Metamorphosis - The Lighting Industry News Brief July 21 - video Dailymotion

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00:00good morning it's monday july 21st and that means two things y'all forgot my birthday and it's time

00:20for the lighting industry news brief brought to you by keystone technologies and their emergency

00:26units and exit signs uh this is a full line a full and flexible line because they've got something

00:32that'll suit what you need or what your project requires they've got red lights green lights

00:37white housings black housing if you need edge lit they've got that too uh the emergency units come

00:44in round and square you've got a bunch of different lumen outputs and they all come with uh keystone

00:50power supplies and keystones guarantee you've also got combo kit options if you really need to buy a

00:56lot otherwise this is keystone tech.com the link is in the description fegerholt will be buying capilon

01:04capilon is a swedish smart lighting company and no they did not disclose any details about that

01:11purchase current is expanding their distro centers across america salas o'brien has bought the lda no

01:18details disclosed on that on the tariff side of things the european union has delayed any retaliation

01:25against the u.s until august 1st acuity is raising their prices for the third time this calendar year

01:31the rural energy for america program has paused all funding previously they'd spent about 1.2 billion

01:39dollars in small towns and farms over the past 10 years the u.s department of housing and urban

01:44development wants your feedback specifically on the adoption of the 2021 international energy

01:50conservation code which is to say they probably won't adopt it unless you are tremendously in favor

01:57of it all of a sudden the irs the internal revenue service will no longer be enforcing the so-called

02:04johnson amendment which is to say that any organization under the 501c3 tax status can now directly make

02:14financial political contributions and or make public endorsements of political candidates a lot of hay

02:22about this has been about large churches getting into politics more deep politics more deeply but let's

02:30all consider any organizations that might be 501c3 and what they might do with the impunity to act on the

02:40public sphere profits are down at fager halt with q2 sales down by 15 signifies a share buyback continues

02:49with 186 000 shares back with the board bought at uh roughly 22.42 euros per share a lead vance has bought

03:01a stake into bridge lux with 18.77 equity purchases planned we have sales up at abb q2 was a record

03:10center for the company we have sales up at the grand with uh the first half of the year showing sales up

03:1613 percent hemeria has new owners francois reno matthew corotalo and nicholas cohen are now leading the

03:27decorative lighting firm tactic has got a new federal contract they will be working on national food safe

03:35lighting initiatives uh out of wisconsin q2's pulse of lighting shows that the market is looking up

03:41and gray bar has been named the best to sell for by selling power magazine i think that's about the

03:49power of selling not selling literal power i don't think it's a a direct energy magazine in rep agency

03:56updates plp will be repping h.e williams in los angeles jm eagle has partnered with kunst powell in

04:04the mid-atlantic and p&m sales in new england uh cal will be repping beta calco in the bay area

04:12fresno and reno bell and mccoy has bought bob jones and associates in legal briefs cree led has sued

04:20nanolumens over six display patents invictus has sued rab over wattage selection tech uh in events and

04:28webinars exhibitor reg is now open for new york control ed that deadline is on the 29th uh

04:35leducation is seeking speakers by the the 15th of september and arclight is adding a new association

04:42and agency partners specifically the texas society of architects the international interior design

04:49association texas and the society of american registered architects uh they'll all be at the september

04:59show we have discovered a new vulnerability in e-sims uh two billion kaigen e-u-i-c-c cards which are

05:09often in phones but also in devices that use uh cell connections for iot uh they have a major back door

05:17that allows um bad actors to do bad actions uh talq is offering templates for outdoor projects uh this

05:26is a new tool for smart city tenders and it works in seven languages i know this because they put the

05:32press release out in seven languages led roadway lighting a nova scotia company has secured a new

05:40grant for ai this is in two million canadian dollars through the atlantic canada uh advancement

05:48organization uh silvere has certified an hvac system through their bluetooth nlc profiles a semi-tech

05:57will be replacing legacy powerline communications now this is part of a new partnership with safe

06:03safe square and oxytaleen uh pritsadik bulbs have secured approval from the hully the halic council uh

06:15this is a smart lighting company that has been recognized for its ability of its controls to uh observe

06:22shabbat this is fiddly but it's a thing that you know some people need fiddly things are where the money is

06:31quesctel has uh developed a new module that combines mcu zigbee and bluetooth connectivity

06:39that's a few first for compatibility really i don't know if anyone needed it but it's there

06:45york university has developed a new deep neural network that will leverage ai to estimate reflected

06:53light this is a tool to manage albedo of exterior lighting projects we have new leds for endoscopy

07:01this is a tool that can aid in the detection of gastrointestinal cancers tamarac biotics has

07:09secured fda approval for uv dairy safety previously to this technology you would use pasteurization

07:18which is to say you would take a relatively small amount of infrared radiation and expose it to milk or

07:26cream or curds or way and that infrared radiation would destabilize the bonds of pathogens causing

07:33them to deactivate this did come with a side effect of possibly negligible effects on the nutritional

07:43density of the end food product but this new this new process will expose cream or curds or milk or

07:51way to small amounts of uv radiation which will destabilize the structure of pathogens with the side

08:00effect of negligible amounts of damage to the nutritional density of the end food product

08:09anyway it's my in-laws probably won't get listeria now whatever shen yang ag university has

08:16developed frog-centric lighting this is a control system of rgbw lighting that improves the growth

08:24rate of tadpoles of dybowski's frogs okay on the dark side of things a romanian team has have tracked the

08:35biomarkers of night shift burnout enabling us to better understand when we should take people off shift

08:41work circadian rhythm has been linked with seizure induced sinus arrhythmia which is to say that uh

08:49the better rested you are the more likely or the less likely you will have a seizure while you're asleep

08:56and not breathe and die which is good it's good to know that uh alan has been linked with obesity this

09:07is part of a 15-year cohort study a common dementia treatment alters melaton receptors in rats exterior

09:15alan has been linked with dementia symptoms overall naps especially right after work do improved shift

09:22worker recovery from the issues of shift work shift work includes hormonal issues for cis women color

09:31temperature does boost a lot of biomarkers in glow worms gene modification of the clot gene in mice

09:41shorts their clock period their circadian period but not the phases of it so you still have to give them

09:48modulated night at light at night uh specifically the light pollution in southern california is causing a

09:56spike in sleep disorders in the region new brunswick has planned a new dark corridor along the fundy coastline

10:05charlotte county florida has launched a turtle recognition program weber county utah is looking

10:10for volunteers for brightness data collection nevada state has launched their dark skies toolkit

10:17maitland florida is adding dark sky lighting to one of their libraries st pete florida has enforced

10:24lighting rules on a beachside lounge verona wisconsin is dealing with sky glow rappahannock county

10:31virginia is embracing new lighting regulations riverwoods illinois uh their new pet shelter has

10:38installed new non-spilling lighting we have a call for reinstatement of the model lighting ordinance in

10:44arappo county colorado and the member of parliament for shout south shields uk has protested new street

10:52lights near near a uh known spot to watch the northern lights actually the street lights are

11:01pretty good they've got the time to dimming thing going on but anyway in horticultural news

11:07ai cannot farm we have a study showing that greenhouse grown crests loses a number of immunities

11:13and robustness compared to their outdoor counterparts the university of york has set a new plan for veggie growers

11:19uh the tennessee-based grow lamp maker has secured debt relief from mrp easy uh nysci has partnered

11:28with nysw to produce harvests out of queens ag tech campus in south carolina has added a hydropodic farm

11:37and flow has opened an entirely new vertical farm in qatar in recommended reading all these links are on

11:43nailed.org and more we have how to pick a wildlife friendly fixture what color should your accent walls

11:50be the costs of copper tariffs so far we have a liquidators view on the business landscape david gordon

11:58on ai sales and sex ed we have shopping for rechargeable lighting uh led color and why

12:06rooms just look weird sometimes how to get rebates before they go cct choice but make it a horoscope

12:13i don't actually recommend reading that one that's why i gave it a sarcastic title there

12:19links at nailed.org we have modularity is sustainability oklahoma mayors are calling

12:25for lighting funds and why why do restaurants keep their lights so low a recap of light evasion and a

12:32case study of both lighting and uv disinfection at a tuberculosis clinic in local news the main governor's

12:42mansion is expanding security including lighting we have new infrastructure bill going ahead in

12:46vermont we have indiana schools securing funds for crosswalk lighting michigan is offering new solar

12:53gland grants uh purple lights from acuity have hit columbus ohio yet again babcock ranch florida has

13:02secured recognition for its solar powered lighting jones county georgia has gotten some new funds for

13:08streets and court courthouse lighting uh the saint john's new brunswick jail has gotten lighting

13:14retrofixed which is great because new brunswick is now home to canada's greatest hot spot for stolen

13:20copper uh the washington dot is dealing with wire theft as well the crime rate in new orleans is down

13:28must be letting say police that didn't actually do any advice about lighting design

13:32in cataraugus county uh their local spca location has is looking for six million dollars for renovations

13:42including light traffic lighting retrofits lightrofits we should just call them that now

13:49uh in corpus christi texas parks are now offering shade we have new lighting at the dartmouth massachusetts

13:57dog park oak ridge north carolina is securing utility funds for park walkways we have new

14:04funds for el paso texas parks and spokesfields the srp has recovered 500 tons in utility poles that's

14:13right they're gonna reclaim that wood for fancy coffee tables or something i don't know what you do

14:18with reclaimed wood but there we go and in hamden connecticut the u.s tennis association gave them

14:26funds to resurface to resurface and relight their tennis courts but they painted pickleball lines on

14:35them and now those funds are in jeopardy there we go internationally african development bank has

14:44funded street lighting in rwanda we have a new contest to relight the cathedral uh santiago de

14:51capostella in spain eureka forbes has partnered with dixon in india in people news lutron has named

14:58edward blair as their uh their vice chair on the bod mike felton has joined ico as a senior vice president

15:07nick witten has been named the recipient of the gene heap bursary and templeman is now officially

15:14finally the ceo at signify in the debunked zone senator marwain mullen claimed that the

15:23rescission act of 2025 would end funds for gender diversity in mexican street lighting industry

15:29which was just a bit of non-factual hyperbole of course most of that bill was targeted at international

15:36food and medical aid as well as support for public broad tech broadcasting and this teen did not hack

15:43a date in ohio traffic signal because he's not a real teen the entire tick tock was ai generated

15:51that links on nail.org also this dress is made out of glowing microorganisms the flipper zero a handy

15:59device for just playing around with tech and maybe doing crimes maybe uh can pull on thread devices uh

16:08we have a coffee table with a glowing traffic map that you can make you can hack some dollar store

16:14lights to make something a lot better than dollar store solar lights and you can turn the newest sony

16:21bravia tv into a fake window anyway i've been scott walker i want to thank you for your time your attention

16:28uh uh uh enjoy your week enjoy your music all the hate mail goes to mike and aaron thank you for that

16:36see ya our quarterly pursuit of youth quarterly sayers of sooth what is sooth better pull the next tooth

16:49before you shoot before you shoot point the trigger at the hoop does joe seem a bit aloof

16:5890 proof 90 proof let's drink scotch on the roof i've shot at truth

17:03a late night live the run senescent sun you can't outgun the fall down lens you sent the old

17:11sooth it dead better run how did you end up here beat turkey and wheat here who's just lost his left ear

17:20dawn dawn has now caught your scent you can't fake red just crash here

17:25our quarterly pursuit of death the truck bed still smells like meth huff up breath don't misspell shibboleth stop and go lights

17:46the future's future future's got you in its sights why'd you move out of the heights your last rites time

17:55to count those egg whites no second bites oh christ we hit an elf we better stop it's 3 a.m

18:03his hands still matched the clock no endless show to leave you

18:09how did you end up here beat turkey and wheat here who's just lost his right ear go you made the lonely news

18:17don't leave no clues you're safe here

18:29a windowless basement check carpet guns throw your orbis sun

18:43clears on a seedy box his prey he stalls forever how did we end up here the whiskey just slide through

18:52through strokes that burn in tears at least you won't pay rent cops taste your scent

18:59can't stay here

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