And the Rest is.... -- The Lighting Industry News Brief Dec 29

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00:00Good morning. It's Monday, December 29th, and that means two things.

00:17It is possible to commit no errors and still fail. That is not weakness. That is life.

00:25You know who said that? Beyonce. You know who she was quoting? Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

00:34But let's get into the news, brought to you by Keystone Technologies and their exit signs.

00:39These also come with emergency units. They have what you need. If you need red letters,

00:43because that's your local ordinance, that's great. If someone's following the ISO standard,

00:47they have green letters. You got white houses, black houses, edge lit if you need it.

00:51They have different styles, different lumen outputs. They've got combo kits.

00:57All of these are backed by Keystone's power supplies for guaranteed performance. That's

01:01keystonetech.com or the link in the description. Let's do the news because Halco has bought Topaz

01:08from Southwire. No details on price. The production price index for lighting is high compared to other

01:17industries. Specifically, the index is up 30% over the past five years. People don't pay inflation.

01:25They don't pay tariffs. They pay prices. And we're seeing prices right here.

01:32Speaking of tariffs, though, the U.S. has delayed their planned semiconductor tariff on China until

01:382027, and India and New Zealand have signed a Free Trade Act. The SPEED Act has passed the U.S.

01:46House of Representatives. This new permitting bill will erode NEPA protections in order to accelerate

01:53permitting processes for exterior projects. Canada Post has finalized their contract. This

02:00five-year deal has been tentatively secured. DAVCO, a lighting contractor in South Florida,

02:06is celebrating their 40th anniversary. Congrats to them. Lighting from the Pulse nightclub in Orlando

02:13has been saved ahead of the club's demolition. Not for any, like, memorial reason. The city's

02:20probably going to resell it for reuse. It's just pretty good nightclub lighting. New construction

02:26projects are down 20%. The hardest hit are megaprojects. And as interprovincial trade barriers

02:34fall in Canada, trucking rules aren't really keeping up because provincial rules often double

02:40up or overlap or conflict with the federal ones. And we're going to have to have a big trucking

02:44conference to settle that, I guess. In legal briefs, a federal court has ordered lighting controls in

02:51ICE concentration camps, specifically to dim the lights during evening hours so that detainees can

02:58sleep. Currently, ICE is not complying in their San Francisco facility. In events and webinars, we have

03:04updates from David Schiller on five different lighting events next year. In IoT news, four-fifths of homes have

03:12at least one smart device. That is according to a one-pole survey. Samsung SmartThings has updated to

03:20matter 1.5, which includes new tools for cameras and doorbells. The Nest camera will have AI facial

03:27recognition. Also, they'll track your pets for you. And the ONCE Foundation has certified 13 Italian

03:35smart cities. That's Alessandria, Bergamo, Bolzano, Brescia, Genoa, Milano, Turino, Trento,

03:41Florenzi, Montieri, Pisa, Napoli, and Lecce. Apologies for that accent. I didn't plan on doing that. I just

03:49slid in there. Third one. Third one caught me, I think. On the dark side of things, it's just science,

03:56folks. Longer nights just make us weird. It's how we cope. Entomologists may have to stop using

04:04light traps for their surveys as light pollution gets even brighter. Dark Sky International condemns

04:10Reflect Orbital. Reflect Orbital is, of course, the plan to put mirrors in space so that we can have light

04:17at night for solar power or growing. The U.S. Army or the U.S. Air Force almost did that during NAM,

04:26actually. Hawaii's Dark Night Skies Protection Advisory Committee has published a new report

04:32on the need for more lighting controls in the state. We have new fatigue models for 9-1-1 dispatch staff.

04:39Eating late is bad for stress, blood sugar, and sodium levels in humans. Restoring Darkness and the

04:46Darkness News Update are on indefinite hiatus going forward. Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia, is expanding its

04:54existing Dark Sky Park. Dark Sky International recognizes Snow Canyon State Park, Utah, as an urban

05:00night sky place. Black Mesa State Park, Oklahoma has been recognized as a dark sky park. I have video of

05:09how bright a metadata center in Indiana really is. And that nativity light show from Satellite Beach,

05:16that did find a new home one beach over for the holidays, just so you know. In horticultural news,

05:23farms in Kuwait are set to sell their first harvest. Greenhouse sales at Universal Fabricating

05:29celebrates their 150th acre of facility. And we have a new Leafy Greens facility turning on the lights in

05:37Slovenia. In recommended reading, all these links on Nailed.org, Energy Star still matters. Smart tech for

05:45workplace engagement. Shades in smart, sustainable buildings. We have security projects for resale value.

05:52The Manitoba Electrical Museum has a display of holiday lighting throughout the ages. How to stop

05:58leaving your lights on all night and why you should do it. Optimizing daylighting. Solving dimmer

06:04incompatibility at the switch level. We have what to know about HVAC integration into Bluetooth NLCs.

06:11And we have a meeting of the minds that actually decode the tariff executive orders. In local news,

06:18we have new rebates for small businesses in Manitoba. Three billion for road lighting in

06:23Snohomish County, Washington. We have lighting in Louisville, Kentucky cutting violence. We also

06:29have new laws for copper theft in Alberta. Stockbridge, Massachusetts has been named a

06:34climate leader community. We have new security lighting in Pendleton, Oregon. We have new energy

06:39grants and loans in Bracebridge, Ontario. Rock Springs, Wyoming is planning new lighting for

06:45pedestrian safety. Alaska is cutting spending in Anchorage by 19 million. We have new LED street

06:52lights going up in Springfield, Massachusetts. Cooperstown, New York has closed their libraries

06:58for renovations. We have new grants for Putnam, New York libraries to do the same. And we have in

07:04Maine, Booth Bay, Maine, a half million dollar LED retrofit going to schools. Durham, North Carolina is

07:12updating their tennis courts to LED. We have LEDs going in the Bridgeville, Pennsylvania baseball

07:18field. And Mammoth Solar donated $10,000 to light Meddareville, Indiana little leagues, uh, fields.

07:27Internationally, Clear Blue Tech is beginning distribution for smart cities in four African

07:32nations. Argentina opens its first solar highway. Essex County is ending energy austerity on the streets

07:40for the holidays. Yorkshire Lighting Display raises money for charities. We have new lighting for

07:45safety going ahead in Amsterdam. And Signify has opened three smart hubs in Bangalore.

07:52In people news, we have promotions for the at the director level at the IES and AES. Matthew Brady is

07:59now the CRO at Ubiquia. Sean Good is now the director of architectural lighting at Barton. Scott Jansen has been

08:06named a regional president at Sonpar. We have new promotions at Sonpar as well as you know. We also

08:11have new leadership at Southwire. Uh, also Scott Wachter doesn't work for Nailed anymore.

08:17As of the 31st, I'm done. I want to thank you for, you know, enjoying what I've put out or if you,

08:26you know, worked at, or if you took LS1 in the past five years, thank you for that. If you took

08:31LS Evolve, thank you for that. I want to thank all of the sponsors I've had over the past six years

08:36and, oh, so many directors on the board. Um, you know, really great guys. I couldn't name them all,

08:42but special shout outs to Corey Schneider, uh, Nafuse, uh, Devin Wall, uh, also, um, uh, Alan

08:49Karen, Alan Karen. And of course the management team, that's Mike, that's Greg, that's Aaron, that's

08:54Pat, and that's, uh, Scott Griffin. Thank you all for that. I should, I should end it here. I should cut

08:59it off here, but I do have to tell you that you can build a tiny little windmill lamp that uses

09:05filaments on, on the actual blades of the windmill. It's really cute. It's nice. I might make it and

09:10then make a little matchstick, uh, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza to go with it. You can make an LED

09:17hopscotch board for when you're inside. And also always remember that you can test your diodes

09:23with a hot dog because there's just so much salt in them. They're conductive.

09:27Anyway, I've been Scott Wachter. I want to thank you for your time, your attention. Um,

09:33have a happy new year. I couldn't decide what song to go out on, so I'm going to do a double

09:38spin. Enjoy that. Take care of yourselves.

09:41Why would you worry?

09:47There's so much here to do, oh yeah.

09:54Why would you worry now?

09:57Oh, no.

10:00Nothing chasing you.

10:02Oh, you will be mine.

10:12Yes, I will while you're sleeping.

10:14Yeah.

10:18For the people who don't cry.

10:20I won't waste so much this time for mine.

10:28Yeah, yeah, yeah.

10:30Yeah, yeah.

10:32Why don't you listen

10:55When I hold on to me

11:01Would you believe in me

11:07Were you satisfied with the things you see

11:14Oh, you will be mine

11:18Oh, I put while you're sleeping

11:25Yes, I know

11:28The people who don't cry

11:35Won't face the pressure sound of mine

11:39Yeah, yeah, yeah

11:41guitar solo

11:51guitar solo

12:01guitar solo

12:06guitar solo

12:11guitar solo

12:21guitar solo

12:28guitar solo

12:31guitar solo

12:33Oh, you will be mine

12:58Yes, I work while you're sleeping

13:05For people who don't cry

13:11Oh, waste your precious time with mine

13:19Yeah, yeah, yeah

13:20guitar solo

13:30guitar solo

13:40guitar solo

13:47The hard way

14:09I had to do it on the hard way

14:15The hard way

14:19I had to do it on the hard way

14:25While other folks been working by the light of day

14:32Building homes and families

14:35Collecting steady pay

14:38I've been out here with the ones

14:40Whose hearts will always break

14:43Picking up bad habits

14:45That a weck I couldn't shave

14:48Don't make no difference

14:50What nobody say

14:53I never was much good at listening anyway

14:58The hard way

15:04I had to do it on the hard way

15:09The hard way

15:14I had to do it on the hard way

15:19Now people like to tell me

15:25There's no such thing as mistakes

15:27Eventually I'll see a path

15:30As long as that may take

15:32As long as that may take

15:33And though all roads get rocky

15:35They will lead to heaven's gate

15:37As like my car broke down

15:39When I took a shortcut

15:40To that fiery lane

15:42Don't make no difference

15:45What nobody say

15:47As long as I keep moving

15:49If I keep moving

15:50I will make it there someday

15:52I will make it there someday

15:57The hard way

15:59I had to do it on the hard way

16:03The hard way

16:10I had to do it on the hard way

16:15The hard way

16:20I had to do it on the hard way

16:24The hard way

16:29The hard way

16:31I had to do it on the hard way

16:34The hard way

16:39The hard way

16:41The hard way

16:48The hard way

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