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\section{INTRODUCTION}
While the standard model (SM) describes the observed physics processes well at low and moderate energies,
there is a possibility of existence of new physics beyond the SM, which manifests mostly at high energies.
Studies of diboson production can lead to a potential discovery of $Z\gamma$ resonances predicted in a number of SM
extensions: vector $Z^{\prime}$, scalar Higgs bosons, pseudo-scalar toponium, and techniparticles
~\cite{Buescher:2005re,Djouadi,Kozlov:2005rj,Ono:1983tf,Cakir:2004nh,Hill}. The D0 collaboration has already performed a search for such resonances in the following channels: $p\bar{p} \rightarrow X \rightarrow Z\gamma \rightarrow ee (\mu\mu) \gamma$ using 300 pb$^{-1}$ of data~\cite{us,Abazov:2006ez}. This current analysis~\cite{plb_subm} draws on the previous one, but only in the narrow resonance approximation: the total width of a resonance must be smaller than the detector resolution. The previous analysis is expanded by adding a vector resonance hypothesis. The scalar resonance is modeled with {\sc pythia}~\cite{pythia} using the SM Higgs boson production model, and {\sc madevent} \cite{madevent} is used to model a colorless, neutral, vector resonance. Diagrams for both processes are shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:feyn}. The D0 detector description can be found elsewhere~\cite{run2det}.
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[scale=0.21]{fig01.eps}
\includegraphics[scale=0.21]{fig02.eps}
\includegraphics[scale=0.21]{fig03.eps}
\includegraphics[scale=0.21]{fig04.eps}
\caption{Leading-order processes which produce $Z\gamma$ candidates:
(a) SM initial state radiation, (b) SM final state radiation, (c)
$q \bar q$ pair annihilation into a vector ($V$) particle which couples to the $Z \gamma$ and (d) SM Higgs production and decay.
\label{fig:feyn}}
\end{figure}

\section{EVENT SELECTION}
The $Z\gamma$ final state is obtained by selecting events with a pair of energetic isolated leptons of the same
family (electrons with transverse energy $E_T >$~15~GeV or muons with transverse momentum $p_T >$~15~GeV/$c$) and a photon candidate, separated from both leptons by $\Delta R = \sqrt{(\Delta \phi)^{2} + (\Delta \eta)^{2}} >$~0.7. Both electron and photon candidates are reconstructed from isolated~\cite{EM_isolation}
electromagnetic (EM) showers in the calorimeter with at least 90\% of their energy deposited in the EM part of the calorimeter. In each event, photon candidate and at least one electron candidate are required to be identified in the central calorimeter. In addition, EM showers from electrons must be spatially matched to tracks found in the tracking system. By imposing an additional requirement on the sum of $p_T$ of all tracks, reconstructed in the annulus with opening angles of $R = $ 0.05 and 0.4 around the photon's trajectory, not to exceed 1.5 GeV/$c$, we substantially reduce the EM-like jets~\cite{emjets} background. In the muon channel, we select only those events in which muon candidates are reconstructed not back-to-back with an opening angle $\Delta\alpha_{\mu\mu} = |\Delta\phi_{\mu\mu} + \Delta\theta_{\mu\mu} - 2\pi| < 0.05$, and are produced in the same vertex. To further reduce backgrounds, we require muons to be isolated from activity in both calorimeter and tracking detectors. We also require the di-electron (dimuon) pair to be separated by $\Delta R_{ee} > 0.6$ ($\Delta R_{\mu \mu} > $ 0.5). To reduce systematic uncertainty due to the trigger efficiency, we require the $E_T$ of the leading electron candidate to exceed~25~GeV and the $p_T$ of the leading muon candidate to exceed 20 GeV/$c$ where the D0 triggers are fully efficient. The sensitivity to new physics resonances strongly depends on the detector resolution. Typical $M_{\ell\ell\gamma}$ resolution is on the order of 5\% in the electron channel, while in the muon channel this number varies from ~8\% to ~18\%, depending on the resonance mass. To improve the resolution of $M_{\mu\mu\gamma}$, we correct the transverse momenta of muon candidates that appear to be produced from the on-shell $Z$ boson by using the $Z$ boson nominal mass constraint. To further increase the analysis sensitivity, we vary cuts on photon transverse momentum and dilepton invariant mass to have the maximal $S/\sqrt{S+B}$ ratio. The resulting cuts are photon $E_T > $~20 GeV and dilepton mass $M_{\ell\ell}~>~$80~GeV/$c^2$.

\section{RESULTS}
Due to the fact that the total efficiency depends not only on the spin of the resonance (vector or scalar)
but also on the lepton family (electron or muon), we study the following four cases separately: vector resonance
in the electron or muon channel, and scalar resonance in the electron or muon channel. Afterwards, we combine
electron and muon channel results for each type of resonance.
The total efficiency of the set of cuts described in the previous section multiplied by the
geometrical and kinematic acceptance varies between 7\% and 20\% for both types of resonances.
These numbers include $\sim$60--68\% (79\%) electron (muon) identification efficiency per pair, 92--95\%
photon reconstruction efficiency, and 99\% (68\%) electron (muon) trigger efficiency.

There are only two significant sources of background to the $Z\gamma$ final state: the SM $Z\gamma$
production and the $Z$+jet production, where an EM-like jet passes all photon selection
criteria. The jet misreconstruction rate is an $E_T$-dependent function, and is defined
as a ratio of EM-like jets that pass photon selection criteria to all EM objects that are reconstructed
in the geometrical acceptance of the central calorimeter. The direct photon contribution, however, has to be
subtracted from this rate. Furthermore, two data samples are used to estimate the $Z$+jet background: a sample that
consists of real photons and EM-like jets, and a second one in which photon candidates fail the track isolation and
photon shower shape requirements~\cite{us}. We estimate the $Z$+jet background to be $4.5 \pm 0.7({\rm stat.}) \pm 0.6({\rm syst.})$ events in the electron channel and $4.4 \pm 0.7({\rm stat.}) \pm 0.6({\rm syst.})$ events in the muon channel. The leading-order (LO) Baur event generator~\cite{baur} is used to estimate the number of SM $Z\gamma$
background events. The trilinear $Z\gamma\gamma$ and $ZZ\gamma$ couplings are set to their SM values (zero), and,
in addition, the LO photon $E_T$~spectrum is corrected for the next-to-leading-order (NLO) effects using the
$E_T$-dependent $K$-factor from the NLO Baur event generator~\cite{baur_NLO}. The SM $Z\gamma$ background is
estimated to be $37.4 \pm 6.1({\rm stat.}) \pm 2.6({\rm syst.})$ events in the electron channel and $41.6 \pm 6.5({\rm stat.}) \pm 2.2({\rm syst.})$ events in the muon channel. Applying all the selection criteria in data yields
49 $ee\gamma$ and 50 $\mu\mu\gamma$ candidate events.

The combined $M_{\ell\ell\gamma}$ distribution from both channels is compared with the backgrounds and examined
for any discrepancies (Fig.~\ref{fig:mllg_vector}). The $M_{\ell\ell\gamma}$ distributions from various MC
signals of a vector resonance are also shown in Figure~\ref{fig:mllg_vector}. A thorough examination revealed no excess of the observed data over the theoretical expectations,
thus allowing us to set limits on the production of resonances decaying into $Z\gamma$. To set limits we explore the modified frequentist method~\cite{fisher} with Poisson log-likelihood ratio test statistic (LLR)~\cite{junk} with Gaussian uncertainties as the quantitative measure of the difference between the background-only
hypothesis and the signal-plus-background one that predicts a $Z\gamma$ resonance.
We derive 95\% C.L. upper limits on the cross section times branching fraction, that range from 0.19 (0.20) pb to 2.5 (3.1) pb for a scalar (vector) resonance. The resulting exclusion curves for $\sigma \times {\cal B}$ are shown in Figure~\ref{fig:scalar_limit} for the vector and scalar models. The branching fractions for the $Z$ boson to $ee$ or $\mu \mu$ are accounted for in these results.

\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[scale=0.4]{fig05.eps}
\includegraphics[scale=0.4]{fig06.eps}
\caption{
Left: invariant dilepton-plus-photon mass spectrum for $\ell\ell\gamma$ data (dots),
SM $Z\gamma$ background (solid line histogram) and $Z$+jet background (dashed line histogram). The shaded band illustrates the systematic and statistical uncertainty on the sum of backgrounds. Right: MC signal $M_{\ell\ell\gamma}$ distributions of a vector particle for resonance masses of 120, 180 and 260~GeV/$c^2$.
\label{fig:mllg_vector}}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[scale=0.42]{fig07.eps}
\includegraphics[scale=0.42]{fig08.eps}
\caption{The observed and expected $\sigma \times {\cal B}$ 95\% C.L. limits for a scalar (left) and vector (right)
particles decaying into Z$\gamma$ as a function of the resonance mass. The bands represent the 1 s.d. (dark) and 2 s.d. (light) uncertainties on the expected limit.
\label{fig:scalar_limit}}
\end{figure}

\begin{acknowledgments}
Special thanks to my D0 Colleagues Y.~Maravin, V.~Cuplov, A.~Alton, R.~Averin for their help in preparing this poster. The author is grateful to the Editorial Board 016 chaired by G.~Landsberg, Electroweak working group chaired by T.~Bolton, H.~Schellman and J.~Zhu, and Diboson group chaired by A.~Lyon and A.~Askew for their help in reviewing the analysis. I would also like to thank S.~Mrenna and W.~Fisher for their help with the generator and limit setting tools.
\end{acknowledgments}

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Bellagio in Las Vegas, NV
3600 Las Vegas Blvd S • Las Vegas, NV 89109
Based upon 19885 traveler reviews
The renowned Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas offers a prime location, extraordinary amenities, and state-of-the-art guest accommodations. Treat yourself to a poolside retreat complete with cabanas, a spa, poolside massage treatments, and more. Guest rooms feature flat-screen TVs, modern decor, premium bedding, in-room safes, as well as high-tech in-room technology.
from Ashley, one of our Las Vegas Travel Experts
A nightly resort fee is required by the hotel.
The minimum age to check-in is 21.
Self-parking ($15 per day) and valet parking ($25 per day) available for guests.
Pet-friendly accommodations available for your furry friends (dogs only).
Internet Access in Public Areas (free)
Porter/Bellman
Breakfast (surcharge)
from Bellagio
With a stay at Bellagio in Las Vegas (Las Vegas Strip), you'll be minutes from Miracle Mile Shops and close to University of Nevada-Las Vegas. This 5-star resort is within close proximity of The Linq and High Roller.
Make yourself at home in one of the air-conditioned rooms featuring iPod docking stations and flat-screen televisions. Your room comes with a pillowtop bed. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected. Private bathrooms with separate bathtubs and showers feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers.
Relax at the full-service spa, where you can enjoy massages, body treatments, and facials. Before a night out at the casino, the 5 outdoor swimming pools are a perfect way to relax and recharge. Additional features at this resort include complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and gift shops/newsstands.
Enjoy a meal at one of the resort's dining establishments, which include 13 restaurants and a coffee shop/café. From your room, you can also access 24-hour room service. Relax with a refreshing drink from a poolside bar or one of the 5 bars/lounges.
Featured amenities include a business center, limo/town car service, and express check-in. Event facilities at this resort consist of a conference center and meeting rooms. Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.
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Minimum check-in age: 21 years
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The hotel was beautiful. The rooms were very spacious and elegant.The only issue I had was that the security deposit for 3 nights was $450 dollars. That seemed very high to me. That may be a Vegas thing, but I wasn't able to use that money on other things while I was in Vehas.
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Bellagio is located at 3600 Las Vegas Blvd S • Las Vegas, NV 89109
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Q: Swift String hasSuffix Error String.hasSuffix does not seem to be working in Swift 2.2-dev on Linux, in a script. It works in the REPL. What am I missing?

cat hasSuffix.swift

import Foundation
let vegetable = "red pepper"
print(vegetable.hasSuffix("pepper"))

swift hasSuffix.swift

LLVM ERROR: Program used external function '_TFE10FoundationSS9hasSuffixfSSSb' which could not be resolved!

swift -version

Swift version 2.2-dev (LLVM 46be9ff861, Clang 4deb154edc, Swift 778f82939c)
Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

A: Alternative
The swift command is indeed confused for some reason by your script, but the same script works once compiled with swiftc:

$ swiftc hasSuffix.swift
$ ./hasSuffix

Debugging
swiftc is actually just a link to the swift executable.
But the swift app is able to tell if it's been launched with swift or swiftc and behaves differently.
We know that with swiftc it launches the compiler and with swift it either launches the REPL or compiles a script "on the fly".
Using -driver-print-jobs as an option for swift and swiftc we can see the differences between the "compiler" mode and the "on the fly" mode:

$ swift -driver-print-jobs hasSuffix.swift

It prints the actual command that was launched:

.../swift/usr/bin/swift -frontend -interpret hasSuffix.swift -target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -disable-objc-interop -color-diagnostics -module-name hasSuffix

Now with swiftc:

$ swiftc -driver-print-jobs hasSuffix.swift

Result:

.../swift/usr/bin/swift-autolink-extract /tmp/hasSuffix-d2b2b2.o -o /tmp/hasSuffix-f2d0a9.autolink
/usr/bin/clang++ /tmp/hasSuffix-d2b2b2.o -L .../swift/usr/lib/swift/linux -Xlinker -rpath -Xlinker .../swift/usr/lib/swift/linux -lswiftCore @/tmp/hasSuffix-f2d0a9.autolink -Xlinker -T .../swift/usr/lib/swift/linux/x86_64/swift.ld -o hasSuffix

So we can guess that these different compilation options are the reason why your simple script does not work with swift: somehow something is missing compared to when launched with other options.
As Apple say themselves in their blog, Open Source Swift is still very much a work in progress - a lot of components have yet to be implemented and a lot of bugs need to be fixed.

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Sadly not a lot of individuals know how to run quick nor do they know how to perfect their sprinting mechanics. But everybody's on the same boat because they all want to perfect their sprinting mechanics to run faster. But in the past a lot of individuals felt that you can't teach a slow sprinter how to run faster. Fortunately scientific study have shown that slow sprinter's can indeed be faster sprinters and by teaching them correct sprinting mechanics. And just by improving things such as learning more about sprint training to improve your sprinting technique while you still can. Even though you're not quick to begin with by learning proper sprinting mechanics you can actually run quick times without any issues.
Learning good sprinting technique is very significant especially if you don't want to end up being injured all the time on the track. Simply because of the fact that you can kiss your career goodbye once you have one serious injury.


Panelists share their personal insight into the meaning of black history during a January 31 event held at Lander University. The program kicked off a month long series of programs designed to provide students and the community with opportunities to discover more about African American history and culture. Moderated by Lander student, Robert Kelly, president of the student organization Minorities on the Move, the panel of community leaders offered a glimpse into their life stories, urging the younger generation to listen to their grandparents' stories of the struggles they lived through. "Black history is American history," Senator Floyd Nicholson observed. Seated from left to right are guest panelists Reverend Dr. Danny Webb, of Old Mount Zion Baptist Church in Ninety Six; Ms. Suzy Holloway, of Suzy's Puppet Place; Ms. Teresa Goodwin, executive director of Community Initiatives; and State Senator Floyd Nicholson, D-Greenwood. For informationon other Black History Month events, go online to www.lander.edu.


Solomon Bruce Consulting Blog: Buy :Local-- Keep the money here in town!
Buy :Local-- Keep the money here in town!
Now that the holiday season has arrived, everyone is in the market for gifts! Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone! Buy Local Saturday has also come and gone-- with, unfortunately, not much press by American Express, the firm who created Buy Local Saturday.
When you buy local, you help a fellow business owner with his/her own business. You normally get much better service, greater reliability and a much more knowledgeable staffer who knows how to help make the item work, fit your application, or improve what ever it is that you have just purchased.
National studies consistently show that approximately 67 cents of every retail dollar spent a a local business stays in the community. This is contrasted with only 40 cents of every retail dollar spent at a national chain.
Local vendors are normally much more caring and giving back to the local community. After all, it is you and I that live, work, support and recreate in the local community!
We recently upgraded all of our information technology equipment firm wide. There was never any thought of going anyplace other than local vendors. In fact, we received quotations from a couple of vendors. We ended up using a local vendor who we had a previous relationship with and knew the quality of service which was provided. Yes, the service was exactly as advertised and the price, the same as most other places out of town and out of state!
I have written previously about not giving your local business owners an opportunity to fulfill your needs. Yes, in some instances, the cost may purportedly appear higher. However, if indeed you have any problem with service and have to call India or the Phillipines, be placed on indefinite hold and then have to send the product to Timbuktoo for service, whatever money initially saved has been spent on time wasted, excessive downtime and increased frustration!
Give the local business a good hard chance at your business this holiday season! As a business owner, go after the local business. This may mean adjusting your hours of operation, being open later during the shopping time of the holidays, even open on Sunday when you normally are not open on Sunday. Now is retail harvest time. At harvest time, all hands need to be on deck and do whatever it takes to bring the crop in. In the business world, this is selling as much product as possible and adapting to the terms and conditions of the buyers. Don't get caught short now. This is the time to go "full steam ahead" for the next 29 days. Adapt to what your local buyer needs-- you may be amazed at how your business increases because of your changes.
We are hiring-- It is always a Crap Shoot!
All you want is a lube, oil, filter, right?
We don't open until 7:30-- you will have to wait!


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Edith Campion may refer to:
 Édith Cresson, née Campion, French politician
 Edith Campion (actress), New Zealand actor, writer, and a co-founder of the New Zealand Players theatre company

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Cody Arnall and American Trauma
by Natalie Hegert July 2, 2018
Installation shot of Who's Got a Price on Their Head?, 2017. Salvaged corrugated sheet metal, roof patch, dirty old carpet, cast aluminum wolf jaw created from a 3D scan and 3D print, projection mapped video of Operation Crossroads, Baker event from 1946*, wood, steel, urethane adhesive, pigment, foam, fabric, etc. Dimensions variable.
Sometimes a work of art, developed over years, can become premonitory in unexpected and unsettling ways. When sculptor Cody Arnall began work on the installation Who's Got a Price on Their Head? in August 2016, he could not have predicted the election of Donald Trump, the escalating tensions with the nascent nuclear power of North Korea, and the rise of aggressive, hateful rhetoric in our nation's highest office. Just a week after Arnall's installation opened at LHUCA in Lubbock, in January 2018, people in Hawaii were ducking and covering and saying goodbye to their loved ones, believing that their lives were about to end by ballistic missile. It was a false alarm, but nuclear annihilation suddenly felt like a very real and imminent threat, yet again.
Arnall's installation incorporates footage of the 1946 Baker Shot nuclear test in the Bikini Atoll, an event of extreme power and carnage. The film, sourced from the WPA archives, is projected onto a six-foot-tall wooden fence at the back of the gallery, providing a background of unimaginable — yet familiar — violence. Arnall's grandfather, Robert E. Arnall, was assigned as a telegrapher in the Bikini Atoll, and was witness to the event.
"As a kid I remember being afraid of him," Arnall tells me, sitting at his kitchen table in the house he and his wife, artist Lindsey Maestri, just bought in Lubbock. He soberly related the abuse his father suffered at the hands of his grandfather, and the lineage of paternal aggression passed down from father to son. In his work, Arnall is interested in exploring "shared histories," finding common ground in personal stories and the culture at large. "Finding that link between family history and that aggressive American mentality," he says, serves as "a way to communicate to viewers these larger global issues going on right now."
Fear, aggression, dominance, and denial — the underlying conditions of some American lives — may be hereditary, Arnall suggests. "That's the stuff that I'm really interested in," he tells me, "that tension and potential for deception and aggression. And that's coming into my work right now."
Lately, Arnall has been collecting debris on walks with his dog, Ralph. "Lubbock is so windy, there's shit everywhere," he chuckles. Arnall is 34 years old, with russet hair that he often keeps under a cycling cap. He moved to Lubbock in 2016 to take a position teaching sculpture at Texas Tech University. He is originally from Tulsa.
He shows me a sculpture in progress in his studio at TTU, where he has been vacuum-forming plastic into an ambiguous cloud form, which will incorporate the collected debris and hold audiovisual elements. He sifts through a pile of detritus on a table and hands me a bit of mangled metal. There's a spoon bent into the shape of a taco and beer cans that have been crushed repeatedly by the trash trucks clamoring through Lubbock's alleys, flattened like pennies on a train track. Plastic bits, bright and faded, wires and coathangers, and trimmer line in every color.
There are two different kinds of sculptors: those who start with an idea and then gather materials that best express that idea, and those who start from a specific material. Arnall is definitely in the former camp. "I have no material allegiance," he says emphatically. "The body of work that I had going into graduate school was all based out of steel, and I really loved that material. Then of course you get broken down in grad school, you don't have a lot of money, and so I started experimenting like crazy." His studio became "a pile of materials and objects" where he would build these "crazy arrangements," in a kind of three-dimensional sketching.
"As a sculptor I'm very specific about the materials I collect: what they mean, what they communicate, how they're arranged," he says. No one material holds more importance than any other. In addition to more conventional sculpture materials like wood, concrete, and steel, Arnall favors utilitarian things that are generally overlooked for their ordinariness — brooms, buckets, pillows, lamps. His use of zip ties to construct and connect his sculptures became something of a signature over the years. To him the zip tie represents the way he works: immediate, honest, efficient — "like a handyman," he says. And with a nod to the everyday American reality and "the idea that fakery is all around us," as he puts it, he utilizes materials known for their artificiality — Formica, Astroturf, fake flowers.
Filing Cabinets, Fish Tank, Fluorescent Fixtures, Fluorescent Bulbs, Lamp, Light bulb, Linoleum Flooring, Electrical Receptacles, Electrical Wiring, Paint, Sawdust, Wood Glue, 2010, 9' x 6' x 6'.
In his MFA thesis exhibition at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in 2010 — cheekily titled This Doorknob is on the Ceiling — the detailed materials lists of each sculpture doubled as titles. A title like Filing Cabinets, Fish Tank, Fluorescent Fixtures, Fluorescent Bulbs, Lamp, Light bulb, Linoleum Flooring, Electrical Receptacles, Electrical Wiring, Paint, Sawdust, Wood Glue (2010) demystifies the process of making the sculpture. "I want people to know [what's in the sculpture]," he reflects. "It comes from being an educator." Naming each material lays bare the quotidian contents of his sculptures and allows the viewer to approach it with their own connections to the individual materials. "I'll never say 'mixed media,'" he scoffs.
Baseball Helmets, Parking Cone, Shoe Laces (2010)
Igloo Cooler, Baseball Helmet, Ketchup Bottles, Corncob Holders, Plastic Bathroom Cups (2010) (Arnall is pictured.)
The combinations of objects in these early sculptures are striking, strange, and sometimes downright funny. Baseball Helmets, Parking Cone, Shoe Laces (2010) takes on a kind of Charlie Brown-like anthropomorphism. And the heady mixture of Americana that is Igloo Cooler, Baseball Helmet, Ketchup Bottles, Corncob Holders, Plastic Bathroom Cups (2010) can be, absurdly, "worn as hat." The casting of material objects in his sculptures also makes reference to art history, with a wink. They are definitely Duchampian — snow shovels make an appearance — while, perched atop an upended filing cabinet, an empty fish tank also hints at Hirst and even Koons.
Shovel, Chair Parts, Nuts, Bolts, 2011, 4'5″ x 3' x 1'6"
Arnall has looked to the YBAs for inspiration (on seeing Sarah Lucas' work for the first time, he says, "I was like, 'You can do that?'"), and the influence of earlier British artists like Richard Deacon and Tony Cragg appears in the movement and flow of forms in Arnall's work. He also names Jessica Stockholder, Terence Koh, Ann Hamilton, and David Altmejd as key figures he's looked to repeatedly. Of equal, or maybe more, importance, however, are artists closer to home, with whom Arnall has shared a close connection. "I'm more influenced by my friends than famous artists," he acknowledges, pointing to friends, teachers, and studio mates like Christopher M. Lavery, Mike Calway-Fagen, Kyle Triplett, and David Carpenter.
In 2014 or 2015, Arnall's work rounded a corner. After a short stint in Houston post-grad school, he was living in Kentucky working as a preparator and technician at Murray State University, while commuting to Nashville to teach at Vanderbilt University. "At that time, doing all that time driving, you think about things more," he says. Moving on from collections of disparate objects that revel in randomness, in this recent work the objects are imbued with more personal significance.
The Elevated Section of the Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway (2014)
In The Elevated Section of the Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway (2014), a form built out of traffic cones, tar, carpet padding, and zip ties is suspended by thick boat ropes from a wooden framework over a thin strip of blue sand. A recording of seagulls plays from a speaker nearby. The work references a time in Arnall's life while living in Baton Rouge when he would regularly drive along Interstate 10 the two hours to Lake Charles, Louisiana to visit his ailing great-grandmother. "Travel [had] started to rub itself off in my work, and I had time to think about my great-grandmother and her death," he says, "and think about connecting these things together: travel, traffic, water, death." It was "the first time that I'd really bitten off a whole bunch of thinking and tried to make work about it and try to tie all these things together, materially."
It's Lonely out Here, 2015, Coyote pelt, door, doorknob, salvaged wood, plywood, zip ties, grommets, polyurethane adhesive, pigment, steel, hardware, lamp parts, wood glue, window screen, sawdust, studio debris, metal flake, cd player and receiver playing sounds of dog howling. Dimensions variable.
It's Lonely Out Here (2015) speaks to his experience living in an isolated farmhouse outside of Murray, with no internet, and a flip phone serving as his only communication to the outside world. "Across the road was a pond, with frogs and other wild life," he explains, "[and there was] a lot of coyotes in the area." The installation alludes to this landscape with bundles of salvaged wood arranged like thick grasses, around a wooden door laying flat on its side and containing a spotlighted coyote pelt. A recreation of the Sputnik satellite is mounted to the wall behind it, as a reference to the historic launch of global communications. It's hooked up to an old speaker, playing a recording of his grandmother's old dog that had "a fucked-up bark." "[I was] five miles out from a town of 10,000," he explains. "It was dark. You don't know what you're hearing."
"I changed a lot during this time," he says. "How I live my life, how I think about things. I use the coyote as a symbol of that change." The coyote, of course, has a rich significance in American culture and history. For Joseph Beuys, the coyote operated as a stand-in for the United States in his famous performance I like America, and America likes me, performed in 1974 at the height of the Vietnam War. Beuys' shamanistic performance was billed as an attempt to heal the sick spirit of America.
Who's Got a Price on Their Head, detail, (2017)
In Arnall's work, too, animals appear as signifiers of American trauma and aggression. In Who's Got a Price on Their Head (2017), a pit bull eviscerates a cat — a violent tableau inspired by a real-life experience. For Arnall, it's significant that this pit bull, an American Pit Bull Terrier, is a distinctly American breed.
"I don't know, I'm an American mutt, just like anyone," he shrugs when I ask about his ancestry and how that might figure into his work. He told me the name Arnall was first recorded in America in 1685. A great-great-grandfather was a Confederate Captain, in Mississippi, in the Civil War, a fact that makes him "uneasy." On the other hand, he can also trace his ancestry to Cherokee Indians displaced on the Trail of Tears.
Arnall has a vivid memory of staying over at his maternal grandfather's house, who had come back into his life after a long absence, and opening the door to a room filled with Cherokee objects and artifacts. "I had no idea, no idea," he shakes his head. "All this stuff has been lost. I don't know why."
In his work, Arnall tries to come to terms with the long history of American traditions of erasure and violence, through links to his own family. "I came to it from a personal place," he says of the installation of the murderous pit bull and exploding A-bomb. "I don't feel comfortable coming right out and making a political piece; I don't feel like I have that voice," Arnall admits. "I'm more interested in the immediate spark of this personal family history, and asking questions — like an anthropologist — about this particular culture that we're involved in, its history, and how that develops."
"America has an incredibly violent past," he continues. "From the beginning of the history of the Americas, it is incredibly violent. A lot of my work has to deal with death and inevitability." He leans back in his chair, delivering his philosophy with an impassioned directness. "It's human nature. Everything exists at the demise of something else. Organisms feed off other organisms to live," he explains. "It's so ingrained in life, in biology — it's part of us — but it just gets worse when you have a brain and can strategize. The history of humankind builds off of this incredibly violent thing, that is life on planet Earth."
This violence comes to an apex with the development of nuclear weaponry, a scourge — with, again, a uniquely American past — that the world is still trying to suppress. "We're in an interesting time right now," he says. "It's not that long ago that [the first detonation of a nuclear bomb] Trinity happened, and by the time we were babies they were still testing nuclear bombs in our backyard." He brings out his laptop and starts up a video piece by Isao Hashimoto that visualizes the history of nuclear explosions from 1945 to 1998. There have been over 2,000 nuclear bombs exploded on the planet in that time, over half of which were detonated by the United States.
In Arnall's most recent work, he traveled to the Trinity site in New Mexico, just a few hours' drive from Lubbock. The site of the first nuclear explosion is open to visitors only two days a year, and it's a strangely touristy experience. Arnall set up a camera and recorded visitors interacting with the simple stone monument that marks ground zero for the first A-bomb, the point when, in July 1945, scholars argue that the world entered the Anthropocene era. The fourteen-minute video offers a mesmerizing and disturbing document of tourists posing and smiling with the monument and strolling around in the irradiated desert with their dogs and children in tow.
"I know that people interact with monuments in really weird ways," Arnall says. "It's like they don't understand how this thing changed everything and we entered a new era." It's an era where the threat of nuclear annihilation, the potential for a catastrophic war, for millions of people to die instantly is ever present, to the point that it's become entirely normalized. As American as apple pie.
Two months ago, an historic détente was reached — one that none of us could have likely anticipated. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un stepped across the border to South Korea, shaking hands with South Korean president Moon Jae-in. Redemption, and even healing, as Beuys suggested, may be possible.
"That tension is still there," Arnall warns when I asked him his thoughts on the developing situation with North Korea. The dismantling of North Korea's nuclear program may be imminent. But it may still blow up in our faces. It's a legitimate fear to have. The pit bull was unleashed with that first detonation, and we'll likely spend the rest of human history trying to rein him in.
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After studying Telecommunications & Electronics Engineering in Alexandria University, Mayye studied filmmaking in the Jesuits Film workshop in 2009/2010. Then she received the Fulbright scholarship and studied cinema and media studies in Wellesley College and Innovations in Documentary in MIT in 2011/2012 in the US.
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In 2013, Mayye co-directed and co-produced the collaborative feature The Mice Room (Dubai FF 2013, Sao Paulo FF 2014) with 5 other filmmakers. In 2016 she made the award winning short A Stroll Down Sunflower Lane (Berlinale 2016, AFI Fest 2016, Best Experimental Film in Sharjah Film Platform 2019). As a cinematographer, she shot the Kenyan feature Veve (Hamburg FF 2014, Durban FF 2014) that was co-produced by Tom Tykwer's One Fine Day Films in 2014. As an editor, she edited the feature documentary I Have a Picture (Best Arab Feature Documentary in El-Gouna FF 2017, Best Documentary in Tripoli FF 2018). In 2020, she directed and produced her debut feature documentary Lift Like a Girl (TIFF 2020, Dok Leipzig 2020, DOC NYC 2020)
From a scrappy, vacant-lot training site in Alexandria, Egypt to the Olympic Games, 14 year-old Zebiba ("raisin" in Arabic) stands at the precipice between childhood and weightlifting champion – guided only by her dedicated yet relentless coach, Captain Ramadan, and her own competitive edge. Can she make the leap?
Cleo Media's first production Lift Like a Girl is having its festival run at the moment. The film has had its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2020 in Canada, its European premiere at Dok Leipzig 2020 in Germany where it received the Golden Dove Award for Best Film in the German competition.
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Lift Like a Girl is a well-constructed film made out of intimate verité scenes. Filmmaker Mayye Zayed has made a fine documentary about female empowerment, the competitive spirit and the love between a coach and an athlete. As a wonderful plus, the viewer gets to see Egypt from the inside, not just as a political field but one in which real people's lives get played out.
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Bath Cricket Club is supervised by a Management Committee comprising of up to nine elected and voluntary Members (Trustees) and is operated with the support of many active volunteers and a dedicated professional staff.
The Club owns the freehold of its main North Parade ground located at the centre of the city in the heart of the World Heritage Site. Facilities include a fifteen-pitch square, together with three artificial and 14 grass practice pitches, a LED scoreboard and a clubhouse with hospitality (food & drink) services; there is also ample car parking. The Club's other ground, the Brownsword Ground, is situated on the northern edge of the city next to Beckford Tower. This second ground has a twelve-pitch square, together with non-turf practice pitches, a pavilion and machinery store. The club also has it's own two lane indoor cricket school refurbished in 2012.
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Terraria is a gameplay universe where you can dig, craft, collect resources, and combat along the journey from a 2-Dimensional point of view. Firstly, it was developed for Microsoft as one of their games, but it was expanded and included in other platforms and device compatibilities as well.
The pixel artwork of the 2D view in Terraria gives a very nostalgic and familiar vibe that even young adults that have seen this gameplay for the first time in 2011 can attest to.
You are the creator, defender, and ruler of this land filled with adventure and creativity in this game. Mystery and adventure. Whatever it is you wish to execute or do, it is possible and infinite.
As a creator in this gaming universe, you can gather and transform the raw resources you find in the journey of each world you encounter. There will be available surprises of materials you may find and can be presented to you that can be used.
As the defender, you can wield and use the weaponry you have gained to triumph over the enemies and bosses who intend to destroy and invade each world you enter. You may choose various available weaponry and materials to fight off the creatures that seem to disturb the peace and plan to take over your turf, realm, or world.
As the ruler of the land in Terraria, you are allowed to build and design the world your heart and imagination desire and tell you to do. The choices are available and possible. You have the freedom to create, choose and conceptualize what direction and how your realm will exist alongside other nearby worlds in Terraria.
With Terraria's universe or point of view, everything rests in the palm of your hands. With the elements of the classic gameplay of action and the styles of sandbox entertainment in games, the experience given to you will be as unique as the imagination that reaps in your mind in creating your own world with this game.
The gameplay in Terraria allows you or your friends or the community you have built to discover other expanded worlds, unlocking levels to meet bosses for a thrilling and action-packed experience with the game and open the creativity and imagination that rests in your mind into molding or building a world that is unique and true to your style and calling.
The gameplay gives you wondrous experiences and intense exploration in the journey of crafting, planting, building houses, meeting friends and enemies, defeating bosses, looking for weapons, digging for resources and tools, and even continuing with multiplayer in the gaming universe in Terraria.
The presence of three levels in Terraria, such as the Journey mode, Expert mode, and Master mode, can ignite the thrill and action-packed experience to you once you play it solely or with your friends. You may expand with them the realm and area of your designed world and strengthen the availability of your forces, materials, plantation, and individuals present in the existing realm you have.
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Your healing in Terraria is also critical as this is the meter for you to know the damages done to you when in the defense or attack. Some healing items such as potions and mushrooms can add and maintain the health meter of your character to continue playing the game.
Explorations like mining and caves are also options for picking up raw materials. When doing so, you may journey on by illuminating the area you wish to explore.
Some more information is available that may help in the gameplay experience in Terraria, such as Bosses you encounter, gardening for materials and food, Practical tips, and so much more.
This is just the beginning of a whole new experience for you that is ready to be seen and felt via the Terraria game.
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MIT will host a summit this December to highlight the regional leadership of the northeast U.S. and eastern Canada in responding to climate change and to explore strategies for building on that leadership.
The summit, to be held on MIT's campus on Dec. 7 and 8, will bring together policymakers, researchers, and business and civic leaders from the New England states, Atlantic Canadian provinces, New York, and Québec. Michael R. Bloomberg, the founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies, and three-term mayor of New York City, will provide the keynote address at the summit.
The region has a significant history of collaborating on climate and energy policies. In 2001, for example, the New England governors and Eastern Canadian premiers adopted a regional climate change action plan that called for significant long-term reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
Continued leadership at the regional level has become even more important in light of the decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate. The summit will focus on key policy issues confronting states and provinces as they work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including improving electricity markets, reducing emissions from transportation, and pricing carbon emissions.
Bloomberg is one of the world's leading voices on the opportunity for subnational governments to lead the effort to address climate change. He serves as the United Nations secretary-general's special envoy for cities and climate change, and along with California Governor Jerry Brown, in July he launched "America's Pledge," an initiative to quantify the actions of states, cities, and businesses in the United States to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions consistent with the goals of the Paris climate agreement.
"Given MIT's commitment to advancing effective, science-based climate policy and action, we are delighted that Michael Bloomberg has agreed to join this summit as our keynote speaker," says L. Rafael Reif, MIT's president. "No one has a more compelling vision of the pivotal role for state and local governments in confronting climate change, and no one has done more to inspire collaborative action."
Bloomberg's new book, Climate of Hope, co-authored with former Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope, offers a bottom-up vision for how states, cities, regions, businesses, and organizations can confront the challenge of climate change.


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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. --New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady threw his 46th postseason touchdown pass Saturday, passing Joe Montana for the most in NFL playoff history.
Brady connected withBrandon LaFellon a 23-yard scoring pass with 5:13 remaining in the fourth quarter of the team's 35-31 divisional round playoff win against theBaltimore Ravens.
"He deserves it. Tom's a great, clutch player with tremendous poise, vision, accuracy," Patriots coach Bill Belichick said. "So, he's done it with a lot of different receivers, a lot of different situations against a lot of different defenses. I think that speaks to his greatness and his ability to perform consistently under pressure. No quarterback I'd rather have than Tom Brady."
Brady tied the mark on a 5-yard touchdown pass to tight end Rob Gronkowski on a slant route with 8:16 remaining in the third quarter. The Patriots threw another touchdown pass just 2:20 later in the third quarter, but it was wide receiver Julian Edelman connecting with Amendola on a trick play for a 51-yard score.
In the first half, Brady moved past Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning for the most passing yards in postseason history on a 15-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Danny Amendola. Brady surpassed Manning's 6,589 passing yards in the postseason. Manning and the Broncos host the Indianapolis Colts in the divisional round Sunday.
Saturday's win was the 20th for Belichick in the postseason, tying him with Tom Landry for the most in NFL playoff history. Belichick deflected talk of the record, and instead credited the team for rallying from two 14-point deficits to keep the team's season alive.
"After this weekend we'll be one of four teams still playing," Belichick said. "It will be an honor to be in the AFC Championship Game this year, but yeah, it was a wild game. But I'm just thankful that our players hung in there and made the plays they needed to make to get us a victory. Hopefully we can build on that and coach better next week and play better next week."
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The sources quoted Iraqi Oil Minister Jabbar al-Lu'aibi that Iraq abided "fully" with reduction resolution by achieving 97% of its share.
ustria, next month, oil sources reported.
It is expected that the oil producing countries will extend the reduction for other six months during their coming meeting in May, 2017.


On Wednesday, Feb. 11, members of the Towson University Urban Farm, or TUUF, club gave out cardboard valentines in Freedom Square to promote their work and the farm. Situated on campus behind the Administration Building, the plot measures 100 square-feet and is tended by students.
Club member Sasha Kolodny said that part of the reasoning behind handing out valentines came from an availability of materials.
"We had access to a lot of cardboard and wanted to spread the word and brighten peoples' days," Kolodny said.
According to Markham, the club's main focus is spreading the importance of real, local and sustainable fruits and vegetables.
"I think it's important to know that this is easy to do in an urban environment," Markham said.
"[This group] shows people that it's both easy and beneficial and should be done in any environment," Kolodny said.
According to its Facebook page, the Urban Farm club meets Thursday evenings. It is an open group and prospective members are encouraged to stop by.


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This enables patients to practice the movements important for their therapy progress and daily life. The ArmeoSpring supports 1D (joint-specific), 2D and 3D movements.
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Immediate performance feedback motivates patients and helps to improve their motor abilities, leading to more independence in daily routine and therefore better quality of life.
The ArmeoSpring enables therapists to deliver higher training efficiency (more hours per day) thanks to self-directed therapy, which may lead to better long-term outcomes.
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Tina's life took a sharp turn when suddenly an angioma started bleeding that resulted in hemiparesis of the left side of her body. "The bleeding came totally unexpected and I had to go into surgery immediately. I was left with a paralysis and no job. In the beginning, my arm was extremely spastic and in everyday life I only used the healthy arm." Tina exercises her left arm with the ArmeoSpring twice a week. She is really happy with her achievements. "It's an absolutely positive experience for the ego, to self-initiate the movement! I'm young, I want to do things myself and now I can," she beams. "The therapy with the Armeo is very exhausting, but it feels good. What helps me most is the feedback on the display." She is already able to use her left arm again in her daily life. And she continues to work hard, so that maybe, one day she could go back to her old job: educating deaf children, using both her hands.
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ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Erbil Sports Club ended a four-game run without a win after they beat Amanat Baghdad 2-0 in week 13 of the Iraqi Premier League on Tuesday.
There was a goal in each half for Erbil with captain Miran Khesro opening the scoring for the Kurdistan Region club after 15 minutes before Thyago Amaral added a second late in the match with an 82-minute strike.
The win ends a four-match winless run (one draw, three losses) and moves Erbil to the top half of the table in ninth place with 16 points.
Kurdistan 24 spoke with goalscorer Khesro who said Erbil's players are satisfied that they were able to end their winless streak.
"We played a very good match and our coaches were happy with our performance. These three points were very important for us this season. We want to thank our fans for their support and urge them to keep cheering us on," he said.
The Iraqi Premier League's winter break coincides with the opening of the transfer window. Khesro said the club is hoping to bolster its squad with quality players that can help Erbil achieve its goals for the rest of the season.
They have been crowned Iraqi Premier League champions four times, most recently in the 2011-12 season when they only lost one match.
Erbil's next match in the Iraqi Premier League is away to Al-Najaf on Jan. 31, 2019, when the league restarts.


Just saw this sale going. The 8-pack Sengled Element Classic A19 soft white bulbs are on sale for $62.99. When you click the check box for the $10 off coupon, that price drops to $52.99. Pretty good deal if you need smart bulbs right now. The lowest historical price was $40 a month ago, and the average price is usually around $75-$95.
Apparently these were quite a bit less a few days ago. Ignore and move along if you're willing to wait.
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Actually these were on a lightning deal a few days ago for $31.99. So its not that great.
I would expect another sale on boxing day or close to it.
Slightly warm, had a $32 dollar sale on these 8 packs (2700k and 5000k) only a few days ago. I'd just wait out another sale like this one.
Dammit... I missed the lightning deal.
Considering it was 39$ during Black Friday and 31$ late last week I wouldn't be surprised to see the 8 pack drop again during Boxing Day.
52.99$ is better than 79$ yet 31$ is way better than 52$.
Guess it all depends what's your buy it now to wait and see price break point.
Thanks OP for the post.
Ok price ... Got this on the lightning deal a few days ago for $32.


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Watch: The UK Navy invented a new way to land F-35s with heavy payloads on their carriers
by Alex Hollings Nov 15, 2018
The United States isn't the only nation that's looking to develop ways to extend the range and combat capabilities of carrier-based fighters. The UK's Royal Navy may not boast a carrier fleet as massive or widespread as America's, but its new flagship, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, is already working on ways to increase the capabilities of the F-35s that recently began operating on its flight deck.
The Queen Elizabeth, as well as its sister carrier, the HMS Prince of Wales, are slated to serve as the UK's most formidable form of force projection in conflicts the world over. With plans to field between 12 and 35 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters aboard each, these carriers could deliver a great deal of firepower almost anywhere in the world, thanks to the Royal Navy's global refueling infrastructure.
There's just one problem, however: these carriers don't possess aircraft catapults or arresting gear. The Royal Navy's carriers utilize a ramp to elevate departing aircraft upon takeoff, and as for landings… well, that's where F-35 pilots aboard these carriers have had to get a bit creative.
U.S. Marine Corps F-35Bs are capable of taking off on very short runways and conducting vertical landings — two capabilities that allow them to be launched from Marine Corps amphibious assault ships despite their crowded decks. This capability, while valuable as a means to deploy F-35s from more platforms, also comes with limitations. F-35s can only land vertically if they're carrying under a certain amount of weight — often meaning they can't be carrying additional fuel tanks or a full payload of ordnance. The Royal Navy, not content to field F-35s with any less than their full carry-capacity, had to find an alternative to vertical landings that was still possible aboard their vessels that lacked the arresting gear needed for traditional carrier landings.
The solution, they've found, is a sort of mix between the two. F-35Bs serving aboard UK carriers will approach the flight deck with their exhaust nozzles pointed straight down but while still moving forward — almost like a traditional aircraft landing being conducted in slow motion. By not attempting to hover and control a completely vertical descent, the fighters are able to conduct carrier landings while significantly heavier than Marine Corps F-35s can do on America-class amphibious ships.
The ships themselves are also being treated with a thermoresistant coating to help it cope with the intense heat produced by the F-35's exhaust nozzles. The Queen Elizabeth has spent weeks now sailing along America's east coast perfecting this landing process. Once the ship and the aircraft are both ready for combat operations, the combination of the two will represent some of the most advanced naval capabilities the Royal Navy has ever put into the field.
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"We are enjoying getting back into the big time, and this is one of those big steps forward on that ladder," Rear Adm. Keith Blount, the Royal Navy's Assistant Chief of Naval Staff for Aviation, Amphibious Capability and Carriers said of the F-35 operations. "When you see that jet out there today, having landed on the ship, taking off from the ship, we're taking big steps back into that game again. And it's hugely exciting, and it should be reassuring to those folks back home and indeed on this side of the Atlantic."
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Published at Monday, February 18th, 2019 - 13:47:38 PM. Kitchen. By Amaury Remond.
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Q: Help with wording of a sentence I want to construct a sentence that says the following:
Objects belonging to a king should be treated in a certain way, and what you presented is clearly an object of this kind.
I couldn't find a nice way to phrase it:

-Why did you paint the ball yellow?
-Because you didn't ask me to paint the ball blue.
-Well, all balls should be painted blue, I told so in the meeting yesterday.
-Then please write this on the bulletin board. Policies, which what this clearly is, should be posted on the bulletin board.

How should I phrase the last sentence?

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Then please write this on the bulletin board: policies, which is what this clearly is, should be posted on the bulletin board.

I spotted an error in sentence #3--the last clause (I told (you) so in the meeting last week) cannot be appended to the remainder by the arbitrary addition of a comma followed by no corresponding conjunction; it must be replaced with a dash; otherwise, it will face ungrammaticality. Moreover, the final clause is rather unrelated; so do not add a conjunction to extend the sentence (to avoid having two unrelated clauses connected).
Good luck.