• (prettypleasedesign)
• it's been a pretty minute'
• doesn't everything taste better when it's pretty
• (kevin nadal) : our brown skin, slanted eyes and spanish surnames often confuse people. Sometimes, we are told (directly or indirectly) that we aren't really Asian; that our skin is too dark; or that we are among the lowest of the Asian totem pole. Because these messages are often communicated by East Asian Americans (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, or Korean Americans), many Filipino Americans report feeling more affinity with Pacific Islanders, Latinx, and Black Americans, and some build coalitions with South Asians to proclaim that Brown Asians exist.
• So, even if many of us are taught to be proud of our ethnic identity as Filipinos, we can still carry with us an internalized oppression or colonial mentality, that teaches us that dark skin and indigenous qualities are bad.An aisle devoted to “whitening lotion” at a grocery store in Metro Manila.colonial mentality is harmful and has long-lasting negative effects on our psyche. Colonial mentality has been linked to depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and more. It affects the way we think about ourselves (e.g., how attractive we feel, how capable we feel about doing things).Generally, Ati people and other Negritos in the Philippines are way poorer than the general population; they tend to die early or have poor health conditions; and they are heavily discriminated against by other Filipinos who view them as intellectually inferior or uncivilized. it is important for Filipinos (and Filipino Americans) to pay respects to indigenous people who once inhabited the 7000 islands that we now call the Philippines.
• aum supreme truth - aimed to take over japan then the whole world. emphasize the imminence of the end of the world . On 20 March 1995, Aum members simultaneously released the chemical nerve agent sarin on several Tokyo subway trains, killing 12 persons and injuring up to 6,000. The group was responsible for other mysterious chemical accidents in Japan in 1994. The Aum�s current membership is estimated to be less than 1,000 persons. At the time of the Tokyo subway attack, the group claimed to have 9,000 members in Japan and as many as 40,000 worldwide.board the trains: five bags filled with liquid nerve agent, left by members of a doomsday cult.

The packages were leaking. Passengers felt stinging fumes hitting their eyes.

The toxin struck victims down in a matter of seconds, leaving them choking and vomiting, some blinded and paralysed. Thirteen people died and at least 5,800 were injured in five co-ordinated attacks on three train lines.

The cause was Sarin, a nerve agent developed by the Nazis. It was the worst domestic terror attack ever carried out on Japanese soil.The group's founder, Shoko Asahara, declared himself to be both Christ and the first "enlightened one" since Buddha.Former cult members have testified that they paid handsomely for rituals involving Asahara's hair and bathwater - despite the group urging followers to reject materialism. One described paying more than £6,115 ($8,100) in 1988 for a "blood initiation" where he drank what was said to be the leader's blood.Aum gradually became a paranoid doomsday cult, convinced the world was about to collapse into World War Three and only its members would survive.

• (bbc)
• A Japanese man has died on a flight from Mexico City after ingesting 246 bags of cocaine.

The flight, bound for Japan's Narita International Airport, had to make an emergency landing in Mexico's Sonora state after he began to have seizures.

Authorities said the man, identified as Udo N, died of a cerebral edema caused by a drug overdose.

The passenger transferred to the flight after starting his journey in the Colombian capital Bogotá.

According to a statement by Sonora's attorney general, the bags - measuring 2.5cm long and 1cm wide - were found in his stomach and intestines during the autopsy.

• kumander liwayway
• joined school for communist guerillas. started as a nurse but began to provide food and supplies, mostly by stealing from jp troops. would wear lipstick before each battle.
• childrens hospital of philadelphia
• Circular arguments use the preliminary assumption as the basis for arriving at the same conclusion.

Example: When someone says MMR vaccine causes autism and their child got autism because he got the MMR vaccine, this is an example of a circular argument. Reality check: Multiple well-controlled studies on several continents involving hundreds of thousands of children have not identified a link between the development of autism and receipt of the MMR vaccine. Likewise, the notion that a child is harmed by receiving too many vaccines has also been studied and is not supported by the findings.Appeals to ignorance take advantage of what is not known. Sometimes, they focus on the notion that something has never been, or can never be, proven definitively.Science offers a way to understand the world in which we live. However, it does not allow us to definitively rule out that something will never happen. When someone suggests that a vaccine mandate will lead to a state takeover of parental rights, this is an example of a slippery slope fallacy. Reality check: Vaccine mandates are not an attempt by the government to control parental decisionmaking but rather to keep communities safe by ensuring that more people are vaccinated. Mandates increase immunization rates and ensure a vaccine supply for those who couldn’t otherwise afford vaccinations.When someone uses anecdotes of a small group of individuals as evidence for a link between vaccines and autism, this is an example of a hasty generalization. Reality check: It is reasonable to observe a group of individuals who got vaccinated and were subsequently diagnosed with autism and hypothesize that a causal relationship could exist. However, it is not enough to stop with the observation. To know if there is a causal relationship, controlled studies need to compare people who did and did not get vaccinated to see if those who got vaccinated were more likely to be diagnosed with autism. The good news is this has been done — repeatedly — and no causal relationship has been found.Equivocation occurs when someone takes advantage of the fact that a word has more than one meaning to mislead. Example: When someone claims that vaccines

• wikipedia
• rainbow - caused by refraction, reflection, dispersion of light in water droplets. rainbows caused by sunlight always appear in the opposite direction of the sun. Rainbows can be full circles. However, the observer normally sees only an arc formed by illuminated droplets above the ground. in a primary rainbow, red is on the outer part and violet is in the inner part. This rainbow is caused by light being refracted when entering a droplet of water, then reflected inside on the back of the droplet and refracted again when leaving it.A rainbow is not located at a specific distance from the observer, but comes from an optical illusion caused by any water droplets viewed from a certain angle relative to a light source. Thus, a rainbow is not an object and cannot be physically approached.
• cherry blossoms floating on top of dry coconut. feeling fashionable just by stepping in (the cafe). small donuts topped with pale pink white chocolate and dried strawberries. cheese and spices are pressed in a croissant rich in the finest french butter. the flavor of fragrant butter, mochi-like cheese. rich soy milk smoothies provided in glass milk bottles. a well-cooked bowl of rice,
• italian
• maiale- pork
• cena- dinner, pranzo- lunch, colazione - breakfast, panino - ONE italian sandwich (panini is plural), lampone - raspberry, fiordilatte - cream, peperoncini - red pepper flakes, cipolle - onions, salsa di pomodoro - tomato sauce, bicchiere d'acqua- glass o water, spremuta d'arancia - freshly squeezed orange juice, succo di frutta, fruit juice