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00:00good morning it is monday november 17th and that means two things history does not bend

00:20toward justice it bends toward weirdness and therefore the just just gotta be a little weird

00:29anyway let's talk about the news brought to you by keystone tech.com and their emergency exit signs

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01:07that's keystone tech.com or the link in the description let's do the news get a grip on

01:16lighting long-standing podcast employer of mine has announced that they're done they are going to do

01:27a multi-part finale series uh six live episodes every wednesday starting on november 19th ending

01:34in december and that'll be it for them kree lighting's furloughs continue um maybe we'll maybe work

01:44we'll start on the 28th maybe energy star might be back uh the united states department of energy is

01:53re-evaluating eliminating the program that doge in theory killed once again even if it comes back um

02:04energy star will only apply to downlights as far as we are concerned at nailed uh the aia has partnered

02:12with the green building initiative uh this design partnership will be working on education and

02:19advocacy the united states department of the interior has list has come up with a final list of what they

02:25consider to be critical minerals 60 critical minerals these are vital to national security and supply

02:34chains and uh there is an ongoing geological survey to uh to secure them on the tariff tracker uh this week is

02:44this week uh was home temporally to the g7 meetings on trade next week will be home to the g30 meetings on trade

02:55and other issues nema has determined that abb is american per their own criteria of what counts as american

03:07in terms of manufacturing zengelman in canada has set up a snitch line so that uh anyone who notices

03:16foreign steel being used in public projects can just call them up and say hey there there's some foreign

03:24steel and public projects going on up here and you could get a thousand dollars at lsi we have a

03:32report on q1 for them sales are up 14 and they are planning a dividend of a nickel per share universal

03:39display has declared a dividend as well with 45 cents per share going to shareholders on the end of

03:47december energy focuses last quarter shows that earnings are up uh three cents per share revenues are

03:56down at dialyte uh their half year shows a four percent reduction in sales overall

04:02in canada the government the federal government of canada has funded a new tungsten mine in new brunswick

04:12in the ongoing signify share by buyback update segment we have 167 133 shares back with the board

04:27at an average price of 20.29 cents in euros each

04:33uh pre-lighting slash fight has partnered with lowe's slash tv's blossom

04:42miriam miriam bialik is endorsing light bulbs now

04:50i don't get it i really don't that happened that's all i can say uh recolite is offering

05:01certification for used luminaires these are new rules for the circular economy in the uk we have a

05:09new railroad merger in the united states with ms and up merging operations osha is now scaling back

05:18safety regulations safety regulations normally written in blood but the general duty clause and

05:25the construction illumination standard are gone basically zuma lighting has a new website cool

05:35a&p lighting also has a new website also cool uh on the legal side of things the washington state

05:45supreme court has affirmed the previous verdict in a uh teachers of monroe county versus bayer lawsuit

05:54related to chemicals dripping out of ballast for fluorescence and those teachers will enjoy

06:02185 million dollars spread across all of them uh the edf the which is a group of environmentalists

06:11are now suing the department of energy over uh canceled energy grants best light has sued ql light

06:21not sure if that's i'm pronouncing that right it is q l l i t e all caps not sure how i'm supposed to

06:32pronounce that but the case claims corporate espionage in emergency lighting projects kree led has sued

06:40premier products this is related to ip in led portable leds

06:46and recording artist and lighting philanthropist akon uh it it has been arrested akon head of akon lighting

06:58africa has been arrested in georgia for driving with a suspended license in events and webinars

07:05mess of frankfurt the ies and the iald are launching an entirely new trade show

07:14the light and intelligent building north america show will take place in las vegas nevada in march 15th to 18th

07:24next year dolly has announced uh their 2026 lighting awards submission period you have until the 19th of

07:33december to submit for that um the ies 26 con the ies 2026 conference is calling for papers posters and

07:43presentations all sessions and workshop deadlines are spread between january and february of next year

07:50whack has published their webinar series you can watch five on-demand sessions on light health and

07:59wellness right now universal display is going on tour with execs and researchers presenting at live events

08:07in hong kong long london and hiroshima the naed is seeking member achievement awards submissions recipients

08:17will be named in may in iot news a unnamed private investment group has bought digital building solutions

08:26as part of a broader play to incorporate more ai into their work semilux is not in compliance for the

08:36minimum bid price on their stocks on the nas stack which means they now have six months

08:42to maintain a closing price of a dollar per share 30 days in a row the lighting controls podcast hosted

08:50dave wary and at q in q3 at skyx revenues were a record 24 million dollars last quarter in research

09:00in development we have new data and on the accuracy of simulations that shows that design file formats

09:08that we know of don't necessarily match up with practical use cases the cie has published two new

09:17measurements one is for rendering factors in human skin color and the other is a position statement on

09:25obtrusive light and light pollution uh tomsk polytechnic university has opened a new lab for

09:33biodynamic lighting research we have new ceramic phosphors in laser lighting from jangzhou normal

09:41university and we also have an entirely new uvc led from elphoton on the dark sky on the dark side of

09:51things uh dark sky international has named their annual award winners at their annual conference once again

09:58i have been excluded from that winners list once again i'm not that bitter about it uh alan is changing the

10:08metabolism the metabolism of entire ecosystems we have a spanish study that shows that up that examines

10:17low cct led pc amber led and light pollution standards and what that actually works out to be

10:24the university of glasgow is tracking sensory pollutants in owls dim light at night changes

10:33a lot of things about the reproductive function of hamsters including the actual shape of their testes

10:41in yorkshire in the uk three towns have joined the greater north york moors dark sky zone the huanglong

10:51national scenic area in sichuan is now a dark sky park and cyclone lighting lenses meet dsi requirements

11:02in fort myers florida they're going to be stepping up lighting enforcement next year because it turns out

11:09the sea turtles didn't do so great this year big cypress national preserve might lose their dark sky

11:19status over uh what dhs calls alligator alcatraz mexico city will be regulating light pollution next year

11:30parks in apache junction arizona have been recognized by dark sky international

11:35rehoboth beach in delaware is pondering a new lighting ordinances and simsbury connecticut is referring

11:44their lighting ordinance plans to the county level

11:50horticulturally second bloom is liquid liquidating their gear much of it never actually used this might

11:58end up going to good leaf which just rate raised 52 million dollars in venture capital funds

12:05we have new hydroponic systems for edamame from the hose university of japan we have new lighting methods

12:13to improve uh the growth patterns of white hearts of jesus that's a type of house plant uh the

12:21department of justice is going to begin a new crackdown on edibles and beverages that include

12:28cannabis this is reversing a trend from the previous administration in recommended reading all these

12:37links and so much more are available on nail.org we have a recap of canada light expo we have a question

12:46of our lighting company names too complicated uh did this editorial really limited to the fight

12:53cree lighting thing but i'm good i'm gonna say no all all company names and lighting are bad they're too

13:00complicated it's bad it's bad out there we we should all be doing better to be different and

13:07differentiatable we have a business case for dial for daylight the when how and why of skylight replacement

13:17we have six takeaways from uh what the light and intelligence buildings north america plan might be

13:26dmf lighting's uh rushi kumar talks about ai and human-centered design things that probably don't

13:34fit together that sounds oxymoronic to me we have lidar's role in autonomous trucking we have deep sea

13:42mining being maybe bad i'm gonna drop a bonus video before the end of the year about deep sea rare earth

13:51mining i'm telling you that now an entire bonus video because i think i want to start doing bonus videos

14:01about things that i am learning about lighting and other parts of the industry and it'll be fun it'll be

14:11cool it'll be useful i think i hope we have an examination about how everyone really did start to hate

14:23quote the big light we have a question of what is and is not biophilic design we have motion and presence

14:33detection in commercial lighting we have the ongoing debate debate as though both sides were valid

14:41about uh time changes seasonally and how the eu might solve that for us for us uh we have how dark

14:50showers might actually have some merit even anecdotally we have the grand reopening of the war of the

14:58currents we have how to animate automate a smart home properly uh we also have what to do when your

15:08dining room is too bright and uh light pollution got you down just just drive to the middle of texas why

15:16not do that that that'll solve your light pollution woes visiting a place where there's no light pollution

15:25we have a case study of the university of bergen's anti-sad light therapy lecture hall sad being seasonal

15:32affective disorder and we have a case study of the so-called carbon mosque in dubai this is a carbon

15:43neutral mosque in dubai in local news we have a 50 million dollar bond for oregon state parks we have 917

15:53million in transit projects for new jersey so saint marie ontario is offering new tools for residences

16:01uh aurelia ontario is switching all of their exterior lighting to led uh in louisiana a utility is

16:09celebrating their 100 000th residential incentive a charity is holding an oc an auction to light relight a home

16:21for the intellectually disabled uh new york city has set a new streetlight mandate harrisburg pennsylvania has

16:29begun work on a new street lighting program um we have new lighting going up in long beach california

16:37seattle washington proposes parks getting more lighting weber state university is beginning new

16:43energy projects the town of penyan new york has debated the merits of expanding crosswalk lighting

16:52richmond virginia is repairing uh the carry town sign lighting monroeville pennsylvania schools have

17:00approved new spending for lighting and other energy programs gillette wyoming has approved new school

17:06projects we have new bridge lighting going ahead in austin texas uh there is a parking lot in miami florida

17:15that the the the city figured out that like the light poles had been out of code for 30 years and

17:23rather than force that parking lot to go up to code they just said no these are actually code they they

17:29made the code worse for everyone else i guess in kenner city louisiana there is a new plan for parking

17:38lot and decorative lighting that'll go ahead we have new track and field lighting going up at eu wsp

17:45school uh we have new stadium lights planned for grove city pennsylvania schools charities will fund

17:52tetanus court lighting in carden ohio schools and in new kent virginia uh they're going to spend about

18:01a million dollars on tennis courts most of that is just to have the tennis courts in general but lighting

18:09is part of that internationally uh the angland the anglican church has begun major revamps for in terms

18:18of energy we have a new lighting project at saint oswald's priory in glochester and what happened is when

18:26they started digging the lines the lines for the wires they found an entirely new medieval wall

18:33so that lighting project can't go forward until archaeologists figure out what this wall is

18:41uh kansas city kansas uh charities are putting street lights in africa we have clear blue tech partnering

18:49with isat africa for connectivity and energy in projects hacks oddities and whatever else i thought

18:58was fun on kickstarter you can back a frame a flexible frame a physical object with lights in it led lights

19:08for your flags okay uh we have a way to build a better poe smart home network we have

19:18a firmware option for a less evil thermostat you can build a better lightsaber if that's the thing you care

19:25about we have an led projector has a lighting effect for parties you might want that for new years i don't

19:34know we have a method for testing the quality and effectiveness of diodes with a hot dog a new program that

19:44lets you abuse led candles and can your light bulb run a minecraft server yes yes it can this is the

19:54this is a guide to hosting a minecraft server on a smart bulb if that's the thing you felt like

20:02anyway i've been scott walker i want to thank you for your time your attention i want to thank nailed i

20:07i want to thank all our sponsors until next week enjoy yourself and enjoy the music see ya

20:14the i i i i i wake in an unfamiliar place for goodness sake

20:24i gotta find my way back home it's much harder to do when you're all alone

20:38And this is the last time I get pissed

20:49And this is the last time I get pissed

21:03But only for a while

21:10Drunk again tonight

21:21Stuck in another of the stones

21:24I'm not alright

21:28I wanna smash my head on the wall

21:35I know I shouldn't really be here at all

21:43And this is the last time I get pissed

21:58And this is the last time I get pissed

22:09But only for a while

22:28Danger me

22:30It's just the last time I get pissed

22:33And I move on to a automate

22:43you're listening to the ages of the stones

22:46Oh, LT is on stage

22:49And this is the last time I get pissed

23:19And this is the last time I get pissed

23:31But only for a while

23:49And this is the last time I get pissed

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