Have you ever gazed at a cauliflower before cooking it and become engrossed in its wonderfully gorgeous pattern? If you re in your right mind, probably not, but I promise you it s worth a go. What seems to be an amorphous mass at first glance possesses a surprising degree of regularity.
If you look closely, you will notice that the numerous florets resemble one another and are made up of smaller replicas of themselves. This trait is known as self-similarity in mathematics, and it is a distinguishing feature of abstract geometrical shapes known as fractals. But why do cauliflowers have this characteristic?
Pennsylvania nurses are honoring the lives of those who died from COVID-19 while calling on state lawmakers to make changes to hospital staffing requirements.Nurses from across the commonwealth gathered Monday morning outside the state Capitol in Harrisburg to place nearly 1,000 white roses on the steps to honor the 25,000 Pennsylvanians who have died from COVID-19.The nurses also urged lawmakers to pass the Patient Safety Act, which would require hospitals to employ nurse-to-patient ratios that nurses say would be safer.One nurse said it s especially important to pass the legislation now after nurses have endured such a tough year on the front lines of the pandemic. Never have the nurses in a hospital or in any setting have to have done what we really call combat duty, Annmarie Ruggerio said.The nurses said similar staffing requirements have been used successfully in other states, including California.They also said that under the current standards, many patients don t get the
STRUTHERS Jean McMillen, 86, passed away peacefully Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, at Maplecrest Nursing Home.
Jean was born April 29, 1934 in Youngstown, the daughter of Dominic and Antonetta Vaccaro Columbo. She was one of eight children and grew up on the North Side of Youngstown near McKelvey Lake.
Jean was a person who treated everyone with kindness and compassion. She worked many years for Gray Drugs.
She married the love of her life, William “Bill” McMillen, on Nov. 24, 1974. They loved to travel the country from the New England states to California.They always took road trips, so they could take their dog, “Troubles,” along. Jean and Bill spent 42 years together until his passing in 2016.
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