Nursing costs, which include nursing salaries and supplies, accounted for over 40. percent of total nursing home costs among the states examined (see Table 3.2). Nursing costs in Minnesota nursing homes averaged $39.13 per day, and were be-. tween 8 percent and 37 percent more than neighboring states.
Interview by Kristin Farr // Artwork by Jamie Hewlett. In 1998, Jamie Hewlett drew a virtual band that became world famous. Gorillaz consists of four cartoon members with four distinct personalities: 2-D, Noodle, Russel Hobbs and Murdoc Niccals, who are brought to life by Hewlett and an ever-evolving crew of musicians.
Notable animals over the years have included Pattycake, the much-loved thirty-something gorilla born in the Central Park Zoo in 1972 and relocated to the Bronx Zoo in 1982, and Samantha the Python, who when she died in 2002 was over 30 years old, 26 feet long, and 275 pounds.