Natural disasters in China divine retribution: "tianzai" (天災), literally 'heavenly disaster'. In ancient beliefs, natural disasters were seen as Heaven’s response to immoral human behaviour, whereby the conduct of different individuals carried different weights. While the behaviour of common people ranked last, the actions of bureaucrats had a greater effect. Given that in Imperial China the emperor's behaviour was believed to be the most important, popular belief was that the emperor should attempt to prevent disasters by ensuring his conduct was in following with moral codes – and if a disaster should occur, he was responsible for addressing the consequences. According to the Overseas
Fate to Fatal designed by Chris Glass. Not long before this, Glass had designed the logo for U.S. president Barack Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The "Fate to Fatal" design was Glass's first work doing a record cover. Glass, who is related to the Deals through marriage, had been a fan of the Breeders' music and of the work of Vaughan Oliver, who had designed most of the group's covers for 4AD. All of the Breeders' previous albums and EPs had been released on the record label 4AD: up until 2002's "Title TK" Kim Deal was under contract with that