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April 21, 2021
LAHORE: The Punjab government is all set to start the next round of coronavirus vaccination for people of 50-59 years of age group from Wednesday. In a statement issued here on Tuesday, Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid asked the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department (P&SHD) to make arrangements to make the next round of the vaccination successful. She urged citizens to get themselves registered at 1166 and secure their pin code for vaccination. People of 50 to 59 years of age may now visit the vaccination centers with valid pin code and message, she added.
American Honey Still Contains Radioactive Fallout From Nuclear Tests Decades Ago
21 APRIL 2021
Traces of radioactive fallout from nuclear tests in the 1950s and 1960s can still be found in American honey, new research reveals.
The radioactive isotope identified, cesium-137, falls below levels considered to be harmful – but the amounts measured nonetheless emphasize the lingering persistence of environmental contaminants in the nuclear age, even a half-century after international bomb tests ended.
There was a period in which we tested hundreds of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, lead researcher Jim Kaste, an environmental geochemist at William & Mary university in Williamsburg, Virginia, explained last year in comments about the research.
April 21, 1921
Complaints, which are as reliably annual as the blooming of the arbutus, are being made that seekers of this spring flower are following their usual tactics of taking bloom, stem and roots, thereby robbing the region of one of its big spring attractions. To cut the stems of arbutus brings about a healthy growth of the plant but to pull up the entire plant means that no plant will replace it next year. Although most of this destructive work is done by thoughtless children it is not uncommon to see older people who should have greater judgement come in town with great baskets of the flowers with the roots still attached. This is the surest possible method of robbing the Cadillac region of its arbutus.
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Quanterix Corporation (NASDAQ: QTRX), a company digitizing biomarker analysis with the goal of advancing the science of precision health, today announced that it has appointed Shawn Stetson as the Company s interim chief financial officer, effective May 11, 2021. Mr. Stetson will assume his new responsibilities upon the departure of the Company’s current chief financial officer Amol Chaubal, who has accepted the chief financial officer role at Waters Corporation. Quanterix has initiated a search for a permanent replacement.
Kevin Hrusovsky, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Quanterix commented, “With his strong background and knowledge of our Company, we have full confidence in Shawn’s ability to lead the Quanterix finance team while we identify a permanent successor. We would also like to congratulate Amol on his new role at Waters Corporation and for his contributions at Quanterix building a strong financial organization. We wish