% set up tight list spacing
\usepackage{enumitem} 
\setlist{nolistsep,nosep}

% for toggles
\usepackage{etoolbox}
% CHANGE FROM TOGGLE TRUE TO TOGGLE FALSE FOR NON-ANONYMOUS RENDERING
% http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5894/latex-conditional-expression
\newtoggle{anonymous}
\togglefalse{anonymous}
% \toggletrue{anonymous}

% CHANGE FROM TOGGLE TRUE TO TOGGLE FALSE TO HIDE COMMENTS
\newtoggle{comments}
% \toggletrue{comments}
\togglefalse{comments}

% Comment region command (from Wesley Willett)
\usepackage[usenames]{color}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\iftoggle{comments} {
  % If we want to show comments
  % color includes Orange, BlueGreen, NavyBlue, violet, BrickRed, OliveGreen
  \newcommand {\ben}[1]{{\color{violet}\bf{BZ: #1}\normalfont}}
}{
  % if we don't want to show comments
  \newcommand {\ben}[1]{}
}