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136158Characters and Events of Roman History — Wine in Roman HistoryGuglielmo FerreroFrances Lance Ferrero1909
 IN history as it is generally written, there are to be seen only great personages and events, kings, emperors, generals, ministers, wars, revolutions, treaties. When one closes a huge volume of history, one knows why this state made a great war upon that; understands the political thinking, the strategic plans, the diplomatic agreements of the powerful, but would hardly be able to answer much more simple questions: how people ate and drank, how the warriors, politicians, diplomats, were clad, and in general how men lived at any particular time.
History does not usually busy itself with little men and small facts, and is therefore often obscure, unprecise, vague, tiresome. I believe that if some day I deserve praise, it will be because I have tried to show that everything has value and importance; that all phenomena interweave, act, and react upon each other—economic changes and political revolutions, costumes, ideas, the family and the state, land-holding and cultivation. There are no insignificant events in history; for the great events, like revolutions and wars, are inevitably and indissolubly accompanied by an infinite number of slight changes, appearing in every part of a nation: if in life there are men without note, and if these make up the great majority of nations--that which is called the "mass"--there is no greater mistake than to believe they are extraneous to history, mere inert instruments in the hands of the oligarchies that govern. States and institutions rest on this nameless mass, as a building rests upon its foundations.
I mean to show you now by a typical case the possible importance of these little facts, so neglected in history. I shall speak to you neither of proconsuls nor of emperors, neither of great conquests nor of famous laws, but of wine-dealers and vine-tenders, of the fortuned and famous plant that from wooded mountain-slopes, mirrored in the Black Sea, began its slow, triumphal spread around the globe to its twentieth century bivouac, California. I shall show you how the branches and tendrils of the plant of Bacchus are entwined about the history and the destiny of Rome.
For many centuries the Romans were water-drinkers. Little wine was made in Italy, and that of inferior quality: commonly not even the rich were wont to drink it daily; many used it only as medicine during illness; women were never to take it. For a long time, any woman in Rome who used wine inspired a sense of repulsion, like that excited in Europe up to a short time ago by any woman who smoked. At the time of Polybius, that is, toward the middle of the second century B.C., ladies were allowed to drink only a little passum,--a kind of sweet wine, or syrup, made of raisins. About the women too much given to the beverage of Dionysos, there were terrifying stories told. It was said, for instance, that Egnatius Mecenius beat his wife to death, because she secretly drank wine; and that Romulus absolved him (Pliny, Nat. Hist., bk. 14, ch. 13). It was told, on the word of Fabius Pictor, who mentioned it in his annals, that a Roman lady was condemned by the family tribunal to die of hunger, because she had stolen from her husband the keys of the wine-cellar. It was said the Greek judge Dionysius condemned to the loss of her dower a wife who, unknown to her husband, had drunk more than was good for her health: this story is one which shows that women began to be allowed the use of wine as a medicine. It was for a long time the vaunt of a true Roman to despise fine wines. For example, ancient historians tell of Cato that, when he returned in triumph from his proconsulship in Spain, he boasted of having drunk on the voyage the same wine as his rowers; which certainly was not, as we should say now, either Bordeaux or Champagne!
Cato, it is true, was a queer fellow, who pleased himself by throwing in the face of the young nobility's incipient luxury a piece of almost brutal rudeness; but he exaggerated, not falsified, the ideas and the sentiments of Romanism. At that time, it was a thing unworthy of a Roman to be a practised admirer of fine wines and to show too great a propensity for them. Then not only was the vine little and ill cultivated in Italy, but that country almost refused to admit its ability to make fine wines with its grapes. As wines of luxury, only the Greek were then accredited and esteemed--and paid for, like French wines to-day; but, though admiring and paying well for them, the Romans, still diffident and saving, made very spare use of them. Lucullus, the famous conqueror of the Pontus, told how in his father's house--in the house, therefore, of a noble family--Greek wine was never served more than once, even at the most elegant dinners. Moreover, this must have been a common custom, because Pliny says, speaking of the beginning of the last century of the Republic, "Tanta vero vino græco gratia erat ut singulæ potiones in convitu darentur"; that is, translating literally, "Greek wine was so prized that only single potions of it were given at a meal." You understand at once the significance of this phrase; Greek wine was served as to-day--at least on European tables--Champagne is served; it was too expensive to give in quantity.
This condition of things began to change after Rome became a world power, went outside of Italy, interfered in the great affairs of the Mediterranean, and came into more immediate contact with Greece and the Orient. By a strange law of correlation, as the Roman Empire spread about the Mediterranean, the vineyard spread in Italy; gradually, as the world politics of Rome triumphed in Asia and Africa, the grape harvest grew more abundant in Italy, the consumption of wine increased, the quality was refined. The bond between the two phenomena--the progress of conquest and the progress of vine-growing--is not accidental, but organic, essential, intimate. As, little by little, the policy of expansion grew, wealth and culture increased in Rome; the spirit of tradition and of simplicity weakened; luxury spread, and with it the appetite for sensations, including that of the taste for intoxicating beverages.
We have but to notice what happens about us in the modern world--when industry gains and wealth increases and cities grow, men drink more eagerly and riotously inebriating beverages--to understand what happened in Italy and in Rome, as gradually wars, tribute, blackmailing politics, pitiless usury, carried into the peninsula the spoils of the Mediterranean world, riches of the most numerous and varied forms. The old-time aversion to wine diminished; men and women, city-dwellers and countrymen, learned to drink it. The cities, particularly Rome, no longer confined themselves to slaking their thirst at the fountains; as the demand and the price for wine increased, the land-owners in Italy grew interested in offering the cup of Bacchus, and as they had invested capital in vineyards, they were drawn on by the same interest to excite ever the more the eagerness for wine among the multitude, and to perfect grape-culture and increase the crop, in imitation of the Greeks. The wars and military expeditions to the Orient not only carried many Italians, peasants and proprietors, into the midst of the most celebrated vineyards of the world, but also transported into Italy slaves and numerous Greek and Asiatic peasants who knew the best methods of cultivating the vine, and of making wines like the Greek, just as the peasants of Piedmont, of the Veneto, and of Sicily, have in the last twenty years developed grape-culture in Tunis and California.
Pliny, who is so rich in valuable information on the agricultural and social advances of Italy, tells us that it opened its hills and plains to the triumphal entrance of Dionysus between 130 and 120 B.C., about the time that Rome entered into possession of the kingdom of Pergamus, the largest and richest part of Asia Minor, left to it by bequest of Attalus. Thenceforward, for a century and a half, the progress of grape-growing continued without interruption; every generation poured forth new capital to enlarge the inheritance of vineyards already grown and to plant new ones. As the crop increased, the effort was redoubled to widen the sale, to entice a greater number of people to drink, to put the Italian wines by the side of the Greek.
At the distance of centuries, these vine-growing interests do not appear even in history; but they actually were a most important factor in the Roman policy, a force that helps us explain several main facts in the history of Rome. For example, vineyards were one of the foundations of the imperial authority in Italy. That political form which was called with Augustus the principality, and from which was evolved the monarchy, would not have been founded if in the last century of the Republic all Italy had not been covered with vineyards and olive orchards. The affirmation, put just so, may seem strange and paradoxical, but the truth of it will be easy to prove.
The imperial authority was gradually consolidated, because, beginning with Augustus, it succeeded in pacifying Italy after a century of commotion and civil wars and of foreign invasions, to which the secular institutions of the Republic had not known how to oppose sufficient defence; so that, little by little, right or wrong, the authority of the Princeps, as supreme magistrate, and the power of the Julian-Claudian house, which the supreme magistrate had organised, seemed to the Italian multitude the stable foundation of peace and order. But why was Italy, beginning with the time of Cæsar, so desperately anxious for peace and order? It would be a mistake to see in this anxiety only the natural desire of a nation, worn by anarchy, for the conditions necessary to a common social existence. The contrast of two episodes will show you that during the age of Cæsar annoyance at disorder and intolerance of it had for a special reason increased in Italy. Toward the end of the third century B.C., Italy had borne on its soil for about seventeen years the presence of an army that went sacking and burning everywhere--the army of Hannibal--without losing composure, awaiting with patience the hour for torment to cease. A century and a half later, a Thracian slave, escaping from the chain-gang with some companions, overran the country,--and Italy was frightened, implored help, stretched out its arms to Rome more despairingly than it had ever done in all the years of Hannibal.
What made Italy so fearful? Because in the time of Hannibal it had chiefly cultivated cereals and pastured cattle, while in the days of Spartacus a considerable part of its fortune was invested in vineyards and olive groves. In pastoral and grain regions the invasion of an army does relatively little damage; for the cattle can be driven in advance of the invader, and if grain fields are burned, the harvest of a year is lost but the capital is not destroyed. If, instead, an army cuts and burns olive orchards and vineyards, which are many years in growing, it destroys an immense accumulated capital. Spartacus was not a new Hannibal, he was something much more dangerous; he was a new species of Phylloxera or of Mosca olearia in the form of brigand bands that destroyed vines and olives, the accumulated capital of centuries. Whence, the emperor became gradually a tutelary deity of the vine and the olive, the fortune of Italy. It was he who stopped the barbarians still restless and turbulent on the frontiers of Italy, hardly over the borders; it was he who kept peace within the country between social orders and political parties; it was he who looked after the maintenance and guarding of the great highways of the peninsula, periodically clearing them of robbers and the evil-disposed that infested them; and the land-owners, who held their vineyards and olive groves more at heart than they did the great republican traditions, placed the image of the Emperor among those of their Lares, and venerated him as they had earlier revered the Senate.
Still more curious is the influence that this development of Italian viticulture exercised on the political life of Rome; for example, in the barbarous provinces of Europe, wine was an instrument of Romanisation, the effectiveness of which has been too much disregarded. In Gaul, in Spain, in Helvetia, in the Danube provinces, Rome taught many things: law, war, construction of roads and cities, the Latin language and literature, the literature and art of Greece; more, it also taught to drink wine. Whoever has read the Commentaries of Cæsar will recall that, on several occasions, he describes certain more barbarous peoples of Gaul as prohibiting the importation of wine because they feared they would unnerve and corrupt themselves by habitual drunkenness. Strabo tells us of a great Gæto-Thracian empire that a Gætic warrior, Borebiste by name, founded in the time of Augustus beyond the Danube, opposite Roman possessions; while this chieftain sought to take from Greek and Latin civilisation many useful things, he severely prohibited the importation of wine. This fact and others similar, which might be cited, show that these primitive folk, exactly like the Romans of more ancient times, feared the beverage which so easily intoxicates, exactly as in China all wise people have always feared opium as a national scourge, and so many in France would to-day prohibit the manufacture of absinthe.
This hesitation and fear disappeared among the Gauls, after their country was annexed to the Empire; disappeared or was weakened among all the other peoples of the Danube and Rhine regions, and even in Germany, when they fell under Roman dominion; even also while they preserved independence, as little by little the Roman influence intensified in strength. By example, with the merchants, in literature, Rome poured out everywhere the ruddy and perfumed drink of Dionysos, and drove to the wilds and the villages, remote and poor, the national mead--the beverage of fermented barley akin to modern beer.
The Italian proprietors who were enlarging their vineyards--especially those of the valley of the Po, where already at the time of Strabo the grape-crop was very abundant--soon learned that beyond the Alps lived numerous customers. Under Augustus, Arles was already a large market for wines, both Greek and Italian; during the same period, there passed through Aquileia and Leibach considerable trade in Italian wine with the Danube regions. In the Roman castles along the Rhine, among the multitudes of Italians who followed the armies, there was not wanting the wine-dealer who sought with his liquor to infuse into the torpid blood of the barbarian a ray of southern warmth. Everywhere the Roman influence conquered national traditions; wine reigned on the tables of the rich as the lordly beverage, and the more the Gauls, the Pannonians, the Dalmatians, drank, the more money Italian proprietors made from their vineyards.
I have said that Rome diffused at once its wine and its literature: it also diffused its wine through its literature, a fact upon which I should like to dwell a moment, since it is odd and interesting for diverse reasons. We always make a mistake in judging the great literary works of the past. Two or three centuries after they were written, they serve only to bring a certain delight to the mind; consequently, we take for granted they were written only to bring us this delight. On the contrary, almost all literary works, even the greatest, had at first quite another office; they served to spread or to counteract among the author's contemporaries certain ideas and sentiments that the interests of certain directing forces favoured or opposed; indeed very often the authors were admired and remunerated far more for these services rendered to their contemporaries than for the lofty beauty of the literary works themselves.
This is the case with the odes of Horace. To understand all that they meant to say to contemporaries, one must imagine Roman society as it was then, hardly out of a century of conquests and revolutions, in disorder, unbalanced, and still crude, notwithstanding the luxuries and refinements superficially imitated from the Orient; a society eager to enjoy, yet still ill educated to exercise upon itself that discipline of good taste, without which civilisation and its pleasures aggravate more than restrain the innate brutality of men. During the first period of peace, arrived after so great disturbance, that poetry so perfect in form, which analysed and described all the most exquisite delights of sense and soul, infused a new spirit of refinement into habits, and co-operated with laborious education in teaching even the stern conquerors of the world to enjoy all the pleasures of civilisation, alike literature and love, the luxury of the city and the restfulness of the villa, fraternal friendship and good cookery. It taught, too--this master poetry of the senses--to enjoy wine, to use the drink of Dionysos not to slake the thirst, but to colour, with an intoxication now soft, now strong, the most diverse emotions: the sadness of memories, the tendernesses of friendship, the transports of love, the warmth of the quiet house, when without the furious storm and the bitter cold stiffen the universe of nature.
In the poetry of Horace, therefore, wine appears as a proteiform god, which penetrates not only the tissues of the body but also the inmost recesses of the mind and aids it in its every contingency, sad or gay. Wine consoles in ill fortune (i., 7), suffuses the senses with universal oblivion, frees from anxiety and the weariness of care, fills the empty hours, and warms away the chill of winter (i., 9). But the wine that has the power to infuse gentle forgetfulness into the veins, has also the contrasting power of rousing lyric fervour in the spirit, the fervour heroic, divining, mystic (iii., 2). Finally, wine is also a source of power and heroism, as well as of joy and sensuous delight; a principle of civilisation and of progress (ii., 14).
I wish I could repeat to you all the Dionysic verse of this old poet from Venosa, whose subjects and motives, even though expressed in the choicest forms, may seem common and conventional in our time and to us, among whom for centuries the custom of drinking wine daily with meals has been a general habit. But these poems had a very different significance when they were written, in that society in which many did not dare drink wine commonly, considering it as a medicine, or as a beverage injurious to the health, or as a luxury dangerous to morals and the purse; in that time when entire nations, like Gaul, hesitated between the invitations of the ruddy vine-crowned Bacchus, come with his legions victorious, and the desperate supplications of Cervisia, the national mead, pale and fleeing to the forests. In those times and among those men, Horace with his dithyrambics affected not only the spirit but the will, uniting the subtle suggestion of his verses to all the other incentives and solicitations that on every side were persuading men to drink. He corroded the ancient Italian traditions, which opposed with such repugnance and so many fears the efforts of the vintners and the vineyard labourers to sell wine at a high price; in this way he rendered service to Italian viticulture.
The books of Horace, while he was still living, became what we might call school text-books; that is, they were read by young students, which must have increased their influence on the mind. Imagine that to-day a great European poet should describe and extol in magnificent verses the sensuous delight of smoking opium; should deify, in a mythology rich in imagery, the inebriating virtues of this product. Imagine that the verses of this poet were read in the schools: you may then by comparison picture to yourself the action of the poems of Horace.
The political and military triumph of Rome in the Mediterranean world signified therefore the world triumph of wine. So true is this, that in Europe and America to-day the sons of Rome drink wine as their national daily beverage. The Anglo-Saxons and Germans drink it in the same way as the Romans of the second century B.C., on formal occasions, or as a medicine. When you see at an European or American table the gold or the ruby of the fair liquor gleaming in the glasses, remember that this is another inheritance from the Roman Empire and an ultimate effect of the victories of Rome; that probably we should drink different beverages if Cæsar had been overcome at Alesia or if Mithridates had been able decisively to reconquer Asia Minor from Rome. It astonishes you to see between politics and enology, between the great historical events and the lot of a humble plant, so close a bond.
I can show you another aspect of this phenomenon, even stranger and more philosop hical. I have already said that at the beginning of the first century before Christ, although Italy had already planted many vineyards and gathered generous crops, Italian wines were still little sought after, while the contrary was true of the Greek. Pliny writes:
The wines of Italy were for long despised.... Foreign wines had great vogue for some time even after the consulate of Opimius [121 B.C.], and up to the times of our grandfathers, although then Falernian was already discovered.
In the second half of the last century of the Republic and the first half of the first century B.C., this condition of things changed; Italian wines rose to great fame and demand, and took from the Greek the pre-eminence they so long had held. Finally, this pre-eminence formed one of the spoils of world conquest, and that not one of the meagrest. Pliny, writing in the second half of the first century, says (bk. 14, ch. 11):
Among the eighty most celebrated qualities of wine made in all the world, Italy makes about two thirds; therefore in this it outdoes other peoples.
The first wines that came into note seem to have been those of southern Italy, especially Falernian, and Julius Cæsar seems to have done much to make it known. Pliny tells us (bk. 14, ch. 15) that, in the great popular banquet offered to celebrate his triumph after his return from Egypt, he gave to every group of banqueters a cask of Chian and an amphora of Falernian, and that in his third consulate he distributed four kinds of wine to the populace, Lesbian, Chian, Falernian, and Mamertine; two Greek qualities and two Italian. It is evident that he wished officially to recognise national wines as equal to the foreign, in favour of Italian vintners; so that Julius Cæsar, that universal man, has a place not only in the history of the great Italian conquests, but also in that of Italian viticulture.
The wines of the valley of the Po were not long in making place for themselves after those of southern Italy. We know that Augustus drank only Rhetian wine; that is, of the Valtellina, one of the valleys famous also to-day for several delicious wines; we know that Livia drank Istrian wine.
I have said that Italy exported much wine to Gaul, to the Danube regions, and to Germany; to this may be added another remark, both curious and interesting. The Periplus of the Erytrian Sea, attributed to Arrianus, a kind of practical manual of geography, compiled in the second century A.D., tells us that in that century Italian wine was exported as far as India; so far had its fame spread! There is no doubt that the wealth in the first and second century A.D., which flowed for every section of Italy, came in part from the nourishing vineyards planted upon its hills and plains; and that the Italians, who had gone to the Orient for reasons political and financial, had fallen upon yet greater fortune in contrabanding Bacchus from the superb vineyards of the Ægean islands, and transporting him to the hills of Italy; a new seat whereon the capricious god of the vine rested for two centuries, until he took again to wandering, and crossed the Alps.
We may at this juncture ask ourselves if this enologic pre-eminence of Italy was the result only of a greater skill in cultivating the vine and pressing the grapes. I think not. It does not seem that Italy invented new methods of wine-making; it appears, instead, that it restricted itself to imitating what the Greeks had originated. On the other hand, it is certain, at least in northern and central Italy, that, although the vine grows, it does so less spontaneously and prosperously than in the Ægean islands, Greece, and Asia Minor, because the former regions are relatively too cold.
The great fame of the Italian wines had another cause, a political: the world power and prestige of Rome. This psychological phenomenon is found in every age, among all peoples, and is one of the most important and essential in all history. What is beautiful and what is ugly? What is good and what is bad? What is true and what is false? In every period men must so distinguish between things, must adopt or repudiate certain ideas, practise or abandon certain habits, buy certain objects and refuse others; but one should not believe that all peoples make these discernments spontaneously, according to their natural inclination. It always happens that some nations succeed, by war, or money, or culture, in persuading the lesser peoples about them that they are superior; and strong in this admiration, they impose upon their susceptible neighbours, by a kind of continuous suggestion, their own ideas as the truest, their own customs as the noblest, their own arts as the most perfect.
For this reason chiefly, wars have often distant and complicated repercussions on the habits, the ideas, the commerce of nations. War, to which so many philosophers would attribute a divine spirit, so many others a diabolic, appears to the historian as above all a means--allow me the phrase, a bit frivolous, but graphic--of noisy réclame, advertisement for a people; because, although a more civilised people may be conquered by one more barbarous, less cultured, less moral; although, also, the superiority in war may be relative, and men are not on the earth merely to give each other blows, but to work, to study, to know, to enjoy; yet the majority of men are easily convinced that he who has won in a war is in everything, or at least in many things, superior to him who has lost. So it happened, for example, after the late Franco-Prussian War, that not only the armies organised or reorganised after 1870 imitated even the German uniform, as they had earlier copied the French, but in politics, science, industry, even in art, everything German was more generously admired. Even the consumption of beer heavily increased in the wine countries, and under the protection of the Treaty of Frankfurt, the god Gambrinus has made some audacious sallies into the territories sacred to Dionysos.
The same thing occurred in regard to wine in the ancient world. Athens and Alexander the Great had given to Greek wine the widest reputation, all the peoples of the Mediterranean world being persuaded that that was the best of all. Then the centre of power shifted to the west, toward the city built on the banks of the Tiber, and little by little as the power of Rome grew, the reputation of its wine increased, while that of Greece declined; until, finally, with world empire, Italy conquered pre-eminence in the wine market, and held it with the Empire; for while Italy was lord, Italian wine seemed most excellent and was paid for accordingly.
This propensity of minor or subject peoples to imitate those dominant or more famous, is the greatest prize that rewards the pre-eminent for the fatigue necessary to conquer that place of honour; it is the reason why cultured and civilised nations ought naturally to seek to preserve a certain political, economic, and military supremacy, without which their intellectual superiority would weaken or at least lose a part of its value. The human multitude in the vast world are not yet so intelligent and refined as to prize that which is beautiful and grand for its own sake; and they are readily induced to admire as excellent what is but mediocre, if behind it there is a force to be feared or to impose it. Indeed, we may observe in the modern world a phenomenon analogous to that in historic Italy. What, in succeeding centuries, have been the changes in the enologic superiority conquered by Rome?
Naturally I cannot recount the whole story, although it would be interesting; but will only observe that contemporary civilisation confirms the law by which predominance in the Latin world and the pre-eminence of wine are indissolubly bound together in history.
Paris is the modern Rome, the metropolis of the Latin world. France continues, as far as can be done in modern times, the ancient sway of Rome, irradiating round so much of the globe, by commerce, literature, art, science, industry, dominance of political ideas, the influence of the Latin world, making tributaries to Latin culture of barbarous peoples, and nations too young for leadership or grown too old; and France has inherited the pre-eminence in wines, although it lies at the farthest confines of the vine-bearing zone, beyond which the tree of Bacchus refuses to live. Do you realise that in all the wide belt of earth where vineyards flourish, only the dry hills of Champagne ripen the delicious effervescent wine that refigures in modern civilisation--at least for those who are fond of wine--the nectar of the gods? And this, while effervescent wines are made in innumerable parts of the world and many are so good that one wonders if it were not possible for them, manufactured with care, placed in sightly bottles, and sold at as high a price as the most famous French Champagne, to dispute a part of the admiration that the devotees of Bacchus render to the French wine. Ah, they do not scintillate before the eyes of the world as symbols of gay intoxication like the others, for through those bottles passes no ray of the glory and prestige of France! An historian fond of paradoxes might affirm, and with great likelihood, what does not appear at first glance: that the great brands of French Champagne would not be sold so dear if the French Revolution had been suppressed by the European coalition, and if France, overcome in the terrible trial, had been enchained by the absolute monarchies of Europe like a dangerous beast. It would even be possible to declare that the reputation of Champagne is rooted, not only in the ground where the grapes are cultivated, and preserved in the vast cellars where the precious crops are stored, but in all the historic tradition of France, in all that which has given France worldly glory and power: the victorious wars, the distant conquests, the colonies, the literature, the art, the science, the money capital, and the spirit--cosmopolitan, expansive, dynamic--of its history. It would be possible to declare that it makes and pours into all the world its precious wine by that same virtue, intimate, national, and historic, by which it created the encyclopædia and made the Revolution, let Napoleon loose on Europe and founded the Empire, wrote so many famous books and built on the banks of the Seine the marvellous universal city, where all the forces of modern civilisation are gathered together and hold each other in equilibrium: aristocracy and democracy, the cosmopolite spirit and the spirit of nationality, money and science, war and fashion, art and religion. If France had not had its great history, Champagne would have remained an effervescing wine of modest household use that the peasants place every year in barrels for their own family consumption or to sell in the vicinity of the city of Rheims.
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Ransomware Now Sends Malicious Texts Through Mobile Device
Posted by acts360 On August 13, 2019
If you own an Android device, there's a new threat to be at least moderately concerned about. It takes the form of a new ransomware family that spreads from one victim to the next with text messages that contain poisoned links to every contact on an infected device.
The ESET research team that found the software had this to say about it:
"Due to narrow targeting and flaws in both execution of the campaign and implementation of its encryption, the impact of this new ransomware is limited.
If your system is infected, the first thing it will do is raid your contacts list and send SMS text messages to everyone on it. Anybody who clicks on the link in the SMS message will also be infected.
After sending a flurry of messages, the malware will turn its attention to your device itself. It will then set about the task of encrypting most of the files on your device. Fortunately, the people behind this new threat prove themselves to be new to the game."
ESET continues:
"After the ransomware sends out this batch of malicious SMSes, it encrypts most user files on the device and requests a ransom. Due to flawed encryption, it is possible to decrypt the affected files without any assistance from the attacker."
All in all, this issue is only of minor concern. It's annoying, and certainly time consuming to restore your files. However, it's not an especially dangerous malware strain - yet, and that's the problem.
Whomever is behind this new threat certainly has the right idea, even if they lack the technical chops to pull it off. Skills, however, can be learned and honed. As a first try, this effort is disturbing because it's clever. The moment the people who wrote the code get the technical skills to pair with that cleverness, they're going to be genuinely dangerous.
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Kaspersky Internet Security 19 for Mac provides solid protection for your Mac.
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Posted on August 24, 2017 by Mary Lewin.
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Games Talk with Chris Ryan (JB Hi-Fi Frankston)
Chris Ryan is a JB Hi-Fi veteran, having worked with the company for over 10 years. Before landing a job at the Frankston store, he worked up in QLD. He tells us you get a wide variety of folks down his way.
"It's a good cross-section. Between us and the Bayside store, we're kind of the most southern stores until you hit Tassie. You get a lot of people in who maybe used to play video games in their youth, and haven't for a while, but now have kids so they've gotten back into it. You get tradies coming in tracking mud through the store wanting to play the latest thing that lets them kill people. Of course, we get a lot of hardcore gamers too; usually PC players that don't necessarily still buy their games on discs but come in to get the latest Razer keyboards or the like."
Chris is amazed at the way Fortnite seems to have snuck its way into the global consciousness in the way that it has.
"It's kind of a strange situation at the moment. Fortnite's the biggest thing in the world right now, but we don't necessarily sell it. The company is definitely trying to capitalise on it by selling PlayStation and Xbox cards to support the online part of it, and headset sales have just gone through the roof. People who would never have been playing games six months ago are getting told to play by their mates or their kids. It's a phenomenon. All of a sudden people are changing their habits to accommodate for this one thing."
With E3 approaching, Chris says a lot of customers are coming in looking to pre-order, and many are scouting for coveted collector's editions.
"Red Dead [Redemption 2] should really start kicking off in pre-orders soon, especially after the show. We're on that sort of cusp of E3, where people are waiting to see what will be announced. It's interesting that people might put off pre-ordering certain types of games, too, because they're waiting to see what special editions or collector's editions will be announced."
Posted by Alesha Kolbe | Jun 18, 2018 | GAMES INTERVIEWS |
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SUNSET SONS are back with The River Friday, 17 August 2018 21:00 by madseason
After a two-year hiatus, French based British/Australian indie rockers Sunset Sons are back with The River EP.
Produced by Grammy nominated and MPG Producer of the Year, Catherine Marks (Foals, The Killers, Wolf Alice), The River EP was released last July 27 on LAB Records and consists of 4 brand new songs.
Now a three-piece band, after guitarist Robin Windram left the band to concentrate on his family, Sunset Sons show their growth hasn't shown signs of slowing, as The River is a tight and strong EP: established fans of the band will love it, and I guess new ones will join the party.
Stream The River EP clicking on the image.
Tags: Catherine Marks, Love Lights, Running Man, Sunset Sons, The River EP
SUNSET SONS Very Rarely Say Die Saturday, 2 April 2016 23:49 by madseason
After 4 EPs and a bunch of singles, the amazing French based British/Australian indie rockers Sunset Sons have released their first full-length album Very Rarely Say Die yesterday and it's already cracked the top ten iTunes album chart in the UK.
Very Rarely Say Die was recorded between London, Nashville and the band's adopted hometown of Hossegor (France) with Jacquire King (Kings Of Leon) and James Lewis (Arctic Monkeys).
The Anglo-Aussie band have had a blinding past 12 months, which has seen them play over 20 summer festival dates, secure Radio, and win over thousands of new fans, night after night opening up for Imagine Dragons. Prior to that, the band embarked on a sold-out UK tour through the spring, which ended on a sold-out London Scala show -all none too shabby for a bunch of four surfers who fell into music as a means to pay the bills just two years previously.
Watch the video for the new single Somewhere Maybe clicking on the image and stream Very Rarely Say Die on Spotify.
Sunset Sons are touring Europe right now in support of their album. Check the complete scheduling here and go see them live in a date near you.
Tags: Jacquire King, James Lewis, Somewhere Maybe, Sunset Sons, Very Rarely Say Die
Follow SUNSET SONS On The Road Saturday, 17 October 2015 15:36 by madseason
French based British/Australian indie rockers Sunset Sons have a brand new single out: it's called On The Road, and you can watch the related video clicking on the image on the left.
Sunset Sons are touring with Imagine Dragons right now: "We have been blown away by the awesome crowds in Germany this week. Amazing! Our headline show at the Red Gallery in London on 3 November is sold out - thanks everyone who bought tickets! It'll be a banging warm-up show for the two London O2 shows on 4 and 5 November, which mark the start of the UK leg of our tour with Imagine Dragons. Can't wait! We're on the road until the end of November so check the dates and we'll see you down the front!"
Sunset Sons first full-length album will be out early next year, so stay tuned for further news.
Tags: On The Road, Sunset Sons
She Wants SUNSET SONS Wednesday, 26 August 2015 20:46 by madseason
EP number 4 for French based British/Australian indie rockers Sunset Sons. The new mini is titled She Wants and was released a few days ago, on August 14, via Vagrant Records/Polydor UK.
She Wants features 4 songs: the new single of the same name, its Instrumental version, Disco Bands and September Song (February Edition). Stream the EP on Spotify and watch the video for She Wants clicking on the image.
Tags: Disco Bands, September Song, She Wants, Sunset Sons
SUNSET SONS: The surfers' Medicine Tuesday, 2 June 2015 23:13 by madseason
Indie rockers Sunset Sons are a quartet of British and Australian surfers based in the French coastal city of Hossegor, and you should definitely check them if a crossover between Americana and Alternative Rock is for you.
The Fall Line is their third EP; it was released earlier this year (March 9) on Vagrant Records/Polydor UK and features the awesome single Medicine: watch the video shot by directing duo IOWEYOUTH in the wonderful landscape of the French Alps clicking on the image.
The Fall Line is on Spotify, so go stream it now. Also, subscribe to the band's mailing list and download a 4-track free live EP.
Sunset Sons will be the opening act on the next European Imagine Dragon's tour, in October/November: in these shows they'll also promote their first full-length album, coming out later this year. Don't miss them if you get the chance!
Tags: Medicine, Sunset Sons, The Fall Line EP


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Westword: Curious Incident
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Has Bite in Boulder
Karen LaMoureaux and Alex Rosenthal in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Photo: Michael Ensminger.
By Juliet Wittman, for Westword Magazine (Read the original.)
Perhaps the hardest thing for parents of neurologically challenged children is understanding what's going on in their children's heads. They recognize splinters of some of their own behaviors: Who hasn't had a moment of near-panic on entering a crowded and unfamiliar environment? Don't we all occasionally crave silence and solitude? And doesn't almost everyone have some small, unobtrusive rituals that they use to get through difficult moments? But in these children, such characteristics are carried to an extreme — and the child can't really explain what he or she is feeling and thinking.
Many writers have attempted to enter these closed-off minds. Harold Pinter's play A Kind of Alaska was inspired by Oliver Sacks's work with people suffering from encephalitis lethargica and described in his book Awakenings. There's also Arthur Kopit's Wings, told from the perspective of a woman who has suffered a stroke, and the brilliant essays of neurologist-genius Sacks himself.
In his 2003 novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon takes on the persona of Christopher, a fifteen-year-old somewhere on the autism spectrum and with a genius for math. Haddon doesn't attempt a clinical analysis, but bases his protagonist's story on his own creative imagining. The stage version, written by Simon Stephens, premiered in London in 2012 and on Broadway a year later, winning a slew of awards. The Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company is now staging the play's first Colorado production (the touring company came through in June 2017).
There is a plot: Christopher discovers that his neighbor's dog has been cruelly killed with a garden fork. Initially accused himself, Christopher — a fan of Sherlock Holmes (whose work inspired the title) — determines to solve the mystery of this ugly death. But the dog's murder is solved by the end of the first act, and the second act becomes a coming-of-age story, as the teenager searches for the truth about his dysfunctional family — his violent father and absent mother — and in the process discovers some truths about himself. The narrative is supplied by his teacher, Siobhan, reading from a book Christopher has attempted.
The strongest moments are less about plot and more about the workings of Christopher's mind, which are both narrowly repetitive and as vast and beautiful as the universe itself. When it comes down to earth, the script creaks here and there. Siobhan's announcement halfway through the action that she's persuaded Christopher to create a play from his material — the very play we're watching, in fact — thuds as a device. It adds nothing to the evening: We don't view the action differently or perceive a change in tone; nothing becomes more consciously theatrical.
Because the story is entirely Christopher's, and his vision is limited, you never really get inside anyone else's mind, though some strong performances do bring other characters to life. Billie McBride is touching as the understanding neighbor, Mrs. Alexander, and Warren Sherrill brings humanity and an occasional much-needed touch of humor to a couple of bit parts. Michael Morgan and the always-luminous Karen LaMoureaux do fine work as Christopher's parents, and Alex Rosenthal plays tic-ridden Christopher with a perfect mingling of vulnerability and stubborn pride. Anastasia Davidson's Siobhan is charming, but the performance might have been given a little more heft.
The national tour of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which I saw in Denver, used intense tech to illustrate Christopher's inner life; the production was dominated by set, sound and lighting, with tall walls that looked like graph paper on which numbers crawled or writhed. When Christopher broke down, overwhelmed by sensory input or because someone had physically touched him, there was an ear-shredding cacophony of sound. Since BETC doesn't have tens of thousands of dollars at its disposal, director Stephen Weitz makes do with ingenuity, creativity and human — along with stylistically choreographed human bodies. Set designer Tina Anderson has come up with an elegant, over-arching and segmented dome onto which images are projected. At one point, huge raindrops slide slowly down the curves of the dome; at another, the drops seem tiny and sharp as glittering diamonds. Both effects are strangely beautiful.
While the cumbersome tech tended to dwarf the actors in the national tour, this production is more intimate, more emotional — and more successful. It's a hugely ambitious project that speaks volumes about the confidence, skill and experience of Boulder's premier theater company.


Who are your role models in the world of Jewish music?
David Hamelech! Among contemporary musicians, Mordechai ben David and Mordechai Shapiro – a stellar musician and composer. I try to get inspiration from different places.
How do you see the role of rap music in Judaism?
When a person finds himself involved in Torah and tefillah, he is less connected to rap music as an item, but he is using it as a tool to get close to Hashem.
Rap is inside of me from birth – both my parents were hip hop artists. It's something natural to me, part of my culture, part of my life. I am not here to make a revolution – I don't think Hashem wants that. I ask Hashem what it is that He wants me to do, and I feel very strongly that Jewish rap is the unique thing that Hashem wants me to do, to inspire people.
Rap is a foreign genre to klal Yisrael. Lately, secular rap has become much more degrading and aggressive. Something like that can never be kashered. My task is to go down to the lowest, darkest genre and elevate the nitzutzot, the sparks of holiness within it, and bring them to the world.
Also, people who are coming closer to Hashem stop listening to non-Jewish music, but they come to listen to my music, and that gives me a platform to tell my story and to inspire people to connect to Hashem.
After your conversion, you left the music world for several years. What was it like coming back, with Jewish-themed rap?
I was very scared. It's hard to maintain religiosity while involved in the world of music. Especially in rap, which is such a prideful and arrogant thing, while I am trying to grow in temimut, purity, shiflut. But my rebbi said to me, "When Hashem gives you something to do, you need to run to do it. Afterwards, you'll make a cheshbon." So I ran, and I recorded Hashem Melech. This was the first time when I freely and openly spoke about Hashem in my music, and was able to express Judaism in rap.
My rebbi who truly raised me in Judaism is Rabbi Shmuel Brody, Rav of Congregation Ashreichem Yisrael in Seattle, Washington. He learns from different types of chassidut and is a chassid mammish.
I originally began attending the Sephardic Bikur Holim in Seattle. It's a beautiful community. Its current Rabbi Emeritus, Rabbi Simon Benzaquen, converted me. He is also a wonderful chazzan, and we even recorded a song together.
A few years after our conversion, my family and I attended a Rosh Hashanah service, where Rabbi Shmuel Brody was the chazzan. He was so different from everybody else, and I was moved by his piety, his conduct, his devotion. I naturally gravitated towards him. When he started his own kehillah in Seattle, we joined it, while continuing to be involved in the Sephardic community.
Today, do you identify as a Breslover chassid?
Yes, I am a Breslover chassid, a student of Rav Shalom Arush. I daven in the main Breslov shul in Meah Shearim, and I learn every morning in Rav Arush's yeshiva, Chut Shel Chessed. Rabbi Arush is my rav, and I am close with Rabbi Lazer Brody.
What prompted your move to Israel?
The Jewish people, Hashem, and Israel are all one thing. The moment I got into Judaism, moving to Israel was never not on my radar. I prayed every day to go there. At first, my wife was not interested. She had never been there before we moved. I'd performed in Yerushalayim in 2013, and I'd met Rav Arush. I wanted to move so much that I even filled out all the Nefesh B'Nefesh paperwork. Then my wife decided to go, and we moved our whole family. At first, we lived in Rechavia, but then decided that we didn't want to be in an American neighborhood, so we moved to Meah Shearim.
Do you feel settled in your current neighborhood and in your community?
Yes. My whole family loved the move. The children adjusted very well.
Do you get any negative reactions to your music from your community?
No, I had no backlash from my community. Sometimes I walk into offices and stores in Meah Shearim and see Yerushalmi Jews in striped coats listening to my music. My lyrics have been translated into both Hebrew and Yiddish. I get nothing but love from the Chassidic community.
Have you experienced any racism in the Jewish community?
Once in a while, some kids scream "kushi" at my family. I tell my kids that Rashi says that "kushi" means beautiful. But that doesn't happen often. Most of my kids' friends are not their color. I haven't experienced any real racism since I've entered the Jewish community. People are very supportive.
What are your biggest disappointments with the Jewish community?
Before my conversion, the first Jews I knew were the ones inside the Tanach. My biggest letdown once I met today's Jews was how many people are not excited about Shabbat, or other mitzvot. Not every Jew appreciates having been born Jewish. Overall, though, klal Yisrael did not disappoint me.
In Israel, it is disappointing to see the fighting between the chareidim and the chilonim. I wish there was more love reflected towards the chilonim, rather than screaming and protesting. I am against protests and animosity. I wish we'd daven for our brothers and sisters who haven't yet seen the beauty of Judaism, rather than scream and throw things at them.
What do you do when you're not composing or performing?
I spend a lot of time in hitbodedut, personal prayer, and learning Torah. I also travel a lot. I have a full life – I'm always busy. I always say that my hobby is going to see live tzaddikim. There are many amazing tzaddikim in Yerushalayim.
Also, each Friday night, we host 15 to 20 yeshiva bachurim. During the meal, we do a lot of singing, which inspires everyone.
What is your advice to other creative Jewish souls who are doing something unique and unconventional, that is perhaps not encouraged by the Jewish community?
First, they need to give themselves over to Hashem and determine what He wants them to do. These people have the biggest neshamot and can bring about the biggest change in the world.
Next, skip the middleman. Go directly to Hashem and express the yearning in your soul. Once you connect to Hashem, you don't have to do anything. Hashem will do it for you, open the way for you.


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Professional Pest Controller Magazine Issue 88
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Pests on holiday
Feature pest control | PPC88 September 2017
Do you struggle to leave work at home when you go away on holiday? Rather be doing a bit of pest management than topping up the tan?
No, we don't either. Regardless, we press on...
Here are PPC's top holiday pests you may (or may not) fancy wrestling with while on holiday.
Florida, USA: Burmese python (Python bivittatus)
Ever since the garden of Eden, humans have had an uneasy relationship with snakes. Back in the 1980s, there was a craze of importing Burmese pythons from Southeast Asia as pets. Problem is, when your 1-foot companion grows into a 16-foot beast that looks at you like you're a giant pork chop, a sharp feeling of buyer's remorse kicks in.
In 2000, officials recognised that released and escaped pythons had become a breeding population. Estimates range from 30,000-300,000 pythons in Florida, many causing a nuisance, particularly to local wildlife.
US pest technicians have tried trained dogs and traditional trapping methods to bring numbers under control but to no avail. In 2013, officials announced the Python Challenge – a month-long event with cash prizes for people who managed to rid Florida of a python. 1,600 participants registered. 68 pythons were captured, proving that the python is as slippery as... well… you know. If they rerun the event, you could claim a 'business trip'.
Spain: The red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus)
There's probably an argument that the worst pest in Spain is us tourists that make Spain our number one holiday destination. If you want to make up for last year where you ended up vomiting sangria on a beautiful white-sand beach, then maybe you can turn your attention to the "picudo rojo" - or invasive Red Palm Weevil.
The red palm weevil has been making European palm trees their preferred holiday destination since 1994. Spanish coconut, date and oil palm plantations have been severely affected by the pest – and what's a traditional Summer holiday without palm trees?
The treatment for palm weevils is more tree surgery than pest control as we know it. Surveying requires getting up to the top of a palm tree and looking for evidence of feeding tunnels. Insecticide is applied through funnels in the infested trees trunk. If you fancy spending your holiday up a palm tree, rather than lying under it, then maybe you can spend next summer routing out weevils. Pina colada drinkers everywhere will thank you for your service.
Australia - Feral donkeys (Equus asinus)
Donkeys were brought over to Australia back in 1866 as pack animals. Horses would often die from the poisonous vegetation, but the sturdier donkeys proved an invaluable resource to colonists in Western Australia.
Unfortunately, donkeys escaped, reproduced, and began being a real problem for indigenous wildlife. Now there are tens of thousands of feral donkeys wandering the Australian outback – officially declared a pest in 1949.
I know what you're thinking – there's a million exciting, terrifying and deadly pests in Australia – why go halfway around the world to control donkeys? Well, what if I said sharpshooters are being employed to control donkeys from helicopters? Hundreds of donkeys have been culled from the Kakadu National Park under a feral animal eradication program. That's one way to do some sightseeing.
Let's hope we don't have any Australian pest controllers coming here for their holidays – Skegness would never be the same again!
Canada - black bears (Ursus americanus)
It's the holiday of a lifetime. Just imagine it; crystal-clear lakes, pristine mountainous beauty spots, and… bears. Nothing ruins a camping trip like being mauled to death by a bear. And it's not just in the Rocky Mountains or national parks where bears can interrupt an otherwise picturesque day.
Urban bear control is big business in Canada, with black and brown bears wandering their way into towns and making a nuisance of themselves anywhere from plantations, to landfills, to playgrounds. During the Spring season, it's not uncommon for schools to be put on lockdown because of a wandering bear. 20 bear-related deaths were recorded in North America between 2010 and 2017 (although one of those deaths was someone that was keeping a black bear as a pet, known as 'Ceasar the Wrestling Bear').
Want to see if you're smarter than the average bear? We wouldn't recommend it. To hunt black bears, you'll need a Non-resident Black Bear Hunting Licence Validation Certificate, a black bear hunting licence and to jump through a whole host of other hoops. We'd suggest leaving this kind of pest management to the locals. Hunt for some Canadian bacon and maple syrup instead.
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Position Overview: The Department of Psychology at Merrimack College invites applications for the position of Associate Professor/Professor and Director of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program, Department of Psychology. This is a full time tenured position at the rank of Associate or Full Professor, beginning in the summer or September of 2019. This position is 10 months with a teaching load of 4 courses per academic year. Although this is a 10 month position, it requires a 12 month commitment to oversee the daily operations of the program. A summer stipend is provided.
The successful candidate must have experience serving in a leadership role in graduate education, particularly at the master's level. As such, this position requires a strong commitment to graduate education, scholarship, and service. Likewise, applicants must have a proven record of addressing social justice and diversity issues in clinical training.
Interested applicants must have a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision or a related field such as Counseling Psychology. More importantly, the individual must have knowledge of accreditation requirements at the master's level such as those outlined by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP).
To Apply: Please apply online with a letter of application that includes a statement of teaching philosophy and research areas of interest, a list of three references, and curriculum vitae. Review of applications begins immediately, and continues until the position is filled.
Merrimack College offers a generous compensation and benefits package such as medical and dental coverage and retirement plan. Merrimack is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to social justice and increasing the diversity of the campus community. For further information contact: Dr. Christina Hardway, Chair, Department of Psychology.


Local leaders call Ukrainian president's claims at Knesset false.
Jews on the Crimean peninsula are up in arms following a speech by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accusing Russia of fomenting anti-Semitism.
While Jewish leaders in Ukraine have come out strongly in favor of their country's battle with Moscow- backed separatists along the Russian border, the Jews of Crimea mostly have sided with Russia in the ongoing conflict.
"Today, we are under the protection of the Russian state. However, we love and remember the real Ukraine, with its national colors, rich culture, hospitable people, where it was before the rampant nationalism and Bandera," they said, referring to a World War II-era Ukrainian nationalist leader who collaborated with the Germans and who is currently en vogue in Ukraine as a hero.
Russia has consistently accused Ukraine's leadership of fascism and anti-Semitism since a 2014 revolution ousted pro-Kremlin President Victor Yanukovich. Both the Ukrainian Jewish community and the government have denied such claims.
And, although instances of anti-Semitic graffiti have risen, the neo-Nazi Svoboda party, which was a large presence in pre-revolutionary Ukrainian politics, has largely collapsed and anti-Semitic violence in both Russia and Ukraine remains very low by Western European standards.
During the immediate aftermath of Russia's invasion, anti-Semitic graffiti was found on a local Reform synagogue.
However, the local rabbi intimated that it was possible that given that a Ukrainian neo-Nazi symbol scrawled on the side of the building was inverted, the entire episode may have been a provocation intended as propaganda.
Since that point, a local Holocaust memorial has been vandalized, but no other incidents have been recorded.
"It's simple. Nobody in the world believes the Russians during this war – this is just another form of war, not only on the battlefield, but using propaganda spanning hundreds of millions of dollars to create a negative image of Ukraine," he said.
"Poroshenko has no moral right to speak about the Jews of the Crimea, or he does not know or does not want to know the actual situation," Elena Raigorodskaya, spokeswoman for the All-Crimean Jewish Congress and the editor of a local Jewish newspaper, told the Post.


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Natalie Portman sits in on retro space-age Dior fashion show
PARIS, FRANCE, Marc Burleigh- The stars were aligned at Dior's Haute Couture fashion show in Paris on Monday.
First, American-Israeli actress Natalie Portman -- the advertising face of Dior's "Miss Dior" perfume -- was sitting in the front row, somewhat less stiffly than her Queen Padme persona from the "Star Wars" prequels.
Second was the spring-summer collection itself: all groovily "Barbarella" with fluorescent orange boots and skintight catsuits with flower-power patterns worn by models descending from a multi-level space-opera set purpose-built in the gardens of Paris's Rodin Museum.
Third was David Bowie's early years London pop washing out of the sound system, including tunes performed by his stage alter ego Ziggy Stardust.
It was very retro space age -- yet designer Raf Simons injected the show with a look at once sexy and light.
"I was always thinking of the future for so many years and I was always anti-romanticising the past, but the past can be beautiful too," he said.
The colourful garments, he said, incarnated "the romance of the 50s, with the experimentation of the 60s and the liberation of the 70s".
His ambition was for "something wilder, more sexual, strange and certainly more liberated for the haute couture and for women".
- Austin Powers piloting -
Bright, very bright colours, lines and swirls competed for attention on the outfits, which ranged from Dior's trademark thin-waisted, flouncy dresses to second skins to mid-thigh tunics with latex leggings. All carried on exquisitely stilettoed shoes and eye-catching boots.
It was as if Austin Powers were piloting the spaceship, headed for Woodstock with an ultra-glam female party crew on board.
Indeed, Dior itself described the collection as a time-travelling "hallucinogenic amalgamation" in its production notes.
The idea, it said, was to subvert the typical Dior "femme fleur" image it has built up over the years.
Flower power, indeed: a nostalgic trip harking back to a breezier, maybe more innocent, time when fashion, leisure, music and the beginning of mass travel promised what seemed a bright future of free love and world peace.
Current events in the news may give the lie to that promise, but maybe that's why the privileged crowd watching the show applauded so heartily -- hailing this image of hope over reality.
The VIP crowd putting its well-manicured hands together included Chinese model-actress Angelababy, 1960s and 1970s American model Marisa Berenson, and Bernard Arnaud, the head of the LVMH luxury goods empire that controls Dior.
- About 'love' -
Backstage, the couturieres who handmade the garments spoke to AFP about the challenge of working with material like PVC, which was made into see-through jackets for some of the numbers.
"We had to learn to work with it -- we'd never done that before... find threads that can't be seen, that don't break," said one, who gave her first name as Florence.
Simons said he sought to invoke the way women in the 1960s and 1970s expressed political views through their bodies and what they wore.
The bodysuit, for instance, was "not changing the body -- it is the body, so in that sense I think it's interesting to communicate directly with purely the form of the body".
Challenging the often-grim news from around the world was a priority, he admitted.
"This for me is also about love. The '60s and '70s were much about love, so it was a conscious decision to go there right now," Simons said.
Wednesday, January 28th 2015
Marc Burleigh


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Orsonwelles es un género de arañas araneomorfas de la familia Linyphiidae. Se encuentran en Hawái.

Lista de especies
Se reconocen las siguientes:
 Orsonwelles ambersonorum Hormiga, 2002
 Orsonwelles arcanus Hormiga, 2002
 Orsonwelles bellum Hormiga, 2002
 Orsonwelles calx Hormiga, 2002
 Orsonwelles falstaffius Hormiga, 2002
 Orsonwelles graphicus (Simon, 1900)
 Orsonwelles iudicium Hormiga, 2002
 Orsonwelles macbeth Hormiga, 2002
 Orsonwelles malus Hormiga, 2002
 Orsonwelles othello Hormiga, 2002
 Orsonwelles polites Hormiga, 2002
 Orsonwelles torosus (Simon, 1900)
 Orsonwelles ventus Hormiga, 2002

Referencias

 World Spider Catalog (2016). The world spider catalog, version 17.5. Natural History Museum Bern, Orsonwelles. Acceso: 12 de noviembre de 2016.

Enlaces externos

 En ION
 Nomenclator Zoologicus

Géneros de arácnidos
Fauna endémica de Hawái
Géneros epónimos

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