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Royal Caribbean confirmed that it will allow all passengers, regardless of vaccination status, to certain locations on its ships.

A spokesman for the company said that starting Sept. 5, it will drop its COVID-19 vaccine requirements “as long as testing requirements are met.”

“We are working with local governments across the Caribbean to coordinate vaccination requirements for additional itineraries,” the spokesman told USA Today.

On its website, Royal Caribbean said that “a COVID-19 vaccination is not required for cruises departing from homeports in California, Louisiana or Texas.” The company had required guests 12 and older to provide proof of vaccination before boarding ships in North America.

Carnival Change Requirements

Similarly, Carnival Cruise Line is relaxing COVID-19 testing requirements for vaccinated passengers and allowing unvaccinated individuals to travel without exemption.

“Carnival is pleased to announce new policies applicable to cruises departing September 6, 2022 or later that will make it easier for more guests to sail with simplified vaccination and testing policies, including no testing for vaccinated guests on cruises of less than 16 nights and eliminating the exemption request process for unvaccinated guests who only need to present a negative test result upon embarkation,” Carnival said in a statement.

The cruise line’s announcement said it would no longer require testing for vaccinated passengers who are fewer than 16 nights on board ships. Unvaccinated passengers will not have to submit exemption requests, the company said, adding that the changes would take effect next month.

All unvaccinated passengers “are welcome to sail and no longer need to apply for a vaccination exemption, except when cruising in Australia or on voyages of 16 nights and longer,” the statement said.

Vaccinated passengers, she added, “are still required to provide proof of their vaccination status prior to embarkation.”

The cruise industry has been hit hard since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. A few weeks ago, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ended its COVID-19 ship reporting rules and urged cruise lines to relax the guidelines.

“CDC has worked closely with the cruise industry, state, territory and local health authorities, and federal and seaport partners to create a safer and healthier environment for cruise passengers and crew,” the CDC said in July. “Cruise ships have access to guidance and tools to manage their own COVID-19 mitigation programs.”

In the spring of 2020, international media focused intensely on an outbreak aboard the Diamond Princess cruise that took place off a port in Japan for several weeks. At the same time, some ships that had reported COVID-19 outbreaks were prevented from docking in a number of different ports, including within the United States.

And despite rules imposed by cruise lines that require everyone on board to be vaccinated, there have been multiple instances of ships reporting dozens of people on board have contracted COVID-19 this year. This included, for example, a “100 percent vaccinated” Princess Cruises ship that reported a COVID-19 outbreak in March.

The Epoch Times has reached out to Royal Caribbean for comment.

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Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times, based in New York.

Tesla Inc. has produced more than 3 million vehicles, and a third of those were built in China, according to Elon Musk.

On Sunday, the Tesla boss congratulated the company’s “Gigafactory” in Shanghai. in a tweet: “Congratulations to Giga Shanghai on their millionth car! In total, over 3 million Teslas have now been made.”

The milestone came just weeks after Musk said Tesla’s factory was in Fremont, California.produced its 2 millionth vehicle. Tesla also has new factories in Austin, Texas, and Berlin, which Musk described as “money furnaces” in June.

The Shanghai plant opened in 2018 but has been plagued by temporary closures due to COVID-19 restrictions and parts shortages.

In July, Tesla said it had delivered nearly 255,000 vehicles in the second quarter, down about 18% sequentially. Still, the electric-car maker beat Wall Street expectations for its second-quarter results and defied forecasts that the Shanghai shutdown would hurt its bottom line.

When earnings were released, Musk said the company had been “in supply chain hell for several years,” but barring one surprise, “we have the potential for a record-breaking second half.”

In that report, Tesla said the Shanghai plant achieved “the highest vehicle production month in our history” in June.

Tesla shares TSLA, +4.68%, are up 25% over the past month as a 3-for-1 stock split is due on Aug. 24, but they’re still up about year-to-date against the S&P 500 15% down SPX, +1.73% 10% drop this year.

The former mayor of the municipality of Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie, André Lavallée, died on Sunday morning at the age of 70.

It was his wife, Chantale Bertrand, who made the announcement on the politician’s Facebook page at the end of the day.

“It is with great sadness that I announce that my beloved André passed away this morning. Many of you have shown great support over the past few months. I want to thank you and tell you how valuable this support has been for André, for me, his daughters Amélie and Catherine and our beautiful Samuelle,” she wrote.

Ms Bertrand described Mr Lavallée as “a loving husband, caring father and grandfather” who “leaves a significant legacy in his Montreal community, and particularly in East Montreal and in his beloved Rosemont neighborhood, both through its militant implications as well as its public ones.” offices he has held”.

André Lavallée was mayor of the Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie borough from 2005 to 2009 and a member of the Montreal Executive Committee.

He was also Deputy Secretary General for Metropolitan France (2012) and then Deputy Assistant Minister for Metropolitan France (2014-2015) for the Government of Quebec.

Mr. Lavallée is also considered the “father” of the Bixi bike-sharing service.

One of the best ways ETF investors have beaten the market this year has been to play it safe. So-called buffer ETFs, an options-based product that allow investors to protect themselves against losses in exchange for potential upside, easily outperformed the S&P 500 in 2022 despite the market’s recent rebound. For example, the buffer series offered by Innovator ETFs shows consistent outperformance for the funds tied to the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY). The innovator US Equity Buffer ETF for January (BJAN), which rebalanced just before reaching record highs in the market, is down 5.8% this year, compared to 10.1% for the SPY. The August fund (BAUG), which was rebalanced a few weeks ago, is down just 3.7% year to date. They’ve also proven popular, with Innovator generating more than $1.2 billion in inflows into its defined outcomes products in the second quarter, according to the company. CEO Bruce Bond said market volatility motivated some previously interested investors and advisors to jump into the products. “Suddenly when the market falters or becomes really unknown, they come back and say, okay, I’m going to get involved here. I’ll use that more actively,” Bond said. The basic structure of the funds from Innovator and competitors like First Trust is as follows: The ETF gets access to the market through a deep-in-the-money call option on a broad ETF like SPY. Then the fund implements a put spread to protect against downside movements. For example, the put spread might consist of buying a put at-the-money and then selling a put 10% below-the-money. This would mean that the fund would theoretically not suffer any losses for the first 10% of a decline in the underlying asset. To pay for this position, the fund then writes another call option, which creates the “cap” for upside gains. Exact levels of protection and caps may vary by fund. For example, Innovator offers 9% and 15% loss protection and 5% to 35% loss protection funds in its main series of Buffer ETFs, and has other variations as well. First Trust’s offer includes buffers of 10% and 25%. The FT Cboe Vest US Equity Buffer ETF – January fund is down less than 1% this year. Source: Innovator, First Trust Ryan Issakainen, ETF strategist at First Trust, said the buffer ETFs can act as a replacement for a traditional 60-40 portfolio, but this year given the rising bond yields, the buffer ETFs have proven to be balanced proved more protective than this old-school strategy. Issakainen said the funds can also serve as a counterbalance to an investor’s riskier bets elsewhere. “You can combine a less volatile buffer ETF with some more volatile opportunistic trades,” Issakainen said. How to invest in the funds A peculiarity of these products is that since the funds are options based and do not track the underlying index, they do not perfectly track the market even if they are between the buffer zone and the cap. Bond said the funds “rhyme the market” but typically see them lag the market up and down ahead of their defined rebalancing period. Innovator offers funds for each month holding 12 month positions. “An option initially has time value, so it doesn’t move like the market. But the closer the option gets to expiration, the more market-like it becomes,” Bond said. This phenomenon can result in the Funds posting worse than expected returns outside of their rebalancing periods. Morningstar research analyst Lan Anh Tran said that for investors to get the funds’ advertised benefits, the best way is to buy them and hold them over their designated timeframes. “The defined result comes with the expiry of the options. So if you can, hold it for the one-year holding period that many of these funds have, but if for any reason you have to exit or change your mind, there’s no guarantee,” Tran said. The rebalancing period is also important because it can affect how much upside potential remains in a fund, as the stock rally in recent months has hit the cap harder for funds that have made new options contracts near the market bottom.For example, the SPY already has the cap of around 2.4% for Innovator’s super-conservative Defined Wealth Shield ETF (BALT), which rebalanced in July.One good thing for investors this year, however, is that volatility is the call option used to create the cap , makes it more valuable to the market As a result, caps have risen The recently rebalanced August fund (BAUG) has a potential net return of 21.66%, while the 11-month-old September Fund (BSEP) can only return 12.11%. “It’s significantly higher than this time last year. I think volatility is a good thing for these caps. When the market is volatile, caps tend to expand,” Bond said.

American golfer Jake Scott set the record for the best cumulative card in Canada Cup history, allowing him to lift the trophy Sunday in Victoriaville.

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Scott consistently posted a 69 (-3) in the last lap, increasing his score to -24. Only Nova Scotian Eric Banks has hit the ball as rarely as Scott (264) in any edition of the tournament, a feat he matched in 2019.

Banks also shone on Sunday, subtracting 10 strokes from par to complete the top 3 at -20.

“This win is the result of many, many efforts over the past several years and it is slowly beginning to pay off,” Scott said, according to a Golf Quebec statement.

Playing partner Drew Nesbitt was his biggest threat on Sunday. He took advantage of a great start to finish three shots off the lead at -21.

“I knew Drew was a great player and would fight all day, so I had to go full throttle,” explained the winner.

The 34-year-old accepted a check for $25,000 for the win.

“It’s a special event, it looks like the whole city is coming to join in and cheer us on the square. It’s one of my favorite stops of the year and I’m very fortunate to be able to play some quality amateur golf over the past few days.

On the amateur side, Saint Bruno golfer Brandon Rattray took the honors.

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A Long Island man has been arrested and charged after he allegedly attacked three people with a machete at a Dick’s Sporting Goods store while trying to buy guns.

“So many things could have gone wrong here,” Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison said after Friday’s attack, Newsday reported. “If he was able to buy a gun, who knows what he was going to do with it. There was a man running around with a machete attacking people for no reason. That could have been a lot worse.”

Police say Treyvius Tunstall, 22, of western Babylon, visited a Dick’s Sporting Goods store in Bay Shore on Friday afternoon and bought a machete, knife and backpack. He inquired about buying guns at the store, but was told he had to go to the chain’s Patchogue location to purchase guns.

According to police, Tunstall reached the Patchogue store around 3:15 p.m. on Friday. A store employee asked about a background check for the man who bought the firearms, which led to Tunstall walking away and allegedly attacking a store employee and two customers with a machete, police said.

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A general view of Dick’s Sporting Goods store in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S., February 28, 2018. Portal/Eduardo Munoz (Portal/Eduardo Munoz)

The suspect went to the store’s emergency exit and attacked an assistant manager at the store who was moving a ladder, Newsday reported, citing Harrison. The employee suffered machete injuries to his upper body, arms and head. The clerk had severed tendons in his arm, and Harrison credited the police and paramedics with tying a tourniquet around the clerk’s arm, which may have saved his life. The worker is expected to survive but was taken to a local hospital in serious condition on Saturday, Newsday reported.

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Tunstall is said to have hit a customer in the head with the back of the machete, which was captured on surveillance video. The suspect attacked another customer in the parking lot, leaving lacerations on his arm and shoulder, according to Harrison.

No motive for the attack was determined. About 15 customers and 10 employees were in the store at the time of the attack, according to Newsday.

Guns for sale are seen at Dick’s Sporting Goods store in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, the United States, on February 28, 2018. Portal/Eduardo Munoz (Portal/Eduardo Munoz)

“I’m not sure why he wanted to buy these rifles or why he wanted to buy these rifles,” Harrison said. “I think it’s very important to protect people. Certain laws must be in place, and red flag laws will be very important to public safety.”

Tunstall reportedly did not speak during the attacks, Harrison said.

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Tunstall was arrested after running into a wooded area near a Pep Boys store, where he dumped the machete near a dumpster. The police ordered him to lie on the ground at gunpoint and they found another knife on him during the arrest.

Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney K. Harrison speaks at a news conference in March. (Suffolk County Police Department/Facebook) (Suffolk County Police Department Facebook)

He pleaded not guilty to three counts of assault and six counts of criminal possession of a weapon. According to Newsday, Tunstall’s Suffolk County legal aid attorney has requested a medical review, saying her client may not understand the charges he is facing.

A judge set his bail at $400,000 cash or $800,000 bail and ordered him to stay away from the victims, according to the outlet.

Tunstall was arrested for burglary back in 2018 and was charged with menace earlier this year after he allegedly threatened his mother with a knife, according to Harrison.

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On Monday, the US Treasury Department added Tornado Cash to its blacklist, banning American citizens from using the crypto mixing site because it “has been used to create more than $7 billion worth of virtual currencies since its inception in 2019.” to wash”. Separately, we woke up at Decrypt on Tuesday to find that our newsletter provider, Mailchimp, had deactivated our account without warning – and our coverage revealed that Mailchimp had been doing the same to a bevy of other crypto publishers over the past few weeks, including Messari and edge wallet.

These two events are obviously very different in magnitude. The tornado cash sanctioning is huge news that has rocked the crypto industry, while our newsletter plight is of little interest to anyone outside of the crypto media. (And do we feel ashamed that we even used Mailchimp, as the company had done so before, banning a number of crypto accounts in 2018.)

But they are an integral part of a broader anti-crypto movement, from governments to corporations – and the backlash will soon spread to open-minded norms if not reversed.

People in power really, really hate crypto.

The current brutal bear market – specifically the collapse of Terra, Celsius and other junk projects and companies that people in crypto know shouldn’t be viewed as representative of the entire industry – has provided crypto haters with a series of events, to point to as evidence that the entire industry is a scam, a scam, a Ponzi, a joke.

The government’s conclusion seems even worse: Crypto is a tool for criminals. It doesn’t matter that there are a number of legitimate privacy-focused reasons to use a crypto mixer like Tornado Cash.

– you worry that they might not let you join this super secret chat if they know your assets come from mimicking in $ASSROCKET69

– You have been doped and are being harassed online

– You want to donate to a polarizing cause

– You want to give me 1000 ETH anonymously

— Reza (@RezaJafery) August 8, 2022

Now, tornado cash sanctioning becomes the litmus test of whether projects and companies want to align immediately or fight back against non-compliance. It is a test that many projects fail from the point of view of real degens and crypto OGs.

It should come as no surprise to anyone that the GitHub code repository has suspended a Tornado Cash founder’s account and removed the Tornado Cash source code; GitHub is owned by Microsoft. And Mailchimp is owned by Intuit. Many large Web 1.0 companies are choosing not to be involved with crypto (although some large luxury brands such as Tiffany’s and Gucci, in contrast, are opting for crypto).

It wouldn’t be very surprising if OpenSea does either. NFT folks on Twitter have claimed their accounts have been suspended and believe it was due to using Tornado Cash, but OpenSea has not confirmed this, merely telling Decrypt in a statement: “We comply with US Sanctions Law . Our Terms of Service specifically prohibit any sanctioned person, country or service from using OpenSea.”

Surprising is the decentralized exchange dYdX, which blocks wallets connected to Tornado Cash.

What happens next will rightfully cause many to question the true meaning of “decentralization” and which projects should be using the label.

Additions to the shame list:@open sea @dYdX @Microsoft (GitHub Owner/Politician)

All of these companies have gone beyond the requirements of the sanctions law. Not only did they obey an unjust command, they did whatever it took to do additional wrongs. https://t.co/HlpBXHk7Gp

– Micha Zoltu (@MicahZoltu) August 12, 2022

What normal people need to understand about all of this, in addition to the fact that crypto privacy tools aren’t just for criminals, is that anyone can send tokens to someone’s crypto wallet if they have the public address. For this reason, it is excessive and draconian for services to ban all wallets holding Tornado Cash crypto, as demonstrated by a wily rapier by “dusting” a number of celebrity crypto wallets with small amounts of ETH powered by Tornado Cash had gone.

Still, most Web3 creators don’t want their company shut down (or worse, go to jail) to prove how wrong the government is about crypto. Fair enough.

Holy shit, I’ll be real. I think what I’m working on is cool and important, but not important to go to jail

— alephv.eth (@alpeh_v) August 12, 2022

As many crypto advocates have pointed out, the government is now prosecuting not just individuals or the companies they create, but the code itself. As for Mailchimp, I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that the mass banning of crypto publishers content is a form of censorship.

We are seeing the start of a war against crypto.

What should I do? I’ve been writing about Bitcoin since 2011 and have always said that the only thing that will convert skeptics and haters is real everyday use cases. We’re clearly not there yet, although many crypto experts might disagree.

Sam Bankman-Fried agrees: In the latest episode of our gm podcast, Sam said the current crypto winter won’t really end until we start using crypto for everyday purposes, and the use cases so far “are not yet really in the realm of being live use cases.”

“I don’t think ‘live use cases currently in use for key parts of the world’ is the right way to describe most of today’s crypto,” he continued. “Well, that’s not to say it never will be. I think in many ways, maybe we’re not that far from that change, we might not be that far from a world where crypto actually sees a lot of adoption and usage. And I think a lot of good mapping has been done.”

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Three people have been arrested in Florida, United States, on suspicion of physically assaulting a man and forcing him to dance in a dress.

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The victim was abducted by three people while walking on a street in Collier County, according to Law & Crime.

The man was reportedly taken more than 30 minutes from the scene of his abduction in an SUV before being forcibly taken to the home of one of the suspects, 39-year-old Noah Navarro.

According to his version of the facts, this was the beginning of the victim’s ordeal.

The suspects stole his personal belongings, stripped him naked and beat him. Navarro even pointed a gun in his direction. A suspect, Betsy Ann DeJesus, is said to have filmed the man dancing in a dress while threatening to kill him.

Another suspect, Blanca Mejiamedina, is said to have cut off part of the victim’s face, according to authorities.

A few minutes later, the victim was taken to another sector, but he managed to escape from his captors.

Police present at the second Glades County crime scene prevented the kidnappers from catching up with the individual.

The man then hid in a church and dialed 911 to notify police of his whereabouts.

According to the local police’s initial report, the victim continued to receive threats on his cellphone.

All three arrested are charged with aggravated assault, burglary and kidnapping.