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What are you gonna do? Norah Jones asks that question a lot. Not dismissively, but with an implied shrug. It's something she'll tack on to the end of a thought when it becomes clear that your perception of her doesn't neatly square with what she wants to say or, more pointedly, what she wants to play. She knows that plenty of folks are disappointed that she's refused to record carbon copies of her first album, the one that made her an overnight star. People say her career has been too listless, her catalog too directionless. They'll make a Starbucks joke. Call her Snorah Jones. But she won't wince or take offense. She'll just ask, What are you gonna do? And the answer is, Norah Jones is gonna do whatever Norah Jones was gonna do anyway.
Jones realized early on that she'd never again make an album as wildly successful as 2002's Come Away With Me, which spun off the hit single "Don't Know Why," earned eight Grammys, and has sold more than 26 million copies, achievements she's always seemed uncomfortable with but not ungrateful for. In fact, her artistic output over the past decade or so has been largely defined by her reluctance to let that album define her. If most young artists in her shoes would have bowed to the pressure of trying to make lighting strike twice, Jones embraced success as a license to jag left. "I saw myself as suddenly having the freedom to try anything," she says. And indeed, over the ensuing years, she's leaned into country with her side project the Little Willies, dabbled in punk rock with El Madmo, and collaborated with the likes of Ray Charles, Ryan Adams, the Foo Fighters, and Belle and Sebastian. On her last solo album, 2012's Little Broken Hearts, she worked up a set of atmospheric electronic pop that bore the fingerprints of oddball producer Danger Mouse. As her reputation as a musical adventurer grew, so did the likelihood that not repeating the success of Come Away With Me would become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
But now Jones is in a weird spot. She's made a record that, initially, feels like a sequel to Come Away With Me. Her label, the legendary jazz imprint Blue Note Records, announced the album with a headline that left little to the imagination: "Norah Jones Comes Full Circle With Day Breaks: 9-Time Grammy-Winner Returns to the Piano & Her Roots." That press release went on to call the record a "kindred spirit" to Come Away With Me.
The marketing campaign isn't off base. For the first time in years, Jones wrote the bulk of her new songs on piano, not guitar, and the Norah Jones we hear on Day Breaks returns us to the image of her we've clung to: she's at the piano and the songs are low-key variations on jazz and mid-tempo pop.
"That's just who I am as a musician. It's my sweet spot," says Jones, who grew up in Grapevine and moved to nearby Dallas at fifteen so she could attend Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. "When I played jazz in high school and college, I was always better at the ballads or mid-tempo material. And the piano is definitely my instrument. When I play it, I gravitate toward a certain type of sound because it's what I've always played on it—jazz or blues. And when that's stripped-down and mid-tempo, you get something that definitely hearkens back to my first record."
Hearken it may, but Day Breaks is also a very different record. In 2000, not long after Jones left Texas for New York City, she had her first meeting with Blue Note president Bruce Lundvall. He listened to a demo she played for him that consisted of two jazz standards and a pop-leaning tune her friend Jesse Harris had written. "Bruce said, 'This is great. But there's two different sounds here. Do you want to be a jazz singer or a pop singer?' " Jones recalls. "I was sitting at Blue Note and I'm not an idiot. So I said jazz singer." But the album she ended up recording for Lundvall was a pop album—admittedly, a pop album with jazz touches and some impressive jazz players making guest appearances, but one that was closer to the slow-burn balladry of Aretha Franklin or Carole King than to the improvisational stylings of Sarah Vaughan or Billie Holiday. "I didn't think of it as a jazz record," Jones says.
Day Breaks, by contrast, really is a jazz record. There are covers of Duke Ellington and Horace Silver tunes, long passages that seem improvised, and a backing band that's an all-star jazz wrecking crew: drummer Brian Blade, organist Dr. Lonnie Smith,* and saxophonist Wayne Shorter. The strongest connection to Come Away With Me might be a sense of airiness, a "less is more" approach. Just don't try to tell Jones it sounds like a back-to-basics move.
"It's not back to basics for me," she insists. "I'm stretching myself to play piano under Wayne Shorter. That was pretty awesome and something I could have never done at twenty-two. And even if I could've, I wouldn't have had the balls to do it anyway. So 'back to basics' seems like a little bit of a press release term, doesn't it?"
People rarely stop Norah Jones on the streets of New York City for a selfie. "Medium" is how she describes her level of stardom these days. Occasionally, though, a stranger will turn to her for feedback. Recently Jones met a twelve-year-old girl at a wedding. "She didn't know who I was, but someone apparently told her I was a famous singer," Jones says. When the girl approached and asked for her opinion, it was simply whether Jones thought she'd be better served auditioning for American Idol or The Voice.
"As if I was supposed to pick one," Jones says. "I said, 'Okay, first of all, why don't you enjoy being a kid and work on music for fun? And then, if you decide you want to do this, figure out if it's because you want to be famous or if it's because you love it and want to get really good at it.' I got all granny on her. But it's good advice, right?"
Jones makes walking that walk—valuing art over commerce, creativity over celebrity—look effortless. She's not active on Facebook or Twitter. She hasn't coached a television singing contest. And she's intensely private when it comes to family; she has two young children, one reportedly born this summer, whom we know next to nothing about. Selling baby pictures to People isn't the kind of thing that tempts Norah Jones. Maybe she doesn't fixate on stardom the way other people do because stardom was never part of the plan. Day Breaks, seen in that light, isn't so much a return to her first album as it is to the ambitions she entertained before she became a star.
"Let's start in Grapevine," Jones counters when I suggest we talk about her life as a jazz student at the University of North Texas. In grade school, Jones says she was a reluctant music student and quit classical piano classes because she didn't like to practice scales. But in seventh grade, when she showed renewed interest in music, her mother took her to a big-band jazz concert at UNT. "It blew my mind wide-open," says Jones, who quickly signed up for piano lessons with a teacher who emphasized reading chord changes instead of notes. "I saw that you could be free and improvisational, which is what I couldn't do with classical music."
During her high school years at Booker T. Washington, Jones played regularly at a local coffee shop. Her set was mostly instrumental jazz standards, but an occasional vocal turn, usually on Billie Holiday's "I'll Be Seeing You," often proved to be the big tip-earner. "That's when I realized that even if I was in school for piano, people liked it when I sang more than when I just played." It was an awkward realization for someone who worshipped the great pianist Bill Evans. "I was a little bit of a jazz snob," Jones says. "I wasn't a songwriter. For me, playing jazz meant playing Gershwin and Harold Arlen songs, working on taking a solo between singing the melodies."
The summer after her freshman year at UNT, Jones sublet an apartment in New York and immersed herself in the city's jazz scene. She did the same the following summer and decided to stay; she'd front-loaded her UNT schedule with jazz piano classes, and had she gone back it would've meant two years of academics and classical musical seminars. "Honestly, I couldn't face it," she says. But though she came to New York to sing standards, she was becoming more and more interested in songwriting, inspired by both the Lower East Side's burgeoning singer-songwriter scene and a stack of Townes Van Zandt albums some friends had turned her on to. By the time Blue Note came knocking, Jones was working with the band that created the jazz-pop-folk sound that launched a million radio plays.
"We had a cool vibe together from the start," Jones says. "It never felt like we were searching for a sound. We just sort of fell together and it became what it was."
Obviously, what it was wasn't the jazz she had come to New York to make. It was something much bigger. Come Away With Me was released in early 2002, and commercially it was, like many of Jones's songs, something of a slow burn. The album debuted inauspiciously at number 139 on the Billboard charts and took six months to sell a million copies. Then it sold another three million over the next six months—and finally hit number 1 nearly a year after its release. At one point, the album was such a phenomenon that Jones reportedly asked Lundvall if it could be pulled from the shelves; she was terrified of what overexposure might do to her music.
"I had all the success in the world and I wasn't completely happy," she says. "I was overwhelmed by it all, especially the celebrity part. That's when you ask, 'How do I keep this fun?' I wasn't sure, but I knew what wouldn't be fun: doing the same thing over and over. How can you find emotion in that, let alone fun? So I didn't."
That attitude gave us the Norah Jones who these days is only sort of a star—her sweet spot, the Norah Jones we were supposed to know all along. And that's the Norah Jones you can hear on Day Breaks.
Jones wants to tell one more story. It's about her first car. And it starts at an unlikely place—the La Madeleine: Country French Cafe on Dallas's Lemmon Avenue.
"I worked there in high school to save up money for a car," Jones says. "My mom was nervous about me driving on busy Texas highways, so she wanted me to have the biggest, baddest boat she could find. So we bought a 1971 Cadillac DeVille."
Jones took the car with her to Denton. During her freshman year, another student asked if she could drive to a nearby hotel and pick up bassist Marc Johnson's band. Johnson, a UNT graduate who'd played with Stan Getz and Bill Evans, was in town to conduct a clinic at the school. "I was dorky, agreeable, and had a car big enough for the guys and their gear," she says. Three members of Johnson's band—Steve Cardenas, Kenny Wollesen, and Kurt Rosenwinkel—hopped into Jones's Cadillac that afternoon. Following behind in a rental car were a couple of old friends of Wollesen's who were passing through Texas and wanted to hang out with their buddy: a pair of New Yorkers named Jesse Harris and Richard Julian.
"I couldn't believe I was hanging out with a couple of real New York musicians," Jones says of Harris and Julian. "And when I asked them exactly what they did, they said they were songwriters. At that point, I honestly didn't know that was a thing you could identify yourself as. I showed them around town, and we all ended up hanging out at a golf course over by the Radisson, playing guitar and singing songs. When I told my mom, she said, 'You went to a golf course with a bunch of men in the middle of the night? Are you crazy?' Whoops. Sorry, didn't think about that. They were nerdy musicians. I didn't ever feel unsafe."
Jones and Harris stayed in touch; every so often, he'd send her a song he had written that she could sing at her coffee house and restaurant gigs in Dallas and Denton. And once she got to New York, it was Harris who showed her around the scene. And, yes, it was Harris who wrote "Don't Know Why," the song that won Song of the Year and Record of the Year at the 2003 Grammys. And Julian? He wound up co-leading Jones's country side project, the Little Willies. The Cadillac did okay too. It was sold twice. When Jones committed to staying in NYC, Wollesen, who had fallen for the car during that visit to UNT, bought it from her. And then, a few years later, he sold it to another musician friend, Tony Scherr.
"Tony did a gig up the street from my apartment, and for four years I'd see the car once a week," says Jones. "It made me homesick for Texas. But it's also a giant Cadillac. There is no worse car in the world to have to park in New York City."
The Cadillac anecdote might just be a random story about one of life's random turns that Jones tells because she finds it amusing. But she might also tell it for another reason. Unlike Jones, most pop stars are always happy to boast about how hard they worked to get where they are, how they always dreamed of fame, and how they deserve everything they've gotten. Jones has worked hard too—you don't get to be a first-rate singer, pianist, and songwriter without putting some effort in. But she worked hard at being a musician, not at being a celebrity. The celebrity, she's at pains to make clear, was something that just sort of happened to her—her mom happened to buy her a really big car, driving a big car happened to lead to her meeting the people who helped her get her big break by opening her eyes to something more commercial than singing jazz standards, and that's how we wound up with Norah Jones the Grammy Award–winning, multiplatinum artist.
If that car had never turned up in her driveway, she might have ended up with the career she had always imagined for herself: playing jazz in small cafes, figuring that the biggest thing that might ever happen to her would be to record an album for the most prestigious jazz label in the world, backed by jazz titans like Wayne Shorter and Dr. Lonnie Smith—and be thrilled if it sold 20,000 copies. But thanks to that Cadillac, Day Breaks will probably sell more than 200,000 copies.
And if it doesn't? If the big news that Norah Jones has returned to the piano and to her roots results in a blip, not a bang? She'll just make another record. And another after that.
That doesn't mean she has no ambitions. "I'm not completely blind to expectations," Jones says. "But I try to set the bar low for myself so I don't get disappointed. I feel pretty good about what I do. I'm not scared about what people think like I was back when I was twenty-two. But music is music. Some people love certain things. Some people hate that same thing. What are you gonna do?"
*Correction: An earlier version of this story misidentified Dr. Lonnie Smith as Lonnie Liston Smith. We regret the error.


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Bunnahabhain 25 Years Old 1989 Treasurer's Selection (47%, Robert Graham, Cask #5802, 228 Bottles, 2014)
Whisky Review
- Category: Islay single malt scotch whisky
- Origin: Bunnahabhain Distillery
- Bottling: Robert Graham; Treasurer's Selection
- Cost: £175
What they say:
Region: Islay
Age: 25 year old
Distilled: 1989
Bottled: October 2014
Cask number: 5802
Limited to 228 bottles
UnChill-Filtered Treasurer Selection
From our "Treasurer's Selection" of single cask, cask-strength malts.
An enigma of a malt. Most Bunnahabhain expressions are unpeated, and on the nose you would be forgiven for expecting this one to be the same: there is hardly a trace of smoke to be found, just creaking old oak and heavy cellar mould. True, there is the unmistakable waxy scent of a Barbour jacket left beside the fire, of cold ashes left in the hearth…but nothing to suggest the sudden arrival of thick, earthy peat that appears out of nowhere on the palate. It weighs heavy on your tongue with dark chocolate orange, ancient oloroso, and a slight sea salt tang; but give it time and fresh wild flowers will begin to emerge, alongside juicy apricot, in the background. That ghostly smoke thins to a whiff on the finish, as the oak takes over once again.
What I say:
Sampled on 21st May 2016 (aka World Whisky Day) as part of the Celebration of whisky a small gathering of Whiskyphiles converged upon Robert Graham's Cannongait store in Edinburgh for a wee session. We started out with this grand dame of a whisky from their Treasurer's Selection, a Bunnahabhain aged for 25 years.
Amber gold (6/20), medium tears and medium legs
On the nose, creamy Highland toffee and a little light herbal menthol/mint combined to give the impression of Murray Mint candies, some cereal malted barley, gristy, dry and dusty/musty dunnage warehouses, perhaps a hint of fruity cherry?
Quite light and subtle initially on the palate, some tannic oak wood belies the age and some juicy stone fruits peach/apricot precede a weight of treacle sponge cake or pudding and sticky toffee pudding, salt caramel, toffee, milk chocolate, and a wisp of smoke
Medium-long, baked toffee sponge puddings and treacle toffee
Incredibly smooth and luxurious this makes a great sipping whisky, well worth spending time with to reveal its true nature, packed full of smooth & creamy Highland toffee. Another high-scoring old Bunnahabhain whisky – I must particularly like this style!
Score: 90/100
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(Correction: Because of a reporting error, the surname of pollster Alexander P. Gage was incorrect in an item in The Briefing column in yesterday's Nation pages.)
Last year Harvard mutual fund specialist Robert Pozen enjoyed a spring window of fame when President Bush credited him for the ideas underpinning his Social Security overhaul plan. On Tuesday night, the president's State of the Union address is expected to turn the media spotlight onto another brain -- Norman Augustine, the former CEO of Lockheed Martin, an aerospace engineer who's partial to dog sledding in the Arctic.
The Princeton-trained engineer caught the attention of the White House by sounding the alarm over global economic competition. Augustine, who will receive the National Academy of Sciences' prestigious public welfare medal in April, last year led a congressionally mandated National Academies team that issued a report warning that America is ''on a losing path" in the global marketplace.
The report, ''Rising Above the Gathering Storm," was noticed by White House aides, including Karl Rove, deputy chief of staff, and Joshua Bolten, director of the Office of Management and Budget, who met with Augustine and other high-tech specialists in December. A senior administration official last week confirmed that competitive concerns in general, which administration strategists consider a bipartisan issue, and Augustine's findings in particular will be themes of Bush's address.
The report calls for improvements in K-12 math and science instruction, a strengthening of long-term basic research support, efforts to recruit and train top scientists and students, and the production of ''clean, affordable energy."
Among the professional credits on the 70-year-old Augustine's résumé: helping craft space vehicles, ''smart" weapons, and advanced aircraft systems and advising Democratic and Republican administrations.
Among his off-hour credits: exploring volcanoes in Antarctica, snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef, and trekking to both poles.
Politics shaping economic views
''The State of the Union is one of those critical moments when the White House has the power to drive the national dialogue," says pollster Alexander P. Gage. That's the good news for the White House.
The bad news: It's not easy to keep favored issues on the public radar. Employing a new polling system that measures the information flow to voters, Gates found that Social Security apparently ranked above the Iraq war on the public mind last spring, after Bush proposed his overhaul. But by August, as the White House promotion of the plan started to sputter, so too did public interest. ''You have to constantly promote your agenda and then hope that hurricanes don't knock it off," Gage said.
Bush faces another tricky number Tuesday night as he attempts to tout gains in the economy: The public now sees economic news through political lenses. During the Clinton years, voters, regardless of party, generally agreed that the economy was either humming or coughing. But according to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, a partisan divide has now opened up, with Republicans holding a more favorable view of the state of the economy than Democrats.
Even so, Bush's problems cross party lines: ''Most Americans remain skeptical that the economy is improving, in spite of recent positive signals," Pew concluded.
Menino has word or two with ABC
Thomas M. Menino of Boston came to town last week for the US Conference of Mayors and stepped out of days of long-winded policy talk to issue ''rapid round" responses on national politics to interviewer Mark Halperin, political director of ABC News.
''One-word answers," Halperin demanded. ''First thought. Red Sox."
''World champion," Menino answered in two words.
''Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney?"
''President George W. Bush?"
''Vice President Cheney?"
''Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton?"
''We got a lot of presidents here. Vice President Al Gore?"
''Senator John Kerry?"
''Senator Ted Kennedy?"
Clean elections bill gets 2d look
Remember the Clean Elections Law? In 1998, Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly passed a public financing system to reduce the influence of special interests in campaigns and encourage outsiders to run. But entrenched Beacon Hill Democrats refused to fund it.
Now, the all-Democratic delegation to the House of Representatives is pushing a similar plan for federal elections -- and this time, entrenched-in-power Republicans are their most vigorous opponents. With the scandal-driven echoes of ''ethics reform" reverberating across the Capitol, Representative John F. Tierney of Salem figured it would be a good time to revive his ''Clean Money, Clean Elections" bill, first introduced in 1997.
The cost of the Massachusetts law was the sticking point, Tierney insisted. By contrast, the US government, by requiring reduced advertising rates on public airwaves, has the power to lower the cost of campaigns, and thereby the taxpayer tab for public funding.
The estimated total bill for the Tierney plan: $1.3 billion per election cycle.


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Starting today, notifications generated from the Google Chrome internet browser will begin appearing within Windows 10's Action Center instead of their own separate popup according to a tweet by Google's Peter Beverloo, originally spotted by Thurrott.
We're now rolling out support for native notifications in Chrome 68 using the Windows 10 Action Center—super exciting! Would love to hear your feedback! pic.twitter.com/UIDzaroR9D
— Peter Beverloo (@beverloo) August 8, 2018
This new functionality will be available to users of the latest version of Google Chrome, Version 68, and it's being slowly rolled out with around 50% of public users now having this ability enabled. According to Beverloo's other tweets, the rollout should be complete over the course of the next few days or so.
We've enabled it for 50% of stable users, so it might be just a little while longer for you. You can try restarting Chrome every now and then over the next few days, which will help new configuration to take effect.
— Peter Beverloo (@beverloo) August 8, 2018
Having Google Chrome notifications in Windows 10's Action Center as native notifications means that users will have greater control over them. Windows 10 users will be able to enable or disable them with the Focus Assist settings in addition to being able to deactivate them during certain time windows.
Are you happy to have Chrome notifications in Windows 10's Action Center or do you prefer them on their own? Let us know in the comments below and then follow us on Twitter for more Windows 10 news.


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I originally posted the audio from this NPR interview with Dr. John Piper on August 7, 2008, but I thought it was especially timely in relation to the recent disaster in Haiti and wanted to make it available again. This is a thoughtful, biblical response to people that question the sovereignty of God in the face of tragic events, in this case the subject of the interview was the 2005 Tsunami. The interview is about 30 minutes long but well worth the investment of time.
Related: You can download or listen to the interview at Desiring God.


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18th March, 2021
The prices of palm oil have gone down in major markets across the Enugu metropolis.
A market survey conducted by NAN on Thursday shows that the reduction in price is considerable when compared to the situation two months ago.
At Ogbete Main Market, Garki and Mayor markets, a 5-litre keg is now N3,600 against N5,000 two months ago.
A 70 cl bottle is now N500 down from N700 two months ago.
The survey also showed that a 20-litre jerry can of palm oil is sold between N13,500 and N14,500 against the old prices of N21,500 and N23,000 depending on its processing pattern and grade.
Palm oil dealers, who spoke at the various major markets, attributed the price reduction of the produce to the gradual commencement of the palm fruits season.
This has led to the gradual production of the oil thereby, causing a reduction in the price of the commodity.
Mrs Ekwutosi Oko, a palm oil seller at Garki Market said that as at January, the price was between N650 and N700 per 70cl bottle while 25-litre was sold between N26,000 and N28,000.
According to Maria Nwakwo, another seller at Ogbete Main Market, a 25-litre jerry can in major markets in the metropolis is sold between N15,500 and N17,000.
Nwakwo added that the price of the produce in the villages where most of the oil was produced stood at N13,500.
Mrs Ify Ochulugha, another palm oil seller at Top Land Market, expressed the hope that the price of the commodity would be further reduced as its abundant harvest season got closer.
"I am hopeful that the price of palm oil will go down further because, during its mass harvesting season, many producers will be committed to its production this year," Ochulugha said.
A buyer at Mayor Market, Miss Esther Chibueze, said that the price was becoming affordable when compared to what it was two months ago.
"Buying 70cl bottle of palm oil for N500 now shows that many families can afford it," she added.


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February 25, 2020
Online GED Certificates Are Fakes!
Every agency hired with this, and they had computer folks, plus they have been running from people to employ. In Washington DC, roughly seven or eight decades back, they hired a number of information technology experts to help them update the applications and computer programs which run our government. Anyone having a limited amount of computer knowledge may submit an application for the job, reveal a certification that is fake, and have hired. A driving company ensures that you receive 100% satisfaction in their services. KATHMANDU: Nepal Police's Central Investigation Bureau has arrested a dentist and a physician practising in the Kathmandu Valley of using imitation ISC certificates to get into medical colleges, on a charge. Many believed mua bang trung cap that when they had been hired, they can go get.
Creating a training certificate that is fake is extremely simple using a word processing application, a scanner, and also a true original that's somebody else's name on it. Some Sites Allow You to Buy an Online"GED" Certificate! Since the cover was quite good, and they were not able to check to be certain, because so many people were needed by them that the training certifications introduced were really legitimate. However, a whole lot of folks were captured with bogus degrees from online schools (shell businesses ) asserting that they did monitor training. However, reacting to the particular stage, HEC Media Director Aayesha Ikram said that it had been incorrect to state that any issue was made because of the"shift in policy". Loads of people are currently buying bogus degrees from universities.
Blockchain can also help out with adding validity to new kinds of instruction which are not as costly and valuable, a boon for money prospective learners that are bad. They used fraudulent certificates which revealed they handed ISC in the Bihar Intermediate Education Council, according to DSP Debesh Lohani of the CIB. Nepal Medical Council now called National Examinations Board are encouraging the CIB to Check into suspected instances. Police said that the duo was detained under the Operation Quack, found from the CIB. In their 2012 publication," Degree Mills: The Billion Dollar Industry That Has Sold Over a Million Fake Diplomas," Allen Ezell and John Bear explain the problem as"a Significant catastrophe in the universe of higher education" At ODEMwe concurs.


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Is the Human Rights Position in the Foreign Policy of the Netherlands less visible? Recently the Dutch Government collapsed after Prime Minister Wim Kok's cabinet resigned en-masse over a report condemning the Netherlands' failure to prevent the worst massacre of the Bosnian war. The official report blamed politicians and military top brass for the failure of its U.N. peacekeepers to prevent the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The report has led to an intense political debate on the Human Rights in the Foreign Policy of the Netherlands, national as well as in the rest of the world.
During the last quarter of the twentieth century the Netherlands has defended its positions and viewpoints during discussions in international fora what resulted in the country to be considered as a profound "Human Rights Protector" by the international society. In this study the governmental policy principles on human rights as part of overall foreign policy, the nature of human rights, standard setting, implementation, economic relations, intervention in the domestic affairs of other countries, and development policy are analysed and compared with actual policy.
This comparison makes it possible to draw also conclusions on the role of domestic pressure by NGOs and the views of different ministries on human rights in actual policy-making. Moreover, the development of Dutch foreign policy on human rights over the years is studied, taking into account the impact of the European Union. For the purpose of this study, a number of cases of human rights policy have been studied. These are cases where violations of international human rights standards have occurred in different regions, which were broadly debated in the Netherlands. The cases are: Argentina, Chile, Central America, Turkey, the Soviet Union, China, Indonesia and South Africa.This book is meant for students and professionals in international relations, foreign policy-making and human rights at the national level and at the multilateral level.
Every individual who is interested in the current crisis of the Human Rights aspect in the Foreign Policy of the Netherlands, who likes to brainstorm on how it could get so far and who likes to attain the debate on its possible outcome on the International Society, will find in this book an excellent overview of national and international developments concerning this topic. Due to its detailed table of context and index, this book will prove itself an invaluable search engine for everyone interested in human rights and the Netherlands.
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China Miéville
English writer (born 1972)
China Miéville (born 6 September 1972) is a Hugo, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus award-winning English fantastic fiction writer.
- I am often asked is [my work] science fiction or fantasy and my answer is usually 'Yes'.
- In a panel about his work in Comic Con 2010. Quoted in China Miéville Takes Comic Con.
- As far as I'm concerned, some of the best literature of the last hundred years has come out of the genre tradition and of course the best of it challenges expectations just as the best of literary fiction challenges those expectations. But it's not that genre fiction is any more a constraint than mimetic fiction. So I see myself very much as a genre writer. I love the fantastic genres. I see what I'm doing as a development of them but very much a part of them. I never feel that I'm leaving them behind. I try and be as experimental and avant-garde and stretching as I can be but I don't see that as turning my back on the genre at all. Genre has always been able to encompass that.
- Interview with 3am
- The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism.
- Interview with 3am
- The thing about good pulp is that you trust the reader and you know that the mind is a machine to process metaphors so of course all those connections will be there. But you've also granted the fantastic its own dynamic and allowed that awe. There's no contradiction. So I want to have monsters as a metaphor but I also want monsters because monsters are cool. There's no contradiction.
- Interview with 3am
- But it's a prize that... if you're into science-fiction and fantasy you grow up reading books with "Hugo [Award-winner]" on the cover. And this is very, very moving, to be in that position oneself. It's an odd situation [too], because, as you say, it was a tie, which is very rare with the Hugo, which has happened, like three times over sixty years, or something. But I prefer to think of it as a quantum Hugo and that Paolo Bacigalupi and I oscillate between between Hugo particle and wave form, this year. So it's properly science-fictional.
- On winning the Hugo Award in 2010, asked in a conference in France
- The other, more nebulous, but very strong influence of RPGs was the weird fetish for systematization, the way everything is reduced to "game stats." If you take something like Cthulhu in Lovecraft, for example, it is completely incomprehensible and beyond all human categorization. But in the game Call of Cthulhu, you see Cthulhu's "strength," "dexterity," and so on, carefully expressed numerically. There's something superheroically banalifying about that approach to the fantastic. On one level it misses the point entirely, but I must admit it appeals to me in its application of some weirdly misplaced rigor onto the fantastic: it's a kind of exaggeratedly precise approach to secondary world creation.
- Interview with Joan Gordon
- There's simultaneously something rigorous and something playful in genre. It's about the positing of something impossible—whether not-yet-possible or never-possible—and then taking that impossibility and granting it its own terms and systematicity. It's carnivalesque in its impossibility and overturning of reality, but it's rationalist in that it pretends it is real. And it's that second element which I think those who dip their toes in the SF pond so often forget. They think sf is "about" analogies, and metaphors, and so on. I refute that—I think that those are inevitable components, but it's the surrendering to the impossible, the weird, that characterizes genre. Those flirting with SF don't surrender to it; they distance themselves from it, and have a neon sub-text saying, "It's okay, this isn't really about spaceships or aliens, it's about real life," not understanding that it can be both, and would do the latter better if it was serious about the former.
- Interview with Joan Gordon
- Although we revolutionary socialists are always accused of being Utopian, nothing strikes me as more Utopian than the reformist belief that with a bit of tinkering and some good faith, we can systematically improve the world. You have to ask how many decades of broken promises and failed schemes it will take to disprove that hope. Marxism isn't about saying you'll get a perfect world: it's about saying we can get a better world than this one, and it's hard to imagine, no matter how many mistakes we make, that it could be much worse than the mass starvation, war, oppression, and exploitation we have now. In a world where 30,000 to 40,000 children die of malnutrition daily while grain ships are designed to dump food into the sea if the price dips too low, it's worth the risk.
- Interview with Joan Gordon
- Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.
- Interview with Joan Gordon
- I refuse to play the wink-wink-nudge-nudge game with readers. I don't like whimsy because it doesn't treat the fantastic seriously, and treating the fantastic seriously is one of the best ways of celebrating dialectical human consciousness there is. The one-sided celebration of the ego-driven contextually constrained instrumentally rational (as opposed to rational in a broader sense) is bureaucratic: the one-sided celebration of the subconscious, desire/fantasy driven is at best utopian, at worst sociopathic. The best fantasies—which include sf and horror—are constructed with a careful dialectic between conscious and subconscious.
- Interview with Joan Gordon
- I see echoes with lots of books in all my books, some deliberate, some unconscious until later, and as long as that is respectful I think that's great - writing on the shoulders of other writers is a privilege.
- China Mieville: "My job is not to try to give readers what they want...", theguardian.com, Thursday 20 September, 2012.
Short FictionEdit
Looking for Jake (2005)Edit
- All page numbers from the trade paperback first American edition published by Del Rey ISBN 0-345-47607-7
- See the Wikipedia page for original publication details
- All italics as in the original stories
- "There's three ways not to see what you don't want to," she told me. "One is the coward's way and too painful. The other is to close your eyes forever, which is the same as the first, when it comes to it. The third is the hardest and the best: you have to make sure only the things you can afford to see come before you."
- Details (p. 111)
- You make what you see into a window, and you see what you want through it. You make what you see a sort of a door.
- Details (p. 113)
- In a newsagent's he picked up a copy of the Standard, and hesitated by the chocolate, looking at the low-fat version he had trained himself to pretend he liked but suddenly hungry for a real bar, which with guilty devil-may-care he took and paid for.
- Go Between (p. 129)
- It's the first principle, isn't it? Whoever's arguing fiercest for violence is the cop.
- 'Tis the Season (p. 195)
- This was not the time for rage but for politics and strategy.
- The Tain (p. 252)
- You didn't know, but not knowing is no excuse.
- The Tain (p. 254)
- What if the chosen one misunderstands what he's been chosen for?
- The Tain (p. 301)
Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)Edit
- All page numbers from the hardcover first American edition published by Del Rey ISBN 978-1-101-88472-0
- See the Wikipedia page for original publication details
- All italics as in the original stories
- Across the globe, in dark places of the earth, secret lairs were rarely caves of monsters or marvels but markets. Shops. The worst-kept secret in circulation was that certain activities invested items in their proximity with certain affects, effects, and powers, and made them hugely valuable. And that thus it was imperative that they be sold. That, certainly, had been the case for as long as there had been people and things, but there were always fluctuations. The occult economies of charged items were always jostling.
- The 9th Technique (p. 101)
- Lists make magic, the rhythm of itemized words: you do not list ten techniques, numbered and chantable, in austere prose appropriate for some early-millennium rebooted Book of Thoth, and not know that you have written an incantation.
- The 9th Technique (p. 102)
- Abomination from one perspective, it was advertising copy from another.
- The 9th Technique (p. 102)
- Koning was a self-made expert. She snuggled what she'd bought in the nest she had made of shredded grimoires and scrunched-up rules of engagement. She watched it. It did nothing.
- The 9th Technique (p. 103)
- Metamorphosis is death. Inside a pupa larval flesh breaks down utterly, as if in chemical spill. Eyes do not become other eyes nor mouthparts mouths. All parts are lost in a reconfiguring slop, as absolutely formless as a salted slug, that ex liquid nihilo self-organizes into a quite other animal. A cocoon is not a transformation pod but an execution chamber, one that doubles as a birthplace, and is parsimonious with matter.
- The 9th Technique (p. 104)
- Koning's skills were adequate, her calculations plausible enough, that the plans were hubristic but not quite mad.
- The 9th Technique (p. 107)
- The priest was nodding as he sang. I remembered his anger. I remembered when his companion said, "Bastards," and I realized I didn't know if she meant the godnappers, or the gods who'd let themselves be taken, who'd let everyone down.
- The Buzzard's Egg (p. 121)
- Joanna took Mel to Dresden, to the Frauenkirche. The timed their visit to coincide with a monthly English evensong. "Firebombs not enough?" Mel whispered. "Now we inflict Anglicanism on them?"
- Säcken (p. 127)
- Annalise's fantasies involve disappearance. She catastrophizes all the time, and makes things worse than they need to be by doing so.
- Dreaded Outcome (p. 159)
- She knows most of this, to some extent, and she knows she's depressed, but if knowing the problem was the solution, most patients wouldn't need us at all.
- Dreaded Outcome (p. 159)
- "Do you even know why you're angry with me?" Simone shouted.
"Oh, I'll figure something out," Tova said.
- After the Festival (p. 196)
- You were sick of sentimentality, of the moralism, maneuvering, and malice that comes with it.
- The Dusty Hat (p. 202)
- We know the axes on which we should judge, and age has never been one.
- The Dusty Hat (p. 203)
- That was a salvo of something against something.
- The Dusty Hat (p. 209)
- I told myself I had no choice but in a situation like that the choice you have is how you go about not having a choice.
- The Dusty Hat (p. 211)
- "So what's your alternative?" people say, as if that's logic. We don't have to have an alternative, that's not how critique works. We may do, and if we do, you're welcome, but if we don't that no more invalidates our hate for this, for what is, than does that of a serf for her lord, her flail-backed insistence that this must end, whether or not she accompanies it with a blueprint for free wage labour. Than does the millennially paced rage of the steepening shelf of the benthic plain for a system imposed by the cruelest and most crass hydrothermal vent, if that anemone-crusted angle of descent does not propose a submerged lake of black salt.
- The Dusty Hat (p. 215)
- How is it appropriate to feel? she thought. Only humans dread. Dread is appropriate to nothing. It's the surplus of animal fear, it's never indicated, it's nothing but itself.
- Keep (p. 280)
- They think I'm old-fashioned? Is being against racism and hatred old-fashioned? OK, I'm old-fashioned.
- The Junket (p. 320)
- Moral your artistic proclivities are not, nor fitting for a physician, though I won't deny the skill in them. They are, I will say it, unnatural.
- The Design (p. 374)
- It was an unusually hot afternoon. One of those days all slowly ambling bumblebees and honeysuckle and so forth, at which the English countryside, when it puts its mind to it, excels, and quite unlike any summer day anywhere else. Calm and still and lovely, but never without a sense of something impending. The sort of day one misses even as one experiences it.
- The Design (p. 377)
Perdido Street Station (2000)Edit
- All page numbers from the mass market paperback edition published by Del Rey Books
- She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.
- p. 32
- We have watched mutant creatures crawl from sewers into cold flat starlight and whisper shyly to each other, drawing maps and messages in faecal mud.
I have sat with the wind at my side and seen cruel things, wicked things.
My scars and bonestubs itch. I am forgetting the weight, the sweep, the motion of wings. If I were not garuda I would pray. But I will not obeise myself before arrogant spirits.
- p. 51
- "Art's something you choose to make … it's a bringing together of … of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person."
- p. 82
- Now what are we looking at right here? What's bang in the middle? Some people think that's mathematics there. Fine. But if maths is the study that best allows you to think your way to the centre, what're the forces you're investigating? Maths is totally abstract, at one level, square roots of minus one and the like, but the world is nothing if not rigorously mathematical. So this is a way of looking at the world which unifies all the forces: mental, social, physical.
- pp. 145-146
- This was the most difficult, the most extraordinary transition. Her body had been a source of shame and disgust; to engage in activities with no purpose at all except to revel in their sheer physicality had first nauseated, then terrified, and finally liberated her.
- p. 188
- Lin realized that she was living in an unsustainable realm. It combined sanctimony, decadence, insecurity and snobbery in a weird, neurotic brew. It was parasitic.
- p. 188
- Andrej's mind, like any sane human's … was a constantly convulsing dialectical unity of consciousness and subconsciousness, the battening down and channelling of dreams and desires, the recurring re-creation of the subliminal by the contradictory, the rational-capricious ego. And vice versa. The interaction of levels of consciousness into an unstable and permanently self-renewing whole.
- p. 553
- To take the choice of another … to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to … for all we individuals to have … our choices.
- p. 607
The Scar (2002)Edit
- All page numbers from the mass market paperback edition published by Del Rey Books
- Tearfly looked at Bellis curiously, bewildered by her ignorance. She did not care. What was important to her was where she was fleeing from, not where she was, or where she was going.
- Part 1 "Channels", chapter 2 (p. 21)
- I'm not waiting to die, I don't believe I'll die, I am waiting for something else.
To arrive. To understand. To be at my destination.
- Part 1 "Channels", Interlude II (p. 65)
- She felt so alien, bowed under culture shock as crippling as migraine.
- Part 2 "Salt", chapter 6 (p. 78)
- Neither dust nor light stirred. It was as if time had been bled dry and given up.
- Part 3 "The Compass Factory", chapter 20 (p. 241)
- For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers—and one comes true.
- Part 6 "Morning Walker", chapter 34 (p. 394)
- We say what happens now. We're taking control. We're turning around; we're heading home. Your orders to proceed...are in-fucking-validated.
- Part 7 "The Lookout", chapter 47 (p. 557)
Iron Council (2004)Edit
- All page numbers from the trade paperback edition published by Del Rey Books ISBN 978-0-345-45842-1
- She shouted, "Arms and tongues, Spiral?" and waggled her arms and stuck out her tongue, and the old man crowed and did the same. "He's for the first, against the second, as I recall," she said to Ori. "Has he chanted for you? 'Too much yammer, not enough hammer.'"
- Part 2 "Returns", chapter 8 (p. 85)
- The chief was a thuggish man: nervous, Cutter saw, because he knew he was a mediocrity become by kink of history a ruler.
- Part 3 "Wineland", chapter 12 (p. 130)
- Judah knows the trow will be eradicated and their homes lost to history, but he will not be party to it, and he has tried to stand in its way.
- "Anamnesis" (p. 191)
- I want to know everything, he says.
- "Anamnesis" (p. 202)
- When the rich grow afraid, they get nasty. We say: A government for need not greed!
- "Anamnesis" (p. 222)
- Ori supposed there were as many unspeakable stories as there were men come back from war.
- Part 4 "The Hainting", chapter 15 (p. 314)
- "History..." Jacobs spoke with terse authority. Brought Ori to a hush. "Is all full. And dripping. With the corpses. Of them who trusted the incorruptible."
- Part 4 "The Hainting", chapter 15 (p. 319)
- "We're all racing," he said.
"Yeah, but some of us in the wrong direction."
- Part 6 "The Caucus Race", chapter 20 (p. 364)
Un Lun Dun (2007)Edit
- All page numbers from the hardcover American first edition published by Del Rey Books ISBN 978-0-345-49516-7
- "My dad hates umbrellas," said Deeba, swinging her own. "When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.'"
- Chapter 3, "The Visiting Smoke" (p. 11)
- Throw something away and you declare it obsolete.
- Chapter 12, "Safe Conduct" (p. 52)
- There are no cats in UnLondon, for example, because they're not magic and mysterious at all, they're idiots.
- Chapter 12, "Safe Conduct" (p. 53)
- It had some allies. Believe me, there's nothing so terrible that someone won't support it.
- Chapter 22, "History Lessons" (p. 90)
- "Destiny's bunk," said the book. "That's why this lot aren't the Propheseers anymore."
"From here on in," said Mortar, "we're the Order of Suggesters."
- Chapter 98, "Fit for Heroes" (p. 419)
The City & the City (2009)Edit
- All page numbers from the trade paperback edition published by Del Rey Books ISBN 978-0-345-49752-9
- There is no theology so desperate that you can't find it.
- Chapter 4 (p. 38)
- "She probably used proxies and a cleaner-upper online too, because there was bugger-all of interest in her cache."
"You have no idea what you're saying, do you, boss?"
"None at all. I had the techies write it all out phonetically for me."
- Chapter 13 (p. 139)
- It is more foolish and childish to assume there is a conspiracy, or that there is not?
- Chapter 13 (p. 141)
- He tried to grin but it did not go well.
- Chapter 28 (p. 297)
Kraken: An Anatomy (2010)Edit
- All page numbers from the American first hardcover edition published by Ballantine Books ISBN 978-0-345-49749-9
- All italics as in the book
- Folklore was self-generating.
- Chapter 4 (p. 29)
- "I'm asking you all to have faith. Don't be afraid. 'How could it have gone?' people have asked me. 'Why aren't the gods doing anything?' Remember two things. The gods don't owe us anything. That's not why we worship. We worship because they're gods. This is their universe, not ours. What they choose they choose and it's not ours to know why."
Christ, thought Billy, what a grim theology. It was a wonder they could keep anyone in the room, without the emotional quid pro quo of hope.
- Chapter 17 (p. 101)
- "I know, I know," Moore said. "Mad beliefs like that, eh? Must be some metaphor, right? Must mean something else?" Shook his head. "What an awfully arrogant thing. What if faiths are exactly what they are? And mean exactly what they say?"
- Chapter 17 (p. 105)
- It should be illegal to be so much younger than me.
- Chapter 20 (p. 121)
- That was why this congregation protected him. He was not just another saint. Billy was the preserver. Giant-squid John the Baptist. The shyness he saw in the Krakenists was devotion. It was awe.
"Oh for God's sake," he said.
The men and women stared. He could see them attempting exegesis on his outburst.
- Chapter 20
- Why wouldn't the gods of the world be giant squid? What better beast? It wouldn't take much to imagine those tentacles closing around the world, now would it?
- Chapter 24 (p. 145)
- Word got around. It does that. A city like London was always going to be a paradox, it's so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes. All those alternative pathways to the official ones and to those that made Londoners proud: there'd be quite contrary tendencies.
There, there was no state worth shit, no sanctions but self-help, no homeostasis but that of violence. The specialist police dipped in, and were tolerated as a sect or offhandedly killed like the cack-handed anthropologists. "Oh, here we go, FSRC again," wink wink stab stab.
Even absent a sovereign, things in London chugged on effectively. Might made right, and that was no moral precept but a statement of simple fact. It really was law, this law enforced by bouncers, bruisers and bounty hunters, venal suburban shoguns. Absolutely Fanny Adams to do with justice. Have your opinions about that, by all means—London had its social bandits—but that was fact.
- Chapter 31 (p. 181)
- We want the same thing, you and me. If we can mess with them, everyone's happy. Except them. Which is the point, right?"
- Chapter 32 (p. 185)
- In the emptied remains of a foreign bank was a sports shop. Below posters of physically adept men was a glass-front cabinet and iron grille, behind which was a big chunk of stone…The London Stone. That old rock was always suspiciously near the centre of things. A chunk of the Millarium, the megalith-core from where the Romans measured distances…This had been the seat of sovereignty, and it cropped up throughout the city's history if you knew where to look…the Stone was the heart, the heart was stone, and it beat from its various places, coming to rest at last here in an insalubrious sports shop between cricket equipment.
- Chapter 33
- The Londonmancers had been there since Gogmagog and Corineus, since Mithras and the rest. Like their sibling chapters in other psychopoli…they had always been ostentatiously neutral. That was how they could survive.
Not custodians of the city: they called themselves its cells. They recruited young and nurtured hexes, shapings, foresight and the diagnostic trances they called urbopathy. They, they insisted, were just conduits for the flows gathered by streets. They did not worship London but held it in respectful distrust, channelled its needs, urges and insights.
- Chapter 33
- There are people out there who'd rather be tools than people.
- Chapter 42 (p. 252)
- That was how he did it. He was never just a thug. Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.
- Chapter 42 (p. 253)
- The tricky bit with this technique was not getting the summons to work: it was to not summon too much.
- Chapter 42 (p. 254)
- "Whether you agree with the bloody predicates or not, Constable Collingswood, you should consider the possibility that faith might be a way of thinking more rigorously than the woolly bullshit of most atheists. It's not an intellectual mistake." He tapped his forehead. "It's a way of thinking about all sorts of other things, as well as itself. The Virgin birth's a way of thinking about women and about love. The ark is a far more bloody logical way of thinking about the question of animal husbandry than the delightful ad hoc thuggery we've instituted. Creationism's a way of thinking I am not worthless at a time when people were being told and shown they were. You want to get angry about that bloody admirable humanist doctrine, and why would you want to blame Clinton. But you're not just too young, you're too bloody ignorant to know about welfare reform."
They stared at each other. It was tense, and weirdly slightly funny.
"Yeah but," Collingswood said cautiously. "Only, it's not totally admirable, is it, given that it's total fucking bollocks."
They stared some more.
"Well," Vardy said. "That is true. I would have to concede that, unfortunately." Neither of them laughed, but they could have done.
- Chapter 42 (pp. 257-258)
- The sea. I bet you the sea might have ideas. Wouldn't surprise me if the bastard ocean might have a little something to do with all this. Stands to reason, right? Taking back what's its? Render unto sea, sir.
- Chapter 44 (p. 268)
- "And for what it's worth, which in my professional opinion isn't a bloody lot, I'll pray for you."
"Pray to what?" Marge said. He smiled. The jukebox played "Wise Up Sucker" by Pop Will Eat Itself.
"Fuck it," the man said. "Tell you what. What's the point collecting stuff you don't use? I'll pray to all of them."
- Chapter 44 (p. 268)
- In London, Heresiopolis was always the draw. Some midnight-of-all or other was predicted every few days or nights. Most came to nothing, leaving relevant prophets cringing with a unique embarrassment as the sun rose. It was a very particular shame, that of now ex-worshipers avoiding each other's eyes in the unexpected aftermath of "final" acts—crimes, admissions, debaucheries and abandon.
Believers tried to talk the universe into giving their version a go.
- Chapter 58 (p. 353)
- London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.
- Chapter 61 (p. 377)
- Could you really feel the hand of destiny while pointing a Glock?
- Chapter 62 (p. 385)
- Byrne was good, her expertise indispensable, her commitment to the project swiftly personal, but she could not unwind death itself. Only filigree it, in certain ways.
- Chapter 67 (p. 420)
- He planned his funeral, his oration, the invitations, the snubs, but that, death itself, was always Plan B. How, he would have said to his specialists, might we bypass this unpleasantness?
- Chapter 67 (p. 420)
- This was the remnant of honour, nostalgic for spurious legendary times.
- Chapter 67 (p. 421)
- "Paul knows where we are."
"What are you talking about?" Billy said. He gestured beyond the trailer. "I don't know where we are and I'm there."
- Chapter 69 (p. 429)
- So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.
- Chapter 80 (p. 496)
- He had remembered Vardy's melancholy, the rage in him, and what Collingswood had once said. She was right. Vardy's tragedy was that his faith had been defeated by the evidence, and he could not stop missing that faith. He was not a creationist, not any longer, not for years. And that was unbearable to him. He could only wish that his erstwhile wrongness had been right.
- Chapter 80 (p. 497)
Embassytown (2011)Edit
- All page numbers from the American first hardcover edition published by Ballantine Books ISBN 978-0-345-52449-2
- All spelling and italics as in the book
- The chapters are numbered idiosyncratically in the first three parts of the book, and are so listed here. From chapter 9 on the chapter numbering is normal
- "It's beyond words," indeed. "There's no such thing."
- Chapter 0.3 (p. 29)
- "And there aren't any."
"Mmm," I said. "Awkward."
"That's defeatist talk. I'll cobble something together. A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory."
- Chapter 0.3 (p. 37)
- A classic unspoken agreement among escapees from a small town: don't look back, don't be each other's anchors, no nostalgia. I wasn't expecting any of them to return.
- Chapter "Formerly, 1" (p. 53)
- It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.
- Chapter "Formerly, 2" (p. 66)
- "Oh, bullshit," Wyatt said. I blinked. "This isn't one of those stories, Avice. One moment of cack-handedness, Captain Cook offends the bloody locals, one slip of the tongue or misuse of sacred cutlery, and bang, he's on the grill. Do you ever think about how self-aggrandising that stuff is? Oh, all those stories pretending to be mea culpas about cultural insensitivity, oops, we said the wrong thing, but they're really all about how ridiculous natives overreact." He laughed and shook his head. "Avice, we must have made thousands of fuckups like that over the years. Think about it. Just like our visitors did when they first met our lot, on Terre. And for the most part we didn't lose our shit, did we?"
- Chapter "Latterday, 6" (pp. 111-112)
- I suspect there was a power struggle in the Embassy, that some would have tried, out of habit, without rationale, to wall up information. They didn't win.
- Chapter 10 (p. 172)
- I suppose there were other institutions in Embassytown where the dynamic of the quotidian sustained—some hospitals, perhaps some schools, perhaps houses where shiftparents most deeply loved the children. Whenever any society dies there must be heroes whose fightback is to not change.
- Chapter 15 (p. 213)
- It wasn't a city anymore, it was a collection of broken places separated by war without politics or acquisition so not war at all really but something more pathological.
- Chapter 18 (p. 238)
- What theology that would have been, a god self-worshipping, a drug addicted to itself.
- Chapter 18 (p. 239)
- There wasn't even any reasoning. Secrecy was just a bureaucrats' reflex.
- Chapter 22 (p. 276)
- "I don't want to be a simile anymore," I said. "I want to be a metaphor."
- Chapter 24 (p. 296)
- Their minds were sudden merchants: metaphor, like money, equalised the incommensurable.
- Chapter 27 (p. 312)


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DIY projects featuring Halloween-themed garlands
Very soon you'll have to start preparing your home for this year's Halloween. Once again, you'll get to come up with new and ingenious ideas and you'll get to put your DIY skills to the test. There's a long list of decorations you have to make and garlands are always a part of it. There are lots of ideas you can choose from. We managed to put some of them together.
1. Bat garland with wire connector coils.
For example, here's a bat garland. It's not very difficult to make but you need plenty of time and patience. You'll also need cardstock, a printer or a pen, scissors, a 1/16'' hole punch plus wire and wire cutters. First print or sketch the bat silhouette and then cut enough bats to make the garland.
Punch holes in the tips of each wing and make wire connector coils by wrapping the wire around a pen. Connect the bats with them and that's all.{found on brasspaperclip}.
2. Garland made out of old book pages.
This one is a more original idea. It's a garland made out of pages from old books. To make one you need some old book pages cut into 2'' circles, paper doilies 4'' in diameter, jute or twine, double sided tape and a spider stamp or any other Halloween-themed stamp. Cut the pages and tape the circles in the middle of the doilies. Then stamp the image or doodle it and color it with a marker.{found on gleefulpeacock}.
3. Simple and colorful Halloween-themed garland.
If you prefer something simpler and would rather not go to the store for supplies maybe you can find something in your home to use. For example, you could make a paper punch garland. All you need for this project is some construction paper and a sewing machine. First punch circles out of colored construction paper and then feed the circles through the sewing machine.{found on pleasenotepaper}.
4. Felt bat garland.
Here's another bat garland but this time with a different design. These are felt bats and they can be cut according to a template. Then they need to be sewed together. After that you can hang your garland on the wall or on the porch, in a tree or anywhere else you want. Since the bats aren't made of paper they are more resistant.{found on artfulparent}.
5. Pumpkin garland.
If you want, you can combine fall elements with Halloween inspiration and create a pumpkin garland. You'll need ribbon, a screw driver, a bobby pin, acrylic black paint, a brush and a few small pumpkin decorations. First you need to paint the stems of the pumpkins. Let them dry and then make the holes in each pumpkin. Thread the ribbon through the holes, tie a bow at each end and you're done.{found on tatertotsandjello}.
6. Playful doodle garland.
Since Halloween is mostly a holiday for the kids, you might as well get them involved in the decoration process. For example, ask them to make some illustrations and use them to make a garland. Make illustrated circles and attach them to a ribbon with glue. It should be a fun and playful decoration for this holiday.{found on emilyburnette}.
7. Candy garland.
Since candy is such an important part of any Halloween, why not use it for the decorations as well? You can decorate your home with Halloween-colored candies and you can even use them to make garlands with a mix of wrapped candies. Use fall colors such as yellow, orange and brown and even black if you can find any.
8. Spooky garland.
If you want to stick with the classics, you can make a spooky garland for this year's Halloween. All you need is a printer, cardstock, scissors and a needle and thread. Use the templates and cut out the spooky silhouettes after you printed them onto cardstock or heavy paper. Then use the sewing thread and a needle to sew the decorations together.{found on papercrave}.
9. Pacman garland.
This is another very fun idea for a Halloween garland. The tiny Pacman ghosts are both spooky and friendly so they would be perfect for a Halloween decoration. First cut out the shape after you've printed them onto white paper. Lay the template onto some black cardboard and draw around it. Cut out the shapes and then add the eyes. Then use black thread to make the garland.{found on minieco}.
10. Spooky bat banner.
And since we started with a bat garland, we're also going to finish in the same tone. This garland or banner is easy to make. You need some string, a stapler, a few buttons, some black/orange cardstock, glue and some pages from an old book. You can either choose to make bats or pumpkins. Cut out the shapes for the banner and then start making the bats. Attach them to the banner pieces and place a button in the center of each bat.{found on simpleasthatblog}.


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(Part One)
This is the second post in my series on Steven Wall's article "Enforcing Morality". The article makes the case for an expansive form of legal moralism. Legal moralism is the view that the criminal law ought only to prohibit conduct that is morally wrongful. In other words, that wrongfulness is a necessary precondition for criminalisation. This much is relatively uncontroversial. The controversy is over which moral norms should fall within the scope of criminalisation.
As we saw in part one, minimalistic forms of legal moralism — such as those popular among liberal and libertarian thinkers — hold that the criminal law should only concern itself with immoral conduct that is harmful to others. The more expansive forms of moralism try to incorporate immoral conduct that is harmful to the self. Wall's particular expansive view is concerned with including so-called "moral" harms to self. By "moral harms" Wall means to include actions which damage or undermine an individual's moral character, i.e. his or disposition to act well.
In this post, I am going to cover Wall's main argument in favour of this expansive form of legal moralism.
1. Wall's Argument in Brief
To start off, we can look at the general structure of Wall's argument. Unfortunately, Wall's does not deign to provide us with a formal version in his article. Nevertheless, he does explicitly tell us that his argument rests on three claims. Taking those three claims on board, and reading between the lines somewhat, allows us to come up with the following reconstruction of his central argument:
- (1) If it is a proper function of the criminal law to protect and promote the well-being of those who are subject to it, then it is a proper function of the law to assist those who are subject to it to lead well-lived lives.
- (2) To live well a person must have and merit a sense of self-respect.
- (3) To have and merit a sense of self-respect, a person must be committed to pursuing a sound conception of the good and must care about his/her character.
- (4) Therefore, it is a proper function of the law to promote good moral character among its subjects.
Formally, this argument follows a very simple pattern. The premises work something like this: if A then B; B requires C; C requires D; therefore, if A then D. The premises speak to the "law" rather than to the "criminal law", this is a linguistic quirk I've carried over from Wall's article. I take it that he means to refer to the criminal law, given the content and context of his article. Nevertheless, I find the phrasing unfortunate since there are many types of law, and although one may not embrace the use of criminal law to promote good character, one could certainly imagine using other types of law to promote good character.
The most significant objection to this argument will be considered in part three of this series. This objection comes from the work of Ronald Dworkin. In the interim we'll work through Wall's initial defence of the three premises.
2. Defending the First Premise
The first premise is expressed in a conditional form. It essentially says to us: "If you accept that A is a proper function of the law, then you should also accept that B is a proper function of the law." But what happens if you don't accept A? Then the argument as whole will hold no sway for you. As it happens, this is not a purely formal concern. There are several brands of legal theory that would reject the notion that the law should concern itself with the well-being of its subjects. Staunch rights-based libertarians, for example, might hold that the law should only concern itself with protecting individual rights, even if those rights lead to reductions in individual well-being.
Wall acknowledges this shortcoming and the resulting dialectical weakness of his argument. But he is eager that we do not overstate the problem. He provides evidence elsewhere in his article for thinking that many liberal legal theorists think that the criminal law does have some role to play in promoting individual well-being. For these theorists, the argument will at least be worth considering.
So how, then, about the second half of the conditional? Is it true that a concern for well-being encompasses a concern for the well-lived lives of legal subjects? Wall says a lot about this that I find unnecessarily confusing. I think his basic point is pretty straightforward. It is that we must have a more holistic sense of what "well-being" is. It is not just, say, conscious subjective pleasure, or the satisfaction of desires (as utilitarians may have us believe). It is something more. It encompasses the notion of the well-lived life, i.e. the life spent in the pursuit and fulfillment of rational aims.
I wouldn't disagree with this at all. I think the concept of the well-lived life — or, rather, the life worth living — should be central to our public policy. Of course, this does not mean that I think the law should necessarily get involved. The big problem, as Wall again acknowledges, is that legal interventions may often do more harm than good. However, this possibility does not disrupt his argument since he is interested merely in defending a presumption in favour of such legal intervention; not a conclusive presumption in favour of such legal intervention.
3. Defending the Second Premise
Granting premise (1), if only for the sake of argument, what can be said in favour of premise (2)? It claims that a necessary precondition for living the well-lived life is a sense of self-respect. According to Wall, "this claim is often asserted and widely believed". So he doesn't think it should be in any way controversial.
That's a little unsatisfying, of course. We would like to be able to say more in favour of premise (2). And fortunately there are some things to be said. Appealing to work done by Rawls, Wall argues that the sense of self-respect is what makes one inclined to pursue and act upon rational aims in the first place. Without the belief that one's actions are of value, or that one's life is worthwhile, one will have no motivation to act. As a result, the well-lived life will be forever out of reach. Rawls felt that social institutions could have a profound impact on attitudes of self-respect.
I guess that's okay — although one may question the armchair psychologising. There is, however, a issue that lurks here and that may disrupt the argument itself. As you can see from premise (2), Wall thinks that not only must the individual have a sense of self-worth, but they must also "merit" that sense of self-worth. There's a reason why this "merit"-qualifier is included: without it the case for paternalistic legal interventions would be lessened. After all, the idea here is that someone may be trying to live the good life, but failing to do the right things. The law could then be used to "nudge" them in the right direction. But if the good life does not require an objectively merited sense of self-respect — if all it requires is a sense of self-belief and commitment — the opportunities for legal intervention will be much more limited.
So is there anything to be said in favour of the merit requirement? Yes, there is. Indeed, I have considered the issue previously on the blog. It has to do with subjective versus objective theories of meaning in life. Purely subjectivist theories can lead to counterintuitive results, e.g. the person who derives satisfaction from counting all the blades of grass in the world could be said to live a good life on a purely subjectivist account. Purely objectivist theories suffer from a related problem: they might not be very satisfying from the perspective of someone who lives them (though this isn't as counterintuitive a result). Consequently, many favour a "mixed" account of the good life. Susan Wolf's "fitting fulfillment" theory is a good example of this trend. She argues that to live the good life one must pursue goals of objective worth, and be fulfilled by doing so.
I think the link between self-respect and the well-lived life in Wall's second premise is similar to the relationship between fittingness and fulfillment in Wolf's theory.
4. Defending the Third Premise
That brings us to the final premise of Wall's argument. This is one claims that in order to have the requisite sense of self-respect, there must be some concern for moral character. What can be said in favour of this premise?
Not much, really. The case for premise (3) is quite easy to make out. A person's moral character is understood as that person's set of traits and dispositions. The person with a good moral character will be responsive to moral reasons, i.e. will be able to identify and act upon that which it is good to act upon. Given this definition, and given our new-found understanding of merited self-respect, it pretty much stands to reason that self-respect requires some concern for moral character. After all, in order to have a merited sense of self-respect, the person will need to be attuned to that which is good or bad, i.e. to identify the projects and aims that are of objective worth and pursue them with vigour.
So that's it. That's Wall's defence of the leap from well-being to the well-lived life, and from their to a concern for self-respect and good moral character. I can't help but being a little underwhelmed by all this. I'm perfectly willing to accept that well-being encompasses the kind of theory of the good life that Wall imagines, but I don't quite see how this gets us to the brand of legal moralism he wishes to defend. When it comes to it, he has the following to say:
Accordingly, if people are to live well, they must not only have a good character but also care that they have such a character. And if they have this concern, then they will not be indifferent to the character of the ethical environment in which they and others live. They will want that ethical environment to be supportive of, not inimical to, the development and maintenance of good character.
(Wall, 2013)
True enough, I guess. But why think that the criminal law is the tool to use when building such an ethical environment? Aren't there other, arguably more preferable, tools out there? Part of the problem here may be the essentially modesty of Wall's argumentative goal. As noted in part one, he merely wishes to defend the view that the criminal law can get involved in this kind of ethical environmental engineering; he doesn't want to say that it should always and everywhere get involved in this process. There could be reasons that count against its use. But in that case I worry that the modesty of his argument renders it uninteresting. Particularly if it turns out that there are always reasons that count against using the criminal law to promote good moral character.
Despite this criticism, I must admit that Wall does go some way toward making his argument more interesting. He does this by responding to Ronald Dworkin's criticism of this expansive brand of legal moralism. We'll look at that response in the final part.


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SWAC Week 8 Recap
Alcorn State 13, Texas Southern
HOUSTON, Texas - Alcorn State University forced and recovered a fumble to preserve a 20-13 win over Texas Southern in Southwestern Athletic Conferenceaction on Saturday at BBVA Compass Stadium.
Deion McNair stripped the ball and William Thomas recovered the fumble to help ALC (6-2, 3-1) pick up its third consecutive win.
With the score even at 13, John Gibbs connected with LaDarrien Davis in the fourth quarter for the final score. He found eight different receivers throwing 15-of-40 for 230 yards and two scores.
Arnold Walker rushed for 130 yards on 23 carries (5.7 avg) to helped the Braves gain 441 yards on offense. On defense, ALC forced three turnovers including one interception and two fumble recoveries. Devon Francois tacked on 11 tackles including nine solo.
TSU (1-6, 1-5) threatened late in the fourth quarter when McNair sacked Homer Causey to end the 57-yard drive on the Braves' 33.
Causey led the Tigers in passing and on the ground. He threw for 226 yards and one interception from 17-of-32 passing. He also rushed for 110 yards on 15 carries for a 7.3 average. Malik Cross hauled in a game-high eight receptions for 110 yards to lead all players.
Brandon Thomas and Jarius Moore led TSU's defense. Thomas finished with a game high 12 tackles followed by Moore's 10.
ALC took a first quarter lead on two Haiden McCraney field goals of 40 and 27 yards. TSU went out front 7-6 on a two-yard rushing score by Daveonn Porter and extended it on Eric Medina's 30-yard field goal. The Braves retook the lead 13-10 with a John Gibbs Jr. scoring pass to Anthony Williams III from 32 yards out. A 44-yard Medina field goal tied it at the half.
TSU finished the game with 391 yards on offense.
Prairie View A&M 51, Mississippi Valley State 14
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas - Prairie View A&M University scored 37 straight points en route to a 51-14 win over Mississippi Valley State in Southwestern Athletic Conference play on Saturday at Blackshear Stadium.
PVAMU (5-3, 4-2) racked up 532 yards on offense and held MVSU (1-6, 1-4) to 178 yards.
De'Auntre Smiley and Jerry Lovelocke shared time at the quarterback position combining to complete 29-of-43 passes for 319 yards and four touchdowns for the Panthers.
Smiley threw 17-of-20 for 178 yards with two interceptions and three touchdowns. Lovelocke completed 12-of-23 for 141 yards a touchdown. Both connected with Deandre Cooper to account for three touchdowns. Cooper tallied nine receptions for 96 yards.
Jerome Howard and Raheem Cardwell both finished with six tackles apiece. Howard added an interception and shared a sack.
MVSU tied the score at seven with a Patrick Durr seven-yard touchdown run with 11:54 to play in the first half. The Delta Devils would not score until the fourth quarter on a Patrick Ivy one-yard plunge.
Jeremy Collins led MVSU in rushing and passing totaling 123 yards (56 rush / 67 pass). Julian Stafford had four catches for 43 yards and 72 yards from kick return.
Kevin Eugene led the Delta Devils and all defensers with 10 tackles and a forced fumble.
Southern Defeats UAPB 29-27
PINE BLUFF -- Lenard Tillary rushed for a career-high136 yards and a touchdown as the Southern University Jaguars spoiled homecoming for Arkansas-Pine Bluff, 29-21 on Saturday afternoon at Golden Lions Stadium. Southern improved to 4-3 overall, and increased their lead in the Southwestern Athletic Conference Western Division at 4-1. Meanwhile, UAPB fell to 0-7 and 0-5.
Tillery's also had three receptions for 29 yards. Quarterback Dray Joseph passes for 231 yards and two touchdowns on 23-of-30 attempts.
UAPB quarterback Ben Anderson had 266 yards passing and 99 on the ground. He rushed for one touchdown and passed for two more. Anderson was an efficient 24-for-28 in the air. He was intercepted once off of a deflection.
Southern struck first on their opening drive as Tillery ran it in from 26 yards out. The extra point was blocked, but kicker Greg Pittman picked up the loose ball and plowed into the endzone for two points, giving the Jaguars an 8-0 lead with 9:11 left in the first quarter.
The Golden Lions responded quickly, driving 75 yards on eight plays to get on the board. Anderson did it with his legs, racing in from eight yards out. Tyler Strickland tacked on the extra point, making the score 8-7 with 6:14 left.
After a stop by the UAPB defense, the Golden Lions pulled ahead on a 21-yard touchdown pass from Anderson to Isaiah Ferguson with 31 seconds left in the quarter. The touchdown and point-after gave UAPB a 14-8 lead.
The second quarter belonged to Southern as the Jaguars scored two touchdowns to reclaim the lead. Joseph had a pair of touchdown passes, the first a 32-yard strike to Willie Quinn and the other a 16-yard TD pass to Nico Talbert. The touchdowns gave Southern a 22-14 lead at halftime.
Late in the third quarter, the Golden Lions moved closer to the Jaguars on an 11-yard touchdown pass from Anderson to Jamie Smith. The Smith's touchdown pulled the Golden Lions within a point at 22-21. But, Southern answered with a 13-play, 90-yard drive, capped by a 1-yard sneak by Joseph, extending the SU lead back to 29-21 with 8:34 left in the game.
The Golden Lions were driving for a potential tying touchdown, with a 2-point conversion, it fizzled when Drayton Willis coughed it up at the Southern 35-yard line and Southern recovered. UAPB got the ball one more time, but with only 20 seconds left and no time left, there was no chance.
The Golden Lions will head to Itta Bena next week to try and pick up there first win of the season when they face Mississippi Valley State.
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A electric teardrop-style mandolin with a linden body and neck, and a rosewood fingerboard. Single coil pickup with volume and tone controls. A floating adjustable bridge is fed from the loop-end strung tailpiece and tuning is handled by 2 rows of 4 open-geared tuning machine heads.
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- Controls 1 volume, 1 tone
- Nut width 30mm
- Scale length 345mm
- Pickup Single coil pickup
- Dimensions 270 x 690 x 80mm
- Weight 1.04kg
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