#october 2024 mural project

[lizziekelso]

Finally finished!

The pink and orange in the window well change the whole look of the room on a sunny day, everything has a pink haze over it

Happy October! 🎃

Normally I post a drawing each day this month, but I just moved into a new place and am busy settling in.

So instead, I'll be posting updates on my biggest current project – painting my bedroom walls.

Here's my idea, and the space itself:

Wish me luck!

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

BIG PROJECT TIME

Welcome to Euramerica, a spec bio project set in the late early permian, right before Olson’s extinction. Euramerica is what happens when the titular continent never collides with gondwana during the late carboniferous, never forming pangea or atleast delaying it.

Rules:

By the way, not all submissions will get in, so dont get mad if yours dont get in. Dont worry, they can be canonized later, as like bones or a corpse during the extinction and maybe lead to more clades idk.

Please use the clades on the list, if theres anything you feel should be added, lemme know.

Entries should be submitted on Discord in the event-submissions channel (duh), or on tumblr, just make sure to tag it #Euramerica or you could just @ me in the post (@he-who-needs-to-be-silenced)

A human has to make the art (no ai you will be skinned), this can be a paper drawing, a clay sculpt, play doh, digital drawing, 3d models anything. You can even make it out of carrots.

I will be making 3 separate murals for the little northern island, name of Stephania

When submitting, these thing should be either on the image or the text you send:

Species name (scientific or common)(preferably scientific tbh but both is fine)

Clade

Habitat

Size

Ecology

Any little tidbits or behaviours youd like to headcanon

Here’s the discord if you wanna help me not search the internet: https://discord.gg/mFxVZ2Ut

Edit: I realize now that i should probably but the google drive folder for those not on discord

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1B391zNM2wCw-LebF09bza9dr_bvaUOJa?usp=drive_link

Edit again: prob should put th deadline

You have until October 1st 2024 **6am (or till i wake up) Eastern Daylight Saving Time**

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1 October 2024: King Abdullah II stressed the importance of moving forward with development in Ajloun, as well as investing in promising opportunities in tourism and agriculture.

During a meeting with local community leaders and figures from Ajloun, attended by Crown Prince Hussein, His Majesty said he is pleased to be in Ajloun, meeting its people at its historic castle.

The King noted the importance of the cable car project in increasing the number of visitors to Ajloun, adding it should serve as a model for future projects.

His Majesty called for continuing the implementation of the government’s masterplan for Ajloun, as well as developing infrastructure to attract investors and enhance tourism to create job opportunities.

The King also directed the government to study the construction of a new road to facilitate the movement of citizens and access to tourism areas.

For his part, Ajloun Governor Nayef Hidayat expressed best wishes to His Majesty on the Silver Jubilee, highlighting achievements in Ajloun in several sectors over the past 25 years.

Hidayat reviewed key projects that have contributed to the development of Ajloun in vital sectors such as health, education, tourism, social welfare, and productive projects.

Upon arrival at Ajloun Castle’s yard, the King was welcomed by poetry and music performances.

Prior to the meeting, His Majesty inaugurated the Ajloun Cultural Centre, which aims to provide creative spaces for the local community.

The King listened to a briefing by Culture Minister Mustafa Rawashdeh on a mural at the centre, which highlights Ajloun’s history.

The King toured the three-storey centre, which consists of a theatre, a library, and multiple training halls, and was briefed by Ajloun Culture Director Samer Freihat on the centre's plans and facilities, as it currently trains around 300 students, with plans to expand the number to include 1,000 students within five years.

His Majesty also visited the Crown Prince Foundation's office in Ajloun, and was briefed by the foundation’s coordinator, Mohammad Hennawi, on services provided at the office, which include training opportunities for youth on soft skills like communication, leadership and teamwork, as well as technical skills on artificial intelligence, 3D printing, programming, and the English language, in addition to awareness sessions on social and political engagement.

During the visit to Ajloun, the King bestowed the Silver Jubilee Medal on individuals and institutions in the governorate, in recognition of their contributions to serving Jordan, especially the local community.

Prime Minister Jafar Hassan, Royal Hashemite Court Chief Yousef Issawi, Director of the Office of His Majesty Alaa Batayneh, and Adviser to His Majesty for Tribal Affairs Kneiaan Bluwi attended the meeting.

[industryandenterprisesmorgan]

Classical-art-inspired mural by PichiAvo, Galvanizers

Day 2 of Placement: 22 October 2024

Follow up meeting with Laura, Dair, Devon, and Michaela to discuss what projects we can be involved with after submitting SWG3 Placement Proposal Form. Emails will be sent when assistance is required for any other jobs/tasks.

[naturecoaster]

The 2024 Monarch Butterfly Festival Promises Free Family Fun Oct. 26 in Dade City, Florida

The Dade City Garden Club and The City of Dade City are proud to present the 2024 Monarch Butterfly Festival on Saturday, October 26, 2024, from 10 am to 4 pm in the newly renovated Touchton Park. Bigger and better than ever, this community celebration is back with festivities flowing out from the park into the gardens of the Dade City Garden Club! More good news is that the Jolley Trolley is coming back to town! Visitors will be able to park downtown and hop on the FREE trolley to the Festival from 9:30 am to 4 pm, thanks to the generous support of Community Foundation Tampa Bay. One pick-up/drop-off location will be adjacent to the Robert B. Sumner Judicial Center at 38033 Live Oak Avenue and the other location at the Dade City Heritage Museum and Welcome Center at 37800 Church Avenue. Parking is available in City and county-owned lots and many other areas around the downtown. Free Family Fun at the Dade City Monarch Butterfly Festival Oct. 26 A variety of free family fun is planned throughout the day. The Festival will feature a stunning plant sale and an eclectic vendor market that will satisfy any shopper’s taste. Image courtesy of Dade City Garden Club. Created in 2019 as a celebration of the City’s commitment to becoming a Monarch City USA, the Festival will feature a stunning plant sale and an eclectic vendor market that will satisfy any shopper’s taste; environmental educators, informational booths, and presentations to inspire and motivate; and an interactive Kids’ Zone with arts and crafts and games presented in cooperation with Pasco County Hugh Embry Library. Also in the Kids’ Zone located on garden club grounds will be the Monarch Marvels, this year’s newly launched youth program taking center stage as Ambassadors of the Monarch Project, along with strolling entertainment and face painting by GiGi and Friends and Sky High Stilt Walking with Rebecca.  Visitors will be able to view live displays of butterflies, caterpillars, and chrysalis while learning about the life cycle of the butterfly, presented by the Tampa Bay Butterfly Foundation. Art is Part of the 2024 Monarch Butterfly Festival - NatureCoaster.com and Traveling Art Parties offer Mini Butterfly Painting Activity For 2024's Festival, Traveling Art Parties is joining NatureCoaster.com to offer mini canvas painting. Image by Dennis Bedard. A colorful feature at the Festival will be the opportunity for visitors to take a hand at painting a mini canvas offered by our media sponsor, NatureCoaster.com and Traveling Art Parties. A new feature honoring the inauguration of the new Touchton Park will be a glimpse of art popping up in unexpected places throughout the Festival as artists paint under the trees or bring a Monarch to life by creating a mural while festival goers watch, all courtesy of Dade City Center for the Arts. Visitors won’t want to miss taking advantage of great photo shoot opportunities at the Monarch Butterfly Festival Photo Booth, a popular tradition of the Festival since 2019. And no one will want to miss the delicious treats offered along the way. Photo ops abound at the Dade City Monarch Butterfly Festival. Learn About Pollinators, Butterfly Conservation, and Much More Mini-presentations scheduled throughout the day will be held in the Garden Club's air-conditioned building and will include talks about “Native Bees vs. Honeybees”; “Butterfly Conservation”; “Landscaping for Birds” and “The Wonders of His Creations”, a fun-fact photo presentation of birds, butterflies, dragonflies.   Community booths staffed by Pasco County Florida Friendly Landscaping, Pasco County Master Gardeners, Pasco County Animal Services, and Pasco County Parks, Recreation, and Natural Resources will be on hand to meet with the public and share information, resources, and opportunities to enhance their quality of life. And of course, the highlight of the day—a live butterfly display presented by Anita Camacho and the Tampa Bay Butterfly Foundation will be located near the butterfly garden at the garden club. Anita will release all the beautiful butterflies into the gardens at the end of the day. Get Tickets for the Opportunity Drawing to Win a Beautiful Monarch Butterfly Stained Glass Panel The Festival Committee has chosen an exquisite prize for this year's Festival Opportunity Drawing. A Monarch Butterfly stained glass panel was custom designed and handcrafted by Patti Wieclaw, a popular local Dade City artist. Look for more of Patti's beautiful work at the Festival itself, as she is one of the Market’s featured vendors. The price is $2 per ticket or 6 tickets for $10. Proceeds from the drawing help fund the Monarch Butterfly Festival and the educational and environmental mission of the Dade City Monarch Project. Tickets will be on sale at the Festival or before the event by contacting dcgcmonarch@gmail.com. The winner need not be present at the Festival to win. Entertainment and face painting with Gigi and Friends. Image courtesy of the Dade City Garden Club. The Dade City Garden Club and the City of Dade City are grateful for the support of their awesome sponsors:  MONARCH LEVEL—Lanky Lassie Shortbread, The Canadian Medstore, San Antonio Citizens Federal Credit Union, Humana, and Thomas J. Touchton; CHRYSALIS LEVEL— Rocycle and TECO Tampa Electric; CATERPILLAR LEVEL—Jarrett Ford, Meridian Title and Publix; EGG LEVEL—Mona and Dave Goossens, Becky Wolf. Our media sponsors are The Laker News/Lutz and NatureCoaster.com. A very special shout out to our Monarch Butterfly Festival Partner Community Foundation Tampa Bay for their generous grant in support of the Festival. It is because of their grant we were able to bring the Trolley back and launch our new Youth Leadership Program, the Monarch Marvels. For more information, contact dcgcmonarch@gmail.com or visit www.dadecitygardenclub.com. Read the full article

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Saving WPA Pre-World War II Murals by Ross Dickinson From Demolition in Los Angeles

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Detail of scholars in Ross Dickinson’s History of the Written Word in the library of Thomas Jefferson High School – before conservation in 2023-2024

Ross Dickinson was from California and studied with Frank Tolles Chamberlin (1873–1961) at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, where he became interested in mural painting. In 1926 Dickinson spent nine months in New York City studying with John Costigan at the Grand Central School of Art and Charles Hawthorne at the National Academy of Design; he also received a scholarship from the Tiffany Foundation. Dickinson returned to California later that year and studied at the Santa Barbara School of Fine Arts, where he received his first mural commission.

His painting style was well founded in “Modernism” or “Regionalism” that was so internationally prevalent as the “modern” style that was so popular. Though he was interested in murals, he was very productive with easel paintings, especially in this beginning artistic development in the 20’s and 30’s.  Years ago, FACL was the art and painting conservation team for working on the preservation and restoration of the estate of personal paintings that Ross Dickinson left to his family. William A. Karges Fine Art handled that estate in 1993 and hired us to collaborate.

But it was because of his mural abilities as an experienced and accomplished artist, Dickinson was vetted and chosen by the federal government’s Works Project Administration that was putting professional artists to work during the Depression.

Now, we have been chosen to save one of Ross Dicknson’s murals that he made under this federal program  during the Depression in 1937 that are located in the library of Thomas Jefferson High School in South Central Los Angeles. Here’s a link to the WPA “New Deal” mention of the murals: https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/thomas-jefferson-high-school-history-recorded-word-mural-los-angeles-ca/

Before Conservation of the HISTORY OF THE WRITTEN WORD by Ross Dickinson 1937

During the last two years, the pre-World War 2  era built high school in South Central Los Angeles, California has been working on a massive renovation (under the direction of the Los Angeles Unified School District – LAUSD). Preserving the “historic fabric” has been a major focus and the preservation of the WPA murals in the library from the massive demolitions and upgrading has been of special interest.

Working on the removed murals at Fine Art Conservation Laboratories. Once ready, the murals will be reinstalled back into the school’s library in their original location.

Fine Art Conservation Laboratories (FACL, Inc.) was vetted and chosen from among more than a dozen firms bidding for the contract for removing the murals, restoring them and then reinstalling them back into their original locations when the renovated library will be ready (maybe this October, 2024?). LAUSD pre-qualified FACL – Scott M. Haskins and the contract was awarded through the General Contractor, Kemp Brothers Construction Co.

During cleaning of a detail of Egyptians

Before and after cleaning

The oil on canvas murals glued to the walls with a lead based adhesive were removed last year and their preservation and restoration has been completed at FACL’s lab. The lab space is laid out and equipped for working on detached murals (10,000 sq. ft). At the moment, several other renown mural projects are under way, including another WPA project with murals from a library from San Pedro High School, in the Los Angeles, CA area.

Scott Haskins at San Pedro High School removing WPA murals by Tyrone Comfort before renovation

Questions about preserving and restoring public art murals? Call Scott M. Haskins or Virginia Panizzon at 805 564 3438 or gena.FACLbusinessManager@gmail.com See testimonials on other public works 

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[kambahpeoplesmap]

Kambah community mural WHAT'S ON IN THE AREA Argue, dance and make merry... (1978, November 4). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 7. Retrieved July 20, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110921259

WHAT'S ON IN THE AREA Argue, dance and make merry... (1978, November 4). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 7. Retrieved July 20, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110921259:

Mural-painting project planned for Kambah Community House A MEETING at the Kambah Community House, Springvale Street, Kambah, will be held on Tuesday at 10.30am to discuss a mural painting project for adults and children, which will begin on October 1. The projcct will be co-ordinatcd by Sue Birch, a Canberra artist and member of the Blue Folk Community Arts Association Inc. The project has the support and funding of the Community Arts Board of the Australia Council. The meeting will discuss ideas and designs for the mural with an emphasis on things that mean some thing to the community which will be involved. The painting will be on an outside wall of the Community House. Sue Birch is responsible for the organisation of several other murals around Canberra, principally the Sunday in the Park tunnel and in several Primary Schools in Canberra. The current mural-painting projcct is aimed at a wider community participation for children and adults in a specific community. There will be further mural-painting projects at the Evatt Drop-in Centre and Nellie Hall, in Melba, later in the year. You are invited to take your families, ideas and a packet of crayons to the meeting.

[valleyledger]

Unveiling the New Northside Alive Community Mural created by Matt Halm

Bethlehem, Lehigh Valley, PA., October 16, 2024 – ArtsQuest, in partnership with the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts (PCA), is thrilled to celebrate the new Northside Alive Community Mural created by ArtsQuest rostered teaching artist and muralist, Matt Halm. “ArtsQuest is thrilled to support this project through our PCA Artist Residency partnership. The mural was truly a community…

[classyfoxdestiny]

World won’t be vaccinated against Covid until 2024, says UK government

World won’t be vaccinated against Covid until 2024, says UK government

Britain’s announcement that it is sending 9 million surplus doses of coronavirus vaccine to developing countries has been denounced as “shamefully inadequate”, on a day when the UK again blocked moves to enable poorer nations to start producing their own supplies.

The People’s Vaccine Alliance said the consignment amounted to little more than 1 per cent of the amounts needed to meet the African Union target of protecting 60 per cent of the continent’s people, describing the gift as “a bit like sending a block of cheese to a food crisis”.

And campaigners noted that it came on the day that the World Trade Organisation’s general council deferred a decision on waiving intellectual property rights to Covid-19 vaccines until October, following continued opposition from rich-world countries led by Germany and the UK.

More than 3 million people have died with coronavirus worldwide since India and South Africa proposed the waiver last October, and campaigners warn that three months’ delay could cost another million lives. Just 0.3 per cent of the estimated 4bn vaccines administered globally have been injected in the 29 lowest-income countries, home to 9 per cent of the world’s population.

Foreign secretary Dominic Raab said he hoped the UK’s donation would help speed up a vaccination drive which at current trends will not see the world protected until the end of 2024.

But the UK government was accused of failing to put pressure on big pharmaceutical companies to share the technology and know-how needed to end a situation described by South African president Cyril Ramaphosa as “vaccine apartheid”.

Meanwhile, Oxford University’s regius professor of medicine Sir John Bell warned that leaving the poor world unvaccinated will create a petri dish for the emergence of new variants which could bypass existing vaccines.

While the UK’s decision to send the first batch of doses abroad was welcome and “long overdue”, there was “more heavy lifting to do” in helping poorer nations put distribution systems in place, said Sir John.

“If you want variants, you’ve got the perfect storm for that, and it is not in Watford – it is in Zimbabwe and Rwanda and South Africa,” he warned.

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Leaders of the major industrialised nations at the G7 summit chaired by Boris Johnson in Cornwall pledged more than 1bn doses of Covid-19 vaccine – 870m shared directly and the rest through funding to the UN-led Covax initiative.

But aid groups said the pledges failed to meet the scale of the challenge, which requires at least 11 billion jabs to protect the world. Former prime minister Gordon Brown called it an “unforgivable moral failure”.

In response to today’s UK announcement, People’s Vaccine Alliance senior health policy advisor Dr Mohga Kamal-Yanni said: “The 9 million doses the UK is sending are around 1 per cent of the doses currently needed for Africa, so it’s a bit like sending a block of cheese to a food crisis.

“All countries are struggling with new waves of the virus. While the UK and other rich countries are protected by vaccines, developing countries are not. Millions of doses are needed right now and we need to see a proper redistribution of doses going to people at risk in all countries, rather than small acts of charity.

“To vaccinate the world, all qualified manufacturers in the global South need to be enabled to produce Covid-19 vaccines, by sharing the technology and knowledge which is being kept under pharma monopoly.”

Aid campaign Global Justice Now condemned Mr Raab’s statement that some 20 per cent of the donated jabs would be distributed on a a “strategic basis”, arguing that it should not be up to the foreign secretary to decide the distribution of vaccines according to the UK’s national interests.

The group’s director Nick Dearden said: “Britain’s donations today are shamefully inadequate. And the government wants to use this as a form of diplomacy, offering many doses on the basis of their strategic interests. This is a global health crisis, not an opportunity for vain self-promotion.

“Worse still, this shoddy piece of PR went out on the very day the UK is blocking real solutions at the WTO that would allow many of these countries to produce their own vaccines in far greater quantities than donations will ever achieve.”

The WTO’s 164 member states take all decisions by consensus, so a minority of nations have been able to block the waiver despite support from the US and China.

Speaking at the two-day general council meeting in Geneva, WTO spokesman Keith Rockwell said there was agreement on the need to ramp up production quickly, but disagreement on how to do it. While surplus production capacity exists in countries like Senegal, Bangladesh, India, South Africa, Thailand, Morocco and Egypt, local manufacturers need access to technology and know-how from the industrialised world for local production of vaccines to be possible.

“Getting production in developing countries to a higher level so that more shots can go into more arms in Africa, Latin America and Asia, is of critical importance to everyone here,” Rockwell said.

Mr Raab said that the first batch of excess UK vaccines will be start being shipped to vulnerable nations and Commonwealth allies this week, with Indonesia receiving 600,000 doses and Jamaica 300,000. Some 817,000 are to be transported to Kenya, whose president Uhuru Kenyatta was meeting Mr Johnson at his Chequers country retreat.

“I think what it shows, as well as the domestic rollout and the importance of coming out of the lockdowns in the UK, is that global Britain is also a lifesaving force for good in the world,” said the foreign secretary.

Speaking during a visit to the Oxford Biomedica factory, which produces the AstraZeneca vaccine, Mr Raab said: “We know on the current trajectory the world will only be adequately vaccinated at 2024, at the end.

“We want to get that date back to the middle of next year, and that will make a massive difference to those countries affected.”

Romilly Greenhill, UK director of the One Campaign, said the delivery of the doses was “encouraging”.

But she added: “Sadly, we are still only scratching at the surface of this crisis, leaving millions of people dangerously exposed to a pandemic that is very far from over.”

Responding to protests over Britain blocking of the so-called TRIPs waiver, a government spokesperson said: “The UK is proud to be playing a leading role in the global effort to create and distribute Covid-19 vaccines. The government supported the development of the Oxford AstraZeneca, which is being made available at cost worldwide.

“We are engaging constructively with the US and other WTO members on the waiver issue and will carefully review any proposal submitted to the TRIPs Council, but we need to act now to expand vaccine production and distribution worldwide.

“The UK wants to push ahead with pragmatic action, including voluntary licensing and technology transfer agreements for vaccines, support for COVAX, and solutions for production bottlenecks and supply chain issues.”

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Lendlease gets nod to start Manchester town hall revamp

Manchester city council has agreed to grant Lendlease notice to proceed with its ambitious town hall revamp.

Official notice to proceed with the project was delayed in February by Covid-19 and peregrine falcons nesting in the clock tower.

As a result of the delay, completion of the projects has been pushed back from December 2023 to May 2024 for the town hall.

The construction contract has risen from £190m to £214m and will see the grade one-listed building fully restored along with extensive, improved public realm.

So far £18m works have been placed and £136m procured.

Final project contingency budgets assume the supply chain post-Covid-19 has been able to recover levels of productivity by the end of October.

Final contract issues have now been resolved and a Deed of Variation agreed to reflect the risk of potential further Covid incidents.

This now requires the management contractor to use its best endeavours to prevent delay and further delay.

Works will include restoring the Great Hall and its Ford Madox Brown murals, as well as external repairs to the roof, stonework and drains.

Lendlease has pledged to support the project’s delivery of a range of comprehensive social value commitments including 150 apprenticeships and 45 new jobs targeted at Manchester residents.

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Lendlease gets nod to start Manchester town hall revamp

Manchester city council has agreed to grant Lendlease notice to proceed with its ambitious town hall revamp.

Official notice to proceed with the project was delayed in February by Covid-19 and peregrine falcons nesting in the clock tower.

As a result of the delay, completion of the projects has been pushed back from December 2023 to May 2024 for the town hall.

The construction contract has risen from £190m to £214m and will see the grade one-listed building fully restored along with extensive, improved public realm.

So far £18m works have been placed and £136m procured.

Final project contingency budgets assume the supply chain post-Covid-19 has been able to recover levels of productivity by the end of October.

Final contract issues have now been resolved and a Deed of Variation agreed to reflect the risk of potential further Covid incidents.

This now requires the management contractor to use its best endeavours to prevent delay and further delay.

Works will include restoring the Great Hall and its Ford Madox Brown murals, as well as external repairs to the roof, stonework and drains.

Lendlease has pledged to support the project’s delivery of a range of comprehensive social value commitments including 150 apprenticeships and 45 new jobs targeted at Manchester residents.

from https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2020/07/07/lendlease-gets-nod-to-start-manchester-town-hall-revamp/

[lizziekelso]

90% complete! still need to paint that window well pink and orange

for more detailed updates, look here

[ericfruits]

America’s oldest transport network needs some attention

ONE of the murals depicting the history of Paducah on a wall built to keep out the river shows a captain in his pilot-house, looking over a 15-barge tow with 24,000 tonnes of cargo. At the turn of the last century this small city in Kentucky, at the confluence of the Ohio and Tennessee, became a hub of the inland-waterways system and the home of barge and tugboat companies, dry docks and repair shops. Its Centre for Maritime Education still trains river mariners all over the country.

Another mural shows Lock and Dam 52, about 17 miles downstream from Paducah on the Ohio river, which is now an emblem of America’s crumbling river infrastructure. Lock and Dam 52 and 53 are the busiest spots on the inland river-system, a bottleneck through which 135m tonnes of grain, coal, steel, iron, cement and other cargo move every year. Built in 1928 and 1929 by the Army Corps of Engineers, which maintains waterways, they should have been replaced in 1988, as locks have an expected lifespan of about 50 years. In 1988 Congress approved a budget of $775m to replace them within ten years. Almost 30 years later the Olmsted Locks and Dam, which will replace 52 and 53, is still under construction, in part because the Corps, to save money, experimented with building in the wet rather than making the dam in sections on dry land first. Costs have ballooned to more than $3bn; the project is forecast to be operational by 2024.

“Locks 52 and 53 are a huge headache for the shipping community,” says Mike Toohey of the Waterways Council, an advocacy group. On October 9th Lock 52 was closed for the second time since the start of September, leaving 475 vessels stranded in the grain-harvest season (60% of grain exports move by water). Each unscheduled closure of locks costs tens of thousands of dollars as deliveries of goods are delayed and barge captains and other staff are paid for idling on the banks of the Ohio. The total cost of delays at the two locks is an estimated $640m every year.

The stoppages are also hurting the reputation of inland waterways as the best way to move bulky things around. Roughly 600m tonnes of cargo, or 14% of domestic freight, travels on rivers each year. A single barge has the same dry-cargo capacity as 16 railway goods wagons or 70 lorries, and the liquid-cargo capacity of 46 goods wagons or 144 lorries. A 15-barge tow of dry cargo, as on the mural, is equivalent to 216 goods wagons with six locomotives or 1,050 lorries. Barges emit fewer greenhouses gases, use less fuel and cause far fewer deaths and injuries than lorries or trains. They also tend to be farther from population centres, so that any spills or accidents are likely to cause less damage.

Over the past ten years closures of the 239 locks on America’s rivers have increased sevenfold. The infrastructure report card of the American Society of Civil Engineers gave inland waterways a lowly D this year, since half of all vessels had experienced delays across the inland-waterways system. A closure of the Mississippi costs $300m a day, says Colin Wellenkamp of the Mississippi River Cities and Town Initiative, a non-profit organisation. He thinks most locks need an overhaul and some are close to complete failure.

Advocates of river transport hope it will not take the shutdown of a critical lock for months to focus minds on the investments needed to modernise waterways. President Donald Trump is including locks and dams in his grand plan to invest $1trn in infrastructure. In early June, standing on the banks of the muddy Ohio river with a coal barge in the background, he noted the massive underfunding of repairs of the waterways system and remarked that “we simply cannot tolerate a five-day shutdown on a major thoroughfare for American coal, American oil and American steel,” as happened in December on the Ohio near Pittsburgh. He has not revealed details of his proposal, which will probably rely mostly on cash from public-private partnerships, but at least he seems aware of the problem. “It is the first time we had such presidential attention since FDR,” says the Waterways Council’s Mr Toohey, hopefully.

This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "Take me to the river"

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[lizziekelso]

blue paint!

[lizziekelso]

It took a couple tries, but I think I've found my colors!

And here's a photoshopped color test for the chips I picked:

[lizziekelso]

finally got a decent pic of the glow in the dark paint