South Korea plans $350B US investment and partners with US on shipbuilding as critics argue the Jones Act blocks disaster aid and hampers national security.
how this picture was made
Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-11 00:34Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A crowded Philadelphia shipyard at sunset with workers in orange vests and hard hats gathered around a massive ship hull, while a Navy secretary and executives meet in the foreground, and a large Korean flag flies beside the American flag in the background, under a sky with hues of orange and pink.
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 crowded Philadelphia shipyard at sunset with workers in orange vests and hard hats gathered around a massive ship hull, while a Navy secretary and executives meet in the foreground, and a large Korean flag flies beside the American flag in the background, under a sky with hues of orange and pink. 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.
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Puerto Rico labor deal could set precedent for shipbuilding, steel industries
Experts warn the agreement may force smaller companies to face unsustainable labor costs if the pattern spreads to other industries.
By Marcus Boone · 4wA labor agreement in Puerto Rico's maritime sector could set a precedent for other U.S. industries including shipbuilding and steel, potentially forcing smaller companies to face unsustainable labor costs, experts warn.
The warning comes amid longstanding criticism of the Jones Act, which restricts domestic waterborne cargo to U.S.-built, U.S.-flagged, U.S.-crewed vessels. Critics say the law makes U.S. shipbuilding and shipping industries highly protected and uncompetitive. Jones Act ships cost about three times foreign levels to build and at least twice as much to operate.
The read here is that any labor cost increase in a protected trade like Puerto Rico's could compound the existing cost gap. One study found that unrestricted competition from foreign-flag vessels could eliminate most U.S.-flag vessels in the Puerto Rico trade, though foreign carriers would lose their labor cost advantage if they had to comply with U.S. labor rules. The report's findings could also affect other noncontiguous domestic trades including Alaska, Guam and Hawaii.
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