the road, waited for Edu-ardo to climb on, and sped off. But their calm soon gave way to panic, a series of CCTV camera footage shows, with the boys running on the streets after ditching the bike, desperately trying to stop anyone to give them a ride.
Two policemen finally caught the boys in a parking lot near the Marriott Hotel, in the same block as the presidential palace.
Police won’t say what happened next, but according to public prosecutor Alexis Santos, officers beat both teens.
“Immediately they started beating us, with their weapons, with their feet,” Edwin said. “They’d hit me on the head with the back of the gun, and they kept telling us they were gonna kill us.”
Before long, police took the young men to headquarters, where beatings continued for three hours.
The cops took pictures with cellphones, something Honduran policemen often do when they catch a suspect. La Tribuna
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Compiled by Samoa News staff CItIZENSHIP LAwSuIt APPEAL HAS NEw twISt
There is a new twist in the appeal by six American Samoans who filed their citi-zenship lawsuit, along with a California based Samoan orga-nization against the federal government arguing that they are entitled to being U.S. citi-zens under a provision of the U.S. Constitution.
The lower court in June this year dismissed the law-suit, and sided with the U.S. State Department, the federal government, and two officials of the U.S. State Department. The defendants have asked the appeals court in Wash-ington D.C. to affirm the lower court’s decision.
However, on Dec. 20, a professor of law in the U.S., one Samuel Erman filed a notice with the appeals court of his intention to file an ‘amicus curiae’ (friend of the court) brief in support of the plaintiffs.
The notice states that in accordance with a provision of the federal court, Erman “will explain the concept of ‘jus soil’ citizenship in the United States.” Additionally, “this amicus brief may be joined by other professors and scholars of American citizenship.”
(According to Princeton University website , ‘jus soli’ — is Latin ‘for right of the soil’ — and is commonly known as birthright citizenship.)
As of last Friday, there were no other details filed by Erman with the appellate court.
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AuNu’u wHARF More than a week ago, an official with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers- Honolulu Division was in the territory to conduct a site visit of the Aunu’u and Auasi wharfs in order to determine the types of improvement needed. This is in accordance with part of Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga’s request to the federal agency.
The site visit by Justin A. Goove, also followed a request by Rep. Talaimatai Elisara Su’a, whose constitu-ency includes Aunu’u, to the Department of Port Admin-istration for help in getting necessary repairs done on the wharves.
Talaimatai says he is very happy with the support from the Lolo Administration, adding that while in Honolulu recently he met with Goove for specific concerns from residents of Aunu’u regarding the wharf.
Talaimatai says the biggest concern for Aunu’u comes from small alia boat owners who have said that there is a need to dredge the water-way into the wharf to make it deeper
and safe for sailing in and out, and this has been a problem there for many years. It needed a push for something to be done, before a serious accident could occur that would claim the life of anyone, he noted.
He explained that when it’s low tide, it makes it very diffi-cult for boats to enter the wharf because it’s not deep enough. He said the Auasi wharf also needs to be dredged for safety reasons.
Talaimatai says he is now waiting for an update from Port Administration and the Army Corps. He also has a request pending with Port Administra-tion for an ASG vessel to sail between Aunu’u and Auasi.
(Original Samoan story on this issue was published in the Dec. 24 edition of Samoa News)
HAwAIIAN AIRLINES IS ON-tIME FOR OCtObER
Hawaiian Airlines was the nation’s highest-ranking car-rier for on-time performance in October as reported by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), which says Hawaiian flights arrived on schedule 95.2% of the time throughout the month of October 2013.
The DOT also reported that Hawaiian was one of the top three airlines with fewest flight cancellations for October at 0.1%, representing four can-cellations out of 5,985 total flights. Meanwhile, Hawai-ian’s next extra flight for the holiday season is Sunday, Dec. 29 (tomorrow night) arriving and departing on the regular schedule at night. (More details of the DOT report can be found on www.dot.gov)
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guard near Bali hotel
BALI, Indonesia (AP) — A python strangled a security guard near a luxury hotel on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on Friday, and then escaped into nearby bushes following the deadly attack, police and a hotel employee who witnessed the incident said.
The incident happened around 3 a.m. as the 4.5-meter (15-foot) -long python was slithering across a road near the Bali Hyatt hotel, said Agung Bawa, an assistant security manager at the hotel, which is closed for renovations until 2015.
The victim, Ambar Arianto Mulyo, was a 59-year-old secu-rity guard at a nearby restaurant.
He had offered to help capture the snake, which had appar-ently been spotted several times before near the hotel, located in Bali’s Sanur area, Bawa said.
Mulyo managed to secure the snake’s head and tail and put it on his shoulders, but the python wrapped itself around his body and strangled him, said Bawa, who was present during the attack.
People watching the incident were unable or unwilling to help and called the police, who came but failed to save the man. The python escaped into nearby bushes, and police were still searching for it.
Denpasar police Capt. Gusti Ngurah Yudistira said Mulyo died of suffocation. “It happened so fast,” Bawa said. “We were sad because we could not do anything to help him.”
Yudistira warned people to be alert since the snake was still on the loose in the area, which is popular with tourists.
Deadly attacks on adult humans by pythons are rare, but have been documented before.
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tELE MASALOSALOGA I LE MALIu O SE tAMAItAI FAIAOGA
E le o tele ni faamatalaga o lo o faamatuu mai e leoleo e uiga i le maliu o se tamaitai faiaoga lea e faapea na pule i lona soifua, e ui o lo o i ai masalosaloga e le o le mafuaaga lea o lona maliu. Na teuina le tino maliu o lea tamaitai i le falemaliu o le falemai ao faagasolo suesuega a leoleo.
Na faaalia e leoleo, o lo o toloina le falelauasiga o lea tamaitai ona o lo o faagasolo a latou suesuega i lona tino maliu.
Peitai, na faailoa e se sosia e faapea, na faia le falelauasiga o lea tamaitai faiaoga i le tolu vaiaso ua mavae i lona aiga i Lefagaoalii, Safune ma sa avatu ai le sii a le aiga o faiaoga a le aoga sa faiaoga ai o ia.
Ina ua toe fesiligia e le au tusitala le sui sooupu o le Matagaluega o Leoleo, le susuga Fauono Talalelei Tapu, sa ioe o ia ua uma ona falelauasi lea tamaitai, ae o lo o talia e leoleo le lipoti o le taotoga sa faia i lona tino maliu.
E lei faamaonia foi e ia pe moni lipoti e faapea o lo o taofia se tagata i le maliu o lea tamaitai. SII tOtOGI AuFAIGALuEGA MALO
E $14.42 miliona tala le aofaiga o le seleni ua faamatuu e le malo e tauala i le Matagaluega o Tupe ina ia faatupe ai nisi o atinae ma polokalama faamuamua a le malo i totonu o le Tala Faatatau Faaopopo Muamua o le Tupe 2013-2014, e pei ona fofogaina aloaia i luma o le Palemene i le tauaofiaga a le Fono Aoao Faitulafono i le fono faaiu o lenei tausaga.
I le saunoaga a le minisita o Tupe, le afioga Faumuina Tiatia Liuga, na ia faailoa aloaia ai le sii-taga lautele o totogi a le aufaigaluega a le malo, lea ua faaagaaga i ai le seleni e $2.7 miliona tala.
O le aofaiga o lea siitaga e 3 pasene mo le aufaigaluega uma a le malo ma e amata faamam-aluina io le aso muamua o Ianuari, 2014.
Mo le Matagaluega o Fesootaiga ma Faamatalaga Faatekonolosi, o le a faamatuu i ai le $180,000 e fesoasoani ai i le faaauauina o le poloketi mo le faaleleia o fesootaiga i luga o le initaneti.
Mo le Matagaluega o Aoga, Taaloga ma Aganuu, o le a faamatuu i ai le vaegatupe e $318,000 ina ia toe fetuunai ai totogi o faiaoga e fua i le faatulagaga o totogi o faiaoga sa pasia e le malo i le tausaga 2010.
E $230,423 ua faaopopo mo avanoa faigaluega fou mo le Matagaluega o Aoga, Taaloga ma Aganuu, ae $190,000 lea ua fuafuaina mo polokalama faatino a le orchestra a Samoa.
Mo le Matagaluega o Tupe, e $285,000 ua faaagaaga e faatino ai le siitaga e $5 i le masina mo le penisione a tagata matutua.
FAAtuPE IAPANI tAAvALE O LE FONO
O le aso Lua o le vaiaso nei na sainia ai se feagaiga i le va o le malo Samoa ma le malo Iapani i lalo o se polokalama o fesoasoani a lea malo na faamatuu mai ai le fesoasoani tupe e $2.4 miliona tala, e fesoasoani ai i le faatupega o taavale afi mo femalagaiga o le taligamalo a le malo Samoa i le fono a atumotu laiti o le lalolagi a Malo Aufaatasi lea e usuia mai i Samoa ia Setema o le tausaga fou.
O lenei feagaiga na sainia e le minisita o Tupe, le afioga Faumuina Tiatia Liuga faapea ai le afioga i le Amepasa o Iapani i Samoa.
O le naunautaiga o le malo Iapani, ia tele se aoga o lenei fesoasoani tupe i tapenaga a le malo i lea fono tele i le tausaga fou ma le faamoemoe a taualuga ma le manuia ia fonotaga, o le a tele se aoga o ia aseta i le faaauauina o le atinaega o le malo Samoa.
tAtALA OFISA FOu O LEOLEO I LOtOFAGA, SAFAtA
Ua faalauteleina nei le tautua a le Matagaluega o Leoleo ma Falepuipui ina ua tatala aloaia le lala fou a le matagaluega i le afioaga o Lotofaga, Safata i le vaiaso nei.
O lenei maota fou o le a galulue ai le silia i le to’asefulu o alii ma tamaitai malu o le malo ua filifilia faapitoa lava e le matagaluega e pei ona fautuaina ai e le taitai o le malo, le susuga Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malelegaoi ia le alii minisita ma le pulega o le matagaluega.
I lana saunoaga autu e tatala aloia ai lea lala o le matagaluega, na fautuaina e le alii palemia le filifilia o nisi e tautua ma le faamaoni e faaaogaina lenei maota fou aua o lo o silafia e malu o le malo le tele o faalavelave o lo o tulai mai, ma e sili lava le vave fofo aua e sili le puipuia nai lo o le tau togafitia.
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literal flood of lost items
NEW YORK (AP) — For the handful of New York transit offi-cials who dutifully collect and catalog more than 50,000 items a year lost on commuter trains, subways and buses, the monotonous flood of wallets, handbags, eyeglasses and smartphones is occa-sionally broken by tales of some of the crazier things left behind.
There was a pet bunny rabbit, a prosthetic leg, a car bumper, a tuba, a diamond engagement ring and an ordinary-looking brief-case that was opened to reveal a dizzying array of adult toys.
“We get false teeth almost every week,” said William Bonner, supervisor of the New York City Transit lost-and-found office below the 34th Street subway, which has amassed 26,000 items this year. “How do you lose your teeth?”
A few blocks north at the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Metro-North Railroad lost and found deep under Manhattan’s Grand Central Station, five clerks oversee the 100 to 150 items that come in every day from Metro-North trains, which run between the city and its northern suburbs and Connecticut.
For every item, the clerks document the train, car and seat number where it was found. Beyond the boxes and bins of the most common items — wallets, keys, reading glasses, umbrellas and electronics — there is a dry cleaner-style coat rack to handle hundreds of forgotten coats. There’s also an area designated for at least a half-dozen bicycles in the office at any given time.
Melissa Gissentanner, the unit’s manager, said the MTA takes pride in getting items back to their owners, boasting a 60 percent return rate. “We are the most successful lost and found in the country and possibly the world,” she said.
People looking for their property can submit a report online. Items that go unclaimed are sometimes donated or eventually sold. Bonner says an asset recovery unit takes unclaimed cell-phones and other items that are sold to companies or put on the MTA website for an auction.
Both lost-and-found operations say the holiday season, when residents and millions of tourists are more rushed than usual, is the busiest (and apparently most forgetful) time of the year.
Clerks become detectives on their own, searching through coat pockets, say, for a business card they might call to locate the proper owner.
Every once in a while they also interact with repeat customers such as college student Ezra Marcus, who in October forgot his wallet on a Metro-North train, recovered it but then lost it again in November and learned this month it hadn’t yet been found.
“I’m one for two,” said Marcus, 21. “It’s not a big deal, I can-celed the debit card. ... They were able to help me out before.”
For Rosario, who has worked at Metro-North’s lost and found for 10 years, the wacky finds and hard-to-believe sto-ries are popular, but the job ultimately is rewarding for giving people hope after losing items that often hold sentimental value.
“We all know how it feels to lose an item,” he said, recounting the time someone claimed a scarf that had been hand-knitted by a now-deceased grandmother. “I’ve seen people cry when they get their stuff back and they’re really, really elated.”
In this Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013 photo, Robert Perkinson, an associate professor at the Univer-sity of Hawaii at Manoa, talks about the possible location in the Kakaako district of Honolulu to be considered for the Barack Obama Presidential Library, in Honolulu.
The location of the plot of land is located just beyond the coconut tree on the right.
Perkinson is coordinating the effort on behalf of the University of Hawaii to bring the
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C M Y K C M Y K[Sosoo ane loa lau faitau i le tatou tala faasolo mo lenei vaiaso, lea na gata mai i le vaiaso na tea nei i le taimi lea ua eva ai Kati i totonu o le isi pa pia i le isi aai o Enelagi, ae te’i i le sese’e atu o se tamaitai lalelei i ona tafatafa ma salu salu talanoa atu ia te ia.]
Na avea le lalelei tele o le tamaitai lea ua salu salu talanoa ane ia Kati ma itu na galo ai i le tama ta’iala o lana galuega e ao ona tausisia i soo se taimi, aemaise lava o lea ua i ai i atunuu ese e le tatau ona faatamala ai. Ua see le evaga a Kati ma le mafine lea ma ua matua fuli lava fo’i le tama e inu ma tafao aua o lea faatoa maua se malologa mai lana galuega. “O fea ete sau ai, e fou la’u vaai ia te oe i le nofoaga lenei,?” o le fesili fia malamalama lea a le mafine lea, ae na tali atu i ai Kati, o ia o se faigaluega a le malo o lo o galue i le fuaina o fanua i totonu o le aai. O le galuega fua fanua i Enelagi e le o se galuega e totogi lelei, o se galuega foi e vaai maualalo i ai le toatele o tagata, o le mafuaaga lena na maantu ai Kati na te faaaogaina le galuega lea e faamatala ai le ituaiga tagata e i ai o ia.
Talu ai o Kati o le leoleo nana, sa le faigata ai ona ia iloa le ituaiga tagata e i ai le tamaitai lea la te tafafao, o nisi o taimi e taumafai ai Kati e faato’ato’a lana vaai i tulimanu e fa o le fale, pe na te iloa atu ai ni tagata e ono masalomia o ni tagata faatupu faalavelave, peitai e leai ma se isi na ia
vaaia, ona faaauau ai lava lea o le la tafaoga ma le tamaitai lea seia latalata i le taimi e tapuni ai le pa pia, ae musumusu atu loa le tamaitai ia Kati, “O fea e i ai lou fale,?” na faasaga Kati i le isi itu o le aai ona tusi lea i ai o lona lima ma fai atu i ai lana tala, pei lava o le itu lea ou te nofo ai.” Na faanunumi le muaulu o le tamaitai e foliga mai e le talitonu ona toe fesili lea, “E faafefea ona e le iloa le itu e i ai lou fale ae o oe o le tagata faigaluega a le malo.”
Na talia e Kati le fanoga a le tamaitai ma la o loa i lona potu i le fale talimalo o lo o nofo ai ma la malolo ai mo le po, ma o iina na faaatoa te’i ai le mafine lea ina ua ia vaaia totonu o le fale, e ese le vaaiga sa ia iloaina atu, e foliga mai o le tagata lea la te mafutaga o se tagata suesue. E tiga le ‘ona o le tamaitai ae na toe fesili lava ia Kati poo ia o se leoleo suesue, afai e sa’o, o a ituaiga mataupu o lo o ia suesueina, ae na ata le tama ma tali atu i ai, “e le o a’u o se leoleo suesue, o a’u o le tagata faigaluega fua fanua, ou te fuaina fanua a le malo o lo o lisi atu i pisinisi ma tagata lautele i masina taitasi, ina ia maua mai ai tupe e fesoasoani ai i le atinaeina o le malo.” Na faaiu le tafaoga a Kati ma le tamaitai lea i lo la fefaasoaa’i i lagona o le alofa, ma o iina na faatoa talitonu ai fo’i le alii leoleo nana mai Italia, e eseese lava vaipuna sa masani ona faamalu ai i lona atunuu, ese fo’i ituaiga vaipuna o lo o maua i Enelagi.
O le toe faaauauina mai lenei o le tatou polo-kalame mai le vaiaso na te’a nei, usi mai pea lau silasila. Ina ua ma’itaga le tamaitai ia Selaginato, fai mai ona sola ese mai lea o le tama ua fai ia Toouta ma Tootai, poo Tutuila ma Ape, e nonofo ma faitau masina e 9, ona o le la ua ma’itaga le tamaita’i ia te ia, ona nonofo loa lea o le au uso ma amata ona faitau masina e 9 ina ia fetaui ma le taimi tonu e fanau ai le pepe, ina ua oo i le masina lona 9, ona o loa lea o Tutuila ma Ape i Safata e gaoi mai le pepe, ae na tete’i ina ua fai atu i ai le Saualii i le po, “sole, o lena e sese le lua faitau i masina,” fai mai o iina na maua ai loa le upu, “ua faitau eseese Tutuila ma Ape.” Na fesili tama i le aitu i le taimi tonu e tatau ona fanau ai le pepe, ona faailoa lea i ai e le aitu le aso tonu e fanau ai le pepe, ona faatatau atu lea o tama i le taimi tonu na fanau ai le pepe, ma la gaoi le pepe ma sosola ma laua.
O le tama o Liolevave sa nofo i Safata, o le tua-gane lea o le tina a Tutuila ma Ape, o ia lea na tula’i atu ma tau ma tagata Safata i le taimi na gaoi ai e tama le pepe, ina ia mafai ai ona faasao le pepe. O tama fo’i nei o Tutuila ma Ape na mafua ai ona maua le upu, “O Ape moe manatunatu,” o le pogai fo’i lea e pati afai e pati se alofi i le taeao, ona faaofo
lea o ipu, ae a pati i le aoauli, fai mai ua alaga ‘ava. O le mea na tupu, sa teu faa fafine Tutuila ma Ape, pei lava oni faatosaga ina ia faigofie ai ona la gaoi le pepe. A’o alu le savaliga a Tutuila ma Ape ma le pepe i luga o le ala, fai mai sa tagi le pepe i le fia ai, ona a’e lea o Tutuila i luga o le niu sa tu i tafatafa o le auala, ua toli mai le niu ua mama le aano ae taumafai e fafaga ai le pepe, peitai e fafaga atu ae toe luai mai e le pepe i fafo, o iina na faatoa maua ai le igoa o se tasi o mauga i uta o A’ana, “o le mauga o Luai”, fai mai ua oo i le taimi, ona malolo lea o le solaaga i lalo o se tasi o aoa tele lava, ua tafu ai le afi e faamafanafana ai le pepe, ae na pau ai loa iina ma le pute o le pepe, ona avane lea ua tanu i malala o le afi, ona maua ai loa lea iina o le igoa o le isi fasi fanua lea ua nofoia e le toatele o tagata i ona aso nei, o “Tanumalala,” e faamanatu ai le pute o le pepe na tanu i malala o le afi. Fai mai ua iloa e Alipia ua toeititi lava taunuu atu le solaaga a tama ma le pepe sa gaoi atu, ona ia faatonu lea o lona afafine, e alu e tapena le ulu o le moega e avatu le pepe e faamoe ai, ona o le tama lea o le a fai ma tupu, fai mai o iina na faatoa maua ai le igoa o le nuu o “Leulumoega,” e faamanatu ai le moega na tapena e le teine mo le pepe, le pepe lea na faaigoa ia Tuia’ana Tamaalelagi.
[E toe faatalofa atu i le mamalu o le au faitau i lenei taeao, malo le soifua maua malo foi le onosa’i, ae alo mai loa o le toe sosooina lenei o le tatou tala faasolo lea na gata mai i le vaiaso na te’a nei i le taimi lea ua salalau ai le tala i totonu o le nuu o Amouta, o le tamaititi o Lisati lea o le a toe fo’i atu i lona aiga e faatu lana pisinisi, ona ua i’u lana aoga ma ua sauni fo’i e faaipoipo ma le teine Niu Sila.]
Kailo i taumaifa a le au faatupu vevesi o le lalolagi e mimilo se mea lelei e faia e le malo meleke, pe tutusa ma taumafaiga ia ua alo atu nei i ai le tamaitai o Lasela e fai ina ia mimilo ma taofia ai gaioiga uma a Lisati lea ua ia faalogo o le a o atu ma lana maamusa fou e faia i totonu o le nuu, Tailo foi i le faataliina e tagata o le latou tupu pe maua le faataliina e le aiga o le tamaititi o le toe fo’i atu o le tamai-titi o Lisati i lo latou aiga ma le tulaga faaeaina ua ia avatu i ona matua ma lona aiga atoa. Ua toe foi mafaufau o tagata i taimi ao aoga le tamaititi o Lisati i le aoga tulaga muamua a le nuu, o se tamaitai e alofagia i ona uiga loto maualalo, o se tamaititi foi e tiga ona sasa e ona matua ae le taitai tali i se upu pe sola ese, ae nofo lava i lona aiga e faafetaui tiga o le sasa, e na o ia lava foi le tamaititi aoga i totonu o le aoga tulaga muamua a Amouta na pasi i le suega a le malo sa faia i le vasega 8 ma le vasega 11.
Ua avea suiga tetele ua o o i ai le tamaititi ma itu ua vaai maualuga ai tagata i lona aiga, o nisi o taimi e talatalanoa ai fafine o le nuu ma faaamuia i le tina o Lisati, ina ua ia maua se tama e atamai ma usitai ia te ia, lea lava foi ua iu ina faaeaia o ia i lana aoga i Niu Sila, ma ua sauni e toe fo’i mai e tausi lona aiga. E pei ona masani ai nisi o aiga Samoa, afai ua i ai ni malo malaga mai fafo a le isi aiga, e tete’i lava lena aiga ua amata ona tumutumu atu le latou fale i tagata fai feau po o tagata foi o le nuu e o atu e tafafao vale solo ma nofonofo solo i fale o le aiga, e lama lama pe maua sina tupe mai le malaga, e faapena tonu la le mea lea ua maitauina i le aiga o Lisati, ua amata ona lolofi atu fafine o le nuu e fesoasoani i lona tina i le tapenaina o le fanua aemaise ai o le veleina o le vao ma faamatagofie totonu ma fafo o le fale, a o loma tama, o lo o pisi lava ia i le faamamaina o le vao ma toe valivali atu isi vaega o puipui o le fale ai ina nei alu atu le uo teine a lona atalii aamu i le fale o lo o nonofo ai le aiga. O le aoauli o le aso Faraile na taunuu ai le vaalele a le Polenisia i Faleolo, ma sa malaga mai ai Lisati ma lana uo o Lisa, ae o le aso foi lea na taunuu ai i le uafu i Matautu a la container tetele e fa o lo o la’u uma mai ai le la uta mo le faatuina o se la pisinisi i Amouta, aemaise ai o le tapenaina o le la faaipoipoga i le isi lua vaiaso. Na matua tumu le malae vaalele i tagata o le aiga o le tamaititi aemaise ai faauo a nai ona matua ma nai ona tei, lea ua lolofi atu e faatali lo la taunuu mai, ae o le itu na faateia ai le aiga, e amata loa ona gasolo mai le pasese i fafo, ae vaaia loa e matua o Lisati le ula lea o Lasela ua masau atu i le isi itu o le malae vaalele ma tu tu mai ai.
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NEw yEAR’S jAM — PENNSyLvANIA StRAwbERRy buStEd IN tESt dROP
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — An 80-pound illuminated strawberry that’s lowered every New Year’s Eve in downtown Harrisburg has ended up in a messy jam.
The berry fell three stories and smashed during a practice run at the Hilton Harrisburg on Friday. Officials say a faulty harness clip is to blame.
The Hilton is working to build a new strawberry for revelers to ring in 2014 on Tuesday night.
The strawberry drop started in 1989. The berry that broke Friday had been used for around 10 years.
NORAd tRACKS SANtA LOGS 19.58 MILLION INtERNEt vISItS
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) — The North American Aerospace Defense Command’s Santa-tracking pro-gram logged 19.58 million unique visitors to its website on Christmas Eve.
NORAD said Thursday that volunteers answered 117,371 calls from children seeking information on the jolly old elf’s whereabouts. First lady Michell
