MPGH News - 123rd Edition

**[MPGH]Hova** · 10-10-2016

123rd Edition - October 10th, 2016

MPGH Publicist's are hosting a giveaway that encourages you to embrace your artistic & creative side. Check it out here! Quippie Contest

- If you are interested in getting closer with the League of Legends (LoL), the Realm of the Mad God (ROTMG), Adventure Quest Worlds (AQW), Pokemon Go, Alliance of Valiant Arms (AVA), or the Counter-Strike Global Offensive (CSGO) community and you meet the requirements, make sure to drop by and apply to be part of the Official MPGH League of Legends Official Skype Group, Realm of the Mad God Skype Group, Adventure Quest Worlds Skype Group, Pokemon Go Skype Group, Alliance of Valiant Arms Skype Group, or Counter-Strike Global Offensive Skype Group.
- The Publicists have opened up a Minecraft server for all of MPGH to join. This is a faction server, using the version 1.8 and no hacking whatsoever. If you are interested in joining, please visit this link for more information.
- MPGHCraft is looking for some server staff to promote and help keep the server going. If you would like to join the team, please visit this thread and PM Flengo with your experiences and why you should be selected for this position!
- MPGH is designing a T-Shirt as merchandise. Please visit here to help select which shirt design is the best.
- The News Force is hosting a Signature of the Month contest. Please visit here to vote for the best signature that fits with the theme, space. The winner will receive $10, courtesy of Dynasty!
- The Publicist team are hosting a Quippie Contest. The winner will receive Premium Member! To join visit here.

Abuse of the Week:
@Hunter had their name changed to Smoke's Sheep and Hodor by the infamous administrators, [MPGH]Dave84311 and [MPGH]arunforce

Donations:

@Phildepill

If you are interested in obtaining a premium membership and donating to MPGH, please go here to read about all the benefits Premium Member has!

Birthdays:

@moose had their birthday this week!

Postbans:

@Cursed achieved 4000 posts!
@NormenJaydenFBI achieved 12, 000 posts!

Signature of the Month:
The winner of the September Nature Themed Signature of the Month is Space. We will be featuring his signature for the next few editions to inspire others to participate.

Staff Changes:

Promotions:

@Raple was promoted to Moderator!
@Hova was promoted to Minion+!

Demotions/Resignations:
None this week

Hot Threads:

Haiti in Mourning as Hurricane Matthew hits.
Haiti is going into the next 3 days of national mourning as Hurricane Matthew demolishes homes. The death toll has been estimated being nearly 900 and fears of various diseases out breaking are high. Concerns are mainly growing over the fear of Cholera following the widespread flooding. Around 60 people have contracted the disease and are facing treatment. A Christian Aid Worker has said that "The population are really in need of water, shelter, materials. Compared to the earthquake this emergency is very, very critical." Christian Aid also said that the situation in Haiti is critical and they do not expect it to remain like that for 18 months. Britain has donated £5m to help the relief effort. Pray for Haiti!

FIFA charged with compliance in human rights violations in Quatar
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, also known by its popular acronym FIFA, is being charged with being involved with in human rights violations in Qatar. The plaintiffs, a worker from Bangladesh, and the Dutch union Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging (FNV) have stated that the country exploits the labor of its workers. They are pushing FIFA to use its influence and to have Qatar follow human rights and compensate workers for their effort in establishing the stadiums and structures required for the 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup. Since 2011, when Qatar started planning and constructing for the 2022 World Cup, human rights organizations have estimated that hundreds of workers have died due to poor working conditions and poor compensation for their efforts.

GTA Online Bikers DLC
The newest GTA online expansion is out now, with a new biker DLC for multiplayer online.
The update is out and it is a beefy 2GB. Like most of the newer GTA online expansions this will only be available on next gen consoles and PC.

GTA online's new biker gang update enables you to create a motorcycle club and take part in new gang activities and missions with members from your crew. There are also new competitive and co-op game modes in this update. In this update there are new vehicles, weapons and clothing. One of the new bikes rockstar has been showing off alot recently is the Western Rate Bike, which looks like this:

You can join up with up to 8 different players to form one of these clubs, there will be different roles that each member has to fulfill in the clubs. Some of these roles will be more demanding then others, like Presidents versus a prospect. Prospects will need to gain the president's respect in order to get promoted within the ranks. As of yet there is not Single-player version of this DLC to date.

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Age of Extinction?
Most of us who join this forum own a console, or at least play some type of Multiplayer game. So most of us are probably aware of the infamous "Lizard Squad" who terrorize many major game companies and studios via cyber attacks. Companies on their list include, but are not limited to:Microsoft,Sony, League of Legends, and many more. This past week, 2 members of Lizard Squad were apprehended following a US investigation of a website selling attacks via phone on any number you would like. Both 19 year old, Zachary Buchta and Brandley Jan Williem were charged with conspiring to damage protected computers. Although it is unclear what repercussions they will face due to the circumstances, this is the first in many steps to help gaming thrive, and continue to grow.
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Google Introduces to the Artificial Intelligence Scene

Artificial Intelligence is renowned to be Sci-Fi. When someone speaks of Artificial Intelligence, it's more likely than not that people will think of the Age of Ultron, in which an AI machine becomes too smart and tries to kill people. However, AI isn't necessarily a bad thing. It can help people like a personal assistant throughout their day and provide information in a completely human way. There have been real examples of steps towards AI before, such as Siri, and more recently an AI composing music. Google, which has now been in the tech scene for a long time, has come out with a huge amount of new products, one of which was Google Assistant. Like I said, AI's can be like a personal assistant. This is exactly what Google Assistant is. Where is it stationed? On your phone. There have been attempts to make personal helpers on phones, the most famous of which being Siri, located in some Apple products. However, Google Assistant takes it to a new level of... cognition. Google Assistant, or GA for short, is different from Siri and other phone assistants because it takes old information in and makes its own inferences. Siri takes a command in and performs a task to help you, but it never reaches back. Everything starts on a clean slate. GA is more conversational, it's made to seem like you're just asking a favor from a helpful friend. Except GA is much more than a friend, being able to reach across the entire internet, your google account, and your phone to come up with a conclusive, relevant answer. In this sense, it "learns", and knows what day-to-day activities you perform. The more you use it, the more accurate it'll get. However, there is no revelation in AI that doesn't scare people. Phone helpers turned from a program you can make look up the weather or tell you a joke to something that can reach across everything that you've ever put on the internet and more. So, having an ever-present machine that could potentially look through your whole private life has been a huge shock to many people. Besides, these days everything about everyone is inside their phone, in the form of documents, pictures, texts, and especially social media. In my eyes, Google Assistant is helpful technology. Whether or not it's peeking at the text you sent to your partner, though, is a different story.

Artificial Intelligence Music: youtu.be/LSHZ_b05W7o

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Tesla to Unveil New Product on October 17
According to Tesla's founder and CEO, Elon Musk via Twitter, Tesla will be unveiling something new next week. The product has not yet been known and it will be a "unexpected" product. Currently, Tesla has been under wraps after announcing their new car a few months ago. Since then, there hasn't been much news on Tesla's end of any new products. CEO Elon Musk has been devoting a lot of time and resources into his other company known as SpaceX. Just recently one of SpaceX's rockets exploded upon lift off which prompted an investigation. Another project that Elon Musk has partaken is acquiring the company called SolarCity which specialized in solar panels. Renewable energy has been on Musk's mind for quite some time and he has made it very public on what he plans to do with solar panels and batteries in particular. Seeing how SolarCity and Tesla go hand in hand at the point, a good guess would be that Tesla has developed some sort of new battery or something along those lines. Stay tuned for the full unveil on October 17th.

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Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
This album just missed getting picked for the news last week so I'm reviewing it this week. I wasn't very happy with this album. Of course Danny Brown has a very unique voice but the switch in beat styles from his last album seemed to ruin this one for me. Don't get me wrong, in my opinion his last album wasn't very good either but it was definitely better than this one. It was nice to see an Earl Sweatshirt feature, and to be honest the song he was featured in was probably the only one I liked off the album. There were very minimal features on this 15 song album, and out of the few features most of them were featured on the same song. If you've never listened to anything by Danny Brown I would suggest listen to his most popular song "25 Bucks" first to see what you think. As unique as this album's style is it just wasn't to my liking at all.
I'm giving this album a 1 / 10. I'd like to give it more as I respect Danny as an artist but this album is just very hard to listen to.

Vince Staples Freestyles for Three Minutes Straight
Recently, Vince Staples headed over to the Hot97 Studio, to guest feature on Funkmaster Flex's show and spit on RZA's beat for Raekwon's "Ice Cream." In the video listed above, Staples is standing and hunched over the microphone as he goes in for 3 minutes straight in the Hot97 studio. During the freestyle, Vince references his previous mental health issues like, "Used to have depression, used to have a couple of mood swings" and shouts out M.I.A., "Every night on my knees I pray, MY next girl look like M.I.A."
Vince Staples also provides his take on the Black Lives Matter movement and makes an impassioned statement to his community, stating "If my black lives matter motherfucker stop killing/ If my black lives matter motherfucker stop snitching/ If my black lives matter motherfucker start business in your hood/ Instead of letting fucking Starbucks in it/ If my black lives matter then respect our women/ If my black lives matter don't neglect our children/ If my black lives matter, if the police take my shit/ With a pistol, don't march, go kill 'em."
Checkout the full freestyle above as a reminder of how dope Vince is on the mic.
Also grab is fresh Prima Donna EP on iTunes.

Jamie Carragher thinks it's too early to write off Manchester United's title chances.
Manchester United F.C. coach Jose Mourinho started the season with three straight wins followed by back-to back defeats in front of Manchester City and Watford and last weekend's draw with Stoke have left them down in sixth, five points behind the Premier League leaders City. Manchester United will face Liverpool on Monday next week. Liverpool's title chances have been talked up after a straight four victories in the Premier League. It will be a challenge for both teams, both teams want to reach a top spot in the League. Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher thinks Liverpool will be more confident than Manchester United after these straight victories. "We find ourselves talking about managers now more than players, which I think some people enjoy, some people think it's the players on the pitch. Whichever way you look at it, it just shows you how big the Premier League is." - Carragher
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Guess who's back?
After serving his 4 week suspension for one of the hottest topic in sports within the past decade, Tom Brady is back in action. With the struggles the Patriots have had at quarterback, it is a sigh of relief to all Patriot fans that Brady is back. The Patriots, 3-1, played the wreck the league calls the Cleveland Browns on Sunday. Brady went 28/40 for 406 yards and three touchdowns, which was not surprising considering it is Brady vs the Browns. Brady stated, "I think there was plenty of rust out there. I could do better in a lot of areas". The Patriots at 4-1, are definitely the team to beat and the likely champions for this years Superbowl 51.

Best Smartphone Camera Ever?
Google’s new phone "Pixel" now claims the number one spot for smartphone cameras. Said by many, Google’s new phone camera is the top contender that everyone has to beat. Its beautiful design and simple internal system makes people even more intrigued to Google’s Pixel camera and photo library. They managed to get people hyped and very chatty once they made the announcement of free unlimited photo storage that comes with their new amazing smartphone. Pixel’s new camera is very powerful, has a tremendous variety of settings, has a very clean photo library, and so many other wonderful features. It is simply the best real world performance camera a smartphone has ever had. Under the Source Link, a new link has been added that will take you to a sample gallery of photos taken with Pixel.
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You never know when you will find a $26 million dollar art piece laying around!
It's amazing when and where you will find priceless art pieces, and that is exactly what happened when "The Madonna" was found in Haddo House sold for a mere $26. Originally this pricing was set by Scottish National Trust but now it's being said that it's an original painted by Renaissance master Raphael. It's amazing how much the price will change of a art piece when a name is placed behind it and that's exactly what happened when this painting was discovered to be painted by Raphael. It's now being estimated to be around $26 million. The person who found the painting was Grosvenor and he said he found it collecting dust when he was visiting Haddo House while he was browsing some other art pieces. It is wonderful that Grosvenor caught this masterpiece with his expect eyes or it might have been lost in history never to be found and admired by millions of people around the world. It is astonishing how many art pieces just wither away in this cruel world by the element of time, however the world is delighted that "The Madonna" wasn't such a piece.
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Minecraft Hacks and Cheats
This week @TheJoker made a crazy good hack for Minecraft. This hack for Minecraft is extremely simple to use as always . But always be cautious while using you don't wanna get banned. The features are massive, and there are so many! Please go check them out in the thread! My favorite hack was Longjump under Movement Mods. This week's hack as a ton of ingame features! This hack easily is hours and hours of fun this week! I will be using this hack this week to have fun with my friends on servers and to mess around. So as always, it's easy to use, and as well a very easy installation as well so no need to worry about that! Have fun using this hack!
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Scammer Grave

This week we are featuring the Scammer Grave section, which is currently moderated by [MPGH]Psychotic, [MPGH]Hova, and [MPGH]DarkLordXYZ.
The Scammer Grave section is a great place to visit before trades to make sure you aren't conducting trades with known scammers/ban evaders. This section provides the tools to search for Skype's that have been owned by scammers and knowing all the impersonators that have been reported.
Recently, inactive users have been hacked by a user with the alias "Magnus" whereby they've been used as a vessel to scam others. It is important that you check the Scammer Grave regularly to see who has a scam report against them so that you don't fall victim into a scam!
This announcement provides the procedures to ensuring you don't get scammed by a hacked user.
Stay safe and have successful trades!

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Almost got shot walking a dog
So most of us can relate to having a small fear of clowns right? but have you ever been so scared that you almost shot someone because of it? Adam Tingle was in his home with his wife when all of a sudden his wife said that she saw clowns outside they're house. Adam got his AR-15 and went outside, he then yelled and the people walking but they didn't respond so he shot his gun up in the air. Although he shot luckily no one got hurt. Adam was charged with second-degree wanton endangerment.
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Interview - [MPGH]Luis