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China’s influencers will now be required to prove they are qualified when giving medicinal, financial or legal advice on their social media.
On Tuesday, China’s State Administration of Radio and Television and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism released a joint statement outlining a new “code of conduct.”
The new mandate requires any influencer livestreaming content that calls for a “higher professional level,” to be qualified in the area.
Streaming platforms will now be responsible for reviewing a streamer’s qualifications and approving the content before broadcast.
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Also included in the code of conduct are rules against criticizing the Communist Party or traditional Chinese culture and the prohibition of posting content that threatens national security.
No livestream can show “excessive” horror or be too sexually provocative, and livestreamers cannot promote smoking or drinking, participate in activities that show excessive food waste or engage in scandals or gossip.
Failure to abide by the code could lead to becoming permanently banned from livestreaming as well as being featured on Beijing’s public shame list of violators.
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The news comes amid China’s recent efforts to tighten regulations on online content.
Earlier this month the country’s cybersecurity regulator, Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), unveiled its new initiative to counter cyberbullying and illicit, online content featuring pornography, suicide and violence.
Last month, China announced its ban on children under 16 years old from buying online gifts for influencers and watching live streaming content after 10 p.m.
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Those were the first two words Lehigh Valley Softball Carpenter Cup coach Brian Fehnel had for his players on Wednesday afternoon as they gathered one final time behind a dugout at FDR Park in Philadelphia.
Lehigh Valley’s run ended with a 7-3 defeat to Mid-Penn in the semifinals of the 17th annual tournament sponsored by the Phillies.
On their return trip to the sprawling park adjacent to the Philly sports complex, the local girls showed their grit one more time in a 5-3 come-from-behind win over defending Carpenter Cup champ Delaware South to advance to the final four.
However, the team couldn’t muster another rally after getting behind 6-0 to a Mid-Penn team featuring players from schools such as Cumberland Valley, Central Dauphin, Cedar Cliff, Chambersburg and Shippensburg.
They still stirred enough to get some runs on the board and demonstrated unity and enthusiasm until the end and finished the tournament with a 3-2 record.
It was near carbon copy of how things went in 2021 when Lehigh Valley also went 3-2 and reached the tournament semifinals before suffering an 11-8 loss to Mid-Penn. Mid-Penn also followed the same script as in 2021, losing the title game 1-0 to Jersey Shore.
But while they had the same record, this year’s Lehigh Valley team had surprising success considering it looked as though the Lehigh Valley wouldn’t have a team after Blake Morgan, who ran the local Carpenter Cup squad for several years, retired as Whitehall’s coach last year.
It wasn’t until mid-May when Fehnel was asked and agreed to take on the team. A few phone calls were made and tryouts arranged and a few practices were held before the team headed to Philly at dawn on Monday morning for its first game.
“These are just a great group of kids,” Fehnel said. “They don’t quit. We only…
June 17, 2022
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LOS ANGELES, CA – NOVEMBER 13: Singer/songwriter Justin Bieber performs onstage during An Evening With Justin Bieber at Staples Center on November 13, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images for Universal Music)
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 22: In this image released on November 22, Justin Bieber performs onstage for the 2020 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 22, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/AMA2020/Getty Images for dcp)
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Justin Bieber’s concert at Mohegan Sun Arena has been postponed as the singer recovers from an ongoing medical issue.
The venue announced Wednesday that all of the remaining Justice Tour dates in the U.S. scheduled for June and early July have been postponed after the Grammy award winning artist posted an Instagram video on June 10, detailing his diagnosis with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. The rare condition occurs when a shingles outbreak affects the facial nerve near one of…
Carl LaVO | Special to the Bucks County Courier Times
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Bucks County hosts its 39th annual senior games
Bucks County hosted its 2022 Senior Games from June 1 to 17 to help ages 50+ stay active and healthy.
Ella Castronuovo, Bucks County Courier Times
Where can you take flight in a glider or an antique biplane in Southeastern Pennsylvania? Tinicum Township, How about lifting off into the blue in a Boeing 737? Also Tinicum Township.
True — but in two different Tinicum townships.
The former is home to Van Sant Airport and glider field in Bucks County; the latter home to Philadelphia International Airport in Delaware County. Confusing — at least to me from Florida, where there is no such duplication in 411 incorporated towns.
It got me to wondering how Tinicum-times-two came about in Pennsylvania. The answer can be found in the Native American term for “island” – tennakonk.
Colonists of the future Delaware County disembarked in 1643 on a large island in the river where they founded the first recorded European settlement in Pennsylvania. The Swedish settlers spelled their new community “Tinicum,” approximating what the natives seemed to be saying was the name of the island.
Many years later and 63 miles upriver, English colonists came ashore on another island. Again,…
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Mohegan Sun Pocono on PA live! 6.17.2022
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RINGWOOD, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey officials sued Ford Motor Co. on Thursday, alleging that the automaker contaminated the ancestral homeland of a Native American tribe by dumping paint sludge and other pollutants into a former mine.
The action in state court seeks unspecified damages to restore the land, and to compensate the state and local communities for losses they sustained when natural resources were damaged.
The suit accuses Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford of dumping contaminants at the former Ringwood Mine site, a 500-acre site that encompasses the homelands of the Ramapough Lenape Nation, a tribe formally recognized by the state.
Tribe members attended Thursday’s news conference and spoke of years of illnesses and deaths they attribute to contamination of their land.
“Can you promise my community a future?” tribe member Angel Stefancik asked New Jersey officials during the news conference. “I’ve lived on contaminated land my whole life. I want the kind of land where my ancestors grew up, where you can walk barefoot. I want my rabbits, my toads, fruit trees.
“I lost my grandmother to cancer,” she said. “I’m 22 and I have a long list of chronic conditions. It’s so hard living in that area, but this is my land. I was born there and I will die there.”
The state’s lawsuit alleges that Ford purchased Ringwood Mines in 1965 to use it as a landfill where it could dispose of hazardous waste generated by its auto assembly plant in Mahwah, which was one of the largest auto assembly plants in the U.S.
Between 1967 and 1974, the lawsuit asserts, Ford disposed thousands of tons…
A well-known part of a college campus in Luzerne County is getting a facelift. Whether it’s cause for celebration or mourning, depends on who you ask.
NANTICOKE, Pa. — What is it about a flight of stairs that has close to 100 community college alumni returning to their old stomping grounds just to have one last go at them?
We’ll let 1990 grad Nancy Burkland explain.
“It’s memories, memories that we’re always going to have. And it’s sad that new kids coming in aren’t going to have those memories,” Burkland said. “We have to walk the steps one last time because they’re infamous!”
If you’ve ever taken a class at Luzerne County Community College in Nanticoke, you’ve likely had to climb those infamous steps.
And it’s nearly impossible to do so without forming an opinion on them.
Some go out of their way to avoid scaling the 54-step stairway to campus.
“I always park at building 3, and I take the long way,” says Kelsey Hardy.
Alumna Bonnie Orth remembers, “avoiding them and walking up and down the grass. There’s 1 or 2 times I did it barefoot because I had heels on that were killing my feet.”
Others embrace the challenge.
“I just love the steps. I look forward to them. I purposely park here, even when my classes are over there,” said Nikolene Espinal.
As a mom working on getting her degree, Espinal appreciates the chance to cram in a cardio workout on her way to class.
“This is what I enjoy! I lunge up and down them!”
Because of the awkward size of these steps, everyone has their own unique strategy to best navigate them. You’re either a “two-step person” or a “one-step person.”
“I have to give two steps. I get so tired going…