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SWIMMING POOL PROJECT NEARS

COMPLETION The long wait for the opening of the new public pool

located on the south side of Lions Park, near the Airport fence, across from ANZ Bank, is finally coming to an end.

When asked for an update on the work, Rotary Club member Peter Crispin told Samoa News that the pool is expected to be completed around late August, early September.

The funds for the project come from nearly 15 years worth of fundraising activities that include the Rotary Club’s annual golf tournaments, private donations, and help from the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG).

“It will be a great place for kids as well as adults to have fun” said project designer Joe Weileman.

Both Weileman and Crispin report that although the project is almost completed, it still needs a bit more time.

Furthermore, the pool is in need of a manager. Construction started nearly a year ago and once it’s open, the

pool will serve as a multi-purpose environment for people looking to have fun, and as a place to teach people the proper way to swim, although it can also be used for therapy.

As an added bonus, the project also contains a pool suited for competition.

The pool, according to Wieleman, will be called, ‘The Pala Lagoon Swimming Center’.

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The Washington Nationals have Bryce Harper anchoring one of baseball’s best lineups, and a glaring hole at the back of their bullpen. The Boston Red Sox are enjoying life with Chris Sale, and missing David Ortiz at times. The Chicago Cubs are searching for answers for their pesky championship hangover.

The Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros are looking down at the rest of the majors right now, and it’s quite a gap at the moment.

With the All-Star Game in the rearview mirror and the trade deadline inching closer, the World Series favorites are as clear as the beautiful blue waters of Miami that hosted baseball’s best players for the past couple days. The Dodgers and Astros are each on pace to win 100-plus games, something that hasn’t happened for two teams in a single season since the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Yankees in 2004.

“I don’t think there’s one key, but I think that’s probably why we’re doing so well — is that there’s not one specific thing you can hone in on as to why we’re playing so well,” Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw said.

Los Angeles leads the majors with a 61-29 record, one game better than Houston and 7 1/2 ahead of second-place Ari-zona in the loaded NL West. The Dodgers’ plus-163 run dif-ferential is the best in National League history at the All-Star break, according to STATS LLC.

Kershaw has been, well, Kershaw, and Kenley Jansen remains one of the majors’ best closers. But rookie Cody Bell-

inger has provided an unex-pected lift with 25 homers, and left-hander Alex Wood is 10-0 with a 1.67 ERA.

“Every night it’s somebody different, and that’s a sign of a good team,” Dodgers man-ager Dave Roberts said. “It seems like I say depth every single night, but that’s probably been the biggest reason for our success.”

The Astros are feeling pretty good, too. Led by All-Stars Carlos Correa, Jose Altuve and George Springer, they top the majors in runs, hits, home runs, RBIs and batting average. Per-haps most importantly, they also have a whopping 16 1/2-game lead in the AL West, allowing them to go slowly with Dallas Keuchel after the 2015 AL Cy Young Award winner was shelved by a neck injury.

“You don’t think you’re going to play that well but you don’t think you’re going to play badly either,” Springer said. “I’ll take it.” A year ago, the Cubs were in the same position as the Dodgers and Astros, on top of the game heading into the second half of the season. They went on to their first World Series championship since 1908, but their title defense has been one bumpy ride so far.

Hampered by injuries and inconsistency, the Cubs are under .500 and trail surprising Milwaukee by 5 1/2 games in the NL Central. The Cleveland Indians, who lost to Chicago in the World Series, have experi-enced some of the same prob-lems, but they are in position for another October run at the top of the AL Central.

“We definitely believe in ourselves as a team. We know

what we have here, what we’re capable of,” Cubs second baseman Ben Zobrist said. “Just got to execute better in the second half and really turn on the burners.”

Another starting pitcher also could help the Cubs, so expect Theo Epstein and company to be working the phones all the way to the non-waiver trade deadline on July 31. The Astros, Brewers, Rockies and sweet-swinging Yankees also could be on the lookout for rotation help.

Some possibilities include White Sox left-hander Jose Quintana, Athletics right-hander Sonny Gray and Tigers star Justin Verlander. Any one of those pitchers on the right team could help close the gap with the Dodgers and Astros.

“We’ve had a lot of injuries, a lot of guys going down,” Yan-kees slugger Aaron Judge said. “We’ll get a couple guys back so I’m looking forward to the second half.”

Washington needs another arm or two for its bullpen, and Boston could look for a power-hitting third baseman before the deadline. While Ortiz seems to be enjoying his retirement very much, the AL East-leading Red Sox have an AL-low 92 homers at the break. The Nationals bashed their way to a big lead in the NL East, but they have 14 blown saves and a major league-worst 5.20 bullpen ERA.

One shrewd move by either team, and they could turn into a legitimate challenger to the front-running Astros and Dodgers.

“We’re having fun, we’re playing confidently,” Bellinger said. “When it all clicks like it is now, it’s fun.”

Baseball chasing Dodgers, Astros on eve of second half

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American League teammates celebrate winning the MLB baseball All-Star Game, Tuesday, July 11, 2017, in Miami. The American League defeated the National League 2-1 in ten innings. Seattle Mariners Robinson Cano (22), second from right, hit the game winning home run.

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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Mid-fielder Cristian Roldan made his U.S. debut against Marti-nique in the CONCACAF Gold Cup on Wednesday night and defender Justin Morrow his first international appearance in 4½ years.

Coach Bruce Arena made eight changes from the lineup that opened with a disap-pointing 1-1 tie against Panama last weekend.

Roldan, 22, is in his third season with Seattle. Morrow, 29, plays for Toronto and made his only previous appearance in an exhibition against Canada in January 2013.

Goalkeeper Brad Guzan, defender Omar Gonzalez and midfielder Kellyn Acosta were the only holdovers.

Eric Lichaj was at right back, Gonzalez and Matt Hedges in central defense and Morrow at left back. Roldan and Acosta were joined in the midfield of the 4-4-2 forma-tion by Paul Arriola and Gyasi

Zardes. Jordan Morris and Juan Agudelo headed the attack.

Lichaj had not played for the national team since an exhibition at Puerto Rico in May 2016, and Zardes had not started since the third-place game of the Copa America the following month.

Among the starters against Panama who were on the bench were defenders Matt Besler, Graham Zusi and Jorge Villafana; midfielders Dax McCarty, Kelyn Rowe, Joe Corona and Alejandro Bedoya; and forward Dom Dwyer.

Dwyer scored in his first two games for the U.S., an exhibi-tion against Ghana and the draw against Panama on Saturday,

The U.S. had played Marti-nique just once before, winning 2-0 in the group stage of the 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The Americans had won their previous 13 Gold Cup openers before last weekend’s tie, which dropped them to 30-1-4 during the tournament’s group stage.

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INVITATION FOR BIDS (IFB)RE-BID

IFB No. Re-Bid ASCC# 005-2017 Due Date and Time: July 24, 2017Date of Issuance: July 5, 2017 No Later than 2:00p.m. Local TimeThe American Samoa Community College (ASCC) issues an Invitation for Bids (IFB) from qualified firms to submit bids for the following:

“FURNITURE, FURNISHINGS AND EQUIPMENT (FF&E) FOR ASCC NEW MULTIPURPOSE CENTER BUILDING”

SUBMISSION:An original and one (1) copy of the Invitation for Bids must be submitted in a sealed envelope marked: “ASCC IFB#004-2017 Furniture, Furnishings & Equipment for new Multipurpose Building” Bids are to be sent or email to the following address and will be received no later than 2:00p.m. Local Time; Monday, July 24, 2017:

ASCC Procurement OfficeMapusaga Campus, Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799Attn: Jessie Su’esu’e, Procurement OfficerEmail: j.suesue@amsamoa.edu

Any bids received after the aforementioned date and time will not be accepted under any circumstances. Late submissions will not be opened and will be determined as being non-responsive.DOCUMENTS:The IFB complete package detailing requirements is available at the ASCC Procurement Office, Mapusaga Campus during normal working hours and may also be obtained by emailing j.suesue@amsamoa.eduRIGHT OF REJECTION:The American Samoa Community College (ASCC) reserves the right to reject any and/or all bids and to waive any irregularities and/or informalities in the submitted bid proposals that are not in the best interest of the college or the public.Approved for Issuance by;Dr. Rosevonne Makaiwi PatoPresident, American Samoa Community College (ASCC)

LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A former Utah State University football player will spend 12 days in jail before transferring schools after he pleaded guilty to stealing a PlayStation.

The case that also brought charges against another two other students accused of attempting to hit witness with their car.

Troy Murray was sentenced Monday after agreeing to a plea deal, the Herald Journal of Logan, Utah, reported. He and teammate Jaylan Brown were charged this spring after police said they pawned the PlaySta-tion, games and accessories in the Salt Lake area.

The two redshirt freshmen, both 19, were also suspended from the team.

Murray pleaded guilty in May to reduced theft and trespassing charges. He will transfer to Snow College in central Utah, the newspaper reported. Brown has not yet entered pleas to burglary, theft and witness tampering charges. He’s due back in court July 18.

Lawyers for the two didn’t immediately return messages from the Associated Press seeking comment.

The case also led to charges against a third teammate and another student accused of trying to intimidate a witness.

Police said Kevin Meitzen-heimer and Dayshawn Littleton tried to hit the witness with their car and threatened to return and shoot the person. Police say they arrested the pair after finding an assault rifle in the car’s trunk.

Meitzenheimer, a 19-year-old redshirt freshman line-backer from Moreno Valley, California, was suspended from the team indefinitely. He pleaded guilty to misde-meanor witness tampering and obstructing justice in a June deal with prosecutors.

Meitzenheimer agreed to pay a fine, write an apology letter, testify against the other defen-dants if necessary and give up the gun, court records show.

His lawyer Cara Tangaro says it was a fair resolution to a case that “was not what it appeared to be.” Meitzenheimer is happy to move on with his life, she said.

Littleton, from Carson, Cali-fornia, is charged with witness tampering and obstructing of justice. He hasn’t yet entered a plea and is due back in court in August. His lawyer didn’t immediately return a call for comment.

Littleton, 20, had signed a letter of intent to play football at Utah State, but he never offi-cially joined the team, according to athletics officials.

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A look at some of the girls currently participating in the Fagaloa Basketball Development summer clinics being held at the Aua basketball court across from the elementary school.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The NBA has for years heard com-plaints that a free-flowing, fast-paced and athletic game grinds to a halt at the most important and compelling time, when everyone tunes in to watch the final few minutes of a tight game.

Now the league is finally taking steps to make sure crunch time doesn’t get bogged down by commercial time.

The league’s Board of Gov-ernors unanimously approved some changes that will poten-tially eliminate four timeouts per game, help speed up the final minutes of games and emphasize a timely resumption of play after halftime.

The changes all go into effect starting this coming season, the NBA said Wednesday.

Teams will be limited to two timeouts in the final three minutes of a game, instead of having up to three. All four quarters will have two manda-tory timeouts, after the 7- and 3-minute marks.

“We’re pretty happy with the length of the game,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said. “We were more focused here on the pace and flow of the game. What we heard from our fans, what we heard from many of our teams, was that the end of the games in particular were too choppy. And I think since I was a kid, that was an issue people were talking about, the last two minutes of a game.”

Silver said the full comple-ment of commercial-showing opportunities will still be avail-able to the league’s broadcast partners, and that the league doesn’t believe player in-game rest will be affected by speeding up some aspects.

Also, all halftimes will be 15

minutes and delay of game pen-alties will be issued if teams are not ready to immediately play when intermission ends.

“These changes will help us fulfill our goal of improving game flow and pace of play,” NBA President of League Operations Byron Spruell said. “Fewer stoppages and less time without action, especially at the end of a game, will further enhance the viewing experience for our fans.”

The league also changed the trade deadline, moving it up so teams would not have their ros-ters significantly altered during the All-Star break. This sea-son’s deadline will be Feb. 8 — 10 days before the All-Star Game in Los Angeles. Under the old system the deadline would have been Feb. 22, when teams are getting ready to resume their seasons after the break.

If an All-Star is traded to the other conference before the game, Silver said the league will review which side that player should play for on a case-by-case basis. The NBA’s Competi-tion Committee also considered making other tweaks — such as the oft-criticized play where so many shooting fouls are now called on 3-point attempts, often when the offending con-tact there seems to be initiated by the offensive player.

But on that front, no changes are coming at this point.

In other news from the Board of Governors meeting and Sil-ver’s news conference:

— One and done. Silver said the NBA will take “a complete, holistic look” at the one-and-done rule and how prepared players are going into their pro careers. He said that Kobe Bryant spoke with teams on Tuesday about his develop-

ment before entering the league straight out of high school.

“I don’t believe the system is working well for anyone,” Silver said.

— Tanking. Silver addressed comments made by Dallas owner Mark Cuban that when the Mavericks were eliminated from playoff contention last season, they tanked with hopes of improving their draft lottery odds.

“Yes, it’s not what you want to hear as commissioner,” Silver said. The league and Cuban dis-cussed it, and moved on, Silver said.

— Luxury tax. Silver said it’s too early to say if the NBA is concerned about the chance that 10 or more teams could be in the luxury tax for the 2018-19 season.

“These systems are so hard to calibrate. As the money’s gotten bigger, it’s gotten harder to project future cap and tax levels,” Silver said. “And I think those are all things that we continue to look at. Our teams are smart.

They find ways to compete. They work within the existing system but always with one eye on the next time we sit down at the bargaining table.”

— Playoff seeding. Silver also spoke about the percep-tion of conference imbalance, and the notion of seeding the top 16 teams for the playoffs with no limitations based on conferences.

He said a study two years ago showed it wouldn’t be ideal, though Silver noted that it will likely be looked at again in the future.

“The only fair way to do it is to have a balanced schedule throughout the season,” Silver said.

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Alabama NCAA college football coach Nick Saban signs an autograph for fans during the Southeastern Conference’s annual media gathering, Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in Hoover, Ala.

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LONDON (AP) — Andy Murray interrupted a reporter’s question to make an important distinction during his post-match news conference at Wim-bledon on Wednesday.

Murray had just lost to Sam Querrey in the quarterfinals at the All England Club, and the question started by referring to Querrey as the “first U.S. player” to reach a major semi-final since 2009.

“Male player,” Murray pointed out . Querrey is indeed the first American man to make it to the semifinals at a Grand Slam tournament since Andy

Roddick reached the Wim-bledon final eight years ago. Serena Williams alone has won more than 10 major titles since 2009. And then there’s her sister Venus, a Wimbledon semifinalist last year and this year, for example, not to men-tion a finalist at the Australian Open in January.

And that’s just the Williams sisters. CoCo Vandeweghe, Madison Keys and Sloane Ste-phens also have reached major semifinals since Roddick’s run.

Judy Murray, Andy’s mother and a tennis coach, tweeted a quote of the exchange with the

comment: “That’s my boy.” It was accompanied by a heart emoji. Murray has a history of supporting women in tennis. In 2014, he became the first high-profile player to hire a female coach when he took on Amelie Mauresmo, a two-time Grand Slam champion.

Writing about their rela-tionship at the time, Murray defended hiring a woman.

“Have I become a feminist?” Murray wrote on his website. “Well, if being a feminist is about fighting so that a woman is treated like a man then yes, I suppose I have.”

Murray interrupts question at Wimbledon to point out mistake

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HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Missouri coach Barry Odom was surprised at the buzz he was feeling around Southeastern Conference media days on Wednesday morning as he made the rounds among reporters.

Then, the second-year coach realized what was happening: “Nick (Saban) was before me.”

The contingent from the Crimson Tide, who are widely expected to win a fourth straight SEC title, made the short trip from Tuscaloosa and was greeted by a large group of fans in the hotel lobby. Coach Saban was the rock star of the road show, explaining how he hoped his program would improve after losing to Clemson in last year’s national championship game.

“When you lose the mind-set is much more, I’m willing to change,” Saban said. “I want to learn. I don’t want to waste a failure. What could we have done better?”

Alabama certainly hasn’t had much failure lately as it relates to SEC competition — Saban and company have won 17 straight games in SEC play. The Tide must replace four first-round NFL draft picks, but returns stars like quarterback Jalen Hurts, receiver Calvin Ridley, tailbacks Damien Harris and Bo Scarbrough and defen-sive back Minkah Fitzpatrick.

Alabama has a major chal-lenge in its opener, facing ACC heavyweight Florida State.

“There’s a lot of really good football teams in college foot-ball,” Saban said. “And we have a lot of guys on our team that have tremendous challenges to be able to replace some of the good players that we lost.”

Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin took the podium as one of the league’s coaches on the hot seat. The Aggies have started fast the past three sea-sons before slumping to an 8-5 record each time.

Aggies athletic director Scott Woodward has already said that Sumlin “knows he has to win.” Sumlin said on Wednedsay that “nobody puts more pressure on me than me.”

The sixth-year coach expressed optimism despite having to replace talented players like No. 1 overall NFL draft pick defensive end Myles Garrett and quarterback Trevor Knight.

Missouri and Kentucky are both hoping to improve this season after ups and downs in 2016.

The Tigers finished with a 4-8 record last season, including

a 2-6 mark in the SEC. Odom was blunt when describing his team’s struggles, saying the set-back “hurts your soul.”

But there’s reason to believe Missouri could be better this season. The Tigers played well down the stretch in 2016 — beating Vanderbilt and Arkansas — and return 10 starters on offense, including junior quarterback Drew Lock.

Kentucky’s Mark Stoops is returning for a fifth season after leading the Wildcats to a 7-6 record last season, including a 4-4 mark in the SEC. The Wild-

cats hope to build off their bowl appearance in 2016, returning eight players on offense and nine on defense.

Kentucky’s four wins in SEC play last season were the most for the program since 2006, but Stoops said that’s no guarantee for future success.

“I know this about the league, the league’s not backing up, Stoops said. “Nobody we’re playing is backing up. We’re certainly not backing up. We’re worried about us getting better to put us in a position to contend each and every week.”

Alabama’s Nick Saban hopes team learns from failure

Some of the youngest players in the Fagaloa Basketball Devel-opment summer clinic which is ongoing until the end of the month.

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HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Gus Malzahn and Kevin Sumlin got their Southeastern Conference head coaching tenures off to blazing starts.

They’re both facing a dif-ferent kind of heat now.

Auburn’s Malzahn and Texas A&M’s Sumlin enter this season on likely needing to show some improvement to ensure their job security.

Mississippi’s Hugh Freeze could find his job on the line for a different reason, depending on the outcome of an NCAA inves-tigation into his program .

Texas A&M followed a familiar trajectory last season, starting fast and then slumping in November.

The Aggies won their first six games and rose to No. 6 in the rankings before falling to 8-5 for the third straight season.

“For me, my job, nothing changes for me,” Sumlin said Wednesday at SEC media days. “Nobody puts more pressure on me than I put on myself and nobody wants to win more than I want to.”

His boss, athletic director Scott Woodward, has already made his mandate public leading up to Sumlin’s sixth season.

“Coach knows he has to win,” Woodward said in May. “And he has to win this year. And we have to do better than we’ve done in the past.”

Sumlin said he’d keep con-versations between himself and Woodward private.

Aggies receiver Christian Kirk said talk about Sumlin’s job security “just kind of goes out the window” for players.

“We don’t really worry about that,” Kirk said. “As players, we focus on what we have to focus on. Coach Sumlin’s not the one who’s going out there playing.

It’s us. It’s on us, those second-half slumps at the end of the season.”

Other coaches are facing some job security questions, though not with the urgency facing Malzahn, Sumlin and perhaps Freeze have to deal with.

The scrutiny is increasing for Tennessee’s Butch Jones and Bret Bielema of Arkansas, even if their jobs probably aren’t on the line going into this season.

If Freeze’s job comes into jeopardy any time soon, it won’t be because of on-the-field performance.

The Rebels were 10-3 two years ago and are the only SEC team to beat Alabama over the past three seasons, doing it

twice.The NCAA case involves

alleged academic, booster, and recruiting misconduct. Ole Miss has disputed some of the NCAA’s charges, including lack of institutional control and failure to monitor by Freeze.

Both Sumlin and Malzahn have both found themselves trying to reclaim the magic of their first years, when they had dual-threat quarterbacks.

Both have since been des-perately seeking another QB to run their up-tempo offenses nearly as well.

Redshirt freshman Johnny Manziel helped the Aggies to an 11-2 season in 2012, their first season in the SEC. He became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy.

Since then, Texas A&M has routinely gotten off to fast starts only to struggle late.

At Auburn, Malzahn debuted a year later with a junior college transfer Nick Marshall.

The Tigers won an SEC title and made it to the national championship game while leading the nation in rushing. They’ve lost 16 games in the three seasons since and are 11-13 in the league.

Even more damaging, Auburn is 0-6 the past three sea-sons against top rivals Georgia and Alabama.

“To me, Sumlin is a little bit of an outlier,” SEC Network analyst and talk radio host Paul Finebaum said.

“You can’t do this but if you take Johnny Manziel off of his resume, he’s got a pretty average record at A&M. He was really good at Houston.

“Malzahn, if you take 2013 off of his resume, who is he? What is he?” Finebaum said.

“I think that’s what people have to examine.”

Finebaum isn’t sure Mal-zahn would have survived last season if Auburn hadn’t edged out LSU, which had the apparent game-winning touch-down waved off because time had run out.

Instead, LSU fired coach Les Miles the next day in the sea-son’s lone SEC head coaching change.

“I was talking to prominent Auburn people who were ready to fire Gus Malzahn” before the LSU game, Finebaum said.

“He wins that game on a controversial, last-second ending. If that LSU pass had been completed with a second left as opposed to no time, I don’t think we’d be having this conversation.”

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That didn’t last long.A day after basking in the glow of the most

watched All-Star Home Run Derby in nearly a decade, reality intruded on baseball. Though fans still seems to dig the long ball, they don’t seem too keen about the game itself.

That’s a real problem for the sport, though it’s hard to blame fans for not tuning in for the All-Star Game. Those in Miami were so disinterested themselves that there were empty seats visible around the ballpark even as the game was tied 1-1 in the late innings.

Baseball should be thriving this season, coming off a historic World Series last year that captivated the country. Marquee teams like the Yankees and Dodgers are playing well and there’s an intriguing new crop of sluggers led by Home Run Derby star Aaron Judge that offer some appeal.

New ballparks are bringing in money with cushy $1,000 seats behind home plate. Televi-sion rights deals are still in a bubble, and owners have to be salivating over skyrocketing valua-tions that mean even a team like the Marlins can bring more than $1 billion on the open market.

Take a closer look, though, and there’s trouble ahead.

An All-Star Game that used to be must-see TV struggled again to draw eyeballs, even with no real competition from any other sports. The game drew half the audience of All-Star Games 20 years ago, and a quarter of the viewers from

20 years before that.The reasons are varied, and not hard to find.

Interleague play has taken the mystique off the All-Star Game, baseball doesn’t manufacture stars like other sports and the game itself is becoming one-dimensional with many of its sub-tleties fading away.

Mostly, though, it’s because baseball is simply too slow for today’s limited-attention viewers. They’re finding better things to do than watch endless pitching changes, long replay challenge delays and games that always seem to revolve around home runs or strikeouts.

Commissioner Rob Manfred admitted as much in a meeting with baseball writers before Tuesday’s game.

“There have been dramatic changes in the game, the way the game’s taught, the way the game is played at the big league level,” Manfred said. “There is a dramatically increased toler-ance for strikeouts by offensive players. There’s much, much more emphasis on the home run as the principal offensive tool in the game. There’s a dramatic increase in the use of relief pitchers, even to the point of kind of a rotating bottom of the roster between Triple-A and who’s in the big leagues.”

What Manfred didn’t do was offer a plan to keep fans more involved. And that’s crucial at a time when nine-inning games are averaging 3 hours, 5 minutes, up a whopping 9 minutes from just two years ago.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeff Horn already felt confi-dent he had won his bout with Manny Pacquiao, no matter what Filipino government offi-cials or U.S. television com-mentators thought.

When an independent review this week affirmed the three ringside judges’ decision, the new WBO welterweight champion took the news as yet another victory.

“I feel like I’ve defended the title again already, and I’ve only had it for a week,” Horn said after arriving in California from his native Australia.

After claiming Pacquiao’s 147-pound title July 2 in a stun-ning upset, Horn would wel-come the chance to leave no doubt in anybody’s mind in a second bout with Pacquiao.

“I kind of feel it’s been put to bed now that I definitely won the fight, because they re-scored it,” Horn said. “But people are always going to have their opin-ions, and you’re never going to change some of those. I guess the only way to do it is to do it again, to have a rematch, and I think I would do even better the second time.”

While Horn and many of the 51,000 fans in Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium agreed with the three ringside judges’ ver-dict, Pacquiao was seen as the winner by everyone from ESPN analyst TeThursday, July 13, 2017 Atlas to a department of the Philippines government, which requested the WBO’s official review of the scores.

Three of the five indepen-dent judges awarded the fight to Horn (17-0-1, 11 KOs), and an aggregation of those judges’ scores also favored the new champ.

“I felt like I had won, so if it had come back with (the inde-pendent judges) saying I hadn’t, I would have still felt like I did anyway,” Horn said Tuesday over lunch in downtown Los Angeles, where he is attending ESPN’s sports awards show on Wednesday. “But to have them say that everyone else that studied it (felt) I had definitely won the fight gives me another sense of relief.”

Horn, whose fight injuries already have healed nicely, pressured Pacquiao (59-7-2) for 12 rounds and forced the eight-division champion to back up. While Pacquiao landed plenty of shots, Horn credits his per-sistence for the result — along with his resilience after he was rocked in the ninth round.

“At the end of that (ninth) round, I actually didn’t feel that bad,” Horn said. “But when (the referee) came over and said, ‘Show me something,’ I was just like, ‘Hold on a second, I’m not that bad!’ I’m pretty good at that stage. I thought, ‘All right, I’ll show you something over the next few rounds.’”

Horn’s enjoyment of his victory in the frenzied stadium was dampened in his post-fight interview with Atlas, who flatly told Horn that he disagreed with the decision.

“To hear someone like him say it straight to my face was a little bit heartbreaking,” Horn said. “But I easily just forget. I kind of lost a little bit of respect for TeThursday, July 13, 2017 after that.”

The victory has thrust instant stardom on Horn, the London Olympian and former school-teacher who traveled to LA with his pregnant wife, Jo. Horn plans to upgrade the couple’s cars, and probably to pay off the mortgage on their home, but he also plans to keep pushing for-ward in his boxing career.

Horn feels ‘relief’ after judging review, welcomes rematch

French Guiana forward Sloan Privat tries to kick the ball during a CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer match against Honduras Tuesday, July 11, 2017, in Houston. The match ended in a 0-0 tie.

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samoa news, Thursday, July 13, 2017 Page B9

tusia Ausage FausiaTalu ai le to’atele o tagata

faigaluega mai le Pulega o Fesootaiga a Amerika Samoa (ASTCA), ua latou fa’aalia i o latou sui faipule i le Fono Faitulafono, tusi fa’ailo ua latou maua e fa’ailoa atu ai le taimi e fa’amuta ai la latou tautua mai galuega sa latou galulue ai mo le tele o tausaga, e aunoa ma ni mafua’aga tatau, ua fesiligia ai e le afioga i le ali’i Faipule mai le Itumalo o Ituau le fa’amaoni ma le amiotonu o ia fa’aiuga.

I le taimi o folafolaga a le maota o sui i le aso Lua o le vaiaso nei, na tula’i ai le afioga i le ali’i foma’i ia Sataua Dr. Mataese Samuelu ma ia fa’aleo atugaluga a tagata o lona itumalo o lo o a’afia i lenei mataupu.

O le talosaga a le afioga i le ali’i Faipule na auala atu lea i le Ta’ita’i o le maota o sui, le afioga i le Fofoga Fetalai ia Savali Talavou Ale, ona e le i auai le Ta’ita’i o le Komiti o Fesootaiga a le maota o sui e tatau ona aga’i tonu i ai le mataupu, le afioga i le Faipule ia Puleleiite Li’amatua Tufele Jr, o ia fo’i lea ua tofia e le Kovana ia Lolo Matalasi Moliga e avea ma Ta’ita’ifono ma le Pulesili le tumau o le ASTCA.

Na taua e Sataua le fia maua lea o se feiloaiga ma le Pulega o Fesootaiga a le malo, mo le fa’atalatalanoaina o le mataupu e fa’atatau i tusi fa’ailo ia ua maua e ni isi o ana tagata fai-galuega, poo se tulaga tatau lea tulaga, ae pe fa’amaoni fo’i nei ituaiga fa’aiuga ua faia.

“Atonu o lo o tofu uma lava itumalo o le atunu’u ma tagata o lo o galulue i le Pulega o Fes-ootaiga a le malo, i latou ia ua sili ona mafatia ma loto tiga i lenei mataupu, o le mafua’aga lena e tatau ai ona maua sa tatou feiloaiga ma le Pulega o Fes-ootaiga mo le fa’amaninoina mai o se tali e uiga i lenei mataupu”, o le saunoaga lea a Sataua.

O le mataupu e fa’atatau i tagata faigaluega a le ASTCA e

Fesiligia Sataua fa’aiuga Pulesili ASTCA fa’asaga

tagata faigaluega pe amiotonu Afioga i faipule i le mae’a ai o galuega a le maota o sui i le taeao ananafi, lea e aofia ai ma le

afioga i le ali’i faipule ia Sataua Dr. Mataese Samuelu sa ia fa’aleoina le mataupu e fa’atatau i a’afiaga o tagata faigaluega o lo o tula’i mai i le Ofisa o Fesootaiga a le malo (ASTCA).

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tusia Ausage FausiaE na o lagona o le fiafia ma foliga tausa’afia na moli-

mauina e le Samoa News i le to’atele o tagata faigaluega o le atunu’u ananafi, ina ua o latou taulimaina siaki mai a latou lafoga ua silia i le 4 masina o fa’atalitali. E tusa ma le $2.4 miliona le aofa’i o le tupe na fa’amatu’u atu e le malo o Amerika Samoa i tagata totogi lafoga i le aso ananafi, mo i latou sa faila a latou lafoga mai le aso 2 e oo atu i le 17 Fepuari 2017

Na molimauina le fa’atumulia o le nofoaga autu o le Ofisa o le malo i Utulei, le EOB i le to’atele o tagata faigaluega na lolofi atu e piki a latou siaki o lafoga, i le mae’a ai lea ona latou maua o le fa’amaoniga mai le Ofisa o Tupe a le malo, o le taeao ananafi e piki ai siaki o latou lafoga.

O ulugali’i ma latou fanau sa molimauina le fa’atumulia ai o lalo o le Ofisa autu a le malo, e fa’atalitali ai le taimi e piki ai a latou siaki o lafoga ua maua.

O ni isi sa latou fa’aalia le tele o manaoga tau tupe i totonu o aiga e fa’aalu i ai le siaki o lafoga, ae o ni isi sa manatu e fa’aalu le tupe o le lafoga e tapena ai fanau mo le toe a’e i aoga i le masina fou.

“Fa’afetai i le Atua ina ua maua lenei tupe e fesoa-soani ai i le aiga, e fa’afetai fo’i i le malo ina ua tafa lo latou finagalo e fa’amatu’u mai siaki o lafoga a tagata

ua lata i le 5 masina o fa’atali, e ui lava i le laititi o lenei tupe, ae o le a fa’aaoga tatau i manaoga o le aiga”, o le saunoaga lea a le susuga ia Vincent Uili, o se ali’i e galue i le kamupani i’a o le Starkist Samoa, lea na i ai uma ma lona faletua ma nai o la alo e to’a 3 i le pikiina o le la siaki ma lona faletua sa faila fa’atasi le la lafoga.

Ae mo le Tina ia Tamara Uatisone, o lana siaki o le lafoga lea ua fa’amoemoe e totogi ai pasese o lana fanau e malaga ai i Samoa mo le tu’uaga o aoga.

“Ua leva ona fia ave si a’u fanau e tuua i o’u matua i Apia, ae o le avanoa lelei la lenei e fa’ataunu’u ai loa le la malaga, aua o lea ua maua le tupe e totogi ai a la pasese”, o le saunoaga lea a Uatisone.

E ui e le tetele ni siaki na maua e ni isi o tagata faigaluega a le atunu’u, ae sa latou fa’aalia i le Samoa News le agaga fa’afetai ina ua mafai ona maua lenei tupe e fesoasoani ai i le taliina o manaoga o le aiga.

Na taua e ni isi o i latou lo latou fa’anaunauga o lo o i ai, ina ia tafa le finagalo o le malo ae sui le tulafono o lafoga, ina ia mafai ai ona feololo se vaega tupe latou te maua pe a toe faila a latou lafoga i le lumana’i.

Ae pei ona fa’aalia e le afioga i le ali’i kovana ia Lolo Matalasi Moliga ma lana faigamalo, i fa’amaumauga ua tu’uina atu i luma o le Fono Faitulafono a le atunu’u, o se tasi o pili ua fuafua le malo e fa’aulu i luma o le Fono i lana tauaofiaga lea ua nofoia nei, o le pili e faia

ai suiga i le tulafono o lafoga o loo i ai, ina ia mafai ai ona si’itia le aofa’i o fa’amanuiaga tau tupe e maua tagata o le atunu’u.

O le taimi nei e pei ona taua e le malo i lana folasaga ua mae’a ona taoto i luma o le Fono, o lo o fa’aaoga e le malo le lisi o lafoga faila o le tausaga 2000 (2000 Tax Table), peita’i o le suiga ua fuafua e faia i le tausaga fou 2018 pe afai ae pasia e le Fono Faitulafono la latou tulafono taufa’aofi, o le a fa’aaoga ai e le malo le lisi o lafoga faila o le 2004 (2004 Tax Table), ma fa’aauau atu ai lava seia oo atu i le tausaga e 2022, ae fetaui loa fo’i ma le fa’aaoga o le lisi o lafoga faila o le 2022 (2022 Tax Table).

E leai se tupe maua a le malo e maua mai i le suiga o le lisi o lafoga faila, ae o le a maualuga se vaega tupe e le mafai e le malo ona toe maua mai, lea e amata atu lava i le $400,000 mai le ulua’i tausaga e faia ai lenei suiga seia oo atu lava i le $4 miliona i le tausaga e 2022.

Ae ui i le tele o lenei vaega tupe o le a le toe maua e le malo mai tulaga o lafoga faila mai tagata faigaluega, ona o le suiga ua fuafua e faia, ae talitonu le afioga i le ali’i Kovana ia Lolo, o se tasi lenei o itu taua e tatau i le malo ona fai, o le saili lea o tulafono e manuia ai tagata lautele i tulaga o fa’amanuiaga tau tupe, ona o lea fo’i ua finau le malo e si’i lafoga i ni isi o oloa ma uta mai fafo.

Fo’i fiafia to’atele o tagata faigaluega i aiga ina ua maua siaki o lafoga

Fa’atumulia le Ofisa autu o le malo i Utulei i le taeao ananafi, le EOB i le to’atele o le atunu’u na lolofi atu mo le pikiina o latou siaki o lafoga ua maua.[ata AF]

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tusia Ausage FausiaO le aso Gafua o le vaiaso

fou, Iulai 17, 2017 ua fa’atulaga i le kalena a le malo o Amerika Samoa, e fa’ataunu’uina ai sauniga mo le fa’amanatuina o le 113 tausaga talu ona sainia le feagaiga i le va o le Iunaite Setete o Amerika ma le itumalo o Manu’a, i le malae o Mala-etele i Si’ufaga i Ta’u i Manu’a.

O le fonotaga a le Kapeneta i le vaiaso nei, na fa’amaonia ai e le Kovana o le Falelima i Manu’a fuafuaga uma mo le fu’a a Manu’a, le afioga i le Fa’atui ia Laolagi Fonoti Savali Vaeao. O le polokalame e pei ona fa’alauiloa e Laolagi i luma o le Kapeneta, e aofia ai le malaga atu lea o Ta’ita’i o le malo i le taeao o le aso Gafua, mo le molimauina o lenei aso taua mo tagatanu’u uma o Manu’a. O le polokalame e pei ona fuafuaina e aofia ai le sisiina lea o le fu’a i Malaetele, pe a mae’a se sauniga lotu e saunia lava e le aufaigaluega a le Atua i Manu’a, atoa ai ma se tauma-fataga mo ta’ita’i o le malo ma le itumalo atoa, ma toe malaga

mai ai loa lea o ta’ita’i o le malo i Tutuila nei i le aoauli o le aso Gafua lava lea.

O le a aofia ai fo’i ma nai fa’afiafiaga ua saunia lava e le itumalo, mo le fa’amoemoe e saga fa’amatagofie atili ai le aso fiafia mo Manu’a.

O isi ta’ita’i o le malo e pei o sui o le Kapeneta ma tagata Manu’a o loo alala i Tutuila nei e fia auai i lenei aso taua, o le a malaga atu i le va’a o le MV Sili i le fa’aiuga o le vaiaso, ma le fa’amoemoe a mae’a le sauniga o le fu’a i Manu’a, ona toe malaga mai ai fo’i lea o i latou uma pe a toe fo’i mai le va’a i Tutuila nei. I le aso na tatalaina ai le Ofisa Tutotonu a le malo i Ofu, na taua ai e le afioga i le ali’i kovana ia Lolo Matalasi Moliga i tagata o le itumalo o Manu’a na auai i le molimauina o lea fa’amoemoe taua, le i ai lea o le fuafuaga a le malo e fa’amanatuina le fu’a o Manu’a i lenei tausaga.

Mai le tele o folafolaga sa tu’uina atu e le ali’i kovana i tagatanu’u o lona itumalo o Manu’a, sa ia taua ai e fa’apea,

e ui i le utiuti o le fa’asoa atoa ai ma le itu tau tupe a le malo i le taimi nei, e le tatau ai lava ona taofia le fa’ataunu’uina o fua-fuaga e tatau ona fa’ataunu’uina mo le itumalo, ina ia maua ai e tupulaga talavou le avanoa latou te molimauina ai nei sauniga taua. Sa talosagaina e le sui fofoga fetalai o le maota o sui ia Fetui Fetu Jr i le vaiaso nei le Fofoga Fetalai, mo se avanoa e totogi tasi ai e le Fono pasese o Faipule uma o le maota o sui, ina ia mafai ai ona malaga atu e molimauina le fa’amanatuina o le fu’a a Manu’a i lenei tausaga.

Na taua e le afioga i le ali’i faipule mai Fitiuta ia Fetui e fa’apea, o le taua o aso fa’amanatu fa’apenei, e le gata e lagona ai e tagata o le itumalo o Manu’a le lototele pe a fa’atasi uma atu ta’ita’i o le malo, ae o se avanoa lelei fo’i lea e mafai ai ona feiloa’i ma fetufa’i sui o le itumalo ma ta’ita’i o le malo i ona tafa e tolu.

Ona o le Aso o Manu’a, o lea ua avea ai le Aso Gafua o le aso malolo a le faigamalo o Amerika Samoa.

Fa’amanatu le atoaga o le 113 tausaga o le fu’a a Manu’a i Malaetele

Ta’ita’i o Manu’a, le afioga i le Kovana o le Falelima ia Laolagi Fonoti Savali Vaeao, ma le afioga i le Senatoa ia Misaalefua J. Hudson. [ata AF]

tusia: Leua Aiono FrostTO’ESEA FA’AFUASE’I

TAMA O LE AIGA - MASAVAI LAMEKO

LOPESIO le loto fa’avauvau ma

le lagona o le fa’anoanoa sa tutula’i ai le atali’i o Douglas Lopesi ma molimau i le olaga o si ona tama, ma e o’o mai i le taimi ua lagomau ai nei o ia, e le o iloa e lona mafaufau fa’avasega, le mafuaga ua alu fa’afuase’i ai lona tama, ae tu’ua i latou ma le tina o le aiga.

E ui fo’i i nei mau tiga, ae ia fa’ailoa, le toe fo’i o nisi o lona a’iga a’o tatalia pea le taimi e faia ai lenei toe sauniga mo lona tua’a, se tasi na te iloa lelei, le to’atele o tagata e na te faia i ai galuega lelei. O le tama o se tama alofa, ua molimauina e lana fanau lea tulaga. E o’o fo’i i lona aiga, sa matua leiloa e le to’atele, o Lopesi o se tasi na malaga mai i Amerika Samoa ao tolu ona tausaga, nofo ai ma a’oga, lea ua i’u ina amatalia lona aiga ma le tina o Misela Lopesi, ae fa’afetai, e matua Samoa lava lona agaga.

“O le tele o mea o le ma’ua aiga e faia lava e Masavai le tonu aua ua masani i mea e fai i aiga Samoa ma le olaga tautua e leai se leo. E fa’amoemoe ia te ia lo’u loto i mea i le lotoifale, ma le aiga potopoto fo’i. Ina ua maliu o ia, sa sili ai ona ou muamua, aua e tele atu lona iloa ma lona malosi e fa’atino ai mea uma o le aiga,” o le molimau lea a si tina.

O le upu mai le Fesoasoani muamua o le Uarota i Pago Pago

i lana molimau, sa ia fa’ailoa ai, “O lenei tama e matua manino lona fa’amaoni i ona tiute i le galuega. E le tuai i le galuega, e fai mea mafai, e le fai mea ittiti i le galuega ae fai mea ia lava ma totoe, e fiafia fo’i e talia e tagata lona tautina.”

E tele na’ua le li’o o lana tautua. E le gata i le aiga Sa Fano i Faga’alu, ae au fo’i lana va’aia i nisi o lona aiga e nonofo solo i le atunu’u.

Sa fa’ailoa fo’i e nisi o sui o le Aiga Sa Fano, “E leai ma se tasi o i matou na iloa, o Lopesi o se Niue, seia o’o i le taimi na maliu ai, ma fesilgia le tina o Sela, po’o fea se nu’u na soifua a’e ai Lopesi, ae na fa’ailoa mai, o Lopesi o le Niue moni lava!”

Na i ai sui o lona aiga mai Niue, o ona tuafafine sa latou ola fa’atasi mai, ma ua alaala tumau nei i Ausetalia. Na usuina latou pese i le fa’a Niue, ma le fa’atoga ae maise o le fa’asamoa o lea lava pese lotu, e fa’ailoa ai le agaga o Lopesi a’o ola, e fia fia i nei uma lava gagana ma ona tagata ma sa ola ai lava i Samoa nei.

Na tula’i Faye Roberts o se tasi sa faigaluega o le Pule fo’i o le Cost-U-Less peita’i

ua litaea. O ia fo’i lea sa ia fa’afaigaluegaina Lopesi i le taimi na ulufale atu ai e faigal-uega I lea faleoloa tele. “Sa ou va’ai i le tagata e fa’amaoni i le taimi, e fa’amaoni fo’i i le tulaga tau le tupe. E moni lava e saunia e le Atua ala e fa’amanuia ai i so’o se tasi e faia le amiotonu. O lona laufofoga e te le va’aia ai se fa’anoanoa I taimi uma, o le ata lava e fa’afeiloa’ia oe pe a lua fetaui.”

AVANOA FAIGALUEGA VA’ATAIMI DHSS & DOH

Ua vala’auina so’o se tasi o tama fanau a Amerika Samoa fa’apea ma i latou ua alaala tumau i Amerika Samoa, ina o’o ane e piki ni a latou pepa fa’atumu e talosaga ai mo avanoa faigaluega mo sina vaitaimi i le matagaluega o Ala-manuia mo Tagata Lautele ma o le a fa’amalamalama atili fo’i outou pe afai e te fia iloa atili ia ituaiga avanoa ma galuega o le a e fa’atinoa pe afai ae talia lau talosaga e te faigaluega.

O le toe aso e tatau ai ona toe fo’i ane ai lau talosaga ua mae’a fa’atumuina, o le aso 14 Iulai, 2017 i le itula e 3:00 i le afiafi.

O ituaiga o galuega e fa’atinoa e tagata ua talia, e

faia le suesuega i tua i aiga e fa’atatau i lo latou soifua malo-loina I gasegase o lo’o togafitia ai sui o aiga, ma vaila’au o lo’o latou fa’aaogaina. O le a fa’amauina fo’i faamaumauga uma e ao i le aiga atoa, po’o i ai nisi o lo’o togafitia i gasegase tau le mafaufau, ma nisi o lo’o i ai mana’oga fa’apitoa.

Talosaga mo avanoa, malaga ane i le Ofisa o le Children, Families & Behavioral Health Services i Utulei, tuaoi I le WIC ma le Food Stamps ae ua e tauli-maina lou Numera Saogalemu, pepa aso fanau, pepa fa’amaonia ID e le’i uma aso ae i ai ma le ata: Tusi folau, ID o le Ofisa Femalaga’iga. O fa’amaoniga o tipiloma ma fa’ailoga mai a’oga e pei lava ona masani ai i tatou pe a talosaga mo avanoa faigaluega.

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SEATTLEO le to’atele o Samoa o

loo alaala i so’o se malo, e auga o latou mafaufau ma fa’anaunauta’iga ina ia ta ni a latou ‘la’ei samoa moni,’ malu mo tama’ita’i, a’o tatau mo ali’i.

Ua o’o atu lea tautua mat-avela a ali’i tufuga fa’apitoa o

le Malofie i Tacoma ma Seattle, Setete o Uosigitone. O se sui o le Samoa News sa molimauina lea fa’atasiga mai ia Iuni 30 - Iulai 2.

O le matuaofaiva o Tufuga Su’a Suluape Ala’iva’a Petelo sa o’o atu ma lana au ta fes-oasoani e aofia ai lona atali’i Su’a Suluape Peter, Suluape Steve Looney, Suluape Angela, Suluape Keone Nunes ma Suluape Sii Liufau.

Sa i ai nisi sa faato’a va’aia lea i le tiga o le au, aua sa faatoa maimoaina lea e i latou le taina o le malofie. Peita’i, o le fa’aiuga o lea vaitau fa’apitoa mo le “Laei Samoa moni, ae o le amataga lea ona autova’a atu le to’atele mo le fa’ailogaina o le Fu’a a Samoa i Seattle, ma sa o’o atu i ai le afioga le Faipule o Amerika Samoa i le Konekeresi, Aumua Amata mo lea fa’amoemoe lelei.

O le Tufuga lea ma lana au ta tatau sa matele ina galulue i Kalefonia, peita’i ua fa’asolo ate nei le latou galuega i lea Setete tele aua ua fa’ateleina foi tagata atumotu i lea itu o le Iun-aite Setete.

O le Cam Tattoo supplies, lea e numera muamua i le tele o latou mamanu e taina ai pea, ma e latou te sapalaia fo’i le tele o mea faaaogaina mo le taina o pe’a, lea sa latou fa’atautaia lenei Fa’aaliga o Pe’a Eseese a le Atuvasa i Tacoma ma Seattle, Uosigitone. E le gata ina latou sapaia lea fa’amoemoe, ae ua latou fa’atupea fo’i le “Tauvaga Tatau 2017” i ona vaega eseese sa fa’amasinoina ai.

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pei ona vavao ai le to’atele o le atunu’u, na alia’e mai i le masina na te’a nei ina ua tu’uina atu e le Pulesili le tumau a le ASTCA ia Puleleiite tusi fa’ailo i tagata faigaluega e to’a 10, e fautuaina ai i latou ina ia fa’amavae mai galuega sa galulue ai mo le tele o tausaga.

O ni isi o mafua’aga e pei ona taua e Puleleiite i tusi sa tu’uina atu i ni isi o tagata faigaluega ua a’afia, o lo o taua ai le tatau lea ona fa’amavae mai lana galuega, ona ua latou ausia tausaga e tatau ai ona malolo litaea.

O isi o tagata faigaluega sa latou maua tusi fa’ailo, o i latou ia o lo o galulue i lalo o koneka-rate pupu’u, ma ua fa’amutaina fo’i ia konekarate

i le fa’aiuga o le masina o Iuni na te’a nei.O atugaluga e pei ona fa’aalia e ni isi o tagata

faigaluega ua a’afia, e le gata e lei taitai lava tausaga faigaluega, ae lei atoa fo’i tausaga faigal-uega e agava’a ai mo le litaea. Mo se fa’ata’ita’iga o se tasi o tagata faigaluega e 60 tausaga le matua, ae na o le 13 tausaga talu ona galue i le ASTCA.

O le itula e 8:30 i le taeao o le aso Lua o le vaiaso fou lea ua fa’atulaga e faia ai le iloiloga o lenei mataupu, i lalo o le ta’ita’iga a le afioga i le ali’i Faipule ia Ve’evalu Meauta Mageo, o ia fo’i lea o se totino o le Komiti o Fesootaiga a le maota, ma ua fa’amoemoe e fesiligia ai le afioga a Puleleiite e uiga i lenei mataupu.

Cricket Games, CCCAS Pulega Sua (July 1 & 4, 2017)

➧ Fesiligia Sataua…Mai itulau 9

O le iuga o nei taumafaiga uma, ma sola mai ma le atali’i o le tasi o ali’i tape’a mai Futiga ma Alao, Akiu Sele o Amerika Samoa le fa’ailoga muamua.

O fa’ailoga o le tauvaga tatau na saunia fa’apitoa lea e le Tausala Lalelei o Amerika Samoa, Ms Antonina Lilo-maiava, ma le MASI. Sa alai atu

le tausala mo le taua’aoina o ana fa’ailoga i e na lautogia ai, ma le tama’ita’i Peresetene o le Masi, Fou Imo mo lana fo’i vaega.

➧ Tala i le Vaifanua…Mai itulau 11

by Sam - Vaega 71Na fa’ateia le toeaina o

Pulusi i le fesili a le ali’i foma’i, poo fea la o i ai lona tuafafine pe afai e to’alua le fanau a lona Tina sa i ai.

Na umi se taimi e le tali le toeaina o Pulusi i se tala, se’i vagana ai lona autilotilo solo i vaega o le fanua na tu ai le la ulua’i fale ma lona to’alua, atoa ai ma le la fa’atoaga toga-laau ‘aina tele lava na mafua ai ona ta’uta’ua i laua i le aai i na vaitaimi, i le tele o le fualaau ‘aina na mafai ona la sapalaiina atu i faleoloa eseese atoa ai ma le maketi sa tu i le ogatotonu o le tama’i aai. “Vaai oe le ali’i foma’i, e umi le tala e fa’atatau ia te oe ma lou tuafafine aemaise ai lou Tina, e le o se tala fo’i e tatau ona e fa’alogo i ai, pau le itu taua ou te fia fa’ailoaina atu ia te oe, e ui ua oti si ou Tina, ae i ai lo’u talitonuga o loo ola mai pea lou tuafafine i le taimi nei, ae ou te le o iloa poo fea tonu se vaega o lenei malo o loo nofo ai o ia, ou te le o iloa poo nofo i le nofoaga o loo fa’amautu uma ai tagata pologa i le isi itu o le malo, poo i ai fo’i se aiga mil-ionea o avea ai o ia ma pologa”, o le tali atu lea a le toeaina o Pulusi i le tele o le mau fesili na fesiligia ai o ia e le ali’i foma’i. E lei logo malie i le fa’alogo a le foma’i le upu sa fa’aaoga e le toeaina o Pulusi e fa’amatala ai latou ma lona Tina, o i latou o tagata pologa. “Afai o i matou

o tagata pologa mo oe ma lou aiga i aso ua mavae, aisea na le tausia fa’atasi ai maua ma lo’u tuafafine, semanu e fa’apenei lava o loo ma ola fa’atasi ma maua le fiafia”, o le toe oso atu lea a le tamaititi foma’i ma lona loto ua amata ona ita. “Ou te fia malamalama fo’i poo ai le igoa o lo’u Tama, ae pe tutusa fo’i o ma Tama ma lo’u tuafafine”, o le fesili mulimuli lea a le ali’i foma’i na momotu fa’afuase’i ai loa e le toeaina o Pulusi le mataupu o loo la talanoa ai, ina ua ia talosagaina le tatau lea ona la toe vave fo’i atu i le aai manu e lei malu ifo le pogisa.

Na savali atu nei le tamaititi foma’i ua fa’aola le la ta’avale ma le toeaina o Pulusi, ma toe aga’i ane loa i tai i le aai.

O le la malaga toe fo’i ane i tai lea na maua ai loa le avanoa e toe fesiligia ai e le tamai-titi foma’i le toeaina o Pulusi e tusa ai o lona tuafafine, ae pe faapefea fo’i ona ia maua le nofoaga o loo tausia ai o ia i le taimi nei. “Vaai oe le ali’i foma’i, o le isi lenei itu taua e tatau fo’i ona e malamalama i ai, na pau le auala e mafai ona e sulu i ai e fa’amaonia mai ai poo ai lou Tama, o lou taumafai lea e fa’apele le olo-matua (Mekala), o ia lena o loo teu uma i ai fa’amaumauga e fa’atatau i lou Tina ma le taimi na oulua fananau mai ai ma lou tuafafine, o ia fo’i lena e te maua uma i ai isi ituaiga fa’amatalaga

e fa’atatau i lo oulua aiga”, sa na o le luelue ulu o le tamaititi ao sau saoasaoa le la ta’avale ma le toeaina o Pulusi, ina ua ia mautinoa e na o le fafine lava o Mekala e maua atu i ai le tali sa’o o le mau fesili o loo ia fia maua i ai se tali.

O le suamalie o tala fa’agauloto a le fafine saua o Mekala na mafua ai ona malie le ali’i foma’i latou te momoe i lea po, ma maua ai loa le avanoa o le ali’i foma’i na te fa’asufiina ai le ulugali’i e tusa ai o lona Tina ae o fea fo’i na te maua i ai lona tuafafine. “Vaai oe ali’i foma’i, e faigata ona e toe talatalanoa i ni mea ua tele tausaga talu ona tutupu, aua o le mea moni lava, o lou tupuaga na e tupuga mai i se aiga mata’utia le matitiva toe ola pologa, ae na avea lo ma fetagofi atu e tausi mai lou Tina ma, ma agalelei i ai ma itu na e ola mai ai i lenei olaga, e ui e le o oe o se suli moni o le aiga”, o le fa’amatalaga lea a le fafine o Mekala na te’i ai le fa’alogo a le ali’i foma’i ma ia toe fesili tuli tatao atu i ai, “O le a le uiga o lau fa’amatalaga, ua laki lo’u Tina ina ua lau tausia ma fafaga fa’alelei, ae o ia na ola a’e i se olaga pologa, e le o a’u fo’i o se suli moni o le aiga.

O ai la lo’u aiga”, o le toe fesili fia malamalama atu lea a le tamaititi ma itu na ita ai loa le fafine saua o Mekala ma ia manatu loa o le a fasiotia le tamaititi foma’i.

E LE O OE O SE SULI MONI

Nisi sa auai i le sauniga mo le aiga o le tama ia Masavai Lameko Lopesi lea sa maliu fa’afuase’i ona o se fa’alavelave tau ta’avale. O lea sauniga sa fa’atautaia i le malumalu LDS i Pago Pago o lana ekalesia sa tautua. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost]

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DEAR ABBY: My best friend is getting married next year and I am supposed to be the maid of honor. I am Jewish, and she scheduled her wedding on the first day of Passover. This also means her rehearsal dinner will be during my family’s first Seder. How do I explain to her that for the first time in my life, she has broken my heart? It seems her family doesn’t understand that Jewish holidays are as important as theirs. She is asking me to choose between my beliefs, my family and our friendship. What do I say to her, or should I just decline to be in her wedding? With 52 weekends in a year, I feel like she could have found another day. -- BROKENHEARTED IN BOSTON

DEAR BROKENHEARTED: Your friend was under no obligation to time her wedding date to avoid conflicting with your religious ritual. If you are wise, you will put aside the temptation to lay a guilt trip on her. Explain that you will be unable to be part of her wedding party the same way you explained it to me. Because you are strictly observant, you should make clear to her why this religious observance takes precedence over her wedding.

** ** **DEAR ABBY: As my children have grown older, I have regarded myself as matriarch of the family,

giving advice and help where I think it’s needed. Lately, though, I’m afraid my relationship with them may have taken a turn for the worse. I can’t seem to stop criticizing.

Recently they sat down with me and told me they dread coming to visit, are sick of my “mother-in-law” treatment of their spouses and collectively wish I’d check my tongue. I meant well, but my kids are right. The problem is, I’m afraid I can’t stop. Trying to hold my opinions back leaves me anxious and depressed.

My family is pretty normal, and I don’t want to alienate anyone. But I am having difficulty dialing back these habits and don’t know where to turn. -- CRITICAL MATRIARCH IN UTAH

DEAR MATRIARCH: When the urge to criticize becomes overwhelming, bite your tongue or leave the room. The only exception would be if you see an impending disaster.

I’ll share with you some advice my mother gave me years ago: The most unwelcome advice in the world is that which is unasked for. Take it to heart and your relationship with your adult children and their spouses may improve.

** ** **DEAR ABBY: I’m planning to travel to another state in September and trying to save up for the

plane ticket. The issue is, I’m going during my birthday. I’d like my family to help me with the cost of the trip, even if it’s only $5 to $10, instead of buying me gifts. How do I go about telling them that, instead of gifts, I’d prefer money without sounding ungrateful or pushy? I just would really like help paying for my trip. -- FAMILY HELP

DEAR FAMILY HELP: Because you would prefer cash to tangible gifts, a way to approach this would be to confide your preference in your mother or another close relative and let that person spread the word. Good luck!

Happy Birthday: Use your charm to get what you want. It’s OK to do things your own special way. How others perceive you isn’t important. It’s how you feel about the way you look and act that counts. You’ll achieve your goals if you stick to what feels right. Your numbers are 3, 10, 18, 21, 25, 34, 43.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Keep what you are up to a secret. You’ll accomplish far more if you get things done first and talk about them later. Interference will be what holds you back when you should be moving forward. Charm and romance are encouraged. ✸✸✸

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’ll get a new lease on life if you get involved in something different or visit a destination you’ve never been to before. Change will spark your imagination and challenge you in exciting new ways. ✸✸✸✸

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Deal with sensitive issues carefully. Someone will use persuasive or manipulative tactics to influence a decision you have to make. Use intelligence over emotions when reacting to what others do or say. Stand firm, but be willing to listen. ✸✸

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Look for new challenges. Use your imagination and set out to make a change that will encourage you to learn from those with more experience. Participate and be open to new beginnings. A proactive approach to life will bring positive results.✸✸✸✸✸

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Secrets must be kept. If you think you can trust someone with an emotional matter, think again. Don’t feel the need to share with someone who is insincere. Question others’ motives and remain secretive for the time being. ✸✸✸

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Emotional deception is apparent when dealing with personal or busi-ness relationships. Don’t take what anyone tells you at face value. Mistakes will be due to false infor-mation or misleading gestures. Don’t take the blame for someone else. ✸✸✸

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Put more thought into whatever job you are given. You’ll be judged by how and what you do. Once your responsibilities are taken care of, you can use wit and charm to gain popularity, but for now, take care of business first. ✸✸✸

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Explore creative endeavors and unique lifestyles that you feel will enhance your home and relationships. Compassion, honesty and a willingness to implement advice will lead you to success. A short trip will inspire and motivate you. ✸✸✸✸✸

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Uncertainty will prevail if you aren’t being honest with yourself or those you deal with today. Only take on what you can afford. If you are impulsive, it will end up costing you financially and physically.✸✸

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Keep everything in order to avoid being limited by red tape or inadequate documentation. Problems while traveling or taking on something unusual from your normal encounters should be avoided.✸✸✸✸

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Take your time and do whatever chores you’ve been given to the best of your ability. Jumping in before you check out every angle of a situation isn’t going to convince others you are right for the job. ✸✸✸

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Getting involved in events that can lead to influential connections should be your top priority. Don’t let someone’s jealousy or demands stand between you and your goals. Offering compliments will ease a stressful situation. ✸✸✸

ACROSS 1 Like old

bread 6 Mine shaft’s

end 10 Cornfield

bird 14 Unit of

brightness 15 Spanish

Mrs. 16 Start

afresh 17 It’s my time

(Beginning) 20 Opposite of

gentlemen 21 Dope 22 Naval rank

(Abbr.) 23 Moons,

poetically 24 Word with

“runway” or “role”

28 Impede, as progress

30 Corpulence 32 Release

again 35 Sorrowful

herb? 36 It’s my time

(Middle) 40 Thou, now 41 Trig

function 42 Hot, in

fashion 45 Like a wolf 49 Tea type 50 Tops 52 Homer’s

neighbor, on TV

53 Colossal 56 Spicy

cuisine

57 It’s my time (End)

61 Mental spark

62 Equal 63 Juliet’s love 64 Common

farm animal 65 Nimble 66 Serious

and firmDOWN 1 Deli device 2 New

Orleans university

3 Among, old-style

4 Albanian bills

5 Angola-to-Ethiopia dir.

6 Improvise lines

7 Portals 8 Foot

segment 9 Snatch

or grab 10 Belief

systems 11 Punch the

gas while idling

12 Poem form 13 Was

victorious 18 Bird

cheered in St. Louis

19 Identical 23 Popular

cookie brand

25 Slightly long dagger

26 Decorative sewing kit

27 Soap component

29 “Roses ___ red ...”

30 Things pitchers want

31 Stump 33 Bone-dry,

as land 34 “Cul-de-”

closer 36 “Leave a

message at the ___”

37 Corn cover 38 Respon-

sibility to bear

39 Unit to a weightlifter

40 Pup’s bark

43 Alley alpha male

44 Informal affirmative

46 Enter into a plot?

47 “___ My God to Thee”

48 Inventive wizard of Menlo Park

50 Long-term prisoner

51 Ebony complement

54 Enjoys coffee gingerly

55 Stairway part

56 Horn sound

57 Fake hair 58 “And now,

without further ___ ...”

59 Coffee alternative

60 Day pts.

Universal CrosswordEdited by Timothy Parker July 13, 2017

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