Jones Act ships average 11 to 12 years old and cost three times foreign levels while Power4Puerto Rico ties crisis to the act and colonial framework and a study finds Great Lakes routes could ease congestion.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-21 01:24Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A worn US-flagged cargo ship navigates through a busy Great Lakes harbor as a group of students on a field trip gather at the dock, listening to a Crowley representative, under a cloudy sky with a few sunbeams breaking through, illuminating the ship's rusty hull and the students' curious faces.
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 worn US-flagged cargo ship navigates through a busy Great Lakes harbor as a group of students on a field trip gather at the dock, listening to a Crowley representative, under a cloudy sky with a few sunbeams breaking through, illuminating the ship's rusty hull and the students' curious faces. 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)
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Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and Guam sought Jones Act exemptions in 2014
Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and Guam sought Jones Act exemptions in 2014, after the Puerto Rico Jones Act industry commissioned a study of its trade.
By Nalani Reyes · 2wIn 2014, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and Guam sought exemptions from the Jones Act. The requests came after the Jones Act industry in Puerto Rico commissioned a study of its trade, completed in May 2013 by a consulting company.
The study was prepared for La Alianza Maritima de Puerto Rico, an industry trade association representing Jones Act ship operators and maritime unions in the Puerto Rico trade.
The economies of Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico are the most vulnerable. In Hawaii and Puerto Rico, calls for change are ignored in Washington because special interests spend money to delay votes that benefit the nation.
High Jones Act freight rates on the U.S. Pacific Coast-Hawaii segment allow the ONE AHX service to price its foreign-flag service at a relatively high level.
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