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MIAMI (AP) — Aaron Judge hit the glass behind left field that supports the retractable roof at Marlins Park. He drove balls over the Red Grooms home run sculpture in left-center, over the bat-ter’s eye in center and — unusually for a Home Run Derby, to the opposite field, too.

He even hit the roof.The larger-than-life New York Yankees slugger dominated the

All-Star Home Run Derby in the same manner he has smashed his way through his rookie season, beating Minnesota’s Miguel Sano 11-10 with two minutes to spare in the final on Monday night.

“It was a blast. I enjoyed every minute of it — watching the other guys swing, coming here early and talking to the media,” Judge said. “Everything about today was fantastic.”

Five years ago, Judge won the college home run derby in Omaha, Nebraska. This time, he outslugged some of baseball’s top stars, including local favorites Giancarlo Stanton and Justin Bour of the Miami Marlins.

“A lot more fans,” Judge said. “Your adrenaline is pumping, you’re nervous, you’re excited. But this was an incredible experience.”

Judge, 6-foot-7 and 282 pounds, hit 47 home runs in the derby that totaled 3.9 miles. His longest drive of the night went 513 feet, and he topped 500 four times.

“I thought I had seen it all before. He didn’t even look like he was getting tired,” said Seattle’s Robinson Cano, the 2011 Derby winner. “He was going opposite field. He was late on the ball and he was putting the ball in the upper deck.”

Judge had no trouble hitting the roof, thought to be previously untouched by batted ball. That drive didn’t count.

“I got it in BP, too, earlier. So I wasn’t too surprised by that,” Judge said.

Hitting second each time, Judge knocked out Bour 23-22 in the first round and beat Los Angeles Dodgers rookie Cody Bellinger 13-12 in the second. Then, with lightning visible behind the huge glass door, he hit a 458-foot drive above the batter’s eye for the title.

“That guy Aaron Judge, he doesn’t get tired,” Sano said.Many of the All-Stars sat in foul territory, some with their kids.“I had never seen him in person. He’s really impressive,” said

Colorado’s Charlie Blackmon, who was eliminated in the first round. “The first time I saw him, he was in a crowd. I was won-dering what he was standing on. He’s a monster.”

Judge leads the major leagues with 30 home runs, and some Yankees fans showed up to support him in their full dress — flowing black robes and white powdered wigs. Booed initially by the crowd of 37,027, Judge earned cheers once Stanton, the defending champion, and Bour were eliminated in the first round.

Judge has hit the longest home run in the regular season this year in the majors — 495 feet. He broke a TV monitor at Yankee Stadium with a BP drive that went over the center-field bleachers in May and dented a door casing with a home run last week.

In Tuesday night’s game, he’s set to bat third for the American League.

Sano beat Kansas City’s Mike Moustakas 11-10 in the opening round, and the Yankees’ Gary Sanchez topped Stanton 17-16.

Stanton, who got home at about 5 a.m. after a game in San Francisco, started slowly against pitcher Pat Shine, hitting three liners before a 429-foot drive to center. Stanton began to find his grove and hit a 496-foot shot off the glass behind the left-field seats, then started spraying impressive drives. He had 15 when his 30-second bonus road started but added just one more.

All rise as Judge smashes his

way to Home Run Derby title

Lonzo Ball will have to wait for another shot at De’Aaron Fox. Their summer showdown Monday was canceled.

The Lakers rested their prized pick because of a groin injury, sitting him out of their NBA Summer League victory in Las Vegas over Sac-ramento and fellow rookie point guard Fox.

Fox dominated when Kentucky blew by UCLA in the NCAA Tournament, scoring 39 points to Ball’s 10. LaVar Ball, Lonzo’s out-spoken father, would later say his son was playing with an injured hamstring.

If true, the No. 2 pick already knows there’s no use trying to stay with the faster Fox at less than 100 percent. The Lakers said Ball, who struggled in his first game but responded with a triple-double in his second, had a sore right groin.

The Lakers got their first victory of the summer without him, blowing a 28-point lead but recovering for a 95-92 victory. Fox scored 12 points but played just 20 minutes, watching the Kings’ comeback from the bench with his foot wrapped.

The matchup of California point guards was expected to headline an eight-game day that included a matchup between Golden State and Cleveland, who met in the last three NBA Finals. A look at the games:

LAKERS 95, KINGS 92Vander Blue led the Lakers (1-2) with 21

points. Alex Caruso, who started for Ball, fin-ished with 18 points and nine assists.

College player of the year Frank Mason scored 24 points for the Kings (0-3) and BuTu-esday, July 11, 2017 Hield had 22. Rookie Justin Jackson added 16.

CAVALIERS 91, WARRIORS 74Cleveland improved to 3-0, leading by as

many as 27 points against the team from the NBA champions.

Brandon Paul scored 21 points and backup point guard Kay Felder had 12 points and six rebounds for the Cavaliers.

Patrick McCaw, a key member of Golden State’s rotation late in the season, was 3 for 15 for nine points. Alex Hamilton scored 11 points for the Warriors (0-2), who got eight rebounds in 15 minutes from second-round pick Jordan Bell.

HAWKS 75, BULLS 55DeAndre’ Bembry scored 17 points and John

Collins had 15 points and 11 rebounds as Atlanta improved to 2-1. Diamond Stone, acquired from the Clippers in a three-team trade with Denver, had 12 points and six rebounds in 19 minutes.

The Bulls shot 22 percent from the field and were 4 for 35 (11.4 percent) in their pathetic per-formance. Lauri Markkanen, the No. 7 pick from Arizona, missed all 10 3-point attempts and went 1 for 13 overall.

Second-year guard Denzel Valentine, who led the Bulls to the Summer League championship last year, was 1 for 12 and missed all eight behind the arc.

Cameron Payne scored 12 points for the Bulls (0-2).

HEAT 91, WIZARDS 87Matt Williams scored 17 points and made

five 3-pointers as the Heat moved to 2-0. Rookie Bam Adebayo had 16 points and seven rebounds, while Trey McKinney-Jones added 15 points and Okaro White scored 14.

Ball won’t face Fox as Summer League loses marquee matchup

Sacramento Kings’ De’Aaron Fox, left, guards Los Angeles Lakers’ Gabe York during the first half of an NBA summer league basketball game, Monday, July 10, 2017, in Las Vegas.

(AP Photo/John Locher)

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MIAMI (AP) — Bryce Harper, Mike Trout and Aaron Judge have become the face of baseball as a gleaming, mod-ernist ballpark and a city known for its Latino culture host the All-Star Game for the first time. After decades of falling behind, the sport finally has stepped up its national promotion.

There’s huge room for improvement: Not one player from baseball is among the 100 most famous athletes in the world.

LeBron James, Tom Brady and Tiger Woods dominate water-cooler talk far more than Max Scherzer and Chris Sale, the starting pitchers in Tuesday night’s game at Marlins Park.

“I feel he’s won 15 rings,” Harper said of Brady on Monday. “If you win, you’re going to get noticed.”

Major League Baseball hopes to break into a wider public consciousness with this new generation — for the first time since at least 1961 there are no All-Stars with at least double-digit selections.

After Rob Manfred suc-ceeded Bud Selig as commis-sioner two years ago, MLB required sponsors to market top talent. But the tradition-bound sport is still trying to rebound from a quarter-century of labor wars that ended in the late 1990s.

“There is little doubt that top baseball players are less recog-nized than the top athletes in many other sports,” said Marc Ganis, president of the mar-keting company Sportscorp. “Basketball players and the NBA set many trends and are relevant in pop culture. NFL dominates in the U.S. and the second-most popular sport is also football — college football.

“Baseball has the potential to be the cultural star in places like Latin America and Japan, where so many great players come from these days. But in the U.S. and in the Eurocentric, English-primary world, basket-ball, NFL, soccer, tennis and at certain times golf stars con-nect more with fans, especially younger fans, and sponsors who covet those fans,” he said.

Judge and hometown slugger Giancarlo Stanton headlined Monday night’s Home Run Derby at 5-year-old Marlins Park, a sleek retractable-roof ballpark with splashes of Joan Miro colors, a Red Grooms home run sculpture and a Clevelander night club with a

swimming pool just beyond the left-field wall. MLB hopes to continue momentum from the Chicago Cubs’ first title since 1908, which drew the highest television rating for the World Series in a dozen years.

“We know that fans connect locally every day with the teams that they root for and love, and our job is to try to highlight the performances to make it a national story as much as pos-sible when we have that,” said Tony Petitti, MLB’s chief oper-ating officer. “We were really fortunate last fall. We had an incredible national story in the Cubs.”

MLB’s “This Time It Counts” promotion has been scrapped after 15 years. The World Series will start at the home of the pennant winner with the best record, not the league that prevails in the All-Star Game.

The league and many of its national sponsors are featuring players in marketing campaigns. Still, baseball players say ath-letes in other sports are seen far more often in commercials.

“Football is football. You can’t even really compare your-self. It’s just everybody loves football America. That’s just the way it is,” said Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Ker-shaw, who praised MLB for doing the best it can.

Judge, the 6-foot-7 larger-than-life New York Yankees rookie who leads the big leagues with 30 home runs, was cel-ebrated by MLB with a Judge-Con promotion in on Monday in which the sport enlisted actors and comics to dress as judges and make appearances throughout New York City.

David Matranga of PSI Sports Management, which rep-resents Judge, says the 25-year-old outfielder has kept his mind on pitchers, not corporate pitches.

“We’ve had quite a few offers from various markets and brands. It just keeps coming every day,” Matranga said. “He’s got a lot of people pulling at him but right now Aaron just wants to keep his focus on the Yankees.”

Partly because of the busy schedule — 162 games in 183 days — baseball players don’t have much time for marketing during the season. And when it comes to viewers, clicks and retweets, MLB often lags in recent decadesbetter with younger audiences.

MLB looks to Harper, Trout, Judge to con-nect with fans

U.S. Team pitcher Brent Honeywell, of the Tampa Bay Rays, delivers a pitch during the first inning of the All-Star Futures baseball game against the World Team, Sunday, July 9, 2017, in Miami.

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MIAMI (AP) — More than two hours after pitching in the All-Star Futures Game, Tampa Bay Rays prospect Brent Hon-eywell was still thinking about delivery and location.

Where should his newly won MVP trophy go?

“Honestly, I don’t know,” Honeywell said as he held the hardware at his locker. “My parents are probably going to have to play rock-paper-scissors for it.”

Honeywell, the only pitcher to throw more than one inning, struck out four in two scoreless innings Sunday to help a well-balanced United States slide past the World team 7-6 at Mar-lins Park.

Honeywell was the first of 10 pitchers for the United States, and the group combined for 11 strikeouts. The first one came on the only screwball Honey-well threw — to Alex Verdugo of the Dodgers.

“I had thrown him every-thing else,” said Honeywell, a right-hander who is with Triple-A Durham. “I thought, ‘If I’m going to do it, I’m going to do it right here.’ And it was a really good one.”

Verdugo agreed.“I had faced him before and

knew he had the screwball,” Verdugo said. “It dropped down into the zone. Sometimes you just have to tip your hat.”

By the fourth inning, the U.S. team had nine hits, one by every starter. The World team had only one baserunner until the fifth, and by then the score was 7-0.

Josh Naylor of the Padres drove in the World team’s first run with a single in the fifth.

“Regardless of how you do, it’s a unique experience — a taste of the big leagues,” Naylor said.

The World team scored twice in the ninth before A.J. Puk of the Athletics got the final out for a save. The United States won for the seventh time in the past eight years.

With the major league trade deadline approaching, plenty of scouts were on hand for the showcase of top minor league prospects, which included 16 first-round picks.

Derek Fisher scored the first run and hit a two-run double, and Kyle Tucker hit an RBI double. Both are with the Astros.

Chance Sisco of the Orioles tripled and scored in the U.S. team’s two-run second inning. Lewis Brinson of the Brewers doubled home a run.

Yadier Alvarez of the Dodgers pitched the first inning, allowed one run and took the loss.

Second baseman Brendan Rodgers and first baseman Ryan

McMahon, both of the Rockies, made fine defensive plays for the U.S. team.

“You don’t really realize how big this game is until you look down,” Rodgers said. “It’s the first time I’ve played with USA across my chest. Being able to do that is a lot of fun.”

MATCHUPU.S. right-hander Michael

Kopech struck out Yoan Moncada on a 100.7-mph fast-ball to end the third inning. Both are in the White Sox organization, and the Cuban-born Moncada is ranked as the sport’s No. 1 prospect.

“I never thought I’d be able to get a fastball by him, so to do that is exciting,” Kopech said. “I’m going to go talk to him in a

minute and give him some grief for it.”

Said Moncada through an interpreter: “It was a fun at-bat. When you’re able to face a teammate, you have to enjoy the moment.”

Brazilian right-hander Thyago Vieira also surpassed 100 mph. Kopech threw nine pitches, and seven were 99.3 mph or faster.

Moncada, the Futures Game MVP last year, went 0 for 2 and made a wild throw that led to an unearned run.

TEEN PROSPECTVladimir Guerrero Jr. of the

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LONDON (AP) — What is Ostapenko’s first name?

The French Open champion made it clear at Wimbledon on Monday, and it’s not what most people think.

The 20-year-old Latvian, listed by the WTA as Jelena Ostapenko, has frequently been called Alona during Wimbledon. That has caused a slight amount of confusion around the All Eng-land Club.

After reaching the Wimbledon quarterfinals with a victory over Elina Svitolina on Monday, Ostapenko said her family and friends have always called her Alona — referring to that as her “real” name.

Her legal name, though, is Jelena, which is how she had been introduced until Monday.

“When we were warming up, the chair umpire didn’t say Jelena. She said Alona,” Ostapenko

said. “That was, like, surprise about that.”In many countries, given names are observed

with a “name day,” which is often celebrated in a similar manner to a birthday. Ostapenko, the first woman to win her debut tour-level title at a Grand Slam tournament since 1979, said that because Alona doesn’t have one and Jelena does — and the two names sound similar when pronounced in Latvian — her parents named her Jelena.

But, like her introduction, even that is changing. A recent update in Latvia, which Osta-penko said was “like one week ago,” means the name Alona will now be celebrated on Aug. 18.

Svitolina, who is from Ukraine, said last week that “Russian-speaking people” know to refer to her opponent on Monday as Alona.

Everyone else might soon as well.“People were cheering for me and saying

Alona today,” Ostapenko said, “so that was nice.”

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HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Southeastern Conference Com-missioner Greg Sankey opened football media days talking about integration of sports in the league and the upcoming 50th anniversary of that moment.

Sankey talked at length Monday about Nate Northing-ton’s debut on Sept. 30, 1967 for Kentucky against Missis-sippi. The commissioner gave a history lesson on the timeline of integration in the league, including when Northington, then a sophomore, becoming the first African-American to play in a varsity SEC football game.

Sankey said by playing in a football game, “Nate Northington affected us all.”

The commissioner did talk about other issues, including scheduling, recruiting and instant replay. But he devoted a lot of his time talking about integration.

There were four black foot-ball players on that Wildcats team: Northington, Greg Page, Wilbur Hackett and Houston Hogg.

Page, Northington’s room-mate, died the day before the

game from a neck injury sus-tained during a preseason practice. They were the SEC’s first black scholarship football players.

Kentucky has erected bronze statues of all four players. Sankey said the SEC has invited Northington, Hackett, Hogg and Page’s family to the league championship game in December “to join us in remembering, honoring and celebrating what they helped change 50 years ago.”

Hackett went on to become the SEC’s first black team cap-tain in any sport.

Sankey also listed the first black varsity athlete to compete for each current SEC member. Then he recited lyrics from the U2 song “All that You Can’t Leave Behind”.

“What once was hurt, what once was friction, what left a mark no longer stings, because grace makes beauty out of ugly things,” he said, quoting the song.

“Our journey is certainly not complete,” Sankey said. “There’s hurt. There still remains friction, but to those who helped us change and to

SEC to celebrate 50th anniversary of

first black player

FILE - In this March 13, 2015, file photo, Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey speaks before an NCAA college basketball game in Nashville, Tenn. Sankey kicks off SEC media days in suburban Birmingham, Ala., on Monday, July 10, 2017, with his annual state of the league address.

(AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)(Continued on page B5)

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those who will help us change in the future, thank you for the strength and the grace you’ve shown.”

Sankey’s time at the podium wasn’t all about looking back or touting the SEC’s success during the last school year. He touched on a few issues facing the league:

SCHEDULING: Sankey said the league doesn’t oppose moving to a proposed 14-week schedule that includes two open dates, but wants to make sure the start of preseason practice doesn’t move too early in the summer.

“We’re open to those ideas,” he said. “We’re open to a 14-week season but we want to be very careful about not moving the standard for foot-ball practice even earlier into the summer.”

REPLAY: He said the SEC is asking the

NCAA Baseball Rules Committee to allow an expanded use of instant replay in baseball. The SEC will already be implementing a centralized, collaborative replay in league men’s basketball games.

RECRUITING: The SEC has opposed some of the NCAA changes to recruiting rules, including the timeline for early campus visits by high school juniors and the 25-player signing cap. Sankey and the SEC have formed a group to work on trying to find what it considers a better solu-tion. The group includes athletic directors Scott Stricklin (Florida) and Jeff Long (Arkansas), along with four coaches: Alabama’s Nick Saban, Auburn’s Gus Malzahn, Missouri’s Barry Odom and Vanderbilt’s Derek Mason.

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In this Friday, July 7, 2017, photo, Andy Grabin takes off the catcher mitt with sensors after catching visual pitches at the All-Star FanFest in Miami Beach, Fla. Virtual Reality baseball is a hit at the All-Star FanFest in Miami. Fans get to feel what it’s like to be the San Francisco Giants’ Buster Posey catching without the pain of snatching major league pitches at 86-to-93 mph.

(AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Nicholas Montes put on goggles and a catcher’s mitt and crouched.

The 13-year-old will never catch a 104 mph pitch from Aroldis Chapman. But at the All-Star FanFest, he felt what it’s like to be Buster Posey snagging virtual strikes.

“It was like I was actually in the game. When I was catching, I felt the ball move and every-thing,” the Miami teen said enthusiastically Sunday. “And then when I saw it go in my glove, I tried touching the ball, but I felt the remote control thing. So it was pretty cool.”

Developed by GMR Mar-keting, the Esurance Behind The Plate With Buster Posey VR Experience allows fans to “catch” fastballs, curveballs and sliders from a generic pitcher at

velocities ranging from 86-93 mph.

“I’ve always said that I thought it would be cool for the average fan to either step in the box or like this get behind the plate and get the same sense of what it’s like to see a 90-plus, 95-mile an hour fastball coming your way,” Posey explained last week.

Esurance Insurance Services Inc., a subsidiary of Allstate Corp., became a sponsor of Major League Baseball in 2015 and signed Posey as a brand ambassador. The company had a 180-degree photo experience at the 2015 FanFest in Cincin-nati, then provided 360-degree videos of fans taking swings last year in San Diego.

In a dual setup at FanFest, which opened Friday and runs through Tuesday, people get

to signal for three pitches over about 90 seconds as Posey’s recorded voice offers tips. They can choose the pitch type by pointing their glove toward an icon on the screen, triggering a sensor. When a pitch is success-fully caught, the person hears and feels the mitt snap.

“It is as real as it can be,” Danny Devarona, a 48-year-old who coaches youth baseball in Miami Lakes, said after taking his turn. Commercial and social media content was shot over two days during spring training in Scottsdale, Arizona, where Posey’s San Francisco Giants train. Posey’s voice-over was recorded after the season started.

“Are you ready? All right, let’s see what you’ve got,” Posey’s voice tells fans. “This guy throws a nasty curve.

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LONDON (AP) — Rafael Nadal kept getting pushed to the brink of defeat. He kept resisting.

He dropped the first two sets, then won the next two. He erased two match points in the riveting fifth set’s 10th game, then another two in its 20th game. Only when his fourth-round match against 16th-seeded Gilles Muller of Luxem-bourg stretched past 4½ hours, the sunlight fading, did Nadal blink.

After repeatedly digging himself out of difficult situa-tions, Nadal finally succumbed, broken in the last game of a 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 15-13 loss to Muller on Monday.

“I played with the right determination, right passion, right attitude,” Nadal said, “to win the match.”

But he could not pull through, extending his drought without a quarterfinal berth at the All England Club to six years. “Just tried to hang in there,” Muller said. “Still kept believing. Yeah, somehow in the end, I made it.”

Nadal won two of his 15 Grand Slam championships at Wimbledon, and played in the final three other times, most recently in 2011. But since then, Nadal’s exits at the All England Club have come in the first round (2013), second round (2012, 2015) or fourth round (2014, 2017). All of those losses, except Monday’s, came against men ranked 100th or worse. The 34-year-old Muller is not exactly a giant-killer: He had lost 22 consecutive matches against players in the top five. And he’d only reached a Grand Slam quarterfinal once before, at the 2008 U.S. Open.

Nadal said Muller’s pow-erful serve and crisp volleys make him “uncomfortable” to play.

Now Muller, who also

beat Nadal at Wimbledon in 2005, will get a much-needed chance to recover before facing 2014 U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic in Wednesday’s quarterfinals.

Other men’s quarterfinals: defending champion Andy Murray against Sam Querrey of the U.S., Roger Federer against Milos Raonic, Tomas Berdych against Novak Djokovic or Adrian Mannarino. The Djokovic-Mannarino fourth-rounder was postponed until Tuesday; it had been scheduled for No. 1 Court after Nadal-Muller concluded.

But that duo played on and on, past 8 p.m., when the descending sun’s reflection off the arena bothered Nadal so much that he held up action; chair umpire Ali Nili asked spectators to stand in the way and block the rays. A few games later, Nili told fans to stop doing the wave, suggesting they wait for the next changeover so play could proceed.

Hours earlier came what might be interpreted as a bad omen for Nadal: Going through his prematch rituals on the way to the court, he jumped up so high that he banged his head on the doorway’s transom. He staggered back a bit, then tried to laugh it off, before rubbing the top of his head.

“Maybe that’s why the first two sets I was winning quite easy,” Muller joked. “Maybe still a little bit feeling dizzy.”

After all, until Monday, Nadal hadn’t lost a Grand Slam set since the fifth of the Aus-tralian Open final in January against Federer. From the outset of the French Open — where he won a record 10th champion-ship last month — and through his first three matches at Wim-bledon, Nadal won 28 con-secutive completed sets at the majors. Healthy and playing ter-rifically, Nadal seemed poised

to again be a factor at the All England Club.

Don’t forget: From 2006-11, he reached the final in five con-secutive Wimbledon (he missed it in 2009 because of bad knees), winning titles in 2008 and 2010.

After losing two sets in the opening 75 minutes against Muller, Nadal adjusted. He stepped a little farther behind the baseline to give himself more time to react. He also fared better on his own serve, fin-ishing with 23 aces, an unusu-ally high total for Nadal and only seven fewer than Muller.

So they headed to a fifth set, which was masterful, filled with brilliance from both.

Still, things were not looking good for Nadal when he served while down 5-4 and double-faulted to trail 15-40. But Nadal deflected those initial two match points for Muller with an ace and a service winner. Muller’s next two match points came at 10-9: Nadal deleted the first with a volley winner, and the second disappeared when Muller shanked a return.

“It was not easy,” Muller said, “to keep believing.”

One key: Nadal converted only 2 of 16 break points. That included going 0 for 5 in the fifth set, four in one game, and was a big reason that the No. 4-seeded Spaniard lost despite remarkable totals of 77 winners and 17 unforced errors.

“When you are in the fifth, against a player like him, (the outcome) just depends on a few balls,” Nadal said. The fifth set alone lasted 2 hours, 15 min-utes, until Nadal pushed a fore-hand long, meaning he would not manage to complete what would have been his fourth career comeback from two sets down. Instead, it was Muller who was able to enjoy a win that seemed to be slipping away.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The University of New Mexico is instituting new con-trols and oversight of athletics department finances as it con-tinues a review that has found “inconsistencies” in contracts for basketball arena suites, the university said Monday.

A top university adminis-trator, Chris Vallegos, will head efforts to evaluate and improve the department’s financial man-agement while working with the recently appointed acting athletic director, interim Presi-dent Chaouki Abdallah said in a statement.

Janice Ruggiero was appointed acting athletic director last month following the departure of Paul Krebs, who retired effective June 30.

Meanwhile, state auditors and the state attorney gen-eral’s office continue sepa-rate inquiries into the depart-ment’s overall spending and a 2015 golf trip to Scotland that included private donors.

Abdallah said the university

is reviewing records of suites for the Lobos men’s and wom-en’s basketball seasons.

“This process has revealed inconsistencies in contracts, invoices and payments for cer-tain suites, and we are in the process of contacting current and former suite holders to rec-tify our records and accounts,” Abdallah said. “We will seek to collect on any past due amounts.”

Abdallah also said “UNM Athletics has already updated its management of suite pur-chases and collections for this past season, which has resulted in more accurate accounting and more timely payments. “

The university, Abdallah said, is “committed to trans-parency and fiduciary respon-sibility, and we take responsi-bility for the confusion that may have resulted from inconsis-tent business practices. To the extent that our efforts to rectify discrepancies have resulted in embarrassment to our fans, we sincerely apologize.

New oversight instituted for New

Mexico athletic department

In this Nov. 27, 2015, photo, Oral Roberts’ Ashley Beatty goes for a shot during an basketball game in Stillwater, Okla. The university said the body of Beatty was discovered in a campus dor-mitory Thursday, June 16, 2017. ORU security officials and the Tulsa Police Department say they found no evidence of foul play.

(Tyler Drabek/The Oklahoman via AP)

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AMERICAN SAMOA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

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)

LONDON (AP) — Caro-line Garcia insisted she did not see her father signaling to her from the coaching box during her fourth-round loss to Johanna Konta at Wimbledon on Monday.

Garcia’s father, Louis Paul, is also her coach. He was shown on television giving what appeared to be hand sig-nals, including an “X’’ with his two index fingers. On another occasion, he held up one hand and grabbed the thumb with his other hand.

Coaches are not supposed to communicate with players during matches.

“You probably saw way better than me because the TV is focused on him. But when I watch my dad, I just turn my head to him, nothing more,” said the 21st-seeded Garcia, who lost 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-4. “Sometimes maybe he tried

(coaching), but I don’t know. I don’t think so.”

The sixth-seeded Konta, who will face Simona Halep in the quarterfinals, said she didn’t notice Louis Paul Garcia during the match.

“I’m looking to stay very much focused on myself, what I’m looking to achieve out there,” said Konta, the first British woman to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals since 1984. “Again, that’s an umpire’s duty to, I guess, be aware of things like that.”

Caroline Garcia said that whatever coaching her father may have been trying wouldn’t be abnormal despite prohibi-tions and that he is “like 100 percent of the coaches on tour.”

“I know there is a lot of coaching on court,” she said. “We are sometimes talking ... trying to improve every single point.”

Garcia says she didn’t notice if her father was coaching her

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Timberwolves forward Taj Gibson says he didn’t realize his Illinois driver’s license had been suspended until his arrest last week for a traffic violation in New York.

Gibson said after his introductory news conference Monday that the suspension stemmed from a $200 tinted window ticket he said wasn’t paid on time because he didn’t know about it. Gibson accepted blame for a problem he could’ve resolved with “one or two steps to the DMV.”

Police said Gibson was pulled over for an illegal U-turn in Queens early Thursday and arrested on an aggravated unlicensed operator charge. He was issued a traffic violation for the turn. The Timberwolves said they were “confident that the matter has been resolved.”

Gibson, a Brooklyn native, played his first seven-plus NBA seasons for Chicago.

Wolves’ Gibson says he didn’t realize license

was suspended

New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge is hugged by Los Angeles Dodgers’ Cody Bellinger (35) during the MLB baseball All-Star Home Run Derby, Monday, July 10, 2017, in Miami.

(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

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tusia Ausage FausiaE ta’i 12 masina lea ua

poloaina e le Fa’amasinoga Maualuga e taofia ai ni ali’i se to’alua i le falepuipui i Tafuna, ina ua fa’amaonia moliaga o le la fesoasoani lea i le fa’atinoina o le solitulafono a se isi tagata e pei ona tu’uaia ai i laua e le malo.

O le ali’i o Nassan Tupuola ma Aki Lee Jungblut, o i laua ia na tu’uaia e le malo i lo la fesoasoani lea i le ali’i o Daniel Taufua, i le taimi na osofa’i ai e Taufua ni isi o faleoloa i le itu i Sisifo o le atunu’u i le po ae ave fa’agaoi tupe ma meatotino mai totonu o ia faleoloa.

I lalo o maliliega na sainia e le malo ma i laua ua ta’usalaina nei, na tali ioe ai loa le ali’i o Tupuola i le moliaga mamafa e tasi o lona fesoasoani lea e ufiufi le solitulafono a le isi tagata, ae o Jungblut na ta’usala i moliaga mamafa e 2 o lona fesoasoani lea e ufiufi le solitulafono a se isi tagata.

I le ta’usalaina ai o Tupuola i le moliaga e pei ona ta’usala ai o ia e le fa’amasinoga, sa ia ta’utino ai e fa’apea, i le va o le masina o Tesema 2016 ma Fepuari 2017 i Amerika Samoa, sa ia aveina ai se ta’avale ma le fa’amoemoe e aveese mai ai Taufua ina ua mae’a ona osofa’i e Taufua se faleoloa ma ave faagaoi le masini tupe o loo i ai se tupe i totonu.

I le mataupu a Jungblut, sa ia ta’utino ai fo’i i luma o le fa’amasinoga, lona aveina o se ta’avale ina ia aveese mai ai Taufua, i le mae’a ai lea ona osofa’i e Taufua o ni faleoloa se 2 ae ave fa’agaoi masini tupe o loo i ai tupe i totonu, ina ia le mafai ai e le tagata e ana ia mea-totino ona toe maua ana meato-tino sa gaoia.

Na talosaga le la loia fautua ia Michael White ina ia fa’asala i laua i se fa’asalaga faanofo-vaavaaia, e aunoa ma le toe tuuina atu o se fa’asalaga fa’a falepuipui, peita’i na finau le loia a le malo ia Gerald Murphy ina ia fa’asala i laua i le fa’asalaga fa’a falepuipui pito

sili ona mamafa o loo fa’atulaga mai e le tulafono, o le loka lea mo le umi e 5 tausaga.

A o le i tu’uina atu le fa’asalaga a le fa’amasinoga maualuga fa’asaga ia Tupuola ma Jungblut, na maua le avanoa e molimau ai nai o la Faletua, ma la talosagaina ai ni avanoa mo i laua e toe fo’i atu ai i tua e saili ni a laua galuega e tausi ai aiga ma fanau.

Na taua e le faletua a Tupuola i lana molimau e fa’apea, o lona to’alua o se Tama e lelei toe galue malosi mo le manuia o le aiga.

Sa ia talosaga i le fa’amasinoga mo se avanoa e toe fo’i atu ai Tupuola i tua e saili se galuega e tausi ai le la fanau e to’alua, aemaise ai le fesoasoani i le tausiga o ona matua.

E faapena fo’i i le molimau a le faletua a Jungblut, e le gata sa ia molimau i le tele o galuega lelei ma le taua sa faia e Jung-blut i totonu o le aiga, ae sa ia taua fo’i lona fa’ateia tele ina ua oo atu Leoleo i lo latou fale ma fesiligia lona to’alua e tusa ai o le fa’alavelave e pei ona a’afia ai o ia.

Na fa’atoese ma loimata le Tina i le fa’amasinoga ina ia fa’amagalo se sese a lona to’alua, atoa ai ma lona fa’atoese fo’i i aiga e ana fale-oloa ua a’afia ona o le gaioiga a le ua molia.

Na taua e le Tina e fa’apea, o aso uma la te asia ai ma lana tama e 3 tausaga lona to’alua i le falepuipui, sa ia molimauina ai suiga ia te ia, ae o se taimi faigata fo’i lea mo lana tama, ona e tagi i le fia nofo i lona Tama, aua e sili atu ona latalata o ia i lona Tama nai lo ia.

Na fa’ai’u le talosaga a le Tina i lona augani lea i le fa’amasinoga mo se avanoa e toe fo’i atu ai Jungblut i tua e saili sana galuega e tausi ai le la aiga, ma toe totogi ai tupe o loo nofo aitalafu ai o ia i pisinisi na a’afia.

E ta’i 5 tausaga i le falepuipui na manatu le fa’amasinoga e fa’asala ai Tupuola ma Jung-

blut, peita’i o le a fa’amalumalu lo la tuliina o lea fa’asalaga fa’a falepuipui, ae o le a faanofo-vaavaaia ai i laua mo le umi e 5 tausaga i lalo o tuutuuga e ao ona la usita’i i ai.

O ni isi o ia tuutuuga e aofia ai lo la tuliina o masina e ta’i 20 i le toese i Tafuna, peita’i o le a fa’amalumalu le 8 masina, ae tuli na o le 12 masina, e toese mai ai masina e 5 ua mae’a ona la tuliina.

O isi tuutuuga e aofia ai le aua lea ne’i o la toe solia se tula-fono, aua ne’i o la toe tagofia le ‘ava malosi poo fualaau fa’asaina, aua fo’i nei o la toe taumafai e fa’afesootai le ali’i o Taufua i soo se auala.

E $1,000 le salatupe lea ua poloaina i laua e totogi, atoa ai ma le toe totogiina o tupe i fale-oloa na a’afia i le la solitulafono.

Mo Tupuola, e $800 le tupe lea ua poloaina o ia na te toe totogi i le faleoloa i Fogagogo, ae o Jungblut, e $180 na te toe totogi i se Fale Tamea i Iliili, ma le $130 i se faleoloa i Nu’uuli.

Afai e magalo mai i laua i tua mai le toese, o le a la fa’atinoina ni galuega mo atunu’u lautele mo le umi e 200 itula, ae o le taimi lava e maua ai a laua gal-uega, ona taofia loa lea o le la fa’atinoina o ia galuega, ae gal-ulue loa i la galuega ua maua mo le totogiina o tupe ua poloaina i laua e le fa’amasinoga e totogi.

“Ia fa’aaoga tatau le avanoa lea ua tu’uina atu e le fa’amasinoga ia te oulua, o lea sa finau mai le malo ina ia fa’asala oulua i se fa’asalaga mamafa e 5 tausaga i le falepuipui, peita’i ua tu’u atu e le fa’amasinoga le avanoa ina ia toe aoaoina ai se isi lesona taua mo oulua, ma maua ai le avanoa e saili ai ni galuega e tausi ai o oulua aiga”, o le saunoaga lea a le ali’i fa’amasino ia Elvis P. Patea.

O afioga i ali’i fa’amasino lagolago ia Suapaia Pereira ma Satele Lilio Aliitai na lago-lago ia Patea i le iloiloina o le fa’asalaga a i laua ua ta’usalaina nei i le vaiaso ua te’a.

Falepuipui ni ali’i se to’alua na fesoasoani i le osofaia o ni faleoloa

Taitai o le Tafatolu o le faigamalo a Amerika Samoa i le taimi na ulufale atu ai i totonu o le Fale Laumei, mo le amataina o le sauniga e tatala aloaia ai le tauaofiaga lona 2 a le Fono Faitula-fono i le taeao ananafi. [ata AF]

tusia Ausage FausiaO le saunoaga mai le afioga

i le ali’i Kovana i luma o le Fono Faitulafono, o sui o le Kapeneta atoa ai ma Ta’ita’i o le malo, i le tatala aloaiaina o le tauaofiaga lona 2 a le Fono i le taeao ananafi i le Fale Laumei, na fa’ailoa ai e le tofa i le Tootoo ia Lolo Matalasi Moliga le tele a’afiaga ua mafua ai ona fa’aletonu le itu tau tupe o le tamaoaiga o le atunu’u i le tausaga fa’aletupe lenei 2017.

O ni isi o ia mafua’aga e aofia ai le a’afia o se tasi o poutu malosi o le tamaoaiga o le malo, e pei o le tapunia lea o le lala o le kamupani a le Samoa Tuna Processors (STP) ma leiloloa atu ai galuega e tusa ma le 700, fa’aitiitia o lafoga e maua mai e le malo i oloa, o fesuiaiga o lo o faia i le faigamalo a le malo tele o Amerika, lea ua tuai ai ona maoti mai le tele o gaioiga e tatau ona fa’amanuiaina ai setete ma teritori e aofia ai ma Amerika Samoa, aemaise ai le si’itia o le manaoga o le atunu’u i mea e tatau ona fa’aleleia, ae o lo o tumau pea tupe o lo o mafai ona maua mai i le tele o tula-fono ua silia i le 30 tausaga ma ona tupu o i ai pea e lei toe faia i ai ni suiga.

E ui e le masani ona maua le avanoa o le Kovana e tulei saunoa ai i luma o le Fono Faitulafono, i le taimi e tatala aloaia ai le tauaofiaga lona lua a le Fono, peita’i o le avanoa na maua e Lolo i le taeao ananafi e saunoa ai e pei ona saunoa le

afioga i le Fofoga Fetalai sa fai ma fofoga o le aso, ina ia maua ai le avanoa o afioga i Senatoa ma Faipule latou te fa’afofoga ai a o saunoa le Ta’ita’i o le malo e fa’aleo fa’afitauli o lo o fetaia’i ma le malo, aemaise ai o le taumafai e saili ni auala e foia ai ia fa’afitauli.

O se sauniga lotu puupuu na saunia e le susuga i le ali’i Faifeau ia Rev. Fouvale Asiata o le Ekalesia EFKAS mai Matu’u & Faganeanea na tomua ai le tatala aloaiaina o galuega a le Fono Faitulafono, ma viiga o le Atua na saunia lava e le aufaipese a le Ekalesia.

I le feau fa’apitoa na tatala aloaia ai galuega a le Fono Fait-ulafono, na fa’amamafaina ai e le susuga Rev. Asiata fetalaiga a Iesu sa tu’uina atu i ona Ausoo, e fa’ataua ai le avea ma auauna pe afai e fia avea se tasi ma ta’ita’i, aemaise ai o le fa’aa’oa’o lea o Ta’ita’i fa’alemalo i auala na fa’ataoto e Iesu e savavali ai i le faia o fa’aiuga e manuia ai tagata uma.

Na taua e Lolo i lana sau-noaga e faapea, o le tamaoaiga o le malo ma le atunu’u e fa’alagolago lea i poutu malo-losi e 2 o lo o i ai, e pei o kamu-pani i’a ma pisinisi i le isi poutu, ae o le malo ma ana tagata fai-galuega, fa’apea ai ma pisinisi fou e aumai e le malo i totonu i le isi poutu.

“A o o ina afaina se pou o poutu ia e 2, ona matua afaina atoa ai loa lea o le tamaoaiga o le malo ma le atunu’u, ma o

Tele mafua’aga ua afaina ai le

tamaoaiga o le malo o Amerika Samoa

(Faaauau itulau 9)

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le mea tonu lava lena ua mai-tauina i le taimi nei, ua afaina se tasi o poutu fa’alagolago i ai le tamaoaiga o le malo,

ma mafua ai loa ona tula’i mai tulaga fa’aletonu e pei ona tatou maitauina i le taimi nei”, o se vaega lea o le saunoaga a le al’i kovana.

E ese mai i le tapunia o le lala o le STP ma leiloloa ai gal-uega e 700 e pei ona taua e le kovana ua a’afia ai le isi itu o le tamaoaiga,

ae oo lava fo’i i le le mafai e le malo ona maua tupe sa fuafua maua mai i lafoga o oloa, e pei o le lafoga o le sikeleti o lo o aoina mai i luga o le uafu, ona o mafua’aga le ma’alofia.

I le 5 masina ua mavae atu e pei ona saunoa Lolo, na poloka ai le ulufale mai i le atunu’u o le oloa o le sikaleti,

ma le mafai ai e le malo ona ao le lafoga sa fuafua e maua mai ai, ma lagona ai e le malo le pagatia o le itu tau tupe talu mai Ianuari e oo mai ia Iuni na te’a nei.

O se tasi o tulaga faaletonu e pei ona saunoa Lolo, o le maua-luga lea o tupe e fa’aalu e le malo ae laititi tupe o lo o mafai ona ao mai i totonu i le masina e tasi. Mo se fa’ata’ita’iga,

e tusa ma le $8.5 miliona le aofa’i o le tupe o loo mafai ona maua mai e le malo i le masina, ae i le va o le $10.5 e oo atu i le $11 miliona le tupe o loo fa’aalu,

ma ua atagia mai ai le fa’aletonu o le malo i lea tulaga.

I le tau vaavaai ai o le malo i se auala e foia ai le fa’aletonu

pea o lona tamaoaiga i lenei tausaga tupe,

aemaise ai o le aga’i atu i isi tausaga o lo o i luma, ua manatu ai le kovana e galulue fa’atasi ma le Fono Faitulafono, i le tau-mafaiga lea o ni isi o tulafono tupe e fesoasoani ai i tupe maua a le malo,

ma o ni isi o ia tupe e aofia ai lafoga e fa’aee i oloa, atoa ai ma isi lava tulafono tuai ua moomia le toe suia.

I le tali fuaitau a le afioga i le Peresetene o le Senate i le saunoaga a le ali’i kovana, sa ia taua ai le taua o le galulue fa’atasi o le malo ma le fono faitulafono e saili auala e foia ai nei mau fa’afitauli.

Na taua e le afioga a Gao-teote Palaie Tofau le faigata ona talia e le atunu’u o mataupu e fa’atatau i lafoga e fa’ae’e i luga o oloa, peita’i i lona talitonuga fa’ata’ita’i,

e leai se tasi e faia gaioiga e manuia ai le malo, ua na o ona ta’ita’i lava, o le mafua’aga fo’i lena na tofia ai i latou e fai ma ta’ita’i o le atunu’u.

Sa ia talosagaina afioga i Senatoa ma Faipule atoa ai ma ta’ita’i o le malo ina ia latou galulue fa’atasi e fausia se isi taeao fou mo Amerika Samoa,

ina ia tutupu a’e fanau ae ua i ai se taeao fou mo i latou.

O le itula e 10:00 i le taeao nei lea ua faamoemoe e fa’aauau ai galuega a maota e 2 i nofoaga ua mae’a ona fa’atulaga

e fa’atino ai a laua galuega, e pei o le Senate i le Fale Samoa a le Fono, ae o le maota o sui i le iti itu o le Fale Laumei i Utulei.

➧ Tele mafuaaga ua…Mai itulau 8

tusia: Leua Aiono Frost FA’ATASIGA AUAIGA TUATO’O I ALOFAU

Na tatala le ulula’i mafutaga fa’aleaiga a le Aiga Sa Tuato’o i le latou Maota Talimalo o Faleteine i le Malae o Aloita-funa i Alofau i le afiafi o le aso Sa na te’a nei, i le sauniga o le Feiloa’iga o Aiga i ona fuaiala e 9, o alo na soifua mai i le Fa’atama o le Aiga Sa Tuato’o, le afioga le Usoali’i Muagututia Aigafealofani Taulau Milo Young Tuato’o i Alofau lava.

E lua usuga a lenei tua’a, ma ua fa’apea fo’i ona manatu i latou uma na tupuga mai ia te ia, e ao ina faasilisilia le mau sa totoina ia i latou e lo latou tua’a, “ia fealofani aiga.” O le ‘auga o le ulua’i fa’atasiga, ia fa’atino se miti na alia’i i le finagalo o Tuato’o Reese, lea e tula’i nei i le suafa.

Sa ia fa’ailoa, “O lenei fa’amoemoe ia mafai ona fa’atasi le Aiga Sa Tuatoo o lo’o soifua ma papa’a’ao i so’o se vaipanoa o le lalolagi, ma ia o’o mai e va’ai i le latou nofoaga ma le aiga na tupuga atu ai!”

O le sauniga fa’afetai sa fa’afeiloa’ia ai le Auaiga na tupuga mai ia Muagututi’a Aigafealofani Milo Young Tuatoo, ma sa tutula’i ai sui ta’itasi matutua o soifua mai pea, ina ia tutuina moli sela e fa’amanatu ai pea a latou mafutaga pele ma mamae a’o

le’i motusia le mafutaga i le oti. O lea le valga faigata o le sauniga, aua sa iloga ona tutulu i latou sa tutula’i mo lea faiva.

“Ua toe aumaia uma i lenei sauniga le tiga o le oti i o matou loto, se mea a faigata o le toe fo’i mai i aiga ae ua leai matua sa fai ma va’aiga i se aiga fiafia,” o se tala lea a se tasi o tina sa tutu e ia le moli mo lona tama ua maliu.

O le susuga le faifea’u AOG Rev. Papu Lafiti na saunoa, “O outou fanau, ia outou fa’alogo i o outou Matua i le Ali’i, aua o le mea tonu lava lea.” Na ia fa’ailoa ai le aoga o lea lava fuaitau o le Tusi Paria, aua o le aiga lava e amata fafaga atu ai le ola fa’aleagaga o le fanau. “O outou Tama fo’i, aua tou te fa’aonoono i a outou fanau.”

O lana toe tima’i, “Ia outou iloa, po’o a lava le poto o le palagi ma ana polokalama o lo’o taumafai e fa’aleleia ai le soifua o fanau talavou, ae o le filemu moni ma le Amio e amata mai i totonu, e le amata atu i fato. O le agaga o le tamai-titi ma lona mafaufau e ao ina muamua fafaga, ona poto lea e ola ma fa’avasega mea uma e alia’i ane e fa’asagatau i lona tagata taumafai ia ola lelei ma amio tausa’afia.”

“Ia tasi le fatu tasi le loto! Le auau lena o lea mafutaga fa’aleaiga fealofani, ia tatou tutu fa’atasi ona maua lea o le

tasi le fatu, tasi le loto. Ia tatou o mai fa’atasi i le mafaufau e tasi, ia fealofani, ona faia lea o le manatu o Iesu ia i tatou uma, aua a fealofani ua fusia i tatou uma i le Alofa!”

O le aso ananafi na fa’avasega mo ta’aloga fa’asamoa, ma tiute fa’asamoa e ao ina popoto ai le fanau.

Aso Lua ua fa’atulaga ai le o i le Malae o Suigaula i Utulei mo ta’elega ma isi ta’aloga ma tu’uga a’au. A o’o i le afiafi, o le Bingo. O le Aso Lulu ua fa’atulaga e alu ai le malaga ta’amilo e maimoa Tutuila nei, ma fa’ai’u ‘aiga fiafia o le Afiafi Fa’aleaiga i le Sadies by the Bay i Utulei.

E toe mavae lava i latou i le Maota o Faleteine i Aloitafuna i le toe aso o le mafutaga, ma fa’atofa ai.

MALIU TAMAITA’I SAMOA I SE PULUFANA I

WASHINGTONO le tama’ita’i sa lavea i se

pulufana ma ave i le falemai, ua maliu i le aso Tofi ma ua fa’amaonia mai e le falema’i sa fa’ataotolia ai o ia mo togafitiga, e pei ona lipotia mai i le setete o Uosinitone.

O lona suafa o Fa’avale Aiga Muipu mai le afio’aga o Aua. Ua fa’ailoa mai e le’i umi ona i ai lenei tama’ita’i i Uosigitone.

Ua le mautinoa le mafuaga, peita’i ua fa’ailoa mai ua mae’a

Le afioga i le ali’i Kovana ia Lolo Matalasi Moliga i le taimi o lana saunoaga, a o fa’afofoga ta’ita’i o le malo i le tatala aloaiaina o le tauaofiaga lona 2 a le Fono Faitulafono i le taeao ananafi i le Fale Laumei.

[ata AF]

(Faaauau itulau 10)

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lokaina lana uo tama i le King County, ona ua molia o ia sa fa’ao’oina lea solitulafono ua maliu ai Fa’avae. O ona manu’aga o lona ulu i le itu taumatau sa fa’amanu’alia ai o ia. Ia fa’amaise le Atua i le aiga loto fa’avauvau, ae ua tele fa’amaisega ua fa’ao’o mai fo’i e uo mamae a Fa’avale i si ona aiga atoa ona o lenei mea ua tupu.

Ua taua e le tama’ita’i leoleo i Federal Way, ia Uosinitone ia Cathy Schrock e tusa o le 9:30 i le taeao na maua ai le aveai mo se fesaosoani a Leoleo i le atug-afale Mautotogi a le Club Pali-sades i South Star Lake Road.

O le fa’amaumauga a latou leoleo na o atu, lea ua fa’amauina se tama’ita’i talavou ua fa’amanu’alia i le fana ma e tuga lona mana’uaga. Ua fa’amauina fo’i o se ali’i Samoa foi e 23 fausaga le matua, ua taofia fo’i e leoleo ona o lea fa’alavelave. Ma o ia o se uo tama a Fa’avale.

Ua le mautu se tala o se mafuaga na tupu ai lenei mea, e molimauina fo’i e le to’atele o uo a i la’ua nei, e le o se tamai-titi ulavale pe fa’alogogata le uo a Fa’avale.

I le tele o lipoti e afua mai i le taimi o lenei fa’alavelave e le’i ta’ua uma ai suafa o i laua nei , peita’i, i le tele o fe’au fa’amaise ua tusia ma fa’asalalauina, ua mafai ai ona

fa’afesiligia nisi o sui o aiga na lua ma ua fa’ailoa patino mai ai o la’ua igoa.

O nisi ua fa’ailoa mai, “E leai se iloa o le a tupu mai lenei mea ia te oulua, e te lua fiafia ma talie i taimi uma, aisea ea lava lenei mea?” “E momoe lava i manu, ae sau mala e atai’e!”LIPOTIA SE TASI MASA-LOMIA PULE I LE OLAO lo’o masalomia ua mafua

ona maliu se taule’ale’a e 30 tausaga le matua sa alaala i se nu’u i le itu i sasae o Tutuila, ona sa pule i lona lava ola.

O se tasi o ona tausoga sa asiasi i ai lenei atali’i ma sasa’a i ai lona fa’agau le malie, ma i’u ai ina toe fo’i i lona aiga, ma maua atu ai ua maliu I le taeao na soso’o ai.

O lenei talavou, ua fa’ailoa mai o se tasi e aga fiafia, ma e le’i leva fo’i le la’ua mafutaga ma si ona to’alua ma le fanau lea e nofo ai o ia i le aiga o lona to’alua.

E to’alua o la’ua alo, ae o le mafutaga fo’i na amata lava o a’o’oga i la’ua. O lo’o taofia e le Samoa News i le taimi nei le suafa o le ua maliu, se’i oo i se taimi o i luma, ona o lo’o fa’agasolo pea suesuega i lenei mataupu. Na faailoa mai e se tasi o ona tausoga, “O le ola maumau lava o lenei atali’i, o lona toe aso sa matua fa’asua’ava lava, ma tele ana tala e atagia ai sa fa’aisaisa le

mafutaga, ae naunau lava i si ana fanau. Fautua atu lava i ai, e alu i le fale, onosa’i o mea lava e tutupu, ae toe malu lava le tai.”

DR. TEARIKI PUNI - TOFIA KOMISI FOMA’I OCEANIA (ONOCMC)O le ali’i foma’i e tupuga atu

i Samoa, ae alaala ma faigal-uega i le Atu Kuki ua filifilia nei e avea ma se tasi o alii foma’i e sailia agava’a o tama ma teine ta’a’alo i ta’amilosaga a le Oce-ania Games.

O Dr. Teariki Puni o se tau-soga o se tasi o tatou faiaoga mo ta’aloga eseese lea sa gal-ulue fa’atasi i le tatou teritori nei, e tapena ‘au ta’a’alo i le vaitau na talimalo ai Amerika Samoa i ta’aloga Laiti a le Pas-efika i le tausaga e 1997. Sa ia saunoa e fa’apea, “Ona o lo ua maua lenei avanoa lelei e faia ai tiute patino i le Oceania, ae o se isi fo’i avanoa e fautuaina ai tatou tagata ta’a’alo mai malo fa’aatumotu o le pasefika i ala e tausia lelei ai o latou tino a’o fa’atauva i ta’aloga. O le tele o nisi mea ua maua, e le o mailoa e tagata ta’a’alo a’afiaga o latou mea’ai ma vaiinu a’o koleni, peita’i o le tu’ufa’atasiga o nei mea uma, e ono lamatia ai le agava’a o i latou e tauva ai.”

Ua aofia nei Dr. Puni i le vasega o foma’i fa’apitoa mo le Oceania National Olympic Medical Commission.

O se va’aiga i le taimi na tutula’i ai le tofa Tuatoo Reese mo le tutuina o le moli sela e fa’amanatu ai lona tua’a Tuatoo Tau-talatasi Milovale i le taimi o le sauniga fa’apitoa na tatala ai le mafutaga i Alofau i le aso Sa na te’a nei.

[ata: Leua Aiono Frost]

Le afioga le Usoali’i Muagututi’a Dr Vaiula Tuato’o ma timaiga i lona aiga atoa, “Ia Alofa le tasi i le tasi, ma ia nonofo fealofani!”

[ata: Leua Aiono Frost]

tusia Ausage FausiaO le vaiaso na te’a nei na

tatala aloaia ai le Ofisa autu o le Pulega o le Eletise ma le Suavai (ASPA) i Tafuna, e sui tulaga i lona Ofisa tuai sa fa’atuina i Satala mo le tele o tausaga lea na fa’aleagaina i le galulolo o le 2009.

O le fausaga o lenei fale e pei ona taua i saunoaga a ta’it’ai i le aso na tatala aloaia ai, e foliga tutusa lelei lava ma le fausaga o le maota a le Ofisa o le AS-EPA i Utulei, lea o lo o fausia i fausaga fa’aonapo nei, o le fale lona lua la lea ua fausia i totonu o Amerika Samoa.

Na molimauina e Ta’ita’i o

le atunu’u le tatala aloaiaina o lenei galuega, lea e $4.6 mil-iona le tau aofa’i, e aofia ai le vaega tupe e $3.73 miliona mai le Vaega a le FEMA a le malo tele o Amerika, ma le $873,000 sa fesoasoani atu i ai le ASPA.

O se sauniga lotu puupuu na taitaia e le afioga a Patele Iosefo Vaitele Tupuola na amata aloaia ai le tatalaina o lenei gal-uega tele, sosoo ai loa lea ma saunoaga mai ta’ita’i o le malo fa’apea ai ta’ita’i o le ASPA.

Na taua e le afioga i le ali’i kovana ia Lolo Matalasi Moliga le taua tele o le galuega ua mae’a ona fausia e le ASPA, e atagia mai ai le la’a i luma o le

Tatala le Ofisa autu a le Pulega o le Eletise ma le Suavai i Tafuna

(Faaauau itulau 11)

➧ Tala o le Vaifanua…Mai itulau 9

O se vaaiga i ni matua o lo’o taumafai e ave atu se feau taua e faasagatau i tulaga o sauaga i le va o fanau aoga, ina ua maliu se tamaititi aoga e 8 tausaga, o Gabriel Taye, e ala i lona pule i lona lava ola talu ai le masalomia o le sauaina o ia e ni isi o fanau aoga.

[ata: AP/Lisa Cornwell, File]

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malo i ni isi o ana atina’e tetele mo le manuia o ona tagata.

Sa ia taua ni isi o si’itaga e fa’atatau i le taua o le la’a i luma, ona o iina e iloa ai foliga manuia o se faigamalo pe afai e vaaia le aga’i pea i luma ona galuega ma atina’e. E le gata sa ia fa’afetaia faapitoa le Pulesili o le ASPA, le afioga i le Matua ia Utu Abe Malae e tusa ai o le galuega fita ua fa’aulufaleina nei, ae sa ia fa’afetaia faapitoa fo’i le Komiti Fa’afoe a le ASPA atoa ai ma tagata faigaluega uma lava sa tu’uina atu lo latou tomai e fa’atino ai lenei galuega.

“Ua le tasi se galuega ua faia e le ASPA i le atunu’u ae ua atulasi, o lea fo’i ua mae’a ona outou fa’atinoina se tasi o galuega tele i totonu o Amerika Samoa, e pei ona i ai le galuega lea ua ola ai nei le itumalo o Manu’a atoa i le la, ma e ui o lo o i ai pea tagata Manu’a o lo o muimui ma faitio, ae o le itu taua ua mae’a ona tatalaina ia galuega tetele e manuia ai tagata o le atunu’u”, o le saunoaga lea a Lolo, ma ia toe fa’amautuina ai lana talosaga sa tu’uina atu ia Utu ma le Komiti Faafoe a le ASPA i ni taimi ua te’a, ina ia galulue pea e fa’amae’a le galuega o le fa’aaogaina lea o le la e maua mai ai le eletise e ola ai Amerika Samoa atoa.

Sa ia fa’afetaia le tautua a Utu i totonu o le malo, lea ua mafai ai ona tula’i mai le tautua a le ASPA i se tulaga manuia.

E pei ona manino i le saunoaga a le Pulesili o le ASPA, le afioga a Utu e fa’apea, e ui e le o se galuega faigofie lenei galuega, a o lea lava ua mafai ona fa’atinoina ona o le galulue fa’atasi

o le Komiti Fa’afoe a le ASPA fa’apea ai vaega ta’itasi uma sa i ai lo latou sao i le fa’atinoina o lenei galuega tele.

O lenei galuega sa fausiaina e le Konekarate a le Paramount Builders Inc, i lalo o le ta’ita’iga a le afioga a Papali’i Lauli’i Alofa, ae lagolagosua i ai isi konekarate e pei o le Green Engineering Consultant, lea sa latou fa’atinoina uma galuega tau inisinia, ma le Tresmal sa latou sapalaiaina mai mea faigaluega e fa’atinoina ai le galuega.

Na aofia i le fa’afetai a Utu le suafa o le afioga i le Matua ia Togiola T. A Tulafono, lea sa avea ma Kovana o Amerika Samoa i tausaga ua mavae, ona o ia lea isi sa amataina maia taumafaiga mo lenei galuega tele, lea ua i’u ina fa’ai’uina ma le manuia.

I le saunoaga a le afioga i le Ta’ita’ifono o le Komiti Fa’afoe a le ASPA ia Fonoti Perelini, sa ia taua ai le taua tele o le fale fou mo le ASPA lea ua tatalaina nei, ona o le nofoaga lea o le a avea ma nofoaga e autu i ai tautua uma a le ASPA mo le atunu’u.

“O le ofisa lenei e maua uma i ai tali o soo se faafitauli e mana’omia e le atunu’u, o le a faigofie ai fo’i ona afifio mai le atunu’u ma feiloa’i ai ma ta’ita’i o vaega ta’itasi i soo se mataupu e fiamal-amalama atili i ai”, o le saunoaga lea a Fonoti.

E ese mai i le nofoaga autu fou i Tafuna lea ua tatalaina nei, o lo o fa’aauau pea lava le auaunaga a le ASPA i lona Ofisa i le Pago Plaza, ina ia fa’a faigofie ai mo le mamalu o le atunu’u o loo alala i le itu i Sasa’e mo soo se taimi e mana’omia ai le auaunaga masani a le ASPA.

(Photos: Leua)

Ni isi o ta’ita’i o le malo faapea ai sui o le aufaipese a le Ekalesia EFKAS mai Matu’u & Faga-neanea sa auai i le sauniga e tatala aloaia ai le tauaofiaga lona 2 a le Fono Faitulafono i le Fale Laumei i le taeao ananafi.

[ata AF]

➧ Tatala le ofisa autu…Mai itulau 10

O se va’aiga i le taimi na faia ai se saunoaga a le tina o Tauolo Tuato’o Vaoalii, e nao le to’alua o i la’ua o alo o Muagututi’a Aigafealofani Taulau Milo Young Tuato’o o lo’o soifua mai pea.

[ata: Leua Aiono Frost]

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by Sam - Vaega 70Na vaaia e ali’i Leoleonana e to’alua suiga i foliga o le fafine

saua o Mekala, e foliga mai e i ai se mea o lo o tupu. Na tu le fafine saua o Mekala mo ni nai sekone ua le gagana i se upu, ona ia fa’apea atu lea i ali’i Ofisa o loo latou talanoa, “Vaai oulua, o le ta’avale e pei ona oulua taua, o le ta’avale a se ali’i foma’i meauli talavou lava, sa malaga mai e aumai vailaau mo si o’u to’alua e ma’i, ma sau e asi mai i maua, ona o le ali’i lea, o le tama a se fafine meauli sa fai ma pologa i lo maua aiga mo le tele o tausaga, ae na faateia i maua ina ua ia toe asia mai lo ma aiga i le taeao analeila”, o le fa’amatalaga fa’aumiumi atu lea a le fafine o Mekala na mafua ai ona toe tuli tatao atu le isi fesili a Leoleonana ia te ia. “O fea la ua alu i ai le ali’i foma’i e ana le ta’avale e pei ona paka mai i tua o lo oulua fale”, ae na tali le fafine, “O loo alu le la ti’eti’ega ma si o’u to’alua, e toe fa’amatamata le ali’i foma’i i le nofoaga tuai sa matou nonofo ai i le tele o tausaga ua mavae, o le nofoaga fo’i lena na fanau ai o ia”. Na vaaia e Mekala le femusua’i o ali’i Leo-leonana e to’alua mo sina taimi, ona fa’apea atu loa lea o le ali’i o loo latalata atu ia te ia, “ua lelei Tina, o le a ma toe fo’i, o le itu taua ua manino le mata o le vai, ae afai e taunu’u mai le ali’i foma’i, ona fa’ailoa lea i ai o le mafua’aga o lo ma oo mai, ae ma te toe afea lou fale i se isi taimi o i luma”, e fai lava tala a le au ali’i ia ma toe solomuli ese atu, ae o le fafine o Mekala i le taimi lea, ua na o le tu lava ma fa’atau pupula i le vaega o loo paka mai ai le ta’avale na alu atu ai le ali’i foma’i. O le ali’i foma’i e pei ona taua, o le tama e tasi a se fafine meauli sa fai ma pologa i le aiga o le fafine saua o Mekala ma lona to’alua i le isi itu o le aai. E le gata sa i ai le fafine pologa i le aiga o le ulugali’i lenei, ae sa i ai fo’i ma se ali’i meauli pologa sa fai ma sifi kuka i le ulugali’i mo le tele o tausaga. Ina ua fanau le fafine meauli i lana pepe ulumatua, na foa’i e le ulugali’i

o Mekala ma lona to’alua i le falema’i ina ia saili ai se tagata o loo fia fai pepe e tausi ma ia. Ina ua tuana’i tausaga e 2 talu ona fanau le pepe ulumatua a le fafine meauli pologa lenei, sa toe ma’itaga fo’i o ia ma ia fanauina ai se pepe teine, lea fo’i na toe fo’i atu e le fafine saua o Mekala ma lona to’alua i le falema’i, ina ia mafai ai ona saili se tagata o loo fia maua sana pepe e tausi ma ia.

O le falema’i lea sa foa’i i ai le fanau e to’alua a le fafine pologa meauli lenei, o iina lea sa galue ai le tama’i foma’i sa ia tausia mai le teineititi meauli o Ianeta seia oo ina avea nei o ia ma teine matua. O le pepe tama matua la a le fafine meauli, sa tausia o ia e se ulugali’i milionea i le isi itu o le malo, o se ulugali’i kerisiano i laua, e le fa’ailoga lanu i tagata, ae fiafia lava i laua e tausi ma mafuta atu i tagata uma i soo se ituaiga lanu. O le ali’i foma’i la lena sa auina atu e le ulugali’i milionea lenei i se tasi o aoga fa’afoma’i kerisiano, ma fa’ai’u manuia mai ai lana aoga fa’afoma’i, ae fetaui loa ma le maliliu o ona matua fai sa laua tausia o ia mo le tele o tausaga, ae tofia ai loa o ia e galue i se tasi o falema’i a le malo i le aai tonu lea o lo o i ai le ulugali’i o Mekala ma lona to’alua, fa’apea ai le tamaloa o Meki ma lona to’alua faiaoga ia Lucy. E malu ifo loa le afiafi o le aso lea ae taunu’u loa le ti’eti’ega a le ali’i foma’i ma le tamaloa o Pulusi, le to’alua o le fafine saua o Mekala i le nofoaga sa nonofo muamua ai le ulugali’i lenei i tausaga ua mavae. “O iinei lea sa ma nonofo ai ma lo’u to’alua ma matou mafuta ai i lou Tina sa ia fanauina oe. O lou Tina sa avea ma pologa ia maua, ae sa ma alolofa i ai ma tausi fa’alelei ia te ia, seia oo i le taimi na ia manatu ai e tuua le aiga ae aga’i ese atu ma lana fanau e to’alua, o oe ma lou tuafafine”, o le fa’amatalaga lea a le Toeaina mai o Pulusi i le ali’i foma’i na mafua ona fesili le ali’i foma’i, “Afai o a’u ma lo’u tuafafine le fanau a lo’u Tina, o fea la o i ai lo’u tuafafine i le taimi nei”.

E LE O OE O SE SULI MONI

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Wild have re-signed right wings Kurtis Gabriel and Zack Mitchell and goalie Steve Michalek to one-year, two-way contracts.

The deals with the three restricted free agents were done Monday, adding to the many moves by the Wild this summer to bolster organi-zational depth for in-season call-ups and injury insurance. Gabriel and Michalek will get $715,000 in the NHL and $70,000 in the AHL. Mitchell will get $660,000 in the NHL and $70,000 in the AHL.

Gabriel was a third-round draft pick in 2013. He played 40 games for AHL Iowa last season, with eight goals, two assists and 68 penalty minutes. Gabriel has played in 20 career games for the Wild, four in the playoffs.

Mitchell, who signed with the Wild three years ago as an undrafted prospect out of Cana-dian major juniors, played in 11 games for the Wild last season. He had 11 goals and 11 assists in 62 games for Iowa.

Michalek had a 2.63 goals-against average and .919 save percentage in 30 games for Iowa last season. He was a sixth-round draft pick in 2011.

Wild re-sign forwards

Gabriel and Mitchell, goalie

Michalek

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics sports doctor accused of sexually assaulting dozens of women and girls plans to plead guilty to unre-lated charges of possession of child pornography.

A court document shows that Dr. Larry Nassar is due in federal court Tuesday to change his plea from not guilty to guilty.

Nassar was a sports medi-cine specialist at Michigan State, especially in treating gymnasts in the region. He also worked for Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics, which trains Olympians.

Besides the child porn case, Nassar is charged with sexually assaulting nine women or girls in three criminal cases in the Lansing area.

Michigan sports doctor

to plead guilty to having child

porn

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DEAR ABBY: My husband and I went on a trip with his brother and his wife recently. Three days into the trip, while we were having dinner at a restaurant, my sister-in-law yelled at me, “Shut up! You talk too much!” I was stunned. Then my husband said, “I agree with her.” Words cannot express how surprised and hurt I felt.

I do sometimes talk a lot when I’m excited, but no one has ever said this to me, certainly not my husband. The next day I felt very angry, especially at my husband for siding with her against me in public. I asked him to please tell me when we are alone if he has a problem with something I said or did, rather than embarrass me. I feel betrayed and angry. What should I do? -- ANGRY AND HURT

DEAR ANGRY AND HURT: Your feelings are justified. Your sister-in-law may have been frustrated at your verbosity, but she should not have attacked you at the dinner table. Her “helpful criticism” should have been offered privately and in gentler terms. The same is true about your husband, who should not have ganged up on you. What he did was hurtful, not helpful. Both of them owe you an apology.

** ** ** DEAR ABBY: My fiancee and I had a party. A very good friend of mine came with her 4-year-old

daughter, “Emma.” It grew late and my friend wanted to stay for a while, so we put Emma in our bed to sleep (the guest room was unavailable).

After going upstairs to get Emma later in the evening, my friend came downstairs with Emma and told us that the child had wet our bed. Not wanting to make Emma feel bad, we said it was no problem.

My friend did not strip the bed, offer to wash the sheets, or anything. She hasn’t mentioned it since, and didn’t follow up to make sure we were able to get the urine out of our bedding and the mattress. I find this to be incredibly rude and inconsiderate, but at the same time, what’s done is done and there was no lasting damage. Should I say something to my friend, or let it go? -- ACCIDENT IN THE BEDROOM

DEAR ACCIDENT: Let it go. You should have spoken up about your true feelings when the accident happened. In the future, consider purchasing a moisture-resistant mattress cover for your bed and the one in the guest room in case of “accidents.” It may reduce the “ick” factor if you’re squeamish.

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Happy Birthday: Unexpected developments will set you off. Try to loosen up and embrace any challenge that comes your way. Find new ways to improve your skills, attitude and your appearance. Keep up with the times. Your numbers are 6, 17, 24, 29, 33, 41, 45.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Focus on what you can do for others. Whether it’s a partner, child or parent, the help and insight you offer will encourage productive choices. Arguing will be a waste of time. Offer your solutions and move on to your own responsibilities✸✸✸✸

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Emotions must not be allowed to interfere with domestic or voca-tional decisions. A reserved and well-thought-out plan will ensure that you don’t end up taking a loss for something you didn’t mean to do. Caution will be your best bet. ✸✸

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Personal improvements should be on your to-do list. Gathering infor-mation and making physical alterations to the way you live, work and handle your relationships will bring about positive changes and greater satisfaction. Romance is encouraged. ✸✸✸✸✸

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Notice what’s happening around you and use what you see to your advantage. Put more energy into whatever you pursue and show greater enthusiasm when dealing with others, and you will get more in return. Choose to participate. ✸✸✸

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Partnerships will play a role in the way you handle outside matters. Don’t feel the need to impress someone by overspending or making changes instead of being yourself and doing what’s best for you. Love conquers all. ✸✸✸

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Refuse to let anyone talk you into something by playing on your emo-tions. Stay focused on what you can do and put your physical strength, courage and skills to the test. Don’t stop until you reach your goals. ✸✸✸

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Engage in social activities related to your work or getting ahead in your field. Picking up more skills, knowledge and connecting with the elite in your genre will lead to new beginnings that offer you greater opportunities to advance. ✸✸✸✸✸

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Keep an open mind when dealing with domestic matters. It’s impor-tant to see all sides of a situation if you want to resolve pending problems. Personal changes to the way you handle finances, medical and legal issues are encouraged. ✸✸

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Put common goals in place and you will entice someone you want to spend more time with to join you. Partnerships should be your top priority. Expand your plans to include the people you care about most.✸✸✸✸

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Stay away from anyone unpredictable or impulsive. It’s in your best interest to stick to what you know best. Your intuition will be accurate and should be your deciding factor when dealing with others. ✸✸✸

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You can stabilize your position at work and at home by contrib-uting to whatever plans are being made. A contract, partnership or personal gain looks promising if you are realistic as well as innovative. Romance is highlighted.✸✸✸

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Question anyone who pokes their nose into your personal or profes-sional affairs. Know where you stand and be willing to put your energy into something you want to see happen. Don’t allow someone to mess with your time or your plans.✸✸✸

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folder 23 ___ cocktail 26 Semester 28 Glib sales

pitch 30 Conde-

scends 34 Luxury hotel

feature 37 Castle’s

water protection

39 Light-filled courtyards

40 Henry sold you a gas-guzzling car to put a ...

44 San Antonio mission

45 Urgings or cravings

46 It serves the queen

47 Common pet rodent

49 Takes a break

52 Landed 54 Prepare a

contract

57 Look over 60 Window to

the world 62 Misplaces 64 Henry’s lack

of income leads to ...

68 Sleeper’s problem

69 Lingering sound effect

70 El ___, Texas 71 Like an

unkempt lawn

72 Lower leg part

73 Killed, as a dragon

DOWN 1 Soreness 2 Bank

offerings 3 It lasts

weeks 4 Interroga-

tors 5 “Alice” TV

spin-off 6 “7 Faces

of Dr. ___” (film)

7 Faris of TV and film

8 Tiniest 9 Ham sailed

on it 10 Pistol maker 11 To the safe

side, at sea 12 Ball ___

hammer 13 “While”

attachment, once

18 Excursion 19 Backyard

building

24 Actress Rogers

25 Flashy spring flower

27 Bottom or back

29 Productive hen

31 Snatch 32 When many

clock in 33 Behalf 34 Deer sir? 35 Carpet

characteris-tic

36 Food thickener

38 All muscled up

41 Protected with dirt mounds

42 Irritate or muddy up

43 Country renamed in 1991

48 In ___ of (substituting for)

50 Type of powder

51 Darts down

53 Writes, on a computer

55 “I’ll have the ___”

56 As such 57 Artie or

George Bernard

58 Superman has one

59 Actress Hathaway

61 Carve deeply

63 Pack away 65 Unit of

sunlight 66 ___-Town

(Cubs’ domain)

67 “Hither” partner

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Once upon a time, a young man passed his exams to become a teacher. He trav-eled to take a position in a brand-new school in a faraway village. He moved into a tiny hut on the edge of the river because the school was not yet built. He waited eagerly for the coming school year.

One evening, he stood by the river and watched the sunset. The night was very quiet, and the colors dancing on the river were beautiful. He inhaled deeply, enjoying the summer scents. Suddenly, he noticed a gleaming light on the river-bank, and he walked closer to see what it was.

He was startled to find a coffin there, with light emanating from inside. For a long while he stood and wondered what to do. He thought the light might be coming from jewels buried inside the coffin -- jewels sent to help the dead find their way in the darkness.

“This is as it should be,” the teacher murmured. The dead must be honored.

He turned away, but he could not resist the thought of all those jewels, and soon he forgot about respecting the dead. Over-come by greed, he picked up a rock and broke open the coffin lid. He bent over and looked inside.

There lay a young man, his face gaunt, a mourning turban wrapped around his head. The teacher was suddenly filled with awe, sorrow and fear. As he stood up, he saw the corpse’s eyes look directly into his. Before the teacher could run away, the corpse started to rise.

The teacher was terrified. He ran up the hill toward his hut. He heard the corpse climbing out of the coffin and begin to chase after him. The teacher could hear the corpse’s footsteps coming closer. He ran as fast as he could to his home. Inside, he quickly locked the door behind him. He was just in time.

He sat on the floor to catch his breath and listened at the door. But he heard nothing. “Perhaps I was dreaming,” he said to himself. “My imagination has gotten the better of me.” He tried to laugh.

He stood and walked to the window. He peered outside, but saw nothing, as the sun had gone down and it was dark. He listened but heard only the flowing river, chirping crickets and a light breeze. He opened the window and looked down.

That’s when he saw the corpse leaning against the wall of his hut. The moment

the window opened, the corpse jumped inside.

Terrified, the teacher ran for his door and escaped outside. But he was running so fast, he tripped and fell and hit his head hard against a rock. A few days passed, and the schoolchildren arrived at the teacher’s hut for their first lessons. They discovered the door was locked, and so they called inside, “Hello, sir. We are here for school.” No one answered their calls or their knocks. The children walked around and peered into the window but saw nothing. The oldest boy turned to the others. “Let us break in,” he said. He was big and strong, and he pushed on the door until at long last it flew open.

When the students walked inside, they discovered their teacher collapsed on the floor.

As they had learned from their elders, the children sprinkled the teacher with ginger. They knew that this might wake someone from a deep slumber. But the teacher did not move.

The children then called a doctor. Soon after the doctor arrived, the teacher opened his eyes and sat up.

“What happened?” thet doctor asked him. Ashamed of his greed, the teacher confessed to everything that had hap-pened. The schoolchildren, the doctor and the teacher then searched the house for the corpse.

They found it lying dead outside, where the teacher remembered falling. The next day, the teacher announced he would resign his position. He explained to the children, “I am not fit to be your teacher, for I let greed overcome my honor, good-ness and integrity. Learn from my errors. I almost lost my life because of this, and I have lost the right to call myself a good man and your teacher.”

The children were sad, but they under-stood and learned the lesson well. As for the teacher? He returned to his native vil-lage and lived the rest of his days working to be as good and generous a man as he could be.

TELL ME A STORY: THE PRICE OF GREED(AN ASIAN FOLKTALE)

adapted by Amy Friedman and illustrated by Meredith Johnson