OMB raises cost accounting thresholds and the Federal Highway Administration awards $129 million in highway grants as the USPS issues new rules for mail-ballot barcodes.
how this picture was made
Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-04 01:53Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A wide banner illustration shows a fictional government official standing in the middle of a highway construction site with a backdrop of a cityscape and a subtle American flag pattern in the sky, while workers in hard hats and vests labor in the foreground, and a postal worker in the distance checks mail-ballot envelopes with a barcode scanner, under a warm sunlight with a neutral color palette.
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 wide banner illustration shows a fictional government official standing in the middle of a highway construction site with a backdrop of a cityscape and a subtle American flag pattern in the sky, while workers in hard hats and vests labor in the foreground, and a postal worker in the distance checks mail-ballot envelopes with a barcode scanner, under a warm sunlight with a neutral color palette. 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)
72e59f07c892bb7521caca33bccaf9719917c98f555a817746df5b6c18169525
OMB raises cost accounting thresholds, aligns CAS 407 with GAAP
The Office of Management and Budget's Federal Procurement Policy Office published two rules on Sept. 1, one raising monetary thresholds for cost accounting standards and the other conforming CAS 407 to generally accepted accounting principles.
By Nora Castellanos · 2wThe Office of Management and Budget's Federal Procurement Policy Office published two rules on Sept.
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