The model that I have put together suggests that the numbers of people in need of ALC is going to continue to climb for quite awhile.....at the same time, the number of people available to work will be declining. My model does not take into account immigration or emigration.

I've been doing demographic modelling of western NL with my students for several years. The bulge in ALC needs has been visible for a long time and my second year students could see it. If they could, so could people in the gov. Noone acted when they should have, and now we are approaching a crisis.

Been here for awhile ... Just reading.

I was thinking the same.

The ROM has the skeleton of another blue whale that washed ashore in Trout River, Newfoundland. The Trout River and Rocky Harbour blue whales were two of nine blue whales that drowned in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 2014 during a winter with extreme ice cover.

This is the whale on the rocky intertidal in Rocky Harbour, Newfoundland. It was moved to a boat launch where the animal was processed. The skeleton was processed and is on display at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

This heart is from 1 of 9 blue whales that drowned in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 2014. The Gulf was heavily iced that winter and the whales could not surface to breath. No one killed it.

I think what you mean is....fewer than 50% of teenagers can read with comprehension

I used cemeteries to collect age at death data for a class I was teaching in Worcester, MA. We often came across family grave sites where sets of siblings were buried, all dead within weeks to months of one another.

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I think ptarmigan are fond of them, and ptarmigan are referred to as Patridge here....so locally relevant name I guess. And yeah I like the name too.

And cloudberry is called bake apple. I've heard that's from the French... baie q'appele ...what berry is this.

Lingonberries. In Newfoundland we call them partridge berries. I call them pucker berries.