Fed raises interest rates and Colombia's dollar reference rate rises while gold and Bitcoin prices surge.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-22 00:28Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A bustling financial district at dusk with people in suits walking quickly, some looking up at a giant gold bull statue, as others glance at their phones or talk to each other, with a cityscape backdrop of towering skyscrapers and a setting sun casting a warm orange glow.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A bustling financial district at dusk with people in suits walking quickly, some looking up at a giant gold bull statue, as others glance at their phones or talk to each other, with a cityscape backdrop of towering skyscrapers and a setting sun casting a warm orange glow. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)
b707f075563762fff2bca9879a58d98e2030b8e9c6cdfc6ef06488b7454be9c8
Federal Highway Administration awards DC $15.5M for traffic signals, pavement
The Federal Highway Administration awarded the District of Columbia $10.4M for pavement restoration and $5.12M for traffic signal maintenance, both posted Sept. 21.
By Nadia Okonkwo · 6wThe Federal Highway Administration recorded two awards to the District of Columbia on Sept. 21: $10.4M for pavement restoration and $5.12M for traffic signal maintenance, by this paper's arithmetic $15.52M combined. The pavement grant runs under award 112018017Z240, the signal grant under award 112018045Z240, both formula grants.
Federal awards data shows outlays to date match the full amount on each award - $10.4M drawn on the pavement grant, $5.12M drawn on the signal grant - so neither carries pending funds. Both postings landed on USASpending.gov the same day.
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