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For Most States, At Least A Third Of COVID-19 Deaths Are In Long-Term Care Facilities

The report comes as the government announced all states must now meet federal reporting guidelines. The type of information gathered by states up to now has been inconsistent.




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Chimpanzees Deserve Mother's Day Too

Much like their human counterparts, chimpanzee mothers provide their offspring with far more than just food

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South Korea reports 34 new coronavirus cases, highest in a month

South Korea reported 34 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, the highest daily number in a month, after a small outbreak emerged around a slew of nightclubs that a confirmed patient had visited.




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China reports first coronavirus case in Wuhan since April 3 among 14 new infections

China's National Health Commission reported 14 new confirmed coronavirus cases on May 9, the highest number since April 28, including the first for more than a month in the city of Wuhan where the outbreak was first detected late last year.




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Rare syndrome tied to COVID-19 kills three children in New York, Cuomo says

Three children in New York have died from a rare inflammatory syndrome believed to be linked to the novel coronavirus, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday, a development that may augur a pandemic risk for the very young.




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Grateful hikers return to Griffith Park: 'Like being set free'

'Like being set free:' Grateful hikers returning to Griffith Park




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Shippers turn to Belt and Road trains to beat coronavirus shutdowns




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An Overview of ODS Statistical Graphics in SAS 9.4

 This paper presents the essential information that you need to get started with ODS Graphics in SAS 9.4.




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Fitting Multilevel Hierarchical Mixed Models Using PROC NLMIXED

This paper provides an example that shows you how to use multiple RANDOM statements in PROC NLMIXED to fit nested nonlinear mixed models, and it provides details about the computation that is involved in fitting these models.












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Indian, Chinese troops clash near Naku La in Sikkim sector

"Troops resolve such issues mutually as per established protocols. Such an incident occurred after a long time," said a source.




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China reports first coronavirus case in Wuhan since April 3

While China had officially designated all areas of the country as low-risk last Thursday, the new cases according to data published on Sunday represent a jump from the single case reported for the day before. The number was lifted by a cluster of 11 in Shulan city in northeastern Jilin province.




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Govt should allow private vehicles to ferry migrants: Sanjay Raut

The labourers, rendered jobless due to the coronavirus-enforced lockdown, had set off for their homes on foot along the rail tracks apparently to escape police attention. Sixteen migrant workers sleeping on rail tracks while returning to Madhya Pradesh were crushed to death by a goods train in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra in the early hours of Friday.




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Cricketers will have to live with dangers of COVID-19: Gautam Gambhir

"I don't think a lot of rules and regulations will be changed, you can probably have an alternate for the usage of saliva - apart from that I don't think so many changes will happen," Gambhir told Star Sports.




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Petrov hit with five-place grid penalty

Vitaly Petrov has been slapped with a five-place grid penalty for holding up Timo Glock during qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix




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Button says finishing second was a 'great result'

Jenson Button said that second place at the Italian Grand Prix was a 'great result' although the McLaren driver led for the majority of the race




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Alonso 'extremely happy' to take third

Fernando Alonso said he is "extremely happy" to head to the final round of the championship in the lead of the drivers' championship after finishing third at the Brazilian Grand Prix




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Whitmarsh congratulates Red Bull on title

Although they may have been bitter rivals for the majority of the 2010 season, there is a deep respect between McLaren and Red Bull according to Martin Whitmarsh




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Dennis hints at Red Bull fuel problems

Ron Dennis has suggested Sebastian Vettel may have run low on fuel during the Bahrain Grand Prix




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Vettel admits spin was a result of pushing too hard

Sebastian Vettel admitted he was pushing too hard when he spun out of the second practice session for the Malaysian Grand Prix




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Kobayashi's wing failure due to contact

Sauber has ruled out the possibility that a front wing failure caused Kamui Kobayashi's three car pile-up at the start of the Australian Grand Prix




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Media hits out at 'sad postscript ' Schumacher

Two races into his much-publicised comeback and Michael Schumacher is already feeling the heat after finishing tenth out of 14 finishers at the Australian Grand Prix.




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Kobayashi happy to entertain home fans

Kamui Kobayashi said he was pleased to have entertained his home fans after a thrilling drive punctuated with opportunistic overtaking manoeuvres saw him finish seventh in the Japanese Grand Prix




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Sainz blames high wind for test-ending accident

Toro Rosso rookie Carlos Sainz Jr blamed high winds for the crash he suffered late on Sunday in Barcelona and said it spoiled his most encouraging day of testing so far




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Hill has doubts over benefits of driver stewards

Damon Hill is no longer sure former drivers should be acting as full FIA stewards at grands prix




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Sutil hails 'great achievement'

Adrian Sutil said his fifth place finish at the Malaysian Grand Prix was a 'great achievement' for the Force India team




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Virgin achieves first race finish

Nick Wirth, Virgin Racing Technical Director, said that Lucas di Grassi's 14th place finish at the Malaysian Grand Prix was great reward for everyone involved with the team




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Kobayashi surprised by retirement

Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi said he was surprised with the engine failure that ended his Malaysian Grand Prix




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Anthony Fauci will follow 'modified' quarantine after exposure to White House aide with coronavirus

Fauci is the third high-ranking member of the White House coronavirus task force to enter some form of quarantine.




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George Christensen revives diplomatic spat with threat to summons Chinese ambassador

Coalition backbencher wants to know why ambassador threatened a trade boycott after Australia called for international inquiry into coronavirus

Diplomatic tensions between Australia and China may be reignited with an extraordinary threat by a Coalition backbencher to summons the Chinese ambassador to answer questions from a parliamentary committee.

While the attempt to compel the ambassador to appear at a hearing in Canberra is almost certain to fail because of diplomatic immunity, the push interrupts a pause in public sparring between the two governments over the response to Covid-19.

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For God and Country review: Christian case for Trump is a thin read indeed

Amid the evasions and distortions lies evidence that Ralph Reed knows, really, that religion and politics can mix to noble ends – just not under this president

Ralph Reed, an evangelical leader and conservative political activist, first met Donald Trump in 2011, after being “coincidentally” seated next to Ivanka Trump at a meeting. The following year, he writes now, at his own Faith & Freedom conference, Trump “bounded on stage to the thumping strains of ‘Money, money, money’ from For the Love of Money, a song by the 70s soul group the O’Jays”.

Related: Who is Kayleigh McEnany – and why is she saying nice things about Donald Trump?

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Tolstoy’s Children’s Stories.

John Byron Kuhner’s Leo Tolstoy’s Children’s Stories Will Devastate Your Children and Make You Want to Die begins: The Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, also a gentleman farmer, operated an ancestral estate called Yasnaya Polyana that included a small school for the children of the peasants who labored there. Tolstoy was known to drop by from […]





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'It's really all I know': a look back at Little Richard's most memorable hits – video obituary

Little Richard, one of the pioneers of the first wave of rock’n’roll, has died. He was 87. His 1955 song Tutti Frutti, with the lyric ‘awopbopaloobop alopbamboom’, and a series of follow-up records helped establish the genre and influenced a multitude of other musicians

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Ray stands up for himself

Achewood strip for Friday, November 11, 2016




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Darkly daring: dramatically gothic lips

Try a dark matt lipstick, but don’t be scary

Unless you are into goth, you wouldn’t look to The Addams Family for beauty inspiration. However, there’s a modern way to go there without alarming anyone on Zoom, and the fresh take at the Max Mara SS20 show makes the case. If you find the requisite black lips intimidating, replace with a less macabre deep burgundy or aubergine. Swap matt alabaster skin for something a little less lifeless – a decent tinted moisturiser will warm things up. Finish with a pastel wash of colour across the eyes. Immediately, everything looks less intense. Morticia would be mortified.

1. Jimmy Choo Seduction Lipstick in Purple Night £50, harrods.com
2. Huda Beauty Pastel Obsessions £27, selfridges.com
3. Laura Mercier Caviar Mascara £22, spacenk.com
4. Smashbox Always On Liquid Lips in Disorderly £19, smashbox.co.uk
5. Glossier Skywash Eyeshadow £15, glossier.com

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This week's best culture, at home – from Barber Shop banter to Queen Victoria

The Observer’s critics recommend the best new arts shows to enjoy on TV, on the radio and online

Barber Shop Chronicles
A never-before-broadcast recording of Inua Ellams’s 2017 hit play splicing stories and banter with barbs and laughter. Available to stream for seven days from 7pm Thursday on the National Theatre’s YouTube channel. Clare Brennan

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Not now, Bernard ... I'm on my iPhone: classic children's text reissued for digital era

Author David McKee reveals why, 40 years on, his cautionary tale of the perils of ignoring children is still relevant


For the past 40 years it has been a warning to parents about the monstrous consequences of ignoring their children. Now new illustrations of the classic picture book Not Now, Bernard have been created to better reflect the daily life of families in the age of smartphones and tablets.

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Himesh Patel: ‘It felt odd making a show about a pandemic’

The former EastEnders actor talks about shooting a pilot on a deadly virus, telling British stories with a difference – and how playing a bit part as a pigeon changed his career

The so-called “curse of EastEnders” – the struggle for soap actors to transition into more prestigious dramatic roles after leaving the show – always weighed heavily on the mind of Himesh Patel.

So when he decided to leave the soap in 2016, after nine years playing Tamwar Masood, he knew whichever role he chose next would be critical in breaking typecast, perhaps even defining the rest of his career. He went to a friend whose theatre company, withWings, took inventive musical adaptations to the Edinburgh fringe. That year they were doing Le Bossu, a retelling of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Patel mentioned that he wanted to get out of his comfort zone and do some theatre. “He came back to me and said, ‘Cool, well, I can offer you the role of a pigeon.’”

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Soaring government debt is now inevitable. It’s nothing to fear

Thatcher’s simplistic aversion to borrowing still haunts fiscal policy, but interest rates have been falling for many years

It is clear Boris Johnson has favoured his health advisers as he looks to ease the lockdown. Worries about a second coronavirus outbreak have clinched victory over concerns about keeping much of industry and commerce in a state of suspended animation.

After weeks of pleading by the Treasury to get the nation back to work, No 10 has opted to play it safe with people’s health, and particularly older people. And no wonder, after a hapless first few months in which the UK leapt to fourth place in probably the most ignominious league table in modern history – that of Covid-19 deaths per 100,000 population – behind Belgium, Spain and Italy.

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Formiga forever: Brazil's stalwart still shining for women's football at 42

Marta was right when saying Formiga will retire eventually but PSG’s record-breaking midfielder is preparing for a seventh Olympic Games next summer

When England stepped out at Meadow Lane in October 2018, having qualified unbeaten for the Women’s World Cup, all eyes were on one opponent: Brazil’s six-times Ballon d’Or winner, Marta. Necks prepared to strain for a glimpse of the ageing giant of women’s football. It may have been a friendly but at 34 the Brazilian’s career clock was ticking. For most, it would be the only time to see her in the flesh.

When Marta limped off after 22 minutes the disappointment of the crowd was palpable. The Brazil performance matched Marta’s lacklustre mood but in the then 40-year-old Formiga they had a player who would not subscribe to her teammates’ indifference – with the young winger Ludmila the exception alongside her.

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'There was a lot of swearing': the night West Ham played behind closed doors | Jacob Steinberg

Two players and a photographer remember what it was like to face Castilla at an empty Upton Park in 1980

At half-time West Ham’s former chairman Len Cearns was sent on a futile mission by his fellow directors. They wanted him to go down to the home dressing room to ask John Lyall if there was any way his team could possibly remember that the foul language being used in the heat of battle was floating away from the pitch, rattling around the empty terraces and causing some discomfort for the people sitting in the posh seats.

“There was a lot of swearing going on in the game,” Alvin Martin says as he recalls West Ham hosting a European tie behind closed doors in the autumn of 1980. “You don’t realise it. You’re communicating in a factory way.”

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Silverstone marshals wary of extra risks to F1 going behind closed doors

Volunteers who help the British Grand Prix run smoothly want to get back trackside but questions remain on safety and testing

“We are like one big family,” says Carolyn Doyle of the bond between the marshals of the British Grand Prix. “We are there because we love it and we want to achieve the same thing – that’s what makes it really special.”

Much as it does bring great pleasure to this selfless collective, the sport knows their presence is invaluable. As Silverstone considers hosting two consecutive races behind closed doors in July, the volunteer marshals are having to consider the new realities imposed on Formula One by the coronavirus crisis.

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