Dutdutan 16: The Biggest Tattoo Expo in the Philippines Is Here Again

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There's an online campaign out there that wants to push the proclamation of 95 year old Wang-od, oldest tattoo artist from Kalinga, as a national artist of the Philippines. Would you agree with this recognition for her?

Tattooing is indeed considered as an art no matter how some people would look at it as desecrating the holiness of our body. After all, it's our body so it's up to us whether we keep it as is or embellish it with all sorts of decorative ornaments may it be permanent or temporary. 

The images or text engraved on the skin are in its truest sense can be really creative depending on the artist and the person carrying it. Sometimes, it's the location of the tattoo that makes it more meaningful and significant, most of the time even sentimental, and would represent the character or personality of the bearer.

The tattoo artists are hailed whenever they finish a masterpiece on their clients' bodies, anywhere from head to toe, and even deep within parts of the bodies that are rarely seen. There are times people just have tattoos for only their personal appreciation by keeping it private and for their eyes only, or limited for their loved ones or special intimacies.

Here's your chance to have a tattoo or two, or three, as the biggest tattoo convention in the country is almost here again. Scheduled on August 12 and 13 at the World Trade Center, the event hopes to be a bigger and better venue for all tattoo lovers where all forms of our wild side will get the chance to get out again as we relish on our new tattoo, while enjoying the music, babes, merchandise and everything else that defines us.

Pak Ganern?: Cringe When People Justify Extrajudicial Killings

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"According to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, some 660 drug suspects have been killed to date: 436 in police operations and 224 by unidentified assailants. On the rising death toll, President Duterte, said Thursday, “I do not care. I really don’t care.” But on Friday evening, the President acknowledged the abuses in the battle against illegal drugs – for the very first time - fueling speculations he was high on drugs." - The Professional Heckler

I agree with Richard Branson when he said “Fighting fire with fire won’t work. The Philippines must reverse course immediately and choose evidence-based policies that put people first, reduce harm and put an end to these atrocities.” We should rehabilitate and not kill those drug users. Even those pushers deserve an opportunity to change their ways. The real culprits here are the ones manufacturing the drugs. However, our authorities are only keen of "cleansing" the country of the small time offenders, yet give the big time masterminds a chance to get away (by all means).

Those shoot-to-kill orders could only come from a madman. Only madmen would believe it is a must to kill their fellow human beings. Never give up on humanity because you are one of them.

My issue with what has been going on is the need to "rehabilitate" rather than kill. It is inhuman for a leader to give orders of shoot to kill for drug-related offenders when they could be incapacitated, caught, and interrogated instead to find out the real masterminds.

With regards to what I have accomplished for the country, I have been reporting anomalies within the government for several years already which led to some removal of personnel and closure of offices. However, there are still so many corrupt government officials out there protected by immunity and influential personalities. 

Have You Tried the Hacks for Pokemon Go?

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"I wanna be the very best like no one ever was. Gotta catch them all!"

It was reported that some Pokemon Go players are not playing fairly by using the GPS Hack - an app installed on their mobile phopnes which will allow them to seemingly go to different location even though they're at a stand still.

The app deceives the game thinking you are actually at a different location but in reality you are just at the same position as before. This allows the players to level up quickly with very little effort.

Have you tried it yet out of curiosity or intend to really "hack" the game in search of the elusive Pokemons out in the wild?

The Pokemon Go was officially release and available for download at the Google Playstore yesterday, August 6, 2016 but the app was already accessible a few weeks ago via underground. Those who were able to download it before retained their levels, just as my level 4 remained intact upon logging again on my mobile phone.

However, I'm on my way to level 5 with several Pokemons already but I did all of the catching while I am only sitting pretty at home doing no walking at all. Never used the hacks and just waited for those Pokemon creatures to appear. There were lures used when they were available during the first time I downloaded the game manually but now there's none available.

However, I've read online (The Verge) that there are actually several ways to cheat the game:

"As Pokémon Go continues its huge surge of international popularity, there have already been a wide variety of creative methods from various players who have tried in various ways to beat the system, from drones to phone cases to just outright trying to sell accounts.
But new video from earlier this week has raised the stakes again for Pokémon Gohacking, with a unique hardware-based solution to solve the problem of actually having to go outside and walk around to catch pokémon. 

Instead of using software to spoof the GPS data being fed to the Pokémon Go app, this latest method involves placing the phone in a radio-frequency-shielded box, and using a signal generator to generate a fake GPS signal which the phone, (and therefore, thePokémon Go app), receives and uses as the "location" of the device. 

Then, custom software uses Google Earth and a joystick to slowly change the signal to the phone, simulating walking by changing the faked location of the device."

So it seems creative and ingenious Pokemon Go hacks will continue to emerge due to the popularity of the game. Have you seen people going around like crazy while looking at their mobile phones?

They're probably catching Pokemon as they try to become the very best like no one has ever done and shouts out "Gotta Catch Them All!"