How to Roast Your Turkey

Cooking a turkey is actually surprisingly easy. To prepare the turkey for roasting in the oven, first remove the giblets (and save for gravy or stuffing). Next, rinse the bird inside and out and pat dry with paper towels.

• If you are stuffing the bird, stuff it loosely, allowing about ½ to ¾ cup stuffing per pound of turkey.
• Brush the skin with melted butter or oil. Tie drumsticks together with string (for stuffed birds only).
• Insert a meat thermometer into the thickest part of the thigh. The thermometer should point towards the body, and should not touch the bone.
• Place the bird on a rack in a roasting pan, and into a preheated 350 degree F (175 degrees C) oven. To determine how long to cook a turkey, use this chart to estimate the time required for baking.
• Bake until the skin is a light golden color, and then cover loosely with a foil tent. During the last 45 minutes of baking, remove the foil tent to brown the skin. Basting is not necessary, but helps promote even browning.
• The turkey is done when the internal temperature reaches 165 degrees F (75 degrees C) at the thigh.

10 Random Facts About William Shakespeare

1. Shakespeare lived to 52. It is known that he was born in April 1564 and that he died on 23rd April 1616. We know that he was baptised on 26th April 1564 and scholars now believe that he was born on April 23rd. He therefore died on his fifty-second birthday, coinciding with St George’s Day. How fitting that the great English writer is so closely identified with the patron saint of England!
2. Shakespeare had seven siblings. They were: Joan (1558); Margaret (1562); Gilbert (1566); Joan II (1569); Anne (1571); Richard (1574) and Edmund (1580). Read more about Shakespeare’s family.
3. Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway when he was 18. She was 26 and she was pregnant when they married. Their first child was born six months after the wedding.
4. Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway had three children together – a son, Hamnet, who died in 1596, and two daughters, Susanna and Judith. His only granddaughter Elizabeth – daughter of Susanna – died childless in 1670. Shakespeare therefore has no descendants. Read more about Shakespeare’s family.
5. One of Shakespeare’s relatives on his mother’s side, William Arden, was arrested for plotting against Queen Elizabeth I, imprisoned in the Tower of London and executed.
6. During his life, Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets! This means an average 1.5 plays a year since he first started writing in 1589. His last play The Two Noble Kinsmen is reckoned to have been written in 1613 when he was 49 years old. While he was writing the plays at such a pace he was also conducting a family life, a social life and a full business life, running an acting company and a theatre.
7. Shakespeare’s profession was acting. He is listed in documents of 1592, 1598 and 1603 as an actor. We know that he acted in a Ben Jonson play and also in his own plays but it’s thought that, as a very busy man, writing, managing the theatre and commuting between London and his home in Stratford where is family was, he didn’t undertake big parts. There is evidence that he played the ghost in Hamlet and Adam in As You Like It.
8. Candles were very expensive in Shakespeare’s time so they were used only for emergencies, for a short time. Most writers wrote in the daytime and socialised in the evenings. There is no reason to think that Shakespeare was any different to his contemporaries.
9. All Uranus’ satellites are named after Shakespearean characters.
10. Shakespeare’s original grave marker showed him holding a bag of grain. Citizens of Stratford replaced the bag with a quill in 1747.

Credit to http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com

Madville - Game Review

• Description from Kongregate:

You know, the world needs to be saved. Somehow it is always in danger. And there is always a hero that you can count on at times like this. A hero that you can look up to. But sometimes, there comes a hero, a bit different and unorthodox in his ways. This is the story of that hero. Relive the memory of a mad guy who saved the world and ended up in an asylum. Unlock different weapons, pick-up random effects, kill swarms of enemies and different bosses, bring your own apocalypse on the aliens.

I just finished this game and personally i think it was great! First of all i must say it was not too long and not too short gameplay, and it kept you busy with buying all those new and cool guns n' upgrades. Guns like pistols, tazors, minigun and shotgun. Those were just a few examples.

There are three different levels with stages and a boss stage. You start off with a mechanical boxing glove. The rounds starts slow and after awhile there are many enemies which are spawning and attacking you. You can get drops like health, weapons, armour, 2x damage and a random box which can give you special effects. The funny part is that there is many different kinds of enemies. SURVIVE THROUGH THE ROUND TO WIN. 

The graphics is decent and you have the choice to switch between low, mid and high graphic resolution. I love the graphics myself. It's the typical flash game graphic. The animation is also decent.

Gameplay: 9/10
Graphics: 8/10
Story: N/A (Not enough info)
Overall: 8/10

Other peoples comments on the game:

• Fun, crazy, a piece of really well done game, temporary effects are great in that they can be both positive or negative and the backstory is a fine example that being batshit crazy is a hell of a ride. Moar please?
• not bad game, but after awhile boxing guns get irritating, it would be nice to have a feature that you can change the main gun ...
• I finished game with 85 unused points. bout all mid and long range weapons, no close. IF there where more options, like speed increase, funny random or boss modes, all of them at once ... That would be freaking awesome. Achivements and you have 4/5. Great Game !
• fun and crazy!
• Ahh the old move in a circle bit, gets old, been done over and over and over.
  

I really think you should try this game, check it out: http://www.kongregate.com/games/UmutDervis/madville

4 Facts About Sumo

Here is four random facts about sumo:

1. The sport sumo is many hundred years old. It's a kind of wrestling and it's also Japan's favourite sport.
2. Sumo matches is played inside a raised ring  which is called a "Doyho". 
3. The first wrestler (also called a rikishi, which means "strong man") who goes out of the ring (can also be pushed) or touches the floor with other body parts than his/her feet will loose that round. 
4. A sumo master is called a yokuzuna. If you first achieve this title as a master, it can never be taken from you, but it's expected that you will give up when you start to get rusty.