Monthly Archives: July 2015

Beauty, Business, Diversity, LGBT

ACUVUE UNVEILS NEW (E)QUALITY CONTACT LENSES

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imageJACKSONVILLE, Florida (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Acuvue became the latest company brand to join the bandwagon celebrating the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage.

Acuvue (from “Accurate view”) is a brand of disposable contact lenses. They are made by Vistakon, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, and  is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. The Acuvue lens was introduced in 1987.

Today, Acuvue unveiled the latest addition to its long list of disposable contact lenses — the rainbow contacts.

It comes in both prescription and non-prescription versions.

“Either way, our customers will absolutely love the prism vision they will get from these (e)quality lenses,” a spokesperson for Acuvue said.

 

 

Beauty, Diversity, International

CHANGE OF HEART: MEXICO, PHILIPPINES WILL SEND REPRESENTATIVES TO MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT

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Gordillo, left, and Pacquiao

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Three countries so far have pulled out of the Miss Universe Beauty Pageant because of Donald Trump’s disparaging remarks about Mexicans during the launch of his U.S. presidential campaign. First, it was Mexico, followed by Panama, then the Philippines.

But Mexico and the Philippines have had a change of heart.  They are, after all, sending a representative to this year’s pageant.

Mexico is sending Elba Esther Gordillo while the Philippines is sending Manny Pacquiao’s mom, Dionisia.

Like in previous years, people from around the world will have the chance to vote online for their favorite candidate.  The top vote-getter in the online voting is automatically included in the 10 finalists.

Will it be Gordillo or Pacquiao?  Who would you vote for? Participate in the poll below:

LGBT, Sports

AFTER LOSING THE FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP, JAPAN FILES FORMAL PROTEST AGAINST WINNER UNITED STATES

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imageTOKYO, Japan (The Adobo Chronicles®) – The United States soccer team  routed Japan 5-2 to win the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup today.

Team USA scored two goals within three minutes, and was ahead 4-1 at halftime. While Japan did ultimately score two goals on the previously unstoppable American defense, it was never even close to being enough to compete with the U.S. team.

The game ended up being the highest-scoring final game in the FIFA Women’s World Cup, and avenged America’s loss to Japan in the 2011 World Cup.

But the final game wasn’t the end of the story.

Minutes after its devastating loss to the United States, Japan filed a formal protest before the FIFA Board of Governors, seeking to disqualify the U.S. team  and asked that the World Cup trophy be withdrawn and instead be awarded to Japan.

In its formal petition, Japan said that the American team was coached by Jillian Ellis who is openly lesbian.  Two U.S. team members, Ali Krieger and Abby Wambach are openly gay as well.

Japan argued that “this is supposed to be the Women’s World Cup, not the Lesbian World Cup. Our team was put at a heavy disadvantage.”

The Adobo Chronicles® tried to reach FIFA and the U.S. Women’s soccer team for comment on Japan’s petition, but was unsuccessful.  It looks like the celebration is in full swing and cell phones have been silenced.