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Foxes use the Earth's magnetic field as a targeting system
It's winter on a British meadow, and a red fox is on the prowl. The snow-covered ground masks the sight of its prey but the fox can still hear the telltale rustle of a mouse. It creeps forward slowly, listening intently with erect ears. Once it pinpoints the mouse's location, it leaps into the air to surprise its prey with a strike from above. This pounce, known as 'mousing', is a common sight but there's more to it than meets the eye. Jaroslav Červený has found that when red foxes pounce, they mostly jump in a north-easterly direction. He thinks that they're using the Earth's magnetic field to hunt.
Červený spent over two years studying wild red foxes in the Czech Republic, with the help of a 23-strong team of wildlife biologists and experienced hunters. The team recorded almost 600 mousing jumps, performed by 84 foxes at a wide variety of locations and times.
They found that foxes strongly prefer to jump in a north-easterly direction, around 20 degrees off from magnetic north. This fixed heading was important for their success as hunters. They were more likely to make a kill if they jumped along their preferred axis, particularly if their prey was hidden by high cover or snow. If they pounced to the north-east, they killed on 73% of their attacks; if they jumped in the opposite direction, they success rate stayed at 60%. In all other directions, only 18% of their pounces were successful.
Could the foxes be taking their direction from the environment? Červený thinks not. He found that the animals leapt in the same direction regardless of the time of day, season of year, cloud cover, or wind direction. Červený thinks that the only remaining explanation is that foxes align their pounces to the Earth's magnetic field.
John Philips, who studies magnetic senses at Virginia Tech, says "The challenge (and the fun) for anyone interested is to come up with [another] explanation that can explain the data. The strength of the authors' conclusions are only as good as the inability of anyone else to come up with an alternative hypothesis."
Roswitha Wiltschko, one of the pioneers who deciphered the magnetic sense of birds, says, "The findings are really astonishing." But she also thinks that they're speculative. "This explanation… has plausibility only because there's hardly any other mechanism that indicates directions."
Červený suggests that a red fox could use the Earth's magnetic field as a "rangefinder", to estimate the distance to its prey and make a more accurate pounce. This targeting system works because the Earth's magnetic field tilts downward in the northern hemisphere, at an angle of 60-70 degrees below the horizontal. As the fox creeps forward, it listens for the sound of a mouse. It's searching for that sweet spot where the angle of the sound hitting its ears matches the slope of the Earth's magnetic field. At that spot, the fox knows that it's a fixed distance away from its prey, and it knows exactly how far to jump to land upon it.
Philips explains it very well. He says, "Imagine you had a flashlight attached to your belt that was pointed down at the ground at a fixed angle of say 60 degrees. The beam of the flashlight would hit the ground at a fixed distance in front of you. If you were trying to determine the exact location of a sound source coming from the ground in front, you could approach until the beam was exactly superimposed on the sound source. This would place you at a fixed distance from the source. As you attacked such targets again and again, you could perfect a highly stereotyped leap that precisely lands you accurately on the target."
This would explain why the direction of the pounce matters most when the prey is hidden. If the fox can see its quarry, it can easily estimate distance using its eyes. But if its view is obscured by grass or snow, it needs other senses. If Červený is correct, then the red fox is unique in many ways. It would be the first animal known to use a magnetic sense to hunt, and the first to use magnetic fields to estimate distance rather than direction or position.
Many living things can sense magnetic fields. I wrote a feature for New Scientist last month which explores how birds – the best-studied magnetic detectors – do it. Other animals have a magnetic sense too, such as sharks and rays, turtles, ants, lobsters, beetles, bats and mole rats.
The list also includes cow and deer. In 2008, Červený's group, led by Hynek Burda, found that herds of cow and deer also tend to align in a north-south line like living compass needles. Spying on the animals with Google Earth satellites, Burda's team showed that they tend to face magnetic north regardless of wind strength, time of day, or the position of the sun. A year later, they found more evidence that these animals are influenced by a magnetic sense: their neat lines could be disrupted by high-voltage power lines, which produce strong magnetic fields. The nearer the herds get to the lines, the more chaotic their positions.
In all of these cases – be they cows of birds – it's not entirely clear what the point of having a magnetic sense is. For example, it's reasonable to think that magnetic compasses and maps could help migrating animals to find their way, especially when visibility is poor or landmarks aren't obvious. That makes sense, but there's little hard data to back it up. Červený's study is one of the first to demonstrate a clear benefit – red foxes hunt more successfully if they jump in the right direction.
How might a fox's magnetic sense work? No one knows and that's the killer piece of evidence that Červený lacks. It's not an easy question to answer either. Magnetic senses have been studied most thoroughly in birds, and after decades of research, scientists are only starting to uncover its inner workings. It is, perhaps, the most fiendish of all senses to study.
You can't deliberately switch off the Earth's magnetic field or tune it down. Other senses are linked to openings in the body like eyes, ears and mouths, but there's no obvious place to look for a magnetic sense organ because magnetic fields are pervasive and pass through the body. And a magnetic sense typically works together with others such as vision or (in the case of the fox) hearing; isolating it is at best difficult and at worst irrelevant.
Nonetheless, we can make guesses about how a fox's magnetic sense might work. Aside from sharks, animals sense magnetic fields using one of two basic methods. The first involves clustered crystals of magnetite, an iron mineral that line up according to magnetic fields. Depending on their direction, the crystals either repel or attract one another, creating tiny forces that could be picked up by proteins. The moving crystals could even open or close molecular gates on the surface of nerve cells. Either way, the crystals convert a magnetic field into a nervous signal.
The second method is used by birds and involves a molecule called cryptochrome, which is found in the retina. When light strikes cryptochrome, it shunts an electron over to a partner molecule called FAD. The result is a pair of 'radicals' – molecules with a solo electron. These unpaired electrons have a property called "spin" and they can either spin together, or in opposite directions. The two states can flip from one to another, and they lead to different chemical outcomes. This is where the Earth's magnetic field comes in: it acts like a switch that influences the flips. In doing so, it can affect the outcome of the radical pair's chemical reactions.
All of this happens in the eyes of common birds, such as robins or warblers. This is why you can deactivate a robin's internal compass by blindfolding it. In fact, you could make it lose its bearings by blindfolding just its right eye, or covering it with a frosted goggle. Some scientists have suggested that robins and other birds can literally see magnetic fields, as a sort of heads-up display. The fields could appear as light or dark patches (or even colours) that lay on top of what the bird normally sees.
It's tantalising to imagine foxes hunting with just such a display, and Červený mentions the possibility. However, that's just speculation. As Wiltschko points out, we only know that the radical pairs contribute to the magnetic sense of birds – they've never been found in mammals. But at least now, we have an obvious place to look.
Ken Lohmann, who studies the magnetic senses of turtles and lobsters, thinks that Červený's next move should be to disrupt the magnetic field around the fox to see if that interferes with their ability to catch mice. "If this is the case, then it would greatly strengthen the conclusions," he says. "But doing such a study will obviously be very challenging, given that it would involve altering the magnetic field over a large, outdoor area!"
Reference: Červený, Begall, Koubek, Novakova & Burda. 2010. Directional preference may enhance hunting accuracy in foraging foxes. Biology Letters http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2010.1145
Image by Eric Magnuson
More on magnetic senses:
- How birds see magnetic fields – an interview with Thorsten Ritz
- How birds see magnetic fields – an interview with Klaus Schulten
- Robins can literally see magnetic fields, but only if their vision is sharp
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Has anyone done a study into how birds escape prey in fight/flight responses? Would it be possible that birds use a magnetic field as a innate direction tool when escaping a prey, the fox might find it useful to adopt such a mechanism as a fast bird could take off in that direction, increasing the likelihood of a successful kill.
Is anybody combing the fields and forests looking for confused/dead foxes due to the recent pole shifts? Just like the birds in the center of the country, and the fish in other parts of the world. Why has no one published anything connecting the pole shifts to the recent mass animal deaths?
It would be an interesting follow-up to compare with the introduced European fox population in Australia. Do foxes align to field strength or field direction?
I think it would depend on strength of their sense.
Could have to do with a large number of things, but I think you could rule out a lot if the strength of the sense is determined.
They'll be renumbering their runways, soon
"As you attacked such targets again and again, you could perfect a highly stereotyped leap that precisely lands you accurately on the target."
As a movement scientist, this caught my eye; the obvious question is, how stereotyped are the jumps? Trying to test the use of a magnetic sense should be like testing the use of other perceptual information: see how it's contributing to action.
You could also perturb the magnetic fields, in the lab anyway – but this would be a better test, because you could leave sound and vision unperturbed but push the magnetic field around. If behaviour followed that perturbation, you'd have strong evidence.
Very cool, though!
Could it be instead that mice sense the magnetic field and preferentially move in the north-easterly direction? And foxes simply pounce in that direction out of experience?
Does the presence of high voltage lines nearby disrupt the ability of foxes to hunt?
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It would be an interesting follow-up to compare with the introduced European fox population in Australia.
This would mean that You had to import that
thing named "snow" as well :=)
Maybe they could make a couple of grad students carry around an NMR magnet during the observations 😉
Haven't they done previous studies in the laboratory where they study the use of magnetism in birds by disrupting magnetic north with a stronger local magnet? They could try this in fox pouncing in the lab and see if it really does disrupt the pounce, all they'd have to do would be to shift it by a few degrees to make their point.
I'm not sure do you have a link to this?
20 degrees off could provide some relevance into the situation, would this angle be more likely to cross the path of an escaping target? Just because I got curious I started drawing predator and prey circles on a bit of paper and and projecting 20degree variance's in the fox with a birds more accurate escape route it could help the foxs lag overcome the quick bird without much degree of sophisticated thinking from the fox.
[pedantrymode] The reference should be 2011, not 2010 [/pedantrymode]
The experimental difficulty is not all that difficult. Instead of observing lots of foxes to find a similar behavior across bunches of them, you'd now be satisfied with a smaller number of observations, as long as they showed a significant difference from the norm. That means simply observing near high-tension wires. One could test for masking of the earth's magnetic field to delimit the search area. As long as you are in a high-fox area, you are as likely to observe a fox sitting still in the magnetic mess area as elsewhere. Unless foxes have learned that mice are harder to catch there and so hunt elsewhere. Learning that foxes don't like to hunt near high-tension wires would take lots more observation, but would certainly be interesting to know.
Does "mousing" take place in grass cover as well as in snow cover, I wonder? There may be better visual information in grass than snow but far from perfect, I'd guess.
@SciCurious the problem with controlling magnetic fields is that it takes a relatively very large setup to affect the fields in a small area. And then the question is: will foxes even try hunting if you stick them into a helmholtz coil anyway?
It sounds like foxes only resort to magnetic field sensing under pretty limited conditions, which might be hard to find under existing power lines. It should be possible to simply bury a set of long wires in a field, let some mice nest there, and control the varying current of the wires. Won't be able to cancel earth's field that way, though.
Testing the mice in the lab would definitely be an interesting first step, if only because they are that much smaller.
Doing a REALLY short search (obs this is not my expertise) I did find a study which strapped magnets to birds and got some disruption, but not a lot:
So rather than attempting to disrupt the foxes in the lab, you could attach a backpack or do an implant or something and then let the fox go and see what happens?
Andrea: Could it be instead that mice sense the magnetic field and preferentially move in the north-easterly direction? And foxes simply pounce in that direction out of experience?
Since mice live in tunnels under the snow, wouldn't they simply be following the tunnel in one or other direction? I'd think that the fox (or its instinct) would know that. The fox may e.g. be jumping in some preferred angle to the tunnel after locating it by listening. The angle would be determined by how the fox uses its body to encroach on its prey. It wouldn't eplain why foxes miss when the tunnel is differently oriented, though. Unless it's happening when the mouse is sitting still. Or perhaps such cases are just short turns around natural obstacles. And, of course, this wouldn't be less puzzling, since it would mean that mice dig tunnels mainly in one particular angle to the magnetic field.
But probably not — surely somebody studying mice would have noticed.
Just curious – has there been any experimentation on human interactions with magnetic fields? I'm just wondering if that might be a practical explanation for feng shui and the human tendency not just to order things, but to put them in a certain order.
@ Jim (#20): We know humans have magnetite crystals in their brains. What are they for, however, is still mystery.
Ed, in your interviews and studies on animal/magnetic field interactions, what have you found out regarding the resolution with which magnetic fields are sensed? With sharks, from what I remember, they are able to sense magnetic fields in hunting with extreme precision.
But in the realm of birds/mammals I run into a logic leap when you try to connect generalized direction-finding (the cow example, bird migration paths), which allow considerable distance errors (tens of meters, say), and the precision hunting method of mousing. The fox would only be allowed centimeters or less of error.
I guess I am curious if that's a realistic scale for a mammal to sense using magnetism. I understand that it's difficult to distill away from hearing, smell, but it's a glaring question mark for me.
It should be easy to add to the dataset by moving foxes to a different latitudes than they matured in, and seeing if they consistently overshoot or undershoot prey. Moving them across the equator ought to have predictable effects too.
Red Foxes occur here in the US, as well, and a different latitude should produce a different angle on the jumps. I realize that we're talking about a different population and a different prey species, but the proposed mechanism seems like it shouldn't be affected by those things. If you found a similar bias here, that would be a pretty nice confirmation.
Large ore bodies can cause anomalies in the earths local magnetic field, which can effect a large geographic area. There are also areas of unexplained magnetic anomalies. Both of these anomalies can be quite large and the magnetic field anomaly causes incorrect whole field magnetic north bearings. Theoretically foxes living and hunting in areas with known magnetic anomalies would be impacted and their pounce direction would vary as they moved around the anomaly area. Also as a really out there correlation – sunspot activity can alter magnetic north bearing for a period of time, compare the variance in pouncing direction to sunspot activity.
How about sunlight as an alternative suggestion? They might learn that if they pounce facing into the sun or where their shadow obscure the target they are less likely to be successful. Doesn't explain why they don't pounce southwards though. Hmmm. There must be another explanation!
From lots of trapping I've never noticed mice or voles having a preferred tunnel direction, which normally correlate to things like grass tussocks and hole locations.
I wouldn't be surprised if mice align to the Northeast naturally if deer do the same thing. It would be interesting to see if their tunnels align that direction or 90 degrees opposite.
I would imagine that a mouse, hearing a suspicious noise, might align his ears along the axis of his tunnel to amplify sounds, and then run for his life, either along the tunnel, or through its wall into deep snow. If the mouse tends to try to escape along a northeast axis, it certainly would behoove the fox to pounce in that direction, as the mouse can only run quickly in one direction.
It also may well help the fox to pounce to the Northeast, if mouse tunnels tend to be in that direction, as it may increase his chances of putting his snout directly into the tunnel, all the better to smell which direction the mouse has headed. I seem to remember watching films of these foxes who would pounce, and then snap in a new direction(s) before actually capturing the prey.
Running statistical tests in the wild, while deliberately messing with the magnetic field, has a big problem.
Since the foxes are reliant upon an alignment with something, and that something might the be the geomagnetic field, you risk reducing their hunting success rate from 73 to 18%. That's a big deal to a wild animal. The test subjects could have dramatically higher mortality if your test is "successful".
If I'm not mistaken, mice form a major part of the foxes diet. It's their 'main course', or at least one of them. Substituting food sources is plausible in summer but quite difficult in winter.
It might be more humane and controllable to perform such tests on captive animals.
Of course we must never forget that foxes are fairly intelligent. It's possible that they could learn any systematic deviation to a magnetosense and compensate.
I went searching for maps of tunnel systems, with no result. I did find a few photos of exposed tunnels, though, and they don't support any alignment.
But I couldn't spend much time on this, so others may do better.
I'm not sure this explanation makes much sense. Isn't it much easier to determine angle from the inner ear fluids than with magnetic fields? I can sense my own head angle and I don't need to sense magnetic fields to do it.
This is giving me some ideas for fiction…
There's a couple of obvious thoughts.
1: The Earth's magnetic poles are moving, and there's nothing unusual in that. The magnetic declination changes by maybe half a degree per decade, in Europe. It depends where you are.
2: It also varies by location. There's a 30-degree shift between Texas and Maine.
Looking at possible European locations with foxes and snow, a 5-degree difference seems fairly easy. 10 degrees change is a bit of a stretch. That should be enough, with a repeat of the observations in another part of Europe, to confirm whether this is linked to the geomagnetic field.
A lack of this behavior might be done to the fox population being of a different sub-species, and that would be interesting in other ways.


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Friday, March 6, 2015
Landslide in store for the next province to hit the hustings
The Official Opposition leader will have the least amount of time for voters to get to know him, as the party was the last to fill the slot. And the party has had a very tough time. Since the last election, the caucus has been reduced significantly due to floor-crossing and the departure of its leader, who could no longer sit with her party in the legislature. It's been a whirlwind few years in Charlottetown.
Wait, did you think I was talking about Alberta?
Why no, this political drama has been taking place in Canada's littlest province!
Some background before we get to the latest numbers from Prince Edward Island:
That new premier is Wade MacLauchlan, who was just a few weeks ago named as former premier Robert Ghiz's replacement. His party took 22 of 27 seats in the 2011 provincial election, leaving the Progressive Conservatives under Olive Crane to provide a tiny opposition (to put it into perspective, a similarly sized opposition in the House of Commons would have 57 seats).
The Tories have been in turmoil for most of the last few years. Crane announced she would resign as leader at the end of 2012, and MLA Hal Perry took over Official Opposition duties. But then Steven Myers won the interim leadership in early 2013, and for a confusing few days Perry wanted to stay as opposition leader as Myers ran the party. That didn't last very long, and by the end of the year Perry crossed the floor to the Liberals and Crane was booted out of the party and has been sitting as an independent ever since.
Rob Lantz was named the new leader of the PCs on February 28, and will be one of four rookie leaders in the upcoming campaign. Mike Redmond will be leading the NDP and Peter Bevan-Baker will head up the Greens. In 2011, the leaders of these respective parties had been James Rodd and Sharon Labchuk.
The new poll by Corporate Research Associates shows that the Liberals are doing very well under MacLauchlan (though he was named Liberal leader on February 21, late into CRA's polling dates, nominations closed at the end of January and MacLauchlan was the only candidate). The party led with 58% support, up eight points since CRA's previous survey of Nov. 5-25.
The Progressive Conservatives were up slightly by three points to 26% (their numbers are pre-Lantz), while the NDP and Greens were down three and seven points to 12% and 4%, respectively.
None of these shifts were outside the margin of error.
Nevertheless, this is the best number the Liberals have put up in any poll since August 2011, just before the last election. And this after a period of stability, as the party was polling between 48% and 53% between November 2013 and November 2014. Indeed, with only a few exceptions, the party has barely wavered from the 50% mark since the last vote.
The NDP has been steadily dropping, however, and this latest poll is their worst since February 2012.
The Greens were at an anomalous 11% in November, so the drop of seven points is somewhat exaggerated. Normally, the party polls between 3% and 7%, so they are well-within those levels.
With such a wide lead over the opposition, MacLauchlan would preside over another landslide if an election were held today. He'd likely win 25 seats, with the Tories taking the other two. Again, to put that into perspective, that is the equivalent of a government winning 285 seats in the current 308-seat House of Commons, with the opposition winning the remaining 23.
On who would make the best premier, MacLauchlan was well ahead with 42%, one point up on Ghiz's performance in November and better than any numbers Ghiz managed since the last election. Myers, in his last poll as interim leader, was at just 10%, while Redmond was at 14%. That was a drop of three points and his lowest number as NDP leader.
Prince Edward Islanders seem satisfied with the government, with 44% saying they are completely or mostly satisfied, compared to 30% who are dissatisfied. The remaining 26% aren't sure, an understandably big jump from 8% in November considering the change in leadership.
So MacLauchlan stands a strong chance of securing a mandate of his own when the next election is called. The wildcard will certainly be Lantz, who has a chance to give the Tories a fresh face and a new start. With so few voters in the province to persuade (75,000 in 2011), dramatic swings can easily occur. But the hill may be too high to climb for Lantz in such a short time.
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wow, 1 MLA for every 2778 voters. that's ridiculous.ReplyDelete
almost as ridiculous as them having 4 seats in the HOC and Senate.Replies
At some point, you need a minimum amount of MLAs. Being a province, they have all the same responsibilities as Ontario. Can't have much of a cabinet (and an opposition) if you have a dozen MLAs.Delete
true, but the associated costs just make government costs more of a burden on the taxpayers.. but i guess they get those equalization payments.Delete
or they could just make it part of NB
They could make MLA a volunteer position and not pay them. Like the town council of a small village.Delete
But to allow for a cabinet and opposition, they probably need at least 24 MLAs.
I don't see the problem with that at all. They do have more seats than the 3 territories, which makes sense because PEI has about as many people as 4 territories. If anything, the HoC should just get more MPs to balance it out.Delete
Eric, you linked to a 2007 article. The size of the PEI MLA is misleading as it's there is no lower level of government for 31% of the population and 70% of the island. Really, they are a small town in the guise of a province. On average, there as a 310 gap between first and second or 11.6% of the voters. That's more than just a few people changing their minds.ReplyDelete
This modelling exercise brings up the question of how sensitive the model is to polling margin of error?Replies
Whoops, sorry. Fixed the link.Delete
The ranges are meant to take into account during an election campaign. For now, I just plug the numbers in and get a hard result.
I understand the ranges, but PEI is an interesting example of where the model breaks down. For 2011, the ranges were only 1 seat wide, but that seems quite tight when all polls had a margin error of +/- 5.7%, putting the Liberals and PC in a plausable tie within the margins.Delete
I was using a different system in 2011, the current system would have wider ranges.Delete
Total ridiculous... How does a province with a total population of 140,000 justify 27 MLAs?ReplyDelete
Add that to their 4 Federal MPs.. mayor and 10 councilors of Charlotetown There is basically nobody left on the Island to pick potatoes and pretend they are Anne of Green Gables.
If small province Manitoba used the same representation model as PEI instead of 56 there would be MLAs there would be 233 MLAs
In BC we would go from 85 to 847!!!
Since the BC MLA is doing 10 times the "work" as a PEI MLA they should get paid 10 times more than than the 68K the PEI gets paid 680K instead of the 102K they get.
The base salary for a BC MLA 102 K and theReplies
Quit hyperventilating, a province needs enough MLAs to run it. And we can play your game forever. Why, Ontario has just 107 MPPs for 13.6 million people, or one for every 127,000. Why on earth does BC need 85 MLAs? They can make do with just 36! Manitoba needs just 10! And PEI can have just one.Delete
Well said. But I think BCVoR seems to enjoy hyperventilating.
LOL, well done, Éric!Delete
Well said, Éric!Delete
You have a point: WE do have too much government in BC and for sure in Manitoba where I also lived.Delete
The millions upon millions could be much better spent on infrastructure than on a job creation program for the political elite.
I more apt comparison is the NWT which has 45K people and 19 MLAs.Delete
Leaving aside the size of government discussion, people who suggest cutting beaurcracy to pay for infrastructure have things completely out of proportion. Assuming the $2.8M per year currently spent of PEI governance was the same value as compared to inflation of construction costs, then since Confederation a sum total of 114km could have been built instead. Even in PEI, this is only half way across the province.Delete
I'm suprised the Lieutenant Governor wasn't on the list.
But $2.8 million sounds like such a BIG NUMBER.Delete
BCVoR - If PEI wants to be that inefficient, that's up the them. That's why we have provinces - so smaller groups of people can decide how they are governed.Delete
Don't like it? Don't live there.
How the heck does the City of Kelowna do it?ReplyDelete
I am taking Kelowna as a representative city with the same population as PEI. I feel comfortable the same would apply to Trois Rivieres or Kingston.
Same population as all of PEI and Kelowna gets along with 1 mayor and 8 Councillors... (Councillors get 32K/year) They get 1 federal MP... not to themselves as the Federal riding of Kelowna also includes a suburb: Lake Country.
They get almost 2 provincial MPs: Kelowna-Mission and Kelowna-Lake Country.
So there is total of 12 politicians representing the 140,000 people of Kelowna. Total salaries of politicians in Kelowna:
Mayor 90,000
Councillors 8 * 32,000= 256,000
Grand total: $714,000
I would venture to say that Kelowna has all the functions and services that are required and would have a larger GDP than PEI.
Kelowna does not get the Federal equalization payments of 340 Million that PEI requires to support their political upper class.
41 full time well paid politicians.... another 9 part timers from Summerside
27 MLAs 27 * 67,000= 1,809,000
Mayor of Charlottetown = 48,000
Councillors: 8 @ 23,000 = 184,000
Total 2,681,000
You can basically double both totals when you count in pension and benefits,
It is pure unadulterated BS that PEI is a have not province that needs equalization payment when they can afford somewhere well around 4 times the expense of government in most jurisdictions in Canada.
It is an obvious problem when the "leaders" are using up way more than their share of the resources.
It is not an income problem.... it is a spending problem.Replies
"I would venture to say that Kelowna has all the functions and services that are required and would have a larger GDP than PEI."Delete
That is just wrong. PEI has to run the province's health care system and education system, along with a myriad of other things that are provincial responsibilities. Kelowna does not have any of these responsibilities, and has no more than Charlottetown has.
Kelowna has 2 representatives on the provincial government that represents and directs the bureaucracy that delivers Education and Health care.Delete
These two people are adequate representation for Kelowna . Why do the 140,000 people getting health and education services need 27 representatives in PEI.
Does it result in better quality of services?
Éric, you don't understand. BCVoR doesn't think education and health should be paid by the province, hence the reason why the PEI provincial government has the same responsabilities as the Kelowna municipal structure. If that is not the case, I cannot fathom how someone who presents himself as knowing the political environment in Canada can advance such a claim...Delete
@BC Voice of Reason. On this one, you're not making much logical 'Reason'. Kelowna can get by on 8 Councillors as they're governing a land mass of 62 sq/km or about equal the size of my neighbourhood here in Ottawa (land mass 2700 sq/km, which also happens to be over 4 times the land mass of Toronto and 25 times the land mass of Vancouver!). PEI is over 5,000 sq/km of governance. Heck, I guess that means Nunavut which has 22 MLAs for a population of 32,000, should only have about 4 MLAs...think of all the tie votes there'd be in the legislature...how'd that be for productive government! BUT these 22 Nunavut MLAs represent a land mass of +2 MILLION sq/km. I don't think people in Kugluktuk would be very happy to have an MLA representing them who lives in Iqaluit or the folks of Grise Fiord in Nunavut's most northerly community be represented 2200km away in Sanikiluaq, Nunavut's most southern community. The smaller a province/territory's population is, it's rather obvious that proportionately to its total population that it needs a large government/public service in order to provide the same level of public services as in a Province about 100 times larger. In business, it's called fixed costs (i.e. costs that are there no matter how small or big you are), yet no one on here is ranting about hallowed private sector fixed costs. If PEI are so over-represented, then why in the heck did the so-called 'smaller government federal Conservatives' feel the need to add a ridiculous 30 additional seats to the House, which just happens to be 3 more than all the MLAs in PEI?Delete
Why 30 more MPs? Because a basic pillar of democracy was being defeated. Representation by population.Delete
The correct fix was to have a re-distribution of seats to represent today's Canada. But the entrenched entitlements of PEI (down 3 seats) Atlantic Canada down 8 seats and Quebec down 3 seats and their inability to do the right thing results in having to add more seats to get closer to ideal.
In another 20-30 years there will be 400+ MPs as BC and Alberta start reaching their potential.
As to your absurd argument that 27 MLAs are required to cover PEI's huge land mass!! That is almost to crazy to comment.
The absolutely largest drive from Charlottetown is is 1 hr 50 minutes to Tignish. The drive to Summerside is less than 1 hour.
These are somewhat common commutes for far more than 140,000 people in the GTA.
The fixed costs are in the delivery of services, which PEI certainly has, but how does having your own private MLA is just unnecessary overhead.
Elected representation in no way equates with level of public services.
The problem with your suggestion of redistribution is the Canadian Constitution, which guarantees PEI a minimum of 4 senators and an equal minimum of MPs. Furthermore, Section 51A rule 2, does not allow the number of seats to be reduced below 1985 levels. So that also strikes off your reductions in NS and NB, unless you think Harper can pull off a Constitutional amendment?Delete
@BCVoR, the point I'm trying to make is PEI, while obviously the country's smallest Provincial jurisdiction, is still vastly larger than Kelowna; 89 times larger to be precise (oh and the drive across Kelowna is about 15 minutes, so what's your point?) and a Province, regardless of size still requires a FIXED amount of services and ministries and local representation...like my Nunavut analogy above would people in Summerside want to be represented by an MLA from Charlottetown? Harper, with all of his Minsters of State for this and that handed out to his ultra loyalists has a massive cabinet. What do you expect PEI to do, have 8 MLAs like Kelowna has 8 councillors? If the Libs, Cons and NDP in PEI were split 3-3-2, who would form the government? Or how about if one party swept all 8 seats, who would be the opposition? In addition, you still need a Speaker of the House and a Premier, so with that you have 6 other sitting MLAs. So then what, the governing party has 2 MLAs in cabinet, a Minister of Finance and then a Minister of Everything Else? Why don't we just relocate PEI's house to a local Timmies in the process and sit at a couple of benches sipping coffee and eating taxpayer-funded donuts? Explain to me how you can operate a Provincial/Territorial legislature, including a Premier, Speaker, Ministers, Back Benchers, Leader of the Official Opposition, Opposition Caucus without a minimum number of representatives? With political parties, 27 seems about as low to me as you can possibly go to accomplish all of the above. Nunavut can get away with 22 MLAs because a) their population is 1/4 that of PEI and b) there are no political parties in Nunavut to worry about to represent an Official Opposition.Delete
Do you see the Globe eGaming story as a factor in the polls or just a distraction?ReplyDelete
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BEIJING – Former US President Bill Clinton met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il Tuesday during a surprise visit billed as a mission to secure the release of two American reporters sentenced to 12 years in jail for illegal entry.
The trip to Pyongyang is intended to free Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who were arrested in March on the China-North Korea border (here's a picture of the two women on a poster seeking their freedom).
But it's the highest profile visit by any past or present United States leader since former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright visited the country six years ago. As such, it holds out the rare prospect of direct talks between the US and North Korea at a time of rising tensions over North Korea's nuclear program. The secretive state has hinted recently that it wants bilateral dialogue with the US instead of six-way talks with regional powers.
How broad was the conversation?
North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said that Mr. Clinton and Mr. Kim had "a wide-ranging exchange of views on the matters of common concern" and that Clinton brought a message from US President Barack Obama, but the White House denied this.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs called the trip a "solely private mission to secure the release of two Americans."
The two journalists were working on a film on North Korean refugees for Current TV, an Internet cable channel owned by former vice president Al Gore, when they were detained. In June they were convicted of committing "hostile acts" and illegal entry and sentenced to 12 years of "reform through labor." They have, however, been spared North Korea's notorious labor camps and instead are reportedly being held at a state guesthouse.
The last time a former US president visited North Korea, which is subject to a withering international sanctions regime, was when Jimmy Carter visited in 1994, during the Clinton presidency. At that time, North Korea sought to use Carter as a diplomatic backchannel, and the trip was later seen as having yielding some progress in negotiations over the country's nuclear program.
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No former president is ever seen abroad as strictly a private citizen, and that's doubly the case for Clinton, since his wife is Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. His visit is likely to flatter North Korea's leadership. It is the first time that Mr. Clinton, who runs a charitable foundation, has entered the diplomatic fray on behalf of the Obama administration.
The KCNA said Tuesday that Clinton's aircraft had landed in the capital Pyongyang. In a short item entitled "Bill Clinton Arrives Here," the agency reported that two senior officials had received him and that a little girl presented a bouquet to him.
While the immediate focus appears to be on securing an amnesty for the two reporters, Clinton is certain to broach the topic of nuclear disarmament talks, says Kim Tae-woo, vice president of the Korean Institute for Defence Analysis in Seoul. But that may prove an even harder nut to crack, particularly at a time of leadership uncertainty in North Korea. Kim is reported to be ailing and preparing for his succession.
"I don't think that North Korea is ready to give up its nuclear weapons. Even though there may be dialogue between Pyongyang and Washington, it's not easy to find a solution," he says.
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The Obama administration has insisted that North Korea must rejoin six-party nuclear talks, together with China, South Korea, Japan, and Russia. At a regional summit two weeks ago, Ms. Clinton said North Korea had "no friends left" to shield it from global efforts to curb its nuclear program. That earned her a derisive blast from North Korea's foreign ministry, which likened her to a "primary schoolgirl" and a "pensioner going shopping."
The detention of the two American reporters is widely seen as a bargaining chip for North Korea in dealing with the US. Ms. Clinton has sought to separate their plight from the nuclear disarmament issue, however, and has insisted that no concessions would be granted to North Korea after its nuclear test in May led to increased UN Security Council sanctions.
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koontz1973 wrote:DoomYoshi wrote:Why can't some cannons have one target and some cannons have 2?
They can. As long as one does not become too powerful over the others, they can all have different abilities.
Is there a way to code it so that the cannons with two targets can only bombard one target per round?
that would allow some cannons to have two target but reduce the power.
It would have to be <a bombards either b or c> not <a bombards b and c>.
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Delayed Valentine day ★彡
Finally I celebrated my Valentine day some days ago, it was a lovely and quiet day with my boyfriend , I decided to dress up with his valentine present, Castle of Nightmare from Aatp, I love love love this print, every details are specials and the dress cut is gorgeous and unique! The second reason for my choice was that redxblack outfits are the favorite of my boyfriend ahah (and it's my favorite too for gothic style).
Jsk, head bow: Aatp – Blouse: taobao – Tights: Tally wejil – Boots: offbrand – Necklace: Suppurate System
I love this picture, you can see also my new Diamond lash eyelashes very well!
Maybe someone noticed that I wore Vampire Forest head bow XD ahah I think it suits very well castle of nightmare 'cause they are a similar disposal print with the same colors!
After my outfits shoots we went to the nearby city San Benedetto to a chinese restaurant called Pechino, they made a new and large menu and we wanted to taste it 'cause it's one of our favorite oriental restaurants! What I ate:
Crayfish toast (delicious, it's the first time I ordered it!), spring rolls as usual, salted noodle with fish and vegetables (very yummy!) and lastly chicken with cashews (it's good but nothing special, the next time I'll surely try something new).


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2009: Started all 19 games and played all 1351:21 in the cage for SHU...Finished second in the Northeast Conference with 177 saves...Held a .738 save percentage and 4.20 goals against average...Stopped a season-high 22 shots against Rider (10/4)...Recorded 10 or more saves in eight games.
2008: Made one start and appeared in five total games as the backup goalkeeper...Registered 17 saves for the season.
2007:: Served as back-up goaltender.
High School: Played four years of field hockey and softball at Norwalk High School...Served as captain of field hockey team senior year...Named to All-Area, All-FCIAC, and All-State teams in 2005 and 2006...Selected Connecticut Post All-Star in 2005 and 2006..2006 All-FCIAC and All-State Scholar Athlete...Served as captain of softball team senior year...Member of National Honor Society.
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At BCG, Explorers are unafraid to embark on new journeys. They try new solutions to untangle complex problems and drive transformational change. Meghna connects the dots to see the bigger picture.
The best thing a BCG mentor told me was to make sure I stayed on the cutting edge of what was happening in medtech. That expertise is what our partners need from us, and that's what our clients are demanding.
How I define myself has changed so dramatically throughout my career and my personal life, but one thing that seems to remain constant is my laser focus on solving problems and my super curious nature. BCG was a really good fit for me from the start. I joined as a knowledge expert in the Health Care practice after spending about 12 years in the medtech industry. On top of getting paid to learn, be curious, and solve problems, I get to work with the smartest people in the world. It's truly inspiring and fun! I recently moved over to the "expert career track" after realizing that I really enjoy being client-facing and want to continue to develop my expertise both internally and externally. Each role, each case, and each interaction adds tools to my arsenal and helps prepare me for life's future challenges.
Meghna has a BS in biomedical engineering from Cornell University, an MS with high honors in biomedical engineering from Case Western Reserve University, and an MBA from Babson College's F.W. Olin School of Management. Before BCG, she worked in strategic marketing, portfolio planning, engineering, and business development at C.R. Bard, Philips Healthcare, and Cambridge Heart.
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Final Mock Draft of 2011
This version of The 2011 Cowboys Mock Draft has Jerry wheelin' and dealin' as usual, only this time, he comes out smelling like roses. Yeah, I know. Completely unrealistic already. Well, read it anyway and see what ya think. I used my usual rankings at: http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/prospectrankings however, this time I looked around to see what other teams could be doing as opposed to going strictly by the rankings. Trade values are standard and can be checked here: http://walterfootball.com/draftchart.php
Remember this is just for fun and maybe we can all learn a little about some of the athletes entering the league.
*Note* The first number represents the round of the draft and the number after the decimal represents the overall number of the pick.
- 1.9 **TRADE TO ST. LOUIS** St. Louis selects Julio Jones WR Alabama
St. Louis sees AJ Green go too early to make a realistic move. Trading up to #9, where their second choice, Jones, is still available makes perfect sense for a young team in need of a play-making wide receiver. Dallas makes it interesting by trading picks 1.9, 3.71 and 6.176 for The Ram's 1.14, 2.47, 4.112 and 7.216. St. Louis now owns picks 1.9, 3.71, 3.78, 5.145 and 6.176.
- 1.14 **TRADE TO SAN DIEGO!!!** San Diego selects Cameron Jordan DE Cal OR JJ Watt DE Wisconsin.
Both New England and San Diego inquired about pick #9 but both decided it to be too costly. Again, at 14, Dallas fields offers and San Diego comes out on top, while still having picks in the first three rounds. Dallas trades 1.14 for The Charger's 1.18, 3.82 and 6.183. San Diego now owns picks 1.14, 2.50, 2.61, 3.89, 6.201 and 7.234.
- 1.18 Anthony Castonzo OT Boston College
Castonzo and/or Tyron Smith could be gone by pick 18 with a handful of teams considering taking an OT higher than they should. I'm betting on Smith being the first one taken, despite worries that he might not be ready to start right away. Dallas scouts watched Castonzo's career religiously at Boston College. He, like Smith, is believed to be able to play either right or left tackle in the NFL. Having that versatility is a good thing on a line that is in rebuilding mode in Dallas. Gabe Carimi has been my favorite of this class to play right tackle, however he hasn't been invited to the ranch and there is shockingly no buzz about him to Dallas what so ever. I would also consider Mike Pouncey C/OG Florida with this pick if both tackles are gone.
- 2.40 Rahim Moore FS UCLA
Some believe he will be gone by our pick at 40. I don't think he is a high second rounder in any other draft year other than a year like this where the crop is extremely underwhelming in talent. Moore had a breakout year in '09 where he picked off a whopping 10 passes, then went back to a pedestrian 1 in '10. A safety should not be judged on interceptions alone, but we are in the market for a play maker. I hope we get the '09 version or more of the same could be in our future. I am not a fan of this year's safety class, but drafting one can not be ignored yet again.
- 2.47 Stefen Wisniewski C/OG Penn State
If I didn't make a mock with the "WIZ", my mock draft buddies would kill me. He is a fan favorite of Dallas mockers world-wide. Like Owen Marecic (whom we will talk about shortly) , Stefen represents everything you would want from a football player and just so happens to be a strong need at both guard positions as well as center, where the majority of experts project him to excel at the NFL level. With Davis' skills rapidly declining, Kosier still unsigned and Gurode's degenerative knee problems, this is a perfect pick to upgrade the o-line. Like I said earlier with the first pick, if Smith and Castonzo are gone at pick 18 and Dallas selects OG Mike Pouncey, this pick could be an OT such as Marcus Cannon from TCU.
- 3.82 Marcus Gilchrist CB/KR/PR Clemson
Dallas' secondary problems are well documented and help is needed across the board. Gilchrist is a versatile corner who also excels at kick and punt returning. Marcus has 207 tackles, four tackles for loss, a sack, an interception, 19 pass breakups, three caused fumbles, two recovered fumbles, 722 yards on 27 kickoff returns, and 261 yards on 27 punt returns in 52 games (27 starts) in his career at Clemson. At the very least, he should assume Alan Ball's #4 corner spot behind Orlando Scandrick, (who is in a contract year) helping us with youth and CAP relief during his first year in Dallas.
- 4.110 Ian Williams DT Notre Dame
I traded up for Ian in my last mock to pick #127 and I believe with a premium at NT in this draft, he could go even higher. Ian had a pre-combine visit with Dallas and is a prime candidate to rotate with Josh Price-Brent, allowing Ratliff to make his long awaited move to Igor Olshansy's position at RDE. (freeing Igor's $3.335 million salary) I know Rob Ryan said Ratliff is and will be a DT, but he didn't say in what packages. Ratliff could be a DE in the base 3-4 package and a DT in others. I think Ryan is smart enough to put his best players on the field and having options is nice.
- 4.112 Kelvin Sheppard ILB LSU
Bradie James will love this pick. Although he will be Bradie's eventual replacement, Sheppard is an LSU alum as is James. The similarities don't stop there. Bradie was taken in the fourth round of the 2003 draft. The joke would be that Bradie will always be 9 players better than Kelvin. (Bradie at 103, Kelvin at 112) I'll be happy if he's just a solid contributor. His speed and reliable open-field tackling also made the former high-school track star a standout on special teams.
- 5.143 Owen Marecic FB Stanford
Only because this is such a strong FB class do I believe it is possible to still get Marecic at pick 143. The emergence of Charles Clay, Stanley Havili and Henry Hynoski should let one drop to Dallas here and improve at a very weak position. Marecic is exactly the type of player I want on this roster. He puts his head down and works hard. This is the extreme value pick of this draft. To boot, anyone opposed to taking a FB should look at the undrafted player responsible for ending the seasons, because of missed blocks, for both Romo and Bryant in 2010.
- 6.183 Stevan Ridley RB LSU
Ridley recently visited the ranch and it looks like the brass are ready to move on from MBIII and his lopsided contract. The growing belief throughout the league is that you can find good running backs in the later rounds and a high pick on one isn't a necessity anymore. A bruising back to compliment Felix and Tashard should be relatively easy to achieve with this pick and it's funny how Stevan is currently rated #183 overall and here we are at that exact pick. Fate? We'll see…
- 7.216 Justin Boren OG Ohio State
"Not since World War II has a football player done what Justin Boren did in 2008. After two seasons at Michigan, Boren transferred to Ohio State, crossing enemy lines in the Big Ten's most storied rivalry. Displeased with new Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez's attitude and, in his words, "lack of values" and seemed to have difficulty adjusting to the physical demands of Rodriguez's new no-huddle spread offense. Boren has been known to play with the nasty demeanor offensive line coaches like and was a welcome addition to an OSU line having some protection problems prior to his arrival. But while his decision to transfer alone does not raise character concerns, he must still answer questions about the way he handled himself after making that decision. He is a likely late-round pick for a team that appreciates his strength and competitive attitude." – CBS Sports.com overview
- 7.220 Willie Smith OT East Carolina
The Cowboys need depth at LT and Willie should make a smooth transition having played the position the past two years in East Carolina. Like most late round prospects, he first needs to make the team. Next he needs to develop into an NFL caliber player with our elite coaches, (oline and strength and conditioning) and finally most college scouts don't believe it would be unreasonable to think Smith could be a starter in 2-3 years. He could be a late round steal much like Jay Ratliff, who was selected 224th overall in the 2005 draft.
- 7.252 Bruce Miller OLB UCF
Brandon Williams needs to prove he's not just another 2009 draft bust. Bruce Miller could be the competition he needs to finally get over the hump. Demarcus Ware believes in him, we just haven't seen anything yet. Competition at spots such as OLB will be the key to our future strength.
One of these days, a CBA will be hammered out, the owners and players will kiss and make up and free agency will happen. When that day comes, the priority should be resigning our own players first, especially if the restricted tenders don't stick. Free, Kosier, Bowen and Hatcher should be top priority. While this is being hammered out, word should get to Dawan Landry's agent that Dallas isn't committed to Gerald Sensebaugh and are looking to upgrade the position. A feeler is all it should take to get Baltimore to make their modest offer.
"Citing the Ravens' history at strong safety, the Baltimore Sun does not expect free agent Dawan Landry to be re-signed this year. The Ravens have twice let the starter opposite Ed Reed walk (Will Demps, Jim Leonhard), turning the position over to in-house replacements. If Landry gets to the bidding-war stage, the team will have no qualms about pushing Tom Zbikowski or Haruki Nakamura into the starting lineup."
Dallas could realistically sign Landry to a 3 year $12 million contract with 8 million guaranteed and steal him away from the Ravens. IMO totally worth it and much more cost effective than previously drafting the top strong safety to start and signing a free agent free safety that would want a very large contract. (Huff, Weddle) We recently went that route with a questionable player (Ken Hamlin) and it didn't work out so well. Hopefully, Jerry plays this smart and learns his lesson.
See you all on the annual draft day chat right here on Lone Star Struck, where we are all sure to to laugh, cry and thoroughly debate personnel decisions in the comfort of our own "War Rooms"…Happy Draft Day Everyone!!! It's almost here!