Manchester City Football Club has selected Panasonic LUMIX as its official supplier for video camera equipment.

Panasonic’s LUMIX kit will be used for all feature video projects filmed by the club’s in-house content department; consisting of a nimble and innovative team of self-shooting Producers who aim to push the boundaries in terms of creativity. They produce a wide variety of digital video content, from daily posts on TikTok through to premium branded content and feature-length documentaries, available on the club’s subscription channel City+. The chosen equipment includes Panasonic’s flagship LUMIX S1H and S5 full-frame cameras as well as a variety of lenses and accessories.

Gavin Johnson, Media Director at Manchester City said, “In the fast-paced world of professional football you often only get one chance to get the right shot. We need our content creators to maintain a subtle footprint on the ground, without compromising on quality. Our S1H and S5 LUMIX full-frame cameras will give us all of the creative tools we need to make our in-house video content stand out from the crowd.”

Barnaby Sykes, Head of Marketing for Imaging at Panasonic UK said, “We are delighted to support Manchester City’s content generation with our unique LUMIX technology to enable the club to deliver high-quality footage from our cameras to fans at home and all over the world.”

Milton Gomrath spent his days in dreams of a better life. More obviously, he spent his days as a garbage collector. He would empty a barrel of garbage into the back of the city truck and then lose himself in reverie as the machine went clomp, grunch, grunch, grunch. He hated the truck, he hated his drab little room, and he hated the endless serial procession of gray days. His dreams were the sum of the might-have-beens of his life, and because there was so much that he was not,his dreams were beautiful.

Milton’s favorite dream was one denied those of us who know who our parents are. Milton had been found in a strangely fashioned wicker basket on the steps of an orphanage, and this left him free as a boy to imagine an infinity of magnificent destinies that could and would be fulfilled by the appearance of a mother,uncle, or cousin come to claim him and take him to the perpetual June, where he of right belonged. He grew up, managed to graduate from high school by the grace of an egalitarian school board that believed everyone should graduate from high school regardless of qualification, and then went to work for the city, all the while holding onto the same well-polished dream.

Then one day he was standing by the garbage truck when a thin, harassed-looking fellow dressed in simple black materialized in front of him. There was no bang,hiss, or pop about it—it was a very businesslike materialization.

“Milton Gomrath?” the man asked, and Milton nodded. “I’m a Field Agent from Probability Central. May I speak with you?”

Milton nodded again. The man wasn’t exactly the mother or cousin he had imagined, but the man apparently knew by heart the lines that Milton had mumbled daily as long as he could remember.

“I’m here to rectify an error in the probability fabric,”the man said. “As an infant you were inadvertently switched out of your own dimension and into this one.As a result there has been a severe strain on Things-As-They-Are. I can’t compel you to accompany me, but, if you will, I’ve come to restore you to your Proper Place.”

“Well, what sort of world is it?” Milton asked. “Is it like this?” He waved at the street and truck.

“Oh; not at all,” the man said. “It is a world of magic,dragons, knights, castles, and that sort of thing. But it won’t be hard for you to grow accustomed to it. First, it is the place where you rightfully belong and your mind will be attuned to it. Second, to make things easy for you, I have somebody ready to show you your place and explain things to you.”

“I’ll go,” said Milton.

The world grew black before his eyes the instant the words were out of his mouth, and when he could see again, he and the man were standing in the courtyard of a great stone castle. At one side were gray stone buildings; at the other, a rose garden with blooms of red, white, and yellow. Facing them was a heavily bearded, middle-aged man.

“Here we are,” said the man in black. “Evan, this is your charge. Milton Gomrath, this is Evan Asperito. He’ll explain everything you need to know.”

Then the man saluted them both. “Gentlemen, Probability Central thanks you most heartily. You have done a service. You have set things in their Proper Place.” And then he disappeared.

Evan, the bearded man, said, “Follow me,” and turned. He went inside the nearest building. It was a barn filled with horses.

He pointed at a pile of straw in one corner. “You can sleep over there.”

Then he pointed at a pile of manure. There was along-handled fork in the manure and a wheelbarrow waiting at ease. “Put that manure in the wheelbarrow and spread it on the rose bushes in the garden. When you are finished with that, I’ll find something else for you to do.”

He patted Milton on the back. “I realize it’s going to be hard for you at first, boy. But if you have any questions at any time, just ask me.

(c) Alexei Panshin, 1967

The International Energy Agency (IEA), the world's premier source of energy information, has published a 287-page report, "The Role of Essential Minerals in the Transition to Clean Energy." In short - "The transition to clean energy: not very soon, very difficult and not very clean."

The IEA has collected a wealth of data on a fundamental and still largely ignored aspect of the energy transition. It turns out that this requires a mining industry and infrastructure that doesn't exist. Wind, solar and battery technologies are built from a gigantic amount of "minerals for generating and transporting energy" that need to be mined and processed. The IEA estimates that with the global energy transition, demand for key minerals such as lithium, graphite, nickel and rare earth metals will skyrocket, increasing by 4,200%, 2,500%, 1,900% and 700%, respectively, by 2040.

There is no physical capacity to meet this demand. As noted by the IEA, there are no even rough plans for the financing and construction of the necessary mines and processing plants. The declared energy transition is completely undesirable. If it begins to be implemented in quantities dictated by the goals of the energy transition, the world will face not only serious environmental, economic and social problems, but also geopolitical risks.

The IEA warns of a fundamental fact that advocates of the transition never mention: Clean energy machines use far more important minerals than conventional energy machines. "A conventional electric vehicle requires six times more mineral resources than a conventional car, and an onshore wind turbine requires nine times more mineral resources than a gas-fired power plant," the report said. In 2010, the average amount of minerals required for a new block of generating capacity increased by 50%, as the share of renewable energy sources increased. It's just so that the share of wind and sun in the world's electricity is only 10%.

The IEA notes that this will be "a transition from an energy-intensive to a material-intensive energy system." This means eliminating liquids and gases, the extraction and transportation of which leaves a very light ecological footprint on land and is transported easily, cheaply and efficiently to mines with a large mining area, energy-intensive transportation of huge quantities of rocks and other solid materials, as well as subsequent chemical processing. and enrichment.

Ramping up production cannot happen overnight. The IEA notes: "On average, it takes more than 16 years to complete mining projects from paper to first production." If you start tomorrow, the production of energy transfer equipment will not begin until after 2035. This is a major challenge for the Green Elves' plan to achieve 100% carbon-free electricity by 2035.

The global mining boom, which will leave behind all sorts of environmental consequences, will require a cyclopean amount of water, and this is when about half of the world's lithium and copper production comes from areas with high water scarcity. To this should be added the pollution of the environment by drainage waters from mines, discharge of waste water after enrichment and storage of sludge.

IEA data show that mining expansion will take place mainly in countries with "poor corporate governance", where "corruption and bribery pose serious risks."

The IEA has pointed the US to the large geopolitical risks of the energy transition. For example, today the oil and gas market is characterized by a wide diversification of supply. The three largest manufacturers, including the United States, account for less than half of the world's supply. But after the energy transition, there will be a situation when the world will have three leading producers of three key components of "green" energy, which control more than 80% of world supplies.

https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in-clean-energy-transitions

Nuclera, a fast-growing biotech company developing enzymatic protein and gene synthesis technologies, and E Ink, the leading innovator of electronic ink technology, are pleased to announce the acquisition of E Ink’s digital microfluidics unit into the newly formed US subsidiary of Nuclera. Combining the technologies of the two companies will enable the delivery of a revolutionary desktop protein and gene “bioprinter” with breakthrough speed and convenience for researchers in human health, agriculture, and other markets of global importance.

Nuclera has been working in a strategic partnership with E Ink since 2018 to deploy Nuclera’s proprietary biopolymer synthesis technologies on E Ink’s digital microfluidic devices. Instead of the physical channels found in conventional microfluidics, digital microfluidics uses electronic signals to guide microdroplets. When combined with Nuclera biopolymer synthesis, this advanced lab-on-a-chip technology will enable a user to digitally program the next day bioprinting of proteins and genes on a desktop device. The result is a bioprinter that gives unprecedented access to biology. Commercialization is expected in 2022.