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Cleveland State University

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Your Awards

The financial aid award online shows the types of financial aid and amount of assistance you can expect to receive at CSU for the academic year. If you need assistance with your award online, stop by CSU's Campus411 All-in-1 office, located in Main Classroom, Room 116, or call 216.687.5411 or email

The following information will help you understand your award:

  • Be sure to read all information carefully.
  • Financial aid listed on your award may be provided by a combination of federal, University, state, and private sources. The amount of financial aid offered is determined by the information you supplied on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
  • The financial aid award lists financial aid for the academic year. You need to notify CSU if you receive any additional aid or of any changes in family circumstances.  If adjustments need to be made to the amounts you were offered, a revised award will appear online. Contact Campus411 All-in-1 in Main Classroom, Room 116, or call 216.687.5411 or email
  • If you wish to decline a particular award, you need to that online before accepting the award funds you wish to keep.
  • The estimated cost of education is based on your degree program status (undergraduate, graduate or law) and your housing plans as reported on your FAFSA, indicating where you plan to live during the school year. Visit the Student Consumer Information page,, for complete information about the cost of your education.
  • You are responsible for notifying CSU of the source and dollar amount of any award you may receive which is not currently listed on the award online. If additional sources of aid will be received, you must contact Campus411 All-in-1 at 216-687-5411.
  • Budget for the entire year and accept your award online in CampusNet.
  • If you are a first-time Federal Stafford Loan borrower at CSU, you must complete loan entrance counseling prior to receiving your first loan disbursement. You must also complete a Master Promissory Note unless you completed one at another institution within the last year.

Changes, Corrections or Special Circumstances

If you have to make corrections or changes to the information, you originally submitted on your FAFSA, this may result in a revision to your financial aid award. If you have unusual circumstances (i.e. loss of job, death of parent, etc.) that you did not report on the FAFSA, or if your family's situation has changed since you completed your application, contact Campus411 All-in-1 in Main Classroom, Room 116, or call 216.687.5411 or email  You may also use the FA Forms for Special Circumstances petition.

Complete Withdrawal

Before you completely withdraw from all of your classes, you need to think about the following items listed below to determine how withdrawing will effect your academic record, financial aid, and student account. Please feel free to print this screen, and use it as a checklist once you have decided to withdraw completely from your courses.

If you have questions about any of the items listed below, please visit a Student Service Specialist in Campus411 All-in-1 for guidance and information.

Academic Record

  • Notation on the Transcript - Withdrawing from your course may cause a "W" grade notation to appear on your transcript. This grade does not affect your GPA, but will affect your completion rate for Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP).
  • Unofficial Transcript - If you are withdrawing to attend another college or university, you should print out a copy of your final unofficial transcript from CampusNet for use at the other college/university for advising purposes. You should also request an official final transcript from Cleveland State for admission purposes at your new school.

  • Application Addendum - If you are completely withdrawing during your first semester at Cleveland State, and plan to continue in the subsequent semester, visit Campus411 All-in-1 and complete an application addendum, so that your admission can be reconsidered for the following semester.

Financial Aid

  • Loan Deferment - Withdrawing from all courses will initiate your 6 month grace period for all loans (Stafford and Perkins) borrowed.
  • Financial Aid Return - Withdrawing from all courses may result in a return of financial aid to the Federal Government. This aid includes any grants, scholarships, and loans.  When a financial aid return is initiated, a balance on your account may occur, and you may owe CSU money.  Visit a Specialist in Campus411 All-in-1 to discuss if a financial aid return is inevitable.
  • SAP - Withdrawing from all courses will cause you to fail the 67% completion rate for Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP). You will either 1) receive a warning letter at the end of the semester and be placed on financial aid probation for SAP; or 2) if you were already on financial aid probation for the current term, you will need to petition the financial aid to be reinstated.  Financial aid probation is not the same as academic probation-no changes to your GPA or transcript occur as a result of being on financial aid probation. Visit a Specialist in Campus411 All-in-1 to discuss your SAP status.
  • Cancel future Financial Aid - If you withdraw from all classes, and plan to attend another college or university for a subsequent term, then visit Campus411 All-in-1 and have the Student Service Specialist notify the Financial Aid Office to cancel your future financial aid.  Failure to cancel your aid at CSU may prevent you from receiving aid at another institution.
  • Corrections to FAFSA - If you withdraw from all classes, and plan to attend another college or university for a subsequent term, you need to make a correction to your FAFSA, and list the new school on your FAFSA form.  This action will allow your future school to receive your FAFSA information and begin packaging you with aid.  Financial aid does not automatically transfer from one institution to another.

Treasury Services

  • Refund - Based on your withdrawal date, you may be entitled to a refund according to the Refund Policy Schedule of the University.
  • U-Pass - If you withdraw from all of your courses, you must return your U-Pass sticker (if received) to the Cashiers Office, or your account will be charged an additional $425.00.
  • Medical Withdrawal - If you withdraw from all of your courses due to a valid family emergency or medical condition, you may complete an Emergency Tuition Adjustment Form. The onset of your condition must occur after the start of the semester. Note that only one Emergency Tuition Adjustment is granted during your academic career.
  • Account Paid - Make sure your account is paid-in-full to receive any post-services from the University such as your official final transcript.

Payment of Your Tuition Charges and Disbursement of Student Aid

Your initial award is based on full-time enrollment or your actual credit hour enrollment at CSU. Enrollment for financial aid purposes will be confirmed each semester after the last day to drop classes. Changes in your enrollment status could affect your aid. Student financial aid is applied to your account to cover direct educational expenses. If the amount of financial aid you receive exceeds your tuition, fees and other direct educational expenses, the Office of Treasury Services will issue a refund for the credit balance to you. If you have a balance due after your aid has been applied to your account, you may wish to use one of the available payment options.

Financial aid can be used to cover tuition, required fees and residence hall charges. If you decline to authorize financial aid to cover miscellaneous charges to your account (e.g., parking, library fines, late fees), you are responsible for paying such charges independent of any financial aid received.

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1 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2006-06-21 08:40 ID:iPzXmjqP

Anyone interested in seeing dating sims for girls, i.e. "ren' ai" /"bishounen" games translated into english? No, I'm not talking about yaoi, I'm referring to GxB games, like Tokimeki Girl's Side or Angelique. There was this new one that came out that I think was called Mein Liebe....? I googled up this website with about twenty or so OEL ren' ai games, but they were all pretty short, and not of very good quality(and besides which, about half of them weren't ren'ai at all, but bishoujo!!).

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18 Name: age : 2006-07-17 15:06 ID:rxrcm5dW

19 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2006-08-30 23:45 ID:JhglrIZF

So far there are two dating sims for girls in English.
The first is Animamundi and the second is called Enzai.
The company that released Animamundi is called Hirameki (google it), they're going to release a new game for girls too, called Yojinbo soon. And they're planning to release another one called Princess Nightmare next. Enzai was released by Peach princess. It's a male+male game (yaoi)

20 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2006-09-05 05:02 ID:ebJQvOeC

Have you played them?

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22 Name: ds : 2006-09-11 03:35 ID:MFAcd9pR

23 Name: ds : 2006-09-11 03:35 ID:MFAcd9pR

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1 dfd

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The way to a cast’s heart is through their stomach

by Mike on April 14, 2012 · 0 comments

You all know by now just how bowled over we are with the food in the restaurants here in the Big Easy. But when Creole and Cajun cuisine is made for you personally, from scratch, with love, it’s truly overwhelming.

A few weekends ago, the entire Lion King cast and crew got a special surprise between shows: an delicious buffet of boiled crawfish, baked chicken, red beans and rice, mac and cheese, jambalaya and bread pudding — all homemade by the Mahalia Jackson Theater’s own Ms. Deborah Jackson.

Ms. Deborah has been a porter at the theater for 3 years now, but was born and raised a true New Orleanean for all of her 54 years. She and her five sisters and two brothers learned to cook from her mother, who had them switch off kitchen and laundry duties every week, so everyone had to know the finer points of preparing meals for the family. And the talent seems to be genetic, as her daughter, who moved to Atlanta after Hurricane Katrina, is thriving as a personal chef. Ms. Deborah claims that what  makes the food in New Orleans so special and scrumptious is because it’s literally a melting pot of spices, methods and influences from different cultures — French, Caribbean, German, African, Spanish, Italian, Native American and the West Indies.

So, The Lion King Gazelle Tour is in the middle of the annual spring fund-raising drive for Broadway Cares/Equity Fight Aids and couldn’t have picked a better place to start than New Orleans. The people of New Orleans have proven to be some of the most generous people in the country, and have helped us raise over $50,000 through their donations. Simply amazing!

One of the ways we’ve been raising money in addition to donations is by selling pictures with performers, South African art, and posters signed by the cast. The posters were a huge hit and we quickly ran out of them and had to request more — a lot more. And all of these posters needed to be signed, by cast, crew and management. Everyone involved with the show. This has truly been a company-wide effort. So Mark David Kaplan (Zazu), decided to have a poster-signing party in between shows one weekend, and hired Ms. Deborah to cater the party, since she proved her home-cooked vittles were such a hit the first time around!

Everyone had a truly satisfying meal as they signed posters and took in the beautifully perfect New Orleans day, behind the Mahalia Jackson Theater.

This food and the sunshine made a perfect way to relax in between shows. Just ask Nick, aka Timon!

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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Apple Cobbler

I must try this again...because I can't quite remember how much of what went into it, but it was delicious!
Mini apples - sliced...toss in:
Sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, flour
Mix pancake mix with some milk until ...
you have what you deem to be the right consistency

Bake. Enjoy.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Carne Guisado

I really miss Mexican flavors. I'm always, always searching for a way to have a bit of that experience here in South Korea. I followed the basic premise of an recipe - lacking only a few things: the quantity of beef called for, the quantity of chili powder called for, and red bell peppers (although each of the items can be found in South Korea, they simply were absent from my kitchen the morning of piecing this crock-pot meal together).

It's particularly delcious served with a Cheese Quesadilla or re-vamped and used for burritos and ramen dishes, but those instructions will come later - for now, check out the base recipe at

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

This is entirely too interesting to me.

My recent history with food and dumpsters and waste, leads me to love this.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Grandpa's Breakfast - Re-Mix

This dish reminded me of my grandpa's famous camping dish. His dish is canned potatoes, bacon and eggs. Bacon cooked first, add canned potatoes, heat through, add eggs cook eggs through and enjoy in the cool morning of a Wyoming Summer.

My dish made good use of some Thanksgiving leftovers: Scalloped-Potatoes were chopped down a bit, heated in a skillet with a touch of oil before about 5 whisked eggs were dumped into the mix. Eggs scrambled, potatoes hots this mixture was served in a bowl with a little cheese on top - would have been equally delicious in a toritilla with a bit of salsa. Uber-easy and extremely delcious!

What creative ways have you used leftovers recently?

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Green Tea Latte

On Thursdays, my favorite coffee shop is closed. Oddly enough, Thursdays is the day I am most likely to want a Green Tea Latte. (It's the most unfortunate of affairs). On a more fortunate of affairs note - I recently set my eyes on a container of Match Powder (I think) at the incredible price of 5, 000 won (US$5)!!!! Needless to say, the powder went from the shelf to my graocery basket in a matter of moments.

So on a Thursday when I was needing some Latte-Love, I whipped up a little latte. Some milk, some sugar and some Matcha. If you'd like a recipe to follow or give you some sense of direction - try out this one.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

I'd never made crepes before. But a semi-recent Crepe night at a friends house and memories of Crepes made by a French CouchSurfer AND the availability of Nutella meant I was knocking on the door of asking for a crepe recipe.

Here it is: Basic Crepes.
Not difficult at all.
Fully delicious!

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Creamy Chicken Pasta

Thanksgiving leftovers were a HUGE joy and blessing to use this month for various meals. I'd made this Cream of Mushroom Soup for these Slow-Cooker Scalloped Potatoes and had Chicken Meat left over from the Home-made Chicken Broth making this meal a snap to create! Boil some water - add your favorite noodle cook to al dente. Add noodles to warm/hot cream of mushroom soup and chicken - deliciousness ready to consume!

Monday, December 13, 2010

Banana Bread

Banana Bread is a favorite stand-by. I've used numerous recipes to produce this delectable treat. Most recently, I used this recipe from - ridiculously easy and exceptionally delicious.

Because walnuts seem relatively affordable here, I threw in a handful or two, but the bread would be delious regardless.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Smoothie Queen

I love smoothies.

I should drink them with greater frequency.

I'm happy that I purchased a multi-functioning kitchen device.

Immersion Blender. Blender. Food Processor.

MMMM, smoothies.

Fruit, yogurt, juice, milk. Whatever serves your fancy.

Roasted Tomatoes, Chicken Broth and Chicken Tortilla Soup - OH My!

Last week we had a most fabulous dinner of Chicken Tortilla soup. Part of the reason it was so delectable is that I had the pleasure of prepping nearly every aspect of the soup from 'scratch'. No canned tomatos, no chicken granules or broth from a box - I rocked this whole meal from broth the finished product.

I'm a bit proud of this accomplishment.

Let's begin with the story of the Roasted Tomatos.

Having lived too long in the refrigerator their 'shelf life' was quickly approaching the end. My history with food that's on the outs taught me a number of tricks to 'save' food at this stage of its life. I simply sliced the tomaotes in half, laid them out on the roasting pan/cookie sheet, threw some chiles in for added flavor and to save their lives as well - pop it all in the oven for about an hour, enjoying the delectable smell of roasting peppers. An hour or so in an oven causes the skins of the tomatos to losen their grip on the pulp making for easy removal. To prepare tomatos for future tomato purpose simply remove skins, chop tomatoes or through into a blender - add some kick by adding a chile or two (I did two and it was spectacular) and you have some delicous-ness just begging to go into a soup!

Now the story of Chicken Broth.

Home-made Chicken Broth is as easy as 1-2-3 with a slowcooker. 1-Throw a chicken carcass into the slow cooker with some onions, carrot and celery. 2- Add enough water to cover the bird bones. 3 - cook on high for about 4 hours. (Okay, maybe there's a step 4 and 5). 4 - Ladle broth into containers of choice for freezing or refridgeration. 5 - Add chicken pieces to broth or use in Chicken Tortilla Soup!!! (Or any other chicken dish)
Now, the story you've all been waiting for: that of the Chicken Tortilla Soup...

Saute up some garlic and onions. Add two or three cups of liquid, perhaps the Chicken Broth you've just conquered. A bit of salt, pepper, canned or home-roasted tomatoes and chilies plus a healthy serving of cooked chicken (breast or from the chicken carcass which has now become chicken broth). Heat through. Throw in some cilantro. Serve with tortilla chips, cheese and/or a cheesy quesadilla! You will love it!

Monday, December 6, 2010

Maybe you've heard - I have an oven!

Later this month some friends and I'll bust out some delicious cookies.

For now, I need to store this gem of a link.

So many Cookies.

So much potential Deliciousness.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Craisin Cranberry Sauce

By far the biggest hit of Thanksgiving with our co-teachers was the home-made cranberry sauce.
Again, inspiration for this dish was received from the Ovenless Chef which linked to this original recipe. Here are the adjustments I made.

Peels from two Clementines/Tangerines
4 Tbsp. Orange Juice
1 Tbsp. Soju (can use Port or additional Orange Juice)
About 1 cup Dried Cranberries
Grated Apple
Sugar and Cinnamon to taste

In a sauce pan throw in all the ingredients (this is not how the original recipe reads, but I didn't read closely and this worked out, so it's your call). Simmer for about ten minutes. Remove from heat and let set for about an hour so that craisins can rehydrate. Add sugar or cinnamon per taste requirements and enjoy on a bread roll gathered around the Thanksgiving table.

Slow-Cooker Scalloped Potatoes

Our Thanksgiving meal was already to be complete with mashed sweet potatoes, so I opted for scalloped potatoes when we hosted our co-teachers. I did a few parts of this dish exceptionally well where as other parts were kind of a fail...but, the dish still received rave reviews! I'll post the recipe as it should have been prepared.

To begin, I opted to make cream of mushroom soup from scratch, an attempt to use up some mushrooms I had on hand (I'm not sure if cream of mushroom soup is available in Korea, but I think the answer is yes). Anyway, here's a good recipe for Cream of Mushroom soup should you decide to go all out.

The potato recipe comes from my new favorite book "Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook" received from friends whom I love dearly.

1/2 tsp. Cream of Tartar (or Baking Powder)
1 cup Water
8-10 Potatoes, thinly sliced
Half Onion, chopped
Salt and Pepper to taste
1 cup grated Cheese
10 oz. Cream of Mushroom soup

Dissolve cream of tartar in water toss with potatoes, drain (I missed this part, so had a semi-soupy dish of potatoes). Place half of potatoes in the slow cooker, sprinkle with onions, salt, pepper and cheese. Repeat with remaining potatoes and cheese. Spoon soup over the top, cover and cook on low 8-10 hours or high for 4 hours. Enjoy with Korean co-teachers, sitting on the floor around a small little table, piled with food or any hungry soul in your community of friends and family.

Deviled Eggs

Inspired by the Ovenless Chef we took on preparing a full out Thanksgiving meal for 5 of our co-teachers and one darling little daughter of theirs. To ensure plenty of variety and "traditional" tastes, I opted for these deviled eggs choosing only to substitute chili powder for the paprika (primarily because I was a bit lazy).

Slow Cooker Sweet Potatoes

I didn't know I loved sweet potatoes until my first Thanksgiving out of the country in 2005 when I had the great joy of dressing up as an Indian, enjoying a Thanksgiving feast with a couple of sorority sisters and a crew of Welsh men and women.  Therefore, as Thanksgiving in Korea rolled around, I knew I wanted to share this food tradition specifically.

Having just received a cookbook from dear and lovely friends back home, I was eager to put the slow cooker to use!

6-8 med. Sweet Potatoes
1/4 cup Butter
1/4 cup Brown Sugar
Milk and Orange Juice -- sufficient to make potatoes 'creamy'

Boil potatoes with salt, add butter, milk and orange juice - mash. Continue adding orange juice until you reach desired consistency. Mix in sugar and spice and everything nice, place in slow cooker. Cover and cook on high. May add walnuts or marshmallows if you so desire. Enjoy while in the company of numerous expats, dear friends, and/or family.
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Jessica helps local entrepreneurs, start-ups, business owners, established companies and financial institutions navigate significant issues related to formation, governance, financing, compliance and intellectual property. Jessica is committed to understanding her clients' business goals and challenges in order to deliver responsive solutions.

Entity Selection and Formation. Jessica has extensive experience analyzing the benefits of business entity types to empower clients to select the legal entity best suited for their particular goals or transactions. She frequently prepares organizational documents including Bylaws, Shareholder Agreements, Buy/Sell Agreements, Operating Agreements, Partnership Agreements and related formation documents. She also assists clients with structuring and maintaining complicated organizational structures for various purposes, including protection from liability, isolation from certain risks, and preparation for business combination transactions.

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Securities Compliance and Financing Transactions. Jessica helps clients navigate their securities regulation obligations. Jessica handles beneficial ownership reporting under Section 16 and Rule 144 resale issues. She assists clients with capital-raising strategies and private placement transactions under Regulation D. Jessica advises clients regarding reporting obligations under the securities laws. She has also assisted businesses and financial institutions with analyzing, structuring and documenting asset-based, acquisition, convertible note and other debt-financings.

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Business Transactions. For her business clients, Jessica regularly drafts and reviews a range of typical contracts including executive compensation, independent contractors, equity compensation and non-disclosure agreements. Jessica also routinely assists clients with a variety of business combination transactions. She leverages her experience to effectively manage the entire process, from term sheets and letters of intent through closing.

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Did you always want a pony as a child and never got one? Does your child nag at you endlessly for a pony? If your backyard is barely big enough for a chiuaua and you're allergic to anything with hair, but you still want to give your child that pony they desperately want- if you’re just a big kid at heart- then you would make a great ponykeeper. No, you don’t have to keep a pony in your house (it’s not nearly that messy.)

A ponykeeper helps to carve, paint, and maintain the horses at A Carousel for Missoula. It is also the job of the ponykeeper to keep the machine in tip top shape, so we could use anyone with mechanical skills. Dragon Hollow is maintained by ponykeepers too. They paint it, keep it clean and make any necessary repairs to it. The annual dues are $5 per family and the ponykeepers meet every Tuesday night at the Carousel from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

If this sounds like something you and your family would be interested in, or if you’d like more information, you can contact John Thompson at john@hobbyhorsearts.com or visit A Carousel for Missoula online at http://www.carrousel.com/acfm.

It’s a less messy and much cheaper way to fulfill your child’s dream. How can you say no?

Joy Larson is a mother of four boys, graduate of The University of Montana, animal lover and writer.


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Home Cooking: Honey Soy Chicken & Bacon Wrapped Green Beans

Tried not one but two recipes! One was Honey Soy Chicken and the other was Bacon Wrapped Green Beans. Paired that up with Garlic Herb Mashed Potatoes and yum!

Honey Soy Chicken Recipe...

Bacon Wrapped Green Bean Recipe...
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sandysmemorysandysmemory on March 24th, 2017 01:53 pm (UTC)

After the oain of surgery i can feel positive about saying Avoid Soy please.  Soy is food for endo in females.

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this sounds pretty good!


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Pick-n-Choose Departmental Store of GAD-Aisi 'Azadi' Aur Kahan

Pick-n-Choose Departmental Store of GAD – Aisi 'Azad'i Aur Kahan
More judicial activism is needed to "highlight" GAD's love for the blue-eyed
Naseer A Ganai
Srinagar, October 7, 2006:- The recent censure of the State High Court (HC) when it took suo moto action to seek an explanation from the Government for promotion of a junior judicial officer (Munsiff) Afroz Mir to the post of Director, Defence Labour Procurement (DLP) has again brought to light the murky ways of the General Administration Department (GAD), which has been working as a job-finder outpost for the blue-eyed kin of our politicians and bureaucrats.
Little fact of the matter is that Afroz, who was promoted "in the interest of administration" from the post of an under secretary (he was working as an Assistant Legal Remembrancer in the Law Department where he was already on deputation) to the post of Director DLP, which is a special secretary post, because he was the son of an ex-Minister and a senior PDP leader Ghulam Hassan Mir. That what is shocking also is the fact that the decision was taken in the absence of Commissioner Secretary GAD, Khursheed Ahmad Ganai, who was away in England attending a training course
The HC censure has opened a can of worms in the GAD with more skeletons tumbling out and embarrassing the GAD for its naughty rule twisting exercises to benefit people having considerable influence in the corridors of power.
The recent appointment of an Audit Officer in the State Cooperative Department Mehmood Ahmad Shah as Assistant Commissioner Development (ACD) Srinagar along with three other Deputy Registrars of the same department has caused much heartburn in the 1999 KAS/CCS batch. Rubbishing aside the PSC merit list, Shah, who figures at Serial No.105 has been made ACD ahead of over a 100 other officers triggering a near revolt from the 1999 KAS/CCS officers. Sources revealed that Shah has been picked as he happens to be the elder brother of the son-in-law of a senior bureaucrat, considered to be one of the most powerful in the state administration.
" Mehmood has benefited because of faulty existing rules within GAD for direct recruits appointed by the PSC. While they retain top 5-6 candidates and confer junior KAS status on them, the remainder are dumped in 17 feeding cadre services where their inter se seniority is fixed along with other promotees. Hence the present stalemate," explains an under secretary of the 1999 batch preferring anonymity. "A common seniority list within the GAD paving way for promotion into the senior cadre strictly as per the merit fixed by PSC is the solution to the crisis," added the officer. An outcome of the faulty system can be gauged from the fact that the 1999 batch CCS officers allotted Industries and Revenue Departments are running from pillar-to-post for fixation of seniority within the department. Shockingly, the Industries Department is yet to fix seniority of its officers for the last more than 22 years. In fact, another batch of 23 candidates allotted Industries Department in 2001 is also sailing in the same boat.
A delegation of the 1999 batch officers have met the Chief Minister Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad and brought this serious issue to his notice. "The CM has taken note and the matter has been referred to the Chief Secretary. We hope our grievances are redressed," hopes another officer from the 1999 batch.
Of the 260 candidates selected in 1999, after a hiatus of nearly 15 years, 6 were conferred junior KAS, 81 were recruited into police and 40 were allotted Accounts service. The remaining candidates were distributed into 17 general feeding services. Interestingly, the junior KAS officers were promoted in a time-bound manner in 2003 strictly as per merit obtained in PSC exam. Ditto for police and accounts services where most of the officers have already been promoted as SPs and Financial Advisors. "How much more humiliation will we take. Not only have we seen our batch-mates promoted in 2003 but the junior KAS of 2001 batch have also been promoted this year. To rub salt into our wounds, now a batch-mate figuring at Serial No.105 has carved his way past over 100 colleagues to the post of ACD, courtesy GAD," rues a Tehsildar who figures much ahead of his fellow officer. The officers have been for years demanding issuance of a common seniority which, it seems for now, has no takers. Ironically, those officers are finding themselves in the lurch for whom this service has been primarily created.
Sources revealed that the Establishment-cum-Selection Committee constituted by the Government, which is blowing hot and cold over the issue of common seniority, has now rejected in principal the concept of common seniority retrospectively with the remarks that the issue can be considered prospectively. Reliable sources have further revealed that the Establishment Committee had earlier agreed to the proposal when Mr. Vijay Bakaya headed the state administration. "It is a mystery that why the proposal was not tabled for the cabinet nod," says another under secretary. It has been learnt that another blue-eyed boy lurking down in the PSC merit list will be "reprieved" by the present system and a member of the Establishment Committee is working overtime to ensure that the common seniority doesn't take effect retrospectively. "It is a strange remedy. It is just like a doctor telling fellow doctors that Aids vaccine should not be given to people living now but those who will take birth later," says an ETO of 1999 batch.
Ironically the Chief Secretary Mr. C. Phunsong and Commissioner Secretary GAD Mr. Khursheed Ahmad Ganai, whom Greater Kashmir talked to, seemed to agree that a common seniority list is the solution to the crisis that is certain to aggravate if not addressed immediately. It has been learnt that Ganai is "unhappy" that such important decisions were taken in his absence and also when he was about to resume services in a week's time.
Sources revealed that there is a strong politician-bureaucrat lobby that is preventing the issuance of a common seniority list. "A common seniority will stop this joke of pick-n-choose policy shown largely in the interest of administration and also stop the government from picking blue-eyed officers for lucrative postings. It will also sound a death-knell of another routine policy of appointing officers to higher cadre posts in OPG ( Own Pay & Grade) that has been done in case of Afroz Mir and Mehmood Ahmad Shah," says an under secretary.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

New Book: A Stranger's Knowledge: Statesmanship, Philosophy, and Law in Plato's Statesman

Due to a vaguely superstitious reluctance to make an announcement until I had the final physical copies in my hands, I neglected to announce here the recent publication of my first bookA Stranger's Knowledge: Statesmanship, Philosophy, and Law in Plato's Statesman (Parmenides, Amazon). But I now have physical proof that the book is truly available!

(And it's reasonably priced, too, for an academic monograph).

My interest in Plato's Statesman may seem odd to regular readers of this blog, given that it has morphed into a blog on dictatorships, cults of personality, democratization, and the like. But this blog first started (years ago) as a home for orphaned footnotes that were excised from the book's first draft (click on the archives around 2007 to find some of them; it has taken me a long time to get here). Plato also remains the most prominent, interesting, and challenging defender of the rule of knowledge against the rule of the people, so my turn to the study of nondemocracy is perhaps not so surprising; and the many years I spent working on my interpretation of this puzzling dialogue have continued to nourish my thoughts in unexpected ways (e.g., my series on epistemic arguments for conservatism).

The dialogue, at any rate, is an exquisite puzzle, which is probably what attracted me to it in graduate school in the first place. A conversation between an unnamed "stranger" from Elea and a young and pliable mathematician named Socrates (not the Socrates of most of the dialogues, who witnesses the conversation but, aside from a short prologue, never says a word), the dialogue purports to be part of a trio of conversations set right before the famous trial of Socrates, each of them concerned with defining a different figure: the sophist, the statesman, and the philosopher. But though the Sophist exists, the Philosopher dialogue does not exist (and it is likely that it was never intended to exist); instead, the Sophist is placed in fictional continuity with the Theaetetus, Plato's most important dialogue on knowledge. The conversation itself is delightfully weird. It is full of strange distinctions and odd conclusions (including an elaborate joke about human beings being "featherless bipeds" or "two-legged pigs," which was apparently fodder for ancient pranksters like Diogenes the Cynic), dead ends and mistakes that are extensively discussed and acknowledged within the conversation itself, a long and detailed digression on the art of weaving, and a complex myth about a great "cosmic reversal" of motion in which human beings are depicted as being born from the earth in old age and living their lives in reverse. All of this leads to an ambiguous defense of the rule of law as "second best" and a characterization of the genuine statesman as someone whose main concern is the timing of existential decisions for the polity as a whole, in apparent tension with Plato's classic discussion of the "philosopher king" in the Republic

The puzzle lies in trying to make sense of how all of these disparate elements (which draw explicit attention both to their ill-fittingness and their fittingness) fit together as a single pedagogical and theoretical exercise; and the book is my attempt to provide a solution to this puzzle that makes sense of the dialogue not merely as a methodological discussion (as most scholars argue) but as a work of political philosophy that is decisively concerned with the question of what "political knowledge" could even mean. I may say more about my answer to this question later (though, as with most Platonic dialogues, most of the fun lies in trying to understand the movement of the conversation rather than in the answers to which the conversation arrives); buy the book (or tell your friendly academic librarian to buy the book) to find out the full version.

  1. Congratulations! I admit I haven't spent much time with the Statesman; for bafflingly frustrating dialogues, the Cratylus was more up my alley. But your synopsis here makes me curious to tackle it again.

    1. Thanks David! Have you written about the Cratylus in your blog or elsewhere?

    2. No, I feel like I couldn't do it justice without a pretty significant research/time commitment. Someday! I haven't closely read Rachel Barney, DN Sedley, and F. Ademollo's books on the Cratylus, which all seem to contain some seriously substantive material. Barney fascinatingly focuses on what she perceives to be a strain of mimesis common to the Cratylus and the Sophist, but I haven't made up my mind about it. Those three seem to fairly live and breathe the Cratylus. Jay Gould also wrote an intriguing article on the Cratylus in context that's worth reading if you can track it down. (I can send a copy if need be.)


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Wake County's diversity policy takes center stage as dozens oppose the latest plan to shuffle thousands of students.Wake County wants to move students around to create socioeconomic diversity, with the belief that all students do better in a diverse environment. But it's the way the plan is being carried out that has a lot of complaints coming in.

Millbrook High School has the highest number of low income students in the area. The plan to change that has some parents believing things will get worse before getting better.

"IB success at MHS" --its a slogan welcoming a new magnet program to Millbrook High School that's supposed to attract wealthier students to this lower income school.

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School leaders say their diversity plan makes all schools healthy. Families hope the school board takes a closer look at its plan and makes changes so they don't have to change schools.

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Man not dead

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

At the gates of heaven..

"Knock Knock!"

"Whoz there?"

"A man not dead."

"Why are you here?"

"That's the question all of us down there have! Now YOU tell me!"

"Huh! What do u want now?"

"Lemme in. I am tired of that place."

"But you haven't done enough good to be let into heaven!"

"Then let me in hell. I am sure its better than down there."

"But you haven't done enough sins to be allowed there!"

"What kind of sin should I have done?"

"Hmm...Dunno... Something like..a murder?"

"There you go. Lemme in!"

-- The story of how God died.

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Giveaway Winners!

I'm sorry it took so long for me to announce the winners! I was so surprised by how many entries there were! There were over 100 entries for my End of the Year giveaway and over 200 for the Best of 2011 giveaway. Thanks so much to everyone who entered and a special thank you to those who became a follower of this blog! Now, time to announce the winners..

The winners of my End of the Year giveaway are...

The winner of my Best of 2011 giveaway is...

Congrats to the winners, I'll be emailing you all in a bit!
(The winners have 48 hours to respond, if I don't get a response I will have to draw a new name.)

Keep checking back for my next giveaway!

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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Of Search Engines, Ad Prices, and Blind Sales

A report that Google and Yahoo are losing ad sales to an upstart might, at first glance, raise doubts about the search giants’ understanding of the advertising business. However, a closer look suggests the famously smart people at Google and Yahoo know exactly what they are doing.
The article in Monday’s New York Times reports a new company, Quigo Technologies, convinced Fox, ESPN, and Cox Enterprises to abandon the search giants as providers of text advertising. These ads appear beside your search results in response to the words you are searching for.
Quigo, unlike Yahoo and Google, tells advertisers where ads appear on the web and allows advertisers to buy ads on specific sites, the Times reports.
It may seem odd for search giants to conceal this information because advertisers target people likely to buy their products. So most advertisers want to appear on websites with content that attracts large numbers of people potentially interested in their products – if you sell sporting goods, you want to be on the big sports sites.

How Search Advertising Works

According to Advertising Age, the search giants make most of their money from these text ads.
Advertisers buy key words, and their ad appears when those words are typed in a search engine. The advertiser only pays if someone clicks on an ad. Advertisers bid a certain amount for each click, and that determines how often and where their ads appear.
The search giants display the ads on their pages and on innumerable other web sites participating in their advertising programs. The advertiser knows how many clicks it paid for, but not where the clicks came from.
If advertisers knew ads were appearing on sites they want to target, wouldn't they buy even more ads? So why is this information concealed?

Concealing Information Increases Ad Revenues

I am indebted to Roy W. Kenney and Benjamin Klein , authors of a 1983 article in the Journal of Law and Economics (cite below), for this explanation:

Advertisers consider some web sites to be better than others. They may be attracted by the large number of sites available through Google and Yahoo, but most advertisers would probably like to select some sites and ignore the rest.
But advertisers cannot select sites, so they must instead estimate the average value of a click from all sites, desired or not. Many people who click on an ad will not buy anything. And sites with small amounts of traffic probably have smaller proportions of buyers among those who do click on ads.
So the best sites will generate large numbers of clicks and many more likely buyers. Another way to think of this is that average sales per click will be much higher on the desirable sites.
If advertisers could identify the desirable sites they would bid more for those, and advertising would be concentrated there. But Google and Yahoo would be forced to sell ads for much less on the undesirable sites, and their total advertising revenue would decline.

Two Alternatives

What if Google and Yahoo instead offered to sell advertisers web sites in groups -- or bundles -- and included some less desirable sites in each bundle? Buyers would look for bundles they considered bargains, and only bid for those. The search giants would be forced to sell ads on the remaining bundles for less than buyers would pay if they did not know what bundle they were getting.
Another alternative would allow buyers to experiment, buying ads on a variety of sites to see which sites produced the best results. Advertisers would make adjustments after their initial purchase, asking the search giants to redirect ads to sites generating the most sales. But this would be costly for the search giants. It would also have the same effects on ad prices and revenues as the other alternatives.

A Change is (Probably) Gonna Come

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(The cite for the Kenney and Klein article, "The Economics of Block Booking," is Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 26, No. 3. (Oct., 1983), pp. 497-540.)

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Porto de Galinhas

Just after we arrived in Joao Pessoa, Rufus and I left the boat to do a mini road trip along the coast. Our first stop was Porto de Galinhas, or “Port of Chickens”. We stayed for about 4 nights, which happened to be over a holiday weekend so, the place was packed with visitors from all over Brazil and, the atmosphere was incredible.

Porto de Galinhas is located in the Pernambuco state, about 60km south of Recife and has been voted “Best Brazilian Beach” for the 8th time in a row by the readers of Voyage & Tourism Brazilian magazine.

The beaches really are A.MA.ZING. and the holiday vibe is so infectious. Everything comes alive at night – the shops, restaurants, markets and of course the people. You never need to wear more than your bikini, day or night (and a lot of people don’t), and “stupidly” cold beer is never far away, no matter where you are.

There are endless activities for visitors. Ruf and I snorkelled on the reef, spent a lot of time in the sun exploring the beaches, did some window shopping and of course ate a lot of good food. The area is safe so you can relax and enjoy your holiday without having to worry about your belongings.

This was the best way to start our mini holiday and I would definitely go back for another visit.

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Mr. Joel Gurin's lecture on "Open data for business"

5 october 2015 | Great Conference-hall, Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation

The roundtable “Revealing the data. What the state can give to business and society for their development” organized by the Analytical Center will take place on October 3 in Sochi. The discussion will be focused on the report of the international expert in the field of open data Mr. Joel Gurin “Open data for business”, designed to answer the questions about the benefits and the need of open data for society, prepared in 2015l.

The logical continuation of the event will be the meeting of the working group on open data on 5 October in Moscow, where Mr. Gurin will introduce advanced report “Open data for business”. During the lecture the expert will explain what the open data are, how they are associated with big data, why open data are necessary to the private sector and what is the potential economic impact of the disclosure of the data required by business.

Mr. Gurin will also represent a methodology of assessment of the demand for open data by business Open Data for Business Tool (OD4B), prepared by the World Bank. So as the previous method - Open Data Readiness Assessment Tool - OD4B planned to be tried in Russia, together with the team of the Analytical Center. The first session is focused on the transfer of know-how on how to conduct such an assessment in October-November 2015. The session will address the following questions:

- purpose, means, methodology structure;

- experience of use of methodology in Serbia and Kirgizia;

- supposed work sharing between the World Bank and the Analytical Center;

- identification of potential local partners.

It is planned to represent the results at the All-Russian Summit “Open Data” in December 2015 in Moscow.

For reference: Mr. Joel Gurin - a leading international expert on open data – free accessible public information that facilitates economic growth, development of science and innovations. President and founder of Center for Open Data Enterprise, non-commercial organization with head-quarters in Washington that promotes use of open data for achievement of economic and social effects. Author of the book “Open Data Now” (Open Data Now, McGraw-Hill, 2014).

Date: 5 October 2015, 10:00

Venue: Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation, Great Conference-hall

Contacts: 7 (495) 632-97-95,


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Monday, September 10, 2007

This is an emergency. I feel naked and helpless. Can you imagine someone had the audacity and the autocracy to pilfer Addy's phone. The phone that I managed to get as a birthday present from my dad, 5 months after. It happened at the wedding reception on Saturday. I just set the phone down along with my purse and camera to hug and shake someone and when I turned back around, the phone which I had put in the camera case was gone. The camera and the purse fortunately were still there. I was like that's odd, I know I just set the phone down just moments ago. Can what I am thinking really have happened. My friends who were there and another guest helped me look around for it and then I spotted some shady looking dude who didn't look like a guest and had started walking away suspiciously. My friends wen and shook him up a little bit and they gathered that there were two other men who were well dressed that had actually been stalking around for my phone and were talking about stealing it, but they had already left. While I don't buy that from the guy, I can see how that could have happened. See I was busy gossping and texting my friend back and forth. I also think the phone's spirit was also preparing me for the seperation because the whole of last week, I found myself forgetting my phone in the bathroom, in the kitchen, in the radio studio, in someone's office etc. Plus everybody's eyes have been on that phone, admiring it and wishing they had that, and now it's gone. I swear I feel like I have lost a pet of something, because I am always on that bad guy, surfing the net, making notes, 'scheduling'. You know pretending like I am working when really I am sending text messages to Matilda, Ayisola, Ndidi and Singto. Oh and ofcourse I must not forget the messages to the cute blokes too and all the 'H-G-A' and 'C-B-A's' (hot guy alert and cute bloke alert) on your 12 o'clock. AAAAARRRRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!

So this alert is going out to the whole of Lagos. If you are in possession of a cell phone that looks like the above picture -- please look in the text message section. If you see messages that are similar to the above, perhaps you are with my phone. If the names in the contact list are not your friends or have name entries that begin with 'De' please that might just be my phone. Or if you know you did not walk to the shop or market with money you worked for to buy the phone then it aint yours. And this is me just venting because the person who stole the phone probably has never been on the internet. I just need to vent. Anyways if anybody gets any strange call from anybody claiming t be my PA or assistant or some bullshit like that, please hang up o. I wil try to get my number back and if not I will let all who need to know what my new number is. May be you guys can go ahead an email me your numbers or send a message via face book. Please put in the subject line 'MY NUMBER' so that I can search for it within my emails. Meanwhile it appears there are no more 9300i's in Lagos or is theer any where else to get one apart from the Nokia shops, I-cell, Computer Village and Alaba Market. I'll try Mega Plaza this afternoon. (Kai!!! This is where an Aristo/ sugar daddy would have been useful in my life. Why the hell am I buying a phone in this Lagos when there are people getting them for free. See my life) Anyways I am making my way to one babalawo to invoke some 'MAGUN' jazz on the phone. That oughta teach the person not to fap people's things next time.

(Cough) Ehem... if there's anyone feeling generous and would like to replace my phone, I won't mind oh. May be you have a few too many or the one you gave your housegirl or boy is not being fully maximized to its utmost potential, 'plis consider me'. Right now I am eyeing the Nokia E90 below (yes I know o my eyes are big sha) LOL

atinuke said...

Sorry to hear about your phone.
Was at the same wedding.

When I was leaving there was serious commotion around some men who they had caught with phones they had stolen. And the security men were about to rough them up seriously.

Hope you find it. Or better still, hope you get the E90 and all your numbers and stuff back.

engee said...

oooooh tot i'l be first.

Pele dia. but sisi ur eye big no be small o! anyway sha e get one money miss road wey i know. i shall conjure him from the great beyond and he shall get u ur E90. u

Dont worry dear u'l get a whole lot more back ok. wont mind giving u my nos too.....he he he he.....

kulutempa said...

i can give you my razr if you is now out of commission since i got my iPhone :-D

on the real, though, sorry about the phone. there's nothing worse than getting robbed, man...may the thief's hands become crooked and bent! (you know say i be mammywater - all my jazz must to happen! i cursed the G this weekend with two things that happened just as i commanded).

Tutsy said...

@ Kulutempa...."May the thief's hand become crooked and bent!".....LMAO...Damn! now thats some serious curse right there.....I'M SCARED OF

Sorry about ur phone Miss Addy, i know how it feels to be robbed...i had first hand experience when i visited last year....not only did my phone get stolen at the airport (didn't even get the luxury of making it, my brand new Cannon camera was also stolen as well.... actually my entire purse was lifted...funny it also happened at a wedding reception....Folks need to start utilizing better security agents at these events...or better yet make it a strictly by invitation affair in order to weed out those crashers whose primary mission is to steal at social functions in Lagos.

Hope u find a replacement soon. By the way why is there so much emphasis placed on phone brand??...only in Naija sha!

Calabar gal's pal said...

Girl, it must have been hard to have turned that into a joke, but how you go do now? I feel your pain for real, cos i had the same crap happen to me 2 years ago when i visited Nigeria. Mine was worse cos my handbag was stolen and i had two top of the range phones in it, my wallet, IPOD and so much valuable stuff. I was in a shitty mood for days afterwards.
Now, although i still have more than one phone cos of my different nos, i have my most expensive phone insured, Samsung D900. Wait oh, e don nearly reach one year since i buy that phone oo. Shey make i go 419 the insurance people tell dem say my phone don lost, make i kukuma collect new one give you? *wink*. LOL.
It is very well girl. God would give you a better phone. Stay blessed.

Ugo Daniels said...

Oh dear! sorry about your loss (now, that sounds strange)

Anyways, why not go for Nokia N95. That fone is a fcu*** machine. Using it and loving it, comes with 5 megapixel cam (better than most digital camera's)

kemi said...

Heya sorry o! Thank God they didn't steal your purse and camera!

femme said...

i thought MAGUN was only for ones lovers.

Onada said...

pele!! dont worry u'll get a new phone. it'll just be a pain getting all your numbers!!

mystoriesmytestimonies said...

pele ooo
hope u get a new one soon...

Adaure said...

yeah it'll be a miserable effort geting all the numbers back. I got the line back and bought a miserable decoy phone that i am just treating like a step child. May be if I wear a puppy dog face and bitch about the phone SOMEONE or SOME PEOPLE will get the HINT and run to buy me a phone. LOL. At worse I'll steal my dad's N95 and make him think he lost it. He loses his phone every month or two. He's on the 7th one so he won't notice (PLEASE NO BODY SHOULD TELL HIM OF THIS PLAN)

catwalq said...

Catwalq International Academie III is here!!!!!

Sorry about ur phone o. have not read the post but seems like u've lost one. pele

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Achill Island and the Curraun Peninsula offer a hillwalking paradise. Unlike many other popular walking destinations in the west of Ireland, where access to the land is becoming increasingly restricted, most of the countryside on Achill is in common ownership which means that it is freely open and accessible for hillwalking.

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See our Guided Walks category for details of local guides available for guided hillwalks.
A weekly loop walk is organised by Achill GAA, please contact 087 278 6286 for details.

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View and download detailed guides and maps for Achill Island self-guide walks.

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About the Slí Grainne Mhaol / Granuaile Loop Walk in Derreens, south-east Achill.

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We support and advocate the seven principles of ‘Leave No Trace‘. Please familiarise yourself with these before you take to the hills.

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Hillwalking on Achill IslandAchill Island offers two significant peaks, Slievemore mountain at 671m and Croaghaun at 668m. Croaghaun is remarkable for its north-east face which falls away dramatically from almost its peak down to sea level. These cliffs are said to be the highest in Europe. The north-east face of Croaghaun is also home to the highest corrie lake in Ireland, Bunnafreva Lough West, which perches precariously at over 1000ft above sea level. At its western edge, Croaghaun looks down on the beautiful and remote valley of Keem Bay, on the other side of which are the spectacular cliffs of Benmore and the promontory Achill Head.

Hillwalking on Achill IslandOther peaks on Achill Island include Minaun (466m), which offers the much-photographed view of Keel strand and lake and lower Achill. Minaun is also accessible via a maintenance road for the transmissions masts located close to the top, hence the number of photographs taken from this spot! This drive also makes Minaun a very popular spot to visit at dusk on New Year’s Eve to watch the last sunset over Europe.

The Curraun Peninsula provides at least two significant peaks, Polranny Hill (452m) and Curraun Hill (524m), the latter of which also offers spectacular views across Clew Bay to Croagh Patrick and northern Connemara. The valley between Polranny Hill and Curraun Hill contains several small lakes and a large forested area, and is criss-crossed by a number of trails. You should not expect to meet many other walkers in this remote valley.

Further afield, Ballycroy National Park comprises some 11,000 hectares of Atlantic blanket bog and mountainous terrain, covering a vast uninhabited and unspoilt wilderness dominated by the Nephin Beg mountain range. It includes a visitor centre located about 30km from Achill Sound (directions available on the Ballycroy National Park website).