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President Ramotar's hopes for the National Assembly
There was little that was extraordinary or even either eye-catching about President Donald Ramotar's February 10th address to the National Assembly though it never seemed as though the Republic's seventh Executive President set out to deliver a rousing speech to the Parliament anyway.
The political opposition, however, appeared to anticipate more of the President than a mere ceremonial appearance in the National Assembly. After he had made his presentation some opposition functionaries responded by suggesting that what he had to say had fallen short of what they might have expected. From the President's standpoint, however, he clearly succeeded in delivering his government's political message to a National Assembly in which the opposition holds a one-seat majority.
The message was delivered in a single line in a presentation which, on the whole, could well have been a good deal briefer. "My administration will not be held ransom to intractable postures." It is this, above all else that concerns the President about a National Assembly the composition of which reflects a sharp departure from what obtained since the country became independent in 1966. Since the convening of the Republic's Tenth Parliament the ruling PPP/C has done little to disguise its unease over the likelihood that the passage of legislation will no longer benefit from the automaticity that it had enjoyed in the past. The current status quo has positioned APNU and the AFC and the AFC to use its majority to stymie the passage of legislation. That is not a comforting thought for President Ramotar and he clearly felt that it would have been politically remiss of him not to make that point.
The President's blunt declaration regarding what he says is the administration's hoped-for "maturity and inertia if we are to avoid political gridlock" was preceded by an expression of hope that "patience, forebearance and reasonableness" will prevail though the problem is – as it has always been – that the government and the opposition are probably likely to differ frequently on what constitutes those virtues.
As the political brouhaha that preceded the eventual election of a Speaker of the National Assembly demonstrated the "differences" in the divided House to which the President referred in his address are not only real but, in some cases, deep. More than that the past few weeks have already bared a combative environment in the House in which, once horns are locked, there is no inclination on any side to back away.
From the opposition benches have already come expressions of doubt regarding the President's undertaking that his government has "the political will" to make the National Assembly work rather than have it sink into the failures that have occurred elsewhere and even if the President is correct in his assertion that the Parliament, as a whole, has the capacity to face and surmount the challenge of an opposition majority in the National Assembly there is already sufficient evidence of a lack of trust in the broader political arena to raise doubts as to whether the various sides can find a reassuring modus vivendi in the National Assembly.
I am convinced that we have the capacity to rise to this challenge. I am satisfied that we are capable of demonstrating to the Guyanese nation that while political competition and diversity are essential in a democracy, they should not foreclose on the possibilities for compromise and consensus in the way we do business.
Indeed, the make-up of this new parliament dictates that we seek consensus and compromise and should resist the temptation to believe that any party can ride rough shod over another. Any such attempt may see us missing the historical opportunities that this new composition offers. I urge that we put the interest of our people first. I urge that we work assiduously to find common ground within and outside of this hallowed chamber.
"Within my administration there exists the political will to do so. My government has already committed to regular engagements with the parliamentary parties. Through these engagements I hope that we can continue to nurture political trust and create an enabling climate for consensus- building. It was disappointing that we did not find consensus in the election of the Speaker of the Assembly.
"However, I am still optimistic that seeking agreements by dialogue is still the best way forward. I also believe that working in this Parliament can contribute in building trust that is so important for our political culture."
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Skip to comments.Virginity Pledges May Help Postpone Intercourse Among Youth (RAND Corp. Study)
Posted on 07/01/2008 1:19:42 PM PDT by Stoat
June 10, 2008
Virginity Pledges May Help Postpone Intercourse Among Youth
Making a virginity pledge may help some young people postpone the start of sexual activity, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
Researchers found that adolescents who made pledges to remain virgins until they are married were less likely to be sexually active over the three-year study period than other youth who were similar to them, but who did not make a virginity pledge, according to the study published online by the Journal of Adolescent Health.
These findings do not suggest that virginity pledges should be a substitute for comprehensive sexual education programs, or that they will work for all kinds of kids said Steven Martino, the studys lead author and a psychologist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization. But virginity pledges may be appropriate as one component of an overall sex education effort.
While several previous studies have examined the impact of virginity pledges, the RAND Health study was uniquely designed to account for pre-existing difference between pledgers and non-pledgers on factors such as religiosity, parenting and friendship characteristics. The study tested the impact of virginity pledges by comparing pledgers with young people who had not made a pledge, but shared other characteristics with pledgers.
Researchers surveyed 1,461 adolescent virgins aged 12 to 17 in 2001 and reinterviewed participants one and three years later. About one-fourth of the group reported during the initial survey that they had made a virginity pledge.
Forty-two percent of those who did not make virginity pledges but were otherwise similar to those who did started sexual intercourse within three years, while just 34 percent of those who made virginity pledges reported having sexual intercourse within the same period.
Making a pledge to remain a virgin until married may provide extra motivation to adolescents who want to delay becoming sexually active, Martino said. The act of pledging may create some social pressure or social support that helps them to follow through with their clearly stated public intention.
Some researchers have speculated that abstaining from intercourse might increase participation in other sexual activities, like oral sex. But the RAND study found that those who pledged were no more likely to engage in non-intercourse behaviors than comparable youth who did not take a pledge.
Waiting until you are older to have sex is good for teens from a health standpoint, Martino said. There are lots of reasons for more kids to wait until they are older.
People who delay sex until they are older are less likely to have unintended pregnancies or contract a sexually transmitted disease, and are better equipped emotionally for the experience, according to researchers.
Martino said virginity pledges are unlikely to be a viable means to encouraging all adolescents to delay the initiation of sexual intercourse.
Virginity pledges must be made freely for them to work, Martino said. If young people are coerced or are unduly influenced by peer pressure, virginity pledges are not likely to have a positive effect.
Previous studies have suggested that adolescents who make virginity pledges may be less likely to use condoms during their first act of sexual intercourse. In the RAND study, adolescents who made virginity pledges but eventually had sex did not report lower condom use. But the RAND study only asked participants about condom use in the past year, not whether they used condoms the first time they had sex.
The first virginity pledge program in the United States began in 1993 and now includes hundreds of churches, schools and colleges. Estimates of U.S. adolescents suggest that 23 percent of females and 16 percent of males have made a virginity pledge.
Other authors of the RAND study are Marc N. Elliott, Rebecca L. Collins, David E. Kanouse and Sandra H. Berry. The study was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
RAND Health, a division of RAND, is the nations largest independent health policy research program, with a broad research portfolio that focuses on health care quality, costs and delivery, among other topics.
Virginity Pledges Among the Willing: Delays in First Intercourse and Consistency of Condom Use
Martino SC, Elliott MN, Collins RL, Kanouse DE, Berry SH. Journal of Adolescent Health, [ePub, June 5, 2008].
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We examine longitudinal relationships between virginity pledging in adolescence and both sexual initiation and condom use. Prior studies have had mixed results and may not adequately control for prepledge differences between pledgers and nonpledgers.
Data came from a national sample of 12- to 17-year-olds surveyed in 2001 and reinterviewed 1 and 3 years later. Logistic regression models estimated the association between making a pledge and each outcome. Selection bias was reduced through propensity-score weighting and a rich set of demographic and psychosocial covariates.
Pledgers and nonpledgers differed substantially in preexisting characteristics. However, after propensity weighting and statistical controls, pledging was still associated with delayed intercourse. We estimate that in the absence of pledging 42.4% of virgins with characteristics indicating an inclination to pledge initiate intercourse within 3 years; in the presence of the pledge, 33.6% of such youth initiate intercourse. Among those who had sex during this period, pledging was unassociated with condom use. Among those who did not have sex during this period, pledging was unassociated with engagement in noncoital sexual behavior.
Making a virginity pledge appears to be an effective means of delaying sexual intercourse initiation among those inclined to pledge without influencing other sexual behavior; pledging does not appear to affect sexual safety among pledgers who fail to remain abstinent
Without additional data it's difficult to be sure from the sparse information presented, but I'm thinking that the study's inclusion of people who are not from supportive / religious backgrounds 'may' have reduced the final success figures to a point below what they might have been if the study had included only people from supportive and religious families...in other words, I'm thinking that the success rates may have been significantly higher if only people from a preexisting supportive and religious background had been studied.
Despite the sparse and incomplete nature of the available information, I thought that this might still be of interest to FReepers in that it reinforces what many of us have felt for some time.
Ohhhhhhh ....liberals are not going to like this at all. Seventeen is kind of old for this survey though since some girls get married between 18-20. I wonder if those were removed from the data.
I thought the RAND coproration just did studies on bombs.
The media responds to the survey.
Indeed, that's probably why the study, which is nearly a month old, was not trumpeted in the 'press' as they will do for studies which seem to bolster liberal positions on issues.
I only found out about this because I receive regular email alerts from RAND....I hadn't seen this in the 'press' at all.
There was a time in this nation (and not so long ago) that postponing sex until marriage was an expectation and a reality for many, if not most. Only in recent years with the advent of the "pill", and liberals controlling entertainment and other media, has the expectation reversed itself. A strong effort has been made by the Left to convince teens and young adults that they are not normal unless they are having unmarried sex. Throw in Planned Parenthood, the sex education fiascos in our schools, liberal parents who want their kids to be cool, etc. and you have the mess that we're in today. This article has some news worthy of celebrating.
They actually have a pretty wide range of research interests....this page directs you to their "core research areas"
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OK, but this is still based on self-reported data with a few bells & whistles from the statistical end. Regression analysis has an error rate. There is no alternative verification for the self reports the subjects made.
Cynic & statistician.
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It's the devaluing of the family as an institution.
One of the Communist Goals for America.
What was the story the other day?
Christian men make better husbands and fathers? DUH...
They'll probably do another study and conclude that girls with strong Christian fathers who lead their household are more likely to "postpone intercourse".
Or, probably not, as this is not something they want widely known.
Agreed on all counts.
This article has some news worthy of celebrating.
I am delighted that you've found it to be worthwhile :-)
Yes, and it naturally raises the question of how many other reputable scientific studies from acclaimed and highly-respected sources they have also 'swept under the rug' merely because they didn't like the conclusions because the results didn't support the Leftist agenda.
If we get back to not letting them date or be unsupervised with boys until they are 16 then the numbers should go even higher. Kind of a parent pledge too. Today..what is there to look forward to at 16...a boyfriend...got one already...dating...been doing that since I was 12...getting married and having children...already got a couple and didn't even need a husband.
Ever heard the phrase "dating is practice for divorce"?
No :')
It has been said that kids that age are nothing "but hormones and nerve endings". But truthfully, always the biggest impact on their behavior will be from their parents and family. Teachers have a lot less influence than you might think.
However, their peers have a lot more pull. Because the odds are, if and when they want to have sex, or even before they want to have sex, it will be with their peers. And this should send a message to parents that as they influence their children, other parents influence their children as well.
And some of them will influence their children in bad ways.
The way to short circuit this is to be aware of your child's peers. It doesn't hurt to encourage some contempt in your child for his peers that are problematic. Often they will emulate your disregard, and think less of these peers as well.
You can steer them away from drug users, the sexually and legally irresponsible, those that drink and smoke. A few anecdotes about losers you knew in school will go a long way.
Also explain "the enemy gun" theory. That is, soldiers in combat often think the enemies gun is better than theirs, because they do not see the effects of their own gun. Children often very falsely assume that their peers live different and much more enjoyable lives.
If you ask high school students, they are of a mind that their peers have regular sex, have lots of parties, drink liquor, do drugs, and generally do all the things that they don't do, but think they are told they might like to.
In truth, even among senior students, few have had sex more than once. And those few probably began having sex at a very young age, molested by adults they knew. And just a tiny group are in anything like a healthy relationship, with or without sex.
Many of the students that regularly drink and do drugs have serious personal and family problems. While many students drink some and do some drugs, the small number of hardcore users are pretty pitiful.
Finally, point out that some of their peers have "quick fuses", that they will probably get married right out of high school, have kids for a few years after that, and be middle aged by the time they are 30. Grandparents by 36.
But the vast majority want to have a life before they even consider marriage. A career, some creativity, to live a little, to shop around for a good spouse, not just whoever is handy. They have a slower metabolism, which is normal.
Just knowing things is a big motivator to self control. And that includes the bad things.
..and it's up to the parent/parents...
We didn't allow our daughter to date till 16
..we didn't allow R rated movies...(we took cable out of the home)
..we expected high standards and she met them...
..so did our son.
Sure... the world was all around them... but the home was sacrosanct....a place to unwind, be kids and bring their friends over.
There was a time in this nation (and not so long ago) that postponing sex until marriage was an expectation and a reality for many, if not most.
So true. We can only pray that the pendulum swings back. It would be so nice to see young women treated as treasures once again — by themselves and by young men.
Supervision only goes so far, and when a 17 year old has sports and a job after school and a car, there are many instances where they can get away unsupervised. Plus the goal is for them to be virgins until marriage, and you're not going to supervise them every minute in college now.
My personal experience on the receiving end as a teenage boy only a decade ago is that I was completely unprepared for sexual situations after sitting through youth group talks and even "good" girls have the moral fiber of tissue paper. I needed to hear that part of purity is to keep certain things unmentioned and that far before sex there is a monumental connection that is formed between two people. I needed to hear that whatever action a "big deal" in a relationship is a "big deal" only once, and then it is lost forever. What I got was advice about things that were too far down the road of lusts to be useful when it finally came to pass.
So what about that other study that said those who took such pledges were MORE likely to engage in oral or anal sex? Whom do I believe?
I suppose it's best to evaluate the credibility of the sources, their testing criteria and methodology and mix that in with your own common sense, perspectives, life experience and dedication to logic.
My post though was more about younger teens. There is a big difference between being pregnant at 11 and 17. If they are raised knowing that , you don't care what everyone else does...they aren't....(fill in the blanks) it is easier than if the horse is already out of the barn.
One thing my mom did with me that worked for my boys too was to use a password. If being pressured by peers to do something uncomfortable then the pass word was used to ask permission. Permission was denied...the teen pretended to act offended in front of friends and that was that.
As for college. If you are paying the bills and they aren't living as they should you are under no obligation to finance bad behavior JAT
I remember my teen years well. Back then, the pledge or contract was from SADD or MADD or something. We'd sign a contract promising not to drink and drive and calling a parent if we had. My parents, my Dad especially, cracked up laughing when he saw the contract. We never bothered to fill it out as we didn't *need* to. My husband also had that SADD or MADD contract and his parents wanted him to sign it and he refused.
My oldest told me they have an after school club that is still involved in this contract underage drinking thing. It's not as much as a *fad* as it was back when I was in high school.
She also said that her high school doesn't have this virginity pledge thing but wondered what the point was.
Whom do you believe? None of it, imo. Some teens are gonna have sex and some aren't. The whole pledge thing is sill to me.
As a mom of 4 girls, we talk about sex here. Well, I do with the two teens.
Sex is fine, it's great and wonderful and beautiful and a whole lot of fun, imo. I didn't have sex as a teenager but mostly because pre-marital sex was wrong according to my faith and because I knew as a teen that I wasn't ready for all that came with it.
My mom taught me that in the heat of passion, that I'd have to decide, use my head, and it worked for me.
As for all the fun stuff that leads to sex, it WAS fun even though it didn't end up with intercourse in my case until marriage.
I call them hormones with feet :)
Parents are the most influential imo but these aren't children. They're teens (and not so long they were considered adults) and they're going to do whatever they do when it comes to sex. I don't think teens were having less sex back in the 50s or so or whenever, they just weren't letting anyone know.
Girls need a different talk than boys do, definitely. They don't seem to need to be as guarded with their urges. Keeping their wits about them is a major part, because girls tend to decide rather than be driven like boys are.
As for all the fun stuff that leads to sex, it WAS fun even though it didnt end up with intercourse in my case until marriage.
Heh, it's a different perspective as a woman. I remember reading Joshua Harris's experience with his soon-to-be wife (not that I approve of Harris's advice), and how she was completely unaware of the challenge it was for him just to be near her on a hammock in a relatively private area. Sometimes I think that the reason why women were taught to be sexually reserved was so that men wouldn't go crazy in a strict society.
Well, they were getting married younger (marriage didn't seem as distant as it does to today's teens), there were a lot less dual-income families without moms at home, and girls dressed more conservatively. That had to have had some effect on teen sex.
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I agree that girls tend to control it all. But, as a woman, the urges are really the same. And those urges were the same back when I was a teen. It certainly wasn't easy not having sex back when I was a teen or college student.
Not familiar with Joshua Harris... I'll have to google him.
I agree. It was like females were supposed to reign in the males or something.
As a female, it's not that easy to control our own desires let alone another's desire.
One of the things I do recall, is how women weren't supposed to like sex, when that is so far from the truth. I had family members, aunts, that said sex was all about the guy but fortunately, my mother didn't see it that way.
I wasn't interested in sex right before each of my kids were born or right after they were born. Other than those times, sex was always great. And sex isn't just about one person or the two, sometimes it's about the other person.Seriously, how hard is it to just satisfy the other person?
Got that right. I did my best to be a "good boy" in high school. I made it to my senior year before being seduced and losing my virginity. I felt so used!
Oh yeah. You were seduced, lol. RME. You had no part in it at all ;)
Girls control it all because they say yes or no. Most teen boys I knew, no was never an option ;)
It's true! I was seduced while trying to be good. You insult me with your condescending "no was never an option" statement. Maybe you hung out with "bad boys." I was so ashamed after I was deflowered by my temptress that I ran away in shame. /sarc
I forgot the "/sarc" last post.
Oh yeah. So, I'm like, so like, more experienced than you? ;)
I did like those bad boys. They were fun :)
I can list the times I could have been seduced, didn't work til college and my husband. He was able to seduce me ;) I'm sure I played a huge part in it, if not the most important part, lol.
ROTFLMAO, you were "deflowered"?
You don't like "deflowered", how about "soiled?"
Gosh, are you 90? Deflowered, soiled?
I missed the sarc thingie. Bite me.
LOL deflowered? Does anyone say that anymore? ;)
Lighten up, Twink. My humor obviously escapes you. Or you want to pick a fight.
Or maybe your humor is non-existent? ;)
Could it be that one rather than the other two?
Deflowered? Does anyone still say that?
I'm gonna hit the "abuse" button!
More power to ya.
You're kidding, right?
Don't know about you but in my world, sex IS good clean wholesome fun ;)
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Energy stocks bubbled up as top ideas several times at the 18th annual Sohn Investment Conference, held Wednesday in Manhattan, where hedge-fund managers offered picks and pans to raise funds for charity.
No overriding theme connected the energy stocks highlighted. Nor were energy prices a key element. And there was little discussion of the boom in shale drilling. However, these names were clearly a popular topic.
David Einhorn said yesterday that shares of oilfield equipment and services company Oil States International OIS 0.6583506583506583% Oil States International Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD29.05 0.19 0.6583506583506583% /Date(1469566923492-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1078967 AFTER HOURS USD29.05 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5377 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 1482278493.10974 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 259976 More quote details and news » (ticker: OIS) could rise from about $100 today to $155 if the company turns its unique side business, building accommodations for energy and natural resources worker, into a real estate investment trust.
Tor Olav Troim, of Norwegian investing firm Fredriksen Group, talked up the growth in deep-water drilling in the search for more oil and gas. These projects require floating rigs and transportation infrastructure, but Troim argues that orders don't match anticipated future demand for rigs. Fredriksen owns Frontline FRO 0.8674101610904585% Frontline Ltd. U.S.: NYSE USD8.14 0.07 0.8674101610904585% /Date(1469567020965-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 822454 AFTER HOURS USD8.14 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2033 P/E Ratio 4.174358974358975 Market Cap 1262042989.07868 Dividend Yield 19.656019656019655% Rev. per Employee 5182240 More quote details and news » (FRO), Ship Finance International SFL 0.9345794392523364% Ship Finance International Ltd. U.S.: NYSE USD15.12 0.14 0.9345794392523364% /Date(1469567058565-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 564513 AFTER HOURS USD15.12 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 773 P/E Ratio 8.02151705856516 Market Cap 1400704816.05301 Dividend Yield 11.904761904761905% Rev. per Employee 62033600 More quote details and news » (SFL), Golar LNG (GLNG) and SeaDrill (SDRL).
Troim also made the case that natural-gas supplies will eventually be shipped to where they are needed most. Global gas prices vary widely, however, and that story will surely take time to play out.
Jonathon Jacobson, founder of Highfields Capital Management, said investors should favor payouts backed by strong cash flow, rather than capital markets financing. That would call into question plenty of Master Limited Partnerships—those yield-rich energy companies with tax-friendly structures.
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The fuel filler flap on my 09 VW Golf estate (diesel) will not unlock. I have tried locking and unlocking the car which should relase the filler flap but it remains locked. The owner's manual says there is no method of manual relase on this model. Can anyone suggest how I can get it open?
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Have you checked for a blown fuse? You may also be able to reach the release either by reaching into the wheel well or removing an interior panel. Another option is that the latch is released but the spring that pops the door open is broken. Have an assistant try to open the door while you actuate the switch.
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#1 - superhoodyDoes anyone have this gif with a thumb instead of a cookie?
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#22 to #1 - gallifreyanI tried. I had to use animation shop because GIMP insisted on corrupting half the frames. So the thumb doesn't move much..
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Pub Date: 2005-01-18 Pages: 400 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins Unique among his fellow immortals and mortal folk alike. Jant Comet can fly His talent is a gift and a curse that has earned him a place in the Castle Circle. as Messenger to the Emperor San - soaring high and free above the bloody battlefields of his world. carrying word back to his master of progress and regress in the ever-escalating conflict between man and the awful armies of giant. flesh-devouring insects. But while Jants duty is to remain neutral in the petty squabbles and power plays of the fifty who will neither age nor die naturally. bitter rivalries that have festered for centuries now threaten to incite a savage civil war. And Jant may be the only being alive capable of stemming the onrushing tide of destruction and the unstoppable insect infestation For only he can gain entrance - through...
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She creates a world with mortals and immortals, where the immortals must earn their place by being the best at what they can do: the best swordsman, the best sailor, the best archer. Immortality is betowed upon them by the Emperor San...where he got the ability to do this is one of the mysteries of the series.
Jant Comet is one of the immortals, called the Messenger because of his unique ability to fly. Because he is the Emperor's Messenger, we get to see the politics of the realm, and even see Jant change a few things.
The Emperor's realm is at war with the Insects, who look like bugs many times the size of humans and who build paper nests out of counqueorer lands. Where the Insects have come from is yet another of the mysteries in the book and series.
Jant is an addict to a substance called Cat. Ms. Swainston's portrayl of Jant's addiction, in this book and the next, is dead on...she must have known or studied addicts quite closely.
Jant's addiction gives him entrance into a parallel world, a world he and we the readers are not sure is real until we explore it further. Then it becomes tied in with the Emperor's world and the Insects.
Ms. Swainston mixes political intrigue (immortals battling each other for position; non-immortals vs. the Emperor; mortals vying to become immortals), war (vividly imagines human vs. insect fighting scenes, shades of Stormship Troopers!), addiction and Jant's journey of self-discovery into an excellent fantasy novel.Read more ›
At times it was a bit tough to follow, but still a fantastic read. I would recommend it to someone who enjoys fantasy :)
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As ever, San read my mind. Almost imperceptibly, he said, 'Once there was peace.'"
The Year of Our War is a book that, at first, looks just about as generic as fantasy can get. We've got a (literally) faceless, inhuman enemy; we've got an immortal protagonist who can fly and, due to his ability to access the Shift, may be instrumental in the war against the Insects; we've got a series of squabbling, immortal lords, generally far more interested in increasing their own fortunes than in banding together and actually accomplishing something; and, to cap it all off, we've got a semi-divine Emperor ruling over the whole thing. And yet, The Year of Our War is anything but a traditional fantasy. The novel is set apart both by the excellent characterization and first person prose of its main character, Jant, and by its interesting take on immortality.
Now, I've seen some people say that Jant is a poor character because of his weak personality. This is absolutely baffling to me. It's true that Jant is not the driving force behind most of the events of the book, but since when does a character not being a traditional hero invalidate their depth? Jant's very much the junior among the immortals of the Emperor's Circle, and he is constantly dragged into the schemes of the older, more powerful, and more forceful immortals. Since before his time in the Circle, he has used the hallucinogenic scolopendium. His drug use is one of the few things that sets him apart amongst the immortals, and his habit has, if anything, worsened. It hasn't, however, given him a degree of control over his own life; instead, he's just added yet another master yanking him in yet another direction. One of the only times he's ever taken direct control of something in his life was to commit a terrible crime that he now regrets. He's conflicted, intelligent, and immensely self centered. He is absolutely oblivious to the feelings of those around him, something never more obvious than the scenes with his wife, Tern. All of that points to a deep, realistic character to me, even if he's not the easiest to always cheer along with.
Jant isn't always the most honest, nor knowledgeable of narrators. When one of his ideas backfires, he rarely admits guilt. Any events that took place without him present might as well not have happened, as far as his recollections are concerned. This gives the book a meandering feel at times, because sub plots are dropped and resumed almost at random. This can be annoying, yes, but it also gives the book a more lifelike feel, one that timelier pacing would be unable to provide. Paradoxically, the focused nature of the narrative is what lends The Year of Our War its sense of scale. When Jant returns to an area unmentioned for a hundred pages, only to find it burned to the ground, it's apparent that the war with the Insects is bigger than any one person can comprehend.
The thematic crux of The Year of Our War is the immortality of the Circle. Though at first it seems to be handled in a comic book sense, where immortality and blessing are simply means to kill monsters better, it soon becomes apparent that the longevity of the Fourlands' rulers dictates every aspect of their culture. This is explored in what is by far the book's most interesting sub plot, Swallow's quest for immortality on the basis of her musical skills. When she goes up to the emperor, he says:
"'Do you think music requires an immortal guardian, as Lightening controls the skill of archery? Would it better if music was left to change and develop as future people wish?'"
Since its policy makers are immortal, the Fourlands have essentially stagnated. This isn't a Warhammer-esque stagnation, where progress is lost forever, but, as long as the immortals reign over their disciplines, true progress cannot take place. How could a musketeer outperform the god of archery, and, if he could not, how could the invention ever take hold in such a society? The immortals, however, only control the arts of war, and the rest of the society can progress at a standard pace. This leads to the interesting (though occasionally hard to swallow) existence of a society where people wear T-shirts and kill each other with swords.
This stagnation extends to characterization as well as to setting. One of the major complaints that I've seen about The Year of Our War is that the supporting characterizations are shallow. I don't completely agree in all cases, but I'll admit they have a point - I just think the one dimensionality of certain characters is intentional (though, as I've said on here before, interesting thematic decisions don't always translate well to enjoyable reading). When a character becomes immortal, they're frozen at whatever age they happen to be at, arresting their own development:
"'How old have you been for two hundred years, Comet?'
'Twenty-three. But I've grown wiser!'
'Have You? I think it would be a shame to deny the Fourlands the music she would make if she were to grow more mature. When she gains more experience, her music will be so improved that the rest of the world will learn from it.'"
Of course, the members of the Circle don't think that they've been treading water for thousands of years:
"Many [immortals] are jaded and love innovation; some of us, like myself, invent to make our lives easier and to prove we are the best specialists in our various professions. The more confident immortals embrace novelty and would welcome Swallow's continual creation."
While at first convincing, Jant's words soon ring hollow. First of all, the end of the first sentence is very telling: to prove we are the best specialists in our various professions. So, while Jant may pass his time by inventing gliders, you're not going to see Lightening rendering himself obsolete by inventing (or even endorsing) handguns. The older immortals are all trapped in their own pasts. Lightening still squabbles with Mist over territorial disputes forgotten before any living mortal was born; Mist is unwilling to acknowledge Ata's innovations, because something that daring would be unthinkable in the more traditional time that he's a product of.
The Insects, a faceless enemy that endlessly encroaches on the borders of the Fourlands, drive almost every event in the novel, but they're probably the least interesting part of it. They're suitably terrifying off screen, of course, but the Circle's prowess defangs them a tad in direct confrontation. Really, the main problem facing the human armies seems to be a lack of arrows, and, as such, I have a simple plan for victory: all T-shirt factories have hereby been taken over by the state, and they will produce either A. arrows, or B. quivers to hold said arrows. If every archer brings, say, fifteen quivers, instead of the customary four arrows, I'm confident the Insects would cease to be such a big deal.
And then there's the Shift, an altogether different realm in which the rules of reality are totally different, accessed by overdosing on scolopendium. I don't understand how there are so few Fourlanders there, if an overdose is really all that's needed, and if scolopendium is as often abused as Jant's flashbacks would have us believe, but that's a miniscule point. The Shift is a breeding ground for the bizarre, and it would be easy to let it grow whimsical to the point of irrelevance, but creatures like the unsettling Vermiform insure that there're some teeth in the whole affair, and I'm looking forward to learning more about what the hell it is in future volumes.
The Year of Our War is an excellent debut. I've seen a whole host of reviews that have called it a Miéville clone, and I just don't really get that. It's about a self centered character who flies, so alright, I guess that's a superficial similarity to Perdido Street Station. They're both New Weird, but I don't think genre's enough to acquire rip off status. They're both concerned with questions of immortality and an eternal war...oh, wait, no; they're not. Maybe I'm being silly, but I don't know how a book can be a pastiche while exploring wholly different themes. The Year of Our War has got some flaws, some of which are easily excusable and some of which are not, but it makes up for all of them with its tight focus and interesting ideas. If you're interested in New Weird, this is something you need to check out.
I would really like to see a more focused look at the world that Steph Swainston has created here. The Year of Our War only gives a teaser of this world.
She creates a world with mortals and immortals, where the immortals must earn their place by being the best at what they can do: the best swordsman, the best sailor, the best archer. Immortality is betowed upon them by the Emperor San...where he got the ability to do this is one of the mysteries of the series.
Jant Comet is one of the immortals, called the Messenger because of his unique ability to fly. Because he is the Emperor's Messenger, we get to see the politics of the realm, and even see Jant change a few things.
The Emperor's realm is at war with the Insects, who look like bugs many times the size of humans and who build paper nests out of counqueorer lands. Where the Insects have come from is yet another of the mysteries in the book and series.
Jant is an addict to a substance called Cat. Ms. Swainston's portrayl of Jant's addiction, in this book and the next, is dead on...she must have known or studied addicts quite closely.
Jant's addiction gives him entrance into a parallel world, a world he and we the readers are not sure is real until we explore it further. Then it becomes tied in with the Emperor's world and the Insects.
Ms. Swainston mixes political intrigue (immortals battling each other for position; non-immortals vs. the Emperor; mortals vying to become immortals), war (vividly imagines human vs. insect fighting scenes, shades of Stormship Troopers!), addiction and Jant's journey of self-discovery into an excellent fantasy novel. As an author, what I most admire about the writing is her ability to not tell the reader what is going on (at least for the big stuff) but to let us figure it out. The novel held me in suspense till the end, made we eager for the next (which is equally good).
Highly recommended.
One very unusual thing about this book is that the main character - Jant, a winged immortal messenger - is a drug addict. I thought this was an absolutely fantastic idea, and his character is definitely one of the book's strengths. The story is told through his eyes in first person, so the reader learns very quickly about his denial of the effects his addiction has on everyone around him, while simultaneously being aware of his faults. However, it does make him difficult to sympathise with. Sometimes Jant spent a lot of being sulking by himself and being antisocial (again, doesn't seem right because apparently he loves to socialise and attend parties), when I just wanted the book to get on with the plot.
Something I also found unusual was that while the story at first seems to be set in a very typical world for a fantasy book - namely mediaeval and low technology, there were lots of little things coming through that were very modern. Newspaper articles (including a reference to UK-style Page 3 girls!), T-shirts, syringes (I wonder what they are made of, if they don't have plastic?), and even implied references to hamburgers and tomato sauce! A lot of the metaphors used were also quite modern, which sounded quite jarring to me. I usually love books that mash up different eras and settings like this, but in this case I just found it confusing, because it's so clearly meant to be a purely mediaeval world. Were the modern inclusions accidental slipups? Or were they intentional? At any rate, it's just a minor concern.
My MAJOR concern is that the plot just doesn't really hold together. There are so many really good ideas in this book, but I thought that none of them were taken even close to far enough. I had so many questions about the Insects, for instance, but (aside from them being ravenous monsters) we hardly found out anything about them! What was this "paper" they left behind? Was anyone going to clean it up? Did nobody, in fact, think to investigate where they came from? (Aside from the Emperor, and even he just sat back and seemed to think: "Oh well, that's that then.") There's this incredible mystery right in front of them, but nobody seems to care about anything deeper than a basic "they kill us, we kill them" philosophy. You'd think that at least one person in this mediaeval world would consider investigating. Also regarding the Insects, I found some of the military strategies very poor - for instance, if anyone described to me a habitat made of paper, and that the creatures living in it all wanted to destroy the world, the very first thing I would think of is: "Paper! Flammable! Let's burn it all down!" - and whether that would actually work or not is debatable, but nobody even discusses any strategies other than hacking at things with swords - and these people have had many centuries to come up with ideas! Another idea I'd have would be to wall in the Insects (or human/Awian cities, either way) with massive walls the apparently flightless Insects couldn't cross. But nobody seems to be able to come up with anything this basic and logical. It just seems so underdeveloped.
Likewise, another fascinating concept introduced in this book is a parallel world only accessible via the drugs that Jant takes. There's an entirely new, wonderful, surreal universe introduced, and yet the author didn't let the audience in on any of its secrets. When Jant visits this world, he wanders around in a seemingly bored state (when he isn't running for his life from the evil Tines, who apparently just want to kill everyone on sight), and does really mundane things like catching up with old acquaintances for no particular reason (and which has nothing to do with the rest of the plot). I felt there was so much potential here that was utterly wasted. With his knowledge of the other world, he also does absolutely nothing, and refuses to even discuss it with anyone, despite the fact that numerous acquaintances of his also know it exists. Just... such... a... waste!
Yet another example of how ideas weren't taken far enough is of the immortals themselves. We find out quickly that there are fifty of them, but we are only ever introduced to a mere handful - Jant, Lightning, Tornado, Mist, and their respective love interests (who don't count as part of the fifty). Four out of fifty is pretty dismal, in my opinion. The others presumably also have very important roles to play in the war, but they aren't even discussed at any point. It's as if they don't exist, and the immortal Circle is really only made up or four or five people, despite the rumours. This in particular was a real let-down for me. I often felt like the author had created a huge, epic world, only to populate it with about fifteen or so characters. Again, lots of potential wasted.
Because of all this lost potential, I only found the story average. I kept reading, hoping for more (and this includes the sequels as well), but it never came. This world could have been so rich and full of secrets waiting to be discovered, but it seemed that the author just glossed over it all superficially instead.
- Jant, the narrator, is a drug-addicted immortal with a shady past, so-so fighting skills, lots of self-pity and dubious morals.
- The world is in the throes of an implacable war with alien insects.
- There is an immortal emperor who bestows the gift of immortality upon his chosen champions, who are classified by archetypes.
Let's start out with Jant. Some reviewers dislike him because... he is so easily dislikable. For me, Jant is the best thing in the book. Elric of Melnibone was worse in his vices, if not his whining and it worked very well there. The _idea_ of Jant is a masterfully daring stroke, especially for a first novel. The actual development of Jant's character is weaker but still quite acceptable. Ata and Mist are also refreshingly flawed and complex. This is fiction after all - it is perfectly ok to be an evil jerk and get away with it.
The world and the insect war. Supposedly, that's what the whole book is about. Why then does it feel so contrived? Static trench warfare for centuries, without either party collapsing??? And the human nations are sometimes "not too motivated to fight"? (this is at the start of the book, before Staniel's paranoia btw). Like they really have a choice if their species' survival is at stake?
By the middle of the book, almost all the human territories (but not the castles) have been overrun and destroyed, but somehow they still keep fighting. Excuse me - supply problems, famine, population collapse? What do the insects eat in their lands? Even in the middle ages you needed some kind of economic base to wage wars. Doesn't help that the book's map looks like it was drawn by a fourth grader. Heck, if it had been left out, I wouldn't quite have picked up on the extent of the humans' territorial losses.
The immortal court and their bickering? The author could have done much, much more with the imperial court but got mostly side-tracked in the Lightning/Ata/Mist intrigues. Still, that intrigue, along with Jant, is the best part of this book.
One thing I found especially irritating at the beginning of the book was the almost perverse need to tease the reader with intriguing tidbits of info, without elaborating on them right away. A _bit_ of teasing can work wonders. But there was so much of it that it felt like the author worried that readers would abandon the book without her gimmicks. Indeed some concepts (the source of immortality for example) are not explained at all, presumably to motivate folks for the sequel. Mind you, there is no real conclusion/ending either which feels like sequelitis to me as well.


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Just in Time for Art Basel: Biscayne's Biggest-Booty Babe Has a Baby
Post-Shakira makeover.
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The saga of "Erin" -- the nude, giant-posteriored female character that artist Daniel Fila first spray-painted onto a wall on Biscayne Boulevard at NE 37th Street in 2003 -- has been rife with plot twists.
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The woman's face was based on that of a girl named Erin, a former college "crush" of Fila's. When the real-life Erin -- last name Wozniak -- caught wind of the tribute, she wasn't flattered. In fact, the photographer accused the aerosol artist of stealing from her own self-portrait -- and condemned his work as a "grossly oversexualized naked figure."
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