Duty Modern Warfare 2

Also known as modern warfare 2.  One of the most addicting games out today.  If you have not gotten a chance to pick this game up, I suggest you do so now.  This game can be found on xbox, ps3 and PC platforms.  This is the fifth series of first person shooters that infinity ward has come out with.  If you have not gotten a chance to pick this game up I would suggest that you do so now.  Be aware though that you surely will lose countless hours playing this game.  The main strength of this game is the multiplayer option.  I myself have logged countless hours only a few being the actual campaign mode.  See these links to check out some game play.  And yes, it is as cool as it looks.

Multiplayer mode – Duty Modern Warfare 2

Campaign mode – Duty Modern Warfare 2

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Top Ten Movies of 2009

This is not a list of personal preference, this is a list of the top ten domestic grossing films of 2009.

10.  Sherlock Holmes-  $206,616,070

9.  Alvin and the Chipmunks:  The Squeakqeul –  $216,822,641

8.  The Blind Side-  $249,550,000

7.  Star Trek- $257,730,019

6.  The Hangover –  $277,322,503

5.  Up- $293,004,164

4.  The Twilight Saga: New Moon- $296,113,798

3.  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- $301,959,197

2.  Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen- $402,111,870

1.  Avatar- $714,464,000

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Top Ten Songs of All Time

This is not a list of personal preference, this is a list of songs that spent the most weeks at number one on Billboard.

10. Santana featuring Rob Thomas- “Smooth”  - 12 weeks

9. Brandy and Monica- “The Boy is Mine”- 13 weeks

8. Boyz II Men – “End of the Road” – 13 weeks

7. Black Eyed Peas- “I Gotta Feeling” – 14 weeks

6. Mariah Carey- “We Belong Together –  14 weeks

5. Elton John – “Candle in the Wind 1997′/”Something about the way you look tonight”  - 14 weeks

4. Los del Rio – “Macarena” 14 weeks at number 1

3. Boyz II Men – “I’ll Make Love to You”- 14 weeks at number 1

2. Whitney Houston – “I will Always Love you” – 14 weeks at number 1

1. Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men – “One Sweet Day” (1995) – 16 weeks at number 1

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Top Ten Songs of 2009

as rated by AOL Radio listeners

10.  Jason Derulo – “Watcha Say”

9.  Owl City – “Fire Flies”

8.  Flo Rida – “Right Round”

7.  Kelly Clarkson- “My life would suck without you”

6. Kings of Leon – “Use Somebody”

5.  Black Eyed Peas- “I got a Feeling”

4.  Lady GaGa- “Poker Face”

3.  Iyaz- “Replay”

2.  Jay Sean- “Down”

1.  Taylor Swift- “You belong with me”

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Top Ten Excuses To Get Out of Work

So you want to call off work but you don’t know what to say.  No worries, TopTensBlog is here to help.  Here is a list of the top ten excuses to get out of work.

10.  Diarrhea- Diarrhea is possibly one of the most fantastic and underrated excuses out there.  A lot of people might say, I can’t tell someone when I have diarrhea, that embarrassing.  I however, couldn’t agree less, Just think about it, the more uncomfortable the topic, the quicker the topic will be dropped.  So next time your boss says, why can’t you come in, you simply reply, ” Because I have Diarrhea, really bad Diarrhea”.  He is likely to simply trail off from discomfort and your home free.  If you play your cards right you may “develop” a stomach disorder, this will ensure diarrhea a few times a month you lucky dog.  Note:  Gain some credibility, feel free to demolish that company toilet from time to time.  Make sure not to turn on the fan, a revolting stench can go along way in establishing credibility.

9.   Food poisoning – Tell them that you ate shell fish last night and that you have suffered from moderate food poisoning.  If you start getting questioned to much pull out the old trump card, that’s right.. diarrhea.  Diarrhea and shellfish practically go hand and hand.  As a matter of fact, I would be shocked to hear if you didn’t.

8.  Airport pick up- This is a good one, you aren’t sick in this excuse so don’t worry about being seen around town.  Everyone knows that when it comes to airplanes, there are always delays.  So go ahead, delay yourself to a full day off.  Pick a time around the middle of the day, this will ensure your entire day off.

7.  Car choice- What are you doing with that brand new car, no one is going to believe you if you tell them your brand new car keeps breaking down.  Go out there and find a real piece of shit, this way they will be surprised you make it as often as you do.

6.  Chronic conditions (diseases) – Go out there and do some research on a condition that you might like to have.  Something that will evoke some sympathy.  The important factor about this is that its chronic, meaning its gonna happen on a lot of fridays during golf season.  If they ever question your condition, wait…How dare them question your disease.  Your disease is your business, you don’t have to explain such a sensitive subject to someone.

5.  Personal Business- That is all you have to tell someone, “I have personal business to attend to”.  If they ask well what is your personal business they are likely an assbag.  Its personal business, meaning to personal share with you. Feel free to become offended and emotional, they will think twice about questioning your personal business again.

4.  Family Problems – I’m having some family problems, its beautiful because its vague.  It could be anything from a drunk father to an dying aunt with cancer.  This once again is not something that should be questioned.  If they do question you, tell them its to personal (i.e. were going back to personal business).

3.  Plaster up that leg- Want a few days off, well why not break your leg.  You can buy plaster wrap online these days, go ahead put a think layer over a comfortable sleeve.  Just make sure you leave enough room to cut your way out.

2.  Lice – If your a threat to the whole office its likely that they will be glad your not coming in.  Go ahead and diagnose yourself with some lice.

1.  A pet passed- You would have to be one sick son of a bitch to say that someone in your family has passed or has been diagnosed with a disease.  So why not use the next best thing.  A beloved pet has past, you may want to consider having several pets.  Plan for this, make sure to talk about your fake pets constantly, maybe even take some pictures of a friends pet.

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Top Ten Ways How to Wake Up Easier and Feel Refreshed

If your anything like me, waking up in the morning can be a difficult task.  This list will give you some tips on how to wake up refreshed.

10. Wake up the same time every day, and yes that includes the weekends as well.

9. You should also be going to bed at the same time every night.  Make sure you pick a reasonable time to get to bed, allow yourself 8 hours of sound sleep.

8. Make sure you are sleeping in a comfortable environment.  Your room should be very dark and cool.  Do not fall asleep with a TV on, this will disrupt your sleep.

7. Your bed should be for sleep only, having a TV in your bedroom is very common, but not a great idea.  If you only use your bed for sleep, your body will recognize this.  When you lay down in your bed your body’s nature response will be to go to bed, because that is what you have conditioned it to do.

6. Consider replacing your alarm clock with music.  They have special alarm clocks (i.e a zen alarm clock) that start going off very softly and gradually increase to wake you up.  Alarm clocks wake a person very abruptly, a gradual increase of volume will gently allow you to rise out of bed.

5. Avoid sleeping pills such as tylenol pm to put you to sleep.  These types of pills actually disrupt your body’s natural sleep cycles.  If you feel you need to take something to sleep, try melatonin.  Melatonin is naturally increased in the body, this is a natural supplement and non habit forming.

4. Never cover your blinds.  Sunlight sends a natural biological cue for your body to wake up in the morning.  They do sell on the market several different types of sun light alarm clocks that increase in brightness to help you wake up on those sunless days.

3. If possible, try to sleep for a multiple of about 90 minutes; your sleep cycle repeats in approximately 90 minute intervals (this will differ from person to person). You can use this to your advantage, as it’s easier to awaken from the lighter part (the end) of your sleep cycle.

2. Set your alarm clock on the other side of the room.  This will force you to get out of bed to shut your alarm clock off.

1. If you know that you are going to have a hard time waking up the next day and can not follow several of these steps consider keeping some tea by your bed side.  When your alarm goes off, drink down your glass of tea.  The caffeine will jump start your system and help you awake.  This is not recommended for every day use, just for every once and a while when you need that extra boost.

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Top Ten Ways to Make Someone Laugh

If your reading this, this scenario  may be an all to familiar experience.  You are at a party and hear a man deliver a fantastic joke,  they hang on his every word and are practically begging for more.  You write down the joke and keep it in your back pocket just waiting to tell it to an audience of your own.  The time comes and you deliver the joke, just as he did.  So why is no one laughing, instead of it being your shining moment, you feel shamed and embarrassed.  Likely the next couple of days you’ll be thinking that was a dumb idea, i can’t believe i said that.

The fact of the matter is, the joke was irrelevant, you had failed far before you said one word.  When people hear a joke they perceive the joke through the person telling the joke.  For instance, I have extremely crude friends who can say fuck 32 times in a sentence and make the crudest of jokes seem like a children’s book.  People expect him to talk like this so it seems suitable.  Some people crazy enough as it sounds would refer to it as his “charm”.    So instead of working on finding that perfect joke that will absolutely stun your audience you may first want to work on how people perceive  you.

Take this scenario for instance,  imagine a very quiet man who never speaks up.  One day in a room full of people he decides to tell an explicit joke.  The joke is already be over before it started.  You will even be able to see the look in the peoples eyes, they expect failure before he even opens his mouth.  And God forbid he drops a punch line like and then i banged her strait in the ass.  The crowd would feel incredibly awkward, not as awkward as the man telling the joke however, who has just had a rude reminder why he doesn’t tell such jokes in the first place.

Here is a list of of how to learn to make people laugh.

• Note:  When I say the word joke, I don’t mean some cliche anecdote that found on Google.  In this passage the word “joke” should be taken as how you convey your personality, a story, or an observation on life.

Bonus (get in and get out) I hear a lot of people telling these long drawn out jokes that bring a crowd to silence.  By the time the punch line gets there everyone forgot what the hell the joke was about in the first place.  If you feel the need to use such a joke, please keep it short.  The longer the joke takes to tell, the greater the crowds expectation has become to laugh.

10.  First impression- There is a reason people always say make a good first impression.  Its such a cliche old saying it almost seems like no one even stops to think about it.  It is however, incredibly important.  You need to let the person  have a glimpse of your sense of humor.  If you make them laugh the first time, its likely when they see you the next time they are going to have a smile on their  face.  You are now a new form of entertainment for the person, congratulations, the second round will be much easier.

9.  Test the water- A good first impression is very important, but you might ask well how do i know what he or she thinks is funny.  That is probably one of the most common fears, what if they don’t laugh.  This is why testing the waters is a gradual process.  For the first joke, you might not expect any laugh at all.  Judge their body language to see if they are enjoying your sense of humor.   I’m not asking you to go out there the first time and quote richard prior lines on the first meeting, you would be nuts to do that or socially inept (not that this is an uncommon approach).

You need to gradually see what they laugh at.  For some people this could take a couple of days or even weeks breaking them in.  Your not going to meet the person the first day and say get over here you son of a bitch, how the fuck are ya.  Make slight clean references to scenarios you think are funny.  If they are laughing keep revealing more of your personality.  This is a good method because its gradual, allowing for an inability to fail.  Say your a vulgar person like myself.  I start by referencing clean humor and gradually work my way to vulgar.  I gently increase the inappropriateness of my joke and allow their body language to determine when its time to up the annie.  If they get your sense of humor your keep going, lets see if you cross a line.  If they don’t get the joke no worries, you’ve built a foundation of comfort, it was just one line you slipped on.  They will think “that was pretty inappropriate, but i still really enjoy this person”.  No harm no foul.

8.  Body language (Yours)- There have been several studies suggesting that your body language is even more important in what you say.  Imagine you trying to tell a joke with your head looking at the ground giving no eye contact to your audience.  Once again the joke is over before it started.  Especially when you first meet someone, give them a firm handshake, and look them square in the eyes.  Don’t be afraid to use your hands when you talk and show that you have some passion and fire behind the things you say.  Not just some turd with his hands in his pockets speaking meekly.  Think of all the great comedians and how they use their body language to tell the joke for them.

7.  Body language (theirs) - Their body language is just as important as yours.  If you can see them drifting away, no worries abandon ship.  If you notice that they are uncomfortable and want to leave while your stumbling through the end of a joke, odds are they are going to say that guy is a moron.

6.  Not everyone gets it – Some people are just not going to have the same humor as you.  That is fine, and to be expected.  There are so many different personalities in the world that this should be expected.  I get along great with almost everyone I know.  But there are only a handful of people who can really get my jokes for what they are.  Some people  love what your doing, but they don’t have the ability to produce jokes themselves.  I call these people the laughters, they are good in a group but can’t really spit it back and forth with you.  Give them time though, most often these people will imitate your humor after a certain period of time.  They like what your doing and will pick up on how to do it.  Sure it won’t be the best but dammit they are trying.

5. Tried and Tested – A musician plays his best songs, a poet reads his best poems, a comedian will tell his best jokes.  You should remember what works, if you feel you need to write them down.  It could be as simple as an observation, a tone of voice, or a quick joke.  What is most important is you are comfortable saying it because you have seen success with it in the past.

4.  Eye Contact – Looking into someones eyes is an incredibly powerful tool.  Its something that takes time to be mastered.  Mike Tyson once said he could tell the moment he broke his opponent in the ring just by looking into their eyes.  Try making the person look away before you do.  You’ve made them a little uncomfortable, good job.  You have also shown them that you are a strong person.  People naturally gravitate to strength, “if he thinks that is funny it must be funny.”

3.  Believe what you say – You need to sell your jokes, if you don’t think you can say it with some passion then don’t bother saying it.  Nothing is worse than someone stumbling over there words, giggling to themselves uncomfortably while telling a joke.  You heard the joke and it made you laugh, so show they why its funny open up and commit to the joke.  If they don’t like it odds are they have a stick up their ass.

2.  Self depricating humor (laugh at yourself) – Mastering self depricating humor can be difficult for some.  I’ve seen a lot of people try this method  and they get labeled as the asshole who you should make fun of because they make fun of themselves.  If you like self deprecating humor like myself at times, don’t stand for this fire back or change approach.  Never allow yourself to be an easy target.  The main goal i stress here is not to make fun of yourself, but the ability to laugh at yourself.

Imagine this going two ways.

• A mans joke fails, he fumbles over his words and needs to leave the room because he is so uncomfortable and embarassed that his joke was not laughed at.  You have made the situation uncomfortable not the poeple, they are simply playing off your body language and vocal tone.
• Second scenareo, i tell a terribly gay joke, then I laugh and say holy shit that did not go well, or ohh lord that was some serious crap right.. haha blaa bllaa.  Your comfortable and shown you can laugh at yourself, your not embaraced why should you be.  Your failure goes unnoticed.  A swing and a miss, get em next time.

1.  Connecting ( know your audience) At the end of the day your going to connect with everyone differently, thats just how it is.  My best advice is get to know the person, find out what makes them laugh.  There is no joke I can tell you that is going to work on every person.  In the end there are the ones who get it and the ones that don’t.  But if you can connect with each person in your own unique relationship, the next time you stand to tell that story or joke, they are all for different reasons going to believe that should be telling that joke, and that they genuinely want to hear what you think is funny.  Because after you connect with someone what you think is funny, they think is funny.

Beconfident, be yourself, have fun. No one clicks with everyone.

-Amen

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Top Ten Modern Warfare 2 tips

Modern Warfare very well may be one of the greatest games of all time.  Sure it promotes camping with tremendous kill streak reward and some small flaws which are largely community based, but it doesn’t take away from the fact that its the by far one of the greatest first person shooters of all time.  I have had great success in the game, and will share with you what has worked so well for me.

10.  Sensitivity (personally feel this can make most difference)-  Somewhere along the way it was decided that if you use a low sensitivity you are somehow less skilled than someone using a ultra high sensitivity.  This however, is simply not the case.  Several of the best players in the world at this game are using medium sensitivity, not ultra extreme sensitivity.  Rule of thumb, keep turning it down until you are doing good.  Play a few games on medium, if your still not aiming accurately drop that baby down to low.  If you feel the need, you can gradually work your way back up to a higher sensitivity.  I have a KDR around 3.2 and played a majority of my time on low sensitivity.  The only downfall of low sensitivity is hand to hand combat range.  Know this and adjust for it.  Imagine placing your site accurately on someones head or chest every time you see them.  There is no reason, to put yourself at a disadvantage.  Experiment and do what is best for you.

9.  Know your map – Knowing the map is one of the most important aspects of the game.  You will even see good players suffer on a map that they don’t know.  Watch and see some of your better friends when the new maps are released.  See how their scores suffer.  Take a few games to get to know the map.

8.  Know your route- Knowing the map and knowing your route are completely different.  I only suggest that  you get to know the map.  I never said to use the whole damn thing.  Its a fact that several maps have places that you should just not go to.  You never want to walk through a area that is open, because you are vulnerable on all sides.   Get comfortable in a routine, knowing where players typically go and use this information to get yourself the W.

7.  Outskirts – This is some more map related device.  Always keep your back to the outskirts of the map.  It doesnt mean you have to stand still.  Do laps on the perimeter of the map.  You will be very pleased with this technique when you see no one is shooting you in the back.  They are likely to be looking inward on the map, use this to your advantage.

6.  Take Cover- Have you ever played paintball?  Think about how you played paintball- you didn’t just stand out in the open.  That would be suicide, you simply wouldn’t do it.  So why are you doing it in the game.  If it were real life only your eyes would be exposed.  Use everything in the map to protect you, go from car to rock to bunker.  Never leave yourself exposed.

5.  Know your play style- How you pick your setup should depend on how you play the game.  If your hiding in a corner the whole time your not going to waste a perk on marathon are you.  Or if your constantly running, why are you choosing site rep over ninja.  (For more on this see Modern Warfare 2 weapon setups).

4.  Tactical – You can change your button layout in the game so that melee and crouch are switched.  This is a must do, your changing the controls so that your entire body movement is on one stick.  You can easily drop to the ground while fighting someone without taking your hand off the controls.  This is a severe advantage.

3.  Stopping Power – When the game came out, you could get away with not using stopping power.  That is no longer the case.  Almost every player is using stopping power and it is absolutely devastating.  You can change the other two perks as you wish but leave stopping power alone.

2.  Stinger- I know many of you don’t want to hear this but if you want to constantly win, your gonna have to shoot down their air support.  I recommend putting a stinger on all of your scavenger classes.  How often do you pull out your secondary anyhow when your primary never runs out of ammo.  If you don’t want to remove your primary, thats ok.  Just make sure you create a coldblooded class for shooting down air support.  The minute that you die, switch to that one for a round.  Use a tar as that classes primary being it a more powerful gun.

1.  Think your the best –  How often have you run into a room with more than one player in it and your site flies right off the screen because you were stunned to see what was coming your way?   Expect that this is going to happen.  Take the players out one at a time.  Commit to one and do not worry about the others.  Just stay relaxed, as long as you get one its an even trade, so no harm done.  Try to look at this another way, say hey, this is fun, you are getting to shoot at three enemies at once, it is fun.  They are the ones who are going to feel dumb if one man kills 3.  If you die, so what, you are expected to die.

Bonus- One of the hardest things to do is pull yourself away from a firefight.  This can make a huge difference in your game.  How many times have you played the game where someone has shot you, you survive only to return to the scene to be gunned down.   You need to realize, with the skill level being the way it is today, the battle was won even far before you returned.  A decent player is waiting for you to return.  He has the position and the advantage of knowing where you are.  I know its hard, but the next time you are shot and have no clue where it came from, just keep on your way.  I promise you there will be someone else to kill in the not to distant future.  You should think of this as being better than the rest.  In my experience players return over 95% of the time.  All these things will add up to make you a legitimate force.

Please feel free to comment some other good tips if you got them.

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Top Ten Modern Warfare 2 Weapon Setups

If your anything like me this game has taken over your life.  Playing what feels like countless hours trying to become the best.  But how can you be the best when your using a horse shit weapon set up.  Your weapon set up and perks should reflect the type of player you are.  If your camping in a corner the whole damn time why are you wasting a perk on marathon.

Then you have players that use scavenger when they are constantly dying in double digits.  They are dying before they need to reload their gun anyway.  Bling is another perk that is often not used enough, if you are worried about turning off  scavenger, but can’t shoot down the iron site for shit, maybe its time to let it go and add that red dot to your setup.  Here we go a list of ten setups that improve your play.  Don’t forget who you are as a player and not who you would like to be.  This list will give you what to pick along with your play style.

Note and considerations-

1. When running scavenger, strap on a stinger.  Your not going to run out of ammo, so might as well help the entire team out.  Also an accurate player should always consider using a burst fire weapon.  If you are having accuracy issues switch back to full auto.  If you feel compelled not to use stopping power, use a scar or tar.  Those 2 guns are still fairly accurate.

10. Ultra Aggressive – This type of player is constantly moving and can’t sit still.  If your not shooting for more than a few seconds the game becomes boring to you and no longer wish to play.  You can taste the others players blood and if was possible to kill your own teammates in team death match you already would have done so.  And you wouldn’t equip a rocket launcher because who has time to shoot down a plane with all these damn people to kill.  This player likely suffers from tunnel vision.

- Setup -

• Primary – ump 45 with FMJ
• Secondary – PP2000 FmJ
• perk 1 – Marathon
• perk 2 – Stopping Power
• perk 3 – Commando Pro

9.  Aggressive Player – Like the ultra aggressive player you often find yourself on the offensive.  Sitting back and waiting for someone to come seems rather boring to you.  You likely have the patience to sit and wait, but you would rather enjoy the game and go destroy.  So most of the time you will still be moving.   You wouldn’t mind shooting down a plane, but the idea of having another gun in the arsenal overrides that idea.  You may care more about your KDR than the ultra aggressive player so a silencer seems like a good option.    Tunnel vision is still a problem.

(The ump is an ideal weapon for someone who is constantly using the spring button.  It allows for much greater deal of lateral deviation in movement.)

- Setup -

• Primary – ump 45 with silencer
• Secondary – PP2000 FmJ
• perk 1 – Marathon
• perk 2 – Stopping Power
• perk 3 – Ninja Pro

8.  Lazy Aggressive – I call this class lazy aggressive because you are still constantly on the move but you are not beating the spring button into the ground.  You make your way through the level at a steady pace likely with sites up around every corner.  You still like the idea of a secondary, but the annoyance of planes has prodded you into the direction of making at least one rocket class.

- Setup -

• Primary – Scar with FMJ or extended mags
• Secondary – PP2000 FmJ
• perk 1 – slight of hand
• perk 2 – Stopping Power
• perk 3 – Ninja Pro

Note- this player is especially someone who should consider setting up a bling class, if you notice you are dying before you are running out of bullets, or slight of hand is not really benefiting you strap on a silencer and see how if affects your game.

7. Heads up - This is the smartest and most successful of all MW2 players.  This player is not afraid to get aggressive when the time is right but is not going to run into the middle of a firefight or l through the middle of a map.  This player would constantly be thinking about his surroundings and what his enemy is thinking.  He is planning on living a while so will want to use scavenger.

- Setup -

• Primary – Scar with red dot/holographic
• Secondary – Stinger
• perk 1 – Scavenger Pro
• perk 2 – Stopping Power
• perk 3 – Ninja Pro

6.  Heads up (silent)

The same as above except wants to run a silent class.  If you are going to choose silent and still want scavenger pick a gun that you are comfortable shooting down the barrel with.  For me a AK47, ACR, and famas comes very naturally to me.  Trial and error should be used to see which you are most accurate with.

- Setup -

• Primary -ACR with silent
• Secondary – Stinger
• perk 1 – Scavenger Pro
• perk 2 – Stopping Power
• perk 3 – Ninja Pro

5.  Slow mover – Your not technically a camper, but you definitely spend a lot of time in the same spot.  You are a very cautious player who wants to make sure the area is clear before they move.  A lot of these players are new and not comfortable with the map.  They are not sure where they are getting shot from, so they find comfort in picking their maintaining a consistent vantage point.  I recommend these types of people run a bling with red dot and  silencer.  Its likely your going to die after you are discovered so do your best to keep hidden.  The tar doesn’t have the best accuracy, which in this case may help you.  It sprays alot which will give you more error correction for hitting target.

- Setup -

• Primary -Tar
• Secondary-  m1014
• perk 1 -bling - red dot, silencer
• perk 2 – Stopping Power
• perk 3 – Ninja Pro

4.  Camper – If your a camper your probably running shotguns so you don’t need a primary.   You are a disgrace to the gaming community.  Try not to do this, for a rookie it may be expected but when more experienced players do this it ruins the game.  A camper using a nuke tube should be castrated.

3. Helicopter class – Everyone should have one of there classes built in to stop the other teams kill streak.  As long as you run coldblooded with a stinger you should be good.  As I mentioned before, a scar or tar should be used as primary as they are the strongest of the guns.

2  Accurate (Advanced Player) – In the game you will notice that if you get shot by a m16 or famas its pretty much lights out.  If you are having an on day with your aiming and can use one of these, they will completely devastate an opponent leaving them no time to pull the trigger.  If you find yourself playing several lightweight players, the m16 is the gun of choice.  Strap on slight of hand and simply stop them in their tracks with one pull of the finger.

1. Enforcer-  This type of player likes to sit back and just unload ammo on their opponent.  Most of the game they are holding down the trigger.  This is different from the others because this player will sit back and unload as the rest of his team rushes in.  The Aug is  perfect weapon to do so.  It can also be fun to switch up game play.

- Setup -

• Primary -Aug with handle
• Secondary-  stinger
• perk 1 -scavenger
• perk 2 – Stopping Power
• perk 3 – Ninja Pro

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Top Ten Ways to Heal a Sore or Hoarse Throat

A sore or hoarse throat is very common and there are several steps that can be taken to alleviate the problem.  Here are ten ways to nurse your throat back to health.

10.  Quit Smoking- You can think of your vocal cords as any other part of your body.  If you had an open wound on your knee you wouldn’t allow dirt and degree into your wound would you.  Your vocal cords are injured and should be treated as any other part of your body.  Remember that whatever you breathe moves directly through the vocal folds and affects them accordingly.   Smoke of any kind is hot and toxic. It causes burning, drying and irritation which in turn causes the vocal folds to swell making a good singing tone difficult at first and over time impossible for the habitual smoker

9. Tea – Tea is a great remedy for a sore throat.  If you want to add additional relief, try adding some honey into your tea.  This will coat and sooth the throat.

8.  Rest- In this fast paced demanding world it is often hard to rest your vocal cords.  You rely on them everyday, which is exactly why you should take good care of them.  Try to keep your talk to a minimum, put yourself somewhere where you know you won’t have to talk as much.  I must also stress that you should absolutely not be yelling.

7.  Menthol? – The first thing that a person wants to do when they have a soar throat is take a cough drop.  Most cough drops today contain menthol, what menthol does is numbs the throat.  This numbing sensation alleviates pain but only masks the injury.  For example, a singer should not allow himself to sing after taking a cough drop.  The pain may have been diminished but the  throat is still damaged and needs time to heal.  They must make sure their throat is healed before putting stress onto the vocal cords once again.

6.  Honey and Lemon – Natural honey and lemon cough drops are a much better alternative to menthol.  They will coat the throat and alleviate pain without masking the underlying problem.

5.  Salt - Salt is a very old remedy that kills bacteria. In the old days they traditionally used salt to preserve meat and fish. Why? Because salt attracts water and attacks the bacteria cell walls, causing the bacteria to dehydrate and self-destruct in the process.  If your sore throat is really severe you can use salt as often as every 30 minutes. Use it as soon as you feel the first symptoms of a sore throat and the earlier you use it, the faster you’ll get rid of that sore throat.

4.  Throat Sprays- I must stress again, that these types of products only alleviate pain and do not actually promote a greater deal of healing.  Again the throat is being masked from pain.  This does not mean that it is not a great relief to the throat.  It should be used to decrease pain levels, not as a reason to begin yelling again.

3.  Sleep- Just as a body builder needs sleep to allow their muscles to properly heal.  A singer or someone who has strained the muscles in their throat needs this time as well.  The vocal cords are just that, muscles that need to heal after being injured.

2. Keep Hydrated- You should consume 7-9 glasses of water a day  and avoid known dietary diuretics such as caffeine and alcohol. Moisture is a necessary lubricant of the vocal folds. When one’s body is dehydrated laryngeal lubrication diminishes and wear takes place at a much greater rate than normal.

1.  Diet – At times of extended vocal use avoid large amounts of salt and refined sugar, spicy food such as Mexican, Szechuan Chinese, as well as excessive amounts of food and/or alcohol. One may note hoarseness in the larynx or dryness of the throat after drinking significant amounts of alcohol, caffeinated, as well naturally or artificially sweetened beverages. The body needs water to metabolize these foods and beverages, excessive consumption of these items will reduce the amount of water available to hydrate the voice.  Note:  The salt recommended up top clearly was not meant to be swallowed, only gargled and spit out.

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