COVID-10 cases still rising but slower
With each passing week, COVID-19 case numbers keep falling or at least show a slower rise, though total confirmed cases county-wide have increased during the current tracking period.
With each passing week, COVID-19 case numbers keep falling or at least show a slower rise, though total confirmed cases county-wide have increased during the current tracking period.
The state climatologist recently predicted that Texas will continue to get hotter and for longer periods of time during the next 15 years. In “Assessment of Historic and Future Trends of Extreme Weather in Texas, 1900-2036,” John Nielsen-Gammon predicted the average annual temperature in Texas will be three degrees warmer than the average from 1950-1999, and the number of 100-degree days could nearly double compared to 2000-2018.
According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the U.S., behind only skin cancers. In fact, the ACS puts the average risk as a one in eight chance that a woman will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. And according to the World Health Organization, breast cancer is now the most common cancer globally, claiming 12 percent of new cancer cases. Breast cancer is also the second leading cause of cancer death in women, superseded only by lung cancer.
Time is just flying by. We are already a quarter of the way through the school year. I am so excited for an extra long weekend to try to catch up and rest a little bit. It is crazy to think that after this month, Thanksgiving and Christmas are here.
What’s the real meaning of the fairy tale about Goldilocks?
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