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The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board: The Leather Anniversary
by Rey Tecson on October 12, 2015 in Boxing, Press Release, TBR Board
Sunday, October 11 marked the third anniversary of the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. Traditionally speaking, it's the leather anniversary. We'd prefer to ignore the modern gift idea devised by librarians at the Chicago Public Library, namely glass. We neither live in such a house nor have such a jaw. The leather anniversary. That's more like it. Leather doesn't shatter and, when put to good use, it can dent a septum now and then. We have striven to do just that, with affection, on behalf of thinking boxing fans around the world. Our mission is threefold: provide weekly rankings that are trustworthy and authoritative, identify the true champions, and convince boxing that common sense is making a comeback.
The board began in 2012 with twenty-five independent boxing writers and historians representing twelve countries around the world. We've grown since then. The number of members now matches Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s number of wins at forty-nine. We're on five continents representing sixteen countries and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
On October 11, 2012 we published the first edition of our rankings. On Tuesday we'll publish the one hundred forty-ninth edition.
The rankings are the product of a weekly process that begins every Sunday when record-keepers Mauricio Salvador of Mexico and Ken Pollitt of the United States email results of the previous week's fights to the three chairs. (Filipino Retech Son, our third record-keeper, monitors inactive fighters approaching the one-year mark of removal.) After considering the week's bouts and exits, the chairs come up with proposals for rankings changes which are then posted on the board's forum. Over the next three days, members weigh in to accept, debate, and/or advance their own proposals during a process that is both efficient and democratic. The product is published every Tuesday without fail.
The product has not been without critics. Ranking boxing's best fighters and presenting them to the world is an invitation for opposing viewpoints, so it's to be expected. It's also welcomed; before the rankings are published they must be banged-out by strong and disagreeable minds coming to virtual blows over placements. If the feedback received at www.tbrb.org is any indication, these battles royal on the board's forum may be best practice for high-quality rankings. In fact, we have been pleasantly surprised at how readily thinking fans have embraced this initiative from day one:
"I just want to say thank you and good luck," a fan posted only hours after our inaugural rankings were published. "[T]his is exactly what boxing needs to start to repair the damage it has done to itself and to start the long journey of rebuilding the greatest sport."
"Love the new rankings!" said another. "Just when I thought that there would never be an entity whose rankings I could subscribe to with any confidence this board is established."
"This is a great service to the boxing community, well done!"
"I really hope that your organization takes hold and helps reform boxing. I've been a boxing fan for about 30 years."
"TBRB is revolutionary and despite the cynical view many have of boxing's future, TBRB is a beacon of light towards reforming the sport we all love."
"This is just a fantastic effort … I wish HBO, ESPN, and others would adopt your rankings."
"[I]t pains me when I see the state of what [boxing] has become… Something like this has been needed for a long time."
"I really like what the TBRB is doing and direct my fellow boxing fans to find your rankings…"
The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board's mission is one of service to the sport. In an era where the concept of "champion" has been devalued, where boxing historians sift through byzantine lineages of titlists and only confuse themselves, we have systematically identified the reigning true champions —the divisional kings™. Click on the "Successions" tab at www.tbrb.org to see who they are and how they got there. Click on the "Charter" tab and be assured that they earn their status by combat, not by appointment or political machinations; that they must either defeat the previous champion or, if the throne is open, they must defeat the next-best contender in the top two.
We have repudiated the idea that modern boxing politics precludes such a strict #1 vs. #2 criterion when it comes to open thrones. Whereas three years ago we recognized a total of four true champions, we crowned four more by the time of our first anniversary and topped the total off at nine last May when the first-ranked Mayweather defeated second-ranked Manny Pacquiao. Since then, Danny Garcia abdicated the jr. welterweight throne and Mayweather officially retired and left the welterweight and jr. middleweight thrones open. Click on the "Rankings" tab to see which top-two contenders are poised at the brink of royalty. Feel encouraged; only eleven matches need to happen for boxing to have a full roster of divisional kings. There were eleven matches at Manchester Arena Saturday night.
Judging by our well-documented tendency to point to boxing's golden past, it may be assumed that we're a fraternity of old fogies. But don't be fooled; the average age of our membership is thirty-nine and the range is college-age to retirement-age, which means we have both the agility of youth and the experience of years on our side. How else could we reach back into history, take hold of an informal term like "robbery" and formalize it to address the problem of bad judging? The robbery clause in the charter strikes a balance between due discretion and innovation and we didn't stop there. Other pressing issues in the sport have since been addressed with new clauses in the charter:
* No Decision/No Contest (February 2014). After a legitimate official authority declares a bout a "No Decision" or "No Contest," the fighters will return to the rankings they held going into the bout. Under certain circumstances, the Board may adjust the rankings, though not the order of said fighters, to reflect performances before the bout was ended.
* Inactive champions (August 2015). If a champion is inactive in his division, attempts will be made to contact the champion/designee for an official announcement or clarification of his intentions. If none is forthcoming and the champion has not defended his throne after 18 months, and the first- and second-ranked contenders meet, then the official winner may become the rightful successor.
* Performance-enhancing drugs (September 2015). If a contender fails a drug test conducted by a legitimate regulator or a contracted independent testing body (i.e. is found to have used a performance-enhancing drug or masking agent) or is otherwise found to be in gross violation of the rules and is suspended as a result, the board will summarily remove the contender from the rankings. The contender will have to earn reentry at the end of the determined length of suspension. Successful appeals will be honored and mitigating circumstances considered by the chairs.
Common sense is poised to make a comeback in boxing. We need your support. Spread the word about an organization that asks nothing in return and rankings that Teddy Atlas said are the only ones to trust.
Visit our new, mobile-friendly website at www.tbrb.org often and share the page.
Join us on Twitter @TBRBoard.
Convince your friends and your friends' friends to do the same. Consider lacing up a pair of gloves and denting a septum or two if reasoning fails. We can't bail you out or pay your fine (we're volunteers after all) but we'd appreciate such an apt observance of our third anniversary.
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Each month, you have given our team permission to communicate our views on the biopharma industry, its leadership, and overall commercialization of innovative medicines. We share this perspective with knowledge of a healthcare system based on what we read, hear, and know from personal experience.
In our industry, we often talk about innovation, technology, data, and patient advocacy as separate topics. But when they are in front of you, and not purposefully integrated with the care of a loved one, they can produce despair and poor outcomes on multiple measures.
Today's e-conversation, I warn, delves into a more personal story than usual. But perspective is still the operative word. My intent is to share an evolution of my thinking regarding the "delivery of healthcare" based on two, very real-life experiences.
I just returned to the office after spending a month with my siblings supporting our parents in their full-on interaction with the healthcare system – one parent with a rare disease, one with a critical care hospitalization. I return humbled, frustrated, determined, and with a vastly broadened perspective regarding the "delivery" of care and its many disintegrated parts.
All true. But absent perspective – that thing one attains with an experience that forces one to see what was not visible before.
My Dad, an otherwise incredibly spritely former engineer, spent a year bouncing around specialists before finally being diagnosed with a rare cardiac disease. Even with vocal family members with their own medical expertise, he struggled to get attention for his worsening condition.
Once the diagnosis was finally made, his industry-savvy offspring knew that getting him into a trial or on expanded access for an "as of yet unapproved drug" could provide some hope. This concept is one that is so easy to discuss in a biotech conference room, yet so difficult to explain to a nurse practitioner that has to submit the paperwork to the pharma company, the office that needs to apply for IRB and FDA approval to become a site, or for the MD that now has to decide which patients, other than the one that raised the idea in the first place, should be in the queue. Oh, and BTW, the preferred method of communication is through the portal which often feels like communication into nowhere. Perspective!
Over a period of two weeks, my Mom was admitted to one hospital, transferred to another, cathed, intubated, extubated, held for four days, given multiple innovative pharmaceuticals, discharged at 8:00 pm to a rehab hospital in a wheelchair van, returned within 20 minutes when the oxygen tank ran out, transported in a second attempt to the rehab hospital in an ambulance, readmitted in 36 hours back to the hospital – this time via EMS with 3 PEs (pulmonary embolism) and a secondary hospital-acquired pneumonia.
Throughout every step, she had family who talked to the doctors, told her story to the nurses (different staff almost every day), rubbed her feet, gave her water when her mouth was dry, and assured her that Dad was ok. We didn't care about any of the commercialization strategies the companies that made the drugs, devices, or equipment developed. We just wanted the healthcare providers to have time to work together, review her case, pause, and make the best integrated decision for the patient (my Mom).
We wanted the healthcare delivery part of the system to work. And while the clinicians were mostly kind and tried to be attentive (especially when family was in the room), man, they seemed overwhelmed, busy, and fragmented. The drugs probably worked well enough when she got them, but it just seemed chaotic, with all the facts and insights buried in "that computer," as my Mom called it.
It was hard not to feel despair about the gap in implementation, particularly given my firsthand knowledge of the novel healthcare advances being made every day in the life sciences world we all inhabit.
The treatments our companies develop have no value if the healthcare providers have no mind space to focus on all aspects of the patient's history to know what their problems are, and which treatments will be most effective.
Superb imaging techniques have no value if no one has time to read the results and adjust the treatment as the patient gets sicker.
Electronic medical records have no value if the healthcare providers don't have time to absorb the volumes of information or, worse, even get a snapshot before their shift begins.
Superb medical and marketing strategies have no value if drugs are stopped and started by each specialty, seemingly without consultation with the other specialties or full appreciation of the implications on other aspects of the patient story.
What was broken was the system. What IS broken is the system. Even the amazing care providers we connected with so deeply, acknowledged and shared in our frustration.
We must work together in our industry, in our communities, and with our votes, to fix this system. How can we encourage the prioritization of quality, integrated care delivery with a focus on the patient, and support of the healthcare providers, that truly keeps the patient's health and well-being at the center?
We need to ensure our commercialization strategies for a drug or solution are developed in the context of the fragmented care delivery system that many patients experience.
I have so many thoughts that continue to float through my mind daily, including a recognition that my parents are lucky to be educated, have resources, and have a large and committed family to help them navigate the system. But what about those that are less fortunate? I can only imagine.
I am also grateful for the many people along the way that truly did their heroic best to give us the information we needed, advocate for the proper attention to both my parents, and support all of us. Some of those people were within the healthcare system; many others are friends, colleagues, and extended family members. It takes a village.
What are your thoughts about what we CAN do from our place in the industry and in our commercialization plans?
P.S. During the time I was with my Mom, a quality resource person did come by to ask a few patient satisfaction survey questions. Unfortunately, the questions only concerned the custodians and dietary delivery. Who's in charge?


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First of all, let me be clear. Jobs, the new biopic of the Apple legend starring Ashton Kutcher, is nowhere near as bad as some critics have made it out to be. For those who don't know about the founding of Apple and the early days of the Steve Jobs story, the film can be an interesting glimpse into the world of the most iconic commercial innovator of this generation. That said, it is nevertheless a disappointing effort given the expectations and the subject of the biopic; for the most part, it was good while it lasted, but ultimately the film comes across as rushed, malnourished and incomplete, and despite the best of intentions, unable to deliver the engrossing experience curious audiences have been hoping for since Jobs' untimely death in October 2011.
The strange thing about this film is that it, like Jobs the man, begins with what appears to be lofty ambitions, but then, unlike him, surprisingly fizzles out, almost like it decided to give up because the challenge had grown too difficult, or even because it had lost interest in what it was trying to achieve.
I don't want to give away any spoilers, but it should be known that Jobs is not an attempt to capture the life story of Steve Jobs. In fact, it only covers a small part of his life, from how he came about starting Apple with Steve Wozniak in the 1970s to (without being too specific) the turn of the century (as foretold by the film's opening scenes). What this curious time frame means is that we know almost nothing of his childhood or his adopted parents, and we see nothing of what are supposed to be the best years of his career. Also, it means the film assumes a certain level of knowledge about Apple and Jobs, which is fine, but a complete failure to even acknowledge the existence some of the biggest milestones outside of this chosen time frame (such as Jobs's association with Pixar and some of Apple's most iconic products) just feels…wrong.
Of course, it would have been impossible to capture every aspect of Jobs's life, but in my opinion (others may differ) the makers of this movie made wrong decisions in choosing what parts of his life to emphasize and what parts to skim over. Without delving into spoilers, let's just say the film's last half hour or so is a bit of a hurried mess, and even though it ends on (I suppose) a good note at a particular juncture of Jobs's life, it leaves you wanting a lot more. This is one of those rare occasions where a film should have been longer — it's 122 minutes but could have easily added another 20 quality minutes without it feeling bloated. In a sense, the film feels almost like it's setting itself up for a sequel, except there isn't going to be one.
There are two additional problems with the film that comes to mind. The first is that it feels as though it is canonizing Jobs. Of course, the prick side of Jobs, which has been documented so well, is not missing from the film — we do get to see him lose his temper and the dark side of his obstinate and vindictive nature (most evidently in his relationship with his eldest daughter) — but the feeling I got (others may have a different interpretation) is that they tried to make him look like a misunderstood genius whose failures only came about because others (old fashioned business executives) did not believe him or share his ambitious vision. In reality, Jobs was at times reckless and his adventurous streak often got the best of him and his projects.
The second problem is that while the film is titled Jobs, it is more about Apple than the life of Steve Jobs. Apart from Jobs's strained relationship with his first daughter Lisa, there really isn't much else in the film about his life in the film that isn't directly related to Apple. How they could make a movie called Jobs and not even let audiences know he's dead strikes me as bizarre.
Having said all that, the film did start off on a strong note and most of the major events within the chosen period (such as Apple's IPO and the 1984 commercial — and many more, though they could technically be considered spoilers) are featured and executed well. As a dramatization of that period of Jobs's life, there's not much to complain about. But as I had read Jobs's official biography written by Walter Isaacson just last year, many of the things that happen in the film are still fresh in my mind and thus lacked punch, but for those who aren't as familiar with Apple's history and Jobs's life (eg, my wife), the film could be quite a compelling eye-opener. People interested in Apple's humble beginnings and geeks interested in the early PC era won't be disappointed.
Central to the film is the portrayal of Jobs by Ashton Kutcher. I have mixed feelings about his performance. On the one hand, he definitely has the look and walk of Steve Jobs down pat. There are moments in the film, a flash here, a blurry shot there, where Kutcher is the spitting image of a young Jobs. Jobs's temper and narcissism also feel genuine. On the other hand, Kutcher looks too much like…Ashton Kutcher, and I wonder if a lesser known actor would have been more suitable for the role. The voice was also too distinctively Kutcher and not quite there.
In the supporting cast, which includes the likes of James Woods, Lukas Haas, Ron Eldard JK Simmons and Kevin Dunn, the standouts are Matthew Modine as one-time Apple CEO John Sculley and Dermot Mulroney as key venture capitalist Mike Markkula. I wasn't quite sure what to make of Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak, but apparently Wozniak himself as rubbished the portrayal and also his relationship with Jobs in the movie. However, it should be noted here that Wozniak was paid consult on the forthcoming Sony version of the Jobs biopic to be scripted by Aaron Sorkin and based on Isaacson's book, scheduled for release next year. Whichever way you look at it, that film appears much better equipped to deliver the definitive Steve Jobs biopic we've been waiting for (albeit with a lot more rapid-fire dialogue). It seems in the rush to get in first, Jobs had to compromise on quality, which shows in the final product.
The final word on Jobs? A perfectly adequate and generally compelling dramatization of the founding and early years of Apple, but a somewhat incomplete and disappointing portrait of the life of the man it is named after.


While you wouldn't normally think that a backpacker would be heading abroad for their medical or dental issues, there are some doctors and dentists starting to target budget travelers to pop in for a teeth cleaning or have their health issues attended to.
As an American, I can attest to the truth that health care is extremely expensive in the USA. If you don't have insurance you're pretty S*** out of luck, and if you have an emergency you can easily be sucked into debt in the blink of an eye. You're looking at around $500 minimum just to be seen at the emergency room!
In many other countries, some basic healthcare is free for everyone, and Mexico even offers free health insurance for travelers! While you probably won't land a freebie abroad, basic health services are pretty dirt cheap, and by having dental work done, or seeing a specialist might cost you thousands in the US, you can go on a vacation, get yourself tended to and still save money.
I had a friend when I was living in Buenos Aires who needed to get a tooth pulled and he ended up only spending 30 or 40 bucks to get it taken care of, and he got a teeth cleaning while he was at it. I saw a lot of similar deals when studying in Spain and doing a search for clean and dent Madrid.
While I luckily have health insurance, I still get basic things done when I travel, because even with insurance, it's still cheaper to basic checkups abroad! I think Obama has taken the US in the right direction with the healthcare reforms, but hopefully everything will become more accessible in the next few years.
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I actually just got back from a day trip to the US yesterday for a dentists visit. For $20 I got a teeth cleaning (Groupon)- their normal price is $50… I usually spend $200 for the same cleaning & x-rays in Canada.
Haha awesome. Yea dentistry is a big racket in the states in my opinion for real work, not basic stuff like cleanings and whitening (even though they try and rip you off for whitening a lot). Sounds like you made out like a bandit though!


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BPA Leaching from Baby Bottles
Baby Bottles Exposed Infants To BPA. Plastic baby bottles could be exposing millions of infants to bisphenol-A, a potentially dangerous chemical. A group of North American environmental and health groups released a paper Thursday revealing that many major-brand baby bottles leach bisphenol A—BPA—and is now calling for a moratorium on its use. BPA is a fairly ubiquitous chemical used in polycarbonate plastic products, including baby bottles and metal can coatings, intended to protect the food inside from the can. According to the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the infant formula industry—which adheres to federal packaging guidelines—BPA is legal and safe. Critics say that BPA, which mimics the hormone estrogen, causes hormonal, neurological, and behavioral problems.
Researchers tested 19 baby bottles purchased in nine U.S. states and Canada including Avent, Dr. Brown, Evenflo, Disney, Gerber, and Playtex. When the bottles were heated to 175 degrees F (80 degrees C), they all leached BPA at about five to seven parts per billion. They also found that because of the BPA's chemical makeup, it may leach more in fatty or acidic liquids, such as milk or apple juice, than in water.
U.S. and European Union (EU) health and environment authorities still maintain polycarbonate plastic is not harmful, putting the safe level of daily BPA exposure at more than 25 times the levels found in baby bottles. Meanwhile, Health Canada, is reviewing its BPA policy; conclusions are due this spring.
BPA Has Been Linked To Variety Of Diseases
BPA opponents say official safety figures are too high. In the lab, low levels have been linked to a variety of sex-hormone-imbalances, including breast and prostate cancer, early puberty, miscarriage, low sperm count, and immune-system changes. Critics also claim that in developing infants, these effects may occur at exposure levels far below what health authorities deemed safe for adults. "The reproductive system is developing, the brain is developing, the immune system is developing," David Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany, said Thursday on behalf of the environmental agencies. Knowing that, he said, it is "absolutely obscene" to expose infants to BPA. The National Toxicology Program's Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction convened an expert panel to determine if BPA is a hazard to humans, including more sensitive developing babies. The panel concluded there's some risk as BPA exposure causes neural and behavioral effects in children. The American Academy of Pediatrics has no formal position on BPA.
In a 2006 summary explaining its review of BPA safety, the European Food Safety Authority argued that animal trials of the chemical don't tell much about humans. Apparently, when humans ingest BPA, it's quickly excreted through urine; when rats and mice eat it, it's released into the bloodstream and remains in the body longer. Human data on BPA have been "really inconclusive," says Antonia Calafat, research chemist at the CDC; however Calafat's recent findings indicated among roughly 2,500 Americans tested in 2003 and 2004, over 95% had traces of BPA in their urine.
Legislation has been proposed in several U.S. states to limit or ban BPA use and some stores have pulled polycarbonate bottles. But, U.S. and E.U. health and environment authorities believe the evidence supports continued use of regular polycarbonate baby bottles and formula makers and the FDA say the amount of BPA in baby formula cans is not dangerous.
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According to Nutanix A/NZ managing director, Wayne Neich, Citrix's VDI technology is utilised in about 80 per cent of the top 300 companies, and while these customers are satisfied with their VDI, they remain unhappy with the infrastructure by which it is supported. Nutanix wants to be the go-to once these customers pursue a refresh.
Citrix became the next target due to the scale of its install base.
"We see the biggest customers with the oldest infrastructure as those using Citrix VDI," Neich said.
Neich told ARN the first step is getting access to Citrix's channel. He revealed that Nutanix is "absolutely committed to building a Citrix channel in A/NZ very rapidly" but did not disclose by which means the vendor intends to do so.
In the meantime, Nutanix is "simply going around and finding the most unhappy customers," drawing on the operational expenditure (opex) proposition and its modular deployment approach to steer customers of legacy hardware away from capital expenditure (capex) based storage investments.
Nutanix currently has 70 customers in A/NZ. The vendor aims to have 200 customers under its belt by the conclusion of its 2015 fiscal year which ends on July 31 next year.
The company is preparing the launch of a new version of its software-based product. New features include block awareness that promises consistency across multiple blocks to ensure data is not on a single node, and data de-duplication for the capacity tier for storage savings.
"Ultimately, we want to be the solution for the private Cloud by have the same capabilities as public Clouds in terms of serviceability and availability," Nutanix global technical alliances director, Andre Leibovici, said.
Leibovici revealed that Nutanix is "looking into hybrid Cloud" but did not comment further.
Nutanix's A/NZ distributor is WhiteGold Solutions which was hired in August 2013.
WhiteGold commercial director, Leigh Howard, said that to date, he has "never seen a technology that has attracted so much interest and excitement at the end user and channel levels" as Nutanix has received, which consequently has led to a financial boom for the distributor.


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LaHood: Bush's death marks "end of an era"
December 4, 2018 11:04 am Tim Shelley Peoria News, Political, Top Stories
The world is remembering George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States.
Back in 1988, the then-candidate pitched his "family values" campaign right here in Central Illinois …
"And I am so pleased to end up my Illinois swing right here in Chillicothe, middle America with the strongest values that exist," said Bush.
From that Chillicothe rally, he went on to become the 41st president.
Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood spoke Monday about Bush. LaHood was the chief of staff for Rep. Bob Michel, the House Republican Leader during the first Bush administration.
"Well, I think it's the end of an era," said LaHood. "Certainly, President Bush was one of the greatest generations, not only the greatest generations of those who went off to war and came back and really decided that public service was going to be his way of life, but certainly one of the greatest generations of presidents to serve."
President George H.W. Bush also gave the commencement speech at Monmouth in 2000.
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(b. 23 September 1964, Dessau).
German composer, now resident in both France and Germany, of mostly stage, chamber, vocal, and multimedia works that have been performed in the Americas, Asia and Europe.
Ms. Schlünz studied with Udo Zimmermann at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden from 1983–87 and with Paul-Heinz Dittrich at the Universität der Künste Berlin from 1988–91. Later encounters with Iannis Xenakis at the Ferienkurse in Darmstadt and Helmut Lachenmann in Stuttgart were also important.
Among her honours are the Hanns-Eisler-Preis (1990), the Heidelberger Künstlerinnenpreis (1998) and the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (1999, for the recording of MOCCOLI). She has also received scholarships to the Ferienkurse in Darmstadt (1990, 1992), the studio for electronic music of the Akademie der Künste Berlin (1994, 2002), the Deutsche Akademie at the Villa Massimo in Rome (1999), the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (2000), the Kulturstiftung Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in Dilsberg (2000), and the Künstlerinnenhof Die Höge (2003), as well as a residency at GRAME in Lyon (2005).
She is also active in other positions. She has worked at the Dresdner Zentrum für zeitgenössische Musik since 1987 and has worked on intercontinental music projects since 1992. She toured South America in 1996, where she gave concerts and seminars, and visited Denmark, France, Spain, the USA, and Vietnam in 2001, on grants from the Goethe-Institut.
She taught at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber from 1987–92 and lectured on composition as part of the Brandenburgisches Kolloquium für Neue Musik in 1995.
Her primary publisher is Boosey & Hawkes, though Bote & Bock and Peermusic are the publishers of some works.


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What is true about properties of a triangular based pyramid?
Admin November 10, 2019 Miscellaneous
1 What is true about properties of a triangular based pyramid?
2 What is a triangular based pyramid?
3 How many angles has a triangular pyramid?
4 What are the properties of a pyramid?
5 Why pyramid is triangle?
6 How does a triangular based pyramid look like?
7 Are there any right triangles in a pyramid?
8 What are the three main parts of a pyramid?
9 What are ten facts about triangular pyramid?
10 How many bases does a triangular based pyramid have?
Properties of Triangular Pyramid It has 4 faces. The 3 side faces are triangles. The base is also a triangle. It has 6 edges & also a tetrahedron.
What is a triangular based pyramid?
A triangle-based pyramid has four triangular sides. The base of a triangle pyramid can be any type of triangle, but is usually an equilateral triangle. This means that all sides and faces are the same. When rotated or placed in any position, it will look the same.
What is a triangular pyramid made up of?
Triangular pyramids are made up entirely of triangles. They have 6 edges, 3 are along the base and 3 are extending up from the base. When six edges are of the same length, all the triangles are equilateral, and the pyramid would be called the regular tetrahedron.
How many angles has a triangular pyramid?
In a trirectangular tetrahedron the three face angles at one vertex are right angles. If all three pairs of opposite edges of a tetrahedron are perpendicular, then it is called an orthocentric tetrahedron.
What are the properties of a pyramid?
Properties of a Pyramid
A pyramid is made of three main parts – apex, face, and base.
The polygon base is most often in the shape of a square.
The faces of the pyramid except the base are called lateral faces.
If the base is a regular polygon, the triangles are congruent, and isosceles.
What are the properties of a rectangular pyramid?
Let us discuss these three properties of the rectangular pyramid.
Faces: A rectangular pyramid has a total of five faces.
Vertex: There is a total of five vertices of a rectangular pyramid.
Edges: A rectangular pyramid has eight edges.
Surface area of a rectangular pyramid:
Volume of a rectangular pyramid:
Why pyramid is triangle?
The base of a pyramid can be a triangle, a square, a rectangle or other shapes with even more sides. Each side of a pyramid (each base edge and the apex) forms a triangle. The shape of a pyramid allows weight to be distributed evenly throughout the structure.
How does a triangular based pyramid look like?
A triangular-based pyramid is also known as a tetrahedron. It has four faces that are all triangles. All sides are equilateral triangles. A triangular-based pyramid has 4 faces, 4 vertices including the apex and 6 edges.
What is the difference between a triangle and a pyramid?
is that triangle is (geometry) a polygon with three sides and three angles while pyramid is an ancient massive construction with a square or rectangular base and four triangular sides meeting in an apex, such as those built as tombs in egypt or as bases for temples in mesoamerica.
Are there any right triangles in a pyramid?
When these faces are equilateral triangles, it is a square pyramid, having a square as its base. The pyramids most commonly encountered are "regular" pyramids. These have a regular polygon for a base and isosceles triangles for lateral faces. Here the triangles VCD, VDE, VCE, and CDE are all right triangles.
What are the three main parts of a pyramid?
A pyramid is made of three main parts – apex, face, and base. The polygon base is most often in the shape of a square. The faces of the pyramid except the base are called lateral faces. If the base is a regular polygon, the triangles are congruent, and isosceles.
What are the properties of a triangular based pyramid?
The Properties of a Triangular-Based Pyramid. A triangular pyramid features a triangle as its base, with three additional triangles extending from the edges of the base triangle. This differs from the square pyramid, which features a square as its base, with four triangles making up its sides.
What are ten facts about triangular pyramid?
Triangular Pyramid Facts . Notice these interesting things: It has 4 Faces ; The 3 Side Faces are Triangles; The Base is also a Triangle ; It has 4 Vertices (corner points) It has 6 Edges; It is also a Tetrahedron
How many bases does a triangular based pyramid have?
A triangular pyramid has 1 base and 3 three faces: total 4 triangles. Each edge is common to two triangles.
What are the examples of triangular pyramid?
The lateral surface of a triangular pyramid is calculated by multiplying 1/3 with the perimeter of the base triangle and the slant height a triangular pyramid. What is an example of a triangular pyramid? Camping tents, triangular roofs, and Toblerone warps -chocolate are some common examples of a triangular pyramid.
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Carlehr Swanson spreads unity in music
January 4, 2018 / by Natalie Kuadey
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Carlehr Swanson, jazz studies major, developed a program called Music is Unity that she shares in nursing homes and schools. Photo by Evan Cantwell.
Carlehr Swanson has been singing all her life.
The George Mason University jazz studies major with a concentration in voice was crowned Miss State Fair of Virginia in October.
Just as important as the title, though, is the opportunity Swanson said it provides for her to promote "Music is Unity," an initiative she created that is dedicated to bringing music to others.
"Music has always been something really close to my heart, and I found that during hard times in my life, music had been that positive outlet for me," said the junior, whose first name is pronounced Car-lee-ah. "By establishing this platform, I'm able to share music with others who don't typically get to experience it."
Swanson, who also is a classically trained pianist, reaches out to local public schools and nursing homes in her hometown of Richmond, Va., to shine light on the benefits of music as an outlet for stress release and healing. She also performs.
"My first nursing home visit started when my grandmother fractured her back and was placed in a rehabilitation/nursing home," Swanson said. "I visited my grandmother every day, and soon realized some of the other patients didn't have people visiting them. By having us there for an hour during their day, it really brightened their moods. Music truly has the ability to do that for people."
That, she said, is the basis for Music is Unity, which Swanson hopes to develop in schools in Virginia and across the country through music, theater and arts programs.
Swanson believes that musicians have an obligation to share their talent with others, with the hope it will leave a lasting impression.
"A professor once told me that someone is going to come into our concert hall with a heart that needs mending, a mind that needs settling, and music will be able to fix that," she said. "I know personally music for me has been that outlet."
Said Darden Purcell, director of jazz studies in the School of Music: "Carlehr has such radiant energy, and I love that she is spreading her positivity musically. Music is a truly powerful expression, and I could not be more proud of her accomplishments giving back to the community."


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Wikipedia Follies
The "Erdős–Bacon Number" or the Winchester Atrocity? Maintaining Standards at Wikipedia
By Nicholas Stix
On October 15, the tortured corpses of newlyweds, Marine Sgt. Jan Pawel Pietrzak, 24, and Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak, 26, were found in their Winchester, CA home. Mrs. Pietrzak had been gang-raped, and husband and wife had each been bound, gagged, and shot, execution-style, in the back of the head.
Four "Marines" are in custody: Pvt. Emrys John, 18; Lance Cpl. Tyrone "Cripgeneral" Miller, 20; Pvt. Kevin Darnell Cox, 20; and Pvt. Kesaun "Psycho" Sykes, 21. According to the Riverside County Sheriff's Office, all four confessed to the torture-murders, though there was some dispute as to who the rapists were. Each said he was innocent of the rape—though Sykes confessed to cutting Mrs. Pietrzak's clothes off of her—but that his three accomplices had raped Mrs. Pietrzak. One thing that Miller, Cox, and Sykes all agreed on, however, was that John was the shooter. (In court, all four suspects have since pleaded "not guilty" to the crimes, which are death-penalty eligible.)
Sgt. Pietrzak was a helicopter mechanic at Miramar Air Station, in San Diego; John and Miller were his subordinates. Pietrzak was white; his wife was black, as are the defendants.
The official story is that the crime was committed for "financial gain," but there was no financial gain. The killers took the husband's digital camera and the wife's engagement ring, but made no effort to sell them.
This was a racial killing. I believe that the motive was humiliation and murder, based on the killers' racism—and thus their rage that a white man had taken a black woman for his wife—and the items the killers stole souvenirs, with which to recall and savor their crimes. As a black former Marine, Sabrina, who had married a white fellow Marine while in the service and whom black racists put through hell for it argued,
Everything about this case points to a racially motivated hate crime which is fueled by sexual jealousy! It is as much of a hate crime as what happened in 1955 to Emmett Till and in 1998 to Matthew Shepherd….
Wikipedia's Presentation of the Case
Wikipedia claims to provide "the sum of all human knowledge," yet as of 2:28 a.m., November 28, the only mention of this crime in all of Wikipedia's "2,638,091 articles in English," is the following, 22-word mention in the entry for "Winchester, California."
Winchester, California
Winchester is a census-designated place (CDP) in Riverside County, California, USA. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 2,155.
Largely rural for most of its history, Winchester experienced rapid growth during the housing construction boom in the early to mid 2000s. However, construction and growth slowed when the housing bubble burst in 2007, resulting in a housing market correction. In October of 2008, the town was rocked by the brutal murders of Marine Corps Sgt. Jan Pawel Pietrzak and his wife, Quiana.
Then again, as I showed in my Wikipedia exposé in the July issue of American Renaissance, where race is concerned, such non-scholarship is par for the course at The Pretend Encyclopedia (TPE).
The Real Stuff of Encyclopedias: The "Erdős–Bacon Number"
The Wikipedia habitués whom I call, among other sobriquets, Wikithugs, make sure that none of Wikipedia's entries on black-on-white atrocities honestly depict the crimes.
TPE also purports to be an inexhaustible font of "knowledge" about things like the "Erdős–Bacon number," to which a 3,376-word entry has been devoted, replete with 69 footnotes.
What is an "Erdős–Bacon number," you ask? Nothing at all, really. The notion is a third-hand trivia game, derived from the trivia game, "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon," which was itself derived—no doubt by a fan of character actor Kevin Bacon—from the notion embodied in the title of John Guare's 1990 play, Six Degrees of Separation. Another person—doubtless a camp follower of Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős—then created an imitation Bacon trivia game, and combined the two.
Guare's idea is that six degrees of acquaintance separates every human being from every other human being. Thus, limiting the notion's application to Bacon's acting career is contrary to Guare's idea. Of course, few of the multitudes who use the phrase, "six degrees of Kevin Bacon," in order to sound hip and knowledgeable have ever heard of, let alone read or seen the stage or film version of Six Degrees of Separation. (This writer has seen both versions.)
During the early 1980s, black con man David Hampton notoriously made fools of a series of white, leftwing, Manhattan socialites, claiming to be the son of Sidney Poitier (who, unbeknownst to them, had no sons!), in order to momentarily drop into their lives and homes, and by the way, pocket some symbolic small change from them. Guare, who was friends with some of the victims, fictionalized the real-life exploits of Hampton, who died in 2003, in order to meditate on the trivial, empty lives of rich Manhattanites—the lefty part somehow never made it into the play—and their desperate need for connection to "the other."
(During the same period, I encountered alcoholic hustlers pulling similar cons in Vienna and Paris.)
For all the blather and footnotes, no one reading the Wikipedia/TPE entry for "Erdős–Bacon number" will even learn of this third-hand trivia game's origins.
A person's Erdős–Bacon number is the sum of one's Erdős number—which measures the "collaborative distance" in authoring mathematical papers between that individual and Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős—and one's Bacon number—which represents the number of links, through roles in films, by which the individual is separated from American actor Kevin Bacon. The lower the number, the closer an individual is to Erdős and Bacon.
But Wikipedians and their third-hand trivia-loving counterparts in the "real" world refuse even to follow the rules of their own game. Thus, the first name on TPE's Erdős–Bacon number "table" is that of Hank Aaron. But Hank Aaron never authored any mathematical papers. Why is he listed on the table? A Wikipedian gave a "reason," but since it is completely at odds with the rules of the game, it can't be the real reason.
What is the point of inventing a game, any game, if the players immediately throw its rules out the window? And aside from the fundamental issue of having "encyclopedia articles" about third-hand trivia games, what is the point of having encyclopedic-looking entries about such games, if those writing them violate their rules, even in their descriptions of the games, and fail to provide their historical background, which is their only aspect which is of intellectual or encyclopedic interest? (In case you were wondering, the "Erdős–Bacon number" entry is not a Wikipedia self-parody. The people dominating TPE suffer from extreme irony deficiency.)
Thus, Wikipedia is worthless, even as a compendium of trivia! That's why I call it variously The Pretend Encyclopedia and Antipedia.
Let's Stop Pretending
To learn more about the racist crime that I have dubbed The Winchester Atrocity, start with my two VDARE articles, and then hit the embedded hyperlinks in them to get to other material:
"The Knoxville Horror with a Twist—Four Black Marines Murder Interracial Couple in Winchester, CA; MSM Censors Details, of Course"
"The Winchester Atrocity: Down the MSM Memory Hole While Cops Claim It's Not a 'Racial Crime'"
(This article used "nofollow" tags in its links to Wikipedia. In getting everyone to link to it, in order to maintain its page rank, TPE is the universe's biggest spammer, yet it refuses to return the courtesy. It uses "nofollow" tags for all outgoing links, so that hitting them does not help the page rank of any site to which it links, except for those in which Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales has a commercial interest. Thus, I am returning the favor. To find out how you can return the favor to WP/TPE/Wales, read this informative article: "Preventing comment spam.")
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Q: VBA macro removing rows with 3 conditions I'm trying to write a macro that removes rows with the condition that the string in the cells in column A contains "--" or "-4" or "" (empty). I'd do it with a normal filter, but that gives me max 2 conditions.
Sub Delete_Rows()
Dim cell As Range
For Each cell In Range("A:A")
If cell.Value = "*--*" Or cell.Value = "*-4*" Then
cell.EntireRow.Delete
End If
Next cell
End Sub

What am I doing wrong?

A: Please, test the next version. It uses an array for iteration and a Union range to delete rows at once, at the end of the code:
Sub Delete_Rows3Cond()
Dim sh As Worksheet, lastR As Long, rngDel As Range, arr, i As Long

Set sh = ActiveSheet
lastR = sh.Range("A" & sh.rows.count).End(xlUp).row

arr = sh.Range("A1:A" & lastR).Value2 'place the range in an array for faster iteration/processing only in memory
For i = 1 To UBound(arr)
    If arr(i, 1) = "" Or arr(i, 1) Like "*--*" Or arr(i, 1) Like "*-4*" Then
        addToRange rngDel, sh.Range("A" & i) 'create the union range
    End If
Next
If Not rngDel Is Nothing Then rngDel.EntireRow.Delete xlUp
End Sub

Private Sub addToRange(rngU As Range, Rng As Range) 'I creates the Union range
    If rngU Is Nothing Then
        Set rngU = Rng
    Else
        Set rngU = Union(rngU, Rng)
    End If
End Sub

Deleting a row at a time, takes a lot of time and you need to process only the range containing data...
Please, send some feedback after testing it.

A: = checks for identical strings, so unless you have a cell containing "*--*" or "*-4*", the If-clause will never be true. You will have to use the like-operator:
If cell.Value like "*--*" Or cell.Value like "*-4*" Then

Two remarks:
Your code will loop through the whole Excel sheet (which contains 1'048'576 rows) so that will run a very long time. And, even worse, if you add the check for empty cells to delete a row, it will delete one million rows and it would look as if Excel/VBA is frozen. Therefore you need to figure out the last row before you run the code. More on this at Find last used cell in Excel VBA
And you need to be aware the that code will run on the active sheet - the sheet that currently has the focus. You should always specify the sheet (and workbook) where you want to code to work with. Don't go down the path to Select the sheet to make if active. For more details, see How to avoid using Select in Excel VBA
Sub Delete_Rows()
    Dim cell As Range, lastRow As Long
    ' Replace the following line with the workbook you want to work with
    With ThisWorkbook.Sheets(1)
        lastRow = .Cells(.Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).row
        For Each cell In .Range("A1:A" & lastRow)
            If cell.Value Like "*--*" Or cell.Value Like "*-4*" Then
                cell.EntireRow.Delete
            End If
        Next cell
    End With
End Sub

A: You can use the Like operator instead of "=" to perform the comparison. Consider the following the code:
Sub Delete_Rows()

Dim cell As Range

For Each cell In Range("A:A")

    If cell.Value Like "*--*" Or cell.Value Like "*-4*" Then
        cell.EntireRow.Delete
    End If

    Next cell

End Sub

You can also read more about the like operator here for example: https://www.wallstreetmojo.com/vba-like/
I hope this helps :D

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Grønkjær and Melchiot look ahead to the clash between Ajax and Chelsea
Jochem 23 October 2019 23 October 2019
Today is the clash between Ajax and Chelsea. When the Champions League draw was finished, this was the match that everyone looks out for the most. Ajax as last year's semi-finalist in the Champions League and Chelsea as the winner of the Europa League.
A lot has changed since last season. Ajax lost the golden boys Frenkie de Jong to Barcelona and Mathijs de Ligt to Juventus and Chelsea said goodbye to their playmaker Eden Hazard. It will be a great test for both teams and a win means a big step towards the knock-out stage.
Former Ajax and Chelsea players Jesper Grønkjær and Mario Melchiot were interviewed by Ajax Life ahead of the game between the Dutch side and Chelsea. The Danish winger will be present at both matches but is in doubt who he will be supporting. "I don't have a favorite in this match. I will be supporting the team that plays the most attractive football", said Grønkjær, who played with current Chelsea-manager Frank Lampard.
"When I played at Chelsea, Lampard was a young talent. Although he wasn't the best talent in the team, his work rate and willing to win was outstanding. Now he's a manager he asks the same spirit from the players in his team. He wants to play attacking and dominant football."
When Ajax Life asks the Dane about the chances of Ajax, he begins about last year. "Last season, Ajax was relatively unknown in the Champions League and the big surprise. That will be different this season and that could be a disadvantage for them. Nonetheless, I give Ajax a good chance to win the game. They are good at pressing their opponents to their own half and most of the time they create a lot of chances", thus Grønkjær. "It will be tough for Chelsea. I think they are going for a physical battle but will not park the bus. Chelsea has too many quality players for playing a system like that."
Tactical Melchiot
For Mario Melchiot it is a hard choice as well if he has to choose between Ajax and Chelsea. "When I played for Ajax, I felt the love from the fans. I thought by myself, it can't get better than this. Until I came to England", said the wingback in Ajax Life. "When I played at the Johan Cruyff Arena I could hear my teammates coaching. In England, that was unthinkable due to the noise coming from the stands."
Melchiot has a tactical analysis when it comes to the coming match. "The new Chelsea-manager Frank Lampard doesn't play typical English football. He wants to play differently. A system with high pressure and players who put a lot of energy in their game", said the former defender, who sees a flaw in the system. "If the spaces between the lines become too big, Ajax can play its way out of the pressure football. I think that both teams are equal, but in the attacking style of play, Ajax is one step further than the London side."
There is one player that can be a key player for Ajax against Chelsea thinks Melchiot. "If Dusan Tadic drops himself and plays between the defense and midfield, Ajax can really hurt Chelsea. Where is the weakness of Chelsea? Exactly, in the center. So that would be the place where Ajax should strike."
Melchiot doesn't want to choose sides when it comes to supporting one of the teams "I have a lot of good memories at both clubs. So why should I choose between these two wonderful clubs", ended the right wingback.
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I made a pecan pie. I baked a pecan pie for tomorrow's Thanksgiving Feast at my friend's house. I had every intention of making something from scratch, but then things happened.
I had to take care of so many items on a long task list before I move that there is simply no time. Also, I've cleared out the kitchen, so there are no ingredients to make a dessert with, or much of anything else, for that matter. By this time in the season I would have roasted a turkey or a turkey breast a least once, but it wasn't in the cards so I'm looking forward to tomorrow's deliciousness even more! Control is the keyword of the day.
What's a person to do when you're responsible for dessert on one of the best food holidays of the year … Hit up your local supermarket and Williams-Sonoma!
I purchased a frozen pie crust and the the Pecan Pie Filling from Williams-Sonoma which is pretty darn delicious. It tastes to me as though they use Golden Syrup — it's got that buttery smooth texture and taste.
I'm not gonna lie, I loved having to do nothing more than pull out a crust from the freezer, pre-bake it for a little while, beat a few eggs, melt a little butter, pour in the filling and bake a while.
The thought of doing anything else was overwhelming and in my state of sleep deprivation and a multitude of vaccinations and errands today, this was the best possible answer.
And now for the bad news. One slice of this pie will cost you FOURTEEN valuable Weight Watchers Plus Points. Eeek! That's 1/2 a day of eating on a 29 point plan. Worth it? Probably not. I'd rather eat my points in Turkey, Gravy, Stuffing, Sweet Potatoes, Cranberries and a Vegetable, thank you very much.
And that's it from Virginia. Next time you "hear" from me I'll be in my new home — Honduras. I wonder if they do pecan pie down there?


Posted by cservaes on July 19, 2013 in "Academic Programs", Alumni, Community, "Current Students", Events, "The College"
Ottawa University's new Gangwish Library and Gibson Student Center was given the green light for construction following $10 million in donations/pledges and receipt of $750,000 in challenge funds from the Mabee Foundation. Groundbreaking on the new facility took place on May 10, at 11:00 a.m. in front of the Mowbray Union on The College campus, followed by a luncheon to honor the building's namesakes. Leland Gangwish spoke on behalf of the Carl and Carrie Gangwish family, for whom the Gangwish Library will be named. "Our parents were great advocates of education," he said. "Their desire was to give their children an education. I'm sure they would be happy that we were able to do what we did for this project." Marguerite and the late Raymond Gibson are the namesakes of the Gibson Student Center. "If Raymond was here today, he would be very proud, as I am, for being able to help in a small way in the addition of these buildings to this campus," said Marguerite. "And now – on with the vision!" In addition to the Gangwishes and Gibsons, major donors to the new facility include Blackboard Inc.; the Sherman Family Foundation; Sunderland Foundation; Sodexo, Inc. and Affiliates; UMB Bank, NA; and numerous others. Nearly $2 million has been contributed from Ottawa University's trustees. "Our alumni and friends demonstrated a resounding affirmation of this project by committing the required $10 million several months ahead of the Mabee Challenge Grant deadline," said Vice President for Advancement Paul Bean. "Their generosity now allows us to begin construction ahead of schedule and provide our students with the enhanced educational experience of this state-of-the-art facility even earlier than expected. We are so grateful to the members of the Mabee Foundation and our loyal donors who have made this incredible project possible." For a full listing of donors, please visit www.advancingthevision.com. Notable features of the new facility will be Hetrick Hall, the dining hall and industrial kitchen; the Schendel multi-purpose and conference area that seats up to 500 on the second floor; the Blackboard Center for Academic Innovation and Technology; the Scherich Atrium in the Grand Hall entry area; Myers circulation desk; Mabee second floor reception area; Goppert, Hasty and Zook technology-enabled conference rooms; multiple classrooms; the Pelton Grill; a rear-access concession area; and an expanded bookstore. Outdoor elements will showcase an expansive dining area, including the Mowbray Plaza/Patio, and a distinctive fire and water fountain feature designed to honor OU's connection with the Ottawa Tribe. "As we close in on Ottawa University's 150th anniversary, this signature facility demonstrates in a special way our commitment to providing a first-class education for our students," says President Kevin C. Eichner. "As the largest single building project ever undertaken by the University, the Gangwish Library and Gibson Student Center is a significant mile marker in our advance to Vision 2020. Not only will this multi-functional facility serve the institution's purposes, but also those of the larger Ottawa community as we continue to meld learning and culture, social activities and service." As part of the building project, alumni and friends of the University have the opportunity to purchase commemorative bricks that will comprise the exterior walkway surrounding the building. For more information on this and other giving/naming opportunities, as well as a photo gallery of building progress, visit www.ottawa.edu/advancingthevision. The contractor for the buildings is Ottawa-based Loyd Builders; consultants include Devore & Associates Architects, SFS Architecture, Bartlett and West Professional Engineering Consultants, Latimer Sommers & Associates, and GLMV Architecture.