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00:00Good morning. It's Tuesday, April 5th, 2025, and that means two things.
00:19There ain't no weekend like a three-day weekend. We could all have this if we tried.
00:25It's also time for the Lighting Industry News Brief, brought to you by Keystone Tech and their exit signs and emergency units.
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01:04That's keystonetech.com. The link is in the description.
01:09Let's talk about the news.
01:11Because the Design Lights Consortium is looking for feedback on Draft 2 of SSL 6 and Luna 2.
01:19Both of these have been revised and expanded.
01:22Your comments, you can feed them into there until September 5th.
01:27The Illuminating Engineering Society is looking for public input on two different standards.
01:33There is LS-12X for particulars of nomenclature, such as not calling them lamps anymore.
01:42We might have to call them light sources, and IES RP-11 for residential spaces,
01:50which is largely revised around SSL lighting and what comes with IoT devices.
01:57AMS OSRAM have sold off their Entertainment and Industry Lamps section for €114 million to Ushio Inc.
02:07Sanon and Inari have bought Lumileds.
02:13No details except that deal will close on the first quarter of 2026.
02:19Zumtebel is leaving the U.S.
02:22Their New York factory will end operations as part of their new America's Business Plan.
02:28On the tariff tracker, tariffs on Mexico have been paused for 90 days.
02:33The U.S. is making new exceptions for Chinese solar cells and sensors.
02:38So your photo cell controls will not be so expensive going ahead.
02:46Everything from Europe costs 15% more now.
02:50Canadian goods not covered by the existing USMCA treaty will now be taxed at 35%.
02:57There will be no exceptions in pricing for South Korean semiconductors.
03:02And the de minimis exception on duties and tariffs for packages under $800, that's over as of the end of August.
03:13Previously, it was supposed to be next year, but now and next month.
03:20There we go.
03:22ENERGY STAR will continue operations for now.
03:24The laboring program will continue to certify downlights, ceiling fans, and appliances.
03:30Sales are up at Rexel, with the first half of 25 showing a 1.6% increase in sales.
03:36Universal Display is offering a dividend at $0.45 per share.
03:40Signify is continuing their share buyback program, with not quite 200,000 shares coming back home, at €2197 per share.
03:50We have the first half of Legrand's year, showing sales up 13%.
03:56Q2 at Osram shows revenues up 18%.
03:59The first half at AD shows sales up at 25%.
04:03Q2 at Wesco shows sales up 7%.
04:07Q2 at Littlefuse shows sales up 9%, which means they'll be offering a dividend of $0.75 per share.
04:13Logik has bought JLS.
04:17This is a controls distro deal with no details other than the fact that it closed at the end of July.
04:24Space for Learning has announced their product award winners, which means that Kenel won both lighting categories.
04:31The IES NYC has presented their thesis awards, with three designers recognized for their work.
04:37The U.S. DOI, Department of the Interior, has issued a new mineral production order.
04:45This is part of a new executive order that will go after trying to find rare earths in mining waste.
04:52Southwire has published their sustainability report, with their self-imposed goals going pretty well.
04:59Blingle in Omaha has won a Reader's Choice Award from the Omaha World Herald.
05:05Rucker is moving.
05:07Rucker is a lamp restoration company in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
05:11They're now in Midtown.
05:13In rep agency updates, Lutron is switching to Thea and Showen in the NYC metro area.
05:20KSA partners with Current in Chicago.
05:23RMC has picked Phoenix Sales and Marketing in Maryland, Virginia, and the D.C. area.
05:28In legal news, a federal judge has reopened Xajing v. CH Lighting, specifically related to Tudtech,
05:38and we have a new invalidity claim in ETI v. Signify.
05:44In events and webinars, you can submit to the Beacon Awards from the DLFNY,
05:50or you can sponsor the Beacon Awards from the DLFNY, whatever floats your boat.
05:58In IOT news, Legrand has bought Kulajek, no details declared there.
06:02Q2 at Skikes shows revenues up by $3 million.
06:07Alibaba and Signify have partnered on AI Cities, no details there so far.
06:12Gina Roto was on the Lighting Controls podcast.
06:15Hollywood Florida has partnered with Noresco for Smart City Plans.
06:21Google Home finally fixed their lighting controls.
06:24Voice controls have actually been busted for an entire month.
06:27Apple has patented a new optical comm system,
06:31which would allow lighting to track individual device positions.
06:36B.A. Robinson was ransomwared,
06:38specifically through the popular Quillen malware attack.
06:43Check your passwords, guys.
06:45And whistle pet trackers are going to be bricked at the end of the month
06:49because they were bought out by Tractive and the service is coming.
06:54So if you were using a whistle device to track the location of your dog,
06:59you can't no more or you won't be able to soon.
07:03In R&D news, UC Davis and their Color Lab are relaxing with colored lighting.
07:11They have determined that warmer lights are just better for your mood.
07:15500 nanometer light is great for flounder.
07:19This is based on research from Jeju National University for fish-centric lighting for fish farms, of course.
07:27Cornell suggests that light modulation might be the key to beating deep fakes.
07:31This is specifically very minor amounts in changes in lighting that are pre-planned, pre-programmed,
07:39and that would basically act as a watermark to prove that, I don't know,
07:42say the video of this episode is me talking and not some robot pretending to be me.
07:47We have a new single-pixel imaging tool that can detect sound waves.
07:55This will allow lighting devices to act as microphones with the right amount of, you know,
08:02fidelity and technology and software behind them.
08:07Better reflectors are better for visual light communications,
08:10with Bennett U boosting the range of Li-Fi.
08:14And operational hubs need better lighting.
08:17This is a study from the Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
08:21showing that operators need to be more comfortable to do their jobs.
08:27This is Shiraz Iran, not Shiraz France, by the way.
08:31On the dark side of things, light pollution has been correlated with poor sleep,
08:37among another of other lifestyle issues.
08:40Allen has been linked yet again with poor cholesterol.
08:43Sleep quality has been linked with the risk of Alzheimer's.
08:47MSU have released the findings of the Sleep Education for Everyone program.
08:53Sex is not a factor in sleep changes' effects on appetite.
08:58Men and women all eat differently if their sleep's bad.
09:06Allen is a particular harm to insectivorous bats.
09:11Dim lighting during pregnancy makes young rats less risk-averse.
09:17Light pollution is changing the behavior of birds,
09:21specifically social birds.
09:23They are behaving differently as light changes.
09:26Romania has completed a large-scale multi-factor sleep study.
09:32And kloof frogs are threatened by light pollution.
09:36Dr. Nancy Golland was on Restoring Darkness.
09:39Hollywood, Florida is promoting turtle safety this month.
09:42West Virginia realtors are starting to list sky glow as a factor in resale value.
09:49Galloway, Scotland is home to a new wood farm
09:52that is doing everything right by their neighbors, I promise.
09:56They're doing the controls, they're doing the dimming,
09:58they're doing the warm color temps,
10:02and they're still getting complaints.
10:04Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has completed their dimming plan,
10:07and Beaudoin College has gotten their Dark Sky International recognition
10:11for their sports fields.
10:14Horticulturally, petal color of lilies
10:16has been linked with light-activated jeans.
10:20We also have a new color recipe for growing celery under LED lighting.
10:25We have UVB and red LED for better lettuce.
10:29We have Scott's Miracle Grow announcing a dividend.
10:32This is the first one in a year, I think.
10:35And Vertical Future posted 10 million pounds in losses,
10:40and they're looking to get bought out.
10:43In recommended reading, all these links and more on Nailed.org.
10:48Do workplace safety regulations have a place in your home office
10:53or your employee's home office?
10:56You may need to be providing your staff with adequate lighting.
11:01We'll see how that goes.
11:03We have a guide to sneaking projects in before the end of 179D deductions.
11:08We have an understanding of the OBBBA and the lighting industry.
11:15We have the beginning of tariff nightmares.
11:17We have cleaning as a design priority,
11:21i.e. designers should be thinking about how someone who has to dust
11:25all these decorative fixtures out there.
11:29Chris Walgamot talks about LLC and HVAC integration,
11:34now that the Bluetooth consortium is acknowledging both.
11:37And a guide on how LED strip lights are made.
11:41We have a case study of the Wolf Rock Lighthouse,
11:44the lighthouse no one wants to be at,
11:47and how to turn water coolers into fixtures at scale.
11:51In local news, Pennsylvania is offering new grants to senior community centers.
11:57We have $33 million for highways in Wyoming.
12:00Philadelphia saw a crime rate drop after a streetlight switch.
12:06Weber and Saskatchewan have completed a SEPTED project.
12:10That's Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design.
12:13The University of New Mexico has completed an energy project on their south campus.
12:18An employee of Heritage Sign and Lighting was struck and killed by a driver
12:26while working on a sign in his cherry picker in Willoughby, Ohio.
12:31We have $2.3 million for parks in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
12:36Not quite a million for parks in Fayette County, Tennessee.
12:40Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania is planning pedestrian safety changes.
12:46We have $300,000 in parks projects ready to go in Imperial County, California.
12:51In Libertyville, Illinois, high school lighting projects won't be done in time for the first day of class.
12:57Vicksburg, Mississippi is planning new school lighting projects.
13:03El Campo, Texas has secured a new sports lighting project at their schools.
13:08Freelton, Ontario is going to remove sports field lighting from their public parks.
13:15Ann Arbor, Michigan Pickleball Facility has been named an energy champion.
13:20In Putney, Vermont, public libraries have begun their lighting projects.
13:25And in Nova Scotia, the Africville Museum has completed their lighting and security upgrades.
13:32Internationally, French cities in three different districts have begun cart-cutting lighting at night
13:39as part of a curfew program for teens.
13:43Tianjin, China is adding so much lighting.
13:47Oh, so much lighting for the SCO Summit.
13:50Signify Malaysia has announced new smart city programs.
13:5318 Degrees has donated £40,000 worth of downlights for community projects.
14:02In the same program, Dave Feer, an individual designer, has donated £4,000 worth of fixtures.
14:10In People News, Ryan Moss has been named the Senior VP of Ops at Chelsea Lighting.
14:15Mike Felton is now the Senior VP of Sales and Marketing at ICO.
14:19ITAB CEO, Andreas Elgar, will no longer work for ITAB soon.
14:26Mahesh G.
14:28Gangaschetti has secured a new grant for LED tech development, a little more than half a million dollars.
14:35Devin Bixby has been named VP of Sales at the Mountain Sales Agency.
14:40And Gilles Beltran is now the president of ASNET.
14:44AVNET.
14:45Not ASNET.
14:45AVNET.
14:46And in projects, we have a cool homebrew flush mount dome cover.
14:51We have a 1 Hz shadow clock.
14:53We have a cool color player, a thing you can use to educate your kids.
14:59We have an LED tube that can work as a gravity simulator.
15:02We have a way to embed LEDs in a silicone robot.
15:08And you can make your own hexagonal lighting fixtures.
15:11I've been Scott Walker.
15:13I want to thank you for your time, your attention.
15:15I want to thank all of our sponsors.
15:17Visit Nailed.org.
15:19But otherwise, enjoy your week and enjoy the music.
15:23See ya.
15:24You're leaving your home on the one-way road, as we would swore to give your life.
15:32At a pale morning light, you say goodbye to your children and your wife.
15:42Keep in the promise to serve your land.
15:46Now it's hard time to go
15:49On the tarmac before you
15:53There were thousands of people
15:55Lining up in the road
15:58Hey, warrior
16:07Is this the deed of a hero to kill someone?
16:14Hey, warrior
16:16How does it feel when your day is done?
16:30The cockpit is closed and you think of your loved one
16:35You left behind
16:38Life for life is your worst case scenario
16:44That you experience from your mind
16:47Camouflage, death fighters crossing your border
16:53While down there nobody suspects anything
16:57As your bones detonate in the target area
17:03You see nothing but reflections on your wing
17:07Hey, warrior
17:16It's not a worthwhile invention
17:19To kill someone
17:22Hey, warrior
17:26Can you still sleep when your work is done?
17:31What's the use of all this rampant violence?
17:45Slaying people you didn't even know
17:49Who benefits from this is the question
17:54But to know about that is not allowed
17:58The mission accomplished sounds from your headset
18:04And you are relieved as you can be
18:09But the brief flash of an approaching missile
18:14Is the last thing that you can see
18:19Hey, warrior
18:25Do you find yourself trapped in a line?
18:30Hey, warrior
18:34For the propaganda you died
18:38Where you died
18:39We are the good ones
18:54We are the good ones
18:59We are the good ones
19:04We are the good ones
19:08Are we?
19:10Father, had you screamed on your้amo
19:12You are the good ones
19:26We were the good ones
19:26You are the good ones
19:27We are the good ones
19:27We are the good ones
19:29We Road, you are the good ones
19:31We are the good ones
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