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“I’m very excited and I’ll try to do my best (in Saturday’s long program),” the shy teen said.
Keegan Messing, who fell on his quad toe loop and goes into Saturday’s free program in second with 87.18 points, had more to say about Gogolev’s stunning performance.
Nam Nguyen, who won a national senior title at 16 — the 2014-15 season Patrick Chan sat out — is third (85.73).
Charles Snelling holds the record for youngest senior men’s champion at 16, set in 1954.
Gabrielle Daleman won the women’s short program in her first competition since announcing she was taking a mental health break. Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje won the short dance program, while Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro are the pairs leaders.
Gogolev, who weighs all of 90 pounds, can already reel off a laundry list of quadruple jumps that eluded countless Canadian stars before him. He has three different quads — Lutz, toe loop and Salchow — planned for Saturday’s long program.
Regardless of Saturday’s outcome, Gogolev is already rewriting the record book. He won his first junior Grand Prix in Bratislava, Slovakia, last fall, landing three different quads in his free program and becoming the first Canadian and youngest skater ever to land a quad Lutz in competition.
Gogolev can’t compete on the senior Grand Prix circuit for another two years, and won’t be eligible to skate at the world senior championships until 2021 — a year before the Beijing Olympics.
“Yes, we’ve done the math,” Mike Slipchuk, Skate Canada’s high performance director, said laughing in an interview last fall.
The teen was just 10th in his senior debut at last year’s Canadian championships, but said that event was a good learning experience.
“Yeah I feel more confident and comfortable, because last year was the first time I had a really big crowd, and that was a good experience for me,” Gogolev said.
Weaver and Poje, meanwhile, believe they have the best of both worlds this season. The ice dancers soaked up the show tour environment in two gruelling months spent on the cross-country Thank You Canada Tour. And they have the technical savvy that’s earned them three world championship medals in their dozen years toget...
On Friday, they were the proverbial full package, winning the short dance in their first competition in four months.
Skating to please a panel of judges once again was a “little bit different,” Poje said.
Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier are second (83.08).
Weaver and Poje have skated in the shadow of two-time Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir for virtually their entire career. But on Friday, Weaver, dressed in a gauzy rose-gold dress, and Poje in a shirt, vest, and black slacks, enchanted the crowd at Harbour Station arena with their sizzling tango.
Having only to focus on two performances this week is a welcome break from the Thank You tour grind that saw them do 28 shows across Canada.
Weaver and Poje are poised to capture their third Canadian title. They’ve been perennial runners-up to Virtue and Moir, capturing gold during Virtue and Moir’s two-year hiatus.
They’ll be pushed in Saturday’s free dance by Gilles and Poirier, who edged Weaver and Poje for silver at last year’s national championships, one of four silvers they’ve won at the event.
Skating to “Angelica’s Tango,” Gilles and Poirier earned an appreciative roar from the crowd.
“It’s really just the amount of training that we’ve done and the amount of thought that we’ve put behind this program,” Poirier said on their solid skate. “Every day we come and in and try to think about our characters, and what we’re trying to portray, what each moment means in the program.
Moore-Towers and Marinaro scored 71.47 for their skate to Leona Lewis’s version of “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” Evelyn Walsh and Trennt Michaud were second with 65.20, while Camille Ruest and Drew Wolfe were third (62.46).
Daleman, a 21-year-old from Newmarket, Ont., scored 70.18 points for her program to “Habanera,” by Georges Bizet.
The 2017 world bronze medallist and a two-time Canadian champion announced in October she was withdrawing from Skate Canada International to focus on her mental health. She also withdrew from her second Grand Prix assignment, the NHK Trophy in Japan, effectively ending her fall competition season.
Larkyn Austman of Vancouver was second in the short program, scoring 64.53, while Veronik Mallet of Sept-Iles, Que., was third with 60.55.
Skate Canada officials said earlier this week Daleman preferred not to speak to media until after Saturday’s free program. She’s been open in the past discussing her battles with an eating disorder and a learning disability.
Daleman was part of the Canadian squad that won gold in the team event at the Pyeongchang Olympics. But she fell three times during a disastrous long program in the singles event and burst into tears when the music stopped.
It may not feel like fall outside, but one of the biggest draws for Halloween is already getting ready for the spooky season.
Fright Dome at the Adventuredome at Circus Circus will be hosting several job fairs in an effort to fill 400 positions.
Applicant interviews will take place on the following dates at the Circus Circus in the Skyrise Casino on the main level.
Saturday, Aug. 16: 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 17: 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 23: 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 24: 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 6: 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 7: 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.
All applicants must bring a valid government-issued ID and Social Security card. People must be 18 years and older to apply.
This year’s Fright Dome will include six new haunted houses, scare zones and live shows.
The iconic Southern California retailer Fred Segal will be holding another job fair this week for the stores it is opening inside the SLS Las Vegas.
Fred Segal Collective will have a job fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Marshall Retail Group, 5385 Wynn Road.
The retailer is looking to fill 60 positions for seven planned boutiques inside the hotel and casino. The job opportunities include everything from store manager to sales associate for both part time and full time.
Those interested can apply online at marshallretailgroup.com/sls-careers.
The iconic Southern California retailer Fred Segal will be opening stores inside the new SLS Las Vegas this fall and it needs workers.
The store will be holding a job fair Wednesday from 1 to 6 p.m. at Marshall Retail Group, 5385 Wynn Road.
Positions available include store managers, assistant managers and sales associates both part-time and full-time. In all, the store is looking to fill 60 positions.
The retailer will have seven boutiques scattered through out the newly remodeled property on the Las Vegas Strip.
People who could not attend Wednesday’s job fair can submit an application online at slslasvegas.com/careers.
One of the Strip's newest properties is in a hiring frenzy. The Cromwell, which is what the remodeled Bill's Gamblin' Hall is now called, held a hiring fair Monday for nearly 200 food and beverage jobs. The resort is mostly hiring bartenders and waitresses at this point.
Anyone who missed out on Monday's job fair, don't worry the Cromwell has about 1,000 openings that it needs to fill before the opening. They will be holding job fairs in the next few weeks to do so.
"It is great! We are really proud that we're providing so many jobs between the Cromwell and The Linq. It is exciting to have that happening in Las Vegas. We're really proud to be the ones that are able to bring that," Vice President and General Manager of the Cromwell Karie Hall said.
Officials at the resort say they got hundreds of applicants Monday and were planning on interviewing people until 5 p.m. The Cromwell's grand opening is in May.
A famous New York Italian restaurant is opening a branch at Caesars Palace and is looking for workers.
Carmine's at the Forum Shops is holding a job fair June 19 to fill more than 300 positions, including servers, bartenders, bar backs, hosts, porters, and bussers.
When opened, the restaurant will have 750 seats.
The job fair is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the restaurant. Applicants must come to the restaurant to fill out an application.
According to Las Vegas economists, 2012 was a big year for the valley with 800,000 more visitors coming to the Las Vegas Strip.
Economists say convention traffic played a big role in those increasing numbers.
An estimated $4.1 billion was generated by the convention industry last year as the city played host to 10 major shows. The Las Vegas Convention Center alone accounted for about one in four convention visits.
However, it is not just spending at the actual convention. It is also the spending convention-goers do outside the convention hall.
"I did some gambling at the slot machines, and went to the buffet there," vendor Steve Lee said.
That is the type of spending that helps boost the Strip's bottom line and supports nearly half of the valley's workforce, Jeremy Aguero with Applied Analysis said, during a presentation to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority Tuesday.
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Allegations of sexual abuse, confinement, and beatings with crowbars, belts, whips and a coat hanger are among the claims detailed in recently released police documents connected with the ongoing investigation into the ultra-orthodox Jewish sect Lev Tahor.
The documents, the allegations of which have not been proven in court, outline information used to obtain search warrants executed in January on properties belonging to Lev Tahor families in both Ontario and Quebec. The documents chronicle a litany of allegations that paint a picture of a community whose women and chil...
The heavily censored police documents recount interviews with members of the community, social workers and unnamed witnesses dating back to 2012. The names of any children mentioned are protected by a publication ban.
Several items were seized in the searches, though it is unclear exactly what was found and what specific offences were being investigated. Nachman Helbrans, the son of sect leader Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans, said the allegations are untrue and the result of a campaign being waged against them by former members.
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“It’s against all the way of life in Lev Tahor to use force for any small or big issue. No one dreams about using force. Based on all this I wonder what makes now to make the search warrant just after we left Quebec,” he said.
The new batch of documents adds to a slew of allegations mounting against the sect and its leaders. Court testimony delivered at a Quebec hearing that would ultimately order the removal of 14 children alleged a pattern of psychological abuse and control, poor physical and dental hygiene and a substandard education regi...
The group fled the province ahead of the order, leaving behind their homes in Sainte-Agathes-des-Monts for Chatham, Ont., prompting an Ontario court judge to review the Quebec order. He upheld the order for 13 of the 14 children.
The documents reveal that the sect has been under investigation for nearly two years, with allegations going back to May 2012.
The new documents allege that in December 2012, a 17-year-old pregnant girl, who was taken to hospital by ambulance, was sexually abused by her father and beaten by her brother, adding that she had been married off at age 15. The documents say the 17-year-old girl was “in a psychosis” and incapable of being interviewed...
Disobedient girls as young as 13 and 14 were confined in basements of the homes, the documents allege. A report from social workers says a 14-year-old girl they interviewed did not want to return to the community out of fear of marriage, and says she was being intimidated to keep her silent.
“She doesn’t want to return to the community because she is promised to a man, she is very scared and seems to be very indoctrinated and members of the community are very present (redacted) to intimidate this young girl so that she does not talk,” the documents state. The 14-year-old girl said that her father hit her i...
A person interviewed by police in the documents said he witnessed one member ordered to hit a woman in the face because she refused to wear a burqa-like covering as dictated by Shlomo Helbrans.
The documents also allege children were brought to Canada from other countries under a false pretext when they were really being brought for a future marriage. Children in the sect were allegedly told “there are black angels who will come find them and they will burn them in hell,” according to the documents.
A person in the community was allegedly in charge of a committee that would oversee the parenting behaviour of families. If they were deemed to not be following religious guidelines, the committee leader would remove the children and place them with a different Lev Tahor family, the documents allege.
Helbrans told the Star that occasionally families would ask for help with their children and that they weren’t forcibly removed. “Oh my goodness, if someone do that, you have to sit behind bars for years for kidnapping. There were families that were asking help,” he said.
The sect posted a video of Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans early Friday morning, before the release of the documents, in which he denies all allegations against the sect and accuses judges, child-protection workers and politicians of waging a campaign of “genocide” against Lev Tahor.
The warrants were sought to obtain “computer files and any related materials as well as anything else pertinent to demonstrate the elements constituting the infraction alleged in the warrant,” according to the materials. The alleged infraction was redacted.
Quebec police and local officers searched two homes in the sect’s Chatham community in late January. Searches were also conducted on homes in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts that belong to sect members. The warrants and the information used to obtain them were sealed by a court order; a coalition of media outlets, including th...
Sûreté du Québec, the provincial police force, along with the Quebec child protection authority were permitted to censor the document prior to its release in accordance with privacy laws.
On Feb. 3, Ontario Court of Justice Judge Stephen Fuerth ruled that 13 of the children should be returned to Quebec and subject to the order from that province. One of the original children, who is also a mother herself, is no longer a child under Ontario law because she is 17 years old.
The judge’s order was stayed for 30 days to allow the sect time to appeal. According to a leader of the sect who did not want to be named, the appeal will be filed Feb. 25.
Originally from Medellin, Colombia, John Perez came to the states when he was three years old. He is a strong leader in the queer, undocumented movement.
Later this morning, President Obama is expected to announce a big change in immigration policy.
His administration will stop deporting young illegal immigrants and offer those eligibe indefinite work permits.
This would apply to people who are now younger than 30 years old and were brought to the U.S. before they were 16 years old.
Additionally, they must have no criminal history, they must have been in the country for five consecutive years, and they must have graduated from high school, received a GED or served in the military.
This policy has many of the elements of the Dream Act, which has languished in Congress for more than a decade.
Justino Mora is a 22 year-old Computer Science major at UCLA.
How will Mitt Romney respond to President Obama’s immigration announcement?
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Eight years before the Civil War nearly tore the United States in two, the imperial armies of Russia, Great Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire met on the battlefields of the Crimean peninsula for what would become the first truly modern war.
By the start of the conflict, in 1853, the industrial revolution had arrived, creating mass urban landscapes, new methods of manufacturing, and vast gains in productivity. But with the rise of industry also came a revolution in warfare. Trains transformed logistics, the telegraph sped up communication, and modern rifle...
And, unlike wars past, the home front was not sheltered from such battlefield horrors. The Crimean War was the first conflict to be covered in real time by journalists, who sent their dispatches by telegraph back to London, Berlin, and Paris. The very citizens whose sons bore the war’s cost were therefore kept abreast ...
This news came not only in words, but also in pictures.
Technically, the first battlefield photographs were taken during the Mexican-American War. But it is British photographer Roger Fenton who is considered the first war photographer, a distinction he gained for pictures he took in Crimea.
During his time in Crimea, Fenton extensively photographed the landscape and took portraits of soldiers and officers, but he did not capture the embedded view of combat we are accustomed to today. “There are no actual combat scenes, nor are there any scenes of the devastating effects of war,” the Library of Congress ex...
Today, Crimea, the peninsula that juts from southern Ukraine, is back in the news. After pro-European revolutionaries overthrew Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, pro-Russian forces seized the regional parliament in Crimea and have threatened to secede. Russian President Vladimir Putin has backed Ukraine’s pro-Russ...

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