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Sleeps 5
1 Slides
Bunk Over CabOutdoor Entertainment
24ft Long
22B Floorplan
Sleeps | 5 | Slides | 1 |
Length | 24 ft 1 in | Ext Width | 8 ft 3 in |
Ext Height | 11 ft | Int Height | 7 ft |
Hitch Weight | 8000 lbs | GVWR | 12500 lbs |
Fresh Water Capacity | 40 gals | Grey Water Capacity | 25 gals |
Black Water Capacity | 29 gals | Furnace BTU | 19000 btu |
Fuel Type | Gasoline | Engine | 7.3L V8 |
Chassis | Ford E-Series | Horsepower | 325 hp |
Fuel Capacity | 55 gals | Wheelbase | 158 in |
Number Of Bunks | 1 | Available Beds | RV Queen |
Torque | 450 ft-lb | Refrigerator Type | 12V with Auto Generator Start |
Cooktop Burners | 3 | Shower Size | 24" x 36" |
Number of Awnings | 1 | LP Tank Capacity | 40 lbs |
Water Heater Type | Tankless | AC BTU | 13500 btu |
Basement Storage | 30.9 cu. ft. | TV Info | Cab 39" TV w/Swivel |
Awning Info | 15' Power w/Integrated LED Lighting | Gross Combined Weight | 18500 lbs |
Shower Type | Standard | Electrical Service | 30 amp |
Thor Motor Coach Chateau 22B Class C gas motorhome highlights:
- Private Bedroom
- Bunk Over Cab
- Rear Corner Bathroom
- Dream Dinette
Start exploring the countryside in true comfort with this motorhome! Keep your bellies full with a fully equipped kitchen that has a flip-up countertop to make meal prepping easier. You can enjoy your delicious meals at the 76" Dream Dinette and even transform it into an extra sleeping space. Speaking of sleeping spaces, there is a 52" x 96" bunk over cab with a 39" TV on a swivel and a private bedroom with a 60" x 74" queen bed slide for more interior space and even an area prepped to add an optional TV. After a long day of traveling, you can freshen up in the rear corner bathroom with the 24" x 36" shower and if you chose to add the optional exterior 32" TV then you can watch a movie under the stars!
Experience a smooth ride to each destination with the Thor Motor Coach Chateau Class C gas motorhomes! There is a Ford E-Series chassis or optional Chevrolet chassis on select models, and each model includes an 8,000 lb. trailer hitch to bring the family car along. They are constructed with a welded tubular aluminum roof, sidewall cage construction, vacu-bond laminated roof, walls, and floor with block foam insulation to keep the heat and air conditioning inside. The slick fiberglass exterior with graphics package and black framed windows are sure to turn heads down the highway too. Inside, you'll be met with residential vinyl flooring, window privacy shades, a power bath vent, and pressed laminate kitchen countertops. There is even a tankless water heater for endless hot showers, a 4.0 kw gas generator to keep you going, and solar prep for off-grid capabilities!
Standard Features (2024)
Construction & Exterior
- Ford® E-Series Chassis - 7.3L V8, 325HP 450 lb-ft Torque with TPM's
- Chevrolet® Chassis - 6.6L V8, 401HP 464 lb-ft Torque (Model Specific)
- 8,000-lb. Trailer Hitch
- Electric Stabilizing Jack System Hot Feature (Model Specific)
- Automatic Leveling Jacks with Touchpad Controls (Model Specific)
- SmoothTECH™ Ride Suspension System (MORryde® / Rubber Shackle Suspension) (Model Specific)
- Welded Tubular Aluminum Roof and Sidewall Cage Construction
- Vacu-Bond Laminated Roof, Walls and Floors with Block Foam Insulation
- One-Piece Fiberglass Front Cap
- Slick Fiberglass Exterior with Graphics Package
- Partial Paint with Graphics Package (Model Specific)
- Exterior MEGA-Storage™ Compartment - Large Storage Area (Model Specific)
- Portable Table in MEGA-Storage™ Compartment (Model Specific)
- Lighted Rotocast Storage Compartments Lights are all on One Interior Switch
- Flush Mount Radius Compartment Doors
- Premium One-Piece Exterior Roofing
- Power Patio Awning with Integrated LED Lighting
- Slide-out Room Topper Awning(s) (Model Specific)
- Roof Ladder
- Drop-down Stairwell Entrance Step with Accent Light Under Step on Separate Switch
- Exterior Grab Handle
- Entry Door with Deadbolt Lock
- Black Framed Windows (Model Specific)
- Black Frameless Windows
- Exterior Pull-Out Griddle (Model Specific)
- Exterior Pull-out Kitchen with Griddle and 12v Cooler (Model Specific)
Automotive & Cockpit
- 7-in Touchscreen Dash Radio, Google Android Auto™, Apple CarPlay® with Back-up Monitor
- Sirius Tuner and Antenna
- Steering Wheel Audio and Camera Control (Ford Chassis Only)
- Deluxe Exterior Mirrors (Model Specific)
- Heated/Remote Exterior Mirrors with Integrated Side View Cameras (Model Specific)
- Molded Automotive Cockpit Headliner
- Power Windows and Door Locks
- Cruise Control
- Tilt Steering Wheel
- Map Light
- Sun Visors
- Windshield Privacy Curtain
- Drink Holders
- Three-point Seat Belts for the Driver and Passenger
- Swivel Captain's Chairs with Filler Cushions (Model Specific)
- Leatherette Captain's Chairs (Model Specific)
- Power Driver's Seat (Ford® Chassis Only) (Model Specific)
- Valve Stem Extenders (Model Specific)
- Keyless Entry System
- Stainless Steel Wheel Liners
- Aluminum Running Boards
- LED Taillights
- Emergency Engine Start Switch
- 84-in Interior Ceiling Height Hot Feature
- Residential Vinyl Flooring
- Rubber Tread Entry Steps (with Lighted Step Well)
- Metal Entry Grab Handle
- Smoke, LPG, Carbon Monoxide Detectors
- Fire Extinguisher
- Hard Vinyl Ceiling
- Ceiling Ducted Air Conditioning System (Model Specific)
- Coastline Grey Flat Panel Cabinet Doors. Black Nickel Kitchen Faucet, Door Pulls and Hinges. Bath Hardware is all Brushed Nickel Including All Faucets.
- Malibu Collection Flat Panel Cabinet Doors Two-Tone. Gold Kitchen Faucet, Door Pulls and Hinges. Bath Hardware is all Brushed Nickel Including All Faucets. (Model Specific)
- Decorative Glass Inserts in Kitchen Overhead Cabinet Doors w/Coastline Grey (Model Specific)
- Pressed Laminate Countertops Throughout
- LED Lighting
- Cab-Over Sleeping Area with Cup Holders, and Telescoping Bunk Ladder
- Cab-Over Child Safety Net (Model Specific)
- Leatherette Sofa w/Queen Size Murphy Bed Conversion (Model Specific)
- Leatherette Jack-Knife Sofa (Model Specific)
- Tri-Fold Pull-out Sleeper Sofa w/Table (Model Specific)
- Leatherette Theater Seating Option IPO Sofa (Model Specific)
- Leatherette Dream Dinette® Booth (Model Specific)
- Wireless Phone Charger w/USB Plug on Dinette Table Top. (Model Specific)
- Wireless Phone Charger w/USB Plug on Table Top next to Sofa (Model Specific)
- Passenger Seat Belts in Select Areas
- Single Child Safety Tether in Dinette (Model Specific)
- Dual Child Safety Tethers in Dinette (Model Specific)
- Window Privacy Shades
- Premium Window Privacy Roller Shades (Model Specific)
- Electric Fireplace with Remote Control (Model Specific)
- Full Extension Metal Ball-Bearing Drawer Guides (Model Specific)
- 12-volt Attic Fan w/Cover in Cab-Over Bunk (Model Specific)
- 12v Refrigerator w/Auto Generator Start
- Upgraded Recessed 3-Burner Gas Cooktop/Oven with Glass Cover (Select Models)
- Metal Pan Drawer Front'(s) Matching Cooktop Below Cooktop. W/Oven (Select Models)
- Range Hood w/Task Light above Cooktop
- Microwave Oven
- Pressed Laminate Kitchen Countertops Under Mounted Sink w/Stainless Steel Sink Cover.
- Pop-Up Countertop Outlet & Charging Center for Electronics (Select Models)
- Flip-Up Countertop Extension (Select Models)
- Large Single Bowl Stainless Steel Sink w/Single Handle Faucet w/Pull-Down Sprayer (Select Models)
- Large Kitchen Window behind Kitchen Sink and Cooktop
- Decorative Kitchen Tile Backsplashes (Select Models)
- Kitchen Countertop Side Backsplash next to Cooktop (Select Models)
- Kitchen Accent Countertop Lights (Select Models)
- Kitchen Pantry Cabinet (Select Models)
- Kitchen Waste Basket
- 12-volt Ceiling Vent in Kitchen with Under Cabinet Switch
Bedroom & Bathroom
- Full Size Bed (Select Models)
- Queen Size Bed (Select Models)
- Queen Size Murphy Bed (Select Models)
- Queen Size Bed w/Lift Up Storage Area Under Bed, Rear Door Access, and Floor Tie-Downs (Select Models)
- King Size Bed (Select Models)
- Fabric Covered Twin Beds - Twin Beds Converts to Full Unit Width Bed (Select Models)
- Bedspread and Pillow Shams (Select Models)
- Bed Pillow Shams (Select Models)
- Headboard (Select Models)
- Bedroom USB Power Charging Center for Electronics (Select Models)
- Bedroom 12V Outlet for CPAP Machine
- Hallway Bunk Beds with Telescoping Ladder (Select Models)
- Power Bath Vent w/Wall Switch Bath
- Foot Flush Toilet (Select Models)
- Stainless Steel Bathroom Sink
- Robe Hook'(s) Inside Bath
- Skylight in Shower
- Shower w/Upgrade Shower Curtain (Select Models)
- Shower with Curved Anti-Microbial Shower Curtain (Select Models)
- Shower with Glass Door (Select Models)
- 12-volt Attic Fan with Cover in Bedroom(Vent is Not Available w/Dual A/C Option) (Select Models)
- 39" Smart TV on Manual Swivel in Cab-Over (Select Models)
- 39" Mid-Ship Smart TV in Living Area (Select Models)
- Bedroom Prep (Select Models)
- Hallway Bunk Beds w/Gear Net Storage (Select Models)
- Exterior 32" TV on Swivel Bracket with Bluetooth® Built in Sound Bar and Radio (Select Models)
- HDMI Video Distribution Box 22E and 26X Only with Exterior TV Option. (Select Models)
- Cable TV & CAT6 Video Distribution Ready (Select Models)
- Satellite Mounting Backer in Roof (Select Models)
Electrical & Plumbing
- 4.0 kw Gas Generator
- Winegard® ConnecT™ 2.0 WiFi / 4G / TV Antenna Hot Feature
- 30-amp Shoreline Power Cord
- Automatic Transfer Switch with Power Protection
- Automatic Shoreline-to-Generator Transfer Switch
- 13,500 BTU Roof Front Air Conditioner (Model Specific)
- 15,000 BTU Roof Front Air Conditioner (Model Specific)
- Dual 11,000 BTU Roof Air Conditioners IPO 15,000 BTU Air Conditioner (Model Specific)
- Battery Disconnect Switch
- Second Auxiliary House Battery (Model Specific)
- Battery Tray for Four (4) Batteries (Model Specific)
- Solar Prep (includes solar controller)
- 100-watt Solar Charging System with Power Controller (Model Specific)
- Tankless Water Heater
- Outside Shower (Model Specific)
- Exterior Water Spray Port Patio Side of Coach. (Model Specific)
- 360 Siphon RV Holding Tank Vent Cap (Model Specific)
- 1" Fresh Water Tank Drain
- Exterior LP Connection (Model Specific)
- Holding Tanks with Heat Pads (Model Specific)
- Enclosed Sewer Area for Sewer Tank Valves (Model Specific)
- Black Tank Flush System
- Systems Control Center (Model Specific)
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Critchley challenges the absoluteness of such consequences drawn from the failures of the utopian experiments of the 1960s. While his exemplary analyses of and references to contemporary art and revolutionary practices seem to feed the wide-spread scepticism towards utopian endeavors, Critchley concludes by emphasizing the necessity to confront past and current experiments in a critical but non-pejorative way. He pleads for the persistence of a certain utopian impulse, which is less directed at a future that is to be improved, but rather understands that the future of radical, creative thought is its past. While the polemic nature of some statements exposes the untenability of a rigorous cynicism that seems to have turned into a common stance, the decisive formulation of strong theses confronted with the tentative mode of a never completely fading "perhaps" suggests a mode of writing and resistance that could build on the past without falling short of the theoretical premises and complexities of our time.
We are living through a long anti-1960s. The various anti-capitalist experiments in communal living and collective existence that defined that period seem to us either quaintly passé, laughably unrealistic or dangerously misguided. Having grown up and thrown off such seemingly childish ways, we now think we know better than to try and bring heaven crashing down to earth and construct concrete utopias. To that extent, despite our occasional and transient enthusiasms and Obamaisms, we are all political realists; indeed most of us are passive nihilists and cynics. This is why we still require a belief in something like original sin, namely that there is something ontologically defective about what it means to be human. The Judaeo-Christian conception of original sin finds its modern analogues in Freud's variation on the Schopenhauerian disjunction between desire and civilization, Heidegger's ideas of facticity and fallenness and the Hobbesian anthropology that drives Carl Schmitt's defense of authoritarianism and dictatorship, which has seduced significant sectors of the Left hungry for what they see as Realpolitik. Without the conviction that the human condition is essentially flawed and dangerously rapacious, we would have no way of justifying our disappointment and nothing gives us a greater thrill than satiating our sense of exhaustion and ennui by polishing the bars of our prison cell by reading a little John Gray. Gray represents a very persuasive Darwinian variant on the idea of original sin: it is the theory of evolution that explains the fact that we are homo rapiens. Nothing can be done about it. Humanity is a plague.
It is indeed true that those utopian political movements of the 1960s, like the Situationist International, where an echo of utopian Millenarian movements like the Heresy of the Free Spirit could be heard, led to various forms of disillusionment, disintegration and, in extreme cases, disaster. Experiments in the collective ownership of property or in communal living based on sexual freedom without the repressive institution of the family, or indeed R.D. Laing's experimental communal asylums with no distinction between the so-called mad and the sane seem like distant whimsical cultural memories captured in dog-eared, yellowed paperbacks and grainy, poor quality film. As a child of punk, economic collapse and the widespread social violence in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s, it is a world that I have always struggled to understand. Perhaps such communal experiments were too pure and overfull of righteous conviction. Perhaps they were, in a word, too moralistic to ever endure. Perhaps such experiments were doomed because of what we might call a politics of abstraction, in the sense of being overly attached to an idea at the expense of a frontal denial of reality. Perhaps, indeed.
At their most extreme, say in the activities of the Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction and the Red Brigades in the 1970s, the moral certitude of the closed and pure community becomes fatally linked to redemptive, cleansing violence. Terror becomes the means to bring about the end of virtue. Such is the logic of Jacobinism. The death of individuals is but a speck on the vast heroic canvas of the class struggle. This culminated in a heroic politics of violence where acts of abduction, kidnapping, hijacking and assassination were justified through an attachment to a set of ideas. As a character in Jean-Luc Godard's Notre Musique remarks, "to kill a human being in order to defend an idea is not to defend an idea, it is to kill a human being."1
Perhaps such groups were too attached to the idea of immediacy, the propaganda of the violent deed as the impatient attempt to storm the heavens. Perhaps such experiments lacked an understanding of politics as a constant and concrete process of mediation. That is, the mediation between a subjective ethical commitment based on a general principle, for example the equality of all, friendship or, in my parlance, an infinite ethical demand, and the experience of local organization that builds fronts and alliances between disparate groups with often conflicting sets of interests, what Gramsci called the activity of "hegemony." By definition, such a process of mediation is never pure and never complete.
Are these utopian experiments in community dead or do they live on in some form? I'd like to make two suggestions for areas where this utopian impulse might live on, two experiments, if you will: one from contemporary art, one from contemporary radical politics and the two areas can be interestingly linked. Indeed, if a tendency marks our time, then it is the increasing difficulty in separating forms of collaborative art from experimental politics.
Perhaps such utopian experiments in community live on in the institutionally sanctioned spaces of the contemporary art world. One thinks of projects like L'Association des Temps Libérés (1995), or Utopia Station (2003) and many other examples gathered together in a retrospective show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in Fall 2008, Theanyspacewhatever.2 In the work of artists like Philippe Parreno and Liam Gillick or curators like Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Maria Lind, there is a deeply felt Situationist nostalgia for ideas of collectivity, action, self-management, collaboration and indeed the idea of the group as such. In such art practice, which Nicolas Bourriaud has successfully branded as "relational," art is the acting out of a situation in order to see if, in Obrist's words, "something like a collective intelligence might exist."3 As Gillick notes, "maybe it would be better if we worked in groups of three."4 So much contemporary art and politics is obsessed with the figure of the group and of work as collaboration, perhaps all the way to the refusal of work and the cultivation of anonymity.
Of course, the problem with such contemporary utopian art experiments is twofold: on the one hand, they are only enabled and legitimated through the cultural institutions of the art world and thus utterly enmeshed in the circuits of commodification and spectacle that they seek to subvert; and, on the other hand, the dominant mode for approaching an experience of the communal is through the strategy of reenactment. One doesn't engage in a bank heist, one reenacts Patty Hearst's adventures with the Symbionese Liberation Army in a warehouse in Brooklyn, or whatever. Situationist détournement is replayed as obsessively planned reenactment. The category of reenactment has become hegemonic in contemporary art, specifically as a way of thinking the relation between art and politics (perhaps radical politics has also become reenactment). Fascinating as I find such experiments and the work of the artists involved, one suspects what we might call a "mannerist Situationism," where the old problem of recuperation does not even apply because such art is completely co-opted by the socio-economic system which provides its life-blood.
To turn to politics, perhaps we witnessed another communal experiment with the events in France surrounding the arrest and detention of the so-called "Tarnac Nine" on November 11, 2008 and the work of groups that go under different names: Tiqqun, The Invisible Committee, The Imaginary Party.5 As part of Nicolas Sarkozy's reactionary politics of fear – itself based on an overwhelming fear of disorder and desire to erase definitively the memory of 1968 – a number of activists who had been formerly associated with Tiqqun were arrested in rural, central France by a force of 150 anti-terrorist police, helicopters and attendant media. They were living communally in the small village of Tarnac in the Corrèze district of the Massif Central. Apparently a number of the group's members had bought a small farmhouse and ran a cooperative grocery store and were engaged in such dangerous activities as running a local film club, planting carrots and delivering food to the elderly. With surprising juridical imagination, they were charged with "pre-terrorism," an accusation linked to acts of sabotage on France's TGV rail system.
The basis for this thought-crime was a passage from a book from 2007 called L'insurrection qui vient.6 It is a wonderfully dystopian diagnosis of contemporary society – seven circles of hell in seven chapters – and a compelling strategy to resist it. The final pages of L'insurrection advocate acts of sabotage against the transport networks of "the social machine" and ask the question, "How could a TGV line or an electrical network be rendered useless?"7 Two of the alleged pre-terrorists, Julien Coupat and Yldune Lévy, were detained in jail and charged with "a terrorist undertaking" that carried a prison sentence of 20 years. The last of the group to be held in custody, Coupat, was released without being prosecuted on May 28 2009, although bail of 16,000 Euros was levied and Coupat was forbidden to travel outside the greater Parisian area.8 Fresh arrests were made in connection with the Tarnac affair late in 2009.9 Such is the repressive and reactionary force of the state, just in case anyone had forgotten. As the authors of L'insurrection remind us, "Governing has never been anything but pushing back by a thousand subterfuges the moment when the crowd will hang you."10
L'insurrection qui vient has powerful echoes of the Situationist International. Yet – revealingly – the Hegelian-Marxism of Debord's analysis of the spectacle and commodification is replaced with very strong echoes of Agamben, in particular the question of community in Agamben as what would survive the separation of law and life.11 Everything turns here on an understanding of the relation between law and life and the possibility of a nonrelation between those two terms. If law is essentially violence, which in the age of bio-politics taps deeper and deeper into the reservoir of life, then the separation of law and life is the space of what Agamben calls politics. It is what leads to his anomic misreading of Paul.
The authorship of L'insurrection is attributed to La Comité Invisible and the insurrectional strategy of the group turns around the question of invisibility. It is a question of "learning how to become imperceptible," of regaining "the taste for anonymity" and not exposing and losing oneself in the order of visibility, which is always controlled by the police and the state. The authors of L'insurrection argue for the proliferation of zones of opacity, anonymous spaces where communes might be formed. The book ends with the slogan, "All power to the communes" ("Tout le pouvoir aux communes"). In a nod to Maurice Blanchot, these communes are described as "inoperative" or "désœuvrée," as refusing the capitalist tyranny of work. In a related text simply entitled Call, they seek to establish, "a series of foci of desertion, of secession poles, of rallying points. For the runaways. For those who leave. A set of places to take shelter from the control of a civilization that is headed for the abyss."12
A strategy of sabotage, blockade and what is called "the human strike" is proposed in order to weaken still further our doomed civilization. As the Tiqqun group write in a 1999 text called "Oh Good, the War!": "Abandon ship. Not because it's sinking, but to make it sink." Or again: "When a civilization is ruined, one declares it bankrupt. One does not tidy up in a home falling off a cliff."13 An opposition between the city and the country is constantly reiterated, and it is clear that the construction of zones of opacity is better suited to rural life than the policed space of surveillance of the modern metropolis. The city is much better suited to what we might call "designer resistance," where people wear Ramones t-shirts and sit in coffee shops saying, "capitalism sucks," before going back to their jobs as graphic designers.
L'insurrection is a compelling, exhilarating, funny and deeply lyrical text that sets off all sorts of historical echoes with movements like the Free Spirit and the Franciscan Spirituals in the Middle Ages, through to the proto-anarchist Diggers in the English Revolution and different strands of 19th Century utopian communism. We should note the emphasis on secrecy, invisibility and itinerancy, on small-scale communal experiments in living, on the politicization of poverty which recalls medieval practices of mendicancy and the refusal of work. What is at stake is the affirmation of a life no longer exhausted by work and cowed by law and the police.
This double program of sabotage, on the one hand, and secession from civilization, on the other, risks, I think, remaining trapped within the politics of abstraction identified above. In this fascinatingly creative reenactment of the Situationist gesture – which is why I stressed the connection with contemporary art practice – what is missing is a thinking of political mediation where groups like the Invisible Committee would be able to link up and become concretized in relation to multiple and conflicting sites of struggle, workers, the unemployed, even the designer resisters and, perhaps most importantly, with more or less disenfranchised ethnic groups. We need a richer political cartography than the opposition between the city and the country. Tempting as it is, sabotage combined with secession from civilization smells of the moralism we detected above, an ultimately anti-political purism.
That said, I understand the desire for secession: it is the desire to escape a seemingly doomed civilization that is headed for the abyss. The proper theological name for such secessionism is Marcionism, which turns on the separation of law from life, the order of creation from that of redemption, the Old and New Testaments. In the face of a globalizing, atomizing, bio-political and legal regime of violence and domination which threatens to drain dry the reservoir of life, secession offers the possibility of withdrawal, the establishment of a space where another form of life and collective intelligence are possible. Secession offers the possibility of an antinomian separation of law from life, a retreat from the old order through experiments with free human sociability: in other words, communism, understood as the "sharing of a sensibility and elaboration of sharing. The uncovering of what is common and the building of a force."14
It is also the case that something has changed and is changing in the nature of tactics of political resistance. With the fading away of the so-called anti-globalization movement, groups like the Invisible Committee offer a consistency of thought and action that possesses great diagnostic power and tactical awareness. They provide a new and compelling vocabulary of insurrectionary politics that has both described and unleashed a series of political actions in numerous locations, some closer to home, some further away. The latter is performed by what the Invisible Committee call – in an interesting choice of word – "resonance."15 A resonating body in one location – like glasses on a table – begins to make another body shake, and suddenly the whole floor is covered with glass. Politics is perhaps no longer, as it was in the so-called anti-globalization movement, a struggle for and with visibility. Resistance is about the cultivation of invisibility, opacity, anonymity, and resonance.
I have my doubts about the politics of abstraction that haunts groups like the Invisible Committee. But if we reject such political experiments, then what follows from this? Are we to conclude that the utopian impulse in political thinking is simply the residue of a dangerous political theology that we are much better off without? Is the upshot of the critique of utopianism that we should be resigned in the face of the world's violent inequality and update a belief in original sin with a reassuringly miserabilistic Darwinism? Should we reconcile ourselves to the options of political realism, authoritarianism or liberalism, John Gray, Carl Schmitt or Barack Obama? Should we simply renounce the utopian impulse in our personal and political thinking?
If so, then the consequence is clear: we are stuck with the way things are, or possibly with something even worse than the way things are. To abandon the utopian impulse in thinking and acting is to imprison ourselves within the world as it is and to give up once and for all the prospect that another world is possible, however small, fleeting and compromised such a world might be. In the political circumstances that presently surround us in the West, to abandon the utopian impulse in political thinking is to resign ourselves to liberal democracy. Liberal democracy is the rule of the rule, the reign of law that renders impotent anything that would break with law: the miraculous, the moment of the event, the break with the situation in the name of the common. It is a political deism governed by the hidden and divine hand of the market. Other political forms of life are possible.
Allow me a final word on the future. I'm against it. I think we have to resist the future, I mean resist the idea of the future, which is the ultimate ideological trump card of capitalist narratives of progress. I think we have to resist the future and the ideology of the future. But in the name of what? In the name of sheer potentiality of the radical past and the way that past can shape the creativity and imagination of the present. The future of radical, creative thought is its past, and radicalism has always driven a car whose driver is constantly looking in the rear view mirror. Some objects may appear bigger, some smaller.
Capitalism is an evil that presents itself as inevitability, as a destiny to whom the future by necessity belongs. Capitalism – at the level of ideology – has become a form of passive nihilist, quasi-Buddhist self-help amnesia, a new jargon of authenticity and well-being. All we have to oppose it is an understanding of history, a clear-sightedness about the structural injustices present and a willingness to take action, a need to confront commitment-free bovine contentment with the urgency of anguished commitment, the anguish of a demand as that which prepares the possibility of action. Such action should not just dream of a non-relation of law and life, and a secession from an allegedly doomed civilization, but requires that the relation between be decisively rethought. The world is shit, I agree; the problem is that it's our excrement.
1 Notre Musique 2004, J.-L. Godard (dir.) (France/Switzerland: Avventura Films, Péripheria Suisse, France 3 Cinéma et al).
2 See the documentation collected in Theanyspacewhatever (New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2008).
3 H.-U. Obrist, "In Conversation with Raoul Vaneigem," E-Flux Journal (http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/62, publ. May 2009, cit. 01/14/2012).
4 Liam Gillick, "Maybe it Would be Better if We Worked in Groups of Three?," E-Flux Journal (www.e-flux.com/journal/view/35, publ. February 2009, cit. 01/14/2012).
5 For more information see "Tarnac 9" (http://tarnac9.wordpress.com, publ. 2010, cit. 01/14/2012). See also the commentary by Alberto Toscano, "The War Against Pre-Terrorism: The Tarnac 9 and The Coming Insurrection," Radical Philosophy (http://www.radicalphilosophy.com, publ. March/April 2009, cit. 01/14/2012).
6 L'insurrection qui vient (Paris: La Fabrique, 2007); trans. anonymously as The Coming Insurrection (Los Angeles: Semiotexte[e], 2009).
7 L'insurrection qui vient, p. 101.
8 "Tarnac9" (http://tarnac9.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/julien-coupat-released, publ. 05/29/2012, cit.01/14/2012).
9 "Tarnac9" (http://tarnac9.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/statement-from-the-tarnac-ten, publ. 12/05/2009, cit. 01/14/2011).
10 L'insurrection qui vient, p. 83.
11 The obvious connection here is between The Coming Insurrection and Giorgio Agamben's The Coming Community, trans. Michael Hardt (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993).
12 See Call, http://bloom0101.org/call.pdf (cit. 01/14/2012), p. 57. Call was an earlier text by The Invisible Committee circulated anonymously in 2004.
13 In Politics is not a Banana (The Institute for Experimental Freedom, 2009), pp. 156 & 162.
14 See "A Point of Clarification," a statement from January 2009 that appears at the beginning of the American edition of The Coming Insurrection, p. 5–19, see esp. p. 16.
15 Ibid, p. 12.
is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research and part-time Professor of Philosophy at University of Essex Since 2010 he also taught at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, the University of Sydney (AUS) and the University of Notre Dame (USA). Between 1998–2004, he was programme director of the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris.
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Thinking – Resisting – Reading the Political
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This volume contrasts a number of recently suggested concepts of the political – each of which connects to certain instances of art and literature in its discourse – with questions concerning the rigidity of those connections: How strongly do such claims to politics depend on their specific examples, what is the scope of their validity to understand art with regard to politics, and how can they help us grasp the political within other pieces of art? In each case, manners of thinking concepts of the political, the mutual resistance of such concepts and their academic treatment, and the turn towards specific readings informed by those concepts converge.
The essays collected in "Thinking Resistances. Current Perspectives on Politics, Community, and Art" engage with political phenomena in their interrelations with arts as well as with recent theoretical and philosophical perspectives on the very meaning of politics, the political, and community.
With contributions by Armen Avanessian, Friedrich Balke, Judith Butler, Simon Critchley, Anneka Esch-van Kan, Josef Früchtl, Andreas Hetzel, Jon McKenzie, Dieter Mersch, Chantal Mouffe, Maria Muhle, Nikolaus Müller-Schöll, Stephan Packard, Wim Peeters, Jacques Rancière, Juliane Rebentisch, Gabriel Rockhill, Frank Ruda and Philipp Schulte.

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Meltingpod the blog is 8 years old today and I thought I could celebrate that event with posting during the next week (until March 8th which is the 8th anniversary of the podcast) the whole stuff in late I recorded during the past year in the hot city of Marseille…I will start with The Movements a rock band from Gothenburg Sweden who came to Marseille April 6th 2012 in La Machine à Coudre : great show, hot ambience !! Enjoy the video :
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Bert and Ernie — yes, Sesame Street's Muppets — have been thrust yet again into the gay marriage debate.
This time, for its July 8 and 15 issue, The New Yorker decided to use an illustration of Bert and Ernie for their coverage of the Supreme Court's decisions on two landmark gay marriage cases. The illustration shows Bert and Ernie cuddling on a couch while watching what seems to be TV news coverage of the court's decisions:
The illustrator called next week's cover "Moment of Joy."
"It's amazing to witness how attitudes on gay rights have evolved in my lifetime," the New Yorker quotes Jack Hunter as saying. "This is great for our kids, a moment we can all celebrate."
As you can imagine, the cover already has people talking. The Daily Beast's headline: " 'New Yorker' Outs Bert and Ernie."
Jordan Weissmann, of The Atlantic, tweeted: "Fact error by the @NewYorker: Bert and Ernie could not have watched the court ruling on TV."
Of course, as we told you back in 2011, Sesame Workshop says the two male Muppets who share a house and a bedroom are just friends.
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text: VM REPORTS: Top Labs Vision Monday's TOP LABS – 2009 (in alphabetical order) By Andrew Karp: Group Editor, Lenses and Technology Monday, October 26, 2009 1:00 AM RELATED CONTENT Cover Story: Toughing It Out: Top Labs Show Resilience in Uphill Market Labapalooza Hits All the Right Notes at Expo West Debut Methodology The Top 25 Independent Labs in 2009 at a Glance Top 25 Independent Wholesale Labs in 2009 Top 5 Labs That Made News in 2009 Balester Optical Founded: 1934 HQ./Main Lab Location: Wilkes-Barre, Pa. No. of Locations: 1 No. of Employees: 91 Key Executives: Heather Balester, Dale Parmenteri, Fred P. Balester Owners: Fred J. Balester, Dale Parmenteri, Patrick Balester, Susan Balester Dennis, James Balester, Valerie Balester, Dorothy Hodle, Jonathan Balester, Marc Balester, William Balester, Heather Balester, Fred P. Balester, Jacqueline Pekar Trade Names : Balester Optical Key Markets: Eastern U.S. 2009 Est. 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Frame product line consists of 250 upper-middle and high-fashion styles under CSC's own trade names, plus a complete line of safety frames that meet ANSI Z87-1 standards. 40% of frame line manufactured in Europe under special arrangement; 60% manufactured in Asia. New designer frame lines for 2009 under Boutique Design, Inc., a solely owned subsidiary of Optics East, Inc.: Martini Design, Gattinoni Collection and Garrison Perspectives Collection, Renato Balestra and West. Service programs include Rx Express Unlimited frame/lens program. Authorized VSP contract lab. www.csclabs.com Carl Zeiss Vision Laboratories Founded: 2000 HQ.: San Diego, Calif. No. of Locations: 18 No. of Employees: 1,090 Key Executives: Fred Howard, Dave Delle Donne, David Jochims Owner: Carl Zeiss Vision Trade Names: Carl Zeiss Vision—B&W, Key Executives: Fred Howard, Dave Delle Donne, David Jochims Owner: Carl Zeiss Vision Trade Names: Carl Zeiss Vision—B&W, Carl Zeiss Vision—Cumberland, Carl Zeiss Vision—Florida, Carl Zeiss Vision—Great Lakes, Carl Zeiss Vision—Kansas City, Carl Zeiss Vision— Siouxland, Carl Zeiss Vision—Kentucky, Carl Zeiss Vision—Southwest, Carl Zeiss Vision—Northeast, Carl Zeiss Vision—North Central, Carl Zeiss Vision—Northwest, Carl Zeiss Vision—Southeastern, Carl Zeiss Vision—California, Carl Zeiss Vision—Texas, Carl Zeiss Vision—Virginia, Carl Zeiss Vision—Georgia, Carl Zeiss Vision—Iowa. Key Markets: Nationwide 2009 Est. Net Sales: $150 million Rx Sales: $142.5 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day: 10,500 Percentage of Uncut Jobs: 25% Comments: Network of full-service laboratories. Proprietary products include Teflon Clear Coat lenses, Zeiss, SOLA, AO. VSP contract lab. www.vision.zeiss.com Cherry Optical Founded: 1999 HQ./Main Lab Location: Green Bay, Wis. No. of Locations: 1 No. of Employees: 28 Key Executives: Adam Cherry, Lynn Cherry, Joe Cherry Owners: Adam Cherry, Lynn Cherry, Joe Cherry Trade Names: Safety Optix Key Markets: Upper Midwest 2009 Est. Net Sales: $6.0 million Rx Sales: $5.9 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day : 325 Percentage of Uncut Jobs: 20% Comments: Specializes in free-form progressive and digital optics. Proprietary products include Varilux, Crizal, Hoya Phoenix, Hoya progressives, Hoya Super High Vision. Offers "What's New University" and other educational programs; safety Rx programs. 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Net sales: $30.6 million Rx Sales: $13.2 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day: 1,005 Percentage of Uncut Jobs: 20% Comments: Full service labs with ophthalmic lens and RGP manufacturing capabilities. 2005 Transitions "Lab of the Year." Transitions Platinum Elite Laboratory. Authorized Varilux distributor. VSP contract lab. Signet Armorlite partner lab. Operates on-site AR coating facility. Proprietary products include PureSite Lenses, PureSite Preference AR and Practice Maximus. Specializes in premium lenses. Offers eyeglass and contact lens packages, Perfect View frame-and-lens value packages, certified continuing education seminars and staff training. On-line and electronic ordering, remote frame tracing. Services/programs include Frames Travel Programs, Transitions Day at the Races, Seminars, RIP, Perfect View, DBAN, Eye to the Sky. 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Precision Optical Company, Precision Optics, Premier Optics, S&G Optical, Select Optical, Southern Optical, Select Optical.Southern Optical, Southwest Lens, Spectrum Optical, Sunstar Optical, Sutherlin Optical, Top Network, Tri-Supreme, Twin City Optical, Vision Craft Inc., WOS Optical Key Markets: Local and National 2009 Est. Net Sales: $968 million Rx Sales: $880.1 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day: 64,500 Percentage of Uncut Jobs: 40% Comments: Nationwide network of full-service labs. Proprietary products include TD2, LiteStyle/Ultra LiteStyle Lenses, Crizal Avance with Scotchgard. Services and programs include Education Series and Need Based Solutions. www.eloa.com Expert Optics Founded: 1979 HQ./Main Lab Location: Shorewood, Ill. No. of Locations: 2 No. of Employees: 92 Key Executives: Greg Ruden; president; Don Ruden, CEO; Bob Pommier, director of lab operations; Sid Moore, director of sales; Bob Hughbanks, director of education. Owner: Don Ruden, Greg Ruden Trade names: none Key Markets: Ill., Ind., Mich., Wis., Mo., Minn. 2009 Est. Net sales: $19 million Rx Sales: $17.1 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day: 930 Percentage of Uncut Jobs: 20% Comments: Additional production facility to manufacture free-form progressives including Shamir Autograph, AO Easy HD, Compact Ultra HD, SOLA HDV, SOLAOne HD, Zeiss Individual and other designs from leading lens companies. Distributor of Kodak, Shamir, Varilux and Zeiss progressives. Signet Armorlite Partner lab, Carl Zeiss Vision Premier lab, Global Optics member. Produces Teflon Clear Coat and Kodak CleAR coatings in-house; also produces Zeiss Foundation XT, Carat and Carat Advantage lens treatments. Hosts annual Optical Preview Day. Experienced ABO-certified sales force offers in-office education seminars. Offers Jumpstart training program and Web-based lens inventory management system. Distributor sales department inventories over 50 frame lines with a multitude of frame and lens package programs. www.expertoptics.net FEA Industries Founded: 1984 HQ./Main Lab Location: Morton, Pa. No. of Locations: 1 No. of Employees: 51 Key Executives: William H. Heffner, III; Chrystal Colflesh, general manager; William H. Heffner, IV Owner: Willliam H. Heffner, III Trade Names: none Key Markets: national 2009 Est. Net Sales: $10.9 million Rx Sales: $10.9 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day: 1,430 Percentage of Uncut Jobs : 90% Comments: Full-service lab offering in-house AR, glass lens processing. Web site includes ordering, tracking reports, invoices. Offers Kodak CleAR, special stock lens program. Carries all major brands except Varilux. Participates in third-party programs; VBA only. www.feaind.com Harbor Optical Founded: 1997 HQ./Main Lab Location: Traverse City, Mich. No. of Locations: 1 No. of Employees: 43 Key Executives: Bob Westlake, Mike Earl Owner: Geff Heidbrink Trade Names: Armorcoat, Esceed, Exceed XTC Key Markets: Michigan 2009 Est. Net Sales : $6.7 million Rx Sales: $6.3 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day: 390 Percentage of Uncut Jobs: 12% Comments: Special programs include Partner Perks, Jumpstart Training, Individual Eyes. Global Optics member. www.harboroptical.com Hirsch Optical Founded : 1978 HQ./Main Lab Location : Farmingdale, N.Y. No. of Locations: 1 No. of Employees: 54 Key Executives: Harold Rothstein, president/CEO; Kenneth Mittel, senior VP; Michael Rothstein, VP; Richard Salberg, director of sales; Vicki Masliah, director of professional education Owners: Hal Rothstein, Ken Mittel, Michael Rothstein Trade Names: CHAD and Super CHAD Key Markets: N.Y., N.J., Pa., Conn. 2009 Est. Net Sales: $13 million Rx Sales: $12.1 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day : 800 Percentage of Uncut Jobs: 35% Comments: Extensive offerings of lens and frame package programs. Offers proprietary AR coatings applied in-house: CHAD (Clear, Hard, Anti-Reflective, Durable) and premium coating Super CHAD. Same-day turnaround on most orders. EZ Rx, Eyefinity and VisionWeb on-line ordering and remote tracing. Accredited educational seminars. Award-winning Varilux distributor, Essilor Gold Advantage Plan lab, Transitions Platinum Elite Lab, Zeiss Partner Lab, Shamir ReCreating Perfect Vision Partnering Lab, Signet Armorlite Lab Partner, Hoya lens distributor. Authorized VSP and VBA contract lab. Vendor for Block Buying Group and Alfred J. Villavecchia Buying Group. Offers all Crizal, Hoya, Zeiss, glass and mirror coatings. Ophthalmic frame lines include Apple Bottoms By Nelly, Bill Blass, Cadillac Eyewear, Dockers, Donald J. Trump, Elizabeth Arden, Elizabeth Arden Petites, Essence Eyewear, Hershey's Eyewear, Jill Stuart Eyewear, Levi's, Liberty Rec Specs, Marco Polarized Sunwear, Mount Eyewear (stainless steel, titanium, polarized sport), New Balance, New Balance Kids, Perry Ellis, Stylewise, Scooby-Doo! And Stuff By Hilary Duff. Distributes Fantom custom clip-ons, Podreaders and Titmus safety frames. Web site features special retail customer referral program. www.hirschoptical.com Hoya Vision Care Founded: 2000 HQ./Main Lab Location : Lewisville, Texas Locations: 19 Employees: 1,200 Key Executives: Barney Dougher, president/CEO; Yoshiyuki Ono, VP lens technology; Rich Montag, VP sales; Rick Tinson, VP corporate governance; Kraig Black, VP information services; Jason White, senior executive controller: Ray Knoll, Northwest regional VP; Mike Dougher, Midwest and Northeast regional VP; Terry Farrell, Southwest regional VP; Iggy Fernandez, central regional VP; Don Dakin, Southwest regional VP; Michael Ness, director, new product development. 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Special Services/Programs include HHP (Hoya Honors Program). www.hoyavision.com Icare LABS Founded: 1968 HQ./Main Lab Location: St. Petersburg, Fla. No. of Locations: 1 No. of Employees: 115 Key Executives: Scott Payne, chairman; Skip Payne, president; James Payne, Bradley Husted, Greg Gehrig Owners: The Payne family Trade Names: Icare Labs, Sea Vision USA Key Markets: East Coast, Southwest 2009 Est. Net Sales: $21.5 million Rx Sales: $20.5 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day: 2,150 Percentage of Uncut Jobs: 50% Comments: Full-service, family owned and operated. Offers all major lens brands such as Varilux, Kodak, Zeiss and Hoya. Offers customized services and pricing on lenses and frames. Operates in-house Crizal AR coating center. Manufactures specialized sport prescription lens products including dive masks. www.icare.com Katz & Klein Founded : 1937 HQ./Main Lab Location : Sacramento, Calif. No. of Locations: 1 No. of Employees : 40 Key Executives: Mike Francesconi, Corrine Hood Owners: Mike Francesconi, Corrine Hood Trade Names: Your Eyes, Supreme Partnership In Eyecare (SPIE), Katz Prudent Plan Key Markets: Northern Calif., Nev. 2009 Est. Net Sales: $6.0 million Rx Sales: $5.7 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day: 401 Percentage of Uncut Jobs: 18% Comments: Produces in-house AR, including Kodak CleAR and Crizal. Proprietary programs include Jumpstart, Lenstock, SPIE, Katz Lens Packages, Katz Frame Packages. Global Optics member. www.katzandklein.com Luzerne Optical Laboratories Founded: 1973 HQ./Main Lab Location: Wilkes-Barre, Penn. No. of Locations: 1 No. of Employees : 200 Key Executives : Jack Dougherty, president; Lorraine Dougherty, VP; Neil Dougherty, GM; John Dougherty, VP purchasing Owner: Dougherty family Trade Names: Polar365, SightStar, PhotoFashion, DuraCurve, Crizal, Crizal Alizé, Crizal Alizé with Clear Guard, TD2, Teflon, Advantage, Carat and Foundation XT, Kodak CleAR Key Markets: National 2009 Est. Net Sales: $31.7 million Rx Sales: $30.7 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day: 1,900 Percentage of Uncut Jobs: 56% Comments: Offers wide range of exclusive promotions, customer incentive and educational programs. Field consultant force offers practice development, business reviews and private consultations. Specializes in processing all major brands of free-form progressive lenses. Manufactures SightStar, Polar365, PhotoFashion, Varilux, Zeiss, Definity, Shamir, Kodak, Hoya, Polycore, Kaenon, Seiko, Vision-Ease, DriveWear premium lenses and difficult Rxs. Offers frames, sunglasses, safety eyewear, soft contacts, low vision, and pharmaceuticals. Operates in-house AR facilities producing EVC—enhanced visual clarity, Crizal, Crizal Alizé, Crizal Alizé with Clear Guard, Avance with Scotchgard Protector, TD2, Teflon, Zeiss Super and Gold ET, Advantage, Carat and Foundation XT and mirror coatings and Kodak CleAR. In-house gas perm contact lens facility produces custom DuraCurve aspheric GPs. Provides advanced remote ordering with RxWizard, VisionWeb, Paradeyes and Eyefinity software via the Web. VSP- & VBA-approved lab. www.luzerneoptical.com MJ Optical Founded: 1988 HQ./Main Lab Location: Omaha, Neb. No. of Locations: 1 No. of Employees : 82 Key Executives: Martin Hagge, Morrie Hagge, Matt Hagge, Michael Hagge Owner: Mary Hagge Trade Names: None Key Markets : National 2009 Est. Net Sales: $15.8 million Rx Sales: $14.2 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day : 1,590 Percentage of Uncut Jobs: 43% Comments: Distributes wide range of premium lens and frame brands. Added free-form digital surfacing in September 2009. Proprietary products include Nyteyez premium AR and Miraje AR, both produced in-house. Offers MJFP frame package; TFP titanium frame and lens package, industrial safety programs. Distributes contact lenses. Offers on-line ordering and job tracking. www.mjoptical.com Nassau Vision Group/Nova Optical Lab Founded : 1939 HQ./Main Lab Location: Northvale, N.J. No. of Locations : 8 No. of Employees: 209 Key Executives: François Bès de Berc; president, Irwin Kaufman, VP – CFO; Brian Ziegler, director of lab operations; David George, director of sales Owner: Essilor of America Trade Names: Nova Optical, Nassau Lens Florida, Nassau Lens Southwest, Nassau Lens Midwest, Nassau Lens Mid-Atlantic, Nassau Lens Southeast, Nassau Lens West Key Markets: National 2009 Est. Net Sales: $82 million Rx Sales: $28.7 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day: 3,000 Percentage of Uncut Jobs: 81% Comments: Leading stock lens distributor, operates full-service labs. Offers surfacing, finishing, drill mounting, coatings and lens tinting. Varilux-authorized. Offers in-house Crizal coatings, including Crizal Avancé with Scotchgard Protector. Proprietary products include in-house, value tested Synergy and Triumph AR Coatings. Can get virtually any product or equivalent on the market. Offers wide variety of lens brands, including Shore, Essilor, Varilux, Carl Zeiss Vision (Zeiss, AO, Sola), Seiko, KBco, Signet Armorlite, Optima, Vision-Ease, Shamir and Specialty Lens. www.Nassau247.com Optical Prescription Lab Founded : 1977 HQ./Main Lab Location : Pelham, Ala. No. of Locations : 1 No. of Employees: 25 Key Executives: Danny Pugh, president; Sherry Pugh, vice president Owners: Danny Pugh, Sherry Pugh Trade Names: none Key Markets: Ala., Tenn., Miss., Ga., Fla. 2009 Est. Net Sales: $5.3 million Rx Sales: $4.9 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day: 315 Percentage of Uncut Jobs: 30% Comments: Operates in-house Crizal processing center. Distributes Varilux, Hoya and Shamir lenses. Special services and programs Crizal Performance Package. www.opticalprescriptionlab.com Perfect Optics Founded : 2006 HQ./Main Lab Location : San Diego, Calif. No. of Locations: 1 No. of Employees: 58 Key Executives: Matt Schmidt-Wetekam, Thomas Brophy, Sabine Rentschar, Adam Winkelman, VSP, Carl Zeiss Vision Owners: Warren Meyer, Matt Schmidt-Wetekam, Thomas Brophy, Sabine Rentschar, Adam Winkelman, director of sales and marketing; Tom Brophy, director of operations Trade Names: Perfection FF Lens, Perfect Ion AR Coating Key Markets: Calif., free-form nationwide 2009 Est. Net Sales: $10.5 million Rx Sales: $10.5 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day : 450 Percentage of Uncut Jobs: 30% Comments: Specializes in free-form, digital surfacing. Proprietary products include Perfection FF lens, Perfect Ion AR coating. Offers Perfect Academy educational event. www.perfectopticslab.com Precision Optical Group Founded : 1992 HQ./Main Lab Location: Creston, Iowa No. of Locations: 3 No. of Employees: 90 Key Executives: Deb Larson, Holly Ferber, Jan Ekeler, Judy Hodge, Lance Christensen, Nicki McDowell, Shannon Waigand, Mike Kellman Owner: Mike Tamerius, Matt Somers Trade Names: JMR Wholesale, K-Optical Key Markets: National, Canada 2009 Est. Net Sales: $14.5 million Rx Sales: $11.6 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day: 1,300 Percentage of Uncut Jobs : 60% Comments: Full-service, no frills lab, offering low pricing and same day service. Distributes semi-finished blanks and lab supplies to other wholesalers throughout the U.S. and Canada. Offers Crizal, Crizal Alize, Teflon and in- house clear AR coatings. Offers low cost, house brand progressives. VSP, VBA and VCP authorized. Extensive frame and lens package programs. Custom safety programs offered through ECPs. Online orders accepted via VisionWeb, Eyefinity and Precision Direct, plus traditional phone/fax service. www.precisionopticalgroup.com Reliable Optics Founded: 2007 HQ./Main Lab Location: Brooklyn, N.Y. No. of Locations: 1 No. of Employees: 50 Key Executives : Howard S. Fried, OD; Edward Purman Owner: Howard S. Fried, OD; Edward Purman, Lenny Berenzon, Michael Shur Trade Names: none Key Markets: N.Y., N.J., Conn. 2009 Est. Net Sales: $4.8 million Rx Sales: $4.6 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day: 650 Percentage of Uncut Jobs: 60% Comments: Proprietary products include Crystal Allure and Crystal AR coating, both produced in-house. Special services include high-end edging and drill mounting. www.reliableoptics.com Rite-Style Optical Founded: 1948 HQ./Main Lab Location: Omaha, Neb. No. of Locations : 1 No. of Employees: 105 Key Executives: George Lee, CEO; Larry Lee, president Owner: Lee family Trade Names: RSO Advante AR, Rite Protect Key Markets: Midwest, Texas 2009 Est. Net Sales: $19.1 million Rx Sales: $18.1 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day: 1,126 Percentage of Uncut Jobs: 31% Comments: Independent industry leader in freeform technology, featuring in-house production of all Shamir Autograph II products. Proprietary AR, Zeiss and KodakCleAR coatings produced in-house. Online ordering, lens tracing and job status tracking offered. Affiliations include Eyefinity/VSP, Vision Source, VisionWeb and Red Tray Optical. RSO Safety Rx Division covers corporate accounts nationally as well as safety programs for independent ECPs. RSO's Jumpstart training CDs offer ABO-certified modules for in-office education and training. Global Optics member. www.ritestyle.com Robertson Optical Laboratories Founded: 1958 H.Q./Main Lab Location: Loganville, Ga. No. of Locations : 3 No. of Employees: 110 Key Executives: Owners and Glenn Hollingsworth, director of lab operations Owners: Calvin W. Robertson, Jr., Richard L. Robertson, Gordon "Scotty" Q. Scott, Jr., Calvin "Chip" W. Robertson, III Trade Names: Robertson Optical Laboratories, Robertson Optical Laboratories of Columbia, Robertson Optical Laboratories of Greenville. Key Markets : Southeastern U.S. 2009 Est. Net Sales: $16.1 million Rx Sales: $15.3 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day: 1,400 Percentage of Uncut Jobs: 26% Comments: Full service labs servicing southeast for over 50 years with new lens products and new technologies. Two on-site AR coating facilities providing AR1, Duralux, Teflon, Zeiss, and Kodak AR. Distributes Zeiss, Signet Armorlite, Shamir, Vision Ease, Younger, Hoya, Seiko, Essilor and other major lens brands. On-site free-form technology and digital grinding. Offers most freeform lenses. Approved VSP, VBA, VCP contract labs. Offers frame and lens packages, specializing in three-piece mounts and Chemistrie Custom Clips. Vera Bradley and Sydney Love frame distributors. Member VCA and OLA. Offers online ordering and job tracking. www.robertsonoptical.com Three Rivers Optical Founded: 1969 H.Q./Main Lab Location: Pittsburgh No. of Locations: 1 No. of Employees : 68 Key Executives: Mary Ann Zappas, Joe Seibert, Steve Seibert Owner: Seibert Family Trade names: none Key Markets : Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Midwest, Northeast 2009 Est. Net Sales : $21.2 million Rx Sales: $20.2 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day: 1,850 Percentage of Uncut Jobs : 55% Comments: Operates in-house AR coating facility; offers major lens brands including Varilux, Zeiss, Crizal, Kodak, Transitions. Manufactures Shamir Freeform progressive lenses. Produces proprietary TR O Seg bifocal polycarbonate in Transitions and TR O Blended Seg. Offers private label Discovery brand progressive lens. Primary frame brands include Zyloware and McGee Group. www.3riversoptical.com Toledo Optical Founded: 1947 HQ./Main Lab Location : Toledo, Ohio No. of Locations: 1 No. of Employees: 55 Key Executives: Irland Tashima, Jeffrey Szymanski, Robert Lommerse, Brian Green Owners: Kadowaki, Tashima and Green families Trade Names: Toledo Optical, Toledo Optical Lab Key Markets: Midwest 2009 Est. Net Sales: $9.3 million Rx Sales: $8.7 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day : 530 Percentage of Uncut Jobs : 10% Comments: Dedicated sales force. Offers extensive training and education programs such as Jumpstart. Exclusive practice building initiatives such as Strata multimedia training series. Offers exclusive in-house Acclaro anti-reflective lens process, Armor XT premium scratch coating, One Step Rx, individualized customer performance reports. Distributes Varilux, Shamir and Zeiss lenses. 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No. of Locations: 4 No. of Employees: 330Key Executives: Don Oakley, president; Warren Meyer, VP; Joe Maris, director, Sacramento; Dennis Benedict, director, Legends 4.0; Swen Carlson, director, Columbus; Edward Morris, director, national sales and marketing; Danny Singer, director, Ultra Optics Owner: Vision Service Plan Trade Names: VSP Lab Sacramento, VSP Lab Columbus, Legends 4.0, Ultra Lens, Reveal and Inspire progressive lenses Key Markets: National 2009 Est. Net Sales: $72 million Rx Sales: $68.4 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day: 5,000 Percentage of Uncut Jobs: 15% Comments: Produces on-site AR, including Crizal, Teflon and proprietary Acuity Plus Platinum XP, Clearview Ultra and Ultra CleAR Luminous AR coatings. Special programs include VSP Lab Rewards program, Second Pair program. Operates on-site AR coating facilities producing Crizal and Teflon coatings. Distributes Varilux, Hoya, Transitions, Carl Zeiss Vision, Shamir, Seiko-Pentax, Signet Armorlite, Vision Ease and Younger products and proprietary Reveal and Inspire progressive lenses. www.vsplab.com Walman Optical Company Founded: 1915 HQ./Main Lab Location: Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn. No. of Locations: 32 No. of Employees: 840 Key Executives: Marty Bassett president/CEO; Charles Pillsbury, executive VP; Doug Schlauderaff, executive VP; Craig Giles executive VP; John Anderson VP Owner: Employee-owned Trade Names: Walman Optical, Soderberg Optical, SEOCO Optical, Walman Soderberg Instruments, X-Cel Contacts, ImageWear, Ultra Optics, ADO Buying Group, Preferred Select Buying Group. Key Markets: National 2009 Est. Net Sales: $224 million Rx Sales : $96 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day: 6,600 Percentage of Uncut Jobs: 20% Comments: Complete digital surfacing capabilities supported by on-site AR coating facilities providing Essilor Crizal, Teflon, Zeiss Carat and Ultra AR; offers Remo, Eyefinity and VisionWeb on-line ordering; Walman University educational seminars; industry's largest independent sales force. Proprietary products include Stepper Eyewear, Sundance, Wiggles and Wildflower frames, Trusted Partners, ProLens premium lens packaging, Way Cool Frame Cool, Valuline, MyTee-Lite lenses, Soderberg MaximEyes, Passport to Earnings, Ultimate Rewards, Partners for Growth Seminars and Be Young Be U programs. 2007 and 2008 Transitions Lab of the Year. www.walman.com, www.soseyes.com Winchester Optical Founded: 1902 HQ./Main Lab Location: Elmira, N.Y. No. of Locations: 2 No. of Employees: 80 Key Executives: Brian Lynch, president; Ben Lynch, VP; Mike Lynch, chairman of the board Owner: Lynch family Trade Names: LUXAR Key Markets: N.Y., Pa., N.J. 2009 Est. Net Sales: $11.0 million Rx Sales: $10 million No. of Rx Jobs/Day: 735 Percentage of Uncut Jobs : 23% Comments: Proprietary products include GlareControl and GlareCutter lenses. Diversified lab with field sales-force; manufactures RGP CLs; distributes soft contact lenses. Distributes frames. Offers practice management and office design consultation; sponsors biannual educational seminar for customers. ■


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The first Nanjing delegation to Tel Aviv University included top city officials.
Over the next five years, about 1,000 senior executives, government officials and entrepreneurs from the Chinese city of Nanjing are coming to Israel for a one-week crash course given by the LAHAV Executive Education program at Tel Aviv University (TAU).
"China knows it cannot prosper just from production and cheap labor," LAHAV director Udi Aharoni tells ISRAEL21c. "They want to learn our secrets for commercializing inventions and intellectual property, the role of venture capital and how the Israeli government nurtures technology through an incubator system."
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The first delegation arrived soon after the five-year agreement was signed during a Nanjing Day celebration on the Tel Aviv University (TAU) campus on May 21, marking 20 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and the People's Republic of China. Additional delegations will arrive every two months or so.
Participants go on field trips to places such as Omer Industrial Park and Better Place, meet with successful entrepreneurs and high-tech gurus including Yossi Vardi, watch innovation in action at hospitals and banks, and visit university tech-transfer companies in addition to major Israeli tourist sites such as Masada.
"They like the program so much because of its three components: education, site visits and touring," says Orly Fromer, resource development adviser to the TAU president Joseph Klafter.
Nanjing is the capital of the Jiangsu province, where the Chinese government is investing in a plan to shift from a cost-based economy to an innovation-based economy. Part of the investment is going toward training at LAHAV.
"They wanted to understand why a country our size, with no natural resources, has 100 rated NASDAQ companies while the Chinese have much less," explains Aharoni.
Strategic steps for Israel and China
This is just the latest aspect of a wider China-Israel connection rapidly warming up on academic and commercial fronts.
The Israel-based Sino-Israel Global Network and Academic Leadership (SIGNAL) launched China's first-ever Israel studies program at Sichuan International Studies University (SISU) last year, and two SISU lecturers came to train at Israel's Bar-Ilan University. Three additional Israel studies programs will open at other Chinese universities.
In 2000, the Israeli Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai founded the PTL Group to offer Israeli companies logistical, manpower and financial services in China. And last year, a new industrial incubator for Israeli companies was established in Wujin, between Nanjing and Shanghai.
"The Consulate General of Israel in Shanghai sees the promotion of relations with Jiangsu province as an important strategic step in enabling Israeli companies to enter the Chinese market and in advancing technological cooperation with China," said Jackie Eldan, consul general of Israel in Shanghai. "Jiangsu province is one of the most advanced regions in China and one of the most important drivers of the Chinese economy."
Translating language and concepts
Nanjing officials broached the executive training idea during a visit to the university in November 2011. Fromer says the choice made sense: TAU has the largest faculty of Far Eastern studies in the region, and every year, about 200 TAU students register for Chinese language, history and culture classes. A 2007 agreement provided for a Confucius Institute on campus.
"The basic idea was that Nanjing has a lot of similarities with Israel," says Aharoni, who visited with Fromer in July. "The population is eight million people, like in Israel, and the Chinese have thousands of years of history as the Jews do. When I went to visit, I really felt at home. Although we have a totally different culture, we have a lot in common."
The university engaged a local translation service to render the written materials for the executive course into Chinese, which has 3,000 letters in contrast to Hebrew's 22. Teaching is conducted in English, with simultaneous translation by an interpreter, and each delegation also brings along its own interpreter.
Despite linguistic and cultural differences, the Chinese and Israelis each gain much from the venture, according to Aharoni. "There is a lot of potential for knowledge transfer from universities and companies in both places."
Fromer expects that future joint projects will include faculty and student exchanges and research collaborations between TAU and major universities in Shanghai and Nanjing.


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Market Cap | $1.57B |
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(BPT) – When it comes to decorating with lights for the holidays, there are unlimited ways to add twinkle to the inside as well as the outside of your home. Some people favor an elegant, restrained sprinkling of lights around a door, while others go for a more exuberant display of illumination on virtually every surface.
The American Lighting Association (ALA) offers some holiday lighting tips and ideas:
* Make your home's entrance a priority. The front door is more than just the entryway into your home; it's also a welcoming first impression for family and friends. Start by adding a few, easy-to-install landscape uplights to highlight trees and shrubs, or path lighting to illuminate a sidewalk or driveway.
"Tree lighting uses the heights of trees to spread the light out in a soft and subtle way to bathe the area in light," says Richard Lentz, owner of Dallas-based Lentz Landscape Lighting and its interiors division Lentz Services. Do-it-yourself tip: Go for low-voltage landscape lights, which are easy to install and consume less energy.
* Add drama with color-changing lights. Newer LED lights can add custom color scenes that complement a specific holiday decorating mood. You can produce the exact ambiance you like at any moment during your party or gathering this season. Colors can be changed at the push of a button without changing the fixture, making these products useful year round.
* Use lighting to create a focal point. Lights can draw attention to virtually anything – a centerpiece, buffet, unusual decoration – which helps guests know where to focus their eyes.
* Add portable spotlights as highlights. These small, inexpensive fixtures typically work with a tabletop dimmer and can create pretty silhouettes, particularly under a Christmas tree, shining up through the branches.
* Illuminate corners. When decorating with lights for the holidays, make your space feel larger by placing spotlights in room corners to illuminate dark spaces.
* Swap out lighting accents. Replacing a neutral lampshade with one that is red or gold will soften the light and create a pretty atmosphere when decorating with lights for the holidays. Replace a chandelier's crystal teardrops with gold, silver or red glass balls, or add a few shade charms, available at many craft stores, to add some sparkle and fun.
"One of the great things about this time of year, when there are a lot of festive gatherings, is that it's all right to break away from a few traditions and try some new things with lighting and decorating," says Bruce Hathaway, national sales manager for the Vermont-based lighting manufacturer Hubbardton Forge.
* Check your dimmers. "Dimmers are ideal for creating that perfect look, regardless of the season, because they allow for the general lighting to play a supporting role," says Joe Rey-Barreau, education consultant for ALA and an associate professor at the University of Kentucky's School of Interior Design.
* Update your powder room. "It's often the smallest room, yet if you measure the worth of the powder room by the amount of traffic a room gets per square foot, the powder room could easily be the most valuable space in your house," says Rick Wiedemer, president of Hinkley Lighting. A few simple, extra touches, such as a portable lamp with a colored shade, will make a huge impact.
* Try novelty lights. Consider themed novelty lights for a bit of fun when decorating for any holiday. "Try string lights in shapes or LED crystal lights on a festive mantle," says Edward Cook, president of National Specialty Lighting in Colorado.
Visit your local ALA-member lighting showroom to discover more ideas for decorating with lights for the holidays. For information, visit www.AmericanLightingAssociation.com.


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Acer Launches Chromebook 871/Chromebook 712: Intel's Comet Lake Inside
by Anton Shilov on January 22, 2020 2:00 PM EST- Posted in
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- Laptops
- Comet Lake
Acer has introduced a new Chromebook computer designed specifically for the education environment. The upcoming Chromebook 871/Chromebook 712 machines are rugged enough to handle bumps of life at school and are based on Intel's Comet Lake processors.
Acer's Chromebook 871/Chromebook 712 comes in a Shale Black plastic chassis that is sufficiently tough to survive drops, shocks, high/low temperatures, and humid or dusty environments. To make the laptop as rugged as possible, Acer had to increase its z-height to 21.5 cm, which is rather thick, but a good news is that the notebook has a spill-resistant keyboard. As for weight, the machine weighs 1.4 kilograms.
The laptop is equipped with a 12-inch IPS display panel featuring a 1366x912 resolution as well as a 3:2 aspect ratio. In fact, the manufacturer plans to offer two versions of its Chromebooks 871: the model C871 with a regular screen as well as the model C871T with a touch-enabled screen.
The Acer Chromebook 871 – which will go by the Chromebook 712 in the retail market – is based on up to Intel's dual-core Core i3-10110U processor, and is accompanied by 4 GB or 8 GB of DDR4 memory as well as 32 GB or 64 GB eMMC storage. Connectivity-wise, the laptop is rather typical by today's standards as they feature Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5, USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A and Type-C connectors, a microSD card reader, and a 3.5-mm audio jack for headsets. The Chromebook 871/Chromebook 712 from Acer also have a standard set of multimedia capabilities, such as a webcam, stereo speakers, a microphone array.
The manufacturer equipped its new Chromebooks with a 48 Wh battery, which is a rather high capacity for a 12-inch laptop. Meanwhile, Acer does not disclose actual battery life figures for its new Chromebooks.
Acer's Chromebook 871/Chromebook 712 | |||
Chromebook 712 | |||
Display | Diagonal | 12" IPS with or without touch | |
Resolution | 1366×912 | ||
Brightness | ? cd/m² | ||
CPU | 10th Gen Core (Comet Lake) Intel Core i3-10110U Intel Pentium Gold 6405U Intel Celeron 5205U |
Graphics | Intel UHD Graphics | ||
RAM | 4 GB or 8 GB DDR4 | ||
Storage | 32 GB or 64 GB eMMC | ||
Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi 6 | ||
Bluetooth | Bluetooth 5.0 | ||
GbE | - | ||
USB | 2 × USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C 1 × USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A |
Camera | Full-HD | ||
Other I/O | microSD, TRRS connector for audio, speakers, microphones | ||
Battery | 48 Wh | ||
Dimensions | Thickness | 21.5 mm | 0.85 inches | |
Width | 296 mm | 11.65 inches | ||
Depth | 229 mm | 9.02 inches | ||
Weight | 1.4 kilograms | 3.09 pounds | ||
Battery Life | ? | ||
Price (starting at) | $329.99 | €299 |
Acer will start sales of its new Chromebook 871/Chromebook 712 laptops in North America in March and in EMEA in May. Prices of the PCs will start at $329.99 in the USA and €299 in Europe. The notebooks will be covered by a one year international warranty.
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- Samsung Shows Off Premium Galaxy Chromebook at CES 2020: 13.3-inch Convertible With 4K AMOLED & More
- Acer Launches Rugged Chromebook Spin 311: An 11.6-Inch AMD A4-Based 2-in-1
- Acer Launches Six Chrome Enterprise PCs: Notebooks, Convertibles, Desktops
Source: Acer
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DigitalFreak - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
That resolution should be outlawed in 2020 -
ingwe - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
I mean this product isn't interesting to me, but as said by Anand, there are no bad products only bad prices. At $330 it doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Particularly because it isn't just 768 vertical pixels. -
kpb321 - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
It's a 12 in screen so it's actually fairly high DPI at ~136. About the same as a 16 inch 1080p screen and it's a squarer aspect ratio so it has more vertical space than a 768p or 720p screen would. Overall it doesn't seem like a bad choice for a cheap laptop. I'd certainly rather use this than your typical widescreen 16x9 equivalent. At these low resolutions the additional vertical pixels are pretty helpful. -
jabber - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
Yeah it's fine on a screen that size. -
PeachNCream - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
Affordability is important when you're whoring out everything you do on your computer to the world's creepiest corporate monster. -
DigitalFreak - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
Comcast? -
PeachNCream - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
Bwa ha! Well maybe, but I'd put Comcast a few paces behind Alphabet/Google and Facebook as everyone's "favorite" cable provider sucks less in a "lurking in the corner of your bedroom watching you sleep" way and more in a "screwing you over by charging you as much as possible for the most sh*tty internet service" way. -
NextGen_Gamer - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
Corrections to be made to article (all take from Acer's official press release - really AnandTech you should read those things before posting articles):
1) You should mention this meets official U.S. MIL-STD 810G military standards along with "two leading toy safety standards: the ASTM F963-16 and UL/IEC 60950-1"
2) This actually has Wi-Fi 6 onboard, specifically dual-band Intel® Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+) AX201 (802.11ax) with 2x2 MU-MIMO technology, which is pretty dang good for a $329 Chromebook.
3) The press release does say 4GB or 8GB of RAM, but not which type. I am assuming you guys are guessing at that. Could be LPDDR3, could be DDR4, could even be LPDDR4x (though that last one is of course extremely doubtful). -
NextGen_Gamer - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
Oh, and the press release says "up to 12 hours" of battery life which sounds about right considering the low power components, low resolution screen and battery size. -
antonkochubey - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
>Acer had to increase its z-height to 21.5 cm, which is rather thick
Damn that's thicc indeed


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Overall, commercial painting rates in New Jersey are a great value for businesses looking to elevate their ambiance and transform their properties into visually appealing spaces. With the quality of workmanship and materials provided by expert commercial painting contractors, businesses can be assured that they are having the best value for their investment.
In Closing
With regards to painting your commercial property, it's essential to hire expert painting contractors who can deliver exceptional results. The commercial painting contractors in New Jersey are trustworthy and have the necessary expertise to deliver businesses with higher-quality painting services.
Professional painters can elevate the ambiance of your own business making it visually appealing to your clients and customers. With a range of painting services, including industrial painting services, commercial painting contractors can transform your business and provide durable coatings that meet industry standards.
Commercial painting contractors are committed to using premium quality materials, and local contractors are readily available to provide businesses with reliable services. With specialized services for businesses in New Jersey, commercial painting contractors know the unique needs of commercial properties and can provide exceptional workmanship.
Clients have left rave reviews for commercial painting contractors, highlighting the contractors' reputation for reliability and customer happiness. To top it off, commercial painting rates in New Jersey are competitive, providing affordability without compromising on the quality of workmanship and materials.
Overall, hiring expert commercial painting contractors in New Jersey is the easiest method to elevate the ambiance of your own business and achieve exceptional results. Choose the right commercial painting company that understands your needs and can deliver high-quality painting services for your property.