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00:00Good morning. It's October 27th, and that means two things. If you really want to achieve the

00:19efficiency and effectiveness as an AI LLM in your own work life, you should just sit in the corner

00:26and consume as much water as a golf course every single day. And it's time for the lighting industry

00:32news brief brought to you by Keystone Technologies and their exit signs and emergency units. These

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00:56Let's get into the news. Del Vero has declared bankruptcy. The manufacturer has entered into

01:06Canadian bankruptcy proceedings with $823 million in debts declared. FITE has bought Cree Lighting's

01:14residential brand. Cree Lighting home lamps are now adding a brand of FITE Electric to the packaging.

01:21Cree Lighting is extending their furlough. The reopening moved from today till November 17th.

01:30Nailed's podcasts, that is to say this one, the Lighting Industry News Brief, Restoring Darkness,

01:38Get a Grip on Lighting, and the Lighting Controls podcast have hit a bit of a milestone. For the first

01:43time in four years, all four shows are on the international Apple charts at the same time.

01:51That's just a bit of trivia that I shared in the group chat and I had to turn that into a press

01:55release. Lume Efficient Lighting has completed its sale. An individual investor at Nobel Venture

02:02Partners has bought the entire design firm for an entirely undisclosed amount. On the tariff tracker,

02:08U.S. and Australia have signed a new mining agreement. Mexico and Canada have signed a new

02:14bilateral trade agreement. Canada has begun exempting the U.S. and Chinese aluminum and steel

02:20from certain tariffs. The U.S. abruptly ended trade talks with Canada over an ad featuring Ronald Reagan

02:28that ran on TV, including the World Series. That ad was paid for by the province of Ontario,

02:36not the government of Canada, federally. The U.S. has also raised tariffs on Canada by 10%,

02:43probably because the ad was on during the World Series. Ontario has since pulled that ad from

02:52future World Series games, but British Columbia is starting their own new ad campaign, mostly about

03:01softwood lumber. The Chinese economy has slowed by 4.8% in the past month. Q3 at Signify shows sales

03:09have fallen by 8.4%. EcoVadis has offered platinum status to Signify. That's part of their ongoing

03:16sustainability recognition program. Signify also consolidating their business in the EU with

03:22their Belgian facility, ending operations before the end of the year and moving some of that work

03:28to Poland. DLL, a vendor finance company, has partnered with Signify. Signify has done yet another

03:38week of share buybacks with 222,302 shares bought at 22.97 euros per share on average.

03:47In news that is not about Signify, Method is offering a dividend to all shareholders. That's

03:53at a nickel per share. Q3 at Rexel shows sales are up 3%. Schneider Electric has a new distro center

04:02in Halton Hills, Ontario. Williams Sonoma has opened a new store for their lighting brand

04:08in Salt Lake City, the first in Utah. That's one of their, I think, 13th stores for the Rejuvenation

04:15brand. That'll officially open on November 13th. Leadvance has secured a new unmetered user group

04:22codes, which means that new street lighting has a new energy use tool at their disposal. Orion is

04:30extending their deal with Home Depot with a multi-year deal secured. In rep agency updates,

04:38Lighthouse Design Studio has created a new rep and dealer network. Kasambi has partnered with

04:44Thea Enterprises in NYC. And ABB has picked CC Pierce for Western New York State and New England.

04:52In events and webinars, this week you can go to the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair,

04:58brackets autumn edition, which is partnered with the Hong Kong International Outdoor and Tech Light

05:04Expo. Those two events overlap, but you can attend from today until the 31st. Nemra and IES has

05:13launched their new curriculum officially. Sign up right now. In legal news, B&K Lighting has moved

05:21into settlement mode with their workers. They are offering $2.25 million to settle the employee

05:28stock ownership complaint. In IoT news, last week, Amazon Web Services, brackets US1, went offline,

05:37which took about 35% of the entire internet with it. Smart beds, smart toilets, smart cameras,

05:45NFT exchanges, all of those. They were just busted for the day.

05:52Togled has expanded into LoRaWAN, which is to say their sensor ranges is expanding as well.

05:58The oligarch class wants AI homes, which is to say that anyone spending $15 million on a house

06:07wants the smartest possible house. We have a new metric for smart street lighting.

06:13This is a Hungarian study finding new rules for connected street lights.

06:17In research and development, infrared and near-infrared boost your dopamine. This is a multidisciplinary

06:27team of scientists in HEFE, and they have found a link between looking at and feeling infrared

06:35and near-infrared light. So warmth, firelight, candlelight, and feeling good. There's probably

06:43going to be a lot of uses for that going forward. UCLA has built a stretchy OLED. This is a polymer device

06:53that bends and stretches and twists and turns and still emits light. Blue light has some uses in

07:00psychiatric therapy. Specifically, under clinical settings, you can reduce lipid inflammation,

07:06which is good for a number of ailments, actually. We have new strategies for sustainable

07:13lighting in beach resorts. Researchers are happy to help the tourist industry save more on energy.

07:20And we have a new tin oxide-based infrared LED that kills skin cells. Cancer skin cells. Skin cell

07:30cancer. Melanomas. Melanomas. I'm sorry. This is a new therapeutic technique that is going through

07:36the research process, and we will see if that helps a lot of people or not. On the dark side of things,

07:44circadian disruption has been linked with neurodegenerative diseases yet again. We have

07:51a cohort study linking Allen with cardiovascular disease. We have eating habits linked to seasonal

07:58rhythms, which are linked to circadian rhythms. Naps are good for you, just so you know. Night shifts

08:06are bad not just for working women, but their children. We have a new method for assessing sleep

08:11and circadian rhythms in cardiovascular research. We have a non-invasive alternative to post-operative

08:18ganglion blocks. The Light and Health Research Center is seeking input from tow truckers on lighting and

08:25safety in how they do their work. We have a new petition for LED headlight regulation in the US.

08:31Astronomers have opened a formal protest openly and loudly about a proposed plan to launch orbital

08:39mirrors, 4,000 of them, into low orbit for reasons that seem bad, actually. The lack of light harms

08:47puberty in rats, especially if you keep them in the dark all day long. Allen is boosting mosquito activity

08:55internationally. We have a new survey for outdoor lighting pros and how light pollution regs are

09:00affecting their work. The European Space Agency has announced a new Space Environment Health Index,

09:08specifically about how much junk there is up there from low orbit objects. Georgia counties have passed

09:15light and noise rules for data centers. Let's see how those go ahead. The Department of Homeland Security

09:21has waived procurement rules on 2,000 miles of border infrastructure, which they plan on adding

09:28stadium-grade lighting too, including a new project that will create a wall, not a wall like all the

09:37other walls. It's not technically architecturally a wall, but they will be creating a wall on the Rio Grande

09:43River, mostly out of lighting. UK bat advocates are calling out a planning bill that would probably harm

09:51for bats. The Artis Zoo in Amsterdam is the EU's first urban night sky place. Basingstoke UK schools

09:58are installing bat-friendly lighting. We have a stargazing party going ahead in Lewisburg, West Virginia

10:03this week. Easton, Pennsylvania is debating darkness ordinances. Cochise, Arizona is approving new lodgings,

10:11despite the fact that their lighting isn't in compliance with the rest of the county. Tahang

10:17Conservation Area charts light pollution from nearby cities. Pennsylvania street light changes

10:25dropped crime in some neighborhoods. Crime stats are always complicated, though. Lawrence, Missouri,

10:31Bird Alliance is opposing a new development in the Baker wetlands. Horticulturally, ComEd is showing off

10:38new container farms in Colorado. We have a new study in night lighting in seasonal rhythms of

10:43raspberries and how long you can leave lights on and not harm the berries overall. Edible Garden has

10:49partnered with associated supermarkets in Brooklyn and Brooklyn Harvest Market. Those are two

10:56bougie, I'm gonna say it, they're bougie grocery chains. We have new vertical farm systems going ahead

11:03from the University of San Luis Potosi. In recommended reading, these links and more are on

11:10nail.org and other places, but read them at nail.org. We have a new analysis of the rare earths

11:17restrictions from China and how that interacts with lighting. We have LED rebates after fluorescent

11:22bands and why they keep happening. How daylight saving time divides us. That's really what's dividing

11:29us right now. Engineering students on energy right now. We have smart doorbells. Are they the new people?

11:37This article was published the day after the AWS outage. I'm sure that was pre-scheduled, but that's just

11:44unfortunate timing, I'm afraid. We have lighting for harm reduction, the costs of compromise in

11:50lighting design. We have the discussion of blue light at night against social ills.

11:55We have data centers keep spiking energy bills for people that don't own those data centers.

12:02And can we do something about it? We have a recap of NY controlled. We have the value of darkness

12:07through time. We have personal responsibility for firefly extinction, which I'm sorry, I watched that

12:14show. It was on the air. It wasn't extinct by my fault. Wait, I think they're talking about the actual

12:21bugs. Still not your fault. You don't affect policy on a level that really affects fireflies,

12:27whether that is the bugs or the TV show. A call from an architectural digest saying that bars just

12:35need dim lighting. They really do. We have a discussion of multi-sensory friendly lighting

12:40in commercial spaces. And we have a few case studies. A revamp of the Tyler County Coliseum,

12:46a DC powered house. That's right. The whole house, a shopping center in Romania going LED,

12:53Washington state's school for the blinds, tunable lighting, and a case study of Lapeche town hall

12:59in Quebec. In local news, we have 579 million in projects approved by the Georgia DOT. We have 30

13:10million to upgrade Amtrak stations in North Dakota. LA City Council has passed a bounty program for

13:17metal thefts. Koichen BC Forest Discovery Center has been struck by thieves who have stolen both

13:23their decorative lights and their extension cords. Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina is planning new

13:30safety projects, including more lighting. In Rowlett, Texas, they have installed the longest stretch

13:36of solar street lighting on a state highway. Six Nations of the Grand River, Ontario,

13:42has approved new projects for infrastructure. Rochester, New York is adding lighting to alleyways.

13:47Gananoak, Ontario is planning upgrades to the marina. Paulding, Ohio schools are planning new lighting

13:53projects. Cartersville, Georgia has determined its most dangerous intersections and what that means for

13:59how they can fix them. Great Falls, Montana has given up on safety for pedestrians and are just adding

14:06reflective tape to their children. Springfield, Massachusetts is relighting their historic clock

14:12after 30 years. Prentice, Mississippi is adding new lights to their parks. Newton City, Iowa has approved

14:18new lighting for their tennis courts. Warburn, Massachusetts is approving sports lighting or

14:24is dealing with sports lighting that was knocked over by a nor'easter. A nor'easter is a ocean-going storm

14:31that has the strength of a tropical storm but forms above the 33rd parallel. I had to look that up,

14:39so now you know that too. In Columbia, South Carolina, there are new plans for efficiency in historic homes.

14:47Snowmish, Washington is adding lighting to their Little League fields. Wichita Falls in Texas is adding lighting

14:54to their BMX course. And we have major renovations for a community center in Bobcage in Ontario.

15:00Internationally, a lighting project invoice, a false lighting project invoice, was used to fish the entire

15:10UK defense ministry. Women are lighting up Newbury UK for safer cycling at night. Cameroon is installing

15:17more solar off-grid systems. Poland is ditching daylight saving time because they're united, not like us.

15:25Uh, Ayudaha has set the record for Diwali lamps with 2.6 million lamps this year. And lighting controls

15:34are finally, the lighting control standard is finally available in Japanese, if you read it. In sports news,

15:41on the 22nd, the Canadiens Flames game was delayed by 10 minutes due to Saddledome lighting failures.

15:50In Bahrain, their international circuit has partnered with Musco to launch the Musco Young Driver

15:55Development Program to encourage young drivers to get into go-karting competitively so that that might

16:03turn into adults in other fields of race, sports, motor sports. And, uh, just in time for Halloween,

16:12Gavi has part has doubled down on their promo partnership with the Miami Dolphins.

16:16In people news, Andy Miles has joined A&P Lighting. We have a new business development team at Southwire.

16:24Rick Hurst has been named the VP of Connected Lighting at Satco. Led Vance has picked Scott

16:30Buckley as their head of marketing. Kevin Ruzica has been named the VP of sales marketing

16:35and professional development at Shatter Shield. We have two new inside sales team members at,

16:42where the hell is this? I'm very sorry.

16:47At, at Max Light. That's where they're at. Very quick, very, very quick update to that story going

16:54ahead. Uh, Border States is staffing up. Ted Mags 30 under 30 have been named. And Pennsylvania State

17:01Rep, uh, Chris Pielli has won the Environmental Leadership Award related to his work in light

17:07pollution reduction. In things that I just thought were weird or cool, uh, we have how to film at the

17:13speed of light. A slack-o-lantern, which is to say a jack-o-lantern that lights up when you have a

17:19slack notification. Uh, we have a slow, a solar oven that works on cloudy days. A Minecraft-styled

17:26lighting you can make yourself. We can blink an LED with a single transistor. We have building lasers for

17:33pseudo-holograms. We have an LED desk that simulates bee activity. We have how to build small radio

17:40astronomy gear for not too much money. How to make a balloon into an LED globe in the style of the

17:46Las Vegas sphere. And recording artist, 50 Cent, has a new cognac that costs $25,000.

17:54But don't you worry. The box it comes in has lights on it. I've been Scott Wachter. I want

18:02to thank you for your time, your attention, your ratings, your reviews, visits, all of our sponsors

18:08visit Nailed. I will see you next week. Take care of yourself. Enjoy the music.

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18:41And the moon don't shine anymore? What would you do if the river ceased? If the ocean moved

19:06no more? No more. Look at the fear in the children's faces. What do we do with the cold and poor?

19:17Just lay down and die. Just lay down and die. Kiss your ass goodbye. What's next?

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