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Courtenay est une commune française située dans le département de l'Isère en région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Autrefois rattachée à l'ancienne province royale du Dauphiné, la commune fut d'abord adhérente à la communauté de communes du Pays des Couleurs, avant de rejoindre, à la suite de la fusion de plusieurs intercommunalités, la communauté de communes Les Balcons du Dauphiné en 2017.

Ses habitants sont dénommés les Cortenariauds.

Géographie

Situation et description
Géographiquement, le territoire du Nord-Isère dans lequel se situe la commune de Courtenay chevauche les collines calcaires du flanc oriental de l'Isle Crémieu et les Terres Basses de Morestel-Bourgoin.

À Lancin et Arandon, sur les communes de Courtenay et Arandon-Passins, se trouve l'espace naturel sensible de la Save de 42 hectares, qui inclut une grande partie des trois étangs de la Serre.

Communes limitrophes

Géologie

Climat

La partie septentrionale du département de l'Isère est formée de plaines au climat tempéré, de bas plateaux et de collines au climat un peu plus rudes. Du fait d'un relief peu accentué, les masses d'air venues du nord et du sud circulent aisément.

Le territoire connait également de nombreux brouillards persistants dans les zones les plus rurales au niveau des nombreux plans d'eau entourant les bourgs et les divers hameaux.

Hydrographie

Voies de communication
La route nationale 75 était une route nationale française reliant Bourg-en-Bresse à Sisteron. Cette route, qui a été déclassée en route départementale (RD 1075) en 2006, traverse la commune selon un axe nord-sud.

Urbanisme

Typologie
Courtenay est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.
La commune est en outre hors attraction des villes.

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (58,3 % en 2018), néanmoins en diminution par rapport à 1990 (59,7 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
terres arables (35 %), forêts (32,7 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (13,2 %), prairies (10,1 %), zones humides intérieures (4 %), eaux continentales (3,1 %), zones urbanisées (1,9 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Morphologie urbaine

Hameaux, lieux-dits et écarts

Risques naturels et technologiques

Risques sismiques

L'ensemble du territoire de la commune de Courtenay est situé en zone de sismicité n°3 (sur une échelle de 1 à 5), comme la plupart des communes de son secteur géographique.

Autres risques

Toponymie
D'aussi loin qu'on se souvienne, s'agissant de Courtenay, on retrouve la terre et sa meilleure culture, puisqu'il est admis que le nom de Courtenay (en patois local : Cortena), dérive de Curtis : le jardin.

en ce qui concerne les hameaux et les lieux-dits :
 Montchalin.  Chalin Chalonne, la chal  : *calmis qui signifie en plaine : « terrain peu productif, le plus souvent en pré ». Dans les Préalpes et les Alpes : « pâturage en montagne, au-dessus de la limite des forêts, sommet engazonné, souvent d´accès difficile et de végétation maigre »53,54. Il est donné comme pré-indo-européen par certains et comme gaulois par d'autres55.
 Molard : colline
 Faye, le Fayard (Boulieu) : bois de hêtre
 Charmey : bois de charmes
 Rivoire : bois de chênes
 les verchères : pièces de terrain données en dot
 le temple : possession templière
 suffixe ieu : suffixe acum

Histoire

Pas moins de six châteaux témoignent du riche passé de cette commune dont les quelque 700 habitants constituent six hameaux disséminés sur  où la forêt et les étangs occupent une large place.

Le village occupe le sommet d'une butte à la croisée de deux voies romaines reliant Optevoz (huitième borne) à Aoste, Bourgoin et Vienne. C'était un oppidum romain. Un autel sacrificiel fut retrouvé à l'emplacement de l'église actuelle.

Si une famille royale au  a pris le nom de Courtenay dans le Loiret, elle n'a donc absolument aucun lien avec Courtenay en Isère, ni avec les Courtenay d'Angleterre. Ces derniers sont issus de la branche royale, à la suite des services rendus à Henry Plantagenet, duc d'Anjou, futur roi Henri II d'Angleterre, par Reginald de Courtenay (1125-1190).

Politique et administration

Administration municipale

Liste des maires
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Population et société

Démographie

Enseignement
La commune est rattachée à l'académie de Grenoble.

Économie

Culture et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments

Château de Lancin
Le château de Lancin a été construit à la fin du  par M. Caquet d'Avaize en style néo-classique, fait l'objet d'une inscription au titre des monuments historiques par arrêté du 12 juin 2014 : sont protégés le château en totalité, les façades, les toitures des communs et des écuries et une partie du parc du domaine où le système hydraulique est encore présent.

Chapelle Saint-Roch
La Chapelle Saint-Roch, de style gothique, a été édifiée en 1528 par la famille de La Balme.

Autres bâtiments et lieux
 Château de Chanizieu, avec ses tours rondes et ses échauguettes
 Château de Montchalin, du , avec ses tours rondes crénelées.
 Ancien château de Tirieu
 L'église paroissiale Saints-Martin-et-Roch de style classique construite en 1907, au village.
 Villa La Fontaine à Tirieu
 La mairie du Village, construite en 1933
 Ancien hôtel Barral à Tirieu
 Maisons anciennes en pierre à Poleyrieu
 Fontaine à Tirieu
 Ancienne école qui a donné son nom au quartier, à Tirieu
 La commune compte de nombreux étangs, en particulier l'étang de Salette, l'étang de Caramond  et l'étang de Prailles.

Personnalités liées à la commune

 Famille Boussin dite Crozat. Arrive de l'Anjou vers les années 1600 et s'installe au château de Chanizieu. Jean qui, est né en 1575, devient le seigneur du lieu. Son fils qui, devient chirurgien d'épidémie, épousera une Bathéon. Les Bathéon, qui seront par la suite de Vertrieu, sont, en l'époque des futainiers. Nos Boussin en plus de leur seigneurie s'occupent de commerce de toile et il y a union entre ses deux familles. La suite de la dynastie s'établit à Lyon et va jouer un rôle important tant sur le plan de la politique locale que dans le monde de la finance. Ils porteront le patronyme de Lacroix et deviendront de Lacroix Laval à l'achat du domaine de Laval à Marcilly l'Etoile près de Lyon.

Héraldique

Notes et références

Notes et cartes
 Notes

 Cartes

Références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes de l'Isère

Liens externes

 Courtenay sur le site de l'Institut géographique national
 Site de la mairie de Courtenay

Commune en Isère
Commune dans l'arrondissement de La Tour-du-Pin
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Weekend at Thrackley: Alan Melville (1934)
"This is getting too much like one of those gangster films for my liking."
The gathering of a motley assortment of guests at a remote country house is a staple of crime fiction, but when author Alan Melville adds humour to the mix, the plot suddenly becomes light and breezy. Result: Weekend at Thrackley is a delightful romp.
Jim Henderson, unemployed for three years, and living in a boarding house, is down on his luck and short of funds when he receives an unexpected invitation to Thrackley, a country home for the weekend. He doesn't know Edwin Carson, the man who sent the invitation, but beggars can't be choosers, and Jim thinks that at least he'll be in for a mini-holiday in Surrey and free grub. Why not accept?
But then Jim talks to his friend, Freddie Usher, who has also received an invitation, and the two friends exchange notes. According to Usher, Carson, who has a shady reputation, as "the greatest living authority on precious stones" is interested in the Usher diamonds, and has requested that Usher bring the diamonds to Thrackley so that Carson can compare the Usher diamonds to some in his own collection. It seems a foolish idea to agree to Carson's request since it's rumoured that Carson may have acquired his collection by nefarious means. Jim is appalled:"You're not going to?"
"If I can get them out of pawn and give them a wash and a brush up in time. Why not?"
"Of all the blithering, nit-witted –"
But Usher assures Jim that Carson is now "reformed," plus he's packing a revolver along with his razor and toothbrush."
A handful of guests gather at Thrackley for the weekend. The home is isolated and has a depressing, suffocating setting. Along with the host, Carson, his lovely daughter, and a sinister, thuggish butler, there's Mr and Miss Brampton, Lady Stone, and Miss Raoul, an actress. There's a commonality with the guests: they all possess a disgusting number of jewels. The exception is Jim, who has a modest private income but little beyond that. He can't understand why he was invited, but Carson claims that Jim's father, (a man Jim knows little about) was his best friend and that they met in prison. This is all news to Jim, and he's stunned by the revelation.
So here we have a shady jewel collector who has invited jewel laden visitors for the weekend. We more or less can guess why these people have been invited, but the fun here in the story comes from its humorous approach. Jim, as the main character, sniffs out some bizarre goings-on almost immediately and then he enlightens his friend. These two men stumble towards the truth, and a great deal of the novel's lively wit is derived from their energy and attitude towards life. Jim, for example, considers Lady Catherine Stone, a "dangerous type of woman. The type that spends her days and other people's days in Getting Up Things; on fifty-three committees, he had heard, and perpetually organizing charity matinees and midnight cabarets and chain teas for vague and unknown institutions."
According to Freddie, Lady Stone makes an appointment to talk about "the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Aged Organizers of Charity Bazaars, or some such title," but she fails to meet him. Where did she disappear to? Carson has an explanation, but it seems suspicious at best. Freddie and Jim decide to begin their own investigations which is assisted by the fact that Carson drives off with Raoul, who is "plastered with good jewellery given to her by bad men." Carson, according to Jim, "is a "dirty old devil," who tries to isolate Raoul in order to make a pass at her.
I read Death of Anton from the same author, and while I enjoyed it, I preferred Weekend at Thrackley–the opening scenes with Jim's landlady were brilliant and set the jolly tone for the rest of the book. According to the introduction from Martin Edwards, this novel was extremely successful and represented a turning point in the author's career. Melville went on to have a career in entertainment and given the wonderfully light, well-paced tone of the novel, I'm not surprised.
Filed under Fiction, Melville Alan
Tagged as 20th century Britain, British Library Crime Classics, Golden Age of detective fiction, Poisoned Pen Press
9 responses to "Weekend at Thrackley: Alan Melville (1934)"
I often worry about the quality of these BLCC novels as there are so many of them now. Nevertheless, this does sound very promising indeed. Plus there's a boarding house in the mix, always an attraction for me!
This one deserves to be back in print.
gertloveday
Sounds like jolly good fun. Have you seen the movie Hot Fuzz? Just saw it on a flight and was laughing so loudly the steward kept looking make sure I wasn't having a fit. It is quite a few years old now but I loved the Midsomer Murders goes totally macabre and over the top aspect to it.
Yes I have and I thought it was hilarious.
Thought you would
I share Jacqui's slight caution about quality control with these, but that does sound fun.
Looking at your review of Death of Anton it's very positive. If you preferred this that does speak to how good this must be.
Not my usual sort of thing, but I may well pick this up. It sounds fun.
This sounds like so much fun. I love the setting and the fact that there's humour in the mix makes it sound so appealing.
Il love these novels set in the closed atmosphere of a country house.
This sounds like something to stack on the kindle's virtual shelves for a day when you're in dire need of entertainment.
I might just do that. Thanks!
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10 Luxury Korean Fashion Brands You Need to Know About
By Manas Sen Gupta, Oct 3 2022 12:41 pm
When it comes to fashion, South Korea is one of the Asian countries that leads in setting trends both regionally and on the international stage. This can partly be attributed to the ever-growing popularity of stylish K-pop celebrities like G-Dragon, BTS and Jennie as well as the rise in the number of homegrown, luxury Korean fashion brands.
The prestigious Seoul Fashion Week, which is held twice every year, witnesses a gamut of established as well as up and coming designers both from home and abroad showcasing their latest designs. Many of these are labels that are incredibly famous count acclaimed icons such as Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Bae Doona as their patrons.
Here's a look at some prominent luxury Korean fashion brands you might not have heard of but need to follow, stat.
(Main and featured images: WE11DONE; Kye; Lie Sang Bong)
This story first appeared on Prestige Online Singapore.
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MINJUKIM
Wnderkammer
GOEN.J
YUUL YIE
Founded in 2011 by Hankook Kim, the statement eyewear brand is a hit not just in South Korea but in other Asian countries, Middle East, Europe and America as well. Among some of the biggest names who have sported Gentle Monster are Rihanna, Billie Eilish, Tilda Swinton, Beyoncé and Jun Ji-hyun (also known as Gianna Jun).
The company is known to work with various artists and designers and has launched products in collaboration with the likes of Alexander Wang, Kris Wu and Jennie of Blackpink. In 2019, it partnered with Chinese technology company Huawei to create smart glasses that come with different voice features and touch controls.
The brand is also known for turning its stores into a cultural space. For instance, in 2016, Gentle Monster turned its New York City flagship store into an underwater experience, titled Grand Blue, for a few months. It took inspiration from the French film Le Grand Bleu for the installation created in collaboration with aquarium designer Justin Muir and glass sculptor Ivan Lee Mora.
Two years after graduating with an MA in Fashion (Menswear) from London's Central Saint Martins in 2011, Kathleen Hanhee Kye's brand made its debut at the Seoul Fashion Week. It was followed with a showcase at the 2014 New York Fashion Week and ever since the Korean-American and her brand have been at the top of their game in the fashion industry.
Known for its vivid, fresh and unisex designs, KYE outfits have been worn by the likes of Kourtney Kardashian and Rihanna among other Western celebrities. In Korea, the brand has helped launch the careers of models such as Bae Yoon-young and Jung Hoyeon.
Kye, who was a finalist for the LVMH Prize in 2014, counts K-pop idols G-Dragon and CL as her friends, who are often spotted in her designs. She has also collaborated with Gentle Monster, Adidas and Japanese cosmetic brand Shu Uemura.
The KYE Spring/Summer 2020 collection called Untamable is all about vibrant colours, over-the-top but refined silhouettes and a mix of details and textures. It also signifies the designer's idea of breaking free of the norms set by society.
K-pop star G-Dragon's sister Dami Kwon joined forces with her friend Jessica Jung to launch this high-end fashion brand in 2016. The name WE11DONE, which is pronounced "well done", was inspired by the 11 team members of Kwon and Jung's concept shop Rare Market with which the label began as an in-house line. Today, the streetwear label is globally renowned and has marked its presence at prestigious events such as the Paris Fashion Week in 2020.
Top global retailers such as Net-a-Porter and Saks host collections by WE11DONE. Its recent 2021 Spring/Summer collection boasts dresses for both men and women. Among them are polos and knit dresses in splendid towel-inspired fabrics of sun-bleached colour.
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Kim Min-ju founded the eponymous label in 2015, two years after she won the H&M Design Award as a student. A graduate of Samsung Art and Design Institute (SADI) and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Kim designed outfits for K-pop band BTS' outfits for songs DNA and I Need U during their Love Yourself world tour. Fans of the brand, members of the band Red Velvet wore MINIJUKIM for their One of These Nights music video.
She made history in 2020 by winning Netflix's first reality fashion show, Next in Fashion. Her 10-piece, Frida Kahlo-inspired collection won her the prize money of US$250,000 and a chance to release MINJUKIM at Net-a-Porter. Her Spring/Summer 2020 collection is titled La Casa Azul, named after Kahlo's house.
Kim's dresses have been described as carrying an overarching element of joyfulness while combining bold silhouettes with feminine touches like ruffles. There are designs inspired by traditional Asian styles such as the Mandarin collar.
The name of the luxury brand comes from the German word "wunderkammer", which means a cabinet of curious things. Founded in 2010 by designer Hye Young Shin, Wnderkammer has a huge collection of dresses underlined by their timeless appeal.
The designs are modern, minimalistic, simple and immediately wearable — akin to the brand's description of its collection as "understated charisma". She draws inspiration from performers such as ballet dancers. The womenswear brand is known for using natural and eco-friendly fabrics slike lyocell, silk and cotton for its products.
Its latest collection has its footing in Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany, and is inspired by the works of architects and industrial designers Le Corbusier, Florence Knoll and Joe Colombo. The designs are based on the themes of sustainability, reasonability and beauty.
Among celebrities, acclaimed actresses Doona and Park Jung-ah have been spotted in Wnderkammer creations.
Designer Goen Jong founded the fashion label in 2012 after her return from France, where she spent seven years and obtained a degree in fashion design from Paris' prestigious Studio Berçot. A specialist in lingerie design, she is an expert in merging architectural silhouette with refined romanticism and finding a balance between delicate and structural patterns.
Soon after its launch, clothes by GOEN.J were in retail stores such as Harvey Nichols Hong Kong. In 2014, pieces by the label found space in all branches of Barneys New York and Milan's Riccardo Grassi Showroom giving it a footing in the US and Europe. It has since been hosted by retailers such as Net-a-Porter, Selfridges, Bergdorf Goodman and Moda Operandi. In 2017, Jong won the 12th Samsung Fashion & Design Fund, which recognised her ability to reinterpret familiar garments into modern, feminine designs.
Actress Michelle Pfeiffer wore a GOEN.J outfit for her The Edit cover story in 2017. South Korean actress Han Ye-Ri was also spotted GOEN.J 16SS white pleated wrap dress in 2016.
For around three decades, Lie Sang Bong has been like a galaxy in the Korean fashion universe. He has dressed the likes of Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Juliette Binoche, Priscilla Wong and Olympic gold medallist Yuna Kim among others.
He founded his eponymous brand in 1985, which is today an internationally renowned luxury fashion label. Lie has primarily drawn inspiration from Korea's rich artistic and literary history with a special focus on calligraphy, known as Seoye, and the Korean script, known as Hangul. He says that he feels very proud of his Hangul fashion and it is the brand's "trademark". Themes based on architectural designs such as Cubism and Bauhaus are also prominent in Lie's designs. Many pieces in his collections undergo advanced technological processing such as laser-cutting and digital printing besides traditional techniques such as embroidery.
Lie designed the LG Electronics' limited edition Cyon Shine mobile phone in 2007, one of the first such collaborations between a fashion designer and a mobile phone company. He also designed the uniforms for the A1 Grand Prix Korean national team in 2008. He holds a special place in influential Korean culture which is evident from the fact that he has also served as the president of Council of Fashion Designers of Korea (CFDK) and the cultural ambassador of Seoul.
His brand debuted at New York Fashion Week in 2014 with Fall/Winter collection, which came after it spent 12 years displaying its high-end clothing in Paris. His Spring/Summer 2018 collection is an eclectic mix of pink, blue, black and white with dots, prints and leather as highlights. The collection also pays homage to early 20th century Chinese Qi Baishi with dresses like the black-and-white long jacket and organza long blouse, inspired by his art.
Lie's legacy is being carried forward by his children, Chung Chung Lee and Nana Lee, who founded the affordable fashion wear label LIE in 2011 as a breakaway line.
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Presidents Day (2016)
Director: David Zuckerman
Writers: Benjamin Goodwin, David Zuckerman and Jud Zumwalt
Stars: Monica Ricketts, David Zuckerman, Jud Zumwalt, Brittany Faith Rosoff, Chelsea Taylor Leech, Dax Hill, Benjamin Goodwin, Mike Ostroski and Michael Minto
Index: Horror Movie Calendar.
There are a lot of movies that look like they'd be great choices for the third Monday in February, but the list whittles itself down in no time flat. For example, I was planning to review President's Day, a 2010 movie with a tiny $5,000 budget that was made by 25 year old Chris LaMartina, surely best known now for Call Girl of Cthulhu. However, while it did feature a mysterious murderer dressed up as Honest Abe, slashing his way through the candidates for Student Council President at Lincoln High (home of the Lincoln Lambs), it turned out to have nothing to do with the actual holiday known as President's Day in eight states of the union, so it doesn't count. Now, I did want it to count, just so that I could introduce you to Eddie Mills, who thinks being Student Council President would look great on his Naval Academy application. His pitch? "At Lincoln, everyone deserves a shot." That's glorious and, with a line like that, I don't want to look at any other possibilities. But, sassinfrassin, this is a holiday horror book, so I had to move on.
Fortunately, this picture came along to help me out, and it's absolutely set on what's known as Presidents Day in three more states. That's Presidents Day without any punctuation, unlike the President's Day mentioned above, which features an apostrophe before the final S, or indeed Presidents' Day, with the apostrophe after the final S, which is how the holiday is known in ten states, making it the most popular spelling. Oh, and that wandering apostrophe is just the beginning of the rabbit hole that was originally known as Washington's Birthday, by which name it's still known in six more states. Washington was born on 22nd February, 1732, though it was actually 11th February, 1731 at the time, because, while we think of George Washington as a famous American, he was born in the colonies of the British Empire, which was then on the Julian calendar. In 1752, the British Empire changed to the Gregorian calendar, and most people still alive at the time, Washington included, began to start celebrating according to that instead.
Now, if you're following all this, we've still only covered 27 states, though one of those is Puerto Rico, which isn't a state at all—it's an "unincorporated territory"—so we actually have a lot more states to go. Between them, there are no less than fourteen different names for this holiday, which was only consolidated on the third Monday in February in 1971 under the Uniform Monday Holiday Act. Five states celebrate Abraham Lincoln too, who was born on 12th February, 1809, including mine: Arizona's version is known clumsily as Lincoln/Washington/President's Day. Montana has Lincoln's and Washington's Birthday, which is notably different to Minnesota, which celebrates Washington's and Lincoln's birthday. Alabama ditches Lincoln entirely to have a George Washington/Thomas Jefferson Birthday, even though the latter was born in April, and Arkansas's version is George Washington's Birthday and Daisy Bates Day, though she was a civil rights activist who was president only of the Arkansas Conference of the NAACP.
Just to make it even more confusing, some states don't even bother with the whole February thing at all. New Mexico's Presidents' Day is held on the Friday after Thanksgiving, which everyone else calls Black Friday except for Indiana, where it's called Lincoln's Birthday, even though, if you remember, Lincoln was born in February. Then again, Indiana celebrates Washington's Birthday on Christmas Eve, because February apparently sucks. Georgia had Washington's Birthday on Christmas Eve too, at least until 2018, a quirk there being that it isn't even a state holiday. That highlights, of course, how much in flux this holiday is, meaning that, while most Americans enjoy their day off on the third Monday of February, they have that day for a variety of different reasons. It's all about George Washington, unless it isn't because it's about Abraham Lincoln too, or maybe Thomas Jefferson or even Daisy Bates, or perhaps all the presidents at once, even William Henry Harrison, who died only 31 days into his term.
Fortunately, this film has us covered, because it doesn't just feature a single slasher in a Lincoln mask, it features a whole swathe of undead killer presidents, including Harrison. If I counted correctly, there are sixteen of them listed in the credits, with three actors doubling up to play a couple each. The earliest is Washington and the most recent Nixon, given that undead Lincoln couldn't afford the SAG rates needed to include Reagan. Yes, that's a joke in the actual film, because this is surely the wackiest look back at history since Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. In fact, it's very self-aware and the filmmakers sold me on the project with the very first gag. It kicks off like a found footage movie, with Clarence filming Lilly and Lilly hating him doing it. Then his battery dies and that's it for the handheld angle. "Good," says Lilly. "It would have been super annoying if you'd have been filming us all weekend." Sadly, we're then introduced to a dork in a yellow tank and a man bun called Brett, who's clearly trying to be Ace Ventura but more annoying.
I couldn't figure out if Jud Zumwalt was aiming for Brett to be a surfer dude, a stoner dude, a gay dude or a slacker dude. Maybe he was trying to be all the above and yet still somehow ended up as the dumb jock. Certainly, within ten seconds of meeting Brett, I'd chalked him in for the first death. I wanted it to be slow and painful. And soon. He's hardly the only annoying character, because there's also Ruttigger, whose name isn't really Ruttigger at all but Wellington, because Brett's both a moron and a bully. Wellington is a stereotypical nerd, there to write Brett's American history paper. They're two of seven characters we meet at the beginning of the film and the intros end with the leading lady, Lilly, pronouncing, "If everyone's done establishing themselves now, we should go." In opening credits order, they're Lilly, the normal lead; Jake, a cool but sensitive biker; Brett, the annoying one; Ashley, Brett's unappreciated horny girlfriend; Max, Brett's goth sister; Clarence, the token black guy; and "Ruttigger", the abused nerd help.
So off they all go into a whole succession of horror movie clichés, starting with Brett's uncle Frank's old hunting cabin. The biggest problem the film has is that it's all cliché, but the biggest success it has is that it knows it and it goes there deliberately, every one of these characters a deliberate stereotype overplayed for effect. It isn't remotely as commercial a knowing dig at horror film logic as Scary Movie, let alone Scream, but that's its greatest selling point. You don't need millions of dollars to point out the stupidity of the genre, you just need insight and enough of a knack with dialogue to have characters say what we in the cheap seats are thinking. For instance, they pause at a toll booth that's no more believable than the one in Blazing Saddles so a spooky toll booth dude can be ominous. "Ain't nothing fun about Presidents Day," he rants. "I've seen some shit, shit only your nightmares can comprehend." By the time he reaches "It could be the last day of your life", a voice from the back of the car pipes up, "Why are we not driving away?"
He also throws a mysterious book into the back of the car, so that, while these stereotypes fail to spark any emotional connections and Jake can emote over how he still hasn't got over Lilly dumping him for someone more mature—in the first grade—Maxine can recite a bunch of esoteric gibberish from the book and the surprisingly limber corpse of Abraham Lincoln can rise from his grave outside, complete with stovepipe hat and axe. Suddenly, dead presidents are everywhere, even though nothing makes any sense at all. Max does says she can explain this "perfect MacGuffin" of a book and she's about to when Lincoln bursts in through the door of the cabin and skewers her to the wall with a hurled American flag, still on its pole. Wellington might doubt the plausibility of what's starting to happen, but it really spices up the film and gets it moving. We're twenty-five minutes in with our first death scene now behind us and we're totally ready for the slew of historical jokes that are, quite frankly, the best thing about the film.
Sure, the horror movie jokes are still fun, such as Clarence being pissed when his survival odds turn out to be exactly as cinematic racism suggested all along or Ashley running outside and continually losing clothing to the foliage. "Come on!" she hurls at the sky. "That didn't even make any sense!" But the best ones are historical in nature, whether it's FDR failing to give chase in the woods in his wheelchair or his namesake, Teddy Roosevelt, mounting the hunt instead. Ashley gets away though. "A canal! My greatest foe!" Some of these jokes are cheap, like George Washington mimicking Jack Nicholson's famous door routine from The Shining. Some are obscure, like William Henry Taft's portly frame having him stuck in the bathtub for the entire movie; there's irony in him wanting a snort of Brett's drugs given that he was the Attorney General but it's an irony that has to be explained on screen. Every member of the audience is surely going to know a heck of a lot more about American history than Brett but most might learn something.
For instance, who would have conjured up the solution Ashley figures out, which is to look into the bathroom mirror and say "sic semper tyrannis" three times to manifest John Wilkes Booth? Just in case, that means "ever thus to tyrants" and it's the line Booth uttered as he assassinated Lincoln in the Ford Theater. Who got both meanings of his "break a leg" comment? He wasn't merely an actor, for whom that's a standard phrase; he also jumped onto the stage after shooting Lincoln and actually broke his leg. This sort of detail is everywhere here, so much so that I'm sure that I, as a Brit, didn't catch all of it. I adored the running joke that has James K. Polk feeling unappreciated by his fellow presidents but I'm sure there's specific meaning buried in there that eluded me. I didn't realise why John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were feuding friends until I looked that up after the movie ended. Not everything is as obvious as JFK wielding a baseball bat signed by Joe DiMaggio.
It's bizarre to realise that this puerile, moronic, sophomoric movie is often also cleverly hilarious. In fact, it wouldn't be too unfair to compare this to Monty Python's Life of Brian. No, it isn't remotely in the same league, but both films take a look at history and our understanding of and interaction with it in surprisingly incisive fashion. The meta scripts overshadow the obvious lack of budgets and production values, with the costumes cheap and the props cheaper. The actors are all deliberately over the top, epitomising a stereotype each. Perhaps most overtly, both pictures actually get funnier the more we see them. Sure, I cringe every time I throw this one on, and it's a special character indeed that's more annoying than Brett, but by the half hour mark, my eyes are bright and I'm laughing aloud, not just at the jokes but at the anticipation of them as I remember what's coming next. Actually knowing what's coming helps for a change and spoilers become incentives to keep watching. Oh yeah, we're coming up to that bit!
And that makes me all the more surprised when I realise how little else these folk have done. I don't know what budget they had to work with, if indeed they even had one, but whatever it was wasn't much at all, as evidenced by the fact that the cast are generally the crew. The writers, for example, were Benjamin Goodwin, David Zuckerman and Jud Zumwalt. They also play Wellington, Jake and Brett respectively, three major roles. All three were producers, and Zumwalt the executive producer. Goodwin also served as the unit production manager and Zuckerman both the editor and director, as well as a contributor to the visual effects. Costuming was the domain of Chelsea Taylor Leech, who played Maxine, and the casting was done by Michael Minto, who played John Wilkes Booth. Assistant director Jordan Leach, the remaining producer, played both Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson. Clearly there weren't a lot of people traipsing around Idyllwild Park, outside of Los Angeles, making this movie, but they got the job done.
And yet Zuckerman has only directed one other feature, The Vigilante, also released in 2016. Zumwalt's most prolific credits are as production assistants on Hollywood features as edgy as Veronica Mars: The Movie and Muppets Most Wanted. Goodwin has only been otherwise involved in short films. The biggest name involved is likely to be Mike Ostroski, who you've probably seen on television even if you don't realise it, which you probably don't. I'm rather shocked that writers this imaginative who were able to finish this feature film, make it funny and get it distributed, haven't gone on to complete another one and another and another. I truly hope that they've been contacted by people who have seen this film, almost as much as I hope that those people are schoolkids who had trouble with American history but saw this and learned enough to pass an exam like the one Brett was doomed to fail. The icing on the cake would be if they explained that to their teachers. Hey, stranger things have happened.
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HOOP: Hands Off Our Parliament
There's an important event taking place in Edinburgh tomorrow. HOOP, Hands Off Our Parliament is a demonstration outside Holyrood to show the Conservative government that we the people of Scotland value the devolved parliament which we voted for, and that we will not sit back quietly while Theresa May and her minions use Brexit, something Scotland voted against, as an excuse to diminish and undermine the devolution settlement, something Scotland voted for. This is Scotland's parliament, not Westminster's toy.
Tomorrow's event aims to form a human chain, hand in hand around the Scottish Parliament in a symbolic gesture of protection. The event starts at 10am and goes on until 5pm. The dug will be there, and so will I, so if you do plan to come along it will be great to meet you. You don't have to attend for the whole day, just come along and show your support for an hour or a half hour or so. The Yes Bikers will be there, and the event will be family friendly. Assemble outside the Scottish Parliament.
Here's a rough timetable for tomorrow, supplied by one of the organisers:
10am Assemble
11am Speakers and Music
12 pm Human Chain round the parliament estate. Each lap is 0.4 mile. We hope to get 4 times round.
12.45 Speakers and Music
1.30 pm The Sound of YES Biker THUNDER
2.00pm 101 Saltire Shields in a schiltron without pikes will be arranged defensively along flanked by some YES biker Heavy Horse Power.
2.30 pm Speakers and Music
3.30 pm Arrival of the car convoy.
4..00 pm Speakers and Music
Although this event is being organised by pro-independence campaigners and there will be plenty of pro-independence campaigners there, it's not in itself a pro-independence event. HOOP is a pro-devolution event, a pro-Scotland event. HOOP is not about demanding something that Scotland doesn't currently have, it's about protecting and defending what Scotland has already got. It's about showing our support for the powers of Holyrood and telling the Conservatives that Scotland does not consent to them using Brexit as an excuse to traduce the democratic will of the Scottish people. Everyone who believes in the devolution settlement and who is opposed to the Conservative attempt to grab powers from Scotland is welcome, whether you want independence or not.
The Scottish Parliament's Continuity Bill was supported by the SNP, the Greens, Labour, and most of the Lib Dem MSPs. This event is about reaching out across the constitutional divide, and uniting to defend Scotland from a rapacious Conservative government which believes that the result of the EU referendum is the only one that needs to be respected. But Scotland voted by a huge margin in the 1997 referendum in favour of the existing devolution settlement. Scotland voted by a much smaller margin against independence in the 2014 referendum because of a promise that devolution would be entrenched, extended, and that the powers of Holyrood could only be altered by Westminster if Holyrood gave its explicit consent, a commitment which the Conservatives signed up to. Now Theresa May and her hangers on are unilaterally ripping up the devolution settlement. The hypocritical Tories are very fond of telling others that they need to respect the result of referendums, but they themselves have no intention of respecting referendums that don't suit their interests.
Some talking heads in the media have claimed that there is no massive popular outrage in Scotland at the Tories' attacks on our Parliament. And sadly that would be true. It's true in the exact same way that someone who has been cat-burgled isn't outraged about their losses until they realise that they've been robbed. We have a media in Scotland which is overwhelmingly opposed to independence, and which is terrified of doing anything that it worries might assist the independence cause, so it shies away from explaining the full ramifications of what the Westminster Conservatives and their Holyrood allies have in store for devolution. They're not telling the people of Scotland that they're being robbed. They're not explaining how the devolution settlement is being undermined and hollowed out from within.
Of course people in Scotland aren't going to be outraged about something that the Scottish media isn't explaining to them. For media figures to say smugly that there will be no massive popular outrage in Scotland at the British government's attack on the devolution settlement is the very definition of a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you don't tell people what's going on, if you don't explain to them how the hard won Scottish devolution settlement is under threat, if you don't detail how the Conservatives are cynically violating and ripping up the promises and commitments that they made to the people of Scotland, of course people aren't going to be outraged. Before you can be outraged, you need to know what's going on. But if you don't know what's going on, then those in power can do whatever they like while the people of Scotland lie helpless and uniformed, kept in the dark by the very organisations and institutions which are supposed to cast light.
It's up to us, all of us, the ordinary people of Scotland, to do the job that the overwhelmingly British nationalist media isn't doing. We have a media which is so terrified of independence that it is hamstrung and will not stand up for Scotland even within this so-called Union. Back in 2014 they told us that Scotland as a part of the UK would enjoy the best of both worlds, instead we've got the worst of all worlds. The promised security of our place within the EU has turned into a hard Brexit run and organised in the interests of the Conservative right wing. The promised strengthening of devolution has turned into a weakening.
Come along tomorrow and show that you do not consent to the Conservatives running roughshod over the will of the Scottish people. Show them that we do care, that we are outraged, and that we do not consent to their unilateral power grab. Scotland has devolution because the people of Scotland fought for it, campaigned for it, struggled for it, over long and painful decades of Conservative rule. We will not consent to the Conservatives destroying it. This is our parliament, not Theresa May's.
You can get a full sized copy of the above poster in tomorrow's (Friday's) The National. The paper will be there and will give full coverage of the event in Saturday's edition.
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0 thoughts on "HOOP: Hands Off Our Parliament"
trish young says:
Looking forward to it! See you and the dug tomorrow. Can't wait to see the news coverage…..
I'll be there. It's just a pity that the MSM won't cover the event but I'll be posting photos on social media. My husband was told by a friend that some people from Catalunya are coming over to join us! #Solidarity
robert harrison says:
That's excellent if its true that will prove once and for all how inclusive Scotland is and not an isolationist nation like England is becoming.
Lollysmum says:
Will be there with a few friends. Wouldn't dream of missing it. Expect no news coverage as usual. Hey ho!
James Orr says:
Is the event being transmitted live, or will there be a video of the event later?
I honestly couldn't tell you. I would hope so, but I don't know.
I will be there tomorrow myself don't expect any BBC gits or even those Yoons from Stv either that's something that can wake others up if shown on TV.
Hope the national will be there as well that way the Yoons can't brush it under the carpet.
The National will be there. The editor has asked me to write a piece about the event for Saturday's paper.
Sweet can't wait to read it glad to you and the dug there today although you came later than expected to lol
Mike Lothian says:
Could they not have done it at the weekend so folk that work office hours can go?
Pauline Murray says:
I wish I could be there. I will be there in spirit
David Crines says:
I am a pensioner coming to the event from Hamilton. X1 bus to Glasgow. No cost. Return bus to Edinburgh – £1. Many many thanks to the Scottish Parliament for my concession travel.
Westminster, keep your grasping hands off my Parliament!!
daviddrawsandpaints says:
My darling wife and I will be on the 11:15 from Motherwell. Save a space for two wee angry yins at the front!
A'bh NicCoinnich says:
How I wish I could be there! It's a bit of a long trek from Ontario but I will be supporting the event in spirit.
astytaylor says:
Me too, you old witch… Currently in British Columbia, but would love to be in Edinburgh.
Sorry, i retract that bit about "old witch", i am a bit befuddled this morn….
Nae bother … "witch" is fine … but less of the "old"! 😀
That's "Cailleach", to you, astytaylor! 😉
I had it all scheduled out to attend until, a call to assist with my grandson tomorrow. It is a fabulous initiative, so so symbolic, I'm really disappointed to miss out.
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See you there!!
diabloandco says:
I am so sorry that I will be going in the opposite direction to visit my lovely wee granddaughter on her 5th birthday – I hope it is incredibly well attended and the sun smiles on you all.
mikeinkwazi says:
Reblogged this on mikeinkwazi.
mbiyd says:
Hands off our territorial integrity might be more apt given the current sell out of our Fishermen (dimwits) by the Administrating power in England. The UK looks and feels more and more like Algeria in 1960s.
sylviabisset says:
I wish i could be there – I cn't afford to travel from London, and my knees won't allow me to stand for long enough – but I am with you in my heart!!
Alison Barclay says:
I'll be coming down on the bus from Stonehaven with my 2 sisters from nearby Peterhead. We had tickets to see you at The Harbour Lights in Peterhead, Paul, but the weather was against it. Hope to see you there.
Jennifer duncan says:
Me and my daughter will be there Aberdeen -Edinburgh return .see you all there 😍
Lou Nisbet says:
While you and the dug are there could you perhaps persuade some people to pronunce the NAME of their parliament correctly? The clue is in the number of 'L's. Holy is pronounced wholey NOT and NEVER holly(which is a noxious growth).
Surely one of the greatest propaganda coups of all time by the BBC? Getting even the MEMBERS of Holyrood house to mispronounce the name of the house. The STV colludes in this as well as they have been told of this and simply ignore it.
Linda McIlvenna says:
Sooo looking forward to this. In addition to The National, I believe Independence Live will be covering the event. Wish we had some foreign media there though to show the world what is happening in Scotland.
serendipidida says:
My late Grandma was once head housekeeper at The Palace – Holyrood Palace – and it was never pronounced holy. Always holly.
My sister and I will be through from Perth, and my son hopes to get down there after his work…looking forward to seeing a big crowd and the sun out 🙂
All the very best to folk attending HOOP in Embra today.
Ditto, Sam.
To all those with knees to march, lungs to shout, thank you.
The day is coming when the Establishment can no longer deny that Brexit is a done deal and that we are resigned to it.
Yesterday is gone, now's the day.
May the sun shine warm on your backs, a gentle breeze kiss your cheeks, and the Edinburgh chippies don't run out of brown sauce. Well, in Rome…
I know that it is going to be a great day.
Paul, give it your barnstormin' best!
'Brexit is NOT a done deal'. Oops.
All the best folks! Have a successful and enjoyable day, hopefully one to be remembered. There are many of us far and wide who'll be there with you in spirit at least 🙂
Just seen these links over on Wings :
https://livestream.com/IndependenceLive/HOOP-second-camera
https://twitter.com/TrulyScottishtv/status/977088820536594434
http://www.trulyscottishtv.com/independence-live.html
Great images coming through from indy live.
https://livestream.com/IndependenceLive/HOOP
Oh great Ive been on Internet TV then as I was there on location today.
alasdair smith says:
incredible scenes around the parliament from independencelive – can't find anything on bbc or stv website. They are deliberately ignoring this significant historic event so far. Maybe it will be reported on the evening news!
AnnieM says:
Aye right!
jk.scobie says:
STV are more intent on showing what is happening in America than what they should be reporting here in Scotland…Par for the course
seanair says:
Lou Nisbet
If you grew up or worked in that district you would be agreeing with serendipity that the common name for the Street, Park and Palace was pronounced "holly". Don't ask me why.!
If the type of person who lives in that area now or writes
about it and would call it "holy", that's up to them, but they are wrong.
Holy Rood gets its name from an ancient artefact that was in the ruined church now beside the palace. In the past pilgrims used to visit to see the 'holy rood' the rood it was said was from Christ's cross. So it's name is Holy and not holly. However decades of convention does make it Hollyrood. Technically and historically the current naming is incorrect but accepted
Weechid says:
Same with Holywood near Dumfries. Nearly everyone pronounces it as in the film studio area but it should be Holy not Holly – because of the same etymological reason as Holyrood. I think folk actually think Holly sounds "posher" and that's why they took to using it.
Selkie says:
Isn't holy and holly from the same word root so to speak – holly symbolising "holy" crown of thorns, blood red berries, jabby leaves, Christmas holly and ivy etc?
So same meaning to split hairs over.
A bit quiet on livestream come of folks pile in – Independence Live- google will direct you or if some technical buffs can possibly post a link .
Oops sorry Macart never noticed your link
Thank you, Paul.
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As of 4pm no sign of the event on the BBC news website.
4.48pm it is reported now.
I was there from 11am till 4pm and didn't see one BBC camera in site the national was there though so was Paul and Tommy Shepperd of the snp spoke today before his meeting inside holyrood which was great of him to do.
Luigi says:
Strange if you google search Hoops or hands off our parliament, it no longer features on the list (unlike earlier today). Very strange.
Well done people. 🙂
http://www.thenational.scot/news/16113628.Scotland_sends_clear_message_to_Westminster_____hands_off_Holyrood_/
Paul asks in the National where were our Media on Friday , Well I suppose doing their job as they have been doing since 2013 , its just they have changed tactics ,
They now are wilfully burying and distorting whats happening in this country , most independence supporters are wise to their tactics because a lot of supporters pass on information as to how this propaganda works .
The worrying and getting more sinister is the change of approach where a whole lot of Scots are living in La La land manufactured by the British state , Brexit is doing great ! And everything is sunshine ,
Doesn't the failure of so many previously successful business raise questions , or important EU agencies moving from Britain , and many financial Institutions making plans to relocate to the continent , this dosent make sense all the evidence of imminent catastrophe is being ignored .
I used to have a subscription to the National but cancelled it because the letters section has been allowed to be hijacked by Unionist nutters ,every single day its overrun by the same nutters not making valid counter arguments but just to have a go , its the Scotsman on Steroids some days , hasn't anyone at the National heard of "Scotland in Union" who appear to have pitched their tents on the Nationals front lawn ,get a grip ! unionists have the backing of 99.99% of the media do they really need help in attaining 100% . Waken up .


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Retiring AUM economist sizes up a different impact: His own
Brad Harper
His voice tightens as he remembers the workers who walked up to tell him he ruined their lives when he recommended safer statewide regulations of Alabama nursing homes. He remembers sitting on the floor years later, sick to his stomach, after explaining to then-Gov. Bob Riley that he'd need to immediately cut as much as 60 percent of state services at the onset of the recession.
But Iranian-born economist Keivan Deravi, who's retiring after more than three decades at AUM, doesn't file those memories under regrets. And he doesn't flinch at the nickname he's earned among some in the Capital City: "Doctor Doom."
"I think my job was to tell the truth the way it is, not to be politically correct, but to be correct," Deravi said. "If I saw a danger on the horizon, I called it. If I saw something which everybody had to be prepared (for), I called it. … If I saw something wasn't working, or if I saw a recession on the horizon, I called it."
He also played a role in some of Alabama's biggest economic advances over the past 35 years. That included helping to shape incentives packages that landed the state's automotive and aerospace manufacturing plants. He created an economic model that was used to form state budget decisions, and he guided specific industries with his impact studies of state agencies, businesses, highways, hospital systems, sports stadiums and more.
His impact analysis of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, alone, included three years of research and depositions.
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Meanwhile, he was teaching class at AUM. He runs into his former students from time to time, people who remember his name, some of whom also went on to become economists.
It's not the career he expected when he came to America in 1977 from Tehran, Iran, and ended up in the Deep South. But it's one he says has been "enormously fulfilling."
"It's really amazing, an immigrant boy coming from that part of the world, to be able to contribute to a society like the one here," Deravi said. "It's not California. It's not Boston. It is what it is. But I can travel to Huntsville, or Mobile, or Tuscaloosa, almost all parts of Alabama, and I can see that I've done something. That some work of mine is there."
As he heads into retirement, Deravi is again looking at the economic horizon. And he's ready to issue another warning to Alabama: More competition is coming, and the state must be ready to keep up with it.
"Regardless of how we try to curtail it, as the current president is trying to introduce nationalism to it, the global economy will take over," he said. "Everything is a cost-benefit analysis at the end of the day.
"The states have to be proactive in recognizing the facts and implementing (policies). It's like a marathon. We don't have to lead the pack, but we have to stay with the pack."
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Where's the starting line? The longtime teacher suggested education.
"I call it an industry because education is a product. The children are our resources. Their future is our future," Deravi said. "We've got to start from there. If you produce a high school graduate that is not ready for college, two or three remedial courses at the college are not going to get them ready.
"All of that is defined not only in terms of globalization but in terms of competition with Mississippi, competition with Arkansas, competition with Kentucky."
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While he's retiring from AUM, Deravi plans to be around if he's needed in the future. Today, he takes a brisk stroll along Dexter Avenue and marvels at the changes since the last time he saw the street. "I don't get out much," he laughs.
It's an unusual time for someone who has lived such a regimented life.
"I always thought about what I'm going to do next. My life has been extremely structured — A, B, C, D, 1, 2, 3 and just go forward," he said.
"God knows. If nothing pans out, I'll do crossword puzzles."


If there is any certainty that can be expressed about politics in Ceredigion, it is that you never quite know where you are.
With this much of a disclaimer in hand, any attempt at reading the signs of this upcoming election should be taken with a large pinch of salt.
The only comfort in taking on the task is that there is less of an expectation for one to be wise before, rather than after the event.
The dominant narrative, of course, is whether or not Plaid Cymru can succeed in reclaiming this seat.
It was theirs for well over a decade until the current incumbent, Mark Williams, stole a surprise victory in 2005 from Simon Thomas – the MP who succeeded Cynog Dafis with a by-election victory in 2000 after the latter chose to serve in the Assembly.
However, whilst recent elections have been held with the rival parties framing the fight as a two horse race, things may be a little different this time.
Indeed, after that first YouGov poll (which seems a long time ago by now) Vaughan Roderick dedicated an entire blog to speculating about whether the Tories might steal a surprise victory.
The subsidence of their early lead, in addition to the seemingly common practice of parachuting candidates into Welsh seats appears to have rendered this scenario rather less likely.
That being said, Ruth Davis is a credible enough candidate (with a surname that is just as Welsh as the current MP!) and given that Brexit is still likely an issue in the minds of many, there could be a meaningful swing in the direction of the Tories.
Their Brexit buddies, UKIP, seem skeptical enough about a Tory victory that they have decided not to pull their candidate – in keeping with the regressive alliance elsewhere – but it is highly likely that they will shed many of the votes garnered previously by Gethin James.
A local Welsh speaker and previously independent councillor, he claimed 4000 or so votes to push Labour candidate and current Cardiff Council leader Huw Thomas into fifth place in 2015.
Whilst the rumour mill has been grinding out stories of a strong Conservative vote, which could see many returning to the fold after years of tactical voting (more from the Libs than Plaid, one suspects), comparatively little attention has been given to the potential Labour vote.
They will be looking to improve substantially on recent performances, especially now that the numbers in the ranks have swelled significantly to the high hundreds.
In Dinah Mulholland, they also have a genuine Corbyn candidate for their membership to rally round and boost their vote.
It is difficult to gauge how many 'sleeping' Labour voters there are in the county, but it is worth remembering the popular Hag Harries won almost 10,000 votes in coming second back in 1997 (he may even have emerged as a genuine challenger in later elections had he not been later bumped by party HQ).
It would not be a surprise if there are many who just this once would like to vote with their hearts, given the chance to vote for a genuinely left-wing manifesto, and if the nature of the membership is anything to go by, it's quite possible this would mean more losses for the Libs than Plaid.
Which brings us to the young man at the centre of the story, 23-year-old Ben Lake – although perhaps we should make less of his tender years given the reception he is apparently receiving.
A Welsh speaking Oxford graduate from the Lampeter area, his relative inexperience might even be appealing if the voters of Ceredigion are feeling their nonconformist selves; their equivalent of an anti-establishment figure.
Not that he is such an outsider. Having worked for Elin Jones it is a big advantage that he should be supported so readily by the popular AM and Llywydd, and one reason he seems to have made an impression with the agricultural vote is the expertise he has picked up as a policy researcher on rural affairs for Plaid.
He also, it has to be said, looks at home in a Barbour jacket – which as anyone who went to school in Ceredigion knows is a clear form of self-identification for hambons.
As noted in Jason Morgan's previous article, he seems an all round good fit, and his energy and likeability seem to have given Plaid activists genuine hope – in what might have otherwise been a wearing and difficult month following the council elections.
Watching from afar, this growing confidence seems to dovetail with a slightly less self-assured display from the Liberal Democrats – even though Mark Williams acquitted himself rather well on the TV debates.
This was typified by an apology yesterday for campaign material claiming Plaid were supporting a hard Brexit – a return to some of the more dubious tactics (putting it politely) employed in the last election.
It may be a measure of their concern that they have turned to such a strategy at this late stage, when they would no doubt have preferred not to, given the criticism received.
Such a concern will not only be because of the reception for Plaid's candidate, but as much because of the unprecedented alignment of factors beyond their control that can so often impact on an unpredictable electorate.
The fight for Ceredigion often seems to exist in its own world, insulated from the rest of the election.
But a fierce and polarized two-way debate at British level might for once have an impact on this seat.
We have not even mentioned the students, with numbers being unpredictable as many will be returning home, and the Labour promise on fees possibly swaying the Liberal vote that remains.
The result may well come down to a certain feeling on the day. The most interesting admission to be heard amongst some activists is that many being canvassed are asking whether a defeat for the popular Mark Williams is a genuine possibility, with voters being swayed by the prospect of choosing the winning candidate.
Such stories only confirm the idiosyncrasies of this seat and the unique approach of Cardis to electoral voting – and assure us once again that predictions are futile.


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"The adoption of this new by-law regulating the use of cannabis in Rosemère accurately reflects the concerns and needs expressed by residents in a survey conducted last spring. It was developed primarily to protect the health and safety of our citizens," noted Eric Westram, mayor of Rosemère.
Last May, the Town published a survey completed by close to 1,000 respondents. Its results revealed, among others, that more than two thirds of the population wanted a by-law confining the use of marijuana to private properties.
A new zoning by-law relating to the establishment of a future sales outlet for the "Société québécoise du cannabis" was also adopted. Should the Town receive such a request, this establishment would be located in the northwest corner of the Town (zone C-139).
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