South Korea commits $150B to US shipbuilding as MARAD signs nuclear shipping pact and Virginia Tech develops adhesive to outlast aging Jones Act ships.
how this picture was made
Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-04 00:54Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A bustling shipyard at dusk with workers in orange vests and hard hats, surrounded by massive ship hulls and cranes, while a large US flag waves in the background, and a faint glow of nuclear reactors shines in the distance, under a warm orange sky with fluffy clouds.
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 shipyard at dusk with workers in orange vests and hard hats, surrounded by massive ship hulls and cranes, while a large US flag waves in the background, and a faint glow of nuclear reactors shines in the distance, under a warm orange sky with fluffy clouds. 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)
987c44d56cfbe39b4105bf0d4db79adfb614b4f6aabbad6d992db751ffd4ca91
USACE says NFEnergía dock permit expired, dredging not authorized
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers told NFEnergía that its 2019 permit for dock work at a Puerto Rico facility has expired and does not cover proposed dredging or a new mooring line.
By Sander Voss · 5wThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers told NFEnergía that a 2019 permit for dock work at its Puerto Rico facility has expired and does not authorize the proposed dredging or a new mooring configuration, according to a letter signed by USACE manager Vivian Gerena.
USACE found that NFEnergía had previously indicated in a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission filing that it had obtained authorization for certain activities, but the Corps clarified that the 2019 permit had expired and did not cover the proposed dredging or extending the mooring line 36 feet into the water.
The Jones Act requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried on U.S.-built, U.S.-flagged, U.S.-owned, and U.S.-crewed ships. Complying with all U.S. work rules and manning requirements adds approximately $12,000 to $15,000 per day to U.S.-flag operating costs. Any newbuild work or major conversions are performed in U.S. shipyards to comply with the Jones Act.
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