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Organizers at Northern Europe’s largest music festival, Roskilde and the Danish Agriculture & Food Council partnered last weekend to collect 25,000 liters of urine from more than 100,000 festivalgoers. In a program they’re calling “From piss to pilsner.” The collected goods will be sent to local farmers to fertilize barley crops used to grow beer. The program will be used to create 425 kegs of beer that will be sold at the festival in 2017.

Maunder Minimum – Petri Dish of Political Change Posted on July 12, 2015 by Martin Armstrong Well the Global Warming pretend scientists are desperately trying to keep their funding. Now these con-artists are trying to claim that that it is just the surface water of the oceans that is cooling and the below the water is warming. When they stop driving cars and walk to work or ride a bicycle, then perhaps they are speaking at least what they believe rather than crying the planet is warming and we need to hand them billions of dollars to figure out some...

This article, entitled "Mess-Free Bacon" comes from MomsEveryday correspondent Taryn Vanderford. Taryn is in the kitchen with Chef Judy learning how to make bacon, without making a mess. VIDEO ONLY ON LINK

GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK, Texas, -- The U.S. Department of Interior shared a photo of a squirrel at a Texas park displaying a little-known behavior for its species -- eating a snake. The photo, which the department shared on Facebook and Twitter, was snapped by park ranger William Leggett at Guadalupe Mountains National Park. "Ranger Leggett heard a racket outside the Frijole Ranch and then recorded the entire epic battle. The squirrel devoured most of the snake, bones and all, down to the last two inches," the Facebook post said. The post said it isn't unheard of for rock squirrels...

A former friend of Jared Fogle who has known the Subway spokesman for the past 10 years claims he told her on multiple occasions that he was interested in underage girls. The woman - a former reporter from Sarasota, Florida who is not being named to keep her identity safe - said that Fogle told her more than once that 'middle school girls are hot.' She then added; 'They weren't jokes. They were very serious.'

The owner of Mojo Burger said he has been burglarized twice this week – in the latest heist, the suspects made off with a safe that was bolted to the floor. Peter Favre told NBC Bay Area that his San Jose restaurant was burglarized on Monday and sometime Thursday or early Friday morning – he got a call from police about 5:30 a.m. to say his shop in the 1100 block of Bird Avenue in Willow Glen had been robbed. “They removed the safe bolted to the ground and got out the back door,” a frustrated Favre said, adding that...

Whether smoking marijuana contributes to weight gain may depend on how much pot a person smokes, in addition to other factors such the person's gender, according to a new study. Smoking marijuana often gives people the munchies — a sudden increase in appetite that can make them eat a lot at once — so researchers wanted to examine whether this drive to eat might mean that people who smoke pot put on extra pounds over time.

Squirrel breeding is a real job—and apparently a very dangerous one if you're dealing with the wrong kind of squirrel. After the mysterious deaths of three German men who all worked as breeders of variegated squirrels—a kind of squirrel native to Central America that's sometimes kept as an exotic pet—researchers have identified a new virus that had apparently jumped from the squirrels to the men, LiveScience reports. The men, who were in their 60s and regularly socialized together, died between 2011 and 2013 from inflammation of the brain, and researchers say at least two of them had been scratched or...

Vegetarians who love fast food may soon have more options at one of the world’s largest fast food chains. Burger King may expand its vegetarian offerings from its Indian locations to other markets. Meatless Burger King fare on the current Indian menu include: a Veg Chilli Cheese Melt, a vegetarian Whopper, Crispy Veg, Spicy Bean Royale, Paneer King Melt, and the BK Veggie. There are also vegetarian sides like Veggie Strips, which look like mozzarella sticks stuffed with vegetables instead of cheese, and spicy onion rings called Fiery Rings "Looking at the response here, the global management is evaluating introducing...

Blue Bell Creameries said Wednesday that it plans to begin test production of ice cream at its Alabama plant in Sylacauga in the next few weeks. The company was forced to recall its entire product line in April because of potential listeria contamination. Three people died and seven others fell ill, health officials have said. The company shut down all four of its plants for cleaning and improvements, and that process is taking longer than expected. Experts say that listeria is tough to get rid of and can live on surfaces such as drains and pipes for years. "When production...

Busy week here, so I'm just posting a couple of links to Fancy Desserts. Please post your own favorite! Back in the 90s, I found this 'Chocolate Truffle Loaf with Raspberry Sauce' in a magazine ad. There are many versions of it now, but this one is the exact recipe I've used for years; it's not difficult, and makes an elegant, do-ahead dessert for a dinner party: http://www.kraftcanada.com/recipes/bakers-chocolate-truffle-loaf-84706 I once made an alligator cake for a kid's birthday party. It was made by using several pans of different shapes, and cutting the cake up to create the critter - I...

It is not easy being a vampire, and even harder to come out of the coffin to a physician or therapist for fear they will misinterpret the habit of ingesting the blood of willing donors or succumb to stereotyping, a study finds. Research led by D.J. Williams, director of social work at Idaho State University, indicated that people who identify themselves as “real” vampires – that is, needing others’ blood to gain energy – would not disclose their practices to those in the helping professions and risk reactions like ridicule, disgust and possible diagnosis of a mental illness.

After an insensitive tweet led to the firing of her social media manager, Paula Deen has some explaining to do. Earlier Tuesday, the person running Deen's Twitter account tweeted a photo featuring the culinary celebrity and her son, Bobby Deen, dressed up as the characters Ricky and Lucy Ricardo from the television show "I Love Lucy." Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/paula-deens-social-media-manager-fired-for-tweeting-racist-photo-2015-7#ixzz3fGGqfRXH

Nothing is worse than having to use a porta-a-potty at a crowded festival. But a Danish agricultural group wants to put all that urine to good use—by turning it into beer. Roskilde, northern Europe’s largest music festival, which took place in Zealand, Denmark from June 27-July 4, launched its “piss to pilsner” initiative with the aim of collecting 25,000 liters (or 6,600 gallons) of festival goer’s urine, reports the Guardian.

Today's lunch: Liver, eggplant and turnips. Just FYI. I really felt I needed to share this today.

An attempt to steal meat ended with a fire and a lot of lost meat — and money — for a Denton barbecue restaurant. Last Friday morning, firefighters had to come to Bet the House BBQ on South Elm Street just before 5 a.m. to put out a fire that started behind the building in the restaurant's smoke house. Owners said the fire appeared to start because someone left the doors on the smoker open, letting in oxygen that mixed with grease and heat to start the blaze. They didn't believe it was anyone who worked there that would have...

Oreos are getting a skinny new look, and its maker says the new cookie is a "sophisticated" snack for grown-ups that isn't meant to be twisted or dunked. Mondelez International says it will add "Oreo Thins" to its permanent lineup in the U.S. starting next week. The cookies look like regular Oreos and have a similar cookie-to-filling ratio, except that they're slimmer. That means four of the cookies contain 140 calories, compared with 160 calories for three regular Oreos.

If you've ever thought to yourself, "I'd really like to run 3.2 miles and stop three times for a bacon snack along the way," the Great American Bacon Race is about to make your smoky, porky dreams come true. The race takes place Aug. 1 (ooooh, steamy!), starting at 9 a.m., and registration ($39 through July 16; increases after that) includes a T-shirt, a medal, three bacon stations throughout the Lake Baldwin race course, and plenty of savory, breakfasty smells. Kids, walkers and strollers are welcome, and an after-party keeps the fun going with music, games and – duh –...

If you don't yet have a copy of this Special Report, 'The First 15 Things You Must Do Immediately After an EMP', you can download it to you computer by clicking http://thesurvivalmom.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/One-Second-After-the-Lights-Go-Out-Special-Report-5-11.pdf Feel free to share this important EMP survival information!

TROWBRIDGE, England, - Archeologists say they have unearthed several tins for U.S. Army bacon and sunscreen at Salisbury Plain, England, home of the famous Stonehenge ruins. Wessex Archeology shared the find on its website in celebration of American Independence Day. Salisbury Plain has been a British military training ground since the early 20th century, but U.S. military forces staged there in preparation for the 1944 invasion of Nazi-occupied France during World War II. "The military has been on Salisbury Plain for decades so it's not been ploughed up or disturbed by developers," the BBC quoted Matt Leivers, from Wessex Archaeology,...