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The 'Kingdom' Strikes Twice- Double Whammy on Post-study Skilled Immigrants.
by Nandita Dogra
The Government of the United Kingdom expects a set of its immigrants already within UK to perform a special miracle – time travel. It has asked its skilled Post-study Work (PSW) visa-holders to go back in time and conjure up additional earnings for the preceding/current annual period in order to retrospectively fulfil two revisions in the conditions for Highly-Skilled Migration Programme (HSMP) brought in on 6 April 2010 and then again on 19 July 2010.
I am compelled to write this piece as I realise how uninformed people, especially my fellow 'progressive' middle classes who are forever claiming to be 'pro-immigration', 'fairness' and 'human rights' and usually focusing on the truly 'needy' amongst the immigrants, are about immigration. The immediate purpose is to highlight two recent instances of arbitrariness and sheer stealth and lawlessness- skilled PSWs already in the UK are being effectively and retrospectively capped out by not one but two sets of detrimental changes introduced within less than four months by both Labour and Conservative-LibDem governments, a fact which has found little space in the media. It is hoped that this piece would also be read in the legal and political circles who will act upon it to revoke these revisions thrust upon PSWs.
The moot question and one that is easily missed is- who are the immigrants? While the total number of migrants remains confusing with different figures being thrown up to prove any and every point, the statistics further blur the distinctions amongst immigrants to abet the war cries against immigrants. Media discourses and public opinion too tend to lump immigrants into broad, usually two, boxes of 'white' (Euro-American-Australian) and 'non-white' ('Third World'). The former do not really matter (read as we cannot see them as separate we do not want to know how, their usually opportunistic, comings and goings affect our economy- it must be a good thing, no question of asking them to prove their loyalty to 'British' values and nation- they are one of 'us'). The whole debate on immigration is about the latter and the conflation of the myriad categories of these immigrants, defined both by the government and actually existing on the ground, results in generalisations, hysteria, mismanagement, perverse policies which often even harm Britain and her interests and, of course, untold problems for the immigrants.
The shrill voices against the 'spongers' of Britain and her welfare systems- asylum-seekers, family members of often working class first or second generation immigrant British citizens who tend to be 'over-reproductive' and add to the already-full nation- are the staple of many debates and I do not want to add to the noise pollution. But what about that segment of 'non-whites' whom Britain, in its official rhetoric and policies, needs and actively seeks usually competing with other 'developed' nations who also claim to want them in their own countries? These are the skilled categories both in education and employment. It is time to highlight some key issues about them and the Points-based System (PBS) they fall under. I will not provide complete details of this system not only because anyone really interested can easily access them through the relevant government websites but because they are a virtual minefield of ever-changing legalese and government-speak that only the brave (or the stuck immigrants) can wade through. I will merely highlight the main rules under this system, especially of the Highly-skilled Migration Programme (HSMP) and some individual stories of the lost children of this system to make the readers aware of what exactly the system allows and expects and to judge for themselves the policies of governments and underlying ideologies they reflect.
Regarding students, the only point worth highlighting is that every international student pays tuition fee that is approximately four times of what is paid by a British citizen. There are some exceptions depending on the college and degree with some Masters and MBA degrees, particularly in the high-ranked institutions, charging the same fees from both sets of students. Except for those who get scholarships and other help, there is no subsidy for international students. Foreign students are, hence, a huge, often the major, source of income for many educational institutions. Those who complain about annual tuition fees of £3000 should take a moment to reflect on the struggles of those who have to meet such quadrupled sums. And before we begin arguing about rich 'Arab' and 'American' students, it should be stressed that international students are far from homogenous and come from different nations and financial backgrounds. What is clear is that the higher education fees structure implicitly weeds out any 'sponging' by, first, checking the financial credentials of potential students and then making the students do whatever it takes- beg, borrow, earn- to meet their education costs. Foreign students also have no "recourse to public funds" i.e. any help from the government and the study period does not count towards rights of stay in the UK even if this period lasts 5 years or more, for example, for a doctorate. Yes there are many dodgy educational institutions with fake students that the government is not aware of/aware but doing nothing about/indirectly encouraging the establishment and perpetuation of linked to its own policies and structures, and these should be curbed but foreign students in established UK institutions subsidise the country, not the other way around.
On completion of higher education, an international student can stay on in the UK for a limited period, again without any rights to public funds or resident-ship under the 'Post-study Work Visa' (PSW). This rule was brought in only a few years back after comparative reviews with other nations, especially the USA, Australia and New Zealand, to discourage students from preferring these countries. Initially, it was open only to postgraduates and the period allowed was a year which was later increased to a maximum of 2 years. Anyone applying for PSW must fulfill specific criteria of education, financial backup and savings to take care of self and family and of course English language. PSW is strictly a transition period during which one has to unequivocally prove one's 'fitness' to stay on in the UK. It is the time allowed to get sponsored by an employer or meet the difficult conditions of HSMP that is the visa one 'graduates' to. HSMP is a scheme to sift the highly skilled from the non-skilled and there is no arguing that it does require laying down certain criteria. The trouble is that instead of fixing these criteria for a reasonable period the government repeatedly keeps manipulating the sub criteria for attributes and changing both the minimum level and weightage of each criterion. In other words, 'high skills' keep getting redefined at a frenetic pace as per the immediate politics and then dumped on to the immigrants. This makes the same person suddenly ineligible after already having started his/her period under the visa.
Over the last few years the fitness tests namely the criteria for HSMP have been made more and more stringent with the rules being changed almost each year and even during the course of a current valid visa. The changes include increase in both the overall period of HSMP from 4 to 5 years as well as hikes in income required resulting in litigations as many have lost their visas despite fulfilling the conditions for a significant part of the required period. These changes have been brought in quietly by later Labour government as a part of its tough on immigration policy, a fact neither the party concerned nor the new government would care to call attention to now.
In June this year the new government declared an immigration 'cap' with immediate effect and stricter conditions for HSMP. The general impression is that this cap and revised conditions would not affect the highly skilled who are already here but this is incorrect. Further, what very few realise is that HSMP conditions had already been made extremely stringent less than three months back in April by the outgoing Labour government and applied retrospectively to PSWs. The new government, totally ignoring the recent revisions, has brought in a second revision which means that two detrimental changes have been brought in by UK during the same year within less than 4 months, flagrantly changing the conditions of those who are already here.
Revised position for existing PSW visa holders on 6 April 2010 (Labour Government)
To pass the points-based assessment and be accepted into the highly skilled worker category, you must score a total of 95 points- a) 75 points for your attributes (age, qualifications, previous earnings, and experience in the United Kingdom), b) 10 points for English language; and, c) 10 points for available maintenance (funds). On 6 April 2010 the criteria for attributes were changed across the subcategories of age, qualifications, previous earnings and experience. As it is the subtotal of these points that makes one qualify or disqualify any reduction in the points of one implies that one must increase the points for another which is usually impossible during the given period. Each extra earnings range of £5-10,000 per year (depending on one's age and other factors) qualifies for 5 or 10 points. In April the minimum income for all was increased and applied also to the PSWs already in the UK.
Illustration- X is a 32 year old post-graduate from a UK university on a PSW visa. For her age, qualifications and UK experience she gets a total of 50 points (10-Age, 5- UK experience, 35 -MA). Soon after she began her PSW last year, she got a job with £38,000 per annum salary (which equals 40 points then), no mean achievement if we see average earnings in the UK and more so during these recessionary times. As she needs to show documentary proof of at least 12 months' continuous work and income, she can apply for the HSMP only after the new rules have been brought in, according to which, her current salary, which was way above the qualifying limit when she started PSW, is no longer enough. So she can either accept her sudden, totally unjustified, disqualification and write off the massive tuition fees, taxes and visa fees paid and leave UK or she must somehow 'manage' an extra income of £2000 for the same annual period and show an income of £40,000 that would get her 5 extra points and enable her to qualify for the revised HSMP and satisfy the authorities. Numerous other examples can be worked out. In April the Labour Government also reduced the points given for a PhD leading to similar problems for those affected in addition to the general hike in income requirements.
Re-revised position for existing visa holders on 19 July 2010 (Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government)
The qualifying points for income, age and qualifications have been raised from 75 to 80 (total from 95 to 100). The coalition government's move fails to consider that tightening had already been done by the previous government which officially kept the points at 75 but raised the conditions to attain these points. The net effect of each is real and the two consecutive changes have piled up to adversely affect the PSWs twice.
X, whose example was given earlier, is now required to gain 30 points, instead of 25 as she was expected to do on/after 6 April 2010, from her current/preceding annual earnings. This means a salary of £50,000- X has to conjure up an extra £10,000 per annum, in addition to the extra £2000 required of her in April (she could do this prospectively if she still has 12 more months of a valid PSW visa left and can find a job that pays her £50,000 per annum during these recessionary times- clearly a near impossible task. And who knows how many revisions will come into force during the next 12 months?).
The 3 different minimum qualifying annual income levels that X has to maintain, depending on the date on which she submits her HSMP application, are given below to highlight the illegality, unfairness and sheer absurdity of the changed rules –
March 2010- £26000 (=25 points)
April 2010- £40,000 (=25 points)
July 2010- £50,000 (=30 points)
Within 4 months, to attain 25-30 points for earnings one has to earn nearly double the income till March 2010 (£26,000) – the qualifying income has been hiked first by 14,000 in April and then by another 10,000 in July, a total of £24,000.
The earnings range for qualifying points are also totally arbitrary with 5-10 points for each £5000 till the income limit of £39,999, then suddenly these are hiked by £10,000 for 5 points for the income range £40,000 to £49,999, and reduced once again to £5000 in the range £50-54999. This means that a substantial number of migrants falling in the approximate range of £30-50,000 income per annum will be greatly affected. Is it the case that the government already knows that this is the range most of PSWs are likely to fall under and hence a very secure source of extra taxes or the opportunity to force them to leave?
It seems clear that the real motivation of all successive UK governments, irrespective of the party politics, is extracting more money. Each extra requirement of £10,000 income means approximately £2-4,000 additional tax income per annum. Since April 2010 the consecutive governments have already ensured that this is achieved not just once but twice doubling the gain to the UK exchequer without any regard for law or fairness. And those who are unable to miraculously muster these extra incomes to meet the ever-changing and highly unrealistic and demanding conditions can be told to go back as UK has already pocketed the tuition fees at international rates, cheap labour and taxes they have contributed over the previous years. To many it is clearly a continuation of colonialism and never-ending colonial greed, albeit in a carefully hidden form. Scholars would also identify its stealthy operationalisation as an essential part of 'Britishness'.
Skilled immigrants are a highly diverse lot with skills and knowledge in a range of subjects and fields. The image of a high flier banker who can perhaps stay immune to the vagaries of immigration rules does not do justice to the, much neglected, HSMP immigrant, an immigrant who is neither entitled to nor ever uses public funds and instead provides the much-needed skills and high taxes to fund UK's 'overstretched' infrastructure. These seemingly 'bookkeeping' changes are unjustly affecting many for whom the world could have been their oyster had they foreseen the volatile politics of immigration in Britain. And these rules and their constant 'strengthening' reveal not just the use of immigrants as pawns in party and racial politics but deeper claims of fairness the country claims globally. If UK cannot appreciate highly skilled people it has sought from across the globe, it can at least stop being hypocritical and luring them here under false pretext. No country has the right to pretend to invite skilled people, extract their skills and money, and then turn around to say it has changed its mind. It cannot be anyone's prerogative, least of all of a nation that has gained immeasurably from the largest empire in recent history. Many words starting with the letter 'c' come to mind- cap, crafty, colonial.


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By Share Godsword
Published on 02/14/2012
A father teaches his son to ask God for wisdom.
Read Proverbs 3–4
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths
. Proverbs 3:5–6 NKJV
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The wisest thing that Solomon ever did was to acknowledge his own limitations and ask God for wisdom. There is a reason why Solomon knew he needed to do this: He says,
When I was a boy in my father's house, still tender, and an only child of my mother, he taught me and said "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding
." (Proverbs 4:3–4a, 7 NIV) Solomon heeded his father David's sound advice, and asked God for a wise and discerning heart, which God was more than happy to give.
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We cannot overestimate the importance of our influence on our children. Both good and bad kings in the Bible were influenced by their parents. David started teaching a very young Solomon that the beginning of wisdom is the fear of God, and as a result, Solomon started out in the right direction.
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Lord, I pray for the salvation of each one of our children. Help us to be faithful in teaching them to seek after You, asking for Your guidance in both small and large decisions.
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Listen, my son, accept what I say, and the years of your life will be many. I guide you in the way of wisdom and lead you along straight paths
. Proverbs 4:10–11 NIV


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Since our taxes are too low here, Vice Plagiarist Joe Biden joined up with those calling for a "Global Minimum Tax." You can never pay enough in taxes. Three Senators, including one RINO (Republican In Name Only) Lindsey Graham, proposed a "carbon tax" on gasoline in March 2010. Senators Lindsey Graham, Joe Lieberman and John Kerry came up with this idiotic idea, with an initial tax (sure to go up from there) of 20 cents per gallon. Lindsey reached across the aisle to help his liberal Democrat pals. What did gasoline cost under G.W. Bush, $1.78?
Egypt gets $1.3 billion per year from us in foreign aid, or $1.3 X 1,000 X 1,000,000. That's big bucks. It's $3,561,644 per day. Egypt openly hates the USA, but not enough to turn down our generosity. RINO Arlen Specter proposed "power sharing" with his Democrat pals. A few years later Snarlin' Arlen re-switched parties and again became a Democrat in 2009, trying to hang on to his Senate seat. He lost anyway. He died in 2012.
I didn't realize this - states set their own tax rates on lottery winnings, apparently not in line with normal state tax rates. You're better off to win in a state with no income tax, of course. Tennessee, Texas and Florida come to mind.
"Liberals depend on stupid."
I DID realize this.
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I have posted so much hatred for this figure already that I am burned out. WORST FIGURE EVER!!!!!!
I have posted so much hatred for this figure already that I am burned out. WORST FIGURE EVER!!!!!!
One purple turd deserves another.
I dont like the colour scheme at all. With the right deco it has potential but right now Im pretty "Bleh" about this figure...
Also, in my humble opinion, the character doesn't "look" very "MotU-ish" to me.
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With all due respect to Mr. Neitlich and the fans who like The Mighty Spector, I doubt that figure would come even close to the 5,000 supporters Illumina is said to need.From Facebook:
"TG says if we can get 5000 people behind Illumina, they´ll make her."
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The hate is swelling in you now. Find a weapon. Use it. Strike the Spector figure in the display down with it. Give in to your anger. With each passing moment you make yourself more the Dark Side's servant.
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But...someone remind me, what was that quote exactly? ...We couldn't get Illumina made because 250ish supporters from this website wasn't enough?
TG, I bet you can't find 100 people asking for Spector. I dare you to show them to me if you can.
The fact is your Spector figure will sell. He'll sell to people who have subs, to people who are completists and to people who just plain like him for one reason or another.
And so would a Gar woman named Illumina. Please don't ever tell us there isn't enough support to justify her again. Just say you don't want to make her, so you're not.
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That figure is terribly boring, unattractive and completely irrelevant to the line! WORST figure ever. I have zero interest in it and will never buy it.
He is a purple Snake Eyes with a time travelling device. I like him more and more.
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There just isn't the same imagination put into his design that most of the MOTU characters have. Compared with Draego-Man, or even Fearless Photog, I find him uninspired and boring to look at.
The only aspect I did like was the Cosmic Key wrist device, but the concept art indicates that it's actually some sort of laser whip/blade weapon, and not used for time travel at all.
2. Really? I like it and I'm buying a few 30th Anniversary subs, and even if I wasn't I'd buy this figure
3. So the line is now ending because a brand new character in an alternate sub is being produced??? Makes sense. Whatever.
Now as for my take on Spector, I love and I mean love masked/helmeted characters (Deadpool, Deathstroke, Deadshot, Boba Fett, Stormtroopers, Snake Eyes, Black Manta, Dr Doom, Baron Zemo, etc.) they have always been very visually appealling to me for some reason? So I like the look, he is very Deadpool esque which I don't mind. The more I see of him the more I like the figure. Cool gun, great arm cosmic key accessory, and that art makes him that much cooler hope we get those green electric/fire accessories.
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If this figure would have a killer design, there wouldn`t be that negative response...
If it would be a second Draego Man, it would be great...
But it isn`t...
It's a big no for me, as it has no connection to me from my childhood along with draego man. And whilst photog isn't the best of figures either, the Nathan bitner 80's connection means it feels like it should have been
Making sure the vintage line is fully reproduced in the classics line
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Someone said earlier about putting Bows spare head on him. I might try that and see how it looks. Will deff go with my GGs.
Unfortunately, Mighty Spector does absolutely nothing for me. Like others have said, it's very bland and unimaginative, and it doesn't fit in with the line in the slightest. Granted, Fearless Photog doesn't really fit in either, but I'm looking forward to it due to the interesting design. I guess it's just the chance you take when you buy a sub without first seeing everything you will be getting.
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This figure totally looks and sounds like a DC character, I couldn't believe he is in the MOTUC line! Even his concept (from his design to his background) just doesn't blend well in the this universe! Honestly, what were they thinking?
Two weeks ago I was debating if I should buy another add on 30th anniversary subscription hoping for more Draego-Man like characters, but after seeing this offer, I surely will not waist more money on it.
On the other hand, I loved the other reveals, and now I'm debating if I should buy another 2012 subscription or not for the second heads... Hmmm decisions decisions decisions...
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"I mark the hours every one, Nor have I yet outrun the Sun. My use & value unto you, are gauged by what you have to do."
Enscribed onto Hermione Granger's Time Turner from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
His infamy is making me like him more than I should. It's fun being an evil, Matty Apologist.
Good call joseephus, the figure is definitely a cut-and-paste job. But I hate to admit that I'm warming up to the fact we're getting this guy. I like the color scheme, hopefully the production version of the purple is distinct from all the other purple colors in the line.
Seems like the Cosmic Key gauntlet was added as an afterthought, if not the whole time-travelling power because he doesn't even look like he would inconspicuously fit in any time period. Gwildor and Preternia He-Man would just look like transients in a modern time frame.
Now there is zero I mean Z-E-R-O reason not to make Plundor, Illumina, Gwildor, or any other "unsupported/unknown" character by ToyGuru's and Matty's own arguments.
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A PROPOSAL by the British government to remove the name of Jamaica's Mary Seacole from the national curriculum has been met with outrage.
A Facebook campaign has been started and a petition, led by Operation Black Vote (OBV), is being signed to pressure Britain's education secretary Michael Gove from going ahead with his plans.
"We are opposed to this and wish to see Mary Seacole retained so that current and future generations can appreciate this important historical person," said OBV in a statement on change.org.
The statement - which has been endorsed by Professor Elizabeth Anionwu, of the Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal, UNISON member Khi Rafe, Hackney councillor Patrick Vernon, of Every Generation Media and Sutton councillor Lester Holloway - argues Seacole's role in the Crimean War justifies her status as a Victorian figure and should be taught in schools today.
Mary Seacole, best known for assisting sick and injured servicemen, was a national heroine on her return to Britain and a crowd of 80,000 attended a four-day fundraising benefit in her honour in 1857.
Her inclusion on the national curriculum came as a result of a tireless campaigning to recognise someone who had become a forgotten figure in modern times.
The proposed removal can only be attributed to a recent backlash against Mary Seacole as a symbol of 'political correctness' by right-wing media and commentators, OBV said.
To remove Mary Seacole from the national curriculum is tantamount to rewriting history to fit a world view hostile to Britain's historical diversity, are the arguments coming from the organisation.
They cautioned that overall the teaching of black historical figures is widely recognised to be beneficial to the success of black pupils and in closing the GCSE achievement gap.
Mary Seacole, a Jamaican/Scottish figure, is a positive role model and well-respected in NHS circles.
Sir W H Russell, Crimean War correspondent for The Times, said of Seacole: "Let England not forget one who nursed her sick, who sought out her wounded to aid and succour them, and who performed the last offices for some of her illustrious dead."
Mary Seacole is the only black figure to feature in the national curriculum not connected to civil rights or enslavement and was voted by the public as one of the Great Black Britons (100greatblackbritons.com).
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THE BRAZEN CAREERIST- At work: Find the advantages of introversion
The workplace is set up to reward extroverts. For example, according to the Myers-Briggs Indicators, ENTJs (Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging) make up only three percent of the population but a wide majority of CEOs. Look at workplace catch phrases that are especially annoying if you're not an extrovert: Toot your own horn! Your career is only as strong as your network! Let's do lunch!
The absurdity of all this is that 57 percent percent of the world are introverts, according to Laurie Helgoe, a psychologist and the author of Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life is Your Hidden Strength.
Here are five ways to leverage the advantages of introversion:
1. Work in the world of ideas
Introverts generally love to talk about ideas, according to Helgoe. She says that in conversation, introverts are stronger if you talk about "what are you thinking?" instead of "what are you doing?" And at work, you are stronger if you are helping people with ideas rather than sticking to a routine pattern of work.
2. Give ten minutes and then go
Helgoe says extroverts often cannot get access to introverts– because introverts are always departing to be alone. Introverts can alleviate this problem by being fully attentive for a short time before departing. So make a connection, really contribute to the conversation, and then ten minutes is enough.
3. Have confidence in your self-knowledge
Do you know the personality type that has the longest Wikipedia page? INTJ (Introversion, iNtuition, Thinking, Judgment)? Because the combination of being an introvert and being idea-driven makes one very interested in learning about oneself. INTJs are extreme cases, but all introverts have some of this, and that self-knowledge will help you to put yourself in situations to have the most positive impact. For example, Helgoe has a great chapter on how to get out of going to a party– a key skill for an introvert, who does better in very small groups. But the bottom line is that you have to say that you'd rather be alone, which, Helgoe points out, "requires a real grounding in who you are."
4. Teach other people to interact with you
A lot of the conflict my business partner Ryan and I used to have is that I had no idea how to communicate with an introvert. The biggest difference is that I think out loud, so I never stop talking to think. Ryan thinks and then talks. But if I never shut up, he can't think long enough to have a response. He did some research about communication styles and then taught me this difference– which helped me make space so that we could have a productive conversation.
5. Take control of your work
One of the most popular professions for introverts is being a writer. What this means is that there is a lot of information written about what work that's well-suited for an introvert.
And check out the book I recommend more than any other book in the world: Do What You Are by Paul Tieger. This book does not provide a single list of jobs suitable to introverts because there are so many different types of introverts. But this book can tell you what sort of introvert you are (for example, an artist or an activist?) and what sort of work you will thrive in.
As for you extroverts, stop assuming everyone is like you, and start tailoring conversations to introverts when appropriate.
Penelope Trunk has started several companies and worked for many more.


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That Curious George existed at all -- much less as a franchise, an icon enduring some 65 years -- was a result of "happy circumstance," wrote Houghton Mifflin publisher Anita Silvey with some understatement in 1991, upon the fiftieth anniversary publication of The Complete Adventures of Curious George. Silvey and critic Leonard Marcus recall the tales of the monkey's parents, Hans Augusto Rey and his Bauhaus-trained wife Margret, German Jews who fled Paris on bikes in June 1940, just as the Nazis were storming the city. With them, the Reys carried precious few things, Marcus writes, chief among them "watercolors and a draft of the as-yet-unpublished Curious George. " When the book arrived in US bookstores in August 1941, it was hardly a best-seller; Silvey says that four years later, the first Curious George title moved "negative-six copies."
Yet still he remains, a seller of knock-off books and stuffed animals to two-year-olds and a peddler of smirking joke T-shirts to giggling potheads. That it took this long for George to swing from pulp jungle to shiny screen is unfathomable. It couldn't have cost that many bananas, given the traditional 2-D animation, which already makes this brand-new thing look quaint before its time. Save for some stop-motion shorts that lift their stories directly from the Rey-written sequels, and some Captain Kangaroo readings, the monkey's absence suggested a reverence reserved for, say, the unfilmed and unfilmable Holden Caulfield and not some cutie-pie primate who became, in Marcus' estimation, "the bright standard-bearer for the universal curiosity of children: their large-as-life need to touch and tangle with the world and to learn by doing, even if to do so means occasionally landing in thickets of trouble."
There is no need for concern among the purists and fetishists who've raised their kids, and their kids' kids, and so on, on Rey's stories. Certainly, Curious George's lineage was not promising: The film boasts a cast of screenwriters who range from official scribes Ken Kaufman and Mike Werb to a bunch of uncredited sitcom folks. But from that potentially noxious brew comes a palatable, even occasionally fizzy concoction kids will gulp up and their folks won't choke on (too loudly, anyway). Though even more adorable than his print predecessor -- which is to say, more expressive with his furled brow and button nose -- this monkey saw what that monkey did and mimics artfully.
Here, then, are snippets of classic stories: George painting a white bedroom in palm-tree greens and leopardskin yellows while slathering zebra stripes onto plain chairs; George scaling a high-rise like a miniature King Kong; George soaring over Manhattan with a handful of helium-filled balloons; George playing peekaboo with the Man in the Yellow Hat's conical covering. The writers chose a few set pieces to borrow, but none of the stories; George doesn't have surgery to extract a puzzle piece or learn to ride a bike, slim stories that, alas, still possess more narrative than this movie. Yet those looking for subtext -- or even the occasional pop-culture gag -- can peek elsewhere, to movies like Hoodwinked and Shrek. This is kiddie lit made for kiddies, as substantial as those thin paperbacks Houghton Mifflin has been cranking out for decades, which is precisely the point. I know one two-year-old who thought it the best thing ever; presumably, he's the demo, and I'm just the wallet and car keys.
The story couldn't be more mundane: The owner of a natural science museum (voiced by Dick Van Dyke) will be forced to let his scheming son (David Cross) turn the joint into a parking lot unless museum anthropologist Ted (Will Ferrell, doing a toned-down Ron Burgundy) returns from Africa with a forty-foot-tall idol reputed to possess magic powers. (Ted, of course, is the Man in the Yellow Hat; according to the cast of writers, he came about his outfit only after being duped by a clothing-store salesman, a real letdown.) Of course, Ted can't find the idol, but does bring back with him a monkey he reluctantly befriends and names George. The museum is about to go under, Ted loses his job and apartment, gets a girlfriend (Drew Barrymore), blah blah blah ... and then everything works out okay, the end. Just like reading a bedtime story; in the near future and forever after, this movie will probably wind up as post-dinnertime viewing in many, many houses.
The best thing you can say for Curious George is that it's decidedly old-fashioned (or timeless, choose your backhanded compliment): It looks like it was made in 1958. Or 1969. Or 1974. And though it does cheapen itself with some dreadful moments of product placement, it doesn't instantly date itself with cheap pop-culture gags. It will play to our kids' kids tomorrow just as it does today, like something made for children who don't know to expect more from their cartoons than just pleasant, nostalgic mediocrities.
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How a Black Hole Really Works
- August, 17, 2013 - 11:01
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The black hole at the center of our galaxy has been on a near-starvation diet for almost a million years, but now it's time for a snack.
Scientists in Garching, Germany, are closely watching a rare event some 26,000 light years away: a super-massive black hole in the act of devouring a huge gas cloud. It's providing the first-ever glimpse of how a black hole uses its massive gravitational power to pull in and consume interstellar materials—a little understood phenomenon.
"The cloud is being torn apart," said Stefan Gillessen of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, who first brought the event to the world's attention in 2011.
A black hole can form when a large star dies and its matter collapses into a much smaller volume. It's as if the mass of the Earth were squeezed into a ball the size of a marble. The resulting gravity is so intense that even light cannot escape, The Wall Street Journal reported.
What is known about black holes is largely theoretical, and scientists are eager to gather more real-world data. The best telescopes aren't up to the job because most black holes are millions of light years away. Indeed, it was only a decade ago that scientists established that a super-massive black hole lurked surprisingly close by, in the Milky Way.
Now, by a stroke of fortune, our neighboring black hole is offering up some unexpected celestial fireworks. The Milky Way monster has drawn in bits of stray material for nearly a million years.
Stars closely orbiting the black hole indicate that it has the gravitational pulling power of four million suns. That gravity is now starting to act on the gas cloud, which itself is about 37 billion miles long.
Using data from the European-funded Very Large Telescope, or VLT, perched high up in Chile's Atacama Desert, Dr. Gillessen's team recently concluded that the front of the gas cloud is traveling 310 miles per second faster than its tail. About 10% of the cloud has already been dragged to the far side of the black hole.
Scientists hope to observe the cosmic drama for at least a year. They have many questions: Will the cloud get shredded to bits and sucked in, or will much of it stay in orbit around the black hole? Will the black hole get brighter as it consumes its prey? Will Einstein's theory of relativity, which has never been experimentally tested under such extreme conditions, hold up?
"In astronomy, you rarely have the chance to catch something in the act," said Andrea Ghez, an astrophysicist who leads a rival group observing the event at the University of California, Los Angeles. "We just don't know what will happen."
In 2006, Dr. Ghez's team noticed an object drifting in the vicinity of the Milky Way's black hole. But it didn't look especially interesting, "so we didn't jump on it," she said.
Five years later, Dr. Gillessen was using a telescope in Chile to observe stars circling the black hole. Studying old data, he stumbled upon the same object seen by Dr. Ghez. "It was a little blob—not a hot star, but something cold," recalled Andreas Burkert, a theoretical physicist at Max Planck and a colleague of Dr. Gillessen. "I said [the observation] was probably a mistake."
In January 2012, the Max Planck team published its findings in the journal Nature. They concluded that the blob was a gas cloud, of unknown origin, in the gravitational clutches of the Milky Way's black hole.
Until a few years ago, scientists could barely observe objects in the center of our galaxy partly because of the blurring caused by the Earth's atmosphere, the same effect that causes stars to twinkle. And because dust at the center of the galaxy absorbs most of the optical light, optical telescopes are largely useless.
Dr. Gillessen and others instead rely on telescopes that view the galactic core in the infrared range of light. A more recent innovation is a technique known as adaptive optics, which can correct for the blurring effect. This year, researchers have made more than 40 proposals to observe the black hole's encounter with the gas cloud.
On a recent morning in his office, Dr. Gillessen used a computer to show a succession of images taken by the VLT. In 2002, the gas cloud, represented by a tiny blue blob, appears to be moving closer to the Milky Way's black hole.
"It's not going in a straight line, which means some object is pulling on it," said Dr. Gillessen. Data from 2008 show the gas cloud traveling at about 800 miles per second – a lot faster than Earth, which moves at about 19 miles per second. Tellingly, the most recent findings indicate that the cloud is hurtling at almost 1,250 miles per second. It means that the black hole's tug is getting stronger and stronger.
A separate slide, titled "Total Disruption in Front of Our Eyes," showed part of the gas cloud stretched out to at least 10 times its 2004 length.
Dr. Gillissen then headed to a lab where he and other Max Planck colleagues are assembling a roughly 2-yard-long device known as the Gravity Machine, at a cost of almost $27 million. When finished, by the summer of 2014, the machine will combine the light signals from VLT's four separate telescopes to provide far more accurate measurements.
Periodically, the black hole flares up, just as Earth's atmosphere briefly brightens from flashes of lighting. Dr. Gillessen says that the encounter with the gas cloud may cause flares from the black hole to become more frequent or violent. In that case, the gravity machine should pick up those signals more easily, giving scientists more information about how the black hole operates.
Like many astronomical observations, this one has a touch of the surreal. The Milky Way's black hole is 26,000 light years away. That means that the gas cloud event actually occurred 26,000 years ago, and it has simply taken that long for the light to reach us. "We're out in the suburbs of the galaxy, so the movie only got to us now," said Dr. Ghez. "But it's an amazing movie."


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Prints Confirm Body Is Missing $31M Lottery Winner
An autopsy confirmed that the body found yesterday is Abraham Shakespeare.
Jan. 29, 2010 -- The remains found in a rural cement grave were identified today to be those of missing lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare, authorities confirmed to ABCNews.com.
The 47-year-old from Lakeland, Fla., hasn't been seen since April, even though he wasn't reported missing until November. His disappearance has churned up a cast of characters who, police say, may have been more interested in the $31 million he won in the lottery than in his life.
The remains were found Thursday after days of digging in the woods on a rural property in Plant City, Fla., and after heavy equipment had been brought in to break through a large piece of concrete. An autopsy today confirmed that the body was that of Shakespeare. The identity was determined through fingerprints, the sheriff's office said.
"There had been a 30-foot-by-30-foot concrete slab that had been poured," said Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Debbie Carter. "The human remains had been found about five feet under the concrete."
Shakespeare's family was devastated by the news.
"I just hope he didn't suffer,'' cousin Cynthia Johnson said, according to TampaBayOnline.com. "He was a good person. He was just used. They manipulated him because they know he didn't know any better.''
Authorities are not saying where the tip came from or even when it came in. Public records show the property off Highway 60 is owned by Shar Krasniqi, the man Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd has identified as the boyfriend of Dee Dee Moore.
Moore is the only person to have been named a person of interest in the case, though no charges have been filed. Moore's business, American Medical Professionals, is listed in Krasniqi's name.
Carter declined to comment on what exactly was found in the grave, only that it was clear the body had been there for a while.
Detectives and forensic experts were back on the scene today, she said, looking for more evidence. It has been deemed a homicide scene since Monday when the search began.
Police Warn That Person of Interest in Shakespeare Case Is a 'Con Artist'
Judd had some harsh words for Moore, who told the Florida newspaper The Ledger last year that her house had been searched and she was being questioned, even though she had only tried to help him flee a life that had gotten only more complicated ever since he won $31 million on a 2007 winning ticket.
She told the paper that Shakespeare had "planned on running" and that he had "planned on not coming back." She said the lottery winner was "tired of fighting child-support battles in court" and was sick of people "badgering him for money."
But two weeks ago, Judd said in a press release that they were preparing for the worst.
"Dee Dee Moore is a con artist, and if she tried to sell me anything, I certainly wouldn't buy it," Judd said. "Dee Dee Moore has cheated Abraham Shakespeare out of his money, and possibly his life."
According to Polk County authorities, Moore had made several attempts to make it look as if Shakespeare had been communicating with his family -- offering someone a $200,000 house in exchange for reporting a false sighting, sending his son $5,000 in cash for his birthday and sending text messages -- even though Shakespeare had already disappeared.
In February 2009, two months before Shakespeare was last confirmed to have been seen, Moore opened up a limited liability account with his money and gave herself signing authority, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. She then rewarded herself with $1 million, which she spent on a Corvette, a Hummer and lavish vacations.
The only arrest that had any connection to the case came earlier this week when Polk County authorities arrested Lakeland police officer Troy McKay Young, charging him with providing Moore with confidential information from law enforcement databases in exchange for compensation.
Family Devastated by Shakespeare's Disappearance
Shakespeare's mother, Elizabeth Walker, told WFTS in the days before the remains were found that the harassment of her son over his winnings was incessant.
"If someone asked him for help, he was always trying to help them," Walker said. "I had been with him in his car. They called him on his phone, and he trying to drive and trying to talk to them and they're asking him for money.
"He said his phone would be constantly ringing. Even when I called him, he'll talk a few minutes and then he'll say, 'Hold on, I got a call. I'll call you back.' And sometimes, he wouldn't call back. And he said he was just getting phone calls, one right after another one. People just asking for money."
Her son, she said, gave friends and family large amounts of cash and paid rents and mortgages, sometimes for people he barely knew.
Now police, armed with a growing stack of evidence, are charged with finding out who may have killed him.
"I hope," Johnson told TampaBayOnline.com, "they rot in hell."


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A writer finds hope at Augsburg
Jeffrey MacDonald says he came to Augsburg on a mission seeking hope.
The journalist and UCC minister was working on a book and heard that Augsburg College was an antidote to the problem he'd been exploring. His question – is it possible to offer experiences in the religious marketplace that genuinely shape the heart and character of others?
Recently MacDonald returned to Augsburg, published book in hand, to talk about his work. Thieves in the Temple: The Christian Church and the Selling of the American Soul was released in spring 2010.
"Augsburg was the antidote to the problem I was writing about," MacDonald said in an address to the Augsburg community. He said that the market-driven religious experience is focused on providing comfort, even therapy and coddling. He wondered, "Is there anywhere where people choose paths of costly discipleship?"
Chapter six, "Signs of Hope in the New Religious Marketplace," details the hope MacDonald found at Augsburg specifically in the curricular approach to exploring vocation as well as in the programs of the Center for Global Education.
While conducting research for his book, MacDonald met with faculty and students who had studied abroad through CGE. Instead of wanting to build a school or participate in service work, he said participants in CGE's programs spent their time learning about the experience of people they met. "They said, 'Let's settle in, slow down, and get to know people before rushing in to solve their problems,'" MacDonald recalled.
What resulted, MacDonald said, is that students saw the pain and shame of others but also experienced their joy. "They saw and heard and smelled, and they said, 'I want more of this.'" MacDonald was impressed that students were not only committed to returning to the countries they visited but also to engaging in service within their own communities in the states.
That is precisely the kind of the costly discipleship MacDonald found students openly embracing at Augsburg College.
"At Augsburg, people are discovering why they should choose suffering. They are taking the step to know the pain and suffering of others, and therefore bringing compassion into their own lives."
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Climate Change Minister James Shaw and Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter today welcomed the successful adoption of a maritime greenhouse gas emissions reduction strategy at the United Nations International Maritime Organisation (IMO).
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—Ending newborn deaths:
In supporting the development of global plan to reduce newborn deaths, especially in Africa, a Non Governmental Organization, Save the Children, plans for a two-thirds reduction in newborn deaths. AJUMA EDWINA OGIRI writes
The first 24 hours of a child's life are the most dangerous, with more than one million babies dying each year on their first and only day of life, according to new research published by Save the Children.
The new report, "Ending Newborn Deaths," shows one half of first day deaths around the world could be prevented if the mother and baby had access to free health care and a skilled midwife.
The children's aid agency says the deaths happen because of premature birth and complications during birth, such as prolonged labor, pre-eclampsia and infection, which can be avoided if quality health experts are present.
The research also found an additional 1.2 million babies are stillborn each year, their heartbeats stopping during labor because of childbirth complications, maternal infections and hypertension.
In a bid to save millions of newborn lives, Save the Children has called on world leaders to commit in 2014 to a blueprint for change – The Five Point Newborn Promise – which focuses on training and equipping enough skilled health workers to make sure no baby is born without proper help, and removing fees for all pregnancy and birth services.
The world has made amazing progress in reducing child mortality during the past decade – nearly halved from 12 million to 6.6 million – thanks to global political action on immunization, treatment of pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria, family planning and nutrition.
But this progress could stall without urgent action to tackle scandalously high numbers of newborns dying. This report warns that newborn deaths now account for nearly half of all under-five deaths.
Carolyn Miles, President and CEO of Save the Children, said:
"The first day of a child's life is the most dangerous, and too many mothers give birth alone on the floor of their home or in the bush without any life-saving help. We hear horror stories of mothers walking for hours during labor to find trained help, all too often ending in tragedy.
"It's criminal that many of these deaths could be averted simply if there was someone on hand to make sure the birth took place safely and who knew what to do in a crisis."
Each year, 40 million women give birth without trained help. In Ethiopia, only 10 percent of births have skilled help whereas in some areas of rural Afghanistan there is just one midwife for 10,000 people.
In countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) or the Central African Republic (CAR), some mothers have to pay for emergency maternal care, often costing as much as their monthly food bill. There have even been reports of mothers being kept under jail-like conditions for months until they have been able to pay for their emergency caesarean.
Carolyn Miles added: "These new statistics reveal – for the first time ever – the true scale of the newborn crisis. The solutions are well-known but need greater political will to give babies a fighting chance of reaching their second day of life. Without targeted action now, progress made in cutting child mortality through vaccines and tackling malnutrition will stall."
Save the Children is calling on world leaders, philanthropists and the private sector to meet and commit to the Five Point Newborn Promise in 2014:
• Issue a defining and accountable declaration to end all preventable newborn mortality, saving 2 million newborn lives a year and stopping the 1.2 million stillbirths during labor
• Ensure that by 2025 every birth is attended by trained and equipped health workers who can deliver essential newborn health interventions
• Increase expenditure on health to at least the WHO minimum of US$60 per person
• To pay for the training, equipping and support of health workers, and remove user fees for all maternal, newborn and child health services, including emergency obstetric care
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A shame the thread was closed. It was a debate, nothing more. Just different ways of seeing things. Maybe I passed my message a little roughly; it was indeed meant to be rough. But not to be taken as offensive. Simply food for thought. So my apologies if it offended.
Regardless, here's how I see it. This time in prose.
The whole notion that in order to learn a programming language one needs to find encouragement in the form of games, frankly annoys me. And it's not the fact the end result of these early text-based games are the computational equivalent of a very bad gastrointestinal disorder. For one I like text-based games. Even today I find enjoyment in revisiting text adventure games of old in the ZXSpectrum and DOS emulators, I still play nethack actively (well, sorta), and I still have live MUD accounts.
It's more to do with the fact I personally think wanting to learn how to make games by means of learning a programming language is a sure shot way to produce a bad programmer. Now, certainly not everyone. But that's where the vast majority of students eventually end up. And all because they didn't think themselves, or wheren't tutored into, or advised at, actually looking at a programming language as something worth studying. It's like the painter who doesn't really enjoys the art, or cares about it. It's just a means to an end.
Having fun while learning? Sure, why not? But since when fun became a dictator? Should it rule over every one single aspect of learning something? And where exactly does that fit with the much harsher reality of a programming career (in games or not)?
I personally can't accept that we must suffer the knowledge that in order to learn anything in this day and age we need to feel some sort of encouragement other than simply wanting to learn it. The thought is scary to me. But this does not mean I'm unaware that having fun while doing it doesn't cost a dime and is a good thing. What I question however is the methods.
Wanting to do a game at every corner of your apprenticeship (like when you just learned how to use functions and references) is going to burn you faster than you can say "Oh my god! Programming games can be so boring!". If you want to do games, fine. So be it (Whatever. It's not even original. But get in line, there's like tenths of millions ahead of you). But you will not learn anything special if you keep treating your programming language like a piece of disposable tool you put aside at every opportunity in order to pursuit your goal.
If you want to program games, your programming language is going to be your damn best friend. You will want it badly. More than your girlfriend. If you learn to love to program, if you really want to learn how to program, if you really study your programming language and try to master every nut and bolt, inspect every dark corner, then yes; You are in your way to become a damn good games programmer.
No matter what they tell you at that games course of yours, no one gets to the top having fun. It's hard work, it's pain and it is a thirst for knowledge more than a thirst to do games.
Why do I know this when I'm not even a games programmer, never was or ever will be? Because games programming is no different from any other type of programming. Same rules. Don't trust me? That's cool. We'll talk in a few years.


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Montréal was called "Sin City" in the 1920s, when Americans streamed in to drink during the Prohibition. The name still applies, albeit in a tamer form. Nightlife in Montréal is booming: in one evening, you can dance to the setting sun at an outdoor rave, sip potent cocktails from mason jars, or practice your bilingual flirting on a thumping rooftop. Here's our roundup of the best Montréal cocktail and wine bars, old and new.
Billy Kun
Toast the ostrich heads presiding over this long-running bar that somehow never gets old. Bily Kun was doing "barnyard-chic" before anyone else in Montréal and while this can look contrived at other bars, here it's a casually perfect backdrop for sipping cocktails and imported suds.
Bily Kun, 354 ave du Mont-Royal est
Baldwin Barmacie
Medicine of the alcoholic sort is dispensed at this sleek yet chilled bar that takes its cues from an old-fashioned pharmacy, where the owner's grandmother once worked. Try the signature Lionel – vodka, gin, fresh lime juice and Prosecco – followed by a grilled-cheese sandwich. Just what the doctor ordered.
Baldwin Barmacie, 115 ave Laurier ouest
La Distillerie
La Distillerie serves cocktails in mason jars (which may seem brilliant at the time, but perhaps less so the headachey morning after.) The drinks are big, but each is expertly made with seasonal ingredients, like the M'Peached (Canadian Club whiskey, grapefruit, peach purée) and the Rock 'A' Rula (Amarula cream liqueur, Angostura bitters, egg white).
La Distillerie, 300 rue Ontario est
Le Lab Comptoir a Cocktails
The retro-soaked world of handcrafted cocktails sometimes has a whiff of elitism. Not so at Le Lab. This low-lit lounge invites lingering rather than posing. Here, it's only the cocktails that are the show-offs, like the Jerky Lab Jack, with Jack Daniels, Curaçao, cane sugar, orange zest, housemade BBQ bitters and a garnish of, yep, a chewy strip of beef jerky.
Le Lab Comptoir a Cocktails, 1351 rue Rachel est
Much like the premium wine it pours, this bar hits all the right notes. The innovative interior matches the vintage bottles behind the bar, with a wine-glass chandelier, tawny woods and exposed concrete walls. Québec is known for its ice wines, but the region's vineyards produce a lot more – this is the place to sample local reds and whites.
Pullman, 3424 ave du Parc
Whisky Café
Whisky, cigars, dark leather. Yes, there's a clubby, muscular edge to this dimly lit bar, but it's balanced by the friendly bartenders, playful crowd and funky soundtrack.
Whisky Café, 5800 blvd St-Laurent
Bar Salon La Porte Rouge
When you're in one of those moods to wear flared pants and sip Shirley Temples, swing by La Porte Rouge, a trashy-turned-flashy bar with a fondness for the 70s. On a good night, the red banquettes glow, the Tom Collins flow freely and Farrah Fawcett lookalikes shimmy to synthpop.
Bar Salon La Porte Rouge, 1834 ave du Mont-Royal
Foamy cappuccinos give way to cocktails at this mod café-lounge. By day, you can brunch on fat omelettes and crepes, while at night, the electro music is dialed up – as is the crowd.
Laïka, 4040 blvd St-Laurent
Dodge the flying sweat at this go-go gay nightclub, loosely (and decadently) inspired by the Greek Parthenon, with two dancefloors, flashing LED lights and plenty of cocktail-fuelled flirting.
Apollon, 1450 Ste-Catherine est
Verses Sky
Like most big cities, plenty of Montréal's hotels have rooftop bars. Verses Sky, crowning the charming Nelligan's Hotel, is still one of the best, with well-poured cocktails, skyline views and music set at that prime level where you can talk without shouting.
Verses Sky, 106 rue St Paul ouest
Explore more of Montréal with the Rough Guide to Canada. Find hostels for Montréal here and don't forget to purchase travel insurance before you go.
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