Delicious seasoned quinoa forms the base of this warm greens-and-veggie side salad. Leftovers make a great packed lunch.
1. In saucepan, bring chicken broth to a boil. Stir in quinoa and contents of seasoning pouch. Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for 12 to 15 minutes or until tender. Remove from heat; let stand, covered, for 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork.
2. In large nonstick frying pan, heat oil over medium heat; cook shallots and red pepper for 4 to 6 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until lightly golden and softened. Stir in mushrooms; cook, stirring occasionally, for 6 to 8 minutes or until mushrooms have released their juices and are starting to turn golden. Add vinegar; cook, stirring to bring up browned bits, for 1 minute. Stir in spinach; cook, stirring, for 2 minutes or just until wilted. Stir in salt and pepper. Remove from heat.
3. In large bowl, toss quinoa with warm spinach mixture. Serve sprinkled with feta.
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ACA Health Plan Navigators Feel Extra Pressure This Year To Bolster Sign-Ups : Shots - Health News With enrollment funding tight, health plan navigators and assisters are getting creative about getting the word out and signing people up for Affordable Care Act plans.
Margarita Mills (left), an insurance agent from Sunshine Life and Health Advisors, helped Daniela Morales shop for an Affordable Care Act health plan at the Mall of the Americas in Miami last month.
When Monica Spalding got the renewal letter from her health insurance company with premium details for the upcoming year, she couldn't believe her eyes. The insurer estimated that the share of the monthly premium that she and her husband would owe for their marketplace silver plan would go up from the current $28 a month to $545.
She immediately called Sharon Barker, a health insurance navigator with Family and Children's Service in Nashville, Tenn., with whom she and her husband had worked this year to buy a marketplace plan after relocating from California to take care of her husband's ailing parents. They sat down with Barker at their local library and showed her the letter.
Barker helped them run the numbers to determine that the tax credit they'll get for their health plan's premium next year will be much higher than the insurance company's estimate — more than making up for the increase in the cost of the insurance policy. The couple's share of the monthly premium for 2018 will actually go down, Barker showed them: from $28 to $0.
"That's why we need these navigators," Spalding says. "If I didn't have Sharon, I would have just paid that increase."
Other consumers may not find a navigator at the ready when they want to enroll. This year, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which oversees the federal health insurance marketplace, slashed federal funding for navigator groups to $36.8 million — a 41 percent average cut. Some groups fared far worse than others did.
In Tennessee, Family and Children's Service, the state's largest navigator grantee, received a 15 percent cut to its $1.8 million grant. Though it had to put plans to hire a couple more navigators on hold, in November its 22 navigators enrolled 2,082 people in marketplace plans, Medicaid or the federal-state Children's Health Insurance Plan, says Sandy Dimick, the navigator program director. The organization is on track to meet its goals for the open enrollment season, she says.
Still, with outreach funding tight, Dimick says, she's worried about the people they're not seeing. This year, many insurers raised 2018 premiums significantly to make up for the federal government cutting off reimbursements for cost-sharing subsidies that insurers must cover under the law. Consumers who get federal tax credits to help cover the cost of their premiums won't generally have to pay more out-of-pocket. But, like the Spaldings, many may not realize that.
"People are going to get those insurance letters and see the premium increase, and they won't come in," she says. "They won't go for coverage because they'll think they can't afford it."
In addition to the cuts to navigator funding, the federal government also cut the advertising budget for open enrollment from $100 million to $10 million, creating additional challenges for navigator groups.
In Florida, navigators are tapping "social influencers" to get the word out about open enrollment, including paying pro football player Julius Thomas of the Miami Dolphins to appear in a public service announcement video that is running in some television markets and on social media, says Jodi Ray, director of Florida Covering Kids & Families at the University of South Florida in Tampa. That $4.9 million navigator program covers the entire state and took a 15 percent funding hit this year.
In Ohio, outreach has been just one of many services squeezed. Faced with a 71 percent cut to its $1.7 million navigator grant this year, members of the consortium of nine nonprofits that made up the state's largest navigator program voted not to provide services this year. Last year, that group — the Ohio Association of Foodbanks — helped nearly 10,000 people find health insurance.
Other groups are doing what they can to step into the breach. Kami Perritt typically works as a patient advocate for a group of federally qualified health centers called Hopewell Health Centers in rural southeastern Ohio. But during the marketplace open-enrollment period, Perritt shifts gears and works as a certified application counselor, traveling between Hopewell's primary care offices in eight counties to meet with people who've made appointments to sign up for health insurance.
This year, the increase in demand for such help has been "incredible," Perritt says. She routinely skips lunch to fit everyone in, and she estimated she's doubled or tripled the number of people she works with, depending on the site.
"I've never been this busy," she says. "It's crazy."
In addition to the shortage of people available to assist with enrollment, the open-enrollment period for federal marketplace states is six weeks shorter this year than last — running from Nov. 1 to Dec. 15.
The issues haven't changed, though. In addition to reviewing the available plans, many people have special concerns they need help with. Sometimes it's a young adult who turned 26 and can no longer be on a parent's' family plan, or people who need to update their income and premium tax credit details, as the Spaldings did in Tennessee. Some people have application glitches that have to be addressed to prove their income or immigration status.
So far, Perritt says, she's been able to accommodate all the requests for her help. But she's had to eliminate the enrollment clinics she used to run at county libraries to answer questions and sign up consumers.
The Latino HealthCare Forum in Austin, Texas, took a 95 percent hit to its federal navigator funding — a reduction from $254,000 to $13,600. The organization was able to replace most of the cut with funding from the city and a foundation, says Jill Ramirez, the group's chief executive officer. Because the enrollment period is six weeks shorter this year than last, staffers have been able to concentrate resources in that smaller window, and are exceeding last year's enrollment pace.
The group did make some changes, however. "In the past few years, walk-ins were welcome, but we can't do that anymore," Ramirez says. Now, people have to schedule appointments in advance for a set number of slots.
"We're not going to help fewer people," Ramirez says, "but people will have to wait longer to see us."


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"I hate being hated" and other incredible quotes from Logan Paul's new interview
Randall Colburn
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Logan Paul high-stepped onto the radars of people over the age of 14 when, in the early hours of 2018, he shared a video of he and his dopey friends stumbling upon a suicide victim in Aokigahara, a sacred "suicide forest" near Mount Fuji. It was soon revealed that his entire, heavily-vlogged trip was an affront to basic decency, and that we should all be terrified of the influence this guy wields over the millions upon millions of pre-teens that follow both him and his gross brother.
Now, with his reputation muddied but YouTube following boosted—curious how that works!—he's sat down for an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that attempts to make amends for past behavior while also asking us to feel sorry for him because his "Axe-like Logan Paul body spray" was put on hold. He does all this, by the way, while "snacking on homemade granola bars prepared by his personal chef."
Below, we've collected the best quotes from this amazing interview:
- On the backlash: "I was so used to people liking me. But being hated? I hate it. I hate being hated!"
- On his regrets: "The first question I asked myself at the beginning of the year was, 'How do we fix this?' — when the question I should have asked myself was, 'How do I fix me?'"
- On disrespecting Japanese culture: "I was disrespectful everywhere — U.S., Italy, France. The old Logan was plain old insensitive."
- On stumbling upon a suicide victim: "My first feeling was just dis-fucking-belief."
- On the criticism he received from Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul: "He came up to me at whatever event we were at, shook my hand, patted me on the back, 'Dude, love what you're doing.' Then this shit happens, and Aaron Paul is telling me to go to hell? I'm like, 'You told me you were my boy when we met! It was all good! We have the same publicist!'"
- On the monetary impacts of the backlash: "Can you imagine? We [were] building the biggest fucking brand in the world. We're on the verge of, like, product launches. We were about to create the next Axe! And here we are just trying to wrap our heads around what happened."
- On whether or not he'll pivot to Snapchat: "I don't want to be a Snapchat star. I barely want to be a YouTube star."
- On the trampoline at his mansion: "Girls love trampolines."
- On the title of his new podcast, Impaulsive: "[It's] a play on my last name and my tendencies."
- On making videos where he gets hit in the nuts: "But, like, dog — I love this shit. This creating? It's my passion."
You can expect more where this came from should the dude ever get around to making that documentary about how hard his year was.
Bro, Bro:
YouTube personality apologizes for showing video of apparent suicide victim
Logan Paul is making a documentary about how dang hard this year has been for him
The cycle is complete: Logan Paul is back to being an insufferable shit on YouTube
Randall Colburn is a Chicago-based writer and occasional playwright. He is a senior writer at Consequence of Sound and a talking head in Best Worst Movie, the documentary about Troll 2.
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Nvidia just announced its new addition to the Tegra 4 line of processors, the Tegra 4i. The new powerhouse, formerly codenamed "Project Grey", is half the size of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 chip and equipped with 60 graphics processing cores, a quad-core CPU clocked at 2.3GHz similar to that of ARM's R4 Cortex A9 chip, as well as a fifth core that will keep battery life strong.
The key difference between the T4i and the T4 is the integrated i500 LTE modem, which is available as an optional upgrade to the Tegra 4. And importantly, the Tegra 4i can only run a 1920 x 1200 LCD versus the phablet friendly 3200 x 2000 potential of the Tegra 4.
Nvidia will be showing off the Tegra 4i next week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.


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who does penelope garcia end up with in criminal minds
The Adorable Behind-The-Scenes Story Of Penelope Garcia's Desk On "Criminal Minds" Tweet Share Copy 🍿 Arts ... "I'm answering the phone in an 'I'M ANSWERING THE PHONE' way. Garcia was born sometime in 1977 in San Francisco, California. Penelope Grace Garcia is a fictional character on the CBS crime dramas Criminal Minds and its short-lived spin-off Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, portrayed by Kirsten Vangsness. Derek then tells her that she sees the beauty in everything and everyone wherever she goes and that he'll keep protecting her so that she won't change. "Guys, I have something to say. The Epic Final Scene Is So Heartbreaking. She is the technical analyst of the Behavioral Analysis Unit that is the center of both shows. Criminal Minds promised a Season 13 finale cliffhanger, and boy did it deliver.. Garcia serves as Technical Analyst for Sam Cooper's team at the same time as for Hotch's. She has also made multiple guest appearances on Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders,[2] making her the only character in the franchise to appear in all three of its series. In "Face Off", Garcia reveals that she is considering accepting a job offer at an independent institution; says it would be a good change. Penelope accepted the job and hand-wrote a résumé for Hotch to give to the FBI's human resources department, using the aforementioned pink stationery that she had in her purse. This was unknown to the BAU until the events of "Target Rich," where she realized that she inadvertently uses a dozen servers to bounce her signal while working. Cook. Garcia is from San Francisco, California. [12], The character of Garcia also appeared in the spin-off Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders. If you're one of the kids who aren't really digging Garcia's new beau, relax! She likes to "remove herself" from the images she sees on her computer screens, which is why she has toys and other items she likes around her in her office. Kirsten Vangsness, Actress: Criminal Minds. She had been placed on one of the FBI's hacker lists (she was one of a small handful of extremely useful or dangerous hackers in the world), and they recruited her from there. Hotch offered her a choice of facing prosecution or joining the BAU to help track down serial killers; when she reacted with disdain, he noted her scrupulous morality in choosing targets. At first blush, it … However, before she leaves, Garcia gets into an argument with Morgan over the point of the trip. Directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá. Specialty She has broken down, crying several times while listening to and watching terrifying things in her office as she analyzes them for the team. Despite Theo's death at the hands of the Believers, in the end, Garcia is relieved to see Reid alive after the team returns home from Kentucky. We're just all dying to see her with Morgan anyway. [Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the series finale of Criminal Minds, "And in the End."]. Garcia is afraid of losing a partner, as she risked her career by taking down a federal website to stop her boyfriend, Kevin Lynch, from being transferred out of country for a job, though after she accidentally let a detail slip while talking to him, he was annoyed slightly, but happy for the action on her part. [9] In "Hanley Waters", she is interviewed by Hotch about Prentiss' "apparent death" and says she wants to talk about the times when Prentiss made her happy instead of about her being gone. Born sometime in 1977, Garcia's parents died in a car accident caused by a drunk driver when she was eighteen. Despite this, Garcia tells Reid to shoot Meadows. In the episode "Lucky," Garcia was shot by Jason Clark Battle, a man she had just gone on a date with. Breathecast suspects that Garcia's journey might end in Season 9 with a 'heroic death'. Penelope is kidnapped by the cult of Benjamin Merva in the final episode of the season. Hotch states at one point that when Garcia applied for her position, she submitted her resume on "pink, homemade stationery". In "Demons" (Season 9, Episode 24), Garcia stays by Dr. Spencer Reid's (played by Matthew Gray Gubler) side while he's in the hospital. In one of her last moments, we see Penelope Garcia place a folded-up … Kirstin Vangsness, who played eccentric tech analyst and communications liaison Penelope Garcia, was on Criminal Minds for seasons 1 through 15 and was the only cast member to … (", She called Hotch by his first name during ", She has a philosophy that "the world is just teeming with awesome people". The "Morcia" fans always thought the two of them would get together. 1977 Her hobbies include knitting and making soup (, She has a lamp with a Dawna Markova quote hand-painted on it; it reads: "I will not die an unlived life. She returned to her analyst duties after the case was closed, but was given the option to travel to crime scenes with the team as needed. She has stated that after her parents died, she dropped out of the California Institute of Technology, went "underground" but continued to teach herself computer coding to keep herself together, and became a Goth. In "A Beautiful Disaster", Garcia is named the godmother of Morgan and Savannah's son, Hank Spencer Morgan, and admits to Morgan that she's glad he didn't have a girl, but Morgan tells her Garcia will always be his original baby girl. How Does 'Criminal Minds' End? She was romantically involved with fellow FBI Technical Analyst Kevin Lynch (played by Nicholas Brendon). While Kirsten is best known as the bespectacled-brainiac-tech-kitten Penelope Garcia on the CBS hit drama Criminal Minds (2005)(and its spin-off Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (2011)), she has had a long and varied career prior to joining the cast of the hit CBS series. In Season Eleven, it is revealed that Garcia was listed as a target by a network of hitmen after she began investigating them in the deep web during the case of Giuseppe Montolo. By Megan Stein. Garcia is extremely close to JJ and Emily Prentiss. Over the years, Criminal Minds fans have shipped several couples within the BAU. Penelope and Luke work together on two cases in the season. Special Agent (former) She doesn't speak Spanish even though her last name. Her boyfriend Kevin quickly became jealous, calling him a "Muscle-Bound Modern-Day 007", Penelope quickly retorting that he's more of a Jason Bourne. Perhaps no fanbase was as fervent as the one for Derek Morgan (Shemar Moore) and Penelope Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness). She reveals to Luke in the "Saturday" episode that she has a Russian stalker during a stalking case involving one of her students at a Hacker Workshop at BAU headquarters. ("In The Blood"), She labels Hotch as "Sir Hotch" on her cellphone. In the episode "Sex, Birth, Death", she showed a fondness for Reid, offering to take him out on the town to distance himself from Nathan Harris (the main suspect in the murders committed by Ronald Weems). Kevin is with some girl and Penelope is with Reid, although she is clearly not dating Spencer, because she states she isn't sexually attracted to Reid. Penelope ends up having another stressful situation, which ends up being helped by Emily Prentiss and David Rossi. Reid would later discover his alias (Peter Rhea). In the final episode, the team celebrates Penelope's departure and Luke invites her to dinner during her team's farewell party. Here's how Rossi, Prentiss, Garcia, Reid, and the rest of the BAU say goodbye. At the end of the episode, Garcia agrees with Hotch's proposal that she should only take on the part of JJ's job that she can do from BAU headquarters while remaining as the Technical Analyst. As a result, she visits Shane at the Star Chamber headquarters, appealing to him by dressing up in her old clothing. [7] After this incident, Morgan insisted she keep a gun; however, it is never shown whether she took this advice. She then revealed that she's scared she's changing into someone she's not just so she can do the job. As a result, she turns him down, and their relationship appears to have ended ("I Love You, Tommy Brown"). Garcia was once shot by a man with whom she had just gone on a date, but survived when the bullet missed her heart and ricocheted into her abdomen. To get over her fears, she goes to visit him in Texas before he is about to be executed by the state for his crimes. Gender In the episode "hit and run" you can see they broke up when they attend a convention with separate dates, they obviously didn't think the other would attend. Full Name At the beginning of Season Three, she meets Kevin Lynch and eventually becomes romantically involved with him. Her first appearance was in season one in a scene with Russ "Monty" Montgomery, where Monty hides Garcia's octopus mug and claims not to have it. Although Hotch is reluctant at first, he agrees. Kirsten VangsnessRebecca Egender (young; age 20)Tara Robinson (young; age 18)Christina Gabrielle (young; age 9)Maddison Davis (young; age 5) (". In the episode "Demons", she shot Greg Baylor after he tried to kill Reid while he was recovering in a Texas hospital after being shot in the neck by Justin Mills. Garcia is unabashedly emotional, which sometimes makes her job with the BAU more difficult. Female JJ joked that Garcia belonged to that list when she unsuccessfully tried to hack the CIA for information on Princess Diana's death and other alleged government conspiracies (namely, she found Prince William's phone number, but couldn't find a pen to write it down before the CIA killed her access). Reid had been in a hospital after being shot in the previous episode. Garcia also manages to deduce JJ's location after receiving a distress alarm triggered by JJ. She buys many gifts for her godson Henry, claiming that it is her rightful duty as a godmother since he is at the age to properly enjoy the act of opening gifts. In February 2020, Criminal Minds aired its last episode, and the BAU rode off into the broadcast television sunset. After she witnessed a murder, she ran towards the victim causing Morgan to be mad at her, commenting on that behavior as reckless. Criminal Minds ' showrunner reveals that actress Kirsten Vangsness was involved in the conversations surrounding Garcia's ending, which also included … In episode 9 of season 15, Penelope reveals that she is considering accepting a job offer at an independent institution. In the episode "200", she assisted in the search for JJ (who was abducted by the Regime Squad), by hacking into a database containing information relating to JJ's time at the U.S. State Department. In Season Seven, Kevin tried to propose to Garcia but didn't get the chance to do so. (", She is the first and only character to appear in all three series of the, She may have a tattoo saying "Baby Girl", Morgan's frequently used pet name for her. [13] In July 2016, it was announced that Garcia would make several appearances in season 2. ("Penelope"), She is in a survivors' support group, though after her run-in with, She initially blamed herself for the death of her parents because they were out looking for her after she had broken her curfew. Penelope is into online games, specifically MMOGs, as she was once seen playing a game about Camelot on the BAU network, constantly virtually meeting with "Sir Kneighf", an online alter ego who turns out to be Randall Garner, who is keeping a young woman prisoner while sending the team several clues that, with tremendous help from Reid, they use to catch him and save the woman. Rank In the first episode, entitled "Face Off," Penelope Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness) shocked the team by informing them she had landed a new job. (". She has managed to remain so, even though the job occasionally requires her to dig into people's secret lives, to "find the god-awful thing that happened to them that made them do the god-awful thing to someone else". ET on CBS. It appears that the group of hitmen know that the FBI is now on them, and Aaron Hotchner (Thomas Gibson) and Penelope Garcia will become their next targets. In the final episode, "And in the End...", the team celebrates Penelope's departure and Luke invites her to dinner during her team's farewell party, which she happily accepts. Garcia seems to share a playful, flirtatious relationship with Derek Morgan. Penelope got the case responsible for putting the team back together after the separation imposed by Linda Barnes. https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Penelope_Garcia?oldid=207589, She is from San Francisco, California, and that she is a dropout from Caltech, a school Reid also went to. She had been placed on one of the FBI's lists that concerned a small handful of extremely talented yet dangerous hackers in the world, and the FBI recruited her from there ("Penelope"). In the season twelve finale, Morgan returned after Peter Lewis tried to coax out the team and asked Garcia to cut him some slack, despite her reluctance. Here's everything that went down in the epic two-hour series finale. He is able to give her some information but winds up arguing with her and stating his disapproval of her new life. (", She likes conspiracy theories, which likely stems from her previous activities as an anti-government hacker. So, with the series finale airing Wednesday, February 19, did the Morcia fans finally have something to celebrate? With the help of Reid, Penelope manages to escape, running over Meadows and going to the BAU for help. She had been placed on one of the FBI's lists that concern… Derek Morgan ended up coming back to give her emotional support. She has also made multiple guest appearances on Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, making her the only character in the franchise to appear in all three of its series. [8], She was also emotional in the episode "Lauren" when Prentiss is stabbed by her nemesis, Ian Doyle. The character of Garcia also appeared in the spin-off Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior as a series regular. In the episode "Penelope", Garcia is rushed to the hospital after the gunshot. That's a good thing, considering a killer comes to take a shot at him! Picking up from "Red Light" and into "Wheels Up", Garcia calls Matthew Simmons from the IRT following an attack on the BAU. [10], Garcia is extremely and emotionally excited when she learns that Prentiss is alive and shocked when she returns. "I'm not good at this part. She once followed a boy across the entire length of a beach because he was holding a kite. Her identity was unknown to the network, so they dubbed her as "The Dirty Dozen". Penelope Garcia's (Kirsten Vangsness) predicament may not be coming to an end soon in the upcoming episode of the CBS series "Criminal Minds." "Extreme Aggressor" Where they go back, to a case that happened 4 years ago, since the killer has just woken up from a coma, and it shows that they were working this case, when Garcia and … So will they or will they not? Penelope Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness) and Derek Morgan (Shemar Moore) were the lighthearted dynamic duo of the BAU on Criminal Minds. Garcia eventually becomes involved with an old flame, Sam. They were out looking for her, as she still hadn't come home by her curfew. In "Lucky Strikes", a case brings Garcia bad memories from being shot ten years ago, resulting in the return of Derek Morgan, to help her cope. It is also revealed that she has been taking care of Emily's cat, Sergio, and when Emily inquires about him, Garcia promptly demands visitation rights.[11]. In a two-part finale, called Face Off and In The End, the show wrapped up everyone's storyline. They were out looking for her, as she still hadn't come home by her curfew. She and Reid are held hostage by the killers, but with the help of Reid, Penelope manages to escape, running over Mary Meadows and going to the BAU. She is the technical analyst of the Behavioral Analysis Unit that is the center of both shows. Prentiss refers to Garcia as "the world's sexiest hacker". Status Criminal Minds Season 14 premieres Wednesday, October 3 at 10 p.m. Watch Criminal Minds on CBS. However, according to Agent Hotchner, she "fills her office with figurines and color to remind herself to smile as the horror fills her screens". The show features many well-known celebrities like Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler, and A.J. (", She was mistakenly referred to as "SSA Garcia" by a police sergeant who wrote her an email giving verification of a suspect's alibi. Criminal Minds has never really been a show to bring together characters in a shipping kind of capacity and while some people wanted to see Morgan and Garcia end up together, we were personally happy with the way it played out since there aren't a lot of really strong male/female friendship on TV that don't turn romantic. Watch Criminal Minds on CBS and CBS All Access. By the end of the two-hour finale, viewers were shocked to find two fan-favorite characters in grave danger, Penelope Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness) and Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler). Garcia, a gem of a character, who is a technical analyst of the Behavioral Analysis Unit had a long-standing thing for Derek Morgan. During the shooting, she used Reid's own gun, which she quickly grabbed from an items bag. Prentiss and Rossi bring Carlos in to help Garcia cope as well as better their relationship. With Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler. In the Season 6 episode "Compromising Positions", Garcia volunteered to replace JJ as their new Media Liaison, but soon discovered that she was not suited for the job. I end up breaking the things I like. More is learned about Garcia while the team tries to … She says it would be a good change. Penelope Garcia is still not out of danger in "Criminal Minds" season 11. Details about why her parents died in a car accident are revealed in season 7 when Garcia is overseeing a support group and sharing her loss, telling the group they died looking for Garcia after she didn't return home by curfew. In "All You Can Eat", as the team handles a case without her, Garcia heads to San Francisco after being asked by one of her stepbrothers, Carlos, to give an victim's impact statement about the drunk driver that killed their parents as he's up for parole. In the episode "All You Can Eat" she returns to her California home in order to hold responsible the man who caused her parents' death, but she ends up forgiving the man trying to make the guilt she feels end. [5] Garner hacked into Garcia's computer and accessed files about the BAU, then used the personal information to find out their whereabouts so he could send the clues there. Often, she has to listen to and watch them over and over again. Technical Analyst (former) Some cases seem to eat away at Garcia, as she often gets nervous or upset when analyzing video or sound recordings of murders or other serious crimes. Alias In "The Black Queen", Garcia is forced to revisit her old past as a hacker after the BAU revisits an old case on request by Shane Wyeth and his hacker group Star Chamber. People sometimes present her with handmade pens after her shows at Theater … Baby GirlPGPenThe Black QueenThe Dirty DozenPenny She rarely travels with the team, but when she does, she tends to express her love for the jet accommodations. Penelope Garcia's Best One-Liners On Criminal Minds. At the end of the Season 6 episode "Compromising Positions", Hotch comments that Garcia submitted her handwritten resume on pink stationery when she applied for a job at the FBI. In Season 9, Derek Morgan and his girlfriend Savannah missed their Valentine's Day dinner reservation and ran into Penelope Garcia, who was out with her boyfriend Sam. Garcia has also acted jealous, such as when Morgan decided to grab a drink with Tamara Barnes. Criminal Minds aired its series finale … Garcia became a goth after her parents' deaths. In "Saturday", Garcia reveals that she has a Russian stalker during a stalking case involving one of her students at a Hacker Workshop at the BAU headquarters. Her name, Penelope, is actually an homage to Moneypenny (from the Bond films). The attacker (who turned out to be a type of serial killer known as a 'hero homicide') was later killed. This prompted Morgan to comment that she's changing into someone stronger than she realizes, that she cared enough to risk her life to save someone else's. Picking up in "300," she, Reid, and Theo are held captive by the cult and is forced by Meadows to make their vehicles untraceable. "Criminal Minds" became more serialized this season after it was revealed that there's a group of assassins for hire that exist, which is called "The Dirty Dozen," in the premiere episode of the 11th season of the show. SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details from the series finale of Criminal Minds. Penelope Garcia and Derek Morgan had a double date. Garcia seems to have been the one most hurt by JJ transferring out of the Behavioral Analysis Unit. CRIMINAL MINDS came to an end on February 19 with a two-hour series finale and cast members were sad to see Penelope Garcia leave. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. [3] It has also been mentioned, when she was not allowed to travel with the team to Langley, that she was on the CIA's "lists" as well. Her moment of truth came in the 9th season episode "Demons" when she was forced to shoot an assassin sent to kill Reid by a corrupt sheriffs deputy. Perhaps no fanbase was as fervent as the one for Derek Morgan (Shemar Moore) and Penelope Garcia … After 15 seasons, CBS's long-running procedural created by Jeff Davis is coming to an end. [4] JJ joked that Garcia belonged to that list when she (successfully) tried to hack the CIA for information (namely, Prince William's cellphone number) and information on Diana, Princess of Wales' death and other government conspiracies. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible; to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. When she was eighteen, her parents died in a car accident caused by a drunk driver. During the second example, she has also used the gun to shoot someone for the first time in her life (the undercover nurse trying to kill Reid). Garcia later figured it out by hacking into his computer and finding out that he was looking for rings. Portrayed By Towards the end of the episode Penelope comments on her change of behavior towards seeing blood. Garcia is, on the whole, an optimist. Garcia is godmother of both JJ's sons and Derek Morgan's son as well. Upon visiting the convict, she learns he has no one who would watch his execution and still support him, then is requested by him to be the one to do so. However, this was interrupted by the subject's attempted suicide. Her hacker nickname was "The Black Queen", likely due to her habit of dressing in black, Gothic clothing and makeup. In the "Making Of" documentary for Season Three, Vangsness stated that Garcia's bullet injury was moved from her chest to her stomach between the episodes "Lucky" and "Penelope" since a chest injury would mean there would be a large scar on her chest for several following episodes that would require makeup and also meant that Garcia wouldn't be able to show any cleavage. The aggressor targeting her is revealed to be Jason with a "hero homicide complex", putting people in danger in order to save them for his own glory. Facebook/CBS. She has stated that after her parents died, she dropped out of the California Institute of Technology, went \"underground\" but continued to teach herself computer coding, and became a Goth. Prior to her recruitment, she was a vigilante hacker mentored by Shane Wyeth, who would hack into companies and other businesses whom she felt were engaged in criminal activities, which attracted the attention of the FBI. In the episode "100", Garcia is instrumental in narrowing down George Foyet's location, with the help of Kevin Lynch. In "Green Light", after Reid puts himself in solitary confinement after stabbing himself when the other inmates find out he's a fed and framing another inmate, Garcia hands Prentiss her resignation in case Reid dies in prison. She recovers from her attack and helps JJ kill Jason while he held Adam Fuchs hostage. Later, Alvez and she find some common ground after she discovers that Roxie, who she assumed was Luke's girlfriend, is actually his dog. In the end, the drunk driver, Jesse Wilson, is granted parole after Garcia's speech, leaving Carlos upset. She is devastated and comforted by Alvez upon seeing Stephen Walker's corpse as he did not survive the crash. After more than a decade of 'Criminal Minds', Spencer Reid finally seems to be finding his way around love with Maxine and fans want the same for Penelope Garcia. Calling out Morgan-Garcia shippers on Criminal Minds! Her outgoing personality and sass shine through whether it's in person, by phone, or behind a computer screen. She is emotional after seeing Reid being released from prison. JJ joins the team waiting in the hospital lounge for results to inform them that Prentiss "never made it off the table". After Shane survives a near-fatal attack by the unsub, Garcia approaches him and reconciles with him. As a result, she was relocated to an old room in the BAU headquarters for her living quarters, but she continued her normal operations in assisting the BAU in cases. (", She has held a gun (not hers) twice in her career with the BAU (despite not believing in them). 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Database Design/Characteristics and Benefits of a Database
< Database Design
Managing information means taking care of it so that it works for us and is useful for the tasks we perform. By using a DBMS, the information we collect and add to its database is no longer subject to accidental disorganization. It becomes more accessible and integrated with the rest of our work. Managing information using a database allows us to become strategic users of the data we have.
We often need to access and re-sort data for various uses. These may include:
Creating mailing lists
Writing management reports
Generating lists of selected news stories
Identifying various client needs
The processing power of a database allows it to manipulate the data it houses, so it can:
Skip fields
Because of the versatility of databases, we find them powering all sorts of projects. A database can be linked to:
A website that is capturing registered users
A client-tracking application for social service organizations
A medical record system for a health care facility
Your personal address book in your email client
A collection of word-processed documents
A system that issues airline reservations
1 Characteristics and Benefits of a Database
1.1 Self-describing nature of a database system
1.2 Insulation between program and data
1.3 Support for multiple views of data
1.4 Sharing of data and multiuser system
1.5 Control of data redundancy
1.6 Data sharing
1.7 Enforcement of integrity constraints
1.8 Restriction of unauthorized access
1.9 Data independence
1.10 Transaction processing
1.11 Provision for multiple views of data
1.12 Backup and recovery facilities
2 Key Terms
3 Exercises
4 Attribution
Characteristics and Benefits of a Database[edit | edit source]
There are a number of characteristics that distinguish the database approach from the file-based system or approach. This chapter describes the benefits (and features) of the database system.
Self-describing nature of a database system[edit | edit source]
A database system is referred to as self-describing because it not only contains the database itself, but also metadata which defines and describes the data and relationships between tables in the database. This information is used by the DBMS software or database users if needed. This separation of data and information about the data makes a database system totally different from the traditional file-based system in which the data definition is part of the application programs.
Insulation between program and data[edit | edit source]
In the file-based system, the structure of the data files is defined in the application programs so if a user wants to change the structure of a file, all the programs that access that file might need to be changed as well.
On the other hand, in the database approach, the data structure is stored in the system catalogue and not in the programs. Therefore, one change is all that is needed to change the structure of a file. This insulation between the programs and data is also called program-data independence.
Support for multiple views of data[edit | edit source]
A database supports multiple views of data. A view is a subset of the database, which is defined and dedicated for particular users of the system. Multiple users in the system might have different views of the system. Each view might contain only the data of interest to a user or group of users.
Sharing of data and multiuser system[edit | edit source]
Current database systems are designed for multiple users. That is, they allow many users to access the same database at the same time. This access is achieved through features called concurrency control strategies. These strategies ensure that the data accessed are always correct and that data integrity is maintained.
The design of modern multiuser database systems is a great improvement from those in the past which restricted usage to one person at a time.
Control of data redundancy[edit | edit source]
In the database approach, ideally, each data item is stored in only one place in the database. In some cases, data redundancy still exists to improve system performance, but such redundancy is controlled by application programming and kept to minimum by introducing as little redundancy as possible when designing the database.
Data sharing[edit | edit source]
The integration of all the data, for an organization, within a database system has many advantages. First, it allows for data sharing among employees and others who have access to the system. Second, it gives users the ability to generate more information from a given amount of data than would be possible without the integration.
Enforcement of integrity constraints[edit | edit source]
Database management systems must provide the ability to define and enforce certain constraints to ensure that users enter valid information and maintain data integrity. A database constraint is a restriction or rule that dictates what can be entered or edited in a table such as a postal code using a certain format or adding a valid city in the City field.
There are many types of database constraints. Data type, for example, determines the sort of data permitted in a field, for example numbers only. Data uniqueness such as the primary key ensures that no duplicates are entered. Constraints can be simple (field based) or complex (programming).
Restriction of unauthorized access[edit | edit source]
Not all users of a database system will have the same accessing privileges. For example, one user might have read-only access (i.e., the ability to read a file but not make changes), while another might have read and write privileges, which is the ability to both read and modify a file. For this reason, a database management system should provide a security subsystem to create and control different types of user accounts and restrict unauthorized access.
Data independence[edit | edit source]
Another advantage of a database management system is how it allows for data independence. In other words, the system data descriptions or data describing data (metadata) are separated from the application programs. This is possible because changes to the data structure are handled by the database management system and are not embedded in the program itself.
Transaction processing[edit | edit source]
A database management system must include concurrency control subsystems. This feature ensures that data remains consistent and valid during transaction processing even if several users update the same information.
Provision for multiple views of data[edit | edit source]
By its very nature, a DBMS permits many users to have access to its database either individually or simultaneously. It is not important for users to be aware of how and where the data they access is stored
Backup and recovery facilities[edit | edit source]
Backup and recovery are methods that allow you to protect your data from loss. The database system provides a separate process, from that of a network backup, for backing up and recovering data. If a hard drive fails and the database stored on the hard drive is not accessible, the only way to recover the database is from a backup.
If a computer system fails in the middle of a complex update process, the recovery subsystem is responsible for making sure that the database is restored to its original state. These are two more benefits of a database management system.
Key Terms[edit | edit source]
concurrency control strategies
features of a database that allow several users access to the same data item at the same time
determines the sort of data permitted in a field, for example numbers only
data uniqueness
ensures that no duplicates are entered
database constraint
a restriction that determines what is allowed to be entered or edited in a table
defines and describes the data and relationships between tables in the database
read and write privileges
the ability to both read and modify a file
the ability to read a file but not make changes
self-describing
a database system is referred to as self-describing because it not only contains the database itself, but also metadata which defines and describes the data and relationships between tables in the database
a subset of the database
Exercises[edit | edit source]
How is a DBMS distinguished from a file-based system?
What is data independence and why is it important?
What is the purpose of managing information?
Discuss the uses of databases in a business environment.
What is metadata?
Attribution[edit | edit source]
This chapter of Database Design is a derivative copy of Database System Concepts by Nguyen Kim Anh licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 license
The following material was written by Adrienne Watt:
BCOpenCampus: Database Design
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Day Out - Boats, Buildings, Botanics and Bikes - Oxford in the Summer Sunshine
Rome has been called the Sacred City. Might not our Oxford be called so too?! - William Hazlitt
A couple of Thursdays ago, after seeing the hot sunny weather forecast Ben took the day off so we could go and enjoy the start of summer. I'm freelance, and Ben is self-employed so it means we can take a day in the week sometimes which I love as it means that most places are super quiet and you can enjoy them without the crowds. Oxford has been on my list for a while, it's only about an hour from us so I really don't know why both of us had never been there before. I feel like after travelling quite a lot over recent years it can take quite a lot to seriously impress me but Oxford really did blow my mind. It was incredible, and now my favourite city in the UK for sure.
We wandered around the old colleges {the architecture is ridiculously stunning}, and rented a boat and had a picnic on the river before alll the pretty in the Botanic Gardens. England, you really are something else when the sun shines like that. June is such a magical month. A really amazing day out if you haven't been before, more photos below..
We didn't really know anything about the city - famous of course for having one of the oldest and probably the most famous university in the world - before we went. I had looked up some of the highlights on TripAdvisor, Lonely Planet and Conde Nast Traveller before our visit but really all you need to do is wander around. There are museums which would probably be worth going to but it was such a hot day we just wanted to be outside. It was such a perfect summery day out. Although I think that in the Winter it would be cute to wrap up and go for a walk, visit a museum then find somewhere nice for lunch.
There are bikes everywhere, which for some reason makes it feel more romantic. Students just riding along on their way to class or exams {one old tradition that Oxford university has is for students taking exams to have to wear their full academic dress, gowns and all. They also have to wear flowers on their buttonholes, a different colour to show which stage of your degree you're at. So that was fun to spot the gowns. I went to LSE and we had nothing as fancy as that}.
There are sights to be seen all around, from churches {it's known as the land of magical spires} and some of the oldest buildings in Britain and smart coloured houses. I love the stone, it reminded me of the Cotswolds which is only down the road. The high street had everything you could wish for too, although it was too hot for any shopping last week.
We didn't actually tour around the colleges, most are open to visitors for a small fee {although some are closed to the public on certain days of the week} but they were magnificent to look at nonetheless. And so incredibly well manicured.
We got into the town centre just after 10am {after a park and ride bus, Oxford is notorious for no parking in the city centre so there are numerous park and ride schemes that you can use. It was surprisingly quick and easy.} and headed straight to trusty M&S to pick up some picnic supplies. We discovered the Radcliffe Camera building {the round building photographed above} en route but wanted to try and hire a boat before it got crowded.
You can punt or row, but after discovering how punting is actually much harder than it looks in Cambridge a couple of years back, we opted for a leisurely row boat.
While the river in Oxford is not quite as spectacular as Cambridge with the backs of the colleges and meadows, it's still pretty and goes past the Botanic Gardens and Christ Church Meadows. There are some cute bridges to pass under, wild flowers at the side of the banks and just being on the river is fun on a hot day.
Ben was a true gentleman and rowed the whole way {he had blisters on his hands by the end of it!}.
We stopped just before the river Charwell {that runs through Oxford} joins the Isis {Oxford's name for The Thames} and had our picnic. Floating on the river, with the warm sunshine, definitely beat our regular spot for a picnic on a blanket somewhere.
Once we'd finished our sandwiches and salads it was finally time to dig into the strawbs. I can't get enough of them right now, they're so super sweet, always taste so much better when grown in the UK.
Strawberries, Fizz and a Row boat. Old fashioned romance right there ♥ ♥ ♥ .
But then we realised we didn't have any glasses with us!...
Back on dry land we crossed the road from the Magdalen Bridge Boathouse to the Botanic Gardens.
It's definitely worth paying the few pounds each to visit.
The gardens were insane. So incredibly beautiful, Ben is now lusting after a walled cottage garden {well, as am I!}.
So many pretty flowers and views back over the city with it's spires and it's right next to the river so you can watch the boats go past.
There's lots of grass and benches too to just sit for a while, we were tired with the heat.
How pretty are these foxgloves?! And you cannot beat rambling roses and an archway.
There are tropical hot houses too, just like a mini Kew gardens, with giant lilypads, cactus and even pineapples!
After a while in the gardens we left and headed into Christchurch Meadows through a gate at the side. Ben was in love with the spectacular cricket pitch surrounded by the old colleges on one side, a meadow on the other and the river running by. His idea of heaven!
Christ Church is one of Oxford's most famous university colleges, it's certainly one of the most spectacular buildings. And after a quick google - it has produced 13 British prime ministers!
The meadow is pretty to walk around, with cattle grazing and lots of trees to take shade under. We took some time just laying under the clouds in front of the college. I love laying on the grass.
And if you're a Harry Potter fan then you'll probably recognise a lot of Oxford, some of the colleges were used a lot in filming.
The best summer's day.
"Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air about it, resonant of joy and hope: it speaks with a thousand tongues to the heart: it waves its mighty shadow over the imagination: it stands in lowly sublimity, on the "hill of ages"; and points with prophetic fingers to the sky: it greets the eager gaze from afar, "with glistering spires and pinnacles adorned," that shine with an internal light as with the lustre of setting suns; and a dream and a glory hover round its head, as the spirits of former times, a throng of intellectual shapes, are seen retreating or advancing to the eye of memory: its streets are paved with the names of learning that can never wear out: its green quadrangles breathe the silence of thought."
― William Hazlitt
Where next for a day out? You can see previous outings here.
Tags: Dayout, england, Summer
Bronwyn 15 June 2015 at 08:53
Wow! What a day out! The UK never fails to impress with beauty EVERYWHERE!
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A Ross Sykes double secured Stanley a vital three points against Walsall in the Reds' bid for League One survival.
Sykes put the Reds in front at the Wham Stadium with a powerful header into the bottom left corner after 11 minutes, before Nicky Devlin levelled for Walsall ten minutes before half-time.
The Reds pushed for a second goal after the break, and the 20-year-old defender was on hand to hammer home his third league goal of the season in the 69th minute after an intense spell of pressure.
Manager John Coleman named two changes to the side that faced Rochdale in midweek, with Callum Johnson and Sam Finley both called upon to start in place of Scott Brown and Luke Armstrong.
Stanley patiently found their rhythm in an exciting first half and were in front in the 11th minute.
Sean McConville floated a free kick into the box from 40-yards, and Sykes showed pace and power to meet it and head past Liam Roberts to give Stanley the lead.
The Reds could have doubled the lead two minutes later after Walsall switched off from a Stanley throw in to allow Jordan Clark to sprint in, turn and hit a low shot from a narrow angle that was just wide of the right post.
In the 22nd minute McConville raced onto a Billy Kee lay-off, getting into the box and hitting a right-footed shot that was saved by Roberts.
Devlin levelled the contest in the 34th minute after getting into the box and hitting a tame shot that seemed to take a deflection to make it 1-1.
Stanley can feel aggrieved not to have been awarded a penalty five minutes later after Johnson appeared to be brought down in the box by Liam Kinsella, but the referee waved away the appeals.
Kee had the ball in the back of the net three minutes before the break, but his header was disallowed and the sides were level at half-time.
The second half began slowly but it was the Reds that had the better chances.
McConville curled a shot inches past the right post in the 66th minute, before Barlaser headed wide at the back post two minutes later.
Stanley were relentless, piling pressure on the Walsall defence and were rewarded with a second goal twenty minutes from time.
After a small scramble inside the visitor's penalty area, Sykes smashed home his second of the afternoon through a crowd of bodies to put Stanley back in front.
Josh Gordon picked up two yellow cards in the space of two minutes in the game's final stages, to reduce the visitors to 10 men, but Stanley defended well to pick up a much needed victory.


Hey man, got any grass? The goats are back on Gleeson Lawn pictured here hanging out with Diana Fabian.
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through in a single day.
eliminate the use of to-go and prepared food containers.
school, especially since USF encourages sustainable practices.
codes instead of the packaged material they use now," she said.
students in order to spread the message.
and be more interactive," said Hill.
Sean Valles debated the significance of race in contemporary biomedical practice at USF last week.
practicality of using racial distinctions in a biomedical context.
among which include social disparity in access to healthcare, the discrepancy remained.


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It's been 20 years since the Timber Rattlers became a part of Appleton's baseball history. For two decades, the Timber Rattlers have given local baseball fans a chance to take in a game without having to travel far or empty their wallets.
Families are buying much more than a ticket when they come to Fox Cities Stadium. They're buying an experience with a chance to see future stars and sometimes current Major League Baseball players. The ballpark is a perfect atmosphere to spend an afternoon or an evening.
The Timber Rattlers are offering great promotions all season long to celebrate their 20th anniversary. Radio Announcer Chris Mehring spoke about the season-long celebration and its meaning. "It's a milestone, but it's a part of the history of Appleton baseball that dates all the way back to 1909," Mehring said. The Timber Rattlers are just a portion of Appleton's baseball history. The city saw its first team in 1891 and has also been the home of the Papermakers and the Foxes. In 1995, the Timber Rattlers formed as a Single-A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers.
The Timber Ratters are taking their fans back to 1995 with bargain deals throughout the season. Remember how little you paid for a ticket 20 years ago? The Timber Rattlers remember and are featuring throwback pricing nights where the ticket prices are the same cost as they were in 1995. Throwback prices include $3 grass seats, $4 bleacher seats and $5 box seats.
To show off their rich 20-year history, the Timber Rattlers also have giveaway days where the first 1,000 fans receive a throwback bobblehead. The bobbleheads are of former Timber Rattlers and feature some current Brewers such as Jim Henderson, Scooter Gennett, Martin Maldonado and Khris Davis. Some MLB stars including David Ortiz and Felix Hernandez also are featured in bobblehead giveaway days. There is only a handful of throwback games left on this season's schedule. They include:
July 29 — Asdrubal Cabrera bobblehead and throwback pricing
Aug. 3 — Khris Davis bobblehead
Aug. 12 — Martin Maldonado bobblehead and throwback pricing
Aug. 28 — Shin-Soo Choo bobblehead
In addition to all of this, fans also get to see their team play in throwback jerseys. As a way to pay tribute to their milestone, the team wears uniforms based on the 1995 season.
Fans will be able to purchase the game-worn jerseys in a silent auction at the final game of the season on Aug. 29. The Timber Rattlers had a record-high average attendance of 3,780 last season and continue to make Fox Cities Stadium a place for fans to enjoy.
For more information on the Timber Rattlers and their throwback games, visit the team website at timberrattlers.com.
—By Alex Olp
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The subjunctive might be dying, if you ignore where it's going strong
April 3, 2013 in common usage, deterioration of English, English, formality and tone, grammar, linguistics, One Right Way, Uncategorized, verbs, writing | Tags: if I was, if I were, subjunctive | 19 comments
If you believe the grammar doomsayers, the English subjunctive is dying out. But if this is the end of the grammatical world, I feel fine — and I say that even though I often mark the subjunctive myself.
The most talked about use of the subjunctive is in counterfactuals:
(1) Even if I were available, I'd still skip his party.
For many people, marking the subjunctive here is not required; either they never mark it, using the past indicative form was instead, or they (like me) sometimes mark it with were, and sometimes leave it unmarked with was. For this latter group, the choice often depends on the formality of the setting. I'm calling this "not marking" the subjunctive, rather than "not using" it, because it seems less like people making a choice between two moods for the verb and more like a choice between two orthographic/phonemic forms for it.
It's similar to the alternation for many people (incl. me) of marking or not marking who(m) in the accusative case, discussed by Arnold Zwicky here and here, and Stan Carey here. That said, I believe that (at least some) people who never use were in (1) do not have a grammatical rule saying that counterfactuals trigger the past subjunctive, and I'm not worried about that either.
For being such a foolish war, World War I did generate some artistic propaganda.
This blitheness about the subjunctive does not go unmourned. I recently found myself being Twitter-followed by someone whose account just corrects people who fail to use the subjunctive in sentences like (1).* And Philip Corbett, associate managing editor for standards at the New York Times, annually rants about people failing to mark the subjunctive. Consider one of Corbett's calls to man the ramparts, which he begins by quoting, in its entirety, a 90-year-old letter complaining that the subjunctive must be saved from impending destruction.** Corbett continues:
"[…] despite my repeated efforts to rally support for [the subjunctive] the crisis has only grown. For those few still unaware of the stakes, here is a reminder from The Times's stylebook"
What are the stakes? What would we lose without the subjunctive? Corbett cites sentences such as these:
The mayor wishes the commissioner were retiring this year.
If the commissioner were rich, she could retire.
If the bill were going to pass, Secretary Kuzu would know by now.
If these were the stakes, I'd ditch the subjunctive. Corbett points out that in each of these we're referring to a counterfactual condition, which should trigger the subjunctive. But note that using the indicative/unmarked was doesn't make that any less clear. There is nothing to be gained from using the subjunctive in these cases but a sense of superiority and formality. (Not that I'm against either of those.)
But here's the weird thing: all this defense of the subjunctive, all these worries — they're all only about the past subjunctive. And the past subjunctive is weird, because it's only marked on be, and it's just a matter of using were for singular as well as plural. For everyone worrying that this is some crucial distinction, please note these sentences where it is insouciantly the same as teh indicative form:
(2a) The mayor wishes the commissioners retired last year.
(2b) If the commissioner wanted to, she could retire.
(2c) If the bills were going to pass, Sec. Kuzu would know by now.
If anything, the loss of past subjunctive were strikes me as regularization of English, the loss of the last remaining vestige of what was once a regular and widespread marking system. Losing the past subjunctive makes English more sensible. I don't see that as a bad thing.
And anyway, the subjunctive probably isn't going to disappear, not even the past subjunctive. The past subjunctive is, to my knowledge, necessarily marked in Subject-Auxiliary Inversion constructions:
(3) Were/*Was I a betting man, I'd say the subjunctive survives.
A quick look at Google Books N-grams makes it look like were subjunctive marking has been relatively constant over the last 40 years in written American English, so maybe this is all just a tempest in a teacup.
Plus all of this worry about the subjunctive ignores that the present subjunctive is going strong.*** I've written about sentences where the present subjunctive changes the meaning (though I wrote with a dimmer view of the subjunctive's long-term prospects), and Mike Pope supplied an excellent example:
(4a) I insist that he be there.
(4b) I insist that he is there.
In cases where marking the subjunctive is important, it's sticking around. In cases where it isn't important, and the subjunctive follows a strange paradigm, identical to the indicative for all but one verb, it may be disappearing. This is no crisis.
Summary: People who write "if I was" instead of "if I were" aren't necessarily pallbearers of the English subjunctive. It may be regularization of the last remaining irregular part of the past subjunctive, with the present subjunctive remaining unscathed. And if the past subjunctive disappears, there will be, as far as I can tell, no loss to English. Go ahead and use it if you want (I often do), but to worry that other people aren't is wrinkling your brow for nothing.
*: I do respect the tweeter's restraint in seemingly only correcting people who're already talking about grammar.
**: That this destruction has been impending for 90 years has somehow not convinced the ranters that their panic may be misplaced. Also, Corbett keeps titling his posts "Subjunctivitis", which I think sounds great, but not in the same way he probably does. -itis usually means an unwelcome inflammation of the root word, and I can't help but see all this as an unhelpful inflammation of passions over the subjunctive.
***: In fact, and I think this is pretty cool, (Master!) Jonathon Owen directed me to a classmate's corpus work suggesting that for at least some verbs, marked subjunctive usage is increasing.
"Can I?" & "May I?": the historical perspective
December 5, 2012 in ambiguity, common usage, deterioration of English, English, formality and tone, grammar, history, language change, speech, Uncategorized, verbs, words, writing | Tags: ability, can I, may I, permission | 28 comments
If someone were to lend me a time machine and ask me to go back and figure out exactly what first set me down my road to dedicated descriptivism, I would first ask them if perhaps there wasn't a better use for this marvelous contraption. But if they persisted, the coordinates I'd start with would be my elementary school days. I suspect it was some time around then that I first asked for permission to do something and was met with one of the archetypal prescriptions.
"Can I go to the bathroom?", I surely must have asked, and just as surely a teacher must have answered, "I don't know, can you?"
The irritation that I felt at this correction was so severe that even though I can't remember when this happened, nor who did it to me, I still can call to mind the way it made me seethe. It was clear to me that the pedant was wrong, but I couldn't figure out quite how to explain it. So, at the risk of sounding like I'm trying to settle a two-decade-old grudge, let's look at whether it makes sense to correct this. I say that the answer is no — or at the very least, that one oughtn't to correct it so snootily.
Let's examine the "error" that the authority figure is correcting. Can, we are told, addresses the ability to do something, whereas may addresses permission. Mom said I can count to ten means that dear ol' Mum believes in my ability to count to ten, although she may not want me to do so; Mom said I may count to ten means that Mum is allowing me to do so, although she need not believe that I am able to.*
At any given time, there are a lot of things that one is capable of doing (can do) and a lot of things that one is permitted to do (may do), and a few things that fall into both categories. The prescriptivist idea is that there is a fairly clear distinction between the two categories, though, and so it is important to distinguish them.
Except, well, it's not so important after all; can and may were tightly intertwined in early English, and were never fully separated. The OED lists an obsolete usage [II.4a] of may as meaning "be able; can". This is first attested in Old English, and continues through to at least 1645. Furthermore, may meaning "expressing objective possibility" [II.5] is attested from Old English to the present day (although it is noted as being rare now). Examples of these are given in (1) and (2). So we see that may does not always address the issue of permission, that may has encroached upon can's territory at times in the past and continues to do so to this day.
(1) No man may separate me from thee. [1582]
(2) Youth clubs may be found in all districts of the city. [1940]
As for can, there's no historical evidence I found of it referring to permission in the distant past. Back then, may was apparently the dominant one, stealing usages from can. The OED gives a first citation for can meaning "to be allowed to" in 1879, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and does call the usage colloquial, at least on the British side of the pond. But still, we've got it attested 130 years ago by a former Poet Laureate of the UK. That's a pretty good lineage for the permission usage.
Furthermore, I think (at least in contemporary American English) that the may I usage is old-fashioned to the point of sounding stilted or even affected outside of highly formal contexts. Just to back up my intuition, here's the Google Books N-grams chart comparing May I go and Can I go:
You can see there's a changeover in the mid-1960s, when the usage levels of May I finish plunging and Can I starts rocketing away. As you well know, this sort of fairly sudden change in relative frequency tends to generate a backlash against the newly-prominent form as a sign of linguistic apocalypse, so there's no real surprise that people would loudly oppose permissive Can I. As always, the loud opposition to it is one of the surest signs that it's passed a point of no return. By my youth, Can I was ensconced as the question of choice, and nowadays, I doubt many of our kids are getting being corrected on it — though it remains prominent enough in our zeitgeist to function as a set-up for a range of uninspired jokes.
So historically, what can we say of can and may and permission and ability? We've seen something of a historical switch. In the distant past, may could indicate either permission or ability, while can was restricted to ability. Over time, may's domain has receded, and can's has expanded. In modern usage, can has taken on permission senses as well as its existing ability senses. May, on the other hand, has become largely restricted to the permission sense, although there are some "possibility"-type usages that still touch on ability, especially when speaking of the future:
(3) We may see you at Breckenridge then.
The can expansion is a bit recent in historical terms, but that still means it's been acceptable for over a hundred years — judging by the Tennyson citation — and commonplace for the last fifty or so. The recency explains the lingering resentment at permissive can, but it doesn't justify it. Permissive can is here to stay, and there's no reason to oppose it.**
*: Not to telegraph my argument, but even here I find Mom said I can count to sound more like a statement of permission than ability.
**: I have some thoughts on whether it's really even possible to draw a clear line between permission and ability — in essence addressing the question of whether the smearing together of can and may is an accident or inevitability. I'll try to put them together at some point & link to them, but given my history of failing to follow through with follow-up posts, I'm not going to leave it as only a possibility, not a promise.
Back-to-school review: who and whom
September 10, 2012 in case, disagreements, English, formality and tone, grammar, linguistics, morphology, prescription, pronouns, series, Uncategorized, words, writing | Tags: who, who/whom, whom | 5 comments
All right, it's time for the second grammar review section; last week's looked at contractions and their homophones, and today I'll look at who and whom.
The simplest advice I can give about using whom is not to. Contemporary English doesn't require whom in any situation other than exceedingly formal writing. Just use who all the time.
Before you think that I'm just some lazy linguistic anarchist for suggesting this, let me point out that I am only agreeing with John McIntyre, former president of the American Copy Editors Society and an editor at the Baltimore Sun, who writes:
"There is a problem that even educated writers have with figuring out whether a subordinate clause should begin with who or whom. If you have that difficulty, you can, except in the most formal circumstances, just use who."
But perhaps you have a reason to use whom, whether because you need to write very formally, or because you have a stodgy teacher/superior who insists upon its use, or because you're just good old-fashioned curious about the niceties of English grammar. In that case, here's my advice on how it's used.
In short, who and whom are the same word with different case markings. Who is in the nominative (or subjective) case, and whom is in the accusative (or objective) case. That's the only difference — not that one is more formal than the other or anything like that.*
So knowing how to use whom is simply a matter of knowing when each case should be marked. Unfortunately, English rarely marks case, so it's not something that we, as native English speakers, are used to thinking about. In fact, aside from who(m), the only other sort of case marking in English is on personal pronouns, and even then only on a few of them.** I and me, for instance, are nominative and accusative versions of each other, as are he and him, she and her, we and us, and they and them.
The first guideline, then, is to use whom wherever it replaces an accusative pronoun (me, him, her, us, them). So:
(1a) Who saw you? (She saw me.)
(1b) Whom did you see? (I saw her.)
(1c) Whom did you give the gift to? (I gave it to her.)
Your intuitions with personal pronouns' cases are probably pretty accurate, so when you can rephrase the sentence, you'll do well. The trouble is that you can't always easily replace who(m) with a personal pronoun. For instance:
(2a) The fellow who(m) I saw at the bus stop
(2b) I don't care who(m) did it.
(2c) Who(m)ever the werewolf stalks is in trouble.
Since there's no question to answer here, you need to get a bit cleverer and look at the syntactic structure of the sentence. In these examples, who(m) is filling for a missing noun phrase somewhere in the sentence; linguists refer to the missing noun phrase as a "gap", and who(m) as its "filler". Even though the filler is usually in a different position from the gap, structurally the filler and gap are linked. Whatever case would be assigned to the gap manifests itself on the filler.
When the gap is an object, whom is appropriate. (2a) can use whom, because it's filling a gap in the object of the verb saw.
When the gap is a subject, whom is inappropriate. (2b) can't use whom, because the gap is the subject of the verb did.
(2c) gets tricky, because we seem to have two conflicting case assignments. Who(m)ever is the object of stalks, so you'd expect accusative case, but it also looks like the subject of is, so what do we do? In general, only the closest case assignment matters, and case doesn't trickle down within a phrase. Since the subject of is is actually the whole phrase who(m)ever the werewolf stalks, not just who(m)ever, its case assignment doesn't manifest. Only the assignment within the smaller phrase who(m)ever the werewolf stalks matters, and that's accusative case from stalks. Thus whomever is appropriate here.
This is a bit subtle, and I don't think I've done a great job of explaining it. (A newspaper columnist and I got into a fight about such a case assignment three years ago, and we still haven't settled it.) This is the sort of situation where you're probably best to just go with who; even if you have spent the time to prove to yourself that whom is correct, there's a pretty good chance that someone else will insist that you're hypercorrecting.
Summary: In contemporary American English, whom is necessary only in certain situations within very formal writing, so you can get by just fine without using it. If you choose to use it, remember that it is not the formal variant of who but rather the accusative-case variant of who. If who is replacing a subject of a sentence, it should never be whom. Whom is reserved for objects of verbs and objects of prepositions.
The Back-to-School Reviews so far:
I: Confusing contractions (your, you're and the lot) [09/04/12]
II: Who and whom [09/10/12]
*: Whom seems more formal because it's mostly used in formal writing. In informal writing, who is the form for both nominative and accusative cases.
**: Technically speaking, the apostrophe-s on possessives is a way of marking genitive case, but that's a topic for another time.
On "off of"
July 31, 2012 in bad arguments, English, formality and tone, grammar, One Right Way, ONW, parts of speech, prepositions, redundancy, speech, Uncategorized, words, writing | Tags: off of | 58 comments
We're all Rolling Stones fans here, right? I mean, we're all here on a grammar blog, so I don't think I'm jumping to too wild a conclusion to assume that we're almost all oldsters, whether in actual age or personality. So let's talk about the classic "Get Off of My Cloud":
As it turns out, the Stones weren't terribly fond of this song; they felt it was a rushed follow-up to the runaway success of "Satisfaction". But some grammar peevers dislike it for an unrelated reason:
"'Off of' is no way to talk. It IS really, really bad English."
Hatred of off of is widespread. It pops up commonly in peeve lists. Some professional grammar commentators share this complaint: the quote above is from Patricia O'Conner of Grammarphobia*, and Grammar Girl tersely dismisses it with "You jump off the pier, not off OF the pier".
So what's supposedly wrong with off of? The main problem seems to be that the of is unnecessary, but another common one is that since it's on and not on of, it must be off and not off of. I also see complaints that it's dialectal or informal or American, that one can't put two prepositions next to each other, or that it ought to be from. And worse, given all of these problems, the phrase is supposedly spreading.
Let's take these in reverse order. First, I'm unconvinced that it's spreading, unless you're talking about a very recent (last 20 years) spread. Here're the Google Books counts, and you'll note that modern off of usage is still below its peak in 1910. The Corpus of Historical American English has a slightly different picture, with more-or-less stable usage from 1900 to the 1980s, and then a jolt up in the 90s and 2000s. Maybe it's spreading, maybe not. But let's talk about why it's not bad either way.
I'll start with the easiest objections. No, it shouldn't just be from. Consider:
(1a) The numbers station is broadcasting from a shed off of Route 395.
(1b) *The numbers station is broadcasting from a shed from Route 395.
And yes, you can put two prepositions next to each other, as in this unobjectionable example:
(2) I pulled a coat out of the closet.
Going on to a somewhat more complex objection, antonymic phrases do not have to share structures or prepositions. The fact that you get on and not on of a train doesn't mean that you have to get off and not off of it. Consider:
(3a) I put the sandwiches into the picnic basket, but someone has pulled them out of it.
(3b) One velociraptor was in front of Muldoon, the other next to him.
And now on to the involved discussions. One question is whether off is always sufficient, and off of thus always unnecessarily wordy. And the answer, I think, depends on that of a second question: whether off of is dialectal.
In my idiolect, off of is perfectly standard. I was probably in my twenties before I heard someone object to it. That's not to say I can't use off without of. To the contrary, I prefer (4) without of, though both forms are acceptable to me:
(4) The leaves fell off the tree.
That said, of is not always superfluous to me. A few examples where I find removing of to make the sentence noticeably worse:
(5a) It's a way of profiting off of something you expect to drop in value.
(5b) My new invention will knock the socks off of the scientific community.
(5c) I broke your statue by knocking the top off of it.
You may not agree, even if you come from an off of idiolect, that these forms are better, but that's not important. The key point is only that sometimes, to some people, off of is distinctly more mellifluous than off. Dismissing off of out of hand as superfluous is valid only in dialects that already don't allow it.
Let me elaborate this "necessity depends on dialect" point by proposing an insane argument. I've mentioned before that, being from Pittsburgh, I am perfectly content to say The car needs washed instead of The car needs to be washed. Within my dialect, to be is often superfluous, and there are some sentences that I find greatly improved by omitting it. Thus, I could see arguing that to be is, at least sometimes, unnecessary. But if I argued this to someone speaking a "standard" dialect of English, I would sound crazy. Saying that of in off of is across-the-board unnecessary sounds equally crazy to me.**
So is off of dialectal and/or informal? The answer would seem to be yes to both. The Oxford English Dictionary calls it "only colloq. (nonstandard) and regional" in current use. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary of English Usage says it's "primarily a form used in speech". The Columbia Guide to Standard American English says it's avoided at "Planned and Oratorical levels and in Semiformal and Formal writing."
Those sources are generally pretty trustworthy with their opinions, and given the amount of people who find off of unacceptable, I'm inclined to believe that it really is dialectal. When that's coupled with its primarily spoken usage patterns, it's no surprise that it would feel informal, especially to people from other dialects. And using the Corpus of Contemporary American English as a measuring stick of informality, off of occurs in speech twice as often as in written fiction, about four times as often as in newspapers/magazines, and almost ten times as often as in academic writing. The more formal the style, the less likely you'll see off of.
All that said, its informality doesn't mean it's an illiteracy. Off of used to be standard in English; the MWDEU starts off with a Shakespearean usage [1592] and continues with Pepys [1668] and Bunyan [1678]. In the last century, they show it used by Hemingway, Faulkner, and Harry Truman, among others. So if it is making a comeback, it's no harbinger of linguistic doom, just a return to form.
Summary: There is nothing linguistically or grammatically wrong with off of. It's nonstandard in some dialects and informal in most, so you should probably avoid it if you're concerned about your writing seeming formal. But when formality isn't a concern, use it as you see fit.
*: This is a surprising stance, because it comes from Patricia O'Conner of Grammarphobia, who's normally a lot less judgmental about such things. In fact, three years later, she softened her stance, although she remains against off of. I included her original opinion because her reconsideration shows that even hard-line opinions can (and should) be altered in the face of evidence, so long as the commentator is reasonable.
**: In fact, I and others within my dialect seem to have strong intuitions about times when the to be can and can't be felicitiously dropped, in the same way as I see off of. It's not a matter of necessity but of felicity.