Cockfighting Tour: A Visit at the La Loma Cockpit

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My grandfather was a "sabungero" or "mananabong" (cockfighter). I remember him visiting our home so early in the morning to bring us some "puto" (rice cakes) from the "palengke" (public market) before proceeding to the cockpit which was just one ride away from our home. His routine would be to pass first by the public market near their home (one city away) to buy those rice cakes for us, then head on over to our home to drop off the treats. I was still in grade school but I remember him vividly well because my parents would always wake us up when he arrives. He will not join us for breakfast and will only have coffee before he leaves for the cockpit. I can still remember the rooster or cock which he carries around inside a box filled with holes and has a handle for convenience in carrying.

I was still too young to realize he was into cockfighting. During those days I thought it was just one of his pets. We had our own share of pets during my younger years. We had rabbits, ducks, dogs, turtles, chickens, and lots of birds of different kinds that made our home look like a mini-zoo. It never occurred to me that you can train animals to fight each other. All I've personally seen close to it during those days was spider fighting among my friends. My playmates would capture and force spiders to fight atop a stick. We would hunt for spiders at nearby areas where lots of trees used to exist, and put them inside matchbox cages. There was indeed a lot of thrill and excitement to see those little creatures fight each other. I can imagine right now what it feels like when cockfighters do the same with their cocks. 

Cockfighting is a blood sport in which two cocks bred for aggressiveness are encouraged to fight to the death. It happens in many neighborhoods especially in the provinces around the country. It is however considered illegal and a felony in many other countries. The chickens are pumped up with stimulants and have sharp razor blades or ice-pick-like gaffes affixed to their legs. They hack each other to death at the cockpit ring to the amazement of the spectators. Punctured bodies, gouged eyes, and other grievous wounds are part-and-parcel of cockfighting. It is a way of gambling in the Philippines but it is also seen as a national sport where both the rich and poor gather and witness some kind of extreme confrontation between fighting birds.

Dare You - Reason to Prank by HighSNR Updated on the Google Play Store!

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An independent game app developer based in Herzliya, Israel has just released an update to their first Android app which is available for free on the Google Play Store. Their game app, which was just released earlier this month,  is a social real life mission game where users must accomplish over 300 unique dares and compete with Pranksters around the world. Users can submit their prank videos to the app based on the mission suggested by other users, get scored and level up. It is also great for bets (loser has to do a dare) for drinking games, and for people who don't want to do dares but want to enjoy funny videos. Imagine an app that motivates you to Prank, Dare, Humiliate, get Wild and most importantly - have lots of FUN!

HighSNR, an independent Android development team that consists of four people from different background from engineering, design, and programming, just released their first app on the Google Play Store called Dare You - Reason to Prank. The unique app is a social real life mission game that allows user to connect with other Pranksters around the world, challenge and be challenged, do some crazy stuff, creatively prank others and most of all, to have a tons of fun.

With Dare You, user can submit their own prank video based on the mission suggested by other user, get score, level up and compete with others. User can also suggest challenging dares, rate each accomplished mission submitted by other, and share the videos for everyone to laugh at. This app challenges user to be creative to dig all the crazy sense of humor, let people get away from day-to-day boredom by creatively providing a deliciously cruel entertainment that will make people laugh for hours.

Fortifying Facebook: Privacy and Security Settings You Need to Know

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Managing proper Facebook privacy and security setting can be sometimes complicated.

This is why Kaspersky Lab, a leading secure developer of secure content and threat management solutions, came up with tutorial videos to guide Facebook users on how to protect their privacy including their future posts.

These videos might be helpful especially for Facebook users who don't have time to check and customize their account privacy settings.

Kaspersky shares a two-part video tutorial series where it explore Facebook’s various privacy and security settings in 10 minutes or less.

The first part tackles the security features offered by the world’s largest social network, explaining what each of the features does and offering advice on how to securely configure your Facebook profile.

While the second part of the tutorial series focuses primarily on how the users can use Facebook in as private a manner as possible. The video also explains what each of the features does and gives advice on how to configure your Facebook profile in a way that promotes privacy.