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|Stratigraphic Record
Title text: All we have are these stupid tantalizing zircons and the scars on the face of the Moon.
We have no rock formations on Earth older than about 3.5 billion years, as the comic points out, because everything solid from before that time has been subducted down into the Earth's mantle, by tectonic movement. The title text hints at the cooler Moon which stopped re-melting its surface much sooner, so we theoretically could learn something about Earth's history from examining our Moon's surface and makeup. Zircons are a type of mineral found in the Earth's crust, some of which have been estimated to be as old as 4.4 billion years, older than any other mineral.
Anyways, here the Earth is anthropomorphized and actively teases the narrator; first it asks the narrator to draw in closer, as if it's about to tell us a secret, but then it whispers "I'll never tell". Not a lot to this one.
- [Image of the earth from space.]
- Nearly 4.5 billion years ago, Earth had liquid water.
- But all the crust older than 3.5 billion years has been recycled into the mantle by subduction.
- A billion years of the stratigraphic record, the memory of the hills, is forever lost to us.
- What was it like here, four billion years ago?
- Earth,
- What secrets do you have?
- Earth: come closer
- [Zoom in on the Earth.]
- Earth: i'll never tell.
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Zircon --JakubNarebski (talk) 06:58, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
See? THIS is how professionals shred evidence. -- Hkmaly (talk) 09:12, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
I'm more curious if stuff from beginning of earth is still suspended in water somewhere. Think about it, can there really be 100% settlement of materials on the bottom of the ocean? Then again the light from that time is still traveling somewhere, we just need faster then light travel and very good sensor. - 220.127.116.11 20:58, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
Interesting that the Earth's replies come from the Canadian Shield? Also, what with the coquettish tone of the Earth, and the detective story tone of the alt-text, could Randall be referencing the Giant impact hypothesis? --220.127.116.11 23:17, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
The line "I'll never tell" rings in my head from some movie, a little girl repeating it over and over, possibly just from a trailer for the movie. Maybe "Don't Say a Word" (2001) but I'm at work so I don't want to play the trailer.... Did this happen to anyone else? --DanB (talk) 14:14, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
- "I'll never tell" is a song from the famous Once More, with Feeling (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), which may explain why it 'rings' in DanB's head. --GD 126.96.36.199 21:06, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
- I have never heard the song, and yet I still feel the same as DanB does. 18.104.22.168 19:31, 4 December 2013 (UTC)-BK
I'm pretty sure it comes from an old commercial, perhaps for Oil of Olay, where an actress talks about how it keeps her looking young and the the camera pulls in closer until she says "How old am I? I'll never tell." That would also fit the context. --RB
The current explanation isn't an explanation at all, it just restates stuff that's in the comic's transcript. I'd improve it, but the only reason I'm here is because I didn't understand the point. Presumably the last two panels refer to some thing from popular culture. Jeremyp (talk) 11:56, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
Plate tech is popular culture. It was nonsense in the 1950's. (Actually, it still is (but I already told.)) I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait (talk) 21:25, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
"Who am I? I'll never tell" was in the opening voice over of every episode of Gossip Girl. Jackdavinci (talk) 18:26, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
- Except "Gossip Girl" is newer than a lot of other potential references, and we already have the identity of the speaker given as Earth (or the personification thereof). 220.127.116.11 07:27, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
This may be ridiculous, but in the Avengers "How it Should Have Ended", at about 20 seconds, Loki says "I'll never tell" and laughs. That's the voice I always read it in, and as far as I can tell, the video came first. 184.108.40.206 04:59, 30 January 2018 (UTC)Daniel


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With Great Power Comes The Thinnest Skin: 13-Year-Old Hit With Felony Charges After Throwing Snowball At Cop
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Considering the type of people cops interact with the most, you'd think law enforcement officers be the most broad-shouldered of individuals, easily shrugging off the various slights and indignities they're subjected to on a daily basis. You'd think that, but you'd be wrong.
According to police, a 13-year-old boy was charged as a juvenile with felony aggravated battery against a police officer Wednesday after he hit the officer in the arm with a snowball while the officer was parked in his vehicle in the 4900 block of West Congress Parkway about 3:20 p.m.A cop, a person not entirely unlike anyone else ever hit by a snowball, found the impact of snow against his arm to be nearly unbearable. The main difference between Joe Citizen and Officer Snowball is that the Chicago police officer has the power to toss the offending person into the gears of the criminal justice system. Which is what he did. Obviously, this has provoked plenty of negative reaction.
"I think that's ridiculous — it's such a big charge," said Latanya Powell, a construction worker on the block. "It's just going overboard. I can see if it were a weapon and harm was done, but it was just a snowball.Boys will be boys, but that's only acceptable if they don't extend their natural mischievousness to include this particular uniformed manchild. Once you cross that line -- a line only a cop can see -- you're finished. Say goodbye to childhood and hello to a criminal record that will affect you for years to come.
"This is a case of kids being kids."
Not everyone was as nonplussed as Latanya Powell. Local
"If [the boy] had gotten away with it, who's to say what they'd do next? If it doesn't stick to them now, they'll be 16 or 17, and they'll have a gun," Fields said, adding that he has experience with local teens as a teacher and was the victim of a home burglary by neighborhood teens in 2010.Hmm. Well, if we follow Fields' reasoning (and that of the unnamed cop), we arrive at a couple of conclusions, both equally asinine.
A. Throwing snowballs at authority figures is a gateway drug to a life of crime. (Because snowballs magically become guns when the snowball thrower hits "age 16 or 17.")
B. If a kid hitting a cop with a snowball is felonious battery, then kids everywhere are committing this crime -- repeatedly -- after every snowfall (with the attendant "snowballs lead to gunplay" concerns nowhere to be seen).
Conclusion A is a dead end. It's not unlike the assertion that because criminals play video games, playing video games leads to criminal acts. Many criminals threw snowballs at their friends and authority figures (adults, teachers, cops) during their formative years, therefore snowball throwing leads to criminal acts. Rather than punish criminal behavior, those deploying this stunted logic want to crack down on non-criminal behavior in the deluded hope of preventing future criminal acts. All the way wrong, all the way down.
Conclusion B just exposes the fact that there are multiple sets of rules in play at any given time: one for citizens, one for cops and one for when the two intersect. Johnny hits Timmy with a snowball and it's "playing." A cop hits another cop with a snowball and it's "playing." But Johnny hitting a cop with a snowball is a felony.
Hanging a felony charge on a kid for snowball throwing is not only completely absurd, it has a much greater chance of converting him to a criminal than his cop-targeting snowball throwing does. Way to go, law enforcement (and enablers like Ray Fields): you're generating scofflaws just as fast as you can trump up charges against them.

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Note that we'll be going over the locked wrestlers here as well, so don't read on if you want to be 100% surprised who is hidden.
All wrestlers have up to 6 abilities out of a list of 21. Here, we'll list what the 21 are and how they affect matches. Note that created wrestlers start with no abilities, but can gain them in Career Mode. We'll go over that in the Career Mode section.
For the real wrestlers that ship with the game, their abilities are locked and can never be changed. They can be altered in Career Mode, but those changes will not stick when you go back to exhibition.
|Blood Shed
|Allows you to bust yourself open when holding a chair by pressing Y (Xbox 360) or Triangle (PS3). This will give you full momentum and temporarily give you full health.
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|Allows you to use special attacks during cage matches whilst climbing the cage or standing at the top of one. This ability is passive.
|Dirty Pin
|Allows you to pin an opponent with increased leverage, making it harder for your opponent to kick out and essentially removes rope breaks. Automatically activates when you pin an opponent near the ropes.
|Allows you to slightly recover your health if you sustain red damage. Press and hold Y (Xbox 360) or Triangle (PS3) to activate this. Note that when you're healing, you're not moving, so don't do it unless your opponents are down.
|Evasive Dodge
|Hold either trigger and use the left stick to make your wrestler roll in the indicated direction. Good for keeping an opponent guessing.
|Fan Favorite
|This allows you to do a special taunt if your momentum is full. Simply press the D-pad in any direction, and your taunt will start lowering the opponent's momentum. This will last until your full momentum wears off, or until you execute your finisher.
|Hammer Throw
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|Similar to Bloodshed, this will fill your momentum and temporarily max out your health. To use it, press Y (Xbox 360) or Triangle (PS3) after being knocked down. You can only use it once.
|Increases the chance you can knock out an opponent with any knockout-capable attack. This ability is passive.
|Ladder Match
|Allows you to use special attacks during ladder matches and slightly increases your speed of pulling down an item. This ability is passive.
|Lock Pick
|Allows you to immediately break a submission hold at the cost of a lot of momentum. Can only be used twice in a match, so save it when you're in red damage and would risk tapping out.
|Move Theft
|Allows you to steal an opponent's finisher or signature move, provided you are in the same situation as he is. To use it, press Right Bumper + Y (Xbox 360) or R1 + Triangle (PS3) to activate it. Note that you do not necessarily need full momentum like the game implies; you just have to be in the proper position with either a stored Signature move or full momentum if you want to steal the finisher.
|Allows you to grabble while holding a weapon. This causes great damage and, for chairs, does not decrease the life of the weapon.
|Outside Dives
|Allows you to do a dive attack from inside the ring to ringside by running toward the ropes, then hitting toward + strike.
|Possum Pin
|Allows you to reverse a pin attempt and pin your opponent instead. This ability is passive, provided you correctly time hitting the reversal button for your opponent's pin attempt.
|Referee Shield
|Press and hold A (Xbox 360) or X (PS3) to grab the ref and throw him at an opponent. Succeeding in this will knock them both down.
|Increases the chance you'll kick out of a pin, effectively increasing your health. This ability is passive.
|Allows you to bounce off the ropes and come back elbow-first against an opponent who is also in the ring. Simply press the left stick toward the ropes and press strike to do it.
|Steal Taunt
|Steal the opponent's taunt by holding Right Bumper (Xbox 360) or R1 (PS3) and hitting any direction on the D-pad.
|This allows opponents to tap out when in a submission hold. Note that without this ability you'll never have an opponent tap unless a submission is set for your wrestler's finisher! This ability is passive.
|Table Match
|Allows you to stack two tables on each other. You can then put an opponent on the top table and drive him through both, giving maximum damage.
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Let $\mathcal{A}$ denote the collection of all subsets A of an uncountable set $\Omega$ for which either A or $A^c$ are countable. Let $\mu(A)$ denote the cardinality of A. Define $\phi(A)$ equal to $\emptyset$ or $\infty$ according as $A$ is countable or uncountable. Show that $\phi ≪ \mu$. Then show that the Radon-Nikodym theorem fails.
This is an assignment. I found that this problem is not rigorous unless in this case we treat $+\infty$ as a number; and this equation, $+\infty+\infty=+\infty$ holds where we do not distinguish the cardinality of all the rational number, $\aleph_0$, and the cardinality of real number, $\aleph_1$, and so on.
If we treat $\infty$ as a number, it is easy to show that $\mathcal{A}$ is a $\sigma$-field, $\mu$ and $\phi$ a measure and $\phi ≪ \mu.$
My question is: Does this make sense $\aleph_0+\aleph_1+\aleph_2$? (Set theory is not my suit.)


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In this blog I talk about some of the personal programming I do as a hobby. By trade I'm a Java and database developer but I've dabbled in Haskell, front-end development, etc. I'm currently working as an architect but still enjoy getting my fingers dirty in code!
Thursday, November 25, 2010
A simple game in Haskell + SDL
I had SDL installed earlier, but of course SDL_TTF proved challenging on my windows machine, but I think it's was all my fault, I probably didn't read the instructions properly or something. Anyway, I only forgotten to set the LIBS variable. When I ran export LIBS=/usr/local/lib/libSDL_ttf.dll.a in my MSYS environment then configure worked fine!
Afterwards it was all plain sailing, really. Just remember to add enableUnicode True in your initialization code so you can get the actual Unicode character typed (I'm on a French keyboard, so typing M gives me the SDL key ;). And of course you need a font file, so I include a GNU FreeFont file with the package. It needs to be in the same folder as the executable.
For some reason, after seeing code that was blocking for SDL events in a loop, I started building the game with two threads, one blocking for events and one looping and drawing, and a MVar in the middle. It worked, but rewriting it in a single normal game loop: process event, update game state, draw made things a lot easier.
This brilliant piece of software that has already made its mark in video game history can be found on Hackage here!
As usual, all feedback is welcome. Possible enhancements are a high score screen, difficulty levels, choosing letters by frequency in English, using Markov chains so that the flow of letters look more natural... The list is infinite!
5 comments:
- Daniel said...
nice idea for a simple haskell game.
But I have to fix the cabal script bevor it starts to build for me. There are some
missing dependencies..
Additional to your extension ideas I would like to have the possibility to increase the character speed.
regards Daniel
- JP Moresmau said...
Hi Daniel what did you have to change in the Cabal file?
The speed increases over time, what do you have in mind?
- Daniel said...
I had to add "base,random and containers" to the build-depends.
On the topic of speed increase: Would be nice if something like pressing the "+" Button would increase movement speed of the characters. When I tested the game the characters need about 5 minutes bevor they arrive in the centre of the screen.
- JP Moresmau said...
OK, there seems to be something in EclipseFP that automatically adds these packages when you build the project. I've uploaded a new version on hackage that builds properly.
It shouldn't take 5 minutes for the first characters to reach the centre of the screen!! I mean, the first characters are a bit slow, but still...
- Daniel said...
Maybe I look at the code tonight. Maybe you could create a repo somewhere so I can clone and code exchange is simpler.


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Chloe Grace Moretz is adamant she respects Jim Carrey's decision to bow out of promotional work for their new film "Kick-Ass 2," but disagrees with his opinion on the violence in the movie.
The funny man has refused to take part in a publicity campaign for the film, in which he plays a vigilante named Colonel Stars and Stripes, as he felt he could no longer support the project following a school shooting in Connecticut last year.
Carrey cited the movie's "level of violence" for his decision, but 16-year-old Moretz, who plays a costumed assassin in the movie, insists his fears are misguided.
She tells Britain's The Sun, "It's a movie. If you are going to believe and be affected by an action film, you shouldn't go to see Pocahontas because you are going to think you are a Disney princess.
"If you are that easily swayed, you might see The Silence of the Lambs and think you are a serial killer. It's a movie and it's fake, and I've known that since I was a kid… I don't want to run around trying to kill people and cuss. If anything, these movies teach you what not to do."
She adds of Carrey, "Each to their own. I know the movie I made and it's all good and I respect his decision."
A young gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School in December, sparking a fevered debate over weapons laws and whether violent movies influence the behavior of disturbed individuals.


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As Hanukkah continues tomorrow night, it will run smack dab into Thanksgiving. It's a rare event. The last time they overlapped was in the 1800s. And as if cooking a 15 or 20 pound turkey isn't enough, many families will be trying to add traditional Hanukkah foods to the table. So we thought we'd get some advice on how to do this without making your tummy hurt. So we've called in an expert, Joan Nathan. An author of many award-winning cookbooks and one of this country's foremost authorities on Jewish cooking. Welcome back, thanks so much for joining us once again.
JOAN NATHAN: Thank you for having me.
MARTIN: So why are we getting this mash-up this year?
NATHAN: Well, because the Jewish calendar, which is a lunar calendar, has an extra month so it gets earlier.
NATHAN: And what's beautiful about it is Hanukkah will be its own holiday. It doesn't have to compete with Christmas. And it's a holiday of lights so Thanksgiving is one of the darkest times of year. I mean, darkest time really is at Christmas time. But it's beginning to be dark, and so you need light. And that's really - Hanukkah is a celebration of light.
MARTIN: So it's a festival of light, and that's why - the menorah. But that's also why traditionally, foods that are cooked in oil are associated with the holiday.
NATHAN: Well, that came - I think that came later.
MARTIN: Well, we're happy about that, but still. So there are certain signature foods that people associate with Hanukkah...
NATHAN: Right.
MARTIN: ...Jelly donuts being my personal favorite, but...
NATHAN: And that's new.
MARTIN: But we're happy about it. But latke, which are - what, traditionally grated potatoes? And you're saying a way to Thanksgiving it up would be, what?
NATHAN: Well, what I'm doing - tonight is my daughter's birthday - so it's first night of Hanukkah. So I'm going to have Swiss chard pancakes and a little bit of applesauce to go with them. But I'm also going to make cookies instead of her birthday cake because she loves ginger cookies. And I'm going to make - people could do this tomorrow if they wanted to - with a menorah and with turkeys. So people could have their choice.
MARTIN: You've also brought along some sweet potato latke, which is a twist on using the white potatoes, and I think people associate with that. Tell us about that and how do you make it?
NATHAN: Oh well, you just grate the sweet potatoes and you grate the - I use celery root and you grate an apple. And you put them together with a little bit of egg and a little bit of flour or matzo meal or breadcrumbs, and then you just put them together and you fry them.
MARTIN: Sorry.
NATHAN: And salt and pepper of course.
MARTIN: This is just purely for research, but this is so good.
NATHAN: Well, you know, I thought that, you know, you have to have sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving. So if you really wanted to have something else other than the sweet potato casserole that I will have tomorrow because my 100-year-old mother is making it as she always does. And it's a typical casserole with sweet potatoes, pineapples and, of course, marshmallows on top. And everybody likes that, and I would never tamper with that tradition.
MARTIN: Is there any pumpkin thing that you could come up with that would be great?
NATHAN: Well, oh yeah, delicious pumpkin and curry is really good. But you have to get a pumpkin that really tastes good. And I think butternut squash is a wonderful - makes a great latke. And so what I'm going to do - and I know that other people are doing similar things - for my hors d'oeuvre on Thanksgivukkah, I'm going to be having tiny potato latkes with some applesauce and a cranberry on top.
MARTIN: You're amazing at entertaining and you think about recipes all the time, but do you feel that a lot of home cooks are feeling some pressure this time of year? Because all of these holidays are so freighted for a lot of us. It's family time and people, you know, often they want what they want and they don't want anything else but what they're used to having.
NATHAN: Well, you - I think that you can always inject one new thing - would be a vegetable or an hors d'oeuvre. That's - you're allowed to do that. You know, you can always add - I don't know, a pie or some - or I know we tried the deep-fried turkey once. I just didn't like it. So we're not doing that again.
MARTIN: But it would be kind of in keeping with Thanksgivukkah wouldn't it?
NATHAN: Yeah, that's right. But it wouldn't be olive oil. That's the thing. It's got to be olive oil. But the other thing, it doesn't necessarily have to be frying. So I'm going to have for my salad, kale salad, which you could do kale latkes, too. But kale salad with olive oil and garlic and pomegranates and grapefruit and avocado. And that's going to be nice. Don't you think?
MARTIN: Can I come over your house? I'm just kidding.
NATHAN: I wish you'd come.
MARTIN: Do you have any advice for people who just get so stressed out about these big family meals? I mean, every year, you know, you just hear people calling the turkey hotline in tears, especially if they're facing both together and all of that.
NATHAN: See I have lists. I mean, it's so important. And with lists, you think about what you have to buy. The other thing is make it easy on yourself. Speak your guests and see what they can bring. Or a lot of people have family weekends with Thanksgiving the way I'm going to have it. And I've assigned a different meal. And it's a little - for them it's a little bit - they're a little afraid because I'm a cookbook writer. But I'm so happy that they're going to be taking some of the difficulty from me.
MARTIN: So calm down, basically, is what you're saying.
NATHAN: Yeah, take a deep breath. That's the best advice of all. Take a deep breath. It's fun. I always tell people the most important thing about Thanksgiving or Thanksgivukkah - it's traditions. And that's what brings people together. You're right, people want to see those same tired recipes, maybe a little bit spruced up. But that's what makes your family different from my family. And I believe that with all the change that we do - going to the hottest restaurants, going different places around the world - when you come home, you want the same thing, and I think it's really important to have that on your Thanksgiving table or your Thanksgivukkah table.
MARTIN: Joan Nathan is the author of 10 cookbooks. She's one of this country's foremost authorities on Jewish cooking. She was kind enough to stop by on a very busy day, our Washington D.C. studios. Thank you. Happy Thanksgivukkah to you, too. To get Joan Nathan's recipe for sweet potato latke, just go to NPR .org, click on the programs tab and then on TELL ME MORE.
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State Senate GOP Leaders Support Medicaid Expansion
CARSON CITY – State Senate Republican leaders today commended GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval's decision to expand the state Medicaid program as a commitment to the health of all Nevadans and a boost for a critical sector of the state's economy.
"Ensuring that poor Nevadans have access to primary health care through Medicaid is very simply the right thing to do, both for our citizens and our economy," said Sen. Michael Roberson, R-Henderson. "It will reduce our rate of uninsured and provide individuals with greater economic security."
"Nevada's health care indicators continually trail its neighboring states and regularly rank among the worst in the nation," said Sen. Ben Kieckhefer, R-Reno. "Expanding Medicaid to poor childless adults will help address this."
"Nevada has higher-than-average rates of such things as cancer, diabetes, heart disease and asthma," he said. "Access to primary health care is critical to both prevention and treatment of these diseases and conditions. Our citizens deserve this."
Sen. Joe Hardy, R-Boulder City, said expanding the program will allow Nevada to improve its return on federal tax dollars and ensure that money is reinvested into Nevada's health care economy, which is in need of a boost.
"Fully implementing health care reform is expected to boost Nevada's economy by up to $6.2 billion over the next six years," he said. "Medicaid expansion could also result in the creation of up to 8,600 much-needed jobs in Nevada over that time. With the low state match over this period, that's a solid return on investment."
All three Republican Senate leaders said they look forward to working with their colleagues during the 2013 session to approve this expansion, but also believe it's imperative that Nevada protect its economic future and require a sunset on the expansion should federal reimbursement rates drop below 90 percent for this population.
In addition, Republican Senate leadership supports the governor's proposal to include a cost-sharing component in Medicaid and plans to pursue that initiative during the 2013 Legislative Session.
Sandoval announced yesterday that he will include 78,000 additional people in Nevada's Medicaid program as provided for under the federal Affordable Care Act.
"Though I have never liked the Affordable Care Act because of the individual mandate it places on citizens, the increased burden on businesses and concerns about access to health care, the law has been upheld by the Supreme Court," he said in a statement. "As such, I am forced to accept it as today's reality and I have decided to expand Nevada's Medicaid coverage.
"My fiscal year 2014-2015 budget will provide 78,000 additional Nevadans with health insurance coverage through Medicaid, which is estimated to save the state general fund approximately $17 million dollars in mental health savings," Sandoval said. "My executive budget will also help Nevada businesses cope with the burden placed on them by decreasing the modified business tax. My decision to opt-in assists the neediest Nevadans and helps some avoid paying a health-care tax penalty. As part of my proposal, I will also call upon the Legislature to pass Medicaid patient responsibility cost-sharing measures."
Federal funding will pay for 100 percent of the Medicaid expansion for the first three calendar years beginning in 2014, with the state required to pick up a percentage of the cost beginning in 2017. The first year state cost is 5 percent, in 2018 the state cost is 6 percent, in 2019 the state cost is 7 percent, and in 2020, the state cost is 10 percent.
The expansion in Nevada would mostly cover childless adults who are not covered by the state program now. The other expansion will come from parent caretakers of children who are covered at 75 percent of poverty now, according to Mike Willden, director of the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, who spoke on the subject earlier this year.
Willden said there are also administrative costs to the state that are not fully covered by the expansion but instead are shared between the federal government and the state at a 50-50 match. They include information technology costs and the cost to hire new eligibility workers, for example, he said.


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Oxalis tuberosa
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|Yellow and purple Oxalis tuberosa (oca) tubers
|Scientific classification
|O. tuberosa
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|Oxalis tuberosa
Oxalis tuberosa is a perennial herbaceous plant that overwinters as underground stem tubers. These tubers are known as uqa in Quechua,[1] oca in Spain and Cubio in other spanish-language countries, New Zealand yam and a number of other alternative names. The plant was brought into cultivation in the central and southern Andes for its tubers, which are used as a root vegetable. The plant is not known in the wild, but populations of wild Oxalis species that bear smaller tubers are known from four areas of the central Andean region.[2] Oca was introduced to Europe in 1830 as a competitor to the potato, and to New Zealand as early as 1860.
In New Zealand, oca has become a popular table vegetable and is simply called yam or New Zealand yam (although not a true yam). It is now available in a range of colours, including yellow, orange, pink, apricot, and the traditional red.[3][4]
Cultural significance
Grown primarily by Quechua and Aymara farmers, oca has been a staple of rural Andean diets for centuries.[5] Of all Andean root and tuber crops, oca is currently second only to potato in area planted within the Central Andean region.[3] Oca is important to local food security because of its role in crop rotations and its high nutritional content.
Andean farmers cultivate numerous varieties of oca. Oca diversity may be described with respect to morphological characters, local cultivar names, or molecular markers.
Morphological characters
Oca morphotypes are distinguished by foliar, floral, fruit, stem, and tuber characteristics, as described in the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute's document on oca descriptors.[6] The morphological diversity of oca tubers, in particular, is astounding. Tubers range from 25 to 150 mm in length by 25 mm in width;[7] skin and flesh color may be white, cream, yellow, orange, pink, red, and/or purple and distributed in range of patterns.[6]
Local cultivar names
Oca-growing communities often name varieties based primarily on tuber morphology[8] and secondarily on flavor.[2] For example, common names may include ushpa negra (black ash) or puka panti (red Cosmos peucedanifolius). Great inconsistency of nomenclature has been reported within and among communities.[9]
Molecular markers
Numerous studies have additionally described oca diversity through molecular approaches to study protein and genetic variation. Molecular markers, such as allozymes (e.g., del Río, 1999[10]) and inter-simple sequence repeats (e.g., Pissard et al., 2006[11]), show oca diversity to be low relative to other crops, probably because of its vegetative mode of propagation. While genetic differentiation corresponds well with folk classification,[12] cluster analyses indicate that folk cultivars are not perfect clones, but rather genetically heterogeneous groupings.[11][12]
Oca is one of the highest vegetable sources of carbohydrate and energy. They are a good source of pro-vitamin A (beta carotene), and also contain potassium, vitamin B6 and small amounts of fibre. Yellow-orange coloured varieties indicate the presence of carotenoids; whilst red skins and red specks in flesh indicate the presence of anthocyanins.[4]
Oca is cultivated primarily for its edible stem tuber, but the leaves and young shoots can be eaten as a green vegetable also. Mature stems can be used similarly to rhubarb.[13] Andean communities have various methods to process and prepare tubers, and in Mexico oca is eaten raw with salt, lemon, and hot pepper.[3] The flavour is often slightly tangy, but there is a considerable degree of difference in flavors between varieties and some are not acidic at all.[14] Texture ranges from crunchy (like a carrot) when raw or undercooked, to starchy or mealy when fully cooked.
Use categories
Oca is fairly high in oxalates, concentrated in the skin,[15] and the bioavailability of oxalate appears to be similar to spinach.[16] Significant variation in oxalate concentration exists among varieties, and this variation distinguishes two oca use-categories recognized by Andean farmers.[2]
One use-category, sour oca, contains cultivars with high levels of oxalic acid.[2] Farmers process these tubers to form a usable storage product, called khaya in Quechua.[12] To prepare khaya, tubers are first soaked in water for approximately one month. Then they are left outside during hot, sunny days and cold, freezing nights until they become completely dehydrated.[12] This process is similar to the preparation of chuñu from bitter potatoes. Cultivars in this use category are referred to in Quechua as khaya (name of the dried, processed product) or p'usqu (sour/fermented),[12] and in Aymara as luk'i.[2]
The other use-category, sweet oca, contains cultivars with lower levels of oxalic acid.[2] The traditional Andean preparation methods for this use-category are also geared towards reducing the oxalate level of the harvested vegetable, but without dehydration. This is done by exposure to sunlight, which decreases the organic acid content and thereby increases the sweet taste of the oca.
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Once exposed to sunlight, oca can be boiled, baked or fried. In the Andes it is used in stews and soups, served like potatoes, or can be served as a sweet. Cultivars in this category are referred to in Quechua as wayk'u (boiling), misk'i (sweet/delicious) and in Aymara as q'ini.[2]
Sour oca and sweet oca form distinct genetic clusters based on AFLP data.[17] This suggests the possibility of distinct evolutionary histories for each use-category.
The table to the right displays the nutritional content for fresh and dried oca. Oca is a valuable source of vitamin C,[18] potassium (included in value for ash), and iron.[18] It also provides some protein, with valine and tryptophan its limiting amino acids.[19] Cultivars vary greatly in nutritional content,[19] so these measures should be taken only as approximates. It also ranks high from the nutritional point of view.
Oca is one of the important staple crops of the Andean highlands, due to its easy propagation, and tolerance for poor soil, high altitude and harsh climates.[3]
Oca is planted in the Andean region from Venezuela to Argentina,[20] from 2800 to 4100 meters above sea level.[12] Its highest abundance and greatest diversity are in central Peru and northern Bolivia, the probable area of its domestication.[21]
Climate requirements
Oca needs a long growing season, and is day length dependent, forming tubers when the day length shortens in autumn (around March in the Andes). In addition, oca requires climates with average temperatures of approximately 10 to 12 °C (ranging between 4 and 17 °C) and average precipitation of 700 to 885 millimeters per year.[22]
Oca requires short days in order to form tubers. Outside the tropics, it will not begin to form tubers until approximately the autumn equinox. If frosts occur too soon after the autumn equinox, the plant will die before tubers are produced.[3]
Soil requirements
Oca grows with very low production inputs, generally on plots of marginal soil quality, and tolerates acidities between about pH 5.3 and 7.8.[3] In traditional Andean cropping systems, it is often planted after potato and therefore benefits from persisting nutrients applied to, or left over from, the potato crop.[22]
Oca is usually propagated vegetatively by planting whole tubers.
Propagation by seed is possible but is rarely used in practice.[3] Sexual propagation is complicated by several factors. First, like many other species in the genus Oxalis, oca flowers exhibit tristylous heterostyly and are consequently subject to auto-incompatibility.[23] Furthermore, on the rare occasion that oca plants do produce fruit, their loculicidal capsules dehisce spontaneously, making it difficult to harvest seed.[23] Oca flowers are pollinated by insects (e.g., genera Apis, Megachile, and Bombus).[23] Data regarding the frequency of volunteer hybrids and farmers' subsequent incorporation of them has not yet been published.
Cropping factors
Oca tuber-seeds are planted in the Andes in August or September and harvested from April to June.[22] The first flowers bloom around three to four months after planting, and the tubers also begin to form then.[23] Between planting and harvesting, the oca crop requires little tending, except for a couple of weedings and hillings.[22]
Oca is a component of traditional crop rotations and is usually planted in a field directly after the potato harvest. A common sequence in this rotation system may be one year of potato, one year of oca, one year of oats or faba beans, and two to four years fallow.[22] Within this system, q'allpa is a Quechua term that signifies soil previously cultivated and prepared for planting of a new crop.[22]
The cultural practice is similar to potatoes. Planting is done in rows or hills 80–100 cm apart, with plants spaced 40–60 cm apart in the rows.[24] Monoculture predominates, but interplanting with several other tuber species, including mashua and olluco, in one field is common in Andean production. Often this intercoppng consists of several different varieties of each species. Such mixed fields may later be sorted into tuber types during harvest or before cooking.[3]
Harmine found in root secretions of Oxalis tuberosa has been found to have insecticidal properties.[25]
Yields vary with the cultural method. Annals from Andean countries report about 7-10 tonnes per hectare for Oxalis tuberosa production. But with adequate inputs and virus free propagation material, oca production can range from 35 to 55 tonnes per hectare.[3][20]
Pests and diseases limit the production of oca. Crops in the Andes are often infected with viruses, causing chronic yield depression. Adequate techniques to remove viruses have to be applied before the varieties can be used outside the Andean region.[3] Cultivation is also constrained by the Andean potato weevil (Premnotrypes spp), ulluco weevil (Cylydrorhinus spp), and oca weevil, the identification of which remains uncertain (possibly Adioristidius, Mycrotrypes, or Premnotrypes). These weevils often destroy entire crops. Further notable pests are nematodes.[20]
As already mentioned, both day-length restrictions and the presence of oxalates can also be considered limiting factors. Scientists work with specific breeding, selection, and virus cleaning programs on these purposes.[3]
Agricultural potential
Potential distribution to other suitable ecogeographical zones of, for example, Asia and Africa may be possible. The cultivation and use of a fleshy pink variety[15] of Oxalis tuberosa in New Zealand already indicates a wider utilization and agricultural interest than has been previously recognized.[19]
Conservation efforts
A number of ongoing ex situ and in situ conservation projects currently focus on the preservation of Oxalis tuberosa diversity.[26] The International Potato Center (CIP) in Peru has several hundred accessions of oca collected from regions in Bolivia, Argentina and Peru to help ensure and maintain diversity. Currently, there are further efforts to collect accession of oca in regions where habitat destruction and pests are threatening diversity of wild oca accessions.
Alternative names
- Apilla in Bolivia
- Apiña in Bolivia and Peru
- Batata-baroa or mandioquinha (literally, "little mandioca") in Brazil, a name shared with the unrelated arracacha
- Cuiba or quiba in Venezuela[27]
- Hibia or Cubio in Colombia
- Macachin or miquichi in Venezuela[27]
- Papa extranjera in Mexico[27]
- Huasisai, Qua or ibi in Peru,
- Truffette acide in France[28]
- Yam in many other places, such as Polynesia and New Zealand,[15] where the Dioscorea vegetables known elsewhere as yams are generally very uncommon.
See also
- ↑ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Bradbury, E. J., & Emshwiller, E. (2011). The Role of Organic Acids in the Domestication of Oxalis tuberosa: A New Model for Studying Domestication Resulting in Opposing Crop Phenotypes 1. Econ Bot, 1–9.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 National Research Council. (1989). Lost Crops of the Incas: Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.
- 1 2 Yans grown in New Zealand originate from the South American where they are known as oca
- ↑ "Oca, Ulluco, and Mashua": http://www.cipotato.org/roots-and-tubers/oca-ulluco-mashua
- 1 2 IPGRI-CIP. 2001. Descriptores de oca. IPGRI, Rome, Italy; CIP, Lima, Peru.
- ↑ Martin, R.J., Savage, G.P., Deo, B., Halloy, S.R.P. and Fletcher, P.J. 2005. Development of new oca lines in New Zealand. Acta Hort. (ISHS) 670:87-92. http://www.actahort.org/books/670/670_9.htm
- ↑ Terrazas, F. and G. Valdivia. 1998. Spatial dynamics of in situ conservation: handling the genetic diversity of Andean tubers in mosaic systems. Pl Genet Res Newl 114: 9-15.
- ↑ Ramirez, M. 2002. On farm conservation of minor tubers in Peru: the dynamics of oca (Oxalis tuberosa) landrace management in a peasant community. Plant Genet Res Newsl 132: 1-9.
- ↑ del Río, A.H. 1990. Análisis de la variación isoenzimática de Oxalis tuberosa Molina "oca" y su distribución geográfica. Thesis, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru.
- 1 2 Pissard, A., Ghislain, M., & Bertin, P. (2006). Genetic diversity of the Andean tuber-bearing species, oca (Oxalis tuberosa Mol.), investigated by inter-simple sequence repeats. Genome 49(1), 8–16. doi:10.1139/g05-084
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Emshwiller, E. 2006. Evolution and conservation of clonally propagated crops: Insights from AFLP data and folk taxonomy of the Andean tuber oca (Oxalis tuberosa). Pages 308–346 in T. J. Motley, N. Zerega, and H. Cross, eds., Darwin's Harvest: New Approaches to the Origins, Evolution, and Conservation of Crops. Columbia University Press, New York.
- ↑ https://www.cultivariable.com/oca-pie/
- ↑ https://www.cultivariable.com/oca-what-does-it-taste-like/
- 1 2 3 Albihn, P. B. E.; and Savage, G. P. (2001). "The effect of cooking on the location and concentration of oxalate in three cultivars of New Zealand-grown oca (Oxalis tuberosa Mol)". Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 81: 1027-1033.
- ↑ The Bioavailability of Oxalate from Oca (Oxalis tuberosa)
- ↑ Eve Emshwiller, Terra Theim, Alfredo Grau, Victor Nina and Franz Terrazas. (2009). Origins of domestication and polyploidy in oca (Oxalis tuberosa: Oxalidaceae) 3: AFLP data of oca and four wild, tuber-bearing taxa. Am J Bot 96(10): 1839-1848.
- 1 2 Hermann, M., & Erazo, C. (2000). Compositional changes of oca tubers following post-harvest exposure to sunlight. CIP Program Report, 391–396.
- 1 2 3 King, S. R., & Gershoff, S. N. (1987). Nutritional evaluation of three underexploited Andean tubers: Oxalis tuberosa (Oxalidaceae), Ullucus tuberosus (Basellaceae), and Tropaeolum tuberosum (Tropaeolaceae). Econ Bot 41(4), 503–511.
- 1 2 3 Sperling, C.R.; and King, S.R. (1990). "Advances in new crops: Worldwide potential.". J. Janick and J.E. Simon (eds.). Advances in new crops. Timber Press, Portland, OR. p. 428-435.
- ↑ Arbizu, C., and Tapia, M. 1992. Tubérculos andinos. In Cultivos marginados: otra perspectiva de 1492. Edited by J.E. Hernández Bermajo and S. León. FAO, Rome, Italy. pp. 147–161.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gonzales, S., Terrazas, F., Almanza, J., & Condori, P. (2003). Producción de oca (Oxalis tuberosa), papalisa (Ullucus tuberosus), e isaño (Tropaeolum tuberosum) ( No. 20). (X. Cadima, W. García, & J. Ramos, Eds.)Importancia, zonas productoras, manejo y limitantes (pp. 1–46). Cochabamba, Bolivia: PROINPA.
- 1 2 3 4 Carrión, S., Hermann, M., & Trognitz, B. (1995). La biología reproductive de la oca. Boletín de Lima, 48–68. Lima.
- ↑ M. Frére, J. Rea, J.Q. Rijks (1975) Ullucus tuberosus. In:Estudio agroclimatolgico de la zona Andina (informe tecnico). Organizacion de las naciones unidas para la alimentacion y la agriculture, Rome.
- ↑ Pal Bais, Harsh; Sang-Wook Parka; Frank R. Stermitzb; Kathleen M. Halliganb; Jorge M. Vivancoa (18 June 2002). "Exudation of fluorescent b-carbolines from Oxalis tuberosa L. roots" (PDF). Phytochemistry. 61 (5): 539–543. doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(02)00235-2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-02.
- ↑ Taraprasad(Programmer), Nishant(Designer) and. "Oca Diversity and its Conservation Status - International Potato Center". International Potato Center. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
- 1 2 3 Cadima Fuentes X., 2006. Tubérculos. In: Moraes R. et al., eds. Botánica económica de los Andes Centrales. La Paz, Bolivia: Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, 347-369.
- ↑ Arbizu C., Huamán Z. & Golmirzaie A., 1997. Other andean roots and tubers. In: Fuccillo D., Sears L. & Stapleton P., eds. Biodiversity in trust: conservation and use of plant genetic resources in CGIAR centres. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 39-56.
Further reading
- Davidson, Alan. Oxford Companion to Food (1999). "Oca", p. 547 ISBN 0-19-211579-0
External links
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Oxalis tuberosa.
- Oca in Lost Crops of the Incas
- NewCROP page on oca
- Andean root and tuber crops at the International Potato Center
- Oca, ulluco, and mashua at the International Potato Center
- Oxalis tuberosa at Plants for a Future
- Ian Pearson's blog on growing oca in the UK


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