Cerium oxide is used as a polishing agent for glass. Virtually all polished glass products, from ordinary mirrors and eyeglasses to precision lenses, are finished with CeO2Y, La, Ce, Eu, Gd, and Tb are used in energy efficient fluorescent lamps. These light bulbs are 70% cooler in terms of the heat they generate and are 70% more efficient in their use of electricity.

Through civil war, the Great Depression, world war, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice and setbacks, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of these moments, enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward. And we can do that now.

During a separate conversation, a UC Berkeley sophomore told me the story of her dating app find. She’d had a pleasant conversation with him about salmon larb from The Golden Bear cafe and was actually planning to go on a date when she ran into a friend in the elevator. Evidently, that friend had just hooked up with the same guy and was taken aback by his long list of kinks as well as the massive hickey on her neck.

() An Austrian biotech company working with the Institut Pasteur said on Tuesday it planned to start clinical trials with an experimental Zika vaccine in the next 12 months, marking a further acceleration of research in the field. Themis Bioscience has signed a license deal with the French research institute giving it extensive rights to the Zika vaccine candidate, which is based on established measles vaccine technology. More than a dozen small biotech firms and other organizations are working on vaccines against mosquito borne Zika, which has been linked to birth defects and neurological disorders, although most work is at a very early stage.

In Condition 1, dB increased or decreased (according to the rats’ choice) by 20% from block n to block n+1. In Condition 2, the step size was 10%. The power spectrum analysis showed that the period of oscillation of the dominant frequency of the spectrum was significantly longer under Condition 2 than under Condition 1.

“And he said, ‘Hey, I think Gronk might want to come out of retirement,’ ” Arians recalled, referring to All Pro tight end Rob Gronkowski, who caught two of Brady’s three touchdown passes Sunday night. “I said, ‘Let’s get you signed up first and then we’ll work on that one.’ It was just a constant collaboration. That getting to know each other and that growing process is just so much fun.”.

The City of Madison owns approximately two acres of land on the 800 South Block of East Washington Ave. It is the last remaining parcel of the three properties the city purchased from Don Miller using the land banking program. The City solicited proposals to develop a Madison Sustainability Commerce Center and/or Starting Block the entrepreneurial hub and co working space with Sector 67 and Gener8tor in the 800 South Block.