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Continuum S02E08: "Second Listen"
The case of the body snatchers continued! But not without an interruption from everyone's favorite psycho Liber8 operative, Garza, who we learned in flashbacks was tight with 2077 Alec in the delightfully apprehensive way everyone from back in the future seems to be. She was sent by Kagame to end Alec and he countered by banking on the time-travel shtick, asking her to make the call in the past and only waste his younger self if he failed to change his ways. So she essentially became an insurance policy.
Like a nice, sane person, Garza slaughtered Alec's geeky roommates and took Alec hostage, forcing Kiera to abandon the quest for the missing corpses and come to the rescue. Gardiner continued the search without her and found his way to a shady law firm that seemed to specialize in clients with stolen identities and weird finger tattoos. He also found his way to a bullet in the face because I really liked the Kiera-and-Gardiner-manage-to-play-nice-for-like-five-seconds storyline and I'm not allowed to have nice things. Bye Gardiner, we'll miss you forever. (Well, not really.)
"Second Listen" managed to address an issue with Continuum that I didn't even realize I had—or rather, an issue that I previously couldn't entirely define or put a name to—and that's the importance of Alec's autonomy in the present. I was never completely comfortable with the control that Kiera, Kellog, and now Garza have sought to hold over Alec's head. The revelation that the Alec of 2077 had a hand in orchestrating the whole time-travel thing and seemed to want these various parties to influence his life and change his future (okay, except for Kellog) added greatly to our understanding of why it's essential to allow some level of control, but the fact remains that the Alec of 2013 is not yet the Alec of 2077—and at this point may never become the Alec we see in the future. Even with the order to tamper with young Alec coming from an older and seemingly wiser Alec, those two Alecs are still unique individuals with different feelings, motivations, and responses. That the Alec of 2013 is so horrified by the idea of the man he could become simply reaffirms this. Our Alec has no connection to 2077 Alec beyond their matching DNA, and while Old Alec's warning was certainly weighty given the source, for Alec himself, if was also probably a lot like getting a cryptic warning from a stranger.
Alec has gone along with the status quo for almost two seasons now. Currently, he sincerely doesn't want to become that bad guy he hears so much about, and that fear has allowed various different people to influence and control him to some extent. Alec isn't a dumb kid, though—that point has been made abundantly clear on numerous occasions—and he knows that not everyone wants what's best for him, and that everyone, even Kiera and our "good guys" have their own goals in mind.
Alec's drive to change the future for the better and to be "good" because he chooses to be and not because anyone makes him goes hand in hand with his constant quest for independence. Despite being the "geeky guy" on a show full of brawn, Alec is hardly helpless. He regularly utilizes the tools around him to eke out a win—whether that tool is a crappy retail job, a piece of shattered time machine, or his partnership with Kellog. Alec is innovative, and even though he's needed Kiera to come save his ass more than once, she's needed him, too. If you examine the situation with a brutally honest lens, she needs him a lot more than he needs her. That time machine ain't gonna rebuild itself... as far as we know.
First with leaving home, then with the decision to partner with Kellog, and now with his mission to figure out whether or not Jason really is Papa Sadler in the Crazypants Flesh, Alec has grown increasingly proactive this season; everything finally culminated in "Second Listen," while Garza held him over a railing, arguing with Kiera about who really knows the guy.
In truth, they both know Alec—or rather, a part of him. Garza probably knows the future Alec much better than Kiera ever could, but while Kiera gets credit for her relationship with young Alec, the reality of that relationship is that it's largely based on Kiera's understanding of who she thinks 2077 Alec is and who Alec may become. Her concern is almost entirely dedicated to shaping Alec into what she needs him to be so that she can return home, and when Alec finally broke down and confronted both women with that reality, it became clear to her.
When Garza described Kiera to Alec in 2077, she emphasized Kiera's "motherly" traits—which in 2013 actually coincide with Kiera's treatment of Alec up until this point. Sure, he's her ally and her tech guru and her one true hope to get back home, but that's all been filtered through the context of what Kiera knows about the future. She needs Alec to evolve a certain way and she's made no secret of it, acting like a stern mother to him numerous times by dictating who he should associate with, the types of jobs he should work, and so on. It's the sort of sentiment a mother would have. After all, no one wants their kid to grow up to be an ax murderer.
Still, even moms have to step aside at some point and let their kids become whoever they'll become. That doesn't mean they can't offer guidance, support, and opinions, but eventually that autonomy is going to kick in and there will be a pink-hair-and-piercings phase, and possibly an I'm-eloping-with-Mick-Jagger phase, or, in Alec's case, an I-just-want-to-be-normal-dammit phase. Alec has all (okay, most) of the tools he needs to make the right decisions. No one else can make them for him.
– "He's a loose cannon and the woman in the coffin was a friend of mine." And yet despite being the 'loose cannon,' Gardiner was totally, weirdly the 'good cop' in this situation because Kiera is scary.
– Aww, Kiera made a 2001 reference. So proud. I also loved the dig that Alec just didn't get her pop culture references because she's the ultimate hipster. She liked that band before it was even invented.
– Yeah, the CMR dead-cam was pretty creepy.
– Elena encouraged Kiera to make a life for herself in 2013. Now Alec has his "we chart ouf own course here and now" monologue. Pretty prophetic, methinks. How about you?
– What do you think Gardiner's death means for Kiera's future?
– So Escher totally has the "freelancer" tattoos. Thoughts? He said they don't like people like Kiera, but then he helped her. Did he defect or something?


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So now after DMOA can same sex marriage for green card? how soon they can apply? and what document they need to attache with application
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So now after DMOA can same sex marriage for green card?
At least in states that recognize same-sex marriage.
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The Supreme Court's decision will have a big impact on cases involving United States citizens who are seeking green cards for foreign spouses of the same sex, and the Obama Administration is acting swiftly to change its visa policies in light of the Supreme Court's invalidation of DOMA. Already today, just one week after the court's decision, an American man in Florida and his Husband, who is from Bulgaria, became the first same-sex married couple to be approved for a permanent resident visa.
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When writing an email while offline (travelling) and it refuses to leave my outbox once I connect again. I have to open the message and use the send button. This gets rather tedious with a large outbox.
As a test I disconnected from the network and composed an email while Outlook was "Disconnected", not "Work Offline". When I reconnect to the network I'm able to send that email.
Conversely, if I stay physically connected by select "Work Offline" and compose an email, it gets sent once I work online again.
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I would try two things.
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Sexuality may take a lifetime to really master, but as for identity, many would assume that gets sorted out in the teen years. But for Jessica Streit, mother of two boys, she didn't become aware of her own sexual orientation until well after she was married to a man and her sons were born.
The topic of LAMs — lesbian after marriage — is hardly new terrain. Jennifer Baumgardner explored the phenomenon not too long, defining LAM as:
These are the women who have tied the knot, procreated, and, once the children are out of the home or more independent, found love in the arms of a woman.
Jessica tells me that she was well aware of her attraction to women at the time of her marriage and had openly dated a woman prior to marrying. She describes herself as "madly in love" with her girlfriend at the time, but ended the relationship a year before meeting her husband. She considered herself bisexual and was out to both her husband and her mother. Yet, after her first son was born, Jessica began to doubt whether she was actually sexually attracted to men.
Prior to marrying, Jessica had shared with her mother that if she had not married a man by the time she was 35, she would seek out a sperm donor and have children either on her own or with a woman. Jessica's mother replied that she didn't want "children whose father came from a test tube." She adds that something about about the conversation stayed with her well into her relationship with her girlfriend, and the relationship eventually ended because she couldn't reconcile her identity with her desire for a family.
"…we ended it because I didn't feel like I could be a part of a lesbian couple. I just didn't feel like I could live open and out and raise kids as a gay woman. In retrospect, I was scared and not feeling very strong," says Jessica.
A year later, Jessica met her husband and engaged in a whirlwind in courtship that she admits "moved very quickly." The pair moved in together after five months of dating and married a year later. Jessica was eight weeks pregnant on her wedding day. But not long after getting pregnant, the mother says that she lost all interest in her husband sexually. She began to experience physical pain during intercourse and visited multiple doctors to determine the cause. Even after an exploratory surgery turned up no explanation, Jessica began to realize that her block may be mental.
She remained in the marriage for another five years.
"I think it was in large part psychological," says Jessica when recalling why she stayed in the marriage despite her suspicions about her sexuality. "I wanted a family. I wanted to be a stay at home mom with the minivan and 2.5 kids. I convinced myself that I was happy."
Baumgardner found while researching LAMs that this was not at all an uncommon trend in bisexual women. She cited Laura Eldridge, author of The No-Nonsense Guide To Menopause in explaining this shift in desire:
So in your coed days you're free to fall for women if you have the inclination; as you get closer to the childbearing end date, that social freedom constricts. Eldridge thinks that many bisexual women start to focus on dating men "not because they were pretending same-sex desire before but because they are giving in to intense social expectations now."
When Jessica finally did tell her husband that she was a lesbian, he didn't believe her. She came out to her extended family and friends via Facebook in 2008, but feared taking her sexual orientation into court once divorce proceedings were underway. Worried that her husband would use her sexuality against her in a custody battle, she conceded to him out of court.
As for their relationship now, Jessica suggests that her ex-husband still has not accepted the fact that she is gay.
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Her sons, now nine and six years old respectively, believe that the marriage ultimately concluded because their parents didn't get along. Jessica's children know that she is romantically interested in women and she has broached the topic more tangentially with her older son with issues like marriage equality and the NOH8 campaign. But for the time being, she is in no hurry to connect her sexuality with the end of the marriage.
"I do not plan to talk to them about my sexuality being a part of the failure of the marriage unless they are older and ask questions. For now, it's too much information for their age."
The mother is currently not dating anyone. But when she does, she suspects it won't be much of a problem for her sons. After asking her eldest what he would make of the scenario, he simply said "it would be strange at first but I don't think it's a big deal at all."
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Stanhope asks Magistrates Court to explain delays
ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope says he is concerned by new figures that show 9 per cent of cases before the Magistrates Court take more than a year to finalise.
Mr Stanhope says the figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) back up findings from the auditor-general in 2005.
In 2005, the auditor-general released findings showing the ACT's justice system was the slowest in Australia, prompting the Legislative Assembly inquiry.
The auditor-general also found that magistrates in the ACT spend less time on the bench than their counterparts in other states and territories.
Mr Stanhope says the court needs to explain why matters are taking so long to finalise.
"One in 10 cases that comes before an ACT magistrate takes more than a year, and, of course, of graver concern is the numbers that take longer than that, and there are, as I understand it, a significant number of cases that take even longer than that," he said.
"So these are matters for concern."
But Liberal MLA Richard Mulcahy, who chairs an ACT Legislative Assembly committee investigating court delays, says the new ABS figures should not be taken at face value.
Mr Mulcahy says the ABS has not taken into account the additional duties performed by the Magistrates Court in the ACT.
"Whilst there's clearly scope for improvements, and certainly in terms of the way in which the judiciary and the magistrates have better say in their own budgeting, we also have to be wary about criticism which is not based on the full knowledge of the picture," he said.
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