Coast Guard launches search and rescue effort while maritime workforce faces wartime sealift mariner shortfall and Puerto Rico struggles with energy and funding issues.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-24 01:11Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A worn commercial shipyard at dusk with a single ship under construction, surrounded by idle cranes and empty docks, as a Coast Guard helicopter flies overhead and a Jones Act tanker sails in the distance, beneath a sky with clouds reflecting the golden light of sunset.
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 commercial shipyard at dusk with a single ship under construction, surrounded by idle cranes and empty docks, as a Coast Guard helicopter flies overhead and a Jones Act tanker sails in the distance, beneath a sky with clouds reflecting the golden light of sunset. 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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Proposal would let foreign-built ships carry US cargo between mainland and territories
A proposal would grant an exemption for foreign-built vessels registered in the U.S., with U.S. owners and crew, to carry cargo between the contiguous and noncontiguous jurisdictions.
By Ingrid Sorensen · 2wA proposal would grant an exemption for foreign-built vessels registered in the U.S., flying the U.S. flag, with U.S. owners and crew to carry cargo between the contiguous and noncontiguous jurisdictions.
The Jones Act exists to maintain a U.S. merchant fleet for national defense in emergencies. The Merchant Marine Act of 1936 established the United States Maritime Commission and required a U.S. merchant marine with U.S.-built ships and citizen crews. Most nations have cabotage laws for economic protectionism or national security; 80% of UN members with coastlines have such laws.
Crew costs form the biggest cost difference between U.S. and foreign-flag vessels, with U.S. containership crew costs 5.5 times higher and RO/RO 5.2 times higher. Massachusetts Maritime Academy and other maritime academies maintain partnerships with MARAD, the Military Sealift Command, and the U.S. Navy, reinforcing the link between commercial maritime and national defense. The Alianza is affiliated with the American Maritime Partnership, a main national trade association for the Jones Act industry.
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