SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – Along with other giant Silicon Valley tech companies, Twitter has been often criticized for the lack of diversity in its work force. The San Francisco-based social networking service has had a dismal record of hiring and promoting women and people of color.
In a major year-end move to deal with the issue, Twitter announced that it has named a new vice president of diversity and inclusion, Jeffrey Siminoff. White, male.
SAN PABLO, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – Filipinos are known to be musically-talented. A karaoke machine is more common in households than a television set. But they are also known to love tech gadgets, including the hoverboard.
On Christmas eve, as he concluded the celebration of a traditional midnight mass, a priest in a Catholic church in the city of Biñan, Laguna, just a few miles from Manila, sang an inspirational song, ‘May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You,’ while riding a hoverboard. It was his way of greeting the parishioners and showcasing both his musical talent and tech expertise.
The congregation was very amused and showed appreciation to their pastor with applause. But the Catholic Diocese of San Pablo to which the priest belonged wasn’t. He was suspended.
An investigation is now being conducted to determine whether the funds to purchase the hoverboard came from the church’s Sunday collections.
From top, clockwise: Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach, Miss Colombia Ariadna Guetierrez, Esabela Cabrera, and Synthia Nath
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (The Adobo Chronicles) – It’s been called “the worst disaster in award show history,” “an epic fail,” and a “conspiracy” to boost the sagging ratings of the Miss Universe pageant and promote Steve Harvey’s television career.
Yes, we’re talking about last Sunday’s Miss Universe gaffe in which Harvey first announced the wrong winner, Miss Colombia, as the new title holder. We now know that it was Miss Philippines who had actually won the competition.
But for devoted followers of beauty pageants, they know that this was not the first time a beauty queen was de-crowned.
In 2014, Synthia Nath sued the organizers of the Miss Globe New Zealand pageant after being stripped of her winner titlethat, according to organizers, belonged to “another Indian girl.”
The New Zealand Herald reported Nath, a 19-year-old Fiji native, was mistaken for the real winner of the pageant, which officials said was “another Indian” contestant named Loriza Latif. Organizers of the pageant said it was an “honest mistake” because the two girls “look alike.”
A year earlier, a judicial court in the Philippines ordered the organizers of a local beauty pageant,Mutya ng Pilipinas, to pay the amount of 1.1 Million pesos in damages to a dethroned winner in 1977, Esabela Cabrera.
Cabrera was stripped of the title and organizers gave the crown to first runner-up Annie Moraga, in addition to the cash and other prizes that would have gone to Cabrera.
Cabrera sued for the “lack of due processs” in stripping her of her title.
Now, now, don’t give Miss Colombia any ideas about suing the Miss Universe Organization for her botched title. (Although some Colombian lawyers have already thought of that, apparently!)
SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – Along with other giant Silicon Valley tech companies, Twitter has been often criticized for the lack of diversity in its work force. The San Francisco-based social networking service has had a dismal record of hiring and promoting women and people of color.
SAN PABLO, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – Filipinos are known to be musically-talented. A karaoke machine is more common in households than a television set. But they are also known to love tech gadgets, including the hoverboard.
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